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Getting to GradLangford teen regains her health and earns her Dogwood diplomaCharla HuberNews staff

On Saturday, Erika Landry will get ready to slip into a gown and receive her diploma.

It’s a far cry from this time last year when she was pre-paring to receive a new kidney from an anonymous living donor.

After three years of battling kidney disease and other repercussions related to her illness, Landry was able to return to Belmont secondary school full time this year. On June 2, she’ll join 400 of her classmates for Belmont’s graduation ceremonies at the University of Victoria.

“It’s pretty exciting to graduate. It took a while,” said Lan-dry. “I was really worried about not graduating.”

This year, she filled her course load with only academic courses and even signed up with the out-of-school pro-gram to gain an additional four credits.

“Erika has struggled through (nearly) insurmountable odds, she’s always been a trooper and given back to the school when she could,” said Belmont principal Carl Repp. “She has been a really solid student and one of this year’s high points will be to see her make it to graduation.”

While most teens spend their high school years hanging with friends and enjoying the last years of carefree fun, Lan-dry spent hundreds of days in hospital. She missed more school than she attended and faced bullying when she did go to school.Charla Huber/News staff

Erika Landry, front, and her mother Joann Landry prepare for graduation ceremonies at Belmont secondary school. Last June, Erika received a kidney transplant delaying her chance to earn her high school diploma.

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View Royal earmarks money to preserve historic lime kiln

Kyle WellsNews staff

Standing just under seven metres tall, with a base four metres wide, View Royal’s historic lime kiln is a massive structure.

It’s been marked for preservation by town council, who have ponied up $25,000 to start the process.

Silica Brick and Lime Company Ltd., owned by Thomas Atkins, built the kiln circa 1908 and used it up until sometime in the 1940s. Since then it has sat undisturbed on a parcel of land on Hart Road, while development has gone on all around it.

The problem is, in its current state, it’s falling apart and hard to see from the road. There’s also no access to the public. The bricks are getting a little crumbly and the sheet metal that surrounds the chimney has corroded to the point it has mostly fallen off the structure. It is surrounded by trees and bush. One tree has even grown up through the kiln and out the chimney.

Now, with the help of a heritage consultant and View Royal’s financial commitment, the kiln will receive much needed tending and be opened up for the public to visit and learn from.

“It’s amazing it survived like this at all, if you left it much longer it wouldn’t,” said Donald Luxton, of Donald Luxton and Associates Inc. “So (they need to) go in, stop the growth of the trees, remove bio-logical matter, start the conservation process. And then if it takes five, 10, 15 years – whatever it takes, work towards the goal.”

The kiln was used to process limestone, common in the area, into a powered lime, a primary compo-nent in mortar at the time.

The kiln would heat the limestone, in a process called calcination, until it became reduced to quick-lime (calcium oxide).

Water is then added which turns the lime into a powder, ready to be used in mortar, plaster and other products.

There were numerous lime kilns scattered throughout Greater Victoria, before industrialized methods of lime production and the advent of Port-land cement (an improved product that continues to be used today) made small scale operations financially unsustainable.

Now they are hard to find, especially one’s that are still standing.

“Absolutely rare. There’s very, very few of them around,” said Luxton, who hopes the story of the kiln and the general industrial history of the area can be told to visitors of the site.

Interpretation will be a key element of the refur-bish, either through signs, or even more technologi-cally advanced methods such as cellphone apps or QR codes.

“It’s one thing to have the artifact, which is great,” Luxton said, “but the whole point of this is it’s there to tell us something, and that’s why we would go to the trouble of conserving it.”

Counc. John Rogers spearheaded the conserva-tion process and said he applauds the rest of coun-cil for understanding the significance of the site.

“It’s our background, what we celebrate and why View Royal exists,” said Rogers. “It’s such a rare structure, being intact like this, it gives us an oppor-tunity, and the region an opportunity to remember its history.”

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View Royal and Colwood complete their move to Saanich’s fire dispatchKyle WellsNews staff

As of 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 23 both the Colwood and View Royal fire departments made the switch from Langford to the Saan-ich fire dispatch service.

The switch went smoothly and within hours of the changeover several emergency calls had been taken by Saanich and “seamlessly dispatched to the two municipal fire departments under the new system,” said a statement from the City of Colwood.

The two municipalities decided to change dispatch services earlier this year, citing dissatisfaction with the Langford dispatch, which is under the purview of the Capital Regional District. Col-wood and View Royal had been with Langford dispatch for nearly 25 years.

A five-year contract with Saanich will increase costs for the municipalities but having access to more advanced technology in Saanich makes it worthwhile, proponents say.

“This progressive move to a modern dispatch centre at a respon-sible cost to our taxpayers will improve fire department response efficiencies,” stated Colwood fire chief Russ Cameron.

The move comes with some controversy as the CRD looks to upgrade the facilities in Langford at an estimated cost of $100,000 – an initiative Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton has openly opposed.

Langford councillor Denise Blackwell has said it’s “unfortunate” View Royal and Colwood decided to switch dispatches and not wait for the upgrades.

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Taking advantage of this is the Bike to Work Week event, currently being cele-brated this year in 26 communities through-out the province from Monday, May 28 to Sunday, June 3.

The West Shore is part of Bike to Work Week Victoria. Despite the distances for those who work downtown, there have still been many people hopping on their two wheels and heading to work.

To kick off the campaign on Monday, organizers of Bike to Work Week hosted a Celebration Station on the Galloping Goose trail in Colwood.

Executive director Frank Hudson handed out juice and snacks to commuters at the temporary pit stop. Bike mechanics were also available for those who needed a tune up or air in their tires.

Hudson lives in the Glen Lake area and commutes by bicycle. He said it’s good to see cyclists commuting from the West Shore and taking advantage of the infra-structure that exists.

“When you think of the trails, when you think of what Langford has done with ... all of the bike lanes, it’s fantastic,” said Hud-son. “You arrive at work a lot fresher, you save a ton of money and it’s better for the environment.”

Another Celebration Station popped up at Veterans Memorial Park on Thursday.

Cyclists beat motoristsOn May 23, Bike to Work Week held a

Commuter Challenge, which compared times for people getting to work by bicycle and by vehicle.

One Langford couple, Amy and Curtis Dearden, took part in the challenge and, on their bicycles, raced two vehicles to their respective destinations in and around down-town Victoria. The couple won by about six minutes. Amy said their vehicle opponents got about as far Thetis Park before hitting heavy traffic and slowing to a crawl. Even with taking a break to help a third teammate who had a flat tire and had to bow out, the couple still managed to reach their destina-tion faster.

“Shows you how slow the crawl can be,” Amy Dearden said.

They each reached their respective des-tinations in about 22 minutes. Granted, both have experience with bicycle racing, but they promise that even the most ama-teur of riders are capable of making it to work within 15 minutes of when they would arrive by car.

Throughout the year the Deardens can be found commuting to work by bicycle. Heavy snow is about the only thing that stops them, or after-work chores that require a vehicle. By cycling, they have managed to go from owning two cars to one, and are clearly noticing the money saved in fuel costs.

“Most mornings, it doesn’t matter the weather, I don’t even think about it, I just get on my bicycle,” said Curtis Dearden. “Some-times, when you have to drive, you kind of miss it. You get to work and you haven’t had the fresh air, and you haven’t had that little bit of exercise.”

“I think it’s the fresh air, it’s just so much nicer. I feel like I’m more awake when I get to work,” Amy Deardon said.

During the winter the couple typically only see a few other people cycling to downtown from the West Shore. The volume picks up in the spring and into the summer, when the weather is better and you can cycle to and from work in the light of day.

“Try to start around now and even just make a target of two or three days a week,” Curtis Dearden said. “Get into it over the summertime.”

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Amy and Curtis Dearden beat two vehicles commuting from Langford to their workplaces in and around downtown Victoria, during a Bike to Work Week Commuter Challenge.


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Pearson president sets out to mirror journey he made 35 years ago


Thirty-five years ago, David Hawley cycled from coast to coast across North America.

Hawley, the current president of Metchosin’s Pearson College, was 19 when he biked from Bos-ton to the West Coast.

On Monday, Hawley packed his panniers, put on his helmet and dipped his back tire in the Pacific Ocean as he headed out to cross the continent again, only in the other direction and with a few extra kilometres thrown in for good measure.

Over the course of three months Hawley plans to cycle up Vancouver lsland, take the ferry to Prince Rupert, cycle the perimeter of Haida Gwaii, and then head out across Can-ada, through part of the United States, and eventually over to Newfoundland.

From there he will cross the Atlantic to Scotland and cycle to Wales to attend the 50th anniversary of Pearson’s sister school, United World College of the Atlantic.

It is a 10,000 kilometre jour-ney.

“I’m looking forward to falling in love with Canada again,” Haw-ley said. “It’s something that I’ve wanted to do again.”

There will be some challenges on Hawley’s journey. He doesn’t know how he is going to get across the Atlantic. His plan is to try and hitch a ride on a con-tainer ship, but nothing has been arranged. He is also interested to see how his body, fit but no longer 19, handles the miles.

And then there’s the solitude. Hawley has no support team and no consistent travel companion. There is an open invitation for anybody who wants to join him on any portion of the trip to do so, but for the most part Hawley will be putting back the kilome-tres all by his lonesome.

“The big question is ‘what’s it going to feel like’ and how to deal with the solitude of 10,000 kilometres,” Hawley said. “A lot of thinking and contemplating and planning for the future.”

A side goal of Hawley’s is to meet a representative from all 50 years of United Colleges, which offer full scholarship grade 12 and gap year education to excep-tional students.

