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Friday, August 24, 2012
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Edward HillNews staff
Greater Victoria seniors needing round-the-clock care will have a modern 260-bed facility in two years as construction gets underway this week in Saanich.
The seven-storey residential care build-ing is the next addition to the Mount View Heights campus of care on Carey Road, and will replace two seniors facilities in the city.
The Heights at Mount View includes 220 residential care units and 40 dementia units, funded through a $60.5-million partnership with Capital Regional Hospital District, the Vancouver Island Health Authority and Bap-tist Housing.
Each unit is designed as a private room with an ensuite washroom and shower, and each floor has a central living area. How-ard Johnson, CEO of Baptist Housing said this is a distinct move away from dorm-like facilities built 30 years ago that had residents sharing rooms, or using common washrooms.
“This is the state of the art, the latest in how we meet the needs of seniors in a home-like environment,” Johnson said. “It’s a setting that moves away from an insti-tutional approach to care. It’s a home-like environment that creates a better delivery of care.”
Under the three-way agreement, Baptist Housing will operate and own the public care facility, and has arranged $38 million in financing, the bulk of the capital construc-tion costs.
Work begins on modern residential care building‘Campus of care’ in Saanich adding seven-storey, 260-room facility
PLEASE SEE: Second facility, Page A10
Photo courtesy of the University of Victoria/NASA
Canadian astronaut Julie Payette floats in the space shuttle Endeavour during a mission to the International Space Station in July 2009. Payette is speaking about her experiences in space at the University of Victoria Monday night.
Natalie NorthNews staff
Julie Payette doesn’t expect future gen-erations to remember individual astro-nauts who assembled the International Space Station.
But the 48-year-old Canadian astronaut, who logged 611 hours in space contribut-ing to the mission, believes the engineer-ing feat will go down in the history books.
“It’s extremely humbling at times and
it’s an extraordinary opportunity to con-tribute very slightly to a fantastic endea-vour,” said Payette, the Canadian Space Agency’s former chief astronaut.
“(It’s) one of the most important things that human beings have done ... to con-struct in one of the harshest environments possible, outer space, for the sole purpose of advancing knowledge in a completely peaceful manner.”
Payette, an electrical engineer and native of Montreal, was the first Canadian to board the International Space Station in 1999 during NASA’s second flight to the station on the spacecraft Discovery.
After seven years as the CSA’s top astro-naut and a decade after her first flight, Payette boarded the space shuttle Endea-
vour on its 29th mission to the space sta-tion. On that flight, Payette served as the flight engineer, the most senior position a non-American can obtain on a space shuttle.
She was one of two Canadians and the only woman aboard.
“After a while, characteristics like nation-ality, mother tongue or gender become very secondary,” Payette said in an inter-view from Washington D.C.
“Other people expect you to do your job. If you do it well and with competence and you’re reliable, those little differences are secondary.”
Lessons from Earth orbitAstronaut Julie Payette reflects on her work in space at UVic Monday
PLEASE SEE: Astronaut, Page A5
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At the creek’s edge in Mount Doug Park, Georg Dischner spots food wrappers on the ground, shakes his head, and stuffs the trash in his pocket.
The park has become the daily stomping ground for the young Bavarian. The Douglas fir and cedar forest, creeks and beach are like his office, but people keep junking up his workspace.
Dischner, 22, is the Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society’s first ever summer intern, a student in forest management from the Munich Technical University, in Germany. He found the 181-hectare park, and the society, over the Internet.
“Mount Doug is such a great natural area. It impressed me a lot and I was able to learn about it 9,000 kilometres away,” Dischner
says. “I decided it looked like a good place for an internship.”
“It is perfect here. The Saanich district is beautiful,” he adds. “Get-ting to work here every day is impressive.”
In partnership with the Saanich parks department, the society has kept Dischner busy with plant sur-veys along Douglas creek, learning techniques for restoring salmon habitat, locating danger trees and pulling invasive plant species, although he admits part of his time also involves picking up garbage.
“I don’t get that. People come here to enjoy nature and then pol-lute it,” Dischner says. “People who visit the park should be con-cerned about the natural areas. I find the doggy bags every day.”
The Friends of Mount Doug will use Dischner’s expertise on forest sustainability to make headway in reducing flooding through the forest floor, and silt buildup in the salmon-bearing creek. It’s a prob-lem that threatens to undo years of painstaking restoration efforts.
“An intern is new for us, but we certainly welcome Georg,” says park society president Darrell Wick. “We are lining him up with as many different experiences as pos-
sible. I haven’t found something he can’t do yet. He’s keen to learn everything.”
With Dischner and Wick in their official looking work vests, we walk to a vantage point above Douglas creek, a few hundred metres from the ocean. Wick describes the dif-ficult process to haul in gravel, rocks and woody debris down the ravine, which has given coho and chum a fighting chance to spawn, without eggs being washed away in storm surges.
Some years they’ll see 100 salmon in the creek, some years less. During winter, volunteers also seed the creek with salmon carcasses to introduce nutrients to the soil. Salmon tossing has become a community event.
“Carcasses are important to the trees. If you haven’t thrown a carcass, you haven’t lived,” Wick laughs. “Chum is nature’s fertilizer. You can measure it in the trees.”
This year they plan more of the same – positioning logs and boul-ders to create deeper creek beds and pools. Much of the work is an effort to slow down winter storm-water that can barrel through the park ecosystem like a freight train.
When Gordon Head was farm-
land, rain percolated into the for-est slowly. Replace that with roads, roofs and driveways, and the rain suddenly has no brakes, Wicks points out. Most of the stormwater in this part of Saanich empties into the creek through a weir.
“(The weir) is under designed. It doesn’t take much rain to flow over,” says Wick, a 22-year volun-teer with the park society.
We walk over boardwalk ties half sunk into the earth in the for-est below Mount Doug, and Wick points out exposed roots of Doug-las firs, victims of a chain reaction of silt filling a marsh area, leading to flooding through the forest.
“That tree went over, that tree went over,” he says of Douglas firs lying across the forest floor, felled by wind and weak roots. “Douglas firs don’t like wet roots.”
Georg enjoys this more obscure area of the forest, below the road that splits the park. Traffic noise doesn’t come through and there are few dog walkers. He sets off to start his tasks for the day.
“I like this park area. I get to work in the creek, and pulling inva-sives. It’s quiet,” he says. “Every place in the park is beautiful.”
German university student in forestry Georg Dischner (right) is interning and volunteering with the Mount Douglas Park Society this summer to get a hands-on look at forest habitat restoration. Here Dischner and society president Darrell Wick stand in a trench formed by water flowing from a stormwater pipe that needs an upgrade.
Edward Hill/News staff
Fixing the forests of Mount Doug
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As Greater Victoria stu-dents get equipped to head back to school, many kids around the world are going back to class with-out any supplies.
The Compassionate Resource Warehouse wants to send supplies to Nigeria, Philippines, Thai-land and Moldova to help students there improve their chances at getting an education.
The warehouse is col-lecting school supplies (as well as medical supplies, clothing, linens, hand tools and cash) Saturday, Aug. 25 at Lumberworld, 3955 Quadra St. The next ship-ping container of supplies sent overseas will be the 337th sent by the group founded by Saanich Coun. Leif Wergeland.
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Birder Goeffre Newell of the Friends of Uplands Park is leading a free pub-lic bird walk from Cattle Point through Uplands Park on Sunday at 8 a.m.
Meet at Cattle Point by the first boat launch. Bring binoculars, bird books or checklists or simply show up to enjoy the outing, rain or shine.
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Get ready to feast on spanako-pita, souvlaki and gyros at Greek Fest next week.
The free, family-friendly event, put on by the Victoria and Van-couver Island Greek Commu-nity Society, features a variety of Mediterranean food, live music and folk dance.
But the festival isn’t just a cel-ebration of Greek culture, it’s a celebration of community, says one organizer.
“It’s not only Greek stuff,” Jim Koutougos, vice president of the society, said. “We definitely cel-ebrate the Greek culture, and in general Greekness, but we’ve actually created a little bit more of a multicultural festival.”
Now in it’s 11th year, the fes-tival is based on the Greek tra-
dition of philoxenia, or “love of strangers.”
In Greek culture, neighbours often invite strangers or acquain-tances to festivals and make them feel at home, Koutougos explained. “This is carrying on a tradition that you will find all over Greece.”
Each year the festival keeps growing, Koutougos said. An esti-mated 30,000 people attended the week-long festival last year.
This year’s event will include more seating, and more enter-tainment, he said, including performances from Spanish flamenco to Polynesian drum-ming.
“It’s more of a folk festival,” Koutougos said.
There will also be heritage exhibits, arts and crafts and face-painting. As well, Greek dancers from Mesologi, Greece, will be returning to perform.
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Greek Fest runs Tuesday to Monday (Aug. 28 to Sept. 3), 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., at the front of Commonwealth Place, 4648 Elk Lake Dr. See www.greekfest.ca for more information.
Greek Fest widens scopeGreek food abounds, but event now a folk celebration
While the annual Greek festival is the main fund-raiser for the Victoria and Vancouver Island Greek Community Society, dona-tions and proceeds from vendor purchases will con-tribute to several different causes.
The society partnered with the Saanich Fire Department to raise funds for the hot lunch program, which provides food for children in Victoria schools.
On Aug. 28, 10 per cent of proceeds will go to Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock.
As well, there will be a 10 per cent discount on all food items for seniors on Aug. 30.
While the shuttle was docked to the ISS, Payette operated three robotic arms, alongside a record 12 other astronauts from five different nations.
“People work as a team,” she added. “That’s the beauty of it. They do not stop at these kinds of details. If we brought back some of those lessons to Earth a little bit more, it could be use-ful.”
Despite her commitment to education and physical determi-nation, Payette sees experienc-ing life inside a spacecraft not so much as a personal accom-plishment but more a profes-sional duty she has been hired and trained to execute.
But she also admits it’s the best job in the world.
“To ride a rocket is an amaz-ing ride. To go around the Earth at 28,000 kilometres an hour, circling once every hour and a half – to see how beautiful our planet is, is a huge privilege. Then there’s weightlessness. It’s actually quite comfortable and a lot of fun to float.”
In those moments of relax-ation, Payette added to the expe-rience by packing music from a range of Canadian artists – from Celine Dion on her first flight, to B.C.’s Theory of Deadman on her second – as a to tribute to the people she represents.
“It’s very peaceful to float to a window and see the Earth passing by below. … It’s the
only place we have right now. More than seven billion of us share this one planet and at this moment there’s nowhere else we can go.
“It’s our common spaceship. Astronauts are trying to take meticulous care of their space-ship because it is what keeps them alive in the harshness of space. Well so is Earth, for all of us.”
