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Brittany LeeNews staff

Twenty young chefs stormed the Windsor Park Pavilion last Wednesday morning, concocting fruit smoothies to re-energize after playing outside.

The Thrifty Foods Young Chef Camp, teaching children aged 9 to 12 simple recipes to get them interested in healthy food, ran at Oak Bay rec last week.

“The goal of the program is to teach

(children) about healthy eating and instill in kids at a young age about cooking and being creative, and creating tasty recipes,” said Jessalyn O’Donnell, a dietician with Thrifty Foods.

The week-long program, which travels to different rec centres in Greater Victoria throughout the summer and during parts of the year, allows kids to develop hands-on skills in the kitchen.

Campers also tour the grocery store, where they learn how to read food labels

and are introduced to different food items. Although the recipes are easy, it’s still

fun, according to an Oak Bay camper.“I find it really fun that we get to pick

our ingredients and then we get to taste them,” nine-year-old Mark Pugliese said.

“I would really consider going to this camp again.”

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Brittany LeeNews staff

Plans to expand Henderson recreation cen-tre are moving forward, with hopes for con-struction to begin this fall.

Initial designs for the building were revealed to Oak Bay officials, including Mayor Nils Jensen, parks and rec commission liai-son Coun. Tara Ney, parks and rec staff, and Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong, last Wednesday (Aug. 15) at the rec centre.

The proposed designs will give the cen-tre a new look, according to Karen Fedoruk, intern architect with Victoria-based CEI Archi-tecture, the same company working with the municipality on the Oak Bay High school replacement project.

“(We’re) trying to make it fit in with the existing structure, but give the recreation cen-tre a little bit of a new life and new identity,” Fedoruk, who is also project lead, said.

The 830 square-foot expansion will see improvements to the reception area, as well as an additional 530 square-feet in the fitness studio.

It will provide plenty of natural light and improve comfort for both patrons and staff, Fedoruk said.

The expanded gym will include a desig-nated stretching area and more space for fit-ness programs.

Wood beams and columns will support the structure while also showing off the architec-ture of the building.

Windows in the gym will also be replaced with insulated, weather-tight panes to improve energy efficiency, said Gary Smith, architect with CEI Architecture.

“That’ll help update the building as they make improvements down the road, so that’ll help tie in what we’re doing now,” he said.

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Young chefs Nick Beatty, left, and Nick Skabeikis, both 10, add kiwi to a smoothie while learning to create nutritious food during a week-long camp at the Windsor Park Pavilion in Oak Bay.

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Christine van ReeuwykNews staff

Pebbles smooth from centuries of tides, bleached logs and rambling hills culminate to a siren song for visitors to Chatham and Dis-covery islands.

On a sunny summer day a pair of young men beach their small outboard and settle in to the task of anchoring to shore.

A group on the beach point toward signs indicating the historical territory, and bylaw officer Trevor Absolon lopes down the beach towards the pair. Today they’ll learn a lesson about the island: it is private property belong-ing to the Songhees First Nation. That educa-tion is part of the wave of the future.

“We’re going out of our way to try to edu-cate public. We’re not trying to prosecute peo-ple; we need to help them learn,” the bylaw officer said. Informing the two young men is part of that process. Added signage includes Cattle Point and Oak Bay Marina boat launches where notices alert those launching craft to be aware of the First Nation territories and that trespassing rules are in effect.

“These islands as you can see, they’re beau-tiful, they’re tantalizing,” Absolon said, sweep-

ing his across the beach visage. “People want to find out what’s out there. They want to visit these locations. The problem is they’ve failed to understand over the years, probably because there hasn’t been enough public awareness out there, that these are estab-lished Indian Reserves. Therefore they’re pri-vate lands and they’re not open to the public.”

Chatham Island and a chunk of Discovery – the portion that is not provincial park – belong to the Songhees nation.

“We need to really start looking after what we have,” said Songhees Coun. Ron Sam. “We didn’t have the assets to properly look after the islands (before).”

Through taxation, Songhees funded a zodiac this summer to patrol the waters.

“It’s going to be seeing a lot of water time,” Absolon said. “We’ll also be patrolling the islands with the RCMP South Island Marine Unit … these are joint patrols and there will

also be individual and they’ll include foot patrols of the islands.”

Songhees First Nation Law Enforcement will now aggressively patrol Chatham and Dis-covery in conjunction with the RCMP South Island Marine Section by boat and on foot.

Violators could face up to a $1,000 fine, 30 days in jail, or both if caught trespassing on Songhees lands.

“Until recently we haven’t had the assets to get there. Now we do. And we will be patrolling (the islands) and we will be enforcing our jurisdic-tion on them,” Absolon said.

Sam sees future prospects for sharing and maintaining tra-dition. There are opportunities for the band to create business

models in the tourism industry. And even now on Chatham, off the pictur-

esqe shores of Oak Bay, spots on the beach with overturned soil mark where summer pit cook outs helped the Songhees nation main-tain a piece of history and share it with future generations.

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“The problem is they’ve failed to understand over the years, probably because there hasn’t been enough public awareness out there, that these are established Indian Reserves.”

