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inform the need. What I’m trying to do is be an advocate: gathering evidence, having a look at the need and at what’s out there, to help make a compelling Cars whiz by Coun. Dean Murdock case to quantify that need that exists.” on Wilkinson Road as he walks not on a Colin Doyle, Saanich’s director of sidewalk, but on a dusty gravel path. engineering, says the existing pedesIt’s this kind of pedestrian-unfriendly trian plan isn’t the be-all-end-all for his roadway that Murdock plans to spend department when determining sidewalk his summer touring to get a better priorities. sense of where sidewalks are needed in “The (pedestrian plan) is never a Saanich. replacement for the nuances that our “Wilkinson is a major challenge, parstaff see in their work every day. We ticularly as you get to the five road inject good old common sense into intersection. Just west of there there’s (determining priority roads) to make a serious lack of sidewalks,” Murdock sure everything fits,” Doyle said. said. “That is, we know, a major vehicle “As land changes, the model changes. corridor. We’ve got commercial there, Something like Uptown happens and we’ve got the Camosun campus, we’ve that creates the need for additional sidegot tech centre, we’ve got PISE, but walks. Until we have a there are no sidewalks.” sidewalk on every road While Saanich engineers “I think if we in Saanich, we’re not have a document that helps determine which continued on the path really finished, are we?” Saanich currently sidewalk construction we’re on now, it’ll be classifies roads into projects get annual fundwell over 30 years three categories: major, ing, the councillor said it and residential. doesn’t go far enough. before we get to all the arterial Major roads should “What we don’t have is major and connector have a sidewalk on both a long-term approach or sides of the street; arteroad map on how we’re roads. ” rial roads get a sidegoing to meet this need in – Dean Murdock walk on one side, and the long run,” he said. Saanich councillor residential roads get no “I think if we continued sidewalk. on the path we’re on now, “What you find if you look at our road it’ll be well over 30 years before we get classification system, there’s still lots of to all the major and connector roads. gaps in that inventory,” Doyle said. “If you look at our neighbouring Murdock hopes his walking tour will communities – Oak Bay, Victoria, Langbring attention to those gaps, and ultiford – you see sidewalks on most of mately lead to an approach that makes the streets, particularly the ones wellSaanich a more accessible community. travelled, and in Saanich that’s not the “Residents have expressed very case.” clearly that there is a need for sideAfter touring the municipality, Murwalks, and we need to plan on how dock says he intends to make a recomwe’re going to meet that need.” mendation to council that Saanich creResidents interested in having Murate a sidewalk strategy that examines dock walk their sidewalk-less streets can how a comprehensive pedestrian route contact him at info@deanmurdock.ca, or is achievable. on Twitter (@Dean_Murdock). “I’m using this sidewalk tour to help

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The historic Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse sites, in View Royal and Saanich respectively, are expected to undergo big changes as the province looks to move away from having them operate as moneylosing museums. The two sites, sitting on either side of the Craigflower bridge, were operated by The Land Conservancy as museums for a decade. That organization handed them both back to the province earlier this year. The government this week said it is seeking expressions of interest from organizations to ensure the “financial viability and self-sufficiency of the lands.” “We want (the sites) to become one big recreational landscape in the midst of these communities. It has real potential – we see this as an opportunity to rejuvenate the cultural landscape,” said Richard Linzey, manager of heritage programs with the province’s heritage branch. “How can we take these historic sites and move them into the 21st century, both visually and functionally?” Linzey said while the province has no fixed ideas on what the sites could become, there’s a strict process to evaluate the expressions of interest, to ensure the heritage value

of the sites isn’t lost. “We have a mandate under the Heritage Conservation Act to manage the heritage values, that’ll be front and centre when we’re looking at these proposals,” he said. As an example, Linzey suggested the manor could become the headquarters for a group that teaches food security or backyard gardening. “What I like about that example is that it interprets the heritage value of Craigflower Manor real well in a modern idiom,” he said. Up until this year, the province was contributing $80,000 per year toward upkeep and maintenance of the sites, and TLC was spending donor dollars on the sites as well. “We simply can’t afford to manage them on behalf of the province anymore,” Alastair Craighead, chair of TLC board, told the News in January. “Our donations are precious and we really want to apply them to lands we own.” Craighead suggested the sites become community venues for events instead of museums. Organizations have until August 19 to submit expressions of interest. Linzey hopes to have the new Craigflower sites in operation when the bridge replacement project is complete, now set for March 2014. – with files from Charla Huber kslavin@saanichnews.com

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Difficulties in acquiring steel to build the new Craigflower Bridge has forced Saanich and View Royal to push the scheduled completion back four months. Originally set to be complete in by Dec. 1, Jim Hemstock, Saanich’s manager of capital projects, says March 2014 is the new timeline. “We might be able to improve it, but we still have quite a ways to go. One of the concerns we have now is we’ll be doing a lot of this work during the winter,” he said.

The soon-to-be-vacated space that houses the Emily Carr library is slated to become a new home to the Saanich police department. Saanich council on Monday approved spending up to $975,000 to convert the 40-year-old building into new office space for the police. “What this does in the immediate term is relieve space requirements. We have been adding staff – some for policing, some of it for community policing, some of it for oversight because of provincial laws – and we’ve had to convert

“It would be a lot of money on a short-term benefit. This (building) being our own asset, it just seems like a better use of taxpayers’ money,” Leonard said. In April of this year the Greater Victoria Public Library approved moving the Emily Carr branch to a new space at Uptown. In May, Saanich council approved a $1.5-million contract with Morguard Investments, which owns Uptown, to lease the new library space for 10 years. Saanich police units likely won’t move into 3500 Blanshard St. until next year, after the old library space undergoes renovations. kslavin@saanichnews.com

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Saanich police are putting out yet another reminder to car owners not to leave valuables in their vehicles and to lock their doors, following another spate of thefts from vehicles. At least eight vehicles were entered overnight between July 1 and 2 in the Blekinsop and Union roads area of Saanich – seven of which were left unlocked. A number of items were taken, including loose change, small electronics and some cigars. Police in the region saw a dramatic spike in thefts from autos in May, including 37 in Saanich alone. An arrest made on June 4 resulted in fewer reported incidents in June, but the problem persists. “(Residential streets) are very target-rich environments. When someone is looking to break in to vehicles, they would rather go somewhere where the houses are very close together and there’s a likelihood that they’re going to find vehicles unlocked in a relatively short time period,” said Sgt. Steve Eassie. The best advice, he says, is to remove all items of value from your car when it’s parked, and if possible, park in a secure, locked garage. Anyone with information on thefts from autos can call 250-475-4321.

Biotechnology student Jorge Peña, left, shows off a compound that holds promise in terms of shutting down cancerous cells at the genetic level, with engineering student Anup Daté looking on. Peña and Daté are two of 14 foreign students working at the University of Victoria this summer under the Mitacs-Globalink program.

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For Jorge Peña and Anup Daté, a summer at the University of Victoria provided hands-on training in high-tech research, and a chance to explore a scenic new city. For Canada, it’s a 12-week opportunity to convince the brightest young minds from emerging economies to relocate here. Peña, a 23-year-old biotechnology student from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico, tackled cutting-edge research in epigenetics, a field that holds promise in cancer diagnostics and treatment. Daté, 21, studies engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and advanced techniques in capturing large amounts of waste heat to allow far more efficient heating of buildings. They are two of 14 science and engineering interns from Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey or Vietnam who attended UVic this summer, and of 280 in Canada, under the Mitacs-Globalink program. “It’s a reverse brain-drain program,” quipped professor Fraser Hof in UVic’s department of chemistry, who oversaw Peña’s work. “It targets countries with high-quality people. Hopefully they come back as a graduate student.” “It’s very competitive,” adds Rustom Bhiladvala, a professor of

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but we need to know how it interacts in body fluids.” Hof noted that this avenue of research was only recently discovered “by accident,” like any great innovation. “It is completely brand new. We came up with it a month before Jorge joined us,” Hof said. At UVic, Daté, who happily explored the Sooke Potholes and areas like Cadboro Bay, tackled the potentially far-reaching problem of how to efficiently capture and store heat produced in buildings by studying the various properties of “phase change materials” that can hold large amounts of heat in a liquid form. “This is looking at ways to cut building heat loads,” Daté said. “We want to trap heat created

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by solar and waste heat (such as from air conditioning), and store it for later.” “Our buildings are very poorly designed thermally,” Bhiladvala remarked. “We throw heat away when we don’t want it, and pay for it when we do want it. We’re at a stage of trying to alleviate that.” Both students are returning to their home countries after July 15, but both are eager to return to UVic for post-graduate degrees. “The weather is brilliant here and the people are awesome,” Daté said. “I think I’ll come back. If I’m accepted of course.” “I’m hoping to come back for my PhD,” Peña said. “I really like Canada. The people are polite and helpful.” editor@saanichnews.com


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Hartland comes into focus for sewage sludge plant Location not a done deal, says Saanich mayor Kyle Slavin News staff

While Esquimalt and Vic West residents are breathing a collective sigh of relief now that plans to build a sewage sludge plant in their neighbourhood have been axed, residents living in rural Saanich and Willis Point are preparing for a fight of their own. Last Wednesday, the Capital Regional District abandoned a proposal to place a biosolids plant at Viewfield Road in Esquimalt’s light industrial park. With that, Hartland landfill in Saanich becomes the No. 1 location. Jeff Irwin, chair of the Willis Point Community Association, fears there are too many potential risks from the facility, and having to build an 18 kilometre pipeline McLoughlin Point

in Esquimalt across the city to Hartland. By the CRD’s own count the pipe would cross 10 waterways and 12 major roads. “We’re very concerned about if there’s a problem with this plan, there could be contamination for our wells. We’re worried about pipelines running across the municipalities. We’re worried about the increased traffic load on our one road going in and out. We’re worried about possible increased demand for our local volunteer fire department,” Irwin said. Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard says it’s premature for residents to be making up their minds on a proposed facility. “I would hope the CRD would have a chance to make a proposal and describe it and listen to concerns, and then come back with mitigations and amenities. Then people would pass judgment once everything is known,” he said. A biosolids plant at Hartland has been written into the regional sewage treatment plan

approved by the province, but Leonard said regardless of the CRD’s intent, using Hartland isn’t a done deal. A rezoning application will be required to come before Saanich council. “I’m making it clear to the CRD, as I would anybody else, council is the last place you go. The first place you go is to the community. In this case that’s the rural Saanich community, the people of Willis Point, and even people in the Highlands should be engaged,” he said. Andy Orr, spokesperson for the CRD, said there is currently no timeline for getting a rezoning application before Saanich, but said “it needs to happen fairly quickly.” Irwin says there hasn’t been much communication with the CRD as of yet, but expects there will be community meetings in the near future to discuss the plans for Hartland. “It worries me that the CRD’s going to do whatever they want and not really consult with us at all,” he said.

