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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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‘Father Phil’ guilty on one count, not guilty on three Kyle Slavin Black Press
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Pre-treaty agreements signed T’Sou-ke First Nation Chief Gordon Planes is pictured signing an Incremental Treaty Agreement on Tuesday. Feb. 26 at the BC Legislature. The agreement will provide economic opportunity as well as jobs in the Sooke region. The T’Sou-ke Nation will receive two 60-hectare land parcels at Broom Hill within their traditional territory in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area. “I sign this Incremental Treaty Agreement on behalf of the T’Sou-ke citizens — of whom I have the honour of representing,” said Planes. “This transfer of land is an indication of the incredible determination and commitment the T’Sou-ke citizens have in our quest to regain our rightful place in society while protecting our territories and resources.” The T’Sou-ke Nation is currently in the final stages of the agreement in principle stage of the B.C. treaty process, which is the fourth of a six-stage process. Chief Russell Chipps signed an incremental agreement for the Scia-new (Beecher Bay) Band. The band will receive a land parcel of 67 hectares in the shared territories of the Scia-new and T’Sou-ke in the District of Sooke. The lands will be transferred in fee simple and will be subject to provincial and federal, as well as being subject to local government zoning anf taxation. Both the T’Sou-ke and Scia-new Nations are party to the historic Douglas Treaty that was signed between 1850 and 1854.
Father Phil Jacobs has been found guilty of touching a young person for a sexual purpose, but not guilty on three other counts of molestation. Justice Miriam Gropper handed down her verdict Feb. 25 in B.C. Supreme Court after a trial that spanned December and January. Three young men and former students of St. Joseph the Worker School testified that Jacobs molested and sexually touched them during his tenure as parish priest at the Saanich Catholic school in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The guilty charge stems from a witness who testified that during tutoring sessions at Jacobs’ house on the school grounds, he ended up in a position of laying on the couch with his legs over Jacobs’ lap. During testimony in December, the witness told the court that Jacobs’ right hand would slide up and down the witness’s left thigh over his pants. Gropper agreed with the Crown’s assertion that Jacobs’ touching of the victim’s genitals was “deliberate,” and not an accidental brushing. The judge found Jacobs not guilty on two counts involving the main complainant, charges of sexual assault and sexual touching of a person younger than 14. During the trial the
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Father Phillip Jacobs young man told the court Jacobs fondled him in a room behind the church altar prior to a school mass and during a time when books were moved between the church and the priest’s residence. Gropper doubted that witness’s claim of being an alter server during school mass more than once, which threw into doubt his assertions of being molested multiple times by Jacobs, as stated during testimony. The judge also doubted the accuracy of the book moving incident due to issues with the victim’s testimony, and defence evidence from two witnesses that cast doubt on the context, details, timing and circumstances of the incident. Jacobs was also found not guilty of sexual touching of a person younger than 14 involving a complainant who testified to an incident of Jacobs tickling him. “Naturally, my client is disappointed,” said Jacobs’ defence lawyer Chris Con-
sidine. He added, however, that Jacobs is pleased the judge found him not guilty on three of the charges. Jacobs could face a prison sentence of up to 10 years for the guilty count. The court ordered a psychiatric risk assessment on Jacobs, meaning sentencing likely won’t take place until June. A date for sentencing will be fixed March 6. Considine said it’s too early to comment on an appeal, as sentencing hasn’t yet taken place, but added: “Obviously we’ll be reviewing all legal aspects of the case in due course.” Jacobs, now 63, worked part-time from 1996 to 1998 at St. Rose of Lima in Sooke before before taking the position of parish priest at St. Joseph the Worker in 1997. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria hired Jacobs despite knowing he had been relieved of his duties at a church in Columbus, Ohio, in the early 1990s after admitting to inappropriately touching a teenage boy in the 1980s. Jacobs admitted during testimony in Victoria court that he had sexually abused two boys in Ohio, but had attended therapy to control his compulsion to instruct boys on masturbation. In a press release from 2002 regarding hiring Jacobs, the diocese had deemed “Jacobs was not a pedophile nor an abuser and he was no threat in the future.”
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SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013
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Growing for the future
TAKE A HIKE SATURDAY, MARCH 2 JUAN DE FUCA Community Trails Society MONTHLY HIKE: MEET at CRD Parks parking lot on Harbourview Road for a 9 kilometre hike to Mt. Manuel Quimper. This is a 450-metre climb from the parking lot on a forest trail and is a six-hour hike. Bring a lunch and dress for the weather. FOR MORE INFORMATION email Rosemary Jorna at: sid2767@shaw.ca or phone 250-6422767.
Seedy Saturday, held this past weekend at the Sooke Community Hall was a huge success. The event, hosted by the Sooke Region Food CHI, was held to raise awareness and provide information on growing your own food. Plants and seed starts were traded and sold.
A REMINDER TO local businesses and crafters... Sooke Rotary Club is now taking applications for exhibitors for this years’ Annual Auction and Spring Fair - May 4. NEED MORE INFORMATION? Please email us: auction@sookerotary. com
CHAMBER AWARDS TWO CATEGORIES WERE missed in the press release, - Development Excellence nominees Woodland Creek and Heron View; and Manufacturing Excellence, nominees Seaflora and E-fish Ent.
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people with an axe. He will be charged with two counts of assault with a weapon, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of assault causing bodily harm. Two local men were taken to the
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Bonsai Bob found deceased, cause of death undetermined cue, other search and rescue groups from the Greater Victoria area, a dive team, a Swift Water Rescue team from the Cowichan Valley, an RCMP helicopter, police dog from Victoria, and police officers searching on foot. Wright expressed deep appreciation on behalf of the Sooke RCMP. “Particularly we’d like to thank all of the volunteers of the Search and Rescue organizations that helped us. I can’t begin to thank them enough for putting their lives on hold and their safety to come out and assist us. It’s not easy work and it can be very dangerous at times.” Monday Feb. 25 2:50 a.m. RCMP responded to a call that a man attacked two
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Did You Know? There is energy out there… everyone in our office is busy writing offers and showing houses. I have talked to other STONERIDGE ESTATES local REALTORS® and they Open Houses Every Saturday & Sunday in March say the same thing. There is My listings in Stoneridge Estates on Mountain Heights will still negotiating going on to be having Open Houses every Saturday and Sunday 2-4pm bring the offers together and I MARLENE throughout March. All completed new construction will hope a few less foreclosures ARDEN have Open Houses during this period. The builders in the out there. Prices are not indevelopment want to make sure that all potential buyers creasing but let’s hope the get a chance to go through these beautiful houses. To top downward sliding of house Living Sooke... it off, we will be creating a punch card…once completed prices has almost stopped! Loving Sooke... (going through all the houses) your name will be entered into a draw for an iPad, compliments of the developers of “Stoneridge”. Spring is sprung….let’s sell some houses!
