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Syrian family settling into life in Victoria

Pamela RothVictoria News

In the living room of his two-bedroom Esquimalt apartment, Osama beams from ear-to-ear as he points at a flat-screen television sitting on a table.

“TV?” he asks cautiously. I nod with approval, then look at his wife Hanadi, holding her wide-eyed eight-month-old-daughter Loujain.

Hanadi points at the table in the dining room and tries to say the word table in English. Their two boys, Abdul-Rachman, 5, and eight-year-old Zaid are glued to a computer playing games.

It’s been nearly three weeks since the young Syrian family flew from Jordan to Victoria. They are eager to learn English and settle into their new life in Canada. Osama’s face lights up with every English word he can add to his limited vocabulary.

“The people of

Victoria are very kind,” he says with the help of a phone translater. “The difficulty is the language and knowing the area, but there is good support.”

Ever since the family arrived in Victoria in mid-December, they’ve been assisted by the group of five Victoria couples who helped bring them here.

For about a year, Michael and Shelley Wuitchik had been thinking about ways to help Syrian refugees. Once they saw the shocking photo of the body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach in September, the couple decided to put their thoughts into action. (Kurdi drowned after the boat his family was on from Turkey to Greece capsized.)

The Wuitchik’s rounded up a group of four like-minded couples, pooled their resources together, and came up with $36,000 to sponsor a Syrian family and cover their costs for the first year

in Canada. Ottawa chipped in another $9,000. They’re also working with the Inter-Cultural Association (ICA) of Greater Victoria — the sponsorship agreement holder, meaning it has signed sponsorship

agreements with the federal government to help refugees settle in Canada.

The group (known as a constituency group) wasn’t informed the family of five was coming to Victoria until three days prior to

their arrival. Making the 48-hour journey included stops in Toronto, where they met the Governor General, then Calgary where they were on their own to navigate through the airport.

Unsure if anyone would be meeting

them in Victoria, the family arrived to see the smiling faces of the five couples who helped get them here. Michael couldn’t help but feel emotional.

“It was very moving. It was kind of a thrill when the 25-year-old woman (Hanadi)

kissed her (Shelley) three times on the cheek and she smiled,” said Michael, noting the family looked relieved the long journey was over.

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Earthquake serves as a reminder to be prepared


The clock was approaching midnight on Dec. 29 when Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps awoke in a shaking bed.

“I thought here we go,” said Helps, who immediately knew it was an earthquake. “Before I was fully awake it was over. Then I turned on my phone, looked

at Twitter and saw everyone else had felt it too.”

Helps was among many Victoria residents who were jolted out of bed by a small earthquake that briefly rattled homes across much of Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. The 4.3 magnitude quake hit at 11:39 p.m. and was centreed about eight kilometres east of Sidney. Natural Resources Canada received no reports of significant damage.

Many people took to social media to report what the quake was like. Some felt their beds shake,

heard dressers or windows rattle and had small objects tip

over, while others slept through the night, unaware

anything had even happened. Staff at the Victoria police

call centre answered around 40 calls to 911 about the earthquake.

Helps has lived in Victoria for 20 years. The earthquake was the strongest she’s ever felt.

“It was quite scary,” she said, adding the fire department was on it right away, checking to make sure city buildings were secure and nobody was hurt.

“From our end, it was a small test and everything went fairly smoothly.”

The city has policies and procedures in place should a powerful earthquake occur. The focus is now on making sure citizens and businesses are prepared to handle a disaster.

A typical earthquake kit includes a battery powered or hand-crank radio, flashlight, a whistle to signal for help, small first aid kit, cellphone with charger, cash in small bills, garbage bags, a dust mask, a local map with a family meeting place identified, seasonal clothing and footwear, and a three-day supply of food and water. A “grab-and-go” bag should also be created for work and vehicles.

Helps hopes the quake is a wake up call for those who don’t already have kits. She has enough supplies in hers for 10 days.

“It’s important to think about what you’re going to need in an emergency,” said Helps, adding she has a bottle of bleach in a mason jar in case water needs to be purified.

“After the last one, which was maybe two or three years ago, we did a whole bunch of research and just got ready....For me, it’s top of mind.”

According to

the city’s website, Victoria has a one in three (32 per cent) probability of a damaging earthquake in the next 50 years and is also prone to tsunamis. If an earthquake lasts for more than 60 seconds or is so strong that it is difficult to stand, people in low-lying coastal areas are advised to move to higher ground.

Last Tuesday’s tremor was the biggest quake to be felt in the region since a 6.8 magnitude quake rocked Washington State in 2001, causing some property damage in Seattle. The two largest quakes ever recorded in B.C. have both been centred near Haida Gwaii — an 8.1 magnitude quake in 1949 that remains Canada’s strongest since 1700 and a 7.7 quake in 2012.

