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A property on Mount Douglas Cross Road that was converted into a cow farm in 2013 could be back before Saanich council in the near future, now that the property owners have filed another development application with the municipality to turn the land into a 16-lot subdivision. Submitted photo

Cattle battle could soon be done Neighbours, owners of cow farm in residential area hope council will support new development plan Kyle Slavin News staff

When a cow farm popped up in the middle of a residential Gordon Head community last February, neighbour Janet Stark saw a surge of four-legged visitors to her property. But these animals weren’t of the bovine variety. “When the cows came in, I believe they disrupted the rats’ habitat. And I’m assuming the grain and poop and seed and water were perfect rat attractants, so we had real issues,” she said. “We set up rat traps around the property. We stopped counting

at somewhere between 40 and 50 rats in a four-month period. Bless my husband, he dealt with them. But he showed me some of the whoppers – some of them were the size of a small cat. We’re talking monster-sized rats.” The Starks’ home backs on to the northwest corner of 1516 Mount Douglas Cross Rd., which the landowners – the Alberg family – unsuccessfully tried to develop into a 12- and 16-lot subdivision and remove from the Agricultural Land Reserve in 2011 and 2012. After two failed attempts, the cows moved in. Now with what they feel is a

“I think the consensus is everyone wants the farm to go. It’s time to get this over with and do what’s best for the neighbourhood.” – Ted lea, neighbour stronger case for developing their property, plus support from the neighbourhood, the Albergs last week submitted another development application to Saanich planning with the hopes of eventually seeing 16 homes on the property. “It’s basically the 16 lots that we presented before (in March 2011).

The major change is a $100,000 amenity to the Gordon Head Residents’ Association,” said Don Alberg, who inherited the land with his siblings, Gordon Alberg and Florence Davis. The other difference is the Albergs now have a report from a biologist that says there is no environmentally sensitive ecosystem on the property, as originally believed by Saanich. Alberg says that process, including getting the environmental audit approved by Saanich, took much of 2013. “I think a lot of neighbours think the Albergs could’ve applied over the last year, but they were wait-

ing for the environmental (audit) to be done and cleared,” said Ted Lea, a neighbour who has been acting as a liaison between the community and the Albergs. “I think the consensus is everyone wants the farm to go. It’s time to get this over with and do what’s best for the neighbourhood.” When council first rejected the development application in 2011, a unanimous decision hinged on the fact that the 1.64-hectare property was not in line with the official community plan. PlEASE SEE: Development is better, Page A4

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A group of Japanese students sit dressed prim and proper in school uniforms in front of a A series on talented crowded assembly at Mount Saanich teens Douglas secondary. The kids destined to become are shy and quiet, visiting their Canadian sister school. The quiet the next generation doesn’t last once student counof great leaders cil president Tamiko Sianen gets up to welcome the international and knows the power of buildstudents. Spicing her inspiring speech ing bridges and creating a web of with a little Japanese (one of the friends and opportunities. “It goes back to feeling five languages the Grade 12 student speaks), suddenly the crowd more connected, fulfilled and is roaring. Her pep is contagious, rewarded,” she says. “I want to drawing everyone from class- give back to everyone who helped mates to teachers in with her me growing up.” Her leadership skills likely stem words. This take-charge display of from a childhood spent volunteering at the Philipleadership exemBayanihan plifies who Sianen “I just want to give pines Community Cenis, says leadertre on Blanshard ship teacher Caro- back to everyone who There, line Baldwin. She helped me growing up.” Street. the line is blurry doesn’t struggle to - Tamiko Sianen, between being a find the right word Mount Doug student member and volto describes the unteer. She spent talented student: her early years at the community charismatic. “She leads with ease and she’s centre learning traditional dance really good at developing leaders, and later working the food kiosk because she knows when to step at events throughout the region. aside and when to empower other Now she is a strong youth leader, leaders,” Baldwin says. “She’s sharing Filipino games and cookempathic, I think, about what ing skills with the kids. “I didn’t realize I was volunteerother kids can take on and when ing,” she says with a laugh. “It was they’re ready (to lead).” Sianen connects communities good exposure. I didn’t realize

