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Olympic-boundRowers Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen are ready to take on London and the world. Page A27
SPORTS
Residents speak outOpponents and proponents of the Oak Bay Lodge proposal get their final say. Page A5
NEWS
Bowl me over
Faith Magwood, right, tries to get her bowl to turn as she watches her throw with opponent Duino Barbon at the Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club. The club, established in 1957, offers a free visitors night every Friday starting at 6 p.m. The Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club is located at 2190 Harlow Dr.
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Complete Streets set to connect people and amenities
Christine van ReeuwykNews staff
All roads will lead to safety once Oak Bay implements its Complete Streets pol-icy. Council members endorsed the plan during the committee meeting on Monday night.
“In general our community prefers to live at a human scale, a human pace,” said Ger-ald Smeltzer, chair of the Oak Bay Active
Transportation advisory committee. Seeing the roads, sidewalks and pathways
as public resources for all, the policy will help the district accommodate and encour-age safe access and use by pedestrians cyclists and motorists. It will help develop a complete streets network connecting busi-nesses, schools, parks, libraries and other community resources.
“Given the pressures of the projects in our community … now is the time to con-sider and implement a complete streets policy,” Smeltzer said. “A policy like this is an effective tool for reducing infrastructure costs.”
With a policy, the municipality will be in a better position to access the estimated $53
million in government funding for projects such as the new Oak Bay High, the perform-ing arts theatre, the Neighbourhood Learn-ing Centre and the Bowker Creek restora-tion projects.
The district missed the boat during Beach Drive work at McNeill Bay, the mayor noted.
“All we did, because we didn’t have this policy in place, was fix the road,” Mayor Nils Jensen said. “We could’ve benefited from all of these multi-modal transportation opportunities.”
The policy passed committee approval in front of a full crowd during the meeting.
“This is an active community and these are some of the issues we’re all thinking and
talking about,” said Coun. Cairine Green. “We, as a community, are going to have
a new relationship with our transportation corridor. … We can start to build some con-crete projects in our community,” added Coun. Tara Ney.
Next up is developing a working plan and priorities.
“The heavy lifting starts from here,” Jensen said. “I can foresee real strides in this community in the next few years.”
What do you think?Give us your comments by email: [email protected].
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Amid growing demand for French language education, the region’s only public francophone elementary and high school is relocating its senior students to free up space.
École Victor-Brodeur will begin offering grades 8 to 12 at the for-mer Lampson Street elementary school in Esquimalt in September. Kindergarten to Grade 7 classes will remain at the main school site at 637 Head St.
The move means a quick depar-ture for current tenants of the Lamp-son property, CFB Esquimalt’s lan-guage training centre and the Mili-tary Family Resource Centre. The resource centre’s daycare will stay
for another three years.Since the doors to a bigger
and better Victor-Brodeur school opened in January 2007, enrol-ment has swelled by 66 per cent, to 612 students. It was built to accommodate 540.
For the 2011-12 school year, enrolment has stood at 168 high school and 444 elementary school students.
“We are planning for 650 (in September), so there is no more space,” said Bertrand Dupain, principal at Victor-Brodeur.
The boom is attributed to grow-ing awareness of the existence of the lone francophone school, more eligible families exercising their right to have their children educated in French, and a moder-ate increase in francophones to
the region. According to the Victo-ria Francophone Society, an esti-mated 7,000 francophones live in Greater Victoria.
The Victor-Brodeur Parents Association has only heard posi-tive feedback about the upcoming move.
“Parents are happy that we’re going to have more room, because we were running into a room problem,” asso-ciation president Marie-Pierre Lavoie said. If not for the relocation, she added, Victor-Brodeur would have faced a shortfall of two or three classrooms come September.
Conseil Scolaire Franco-phone, the francophone school board that governs public French-language schools in B.C., approached the Greater Victoria School District in April in hopes of leasing the seismically upgraded Lampson prop-erty as an interim solution to overcrowding.
“We’d like to be all in the same building, but there is a limit to this building,” said Sylvain Allison, board secretary-treasurer.
“And we’re very happy that we surpassed the capacity in a way because
(that means) we’re growing.”The goal is to eventually open
one or two more francophone public schools in Greater Victoria “as soon as possible,” Allison said. Doing so would solve overcrowd-ing and reduce travel times for students currently being bused in from as far away as Sidney and Sooke.
The francophone school board will lease the Lamp-son property for three years, which it hopes will be enough time to secure another site.
“I would like to have a school built, but if it’s not a new school, it’s another location,” Allison said, adding those plans largely hinge on Ministry of Education funding.
The impending change means the existing Lampson tenants must move out of the building sooner than planned.
“This was always going to be an intermediate solution anyway, so our intention was we were going to stay there for a little bit longer until we had permanent facilities for the people occupying Lampson,” said Jon Burbee, CFB
Esquimalt manager of real estate services.
The three-year reprieve for the daycare will allow for some “breathing space” to find the next solution, he said.
The goal is to place the day-care in a Department of National Defence-owned facility.
The base’s French and English language school for military per-sonnel will move to Work Point in Esquimalt.
M e a n w h i l e , seven Military Family Resource Centre staff mem-bers, who provide information and referral, social work and deploy-
ment services, will move to cen-tres at Signal Hill near Dockyard, and Colwood.
But the French second-language training program offered to mili-tary spouses at the Lampson cen-tre still needs a new home.
“We don’t anticipate losing any services or groups, work-shops and activities over on the Esquimalt side due to this move,” said resource centre spokesper-son Jon Chabun.
Moving time againfor francophone high schoolersÉcole Victor-Brodeur high school relocating to former Lampson Street elementary
Erin McCracken/News staff
Bertrand Dupain, principal of École Victor-Brodeur elementary and high school in Esquimalt, is preparing to move his high school students to the former Lampson Street school this fall.
The former Lampson Street
school will soon host École Victor-Brodeur’s
high school. The Lampson property has
most recently been home to a resource centre
for military families and a
language training centre for military personnel at CFB
Esquimalt.Erin McCracken/
News staff
“We’d like to be all in the same building, but there is a limit to this building. And we’re very happy that we surpassed the capacity in a way because (that means) we’re growing.”
– Sylvain Allison
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Throughout the sum-mer, graduates of the Ajna Yoga Centre will be hosting basic yoga classes in Willows Park every Thursday – for free.
“I think many peo-ple are curious (about yoga) and this is an opportunity to come out and just see what it is and maybe try some (moves),” organizer Pete Rose said.
The group aims to bring yoga back to its roots and history by having it outdoors and for free.
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Brittany Lee/News staff
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Every seat was filled and many resorted to standing or sitting on the floor for the final oppor-tunity at input on the proposed development of Oak Bay Lodge.
About 200 people attended the meeting Tues-day at the Monterey recreation centre for the last chance to speak on the project before Oak Bay council is set to make a decision Wednesday (June 27).
Baptist Housing was hired by Vancouver Island Health Authority to redevelop the Oak Bay Lodge into a 320-bed facility for dementia care. The new building would be higher than allowed under zon-ing bylaws and would include fewer parking spaces than required for the size of the development.
The original request was to address the growing need for residential care beds for Greater Victo-ria’s aging population and to replace existing beds in existing facilities, including 247 beds at Oak Bay Lodge and 73 beds at Mt. Tolmie Hospital. The Oak Bay site is already zoned for residential care.
“We believe it is the best design for the site,” said Howard Johnson, CEO of Baptist Housing. “It is in the community interest to replace Oak Bay Lodge as proposed with the changes made.”
Despite Mayor Nils Jensen’s assertion there was no applause meter, residents used their hands to show support for speakers and three PowerPoint presentations opposed to the proposal.
“We have a massive redevelopment here and it’s being treated as an inconsequential bylaw vari-ance,” said resident Paul Werner, one of three who made PowerPoint presentations opposed to the plan. Main concerns included the design and size; traffic and parking; and inconsistency with the community plan.
“This isn’t just one foot more on a house down the street,” Werner said. “This is a massive under-taking.”
While the balance between those leaned toward those opposed, those in favour gleaned support as well.
One resident of Wilmot Place noted that the community plan is due for a review.
“It was done 15 years ago and only updated seven years ago. An official community plan that far out of date is irrelevant today.”
More information about the Oak Bay Lodge redevelopment is available at the municipal hall, 2167 Oak Bay Ave.
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Notice is hereby provided that at the regular meeting scheduled for June 25, 2012, Oak Bay Council will consider the adoption of an amendment to its Procedure Bylaw to provide an opportunity for “Mayor’s Remarks” and then a public participation period at the beginning of Council meetings, along with incorporating regulations in respect to the electronic participation by members of Council unable to attend Council and Committee of the Whole meetings in person.
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Municipality planning pre-Canada Day party
Oak Bay will host Canada Day festivities June 29.
Parks and recreation summer camp staff will host games from noon to 2 p.m. on the front lawn of municipal hall, 2167 Oak Bay Ave. Cake is on the menu.
Lansdowne preschoolheading to the park
Lansdowne Preschool will temporarily move into Carnarvon Park come September.
The Oak Bay preschool will be displaced from its Anglican church hall come fall and will relocate to the Maple Room at Carnarvon.
With the introduction of all-day kindergarten, daytime programs are dwindling in the Maple Room and the before and after school programs there will start to share space with Lansdowne. The preschool will pay for a storage shed near the building to store outdoor toys.
The preschool pays $800 a month in its current space, and the district plans to seek the same amount.
The agreement would be in place until June 2013.
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Kyle SlavinNews staff
Oak Bay police’s school liaison officer says she’s glad her municipality takes a hard stance on graf-fiti.
“I can barely get out to a graffiti sight to take a picture of it before our (public) works guys get out and clean it,” said Const. Dorothy Junio. “We have no problem because they’re continually on it. … It’s pretty much not tolerated in our bedroom com-munity.”
It’s a different story in next-door Saanich where public works crews there no longer have the budget for graffiti clean-up.
“We still will deal with profanity, anything that’s obscene and so on, but basically the account for graffiti removal, those funds were cut,” said Mike Ippen, Saanich’s manager of public works.
