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Capture Sidney’s character Sidney Sister Cities Association preparing for 2015 calendar Devon MacKenzie News staff
The Sidney Sister Cities Association (SSCA) is once again gearing up to produce a calendar showcasing Sidney’s charm and featuring some of area’s most talented amateur and professional photographers. The calendars, which are made up annually out of photos submitted to a committee within the SSCA, are sold by the association as a fundraiser to help with programming they run in conduction with the Town’s sister cities of Cairns, Australia, Niimi, Japan and Anacortes, Washington. “The funds raised go “We’re hoping towards projects we run includto foster better ing two $1,000 relationships scholarships to Parkland stuwith our sister dents who will cities because travel to Cairns of these types as ambassadors of our town,” of international explained SSCA exchanges.” member and calendar com– Bob McLure mittee chair Bob McLure, adding that the SSCA is also involved with artist in residence projects with Cairns, among other things. “We’re hoping to foster better relationships with our sister cities because of these types of international exchanges,” said McLure. PLeaSe See: Sister Cities Association, page 9
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Central Saanich Extreme U16 softball player Stephanie Warwick looks intimidating in her protective gear during game action Sunday. The league held its opening day ceremonies at Rom Knott Park.
Ladybugs go free at Easter Butterfly Gardens in Central Saanich holds its annual ladybug release this weekend. Submitted photo
CENTRAL SAANICH — Visitors to Butterfly Gardens this weekend will have the chance to release a small handful of ladybugs into the gardens. The annual ladybug release takes place April 18 to 21 and is fun for youngsters — and the young at heart. The insects are helpful with natural pest control.
Butterfly Gardens General Manager David Roberts says the facility received 3,000 ladybugs this year — a coup considering the lack of the insects this year after a harsh winter in California, where many ladybugs are raised. To find out more, visit www.butterflygardens.com. — News staff
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Retail initiative garners support Save Our Sidney group should hold Mayor’s Task Force accountable, says local retail consultant Steven Heywood News staff
Some 50 residents and business owners have stepped up to take a more active role in the future of retail in Sidney’s downtown core. A new group called Save Our Sidney (SOS) has formed under the direction of the Sidney Tourism Improvement Group (STIG) and Steve Duck of the TIDES Group. They held a forum April 9 (after News Review press deadlines) at the Mary Winspear Centre, featuring retail consultant Richard Talbot and local business owner Garry Froese. Froese, owner of In Touch Cards and Gifts on Beacon Avenue, said Sidney finds itself under siege right now from proposed commercial
developments in Central Saanich (Jesken Town Centre) and North Saanich (Sandown Commons). “Vacancy rates are high and (the Town) has no long-range business plans — only beautification,” Froese said. “There are businesses in Sidney that do not have the wherewithal to hang on for two more years.” That timeline is being touted by Talbot as the buffer between now and when the new commercial properties start to develop. “Sidney isn’t seen as a destination shopping hub,” Froese continued. “We need to be able to attract people outside of the community ... as well as hold on to our local customers.” Froese outlined a series of
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Sidney retail shop owner Garry Froese outlined what he thinks needs to be done to save downtown business. actions he suggests the Town take — from improved parking and drop-off zones, to lower commercial taxes and uniform business hours. Talbot, making his third public presentation on threats to local retail, said his hope is that the SOS group gets plenty
of public support to back up the efforts of the recentlyannounced Mayor’s Task Force on Sidney’s downtown. “As a professional in this field, it would be remiss of me not to do anything,” he said. “If nothing is done, Sidney might have to downsize its downtown, like Oak Bay or Ganges.” Talbot said the SOS needs to support the task force and be prepared to hold it accountable — as well as keep the issue at the fore during this fall’s municipal election. He added a workshop will be held soon for the estimated 50 people who signed up to learn more through SOS. Denis Paquette, head of STIG, said he’s looking forward to being involved with the Mayor’s Task Force. He continued, however, to advocate for two-way traffic along Beacon Avenue — something that Mayor Larry Cross has stated will not be on the table for this task force.