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Tamiko Sianen poses at the Philippines Bayanihan Community Centre on Blanshard Street, where the Mount Douglas secondary Grade 12 student often volunteers. until later how much it helped me. I got to connect with the broader community. It drove me to volunteer in general.” In Grade 8, Sianen made an intentional decision to boost her community contributions, and began volunteering obsessively at events all around Greater Victoria. When she graduates in June, she’ll have amassed more than T-shirts and mementos from those events. “It wasn’t items of material perks (that I got from volunteering). Those are awesome, but the coolest thing is meeting all the people who shared or didn’t share interests with me.” Her web of friends turned out to be beneficial when she found

people hankering to help during Philippines. “You have to be motivated to her campaign for student council do things. Do things from your president earlier this year. “If I won, they would win, too. heart,” says her aunt Dominga We were doing this together,” she Passmore, a longtime volunteer at the centre. “She has it in her says. Her worlds – school and that she wants to do something.” reporter@saanichnews.com community – connected when Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last November. As part of her campaign for president, Sianen passionTamiko Sianen loves languages. ately launched fundraisShe started learning Japanese in ing endeavours within the middle school, as her given name school, including hosting a has Japanese origins. Filipino lunch. Funds raised She also understands two at the school went to the dialects of languages spoken in the Bayanihan Centre’s relief Philippines: Tagalog and Illocano, as fund, which reached more they’re spoken on occasion at home. than $60,000. The money At school she studies French and was donated to the Red Mandarin. Cross to provide aid in the

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Imminent changes to B.C. recycling rules could financially cripple local newspapers, says the president of the B.C. Yukon Community Newspaper Association. Front-end recycling fees will soon be applied to businesses that produce packaging and printed paper, a move that will cost newspapers $6 million across the province, said Hugh Nicholson, B.C. Yukon Community Newspaper Association president. “Newspapers are kind of the unique product in all this,” said Nicholson, a Nanaimobased publisher with Glacier Media. “We’re not packaging, like Styrofoam or plastics … and we shouldn’t be lumped in with packaging companies.” On May 19, industrial stewardship group Multi Material B.C. will assume responsibility for curbside blue box collection in Greater Victoria and 1.25 million B.C. households.

MMBC is requesting 20 cents per kilogram to recycle newsprint, while similar services in Ontario cost less than one cent per kilogram. MMBC managing director Allen Langdon said the fees fully finance the program and ensure service for multi-family apartments and rural depots, in contrast to Ontario’s more limited focus on single-family homes. He said B.C.’s successful container deposit system also means there’s less recyclable material left here for container stewards to collect and sell, so fees have to be higher to cover the system costs. Newspaper owners can opt out of the program, but must then develop their own recycling measures. So far, newspapers have chosen the latter option while lobbying the province to re-examine the changes. “We’re talking to some potential partners right now, but we’re optimistic the government will listen

not only to ourselves, but to many businesses and municipalities. There’s a lot of fear about what will happen to recycling,” Nicholson said. Recycling fees would cost Glacier “hundreds of thousands of dollars” annually on Vancouver Island alone, he added. The Canadian Community Newspaper Association, the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses and several other organizations are now ramping up a campaign, rethinkitbc.ca, to convince the province to reconsider its recycling regulations. “B.C. has one of the best recycling plans in the country,” Nicholson said. “It appears to be working very well, now government has decided for whatever reason to turn this over to private industry with very little information about where our recycling will end up. But we think this is a solution looking for a problem.” dpalmer@vicnews.com

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While councillors agreed that sustainable agriculture on the property was unlikely, they didn’t have a complete picture of the land’s ecology. “For us to support the removal of land from the ALR it would have to be such a compelling argument (and be) for the greater good of our community … not the development of more houses,” Coun. Susan Brice said . In July 2012, council grappled with conflicting municipal documents – one supported removing the land from the ALR, the other asserted the opposite. Council voted 5-4 to clarify their position that removing the land from the ALR is not supported. In December 2012, after neighbours learned that a poultry or cow farm was being planned for the site, they asked council to reconsider a residential subdivision. Instead, Saanich sent a request to remove the land from the ALR to the Agricultural Land

Commission, but provided no opinion or input to the ALC. Now the Albergs say they have a laundry list of neighbours who don’t want a cow farm anymore, and want to see what’s on the property changed. Stark says that given the options being presented to the neighbourhood, development is the best of two unpopular options. “I will be happy when the attractants are removed. I would’ve been thrilled if they just left their property exactly the way it was, but that’s a moot point,” Stark said. “Do I want a 16-lot subdivision over there? No. But do I want cows and rats? No.” There are currently 55 cows living on the property. At its peak there were upwards of 100 cattle in Gordon Head, but the Albergs have been selling the animals for meat. editor@saanichnews.com