For the fourth year in a row, Saanich council has asked each municipal department – save for public safety – to cut one per cent from its annual budget. This year the $30,000 that was annually allocated to
roads crews to clean up graffiti was scrapped.Any scrawling on municipally owned walls,
fences, street furniture and overpasses will not be removed.
The silver living, however, is it’s just the public works side that’s been impacted so far. The parks department will still clean graffiti from parks, solid waste crews still have a budget to clean bus shel-ters, and hydro poles and mailboxes are still to be cleaned by whoever owns them (ie. B.C. Hydro or Canada Post).
“Obviously, any service cut is a bad one. It reduces a level of service that the community has come to expect,” Ippen said.
Saanich police Const. Jenn Symonds, the force’s designated graffiti officer, says this decision could prove problematic, as a vandalized area will encour-age more graffiti.
“If you’re quick at removing it, it lets these people know that that’s not an area that will put up with the tagging. But if you let it sit, then it’s: ‘People here don’t care, we’ll make this our canvas,’” she said.
Graffiti artists’ marks wiped out in Oak Bay
Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen will take to the alleys this weekend.
The seventh annual Oak Bay May-or’s Back Alley Walk is Saturday (June 23). Register at 1:30 p.m. at St Mary’s Church, 1701 Elgin Rd.
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The route will include Theatre Alley, the fire hall, No Name Alley, Esplanade and a stop at Willows Beach. Call 250-385-8519 for details.
Mayor plans walk through alleyways
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Saanich opens tagging canvas
You might notice graffiti tags popping up and remaining in place in Saanich over the next fiscal year.
Under a mandate to cut back budgets by one per cent, the district’s public works department axed its roads division’s graffiti removal program, which is worth about $30,000.
This funding paid for staff to paint over or wipe clean tags from municipal benches, walls and overpasses. Now unless the graffiti is profane, it won’t be removed.
Saanich is a large, expensive municipality to run and such decisions are never easy, but allowing graffiti tags to go unchecked is one of the worst forms of inaction a local government can commit.
Squiggled tags and random attempts at art painted across telephone poles, fences, bridges and other public structures is the kind of vandalism that begets vandalism. The longer graffiti stays in an area, the more the graffiti bleeds out.
For many residents across the region, graffiti-tagged streets create perceptions that the block is seedy or dangerous, and the people don’t care about their neighbourhood. For local businesses, it drives away potential customers and gives areas bad reputations.
Colwood, a city with many budget woes of its own, decided to roll the dice and invested tax dollars in a bylaw officer dedicated to removing graffiti, tracking tags and gathering evidence, as well as organizing community cleanups. That city has sent a message that taggers will be tracked, fined or criminally charged.
Victoria has offered its citizens an anti-graffiti program that offers free cleanup kits, but largely depends on volunteers taking an interest in their community. Saanich is offering the same, and hopefully residents step up to the plate when tags linger.
But in the meantime, Saanich has placed itself in the position of a double-standard – homeowners are required to remove tags from their property, but the district isn’t.
It also runs the risk of eventually spending more tax dollars on cleanup, as taggers realize parts of the municipality are an open canvas.
With summer officially upon us and warmer weather hopefully on its way, the number of cars and, perhaps, impatient drivers on Victoria streets will soon rise.
While police were out enforcing a tougher watch for high-risk drivers throughout May, it’s clear that many drivers still haven’t got the message.
As a fairly new driver – yes, that’s an ‘N’ displayed at the back of my car – I’d like to think that not only I, but other drivers around me, obey the rules of the road and make an effort to drive safely, no matter what time of the year.
That means staying within the legal speed limit, being attentive while driving and not giving in to road rage.
I only recently started driving on a daily basis, and I’m continuously amazed by the things I see drivers around me do.
Just last week, I was driving to work and while stopped in traffic, I saw a young man drive past me. He didn’t catch my eye because of his charming looks, he caught my eye because he had ear buds in his ears while driving.
Is it not enough to have the radio playing during your morning commute?
Having earphones in can’t be safe, nor smart. Not only are you putting yourself at risk, you’re putting other drivers around you in
danger as well.Another act I’ve witnessed, on
many counts, is drivers texting and talking on the phone.
While I’ll admit to sending a text or two when stopped at a red light, I could never imagine texting while driving, let alone holding a phone to my ear and steering simultaneously.
Maybe some people are just better at multi-tasking than I am, but not only is using your phone while driving illegal, it’s also just plain stupid.
The thing about this situation that frightens me the most is when people talk and text while on the highway.
It’s annoying enough when people tailgate me while I am going the legal 80 km/h. But having a tailgater who’s talking on their phone behind me makes me feel anything but safe on the road.
One of the biggest problems I’ve noticed is drivers who switch lanes at the very last possible second. Rather than planning their trip and knowing which lane they need to be in to make a left turn ahead, for example, drivers choose to wait. Then before they reach the traffic light, they suddenly squeeze past two lanes of traffic just to make that turn.
If more drivers mapped out their route, or maybe knew where they’re going, fewer rash decisions would be made on the road.
Drivers who recklessly weave in and out of lanes, simply because they’re impatient or in a hurry, are another problem.
If it’s rush hour and everybody is stuck in traffic, driving in and out of lanes won’t get you any further than anyone else.
According to ICBC, almost 60 per cent of crashes are caused by speeding and distracted drivers.
Distracted driving is defined as using communicative or video equipment while operating a vehicle, as well as inattentive driving.
High-risk driving includes failing to yield right of way, tailgating, improper passing and speeding.
Speeding seems to be one habit drivers just can’t drop.
I don’t think I go a day without witnessing a driver zoom past me, whether on the highway or in a 50 km/hr zone.
Unless speeding up is necessary to safely pass a car, drivers shouldn’t let their impatience rule their decision-making.
Just as drivers shouldn’t let dumb decisions, such as texting while driving, determine how safe roads are for others.
Laws exist for a reason. And unless we want our next paycheque to go toward paying for a speeding ticket, or worse, a hospital bill, it’s important to re-evaluate our driving habits and make an effort to drive safely.
Brittany Lee is a reporter intern with the Victoria News.
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City’s dog rulesnecessary for safety
Re: On-leash animals unpredictable (Letters, June 15)
I favour restrictive controls over dogs in the city of Victoria.
Over the years I have been threatened and harassed frequently while running or cycling. I have even been bitten several times. Restrictive rules are necessary because too many dog owners are selfishly unconcerned with the comfort and safety of others.
Restrictive rules, combined with social pressure, have at least helped control the amount of dog droppings on sidewalks or pathways.
Let me say something in favour of cats in the city: I have never been chased or bitten by a cat while out running, cycling or walking. Nor have I ever stepped on their droppings on sidewalks or pathways (last week I stepped in dog droppings in someone’s garden, so it is not just cats that soil yards).
Children are very rarely, or never, seriously mauled by domestic cats. Cats are simply better suited for the city than dogs because they are smaller, cleaner and non-threatening to passers-by.
Ed JanickiVictoria
As Queen goes,so goes Royal Family
Re: Queen’s reign offers stability (Our View, June 8)
In the public’s emotional mind, 60-plus years on the throne will have inextricably identified the British monarchy with its (possibly) longest-serving Queen, having set the Royal bar to virtually unattainable heights for even the “Wills and Kates” of the succession order.
For the people – and they’ll always be the ones that count – the Queen has become the monarchy and the monarchy has become the Queen.
Ironically, the Queen’s uniquely personal success may well prove a harbinger of the Crown’s eventual constitutional demise. Once she’s gone, the falling “republican” dominos of the Commonwealth countries may well hasten Britain’s process of rethinking its constitutional foundations.
Indeed, that process has already started with a debate on an elected House of Lords.
What must not happen is for the monarchy simply, over time, to become the victim of popular indifference.
Edward BoppTsawwassen
School trustees right to stand on principle
Is it legal for the provincial government to fire duly-elected school board trustees?
The education minister will fire the Cowichan District trustees if they don’t file a balanced budget by the end of this month.
Five of the trustees ran for election on a platform
to restore some of the services that have been cut from their district in the last three years.
The community elected them based on that and they kept their word, voting 5-4 to submit a restorative budget to the government.
In order to file a balanced budget, the trustees would have to cut even more services from the schools in the district, thereby betraying the people of the community who elected them.
Greater Victoria School District trustees would be on the firing line alongside those in Cowichan, but for one vote. What services did our trustees have to cut to keep their jobs?
Contrary to what we hear from government about how they are spending more money on education and how there are fewer students every year, our school districts are forced to continue cutting programs and services to comply with the School Act and balance the budget.
If we want to fire any of our elected representatives, Education Minister George Abbott, for instance, we would have to engage in a recall process whereby the people get to vote. The Cowichan community that elected these trustees should have a say in this matter.
Heather BrownVictoria
Pope having butlerraises eyebrows
I have long suspected that organized religion is a human-directed business where, in some cases, the real capital is not in souls, but rather power and the bottom line.
I remember the parable where money-lenders were evicted from the temple by the only real prince of the church, then I read the present Pope has a butler – while others live in abject poverty.
The Vatican Bank? How do you spell hypocrisy?
Stephen LambVictoria
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Each week, garbage trucks rumble through Greater Victoria neighbour-hoods, spiriting away all the rubbish that can’t be – or wasn’t – recycled. For many people, household trash is a problem that is out of sight, and often out of mind.
But this Sunday (June 24), Hart-land Landfill is opening its doors and offering tours.
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The event doesn’t feature shock-ingly large fields of household trash, but offers education on the upcom-ing kitchen scraps program, which will phase out organic waste from the landfill by 2015.
People can also learn that the landfill generates enough electricity via methane to power 1,600 homes
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“We are hoping to let people know how a landfill works, to raise aware-ness on how waste is managed in the Capital Region,” Booth said. “This is the only landfill we have.”
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In response to a September 2011 letter from a resident concerned over the amount of truck traf-fic in the 1700 block of Hampshire Rd., municipal staff did some traffic counts of trucks with six wheels or more in the area – the district only has equipment to count wheels not weight – and found a range of 38 to 102 trucks per day.
The resident asked that the municipality con-sider asking truck traffic to use Foul Bay Road and Monterey Avenue.
