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And the winners are... Many of the trophy and rosette winners were on hand at the Sooke Community Hall on Sunday to claim their rewards for their entries. Beautiful sunny skies and a whole lot of enthusiasm marked the end of the two-day Sooke Fall Fair.
Maja Tait formally announces candicacy for mayor of Sooke
“I see a bright future for Sooke”, said Maja Tait, a District of Sooke Councillor. “I’m grateful to have served Sooke on Council and I am looking forward to the opportunity to campaign for the Mayor’s chair in the upcoming municipal election. “We’re a young, diverse municipality with a rich heritage and incredible potential,” said Tait. “After six consecutive years, I bring experience, inclusivity and a business person’s respect for the bottom line to the position.” While on council,
Maja has liaised with numerous committees, advisory groups and societies: the Sooke Region Tourism Association, the Mayor’s Panel on Economic Development Panel, the EMCS Society and the Sooke Region Historical Society, as well as the CRD’s Regional Housing Trust Fund Commission since 2008 and is a Community Director with the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness. She’s particularly proud of the role she has played in recent years regarding the
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newly constructed Hope Centre, upgrades to SEAPARC’s bike skills park and the recently adopted Town Centre Illustrative Design Handbook. Maja moved to Vancouver Island in the late 1990’s and relocated to Sooke with her husband in 2006. “We chose to live here because of the community’s abundance - Sooke’s wild setting, charm, history and the diversity of people who live here.” Tait has been a dedicated community volunteer since her child-
hood and is an avid mountain biker who has successfully balanced long hours of community service with an established career in property management. “I’m a champion for Sooke who’s always telling everyone how great it is here,” she added. “Now I’m seeking the opportunity to work with our elected councillors, our community organizations and our residents in continuing to build a community that is healthy, active and vibrant.” The only other per-
son to announce they are running for the chair being vacated by Wendal Milne is Councillor Herb Haldane. Other candidates who have announced they intend to run for District of Sooke council include Councillors Kerrie Reay and Kevin Pearson. Neither Bev Berger or Rick Kasper have formally announced they are running for council. Local businessman Kel Phair has also stated he will be running for council, as has former councillor Brenda Parkinson.
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Grassroots effort breaks ground Ground Breaking for Harbourside Cohousing in Sooke Friday, September 19 at 11 a.m. 6669 Horne Road, Sooke
Harbourside Cohousing in Sooke will be holding a ground breaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction of their 31-unit Cohousing community on the waterfront in downtown Sooke at 11 a.m. on Friday, September 19, 2014. Members and friends will be joined by invited guests to break ground on this unique project, which is the first senior cohousing community in B.C. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the common house on the site. The members of Harbourside Senior Cohousing are working with expert consultants, some of whom will attend the ground breaking ceremony. Yet Harbourside is very much a grass-roots effort started by ordinary citizens three and a half years ago. The cohousing members provide the equity to get the project underway, and they retain control over all aspects of the project. Harbourside is not a cooperative. It will be an owner-developed strata that combines private dwellings with a community in which neighbours know and care about each other. Cohousing originated in Denmark about 50 years ago and has now spread to the U.S.A. and
Canada. It is a neighbourhood design that combines compact, private homes with extensive, shared common facilities. There are seven family-oriented cohousing communities in B.C. but Harbourside is the first with a focus on aging well in community. Harbourside will be home to three generations; member’s ages range from “shy of 50 to better than 85.” Sixteen of Harbourside’s 27 member households call Sooke home. Others have come from Germany, Hawaii, northern B.C., and Alberta. Four units
are still available for new members. Campbell Construction is the general contractor for the project. Completion of all 31 units is scheduled for January, 2016. The Canadian Senior Cohousing Society, a non-profit that gave rise to Harbourside, is committed to exploring how this project can be a model for the development of more senior cohousing projects which can offer a different kind of living arrangement that reduces the load on government funded services for seniors, reduces the risks of
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Up Sooke Breast health
Screening mammography on September 15-18 Sooke health Unit, 6672 Wadams Way, Sooke child, youth and Family centre (caSa), formerly on townsend road. For an appointment call toll free 1-800663-9203.
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Friday, Sept. 12 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. eaSt Sooke regional park, guided adult hike, 18 years+ to the summit of mount maguire. the hike is strenuous and steep, so sturdy hiking shoes are a must. dress for the weather, bring a lunch and water. there is no fee but you must preregister by Sept. 11 as space is limited. pleaSe leave yoUr pets at home. contact crd regional parks at 250-4783344 or visit crd,bc. ca/events.
OngOing
the Water FloWline exhibit is ongoing at the charters river Salmon interpretive centre until September 28. the exhibit explores the 1911-15 construction of the flow line. located at 2895 Sooke river road.
Thumbs Up to the Woman who donated two flags to the royal canadian legion, after the Canadian flag was stolen on July 1.
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Contentious bylaw to get public hearing Pirjo Raits
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A contentious bylaw, which would have allowed waste transfer stations in all M2 zones, is being sent back for a public hearing. District of Sooke Mayor Wendal Milne brought back the bylaw, under the Community Charter, for reconsideration. He asked council to rescind the motion of July 21 which would have seen Bylaw 596 Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw and Bylaw 597, Zoning Amendment Bylaw -– Waste Transfer Station go to public hearing. “If we don’t rescind, there is not a lot of confidence from the community,” said Milne at the council meeting on September 8. “I’m appalled at the way it all came out. Blanket zones won’t fix this.” Milne called it “anarchy” as he said people were doing what they want to do, rather than go through the proper process. “People see this as something slid through and people are concerned,” added Milne. “This bylaw should be killed,” stated Councillor Maja Tait. “I agree with what the mayor said.” Back in January representatives from Dale Arden, the owner of a property on Idlemore Road, approached Milne about putting in a waste transfer station. Milne, at the time, stated the property was not zoned for a waste transfer station.
While Milne was away, somehow the business got approval and was operating contrary to the zoning bylaw and the OCP. The problem, according to the three councillors who opposed the rescinding of the bylaw, was one of “definition.” Opposed to rescinding the motion of July 21, 2014 were Councillors Kevin Pearson, Herb Haldane and Bev Berger. Coun. Rick Kasper was absent from the meeting. Milne stated that if the motion was rescinded and the bylaw quashed, each individual property owner could come forward for rezoning to accommodate the use they wanted for their industrial property. He said uses should be specific to each property, not blanket zoned and be linked to the Official Community Plan. “People that were blanket zoned didn’t want to be rezoned,” said Milne. “The only question I have is the definition in the bylaw,” said Coun. Haldane. “Exactly what is what?” “No one set out to cause community strife,” said Pearson. “There is no definition, that’s the point... It’s not blanket zoning, it’s adding a use.” After the votes were counted, it was a tie. Rescinding the previous motion was lost and a public hearing based on the original motion will be scheduled. The bylaw still needs to go to third reading and adoption.
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Steve Hale restored a 1960 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud and drove it around the Pacific Marine Circle Route along with a whole bunch of other Rolls drivers. The car is originally from California and is now in Nanoose Bay. The car features custom made flower vases, right, and carpets. It is worth over $50,000, weighs two tons and can easily reach speeds of 100/kmh. “It ticks over beautifully,” said Hale. He said there are many Rolls Royces on Vancouver Island.
second question on november ballot Pirjo Raits
Sooke News Mirror
A community group wanting to stop oil tanker traffic in B.C. waters got what they wanted at District of Sooke council on September 8. Transition Town Sooke Society requested a second question on the November ballot and after a half dozen speakers and written submissions, council approved the move. In a report to council it was
recommended not to place the question on a ballot but to consider a resolution similar to those in other municipalities. In 2011 and 2012 The Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) considered a resolution on the oil tanker traffic issue and Mayor Wendal Milne sent a letter to the Minister of Environment in Ottawa stating opposition to increased tanker traffic. Chief Election Officer Tom Moore had recommended not placing the non-binding item
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on the ballot stating that with the loan authorization bylaw already on the ballot it could cause confusion. Mayor Milne had suggested an on-line survey and a re-affirmation letter rather than placing it on the ballot. Letters to the mayor in support of placing the item on the ballot stated they wanted to “give Sooke voters the opportunity to weigh in on this vital question.”
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his summer the Sooke Region Museum celebrated our tourism industry through an exhibit on past and present accommodations and restaurants in the area. Quite a few residents have been moved by the exhibit as it shows just how much Sooke has changed since the early 1900s. For this reason, the exhibit, titled “Accommodating the World,” has been extended until March 1, 2015. Our community has blossomed into one of the most coveted vacation spots on the island. The delicious and locally grown food and exclusive accommodations continually draw people to the Sooke region. The exhibit focuses on many establishments, but emphasizes historically significant ones such as the Belvedere Hotel and the Sooke Harbour House. The content has
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been really educational for new residents and younger generations. The exhibit has a few key features. • One feature is a menu book that includes all eateries in the Sooke Region. This menu book has proven to be very useful for tourists and will be
CRD Regional Parks are hosting a couple of hikes, one to beautiful East Sooke Regional Park and the other to Charters River Salmon Interpretive Centre. Take your pick and enjoy the afternoon. West Coast Afternoon Guided Adult Hike Sunday, September 14 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. East Sooke Regional Park (East Sooke) Guided Adult Hike 18 years+ Join a Regional Parks’ natu-
used in the Visitor Centre when the exhibit ends. • Another feature is a photo op with hay in front of a stable door from the Belvedere Hotel (see the June 11, 2014 Curator’s Corner column for information on this door). • Additionally, a com-
ment station allows people to share their favourite restaurant or accommodation in the region. This portion of the exhibit has been extremely well received. The museum extends a warm thank you to all donors who have objects on display in
to 3:30 p.m. Charters Interpretive Centre Regional Park (Sooke) Guided Walk 5 years+ Join the Sooke Region Museum and a CRD Regional Parks’ naturalist for a short, steep hike through the woods to see a historic bake oven built 100 years ago by workers constructing the 27 mile flowline to carry water to Victoria. Meet at Charters River Salmon Interpretive Centre at 2895 Sooke River Road.
ralist for a west coast exploration from Aylard Farm to Beechey Head Point. You will explore a piece of paradise hiking a trail that winds along the ocean, passing cormorants, gulls, arbutus bluffs, and kelp forests along the way. There is no fee for this program but you must pre-register by September 12 as space is limited. Go with the Flow (Line) Guided Walk Sunday, September 14 | 1:30
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the exhibit. Questions and comments regarding the content are being directed to the museum’s Collections and Exhibits Manager, Brianna Shambrook, who curated the exhibit (musasst@Sookeregionmuseum.com).
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There is no fee for this program but you must pre-register by September 12 as space is limited. Please leave your pets at home. As with all hikes and excursions, please dress for the weather and weather proper footwear. Bring along water and a small snack if desired. Contact CRD Regional Parks at 250.478.3344 or visit crd. bc.ca/events.
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Claims start for $40 education subsidy Payments will start once labour dispute ends Starting today, parents of public school students 12 years old and under can register at http://bcparentinfo. ca/ to receive $40 per student for each day school is not in session due to the ongoing labour disruption in B.C. public schools. The Temporary Education Support for Parents (TESP) program is intended to help parents with the added cost of learning and supervision for the duration of the labour disruption. Parents and primary caregivers are eligible to apply. Primary caregivers can include step-parents, legal guardians, foster parents, host parents for international students, caregivers with temporary custody arrange-
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Teachers are on the picket lines at all of the schools across British Columbia, including Saseenos elementary as pictured above. ments, and family members who normally care for the student, such as grandparents. To register parents and primary caregivers will need to provide the name, address, date of birth, school district number and school for each eligible student. Payment will be made by cheque in a single payment mailed to the address provided dur-
ing registration. Most payments will be processed within 30 days after the month that the labour disruption ends. Payments for students attending kindergarten, and for students who are new to B.C. public schools, will also be made after the labour disruption ends, once enrolment for the current school year can be confirmed.
Eligible parents will have four months from the end of the month in which the labour disruption is settled to register for the temporary education support. No new registrations will be accepted after this date. Quick Facts: • For those without access to a computer, registration by paper
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 62 (SOOKE) NOTICE OF NOMINATION GENERAL LOCAL ELECTION 2014 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of School District No. 62 (Sooke) that nominations for the offices of Trustee for:
form is also available by calling 1 877 3873332 or 250 387-3332. • The payment is not taxable and will not affect provincial and federal tax credits and benefits such as the new BC Early Childhood Tax Benefit, BC Low Income Climate Action Tax Credit, Sales Tax Credit or the federal Canada Child Tax Benefit or GST credit. • The payment will not impact other provincial support assistance such as income or disability assistance, child care subsidy, subsidized housing, MSP subsidies, or Fair Pharmacare. Learn More: B.C. Parent Info website: http://bcparentinfo.ca/
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The Pastor's Pen Changes in Pastoral Leadership When we live in a community for a number of years we see the changes in the pastoral leadership of our faith communities. I have been in Sooke for six years, not a long time but long enough to see a few changes in the pastoral leadership. Holy Trinity Anglican Church in June received its new pastor Rev. Dimas Canjura. He is newly ordained but in his previous careers has had many experiences in pastoral ministry. Rev. Dimas now brings these gifts to Holy Trinity and Sooke. Pastor Rick Eby is just moving into Sooke this week as the new pastor of Sooke Baptist Church. We welcome him and his family to the community. Both Holy Trinity and Sooke Baptist have been without a pastor for a number of months. After Alex and Nancy Nagey and Dwight and Sandy Geiger had left Howard Jacques and Richard Steele were the intern pastors.
will be received at the offices of School District No. 62 (Sooke), 3143 Jacklin Road, Victoria, B.C. between the hours of 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, the thirtieth (30th) day of September 2014 and 4:00 P.M. on Friday, the tenth (10th) day of October 2014 and during that period the nomination documents shall only be received on regular office days and hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.). Should anyone wish to file nomination documents in other than office hours, arrangements may be made by phoning Joanne Kimm, Executive Assistant, at (250) 474 9804 or the Chief Election Officer at (250) 472 0059.
Eduardo and Trisha Aristizabal at Christian Life Assembly Sooke Harbour and Mike Stevenson at the Seventh Day Adventist Church have come in recent years to our community. Rick Wismer has for many years being coming to Sooke to minister with the Refuge Bus sponsored by Youth for Christ. Pastor Gordon Kouwenberg at Knox Presbyterian is now the longest serving pastor in Sooke. On a larger scale the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia (Vancouver Island) and the Catholic Diocese of Victoria both have new bishops. Bishop Logan McMenamie was installed in June for the Anglican Diocese and Bishop Gary Gordon was installed late last month for the Catholic Diocese of Victoria.