Payette will share experiences from her space flights during The Earth from Above: An Astronaut’s Perspective at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 27 in the University of Vic-toria’s Farquhar Auditorium.
All seats to the free lecture are currently reserved, though more may be released through the box office at 250-721-8480.
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Richard Hudson sweeps his finger across a world map affixed to his tabletop and offers a quiet overview of the some-80,000 kilometres he sailed from France to Argentina to Canada and most recently, through the Northwest passage.
After four attempts, the computer systems administrator from Toronto became one of the small but growing number of mariners who have successfully navigated through the nearly 1,600 kilometre arctic archipelago.
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Hudson, who arrived in Victoria this summer on his 15-metre sailboat, Issuma, after completing the passage in 2011 and wintering in Alaska.
“When there are some clouds, so it’s not shining horribly brightly, and when the wind is not very strong … when the waves aren’t very big, so you’re not worried about being blown out onto a rock – that’s a beautiful day on the water.”
According to Tony Soper, Brit-ish author and arctic expedition leader who tracks traffic through the passage, Issuma is the 151st boat through the Northwest passage.
At roughly one-third less distance to Asia than via the Panama Canal, the passage has long been a desired route for shipping between Europe and Asia.
Before the year 2000, only a small number of icebreaker ships had been through the passage, but with climate change opening up the chan-nel for a longer period of each sum-mer, the number of pleasure craft in the passage is on the rise, along with commercial vessels.
The Northern Canada Vessel Traf-fic Services Zone, or NORDREG, tracked 13 pleasure craft through the Northwest passage in 2011. In both 2009 and 2010, 11 small ves-sels made the trip and in 2008, NORDREG counted just six. Ves-sels under 300 gross tons, such as Issuma, aren’t required to file a trip plan and aren’t counted.
Hudson spent the majority of the 13-month trip with two other crew members before wintering for six months in Alaska, and, eventu-ally landing at West Bay Marina in Esquimalt.
Designed for the icy waters of Ant-arctica, Issuma features a steel keel capable of being hoisted from the
water and a curved hull designed to allow the vessel to pop up rather than be crushed by ice.
Alison Proctor of the University of Victoria’s ocean technology lab returned to the arctic this week to continue work with the Bluefin-12 automated underwater vehicle.
Last August, Proctor and a team from UVic travelled to Nunavut’s King William Island in search of Sir John Franklin’s ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, on which he and 128 men set sail in 1845 in hopes of making it through the passage. They disappeared after 18 months at sea.
“It must have been amazingly challenging to even consider doing it,” Proctor says of those early explorations. “It’s a harsh environ-ment, very desolate.”
The Bluefin’s expedition went as planned for crew members. The experience isn’t comparable to that of mariners on smaller vessels in the passage, Proctor notes.
“There’s a lot of room between (vessels). You can go a long time without seeing anyone and without seeing anyone that can help you if you get into trouble,” she says of sailing the Northwest passage.
From a cabin still stuffed with spare parts, navigational instru-ments and a few comforts of home, Hudson sips a coffee and doles out advice for the growing number of adventurers likely to attempt the passage when it opens up later this month. Spend as much time as pos-sible on the water, he says, and as the boy scouts say: be prepared.
“The charts vary widely in how accurate they are in certain areas and it’s sometimes not easy to get weather forecasts,” he says. “You have to be very self-sufficient.”
Sailing the Northwest passageAs arctic ice melts, more small vessels make the once impossible voyage
Natalie North/News staff
Richard Hudson, on his sailboat Issuma, was the 151st person to sail through the fabled Northwest passage.
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A fragmented cycling network has long been an issue of con-tention for two-wheeled com-muters in Greater Victoria.
Bike ridership sits at 3.2 per cent in the region, a propor-tion that could increase to 15 per cent with proper infra-structure upgrades like sepa-rated bike lanes, according to research from municipalities where cycling investment has occurred.
“Studies seem to show con-fident cyclists are fine on the road,” said Victoria Coun. Char-layne Thornton-Joe. “But to get beyond that core ridership, you really do have to provide a greater sense of safety for more hesistant cyclists.”
A University of B.C. study confirms this belief, showing 82 per cent of Canadians support government spending to create dedicated bike lanes.
Last year, the CRD completed its pedestrian and cycling mas-ter plan. It identifies $275 mil-lion in needed infrastructure improvements to create an inte-grated cycling network, includ-ing 329 kilometres of separated bike lanes.
“It’s a steep hill to climb, but I’m someone who likes to approach these things incre-mentally,” said Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard, referring to the possibility of creating a regional transportation commission to oversee such projects.
Ryan Mijker, board member of the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition, said the benefits of cycling facilities far outweigh the initial costs.
Dedicated trails like the Gal-loping Goose attract tourism dollars and can revitalize dead zones along the routes.
“You can also move a lot more people a lot cheaper by bike than you can by car,” Mijker said. “The most important thing is to fix the gaps now. If we look at the cycling network in Victo-ria, it’s fragmented at best.”
Municipalities always con-sider cycling upgrades as streets are dug up to replace aging infra-structure, said Brad Dellebuur, manager of transportation and infrastructure design for the City of Victoria.
But with a 2013 budget of $250,000 for cycling improve-ments, Dellebuur said the city can only build a skeleton net-work as opportunities arise.
Right now, those works include Craigflower Road, and the city is waiting to hear back from the province about shar-ing the cost of a bike lane down Johnson Street.
“If the CRD goes through with sewage treatment, there may be some works happening along Dallas Road,” he said. “But that won’t be next year.”
And a regional plan with clear and stable funding could still be a long way off.
The CRD’s upcoming regional transportation plan – which factors in the pedestrian and cycling plan – is only just getting underway and due to be com-pleted in December 2013.
“Right now, we’re in a wait-and-see mode,” said Leonard, who along with Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin, is advocating for CRD control over Greater Victo-ria transit.
An independent advisory panel recommended Aug. 14 that the province create legisla-tion to allow greater local gov-ernment input in B.C. Transit decisions.
“If the province gives the CRD transit, that’s the first step,” Leonard said.
Rather than forcing each municipality’s council to lobby for provincial and federal cash independently, the CRD could then present stronger business cases and decide upon a steady funding model for transporta-tion upgrades.
A regional model requires all 13 municipalities to sign onto the agreement, a significant hurdle. Leonard argues those hurdles are a necessary evil.
“Taxpayers should be relieved that the CRD can’t get into certain functions without the municipalities agreeing to it. ... There’s a check and balance here,” he said.
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The region has a fragmented cycling network. A recent study suggested that 82 per cent of Candians support spending to create dedicated bike lanes.
The future of cyclingA regional transportation authority could go hand in hand with creating integrated cycling networks
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Monday night’s movie screen-ing started earlier than I’d figured.
I thought there was time to sneak home from work, eat dinner and put my kid to bed, before rushing off to cover that Monday movie thing I’ve been hear-ing about.
Turns out it’s the best kept secret around.
I walked into the hallway of the Eric Martin Pavilion at 8 p.m. There’s some-thing about the smell of an old hospital that can slow time. By my count I was 90 minutes late for the start of that night’s documentary, Wiebo’s War.
No sooner was I through the door of the pavilion when I stumbled onto the group. Five people, two couches and a 30 inch tube TV. In the hallway?
So this is Movie Monday?, I thought. It’s smaller than I had pre-dicted, and it seems like a lot of effort for just a few people.
Organizer Bruce Saunders was one of the five sitting in the well-lit hallway, and I knew I was in the right place. There was a giant Mon-day Movie sign and everything.
I sat on the floor of the hallway behind the couches.
Wiebo’s War, if you haven’t seen it, is a fascinating tale about Wiebo Ludwig and the people of Trickle Creek in northern Alberta. And it quickly drew me in.
The community, who are referred to as Ludwigs, explain their fight
against the neighbouring gas mines, which have slowly poisoned them over the past two decades.
Knowing that I was in the Eric Martin Pavilion, which traditionally cared for people with mental health issues, and know-ing Saunders’ own per-sonal history with mental health issues, I was ready for anything.
So when white-linen-suit-guy got up and walked around during the climax of the movie, I judged not. He crossed the hall, opened a door
to a lecture theatre, and disap-peared inside. Boy did I feel smart when, through the open door, I could see the dark theatre was full of people with the same movie on a giant screen.
Oh, that’s Movie Monday.“We provide the TV and couches
in the hallway so people can come and go,” Saunders explained to me later. “Some people don’t like to sit down too long, and we like to accommodate if we can.”
When the movie ended I entered the main theatre. It was nearly full, and almost everyone stayed put as the lights came on. Saunders took the microphone, held it to a speak-erphone and phoned the director of Wiebo’s War, David York.
“Hi David.”“Hi Bruce.”York fielded 80 minutes worth of
questions from the audience while Saunders moderated.
It was a great Q&A, full money’s
worth (admission is by donation and averages $2 per head).
“Directors want to talk about their movies,” Saunders said. “But it’s common to get 10 minutes or so at a film festival.”
And anyone who stuck around on Monday learned the true brilliance of York. Which means Saunders is essentially running a year round film festival.
Saunders created the weekly viewings in the Eric Martin lecture theatre in 1993, following a stint as an in-patient after his second attempt at suicide.
He got an idea to use movies to create a positive environment for people with mental illness, at least a better option than regular TV.
He ran his first Q&A in 1993, his first year of running Movie Monday. It was for Benny and Joon, a movie that deals with schizophrenia, with director Jeremiah Chechik.
In the 1990s he also ran One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, perhaps the most famed movie about men-tal health, and spoke with director Milos Forman.
Saunders is all for breaking down stigmas around mental health, but he runs all kinds of shows.
“The Canadian films in particu-lar of all the films we run are much more creative and important than what Hollywood offers, but people just don’t know about them.”
This Monday (Aug. 27) he’s show-ing Love That Boy, a 2003 comedy from Halifax.
- Travis Paterson is the Black Press regional sports reporter.
Power of the small screen
Playing catchup with care homesWhen people are nearing the end of their
lives, our health system needs public facilities that are safe and respectful, for
the residents and their families.The need, while great now, will only increase
over the next decades as this population of Greater Victoria ages. In the region, about one in every five people is older than 65. About six per cent are older than 80.
Which is why breaking ground on The Heights at Mount View couldn’t come soon enough. Planned for 260 beds, this $60 million residential care facility on Carey Road in Saanich – part of what has been coined “the campus of care” – will replace two older care homes in downtown Victoria.
It’s reasonable that some residents in the Carey Road area are peeved a seven storey building is going up in the midst of mainly single family homes.
