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Bishop Gary Gordon is the new spiritual leader of over 94,000 Roman Catholics on Vancouver Island believes was an affirmation from above. “It was like I heard this big ‘yes,’ and I’ve said yes ever since: yes to becoming a priest and yes to becoming a bishop,” he said. Bishop Gordon was ordained as a priest in 1982 after studying at Seminary of Christ the King in Mission; at St. Jerome College at the University of Waterloo in Ontario; and at St. Peter’s Seminary in London, Ont. He served several parishes throughout B.C., including Vancouver, Chilliwack and Mission. He was named Bishop of Whitehorse in Kevin laird 2006. Reporting With his new role in Victoria, he’ll be the spiritual leader of more than 94,000 Roman Catholics on Vancouver Island and the Gulf foreign to him. Islands – 10,000 of whom attend church “I think being a priest was a little beyond regularly, and while that will be a much larger me,” the bishop, 57, told the News during workload than in the North, a recent interview at the “The idea of letting Bishop Gordon maintains the diocese offices in Saanich. approach is the same. “I didn’t really want to be people know the good “It’s kind of a universal a priest. I did want to be a ministry,” he said. missionary. The idea of letting news, I thought this was “The approach gets people know the good news, I a really good idea.” directed by listening to the thought this was a really good – Bishop Gary Gordon people. The ministry, in a idea.” sense, is the same anywhere, Bishop Gordon believes but when you listen to the people in the every Catholic boy thinks about the different (cities) then you kind of get the priesthood at some point, but in his case he culture of the place which gives (you) the thought it was asking too much of him and language to use to communicate the good he wasn’t exactly enamoured with school. “Priests go to school a long time,” he chuckled. news.” His life changed in his early 20s when he was walking down a dark road, looking up PlEASE SEE: at the stars one night, and he heard what he Bishop’s job, Page A15 Bishop Gary Gordon, who was installed as the new head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria last Thursday, didn’t think he would ever become a priest, never mind a bishop. Growing up in Burnaby, Bishop Gordon and his family attended church regularly. He was even enrolled in Catholic schools. But the thought of being a priest seemed
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Prince Edward plans trip to Capital City The Earl and Countess of Wessex will visit Victoria this month. Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, tour B.C. from Sept. 12 to 16. The pair will begin their visit with a public arrival at Government House on Sept. 12 at 2 p.m. Prince Edward will review a Royal Canadian Navy honour guard and will attend a welcome reception hosted by Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon. On Sept. 13, the prince will attend events with the navy and then present young people with their Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award during a ceremony at Government House. Prince Edward and Countess Sophie travel to Vancouver, Kelowna and other Island locations later in the week.
Addictions talk at Royal Jubilee University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research of B.C. presents Addiction’s Mysteries: Plato, Rat Park and Harm Reduction on Sept. 12 at the Patient Care Centre Room at the Royal Jubilee Hospital, 1952 Bay St. Presented by Bruce Alexander, Simon Fraser University professor emeritus and addictions researcher, the talk will cover Plato’s theory of addiction in declining democratic societies and the history of alcoholism and drug addiction in B.C. The talk begins at 10:30 a.m. and runs for an hour.
