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Global changes affect tourism, delegates told Pirjo Raits Sooke News Mirror

The convention centre was full to capacity with delegates who came for the 2012 Tourism Vancouver Island 49th Annual Conference and AGM at the Prestige Oceanfront Resort. The sold out event featured keynote speakers, plenary and concurrent sessions and local community activities. Keynote speaker at the lunch on Wednesday afternoon was MLA Pat Bell, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training. His address focused on the changes coming globally which will affect tourism in British Columbia. He said there is as much change coming in the next five to six years as there has been in the last 35 years. “It will be the largest shift of capital that has ever happened on Earth... it is happening every single second,” said Bell. He was referring to the economy in China, India and Korea and the impact and opportunity it will have on tourism. He said in about eight years the Chinese economy will surpass that of the United States. “There are 300 million middle class Chinese looking to go for a great holiday.” In their own country, he said, they live on top of each other and they are looking for those very unique experiences we have to offer. “Change is on us and it is happening at a pace never

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Delegates for the 49th annual Tourism Vancouver Island met in Sooke. Among the keynote speakers was MLA Pat Bell, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training, below. se before,” said Bell. seen He said it was crucial for Br British Columbia to captu that value presented in ture fro of us. To be successfront fu and compete in tourism, ful w need to be aggressive, we he said. His number one message w to really think about was th change occurring on the th planet and to build new the st strategies. “Figure out what it is you do better than anyone else... an stay very very focussed and on core values.” He mentioned our st strengths and differences in the tourism industry that co could set us apart from the ot other countries which com-

pe for tourist dollars. pete Areas where British Co Columbia shines are in w winter sports such as skiin all-season conventions, ing, ab aboriginal tourism, eco-adve venture tourism, city states an touring. and He said no one comes to Br British Columbia specifically fo aboriginal tourism, but for ab about 35 per cent of those ex experiencing part of that cultu plan to return for it. ture The wide open spaces an scenery in the province and se very well to upscale sells to tourists who can afford a be better vacation. “As nice as it is to stand on top of a mountain, some w would rather get there by he helicopter,” said Bell. Bell recognized some of th problems faced with BC the Fe Ferries and he said the provi ince is spending $70 million to reduce fare increases. He said a goal has been set to build tourism into an $18 billion business and this could be accomplished because of the massive shift of wealth and the fact that “we are perfectly located.” In 2012 there was a 26-27 per cent growth in Chinese tourism. Bell said it was important to be more culturally aware and how to present to the Chinese market, as this would be the next wave of tourists coming to B.C. His final recommendation was, in order to protect “small business” it was important to participate and join in with associations such as chambers of commerce and tourism associations. Spencer Chandra Herbert,

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MLA for Vancouver WestEnd and the NDP Critic for Tourism, Culture and Gaming, spoke earlier Wednesday on the future of tourism as the opposition sees it. He said Tourism BC should be brought back to an industry led formula funded body. “Instead of bureaucrats and politicians running it,” he said. He also called for better support for the BC Parks system along with arts and culture. He had concerns around ferry fares and the impact it has had on tourism in B.C. He said people has a “hunger to see what the NDP would do” in regard to tourism. He said the Sooke area had it all — everything from culinary, eco, historical, cultural and marine tourism. “The area has it all, it’s good for the residents, it’s good for tourists.” When asked what the NDP would do, he said said the last three years under this government has been chaos, the HST is hurting tourism and small business and local tourism need to be heard. “We need to reinstate the industry leadership so industry can plan more than one year in advance,” he said. Better skills and training are needed to will ensure young people or older folks can change occupations later in life. Affordable education is needed in these cases, he said. “Tourism is challenged regardless of government,” he said.

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Up Sooke CRAFT SEASON TABLES THE ALL SOOKE Arts and Crafts show in November still has a few places left for our non-profit groups downstairs. PLEASE CONTACT NANCY Bennett at nvbennett@shaw.ca for details.

OOPS! THE GREMLINS ARE at work and somehow Ardy Wickheim’s name keeps getting misspelled. WE APOLOGIZE FOR incorrectly spelling his name twice! First it was Andy and then Arby, sorry Ardy.

TOUR DE ROCK TODAY THE COPS FOR Cancer Tour de Rock riders will be in Sooke today at 1:55 p.m. COME OUT AND support those who have raised funds by shaving their heads and holding fundraising events over the past year. THE RIDERS WILL be at Ecole Poirier elementary school on Throup Road.

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Fiesty, independent senior turns 100 Sharron Ho

doesn’t look a day over 70, has all of her own teeth, rarely visits the doctor and lives independently. “I do all my own housework, and I cook,” she said. “That’s what keeps me young and strong and active.” Housework for Warr, in her Ayre Manor cottage, is just about everything, including vacuuming, cleaning the window panes and washing the dishes. The active senior spends her days doing her house work, shopping and going out with friends. Up until last year, Warr even crocheted bed spreads to sell. Neighbour Bertha

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An Ayre Manor resident celebrated one of the greatest milestones in life on Sept. 30. Joanne Warr turned a 100 years old on Sunday, and by her side were family and friends to celebrate. The grand occasion was marked with two birthday parties over the weekend, which followed a seniors’ trip to Coombs and Port Alberni. “I’ll take the rest of the year to rest,” Warr jokingly stated, adding she was honoured people took the time to celebrate her birthday. The senior, who

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Babies, 82, has known Warr for 20 years and recalled days when Warr would have a dinner plate ready for her with hearty, homestyle food after she returned home from work. “She’s a wonderful lady,” Babies said. “She’s loved by everybody up there.” Spry, with a good sense of humour, Warr said the secret to her youth and health is the freedom of being single. “I don’t have a man to worry me to death,” Warr laughed. “People say, ‘Joanne, do you have a boyfriend yet?’ and my answer is, ‘Do you know anyone who’s desperate?’

The Massachusettes native married her first husband at the age of 29, whom she remained married to for 23 years until his death. The couple travelled around the United States for three years before she had her first and only child. Warr arrived in Sooke in 1983, and has resided in Ayre Manor ever since. “I would never leave (Sooke),” Warr said, adding she loves the West Coast. When asked what Warr had planned for the next year, she stated she would relax in her recliner chair and enjoy game shows on television.

Scaled down project can now proceed After five years developer can start building Pirjo Raits Sooke News Mirror

A proposed $60 million development of 150 housing units along Sooke Road back in 2009 never got off the ground. It was billed as Sooke Bay Luxury Condominiums and was expected to bring about $15 million and 100 jobs into the local economy. At issue was access to the property on Drennan Street, which resulted in a lawsuit against the district. Anthony Mormino stated that then-director of planning Marlaina Elliot assured him that access would be granted if he agreed to a covenant waiving his right to access off

Sooke Road. The Ministry of Transportation would not allow access off Sooke Road for that many units. Mormino, and his associates at the time, had originally planned only 52 units but with the higher density the district wanted to see in that area of Sooke, his rezoning application was amended to allow for 130 units. So he went along with a plan for 150 luxury condominiums. Elliot maintained she did not promise access off Drennan Street. Update September 2012. Anthony Mormino, the current owner/ developer of the 2.7 hectare property, has decided to go back to where he was in 2006 when he acquired the property at 6402 and 6418 Sooke Road. He is proposing to build a 52-unit multifamily townhouse development in seven

clusters. District of Sooke council granted Mormino approval for a Development Permit at council on Sept. 10. The permit represents a commitment by the district to process and finalize a settlement to the legal challenge. Mormino said via email that Sooke had problems with “city approvals and last

minute add on requirements not even called for in the bylaws.” Mormino, states he has not started any construction and is waiting until spring to reassess the market. “Our built out project should bring in about $16 to $18 million in sales. A far cry from $65 million for the killed condo project. But still an awful lot

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also waiting until spring 2013 to re-assess when it is a good time to break ground. “Obviously if I had received my approvals and building permits from Sooke in 2007, or even on 2008 I would have built out phase one by now, and be working on phase two of the condo project by now,” said Mormino.

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Decriminalize but not legalize pot UBCM votes to send message to Ottawa on decriminilization of marijuana Pirjo Raits Sooke News Mirror

Mayor Wendal Milne wants people to know the vote to decriminalize marijuana at the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UNBC) held last week in Victoria is about decriminalization, not legalization. “I support decriminalization for possession of marijuana,” said Milne after the conference on Friday. He went on to say that the resulting bureaucratic paperwork was onerous and a criminal record for simple possession was not warranted.