- Trevor Absolon

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Signs at Chatham warn travellers that the island is private property belonging to Songhees. The beach just past the signs has a recently used fire pit and is littered with garbage from regular visits by unauthorized boaters.

Taste historyUVic’s Department of

Anthropology, along with Elders’ Voices, jointly hosts a Coast Salish pit cook in collaboration with Songhees First Nation member Cheryl Bryce on Friday, Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Campus, alumni and the community are invited to lis-ten to stories and teachings of the elders, witness the creation of the pit and the layering of foods and cook-ing materials in the ground. When the food is ready, it will be shared with participants for tasting.

The pit cook will take place on the grass between First Peoples House and Univer-sity Centre at UVic.

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Other improvements to the building include updated wash-room facilities and heating sys-tem.

The overall improvements to the rec centre will provide patrons with better and more

effective service, Jensen said.“I’m very pleased that we’re

moving ahead and that we have a design and, I think, it’s going to meet the objectives that we’re trying to achieve there,” he said, noting accessibility and enhanced rehabilitation options for patrons as goals.

“I’m also very happy we’re going to be looking at energy efficiency. … All in all, it’s a very good design.”

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Karen Fedoruk, project lead of the Henderson expansion, explains the plans for the recreation centre to Monty Holding, chairman of Oak Bay parks and rec, Coun. Tara Ney, Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong, and Mayor Nils Jensen.

Four Mainland men accused in a significant identity theft and stolen credit card ring in Victoria in March won’t go to trial at least until next year.

A hearing last week regarding the fraud set a preliminary inquiry in Victoria provincial court for three days starting July 17, 2013.

The fraud ring unravelled March 9 when the owner of the Qoola store at Uptown confronted, then fol-lowed, three men who tried to steal the store’s PIN machine.

A Saanich officer going by at the time located the three men in the underground parking lot in a Mercedes.

Saanich police detectives executed a search warrant at the Hotel Grand Pacific, where the men were staying, and found four point-of-sale machines – three determined stolen – computers, tools and equipment used to compromise the devices. While police were at the hotel, a fourth suspect arrived and was arrested.

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An unlucky 13 vehi-cles were discovered entered in Oak Bay the morning of Aug. 13. All were in the central and eastern portion of the community. All but a couple of the vehicles were left unlocked, say Oak Bay police.

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Merchandise is missing after a busi-ness in the 2000-block of Cadboro Bay Rd. was broken into Aug. 17.

The front door of the business was forced open. Oak Bay police continue to investi-gate using surveillance photos and forensic identification.

Deer, driving drama continues

Police continue to warn drivers of deer running across the street, offering drivers no chance to react. Two minor deer ver-sus car collisions were reported last week.

Combined forces issue tickets

Oak Bay police and the Integrated Road Safety Unit set up a drinking driving road-block on Cadboro at Eastdowne roads Aug. 18. Officers issued one three-day prohibition and several tickets.

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An Alberta tourist used a GPS application on her stolen iPad to lead Victoria police to a cache of stolen goods in Esquimalt.

The woman was staying with friends in the 4300-block of Saanich Rd. Thieves broke in Aug. 13 and raided the home while no one was at home, tak-ing the iPad and other electron-ics.

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approximately three litres of GHB – a so-called date rape drug – stacked throughout the suite.

“This suite was a virtual department store of stolen property,” Sgt. Barrie Cockle said in a statement. “The work by this tourist and our officers will put a significant dent in property crimes throughout the (Capital Region).”

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Refinery idea a tough sell in B.C. There doesn’t appear to be a grey area

for those weighing in on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.

Opposition is rampant and loud, focusing primarily on environmental concerns, while supporters defend Enbridge’s project for, among other reasons, its economic potential.

Last week’s announcement from David Black, the owner of this newspaper, for a proposed $13-billion oil refinery in Kitimat, adds a new conversation to this divisive issue.

Analogous to milling raw logs instead of shipping them overseas, Black wants to add value to crude oil in B.C.

A massive refinery, where half a million barrels of crude oil could be processed each day, delivers the idea of permanent employment and economic benefit for the province, instead of pumping oil sands crude into tankers bound for China.

Building and running the facility would create thousands of jobs, and the area around Terrace and Kitimat would require major infrastructure improvements to accommodate the regional boom.

It would also ease some, certainly not all, environmental concerns about oil tankers on the coast. As opposed to heavy crude oil, refined fuels float and evaporate.

But Black is putting the cart before the horse. Even if he arranges $13 billion in financing and receives environmental permits, any refinery is predicated on the Enbridge pipeline, which remains deeply unpopular with a majority of the public and northern First Nations people.

Significant economic benefit derived from the pipeline could sway popular opinion, especially people living through hard times in northern B.C., but probably not enough to tip the scales.

Black and Enbridge will have a tough time convincing skeptical urban residents in southern cities that the potential of thousands of jobs in the northern oil sector is worth the risk of a pipeline leak or a tanker running aground on B.C.’s coast.

The B.C. government’s emer-gency committee on timber supply has produced its

report, but it leaves many of the big questions unan-swered.

