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For now, “Pepperman” is little more than a moniker Kelly Powers uses for his email address. But one day soon, he hopes to become The Pepperman: owner of a food cart dubbed Pepperman’s Grill. Through social media, the Winnipeg man recently caught wind of Coun. Lisa Helps’ push to loosen regulations around mobile food vendors in Victoria – a city with a longer outdoor business season than his locale. It
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Sam Stallard, 3, left, appears to be crowding Steven Croy, 4, into the cone during a tricycle race on Belleville Street. The action was part of the Family Bike Festival, which wound up the Victoria International Cycling Festival on Sunday. Another photo from the day’s activities appears on Page A24.
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prompted him to action. Last week he and his wife, Theresa, flew here to scope out the scene and network with local food producers. “All the veggies, all the fruits … chicken, free range – I want to go as local as possible,” Powers explained to Helps at a coffee shop meeting last Wednesday morning. He’s already got his menu meticulously planned. But a few factors stand in his way, such as the practicalities of relocating and more importantly, a city rule that stipulates portable food carts must be located on private property. “If you’re allowed to park in more spaces, then you can be mobile,” Theresa said. Helps hopes to change the bylaws to create more space for such entrepreneurial upstarts.
Following the lead of Vancouver, which opened the door to food carts on public property in June 2010, Helps advocates a summertime pilot project, whereby the city designates a type of outdoor food court on municipal property. Her vision is to place it on the waterfront parking lot below Wharf Street near Bastion Square. “It would be a really great space,” Helps said. “It doesn’t mean getting rid of all the parking spots, because people will freak out about that, but allocating 10 (parking) spots.” The pilot would accomplish two things, she said. PLEASE SEE: Positive, negative aspects, Page A6
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Residents of Victoria get one last opportunity tonight (June 27) to give input into the city’s draft Official Community Plan. The city is hosting a public hearing where people can offer city councillors their thoughts about the 262page document. The Official Community Plan guides land-use decisions and other city priorities. Once passed, it will replace the city’s previous OCP, put in place in 1995. Among the priorities in the draft plan is growing neighbourhood villages into more complete, walkable commercial centres. It also includes concepts such as climate change and food systems, which were not on the mainstream radar 17 years ago. The city launched the OCP project in January 2010, with a goal to adopt the new plan in one year. Since then, the deadline for adoption has been pushed back several times, in part due to a huge amount of feedback from residents. Between April and June 2011, city staff gathered feedback from more than 6,000 people at 57 events. The public hearing gets underway at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 1 Centennial Sq. For more information, go to shape yourfuturevictoria.ca. rholmen@vicnews.com
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Bateman Centre secures CPR digs The Robert Bateman Centre is moving into the newly renovated CPR Steamship Terminal. It has signed an agreement with the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority, subject to final lease negotiations, for a 5,000square-foot gallery, retail store, educational and office space. It will be located on the second, third and fourth floor. “Needless to say this is a dream come true, but it is far beyond any wildest dreams I could imagine,” said Bateman, a worldrenowned artist. Renovations will begin Aug. 1 and the gallery is targeted to open in spring 2013. The Bateman Foundation supports educational programs that promote engagement with nature, especially for youth, policy-makers, families and First Nations. The deal pre-empts an earlier plan to locate the centre at Royal Roads University. The centre still plans to work with RRU on environment and sustainability education and research.
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Justin Temmel, left, David Spinks and Matt Tarasoff show off their Persistence Of Vision Globe during Camosun College’s Capstone 2012, where students display technical projects. The globe is created by a rotating bicycle rim fixed with flashing LED lights.
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Most excellent museum award The recently appointed chief executive officer of the Royal B.C. Museum can add a new accolade to his list. On June 16, Jack Lohman was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his service to museums. The list of appointees appeared in the Queen’s Birthday Honours published June 16. Lohman continues to hold the chair position for the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, and is a professor in museum development at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Norway. rholmen@vicnews.com
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A team of Camosun College students used a bicycle tire rim, 112 LED lights and their knowledge of a visual phenomenon to create a unique final project for their electronics and computer engineering technology diploma program. The group – made up of students David Spinks, Matt Tarasoff and Justin Temmel – attached the lights along the outside of the rim, hooked it up to a motor to make it spin, and programmed the lights to represent a string of pixels in a photo. When the rim spins fast enough, you can see a bright, holographic-looking globe turning in front of you. “We’re simulating a fully functioning display in spherical formation,” Tarasoff said recently during Capstone 2012, an event where students in the program showcase their final projects.
He and his fellow group members took advantage of a trick the eye plays, called persistence of vision. While the eye “refreshes” multiple times per second, the brain holds on to the previous image, burning it in your vision for a fraction of a second longer. Persistence of vision creates the appearance of fluidity and continuity from one image to the next. By spinning the bike rim fast enough, previously illuminated parts of the world map stay in your retinas temporarily, creating the illusion of seeing a full globe. “With 112 pixels (made of LED lights) rotated at a faster rate than the human eye refreshes, we can simulate thousands of pixels by just replacing the image before the eye believes it even left,” Tarasoff said. A dozen projects were on display at Capstone, highlighting two years of intensive schooling for
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A bike rim wired with circuit boards and LED creates a novel holographic effect. students in both the electronics and computer systems technology programs. “It’s a way of putting everything they’ve learned together and coming up with a solution,” said Alan Duncan, chair of Camosun’s electronics and computer engineering technology department. “It’s sort of simulating what they’ll do in the work world, where they’ve got a problem, they try to solve it, and
come up with a solution.” Among the other projects on display were a smartphone-controlled SLR camera, an iPhone app that helps monitor a person’s safety, and improvements to the mobile-friendliness of the District of Saanich’s website. Tarasoff says his team’s POV Globe (persistence of vision globe) has potential in such areas as advertising. “It can project almost any image you want.” While graduation is just around the corner for the trio, and they’ll likely go off on different career paths, they say they’d like to improve upon their current POV Globe – given that they’ve invested hundreds of hours and dollars on it – and see where that takes them. For more information on either of the Camosun programs, visit camosun.ca/learn/programs/ engineering-tech.html. kslavin@saanichnews.com
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Affordable seniors building opens its doors Carey Place, a 55-unit seniors living facility officially opens today (June 27). It offers housing for lowincome seniors and seniors in need. The facility is in the
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Neither the founder of Chatter High nor the educators who have embraced the website deny it’s a company, supported largely by businesses with their own vested interests, targeting high school students. It’s also a fundraising tool that 2,048 students at 81 public and private schools in B.C. accessed last year. On ChatterHigh.com, students, teachers, parents and alumni earn points by answering quizzes, and later use those points to enter draws for prizes as small as gas cards, and big ticket items such as iPads and scholarships. The questions are provided by a variety of sources – post-secondary institutions, attractions and industries – all of whom share the goal of attracting traffic deep into their websites. Each question includes a hint in the form of a link to the provider’s website, where the answer can be found with some light reading. Each click on hint links allows the person answering the questions to earn bonus points toward entering draws, and earns Chatter High some cash, as question providers pay six to 10 cents per click. Each high school also receives a portion of these proceeds. Lee Taal, director of operations for Chatter High, which has offices in Royal Oak and Vancouver, describes the relationship with schools as a self-funding model between the user and the organization trying to connect with them. “I’m completely comfortable with it,” he said. “The overwhelming feedback is that this is a very good thing.” Spectrum Community School principal Judy Harrison agrees. Not only did the 640 students, teachers and parents from the Spectrum community registered on Chatter High earn
a $2,500 prize toward the school’s first dry-grad party last month, Taal was asked to deliver the keynote speech to the 2012 graduating class. “It was serendipitous how many people (the site) drew in,” she said. Harrison justifies the inclusion of businesses on the website, most which have no clear connection to education, since they’re providing incentives for students, such as gift certificates for gas or ferry travel. “I guess we’re all enticed by prizes. The (most) time was spent on answering the questions, so that’s where it was consistent.” While Patrick Duncan, associate superintendent for the Greater Victoria School District, hasn’t experienced any negative feedback from Chatter High, he acknowledges the fine line the district treads between supporting commercialism and giving schools alternatives to generate funds. “It’s a line that all principals have to look at when you’re looking at fundraising opportunities and involving any commercial enterprises,” Duncan said. “I know our principals are careful, but that is a difficult line. It’s a principal’s prerogative and duty to be watching this.” When a student at Mount Douglas secondary asked Taal directly if his participation on the site was supporting a business, Taal said he had no qualms telling the student that Chatter High is clearly a business, not a non-profit. “It’s the right choice for us. We could make it a non-profit, but then we would have to spend a lot of our time fundraising, whereas the organizations that we’re trying to help with this collaboration, they have budgets. “Their plan is to spend some money to do this engagement already, so that’s where the money should come from.” nnorth@saanichnews.com
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Winnipeg resident Kelly Powers, right, scopes out a potential future location for a mobile food-cart business he and his wife, Theresa, left, hope to open called Pepperman’s Grill. Victoria Coun. Lisa Helps, centre, hopes to launch a food-cart pilot project on this parking lot below Wharf Street.