“It shouldn’t be legal, we’re not making it legal, we are decriminalizing it,” reiterated Milne. He said selling marijuana would still be a criminal offense, but he didn’t think a kid should have a lifelong criminal record for smoking a joint. He did not think marijuana should be used opening around schools or on the streets. The resolution brought forward by the District of Metchosin to be send to the federal government states: WHEREAS marijuana prohibition is a failed policy which has cost millions of dollars in police, court, jail and social costs; AND WHEREAS the decriminalization and regulation of marijuana would provide tax revenues: THEREFORE BE IT

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RESOLVED that UBCM call on the appropriate government to decriminalize marijuana and research the regulation and taxation of marijuana. Those who voted in favour of the resolution join a number of former and current mayors, the Health Officers Council of B.C., and four former B.C. attorneys generals who have been calling for an end to marijuana prohibition. Mayor Milne found

his first UBCM experience to be good. He said there were lots of resources available in relation to economic development, jobs, economy, etc., from the present elected government. Networking was useful in that he got to talk to other councils and mayors from municipalities of the same size as Sooke. “They have some of the same problems,” he said. “We don’t have to re-invent the wheel.” He said cooperation and getting to know people was probably the biggest thing he learned at the conference. The mayors of B.C. municipalities have gotten together for a Mayors’ Caucus and Milne said there are so many issues they all have in common. One of them is long term infrastruc-

ture and funding and waiting for funding from the higher levels of government. He said a lot can be done electronically as bringing all the mayors together would be expensive and time consuming. Milne said the mayors are saying just because an election is coming up doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get a say on what their priorities are. They need to get back to basics. He mentioned things such as, receiving funding for “beautification” projects rather than more substantial projects. He mentioned a grant of $250,000 for a trail alongside Throup Road which would be lost if not completed, but the district needs the road first, not the trail.” All in all, said Milne, it was a good experience.

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Sooke has joined the movement for green and sustainable transportation with the addition of two electrical vehicle (EV) charging stations. The Prestige Oceanfront Resort is now home to a high-powered, 90 amp, EV charger, which will be open for public use, according to manager, Benjamin Leversedge. The same charging station will also be installed at the Sooke Harbour House. As a business that touts sustainability, Sooke Harbour House co-owner, Sinclair Philip, said the EV char-

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Fred Wissemann, of the Victoria LEAF club, charges up his 2012 Nissan Leaf. ger was a no brainer. “We’ve always supported cars that advance the interest of our community in an

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available to the public. Both EV charging stations were installed by Sun Country Highway, which has developed a network of 500 charging stations across Canada. Rob MacGregor, B.C. regional director for Sun Country Highway, said the company deemed Vancouver Island the most EV friendly region in Canada in July, after the company added a network of 18 charging stations. “You can drive to Victoria, actually right through to Newfoundland on our EV charging infrastructure -- right across the country on Highway 1,” he said. MacGregor predicts that the momentum

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A man who committed a string of handyman scams across Greater Victoria will spend another year behind bars. On Thursday in Victoria provincial court, judge Robert Higinbotham sentenced Glen French to 12 months for each of the 10 counts of fraud under $5,000, to be served concurrently. That’s added to his three months in jail already served, due to his bail being revoked when he fled to Ontario. Striking a curious image as a 62-year-old with tattoos crawling around his bald head, French sat quietly through the proceedings and said nothing. None of the victims attended court. Crown prosecutor Jocelyn Byrne described French, a Sooke resident, as a habitual con artist and liar, who entered into professional looking contracts with his victims for home handy-

man jobs, collected some money up-front, and either didn’t complete the work or ever start the job. In many cases French used the excuse that his father had died to skip out on work, Byrne said. In one case, French ran into one of his victims at a hardware store in Victoria after claiming he would be out of town at his father’s funeral. When his customers demanded he finish the work or return the down payment, he often turned viciously aggressive and threatened his victims with lawsuits. “Every victim who met Mr. French, despite him being covered in tattoos, said he seemed like a very nice guy and people liked him,” Byrne noted. The scams took place in 2009 and early 2010 in Saanich, Victoria, Esquimalt and the West Shore. Byrne said that many of the victims reported their individual conflicts with French to their local police, but were told it amounted to a civil contract dispute. The Saanich police suspected a pattern of fraud when it started investigating French in 2009. “In every case people were told it was a civil matter. That’s how

he got away with it for so long,” Byrne said. “Thank goodness the Saanich police fraud section ... looked at the bigger picture. In all these cases they proved fraud, and that there was no intent to finish the work.” French had already been convicted of fraud in Edmonton in 2006 and Saskatoon in 1992. The Better Business Bureau in Alberta and Saskatchewan had issued warnings about French regarding his home renovation and snow removal services. The court also heard that French’s daughter and ex-wife had given statements to police regarding his stream of scams and falsehoods, and had requested a no contact order. He is also estranged from his son. “At 62 years of age, through his own fault, this man finds himself alone on the planet. His family has disowned him. He only has himself to blame. It’s a sad situation,” said Tom Morino, French’s lawyer. “He understands he is deserving of incarceration.” “I think the sadness here is for the victims,” Higinbotham retorted. “Each trusted Mr. French and trusted him with funds in advance. “I commend the constable from the Saan-

ich police for putting this together ... if she hadn’t, this (fraud) would certainly be still going on.” Const. Karen Phillips with the Saanich police financial crime unit said Const. Jerome Rozitis took complaints about French from a number of people, and was the first to notice a possible pattern of fraud. “Rozitis felt it was something that needed to be looked at,” Phillips said. “It was surprising, it was quite a number (of victims).” Phillips said she worked with the Victoria Better Business Bureau to locate people alleging they’d been ripped off by French. Victim statements and evidence was instrumental in establishing the larger, indisputable pattern of wrongdoing, she said. “Most of the people did their due diligence and checked references. Sometimes that can fall through the cracks,” Phillips said. “It’s not their fault. It’s good people came forward. This case will help prevent others.” French will have two years of probation after being released from prison, which includes not being allowed to advertise services as a handyman and not being allowed to run a

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A little of this, a little of that How does one dispose of disposables when there is no disposal site? Not in the bushes outside of Sooke. Not in the private dumpsters which someone forgot to lock, and surely not in a marsh or riparian area. Marshes are the lungs of the land around it, there is lots of “life” there. A petition has been circulating around Sooke for support for a local company’s bid to get land out of the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). There has to be somewhere to locate a “private” disposal business that would not impact nature. How about the land close to ...if necessary the sewer treatment plant? If that is even a possibility. — fire some Let’s keep all the waste together in one spot where and hire it can be monitored and some... cleaned up as needed. Because no one will want it close to their homes. Customer service, or lack thereof, is one of the biggest complaints we hear from visitors to Sooke. Businesses should take the time to train their staff on decorum (no texting or chatting with friends while working, for example), friendliness, appropriateness and the old adage, “the customer is always right.” One shouldn’t have to ask to place an order. If wait staff wonder why they don’t make much in tips, there may be a real reason, not just stinginess on the customer’s part. If a business is losing customers, then the owners/managers need to access the reasons why and if necessary — fire some and hire some. Sooke is an amazing place but people will not return if they are ignored, treated rudely or kept waiting. We may call ourselves the “Volunteer Capital of Canada” how about we work at also calling ourselves the “Friendliest Town in Canada?”

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Leaders’ spin contest ends in tie B.C. Views The Union of B.C. Municipalities convention is the political event of the year for B.C. party leaders, especially heading into a provincial election. Up first was NDP leader Adrian Dix, who drew a large crowd of local politicians last week for the traditional early-morning spot that follows a long evening of receptions. In contrast to his debut last year, a typical litany of political attacks on the B.C. Liberals, Dix declared he would take the high road. And perhaps mindful of Carole James’ downfall after her content-free speech to the 2010 UBCM convention, Dix set out policies. He told delegates an NDP government would restore local authority over Metro Vancouver transit (no more toothless “mayor’s council”) and mountain resorts (no more Jumbo ski resort permits issued over local objections). Dix would also let communities decide if they want publicprivate partnerships for large construction projects. (Federal Heritage Minister James Moore later noted that if communities or provinces wish to decline federal funds due to this ideology, they are free to do so.) Then Dix accused the B.C. Liberals of cutting forest inventory spending by 77 per cent over the last decade, meaning decisions like

rebuilding the Burns Lake mill are being made “in the dark” for the first time in a century. That’s a damning charge, so I checked it against forest ministry budget records. As with all government programs, accounting changes can give a misleading appearance of large cuts or increases from year to year. And indeed forest inventory spending has bounced around during the B.C. Liberal term. The budget for forest inventory staffing and operation was about $8 million in 2001-02, rising as high as $15 million and falling to a low of $5.1 million in recession-hit 2009-10. The estimate for the current fiscal year is $9.7 million, an increase to try to catch up with the pine beetle disaster. Crown forest inventory has indeed fallen behind due to rapid shifts caused by unprecedented insect and fire damage. But has spending been slashed as Dix claims? No. It has increased. Next up was Premier Christy Clark, in full campaign mode. In the Gordon Campbell tradition, she brought the goodies out in her speech to close the convention. More than $200 million has been scraped together to “accelerate” capital projects at schools, hospitals and other facilities across the province. These projects were already on the books, but they’ve been moved up for obvious political

purposes. Or at least the announcements will be moved up. Four-laning of the last narrow stretches of the Trans-Canada Highway east of Kamloops will continue over 10 years. This is a federal-provincial project that will eventually be finished regardless of who is governing in Victoria or Ottawa. It includes some of the most staggeringly expensive road building in Canada, in the Kicking Horse Pass, a short section that could require two tunnels and up to 12 more bridges. Clark also announced a long-range plan to replace the George Massey tunnel under the Fraser River. It will likely be a bridge, because the tunnel is a bottleneck not only for Highway 99, but also for large ships going up-river. This is another project that will proceed eventually, and there is no specific financial commitment yet. I haven’t found any outright false claims in Clark’s presentation, just the kind of creative accounting and blacktop politics familiar to B.C. voters. As always, I’m pleased to hear from people with specific corrections. For now, call it a tie. Neither speech represents a proud moment for our provincial leadership. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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We asked: What is your favourite Thanksgiving memory?

