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Staff at Island Sexual Health are taking pay cuts or working shorter weeks in order to maintain clinical service levels as best they can for patients. The Saanich clinic, which administered more than 4,500 Papanicolaou (Pap) examinations last year, continues to struggle financially as staff work to maintain service levels. “The organization has done a lot of staff cutting. We laid off 3.5 staff,” said executive director Bobbi Turner, who in March said the future of the non-profit was up in the air. “There haven’t been any cuts specifically to clinical services or outreach education, but a lot of the community events have all been put on hold.” Turner said all staff have taken cuts in hours or pay even as demand increases. “I don’t now how many other organizations would have a team willing to take that kind of personal hit,” she said. In the past 12 months, more than 27,000 clients used the services provided by Island Sexual Health, located at 101-3960 Quadra St. In addition to the cancer screening tests, the clinic also administers sexual transmitted infection testing and treatment, lowcost birth control and preventative health services. Client numbers are up 16 per cent from the last fiscal year, Turner said. “And what we’re now seeing is more complex issues,” she said. “We’re seeing a lot more older clientele who need more complex healthcare than a standard 10 to 15 minute session.” Also compounding the issue is the growing number of patients visiting the fee-forservice clinic because they don’t have family doctors.
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A Saanich street operations worker is silhouetted as he spray paints inside the Royal Oak pedestrian tunnel underneath Highway 17. Island Sexual Health’s services are not paid for by the healthcare system; the majority of the organization’s funding comes from MSP billings. “This has been a cumulative problem. There’s no question that what we’re trying to do is try and sustain a model that isn’t enough to cover the number of services we need to provide,” Turner said. “It’s just that now we’ve gotten so big and there’s such a huge demand and there just isn’t enough revenue ... to sustain it.” Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver says he’s met with Turner to discuss long-term financial stability for the organization. Many of his constituents, especially students at the University of Vic-
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the importance of this service, not just in my riding, but to the whole region,” he said. “I think the decision-makers, my generation, may not be aware of the value of services they provide. … Now the bureaucracies just have to spin their wheels to ensure that funding comes in in a manner to keep it up.” Turner is requesting clinic supporters send letters to MLAs, MPs and the B.C. Ministry of Health to share experiences on the benefits of the clinic. Island Sexual Health is also seeking financial support to keep their health and education programs operating. To make a donation call Turner at 250-592-3479 or visit islandsexualhealth.org. editor@saanichnews.com
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Shelbourne bike lanes need incentives: Councillor Shelbourne Valley Action Plan faces slow uptake with Saanich’s current land policy Travis Paterson News staff
If certain steps aren’t taken soon, the Shelbourne Street improvements in the new Shelbourne Valley Action Plan could end up as another wait-and-see project. The 30-year vision put forward in the elaborate 120 page document includes a long list of improvements to the Shelbourne corridor, starting with the street itself. But a long-established policy of not expropriating land to expand sidewalks and public space means a few long-term homeowners can stall even basic infrastructure improvements. “Without expropriation we need new incentives for residents,” said Coun. Judy Brownoff. “For example, Saanich is waiting to install cycling lanes and sidewalks on Quadra Street from Chatterton to Lily, but is waiting on a (single) holdout landowner.” Following the action plan review
Cyclists usually at a June 9 commit“Without take the risky Sheltee meeting, council bourne stretch rather asked for a report on expropriation we the feasibility of fast- need new incentives than detouring to the more hilly Cedar Hill tracking cycling and and Richmond roads, sidewalk improve- for residents.” ments along Shel- -Coun. Judy Brownoff Brownoff said. “Don’t expect bourne Street. cyclists to get off Shel“The ultimate goal is to pave a cycling lane all the bourne,” she said. “Cyclists are way (from North Dairy Road to just like drivers, they don’t want to Feltham Avenue) but it’s difficult be put off on a hilly side road. Shelto achieve in the interim with vari- bourne is flat, and it has the stores ous constraints to the amount of and coffee shops people want to space available,” said Cameron use.” But the action plan still faces difScott, community manager with ficult implementation with SaanSaanich’s planning department. “In an ideal world we get a wider ich’s unwillingness to expropriate right of way for some of the more land from private homeowners. Brownoff said it may be time to constrained sections.” A planned separated cycling give incentives to private homelane from North Dairy Road to owners for the roughly one to Pear Street will add some improve- two metres for right-of-way usage ment. The lane would end at Pear of their land, at least along ShelStreet, but it would start again on bourne Street. Mayor Frank Leonard has the north side of McKenzie Avenue from Blair Avenue north of excused himself from the Shelbourne Valley Action Plan proFeltham Road.