The Trustees will be elected for a four (4) year term commencing December 2014 and terminating in 2018 after the election held in accordance with the legislation in the Local Government Act and the School Act.
In closing let us give thanks for those men and woman who give pastoral leadership and their ministry in our community. May their families and those that they serve be blessed. Amen.
The mode of nomination of candidates shall be as follows: A person is qualified to be nominated, elected and to hold office as a member of a School District if they are a Canadian citizen, 18 years of age or older on general voting day (November 15th, 2014), a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of nomination papers are filed, and not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from being nominated for, being elected to or holding office, or to be otherwise disqualified by law.
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Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly qualified electors of School District No. 62 (Sooke). The nomination documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and School Act and shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to sufficiently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the candidate. At the time of filing the nomination documents, the candidate shall also file with the Chief Election Officer or a person designated by the Chief Election Officer a written disclosure, as required under the Financial Disclosure Act. Copies of all forms are available at the Offices School District No. 62 (Sooke), 3143 Jacklin Road, Victoria, B.C. or by contacting Joanne Kimm, Executive Assistant at (250) 474 9804 or the Chief Election Officer at (250) 472 0059. Given under my hand at Victoria, B.C. this tenth (10th) day of September, 2014.
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CANOE RACING, 1920s and 1930s Nowadays many outdoors enthusiasts enjoy kayaking in our local waters, but not so many years ago it was canoes and fast paddling that led the way. While this photo shows canoe racing in the Gorge waterway in 1923, there was also an annual event in the 1930s that attracted well-muscled paddlers. That race ran from Port Angeles across the Strait to Victoria; and reversed direction alternate years. Among well-known Sooke area contestants were the teams of Albie and Jumbo Davies and Jasper Charles and Johnny Albany. This 1923 photo was supplied by Johnny Tuttle who had grown up on the T’Sou-ke Reserve, alongside his half-brother Frank Planes. Johnny shared the culture of his
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Following proper process never wrong Well, well, well, it’s going to be an interesting run to the finish. The hopefuls for District of Sooke council are starting to line up. Two contenders for mayor so far, Maja Tait and Herb Haldane, and our guess is there will be at least one other, if not two. At Monday night’s council meeting, it was obvious that the councillors were all vying for a little air time, explaining their rationale for voting the way they did. It is, after all, election time. Three councillors who voted in opposition to a motion put forth by the mayor regarding an illegal waste transfer station stated that it was all about their interpretation of the definitions in the zoning bylaws. The point is, this business is operating “illegally” under our bylaws and OCP without having gone through the proper process. It isn’t as though they can’t have a transfer station, it is how they went about it and who approved it. Those who championed the cause for allowing the waste transfer station to open essentially condoned an “illegal” operation contrary to the OCP and zoning bylaws. They went against the mayor’s prior decision on the matter. Explaining it away as ambiguous doesn’t cut it. The proponent, and anyone else for that matter, can go through the proper channels and get their business up and running... but it will cost, just as it does for anyone wanting to rezone. The other part of this fiasco is those people who had their properties rezoned without any consideration or prior notice. To make it easy for one business to operate and the heck with the rest is not the way to do business in Sooke. The mayor and a couple of councillors know this, the rest don’t seem to get it. You can’t blame this type of decision on lack of definitions. The last time we looked, illegal still means: not according to or authorized by law.
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Factory model fading for schools B.C. Views The B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s latest demand, for binding arbitration on selected pocketbook issues of its members, is going nowhere. This follows months of the union’s insistence on mediation. First a B.C. Supreme Court judge met with both sides and walked away. Then the BCTF’s preferred choice, Vince Ready, agreed that mediation won’t fix the current version of the mess he last examined in 2007. BCTF president Jim Iker announced the arbitration gambit on Friday, in one of the webcasts he uses to rally the union’s exhausted membership. Education Minister Peter Fassbender replied that with five minutes’ notice to the government’s chief negotiator and lacking specifics on what would be subject to arbitration, the proposal would forfeit the government’s mandate to control costs. “This government will not raise taxes in order to provide a settlement to one union that does not reflect what the other public sector has done,” Fassbender said. In short, there will be a negotiated settlement, eventually. The union chose to begin the strike, and now must find a way to end it. The government’s position in this dispute is unlike any of the many that preceded it. And it points the way to an evolution of education that cannot be stopped.
The announcement of a $40-aday payment for days lost during a fall strike for children under 13 was greeted with scorn by the BCTF and its echo chambers. Parents won’t be bribed, they want school, not daycare, it’s an insult, went the refrain. Before the first week of the fall strike was over, nearly two thirds of eligible parents had enrolled, faced with pickets at their schools and real and mounting child care and tutoring costs. The union executive, collecting their hefty salaries while teachers do without even token strike pay, said members who are parents should refuse the money. Some B.C. teachers have begun advertising tutoring services online. With distance learning and other online education options expanding in all 60 public school districts, the digital revolution is unfolding quickly. The B.C. government made a couple of announcements in April, one about moving to digital versions of textbooks and another about a digital merger of 1,600 school libraries with public and post-secondary schools. Growth of options accelerates. Largely drowned out by the noise of 1970s-style industrial labour strife, the B.C. public school curriculum is being refashioned for this new age. Among its goals is to “allow teachers and students the flexibility to personalize their learning experience to better meet each student’s
individual strengths and needs.” One of B.C.’s early models for selfdirected learning is Thomas Haney secondary in Maple Ridge, where senior high students are expected to make their own way through course work, learning to manage their own time. It was here that the first couple of Grade 12 students showed up last week to begin making up for lost time from the strike that set in last spring. Self-directed study has become a crash course. Private schools are also swamped with applications from Grade 12 students looking for particular courses they will need by next year. In the short term, Fassbender says the lost strike days will likely have to be restored to the school schedule. “Do you put it on at the end of the year? Do you take it out of spring break? Do you take it out of Christmas holidays? My staff are looking at all of the options,” Fassbender said. In the longer term, the whole factory model of school is on the way out. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@ blackpress.ca
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We (Kids Quest) have had to move three times out of schools. Not every parent can access child care.
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Clean up Flea Beach Residents of Shirley were recently informed a large bear has a den on the Flea Beach property, yards from where people picnic, walk dogs, kayak, fish and enjoy the ocean. A bear. The time has come to remove unwanted and dangerous trees, repair the road and add some benches. It’s time to change the property from a hazard to a people place. Flea Beach should be managed for the pleasure and safety of all. The Sheringham Point Lighthouse Preservation Society has “stewardship” of this property. If they do not wish to properly manage this land then they should delegate the job to those who will. Dan Adams Shirley
Combine uses in building While the August 27, 2014 Sooke news Mirror editorial correctly questions the measurable value of our district’s contribution to the boat launch/ hotel boondoggle, what really needs to be addressed today is the need for our district officials to execute the timely and value-based acquisition of assets that will ensure future recreational opportunities for Sooke residents, from toddlers
Well, I have a 13 1/2 -year-old and there’s no day care subsidy. I’m fearful the whole education system is going down. Kids are our future I want them to work it out spend the money on education instead of lawyers..
I support the teachers but thinkk they should have come to a resolution a long time ago. My kids are really missing school, they’re in Grades 1 and 2. It’s hard on families.
It's not right. I now have two young kids and it makes me worried for the future for sure.
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to seniors. Our population has long relied on the goodwill of the fine people of the Sooke Community Association for the provision of sporting fields and meeting spaces, and those among us who have volunteered with the various sports clubs or service groups know full well just how important this intertwined relationship with the SCA is, as it has spawned generation after generation of volunteers in our community. Alas, it would be hard to find a single volunteer among that army who would counter the observation that our fields and facilities are, despite how proud we are of them, nearing the end of their life cycle and barely able to keep pace with the demands of a growing population. Much has changed in the decades since these fields and buildings were built. Traffic and roads have and will continue to have an impact on softball field use, field quality will slowly erode, and the demographic of the typical family will put greater stress and strain on the demand of volunteers to maintain these recreational assets. The shift toward higher density housing limits opportunity for many children to experience throwing a ball in the back yard or practicing soccer drills. The provision of recre-
ational field surfaces, as a part of wise community planning and growth, is an elemental necessity for our town. To hear that council is advancing a community referendum on bylaw 603 should put a smile on the face of all of us in Sooke, and must have us all asking what more can we do to help with the recreation needs of old and young alike. Our town is long overdue – and I mean long if anybody in Victoria or Ottawa is reading this – for an infusion of significant infrastructure funding. I am not shy to suggest that an integrated facility of ball fields and soccer fields should be anchored by an indoor artificial turf field house with an attached community centre. Seniors would be able to use such a facility for virtually any activity under the sun with the benefit of indoor sport provision during foul weather. Parents would know that soccer or ball practices would carry on as scheduled regardless of weather. Exhibitions and groups could gather and socialize, bringing folks in our community together for many causes. This is an attainable goal that many communities in British Columbia have successfully completed. If it seems a little lofty, then you know exactly how the pioneers in our
community felt when they first gave consideration to our community hall many years ago. It is now our turn to step up to the plate and work hard for this cause. Chris Bryant Sooke
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Kudos must be given to the Sooke RCMP who attended the Sooke River Campground on Saturday night (August 30). The camp hosts required RCMP assistance in persuading a large group that unruly inebriation, foul language and loud noise was inconsiderate towards other campers and families. It is reassuring that the RCMP gave support in such a difficult situation and we able to resolve the matter. I feel that the camp hosts handled this incident in a professional, calm and expedient manner. They set a boundary and when that was grossly overstepped by those involves, the hosts did the right thing by calling the police who attended promptly. It is encouraging to know that families staying at the Sooke River Campground are in such good care. Bruce Coleman Sooke
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Wind power is viable Mr. Kitt is correct: it’s high time Canada had a fact-based debate on energy. Fact: Wind energy is more than viable today – it is one of the lowest cost options we have for new generation. The productivity of wind turbines has increased significantly over the last five years, even as the cost of turbines has dropped by almost 30 per cent. BC Hydro recently reassessed the cost of wind energy in B.C., and found that it accounted for the bulk of B.C.’s lowest-cost renewable generation options – cheaper than run of river hydro, and even large hydro projects like Site C assuming equivalent financing costs. Moreover, wind provides long-term price stability, whereas fossil fuel generation is subject to rising fuel and carbon emission (or pollution control) costs. Fact: Ontario Independent System Operator’s (IESO) 2013
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Notes from a concerned parent, teacher, and taxpayer. I guess we won’t be going back to class on Tuesday. Thought there might be a chance over the weekend. The latest pundits seem to think that this could go on for at least a couple of weeks or
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more. I don’t know. However, I look at this $40 a day credit to parents who will need some kind of child care in the interim with much interest. Parents are between a rock and a hard place, so is public education. For example, 30 students in my Grade 7 class times $40 a day equals $1,200 a day available to parents. Now, project that over a two week period (10 days) equals $12,000. There are 10 Grade 6 - 7 classes in our school equals $120,000, just for our middle school. Now, if you project that through the public school students that are 12 yrs. and under, approx. 250,000 students (conservative estimate), that works out to about $100,000,000 for two weeks child care. Since the government is willing to put those kinds of funds into something other than the public school system, I would suggest that our government of the day has trouble with math, allocation of public funds, or just plain
has an ethical problem funding public schools. If the government of the day can earmark that kind of money to keep students out of school, then why can’t they earmark that kind of money to help settle this mess? I wouldn’t mind being funded to operate my classroom on a $40 per day per diem for 30 students. I have had classes of 34 with no EA’s or specialized help. So, go figure. Richard Hopkins, teacher Shirley
Why change wording? Why do you suppose the Inspector of Municipalities ordered council to remove the “renovation” phrase from the original bylaw authorizing the district to borrow up to $1.5-million “to construct new or renovate existing community facilities.” (Sooke News Mirror, August 27, 2014)? Presumably because council never has any intention of sprucing up our existing and more-than-
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GROCERY GROCERY SAVINGS SAVINGS
BUTCHER’S BLOCK
SunRype Pure or Blended
Juice Butt Steak
2
5.93/kg
5
2 49 2 49 7 99 9
6.59/kg ..............................
Fresh
Ground Pork
5.49/kg .................................
Olivieri
Pasta Family Pack
600-700g All Varieties ..........
Jane's Frozen
Chicken Strips, Nuggets or Burgers
800g................................
/lb
/lb
ea
ea
Burger Patties
4 19 2 99 3 99 3 49 /lb
9.90/kg ...............................
Maple Lodge Chicken
Bologna or Wieners
ea
375-450g ...............................
Olivieri
Pasta Sauce
ea
160-300g All Varieties .........
Smokehouse Regular or Maple
Sliced Bacon 500g ..................................
400 mL
Shake 'N Bake
Sockeye Fillets
2
49 /100g
Salmon Nuggets
113-192g All Varieties .............
All Varieties ...........
2
99 /100g
1
99 /100g
Old El Paso
5
Refried Beans
400g ...........................
4
Gold Seal No Drain Flaked or Solid White
329 ea
Stagg
Tuna
3x85-100g ....................
ea
Lee Kum Kee
Chili Con Carne Soy Sauce 425g All Varieties .....
5
2/ 00
+dep
4
3L
500 mL .................
3
2/ 00
Red Licorice 504g ..........................
2
29 ea
ea
219 ea
Bread
600g .....................
156 mL ....................
Bread
680g .....................
69¢ ea
Bagels
6's ........................
6
2/ 00
550g All Varieties .........
489 ea
BULK Chocolate FOODS Malt
Balls ............
1
19 /100g
3
Peanuts ............................
4
2/ 00
5
8x355 mL ...................
5
4's ............................
Paper 79 Towels
3
+dep
5
156g All Varieties ......
59
¢
3
/100g
Treat Mix .........................................
2's ...............................
199 ea
Soap Pads 10's .......................
3
2/ 00
Dishwashing ¢ Liquid 2/ 00 ea
69
740 mL ..................
3
Del Monte
2/ 00 Deluxe
ea
Granny's
Fruit Cups
Broth 900 mL
99¢
SOS
Campbell's Vegetable, Beef or Chicken
ea
Cantaloupe
White Swan Jumbo
4/ 00
Dog Food ea
5
Mountain Dew
85g All Varieties ....
California
99
¢
/100g
4x112 mL All Varieties
B.C. Grown
4/ 00
Bathroom
Code Red, Supernova or White Out
Cat Food
10 lbs
ea
79 Tissue ea
Mighty Dog
389
2
29
Royale Regular
Whiskas Temptations
2/ 00
500g ..........................