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COMMUNITY • 5
Sooke Community Association has a long history
JOHN VERNON
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Karl Linell, left, and Dave Clark stand at the door into the community hall. The hinges on the door were made by Lyall Sheilds in the 1930s. ing,� states a comment in The Sooke Story, The History and the Heartbeat, published in 1999 by the Sooke Region Museum. Sooke was very wellknown for All Sooke Days, an event run by the Sooke Community Association. Linell had been a major force at All Sooke Days. He could be found tending the fires for the barbecue salmon and the baron of beef. Linell said Dickie George cooked the salmon and one year they cooked 1,200 pounds of salmon for the large crowds that came to the popular event. The beef was cooked in a traditional native way. It was soaked in water from the Sooke River, wrapped in seaweed and cooked in a fire pit which had been prepped for a week.
Immaculate Rancher Situated within walking distance of the village core, and very close to the bus, this 3BR, 2BA home has been beautifully upgraded & meticulously maintained. Great family home, w/huge FR next to Kitchen. Relax in the sunken LR in front of the wood burning fireplace. Great storage & workshop in the basement/crawl space. Very bright & airy aspect with a Southern exposure. Ranchers in this condition, in this location, and at this price, are hard to come by. $349,900 MLSÂŽ 315249
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“The fire burned for one week to get ashes and to warm the ground,� said Linell. “The health department didn’t like that.� All Sooke Days ended in 2000, the victim of changing times, health regulations and lack of money for events such as the world famous logging show. “We had to pay big money to be in the circuit,� said Linell. He said other events on the island drew people away from All Sooke Days. All Sooke Days would draw between 7,000 and 8,000 people. “We couldn’t make it pay, people went elsewhere,� said Linell. “We hated to shut it down, between the health department, flood plain and small crowds we weren’t making it, we were losing actually. It was an excellent thing.�
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Small communities look after their own and Sooke is no exception. Back in the mid-1930s the citizens of the day held outdoor picnics with salmon barbecues at the Sooke Flats. It was a time when people needed to get together and have a social event or an evening out. Communities have always built some sort of building in which to hold local functions and social events. So it was in Sooke. Back in 1935 someone donated land and the Sooke Community Association was formed, through a document of incorporation. The present Sooke Community Hall was built in 1937. Thus began a long history of service to the community. So many familiar and historical last names appear in the records of the association; George, Muir, Sheilds, Glinz, Linell, Goodrich. One family name still seen is Linell. Today, Karl Linell, son of Oke and Mae Clare Linell, is the current president of the Sooke Community Association and he is a passionate advocate for the association and the community hall. Both his parents were heavily involved and he has taken the reins of the association. The SCA was once the driving force for community activities and decisions, but since incorporation, the association has struggled. Everything is done by volunteers. “It has been this hall, maintained by volunteers, that has kept the lifeblood of Sooke flow-
current vice-president of the association. The association has 12 directors who are mostly getting up there in age. They have been trying to train young loggers for logging sports shows but too often they move to go to university or up north to work. Younger folks, it seems, have little time for volunteer work. The campground at the Sooke Flats is slowly being upgraded with power to accommodate the large RVs that now arrive to camp, and a rock wall was built to prevent erosion of land by high water in the river. These tasks are all done by volunteers. “We’re struggling,� said Linell. So, what they are seeking is a number of volunteers who might want to anything from splitting firewood for the campground to maintenance of the hall, kitchen help at conventions to writing for grants and someone who could organize the associations records. “You can come when you want, we’re all volunteers,� said Clark. He said retired or semi-retired people might find it fulfilling, lending their expertise to the association. “We’re trying to keep it rolling. We need a new roof on the community hall... we just keep stumbling along,� said Linell. The Sooke Community Association currently meets on the first Monday of each month. For more information, call the hall at 250-642-5521 and leave a message, someone will return your call.
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Fast forward to 2013. The Sooke Community Association has a number of property holdings, with the main money maker being the Sooke Flats campground and the main money loser being the community Hall. Once the only place in Sooke to hold a convention, the hall is now used less frequently. The money from the conventions were used to maintain the hall, which these days has bills of $5,000 per month. The uninsulated building is still used a lot by youth and sports groups, but nothing like it used to be. The hall used to hold 18-20 conventions a year. Linell said a lot of convention people wanted to come out here after being stuck in a suit and tie in Victoria and enjoy themselves in a casual way. That was the draw — the casualness. There are a number of community groups who still use parts of the building for meetings, food services and equipment loans. They are not asked to pay anything for the use of the downstairs space, although they do voluntarily contribute a stipend for maintenance and utilities. The insurance costs, said Linell, are “killing us.� The Sooke Community Association owns the Sooke Community Hall, Fred Milne Park, Art Morris Park (ball fields and tennis court) and the Sooke Flats. So close to 78 years later, what does the Sooke Community Association need and want? “Working volunteers,� said Dave Clark,
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Each year the Sooke Community Choir hosts an informal concert with choirs from the four elementary schools in Sooke. This year will also include the newly formed Sooke Youth Show Choir. Sing Out 2013 will be held on Monday, March 4, 2013 from 7 – 8 p.m. at the Sooke Community Theatre in the Edward Milne community school on Sooke Road. Members of the Sooke Community Choir and the Sooke Youth Show Choir will each perform three or four songs conducted by Sarah WilBritt Santowski photo
Stepping back while moving forward Ellen Lewers, left, with Irene Elrose and Sheila Hubbard of the Sooke Fall Fair all dressed up to signify the fair’s 100th anniversary this year. They were at this Saturday’s Flea Market, at the table that displays the history of previous award winners.