“You can’t really do this in isolation on a given street,” said Dave Marshall, director of engineering services. A truck route would need to be looked at on district-wide basis.
“I’m not sure we’d see that much difference (with a truck route),” said Mayor Nils Jensen.
With a low percentage of truck traffic, staff didn’t recommend embarking on a truck route develop-ment for Oak Bay.
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Every few minutes, the hum of Linda’s cellphone vibrating against the table glass interrupts her words. From morning until night and all hours in between, Linda answers calls from some of Victoria’s most vulnerable and marginalized people.
Linda – whose last name is withheld to protect her privacy – had planned to retire from banking and spend more time with her seven grandchildren when she first heard about transitional housing providers, the Victoria Human Exchange Society. Six years since the 65-year-old thought she was signing up for a volunteer job “stuffing envelopes,” she sits at the kitchen table of Edith Gulland House in Saanich, the women’s home where she lives and volunteers as a facilitator.
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Linda is proud to volunteer for the society that has largely flown under the radar since its inception in 1992, sparked by the death of a homeless man beneath the Johnson Street Bridge. Now on the society’s 20th anniversary, Linda’s reaching out.
“Closing a house is just heart breaking … but if we don’t get some help soon, we are going to have to close a house and it will be this one. The cost of everything’s going up and donation’s are going down.”
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The Annual Report is available for inspection at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall at the address noted above, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, and on the municipal website at www.oakbay.ca.
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Greater Victoria School District trustees haven’t taken the same stand as their counterparts in Cow-ichan, but they have made new moves toward restoring education funding by identifying exactly where their balanced budget falls short – and by how much.
Unlike in Cowichan, where trustees face the threat of termination since having submitted a deficit bud-get to the Ministry of Education, Greater Victoria trustees passed a balanced budget submitted to the ministry in April.
But the SD 61’s $171-million operating budget is likely not the only budget they’ll submit this year.
On June 11 members of the board’s operations, policy and planning committee unanimously passed a second budget that identifies the need for an addi-tional $48,463,915 to meet the educational needs of students.
The needs budget provides a detailed break-down of the actual costs associated with district’s needs – from staffing to supplies – as identified by school planning councils and community members throughout the school year.
“It’s what the community thinks is necessary,” said board of education chairperson Peg Orcherton. “This is from the community … and we’re hopeful to start using it as a basis in our (2012-13) budget delib-
erations, as the realities of what we can propose.”The budget advisory committee presented the
document to the board of education for approval at its June 18 meeting before it was sent to Education Minister George Abbott.
In an accompanying draft letter to Abbott, Orcher-ton outlines four key factors that contributed to the need: insufficient funding for special needs students; consumer prices and cost of living increases, cou-pled with expanded mandates of the education sys-tem; partially-funded provincial labour settlements; and loss of funding due to enrolment declines.
In the past, the board has submitted a “restor-ative budget” document, based on 2001 operational costs and funding. The restorative budget focused strictly on the cuts made in the previous decade and didn’t take into account declining enrolment and school closures.
The question of whether or not to submit the needs based budget in lieu of a balanced budget for 2012-13, is one trustees will encounter again in Sep-tember when the planning process begins.
“That would be quite a lengthy discussion and debate, I would expect, but it does show from the community’s perspective, what the needs are,” Orcherton said, adding that the 2012-13 budget will be especially difficult for a number of factors.
Among those considerations are the board’s spending of a one-time $349,541 surplus this spring and the ministry’s decision to freeze funding for three years without taking into account increases in operational costs.
Greater Victoria School district drafts needs-based budgetBudget exercise to demonstrate spending gaps in education
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Erin McCrackenNews staff
Six words can say a lot.Legend has it that Ernest Hem-
ingway thought so, rising to the challenge of penning a complete work in six words: “For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”
Taking a page from the Ameri-can author and journalist, Victo-ria residents Darryl LeCraw and Alex Miller recently began film-ing skits featuring just six words of dialogue.
A friend of LeCraw’s mentioned the Hemingway legend, given the elaborate nature of a series of online shows that LeCraw and Miller started producing in 2009.
Though they continue to pro-duce The Skit For Brains Show, their small, tight-knit group of cast and crew is now focusing much of its time filming SixWord-Skits.
Using just six words, they tell stories of zombies, revenge and
even a sea monster.“We’re big fans of the non-
sequitur, like Monty Python, where at the end of it something happens where you didn’t see it coming,” says LeCraw, 32, a ware-house support worker by day.
“Absurdity,” adds Miller, 27, a carpenter.
The rules seem simple: actors can only say a maximum of six words in a skit, repeated words don’t count. Words can include slang and popular lingo. “Weird mouth noises” don’t count, Miller says. “We reserve the right to modify and amend the rules whenever we think it’s funny.
“By limiting us, it challenges us to come up with more action, more facial (expressions) and gag jokes,” he explains.
“It’s sometimes easy to come up with the idea, but getting it to the point where it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s film this,’ that’s a good chal-lenge,” adds LeCraw.
They have filmed in Victoria, Oak Bay, Esquimalt and beyond, since an idea for a skit can strike at any time.
“Darryl once filmed a skit in the middle of the ice fields of Alberta while working on a docu-
mentary,” says Miller.Despite the challenge of com-
ing up with several skits a week, the team revels in pushing the creative envelope.
“If we could pay the bills with SixWordSkits, we would make our day job writing (and) filming pilots for our own original shows (and) films,” Miller says.
For now, the group is focused on building an audience, and having fun.
“We know the film industry is a giant maze of broken dreams, popularity contests and failed careers, so as long as we can do what we want to do, we are happy,” Miller says.
A new skit is posted at www.sfb.tv each day, Monday through Friday.
THE ARTS Movie Monday will feature a Portrait of Myfanwy Pavelic by filmmaker and artist Agustin Luviano Cordero. The film shows in the Eric Martin Pavilion of the Royal Jubilee Hospital on June 25 at 6:30 and 8:15 p.m.
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The internationally acclaimed Manila Chamber Singers are coming to Victoria.
The group, composed of students and non-professional singers from different vocations with a passion for choral music, will perform at the First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Bal-moral Road, on Saturday, June 23, at 7 p.m.
Founded in 1999, the Manila Cham-ber Singers are conducted by William Cordero and they will be competing at the International Kathuamixw Choral Festival in Powell River from July 3to 7.
The festival is the largest choral festival in Canada and more than 1,200 singers from around the world will be sharing their music, culture and friendship at this event.
Their repertoire at this concert will include Philippine folk and contem-porary music, international songs, spiritual and popular songs.
Manila Chamber Singers have rep-resented the Philippines in various international choir festivals and at competitions in Europe and Asia where they won many awards, most recently, the Grand Prix at the 2011 Antalya International Choral Festival held in Turkey.
The performance is sponsored by the Bayanihan Cultural and Housing Society.
Tickets are $20 and are available at the door before the concert.
For more information, please go to bayanihan.ca or email [email protected].
Voices of Manila ring through region
Fernwood artists open their stu-dios to share, show and sell their original works of art this weekend.
“A group of artists all around Fern-wood and a little bit out of Fernwood are opening our studios for two days,” said artist Shylene Schlackl, one of the promoters of the walk.
The fifth annual tour coincides with Fern Fest and offers free insight into
local artist workshops, from mixed media installations to painting.
“The people in the heart of Fern-wood get hundreds of people a day,” she said.
Fernwood Art Stroll is June 23 and 24 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Former Clippers coach on board for Victoria franchise Kyle WellsNews staff
The Victoria Grizzlies made it official on Wednesday that former Nanaimo Clippers head coach and GM Bill Bestwick will be taking over the same roles for the Col-wood-based BCHL franchise.
Vancouver Island Sports and Entertain-ment Ltd. has purchased the majority own-ership of the team from Len Barrie, who also coached the team. Former GM Victor Ger-vais stepped down after last year’s season, which the Grizzlies finished with a 21-38-1 record.
“One of the worst-kept secrets in the last 24 hours is who’s going to come up and help us to do this,” said Ron Walchuk, president of VISE, at a press conference. “Bill’s a great hockey strategist, he’s got passion in devel-oping young players, he’s proven in the busi-ness side of running an organization, so I’m really excited to bring him to the Victoria Grizzlies.”
Bestwick was with the Clippers from 2001 to 2010, dur-ing which time the team won the BCHL championship in 2004 and 2007, and played in the Royal Bank Cup national in 2004.
As a current city councillor in Nanaimo, Bestwick said that he will be splitting his time between the two cities,
but may distance himself from some committees and will consider his role with the Grizzlies as his primary focus. He said he will be living in Victoria for the majority of the week, while doing a lot of commuting.
Assistant staff have yet to be confirmed, but will likely play an important role for the busy Bestwick.
Attendance for Grizzlies games has been dropping since the arrival of the WHL Royals, but both Bestwick and the owners feel they can get the fans back in the seats by building an exciting, talented and winning team.
“My focus is to really work on the commu-nity,” Walchuk said. “Be dominate in this com-munity, bring back our fans and bring back sponsors and have a successful franchise.”
“The city is big enough to coexist with two franchises so long as we provide quality enter-tainment, and so long as we provide our best effort,” Bestwick said.
“Are we going to compete with them? I don’t really think so. We need to concern ourselves with the product and our presentation and be better at it. And be sure that people feel com-pelled to support us when they can.”Coming into the role in mid-June puts him well
behind other franchises in terms of building a team in the off season, Bestwick said.
“We’d probably need to score about 10 goals right now with 30 seconds to go in the game. But that’s just part of the challenge.”
The ownership change needs to be approved by the BCHL board of governors.
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Prior to the naming of Canada’s Olympic cycling team yesterday Ryder Hesjedal announced he’d be donating money to the team, even if he wasn’t part of it.
The Giro d’Italia champion said this week he’ll be donating half of the $10,300 proceeds from the sale of his Italian maglia rosa (pink leaders jersey) to the CAN Fund to support the cyclists who will be going to the London Olympics. The other half will support Ryder’s own initiative to help cycling grow.
Ottawa cycling fan Derek King bought the maglia rosa, which is the first Hesjedal won at the Giro. King cheered Hesjedal on in person at the 2010 Tour de France, and plans to attend this year too.