Just the whole family getting together and sitting around the table and enjoying our time together with good food and good company.

When I was a little kid and our cat ate our turkey.

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Open letter to DFO Dear Ms. Lapcevic, Thank you very much for taking the trouble to reply to my e-mail of concern about the proposed de-commissioning of the Bill James Dam. Unfortunately your attached letter raises more questions than it purports to answer. I am particularly puzzled by the somewhat vague and imprecise statement, “DFO have confirmed that the Bill James Dam Reservoir is not adequate to fulfill its intended purpose of storing sufficient water to augment the water flows in De Mamiel Creek.” What does “not adequate” mean? Presumably the dam does augment the flow by some non-zero amount. If so, how much flow will be lost by decommissioning? In low flows, every small incremental amount will make a difference. So how many juvenile fish will be lost which would have otherwise survived in spite of the “inadequacy?” If the dam was/is “not adequate” when it was built, why was it originally approved and why did DFO apply for and hold water licenses C0064007 and C114928? Was the dam “adequate” then but “not adequate” now? What can possibly have changed? In truth, your last sentence reveals the real reason this dam is being removed. “ Please note that under Section

When we used to go out at Thanksgiving back in Ontario and go out shopping the last of the roadside stands for apples and corn and the last of the tomatoes.

I wouldn’t have a favourite, it’s just always spending time with family.

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On Sept. 28 Jasmine Excavating will finish the first phase of creating the wetlands pond and garden for Sooke Food CHI at Sunriver Community Gardens. Once the autumn rains arrive native plantings will begin with volunteers and members of T’Sou-ke First Nation. Plants and shrubs will be those used for native cultural uses, healing and edibles. All the soils excavated have been left on the site for future allotment and growing plots. The Sunriver garden folks are very pleased with the way this project is evolving, thanks to a community grant of $3,500 from the District of Sooke.

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green bags and then left them all on either side of the pathway. It was quite a sight. Some walkers were appalled, some looked puzzled, others including myself, felt it was an admirable statement drawing attention to just how many piles of dog poop get abandoned down there in one day. I also appreciated the diligence of the person who took on this task and then removed all the ‘bags of honour’ the following day. Many people do pick up, but it’s always the few who don’t who spoil it for everyone. Hopefully it will inspire more dog owners to perform this simple task of cleaning up after their pets and thus keep our beach and community more wholesome for everyone one else. Carol Harding Sooke

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Cont’d on page 10 4(1) of the Water Act of BC Dam Safety regulations, DFO has received approval to decommission Bill James Dam.” The dam has fallen victim to a paranoid and misguided bureaucratic decision that there is somehow a safety concern with this dam. It is a tragedy for our fish resources, and for all the people who worked hard to create approve and build this dam. If the dam is “not

adequate” to augment the stream flows in Demamiel Creek it must certainly be “not adequate” to present any measurable risk to life or property. In addition, there is a gentle incline to Young Lake which also moderates the flows. As many people have noted, this is a short sighted and stupid move. Instead of working to save and rejuvenate the legacy and investment, and hard work of many who

have gone before, DFO can only destroy it. It is utterly stupefying and very, very sad. Dr. Roland M. Alcock Sooke

Keep it clean Down on the Whiffin Spit on Thursday someone must have spent an hour or two picking up about 80 bags of dog poop in matching little

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Cont’d from page 9 for about three years and I do not have a dog. Sooke has a big dog community, probably because there are a lot of trails and beautiful terrain. I have two children and I like letting them off the leash once and a while so they can run around too. Luckily, my oldest is potty trained and my youngest is still in diapers. Can you imagine if we went on a long outdoor walk and heaven forbid, my little one soiled her diaper? What would happen if I changed the dirty diaper and just left it on the trail, under a bush, tossed into someone’s backyard, or beside the mail box bin? I would hope someone would reprimand me because that is disgusting, unsanitary and not to mention littering. Or better yet, please feel free to

public humiliate me. Changing poopy diapers couldn’t possibly be compared to picking up dog poop, could it? Not even close. Picking up a pile of static poop with a hand inside a plastic bag is like a piece of cake (only warmer)… but I digress. On our walks I often see little brown plastic bags tied in a bow just sitting on the ground. I walked around my block tonight and counted six mysterious brown plastic poop bags along our path. That is not an accident. Has it become trendy now to be rude and inconsiderate? To all the dog owners out there, please enlighten me; why go to all the trouble of bending down and scooping the compostable waste into a non-biodegradable bag, to then just leave the bag sitting on the ground. I do not understand this dichot-

LETTERS omy. It must be part laziness and part stupidity. And to all those responsible dog owners that just let their dogs’ poop biodegrade into the sidewalk-bravo to you. Do I have to ask? Please, can you stop littering our beautiful town with plastic poop? Elisa Jensen Sooke

Be CO aware I find it strange that the Sooke News Mirror would dedicate its entire front page (Sept. 19) to the Utopian dogmatic propaganda that the Ministry of Environment is serving in response to a province-wide problem of too many black bears in rural communities.

“We have to live with bears because we can’t shoot them all and move them all. Reactive destruction of bears entering our communities is not a viable or sustainable solution to the problem.” I completely disagree. The C.O.and Bear Aware spokespeople admit they are complete failures, “prior to the bear aware program, Sooke did not have resources available to local residents who come into contact with bears,” and they still don’t. Your animal conflict call goes through the R.A.P.P. line. The call is compared to what is called a “decision tree.” What other enforcement agency in B.C. responds to less than 20 per cent of its calls?

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They do not advise residents of dangerous animals or if they’ve been removed. One way to guarantee a CO to show up is to say you’ve shot one. What for years was known as a control action is now “hunting.” By definition, hunting now includes jumping up and down and screaming at the offending predator to leave. Fact: Habituated bears are more dangerous to people. We have leash laws and dangerous dog laws but these urbane insane minions at the MOE want us to coexist with wild animals. It has never worked historically, its not working now and it won’t work in the future. Managing your attractants is not going to stop the bear population from grow-

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The Hartland Landﬁll Facility will be closed on Thanksgiving, Monday, October 8, 2012. Hartland will reopen on Tuesday, October 9 from 9 am to 5 pm. Registered account customers will have access to the active face from 7 to 9 am.

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For an honest and true reÀection on Thanksgiving consider this: do you consider yourself blest? And when you reÀect on those blessings and then go deeper might you ¿nd that you are a privileged person in a country where people go hungry? Do you then ¿nd that there is no peace, real true peace for you when others are going hungry? You counted yourself one of the lucky ones, until you reÀect further and realize that while poverty is present, anywhere, that you can`t be lucky, for that would mean you are miserable without seeing your own misery. This type of a reÀection on Thanksgiving leaves you with a choice: either rejoice at doing well when you know others are doing very, very poorly or harden your heart. If we are deeply honest we know that far too many of us have learned to harden our hearts; we’ve actually forgotten what has happened. We have successfully taught ourselves that we are where we are in life because of our own abilities or, that we have been rewarded for our virtues and good works. Worse still are those who think the poor are stupid people; they`ve brought poverty upon themselves and therefore are deserving of their plight. And there`s the division: complacency from the haves and desperation from the have nots. During this time of Thanksgiving, let us not fall into the cliche of “we will always have the poor with us” but rather concentrate on just one thing that we can do that will effect the beginning of the change we desire. That is if we are having a real honest and true refection on Thanksgiving, then we can thank God!