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Funding for literacy outreach programs across B.C. is being slashed as the province struggles to balance its books, and Greater Victoria co-ordinators say the move will force them to shut down operations. Kate Nonesuch, chair of Literacy Victoria Task Force, said a funding decrease from $30,000 in 2013 to $13,000 this year means outreach work will soon grind to a halt. A similar West Shore program will receive just $9,000 in funding. “We cannot possibly just dribble away our work on $13,000 across the board,” Nonesuch said. “As of Sept. 1, our work will have to finish.” The B.C. Ministry of Education funds literacy outreach across B.C. by allocating grants to Decoda Literacy Solutions, a non-profit organization. Decoda then distributes those grants to 102 community organizations who use the cash to hire a parttime literacy outreach co-ordinator. Funding for outreach programs was cut from $2 million to $1 million in 2013, but former education minister Don McRae later reinstated that funding. In a March 2013 interview, McRae said Decoda did “outstanding work in communities large and small across the province.” But this year, current Education Minister Peter Fassbender isn’t bending to pressure from literacy advocates. Victoria co-ordinator Jan Dupuis said she often works with poor and immigrant populations through workshops at Our Place, the Inter-Cultural Association and elsewhere who need access to literacy training to land a job. “There was no consultation from the ministry on this, and we understood it had support across the board,” Dupuis said. “It means you lose the momentum of those people and the community around literacy that isn’t just covered through the school system,” added Shantael Sleight, West Shore co-ordinator. B.C. Ministry of Education spokesperson Ben Green said the partnership with Decoda

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Victoria-Swan Lake MLA Rob Fleming, left, discusses $1.5 million in provincial budget cuts to literacy programs in front of the Greater Victoria Public Library on March 20. Fleming was joined by Victoria Literary Task Force chair Kate Nonesuch, centre with glasses, and Jan Dupuis, Greater Victoria literacy outreach co-ordinator. has helped develop a community-based literacy model and has improved literacy awareness, coordination and outreach across B.C.

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He said while the government recognizes the significance of that partnership, it remains committed to maintaining a balanced budget. “The (Education) Ministry provided more than $27 million to literacy programs across B.C. last year, including StrongStart centres, the Ready, Set, Learn program, the Changing Results for Young Readers program as well as funding for public librar-

ies,” Green said. The Raise a Reader program also receives $500,000 annually from the province, he said. Opposition education critic and Victoria-Swan Lake MLA Rob Fleming called the cuts an “economically stupid decision,” as Decoda leverages funding with donations and relies on volunteer task force committees. “In the fall of last year, the importance of literacy programs was expressed by all sides of the house at the bi-partisan finance committee,” Fleming said. “This is about supporting people who want to improve themselves, and live a dignified, better life and get into paid employment … This is not a lot of money, but it’s money necessary to support an efficient service that’s provided right across British Columbia.” Fleming said he’ll urge Fassbender and Premier Christy Clark to reinstate the $1 million grant in the coming weeks. dpalmer@vicnews.com

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UVic prof earns recognition for anti-bullying work Kyle Slavin News staff

University of Victoria professor Bonnie Leadbeater was named a recipient of a B.C. Community Achievement Award last week. The Saanich resident and psychology prof has worked with a team of educators and police officers for more than 15 years on developing and implementing the WITS anti-bullying program in B.C. and Canada. “This is a team award – it’s a huge team of people that work on WITS,” Leadbeater said. WITS (Walk Away, Ignore, Talk It out and Seek Help) is used in schools to “talk to kids in a non-threatening way and talk about how to problem solve, instead of who’s going to be punished or who’s tattling,” she explained. WITS began in the 1990s, first initiated by the principal of the former Lampson elementary school in Esquimalt and then taken up by a police school liaison officer. Leadbeater and a UVic-based research team joined in 1998 when WITS was formalized as a program. “When Reena Virk died (in November 1997), people were very concerned about youth violence. The feeling was we need to start early, need to do something to help kids deal

with peer conflict in a peaceful and proactive way,” Leadbeater said. “I got involved as a consultant, and then as someone to do the research. They were pretty sure that they had evidence this program worked and everybody wanted to know (definitively) if it did.” Leadbeater said the B.C. Community Achievement Award is “a great honour,” especially as an academic.

“To be honoured for something where everyone else is being honoured for their contributions and volunteer work – that’s a rare experience for an academic to be recognized for the application of their work.” - Bonnie Leadbeater “What pleases me most is it’s a non-academic award. To be honoured for something where everyone else is being honoured for their contributions and volunteer work – that’s a rare experience for an academic to be recognized for the application of their work,” she said. “It’s extraordinarily flattering for me.” Two other Greater Victoria

Bonnie Leadbeater residents – Donald Brown and Daphne Goode – were named recipients of a B.C. Community Achievement Award. Brown is a longtime community leader in a number of fields, while Goode has spent more than 40 years volunteering for a variety of Greater Victoria organizations. The awards are given out by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation, which was launched specifically to highlight the work and community contributions of British Columbians. The 34 award recipients will be recognized in a ceremony at Government House on April 29. Each receives a certificate and medallion for their recognition. editor@saanichnews.com

