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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the town Not a creature was stirring; all the lights were turned down Except for at hotels, and care homes, and stations Where holiday workers pursued their vocations. Zoe Todd News Contributor

t the Sidney Pier Hotel, a lone soul holds the front desk. A bastion of cheer against the damp December wind blowing off the Salish Sea. Liam Moes says he signed up for three shifts on Christmas eve and Christmas morning, working almost 16 hours in that time. For Moes, work won’t interrupt the holidays. His family traditionally celebrates Christmas in the evening on Dec. 25, opening gifts and sharing a holiday dinner. “As long as we get a day together, we’re happy,” he said. This isn’t the 21-year-old’s first Christmas at the hotel. In past years, Moes worked at the adjacent Georgia’s Cafe, where staff stockings line the counter. Last year, he spent Christmas morning opening small gifts and cards that customers left in his stocking. Moes doesn’t have a stocking now, but said he looks forward

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Liam Moes, a conceirge at the Sidney Pier Hotel, will be working on Christmas eve. He’s one of many people on the job overnight, helping ensure the community stays safe and active. to the quiet and calm that comes with working on Christmas eve. “Everybody’s in a good mood,” he said. “I think it’ll be almost just another day, except I guess there will be the stigma that we’re working on Christmas. We always have a good time here.” Though Moes works the last half of his Christmas eve shift alone, he says that won’t stop him from getting in the holiday spirit. “I’m hoping I get permission

to wear the ugliest Christmas sweater I can find. Maybe I’ll get a Santa hat,” Moes said, adding that he’s keeping his sweater options open. “I don’t know if I’ll go as far as anything that lights up though — too much maintenance with electric components.” While Moes prepares his Christmas outfit, officers at the Sidney and North Saanich RCMP detachment prepare for the night shift.

A Christmas tree brightens the windowless inner office space at the station. But the three men working from 7 p.m. on Christmas eve until 7 a.m. on Christmas morning likely won’t have time to enjoy the holiday decor. “Bad things happen all the time and Christmas eve is no different,” said Cpl. Kerry Howse, the night shift watch commander at the station. Though the streets may seem

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Working Christmas eve a way of paying it forward Continued from page 1

“So that’s our job — when people are in crisis, we help them out. That’s what we do.” Howse, who has worked almost every other Christmas since joining the RCMP 20 years ago, attributes the spike in domestic hardship to holiday stress. He explained that many parents feel financially pressured to buy more gifts than they can afford. Others in the community, he adds, are simply lonely. This stress causes some people to turn to alcohol or drugs, which translates to more road patrols for Howse and his colleagues. “My first Christmas in the office, I had a triple fatal on Christmas eve. Three kids in a car off the bridge, upside down in the water,” he recalled. “You still gotta deal with it — and you gotta deal with it professionally. Christmas doesn’t come into play in my mind when I’m working. I just think about everything that’s gotta be done and just do it.” When Howse goes home on Christmas morning, he said he’ll stay up long enough to watch his two daughters unwrap their gifts before going to bed for the day. Christmas dinner with the family has to wait until Dec. 26, but Howse said his daughters don’t mind. For them, the holiday festivities are extended by an extra

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Sidney North Saanich RCMP Constable Ravi Gunasinghe will be working Christmas eve, helping keep the community safe during the holiday. Christmas Day. “So Christmas day I actually won’t be spending with the family — I’ll be sleeping,” he said. Gunasinghe agreed that Christmas is not the happiest time of year for a lot of families. In particular, the commercial aspect of the holiday season can cause people to crack. In some of these cases, police need to intervene. “For me it’s just about spending time with family and, ironically, this year I won’t be spending a lot of time with them. But that said, whatever time is spent is quality time,” Gunasinghe said about working on Christmas Eve. “Those who have to work