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KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 2110 Church Rd | 250-642-4124 SUNDAY SERVICE 10:15 am Pre-Service Singing 10:30 am Family worship Rev. Dr Gordon Kouwenberg Parents Room and well equipped Nursery

SOOKE BAPTIST CHURCH 7110 West Coast Road | 250-642-3424 SUNDAY SERVICE 10:00 am Children, youth & adult ministries Pastor Dwight Geiger Email sookebaptistchurch@telus.net

ST. ROSE OF LIMA Roman Catholic Parish 2191 Townsend Rd. | 250-642-3945 | Fax: 778-425-3945 Saturday Mass 5pm | Sunday Mass, 10 am Thursday Mass 10:30 am Children’s Religious Ed: Sat. 3:45pm Ofﬁce Hours: Tue 12-3 Wed 10-2 Thurs 1-3 Rev. Fr. Michael Favero

SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012 Cont’d from page 10 ing and coming into your neighbourhood. We need to start culling. There should be mass resignations. Call your MLA’s and mayors, demand accountability over ignorance We shouldn’t have to live with predators, because of the extreme failure of game management in our province. Quit playing roulette with our children and pets. Greg Klem Port Renfrew

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Quebec threatened In response to George Miller’s letter asking why anyone would want to leave Canada, “Canada is the best” Sept. 19, Sooke News Mirror. George Miller is of course referring to Quebec. George speaks, from a province 150 years old, about Quebec which is 400 years old. George, I assume, speaks French, and has read Roys Blas, Zazie Dans Le Metro, Tartarin de Tarascon and the unsurpassable early works of the great French poet Rimbaud — a few basic French works.

they have a great culture. It is not the culture of Canada, it is the culture of Quebec. If more Canadians would try to become aware of this Quebec, then Quebec would not feel so threatened by the tone deaf Anglophones that they are suffocatingly surrounded by. N.E. MacNab Shirley

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The Sooke Fire Rescue Service responded to a grass fire on Gatewood Road on Sept. 28 around 4 p.m. According to Fire Chief Steve Sorensen, the fire was creeping up broom shrubs when fire crews arrived. “We’re just lucky it didn’t get going, it wouldn’t have took much,” Sorensen said, adding broom fires are difficult to control. “They grow so fast, you can’t even out run them.” At the time, the cause of the fire was undetermined, but Sorensen said it was most likely a carelessly discarded cigarette. If I assume this correctly, then indeed, George would well

wonder why Quebecers have had enough. Quebec is French,

How and to whom does one report a burnt out streetlight in Sooke? I live on Ludlow Road and the streetlight at the corner of Sooke and Ludlow has been burnt out for months. I have called the District of Sooke in beginning of August and again in September to report it. As of this evening it is still burnt out (Sept 30). I explained to the clerk that there are two well used bus stops right there, to and from Victoria, a fire hydrant and also a large open ditch. It is a dark, fairly isolated area as the houses on Sooke Road are back from the road and the house clos-

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est has a huge hedge between it and the road. I don’t understand the lack of concern or ability to change a light bulb. Surely there must be a correct procedure or place to report it so that it will get fixed in a reasonable manner before something serious happens. I would appreciate finding out the correct procedure. Mary Thyne Sooke

Strange but not jellyfish Comment: Re :strange jellyfish showing up in East Sooke. The photo which was sent to you is not a jellyfish, but a floating pelagic snail which

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are not cnidarians (jellyfish, hydroids, corals ,sea anemones) but mollusks (octopus, snails, squids). Some of the marine snails develop their muscles into jelly, so that they can float like jelly fish, but this is their only similarity with jellyfish. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have stinging cells.The one in the photo is called MELIBE LEONINA with its scientific name, hooded Nudibranch or lion Nudibranch, for its huge mouth and hood tentacles resembling a lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mane with its common name. It is common in protected bays in August and September. I found it for many years in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jocks Dockâ&#x20AC;? Dr. Anita Voss Sooke

The over-spending bureaucrats are hired by politicians, who are elected by voters. Those politicians are neophytes at actually figuring things out, and suckers for a good story from bureaucrats who are steeped in government procedures. Until voters work to develop solid candidates and elect them nothing will change. Candidates must have an attitude of â&#x20AC;&#x153;show meâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; demanding proof, and be honest. (A key problem is typical candidates are do-gooders who lack smarts and have bad values. Unfortunately you throw in a reference to the neo-Marxist mob called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Occupyâ&#x20AC;?, whose blatherings are based on a negative view of humans as uncreative and untrustworthy. (Hence teachings of the fixed-pie economics and â&#x20AC;&#x153;drive-to-the-bottomâ&#x20AC;? behaviour behind

Stuffed shirts Re: Editorial, (Exposing the stuffed shirts, Saanich News, Sept. 14).

Marxist exploitation theory. You miss that in the private sector, absent government force like quotas (taxi licenses, egg production, etc) and subsidies, people have to think hard and well to succeed. If they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, or become complacent as many do after initially succeeding, other people will earn customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; business. I point to the fact that money earned by a rich business person is typically gone within three generations. (Sometimes much sooner, other times a family has good values and trains the next generation well.) And to successive failures in a field that had little specific regulation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; small computer software. When IBM designed the PC, it had difficulty dealing with the pre-eminent supplier of operating software, so chose Bill

Gatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; adaptation of a dormant operating system a local company was willing to sell â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;the rest is history.â&#x20AC;? For applications to run on the PC, Wordstar was an early favourite but became complacent, so it was supplanted by a program put together one summer to give users of an accounting system a text editor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it grew into the famous WordPerfect. But WordPerfect grew so complacent I stopped recommending it to people, and made a strategic error in putting a version for Windows well down in its priorities â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that led to the popularity of Microsoft Word, which was emerging on the Mac. Pirjo, individual freedom protected by defense and justice works for humans, as can be seen around the world in which societies feed and shelter people. Keith Sketchley Saanich

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Revenue from cell phones not shared “CREST fully supports the resolution passed on the 911 levy at UBCM today”, says CREST chair Gordie Logan. UBCM delegates passed a resolution to lobby the provincial government to have the 911 levies collected by telephone companies remitted to the service providers. “This is the third time that UBCM has passed this resolution. It was passed unanimously in 2004, 2009 and now again in 2012,” says Logan. “It’s time for Minister Bond to act and stop the double billing of taxpayers.” Property owners are paying for 911-service through their property taxes and again through their phone provider. Estimates suggest that approximately $2 million is collected annually from Capital Region cell phone users and kept by telephone companies for a service they only partially provide. Local and regional governments and organizations like CREST provide the majority of 911-service, but do not receive any of the revenue collected from the 911 levy on wireless phones. The long-standing practice is that revenue from the levy on landline phones is passed along to service providers. “With over 70 per cent of 911 calls being made on cell phones, it is long overdue for the province to mandate that the 911 levy, already collected by wireless providers, be shared with service providers,” said Logan. CREST has 20 shareholders representing Capital Region municipalities, the Province, RCMP, BC Ambulance and BC Transit. The company operates a wide-area radio system for 40 agencies providing emergency services in the Capital Region.

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Saseenos safety signs needed So, once again the traffic is backed up in the 6000 block by Sassenos public school. Yes, that is right, another accident. This time it is a solo vehicle flipped over from hitting the cement barrier (at who knows what speed) heading out of Sooke. My problem is this, we started kindergarten at Sassenos, and we walk every morning and afternoon to pick up and drop off. Everyday I watch, listen and try to pre-judge what the cars are going to do. So many are speeding up as they pass the school to get on with their busy lives. I watch as some graze the white line, some on cell phones, some putting on makeup, some eating/drinking, some smoking and some who speed right by. Two years ago in March we were involved in the main scene of a terrible accident when a woman heading into Sooke fell asleep at the wheel. She crashed

LETTERS through a fence, flipped her car and skidded till she landed one foot from our house and one foot from our car. Had it been the day before at the same time I might not be here to write this letter! How many other stories are like this? We live in a town with a one way in/out road, you would think that we would all be responsible and be on our best driving behaviours to stay safe. I will continue to walk my son to school with my two-year-old in tow, watching, listening and taking notes on cars and plates. This section of the road needs to have more signs, school zone slow down from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. not just when kids are on the road. A sign that says “no passing” when cars are turning onto Parklands, and maybe even reminder signs of “No cellphones.” Surely if we had officers present at pick up and drop off watching everyone would be at there best behaviours. By the time you read this, the accident will long be forgotten as was the one that

traumatized our family two years ago, but I am watching and listening and taking notes. Keri Pollak Sooke

