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Biz community speaks out on sewage projectPresentation held with days left on public consultation part of projectDon DescoteauNews Gazette staff

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins didn’t hear many new ideas at Tuesday’s West Shore Chamber of Commerce-spon-sored breakfast meeting presenting an overview of regional sewage treatment options.

What she heard clearly from some of the 15 to 20 people gathered at Colwood Golf Club, however, was that business owners are angry about the proposed costs being offered for public consumption by the Capital Regional District.

“What I am hearing is a very strong voice from the business community that is clearly concerned with the cost of what is coming forward,” she said.

“They’re not just looking at the average household cost, they’re looking at anywhere upward of two times and beyond those costs.”

For the seven treatment options being discussed, the CRD website’s wastewater planning pages indicate projected aver-age per household costs for each of the municipalities involved in the project, but give no information about the potential cost to commercial property owners.

During a question period after the presentation, Chamber president Doug Kobayashi said he was “outraged” with the way the costs have increased for the project. He said residents were initially told they’d be looking at around a $250 annual charge and that has risen dramatically under the new options.

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John Bowker, photographed in his store on Goldstream Avenue, shows off an old picture of the 1901-02 Vancouver Rugby Football Club team, who won the B.C. championship that season.

Rugby treasure found in old frame

Arnold LimNews Gazette staff

When John Bowker opened up an antique picture frame purchased for his children at a garage sale, he was surprised at what he found.

Upon further inspection, he dis-covered an aging photo, hidden in the frame – instead of being featured

in it. It’s a sepia-toned still of the Van-couver Rugby Football Club team from the 1901-1902 season.

“When you pull it apart there is a backing and it was behind the main picture,” he said.

The photo features 22 men, most in uniform, next to a large trophy. At the bottom of the matte reads a line “Champions of British Columbia.”

“This is something I think Rugby Canada should have, because it’s a piece of their legacy,” said Bowker, owner of Universal Supplements in Langford. “But I don’t want to give it to them like that, I want to somehow get it framed and give it to them.”

Businessman looks to gift 114-year-old picture to Rugby Canada

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New transitional housing option overseen by Our Place coming to West ShoreDon DescoteauNews Gazette staff

The former youth custody centre in View Royal begins its new role next Tuesday, as home for residents of the tent city set up on the lawns of the Victoria courthouse the past few months.

Overseen by Our Place, the site at 94 Talcott Rd. will be known as Choices Transi-tional Home and host about 50 individuals. Don Evans, executive director for the non-profit organization, con-firmed to residents at an information session on Mon-day that the tents will be set up in the outdoor courtyard of the building.

Residents will be able to access services inside the building, such as meals, hot showers and laundry, plus mental health and addiction supports. Our Place also plans to run a free shuttle to downtown so residents can access other services.

View Royal Mayor David Screech said the contract with Our Place runs through the

end of August, indicating this is “clearly a temporary usage.” He said much work needs to be done on the site to prepare for this different use.

“From the fire chief’s perspective, there’s quite a few issues,” Screech said. “They’ve got a fair bit of work to do in next couple of weeks before people can occupy those buildings.”

As such, volunteers are being recruited to work daily through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and help build outdoor flooring in the courtyard, set up awnings and picnic tables and do other tasks. Interested parties are asked to bring their own power tools such as drills, extension cords, power saws, etc. and see Mike or Patrick upon arrival.

The tent city is due to be dismantled Feb.

25, two days after the View Royal site is scheduled to open up. The proposal to use the province’s former youth custody cen-tre for temporary housing was announced after it released plans to purchase the Mount Edwards Court near the courthouse on Vancouver Street in Victoria for use as supported housing for homeless people.

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Langford Canadian Tire employees honor co-workerKatherine EngqvistNews Gazette staff

While she only worked at the Langford Canadian Tire loca-tion for a few months, Miranda Willson was an inspiration to others.

As such, her co-work-ers wanted to honour the work she did in her last month with them.

Store representatives recently presented the SPCA with a donation of more than $5,000 in Willson’s name, along with a plaque in her memory.

“It was something she really cared about,” said Jamie Wyman, the store’s inventory manager. “She just really loved

animals.”Wyman said Willson not only

donated her own money but was instrumental in collecting other donations during a store

campaign in the month of Decem-ber.

“She was really motivating,” he said. “It was like her last hurrah.”

