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MLAs listen as Paul Lacerte (right), founder of the moose hide campaign, joins a drum circle at the B.C. legislature. Aboriginal men gathered at the B.C. legislature Feb. 12 to urge personal responsibility to reduce violence against aboriginal women and children. For more on this event, please turn to page 4.

Andrea PeacockVictoria News

Conflicts between residents and develop-ers in Cook Street Village could be reduced if the city were to develop a specific local area plan, say two Victoria city councillors.

“The problem that I’m seeing in all of our neighbourhood villages and along our transportation corridors, is that we have the overarching principle of the official community plan. . . but we have yet to do the local area planning that provides the specific vision for what’s appropriate in these villages,” said Coun. Pamela Madoff.

“We need to put more resources into the

planning department and really focus on those villages.”

As previously reported in the News, some residents are currently at odds with a developer in Cook Street Village who is pro-posing a five-storey mixed-used building.

Such conflicts come about because of the lack of a clear vision for the village, said Coun. Chris Coleman.

“The OCP says you want to build up den-sity, and therefore some greater height in those village core areas,” said Coleman. “I think the cause of concern for some people in the neighbourhood is you need a second lens, which is a local area plan, and that hasn’t been focused on for Cook Street Vil-

lage.”Although the city’s Official Community

Plan states there will be 8,000 more resi-dents in villages such as Cook Street Village by 2041, it does not show how to accommo-date for those people and what that looks like, said Madoff, adding a local area plan would be particularly beneficial to devel-opers.

“When I ask [developers] what is it [they] need to be successful, they say predictabil-ity,” said Madoff.

“You could spend a lot of time coming in with a proposal, going back and forth and back and forth if there’s neighbourhood issues, whereas if we get the local area plan

done, it shows what’s supported there, and you can go through the process so much more quickly.

“If we don’t get on top of it, we’re just going to have controversy around every time one of these applications comes through. That doesn’t bode well for the community or the development commu-nity.”

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Flowers are out – time to get countingAndrea PeacockVictoria News

Blue skies, blossoming buds and warmer weather are signs of an early spring in Victoria, while much of Canada is still deep in win-ter.

To highlight the region’s unique climate, Tourism Victoria is hosting the 39th annual Victoria Flower Count from March 5 to 11.

“It’s a Greater Victoria tradition to celebrate the arrival of spring,” said Paul Nursey, CEO of Tourism Vic-toria. “We just think our cli-mate and garden tourism is a differentiator for Greater Victoria when the rest of Canada is shivering.”

Community members from the 13 municipalities who count flowers will have their numbers attributed to their community specifically and for the overall total.

In conjunction with the flower count, UsedVictoria.com, owned by Black Press,

is holding a special contest as a sponsor of the event.

“For every day that flower count is on, we are going to hide five flower ads on our

site,” said Lacey Sheardown, director of marketing. They can be in any category on UsedVictoria.com.

Once a flower ad is found,

people are asked to click on it, then share it on Twitter using the share button. This will count as an entry into the contest for a daily prize.

Last year, over 1.3 billion flowers were counted. The record number of blooms counted was in 2010 at 21 billion flowers.

For more information, and a guide on how to count blossoms, go online to flow-ercount.com.

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Island Health plans to expand services to those living with blood-borne diseases such as HIV and AIDS, as well as preventive mea-sures for those at-risk.

The provincial program is focused on furthering the reach of HIV prevention, testing and to pro-vide early links to care as well as improving the health of those liv-ing with or vulnerable to HIV.

Chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick says the goal is to make testing as easy as a regular check-up.

“We want to make testing rou-

tine, whether an individual is knowingly at risk for contracting a blood-borne disease or not.”

Last November, Island Health asked for proposals to improve services related to prevention, testing as well as education pro-grams.

The B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS conducted a pilot project and found that with more testing and treatment it would help the most at-risk populations.

“What it found was that by actively going out and testing they identified more outcomes that may have not been found without testing,” said Sarah Plank, Island Health Media Relations Manager.

Stanwick says new infections discovered are not just from the most vulnerable populations.

“While we continue to reach out to those who are most vulnerable, marginalized and at higher risk, we know that a significant proportion of new infections involve individ-uals from the general population who are unaware of their statuses.”

The only way to find early diag-nosis is to make testing as easy and accessible as possible.

“The approach under the STOP HIV/AIDS program takes a proven best-practice methodology in the management of the threat and real-ity of the transmission of blood-borne diseases in our communi-

ties,” said Stanwick. Health Minister Terry Lake said

the expansion of the STOP (Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention) HIV/AIDS program will have a pro-jected price tag of $19.9 million annually province-wide.

“The importance of reaching and engaging people in case is why we have expanded the successful STOP HIV/AIDS program to com-munities throughout the province.”

With Island Health distributing $650,000 in provincial funding for community partners within Island Health’s service area, it will bring total funding to $1.98 million for next fiscal year.

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Aboriginal men gathered at the B.C. legislature Feb. 12 to urge per-sonal responsibility to reduce vio-lence against aboriginal women and children.

The fourth annual Gathering of Men culminated with a ceremony on the legislature steps, where MLAs joined participants to acknowledge that violence against women and children is not traditional or accept-able.

MLAs joined the ceremony and affixed moose hide patches to their lapels to mark the day.

Paul Lacerte, founder of the cam-paign and executive director of the B.C. Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, said the goal is to distribute one-million moose hide patches to spread the message.

Across Canada, aboriginal women aged 15 and older are three times more likely to experience violence and be assaulted by their partners than non-aboriginal women.

“Women are bearing the bur-den of abuse, but they also have to bear the burden of advocacy to affect change, and this is a man’s problem as much as it is a woman’s problem,” Lacerte said. “Violence towards women and children has never been a part of our culture.”

Aboriginal Relations Minister John Rustad said the campaign is unique and has the government’s support.

“Part of what perpetuates that violence is a culture of silence that suggests acceptance,” he said.

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A province-led amalgamation study should also outline plans of actions for the different options for Greater Victoria, says Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps.

“To me that’s the point of the study,” said Helps. “Don’t just give us options, but also for each option, some kind of implementation plan so that as municipal leaders, we have some firm direction coming out of this study.”

Council decided last week to send a letter to Community, Sport and Cul-tural Development Minister Coralee Oakes requesting a study regarding amalgamation in Greater Victoria.