Cook Street shutdown irks commuters, while residents enjoy traffic reprieve Natalie North Black Press
If commuters who rely on upper Cook Street between Quadra Street and Maplewood Road haven’t found an alternate route by now, they might want to consider it, as a complete overhaul of the roadway is underway until the spring. “It is a learning process for everybody,” said Stuart Brundrige, president of Brunnell Contracting Ltd., at the helm of the $4.8-million project, approved in July and started Aug. 25. “Traffic, bicyclists, pedestrians all have a way they’ve gone to work or wherever and we just need to change that,” Brundrige said. All through traffic will halt as upgrades above and below ground are completed. The project, part of Saanich’s complete streets plan, includes 870 metres of widened sidewalks, multiple corner ramps, raised bike lanes, improved stormwater management and landscaped boulevards with the addition of 56 trees, many of which will be Garry oaks. Neighbours seem to be of two minds: those who use the front of their property for parking aren’t happy to lose the space with the installation of the concrete sidewalks and raised bike lanes; and those who are pleased to see the loss of street parking, which was often used by Thrifty Foods employees and obstructed views for motorists exiting driveways onto Cook. Constant potholes and inadequate street lighting are the two gripes Marilyn Blanks, resident in the 3200-block of Cook St., would like to see addressed with the upgrades, both improvements worth the inconvenience of the
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Rick and Marilyn Blanks with their dog Sammy along the 3200-block of Cook St., where a road upgrading project will shut down the area to through-traffic for the next six months. large-scale project in her front yard. “Well, if they’re going to do construction, there’s going to be a lot of mess,” she said. “You’ve got to break eggs to make the omelet. I know there’s going to be work that will affect us, noise and probably dirt and dust, but it’s one of those things that you have to put up with if you want something repaired.” Blanks’ husband Rick is also welcoming the work, not just for the long-term esthetic gains, but the benefits of temporarily clotting the
main traffic artery on which they live. “I can’t event get across the road sometimes, with all the cars backing up from the lights,” he said. “I’ve lived on such a busy street for nearly 25 years. ... Normally this time of day, there would be a constant stream of traffic. That really is nice. I wish it would stay like that, but I know it won’t.” The unit-price contract for the work is funded through Saanich’s transportation, drainage, sewer and water budgets.
Did you know? n Saanich has identified Tillicum Road and Glanford Avenue as the next to become complete streets, what the municipality defines as safe, attractive and comfortable access for the young and old, those with mobility impairments, local residents, motorists, pedestrians and cyclists.
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TOUR DE ROCK: Sept 20 – Oct 3 copsforcancerbc.ca Canucks Alumni vs Cougars Junior Hockey Club – Sunday, September 7th Don’t miss this exciting game, silent auction and more! At Esquimalt’s Archie Browning Sports Centre. Doors at 1:00pm and game starts at 2:00pm. Minimum $15.00 donation per ticket. Tickets available at Esquimalt Recreation Centre, Kirby’s Source for Sports and Sports Traders. Flow de Rock – Saturday, September 13th Enjoy a Flow Yoga class led by Maria Filippone at 6:00pm at Hudson Yoga Victoria. Plus, music by DJ Dexler, silent auction and appetizers! All in support of the 2014 Tour de Rock. Tickets are $25 and space is limited. Tickets available in person at Hudson Yoga, or through Rochana at 250.598.5997. To find out more, contact: South Vancouver Island Community Giving Co-ordinator, Denise Smith. Phone: 250.380.2358 | Email: dsmith@bc.cancer.ca Visit us on Facebook: Facebook.com/CopsforCancerBC OR follow us on Twitter: @Tourderock and mention #CopsforCancerBC
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Despite proposed ‘solutions,’ teacher strike continues Drew McLachlan News staff
In lieu of returning to class, teachers from across B.C. yesterday (Sept. 2) attended a “peoples’ classroom” on the B.C. legislature’s lawn. The rally consisted of a mock morning assembly and classes on civics, history, environmental education, art and physical exercise. As the strike continues into the semester, teachers will also be continuing picket lines, which will take place at school, government offices and other locations in Victoria and throughout the province. Limited picketing took place throughout the summer outside of the Tolmie Boardroom and Uplands Elementary, which also houses the Victoria International High School Program’s administrative offices. The province proposed a strike truce last week that would have allowed classes to reopen for two weeks, coinciding with mediated discussions. While the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) had not given a response to the offer by the time this story was published, BCTF president Jim Iker citing the need for a union vote as the reason, Greater Victoria Teachers’ Association (GVTA) president Benula Larsen made it clear that she was wary of the proposal. “The province offered the same thing two years ago. We took it, and here we are again two years later,” she said. “The government talks about labour peace, but if they really wanted labour peace they would bring a fair offer to the table.” The two-week truce offer followed an announcement by the province to offer parents of students under 13 $40 for each day of school they miss. The Victoria Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils (VCPAC) issued a recommended “Classroom Resources Fund” to both sides in midAugust, though president John Bird said that the amount of dialogue with VCPAC hasn’t been ideal. “Our hope is that if they see promise in the model, they’ll see it as a solution and back off from other disputes,” Bird said in mid-August. “Both sides have been lobbying for our support. We’re taking a students-first position, and we hope they’ll support us and our children.” editor@vicnews.com
City resident wins $13-million lottery Despite knowing that a winning Lotto 6/49 ticket had been sold in Victoria, retired Victoria resident Duarte Almeida waited more than three weeks to check his ticket from the Aug. 2 draw. Almeida almost fainted when he finally checked and discovered that he held the winning Lotto 6/49 ticket worth $13,688,951.40. “I knew someone in Victoria had won but I never thought it would be me,” smiled Almeida. “I have been shaking and sweating since I had learned we had won.” Almeida had been on the way to breakfast with his wife but decided instead to head straight to the ferry and to BCLC’s office to beat the long weekend crowd. “My wife was waiting in the truck when I checked the ticket,” described Almeida. “I shut the door and told her ‘we were rich’. I still can’t believe this!” Almeida has been playing the same numbers since 1986 and buys his lottery tickets from different locations. The couple are still considering what to do with the win and are looking at buying a new truck and planning a long vacation. The winning ticket was purchased in Shawnigan Lake at the Aitken and Fraser Market on Dundas Road.
