goldstream news gazette, may 01, 2015

Saying goodbye,with class

Arnold Lim News Gazette staff

Sometimes the hardest part is saying goodbye, but Belmont secondary is turning farewell into a celebration.

Leanne Harrington, a former student and current teacher at the school, is among the organizers of Saying Goodbye to Belmont. The preparation for the May 9 gathering has seen committee members leave no stone unturned.

The hope, Harrington says, is that the event leaves a positive legacy for the school in celebrating its 68 years of existence in one form or another.

“We spent a lot of time deciding what (the farewell) would look like, taking it to all stakeholders, presenting that to our trustees at one of our local board meetings,” she said. “They were blown away with the ideas that were presented. From that we got approval. We’re very

confident with what we have.”A community service class was born

from those meetings. Grade 12s Ravina Parmar, Claire Church and Katie Rufh took the lead from the students’ side, working alongside past and present alumni, principal Ray Miller, teachers, Sooke School District trustees and superintendent Jim Cambridge. They all worked toward creating an event to say a respectful goodbye to a school that has seen more than 20,000 graduates.

“High school is a very big part of everyone’s lives, especially Belmont, because it’s got character,” Colwood resident Rufh says. “It has a lot of amazing teachers inside of it and the students are

great. Belmont doesn’t get recognized for a lot, but there’s a lot of alumni that have done a lot of amazing things and it’s important to recognize that.”

She is excited for the litany of activities planned. Starting with an pancake breakfast and aboriginal blessing at 9 a.m., the events include on-field musical performances by bands of all sorts featuring alumni from the 1960s, 70’s and through to the modern day. Also on tap will be the digging up of a time capsule for relocation to the new school, an online auction dubbed B-Bay where bidders can purchase Belmont historical memorabilia, a look at the Belmont Sports Hall of Fame and a closing ceremony.

“It (is) going to be a big deal for a lot of the alumni; a lot of people are coming back to see the closing of the school,” Rufh says. “(We) thought it would be a great project to take on. We are big fans of the school. It may not look like much, but it has a lot of heart inside of it.”

One of the organizing committee’s goals is to show the breadth of the school in areas from sports to academics and the arts, and to see every age group of alumni recognized and honoured. Rufh looks forward to making memories on a day featuring the best Belmont has to offer.

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Claire Church, left, Katie Rufh and Ravina Parmar stand in front of the mosaic welcoming people to Belmont secondary. The school will host its Farewell to Belmont celebrations next Saturday on May 9.Arnold Lim/ News Gazette staff

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There wasn’t an empty chair to be found in Langford council chambers Monday for the Parks, Recreation, Culture and Beautifi-cation Committee meeting.

The room was filled with con-cerned residents who came to hear various presenters speak about the health of Langford’s lake system.

The special meeting was meant to bring residents together to talk about what can be done to improve the health of the lake system – specifically Glen Lake,

Langford Lake and Florence Lake – to highlight the steps that have been taken already and the levels of success attained thus far.

The overarching message: the lakes are getting healthier, but there are still improvements to be made.

Rosie Barlak, environmental impact assessment biologist with the Ministry of Environment, pre-sented data collected over the past decade or so and said that since the aerator that went into Langford Lake in 2012, the lake is significantly closer to meeting health objectives – which were set in 2007 – but is still below the

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Part of the reason for that is the lack of volunteers needed to run the weed harvester, which is owned by the city. This was another reason for the meeting.

“Everybody who lives on each lake is supposed to look after run-ning the machine,” said Coun. Lanny Seaton, chair of the Parks, Recreation, Culture and Beautifica-tion Committee, though the city’s parks department does move the machine from lake to lake when needed.

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There were concerns from those in attendance, however.

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Others raised the issue of it being a somewhat dangerous

proposition, and questioning the liability issues that could arise if someone is injured while oper-ating the harvester, asking if it wouldn’t be better off being run by the city.

“We don’t want to get involved in that,” Seaton said, pointing out that if the machine was run by the city itself, there would be huge liability issues.

Anyone with questions about the harvester or anything else being done to help the lakes system in Langford can contact the city’s Parks Department at [email protected]

Students from around West Shore join those around the country


The Q Centre is going to be loud – in the best possible way – for about an hour on Monday morning.

For the 10th straight year, students across the country, including about 2,400 from nine elementary schools in the Sooke School Dis-trict, will celebrate Music Monday.

“The idea is that we celebrate music together as a nation,” said Maureen Garry, David Cameron elementary music teacher and president of the Sooke Music Teachers’ Association.