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Stelly’s Secondary was abuzz last Friday as the school played host to a climbing competition with the Island’s only other climbing academy. Participants from the Cowichan Secondary Climbing Academy attended The Boulders Climbing Gym at Stelly’s last Friday, April 11 for a friendly scrambled format competition featuring bouldering and top rope events. Cowichan Secondary has had their academy established for a year and Stelly’s was happy to host the friendly competition between the two schools. “We have a lot of students who are just starting out in climbing and they don’t get to compete like some of the more advanced climbers do so this gave them a chance to not only compete but also to meet and talk with other competitors,” explained Ryan Braun, a teacher from Stelly’s. “The competition is friendly and it’s all about people working together to create a community.” Stelly’s dominated the competition, finishing top three in all categories but two. In Women’s Recreation Hallie Nystedt took first, Cianna Wolski second and Tessa Farrell third (all from Stelly’s). In Men’s Recreation Will Podmoroff took first, Brandon Latouf second and Gil White third (all from Stelly’s). In Women’s Experience Marina Steele took first, Shannon Ogden second and Karoline Boller third (all fromStelly’s). In Men’s Experience Kjarten Einarsson took first place, Reid Brady second and McGregor Abbott (all from Stelly’s). In Women’s Open Stelly’s girls Evelyna Trottier and Niina Chatham took first and second, and Aedyn McKintrick from Cowichan took third. In Men’s Open Stelly’s climber Tristen Gosselin took first and was followed by Cowichan’s Aidan Doyle and Ethan Fagan in second and third.
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Steve Weller is happy to be opening a new business close to downtown Sidney in the wake of recent worries about the state of the local economy. Weller, owner of Hi Tech Collision, recently purchased a former gym facility next to Thrifty Foods off James White Boulevard. He is renovating the space and renaming it the Peninsula Fitness Club. “I used to come here in the morning with other local business owners,” he said. “This was kind of like our coffee shop.” When the gym closed, Weller said he didn’t want to see that happen. So, he bought the property and the equipment and is consolidating two separate spaces into one gym and will be offering up the second commercial
North Saanich asks for MMBC delay NORTH SAANICH — Municipal councillors in the District of North Saanich are adding their voice to others asking the province to delay the start of a new recycling system in B.C. District council voted unanimously on April 7 to write to the premier, asking to delay the start of Multi-Material B.C. (MMBC) taking over the province’s existing blue box recycling system. The Peninsula News Review had written to the District, seeking support for a newspaper industry effort to set up a discussion with the province on the issue. Newspaper companies are facing millions in extra fees associated with MMBC and fears for lost jobs, as well as no net benefit to taxpayers by changing the system. — News staff
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large portion of the recent Save Our Sidney (SOS) downtown retail forum at the Mary Winspear Centre was taken up with extended op/ed pieces and unnecessary sniping and bashing of Sidney’s mayor and council. It’s time people get past their little empires and work towards a solution to what most everyone agrees are serious threats to the continued viability of local businesses. From the first day concerns were raised about proposed large commercial sites on the outskirts of Sidney, there has been plenty of pronouncements but little in the way of direct action. There have been plenty of disparate opinions, yet little in the way of people stepping up to actually do something. In the very early stages of the debate, even the Town seemed to want to take a back seat and let the business community lead. As the issue grew and voices were made louder, Mayor Larry Cross has launched a task force to gather those various voices and try to make something happen. It took some time, but he deserves some credit for attempting to pull together residents and businesses. This task force and the Save Our Sidney forum represent a turning point from all talk to at least a bit of action. Which is better than continued talk and no action. If the SOS group has signed up 50 interested people, hopefully they’re willing to go beyond the idea stage. That’s what a task force needs to do and it’s going to need active, interested and invested people. Not everyone from SOS will make it to the task force and will have to rely on its representatives to speak for them — and work on more than just the two-way traffic debate (which the Mayor says is dead for now and won’t be on the table). Individual ideas are fine to get the ball rolling, but hopefully this task force will roll them all into a bigger picture for Beacon Avenue and downtown Sidney. Taking too narrow a view could yield only window dressing instead of a solid foundation on which local business can stand. What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@peninsulanewsreview.com or fax 250-656-5526. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW 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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cause of deforestation in North etailed debate on changes America is farming? to the Agricultural Land Forests Minister Steve Thomson Commission got underway has been pinch-hitting for Fort in the legislature last week, while St. John MLA Pat Pimm on the protesters played to urban voters agriculture file as Pimm undergoes outside. cancer treatment. Thomson took A couple of West Kootenay NDP exception when NDP agriculture supporters brought a basket of critic Nicolas Simons asked if he is homegrown veggies down to help aware people think the East Kootenay MLA Bill changes are to “neuter the Bennett get through the chair of the Agricultural winter on a 100-mile diet. Land Commission.” A group of mostly UBC Thomson, a former scientists wrote to Premier executive director of Christy Clark, embracing the Kelowna-based B.C. the popular assumption Agriculture Association, that the changes will replied that the changes automatically mean more do not reduce the exclusions of agricultural independence of the land, as well as expanded chair. Under further secondary uses in the Tom Fletcher questioning from Simons, Cariboo, Kootenay B.C. Views Thomson allowed that and North zones. This the current ALC chair, “jeopardizes species at Richard Bullock, has provided no risk, threatens many common response to the government on the species, and will impact many proposals. species prized for hunting,” they Kelowna-Lake Country MLA wrote. Norm Letnick was appointed Friday It makes me wonder if these to replace Pimm as agriculture university botanists and bird minister. But this ALC project is experts actually understand Bennett’s initiative, so I asked what farming is. You know, clearhim about his changes to the cutting a forest and planting appointment process. He said the largely monoculture crops? Using six regional panels, up to three big machinery, creating drainage, people each, were set up by thenapplying fertilizers, controlling minister Stan Hagen in 2003 to diseases, pests and wild animals? provide local input. That worked Not backyard gardening, real well, he said, until Bullock came on farming of the sort that has fed the scene and began exercising his more people than in all of human discretion not to appoint people history? recommended by cabinet. Have they heard that the largest
“The chair doesn’t like the regional panels,” Bennett told me. “It’s a pain in the ass for the chair to have to deal with 18 farmers from all over the province in making decisions. It would be six farmers, because only one person from the regional panel actually sits on the provincial commission. “He thinks that it’s unwieldy, and he’d rather have the decisionmaking centralized in Burnaby. But we changed that. We decided as a duly elected government in 2003 that we wanted the regions to have a say on this stuff, so the intention of the legislation, we felt, was actually being defeated, because we hadn’t made it mandatory.” It will be mandatory soon, and Bullock’s days as commission chair appear to be numbered. “There’s no more discretion for any future chair to monkey with it,” Bennett added. One of Bennett’s key issues is denial of secondary residence construction to keep families on the land in the Interior. The legislation also introduces social and economic factors in weighing decisions in the North, Cariboo and Kootenay regions, where in most cases development pressure is an urban myth. The main ALC board will still have authority to revisit a local panel decision if the chair deems it inconsistent with the mandate to protect farmland. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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The awesome power of a simple bouquet of flowers H e came striding out of a lane, a cheerful young fellow carrying a knot of flowers and whistling a happy tune. As he passed us I touched his arm and said, “That sounds so lovely. My Dad used to whistle and I really loved to hear him.” He stopped, smiled at me and pressed the bunch of wild flowers into my hand, turned and went on his way, again whistling. I was overcome with such a wave of joy. It was hard not to cry. My husband, who wit-
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The calendar project will see photo submissions being accepted until the end of the month (noon on Wednesday, April 30) to McLure and the submissions will then be reviewed by a panel. Winning photos will be selected using a blind selection process, said McLure. Criteria for selection, he continued, include quality, subject matter and how well each photograph illustrates the charm of Sidney. “People don’t have to be professional photographers to submit photos and an individual may submit as many
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Bob McLure shows off the 2014 calendar. photos as they wish.” People who wish to submit photos can send them by mail or drop them off by hand to McLure at 9–2235 Harbour Rd., Sidney, V8L 2P7. Photos must be printed on 4x6 inch
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follows also must be included on the back of the photo: whether the photo was shot in RAW, TIFF or JPEG format and the megapixel size as well as the camera brand and model. Any visible people in the photos must sign a release which should be included. The calendars will be released on the July long weekend and will be for sale at the Town of Sidney, Tanners Books, Pebbles Gift Shop and the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, among others. This year’s focus will be to select a photo for the calendar’s cover that sums up Sidney’s character, said McLure.