The 22-year-old cashier passed away on Boxing Day in a drug-related incident. But that’s not how other employees will remember their co-worker, who they say was full of spirit and

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The former Youth Detention Centre in View Royal is being eyed as a temporary home for residents of the tent city on the lawn of the Victoria courthouse downtown.Don Descoteau/News Gazette staff

Future firefighters wantedMandatory information session for potential firefighter recruitsKatherine EngqvistNews Gazette staff

The City of Colwood is looking for a few good volunteers to join the ranks at their fire department.

If you are 19 or older and a resi-dent of Colwood, you are invited to an information session on Feb. 24 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Colwood Fire Station, 3215 Metchosin Rd.

This is a mandatory information session for anyone wishing to go through the recruitment process and an RSVP is required.

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Spouses and partners are wel-come to attend, but not children.

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The City of Colwood is served by approximately 40 firefighters, eight career firefighters and roughly 32 of which make up the volunteer ros-ter.

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Store owners Tim and Janet Curry flank Jamie Wyman and Paige Lescorbeau (Miranda Willson’s stepsister) as they present a cheque and plaque to a SPCA representative.

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While much of the country is busy shovelling snow, Greater Vic-toria residents are often boasting about their region’s mild climate.

Hoping to use some of that good-natured ribbing to their advantage, Tourism Victoria, the Victoria Chamber of Commerce, Butchart Gardens and Gardens British Columbia have banded together for the annual Flower Count.

With just over 17 billion counted in 2015, it encourages residents to get outside and helps promote the region during a season not typi-cally known as a busy tourist time.

In its 41st year, the Flower Count runs March 3 to 9, with the award for Bloomingest Community going to the municipality that counts the most blooms.

It’s a title the City of Colwood

has claimed the past two years and the City is looking for a three-peat, said Mayor Carol Hamilton.

She credits Ecole John Stubbs for putting Colwood on the map for flower counting, largely help-ing it claim those first two titles. “I call them my secret weapon,” Hamilton said, laughing.

While the students are no secret anymore, she’s still optimistic and offered a friendly challenge to all the region’s mayors, especially rival Barbara Desjardins in Esqui-malt, who challenged her last year.

That competition is also driv-ing John Stubbs students. Grade 5 teacher Matthew Barker and his class offered their own challenge to their counterparts in the region.

But students are also focused on beating their own personal goals.Colton Trotter, 10, said last year’s effort “beat the old class record,” and that’s something the students plan to do again this year.

It’ll be no small feat. Dylan Pugh, 10, pointed out that last year alone they counted 3.1 million blooms.

The flower rivalry mirrors his-tory, according to Brian White, director of Royal Roads Universi-ty’s School of Tourism and Hos-pitality.

Laura Dunsmuir, who resided in RRU’s Hatley Castle, and Jennie Butchart, who founded the now world-famous Butchart Gardens, also had a friendly rivalry in estab-lishing their own gardens, White said.

Also a representative for Gar-dens British Columbia, White said the Flower Count is about get-ting residents involved and taking pride in their community. “All the things you see around you reflect our heritage. It’s a symbol of the life we lived here … Gardens are an icon.”

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Colton Trotter and Dylan Pugh, both Grade 5 students at Ecole John Stubbs, stop to examine a flowering witch hazel plant in Royal Roads University’s Italian Garden.

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He asked why the private sector hasn’t been brought in more to consult on the project.

Presenter Chris Town, with Victoria consult-ing firm Urban Systems, pointed out that had the CRD allowed a site near either Macaulay or Clover points, where the region’s two outfall pipes lay, the overall project cost would have remained at the original cost, which was $792 million.

Desjardins said later in an interview that the CRD and the sewage committees need to engage the private sector much more than they have to this point, adding that conversations with private business people have taken place on more of a “stepped-back” basis.

Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton, who like her Westside Solutions co-chair Desjardins has attended many meetings and forums about the project, was glad to have the options presented to the local business community.

“One of the reasons in bringing the Chamber

folks involved in it … was to get the message across that they have a stake to play in this and that they really need to come to the table as well with what they’re thinking,” she said. “At the end of the day we have to have a project or an out-come that is manageable across the board, and that includes residents as well as businesses.”

One attendee’s question that got Hamilton’s attention, a new idea she hadn’t heard before, was whether rebates would be offered to people living in modern developments that treat their own sew-age. No accommodation has been made for such situations, but the meeting moderator told the man she’d like to hear more about the idea.