ceedings, as he owns land along the proposed development route. Instead Coun. Susan Brice chaired last week’s meeting as acting mayor. Brice said the idea of whittling Shelbourne down to two lanes was considered, which has been a successful way of creating pedestrian friendly urban centres in other municipalities. “One of the reasons we’ve wanted to keep two lanes of traffic on each side of Shelbourne is so in the future we can always dedicate a lane to bus only, or bus only at certain times, similar to Douglas Street downtown,” Brice said. “We also retain the potential for thinking further into the future with light rail,” Brice said. Light rail is part of the Victoria Region Transit Future Plan, centred at Uptown. One of the lines would run along McKenzie through the Shelbourne corridor to the University of Victoria. reporter@saanichnews.com
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Mount Douglas secondary grads Terrell Davis (2012) and brother Marcus Davis (2014) will be rookies with the UBC Thunderbirds in the 2014 CIS football season. Terrell is part of the first generation to benefit from the newly passed CIS repatriation rule allowing him to play without a year-long delay after returning from the NCAA.
Davis brothers headed to T-Birds Travis Paterson News staff
Mount Douglas secondary’s Davis brothers dominated B.C.’s AAA high school football circuit the past four years and now they’re ready to launch into the Canada West university football conference – together. Marcus graduates high school this month (June), after a four-year stint at Mount Douglas, during which he and brother Terrell (who graduated in 2012) helped the Rams win three straight AAA championships from 2012 to 2014. “I can’t wait to play with (Terrell) at UBC. It’s going to be great having him there,” Marcus said. Despite Terrell being two years Marcus’ elder, they’ll both be rookies when the UBC Thunderbirds start the 2014-15 season against the Regina Cougars on Sept. 5. Well, Canadian football rookies, as both are becoming acquainted with the three down Canadian system, as opposed to the four-down American style used in B.C. high schools. Terrell also gained plenty of experience
with the Arizona Sun Devils the past two seasons. He wasn’t on the field in his first year, a standard situation. By his second season, he made a few game appearances but it was nothing like he was promised. As a Canadian stuck behind NFL prospects, Terrell wasn’t seeing the light. The situation was dire enough that he was considering a return to Canada for a chance to play Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football when the repatriation rule was passed late in 2013. The CIS repatriation rule means Terrell will be part of a first generation of Canadian student-athletes to play this season after returning from an American school, rather than sit out a year, a penalty previously designed to deter Canadians from going to the NCAA. “I actually didn’t know about the rule. I was thinking a lot about coming back. I wanted a chance to play, even if it meant sitting out a year,” Terrell said. Watching what happened with Terrell was enough to convince Marcus to stay in Canada, where universities nationwide have thrown scholarship offers to both brothers. “With Terrell’s situation in Arizona and
everything that happened with him it opened my eyes a little bit,” Marcus said. The younger Davis brother has been offered walk-on opportunities with a few solid NCAA programs for September, but no scholarships. In the meantime, Marcus and Terrell have become reacquainted as roomies in their family home. No big deal, they say, except that Marcus took over Terrell’s room while he was away. When Terrell moved back from Arizona at Christmas, he was forced to bed down in the more expansive basement. “I didn’t take your room.” “Yeah, actually you did,” the brothers argue. Terrell has been working in landscaping and is finishing some online credits through Thompson Rivers University. Both took reps with the Thunderbirds’ first team at spring camp, a sign they’ll be given a chance to take on big roles in 2014-15. Former Ram Bryan Rideout enters his fourth year as a defensive back for the Thunderbirds, while linebacker Sheldon Mack joins Davis from the Rams’ 2013 team. reporter@saanichnews.com
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As Capital Regional District directors debate a feasible way forward with sewage treatment, Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said his focus will remain on the lowest-cost option for local taxpayers. The CRD board agreed to explore four concurrent options to salvage the $788-million Seaterra program at a meeting last week. One of those options is asking municipalities and local First Nations if they’re willing to offer land for a wastewater treatment facility. The regional project was put on hold after Esquimalt turned down a rezoning request for the CRD’s wastewater plant in April. “I’m trying to be as openminded as possible, and see