“We will sing the same song, at the same time, with all the other students in all the other participating communities right across the country.”

This year’s Music Monday song is enti-tled “We Are One,” written by 16-year-old Connor Ross of Caledon, Ont. The song was selected from more than 200 submis-sions to the Music Monday Anthem Search, which launched last September. The lyr-ics and music were then distributed to the participating communities to learn before the event.

The Sooke School District participants

will also be performing two African songs, “Funga Alafia,” and “Kaye Kaye,” as well as “You Can Dance, You Can Sing,” “United We Sing,” and what Garry called, “a Rock and Roll version of ‘Frere Jacques,’ which

should be enough to get people out to it and hear what that sounds like.”

Garry expects only about 30 or 40 of the approximately 2,400 participants at the Col-wood event to actually be playing instru-

ments – they’ll be mainly per-cussion, to help the singers keep the rhythm – because the vocal aspect should take priority.

“It’s the one instrument that everyone has,” she said. That levels the playing field in a way and allows for anyone of any skill level to participate, mak-ing it very inclusive, reflecting the goal of the event.

“It’s about people com-ing together to celebrate the importance of music in every-one’s lives, in our schools and within our communities.”

The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 9:45 a.m., but Garry wants attend-ees to know there may be a delay.

“It will begin when all of the students arrive,” she said with a chuckle. “The logistics of get-ting 2,400 elementary school kids from nine schools is com-plicated, so we’re saying 9:45, but it could be a bit later than that and will go for about an

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Teacher Maureen Garry directs a group of David Cameron Elementary students through one of their last rehearsals before the big day on Monday, when they will be joining approximately 2,400 other students at the Q Centre for Music Monday, a national celebration of music.

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The learning landscape is constantly evolving as technol-ogy advances. And teachers are embracing those technologies as new tools.

“You see technologies pervasive in our culture and because of that there’s carry over in our classroom,” said Josh Elsdon, who teaches the Monterey Institute of Technology (MIT), an inaugural Grade 7 class that utilizes technology as part of its routine curriculum.

MIT is based partly on what he’d already seen as a teacher, with stu-dents bringing in everyday tech-nology – tablets, laptops, smart-phones – and teachers struggling to figure out the place of that tech-nology in the classroom.

“The emergences, like the phones, that’s been interest-ing watching that evolution take place,” Elsdon said. “They are a powerful tool and I think at first the reaction by most people was to say, ‘They don’t have a place in the classroom.’ I think as people recognize [phones] are not going anywhere – and if anything they’re getting more powerful and capa-ble of handling bigger and better jobs – teachers are trying to find a way to harness them.”

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Middle school students Luke Wilson, left, and Harrison Emery show teacher Josh Elsdon a map they’re working on as part of a science project in the Monterey Institute of Technology class.


“The best part is looking back and seeing the thousands of people that have made the school what

it is today,” she says. “That is our big focus for the day, recognizing Belmont in its finest hour, recognizing the things it has done through the decades, because (its alumni have) done a lot of incredible things.”

Giro d’Italia cycling race winner and Canadian Olympian Ryder Hesjedal, one of the school’s most famous graduates, has fond memories of a school he was always excited to attend. During his student days, he wrote in an email, he could feel the history and the importance of Belmont in the community.

“For me, Grade 11 and 12 were exciting years, and it was

there that I set out on my way to being a professional cyclist,” he said. “I hope the new school is even more inspiring for all the students and teachers.

“It’s sad to see a place go that has great memories, but it’s about building for the future and always moving forward, so I’m excited to see the new Belmont in action.”

Saying Goodbye to Belmont happens at the school on Jacklin Road on Saturday, May 9 starting at 9 a.m. Closing ceremonies are at 7 p.m.

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The 16 members of the first graduating class of Belmont High School pose for a group photo in 1950.Courtesy Belmont secondary archives

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Providing an opportunity to inspect fire trucks and other emergency vehicles up close is a good way for organizers of this Sunday’s (May 3) emergency preparedness display and safety fair to attract families.

But the eighth annual event is about more than showing off the equipment used to respond to West Shore emergencies and to keep the public safe. It’s about teaching people how to keep themselves safe and be ready for disasters great and small, says Lt. Troy Mollin with the View Royal Fire Department.

Besides the outdoor parking lot displays at the Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre and those inside the Juan de Fuca Seniors’ Centre, a new element to the fair will see local experts give short workshops on various topics.

“There’s the education component around things you can do to be prepared. It’s not that hard,” says Mollin, the fair’s joint co-ordinator and also View Royal’s emergency program officer.