Positive, negative aspects to food carts: restaurateur Continued from Page A1
First, it would support a type of small business that’s in demand by both budding entrepreneurs like Powers and customers, as evidenced by the long lineups for Red Fish Blue Fish, a vendor based on the dock below the foot of Broughton Street. Second, the pilot would add vibrancy to a sadly undervalued city asset. While everyone agrees it’s a travesty to park cars on prime city waterfront, previous attempts to rezone the lot were mired in controversy and ultimately failed. A food cart pilot project, on the other hand, requires no infrastructure, no capital and can be reversed if it proves unpopular, argued Helps. But of course, food carts are not without their own controversy. Back in the 1990s, the City of Victoria licensed food carts on Government Street, but concerns from the restaurant industry contributed to the cancellation of the program. Today, some concerns still exist. “It’s about trying to maintain some kind of level playing field for the business,” said Liz da Mata, owner of The Reef restaurant and director of the B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association. “You’ve got to make sure that the (food cart) licensing isn’t so much easier and cheaper that you’re penalizing the brick-and-mortar standup shops.” Location is also sensitive: you can’t have a pizza truck across the street from a pizza restaurant, she said, giving an example. Da Mata, however, isn’t down on food carts. “There’s positives and negatives, no doubt,” she said, adding they add vibrancy to the downtown, which helps everyone if done fairly. The Reef has its own food cart, which operates at festivals, and da Mata has watched the cart drive traffic to her restaurant. “That is the way of the future. I see a lot of the food trucks becoming offshoots of the brick-and-mortar.” Da Mata would like to operate her cart to serve the daily lunch crowd, but won’t pursue it until the regulations change.
Why stop at food? When shoeshiner Jill Goodson got kicked off her Fort Street location last week, Victoria Coun. Lisa Helps took her side. Helps would like to see not just food carts, but many types of street vending allowed on city property, including services such as shoeshining or possibly even product sales. The city recently loosened its regulations to allow buskers to start selling related products, such as CDs. Since the extensive media coverage of Goodson’s situation, several private property owners have offered her space. As of Monday, she was leaning toward an offer by Street Level Espresso, near her old spot on Fort Street. Prime private locations are few, and most are taken, she said. Next month, city council will vote on Helps’ motion. The Wharf Street parking lot, however, isn’t the only possible location for the pilot. City staff have suggested other possibilities, such as along Dallas Road. “That’s my dream location,” said Paulina Tokarski, the former owner of a Polish deli who recently opened the Hungry Rooster food truck. Her operation, in a parking lot on Courtney Street, often buzzes with business workers at lunch time. “I’m lucky,” she said of securing her spot – for which she pays $175 per month. “There isn’t anything else in town. I’ve looked everywhere.” rholmen@vicnews.com
Did you know? ■ There are still a few small food carts operating on Government Street, a relic from the 1990s. The businesses have been grandfathered. ■ Food carts can also get permission to set up shop on privately owned city easements, as long as the easement isn’t intended for pedestrian passage.
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Caffeine and booze a risky mix, study says potential to really have a negative impact on both health and public safety, but we’re up against a marketing juggernaut,” Perry noted. Concern over energy drink consumption is new and reliable statistics relating deaths to caffeinated alcohol consumption don’t exist, said Barbara McLintock of the B.C. Coroners Service. “The fact is, there are these risks being posed,” she said. “It’s a new risk and a risk that people … all need to be looking at.” Brache is analyzing Canada-wide data on alcohol and energy drink consumption and its relationship to drinking and driving and alcohol abuse and addiction. nnorth@saanichnews.com
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some difference in this group that combines alcohol and energy drinks,” she said. Reported reasons for combining the substances included a desire to eliminate drowsiness and to stay awake longer. “(Drinkers) may actually not be able to judge how intoxicated they are ... given that some of the depressant effects have been attenuated,” Brache said, noting lab studies have documented a reported sense of feeling less intoxicated when people consume both substances at the same time. Earlier in the year, Brache, in seeking support for stronger restrictions around the marketing of energy drinks and alcohol consumption, presented her data to the Capital Regional District’s traffic safety commission. Alan Perry, acting chair of the commission, called the talk “eyeopening” and “dismaying.” It may be a while before the commission, though interested in mitigating the risks to public safety, launches into action that
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Did you know? ■ Sales of premixed alcoholic energy drinks in Canada have increased by 296 per cent between 2005 and 2010.
Once the commission has mulled over Brache’s findings, they will likely put forward recommendations to the Liquor Distribution Branch to restrict licensed establishments from marketing energy drinks and alcohol together. “We’re struggling with this because we sense it has the
■ Young adults consume the drinks at a level four times higher than the general public, according to the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse.
Commuter ferry idea studied for West Shore Student commissioned to do research Jim Zeeben News staff
It’s still just an idea but now it’s one with the building blocks in place to actually make it happen. The concept of a ferry linking the West Shore to downtown Victoria has been bandied about before, but now that prime real estate at Royal Bay in Colwood has been sold to developers, the proposal can be taken a little more seriously. “The trigger, really, for us is the sale of Royal Bay,” said Westshore Chamber of Commerce CEO Dan Spinner, referring to the sale of 170 hectares of empty waterfront property in Colwood. In May, B.C. Investment Management Corp. purchased the land from Lehigh Hanson. The long-range plan calls for a village centre and 2,800 single-family homes. The area will also be home to a new high school within the Sooke School District.
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The chamber announced June 7 it will facilitate a study by Black Ball Ferry Line and Royal Roads University into the feasibility of a commuter ferry connecting the Inner Harbour and the West Shore. Though Black Ball is a U.S. company, its president, Ryan Burles, lives in Metchosin. Black Ball has a number of staffers who have direct experience with smaller ferries serving the islands of Puget Sound. A ferry service to the Inner Harbour would help protect “quality of life” for commuters living on the burgeoning West Shore, Burles said. “It is kind of a puzzle,” he said, noting the most critical piece will be ensuring a ferry fits seamlessly into other transit services. That means it needs to be accessible by bus or light rail and the cost for riding the ferry can’t be prohibitive. editor@vicnews.com
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Drugged-driving research project: field work taking place in Saanich Drivers to be tested for drugs and alcohol in roadside survey
“The last survey they did, the numbers of people who were drugimpaired was fairly close to those who were alcohol-impaired. It was a shocker to most of us.”
