sooke news mirror, february 13, 2013
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February 13, 2013 edition of the Sooke News MirrorTRANSCRIPT
OLD TIME SOOKEElida Peers provides an-
other interesting historical vignette.
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HOCKEY MOMSThree moms discussthe pros and cons of
life with kids in hockey.
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Your community, your classifi eds P21 • 75¢Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Editorial Page 8
Community Page 13
Sports/stats Page 26
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Ecovillage farm is a grassroots initiativeCreating a new frontier for sustainability
Pirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror
What are dreams made of? They are different for everyone, but there are a number of folks in the Sooke area whose dreams are the same.
They want to create an ecovillage on 153 acres of farm land lying along Hel-geson Road. The land is a pleasant mix of pasture and forest fed by DeMamiel Creek.
Their vision, still in the formative stages, includes a working farm, workshops, a large communal kitchen, 10 sustainably built homes, apprenticeships, and food processing.
“We’re still making a lot of decisions, there are a lot of different possibilities with a strong emphasis on community and coopera-tion. We want to create a cooperative,” said Village Farm spokesperson Susan Nelson. “We want a lot of integration into the commu-nity.”
An ecovillage is defined as an intentional commu-nity with a goal of becoming more socially, economically and ecologically sustain-able. The 18 active mem-bers involved are united by shared ideals. Other people will become share-holders in a producer/user co-op to have access to land and facilities. The land was bought by the Sooke
Region Farmland Trust and the ownership will remain with the non-profit trust, the farm will be run by the Sooke EcoVillage Farm Co-op (a.k.a. the Village Farm). The group is made up of architects, builders, electricians, writers, artists and farmers aged between four and 88-years-of-age.
Nelson said they have an accepted offer and down payment for the old Wright farm property and have until April 1 to come up with the $1.6-million needed to purchase the land.
“We have until April 1 to make sure we have enough support and finances to move forward,” said Nel-son.
The Village Farm folk are looking for ideas from the community. They don’t want the farm to be isolated and set apart from the rest of the community, they want people to participate, not just purchase produce.
Nelson said it was not going to be a commune, but a working farm to produce food locally. Education will be a big component of the
Village Farm, and they see endless possibilities — local food cafe, farm stay B&B, space for meetings and gar-den plots. Of the land, 133 acres are in the ALR and 20 acres are zoned RU2. On those 20 acres they hope to build four homes with four suites.
“Creating something together is a big aspect and what we are creating is an important thing,” Nelson stated.
Nelson said the United Nations has recognized ecovillages as important
aspects of creating a way of life that is sustainable.
“The food production and farming aspect is really important.”
Sooke was chosen as a place to initiate this proj-ect because as Nelson said, “It’s a great place! Many of us that are interested came together living here. There is lots of openness to cre-ative ways of dealing with issues regarding farming. It’s the pioneer spirit.”
Nelson went on to say family farms are not happen-ing anymore, and this was a
way to divide the work. She said the land is perfect as it is within walking distance in a small town.
“It can become a part of the fabric of the commu-nity. It’s a chance and it will need a lot of support. It’s a great adventure and having participation makes it really alive.”
Ecovillages are not a new concept. There is an ecovil-lage, O.U.R. Ecovillage, in Shawnigan Lake which operates on 25 acres. Today there are ecovillages in over 70 countries. The Harbour-side Senior Co-housing in Sooke is another group that is bringing people together in a co-operative hous-ing situation at the Sooke Ocean Resort property on Horne Road.
The Village Farm folk have a number of upcom-ing events where they will spread the idea of their ecovillage farm. They will speak at the Awareness Film Night on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at EMCS, and at Seedy Saturday on Feb. 23.
They are looking for input and donations from the community and a few ori-entation/open houses are planned for people who want to know more. Sug-gestion boxes will begin appearing in select spots in Sooke.
Susan Nelson can be con-tacted at 250-642-1714 or by email: [email protected]. A blog is at: http:villagefarmblog.word-press.com.
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A cooperative farm may well begin to take shape on 153 acres along Helgeson Road. Susan Nelson, pictured, is one of a number of people who are purchasing the property which was once the Wright farm.
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CorrectionIngrid Johnston from the Sooke Food Bank stands by the dwindling supplies meant for clients.
In the front page story on Feb. 6, it was stated that “in 2012 they serviced 2,630” (roughly 453 households). The number should have read 6,202. An increase of 993 clients.
We apologize for any inconvenience or misunderstanding this may have caused the Sooke Food Bank.
Up Sooke
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Ron Kumar, right, from Peoples Drug Mart, donated a fully automatic defibrillator (AED) to SEAPARC. Testing it is Linda Finch, program services manager at SEAPARC, and watching is Jason Lanthier from Alert First Aid.
The defibrillator will improve the chances of CPR’s success rate. For every minute a person is in cardiac arrest, their chance of survival decreases by 10 per cent. The defibrillator is fully automatic and it talks users through the CPR process.
Five years ago Ku-mar donated an AED to the Sooke fire department.
Heart felt donation to SEAPARC
SIMPLE TEST CAN SAVE LIVES
THE BC CANCER Agency’s screening mammography mobile service will be in Sooke at the health unit at 2145 Townsend Road from Feb. 19-22.
WOMEN 40-79 CAN book an appointment by calling 1-800-663-9203 or visiting www.smpbc.ca.
TEA AND SYMPHONY
SUNDAY, FEB. 17 relax and enjoy delightful music and light refreshments from bygone days with soloist Kathryn Whitney and the Sooke Philharmonic at the Prestige at 2:30 p.m.
VALENTINE’S DAY
REMEMBER TO REMEMBER those you love on Thursday, better yet remember them all year long.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
TO ALL THE night-time walkers who wear retro-reflective clothing and/or lights on their clothes.
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TastyTugwell Creek Honey Farm & Meadery was well represented at the Taste of BC event by owners Dana LeComte, left, and Bob Liptrot. The Feb. 9 event held at the Prestige hotel was well attended.
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Cedar Grove Centre 250-642-2226
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Did You Know?
The month of December was unbelievably slow, December 2012 Sooke had only 5 sales, December 2011 Sooke had 21 sales. January was much better, January 2013 had 21 sales compared to January 2012 that had 16 sales.
Our Sooke office continues to be extremely strong with 4 of our REALTORS® in the Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Top 25 throughout all of Victo-ria for January 2013! Go team go!
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Here is a good lunch or light supper with win-ter vegetables. Serve with fresh baguette or foccacia bread. Serves four or more and freezes well.
Ingredients:2 large cooking
onions, chopped fine2 large leeks, thinly
sliced4 tbsp. butter, 3 tsp. salt, 7 cups water, 1/2-lb. chopped kale
leaves black pepper to
taste.Saute onions and
leeks in butter. Sprinkle in salt and 2 cups water; bring to a rapid boil for 3 minutes. Add remain-
ing water and simmer for an hour. Before serving, add chopped kale and season with pepper. For variation, sprinkle with asiago or parmessan cheese or make in a chicken or beef broth.
Focaccia Bread2-3/4 c. flour 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. yeast 1 tsp. each, garlic
powder, dried oregeno, dried thyme, dried basil
1 pinch black pepper1 tbsp. olive oil 1 cup water 2 tbsp. olive oil 1 tbsp. grated par-
messan or asiago cheese.
Optional 1 cup grated mozerella.
Directions:1. In a large bowl,
stir flour, salt, sugar,
yeast, garlic powder and all the dried herbs including pepper. Mix in 1 tbsp. olive oil and water.