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Ice bucket challenge a cool fundraiser Go ahead, take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. You’ll be cool if you do it, in more ways than one. Most of us, by now, have seen our Facebook friends or celebrities participating in what has been a wildly successful fundraiser for ALS societies around the world. The concept is simple and fun – douse yourself with a The right bucket of ice water, make a kind of trend donation to your local ALS society, and challenge three for the hot others to do the same. summer The ice bucket challenge has been exactly the right of 2014 kind of fundraiser for the summer of 2014. In modern times, many of us are goofing off for the sake of a YouTube clip anyway, so we might as well do it for a good cause. The ALS Society of Canada was reporting last week that including its provincial affiliates, the ice bucket challenge had raised some $800,000 and counting. This summer’s donations are a hundred-fold beyond anything the society has ever seen. A lot of people have had some laughs dumping ice water on their head, but for most, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge isn’t just a thoughtless stunt. Facebook friends are reportedly ‘policing’ the fundraiser – those who fail to mention ALS in their videos or demonstrate some awareness of the cause are criticized. There is no cure for ALS, but researchers right here in B.C., at the University of British Columbia, could be close to a breakthrough. And our silly stunts could make a difference. It takes a bucket of ice water, a cheque, good intentions and hope.
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Bleak summer for ferry remake Rupert. At Bella Bella, after a layover There was an uproar in the of a couple of hours, the Nimpkish B.C. legislature this spring when took over with space for 16 standard Transportation Minister Todd Stone vehicles on its deck and a midnight went ahead with $19 million in cuts arrival time in Bella Coola. to low-usage coastal ferry The direct route had routes. been mainly used by The plan had been European tourists, who laid out in detail before sailed from the Lower last year’s election. Mainland to Victoria, It targeted sailings drove the length of the where ridership was in Island, ferried to Bella the low teens or even Coola and drove through single digits. On some the rugged Chilcotin to sailings the Transport Williams Lake and back Canada-mandated down south to complete crew outnumbered the passengers. Tom Fletcher the circle tour. The new route Despite the cries B.C. Views incorporated stops in of doom, most of the remote outposts Ocean sailing reductions have Falls and Shearwater, making it even been managed – with one glaring longer. Warnings came early. exception. The Discovery Coast “That’s where 90 per cent of the Circle Tour route saw its ferry from [BC Ferries] money is being lost, on Port Hardy to Bella Coola replaced, the milk runs, and that’s the part using the smallest vessel in the they are keeping,” Petrus Rykes, a BC Ferries fleet, the open-decked tourism operator at Anahim Lake for Nimpkish. 40 years, said in March. “The part This move wasn’t a direct they’ve cancelled was at 70 per cent response to low usage, a chronic capacity, the second highest of all issue with some of the minor route the fleet routes.” sailings along the coast. It was to Reports of a bad slump have avoid ordering a replacement for the come to pass. The changes meant Queen of Chilliwack, which sailed bookings couldn’t be made until directly between Port Hardy and April, too late for most international Bella Coola. travelers. This summer the first leg was A survey by Bella Coola Valley consolidated with the Northern Tourism in mid-summer found most Expedition, the vessel that replaced operators losing business, from the doomed Queen of the North on 10 to 90 per cent. A bus tour of the Inside Passage run up to Prince