SFU Geologist Brent Ward said the shaking Tuesday was a crustal earthquake, about 50 to 60 kilometres beneath the surface. Crustal quakes are much more common and closer to populated areas than massive 8.0-plus subduction zone quakes — often dubbed the Big One — that strike every few hundred years well off the West Coast.

Larger crustal quakes in the six to seven range hit every 50 to 60 years in B.C. A 7.2 crustal quake occurred near Courtenay in 1946 and caused extensive landslides, soil liquefaction and damage to brick buildings.

For more information on emergency kits visit the PreparedBC or PrepareVictoria websites.

— with files from Jeff Nagel

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This map shows where a 4.3 magnitude earthquake occurred about eight kilometres east of Sidney on Dec. 29.

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Earthquake serves as a reminder to be prepared


The clock was approaching midnight on Dec. 29 when Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps awoke in a shaking bed.

“I thought here we go,” said Helps, who immediately knew it was an earthquake. “Before I was fully awake it was over. Then I turned on my phone, looked

at Twitter and saw everyone else had felt it too.”

Helps was among many Victoria residents who were jolted out of bed by a small earthquake that briefly rattled homes across much of Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. The 4.3 magnitude quake hit at 11:39 p.m. and was centreed about eight kilometres east of Sidney. Natural Resources Canada received no reports of significant damage.

Many people took to social media to report what the quake was like. Some felt their beds shake,

heard dressers or windows rattle and had small objects tip

over, while others slept through the night, unaware

anything had even happened. Staff at the Victoria police

call centre answered around 40 calls to 911 about the earthquake.

Helps has lived in Victoria for 20 years. The earthquake was the strongest she’s ever felt.

“It was quite scary,” she said, adding the fire department was on it right away, checking to make sure city buildings were secure and nobody was hurt.

“From our end, it was a small test and everything went fairly smoothly.”

The city has policies and procedures in place should a powerful earthquake occur. The focus is now on making sure citizens and businesses are prepared to handle a disaster.

A typical earthquake kit includes a battery powered or hand-crank radio, flashlight, a whistle to signal for help, small first aid kit, cellphone with charger, cash in small bills, garbage bags, a dust mask, a local map with a family meeting place identified, seasonal clothing and footwear, and a three-day supply of food and water. A “grab-and-go” bag should also be created for work and vehicles.

Helps hopes the quake is a wake up call for those who don’t already have kits. She has enough supplies in hers for 10 days.

“It’s important to think about what you’re going to need in an emergency,” said Helps, adding she has a bottle of bleach in a mason jar in case water needs to be purified.

“After the last one, which was maybe two or three years ago, we did a whole bunch of research and just got ready....For me, it’s top of mind.”

According to

the city’s website, Victoria has a one in three (32 per cent) probability of a damaging earthquake in the next 50 years and is also prone to tsunamis. If an earthquake lasts for more than 60 seconds or is so strong that it is difficult to stand, people in low-lying coastal areas are advised to move to higher ground.

Last Tuesday’s tremor was the biggest quake to be felt in the region since a 6.8 magnitude quake rocked Washington State in 2001, causing some property damage in Seattle. The two largest quakes ever recorded in B.C. have both been centred near Haida Gwaii — an 8.1 magnitude quake in 1949 that remains Canada’s strongest since 1700 and a 7.7 quake in 2012.

SFU Geologist Brent Ward said the shaking Tuesday was a crustal earthquake, about 50 to 60 kilometres beneath the surface. Crustal quakes are much more common and closer to populated areas than massive 8.0-plus subduction zone quakes — often dubbed the Big One — that strike every few hundred years well off the West Coast.

Larger crustal quakes in the six to seven range hit every 50 to 60 years in B.C. A 7.2 crustal quake occurred near Courtenay in 1946 and caused extensive landslides, soil liquefaction and damage to brick buildings.

For more information on emergency kits visit the PreparedBC or PrepareVictoria websites.

— with files from Jeff Nagel

[email protected]

Natural Resources Canada

This map shows where a 4.3 magnitude earthquake occurred about eight kilometres east of Sidney on Dec. 29.

Quake rattles homes throughout the Island

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“You just know it’s one of those moments in your life you won’t forget. Everybody felt really good in our group.”

The family is the first to arrive in Victoria as part of the government’s plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of February. In B.C., 400 were slated to arrive by the end of 2015 and a further 1,500 in the months to follow.

So far, British Columbians have applied to privately sponsor about 220 Syrian refugees. Of those, Victoria is expected to get at least 10.

Jean McRae, executive director of the ICA, hopes to see a few more families arrive in January, but isn’t sure when exactly that will happen.

“Processing is moving quite quickly in Canada. Once the cases go to the Visa posts the timing is less predicable, although way quicker than normal,” she said, noting ICA is currently working with about 25 local sponsor groups at various stages.

To prepare for the first family, members of the constituency group searched for accommodation, then collected items the family would need to start their new life, such as furniture and clothing.