“By the 2018 election, we would like to put some kind of question back to our residents to say here are the options the province has come up with through the study, ‘what do you think’, in a binding kind of way.”

Study results and implementation plans are of no use unless the munici-palities work together, said Helps.

“It’s irrelevant if Victoria does that by itself. We need to be coordinated.”

Helps plans to write to other may-ors in the region informing them about the city’s letter to the prov-

ince.“I want to see all the municipalities

working together with the province to find the best possible way forward for regional governance.”

She added it is too early to say if that will mean one municipality or more.

Coun. Jeremy Loveday said by sending this letter, it affirms coun-cil’s intention to act on the wishes of the majority of the community that voted in favour of a study on amal-gamation.

While a study will bring forward important information, Coun. Geoff Young said residents should not expect it to have definitive results.

“I don’t think we’ll get a clear answer in economic terms. There’ll be decisions that are made after amalgamation that may be differ-ent from what people predict,” said Young. “I would say to people, think about it in terms of your common sense.”

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Aboriginal men gathered at the B.C. legislature Feb. 12 to urge per-sonal responsibility to reduce vio-lence against aboriginal women and children.

The fourth annual Gathering of Men culminated with a ceremony on the legislature steps, where MLAs joined participants to acknowledge that violence against women and children is not traditional or accept-able.

MLAs joined the ceremony and affixed moose hide patches to their lapels to mark the day.

Paul Lacerte, founder of the cam-paign and executive director of the B.C. Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, said the goal is to distribute one-million moose hide patches to spread the message.

Across Canada, aboriginal women aged 15 and older are three times more likely to experience violence and be assaulted by their partners than non-aboriginal women.

“Women are bearing the bur-den of abuse, but they also have to bear the burden of advocacy to affect change, and this is a man’s problem as much as it is a woman’s problem,” Lacerte said. “Violence towards women and children has never been a part of our culture.”

Aboriginal Relations Minister John Rustad said the campaign is unique and has the government’s support.

“Part of what perpetuates that violence is a culture of silence that suggests acceptance,” he said.

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Moose hide symbolizes anti-violence message

Andrea Peacock Victoria News

A province-led amalgamation study should also outline plans of actions for the different options for Greater Victoria, says Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps.

“To me that’s the point of the study,” said Helps. “Don’t just give us options, but also for each option, some kind of implementation plan so that as municipal leaders, we have some firm direction coming out of this study.”

Council decided last week to send a letter to Community, Sport and Cul-tural Development Minister Coralee Oakes requesting a study regarding amalgamation in Greater Victoria.

“By the 2018 election, we would like to put some kind of question back to our residents to say here are the options the province has come up with through the study, ‘what do you think’, in a binding kind of way.”

Study results and implementation plans are of no use unless the munici-palities work together, said Helps.

“It’s irrelevant if Victoria does that by itself. We need to be coordinated.”

Helps plans to write to other may-ors in the region informing them about the city’s letter to the prov-

ince.“I want to see all the municipalities

working together with the province to find the best possible way forward for regional governance.”

She added it is too early to say if that will mean one municipality or more.

Coun. Jeremy Loveday said by sending this letter, it affirms coun-cil’s intention to act on the wishes of the majority of the community that voted in favour of a study on amal-gamation.

While a study will bring forward important information, Coun. Geoff Young said residents should not expect it to have definitive results.

“I don’t think we’ll get a clear answer in economic terms. There’ll be decisions that are made after amalgamation that may be differ-ent from what people predict,” said Young. “I would say to people, think about it in terms of your common sense.”

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Dan EbenalBlack Press

A group of University of Victoria business students are on top of the world.

MBA students Jesal Shah, Andrew Spence, Susan Laidlaw and Karin Feldkamp in the Sardul S. Gill Graduate School at the UVic Gus-tavson School of Busi-ness took first place in the Corporate Knights’ Business for a Better World case study com-petition at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The students were tasked with modify-ing the sustainability practices of the Novar-tis pharmaceutical company in order to improve its ranking of 99th.

“There’s 12 metrics that they measure com-panies on: for example water consumption, waste, energy con-sumption, GHG emis-sions, gender diversity, things like that,” said Shah.

Saul Klein, dean of

the Gustavson School of Business, said the school is extremely proud of the students’ achievements, tackling the project outside of their regular studies.

“The idea that a group of MBA students can look at that and come up with a com-prehensive set of solu-tions and recommenda-tions to Novartis to go

forward is a wonderful opportunity for them and a great achieve-ment,” he said.

“If there’s any com-petition that I’m really proud that our students

would win, it would be this one.”

Laidlaw said the bal-ancing of ambitious targets with pragmatic suggestions brought success to the team,

along with the impor-tance placed on sus-tainability at Gustav-son.

“One of the factors coming from Gustav-son is that sustainabil-

ity is woven throughout all of our courses,” she said.

“Our strategy course has a sustainabil-ity aspect, even our accounting course has sustainability woven into it, so the fact that this was a sustainabil-ity-driven case actually fits right into the edu-cation we’ve received here.”

The competition earned a $10,000 prize for the students, but Klein said the reward for the school itself could be even greater.

“The World Eco-nomic Forum at Davos is a major event for global leaders every-where. And to have our students be able to participate in that event and showcase the school . . . we couldn’t buy that kind of publicity,” said Klein. “It reflects something about who we are as a school, that we have a very strong focus on issues of sustainability, social responsibility, in a global context.”

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Students top international competition

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Andrew Spence, left, Susan Laidlaw and Jesal Shah were part of the Gustavson School of Business team (along with Karin Feldkamp) to take first place in a competition at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Rosie Townshend-CarterVictoria News

University of Victoria business students teamed up with Our Place Society to come up with rec-ommendations to improve the organization’s ser-vices.

“Our students found that working with Our Place was both challenging and rewarding,” said Heather Ranson, service management professor in the Gustavson School of Business.

Our Place Society serves some of the most vul-nerable such as the working poor, mentally and physically challenged and the homeless. It serves around 1,200 to 1,500 meals a day.

Due to growing demand, the organization increased services by more than 30 per cent, which created challenges around space, staffing,

volunteers and integration of services.The joint effort resulted in several recommen-

dations such as extending meal service from 60 minutes to 90 minutes, and also a tracking system for food donations.

“It was wonderful to engage with the university and the rewards were more than we were expect-ing,” said Le-Ann Dolan, director of operations at Our Place.

