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Students stompedBroadway act puts the boots to Oak Bay High.

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LEADING THE CHARGE

Arnold Lim/News staff

One of the early adopters of electric vehicles, Kevin Walker of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, is looking forward to the new electric car charging station coming to Oak Bay City Hall in the spring. See the story on page A3.

The district of Oak Bay is one of the first to install an electric car charging station for its residents

Megan ColeNews staff

Oak Bay municipal council has taken a major step forward in its Official Community Plan process after council selected the project’s consultant.

Catherine Berris Associates Inc. was chosen by council following a recommendation from the OCP project advisory committee.

“We had a lot of interest from consultants in the contract,” said Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen. “The advisory committee took some time to make their recommendation which was accepted by council.”

Although Jensen said selection of the consultant is an important one in the OCP process they are “a little behind” where they should be.

“The consultant will now begin her work in setting up a series of consultations and work plans which will culminate in the OCP, which will hopefully be finalized in the spring of 2014,” Jensen said.

The municipality’s OCP was first created in the mid-’80s, and while it has been updated numerous times, there has not been a major review since it was conceived, Jensen said.

“It’s an opportunity for us to take into account all of the changes that have occurred since the mid-’80s,” he said. “When you look at the difference between now and then, in the ‘80s no one talked in terms of smartphones, smart developments, climate change and all the other demographic changes. The new OCP will really reflect not only where we are but where we want to be in the future as we go forward.”

Jensen emphasized the importance of community involvement throughout the process and encouraged residents to keep visiting their website, oakbay.ca.

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If you are looking to get plugged in, Oak Bay is the place to be.

The municipal hall will soon boast a new double-pedestal electric car charging station where visitors can top up their electric vehicles while doing business in Oak Bay.

“Encouraging our local residents to consider transportation alternatives that (create) less carbon emissions is essential to the green initiative of this council,” said Oak Bay Coun. Tara Ney. “The idea of promoting clean energy is an essential mandate of this council to increase opportunities and initiatives that are able to reduce the carbon footprint.”

While Ney admits the number of electric vehicles currently traversing Oak Bay’s streets is still quite low, she says this initiative is not just to support the handful of vehicles already on the road, but also to encourage residents to make that number grow.

“People are smart, they are not going to commit until the infrastructure exists,” Ney said.

“The first piece is to get these stations up and running and use that as a (way) to encourage the uptake of people using electrical vehicles.”

The municipality has already received its charger from AddENERGIE technologies, a double-pedestal, all-weather unit costing approximately $10,000. A provincial grant covered $7,500 of that, a program Oak Bay was the first municipality to both apply, and be approved, for in

the province. The 1.64-metre high unit with

two six-metre cables looks like a free-standing parking meter and will be positioned between two stalls accommodating two vehicles, one regular electric vehicle and one smaller, scooter-like vehicle.

A full charge will take approximately four to five hours, as it is not a quick-charging station. The idea is that visitors can use the device to top-up

while they do business in Oak Bay, as opposed to using it as their primary charging device. Charging is complimentary but the station can be adapted to a fee-for-service model.

“I think anything that promotes alternate energy is a plus for society in general,” said the municipality’s director of engineering services David Marshall. “The sooner society gets involved in alternate energy and gets away from fossil fuels has to be a good thing.”

He added that it would be premature to speculate how the initiative will expand through the municipality until the first one is installed and further evaluated. If it does prove to be effective and useful, more potential installations along Oak Bay Avenue and in Estevan Village could be considered.

The final location of the installation is yet to be determined, and two potential spots are being considered. One is close to the front entrance on the footpath towards the store next door(can we replace this with a direction please), the other on the west side of the rear parking lot.

Kevin Walker, owner of the

Oak Bay Beach Hotel, which has two electric vehicles in its fleet, is looking forward to his staff and guests making good use of the new station as soon as it’s ready.

“We recognized 15 years ago that taking care of the environment wasn’t just a good idea, it was good business,” he said. “Transportation is a very important part of what we do. … That is why we started off thinking of smart cars and ended up with an (even) smarter vehicle.”

Oak Bay and Qualicum Beach were the first communities on the Island to allow electric vehicles on the road, and now that Victoria also allows them, he is looking forward to expanding his electric fleet as demand and infrastructure grows.

“We should be, as a community, leading the way in Canada with these zero-emission vehicles,” Walker said. “If you are going to have a green initiative, instead of having a low-emission vehicle, why not go zero? It is a pretty neat feeling to send a car down the road that has zero impact on the environment.”

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While half of Broadway’s famous STOMP cast enjoyed a vacation, the other half visited Oak Bay High last week as part of the build up to the production taking the stage at the Royal Theatre this summer.

Students received a wel-come break from their usual routine with a taste of what STOMP has been doing for nearly 22 years.

“I thought it was going to be somewhat like the gumboot dancing I’d seen before,” said Grade 11 student Daphne Love. “I thought it would be a lot more feet and boots, but other than that I didn’t really have a whole lot of expectations.”

The production – which began as a percussion group based in Brighton, U.K. – now includes musicians and dancers from across the U.S.

But unlike a typical percussionists, the STOMP

cast uses everything from their feet, to brooms, empty bags and garbage cans to captivate their audience.