“We’ll have 20- to 30-minute seminars or workshops around some of the things we talk about.”

Topics include how to put together emergency kits, what it means to practise “shelter-in-place” – where residents are asked to stay indoors and seal off any contact with potentially contaminated air

outside – how to use social media in an emergency and more.

The event is timed to coincide with the start of Emergency Preparedness Week, being marked May 3 to 9 across Canada.

Not only does the fair showcase the various organizations involved in preparedness and recovery functions, people who are interested in volunteering for Emergency Social Services programs, search and rescue or other service providers can find out who’s recruiting.

Among the 40 different exhibitors will be all five West Shore fire departments, the Department of National Defence bomb disposal unit, Victoria Urban Search and Rescue, West Shore RCMP and a joint exhibit between the municipal ESS groups.

Kid-friendly elements include Tom Thumb Safety Village pedal cars, a burning house fire hose target and a bouncy castle.

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Pedal cars provided by Tom Thumb Safety Village were a big draw for last year’s Emergency Preparedness Fair at Juan de Fuca Recreation. The 2015 event happens there this Sunday.

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“The best part is looking back and seeing the thousands of people that have made the school what

it is today,” she says. “That is our big focus for the day, recognizing Belmont in its finest hour, recognizing the things it has done through the decades, because (its alumni have) done a lot of incredible things.”

Giro d’Italia cycling race winner and Canadian Olympian Ryder Hesjedal, one of the school’s most famous graduates, has fond memories of a school he was always excited to attend. During his student days, he wrote in an email, he could feel the history and the importance of Belmont in the community.

“For me, Grade 11 and 12 were exciting years, and it was

there that I set out on my way to being a professional cyclist,” he said. “I hope the new school is even more inspiring for all the students and teachers.

“It’s sad to see a place go that has great memories, but it’s about building for the future and always moving forward, so I’m excited to see the new Belmont in action.”

Saying Goodbye to Belmont happens at the school on Jacklin Road on Saturday, May 9 starting at 9 a.m. Closing ceremonies are at 7 p.m.

To view the online auction items, visit bbay.com.

[email protected]


Continued from Page A1

Belmont farewell party will evoke memories

The 16 members of the first graduating class of Belmont High School pose for a group photo in 1950.Courtesy Belmont secondary archives

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West Shore women in the spotlight

This week, we at the Gazette published our second edition of Women of the West Shore, a celebration of some of the talented individuals who are making a difference in our community.

We spotlighted women entrepreneurs, professionals and others who play important executive and managerial roles around the West Shore.

It was impossible to include in the recent edition everyone we think deserves recognition for the work they do. However, we’d like to encourage readers to compliment the women they encounter in their daily lives for the job they’re doing, whether that be your kids’ schoolteacher, the clerk at the grocery store, the teller at the bank, your daycare service provider and others.

We appreciate the unique perspective women bring to every situation and value the skills, talents and creativity they bring to the table to help find solutions to our everyday problems.

We were glad that a number of the West Shore’s best and brightest women were on hand to help celebrate the launch of Women of the West Shore with a special event Tuesday at the Four Points by Sheraton Victoria Gateway.

The hope is that we do our part to help further empower women and convince the people who might think otherwise to give women in their lives the credit they deserve.

The monarch butterfly is a wonderful creature with an amazing story. In late summer, monarchs in southern Canada and the U.S. northeast take flight, travelling over 5,000 kilometres to alpine forests in central Mexico. The overwintering butterflies cling to fir trees there in masses so dense that branches bow under their weight.

The monarch’s multigenerational journey northward is every bit as remarkable as the epic southern migration. Three or four successive generations fly to breeding grounds, lay eggs and perish. The resulting caterpillars transform into butterflies and then take on the next leg of the trip. Monarchs arriving in Canada in late summer are often fourth or fifth generation descendants of butterflies that flew south the previous year.

What may be the monarch’s most striking quirk is its caterpillars’ reliance on milkweed as its sole food source, a phenomenon called “monophagy”. Milkweed plants contain small traces of cardenolides, bitter chemicals monarchs store in their bodies to discourage predators, which associate the butterflies’ distinctive colouration with bad taste. But relying on a single type of plant for survival is a risky strategy that has put monarchs in grave danger.