Volunteers were also included in the improve-ment with software development to track hours so they can reward volunteers individually.

Also, providing volunteers with conflict manage-ment training.

“Not only was this an opportunity for the stu-dents to engage first hand with the most vulnera-ble citizens of Victoria, it was a unique experience for everyone at Our Place Society,” said Dolan.

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The statistics are stark.A total of 106 young drivers

were killed in B.C. between 2004 and 2013, according to Chief Coroner LIsa Lapointe in a report last week.

The report found that speed, impairment or lack of seatbelt use were contributing factors in most cases.

And while the death rate for drivers aged 16 to 18 has declined by two thirds since 2008, it remains the leading cause of death for the age group, with teenage boys aged 17 and 18 at greatest risk of death or injury.

The coroners’ analysis showed 68 of 106 drivers were at the “novice” stage when they died. Of those, 18 had consumed alcohol and seven were driving with too many passengers who were not family members, and without a supervisor.

There were 14 deaths of young drivers with a learner’s licence, the first stage of the graduated system. Of those, 11 were driving with no supervisor, 10 had consumed alcohol, three were driving during restricted hours and two had more than one non-supervisor passenger in the vehicle.

Distraction by mobile phone use was found to be a factor in only one case.

There’s something wrong here, and it appears young drivers aren’t getting the necessary tools needed to be safe drivers.

The province must look for ways to strengthen its graduated licensing system for young drivers, and we support the call by Lapointe for a pilot project of electronic speed enforcement in high-risk areas to reduce the number of young people who die in car crashes.

Canada fails onglobal responsibility

In 2000, the world harnessed incredible energy to develop the Millennium Development Goals - time-limited targets for addressing extreme poverty, hunger, disease, lack of shelter, all while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability.

In 2015 these goals are due for renewal.

Over those 15 years, huge gains have been made in reducing extreme poverty and improving health and education worldwide; the gulf between the developed and developing worlds has never been so small. And despite all the negative press about the global economy aid continues to grow, reaching $135 billion in 2013, the highest level ever recorded.

But while the world musters the will to finally confront humanity’s oldest miseries, as in so many other areas Canada fails to assume its global responsibility.

While total world aid increased six per cent, Canada’s dropped 11 per cent, and is the lowest of all major donor nations despite an enviable economy. It is now barely half of what it was in 1987.

As the new development goals are crafted this year, we have a chance to change this shameful record and increased aid funding.

It’s time Canada stood up in the world as a mature nation and assumed its responsibility towards the global poor.

Nathaniel PooleVictoria

Humans must learn to coexist

Many Greater Victoria residents are sensitive toward the plight of other species.

Deer, rabbits, horses, calves, etc. are sentient beings. Although some humans still assume we are the only species capable of emotions and physical pain truth is humans are not alone in feeling joy and suffering.

As for the term “cull”

what’s with that? A human word invented to cover up our guilt and insensitivity sentencing other species to die simply because we find them inconvenient to our way of life. We need to understand we are killing some other species’ child, mother or father in cold blood.

There is only one species that has overpopulated the planet and produced a way of life which is destroying the balance of nature on this planet. Getting back that balance will not be easy. Finger pointing towards other species for human mistakes is not the answer.

Thoughtful, compassionate solutions for coexistence are there. The Luxton rodeo now gone forever, volunteers giving donations, their expertise and time to come up with solutions to relocate rabbits left by some humans to fend for themselves in an unnatural environment on a busy highway interchange, and those who care enough for deer to give their time and energy to voice concern over the planned killing of a beautiful species are a

few examples of compassionate Canadians working selflessly to move us positively forward to a balanced future.

Paul ConnollyVictoria

From sewage to ‘brewage’ … Cheers!

I was interested to hear recent reports from Portland, Org. that some small breweries have begun purifying waste water from that city’s sewage system and using it to make some new beers.

This is a wonderfully innovative idea, which we should explore in Victoria. Let’s encourage our enterprising micro-breweries to turn some of our local sewage into “brewage.”

Probably a lot of money could be made by purifying some of the liquid sewage being pumped into the water off Clover Point, using it to make beer and then marketing it as “Clover Pints.”

Gordon PollardVictoria

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The annual ritual of declaring a crisis in health care is upon us, with the B.C. Liberal government boasting that we have the best system in Canada, while the NDP and the B.C. Nurses’ Union try to portray it as the worst.

The BCNU is the last big public sector union still to settle in the latest round of contract talks. Feeding horror stories to the media is part of its strategy, and this time it was a patient at Abbotsford Hospital assigned a bed in a small shower room for a month due to chronic overcrowding. Hospital officials said his care wasn’t compromised.

We’ve seen it in Abbotsford, Surrey and elsewhere: a new hospital or expansion is built and is immediately overcrowded. We are reminded every winter that influenza season brings a wave of people into emergency, expecting treatment for a viral infection

that in most cases can only run its course.

Many people still don’t understand what “the flu” is, beyond the notion that it sounds serious enough to tell the boss you won’t be in to work. And as fewer

doctors choose the endless demands of family practice, the expectation that all problems must be dealt with quickly and for free seems to grow as inexorably as the health care budget.

An emergency physician of my acquaintance provided a typical scenario for night

shift at the ER. Where once nights were quiet, now there are patients waiting for hours, around the clock.

Several are drunk, and one has urinated on the floor. Surveys show as many as half of ER visits are alcohol-related, from overdoses to fights, falls, car crashes and chronic conditions.

Into this chaos comes a mother with her young child,

who has nasal and chest congestion. The child’s cough led her to throw up, so off to ER they went, blithely assuming that this is where you bring a kid with a cold.

This week’s B.C. budget brings us a step closer to the moment when half of all provincial revenues go to keep the health care system running.

In the legislature, NDP health critic Judy Darcy blasted Health Minister Terry Lake for the government’s failure to keep its 2010 promise to find everyone in B.C. a family doctor.

Lake allowed they’re still working on that, and then plugged the latest Conference Board of Canada study showing B.C. ranks third in the world in health care outcomes, second only to Switzerland and Sweden.

Darcy, a former president of the Hospital Employees’ Union, was quick to respond: “This is surely a first in question period, the Minister of Health going back to the record of the NDP government in the 1990s, because we’ve had the best

health outcomes in Canada since 1993. The fact is that we exercise more, we smoke less and we drink less, and that’s to the credit of British Columbians.”