Saanich council heard the protests but recognized that the convergence of having public land, funding partners and the political will as too rare to pass up. Rezoning for density and height makes sense in this case, despite breaking the mould for the neighbourhood.
Oak Bay council may want to take a lesson from this. That council denied a few variances to allow Oak Bay Lodge to be redeveloped with 320 care beds. It called the proposed building too big for the neighbourhood.
If communities want their seniors to age in place and near amenities, communities have to play ball and be willing to provide the means to do so.
There are no perfect locations, especially in urban centres, for large residential care buildings. But they remain a necessary option for seniors who can’t care for themselves.
These projects just aren’t about replacing aging beds and old buildings with modern equivalents.
As the operator, Baptist Housing, put it, it’s about moving away from the institutional model of caring for seniors.
To say it another way, it’s trying to get rid of the warehousing of our most vulnerable citizens.
‘Five people, two couches and a 30 inch tube TV. In the hallway?’
Travis PatersonIsland Insider
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OPINION
Readers respond: Songhees islands, ICBC, pipeline and speeding taxis
Seek ways to keep islands in public use
Re: Songhees limit access to Discovery Island (News, Aug. 3)
It will be sad to see Chatham and part of Discovery islands closed to public use because of a few inconsiderate jerks.
I can understand the Songhees wanting to protect their property from harm and to keep it clean and tidy.
My proposal is that the Songhees consider renting the islands to the federal or provincial governments, and let them take responsibility for patrolling and maintaining them, ban all fires, and impose heavy
fines for violators.I go fishing around Discovery
Island most of the year, and rarely do I see anyone there, except in July and August, and very few even then.
I do hope an amicable solution can be found that allows for the respectful use of the islands.
Peter GillSaanich
ICBC offers ‘best value’ to insurance customers
Re: ICBC Executives Make Drunken Sailors Blush (Opinion, Aug. 22)
Jordan Bateman must not have taken a look at comparable auto insurance coverage or the even more excessive executive salaries in the private sector if he thinks privatizing ICBC will be the solution to higher rates.
Independent studies by Statistics Canada and the Consumers Association of Canada have shown public auto insurance gives the best value to customers.
Since ICBC was established on March 1, 1974, British Columbians have enjoyed reduced insurance fraud, safer roads and lower rates. Part of this is because, ICBC was designed to operate on a non-profit, break-even basis.
So where is the real issue? Executive salaries at ICBC are too high and should be dealt with, but that’s only exacerbated in the private sector.
The biggest problem at ICBC,
one that Mr. Bateman does not address, is that the government hasn’t stayed true to ICBC’s break-even mandate.
Christy Clark’s government is treating ICBC as their cash cow, raiding over $1.2 billion from the corporation’s coffers even as they ask ICBC workers to continue their wage freeze and B.C. drivers to pay higher insurance premiums.
If there are any savings com-ing out of the government review, how do we know they won’t be funneled back into government coffers? British Columbians need to know savings will be used to reduce rates for drivers and keep the unionized workforce at ICBC from falling further behind.
When Manitoba’s public insurer was found to have overcharged its customers, they gave every-one a rebate.
The government’s mismanage-ment of ICBC hurts both their employees and B.C. drivers. Siphoning off ICBC’s profits was never what was intended for our public insurance corporation.
Jeff GilliesVice-president, COPE 378
‘Ask voters’ best pipeline suggestion so far
Re: Ask voters if they want a pipeline (Opinion, Aug. 15)
Although B.C. Premier Christy Clark tries to appear neutral and open-minded in regards to the Northern Gateway oil sands project’s potentially detrimental
environmental consequences, it’s fairly clear that she’s hoping for any piece of scraps thrown B.C.’s way by Alberta Premier Alison Redford.
So your editorial is likely the best idea so far that I’ve heard.
But as for Clark’s B.C.’s “fair share” ultimatum, hopefully Redford’s foolish, tight-fistedness will give only more reason for B.C.ers and perhaps even our government – not to mention fuel for the eco-warriors’ fight against the project – to just say, to hell with the whole thing.
Frank G. Sterle, Jr.White Rock
No thanks to piping oil to the B.C. coast
I am strongly against piping oil to the B.C. coast.
Why does Premier Christy Clark put a price on it when she doesn’t know the true value – like the cost of spills either on land or in the water.
No thank you.Annette Maulding
Victoria
Taxi speed, driving habitsa Victoria-wide issue
I read your articles about speeding taxis in James Bay.
Taxis are out of control in Victoria – not just in James Bay.
They regularly speed, make U-turns on Douglas Street, hold up traffic picking up customers. When the nightclub close, it is a complete zoo. It’s an accident waiting to happen.
Frederik Reymerink Victoria
Fewer folks ignoring Earth-warming evidence
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Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real,
even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge.
According to a recent poll, only two per cent of Canadians reject the overwhelming scientific evidence that Earth is warming at alarming rates – a figure that may seem surprising given the volume of nonsense deniers (many of them funded by the fossil fuel industry) spread through letters to the editor, blogs, radio call-ins, and website comments.
Polling indicates more deniers live in the U.S., but they still make up just 15 per cent of that population.
It’s getting harder to ignore the evidence: record high worldwide temperatures; increasing extreme weather events; devastating droughts, floods, and wildfires; animal and plant species turning
up where they’ve never been found before; record ice loss in the Arctic and Greenland; melting glaciers … The trends are exactly
as climate scientists predicted.
Meanwhile, one of the few skeptic climate scientists, Richard Muller, recently reversed his thinking. Muller and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, studied climate data dating back to 1753, then looked at possible causes of the unusual warming
observed since the mid-1950s. (Ironically, the study was funded in part by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, founded by climate change skeptics with heavy interests in the fossil fuel industry.)
Their conclusion? It’s not the sun. It’s not volcanoes. The most likely cause is humans spewing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, mainly by burning fossil fuels.
This isn’t news to most climate scientists.
As evidence builds, deniers are starting to change their tune. They once said global warming isn’t happening, and some claimed the world is actually cooling.
Now, heat records are being broken worldwide – this past decade was the hottest on record. Many scientists say the situation is even more severe than first thought, with temperatures and impacts increasing faster than predicted.
Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it. Muller’s study was just one of many to demolish that theory.
Our climate has always changed, and natural variation is part of that. But scientists have long known that carbon dioxide and other gases trap heat in the atmosphere.
Recent warming is occurring at an unprecedented rate that corresponds to burning fossil
fuels. According to NASA, global average temperatures have been rising significantly since the 1970s, “with the 20 warmest years having occurred since 1981 and with all 10 of the warmest years occurring in the past 12 years.” North America just experienced the hottest July on record, and the first seven months of 2012 were the warmest, on average, in more than 100 years.
This evidence has caused some deniers to change their tune again. Yes, the Earth is warming, they say, but whether it’s from natural or human causes, we can’t do anything about it, so we might as well continue with business as usual, maybe employing technological fixes to help us adapt.
There’s also a subset of deniers who see some nefarious conspiracy in climate science and “Agenda 21” (a nonbinding, voluntary UN agreement on sustainable development) to impose a world government or something, but their irrational arguments aren’t worth the time of day.
The truth is, as most of us know that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. We also know solutions lie in energy conservation, shifting to renewable sources, and changing our patterns of energy use.
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It’s too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
The side benefits are numerous: less pollution and environmental destruction, better human health, stronger and more diversified economies, and a likely reduction in global conflicts fuelled by the rapacious drive to exploit finite resources.
We can all work to reduce our individual impacts. But we must also convince our political and business leaders that it’s time to put people – especially our children, grandchildren, and generations yet to come – before profits.
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in financing, the bulk of the capital construction costs. CRHD is contributing $18.1 million in capital costs and is leasing the land to Baptist for 25 years. VIHA will pay annual operating costs, plus funds to pay down Baptist’s loan.
“VIHA is very pleased that we can now make real progress in renewing some of the outdated residential care capacity that is in dire need of replacement,” Howard Waldner, VIHA’s presi-dent and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
Unique to this facility are 40 units dedicated to dementia care, which will allow seniors with early stages of dementia to live as independently as possi-ble, and among people with the same level of mental acuity.
Outdated care models tend to group people with light demen-tia in with residents needing more intensive care, which only aids in a more rapid decline of dementia residents, Johnson said.
“We find that when peo-ple with light dementia move
into complex care, they don’t fit in well with complex resi-dents. Their level of care needs increases dramatically,” he said. “(Dementia care) is an interme-diate step. Independence can be maintained for a longer time and you don’t decline as fast.”
The other 220 rooms will be focused on residential care, the highest, most complex level of health care for people who can no longer live independently.
Johnson said the building itself will be cutting edge in terms of resident care and safety for its 260 staff members. Each room, for instance, will have a resident lift-assist machine.
The Heights at Mount View will eventually replace Bap-tist Housing’s outdated Central Care Home and Mount Edwards Court. Both were designed 35 years ago in an era with far fewer seniors needing complex care.
The Heights building is planned for seven stories, which met some resident opposition during the rezoning process.
Saanich council argued the greater good of the overall proj-ect outweighs concerns over height.
The former Greater Victo-ria school district property is mainly surrounded by residen-tial neighbourhoods.
The 260-bed building is half of a greater project to replace 580 care beds in Greater Victoria. Earlier this year Oak Bay coun-cil quashed a plan to revamp Oak Bay Lodge for 320 beds by declining a development vari-ance for Baptist Housing.
VIHA expects to tender a new request for proposal (RFP) this year for a 320-bed building in the region. The health author-ity wants to replace the existing Oak Bay Lodge and Mount Tol-mie care home.
“Baptist Housing is keenly interested at looking at the RFP that VIHA will come out with ... but until (the RFP) comes out I can’t emphatically say we’ll be applying,” Johnson said.
The Heights at Mount View will join Carey Place (55 units of affordable seniors housing), Vergo townhouses (18 units of affordable rental housing) and Olympic Vista (36 units for peo-ple at risk of homelessness) on the 3.3 hectare property.
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Second facility still in pipeline
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An artist rendering of the Heights at Mount View, a seven storey, 260-unit residential care facility on Carey Road in Saanich, which starts construction this week.
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Police in Greater Victoria say a growing black market for cig-arettes could be fuelling three recent cigarette thefts linked to merchant purchases at Costco.
Boxes of cigarettes worth $10,000 have been reported sto-len in three separate incidents in Saanich since June.
Most recently, on Aug. 17, $6,000 in cigarettes were taken from a locked storage at AM2PM convenience store at Burnside and Harriet roads.
“This is the first occasion where it resulted in a break in and theft. The others were thefts from vehicles,” said Staff Sgt. Gary Schenk, with the Regional Crime Unit.