In the mid-1990s, the eastern monarch population was more than one billion. In winter 2013, the population had dropped by more than 95 per cent to 35 million, with a modest increase to 56.5 million

this past winter. As University of Guelph postdoctoral research fellow Tyler Flockhart notes, a

single severe storm could extinguish the entire monarch population. A 2002 snowstorm wiped out 80 million butterflies. A similar trend has been occurring west of the Rockies, where the western population overwinters in California and migrates as far north

as central B.C. Much of the monarch

butterfly decline has been pinned on virtual

eradication of its critical food source throughout much of its migration path by profligate use of a glyphosate-based weed killer called Roundup, which corn and soybean crops have been genetically modified to tolerate. Blanketing fields with the herbicide kills plants like milkweed. As a result, several U.S. Midwest states — the heart of monarch breeding territory — have lost most of their native milkweed, causing monarch reproductive rates to drop by more than 80 per cent.

A recent study suggests glyphosate is merely the first of a one-two toxic punch from industrial agricultural operations. The second is neonicotinoids, the controversial nicotine-based insecticides that have been identified as a chief culprit in the decline of honeybees, along with a host of birds, bees and butterflies. It appears that even at one part per billion, these chemicals can affect monarch caterpillar development, delivering a potential knockout blow for the imperilled insects.

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jurisdictions are catching up with the science. Ontario’s government has proposed regulations to reduce neonic use by 80 per cent over the next couple of years. In early April, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a moratorium on new applications to use neonicotinoids. I hope this marks the turning of the toxic tide, but time is running out.

What can you do to help? While government agencies in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada are scrambling to hatch plans to save monarchs, the scientific community has been clear: A lot of milkweed must be planted over the next few years. One great opportunity is the many thousands of kilometres of linear corridors — rail, road and hydro rights-of-way — that run throughout the migratory landscape and can be modified to grow milkweed and other pollinator-friendly plants.

Yards, school grounds and parks are also perfect for butterfly gardens and milkweed patches, and planting milkweed in your backyard or balcony garden is a great way to help. Be sure to call your local garden centre or nursery to ensure they stock native milkweed plants this spring.

Find out more about milkweed and information about how to bring monarchs back from the brink at davidsuzuki.org/gotmilkweed, the David Suzuki Foundation’s Got Milkweed campaign website.

Planting milkweed may seem small, but the combined actions of thousands of concerned Canadians stitching together parks and yards with schools and rights-of-way into a glorious tapestry of butterfly corridors could usher in a new, hopeful era for monarch butterflies.

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Think about our humanity when considering donating

This week’s tragic earthquake and aftermath in Nepal was a stark reminder of how fragile the human species is on Earth.

Humanitarian efforts have been engineered in virtually every developed country in the world to help, including Canada. Locally, the Canadian Red Cross is leading efforts to get help where it is needed the most.

Local merchants are also jumping in with both feet. Renowned local philanthropist Gordy Dodd of Dodd’s Furniture and Mattress has partnered up with Red Cross on a campaign now through May 6 to collect funds at the store for the relief efforts in the wake of the Nepal earthquake.

Whether you choose to give a donation, please take a moment to think about how lucky we are here so far to not have suffered the same fate. Then think about donating again.


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The Rotary Picnic Playground is now open to the public.

Years of work by West Shore Parks and Recreation and the Colwood Rotary Club has resulted in the completion of a $244,000 facility, featuring some of

the latest in inclusive children’s playground equipment.

“Playgrounds are important to children; it helps their development,” said Colwood Rotary vice-president Mike Wedakind, noting that creating a protective environment is critical. “And most playgrounds are not designed for anyone with a disability.”

The 7,800-square-foot playground

features double-disc swings, five smaller playground toys with a seesaw and spinning features and a pathway to the picnic shelter, as well as accessible equipment for people of all ages and abilities.

Born from an idea brought forward at a Colwood Rotary meeting, the project was four years in the making.

Wedakind, an eight-year member of Rotary, said the

proof of its need in the community has already been shown by its nearly constant use.

“It’s about service to the community and the world.”

The opening and ribbon cutting for the playground happens May 7 starting at 10 a.m. at the picnic shelter near the baseball fields behind the Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre.

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A $10 refundable deposit is required for a plastic parking decal if passes are pur-chased from either the Atkins Road or Rob-bins Parking locations.

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Grab your sturdy shoes and binocu-lars and join Capital Regional District guest naturalist Geoffrey Newell for a guided tour around Witty’s Lagoon in Metchosin tomorrow (Saturday) from 9 to 11 a.m.

Meet-up is at the Witty’s Lagoon Nature Centre off Metchosin Road. Participants are asked to be there a few minutes early so the group can head out promptly for their bird-watching walk through the park.