2. When the dough is mixed, turn it onto a lightly floured sur-face, and kneed until smooth, I say like a baby’s bottom,
Lightly oil a large bowl and turn the dough into it and turn it over to coat both sides with oil.
Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place for 20 min-utes.
3. Preheat oven to 450F. Punch down dough. Shape into a rectangle on a greased baking sheet.
Brush top with olive oil. Sprinkle with par-mesan cheese, dried tomato if you have, and mozzerella cheese.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes or so until golden brown. Serve warm with but-ter or olive oil and bal-samic vinegar.
If you have any spe-cial recipes for the 100th anniversary,
Sooke Fall Fair cook-book please submit before Feb. 16 to the below address.
Ellen Lewers @ [email protected]
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20 year sponsors
Two local businesses were honoured by the Welcome Wagon for sponsoring the organization for 20 years. Pictured are, from left to right, Area Manager of Welcome Wagon Shannon Langevin, Scott Gertsma from Home Hardware, optometrist Louise Morin, Judy MacNeill and Liz Kreeft from the local Welcome Wagon and Mayor Wendal Milne.
Using winter vegetables for a light, healthy mealFarmhouse
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ADVICE FROM THE CANADIAN MINT
So we're rounding off to the nearest nickel now. Pennies, it turns out, aren't worth the metal they're made of. They take time to handle, space in registers and pockets, but aren't worth the space and time they occupy. Sometimes
our lives are like that, too. All caught up in the pennies and giving too little attention to the major values in life. Penny wise and pound foolish.
Christians enter the 6-week period of Lent this week. It's an opportunity to rise above the daily grind, the distracting minutiae, and to lift mind and heart to view the big video -- to see in what directions our life's momentum is carrying us. And then to slide back down into that video and to reclaim the steering and speed control of our own lives. Well, the image is slick and simple, but the reality is a bit more daunting.
The comforting realization is that God is beside us, and cares, and has a dream of shalom -- of peace, of wholeness, of health and fulness of life for all people. What in my life is helping make that dream a reality? What is distracting me from realizing that dream? What are the pennies that are wasting my life-time?
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Boogie at Shirley just like the old days
Once again it’s time for the Sooke Folk Music Society’s monthly Cof-fee House. On Satur-day, Feb. 16, we are extremely proud to be presenting the amazing singer/songwriter and superb finger picking guitarist, Joe Stanton from Vancouver.
Stanton has per-formed in the U.S. National Finger Picking Championships and was a finalist in the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk song writ-ing contest. With intri-cate finger style guitar, earthy baritone and lyr-ics from life, Joe Stan-ton does what he loves – writing and perform-ing acoustic music.
Stanton’s philosophy of “playing wherever they’ll listen” has taken him and his Martin D28 on a 30 year jour-ney from his favourite haunts in his home on the Sunshine coast, to
a concert in a hot air balloon over the Swiss Alps, to the Kerrville Folk festival in the hill country of Texas, to the world finger picking championships in Win-field Kansas.
Stanton’s acoustic
guitar style has been likened to his heroes, Leo Kottke, Chet Atkins, Bruce Cock-burn, and his song writ-ing has resulted in four cds, styles ranging from bluegrass, to contempo-rary folk, to alt country,
all receiving radio air-play in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Australia, and two vinyl singles in the 1980’s earning two BCCMA award nomina-tions.
Over the years Stan-ton has performed all
over Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Highlights include performing for the Olympic Torch Relay, the Kerrville Folk festival in Texas, the Island folk festival in Duncan, and he has been chosen for the Vancouver Province’s Playlist three times.
Stanton is always working on the next recording project. His most recent “Vintage” is a compilation of favourite songs from all of his releases, along with a few new solo gui-tar instrumentals, and was released June 30. 2012.
Please join us this Saturday evening, Feb. 16 at Holy Trinity Angli-can Church on Murray Road for an evening of extraordinary music from this talented art-ist. As always, doors open at 7 p.m. with our open stage at 7:30 and our feature at 9.
File photo
Joe Stanton, right, in performance at Pender Harbour.
Amazing finger pickin’ guitarist to perform
The Shirley Hill Boogies were (so I hear) wild, crazy and fun hoedowns at the Shir-ley Hall in the 70’s up to the early 80’s. Mostly it was local or at least semi-local bands - two bands Roxxlyde and Slingshot Victoria were both frequent acts. They were pop-ular with both Shirleyites and many from Sooke and the rest of the south Island.
Unfortunately they were a bit too wild for their own good ,due to a combination of inci-dents, changing times and a decrease in tolerance of wild west mentality, they got shut down and then there wasn’t enough interest to restart them with less hard partying behaviours at the time.
Despite being too young to have caught the originals I’ve
heard tales for many years about them and wished that they were still going on. Then this fall I decided why not organize a reboot myself. So I requested some feedback both specifically from some people and generically with a survey on the Internet. After that I did some investigating and looking at dates and figured out that February would work best.
The first of the rebooted Shirley Hill Boogies is now scheduled for Saturday Feb. 16 from 7-10 p.m. (doors open at 6:30), although the band and I expect it could go somewhat later if everyone is having fun.
Since this boogie is sched-uled for two days after Val-entine’s Day it is entitled Val-entine’s Weekend Boogie so bringing a date/partner is
suggested but certainly not required of course. Due to modern fire regulations the maximum occupancy of the Shirley Community Hall is 80 - a far cry from the old days when the boogies were often packed with up to 200 people - so there are only 70 tickets available. Desserts and coffee/tea are included in the ticket price. There are quite a few dif-ferences from the old boogies - such as no smoking inside, no drinking and driving, end-ing before the sun comes up.
Playing for our enjoyment will be STERLING, a local Sooke/South Island rock band, who play what they call “sterling rock” as in rock that is neither too soft nor too hard and is hence enjoy-able by all. They play all their own original compositions and
are heading to the semi-finals of Soprano’s and Absolute Under-ground’s second Annual Battle of the Bands. They are also bringing a few friends who will play some covers.
Tickets will be available from The Stick in the Mud in Sooke, by email/paypal to [email protected]. Updates are being posted at the Shirley Hill Boogies Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/shirleyhillboo-gies). If there are any tickets left, will be available at the hall from 5:30 or so until 6:29 sharp on Feb. 16. The Shirley Community Hall is located 20 km NW of Sooke on West Coast Rd.
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Sooke stories across the agesThe Sooke Stories
Across the Ages project can report a good level of success after three years of germination.
The project was orig-inally conceived in 2010 by a local teenager and supported through the collaboration of locals from Pacific Centre Family Services Asso-ciation (PCFSA), Ayre Manor, Sooke commu-nity and Edward Milne community school.
We supported a cou-ple of youth through the early years of the project and have now reached a total of
approximately 14 youth volunteering with this project, including some international students from EMCS.
Two of the 14 are continuing volunteer-ing from last year. Each of them chat with at least one senior each visit, participate in the recreational activi-ties and report to us their enjoyment of the project: (spelling has been changed). They expressed their feelings by saying, “I discovered that by taking a few hours out of my busy schedule and to spend
it focusing on some-one else really makes an impact of both our lives. I don’t know about the residents but my highlight of my weekend is always vol-unteering at Ayre.”
The project can give local youth recognised volunteer credits as well as personal fulfill-ment.
“Working at Ayre Manor is such a won-derful experience to have, and if I could rec-ommend it to anybody else I would!”
We do expect the youth to commit to
the orientation pro-cess and to developing respectful relationships with the seniors, and we continue to accept youth who are inter-ested in the project.