Police are concerned about the common denominators in all three incidents: the cigarettes were all purchased at Costco
and stolen within an hour. “The suspects appear to be
watching people make pur-chases (of cigarettes at Costco), then follow them to see if the opportunity presents to make a theft,” Schenk said.
In the Aug. 17 incident, an AM2PM employee had just returned to the store with the cigarettes. Within half an hour they were gone and the metal lock had been cut. In the other two thefts, the cigarettes were stolen from the vehicles.
Schenk says a fourth incident, from June 28, is being investi-gated too, after someone made a large purchase of cigarettes from Costco, then called police because he believed he was being followed.
“The only reason we draw that link (to Costco) is the thefts are occurring in a way that nobody should’ve known there was that volume of cigarettes in that vehi-
cle,” he said.These thefts appear to be iden-
tical to a rash of thefts linked to bulk purchases at the Costco in Nanaimo. Some $40,000 worth of cigarettes have been stolen.
Given the amount of ciga-rettes being taken, along with “past experience and street-level intelligence,” Schenk says the smokes are likely being sold on the black market.
“We’re talking about cigarette volumes too great for any indi-vidual use or consumption. We definitely think they’re being resold,” he said.
“We’re encouraging people to take precautions and not leave substantial purchases like that unattended, and to get them secured in their homes and busi-nesses as quickly as possible.”
Anyone with information can call Saanich police at 250-475-4321 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Merchants buying cigarettes at Costco being targeted, police say
This spring the News brought you the success story of Evanne Fisher, the Colwood girl who had a life-saving heart transplant at just five weeks of age – a pro-cess made possible by financial support from the David Foster Foundation.
On June 29 of this year the seven-year-old fainted and was rushed to Victoria General Hos-pital, where doctors learned the heart she received at five weeks was damaged. She was in need of another heart transplant.
Evanne was airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancou-ver where she had a pacemaker/
defibrillator surgically implanted on July 5. She has since endured two heart attacks and rounds of testing before she was placed back on the transplant list at the end of July.
On the evening of Aug. 4, Evanne received her second new heart.
According to family friend, Michelle Bressan, she is recover-ing well, but still has a long road ahead of her.
Her mother Tamara Fisher, a single mom also raising a four-year-old son, has taken time away from work to be with her daughter. Friends of the Fishers
are now rallying to raise funds to cover the family’s living expenses during Evanne’s recovery.
Bressan is organizing a car wash and barbecue on Sept. 8 at the West Shore Canadian Tire, 855 Langford Pkwy., as well as a silent auction.
To donate auction items, con-tact Bressan at 250-474-6580 or [email protected].
Donations to the family can also be made to the Evanne Fisher trust at any Coast Capital Savings branch. Follow Evanne's progress on Facebook by search-ing for “Evanne Fisher waiting for a miracle.”
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Residents of a housing complex in View Royal are becoming increasingly frustrated with a weekly abortion vigil just steps from their front doors.
At least three residents of the converted motel at the intersection of Island Highway and Helm-cken Road said they’re tired of having the protes-tors out on what feels like their front yard.
The protestors are there because of the nearby Vancouver Island Women’s Clinic in View Royal Square, which performs abortions, among other sexual health services.
The 40 Days for Life protestors are there with signs to pray and talk to anyone who approaches them every Thursday morning.
Every year, the group also holds two 40-day vig-
ils in which protestors march 12 hours each day. Most of the old motel’s residents have no back-
doors and their front door opens directly into their living area. Because the protestors are so close it feels like they’re peering in on the residents’ pri-vate lives.
“Enough is enough. Any kind of protest, you make your statement and you go away,” resident Janice Roberts said. “There’s no respect for any-body but them.”
Hale Harlingten lives in the corner unit, his front door about six metres from where the protestors stand.
“I have a small place. They’re in front of it. The whole world’s looking at me and I just want a little bit of peace and quiet to come out here and sit,” Harlingten said. “They’ve been there long enough now that I think every car in the city has gone by the corner and knows their opinion. The only purpose they can be there for is to cause a distur-bance. So we get upset.”
The campaign co-ordinator for 40 Days for Life, Alex Berns, said his group has had previous alter-cations with residents – Roberts in particular.
“(Roberts) has had several conversations with our members, all of them highly spirited,” Berns said. “Wherever she has been and what makes her the way she is today, we include her in our prayers too.”
Last Thursday, the tension got to a point where a small altercation took place.
As Berns took a walk, which he said he often does to ease back pain, he went around the corner down the Island Highway where he said Roberts approached him.
She said she asked him to leave and stood her ground. They bumped each other – both claim the other person was at fault. Neither was injured.
However, Berns called the police, believing the altercation to be a form of harassment.
RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Max Fossum said it’s unlikely police will recommend charges. He said the protestors have a right to be there unless View Royal says otherwise.
View Royal chief administrative officer Kim Anema said there is little the town can do to remove the vigil unless they are disrupting traffic or causing a safety hazard.
Even with complaints from residents, the protes-tors have a protected right to protest so long as they stick to the rules.
Anema said he understands the concerns sur-rounding the vigil and View Royal will continue to monitor the situation.
Berns said his group is there to protest abor-tions and to talk to people about the dangers of post-abortive trauma and depression. The protes-tors say they have been subjected to harassment in the past. One morning they arrived at their usual spot to find a pumpkin with a coat hanger stuck in it.
Another morning a coat hangar had been hung from a signpost behind where they stand. Recently they have arrived to find eggs smashed on the ground and ketchup spread around.
The residents of the housing complex said they know nothing about those incidents. They plan to send a complaint in writing to View Royal council.
Vancouver Island Women’s Clinic did not wish to comment. The next 40-day vigil starts Sept. 26.
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Targeting tourists’ cars proved to be bad news for criminals after Victoria police set up a series of bait cars last week.
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Where community and quality meet!If the combination of crab and corn gets your mouth watering, try adding a fabulous setting, a festive atmosphere plus a chance to help fi ght cancer. What better way tospend a Saturday afternoon?
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With its freshly painted red and orange
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Situated in an exquisite location right across the street from the beach,
with a huge parking lot, nearby grassy area and picnic tables, plus an entirely
revamped interior, the new, full-service grocery store aims to be the one-stop
location for neighbourhood shoppers.
Cordova Bay’s Tru Value Foods opened April 11, 2012, as the newest of
fi ve in the locally-based chain, which includes stores on each of Mayne and
Pender islands and two on Quadra Island. A previous Tru Value in Brentwood
Bay closed when the lease expired.
Owner and general manager Phil Greenhalgh said the Cordova Bay store
is working to re-establish its role as the community’s one-stop grocery
shopping location, after it was “let go” by previous owners and lost its local
customer base.
When Tru Value moved in last April, it almost fully gutted the store, painted
it, cleaned it up and added several grocery departments, such as a service
meat and seafood section, deli counter and fl oral centre.
Today, the 7,500-square-foot grocery store is fresh, clean, spacious and
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whole foods, and conventional grocery fare. With the Euphorium Bakery right
next door, Tru Value Foods decided to partner with the bakery and carry its
products, rather than compete with it.
Because Tru Value is a small “more intimate”
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input from patrons.
“We can’t carry everything, but I think
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He said: “I worked at Thrifty Foods for 28
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“As the saying goes, ‘everyone has been touched by cancer,’”
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disease. “That’s one of the reasons we’re doing this.”
The idea for the event occurred as Tru Value management
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Blues are back in town.The biggest compilation
of blues music on the Island invades Victoria’s Inner Har-
bour when Blues Bash takes over Ship Point Sept. 1 to 3 for a three-day single-venue outdoor music festival.
“(Blues Bash) adds a very, very good vibe for downtown Victoria on Labour Day week-end,” said BB communications officer Kendra Martin. “You can tell people are really alive dur-ing the weekend, it brings an energy when you go downtown.”
The 18th annual event kicks off with free performances at Ship Point from noon to 5 p.m. before the venue is shut down then reopened for the feature ticketed performances at 7 p.m.
The Victoria Jazz Society’s second of two outdoor festivals drew 18,000 view-ers in 2011 that again boasts a lineup bursting with blues influences running the gamut from contemporary and Memphis to delta and gospel stylings.
Ticketed performances include three-time Juno-nominated Victorian and long-time blues stylist David Gogo playing Sept. 1 at 7 p.m., and Joe Louis Walker kicking off his North American tour in
Victoria Sept. 7. Free performances are anchored by an experienced group of local performers.
“A lot of the acts we pride ourselves on are our locals,” Martin continued. “We have a rich condensed level of tal-ent in Victoria and Vancouver Island so Blues Bash is a great way to lend a stage for these awesome performers.”
The festival boasts a number of well-respected local acts including Lazy Mike and the Rockin’ Recliners, The Roper Show and Paul Black who makes his fifth appearance at one of his favou-rite events of the year.
“The Blues Bash is the biggest (blues) show in Victoria,” Black said. “You can’t beat them. Being local you get a lot of the same people and familiar faces, it is nice to play to a larger wider audi-ence.”
The Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix influenced guitar player and vocalist happened upon blues music when he unknowingly took in a performance by a legendary musi-cian that changed his life.
“The first time I listened to Stevie Ray Vaughn, man that gave me goose-bumps. It was so intense, the feeling and intensity of it,” Black said. “The blues just give you a beat everyone can hold on and grab onto.”
He came out of that concert with a new appreciation for musical stylings he wasn’t hearing on the radio and
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the mathematical, blues is all about feel,” the Victorian said. “I am not try-ing to get into MuchMusic, it is all about getting people to dig what you do and appreciate live music. I am trying to give other people goosebumps.”
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Joe Walsh and Kim Mitchell are on the bill at Bullen Park next week.
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His is a long and sto-ried musical career. In 1969 Walsh found suc-cess with The James Gang, followed by a stint with Barnstorm, a trio he founded. In 1973 Walsh released his first solo album, which proved him a legitimate solo act and in 1976 he joined The Eagles, bring-ing a harder rock sound to the group with the acclaimed Hotel Califor-
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Pebbles smooth from cen-turies of tides, bleached logs and rambling hills culminate to a siren song for visitors to Chatham and Discovery islands.
On a sunny summer day a pair of young men beach their small outboard and settle in to the task of anchoring to shore.
A group on the beach point toward signs indicating the his-torical territory, and bylaw offi-cer Trevor Absolon lopes down towards the pair.
Today they’ll learn a lesson about the island: it is private property belonging to the Songhees First Nation. That education is part of the wave of the future.
“We’re going out of our way to try to educate public. We’re not trying to prosecute people; we need to help them learn,” the bylaw officer said. Inform-ing the two young men is part of that process. Added signage includes Cattle Point and Oak Bay Marina boat launches where notices alert those launching craft to be aware of the First Nation territories and that trespassing rules are in effect.