When the family arrived at their new apartment, Michael said the two tired boys sprung to life once they saw their bunk beds that had a stuffed animal on the pillow. Hanadi beamed when she opened the fridge and cupboards, and saw they were stocked

with food, including some from the Middle East.

Since then, the

group has been assisting the family with navigating around the city,

setting up bank accounts, filling out forms for school and finding grocery stores. Michael said the spices at the Bulk Barn brought a smile to Hanadi’s face because the store smelled like Syria.

“Everybody has commented on how rewarding it is and how appreciative they are,” said Michael. “I think they’re a very resilient family. They don’t ever back off from anything. They are open to everything, always trying the language. They just seem like they want to get into it.”

On Christmas Day, Michael had the family over for Christmas dinner where they feasted on roasted lamb. It was the first meat the family had in two years.

Originally from a district northeast of

Damascus, the family fled to Lebanon two years ago where they first lived in a refugee camp, then rented a home. Working as a mechanic for a living, Osama was banned from taking a job in Lebanon so he worked under the table to provide for his family (who did not want to publish their last name due to safety reasons). Eventually, they got on the list to come to Canada.

Osama describes the last few years in Syria as a deadly situation.

“They were attacking everybody, killing everybody,” he said, adding he didn’t find peace of mind until he arrived in Toronto, where he was surprised by the warm welcome.

“It’s been strange, but I feel like I’m coming home....Victoria is good.”

Language a big hurdle for Syrian refugees


Newly arrived Syrian refugee Osama, right, laughs while talking with one of his co-sponsors Ben Moore as their children, from left, Molly and Nora Moore and Abdul Rahman colour and practice their lettering together in their apartment.


Newly arrived Syrian refugee Hanadi confers with co-sponsor Emily Hull as they fill out forms for the Shelleh chldren’s schooling.

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Dry Jan challenges residents to go sober for 31 daysKendra WongVictoria News

Luke de Leseleuc remembers the day that launched him into seven years of intense and uncontrollable alcohol abuse.

He was in jail when he was told his three-and-a-half-year-old son had passed away.

“The unfortunate thing was that I was sitting in jail because of my alcoholism,” de Leseleuc said.

The news devastated the new father, who turned to alcohol to overcome his grief.

For seven years, he jumped from job to job, drank from morning to night, and eventually found himself in shelters for a few nights.

“I didn’t care. I got myself into trouble. It was a bad place for me to be,” he said.

After getting back on track and being sober for 11 months, de Leseleuc eventually relapsed. One day, he found himself at the corner of Douglas and Yates streets just steps from throwing himself in front of a bus to end his life when a voice inside his head stopped him.

“I was about four or five steps away from being hit by the bus and on the third step a voice inside my head said ‘the cause of your pain shouldn’t be the cause of someone else’s pain. If you do this, you’ll affect the driver (of the bus) and the passengers’,” he said.

De Leseleuc pulled himself back and went to the emergency room. Shortly after, he checked himself into Together We Can Society, an addictions treatment centre in Vancouver.

He has been sober for the past 16 months and now works with BeYouPromise.org, a Victoria-based organization whose mandate is to educate and raise awareness of the benefits of not misusing drugs or alcohol. De Leseleuc is the community outreach co-ordinator

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“For those people who are sitting on the fence and don’t know where they’re at in terms of whether they have an addiction or alcohol problem it could be a good start for them. Thirty-one days is a good start for them to maybe change their life and see their full potential,” said de Leseleuc, adding they’ve had 15 people register so far.

“It’s a shame that I see what’s going on in Victoria. The loss of one life isn’t good. If substance abuse is becoming a problem for somebody then you need to get some help.”

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Fairfield resident wins national braille creative writing contestKendra WongVictoria News

It’s a world where the dirt shimmers silver, dragons soar and one girl is tasked with stopping underworld beasts from stealing people’s shadows to nourish the hungry land.

This may sound like the beginning of a J.R.R. Tolkien novel, but it’s a world that has come directly from eight-year-old Maggie Wehrle’s imagination.

Maggie’s story called The Underground Festival won first place in her age category as part of the recent Canadian National Institute for the Blind’s (CNIB) annual braille creative writing contest.

“I was really happy. I was really glad,” said Maggie, a Fairfield resident who is blind.

Maggie placed second the previous two years for stories about her father and his pet pug, and one about three bears and a shark. But this year she took home the top prize for the four-paged story that took her two weeks to write.

Alexandra Korinowsky with CNIB said Maggie’s imaginative story told with astounding maturity impressed the judges.

A self-professed book worm, Maggie’s love for reading and writing began at a young age.

Her parents, Trevor and Melissa, used to read her Dr. Seuss books and The Chronicles of Narnia before she could understand. Now, Maggie has flown through a number of books including The Lemony Snicket Series, Alice in Wonderland, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit and is

currently reading The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

After finishing the Harry Potter series, Maggie was inspired to pick up her Perkins brailler to create her own fantasy worlds on paper.

“I like just being able to put my ideas onto a piece of paper. It’s fun,” Maggie said.