Canada’s Olympic road and time trial cyclists were expected to be named yesterday, with Hesjedal a clear front runner. Visit vicnews.com for updates.
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Ryder Hesjedal’s champagne moment with his first maglia rosa, won on Stage 7 of the 2012 Giro d’Italia.
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Rider Mitch Chubey wows the 2011 crowd during the inaugural JumpShip competition. JumpShip has become a premier spectator event of the Victoria International Cycling Festival, and hosts the world’s best freeride mountain bikers. See sports calendar for event times.Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Travis PatersonNews staff
From beers to bikes the Inner Har-bour is a hopping party as the Victoria International Cycling Festival wraps up.
At the middle of it all is the 210-foot JumpShip barge on the water in front of the Empress Hotel. Free ride com-petitors pull off extreme tricks on the floating loop of big-air jumps.
“Most everything about the festival will be bigger and better, including JumpShip,” said the course designer and pro cyclist Jordie Lunn.
This year’s JumpShip, which starts at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, has been expanded to include the cause-way and Wharf Street.
Lunn, a former Victoria resident, was in the earth-moving machine him-self this week to build the dirt-packed features on the JumpShip barge, which was built a little ways up the Gorge Waterway. The barge was floated into place on Wednesday night.
“Riders will gain enough speed along Wharf Street to climb a four-foot ramp, then drop 18 feet onto the causeway,” spokesperson Graham Powell said. “The causeway route will lend enough speed for riders to scale the height of
two shipping containers and connect with the barge.”
JumpShip is one of several draws that will make the Inner Harbour a high-traffic area beginning this after-noon, with two beer gardens and the RollerJam Dual Trial on Belleville Street, which is also where the 270-ki-lometre GranFondo ends on Saturday, and Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria
ends on Sunday. The Hotel Grand
Pacific Harbour Sprints (head-to-head road bike sprints), go tonight. The 750-metre Design District Crite-
rium starts at Herald and Store streets on Saturday.
Three-time Ironman world cham-pion Peter Reid will ride among the pack of celebrity athletes expected to pace Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria on Sunday. Olympians Andreas Hes-tler and Simon Whitfield, and X-Terra (extreme triathlon) world champion Melanie McQuaid are also joining the mass participation 140-km ride.
But anyone can take the lead, should they wish to do so, said organizer Sea-mus McGrath.
“It’s designed to be an open event for cyclists of all calibres. If someone wants to take off on a breakaway, so be it.”
“It’s designed to be an open event for cyclists of all calibres.”
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OAK BAY NEWS - Friday, June 22, 2012 www.oakbaynews.com • A19
Cycling
Fri. & Sat. June 22-23: JumpShip, 1 p.m., Inner Harbour.
Fri. June 22: Harbour Sprints, 7 p.m., Hotel Grand Pacific.
Sat. June 23: Roller Jam Dual Trial, 2 p.m., Inner Harbour.
Sat. June 23: Design District Criterium, 8 p.m., Herald and Store streets.
Baseball
Sat. June 23: BCPBL, Okanagan Athletics at Victoria Mariners, 3:30 and 6 p.m., Lambrick Park.
Sun. June 24: BCPBL, Okanagan Athletics at Victoria Mariners, 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Lambrick Park.
Sun. June 24: BCPBL, Nanaimo Pirates at Victoria Mariners, 12 and 2:30 p.m., Layritz Park.
Soccer
Fri. June 22: W-League, Pali Blues at Peninsula Co-op, 7 p.m. Royal Athletic Park.
Lacrosse
Fri. June 22: WLA, New Westminster Salmonbellies at Victoria Shamrocks, 7:45 p.m. Bear Mountain Arena.
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CorrectionThe photo caption
“One at a time” from the June 13 News incorrectly identi-fied Victoria Mariners baseball player Chris Fougner.
The News regrets the error.
Victoria’s Bill Okell and his crew hauled the team’s modified 1964 MGB sports car to a pair of Nasport Lite races in Monterey, Calif., over the weekend of June 8 to 10.
Travel problems kept Okell and his team from the qualifiers, forcing him to start the race at the back of pack. But Okell won anyways. He will run his MGB for the final six GTU races at Mission Raceway, June 23 to 24.
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QUADRIPLEGIC WOMAN with speech disability needs female relief and on call live-in caregiver for total personal care. Must be patient, reliable, a good speller and able to as-sist in transfers. $195. 24hr/day. (250)475-0830.
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250-382-4331 to register.
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PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO
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PETS
HAULING
WE HAUL CHEAP LTD. Moving & Hauling. (250)881-1910. www.wehaulcheap.com
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
APPLIANCES
WANTED: CLEAN fridge’s, upright freezers, 24” stoves, portable dishwashers, less than 15 yrs old. McFarland In-dustries, (250)885-4531.
ART OBJECTS
ROY VICKERS PRINTS. Complete set, 13 original Roy Vickers limited edition prints with certifi cates. All profes-sionally framed. All the same print number, which can’t hap-pen again. Series of 100 prints and all of this set are #77. Asking $33,000 for complete one of a kind 13 print set. Call 250-245-2263 (Nanaimo).
BUILDING SUPPLIES
METAL ROOFING & siding sales. Seconds avail. Custom roof Flashings. 250-544-3106.
FREE ITEMS
FREE: ATTENTION log build-ers, 3 sets of log dogs, 1, 2 and 3 feet. 2 wooden storage shelves. (250)658-8440.
FREE CEMENT patio furniture 48” round table and 3 bench’s. (250)652-8556.
FREE: COUCH, (beige with fl ower pattern) in excellent condition, comfortable. You pick up. Call (250)381-7428.
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
FREE ITEMS
FREE: LITTLE Tykes high chair, in good condition. Call (250)383-6407.
MOVING BOXES and packing paper, you pick up. Call (250)361-4806.
FRIENDLY FRANK
15 SPEED children’s bike, in excellent condition, $50 obo. Dog bed, $15. (250)381-7428.
1930’s STEAMER trunk $40. Large dog cage with pillow $35. (778)426-4449.
#27 “STRAW Man” puppet head, European made, $50, Primus stove, $40. Call (778)265-1615.
2 SETS of fi tted sheets and 2 sets of fl at sheets, $5 each. Call (250)380-9596.
2 WEEKENDER ladies classic tops, new, medium, gold & taupe, $20. 250-383-4578.
CHANDELIER- ROYAL col-lection, new Murano glass, 3 lights, $75. (250)721-9271.
CHEST FREEZER, Woods brand, white. 7 cu.ft., good cond. $70. (250)656-1444.
COMPLETE SET 1939 Cam-bridge History of English Lit-erature, $30. (250)656-2477
LEFT HAND Ping driver and Fairway wood, $50. Let hand Taylor made driver, $30. Call (250)656-1497
MASTER CHEF tool set in carrying case, 16 piece, brand new. $25. 250-656-1640.
SMALL CAT/dog carrier, 10”x10”x16”, netting on 3 sides, zipper top & side open-ing, $20. Call (250)477-1819.
TECHNICS JUKE Box, 110cds player changer, $50. Sony receiver, $45. 250-370-2905.
WORD PROCESSOR, Broth-er, portable, daisy wheel. $10. obo. (250)721-0308.
FUEL/FIREWOOD
ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fi r, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.
SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest fi re-wood producer offers fi rewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords. Help restore your forest, Burndrywood.com 1-877-902-WOOD.
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE
BAVARIAN DINNER SET for 8 + serving dishes. Variety
of glasses, different styles. 1000’s collectible German books for your library. Call
(250)592-7188.
HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?
HOUSEHOLD GOODS SALEEverything Must Go!
Furniture, bedding, dishes, books, lamps, etc.
German language VHS tapes.Call (250)384-1573.
NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS- $2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enter-prise Cres, Victoria. Gold-stream Press Division.
OUR TAXES Are Due! We’re Having a Sale! Come In Now, Great Deals on Furniture, Mat-tresses, Tools & More! You’ll Love the Selection, Prices & Service! BUY & SAVE, 9818 4th St.,Sidney.buyandsave.ca
MISCELLANEOUS WANTED
ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-ellery. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
CLOSE OUT sale, Sidney Mu-sicworks. 40%-80% off every-thing! Last day; June 30th, 4pm. 2353 Bevan Ave, Sid-ney. (250)656-1900.
SPORTING GOODS
WANTED: DUMBBELL Weights (inexpensive) for working out. 250-514-6688.
CLASSIFIED ADS WORK!Call 250.388.3535
REAL ESTATE
BUSINESSES FOR SALE
LIVE THE Dream. Harbours End Marine, 27 year history on beautiful Salt Spring Island, BC “the best place on earth!” Owner retiring, well-estab-lished business only $129,000 email: [email protected]
FOR SALE BY OWNER
4210 QUADRA3250 sq.ft. 5-bdrm, 3 bath. Pri-vate, well-kept yard. Lot size 11,000 sq.ft. Must be seen! $619,000. (250)479-1194.
CAYCUSEWell-Maintained
Recreational Property/Home1500 sq.ft, 3 bdrm 2 bath,
5 acres, garage. A stone throw from pristine Cowichan Lake. $399,900. Furnished. Ready to move in! Call 250-478-2648 or
250-745-3387.
HOUSES FOR SALE
COWICHAN BAY-Oceanfront, $425,000. The Cowichan Bay Stilt Homes are rarely offered for sale and this one is abso-lutely charming. 3 bdrm, up-dated interior, 5 appls, large deck & priv dock. Perfect for vacation style at home living or just a weekend getaway. Ben at 250-732-1710 to view.
PANORAMIC MOUNTAIN & Ocean Views. 11yr old, 2,480 sq.ft. 3bdrm, 2.5baths, on 1.5 secluded acres in gated com-munity 20 mins. N of Qualicum Beach. Double garage, paved driveway, RV parking, heat pump, landscaped yard with pond. $489,000. (250)752-3023 or (250)720-207 Email: [email protected]
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RENTALS
APARTMENT/CONDO
FAIRFIELD/VANCOUVER, 1bdrm, hardwood fl oors. Heat, hot water, storage, parking incl $795 ns or pets. 250-383-1491
Fraser Tolmie Apts- 1701 Cedar Hill X Rd1-877-659-40691701 Cedar Hill X Rd1-877-659-40691 and 2 bdrms1-877-659-4069www.frasertolmime.ca1 & 2 Bedrooms1701 Cedar Hill X Roadwww.frasertolmime.ca for pics
MALAHAT 1 & 2 Bdrms- Panoramic views. Serene & secure. All amenities on-site, fi rewood. $700-$1200 inclu-sive. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min commute to downtown Victoria. Must have references. 250-478-9231.