“These islands as you can see, they’re beautiful, they’re tantalizing,” Absolon said, look-ing across the beach.
“People want to find out what’s out there. They want to visit these locations. The problem is they’ve failed to understand over the years, probably because there hasn’t been enough public awareness out there, that these are estab-
lished Indian Reserves. There-fore they’re private lands and they’re not open to the public.”
Chatham Island and a chunk of Discovery – the portion that is not provincial park – belong to the Songhees nation.
“We need to really start look-ing after what we have,” said Songhees Coun. Ron Sam.
“We didn’t have the assets to properly look after the islands (before).”
Through taxation, Songhees funded a zodiac this summer to patrol the waters.
“It’s going to be seeing a lot of water time,” Absolon said. “We’ll also be patrolling the islands with the RCMP South Island Marine Unit … these are joint patrols and there will also be individual and they’ll include foot patrols of the islands.”
Songhees First Nation Law Enforcement will now aggres-sively patrol Chatham and Dis-covery in conjunction with the RCMP South Island Marine Sec-tion by boat and on foot. Viola-tors could face up to a $1,000 fine, 30 days in jail, or both if
caught trespassing on Songhees lands.
“Until recently we haven’t had the assets to get there. Now we do. And we will be patrol-ling (the islands) and we will be enforcing our jurisdiction on them,” Absolon said.
Sam sees future prospects for sharing and maintaining tradi-tion. There are opportunities for the band to create business models in the tourism industry.
And even now on Chatham, off the picturesque shores of Oak Bay, spots on the beach with overturned soil mark where summer pit cookouts helped the Songhees nation maintain a piece of history and share it with future [email protected]
Part 3 in a series looking at why and how the Songhees First Nation is protecting its private property on islands off Oak Bay and Saanich
No trespassing please, on Discovery, Chatham islands
“The problem is they’ve failed to understand over the years, probably because there hasn’t been enough public awareness out there, that these are established Indian Reserves.”
- Trevor AbsolonSonghees bylaw officer
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Signs at Chatham warn travellers that the island is private property belonging to the Songhees Nation. The beach just past the signs has a recently used fire pit and is littered with garbage from regular visits by unauthorized boaters.
Taste historyUVic’s Department of
Anthropology, along with Elders’ Voices, jointly hosts a Coast Salish pit cook in collaboration with Songhees First Nation member Cheryl Bryce on Friday, Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Campus, alumni and the community are invited to listen to stories and teach-ings of the elders, witness the creation of the pit and the layering of foods and cooking materials in the ground. When the food is ready, it will be shared with participants for tasting.
The pit cook will take place on the grass between First Peoples House and University Cen-tre at UVic.
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CW girls rugby enters year two
Travis PatersonNews staff
Earlier this year the Canadian women’s sevens team won two of the International Rugby Board’s first world tournaments ever sanc-tioned.
Yet Greater Victoria, the same city that hosts the women’s national program, has no formal youth pro-gram for girls.
Last year the Castaway Wan-derers rugby club changed that by starting one. Marley Riordan stepped up to coach, and this year, CW is hoping to add an under-18 team to its girls program of players aged 11 to 16.
“But for one or two high school girls rugby teams, which face their own challenges in terms of num-bers, there’s nowhere for teenage girls to play,” said Riordan.
“Now we’re getting interest from some 17 and 18 year olds, plus some of our own players are aging up.”
The coach is a former provincial champion with Burnaby Lake, and has coached high school rugby since she graduated high school in P.E.I.
If the surname seems familiar, it is. Riordan adopted it from hubby Pat, the long time UVic Vikes for-ward who captained Canada at the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Mar-ley came here to be an officer with the Victoria police, and is now on maternity leave to care for the cou-ple’s six-month old son, Leis.
CW’s girls program was mostly spearheaded by David Crossley, who’s daughter Caroline gradu-ated CW’s mini rugby program. As is common with girls by 11 or 12 years of age, there was a boys team but no girls program to train with.
All ages partake in training ses-sions, and on Sunday mornings the groups will be split into U16
and U18 groups for competition, hopefully against high school and/or club teams up-Island and on the Mainland.
Youth rugby begins in September. Registration is this Sunday (Aug.
26) from 10 a.m. to noon at Wind-sor Park Pavilion. Players can also register online at cwrugby.com, or call Ian MacLean at 250-721-1527 for more info.
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Former world kickboxing champ Stan Peterec to fight in fifth decadeTravis PatersonNews staff
It’s been awhile since Stan Peterec looked this good.
The 53-year-old former world kickboxing champion dropped 45 pounds earlier this year during two months of training and coach-ing in Thailand.
With the lost weight, he’s feeling good. So good, he’s getting back in the ring for the first time in more than a decade.
This Saturday (Aug. 25) Peterec is headlining his annual event, Summer Slugfest VI, at Archie Browning Sports Centre.
“When you’re fighting at this age, your heart and mind are in the right place,” Peterec said. “But the vehicle that is your body doesn’t run like it did.”
Peterec last fought in 2000, a rematch of his 1997 mixed martial arts tilt with Dragyn Yoyanovic at the old Memorial Arena.
“Stan still hits hard, which is what he’s known for,” said kick-boxer Linsday Ball.
The student of Peterec’s is a cur-rent world and Canadian title belt holder in the featherweight cat-egory, and regularly trains one-on-one with Peterec.
Until this year, Ball didn’t hold the pads for Peterec in training
sessions. But she now knows what Peterec is all about.
“I’ve been bruised on my face and knocked to the ground from training sessions, even with the pads. You have to beware.”
Ball spent the better part of the past year in Thailand, where she won a world title and then a world tournament in Korea. Peterec joined her at the same gym in February, and started “dropping weight like crazy.”
“All of a sudden I lost 45 pounds, I was training and jogging every-day,” Peterec said.
“He has the skills, so to watch him get into shape – it’s scary,” Ball said. “He started to out run me.”
Ball is also fighting on Saturday night, against Kate McGraw from
Los Angeles, Calif.“I’ve never seen Stan fight so I’m
very excited.”Ticket sales and feedback are
evidence that fans are excited to see Peterec back in the ring.
Naturally at 53, there are also some who are worried about him, including himself. For starters, he’s fighting a 30-year-old named Tracy Hebert.
“I’ve had most of my old pals saying ‘Why are you fighting this guy?’” Peterec said. “‘Take an eas-ier fight,’ they tell me. And here I am taking on an in-your-face, high cardio guy who comes right at you.”
About 10 years ago, Hebert came to Peterec’s for a few weeks to train and the two actu-ally sparred, so they know a little bit about each other. Enough for Peterec to know he’s facing a very fit opponent.
“If I don’t knock (Hebert) out, I’ll have to work like a dog to keep him from killing me.”
Peterec has been organizing kickboxing and MMA fight cards since the ’90s, and fought a few times in the earlier days of MMA. But now he’s returning to kickbox-ing, the sport in which he was dominant as a world champion.
Peterec also wants to be the first Canadian to fight in five differ-ent decades.
“(Panamanian fighter) Roberto Duran is famous for it, and Jack Johnson did it too. But I’ve searched, and asked around, and I can’t find any record of a Canadian
having done it.”Tickets are available at Sports
Traders, 508 Discovery St., and Peterec’s Gym, 831 Fisgard St. Doors open at 6, fights at 7 p.m.
Also on the bill are local favou-rites Hal Kreisel, Mike Downey, Alex Tribe and Rob Doerksen.
Back in the ring
Travis Paterson/News staff
Stan Peterec hits hard, but at 53, he’s a question mark as a prize fighter for this weekend’s Summer Slugfest VI at Archie Browning Arena. The former world champ wants to join a rare club, with fights in five different decades.
“If I don’t knock (Hebert) out, I’ll have to work like a dog to keep him from killing me.”
– Stan Peterec
Travis Paterson/News staff
Lindsay Ball fights Saturday.
Photo from Castaway Wanderers
Coach Marley Riordan instructs players from the Castaway Wanderers rugby club youth girls program during its first season last winter. The impact of women’s rugby at the 2016 Olympics won’t be realized until people see it, Riordan says.
Players wanted as girls rugby expands
Royals Intersquad GameVictoria Royals rookie and main
camps go this week and next with the annual Intersquad Game at 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.
Kickboxer Varga on world stage
World champion kick-boxer Gabriel Varga of Saanich has signed a con-tract to expand his career as a pro fighter.
Varga, a former student of Stan Peterec, currently holds the World Kickbox-ing Network and World Kickboxing Federation belts in the super light-weight weight class of 135 to 140 pounds.
The Lambrick Park sec-ondary grad will realize his dreams next month by fighting in the K-1 organi-zation in Los Angeles on Sept. 8. Varga, 24, will face Lerdsila Chumpairtour, 31, who has over 230 fights.
Later this year Varga, who was the headliner of Summer Slugfest I in 2007, will achieve another goal, as he received permission to fight for the Interna-tional Sport Karate Asso-ciation’s pro title.
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Lead executive named to West Coast League teamTravis PatersonNews staff
One name down, two to go. Owner John McLean of the Vic-
toria Baseball Club introduced Holly Jones as the team’s first general manager at Royal Athletic Park, the team’s home park, on Tuesday.
Jones is originally from Oregon but comes with a decorated sales and marketing resumé, including time spent at the National Basket-ball Association’s head office in New York. She also brings three years experience as the assistant general manager of the Corvalis Knights (Ore.), recent winners of the West Coast League.
“This is meant to be an excit-ing league with promotions and giveaways every night and ide-ally that’s what we’ll have,” Jones said.
As GM she’ll handle the day-to-day business side of the franchise and was already five days in, she said.
First up is the next two names to be added to the club. One is the head coach, more commonly known around baseball as the field manager, who is responsible
for the on-field product. The other is selecting the team’s official nick-name, which is underway through a name-the-team contest.
“We’ll have the name and logo
ready for the end of September. Right now we want everyone to pitch their best ideas at victoria-baseballclub.com to name the team.”
Mayor Dean Fortin was also on hand to welcome Jones, saying it didn’t take her a week to settle in as a true Victoria resident.
“She got a house in Oak Bay,
has family in Langford and works downtown.”
Fortin, McLean and Jones each wore a black baseball hat bear-ing a white V that resembled the logo of the Stanley Cup-winning Victoria Cougars of 1925. But the hat is just a placeholder, same as the Victoria Baseball Club name, McLean said.