99
Honey or Dry Roasted
Brockmans
180g ...........................
Hot Chocolate
Salad Dressing 890 mL All Varieties
5
Cadbury
Cookies
425g All Varieties
ea
Canadian 2/ 00 Truffles
Dempster's Cinnamon Raisin
Tomato Paste
2
2/ 00
Pasta in Sauce
99
650 mL All Varieties
7
Ronzoni
Chef Boyardee
Picante Sauce
Lumberjack 7 Grain, Rustic Trail or Wheatberry
945 mL .......................
650 mL All Varieties
Old El Paso Salsa or
99
Kraft Miracle Whip
Tortilla Chips
89
284 mL
Dempster's Signature White or 100% Whole Wheat
Dads
Doritos
245g All Varieties
Oil
Heinz
499
ea
ea
Pasta Sauce
ea
Vegetable
Juice
2/ 00
3
¢
Unico
Realemon
+dep 398 mL All Varieties .
Crumbs
5
500 mL .................
Christie Honeymaid
Previously Frozen
Shrimp
4
4/ 00
Wafers or
2
455 mL
Twizzlers Bonus Pack
Balsamic 2/ 00 Vinegar 2/ 00
Sports Drink 710 mL
3
La Molisana
Gatorade
ea
Cooked
ea
Russet Potatoes
Mushrooms
19
ea
2/ 00
1L All Varieties
390-500g Selected Varieties
Money's Pieces & Stems
BBQ Sauce
Pineapple Juice
Coating Mix
SEA
Smoked
3
Kraft
Dole
99
Treats from the Fresh
300 mL
Steak Sauce
Fresh Beef
99
3
B.C. Grown
+dep
49
2/ 00
General Mills
99
Condensed Milk
Tortilla Chips
/lb
HP
Butt Roast
Eagle
Old Dutch Restaurante
250-320g All Varieties
Fresh Pork Shoulder
5
PRODUCE
Cheerios
900 mL All Varieties
4/ 00
69
Fresh Pork Shoulder
5-A-Day for Optimum Health
2
49
/lb
Dole California
B.C. Grown NEW CROP
Celery 1.52/Kg
69
1.74/kg .................................
/lb
69
2/ 00
/lb
B.C. Grown
Campari Tomatoes
Bartlett Pears
Bunch Beets
1.52/kg
4
69
/lb
6 oz
69
/100g
6
Washington
Baby Peeled
Carrots 1lb
2
3
¢ 2/ 00 2/ 50
Raspberries
¢
5
bunch
California Organic
ea
¢
B.C. Grown
2/ 00
Taylor Farms
3's
B.C. Grown
1 lb Clamshell
/lb
Apples 1.52/kg
¢
79
¢
Romaine Hearts
Macintosh
ORGANIC CORNER
29
Sultana Raisins .............................
1.08/kg.............................
¢
Peaches
2/ 00
Organic
Avocados 3's
6
2/ 00
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• 13
Come in Every Wednesday for our
Secret Super Saver Specials”
“
in all departments
Stock Up Your Pantry
Fresh For Your Family
GROCERY GROCERY SAVINGS SAVINGS
BUTCHER’S BLOCK
SunRype Pure or Blended
Juice Butt Steak
2
5.93/kg
5
2 49 2 49 7 99 9
6.59/kg ..............................
Fresh
Ground Pork
5.49/kg .................................
Olivieri
Pasta Family Pack
600-700g All Varieties ..........
Jane's Frozen
Chicken Strips, Nuggets or Burgers
800g................................
/lb
/lb
ea
ea
Burger Patties
4 19 2 99 3 99 3 49 /lb
9.90/kg ...............................
Maple Lodge Chicken
Bologna or Wieners
ea
375-450g ...............................
Olivieri
Pasta Sauce
ea
160-300g All Varieties .........
Smokehouse Regular or Maple
Sliced Bacon 500g ..................................
400 mL
Shake 'N Bake
Sockeye Fillets
2
49 /100g
Salmon Nuggets
113-192g All Varieties .............
All Varieties ...........
2
99 /100g
1
99 /100g
Old El Paso
5
Refried Beans
400g ...........................
4
Gold Seal No Drain Flaked or Solid White
329 ea
Stagg
Tuna
3x85-100g ....................
ea
Lee Kum Kee
Chili Con Carne Soy Sauce 425g All Varieties .....
5
2/ 00
+dep
4
3L
500 mL .................
3
2/ 00
Red Licorice 504g ..........................
2
29 ea
ea
219 ea
Bread
600g .....................
156 mL ....................
Bread
680g .....................
69¢ ea
Bagels
6's ........................
6
2/ 00
550g All Varieties .........
489 ea
BULK Chocolate FOODS Malt
Balls ............
1
19 /100g
3
Peanuts ............................
4
2/ 00
5
8x355 mL ...................
5
4's ............................
Paper 79 Towels
3
+dep
5
156g All Varieties ......
59
¢
3
/100g
Treat Mix .........................................
2's ...............................
199 ea
Soap Pads 10's .......................
3
2/ 00
Dishwashing ¢ Liquid 2/ 00 ea
69
740 mL ..................
3
Del Monte
2/ 00 Deluxe
ea
Granny's
Fruit Cups
Broth 900 mL
99¢
SOS
Campbell's Vegetable, Beef or Chicken
ea
Cantaloupe
White Swan Jumbo
4/ 00
Dog Food ea
5
Mountain Dew
85g All Varieties ....
California
99
¢
/100g
4x112 mL All Varieties
B.C. Grown
4/ 00
Bathroom
Code Red, Supernova or White Out
Cat Food
10 lbs
ea
79 Tissue ea
Mighty Dog
389
2
29
Royale Regular
Whiskas Temptations
2/ 00
500g ..........................
99
Honey or Dry Roasted
Brockmans
180g ...........................
Hot Chocolate
Salad Dressing 890 mL All Varieties
5
Cadbury
Cookies
425g All Varieties
ea
Canadian 2/ 00 Truffles
Dempster's Cinnamon Raisin
Tomato Paste
2
2/ 00
Pasta in Sauce
99
650 mL All Varieties
7
Ronzoni
Chef Boyardee
Picante Sauce
Lumberjack 7 Grain, Rustic Trail or Wheatberry
945 mL .......................
650 mL All Varieties
Old El Paso Salsa or
99
Kraft Miracle Whip
Tortilla Chips
89
284 mL
Dempster's Signature White or 100% Whole Wheat
Dads
Doritos
245g All Varieties
Oil
Heinz
499
ea
ea
Pasta Sauce
ea
Vegetable
Juice
2/ 00
3
¢
Unico
Realemon
+dep 398 mL All Varieties .
Crumbs
5
500 mL .................
Christie Honeymaid
Previously Frozen
Shrimp
4
4/ 00
Wafers or
2
455 mL
Twizzlers Bonus Pack
Balsamic 2/ 00 Vinegar 2/ 00
Sports Drink 710 mL
3
La Molisana
Gatorade
ea
Cooked
ea
Russet Potatoes
Mushrooms
19
ea
2/ 00
1L All Varieties
390-500g Selected Varieties
Money's Pieces & Stems
BBQ Sauce
Pineapple Juice
Coating Mix
SEA
Smoked
3
Kraft
Dole
99
Treats from the Fresh
300 mL
Steak Sauce
Fresh Beef
99
3
B.C. Grown
+dep
49
2/ 00
General Mills
99
Condensed Milk
Tortilla Chips
/lb
HP
Butt Roast
Eagle
Old Dutch Restaurante
250-320g All Varieties
Fresh Pork Shoulder
5
PRODUCE
Cheerios
900 mL All Varieties
4/ 00
69
Fresh Pork Shoulder
5-A-Day for Optimum Health
2
49
/lb
Dole California
B.C. Grown NEW CROP
Celery 1.52/Kg
69
1.74/kg .................................
/lb
69
2/ 00
/lb
B.C. Grown
Campari Tomatoes
Bartlett Pears
Bunch Beets
1.52/kg
4
69
/lb
6 oz
69
/100g
6
Washington
Baby Peeled
Carrots 1lb
2
3
¢ 2/ 00 2/ 50
Raspberries
¢
5
bunch
California Organic
ea
¢
B.C. Grown
2/ 00
Taylor Farms
3's
B.C. Grown
1 lb Clamshell
/lb
Apples 1.52/kg
¢
79
¢
Romaine Hearts
Macintosh
ORGANIC CORNER
29
Sultana Raisins .............................
1.08/kg.............................
¢
Peaches
2/ 00
Organic
Avocados 3's
6
2/ 00
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Quality and Convenience
Remember Your Calcium
McCain
FROZEN
French Fries
Dr. Oetker Ristorante Thin Crust
299 ¢ 79 469 99 4 ea
900g 4 Varieties ...........
Pizzas
Minute Maid
Fruit Punch
325-390g All Varieties
295 mL All Varieties
Europe's Best
Fruit or Berries
8
2/ 00
ea
DAIRY
All Varieties
450g ..........................
Kraft
500g
All Varieties 355 mL ..........
2
99
ea
520 mL
1 99 6 69 1
2/ 00 +dep
Toilet Tissue
Coconut Water
3
12 pack ...................
2/ 00
ea
Annie's .......................All Varieties
Macaroni
& Cheese
+dep
Meals 170g...........
Quality and Convenience
ea
Lundberg Non GMO
Rice Chips All Varieties
5 749 2/300
2/ 00
170g ..............
Nuts to You
Cashew Butter
500g .........................
ea
Go Nuts Mix Theobrama Organic Fair Trade
Chocolate Bars 80g ..................................................................
7
99 ea
LANGFORD 772 Goldstream Ave. Open 7 Days a Week 7:30 am to 10:00 pm
We reserve the right to limit quantities
Potato Chips
L'Ancetre Mild, Medium or Old
Organic Cheddar
200g .........................................................................
Ziggey Marley's Organic
Coconut Oil
397g .........................................................................
3 29 2 ¢ 69 79 ea
113g All Varieties .......
Instant Noodles
7 99 3 2/ 00 5 99 4 699
150g .........................................................................
284g
Kettle Bakes Baked
45g All Varieties .....
Prana Organic Amandine or
Coffee
ea
454g .....................
1.89L All Varieties ....
10g ................
Seaweed Snacks
225g .........................................................................
Ground
Almond Breeze
Thai Kitchen
Breakfast Cereal
Kicking Horse Organic Fair Trade
Margarine
ea
Blue Diamond Fresh
Annie Chun's Roasted
Holy Crap or Skinny B
ORGANIC
ea
340g All Varieties ........
Capri
NATURAL FROZEN
Caboo Bamboo Sugarcane
C20 Pure
ea
Kraft
NATURAL FOODS Sodas
ea
Cottage Cheese
For Your Healthy Lifestyle
Zevia
449 Cheez 49 Whiz 5 Cheese 99 Shreds 5 ¢ 89
2L 4 Varieties
Island Farms Country Cream
Ice Cream 1.65L All Varieties .......
Organic Milk
Island Farms
ea
600g ..........................
Natrel
49 ea
ea
ea
Vij's Frozen
Curry
Entrées All Varieties 300g .............
So Delicious Coconut Milk
6
99 ea
Mini
Sandwiches
4
99
8x68 mL ........
ea
GLUTEN FREE OPTIONS
ea
Annie's Gluten Free
Rice Pasta & Cheddar Meals 170g .................
5
2/ 00
ea
ea
Your Community Food Store Locally owned and operated since 1974
AD PRICES IN EFFECT SEPTEMBER 10 THRU 16, 2014
Betty Crocker Gluten Free
Brownie or Cookie Mix 454-539g ....................
4
49 ea
SOOKE
6660 Sooke Road Open 7 Days a Week 7:30 am to 10:00 pm
We reserve the right to limit quantities
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Cont’d from page 15 adequate community hall, but hopes the suggestion might attract favorable votes from those who believed the $1.5-million was only intended, as Ellen Lewers writes int he same Sooke News Mirror, to answer “the call of a few, from some special interest groups.” Yet even after the Inspector of Municipalities threw out the misleading wording, showing that the $1.5-million is entirely to be for “purchasing property, design and construction of a (new) building” (Sooke News Mirror August 27, 2014), Acting Mayor Maja Tait maintains that “construction” includes “renovation.” This defies logic, all the various meanings of “construction” in the dictionary, and the “intent” of the inspector. Ms. Tait’s claim that the “intent behind the previous wording” is still in place, therefore, only continues the ploy to influence voters. What’s your “intent” when it come time to vote on this boondoggle? Dick Momsen Sooke
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Seniors’ votes will count
Re: letter from Herb Haldane Wed. Aug. 27, Sooke News Mirror. It was with great sadness and disappointment I read again (for the third time) in the newpapers how he has no empathy or understanding of the needs of the seniors and youth of Sooke. In his opinion, they are wanting for nothing, but rather the middle class is without. I am surprised he knows so little of the financial means of a great number of the seniors in Sooke. Many are widows who with their husbands helped settle Sooke. They were never employed outside the home themselves, and have no income from pensions except for the old age pension. They have never contributed to or receive benefits from CPP. Further, many are alone, with no family, and if not for a place to gather socially would
never get out of their homes. They need and deserve a place to spend time in a social atmosphere, both for their physical and mental wellbeing. The seniors have been actively looking for a permanent home, one that could be shared by others with the same needs. We shared space with the youth before we lost our permanent home in 2010, and it was a very satisfiying relationship on both sides. I know there are far more seniors who get out and vote than young people. I urge both the seniors and young of Sooke to get out and vote in November, say YES to the referendum, we will have the same naysayers that did not support SEAPARC but what a boon to our community that has proven to be. And remember, Mr. Haldane does not appear to be interested in supporting our seniors or our youth. Carol Pinalski President Sooke Senior Drop in Center
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Sooke Centre by the Kiosk
Saturday, Sept. 13
Centre by the Kiosk Foods InSooke front of Western
I would like to say in front of Western Foods thank you to all the wonderful people who assisted me on the morning of Sunday, August 31 at Whiffin Spit. My dog would have drowned had it not been for the kindness Bouncy of all the individuals involved. While out Fire Truck! walking, Dexter got distracted and wanted to Popcorn! play with a family of otters near the shore. Bake Sale! No matter the incentive I could not get him to come back, in French fact he continued to Fries! follow out the mother whose intention was to Come Join get him away from her babies. After some time the Fun! and a lot of panic on my part, a gentlemen retrieved his boat and went out after him. In addition a lovely couple kept watch over my other dog and Sooke politicians, local fun locke Sooke policians, local celebs & fun celebs cizensand are geng stayed for the duration citizens areand getting up! when he finally came to up. Come bail them out join inlocked the fesvies. All funds shore. Dexter came to Come bail them out and join in the our family as a rescue raised support our local Cops for Cancer / Tour de Rock Ride after our dog passed festivities. All funds raised support away from cancer. Watching from shore Staff Sergeant Steve Wright.de Rock our local Cops For Cancer/Tour and feeling helpless at
JAIL-A-THON JAIL-A-THON Bouncy Fire Truck! Popcorn!