ROCKLAND AREA Apt, lrg 1 bdrm, incls heat & H/W, $780 (Immed) 250-370-2226 to view
COTTAGES
HIGHLANDS- 1 bdrm cot-tage, W/D. N/P. Available now. $670. Call (250)474-0142.
MODULAR HOMES
JUNE SPECIALBrand New 16’ Wide Modular
Homes. From $69,000.00 [email protected]
HOMES FOR RENT
EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE character cottage, oozing with charm. Completely updated. Open plan kitchen/ living room with wood stove. Large bed-room, shower bathroom, den or offi ce. W/D. Ideal for home/offi ce living. Standing among the trees on a private estate, affording seclusion without isolation. $1400./mo. Saanich Peninsula. Phone John (250)532-8767.
PROSPECT LAKE, spacious 1 bdrm in exec home, hrdwd fl rs, granite counters, lndry room, priv ent, access to lake, patio w/ beautiful view, $1250 mo. Call (250)383-9966.
SHARED ACCOMMODATION
GOLDSTREAM AREA- 1400sq ft, newly furnished, w/d, d/w, a/c, big deck & yard, hi-def TV, parking. $650 inclu-sive. Ray, 778-433-9556.
SUITES, LOWER
BRENTWOOD Bachelor quiet, priv entr, central area. NS/NP. $600 incl. 250-652-6680 eve’s.
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SUITES, LOWER
COLWOOD- COZY 1 bdrm bsmt suite, $700 inclds utils & wifi . Close to Royal Roads Univ, shopping, Galloping Goose trail. Pet friendly, N/S. Avail now. Refs. 250-294-5516
ESQUIMALT, LARGE, bright, 1000 sq ft, reno’d 2 bdrm, in suite laundry, prkg, gas F/P, N/S, small pet neg, $1085 + shared utils. (250)514-9892.
MAPLEWOOD AREA- New small 1 bdrm, partly furnished. Inclds utils, laundry, basic cable. Very quiet. $795./mo. NS/NP. Call (250)383-3425.
SIDNEY: BRIGHT, 2 bdrm. Yard, storage. Updated unit, parking, W/D, NS/NP. Ref’s, 1 yr lease, avail July 15. $900 mo + utils. 778-426-4556.
SUITES, UPPER
SIDNEY: 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 appl’s, util’s incld’d, N/S, $1600. July 1. (778)426-4262
TRANSPORTATION
ANTIQUE/CLASSICS
1956 CONSUL MKI Estate Wagon, ONE OF APPROX 15 IN THE WORLD. Body, paint and motor all done. Lots of new parts. The car needs as-sembly. Will Trade for British and Cash. MUST SELL. No Time. Have all receipts. Call 250-490-4150 (Penticton, BC).
1960 ENGLISH Morris Minnor Conv. Must sell, new top, tires,rear seal, top end, carpets, etc. (Penticton, BC). Was $10,000, now asking $8000 obo. Call 250-490-4150.
TRANSPORTATION
AUTO FINANCING
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AUTO SERVICES
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CARS
2003 BUICK RENDEZVOUS
149,000 km, gray colour
excellent condition.$7,000.00
(250)514-4535
2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded. White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 fi rm. 250-755-5191.
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TRANSPORTATION
CARS
$50-$1000 CASH
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SPORTS & IMPORTS
1999 MERCEDES BENZ C230, 4 doors, white, very
good condition, recent over-haul & service. Senior driven. $5600 obo. (250)658-5055.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLESFOR SALE
1992, 26 ft TRAVELAIRE, Class C Motorhome. Bright, clean, sleeps 4. Twin beds in back and fold down double bed. Excellent and clean condition. Full shower with skylight, gas generator, air conditioning, second owner, new internal batteries (worth $600), new water pump, only 91,300 km. Reliable, clean and functional. REDUCED to $15,750. (250) 748-3539
REAL ESTATE SERVICES
GARAGE SALES
FERNWOOD. SUNDAY June 24. 9am-2pm. 1236 Princess Ave, off Cook. Good variety.
LANGFORD, 2769 Strathmore Rd., Sat & Sun, June 23 & 24, 8:30am-4pm. Moving Sale. Something for everyone.
MT. DOUG area, 4382 Elnido Cres., Sat & Sun, June 23 & 24, 9am-1pm. Moving Sale.
QUADRA/TOLMIE (No early birds) Sun, 9 am. #4-3281 Lin-wood Ave. Sofas, bed & more
SIDNEY, 9560 Fifth St., Sat & Sun, June 23 & 24, 9am-3pm. Multi Family/Unit Sale.
GARAGE SALES
Garage SalesGarage Sales
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TRANSPORTATION
SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES
This beautiful 2004 Volks-wagen Touareg has been well maintained. With only 135,000 KM on an economi-cal and spirited V6 engine, all wheel drive and tow hitch with electric brakes. Unique 6 spd Tiptronic auto trans-mission which will do the shifting for you or let you shift yourself for a sportier driving exp. Boasting a well equipped interior, rear mounted CD changer, this SUV cannot be missed!
$15,900(250)658-1123
BOATS
$$$ BOATS Wanted. Any size. Cash buyer. Also trailers and outboards. 250-544-2628.
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING
ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi
Certifi ed General Accountant
Bookkeeping, Audit,Payroll, HST. Set up &
Training. E-FileTAX
250-477-4601PENNIE’$ BOOKKEEPING Services for small business. Simply/Quickbooks. No time to get that paperwork done? We do data-entry, GST, payroll, year-end prep, and training. 250-661-1237.
CARPENTRY
GEOF’S RENO’S & Repairs. Decks, stairs, railings, gates & small additions. 250-818-7977.
INSTCARPET ALLATION
MALTA FLOORING Installa-tion. Carpets, laminates, hard-wood, lino. BBB 250-388-0278
CLEANING SERVICES
MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estate organizing, events, par-ties, offi ce cleaning. BBB member. (250)388-0278.
SPOTLESS HOME Cleaning. Affordable, Experienced, Re-liable, Effi cient. (250)508-1018
COMPUTER SERVICES
A HOME COMPUTER Coach. Senior friendly. Computer les-sons, maintenance and prob-lem solving. Des, 250-656-9363, 250-727-5519.
COMPUDOC MOBILE Com-puter Services. Repairs, tune-ups, tutoring, web sites and more. Call 250-886-8053.
CONCRETE & PLACING
RBC CONCRETE Finishing. All types of concrete work. No job too small. Seniors dis-count. Call 250-386-7007.
CONTRACTORS
250-216-9476 FROM the Ground Up, custom land-scapes, home reno’s, garden clean-ups, accepting clients.
BATHROOM REMODELING.“Gemini Baths” Plumb, Elec. Tile, Cabinets. 250-896-9302.
CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood fl oor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
DRYWALL
AARON’S RENO’S Drywall, taping, texture. Insured/bond-ed. Free est. 250-880-0525.
BEAT MY Price! Best work-manship. 38 years experience. Call Mike, 250-475-0542.
DRYWALL PROFESSIONAL:Small additions, boarding, tap-ing, repairs, texture spraying, consulting. Soundproof instal-lation;bath/moisture resistance products. Call 250.384.5055. Petrucci’s Drywall.
ELECTRICAL
250-361-6193. QUALITY Electric. Expert: new homes &renos. No job too sm#22779.
AT&T ELECTRIC. Renova-tions. Residential & Commer-cial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550.
EXPERIENCED ELECTRI-CIAN. Reasonable rates. 250-744-6884. Licence #22202.
GNC ELECTRIC Res/Comm. Reasonable rates for quality work. #43619. 250-883-7632.
KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.
VAEXCA TING & DRAINAGE
BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini ex-cavator & bob cat services. Perimeter drains, driveway prep, Hardscapes, Lot clear-ing. Call 250-478-8858.
FENCING
ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.
DECKS/FENCES, licensed & insured. Call Fred (250)514-5280. thelangfordman.com
QUALITY CEDAR fencing, decks and installation, pres-sure washing. For better pric-es & quotes call Westcoast Fencing. 250-588-5920.
FURNITURE REFINISHING
FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & deliv-ery. References available. 250-475-1462.
U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-216-8997.
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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
GARDENING
10% OFF. Aerate, Rototill, Mowing, Hedge / Shrub trim-ming, clean-up. 250-479-6495
J&L GARDENING Specialty yard clean-up and mainte-nance. Master gardeners. John or Louise (250)891-8677
250-208-8535 WOODCHUCK: Neglected garden? Spring clean-ups, hedges, power rak-ing, aerating, weed/moss stump, blackberry & ivy re-moval. 24yrs exp. WCB.
ARE YOU in need of a profes-sional, qualifi ed, residential or commercial gardener?www. glenwoodgardenworks.com
AURICLE LAWNS- Superior lawn care-gardens, hedges & fert-weed mgmt. 882-3129
DPM SERVICES, lawn & gar-den, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141
LANDSCAPE & TREE care hedges/pruning/shaping. Lawn & garden. Maint. 18 yrs exp. WCB. Andrew, (250)893-3465.
NO JOB too BIG or SMALL. SENIOR’S SPECIAL! Prompt, reliable service. Phone Mike (ANYTIME) at 250-216-7502.
QUALITY LAWN Care. Low rates. Support two Oak Bay students paying for UVic. 250 361-0014
WEEDING, MOWING, Pruning, Planting, Composts, Organic Spraying, Fertilizing. Call Howard at (250)727-9429.
YARD ART. Yard Mainte-nance, Tree & Hedge Pruning, Lawn Care. Call 250-888-3224
GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS
250-889-5794. DIAMOND DAVE Gutter Cleaning. Thor-ough Job at a Fair Price! Re-pairs, gutter guard, power/win-dow washing, roof de-moss. Free no obligation estimates.
