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Capt. Robert Neill Walker’s former home sits in a Garry oak meadow overlooking Portage Inlet. The English mariner designed the home in 1910 above what is now the

Galloping Goose Regional Trail, with the Pacific Ocean and Olympic Mountains visible from the front lawn or the second-storey veranda. This 104-year-old home on a 4,255-squaremetre property was expected to come before council Monday night as part of a

Saanich considers heritage designation for a 104-year-old Burnside Road home as part of a subdivision application

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Pacific Christian School student Grace Boothman, left, tutors Japanese international student Ruri Izawa, helping her understand Macbeth for an English assignment. A school trip to Japan changed her perspective on being an international student, which has allowed the Grade 10 student to flourish as a leader and ambassador at the Saanich school. News staff

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Grace Boothman knows what it’s like being a high school student in an unfamiliar foreign school. It was during a school trip to Japan last year that she was inspired to ensure visiting international students get a warm welcome when they walk through the doors at Pacific Christian School. While overseas Boothman says she was greeted by friendly faces and hospitable attitudes from Japanese students. “Every time in the halls I would wave and they all waved back,” she says. That friendly response altered her views on how Canadian teens should greet and communicate with international students, and upon her return home she changed the way she interacted with visitors to Canada in the hallways and classrooms at PCS. “I just started hanging out with (international students) at lunch because they’re always in their own little group,” she says. “Now we’re pretty good friends; we hang out on weekends. They feel welcome, I think. That’s important,

because it’s hard to go to another country and not speak as well as other kids. And then high school’s tough just in general, really.” In a school where roughly 10 per cent of the student population comes from another country, the Grade 10 student’s outreach creates an encouraging environment for those who might hesitate to make friends while at PCS.

“Gracie is a wonderful young lady who lives life enthusiastically and is friendly to everyone” - David O’Dell, Pacific Christian School Despite Boothman being the youngest student on the school trip last year, John Slofstra, international program co-ordinator and assistant principal at PCS, says her actions demonstrated great maturity. “I really admire this girl,” Slofstra says. “The average Canadian kid might be afraid to approach an international kid because the communication might be difficult. I’ve

seen her be the only Canadian kid in a group of eight or nine international kids.” Having experiencing being an international student herself – not knowing the language or seeming to fit in – Boothman felt lucky to be greeted with warmth, rather than discomfort. Slofstra says Boothman’s inclusive attitude is integral to the international program at PCS. “I think she develops long-lasting friendships with these students,” Slofstra says. “It makes the international kids feel good, feel accepted. She makes that happen, which I think is remarkable.” Her uncanny ability to transform what could be uncomfortable moments into lasting memories also comes in handy on Sundays, when she volunteers at Victoria General Hospital visiting elderly patients. “(She naturally overcomes) what could potentially be an awkward conversation with somebody,” Slofstra says. “She’s doing things that a lot of kids wouldn’t do because they’re afraid to or it’s outside of their comfort zone.” Boothman, who aspires to be a pediatrician, recently moved

to Victoria General, after almost two years at Royal Jubilee Hospital. She began volunteering in July 2012, two days after turning 14. “I started working as a volunteer talking to patients, keeping them company, doing whatever I can to help them. The first few times it’s nerve-wracking; there are awkward pauses,” Boothman says. That social support for patients is the teen’s strength, says Kathy Nies, manager of volunteer resources at Royal Jubilee. “What she really shone at was she did visits on our acute care (units),” Nies says. “People get pretty lonely and they love to see young people. Grace has such a nice manner to her, she (is) very attentive and appropriate with people.” The volunteer co-ordinator describes 15-year-old Boothman as a mature young woman, always respectful, appropriate and sensitive to others’ needs. “Her people skills are superb,” Nies says. “The visits on the nursing unit is, I think, the hardest assignment, especially for younger volunteers because they’re going into a room with somebody they

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don’t know. They are listening to that person and talking to that person. That’s hard to do.” “Most of (the patients) have been to war – they like talking about that, or what you do and don’t do in life. They encourage and want to help, which is funny because you’re there to encourage them,” Boothman says. “A lot of the patients I see don’t have family here or have lost someone. I want to make them know that people still care.” Boothman’s schedule is also kept busy with work as an afterschool tutor, playing on the school’s volleyball and basketball teams, playing soccer with the Saanich Fusion U16 team and hiphop dancing. “Gracie is a wonderful young lady who lives life enthusiastically and is friendly to everyone,” says David O’Dell, secondary principal at PCS. “She is a hard-working, dedicated student who finds great joy in serving others and contributes to a positive atmosphere here at PCS.” reporter@saanichnews.com To read an extended version of this story, visit vicnews.com.

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Saanich recently acquired an 11,491-square-foot parcel of developed land next to Lambrick Park to add to the municipality’s park inventory. Money for the $620,000 acquisition came from development cost charges and the sub-regional parks reserve fund. The property is located on the southwestern-most corner of Lambrick Park, just west of the Gordon Head Recreation Centre. There are currently no imminent plans to expand or reconfigure Lambrick Park to include the new lot. Saanich plans to rent the home until such time that a decision is made on the future of the land. The municipality regularly purchases houses as part of long-term planning for future parks and roads, and rents out the home in the meantime.

Saanich seeks nominees for enviro awards

Save some paper this year and submit a nominee for the 2014 Saanich Environmental Awards online. The municipality is taking nominations for groups, individuals or businesses making outstanding contributions to the natural environment in Saanich. Awards are offered in seven categories: individual, business/commercial, volunteer/organization, youth group/school, biodiversity conservation, sustainability and long-term achievement. Awards will be presented to the winners at the first council meeting

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in June. Winners receive a framed certificate and have their names added to a permanent plaque at municipal hall. This is the first year has a full online nomination option. Visit saanich.ca/enviroawards for information. Deadline is April 25.

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Get ready for a monster garage sale at Gordon Head Recreation Centre later this month. Clean out your closets and earn extra cash selling your unwanted children’s clothes, games, books, toys, sports equipment and more. Or come by to score some great deals. Register for a table ($24) at any Saanich Recreation Centre (no wholesale or retail vendors). The sale runs from 9 a.m. to noon at Gordon Head rec (4100 Lambrick Way) on March 29.

Camosun hunts for grads doing great work

Camosun College is looking for distinguished or promising alumni for its awards during the graduation ceremony June 19 and 20. The Distinguished Alumni Award honours an extraordinary graduate of more than 10 years ago and who demonstrates exceptional service to their community, outstanding contributions in their field, and offer inspiration to those around them. The Promising Alumni Award recognizes someone who graduated within the last decade and show career accomplishments with an indication of future success and a commitment to others. Visit camosun.ca/alumni or contact Camosun College Alumni Relations at 250-370-4239 or alumni@ camosun.bc.ca for nomination details. Deadline is March 31. reporter@saanichnews.com

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This home at 1245 Burnside Road W. was up for consideration at council Monday night to receive heritage designation.

Proposed new homes include heritage look Continued from Page A1 “What that means is when a property is designated, any changes to the building that affect the heritage features need to go through a formal approval process involving Saanich,” said Cameron Scott. “A property that is on the registry is identified as having some heritage value. Through a designation, (those heritage features are) given legal protection.” A description of the home’s architecturally significant features are detailed in Saanich’s Heritage Register: “This twoand-one-half-storey, crossgabled house … has shingle siding, with decorative halftimbering in the top threequarters of each gable. The upper storey windows hang from the lower fascia of the half-timbering. A wide open verandah on two sides of the house has square columns and lathe-turned balusters. The gables all have turned finials.” In a report to council, planners Chuck Bell and Jane Evans note the owners have taken into account the historic home with regards to the two houses proposed for the subdivided lots. “Elements of the proposed new dwelling designs, including half-timber gable ends and use of shingle siding, reflect the heritage character of the existing dwelling,” they wrote. The owners have also agreed to a natural state covenant to protect the Garry oak ecosystem at the front of the property. There are 27 pro-

tected trees on the property, 23 of which would be retained if council approves the application as it’s currently proposed. If approved, the two new lots would be 665 and 1,038 square metres, with the heritage home remaining on the southernmost lot overlooking the water (and the Trans-Canada Highway).

“A property that is on the registry is identified as having some heritage value. Through a designation, (those heritage features are) given legal protection.” - Cameron Scott, Saanich planning On the west side of the property, the View Royal border, the owners also propose widening an existing cement pathway. View Royal is looking to have that walkway connect Burnside to the Galloping Goose. As of 2008, when the most recent Saanich Heritage Register was released, there were 296 homes on the register. For more information on designated heritage homes and properties in Saanich and to read stories on the history of each one, visit saanich.ca/ discover/artsheritagearc/heritage/register.html or visit the Saanich Archives at 3100 Tillicum Rd. editor@saanichnews.com

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Captain of the house Robert Neill Walker was born in Maryport, England on April 27, 1851. He left home to become a mariner before the age of 16, and in 1874 he was chief officer on the HoraiMaru. a cargo vessel operated by Japan’s Mitsubishi Mail Steamship Company. Two years later he began captaining the Heian-Maru and eventually took over the Takachiho--Maru. He and his wife, Sato, had 9 children while living in Nagasaki. The family returned to England in 1891. Sato died at age 36 in 1894. Robert returned to Nagasaki, a place that reminded him of his wife, in 1895 and began his own company, R.N. Walker and Co. In 1908 he relocated to Canada, purchasing the property at 1245 Burnside Rd. and building the home that remains. In 1915, the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway purchased the Burnside Road property, and Walker moved down the road, building a second home on a 10-acre piece of land that has been converted into the Heritage House Bed and Breakfast. (The B&B is already has heritage designation in Saanich.) Walker died of pneumonia on April 24, 1941. Walker’s grave can be found at Royal Oak Burial Park in Saanich.

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Ferry service not dead, yet B.C. Ferries is digging its own grave with a shovel handed to it by the provincial government. With nearly $19 million in service reductions about to take place, not only residents will be left to mourn – it’s being buried in a coffin called tourism. Right on the front page of hellobc. com – B.C.s official tourism site – are three featured places to go, two of them on Vancouver Island. A visit to the site’s transportation page lauds the fringe benefits of ferry travel: “a deck-side view of breathtaking scenery not accessible by land and a high probability of spotting marine wildlife.” Great. If you can get on board and in a timely fashion. With reductions on dozens of routes, the elimination of some 7,000 round trips a year, the cut to the seniors’ discount, and with $4.9 million more in cuts to come, your chances of getting where you want to go are beginning to look dicey, if not pricey. The tourism site touts the Inside Passage route as a cruise through spectacular scenery. But at a cost of some $1,200 for a family of four, that one-day trip really takes a bite out of the typical family’s overall vacation budget. Tourism is a major industry in British Columbia, surpassing some of our more traditional revenue sources, and if the provincial government takes it seriously, it will want to take a closer look at how it is planning to not only attract visitors, but move them around the province. Cutting the already overpriced service is bad economics. It affects commuters, distribution of goods and services and makes it more difficult for visitors to take advantage of areas outside the Lower Mainland. Christy Clark puts a big emphasis on her BC Jobs Plan with tourism at the forefront, but cuts and rate hikes on B.C. Ferries can only cause job loss province-wide. The provincial government is responsible for both transportation and tourism – top priorities for all of us – but the government has an absence of vision for the management of B.C. Ferries, unless that vision is to stand by and watch as the ship is sinking.

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Forget issues, pass the muffins Everything done here is Proceedings here at the B.C. expensive, from matching ornate legislature were briefly thrust into the spotlight last week, firing up the woodwork to upgrading ancient plumbing and wiring. But the radio talk shows and Twitter feeds. public, conditioned No, it wasn’t the B.C. by media to expect Liberal government corruption and scandal, forcing through would rather be outraged legislation to allow about free muffins. industrial “research” for Prior to this, MLAs things like pipeline routes had to troop down to the in provincial parks, or basement dining room to the debate on sanctioned put muffins and coffee on wolf and grizzly kills. It their expense accounts, wasn’t the teacher strike or have an assistant fetch vote, as the scripted them. The outraged talk motions of that ritual Tom Fletcher shows didn’t mention combat are well known B.C. Views that. There are access to weary parents. issues in the dining room It was muffins. More too, a fact more difficult specifically, “free” muffins to ignore with Children and Family in a newly relocated and equipped Development Minister Stephanie MLA lounge, and a rack installed to Cadieux, Paralympian Michelle hold the said muffins at a cost of Stilwell and former Vancouver $733. mayor Sam Sullivan now elected to This was portrayed as part of serve using their wheelchairs. a spending spree by Richmond A costly new outside access East MLA Linda Reid, elected ramp assisted Kenny Michell, Speaker last summer. In fact who visited last week to tell his it’s just the latest phase of a harrowing story of the Burns Lake strikingly expensive refit to provide sawmill explosion that nearly wheelchair access, which Reid has burned him to death in 2012 and championed. left him in a wheelchair. The new MLA lounge replaces The NDP brought a delegation of a seldom-used one at the top of survivors and family members of steep stairs high in the 1898 stone structure. The new lounge is served the dead from sawdust explosions in Burns Lake and Prince George. by a ramp near the chamber exit They supported the opposition’s to another under-used room in demand for an independent inquiry, the library, and equipped with bigalthough their own demands screen TVs to follow proceedings, ranged from counselling for longsimilar to those installed in the suffering wives to seeing someone legislature chamber last year.

punished for alleged negligence. The scandal pushed in this tragic story is that some evidence was not protected by WorkSafeBC and wouldn’t have been admissible in court. Prosecutors also said they had enough evidence for charges, but the companies or executives would be able to show “due diligence” that would likely result in acquittal. What that means in English is that the explosion risk of extradry dust and air wasn’t fully grasped by either mill operators or WorkSafeBC. All B.C. mills are now subject to more scrutiny, and a coroner’s inquest will be calling witnesses this fall to see what lessons can be learned. Back to pipelines through parks. This may seem like a scandal to urban B.C. residents who already fret about the possibility of the 60-year-old Trans Mountain pipeline, or one of several proposed gas pipelines, intruding on a park. It’s not as well known that Trans Mountain completed a major twinning and upgrading project on the Alberta side in 2008. It crosses Mount Robson Provincial Park and Jasper National Park, without incident or scandal to date. But back to muffingate, as it’s become known around here. I don’t know why people are so cynical and uninterested in serious issues. I wish I was. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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Leadership run still New superintendent for Greater Victoria schools a possibility for local NDP MLAs Christine van Reeuwyk

education partners to ensure that all of our students are engaged and successful in Former deputy superinten- their learning.” Bell was hired by the Greater dent Sherri Bell officially took helm of the Greater Victoria Victoria School District in 1996 as the principal of School District last James Bay commuThursday (March 6). Her promotion to nity school. CEO/superintendent She was previof schools replaces ously a teacher in John Gaiptman, Calgary and Cranwho left in February brook, an instrucafter 12 years on the tor and practicum job. She was named supervisor for the interim superintenUniversity of Victoria, and a principal dent after he stepped in Lake Cowichan. down. She also worked “I am honoured to Sherri Bell as a contractor be appointed as the for the Ministry of superintendent of schools for the Greater Victo- Education in curriculum and ria School District,” said Bell. assessment providing support “This is an exciting time in to over half the school diseducation with the changes in tricts in the province. In 2001 Bell was the discurriculum and the focus on personalized learning. I look trict principal responsible for forward to working with our reconfiguring the Greater VicNews staff

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“I haven’t made a decision yet, but I’m actively considering it,” said Fleming, who plans to discuss his candidacy further with his family. “My consideration of my own canKyle Wells didacy is mainly because I believe News staff the party needs a turnaround stratNow that Mike Farnworth has egy and a new leader that can repothrown his hat into the ring as a can- sition the NDP within the economic didate for the B.C. NDP leadership, mainstream of B.C.” Fleming said the NDP is still pertwo local MLAs are mulling over their ceived as weak, when it comes to fisoptions. John Horgan (Juan de Fuca) is cal management. And while the party rethinking his earlier decision to is still a champion of social issues pass on running for the top job come and public services, he said it needs September when the party holds its to show it can do all that while being “more explicitly pro-business.” leadership convention. “We need to prove to the voters “I really felt in the fall that I didn’t want to be an obstacle to renewal,” and taxpayers that we’re serious he said. “I got out of the way, and as about good economic management I did so I expected more people to practices. It’s something I’ve believed step up, and that hasn’t happened. throughout my political life.” Port Coquitlam MLA Mike FarnSo people are now coming back to worth announced his candidacy for me.” Horgan said he’s discussing it with party leader earlier in March. “Well I’m a week younger than his family and others and will make a decision in the next couple of weeks. Mike, so if I was looking for the He wants to see the party move for- younger generation, maybe I’m it,” ward with new ideas and new confi- Horgan joked. “I’ve got a lot of time for Mike. I’ve known him for a long dence. “We need to have leadership and time, but there is the requirement of a set of principles that don’t scare a contest, it seems to me.” “I supported him actively last time. people, but excite them.” Victoria-Swan Lake MLA Rob … He’s wanting to make the case that Fleming, who showed some inter- he’s the right guy in 2017 because a est in the job after leader Adrian Dix lot of people feel he was the right guy announced resignation last year, in 2013,” Fleming said. Individual versionhis (4 communities) NOTE FOR PROGRAMMING: the main image is bigger thankwells@goldstreamgazette.com previous campaigns. is also weighing his options.

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A couple of points stand out when considering the impact and significance of this weekend’s baroque opera performances in Victoria by the renowned Boston Early Music Festival. Not only is it the first time in recent memory that the city has staged an opera based on 17th-century music and dance, Victoria is one of just two places the Boston group will perform French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers (The Descent of Orpheus into Hell) and La Couronne de Fleurs (The Crown of Flowers) on its current mini-tour. The other? New York City. “This is a huge event for us,” says James Young, artistic director of the Early Music Society of the Islands, which is co-producing the two-night event along with Pacific Opera Victoria. “This is the kind of event you will normally only see in a much larger centre like Boston or New York.” While listening to and watch-

ing baroque opera performed by musicians and performers from one of the world’s leading early music ensembles will be a treat, what else might audience members notice? “There’s never been anything staged and performed here in the style of the (1600s), which is what the Boston Early Music Festival specializes in,” Young says. Not only is dance more prevalent in 17th-century French opera, the combination of voice and movement is a “very much more stylized and formal kind of performance, he says. “It’s an adjustment to see it, but I think when it’s done properly it can really engage an audience.” People will also notice a difference when they look into the orchestra pit, Young adds. Besides such period instruments as baroque guitar, violin, recorder, oboe and harpsichord, the ensemble includes a theorbo, a multi-headed, 14-stringed, lute-style instrument which produces soft mellow sounds not unlike a harp; and a viola da gamba or viol, which is larger and deeper sounding than a violin and can be plucked or bowed. Bringing in an ensemble of the stature of the Boston Early Music Festival presents a financial risk for the local baroque group, one it could

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The Boston Early Music Festival brings a 17th-century music and dance exclusive to Victoria when the ensemble hits the McPherson Playhouse Friday and Saturday (March 14-15). not have taken on its own without the help of a company such as Pacific Opera Victoria, Young says. He has other ideas brewing for concerts involving guest performers and as such, the success of this weekend’s shows will go a long way toward planning future special events. “Pacific Opera Victoria is

interested in doing another coproduction,” he says, noting that such a partnership makes sense. “If you look at baroque music, the highlight of it is opera.” The concerts happen at 8 p.m. Friday (March 14) and Saturday at the McPherson Playhouse. Pre-performance lectures by Boston Early Music

Festival musical directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs precede both nights’ shows, starting at 7 p.m. in the theatre’s upstairs lobby. Tickets are available in advance at rmts.bc.ca, at the theatre box office at 1 Centennial Sq., or at earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca. ddescoteau@vicnews.com

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Greater Victoria house sales pick up heading into spring season Home sales in Greater Victoria are following their annual trend with a slight improvement over last year as the busy spring and summer sales season approaches.

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Carbon offsets to go back to hospitals and colleges Province explores expansion of enviro program Tom Fletcher Black Press