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Problems in men-tal health are certainly widely discussed these days, but is enough

action happening to address the issue in our school systems?

Cindy Andrew, chair of the Healthy Schools Committee of the Sooke Parents’ Educa-

tion Advisory Council (SPEAC), says there are two opportunities com-ing up for the public to engage in that discus-sion.

“It’s really about

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The first of these mental health forums will take place next

Thursday, May 7, at Spencer Middle School on Goldstream Avenue in Langford, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Mental health, Andrew says, is more about emotional well-being than about ill-ness. It’s about the friendly bus driver who picks the kids up at the curb and the crossing guard who laughs and jokes with them as the cross to the school. It’s about kids having posi-tive, healthy relation-ships with the adults in their lives – and school is a big part of their lives.

“The meeting will be focused specifically on parents or other mem-bers of a child’s com-munity as a way to support them and give them some fundamen-tals, but also to learn a little bit about the vari-ous resources that are available within their community.”

There is also a Cap-ital-Region-wide meet-ing being held May 27, which will bring together members of all four school dis-tricts in the region to look at addressing the problem systemically, Andrew says.

“The school as a set-ting for health promo-tion, including men-tal health promotion, makes good sense,” Andrew says. “So what’s required? Well, it’s not just the school’s problem, it’s that whole ‘takes a village to raise a child,’ cliché. A good place to start is to bring people together who can make a difference.”

Andrew thinks schools have long felt under pressure to address social ills, “I’m not for a single second suggesting that schools do it all, but that’s a place where kids gather for long periods in their lives and there’s an opportunity there. So, how do we do that?”

That’s the point of the regional meeting on May 27 – to find ways to systemically address mental health in our region’s schools with-out placing the burden of that on the schools themselves.

For more information on either of these two events, or to register, contact Andrew at [email protected] or go to sd62.bc.ca and look for the links to the event pages under the SPEAC section.

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Euro styling, thrifty fuel economy, an extra roomy interior and good value features make the Nissan Rogue stand out in the hugely popular compact utility market segment.The first generation Rogue was voted `best new vehicle in class` by the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), when introduced for the 2008 model year. Good consumer reliability ratings and excellent crash safety performance have helped make Rogue a solid and smart used vehicle choice. It`s also typically priced a little lower than more estab-lished competitors from Honda or Toyota ... another plus for prospective used Rogue buyers. We join Rogue`s first-generation product life story in 2011 when it got a styling refresh inside and out, and a new SV mid-range trim level was added to the model line. Rogue originally came in just S and SL trim levels. The S and SV trims can come with front-drive or all-wheel drive and a top-line SL is strictly all-wheel drive. The newer SV trim adds (compared to an S trim) 17-inch alloy wheels, roof rails, privacy glass, a polished stainless steel exhaust tip, a backup monitor, dual vanity mir-rors, a cargo cover, heated seats, a CD stereo with 4.3-inch colour display, and a USB port.Power in all trim levels comes from an advanced large capacity 2.5 litre 4-cyl-inder double-overhead-camshaft engine

with continuously variable valve control. It can produce up to 170 hp and 175 lb-ft of torque. Tuned to provide a healthy amount of torque a low engine speeds, it makes a Rogue fairly quick off the line, yet it`s surprisingly easy of fuel. The lighter front-drive models are the most economical and get a city/highway fuel economy rating of 10.3/8.3 L/100 km respectively, using the new five-cycle method. The all-wheel-drive editions get a 10.6/9.1 L/100 km (city-highway) rating. Nissan's Xtronic CVT (continuously variable transmission) uses adaptive logic control to adjust gear ratios to different driving situations and driver demands. All-wheel-drive sends power to the front wheels under normal oper-ating conditions (for best fuel economy). There's also a locked 50/50 mode, which is useful on snow covered or slippery road surfaces. Rogue’s rear independent multi-link sus-pension is also interesting. In addition to offering a better ride than a conven-tional strut type suspension it’s a more compact design, which allows more rear cargo space inside a Rogue. Changes for 2012 included a new sport mode that gives the transmission a more aggressive shift pattern, at the push of a button. The SL trim also received Nissan’s superb Around-View-Monitor system. This clever parking aid can provide what looks like an overhead (bird’s eye) picture of the Rogue via four wide-angle cameras.Not much changed for a 2013 model

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Price Check: 2011 - 2014 Nissan Rogue (April 2015)Year Edition Expect to Pay Today2011 SV $17,000 to $21,0002012 SV $19,000 to $23,0002013 SV $22,000 to $26,0002014 SV $25,000 to $29,000

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Arnold LimNews Gazette staff

Greater Victoria’s first production of Les Misérables will have a decidedly West Shore flavour when one of the world’s most popu-lar musicals comes to McPherson Playhouse.