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Klondike before arriving in Port Renfrew, pre-empted land about 1900. In 1909 he joined the cabins to make a home for his family amongst the spruce trees on the river bank. The telegraph line instituted in 1889 from Bamfield to Victoria was a tree-to-tree line following a route hacked through the wilderness by hardy men, slogging through the wet and mud, installing glass insulators and wire as they went. This line was part of the “red route” international communication system linking North America via Suva, Fiji to Australia. After the wreck of the iron steamship Valen-
cia in 1906 at Pachena Point, where 126 lives were lost within sight of shore, the international outcry meant added lighthouses on our coast and development of the West Coast Lifesaving Trail. In time, the Bamfield – Port Renfrew section of the trail, first for communications, then lifesaving, became a tourist route attracting hikers from all over the world. Generations of Elliotts have lived in the house, though it has changed over the years. Frank Elliott, who made his home there from 1952 to his passing in 2000, was one of Port Renfrew’s best known residents. He spent years in the woods; logging
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On guilt and innocence How much do we really ever know about anyone? Sooke residents have been rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct/assault by two people well-known in the community. In one case it was a Catholic priest and in the other a unassuming hermit living alone in the woods. Both of these men had charges brought against them, one had the courts decide guilt or innocence, the other was being judged in the court of public opinion. What needs to be understood is that charges of sexual assault are never easily laid and are rarely It’s a sad retaliatory. For kids to come forward and tell “what ending to a happened” is traumatic sad tale. for them and everyone involved. Young children rarely misunderstand what is happening to them. Sometimes it is just a “feeling” that something isn’t quite right. We all use our intuition as protection. Sexual predators are master manipulators and they choose their victims very carefully. Bonsai Bob is now neither innocent or guilty. He himself took away the possibility of proving his innocence and left a big question mark among his friends. They rallied around him, refusing to believe what he had been accused of. Was he misunderstood? Probably. Was he frightened of being incarcerated? Probably. All there is now is probabilities, the possibilities are gone. But the police and prosecutors would never put out a request for assistance if they didn’t think there were other victims — kids. They would have no reason to persecute an innocent man but they do have reason to protect innocent children. One side of the story will never be told. But we do have to believe the children. It’s a sad ending to a sad tale.
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Climate change and Tim Hortons On Wednesday, Feb. 20 the Sierra Club Victoria screened the film, White Water Black Gold, an environmental movie tracing a drop of water from its shrinking glacial source in the Rockies along the Athabasca River to the tar sands in Fort McMurray and beyond. The film clearly demonstrates the devastating environmental impacts of the tar sands development on the region and on the world and how our government institutions facilitate this development. To produce each barrel of tar sands oil requires 3.5 barrels of water with 80 per cent of the water being discharged into leaking toxic tailings ponds so large that they can be seen from space. There is currently no technological fix to clean up this enormous, ever-growing poisonous waste and there is not enough water in the river to support the expanding tar sands mining operations. The message was clear — to stop all development of fossil fuel infrastructure (pipe lines, oil upgrader plants, etc.) and to move to renewable energy resources. The audience of approximately 30 people was encouraged to share this film with others in the community to raise greater awareness of climate change and to motivate people to act individually to conserve energy and to act collectively to lobby government to stop subsidizing the oil industry, improve environmental regulation and support the development of renewable energy. It also became evident from the ensuing discussion that renewable energy has its own environmental costs and we need to find ways to consume less, as our current consump-
tion driven society is unsustainable. Climate change, polluting tar sands oil, and other destructive human impacts on our global environment are but symptoms of this overriding problem of overconsumption. The underlying cause of this problem is the moral ideology of materialism – the insatiable acquisition of material goods far beyond personal needs, becoming the very purpose of life. For many people, material possessions have become their dominant status symbol, the presumed source of happiness in their lives. Our current capitalist system is designed to promote consumption and is dependent on an ever-growing unsustainable economy in which wealth is being accumulated by powerful global corporations for the benefit of a few stakeholders at the expense of the rest of us. The ultimate power to resolve this problem and its destructive consequences is with each of us individually and more importantly all of us collectively. We can choose the moral values we want to live by and we can choose, what, how much and where to buy our goods and services based on these values not just price. Our world will survive and prosper to the extent that we can develop sustainable, cooperative local economies founded on spiritual principles or what some call human values. By owning, producing and consuming locally as much as possible, we can create a vibrant, prosperous local living economy. We have a particular opportunity here, as the Sooke region is an ideal ecologically sustainable region. Tim Hortons is a publicly traded
international corporation with all the trappings of global corporations. Through clever marketing, it has become a cultural icon in Canada, which is becoming known as the Timbits Nation. Tim Hortons commands 76 per cent of the Canadian market for baked goods (based on the number of customers served) and holds 62 per cent of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, in the number two position, at 7 per cent). Tim Hortons outsources its baked goods. Doughnuts, which used to be made at night in order to be ready for the morning rush, are now fully cooked and then frozen and delivered to every restaurant in Canada from Brantford, Ontario. Each restaurant bakes and finishes the product throughout the day. As of April 2007, many of the various muffin batters were revoked, as frozen, pre-made and pre-wrapped muffins were introduced to all bakers at Tim Hortons locations. (Source – Wikipedia) The restaurant buys nothing locally; most of the revenue and all of the profits leave the community; and some restaurants even import foreign workers rather than hire locally. My question is would you buy good tasting inexpensive coffee and locally baked goods from a local, cooperatively owned restaurant or would you rather eat pre-made food, with the appropriate chemical additives, from Brantford, Ontario and support Tim Hortons expansion in the Sultanate of Oman? Don Brown Sooke
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We asked: Do you use the Sooke Library? Are you familiar with the programs they offer?
Yes. My husband uses it more than I do because he has the time to read.
Yes. They do reading groups that I am aware of. We attended then when the kids were little.
Yes. The Sooke Library is great.
Occasionbally, and I am familiar with their services. I don’t use them as much as I should.