Town found himself explaining everything from the difference between secondary and tertiary treatment to the various configurations that would involve the West Shore.

One includes a two-plant option with an extra large facility at Rock Bay – a site included in all of the options – and a much smaller plant in Col-wood. Asked why there was no two-plant, east-west option with a large facility on both sides – one at Rock Bay and another, say on Esquimalt First Nation land, Town had no answer.

Such an scenario could potentially be real-ized, he surmised, by using the current four-plant option and removing the smaller Colwood and East Saanich plants.

“There’s an infinite number of solutions,” he said later in an interview. “Practically speaking, we tried to provide a range … given the sites that were available for use, given the CRD project charter and goals and objectives they set out, and given the public input from the spring of 2015, starting with the lowest cost and the highest resource recovery. I think we’ve covered the gamut as far as bookending what the infinite number of solu-tions could be.”

The core area liquid waste management com-mittee meets Feb. 24, four days after the public consultation period on the seven options is sched-uled to end. With a March 31 deadline looming for part of the federal funding toward the project, there is potential for a major decision to be made at that meeting, Desjardins said.

“Everyone is looking for that concept plan from us,” she said, noting that other solutions over and above the seven listed options continue to come forward. “We don’t have really any more time. We’re already getting pushback from deadlines, from what we can see. But we also have to be smart in what we do … It’ll be a very interesting meeting on the 24th.”

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EDITORIALOUR VIEW

I challenge Island Corridor Foundation executive director Graham Bruce to justify his fancy position for a railway track that sits rotting and rusting, having been neglected to the point where it was not safe to run trains fast enough to provide a passenger service.

Certainly the federal government and the City of Victoria are complicit, for the delay in getting Via Rail ready for commuter service and replacing rolling stock, and deliberately omitting tracks from the new Johnson Street bridge.

There seems to be an expectation that people will walk much further to get to their workplace in downtown Victoria, or take the time and risk to make a transfer to buses after having had a bus, ParkNRide, or KissNRide transfer at their origin.

Surveys elsewhere indicate commuters have limited tolerance for transfers. Among their reasons are likely the risk of a missed transfer or full bus, thus having to allow extra time to get to work.

Without large numbers of people travelling into downtown Victoria, the only potential business is from CFB Esquimalt and the Dockyard, whose gates the track passes close to. But many base employees chose not to use the cross-harbour ferry service, so it ceased – how many would actually use the E&N?

Because the track and bridges etc. were allowed to deteriorate, there has not been a market test, which is essential.

The E&N track should be considered a dead asset for rail service, to stop bleeding money on administration and unrealistic

plans, perhaps able to be necessitated by someone who can actually get things done – which isn’t the ICF.

Keith SketchleySaanich

There’s no single solution to deal with homelessness

Re: Urban drug ghettos aren’t working (BC Views, Feb. 3)

I can vouch for some of columnist Tom’s Fletcher’s observations. About a decade ago, for my own education, I interviewed 10 homeless people. Not statistically significant, but revealing nonetheless.

Eight of them were recent arrivals who were already homeless before they got here. Two came on the recommendation of friends. One of the 10 was even featured in a Times-Colonist profile. He was fortunate to be offered a job as a result, but I’m sure one of our local homeless might have appreciated the offer first.

Over the years numerous articles have featured unwitting quotes from homeless people who came here from elsewhere because they heard Victoria was a good place to be homeless. Many years ago another profile in the daily was about a girl from the western communities who took to living on the streets for the fun of it.

Victoria’s own professional homeless guy arrived here from Red Deer, Alta. for the explicit purpose of simply living on the street. Since that time he has been ‘re-invented’ by the media and

certain advocates as a homeless activist, but it’s a sham.

There are people who genuinely need to be identified and housed. Their case is not being helped by people who are homeless by choice, or because they are looking for adventure or an alternative lifestyle.

Mike LaplanteSaanich

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Business acumen could have helped

A group of people with good business sense gathered in a meeting room at Royal Colwood Golf Club this week to hear an overview on the Capital Regional District’s sewage treatment project.

This endeavour has been the subject of much derision, head-scratching and frustration over the years, as the CRD, and its member municipalities that don’t already treat their sewage, work to find a solution that will satisfy provincial and federal regulations.

Making direct and specific presentations to the business community is a step that, according to Westside Solutions co-chairs Carol Hamilton and Barb Desjardins, hasn’t been done enough during the whole process.