The Victoria Oper-atic Society’s rendition of the 35-year-old clas-sic, which opens this Friday (May 1), fea-tures two West Shore children in prominent roles.

The young Cosette is played by Lang-ford resident Zentaya

Ellis, while Colwood’s Cailea Gordon takes on the role of the young Eponine. The show even features a rare father-daughter duo, with Cailea’s father, Dwayne, in the role of the Bishop.

“I discovered (Les Misérables) when I was doing musicals in high school in 1990,” Dwayne said. “Pretty much listening to the score gave me the inspiration and passion to perform and I have been performing ever since. The show itself speaks so well to the hardships of the char-acters and how much the music can evoke an emotion.”

The VOS produc-tion, running for seven shows through May 10, is one of its most ambitious to date and features one of the largest sets the soci-ety has ever created. Co-producer Patrick Heath said this show

will have a different fla-vour than the numer-ous other produc-tions mounted of this renowned musical.

“There are going to be differences in this version,” he said. “All the performers are (local), so it is Greater Victoria’s Les Misérables, which sets this one as being a little more special.”

Dwayne Gordon agreed, saying there are layers to the show he is still learning despite having seen the production numer-ous times in the past 25 years. Despite know-ing the script word-for-word, he discovers new nuances regularly.

Sharing the stage with his daughter has made that experience even richer, he added.

“This is the third show I have worked together on with her, after doing three shows with Four Seasons. It’s special,

because for me, Les Mis is near and dear to my heart. I have very few life goals, but being in Les Mis was definitely one of my goals. I get to realize it and realize it with my daughter standing on the stage beside me. It is very special.”

Cailea says her father’s influence has been a huge factor in her involvement and enjoyment of the arts.

“Being a part of VOS is very special. A lot of kids audition for it, so I’m very lucky to get the role,” she said. “My dad showed me the movie and that’s what inspired me to audition for Les Mis.”

Also an aspiring violinist, Cailea enjoys being on stage and looks forward to seeing people in the crowd. She hopes seeing her on stage will make the Les Mis experience more enjoyable for friends and family.

But there is one other thing that makes her especially proud.

“It’s fun spending time with my dad and making new friends,” she said. “I want to be like my dad when I grow up and be in lots of plays. I am very lucky to have a dad like him.”

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Cailea Gordon as Little Eponine, at left, Stephanie Sartore as Mme. Thenardier and Zentaya Ellis, at right, as Little Cosette in the Victoria Operatic Society’s production of Les Miserables playing at the Macpherson Theatre May 1 to 10.Photo courtesy Victoria Operatic Society

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It’s a new season and a new attitude for the Westshore Rebels football club as they prepare for the 2015 B.C. Football Conference season.

The junior squad opens its annual spring camp today (May 1) at Westhills Stadium with a new head coach in J.C. Boice, whose presence – and renowned recruiting abilities – has helped create a buzz that has prompted more than 90 players to sign up for camp.

“I think, honestly, kids just sense a very authen-tic movement going on here,” said Boice, noting the camp roster is roughly three times larger than last year’s. “You can’t fool 19 and 20 year olds, you’ve got to be authentic. You’ve got to show them meaningful change is happening.”

Between a proactive board of directors who have worked tirelessly to promote the club and ensure players connect with the community, the sponsorships of local merchants, whose backing is helping upgrade things like uniforms and other equipment, and the quality facilities provided by the City of Langford, Boice said, the club continues to head in a positive direction.

“We’ve had a big spike in (the number of) Victo-ria area kids that are coming out, and we’re very happy about the spike in Cowichan kids signing up,” he said. Players from the North Island, includ-ing some from Nanaimo – home to the arch-rival Vancouver Island Raiders – are also here this week-end to test their mettle.

For the players, the weekend was billed as an NCAA-style training camp, which is not a stretch since Boice has worked closely with several NCAA programs as a quarterback coach and consultant.

Through his connections as director of opera-tions with the National Football Academies, Boice has lined up a collection of guest instructors with college level or pro experience for this weekend. They include running backs coach Andrew “A.J.” Jackson, who suited up for the Houston Oilers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers during his career, offen-sive line coach Mike Don, wide receivers coach Artie Allen and quarterbacks coach Mansur Ivie.