Bake Sale!
French Fries!
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Rider, Staff Sergeant Steve Wright.
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Building electric fencing workshop, Sept. 19 Chickens attracted a family unit of three bears to a rural home near Sooke. Before their introduction to humans and human foods they were probably living a wild life accessing all sorts of wild foods with a healthy respect for humans and an understanding of the danger that the humans posed to the bears. When the sow discovered the chickens, they stopped by for a feed. “Three bears have been destroyed this season, just in this neighborhood,” said Debbie Read of WildSafeBC, “And if we don’t take precautions to set up electric fencing around our chickens more destruction are likely to follow. “It is frustrating that people don’t understand that it is not the Conservation Officer’s fault that bears are being destroyed, but instead, it is our own fault for creating the unsafe situation in the first place. Read went on to ask people to, “Keep your garbage secure, pick your fruit and keep the ground clear of windfalls, put away the bird feeders until the winter, and use electric fencing to protect your chick-
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ens, bees or other small livestock.” Since some people are new to the process of setting electric fences up, Read has arranged for a workshop on the subject for September 19 at 10 a.m. at the Sooke Region Museum, corner of Sooke Road and Phillips Road. WildSafe BC Provincial Coordinator, Frank Ritcey, will teach
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Community
Calendar Thurs Sep 11
Fri Sep 12
ADULT WALKING GROUP
VITAL VITTLES
SEAPARC. 10-11 a.m. Registration required. 250-642-8000. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Cribbage 7 p.m.
Free lunch, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Holy Trinity Church. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Steak Night, 6-7:30 p.m. Karaoke with Pete & Megan 8-11 p.m. SOOKE SENIOR’S BUS Lunch and shopping trips to Victoria. Call Celia 250642-5828 for information.
Directory: Where to find what Child, Youth & Family Centre: 2145 Townsend Rd Family Medical Clinic: 1300-6660 Sooke Rd Holy Trinity Church: 1952 Murray Rd Knox Presbyterian Church: 2110 Church Rd Legion #54: 6726 Eustace Rd Library: 2065 Anna Marie Rd Museum: 2070 Phillips Rd Peoples Drug Mart: 8-6716 Sooke Rd SEAPARC: 2168 Phillips Rd St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church: 2191 Townsend Rd Village Foods: Right smack downtown, you can’t miss it Sooke Senior’s Bus: $15 annual membership. 250-642-4662
Sat Sep 13ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
Meat draw 3 p.m. JAILATHON 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Evergreen Centre. Cops for Cancer fundraiser. JUNIOR A HOCKEY Grizzlies vs Cowichan Valley Capitals, 4 p.m. SEAPARC JOHNNY VALLIS Sooke Legion dinner show, dinner at 6 p.m. show 7-9 p.m. Tickets at the bar. GARAGE SALE St. Rose of Lima, 2191 Townsend Rd, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Something for everyone.
Sun Sep 14
Mon Sep 15
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
PARENT & TOT DROP-IN
Sunday breakfast brunch, 9-12:30 p.m., $5, kids welcome. Blue Grass Music, 2:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. SOOKE SENIOR’S BUS Dinner at a Restaurant. Call Kay 250-642-1521 for info. TRANSITION TOWN CAFE At the Reading Room Cafe downtown Sooke at the Evergreen Mall. This is a free event. Drop by between 2-4 p.m. CORN BOIL Everyone welcome, 3 p.m. No charge, 6255 Sooke Rd. JdF Seventh Day Adventist.
Tues Sep 16BABY
Child, Youth, & Family Centre, 9:30-11. 250 642-5152. CALLING ALL QUILTERS Knox Pres. Church. All welcome. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Call 250-642-0789 for info. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Euchre 6:30 p.m. SOOKE SENIOR’S BUS Ayre Manor Residents trips. MAMMOGRAPHY Ongoing to September 18 at Sooke Health Unit. Call 1-800-663-9203 for appt. Ongoing exhibit of flowline project at Charters River Salmon Interpretive Centre. 2895 Sooke River Rd. 250-642-4200.
All Community events which purchase a display ad will appear in our current community event calendar at no charge. FREE EVENTS will be listed at no charge, space permitting.
TALK
Infant development: Gross and fine motor skills. At the Child, Youth and Family Centre, from 1011:30 a.m. ADULT WALKING GROUP SEAPARC. 10-11 a.m. Registration required. Info 250-642-8000.
Wed Sep 17 PEOPLE’S WALKING GROUP
People’s Drug Mart hosts a walking club, 9:15 a.m. PARENT DISCUSSION GROUP Sooke Child, Youth, and Family Centre, 9:30-11:00 a.m. (250) 642-5152 for info. FREE ARTS AND CRAFTS Sooke Library. 4 - 8 p.m. YOUTH CLINIC All ages, no registration Ages 13 - 25, 4-7 p.m. required. Family Medical Clinic. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION KNITTING CIRCLE Dominos 10 a.m. Sooke Library, 6:30–8:00 Shuffleboard, 6:30 p.m. p.m. Free, all levels. Drop- NASCAR 7 p.m. in. 250-642-3022. COMMUNITY CHOIR WOMAN’S CANCER SUPPORT Holy Trinity Church, Meeting, Sooke Harbour register 6:30 p.m., sing House, Potlatch Room at 7 p.m. 7-9 p.m. Phone Mary PUBLIC ADVISORY PANEL 250-646-2554 or Phoebe 7 p.m. at the Prestige. 250-642-4342 Info 250-642-1634.
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something goes in to a Supreme Court decision that that decision is binding on both parties? I am somewhat baffled, the Supreme Court decision is now being negotiated after
the fact by the government of the day and that our children will not be going back to school? So, do we then teach our children that as long as you are gov-
ernment, you can or not accept a Supreme Court decision? What is the government teaching our children? Get our children back to school. Trudy Spiller
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Capital Regional District Notice of Nomination for the Election from the Sub-Regions of East Sooke, Malahat, Otter Point, Port Renfrew, Shirley/Jordan River & Willis Point to the
Juan de Fuca Land Use Committee
Map showing concerns expressed by William Slim letter, “Connector dangerous.” the thought of losing another pet so soon was unbearable and we are so fortunate for this outcome. It really makes me appreciate even more, being a part of such a wonderful community like Sooke. Beyond grateful, The Rogers family Sooke
Connector dangerous A dangerous condition now exists at the intersection of Townsend Road and the newly constructed road, Wadams Way. A driver of a vehicle approaching Wadams Way along Townsend Road from the south has his/her vision restricted of approaching pedestrians/traffic from the east on Wadams Way. Prior to the paving of the trail along Wadams Way the owners of private residential lot
number 2127 (on the town pdf map) piled up large boulders parallel with the new paved trail on the south side of Wadams Way. Approximately three feet high, the boulders obstruct a driver’s view to the east towards any approaching pedestrians/traffic on Wadams Way. In addition to, and part of, this blocked view is bush on the property paralleling Townsend Road which also blocks the view to the east. A driver in a small low riding car must creep past the stop line into the intersection to obtain a view of any oncoming traffic from the east. Also, the stop sign is obscured by this bush on property 2127. And, finally, I have observed a driver totally ignoring the newly installed stop signs on Townsend Road by driving
straight through without even slowing his speed... enforcement please. Please refer to the attached map taken from your pdf map and enhanced to indicate the position of the intersection view block. William Slim Sooke
Get our kids back to school My name is Trudy Spiller, I am a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. I am currently raising my great niece and grandson who should be going in to Grades 3 and 4 this year. I am very disappointed that the B.C. Liberal Government and teachers have walked away from the negotiating table. We live in a democracy where we should believe that when
Public notice is hereby given to electors in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area that nominations for the election of nominees to the Juan de Fuca Land Use Committee from the sub-regions of East Sooke, Malahat, Otter Point, Port Renfrew, Shirley/Jordan River and Willis Point (as shown on the map below), for consideration for appointment by the Regional Board, will be received by a person designated by the Chief Election Officer at the Capital Regional District (CRD), Legislative and Information Services, 5th floor, 625 Fisgard Street, Victoria, BC, between the hours of 9am on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 and 4pm on Friday, October 10, 2014, excluding statutory holidays. Should anyone wish to file nomination documents other than during regular office hours, 8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday – Friday, arrangements may be made beforehand by calling the Chief Election Officer at 250.472.0059. Six members of the Juan de Fuca Land Use Committee, one from each of the subregions of East Sooke, Malahat, Otter Point, Port Renfrew, Shirley/Jordan River and Willis Point, will serve as members from the time of appointment by the Regional Board until December 31, 2018. Please note that this is now a four (4) year term. The mode of nomination of candidates shall be as follows: Candidates shall be Resident Electors of the respective sub-region areas nominated in writing by two duly qualified electors of the said area. The nomination documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to sufficiently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the candidate. No Advisory Planning Commission member within the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area is eligible to be appointed as a member of the Land Use Committee. Copies of all forms are available at the following CRD offices: •
Legislative and Information Services, 625 Fisgard St., Victoria, BC, Tel. 250.360.3127, or toll free 1-800663-4425, local 3127 for Port Renfrew residents
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Juan de Fuca Planning & Building Inspection, #3-7450 Butler Road, Sooke, BC, Tel. 250.642.1500
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If more than one person is nominated, in each of the six sub-regions listed above, at the end of the nomination period at 4pm on Friday, October 10, 2014, an Election by Voting shall be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014, between the hours of 8am and 8pm. Those persons eligible to vote at the election will be the electors, as defined under the Local Government Act, of the respective sub-region areas. Dated this 10th day of September 2014 Thomas F. Moore Chief Election Officer
TOUR DE ROCK: Sept 20 – Oct 3 copsforcancerbc.ca Dinner & Silent Auction at the Six Mile Pub - Wednesday, September 10th Join us at 6:00pm for dinner (3 special menu choices) and a silent auction. Items include Canuck tickets, a stay at the Pan Pacific hotel in Vancouver, BC Ferry passes, Prestige Hotel accommodation, Whiskey Point Lodge, Fairways Market gift cards, Pagliacci’s and more! Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by emailing dnj@shaw.ca, or at the door. Sooke Jailathon – Saturday, September 13th Prominent members of the community will be arrested and appear before the “Judge” before being thrown in “jail”. Lots of fun, food and sunshine. Bouncy fire truck, cotton candy, popcorn, hot dogs, french fries, all by donation. For more information contact Jane Beddows at Jane jbeds@shaw.ca or 250.642.3378. 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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Get ready to jamboree! Musicians welcome Jams will lead to jamboree Pirjo Raits
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Get out your fiddle, dust off your guitar and come out and play. Eric Day is inviting musicians out to a jam on Saturday, September 27. “I’ve invited every musician I know to come to the jam,” said Day. The idea behind the jam is to have it turn into a jamboree where some of the jammers are picked to perform with the Aaron Murray Project and The Sooke River Boys later on in the evening. “If there’s a singer they can back up the musicians,” said Day. The jam is from 6 to 7:30 p.m., the jamboree is at 8 p.m. at the Sooke Legion. “I’ve never done this before,” said Day. “I’m going to try three of them — that’s the plan, and this is the first one.” The Aaron Murray Project plays East Coast flavoured Canadiana. Moncton, New Brunswick singer/songwriter/ guitar player Aaron Murray’s music reflects his folk-country roots. and his warm vocals transports the listener to the heart of Acadie. Guitarist and man-
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The Aaron Murray Project, left, will be performing at the first Jamboree on September 27. Eric Day, right is hosting the series of jams and jamborees. dolin player Murray comes with a whipcrack band that includes Aaron Ellingsen on fiddle, Alan Law on National resophonic guitar, Dave Klassen on upright bass, Larry Statland on rhythm guitar and Rodrigue Dechaine on Cajon and hand percussion. They will be joined by The Sooke River Boys who are: Eric Day, Ron Brown, Gerry from Sudbury, Brian Thompson, Steve Harrison and Mary Day. Most of the players with the Sooke River Boys play a lot of instruments. “Ron Brown plays everything,” said Day. “He’ll decide what to play when we all get together.” Gerry from Sudbury
also plays everything. He lives in Mill Bay and is a new boy in the area Brian Harrison also plays everything and also lives in Mill Bay. Steve Harrison, said Day plays banjo and guitar and Day met him when he started coming to the Vancouver Island Bluegrass Association. They performed together in Coombs this summer. They will be joined by Day’s wife Mary on bass. One of the reasons for holding these jams and jamborees is so money can be raised for a new stage at the Legion. Admission is by donation. For more information call Eric Day at 250-642-3553.