Canadian seniors heading west from Williams Lake was terminated after 14 years. One tourism operator on Highway 20 is considering closing down. Stone and his family took the new route themselves in early August, with the minister offering sunny reports on his blog. Stone summed up his experience this way: “At the end of the day, my assessment is that the Nimpkish is a good tourism product if tourists are made fully aware as to the type of service it provides. If correct expectations are set, I believe the Nimpkish can be marketed as a valuable tourism component of the Discovery Coast Circle Tour. “The decision to do this rests squarely on the shoulders of the tourism industry and tourism operators who need to decide whether or not they want this service to work, to grow and to be viable in order to capture a share of the thousands of international tourists looking for exactly the kind of adventure the Nimpkish provides.” Got that, Discovery Coast tourism folks? If this milk run doesn’t work next year, it will be your fault. Heck, the Nimpkish has free snacks and drinks for your 10-hour voyage, much of it in the dark. ••• Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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Business marks birthday with health fair The Vitamin Shop is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a guest-filled health fair. The Vitamin Shop Health Fair will feature lectures by five health writers, focused on nutrition, heart disease, digestion and more. Activities such as face painting and a colouring contest will keep kids busy, and door prizes are up for grabs. The Vitamin Shop Health Fair takes place Sept. 6 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Victoria Conference Centre on 720 Douglas St. Admission is by donation, with proceeds going towards Victoria’s Mustard Seed Food Bank.
Community kitchen finds home Shelbourne Street rental property ideal for classes, garden Daniel Palmer News staff
The Shelbourne Community Kitchen is moving into a permanent home after Saanich council gave the location a thumbs up last week. The community kitchen, which offers meal preparation and other food literacy classes, will be up and running later this year at a three-bedroom bungalow at 3541 Shelbourne St. A nearby private garden will also be used to harvest vegetables. “It’s not a very big house,” said Laura Cochrane, organizer with the community kitchen. “We wanted to offer something more meaningful than a bag of groceries. This is an opportunity to build community, to meet people and share these experiences in a community setting.” The group has been running food literacy and meal preparation classes out of St. Aiden’s United and the Lutheran Church of the Cross for
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Laura Cochrane, left, chair of the Shelbourne Community Kitchen board, and program co-ordinator Kim Cummins stand in the humble kitchen of a three-bedroom rental property at 3541 Shelbourne St., the new home of the Shelbourne Community Kitchen. Organizers will begin renovating the property pending approval at public hearing in the coming weeks. the past year. Since then, clients who drop in to use food hampers have been invited to food preparation classes to help them save money and get more creative with meals. “We’ve had up to 12 people in our weekly Easy Meals and Healthy Start classes,” Cochrane said. “We’re just recognizing that many people just
SPCA fundraiser helps our furry friends Some animals never know kindness. The good news is, you can fight animal cruelty by registering and fundraising for the 2014 Scotiabank and BC SPCA Paws for a Cause walk. The walk is held every September to raise funds for abused, injured, neglected and homeless animals throughout B.C. This year, participants in 31 communities throughout the province will walk to raise funds to help animals in need.
The Scotiabank & BC SPCA Paws for a Cause walk to fight animal cruelty in Victoria will be held at Clover Point on Sunday (Sept. 7) from 10 a.m. with the walk starting at 11:30 a.m. Proceeds from the walk will benefit animals at the Victoria SPCA and Wild ARC (Animal Rehabilitation Centre). Participants can enjoy a variety of entertainment and activities, including a Paws Parlour for your pooch to relax in after the walk, bouncy castle and face-
painting for kids, fun games for dogs and their humans, a barbecue and top fundraiser prizes. “We are overwhelmed by the amazing participation each year – it’s so great to see thousands of people come together across the province to help B.C.’s most vulnerable animals.” said Krista Constantineau, manager of fundraising events at the BC SPCA. To register or donate, and to get all the latest news and information, please go online to spca. bc.ca/walk.
