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Never one to take the easy road, Mike Irvine not only defended his masters thesis on Monday afternoon, he did it while making university history.

The University of Victoria stu-dent plunged into the sea at the James Island Road wharf in Cen-tral Saanich, pinstripes buttoned over his wetsuit, to explain via underwater teleconference how the use of marine web cameras can revolutionize ocean educa-tion by bringing the sea depths within reach of anyone.

“The biggest reason for all of this is that there are very few people who know very much about the ocean,” he said. “It’s a great opportunity to see what’s down beneath the waves.”

Following a lifelong passion for the ocean and scuba diving, Irvine, 27, and several friends first explored the idea by doing a live dive at Victoria’s Fisher-man’s Wharf for World Oceans Day in 2013 with a GoPro camera jerry-rigged to a scuba mask.

The equipment was basic, and it was simply an interested audi-ence on shore watching a televi-sion set showing the camera’s feed.

Public response was huge and the project rapidly expanded with Irvine creating a company to develop and build better marine cameras. He also co-founded The Fish Eye Project, a non-profit dedicated to ocean education.

Two years and many innova-tions later, their live dives can now be streamed on your com-puter, smartphone or tablet, and the divers can even answer questions in real time too.

Student dives into his thesis defence UVic’s Mike Irvine makes history with underwater teleconference from the Salish Sea

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UVic masters student Mike Irvine throws his arms up in victory after spending more than an hour underwater - in pinstripe vest and wetsuit - defending his thesis via tele-conference. Angela Cowan/ News staff

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A slew of nervous Grade 12 students in formal wear lined up in the gym at Park-land Secondary, mentally preparing for their ‘interviews’ with prominent mem-bers of the Saanich Peninsula community.

Part of the students’ graduation requirements, mayors, council members, fire chiefs, lawyers, retired teachers, all waited to ask the high schoolers to lay out their post-secondary plans in detail. It’s a way for the kids to get introduced to the often awkward scenario of interviews out in the real world, said Parkland vice-principal Aaron Buckham.

“It puts them in a place of a little bit of uncomfortableness. They have to rely on personal skill. They have to sell them-selves,” he said, adding “dressing up once in a while doesn’t hurt either.”

The students outline their financial plans for their next year, strategies for

maintaining a healthy lifestyle and any further education goals.

It’s something most high schools do on the Peninsula, but this is the first year that Parkland has invited the community in to ask the questions.

“We try to get a variety of professions, and to match the students up as well,” said principal Lizanne Chicanot.

If a student is particularly interested in construction, for example, the school would try to pair them up with someone in the field, explained Chicanot.

For Sebastian Slack, the whole process was rather intimidating at first.

“When you first walk in and see all those straight faces, it’s extremely nerve wracking, and you think ‘what am I get-ting myself into?’”

“But then they’re all faces you recog-nize. It took me about five minutes before I got comfortable and could actually start enjoying myself.”

The faces he met at his table certainly

helped put the Grade 12 at ease; wait-ing for Slack were three-time Olympic rower Buffy Williams and former Park-land career counsellor Roger Pires.

“I don’t think I could have gotten two better interviewers,” said Slack, who also rows and added that Pires was his Grade 9 basketball coach as well.

Pires, who just retired last year after 30 years on the job, has always had a way of connecting with his students, said Buckham.

“Kids are just drawn to him. He says something, and they listen. To have him do this is such a beauty. He’s one of the pillars of Parkland.”

And at the end of it all, was it helpful? Absolutely, said Slack with a grin.

“This was the first time I’ve had a seri-ous, sit-down, suit and tie interview, and now I feel prepared to meet anything in the workforce.”

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The key to solving housing issues on the Saan-ich Peninsula, says MP Elizabeth May, is defining affordability.

Once that’s done, she said, a proposed partner-ship group might be able to embark on a plan to build 30 new units of workforce housing.

May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands and federal Green Party leader, said afford-ability and what it means to different people within the local economy should be determined before embarking on new housing programs.

May addressed Sidney town council April 13 fol-lowing a series of roundtable discussions that started in late 2013. Out of those meet-ings has grown an interim board for a Peninsula housing partnership, headed by Syl-via Bonet of Finlayson Bonet Architecture.

“The key is affordability,” May said, noting that the roundtable used much of the data collected in a Sidney Industrial Group survey of area employees.

“That was based on people making good incomes,” May continued, “but still cannot find a home affordable for them.”

People who make minimum wage are in a differ-ent situation altogether, she said and may require more purpose-built, affordable apartments, for instance.

Bonet added the interim group is looking at a price of around $400,000 as being the high end of what might be deemed affordable housing on the Saanich Peninsula, in this context. One of the ways of getting there, she said, is to see a variety of housing types built.

“However, there’s no comprehensive solution to the issue,” Bonet said.

Sidney town councillor Mervyn Lougher-Goodey said the issue here is not new, noting that politicians in the previous term of office lost a lot of political capital by putting in place bylaws that allow for more housing.

“It’s up to the consumer, in the end,” he said.May stressed no one is pointing fingers, adding

people do have choices — this idea only opens up more options for housing close to the workplace.