Smart meters produce adverse effects I would like to share some observations from the field. As an EMF consultant, I take measurements of radiofrequency exposure levels in homes. If a wireless smart meter is attached to the exterior of a bedroom wall, peak RF exposure levels across the bed may range anywhere from 0.01 to 0.15 µW/ cm2. This peak level is even lower than the average level of 2 µW/cm2 (at 20 cm in front of smart meter). So what is the problem?At such close range to a wireless smart meter, all of a sudden, some

people cannot sleep, some people develop constant headaches, and others feel dizzy. How can that be when the wireless smart meters comply with Health Canada’s limit of 600 µW/cm2? Safety Code 6 protects from acute effects, but not from chronic effects of low-level exposures. A review on cell towers from 2009 found that adverse health effects from chronic exposures can be observed as low as 0.05 to 0.1 µW/cm2, exactly the levels found in bedrooms behind smart meters. In contrast to cell towers, the total transmission time of smart meter signals is usually no more than a few minutes per day. That does not sound like much, but the signals are being emitted every 1 to 10 minutes right now. In its latest guidelines, the EMF Working Group of the Austrian Medical Association recommends to keep peak levels of radiofrequency radiation in bedrooms below 0.001 µW/cm2, preferably below 0.0001 µW/cm2. There is always

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LETTERS Cont’d from page 14 a magnetic field associated with electric meters, whether they are analog or smart. For a good night’s sleep, keep a minimum of six feet from an electric meter. If it is a wireless smart meter, keep a minimum of 12 feet; better yet, move it away from the main residence. We need a smarter grid for a sustainable energy future, but the wireless transmission of data is not the only option out there to accomplish this. People should at least be given a choice as to whether a wireless transmitter is attached to their home or not. Katharina Gustavs East Sooke

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Smoke alarms save lives â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fall backâ&#x20AC;? to smart home safety As most Canadians turn back the clocks on November 4, here are some timely smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) safety tips: s 7HEN YOU change your clocks, test your smoke arlam. s 9OU HAVE less than three minutes to escape a ďŹ re. So when smoke alarms sound, everyone must know what to do and where to go. Having and practising an escape plan is essential. s )NSTALL ONE SMOKE ALARM on every storey and outside BEDROOMS )NSTALL INSIDE bedrooms if you sleep with doors closed. s %NSURE ALL SMOKE ALARMS are fully powered. Never take out batteries or remove an alarm from ceiling due to a false alarm. s )F YOUR HOME HAS ANY fuel-burning devices such as a gas furnace, gas water heater, gas appliances, or an attached garage or carport, install at least one CSAapproved carbon monoxide outside all sleeping areas. One per storey is recommended.

s 2EPLACE SMOKE ALARMS EVery 10 years, and CO alarms every 7-10 years (depending on manufacturer) whether battery operated or hardwired into your homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electrical system. Carbon monoxide is colourless, odourless and tasteless. So without a CO alarm, humans cannot detect its presence. Despite the average home having several potential sources of the deadly gas, studies show that nearly 60 per cent of Canadians have not INSTALLED A #/ ALARM )N ADdition to being impossible to detect, CO also has another nefarious trait. Symptoms of carbon monoxide exposure mimic the ďŹ&#x201A;u, without the FEVER )T IS ROUTINELY RESPONsible for thousands of clinic and hospital visits each year, and is commonly misdiagnosed. Prolonged or extreme exposure causes nausea, dizziness, confusion, the loss of physical mobility, brain damage and ultimately, death. More home safety resources can be found on the www. safeathome.ca web site.

Analysis was undertaken on almost 50,000 ďŹ res that occurred in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario over a 5-year period involving 663 fatalities. The ďŹ ndings demonstrated that the death rate per 1,000 ďŹ res in the absence of a present, functioning smoke alarm was 74% greater than when a functioning smoke alarm was present.

Thanksgiving turkey ďŹ res cause for concern at 9-1-1 centre % #OMM S lRE DISPATCH TEAM IS warning families to be mindful of their turkey cooking during Thanksgiving weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A turkey isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something you typically see on a list of household ďŹ re hazards, but we get 9-1-1 calls about ovens going up in ďŹ&#x201A;ames all the time,â&#x20AC;? says Corey +ELSO % #OMM lRE DISPATCHER â&#x20AC;&#x153;The result can be devastating if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not careful every time you have something cooking for an extended period of time.â&#x20AC;?

% #OMM HAS RECEIVED SOME ODD calls to 9-1-1 before â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including someone wanting to know how long to cook a turkey â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but a turkey ďŹ re is no joke. )N FACT IT IS A LEADING cause of spikes in 9-1-1 calls over the holidays. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A ďŹ&#x201A;ame in your oven can start easily and escalate quickly,â&#x20AC;? says Kelso. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oil drippings through a thin tinfoil turkey pan or bits of leftover food residue inside your oven are extremely ďŹ&#x201A;ammable in a high temperature setting.â&#x20AC;?

Many fatal ďŹ res start at night )NVESTIGATIONS into home ďŹ re deaths very often ďŹ nd that a smoke alarm did not sound. )T MAY HAVE been disconnected or not in working order. The batteries may have been dead, or someone may have taken them out. Smoke alone wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarILY WAKE YOU UP )N FACT THE fumes could put you into an even deeper sleep. Often, victims never wake up. Se-

niors will often need assistance from family members to put safety measures into place. As well, family members are in the best position to reinforce the precautions necessary to help their loved ones prevent or respond to a ďŹ re. Focus on these six priorities to help aging family members protect themselves against ďŹ re in the home.

Sooke Fire Rescue Service - Fire Prevention Week 2012 Events smoke alarms9inside every bedroom, outside â&#x20AC;˘ N INSTALL During the week of October â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12, members of the Sooke Fire Rescue each sleeping area and on every level of the home, Service will be attending all the local elementary schools to present the including the basement. Fire Prevention Week safety message. N Larger homes need ADDITIONAL alarms to â&#x20AC;˘ Thursday, Octobermay 11 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm,smoke the Sooke Fire Rescue provide enough protection. Service will be hosting an Open House at Fire Station 1. There will be N For the best protection, INTERCONNECT all smoke Jaws of ďŹ re safety displays including ďŹ re extinguisher demonstrations, alarms so when one sounds alldemonstration sound. Life demonstrations, High Angle they Rescue and more. Free N An IONIZATION alarm is generally more to attend, hotdogs, popcorn andsmoke draw prizes available. As an incentive a special door in which a local will win a complete dinner, responsive toprize ďŹ&#x201A;aming ďŹ res and family a PHOTOELECTRIC hosted and served by ďŹ reďŹ ghters willresponsive be drawn. (dinner date TBA) smoke alarm is generally more to smoldering Anyone the open house willtypes be eligible to enteror and win. ďŹ res. Forthat theattends best protection, both of alarms â&#x20AC;˘ combination October 17th winners of the Fire Chief for a Day contest will be picked up ionization and photoelectric alarms (also in a ďŹ re truck and driven to the ďŹ re station from their school for a special known as dual sensor alarms) are recommended. tour and lunch at theshould ďŹ re hall.beOne child from away each elementary N Smoke alarms INSTALLED from theschool will be selected from the entries received during Fire Prevention Week. kitchen to prevent false alarms. Generally, they should be th â&#x20AC;˘ atOctober 18 at 10:18 am, everyone is encouraged to participate in the least 10 feet (3 meters) from a cooking appliance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great Shakeoutâ&#x20AC;? earthquake drill. To register go to www.shakeoutbc.ca N REPLACE all smoke alarms when they are 10 years old.

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Dylan night for Hannah The Sooke Folk Music Society is presenting a concert featuring Dave Gallant and friends performing the music of Bob Dylan as a benefit for baby Hannah and her family. Some of you may be familiar with the story of baby Hannah. After losing both their home and livelihood in one horrific fire one year ago, life was finally beginning to get back to normal for Hannah and her family. That was until Hannah started getting sick. Dozens of doctors visits and just as many misdiagnosis left the family feeling confused and frustrated, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until Hannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stomach began to grow that they got really concerned. After a handful of doctors visits and diagnosisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; like bad posture and constipation the frustration was starting to set in, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until Hannah started having trouble breathing and was airlifted to Vancouver Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital that the real nightmare began. First a tumor in her stomach and a biopsy which showed that it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a tumor, but inflammation that left Hannah in critical condition for several days. Than the possibility that she may have lymphoma, then leukemia and finally, after almost a week of tests there was a diagnosis; Stage 4, Rhabdomyosarcoma. Now the battle has begun. Because Hannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family is from Victoria and she is being treated in Vancouver at B.C. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital there are a great deal of transportation expenses. Hannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother will be arranging accommodations in Vancouver for herself and Hannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby sister Hailey, while her father will have to travel at times to and from Vancouver and Victoria in order to maintain their home there. Brooke, Hannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, who was a daycare provider in the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home has lost her only source of income as Hannah is far too frail to be able to play normally with the other children. Brooke needs her full attention to be