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Tag, you’re it on elder abuse Recognizing and reporting elder abuse is a lot more complex than the province’s latest public relations plan to promote the issue on social media. Asking people to use a hashtag to discuss elder abuse in B.C. will be about as effective as the #bringbackourgirls — an online community discussing the kidnapping of 230 Nigerian girls; and about as effective as the Kony 2012 online campaign targeting the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa. Both of these social media-based efforts certainly did raise awareness. However, the Nigerian girls are still missing and Joseph Kony is still out there. Nice ideas, but as is the lament about online campaigns, they only go so far and our attention spans are so short, we move on to the next best thing. Where an online campaign will have an impact on elder abuse issues in B.C. is in raising its profile. It’s altogether possible that more information will reach people who are genuinely interested in the issue and take definitive action. That action will be ensuring people have a place to go when they witness or are victims of abuse, and that they have people to confide in. As explained by B.C.’s new Seniors Advocate, Isobel Mackenzie, it’s a start in the wider dissemination of information – but people still need to know how to recognize elder abuse. That vital information might possibly find its way through the chaff of online comments and opinions. While it is important to have an opinion on elder abuse, it’s also vital to be able to find resources and support for those who have been victimized. If that can be done in 140 characters or less, great. If not, it’s a waste of time. Like most issues that need serious help, resolving elder abuse will need people to put down the phone, turn off the laptop and talk to their neighbours to learn how they can have a real impact. 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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A look back at teacher demands the bottom two steps of the teacher A few things have changed since salary grid dropped. the last all-out teacher strike in B.C. That’s simply a raise for That was just two years ago, entry-level teachers. when the B.C. Teachers’ Admittedly those are Federation was coming off rare creatures these days its second-ever voluntary with shrinking enrolment agreement with a 16 and ironclad seniority per cent raise over five rules that allow retired years and what the union teachers to monopolize termed an “enhanced” substitute work. signing bonus of $4,000. Something else that’s Even with special changed since 2012 is teacher-only top-ups, that the government has BCTF members almost granted the BCTF’s wish rejected the last of the Tom Fletcher to bargain directly with government’s big-spending B.C. Views the province. pre-Olympic labour deals The education signed in 2006. ministry executed a takeover of By 2012, outraged teachers the B.C. Public School Employers’ were back on the legislature lawn, Association after last year’s howling for another 16 per cent, election, and installed veteran with backup vocals provided as industrial union negotiator Peter usual by HEU, CUPE, BCGEU and Cameron. other public sector unions that He’s backed up by long-time settled for less. labour specialist Lee Doney, whose Teachers had just sailed through task is to keep the teacher deal a crippling global recession with a within Treasury Board limits that series of raises, but were oblivious have defined all other public sector to all that. union settlements. Last week the protest venue Doney made it clear last week switched to Vancouver, where both that no mediator is going to come in the crowd and the demands looked and “split the baby” as long as the a bit thinner. BCTF position is so far beyond the The signing bonus target is up current compensation framework. to $5,000, but the raise is a mere Despite constant union 8% over five years (compounded, complaints of low wages and for those who passed math), deteriorating working conditions plus another huge basket of cash in B.C. schools, education grads disguised as benefit improvements remain lined up around the block and so forth. Government negotiators put their hoping to get in. Why is that? For those who have been total compensation demand at 14.5 exposed to life outside school for a per cent. while, it’s fairly simple. One obvious dodge: they want
The job market out here in the real world is tough. And here’s how the real world evaluates a teaching job. Start with 189 working days, each nine hours long as per the accepted definition, and the top-heavy seniority list that places the average teacher salary at around $72,000 a year. That works out to $42.32 an hour, plus a suite of benefits that most private sector employees can only dream about, starting with three months of prime-time vacation. I am occasionally lectured by teachers that the job goes far beyond five hours in the classroom and an additional four hours a day preparing and marking. They throw out different estimates, variously defined. Alas, it’s a salaried job, and we salaried employees in the real world don’t waste a lot of time counting hours. Here’s the work, here’s the deadline, here’s the pay. Take it or leave it. Consider another union demand that seems to be just another thinly disguised raise. The BCTF wants a large increase in preparation time for elementary school. There are no duties being added here. For this one item, government negotiators calculate the cost to taxpayers at $86.2 million every year by the fifth year of the BCTF proposal. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca.