A Saanich Peninsula Housing Partnership is being proposed out of the roundtable meetings. Its goal, outlined in a report, would be to secure fund-ing from various stakeholders, such as employer groups, developers and regional government. That would be used to create an organization whose immediate job would be to convince developers to plan and build 10 new units of workforce hous-ing, per quarter in each of the first three quarters of the organization’s creation.

May said much of the plan is based on a suc-cessful body in Whistler that helped create worker housing that remains at or below market value. She added the group isn’t seeking money from local government, just their support to move for-ward.

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They are able to do this with a mask that allows the diver to hear and speak while under-water.

Some of the dives have had more than 4,000 students tuning in from more than 30 countries, proving that the desire for ocean education is strong.

“We’ve come a long way and it’s been exploding exponen-tially,” said Irvine.

And it’s not just stu-dents that are inter-ested, he added. The dives have had nearly as many ‘big kids’ tun-ing in as well.

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we’re opening up a win-dow to the ocean and from that we’re hoping to elicit your interest so you will dig deeper and make more informed decisions.”

Irvine is hoping that by providing the oppor-tunity for everyone to actually see what’s going on in the oceans, the project will help fuel change in the way we treat them and start addressing the many threats to ocean ecol-ogy.

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“What we do to the ocean comes back to us and affects us. We

just don’t always real-ize the impacts.”

By bringing the secrets of the ocean to as many people as pos-sible, Irvine said he and The Fish Eye Project hope to inspire people to become involved.

“Our hope, in particu-lar, in following a quote from Dr. Sylvia Earle, is that ‘knowing is the key to caring, and with car-ing there is hope that people will be moti-vated to take positive actions,’” he said. “You never know what can happen from that.”

Irvine barely had time to worry whether his masters bid was successful; within moments of taking off his mask and scuba hood, Irvine’s thesis supervisor, Dr. Jason Price, offered him a hug

and hearty congratula-tions.

“It’s amazing,” said Irvine. “I have worked so hard on it. It’s going to be weird that it’s over.”

“The research, going back to school, it was to build this whole thing, so I’m not leaving it behind. I’ll be taking it with me.”

He hopes to con-tinue the live dives in different spots around the world to highlight meaningful ocean research.

“We’re trying to get a lens to it,” he said. “In terms of accessibil-ity, the ocean just got a whole lot closer.”

For more information on the Fish Eye Project, visit fisheyeproject.org.

reporter@peninsula newsreview.com


Continued from page 1

Thesis helps open a new window to ocean education

Mike Irvine, left, gets a hug from his thesis supervisor Dr. Jason Price. Irvine spent more than an hour underwater defending his research on marine web cameras and within minutes of surfacing, was given his masters degree.Angela Cowan/News staff


Housing group takes a step forward


The key to solving housing issues on the Saan-ich Peninsula, says MP Elizabeth May, is defining affordability.

Once that’s done, she said, a proposed partner-ship group might be able to embark on a plan to build 30 new units of workforce housing.

May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands and federal Green Party leader, said afford-ability and what it means to different people within the local economy should be determined before embarking on new housing programs.

May addressed Sidney town council April 13 fol-lowing a series of roundtable discussions that started in late 2013. Out of those meet-ings has grown an interim board for a Peninsula housing partnership, headed by Syl-via Bonet of Finlayson Bonet Architecture.

“The key is affordability,” May said, noting that the roundtable used much of the data collected in a Sidney Industrial Group survey of area employees.

“That was based on people making good incomes,” May continued, “but still cannot find a home affordable for them.”

People who make minimum wage are in a differ-ent situation altogether, she said and may require more purpose-built, affordable apartments, for instance.

Bonet added the interim group is looking at a price of around $400,000 as being the high end of what might be deemed affordable housing on the Saanich Peninsula, in this context. One of the ways of getting there, she said, is to see a variety of housing types built.

“However, there’s no comprehensive solution to the issue,” Bonet said.

Sidney town councillor Mervyn Lougher-Goodey said the issue here is not new, noting that politicians in the previous term of office lost a lot of political capital by putting in place bylaws that allow for more housing.

“It’s up to the consumer, in the end,” he said.May stressed no one is pointing fingers, adding

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A Saanich Peninsula Housing Partnership is being proposed out of the roundtable meetings. Its goal, outlined in a report, would be to secure fund-ing from various stakeholders, such as employer groups, developers and regional government. That would be used to create an organization whose immediate job would be to convince developers to plan and build 10 new units of workforce hous-ing, per quarter in each of the first three quarters of the organization’s creation.

May said much of the plan is based on a suc-cessful body in Whistler that helped create worker housing that remains at or below market value. She added the group isn’t seeking money from local government, just their support to move for-ward.

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The B.C. Liberal government’s sale of Crown properties to help balance its election budget was the dominant story in the legislature last week, as the NDP revealed evidence of a “fire sale” that may have left millions on the table.

They started with Burke Mountain, the biggest single deal involving 14 view properties in Coquitlam. The buyer was a prominent developer whose array of companies happened to donate nearly $1 million to the B.C. Liberal Party since 2000.

The $85 million price tag was similar to the B.C. Assessment Authority value on these forested properties, but an outside appraisal concluded they could have fetched an additional $43 million if they had spent more time on the hot Lower Mainland real estate market.