“My favourite part was when they were all playing with the garbage cans and buckets on

stage,” said Grade 11 student Jane Kelly. “It was neat to see how they could use all of those different and unusual items to make music. It was really interesting.”

After the students returned to class, the STOMPers made their way to downtown Victoria to per-form for an enthusiastic audience at The Atrium, where they also led

a master class.The full cast of STOMP returns to Victoria

from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1 at the Royal Theatre.Tickets range from $66 to $76 depending on

performance, seat and date of purchase.Tickets are on sale now at the McPherson

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District plugs in to electric car trend

This story has accompanying video at oakbaynews.com.

Video online

Arnold Lim/News staff

Kevin Walker of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, outside Oak Bay Muncipal Hall where new electric car charging station will be installed. The exact location is still to be decided.

Megan Cole/News staff

The cast of Broadway's STOMP uses buckets, garbage bins and more to give Oak Bay High students a taste of what's coming to the Royal Theatre stage in August.

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Raise a glass to inspiration, humour and education with the Oak Bay Toastmasters club this month.

Toastmasters brings members together for various reasons, and while many join to improve communication and public speaking skills, when Paul Ralfs joined 34 years ago it was the warm reception he found most encouraging.

Ralfs has been with the Oak Bay Toastmasters, which formed in 1994, since it was revived in 1998.

It was while working at a bank in Vancouver that Ralfs was first introduced to the Toastmasters, and while he didn’t join to work on his communication and pub-lic speaking skills, he eventually gained the courage to start the non-profit B.C. Neurofibromato-sis Foundation.

“I formed it 29 years ago and it’s still going strong,” he said. “We’re actually based in Victoria now. It was started in Vancou-ver.”

Earlier this month, Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen proclaimed February Toastmasters Interna-tional Month.

“It felt really good to get the proclamation,” said Ralfs, vice-president of public relations for the Oak Bay Toastmasters Club. “It all happened very quickly, so I’m very impressed with the support we’ve received from the municipality.”

To celebrate the proclama-tion, the Oak Bay Toastmasters Club will be holding an open house on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at St. Patrick’s Church Hall.

“We’ll be having our meet-ing and it will be fairly similar to what we normally do, except it’s going to be about 15 minutes longer to allow for the introduc-

tion of guests, and a question and answer period at the end,” Ralfs said.

There will be three guest speakers at the open house, a new member will be making a debut speech, a longtime mem-ber will be making a 10th speech marking a milestone as a Toast-master, and the club will wel-

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The doors open at 7 p.m. with the meet-ing beginning at 7:15 p.m. and running until 9 p.m.

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Paul Ralfs, vice-president of public relations for Oak Bay Toastmasters Club, holds the proclamation from the Oak Bay municipality declaring February International Toastmasters month.


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When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in 2010, killing 11 people and spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, it cost more than $40 billion to mop up the mess. In Canada, an oil company would be liable for only $30 million, leaving taxpayers on the hook for the rest. That’s just one of a litany of flaws Canada’s environment commissioner identified with the government’s approach to environmental protection.

According to environment and sustainable development commissioner Scott Vaughan, who released a final series of audits before stepping down, the federal government’s failure to protect the environment is putting Canadians’ health and economy at risk.

Vaughan says the government has no real plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and is not even on track to meet its own modest targets (already watered down from the widely accepted emission-levels baseline of 1990 to 2005). It is unprepared for tanker accidents and oil spills in coastal waters. It lacks regulations governing toxic chemicals used by the oil industry.

He noted the federal government does not even require the oil and gas industry to disclose chemicals it uses in fracking, which means there is no way to assess the risks. And despite the fact that Canada has committed to protecting 20 per cent of its oceans by 2020, we have

less than one per cent protected now and are not likely to meet our goal within this century.

“We know that there is a boom in natural resources in this country and I think what we need now – given the gaps, given the problems we found – is a boom in environmental protection in this country as well,” Vaughan told The Globe and Mail. Not dealing with the risks will cause economic losses, he said, as well as damage to

human health and the environment, because it will cost more to clean up problems than prevent them.

This is not coming from a tree-hugging environmentalist, but from the government’s own independent office of the auditor general. It should concern all Canadians.

We have a beautiful country, blessed with a spectacular natural environment and a progressive, caring society. But we can’t take it for granted. Beijing was probably a nicer city when you could breathe the air without risking your life.

Often, the justification for failing to care for the environment is that it’s not economically feasible. It’s not a rational argument – we can’t survive and be healthy if we degrade or destroy the air, water, soil and biodiversity that make it possible for us to live well.

Vaughan shows the folly of this way of thinking on a more basic level. Beyond the high costs of cleaning up after environmental contamination or disasters, he

notes the government doesn’t even have a handle on some of the financial implications of its policies.

“The government does not know the actual cost of its support to the fossil fuel sector,” he reports. He added it has no idea how much its sector-by-sector approach to greenhouse gas emissions will cost either, even though that was a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, which the government bailed on, arguing it was too expensive.

The government has also steadfastly refused to consider putting a price on carbon, through a carbon tax and/or cap-and-trade, even though economists point to the ever-growing mountain of evidence that those are effective ways to reduce carbon emissions.