The B.C. government is continuing to remake its unpopular “carbon neutral government” program, expanding a fund to return carbon offset payments to hospitals and post-

secondary institutions for energy saving projects. The new capital fund is an expansion of the “carbon neutral capital program” that was set up for B.C.’s 60 school districts in 2012. The fund is financed via a 2010 law that forces all public sector entities to pay $25 per tonne for greenhouse gas emissions from their operations. Environment Minister Mary Polak announced last week that carbon

offsets from health authorities, colleges and universities will be added to the school capital fund, which districts apply to with energy saving ideas such as insulation or boiler replacement. The carbon neutral government plan was controversial from the start, as school and health districts had to divert millions from their budgets to offset their heating, lighting and transportation emissions. Its popularity didn't

improve when the first big carbon offsets chosen by the Pacific Carbon Trust included a gas well flare reduction program for Encana Corp. in northern B.C. Then B.C.'s Auditor General reported that the flaring project and a forest preserve in the Kootenays were not valid carbon offsets, because both were underway before carbon offset money was offered to help them. The Pacific Carbon Trust was wound

up last year, with offsets chosen by a small group in the environment ministry. The education ministry also announced last week its latest energy saving project funded in 28 school districts. They include boiler replacements, heat pumps and electric cars. School bus emissions have been exempted from the carbon neutral government program since the beginning. editor@saanichnews.com

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Saanich runner sets course record at Bazan Bay 5K Geoff Martinson set a blistering pace in Sunday’s Bazan Bay 5K road race in Sidney. Last year’s race winner, Martinson set a course record of 14:12 (unofficial). The time tops his race in last year’s Bazan Bay event (14:32) and is being touted by race officials as the fastest time in the distance in B.C. this season. Martinson has now won the Bazan Bay event two years in a row and was recently honoured by Frontrunners Island Race Series organizers as one of their top runners. Martinson was followed by a contingent of runners from the University of Victoria. The first woman across the finish line was Nanaimo’s Erin Burrett. editor@peninsulanewsreview.com

B.C. teachers vote for 3-step strike plan Tom Fletcher Black Press

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Nolan Mitchell has gold on his mind. Never mind that he captured his third straight B.C. High School Wrestling Championships gold medal recently in Prince George. The gold he’s mining for is the reward for a national champion. Mitchell, a 17-year-old grappler who attends Claremont secondary in Grade 11 but trains in Duncan with the Cowichan Valley Wrestling Club, will compete for Team B.C. at the 2014 Asics Juvenile Canadian championships April 4 to 6 in Guelph, Ont. “I love the trip and the competition, but I want to bring back the gold,” said Mitchell, who competed in the past two national tournaments and finished third both times. He expects to see many of the same opponents, but has a good feeling about his chances this time around. “I think they’re pretty good, but it always depends on who comes,” he said.

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Claremont secondary’s Nolan Mitchell, left, maintains a firm grip on opponent Navdeep Toor of Coquitlam’s Rick Hansen secondary in the 48-kilogram provincial final. Mitchell captured his third gold medal in as many years with an 8-5 win over Toor. That modesty somewhat matches his style on the mats. Wresting for the 48-kilogram division gold medal at the B.C. high school tournament, Mitchell fell behind 2-0 after the first of two rounds, having been pushed out of bounds twice by opponent Navdeep Toor of Rick Hansen secondary in Coquitlam. Not one to get flustered, Mitchell stuck to his strategy

of looking for openings, striking quickly and keeping consistent pressure on his opponent and came away with an 8-5 win. “It all depends who I’m wrestling, but I always like to stay a little bit conservative,” he says. “I wasn’t letting him control the match and the movement.” The win was Mitchell’s fourth (fifth) without a loss in

the double-knockout draw. The nationals feature the same format, with wrestlers who lose an early first match being forced to take a long route back to the medal round. One other Greater Victoria wrestler made top five at the provincials. Mitchell Keeping from Esquimalt High placed fifth in the 74-kg division. ddescoteau@vicnews.com

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Greater Victoria teams heat up at hoops B.C.s In the battle for Saanich basketball supremacy, Lambrick Park Lions defeated St. Michael’s University School Blue Devils at the B.C. high school boys championships on Saturday. The Lambrick senior boys beat SMUS 70-64 in the AA division final at the Langley Event Centre on Saturday. Matt Neufeld (Lambrick) earned dual titles as both best defensive and most valuable player of the tournament. Ishmael Abdulahi (Lambrick), Jason