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No pooches in Pond Park I am perturbed that the District of Sooke is considering altering the use of the open Ponds Place/Acreman Place/Townsend Rd. 1.3 hectare park to an off-leash dog park. This small linear park with its gravel path is a delightful walk into town and is daily utilized by seniors, students from nearby Journey middle school and mothers with babies and toddlers among others. Many dog lovers also use it and some already unleash their pets in it to the annoyance of others. It is not suitable because of its small size and its established use as a walkway. Another issue is that I believe the builder of the adjacent original houses, in agreement with their owners, deeded this park to the municipality to freely enable its use by all citizens. I would submit that to allow a dog park to be established within it not only would degrade the park amenity but would also be a breach of faith to this agreement. The pet lobby have been very active, it seems, to pressure council for an off-leash park and it would appear there is an established need of such in Sooke. A previous reader highlighted the troublesome situation on Whiffin Spit with dog-droppings
LETTERS galore and dogs freely roaming among families and seniors due to selfish owners, caused in part by inadequte municipal signage and supervision. All dogs naturally love to bound free of the leash and exercise themselves and council should indeed assist in satisfying this need but, Pond Place Park is not suited to this use. My advice to council is leave the natural park as it is and do not degrade it. Do more due diligence in the matter and find a more suited area to assist dog owners in the care of their pets. Mr. E. A. Anderson Sooke
Sooke fine the way it is Just in case you hadn’t noticed, the world’s economy is in shambles, and we in Sooke are not immune to that. How would you encourage small businesses to “update and modernize their exteriors” when just staying open is a constant struggle? Developers already pay for most infrastructure, and again, in case you hadn’t noticed, sales of new real estate product is down. Realism is required. How about doing more shopping locally, and support those businesses that are struggling? How about easing up
on many of the regulations regarding development, so there might be a bit left over to ‘put in a pot.’ I love Sooke. To try to create some plastic “seaside community” to attract seniors to retire here is just silly. Sooke is a very attractive, and very real place with history and character. If you prefer a phony little tourist attraction, go to Las Vegas. A.J. Barber Sooke
Food bank support appreciated Thank you for all of the good support I have received from your news articles promoting the food bank and expressing our common needs for this supportive society. The first Port Renfrew Food Bank meeting will be successful thanks to you. The Renfrew community and the non-community people who have come forward so far indicate a great amount of concern for this endeavor. Thanks again to all of those in and out of Port Renfrew who support food banks. Bob Croteau Port Renfrew
Limit the halibut size Well, the halibut sea-
son will soon be upon us and with it the halibut derbies. Unfortunately, these derbies target the biggest fish which, sadly, are the spawning females. It’s something like opening the moose season for years for cows only. I wonder how long the moose population could withstand this type of foolishness. There are only two reasons why anyone would kill one of these large fish and both reasons are totally wrong. Number one, to win a prize; number two, to stroke one’s ego. It certainly isn’t because these large spawners are good eating. If we must have halibut derbies (and it seems we must) why not pick a specific size (say 50 pounds)? The angler that comes closest to it without going over is the winner. That way the prize is given, the ego is stroked, and we’ve shown responsible action towards preserving a priceless resource. Don Crowe Sooke
Land mines on the Spit Here comes yet another letter re: Whiff and S_it Park. I have lived here in Sooke since 1976, and have quit counting the number of letters to the editor re: dog feces. I just returned from visiting
a small town reliant on tourism. I stayed for three days walking the beaches and enjoying the company of many area people and their dogs. How many piles of dog feces did I see in those three days? Zero. Everyone looks after their own animals and their waste. So what is wrong with so many people here? First off, it is your dog/dogs so their waste is your responsibility. On Whiffin Spit most of said offences take place between the welcome sign and the first trash can corner. Leave your dog on leash so you can actually be aware that they are laying a land mine and then pick up those mines? Yes, I know sometimes there are no poop bags in the containers, so take a minute and let the District of Sooke know they need replacing. Better yet, bring your own. Sooke has bylaws and the following one applies to all of us. Bylaw 44 reads: “Where an animal defecates on a highway,
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Cont’d from page 9 public place or lands of any person other than the owner of the animal, the person having care, custody, or control of the animal shall immediately remove the excrement and dispose of it in a sanitary manner.” A high profile bylaw officer on the spit could effect change in a big way. She could hand out poop bags to the dog owners with directions on how to use them. Perhaps bylaw 54 should be enacted when necessary to encourage change in some people. This bylaw reads: “Any person who contravenes this Bylaw is liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 and the cost of prosecution. Every day during which there is an infraction of this Bylaw shall constitute a separate offence.” This also applies to the proposed off-leash dog park. I can only imagine what a walk in that park will be like. Sadly, enough said, yet again. Lexa Gollmer Otter Point
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LETTERS It was heart warming to read in the Feb. 13 edition of the Sooke News Mirror that Sooke is responding to the cry for help from the Sooke Food Bank. Kudos to the Girl Guides of all ages for their generous donation of 120 lbs. of food generated from a fun party at the Legion. Also, the idea of bringing one item to each meeting is a wonderful one. Perhaps other clubs would consider that idea. But, we all must remember these 6,200 people in Sooke who are struggling to feed themselves and their families. Children in our neighbourhoods are going hungry. Personally, I feel this is not acceptable. We are donating our charity money overseas because of sad commercials on TV. Our food bank has no means to reach people except through the paper, and by no fault of our own, we tend to forget. Something a lot of folks aren’t aware of is the coupons available at the cashiers at the two grocery stores here. When I have asked to buy a “B.C. Sharing Coupon,” some cashiers
don’t even know what it is. It is money that goes to the local food bank to buy fresh produce, dairy, meat, and sundry products. The coupons are only $2, and I have learned to ask for a food bank coupon, rather than “B.C. Sharing.” This idea was set up for all of B.C., and will contribute money to the local food banks wherever you buy one. Let’s shop here, and make donations if we can. Two dollars can go a long way. I recently bought 20 lbs. of potatoes for $4. These people are down on their luck, and as my mother used to say... “There but for the grace of God go I.” Nancy Most Sooke
Access but not unlimited Mr. Terrance Martin’s reference to eco-corporatism in his last letter was very interesting. Ms. Simeon’s involvement with a forest land conservancy organization and Mr. Arnold’s work in the area building wilderness access
trails (mostly on his own time and dollar) seem to put them in this category. Ithinkourcountry,our kids and our grand kids are much better off if we give our support (however we can) to this ecocorporate movement if it truly exists. It certainly is better than Mr. Harper’s style of corporate support on our tax dollar to corporations already making healthy profits while extracting the renewable and unrenewable resources of our country. I can remember back to when there was unlimited access to the upper Harbourview Road area, it was kind of a cross between a garbage dump and an auto wrecking yard before the CRD got involved. I don’t think we should risk going back there. There is still legal access to the area, hunting and fishing is still allowed, just not unlimited access. Everyone takes a trip up to bullsh*t mountain once in a while, I just hope not to get lost up there. Maybe we can improve the road access so people can get in and out of there quicker. Rod Nyberg Sooke
Vandals and vandalism Centuries ago, a tribe made themselves famous by wrecking things so we have a label for the doers and the deed. Vandals spoil other people’s property: public property that will be replaced or repaired from tax money; work places and business property that will be replaced or repaired through increased cost of the products produced or on sale; property belonging to a society established to support the salmon, or
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Shirley/Jordan River Advisory Planning Commission Meeting Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Time: 7:00 pm Place: Shirley Community Hall 2795 Sheringham Point Road, Shirley, BC 1. Proposed Bylaw a) Proposed Bylaw No. 3857, Juan de Fuca Land Use Bylaw, 1992, Amendment Bylaw No. 113, 2013 (Lot B, Section 90, Renfrew District, Plan 23273 (Invermuir Road) from Bylaw No. 2040 Forestry (AF) zone to Rural A Zone) Due to advertising deadline, other items may be included on the agenda. For confirmation or further information, please call 250.642.1500. Visit the JdF E.A. website: www.crd.bc.ca/jdf
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LETTERS Cont’d from page 10 to provide recreational areas, or shared space for dancing and meeting and holding craft fairs that will be replaced or not - by society members hard work and private property that will be replaced - or not from the unfortunate owner’s income. Gates go up. Prices go up. Walls, fences and locks go up. Taxes go up. There is nothing to show for the money spent because it is for repairs and replacements, not for new stuff. There is a community of good will that builds so much to share with others. There are more people willing to build than there are people who wreck stuff. It is really discouraging when the work and money goes out to fix things that someone wrecked on purpose. What motivates the people who break, paint and burn when no one is looking? What do they go home with? Maybe they are addicted to wrecking things and go home with nothing. Addicts spend themselves and the people around them. Maybe the cure is for them to get together and build something for themselves that they can enjoy, share and be proud of. But it is simple arithmetic: the more money and time the vandals have cost others before they get on with their own projects to support their own hobbies and interests, the less money and time the community will have to help them. Heather Phillips Sooke
Road rage Regarding the toursim scare tactics, (“Tourism in jeopardy,” Sooke News Mirror, Jan. 9, 2013) I have to side with Mr. Woodhouse on
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No hard angles for folk group This Saturday, March 2, The Sooke Folk Music Society is very excited to be presenting the Rakish Angles, all the way from the Sunshine Coast. This unique place conjured up a definitive sonic quartet called the Rakish Angles. Newgrass, Latin, gypsy-jazz, old-time music. None of these styles were born there, yet they have given inspiration to the vision of these fiercely local musicians, who hail from various parts around Canada. There’s gentle paradox that slides alongside the band and maybe that’s why their music and performances strike a chord. They simultaneously say “sweet and mysterious, novel and worn, perfectionistic and fatalistic.” The quiet clash is honest, musical and natural. Since forming in 2007, The Rakish Angles, composed of Serena Eades (violin), Simon Hocking (mandolin), Boyd Norman (bass), and Dan Richter (guitar), have been making their own noise, literal or otherwise. They’ve managed to garner nominations for a Canadian Folk Music Award in 2009 as well as a Western Canadian Music Award in 2010 and 2012. As word of the band spreads, the emotional connection is the characteristic that comes through the loudest.