With an expected doubling of fracking wells, from 200,000 to 400,000, and tripling of tanker traffic off the West Coast, we can’t afford such a lax approach. Our prime minister has responded mostly with slogans and platitudes, but others in government say the issues will be addressed. For the sake of our country’s future, we must demand that they keep that promise and recognize the role the environment commissioner has in analyzing Canada’s environmental practices and recommending improvements.

Given our government’s record of ignoring scientific evidence and gutting environmental laws and programs, it will have to do a lot more to convince Canadians that it doesn’t see environmentalists and environmental regulation simply as impediments to fossil fuel development.

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Tourism strategy must be regional

Efficiency is a buzzword around government these days, as it is in the private sector. In B.C. that scenario isn’t expected to end any time soon, regardless which party settles into office after the May provincial election.

The beleaguered tourism industry in Greater Victoria and the rest of the province continue to be subject to such funding restraints. With sluggish economies keeping people from spending less vacation dollars, local tourism promoters must get even more creative in marketing the area to potential visitors.

That doesn’t necessarily mean coming up with more grabby slogans – remember Tourism Victoria’s “Your search for the perfect orgasm is over” campaign? It means looking at new ways of doing more with less.

Time will tell whether the Liberals’ creation of Destination B.C. is just pre-election window dressing or a serious effort to enhance the marketing efforts of the many regional and community destination marketing organizations in the province.

In the meantime, local and regional groups can take steps to improve their own lot by teaming with neighbouring organizations to market Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland better. Rather than waiting for the post-2010 Olympics ripple to come, why not work together to remind the visitors who came to Vancouver and Whistler, but were focused on the Games, how great our region is?

Tourism Victoria has done a good job attracting people here from relatively nearby locales – Western Canada and the U.S. West Coast. But at a time when gaining a share of people’s limited travel budgets is becoming more difficult and competitive, a consistent, joint action plan – perhaps one that casts the net farther – could attract new visitors and provide enough stimulus to help get everyone through the lean times.

We can’t expect government to lay all the groundwork for the industry and create a perfect environment for entrepreneurship.

That has to be done by businesspeople who see opportunities and work hard to create a place for themselves in an industry that continues to be one of B.C.’s biggest economic generators.

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Sewage treatment plant could work on West Shore

Chair Denise Blackwell and the Core Area Liquid Waster Management Committee recently agreed that they did not necessarily have the best plan and asked for ideas for any better strategies for the Capital Regional District.

Here’s a great one.Albert Head, a federally

owned property of more than 52 hectares has a “no restriction” land-use designation and would easily hold a secondary sewage treatment plant. Underwater, Albert Head is five to six kilometres from current pumping stations. By altering the direction of the current outflow pipes from south (to the straits) to west to the Albert Head peninsula, the controversial harbour entrance site, with its multiple risk factors, including the massive

dig under the water of the harbour entrance, is eliminated.

Also eliminated is the need for 17 km of pressurized piping through parkland, municipal and residential land and infrastructure, to the barely adequate, time-limited Hartland landfill and back.

Albert Head is a wooded, remote acreage that allows room for on-site sludge treatment/disposal and is ideally located for the cleaned water dispersal into the straits.

Engineering would ensure the proper underwater pipe-pressure requirements are fitted, plus earthquake measures and damage prevention are installed.

Plans could allow for the future construction of a sewage treatment plant that would support further growth of the

West Shore. The plans could also be designed for future innovation in the science of sewage disposal, whereby pharmaceuticals and heavy metals are removed and benefits to Metchosin are realized, by altering sewage for use as fertilizer in the crop industry in the rural ranch/farm municipality.

I believe this is a viable, cost-effective alternative using federal land effectively.

It would satisfy the many considerable complaints regarding poor land use; expensive, disruptive and massive construction; financial over-runs and future maintenance requirements for what soon could be obsolete sewage disposal practices.

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Readers respond: Mental illness, PM, Doyle

Stigma perpetuatedby mainstream media

Re: Mental illness costs sizeable (Our View, Jan. 23)

This kind of incendiary content is at the heart of the problem when it comes to the scandalous underfunding of mental health services.

“Political will” to start properly funding a “broader spectrum of care for those battling mental illness” is totally dependent on citizen engagement and pressure on governments to act.

After reading about mentally ill individuals involved in “serious attacks on others and even murder,” “murdering” mom, “incidents of violence” and “stabbing an innocent boy,” no sane person will call their MLA to demand increased funding to help these villains.

Our media is largely to blame for perpetuating the harmful and destructive myth that mental illness equals violence. These false beliefs are at the core of the terrible stigma about mental illness that keeps communities stuck in ignorance. This demonization of the mentally ill thwarts any progressive movement to get better funding, programs and services for people afflicted with debilitating illnesses.

The media must take a more reasoned and informed role in reporting about mental illness. The facts cannot be disputed: the vast majority of incidents of violent behaviour are not committed by people who are

mentally ill. And the very low percentage of people who do commit violent acts is exactly the same in the mentally ill population as in the general population, two per cent.

I would love to see more stories about the many talented, amazing people with mental illnesses who are giving so much to this community. They are the rule, not the exception.

Doreen Marion GeeVictoria

Canada’s PM hasn’t done such a bad job

Here is a message for all of those who constantly find fault with the prime minister and our Conservative government.