Prior to the press conference McLean also clarified any confu-sion around the role of the GM, which in the big leagues is related to the roster. But there is no trad-ing in the short, 54-game WCL season. The field manager does the recruiting and players sign a new contract every year, as long as they are NCAA eligible, which means they cannot be under con-tract to an MLB team.
As for the stadium, Jones said she’s looking forward to using the Daktronics video board, which was installed and is owned by Darren Parker, owner of the now-defunct Victoria Seals (2009 to 2010).
“I’m not entirely up to speed on the (agreement of use) for the scoreboard but we’ll do some dig-ging to figure it out.”
Victoria will enter the West Coast League for June of 2013 and play 27 home games. Prior to June the baseball diamond of RAP will be refit to NCAA standards.
Travis Paterson/News staff
Holly Jones addresses the media at her introduction at Royal Athletic Park on Tuesday morning. Jones is the first general manager of the soon-to-be-named Victoria Baseball Club of the amateur West Coast League, which begins in 2013.
Club takes direction with general manager
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3-PIECE ANTIQUE Rattan fur-niture, Imperial Rattan Co. - Sofa, chair, ottoman. Great condition. $150. Call (250)656-4853 or (250)889-5248 (cell).
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METAL ROOFING & siding sales. Seconds avail. Custom roof Flashings. 250-544-3106.
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PERSIAN RUG 18’x12’ Medal-lion pattern. Like new. $12,000 obo. 250-287-2009
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3.2 CU ft Danby Fridge, $90 obo. Call (250)920-7472.
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PORCELAIN Collector doll, $75. Call (250)656-4853 or (250)889-5248 (cell).
UBC BOOK of Medicine, 100 photos of 1985 graduation class. $75. (778)440-5771.
VASE- SELIUPA, $10. Fran-card plate, $10. Call (778)265-1615.
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ELEGANT LIVING ROOM, Bone All-Leather Sofa, Love-seat, Glass Tables, Lamps, Accessories - 9Pcs Like New $699. No HST! Complete Beds from $199., 5Pc Dinette $79. More On Sale! BUY & SAVE, 9818 4th St., Sidney. buyandsave.ca Visa, M/C
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LOWREY ORGAN Symphonic Holiday.4 channels, upper/low-er keyboard, about 4’L x 2’W x 3.5’H, $600. obo. SCOOTER - Rascal Continental,good work-ing order $400. (250)544-2116
NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS- $2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enter-prise Cres, Victoria. Gold-stream Press Division.
SHOP-RIDER 4W SCOOTER new batteries, annual check-up. New Evolution 4 wheel
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Call for more details, (250)380-4092.
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ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-ellery. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700
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YAMAHA ELECTONE Organ C35, good condition, great for home, hall or church. Asking $2500. Call 250-386-9881 (af-ternoon or evenings.
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LANGFORD TOP FLR 2 BR DEN 2 BA LUX CONDO w POOL, nr RRU; vaulted ceil-ings, gas fi replace, u/g pking. Sept. No smokers/pets. 1 yr lease. $1550. 778-433-2239
MT. DOUGLAS Court- 1550 Arrow Rd, Bachelor Suite, $450. Lower income seniors 55+ only. NS/NP. Cable, heat, hot water incl’d. Avail immed & Sept. 1st. Call 250-721-1818.
SIDNEY, 1bdrm, bright, freshly painted, close to amens, quiet, N/P, $800 mo. 250-658-9373
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DUPLEXES/4PLEXES
CLOVERDALE. 2-BDRM SxS Basement, storage, laundry, yard. $900./mo (250)475-0037
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CENTRAL SAANICH- (Arthur Dr) 1 bdrm suite, waterfront, quiet neighbourhood, 640sq ft, own W/D, F/S, 1 car parking. $800. NS/NP. Refs. Call (250)656-1782.
COLWOOD: 3 or 4 bdrm + hot tub avail Sept. 1. Great family home located on quiet a cul de sac in the desirable Wishart area. $1900/mo inclds water, garbage pickup. You are re-sponsible for 2/3 hydro (you have your own heat thermo-stat). Private laundry, D/W. Will consider pet (not a fenced yard). Pet deposit req’d, ref’s, Absolutely NO smoking. Call 250-478-4606.
GORDON HEAD: 3 br, 2 ba, + offi ce. NS/NP. Avail. now, $2000+ utils. (250)213-6025
LANGFORD, 3 bdrm, 2 bath house, $1500 mo + utils, N/S, pets neg, large sundeck, W/D hookups. (250)478-6272.
SIDNEY- (James White Blvd) 3 bdrms, 1.5 bath, quiet neigh-bourhood, close to bike path & all schools, easy access to all amenities. W/D, F/S, D/W. NS/NP. $1400. Call (250)656-1782.
RENTALS
HOMES FOR RENT
SIDNEY. WATERFRONT 3 bdrm, 3 bath, heritage house, $2300 + utils. 250-812-4154.
SHARED ACCOMMODATION
CEDAR HILL, female seeking roommate, 2 bdrm, clean, $480 mo + utils. 250-686-0603
LANGFORD, FURNISHED large rm, tv, internet, utils incl, $550. Sept. 15. 250-883-0157
STORAGE
CLEAN, INSULATED, central-ly located in Sidney. Garage for rent. Available immediately. $375. [email protected]
SUITES, LOWER
BRENTWOOD 3-Bdrm above ground bsmnt suite. 1600 sq.ft., 4-pc bath, W/D, inline kitchen, dining & living room. Utils incld. Close to schools, bus stop & shopping. Avail now. $1500./mo 250-652-0038
BRENTWOOD Bachelor quiet, priv entr, central area. NS/NP. $600 incl. 250-652-6680 eve’s.
LANGFORD, OCEAN views, priv deck, carport, 700 sq ft, 1 bdrm, $800 utils & W/D incl’d, NP/NS. Sept. 1. 250-889-0203
LANGFORD: SPACIOUS 1 bdrm, 1 bath, laundry, $900 mo all util’s incl. Avail Sept. 1st. NS/NP. (250)389-0983.
METCHOSIN (near Metchosin Golf Course) 2 bdrm walk out suite (approx 900sq ft, 9’ ceil-ings). Bright, open plan with private entry, private deck w/view, 5 appls, F/P, storage, parking, quiet area. NS/NP. Refs. Avail Sept 1. $1200+ cable/internet/phone. Call 250)727-7878.
SIDNEY: BACHELOR suite, by park, ocean, bus. ND/NS/NP. Appl’s, some furn, most util’s. $875. Leave mes-sage and ref’s (250)655-8826.
SIDNEY BRIGHT 1bdrm suite, quiet, utils incl’d. NS/NP. Avail Sept. 1. $725. (250)655-1616.
UVIC AREA, avail now, fully furn’d, all utils incld’d & hydro, N/S, no drinkers. $600 mo. (250)721-0418.
SUITES, UPPER
2 NEW Furnished suites, $600, $700, utilities included near Elk Lake, buses, parking, no smoking/pets 250-704-0325 [email protected]
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2 BDRM Townhouse for rent in Courtenay. 5 appls, 1.5 baths, carport. NS, NP, quiet and clean renter please. Refs rqrd. Available immediately. $850/mth. 250-923-2557.
SIDNEY- NEW 2 bdrm + den, W/D. NS/NP. $1700 mo. Avail immed. Call 250-217-4060.
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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).
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1977 CADILAC Eldorado, beige metallic. Cruise control, automatic. Very good cond., only 80,000 km. Please call (250)477-7076.
1984 380 SE Mercedes, 126. Daily driver, gold with sunroof. Leather interior, no rust. $1800. obo. (250)595-7573.
2004 CHRYSLER 300M, 135,000 kms. Fully Loaded, including Winter tires and rims. Asking $5300. 250-508-4663.
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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 $11,500. (250) 748-3539
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1999 ML 320 V6 Mercedes Benz SUV, good shape, low mileage. New tires, loaded, 4 wheel drive, $9000 obo. Call (250)478-5836 or cell (250)818-5754.
2009 ACADIA SLT, AWD, seats 7, loaded. 60,500km. $30,000. 250-923-7203
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COMPLETE HOME Renos. Carpentry, Drywall, Painting. Licenced insured. Call Darren 250-217-8131.
DECKS, STAIRS, interesting projects. 30 years experience. Frank, (250)477-3315.
GEOF’S RENO’S & Repairs. Decks, stairs, railings, gates & small additions. 250-818-7977.
McGREGOR HOME Repair & Renos. Decks to doors. Small jobs OK. WCB. (250)655-4518
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
CARPENTRY
ROB’S RENO’S- Decks, stairs, fences. Carpentry; in-terior, exterior. Concrete form-ing & placement. 250-818-1798, (778)433-1788.
STEPS, DECKS, Fence, new repairs, rot, mould, painting, concrete, brick. 250-588-3744.
INSTCARPET ALLATION
MALTA FLOORING Installa-tion. Carpets, laminates, hard-wood, lino. BBB 250-388-0278
CHIMNEY SERVICES
GRAHAM ROOF & CHIMNEY Gutters. Clean, Repairs, New, Torch-on fl at. 250-588-3744.
CLEANING SERVICES
MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estates, events, offi ces. BBB member. (250)388-0278.
SPOTLESS HOME Cleaning. Affordable, Experienced, Re-liable, Effi cient. (250)508-1018
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COMPUTER SERVICES
A HOME COMPUTER Coach. Senior friendly. Computer les-sons, maintenance and prob-lem solving. Please call Des 250-656-9363, 250-727-5519.
COMPUDOC MOBILE Com-puter Services. Repairs, tune-ups, tutoring, web sites, etc. 250-886-8053, 778-351-4090.
CONCRETE & PLACING
RBC CONCRETE Finishing. All types of concrete work. No job too small. Seniors dis-count. Call 250-386-7007.
CONTRACTORS
BATHROOM REMODELING.“Gemini Baths” Plumb, Elec. Tile, Cabinets. 250-896-9302.
CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood fl oor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877
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DRYWALL
AARON’S RENO’S Drywall, taping, texture. Insured/bond-ed. Free est. 250-880-0525.
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.
MUD on the RUN. Small dry-wall repairs, textures & reno-vations. Ross, (250)812-4879.
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.
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ELECTRICAL
KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.
NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $35/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.
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
QUALITY CEDAR fencing, decks and installation, pres-sure washing. For better pric-es & quotes call Westcoast Fencing. 250-588-5920.
FURNITURE REFINISHING
U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-216-8997.
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FURNITURE REFINISHING
FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & deliv-ery. References available. 250-475-1462.
GARDENING
10% OFF. Mowing, Power Raking, 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
1st & last call- Auricle - homes-commercial & strata’s Call 250-882-3129.
(250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Lawn & Gardens- Yard or garden overgrown? Landscap-ing, hedges, blackberry, ivy & weed removal, 24yrs. WCB.