So, it wasn’t all that surprising to hear West Shore Chamber of Commerce president Doug Kobayashi, one of the friendlier people one could find in our area, use the term “outraged” when he and others in the room were asked for their comments on the state of the project or the details therein.

Consultants Urban Systems, hired to do the feasibility and costing analysis for the project, and Carrollo Associates, an engineering firm specializing in water and wastewater planning have been busy working on providing what the CRD has asked them for. Unfortunately, that hasn’t necessarily involved seeking out advice from the private sector on how to do a public-sector project like this one.

Urban Systems’ Chris Town, who gave the technical presentation Tuesday, admitted afterward there are an “infinite” number of ways to achieve the level of sewage treatment required under the provincial and federal guidelines. And he seemed open to some of the new ideas tossed out by local business people.

Many of the politicians making the ultimate decision on how to spend taxpayers’ money on treatment are not businesspeople. While many in that category are accustomed to asking for advice from people who are in business or management, it would have made sense for the CRD to seek out such people at the start of this second go-round at solving the sewage treatment puzzle.

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As construction crews continue to buzz around Eagle Creek Village in View Royal, a team of mer-chandisers and tradespeople are putting the fin-ishing touches on the plaza’s anchor store, Quality Foods.

Dry goods and frozen foods are fast filling up the shelves and freezers on the main floor of the 45,000-square-foot store, which somewhat mirrors the Langford QF store in terms of layout and features that include a massive deli and bistro area. Meanwhile, preparations con-tinue on new features for the upper floor, which will include a Starbucks café, a soup and sandwich bar and a 7,000-sq. ft. upscale kitchenware boutique called A Step Above.

“It’s more about creating an atmosphere,” says store manager Jordan Schley, who has shifted to the new location after running the Langford store since it opened in July 2014. The split-level shop-ping experience is a format the company has cre-ated to great success in several of its stores up Island, but it’s a first for the West Shore, he adds.

All systems are go for the store’s official opening and ribbon cutting next Thursday, Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. A special sneak preview for seniors 65-over and people with mobility issues is being held the night before.

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Let’s get the latter point out of the way. It has never been a looker but with its new sleek, lower stance it is as close to sporty as you are likely to get in a Prius. It appears to these eyes that red liv-ery gives it a sharpest appearance but blue looks good too. Less enthused about paler renderings.

Toyota Canada vice-president Stephen Beatty says the brand wants to “break the cycle of psy-chology about gas prices fuelling hybrid sales.” That’s going to be a tough sell. The 2016 edition achieves still more fuel economy gains and that will continue as a purchase persuader.

And the price is right, an equal driver of sales in my opinion: three trims starting at $25,995, which is $300 less than the outgoing third gen model.

As is the norm, the instrument panel is in the centre, which always takes me a few drives to get used to. What is different is the arrangement of the info screens, all the stuff you need to pilot safely features on a pair of side-by-side LED screens, which essentially form a single display, and that sits neatly above a larger infotainment screen sep-arated by the heating vents.

The base console is an uninspiring black plastic but it’s replaced by an off-white colour on the other trims. That might take a time to grow on me. The enlarged platform, smaller batteries and reconfigu-ration of where they sit, behind and under the rear seat translates into much more cabin room and a more comfy rear seat ride.

The Toyota Safety Sense system will be available on all but the base model: Pre-collision system, lane departure alert, automatic high beams, and dynamic radar cruise control. A technology pack-age will add blind spot monitoring and rear cross traffic alert, full-colour heads up display, an intel-ligent parking and warning system with 12 sonar sensors positioned around the vehicle. This will give the driver the opportunity to park – parallel or perpendicular – without laying a hand on the steering wheel. That’s what an additional $590 gets you along with heated front seats. Even the most loaded editions barely pass $33,000.

The new Prius uses a revised version of Toyo-ta’s 1.8-litre-Atkinson cycle engine. The official fuel economy numbers are not out yet, but internal testing revealed a fuel efficiency of 4.5L/100KM (combined). The launch drive in Vancouver sug-gested the 4.5 number is far from being a dream.

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It would be no more than an unimaginative statement of the obvi-ous to describe the all-new 2016 Toyota Prius, as a gas/electric hybrid powered car. Obvi-ous perhaps because since its launch in 1997 its nameplate has only

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Toyota Canada vice-president Stephen Beatty says the brand wants to “break the cycle of psy-chology about gas prices fuelling hybrid sales.” That’s going to be a tough sell. The 2016 edition achieves still more fuel economy gains and that will continue as a purchase persuader.