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– Victoria Chief Const. Jamie Graham roadside drug tests, the chief said. There is still no such device. Currently, police can penalize suspected drug-impaired drivers with a 24-hour driving suspension, and have them undergo a complex series of tests. “It’s a brutally long process and it’s the best we have right now, and we know we can do better,” Graham said. “This is all about public safety, in terms of getting behind the wheel when you’re high.” For that reason the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police’s Traffic Safety Committee, which Graham chairs, is now discussing the merits of encouraging the scientific community to develop a handheld testing device. The $250,000 governmentfunded blitz of roadside surveys is the seventh in B.C., part of an initiative spearheaded by the Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles and ICBC. emccracken@vicnews.com
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roadside breath test for alcohol consumption will not be penalized, Graham said. Tabulating the number of drivers who drive with drugs in their system will help provide government and police bodies with a clearer understanding of drugimpaired driving, he added. “The last survey they did, the numbers of people who were drug-impaired was fairly close to those who were alcohol-impaired. It was a shocker to most of us.” Previous surveys found that while alcohol use increases late at night and on weekends, drug use by drivers is more consistently found at all times throughout the week. In random survey samples, about 10 per cent of drivers tested positive for alcohol, and seven to eight per cent had a detectable level of drugs in their systems. The survey results will also help drive efforts to develop
Elderly driver hit gas instead of brake Victoria police believe an elderly driver pressing the gas pedal instead of the brake set off a chain of events that included a pedestrian and four other cars being struck last Wednesday. VicPD crash team analysts continue to investigate the noonhour incident, which forced the closure of Blanshard Street from Hillside to Caledonia avenues for the afternoon of June 13. The chaos began when a gold-coloured Toyota Corolla, heading north in the curb lane on Blanshard Street, ran a red light at Bay Street and struck a 40-year-old woman walking
Neighbours with a keen eye are being applauded by Victoria police for helping nip a theft spree in the bud in Esquimalt and a break-andenter in Victoria last Wednesday. Officers were called by residents who spotted a man breaking into cars around 9 a.m., near Kindersley Road and Naden Street. “Officers who were in the immediate area arrived within minutes and spotted the thief,” Const. Mike Russell said in a statement. The suspect, a 31-year-old View Royal man known to police, was caught after a foot chase. He could face theft charges and was sched-
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Drivers are now being asked to voluntarily provide a saliva sample at police checkpoints in Saanich, as part of research into drug-impaired driving. “The effort is to try and determine the volume of people that drive while impaired by drugs,” said Victoria police Chief Const. Jamie Graham. “It will help fuel further research efforts, support current and future legislative changes and focus public attention to where there are real dangers.” Roadside surveys are taking place in Saanich, Vancouver, Abbotsford, Prince George and Kelowna, the same cities chosen for a similar survey in 2010. When drivers are stopped, they will be asked to voluntarily and confidentially answer questions and provide a breath sample, as well as a saliva sample, with a swab stick. The swabs will go to a lab to be tested for detectable levels of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other opiates, amphetamines and common sedatives. Drivers who later test positive for drugs, and those who fail a
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City must rein in its labour costs When the salaries of the highest-paid individuals working for the City of Victoria are listed each year, it routinely causes many in the community to gasp. Whether such reactions are a realization of the wage disparity between those who run the City and themselves, or simply a disdain for those who happen to make a handsome wage, the numbers always Salaries go up come as a shock when they appear in print. while council The media don’t tend targets cuts to ask those whose salaries are listed how they feel about having not just their income, but their annual raises publicized for all to see. In the public-sector work world, however, that goes with the territory. But before we start grousing about the pay increases of those in charge at city hall – who are, by the way, generally paid in line with people doing similar jobs in similar-sized cities – we should remember that the City is doing little to hold the line on labour costs during this time of financial stress. Union employees at the City earned annual raises of three per cent through the recession. And while their new contract reduced the annual hike to two per cent, management’s salary increases are tied to those of union members. Compare that to provincial government employees who have endured wage freezes for years. With the City looking at cutting millions from its budget to keep property tax increases manageable, such continual wage hikes seem out of touch with reality. So where does that leave the average taxpayer? Until those we elect to council show the courage and strength to stand up for the financial well-being of those who voted them in, things won’t change. Victoria property owners can expect ongoing increases to their tax bill. Council members, who make far less than their senior staff, ultimately have the final say on the purse strings. It’s time for them to take a serious look at reining in labour costs instead of axing valuable programs to balance their budget. What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@vicnews.com or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The Victoria News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.
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‘Poverty’ declines, nobody notices You probably didn’t hear this on report last year. “To illustrate,” the TV: the percentage of Canadians report said, “take a hypothetical deemed “low income” went down future Canada where every citizen slightly in 2010, according to the earns no less than $100,000 (and latest Statistics Canada assume there has not analysis. been rampant inflation This news was in the meantime, such delivered in the annual that buying power is not “Income of Canadians” dissimilar to what exists report last week. The today) and millionaires share of people who fall are common. below the federal Low“In that kind of Canada, Income Cut-Off (LICO) those at the low end of went from 9.5 per cent the income scale (that to 9.0. is, those earning ‘merely’ The CBC couldn’t bring $100,000) would be Tom Fletcher considered itself to admit any actual poor if LICOs B.C. Views improvement, reporting were used as a measure of on its website that poverty.” the number of people with “low Math aside, that’s the alleged income” was about three million, “poverty line” routinely cited by the “virtually unchanged from 2009.” usual media authorities, like B.C. Other media outlets followed Federation of Labour president Jim the unwritten rule that nothing Sinclair. remotely positive must be Sinclair campaigned for years to presented as news, particularly if get the B.C. government to raise the it reflects positively on a right-wing minimum wage from $8 to $10 an government. (Plus they had the hour. They did, in three increments, Montreal body parts case to update and on May 1 it increased to $10.25 each day.) an hour. As soon as the series of This information likely won’t three increases was announced last have any effect on the political November, Sinclair called a news discussion about “poverty” in B.C. conference to announce it’s not The LICO survey will continue to enough. be used as a measure of absolute To get to the LICO level, the poverty, despite the fact that it minimum wage should be $11.50 isn’t. It’s a relative measure that will an hour, Sinclair said. Of course, if always designate the same share of B.C. businesses ponied up for that, people at the low end of the scale. the goalposts would shift again and B.C. Stats, the provincial the same proportion of “poverty” equivalent of the federal agency, would magically still exist. explained this problem in a special The B.C. NDP government-in-
waiting continues to demand an “action plan” on poverty, with annual goals. All the progressive provinces have one, which I guess is why poverty is all but eradicated in enlightened places like Manitoba. There are signs of the reality behind this political smokescreen. Here’s one. For what may be the first time in history, we now have a North American society where one of the most reliable indicators of poverty is obesity. This often gets explained away with a popular theory that poor people are somehow forced to eat fast food and drink pop because they can’t afford healthy food. People who advance this theory presumably don’t do much grocery shopping. There are plenty of processed, sugary, fat-laden choices at the supermarket too. But there is also whole wheat bread, rice and fresh or frozen vegetables that are as cheap as anywhere in the world. Given basic cooking skills and some effort, it’s easy to demonstrate which diet is cheaper as well as healthier. Most immigrants know this. Which diet you choose isn’t a function of money, but rather one of education and self-discipline. There is genuine poverty in our society. What’s needed is a useful way to define it. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com. tfletcher@blackpress.ca
‘There is genuine poverty ... what’s needed is a useful way to define it.’
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Darren Stackhouse, owner of graffiti removal company Seicoat, sprays a pressure washer that uses hot water to remove tags from the surface of the skatepark in Victoria West Park along Esquimalt Road. One reader argues that some forms of graffiti are art, despite the views of some in the city.