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from the National Lutheran Church to expand their services. A lack of fixed address continued to be a hiccup in the long-term viability of the kitchen before last week, Cochrane said. “What we were really looking for was a location right on the bus line and easily accessible by walking,” she said. “We had to ask permission to move into a house, because we won’t be using it strictly for residential use.” Parking won’t be an issue when the community programs begin, as the adjacent Shelbourne Street Church of Christ will offer its parking lot on weekdays to community kitchen users. There are also plans to reach out to disabled residents and isolated seniors, and run programs specifically tailored to their needs. “We can do a lot more together, and that’s the point, especially if people are single, they can be isolated,” Cochrane said. “Food prices just keep going up and up and people’s incomes just aren’t keeping pace with it.” See more at shelbournecommunitykitchen.ca.
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Victoria benefit concert aids school in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, an African baskeda band best known for their titular documentary, recently added a Victoria date to their tour in order to play a benefit concert. The concert is in support of the VictoriaTaiama School Project, a local charity formed in 2003 in order to aid the community of Taiama, Sierra Leone. In 2012, the organization opened the Judy Smith Health and Education Centre, which provides health and child care for Tamaia and surrounding communities, as well as education designed to curb the spread of malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis and Ebola. While the community has not yet been affected by the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the organization hopes to avoid a local outbreak through preventative measures. Local progressive band the Blackwood Kings will be opening for Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars. The concert takes place tonight (Sept. 3) at Club 9ONE9. Tickets are $20 and available online or at Lyle’s Place Records, the Reef, the Strathcona Hotel Front Desk or at the door for $25.
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Art and houses Metal artist Bev Petow stands next to one of her many creations at a Lampson Place home. Petow and the Esquimalt house are part of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s house tour fundraiser on Sunday (Sept. 7). The gallery will feature five unique and interesting homes, along with artists, in Oak Bay, Esquimalt and a country manor home on the Saanich Peninsula. Tickets are $35 each and available online (aggv.ca/housetour2014) or in person at the art gallery (1040 Moss St.) or at GardenWorks and Brown’s the Florist locations.
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The ocean is filled with all sorts of wild, wacky and wonderful creatures. There are animals that don’t even appear to be animals, like the magnificent and beautiful glass sponges, to which BC is home to the only living reefs. There are animals that are little more then gelatinous blobs, and are literally named blob fish. And animals that really have a face only a mother could love. Despite the strange, weird and maybe even “ugly” ocean creatures, some marine animals are just so darn cute. When I say cute, I’m not talking about the charismatic dolphins, sea otters and polar bears. Yes, they are absolutely adorable and almost snuggable, but everybody knows those animals. The cute animals I’m going to share are the underdogs, the less noticed and the ones right in our oceanbackyards. First up on the eligible cute list is the Hermit Crab. Many people have probably seen a Hermit Crab scrambling along the rocky shore or maybe even felt their sharp little legs tickle your hand as they gain the courage to walk along your skin. These timid little creatures have the cutest black eyes and a rather small body to shell ratio, almost making them look like they will fall over. However, hermit crabs do outgrow their shells and go on long adventures to find their next perfect home. The shells they acquire are from marine gastropods (snails) and thus come in all sorts of colours and sizes,
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First Nations map past for future with Google Natalie North Black Press
While the impact of the Mount Polley mine spill on the greater marine ecosystem and salmon fisheries is still being deciphered, a mapping initiative with Indigenous communities is creating a base of knowledge to protect against such disasters in the future. More than 100 Indigenous organizations from across Canada met last week at the University of Victoria, including Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, for the Indigenous Mapping Workshop. Stewart said the Northern B.C. mine spill and current battle over the development of sacred burial grounds on Grace Islet off Salt Spring Island are examples of the “undeniable urgency” of mapping lands, waters, resources and knowledge, while communities are losing elders at an alarming rate. “Our history is written on the land itself,” Grand Chief Phillip said. “I don’t think that there’s any question that Indigenous mapping is becoming more and more critical to the ongoing debate, discus-
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Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and Steven Deroy of The Firelight Group take part in the Indigenous Mapping Workshop held at the University of Victoria last week. sion and dialogue with respect to resource management issues and title court cases.” The government of Canada’s “current obsession with advancing natural resource projects,” in addition to pipeline proposals and the province’s interest in LNG exploration, has only added to the urgency, he said. “It’s of utmost importance that
we develop the capacity, through the use of modern technology to ensure that our information is properly depicted on maps to protect our title and rights interests,” Phillip said. That modern technology, came to the workshop via Google Earth Outreach, which offers in-depth training sessions for anyone interested in leveraging such programs
as Google Maps. “Google Earth is a great piece of software because it’s so empowering,” said Brian Thom, professor in UVic’s department of Anthropology and workshop co-organizer. “It’s a free tool, it’s very easy to use and it has wonderful imagery of the surface of the Earth that we can see in three dimensions. We can fly through the landscape.