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Donna Tagabi-Delmo is a nurse working at Sidney Care on Christmas eve. day when Dad works Christmas Eve. “I think you have to dwell on the fact that there’s a lot of people that don’t have jobs, people that are not working, people are homeless and people don’t have enough money for Christmas,” Howse said. “When I think about myself, that’s what I look at — I’m healthy, I’m employed, got a good

job, got a family — I don’t see the negatives.” Santa Claus isn’t the only one who shares the night shift with Howse. Constable Ravi Gunasinghe, who works as a patrol officer, is scheduled to work his first Christmas Eve shift in 10 years. He said it will be a shock to the system, especially since he’ll be on duty again starting at 7 p.m. on

these shifts — your family is actually the colleagues that you’re working with and you just spend that extra quality time with them.” At Sidney Care, a seniors’ care facility, nurse Donna Tagabi-Delmo feels the same sense of family with her colleagues and patients. This is her first time working Christmas Eve at the care home, but TagabiDelmo said she plans to spread the spirit of Christmas. “It’s fun working here. As they say, Christmas is a time for giving — it’s good to also give your extra time to those people that are alone,” she said, adding that there will be a Christmas lunch and holiday tunes for residents

and family members. When Christmas visitors leave for the day, TagabiDelmo said she likes to sit and talk to her patients. “At night time, they’re just alone. So it’s nice to be with them,” she said. “Even for a short period of time you can share your time with them and, at the same time, bring them happiness.” For Tagabi-Delmo, and others in the community, working Christmas Eve is a way of paying it forward. “Before, I spent a lot of time with my family,” she said. “Now, these residents probably need someone to take care of them. It’s only for a few hours. I don’t mind at all working in the evening.”

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ne more sleep and it’s Christmas day. We hope that our readers have found a way to get through the season’s hustle and bustle and can enjoy time with friends and family in what can be a very stressful time of the year. We wish everyone on the Saanich Peninsula a very Merry Christmas. The days leading up to Dec. 25 have been very busy — and festive. Holiday events in Saanichton and Sidney kept the sparkle going for nearly all of December. But where we noticed the most sparkle, was in the actions of community volunteers and from regular folks who have helped make the season just a little brighter for their neighbours. Food drives for the Sidney Lions Food Bank brought in more donations than last year. Firefighters on the peninsula worked very hard to get the word out about the need — and the community responded. The Saanich Peninsula Secret Santas had a great response to its annual Toys for Tots campaign — thanks to the folks at the Mary Winspear Centre for adding their voice to the call for gifts for children, young and old. News Review readers, too, stepped up and beat last year’s donation total in our annual Coins for Kids effort — more than $2,600 was raised — and still the coins are coming in. We couldn’t have asked for a better response from the community and we thank you. Tomorrow morning, a small army of volunteers and local businesses will contribute to the 15th annual Peninsula Community Christmas Dinner. They will serve turkey dinner to 230 people — again surpassing last year’s turnout. For people in need, who are alone this time of year, or who just wish to take in the spirit of their community, the event is certainly well-received. Wherever you are on Christmas, we hope that your day is peaceful. Merry Christmas from all of us at the Peninsula News Review.

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n case you missed the outcome of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is surrounded by a pile of chips and the latest United Nations climate an American flag. The U.S.-China change conference in Lima, Peru, announcement served as a preview it was another costly, embarrassing of Peru, where developing countries failure. would again refuse any substantive This one is likely to be restrictions on their fuel use. remembered mostly for a China graciously agreed staggeringly stupid stunt to continue ramping up its by Greenpeace employees, world-leading greenhouse who were threatened gas emissions until 2030, with prosecution for while lame-duck Obama defacing the Nazca Lines, pretended he could a world heritage site commit the U.S. to further in the Peruvian desert. reductions. These vast 1,500-year-old Between them, the U.S. petroglyphs, visible from and China account for space, are among the great about half of global humanmysteries of archaeology. caused carbon emissions. “Time for a change!” Tom Fletcher Due mostly to the surge blared huge yellow letters B.C. Views from China and India, dragged across the sacred Canada’s share has fallen site by paid protesters from two per cent to 1.5, which trampling the delicate terrain. I’ll should help put all those “tar sands” say it’s time for a change, starting protests into perspective. with scratching Greenpeace off your Days later, Environment Canada Christmas card list. released its latest national emission Earlier there was the spectacle statistics, an event ignored by most of Canada’s national media, media. reflexively denouncing Ottawa’s “Between 2005 and 2012, total supposed inaction on greenhouse Canadian GHG emissions decreased gases after U.S. President Barack by 5.1 per cent, while the economy Obama unveiled a surprise climate grew by 10.6 per cent over the same agreement with China in advance of period,” the report states. Peru. B.C. Environment Minister Mary “Over to you, Mr. Prime Minister,” Polak joined the throngs who jetted chirped CBC anchor Wendy Mesley, to Lima. There she met officials from joining other TV networks in California and other U.S. states to falsely portraying the U.S. deal as a re-announce their modest efforts breakthrough. to put a price on carbon emissions. This non-binding gesture soon TV anchors and other wide-eyed produced many cartoons, one of innocents might have been left which shows Obama stripped to with the mistaken impression that his underwear in a poker game with