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Above, Thom Southwood, right, Dave Gallant perform at Dylan night. on caring for Hannah and the extra burden of transportation costs is putting strain on an already tight budget. Your contribution will also afford the family the ability to take Hannah to the zoo, the aquarium and any other venues that get her away from the hospital, even for a few hours. Your donation helps this family by eliminating the worries of financial stresses and allows them to focus solely on being there for their daughter every step of the way as she battles

this horrific disease. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Dave Gallant and part of the reason that I have lived in Sooke for more than 30 years is because of the caring and generous nature of the people in this community. You never fail to step up to the plate when someone needs help. That is why we are presenting this special concert of Bob Dylan music.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have assembled a terrific group of singers and musicians to perform with me at this concert. Marcel Des Roche is a local singer/songwriter who has put out a CD of his own material and is a great interpreter of Bob Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs. Thom Southwood is also an accomplished musician as well as a singer/ songwriter. Thom is best known for writing and producing the musical Howl at the Edward Milne community school theatre with the Sooke Harbour Players. Our rhythm section consists of Grant Jamieson on bass and JT holding it all down on the drums. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope you will come out and join us for this evening of special music and to support this worthy cause.â&#x20AC;? The location is Holy Trinity Anglican Church. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. with the concert starting at 8. Tickets available at the door or in advance at Shoppers Drug Mart in Sooke.

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Notice Of Proposed Property Disposition In accordance with section 26 and section 94 of the Community Charter, the District of Sooke gives notice of its intention to dispose of municipal property as follows: Area 1 - Disposition of a portion of Closed Park â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Talc Place legally described as (PID 028-830-512) That part of Section 23, Sooke District shown as Closed Park on Plan VIP89409 (previously Talc Place Park) and as shown as Area 1 on the attached Map. â&#x20AC;˘ The nature of the disposition of Area 1 of Talc Place is by way of transfer of Freehold Title to Charles Clark Ogilvie and Margeurite Bertha Little upon payment to the District the sum of $14,000 with appropriate adjustments on or before November 30th, 2012. Area 3 - Disposition of a portion of Closed Park â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Talc Place legally described as (PID 028-830-512) That part of Section 23, Sooke District shown as Closed Park on Plan VIP89409 (previously Talc Place Park) and as shown as Area 3 on the attached Map. â&#x20AC;˘ The nature of the disposition of Area 3 of Talc Place is by way of transfer of Freehold Title to SHELLEY JOCELYN MUSGRAVE, and DUANE DOUGLAS NOYES upon payment to the District the sum of $2,500 with appropriate adjustments on or before November 30th, 2012. Area 4 - Disposition of a portion of Closed Park â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Talc Place legally described as (PID 028-830-512) That part of Section 23, Sooke District shown as Closed Park on Plan VIP89409 (previously Talc Place Park) and as shown as Area 4 on the attached Map. â&#x20AC;˘ The nature of the disposition of Area 4 of Talc Place is by way of transfer of Freehold Title to the PROVINCIAL RENTAL HOUSING CORPORATION, INC. NO. 52129 upon payment to the District the sum of $3,500 with appropriate adjustments on or before November 30th, 2012. The proceeds of the sale of the municipal properties will be placed to the credit of the District of Sooke park land acquisition reserve fund. Meeting Date: Time: Place:

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Here’s a great children’s story. The Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children has been renamed Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island. Please join us in welcoming our new name! We are excited about the change because the new name tells the story of what we do and where we do it. Our Foundation has a 90-year legacy of helping children thanks to you, our incredible donors and supporters. Our new name sets the stage for helping even more children in the years to come. Here for your children The newly-named Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island will continue to promote the health and well-being of children, youth and families all over Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. This includes funding for facilities, organizations, programs, and equipment for children in need.

The Queen Alexandra legacy lives on The Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island continues to support the Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health in Victoria. And the name “Queen Alexandra” will forever be part of our legacy.

How we help: Across the Islands We provide grants to organizations that support the health and well-being of children and youth through their programming. We also fund families experiencing urgent and unforeseen medical needs, including travel and accommodation and specialized medical equipment.

Jeneece Place With the support of our entire community, our Foundation funded, built and operates Jeneece Place. This 10-bedroom home provides a supportive and inexpensive environment for families who travel to Victoria for their child’s medical care.

West Shore and Sooke Child, Youth & Family Centres We own and operate these facilities in which child and youth related health and social service agencies use the facilities at cost – so that their resources can be directed to helping children.

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If you would like more information mation or wish to donate, please visit childrrenshealthvi.org or call 250-519-6722. 250 519 6722

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ohn McNeil is a wiry guy with a rumpled cowboy hat and a song to sing. His voice is like Canadian Club in a velvet bag. His lyrics echo a well-travelled life with experiences good and bad all rolled up into songs that speak from the heart. McNeil is a singer/ songwriter with two CDs behind him and another in front. While many in Sooke may not have heard of him, he’s been heard across the country and his albums have gotten excellent reviews. His album Straight form the Heart is a testament to his past. Lyrics such as, “We thank our luck stars we ain’t dying in a rundown bar,” speak of sad lives on the streets. A Youtube video of the song dredges up images one looks away from on the dirty streets in cities across the country. He said this song was nominated for an Honourable Mention at the 1997 Juno Awards. “A few songs on there made some waves across the country,” said McNeil. “I wasn’t expecting to be treated so kindly.”

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John McNeil McNeil is a modest man, one whose luck hasn’t always been the best. He was raised in three provinces, his first 11 years in Cape Breton where home was an orphanage. He now calls Sooke home and he seems to have settled into a lifestyle he enjoys. He’s a storyteller with a lot to tell and at about 60 years old he has had the life to bring honesty to his songs. Of his country songs he said, “You got to get married a couple of times to enjoy a good country song.” His new CD, Ol’ sweet dream was released on Sept. 29 at the Q building in Victoria. It took 2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke Phone: 250-642-1634 Fax: 250-642-0541 email: info@sooke.ca website: www.sooke.ca

Notice of Tax Exemption Amendment Bylaw No. 547 Pursuant to Section 227 and section 94 of the Community Charter

Take notice that the Council of the District of Sooke will consider adoption of Bylaw No. 547, Sooke Town Centre Revitalization Amendment Bylaw (408-3) on: Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Time: 7:00 pm Place: Council Chamber, 2225 Otter Point Road, Sooke, BC The purpose of Bylaw No. 547 is to amend Bylaw No. 408, Sooke Town Centre Revitalization Bylaw, 2009 to remove the Development Cost Charge reduction available under Bylaw No. 408. Bylaw No. 547 will not otherwise amend the extent, amounts and maximum terms of the tax exemptions that may be provided under the Sooke Town Centre Revitalization Bylaw, 2009. Copies of the bylaw are available at the Municipal Ofﬁce, 2205 Otter Point Road or on the website www.sooke.ca.

him 12 years to get that album together. Two years ago he won the writer’s competition at the Sooke Fall Fair which likely spurred him on to complete the new album. “ol’ sweet dream” is mostly country with a bit of his Celtic roots thrown in. He was told he should write about bigger places, but that’s not his style. “I write only about Canada and things I know,” he said. Forty years of writ-

ing and performing, hosting open mikes at the 17 Mile Pub and performing across the country labels him a great Canadian secret. He’s a painter by day and a singer by night. For his latest CD, he has enlisted the talents of some pretty amazing people. Backing him up are Doug Edwards from the band Chilliwack on bass, Chillwack’s Jerry Adolf on drums, Johnny Pimm on guitar, Morry Sterns on piano, Dennis Ferby on bass and Calvin Bolrath on fiddle. He is proud to sing a duet with his daughter Laura on the album. The CDs will be sold through Indie Records on the Internet and most likely somewhere in Sooke.

Regular Council Public Hearing – Cluster Dwelling Units TUESDAY, October 9, 2012 at 7:00 pm Please Note Due to a large number of agenda items, the meeting may be recessed to Wednesday October 10th, 2012 at 7:00 pm.