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Harbour area should be given top priority in OCP discussion The editorial “Remove veil from public land sales” (Our View, May 16) was appropriate, all the more since the two new developments cited involve the harbour, the crown jewel for the Greater Victoria area. The waterfront area, defining the area’s history and character and attracting tourism, is suited to special events like Symphony Splash. Its land is desirable for citizens to use and developers to gain great profits. Keeping a balance remains important for the future. The draft Official Community Plan, which comes to public hearing tonight (June 27), has the harbour in third place on the list of planning priorities, along with the Hillside Corridor. Apparently, the ranking reflects the lower number of developments expected. The harbour as a unique natural inheritance is more significant than built areas, which could be found in other cities. Precious and size-limited, the harbour’s context needs watching; a few wrong developments could mar the whole. Let’s “celebrate our harbour” by telling council that it deserves first place and re-examination of the existing Harbour Plan. Mary Doody Jones Victoria
Precedent already set for sidewalk use Re: Shoeshine stand sparks street-level debate (News, June 20) Denying Jill Goodson the right to set up a shoeshine stand on a city sidewalk is breathtakingly hypocritical. It is impossible to walk around the downtown district and not notice businesses appropriating public
sidewalks for their own gain: bars and restaurants take up large spaces to set up tables and chairs, sign boards and touts abound and charities relentlessly importune pedestrians. Either allow all or ban all. Ian MacDonell Victoria
Province turning its back on those most in need I recently attended a forum by the Family Support Institute, which hosted a panel of people from the Ministry of Social Development. I questioned the assistant deputy minister on when they are going to raise the disability rates and index them to inflation. Clients with chronic diseases cannot even take care of themselves on present rates and don’t have access to proper nutritious food or decent housing. I told her about the human skeletons in wheelchairs, dragging intravenous tubes and begging on the streets of Victoria. This is a scandal and a disgrace. Her response was the typical spin, that the government does not have any money to raise the rates. The government does have the money – look at the massive Community Living B.C. pay rates for example – but they have decided to keep people with disabilities in perpetual poverty. Their inhumane “every man for himself” ideology even applies to people who are too sick to work. When the Liberals are defeated next spring, they will not be remembered for tweaking policies about trust accounts for the disabled. They will be remembered for turning their backs on the sickest and most fragile members of our society as they wither away and die. Doreen Marion Gee Victoria
News on green initiatives welcomed by reader I was pleased to see a “Green News” feature in Friday’s paper. I would hope that all the media would regularly report positive environmental news, highlighting, as you have done, the “green” element in the item. Surely there are many new technologies, local initiatives, economic perspectives and individual efforts that people would like to read about. Interest in “green news” is surely high and more reporting of hopeful information would be welcome. I even dream that good news about environmental protection would be as regular in the media as reports on the stock market, political shenanigans, sports highlights and horoscopes. Let’s hear more about what’s being done to heal the environment. It’s important, and surely many people would want to be able to keep up with the latest news. Ted Bristow Esquimalt
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Cooking classes, ukeleles, juggling and even a reality-show style competition will come together on Canada Day to celebrate all things vegan. The festival, running from noon to 5 p.m. July 1 at Market Square, will also feature activities for kids and a full schedule of presentations on topics such as activism, nutrition and others. “We’ve assembled a crack team of amazing local vegan volunteers to organize this most fantastic festival,” said coorganizer Sarah Kramer, author of several vegan cookbooks. She’ll also host a game called Canada’s Next Top Vegan. The festival builds on the momentum of four vegan shops established in Victoria: Kramer’s boutique, called Sarah’s Place; Vshoen, Green Cuisine and Lotus Don Denton/News staff Pond. “It’s amazing it’s taken this long to see Sarah Kramer, in her vegan boutique, Sarah’s Place, this type of festival here, as Victoria is on Pandora Avenue, has written several vegan recipe known as being a top vegan-friendly city books and is organizing the first Victoria Vegan Fest, in North America,” said Dave Shishkoff, for July 1 in Market Square. festival co-organizer and Canadian correspondent for Friends of Animals, an international progressive and forward-thinking, and concerned animal advocacy organization active in Victoria about animal issues and willing to act on that for the last six years. concern.” “An event like this proves that Victorians are rholmen@vicnews.com
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Esquimalt council handing out less grant money to help ease tax burden Three groups did not make the cut. The Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society, which relocated to Esquimalt Difficult doesn’t quite sum up the from Vic West this spring, will receive recent job of Esquimalt’s elected half of its $20,000 request. leaders when they doled out a Grants to be distributed range from smaller pot of grant money to a long a high of $12,130 (Macaulay elemenlist of “inspiring” commutary parent advisory counnity groups, schools and cil) to a low of $500 (Gorge organizations in need. Waterway). “It was really tough,” said Groups focusing on youth, Coun. Meagan Brame, chair and organizations that of the local grants commitdirectly benefit the towntee that vetted the list of ship were favoured. applicants. “I hated it.” The grants committee In an effort to reduce the also considered whether burden for property owners applicants have been given and keep to a zero-per-cent permissive tax exemptions. property tax increase for Esquimalt Coun. “You want to give to every2012, council opted earlier Meagan Brame one. They’re great organizathis year to trim the annual tions, they’re so inspiring,” community grants budget by 20 per Brame said. cent, to $95,033. “We had to balance it so we could At its meeting June 18, coun- spread it out as much as we could. cil approved the list of recipient We know they do a lot of good, but groups and organizations that will there’s so many places that do so each receive a chunk from the pot of much good.” $85,530. The remaining $9,503 could emccracken@vicnews.com potentially be shelled out later in the year in response to last-minute funding requests. Esquimalt’s local grants committee ■ Esquimalt community grant received funding applications totalpayments: ling $150,049 this year, which could 2012: $95,033 not be accommodated. 2011: $114,352 This year, 35 organizations, includ2010: $115,556 ing five public schools, will receive money. News staff
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Participants in a yoga class stretch at the Victoria Cool Aid Society’s Downtown Activity Centre on Pandora Avenue. Reaching high are Stacy Sanderson, left, Miranda Lane, Elizabeth MacKay, Bruce Williams and Josephine Navarro. An upcoming yogathon in Centennial Square will raise funds for low- to no-barrier recreation programming at the centre.
As the sun streams in through an open courtyard door, a line of people on mats listen and watch intently, so as to mimic yoga instructor Alicia Corsiglia’s movements. On Wednesday afternoons, the gym at the Victoria Cool Aid Society’s Downtown Activity Centre on Pandora Avenue has been dedicated to yoga. Corsiglia will be among the volunteer instructors leading classes from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on July 7 in Centennial Square, as the centre hosts its first-ever yogathon. The event will raise funds for the centre’s health and wellness programs, which range from floor hockey and kindergym to tai chi and dance/movement. Miranda Lane, assistant co-ordinator for the centre, says the fundraiser is also a way of raising awareness of its programs and services. “All of our programs are low- to
no-barrier,� she says, noting that inclusivity is key. With many clients either homeless, battling addiction problems or facing other life challenges, she says, it’s important to have a place where they can take part in activities that are healthy for them, without judgment. The yoga class ended last week, but Lane says the hope is to attract more volunteer instructors and expand the program. The suggested drop-in donation for each class during the yogathon is $5. Classes are scheduled every hour and for various ability levels. For those participants who wish to raise money for the cause, pledge forms are available at the centre, 755 Pandora Ave. Tours of the facility are also planned for July 7 at 10 a.m., noon, 2 and 4 p.m. For more information, visit CoolAid.org/yoga or call 250-383-0076. editor@vicnews.com
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Photographer-turned-entrepreneur Lisa Bettany practises taking a picture with her iPhone. Her company’s photo application for the iPhone has been a great success worldwide. month, when a young woman dropped in to look for volunteer work. It seems the woman was sent by her employer, Canoe Brewpub, to put her skills to use until things got a little busier on the patio at the restaurant. The impressive thing was Canoe promised to pay her regular wages for any volunteer work she does in the community.