B.C. appoints first seniors advocate Steven Heywood News staff

British Columbia’s first seniors advocate — the first position of its kind in Canada — has been tasked with shaping the future of how the elderly, their advocates and their families access services and address concerns in the province. Isobel Mackenzie was appointed to the role March 19, making her B.C.’s first seniors advocate as laid out in the provincial government’s Seniors Advocate Act. She officially starts on March 31. She is charged with acting as the voice of seniors in B.C. to monitor and review system-wide issues affecting their well-being. Already, Mackenzie has been busy, fielding questions, granting interviews and working with a $2-million annual budget to set up her office. She is also transitioning out of her job as executive director of Victoria’s Beacon Community Services, a position she has held since 1995. While the task of setting up her office is a high priority at the moment, Mackenzie said she wants

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Sexual health clinic may shut its doors Kyle Slavin News staff

The executive director of Island Sexual Health says a perfect storm of funding cuts and a lack of family doctors in Greater Victoria is putting more pressure on the nonprofit agency. So much pressure, in fact, that the future of the program is now uncertain. Bobbi Turner says ISH saw a 12 per cent increase in the number of patients in the last 12 months compared to April 2012 to March 2013, for a variety of services. “A poll conducted over this past year indicates over 50 per cent of clients cannot locate a physician in Greater Victoria,” reads a release from ISH. “Many of our clients think that our services are fully funded by the healthcare system, but that

is not the case. While we work on the fee for service model, it is not enough to cover the programs we offer.” ISH offers comprehensive sexual health services, including PAP examinations, sexually transmitted infection testing and outreach education through schools. Turner says that while funding comes from a variety of sources, it isn’t enough to cover the ISH services plus overhead. She says the society is facing a “significant budget deficit that leaves the future of ISH’s clinic services up in the air.” The society is seeking financial support to keep their health and education programs operating. To make a donation call Turner at 250592-3479 or visit islandsexualhealth. org. Island Sexual Health is located at 101-3960 Quadra St. in Saanich.

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Sex clinic meets an unmet need The news that the Saanich-based Island Sexual Health Clinic may be forced to close its doors due to a funding shortfall has us worried about a future devoid of the desperately needed services it provides the community. Island Sexual Health Society touts itself on its website as being “more than just birth control.” It’s a shame that after so many decades serving the community, the society still needs to stress that it does more than just hand out condoms to high schoolers. After 44 years in operation, it’s impossible to know exactly how many PAP exams and sexually transmitted infection tests they have administered. What we do know is that these tests save lives through the early detection of diseases like cervical cancer and HIV/AIDS. More than 26,500 Greater Victoria residents use the clinic every year, most of whom don’t have a family doctor. These patients could soon be shut out of much-needed health services. But prevention is the best medicine when it comes to sexual health, and it’s the potential loss of Island Sexual Health’s education programs that we fear will have the most resounding impact on our community. At many schools, sex ed isn’t a constant part of the curriculum – it’s often covered in one afternoon session. The ease of access to sex-related information, photos and videos on the Internet has taken the place of healthy education for youth and teenagers of late. Island Sexual Health has been working with the Capital Region’s three school districts to educate students in age-appropriate, accurate and realistic ways on safe sex, puberty, pregnancy and birth control. If Island Sexual Health is forced to scrap its program, and sex ed returns to being treated as the elephant in the classroom, students will not be prepared to make smart, healthy decisions. And isn’t school about preparing them as much as we can for all they face in life? We can point fingers all we want at governments or health agencies for a lack of funding, but it won’t do any good anymore. Island Sexual Health is in desperate need of our financial help, and we owe it to them, for the health of our community. 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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NDP’s survival on the line least two trips, one to Vienna and The B.C. NDP leadership contest Bristol, England to do “research” is officially underway, with the and attend a poverty conference in entry of Vancouver Island veteran high-end hotels. John Horgan in a reluctant If it wants to retain reprise of his 2011 run any shred of credibility against Port Coquitlam as it spouts misleading MLA Mike Farnworth. poverty statistics and Unfortunately for them, simplistic solutions, the weekend campaign events party must get rid of were overshadowed by Kwan, who has two years revelations of flagrant left to max out her MLA abuse of taxpayers’ money pension. by the executive and MLA pensions were a board of the Portland factor in the 2010 ouster Hotel Society. A pair of audits released last Tom Fletcher of Carol James, who infuriated the old guard week on this network B.C. Views by trying to defuse a of Downtown Eastside public backlash against a social agencies revealed systematic looting of the $28 million generous pay and benefits package worked out in private between the a year in taxpayers’ money that has NDP and the B.C. Liberals. Kwan kept this supposed charity running. Alas for the NDP, local MLA Jenny would later take a leading role in the caucus revolt that forced James Kwan not only failed to keep an out as leader. eye on it, her recently separated Long-time political watchers husband was one of the executives will see the PHS abuse as a bigger, who took part for years, and she uglier version of the Nanaimo benefited to the tune of $35,000 in Commonwealth Holdings Society luxury travel. That’s what we know scandal. There, the siphoning off about, since much of the evidence of bingo funds from charities cost wasn’t produced for the auditors. Mike Harcourt his job as premier. When this Lifestyles of the Rich In that case, NDP MLAs sat on the and Famous scheme finally came board, took their monthly cut and to light, Kwan hastily paid back kept quiet. the $35,000 and announced she’s There’s more. Horgan became taking an unpaid leave of absence. enraged last year at the reporter Her tearful claim that she believed who took a tip from the B.C. nothing was wrong is simply not Liberals to reveal the NDP was credible. She not only must have skimming constituency office known of her husband Dan Small’s budgets to pay for its own “ethnic jet-set ways, she participated in at