PERIMETER EXTERIORS. Gutter Cleaning, Repairs, De-mossing, Upgrades. WCB, Free estimates. 250-881-2440.
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
HANDYPERSONS
AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.BIG BEAR Handyman & Painting Services. No job too small. Free Estimates. Senior discounts. Barry 250-896-6071YOUNG SENIOR Handyman. Household repairs. Will assist do-it-yourselfers. Call Fred, 250-888-5345.
HAULING AND SALVAGE
#1 JUNK Removal & Hauling. Small Renos. Moving/Packing. Free estimates. Cheapest in town. Same day emergency removal. Call 250-818-4335.$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.
HAULING & RECYCLING. 250-889-5794.
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
HAULING AND SALVAGE
✭BUBBA’S HAULING✭ Hon-est, on time. Demolition, con-struction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, top-soil, mulch), garden waste re-moval, mini excavator, bob cat service. 250-478-8858.
PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774
SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
MALTA ASBESTOS, Mold re-moval. Attics, drywall & more. (250)388-0278. BBB member.
INSULATION
MALTA WOOL-BLOWN insu-lation/ Spray foam application. (250)388-0278. BBB member.
MASONRY & BRICKWORK
CBS MASONRY BBB A+ Ac-credited Business. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flagstone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Patios, Side-walk Repair. Replace, Rebuild, Renew! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. Call (250)294-9942 or 250-589-9942.www.cbsmasonry.com
CBS MASONRY BBB A+. Chimney, Fireplaces, Rock, Flagstone, Concrete, Pavers, Repair, Rebuild, Renew. “Quality is our Guarantee.” Free Competitive Est’s. Call (250) 294-9942/589-9942.www.cbsmasonry.com
ROMAX MASONRY. Exp’d & Professional. Chimneys, Brick Veneer, Rockwork, Cultured Stone, Interlocking Paving. Fully insured. Estimates. Call250-588-9471 - 250-882-5181
CLASSIFIED ADS WORK!Call 250.388.3535
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
& MOVING STORAGE
2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.
DIAMOND MOVING. 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $85/hr. Call 250-220-0734.
MALTA MOVING. Serving Vancouver Island, surrounding islands and the Mainland. BBB Member. (250)388-0278.
PAINTING
217-9580 ENIGMA PAINTING Renos, commercial, residential Professional Friendly Service.
A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wallcoverings. Over 25 yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.
BLAINE’S PAINTING- Quality workmanship. $20 hr, 20 yrs exp. Blaine, 250-580-2602.
B L Coastal Coatings. Quality, reliable, great rates. All your painting needs. (250)818-7443
SAFEWAY PAINTING
High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior
Residential/Commercial Jeff, 250-472-6660 Cell 250-889-7715
Member BBB
Peacock Painting
250-652-2255250-882-2254
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Budget Compliance15% SENIORS DISCOUNT
PLUMBING
EXPERIENCED JOURNEY-MAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured. Reliable, friendly. Great references. Call Mike at KNA (250)880-0104.
FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonable rates. Call 250-514-2376.
FREE ESTIMATES. Rea-sonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
PLUMBING
KERRY’S GAS & PLUMBING SERVICES- Repair, mainte-nance & install. 250-360-7663.
PLASTERING
PATCHES,Drywall, skimming,old world texturing, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-642-5178.
PRESSURE WASHING
DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.250-744-8588, Norm.
RUBBISH REMOVAL
MALTA GARDEN & Rubbish Removal. Best Rates. BBBmember. (250)388-0278.
STEREO/TV/DVD
WANTED: DVD PLAYER. Please call 250-514-6688.
STUCCO/SIDING
PATCHES, ADDITIONS, re-stucco, renos, chimney, water-proofi ng. Bob, 250-642-5178.
RE-STUCCO & HARDY Plank/Painting Specialist. 50years experience. Free esti-mates. Dan, 250-391-9851.
UPHOLSTERY
UPHOLSTERER NEEDS work. Your fabric or mine.250-480-7937.
WINDOW CLEANING
BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning.Power Washing, Gutters. 25yrs. 250-884-7066, 381-7127.
DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.
GLEAMING WINDOWS Gut-ters+De-moss. Free estimate.18 yrs. Brian, 514-7079. WCB.
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111-1560 HillsideSaturday & Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdGeri Fitterer 250 360-6493 pg. 12
204-1537 Morrison, $269,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Susan Carley, 250-477-7291 pg. 17
1005-225 Belleville, $649,900Saturday 2-4Sutton West CoastHiro Nakatani 250 661-4476 pg. 47
404-27 Songhees RdSunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyKathryn Alexander, 250-479-3333 pg. 6
501-1235 Johnson, $225,000Saturday 12:30-2:30Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara 250 384-8124 pg. 13
733A HumboldtDaily noon - 5 pm (exc Fri)Fair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 480-3000 pg. 1
1206-620 Toronto, $339,900Saturday 12-2Holmes RealtyMagdalin Heron 250 656-0911 pg. 10
263 Beechwood, $599,900Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMorley Bryant, 250-477-5353 pg. 15
404-300 Waterfront, $538,500Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdFrank Chan 250 477-7291 pg. 17
1219 Chapman St, $629,900Saturday 2-4Fair RealtyBruce McCalla, 250-885-8485 pg. 15
404-1121 Fort StSaturday 2:30-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyBill Ethier, 250-920-7000
1050 Pentrelew, $668,000Sunday 3-5Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara 250 384-8124 pg. 15
3-440 Parry St, $489,000Friday 3-5 & Saturday 10-11:30Holmes RealtyBarbara Erickson, 250-656-0911 pg. 5
208-305 Michigan, $169,900Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 13
614 Craigfl ower, $449,000Sunday 2-4Newport Realty LtdGreg Phillips 250 385-2033 pg. 15
1202 Haultain St, $419,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunShane King, 250-744-3301 pg. 14
117 St Lawrence, $614,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124 pg. 11
1121 Balmoral, $498,500Saturday 1-4DFH Real Estate LtdPatti Locke-Lewkowich 250 477-7291 pg. 15
1-2828 Shelbourne, $475,000Sunday 1-3Boorman’s Real EstateMichael Boorman 250-595-1535 pg. 13
1275 Dominion, $449,000Saturday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Irina Lobatcheva, 250-391-1893
406-505 Cook, $305,000Saturday 2-4Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd.250-383-7100 pg. 1
1494 Fairfi eld, $309,900Thursday - Sunday 1-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-8780 pg. 3
607 Wilson, $379,900Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyBruce Gibson 250 385-2033 pg. 10
4-1110 PembrokeThursday 3:30-5 & Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesPaul Whitney, 250-889-2883 pg. 8
623 Manchester, $474,500Saturday & Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663 pg. 15
1421 Grant, $708,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdBill Robson, 250 686-9446 pg. 18
733A HumboldtDaily noon - 5 pm (exc Fri)Fair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 480-3000 pg. 32
3-828 Rupert TerraceSaturday & Sunday 1-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMurray Lawson 250 385-9814 pg. 9
C-113 Superior, $489,500Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdFrank Chan 250 477-7291 pg. 17
401-1146 View St, $254,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunKaren Scott, 250 744-3301 pg. 42
1121 Fort, $236,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyBlair Watling 250 385-2033 pg. 11
403-819 Burdett, $439,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalPat Meadows, 250-592-4422 pg. 10
402-103 Gorge Rd E, $489,000Saturday 2-4JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3
210-1061 Fort, $189,900Saturday 1-3Newport RealtyBruce Gibson 250 385-2033 pg. 8
301-380 Waterfront, $529,900Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 45
405-1035 SouthgateSaturday 11:30-1MacDonald RealtyLorraine Stundon 250 812-0642 pg. 6
354 Berwick, $679,000Sunday 1-4RE/MAX CamosunJason Leslie, 250-478-9600 pg. 15
510-188 DouglasSunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBonnie Johnston 250 744-3301 pg. 10
805 Dereen, $1,035,000Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunRoland Stillings 250-744-3301 pg. 18
1408-751 Fairfi eld, $588,000Sunday 12-2Royal Lepage Coast CapitalJordan Thome 250 592-4422 pg. 10
3093 Washington, $729,000Sunday 1-3Newport RealtyRobert Buckle 250 385-2033 pg. 18
205-1477 Yale, $479,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyTim Taddy 250 592-8110 pg. 19
3000 UplandsSunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes David Scotney, 250-384-8124 pg. 19
2237 Windsor Rd, $799,000Sunday 2-4Century 21 QueenswoodMike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100 pg. 20
3051 Oakdowne, $729,000Saturday 2:30-4Pemberton HolmesJerry Mireau, 250-384-8124 pg. 19
1577 Yale, $675,000Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalSharen Warde 250 592-4422 pg. 19
2625 Orchard Ave, $734,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Susan Carley, 250-477-7291 pg. 17
402-2210 Cadboro Bay, $349,000Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 14
1897 Gonzales Ave, $789,000Saturday 1-3Fair RealtyJinwoo Jeong, 250-885-5114 pg. 19
795 Falkland, $689,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 QueenswoodMike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100 pg. 19
3072 Cadboro BaySunday 1-3Century 21 Queenswood RealtyJulie Rust, 250-477-1100 pg. 20
303-68 Songhees, $419,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalSharen Warde 250 592-4422 pg. 18
1649 Elgin, $684,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalPat Meadows, 250-592-4422 pg. 19
205-2125 Oak Bay, $349,900Saturday 2-4Sutton West CoastHiro Nakatani 250 661-4476 pg. 47
7-126 Hallowell, $424,900Sunday 2-4Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 pg. 20
30-300 Six Mile, $389,900Sunday 2-4Sutton West CoastHiro Nakatani 250 661-4476 pg. 47
81 Lekwammen, $264,900Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyCheri Crause, 250-592-4422
110 Jedburgh, $479,900Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyMichael Luyt, 250-216-7547 pg. 20
52-1506 Admirals, $122,900Saturday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunJason Leslie, 250-478-9600 pg. 20
1-665 Admirals, $449,900Saturday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-8780 pg. 3
1326 Lyall St, $469,900Saturday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunApril Prinz, 250-744-3301 pg. 20
516 Comerford, $529,900Saturday 11:30-1:30Re/Max CamosunPeter Gray, 250-744-3301 pg. 20
915 Forshaw, $349,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 21
843 Parklands Dr, $459,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesDavid Johnston, 250-384-8124 pg. 20
815 Ellery St, $379,500Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 20
820 Condor AveSunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyBill Ethier, 250-920-7000