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Printmakers capture layers of area history Kyle Wells News staff
To celebrate Victoria’s 150th anniversary a group of artists is using the medium that would have originally captured some of the city’s most well-recognized historic sites for all to see. Fifteen artists with Ground Zero Printmakers visited seven historical sites in the city to make original artworks in a variety of printmaking mediums, such as etching, silkscreen and drypoint. These prints will then be used in a series of handmade albums, one of which will be presented to the City of Victoria at the Oct. 25 council meeting. That edition will go into the city archives. Another copy will go to the library system for the public to access, another for Ground Zero’s own collection. “So that the public can enjoy these prints for the next 150 years,” said Victoria Edgarr Ground Zero creative director and project contributor. Printmaking is a form of artwork that uses a variety of materials, such as wood or metal, to make art that can be printed onto paper. The process allows you to make many nearly identical prints of the
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Ground Zero Printmakers’ Creative Director Victoria Edgarr watches (back) as artist Gail Lamarche pulls a print (entitled Botanical Lesson at St. Annes) from a press at the Ground Zero workshop. same piece of artwork. Edgarr said that printmaking is a particularly apt artform to help commemorate Victoria’s history because it has been around as long as the city itself. In the days before the mass use of photographs, artists would
draw locations in the city and then engravers would use those images to make prints for newspapers and other print materials of the day. Ground Zero launched the project with an open air printmaking session at St. Ann’s Academy and have since visited the Rock Bay
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Montreal ensemble brings chamber music Join Montréal-based ensemble Les Amusements de la Chambre for Le Salon d’été: Baroque works for harpsichord and strings, a concert of intimate chamber music. The ensemble will present a selection of 17th and 18th-century chamber music at the Church of St. John the Divine, 1611 Quadra St., on June
Eclectic Gallery is offering a taste of summer with vibrant oils by plein air painter Frank Mitchell. A member of the Al Frescoes plein air painters of Victoria, Mitchell’s work explores alternative points of view ranging from landscape, portrait and life drawing to political satire. Eclectic Gallery, 2170 Oak Bay Ave., presents its feature artist, Mitchell from June 16 through July 28. The gallery’s summer hours are Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sundays from noon until 4 p.m.
30 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. The concert features music by Francesco Maria Veracini, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and anonymous English masques. Tickets are $5 for children, $10 for seniors/students and $20 at the door. Call 250-595-7105 or email amusements.de.la.chambre@gmail. com for details.
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as a kid,” said Wilkinson, who attended Friday’s launch of the photo exhibit, “It Takes A Village: Esquimalt Faces, Places & the Navy.” “I really wanted to emphasize that houses are homes to people and they have a lot of emotional significance,” said Clare Sharpe, museum administrative assistant, who last year pitched the exhibit idea to the Esquimalt Photography Club, whose members snapped the modern photos. “There are 1,000 words in every photo, and it’s so powerful.” Her idea was enthusiastically embraced by the Esquimalt Centennial Celebrations Committee, the township’s Heritage Advisory Committee and the photo club.
Some of the earliest photos were taken in the late 1880s, while others capture life in the early 1900s. “It’s fascinating,” photo club vice-president Lynda O’Keefe said during the launch that brought out base officials, township committee members and a few of the people photographed for the exhibit. The display was the ideal centennial project for the base and the township to work on together. “It was quite collaborative, which is what Esquimalt tends to be. We always work closely with the base,” said Esquimalt Coun. Meagan Brame. “(The photos) really do show how Es-
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George Wilkinson, with two photos of himself, one current and the other taken when he was a boy, around 1928, outside what was his family home. The photos are part of an exhibit at the CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum celebrating Esquimalt’s centennial.
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George Wilkinson looks at a black-and-white photo of himself hanging on the wall and his memories come pouring out. His father built their family home on what is now the Naden side of CFB Esquimalt in 1921. But in 1940, Wilkinson received some bad news while he was overseas fighting in the Second World War. “My mother wrote to me and said the navy had kicked them out and it was taking over,” said Wilkinson, 94, who called Esquimalt home for much of his life, but who now resides in Langford. The military of the day had grown, and several Esquimalt homes located within its shadow were swallowed up in the early 1940s. The military expropriated land from the former Esquimalt village, and families were forced to pick up and go. Many of their stories are told in a series of 30 photos that line the walls of the CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum. There are black and white historical photos, and beside some of them are colour photos of the same people, standing at the same places, only decades later. “I think they should remember the people that lived there. It was a great place to grow up
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CommunityCalendar Monday to Friday – Rainbow Kitchen serves a free hearty meal at noon for low-income and marginalized people at the United Church of Esquimalt, 500 Admirals Rd. The kitchen is located in Wheeley Hall (enter from Lyall Street). Fridays – Esquimalt Walking Group’s free social, community walks leave from the rec centre foyer at 10 a.m. year-round, rain or shine. 1st & 3rd Wednesdays – Kiwanis Club of Esquimalt meets, 7:30 a.m. at Gorge Vale Golf Club, 1005 Craigflower Rd. 2nd & 4th Mondays – Esquimalt Photography Club meets, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the church hall of Esquimalt United Church. All levels of amateur photographers welcome. FMI: www.esquimaltphotoclub.org Thursdays – Esquimalt Writers Group, meets, 10 a.m. to noon at Esquimalt Rec Centre. No membership required. FMI: 250-412-8532. June 27 – Esquimalt Chamber of Commerce June Social Mixer, 5 to 8 p.m. at Princess Mary Cafe, Westbay Marine Village. Fee: $20/members (includes appetizers and cash bar); non-members/$25. FMI or RSVP: admin@esquimaltchamber.ca July 10 – Travelling Puppet Show – Preschool, 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Esquimalt Library, plus additional puppet workshop from 11:15 to
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11:45 a.m. Separate registration for both required at 250-414-7198. July 10 – Travelling Puppet Show – school-age, six to nine-years-old, 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. at the Esquimalt Library, plus additional puppet workshop, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Separate registration for both required at 250-414-7198. July 12 – Esquimalt Centennial Walk hosted by Volkssport, beginning at Archie Browning Sports Centre. Choose either five or 10 kilometres, through the Township of Esquimalt, through Macauley Point and Saxe Point Parks, and Esquimalt Town Centre. The 10km route will continue through neighbourhoods north of the centre, taking in magnificent views from the top of Highrock Park before returning via Westbay to the start. FMI: 250598-4316. July 14 – Pacific Mobile Depots Community Recycling, 9 a.m. to noon
at the Archie Browning Sports Centre rear parking lot, for soft and hard plastics, Styrofoam, milk and drink cartons, and electronics. Drop-off fees apply. FMI: 250-893-3851 or www.pacificmobiledepots.com July 19 – Knit Wits for Parents & Kids (10 to 12), 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Esquimalt Library. Learn how to knit a simple neckwarmer and help others by donating your finished project to a local shelter. Instructions, yarn and knitting needles supplied. A great project for beginner knitters. Register at 250-414-7198. July 19 – Esquimalt Committee of the Whole meets, 7 p.m. in Council Chambers, followed by special council. FMI: 250-414-7135. July 31 – Artist Andrea Soos: Strange but True for Tweens, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Unleash the strange and wonderful by learning the basics of drawing and watercolour painting. For ages 10 to 12. Register at 250-414-7198. Aug. 11 – Pacific Mobile Depots Community Recycling, 9 a.m. to noon at the Archie Browning Sports Centre rear parking lot, for soft and hard plastics, Styrofoam, milk and drink cartons, and electronics. Drop-off fees apply.