We also have more elderly people, as Premier Christy Clark argued in 2011 when the federal government changed its financing formula.

After years of increasing transfers by six per cent per year, the late federal finance minister Jim Flaherty announced that starting in 2014, increases would be tied to economic growth, but wouldn’t fall below three per cent.

This of course was treated as a cut, rather than continued increases above inflation. But there it is, and all provinces have to deal with it.

Darcy is quite right that personal responsibility is the key, something to remember as the usual squabbling of special interests continues.

•••Tom Fletcher is legislature

reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Readers respond: developmentNot all against Cook St. development

Re: Developer eyes 5-story building for Cook St. Village (News, Feb. 13)

Andrea Peacock’s article starts off with “residents of Fairfield’s Cook Street Village are opposing a rezoning development proposal.”

I was at the meeting on Dec. 15, and heard equal numbers for and against the proposal, as the article states much further down.

The majority of the people opposed or complaining about the development were residents of the East Park condo next door, or renters in the buildings that will get demolished for the development.

The main concern from the East Park condo was the lack of privacy if the new building goes ahead. However, they would also lose their views

and privacy if a three or four storey building is built, which would currently be allowed with no rezoning required.

The area residents who spoke in favour of the development mostly spoke enthusiastically about the improvements to the Cook Street Village, and looked

forward to anyone investing and increasing the population density in the village.

Your article, especially the way the very first paragraph is written, does not tell the accurate account of the communities opinion.

Paul SkalendaVictoria

Three cheers for developer!

Re: If hotel isn’t repainted it sets a precedent (Letters, Feb. 13)

I strongly disagree with letter-writer Elizabeth Lubin regarding the Dalton Hotel.

She wrote: “It is downright ugly”, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I look at the building and I love it. It is unique. It stands out as different from anything else in the neighbourhood.

For me, what kills a city’s character is conformity. Why would anyone want to live in a city of bland?

Three cheers to the developer for thinking outside the box, and giving us a respite from a city that is perpetually beige!

Robert SassadeVictoria

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The building at 220 Cook St. is one of four locations developer Urban Core Ventures is planning to tear down in order to build a five-storey mixed-use building.

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A rat in a compost pile is nothing new for Victoria.

Sometimes I set a small mine-field of traps in my compost bins. A rat may jump clear of one trap, but they commonly land on a nearby trap and their fate is sealed. The rats I kill sometimes end up as museum specimens – even common animals should be added to museum collections.

If I leave the rat in the compost too long, I find nice clean skeletons.

However, recently the Royal B.C. Museum received a specimen which had sat in a mix of well-aged manure and soil, and is far more spectacular than an everyday compost-raiding rat.

Late last year, Mike deRoos of Cetacea Inc., backed into the museum’s loading bay and delivered most of the skeleton of a humpback whale. We received the jaws of this whale months ago, and now we have limbs, ribs, and vertebrae. The skull will arrive in a separate shipment sometime this spring.

Because these bones had been prepared in compost, they smelled sweetly of soil from a pine forest. Seriously – next time you are out in a pine forest, grab a handful of moist soil

and smell it. You’d think the

skeleton of a recently prepared whale would smell of rancid oils and rotten flesh – but not this humpback. We could market the bones as “forest scent” potpourri. Call me strange (many have already), but I like the smell of soil.

Even though we will not re-assemble this whale into an articulated skeleton, we wanted to know the order of each bone in the body. Ultimately this skeleton will be stored in our mammal research collection and will be available for researchers to examine.

This whale, at nine metres, was a few metres short of adult size – at birth they are four to 4.6 metres long, according to John Ford’s new book, Marine Mammals of British Columbia. It also has several ribs with abnormal bone growth. It makes me wonder if the odd growth caused pain and whether it was a contributing factor in this animal’s death.

This sure was a neat way to end a work-week. It is not every day you get to assemble a whale’s skeleton. Now I have to say a huge thanks to Kate Kerr and Jana Stefan from our exhibit arts department.

Kate and Jana were sent to help remove flesh from

the humpback’s carcass – you have to admire them for having the gastro-intestinal fortitude to see such work through to completion. It took hours of de-fleshing, and over six months buried in compost, followed by months of drying to get the skeleton to its present state. Kate happened to walk by when I was unloading the skeleton, and commented on how much nicer the whale smelled compared to the last time she had seen it.

Is that it? Is the collection now full? No. The next marine mammals are already

waiting in the freezer – a young Dall’s porpoise, a Northern Right whale dolphin, and the foetus of J32 (the southern resident Orca that died near Comox last December). J32 will be prepared off-site and could be ready for the museum collection later this summer.

More information on the humpback and all other cetaceans in B.C. can be found in John Ford’s new book Marine Mammals of B.C.

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Collecting bones all in a day’s work“You’d think

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The seventh annual GottaCon Game Convention is just two weeks away.

This year the GottaCon convention will fill both the Victoria Conference Centre and the Victoria Crystal Gardens, Feb. 27 to March 1.

There is more of everything in the increased space:. more board games, video games, role-play games, trading card games, miniatures and Lego.

Special events highlight the weekend. Independent Group brings Cosplay Soiree; the UVic Games Club is organizing a Cards vs. Zombies game; the B.C. Gamer group is sponsoring video game music bingo; Chro-noventures is bringing Augmented Reality Game 2015: and the costume contest is sponsored by Zotac, Nvidia and Dragon Impact.

The GottaCon team is featuring Team-Trivia Challenge, workshops and discus-sion panels, silent auction, and a photo safari hunt.

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A basement fire in Victoria West sent two people to the hospital Sunday night. However, no one was seriously injured.

Victoria Fire Department responded to multiple 911 calls reporting a fire at 517 Wilson St., a three-storey rental house. They arrived on scene at 9:56 p.m.

Fire crews first attempted to attack the fire from inside, but were pulled out when it was discovered the fire was coming from the basement.

They managed to open walls to access the origin of the fire, which was then suc-cessfully put out.

Residents of the house had already exited the building when the fire depart-ment arrived. Two youths were taken

to the hospital to be treated for minor smoke inhalation. Evacuee Assistance was also called in to provide accomoda-tion for residents.

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Theatre-goers will soon be able to “take a trip around the world without ever leaving home,” according to those involved in Pear-son College’s latest pro-duction of One World.