Can the Burns Lake sawmill, destroyed by fire last winter, be given enough timber to rebuild? It’s likely, committee mem-bers concluded, if areas that are currently con-sidered “marginally eco-nomic” are harvested.

With nearly half the pine in that region dead from beetle infestation, and much of the better timber already cut, that means har-vesting areas that would produce only about two-thirds of the volume that is currently considered eco-nomical to log.

Will eight more sawmills have to close once the beetle-killed timber becomes too degraded to cut in the next few years?

Committee members hold out hope that extending the cut to less economic timber stands can reduce this impact as well. But with the current cut far above historical lev-els to maximize beetle-kill harvest, some industry contraction seems inevitable.

All this depends on adequate for-est inventory and investment in replanting, fertilizing and provision of additional roads and power lines that would allow access to timber and potential bioenergy develop-

ment. And that is where the politi-cal fight lies ahead.

The timber supply committee delivered a unanimous report, despite the harsh divisions between the B.C. Liberal and NDP members on it.

NDP forest critic Norm Macdonald, vice chair of the committee, agreed it did good work during the seven months it has toured affected areas of the B.C. Interior.

But he said the roots of the problem go back a decade, to when the B.C. Liberals started reducing

support for forest health just as the beetle epidemic was spreading.

Ten years ago the government removed the obligation for the province to reforest areas affected by disease and fire. This was not only at the peak of the epidemic, it was one year before devastating wildfires raced through the Interior in the summer of 2003.

“In 2002, the government removed its obligation to replant those areas, and cut the budget by 90 per cent,” Macdonald told me. “The three-year budget that’s in front of us is keeping on the down-ward slide, and it’s not what people in communities are saying is the answer. So that has to change.”

The opposition, the auditor gen-eral and various forest experts have been blasting the government for the degraded state of the timber

inventory, at a time when environ-mental changes have been sweep-ing.

Steve Thomson, minister of the newly amalgamated forests, lands and natural resource opera-tions ministry, points to the urgent efforts to upgrade the government’s detailed picture of the state of the forests, so it can consider new cut-ting, planting and fertilizing efforts. But there’s no denying that he came to the job in a crisis that will take more spending in the future, and he will have a hard time finding it as Finance Minister Kevin Falcon looks to balance the books for the 2013 election.

If nothing else, the pine beetle epidemic has forced the B.C. gov-ernment to consider some of the intensive forest management that we hear about in Scandinavia, one of those places that supplies B.C. with wood furniture.

And it has prompted renewed interest in offering new forest ten-ures to aboriginal communities with unresolved resource claims.

Under current law, the govern-ment can only direct award new forest tenures to aboriginal com-munities. So part of the committee’s proposed solution is to “expedite negotiations” with the Burns Lake First Nations to give them a chance to harvest some of the marginally economic forest areas that remain.

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

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LETTERS

Re: Council selects committee members (News, Aug. 10).

The commencement of a review of the Official Community Plan (OCP) for Oak Bay could be important news for all residents. Certainly there should be widespread community conversation about the potential.

Provincial legislation imposes minimum requirements for the contents of an OCP, and the minimum requirements are almost entirely restricted to the built ‘framework’ for our community.

As such, the provincial requirements are the last piece of the puzzle. As with every puzzle, they are really the easiest piece.

Before a recommended OCP is put to council, the consultants and the project advisory committee will undoubtedly want to discover what we, the citizens, have in mind for our community. Citizens should think about at least five questions.

1. How would I describe the mix -- of people, economic activity, social activity, nature and human interaction -- that makes Oak Bay appealing to me?

2. What is it about Oak Bay that I really value, and would sacrifice to maintain? (Because Oak Bay is going to change: we have seen it, for example, with the demolition and replacement of individual homes, and in-fill housing.)

3. What change would I very much like to see (within the boundaries of Oak Bay), and be prepared to sacrifice to attain? (Because we may want more recreation facilities, or housing-in-place for seniors.)

4. As demographics and esthetic expectations change, and as the economy changes and our relationship to the environment changes, what trade-offs am I prepared to make so that neighbours can also enjoy a satisfying quality of life in Oak Bay?

5. As things change, what provisions need to be made for dealing with transitions, so that I can continue to feel comfortable as change occurs? (Younger people have different priorities than older people; Edwardian homes are not everyone’s cup of tea.)

We should be talking with our neighbours about questions such as these. We should take advantage of every opportunity the project advisory committee provides to give input. We should pay careful attention to how the committee and consultants gather input, and weigh it, and knit it all together in the eventual recommendations.

The review of the OCP provides a great opportunity for the citizens of Oak Bay to shape the future of the community.

David KingOak Bay

Kudos to Oak Bay News for cov-ering the welcome assertion of Songhees ownership of the Chatham/Discovery archipelago in a sensitive and understanding way.

We all benefit from knowing more of the rich cultural heritage we have come to live beside and that it is part of the deep fabric of our

community. It is wonderful that my old friend

and colleague, Phillip Teece, has been honoured by the Songhees for his work to protect the islands through long years of benign neglect.

No one deserves it more.David Williams

Oak Bay

Re: The high cost involved to keep, transport deer (Letters, Aug. 10).