There are 13 United Colleges in five continents, with alumni spread throughout the world. As Hawley travels to the original

school for its anniversary cele-bration he hopes to randomly meet a graduate from every year of the college’s existence along the way.

“While this mini-sabbatical is a personal journey and refresher for me,” said Hawley in a press release, “I also know it will be an amazing learning experience and re-affirm my commitment to the United World Colleges’ mis-sion.”

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Metchosin’s Pearson College president David Hawley dips the back tire of his bicycle into the Pacific Ocean before heading out on a journey to cycle across Canada and beyond.

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Veterans deserve more support

We are troubled by news that Veterans Affairs Canada is downsizing its department, including the district office in Victoria, due to budget cuts.

Unlike the days when much of its work dealt with the post-Second World War struggles and challenges faced by service personnel, Veterans Affairs today is seeing an influx of people whose experience came in such theatres as Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and various peacekeeping scenarios.

For those engaged in combat roles, their experiences might be similar to those lived through by their military predecessors. Yet the understanding today of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological illnesses is greater than the Second World War, when struggling Canadian servicemen were pigeonholed as having “battle exhaustion.”

In true military fashion, Veteran Affairs insists that none of its clients will be left behind as a result of the cuts to office personnel.

The union representing the workers, voicing a predictable doom-and-gloom response, argues that veterans will begin to fall through the cracks due to projected increases in already too-large caseloads for staff and the added time it will take to process client requests.

As in all labour-employer disputes, the truth probably lies somewhere in between.

But the telling point in this conversation comes from the Royal Canadian Legion, which, for years, has done its best, given its limited resources, to fill the void in veteran support left by the federal government.

They expect the next four or five years to produce more diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder than ever, a scenario which, if not addressed, could have devastating effects not only on the individuals, but their families.

In a time of belt-tightening, the federal government needs to make cuts.

But no matter how it is sugar-coated by Veterans Affairs, the decision to downsize the department’s front-line operations not only sets a dangerous precedent, it’s a slap in the face to individuals who have willingly and bravely served their country.

A few weeks ago I was walking through my neighbourhood, with my daughter in front of me pedaling her tricycle.

We were on our way home from the park and my daughter was crying. Nothing too serious, she always cries when we leave the park.

Other than a whimper-ing toddler, things were going good until we were followed by three teens, about 16 or 17 years old.

I am not one to be fear-ful of teens or paint them all with the same brush. In fact, I really like rebel-lious teens and have a soft spot for misunderstood youth.

But these teens were making fun of me for my weight and say-ing things I wouldn’t want to see in print.

It was two girls and a boy, but it was one of the girls who was doing the talking.

She carried on yelling loudly across the street to me. She made some hand gestures and continued to harass me – even crossing the street to walk behind me and my daughter.

The years I’ve spent in kickboxing and taekwondo would have really come in handy if I reacted how I wanted to (I have a pretty awe-some roundhouse kick, if I do say so myself).

I have never punched someone without my boxing gloves or out-side the ring. I’ve never punched

someone because I was angry. Right then I sure felt close.

I looked down at my daughter, who was still crying, and thought about the message I wanted to send to her. So I kept my hands on the tricycle instead of on the girl’s face.

All kidding aside, I don’t believe in violence, it’s no better than the behaviour of those teens.

So I kept walking, listen-ing to the taunts and contemplat-ing the right way to respond. What should my reaction have been? Should I have followed them home and spoke to their parents?

I was angry and if I were to respond, I would have used some choice words my daughter doesn’t need to learn quite yet.

At one point I stopped to talk to my daughter and the teens walked past me. I looked them right in the eye and watched their faces turn humble.

Maybe that was enough.These teens weren’t wearing

hoods or smoking cigarettes. They were well-groomed and appeared to be straight out of an American Eagle catalogue.

I have written many stories on

bullying and talked about the issue with kids, parents, teachers and police officers. Regardless of all the work people are doing, the problem is still here.

Bullying is nothing new, but that doesn’t make it OK or some kind of rite of passage. There are kids kill-ing themselves over things just like this.

It has been a long time since I have been bullied. Probably since I was in middle school.

I hope those teens look back on that evening a few years from now and realize it’s too late to apologize to the stranger they mocked.

Do they realize the message they were sending to my daughter?

But hey, if you are reading this, it could have been your kid or grand-child. Would you be embarrassed to know a column was published about how disrespectful they were?

The whole situation is rather embarrassing for me, too. Before writing this, I never told anyone about my evening. I was trying to forget it ever happened.

Maybe this is why bullying isn’t reported to school officials or the RCMP. If, at age 30, I am too embar-rassed to talk about it, how can we ever expect a child to?

Which is why I am writing this. I shouldn’t be embarrassed because of someone else’s poor choices.

Charla Huber is a reporter with the Goldstream News Gazette.

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The content of your editorial is common and clearly one-sided. While I agree that the police should intervene when drivers are clearly breaking the law, I believe the main issue is drivers who travel in the left lane on a four-lane road at about the same speed as those in the right lane.

There are some signs that state, “Slower traffic keep right.” In my view, “slow” does not necessarily mean someone going below the posted speed limit. Instead, I consider those slow drivers to be the ones

who impede the left-lane traffic because they want to exercise their “right” to be in that lane. These are the self-appointed traffic enforcers.

About 25 years ago when I was living in Alberta, we had the same kind of risky drivers as we see in B.C. today. There were also signs suggesting that slower traffic stay to the right lane, but that was rarely obeyed or enforced.

Then the light came on with the powers that be. They increased the number and visibility of the signs, even highlighted them with bright green rays. It took two to four

years, but the drivers finally got it and it was uncommon to find Albertans playing traffic enforcers in the passing lane.

Travelling on the highways became safer and much more pleasant. It appears that all it took was an attitude adjustment and drivers left it up to the police to enforce the speeders in the left lane. I have little doubt that a similar change in attitude for B.C. drivers would greatly reduce the risky manoeuvres of aggressive drivers. Leave it to the police, people.

R. ChongNorth Saanich

Politicians, executivesshould respect austerity

Being long retired, I come from the generation where wages were poor, benefits almost unknown, severance packages for the working person unheard of.

Today’s public servants largely have no experience of those dreadful days.

A recent political cartoon illustrating the “Taxpayer Bank of B.C.” showed B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union members dressed in robber’s garb charging in, while MLAs exited with rich salary and pensions. I also recently read about Oak Bay, where a burst water main was allowed to gush for an entire weekend, as it was cheaper than calling out workers at “double overtime.”

Having been a government employee, private business person and elected municipal councillor for a period of nine years, I am genuinely fearful for the future. No one wants increases in taxation, but how else to meet demands?

I do not advocate a return to those earlier days when workers’ treatment was grossly unfair, so let us start with cuts at the MLAs’ pension trough, executive compensation and bonuses.

Overall, I suspect if effective attention were to be paid to these contentious and unfairly

overgenerous situations, then workers might not be so demanding.

Bluntly, we are very fortunate to live in Canada. Let us not kill the already struggling golden goose through base greed and stupidity.

Stephen LambVictoria

Site C dam processpasses enviro muster

As the Site C dam project inches toward the intense scrutiny of the environmental assessment process, it’s worth reflecting on the differences between an energy project today and one built in decades past, such as the Bennett Dam.

When the Bennett Dam was built in the 1960s in the Peace River country of northeastern B.C., the construction crew simply showed up with their tools and started working.

Not so today. B.C. Hydro estimates it will spend $300 million on the Site C dam environmental review process,

including scores of studies of animal and fish populations, along with extensive archaeological, historical and other studies.

None of these considerations figured in any significant way when the Bennett Dam was built.

Site C provides us with a rare opportunity to build upon the past in an environmentally sensitive way and to make the most of the water already stored behind the Bennett Dam, by using it to generate clean hydro power a second time on its way downstream.

The persuasive efficiency of Site C, and the unparalleled environmental scrutiny it has already undergone, bode well for the project.

That’s why, once any potential impacts have been addressed or mitigated, I’m cautiously optimistic Site C will pass through the formal assessment process with flying colours.

Jesse McClintonSaanich

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Now 19-years-old, she has spent four years as a student at Belmont.

“I hadn’t really gone to school for three years so it was kind of hard to make friends,” Landry said.

When she was sick, Landry only came to school once or twice per month for only a few hours each time.

To put things in perspective, Landry spent 209 days in the hospital in 2009.

Due to enduring 12-hour dialysis sessions, Lan-dry’s body started retaining water and caused her to gain 35 pounds on her petite frame.

A few students at the school bullied her about her weight, with a few even having the gall to

tell her she had “let herself go,” Landry recalled.

Even many of her close friends became distant while she was sick.

But now she’s preparing for the next stage of her life. She wants to upgrade some of her courses and go

to Camosun College to train to be a radiology technician.

Landry said she was inspired by the hospital staff at B.C. Children’s Hospital.

“Ninety per cent of my procedures were done under radiology,” Landry said. “The nurses were like my best friends. I talked to them everyday and they would come and hang out in my room with me.”

Over the course of the three years, Landry endured 18 rounds of chemotherapy and many blood treatments.

Last June, she underwent a kidney transplant that changed her quality of life drastically. After undergoing the major surgery, Landry woke up feeling better than she had in a long time.

Without the gift of a kidney, Landry would not be graduating and she would need to spend half her waking hours hooked up to a dialysis machine and taking 18 medications a day.

“(The kidney) started to work right away,” Lan-dry said, extolling those who have agreed to be organ donors. “Organ donation is so important.”

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The importance of check-upsErika Landry’s kidney disease was discovered

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“I hate heights,” Landry said explaining she had fears the stretcher would roll out of the heli-copter while in flight.