The annual the-atre performance has been produced for more than 30 years, and this year’s event

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One of 14 United World Colleges around the globe, Pearson Col-lege UWC accepts 160 students aged 16 to 19 from over 80 coun-tries, including each province and territory of Canada. These stu-dents live, study and grow together for two years on the Metchosin campus, which opened in 1974.

“One World is about more than the nations these students come from – it’s an example of what the students learn by coming to Pearson College UWC, how they interact, and the transformation they undergo by study-ing and living together for two years,” says Pearson spokesperson Danielle Pope.

“Our students come from very different worlds,” according to One World production director Libby Mason, who says the perfor-mances, which are col-laborative creations from the students themselves – right down to the choreog-raphy and costuming – highlight these dif-ferent worlds and how they come together here in Canada.

“The spoken word acts, for example,” says Mason, “offer a small window into some of the extraordinary expe-riences and transfor-mations the students undergo during their time at Pearson.”

Audiences can look forward to their old favourites – Gumboot, Ukranian dance, and the Pearson College Choir, as well as newly

integrated or expanded aspects like the spoken work acts.

“There are pivotal points in the life of a Pearson student,” says Pearson’s Head of Col-lege Mark Bannar-Mar-tin. “One World is unde-niably one of these. It celebrates our com-mon humanity and, for a moment in time, we become part of some-thing larger than our-selves.”

Tickets for the event, which will have both an afternoon and evening performance on March 7 at the Royal Theatre in Victoria, are $35 for adults, $20 for students and seniors and $15 for children under 12 and are available through the Royal Theatre Box Office online at rmts.bc.ca or by phone at 250-386-6121.

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French culture will be celebrated at the 18th Victoria French Fest from March 5 to 8.

Kicking off the festival with tradi-tional songs from Quebec is musical group Le Bal à l’huile.

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Theatre-goers will soon be able to “take a trip around the world without ever leaving home,” according to those involved in Pear-son College’s latest pro-duction of One World.

The annual the-atre performance has been produced for more than 30 years, and this year’s event

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“One World is about more than the nations these students come from – it’s an example of what the students learn by coming to Pearson College UWC, how they interact, and the transformation they undergo by study-ing and living together for two years,” says Pearson spokesperson Danielle Pope.

“Our students come from very different worlds,” according to One World production director Libby Mason, who says the perfor-mances, which are col-laborative creations from the students themselves – right down to the choreog-raphy and costuming – highlight these dif-ferent worlds and how they come together here in Canada.

“The spoken word acts, for example,” says Mason, “offer a small window into some of the extraordinary expe-riences and transfor-mations the students undergo during their time at Pearson.”

Audiences can look forward to their old favourites – Gumboot, Ukranian dance, and the Pearson College Choir, as well as newly

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“There are pivotal points in the life of a Pearson student,” says Pearson’s Head of Col-lege Mark Bannar-Mar-tin. “One World is unde-niably one of these. It celebrates our com-mon humanity and, for a moment in time, we become part of some-thing larger than our-selves.”

Tickets for the event, which will have both an afternoon and evening performance on March 7 at the Royal Theatre in Victoria, are $35 for adults, $20 for students and seniors and $15 for children under 12 and are available through the Royal Theatre Box Office online at rmts.bc.ca or by phone at 250-386-6121.

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Kaira Bakkestad-Legare, left, of Manitoba, and Lucio Ravagnani from Argentina, two former Pearson College UWC students, choreographed and danced the tango with other students in a previous One World production.

French culture will be celebrated at the 18th Victoria French Fest from March 5 to 8.

Kicking off the festival with tradi-tional songs from Quebec is musical group Le Bal à l’huile.

The event will be held at Victoria Event Centre on March 5 at 7:30 p.m.

The four-day event includes two days of free activities and concerts at Centennial Square on Feb. 7 and 8, from noon to 4 p.m.

Regional Francophone and Franco-phile music groups will be performing non-stop on the Radio-Canada Stage.

Francophone artisans will exhibit their products and different Franco-

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On March 8 at 10:30 a.m., there will be a traditional Sugar Shack brunch at Ambrosia.

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In honor of International Women’s Day, three women who have been driving forces in the community for many years, will be presented with awards at Centennial Square.

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Street full of bananasPeta member Amy Balcome was “apeeling” to passersby on Douglas Street Friday with a towering pile of fresh fruit. Bearing heart-shaped signs proclaiming that anyone can “get a rise out of veganism,” – the event was aimed at Valentine’s Day.

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B.C. Hydro will replace 756 wood utility poles in Greater Victoria this year.

The work is part of B.C. Hydro’s maintenance program that will see the replacement of more than 12,000 utility poles this year throughout the province to improve the safety and reliability of the electrical system, said spokesperson Mora Scott.

B.C. Hydro maintains 900,000 wood poles as part of its 56,000 kilometre electricity distribu-tion system that delivers power to homes and businesses. More than 20 per cent of B.C. Hydro’s wooden poles have been in service for more than 40 years.

“Over time, wooden poles weaken due to adverse weather, insects and wildlife. B.C. Hydro regularly inspects the old poles to determine their strength and will install new poles once they reach end-of-life,” Scott said.

Pole replacements may require B.C. Hydro to disconnect power. If these maintenance outages need to be scheduled for safety reasons, B.C. Hydro will let customers know in-person, by mail or phone.

Last year, B.C. Hydro replaced 1,234 utility poles in the Capital Region.

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The Capital Regional District has approved more than $2 million in arts funding.

Organizations receiving arts development operating grants pro-duce a wide range of community events.

The groups’ activities bring vis-ibility and economic benefits to the region, provide employment for local artists and technicians and provide numerous audience and volunteer opportunities for all ages, the CRD stated in a press release.

Last year, funded organizations produced more than 2,400 events encompassing dance, visual and

media art, music and theatre.“Operating grants are a key

investment in the development of artists and arts organizations in the region,” said David Screech, chair of the CRD arts committee.

“A vibrant arts community plays a central role in a healthy, diverse and sustainable region.”

The CRD Arts Development Ser-vice is supported by eight munici-palities: Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, Metchosin, Highlands, View Royal and Sidney.

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“Powerful vested interests would like us to believe we have no alternative but to extract and burn tar sands

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“Yet more Canadians now work in clean energy than are employed in the tar sands and renewable energy is becoming cost-competitive with fossil fuels and other traditional energy sources.”

The Future is Here! tour will also include stops in Kamloops, Merritt, Nanaimo, Comox, and the Fraser Valley.

The Victoria event is at Atom-ique Productions HQ, 1501 Douglas St., beginning with the Innovators showcase at 5 p.m., screening of The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the

People at 7 p.m. and followed by a panel discussion at 8:30 p.m.

Innovators featured in Victo-ria include City Green Solutions (energy efficiency), Solar Col-wood, Drive Electric Victoria, Canadian Solar Cities Project and local organic farmers. Panel-ists will include Andrew Moore of the T’Sou-ke Nation solar ini-tiative, Robin Tunnicliffe of Saan-ich Organics, Larissa Stendie, cli-mate and energy campaigner for Sierra Club B.C. and a represen-tative from City Green Solutions.

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Admission is by [email protected]

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The Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island is launching an ethics program aimed at busi-nesses, consumers, service clubs and high school students this spring.

In Pursuit of Ethics is an accredited ethics train-ing seminar created by the Toledo Better Business Bureau in Ohio.

“Ethics is a very, very tricky subject,” said Rosa-lind Scott, president of the Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island and who undertook the train-ing last year.

“It’s not black and white.”The program is broken up into six modules

focusing on ethics in banking, insurance, auto repair, remodeling, retail, education and bullying.

“[The program] is not specific to any age group because ethics is something we all really need to have and to practice,” Scott said.

She said this is the type of programming the BBB delivers: education, helping people to become bet-ter at promoting ethics in business and in general.

Scott has already delivered the first seminar in Vancouver and hopes to launch a bigger campaign on the Island this spring.

For more information, please call 250-386-6348.Meantime, Better Business Bureau has made

comprehensive changes to its cornerstone prod-uct, the BBB Code of Advertising, to reflect the many new ways advertisers reach consumers via websites, social media, texting and other channels. Every business that advertises in North America is expected to follow BBB’s Code, and compliance is monitored by 112 BBB offices in the U.S. and Canada.

[email protected]

BBB launches ethics program

BBB president Rosalind Scott presents In Pursuit of Ethics.

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Historic roadway feted during Heritage Week

Historic Esquimalt Road is getting its just rewards this week.

The roadway, which transects Esquimalt, will be celebrated during B.C. Heritage Week.

This year’s Heritage Week theme is Main Street: At the Heart of the Community, which pays tribute to the history of main streets and the revitaliza-tion of traditional downtowns throughout B.C.

Being the main route between CFB Esquimalt and downtown Victoria, Esquimalt Road has a long history as a transportation route, a commercial centre and as a community gathering place.

“Esquimalt Road has played a vital role in the history of our community,” said Esquimalt Mayor Barbara Desjardins.

“With plans underway for the new Esquimalt Village and corri-dor revitalization, it will be cru-cial to our future as well.”

During Heritage Week, his-toric photographs depicting the corridor will be displayed in Esquimalt Road business win-dows. Residents are invited to stop by the businesses, take a look at the photographs and say

hello to local business owners. The photographs will also be

available for viewing at Munici-pal Hall.

In addition, a photographic gallery will be posted to esqui-malt.ca and residents are invited to submit their photos, old or new, of events and sites on Esquimalt Road.

The corridor has two com-mercial centres: one established around the Head Street area and the second near Constance Avenue and Admirals Road. The Admirals Road centre has slowly moved east over the years and now extends to Joffre Street and the Archie Browning Sports Centre.

Esquimalt Road has been the site of many events and parades over the years, including a visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Centennial 2012 cel-ebration events, annual events such as Esquimalt Days, Buc-caneer Days, and Celebration of Lights and several military parades, including the Freedom of the Township Parade for CFB Esquimalt in 2012.

As part of a pilot beautifica-tion and revitalization project for Esquimalt Road, the town-ship is currently working on a revitalization tax exemption pro-gram for Esquimalt Road busi-nesses.

[email protected]

Township celebrates Esquimalt Road

The Halfway House at 865 Esquimalt Rd.

around 1930.Esquimalt Municipal Archives

Millicent Hughes with her scooter on Esquimalt Road in front of Hughes Confectionery store in 1931. The site was later the location of 4-Square Gospel Church and the Elks Hall.

Esquimalt Municipal Archives


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Community Calendar

Thursday, Feb. 19Emergency preparedness workshop. Burnside Gorge

Community Centre, 471 Cecelia Rd., 7 p.m. Free admission. Info: 250-920-3373.

Saturday, Feb. 21Volkssport – 5/6/10/11 km walk. Meet at Cedar Hill

Recreation Centre, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Judy at 250-385-8519.

Golden Gavel Novice Speakers Competition. New Horizons Seniors Centre, 234 Menzies St., 7 p.m. Info: goldengavel.ca.

Seedy Saturday, Victoria’s seed and garden show, hosted by the James Bay Market Society, Victoria Conference Centre, 720 Douglas St., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: jamesbaymarket.com/seedysaturday or phone 250-381-5323.

Victoria Health Co-op annual meeting and Victoria Co-op Day. Fairfield Community Centre, 303 Fairfield Rd., 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Info: 250-415-9272 or online at [email protected].

Coldest Night of the Year: Mustard Seed Community Walk-a-thon. Registration at 3 p.m. at the corner of Bellevill and Government streets. Info: mustardseed.com.

Community Country Dance in Aid of Afghan refugees. First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd., 7 p.m. Info: 250-388-5188 or online at firstmetvictoria.com.

Take me to New Orleans. Local Jazz musicians Shanna Dance and Jonnie Bridgman are hosting a tribute to New Orleans style music through the ages. Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 Jazz St., 8 p.m. Tickets available at Larsen Music and Hermann’s Jazz Club.

Sunday, Feb. 22Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at Running Room,

2401G Millstream Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Rick at 250-478-7020.

The Klez. Jewish Community Centre, 3636 Shelbourne St., 3636 Shelbourne St. Admission by donation. Info: [email protected].

Monday, Feb. 23Township council meeting. Esquimalt Municipal Hall,

1229 Esquimalt Rd., 7 p.m. Agendas for upcoming Council and Committee of the Whole meetings are on the website by 4:30 p.m. on the Friday prior to the Monday meeting date.

Friday, Feb. 27

The 16th annual Look Show. The Bay Centre, downtown Victoria. The Look Show is a celebration of local arts hosted by the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria. It runs from Feb. 27 to March 21. Details are available online at cacgv.ca.

Sunday, March 1Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue presents An

Afternoon with Reverend Allen Tysick. Congregation Emanu-El Synagoguem 1461 Blanshard St., 2 p.m. All donations will go to the Dandelion Society.

Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at Gyro Park, Sinclair Road. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Susan at 250-727-6826.

Monday, March 2Esquimalt Photography Club Annual Spring Photo Show.

Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser St. Show open to public until March 31. An open house will be held at the Recreation Centre on Thursday March 5, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 4Vancouver Island Kidney Patient’s Association silent

auction. Royal Jubilee Hospital lobby, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 518th Victoria French Fest from March 5 to 8. Centennial

Square. Sponsored by Francophone Society of Victoria. Info: francocentre.com.

Saturday, March 7Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at Henderson

Recreation Centre, 2291 Cedar Hill X Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Malca at 250.818-9496.

Sunday, March 8Gigantic Kids Garage Sale. Esquimalt Recreation Centre,

527 Fraser St., 9 a.m. to noon. Table rentals reserved through the Esquimalt Recreation Centre by phone: 250-412-8500.

Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at My Chosen Café, 4492 Happy Valley Rd., Metchosin. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Christine at 250-478-7020.

Linden Singers present a concert of choral works by female composers and poets in recognition of International Women’s Day. Lutheran Church of the Cross, 3787 Cedar Hill Rd., 3:30 p.m. Info: lindensingers.ca

Tuesday, March 10Amadeus. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St., 7:30 p.m.

Info: balletvictoria.ca.

Wednesday, March 11Amadeus. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St., 7:30 p.m.

Info: balletvictoria.ca.

Saturday, March 14Volkssport –5/10 km walk. Meet at Aviation Museum,

1910 Norseman Rd., North Saanich. Registration 9:30 a.m.


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A panel discussion on the value of learning, teaching and sharing Indigenous languages will be marked by the Royal B.C. Museum for UNESCO’s Interna-tional Mother Language Day on Saturday (Feb 21).

The Importance of Indigenous Languages includes a visit to the Royal B.C. Museum’s Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in B.C. exhibition, examining the diversity of First Nations lan-guages in the province, and a panel discussion featuring two prominent language educators and advocates.

The event is co-presented by the museum and the First Peo-ples’ Cultural Council.

With 34 Indigenous languages spoken, B.C. is the most lan-guage-diverse province in Can-ada.

A recent report on the status of B.C. First Nations languages shows that while the number

of people learning their mother language is at a record high, the dwindling numbers of fluent speakers continues to put lan-guages at risk.

People can participate in the discussion, featuring Dr. Lorna Williams, professor emeritus at the University of Victoria and recent chair of the First Peo-ples’ Cultural Council, and Dr. Peter Jacobs, faculty member in the UVic department of linguis-tics where he is part of a team researching adults learning their Indigenous language.

The discussion will explore topics such as the social and personal costs of losing a lan-guage, putting a value on the knowledge systems contained in Indigenous languages and translating the messages con-tained in the original languages of British Columbia about the history, plants, animals and geo-graphic features that shape our

province. Williams, a member of the

Lil’wat First Nation of Mount Currie, is an accomplished edu-cator working on the issues of Indigenous language revitaliza-tion, curriculum design, the effects of colonization on learn-ing and Indigenous ways of knowing.

Jacobs is of both Skwx-wu7mesh (Squamish) and Kwaguł (Kwakiutl) ancestry. Prior to joining the faculty at UVic, he worked as a linguist for the Squamish Nation and was editor-in-chief of the first Squa-mish-English dictionary.

UNESCO International Mother Language Day at the Royal B.C. Museum: The Importance of Indigenous Languages runs from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $16 each and available online at royalbc-museum.ca or in person at the Royal B.C. Museum box office.

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Victoria Volunteers

Want to volunteer? Opportunities are available through these positions at Volunteer Victoria. Please call 250-386-2269 or online at volunteervictoria.bc.ca.

•••Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association needs

an experienced horse person to handle horses in a therapeutic riding program. Training will be provided.

Victoria Health Cooperative is looking for a volunteer to create order from paper-mountain chaos in a home office.

The Salvation Army needs kitchen helpers and servers at 525 Johnson St. to help provide the 16,000 meals the organization serves every month.

Bridges for Women Society is looking for social media volunteers with expertise in Twitter,

Facebook and other social media platforms to assist with their indiegogo and public awareness campaigns.

HeadWay: Victoria Epilepsy and Parkinson’s Centre needs enthusiastic volunteers to help with Purple Day, an awareness-raising event to support people with epilepsy, on March 26.

Youthspace.ca is looking for crisis chat volunteers to provide online chat and text services from 6 p.m. to midnight. Training is provided and volunteers are asked to commit to one three-hour shift per week.

District of Saanich, Parks is looking for restoration assistants to help with hands-on ecological restoration in natural areas in Saanich parks. Activities include removing invasive plants, planting native species, monitoring sites and conducting ecological inventories.

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HOME CARE/SUPPORT

Home Share ProviderCLV is seeking a family or couple to support a young man with a developmental disability in their home. This individual has lived in Esqui-malt for most of his life, and would prefer a home in the same area. Successful applicants will be energetic, respectful, consis-tent, patient, and com-fortable assisting with per-sonal care and providing support with meals, laundry and cleaning. This individual would benefi t from a suite or basement, where he could enjoy as much independence as pos-sible. He is ambulatory, ver-bal, and enjoys playing fl oor hockey and baseball, as well as swimming, bowling, and listening to music.Qualifi cations: • Valid First Aid and CPR • Valid Driver’s License and Clear Drivers Abstract • Previous experience pro-viding support to individuals with physical and develop-mental disabilities • Ability to obtain a clear criminal record check Qualifi ed applicants will be required to participate in an in-depth interview by the individual’s family members and participate in CLV’s ex-tensive home study process.If you are interested in help-ing a member of your com-munity to live a full and inclu-sive life by providing accommodation and sup-port, please forward your re-sume to: Community Living Victoria

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SALES

HOLMES Realty is currently in a position where we would like to expand by hiring a li-censed Realtor to work in the position of a Buyer Agent. This position would comprise of working with our buyer clients in showing property, hosting open houses, drafting/present-ing offers and follow-up. Ideal-ly, applicants will have at least a year of successful real es-tate experience and a desire to work on a team. We are a busy team with progressive ideas and we all love what we do. To apply, [email protected] or call 250-656-0911www.HolmesRealty.com

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THE SALVATION Army is looking for kitchen helpers and servers at 525 Johnson Street to help provide the 16,000 meals the organization serves every month. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

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BEEF FARM GATE SALES. 1516 Mt. Douglas Cross Rd. Hours Friday & Saturday 10-4. Naturally raised, hormone free beef. Individual cuts sold, sharp, frozen & double wrapped. (250)477-3321.

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LG PHONE, $30. Shaw PVR $54. House phone $15 (250)592-0947.

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The worst-kept secret in Langford was con-firmed last week when the head volunteers with the Luxton Pro Rodeo issued a joint statement say-ing the annual event has been cancelled.

The good news is that the annual fair, featur-ing the midway, Saturday night country dance, heritage displays and antique farm equipment and other activities will continue this year.

“Due to increasing costs, many due to living on an Island; the Luxton Pro-Rodeo Committee has decided the Luxton Pro-Rodeo Event is no lon-ger economically viable,” wrote rodeo managers Sandy West and Charlie Price.

“In order to continue to operate, there would have to be a substantial gate fee increase. We do not wish to put this burden on the public.”

Last year’s admission price for adults was $20, with children 14 and under admitted free with an adult. Seniors and students up to 18 paid $15 per ticket.

Langford mayor Stew Young said he started coming to the Luxton Rodeo as a kid growing up in Langford.

He hopes this doesn’t hurt the fair and that the other agricultural aspects of the events continue. The Rodeo had been running for 39 years.

“It is unfortunate they have shut down the

rodeo, it will be a bit of a void for Vancouver Island for sure.

“It is not just a Langford thing, it is a draw for everyone really,” he said.

“I hope the death of the rodeo doesn’t kill the rest of the society out there. We will probably have a meeting with them and see how we can help them continue on.”

Like many rodeos these days, the Luxton Pro Rodeo was plagued in recent years by com-plaints about cruel treatment of rodeo stock, from both the B.C. SPCA and humane society groups including Victoria Citizens Against Rodeo Events (VCARE).

VCARE spokesperson Melissa de Muelles, who joined fellow members on a protest line at the fair entrance on Luxton Road last year, was pleased to hear of her hometown rodeo’s demise.

“It doesn’t matter why it’s cancelled, it’s a good thing,” she said. “We’re just glad to see it’s one less stop that rodeo animals will have to make.”

– with files from Arnold [email protected]

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Juan de Fuca’s Kris Walushka, front, prepares to make a pass as Graham Gillis of Bays United closes in. The West Shore side won the Vancouver Island Soccer League Division 4 playoff game 2-1 at Westhills Stadium on Sunday to advance to the quarter-finals.

The Victoria Cougars closed out the regular season with a decisive 10-1 win over the West-shore Wolves on Sunday after-noon.

Already having clinched first place overall in the VIJHL, Vic-toria used the game Sunday as a tune up before the playoffs.

Victoria (41-5-1-0) will finish the regular season with the best record in the VIJHL and enjoy home ice advantage throughout the playoffs.

The Cougars will face the Kerry Park Islanders in the first round of the playoffs start-ing on Thursday while Wests-hore opens against the Saanich Braves tonight.

Marino Somerville and Michael Fretz each scored twice for Victoria (42-5-1-0) which won its tenth game in a row. Also lighting the lamp were Brett Lervold, Nathan Looysen, Nick Lyons, Austin Wilk, McMullen, and Stolz.

With Anthony Ciurro still injured, Grant Payne received his 17th straight start in net. He 13 saves for his league leading 25 win.

Although Zach Kerr relieved

Payne with 8:45 remaining in the third period, he was not tested once.

Jordan Law replied for Wests-hore who had nine regulars out of its lineup.

After recording a 32 save shutout in his last game, Blake Pearson allowed ten goals on 43 shots before giving way to Chris Smith who turned aside all two shots he faced in 6:08 of relief.

Victoria went 2-for-8 on the power play; meanwhile, the Wolves finished 0-for-7.

Sam McMullen scored two

goals including the game winner at 4:27 of overtime as the Victo-ria Cougars edged the Campbell River Storm 2-1 to win the Andy Hebenton Trophy for the fifth year in a row on Friday.

VIJHL president Myles Par-sons was on hand for for Sun-day’s game and presented Wade Johnson, Sam McMullen, Jake Stolz, and Robert Zadra with the Andy Hebenton Trophy and Reg-ular Season Championship Ban-ner prior to the puck drop.

McMullen, who became the seventh Cougars player to win the Doug Morton Trophy, fin-ished the regular season one point shy of 100.

McMullen now joins the likes of Brody Coulter, Steve Axford, Michael Hammond, Karl Car-veth, Mark Van Helvoirt, and Daryl Boyer who have all won a VIJHL scoring title.

Next game for the Cougars, and the first of the playoffs, is Thursday, February 19 against the Kerry Park Islanders.

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The Victoria Royals scored the first three goals of the game to take a 6-3 victory against the Seattle Thunderbirds in the final contest of three games in three nights.

Royals’ forward Jack Walker notched two goals 1:49 apart in the first period and would add an empty net marker late in the game for his first career hat-trick.

Victoria and Seattle would exchange goals the rest of the way.

Austin Carroll, Tyler Soy and Alex Forsberg scored the Royals’ additional tallies. The Thunderbirds’ markers were notched by Jerret Smith and Scott Eansor.

Victoria netminder Coleman Vollrath turned away 28 of 31 shots in the victory.

Seattle goaltender Taran

Kozun made 23 saves on 28 shots before being replaced by Logan Flodell who stopped all eight shots he faced.

The Royals dropped a 7-3 decision to the Kelowna Rock-ets on Friday night but came back strong Saturday in a 5-2 win over the Kamloops Blazers.

Victoria returned home on Tuesday when they hosted the Moose Jaw Warriors at 12:05 p.m. for their inaugural Hockey Hooky Day.

The Royals now face-off against the Western Hockey League Western Conference leading Kelowna Rockets at Save-On-Foods Memorial Cen-tre on Friday, February 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Febru-ary 21 at 7 p.m.

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