outreach” operation in Vancouver. Horgan had rubber-stamped the plan with a since-dismissed legislature accountant, and thought he had kept it secret after the Auditor General blew the whistle. His willingness to assess its ethics remains in question to this day. Then there is Craig Keating, who took over as party president from Moe Sihota last year. Did he inherit the $72,000 salary negotiated by Sihota with the B.C. Federation of Labour and two of its largest unions? If so, do Horgan and Farnworth think this is appropriate? Will the party’s joined-at-thehip relationship with government unions even be discussed in the carefully staged leadership contest that’s about to begin? Then there’s the policy shipwreck left behind by Adrian Dix. His plan to use environmental assessment as a weapon to torpedo industrial projects remains popular with the party’s urban base. Farnworth and Horgan have paid lip service to the notion that projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion should be properly assessed. Meanwhile the federal NDP fights to keep stacking public hearings with pre-selected protesters. The party may wish to consider what would give its next B.C. leader any hope of governing. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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LETTERS Tax assistance benefits greater community Re: Tax man arrives, but only online (News, March 19) I have been part of the volunteer tax program for the past 17 years. In 2013, volunteers in the Pacific Region alone completed 98,000 returns. Over the years we have received less assistance and less appreciation from Revenue Canada. We all work for those less able to file on their own. We ensure that they continue to receive the benefits which are tied to the annual tax filing. We also take on the responsibility of preparing the paperwork for benefits that they may not be aware of. I have continued with my

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Kudos to long-standing local businesses I earned my driver’s licence almost 20 years ago, and I recall driving past the Bird of Paradise pub on one of my first joyrides. Nearly two decades later, I recently found myself driving past the very same establishment. This time, I noticed a sandwich board out front advertising a burger and fries for five bucks and change. I couldn’t help but to compare this to the myriad other sandwich boards I see

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theatrical.” Delamont went to Vic High with Alain Williams – “but he looks like he’s 20 and I look like I’m 45,” he says. “He’s a young, black, comic … he’s got a stutter, but he’s taken that and spun it into a great, confident stage persona. He builds fantastic jokes out of his own life story … I get belly laughs.” Myles Anderson rounds out the first half of the Metro show. “He scares me because he’s very, very good to watch. The trajectory of his career is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. He brings to mind massive comedian Bo Burnham. He makes odd choices for comedy, he’s unpredictable and he’s very strong and very funny,” Delamont says. “I’m very excited for the first half of this show – no doubt.” Tickets for the show are available in advance at 1609 Blanshard St., by phone at 250-5906291 or at mikedelamont.com. llavin@vicnews.com

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Under its new regulations, the BC Government has set up an association led by big corporations to take over the local Blue Box recycling program throughout BC. If you look closely, you’ll see that of seven board members, six are executives of Toronto-based multi-national corporations, with the seventh weighing in from Montreal. How do you like that, British Columbia? This means, unlike the current program run locally by BC municipalities, this new program will be managed not by people whose first responsibility is our local environment, but rather, their Bay St. profits. That can’t be a good thing for BC. The most perplexing thing is that we currently have a Blue Box program that works, is efficient, and costs BC homeowners just

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the idea behind founding the studio. “There’s muscle memory in all of it. It’s what craftsmanship is. You have to develop a hand and an intuition for it, as well as a technical knowledge.” One of the main techniques the studio uses is the collodion process, a wet plate photographic process developed in the 1850s and used during the American Civil War. Specifically, the pair work in tintype, a colloidal process which creates a direct positive image on metal. The process itself is one of speed and precision. The photographer has about 10 to 15 minutes to prepare the plate, take the photograph and develop the image, or else it simply will not work. Despite the notable clarity and detail of the image, the nature of the process was seen as a major limitation and it fell out of favour when the new, more convenient gelatine

dry plate technology came along. “We’re drawn to the characteristics of photography that originally were seen as its limitations,” Gordon said. “The need to work with that immediacy.” Millar said the process is also unusual for the person being photographed, in the case of a portrait. “There’s a slowness in there and you actually get to connect and relax,” Millar said. “There’s that one picture and you can be part of that process almost from start to finish.” The pair run workshops on a variety of photographic media and have run tintype workshops in locations such as schools and a farm in Saanich. They have built portable dark boxes which can be used in the field to develop photos. Workshops are often geared towards youth, but also adults who are interested in trying their hand at some old time plate and film photography. For some youth especially, the old technology can be

quite a shock. “One of the boys comes up to me and is like ‘I think broke the camera,’ and it was actually the film rewinding, that sound. He had no idea,” laughed Millar. “We know the excitement we get from making this art, and so the workshops are a great way to filter that down.” For more information on the studio, memberships for access to darkrooms, and workshops visit luzstudios. com. kwells@ goldstreamgazette.com