The recent letter comparing the relocation of deer and rabbits is akin to comparing oranges and apples.

Part of the agreement put out by the Ministry of Environment was that the rabbits had to be relocated to an establishment which would care for them. They were not to be adopted out or set free in another location. Fortunately, there are a few good sanctuaries that accepted the rabbits and continue to care for them. I am involved with three sanctuaries and know of what I speak. The cost of maintaining rabbits is far from $130 per month per rabbit as quoted.

The sanctuaries that gracefully accepted the rabbits are full time establishments which are taking care of many types of animals. These are well-organized facilities that get a lot of volunteer help, have fundraisers and get donations of food, hay and other necessities to continue caring for these creatures.

If and when deer are relocated there will be no sanctuary involvement nor will it cost anything to feed them.

They are wild animals used to foraging for food whereas the rabbits that were relocated were mainly domestic rabbits that uncaring people merely dumped.

William JesseOak Bay

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all opinions are heard, please keep letters to less than 300 words.

The News reserves the right to edit letters for style, legality, length and taste.

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Letters to the Editor

Re: The high cost involved to keep, transport deer (Letters, Aug. 10).

After reading this letter several times, it still does not make any sense to me.

However, the reference to the situation in the U.K. clearly proves that slaughtering the deer is not the answer as it does not prevent the population from keeping on increasing – I quote Colleen Bailey of Humane Treatment of Urban Wildlife and member of the Cranbrook Urban Deer Committee: “All the cull is doing is creating a perpetual cycle of killing.”

And yet, in spite of these data

and those available much closer to home and here in B.C., the citizens advisory group appointed by the CRD is still actively considering this lethal option and is totally ignoring any source of objective evidence and science.

It is time to put an end to this culture of death and it is time to consider much more effective, ethical and responsible alternatives to the deer and other wildlife issues.

A final note for the letter writer’s information: I would donate to the animal cause any time rather than supporting the cancer industry.

Nabhraj SpogliarichSaanich

So where do the powers that be think that homeowners will get the $200 to $500 per year to pay for this gold-plated sewage treatment system?

Do the various mayors and council members pay any attention to the “iffy” economic conditions that are creeping inexorably from the rest of the world into our little corner? And what about this glib little statement about the taxpayers picking up any cost overruns? And

what about the rumours circulating that the system going into place won’t accommodate new technologies as they become available – at least without major overhaul (read: yet more expense)?

Our politicians truly do think our pockets are bottomless.

Richard WeatherillSaanich

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A former provincial heritage minister is irate after the Royal B.C. Museum backed out of an agreement to exhibit evidence that, if true, would upend B.C.’s history books.

For the past three years, Sam Bawlf lobbied the govern-ment to digitize and display a Molyneux globe, a 415-year-old map created after Sir Fran-cis Drake’s voyage around the world from 1577 to 1580. Bawlf purports that the globe proves Drake discovered what is now British Columbia in 1579, nearly 200 years before Captain James Cook dropped anchor off Vancouver Island.

“Call it a 400-year-old Google Earth,” he said.

Bawlf, a former Victoria-area resident now living on Salt Spring Island, spent three years securing provincial and federal commitments to digitize the globe – currently held by a private organization in London,

England – for Canadian schol-arly study.

But the museum backed out of the agree-ment in January, citing a lack of academic scru-tiny on the con-troversial evi-dence.

“I absolutely agree with Mr. Bawlf that this needs to be pre-sented to the Canadian pub-lic,” said Jack Lohman, the museum’s CEO. “But we’re not in the business of

authenticating academic research.”Bawlf’s extensive research is presented in his 2003 book, The

Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake.If Drake was the first European to reach this part of North

America, as Bawlf claims, it could require revisiting aboriginal land treaties throughout the coastal areas. Many First Nations

claims rely on agreements made after Cook’s 1778 arrival.“When you move that date by 200 years, it’s very significant,”

Bawlf said.He added it would be impossible for such accurate detail to

be depicted on Molyneux’s globe without direct observation of the coastline by someone who was familiar with latitude and compass bearings.

“For the RBCM to present the globe without this information would amount to deliberate suppression of the case for Drake’s explorations, presentation of which had been the whole pur-pose of the project from the outset,” he said.

Bawlf’s theory has yet to gain a foothold in common history, but has been praised by several established geographical schol-ars.

In response to Bawlf’s requests earlier this year, cultural development minister Ida Chong provided half of the $30,000 required by Library and Archives Canada to digitize the globe. But without RBCM support, the federal government has backed out of the agreement as well.

“So now we have the money sitting there ... and we just want to get on with it,” Bawlf said, adding the remaining $15,000 has been put up by a private business.

In a statement, Chong’s office confirmed $15,000 had been issued and said the RBCM would “assist Mr. Bawlf in his project to digitize and to bring the globe to Victoria in the future.”

Bawlf wants the province to intervene and force the museum to present both the globe and his evidence, but the ministry did not indicate it would take further action.

“The public have a right to know what happened to the proj-ect ... we’ve hit a wall,” Bawlf said.

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Sam Bawlf wants Royal B.C. Museum support for his project involving Sir Francis Drake.