250-216-9476 ACCEPTING clients, From the Ground Up, custom landscapes, home re-no’s, garden clean-ups.
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GARDENING
(250) 858-0588- Tree Service - Landscaping- Lawn & Garden Clean ups- Hedge trimming & Pruning- Pressure washing - Gutters
Free estimates * WCBwww.mowtime.ca
ARE YOU in need of a profes-sional, qualifi ed, residential orcommercial gardener?www. glenwoodgardenworks.com
DPM SERVICES, lawn & gar-den, landscape, power wash,etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141
GARDEN OVERGROWN? Weeding, lawn cuts, clean-ups, pruning. John Kaiser250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.
LANDSCAPE & TREE carehedges/pruning/shaping. Lawn& garden. Maint. 18 yrs exp.WCB. Andrew, (250)893-3465.
GARAGE SALES
HUGE GARAGE SALE! Sat AUG 25 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM 8655 RICHLAND PLACE, Left of Dean Park Rd Hundreds of items...don’t miss it! Rain or shine!
HUGE LANGFORD Garage sale. Sat & Sun, Aug. 25 & 26, 8:30-3:30 2769 Strathmore Rd
JAMES BAY: 219 Superior St., Sat., Aug. 25th, 10-3pm. Moving yard sale!
N. SAANICH, 1851 Barrett Dr., Sat & Sun, Aug. 25 & 26, 9am-3pm. Moving Sale. Household/kitchen items, small appliances, electrical and hand tools, garden tools, hardware, books, crystal, glassware, pictures, vinyl records, collectibles & more.
OAK BAY 1757 Elgin Rd., Sat. Aug. 25, 9-12. Set of din-ner dishes, small furn., cook books, shopping cart, misc
SAANICH: HIGHGATE Lodge, 1538 Cedar Hill X Rd., Sat., Aug. 25th, 9am-1pm. Cones for the Cure and giant garage sale Fundraiser. Furni-ture/China, art work, applianc-es, electronics and more...
SIDNEY, 10084 Third St., Sat, Aug. 25, 9am-2pm. 7 home Multi Family Sale. Park on 3rd.
GARAGE SALES
SAANICH. SAT. Aug. 25, 9am-3pm. on Columbine Why, across from pool. Small appli-ances & misc. household.
SIDNEY. TOOL SALE. Sat & Sun, Aug. 25 & 26, 9am-3pm. 2055 Brethour Parkway.All Fun Swap & Shop. Every Sunday (weather permitting), 7am-2pm. 12.00 to sell- 1.00 to buy. No dogs in shopping area. 250-474-4546. www.allfun.bc.ca
TILLICUM AREA, 406 Obed Ave., Sat, Aug.25, 8am-4pm. Something for everyone! Inclds wonderful ‘97 Rav Sport
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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
GARDENING
NO JOB too BIG or SMALL. SENIOR’S SPECIAL! Prompt, reliable service. Phone Mike (ANYTIME) at 250-216-7502.
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.
AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, Guards, windows, powerwash-ing, roof de-moss, repairs. In-sured. Call (250)507-6543.
PERIMETER EXTERIORS. Gutter Cleaning, Repairs, De-mossing, Upgrades. WCB, Free estimates. 250-881-2440.
HANDYPERSONS
AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
HANDYPERSONS
BEETLES RESIDENTIAL Renovations Ltd. Bathrooms, decks, painting, landscaping and handyman services. Fully insured and guaranteed. Free estimates. Call 250-889-4245.
BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Stairs, Painting, General household repairs. Free esti-mate. Call Barry 250-896-6071
SENIOR HANDYMAN. Household repairs. Will assist do-it-yourselfers. Small hauls. Call Fred, 250-888-5345.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
HAULING AND SALVAGE
$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.
CITY HAUL- a lot of junk won’t fi t in your trunk, you’re in luck I own a truck. 250-891-2489.
FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.
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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.
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
HAULING AND SALVAGE
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.
SMART GUYS Hauling. Gar-den waste, junk removal, clean-ups, etc. Reliable, cour-teous service. 250-544-0611 or 250-889-1051.
WE HAUL CHEAP LTD. Moving & Hauling. (250)881-1910. www.wehaulcheap.com
MASONRY & BRICKWORK
CBS MASONRY BBB Accred-ited Business. Chimneys, Fire-places, Flagstone Rock, Con-crete Pavers, Patios, Sidewalk Repair. Replace, Rebuild, Re-new! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. Call (250)294-9942 or 250-589-9942.www.cbsmasonry.com
& 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.
DONE RIGHT MOVING $80/hr. Senior and student dis-count. No travel time before or after. SMOOTH MOVES. Call Tyler 250-418-1747.
MALTA MOVING. Residential & Commercial - BBB Member. (250)388-0278.
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PAINTING
Peacock Painting
250-652-2255250-882-2254
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Budget Compliance15% SENIORS DISCOUNT
250-886-6446 YOUR Personal Interior Painter. No Job too Big or Too Small. Call Gilbert to-day for free quote.
ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694.
A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wallcoverings. Over 25 yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.
BIG BEAR Painting. Interior & Exterior. Quality work. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071
COLOURS & IDEAS. Exterior/ Interior Painting. All work wa-ranteed. Call (250)208-8383.
LADY PAINTERServing the Peninsula for over 20 yrs. Interior/exterior. Call Bernice, 250-655-1127.
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PAINTING
SAFEWAY PAINTING
High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior
Residential/Commercial Jeff, 250-472-6660 Cell 250-889-7715
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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.
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.
ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS
DEMOSS Dr. $499 per/roof. 2 years warranty. We also install new roofs? Call 250-589-4998
HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
RUBBISH REMOVAL
MALTA GARDEN & Rubbish Removal. Best Rates. BBBmember. (250)388-0278.
STEREO/TV/DVD
WANTED: FLAT screen TV(inexpensive) for a single par-ent. 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 Roof demoss, gutters. 25 yrs.Cell 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.
WINDOWS
ALFRED, ALFRED QualityWindows Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years Constructionexperience. 250-382-3694.
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SAANICH NEWS - Friday, August 24, 2012 www.saanichnews.com • A27
2-828 Rupert TerraceSaturday & Sunday 1-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMurray Lawson 250 385-9814 pg. 7
406-1149 Rockland, $339,900Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNorma Campbell, 250-477-5353 pg. 5
311-2022 Foul Bay Rd, $169,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyAlison Stoodley, 250-477-1100 pg. 5
733A HumboldtDaily noon - 5 pm (exc Thurs & Fri)Fair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 480-3000 pg. 1
3-285 Superior, $499,000Sunday 1-3Newport RealtyMarie Blender, 250-385-2033 pg. 12
3-1070 Amphion St, $375,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Evelyn Brust, 250-889-0510 pg. 6
402-11 Cooperage, $438,000Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastLynn MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 11
101-75 Songhees, $690,000Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 10
1327 Lang, $489,900Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyDiego Lauricella, 250-479-3333 pg. 14
14-60 Dallas Rd, $544,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunClayton Jeffs, 250-744-3301 pg. 5
1035 Sutlej, $479,000Sunday 2-4Newport RealtySylvia Therrien, 250-385-2033 pg. 16
66 WellingtonSaturday 2-4Newport RealtyStephanie Pink, 250-385-2033 pg. 13
401-1146 View St, $239,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunKaren Scott, 250 744-3301 pg. 6
4-210 Douglas St, $299,900Sunday 1-3Address Realty Ltd.Rob Angus, 250-391-1893
1042 St Charles, $799,800Saturday 2-4Suzy HahnAddress Realty 250 381-7899 pg. 3
A-707 Linden Ave, $459,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291 pg. 17
306-75 Songhees, $750,000Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 10
1044 Davie St, $799,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4DFH Real EstateCassie Kangas 250 477-7291 pg. 31
754 Humboldt, $398,900Daily Noon-5 exc FridaysConcert Properties 250 383-3722 pg. 7
407-3206 Alder St, $299,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGoran Tambic, 250-384-7663 pg. 6
441 Stannard, $735,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMaggie Thompson, 250-889-5955 pg. 35
503-68 Songhees RdSunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Elena Plotnikoff, 250-818-3232
3155 Glasgow, $518,000Saturday 2-4Jonesco Real EstateRoger Jones 250 361-9838 pg. 14
206-1014 Rockland, $344,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Peter Veri, 250-920-6850 pg. 5
404-1145 Hilda St, $289,900Saturday 11:30-1Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-385-2033
336 Stannard, $749,900Sunday 11-1Re/Max CamosunRoxanne Brass, 250-744-3301 pg. 16
2-4318 Emily Carr, $539,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real EstateWendy Herrick 250-656-0131 pg. 12
305-3010 Washington, $259,900Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNorma Campbell, 250-477-5353 pg. 6
404-391 Tyee, $414,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRene Blais 250 655-0608 pg. 31
1505-620 Toronto St, $379,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyInder Taneja, 250-479-3333 pg. 5
105-1157 Fairfi eld Rd, $199,900Saturday 1-3Newport RealtyDavid Harvey, 250-385-2033 pg. 6
2-1231 Mckenzie StSunday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdSuzanne Mitchell, 250-477-7291 pg. 12
1050 Pentrelew, $668,000Saturday 12-2Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara 250 384-8124 pg. 13
308-1342 Hillside, $185,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 11
2046 Kings, $569,500Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunLynne Sager 250 744-3301 pg. 14
203-1270 Beach Dr., $425,000Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdRick Shumka 250 384-8124 pg. 14
211-2100 Granite St., $199,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdTom Dunn 250 384-8124 pg. 12
2740 Dewdney, $1,070,000Saturday 2-4Macdonald RealtyScott Garman 250 896-7099 pg. 14
302-1318 Beach Dr, $374,900Saturday 2:30-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Jerry Mireau, 250-384-8124 pg. 6
27-127 Aldersmith, $435,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunJenny Stoltz 250 744-3301 pg. 15
13 Jedburgh, $469,500Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBrad Gregory 250 744-3301 pg. 15
71-14 Erskine Lane, $429,898Sunday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Gary Brailsford, 250-391-1893
22-897 Admirals, $349,900Saturday 1-3Macdonald RealtyJane Logan, 250-388-5882 pg. 12
934 Craigfl ower, $369,000Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesNicole Burgess 250 384-8124 pg. 12
303-1580 ChristmasSaturday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateDylan Hagreen 250 385-8780 pg. 12
4030/4040 Borden St, $229,900Saturday & Sunday 1-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250 658-0967 pg. 1
1877 Feltham Rd, $534,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRick Turcotte, 250-744-3301
1800 Feltham Rd., $499,000Sunday 2-4Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 pg. 19
4029 Providence, $899,888Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdDeborah Kline 250 661-7680 pg. 19
407-1009 McKenzie, $229,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663 pg. 9
5220 Worthington, $769,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRoxanne Brass, 250-744-3301 pg. 16
4379 Elnido, $639,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBrad Gregory 250 744-3301 pg. 18
4273 Houlihan, $1,098,888Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdDeborah Kline 250 661-7680 pg. 19
1590 Howroyd, $548,000Saturday 3-5Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara 250 384-8124 pg. 18