Baby Molly dies after cancer battle Daniel Palmer News staff

Victoria's Molly Campbell has died after a twoyear battle with cancer. The toddler was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, at just 28 days old. She succumbed to the disease at St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Wednesday morning. "Your support has meant so much, and I know the Campbell family will appreciate additional prayers and love in the coming weeks," said family friend Emma Irwin, in a blog post on mollycampbell.ca. "No family should have to go through this."

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fter six decades of waiting, Canadian veterans of the Korean War are finally being recognized with their own day of remembrance. The federal government proclaimed the Year of the Korean War Veteran was in January this year, to coincide with Those who fought the 60th anniversary of the armistice signed in forgotten war in 1953. finally recognized But the enactment of a special day, July 27, to be marked in perpetuity to honour the sacrifices and efforts of Canadian soldiers, sailors and air force personnel, has more longterm significance. In all, 516 Canadians died and another 1,558 were wounded in the three-year conflict, a battle between the Soviet and China-supported North Korea, and the South Koreans, backed by the United Nations, whose member countries waged war against the Nazis just a handful of years previous. Stories retold by family members of local Korea vets and vets themselves of receiving little in the way of acknowledgement from the Canadian government, are shocking and embarrassing. Media of the day largely ignored the conflict, to the point where many Canadians back home didn’t realize their country was playing a combat role in the war-torn region. Luckily, things have changed in 60 years, including the treatment of veterans and the value we place on their role in maintaining peace and reducing chaos in the world. Most wars Canada has been involved in have aimed to achieve a political end for the greater good. The people on the front lines working to accomplish that aim – some of whom paid the ultimate price – deserve to be recognized for their efforts, who in the vast majority of cases are honest, true and patriotic. Regardless how one feels about war, the Canadians who have fought in them have worked to protect the rights and freedoms we all take for granted. For that, they deserve our thanks. What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@saanichnews.com or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The SAANICH NEWS is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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ay back in 2011, Ender Ilkay was only the beginning. Since 2011, a group of Jordan River residents tried to slip 260 cabins and local environmental NGOs have under the Capital Region’s formed the Jordan River radar in the hope of steering committee to creating a haven for lobby for a halt to future tourists along the Juan subdivisions in the Juan de Fuca Trail. de Fuca area. Being more developer Stretching from Sooke than slight-of-hand to Port Renfrew, the area magician, he failed to in question accounts for keep his proposal out nearly two thirds of the of the public eye. The entire Capital Region. resulting controversy While the committee generated thousands of has yet to issue a formal letters and phone calls to Simon Nattrass vision for the area, Capital Regional District The Capital member and Western directors and drew Wilderness Committee hundreds of protesters campaigner Torrance to a dozen events in Coste said developments like Ilkay’s Sooke and Victoria. must be avoided. After many sleepless nights “What we don’t want to see for politicians hounded by happen out there is urban sprawl,” environmentalists, hiking Coste said. enthusiasts and angry Jordan Residents of the Juan de Fuca River residents, the vote was a area have plenty of reasons unanimous ‘No’ and the proponent slunk back into the shadows for the to worry. A decade ago, two subdivisions owned by Totangi next two years. Developments – The Shores Recently, Ilkay made headlines and Wildwood Terrace – were once more when he made good accidentally rezoned when CRD on his earlier promise to start planning staff misplaced a bylaw clear cutting the 236-hectare which restricts lot sizes in that lot as revenge on activists for effectively destroying his property’s area to 120 hectares. At that time, CRD staffer Bob Lapham said the investment potential. mistake would not be repeated, and While his proposal’s defeat may assured the public the accidental have been the end for Ender Ilkay, developments would set a for the rest of us this small victory

precedent for future projects. Just a few years later, Ilkay’s proposal similarly ignored both the minimum lot size for the Juan de Fuca area and the Regional Growth Strategy – the other major CRD policy concerning development outside of the region’s downtown and West Shore centres. In place since 2003, the Regional Growth Strategy proposes “keeping urban areas compact and largely contained,” while ensuring that the region’s wild spaces are left for future generations. That a proposal which failed to accommodate any existing plans for the Juan de Fuca area even made it to a vote reveals that The Shores and Wildwood have indeed set a precedent for development outside of the region’s urban areas. Why am I boring you with all of this ancient history? In 2003 and again in 2011, the CRD promised us developments like The Shores would never happen again. A decade later, nothing has changed. As the Regional Growth Strategy awaits integration into a comprehensive Regional Sustainability Strategy next year, it’s time for the public to ask when the CRD will start to back up its promises. Simon Natrass’ opinion column appears Fridays in this newspaper and at vicnews.com.

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Columnist’s portrayal of Canada was ‘disgusting’ Re: Rights under attack on Canada Day (The Capital, June 5) Simon Nattrass’ column on July 5 was an embarrassment to your publication. Victorians just had a bad week. We found out that our small city on an island at the edge of the world is not immune to the scourge of Islamic terrorism. On our beloved Canada Day, when citizens from coast to coast gather to celebrate what a wonderful country we live in, two of our own tried to murder and injure. We are all poorer because of it. So what does Simon Nattrass and the News do the following Friday? They kick us all in the teeth with a ridiculous editorial painting a picture of Canada

that is utterly disgusting. According to Nattrass, our police use Orwellian armoured vehicles and helicopters with search lights to harass harmless everyday citizens, Victoria was the staging point for “the genocide” of indigenous peoples up and down the coast, Victoria “orchestrated the spread of smallpox” to natives, and then Mr. Nattrass confesses that he can’t really get that “O Canada feeling” celebrating Canada Day on “stolen land.” Mr. Nattrass, let me tell you about Canadians. First of all, we are not apologists. Supposed injustices 100 or 150 years ago happened, you guessed it, 100 or 150 years ago, and had nothing to do with

us, so get over it. Secondly, no Canadian living today undertook any “colonization” of natives nor did anyone ever intentionally spread any disease to natives. Finally, the overwhelming majority of Canadians completely disagree with you. If Canada isn’t the best country in the world then it’s certainly in the discussion, and we are abundantly proud of what Canada is and will continue to be. No matter how many of you and your Marxist apologists graduate from our universities every year, you’ll always be greatly outnumbered by ordinary small-c Canadians that know our country is awesome from coast to coast. D. Gramlich Oak Bay

OPINION State of world’s birds is bleak, not hopeless their survival – known as Important Bird Areas, We can’t live without birds. Beyond or IBAs – are protected, through legislation being fascinating and beautiful, they play a if necessary. That doesn’t mean shutting out crucial role in keeping the world habitable human activity, just managing these for all life, including people. They areas in ways that allow birds to survive disperse seeds, pollinate plants, and thrive. control insects, provide food As the report shows, investing in and are indicators of the overall conservation comes with benefits health of ecosystems. They also beyond helping birds. The more than create recreational and economic 12,000 IBAs identified worldwide offer opportunities, through the immense valuable ecosystem services, such popularity of bird-watching. as regulating climate and air quality, So we should be concerned about purifying water and preventing floods, the findings of the report, “State of maintaining genetic diversity, providing the world’s birds: indicators for our food and medicines and creating changing world”: One in eight – or David Suzuki recreation and tourism opportunities. 1,313 – species of Earth’s birds is in with Ian Hanington Education is another component danger of disappearing. of protecting birds and all threatened “The status of the world’s birds is plants and animals. As we better deteriorating, with species slipping understand our connection to nature, the ever faster towards extinction,” notes the importance of biodiversity and the value of assessment by Birdlife International, a global services healthy ecosystems provide, we’ll partnership of conservation organizations. This make conservation and biodiversity higher represents rapid acceleration of a troubling priorities in our decision-making, which will lead trend: 151 bird species are believed to have to wiser development. gone extinct since 1500. While the BirdLife study identifies climate Many threatened birds are common species, change as a major threat, it also notes the including turtle doves, meadowlarks, barn challenge in balancing environmental factors swallows and purple martins. In Canada, in energy-project development. Critics oppose insectivores, grassland birds and Arctic wind power because of potential harm to birds, shorebirds have been declining rapidly since but bird deaths from windmills are minimal 1970, all because of human activity. But compared to those caused by fossil fuels, conservation efforts, including regulating climate change, pesticides, high-rise buildings, pesticides such as DDT, have helped some automobile collisions and house cats. raptor and waterfowl populations bounce back. Plummeting bird populations reflect the state Sadly, we’re to blame for the current plight of the global environment – but it’s not too late of birds. The report shows industrial-scale to do something. As Leon Bennun, BirdLife’s agriculture, logging and invasive species are the director of science, information and policy, says, gravest immediate dangers. It also concludes “Effective nature conservation is affordable and climate change is an “emerging and increasingly it works. It’s time to make it happen. The result serious threat to species” and “often will be a world that is in every way wealthier exacerbates existing threats.” Among other and healthier – and that remains diverse and problems, a warming planet changes migration beautiful too.” and nesting schedules, hindering birds’ ability We need birds. Let’s do all we can to avert an to find insects to eat. It also damages habitat. extinction catastrophe. One solution for safeguarding bird populations is to ensure habitats critical to davidsuzuki.org

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Pellet gun sniping causing damage in West Saanich

Kitchen fire damages home on Carey Road

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A home in the 3800 block of Carey Rd. suffered a scorched kitchen after a pan on the stove caught fire. The Saanich fire department responded with 18 firefighters and six vehicles at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Fire was contained to kitchen cabinets and was quickly extinguished. Total damage is about $5,000, the fire department said. The home occupants escaped without injury.