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As Greater Victo-ria’s senior population grows, so will the strain on long-term health care systems.

Last week federal and provincial govern-ments awarded two University of Victoria researchers from the Centre on Aging more than $330,000 toward investigating how older adults transition through long-term care services.

Margaret Penning and Denise Cloutier will lead the study aimed at understanding com-mon pathways people experience, with an ulti-mate goal of providing better care.

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The panicked, desperate scramble to find hous-ing before the September semester begins is a rite of passage for University of Victoria students.

One of those UVic students, a computer science PhD student, found his apartment hunting experi-ence so maddening and time consuming, he did what any self-respecting comp-sci guy would do. He wrote a web app to solve the problem.

Jamie Starke, 28, and Lars Grammel, 31, both with UVic’s computer human interaction software engi-neering lab (CHISEL), created a web tool that combs through rental service databases and plots the rent-als on a street map of Greater Victoria, which also shows all bus routes that serve UVic.

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Starke conceived the idea while apartment hunting with his wife in April. Not deeply famil-iar with the neighbour-hoods of the region and their proximity to UVic, he found it frustrating to search no less than 21 rental service agencies, plus Craigslist and UsedVictoria for an apartment that fit their budget and needs.

“When I came here two years ago, looking for a place was terrible. This time around I had a better idea about Victoria, but Fairfield versus Fernwood? I get mixed up all the time,” Starke said. “Many times it looked like I found something that looked good with a good price, it was way out in Langford or Sooke.”

Starke teamed up with Grammel, who special-izes in mapping visualization tools, and wrote the code to comb through websites and databases for relevant data – price, location, style and number of bedrooms. The information is out there, Starke said, but teasing it from websites was no simple task.

“I decided instead of working four hours a night to find a place to live, I’d work on (the rental map) three hours each night, and only one hour looking for an apartment,” he said laughing.

It worked. The web tool went live in May and his wife used it to successfully zero in on a new home. “We found a nice basement suite that met every-thing we wanted,” he said. “It was a good sign I was doing something right.”

The Victoria Rental Map remains UVic-centric in terms of bus routes, but Starke plans to add transit lines that will help students attending Royal Roads, the two Camosun College campuses and for the downtown core. And of course, you don’t need to be a student to use the tool.

Some minor glitches remain – it runs a bit slow on the iPad and doesn’t work at all on older Internet Explorer browsers, but Starke plans on improving the program when he can. There’s no mobile phone app and there probably won’t be.

“That is a lot of work and isn’t planned soon. This is something Lars and I are doing in our free time.”

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At 71, Victoria resident Barbara Dicker decided to take control of her tness.

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At Saanich Commonwealth Place, where Dicker joined aerobic and strength-building programs, tness technician Kamran Rad said transportation is often the biggest obstacle facing seniors who want to get t.

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Oak Bay Senior

Lifestyle discoveriesThere is a wing

of the 55-plus club that refuses to age gracefully. For years I was its standard bearer.

I have watched contemporary Boomers transition with dignity into their

senior years while I have been dragged kicking and screaming through the golden portals. It has not been pretty.

It’s not that I haven’t got the message along the way. The age-o-gram with my name on it arrived unexpectedly, in my late 50s, in the middle of the night after an evening of great fun on Pender Island. The pain in my chest was of heart attack quality, but instead of dying I just hurt worse and worse. Tempting as it must have been to let me writhe on the oor, my family called 911 and a rescue mission went into high gear.

Volunteer rst responders and paramedics had me evacuated to the island clinic in record time. A doctor was roused from bed and accurately diagnosed a very serious gall bladder failure. A helicopter was summoned and I was whisked to Victoria General Hospital.

Days later I was informed by the surgeon that I would have been dead in 12 hours had not the re and rescue response been so ef cient. He also made it painfully clear

that a lifestyle change was in order.

Being an idiot, I processed all this at my leisure over the next few years while I continued to resist the temptation to age gracefully. But, I was constantly troubled by my failure to properly thank all the volunteers who gave up their peaceful Saturday night to save my sorry butt.

About six years ago one of my Pender pals, a re ghter, said the re department needed communications support and he basically ordered me to volunteer. I had a debt of gratitude outstanding and my pal was determined that I would pay it.

Thus began one of the most rewarding writing assignments I have ever undertaken … a twilight career as a re department communications volunteer. Even though I no longer live on Pender, I still help each month with whatever writing chore the re chief needs doing.

I may have arrived at volunteering through the back door, but I found a home. I have a deep appreciation for the

professionalism, dedication and sacri ce of the men and women who volunteer to keep their community safe and secure.

I discovered that volunteering is addictive. I branched out and now also do some wordsmithing for the local hospital auxiliary.

Some would say I’m just paying for my sins. Maybe so … but it works for this recalcitrant Boomer.

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Born in Surrey, England Jean Sharlow came to Canada as a war bride in 1946.

She met her husband Bill at a dance when she was just 16 years old. “He asked me to dance and he couldn’t dance his way out of a paper bag,” she said. “Then he walked me home and told me ‘When you get to know me better, I’m going to ask you to marry me.’”