We give away billions of dollars every year to countries that never help themselves. Billions in wars that never end, because of the hatred warring factions have for each other’s religion. Losing young men in needless wars.

Obviously, Stephen Harper has done something right, when Canada is the only country to survive the mess in the financial world. Imagine having the NDP and how their supporters love to strike, or the Liberals who have no idea what fiscal responsibility is.

Canada cannot be responsible for every nation that continues to fight year after year. Our prime minister has taken care of Canada brilliantly.

Eileen NattrassCentral Saanich

No mixup on genderin Doyle’s comments

Re: Gender equity needed in criticisms (Letters, Feb. 1)

Auditor general John Doyle’s reappointment process was rescued by Minnie Mouse, in the form of Premier Christy Clark, who chastised the committee for its questionable behaviour. The committee played the role of Mickey Mouse, so Doyle was politically correct.

Roger LoveSaanich

Auditor generalmay be mistaken

Re: Gender equity needed in criticisms (Letters, Feb. 1)

Did auditor-general John Doyle make a “glaring error?” Perhaps he feels he is still dealing with a Gordon Cambell government.

Kathleen SullivanVictoria

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Greater Victoria homeown-ers will begin paying for sewage treatment this year, now that Capital Regional District direc-tors have approved the 2013 budget for the $783-million proj-ect.

The average household will see an increase of $39 in Saan-ich, $59 in Victoria and $65 in Oak Bay at the end of the year, according to a CRD report.

“What this does is smooth out some of the (financial) ramp-up on taxpayers and provides kind of a fiscal planning for them, and I think that’s a positive,” said Saanich Coun. Vic Derman.

The decision to levy fees now will also save the CRD $3 mil-lion in debt servicing costs. The

project is expected to cost hom-eowners between $232 and $353 annually by 2018.

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Des-jardins, who along with Derman and Colwood Mayor Carol Ham-ilton opposed approval of the overall sewage treatment bud-get, said the CRD should wait another month until a panel of experts has been put in place to oversee the project.

“I think having our expert commission view these num-bers would be much more help-ful in sussing this out further,” Desjardins told the board. “This was supposed to be part of a process whereby we had a com-mission in place.”

The appointed commission will run the project and will exclude elected officials, a con-dition of provincial funding. But

CRD directors will still have the final say over budgets and major project amendments.

More than $47 million will be spent in 2013 to tender design contracts for facilities at the McLoughlin Point wastewater treatment plant, for construction work on the Craigflower pump station and for further requests for proposals.

In addition to the wastewa-ter treatment plant planned for Esquimalt, a network of new sewage pipes and a biosolids energy centre will be built to meet the federal government’s compliance deadline of 2020.

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Join the 60-voice mixed choir and music director Peter Butterfield in a day of heavenly Renaissance and early Baroque harmony, Saturday, Feb. 16, St. Mary’s Church, 1701 Elgin St.

This is a rare opportunity for singers to spend a fun and relaxed day explor-ing vocal and stylistic techniques for singing Monteverdi’s madrigals and sections of his monumental Vespers of 1610, which the Victoria Philharmonic Choir performs in June.

Special guest speaker Susan Lewis Hammond, Director of Music at UVic and noted Monteverdi expert, will talk about the innovative, revolutionary composer and how his work influenced western music for centuries.

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With a career spanning more than 35 years, including touring theatre productions and voice act-ing work, working at home in Vic-toria is an exciting opportunity for actress Tracey Moore.

This is the first time in more than 10 years that Moore has worked in the city she calls home.

“I get up in the morning and walk to work,” she said with a smile. “There are no ferries, planes, long car rides. I couldn’t be more thrilled.”

Moore is part of the upcoming production at the Belfry Theatre, Helen’s Necklace, but she is no stranger to the Belfry stage.

Last year, Moore took the stage as part of Home is a Beautiful Word, and she is happy to be back on stage in Fernwood.

“There is so much to like about

it,” she said. “It’s easy to be creative because when there is stress, you have to work around the stress to be able to pull things to use for

your work. So when everyone gets along – like they do at the Belfry – you can really just get down to work.”

Helen’s Necklace takes place in a Middle Eastern city where, Helen, a Canadian, tries to retrace her steps in the hopes of finding a lost necklace. Throughout the story, Helen is brought face to face with the realities of a war-torn city and the many impacts of loss.

With characters like Sailor Moon, Share Bear from the Care Bears and Anne from Anne of Green Gables as part of her past works, Moore has found more to connect with in Helen.

“Helen, I would say, would not be foreign to a lot of women in Vic-toria,” she said. “She’s an interest-ing character in literature that we now see emerging.”

Moore said in the past female characters have typically been “maidens, mothers or crones,” but now roles like Helen portray a woman who stands on her own and experiences the world on her own terms.

Moore shares the stage with Lee Majdoub who plays Nabil.

While Moore hadn’t worked with the production’s director James Fagan Tait, she knew both Tait and the Belfry’s artistic direc-tor Michael Shamata from the early years of her career.