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No time for tea Countdown for Canada’s Londonbound Olympians Travis Paterson News staff Garrett James
And away they go, almost. The majority of the Victoria-based athletes heading to this summer’s Olympic Games were celebrated with the English flavoured Lift-off to London event, a theme fulfilled by the Fairmont Empress Hotel. Some did the queen wave longer than others (swimmers), as the spirit of the event came alive when the group left the Ivy Ballroom for a group photo on a double-decker bus in front of the Fairmont Empress Hotel. The Olympics run July 27 to Aug. 12. “It’s not long now, which is nice because this is the most exhaustive training block I’ve ever done,” said swimmer Alec Page. The Victoria native has his days ahead figured out before he competes in the 400 individual medley on July 28. “No easy ones until we get to London the week before the Games,” he said. That includes the internationally attended Canada Cup swim meet in Montreal, July 5 to 8. Page is one of seven swimmers going to the London Olympics from the Victoria Academy of Swimming at Saanich Commonwealth Place. At 18, Page will be one year younger in London than Ryan Cochrane was in Beijing. “I have a few Olympics ahead of me, that’s for sure.” Lift-off to London opened with Wendy Pattenden, CEO of the Canadian Sport Centre Pacific, explaining that Greater Victoria-based athletes account for approximately 15 per cent of the Olympic squad. “The goal is to finish among the top 12 nations,” she said.
Canucks draft pick Wes Myron exploded as an NHL prospect in the fall of 2011. His BCHL scoring pace of 42 points in 26 games with the Victoria Grizzlies earned him a last-minute spot on Team Canada West, which won the World Junior A Challenge in November.
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Swimmer Blake Worsley, rower Derek O’Farrell, and swimmers Stephanie Horner and Alec Page pose atop the London flavoured double-decker bus with two dozen members of the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic teams. The Lift-off to London event celebrated athletes going to the London Olympics and Paralympics at the Fairmont Empress Hotel last Wednesday (June 20). Canada would be happy to beat its second best result from the Summer Olympics, which was seven golds and 18 medals in total from the 1992 Games in Barcelona. Canada’s top finish was
the 1984 Games in Los Angeles when it benefitted from the Soviet Union’s boycott, winning 10 golds and 44 medals in all, and ranking sixth place. sports@vicnews.com
Men’s eight on course Travis Paterson News staff
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Rowers Conlin McCabe and Rob Gibson of the men’s eight hope to defend their boat’s gold medal in London.
Drifting in late to the June 20 Liftoff to London event were members of the men’s eight boat. The crew raced in from the ferry, returning directly from a rowing stint on Burnaby Lake. Their absence from the formal introductions of the event was notable, and rightly so. They are the defenders of something precious, one of Canada’s three gold medals from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Their boat was recently featured in MacLeans and Sportsnet magazines, among others, and gets more attention than any other boat. Rob Gibson is one of six rowers
new to the crew since 2008, and is quick to complement coxswain Brian Price for handling the first wave of questions thrown at the team. “We’re lucky to have Price, and it’s good that he gets that focus,” Gibson said. “He doesn’t get enough of it.” The men’s eight will be the centre of attention once again this week as Rowing Canada will officially confirm its Victoria-based Olympic crews at Elk Lake on Thursday. Among the many crews to be named are David Calder and Scott Fransden of the men’s pair (heavyweight), and Patricia Obee and Lindsay Jennerich of the women’s double (lightweight). Canada Post will be on hand to release a commemorative stamp. sports@vicnews.com
With core changes happening to the Victoria Royals and the Victoria Grizzlies, and one of Saanich’s own getting drafted to the NHL, it’s like hockey season all over again. In the span of three days, from June 20 to 22, Memorial Cup winner Marc Habscheid resigned as coach and general manager of the WHL Royals; B.C. Hockey League legend Bill Bestwick was appointed as coach and GM of the Grizzlies; the Vancouver Canucks selected Saanich’s Wes Myron in the sixth round (177th) of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft; and two Royals were also drafted, Steven Hodges to the Florida Panthers, in the third round (84th) and Logan Nelson to the Buffalo Sabres in the fifth round (133rd). Hodges joins a long line of Royals/Chilliwack Bruins to be drafted, including a handful of Bruins who’ve dressed for NHL games, while Nelson wears the badge as the first player drafted from the Royals who didn’t play for Chilliwack. For Myron, getting drafted to the NHL is an extension of his sensational start to the 2011-12 season with the Grizzlies. If anything, the Lambrick Park grad should be seen as a poster boy for the benefits of a heavy offseason workout regime. Myron was near the top of the BCHL in scoring when he left for a school tour of Boston University and other NCAA universities in October. He came back just in time to help Team Canada West win the World Junior A challenge in mid-November, and then committed to Boston University. A shoulder injury ended his season 26 games in and was the beginning of the end of the Grizzlies’ season. But the Canucks and Boston University saw enough of what they liked. Habscheid’s resignation comes as a surprise. His family relocated to Victoria in 2011 so he could continue his role with the Royals, although he is not leaving the Royals’ family per se. He has taken an executive role as an advisor with GSL Holdings Ltd., which owns RG Properties Ltd. (owner of the Royals), Officepools.com, a successful hockey pool website, and the chain of Planet Ice community rinks in B.C. His successor will likely be named within a month. Across town, local finance man Ron Walchuk took majority ownership of the Grizz and hired Bestwick. sports@vicnews.com
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Rain delay The crummy weather which kept Union JumpShip spectators to a minimum on Friday and Saturday, lifted for a wellattended finale on Sunday. The Inner Harbour sparkled with spandex on Sunday as 1,650 Tour de Victoria cyclists finished in front of the legislature, adding to the thousands of cyclist fans who turned up for the last day of the Victoria International Cycling Festival. Bottom right: Jillian Legare and Meaghan Thorkelson come prepared for Saturday’s showers. The two were part of an enthusiastic crowd which braved the wind and rain that cancelled the JumpShip contest on Saturday.
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Rank 1 Ranger, Scott 2 Shattler, Jeff Benesch, Ryan Bremner, Cody Small, Corey 6 Veltman, Daryl 7 Stevens, Dane Iannucci, Athan 9 Gajic, Ilija Lowe, Derek Conway, Cory
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that creditors and others having claims against the estate of the above deceased are hereby required to send particulars thereof to Rhiannon Justine Busch, Executor named hereunder care of 1521 Amelia Street, Victoria, BC, V8W 2K1, on or before July 31, 2012, after which date the Executor will distribute the said estate among the parties entitled thereto having regard only to the claims of which the Executor then has notice. Rhiannon Justine Busch EXECUTOR by SJ Law Corporation HER SOLICITORS
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Duncan Centennial Totem Pole Project Request for Proposals Duncan Tourism Totem Sub-Committee/ Duncan Business Improvement Area Society The City of Duncan Tourism Totem Sub-Committee (City) and the Duncan Business Improvement Area Society (DBIAS) would like to commission a commemorative totem pole to celebrate Duncan’s centennial year. Master Artists with experience carving totem poles are encouraged to submit a proposal that meets the criteria laid out in this Request for Proposals.
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Design: Preference is for the Artist to incorporate Coast Salish aspects into the cedar carving. The story depicted will commemorate the 100 year history of the City of Duncan.
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Log Dimensions and Criteria: The cedar log measurements are to be minimally 30 ft. in length, 2 ft. in diameter at top, and 3 ft. at bottom. The log must be of exceptional quality.