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Peninsula Garden Club 2014 Spring Plant Sale at the Mary Winspear Centre takes place Saturday, April 26 from 9 to 11 a.m. Great selections and great prices on all types of plants. Everyone welcome. saaniCh Peninsula Toastmasters Open House takes place Tuesday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sidney North Saanich library in the Nell Horth Room. Come see what Toastmasters is all about and how you can benefit. For more information contact Gwen at 250-656-3738 or go to http://1288. toastmasters.org. senior sessions at the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre. Join us on Thursday, April 17 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. for a special presentation on Marine Mammals. Additional seating and refreshments will be provided. Regular admission rates apply; free for Annual Pass members. For more information, call 250-6657511 or visit www. oceandiscovery.ca. Gillian Corless, Core Projects Director for the UBC Human Early Learning Partnership (H.E.L.P.) will speak at the April 22 meeting of the Canadian Federation of University Women at Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney at 7:30 p.m. HELP’s early child development research explores how different early environments and experiences contribute to social inequalities in children’s development by school age and to their life chances later on. the offiCial launCh of Caren Powell’s newest novel The Dark Side of the Rainbow on Saturday, April 26 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Muse Winery in North Saanich (11195 Chalet Rd.) RSVP to carenpowell@ shaw.ca or call 250544-4827. Light refreshments will be available. Visit www. carenpowell.com for more information. the soCiety for
the Community Arts Theatre at Stelly’s presents a Zumba Family Fitness ‘Fun’draising Event on Saturday, April 26 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Bayside Middle School (1101 Newton Pl. in Brentwood Bay.) Come join us for an afternoon of crazy fun with easy to follow moves, great instructors and good music. Bring a water bottle and wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. and tickets are available there. Call 250-8935903 or visit www. theatreatstellys.com for more information. Crafts and bakinG at the Sidney Peace Lutheran Church on Saturday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 2295 Weiler Ave. across from Tulista Park. Refreshments and soup available and proceeds from the sale will go to support the Sidney Lions Food Bank.
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• More complete & potent than other gummy multivitamins • Full B-vitamin complex • Extra vitamin C & D • Support for heart, bones, digestion, energy, immunity and eyes • Naturally, a good choice • Gluten & gelatin-free (natural pectin base) • No artificial flavors or preservatives • Sweetened with organic tapioca and cane juice • Made with 26 fruits and vegetables
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98
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60 CAPULES
98
< A New Era in Cardio Health < Santevia
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Santevia’s water filtration and mineralizaton products create alkaline water in convenient, eco-friendly and cost-effective ways.
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Sea-licious Purified Omega-7 is the ultimate heart health formula clinically studied to reduce C-reactive Protein, triglycerides, and LDL cholesterol. • 420mg Purified omega-7 from anchovies • 660 fish oil omega-3 • Powerful astaxanthin antioxidants • Third-party tested for purity • Purified to remove palmitic acid which may have a negative impact on cardiovascular health
22
$
60 CAPS
98
< Dr. Bronner’s Castile Liquid Soaps
< SANTE Natural Cosmetics
SANTE Naturkosmetik’s line of cosmetics offers incredibly beautiful colours made from purely natural ingredients. Organic and botanical oils and extracts guarantee gentle skin care and optimal wearability so you can look and feel your best. Experience the world of natural beauty with our unique colour range for every type: young, fresh and trendy. Discover the “pure colors of nature” of SANTE. Gluten and Cruelty Free.
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< Zing Nutrition Bar
2
$
50G
50
< Burt’s Bees®
20
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• Good Protein: 10 - 13g • Good Carbs: Low glycemic, with 4 -6 g fiber • Good Fats: Heart healthy, from nuts • No gluten, soy protein or gelatin • No synthetic vitamins & minerals • No corn syrup, artificial sweeteners or sugar alcohols • NO preservatives, fillers, artificial flavours or additives • No trans fat, fractionated palm kern oil or milk fat • No GMOs, verified for vegan items • Make Burt’s Bees® natural personal care products part of your healthy-lifestyle! Burt’s Bee® products are 99.56% natural on average and 70% are 100% natural. • Our formulas are free of parabens, sulfates, phthalates and petrochemicals and are approved by the Natural Products Association. • Head-to-toe care includes luscious lip care with on-trend colours, clinically-proven skin care, gentle Baby Bee® items for little ones and ultra-moisturizing lotions for everyone. • Burt’s Bees® - we strive to make people’s lives better every day - naturally .
Completely biodegradable and vegetablebased, Dr. Bronner’s Castile Liquid Soaps are usable for just about any cleaning task. These simple, ecologically formulated soaps are gentle enough for washing body, face or hair, but also powerful enough for tasks like dishwashing, mopping, laundry and even pest control.
< SISU Supreme Multivitamin
21
150 CAPSULES
$
98
Supreme Multivitamin provides high potency, energysupporting B vitamins to help you handle daily stress and chelated minerals for maximum absorption. Enhanced with Ester-C® vitamin C, citrus bioflavonoids, vitamin K and boron to support bone health with pure lutein to promote eye health.
< Natural Factors PGX Satisfast Organic Vegan Protein Bar
3
$
61G
49
• 15g of 100% organic vegan protein in every bar • Made with easy-to-digest brown rice and pea protein • 1.5g PGX per bar • Made with whole-food sweeteners and low glycemic stevia • Certified gluten-free, Raw, non-GMO, and USDA organic Available in Dark Chocolate Coconut, Peanut Butter and Berry
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All prices in effect until May 13, 2014