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The Rakish Angles perform for the Sooke Fiolk Music Society this Saturday, March. 2. They themselves will tell you their raison d’ètre isn’t necessarily about unfolding the corners of musical innovation until the wheels come off, although they dabble in that regard. They are capable of finding new latitude, but it isn’t that, their technical proficiency or their well-chosen lyrics, it’s much more basic and raw than that. They bypass the intellectual filters and spark something in the emotional centre of the brain, and they’re doing what they’re supposed to do.
Listen to their second album, Cottonwood Moon (released 2011), created during that winter in a musty A-frame cabin over looking Georgia Strait and belonging to the album’s engineer Montreal musician Courtney Wing. Listen to the title track, simple, clean progression, perfect and unpolished notes, timeless, broken words, such as “...time drains like wine.” It does, doesn’t it? A word about the name. ‘Rakish’ is an adjective meaning, ‘having or displaying a dashing, jaunty or
slightly disreputable quality or appearance.’ How this embodies the band, it can’t quite be told exactly. Sure, you’ll probably find them jaunty and jovial, but they ain’t so disreputable. They’re family people. They sing into one collective microphone. They themselves are warm, woodentimbered, natural, mysterious folk - much like the place where they live. Maybe time will tell just what exactly the word can mean and what it is meant to sound like. Until then, it’s about playing music. Please join us this Saturday evening, March 2 at Holy Trinity Anglican Church on Murray Road for what promises to be a night of lively and polished music from this fantastic quartet. Doors open at 7:30 and the show starts at 8. Tickets are available at the door or in advance at Shoppers Drug Mart.
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Discovery afternoons at John Muir Britt Santowski
“We’ll be doing this for four Fridays, and after the March break we will be doing another four Fridays with something different. “John Muir wants to help the community too. We will be holding a toy sale in March to help raise money for the food bank in Sooke.” Discovery classes run every second Fridays, and will enjoy a second application after the March break. The program is influenced by the Journey middle school’s Exploratory program, but it is uniquely structure for students at the elementary level.
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John Muir elementary school has started a new program called “Discovery,” where students from grades one through five choose from a list of options a topic they would like to focus on, or discover, in the next four sessions. Available options are pottery, sewing, beach combing and a special gym class. Students spend the afternoon with the teacher of their Discovery class. The program is not grade specific but subject specific, which enables the students to intermingle and “explore new ways of learning” according to Stephanie HedleySmith, the school’s principal. “Teachers are sharing their passion with kids. The kids got to pick what passion they go to,” Hedley-Smith said.
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Upcoming Public Meetings Mayor’s Public Advisory Panels The public is invited to attend the Mayor’s Public Advisory Panel meetings at the Prestige Resort Meeting Room: - Economic Development - Steve Grundy, Chair – 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm - Arts and Beautification - Brenda Parkinson, Chair – 4th Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm PLEASE NOTE: The Arts and Beautification Panel meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 28, 2013 has been changed to Thursday March 7, 2013 at 7:00 pm - Community Health and Social Issues - Nicky Logins, Chair – 2nd Wednesday of each month 7:00 pm
This schedule is subject to change. Please call 250-642-1634 to confirm meetings. Council meeting agendas may be viewed at www.sooke.ca
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Mia W. of John Muir elementary school constructs her mask in the pottery class.
The Pastor's Pen CHANCING ONE’S ARM It was 1492 and two prominent families were feuding in Dublin, Ireland. The Earl of Kildare was besieging the Earl of Ormand who had taken refuge in the chapter house of St. Patrick’s cathedral with his family and bolted themselves in. As the siege wore on, the Earl of Kildare concluded that this feuding was foolish. Here were two families worshiping the same God, in the same church, living in the same country, trying to kill each other. So Kildare called out to the Ormands the he was willing to call a truce. But the Earl of Ormand, who was convinced that it was a scheme, refused to come out of the cathedral. So Kildare grabbed his spear, chopped a hole in the door with it, and thrust his hand through. There was a tense moment until his hand was grasped by another hand inside the church. The door was opened and the two men embraced, thus ending the family feud. That door with the rectangular hacked out holed is still there In Dublin. The story also made its way to Scotland where they have a saying, "Chancing one’s arm." It means to "take a chance" especially in reaching out to someone in reconciliation. God was “chancing his arm” in sending His Son to this world to make peace with sinful humanity through the sacri¿ce of the cross. Will we grab the hand or chop it off? to make it visible. Use it! Pastor Dwight Geiger
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Reader’s Photo of the Week Sooke News Mirror reader Chris Cowley sent along this picture of a kestrel taken in Sunriver. Reader’s Photo of the Week is sponsored by Ellen Bergerud. Send your good quality jpeg photos to: editor@sookenewsmirror.com and we will publish them as space permits.