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Applications for Membership Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission The Capital Regional District (CRD) invites applications from residents interested in sitting on the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission to provide advice on parks and recreation in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area. East Sooke Otter Point Shirley/Jordan River Willis Point
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Where representation from the areas above cannot be achieved, a representative may be selected from the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area at large. Appointment will expire December 31, 2016. Meetings are held at 3:00 pm on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Juan de Fuca Local Area Services Building, 3-7450 Butler Road, Otter Point, BC. Send us a one-page summary telling about yourself, your area of knowledge and why you would like to volunteer on the Commission. Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, October 10, 2014. Mail, fax or email your application to: Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission 3-7450 Butler Road, Sooke, BC V9Z 1N1 E: jdfinfo@crd.bc.ca T: 250.642.8100 F: 250.642.5274
DISTRICT OF SOOKE NOTICE OF NOMINATION GENERAL LOCAL ELECTION 2014 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of the District of Sooke that nominations for the offices of Mayor and six (6) Councillors will be received at the offices of the District of Sooke, 2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke, BC between the hours of 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, the thirtieth (30th) day of September 2014 and 4:00 P.M. on Friday, the tenth (10th) day of October 2014 and during that period the nomination documents shall only be received on regular office days and hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Should anyone wish to file nomination documents in other than office hours, arrangements may be made by phoning the Deputy Chief Election Officer, Bonnie Sprinkling, at 250-642-1620 (or email 2014Election@sooke.ca) or the Chief Election Officer at (250)-472-0059. Nomination documents may be delivered by hand, mail or other delivery service to District of Sooke Municipal Hall, 2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke, BC, by fax to 250-642-0541, or by email to 2014Election@sooke.ca. Originals of faxed or emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief or Deputy Chief Election Officer by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, October 17, 2014. If the original nomination documents that were faxed or emailed are not received by the deadline, the person nominated is deemed to have withdrawn from being a candidate in the election. A Mayor and six (6) Councillors will be elected for a four (4) year term commencing December 2014 and terminating after the 2018 general local election in accordance with the Local Government Act. A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local government if they are a Canadian citizen, 18 years of age or older on general voting day November 15, 2014, a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed, and not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from being nominated for, being elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law. The mode of nomination of candidates shall be as follows: • Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly qualified electors of the District of Sooke. The nomination documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to sufficiently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the candidate. • At the time of filing the nomination documents, the candidate shall also file with the Chief Election Officer or a person designated by the Chief Election Officer a written disclosure, as required under the Financial Disclosure Act. Nomination documents and financial disclosure forms are available from August 22, 2014 to October 10, 2014. Forms can be obtained at the municipal hall located at 2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke, BC, by contacting the Deputy Chief Election Officer at 250-642-1620 or email 2014Election@sooke.ca or by contacting the Chief Election Officer at 250-472-0059. Given under my hand at Victoria, B.C. this 10th day of September, 2014. Thomas F. Moore, Chief Election Officer
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More letters who cause crashes do already pay more for their insurance and the proposed rate increase will have an even bigger impact on them. We are also always looking at ways to help reduce crashes and keep insurance cost as low as possible, including getting tougher on drivers who cause crashes. Mark Blucher President & CEO ICBC
Gravy train rolls on As I write this, government workers in the Ministry of Education, while on taxpayers’ payroll, are using Facebook to slam the BCTF. How is it that conservative governments in Ottawa and Victoria feel it’s their right to use taxpayers’ money to attack their political opponents and reward faithful party supporters and insiders - see Christy’s bridesmaid’s recently enhanced seat
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relatively minor injury claims). We agree there are indeed many distractions to us as drivers – both inside and outside the car – but the increase in serious distracted driving related crashes since 2009 is in direct correlation to the mass adoption of smartphones. Distracted driving is now the second leading cause of car crash fatalities in B.C., with an average of 88 people killed each year, and the leading cause of rear-end crashes which often result in injuries. The prevalence of distracted driving on our roads is also reflected in the fact that police have issued approximately 190,000 tickets for the use of an electronic device while driving since the law came into effect in 2010, showing it’s not just a small percentage of drivers who continue to demonstrate this dangerous driving behaviour. Of course, drivers
on the BC Liberal gravy train. No money for public schools? Just who is holding B.C. kids hostage? I wonder if those parents of public school students who voted for Christy or chose not to vote expected this mess. They should have. Even a quick glance at Christy’s and BC Liberal’s record the last dozen years indicated precisely what to expect. Sometimes people get the government they deserve... Others not so much. Ted Roberts Sooke
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RE: ICBC rate increases are unjustified, Sooke News Mirror, September 3, 2014 We understand no one likes the news of a rate increase and we don’t like to have to deliver that news but, the fact is, the cost of injury claims in B.C. continues to grow every year – currently at $1.9 billion a year, up by more than $500 million from just five years ago – and a rate increase is needed to cover these costs. There have been various factors contributing to the increasing number of injury claims in recent years and one of these can be clearly attributed to the rapidly increasing use of personal electronic devices behind the wheel (other factors include weather and road conditions, volume of pedestrians and cyclists and more
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The Victoria Grizzlies are coming to the Sooke
SEAPARC Arena Sept. 13 at 1 p.m. and game time is 4 p.m. All proceeds go to Sooke youth via the Rotary Club of Sooke and Sooke Minor Hockey. Tickets available at SEAPARC or preorder by phone at 250-6428000. Sooke Minor Hockey tournaments this year:
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SEAPARC Arena plays host to the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) teams final preseason game against the Cowichan Capitals and new head coach Brad Knight said despite being an exhibition, the team will be bringing their game faces against a heated rival. “This is our last preseason game before everything gets started so we are pretty excited,” said coach Brad Knight. “That game Sept. 13 will be our (full) roster so the fans that are going to pay for tickets are going to watch the players that are going to play they will get the best.” Knight, who replaces Craig Didmon who left the team in the off season following a crushing triple-overtime defeat to the Coquitlam Express in the third round of last year’s playoffs, said coming to Sooke has been on his radar for some time. “It has been a couple of years since we have been out there but it is an area where we get fans from, we see lots of fans coming from Sooke,” he said. “We
try to bring our game and the way we play to some of our fans and show some appreciation and that is what we are trying to do.” The event is a fundraiser for Sooke youth, put on by cohosts the Rotary Club of Sooke and Sooke Minor Hockey. Rotary has been organizing this event for nearly 20 years. “The Club’s main goal has always been to bring good quality hockey to Sooke, for an affordable night out for local families,” says John Bridal from Sooke Rotary. He adds “Partnering with Sooke Minor Hockey in the last few years has really helped make this a popular community event.” Darren Fogarty, President of the Sooke Minor Hockey Association explains how excited everyone is getting about hockey right now. “Tryouts are completed, we’re getting
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$12 adults reserved seating between the blue lines, $10 adults general admission, $5 youth 3-12 (2 & under free). Game day features a
‘It is great to bring out Sooke Minor Hockey and get them involved with the Junior A team.’ --Darren Fogerty, President Sooke Minor Hockey Association
“it is great to bring out Sooke Minor Hockey and get them involved with the Junior A team.” Who will have the fastest shot? Fogarty expects heavy competition between Midget A and Peewee players Aiden Wood and Ben Ackinclose. Tickets are available at SEAPARC or by phone 250.642.8000,
tailgate party and barbecue at 1 p.m. prior to the 4 p.m. game start with all funds from the game and the fundraisers including; a 50/50 draw, Chuck-aDuck, and a fastest shot competition going to the Rotary Club of Sooke and Sooke Minor Hockey. Grizzlies forward Cole Pickup said he sees being a part of events like this are an
important part of being a player. “I can’t thank the community enough for what they have done for this organization and myself. They have always been behind us no matter how tough the times have been,” Pickup said. “Anything we can help the community with, it feels awesome to help.” Come game time however, the bitter taste of last year’s loss will be on his mind as he looks forward to having a strong year and a chance at redemption. “This year is a new year with a lot of new faces and a lot of new staff so we are excited and we are not going for anything but the best,” the Colwood resident said, “No matter if it is an exhibition game we want to beat Cowichan, we hate those guys so no matter what we will be giving her 100 per cent.” Tailgate party and barbecue start at
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to one another.” Morgan has lived in Sooke all his life and remembers things like the old Sooke airfield near Edward Milne School, where this Howard Hughes type of fella built a plane and powered it with an old VW engine. “He did get it about 50 feet in the air, but then guess how that worked out?” he said with a wry smile. Morgan knows some of the best fishing spots in Sooke, like the bluffs where he pulled out a coho hat trick earlier today. He told me the fish hang out there this time of year because the rains help the fish get back home. Maybe to a wily Sookite like Morgan and his fishing buddies, all the Sooke roads are connected. Maybe you can get to Ucluelet via Butler main road, but for a five year Sooke rookie like myself —
ha! I remember how defeated I felt commuting to Victoria for work. Like the spinning odometer on my van, I kept spinning promises on how I’ll make time to understand the smile lines, scars and the colours of Sooke. The seasons would change, the smile lines would deepen but I would keep to the surface of Sooke’s beauty. Then one day, everything changed, the commute stopped and when it did, my own heart started beating. Maybe Morgan’s roads are people like you and I who have come to Sooke in search of something more than home equity. Perhaps as we connect and strengthen the ties to family, friends and community we can also explore and have a deeper connection to Mother Nature. Email: sookeheartbeat@gmail.com
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One way or another all the roads around Sooke connect. “They may not connect in the conventional way, you may have to take a quad or a game trail but eventually the roads all meet up,” said Morgan, a 50 something, strong as an old growth cypress lifetime Sookite. We walk the back of his property, I ask him about the magic spots around Sooke, he steps off the trail, plucks a chanterelle mushroom,
smiles and seems to lose 40 years as his eyes become cedar clear. “There are fishing holes, dog walks, majestic hikes that will blow you away, just carry a machete to clear brush, oh and if a bear starts clicking his jaw, walk away briskly,” he said. Morgan tells me that there is trout fishing towards the top of Muir Creek. “I heard about that,” I said, “So I went up to have a look a few months back, but after 45 minutes, I ended up on a steep goat trail heading away from the creek so I turned around.” Morgan shrugs his shoulders and said, “You should have stayed left and gone down the hill but if you would have kept going you would have ended up on Anderson road, because like I said, all the roads in Sooke lead
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Hockey school on during strike Ron Larson
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According to hockey dad, coach and carpenter Rich Dappolonia, “a dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” The Dapp’s Hockey Challenge in tandem with SEAPARC has created a series of hockey camps for kids aged 6-11 during the teachers’ strike. The focus on these camps for both boys and girls is on developing hockey skills with a commitment towards team building and increasing self-confidence. The aim is also to provide a mental and physical challenge to all the players in a fun
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Hockey players get a pep talk from Rich Dappolonia. and supportive environment. If there is a gap in the skill level of the players they will be split into two groups and a practise plan will be developed so the players can take the most out of the camp. On the last day of the camp the players will
be split into two equal teams and will play two controlled scrimmages to work on offensive, defensive and neutral zone positioning. Time 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The cost is $275 per player and $137.50 per goalie. All registration is
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done at SEAPARC. Refunds will be given back due to the kids going back to school. Dappolonia said, “Hopefully the schools will not be on strike for long but in the meantime this will be an excellent activity to keep the kids off the couch and staying active.” Contact Dappolonia at: Dappshockey@ hotmail.com.
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Have you met the funeral director in your community? Take a tour of the funeral home. Is the Funeral home, clean, well maintained, and comfortable? Did the staff make you feel welcomed, understood and safe? Do you know their personal and professional reputation? How long have they been serving their community? What has been the experience of relatives, friends and neighbours? Is the funeral home a full service facility and able to handle all of your needs (chapel, visitation room, reception and catering facilities, parking, licensed staff etc.)? • Is the funeral home a member in good standing with the Funeral Service Association? Please email me (jeevans@arbormemorial.com) your questions and/or concerns about anything and everything to do with before and after death procedures, legalities, traditions etc. and I will do my best to answer them.
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Capital Regional District Notice of Nomination for the Election of Nominees to East Sooke, Malahat, Otter Point, Port Renfrew, Shirley/Jordan River & Willis Point
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Public notice is hereby given to electors in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area that nominations for the election of nominees to the East Sooke, Malahat, Otter Point, Port Renfrew, Shirley/Jordan River and Willis Point Advisory Planning Commissions (as shown on the map below), for consideration for appointment by the Regional Board, will be received by a person designated by the Chief Election Officer at the Capital Regional District (CRD), Legislative and Information Services, 5th floor, 625 Fisgard Street, Victoria, BC, between the hours of 9am on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 and 4pm on Friday, October 10, 2014, excluding statutory holidays. Should anyone wish to file nomination documents other than during regular office hours, 8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday – Friday, arrangements may be made beforehand by calling the Chief Election Officer at 250.472.0059. Five members to each of the East Sooke, Malahat, Otter Point, Port Renfrew, Shirley/ Jordan River and Willis Point Advisory Planning Commissions will serve as members from the time of appointment by the Regional Board until December 31, 2018. Please note that this is now a four (4) year term.
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The mode of nomination of candidates shall be as follows: Candidates shall be Residents of the respective Commission areas nominated in writing by two duly qualified electors of the said area. The nomination documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to sufficiently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the candidate. No Juan de Fuca Land Use Committee member is eligible to be appointed as a member of an Advisory Planning Commission in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area. Copies of all forms are available at the following CRD offices: • Legislative and Information Services, 625 Fisgard St., Victoria, BC, Tel. 250.360.3127, or toll free 1-800-663-4425, local 3127 for Port Renfrew residents •
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• or by calling the Chief Election Officer at 250.472.0059. If more than five persons are nominated, in each of the six Commission areas listed above, at the end of the nomination period at 4 pm on Friday, October 10, 2014, an Election by Voting shall be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014, between the hours of 8am and 8pm. Those persons eligible to vote at the election will be the electors, as defined under the Local Government Act, of the respective Commission areas. Dated this 10th day of September 2014 Thomas F. Moore Chief Election Officer
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Salmon and halibut fishing regs changed Salmon fishing in Sooke waters has been good overall. Numbers of spring and sockeye salmon have been a disappointment mostly because of the grand predictions from earlier in the season. The east or inside passage of the Island fishing reports are excellent. Recreational catch numbers are down in our area, but that’s fishing. Great catches of spring, sockeye, and hatchery coho are still coming into the docks in Sooke, and will continue for the next couple of weeks. Wild Coho salmon opened to one wild salmon, one hatchery salmon per person/day. A great opportunity to catch some more fish. Halibut regulations were revised Sept.1.
Halibut will open to two halibut per person/ day, one of which must be under 90 cm. Both must be under 130 cm. Please check the DFO regulations on their website or at your local tackle provider before heading out fishing. Many fishers are reporting catching spring (Chinook) salmon deeper than normal, especially after that most important “first pass” in the early morning. Trolling in 130/140 ft. of water with the gear at 100 to 130 ft. or deeper is not unusual this season, and it is producing fish on our boats. The usual baits are working well, most trollers tend to use anchovy or herring in brightly colored baitheads at this time of year. Although many
hootchies and spoons are used with success, including glow hootchies and silver Coyote spoons. Serious spring or Chinook salmon fishing requires patience and time, working the same area in different depths over a whole morning or even day to produce some good fish. Some fishers have been venturing out to the tide lines in the depths toward the middle of the strait in search of Coho and or sockeye action, and many are finding it. Pink squirts or small spoons tied with short leaders trolled quickly seem to be the favorite to attract these tasty fish. I have been finding these fish by trolling south west in a flooding tide or south east
in an ebbing tide, off the Sooke Bluffs, Otter Point, or Sheringham Point. When you find them try turning back through them in the opposite direction to stay with the fish, or troll into the tide and enjoy the action. Not many halibut reports to mention. Soon it will be time to target halibut again as the dog fish or small sharks will be backing off. Now halibut will be starting to move off shore, so we will be looking for them in 120 to 190 ft. of water. Salmon bellies, herring, squid and octopus are excellent halibut baits. Crabbing in the harbour has been very hit and miss. Good fishing, Ron Neitsch 2-Reel Fishing Adventures
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Taking part in the opening ceremonies, above, from left to right, T’Sou-ke Nation spiritual advisor Shirley Alphone, Chief Gordon Planes, MP Randall Garrison, MLA John Horgan, Mayor Wendal Milne and fall fair president Ellen Lewers. Below, Farmer Pete takes people on a hay ride. Bottom, kids with their pets at the ever popular Pet Parade. Right, Lorea Thomsin, shows how sheep are sheared.