the huge U.S. petroleum industry is cutting back, when in fact it has grown enormously thanks to shale oil and gas production. And California continues to produce, by its own state government measure, the most carbon-intensive heavy crude in North America. Overshadowing all of this is the drop in the world price of oil, mainly the result of Saudi Arabia flooding the market in an effort to push competitors out of business. In the latest sign of the U.S. public’s lack of interest in reducing emissions, sales of larger vehicles immediately spiked up as gasoline prices fell. I’m still receiving criticism for a recent column in which I declared myself an “agnostic” on humancaused global warming. Agnostic means searcher and my search has continued for real signs of climate change and its potential causes. Our glaciers are receding, no question, but the current trend started around the 1850s, when a sport utility vehicle had one horsepower in leather harness and B.C. was about to be declared a British colony. But amid the noise, there is serious evidence being put forward that our province is undergoing a climate shift with major consequences. And there are calls for action. I’ll discuss that next week. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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Tuck in for dinner at the Mary Winspear Centre 15th annual Peninsula Christmas Dinner will be serving up a full house on December 25 Steven Heywood

Long-time dinner volunteer Clara Knight, Warshawsky added, is busy doing some baking and will be ready to help serve the food, alongside close to 40 volunteers. “She’s a very busy lady,” she said. The Sidney Lions

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Whether folks are missing their family and are alone over Christmas, or just don’t feel like cooking, there’s a dinner option for them every year on December 25. Wendy Warshawsky, coordinator of the Peninsula Christmas Dinner Committee, says there was a rush on this year’s event and as of Dec. 18, both sittings for the meal were completely booked. “In fact, we kind of overbooked the 11 a.m. sitting so we have to put out more tables and chairs,” she said. The 12:30 p.m. sitting was spoken for a few days earlier. Warshawsky said that means there will be at least 230 people breaking bread on Christmas day at the Mary Winspear Centre. And that doesn’t include feeding the entertainers and volunteers, she added. In its 15th year, the Peninsula Christmas Dinner has grown in popularity. Warshawsky said it began as a way to reach people in the community who are alone at Christmas. “We fill a need,” she said. She said with few options for a holiday meal available on Dec. 25, the dinner also

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Black Press acquires titles from Glacier Most Island newspapers now held by PNR’s parent company VANCOUVER — Black Press has acquired newspaper titles and related publications and digital properties from Glacier Media. Black Press has purchased: The Nanaimo Daily News, The Harbour City Star, the Alberni Valley Times, the Cowichan Citizen, Parksville Oceanside Star, Tofino/Ucluelet Westerly News, the Comox Valley Echo and Campbell River Courier on Vancouver Island as well as the Surrey Now, Langley Advance and Maple Ridge Times in the Lower Mainland. Black Press will take over operations in Courtenay-Comox, Ucluelet/Tofino and at the Oceanside Star on Jan. 1, and the remainder of the publications and their websites on March 2, 2015. In a separate transaction, Black Press is selling the Tri-City News, Burnaby New West Newsleader and the Richmond Review to Glacier Media. They will assume operational control of these operations on March 2, 2015. “While we are pleased with the acquisitions, we are disappointed to be selling these excellent community newspapers,” said Rick O’Connor, Black Press President and CEO. “We believe in the value our Black Press colleagues at these newspapers have created and the many long time staff members will be missed. “However, as we move through these changing times in media, it is important that we align our strategic interests to better position the company for the future. “We are great believers in community newspapers and the value they provide. With these changes, we believe readers and advertisers will be better served and the company will be stronger moving forward.” — Black Press