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Ongoing teacher negotiations still about quality of education Re: Year-end teachers strike hurts kids, News, June 18 I continue to be aghast when I read statements such as the year-end strike is “unconscionable and unethical.” As British Columbians, the fact that our government is practising a method of being “holier than thou” with the supreme court has been entirely overlooked. If any other country was being being run by a government that felt it could step aside the law by appealing supreme court rulings twice, I would expect (and hope) Canadians would consider the defiant act to be “unconscionable and unethical. I also hope they would consider who the arrogant bullies really
are in this battle. More importantly, this strike is about the kids. British Columbia students, our sons, our daughters, our nieces, our nephews and our grandchildren are not as valued as other Canadian students by our provincial government. How is it acceptable that a B.C. student is not worth the one thousand dollars that every other student across Canada is receiving and how is it possible that the papers have not highlighted this truth? To sit silently when abuse happens is allowing the abuse to happen. Negligence is a form of abuse. Teachers say no to this government and to the government’s negligence
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Re: Year-end teachers strike hurts kids, News, June 18 In response to your article, “Year-end strike-not about the kids,” I take exception to your comments. This article suggests that teachers are being unethical by “exerting maximum pressure” on the government and this impacts students negatively. Teachers do not take strike action lightly, but they are facing a government that has consistently breached both constitutional and international laws designed to protect workers’ collective bargaining rights. The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that this government has stripped away the teachers rights to bargain class size composition and even strategized to push teachers toward a strike. When faced with a government that does not negotiate in good faith, after months of negotiations, the last resort is to go on a full scale strike. I work in the school system and my son is in Grade
12. Sure, there were a few inconveniences and my son may have to wait for his marks. It is a small price to pay in support of what teachers do in the classroom for my child everyday. It is time to look at the bigger picture. There is something wrong with this, so-called democracy, when unions are not able to negotiate working conditions (class size composition). Also, providing better working condition means students get a better education. There is no “self serving spitting contest” as you state. Teachers are trying to have a voice and stand up for the rights of students. They are facing a government that chooses to ignore the law. I shudder to think that if class size composition is left in the hands of this current government, what will become of public education. When making decisions based solely on the bottom line school children will definitely pay the price. By the way, who is responsible for docking government’s outrageous wages when they fail to do their job? Adele O’Neill Saanich
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Most anyone who has laced up a pair of running shoes has felt compelled to make up an excuse every so often and let up on their training when life gets in the way. Not Evan Fagan. Back in 2011, then 74 years old, Fagan wasn’t about to have something as commonplace as a little prostate cancer throw him off his game. He placed second in the Oliver half-Ironman before undergoing radiation and as soon as he was able, he was back out on the course. It’s that kind of commitment that has brought Fagan to the finish lines of 143 marathons, more than 50 ultra marathons and 89 triathlons since he started racing as a 49-year-old. “A lot of women and men my age stop because they get injured or they have some sort of other sickness,” says the swimming septuagenarian, fresh off a lap set in the YMCA-YWCA. “People like me are extremely lucky. I had that one episode and I’ve got no effects from it – except for that I glow in the dark from the radiation. I’ve been lucky.” Fagan’s attitude towards every aspect of competition is as warm and joyful as the greetings he offers to a constant stream of friends, met through fitness, who pass through the doors to the Y. His race times may have declined since the cancer, but his enthusiasm hasn’t. To be able to “play around at a mostly young person’s event” is still just as fun for Fagan, who can get the