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Some scenes from the Sooke Fall Fair. Middle right, everyone admires the fruits and vegetables entered by exhibitors. Left,Wendy Milne admires the fibre and quilting entries at the Sooke Fall Fair. Above right, Simon, a young competitor in the pie eating contest rests after the challenge.
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The night sky in September The red star meets the red planet and the Zodiacal Light points towards Jupiter this month. As Mars moves toward its encounter with comet “Siding Spring” next month, the red planet passes several bright stars. After sunset in the southwest sky on Sept. 12 at around 8:45 p.m. looking west towards Metchosin, you will see Mars halfway between Saturn and Antares, compare the red hues of Mars and Antares with your own eyes. By Sept. 27, if you look west of Port Angeles towards the Pacific Ocean, the two appear about three degrees apart, low in the southwest sky after sunset. Like last month, the moon skips through the sky, appearing to the lower right of
Saturn on Sept. 27, between Mars and Saturn on Sept. 28, and above Mars on Sept. 29, forming a straight line with Antares. Meanwhile, in the morning sky, looking east toward Mount Baker, Jupiter rises higher. Use the moon to find it on the morning of Sept. 20. You can also use Jupiter to look for a huge pyramid of light appearing one to two hours before sunrise. The pyramid, called the Zodiacal Light, is sometimes confused with the Milky Way and sometimes called the false dawn. It can even look like faint city lights if you are driving east before sunrise. The Zodiacal Light is best seen from midSeptember to early October. It’s the reflection of sunlight off cosmic dust particles, the debris from comet and asteroid collisions in our solar system. Some of these dust
Capital Regional District Notice of meeting
Land Use Committee of the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Date: Time: Place:
September 16, 2014 7:00pm Juan de Fuca Local Area Services Building 3 – 7450 Butler Road, Otter Point, BC
1. Development Permit with Variance Application a) DP-08-14 - Lot 1, Section 31, Otter District, Plan 7179 (7951 West Coast Road – Currie) 2. Development Variance Permit Application a) VAR-02-14 - Lot B, Section 51, Otter District, Plan VIP82573 (Tregear Road – Tregear) 3. Official Community Plan Amendment and Rezoning Application a) Z-03-14 - Lot 1, District Lot 147, Malahat District, Plan 22170 (3932 Trans Canada Highway Victoria Humane Society) 4. Proposed Bylaws a) Bylaw No. 3897, “Comprehensive Community Plan for Port Renfrew, Bylaw No. 1, 2003, Amendment Bylaw No. 5, 2014” b) Bylaw No. 3958, “Land Use Bylaw for the Rural Resource Lands, Bylaw No. 1, 2009, Amendment Bylaw No. 4, 2014” c) Bylaw No. 3960, “Malahat Land Use Bylaw, 1981, Amendment Bylaw No. 145, 2014” d) Bylaw No. 3973, “Juan De Fuca Land Use Bylaw, 1992, Amendment Bylaw No. 122, 2014” Due to advertising deadline, other items may be included on the agenda. Please call 250.642.1500 for confirmation. Comments on agenda items can be submitted before noon September 16, 2014 by mail to the Capital Regional District (CRD), Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Planning, 3 – 7450 Butler Road, Sooke, BC V9Z 1N1, by email to jdfinfo@crd.bc.ca or be submitted at the meeting. Staff reports will be available after September 11, 2014 on the CRD website at: www.crd.bc.ca/about/document-library/Documents/ committeedocuments/juandefucalandusecommittee or can be viewed at our office, Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 4:30pm.
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particles enter Earth’s atmosphere as sporadic or random meteors. But most of the dust particles producing the Zodiacal Light settle into a lens- or pancake-shaped, taper-
ing, cone of light fattest near the sun and extending all the way out to Jupiter’s orbit. Most of the material is located near the plane of the solar system, the ecliptic: the
flat disk where the planets orbit. The Zodiacal Light is seen along the narrow pathway of this flat plane. When you look at the eastern horizon before dawn in autumn,
the ecliptic is nearly vertical in the sky. This summary is from What’s Up In September 2014 by NASA announcer and astronomer Jane Houston Jones with specific per-
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NOTICE TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DISTRICT OF SOOKE
2014 ELECTIONS FOR GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ASSENT VOTING FOR COMMUNITY CENTRE FACILITIES LOAN AUTHORIZATION BYLAW, NOTICE OF ADVANCE ELECTOR REGISTRATION AND AVAILABILITY OF LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS ADVANCE ELECTOR REGISTRATION
Are you eligible to vote at the November 15, 2014 elections for Mayor and Council in the District of Sooke? Are you eligible to vote at the assent voting for the Community Centre Facilities Loan Authorization Bylaw on November 15, 2014? Is your name on the current Provincial List of Electors? If you reside or own property in District of Sooke, contact the District of Sooke municipal office to find out if your name is on the current Provincial Voters List. For electors who live in or own property in the District of Sooke and qualify as either a resident elector or non-resident elector, advance registrations will be accepted until the close of business on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. With the exception of registrations on voting days, elector registrations will not be accepted during the period September 24, 2014 to November 16, 2014. Contact your municipal office for more information.
ELECTOR QUALIFICATIONS
Resident Electors: Must be age 18 or older on general voting day; and a Canadian citizen; and a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day of registration; and a resident of the municipality for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and not disqualified by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law. Non-Resident Property Electors: Must be age 18 or older on general voting day; and a Canadian citizen; and a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day of registration; and a registered owner of real property in the municipality for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and not entitled to register as a resident elector; and not disqualified by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law; and if there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector.
LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS
The District of Sooke is using the Provincial Voters List as their List of Registered Electors for the November 15, 2014 elections and assent voting. Beginning Tuesday, September 30, 2014 until the close of general voting for the election on November 15, 2014, the District of Sooke will have a copy of its list of registered electors which will, upon signature, be available for public inspection during regular office hours, Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays. Legislation prohibits distribution of the list to the general public. The municipal offices are located at 2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke, B.C. V9Z 1J2. Anyone who is not a local government officer or employee acting in the course of their duties must sign a statement that they will not inspect the list or use the information except for election purposes. An elector may request that the address or other information about the elector be omitted from or obscured on the list available to candidates and for public inspection in accordance with the Local Government Act (request must be to appropriate jurisdiction).
VOTING DAY REGISTRATION
Resident Electors and Non-Resident Property Electors in the District of Sooke who are not on the List of Registered Electors and who do not register in advance may register at the time of voting. All electors must register or be registered prior to voting. Resident Electors: Must produce two documents that provide evidence of the applicant’s identity and proof of residence – at least one document must contain the applicant’s signature. If you are unable to provide proof of your place of residence, you must make a solemn declaration as to your place of residence. Non-Resident Property Electors who do not register by Tuesday, September 23, 2014 must register at the polling station prior to the time of voting (advance polls/general voting day). Those who have registered previously or before the close of advance registration will be on the list and their name will remain on the non-resident elector portion of the list until they no longer own the property, qualify, or majority consent is withdrawn. When registering, you must produce two pieces of identification (at least one piece must bear your signature) to prove identity, proof that you are entitled to register in relation to the property, and if there is more than one owner of the property, written consent from the majority of registered owners that you have been designated to vote accompanied with adequate documentation, such as a Land Title Search or tax notice, proving ownership of the property claimed as the basis for the vote.
OBJECTION TO REGISTRATION OF AN ELECTOR
An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of registered electors may be made in accordance with the Local Government Act beginning Tuesday, September 30, 2014 and must be received before 4:00 p.m. Friday, October 10, 2014. An objection must be in writing, may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector in the jurisdiction in which they are entitled to vote, and can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears has died or is not qualified to be registered as an elector of Colwood, Highlands, Langford, or Metchosin. (View Royal does not maintain a list of electors.)
IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE ACCEPTED FOR REGISTRATION PURPOSES: • BC Driver’s Licence • Citizenship Card • Utility Bill (gas/water/hydro, etc.) • BC Identification Card
• Real Property Tax Notice • Credit Card or Debit Card issued by savings institution • Social Insurance Card
• BC Care Card/BC Gold Care Card • Owner’s Certificate of Insurance and Vehicle Licence
Dated this 3rd day of September, 2014. Thomas F. Moore, Chief Election Officer at 250-472-0059 Bonnie Sprinkling, Deputy Chief Election Officer at 250-642-1620 or email 2014election@sooke.ca. DISTRICT OF SOOKE, 2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke, B.C. 250-642-1634
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Beach Art winners Another successful Beach Art! Each team won a cash prize and a rosette. The winners are as follows: First Prize - The Honeymoon Suite, by Sharratt’s Team Second Prize - The Sailor, by Tamara Third Prize - The Heron, by Marlene Fourth Prize - The Bridge, by The Half Cut Team Fifth Prize - Bubble Fish, by Coral England Sixth Prize - Atlantis by, The Queen of England Seventh Prize - Rock People, by Nathan Kitchen Eighth Prize - Indiana Jones, by Ryder Greenwood Ninth Prize - Old Viking, by Hannah Dahmer Tenth Prize - Tsunami, by Dirt Team Eleventh Prizen Sushi Bar, by Kara Twelfth Prize - T h e Goose Thirteenth Prize - Bearded Man, 4 Beaches B&B.
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2014 General Local Election
Public notice is hereby given that Advance Voter Registration closes on September 23, 2014 for Capital Regional District (CRD) Lists of Non-Resident Property Electors for: •
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Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area (Galiano, Mayne, North and South Pender, Saturna and Piers Islands)
The Capital Regional District will be using the Provincial Voters List to determine who is eligible to vote as a Resident Elector in the CRD. If you voted in the last provincial election, your name will appear on the Provincial Voters List, and will automatically be placed on the CRD Lists of Registered Electors. CRD Lists of Registered Electors are used for voting for Electoral Area Directors, referenda, School District Trustees and Islands Trust Trustees in the CRD. Elector Qualifications Resident Elector - If you are 18 years or older on voting day (November 15, 2014), are a Canadian Citizen, have resided in British Columbia for six months and in your community for 30 days (the residency qualifications are set out in the Local Government Act), you are entitled to vote as a Resident Elector. Non-Resident Property Elector - If you are 18 years or older on voting day (November 15, 2014), are a Canadian Citizen, have resided in British Columbia for six months, have owned and held registered title to property within the boundaries of the local community for 30 days, do not qualify as a Resident Elector, you may vote as a NonResident Property Elector provided that you: a) have registered on or before September 23, 2014, or b) register at the time of voting. The following information is required at the time of application: •
a recent land title registration of the real property (may be obtained at the Land Title Office) or property tax notice, showing the names of all the registered owners,
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2 pieces of identification (one must have a signature), and
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in the case of more than one owner of the property, a completed consent form, signed by the majority of the owners, designating you as the person entitled to vote for the property.
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Only one Non-Resident Property Elector may vote per property regardless of the number of owners.
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No corporation is entitled to be registered as an elector or have a representative registered as an elector, and no corporation is entitled to vote.
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Individuals who are on title with corporations are not entitled to register or vote. Individuals who own an undivided interest in land on which the balance is held by a corporation are not entitled to vote.
You may register on voting day if you meet the elector qualifications set out above. For information about registering as a Resident or Non-Resident Property Elector call 250.360.3129. Port Renfrew and Gulf Island residents may call toll free, 1.800.663.4425, local 3129. List of Registered Electors The preliminary Lists of Registered Electors are available, upon signature, for viewing at the CRD offices listed below from 8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday – Friday, unless otherwise noted. You may also call the offices to enquire whether your name is on a CRD List of Registered Electors: •
Legislative & Information Services – 250.360.3129, 625 Fisgard St., Victoria, BC
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Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Planning & Building Inspection – 250.642.1500, #3 – 7450 Butler Rd., Sooke, BC
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Pender Building Inspection – 250.629.3424, 4605 Bedwell Harbour Rd. (Driftwood Centre), North Pender Island, BC (8:30am – Noon)
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SSI Administration (PARC) Office, 145 Vesuvius Bay Rd., Salt Spring Island, BC.
Following the close of Advance Voter Registration and beginning Tuesday, September 30, 2014, until the close of general voting, a copy of the final Lists of Registered Electors will be available, upon signature, for public inspection at the CRD offices listed above. An elector may request that personal information respecting the elector be omitted from or obscured on the List in accordance with S.63 (protection of privacy) of the Local Government Act. Objection to Registration of an Elector An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the List of Registered Electors may be made to the CRD Corporate Officer, PO Box 1000, Victoria, BC, V8W 2S6, in accordance with the Local Government Act, until 4:00pm on October 10, 2014. An objection must be made in writing, may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of the CRD, and can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears has died or is not qualified to be registered as an elector of the CRD. Dated this 3rd day of September, 2014 Thomas F. Moore Chief Election Officer
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Thirteen teams took part in the annual Community Arts Council’s Beach Art competition on Whiffin Spit. on September 7, including Tamara for her “Sailor” entry. See the results on page B3 and see the other photos online on www.facebook.com/sookenewsmirror.
BUDGET 2015 CONSULTATIONS
SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES Chair: Dan Ashton, MLA (Penticton)
What are your priorities for the next provincial budget? The all-party Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services will be holding province-wide public consultations on the next provincial budget. British Columbians are invited to participate by attending one of 17 public hearings or by making a written submission, sending an audio or video file, or completing an online survey.