We can sit down with an elder in an office and we’re flying through the places that they know, where they’ve gone their whole lives and they can evoke the stories and know that fishing rock or this part of the history.” The workshop allowed Aboriginal communities to share experiences of mapping their territories, record their place names and hunting, trapping and fishing locations. The process has even evolved into an important conversation about cultural revitalization and assertion of title rights, Thom said. While the technology infused the event with a sense of excitement and possibility, Don Bain, executive director of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, began Monday’s workshops by underlining a sentiment just outside Google Earth’s gaze. “Mapping, or what we do in courts, or negotiation tables or the board room ... does not replace going out with your elder to fish, does not replace listening to the stories of family and friends,” Bain said. editor@saanichnews.com
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Wildfire season will rank among B.C.’s worst Fires have burned up 330,000 hectares across B.C. this summer This summer’s wildfire season will go down as one of the most destructive on record in B.C. As of Thursday, fires had burned up more than 330,000 hectares across the province and are expected to soon surpass the 337,000 hectares destroyed in the 2010 fire season. This year is still far short of 1958, when 856,000 hectares burned, but 2014 could move into fifth place if it surpasses 1950’s
343,339 hectares, or even third if it tops the 351,000 lost in 1971. While much timber has burned, no homes or other significant structures have been lost this year, so by that measure it’s been nowhere near as catastrophic as the 2003 fire season, when more than 300 homes were lost or damaged in the Okanagan Mountain and McClure fires. But it has been costly. The province has so far spent more than $246 million fighting wildfires, almost four times what was budgeted, and more than the $212 million expended in 2010. Despite wet weather on the Labour Day weekend, fire officials are bracing for more warm dry spells in September.
“It’s unlikely we’ve seen the end of the fire season by any stretch of the imagination,” fire information officer Dustin Eno said. The actual number of fires this year – just over 1,300 – is well below the average of 1,600 a year. But many of the fires have been very large. The biggest, and still only 20 per cent contained, is the 130,000-hectare Chelaslie River fire, which is between Anahim Lake and Burns Lake, near Entiako and Tweedsmuir provincial parks. Homes remain under evacuation order there. The largest evacuations this summer have included the China Nose fire near Houston and the McAllister fire, which
forced the evacuation of the entire town of Hudson’s Hope in July. Assisting B.C. crews have been large numbers of imported firefighters and equipment, from other provinces, Alaska and Australia. “We’ve brought in a lot and have been very grateful to be able to draw on those relationships, both right across Canada and internationally,” Eno said. “Last year we exported a lot of firefighters to fight in other jurisdictions and this year they were able to return that favour.” There are still 152 active fires and another 85 out-of-province firefighters arrived Thursday from Ontario so B.C. crews could take mandatory days off.