(This sale made headlines last fall for the province’s $8 million buyout of the local First Nation’s undefined territorial claim, when it was revealed the chief of the tiny Kwikwitlem First Nation pocketed an $800,000 commission.)

The government’s defence of the sale went from wobbly to weak. Citizens’ Services Minister Amrik Virk was caught flat-footed and tried to get by on platitudes rather than retreat and find some answers.

Premier Christy Clark weighed in, arguing that the budget would have

balanced without the property sale, and that some sales closed too late to help the election-year budget. Finance Minister Mike de Jong stressed that all these asset sales were detailed in three successive budgets. They downplayed the notion of land sales being rushed.

Then the NDP produced a string of emails sent between senior officials responsible for selling two

big properties across the street from the legislature.

“To be part of the sale and development of over eight acres of Victoria’s beautiful inner harbour area is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. An opportunity that normally would warrant years of planning and preparation,” wrote one citizens’ services bureaucrat. “Unfortunately we don’t have unlimited time – our goal is to have For

Sale signs up by Oct. 31 with sales proceeds in the bank by March 31, 2013.”

Then came a disclosure about a property in Surrey that had been bought as a potential hospital site. Once the existing hospital was expanded, that property was declared surplus. Indeed, de Jong featured this property to promote the government’s plan to stimulate local economies with private sector investment on unused land.

The Surrey deal closed for $20.5

million on March 21, 2014, just days before the end of the fiscal year. NDP leader John Horgan pointed to an outside appraisal of $23.5 million, and an assessment for tax purposes of $27.2 million.

The appraiser also recommended that the “highest and best use” for the Surrey land was to hold it until had been rezoned for commercial, retail or office development.

De Jong cited another big health property in Vancouver that sold for more than its appraised and assessed value. It’s only the actual market that determines worth, he insisted.

But it’s now clear that these and perhaps other sales were done with arbitrary deadlines that had everything to do with the B.C. Liberals’ need to balance the books. When elections are a battle of sound bites, perception matters more than reality.

It’s also worth recalling that the budget deficits prior to the 2013 election were largely a result of the B.C. government’s costly undoing of the harmonized sales tax, rather than the harsh forces of international finance.

Surplus asset sales have a long tradition in B.C., where the government owns more than 90 per cent of all land. But after this round, full disclosure will be demanded.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. [email protected]

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The key to new doorsI

ssues of housing affordability on the Saanich Peninsula have not gone anywhere and a new group looking for solutions might have the best chance of seeing results.

Spearheaded by MP Elizabeth May in 2013, a series of housing roundtable meetings has led to the creation of an interim body tasked with hitting up stakeholders for support — and presumably money, eventually — in establishing a body to push the development community for 30 new units of affordable housing.

That’s affordable in the sub-$400,000 range for people who work on the Peninsula in local industry to area retail shops.

To reach that lofty goal, the group will require participation from industry, the business community, regional government and more — essentially

the sources of the demand for more affordable housing.

Basing their model on a successful one in Whistler, B.C., the Peninsula group would, in a nutshell, seek out approximately $45,000 to create a formal organization — and then lobby developers for the planning and even construction of 10 new units in each of the first three quarters of the group’s existence.

From there, they would develop long-term plans to sustain the production of additional workforce units.

May says the key to success is defining affordability. She means it in regards to what workers can afford to pay for a new home. It could also apply to whether employers feel it’s up to them to afford to participate.

Essentially what May and the interim group is asking, is if employers, local governments and others will put their money where their mouth is to support this project.

That is the key, in the end, to open any new doors for the local workforce.

To reach that lofty goal, the group will require participation

‘... It’s now clear that these ... sales were done with arbitrary deadlines.’


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Pat Bay boat ramp is neededI was at a North Saanich council meeting April

13 and I left feeling positive energy. Brian Dunic made a presentation to council

asking for support for a boat launching ramp at Pat Bay. The boat launch ramp has been an issue for over 30 years, since the Institute of Ocean Sci-ences facility was built — at which time a boat launch ramp was promised. Yet since that time proposals have been made only to be shot down.

It is time. We need a ramp at Pat Bay. There are a lot of families that trailer their boats and access to launching is pathetically in short supply.

I feel that Pat Bay is a perfect place for launch-ing boats and will be a lot safer than trying to land at Tulista Park on a windy day.

I think that boat traffic and airplane traffic can be easily divided with buoyed runways similar to the Inner harbor.

Denis PaquetteNorth Saanich

LETTERS

It was the era of one of Sidney’s “fin-est politicians” who was in charge from 1991 to 1996 and ran on the platform of “no highway inter-change” for Sidney as it was not

necessary. It was known that the monies for this

project were ready and waiting. My goodness, what a lack of foresight.

Over the years the Pat Bay Highway system has seen major improvements to disperse the ferry traffic at Lands End Road and Wain Road. Both were com-mon sense solutions to alleviate traffic problems.

Along came Spaghetti Junction overkill at McTavish Road, which is so compli-cated that even Google Earth cannot

sort out the route with their yellow line marking.

This was a political boondoggle, cost-ing millions of dollars, to handle a few hundred cars on route to the Victoria International airport at a few peak peri-ods of the day.

Had wisdom prevailed this inter-change should have been situated at Ocean Avenue to resolve the Sidney, ferry and airport traffic, saving millions of dollars.

Bill Zonnenburg, a Sidney resident and traffic engineer, offered a wonderful solu-tion which was supported by the then-recently elected Mayor Larry Cross.

Someone brought it to the table at a public meeting and the feedback from

airport experts was one for the books — it would require tunnels to avoid the eventual new runways.

But because of the ground water level on the airport land it would not be fea-sible.

I asked one expert if they had ever heard of pumps.

So I say to those now running the show, make sure you can see the long distance …. (Quebecois phrase)… and get it right with a good old fashioned clo-verleaf for the Sidney exchange.

Yes, sure, it will take a little bit more land but the experts owe Sidney and North Saanich citizens.

Graham Scholes North Saanich

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is limited (excuses, excuses!) and I am run-ning out of brilliant ideas. I love clematis, but may have to give this one away as I had planned earlier — but

not replace it with the Jackmanii clematis I yearn for.

I have been looking at pictures of dwarf iris in a garden magazine and think maybe they would satisfy my desire for blue flowers. I used to have both iris retic-ulata (blue) and dan-fordia (yellow) when I had a proper garden, but maybe this fall I can buy some of those bulbs and have them in a big pot on the bal-cony.

There are wonderful iris in many colours, and several different sizes, all of them lovely, but the big ones seem somewhat brash, with their large size and wild colours. The dwarf ones are so dainty, but are so elegant and sort

of balcony-sized.I believe iris are

the national flower of France, but am not cer-tain I’m right. They are beautiful enough to be the floral emblem on any flag!

Most gardeners will grow at least one tomato plant and many of them will grow sev-eral of the plants.

Tomatoes are possibly the most popu-lar vegetable (fruit) we plant.

They have so many uses either raw or cooked. They are great bottled or frozen (hold a frozen tomato under the hot tap for a few seconds and the peel will shear right off).

I won’t attempt to suggest one variety, as there are so many to choose from. Some are best in salads and oth-ers wonderful in soups, or baked.

I have a recipe for baked tomatoes that my darling husband was crazy about. (See recipe at the end of the column.)

I’ve worked myself into a frenzy thinking about them. I used to grow several different varieties from seed but I no longer have a greenhouse, so I buy the plants — Early Girl and Big Beef were beloved, but there will be many new varieties for sale now.

Tell the vendor what you plan to use your tomatoes for and they will guide you to suitable plants.

It’s still too early to put tomato plants outside but you could start seeds now and be in lots of time for ripe tomatoes by August.

Helen Lang has been the Peninsula News Review’s

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3. Put the tomatoes in a fairly deep baking container and gently mix in the pieces of buttered toast. A sprinkle of cheese on top adds a certain amount of flair!

4. Bake at 350 degrees until heated through, about 25 minutes, and serve in a separate dish if it is too watery. Maybe put a spoon beside

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VICTORIA — When it comes to sustainable living and fighting cli-mate change, people’s actions do not measure up to their intentions, say experts.

“Most people I talk to are concerned about cli-mate change, and they want action to be taken on climate change, but by and large a lot of them will acknowledge that they’re not doing as much as they could,” said Tim Pearson, director of communica-tions at Sierra Club B.C.

Robert Gifford, psy-chology and environ-mental studies profes-sor at the University of Victoria, has been researching why peo-ple do not seem to do as much as they feel they should regarding climate change for the past 10 years.

He has discovered 32 “dragons of inaction”

in seven categories that keep people from standing up against cli-mate change.

“When somebody says ‘I intend to do this [to help the environ-ment],’ you can treat it as maybe about a quar-ter or a half truth,” said Gifford.

One of the biggest barriers to sustainable behaviour is a lack of perceived behavioural control, he said.

If people do not think anything they do will make a difference, then they may not bother.

“People have to understand, that yes, their actions do make a difference if they act at multiple levels,” said Pearson. “You can act as a consumer, making choices to buy local, or to do more in terms of energy efficiency in their own home … but we have to acknowl-edge that those behav-iours alone won’t solve the problem. In the

end, we require large-scale action, and that means people have to put pressure on their government.”

However, Pearson said people need to realize the issue is not hopeless.

“I don’t think people are necessarily aware enough of how much progress is being made. I think one of the mis-takes the environmen-tal movement has made over the years is to take the sky is fall-ing approach,” he said. “When all people see is the negatives and that feeling of hopelessness, that’s very destruc-tive.”

Another barrier stop-ping people from acting against climate change is conflicting goals and aspirations, said Gif-ford.

“People will say ‘yes, I’m in favour of the environment, but I have to drive my kid to school because I’m

afraid of her safety.’ or some kind of justifica-tion that has to do with conflicting goals.”

Social norms and pressures may influ-ence people’s actions when it comes to sus-tainable living as well, said Gifford.

“If I’m in a group of people who ridicule me or question me because I do some-thing positive, then I’m pushed toward joining that crowd of doing nothing.”

Another social aspect is perceived inequity in effort.

“Perceived inequity means, why should I do something because Joe’s not doing it? Or why should Canada do something if China’s not doing it?”

While many of the barriers are psycholog-ical, Gifford said there are also structural bar-riers that prevent some people from taking environmental action.

“That’s where things have to change at the national level or at the

policy level,” he said. “It’s hard to take the bus in a town that has

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On Sunday, August 16 the Rest Haven Foundation will run the sec-ond Bed Races event. Races go from noon to 4 p.m. The first series of bed races went last summer with a full slate of teams, costumes, props and more. The races, sponsored this year by radio station 100.3 The Q, are a fundraiser for Sidney’s Rest Haven Lodge seniors facility. Proceeds help support the Lodge’s palliative care services.

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Called the ‘finest act’ of the First World War by French Marshal Foch, the fight for St. Julien and Kitchener’s Wood during the battle of Ypres in April 1915 defined two Canadian regiments — and Cana-dian soldiers in general.

This month, a con-tingent of Vancouver Island reserve soldiers with the Canadian Scot-tish Regiment joined counterparts from the Calgary Highlanders in France to mark the anniversary of that battle. A Sidney man is among them, the Scot-tish’s Honorary Colo-nel, Richard Talbot.

“People have realized this is the anniversary,

too, of the first chemi-cal warfare attack,” Tal-bot said before leaving for England last week.

In April of 1915, dur-ing the battle for Ypres, German soldiers used mustard gas for the first time, routing the lines of allied soldiers.

Canadians with the First Division, including soldiers from Vancou-ver Island and Calgary, were asked to counter-attack and re-take the ground. They did so, at much cost, and came to be known by their enemy as storm troop-ers. Those contingents of soldiers would later be reformed as the Canadian Scottish, with companies in Victoria, Nanaimo and Comox, and the Calgary High-landers.

Talbot noted the anniversary is taking place at the same time as a chemical warfare conference in France and what was initially a battlefield tour by the regiments, turned quickly into ceremony.

On April 15, a memo-

rial was held in Lon-don at Canada House. Approximately 30 uni-formed soldiers and 30 Regimental Association members were there, making up a Canadian contingent of around 100, said Talbot. They were joined by royalty and Canadian High

Commissioner Gordon Campbell, among oth-ers.

Today (April 22) and tomorrow, he said the group would be touring the site of the Battle of Ypres and Vimy Ridge. They will be joined by members of the Belgian army and other allied

troops for an interna-tional parade to mark the anniversary.

The Canadians, Tal-bot said, will then visit a place called the Mouse Trap Farm — a staging area where sol-diers in 1915 set off for Kitchener’s Wood.

“It’s essentially a farmer’s front garden now,” Talbot said. “A barn there is going to be used for a dinner on or near the battlefield.

“It’s a bit ghoulish, perhaps, as half of both regiments were either wounded or killed at Kitchener’s Wood.”

The trip is also an opportunity to recog-nize soldiers lost dur-ing the war — literally. Talbot said Ottawa author and researcher Norm Christie has indi-cated there’s possibly an unmarked grave of 48 Canadian Scottish soldiers in land eyed for development. Tal-bot said a regimental piper and their troops will visit that site to pay their respects.

“That will be quite moving. The thing is, that after the battle for Vimy Ridge, the sol-diers were probably buried, then forgotten.”

Talbot added part of the Canadian presence there is to raise aware-ness of the dead buried there and to possibly move them.

Talbot said the Cana-dians will also place plaques at the sites where Canadian Scot-tish soldiers Colonel Cyrus Wesley Peck and Corporal William Henry Metcalf each won the Victoria Cross.

Disclosure: Steven Heywood is a former

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Island soldiers pay respects in France

Photo contributed

A copy of the original Illustrated London News fold out page from April 1915. It was drawn in consultation with a surviving Canadian Scottish officer.

Photo contributed by Eric Schjelderup, Canadian Scottish

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January.Jane graduated from China Medical University in Taiwan and had been a practicing physician in internal medicine for twenty years in Taiwan. Intrigued by the holistic approach of health and wellness, she decided to go back to school for Chinese medicine a� er immigrating to Canada. Chinese medicine contains a tremendous amount of knowledge with an emphasis on lifestyle, diet, sleep, physical activity and emotional modi-� cation. It also emphasizes on the harmony between human beings and nature, as we are only a small part of the larger universe. In addition, it is also important to balance the internal Yin and Yang in our body for better health.Jane is particularly fond of the Chinese medicine philosophy where each human being is di� erent, and the treatments are individualized based on the body types and the needs of the clients. � e same condition may be approached di� erently in di� erent individuals. She spent four years studying Chinese medicine, and she had helped herself, friends and family to alleviate illness, such as headaches, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, arthritis, joint sprains, menstrual cramps and postmenopausal symptoms in women. Besides the physical symptoms, she also helped individuals with psychological problems with Chinese medicine, such as anxiety, depression, insomnia and stress. � e combination of this theoreti-cal knowledge and her clinical experience provides her with advanced skills and con� dence to help her clients.Jane is familiar with various treatment techniques such as cupping, TDP lamp, electric stimulation, Mei Hua needle and Seven Star needle. In particular, she is skillful in acupuncture techniques such as body acupunc-ture, scalp acupuncture, ear acupuncture, abdomen acupuncture, navel acupuncture and Don Shi acupuncture. Utilizing the holography theory, she selects di� erent techniques based on the clients’ body type and disease state. In addition to the treatments, she also provides recommendation on diet and lifestyle modi� cation to enhance the treatment outcome.Jane’s background in Western medicine allows her to consider the limita-tions in both Western and Chinese medicine. � is forms the basis of her unique approach of her treatment techniques, where she � nds the � ne balance between Western and Chinese medicine. By recommending her clients to treat acute conditions with Western medicine and utilize Chinese medicine for the root of the illness, Jane provides the outcome of optimal health for her clients.

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Angie’s Exploring the Balkan region through photosThe birthplace of Europe’s first advanced civilizations,

the Balkans are a region rich with history, mythology and religious diversity.

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Ticket Giveaway for “Centre Stage in Vegas”If the song stylings of Elvis, Sinatra and Cohen get your toes tapping,

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Email your name, phone number and Elvis’s birthday to [email protected] by 5 p.m. Sunday, April 26.

One winner will be randomly drawn and notified Monday, April 27. Good luck, or as they say in show business, break a leg!

The Haunted Bookshop hosting book fair, offering appraisals with proceeds benefiting Sidney ArchivesAngela Cowan News staff

In honour of literacy, a love of leather-bound volumes, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cul-tural Organization’s annual book celebration, Sidney’s Haunted Bookshop is hosting a book fair starting on UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day next Thurs-

day. On April 23, bibliophiles the world over will be celebrat-

ing their favourite stories among the rare and unique, in any place they can set up.

“This was meant to benefit book reading,” says Haunted Bookshop owner Odean Long of the book fair. “People are

having them all over the place. In halls, in barns, in tents even.”

Many book fairs put on by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers go for a full week, and are often expensive, she says. The ‘pop-up’ book fair next week brings a more informal nature to the experience.

Three booksellers are coming in to join Long in show-ing off their collectible wares: Michael Thompson from Hornby Island, William Matthews from Salt Spring Island, and Bjarne Tokerud from Victoria.

“They’ll be bringing some really outstanding material,” says Long. “Chinese documents, antiquarian books, leather-bound volumes, books with marvellous hand-painted colour plates.”

The fair runs from April 23 to 25, with a day of appraisals offered on the Saturday. The public is welcome to bring in old items from grandma’s attic to see if they’re worth any-thing, for a fee of just $10 per item.

“It’s just like the antiques road show, only it’s old books.”

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Tom Thornbury of the Haunted Bookshop is getting ready for a three-day book fair April 23 to 25.

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Angie’s Exploring the Balkan region through photosThe birthplace of Europe’s first advanced civilizations,

the Balkans are a region rich with history, mythology and religious diversity.

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The evening runs from 7 p.m. to 8 at 10091 Resthaven Drive. Register by calling 250-656-0944 or emailing [email protected].

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By Angela Cowan

Ticket Giveaway for “Centre Stage in Vegas”If the song stylings of Elvis, Sinatra and Cohen get your toes tapping,

then the Peninsula Singers have the show for you. Centre Stage in Vegas takes over the Mary Winspear May 1 to 3, and

the PNR has two tickets to give away for the Sunday matinee perfor-mance.

Email your name, phone number and Elvis’s birthday to [email protected] by 5 p.m. Sunday, April 26.

One winner will be randomly drawn and notified Monday, April 27. Good luck, or as they say in show business, break a leg!

The Haunted Bookshop hosting book fair, offering appraisals with proceeds benefiting Sidney ArchivesAngela Cowan News staff

In honour of literacy, a love of leather-bound volumes, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cul-tural Organization’s annual book celebration, Sidney’s Haunted Bookshop is hosting a book fair starting on UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day next Thurs-

day. On April 23, bibliophiles the world over will be celebrat-

ing their favourite stories among the rare and unique, in any place they can set up.

“This was meant to benefit book reading,” says Haunted Bookshop owner Odean Long of the book fair. “People are

having them all over the place. In halls, in barns, in tents even.”

Many book fairs put on by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers go for a full week, and are often expensive, she says. The ‘pop-up’ book fair next week brings a more informal nature to the experience.

Three booksellers are coming in to join Long in show-ing off their collectible wares: Michael Thompson from Hornby Island, William Matthews from Salt Spring Island, and Bjarne Tokerud from Victoria.

“They’ll be bringing some really outstanding material,” says Long. “Chinese documents, antiquarian books, leather-bound volumes, books with marvellous hand-painted colour plates.”

The fair runs from April 23 to 25, with a day of appraisals offered on the Saturday. The public is welcome to bring in old items from grandma’s attic to see if they’re worth any-thing, for a fee of just $10 per item.

“It’s just like the antiques road show, only it’s old books.”

Find rare and unusual books and letters


Tom Thornbury of the Haunted Bookshop is getting ready for a three-day book fair April 23 to 25.

PLEASE SEE: Three-day book fair, page 13

Formal appraisal fees can run upward of $100 per hour and are gen-erally only done for insurance pur-poses or if a person is donating a piece, says Long.

“So rather than charging these big fees, which few people can really afford, we thought we would just charge $10 per item.”

The fees will go directly to the Sid-ney Archives in the hope that it will help support the purchase of books and documents vital to preserving the history of Sidney.

“In my estimation, the

archives are sorely, sorely under-funded,” says Long. “I know how hard Brad (Morrison, the curator) works, and how passionate he is about the collection and hopefully it will grow.

“Because I am an antiquarian book dealer, and I do deal in old documents and old photographs and maps, I know that sort of archival material is equally important as the household goods and medals that get donated to the museum,” she says.

“Documents are very important to our history.”

The book fair runs April 23 to 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the Haunted Bookshop, 9807 Third Street

in Sidney. All the books will be for sale. Appraisals will be available all day Saturday, at $10 per item.

For more information, visit www.sidneypopupbook-fair.blogspot.ca or call The Haunted Book-shop at 250-656-8805.For more background on UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day, visit http://bit.ly/1aEqHmS.

reporter@peninsula

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Three-day book fair celebrating literacyContinued from page 12

A new kind of schoolhouse rockMs. Maxine brings old soul, jazz and blues to the stage with an awe-inspiring presence


To say that Lisa Kjernisted isn’t your average elementary teacher is an understatement.

Better known musically as Ms. Maxine, the 44-year-old, with her band One Wish, rocks out on stage, channelling the powerful soul of Nina Sim-one and Ella Fitzgerald, with a dash of funk thrown in for good measure.

Her talents are well-recognized locally with a solid fan-base and the guitar-playing singer recently made the cut into CBC Searchlight’s regional semi-finals with her song This Dish.

Kjernisted, who teaches at Sid-ney Elementary School and made the Searchlight regional semi-finals last year as well, says the support from her com-munity, both personally and from her school, has been amazing.

“My kids treat me like a rock star,” she says with a smile.

She and a fellow teacher got the kids to listen to Kjernisted’s song — without telling them who’d sung it, she emphasized — and the response was resoundingly positive.

“They were grooving along. It was so awesome to see these kids totally rocking out.”

Kjernisted’s been musical her entire life, she says, taking up ukulele, clarinet, trumpet and gui-

tar at various ages with equal parts passion and determination.

The variety of instruments is interesting, con-sidering Kjernisted’s right hand has been mostly paralyzed since she was an infant, the result of an extremely high fever and a temporary swelling of the brain that caused motor damage.

“My parents were very wise,” she says. “They said, ‘we’ll never tell her she can’t do anything.’”

That unconditional support certainly helped, but as Kjernisted herself admits, “I’ve always been a very determined person.”

When she first picked up the clarinet, she loved it.

“But what a ridiculous instrument to play,” she says, laughing. “I could play half the clarinet. I asked my mother years later why she’d ever let me learn it, and she just said, ‘well, we couldn’t have stopped you.”

So instead, she took up trum-pet, and played at a high level for years.

But though she lived for music, a debilitating case of stage fright developed as she moved into her

teen years and any hope of performing in front of an audience disappeared under the profuse shak-ing that took hold of her before a show.

Kjernisted finally conquered the shakes in part when she shifted genres from classical to blues, jazz and soul, feeling like she’d finally found her place in music.

Songwriting came about five years ago.“I wrote a bunch of tunes in a period of a couple

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Lisa Kjernisted, better known on stage as Ms. Maxine, made the cut to get into the CBC Searchlight regional semi-finals with her song This Dish. The results of the next cut - from top 25 to top 10 in each region, were announced Tuesday, April 21, after the News Review’s press deadline.

“My parents were very wise...they said, ‘we’ll never tell her she can’t do anything.’”

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years,” she says, including her song, Catching Up, which made Searchlight’s regional semi-finals last year.

It was a necessary shift into focusing on her own creativity, after spending a number of years doing band photography, and helping others with their music.

But though her stage fright may have been left well behind, Kjernisted found the daunting pros-pect of having to ask for votes nearly enough to dissuade her from entering Searchlight for the second year.

“I found it horrible to ask for votes,” she says. “It’s a little overwhelming and it’s a bit uncomfort-able.”

That feeling lingered until she read a blog post by a musician she admired who reframed the situ-ation into a sharing experience.

“Think of it from a sharing perspective. You’re sharing your music,” says Kjernisted. “If you don’t share it, you could have fans that may not know they like you.”

She’s also stopped apologizing when she shares her songs, she declares with a slap of her hand on the table.

“I’ve stopped!” Entering into Searchlight nearly didn’t happen

this year, she adds, but for a tweet. “A senior producer at CBC sent out a bunch

of emails to everyone who’d entered last year, encouraging them to enter again,” she says.

Kjernisted hummed and hawed, then sent him a link to the song she was thinking about submitting.

“And he tweeted back! I thought, just go for it!” The next round of Searchlight cuts each region’s

top 25 down to the top 10. The results were set to be released Tuesday (after the News Review’s press deadline), and while Kjernisted is excited, her biggest goal is just to keep getting her music heard.

“I just have to keep doing things like Searchlight to get the music out there,” she says.

“It’s been 20 years of hard work, but I do it for the love of it.”

For more information and for free tracks, visit http://music.cbc.ca/#!/artists/MsMaxine.