W E W A N T T O H E A R F R O M YO U ! The deadline for submissions is Friday, October 17, 2014. To register to appear at a public hearing or for more information, please visit our website at: www.leg.bc.ca/cmt/finance or contact: Parliamentary Committees Office, Room 224, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, BC V8V 1X4; tel: 250.356.2933, or toll-free in BC: 1.877.428.8337; fax: 250.356.8172; e-mail: FinanceCommittee@leg.bc.ca Susan Sourial, Committee Clerk
2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke Phone: 250-642-1634 Fax: 250-642-0541 email: info@sooke.ca website: www.sooke.ca
Upcoming Public Meetings Committee of the Whole • Horseshoe Pitch – John Phillips Memorial Park Public Information Meeting Monday, September 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Regular Council Meeting Reconvened from Monday, September 8, Regular Council Meeting Monday, September 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm
What’s New
The District of Sooke website at www.sooke.ca has information about your community – including: • 2014 Local Government Election • Category B Community Grant Application deadline is September 30, 2014 Mayor’s Public Advisory Panels The public is invited to attend the Mayor’s Public Advisory Panel meetings at the Prestige Resort Meeting Room: - Economic Development - 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm - Arts and Beautification - 4th Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm
This schedule is subject to change. Please call 250-642-1634 to confirm meetings. Council meeting agendas may be viewed at www.sooke.ca
Local news. Local shopping. Your local paper. Read the Sooke News Mirror every Wednesday
Capital Regional District Notice of Nomination
2014 General Local Election Public Notice is hereby given to the electors of the Juan de Fuca, Salt Spring Island and Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Areas in the Capital Regional District that nominations for the Office of Electoral Area Director will be received between 9:00 am, Tuesday, September 30, 2014, and 4:00 pm, Friday, October 10, 2014. During that period the nomination documents shall only be received during regular office hours, 8:30am– 4:30pm, Monday–Friday, excluding statutory holidays, by a person designated by the Chief Election Officer at the Capital Regional District, Legislative and Information Services, 5th Floor, 625 Fisgard St., Victoria, B.C. Should anyone wish to file nomination documents in other than office hours, arrangements may be made by phoning the Chief Election Officer at 250.472.0059. Representation for the Electoral Areas will be as listed below and shall be for a 4-year term commencing December 2014 and terminating in 2018 after the election held in accordance with the legislation in the Local Government Act: •
Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
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Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area One Director (Galiano, Mayne, North Pender, Saturna, South Pender and Piers Islands)
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Salt Spring Island Electoral Area
One Director One Director
Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly qualified electors of the Electoral Area in which the candidate is running for office. The nomination documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to sufficiently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the candidate. At the time of filing the nomination documents, the candidate shall also file with the Chief Election Officer or a person designated by the Chief Election Officer a written disclosure as required under the Financial Disclosure Act. Further information on the requirements and procedures for making a nomination and copies of all forms are available at: •
Capital Regional District, Legislative and Information Services, 625 Fisgard St., Victoria, B.C. Tel: 250.360.3129, or toll free 1.800.663.4425, local 3129 for Port Renfrew and Gulf Island residents;
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or by calling the Chief Election Officer at 250.472.0059.
Dated this 3rd day of September, 2014 Thomas F. Moore Chief Election Officer
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WestShore Centre Centre for for Learning Learning && Training Training
250-391-9002
Join our family and take courses at one of our locations WestShore Centre – Langford 101-814 Goldstream Avenue Our Langford campus on Goldstream Avenue will be the new location for two of our Adult Graduation programs: the First Nations Graduation program and the Fast Forward to Graduation program. Students complete their Adult Dogwood Graduation Certificate. Storefront Learning Centre is located at the Langford Campus and Colwood, Monday to Thursday from 9:00 am to 7:30 pm. Night School Courses will continue to be offered at the Langford/Goldstream campus, Monday through Friday depending on course and instructor.
WestShore Annex – Colwood
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2139 Sooke Road (Temporarily Located at #109 - 1830 Island Highway) The Colwood campus will feature cohort programs for grades 9-12 that will focus on building community inside and outside the classroom, technology and innovation and developing individual student’s awareness of their strengths and assets.
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WestShore Metchosin Technical Centre – Metchosin 4495 Happy Valley Road The Metchosin campus will feature cohort programs for grades 9 and 10 that will engage youth in project-based learning and career development specific to hands-on trades such as carpentry. Student entry to the cohort program will primarily be the beginning of 1st and 2nd semester (September & February).
WestShore Sooke Learning Centre – Sooke 103 – 6672 Wadams Way
2:15pm
The Learning Centre in Sooke is located in the Sooke Child, Youth and Family Centre on Townsend Road. A storefront school that provides individualized instruction and support for students in grades 9 to 12 up to the age of 18 years.
WestShore Beecher Bay Adult Learning Centre – Beecher Bay
2:20pm
Scia’new Nation, 4744E Sooke Road Beecher Bay Learning Centre serves primarily as an Adult Learning Centres. Their program focuses on providing course work for students to complete their Adult Dogwood Graduation Certificate.
WestShore Yellow House – Port Renfrew, Pacheedaht Nation 6633 Deering Road
2:13pm
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The Yellow House serves primarily as an Adult Learning Centre. Their program focuses on providing course work for students to complete their Adult Dogwood Graduation Certificate.
101–814 Goldstream Ave., Victoria, BC • 250-391-9002
www.westshorecentre.com
WestShore Centre is a thriving part of School District 62, providing academic courses, grade 12 completion and workplace training since 1986.
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WestShore Centre, Your School of Choice 250-391-9002 Semester 1
250-391-9002 WestShore Centre, Your School of Choice
Westshore Centre PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
September 2 - January 23, 2015
Day & Evening Classroom Academic Schedule Mathematics Apprenticeship and Workplace Math 10 (Tutorial)
Mon/Wed
9:00 – 11:30 am
Foundations of Math and Pre-Calculus 10
Tue/Thur
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Mon/Wed
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Tue/Thur
8:45 – 11:30 am
Mon/Wed
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Mon/Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Tue/Thur
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Tue/Thur
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Earth Science 10 (Tut)
Wed/Fri
8:45 – 11:30 am
Biology 12
Tue/Thur
8:45 – 11:30 am
Physics 11
Tue/Thur
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Chemistry 11
Tue/Thur
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Sustainable Resources 12
Wed
8:45 – 11:30 am
Communications 12
Mon/Wed
8:45 – 11:30 am 6:00 – 8:30 pm
English 10 (Tutorial)
Tue
8:45 – 11:30 am
English 11
Mo/Tu/Th
12:00 – 2:30 pm
English 12
Mon/Wed
8:45 – 11:30 am
Mon/Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Mon/Fri
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Tue/Thur
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Pre-Calculus 11 Apprenticeship and Workplace Math 11 Pre-Calculus 12
Tuesday, September 9th 7:00pm Langford Campus #101 - 814 Goldstream Avenue
For more information please email: Principal Paul Block pblock@sd62.bc.ca
Sciences
English
Electives First Nations Art 11/12
Wed/Fri
8:45 – 11:30 am
Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Art 11/12
Fri
8:45 – 11:30 am
Carpentry 11/12
Wed
8:45 – 2:30 pm
Drama, Film & Television 12
Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Entrepreneurship 12
Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Marketing 11
Wed
9:00 – 11:45 am
Information Technology 10
Tue/Thur
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Data Management 12
Fri
8:45 – 11:30 am
Musical Theatre 10/11/12
Sun
1:00 – 8:00 Spencer
Did you know as an adult you can graduate in only 5 months? Here is your opportunity to get started on a new path to employment or post secondary education.
First Nations Graduation Program The Graduation Program integrates First Nations culture into the curriculum. It prepares students for their Grade 12 Graduation certificate. You will be involved in the community with the local First Nations artists, cultural instructors, community members, organizations and Elders.
On-line and Paper Based Courses – call for an appointment 250-391-9002 Grades 10, 11, & 12 AP French Language 12 Apprenticeship & Workplace Math 10 & 11 *Art Foundations 11 & 12 Biology 11 & 12 *Business Information Management 12 Calculus 12 Chemistry 11 & 12 Communications 11 & 12 *Data Management 12 English 10, 11 & 12
Grades 8 & 9 Mathematics Science Social Studies English
Futures Programs, Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 The Futures Program gives the students an opportunity to work as a cohort group. The teachers’ work to foster excellent foundational skills, social and personal growth.
Metchosin Technical Centre
Monday to Thursday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, and 3:30 - 7:30 pm All students registered in any WestShore Centre course or program can drop in to the WestShore Storefront, Monday to Thursday, for homework support with a teacher. Hours are Monday to Thursday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm and 3:30 - 7:30 pm. Please check with your teacher on times for specialized tutorial assistance.
Metchosin Technical Centre offers cohort-based programs for Grades 9 & 10. Metchosin Technical Centre offers a career focus utilizing hands-on projects-based experiential learning strategies and opportunities.
Classes start each month. WestShore Learning Centre offers Grade 8 to 12 academic courses, leading to a BC Graduation certificate. Grade 8-9, On-line provides a more flexible learning environment and the opportunity for self paced learning. Grade 10-12, Secondary school students may supplement their regular school schedule with additional courses through on-line or use this environment to begin Advanced Placement classes. The Adult Program provides a number of choices, from on-line courses to teacher-led seminars. These programs provide you with flexible learning options to complete graduation requirements or just for your personal interest.
8:45 – 11:30 am
Fast Forward to Graduation
Storefront Tutorial Support
On-line Academic Courses
Social Studies Social Studies 10 and 11 (Tutorial)
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Medical Office Assistant
Medical Transcription (Online)
Medical Terminology consists of 60 hours of classroom work. Expect 6 or more hours of homework per week. This course is recognized by Camosun College for entry into certain healthcare programs and is the required prerequisite for the Medical Transcription Program. Prerequisite: English 12 or equivalent Fee: $450 + textbook $100 The Language of Medicine 10th Edition Instructor: Angela Kemna Dates: Tuesday & Friday 6:00 - 8:30 pm Sept 16 - Dec 16 Feb 17 - May 12 May 19 - Aug 7
Do you enjoy working with people in a dynamic environment, then this program is for you. The program consists of 50 instructional hours. • Medical Office Assistant Procedures • Computerized Medical Billing (Osler) • Medical Keyboarding Medical Terminology Course with 75% or better. Program Prerequisites: • English 12 or equivalent • Good computer and word processing skills (documentation) Adult students who do not have sufficient typing or computer skills are expected to achieve these skills prior to the Medical Billing and Keybording portion of the program. Dates: Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 - 9:00 pm Dec 1 - Feb 15 May 11 - July 22 Program Fees: $800 Registration fee (non-refundable): $50 Materials: $100 Instructor: Lanka Dimitrijevic
Start a new career. This online program will qualify learners for an entry-level position in Medical Transcription. The Program consists of three core courses for a total of 115 instructional hours and 40 practicum hours. • Introduction to Medical Transcription • Digital Medical Transcription • Medical Transcription Practicum Instructor: Lanka Dimitrijevic Dates: Online program, Register any time, expected course completion time 6 months Program Fees: $1870 Registration fee (non-refundable): $50 Materials Fee: $380 (Books, CD’s, USB headphones & WAV pedal) Program Prerequisites: Applicants must fulfill the following prerequisites for acceptance into the program • English 12 or equivalent • Medical Terminology (proof of 75% within the last 3 years) • Typing speed of 40 wpm (documentation) • Good computer and word processing skills (documentation) • Students required to take a free online orientation class once accepted
For information call 250-391-9002 How to Apply for the Medical Office Assistant or Medical Transcription Program Visit our website at www.westshorecentre.com or call WestShore Centre at 250-391-9002. Complete the application form, include all relevant documentation, book an appointment with the Senior Educational Administrator and include a $50 non-refundable registration fee.
*Some courses require attendance once a week.
Convenient, Affordable, and Effective.
If you are a student in the Sooke School District enroll in a Camosun course while you’re still in grade 12 and get a head start on your post secondary education. In collaboration with the Sooke School District, Camosun has waived prerequisites on selected first year courses. Tuition is free for Sooke School District students! Contact your school counsellor for registration information.
Medical Terminology
Pre-Calculus Math 11 & 12 Science 10 Science & Technology 11 Social Justice 12 Social Studies 10 & 11 *Studio Arts Drawing & Painting 10, 11 & 12 Work Experience 12A & 12B
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Dual Credits with Camosun College
• To register call 250-391-9002 for an appointment with our academic advisor • Complete a personal learning plan • Textbook deposit may be required • GRADS: Free academic Grade 11 & 12. Some restrictions apply for graduates
Family Studies 12 Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10 Foundations of Math 11 & 12 Geography 12 Graduation Transitions History 12 Law 12 *PACE Musical Theatre 10-12 Physical Education 10 & 12 Physics 11 & 12 Planning 10 & 12
www.westshorecentre.com 250-391-9002
Bookkeeping Foundations/Sage 50 Learn how to cope with the bookkeeping demands of a small business. Explore the concepts and application of both manual and computerized bookkeeping through relevant, practical exercises and projects. Instructor: Dermott Crofton Fee: $675 Texts: $150 - Basic Bookkeeping – An Office Simulation & Simply Accounting Sept 13 - Dec 20, Feb 7 - May 17 Saturday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Watercolor Course This course will provide instruction in watercolor techniques and will provide instruction in landscape and still life with watercolors. Maximum of 10 students Dates: Cost:
Sundays, 1:00 - 3:00 pm Oct 19 - Nov 9 $100
Materials Fee: $25 Please bring your creativity and bring watercolor brushes if you would like to use your own. Location: To be announced.
Foodsafe Basic
Community Garden WestShore Centre is proud to announce its partnership with the YWCA-YMCA to continue our Organic Community Garden Project. Garden Boxes are available to rent – go to www.victoriay.com for more information.
101–814 Goldstream Ave., Victoria, BC • 250-391-9002 • www.westshorecentre.com
FOODSAFE, a sanitation program for foodhandlers, is a required course for any individual wanting to work as a foodhandler in the public sector. This course integrates food and worker safety. It includes such topics as: foodservice illness and injury, receiving and storing food, preparing food, serving food and cleaning. Includes book and exam. Certificates are provided by the BC Ministry of Health and take 5 to 6 weeks to be mailed. Instructor: Gerald Loiselle Cost: Location: Dates:
To be announced. WestShore Centre Saturday - date to be determined by enrolment, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
WestShore Centre for Learning & Training
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WestShore Centre, Your School of Choice 250-391-9002 Semester 1
250-391-9002 WestShore Centre, Your School of Choice
Westshore Centre PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
September 2 - January 23, 2015
Day & Evening Classroom Academic Schedule Mathematics Apprenticeship and Workplace Math 10 (Tutorial)
Mon/Wed
9:00 – 11:30 am
Foundations of Math and Pre-Calculus 10
Tue/Thur
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Mon/Wed
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Tue/Thur
8:45 – 11:30 am
Mon/Wed
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Mon/Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Tue/Thur
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Tue/Thur
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Earth Science 10 (Tut)
Wed/Fri
8:45 – 11:30 am
Biology 12
Tue/Thur
8:45 – 11:30 am
Physics 11
Tue/Thur
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Chemistry 11
Tue/Thur
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Sustainable Resources 12
Wed
8:45 – 11:30 am
Communications 12
Mon/Wed
8:45 – 11:30 am 6:00 – 8:30 pm
English 10 (Tutorial)
Tue
8:45 – 11:30 am
English 11
Mo/Tu/Th
12:00 – 2:30 pm
English 12
Mon/Wed
8:45 – 11:30 am
Mon/Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Mon/Fri
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Tue/Thur
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Pre-Calculus 11 Apprenticeship and Workplace Math 11 Pre-Calculus 12
Tuesday, September 9th 7:00pm Langford Campus #101 - 814 Goldstream Avenue
For more information please email: Principal Paul Block pblock@sd62.bc.ca
Sciences
English
Electives First Nations Art 11/12
Wed/Fri
8:45 – 11:30 am
Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Art 11/12
Fri
8:45 – 11:30 am
Carpentry 11/12
Wed
8:45 – 2:30 pm
Drama, Film & Television 12
Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Entrepreneurship 12
Wed
12:00 – 2:30 pm
Marketing 11
Wed
9:00 – 11:45 am
Information Technology 10
Tue/Thur
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Data Management 12
Fri
8:45 – 11:30 am
Musical Theatre 10/11/12
Sun
1:00 – 8:00 Spencer
Did you know as an adult you can graduate in only 5 months? Here is your opportunity to get started on a new path to employment or post secondary education.