Banned driver nabbed behind the wheel

A 40-year-old View Royal man who wasn’t sup-posed to be on the road was arrested Saturday night after his bad driving caught the attention of a Saanich police officer.

The officer pulled over a 1992 Acura around 8:20 p.m. on Harriet Road Saturday night (May 26), but the driver could not produce a valid licence.

He had a valid California driver’s licence but the officer found he had an outstanding warrant on the West Shore for a prior prohibited driving charge.

The man was arrested, the vehicle was impounded, and the man was issued another driv-ing prohibition.

“Once again, we have a situation where we see a chronic driver with no licence who continues to drive,” said Sgt. Dean Jantzen.

Traffic safety officers see, on a daily basis, cases where suspended B.C. drivers have been able to successfully receive a licence from another juris-diction, such as Alberta or Washington state.

“Regardless if you hold a licence (from another province or state), if you are suspended in B.C., you are not to be driving on our roads,” Jantzen said.

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“The nurses were like my best friends. I talked to them everyday and they would come and hang out in my room with me.”

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Erika Landry tries on her grad dress in the sunshine last week. The Belmont secondary school student graduates on Saturday – a year after she received a kidney transplant last June.

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If was neither news-worthy or notewor-thy, just another file like thousands of oth-ers the West Shore RCMP deals with that slips under the public’s radar during the course of a year.

After several futile attempts by a social worker at Victoria Gen-eral Hospital to get an elderly patient home hit a road block, she called the West Shore RCMP Detachment’s general line seeking assistance.

The patient, no doubt stressed enough from an unscheduled trip to the hospital by ambu-lance, had left her keys at home in her purse.

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Having a career before he joined the RCMP has also given him a different perspec-tive.

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Premier Christy Clark is pushing ahead with plans for a new Family Day holiday in February, after independent MLAs voted against the move.

NDP MLAs supported B.C. Liberal members in the key vote to approve the new statutory holiday Tuesday. The first one will be next Feb. 11, and the second Monday in February each year after that.

Independent MLAs criticized the move and forced a standing vote, after listing the costs it would impose on business.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Busi-ness estimates that Family Day will cost the aver-age small business more than $1,100 in wage costs, either paying employees to stay home or overtime to come to work.

Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington reminded the legislature the new holiday is imposed on busi-ness after three increases in the minimum wage in the past year, an average $3,000 transition to the harmonized sales tax and soon a similar cost to switch back to the provincial sales tax next year.

Clark promised the new holiday during her B.C. Liberal leadership campaign last year. It will join February holidays in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mani-toba, Ontario and Prince Edward Island.

Clark has argued that the new holiday will not only increase family time, it will also boost busi-ness for ski hills, hotels, restaurants and other tourist businesses during a slow time of year.

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Collaborative group hopes to hone their sound while on the roadKyle WellsNews staff

A trio of acclaimed jazz musicians is head-ing to Colwood on what will be their band’s first tour outside of Ontario and only the second time the group has played outside of Toronto.

Featuring pianist Chris Donnelly, Dan For-tin on bass and Ernesto Cervini on the drums, Myriad has stops in Calgary, Vancouver, Kamloops and Clear-water before playing Hermann’s Jazz Club in downtown Victoria and, most importantly, at a Jazz Vesper at the Church of the Advent in Colwood.

“A band like ours, we need to play and we need to play in as many environments as possible to explore our relationship with the music and explore our relationship with the other musicians,” Don-nelly said.

Myriad formed in 2010 almost by acci-dent. The three mem-bers, all in their 20s, knew each other as music students at the University of Toronto but had never played together. One night some subs were needed for another band’s gig and the three found themselves on stage at the same time. Some-thing clicked.

“We’re not sure what it is, but we should go out of our way a little bit to play together again,” Donnelly said about his post-gig atti-tude. “We just kept on getting more excited and the music started coming together even more.”

Dynamics are a key to the band’s attitude and, ultimately, it’s sound. There is no band leader.

All three are expe-rienced musicians in their own rights and contribute equally to the group. There is no lone songwriter, no sin-gle spokesperson and no dominantly show-cased soloist.

“(It’s) much more of a collective experience, kind of like a three-way conversation,” Don-nelly said. “We’re all equally contributing, it’s like sitting down and having an open hearted discussion ... with no alpha male present.”

Even rehearsing, which Myriad does at least once per week, is kind of a novelty for a jazz ensemble. The genre is known for spontaneity, improvi-sation and immediacy. Myriad has all that, but they also put effort into building their identity and giving themselves a chance to experiment, play, hone and grow as a collective.

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of risk and uncertainty. But at the same time very structured and very tight,” Donnelly said. “I like when you have those things put together, juxtaposed against each other, I think people respond to that.”

Once the tour is behind them and the band is tight, they will record an album back in Toronto – another first for the group.

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“It’s a great way to interact with a com-munity,” Donnelly said. “It’s very collaborative. We’ve played music for them and they’ve interacted with us and they’ve welcomed us into their community, we’re happy to be there. It’s a very back and forth experience.”

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If the perfect landscape presents itself, painter Christine Reimer isn’t shy about screeching her car to a halt on the side of the highway to capture the moment. Nobody said art was safe.

The veteran Saanich artist, known for blending realism and whimsy in dramatic landscape pieces, is marking 30 years of paint-ing with a show at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, starting Sunday.

It’s her first show in Greater Vic-toria since 2010 and features a mix of landscapes and abstract florals, perhaps 25 to 30 pieces gener-ated in the past few years. The landscapes will be familiar to any-one who has travelled across the Island and the province – Rocky mountains and verdant meadows, wilderness lakes amid Douglas fir forests, Gulf Island arbutus trees stretching over water.

“I grew up on the coast, I have a bond with the coastal landscape,” Reimer said. “Being an Islander, it’s in my blood.”

She admits the abstract florals were a deviation from the hunt for landscapes – a kind of creative

rejuvenation necessary every few years.

“I get bored doing the same thing. What I’ve done over 30 years is take detours,” Reimer said. “I had a figurative period of painting quirky people in dream-like settings. I do that for a while, and then landscapes become fresh again.

“I do find it hard to limit myself to one thing – there are so many vibrant colours. I can’t help myself.

I’m obsessed with colour, I always have been.”

Reimer has been an artist since she can remember, drawing at a young age and watching her talent emerge as a teenager. She cred-its art teachers Bill West and Car-ole Sabiston at Oak Bay High and then University of Victoria instruc-tor and influential Canadian artist James Gordaneer as influencing and guiding her style and devel-opment.

Working through different medi-ums while earning her BFA at UVic, it was her great-uncle and noted painter Max Maynard (a contem-porary of Emily Carr and Jack Shadbolt in the 1930s and ‘40s) who steered her toward landscape images. “I was so inspired by the way he did landscapes,” Reimer said. “I thought I would give it a shot.”

It was a good decision. Now a professional working artist for 25 years, Reimer’s work decorates corporate offices, high-end hotels, restaurants, and galleries across B.C. “Between kids and paint-ing, I’ve worked full time,” she said. “And my husband has been extremely supportive.”

Reimer said she’s fortunate to make a living as an artist, but noted her “long-suffering” husband must tolerate intensive photography during trips – she took a thousand photos in Banff and Jasper last fall – and the occasional demand to pull over on the highway, often so she can scramble up a cliff to grab a shot. Her photography is the groundwork for her art.

“My photos allow me to recall the place with better detail. If I use other photos of places I haven’t

been, you can’t evoke the place truly.”

She admits that the last few years have been tough personally and professionally. The economic downturn across North America has squeezed budgets for com-missioned art pieces and private sales. But she still keeps up a work schedule of painting about five days a week, usually in inten-sive three-hour bursts of acrylic on canvas.

“It’s been really tough at times. The last few years. It’s been very difficult for all artists. Art is a lux-ury item for people.”

Her work will be on display for two weeks in June, but Reimer is mulling her next set of work after recently returning from England – the roofscape and old-world archi-tecture of London. “It’s something that’s tweaked my interest until I detour back to landscapes,” she said.

Reimer’s Peaks, Islands and Beyond – 30 years of Colour solo exhibit runs from June 3 to 17 at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd. The grand opening gala is Thursday, June 7, 5 to 7:30 p.m.

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His voice softens when Victoria poet Jay Ruzesky talks about the time he spent in Antarctica this winter. The trip was the real-ization of a lifelong dream to see the place where Ruzesky’s maternal great-grand-father’s first cousin, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, had discovered the south pole in December 1911. Normally never one at a loss for words Ruzesky pauses trying to describe the allure of the place that even in summer is 98 per cent covered in ice.

“It feels immediately like you’ve entered a place unlike any other in the world, the only other place would be like going to space or to the moon because it is so devoid of us and continues to be. There’s no planes flying overhead, no telephone wires, no dis-tant sounds of motors.” And even though travelling on a tourist ship there were still

beaches where you could land and be the first human to do so, he said.

Fifteen years ago Ruzesky wrote but set aside a novel about Amundsen’s south pole adventure. He is best known for his 2001 poetry collection, Blue Himalayan Poppies and novel, The Wolsenburg Clock, which was nominated for the City of Vicoria But-ler Book Prize. On leave now from teach-ing duties at Vancouver Island University he is starting in on another manuscript, a non-fiction account blending his visit with Amundsen’s.

Ruzesky travelled with his brother from Chile to the Antarctic peninsula on a 235-foot refitted research ship that was home for 10 days in December last year, 100 years after Amundsen travelled there. With guides the duo kayaked and watched tens of thou-sands of gentoo and chinstrap penguins as well as leopard and Weddell seals. They saw icebergs calve and learned the difference between bergs and floes.