Her mother Melissa, who is also a fan of fantasy books, said she can hear the sound of Maggie’s brailler early in the morning.

“Just the way that she uses braille is quite amazing. The fact that she finds a passion in writing, I’m super proud of her,” said Melissa.

“I’m happy she’s found braille really useful in that way that it’s not just something she’s using with curricular activities. I wake up in the morning and she’s writing. It’s a creative outlet for her.”

Since winning the contest, Maggie’s love of writing hasn’t

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Island Health has come up with a new way for Victoria and Esquimalt residents to monitor heart health from home.

The Home Health Monitoring service helps measure blood pressure, weight and oxygen levels from home. It also helps detect problems early, enhances quality of life, improves health outcomes and reduces hospital admissions.

Roughly 300 residents on South and Central Vancouver Island have used the free service and Island Health is encouraging others to give it a try.

“Home Health Monitoring gives patients the confidence they need to self-manage their health from their home,” said Island Health Telehealth Specialist Lisa Saffarek. “It enables us to be more proactive in detecting changes in a patient’s condition. We can work with the patient and the care team to prevent urgent visits to physician offices or the emergency department.”

Nanaimo resident Bill Miller said the service was easy to use. His daily responses were automatically sent to a Home Health Monitoring nurse, who monitored his results and maintained regular contact with him and his physician.

“You’re made aware immediately of any changes in your health and if there’s an issue it can be fixed quickly,” Miller said.

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Imagine being forced from your homeland due to civil war, then eventually winding up in a foreign country on the other side of the world.

You can’t speak the language, you don’t know where anything is (like grocery stores or banks), the climate is cold, and the culture is completely different from anything you’ve ever known.

Welcome to the life of a refugee. In mid-December, Victoria welcomed

its first Syrian refugee family who are part of the government’s plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of February.

The family of five was sponsored by four local couples who pooled their resources together to come up with the $36,000 needed to get the family here and cover their costs of living for the first year.

Ever since their arrival, the couples have been assisting the family with navigating around the city, setting up bank accounts, filling out forms for school and finding grocery stores. The Greater Victoria Inter-Cultural Association (ICA) is helping as well. The family is lucky to have that kind of support.

Not knowing the language is perhaps the biggest hurdle the family now faces. At their apartment last week, they were eager to communicate with the locals, but knowing only a few English words makes it difficult to have a conversation.

As the family transitions into life in Victoria, and more families are expected to arrive during the next few months, it’s important to show them compassion and be patient. The changes they have gone through in their young lives are difficult to fathom and the road ahead will also be a challenging one as they adjust to an entirely new life in Canada.

I first met Stephen Harper when he was running for the Canadian Alliance leadership in 2002.

Speaking to a group of Fraser Valley members concerned that the party had split over the leadership of Stockwell Day, Harper didn’t mince words because a local reporter had showed up on a Saturday morning. He explained his prediction that no matter who leads the conservative movement started by Preston Manning, the national media would work against it.

“The press is owned by big-L liberals and staffed by small-L liberals,” Harper said. “Preston was too cerebral; Stock was not cerebral enough. I’m not sure where I will be, but the media will always be on the other side.”

Harper’s cold war with national media is a theme that runs through his decade as prime minister, peaking in 2015 with the most slanted election coverage I’ve ever witnessed. The celebration continues over Justin Trudeau’s victory, with the supposedly non-partisan federal bureaucracy cheering along with much of the national media.

Harper’s assessment of major newspaper ownership is no longer accurate, except for the Toronto Star. But the dying tradition of owners looking up from their accounting ledgers to endorse a political party continued, with

the Postmedia chain and the Globe and Mail pointing out that Trudeau’s rash promises didn’t add up.

Endorsements were a brief interruption in the media assault on Harper’s record. His government’s plan to welcome 10,000 refugees, unveiled way back in

January 2015, was portrayed as heartless and feeble, while Trudeau’s 25,000 by Christmas represented the generous character of the true Canada.

As it turns out, the Liberals have been hard pressed to reach even the 10,000 mark. But they’ve put out a rash new promise to make it 50,000 at some point in the future, so the media’s new-found message of sunshine, hope and change continues.

Those modest $10 billion annual deficits that Trudeau promised, and Harper warned against? Borrowing and spending will far exceed that, but we’re assured that’s because they were based on inflated Conservative financial forecasts.

In fact, independent private sector forecasts are now the key reference for government budgets at the federal and provincial level. None of them predicted the further slump in energy prices that continued through 2015.

And cooking the books before an election isn’t really possible any more, thanks to the establishment of the Parliamentary Budget Office. That was a

Harper innovation, along with scheduled elections.

And that Trudeau pledge to raise taxes on the wealthiest Canadians and use the proceeds to finance a tax cut for the middle class? That one didn’t add up either. For one thing, wealthy people have a variety of legal ways to reduce their taxable income.