As Mitzi Dean, Execu-tive Director of Pacific Centre Family Ser-vices Association com-mented, “This is a win for everyone involved; there are benefits for the youth and seniors and ultimately the com-munity. PCFSA will con-tinue to support this project and the part-nerships we’ve devel-oped.”
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TUG OF WAR
We don’t see this today, but there was an era when Sooke thrilled to the Tug of War Con-tests at All Sooke Day on the Flats.
In 1940, this team of husky loggers worked for Elder Logging Com-pany at Muir Creek, one of the major employers of the day. The Elders had come to town in the 1930s and their for-estry operations had a big economic impact for two decades.
At rear: Dadie Michelsen, Andy David-son, Ed Robinson, Hor-ace Arthurs, Albert
Robinson, Bill Duggan, Paul Michelsen.
Front: Charlie David-son, patriarch Ed Elder, Bob Dods, Max Elder, team coach Harry Vogel holding youngster How-ard Elder, the son of Dal Elder at far right. The Robinsons, Davidsons and Michelsens were all connected to the pioneer Joseph Poirier family.
Several of these men were fallers, harvesting the timber in the Muir and Tugwell water-sheds. In the 1950s after Elder Logging was sold to Moore-Whittington, their crews were able to continue working
with the new owners for some time.
Cherished grandson in this photo, Howard Elder grew up to grad-uate from UBC with a degree in Forestry Engi-neering and eventually headed the CANFOR camp at Woss Lake, said to be the largest logging camp in B.C. at the time.
Horace Arthurs, who in his retirement years constructed many of the logging models at the Sooke Region Museum, was often the team’s anchor. He recalled, “We had to train six weeks ahead of time plus it took a
good coach to coach a team properly... We competed against Army, Navy, Firemen, you name it.”
Ed Robinson chuck-led, “It was tough on the hands... I remember once we pulled for 20 minutes before we beat them, and I had a piece worn out of my hand ... a team from up around Duncan there – they all weighed about a ton apiece. We held on and rocked them a little and we finally beat ‘em.”
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EDITORIAL Rod Sluggett PublisherPirjo Raits EditorBritt Santowski Reporter
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B.C. Views Imagine a province where
party leaders are chosen in an independently supervised vote, with 12-year-olds, dead people and pets prevented from voting.
Imagine a province where roving gangs of influence-seekers aren’t allowed to join multiple parties, and the rule is actually enforced. One where corporations and unions have to advertise in their own name instead of financing political parties and then disclosing millions in donations months after the election is over.
Imagine a province where elections are held based on audited financial statements, not a collection of election promises that will be dismissed as a work of fiction by the new regime if the incumbent party is defeated.
A cat joined the B.C. Liberal Party to support Christy Clark. Adrian Dix won the NDP leadership with the help of bags of $10 bills stapled to new memberships. As parties go to online voting, multiple PIN numbers may be activated from the same phone number or the same address.
These and other glaring problems with our party-based political system were highlighted last week in a set of reforms proposed by three independent MLAs. Vicki Huntington broke the party choke-hold on B.C. politics by getting elected as an independent in Delta South in 2009. Bob Simpson was
kicked out of the NDP caucus shortly after winning re-election for the party in Cariboo North, because he dared to criticize then-leader Carole James for a lack of policy specifics.
They were belatedly joined by Abbotsford South MLA John van Dongen, who quit the B.C. Liberals in an orchestrated move to the B.C. Conservatives, and then quit that party soon after. Van Dongen does not have the credibility of the others to speak on integrity, given his self-serving party antics and his questionable decision to hire his fiancée and pay her one and a half salaries to serve as his constituency assistant.
Leaving that aside, there are some good ideas in the independents’ reform package. One is to give backbench MLAs a meaningful role in policy-making.
Simpson gave the example of Prince George MLA Shirley Bond’s term as education minister, where she had to reverse ministry policies that didn’t make sense in rural school districts. The all-party standing committee on education could have prevented this error, he said, but it didn’t because it never meets.
The party voting irregularities described above could be addressed by giving Elections BC authority to supervise party leadership votes, the way it does elections and referenda. There are unknown costs for this, and other problems. For instance, should the Marijuana Party be subject
to this, or the Work Less Party, should either one muster enough organization to stage a leadership contest?
The independents had high hopes for one fundamental reform, moving B.C.’s set election date from the spring to the fall. This would take a simple amendment. The idea is for the government to table the annual budget, present the audited public accounts for the previous year, then have an election that rests on tested financial statements and initial results for the current forecast.
Both the B.C. Liberal Party and the NDP have expressed support for this idea. The independents suggest that this brief three-week legislative session is a good time to do it, so the next government can implement it.
I asked Mike de Jong, the B.C. Liberal finance minister and house leader, if he would consider it.
He allowed that it is interesting, but it’s not contemplated for the pre-election session. That will be dominated by returning the provincial sales tax, and the usual jousting over untested spending and revenue proposals.
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Who says people don’t read the Sooke News Mirror?
In the last issue, Feb. 6, a front page story on the Sooke Food Bank did what it was supposed to do — elicited a response from the community. People opened their hearts and in turn their wallets and helped fill the bank account and the shelves of this volunteer run organization. Again, this shows the generosity of the residents of Sooke, and it also shows that people get their news from the printed issue of the local paper.
The editorials are meant to provide a platform around which conversation can start. Often, the comments are what people are talking about and the editorial puts those comments and ideas into the public forum. They are not meant to embarrass
anyone or dictate how things should be done, but rather to open up the dialogue. In small towns there is always an undercurrent of opinion and the job of an editor is to bring them to the surface so they can be talked about. They are not “news” stories, they are opinions only.
Community newspapers provide the impetus, the readers and residents provide the change, if they want it.
With much of our effort these days of providing news online, it is rewarding to see that the printed page still carries weight. In print, it is possible to expand on ideas and stories and it is not a clip, sound bite or an abbreviated version of events. People in Sooke still read their news in printed form and we like that.
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Port Renfrew man responds to need
According to the Feb. 6, 2013 Sooke News Mir-ror front page article the Sooke Food Bank is ‘closing its doors’ to the residents of Port Renfrew.
I have lived here in Renfrew for 22-plus years and have, like oth-ers from time to time, been in need of food to help me past times of extreme need, with no other hope available, me and my friends tapped out. It is a scary thing to realize that you will not survive without this basic need, and some individuals have some difficulty asking for or accepting any help.
The Sooke Food Bank and the Sooke emergency services have helped me sev-eral years ago. I may still utilize the hamper in December through February, as I have had very, very little work in the winter during past years. Thank you for this help until my income and work situ-ation improves.
My thanks and appre-ciation to the contribu-tors and distributors who are involved on the front lines and behind the scenes of these well run facilities. Many peo-ple count on them.
In the article it was mentioned, that contri-
butions that come from Sooke should be used in Sooke, or something like that. It offended me a bit, because I remember contribut-ing food to a drive out here in Renfrew, and, all of that food was delivered to the Sooke Food Bank for distribu-tion. Although that was many years ago, still, I was upset to read those words. (Though I know how misquotes, typos, misinterpretation, and my past experiences, etcetera could be the cause of my reactions).
Turning all of this into a good thing, keep-ing things bright and
happy, I am interested in leading the cre-ation of an entity that can continue this war-ranted public service in Port Renfrew, and shar-ing with other commu-nities when possible.
I will be getting involved by beginning the research and study necessary to guaran-tee the success of my endeavour.
I needed to send this letter to both the food bank and the Sooke News Mirror to instigate some public awareness, action and help.
Bob CroteauPort Renfrew
Initiatives need to see light of day
There is growing sup-port for a Bike Skills Park in Sooke, and peo-ple who want to hear more should come to the Feb. 28 meeting at the district.