“(Shamata) is a long term friend and so is Tait,” she said. “We knew each other when we were all start-ing out in the east. We’d all crossed paths many times but we’ve never worked together. … Then Helen’s Necklace came up and Tait was going to direct it. I love (Tait), he’s brilliant and fun, so I jumped at the chance to come in and audition. It all worked out and I couldn’t be more thrilled.”

Helen’s Necklace runs until March 3 at the Belfry’s Studio A.

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Tracey Moore, right, and Lee Majdoub run through scenes of Helen’s Necklace before opening night at the Belfry Theatre.

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Canadian Federation of University Women Scholarship and Bursary Society Awards Con-cert and Reception with performers Yun-Chn (Jenny) Chang, pianist and Chance Lovett, jazz vocalist. Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Philip T. Young Auditorium, University of Victoria. Admission is free and donations to the CFUW scholarship and bursary fund will be gratefully accepted.

Director Christine Willes takes on Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty, an examination of the modern obsession with external appear-ance told through four 20-something blue col-lar workers. It’s also a play with great writing for women, Willes said.

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The Sovereign Orderof St. John of Jerusalem,

Knights Hospitaller, Victoria Commandery

on the

900th Anniversary of their

Official Founding - February 15th, 1113

The Order is a registered Canadian Charitable Organization that provides palliative care support for the sick, the needy, and the poor in Victoria. Victoria Hospice was honoured this past year to be chosen by The Order to receive $50,000 a year over the next five years to support hospice work in the community through funding for a “Closer to the Community” Counsellor.

Congratulations on 900 years from Victoria Hospice and the patients and families we serve.

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This Weekend’s

Check the page number below in Real Estate Victoria or visit www.revweekly.com

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the February 14-20 edition of Real Estate Victoria

Published Every Thursday

OPENHOUSESSelect your home.

Select your mortgage.

Oak Bay 250-370-7601Westshore 250-391-2933

Victoria 250-483-1360Sidney 250-655-0632

www.vericoselect.comChatterton Way 250-479-0688

205-2747 Quadra St., $199,000Saturday 12-2Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara, 250-384-8124 pg. 6

401-525 Broughton St, $399,000Sunday 2-4Boorman’sGraham Bavington, 250-415-1931

1947 RunnymedeSaturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalSharen Warde, 250-592-4422 pg. 9

101-75 Songhees, $685,000Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 6

733A HumboldtSaturday - Tuesday noon - 5 pmFair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 883-2715 pg. 1

107-68 Songhees, $359,000Sunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunRoland Stillings, 250-744-3301 pg. 10

206-1033 Belmont, $597,500Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdRon MacDonald 250 360-6493 pg. 7

3-1070 Amphion, $349,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesMay Alexandria, 250-384-8124 pg. 6

409 Chadwick Place, $1,259,900 Sunday 2:30 - 4PMRe/Max CamosunKevin Koetke, 250 478-9600 pg. 24

1788 Haultain, $449,900Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyRich Humphries 250 592-4422 pg. 8

306-75 Songhees, $698,000Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 6

104-405 Quebec, $399,900Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyRich Humphries 250 592-4422 pg. 8

401-670 Dallas Rd, $559,000Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyFred Lerch, 250-889-2528 pg. 5

302-1025 Meares St, $329,000Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyFred Lerch, 250-889-2528 pg. 5

1261 Vista HtsSaturday 2-4Fair RealtyChris Dusseault, 250-516-8773 pg. 10

501 Richmond, $689,000Sunday 2:30-4:30Re/Max CamosunDaniel Clover 250 507-5459 pg. 10

1004-1034 Johnson St, $399,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesJasmin Gerwien, 250-889-7709 pg. 10

2913 Quadra, $550,000Sunday 2:30-4SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra, 250-380-6683 pg. 11

402-1122 Hilda, $199,900Saturday 11-1Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921 pg. 7

1494 Fairfi eld, $299,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-6900 pg. 3

205-732 Cormorant St, $217,900Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyBetty ‘K’, 250-516-8306 pg. 5

11-1880 Chandler,Saturday 2:30-4:30Newport RealtyMelanie Erickson, 250-385-2033 pg. 5

101-1235 Johnson StSaturday 1-3Fair Realty LtdSean Thomas 250 896-5478 pg. 10

116-75 Songhees, $998,000Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 5

1655 Warren Gardens, $659,900Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesRick Couvelier, 250-477-0921 pg. 10

402-1433 Faircliff Lane, $283,000Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyLaurel Hounslow, 250-592-4422 pg. 9

302-1420 Beach Dr, $489,000Saturday 11:30-1Sparling Real Estate Ltd.Don Sparling, 250-656-5511 pg. 11

131-2345 Cedar Hill Cross, $449,900Sunday 2-4Brown BrosRobert Young, 250-385-6900 pg. 3

987 Falkland Rd, $899,900Sunday 11-1Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-818-8736

2625 Orchard Ave, $699,900Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Susan Carley, 250-477-7291 pg. 17

3072 Cadboro Bay, $789,999Saturday 1-3Century 21 Queenswood RealtyJulie Rust, 250-477-1100 pg. 11

2740 Dewdney Ave., $995,000Saturday 2-4Macdonald RealtyScott Garman 250 896-7099 pg. 5863864

5-15 Helmcken, $438,000Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Shannon Jackson, 250-474-6003 pg. 11