“These are really high-energy, experienced coaches who are going to provide something these players have never been exposed to,” Boice said.

Taking on the role of offensive co-ordinator in addition to his head coach duties for the Rebels this season, Boice said he’s very confident in the people who will guide the defence this weekend and all summer. Defensive co-ordinator and one-time Rebels head coach Scott Mennie, and “quality control” specialist Doug Hocking – both are ex-CFL players – give the team two experienced coaches to help improve on a season that saw the Rebels give up 418 points in 10 games.

Spring camp sessions are open to the public. Today’s helmets-only workout goes from 6 to 9 p.m., with full-gear sessions planned for tomorrow (9 a.m. to noon, 1 to 4 p.m.) and Sunday (9 a.m. to noon), with the focus an 11 a.m. scrimmage on the final day.

The Rebels open their 2015 season on July 25 in Kelowna against the Okanagan Sun. Their home opener is Aug. 1 against the Raiders.

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A defender (in black) breaks up a passing

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Rebels’ spring camp will offer sneak peek at 2015 BCFC rosterExcitement around junior football club is growing, according to head coach

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Competitor tackles aversion to swimmingBeginner triathlon draws athletes to Commonwealth Place in SaanichTravis PatersonNews staff

Facing her fear of open water, Nicole Valentine-Rimmer has put four triathlons on her summer schedule.

“It’s not just open water, but any swimming, that I’m uncomfortable with,” says Valentine-Rimmer, who resides in Metchosin.

The new triathlete spent an extra two months in the teaching pool with her TriStars’ triathlon coaches at Saanich Common-wealth Place last year until she was confident enough to enter the lap pool. Growing up in Cordova Bay, boating was a regular part of life for Valentine-Rimmer. Actually getting into the water? Well, it just wasn’t her thing.

When she told her mom she was doing her first Fort St. Cycle Beginner Tri for MS in 2014, the response was one of surprise. The fledgling triathlete will be at the starting line again for this year’s race,on Sunday at Saanich Com-monwealth Place.

Valentine-Rimmer has three more races in her sights this sum-mer: the Subaru Ironman sprint

distance (750-metre swim), the Olympic distance in the Self Tran-scendence Triathlon (1.5-kilome-tre swim) at Elk Lake, and the new Langford triathlon.

“It’s funny, because in terms of triathlon, swimming has become my better of the three disciplines,” she says. “I was a runner, but I was having too many physical issues and the cross training of triathlon gives my hips a chance to recover from running.”

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Beginner Tri for MS as a launching point to get into the sport, many return to do it again, said orga-nizer Carolyn Gebbie of TriStars Training.

“There have been athletes just as afraid of the water as Nicole, including one person who wanted to do an Ironman. It took work, but by the time the summer was over they did the 3.9K open water swim and completed Ironman.”

It’s the patience of TriStars’ coaches that’s kept Valentine-Rim-

mer in the sport. She could just as easily give up some of her six training sessions per week (three with TriStars, three on her own) to focus on drag racing. She spends many of a spring and summer night behind the wheel of her 1966 Coronet.

“There’s a no-drop mental-ity during training, which means no one gets left behind by the coaches at any training event and that was important to me,” she said. “Everyone is so supportive.

Even though we share the same concerns about our ability in tri-athlon, we manage to help each other because of the common goal.”

In 2013 TriStars, which runs the Beginner Tri for MS, had it sanctioned by Triathlon B.C. and opened it to the public. Sev-enty people completed the 500m swim (in the Gordon Head Rec. Centre), 17.5K bike and 4K run. They moved it to Saanich Com-monwealth Place for 2014 and 85 people completed the triathlon. This year organizers expect to hit capacity of 120 entrants, with over 100 signed up as of Monday.

“We ran the event for years as a warm up for the season and a chance for new triathletes to expe-rience the race in a positive, non-timed environment,” Gebbie said. “It’s very exciting this year as we have many people coming from the Lower Mainland and as far as Saskatchewan.”

The Beginner Tri for MS raised $15,000 for the cause in 2013, $16,500 in 2014 and is already at $10,000 for 2015, with Gebbie confident they’ll hit $15,000 once again. To register visit tristar-straining.com.

Participants in the Fort St. Cycle Beginner Tri for MS earn an entry for a $1,300 Cannondale road bike with every $50 of pledges raised.