1111 Lockley, $388,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMark McDougall 250 888-8588 pg. 21
13-934 Craigfl ower, $379,000Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesNicole Burgess 250 384-8124 pg. 14
18-840 Craigfl ower, $229,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real EstateWendy Herrick 250-656-0131 pg. 21
934 Craigfl ower, $379,000Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesNicole Burgess 250 384-8124 pg. 9
485 Constance Ave, $699,900Saturday 1-3Address Realty Ltd.Mike Chubey, 250-391-1893
1250 Craigfl ower, $429,900Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalPaul Holland 250 592-4422 pg. 21
3884 Haro, $829,900Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalJason Craveiro 250 474-4800 pg. 22
5150 Lochside, $839,000Saturday 2-4Burr Properties LtdPatrick Skillings 250 382-8838 pg. 22
203-5350 Sayward Hill, $649,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291 pg. 12
15-4165 Rockhome GdnsSaturday & Sunday 2-4Cornerstone Properties Ltd.Lynn Van de Kamp, 250-475-2006 pg. 21
4012 Livingstone N, $577,500Thursday & Friday 5:30-7Re/Max CamosunDana Hahn, 250-744-3301 pg. 42
11-4318 Emily Carr, $579,000Saturday 2-4JonesCo Real EstateIan Heath, 250-655-7653 pg. 3
5288 Santa Clara AveSunday 11-1Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyBill Ethier, 250-920-7000
14-3958 Cedar Hill, $275,000Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyVelma Sproul 250 384-7663 pg. 42
407-1009 McKenzie, $229,000Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663 pg. 6
3922 Quadra, $425,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesGladys Walsh 250-384-8124 pg. 22
3886 Blenkinsop, $649,000Sunday 2-4Fair RealtyRay Kong, 250-590-7011 pg. 42
4495 Gordon Pt, $989,000Saturday 12-2Royal Lepage Coast CapitalDon Thome 250 477-5353 pg. 24
304-3900 Shelbourne St, $310,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesDavid Hale, 250-812-7277
835 Rogers, $699,000Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyClifton Mak, 250 479-3333 pg. 24
1552 Oak Crest Drive, $549,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate LtdKevin Sing, 250 477-7291 pg. 17
4941 Lochside, $729,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBrad Gregory 250 744-3301 pg. 22
1590 Howroyd, $585,000Saturday 3-5Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara 250 384-8124 pg. 23
304-1505 Church Rd, $199,900Saturday 2-4One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242 pg. 6
3941 Crocus, $765,000Saturday 2:30-4One Percent RealtyGuy Effl er 250 812-4910 pg. 44
302-3969 Shelbourne, $324,900Saturday 1-3Macdonald RealtyJane Logan, 250-388-5882 pg. 11
104-5350 Sayward Hill, $590,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 13
4694 Lochside, $695,000Sunday 2:30-4Newport RealtyRick Allen, 250-385-2033 pg. 24
1675 Knight, $487,900Saturday 1-3Newport RealtyHolly Harper 250 888-8448 pg. 22
2080 Pauls, $749,000Sunday 3-4Pemberton HolmesJerry Bola 857-0178 pg. 43
201-940 Inverness RdSaturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Ted Tyrrell, 250-477-7291 pg. 13
150-4488 Chatterton Way, $429,000Saturday 2-4The Condo Group, Burr Properties Ltd.Mike Janes, 250-382-6636
5304-2829 Arbutus, $729,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyDoug Sunray, 250 477-1100 pg. 16
3675 Ophir St, $480,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesMike Lock, 250-384-8124 pg. 21
5365 Alderley Rd, $770,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDavid Stevens, 250-477-5353 pg. 21
1892 Leyns Rd, $868,000Saturday 11-1 & Sunday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyDoug Sunray, 250-477-1100 pg. 16
2631 Arbutus RdSunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyBill Ethier, 250-920-7000
111-2931 Shelbourne, $305,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663 pg. 10
4030/4040 Borden St, $229,900Saturday & Sunday 1-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250 658-0967 pg. 7
1561 Elm, $569,000Saturday 1-3Newport RealtyJohn West 250 385-2033 pg. 22
3456 Carter Dr, $759,000Saturday 12:30-2Pemberton HolmesJerry Mireau, 250-384-8124 pg. 21
3942 Aspen, $795,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 45
1278 Pike, $649,900Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunJohn Percy 250 744-3301 pg. 23
4798 Elliot Pl, $748,000Sunday 1:30-3:30DFH Real Estate Ltd.Henry Van der Vlugt, 250-477-7291 pg. 21
1536 Winchester, $679,000Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdRick Shumka 250 384-8124 pg. 23
933 Boulderwood, $1,099,000Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyClifton Mak, 250 479-3333 pg. 23
3735 Doncaster, $679,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Fair RealtyRay Kong, 250-590-7011 pg. 42
838 Maltwood TerrSunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJune Wing, 250-479-3333 pg. 23
303-1505 Church, $197,500Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalPaul Holland 250 592-4422 pg. 13
15-4619 Elk Lake, $474,900Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLorraine Williams, 250-216-3317 pg. 24
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451 Obed, $389,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunDeanna Noyce 250 744-3301 pg. 25
4058 Willowbrook, $499,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBruce Hatter, 250-744-3301 pg. 25
3795 Burnside, $599,500Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalPat Meadows, 250-592-4422 pg. 25
1181 Roy Rd, $429,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBruce Hatter, 250-744-3301 pg. 24
103-537 Heatherdale, $449,000Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422 pg. 12
4056 Glanford Ave, $429,900Saturday 12-2DFH Real Estate Ltd.Deidra Junghans, 250-474-6003
304-4535 Viewmont, $234,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunRick Turcotte, 250-744-3301
34-520 Marsett, $599,500Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalPat Meadows, 250-592-4422 pg. 13
188 Obed Ave, $569,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRoss Shortreed, 250-858-3585 pg. 24
6-1241 Santa Rosa Ave, $435,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunAlfred Ho, 250-744-3301 pg. 24
1260 Loenholm Rd, $447,000Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Wayne Hyslop, 250-477-7291 pg. 24
4520 Markham, $1,019,000Saturday 11-1Re/Max AllianceRon Neal 250 386-8181 pg. 48
2822 Rockwell, $534,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyShaunna Jones, 250-888-4628 pg. 24
3410 Rolston, $479,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesGurcharan Chauhan 250-384-8124 pg. 25
22-1287 Verdier, $374,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMorley Bryant, 250-477-5353 pg. 14
1110-6880 Wallace Dr, $709,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Cheryl Woolley, 250-477-7291
1290 Lands End Rd, $839,000Saturday 2-4JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3
9708 Fifth St, $641,900Open House/Hard Hat Tour by appt onlyRe/Max CamosunCraig Walters, 250-655-0608 pg. 27
5-2323 Harbour, $685,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 39
6797 Greig Court, $725,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMichael McMullen, 250-881-8225
407-2341 Harbour Rd, $319,000Saturday 1-3Century 21 Queenswood RealtyJulie Rust, 250-477-1100 pg. 14
3-2146 Malaview, $259,000Thursday & Saturday 1-3Sutton West Coast RealtyJonas Solberg 250 479-3333 pg. 27
6310 Marie MeadowsSunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRoy Coburn 250-478-9600 pg. 33
C-2055 White Birch Rd, $445,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMel Jarvis, 250-478-9600 pg. 27
3072 Mallard, $585,000Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 39
2051 Brethour Park, $413,900Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 28
1721 Texada, $1,299,000Saturday 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882 pg. 27
4-10110 Third, $579,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 39
2053 Stelly’s Cross, $488,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunKeith Watson 250 744-3301 pg. 27
333-2245 James White, $244,900Saturday 11:30-1:30Re/Max CamosunPeter Gray, 250-882-3333 pg. 26
10149 Bowerbank Rd, $529,900Saturday 2-4One Percent RealtyLilian Andersen, 250-213-3710 pg. 26
9510 West Saanich, $649,000Sunday 2-4JonesCo Real EstateIan Heath, 250-655-7653 pg. 3
12-1287 Verdier, $404,900Saturday 1-3DFH Real EstateWendy Herrick 250-656-0131 pg. 6
7161 West Saanich Rd, $289,900Thursday-Monday 3-5Re/Max CamosunCraig Walters, 250-655-0608 pg. 26
9336 Maryland, $384,500Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 13
104-10110 Fifth St, $209,900Saturday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Patrick Achtzner, 250-391-1893
717 Towner Park, $1,495,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunNoel Hache 250 744-3301 pg. 43
9510 West Saanich, $649,000Sunday 2-4JonesCo Real EstateIan Heath, 250-655-7653 pg. 26
6896 WoodwardSat 2-4Pemberton HolmesLuAnn Fraser 250-384-8124 pg. 26
7161 West SaanichThursday - Monday 3-5Gordon Hulme RealtyDon King 250 656-4626 pg. 12
2-9871 Second, $579,000Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 39
A-9563 CanoraSunday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-8780 pg. 3
1733 Texada, $1,350,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunLynne Sager 250 744-3301 pg. 27
1019 Parkway Dr, $427,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDebbie Tracz, 250-477-5353 pg. 26
1616 Millstream, $778,800Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 28
1622 Millstream, $778,800Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 28
2817 Lake End Rd $1,129,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesDavid Scotney,250-384-8124 pg. 35
3477 Maureen, $629,000Sunday 1-4Newport RealtyLaurie Abram 250 385-2033 pg. 30
435 Sue Mar Dr, $399,000Saturday 12-1:30Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 28
727 Grousewood, $674,900Sunday 12:30-2:30Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124 pg. 29
408-3226 Jacklin $269,888Saturday 12:30-2SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra 250 380-6683 pg. 13
579 Tena Pl, $439,600Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesDavid Hale, 250-812-7277
Piper Meadows - Whitney RdSaturday & Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunAdrian Langereis, 250-999-9822
393 Pelican, $659,900Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMark McDougall 250 888-8588 pg. 29
317-866 Brock, $249,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunDoreen Halstenson, 250-744-3301 pg. 5
313-938 Dunford, $299,000Saturday 2-4Fair RealtyStevie K, 250 480-3000 pg. 13
4488 William Head, $1,100,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunNoel Hache 250 744-3301 pg. 43
1007 Englewood Ave, $549,900Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNeal Carmichael, 250-384-7663
2811 Lakeshore Pl, $999,000Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesKent Deans, 250-686-4141 pg. 35