gained a 15-hour time and made it to the podium on a thirdplace finish. There will be more. “You think: ‘Aw, I’m never going to do this again and then 24 hours later, you say, ‘Where’s the next one?’ Marathoners are the same. I know so many people who say ‘I’m not doing another one of these runs ever again,’ and sure enough, six months later, they’re back at it.” Fagan has been back, race after race, from sprint triathlons in North Vancouver to biathlons or trail runs in Hawaii and marathons along the Yakima River Canyon. His journey to the Frontrunners Walk of Fame began right here, at what was known then as the Royal Victoria Marathon. The crowds came helped propel him to a 3:56 finish. “It was fantastic. I didn’t have any thoughts of the future at that time. It’s in your hometown and the Victoria marathon course is really one of the best. It was a sunny, great day here in 1988.” This Thanksgiving weekend, Fagan will return to the birthplace of his passion. He’s registered for the full GoodLife Victoria Marathon on Oct. 12, his first in two years. “It’s a lifestyle, a very healthy lifestyle,” he says. “I just realize that I’m so lucky to be able to do what I do.” reporter@saanichnews.com
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When B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake uestion: How many of you took a announced that the province was parmoment this month to reflect on the consequences of elder abuse? ticipating in World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, he rightly declared: I suspect very few “Every senior deserves to age even knew there was a reawith dignity and to feel appreson to take a pause for the ciated and respected in their cause. communities. I encourage all Question: How many of British Columbians to … join you knew that Sunday, June with communities across the 15 was World Elder Abuse world to raise awareness and Awareness Day? share strategies that support I suspect the day slipped and protect seniors.” by with most of the good Elder abuse takes many citizens of this demographiforms such as: physical (hitcally aging community Brian Kieran ting, pushing, shaking, inaplargely unaware of the sigpropriate physical or chemical nificance of the day. Most restraints and harm created by over media ignored it. or under medicating); psychologiWhat a wonderful world it would be if giving something as insidious as elder cal (actions that decrease their sense of self-worth and dignity); financial abuse its very own day of recognition (actions that decrease the financial was enough to eliminate a culture of worth of an older person without benabuse directed at seniors. efit to that person); and neglect (inacAccording to federal literature one tions that may result in harm to an in five Canadians believes they know older person). of a senior who might be experiencing In the past year Alice Edge has some form of abuse. And, a B.C. advoserved as the Ombudsperson for the cate for seniors worries that she lives in a society that tolerates the “systemic Council of Senior Citizens’ Organizations of B.C. (COSCO). In that capacity abuse of the elderly.”
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Lina Dyer came to Victoria in 1951 from Germany. She’s been visiting the Saanich Silver Threads Service at the Les Passmore Centre since 1998. “We used to love bowling at Mayfair. It was a shame the alley was taken down. We loved it. So some of us from the group started with shuffleboarding (at Les Passmore) and we’ve been doing it ever since. Some days you play better than others but it’s always just for fun.” Dyer keeps busy with the lawn and garden, as much as she has to, “to keep it up.” She also delivers the Goldstream Gazette twice weekly in her home town of Langford.
David Smith, 82, was born in Vancouver and moved to Cadboro Bay in 1942 when his father was posted at The Gordon Head Officer’s Training Centre. Smith attended school at Cedar Hill Elementary and the orginal Mount Douglas High School. After high school David worked in fishing camps and as a commercial fisherman for a year. He still loves sport-fishing. With that under his belt he returned to school in Vancouver and became a journeyman photo-lithographer where he obtained employment for 24 years with the provincial government as an aerial photographer and navigator. Smith has a wife, two daughters and three grandchildren. He’s currently enrolled in a French course at the Goward House Activity Centre, located at 2495 Arbutus Rd., where he also enjoyed their water colour courses, held at Goward House earlier this year. “(You have to) learn to roll and hum with the punches.”