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A series of incidents involving pellets being shot at people and windows in West Saanich has prompted police to put out a warning to the public. A 20-year-old man sustained a minor elbow injury when he was shot with what he believed was a pellet gun while walking near Normandy Road and Elk Lake Drive around 4 p.m. on July 3. He told police his attacker was in a goldcoloured four-door sedan, and was brandishing a handgun-style pellet gun. One suspect was described as a 25-year-old balding man with a thin build. Since June 27, a number of car windows and storefront windows have also been shot out, presumably by pellets, in West Saanich. Three vehicles were targeted in the 4200- to 4500-blocks of Wilkinson Rd. overnight on June 27, a business in the 4600-block of West Saanich Rd. had five windows damaged on July 2, and a car and glass door at a store at Beaver and Beaver Lake roads were damaged on July 4. Police say the business’s door was valued at $12,000. “We can certainly say the mischief incidents appear to be related, given the time that they have taken place. And we believe that it is likely somebody that lives in that area,” said Sgt. Steve Eassie. Police are asking anyone with information on any of these incidents to call 250-475-4321. kslavin@saanichnews.com

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Returning to work or school after having a child is never easy, and finding someone trustworthy to watch your precious little one makes it even harder. When Metchosin mom Wendy Foster decided to return to work, she had a tough time finding a daycare with a part-time spot. Even after finding a facility that met her needs, Foster had to get her mother watch to her son for four months before a spot opened up. And her mother wasn’t keen on providing the childcare on an ongoing basis. “It was difficult,”

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Foster said. Now her two children Erik, 4, and Callie, 2, both attend Sunshine Group Daycare in Langford twice a week. “We like how much outside time they get and that there is no TV,” said Foster “With part-time it’s tough changing a day and there isn’t a lot of flexibility.” The group daycare – as opposed to a home-based daycare – was more appealing to Foster, as the childcare providers work in pairs. “I just know how I am (with kids) and it’s easy to get frustrated.

With two (care providers) they can take a break if they need to,” Foster said. It depends on square-footage and other factors, but many homebased daycares operate with a single caregiver. Langford resident Gerry St. Cyr jokes his wife found his daughter Katie’s daycare, but said the couple asked friends about their daycare experiences and shopped around. In the end Katie ended up at a group centre. “We chose a group daycare because we’ve heard stories of kids

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A penchant for peculiar pets

Why not adopt a shop vac? Second of Two Parts often adopted her own. (At first, the pet For some reason, hard-boiled egg called Eggy seemed easy when my kids were enough – no cleaning, no walking – but small “keeping up conflict emerged nightly when I said “no” with the Joneses” to Eggy sleeping under the pillow.) meant acquiring pets Some adopted pets caused greater and, no matter how grief. For example, one evening as the I spun it, a bowl of three of us girls sat in Sierra’s bedroom ■ SuSAN LuNdY FeAtuRe WRiteR shiny, sleek goldfish preparing for sleep, a mosquito catcher never sufficed. floated down from the ceiling and Our neighbours on Salt Spring didn’t dipped and dived about the room. Falling help. They had moved from the city and into their predetermined roles, Danica took rural living seriously, building rivers screamed in bug-loathing fear and leapt of fences and ramps and little wooden for cover under a pillow, while Sierra houses, eventually filling them with pigmy cooed, murmured, adopted it as a pet and goats, guinea pigs, rabbits, a dog, cats and named it Floater. even a pot-bellied pig named Vicki. Their dad, Derrick, hearing the We were more traditional, acquiring commotion, sauntered into the room dogs, cats, hamsters and birds… although just as Floater buzzed into the open space beside him. our pets often Reacting to some heseemed to have some man, primal instinct, offbeat quirk. Like Although it took up a Derrick clapped the cockatiel, whose bit of space in the Floater between feathers had been his hands, causing clipped poorly and bedroom, I confess I was a instant death in the therefore lived up to bit gleeful about this pet.” bedroom. Danica’s his name, Crash; and bug-loathing screams the hamster whose stopped abruptly as sweet-looking, puffball appearance belied a fierce set of teeth she realized the horror that was about to (we called her Fang). be unleashed by her sister. I gasped and My older daughter, Danica, enjoyed drew my hands to my face. Derrick stared pets well enough but also recognized in perplexed wonder as Sierra’s hysterical the extra work they created, and could screech turned into anguished sobs that ultimately do without. Soft-hearted Sierra lasted 45 minutes. on the other hand pestered for pets Then came the day I caved in to constantly and when they didn’t arrive, Sierra’s pleas at Value Village and agreed

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to purchase the small, blue and white shop vac, which she’d discovered amid the appliances. Her love for it was immediate as she pulled it along by its cord, assuming somehow, it was a leash. “R2D2” became the latest pet and Sierra and her friend quickly set about washing it – “No, you need to use a hose, R2D2 may not go in the bath with you” – dressing it (how do you dress a shop vac?) and incorporating it into games. Although it took up a bit of space in the bedroom, I confess I was a bit gleeful about this pet, who did not have to be de-fleaed or let out at 3 a.m. But I should have foreseen the future. Eventually, Sierra became so attached, R2D2 needed to go places with us and, of course, I was left to care for it. Hence the memorable vision of me walking through a park, pulling a shop vac or, the very worst: the day R2D2 had to watch Sierra perform in the school play – sitting on the seat next to me. Eventually, R2D2 went the way of Eggy – slowly moved out of sight and eventually out of mind. And later, of course, the girls became busy with school and sports, and started adopting boys instead (which, it turned out, were far more complicated than the good ole days of feeding, cleaning and walking pets). In the meantime, I forged ahead, dodging various stray cats and SPCA dogs, and all-the-while reminding the girls that goldfish are really, really cool. ●

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in private daycares watching TV all day,” St. Cyr said. Fernwood resident Samantha Walrafen is on the hunt for a daycare for her three–year–old Luke and six–month old Mary–Stephanie. “I am just starting to ask around, but it’s hard to find a part-time place,” said Walrafen, who is about to start a master’s program at the University of Victoria. “I want a daycare worker that really understands attachment parenting and that the children get a lot of one-one one adult time. I will probably look for a home-based daycare because of these values.” Kim Coy has operated both homebased and group daycare centres. “I tell parents they need to ask themselves, ‘Do you feel comfortable in the environment on your first impression?’” Coy owns Sunshine Group Daycare and operates three centres on the West Shore for about 150 children. She runs programs that range from infants to after school care programs. “Bring your child to the daycare when you go and look at it,” Coy said. It’s important to check for cleanliness and ask about the longevity and training of the staff. If a centre has children of varying ages playing together, Coy suggests looking at the toys and making sure there aren’t pieces a smaller child may choke on. Coy noted that infant care is exceptionally difficult to find in Greater

Victoria. “There is no profit in it,” Coy said, due to the required ratio of one care provider for every four babies. Once a child is three, the daycare ratio is increased to eight children per care provider. In terms of finding a daycare spot, the easiest time to get a child into a new centre is during July, August and September, when children are moving into kindergarten and vacating spots. The general rule is the sooner the better for finding a daycare. For a home-based daycare, the ratio is a maximum of eight children, spanning from infant to five years old. Some home daycares are licensed through Vancouver Island Health Authority and others are not. “A home daycare needs to be licensed if you have three or more children not related by blood,” said Kim Bruce, VIHA regional manager of community care facilities. Each licensed daycare is required to adhere to requirements for square footage, safety and having an outdoor play area. Daycare operators are required to have First Aid certification and take other courses and training. Licenced daycares are also checked for such details as the hot water temperature. “You have to find what fits for you. Some parents want more structure, and others prefer it to be more low key,” Bruce said. ● charla@goldstreamgazette.com

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in our household. With Liam we like reading together a book by Jeff Smith called BONE, Crown of Horns or many of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series. With Riley, he likes any books by “Thomas the Train” or any type of dinosaur books.

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Victoria Lan recently graduated from Claremont secondary, and has volunteered at places including the Royal Jubilee Hospital and the James Bay Market. She has also participated in the organization of events such as Victoria Celebrates Canada Day. Whenever a spare moment comes her way, she likes using it to read, play piano or sketch. ●

Thule van den Dam is a 16-year-old student in the Esquimalt high school Challenge and French immersion programs. Besides playing violin with the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra, singing folk tunes with her friends in cafés around the city and being involved in many musical endeavours within her school, she loves to share music with the elderly at the Mount St. Mary’s Hospital where she volunteers on Sundays. Thule will be attending the Mahindra United World College of India in the fall. ●

If you know someone who is making a difference in your community, please email your comments to editor@saanichnews.com.

St. Michaels University School student Sarah Graham joined the City of Victoria Youth Council to become more involved and make connections with her local community. Her two favourite projects have been creating anti-bullying posters discouraging negativity towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students, and a youth-driven all candidates meeting. Through the United Way’s Youth Now council, she volunteered to design and give a workshop on children’s rights at the Didi Society’s Social Justice Youth Conference. ●

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Playfair Fun in the Park presented by Quadra Cedar Hill Association, July 21, noon to 3 p.m. Sack races, entertainment. See saanichsunfest.ca.

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Fun Day at Gyro Park features kids’ events, a bake sale, ice cream and face painting as part of a fundraiser for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada, on July 27, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. See fundayinthepark.ca.

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Check out vicnews.com/contests for a chance to win tickets to the Dora the Explorer live show at Save-OnFoods Memorial Centre on Oct. 15. The grand prize is a set of four tickets and the winner will be announced on Oct. 9.

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he Pacific Tattoo started with a forgotten conversation following the 1992 military tattoo in Chilliwack. The military musical event brings together a collection of fire, police and armed forces bands, and will perform Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. It’s been producer Roger McGuire’s dream since 1992 and now it’s come to fruition, moving into the 7,000 seat Memorial Centre after a debut at Bear Mountain Arena last year. The Tattoo is now an annual event. “McGuire was playing the bagpipes and came and told me at the end of the tattoo in Chilliwack that he wanted to do one,” Pacific Tattoo director Dave Tarry said. McGuire says it’s true and Tarry believes it, but he only knows he talked to a lot of people that weekend. Tarry ran a number of tattoos in the 1980s and 1990s at venues as big as the 16,000seat Pacific National Exhibition arena. When McGuire was seeking volunteers to help launch the first Pacific Tattoo back in 2011, Tarry showed up and they met again. “I figured I’d sell tickets, or hold the door, or do whatever I had to do. I just wanted to help,” Tarry said. “When we found out (Tarry) was available to help we knew we had a lot of expertise,” McGuire said. Bringing together 500 cast and crew on an arena floor is no easy feat and it’s been a long time coming for McGuire. He returned to the Island from that 1992 tattoo and started the Victoria Military Music Festival Society in 1993. A tattoo was always the plan, but wasn’t realistic at first. Instead he ran a series of military music events in Victoria over the course of 18 years. Throughout that time McGuire was also the Pipe Major of the Canadian Scottish Regiment Pipe and Drum band based out of the Bay Street Armoury. He led the regiment band to tattoos in Edinburgh, the Netherlands and Hawaii. “There’s a crossover between the involvement in armed forces the pipes and producing the Tattoo that’s suiting,” McGuire said. This year’s Pacific Tattoo has a fire and police

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theme, with the Australian Federal Police Pipes and Drums, the Johan Willem Frisco Netherlands Army Band, Delta and Winnipeg Police Pipe bands, and several more. Of the 500 cast and crew there will be members of B.C. RCMP and firefighters, local Highland and Irish country dancers. One hundred and eighty-five of those will be carrying an instrument, 100 drums and 85 brass and reed. “When they all come together it’ll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up,” Tarry said. Last year’s inaugural Pacific Tattoo carried a Queen’s Jubilee theme and featured 400 performers. Scheduling conflicts precluded the use of Royal Athletic Park. “It’s a big step moving into the arena for our second year. We hadn’t planned on making the jump so soon but it’s going well so far,” McGuire said. “One of the first challenges was old Memorial Arena not suiting us very well. But even when the new arena came together we had some other challenges. As a new event it’s a big step to move to (Memorial Centre) but we took it and now we’re making the best of it.” Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday at Memorial Centre. Tickets available in advance online at pacifictattoo.ca/tattoo-tickets.

The origin of the Tattoo

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TaTToo - Sgt Maj. Darren Campbell of the B.C. RCMP leads members of the RCMP and Naden

Band during rehearsal at CFB Esquimalt’s Wurtele Arena in preparation for the second annual Pacific Tattoo. The military, fire and police band event is July 13 and 14 at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Behind Campbell from left are Const. Kim Hartigan (Richmond RCMP), Const. George Amoako (Coquitlam RCMP), Petty Officer (Second Class) David P. Gagnon (drum major, Naden Band), Petty Officer (Second Class) David Lang (snare drum, Naden Band), Const. Christy Mohr (North Vancouver RCMP) and Corp. Mike Spencer (Surrey RCMP).

It is said that British troops were stationed in the lowlands of Holland in the 17th century. To recall them to their garrisons each night, drummers were sent through the villages playing doe den tap toe, which translated as “turn off the tap,” so the innkeepers knew to stop serving beer. One drummer led to two drummers which led to four drummers, and tap toe morphed into tattoo. Now it’s come to represent a military festival of music and dancing. - All 500 cast and crew will dine in the Victoria Curling Club. - A dance crew from Stages Performing Arts School will add a touch of comedy with an original Keystone Cops style skit.

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Laroche’s art work is uplifting Sidney artist Odette Laroche is joining fellow Federation of Canadian Artists member Linda Anderson in a joint show at the Coast Collective Gallery in Colwood this month. Laroche, who runs her own gallery and teaches painting to area students, is looking forward to showing her collected works at Bold Living Paintings, until July 14. Laroche creates images in bold colours, thick with texture, depicting scenes that, while not completely real, evoke memory in each viewer. She said her work — done mainly in oils in techniques she has honed over her many years of painting — invokes the feeling that the viewer has been there before. “If I want a place to be recognizable, I will look at the form and structure of the place and translate it into my work,” she said. “It’s a path and a journey that the viewer takes.” For her, painting is a journey and she enjoys it immensely. She mainly works in landscapes but does make the odd foray into portraits, which requires her to work more realistically. “My goal in painting is to make them uplifting, enjoyable, with lots of colour and texture. I want to take people to a place they haven’t been before, or maybe trigger a memory.” The show in Colwood this month will feature some of Laroche’s larger works, many of which she keeps in her gallery off of Beacon Avenue, next to the Fairway Market. It’s also there where she hosts students, young and old, who want to learn to express their art. Later this month, on July 20, Laroche will also be at the Greater Victoria Art Gallery Paint-In.

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StagE Fri. July 12 BriGhton Beach MeMoirsBlue Bridge Repertory Theatre presents Neil Simon’s semiautobiographical tale about growing up as a Jewish-American teenager in this coming of age comedy. Directed by Janet Wright, starring Amitai Marmostein, Jane Spidell and more. Runs daily until July 14 at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets start at $24.50 at rmts.bc.ca or 250-386-6121. faMe - Victoria Youth Musical Theatre Company presents Fame the Musical July 11-13 at 7:30pm and July 13-14 at 2:30pm at Claremont secondary school’s

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Victoria shakespeare festiVaL - The Victoria Shakespeare Society presents The Merry Wives of Windsor (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, directed by Kate Rubin) and Measure for Measure (on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, directed by Clayton Jevne) until Aug. 17 on the lawns at Camosun College (3100 Foul Bay). Tickets are $22.50/16/kids 12 and under free. Advance tickets are available until July 16 for only $10. A festival pass is $32/25, or only $20 in advance. Tickets are available at Shepherd Books, The

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Sat. July 13 kathryn caLder - Indie-rock musician plays a show in support of Girls Rock Camp Victoria with Mourning Coup. Doors at 8pm at Lucky Bar (517 Yates). $10. rock the shores - The lower fields of the Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre get rocking with City and Colour, Matthew Good, The Sheepdogs, 54-40, Jimmy Eat World, Acres of Lions (Saturday) and Weezer, Sam Roberts Band, Mother Mother, AWOLNATION, Vince Vaccaro and more on Sudnay. 1-10pm both days. Single day: $59.50/Two day: $89.50/VIP single day 109.50/two day 189.50. rocktheshores.com. harris GiLMore and the Mojos- Hard driving Chicago blues spiced with funky reggae, ska and ‘60s rock. 9pm at Swans Brewpub. No cover. jonathan daVis and Matt toMLinson - Double bill of Canadian music. 8pm at Merlin’s Sun Home Theatre (1983 Fairfield). $10. Call 250-598-7488 or email timgosley@telus.net for reservations (required).

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A call to Revolution

Greta Gerwig stars as Frances in Frances Ha, which opens today at the Empire 6. Photo contributed

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f there was ever any question that Greta Gerwig (Lola Versus) is the new indie It Girl, all doubt is removed with Frances Ha, a jauntily episodic account of 20-somethings trying to make their way in New York City. Gerwig plays Frances, a 27-year-old apprentice dancer and choreographer at the periphery of a Manhattan dance company. Full-time employment eludes her, and our sometimes ungainly and neurotic heroine thus has lots of time to tug at the many loose ends of her messy private life. At the beginning of the film she breaks up with her boyfriend, mostly because she’d rather keep sharing a lease with

her best gal pal, Sophie. That arrangement soon upends as Sophie moves in with a fellow that the two young women had long disparaged. Frances is soon looking for other living arrangements, and eventually new employment, all the while trying to negotiate friendships and relationships with a circle of acquaintances who are casual about sex and sardonic about the self-conscious lives they all lead. Estranged from Sophie, the increasingly confused Frances has a rough few months as she flails around trying to find a satisfying path in life. Although this is all routine stuff – think HBO’s Girls, but on a bigger canvas – this well-observed film is

charged with deadpan humour that will spark hoots of rueful recognition in the audience. Gerwig, who co-wrote the script with director and real-life lover Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale), creates a fully fleshed character who is deeply flawed, often lacking in good judgement, and marvelously human. Never sitcomcute, the sometimes-unlikable Frances, who self-identifies as “undateable,” is fascinating and always-believable company. And as she slowly stumbles towards maturity, it’s impossible not to wish her well. Rating: ★★★½

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ollywood thrillers so much emphasize visceral impact over underlying ideas that it is almost startling to enter the world of The East, a thoughtful if rather earnest look into the shadowy realm of eco-terrorism. The film stars Brit Marling as Sarah, an ex-FBI agent who has recently been hired by an elite security firm with a roster of multinational clients. Sarah is asked to go undercover and infiltrate The East, a cell of eco-radicals who believe in inflicting violent reprisals on the top brass of, say, pharmaceutical companies who knowingly sell dangerous antibiotics, or oil refineries whose chemical pollution causes cancer. Sarah successfully worms her way into the middle of this group of anarchists whose members include an angry and suspicious young woman (Ellen Page), a med school dropout, and the group’s soulful leader (Alexander Skarsgard), Benji.

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★★★½ FRANCES HA -(Empire 6) Greta Gerwig, the new indie It Girl, stars in this droll comedy-drama about a 20-something wannabe dancer in New York who is having trouble putting her life together. Starts Fri. See review. PACIFIC RIM -(Odeon/SilverCity/ Westshore/Empire Uni 4) Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth)

directs this Transformers-ish epic about aliens who attack Earth and are resisted by giant robots that are controlled by human “pilots.” The planet gets trashed – once again – starting Fri. GROWN UPS 2 -(Odeon/ SilverCityWestshore) Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade reunite for more lowbrow shenanigans as these old pals from high school return to their hometown

to find all sorts of craziness awaiting them. Starts Fri. ★★★½ THE SAPPHIRES -(Caprice, Cinecenta) Sixties soul music is at the centre of this delightful, true-life story about four young Australian aboriginal singers who hooked up with a wacky promoter and toured American military bases in Vietnam, performing Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett songs to adoring soldiers. Starts Fri.