Within six months the two were wed and the Sharlows made their home in Canada. They moved to Oak Bay in 1984. They were together 69 years before Bill died at age 94, two years ago. Their wedding photo is on the back cover of the book Blackouts to Bright Lights, Canadian War Bride Stories, which tells the story of just a few of the approximately 48,000 British and European women who married Canadian servicemen during the war and made the adventurous crossing to Canada.

Jean says she can’t remember ever having a paying job, but worked for dozens of years at blood clinics.

She loves to quilt, a hobby of hers for many years, and is past-president of the Monterey Centre Quilt Club.

Jean and Bill have two sons, three granddaughters, fi ve great-granddaughters and earlier this month were “blessed with a little boy” great-grandson, who is named William after his great-grandfather.

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“The fi rst time I saw him, he was wrapped up in one of my quilts,” the proud great-grandmother said.

Q. What is your favourite Oak Bay place, destination or activity? Why?

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A. My proudest achievement is raising a family of whom I am very proud.

are comparatively “low impact” and scheduled mid-morning, “when seniors have more time to participate.” The centre also changes up the music for seniors and offers senior-speci c rates to help offset nancial barriers. New signage in the

weight room asks that windows be kept shut because some seniors found the air ow too cold.

Feeling intimidated is another factor for many seniors, Rad added.

“If you’re 70 and haven’t done much activity, it can be intimidating to go into a public facility where you might feel awkward and lost,” he said.

Orientation sessions can help, as can attending with a friend, as Dicker discovered.

“I wouldn’t have gone if I didn’t have someone to go with,” she said. “Even then, I was quite intimidated by the activity itself.”

The cost of programs can also be a barrier – Dicker said she might have to reconsider her tness program if

her income was lower. However, some government programs (such as the provincial Prescription for Health launched in June 2011) provide nancial help. And recreation centres do their part by offering discounts, such as special “seniors day”

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Dicker says 95 per cent of the people in her classes are seniors and almost all are women. She attends two pool-based programs each week (aerobics plus strength and balance) and three dry land strength and balance workouts. She also has a step counter and aims to walk 10,000 steps a day – easier said than done, she noted.

Creating a community is a big aspect of welcoming the senior population to local recreation centres and helping them achieve their tness goals.

“It comes down to making the entire rec centre more welcoming, [for example] having a lounge where seniors can have coffee and socialize,” Taylor said.

In the six months since she started working out regularly, Dicker has seen a de nite improvement in her balance. And she made new social connections, often meeting with people for coffee after the programs.

As the Canadian population continues to age, and the health bene ts of exercise for seniors become even more apparent, it will be increasingly important for society to nd ways of overcoming barriers, allowing people like Dicker to take control of their tness.

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Douglas Monds Age 83

Carrier, Oak Bay NewsCarrier, Oak Bay News

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and making new friends. The former

teacher of 40 years taught at Colquitz Middle School.

He also held teaching jobs in Australia, New Zealand, and England. Monds is a competitive hammer thrower, participating in the B.C. Senior Games for numerous years, including this year. He stays active by jogging regularly with the Thursday Morning Gang, a local running club, and gol ng. Monds also enjoys reading mystery and contemporary ction books.

Cycling advocateCycling advocate

Lesley EwingAge: 62A member

of Oak Bay’s active trans-portation advisory committee, Lesley Ewing

is a regular cyclist, riding at

least three times a week. The former

public servant wants to see improved sidewalks,

signage and pathways for riders. Ewing enjoys cycling because she says it’s fun. “It’s a form of exercise that makes you feel good,” she says. Ewing can be found in the gym at Henderson Recreation Centre at least three days a week. The longtime Oak Bay resident is also an avid traveller and enjoys reading non- ction books.

Volunteer at Henderson Volunteer at Henderson Recreation CentreRecreation Centre

Arthur Morton Age: 71

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in Henderson Recreation Centre.

Morton has been volunteering at the Nook for four years. He does everything from baking muf ns to serving coffee. “I enjoy what I’m doing,” he says. “It keeps me busy, keeps me out of trouble.” The Oak Bay resident, who used to work in the janitorial eld, started volunteering after retirement. Morton likes to golf and cook. He bikes to Henderson regularly, and is always looking for new volunteer opportunities. He’s also helped with the Oak Bay Kiwanis, and the Arthritis Society.

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Alexa Gilker doesn’t like to waste time.The 25-year-old playwright debuts her first stageplay

tomorrow (Aug. 23) at the Victoria Fringe Festival, a mile-stone she’s achieved only three months out of the Univer-sity of Victoria’s creative writing program.

“It’s terrifying,” she said. “But I love this play.”Beautiful Obedient Wife tells the story of a Ukrainian

woman who is unknowingly sold as a mail-order bride to a Canadian suitor. It’s a complex reality with examples all over Canada, Gilker said.

“Ukraine is where a huge majority of these women are coming from,” she said. “They’re usually struggling in pov-erty and looking for a way out.”

Despite the heavy subject matter, Gilker believes enter-tainment should be the primary objective of theatre and has rewritten her play as a comedy. She’s also enlisted the help of local folk band, Carousels, to create a genuine feel to the Eastern European backdrop.