Nominate an Outstanding Volunteer Recognize Sooke Region’s outstanding volunteers by nominating a citizen for a Sooke Volunteer Award. Nomination forms are available at the District of Sooke Municipal Hall, on our website, and the Sooke Region Museum. Nominations will be accepted until October 31st, 2012 at the Museum. This schedule is subject to change. Please call 250-642-1634 to conﬁrm meetings. Council meeting agendas may be viewed at www.sooke.ca WHAT’S NEW AT THE DISTRICT- CHECK IT OUT! At www.sooke.ca

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TO HEAR PRESENTATIONS ON THE FOLLOWING PROPOSED BYLAWS: Bylaw No. 548, Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw (400-3) The intent and purpose of Bylaw No 548, Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw (400-3) is to: • Clarify in Section 7.2.2(a) of the Official Community Plan that a duplex is exempt from a development permit; • Amend the Official Community Plan by adding a Development Permit Area (Development Permit Area #3) with guidelines for the purpose of establishing objectives for the form and character of multi-family residential developments; and • Designate all lands zoned Multi-Family Residential, Town Centre Commercial and Comprehensive Development as a Development Permit Area (Development Permit Area #3) for form and character. Bylaw No. 549, Zoning Amendment Bylaw (500-15) The intent and purpose of Bylaw No 549, Zoning Amendment Bylaw (500-15) is to include a definition for ‘cluster dwelling unit’ including an illustration, and to allow cluster dwelling units within those properties located in the following zones: • • • • •

Low Density Multi Family 1 (RM1) Medium Density Multi Family 2 (RM2) High Density Multi Family 3 (RM3) High Density Multi Family 4 (RM4) Town Centre Commercial 2 - South (CTC2) Zone

All persons who believe their interests in property are affected by this proposed bylaw shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions before Council on the matters contained in the proposed bylaws at the above time and place. If you are unable to attend the hearing, we ask that written submissions be provided prior to the close of the public hearing. Please be advised that submissions to Council will become part of the public record. Copies of the proposed bylaws, and relevant background documents, may be inspected at the ofﬁces of the District of Sooke Planning Department, 2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke, BC, between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays), commencing from September 26, 2012 to and including October 9th, 2012. If you have any questions regarding this application, please contact the Planning Department at 250-642-1634.

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Sustainable living focus of awareness film Awareness Film Night will launch its 18th season on Oct. 10 with the film Transition 2.0. Co-presented with Sooke Transition Town, a local not-for-profit society that aims to raise awareness of sustainable living, this is an inspirational film suitable for family viewing. The Transition Movement builds local resilience in anticipation of climate change, rising fuel prices and economic uncertainty. The film features stories from around the world of people who have come together to create more sustainable local communities that are less dependent upon oil and on importing goods and

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services from far away. For example, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear the story of Transition Monteveglio in Bologna, Italy and their very successful collaboration with the local council. Their groundbreaking resolution commits council to deep sustainability and resilience-building. Could we do that in Sooke? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Transition Streetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from Totnes in Devon (UK) which works street-by-street, getting people together to meet, form new connections and reduce their carbon footprints. Could we get together to know our Sooke neighbors and have fun saving energy? A post-screening discussion will fea-

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Leasing of Kaltasin Works Yard The District of Sooke proposes to lease a portion of municipally-owned lands known as the Kaltasin Works Yard and which is legally described as: Lot 13, Block 3, Section 7, Sooke District, Plan 2434 Except Part in Plan VIP461RW Lot 14 and 15, Block 3, Section 7, Sooke District, Plan 2434 This Request for Proposals (RFP) is directed to individuals and/or enterprises or non-proďŹ t organizations that are involved in local small to medium-sized enterprises that require additional space to grow their operations. The District of Sooke recognizes that local home based businesses, small business owners and non-proďŹ t organizations cannot afford the price of serviced commercial and light industrial lands. This RFP is intended to gather together a list of qualiďŹ ed local businesses or non-proďŹ t organizations who would be interested in leasing space and growing their operations in the District of Sooke. Preference will be given to operations having a â&#x20AC;&#x153;greenâ&#x20AC;? or carbon imprint reducing component. For the full Request for Proposal document, please see our website www.sooke. ca. Each proposal shall include the lease rate, intended use of the lands, and any improvements that may be put upon the lands. The proposal must also state whether a shared use of the lands could be accommodated. Those submitting proposals must be able to provide a minimum $5Million third party liability insurance if awarded a lease. THIS IS NOT A TENDER. The District of Sooke reserves the right to reject any or all proposals: the highest bid will not necessarily be accepted. The District of Sooke reserves the right to waive informalities in or reject any or all proposals or accept the proposal deemed most favourable in the interests of the District of Sooke. Under the Community Charter, the District of Sooke must not provide assistance to business and therefore fair market value for use of the land will play a key part in the decision when awarding the lease. If disposition is made it will be on the basis of a subjective discretionary decision of the Council and not on any evaluation criteria other than the content of this notice.

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Except as expressly and speciďŹ cally permitted in these Instructions to Proponents, no Proponent shall have any claim for any compensation of any kind whatsoever, as a result of participating in the RFP, and by submitting a proposal or bid each proponent shall be deemed to have agreed that it has no claim. SUBMISSIONS: Proposals must be delivered to the District of Sooke on or before 4:00 p.m. (local time) on October 18, 2012 in a sealed enveloped clearly marked â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kaltasin Words Yard Proposalâ&#x20AC;? addressed to: District of Sooke Attention: Michael Dillabaugh, Director of Finance 2205 Otter Point Road Sooke, BC V9Z 1J2 Email: mdillabaugh@sooke.ca Fax: 250-642-0541

Notice of Permissive Tax Exemption Pursuant to Section 227 of the Community Charter Take notice that pursuant to Section 224 of the Community Charter, the Council of the District of Sooke will consider adoption of Bylaw No. 550 and Bylaw No. 551 on: Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Time: 7:00 pm Place: Council Chamber, 2225 Otter Point Road, Sooke, BC â&#x20AC;˘ Bylaw No. 550, Permissive Tax Exemption for Public Parks and Recreation Grounds, Not for ProďŹ t Corporations and Public Authorities Amendment Bylaw (338-2) The purpose of Bylaw No. 550 is to exempt from taxation under section 197(1)(a) of the Community Charter the parcel of land known as Section 3, Otter Land District Parcel A, Except Plan 3943, Leased Part of PCL A (PID 009-496-939) also known as 2895 Sooke River Road, together with any improvements on such parcel, for the period 2012 to 2017. Each exemption is granted on the condition that the parcel is used, held, owned or occupied by the Juan de Fuca Salmon Restoration Society. The estimated amount of annual taxes that would be imposed on the parcel, if the exemption is granted, is $13,304.85; and â&#x20AC;˘ Bylaw No. 551, Property Tax Exemption for Church Halls and Church Land Amendment Bylaw (337-1) The purpose of Bylaw No. 551 is to exempt from taxation under section 197(1)(a) of the Community Charter the parcel of land known as Lot 9, Section 10, District of Sooke, Plan 26983 Except Plan VIP74590 (PID 002-513-021) also known as 2191 Townsend Road, together with any improvements on such parcel, for the period 2012 to 2017. Each exemption is granted on the condition that the parcel is used, held, owned or occupied by the Bishop of Victoria. The estimated amount of annual taxes that would be imposed on the parcel, if the exemption is granted, is $1,897.15.

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Natural action Eight mothers and their babies showed up for the second Breastfeeding Challenge at the Reading Room on Sept. 29.

Dearest Anglers, We hope this letter ﬁnds you all enjoying the last days of the nice weather. Thank you to all of you for participating in the event this year. The Derby went well and it was a success. The weather was beautiful, the company was incredible, and the food and music were un-beatable thanks to the local caterer Kyle and Cindy Hack of ?Flavor the Coast? and the talented musicians of one of our favorite bands ?Dead Reckoning?. We?re hoping that we can bring back the event next year with even more participation and energy. Congratulations to the winning team, Team Reel Excitement, lead by their trusted and talented guide Al Kennedy and Team Captain Grady Perkins with the top weighed in King Salmon of 29.6 lbs. That salmon brought them a grand prize of $15,000.