9-1529 Cooper RdSunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 20

106 Fraser Lane, $148,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesEileen Jespersen, 250-686-4820 pg. 11

10 Parkcrest, $599,900Sunday 12:30 - 2Re/Max CamosunKevin Koetke, 250 478-9600 pg. 24

4-278 Island Hwy, $229,900Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunNoel Hache 250 744-3301 pg. 23

1052 Colville, $529,900Saturday & Sunday 2:30-4Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124 pg. 7

103E-1115 Craigfl ower, $354,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyShelly Reed, 250-213-7444 pg. 20

103-1000 Esquimalt Rd, $205,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtySaira Waters, 250-592-4422 pg. 11

613 Sturdee, $399,900Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLorraine Williams, 250-216-3317 pg. 11

303-625 Admirals, $184,900Sunday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Rob Angus, 250-391-1893

A-1142 Craigfl ower Rd, $369,900Saturday 12:30-2SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683 pg. 10

11-4318 Emily Carr Dr, $539,000Saturday 1:30-3:30JONESco Real Estate Inc.Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

1816 Seawood, $739,000Sunday 2:30-4:30Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara, 250-384-8124 pg. 13

1213 Maywood, $459,900Saturday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-6900 pg. 3

4038 Cumberland, $499,000Saturday 3-5Pemberton HolmesJeff Shorter, 250-384-8124 pg. 13

2194 Ferndale, $679,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291

1551 Stockton Cres, $878,000Sunday 1-4Re/Max CamosunEd G Sing, 250-744-3301 pg. 11

982 Mckenzie, $324,900Tuesday-Sunday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalJames Liu 250 477-5353 pg. 5715449

3217 Shelbourne St, $449,500Saturday & Monday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.John Smith, 250-477-7291 pg. 12

5255 Parker, $1,898,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunLynne Sager 250 744-3301 pg. 23

15-830 Rogers, $499,900Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Lynnell Davidge, 250-477-7291 pg. 17

1742 Tiffi n Pl, $649,900Saturday 1:30-3:30JONESco Real EstateIan Heath, 250-655-7653

4016 Rainbow Hill Lane, $739,000Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Chris LeBlanc, 250-478-9141 pg. 1

4105 Torquay, $569,000Saturday & Sunday 12-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyJohn Monkhouse, 250-592-4422 pg. 8

12-942 Boulderwood R, $734,900Sunday 2-4Macdonald RealtyScott Garman 250 896-7099 pg. 12

5373 Pat Bay, $649,900Saturday 2-4One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242 pg. 20

402-1580 Christmas, $280,000Sunday 12-1Brown Brothers Real EstateDylan Hagreen 250 385-8780 pg. 10

973 OwlwoodSaturday 11-1Royal LePage Coast CapitalSharen Warde, 250-592-4422 pg. 9

3935 Margot Pl, $479,000Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyHiro Nakatani, 250 661-4476 pg. 23

743 Chesterlea, $509,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMarsha Crawford, 250-889-8200 pg. 13

1687 Brousson, $529,000Sunday 12-2Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124 pg. 13

1279 Tattersall, $734,800Saturday & Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Cassie Kangas, 250-477-7291 pg. 13

780 Lily, $559,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunNoel Hache 250 744-3301 pg. 23

3648 Doncaster Dr, $849,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJune Wing, 250-479-3333 pg. 12

5410 Fowler, $549,900Saturday 11-1One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242 pg. 20

403-1521 Church, $295,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291 pg. 6

114-1110 Willow, $399,000Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyHiro Nakatani, 250 661-4476 pg. 23

4029 Providence, $899,888Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdDeborah Kline 250 661-7680 pg. 12

4040 Borden StSaturday & Sunday 2-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250-658-0967 pg. 3

4294 Torquay Dr, $539,900Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesKent Deans, 250-686-4141 pg. 12

1905 Portway, $948,000Saturday & Sunday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Cassie Kangas, 250-477-7291 pg. 13

1701 Jefferson, $459,000Saturday & Sunday 12-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyJohn Monkhouse, 250-592-4422 pg. 8

2945 Colquitz, $449,900Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalSharen Warde, 250-592-4422 pg. 9

413 Ker Ave, $419,800Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGina Sundberg, 250-812-4999 pg. 13

418 Ker Ave, $489,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunJason Binab, 250-744-3301 pg. 13

809 Portage, $379,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdKevin Starling 250 889-4577 pg. 13

519 Leaside, $468,500Sunday 12:30-2SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra, 250-380-6683 pg. 13

107-537 Heatherdale, $398,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalMark McDougall, 250-588-8588 pg. 2

17-7675 East Saanich, $289,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 14

7891 Patterson, $599,900Saturday 2:30 - 4Re/Max CamosunKevin Koetke, 250 478-9600 pg. 24

9173 Basswood, $999,000Saturday 2-3Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 14

1851 Barrett Dr., $655,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalDave Lynn, 250-592-4422 pg. 8

1731 Orcas Park Terr, $689,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDonna Gabel, 250-477-5353 pg. 13

9708 Fifth St, $599,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunCraig Walters, 250-655-0608 pg. 14

205-2490 Bevan Ave, $260,000Saturday 2-4Sparling Real Estate Ltd.Don Sparling, 250-656-5511 pg. 14