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The Oak Bay traffic island where Fort Street, Cadboro Bay and Foul Bay roads meet is normally just a space where pedestrians wait before crossing. However, that space turns into an attention grabber every spring as the green space on the island becomes a canvas for horticulturist Dan Bell’s creativity. His first display 18 years ago was a sailboat, which he made, moored on a telephone pole with flowers. The next year, the shell of a Volkswagen bug was used and an annual tradition was born. “After two, three years, it became expected,” said Bell, 59. But he yearned to do something different at the nondescript spot. “Every winter time people asked, ‘What are you planting there next?’ and I’d say, ‘I can’t tell you, it’s a secret.’ But most of the time, I didn’t have a clue.” Bell cited being a child of the ’60s and his travels as inspiration for his work. Other popular displays he created include the Cadborosaurus, an ode to the mythical, local sea serpent; a bookworm covered in red flowers, reading a titled classic each week; and, last year, he honoured the Oak Bay Fire Department with a display celebrating its 75th anniversary. That display however, was his last. After 30 years working for the district, he is hanging up his clippers and retiring at the end of March. Bell was born in Victoria at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He grew up on Gorge Road in an area that was home to a number of sawmills. He spent his teen years living on Wilkinson Road and attended Colquitz Middle and Mount View High schools. He started his career as a telecommunications technician, installing and servicing radio systems on mountain tops throughout the coast for the forest industry. After 10 years, he

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Oak Bay horticulturist Dan Bell counts down the days, hours, minutes and even seconds until he retires at the end of the month. After 30 years of creating garden masterpieces around the community, Bell will continue serving the community well into retirement by volunteering. was let go from his position and in 1982, he went looking for a new career. “If I made the decision to stay in telecommunications, I would have had to relocate to who knows where,” Bell said. “I’m a Victoria boy and it would have been difficult for me to leave Victoria. I was 30 years old and thought I’d try something different.” He got a part-time job doing maintenance work at the Monterey Centre and while working there, he decided on his next career. “I saw the parks department and how they operated and I thought, gee, that’s something I would like to do because I’m an outdoors kind of guy,” Bell said. “I then got a horticulture degree from the University of Guelph through correspondence.” While pursuing his degree, Bell was able to get summer work gardening for the parks department until a permanent position became available. When Bell retires on March 31, he has a long to-do list. He plans to study French and Spanish, spend longer vacations in Mexico, learn a musical instrument, play sports and embark on yet another career. “I want to write a children’s book or series,” Bell said, adding Dr. Seuss inspires him. “I am a

child at heart and I really don’t know if I can do it, but I think I can. I like challenging myself. “That’s how I created those gardens. It was something I thought I could do.” Together Bell and his wife have five adult children,

one grandchild and another one on the way. While he lives in Saanich, he will still be seen in Oak Bay as he plans to join the Monterey seniors’ centre, where his wife works. “I’ll miss my coworkers and I’ll really, really miss all

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Aiko Sutherland fears the day she must turn in her license. Getting her licence at 18, like for many teens, was a right of passage, freedom of mobility and a step closer to adulthood. However, after a lifetime of driving, the 82-year-old wonders when she will have to permanently hang up her car keys. “I have never taken a driving test and I thought at 82, I would have to,” Sutherland says. “I was asking a guy at ICBC and he said my driver’s licence is good until my birthday, in July, so maybe that’s when I’ll have to.” Sutherland already limits her driving to daytime only, sticking to familiar routes. She is aware her response time to a sudden road hazard may not be as quick as a younger person and she is concerned about her eyesight, which deteriorates for most people as they age. However, she recently had a medical exam and her doctor said she was fine. For Jean Connon, 76, giving

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Originally from the Philippines, Norma Tolentino, 84, moved to Canada in 1981 and she has been living in Oak Bay for five years. She worked as a nanny and housekeeper before retiring in 1996, but she continues to keep busy. “I am a choir member at St. Patrick’s Church and I am active with the Filipino Canadian Association,” Tolentino says. “I also sing and dance.” Tolentino also likes giving back to the community and helping those who are less fortunate and in need. She often cooks for people at a soup kitchen and enjoys caring for sick people. In life, she has always tried to follow three edicts her parents instilled in her: be honest, work hard and be true to herself.