On Wednesday, March 6 Awareness Film Night and Sooke Food CHI will be hosting their annual Farming and Gardening Gala at Edward Milne community school. The theme is, “Stories from women farmers, old and new.” The evening will include films, a panel discussion, booths featuring local produce, products, farming and gardening information, tea and goodies by the EMCS Culinary Arts class and gift basket door prizes. The leading film is a classic from the 1990’s titled Outstanding In Her Field, an all-women cooperative project made by and featuring women farmers of Southern Vancouver Island, including Sooke’s Mary Alice Johnson. This film had the aim “to inspire others to involve themselves in sustainable agriculture on any scale - to join us in this lifestyle that nurtures the ecosystem, our families and our communities and ourselves.” An aim that has been realized in most remarkable ways. This half-hour-long movie will be followed
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SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 tive, living lightly on the earth like him. Bob has cared for several generations of young people over the years, young people who would come to him for a break from their alcoholic or abusive parents, from their awful home lives to be with this peaceful, Buddhist man living next to the river in a humble cottage without power
or the conveniences of life. A man surrounded by trees and living out his days taking care of them, a man devoted to the simple but labour intensive task of making his corner of the world a beautiful place. How could the RCMP have had the nerve to visit him last
week and give him one week to leave town? It is patently obvious to me that Bob has suffered from RCMP intimidation. I believe you are still innocent until convicted, and if that is still true, then this paper, and the Times Colonist have failed this citizen in a huge way.
You alienated him and besmirched his good name. Well Sooke News Mirror and Times Colonist, you have sunk to a new low. Way to let the RCMP rule Sooke in a brutalistic, heavy handed way. I have loved living in Sooke because I love the people here, the community. I love how welcomed my husband and I felt moving here
from the opposite side of the country, how real and honest people are here. How we help each other out. But this? Well Sooke, I’m just not that into you anymore, and it’s not me, it’s you. Sarah Richer East Sooke Editor’s note: We printed only what the police provided for information.
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Helping families escape homelessness Jennifer Blyth Black Press
While the Capital Region’s high cost of living can make finding affordable housing tricky enough for a single person, finding and maintaining a home for a family can be even more challenging. Add additional challenges such as a job loss or family break-up, and families can be left without a roof over their heads, forced to sleep in their car or couch surf with friends and family, The Sooke Family Resource Centre sees families who are at high risk of homelessness due to many factors, including poverty, mental health issues, family violence, addictions and job loss. “Many families are living ‘on the edge,’ paycheck to paycheck, and are vulnerably housed – facing possible evictions, or unable to find homes they can afford,” explains Executive Director Nicky Logins. “Most vulnerable are our youth, young children and adults living on disability income. Homeless youth are couch surfing; some families are ‘taking in’ their children’s friends who have nowhere to go, or are not safe in their own homes.” According to the Coalition to End Homelessness’ recent Report on Housing & Supports, the hourly living wage required in 2012 to maintain an adequate quality of life for a two-parent, two-child family in Greater Victoria was $18.07 – both parents would need to work 35 hours per week at this wage to cover the costs of living – not including servicing debt, saving for holidays, a second car, children’s education, to buy a home or for retirement. More than a quarter of people in the region earn less than required to sustain an adequate quality of life. The high cost of living materializes in other ways as well. The report also noted that more than 19,000 individuals accessed
Greater Victoria’s high housing costs can make finding a home to fit a family a challenge. Greater Victoria food banks in March 2011 – including more than 5,500 children. In fact, 49 per cent of people accessing food banks were families. The Sooke Family Resource Centre offers a variety of supportive programs. Family Support Workers help families work through issues affecting the family health and well-being, including issues leading to vulnerable housing situations. The Caring for Community Affordable Counselling program offers sliding-scale, fee-for-service counselling for individuals, couples, families, children and youth, who often identify housing issues as a key stress. The Youth Outreach and Navigator program helps homeless youth find housing, while youth counsellors help with life skills training and transitioning to independent living. Youth are supported with access to clothing, food and transportation, if needed.
How can you help? • Get involved in the discussion around homelessness and the needed services. • Donate – your time, food, clothing, supplies and money to provide services are essential to help community organizations continue their much-needed work. • For information about the Sooke Family Resource Society, call www.sfrs.ca • For information about the Sooke Transition House, visit www.sooketransitionhousesociety.com
The SFRS Clothing Exchange supports family needs for clothing, small furnishings and bedding, a great service supported by generous donations from the Sooke community. Some SFRS programs also have access to food/grocery vouchers to support families with the high costs of living. Ultimately, however, more affordable – truly affordable – housing must be made available for families, Logins says. Currently, a M’akola Housing and St. Vincent de Paul Society partnership is implementing new affordable units for some sectors of the adult and youth populations, but families with children don’t fit the criteria to access this opportunity. In addition, Sooke youth need local transitional and temporary housing, while young adults and young parenting families need local affordable housing opportunities. “Most Sooke homeless youth do not feel safe outside of their home community and resist travelling to Victoria for services,” Logins notes. Instead, families and youth need help to stay in their homes, help with parenting issues, help with addictions and mental health issues, and help learning to live on insufficient incomes. The public is key to finding solutions. “Public opinion can impact municipal and regional decisions about affordable housing to improve availability of homes that families can afford,” Logins says. “As a community, we are only so strong as the most vulnerable of us. We cannot ignore the weakest links; we cannot turn our heads away from the needs of others.”
Society helps women find path from family violence While the perception remains that Sooke is community where housing is more affordable th other areas of the Capital Region, it remains large unattainable for many women and families esca ing family violence. Because many women experiencing violen have been isolated from friends, family and co munity, they often have no resources to call up when they want to leave the situation, explains t Sooke Transition House Society’s Arlene Rees. While the Sooke Transition House provid emergency shelter for women experiencing v lence and their children, there is no second sta housing, Rees notes. The question becomes, the where do these women and their children once their 30 days at the Transition House ha passed? For women without financial or comm nity resources, too many are forced to choo between homelessness and returning to the unsa home situation. Because of the limited housing-related resourc available in Sooke, women who are not in imm nent danger can be difficult to assist. The Tran tion House Society can turn away five or more ca a week from people who may not be in a critical s uation with respect to their personal safety, but a in desperate need of housing, Rees says, pointi out that with Victoria’s high cost of living, incom assistance is woefully inadequate. In addition to the emergency shelter, the socie also offers a variety of counselling services f women and children and an outreach worker f the community. And believing that prevention of relationsh violence is preferable to treating the results of Rees also founded a program designed to he girls feel comfortable in their own skin, increa self-confidence and show them that there are alt natives to what can seem like a future with fe options, especially in a small community with fe job opportunities for young people. Young Women of Spirit exposes participants a variety of dynamic women as a way to expa their horizons. For example, Rees recently broug in “Reel Youth,” a Vancouver film and producti company that taught the girls the basics of v eography – setting up a scene, light, sound, etc and then asked them to make a video about wh the program has meant to them. The results we remarkable, both in their personal reflections a the professionalism of the video produced. “I been really successful,” Rees says. “The more w build resources and capacity in young women, t better the likelihood of them finding success.” Supported by the United Way of Greater V toria, the program has enjoyed such favourab results that Rees recently expanded to a young demographic with Young Girls of Spirit.