8712 Bourne Terr, $638,000Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunCraig Walters, 250-655-0608 pg. 14

11075 Salal Pl, $599,900Sunday 1:30-3:30JONEsco Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath, 250-655-7653

44-2070 Amelia Ave.Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Frances Wade, 250-656-0131 pg. 14

1690 Texada, $1,189,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Ron Bahrey, 250-477-7291 pg. 14

648 Lands End Rd, $1,129,000Sunday 1:30-3:30JONESco Real Estate Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

637 Rason Rd, $499,900Saturday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyFred Lerch, 250-889-2528 pg. 15

875 Wild Ridge Way, $369,900Saturday & Sunday 2:30-4SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-216-7625 pg. 15

3629 Coleman, $648,888Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyBlair Watling, 250-385-2033 pg. 15

2671 Crystalview Dr, $719,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Deidra Junghans, 250-474-6003 pg. 18

3353 Sewell, $609,900Saturday 11-12 (call for appt)Cathy Duncan & Associates250-658-0967 pg. 1

401-866 Goldstream, $319,850Saturday 2-3Fair RealtyDiana Winger, 250-999-3683

991 Rattanwood, $495,000Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 15

617-623 Treanor Ave, $239,900Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jeff Bishop, 250-477-7291 pg. 5

4859 Rocky Point Rd, $399,900Saturday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808

912 Neff, $499,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesRick Couvelier, 250-477-0921 pg. 18 & 5872069

404-611 Brookside, $189,000Daily 12-4Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 6

2136 Bellamy Rd, $519,900Sunday 2-4Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-818-8736

512-2745 Veterans Memorial Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesAllen Tepper 250 686-6325 pg. 15

633 Rason Rd., $548,800Sunday 12:30-2SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683 pg. 18

103-982 Rattanwood, $319,900Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 15

622 Goldstream Ave.Thursday - Sunday 1-4Kahl Realty250-391-8484 pg. 7

4980 Deer Park Trail, $1,099,000Sunday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808

2215 Spirit Ridge Dr, $939,900Sunday 2:30-4SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683 pg. 14

2415 Carpenter Rd, $649,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesBrendan Herlihy, 250-642-3240 pg. 18

6672 Steeple Chase, $384,900Sunday 11-1Pemberton HolmesBrendan Herlihy, 250-642-3240 pg. 18

3582 Pechanga, $459,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 9


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SPORTSNEWS IN BRIEF

AA basketball playoffsThe province’s No. 3-ranked Saint Michaels

University School Blue Jaguars and the No. 7 Lambrick Park Lions are the co-favourites to be in the AA boys city basketball final at SMUS, 5 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 16).

Vernon Vipers’ Dexter

Dancs slams into Victoria

Grizzlies’ David Mazurek as

they struggle to pursue a loose

puck during BC Hockey League

action Sunday at Wesbild Centre.

Natalia VignolaBlack Press

Wild Card Game Sunday at the BearTravis PatersonNews staff

Go Kerry Park Islanders, go.That’s the sentiment to be shared when play-

ers from the Peninsula Panthers, Saanich Braves and Victoria Cougars stand in audience to cheer the Islanders versus the Campbell River Storm in the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League’s first ever Wild Card Game on Sunday.

Puck drop is 1:30 p.m. at Bear Mountain Arena followed by the VIJHL’s awards ceremony.

The Wild Card Game gives the South division’s fifth place team, the Islanders, the chance to steal the playoff spot owned by the North division’s fourth place team, the Storm.

The reason the south teams will be cheering the Islanders is because the Wild Card Game will also decide home advantage in the VIJHL final.

If the Islanders win, whatever team represents the South division in the Brent Patterson Memo-

rial final gets the extra home game. And with just one regulation loss in

47 of the 48-game schedule, the defend-ing champion Cougars are the favourite to be that team.

If Campbell River wins on Sunday, how-ever, then there will be some deep breaths

coming from the Cougars’ dressing room before the day is done. “The league is looking for innovative ways to

structure the playoffs,” Cougars president and governor Gary Boyer said. “At times the league had toyed with making our all (VIJHL All-Star Clas-sic) the home ice decider for the final, just like Major League Baseball.

“I can say the (Cougars’) coaching staff and players are a lot more passionate about it than I am.”

It looks obvious that the Cougars would be against the new feature coming in for this season, as they are head and shoulder above the rest of the league, Boyer said.

“In hind sight it’s not the best news for us. But take us out of the equation and the rest of the teams aren’t that far apart in the standings.”

In other words, Boyer is supporting it for now. Perhaps a day will come again when the Cou-

gars are not the most dominating junior hockey team in Canada, in respect to their league.

As for having rival players together in the stands for Sunday’s match, the common goal should keep them all at bay. Let’s hope a win by the Storm doesn’t upset the precarious balance.

Braves draw WolvesThe Cougars will face the Panthers and the

Braves will face the Wolves in the South division’s first round playoff series.

The Cougars and Panthers game times were yet to be announced at press time.

The Braves will host Game 1 vs. the Wolves Monday, Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m. at George Pearkes Arena. Game 2 is expected to be Wednesday, Feb. 20, at Bear Mountain Arena but is to be deter-mined. Game 3 is Friday, Feb. 22, at Pearkes.

The full schedule for both series will be online soon at vicnews.com, where an update of the Braves season is also available.

A full preview of both series is coming Feb. [email protected]

Island league’s wild move

The Vernon Vipers bit back at the Victoria Grizzlies with a 3-2 win in Vernon on Sunday, Feb. 10.

It was payback from the Griz-zlies’ 1-0 shutout of the Vipers in Victoria last month.

It was also the Grizzlies sec-ond regulation loss in Febru-ary, something that hadn’t happened in 2013 until Feb. 8, when the Grizz fell to the Lang-ley Chiefs 6-3.

Regardless, the Grizzlies (32-11-0-6) are 3-2-1 in Febru-ary and remain first in the B.C. Hockey League with 70 points. Next are the Penticton Vees with 67 points.

Scoring in the loss for the Grizz were a couple of ex-Vipers. Turner Lawson was stymied by Vipers goalie Danny Todoyschuk on two solid scor-

ing chances, but buried a low wrister from 12 feet midway through the second period, his sixth of the year. Pearce Eviston, who was traded by the Vipers a month ago, dan-gled and went low on a Victoria powerplay five minutes later.

Lawson played 50 games as a shut-down defenceman for Ver-non last year, and is enjoying a solid role on right wing with Bill Bestwick’s aggressive Grizzlies.

“At the start of the year, I was still kind of trying to figure out the finer things of forward. I think I’m kind of getting the hang of it later in the season here so hopefully I’ll be really good for playoffs,” said Law-son.

It’s a completely different hand of cards for the 19-year-old, who could just as easily be

on the Vipers (16-23-1-7), a team outside the playoffs, looking in. Instead, he’s atop the league.

“I’m really surprised actu-ally,” Lawson said. “I thought it was going to be a really big year for (the Vipers), especially hosting RBC next year.”

The Grizz host the Alberni Valley Bulldogs Saturday night, 7:15 p.m. at Bear Mountain Arena.

Royals swap injuriesAlex Gogolev is out but

Logan Nelson is day-to-day and could return this weekend for the Victoria Royals. The Royals are in Red Deer tonight, Calgary on Saturday and Edmonton on Sunday.

-With files from Kevin Mitchell/Vernon Morning Star

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Slowing Grizz hold first

Stingers bite Roadrunners

Parker Phillips pot-ted 27 as the Stellys Stingers (1-9) won their first game of the season, 71-65 over the Reynolds Roadrunners (1-9) on Tuesday. Justin Atwal led Reynolds with 17 points.

Liam Horne scored 25 as the Oak Bay Bays (9-1) won 65-59 over the Claremont Spartans (8-2). Erik Spaven posted 27 as his Belmont Bulldogs beat the Mount Doug Rams 71-48.

Girls and boys AA basketball city finals go this weekend with the girls at Brentwood College in Mill Bay.

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Karate’s Newells are nationals bound Travis PatersonNews staff

Karate’s Newell brothers have come a long way and they’re only getting started.

Geoffrey, 17, and Jean, 14, took up karate six years ago and from that point they’ve been focused on reaching the world champi-onships.

“They were only three months in when we showed them a video of the worlds and they started mimicking the Team Kata movements from the black belt competi-tion,” said mother Brigette.

Right then mom and dad, David, knew if the boys could reproduce elements of the black belt kata from the world championships, which is the highest level of the choreographed series of movements, then the sky was the limit.

It’s been one step at a time, but things are going fast.

The brothers are currently training 20 hours a week for the Karate Canada National Champion-ships, March 15 to 17 in Toronto.

“Team Kata takes a lot of practise, you really have to feel where the (other person) is at,” Geof-frey said.

It’s the first nationals for Jean, and the second for Geoffrey, who, as a brown belt, had to defeat

many black belts to win bronze in 2011. Jean just earned his black belt in 2012 as a 14-year-old, the minimum age, and he and Geoffray already have multiple provincial, national and international medals to their name.

Last weekend they were in Vancouver where they picked up so many medals they need mom to keep track of them all.

Geoffrey’s kata is so clean he won gold not only in his 16- and 17-year-old divisions, but in the 18 to

20 and men’s open divisions as well. He also took gold in kumite (sparring) amongst 16-and 17- year-olds for his weight class of sub-55 kilo-grams, and was second in the next age among the 18 to 20 year olds.

Like big brother, Jean won gold in his age and weight class for kumite and kata, and won silver in the next age group up for kumite. For those doing the math, that

meant Jean lost to Geoffrey in the kumite 16-17 category. Jean also won two gold and two silver at the B.C. Winter Games in 2012.

Home schooled out of Oak Bay, the boys maxi-mize their flexible schedule by traveling twice a week to Duncan where they train and teach at the Fernando Correia School of Karate. Here in town they train with black belt Craig Devlin twice a week. At nationals Geoffrey will spar in the indi-vidual kumite against fellow 16 and 17 year olds, and the brothers will compete in the Team Kata 14- to 17-year-old division.

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Bros ready for nats

Black belt karate brothers Geoffrey, left, and Jean Newell, have qualified for the 2013 Karate national black belt championships in Toronto next month. The proteges are also the driving force for the Island’s Zone 6 provincial region and have already qualifed for the 2014 provincial championships.Travis Paterson/News staff


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