I do not have any kids here, nor do I ride a bike (yet) but I support this great idea. Sooke needs to get going on a num-ber of initiatives and I am tired of just talk. The lack of sidewalks, park improvements
and basic road mainte-nance to say a few.
Keep in mind that we need to improve condi-tions in this town for everyone of all ages, so when you are balking at spending money on a seniors’ centre, remem-ber not all seniors like the bike park idea either.
I ask that you pick a project and help us build a community. (A favorite quote). Think of all the people that passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Herb HaldaneSooke
The kindness of strangers
Thanks to our com-munity Zoe’s benefit concert was a huge success.
Thank you to all the bands that played, the Norte staff who pro-vided food, and all
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We asked: What was your most memorable Valentines?
I was pregnant and we went to Chocolate Heaven
at the Empress.
Vanessa WhitemoreSooke
Hopefully I got somebody to spent it with.
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It’s the first one after my last marriage. We’re
coming up to our 10th anniversary and we’ll
be renewing our vows in Mexico shortly.
Al BeddowsSooke
I’ve never really done Valen-tine’s Day.
Malloree MackSooke
Treasure chest
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Christien Shipton found this old ammunition box on the curg. She looked up the markings on the handle which said “Royal Canadian Dragoons 1900.” She would like to have it go somewhere where it will be preserved as a piece of history.
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The Power of Hopeand the Edward Milne Community SchoolSociety invite Sooke teens aged 14-plus to register for a thrilling participatory weekendof theatre, drumming, hip-hop, spoken word,visual arts, songwriting, yoga and dance in mid-February at EMCS.
Returning to Sookefor the first time in a decade, the celebrated,Victoria-based organi-zation will be in townon Feb. 16 and 17 for a weekend titled Positiv-ity: Creativity, Diversity and Team Building.
Sooke teens will be joined by Canada World Youth exchange students, youngsters from the T’Sou-ke and Pacheedaht FirstNations, and other teens residing elsewhere onthe west shore.
Everyone will attenda pair of full-group ses-sions in the EMCS audi-torium, then individu-als can select from a variety of workshops led by Power of Hope facilitators, hip-hop art-ist Ndidi Cascade and local creative people skilled in music, the-atre, art and more.
“It’s a chance to dis-cover your creative potential in a safe, sup-portive and very posi-
tive environment,” saysGita John-Iyham, Power of Hope Canada’s direc-tor. “Participants will make new friends,learn about other cul-tures and end up withno doubts at all that an amazing artist livesinside them.”
The trainings are cool, accessible, fun and potentially lifechanging as testified by thousands of past par-ticipants across B.C. (including many Sooketeens-turned adults who did trainings backin the early 2000s). No art skills are required,only a willingness to grow and learn throughgroup creativity in which no one is judgedand all are encouraged to express themselves.
The cost for two full 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. days is $100. Breakfast and lunch is included. Sliding-scale “pay what you can” payments upto that amount will be accepted based on thehonour system. The EMCS Society is seek-ing fiscal donations from the communityto lower costs for any cash-strapped partici-pants.
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the businesses thatdonated to the silent auction.
We were blown away by how the people inour community showed their support, the gen-erosity from family, friends, neighbors andeven complete strang-ers who gave to oursweet Zoe girl.
A hospital bed was donated to Zoe, so the rest of the moneyraised will go to the Mimi House for play-
ground equipment andsome to Zoe’s therapy costs.
Seriously, there are no words to describehow thankful we are.
From a very apprecia-tive and overwhelmed Nicholson family, Thank-you!
Kier NicholsonShirley
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Zoe Nicholson gets ready to dance at the benefit held to aid her in treatment for a rare condition called Ring 14 syndrome.
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The Sooke Legion was transformed into a win-ter wonderland for the Harbours District Girl Guides Snowflake Ball.
Girls aged 5 to 15 put on their prettiest dresses and enjoyed an afternoon of crafts, games, stories, danc-ing, cupcakes, cookies and punch. Snowballs flew and cookies were decorated; masks were adorned and jigsaw puzzles transformed into silver snowflakes as the girls enjoyed the company of all the other Sparks, Brownies, Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers in Sooke.
Admission to the ball was a donation to the Sooke Food Bank — 120 pounds of food was dropped off after the
party. This kicked off the Girl Guides’ annual food drive, where each girl is challenged to bring one food item to her Girl Guide meeting each week between now and Thinking Day on Feb. 22. Thinking Day is the day when Girl Guides celebrate the birthdays of founders of Guiding and Scouting, Lord and Lady Robert and Olave Baden-Powell.
The girls also took this opportunity to work together to assemble 110 hygiene kits, which are being distributed in Sooke via the Sooke Transition House, Sooke Crisis Centre and Worklink. Girl Guides would like to thank the following generous donors from our com-
munity: Dr. Chris Bry-ant (toothbrushes and toothpaste for every kits), Shoppers Drug Mart, Peoples Drug Mart and the Prestige Hotels (soap, shampoo, razors and other items) for the kits. Families of the girls donated socks, mittens, hats, scarves and every kit for a child contained a brand new small stuffed toy.
Girl Guides in Sooke is a busy group with units for all ages from Spark to Ranger. Girl Guides offers the oppor-tunity to participate in a variety of activities with girls their own age — crafts and games, camping, field trips to name a few.
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Guided by generosityLocal Sparks, Brownies, Girl Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers had a ball at the Snowflake Ball. The girls donated 120 pounds of food to the Sooke Food Bank.
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Transition Town folk reach out to communityBritt SantowskiSooke News Mirror
Sooke Transition Town is hosting an informational, conver-sational and educa-tional evening at the Video and Dessert Night at the Little Vienna Bak-ery this coming Satur-day Feb. 16. starting at 7 p.m. Stephen Hin-drichs of the Juan De Fuca Cycling Coaliton and member of Sooke Transition Town pres-ents this second night of short films and friendly conversation.
According to Michael Nyikes, owner of the bakery, last year’s event was attended by about 45 people.
As explained on their website (sooketransi-tion.org), the Sooke Transition Town is a “local group of con-cerned residents com-
mitted to working together with all exist-ing groups to make Sooke a more resilient and sustainable com-munity so that we can respond more effec-tively to the challenges of climate change, peak oil, and global eco-nomic instability and inequity.”
The transition-town concept is worldwide. According to Transition-Network.org, there are over 250 transition proj-ects underway world-wide. They describe transition towns as intentional communities moving away from high levels of energy con-sumption (with empha-sis on fossil fuels), and moving towards a low-er-energy future.
Here in Sooke, tran-sition town advocates are still in the initial phase of outreach and
education. Which is why Nyikes teamed up with Hindrichs to co-ordinate this second annual free event.
With the backdrop
of an intimate setting while enjoying a des-sert accompanied with a warm bever-age, Sooke Transition Town will be showing
a series of short videos followed with conver-sation about the pre-sented concepts.
The central theme of this evening is to
explore the concept of permaculture. The term permaculture comes from “perma-nent agriculture” and refers to a way of farm-ing and gardening that works synergistically with nature, says Hin-drichs. “It’s a new name for an old concept that people have been doing for hundreds and thou-sands of years.”
The central ideas behind permaculture, coined by two Austra-lian ecologists in the 1970s, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, can be summed up in three simple concepts: earth care, people care and fair share. Care for the earth and its resources; care for yourself, your family and your com-munity; and, take only what you need and con-tribute where you can.
The principles of per-
maculture, as Hindrichs aims to promote with this movie night, can be overlaid onto many different aspects of life, including health, gar-dening and community development. Conver-sation will include sub-jects like resource shar-ing (StreetBank.com) and shopping locally (ShopSooke.com).
This evening can serve as a strong com-plement to the Aware-ness Film night showing this Wednesday (Feb, 13) at Edward Milne community school theatre. Continue the conversation and strengthen your own network at The Vienna Bakery this Saturday.
Find out more about Sooke Transition Town and related events at sooketransition.org.
Britt Santowski photo
Stephen Hindrichs in conversation with other participants at February’s Transition Town meeting at The Reading Room Cafe. The group meets on the first Sunday of every month, from 2-4 p.m. From left to right: Stephen, Margaret, Tom and Angelina. Everyone is welcome.
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Diamond Jubilee AwardSix BC and Yukon representatives are among 30 from the Canadian Cancer Society to be awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award in 2013. The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee award recognizes the contribution of outstanding Canadians who have built and continue to build a caring society and country through their service and achievements.Three former board members, Dr. Gerald Bonham, Lori Messer and Leonard Schein, who have all given generously of their time over a number of years, are among the recipients. Lori is a former Board Chair of BC and former National Chair. Cutline: (left to right) Barbara Kaminsky, Cathy Adair, Lori Messer, Leonard Schein, Dr. Carolyn Gotay.
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Funds for womenThe Shoppers Drug Mart campaign raised more than $3,000 to support programs for girls and women at Sooke Family Resource Society. In the photo SFRS Executive Director Nicky Logins, third from right, accepts the cheque from pharmacist/owner Tina Kang and Shoppers staff, from left, Lisa Simmonds, Jodie Lacomb, Tina Kang, Nicky Logins, Marcus Farmer and Alysse Oman.
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Where in the World?The Sooke News Mirror went travelling with Anne McDougall, left, to the Brazilian side of Iguazu Falls.
Right, some of the Wilson Diving group went to Fiji in Oct. 2012.Back row Don Potts, Mary Widmer, Shelly Milligan, Drew PorterFront, Doug Wilson, Iris Wilson, Maureen Wilson.
Glenn and Sean Ramsay, above, took the Sooke News Mirror to Puerto Vallarta on vacation. They had the time of their lives.
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Above, Dick and Bobbie Momsen took their community newspaper along on their trip to Maui, Hawaii.
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Seedy Saturday coming upSooke’s 4th Annual Seedy Saturday
Sooke Region Food CHI invites you to the Sooke Community Hall on Feb. 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., for Sooke’s premier gardening and local food growing event.
The family-friendly day will feature a seed exchange and trading table; a diverse range of seed and plant vendors; and local food artisans; and tons of educational displays featuring infor-mation on everything from composting to bees to the history of farming in our region.
“Seedy Saturdays are very popular with new and experienced gar-deners, alike.” says Jes-sica Boquist, Food CHI director and event orga-nizer, “Coming to the Sooke event ensures that locals are buying seeds or starters from plants that have proven successful in our cli-mate. This is probably the most gardeners you will find, under one
roof, all year. The net-working is amazing with a wide variety of skills and experience among our participants.”
Local farmer, Mary Alice Johnson says, “It is wonderful that we have so many Seedy Satur-days in our region, and Sooke is an excellent addition. These events started in Victoria and have spread across the country. Seedy Sat-urdays have allowed many small seed com-
panies to grow, and more are starting each year. They offer won-derful varieties – vari-eties from immigrant grandparents or world travels, or varieties from neighbours who have a great tomato or broad bean that they have been growing out for decades.”
Admission is by dona-tion ($5 suggested), and door prizes and raffles add to the fun of this event. Whether you
have been planting for 50 years or this is your first season, whether you have a farm or small pots in your win-dow sill; whether you want to grow a butter-fly garden or grow food for your family or for sale, start your season with a visit to Sooke’s Seedy Saturday.
For more information visit sookefoodchi.ca or email [email protected].
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On Monday Jan. 28, Sooke Food CHI held its Fifth annual AGM at the Sooke Harbour House, where Frederique and Sinclair Philip each year kindly donate this warm meeting and eat-ing space.
Sooke Region Food CHI Society, with over 250 members, exists solely to foster and support the food move-ment in our region – Seedy Saturday (Feb. 23), farm tours, engag-ing and mentoring new farmers, drawing on the wisdom of older farmers and growers, community gardens and backyard gardens, fruit tree gleaning, community orchards and championing the importance of growing local, buying local and eating local foods.
At the AGM our guest speakers included Mike Hicks, regional direc-tor for Juan de Fuca, Arzeena Hamir, well known B.C. food activ-ist and farmer from Amara Farms up Island, and Vivi and Susan from the newly soon-to-
be-formed Village Farm Coop in Sooke.
In spite of all the challenges facing farmers and growers Arzeena gave a very inspiring talk of where there is hope for more local food production.Arzeena shared a hand-ful of stories of innova-tive incubator farms, farm schools, possible partnerships, commu-nity farms, different models of land tenure, successful urban farm stories, where large vol-umes of food are being produced on small pieces of land.
Our members are very encouraged to endorse Food CHI’s
role to seize and sup-port opportunities where we can sustain food production and food systems in our own region.
Mike Hicks announced that some of the federally purchased East Sooke Glenairley
land will be saved for food production, and our guests from Ragley Farm, Vivi and Susan, shared their dream of purchasing over 100 acres close to the vil-lage core of Sooke for a coop model farm.
As always the pot-luck supper was simply delicious. A few of our many volunteers were recognized for out-standing contributions to our organization – Keeley Nixon and Erika Rolston; our Sunriver Community Gardens programs – Glen The-lin, Sheila Wallace, Lis Johansen, Cecelia Lan-glois, Patricia White-ley, Fruit Tree gleaning - Larry Galbraith and
Laura Lucinda, and our outstanding young student gardener from Journey middle school, Jordan Schutt.
The 2013 Food CHI board includes: Anita Wasiuta, Mary Alice Johnson, Jessica Boquist, Keeley Nixon, Phoebe Dunbar, Mark Batten and Darrell McLeod.
If anyone wishes to become involved with Food CHI, please go to our website and con-tact us. www.sooke-foodchi.ca or drop down any Wednesday afternoon to the Sun-river Community Gar-dens on Phillips Road between 1 and 3 p.m.
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Emily Moreland presents an award to Jordan Schutt.
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Tues.Tues.February 19February 19BABY TBABY TALK 2013ALK 2013Signing for Babies. At the Signing for Babies. At the Sooke Child, Youth and Sooke Child, Youth and Family Centre (CASA Family Centre (CASA building) 2145 Townsend building) 2145 Townsend Road from 10-11:30 a.m. Road from 10-11:30 a.m. SEAPARCFree Community Adult Walking Group. Tuesdays and Thursdays 10-11 a.m. Preregistration required. Call 250-642-8000 for info.YOUTH CLINICYOUTH CLINICYouth Clinic (ages 13-Youth Clinic (ages 13-25), 1300-6660 Sooke 25), 1300-6660 Sooke Rd, West Coast Family Rd, West Coast Family Medical Clinic, 4-7 p.m.Medical Clinic, 4-7 p.m.BC CANCER AGENCYMammograms at the Sooke Mammograms at the Sooke Health Unit. Call 1-800-663-Health Unit. Call 1-800-663-9203 for info.9203 for info.
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Date: February 19, 2013Time: 7:00pmPlace: Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Office #2 – 6868 West Coast Road, Sooke, BC1. Development Permit and Floodplain Setback Exemption Application a) DP-19-12 - Lot 3, Section 9, Otter District, Plan 15583 (Danes – 8603 West Coast Road)2. Development Variance Permit Application a) VAR-05-12 - Lot B (DD.EP307), Section 1, Township 11, Renfrew District, Plan 24755 (Hiles – 6654 Queesto Drive)3. Proposed Bylaws a) Proposed Bylaw No. 3720, Comprehensive Community Plan for Willis Point Bylaw No. 1, 2002, Amendment Bylaw No. 1, 2013 b) Proposed Bylaw No. 3759, Juan de Fuca Land Use Bylaw, 1992, Amendment Bylaw No. 107, 2013 c) Proposed Bylaw No. 3874, Malahat Land Use Bylaw, 1981, Bylaw No. 980, Amendment No. 143, 2013Due to advertising deadline, other items may be included on the agenda. Please call 250.642.1500 for confirmation.Comments on agenda items can be submitted before noon February 19, 2013 by email to [email protected] or be submitted at the meeting. Staff reports will be available after February 14, 2013 on the CRD website at: www.crd.bc.ca/reportsjuandefucalandusecom_/ 2013_/index.htm or can be viewed at our office at 2-6868 West Coast Road, Sooke, Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 4:30pm.
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Each morning at 5:30 a.m., Rev. Al Tysick heads out to local sidewalks and parks, armed with coffee, muffins, blankets and a friendly ear, to offer those who make their home on the streets a welcoming start to their day.
It may seem a small gesture for a person with-out a roof over their heads or a bed to sleep in, but the impact can be significant for those who are used to being judged harshly by society.
Rev. Tysick, founder of the Victoria Dandelion Society, knows this is the reality each and every night for hundreds of men and women “sleep-ing rough” in the Capital Region. While their exact numbers are unknown, what is known is that despite significant efforts of social service organizations, what is currently available simply isn’t enough.
Over the last 20 years, the number of homeless has increased dramatically in the Capital Region, including those with mental illness, addictions and those who have lost their homes due to job loss or health problems. Some without a home “couch-surf” with friends and family, others live in a vehicle or have a tent to provide some pro-tection. But sleeping rough brings exposure to the elements and to the inherent risks of life on the street, not the least of which is the weather – the Greater Victoria Extreme Weather Protocol, for periods of harsh wind, rain, snow or sub-zero temperatures, was called 43 times between November 2011 and March 2012.
Tysick has worked with the region’s street community for 25 years. Seeing a gap in services for people who were homeless and might be facing challenges due to mental illness and/or
addiction, “I wanted to do what I could to serve that population better,” he says.
More housing subsidies are crucial for a city with a tight rental market and one of Canada’s highest costs of living. “These have really, really helped, and new housing initiatives (to address the growing numbers of homeless) is really, really needed,” Tysick says.
Andrew Wynn-Williams, Executive Director of the Coalition to End Homelessness, agrees. He’s one of many at work in the homeless com-munity who are calling for more housing as the way to end homelessness in our community. He also says it doesn’t need to be expensive. “One key step could be an increase in the number of housing supplements available, a truly cost-effective measure that will help individuals into
housing, where they can better address issues such as mental illness and addictions and help reduce the number of visits to the hospital and courts.”
Other positive moves include initiatives like Centralized Access to Supportive Housing, which provides a streamlined application process for all the supportive housing in the region, notes Brad Crewson, co-ordinator of the Streets2Homes program.
The public is often supportive of the city’s various organizations that help those in need, but letting their views be known to local govern-ments is also essential.
“If nothing else,” Tysick says, “we can write our MPs and say ‘housing the homeless is a pri-ority.’”
Programs findsuccess, but demand is increasing
Housing Victoria’s homeless brings hope
Founded in 2009 as a pilot project through the Coalition to End Homelessness, Streets2Homes is a housing program working with people coming directly from homelessness, explains program co-ordinator Brad Crewson.
The program provides a rental subsidy of up to $300 and a support worker to assist clients, ranging from helping them to doctor appointments to assisting with financial literacy, “whatever is needed, really.”
Today, Streets2Homes remains a community program with community partners, but is administered by Pacifica Housing. Support comes from sources such as BC Housing, which pays for the subsidies, United Way, which provides money for staff support, the City of Victoria and the Coalition to End Homelessness.
Since 2009, the program has housed 130 people, and currently sits at 103 participants.
Program staff recruit landlords with affordable units to rent, and it’s notable that of the 20 landlords Streets2Homes has recruited, not one has left the program.
For landlords, participation offers a chance to give back to the community, but practically speaking also offers some added security that the rent will get paid because of support workersoffer in areas like financial management. Plus, “we’re at the other end of the phone – we’re there to help,” says Crewson, they also have good relationships with several large property management companies and organizations like the Rental Owners and Managers of BC.
While the nature of finding affordable housing and services has meant that most of Streets2Homes’ work has been in the downtown area, they are starting to branch out into the West Shore region, with several participating buildings. “I think as the program becomes more successful, the capacity will be there to help (grow) into some of these areas,” Crewson says. Where it costs about $7,000 per year to house someone through Streets2Homes, supportive housing can cost twice as much, plus the cost of constructing the building, Crewson says. “It’s a very successful program – it’s cost-effective, it’s efficient and it’s working.”
For information about participating as a landlord in the Streets2Homes program, contactSasha Collins at 250-356-0742; for information about other aspects of the program, contact Brad Crewson at 250-385-2131, ext. 112
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LOOKING BACKA trip through the
Sooke News Mirror archives:
Feb. 13, 2008Camp Bernard
enhances scopeThe scouting move-
ment has been around for a long time and a long list of young people have moved through its ranks. The skills and character attributes gained through scout-ing pay long-term divi-dends.
A new kind of camp is coming up at Sooke’s 251-acre Camp Bernard as early as the March break.
“It’s a specific pro-gram called ‘Schools and Scouting’ and after 12 years we decided it’s not a trial anymore,” said Denyse Koo, the community develop-ment worker with Scouts Canada.
Because it’s just get-ting started there will be capacity of 20 camp-ers per week in March.
Feb. 12, 2003WCB sues Deer
TrailsDear Trail Develop-
ment Ltd. is being sued once again and this time instead of a con-
struction company it’s the Workers’ Compen-sation Board of B.C. that’s waiting for pay.
In a statement of claim, the WCB stated that Deer Trail owes it $18,082.
The money owed to the WCB is for unpaid WCB assessments, according to WCB spokesperson Donna Freeman. All registered employers in B.C. must pay WCB assessments. Company represen-tatives could not be reached.
Feb. 11, 1998West Coast Road
finally opensPort Renfrew resi-
dents and visitors finally had their link to the rest of the world reopened Monday night after construc-tion of a temporary Bai-ley bridge across Loss Creek was completed. The original bridge was deemed unusable after a mudslide covered West Coast Road near it in late December.
Feb. 10, 1993
Sooke Coast Guard has new home
The Sooke Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit 37 at long last has a home of its own. Negotia-tions have finally been completed allowing the Sooke Unit to use the abandoned Victoria Coast Guard Radio Sta-tion at 7316 McMillan Rd.
After considerable alternations done by the unit members, we are ready to proudly unveil the new home of the Spirit of Sooke.
Come one, come all and help us officially open the new station.
Feb. 10, 1988Renfrew residents
face hefty tax hike when services trans-ferred
Port Renfrew resi-dents are faced with tax increases of up to $700 per year to pay for services such as water, sewage, street lights and fire protection cur-rently provided by B.C. Forest Products.
The company, which at present charges resi-dents a minimal servic-ing fee, is planning to transfer the services to the residents of the
town as it divests itself of its interests in the community.
In days gone by:July, 1975: West Coast
Savings Credit Union boasted first mort-gages at 11¾ per cent and second mortgages at 12¾ per cent.
July, 1975: Sooke Fur-niture Gallery’s mid-year inventory clear-ance, featuring Sim-mons Queen size box spring and mattress for $179.
Nov. 1972: Rainbow Lanes, Sooke’s bowling and billiards headquar-ters where newcomers are always made wel-come.
File photo
Back in 2002 Ray Vowles, Don Rittaler and Elida Peers look at a pillar from the old Belvedere Hotel.
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The 25th Sooke Fine Arts Show opened on Thursday night with purchasers waiting in line to get into the show and see the latest
works from the 275 artists who submitted entries.The adjudicators chose 375 pieces from the 551 art-
ists who responded to the call for entries to the juried art show and sale.
The 10-day show was once again staged in the SEA-PARC Leisure Complex where a group of talented and hard working volunteers transformed the cavernous space into an amazing gallery.
“We had a lovely weekend and a lot of people,” said Sally Manning, show coordinator. “It is a colourful and happy show.”
Many Sooke artists stood out as the winners in the 25th Anniversary Artists Awards. They included Pat-rick Irwin for his acrylic and oil two-dimensional paint-ing “Port Alberni,” Best Two-Dimensional work.
The Best Three-Dimensional work award was awarded to Jan Johnson for his “Minotaur Overseeing Intake,” while Debbie Clarkson took the award for the Best Photography for her “La Habana Elegante #3.” Dana Sitar’s “When I Do Not Follow the Rules” took the award for Best Fibre. Honourable mentions were given to Chuck Minten for his “Circle of Friends” wood table and Anne Boquist’s “YoYoTokTik” gourd and found object piece.
Other winners include Heather Hamilton’s “Internal Reflections” pendant (Best Jewellery); Jo Ludwig’s “No Title” glass piece (Best Glass); Metchosin’s Judi Dyelle won Best Ceramic for her “White Series #1”; and Jeff Molloy’ for his mixed media piece “A Man of the Cloth.
Other honourable mentions went to Debbie Jansen for her fused glass, “Untitled”, Eliza Heminway’s fibre wall piece, “The Haberdasher’s Garden” and Leonard Butt’s “Uchi” raku sculpture.
The adjudicators each chose a work for Juror’s Choice. Richard White gave full marks to Nicolas Van-dergugten’s lino block print “Bridgework #3”; Grant Leier (substituting for Carol Sabiston) awarded Dee de Wit’s “Still Life with Mango” his kudos; and juror Nixie Barton chose Johannes Landman’s oil painting “Benchwarmer.”
Manning said the attendance was keeping in line with past years as were the sales.
25 Years of incredible art
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Bonnie Jones takes a close look at Michael MacLean’s “Ambassador”
The Sooke FolkMusic Society normally cur-
tails it’s activities for the summer, but thisSaturday, July 30, we are delighted to bringback Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart for a spe-cial summer concert at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, as part of their “Driver ‘til she drops”tour; a reference to their Chevy Suburban,which now has some 465,000 miles on theodometer
Stacey Earle andMark Stuart met for the first time 1991 ata songwriters night in Nashville TN. Theyknew that night it was one of them things thatare just meant to be. They were married in 1992.
It would be quite a balancing act at that time raising a family and trying to make a living along with all theother stuff that came with getting by, “but wemanaged,” Stacey said as she looked back ather first encounter with the world of touring.
Stacey Earle’s first show was on an arena stage in Sydney, play-ing rhythm guitar in her brother’s band, Steve Earle & the Dukes.
She spent about a year and a half on tour with her brother, and then returned to Nash-ville to start a career of her own as a country/folk singer/songwriter.
“I was 30-years-old and asking/seeking a recording deal in Nash-ville.At that age it was like asking God to turn back the world clock.”
Mark Stuart went to the finest of music schools, he started his schooling listening and admiring his uncle’s guitar playing and his dad’s fiddling. By age 15 he would find himself
playing in the school ofhonky tonks and beer joints in and around Nashville in his dad’s band.
Mark was off the road when he met Sta-cey and that very night he would play the firstnote of her music never leaving her side. Mark
still somehow foundthe time to work on his own music record-ing his solo record and touring.
Mark, as well, spent some time in the Dukes in the 1990s. Like Earle, he recalls it as a time ofglamour: appearing on the Tonight Show with
Jay Leno, and MTV. “I had someone tun-
ing my guitar, strappingon my guitar,” he said. “Now we carry our stuff three flights up in the Red Roof Inn.”
Over the years Sta-cey and Mark havelearned so much from each other. Their songs are the diaries of their life — good times andbad, thereby complet-ing the love they have.Together they share the full load of gettingby day-by-day.
They’ve gone onto release their duo albums, Never GonnaLet You Go in 2003 and S&M CommunionBread in 2005, and their Gearle Records 2008release Love from Sta-cey and Mark which is available at thehir live shows only.
While, no doubt, each still remains an individual solo artist with solo releases, suchas the 2008 release of Mark Stuart’s Left of
Nashville and Stacey Earle’s The Ride also in 2008), it is throughthe respect of each oth-er’s work and years ofplaying together that they have created theirunique sound. And that sound allows each indi-vidual to shine through. Stacey and Mark are no doubt together ‘til death do they part.
Please be sure to join us for what will bea memorable evening with these two very engaging singer/song-writers.
The gig is on Satur-day, July 30 at Holy Trin-ity Anglican Church, at 1962 Murray Road.Doors open at 7:30 p.m. with show at 8. Ticketsare $15 and are avail-able at the door or in advance at Shopper’s Drug Mart.
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SHOPPING LOCAL PRESERVES OUR COMMUNITIESNobody likes losing shops and services in smaller towns and cities - but they don’t equate this to how they spend their money. Local businesses thrive if customers spend locally. So if you want a vibrant town centre where you can socialize and shop - shop locally!
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Mobile home fire deemed “suspicious”
Father, son and two dogs escape blazeChristine VopelSooke News Mirror
A fire that consumed a mobile home at 6647 Sooke Road at 5:20 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4 has now been labelled “suspicious.” “I’ve exhausted any accidental cause now we’re left with human cause. Whether it was deliber-ately set or accidental has yet to be determined. We’ll be turning
the file over to the RCMP. If it wasset, there will be a criminal inves-tigation,” says Sooke Fire Chief Steve Sorenson.RCMP and Sorenson met today at Sea View mobile home park in hope to rule out the cause of the fire.
“My first thought was electri-cal but that’s not it. It is a suspi-cious fire, that’s why these guys are here,” said Sorenson with regard to the police presence. The mobile home belongs to Kristie Smedley, a single mom with two sons, Merrick and Zack-ary Orr and two dogs. At the time
of the fire, only the boys’ fatherand the youngest son, Merrick were in the home. “I’m thankful everyone was o.k. and that I got almost every-thing out of the boys’ rooms. I got 15 skateboards out of there,” said Smedley. Luckily Sooke Fire Rescue arrived quickly after receiving the call at 5:30 p.m. “Most of the fire damage was in the kitchen and the living room. The rest was smoke and water damage. The blaze was knocked down in the first 15 minutes,” Sorenson said.
Unfortunately Smedley did nothave insurance for the mobile home or its contents. She lost almost all her furniture and her art collection not to mention a washer and dryer. “The heat was so strong it melted everything,” she said.The fire was attended by 23 people, but Sorenson confirmed, “I had 19 fire fighters on scene. We lucked out because of the time of day, most volunteers were home for dinner and able to come out,” said Sorenson. The province will provide 72 hours of emergency care and the
Red Cross is willing to help afterthat. A fund is being set up at Coast Capital Savings under the name “Smedley Fund” for any-one wishing to donate. Fire crews had just returned to the station when a chimney fire was reported on Murray Road. This response was made more difficult due to the larage num-ber of vehicles parked along Mur-ray Road as there was a concert taking place at the same time at Holy Trinity Church resulting in a busy night for Sooke fire fight-ers.
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Armin Sielopp photo
Surf’s up at Jordan River and the ocean is filled with enthusiastic surfers. Sooke News Mirror reader and photo contributor Armin Sielopp said there were more than 40 people out on the waves on Feb. 10.
Hanging 10
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Every penny countsAyden Gee (left) and Sawyer Dawson (right) drop by with their moms
in tow at the Sooke News Mirror office. They donated a bag filled with already-rolled pennies to donate to the Sooke Food Bank.
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Erik, Laina, & DianeErik, Laina, & Dianeare the best!are the best!
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Britt SantowskiSooke News Mirror
Organized minor hockey is steadily grow-ing in Canada. Accord-ing to BC Hockey (for-merly British Columbia Amateur Hockey Asso-ciation, or BCAHA), the BC hockey involves “approximately 150 minor hockey associa-tions, 4,500 referees, 20,000 official volun-teers, and 55,000 play-ers.” (bchockey.net)
Not included in the official volunteer count are the parents who get up in the wee hours of the morning and, with sleep-filled bleary weekend eyes, chauf-feur their kids to count-less practices, games and tournaments.
Earlier this month, the Dodge Caravan Kids, Novice 2 A, played an early game against their coaches with ice time starting at 8:30 a.m. The sides seem equally balanced: all of the novice play-ers playing against the four coaches. Action raced up and down the ice as the puck steadily shifted between the two goalies.
At this game, the Sooke News Mirror had an opportunity to speak with Laura Kingcott. Kingcott, mother to eight-year-old Saman-tha, currently on the ice. I asked her what it was like to be a hockey
mom.At this level, Kingcott
said, it was pretty easy. “Adults are usually well behaved at this level,” she said, with the emphasis on the word “usually.” She also added that the coaches and managers were all volunteers. Dedication comes from all parties involved, from the play-ers to the parents to the coaches and man-agers.
She noted that at the novice level, there are typically only two prac-tices a week. Ice time is usually early in the morning, which isn’t that great, but the trade off is that there isn’t a lot of traveling. Some-times, they go as far as Mill Bay, just over the Malahat.
Kingcott knows the range of commitment involved at all levels, from Novice to Midget. She also has an older daughter, 18-year-old Krista, who has played through the ranks, beginning in Victoria and growing up the ranks in Sooke. At the higher levels, Kingcott says, you can have five to seven practices and games in a week, with games as far away as Port Alberni. That gets more hectic.
Another hockey mom, Jill Phipps, echoed the hectic pace involved at higher lev-els of hockey, PeeWee
and Atom. Besides working full time run-ning her business and overseeing the school responsibilities of her children, Phipps often negotiates more than six ice times per week. Husband and father Al Phipps is also involved in coaching for both boys.
Jill Phipps says that, as a hockey-focussed
family, there are finan-cial considerations as well as social one.
“I wouldn’t neces-sarily call them hard-ships but hockey can be expensive with gear, travel, camps, etc. For us, we’ve had to make a choice to do hockey and take a pass on other things. Tourna-ments are often sched-uled during school
breaks so family vaca-tions usually involve hockey rinks.”
Kathlyn McHugh, the third hockey mom we contacted, agrees. McHugh has two of her three children involved in hockey.
“I am juggling full time work, three kids in other activities includ-ing music and dance, as well as trying to have a
personal life.” McHugh affirms the
high level of commit-ment required: “6 a.m. practises, lots of money spent on travelling on weekends and holidays (which means no actual holidays). All our vaca-tion money goes to hockey.”
There are also the parental emotional highs and lows to con-tend with. It’s hard watching violence hap-pen on the ice, espe-cially when it involves your own child. And it’s hard watching your kids give everything they have only to lose a game, or even worse, be eliminated from a tour-nament said Hughes.
But as hectic as the scheduling can be in the older levels, the rewards are high. All three moms, however, celebrate the up-side. “We do it,” Kingcott says, “because the kids love it. They learn the team mentality, to give it their all because their team is depending on them, and they make really good friend-ships.”
Phipps sees the upside of having her children engaged with wholesome and healthy activities.
“The kids have made great friends, learned good sportsmanship and how to be part of a team. They are both very physically active
which I hope develops into a lifelong commit-ment to respect their bodies.” And McHugh has seen tremendous benefit for her kids as well, “Both kids have a solid sense of self and capability. As par-ents we have a com-munity and social net-work. Watching your kids develop in a sport is exciting...and there is a a larger sense of being ‘a part of something’ that cannot be dupli-cated.”
As another mother recently reminded Phipps when she was “complaining about dashing off to the arena for the second time in one day: ‘Well Jill, you could be picking them up at the mall!’”
Saturday’s Novice game against their coaches was a good game. Young Samantha could not stop smiling, and proudly motioned to her mother as she skated speed-style around in circles on the ice at warm up. Success on the ice is ultimately measured by external smiles and inward per-sonal growth, not the number of goals scored or games won. And the smiles gleaming from the Novice kids’ bright faces made the inside of the arena as sunny as the day was outside on that particular Sat-urday morning.
A day in the life of three hockey moms
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Eight-year-old Samantha of Sooke’s Novice 2A team could not stop smiling as she played with her teammates against their coaches.
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Britt SantowskiSooke News Mirror
If you’ve ever taken notice of the beautifulmurals on the windows of the pool at SEAPARC,we’d like to introduce you to their creator, 27-year-old Jacklyn Evans. Working at SEA-PARC for 11 years, she has been painting for only the past four. While she says she hasno formal training, she admits to being tremen-
dously inspired by Dis-ney.
“I love anything Dis-ney,” she says. The first cartoon charac-ter she ever drew was Sponge Bob. “I had a thing for Sponge Bob,” she laughs. Her big-gest challenge is having people see the work-in-progress. Her end result is always two-sided, fin-ished from both sides of the glass. Since shepaints from the inside, the exterior gets the
finished look first. Andmost of the onlookers are watching from theinside.
Elementary basketball
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John Stalker of Sooke elementary warms up for the game against John Stubbs on Feb. 6. The game was exciting to watch: the kids played well and it was a really close game. Final score was 30 to 24 for John Stubbs. Also pictured in the Community Calendar on p. 17 are Isaac VanNus, Dylan Baker and Malik Mikkelson from Sooke elementary.
Antici-painting spring
Britt Santowski photo
Betty Jameson basks in the hot-tub at SEAPARC with a mural by Jacklyn Evans showcased behind her.
Britt Santowski photo
Artist (and lifeguard) Jacklyn Evans celebrates the coming of spring as she paints her mural at SEAPARC.
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It is with great plea-sure that Sooke Minor Hockey Association will be hosting the Gord Sleivert Memo-rial Coaches’ HockeyGame. Gord was an extraordinary individ-ual who dedicated him-self to serve our associ-ation as President and Coach as well as men-toring young athletes and coaches across Canada.
SMHA hosts Gord Sleivert Memorial Coaches Hockey Game in Sooke
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Gord Sleivert
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Good Luck, PeeWee C2 in your first international house tournament, the Spring ThawTournament, Seattle, USA February 15-17th.
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