“It was a pilgrimage in the real old sense of the word,” Ruzesky said, “to this place that had been in my imagination since I was a little kid. It had a mythical status. It was

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About 1,000 scientists live at research sta-tions in Antarctica, which is about 14 million kilometres squared and 28 million in the winter when sea ice doubles the continent’s size. About 25,000 tourists visit each year.

Although Antarctica is usually thought of as blue and white, it really has about 10,000 shades of blue, he said. Constantly changing light alters the colour and texture of what-ever you are gazing at.

When his guide heard Ruzesky was keen to see any spot where Amundsen might have been he took the brothers in a zodiak to see the peaks on Two Hummock Island where Amundsen went skiing more than 100 years ago – “the first tourist,” Ruzesky said.

Picking their way through a colony of pen-guins Ruzesky was at first disappointed at clouds covering the peaks. But then, as he recorded in a blog, the weather shifted.

“It stops snowing and the clouds lift so fast it’s as though someone just removed a tarp from the sky. The clouds simply disap-pear and are replaced by deep blue sky and bright sun.”

He spent the next hour feverishly taking as many shots as he could, before clouds moved in again. Although not a religious man, Ruzesky said that day was a profound experience.

I have kayaked through castellated ice-bergs, I have communed with penguins, I have caressed thousands-year-old ice and allowed the heat of my fingers to melt it. In Antarctica you have to come to terms with immensity.

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Brothers lead Rams to track and field B.C.sTravis PatersonNews staff

Mount Douglas Rams track team brothers Thomas and Ethan Getty are separated by two years in age, and

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11 and specializes in middle distance run-ning, his shortest event being the 1,500m. Fifteen-year-old Ethan is in Grade 9, but his focus is on the sprinting distances, the longest being 400m.

“We’re pretty competitive in everything else (non-running) we do,” said Thomas. “Though I guess Ethan would be the bet-ter lacrosse player, since he’s still playing and I no longer do.”

Both have qualified for the high school track and field provincials at Burnaby’s Swanguard Stadium on Saturday and Sun-day (June 1 and 2), having helped the

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Thomas finished second in the 1,500m and first in the 3,000m at the Island track championship.

And though Ethan was equally adept in the bantam-age (Grade 9) Island champi-onship, he might want to consider com-peting in a longer race, as on paper, his results improved as each distance grew. Ethan finished fourth in the 100m, second in the 200m and first in the 400m.

Track wasn’t the house sport growing up, say the brothers, but has become it. Ethan plays Saanich Tigers lacrosse, and Thomas did, while younger brother Graeme, 12, competed in running at Arbu-tus middle school (before the season was cancelled).

Dad did some running as a youth, Thomas said, but for the boys running just came naturally.

“Back in elementary we’d lap the school field,” Thomas said. “I did well but didn’t win every race. But I found liked the stra-tegic aspect of the longer distances.”

Ethan, however, prefers to the short courses. “I just seemed to like sprinting.”

There’s no ceiling to what the brothers can accomplish, as both transfer well to dirt paths of cross country during the fall running season. Thomas has a year remaining before competing at the uni-versity level to Ethan’s three, should he go that route.

“Ethan is part of a special group of younger Mount Doug runners coming up,” Rams coach Al Niezen said.

“We’ve got 20 kids going to provincials and half are Grade 9s.”

For Thomas, the biggest challenge this weekend is could come from his elite high school track teammates Liam Kennel of Oak Bay High and Ben Weir of Glenlyon Norfolk School. Weir was injured for the Island finals but finished second behind Thomas in the 1,500m and 3,000m of the Lower Island.

Kennel is only 16, but is a threat at the senior level as part of the Oak Bay track team looking to continue its domi-nation of the combined girls and boys team title. Brendan Restall leads the Bays team, which is deep in talent once again. If all goes well, Restall will win the 400m again before graduating to the UVic Vikes next year,

Mount Doug has its top shooters as well, with Katelyn Hayward a lock to win the 3,000m one more time before she graduates. Hay-ward will most likely forego the 1,500m steeplechase, the very event she set the B.C. record in last year, to nurse a leg injury she sus-tained during the high school cross coun-try season.

In the fieldNo Island school has been able to

match the crew of throwers coming out of Lambrick Park in recent years.

This year Lambrick’s Mason Kereszti is hoping for three medals. The defending B.C. javelin champ was first in the discus and javelin and second in the shotput at the Islands.

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Rowers prep for LondonTravis PatersonNews staff

Victoria-trained rowers Scott Frandsen and David Calder are silver medalists once again. The Beijing runners-up in the men’s pair dupli-cated their famous effort from the 2008 Olym-pics and brought home one of three medals earned by Canada from last week’s 2012 World Cup in Switzerland.

“Our training and hard work has proved that you can teach an old dog new tricks,” Calder said.

Picked to compete in one of seven boats at this year’s London Olympics, the duo of Calder and Frandsen lost only to New Zea-land, which was the favourite going in to the world cup.

“We’ve got the count-down to London in our heads right now.”

One of the biggest surprises was Canada’s men’s eight slipping to bronze in Sunday’s final, despite setting the world’s best time in the heat on Friday.

Coxswain Brian Price and rower Malcom Howard of Victoria return to lead the gold-medal winning boat from Beijing, with Ontario rowers Will Crothers, Jeremiah Brown, Andrew Byrnes, Conlin McCabe, Rob Gibson and Doug Csima, plus Gabe Bergen from 100 Mile House.

The lightweight women’s double of Tracy Cameron and Lindsay Jennerich finished sec-ond in the B final, the equivalent to eighth over-all.

Canada’s women’s eight lost gold in a photo finish to U.S.A. Our southern neighbours squeaked out a gold-medal victory over Canada by .03 of a second. The rowers return to Canada this week though the women’s eight will con-tinue to train and compete in Europe.

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Getty upSharon Tiffin/News staff

Mount Douglas secondary runners Ethan and Thomas Getty are competing at the track and field provincials in Burnaby this weekend. The elder Thomas is a medal hopeful in the senior category 1,500m and 3,000m, while Ethan is a triple threat at the bantam level (Grade 9) in the 400m, 200m and 100m sprints.

Katelyn Hayward

Our training and hard work has proved that you can teach an old dog new tricks.”

– Dave Calder

“Ethan is part of a special group of younger Mount Doug runners.” – Rams coach Al Niezen

All-stars commit to ChargersFive Island all-stars have committed to the

Camosun Chargers men’s basketball team for the 2012-13 Pacwest college season: Oak Bay Bays’ Evan Woodson and Kaz Kobayashi, Mount Douglas Ram Curtis Wilson, Claremont Spartan Desmond Slack and Cowichan guard Mitch Knippleberg.

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Cricket league seeks young bloodSaturday studieswith bats and bowlsTravis Paterson News staff

The city’s top cricketers aren’t from here, they moved here. And maybe it will always be that way. But it’s not stop-ping John Wenman and company from the Victoria and District Cricket Associa-tion from believing the Lower Island can once again rise to a competitive level equal or better than the B.C. Mainland Cricket League.

“It was about 20 to 25 year ago that our clubs could rival the Mainland,” Wenman said.

The difference is that many of the bet-ter cricket players have immigrated to B.C., and there are plenty more ex-pat players in the Vancouver area than in Victoria.

Still, Wenman finds it odd the top teams are not better, because Greater Victoria has more cricket teams than ever. Which is where Wenman comes in.

Now 69, the retired teacher from Stel-ly’s secondary learned the game here, where he was born and raised. His for-mer team, the University School Incogs, is celebrating its 100th season this year.

Wenman long ago shifted to recruiting and teaching, and is behind the league’s Saturday morning cricket school at St. Michaels University School. The pro-gram begins on June 2, for kids aged

eight to 14, and runs until the last Satur-day in August. Seminars last two hours and range from cricket introduction for newbies to development for return play-ers. Younger students use softer equip-ment until they’re a little older, or have got the hang of the game.

By 14, some players are ready to join the Colts, a designated youth team play-ing in the less competitive mid-week league.

“Through the summer program we’ve put through quite a few players to the Colts, and have seen players move from the Colts into the more competitive weekend league,” Wenman said.

To register contact Wenman at 250-598-5477, or [email protected].

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It’s been 50 years since Claremont sec-ondary school opened its doors to Saanich. And from those doors has emerged a seem-ingly non-stop stream of athletes ranging from city champions to Olympians.

As part of its 50th anniversary on Satur-day (June 2) Claremont is revealing the Wall of Fame in the main hallway and gym. The school is inducting 27 athletes, who played a range of sports from major league pitcher Rich Harden and national team soccer player Wanda Rozwad-owska, to Ironman tri-athlete turned paralym-pic rower Tony Theri-ault and track star Deb-bie Scott. The youngest is diver Riley McCor-mick, 20, who is set for his second Olympics this summer.

Claremont’s also put-ting rugby’s Peter Sim-monds and Ed Kubek in for coaching excel-lence, and Joe Lott and

Gerry Montgomery in the builder category.

The induction cer-emony begins at 5:30 p.m. in the gym, with a formal mention of each athlete. More athletes will be added in the coming years.

It’s all part of an open house for alumni begin-ning at 3 p.m.

The school will be open with a series of designated “era rooms” for alumni to mix with their graduation year.

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SPORTS CALENDARSoccer

Fri. June 1: W-League, Seattle Sounders at Peninsula Co-op (Highlanders), 4:30 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.

Sat. June 2: PDL men, Abbotsford Mariners at Victoria Highlanders FC, 7 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.

Sat. June 2: PCSL premier men, Okanagan Challenge at Victoria Highlanders reserve, 7 p.m., Hampton Park.

Sat. June 2: PCSL premier men, Poco City FC at Vic United, 4:30 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.