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Honora Bowring, 76, was born in Lancashire, England during the Second World War. At 18, she moved to Manchester to become a nurse before working in midwifery in Liverpool, where she remembers listening to the Beatles. She moved to Canada in 1964 with her husband, settling in West Vancouver, where she decided on a brief career change. “I sold real estate,” Bowring says. “I wanted to try something different. I was curious.” Bowring enjoyed working in real estate and enjoyed some success, but eventually returned to nursing. Bowring’s husband passed 34 years ago. She has two daughters, one living in New York, the other locally, as she works for B.C. Ferries. There are five grandchildren, ranging in age from 11 to 19. Bowring’s biggest life achievement is finding contentment. She had a short, but good marriage. She’s happy with her family and, she did a lot of volunteer work in developing countries. “I’m happy,” she says. “I’m happy with my everyday life.”
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Health foundation doles out $2M in funding and who believe in giving kids on the island the best possible care.” Thirty organizations across the Island will receive funding this year, including 20 programs in Greater Victoria that will provide support to nearly 40,000 children, said Hughes. The CHF has invested more than $42 million in programs that benefit kids over the last 30 years.
This year, the Children’s Health Foundation will disperse $2.2 million dollars in funding to improve the health of kids on Vancouver Island. “Our funding helps children’s programs thrive and grow, said Linda Hughes, CEO and president of the Victoria-based Children’s Health Foundation. “We are grateful to our donors who support our work
Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island is a registered charity whose purpose is to raise funds to support the health and well-being of children and youth on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Learn more about the Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island at childrenshealthvi.org editor@saanichnews.com
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Saanich driver qualifies for U.S. competition Travis Paterson News staff
Though it hasn’t been officially announced, Saanich car racer Bill Okell has qualified for the Sports Car Club of America’s (SCCA) National Championships Runoffs. Okell, 59, has long desired to attend the highly competitive national championships throughout his 40 years of racing. But the cost of racing and travel has limited him to the West Coast. This year, however, the SCCA has brought its championship to Laguna Seca, Calif., on Oct. 10. Laguna is a track Okell has been burning up the past few years with plenty of wins in the Nasport series, a circuit below the SCCA. Okell recently qualified for the SCCA with a third place finish, his third time on the podium, in the runoffs, or Western Championships. There is one race left in Portland, Ore., on July 4. Okell could move up from his current fifth-place standing to third, though he’s already qualified, as the top 10 advance to the final at Laguna Seca. “This is a big challenge for me,” Okell said. “I’m entering it not with the dream of winning but with the dream of having a chance to win. I’m still improving as a driver.” Okell is a regular threat in the domestic GTU series out of Mission, where he is often at the top of the points standings, thanks to his modified 1964 MGB. There are four drivers from B.C. looking to qualify for the Runoffs, though Okell is the only one from Vancouver Island. reporter@saanichnews.com
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Island Health will pay close attention to the high E. coli count at Beaver Lake after issuing a swim advisory last weekend. Beaver and Elk lakes have a shared history of high E. coli when the warm weather activates the E. coli in the waste of the local Canada geese population, as well as other water fowl. The Beaver Lake warning was still in effect on Monday but could be removed by today (June 25) as a weekend test of the E. coli resulted in lower concentrations. A swim advisory was also posted
for the waters off Cordova Bay, which registered a concerning swell of enterococci, a fecal-derived bacteria from seagulls. “All our swimming waters will continue to be tested weekly,” said Island Health media manager Sarah Plank. “It’s a good time to be aware that swimming in any untreated water source, whether it’s been tested or not, presents a potential of getting sick,” Plank said. “After swimming it’s always a good idea to wash your hands before you eat and/or shower when you get home.” Though a high E. coli count nearly affected Elk Lake’s Self Transcendence in 2011 the waters of Beaver and Elk lakes are rarely closed. Visit viha.ca for the latest health advisories, or check with local municipalities. reporter@saanichnews.com
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The appointment is a three-year term effective January 1, 2015 and expiring December 31, 2017, with further renewal options to a maximum of eight years. The VAA requests that candidates possess a strong background in the areas of aviation/transportation, finance/accounting, professional business, engineering, or legal expertise. Before submitting an application, a review of the Board’s Backgrounder for Directors, VAA Bylaw, Code of Conduct, Disclosure Statement, and Confidentiality and Compliance Agreement is recommended. Copies of the aforementioned documents can be obtained from the Legislative Division or by visiting the VAA website at victoriaairport.com. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure they meet the VAA conditions of membership. Those applicants under consideration will be interviewed.