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to retire. The restaurant closed and the furnishings were spread to the wind. Now that the restaurant has made a comeback, Yu said he’s searching high and low for some of the original interior decorations, chairs and tables.Yu said he moved to China to work for a few

years after the family business closed. When he and his wife Kimberly returned, he found that many people asked him if the restaurant was coming back as well.“People just seemed to miss it so much,” he

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littlest ones to the library for stories, songs, rhymes and fun. Runs to May 21, 10:15-11 a.m. Ages 0-5 years. Free. Drop-in. Call 250-656-0944.

HealthFall prevention

For Men and Women (OSTEOFIT) session runs to May 19 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 to 11 a.m. Call 250-656-5537.

MeetingsneW drop-in For

help with tablets and laptops now available for seniors at SHOAL Activity

Centre, Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. to noon.Volunteers will help with questions and tips.

saaniCh peninsula toastMasters Open House takes place Tuesday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sidney Library in the Nell Horth Room. Come and learn what Toastmasters is all about. For more information contact Gwen at 250-656-3738 or go to http://1288.toastmasters.org.

a Balkan odyssey at the Sidney North Saanich Library. Chris Mundigler presents a photographic odyssey through Eastern Europe. Wednesday, April 29, 7 to 8 p.m. Free. Register at 250-656-0944.

the White Cane Club meet on the 1st Thursday of every month, at 1:30 p.m. at the SHOAL Centre. Next meeting is on Thursday, May 7. There will be a presentation by the Pacific Institute for the Blind. Please plan to attend.

FundraiserssprinG FlinG at

St. Mary’s Church, East Saanich Road and Cultra Avenue, Saanichton. Saturday, April 25, 9:30 a.m. to noon. Great thrift shop bargains; home baking and more. Free admission. Handicapped accessible. For info. call Leslie 250-652-1611.

save the Mothers Walk, Saturday, May 9. Step out to improve maternal health in the developing world. Join us in a 5 km walk/run across the beautiful Mt. Newton Valley, starting at 9:30 a.m. from St. Mary’s Church (East Saanich Rd. @ Cultra Ave.) and culminating at St. Stephen’s Church (St. Stephen’s Rd.) with a BBQ. All ages welcome. Register at www.walkformothersday.com or for more information go to the Parish of Central Saanich website www.parishcs.ca.

Car Boot and Craft

Sale at St. Stephen’s church, 7921 St. Stephen Rd. off Mt. Newton X Rd., on May 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.On the grounds rain or shine. To reserve a spot to sell your stuff, email [email protected]. There is a fee of $15. In the hall, there are tables for rent for crafters, $20. Both must also be booked and paid in advance. Details at parishcs.ca or email [email protected].

Join us at the 27th annual Dean Park Garage Sale on Saturday, April 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Dean Park area of North Saanich. For more information, visit www.dpeca.ca.

VolunteersCoMMunity

volunteer inCoMe tax program (CVITP) will be available at SHOAL Centre, Sidney through the Beacon Community Services Volunteer Services office until Thursday, April 30. For details, call 250-656-5537.


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Three dedicated women have been rec-ognized by Central Saa-nich Extreme Fastball with lifetime honours.

During their opening day ceremonies April 12, the trio — Lyne Junger, Allison Duthie and Patti Flanigan — were recognized for their years on and off the field with Extreme Fastball.

Dave Hamer, current club president, says each in their own way have contributed to making the girls fast-ball and softball club as strong as it is today. Both Junger and Duthie were on the club’s executive committee since 2008, Hamer said, and Flanigan has been a coach with Extreme Fastball since the 1994-’95 season — essen-tially the beginning of the league.

Junger and Duthie, Hamer continued, helped keep the club alive in 2008 when interest had ebbed to only 63 players.

“During that year, Lyne was the vice-pres-ident and had her hand in everything, trying to keep it going,” Hamer said. “It’s because of their efforts, keeping up the club, that we are so successful today.”

Duthie was the league registrar, Hamer added, working late nights to get player information and club details off to the provincial body.

This season, Extreme Fastball in Central Saa-nich has around 190 players and 16 teams.

Flanigan, Hamer said, took the girls Under 14 team through the dis-trict playoffs and into the provincial finals two seasons ago. She is still coaching this year, he noted, adding that dedication had to be

included in the lifetime awards as well.

Both Duthie and Junger have stepped

back from the club’s executive committee

this year, Hamer said, and all three women

still have daughters playing for teams within Extreme Fastball.

“They have given a lot of years to the club,” he said. “They have done such a good job for the community.”

The lifetime honours, Hamer said, are about recognizing that con-tribution, although he said he likes to joke that it also gives the trio free admission to any of the club’s games (the games are all free to attend anyway, he laughed).

“They get their names on the (perpet-ual) plaque and keep-ers for themselves, but it’s more about recog-nizing all the time and effort they have put out for the benefit of their community.”

Extreme Fastball games and practices are held at Rom Knott Park in Central Saanich. For more, visit extreme-fastball.com.


SPORTSExtreme Fastball recognizes dedicated trio

Photo contributed by Extreme Fastball

Lyne Junger, Allison Duthie and Patti Flanigan are parents of children playing with Extreme Fastball in Central Saanich. They have also spent a lot of personal time helping the league both on and off the diamond.


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