Sun. June 3: PCSL premier men, Vancouver Thunderbirds at Victoria United, 4:30 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.

Sun. June 3: PCSL premier men, Poco City FC at Victoria Highlanders, 4:30 p.m., Hampton Park.

Sun. June 3: W-League, Colorado Rush at Peninsula Co-op (Highlanders), 2 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.

Lacrosse

Fri. June 1: WLA, Nanaimo Timbermen at Victoria Shamrocks, 7:45 p.m., Bear Mountain Arena.

Sat. June 2: Int. A, Maple Ridge Burrards at Victoria Shamrocks, 1:30 p.m., Bear Mountain Arena.

Sat. June 2: BCJLL Jr. A, Delta Islanders at Shamrocks, 5 p.m., Bear Mountain Arena.

Claremont archives

Claremont rugby great Casey Walt lifts the 1970 Howard Russell Cup (city trophy). Walt joins the wall of fame as one of sports stars to come from Claremont.

Spartans enshrine sporting history

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Speedy squareThe men’s (pictured from 2011 above) and women’s elite race of the Bastion Square Grand Prix goes Sunday morning, part of the Robert Cameron Law Cycling series this weekend, which includes the time trials at Clover Point tonight and B.C. road championship in Metchosin on Saturday.


On April 20, 2012, near Six Mile Road, View Royal, BC, Peace Offi cer(s) of the Westshore RCMP seized, at the time indicated, the subject property, described as: 1998 Subaru Legacy Wgn, BCL: 766LVJ; VIN: 4S3BK6752W6305304, on or about 13:15 Hours.The subject property was seized because there was evidence that the subject property had been used in the commission of an offence under Section 5(2) (possession for purpose of traffi cking) Controlled Drugs and Substance Act of Canada.Notice is hereby given that the subject property, CFO fi le Number: 2012-1038, is subject to forfeiture under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will be forfeited to the Government for disposal by the Director of Civil Forfeiture unless a notice of dispute is fi led

with the Director within the time period set out in this notice.A notice of dispute may be fi led by a person who claims to have an interest in all or part of the subject property. The notice of dispute must be fi led within 60 days of the date upon which this notice is fi rst published.You may obtain the form of a notice of dispute, which must meet the requirements of Section 14.07 of the CFA, from the Director’s website accessible online at www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The notice must be in writing, signed in the presence of a lawyer or notary public, and mailed to the Civil Forfeiture Offi ce, PO Box 9234 Station Provincial Government, Victoria BC V8W 9J1.

In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA

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LANGFORD NEW townhouse. bdrm, bath. $600. incl. N/S, N/P, avail July 1. 250-382-9434.

TILLICUM MALL. FurnishedRm in apt. bus route. NS/NP. $550 inclusive. 250-893-8727.

SUITES, LOWER

BRENTWOOD BAY- quiet, cozy 1 bdrm, priv ent, W/D, D/W, elec F/P, close to bus N/S, N/P. $750 (incls hydro) July. 1. Ref’s, 250-652-5780.

COLWOOD- COZY 1 bdrm bsmt suite, $720 inclds utils & wifi . Close to Royal Roads Univ, shopping, Galloping Goose trail. Pet friendly, N/S. June 1. Refs. 250-294-5516.

MAPLEWOOD AREA- New small 1 bdrm, partly furnished. Inclds utils, laundry, basic cable. Very quiet. $795./mo. NS/NP. Call (250)383-3425.

MARIGOLD AREA- 1 bdrm, shared lndry, quiet. NS/NP. $850, (immed). 250-727-6217.

SAANICHTON, BRIGHT, quiet priv 1 bdrm + computer room, water view, wifi & sat TV, off street parking. N/S, N/P. $750 all inclusive. Avail July 1. Call (250)652-2774.

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HOMES FOR RENT

RENTALS

TOWNHOUSES

SIDNEY: NEW 3 bdrm + den, laundry, NS/NP, $1800. Avail July 1st. Call 250-217-4060.

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CARS

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SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES

This beautiful 2004 Volks-wagen Touareg has been well maintained. With only 135,000 KM on an economi-cal and spirited V6 engine, all wheel drive and tow hitch with electric brakes. Unique 6 spd Tiptronic auto trans-mission which will do the shifting for you or let you shift yourself for a sportier driving exp. Boasting a well equipped interior, rear mounted CD changer, this SUV cannot be missed!

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UTILITY TRAILERS

ARROW TRUCK Canopy-white, canopy roof is 4” abovetruck roof. Big space backwindow. Excellent condition.$700. Call 250-361-0052.

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$$$ BOATS Wanted. Any size. Cash buyer. Also trailersand outboards. 250-544-2628.

Garage SalesGarage Sales

GARAGE SALES

BAY/QUADRA area, 2523 Wark St., Sat, June 2, 8am-12pm. Multi Family Sale.

COLWOOD, 3612 Pond Side Terr (off of Latoria Rd.), Sat, June 2, 8am-2pm. Multi Family Sale. Follow the signs.

COLWOOD: SAT, June 2nd (1 day only), Amkathem Plc, street sale on Sat & Sun, don’t miss 852 for old and new unusual pieces. 9-3pm.

ESQUIMALT- 935 Inskip St, Saturday and Sunday, June 2nd and 3rd, 9-1pm.

FIRST BAPTIST Church 875 North Park St. Saturday June 2nd. Treasure sale- 9am-1pm.

LANGFORD. MOVING SALE. Furniture, tools, clothing, lots of misc. SATURDAY June 2nd, 9am-2pm. Please, no early birds. 125 Mocha Close.

LANGFORD- (Westhills De-velopment) Multi-family! 3048 Langford Lake Rd (off Jacklin) Sat, June 2, 10am-2pm.

SIDNEY, 10159 Third St., Sat, June 2, 9am-1pm. Household items, camping gear & more.

W. SAANICH, 1258 Knockan Drive, Sat, June 2, 10am-2pm. Multiple Family Sale.

GARAGE SALES

YARD SALE & TEASat. June 2nd, 9am-2pm

St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church,

1100 Colville Road.Gently used household goods and collectibles.

Frozen perogies, cabbage rolls & cakes. Tea, coffee and small desserts will be

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

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ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi

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Bookkeeping, Audit,Payroll, HST. Set up &

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250-477-4601PENNIE’$ BOOKKEEPING Services for small business. Simply/Quickbooks. No time to get that paperwork done? We do data-entry, GST, payroll, year-end prep, and training. 250-661-1237.

BUSINESS SERVICES

BOOKKEEPING, p/u & drop off, 16 years experience. Tina 250-245-1390

CARPENTRY

BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748.

INSTCARPET ALLATION

DARCY’S CARPET & LINO. Install, repairs, laminate, re-stretch, 35 yrs. 250-589-5874.

CLEANING SERVICES

MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estate organizing, events, par-ties, offi ce cleaning. BBB member. (250)388-0278.

SPOTLESS HOME Cleaning. Affordable, Experienced, Re-liable, Effi cient. (250)508-1018

COMPUTER SERVICES

A HOME COMPUTER Coach. Senior friendly. Computer les-sons, maintenance and prob-lem solving. Des, 250-656-9363, 250-727-5519.

COMPUDOC MOBILE Com-puter Services. Repairs, tune-ups, tutoring, web sites and more. Call 250-886-8053.

CONTRACTORS

BATHROOM REMODELING.“Gemini Baths” Plumb, Elec. Tile, Cabinets. 250-896-9302.

CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood fl oor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877

DRAFTING & DESIGN

DESIGN FOR PERMIT. www. integradesigninc.com Call Steven (250) 381-4123.


DRYWALL

AARON’S RENO’S Drywall, taping, texture. Insured/bond-ed. Free est. 250-880-0525.

DRYWALL PROFESSIONAL:Small additions, boarding, tap-ing, repairs, texture spraying, consulting. Soundproof instal-lation;bath/moisture resistance products. Call 250.384.5055. Petrucci’s Drywall.

ELECTRICAL

250-361-6193. QUALITY Electric. Expert: new homes &renos. No job too sm#22779.

AT&T ELECTRIC. Renova-tions. Residential & Commer-cial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550.

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $35/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

VAEXCA TING & DRAINAGE

BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini ex-cavator & bob cat services. Perimeter drains, driveway prep, Hardscapes, Lot clear-ing. Call 250-478-8858.

FENCING

ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

DECKS/FENCES, licensed & insured. Call Fred (250)514-5280. thelangfordman.com

QUALITY CEDAR fencing, decks and installation, pres-sure washing. For better pric-es & quotes call Westcoast Fencing. 250-588-5920.

FURNITURE REFINISHING

FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & deliv-ery. References available. 250-475-1462.

U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-216-8997.

GARDENING

10% OFF. Aerate, Rototill, Mowing, Hedge / Shrub trim-ming, clean-up. 250-479-6495

J&L GARDENING Specialty yard clean-up and mainte-nance. Master gardeners. John or Louise (250)891-8677


GARDENING

250-208-8535 WOODCHUCK: Neglected garden? Spring clean-ups, hedges, power rak-ing, aerating, weed/moss stump, blackberry & ivy re-moval. 24yrs exp. WCB.

ARE YOU in need of a profes-sional, qualifi ed, residential or commercial gardener?www. glenwoodgardenworks.com

AURICLE LAWNS- Superior lawn care-gardens, hedges & fert-weed mgmt. 882-3129

DPM SERVICES, lawn & gar-den, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141

FREE MULCH on all Land-scaping we install for you. Visit our Nursery and pick your plants! Call 250-391-9366.

GARDEN DESIGN or rede-sign You install or we do, Huge Discount at our Nursery. Call 250-391-9366.