Here’s an actual front-page headline from the Globe and Mail, reporting this unfortunate fact, well after the election: “The way Liberals gauged response to new tax rate explains gap.” So it was just an understandable oversight, you see.

Trudeau’s star turn in Paris, where he pronounced that “Canada is back” in the battle to control the world’s weather? The official submission from his bloated delegation to the UN climate meetings was actually the existing Conservative plan, which includes phasing out coal-fired electricity generation.

Harper generally represented a preference for the individual over the state, a concept that at one time was known as “liberalism.” This was illustrated by his preference for parents rather than a nanny state to administer child care.

He advocated free trade, small government and low taxes. We’ll see how that legacy survives the new government and its media cheering section.

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Olivia is the most popular name for baby girls born in B.C. for the third straight year.

The province issued its annual list of top baby names chosen in 2014 recently.

Ethan was the top name for boys, edging out Liam, the pre-vious year's top choice.

It's been a long run of popu-larity for Ethan, which has been number one or two every

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“Not surprisingly Terry was not the most popular boys' name in British Columbia in 2014,” Health Minister Terry Lake said.

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names won't be available until later in 2016, but so far Olivia appears to be extending her streak, while Oliver was edging ahead of Liam and Ethan for top choice on the boys' side as of Dec. 1.

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It's rare to have two artists living under one roof and even more rare to have their work on display as part of the same exhibit. That is what Linny D. Vine and Jeffrey J. Boron are doing.

The couple share studio space in their Esquimalt home, each creating two different styles of art, which will be on display in a joint exhibit at the Art Gal-lery of Greater Victoria until the end of Janu-ary.

Vine describes her work as “fun, freedom, playful and joyful.” Also described as Lin-nyland or Linnyism, Vine's pieces are cre-ated with acrylic or oil paint and depict a fun way of looking at the world.

Drawing inspiration from life and imagina-tion, her paintings fea-ture bright local urban scenes.

“Sometimes when I'm painting one brush stroke can take me in a different direction and I'll see personality or character to something that I haven't seen and I just like to go with it,”

said Vine, a goldsmith turned artist.

Boron's work, described as West Coast Impressionism, depicts landscapes around Vancouver Island and is a combi-nation of vivd colours and contemporary realism.

Often created out-side, Boron's work includes paintings that show scenes from Tofino, along the waterfront in Victoria, and Saxe Point Park in Esquimalt.

“The thing that I enjoy most about it is the freedom of expres-sion. Painting outdoors has opened up a huge window to me and has allowed me to combine my love of nature and my art,” he said. “It really has put the icing on the cake in so many ways.”

Vine and Boron have been creating art their entire lives and will often paint together as well

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Vine and Boron have had several exhibits at the art gallery individ-ually, but this is their second one together.

Though their styles differ, the duo agree the roughly 30 paintings on display compliment each other since many of the paintings depict the same locations.

“Both our work are very colourful and very bold and both have a singular voice,” Boron said. “It's a dif-ferent visualization of a similar scene.”

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Jo Wallcraft has come up with one bright idea.

For the past few months, the Esquimalt resident has been turning old light bulbs of all sizes that would normally be thrown in the garbage into tiny works of glass art.

Wallcraft and her six-year-old twin step- daughters use acrylic paint and glitter to paint anything from killer whales and star-fish to more Christmas themed designs such as Christmas trees, snowmen, Santa Claus and reindeer on doz-ens of old light bulbs. She then gives them away to friends and family.

“I just needed to find a creative outlet. I just like to create things that inspire people's lives and make them happier. This is one way that I'm doing it,” said Wall-craft, adding they've painted more than 70 light bulbs so far.

It's a project that came to Wallcraft after a devastating discov-ery.

In 2009, Wallcraft discovered she had a brain cyst. Though it was small, it was not

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She is currently waiting to see a neu-rosurgeon in Victo-ria to have the cyst removed.

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“I wanted to do as much as I could to pay it forward. There's been a huge response which is amazing,” Wallcraft said. “I was brought up to make things nicer than what I got them. Mother Earth is number one in anyone's books because if you don't have her, you don't have anything.”

Now, Wallcraft plans on painting the light bulbs, putting them in packages of up to 12 and selling them.

Part of the proceeds will go towards fami-lies dealing with brain health issues.

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It's rare to have two artists living under one roof and even more rare to have their work on display as part of the same exhibit. That is what Linny D. Vine and Jeffrey J. Boron are doing.

The couple share studio space in their Esquimalt home, each creating two different styles of art, which will be on display in a joint exhibit at the Art Gal-lery of Greater Victoria until the end of Janu-ary.

Vine describes her work as “fun, freedom, playful and joyful.” Also described as Lin-nyland or Linnyism, Vine's pieces are cre-ated with acrylic or oil paint and depict a fun way of looking at the world.

Drawing inspiration from life and imagina-tion, her paintings fea-ture bright local urban scenes.

“Sometimes when I'm painting one brush stroke can take me in a different direction and I'll see personality or character to something that I haven't seen and I just like to go with it,”

said Vine, a goldsmith turned artist.

Boron's work, described as West Coast Impressionism, depicts landscapes around Vancouver Island and is a combi-nation of vivd colours and contemporary realism.

Often created out-side, Boron's work includes paintings that show scenes from Tofino, along the waterfront in Victoria, and Saxe Point Park in Esquimalt.

“The thing that I enjoy most about it is the freedom of expres-sion. Painting outdoors has opened up a huge window to me and has allowed me to combine my love of nature and my art,” he said. “It really has put the icing on the cake in so many ways.”

Vine and Boron have been creating art their entire lives and will often paint together as well

“She's at one end of the apartment and I'm

at the other. We occa-sionally bump into each other as we step back to view our work,” Boron said. “We garner more ways of looking at things because of the two visions, which helps to see things from a perspective that you wouldn't necessar-ily gather.”

Vine and Boron have had several exhibits at the art gallery individ-ually, but this is their second one together.

Though their styles differ, the duo agree the roughly 30 paintings on display compliment each other since many of the paintings depict the same locations.

“Both our work are very colourful and very bold and both have a singular voice,” Boron said. “It's a dif-ferent visualization of a similar scene.”

The Best of Both exhibit will be on dis-play at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1040 Moss St.) until Jan. 31. [email protected]

Couple draws inspiration from each other in art exhibit

Summer’s Sisters by Esquimalt artist Jeffrey J. Boron. Boron’s work, along with his partner, Linny D. Vine’s work will be on display at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria until Jan. 31.

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The snow shut down the city and the army was called in to help dig out. Roofs collapsed and tree branches succumbed to the weight, caus-ing widespread power outages throughout the region. Many were left stunned to see so much of the white stuff in a place that isn't known for snow. It was the biggest snow-storm in 100 years.

Weather experts say it could happen again, but nothing has come close since then. According to Environment Canada Meteorologist Lisa Coldwells, the last major snowfall in Vic-toria was seven years ago when 35 cm fell

on Dec. 21, 2008. Six days prior, the city received 13.6 cm of snow. Another 13.2 cm fell on Christmas Eve.

The last significant snowfall was in Janu-ary 2014 when 20.6 cm floated down on the region, followed by two more snow days in February that had 13.6 cm, then another 16.7 cm on the ground.

Looking to the new year, Coldwells pre-dicts there's a very slim chance Victori-ans will see any of the white stuff this winter.

“To get snow, we have to have a com-bination of that cold air outflowing from the interior and the next Pacific rain storm coming in from the west,” she said, noting

the coldest tempera-ture ever recorded in Victoria was -15.6C on Jan. 28, 1950.

“It's always a battle of who's going to win? Does the cold air win and then the warm air rides over top or is there enough warm air and south westerly winds to push that cold air back into the mountains?”

Weather experts are expecting this year to be an extreme one with the arrival of La Nina and El Nino — a natural ocean tem-perature phenom-enon that results in warmer than average coastal waters near the equator that move towards South Amer-ica's northern coast, then turn as far north as Haida Gwaii and

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Coldwells, however, doesn't expect to see the effects of El Nino until mid to late win-ter.

Up Island, the snow gods have been kind to skiing and snow-boarding enthusiasts at Mount Washington. Since the beginning of December, the ski resort has received more than 300 cm of snow, making the Christmas season the snowiest in the past several years.

For the first time in two years, the resort

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Shellie Gudgeon is a firm believer that strong neighbour-hoods are the back-bone of strong cities. Operating on this man-date, she dedicates her time, money and efforts to the Victo-ria West Community Association (VWCA).

Gudgeon was recog-nized for those efforts last month when she was awarded the VWCA Vision Award. As one of the founders of the award, it was only fitting that the Vic West resident won the award in its 10th year of existence.

“The intention behind the award was to encourage more people to give back to the Vic West commu-nity,” Gudgeon said. “Some amazing people have won it so I feel tremendously proud to have been recog-nized.”

Diane Carr recently

finished a year as past president on the board of the VWCA and said that Gudgeon’s reli-ability and generosity made her a perfect fit for the award.

“She can just always be counted on and not just for money,” Carr said. “She’s always willing to lend her time to help out.”

Carr said Gudgeon’s dedication could be seen through the proj-ects she heads and the initiatives she takes on. On one occasion, she recalls Gudgeon picketing at the corner of Bay Street and Tyee Road when a Volvo

dealership was sched-uled to move into the entrance of Vic West.

The decades-old community associa-tion provides services and programs to residents of all the neighbourhoods in Vic West. Carr said the association really found its stride when it finally had a place to call home.

“We took over the community centre about five years ago,” she said. “Since then, I’ve noticed that the association is thriving. I think our programs are maxed out.”

Gudgeon, who has lived in Vic West for 24 years, recently served one term on Victoria city council and is still digest-

ing all the lessons she learned from that experience. She knows you can’t please everyone but the best way to grow is to keep moving for-ward.

Despite Vic West’s vibrant and growing

community, Carr said they are in major need of a new neighbour-hood plan. The cur-rent plan is from 1986.

Gudgeon said the community asso-

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She is motivated

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A 22-year-old Esquimalt man is in custody following an investigation for drugs and weapons at a Saanich basement suite.

On Tuesday, the Victoria Police’s Crime Reduction Unit — working in tandem with Saanich Police and the Greater Victory Emergency Response Team — executed a search warrant at a suite in a resi-dence in the 700-block of Rogers Avenue.

Homes surrounding the residence were evacuated “out of an abun-dance of caution,” said Saanich Police media spokesperson Sgt. Steve Eassie.

“The nature of the file being a weapons and drug-related matter, the potential for someone to be harmed was there in the event that police were to have been met with resistance,” said Eassie. “We obvi-ously didn’t want any bystanders to be placed in harm’s way.

“We were able to make contact with the individual in the suite and were able to have them depart from

the residence without any incidence at all.”

Police recovered three handguns, ammunition and evidence “consis-tent with drug trafficking,” including one kilogram of cocaine and half a kilogram of methamphetamine. The male was arrested on an outstand-ing warrant and now faces addi-tional charges.

In August 2015, the VicPD CRU and Strike Force sections, and the GVERT, searched the man’s resi-dence in the 2900-block of Quadra Street, where investigators found one kilogram of methamphetamine, half a kilogram of cocaine and “a significant amount of cash.”

“It is concerning to us when people are engaging in this type of criminal behaviour in our com-munities,” said Sgt. Iain Campbell of VicPD’s Crime Reduction Unit in a statement. “We’re very glad to have these drugs and guns off our streets.”

According to Victoria police, the approximate street value of a kilo-gram of cocaine is $50,000, while a kilogram of methamphetamine is worth $25,000.

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Dec. 28 and 29, 1996 are days most Victori-

ans will never forget.On those days 19

years ago, a total of 124 centimetres (48.8 inches) of snow fell on

Victoria, setting an all time record.

The snow shut down the city and the army was called in to help dig out. Roofs collapsed and tree branches succumbed to the weight, caus-ing widespread power outages throughout the region. Many were left stunned to see so much of the white stuff in a place that isn't known for snow. It was the biggest snow-storm in 100 years.

Weather experts say it could happen again, but nothing has come close since then. According to Environment Canada Meteorologist Lisa Coldwells, the last major snowfall in Vic-toria was seven years ago when 35 cm fell

on Dec. 21, 2008. Six days prior, the city received 13.6 cm of snow. Another 13.2 cm fell on Christmas Eve.

The last significant snowfall was in Janu-ary 2014 when 20.6 cm floated down on the region, followed by two more snow days in February that had 13.6 cm, then another 16.7 cm on the ground.

Looking to the new year, Coldwells pre-dicts there's a very slim chance Victori-ans will see any of the white stuff this winter.

“To get snow, we have to have a com-bination of that cold air outflowing from the interior and the next Pacific rain storm coming in from the west,” she said, noting

the coldest tempera-ture ever recorded in Victoria was -15.6C on Jan. 28, 1950.

“It's always a battle of who's going to win? Does the cold air win and then the warm air rides over top or is there enough warm air and south westerly winds to push that cold air back into the mountains?”

Weather experts are expecting this year to be an extreme one with the arrival of La Nina and El Nino — a natural ocean tem-perature phenom-enon that results in warmer than average coastal waters near the equator that move towards South Amer-ica's northern coast, then turn as far north as Haida Gwaii and

Alaska. Because the waters

are warmer, levels are higher due to thermal expansion. Even the average winter storm can have a greater impact because of the higher ocean levels.

Coldwells, however, doesn't expect to see the effects of El Nino until mid to late win-ter.

Up Island, the snow gods have been kind to skiing and snow-boarding enthusiasts at Mount Washington. Since the beginning of December, the ski resort has received more than 300 cm of snow, making the Christmas season the snowiest in the past several years.

For the first time in two years, the resort

recently opened its Outback terrain of 400 acres, which is designated as black diamond and dou-ble black diamond. The resort has also opened 55 km of Nor-dic trails and a tubing park.

“It's a winter won-derland out here,” said resort spokesper-son Sheila Rivers.

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In time for repairs

The cruise ship Ruby Princess fills the Esquimalt Graving Dock as it underwent a 10 day refit by Victoria Shipyards. Three hundred and fifty workers were employed to refit the ship and install new emission scrubbers and bow thrusters.


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After dipping to just five students in 2015 the number of high school education program for inmates at the Van-couver Island Regional Correctional Centre on Wilkinson Road is now at 45.

And counting. This year alone five

inmates have acquired their Dogwood diploma as high school gradu-ates, said volunteer tutor Steve Newton.