And the price is right, an equal driver of sales in my opinion: three trims starting at $25,995, which is $300 less than the outgoing third gen model.

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The Toyota Safety Sense system will be available on all but the base model: Pre-collision system, lane departure alert, automatic high beams, and dynamic radar cruise control. A technology pack-age will add blind spot monitoring and rear cross traffic alert, full-colour heads up display, an intel-ligent parking and warning system with 12 sonar sensors positioned around the vehicle. This will give the driver the opportunity to park – parallel or perpendicular – without laying a hand on the steering wheel. That’s what an additional $590 gets you along with heated front seats. Even the most loaded editions barely pass $33,000.

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Antique photo shows the Vancouver Rugby Football Club from the 1901-1902 season, along with the B.C. trophy.

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He hopes the national program will acknowledge its heritage and put it up in their Langford headquarters, or per-haps recognize a name or individual from the picture.

“I know Rugby Canada is a big part of the community and the community likes that … I could hang it up in (here), but it’s not going to do it justice.”

The Canadian men’s national team takes on Brazil at the Americas Rugby Championship at Westhills Stadium in Langford at 4 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 20). For more information or tickets, visit rugbycanada.ca.

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Struck pedestriansnot unusual in winter

Motor vehicle incidents involving pedestrians have made waves on social media this month.

Reports of pedestrians being struck across the region have been flooding in. Last week a woman was killed in an incident on Mount Newton Cross Road in Central Saanich.

While there have been no fatalities reported on the West Shore, there have still been a number of collisions. Colwood Fire Chief Kerry Smith said such incidents are not uncommon for this time of year, when there is less daylight hours and more gloomy weather conditions.

During the first two weeks of February, Colwood Fire Rescue responded to five motor vehicle inci-dents, three of which saw pedestrians hit, although only two of those incidents could be verified.

Each fire department records and responds to calls differently, noted Langford Fire Rescue Assis-tant Chief Geoff Spriggs. So far this year, he said, the department has responded to 23 motor vehi-cle incidents. Of those, two were noted as involv-ing pedestrians.

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For more than a decade, West Shore communities have identified the need for a performing arts space for both amateur and professional performances.

In fact, research by the West Shore Chamber of Commerce in 2011 revealed that more than 90 per cent of our residents want more access to theatre, musicals and performance art. So what kind of progress has been made?

Numerous dedicated community members have endeavoured to make this vision a reality. Over the past 12 years, these efforts have been spearheaded by committees from both the West Shore Arts Council and West Shore Chamber of Commerce, by an informal group, and more recently, by a non-statutory committee of the City of Colwood.

In 2012, Colwood hired Schick Shiner Associates, a design firm specializing in theatre, to produce a design that would embody the needs of the community. The last open house held in Langford in 2014 also revealed the public demand for a theatre, followed by a call for expression of interest from arts organizations and interested parties by the City of Langford.In December, the Juan de Fuca Performing Arts Centre Society was formed to take the lead on this project.

“The Arts Council will partner and support the newly formed society in moving forward on this issue,” said West Shore Arts Council president, Laura Davis.

“The Arts Council, Chamber of Commerce and the City of Colwood have supported us strongly over the years,” said David Stocks, the new society’s president. “However, we thought it best to form a separate entity. The (society) has a single, focused purpose: ‘to plan, promote, develop, construct and operate a performing arts facility that will accommodate a

comprehensive range of cultural and community experiences.”

Engaging with landowners and managers on potential

sites, the society aims to connect with experienced professionals to develop a detailed business plan for the centre, and to refine the 2012 architectural concepts.

“Our greatest need is to hire credible experts in theatre operations and theatre design to add more detail to the high-level plans in the SSA report,” Stocks explained. “We hope

that community members will encourage their local governments to provide some level of funding. With local government support in hand, we will approach the provincial government and other sources of funds to move the project forward.”

On Sunday, Feb. 28, the West Shore Arts Council and Juan De Fuca Performing Arts Centre Society will co-host a discussion forum to bring the arts and cultural community of the West Shore together. The forum will unite varying arts organizations – visual artists, actors, musicians, dancers, educators and other performers – in an effort to bring the combined needs of each group to light.

The forum will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Langford Legion, 761 Station Ave. All are welcome to attend.