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Thanks to all the local support we were also able to raise $1,140 for the Sooke Salmon Enhancement Society. Special thanks to the following businesses for their raffle and prize donations: Island Outfitters, Eagle Eye Outfitters, True Key Hotels and Resorts, Trotac Marine, Butch Cassidy Spices, Rhys Davis Limited, Dr Morin & Joslin Optometrists, Allan Poole of Royal LePage Realty, Bear Mountain Golf Resort, The Crab Shack, Village Food Markets, SG Power, Olympic View Golf Course, Salvatore’s Hair Design, AdrenaLINE Zipline Tours, Sooke Home Hardware, and Canadian Tire. Those interested in participating in the 2013 Vancouver Island Salmon Classic are encouraged to contact the Sooke Harbour Resort and Marina. Thank you again for making the 2012 Salmon Classic a success. Please check out the derby photos on the links below. Please call or email if you have any questions or concerns. Check out the following links and follow us on Facebook to keep yourself up to date with all the details of the event: www.facebook.com/VancouverIslandSalmon Classic www.sookeharbourmarina.ca/salmon-classic Tight Lines, Lindsay Beckett Derby Coordinator-Vancouver Island Salmon Classic 2012 250-664-6897 salmonclassic@sookeharbourclassic.ca

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he Sooke Folk Music Society normally curtails it’s activities for the summer, but this Saturday, July 30, we are delighted to bring back Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart for a special summer concert at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, as part of their “Driver ‘til she drops” tour; a reference to their Chevy Suburban, which now has some 465,000 miles on the odometer Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart met for the first time 1991 at a songwriters night in Nashville TN. They knew that night it was one of them things that are just meant to be. They were married in 1992. It would be quite a balancing act at that time raising a family and trying to make a living along with all the other stuff that came with getting by, “but we managed,” Stacey said as she looked back at her first encounter with the world of touring. Stacey Earle’s first show was on an arena stage in Sydney, playing rhythm guitar in her brother’s band, Steve Earle & the Dukes. She spent about a year and a half on tour with her brother, and then returned to Nashville to start a career of her own as a country/ folk singer/songwriter. “I was 30-years-old and asking/seeking a recording deal in Nashville.At that age it was like asking God to turn back the world clock.” Mark Stuart went to the finest of music schools, he started his schooling listening and admiring his uncle’s guitar playing and his dad’s fiddling. By age 15 he would find himself

Back for another round on July 30 are Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart. playing in the school of honky tonks and beer joints in and around Nashville in his dad’s band. Mark was off the road when he met Stacey and that very night he would play the first note of her music never leaving her side. Mark

still somehow found the time to work on his own music recording his solo record and touring. Mark, as well, spent some time in the Dukes in the 1990s. Like Earle, he recalls it as a time of glamour: appearing on the Tonight Show with

Jay Leno, and MTV. “I had someone tuning my guitar, strapping on my guitar,” he said. “Now we carry our stuff three flights up in the Red Roof Inn.” Over the years Stacey and Mark have learned so much from each other. Their songs are the diaries of their life — good times and bad, thereby completing the love they have. Together they share the full load of getting by day-by-day. They’ve gone on to release their duo albums, Never Gonna Let You Go in 2003 and S&M Communion Bread in 2005, and their Gearle Records 2008 release Love from Stacey and Mark which is available at thehir live shows only. While, no doubt, each still remains an individual solo artist with solo releases, such as the 2008 release of Mark Stuart’s Left of

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Nashville and Stacey Earle’s The Ride also in 2008), it is through the respect of each other’s work and years of playing together that they have created their unique sound. And that sound allows each individual to shine through. Stacey and Mark are no doubt together ‘til death do they part. Please be sure to join us for what will be a memorable evening with these two very engaging singer/songwriters. The gig is on Saturday, July 30 at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, at 1962 Murray Road. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. with show at 8. Tickets are $15 and are available at the door or in advance at Shopper’s Drug Mart.

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Sooke triathlon volunteers appreciated Six different community groups were presented with donation cheques for their triathlon involement

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(Clockwise from top left) Volunteers fill their plates with salad and burgers. Fire Chief Steve Sorensen works the grill. Community groups hold up donation cheques from LifeSport.

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LifeSport, the company that organizes the Subaru Sooke Triathlon, held an appreciation dinner for volunteers on Sept. 30 at the Sooke Fire Rescue Service firefighters’ lounge. Along with a barbecue dinner, donations were presented to six different community groups for their work with the triathlon on Aug. 12. The groups included Sooke Classical Boat-

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ing Society, Sooke Harbourside Lions, Shirley Firefighters’ Commission, EMCS rugby team, EMCS basketball team and the Holy Trinity Anglican Church. The donations amounted to about $3,000 in total. “We feel we have a responsibility to put some money back into the community, not only in the form of economic tourism, but [also] from direct funds,” said Paul Regensburg, LifeSport partner. “We used to some-

This week’s little SEAPARC Star is ﬁve year old Abbie Davidson, also known as Abbie Doodle to her family and friends. Abbie is in ﬁrst grade at Poirier Elementary where she most enjoys reading and playing outside. She was very touched by learning the Terry Fox story and thought it was great that her school honoured his memory with a school run. She tells us that she is very good at listening to her teacher and her Mom. Abbie loves swimming and stressed that it is a very important skill for everyone to have. She says that until she is very good at it, she will only swim in pools where there are lifeguards. She wants to learn gymnastics and ballet in the near future. She likes walking the family dog Jersey, but says that her Dad needs to come with her because there are bears in the area. Abbie helps out at home by cleaning her room, the play room and feeding the dog. She loves camping and had a great time in Vancouver with her family where they visited the Zoo and the Aquarium. She loves playing Barbies and pretending she’s a monkey by climbing her Dad! Abby is a very nice girl who is always smiling, she is outgoing, kind and funny. When she grows up she wants to be a gym teacher, a swim teacher and a veterinarian so she can help animals who are sick and hurt. Abbie told us that she loves going to Nanaimo to visit her Papa who is one of her favourite people in the whole wide world. She told us that she knows he will read this story and asked us to pass on the following message to him “I Love You the Biggest (gotcha’ Papa)! Thank you for being our SEAPARC Star Abbie; you are absolutely delightful!

times pick a charity or something like that, but this is a direct recognition for the groups that want to be connected and associated to the race.” He stated volunteers are vital to the operation of the triathlon due to the stretched out distance of the course -- about 70 miles in the Sooke to Port Renfrew region. This year, there was a total of between 250 to 280 volunteers who operated

food, water and turnaround stations. “Getting volunteers is always a scramble, and Sooke stepped up at the last minute and we filled our positions,” Regensburg said. There have been six Sooke triathlon events since the race’s inception in 1997. According to Regensburg, participant numbers have grown from about 150 the first year to about 500 this year.

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SATURDAY NIGHT TEEN DROP-IN CENTRE Downstairs in the Sooke Community Hall Teens can come and hang out with SEAPARC Staff. Play Wii, Fooseball, pool and other games while we listen to music, eat snacks and chill with friends!

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minutes left to beat the Bays 3-2. The Vancouver Metro Soccer League dropped out of the Pacific Cup for 2012-13, shrinking the tournament to two leagues, and just eight teams. In VISL menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Div. 1 play on the weekend Brady Neil scored the only goal for Gorge FC as they lost 3-1 to Saltspring FC at Salt Spring. Cowichan drubbed the Castaways 6-1 with Kenny Howell scoring the only Castaways goal. Nanaimo shut-out the Prospect Lake Lakers 1-0 on a goal by Kyle Bate.

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Sooke Celtic is the lone team from the senior menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vancouver Island Soccer League to make it through the first round of the Pacific Cup of the champions league-type tournament between the VISL and Fraser Valley Soccer League. Round 1 took place with four games on Saturday, Sept. 22. Sooke came back from a 2-0 deficit to upset North Delta 3-2 in penalty kicks. Poco defeated Vic West FC 3-2 at Port Coquitlam and Saanich Fusion lost 2-1 in penalty kicks to Coastal Peace Arch at Tyndall Park in Saanich. Bays United looked to have a win wrapped up over Langley at Finlayson field, but Langley came back from being down 2-1 with 14

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The Westshore Wolves are offering Sooke Minor Hockey Association players free admission to their home games in Bear Mountain Arena in Langford. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sooke is the closest association to the Westshore and with the Westshore Wolves, they just want to build something with Sooke,â&#x20AC;? said Sue McDonald, game day co-ordinator.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to be really communityoriented, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to work together with the neighbouring associations.â&#x20AC;? The games, which take place every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., usually cost a student $6 for admission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the players from Sooke Minor Hockey will get free entrance to any of the home games, as does Juan de Fuca,â&#x20AC;? McDonald said. The Westshore

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Junior EMCS Wolverines take on Nanaimo District Islanders The EMCS Wolverines junior varsity football team faced a tough challenge Sept. 26 when they hosted the Nanaimo District Islanders. Having only 13 players dressed made the challenge that much stiffer for the home team. The score wasn’t close, but the Wolverines played well, shaking off two early special teams mistakes to play the Islanders pretty evenly in the second and third quarters. The offense moved the ball, putting together multiple drives deep into Islander territory, and the defense stepped up, getting a couple of 3 and outs and forcing a few punts. Three first year players stood out for their play on both sides of the ball. Gavin CowperDawdy, playing fullback and middle linebacker, broke a few long runs and was all over the field making tackles. Matt Hancock almost had his first interception at safety and had a beautiful run where he cut back against the defense and did a spin-o-rama off a tackler for a gain of 12. The run of the game though belonged to Jamie Blakeborough when he spun off a tackler, put a hand on the ground to keep from falling, ran back across the field, then back across again, all for a gain of about four yards. Blakeborough also had his first career sack and converted a third and long off a nice pass from QB Brady Greenwood. The Wolverines biggest hits came from two grade eights, Andy Abell and Eddie

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