First Nations Graduation Program The Graduation Program integrates First Nations culture into the curriculum. It prepares students for their Grade 12 Graduation certificate. You will be involved in the community with the local First Nations artists, cultural instructors, community members, organizations and Elders.
On-line and Paper Based Courses – call for an appointment 250-391-9002 Grades 10, 11, & 12 AP French Language 12 Apprenticeship & Workplace Math 10 & 11 *Art Foundations 11 & 12 Biology 11 & 12 *Business Information Management 12 Calculus 12 Chemistry 11 & 12 Communications 11 & 12 *Data Management 12 English 10, 11 & 12
Grades 8 & 9 Mathematics Science Social Studies English
Futures Programs, Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 The Futures Program gives the students an opportunity to work as a cohort group. The teachers’ work to foster excellent foundational skills, social and personal growth.
Metchosin Technical Centre
Monday to Thursday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, and 3:30 - 7:30 pm All students registered in any WestShore Centre course or program can drop in to the WestShore Storefront, Monday to Thursday, for homework support with a teacher. Hours are Monday to Thursday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm and 3:30 - 7:30 pm. Please check with your teacher on times for specialized tutorial assistance.
Metchosin Technical Centre offers cohort-based programs for Grades 9 & 10. Metchosin Technical Centre offers a career focus utilizing hands-on projects-based experiential learning strategies and opportunities.
Classes start each month. WestShore Learning Centre offers Grade 8 to 12 academic courses, leading to a BC Graduation certificate. Grade 8-9, On-line provides a more flexible learning environment and the opportunity for self paced learning. Grade 10-12, Secondary school students may supplement their regular school schedule with additional courses through on-line or use this environment to begin Advanced Placement classes. The Adult Program provides a number of choices, from on-line courses to teacher-led seminars. These programs provide you with flexible learning options to complete graduation requirements or just for your personal interest.
8:45 – 11:30 am
Fast Forward to Graduation
Storefront Tutorial Support
On-line Academic Courses
Social Studies Social Studies 10 and 11 (Tutorial)
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Take ed2go courses from the comfort of your home or office at the times that are most convenient for you. We offer you hundreds of engaging online courses for adults, covering every topic from A-Z Grantwriting to Web Design. Each ed2go course comes equipped with a patient and caring instructor, lively discussions with your fellow students, and plenty of practical information that you can put to immediate use.
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Medical Office Assistant
Medical Transcription (Online)
Medical Terminology consists of 60 hours of classroom work. Expect 6 or more hours of homework per week. This course is recognized by Camosun College for entry into certain healthcare programs and is the required prerequisite for the Medical Transcription Program. Prerequisite: English 12 or equivalent Fee: $450 + textbook $100 The Language of Medicine 10th Edition Instructor: Angela Kemna Dates: Tuesday & Friday 6:00 - 8:30 pm Sept 16 - Dec 16 Feb 17 - May 12 May 19 - Aug 7
Do you enjoy working with people in a dynamic environment, then this program is for you. The program consists of 50 instructional hours. • Medical Office Assistant Procedures • Computerized Medical Billing (Osler) • Medical Keyboarding Medical Terminology Course with 75% or better. Program Prerequisites: • English 12 or equivalent • Good computer and word processing skills (documentation) Adult students who do not have sufficient typing or computer skills are expected to achieve these skills prior to the Medical Billing and Keybording portion of the program. Dates: Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 - 9:00 pm Dec 1 - Feb 15 May 11 - July 22 Program Fees: $800 Registration fee (non-refundable): $50 Materials: $100 Instructor: Lanka Dimitrijevic
Start a new career. This online program will qualify learners for an entry-level position in Medical Transcription. The Program consists of three core courses for a total of 115 instructional hours and 40 practicum hours. • Introduction to Medical Transcription • Digital Medical Transcription • Medical Transcription Practicum Instructor: Lanka Dimitrijevic Dates: Online program, Register any time, expected course completion time 6 months Program Fees: $1870 Registration fee (non-refundable): $50 Materials Fee: $380 (Books, CD’s, USB headphones & WAV pedal) Program Prerequisites: Applicants must fulfill the following prerequisites for acceptance into the program • English 12 or equivalent • Medical Terminology (proof of 75% within the last 3 years) • Typing speed of 40 wpm (documentation) • Good computer and word processing skills (documentation) • Students required to take a free online orientation class once accepted
For information call 250-391-9002 How to Apply for the Medical Office Assistant or Medical Transcription Program Visit our website at www.westshorecentre.com or call WestShore Centre at 250-391-9002. Complete the application form, include all relevant documentation, book an appointment with the Senior Educational Administrator and include a $50 non-refundable registration fee.
*Some courses require attendance once a week.
Convenient, Affordable, and Effective.
If you are a student in the Sooke School District enroll in a Camosun course while you’re still in grade 12 and get a head start on your post secondary education. In collaboration with the Sooke School District, Camosun has waived prerequisites on selected first year courses. Tuition is free for Sooke School District students! Contact your school counsellor for registration information.
Medical Terminology
Pre-Calculus Math 11 & 12 Science 10 Science & Technology 11 Social Justice 12 Social Studies 10 & 11 *Studio Arts Drawing & Painting 10, 11 & 12 Work Experience 12A & 12B
ED2GO AT WESTSHORE
Dual Credits with Camosun College
• To register call 250-391-9002 for an appointment with our academic advisor • Complete a personal learning plan • Textbook deposit may be required • GRADS: Free academic Grade 11 & 12. Some restrictions apply for graduates
Family Studies 12 Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10 Foundations of Math 11 & 12 Geography 12 Graduation Transitions History 12 Law 12 *PACE Musical Theatre 10-12 Physical Education 10 & 12 Physics 11 & 12 Planning 10 & 12
www.westshorecentre.com 250-391-9002
Bookkeeping Foundations/Sage 50 Learn how to cope with the bookkeeping demands of a small business. Explore the concepts and application of both manual and computerized bookkeeping through relevant, practical exercises and projects. Instructor: Dermott Crofton Fee: $675 Texts: $150 - Basic Bookkeeping – An Office Simulation & Simply Accounting Sept 13 - Dec 20, Feb 7 - May 17 Saturday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Watercolor Course This course will provide instruction in watercolor techniques and will provide instruction in landscape and still life with watercolors. Maximum of 10 students Dates: Cost:
Sundays, 1:00 - 3:00 pm Oct 19 - Nov 9 $100
Materials Fee: $25 Please bring your creativity and bring watercolor brushes if you would like to use your own. Location: To be announced.
Foodsafe Basic
Community Garden WestShore Centre is proud to announce its partnership with the YWCA-YMCA to continue our Organic Community Garden Project. Garden Boxes are available to rent – go to www.victoriay.com for more information.
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FOODSAFE, a sanitation program for foodhandlers, is a required course for any individual wanting to work as a foodhandler in the public sector. This course integrates food and worker safety. It includes such topics as: foodservice illness and injury, receiving and storing food, preparing food, serving food and cleaning. Includes book and exam. Certificates are provided by the BC Ministry of Health and take 5 to 6 weeks to be mailed. Instructor: Gerald Loiselle Cost: Location: Dates:
To be announced. WestShore Centre Saturday - date to be determined by enrolment, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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ROADMASTERS Air Brakes Certification Learn the basic principles in the operation of air brakes. Prepare for the provincial certification exam. The interactive classroom instruction includes an air equipped training device, a demonstration brake wheel and audiovisual aids. This course includes 16 hours of classroom instruction and 4 hours of practical hands-on training on an air brakeequipped vehicle. Instructed by Roadmasters Safety Group Meets ICBC requirements Please bring a valid driver’s license to class. Fee: $200 Location: WestShore Annex Saturday & Sunday, 9:00 - 5:30 pm Sept 13 & 14 Oct 18 & 19 Nov 15 & 16 Dec 13 & 14
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to all our sponsors, community members and organizations who have volunteered to help make WestShore Centre for Learning and Training programs successful.
Forklift Safety Training This Safety training course meets the requirements of WorkSafe BC and Canada Labour code regulations. The focus is on the prevention of accident & injuries that may be caused by the improper and unsafe use of forklifts. The training consists of a short classroom session and one-on-one practical training. Upon successful completion, each participant will receive a wallet card with a 3 year record of completion. Instructed by Roadmasters Safety Group Fee: $200 Location: WestShore Annex Saturday, 9:00 - 4:00 pm Sept 6 Oct 4 Nov 1 Dec 6
Traffic Control Person This course is required for construction and road maintenance workers or for those who deal with traffic as part of their work. You will cover the newest Ministry of Transportation and Highways & WCB regulations, plus safe traffic control procedures and set-ups. Must wear approved footwear. Dress appropriately for the weather. Instructed by Roadmasters Safety Group Fee: $240 Location: WestShore Annex Saturday & Sunday, 9:00 - 5:00 pm Sept 13 & 14 Oct 18 & 19 Nov 15 & 16 Dec 13 & 14
OUR SPONSORS • Rona - Langford • Eagle Paw Organics • Moyer Creative Group • WestShore Chamber of Commerce
• Canadian SuperStore • Island Chefs Coalition • Cobs Bread - Langford • Rotary Club of Colwood
• YM/YWCA • Municipality of Colwood • Millstream Market
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This coming weekend, big truck enthusiasts can get out to Luxton to watch this popular motorsport. Truck and tractor pulling requires stock and modified trucks and tractors to pull a mechanical weight transfer machine, known as a “sled” along a 200 foot track. The winner is the competitor who pulls the sled the furthest. If the sled is pulled past the 200 foot mark it is considered a fair pull. If more than one competitor makes a full pull, the sled is reset) higher gear, more weight) until a winner is declared. The sled consists of a wight box with a six foot diameter fir 10 feet long, weighing 9,000 pounds, that moves from the rear of the sled to the front by a system of gear boxes. The Truck & Tractor Pull is presented by the Morningside Group and takes place Saturday and Sunday, September 12 and 213 at the Luxton Fall Fair. The pulls start at 11 a.m. both days. Come and see the tire change challenge, teeter-tooter challenges and the excavator challenge, all things to make small boys and big men excited. There are also truck pull classes and hidden pull distance prizes.
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HUNTING PRO SHOP
FOR ALL YOUR HUNTING NEEDS! We’ve expanded our hunting department by adding new hunting categories and premium brands. Check out the new store layout and take advantage of these exciting specials.
COME IN AND HELP US CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF OUR NEW PRO-HUNT SHOP SEPT. 11-13 – FREE DRAWS AND GIVEAWAYS THROUGHOUT
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Reg 124.99 Silent Hunter Soft Shell Jacket in Realtree AP Xtra. Sizes M-XXL. 175-1713X. ➋ Sale 139.99 Reg 199.99 Silent Hunter Parka in Realtree AP Xtra. 100g Thinsulate. Sizes M-XXL. 175-1717X. ➌ Sale 114.99 Reg 169.99 Rocky Leather Hunting Boots in Mossy Oak. 800g Thinsulate. Sizes 8-13. 87-3487X.
➊ Sale 199.99 Reg 249.99
Ameristep Bone Collector Hunting Blind. Realtree APG HD pattern. 10 shooting windows. 75" shooting width. 23.4 lbs. Made of N35 microfleece. Heat release roof vent system. 75-1104-0. ➋ Sale 124.99 Reg 149.99 Ameristep Light Speed Razor Ground Blind in Realtree AP Camo. 5 shooting windows. 60" High, 8 lbs. 75-3073-0.
Reg 424.99 Winchester Thunderbolt Ready Shoot Kit. Wide draw length of 17" to 30" and draw weight from 9-56 lbs. Offers adjustability to meet your form like no other. Includes arrows, field points, release quiver rest and peep.
75-5758-0.
➊ ➋ Sale 239.99 Reg 399.99 SAVE ➊ Benjamin Jim Shockey .22 Calibre Air Rifle. 495 FPS. % ➋ Sale 29.99 Reg 49.99
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75-2263-4.
Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun. .177 calibre. 350 FPS. 75-5034-2.
Sale 49.99-99.99 Reg 87.99-169.99 Other Air Rifles 75-2259X.
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Rapala 6” Soft-Grip Fillet Knife.
78-3318-4.
100
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Wildgame Attractants. Salt blocks and 5-lb bags available. 75-8040X/175-0277X.
Reg 179.99-199.99 Bushnell Trophy XLT Binoculars. 8x 42mm green or 10x 42mm camo. 76-2163-0/2377-2.
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Sale 6.39-10.39 Reg 7.99-12.99
Sale 14.99 Reg 39.99 Buck G10 Knife. 420 HC Stainless Steel. 75-7185-0.
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Sale 12.49 Reg 24.99 Swiss Army Driver Knife. 10 functions. 75-6017-8. Sale 14.99 Reg 29.99 Swiss Army Sport Knife. 12 functions. 75-6015-2.
Reg 239.99 Wildgame Innovations Halo Rangefinder. Maximum of 700 yards of reflective target. AI technology. 6X magnification. 76-1482-6.
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Sale 69.99 Reg 99.99 Beretta Airsoft Kit. Includes 2 airsoft pistols. 2x400 airsoft BBs, gel target. 360 FPS. 75-2163-2. Sale 39.99 Reg 69.99 Beretta PM12S Airsoft Gun. 250 FPS. 75-2265-0.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 13, 10am to 4pm
The Victoria Fish and Game Protective Association will be on site with displays and information.
Langford Location Only • West Shore Town Centre Store hours: Monday to Friday 8am - 9pm • Saturday to Sunday 8am - 7pm
Store No. 366 is solely responsible for the pricing and product information on this page, as the Associate Dealer operating the store is independent from Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited.