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Saanich police forensics expert invents new technique for lifting prints hidden under handwriting

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Saanich police forensic officer Shane Coughlan invented a new technique which allows police officers to, for instance, remove pen ink from ransom notes, while preserving the integrity of a fingerprint. Coughlan recieved an international award for his efforts.

Saanich police Const. Shane Coughlan is a problem-solver. As a longtime member of the department’s forensic identification section, he is challenged – day in and day out – with assisting in crime solving through processing of physical evidence. But sometimes his job is hampered by the limitations of known

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forensic techniques. “Several years ago we had a string of bank robberies where the hold-up note was being left behind,” Coughlan says. “My boss as the time had developed several fingerprints (off the notes), but one of them was obscured by the writing. The writing went across the middle of the fingerprint.” The chemical ninhydrin, which police departments use to locate fingerprints on paper, reacts with

the skin’s oils left behind and turns the prints purple. But that colour is difficult to distinguish from pen ink. “So I started thinking about the problem and I played around with it, and I developed a technique where I used a different chemical to fade the pen ink, but not effect the fingerprint. So you could actually see the extra detail in the fingerprint that was hidden by the writing,” Coughlan says.

The police officer spent the next couple years sharing his technique with colleagues, who eventually convinced him to formalize it by conducting scientific experiments and publishing his findings. Coughlan was published in the Journal of Forensic Identification in August 2012 after perfecting the technique. PLEASE SEE: Saanich, Victoria, Page A8

While there’s still a lot of 2013 to pack in to the final two months of the year, car manufacturers have already begun rolling out next year’s models. In Friday’s edition of Driveway our knowledgeable auto columnists will look at some of the eyecatching 2014 models that will be out on our roads in the coming year. Driveway editor Keith Morgan will picks some of his favourite higher-end vehicles: BMWs, Audis, Mercedes. (These vehicles start at $34,000.) Zack Spencer and Alexandra Straub look at vehicles that are more practical for the family lifestyle. Spencer chooses his favourite compact cars and SUVs, while Straub highlights fun and sporty cars at a price that won’t break the bank. Truck aficionado Ian Harwood, in his first appearance in Driveway, will lay out some of the best pickups on the market. And for the environmentally friendly driver, Bob McHugh introduces five new hybrids that give their gasoline counterparts a run for their money. “Go and kick some tires at a variety of dealerships and consider multiple brands because they all have much to offer,” Morgan says of the 2014 lineup. Driveway is the weekly automotive section that runs in Black Press community newspapers in B.C. editor@vicnews.com

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If salmon enthusiasts are happy for anything after this weekend, it’s that when it rains, it pours. The caretakers of the Colquitz River fish-counting fence are heralding this past weekend as the best in their 13-year history, with the heavy rainfall helping a record 450 salmon start making their way up the river to spawn. An average year at the trap sees between 250 to 300 coho salmon come to the fence over the entire season, typically from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31. Chris Bos, president of the Colquitz Salmonid Stewardship and Education Society, said he’s never seen anything like it. The society performs the daily fish counts as well as running educational programs for school and the public. “If we’re getting more than we get on an average year in one day, that’s a very good sign,” Bos said. All fish this weekend were coho, aside from two cutthroat trout. Bos said a heavy rain at the end of September got the fish moving and then a long, relatively dry spell left them waiting for the right opportu-

nity to head upstream. The salmon wait for a heavy rain to start upstream, for added protection from predators. “(When) the water’s low, it’s clear, they don’t feel comfortable running into that because they’re exposed,” Bos said. The total number for the run has been up over the last couple of years, and with the already huge numbers for this year, Bos believes he is seeing a trend. Other salmon runs in the area have also been stronger lately, with numbers similar to about two decades ago. “That’s a good sign that they are getting better ocean survival and that means that they’re coming back in bigger numbers,” Bos said. Bos remembers the highest count the group has had to be around 575 coho in one year, in the early 2000s. He expects this record to be broken this year. He expects salmon to keep coming with the rain, likely until the end of the month. “Despite the oil spills, despite the little pollution events we’ve got, we have a little urban creek that’s doing really well,” Bos said. “It’s something that we can all be proud of.” kwells@goldstreamgazette.com

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Saanich police are warning that scam artists continue to prey on senior citizens, this time by offering bogus “security assessments” of homes. On Oct. 31, police say a Saanich man intercepted a phone call targeted at his 90-year-old father. The caller claimed the man’s neighbourhood had experienced a rash of break-ins and home invasions, and he offered a “security assessment” of the property, which would have allowed the caller inside the home. When the Saanich resident challenged the caller to provide company details, he quickly figured out it was a scam, hung up and called police. Police say the call was likely an attempt to enter a home under false pretences to rob it, or to provide a fake service and charge an outrageous fee. The Saanich police Block Watch program can provide advice regarding securing homes against crime. For more information on Block Watch call 250475-4365 or email, blockwatch@saanichpolice.ca.

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A new map is helping users of Mount Douglas Park find a little bit of peace and quiet. The map, which is available online from the Mount Douglas Park Society, shows the manmade sound levels on every trail in the park, with colour coding to indicate everything from sweet silence to intrusive traffic noise. The project started as a reaction to a transmitter site which was installed near the top of the mountain with air conditioning fans which caused a significant amount of racket. The District of Saanich fixed the machine but the incident prompted the group to start thinking about noise throughout the park and the importance of documenting its levels. “Quiet is a positive attribute of the park and if you don’t document these things, you can’t preserve them,” said Darrell Wick, society president. The first idea was to record decibel levels, but participants soon found out the noise from birds, wind through trees or other natural occurrences were often louder than the manmade noises. It was then decided the best approach was a subjective one, so volunteers walked the trails of the park and every 50 feet wrote down the sounds level on a scale of zero to three, with zero being no manmade noise at all and three being the heavy sound of traffic. The sound of airplanes was also noted, simply to keep track of how much air traffic the park sees.

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Mount Douglas Park Society president Darrell Wick uses the group’s newly released sound map to find the most consistently quiet area of the park. The group found the northwest corner of the Mount Douglas forest as the most often free of man-made noise. As far as Wick knows this is the first soundscape map ever made of a park. The map, which has the trails colour-coded in either green, yellow, orange or red, will be a tool for people who desire to get away from it all. The northwest corner of the park, off of Cordova Bay Road, by Seaview Suites, is the most consistently quiet area, owing to a plateau which cuts the road off from the park. Other areas, such as the

trail along Douglas Creek, are also “green” for good, as is the pocket between Little Mt. Douglas and Mt. Douglas. Other areas, such as parts of the Whittaker Trail alongside Cedar Hill Road glare red for high traffic noise. Wick hopes the information will be used by Saanich when considering development proposals near the park. Currently the group is encouraging the city to purchase a

parcel of land near the quiet northwest area in the hopes of saving it from development. “We feel this is an important aspect of the park, so when Saanich looks at development or zoning outside of the park we hope that they’ll take this into consideration,” Wick said. “It would be a shame to lose that value.” To view the map visit mountdouglaspark.ca. kwells@goldstreamgazette.com

Hartland sludge plant pushes up sewage treatment cost Daniel Palmer News staff

The cost of Greater Victoria’s secondary sewage treatment project is going up by an estimated $38 million after politicians voted to uphold a ban on human waste as fertilizer. At an Oct. 30 meeting, Capital Regional District directors were presented with information that shows treated human waste is actually less contaminated than many agricultural manure products. The commission tasked with overseeing the sewage mega-project argued it could save taxpayers $35 million on the $783 mil-

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pipeline and pumping stations between the two sites. An exact pipeline route hasn’t yet been chosen, but Sweetnam said it will won’t cut through private properties. Sweetnam became the public face of the CRD’s sewage project in September. His “26-hour days” include functioning as the key liaison between CRD directors, staff, municipal and provincial governments and, perhaps most dauntingly, the taxpayers of Victoria, Oak Bay, Saanich, View Royal, Langford and Colwood. Recent proposals for smaller, decentralized sewage processing plants would cost at least $2 billion and likely more, he said. Sweetnam also didn’t rule out the pos-

sibility of looking at newer technologies for sewage treatment, but said the technology must be proven. “Proven means it’s been functioning for at least five years at a facility of comparable size,” he said. Construction at McLoughlin Point will begin next summer, while Victoria and Esquimalt advisory design committees will get a chance to critique the incoming requests for proposals, Sweetnam said. “(The CRD) spent a lot of money studying options,” he said. “These decisions are now made, and we’ve actually started building. So the horse is out of the barn.” dpalmer@vicnews.com

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A 35-year-old man will be sentenced Thursday on charges related to a bizarre plot to abduct the daughter of his employer at her Saanich home last year. Last Friday Supreme Court Justice Mary Humphries heard how Kian Chong thought the owner of the restaurant he worked at badly mistreated her employees. He believed he could scare her into leaving Canada by briefly seizing her daughter and taking photos of her bound in handcuffs, an idea he formed while watching a TV crime show. During video of his interview with Saanich police, Chong, originally from Malaysia, said he “didn’t want to hurt anybody,” but wanted to teach his boss “a lesson.” Chong last week pleaded guilty to unlawful confinement, assault causing bodily harm and wearing a disguise for the incident that took place in the evening of Dec. 3, 2012. That evening, Chong parked a white rental van outside his boss’s house in Gordon Head. Crown prosecutor Scott Van Alstine said that around 6:30 p.m. Chong grabbed his boss’s now 18-year-old daughter from behind while she was alone on the driveway. A loud struggle ensued, which caught the attention of neighbours

and one of the daughter’s friends, inside the home at the time. At one point, Chong told the teen: “Don’t yell; I’ll kill you,” recounted Crown counsel. He managed to pull the teen into the back of the van and struggled to get handcuffs on her. He realized the phone he was going to use take the photo was out of reach, in the front seat. She was able to escape the van and ran toward her friend, who was now outside the home. The friend, a 17-year-old girl, angrily confronted Chong and hit him a couple times with her friend’s shoe, which she lost in the struggle. At one point Chong slashed the friend’s forearm with scissors. Chong’s defence lawyer, Tim Russell, says that was accidental. He managed to make it back to the van and drove off. Chong, while speeding away on Fairburn Drive, nearly struck a responding officer. He abandoned the van behind Maria Montessori Academy in the 1800-block of Fairburn Dr. Police found him later that evening on foot near Cook and Hillside streets. He has been held in a remand centre for the last 11 months. Crown is seeking an additional two-year prison sentence. Defence is asking Chong be credited for 18 months time served, and would like his client to be released immediately.

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TLC begins process to sell land trust property Edward Hill News staff

The Land Conservancy has started to zero in on properties in Victoria and other parts of B.C. it could sell as it begins the process to repay $7.5 million owed to creditors. In a report issued last week by Wolrige Mahon Ltd., the court ordered monitor for TLC’s creditor protection proceedings, TLC will try to sell a parking lot it owns beside Abkhazi Gardens for $539,900 and a residential development property in Sechelt for $1.9 million. It also wants to sell its 35 per cent share of the protected Maltby Lake property in Saanich. Of note, the Wolrige Mahon report listed the 27-acre Madrona Farms in Saanich as potential asset to sell, and described it as a property with “marketability in the near term.” TLC director of operations John Shields said including Madrona Farms in the list of potential sale properties was an error and a “mislisting of intended actions.” “Madrona is not under consideration at the moment,” Shields said. In its place, he said TLC is considering selling the Keating Farm Estate in the Cowichan Valley, a 13 hectare farm in the agricultural land reserve with 1880s era buildings. Gord McMorran, with Wolrige Mahon, apologized for the error in the monitor report and for causing undue alarm for supporters of Madrona Farms. The court was notified Monday of the error, he said. “The TLC board knows about it and are calling the appropriate people,” McMorran said. “I apologize but its out there and folks are rightly upset.” Properties purchased by TLC are regulated under the Charitable

Purposes Preservation Act of B.C. (CPPA), which prevents land within a trust to be sold or seized to repay debts. Shields said TLC is obliged to follow court orders under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), a federal law. “In the situation we are in, the CCAA requires ... that we review each of our properties for their potential to pay off our creditors, in the context of our mandate to protect ecologically sensitive and environmentally important properties,” Shields said. “We are definitely looking to sell properties, while making sure we are mindful of the CCPA.” A list of 17 conservation properties – which includes Madrona Farms and the Sooke Potholes – and seven heritage properties, will be reviewed for sale potential. TLC owns 50 properties across B.C., 8,300 acres worth, with an aggregate assessed value of $43,784,000. “We are working so we are in a position to pay off our creditors. The intent is to pay off everybody in full,” Shields said. “We want to sell as few (properties) as possible, keeping in mind we have to raise a certain amount of money.” Whether it’s legal for TLC to sell properties to pay its creditors “is a question for the courts,” McMorran said. “This is all being done under the supervision of the courts, it’s all transparent,” he said. “Everyone is mindful of the statutory legislation and protection of trusts. There are a host of issues and there’s a long way to go.” Bill Turner, a founding member of TLC, said unless TLC can find a charitable organization to purchase its properties, the sale plan could

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ike any big infrastructure project, the $783-million price tag for the Capital Regional District’s sewage treatment project, recently rebranded as Seaterra, is a floating target. The CRD is nonetheless moving forward with this budget number to gauge bids from contractors hoping to build elements of the system. It’s the basis for the one-third funding from each of the provincial and federal governments and for taxes properties to be using the Greater Victoria sewer system. Seaterra program director Albert Sweetnam told a Black Press editorial board that the real cost is expected to be plus or minus 25 per cent of the budget. That’s nearly $196 million either way, and previous provincial projects suggest the costs will migrate only one way: upward. A chunk of that plus-or-minus buffer has already been accounted for. This, a few years before the vast majority of construction on this massive project is scheduled to begin. The CRD board last week bumped up the treatment project cost by $38 million with its decision to not allow biosolids fertilizer created in the CRD to be used in the CRD. Seaterra said its hand is forced to plan for a resource recovery centre at Hartland Landfill that is required to do a lot more than originally budgeted. The CRD board’s somewhat baffling decision shows just how easy it is for millions to be tacked on to a project’s budget. Taxpayers in the core municipalities are on the hook for any cost overruns above $783 million, and senior government contributions don’t include a 25-per-cent buffer. Some municipal jurisdictions have already begun billing for sewage treatment as a way to spread out the tax burden. It seems now there’s a good chance that burden may have to be spread out longer than originally expected for a project that is substantially more expensive, while barely out of the gates.

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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but administered at work. got my influenza shot this Kendall announced the regulation week, paid for out of pocket last year, after finding that 40 per since I don’t qualify for any of cent of employees in the higher-risk groups long-term care were provided with free not getting the current immunization. influenza vaccine, and the A reminder to take this rate of immunization was simple health precaution declining. came in October when a Their objections labour arbitrator ruled make no sense. Aside that it is a reasonable from the self-serving employment requirement “rights” argument, they for health-care workers complain that the annual to either get the current flu vaccine isn’t effective immunization or mask up Tom Fletcher enough. in patient care areas. B.C. Views The formula Quiet advocacy by is developed by Provincial Health Officer international effort to track the Dr. Perry Kendall has paid off. Staff, dominant strains that emerge as doctors, outside contractors and winter rolls around the world. visitors will have to put patients Kendall says a poor match results first. in about 40 per cent immunity, and Health-care unions pressed a a good match reaches 90 per cent. grievance on behalf of members At the risk of stating the obvious, he who insist they have a right to notes that even 40 per cent is better refuse immunization and increase than nothing. exposure to patients. They have After two weeks of expert apparently run up the white flag. testimony, arbitrator Robert “We will be telling our members Diebolt, a retired UBC law professor, to comply with the new policy, or wrote as follows: risk being fired,” said an overly “It is indisputable that influenza dramatic Val Avery, president of can be a serious, even fatal, disease. the Health Sciences Association. Immunization also indisputably HSA lawyers led the grievance, provides a measure of protection supported by the Hospital to health care workers and I have Employees’ Union and the B.C. found that their immunization Nurses’ Union. reduces influenza transmission to Avery said the union will patients. continue to urge its members to “I have also concluded that there take advantage of on-site flu shot is a real and serious patient safety clinics. That’s right, like most issue and the policy is a helpful provincial employees, they all get program to reduce patient risk.” immunization that is not only free

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control calculates that if all healthcare workers would get immunized, the risk to patients would be reduced nearly 50 per cent. The Ministry of Health warns: “You can spread influenza for 24 hours before you have any symptoms.” What would cause educated health-care workers to defy common sense? A hint is provided by professional union promoter and publicist Bill Tieleman, who railed about the decision on his blog. This regulation is inspired by big bad U.S. health care corporations that would rather impose immunization than pay for sick days, Tieleman asserts. Ah, so an infected health-care employee should wander the wards until symptoms emerge, and then go home for a few days of paid rest. What a perfectly stupid idea! Last week BCNU president Debra McPherson was warning about “chaos” at the new Surrey Memorial emergency ward, her latest of a career of media protests. The big new facility is already overflowing, and more beds and more staff are needed, stat! Perhaps if better preventive measures were taken by nurses, doctors and other staff, this chronic “chaos” would be reduced and these unions would have more credibility. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalNews.com. Twitter:@tomfletcherbc E-mail: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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LETTERS No sense dumping biosolids on land Dumping sludge biosolids into the ocean is prohibited because it’s considered a toxic pollutant to fish. So why on earth could dumping it on land be any less polluting? Are we less important than fish? Logic and commonsense show this is crazy. The pollutants in ‘biosolids’ can’t be eliminated. When applied to land, they not only accumulate, but end up back in the ocean, polluting other waterways along the way. Studies showing effects of long term use are sparse because the bodies that have the funds don’t have the incentive to pay for those studies. This doesn’t translate into “scientific studies show it’s harmless.” That’s spin, PR, manipulation of facts. The CRD’s own website warns: “Persistent Organic Pollutants (one of the eight main pollutants identified) are very slow to break down in the environment, and in many cases have an affinity for the fat tissues in animals. Therefore they are difficult to eliminate, and many are subject to bio-magnification. This means that they become more highly concentrated as they move up the food chain.” These are serious concerns. Marsha Henderson Saanich

Many improvements near North Dairy Re: Roadwork near Hillside going slow (Letters, Oct. 2) I live in the North Dairy Road area and I can’t see what all the fuss is about. I have often taken the No. 24 Cedar Hill via Colville bus to get home from downtown and I have seen noticeable improvements at the intersection of North Dairy Road and Cedar Hill Road. The roads look freshly paved with new sidewalks too. As for the eastern entrance to Hillside mall, it will be nice to see healthy competition between Shoppers Drug Mart, Thrifty Foods and Target, when it opens. Richard Lebrun Saanich

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Technology addicting, enslaving phone users Over the past few years we have entered a new age of slavery. When a hand-held electronic communication device commands the immediate and undivided attention of the owner to the exclusion of everything else, a whole generation of owners become slaves to instant information. What is the addictive need to be constantly in touch with seemingly inconsequential connectedness through this extension of one’s hand? How did the newly connected actually survive before this gizmo came into their hot little hands? Did they rush madly from pay phone to pay phone to send or recieve that all-important message? They must have wondered how they ever survived. The addicted have become a menace on the roads as their attention is diverted from driving. The iPhone junkies are all around us, seemingly ignorant of anything going on around them. What a sad way to go through life – totally reliant on what other addicts have to say in their ever-restricted lives. But then, I’m an old codger. Bob Clarke Saanich

Grocery competition could be hurt in Victoria Re: Safeway in Saanich, Oak Bay to be sold (News, Oct. 25) I wrote to the Competition Bureau of Canada on June 17 strongly opposing the purchase of Safeway stores by Sobeys, owner of Thrifty Foods. Frankly, I could not see why Sobeys would want to buy Safeway grocery outlets in Western Canada, except to reduce competition, raise prices and gain a monopoly in the foreseeable future. I am convinced this sale of Safeway stores is the beginning and will impact families in Victoria and the Saanich Peninsula. I am disappointed with the decision of the Competition Bureau to allow the sale and I will write to them again. I am somewhat relieved that they ordered the sale of three Safeway stores rather than see the locals face potential closures. I just hope these stores are purchased

by strong grocery retailers such as Save-On or Loblaws or by local grocers who would give strong competition to Sobeys. We need fair and healthy competition. I am afraid, only time will tell. Haji Charania Saanich

Cats decimate quail populations in Saanich Up until 10 years ago we would regularly see quail around our home which is located near Bow Park in Saanich. At that time the roaming domestic cat population increased and all of the quail disappeared. Quail chicks are easy prey for cats. Adult quail pair for life, so it is sad to see one calling for its missing mate. In the past week we have been thrilled to see two quail in our yard. We hope they will make a comeback. I would ask that cat owners give the quail a chance by keeping their pets indoors. A less desirable solution is to put a bell on their cat’s collar, which may spare the adult quail. Jeff St. Gelais Saanich

Gasification a solution to sewage sludge Capital Regional District director Judy Brownoff states that gasification technology was looked at in 2009. So, what have the consultants hired by the CRD been doing since that time with respect to updating this research? There are successful gasification operations with respect to sewage sludge in Florida, Japan and Germany, to name just a few. I have no confidence in this project when directors are satisfied with information relating to technology that is five years out of date. With the current ban on the land application of biosolids still firmly in place, it behooves the CRD to look to gasification as a possible answer to this problem, namely: What to do with the sewage sludge at the end of the day? Beth Burton-Krahn Esquimalt The News welcomes your opinions and comments. ■ Mail: Letters to the Editor, Saanich News, 818 Broughton St., Victoria, B.C., V8W 1E4 ■ Email: editor@saanichnews.com

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for the work, which will be performed Nov. 10 at the University of Victoria. “I didn’t think I had one,” said Butterfield, an associate music professor at the University of Victoria. “I thought the whole thing was written down on scraps of paper. It was fascinating for me to see that original plan and then to see what resulted from that musically.” What resulted was a symphony and dance piece choreographed by Bill Coleman, the son of a Convoy PQ-17 survivor, that has been performed for audiences as far away as Montreal and St. Petersburg, Russia. “In Russia they take very seriously the history of the war,” Butterfield said. “It’s very serious business. Here,

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Steamship eatery construction starts The Steamship Grill and Taphouse, along with an adjoining Starbucks café, is taking shape in the CPR Steamship building. The restaurant, part of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority’s vision for the structure, is expected to open sometime next month. It is being designed and developed by Extra Mile, a team led by long-time B.C. restaurateur Wayne Holm and including renowned chef Jim Romer and Vancouver seafood restaurant operator Kelly Gordon, who will serve as director of operations for the Victoria outlet.

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Saturday’s windy conditions forced competitors out of the water on the first day of the 2013 Lower Vancouver Island city rowing championships at Elk Lake. Instead, the regatta was done in a series of timed heats on Sunday, with as many as three heats for some categories. It makes it challenging for crews because they could be first in their heat, but have no idea how fast the boats in the

School rowers manother heats have aged just two heats gone, as the winners on Saturday before are based on times. It organizers cancelled can also be frustratthe day at 11 a.m. It’s ing if one heat faces especially unlucky more wind or chop as changes to the than another. It’s also school racing format not as exciting without the top crews racKevin Light Photography this year have creing each other, said Sophia Donnecke ated two divisions Alia Zawacki, coach wins gold in Seattle. at the senior level. Rowers from acadeof St. Andrew’s school mies or rowing clubs race in the rowing academy. “It’s difficult for them, you advanced division while seniors can’t see how hard it was for the who only compete on the school athletes just by looking at the team are in the senior division. Juniors remain combined. results.” Hannah Taft helped St. The Claremont Spartans junior, senior and advanced Andrew’s win the advanced girls (academy) rowers combined to category as she was first in the advanced women’s single and win the overall team aggregate.

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ules of UVic student-athletes. The Vikes qualified for the McCrae Cup, CIS championship final with 3-0 round robin wins over the Guelph Gryphons and Waterloo Warriors. by the Thunderbirds The T-Birds, meanthan vice versa. Such while, trounced the was the reality when Gryphons 7-1 and the T-Birds, a team Warriors 10-0. with nine national playAmanda Kuriers, dug its cleats into anowicz was the the water-based turf of UVic, against a Vikes Sharon Tiffin/News staff only Vike to score team that was not only UBC Thunderbird Miranda Mann, left, and UVic Vike Emily in the gold medal younger, with just one Fisher, chase the ball in the national championships at UVic. game, her fourth goal of the tourney. fourth-year and one Vikes goalie Sheridan It was the final game fifth-year player, but also eral years, shouldn’t have with just one player who anything to be unhappy for the former Lambrick Goodmanson was named trains with the national about. I see big things Park student, as Kirby will to the tournament All-Star for them in the next few likely suit up for the Kir- team with midfielders team, Kathleen Leahy. by’s Island Wildcats (no Kirby and Leahy. UBC’s “UVic brought a good years.” “We put it all out there relation) premier team Abigail Raye was named game. If we had sunk a the tourney MVP, one of few our earlier chances it (Sunday) and we deserve next year. Kirby still hopes to take five Thunderbirds named could have been a slightly silver. Gold is nicer but higher score line,” UBC (UBC’s) a tough team with a crack at the Vancouver- to the 11-player All-Star coach Kash Hanjee said. high-capped (national) based senior national pro- team. Guelph won bronze “It’s probably the best players,” said graduating gram, which can be elu- 6-1 over Waterloo. sports@vicnews.com sive for the busy schedUVic side I’ve seen in sev- captain Kyla Kirby.

Silver at nationals a big result for young Vikes team Travis Paterson News staff

As the UBC Thunderbirds claimed its third straight CIS National women’s field hockey championship 4-1 against the UVic Vikes on Sunday it was obvious the team is a cut above its university competition. The UVic Vikes, bless their silver hearts, did the best they could to bring the ball up-field and even carried the momentum of the game for a good run in the first half. But scoring chances were tough to come by, and the Vikes were forced to stop a lot more quality attempts

part of the St. Andrew’s advanced women’s eight which was also first. St. Andrew’s senior girls duo of Grace Geneau and Maria Isberg won the double and were third in the quad. Isberg raced at both levels as she was part of St. Andrew’s advanced eight crew. Claremont’s powerhouse program also sent rowers to Seattle’s Head of the Lake University of Washington regatta, where Claremont’s national junior rower Sophia Donnecke, of Saanich, won the five-kilometre women’s single. Donnecke will represent Claremont and B.C. at the National Rowing Championships in Welland, Ont., Nov. 8 to 10. sports@vicnews.com

Vikes twos go first The UVic Vikes men’s rowing team finished third overall the 2013 Canadian University Rowing Championships at McGill University’s Olympic Basin in Montreal. The Vikes men’s pair (sweeping) of Will O’Connell and Sean Decter took first on the two-kilometre course and the Vikes men’s double (sculling) of Alex Walker and Lee Hall were also first. O’Connell and Decter were in the men’s eight that finished fourth. The Vikes women’s team was fourth with top showings from pair Jillian Legare and Rebecca Zimmerman, and the lightweight quad, which were both second.

Vikes win Canada West bronze at Centennial Graduating senior goalkeeper Tanya Jones played with a dislocated finger to guide the UVic Vikes to a 1-0 victory and bronze medal, beating the UBC Thunderbirds in penalty kicks at the Canada West women’s soccer championships at UVic on Saturday. The Vikes went three for five in the penalty kick shootout with goals from Jackie Harrison, Lindsay Hoetzel and Shannon Elder, while Jones held the T-Birds to just one goal. It was a massive way to go out for Jones, a product of Sidney’s Parkland secondary school, after the Vikes heartbreaking 2-1 overtime loss to the Trinity Western Spartans on Friday night. The Friday loss cost UVic a seat at the CIS nationals beginning in Toronto later this week. The Vikes men fell 2-1 to the Fraser Valley Cascades in the bronze medal game of the Canada West Final Six on Sunday afternoon at UBC. sports@vicnews.com

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Nathan Wadhwari, of Coquitlam’s Terry Fox secondary, leads the Oak Bay High’s Liam Kennel, and the pack, at the raindrenched provincial high school cross country championships in Aldergrove Regional Park on Saturday (Nov. 2). Wadhwani narrowly edged Kennel in the senior boys race.

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Healthy and back on track Travis Paterson News staff

Oak Bay High’s Liam Kennel proved on Saturday that he’s still the Island’s top seeded cross-country runner by finishing second at the provincial high school cross-country championship in Aldergrove. Kennel had fallen to fourth at the recent 6.7-kilometre Island cross-country championships at Beaver Lake. But this week he revealed he was fighting a chest cold at Beaver Lake which affected his race. After that race he took two full days to recover and was mostly back to health at the provincials on Saturday. He had a strategy too. Unfortunately, he didn’t stick to it.

“I knew (the winner Nathan Wadhwani) and I were going to breakaway (from the start). He took off fast like he usually did, and I didn’t panic, I just sat (on his shoulder) for the first two laps, and we broke away from the pack,” Kennel said. It turned into a 6.7 km backand-forth battle that came down to the final hundred metres and a difference of five seconds. “(Wadhwani) was tiring in the third lap and I took my first lead, a three-second gap up a hill,” Kennel said. Wadhwani responded, however, and took a gap of his own. Kennel retook the lead with about 800 metres left. But it was one too many lead exchanges, Kennel later said, as Wadwhani

shot ahead on a downhill with about 300 metres to go. This time Kennel couldn’t close the gap, which is ironic, as Kennel’s the faster runner in the sprint. “I was trying to catch him with a 100 metres left but I couldn’t. Cross country is like that,” Kennel said. “(WadhwanI) is a better long distance runner so maybe I made a mistake to go ahead – I should have stayed with him and waited to the end to break away.” Injuries to Kennel’s team kept them from defending the boy’s team title. Parkland’s Chloe Hegland was the top senior girl from the Lower Island in fourth with Oak Bay’s Maddie Brunt next at 18th. sports@vicnews.com

Braefoot centre reinvests Travis Paterson

said Jim Tighe former chairman of Braefoot’s board. “Now we’re able to invest back into our There are few faces future with over a dozen in the Greater Victoria bursaries and scholarsports scene that are ships, with a focus on more recognizable than the immediate comJimmy Hansen’s. munity of youth who Hansen, a Saanichite have come through whose life is dedicated Braefoot’s various proto minor sports, was grams.” named Braefoot’s VolBraefoot named Uniunteer of the Year at versity of Victoria Vikes the recent 17th Annual basketball players JesFriends of Braefoot Dinner held in Esquimalt’s Christian J. Stewart Photography sica Renfrew and DomiWard Room. Jimmy Hansen works the clock during a nic Ohl the 2013 winners Hansen is known for Saanich Braves home game against the Kerry of the Walter & Charlotte Yeamons Award. his timekeeping with the Park Islanders at Pearkes arena. Receiving the annual Saanich Braves of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey and UVic men’s Braefoot bursaries were Camosun College stuhockey team in the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey dents Cole Navarrete and Ian Assang, University League, and as a year-round volunteer official for of Victoria students Emily Dagg, Sarah Jolliffe, local youth sports lacrosse, hockey, basketball Carla Evans, Justin Hahn and Adrian Irwin, Royal soccer and softball. Hansen also runs Braefoot’s Roads University student Bruce Liu and Univerbouncy castle, which is no small feat, having enter- sity of Manitoba student Megan Wilson. Braefoot tained thousands of Greater Victoria children at also awarded its Joy Paquin Scholarship to Erika Sweetland of UVic, the Peter Maddaugh Scholarshi dozens of bookings in 2013 alone. “We started a Braefoot fund over 20 years ago, to Lauryn Kerr of UVic, and the Rick Devison Schoand it benefitted from a government at the time loarship to Bobby Tiet of Camosun. sports@vicnews.com which matched a lot of the money that went in,”

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WASHER/DRYER Frigidaire white, 8 cycle HD, $550. (778)351-3349. YAMAHA PIANO, $500. Mahogany display unit, $275. 2 fabric swivel arm chairs, $75 each. Gold print sofa, $75. Patio furniture, $75. Call (250)592-6485

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

WESTCAN - Interested in being our next ice road trucker? Haul liquid, dry bulk or freight to the diamond mines on the winter road (ice road) from mid-January to mid-April. Not Interested in driving on the ice? Drive resupply from southern locations in Alberta to Yellowknife, NT. Apply online at: www.westcanbulk.ca or Phone: 1.888.WBT.HIRE (1.888.928.4473) for further details.

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SAANICH WEST- 1246 Hastings St, 3 bdrm Rancher, 2 garage, dining/living/family rooms, 2 bath (ensuite), F/P, appls incld, new roof. Walking distance to Interurban campus. Reduced price, $460,000. Call 250-477-4600. SIDNEY- 2444 Amherst Ave. 1300 sq.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. Organic gardens & fruit trees, fireplace, hot tub, 6 appls. Free TV forever.... $499,000. (250)656-6136.

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SIDNEY- DOWNTOWN. 1400 sq ft, $1800. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, 6 appls, 1 secure prking. NS/NP. Nov 1. (250)655-4184.

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SIDNEY- 3 bdrm sxs duplex, 1.5 bath, NS/NP. $1375+ utils. Available now (250)656-4003.

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ROOMS FOR RENT SAANICH. FURNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;D room. Laundry, hydro, cable. No drinking. $490. 250-748-1310 or (250)220-0107.

SHARED ACCOMMODATION NORTH NANAIMO: Attention Students/Working Professionals: fully furnished room, nice, quiet area. Own bathroom, cable, FREE WiFi, shared kitchen and laundry. N/S, N/P, no partiers. $550/mo. Avail. immediately. 250-756-9746 SIDNEY: BEAUTIFUL Accommodation. Private room in heritage home. Walk to shops and beach. Suit single person. Some meals available. N/S, N/P. $995. (250)656-9194.

SUITES, LOWER CENTRAL SAANICH: Large studio, close to bus, W/D. NS/NP. $625 inclds utils. Avail Dec. 1. (250)652-3603.

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TRUCKS & VANS 1990 DODGE 3/4 ton 4x4 long box. Excellent shape, good tires, exceptional loading capacity. Welded top carrier. $1100. Pls call (250)727-7905. 2011 FORD RANGER Sport. 4WD, 6 cyl. 25,000 km. $20,000. (778)351-0852.

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‘Inspiring’ Greater Victoria teenagers win scholarships An inspiring group of Victoriaarea students have won scholarships from Coast Capital Savings Credit Union. Stacy Trahan, one of the winners of a $5,000 Standing Tall award – for youth who make a positive impact on their communities in the face of personal adversity – was recognized for her battle with cancer as a teen. “I was thrilled when I learned I had won an education award,” Trahan said in a news release. “I don’t think I would come even close to being able to graduate on time with all my friends, and now not only have I gradu-

ated on time, but I graduated on the honour roll. I didn’t let cancer beat me. I pulled myself together, finished high school and now I’m off to university.” Trahan is pursuing a degree in business administration at Vancouver Island University. Other Greater Victoria winners included Ryan Heron, Lindsay Kastelic, Alastair Kierulf, Perry Taylor, Chris Wright, Taylor Nelson and Joshua Yates. Each won either a Standing Tall scholarship or a Citizenship Award, which recognizes youth who demonstrate leadership in all facets of their lives.

More than 800 B.C. students applied for the 48 scholarships, worth $144,000, $30,000 of which is going to Victoria youth. “Our education awards program applicants wow us every single year,” said Wendy Lachance, Coast Capital’s director of community leadership. “Although there are only 48 annual awards, each of the young people who apply provides an inspiring example of the diverse, wonderful things our young citizens are achieving.” editor@vicnews.com

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Prices effective at all British Columbia Safeway stores Friday, November 8 through Thursday November 14, 2013 only. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available at all stores. All items while stoc s last. Actual items may vary slightly from illustrations. Some illustrations are serving suggestions only. Advertised prices do not include GST. ®™ Trademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under license by LoyaltyOne, Inc. and Canada Safeway Limited. Extreme Specials are prices that are so low they are limited to a one time purchase to Safeway Club Card Members within a household. Each household can purchase the limited items one time during the effective dates. A household is defined by all Safeway Club Cards that are linked by the same address and phone number. Each household can purchase the EXTREME SPECIALS during the specified advertisement dates. For purchases over the household limits, regular pricing applies to overlimit purchases. On BUY ONE GET ONE FREE items, both items must be purchased. Lowest priced item is then free. Online and in-store prices, discounts, and offers may differ.

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