GARDEN OVERGROWN? Weeding, lawn cuts, clean-ups, pruning. John Kaiser 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

WEEDING, PRUNING, hedg-es, hauling, etc. $25/hr, free est. Call Steve (250)727-0481

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

250-889-5794. DIAMOND DAVE Gutter Cleaning. Thor-ough Job at a Fair Price! Re-pairs, gutter guard, power/win-dow washing, roof de-moss. Free no obligation estimates.

AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, Guards, windows, powerwash-ing, roof de-moss, repairs. In-sured. Call (250)507-6543.

PERIMETER EXTERIORS. Gutter Cleaning, Repairs, De-mossing, Upgrades. WCB, Free estimates. 250-881-2440.

HANDYPERSONS

AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.


HANDYPERSONS

BEETLES RESIDENTIAL Renovations Ltd. Bathrooms, decks, painting, landscaping and handyman services. Fully insured and guaranteed. Free estimates. Call 250-889-4245.

BIG BEAR Handyman & Painting Services. No job too small. Free Estimates. Senior discounts. Barry 250-896-6071

YOUNG SENIOR Handyman. Household repairs. Will assist do-it-yourselfers. Call Fred, 250-888-5345.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

#1 JUNK Removal & Hauling. Small Renos. Moving/Packing. Free estimates. Cheapest in town. Same day emergency removal. Call 250-818-4335.

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.

HAULING & RECYCLING. 250-889-5794.

✭BUBBA’S HAULING✭ Hon-est, on time. Demolition, con-struction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, top-soil, mulch), garden waste re-moval, mini excavator, bob cat service. 250-478-8858.

SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

MALTA ASBESTOS, Mold re-moval. Attics, drywall & more. (250)388-0278. BBB member.

M&S OXFORD Home/Com-mercial Reno’s & Painting. Patio’s, Decks, Sheds, Hard-wood and Trim. 25 yrs exp. Quality Guar. 250-213-5204.

RENOS BY Don, 25 yrs exp. New, renos, repairs, decks, fencing, bathrooms, kitchens. Senior discounts. Licensed, Insured, WCB, 250-588-1545.

INSULATION

MALTA WOOL-BLOWN insu-lation/ Spray foam application. (250)388-0278. BBB member.

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

CBS MASONRY BBB A+ Ac-credited Business. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flagstone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Patios, Side-walk Repair. Replace, Rebuild, Renew! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. Call (250)294-9942 or 250-589-9942.www.cbsmasonry.com

ROMAX MASONRY. Exp’d & Professional. Chimneys, Brick Veneer, Rockwork, Cultured Stone, Interlocking Paving. Fully insured. Estimates. Call250-588-9471 - 250-882-5181


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CBS MASONRY BBB A+. Chimney, Fireplaces, Rock, Flagstone, Concrete, Pavers, Repair, Rebuild, Renew. “Quality is our Guarantee.” Free Competitive Est’s. Call (250) 294-9942/589-9942.www.cbsmasonry.com

MAMMOTH Landscaping & Masonry - Have the luxury of masons & horticulturists work-ing together on your project. For consult call Calvin Veenstra 250-883-7666mammothlandscaping.com

& MOVING STORAGE

2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.

DIAMOND MOVING. 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $85/hr. Call 250-220-0734.

MALTA MOVING. Serving Vancouver Island, surrounding islands and the Mainland. BBB Member. (250)388-0278.

PAINTING

217-9580 ENIGMA PAINTING Renos, commercial, residential Professional Friendly Service.

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wallcoverings. Over 25 yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

COLOURS & IDEAS. Exterior/ Interior Painting. All work wa-ranteed. Call (250)208-8383.

ST PAINTING free est, written guarantee and full ref’s. WCB ins. Call Kaleb (250)884-2597.

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YOUR PERSONAL Interior Painter. No Job too Big or Too Small. Call Gilbert today for free quote. (250)886-6446.

PLUMBING

FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonable rates. Call 250-514-2376.


PLUMBING

EXPERIENCED JOURNEY-MAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fairrates. Insured. Reliable,friendly. Great references. CallMike at KNA (250)880-0104.

FREE ESTIMATES. Rea-sonable. Reliable. No job toosmall. Call 250-388-5544.

KERRY’S GAS & PLUMBING SERVICES- Repair, mainte-nance & install. 250-360-7663.

PLASTERING

PATCHES,Drywall, skimming,old world texturing, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-642-5178.

PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.250-744-8588, Norm.

ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

A&R ROOFING Ltd. Residen-tial & Commercial. New & re-roofi ng expert. Torch-on, ce-dar shakes, roof repairs, guttercleaning. WCB covered. Freeestimates. Mike 250-516-3944

STUCCO/SIDING

PATCHES, ADDITIONS, re-stucco, renos, chimney, water-proofi ng. Bob, 250-642-5178.

RE-STUCCO & HARDY Plank/Painting Specialist. 50years experience. Free esti-mates. Dan, 250-391-9851.

TILING

A1. SHAWN The Tile Guy-Res/ Comm/ Custom/ Renos.250-686-6046

UPHOLSTERY

UPHOLSTERER NEEDS work. Your fabric or mine.250-480-7937.

WINDOW CLEANING

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, SweepingRoofs, Pressure Washing,Roof Demossing. Call 250-361-6190.

GLEAMING WINDOWS Gut-ters+De-moss. Free estimate.18 yrs. Brian, 514-7079. WCB.

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251 Government, $647,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMette Pedersen, 250-744-3301

3166 Somerset, $517,900Saturday 12-2DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jeff Bishop, 250-474-6003 pg. 19

3-828 Rupert TerraceSaturday & Sunday 1-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMurray Lawson 250 385-9814 pg. 11

1161 Finlayson, $438,000Saturday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 42

3-727 Linden AveSunday 1-3Newport RealtyDavid Harvey, 250-385-2033 pg. 6

210-1061 Fort, $189,900Saturday 1-3Newport RealtyBruce Gibson 250 385-2033 pg. 6

1494 Fairfi eld, $309,900Thursday - Sunday 1-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-8780 pg. 16

2959 Irma St, $589,000Saturday 1-4 & Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunEd G Sing, 250-744-3301 pg. 18

206-20 Olympia, $219,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291 pg. 12

1050 Pentrelew, $698,000Saturday 12:30-2:30Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara 250 384-8124 pg. 19

336 Richmond Ave, $799,000Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunLynne Campbell, 250-812-4949 pg. 15

412-225 Belleville St, $499,900Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton Holmes LtdBev Blumer, 250 384-8124 pg. 5

607 Wilson, $399,900Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyBruce Gibson 250 385-2033 pg. 10

1362 Grant StSunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes CloverdaleLisa Redding 250 882-0868 pg. 40

404-300 Waterfront, $548,500Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdFrank Chan 250 477-7291 pg. 17

403-819 Burdett, $439,900Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalPat Meadows, 250-592-4422 pg. 10

27 Pilot, $799,000Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyPatricia Parkins, 250-385-2033 pg. 19

304-1121 Oscar St, 369,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Peter Crichton, 250-889-4000

637 Cornwall, $619,000Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunGuy Crozier 250-744-3301 pg. 32

113-21 ErieSaturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastLynn MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 6

733A HumboldtDaily noon - 5 pm (exc Fri)Fair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 480-3000 pg. 16

1141 Oscar StSaturday 3:30-5Re/Max CamosunEmma Dixon-Will, 250-370-7788

514-160 Wilson, $289,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real EstateRon Bahrey, 250-477-7291 pg. 11

402-21 Erie StreetSaturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBon Hollier, 250-514-8007 pg. 18

C-113 Superior, $489,500Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdFrank Chan 250 477-7291 pg. 17

1-1246 Fairfi eld, $169,000Saturday 12-2Royal Lepage Coast CapitalLaurel Hounslow 250 592-4422 pg. 9

301-380 Waterfront, $529,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 42

306-75 SongheesSunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 12

2743 Higgins StSaturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunEmma Dixon-Will, 250-370-7788

301-1715 Richmond AveSaturday 1-3Century 21 Queenswood RealtyClaire Yoo, 250-477-1100 pg. 6

103-1527 Cold Harbour Rd, $279,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max AllianceDavid Rusen, 250-386-8875 pg. 6

105-1220 Fort, $309,900Saturday 2:30-4:30Royal Lepage Coast CapitalLaurel Hounslow 250 592-4422 pg. 9

604-75 SongheesSunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 13

3093 Washington, $729,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyRobert Buckle 250 385-2033 pg. 18

66 Wellington, $1,095,000Sunday 2-4Burr Properties LtdPatrick Skillings 250 382-8838 pg. 19

616-160 Wilson, $369,000Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyBill Chudyk 250 477-5353 pg. 15

1275 Dominion Rd, $469,900Sunday 1-3Address Realty Ltd.Irina Lobatcheva, 250-391-1893

402-11 CooperageSaturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastLynn MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 14

101-66 Songhees Rd, $589,900Saturday 2-4Address Realty LtdMichelle Vermette, 250-391-1893

754 Humboldt, $198,900Daily Noon-5 exc FridaysConcert Properties 250 383-3722 pg. 7

104-2211 Shelbourne, $294,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunJason Binab, 250-744-3301 pg. 40

1709 Fernwood Rd, $399,000Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyFred Lerch, 250-889-2528 pg. 18

32 Pilot, $669,900Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyNoah Dobson 250 385-2033 pg. 11

1323 McNair, $499,999Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesGunnar Stephenson, 250-884-0933 pg. 20

403-455 Sitkum Rd., $559,900Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyNoah Dobson 250 385-2033 pg. 6

510-188 DouglasSaturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBonnie Johnston 250 744-3301 pg. 13

205-1223 Johnson St, $299,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesMurray Clodge, 250-818-6146 pg. 6