4030/4040 Borden St, $229,900Saturday & Sunday 1-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250 658-0967 pg. 29
2361 QueenswoodSaturday & Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyDon Beckner 250 477-5353 pg. 9
229-1870 Mckenzie, $190,000Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyShelly Reed, 250-213-7444
402-1694 Cedar Hill X, $299,900Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalLaurel Hounslow 250 592-4422 pg. 8
1510 Jasper PlSaturday 1-3Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Nancy Young, 250-896-2430 pg. 18
3-4073 Blackberry Ln, $459,000Sunday 1-4Re/Max CamosunEd G Sing, 250-744-3301 pg. 6
4694 Lochside, $675,000Sunday 2-3:30Newport RealtyRick Allen, 250-385-2033 pg. 19
205-1571 Mortimer, $229,500Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663 pg. 9
1010 Lucas, $569,000Sunday 2-4Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 pg. 19
877 Falaise, $694,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 QueenswoodBrian Meredith-Jones 250 477-1100 pg. 19
3329 Shelbourne St, $498,800Sunday 2-4:30Sutton Group West Coast RealtyMikko Ikonen, 250-479-3333 pg. 15
406-976 Inverness, $278,800Saturday 2-4:30Sutton West CoastMikko Ikonen 250 479-3333 pg. 31
410-1005 McKenzie, $289,000Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate LtdBill Carnegie 250 474-6003 pg. 19
204-4480 Chatterton, $429,000Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422 pg. 11
3942 Aspen, $780,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 9
2-4341 Crownwood Ln, $579,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNeil Rawnsley, 250-592-4422 pg. 8
2-4341 Crownwood Ln, $579,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNeil Rawnsley, 250-592-4422 pg. 5
3978 Birchwood St, $599,900Saturday 2-4Macdonald Realty Ltd.Erik Rapatz, 250-686-3182 pg. 15
4767 Cordova Bay Rd, $739,900Saturday 2-4Century 21 South Island RealtyPeggy O’Connor, 250-213-2492 pg. 18
5336 Sayward Hill, $899,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunKaren Scott, 250 744-3301 pg. 12
4227 Wilkinson Rd, $439,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Lew Poulin, 250-384-8124 pg. 20
637 Kenneth St, $499,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyJodie Farup, 250-477-1100 pg. 20
202-535 Heatherdale, $424,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBrad MacLaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 6
101 Kiowa Pl, $1,295,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-385-2033
409-4536 Viewmont, $249,500Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMark Rice, 250 588-2339 pg. 20
311-3931 Shelbourne, $350,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesAndrew Plank 250 360-6106 pg. 11
3814 Rowland, $449,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3Century 21 QueenswoodLaurie Mains 250 477-1100 pg. 20
3120 Esson Rd, $464,900Saturday 1-3Century 21 Queenswood RealtySheila Christmas, 250-477-1100 pg. 20
4032 McLellan St.Saturday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808
3833 Holland, $529,800Sunday 2-4Suzy HahnAddress Realty 250 381-7899 pg. 3
3117 Tillicum, $649,900Sunday 2-4Suzy HahnAddress Realty 250 381-7899 pg. 3
3085 Island View, $639,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesEvelyn Brust, 250-889-0510 pg. 21
1647 Dean Park, $529,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalGiovanna, 250-477-5353 pg. 22
9178 Mainwaring Rd, $599,900 Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jack Windle, 250-477-7291 pg. 20
1-9628 Second, $795,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRene Blais 250 655-0608 pg. 31
15-2070 Amelia Ave, $214,900Sunday 2:30-4:30Sparling Real Estate Ltd.Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511 pg. 20
4-10035 Fifth, $564,000Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27
2741 Fifth, $389,000Saturday 2-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27
303-7143 West Saanich, $320,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max Camosun SidneyBill Bird 250 655-0608 pg. 21
3072 Mallard, $585,000Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27
7179 Skyline, $575,000Saturday 1-4DFH Real Estate LtdPatti Locke-Lewkowich 250 477-7291 pg. 31
301-6880 Wallace, $539,900Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 10
8983 Mainwaring, $825,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27
102-2380 Brethour Ave, $349,000Saturday 1-3Fair RealtyJinwoo Jeong, 250-885-5114 pg. 31
204-2360 James White, $244,900Sunday 12-2Sparling Real Estate Ltd.Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511 pg. 21
2-9871 Second, $529,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27
8541 Bexley, $529,000Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunLeslie Manson 250 744-3301 pg. 21
1620 Mortimer, $499,900Saturday 12-1:30One Percent RealtyGuy Effl er 250 812-4910 pg. 31
2428 Mt. St. Michael, $595,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291 pg. 21
3304 Haida, $849,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRoy Coburn 250-478-9600 pg. 23
664 Orca Pl, $549,900Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyCheri Crause, 250-592-4422
1250 Freshwater, $419,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jenn Raappana, 250-478-6003 pg. 23
990 Gade Rd, $949,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Terry Kurash, 250-888-1187 pg. 23
3286 Hazelwood Rd, $499,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jenn Raappana, 250-590-3921 pg. 23
125 St. Giles, $524,900Sunday 12:30-2Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 24
1201 Millstream RdSunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalSharen Warde, 250-592-4422 pg. 9
3382 Haida, $649,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 23
107-3540 Propeller, $424,900Sunday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 24
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First there was the noise of the Kamov helicopter, followed by the sight of Langford Lake’s massive new aerator.
Next will be the smell as the 4,627 kilogram device gets to work.
On Sunday, the city installed the aerator, which replaces an
older, much smaller machine that had regulated oxygen levels in the lake since 1985.
A Kamov helicopter was con-tracted to haul the new aerator, which is capable of processing the entire lake every six days.
For the first few days the areas around the lake may have a slight smell of rotten eggs to them, Langford parks manager Mike Leskiw said.
The odour is caused by nutri-ents and gas in the water being released.
While the smaller aerator cleaned the water near the sur-face of the lake, the new aerator will focus on the water at the bottom of the lake.
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A new aerator was installed in Langford Lake on Sunday with the assistance of a helicopter, shortly after 9:30 a.m. All water in the lake will cycle through the device every six days.
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An attempted arson on Mon-day has been added to several suspicious fires in Langford in the past week.
A suspected arsonist was caught on tape the night of Aug. 20, thanks to a surveillance cam-era mounted on a nearby home.
The incident occurred in the driveway of a home on Phipps Road.
A man, estimated to be in his 20s, approached what appears to be an SUV. He opened the door and rifled through the glove box and lit some papers on fire on the seat.
“The paper burned, but not the seat,” said Sgt. Max Fossum, of West Shore RCMP.
The man was wearing a ball cap, hoodie and shorts that hung to his calves.
The time of the incident has not been released. RCMP are working with forensics of the video to get a clearer image of
the suspect.In the past week there have
been a number of suspicious fires in Langford including a vehicle fire, trailer fire and two dumpster fires.
“We have had so many fires set recently it’s raising many
concerns,” Fossum said. “It’s possible this person lives right in our area.”
RCMP are asking anyone with information on this incident or any other recent fires to contact the detachment at 250-474-2264.
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Black Press is proud to be an official sponsor for the 2012 Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock, with news reporter Kyle Slavin on the 18-member tour team as a media rider. To follow Kyle Slavin’s Twitter updates from the final weeks of training and throughout the ride, follow @TDRKyle. ON TOUR: This year’s Tour de Rock begins in Port Alice on Sunday, Sept. 23 and ends Friday, Oct. 5 in Victoria. Tour de Rock raises funds and awareness for pediatric cancer research and programs.
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Sooke RCMP Const. Steven Martindale is one of 18 Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de
Rock riders who will cycle the length of Vancouver Island to raise money for pediatric cancer research next month.
Originally from the Okanagan, Martindale, 39, has served with the Sooke RCMP for the last five years.
After attending and assisting with various Tour de Rock events as a police officer, Martindale became interested in participating
as a rider. “I was always asked, ‘When is
Sooke going to have a rider?’ So I just decided, ‘Hey, I would do it,’” he said.
His decision to participate was made definitive two years ago, when he had a growth removed from his head two days prior to the annual Cops for Cancer Red Serge dinner.
Fortunately, the growth was later determined to be benign,
which strengthened Martindale’s resolve to participate in the arduous bike ride.
“How often do you get a chance to do something like this and make a difference?” Martindale asked, adding he also had plans to participate three years ago, but was unable due to a knee injury.
“We’re simply just riding a bike, which is the easy part. It’s the kids who have to go through treatment, they’re the real heroes out of all this.”
Martindale has also lost an uncle and cousin, who had two young daughters, to cancer.
“We’ve all lost someone, it’s kind of the one great unifier that everyone has a cancer story.”
Although the Tour de Rock is a test of physical endurance, Martindale said it’s also about being part of a team, supporting a greater cause and bringing deaths from pediatric cancer down to zero. “Kids shouldn’t have to go through cancer,” he said. “Zero’s the number that
we’re striving for.” Along with regular training
rides, Tour de Rock riders also attend regular events -- one of which was a visit to Camp Goodtimes in Maple Ridge, a camp for children with cancer.
He said the experience was “uplifting,” as many of the children, although sick, behaved as they should -- like kids.
The riders held a casino-themed fun night for the children, where many laughs were shared.
To be able to give happiness back to a child who’s going through chemotherapy or cancer, is priceless, Martindale said.
Although seemingly reserved and stoic, Martindale said it will be emotional once the ride begins Sept. 23.
“It’ll be very emotional, too, going through all of these towns and seeing the support that perhaps the RCMP hasn’t had lately.”
Tour de Rock riders will travel from Port Alice all the way down to Victoria over a 14-day span. The cyclists fundraise for their 1,000-kilometre bike ride to help raise money for pediatric cancer research and programming for children with – or who have had a history with – cancer.
To make a donation, check out Martindale’s Tour de Rock page at: http://bit.ly/O0Oawp.
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Const. Steven Martindale chats with kids during a Tour de Rock meet and greet at the Coast Capital Savings Sooke branch. Pictured from left: Isaiah Beddows, 8, Aeron Waygood, 4, Martindale, Chase Burket, 7, and Hunter Burket, 11.
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