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★★★½ BEFORE MIDNIGHT -(Empire Uni 4) Richard Linklater’s third installment of the charming – and chatty – love-denied story of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) has lots of surprises … not least of which is that the starcrossed lovers have finally hooked up. Between the atmospheric Greek locale and the well-crafted dialogue this is a grand cine-treat for those

‘‘GRAND, ROMANTIC, AND GENEROUS.’’ Joy Dietrich

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already bored with the summer’s superhero blockbusters. THE CROODS - (Caprice) A prehistoric family taking an unexpected “road trip” into a magical land is the plot of this whimsical animated charmer (which has been getting great reviews). With the vocal talents of Emma Stone, Nicolas Cage, and Ryan Reynolds. EPIC - (Caprice) In this animated family adventure a teenage girl is magically transported to a deep forest setting where she bands together with a wacky crew of critters to help battle a terrifyingly dark force that is threatening their world … and ours. Note: moves from the Westshore to the Caprice on Fri. ★★½ DESPICABLE ME 2 -(Odeon/ SilverCity/Westshore/Empire Uni 4) The 2010 original, about a loathsome criminal mastermind who was reformed by the love of three young orphan girls, was a goofy delight. The sequel, although still clever, is much more scattershot, with an unimaginative plot and unwelcome dashes of mean spiritedness. Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, and Russell Brand supply the voices. ★★½ THE EAST -(Odeon) Interesting moral complexities are explored when a female undercover operative infiltrates a violent anarchist group that attacks evil corporations … and she slowly finds herself becoming attracted to the group’s point of view. Starring Ellen Page, Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgard. See review. ★★½ FAST & FURIOUS 6 (Caprice) The high-octane series continues, with ever-wilder stunts. In this outing Dom’s crew is asked to take down an ex-Special Ops soldier who has morphed into a supercriminal specializing in vehicular warfare. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, and Paul Walker. ★★½ THE HEAT -(Odeon/SilverCity/ Westshore) In this raucous and sometimes hit-and-miss comedy from Paul Feig (Knocked Up), Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) play odd-couple cops who will have to learn to work together if they are to stand a chance of taking down the drug lord who’s their assigned target. ★★★ IRON MAN 3 -(Caprice) An emotionally unbalanced Iron Man (Robert Downey) goes up against the terrifying Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), one of the more intriguing megalomaniacs of recent years. Despite being a step down from the original – and a bit long-winded and bombastic – this is an imaginative, humourous and fast-paced thrill ride. With Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce. ★★ THE LONE RANGER -(Odeon/ SilverCity/Westshore) More proves to be less, as the classic western TV show from the 1950s that featured a masked lawman and his Native American sidekick gets a predictably grandiose treatment from director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean). Starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. To be fair, this is much slicker and more entertaining than the vindictive critical dog pile would make you imagine it is.

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Countries topple and armies shatter in the face of a zombie pandemic, as a shaggy-haired Brad Pitt tries to save the world. This is an intense and intelligent movie that uses zombies to embody the more plausible horror of a SARS-like threat to the planet.

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FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES -(11 am, 4 pm) ★★★ IRON MAN 3 -(8 pm) KENYA: ANIMAL KINGDOM -(noon, 3 pm, 6 pm) ★★★½ ROCKY MOUNTAIN EXPRESS -(1 pm, 7 pm). ★★★½ SHACKLETON’S ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE -(10 am, 2 pm, 5 pm)

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MOVIE MONDAY - Presenting Shakespeare In Love. Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench and Geoffrey Rush are just some of the stars in this utterly delightful, romantic and witty 1998 Oscar winner about the early playwriting days of William Shakespeare. 6:30 pm Monday in the 1900-block Fort. By donation. 595-FLIC. moviemonday.ca.

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Sat. July 13 PACIFIC TATTOO- Hundreds of military and civilian performers from across Canada, Europe and Australia, inlcuding tenor Ken Lavigne, the national band of the Naval Reserve and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, July 13-14. Full schedule at pacifictattoo.ca. COARSE & SEXUAL LANGUAGE

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GAllERIES Fri. July 12 SMALL WORKS SHOW AND SALESmall works in a salon-style exhibition with more than 100 works by some of Vancouver Island’s finest artists. Opens Friday and runs until Sept. 5 at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1040 Moss). Free. DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ARTWelcomes Chris Lindsay’s installation “Change.” Exhibition hours are Wed. to Sat. noon-5pm until July 27.

Sat. July 13 WALKING TOUR- Jules Uno presents the Three Shrines walking tour of his installation series currently on display with the Ministry of Casual Living in the Odeon Alley, Cenote Lounge and Lucky Bar. Meet in the Odeon Alley at 6pm to discuss the art in the Ministry window, then travel to Lucky Bar on foot for a discussion of of art there, then back to Cenote for a reception and further discussion. The window in Odeon Alley is on display until July 19. mocl.indivisiondev.ca. TEN THOUSAND HOURS- The Metchosin Art Gallery hosts an exhibition by members of the Stinking Fish studio tour group, including pottery, contemporary mixed media paintings, fibre art, landscapes in oil, metal sculpture, chain maile, wood turned bowls, furnitre and carved stone. Meet the artists from 2-5pm at 4495 Happy Valley.


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Susan Simmons swims in the open waters of the Strait of Georgia in 2011 as part of a relay team. Simmons and her two teammates swam one hour shifts across the 34-kilometre crossing from Sechelt to Nanaimo. Simmons estimates her distance at about nine kilometres, less than a third of what she’ll attempt on July 20. Photo by Jim Close

A cold answer to MS Athlete a model for multiple sclerosis Travis Paterson News staff

When Susan Simmons was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis she was told not to exercise. That’s because until recently the medical system told most people with MS to hold off exercising, and for good reason. Exercise heats the body and overheating is a known trigger for MS symptoms. But new knowledge is changing the approach to dealing with MS. Simmons, for example, was once confined to the couch. She was 80 pounds heavier and suffered temporary blindness, up to two months at a time. Exercise, and her will to stick with it, has brought her back to a functioning status beyond that of most 48-year-olds. She’s currently preparing for her biggest open-water swimming achievement yet, as she attempts to conquer the length of Cowichan Lake on July 20. It’s 34 kilometres from Heather Campsite to the Town of Lake Cowichan. In fact if it wasn’t for the potentially debilitating disease, the James Bay resident may not have become the ultra-distance swimmer that she is. After 12 years with the disease, and “a lot” of medically prescribed drugs, Simmons said her health was clearly headed in a downward spiral. “I started exercising when I was 40 because I knew something had to happen, or I was going to end up in a wheelchair,” she said.

As a youth Simmons loved swimming, and the temperature of the pool matched with the knowledge she needed to keep her body cool. “At first it would be a few laps in the pool followed by a two- to threehour nap. It got better and better.” To prepare for Cowichan Lake, Simmons has branched from her Victoria Masters swim group at Crystal Pool and joined three more, the Tyee Aquatic Club, Mercury Rising Triathlon and YMCA Victoria.

been setbacks, but you won’t hear any complaining from Simmons. A (mostly) raw food diet to go with the heavy swimming regimen has changed her mindset. She’s a model for others with MS. Her blog, MSathlete.org, is accessed worldwide. “I get emails from out-of-country, ones that really move me, people who say, ‘I used to be a runner or swimmer and now I’m back at it since being diagnosed,’” she says. “What really moves me are emails

Did you know? ■ Not everyone has the opportunity to exercise against MS as it’s more progressive for some than others. ■ Simmons is a five-time participant and co-organizer of the HtO Thetis Lake Swim for MS. The July 28 fundraiser has several distances, 800-metre, 1.5 km, three and five km distances. ■ The 1.5 and 3 km Thetis Lake swims also act as Masters Provincial Championship distances. ■ Fifty percent of the money raised will go towards a cure for MS and 50 per cent will help fund a fitness program for people with MS in the community. ■ In addition to her four masters swim clubs Simmons is also part of an unofficial Sunday morning

“Masters swimming clubs don’t do the kind of kilometres I need so I’ve had to find more. It’s not much fun doing 50 kilometres per week in the pool by yourself.” Even during her taper this week, Simmons is swimming a total of 30 km. Through the years there have

Susan Simmons club for MS swimmers, a quiet success story of half a dozen people conquering the disease. Some are walking again after being wheelchair bound.

that say, ‘You’ve inspired and motivated me to get fit for a half-marathon.’ I live for that.” Others who contact her are still in the early stages of exercising. “They need a three hour nap after 10 laps in the pool, and that’s a thrill too because I’ve been there.” Simmons’ current neurologist is

fairly new to her and is happy she’s exercising, she says. “I think the MS community has realized (the importance of exercise) and more are doing it.” Simmons won’t be alone for the Lake Cowichan swim. Swimming alongside her is Alex Cape, a 34-year-old Canadian Forces army medic and member of the Vic Masters club. They’ll be escorted by a support crew of friends and family in boats, and are inviting swimmers to jump in for a stint along the way. If Simmons completes it without incurring any serious health hazards, such as hallucinating or suffering hypothermia, she’ll strongly consider attempting the English Channel (charmingly, the distance from Dover to Calais also 34 km). As a swimming purist, Simmons won’t wear a wetsuit. It offers buoyancy and is not in accordance with the Channel Swimming Association guidelines. Cowichan will be cool, but not as cold as the Channel. However the freshwater will be less buoyant than the ocean. The swim is estimated to take 10 to 11 hours. Two years ago Simmons swam with an all-women’s relay team across the Strait of Georgia, 34 km from Sechelt to Nanaimo (Simmons’ estimates her contribution at around eight to 10 km). Last year Simmons completed the Vancouver Open Water Swim Association’s Bay Challenge, a 10-km swim across the Burrard Inlet from West Vancouver to Kitsilano Beach. “I thought I was hallucinating in the Burrard Inlet when I saw a massive animal beside me. Turns out it was a grey whale.” sports@vicnews.com

It’s summer time, the best time of year to look at youth hockey, hockey parents and the politics that go with it. Player assessments are coming up in August and the Saanich Braves Minor Hockey Association would love to have people with hockey backgrounds making non-biased decisions when grading players’ for skill. “We’re always looking for coaches and new people to come in and help coach and do player assessments with a non-biased persective,” said Norm Westhaver, vice president and coach coordinator. “Not to take away from parent volunteers. You need to have parents contributing and we’ll have parents come forward but we want to put it out there that we’re always looking for non-parents to commit beforehand.” Westhaver played for the minor Braves organization as a kid and was a Jr. B Brave after that. Now all four of his sons, ages seven, 10, 12 and 14, are part of the league and Westhaver wanted to help out. “We’ve removed a paid hockey ops position and have now got a number of volunteers handling the different tasks,” Westhaver said. “There’s always a need for coaches and other volunteers.” The Braves teams play out of George R. Pearkes Community Rec. Centre. Contact Westhaver at normwest@telus.net.

Universiade draws locals A long list of local and Victoria-based athletes are off to the Universiade games in Kazan, Russia, July 6 to 17. They include rugby sevens player Kehla Guimond, Vikes soccer player Jaclyn Sawicki, swimmers Stephanie Horner, Will Brothers, Alex Page, Aimeson King and Eric Hedlin, volleyball players Marc Howatson and Shanice Marcelle and weightlifter Rachel Siemens.


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Soccer Sat. July 13: Women’s PCSL, Okanagan FC at Peninsula Co-op Highlanders, 5 p.m., Royal Athletic Park. Sat. July 13: PDL, Portland Timbers (reserves) at Victoria Highlanders, 7:30 p.m., Royal Athletic Park. Sun. July 14: Women’s PCSL, Fraser Valley Action at Peninsula Co-op Highlanders, 2 p.m. Tyndall Park.

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THE LEMARE GROUP is accepting resumes for the following positions: • Certified Hand Fallers • Off Highway Logging Truck Drivers • Log Loader Operator • Grapple Yarder Operators • Boom Boat Operator • Chasers • Hooktenders • 2nd Loaders-Buckermen • Heavy Duty Mechanics Fulltime camp with union rates/benefits. Please send resumes by fax to 250-956-4888 or email to office@lemare.ca.

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FARM WORKERS LOOKING for an outdoor enthusist who would like a rewarding carreer in the guide outfitting industry. We will train on the job. Will be on horse back hunts.(250) 789-9494 sean@prophetmuskwa.com

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LIFECYCLES PROJECT SOCIETY is looking for team leaders for the Fruit Tree Project. Coordinate a small team to pick fruit from privately owned trees which will be shared with the homeowner and food banks. Eight sessions requested in summer and fall. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269. THE ROYAL BC MUSEUM seeks volunteers who enjoy working with 8-10 year olds to assist week-long Base Camps on Antarctic exploration in July & August. Morning or afternoons for 1 week, all activities pre-planned. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

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BLACK SNAKE plant, $7. Assorted smaller flower pots, $1-3/each. 250-383-5390. LADIES PLUS Sized clothes, 10 tops (4x) 5 pants (5x), $3-$5. (250)721-2386. METAL FILING cabinet, 4 drawer, legal sz, good cond. $99. Call (250)477-3147.

FUEL/FIREWOOD ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fir, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391. SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest firewood producer offers firewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords. Help restore your forest, Burndrywood.com 1-877-902-WOOD.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewelry. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700

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2-BEDROOM CONDO ground floor in desirable Saanichton. Open concept, electric fireplace, custom kitchen. Carpets & laminate. Ensuite laundry, small pet ok. Low strata fee. Great starter, $235,000. By appointment 1-250-652-1218 MILTON ST, 2bdrm condo. Top floor. Fantastic City & Ocean views. 10% Down; Owner will carry mortgage. (250)753-0160

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE BUILDING SUPPLIES METAL ROOFING & siding sales. Seconds avail. Custom roof Flashings. 250-544-3106.

FREE ITEMS 2.5 XT Sportcraft Treadmill, $60 obo. Call (250)656-1271. FREE 2 single beds+ bedding. 3 cushioned Chesterfield, good condition. Beautiful wooden Stereo. (250)4775450.

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SIDNEY. 1-BDRM suites in new upscale townhouse complex. Priv. entrance, all appliances with insuite W/D. N/S, small pet OK. $1100.-$1200. + utils, inclds parking. 2320 Oakville Ave at 8th. (250)508-9095

2007 HYUNDAI Sonta- only 40,000 km, auto, sun roof, mint condition, $13,000 obo. (250)655-6599.

GRAVEL PIT / Acreage For Sale in Crawford Bay, BC on Kootenay Lake East Shore. 16 acre licensed gravel pit for sale, with or without equipment (request equipment price). Also have approval for 3 lot subdivision. Older double wide mobile on property. Bordered on two sides by crown land. Abundant wildlife. $249,000 Call Chris @ 250825-4701 or 250-354-9238 chris_choquette@hotmail.com; khoyle@hotmail.com

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COZY COTTAGE on 2.14 acres a stone’s throw from the ocean. This 800sqft, 2 bedroom home was completely renovated in 2007 with new electric, plumbing, bathroom, kitchen, roof, etc. It is close to schools, a corner store, and neighbourhood pub and is only 5 kms to downtown Courtenay. The property is zoned for 2 dwellings so you could live in the cottage while building your dream home and after rent out the cottage for extra revenue. Gardener’s paradise with several heritage fruit trees, berries, grape vines and beautiful roses. The Royston area received a grant this year to put in sewer. (778)428-1159.

GORDON HEAD- (4062 Feltham Place) 3 bdrm Rancher, w/appls, F/P, garage. Close to Uvic, Shelbourne. New Price$479,000. Move-in now, Motivated seller. 250-514-3286. SIDNEY- 2444 Amherst Ave. 1300sq ft updated character home looking for a family w/2 children and a dog. Fenced south facing corner lot near the Salish Sea. Walk to town and schools. Orangic gardens & fruit trees, fireplace, hot tub, 6 appls. Free TV forever.... $499,000. (250)656-6136.

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COLLEGE HEIGHTS. 3-level, 4bdrm +1bdrm suite. Beautiful Ocean & City views. 10% Down! Owner will carry mortgage. Call (250)753-0160. GORGEOUS CUSTOM built main level living basement home. 3000+ sq.ft. Lives like a large 3 bdrm, 2 bthm rancher. Excellent ocean views. Huge R/V parking, triple garage.Campbell River $499,900. 250-203-0050 COLLEGE HEIGHTS. 5bdrm +1bdrm suite. Gorgeous Ocean & City views. Easy to buy. 10% Down! Owner will carry mortgage. 250-753-0160

Incredible 5 acre treed PARK-LIKE PROPERTY with Well-Maintained Furnished Home 1500 sq.ft, 3-bdrm, 2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake, in the town of Caycuse. Perfect for recreational property or full time living. Motivated seller $358,800. Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land. Call 250-745-3387 smartytwo@hotmail.com

COLLEGE HEIGHTS. Beautiful Ocean & City views. 4bdrms + 2bdrm suite. 10% down. Owner will carry mortgage. (250)753-0160.

GARDENER’S PARADISE 1 acre. 4-bdrm character home, 1800 sq.ft. Wired shop, Shed. 1720 Swartz Bay Rd., $555,000. (250)656-1056.

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PENDER ISLAND- level building lot (3819 Pirates Rd) 0.36 acre, 15,681 sq ft with water, sewer, hydro, cable at lot line. By owner only $109,900. Call 604-988-2653.

OTTER POINT RV Trailer Park. 40’ park model trailer (no pad fees) 3 slide outs + 30’x52’ lot, finished deck & shed in new cond. Reduced to $117,900. obo. 306-290-8764.

RENTALS ACREAGE EAST COAST: Nova Scotia, 54 acres, $22,000 obo. Hunting and fishing. Listing #BB977, Monica toll free 1-877637-2553 or 1-902-637-2553, fax 1-902-637-3797.

WANTED TO RENT SINGLE DAD in need of long term rental suite in house with yard. I have full-time secure employment and am looking for a 2 bedroom rental including amenities. My budget is $1000 per month. We are no pets, no smoking, quiet and respectful tenants. If you can help please reply to: shawnmagnus@gmail.com or call (778)433-1217 (home) or 250-480-3298 (office), call anytime.

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18FT FIBERGLASS hull and oak and ash wood finish canoe with paddles and life jackets is suitable for exploring the coast or for more extended canoe trips where carrying capacity is required. To inspect please phone 250.665.6537 Asking price, $1200. 1993 BAYLINER 2452, in premier condition. 2 sounders & GPS, head, galley, canopy, 9.9 hp 4 stroke Yamaha on hydraulics, downriggers, dinghy in 27’ newer Van Isle Marina boathouse near the ramp. $18,000. obo. 250-656-6136. $$$$ BOATS WANTED $$$$ ALSO OUTBOARDS AND TRAILERS. CASH BUYER. $$$$$ 250-544-2628 $$$$$

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CARS 1999 24’ Glendale Royal Expedition Classic Ford Econoline 350 Super duty Motorhome. V10, 125km. Please phone 250-655-4840. Located in Sidney.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED SIDNEY. PRIVATE Accommodation in beautiful, centrally located home, community oriented. Light care available. Utilities included. N/S. $850. (250)656-9194.

2007 HYUNDAI- very low mileage, V-6, 2-wheel drive, excellent condition. $14,000. (250)370-1718.

1990 CHEVROLET Cavalier Z 24, 3.1 Litre. Only 70,000 km on rebuilt motor. Newer Luc High Performance clutch, 5sp trans, near new Hankook tires. Red, sun roof, mint interior, power doors/windows (new motors and regulators). Pioneer stereo w/iPod adapter, sub woofer, Pioneer 6x9 3 way speakers. Same owner since 1990, have all receipts. $3000. Chris, 250-595-0370 lv mess.

HARRIET/UPTOWN: 3 bdrms, newly reno’d, 4 appls, bus route, NS/NP. $1600 utils incl, own laundry. 250-480-0849.

1991 VOLVO 940 4 cyl gas sedan. Dark green/blue exterior, black leather interior. Auto, 322,000 km. Very good cond. $1000.obo. (250)721-4497.

LANGFORD, 1 bdrm grd flr suite, own patio, full kitchen, F/S, D/W, built-in vac, in-suite lndry. Utils incl. Close to shops, Galloping Goose, Royal Roads, golf course, bus route. NS/NP. $850. (Immed). 250-474-0079.

1993 MERCEDES Benz 190 E- 2.3l, 4 cylinder, local, well maintained, spotless, auto, PS PB, moonroof, etc. $3750. 250-655-1484 or bilot@shaw.ca

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CONTRACTORS WEST HARBOUR Home or commercial, new and reno’s. Best Rates. (250)419-3598.

ELECTRICAL 250-361-6193 Quality Electric Reno’s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779. AT&T ELECTRIC. Renovations. Residential & Commercial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550. GNC ELECTRIC Res/Comm. Reasonable rates for quality work. #43619. 250-883-7632. KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.

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ALL TYPES of fencing, repairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

FURNITURE REFINISHING FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & delivery. References available. 250-475-1462.

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778-678-2524 GARDEN OVERGROWN? Weeding, lawn cuts, cleanups, pruning. John Kaiser 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

250-507-6543. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, guards, power washing, de-moss, Insured. (250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free est.

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GLENWOOD Gardenworks Landscaping & Garden Services. Satisfaction guaranteed. 250-474-4373.

BEETLES RESIDENTIAL Renovations Ltd. Bathrooms, decks, painting, landscaping and handyman services. Fully insured and guaranteed. Free estimates. Call 250-889-4245.

J&L Gardening yard clean-up and maintenance. Master gardeners. Call John or Louise (250)891-8677.

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Stairs, Painting, General household repairs. Free estimate. Call Barry 250-896-6071

LANDSCAPE & TREE- lawns, hedges-tree pruning, gardening/landscaping. WCB. 18 yrs exp. Andrew 250-893-3465.

HANDYMAN FOR light maintenance. Leaky taps, caulking, replace electrical outlets & switch. Call (250)818-2709.

HAULING AND SALVAGE $20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279. CITY HAUL- a lot of junk won’t fit in your trunk, you’re in luck I own a truck. 250-891-2489. CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164. FAMILY MAN Hauling. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463. GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413. SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578. JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk. Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.


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BILL’S MASONRY. Brick, tiles, pavers. All masonry & Chimney re-pointing. F/P repairs. 250-478-0186.

DONE RIGHT MOVING $80/hr. Senior Discount. Free Est’s. No travel time before or after. SMOOTH MOVES. Call Tyler at 250-418-1747.

ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Discounts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694. A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220. BIG BEAR Painting. Interior & Exterior. Quality work. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071 DRYWALL REPAIRS & HOUSE PAINTING. Free estimates. If you, your family or friends need any of the above give Joseph Bronson a call 250-686-0663. Reasonable rates in a tight economy. I take pride in the end results. LADY PAINTER Serving the Peninsula for over 20 yrs. Interior/exterior. Call Bernice, 250-655-1127. ST PAINTING free est, written guarantee and full ref’s. WCB ins. Call Kaleb (250)884-2597.

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STUCCO REPAIRMAN- Stucco & Painting Specialist. 50 years experience. Free estimates. Dan, 250-391-9851.

COMPLETE HOME Repairs. Suites, Renos, Carpentry, Drywall, Painting. Licenced and insured. Darren 250-217-8131. M&S OXFORD Home/Commercial Reno’s & Painting. Patio’s, Decks, Sheds, Hardwood and Trim. 25 yrs exp. Quality Guar. 250-213-5204. THE MOSS MAN ChemicalFree Roof De-Mossing & Gutter Cleaning since 1996. Call 250-881-5515. Free estimates! www.mossman.ca

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LANDSCAPE Professional Vic HomeScapeLandscaping.ca (250) 884-7500 THE GRASS Guy. Lawn mowing, brush removal+ more. Free estimate. (250)634-7507.

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CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flagstone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Natural & Veneered Stone. Replace, Rebuild, Renew! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. (250)294-9942/(250)589-9942. www.cbsmasonry.com ROMAX MASONRY. Exp’d & Professional. Chimneys, Brick Veneer, Retaining Rock Walls, Cultured Stone, Interlocking Paving. Excavating. Fully insured. Estimates. 250-588-9471

MOVING & STORAGE (250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave Moving- 2 men, 5 ton, $85/hr. 2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on local moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.

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Page 22 week beginning July 11, 2013 Real Estate Victoria A22 • www.vicnews.com

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OPEN HOUSE Friday, July 12, 2013 - DIRECTORY SAANICH NEWS

OPENHOUSES Published Every Thursday

Oak Bay 250-370-7601 Victoria 250-483-1360 Westshore 250-391-2933 Sidney 250-655-0632 Chatterton Way 250-479-0688 www.vericoselect.com

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the July 11 - 17 edition of Real Estate Victoria

1106-751 Fairfield, $315,000 Saturday 2-4 Boorman’s Real Estate Michael Boorman 250-595-1535

306-120 Douglas St.

Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Nicole Burgess 250 384-8124

1345 Minto St, $749,900 pg. 10

409-1155 Yates, $264,000 Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Susan Carley, 250-477-7291

pg. 17

8-1010 Pembroke St, $389,900 Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Patrick Achtzner, 250-656-0131

pg. 10

101-75 Songhees, $685,000 Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333

pg. 6

204-105 Gorge East, $195,000 Saturday 1-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Patti Locke-Lewkowich 250 477-7291

pg. 25

Saturday 2-4 Sutton West Coast Realty Mariann Abram 250 884-6796

pg. 7

Sunday 1-3 Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd. David Logan, 250-383-7100

Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty May Hamilton, 250-477-5353

Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333

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Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291

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Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer, 250-818-3216

pg. 9

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pg. 9

107-2930 Cook, $299,900

pg. 11

Saturday 2-4 One Percent Realty Valentino, 250-686-2242

Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty David Harvey, 250-385-2033

1272 Burnside W, $549,900

pg. 27

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 474-6003

Sunday 1-3 Burr Properties ltd John McMillan, 250 382-8838

pg. 14

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Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Komal Dodd, 250-479-3333

Sunday 2-4 Boorman’s Rod Hay, 250-595-1535

Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Brian Meredith-Jones 250 477-1100

Saturday 11-1 One Percent Realty Valentino, 250-686-2242

pg. 15

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast James Gardiner (250) 507-4333

pg. 13

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2848/2846 Colquitz, $849,000

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2833 Austin Ave.

pg. 2

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Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Stephanie Peat, 250-656-0131

pg. 19

Saturday 1-2 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

pg. 27

Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Sandy Berry, 250-818-8736

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jenn Raappana, 250-590-3921

Saturday 1-3 RE/MAX Camosun Rene Blais, 250-655-0608

192 Goward Rd, $1,595,000

102-2360 James White, $219,000

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Rick Turcotte, 250-744-3301

4255 Moorpark, $649,000 Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Nicole Burgess 250 384-8124

pg. 8

9706 Fifth St, $569,900 pg. 18

Sunday 2-4 Address Realty Ltd. Shaughna Boggs-Wright, 250-391-1893 pg. 15 Saturday 1-2:30 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Pat Meadows, 250-592-4422

pg. 19

Saturday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara, 250-384-8124

pg. 15

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-655-0608

pg. 18

2055 D White Birch, $359,000 Saturday 3-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

pg. 27

71-7570 Tetayut Rd, $274,900 Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-655-0608

pg. 18

9173 Basswood, $899,000 Saturday 2-3 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Nicole Burgess 250 384-8124

pg. 19

9776 Fourth St pg. 13

pg. 19

10158 Fifth, $569,000

4058 Raymond St. N, $429,900

10500 McDonald Park pg. 14

pg. 3

959 Peggy Anne Cres, $499,900

pg. 13

Tuesday-Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Ross Shortreed, 250-858-3585

pg. 27

7226 East Saanich Rd, $624,900 Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-655-0608

pg. 18

pg. 1

6696 Woodsview Lane, $585,000 pg. 8

2715 Sea View, $2,198,000 Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Lynne Sager 250 744-3301

pg. 18

13-10471 Resthaven, $364,950

146 Hampton, $519,900 Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Inez Louden, 250-812-7710

Saturday 1-3 Burr Properties Ltd John McMillan, 250 382-8838

Saturday 2-4 Burr Properties Ltd. Patrick Skillings, 250-382-8838

3054 Millgrove, $419,900

9-3228 Wicklow, $389,000 Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Stuart Price, 250-479-3333

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Gordon Dovey, 250-477-7291

6630 Willis Pt, $849,000

4259 Wilkinson Rd, $407,500

2238 Edgelow St, $474,900 Saturday 11-1 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Dean Innes, 250-477-5353

pg. 19

89-7570 Tetayut Rd.

3795 Burnside Pl, $569,900

Saturday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Sheila Christmas, 250-477-1100

5178 Rambler Rd., $899,900 Saturday 2-4 Sutton group West Coast Deborah Kline, 250-661-7680

Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Pat Meadows, 250-592-4422

11340 Pachena, $674,900

3648 Doncaster Dr, $849,000 Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty June Wing, 250-479-3333

pg. 27

1862 Porlier Pl, $549,900

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jenn Raappana, 250-474-6003

1828 San Pedro Ave, $499,000 Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Ed G Sing, 250-744-3301

Sunday 1-3 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

7005 Beach View, $1,250,000

176 Cadillac Ave., $389,000

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Marsha Crawford, 250-889-8200

4009 Cedar Hill Rd, $529,900

5401 Fowler, $514,000

Saturday 1-2 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

pg. 16

4-1473 Garnet, $379,900

402-5110 Cordova Bay, $450,000 Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Michael McMullen, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-3:30 Re/Max Camosun Dana Hahn, 250-744-3301

pg. 18

Saturday 2-4 JONESco. Real Estate Ian Heath, 250-655-7653 Sunday 1-3 RE/MAX Camosun Brad Gregory, 250-744-3301

3478 Calumet, $449,000

8-4522 Gordon Point, $649,000 Sunday 2-4 Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd.