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Model Totem Poles (maquettes): The applicant selected to carve the Totem Pole must carve and paint to scale, two 18 inch tall yellow cedar totem poles. The maquettes must be completed prior to beginning the carving of the 30 ft. pole. These will serve as models for the actual pole.
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Completion Date: The two 18 inch tall totem pole maquettes must be completed by October 1, 2012. A penalty up to 10% may be imposed upon failure to meet requirements and deadlines outlined in the RFP and the contract. A realistic timeline for completion of the 30 ft. totem pole must be included with the proposal. For full proposal requirements, please view at www.duncan.ca – Jobs, RFPs & Tenders Three (3) copies of the proposal should be received by 2:00 pm, local time, July 17, 2012 at the Duncan Business Improvement Area Society office, 203-111 Station Street, Duncan, BC, V9L 1M8.
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HELP WANTED Food Service Supervisor req’d. F/T, Pmt. 1-2 yrs. exp. Sal: $12/hr. Duties: Plan, organize, and control daily operations. Control inventory. Monitor revenues and modify prices. Make plans and implement them. Set work schedules and monitor staff performance. Supervise staff. Customer service oriented. Respond to customer complaints. May take customer orders and serve them. May receive payments. 2 Food Counter Attendant req’d. Sal: $10.50/hr. F/T (Even & Night). Pmt. Duties; Take customers orders. Prepare, heat & finish simple food items. Serve customers at counters. Clean electrical appliances. Peel, slice and trim foods. Portion and wrap foods. Package take-out food and receive payments from customer. Clean Tables and Chairs. Language: English required. Hindi/Punjabi will be an asset. Contact Subash from PM FOODS, Victoria BC. Contact: pmf.jobs@yahoo.ca or please fax: 250-590-7782
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BUILDING SUPPLIES METAL ROOFING & siding sales. Seconds avail. Custom roof Flashings. 250-544-3106.
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1992, 26 ft TRAVELAIRE, Class C Motorhome. Bright, clean, sleeps 4. Twin beds in back and fold down double bed. Excellent and clean condition. Full shower with skylight, gas generator, air conditioning, second owner, new internal batteries (worth $600), new water pump, only 91,300 km. Reliable, clean and functional. REDUCED to $14,250. (250) 748-3539 1992 MALLARD SPRINTER 30’ Class A, 109K, Loaded. 454 Chevy, Roof & Dash Air, Generator, Etc., Sleeps 6. Excellent Shape. $11,900 250-580-1152
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1999 BUICK REGAL 1 owner, 73,000 km, good condition. Always serviced at Dave Wheaton, Victoria. $3600. (250)384-4925.
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CONCRETE & PLACING RBC CONCRETE Finishing. All types of concrete work. No job too small. Seniors discount. Call 250-386-7007.
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FENCING ALL TYPES of fencing, repairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637. DECKS/FENCES, licensed & insured. Call Fred (250)5145280. thelangfordman.com
HANDYPERSONS AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.
ROMAX MASONRY. Exp’d & Professional. Chimneys, Brick Veneer, Rockwork, Cultured Stone, Interlocking Paving. Fully insured. Estimates. Call 250-588-9471 - 250-882-5181
BIG BEAR Handyman & Painting Services. No job too small. Free Estimates. Senior discounts. Barry 250-896-6071
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YOUNG SENIOR Handyman. Household repairs. Will assist do-it-yourselfers. Call Fred, 250-888-5345.
2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on local moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.
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DIAMOND MOVING. 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $85/hr. Call 250-220-0734.
#1 JUNK Removal & Hauling. Small Renos. Moving/Packing. Free estimates. Cheapest in town. Same day emergency removal. Call 250-818-4335.
MALTA MOVING. Serving Vancouver Island, surrounding islands and the Mainland. BBB Member. (250)388-0278.
$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.
SAMRA & Sons Excavating, Perimeter Drains, Driveway and Landscaping Preps. Call Randy 250-881-6365.
WEEDING, PRUNING, hedges, hauling, etc. $25/hr, free est. Senior Discounts. Call Steve (250)727-0481.
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EWING’S MOVING & Hauling. Apartment & Condo relocation specialist. $80/hr. Call Dave at 250-857-2864.
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FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.
A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wallcoverings. Over 25 yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.
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COLOURS & IDEAS. Exterior/ Interior Painting. All work waranteed. Call (250)208-8383.
FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & delivery. References available. 250-475-1462.
OLD TIMER. Quality old fashioned service. Great rates. Excellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.
U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-216-8997.
J&L GARDENING Specialty yard clean-up and maintenance. Master gardeners. John or Louise (250)891-8677
BATHROOM REMODELING. “Gemini Baths” Plumb, Elec. Tile, Cabinets. 250-896-9302.
250-208-8535 WOODCHUCK: Neglected garden? Spring clean-ups, hedges, power raking, aerating, weed/moss stump, blackberry & ivy removal. 24yrs exp. WCB. ARE YOU in need of a professional, qualified, residential or commercial gardener? www. glenwood gardenworks.com
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STEREO/TV/DVD WANTED: DVD PLAYER. Please call 250-514-6688.
STUCCO/SIDING PATCHES, ADDITIONS, restucco, renos, chimney, waterproofing. Bob, 250-642-5178. RE-STUCCO & HARDY Plank/Painting Specialist. 50 years experience. Free estimates. Dan, 250-391-9851.
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250-216-9476 FROM the Ground Up, custom landscapes, home reno’s, garden clean-ups, accepting clients.
PRESSURE WASHING DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.
BLAINE’S PAINTING- Quality workmanship. $20 hr, 20 yrs exp. Blaine, 250-580-2602.
QUALITY CEDAR fencing, decks and installation, pressure washing. For better prices & quotes call Westcoast Fencing. 250-588-5920.
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(250) 858-0588 - Tree Service - Landscaping - Lawn & Garden Clean ups - Hedge trimming & Pruning - Pressure washing - Gutters Free estimates * WCB www.mowtime.ca
BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini excavator & bob cat services. Perimeter drains, driveway prep, Hardscapes, Lot clearing. Call 250-478-8858.
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CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood floor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877
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YARD ART. Yard Maintenance, Tree & Hedge Pruning, Lawn Care. Call 250-888-3224
GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS 250-889-5794. DIAMOND DAVE Gutter Cleaning. Thorough Job at a Fair Price! Repairs, gutter guard, power/window washing, roof de-moss. Free no obligation estimates. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, Guards, windows, powerwashing, roof de-moss, repairs. Insured. Call (250)507-6543.
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TREE SERVICES LOCAL TREE CO. 30 yrs exp. Bucket truck, chipper. We buy logs. Insured. (250)883-2911.
WINDOW CLEANING BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning. Power Washing, Gutters. 25 yrs. 250-884-7066, 381-7127. DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning. Windows, Gutters, Sweeping, Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pressure Washing. 250-361-6190. GLEAMING WINDOWS Gutters+De-moss. Free estimate. 18 yrs. Brian, 514-7079. WCB. NORM’S WINDOW cleaning & gutters. Reasonable rates. 250-590-2929, 250-812-3213.
WINDOWS ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Windows Wholesale, Discounts! 50 years Construction experience. 250-382-3694.