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The Juan de Fuca under-15 gold level boys have proven their Cup soccer superiority in Greater Victoria.

Now they’re out to do the same for Vancouver Island, as they prepare to take on Comox Valley United on Feb. 28, a match to determine who qualifies for the provincial championships.

The West Shore side, coached by Kevin Allen and Damon Jubb, downed the upstart Bays United Pilling side 6-2 in the Greater Vic-toria final Feb. 13.

Lucas Petersen, with three goals, and Jaden Jeske with two, staked Juan de Fuca to a 5-0 lead at the half. Bays fought back and scored twice to close the gap early in the second half, but began to find the holes closing due to JdF’s strong midfield play.

A well-placed free kick volley by Adam Forbes later in the half rounded out the scoring for the winners.

“Most of our players have been playing together since they were six,” said Jubb, adding

many are enrolled in the soccer academy at Royal Bay second-ary and putting in 10 to 12 hours of soccer per week.

The players talked about their season goals and unanimously said they wanted to make a run at qualifying for provincials. “We’re one game away,” he said.

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High school hoops heats up The Belmont senior girls basketball

team hits the court at Claremont sec-ondary this weekend in the hunt for a berth to provincials. The top four South Island teams square off against the top four from the North Island in the tour-nament that started yesterday (Thurs-day, Feb. 18) and continues through Saturday.

The Victoria Grizzlies return to the ice in a busy finish to their regular season and a run for the final Island playoff berth. The Grizzlies play road games in Wenatchee, Penticton and Langley before return-ing home on Friday, Feb. 26. The puck drops at 7 p.m. in The Q Centre for their last home game of the regular season.

After finishing second in Island round-robin play, the Juan de Fuca Grizzlies Tier 1 midget hockey team heads into the Island finals in a three-game series against the Saanich Braves. Game 1 goes at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20 at Pearkes Rec Centre, with Game 2 back at The Q Centre at 5:30 p.m. this Sunday. Game 3, if necessary, would be played the following weekend. The top team from the Island earns a berth into the provincial championships, hosted this year in the Comox Valley.

In B.C. Premier Women’s Rugby, the Westshore RFC Valkyries take on the University of British Columbia at the Westshore Velodrome tomorrow (Feb. 20), with kickoff at 11:30 a.m.

In soccer, the men’s Juan de Fuca U21 team faces the Bays United Gun-ners on Sunday, Feb. 21 at noon at Hen-derson Park.

In Lower Island Women’s play, the Juan de Fuca Division 1 team also plays at noon Sunday, against Nanaimo United. The venue was unavailable at press time, but watch liwsa.com for updates on location.

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Eyeing up second winTeam Canada hooker Ray Barkwill (with ball) and the rest of the national men’s 15s side are back on the pitch at Westhills Stadium tomorrow (Feb. 20, 4 p.m. kickoff), hosting Brazil in the third round of the Americas Rugby Championship. Canada sits 1-1 after a 30-22 loss to U.S.A. last weekend and an opening match home win over Uruguay. Brazil is currently 0-2. Visit events.rugbycanada.ca for ticket information.

Royal Bay set to host Island jr. girls b-ball

The host Royal Bay Ravens enter this weekend’s Island junior girls basketball championships as the top seed from the south, after capturing the city title last week.

The Ravens, ranked No. 13 in B.C. back on Feb. 7 – tops among Island teams – open the tournament today (Feb. 19) at 11:30 a.m. at their school against Dover Bay from Nanaimo.

Royal Bay is coming off a 39-34 victory over Cla-remont in the city final at Central middle school. The Ravens led by six points at halftime and never trailed after that. Lauren Awalt was selected tour-nament MVP afterward, while teammate Hannah Cormode was named to the all-star team.

The semifinals earlier in the week featured an all-West Shore matchup, but Royal Bay was in control the whole way, beating Belmont 45-16.

The Island tournament runs all day today at three schools, with the semifinals set for 5 and 6:30 p.m. at Royal Bay. The final goes at 2 p.m. there on Saturday, with both finalists advancing to the B.C. championships, March 2 to 5 in Langley.

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Katherine EngqvistNews Gazette staff

For Jackson Minnick, judo is about improving yourself.

“I like how it’s an individual sport; you can control the out-come entirely,” he said.

Next week in Penticton, Min-nick, 15, will compete for a second time in the B.C. Winter Games, a scenario he said puts him at a slight advantage since he’ll know what to expect.