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SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 A look through the Sooke News Mirror archives: Feb. 27, 2008 Teen lucky to be alive after near miss with dump truck Crystal Thorne is lucky to be alive after a near-death experience with a dump truck. The Edward Milne community school student was crossing Sooke Road to the school last Wednesday when she was hit by the truck. Crystal luckily rolled out from under the truck and was able to get up. She suffered a minor concussion as well as scrapes and bruises. Feb. 26, 2003 Petition stops training fire A neighbourhood petition containing 28 signatures has halted the torching of a Sooke Bluffs home Sunday afternoon for a Sooke fire department training exercise. The fire department had planned to burn down an empty residence at 7083 Richview Drive to clear the
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LOOKING BACK valuable waterfront property for a new home being built by an unidentified Alberta owner. Feb. 25, 1998 Taxpayers will pay more for parks and recreation Sooke property owners will be shelling out about $7 more this year in taxes to pay for the electoral area’s parks and recreation programs. Regional director Diane Bernard will be boosting the Sooke Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Commission budget by $62,494 this year. The increase brings the 1998 parks and recreation budget up to $652,494. While figures are not yet in on the total the average homeowner will pay in 1998, last year the average homeowner paid $71.58.
has cleared its first governmental hurdle. If all goes smoothly, construction could start early this fall and the buildings could be in place within a year. The Sooke Advisory Planning Commission has sent the proposal by JCB Holdings, the owners of Sooke’s Village Food Market, to the General Municipal Services Committee of the Capital Regional District with its stamp of approval. In addition to the grocery store, the twobuilding centre will also
feature the new quarters of Pacific Coast Savings and Evergreen Paint and Hardware, as well as other office and retail space. Feb. 24, 1988 Stiff fine ‘a lesson for others’ Sooke man must pay $2,500 for selling sportcaught fish Federal Fishery Officer John Stephen says that last week’s conviction and heavy fine for a Sooke man who sold illegally-caught sports fish to an undercover
officer is a lesson for anyone else who might be considering trying the same thing. Keray Regan, 41, of Sooke, was fined $2,500 for selling illegallycaught fish. He also had his boat, motor and fishing gear confiscated and will be prohibited from holding a sport or fishing licence for two years.
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What’s Up in Sooke This Week Thurs. Fri. February 28 March 1 SOOKE PUBLIC LIBRARY Freedom to Read Week continues. SEAPARC Free Community Adult Walking Group. Tuesdays and Thursdays 10-11 a.m. Preregistration required. Call 250-642-8000 for info. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Cribbage 7 p.m. Pool Darts 7:30 p.m.
SOOKE PUBLIC LIBRARY Freedom to Read Week continues. VITAL VITTLES Free lunch 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Holy Trinity Church Murray Road. All welcome. INTERCHURCH WORLD DAY OF PRAYER St Rose of Lima Church, Townsend Rd. 1p.m. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Short mat bowling 1-3 p.m. $11 Steak Night 6-7:30 p.m. Drop-in Darts 8 p.m. Karaoke with Pete & Megan8-11 p.m.
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Szadkowski, Elizabeth Catherine October 15, 1923 - February 17, 2013 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the peaceful passing of Elizabeth Catherine Szadkowski. Mom was born in the coal mining town of Michel/ Natal, B.C. on October 15, 1923 and went on to lead a full and happy life. She grew up in the loving Gergel Family who instilled the strong sense of faith and the importance of family. It was here she met Chester, a dashing young man from Poland, and they married on April 28, 1951. They soon followed family to Ladysmith where they welcomed their own three children. Work opportunities later brought the young family to Sooke where they went on to host many celebrations, always with a focus on family, friends, and delicious food! Although heartbroken over the loss of Dad in 1994, she continued to shower her growing family with unconditional love. Her final days were spent surrounded by the family she adored - her daughter Kathy (Glen) Smale, son Randy (Laurie) Szadkowski and daughter Carolyn (Janice) Szadkowski, her much loved grandchildren Nicholas (Tera) Szadkowski, Brianne (Chris) Crocker, Kari (Reagan) Stauble and cherished great-grandchildren Mikayla, Gracie Elizabeth, Nixon, Barrett, Hudson and the much anticipated arrival of baby Stauble. Pre-deceased by her siblings Anne, Joey, and Mary, she leaves her sister Margaret Weaver and numerous nieces and nephews and their families. She will also be missed by her many friends. She was a woman of strong faith and the heart of our family. We will miss our family’s matriarch and promise to lovingly honour the traditions she has taught us. Thank you to the many family and friends who attended Mom’s Funeral Mass and reception at St. Rose of Lima Church, on Tuesday, February 26. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the BC Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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Helping your child with math: Why it’s important “Why do I need to know this stuff?� When I was in school, I had to do arithmetic, and almost every day I questioned its usefulness. I couldn’t see the need for some of the things I was learning. Why did I need to know how to divide fractions, or do long division, or measure an angle? Arithmetic skills are valuable because a basic knowledge and understanding of facts, formulas, calculations,
and procedures is a necessary foundation for learning mathematics. Arithmetic is a small first step in learning math; math is much much more than simple arithmetic. So why do we need math? Learning math is important for a number of reasons: • Students learn how to creatively and effectively solve problems using a variety of strategies. • Students learn to communicate using concrete objects, pictures, numbers, words,
and symbols. • Students learn how to think; during class discussions they learn how to reflect on and explain their work, and they question, defend, and evaluate their own and each other’s solutions. • Students learn how to make connections and see relationships between math and other subjects. • Students learn how to apply their problem solving skills, communication skills and thinking skills to everyday life. In math class, students develop, strengthen, and extend their mathe-
matical thinking by talking with their teacher and classmates. • Students learn to organize, review, and discuss the strategies they use to solve problems and the solutions they discover; learning through problem solving strengthens understanding. When math students become better problem solvers, thinkers and communicators, they become better decision makers. Students who are successful in math are more innovative, confident and competent, not only in other
school subjects, but also at home, at work, and in their everyday lives. They are more capable of processing information, have many more career opportunities and are better prepared to live in a world of evolving technology. Sooke resident, Greg Sparks, M.Ed, is a retired Adult Upgrading Instructor, Special Education Resource Teacher, classroom teacher, and Elementary Numeracy Coordinator. Please send any questions, comments and/or suggestions to: gregsparks50@ hotmail.com.