However, Victoria psychiatrist Dr. Ian Gillespie, who sat on the driver fitness advisory group for the office of the superintendent of motor vehicles, says age and driving ability is not directly related, but that the medical conditions that can affect driving becomes more common in older people. “There are people who are 55 who do not have the cognition to drive and there are many competent drivers in their 90s,” Gillespie says. He says all drivers should have a driving retirement plan. On average, senior men live about 10 years after giving up their licence while

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For some a Monday morning conversation class is the difference between seclusion and enjoying life. The setting is just one program the Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre offers under its Hearing Loss Resource program. One man attended for years before his death, and later, his daughter felt a need to reach out to the organization that helped him stay engaged in society. “Although it has been many months since I visited your offices with the sad news of my fathers’ sudden passing, I think about you and the Monday morning conversation class he attended regularly for many years,” she wrote. “You were such a lifeline to him when he was dealing with his hearing loss, and that class truly improved the quality of his last years more than anything else I can imagine.” Research shows that loss of hearing is a growing reason for isolation in seniors, says Denise Robertson, executive director for the Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre. The Canadian Hearing Society estimates that more than 60 per cent of seniors over the age of 65 have a hearing loss. “People tend to ignore it, let it go, and then suddenly it’s easier to exclude yourself from communication,” she says. “The isolation continues to grow, and research says because of that, the detriment to physical and mental health of individuals is affected causing extremely low quality of life.” Funding programs such as the Monday morning conversation class is never easy, however on occasion, the centre benefits from monetary donations made through planned giving.

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computer analogy and ask: If this is true, why do I have to buy a new laptop every five years? Regardless, I love the part where the researchers say it is faulty to assume that aging leads to a steady deterioration of brain function. They discovered that most standard cognitive measures are flawed, confusing increased knowledge for declining capacity. The team used computers programmed like humans to support their theory. When a computer absorbed a limited amount, its performance on cognitive tests resembled that of a young adult. However, exposed to data that mirrored a lifetime of experiences, its performance looked like that of an addled senior looking for his sandals. The researchers concluded: “It is time we rethink what we mean by the aging mind before our false assumptions result in decisions and policies that marginalize the old or waste precious public resources to remediate problems that do not exist.” That got me thinking about how we assess the cognitive skills of drivers over the age of 80. In B.C., the government’s DriveABLE program measures the mental agility of seniors by way of a cognitive com-

puter test. This testing has been widely criticized as intimidating and foreign to many seniors’ skill sets. Seniors who fail this test – and many do – must submit to a nervewracking road test. If the Cognitive Science team is right, we are obliged to ask if seniors are failing DriveABLE’s cognitive testing because they are dulled by old age or because they simply aren’t given enough time to

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COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL BUILDING for sale; central location in downtown Victoria. 3000 sq ft of retail space on main floor + 3000 sq ft on upper floor (4 storage) or art studio. $879,000. Priced for quick sale. Call (250)8132458.

BEAUTIFUL WATERVIEW house, approx 3500 sq.ft. level entry, 2 floors w/self-contained 1-bdrm in-law suite in sought after area in Gordon Head. Lrg living rm, 4 bdrms, 3 fireplaces, formal dining rm, family rm, large rec room, lrg dbl garage, 4 full baths. $829,000. 4453 Houlihan Court. Open House Sat & Sun 1-4. (250)744-7129.

DUPLEX/4-PLEX OPEN HOUSE- Sat & Sun, every weekend, 1-4pm. New Home For Sale: 5887 Stonehaven Dr, 2050sq ft, 2 bdrm + den + rec room heat pump, 5 appls, central vac, $364,500. Near hospital. Quality homes at an affordable price. Call Gord (250)710-1947. OPEN HOUSE- Sat & Sun, every weekend, 1-4pm. New Duplex For Sale, Duncan, at 5909 Stonehaven Dr in Stone Manor Estate’s (near Hospital) 1850sq ft 3 bdrms, 3.5 baths, 5 appls and much more, $295,000. Call Gord, 1-250746-7240.

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COLLEGE HEIGHTS, Nanaimo. Beautiful ocean/city views. 4bdrms w/2bdrm suite. Owner will carry mortgage/reasonable down payment. Also LADYSMITH 3bdrm w/1bdrm suite, dble garage +1000 sq.ft. storage area. $25,000 down. 250753-0160 CONDO FOR Sale in the Sidney Shoal Centre- Attention! Thinking of downsizing or buying into a great investment. This bright 1 bdrm, 1 bath, full kitchen, all appliances including W/D, 4th flr views of the Malahat and gorgeous sun sets. Presently rented, $1475/mo. Asking $273,000. Across from the Library & Rose gardens. A Real Gem in the Heart of Sidney. Call (250)655-1956, by appt only.