Scully (SMUS) and Calvin Somers (Lambrick) were named to the first all-star team. Graeme Hyde-Lay (SMUS) was named to the second team. Also last weekend in Langley, Oak Bay’s senior Breakers girls posted a 67-66 upset of No. 2 Holy Cross in the AAA semifinals before losing 64-57 to the No.1-ranked Brookswood Bobcats of Langley. Breakers star Lauren Yearwood was named most outstanding defensive player of the tournament and joined

teammate Morgan Roskelley on the first all-star team. Claremont’s senior girls finished 11th in the tournament. The Island champion Oak Bay junior girls, initially barred from the provincials due to a clerical error, finished ninth overall in their tournament. Claremont’s senior boys compete in the 4A boys provincial championships starting today (March 12) in Langley. reporter@saanichnews.com

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GLANFORD- 1 bdrm, lrg living rm+ kitchen. W/D. $825 inclds utils. N/P. (778)350-2446. LANGFORD 1-BDRM grnd floor suite, own patio, full kitchen, F/S, D/W, built-in vac, insuite laundry. Utils incld. Close to shops, Galloping Goose, Royal Roads, golf course, bus route. NS/NP. $850. (Immed). 250-474-0079.

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QUADRA/ MacKENZIE: 2 bdrm, 2 bath bsmnt. $950. + utils. small storage, street prkg Avail now. 250-516-5556.

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TOWNHOUSES LAVENDER CO-OP is accepting applications for a quiet, bright 2 bdrm townhouse, W/D hookup, inside/outside storage, backyard. $912/mo. Share purchase $2500. Gross income $42,000 +. Applications available in the glass case outside the Community Hall at 10A-620 Judah St.

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Man receives hundreds of patient records in error Patient info intended for clinic repeatedly sent to home fax machine Daniel Palmer News staff

A Victoria man is fed up after receiving at least 200 faxes that contain private patient information to his personal fax machine. David Mason said medical imaging requests that contain patients’ full names, birth dates, phone numbers, addresses, personal health numbers and doctors’ names have been sent in error to his home for nearly a decade. Two of those documents contained patient information of 111 people, he said. “Almost all these forms are to do with breast imaging and many of them are timesensitive,” Mason said. One digit separates Mason’s fax number from that of a wellused medical imaging clinic in Victoria. Privacy guidelines established by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. require physicians’ offices to include a cover sheet with clear instructions to contact the sender if the fax is received in error, said Susan Prins, the college’s communications director. The college instructs doctors to investigate any privacy breach, contact affected patients in most scenarios and develop long-term safeguards to ensure breaches don’t reoccur. Mason, a retired B.C.

government records researcher who dealt with Freedom of Information requests daily, said he always follows up with senders but that some medical office staff seem lackadaisical about the seriousness of the privacy violation. “The proper procedure is that the fax number is pre-programmed to avoid misdialing,” he said. “Obviously there’s a lot of doctors’ offices that have not been adhering to this,” he said. “Had this happened in the office where I used to work, there would have been an in-depth investigation.”

“The only positive aspect of all of this is that the faxes came to me and not to somebody with malicious intent.” – David Mason

When the patient records first began arriving at his home, Mason said he delivered them to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of B.C. for safe destruction. (Cara McGregor, privacy commissioner spokesperson, was unable to confirm specific case information. She said anyone who continues to receive personal documents in error should notify the privacy commissioner so that a formal investigation can be launched.) Mason now destroys the forms when they arrive after notifying the originating medical office, but said doctors need a 21st century method of sharing patient information. In 2007, the B.C. Ministry

of Health launched a 10-year program to do just that by building networked and secure electronic health record systems. The province has since spent about $258 million on an online lab results database, medical tele-consulting technology and electronic medical record systems used internally by about 4,300 B.C. physicians, said Kristy Anderson, B.C. Ministry of Health spokesperson. Anderson said the provincial Health Ministry was unaware of Mason’s case, but in general terms said: “We would encourage the private practices involved to work with their employees to review their processes and provide training to employees to ensure that such incidents didn’t happen again.” Record-sharing agreements between doctors and imaging clinics are often self-directed, while the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. provides general ethical guidelines. For example, physicians can use email to send patient information with the patient’s consent, but only when both parties are using encryption technology. Mason hopes that by going public, doctors will re-evaluate and better enforce their faxing policies, and that the Ministry of Health will create a more secure and standardized e-health record-sharing system. “The only positive aspect of all of this is that the faxes came to me and not to somebody with malicious intent,” Mason said. “Had this been my own medical information going astray, I would be extremely upset.” dpalmer@vicnews.com

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