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

Sunday 2-4 Sparling Real Estate Don Sparling, 250-656-5511

1290 Lands End Rd, $769,000

110-1505 Church Ave, $209,000

1859 San Pedro, $824,000

134 Gibraltar Bay, $532,900 pg. 9

pg. 1

2228 Tashy Pl, $725,000

301 Anya, $869,000

814-160 Wilson

Saturday 2-4 Fair Realty Kevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091

4041 Braefoot, $949,000

1661 Freeman, $429,000

2700 Eastdowne Rd, $695,000

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Deidra Junghans, 250-474-6003

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Terry L. Calveley, 250-589-6247

Sunday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Cassie Kangas, 250-477-7291 pg. 10

pg. 15

1679 Pear, $420,000

pg. 5

405-445 Cook St, $224,500

Sunday 1:15-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Lynnell Davidge, 250-477-7291

Tuesday-Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital James Liu 250 477-5353

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Deedrie Ballard, 250-744-3301

1733 Newton St, $550,000

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheri Crause, 250-592-4422

pg. 14

3236 Cedar Hill Rd, $559,900

4015 Hopesmore Dr, $619,000

3508 Henderson, $539,900

Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Marijane Smith, 250-385-2033

203-1024 Fairfield Rd, $219,000 Sunday & Tuesday 2:30-3:30 Newport Realty Dave Hillmer, 250-385-2033

pg. 12

1220 Beach

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Adrien Bachand, 250-384-8124

404-539 Niagara, $289,000

pg. 13

982 Mckenzie, $299,900

1253 Victoria Ave.

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Frank Rudge, 250-361-5052

1725 Carrick St

Sunday 11-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Lynnell Davidge, 250-477-7291

pg. 17

Saturday 3-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

pg. 14

1090 Holmes St.

Saturday 2-4 Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd. Colin Moorman, 250-383-7100

pg. 19

7008 Beach View, $1,098,000

302-894 Vernon Ave, $297,000

5313 Sunter’s Track, $680,000

1690 Stanhope, $899,900

Saturday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Ltd. Scott Vannan, 250-388-5882

2639 Victor, $449,900

pg. 3

122-3969 Shelbourne, $249,500

Sunday 2-4 Cathy Duncan & Associates 250-658-0967

pg. 15

pg. 15 Saturday 12-1:30 Re/Max Camosun Dana & Robert Hahn, 250-744-3301

Saturday 1-3 Sparling Real Estate Ltd. Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511

9615 Epco Dr, $414,900

4901 Sea Ridge, $585,000

4030/4040 Borden St

2166 Central, $629,000

Saturday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Michelle Vermette, 250-391-1893

pg. 12

720 Piedmont, $549,900

Saturday 11-1 Re/Max Camosun Brad Maclaren, 250-727-5448

304-2920 Cook St, $299,000

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Rob Garry 250 384-8124

Saturday 1-3 RE/MAX Camosun Valerie Edwards, 250-477-9947

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301

Sunday 2-4 Sutton group West Coast Deborah Kline, 250-661-7680

pg. 12

914 Graythorpe, $619,900

4541 Pheasantwood, $875,000

Sunday 2-4 JONESco Real Estate Inc. Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Keith Ferguson 250 744-3301

107-250 Douglas, $229,900

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291

6-1012 Terrace Ave, $272,000

pg. 9

203-2427 Amherst Ave, $175,000

pg. 13

3820 Savannah Ave, $497,000

502-250 Douglas, $369,900

958 Oliver, $669,000

Saturday 11-1 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Jacqueline Baker, 250-384-8124

Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Laurie Abram, 250-385-2033

Saturday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808

209-2529 Wark St.

405-300 Waterfront Cres, $449,000

pg. 12

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Peter Crichton, 250-477-7291

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Lynne Sager 250 744-3301

1581 Mileva, $1,190,000

207-1351 Esquimalt, $174,900

Saturday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Jane Logan, 250-920-6868

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Cheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422

1540 Kenmore Rd, $525,000

4675 McMorran, $729,000

1620 Mortimer, $479,900

pg. 10

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Plank, 250-360-6106

pg. 17

948 Garthland, $1,499,800

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Hiro Nakatani, 250-661-4476

2-216 Russell, $419,000

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Allen Tepper, 250-686-6325

pg. 6

4979 Georgia Park Terr., $1,295,000

1011 Wychbury, $489,900

207-1101 Hilda, $279,900

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny, 250-474-4800

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Susan Carley, 250-477-7291

376 Kinver St., $409,900

402-103 Gorge Rd E, $399,900

Sunday 3:15-5 DFH Real Estate Ltd Lynnell Davidge, 250-477-7291

107-75 Songhees, $725,000

pg. 7

101-1041 Rockland Ave, $299,000

Sunday 1-3 Newport Realty Marie Blender, 250-385-2033

16-1020 Richardson, $739,900

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 474-6003

1372 Treebank, $769,000

733A Humboldt (200 Douglas) Saturday, Sunday & Monday 1-4 Macdonald Realty Helene Roy, 250 883-2715

Sunday & Wednesday 1-3 Newport Realty Dave Hillmer, 250-385-2033

pg. 6

302-1022 Fort, $259,000

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Andrew Plank, 250-360-6106 Saturday 3-5 Fair Realty Diana Winger, 250-999-3683

305-1005 McKenzie Ave, $239,000

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808

108-1244 Muirfield Pl, $619,000 pg. 16

207-2779 Stautw Rd, $160,000 pg. 24

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Judy Gerrett, 250-656-0131

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301

205-866 Goldstream Ave. pg. 18

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Plank, 250-360-6106


SAANICH NEWS - Friday, July 12, 2013

www.vicnews.com • A23

Rock the Shores ready to take stage More vendors, more days, fewer people: organizers learn lessons of last year Kyle Wells News staff

An expanded Rock the Shores takes to the fields of West Shore Parks and Recreation this weekend and organizers are gearing up for the music event of the summer. Featuring big-name bands over the course of two days, the festival is quickly becoming a staple of West Shore entertainment. From local and regional bands such as Mother Mother and Vince Vaccaro to headliners such as City and Colour, Awolnation and Weezer, the festival aims to please. “I’m just looking forward to another legendary rock show,” said organizer Nick Blasko of Atomique Productions. “For West Shore, but also for Victoria in general. We’re trying to create something, to do an annual event here. And I think there’s clearly the appetite.” Addressing some of last year’s concerns, organizers have tripled the number of food vendors, created more entrances to the site, have more water supplies and have expanded the beer garden. At the same time, the venue’s capacity has been reduced by 2,500 from last year. “(That is) to make sure that people have a little more room to move around on the site and to provide a better whole day-long experience for people,” Blasko said. “That’s all in an effort to serve the demand that was there and cut down on the lineups. “Certainly last year was a big learning (experience) for everyone, there were a whole bunch of things that were just unforeseen.” Blasko also hopes the weather co-operates this year. High winds and lightning cut short the Sam Roberts Band’s set last year, making way for nature’s own rock show. West Shore RCMP will be onsite both days augmenting the event security and stepping in, if needed. Last year’s event turned out remarkably well, said RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Kathy Rochlitz, noting that the extra day will require more police resources. OPEN HOUSES CONT’D “We’ve looked at things and tweaked things in some ways,” she said. “Come in and enjoy yourself, enjoy the day, and try to do it in a safe and controlled manner.” There’s various options for concert goers look-

Weezer will be headlining Rock the Shores, Sunday night at West Shore Parks and Recreation. The now two-day festival kicks off Saturday at 1 p.m. Submitted photo

ing to leave their vehicle at home. B.C. Transit, with funding provided by the event, is putting on extra service to West Shore Parks and Recreation for both days. Cycling to the show is also encouraged and a free bike check valet service is available. Nick Blasko Those who bike receive priority entrance through the VIP gates. Carpooling is also welcomed and there will be designated drop off and pick up areas for those catching a ride. There is limited parking for VIP pass holders, accessible via Ocean Boulevard. Gates open at 1 p.m. both days, with music starting around 1:45 p.m. and running until 10 p.m., on the lower fields of the recreation centre at 1767 Island Hwy. Leave alcohol, drugs, lawn chairs, tents, coolers, instruments, large beach umbrellas, recording devices and dogs at home. A bag and coat check will be available for a small fee. Follow the Goldstream News Gazette on Facebook, Twitter and at vicnews.com for live updates and photos from the concert. Visit rocktheshores.com for more information, including a parking map and a full rundown of performer start times. kwells@goldstreamgazette.com

2262 Setchfield, $634,900 Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer, 250-818-3216

410-606 Goldstream, $259,000 Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Clayton Jeffs, 250-744-3301

210-663 Goldstream Ave, $234,900

Saturday 2:30-4 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown, 250-380-6683

Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jeff Shaw, 250-474-6003

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1019 Fashoda, $499,900

Sunday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

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2380 Setchfield, $624,900 pg. 21

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Ginny Barlow, 250-474-6003

2661 Florence Lake Rd, $430,000 pg. 20

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Plank, 250-360-6106

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Lorraine Stundon 250 812-0642

Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Peter Crichton, 250-477-7291

pg. 20

202-606 Goldstream, $219,900 pg. 20

3547 Desmond, $548,500

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Clayton Jeffs, 250-744-3301

525 Saltspring View, $589,000 pg. 8

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Gary Bazuik, 250-477-5353

pg. 24

3467 Happy Valley pg. 26

Saturday & Sunday 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Mike Hartshorne, 250-889-4445

207-2732 Matson Rd, $259,900

3-379 Wale, $230,000 pg. 7

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Ron Bahrey, 250-477-7291

2162 Bellamy, $685,000

Daily 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Mike Hartshorne, 250-889-4445 Saturday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the July 11 - 17 edition of

1012 Marwood, $595,000

2987 Dornier Rd.

pg. 20

2394 Fleetwood, $599,000 Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Giovanna Balaiban, 250-477-5353

Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Jane Logan, 250-920-6868

593 Latoria Rd, $294,000

406-611 Brookside, $189,000

404-606 Goldstream, $279,000

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Paul Holland, 250-592-4422

pg. 20

61-2500 Florence Lake, $39,900

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Rick Turcotte, 250-744-3301

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Clayton Jeffs, 250-744-3301

658 Rason, $569,800

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Wednesday-Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Neil Docherty, 250-478-9600

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3342 Ravenwood, $900,000 Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Marsha Crawford, 250-889-8200

65-5838 Blythwood Rd. pg. 20

Saturday 12-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Michael Dick, 250-642-6056

399 Wembley Rd pg. 21

Friday & Saturday 1-3 Re/Max First Realty Ian Lindsay 1-888-243-1071

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