263 Beechwood, $619,900Saturday 1:30-3:30Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMorley Bryant, 250-477-5353 pg. 19

203-1120 Fairfi eld Rd, $389,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyCheri Crause, 250-592-4422

3901 Seaton, $444,900Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jeff Bishop, 250-474-6003 pg. 20

407-380 Waterfront, $428,000Saturday 2-5SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250 380-6683

2520 Cadboro Bay, $669,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Bill Knowles, 250-656-0131 pg. 20

1149 Hampshire, $1,029,000Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291 pg. 17

2112 Pentland, $950,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124 pg. 20

2817 Foul Bay Rd, $519,900Sunday 1-3Sutton GroupWest Coast RealtyVic Smith 250-479-3333 pg. 20

405-1159 Beach Dr, $735,000Saturday 2-4Sutton GroupWest Coast RealtyKathryn Alexander, 250-881-4440 pg. 5

2213 Windsor, $854,900Saturday 1-3 & Sunday 2-4Jonesco Real EstateWayne Garner 250 881-8111 pg. 41

2625 Orchard AveSunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Susan Carley, 250-477-7291

2540 McLaren, $499,900Saturday 1-4Re/Max CamosunPaul Askew 250 744-3301 pg. 43

3000 UplandsSunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes David Scotney, 250-384-8124 pg. 21

895 Falkland, $689,900Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyMike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100 pg. 21

2226 Windsor RdSaturday 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882

2046 Kings Rd, $559,500Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunLynne Sager 250 744-3301 pg. 37

4-118 AldersmithSunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyBill Chudyk 250 477-5353 pg. 14

402-288 Eltham, $399,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesAndrew Plank 250 360-6106 pg. 14

207 Anya Lane, $699,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJessica Amorim, 250-479-3333 pg. 21

44 Demos, $405,000Saturday 12-2Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDoug Poruchny 250-474-4800 pg. 21

423 Creed PlSaturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Stephanie Peat, 250-656-0131

2339 Chilco, $547,900Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyNorma Campbell, 250-477-5353 pg. 21

18-300 Six Mile Rd., $389,900Saturday 12-1:45Fair RealtyRay Kong, 250-590-7011 pg. 40

1370 Craigfl ower, $439,000Saturday 12-2Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 42

1366 Craigfl owerSaturday 12-2Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 42

843 Parklands Dr, $469,000Saturday 10-1Pemberton HolmesDavid Johnston, 250-384-8124 pg. 21

1326 Lyall St, $499,900Saturday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunApril Prinz, 250-744-3301 pg. 21

485 Constance Ave, $699,900Saturday 1-3Address Realty Ltd.Mike Chubey, 250-391-1893

2-1182 Colville Rd, $417,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyBruce McCulloch, 250-479-3333 pg. 21

934 Craigfl ower, $379,000Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesNicole Burgess 250 384-8124 pg. 13

4665 Amblewood, $769,900Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesCorie Meyer, 250-384-8124 pg. 23

407-1009 McKenzie, $229,000Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663 pg. 8

4800 Sea Ridge, $799,900Sunday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422 pg. 23

110-1505 Church Ave, $227,900Saturday 2-4Boorman’sRod Hay, 250-595-1535 pg. 14

1934 Waterloo, $689,900Sunday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyMike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100 pg. 24

3983 Cedarwood, $549,000Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422 pg. 24

2-4341 Crownwood Ln, $629,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNeil Rawnsley, 250-592-4422 pg. 6

2676 Arbutus Rd, $999,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyAnke Venema, 250 477-1100 pg. 24

3470 Bonair, $1,649,900Saturday 2-4Newport RealtySylvia Therrien, 250-385-2033 pg. 23

5203-2829 Arbutus, $867,500Sunday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalJordan Thome 250 477-5353 pg. 10

43-5110 Cordova Bay, $579,000Saturday 11-1MacDonald RealtyJohn Boyle 250 388-5882 pg. 23

1245 Esquimalt, $250,000Friday - Sunday 12-4Pemberton HolmesIvica Kalabric, 250-384-8124 pg. 37

1170 Sunnygrove, $749,000Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastEamon Coll 250 479-3333 pg. 24

4008 Bow Rd, $775,000Sunday 3:30-5SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra, 250-380-6683 pg. 22

20-4771 Cordova Bay, $899,900Saturday 11-1MacDonald RealtyJohn Boyle 250 388-5882 pg. 23

1178 WoodheathSaturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBruce Hatter, 250-744-3301 pg. 42

910 Lucas Ave, $458,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNeil Rawnsley, 250-592-4422 pg. 22

317-1680 Poplar Ave, $239,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max AllianceDavid Rusen, 250-386-8875 pg. 5

994 Cottontree Close, $659,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBon Hollier, 250-514-8007 pg. 22

203-1642 McKenzie, $384,900Saturday 11-1 & Sunday 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882 pg. 43

4941 Lochside, $729,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBrad Gregory 250 744-3301 pg. 23

1536 Winchester, $709,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdRick Shumka 250 384-8124 pg. 24

305-820 Short, $329,888Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyNorma Campbell, 250-477-5353 pg. 15

4030/4040 Borden St, $239,900Saturday & Sunday 1-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250 658-0967 pg. 33

3942 Aspen, $795,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 42

2434 Camelot, $699,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyPatricia Parkins, 250-385-2033 pg. 24

2380 Queenswood, $1,245,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalDave Lynn 250 592-4422 pg. 8

5365 Alderley RdSunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDavid Stevens, 250-477-5353 pg. 22

3236 Cedar HillSaturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesMarie Dorland 250 384-8124 pg. 24

982 Taine, $459,900Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 24

308-3260 Quadra St., $259,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesCorie Meyer, 250-384-8124 pg. 15

1912 Woodley Rd., $1,124,500Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdDeborah Kline 250 661-7680 pg. 23

2-4318 Emily Carr, $539,000Sunday 2-4DFH Real EstateWendy Herrick 250-656-0131 pg. 14

3922 Quadra, $425,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesGladys Walsh 250-384-8124 pg. 25

3735 Doncaster, $699,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Fair RealtyRay Kong, 250-590-7011 pg. 40

2879 Inez, $579,000Sunday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 42

4823 Prospect Lake Rd, $1,165,000Sunday 1-3Address Realty Ltd.Mike Chubey, 250-391-1893 pg. 25

4071 Carey, $474,000Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 43

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1075 Primrose, $534,900Saturday 2-4Jonesco Real EstateWayne Garner 250 881-8111 pg. 41

4176 Carey, $559,900Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdMike Hartshorne 250 889-4445 pg. 25

1260 Loenholm Rd, $464,000Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Wayne Hyslop, 250-477-7291 pg. 25

2836 Murray, $954,900Saturday 2:30-4:30Century 21 Queenswood RealtyChris Markham 250 477-1100 pg. 35

21 Lurline AveSaturday 11-1Holmes Realty Ltd.Vern Totten, 250-656-0911

15-4583 Wilkinson, $499,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunGuy Crozier 250-744-3301 pg. 32

211 Maddock Ave W, $439,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyCamela Slack, 250-661-4088

460 MontcalmSaturday 2-4Re/Max AllianceClaude Delmaire 250 386-8875 pg. 26

3814 RolandSunday 1-3Century 21 QueenswoodLaurie Mains 250 477-1100 pg. 26

4705 Kerryview, $2,999,900Sunday 2-4JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3

560 Ker, $569,888Sat 2-4 Pemberton HolmesMay Chamberland 250 384-8124 pg. 25

573 Crossandra Cres, $299,500Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyJackie Adkins, 250-477-5353 pg. 6

107-7 Gorge Rd W, $175,000Saturday 11:30-1:30Re/Max CamosunBruce Hatter, 250-744-3301 pg. 40

735 DaffodilSunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunDoreen Halstenson, 250 744-3301 pg. 43

2828 Inlet, $499,000Sunday 12-2Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 42

8540 Lochside DrSunday 2:30-4Holmes Realty Ltd.James Bridge, 250-656-0911

1677 Texada, $839,000Sunday 1-3One Percent RealtyTania McFadden 250 589-0248 pg. 27

1511 Oceanspray Dr, $789,000Saturday 2-4Sparling Real EstateDon Sparling, 250-656-5511 pg. 27

1719 Barrett, $729,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Ann Watley 250-656-0131 pg. 27

1563 Dean Park Rd, $699,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunGaye Phillips, 250-655-0608 pg. 27

301-2421 Sidney, $346,000Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Bill Knowles, 250-656-0131 pg. 27

15-2070 Amelia Ave, $224,500Sunday 2-4Sparling Real Estate Ltd.Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511 pg. 26

8813 Moresby Park, $630,000Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 28

892 Paconla, $599,000Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyGordon Lee 250-385-2033 pg. 28

407-2341 Harbour, $319,000Saturday 1-3Century 21 QueenswoodJulie Rust 250 477-1100 pg. 12

202-2050 White Birch, $229,900Saturday 2-4Jonesco Real EstateRoger Jones 250 361-9838 pg. 12

767 Turnberry Pl, $685,000Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Judy Gerrett, 250-656-0131 pg. 27

1380 Oceanspray Dr, $549,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Judith Gerrett, 250-656-0131 pg. 28

9616 Seventh St, $599,900Saturday 11:30-1:30Re/Max CamosunPeter Gray, 250-882-3333 pg. 26

11275 Hickory, $799,000Saturday 2-4JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3

7161 West SaanichThursday - Monday 3-5Gordon Hulme RealtyDon King 250 656-4626 pg. 11

8069 Thomson Pl, $874,900Sunday 12-2Re/Max CamosunBrad MacLaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 26

1110-6880 Wallace Dr, $729,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Cheryl Woolley, 250-477-7291