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The Township of Esquimalt is seeking applications from interested members of the community to be nominated by Esquimalt Council to join the Board of Directors of Greater Victoria Harbour Authority (GVHA) for a three-year term commencing January 1, 2015. Applicants should have previous board experience with a similar organization, knowledge of current and emerging harbour and community issues, and strong business management skills. Specific expertise is being sought in the following areas: 1. Government relations and public engagement – significant experience working with elected officials and executive staff leadership at all levels of government; expertise in public policy, communications, and working collaboratively with diverse community stakeholders 2. Cruise industry – experience at the executive level and an understanding of its relationship with destination tourism 3. Commercial Real Estate – knowledge and experience in urban planning and design, corporate real estate services, client advisory services, leasing and sales, finance and mortgages, real estate administration and auditing 4. Commercial marine – experience and understanding of the marina, port and harbour-related business sector Additional information is available at GVHA’s website: www.gvha.ca/governance.php Please submit a letter of interest and resume by September 19, 2014 to: Anja Nurvo, Director of Corporate Services Township of Esquimalt 1229 Esquimalt Road, Esquimalt, BC V9A 3P1 or by email to anja.nurvo@esquimalt.ca. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Delves into Japanese internment Drew McLachlan News staff
The Royal B.C. Museum is teaming up with institutions across the country to tell the story of one of Canada’s darkest periods. Landscapes of Injustice will explore the internment and dispos-
session of the 21,000 Japanese-Canadians living on the West Coast during the Second World War. Using its already extensive source material from the period, the Royal B.C. Museum will help design and host a travelling exhibition, as well as launching an online education platform for kindergarten to Grade 12 students. “The story of the Japanese-Canadian experience during the Second
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World War is well-documented, but perhaps not widely understood by most British Columbians,” said Kathryn Bridge, Royal B.C. Museum deputy director. Leading the project is the University of Victoria, whose graduate and post-doctoral students will be working closely with the museum to transform their research results into educational content. Landscapes of Injus-
tice was awarded a $2.5 million partnership grant from the federal government last week, and the project will include 14 universities, museums and cultural associations across the country. Landscapes of Injustice is set to open in 2019 at the Nikkei National Museum in Burnaby before touring the country. For more information, visit landscapesofinjustice.com. editor@vicnews.com
Care group in search of ‘most caring Canadian’ Canada Cares finished the first leg of its cross-country search for “the most caring Canadian” in Victoria recently, but is still looking for nominees. Submissions are open for all award categories – family caregiver, professional caregiver, business and community – until Sept. 15, and can be
sent online or by mail. Vouchers and gift cards will be given out to caregivers, and a MV-1 – a $40,000 wheelchair-accessible vehicle will be given to the person or organization that demonstrates the greatest need. For more information or to make a donation, visit canadacares.org.
CHURCH DIRECTORY Your Guide to Local Houses of Worship
Local news. Local shopping. Your local paper. Read the Victoria News every Wednesday and Friday
Parish of St. Peter & St. Paul Rev. Lon Towstego
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Sunday Service 8:30 am and 10:30 am Sunday School at the 10:30 service, best suited to children 5-12 years.
St. Paul’s Historic Naval Garrison Church
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By joining the leading community newspaper serving Oak Bay, you can develop a rewarding career in advertising and marketing while contributing to one of the most vibrant communities in Victoria. The team environment at The Oak Bay News will inspire you to the highest level of customer partnership and reward your motivated approach to excellence. You should be a strong communicator, well organized, self motivated and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. Print and/or online advertising sales experience is preferred. A car and a valid driver’s license are required.
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Interested candidates should send resume, clippings and cover letter by Sept. 12, 2014 to: Kevin Laird Editor Victoria News 818 Broughton Street Victoria, B.C. V8W 1E4 or e-mail: klaird@blackpress.ca Thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Moving forward Construction workers continue to work at a fever pitch at the new Toyota dealership at the corner of Finlayson and Douglas streets. The massive dealership is expected to open this fall. Kevin Laird/News staff
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Unlike leaders of other religions, Bishop Gordon isn’t concerned about declining church membership. Roman Catholics remain the single largest Christian religious group in Canada, according to Statistics Canada. “It’s not a number’s game, that’s for sure. I’ve done ministry in places where no one has shown up. That’s not my responsibility. My responsibility is to be there and bring the message,” the bishop said. “Whether anybody shows up or not is in God’s hands.” Bishop Gordon prefers to take the long view on the future of the church. He points out at one time the church was flourishing in North Africa. Now there is almost nothing there, but it
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