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Kiwanis club honours Saanich teen leaders Kyle Slavin
at a special reception held at the Cedar Hill Golf Club earlier this month. “It is a wonderful event to recogStudents from four Saanich secondary students were among 42 young people nize the students who have gone honoured by the Kiwanis Club of Victoria above and beyond to achieve their own personal goals and to assist others in achieving theirs,” said Paul DeGagne, Kiwanis director and event Ronald McDonald House® BC organizer. is growing. Students chosen have the “giving back” characteristic that Kiwanis embraces and celebrates, he said. This year’s honourees included students from Lambrick Park secondary, Mount Douglas secondary, Reynolds secondary and Spectrum community schools, as well as teens from Esquimalt secondary, The new Ronald McDonald House BC opens in June. Oak Bay High and Victoria A home away from home for seriously ill children High schools. receiving treatment at BC Children’s Hospital, the “It’s not an easy task to Sean Roper/News intern new and bigger House has enough room to welcome whittle our graduating class Reynolds secondary principal Tom Aert, left, with students Monique Sekhon, Anna Sollazzo, 73 families every day, keeping 2,500 families per year from about 300 kids to about Kathryn Johnson, Faelin Prentice, Zenani Boya, and Lindsay Peacock at the Kiwanis Club together when it matters most. six, but I do have some of Victoria Annual Student Recognition reception and luncheon held at the Cedar Hill Golf stars,” said Rob House, prinCourse club house earlier this month. cipal of Spectrum. See more photos from the event online “These six students are some of our proud to have to be a part of their commuHelp us continue our work at vicnews.com. For more information on finest leaders,” added Reynolds prin- nity and culture.” by donating at rmhbc.ca The Victoria Kiwanis Club Appreciation Kiwanis Club, visit kiwanisvictoria.ca. cipal Tom Aerts. “They are the type of students that any school would be event has been held for more than 38 years. editor@saanichnews.com
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Fire ant invasion sparks call for soil moving controls Jeff Nagel Black Press
A researcher tracking the spread of European fire ants says the tiny, stinging pests have likely burrowed into most communities in Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and southern Vancouver Island. Thompson Rivers University biology professor Robert Higgins said he has positively identified fire ants in Greater Victoria, Courtenay, Chilliwack, Maple Ridge, Delta, Richmond, Burnaby, Vancouver and North Vancouver. They were first identified in 2010 in the District of North Vancouver and can render parks unusable for purposes like picnicking, camping and lounging on the grass. “They’re coming in on landscaping plants and soil that have been shipped from out east,” Higgins said. “And now that they're established here, we're moving them around internally.” He's urging anyone doing landscaping to reject any plants or soil with ants of any kind on them to minimize the risk of further spread. And Higgins says the province should explore options to regulate the movement of soil from property infested with fire ants. He's not predicting whether