“I’m really competitive and I like to win all the time,” he said, noting that he isn’t taking the competition lightly.

The Highlands resident hits the mat four or five days a week with weight training three times a week and usually competes once or twice a month.

“It’s a physical sport. It’s fun for me. It’s hard on your body … There’s a lot of stuff to learn on how to improve.”

Equally important to the phys-ical training is the mental aspect of the sport, Minnick said, add-ing that he is preparing by using visualization exercises.

While judo is an individual

sport, the support of others –especially coaches – is crucial, he said. “You rely on your team-mates in the club to improve. I wouldn’t go anywhere if I didn’t have the people to teach me.”

The Grade 10 Belmont student is one of 18 judoka competing for the Vancouver Island-Coastal zone at the Winter Games, six of whom are from Greater Victoria.

Colwood resident Jake Grant, 14, is a first-time Games competi-tor. He is “looking forward to the trip to Penticton and seeing a lot of people from B.C.” Half the fun of competing, he said, is catch-ing up with peers from different areas. While making new friends adds to the experience, it’s also about seeing different competi-tors grapple and learning new styles of fighting.

“I don’t really care about win-ning or losing. I’m just really excited to go against a lot of peo-ple from across B.C. and have a lot of fun,” he said.

Grant trains two to three times a week and takes part in additional training clinics when-ever possible. He called qualify-ing for the Games an “empow-ering” experience and agreed about the importance of being supported while on the mat.

Saanich’s Jeremy Grant, Jake’s older brother and the father of team member Max Grant, joins the group as an assistant coach for the Island team.

“Often in judo we have a very diverse age group,” he said. This competition gives the athletes a chance to train and compete against peers in their age groups, which can sometimes be a chal-lenge, he added.

A former Island team head coach at the Winter Games, Jer-emy is gearing up for the com-petition by watching videos and working with athletes on their strategies and training plans.

But those plans don’t end after the Games. “The Winter Games actually sits within a larger competition series leading to the national championships.”

The Games might be the expe-rience needed to push some of those athletes towards “compet-ing at that higher level,” he said. “I’m interested to see if the light bulb goes on for some of the younger athletes.”[email protected]


(From left) Jackson Minnick from Highlands, and Saanich residents Tiffany Coolican, Billy Gubbins and Max Grant stand in their dojo at the former Burnside elementary, in front of a portrait of judo founder, Dr. Jigoro Kano. The foursome, plus Jake Grant of Colwood, are competing in next week’s B.C. Winter Games in Penticton.Don Descoteau/ News Gazette staff

Games a stepping stone for judokas

B.C. medal for West Shore field lacrosse squadAfter outscoring their oppo-

nents 36-11 in round robin play, the Victoria Titans under-13 Tier 1 team ran into a tough Coquitlam squad in the gold medal game at the BCLA Youth Field Lacrosse Championships in Langley.

The West Shore-based Titans

were defeated 11-9 to take home the silver medal in their division, tops among the three Island cham-pion teams from Victoria that competed at the provincial tour-nament over the Family Day long weekend.

The U13 T1 Titans beat Pacific

Rim 10-3, Surrey 14-2, Ridge Meadows 5-2 and Kamloops 7-4 to secure a berth in the champi-onship game. Head coach Brian Spaven of the Titans was also named the tournament’s Fair Play Coach in the division.

The Titans U13 Tier 2 squad,

which lost the bronze medal match 9-4 to Burnaby, was after-ward named most sportsmanship team for the U13 division. The Tier 2 Titans went 1-1-1 in the round robin.

And the U15 Tier 1 Titans went 1-2 overall. In their final outing

they lost 6-5 to eventual bronze medallist Coquitlam Adanacs.

Individual Fair Play award win-ners from the Titans included Cody Mellish in U15, Cole Ross in U13 Tier 1 and Matthew Morneau in U13 Tier 2.

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Designer offers tips to make your home more appealing

Kendra WongBlack Press

In Victoria’s red hot real estate market, homes are being snatched up quickly.

According to the Victoria Real Estate Board, this year started with the busiest January since 2002, with 539 properties sold – an increase of 53 per cent over the same month last year.

So how do sellers separate their homes from hundreds of others on the market?

Daria Bunting, principal designer and stager with Victo-ria-based I Dare-Ya Designs, said staging your home can help it sell faster and on average, fetch five per cent above the asking price.

Staging is about emphasizing the features of the townhouse, house or condo, and can help give your home an edge over similar homes on the market.