“I just realized it’s not a black and white issue, and com-edy is a good way to deal with that,” she said.

Under the guidance of seasoned fringe director Sandi Barrett, the play undergoes ongoing workshop revisions with input from Gilker and her ensemble of actors.

“We rewrite the script almost every rehearsal,” Gilker said. “There are a lot of times I realize I’m not actually as funny as I think I am, and there are some things that really work and we amp up even further.”

Fringe festivals operate on the principles of being unjur-ied and giving all of the proceeds to the performers, said Janet Munsil, festival producer.

“I think the Fringe has launched a lot of artists,” she said, adding many per-formers go on to tour at fringe festivals across North America and Europe, usually with successful solo shows.

Munsil and her team host 55 local, North American and overseas performers for 11 days of bargain-price entertain-ment.

Five-show passes are available for $55 and single show tickets go for $9 or $11.

“We have a curious and educated audience in Victoria that just loves to see new stuff and support local and tour-ing artists,” Munsil said.

The fringe offers a variety of performances ranging from comedy and drama to spoken word and musicals.

For the first time, the festival is also incorporating a kid-friendly event on Aug. 25 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Market Square.

“Because the performers are chosen by lot-tery, there was no way for us to guarantee a kids’ show,” Munsil said. “So we wanted to pro-vide an opportunity for kids to sit down and see a play.”

Gilker hopes her play, which has six performance dates, will be the first of many in Victoria. She sees a niche market for stageplay writers in the city, as many of her fellow graduates leave to Vancouver and beyond.

“I decided to give myself the year in Victoria to see what happens and give it what I can,” she said.

Beautiful Obedient Wife debuts Aug. 23 at 9:45 p.m. at St. Andrews School gym.

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Win tickets!The 26th annual Victoria Fringe Festival runs from Aug. 23 to Sept. 2 at nine venues across the city, and the News has tickets to give away.To win, email your name and daytime phone number to [email protected] with ‘Fringe’ in the subject line, or go to the Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay or Goldstream News Facebook page and enter there. Deadline is 4 p.m. Aug. 23.

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A Victoria businessman is heading up a proposal to build a $13-billion oil refinery in Kitimat.

David Black, chairman of Black Press and owner of the Oak Bay News, announced Friday he wants to build a world scale oil refinery in Kiti-mat, B.C.

Black told a news conference in Vancouver Friday he is submitting an environmental assessment appli-cation to build a “world scale” oil refinery on behalf of Kitimat Clean Ltd., a company owned by Black. The application to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office is expected this fall.

The proposed refinery would be big enough to process all the diluted bitumen carried by Enbridge’s pro-posed Northern Gateway pipeline. Black said he has had extensive dis-cussions with Enbridge and other players in the Canadian oil industry,

Black hopes to build $13B oil refinery in B.C. interior

but none has so far offered to back the project.Black said he will use his own money to finance

the proposal through environmental assessment, which he expects to cost several million dollars. After that, he said investors would be needed to complete it, assuming both the refinery and the pipeline receive approval.

He has had preliminary meetings with Kitimat and Terrace councils, as well as the Haisla and Kitselas First Nations in the region. The proposed site is a 3,000-hectare Crown industrial property between Terrace and Kitimat.

Kitimat Mayor Joanne Monaghan spoke by phone to the news conference, offering encourage-ment for the proposal. But Black acknowledged he does not yet have formal support from communi-ties or investors.

“I see myself as a catalyst to make this happen,” said Black, who first proposed the idea to the prov-ince and the industry seven years ago when he was chairman of the B.C. Progress Board.

Black is working with Glenn McGinnis, a consult-ing engineer and former manager of the Ioco oil refinery in Port Moody.

“We want it [the Kitimat refinery] to be the clean-est and greenest upgrading and refining site in the world,” McGinnis said.

The refinery would produce 240,000 barrels per day of diesel, 100,000 barrels per day of gasoline and 50,000 barrels per day of kerosene or aviation fuel, refined from heavy oil.

Among those attending the news conference was Art Sterritt, executive director of the Coastal First Nations, a group in the Kitimat area that has strongly opposed the pipeline proposal. Sterritt disputed Black’s assertion that a B.C. refinery “solves half of the problem” with exported oil by shipping refined gasoline, jet fuel and diesel in tank-ers instead of heavy crude. Those products have their own risks, Sterritt said.

Black pointed out that without marine shipments of those fuels, the remote coastal communities Sterritt represents would not be able to function. Lighter fuel products are still an environmental hazard, but dissipate more quickly and do not per-sist for years like spilled heavy crude, he said.

Black said the refinery will mean nearly 6,000 construction jobs over a five-year period, 3,000 permanent jobs at the refinery and tax revenue for various levels of government.

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Vic-based duo sweep Apple TriathlonWarren HendersonBlack Press

For pretty much every stroke, pedal and step of the way on Sun-day, Andrew Russell’s thoughts were with one very special per-son.

The 30-year-old Victoria resi-dent dedicated his final appear-ance at the Pushor Mitchell Apple Triathlon to his termi-nally ill mom, Ann Russell. And he couldn’t have asked for a better result on a scorching Kel-owna afternoon as Russell captured the elite Olympic dis-tance race in one hour 56 min-utes 21 seconds.