642 Tyler, $699,888Saturday 2-4Re/Max AllianceRon Neal 250 386-8181 pg. 48
201-2829 Peatt Rd, $224,900Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunRick Turcotte, 250-744-3301
104-644 Granrose, $399,000Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 12
2455 Prospector, $668,500Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate LtdBill Carnegie 250 474-6003 pg. 30
909 Bray Ave, $355,000Saturday 2:30-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Deidra Junghans, 250-474-6003
662 Goldstream Ave., $254,900Daily 1-4Kahl RealtyJason Kahl 250-391-8484 pg. 11
119-2733 Peatt Rd, $339,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Re/Max AllianceKaren Love, 250-386-8875 pg. 1
1121 Bearspaw, $899,900Saturday 1-4Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 pg. 30
1001 Wild RidgeSunday 3-4Pemberton HolmesJerry Bola 857-0178 pg. 42
30-630 Brookside Rd, $564,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 5
874 Bear Mountain Pkwy, $639,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Cheryl Woolley, 250-477-7291
723 Percy, $549,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real EstateCassie Kangas 250 477-7291 pg. 29
110-1177 Deerview, $698,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max AllianceRon Neal 250 386-8181 pg. 48
478 Webb Pl, $479,900Sunday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Patrick Achtzner, 250-391-1893
771 DanbySaturday 11-1DFH Real Estate LtdJeff Shaw 250 474-6003 pg. 30
411-866 Brock, $339,900Sunday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 12
2433 Prospector Way, $629,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes David Scotney, 250-384-8124 pg. 29
402-635 Brookside, $398,000Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 9
3250 Walfred Pl, $439,900Sunday 1-3Address Realty Ltd.Adam Hales, 250-391-1893
2414 Fleetwood Crt, $524,200Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesDavid Hale, 250-812-7277
3605 Pondside Terr, $464,900Saturday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Adam Hales, 250-391-1893
3436 Aloha, $664,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns 250-478-0808 pg. 33
116-866 Brock, $259,500Saturday & Sunday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyAngie Chandler 250 413-7280 pg. 12
2850 AldwyndTues to Fri 1-3 & Sat & Sun 12-4Pemberton Holmes LtdPat Guiney, 250 391-6400 pg. 7
101-608 Fairway Ave, $229,900Daily 1:30-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyChuck Meagher, 250-477-1100 pg. 14
475 Pelican, $699,500Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalJason Craveiro 250 474-4800 pg. 30
305-2850 Aldwynd, $479,900Tues to Fri 1-3 & Sat & Sun 12-4Pemberton Holmes LtdPat Guiney, 250 391-6400 pg. 5
306-2850 Aldwynd, $399,900Tues to Fri 1-3 & Sat & Sun 12-4Pemberton Holmes LtdPat Guiney, 250 391-6400 pg. 5
1075 CostinSaturday 2-4DFH Real Estate LtdJeff Shaw 250 474-6003 pg. 30
1-1976 Glenidle, $166,000Sunday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunJason Leslie, 250-478-9600 pg. 31
Sunriver Estates Sales CentreSaturday-Thursday 11-4Newport RealtyBlair Watling 250 642-2233 pg. 31
1777 Minnie Rd, $359,900Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalTammi Dimock 250 642-6361 pg. 34
2132 Angus Rd, $574,900Saturday 12:15-2Re/Max CamosunDana Hahn, 250-744-3301 pg. 35
1933 W Shawnigan Lake Rd, $998,000Saturday 10-12Re/Max CamosunDana Hahn, 250-744-3301 pg. 36
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Philanthropy The Victoria Foundation & Black Press
Taking Steps to Instill Cultural Pride
Working Together – how philanthropy shapes our community
Rose Guedes and her five-year-old son Pearson in the play-ground of Little Paws Pre-School at the Victoria Friendship Centre. The playground features a dugout canoe and min-iature big house to help promote awareness and knowl-edge of Aboriginal culture.
It’s circle time at Little Paws Preschool in Saanich and it begins with a drum and a song.
“If we were to be attending a gathering in a big house, we’d be using masks and danc-ing and singing, so we try to incorporate as much of that into the preschool as we can,” said Leslie McGarry, culture and commu-nity liaison director for the Victoria Native Friendship Centre.
Located at the Friendship Centre, Lit-tle Paws features Aboriginal culture as the foundation of its curriculum and program and it welcomes the Aboriginal commu-nity.
“We encourage the parents and our elders to come in and share teachings from their generations about how things differ from 50 years ago,” said Margot Edwards, Little Paws Preschool director.
“I wasn’t able to grow up with a lot of traditional culture in my life so the cultural component is really nice because I feel like my daughter’s going to have that advan-tage,” said Jessica Bender-North, a Métis First Nation member.
“I never went to preschool but in kinder-garten we never learned about our heritage or going out to watch salmon spawn and stuff like that,” said Jeff Lincoln, a Nisga’a First Nation member, “and to me, it’s really good that the children are gaining back what we never had when we were going to
school.”There are 20 children in the class, ranging
from three to five years old. First Nations children have first priority, and then it’s open to the community. As a foster mom for 23 years, that welcoming philosophy means a lot to France Cyr.
“Being that I am Caucasian, coming here gives the First Nation children that I look after an opportunity to be close to their people and their culture,” said Cyr.
With the focus on all Aboriginal cultures from the local territories to Cree, Ojibwa and others, Little Paws is bringing pride and self-esteem to the next generation.
“Many of them will step out and say, ‘I’m First Nations,’” said McGarry “Even if they are not clear about which territory they come from, there’s a sense of pride that’s instilled at this age level that carries through to school age.”
School age and beyond. This story is based on a Vital People feature
by reporter Vee Cooper that originally aired on CHEK News @ 5. The Victoria Founda-tion sponsors the weekly feature each Sunday to share the stories of people and organiza-tions working on the issues highlighted in the Victoria’s Vital Signs® community report that the foundation publishes annually. To watch past features of Vital People or to read Vital Signs, check the Victoria Foundation’s website at www.victoriafoundation.ca
Hulitan Social Services – Journeys of the Heart cultural inter-generational program of language and motor skill development that builds on strengths of traditional teachings and languages.
Irving K. Barber B.C. Scholarship Soci-ety – Administered by the Victoria Founda-tion, this province-wide program includes a series of Aboriginal education awards.See www.bcscholarship.ca
Q’opthut Sul’hween Society – Intergenera-tional feasts within the Coast Salish territory to allow elders to share, exchange and foster the preservation of spiritual values, beliefs and traditional practices.
Saanich Native Support Program – youth from 19 First Nations and three Friendship Centres competed in friendly sporting activi-ties promoting health lifestyles.
School Division 61 Aboriginal Education Program – for role model calendars presented at First Nations graduation ceremonies.
Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services – Various programs to support posi-tive outcomes for children in foster care.
Victoria Native Friendship Centre – 13 grants have supported a variety of programs, including the operation of the Little Paws Pre-School.
Victoria READ Society–Aboriginal students from three school districts expand storytelling and production skills using digital technology in the Capturing Stories program.
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Nearly four years after Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen were the first Canadians on the podium
in Beijing, the men’s pairs rowers are ready to turn Olympic silver into gold.
London 2012 is the last chance for them to take top spot as a team. If their intense training regimen and five years of rowing together are any sign, it’s also their best.
Unlike in Beijing, when the pair had but a few months training together prior to the Games, Calder, a resident of Saanich, and Frandsen, who hails from Kelowna, have spent the better part of the last 30 months in full-time training.
Under coach Terry Paul, Calder and Frandsen train together six times per week on Elk Lake; three times weekly in the weight room at the Pacific Institute of Sport Excellence; twice on rowing machines at PISE; and also take road bikes around Greater Victoria.
Benefits of the program, one that requires a 7,500-to 9,000-calorie diet, reach beyond the physical.
“We know how we both like to race,” Frandsen said. “Often a lot of things can go unsaid because we both know what the other’s thinking.”
The amount of time spent together creates a healthy amount of friction, Calder added.
“We spend an abnormally large amount of time together in a mental and physical state of great exertion and it forges an incredible bond, a bond that can handle us getting pissy at each other every once in a while,” Calder said.
“Like any relationship, you have
your good days and bad days.” One of those bad days came in
2011 when the pair rowed into fifth place at the world championships, in Bled, Slovenia. It’s a part of their history together that they chalk up to a short-lived change in the racing schedule, which disturbed the team’s rhythm, but left them better equipped to handle future challenges.
“It wasn’t the end of the world and it left us pretty hungry for the winter of training,” Calder said.
After five years as a team, and attempts from both halves of the pair to leave competitive rowing, the end is finally near.
Frandsen, who turns 32 next month, will return to a position with Royal Bank of Canada in Vancouver in September. If he’s enjoying his career and can handle life without rowing, he won’t return.
At 34, Calder, on leave from his position with the Ministry of Energy and Mines, is more certain
these Olympics will be his last.“I feel I’ve had an incredible
rowing career – I’ve been racing for Canada since I was 15 – and I’m really happy to have this as my last Olympics. I feel really healthy about ending on this high note.”
Calder said his wife, Rachel, who has heard him claim retirement from rowing three separate times, won’t believe it until he’s home in Saanich once the 2016 Games begin in Rio de Janeiro.
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Food and catering for the 2012 Olympic Games: Rowing pair takes on London
Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen wage final battle for Olympic gold
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Pairs rowers Dave Calder, left, and Scott Frandsen at Elk Lake following a morning practice. The two will row for Canada in London at the 2012 Olympic Games.
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