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Amateur triathlete Nicole Valentine-Rimmer relaxes with her bike beside Thetis Lake. Getting involved in the sport has meant getting more comfortable with being in the water. Now, she says, the swim portion is perhaps the strongest element of the three for her.Travis Paterson/ Black Press

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The Metchosin Cougars play their first home game of the Victoria Dis-trict Cricket Association season tomorrow (May 2).

The Cougars take on Alcos at 12:30 p.m. at the Metchosin cricket grounds behind the fire hall.

Last Saturday in Oak Bay, the Cou-

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Batting first, UVic’s first out came in the first over of play, as Metchosin wicket-keeper Chris Wright lunged to his left to catch a tipped shot.

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Is the current tenant is a friend, a family member or someone getting great rental deal from the current owner?

Raising the rent can be an extremely slow process and getting the tenants out can be an equally challenging proposition. When you buy the duplex you may be inher-iting the tenant long term.

If you plan to live in the duplex as well, think about the fact that you’ll be living next to someone who may knock on your door whenever anything goes wrong. Is that something you feel comfort-able with?

For some people, that’s a part of the deal they’re pre-pared to accept while for oth-ers, it’s a deal breaker. Do your research.

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Infill-style “semis” offer another option for buyersDon DescoteauNews Gazette staff

When Susan and Nick Taylor were looking for a home in Greater Victoria about a year ago, they were shown upwards of 30 properties.

Coming from Orangeville, Ont., about an hour northwest of Toronto, they weren’t fixated on any part of the Capital Region. Given the budget they were working with, they did have options, but neither seemed appealing, Susan recalls.

“What it seemed to boil down to was, in the price range that we were in, we were going to be in a close-knit subdivision where everyone else looked into your yard,” she says. “Or conversely, a property that needed a new roof, new furnace, new windows.”

Then their agent showed them a Colwood home they would have referred to as a “semi” in Ontario. That was short for semi-detached home, or in Victoria parlance, a half-duplex.

But with no strata fees to pay for shared main-tenance, a full 2,000 square feet of living space and a sizeable yard, it fit the bill for the couple.

“I didn’t hesitate, because of what it offered over everything else we were looking at for the same price,” Susan says. “It was kind of a no-brainer, and it didn’t hurt that we were only about six houses up from the water.”

After they moved and friends back home were trying to find their new digs on MLS, the search-ers had a hard time, since this full-sized home – essentially the equivalent of a townhome – was listed in the strata duplex category, along with old-style duplexes normally associated with being rental revenue properties.

The couple, now looking to move again, feared their home wouldn’t be seen by as many people who might be interested in such a setup.

Listing agent Cheryl Laidlaw with Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty calls it a “bit of glitch” in the way MLS works. She says many potential buyers aren’t searching for a half-duplex because of the duplex stigma, or they may not understand how many variants of that configuration are available.

Newer style duplexes on large city lots offer an alternative to townhomes, Laidlaw says, for those people who aren’t interested in being part of a strata corporation and all that entails.

The construction of half-duplexes is more solid, she adds, with soundproofing elements that dras-tically reduce the amount of noise transferring between the two units. “The benefit is, you get much more house for the price.”

While newer duplexes on single lots can be found in various places around the West Shore, duplexes in which the two owners do not func-tion jointly as a strata complex are not exactly rare, says Wendy Moreton, an agent and presi-dent-elect of the Victoria Real Estate Board.

“Anecdotally, I’d say about half of the duplexes you come across don’t comply with the Strata Act,” she says. “The reason a duplex might have more appeal than a strata (townhouse) is that it’s less complicated. Some people like the idea of living in a strata and leaving the maintenance to someone else. In that regard, something like this would be simpler.”

Even if there is just one duplex on a property, there are still joint expenses that come up, such

as house insurance – it is a combined structure – roofing, and any common landscaping areas.

Moreton says any grouping of four or less homes is not required to complete a deprecia-tion report, as other traditional stratas must do, condos or townhomes. While potential buyers of a half-duplex would be expected to have a house inspection done as with a detached family home, the lack of strata fees isn’t necessarily the selling feature it once was, Moreton says.

“Low strata fees used to be promoted as way of attracting buyers, but it was found that those complexes were often not as well maintained,” she says. “It’s changing the way people look at stratas.”

While marketing a home like the Taylors’ may mean a little more legwork by agents, the fact such homes are available is encouraging for buy-ers looking for more home than what it might first appear they can afford.

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Don’t discount duplexes in home searches

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Colwood residents Nick and Susan Taylor stand in front of their half-duplex that is currently on the market. They say their home, which is nearly 2,000 square feet and offers a good-sized yard, is not like many duplex properties found in that category on the MLS.


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