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Victoria Human Exchange Society client Amber Sandford sits in her bedroom after working on her English homework. ing ‌ but if we don’t get some help soon, we are going to have to close a house and it will be this one.� Costs are up, she says, and donations are down. The society has monthly bills for rent and utilities of about $20,000 – the same amount the society receives annually from a provincial gaming grant. With so much reliance on donations, the society’s eight houses – including three in Greater Victoria, one in Nanaimo and another on Salt Spring Island – currently operate month-to-month. Volunteers are often picking up the bill for household necessities, Linda says. Making a strong case for transitional housing is Amber Sandford, who has spent the morning studying in the bedroom she rents at Edith
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Gulland House. The exact location of the home is confidential due to security issues for clients. Sandford, who’s all smiles and jokes from behind her laptop, has been that person in need of an affordable, non-judgmental place to stay. At 35, she’s spent the majority of her years entrenched in substance abuse and the sex trade. After a yearlong stay at the four-bedroom house, with Linda at the helm, Sandford is 18 months clean and sober. Her plan is to leave the house soon to live on her own. “I was a junkie hoe and within the year I’m going to be a Grade 12 grad going to Camosun (College),� she says. “Where am I going to be five years from now?� Sandford attributes the positive changes to a support team comprised of Narcotics Anonymous members, her father, and Linda – who she admires for her complete intolerance of alcohol, drugs or theft in the house. “This has given me a place where
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Lb
3
69 Lb
Chicken Wingettes Lilydale Frying Air Chilled 8.13 Kg
3
69
Hallmark Top Choice I.Q.F. Boneless & Skinless 6.35 Kg 4 Kg Box/Works out to $25.40 a Box
2
88 lb
5
Buns
2
99
Raspberries
4/$
s (OT $OG s (AMBURGER Fairway 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pack
BC Grown Pint Weather Permitting
2
Corn on the Cob
ea
5/$
California No. 1 Fresh
Lb
Fresh! Fresh!
Fresh!
Pork Tenderloin Canadian Premium Grain Fed Whole Boneless 10.76 Kg
4
Marinating Steak
88
Eye of Round Boneless Premium AAA Beef Aged Min. 14 Days 8.80 Kg
Lb
Snapper Fillets
&RESH 0ACIlC 5.85 Lb
Previously Frozen 8.58 Lb
Dutch Boy Assorted 250 Gram Jar
J U N E /J U LY W E D 2 0 12 27
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129 189 499
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Maple Lodge 450 Gram Package
Maple Lodge Frozen Assorted 908 Gram Box
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28 29 30
3
99
Australia Beef Boneless 10.98 Kg
4
98 lb
Lb
SUN
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1
2
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2
99
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Tomatoes
99
Extra Large Beefsteak BC Grown Canada No. 1 2.18 Kg
ea
Watermelon
2
99
53 .O -INI Seedless Whole
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99
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599
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599
Mozzarella Cheese Bari 454 Gram Package
Romaine Lettuce
French Fries McCain Red Bag Assorted 1 Kg Bag
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2
79
4
99
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Cracker Barrel Cheese Kraft Assorted 600-700 Gram Pkg
5
99
8
99
Ice Cream Novelties Popsicle Breyers 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Frozen Hashbrowns McCain 1 Kg Bag
California No. 1 Whole
2/$
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4
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ea
53 'ROWN #ERTIlED /RGANIC 1 Lb Bag
69
BC Grown Fresh
2/$
3
Gorge Centre 272 Gorge Road West, Victoria Shelbourne Plaza 3651 Shelbourne St., Victoria Athlone Court 2187 Oak Bay Ave., Oak Bay Quadra Street Village 2635 Quadra St., Victoria
We help make your Long Weekend special!
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Strawberries California Grown No. 1 #ERTIlED /RGANIC 1 Lb Clamshell
2
99
Spinach 53 'ROWN #ERTIlED /RGANIC
2/$
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1521 McKenzie at Cedar Hill Rd., Victoria Westshore Town Centre 2945 Jacklin Rd., Langford Sidney-By-The-Sea 2531 Beacon Ave., Sidney Brentwood Bay Village 7108 W. Saanich Rd., Brentwood
3
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Bullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-Eye Assorted 425 mL Bottle
5
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359 Chicken Wieners 169 Marinated Chicken Wings 1199 Maple Lodge 375 Gram Package
100 G
Pickled Herring
Lb
Lilydale Frying Air Chilled 8.80 Kg
Strip Loin Grilling Steak
Chicken Bacon
100 G
Calico Scallops
3
99
Chicken Drumettes
3
99
2/$
4
Pickles
Marshmallows
Ketchup
Bickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Premium Selected 1 Litre Jar
Kraft 400 Gram Bag
s %ASY 3QUEEZE s 2EGULAR Heinz 750 mL - 1 Litre Bottle
2
99
1
99
3
99
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4
99
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3
99 Medium Grain Rice 15 Lb Bag 3EKKA s 7HITE s "ROWN
s 3YRUP 460-700 mL Nesquik s 0OWDER 540-750 G s )CED 4EA Nestea, Good Host 640 Gram - 1 Kg Tin
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4
99
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1
79
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10
4/$
Ice Cream
Cocktail
s 6ANILLA 0LUS s #HOCOLATE 0LUS Island Farms 1.65 Litre Carton
s 'ARDEN s #LAMATO Mottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1.89 Litre Bottle + Dep
Bathroom Tissue
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Cookies
Pasta
s $OUBLE 2OLL s %NVIROCARE $OUBLE 2OLL s 5LTRA $OUBLE 2OLL Purex
5NICO !SSORTED 796 mL Tin
Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Assorted 600 Gram Package
5NICO !SSORTED 700-900 Gram Package
5
99
5
4/$
3
49
4
99
4
2/$
Rhubarb Strawberry Pie 550 Gram Each
2/$
6
Salad Dressing Kraft Assorted 414-475 mL Bottle
2
99
3
99
s 7HITE s 7HOLE 7HEAT Fairway 570 Gram Loaf
4/$
Long Grain Rice 4EXANA s 7HITE s "ROWN 2 Kg Bag
Bread
5
1299
Cranberry Trail Mix Per 100 Gram
4
99
Sauces Golden Dragon 455 mL Btl Selected Varieties Only
Ramyun Noodle Bowl Nong Shim 117 Gram Bowl
79
¢
Crystalized Ginger Per 100 Gram
249 99
¢
1
79
Pocky & Pretz Sticks Glico 126-175 Gram Pkg
Fruit Flavour Ice Bars Melona 8 x 80 mL
Scotch Mints Dare Per 100 Gram
349 3
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49
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - VICTORIA
You’ll feel like family!
C Cherries O U N $297 T R Whole Y Watermelon V $397 A L • Sesame White U • 100 Whole Wheat E WASHINGTON
6.55 Kg.
NEW CROP
CALIFORNIA
Each
EAT CANADIAN at Country Grocer er We have been working with Agriculture Canada and Agri-Food Canada to identify food products found in the store that are grown by Canadian farmers or manufactured by Canadian Companies. Look for this symbol around your favourite Country Grocer.
LUCERNE
Ice Cream
$ 97
2
1.89 L Limit 3 Total
GOODHOST
Iced Tea Mix Big 2.35 Kg
$ 77
7
Limit 2
KRAFT
Singles Processed Cheese Product
$ 97
5
1 Kg Limit 1
FROZEN
Basa Fillets
DEMPSTER'S %
Watch for our
FLYER
EVERY FRIDAY
in select Saanich News, Victoria News, Goldstream News Gazette & Peninsula News Review
2/ 4
$ 00
600 g Limit 4 Total
$ 97
5
908 g
PUFF' N SOFT
Bathroom Tissue
$
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3/ 10
12 Double Roll Limit 6
Proudd to bbe serving Victoria since 1986 Photos are for illustrative purposes only. Deposits and/or environmental fees extra where applicable. We reserve the right to limit quantities.
Specials in effect Wednesday June 27th- Saturday June 30th, 2012
4420 West Saanich Rd, Royal Oak • 1153 Esquimalt Rd, Victoria Open Daily 8am - 10pm
Offers valid at Royal Oak and Esquimalt Country Grocer locations only.
NEWS