“You’re not trying to show how you live in the home, you’re trying to show the features of the home,” Bunting said. “You want people to see themselves in that home. You’re trying to show the home, not what’s in your home.”

While real estate agents can sug-gest staging, there are a number of things sellers can do to make their space more appealing to potential home buyers, said Bunting.

The first is to declutter the space – get rid of magazines and loose paper, and clean off kitchen countertops to give the home a simple feeling.

The second is to depersonal-ize the home, hiding family pho-tos and personalized artwork that could turn people off the home.

For people who have lived in

a home for several years, return-ing the spaces back to their origi-nal purpose is also important. For example, if you have converted a living room or bedroom into office space, convert it back.

The condition of a home can also affect how fast a home sells. Put on a fresh coat of paint in a neutral colour, clean your car-

pets or hardwood floors and think about updating an out-of-style bathroom to help increase your home’s value.

“These are a bit more of a cost for the seller. The client will get value back in the sale,” Bunting said.

Her final tip is a sensitive topic, but addressing odours of the

home is also important.“If it’s pets or food smells, lots

of different cultures have different smells that can deter a potential buyer coming in,” she said, adding airing out the home is useful.

Staging one’s home shouldn’t take more than a day’s work, but can be highly rewarding for the seller. Bunting has seen an increase in the number of people staging their homes, especially with the real estate market in its current very active state.

“A lot of realtors may not think it’s needed because the market is hot, but actually it will help their clients sell their home for even more and be the number one on the street, as opposed to one that isn’t staged,” she said.

Beside helping a home sell faster, she added, staging a home gives sellers “a chance to make a little bit more money on their investment.”

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Tracy Beck’s office resembles a child’s play-room more than the office of a program facilitator with the Military Family Resource Centre.

The small space is covered in toys, books, craft supplies, juice boxes, snacks and two small red kid-sized tables and chairs. There are two

large maps on the walls, including one with different types of animals found in various countries around the world.

On the opposite wall is a white-board with several kids’ drawings of how they feel that day. Having kids draw how they’re feeling is how Beck starts her deployment workshops since she started running them 15 years ago. The weekly workshops, held at the Colwood Pacific Activ-ity Centre, help children between the ages of three to 12 adjust to a parent being away on deployment. Beck focuses on teaching children to express their emotions and showing them there are other children also going through similar situations.

Each of the four children at the Tuesday workshop are in the young-est three to five age group. Many of their fathers were deployed on HMCS Winnipeg and have been away since last June.

“Lots of times you can be sad, but you can be happy in 10 more min-utes. You can feel more than one thing at once,” Beck said. “You can be happy you have something but you can be sad because something reminds you of your dad. It’s okay to feel whatever you feel, there’s no wrong feeling.”

To start, Beck shows the kids where their parents are that day

on a map (HMCS Winnipeg was in Tokyo at the time), then they talk about the weather and time differences.

Next kids have snack and story time followed by a groundhog and Valentine’s Day craft, which can be mailed to their parents. Beck, who brought her own children to the workshop when her husband was deployed, said the crafts and activities pro-vide children things to talk to their parents about when they call or Skype.

“If they were in Egypt, we would talk about the different things to see. It’s to give them topics to talk to dad about,” she said. “Sometimes at this age, children say ‘hi, I miss you’, and that’s it. If we give them things to ask dad or talk about like the weather or how hot it was, it’s easier. They love to send pieces to dad.”

Throughout the workshop, mentions of their fathers come up several times.

Beck will ask “whose daddy is the best tickler?” or “why don’t you make cupcakes and surprise daddy when he comes home?”

Heather Vallieres enrolled her son Isaac in the workshop when her husband deployed nine months ago. She has seen a difference in her three-year-old since he started attending.

“I’ve noticed even at three he wants to take more responsibility and help mom and his little sister. He’s able to articulate what he’s thinking and feelings related to the deployment a lot bet-ter than before,” Vallieres said, adding Isaac has a better understanding of time and the countries his father has been.

“He’s able to say I miss daddy, but I know dad-dy’s working.”

The workshops are growing in popularity, mostly by word of mouth. There are currently 12 children enrolled, numbers tend to fluctuate depending on the size of deployment.

The workshop is one of many services the government offers through the Military Family Resource Centre, the facility in Colwood is one of 43 centres in Canada. For more information visit esquimaltmfrc.com.

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