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-4 PM. 2614 Ernhil Dr. Totally renovated 3 bdrm, 2 bath home. New exotic H/W floors. Lrg 8’ shower of master bdrm. Large landscaped fenced lot. Must see. $459,000. BONUS: WE WILL PAY YOU THE REALTOR FEES ON CLOSING. phone (250)590-1632.

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HOMES WANTED WANTED to PURCHASE, House w/ private, quiet, sunny W or S backyard in Oak Bay, Fairfield & area. (250)8964296 or tarsan2@shaw.ca

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RENTALS APARTMENT/CONDO 1 & 2 Bdrm suites & cabins. Perched on a cliffside with panoramic ocean vista, overlooking The Saanich Inlet. Serene & secure. All amenities on-site, firewood. $500-$1200 inclds utils. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min commute to downtown Victoria. Must have references! Call 250-478-9231. FRASER TOLMIE APARTMENTS 1701 Cedar Hill X Road (at Shelbourne St) Deluxe 1 & 2 bdrm suites Beautiful grounds with resort style amenities INQUIRE TODAY: 250.477.6323 or frasertolmie@bentall kennedy.com www.frasertolmie.ca Proudly Managed By Bentall Kennedy Residential Services QUADRA VILLAGE. 1-bdrm, renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d, top floor, h/w floors, pet ok. $800. (250)812-4154. SIDNEY 1-BDRM apt, balcony, parking, quiet, near beach. $790. (250)812-4154. TILLICUM: NEAR mall. Bright 1 bdrm, 3rd floor, 55+ bldg. Applâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, coin laundry, balcony, rec rm, $720 incldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heat. N/S, 1 pet ok. Call (250)245-5707.

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GORGE-HARRIET- Quiet, lrg 1 bdrm, grd level, priv ent, utils incld, parking. NS/NP. $745/mo. Avail now. Call 250384-0460 (leave a message).

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GLANFORD- 1 bdrm, lrg living rm+ kitchen. W/D. $750 inclds utils. N/P. (778)350-2446. GORDON HEAD. 3-bdrm, Furnished, 1200 sq.ft. May 1st. Bus #39 to Uvic. $1600. + utils. (250)885-5588.

MUST SELL 2003 Windstar LX, 7 passenger. Sliding doors 174,000 km. Good running condition. Priced for quick sale $2,700. Call (778)440-3045

MARIGOLD: 1 bdrm, shared W/D, quiet. NS/NP. $850 utils incldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Call 250-727-6217.

SUITES, UPPER MAIN FLOOR. 3-bdrm. Fireplace, completely renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d - new applâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, large patio. Near UVic & Camosun. N/S, N/P. $1600. inclds utils. (250)477-5179. SIDNEY- QUIET cozy 1 bdrm. W/D, utils included, NS/NP, furnished or unfurnished. Avail April. 1. Call (250)656-7184.

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Getting up and active with PAL Spring is the perfect time to turn over a new leaf and start getting active. Introducing regular physical activity into your life is an important first step towards better health, a happier mindset, and more. The whole family will benefit from increased activity and getting on the road to a healthier lifestyle. There are so many known benefits to physical activity and an active lifestyle. Among them are a reduced risk of heart disease, premature death and stroke. Being active has also been proven to help improve self-esteem and confidence, help you sleep better, increase your energy and reduce depression, among many other things. Furthermore, it helps maintain functional independence, mobility, and bone health. For many of us, it can be quite daunting to take that first step towards an active lifestyle. And it can be more challenging to start something new without any help. The good news is residents of BC have access to a free physical activity counselling service called the Physical Activity Line (PAL). Through a phone call or online, qualified exercise professionals are available to provide exercise and physical activity advice and help you develop a customized physical activity plan for every member of the family, from children to older adults. When it comes to physical activity, more is better. To achieve the health benefits, it is important to try and progress towards the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines, which recommend at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day for children and youth and 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity activity each week for adults. Adults and older adults should also add muscle- and bone-

strengthening activities that work the major muscle groups at least twice a week to help with balance and prevent falls for those with mobility impairments. Physical activity doesn’t have to mean playing a sport or going to the gym. Playing a family game of tag, going for a swim or taking a walk outside with the family pet or to the store to get groceries count towards the physical activity recommendations. Try out something new; you may find your new favourite activity! In any case, you’re bound to have some fun and feel like a happier and healthier you. The Physical Activity Line is available Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m in the Lower Mainland, toll-free at 1-877-725-1149. For more information, visit www.physicalactivityline.com or email info@physicalactivity.com.

Other physical activity resources include ParticipACTION (www.participACTION.com) and Healthy Families BC (www.healthyfamiliesbc.ca).

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