the species can be eradicated, but said the top priority is keeping them new neighbourhoods from being colonized. Jennifer Grenz, development and projects manager for the Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver, says European fire ants pose a significant health and safety risk worse than other invasive pests, such as chafer beetles, which merely ruin lawns aesthetically. Fire ants are ultra-sensitive to ground movement and quickly swarm people and pets that walk nearby. “We've been in situations where it looks like a volcano of ants erupting out of the ground,” Grenz said. “They bite you and they hang on and then they bite you multiple times. By the time you notice something on you, you've probably got many.” Large numbers of stings can lead to severe medical reactions, especially in infants, neurologically compromised people and the elderly. “This isn't just another invasive species in my mind.” A residential infestation hurts property values, she said, adding homeowners react in some cases by decking over their entire yard to reclaim some use of it. Dogs can get badly stung, Grenz said, and she's concerned
ground-nesting birds may also become victims as fire ants spread. The ants have appeared in VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, at a garden centre on Marine Drive in south Burnaby and, most recently, in Richmond at McDonald Beach Park, where signs advise visitors to “avoid remaining stationary.” Grenz said digging up ant nests in winter, when they're more compact, coupled with the spread of diatomaceous earth, shows some promise in eliminating fire ants. Higgins is also trying to lure ant colonies to relocate into plastic pipe traps. Grenz would like to conduct a Metro regional survey to better gauge where fire ants are entrenched. But she also wants the province to pursue legislation to stop ant-infested soil dug up at contaminated development sites from being moved to other properties. “We need to stop the movement of contaminated material,” Grenz said. “If we don't get on the soil movement issue, there's going to be ants all over the place. There isn't anywhere in the Lower Mainland that they couldn't potentially go to.” editor@vicnews.com
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B.C. GROWN
Early Nugget Potatoes
86 2
LOCAL
LIBERTÉ
Organic 0% Greek Yogurt
396
MEAT
Pin Bone Removed
Maui Ribs
Chicken Legs per lb No Back 20.63 kg Attached
H NEW ZEALAND FRESN IC A G OR
236
2
66
636 GRANNY’S
3
2/
3
ay Same Dry 250-477-6513 Delive Mon-Fri Excluding Holidays
Asst.
2
18’s
FRENCH’S
Squeeze Mustard
46
6-8’s
1
Sheep Milk Feta
Quinoa & Grilled Veggie Salad
626
per 100 g
4
200 g
MONTE CRISTO
Belgium Waffles 96
Rustic Baguette
256
each
284 ml Asst.
500
2/
Stoned Wheat Thins
each
325 ml
12 Roll Reg. Only
296
OMEGA NUTRITION
80’s
MINUTE MAID
Frozen Fruit Punch
740 ml Asst.
76
¢
00
NATURAL & ORGANIC
TY-PHOO
Tea Bags
5
2/
Assorted 300 g
295 ml
Potato Chips
Buns 6’s
186
4 L Asst.
PRINGLES
D’ITALIANO
Peasant Buns
00
SHEPHERD
RED OVAL
Ice Cream Cones
Liquid Dish Soap per lb 9.39 kg
200 g
MR. CHRISTIE
Bathroom Tissue
per lb 5.86 kg
426
PORTOFINO
26
Asst.
SILK ‘N SOFT
Chuck Steaks
per lb 21.74 kg
376
per 100 g
ARBUTUS RIDGE FARMS
126
1
76
GROCERIES
546
BAKERY
Reg. & Whole Grain
1 L Carton
Ice Cream
BONELESS
Lamb Loin Chops
L LOCA
Cheddar Cheese
Ice Cream Syrup WHOLE
986
2 lb
BLACK DIAMOND
ISLAND FARMS
Asst.
9
3
HERSHEY’S
WN PEPPER’S OUR O
Boneless
186
Asst.
46 36
Honey Ham LE COBBL HIL
76
per lb 3.66 kg
Chocolate Milk
LOCAL
Wild Sockeye Salmon Fillets
per 100 g
Pepper Packs
ISLAND FARMS
500 g
FR
2
66
per lb 2.99 kg
BC N B.C. GROWN GROW
Peaches
1
136
each
CALIFORNIA
500 g Asst.
ESH!
Nectarines
FREYBE
DAIRY
Cottage Cheese Asst.
CALIFORNIA
Bunch Carrots
per lb 1.90 kg
ISLAND FARMS
76
B.C. GROWN
96¢
¢
LOCAL
FULL SERVICE DELI
PRODUCE
BC N GROW
Prices in effect June 24-30, 2014
96
Assorted 160-168 g
Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
2
96 355 ml
THAI KITCHEN
HEINZ
Instant Organic Noodle Soups Ketchup Asst.
76¢
250-477-6513 • 3829 Cadboro Bay Rd. www.peppers-foods.com
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45 g
546
750 ml
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