“We have one guy on his last credit and another on his final two credits, plus two more eyeing a finish by Feb-ruary, and they wish to register at Camosun College following their release,” Newton said.

What happens is inmates often return to the community without a high school degree.

“Without a formal education, no one wants to give them an opportunity,” Newton said. “This gives them a formal education.”

The retired teacher is a board member of the Victoria Read Society and has been instru-mental in rebuilding the program. The Read Society took over ear-lier this year after the Victoria School District 61 backed out (SD61 had taken it over from Saanich School District 63).

Cowichan School Dis-trict 79 then came on in support, supplying curriculum materials, performing the marking, granting credits, per-forming credit checks,

and granting the diplo-mas.

And ironically, Cowichan is the only school district in the immediate area still using a pen and paper curriculum, which is exactly what the Wilkin-son jail program needs.

“We're hopeful we can move this forward,” Newton said. “Those inmates who've started in the program begin to realize this is something they need in order to keep from coming back, a cycle that repeats itself.”

There are now 20 volunteers working to teach inmates through the Read Society. Some

are involved in direct tutoring, such as a one-on-one context, and about six are teachers delivering the in-school component of the pro-gram.

The curriculum is free to the inmates who run into a road block once they earn their Dogwood diploma. In some cases Newton has set up a personalized curriculum to educate the inmates, but enroll-ing in college within the prison is still a ways off, though the U.S. has suc-cessfully created such a program.

The challenge is the inmates aren’t allowed access to the Internet.

Even the school pro-gram is one hour of instruction per week. The rest is the students working on it in their cell blocks.

“With no opportu-nity to study online it's fortuitous Cowichan School District came along,” Newton said. “We’d like to expand to two hours a week of instruction. If that hap-pens, we’ll need more volunteers.”

This year the school program ran through-out the summer and the Christmas season.

“It gives them some-thing to work for, it’s the introduction of a sense of forward move-

ment and improvement for them,” Newton said.

Victoria Read Society helps rebuild inmate education program

Contributed photo

Steve Newton, a volunteer retired teacher, (right) and deputy warden Scott Dempsey, have helped rebuild the inmate education program at the Wilkinson Road correctional facility. Five students have attained their Dogwood B.C. high school degree this year and another 45 students are currently enrolled at Wilkinson.

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BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748.

JEREMIAH’S CARPENTRY Interior fi nish, weather proof-ing, decks, fences, laminate fl rs, sm jobs. Reasonable. In-sured. 250-857-1269.www.jeremiahscarpentry.com

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AFFORDABLE! SUPPLIES & vacuum incld’d. All lower Is-land areas. 250-385-5869.

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250-361-6193 Quality Electric Reno’s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779.

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Company. Res/Com. Lic #86952. Call 250-415-7991.

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. Work Guaran-teed. Any size job. Call (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.


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DPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141.

GARDEN OVERGROWN? Cleanups, lawn cuts, pruning, blackberry clearing. Call John 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

GREAT TIME for pruning. Fruit, ornamental & native trees. Call Maxse for results. Senior disc. 250-634-0347.

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250-380-7778 GRAND Xterior Cleaning. Repairs, Gutters, de-moss, roofs windows, PWash, Christmas lights.

250-507-6543. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, guards, pow-er washing, de-moss, Insured.

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free estimate

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BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

HOUSE & Yard repairs. no job too small. OAP Discounts, free est. Andy, 250-886-3383.

RENO SPECIALIST- Carpen-try, drywall, plumbing, tiling electric. Kitchen & bath. 20yrs exp. Fully insured. Alain 250-744-8453. www.justrenoz.com

HAULING AND SALVAGE

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.


HAULING AND SALVAGE

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Wes 250-812-7774.

Refuse Sam✓Garbage Removal

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SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, fi replaces,fl agstone rock, concrete, natural & ve-neered stone. Replace, re-build, restore, renew! Free competitive est. www.cbsma-sonry.com; Call (250)589-9942, (250)294-9942.

RAIN HAPPENS Landscape & Stonework. Wishing all Happy Holidays! (250)-920-5108.

& MOVING STORAGE

Done Right Moving $85/hr. A+ BBB. Senior Disc. No travel time before/after local moves. Penny 250-418-1747

PAINTING

ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694.


PAINTING

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

HIGH QUALITY and FAST. Professional Painting. $20./hr. Free est. Glenn 778-967-3607.

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.

PLUMBING

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FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928

RUBBISH REMOVAL

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Junk removal. Nothing too big/small.

Free estimate

(250)858-8585


WINDOW CLEANING

250-380-7778 GRAND Xterior Cleaning. Repairs, Gutters,de-moss, roofs windows,PWash, Christmas lights.

BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning, Gutters. Over 25 yrs. Licensed& affordable. 250-884-7066.

COME CLEAN windows, gut-ters. “Shining for You”. In-sured. Free est. 250-881-6385 www.ComeCleanWindows.com

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.

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