301-6880 WallaceSaturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 14

5-2323 Harbour, $729,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 43

C-2055 White Birch Rd, $445,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMel Jarvis, 250-478-9600 pg. 6

321-2245 James White, $169,000Friday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Ann Watley 250-656-0131 pg. 27

407-2341 Harbour Rd, $319,000Saturday 1-3Century 21 Queenswood RealtyJulie Rust, 250-477-1100 pg. 6

102-2380 Brethour Ave, $349,000Saturday 1-3Fair RealtyJinwoo Jeong, 250-885-5114 pg. 26

1757 Fairfax, $738,800Sunday 1-3DFH Real EstateWendy Herrick 250-656-0131 pg. 28

2340 Moore Pl, $577,500Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBonnie Johnston 250 744-3301 pg. 28

6-2056 White Birch, $499,500Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalPat Meadows, 250-592-4422 pg. 12

8735 Pender Park Dr, $795,000Saturday 2-4Sparling Real EstateDon Sparling, 250-656-5511 pg. 27

10314 Gabriola Pl, $522,000Saturday & Sunday 2:30-4Pemberton HolmesShelna Atkinson, 250-384-8124

1290 Lands End Rd, $859,000Saturday 2-4JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3

10176 Tsaykum, $599,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 43

33-2120 Malaview Ave, $424,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunGay Helmsing, 250-655-0608 pg. 5

11396 Chalet, $1,199,000Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 43

7161 West Saanich Rd, $379,900Thursday-Monday 3-5Re/Max CamosunCraig Walters, 250-655-0608 pg. 26

10522 Lyme Grove, $1,195,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunGay Helmsing, 250-360-7387 pg. 28

656 Stewart Mountain RdSaturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunDoreen Halstenson, 250 744-3301 pg. 43

3605 Pondside Terr, $474,900Saturday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Adam Hales, 250-391-1893

613 Amble Pl, $499,900Saturday & Sunday 1-4Re/Max CamosunKeith Ferguson 250 744-3301 pg. 32

786 Walfred Rd, $1,228,888Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesDaryl Ashby, 250-478-9141

973 Tayberry, $409,900Sunday 2-3:30Re/Max CamosunDon Burnham, 250-516-1510 pg. 29

2433 Prospector Way, $629,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes David Scotney, 250-384-8124 pg. 29

2957 Robalee Pl, $384,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGoran Tambic, 250-384-7663 pg. 28

201-2829 Peatt Rd, $224,900Saturday 12-2Re/Max CamosunRick Turcotte, 250-744-3301

579 Tena, $440,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesDavid Hale, 250-812-7277 pg. 2

47-2817 Sooke Lake Rd, $99,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunTony Wick, 250-478-9600 pg. 29

2607 Country Terrace, $489,900Sunday 12:30-2:30Century 21 Queenswood RealtyAnke Venema, 250 477-1100

3001 Alouette, $489,900Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdMike Hartshorne 250 474-6003 pg. 30

2954 Rockhill PlSaturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunLee Johnston, 250-478-9600 pg. 29

662 Goldstream Ave., $254,900Daily 1-4Kahl RealtyJason Kahl 250-391-8484 pg. 11

217 Carmanah Pl, $620,000Saturday 12:30-2Pemberton HolmesShelna Atkinson, 250-384-8124

2386 Setchfi eld Ave, $549,786Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBrad MacLaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 28

837 Gannet, $449,000Saturday 1:30-3SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra, 250-380-6683 pg. 30

549 Delora Dr, $579,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyHans Hegen, 250-858-0424 pg. 40

608 Fairway Ave, $369,900Daily 1:30-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyJennifer Scheck, 250-477-1100 pg. 5

116-866 Brock, $260,000Sunday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyKellie Elder 250 384-7663 pg. 8

3418 Pattison, $454,900Sunday 2-4SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra, 250-380-6683 pg. 30

5308 Rocky Pt Rd, $599,000Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 30

2363 Echo Valley Dr, $589,500Saturday 11:30-1SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra, 250-380-6683 pg. 28

681 Donovan, $449,900Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate LtdMike Hartshorne 250 889-4445 pg. 29

335 Chapel Heights, $925,000Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastLynn MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 31

477 Royal Bay, $699,000Sunday 12-2RE/MAX CamosunJason Leslie, 250-478-9600 pg. 30

6-3650 Citadel, $699,000Sunday 2:30-4:30RE/MAX CamosunJason Leslie, 250-478-9600 pg. 30

68-2587 Selwyn, $168,000Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jean Omelchenko, 250-474-6003 pg. 29

2458 Prospector, $559,000Saturday 1:30-3RE/MAX CamosunDiana Devlin, 250-744-3301 pg. 43

3250 Walfred Pl, $445,000Sunday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Adam Hales, 250-391-1893 pg. 28

2528 Selwyn Rd, $578,500Sunday 12-2Sutton Group West Coast RealtyShelley Stancin, 250-857-3044 pg. 29

3023 Arado, $549,900Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdMike Hartshorne 250 889-4445 pg. 31

3019 Dornier, $259,900Daily 12-4 DFH Real Estate LtdMike Hartshorne 250 889-4445 pg. 29

2200 Harrow Gate, $629,000Sunday 3-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyAnke Venema, 250 477-1100

771 Danby, $679,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate LtdJeff Shaw 250 474-6003 pg. 31

608 Fairway Ave, $249,900Daily 1:30-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyChuck Meagher, 250-477-1100 pg. 13

27-551 Bezanton, $487,500Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 30

6652 Rhodonite, $309,900Saturday & Sunday 3:30-4:30Re/Max AllianceKaren Love, 250-386-8875 pg. 40

5924 Sooke Rd, $324,900Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyLorenda Simms, 250-642-6361 pg. 31

Sunriver Estates Sales CentreSaturday-Thursday 11-4Newport RealtyBlair Watling 250 642-2233 pg. 34

2239 McIntosh, $399,000Thursday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdDeborah Kline 250 661-7680 pg. 36

877 Tutor Way, $449,000Saturday 1-4Pemberton HolmesDiana Winger 250-999-3683 pg. 40

678 Augusta, $489,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesJacqueline Baker, 250-384-8124 pg. 36

929 Deloume Rd, $514,900Saturday 1-3Cornerstone PropertiesJordan Louis, 250-661-8065

901 Pratt, $489,900Saturday 1-4Re/Max CamosunPaul Askew 250 744-3301 pg. 43

2640 West Shawnigan Lake, $749,900Saturday 1-4Re/Max CamosunPaul Askew 250 744-3301 pg. 43

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■ Grand Opening of Sutton Group - West Coast

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Sutton GroupWest Coast Realtyopens new office

Darren Day, Realtor, and Cheryl Barnes, from Sutton Group - West Coast Realty.

More photos available online at;http://gallery.pictopia.com/bclocalnews/gallery/97246

Patrick Novotny, Realtor and Denise Wilson, Developer.

A few of the people who came to the grand opening of Sutton Group-West Coast Realty’s new Langford office. The new office on Goldstream Avenue opened Friday.

Morgan Baker, Merrily Hackett, general manager of Sutton Group - West Coast Realty, and Warren Cleal, Sales Manager join hands in cutting the ribbon of the new Sutton office in Langford.

Mikko Ikonen, Sutton Group - West Coast Realty and Concetta Peluso.

Ellen Bergerud and Morgan Baker, from Sutton Group - West Coast Realty.

Kaila Welsch, executive assistant, and Nicole Blackmer, director of Human Resources, both from Sutton Group - West Coast Realty.

Catherine Hallock, from Sutton, and Cheryl Fraser, from Standard Real Estate Services.

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Sutton Group West Coast Realty offi cially opened its brand new state-of-the art offi ce across from Langford City Hall on May 25. Guest were welcomed into the spectacular facility, featur-ing fl oor-to-ceiling glass walls, media-equipped meeting rooms, high ceilings, bright and spacious open work areas, contemporary furnishings and private offi ce spaces. Sutton Group - West Coast Realty now has 19 offi ces throughout the Vancouver Island, Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley areas. In May they were named by the Real Trends Top 250 Report, for the second consecutive year, as Canada’s #1 Broker for total transactions, total closed sales volume and for the total number of Realtors® associated with them. With over 1,900 Realtors currently working with them in BC, they did 15,039 transaction ends and $9.6 billion in closed sales volume in 2011. Interestingly, if Sutton West Coast was lo-cated in the USA their 2011 dollar volume would place them in fi fth spot among the elite US brokerages. Real Estate Sales Manager Warren Cleal is both enthused and optimistic about Sutton Group West Coast Realty’s pres-ence in one of Canada’s fastest growing communities and welcomes the public and Realtors alike to drop by the 866 Goldstream Avenue location or call 250-999-9886.

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Saturday fundraiser benefits cancer patient

Millstream Village COBS Bread is hosting a barbecue and raffle this Saturday.

All money raised will go towards help-ing Langford resident Tristan Taylor, 22, who is battling a rare form of cancer. The money will help send him to Texas to get special care that isn’t available in Canada.

All food and raffle items have been donated. Raffle items include a handmade quilt and gift certifi-cates from local busi-nesses.

The event is Satur-day, June 2, from noon to 4 p.m. at Unit 157 Millstream Village, 2401 Millstream Rd.

West Shore RCMP are targeting roads across the West Shore this week looking for speeders, distracted drivers and passengers not wearing seat belts.

The RCMP traffic section will be at various inter-sections, including Island Highway and Wale Road,

and Sooke Road and Aldeane Avenue. Officers will also be patrolling locations along Highland Road in View Royal, and Sooke Road from Glen Lake to Awsworth roads in Langford.

RCMP officers will be out various hours through-out the day and night.

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