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Sports & Recreation Gord Sleivert Memorial game raises $2,300 for local family Game Highlights: After several scoreless minutes, Aron Swanton scored short-side on Darren Fogarty to give the home team Stick Magnets an early lead. Swanton and Rich D’Appolonia traded goals advancing the Stick Magnets to a 2-1 lead. Intermission provided an opportunity for the Benchwarmers’ coaches to express their displeasure with their team’s effort in the first half. This proved to be the turning point: the Benchwarmers came out flying and goals by Dave Kendall, Kevin Ryan and Mike Craig took a 4-2 lead. Exceptional mention goes to Stick Magnets’ goaltender Bill Greenhough who
made countless spectacular saves. After taking a 6-3 lead, it was Fogarty’s turn to put on a goaltending display. In reaction to the Benchwarmers’ undisciplined play, Fogarty was called upon to stop four penalty shots in a row. The final two penalty shots were taken at the same time. In the face of this adversity and Kevin Berger’s flying glove, Fogarty made both saves to preserve the Benchwarmers’ 6-3 victory. This great event for a worthwhile cause was made possible by the fans in attendance, the efforts of the volunteers, the organizers and sponsors. Submitted by Donna Perman
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Kari Sleivert with her three children (l to r) Lachlan, Benjamin and Brianne do the ceremonial puck drop with team captains Steve Millward and Ken Gilbertson.
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On Saturday, Feb. 23, the Sooke Minor Hockey Association played a coaches-only fund-raising hockey game. The coaches were divided into two teams: The Benchwarmers (visitors) and the Stick Magnets (home). Each coach who played donated $20, and the referees volunteered their time as well. “We’re keeping it calm tonight,” said Darren Fogarty, the association President, “No slap-shots. We all have to work the next day so we want to keep it fun. No penalties, there’s going to be penalty shots instead.”
The fund-raising coaches-only hockey game has been renamed in honour of Gord Sleivert. “As most of the community knows, Gord was a member with the Sooke Minor Hockey as a coach, a mentor, [and he was] active as president three years ago, so we’ve changed the name to the Gord Sleivert Memorial. That way, we’re going to remember his name for years to come,” said Fogarty. The final score was 6 - 3 for the Benchwarmers, the “visiting” team. The fund-raising game also raised more than $2,300. All proceeds to go to a local Sooke family. With notes from Donna Perman
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Heals Range is located west of the junction of Willis Point Road and Wallace Drive, in Saanich, BC. The coordinates are 48° 32’ 40” North, 123° 27’ 00” West.
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Eythan Griffin of the EMCS Boys Jr. Basketball team doing drills at practice. As of Feb. 22 the EMCS Jr. Boys Basketball team ranked fourth out of 10 in the league. On Feb. 26 EMCS squares off against Esquimalt. The winner of that game plays today, Feb. 27 in Esquimalt.
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Dreyden Alexander had a five point game including three goals, and Domini LaCroix picked up another hat trick as the team handily beat the Peninsula Eagles C2 team in a regular season game on Saturday afternoon. Sooke racked up 36 shots; the Peninsula Panthers returned with 26 shots against Max Clouser. Goal scores for Sooke included Dreyden Alexander (4), Dominic LaCroix (3), Leif NorquayPahl, Sheldon Kelley
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Sooke Novice 2W improves their game The Sooke Novice 2W team played two back-to-back games Feb. 23 and 24. First, the team played in Lake Cowichan. The Lakers were a great opponent and it was back and forth for all three periods. Sooke came out on top with a 9-8 win. The offence was powered by Dumont, Ouellette and Stanley. Hard fore-checking came from Jackson Jenkins, Samantha Kingcott and Rylan Roper allowing for scoring opportunities. Wiley had a defensive game and helped clear the puck from in front of his own goal on many occasions. Tyson Robinson picked up his first win of the season in his second appearance between the pipes. Next afternoon, the Sooke Novice 2W team hosted the Sooke Novice 2B team at SEAPARC. The 2W squad got points from Brumovsky, Cool, Dumont, Jenkins, Ouellette and Stanley. Strong puck play came from Kingcott, Robinson, Roper and Wiley. Alex Rose kept the opposition snipers quiet most of the afternoon and he picked up the win. The play and skill of the players has improved tremendously. It is miles from where they all started at the beginning of the year. Your hard work is paying off team, you should all be proud of yourselves! Wayne Robinson
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Sooke’s PeeWee C2 hockey team represented our community with the friendly and fun attitude we are known for. The extremely wellrun tournament hosted by the Seattle Junior Hockey Association was a success for our Sooke team. Our Pee Wee team won one game and lost three, but all games were a fight to the end. In the skills competition there were
four players chosen from all 16 participating teams and our team won first in the Skating Skills (Sean MacDonald) and second in the Skating Endurance (Brandon Jay). Our entire team and entourage won the prestigious Team Pride Award. This was a great opportunity to showcase our fabulous town of Sooke and the District of Sooke pins we gave out to every team
we played against were a big hit! Thanks to the city of Sooke for providing us with them as well as Markus’ Wharfside Restaurant, The Sooke Harbour House, The Prestige and The Stickleback Restaurant for donating so many of your bottles to our fundraising. We are lucky to live in a very supportive community, thanks to everyone for making this tourna-
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As of March 1st, mountain biking enthusiasts will be able to register for the BC Mountain Bike Tourism Symposium held here in Sooke on May 26 - 28, 2013. This two-day event will be held at the Prestige Oceanfront Resort, and will attract people from throughout the province. “At the last symposium in 2008 we had about 100 delegates,” says Martin Littlejohn, the Executive Director of Western Canada Mountain Bike Tourism Association. “We are hoping for about 150 to 200 delegates for the Sooke symposium.” According to their press release, the symposium will offer knowledgeable speakers and interactive panels of experts discussing key issues, networking opportunities with stakeholders from around the province, plus a variety of social events, and announcements and updates on new initiatives. There will also be a pre-symposium Trail Development Workshop, May 25-26, featuring expertise from International Mountain Bicycling Association Canada. The symposium will focus on the development of trails, including how to build, fund and sustain them. The symposium will also focus on how to market the destination. “How we want to build onto B.C.’s brand, position ourselves and present the wide range of experiences that are available here. It’s a good opportunity for people to share resources, knowledge and build bridges,” says Littlejohn “We are really looking forward to having this in Sooke, and we hope to enjoy some of the local culture that exists there. We’re hoping to leave a bit of a legacy behind for the community especially in terms of creating relationships among the various stake holders, to see it grow and flourish.” To register or to find out more details visit www. mtbtourismsymposium.ca.
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