Russell moved to Victoria from Revelstoke five years ago and won his first race on the International Triathlon Union circuit in Magog, Que., last month. In that race, he out-duelled Saanich’s Matt Sharpe for first place with Sharpe finishing second. This time it was another Victoria athlete, Andrew McCartney, who finished the 1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, and 10 km run in second place, nine seconds back of Rus-sell. Joe Maloy of the U.S.A. was third and Sharpe was fourth.

“It’s my seventh year in the elite and to win here as close to home as possible, it’s a really special moment,” said an emotional Russell after the race.

“I really did it for my mom; she’s quite sick. And this is the end of my short-course career, so there’s no better way to fin-ish it off.”

For the first time in five years, the Apple Triathlon didn’t serve as the Canadian champion-ships, and was therefore with-out some the biggest names in Canadian triathlon. Simon Whit-field, Kirk Jones and Paula Find-lay didn’t compete in Kelowna.

Still, it didn’t take any of the sheen off of the victory UVic Vikes track and field athlete Ellen Pennock’s win in the wom-en’s elite race on Sunday.

The 19-year-old won the Apple title convincingly in her first race at the elite level.

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Andrew Russell wins the Kelowna Apple Triathlon.

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Keith Hamilton stops a shot during captain’s ice last week.

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Catcher Christina Bourassa of Layritz Little League tags out Kirkland’s Brynn Radke.

Big finish for LayritzLayritz finalists at Junior Softball World SeriesTravis Paterson News staff

It’s been a gradual climb for Layritz Little League and there’s only one step left to conquer.

The team of 13- and 14-year-old girls based out of the Saanich park made it to the final of the Junior Softball Little League World Series on Saturday, only to lose to their Alaskan counterparts 6-2. The tour-ney was played in Kirkland, Wash., and the final was broadcast on ESPN 2.

It was the most successful finish for the three-time Canadian champs in all three of its trips to the world softball World Series.

“We didn’t even win a game in our first trip so we’ve come a long way,” said coach Paul Tucker.

After bouncing back from losing to the host Kirkland in the opener, Layritz became the “darlings of the tournament,”

Tucker said, by defeating two U.S.A. teams, including Alaska in the round robin. Layritz then upset Puerto Rico, the overall favou-rite, with a 5-2 win in the semifinal.

“As we defeated other teams they became our fans, and the other teams were cheering for us in the finals.”

Pitcher Ashley Penney starred in the series, flying in from the Softball Canada U16 Fast Pitch championships in Brant-ford, Ont., on Tuesday. Penney pitched and lost in the national U16 final, too, as B.C. finished second.

In Kirkland, Penney pitched in three games, and struck out 29 batters in 17 innings, while giving up just 16 hits. Equally impressive on the mound was Jenna Saul-nier, who struck out 18 batters in 16 innings. Stef Galitzine hit .467 in the tourney batting lead off, scoring four times.

“I try to replay it in my mind what else we could have done, but the bats just weren’t quite there (Saturday),” Tucker said.

Eleven of the 12 girls will play senior Little League next year.

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The Victoria Royals recently completed their coaching staff in time for this week’s draft camp, and the upcoming rookie camp, about to get underway at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.

New to the Royals bench is for-mer junior B Peninsula Panthers head coach Geoff Grimwood as an assistant coach to the Royals and head coach to the South Island Royals major midget hockey team.

The WHL Royals recently affili-ated with the local major midget club, formerly known as the South Island Thunderbirds.

Grimwood has made the rounds among the junior ranks as an assistant coach to well respected BCHL bench boss Kent Lewis of the Powell River Kings, and also spent time on the Victoria Cou-gars bench with Mark Van Hel-voirt.

Returning for the 2012-13 sea-son are coach Enio Sacilotto; strength, conditioning and skills coach Jeff Compton; and goalten-ding coach Brady Robinson.

The Royals open the preseason in Kamloops on Aug. 30, and host a preseason game Sept. 15.

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Royals rustle up staff Under-16 baseball players off to nats

Four players from Victoria are representing Team B.C. at the U16 Bantam Girls Baseball Cana-dian Championship in Halifax, N.S., Aug. 21 to 28.

Mary Harding, Shayla Zeitz, Megan Thomson and Sofi Jansch have travelled to the Lower Main-land every weekend this summer to train with the team and play in tournaments in preparation for this week.

Team B.C. is made up of girls from all over the Lower Mainland, the Island and the Okanagan.

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Brenda Kuebler Brousseau ofVictoria, B.C. passed away August 15, 2012, with her loving family and friends by her side.

She was born August 24, 1957 to Ron and Shirley Brousseau. She graduated from Belmont Secondary in 1975 and met her hus-band and soul mate Harry Kuebler in Victoria in 1978.

Brenda worked at Monday Magazine for over 30 years and also part time at the Beehive Wool Shop which allowed her to in-dulge her great passion of knitting. Her other enjoyments in life were babysittingher grandsons, reading, entertaining and making her home a magical place especially at Christmas time.

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

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

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