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Chad wants CRD out of recreation

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Sidney councillor Tim Chad seeks traction for change in governance Steven Heywood News staff

Sidney councillor Tim Chad is floating change when it comes to one of his passions. A 19-year local politician, Chad has been involved with recreation on the Saanich Peninsula since 1988. That’s when he was first elected and found himself appointed to the Saanich Peninsula Recreation Commission. He has served in that capacity ever since and has watched his own family derive hours of happiness using the services of places like the Panorama Recreation Centre. Yet, more recently, Chad has become disenchanted with the administrative and governance functions currently handled by the Capital Regional District. And for a while now, Chad has been suggesting that it’s time the three municipalities on the peninsula take over. “We’ve got probably one of the best recreation systems, bar none, in Greater Victoria,” he said. “In my mind, I think we could do (the services currently done by the CRD) on the peninsula.” Chad has compiled a list of what the three municipalities pay the CRD for IT services

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Sidney town councillor Tim Chad (inset) thinks the three peninsula municipalities can handle the administration of recreation services. ($67,000), human resources ($88,000) and finance and corporate services ($119,000). That’s on top of the $3.75 million that Sidney, North Saanich and Central Saanich pay for recreation services and facilities on the peninsula. Chad said the dollar amounts probably wouldn’t change if the municipalities took over administration duties, saying only that the recreation commission could funnel that money to local service providers instead. Based on that, and an admitted distrust of the CRD, Chad said it’s time to start thinking about whether local control

of recreation services appeals not only to the three municipalities, but to taxpayers as well. “The CRD owns nothing,” he continued. “They are the tax collector for our rec. services and the municipalities have to sign off on the budget anyway.” Chad said the CRD was asked to handle the administrative duties back in the late 1970s, when Central Saanich pulled out before an arena and pool facility were built following a referendum in 1976. Chad said the CRD was asked to become the third party to handle administra-

tion and to help set up the commission itself. Central Saanich re-joined the commission later on, taking the place of a CRD-appointed director. The other directors are made up of appointees from the councils and public from all three municipalities to form a board of nine. It’s this body that Chad said he thinks can handle the job of administrating recreation on the Saanich Peninsula. He said he is open to other ideas on a change in governance, but first he hopes his move will gain traction in the community. An earlier attempt to get the subject on a trimunicipal meeting this year failed when he was struck ill and was not at the table to fight for his idea. Chad added it’s not as though the CRD hasn’t done its job, in fact he said he doesn’t have many issues in that regard. He said, however, that with other matters facing the CRD in the future, it might be time to make a change. Chad said he hopes his idea catches on, adding he will bring it up with his own council, at the tri-municipal setting and with the recreation commission. He said he hopes it will at least be given serious thought.

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Volunteer Bill Judge, 88, serves up the turkey at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Sidney. The Saanich Peninsula has at least 1,100 volunteers on the go. con Community Services and the SHOAL Centre as pillars of the town. “You’ve got oodles of volunteers. The volunteers overflow into all of the three communities on the Peninsula — they interchange,” he said. “If somebody needs help, there’s always help there.” Chad moved to Sidney in 1973 and remembers a vibrant volunteer community in a

town of 4,000 people. The population has since more than doubled, but Chad said, “the volunteers have just grown with it.” Sidney volunteers automatically factor into decisionmaking processes at town hall, according to Chad. Local groups such as the mayor’s task force, the advisory planning committee, and the volunteer fire department are run

almost exclusively by volunteers. Amongst larger volunteer organizations, are smaller groups such as the St. Andrew’s soup kitchen. Allison Humphreys founded the kitchen with her soup-sister Donna Godwin in 2003. She said the initiative started as a way to feed the hungry in Sidney but quickly grew to include other community members, mostly seniors looking for company. The soup kitchen is completely self-sustained through the donations of its members, according to Humphreys. “We have a lot of people who have been recently widowed and they know they’re not judged here — they know they can just come, have a bowl of soup and meet some new people,” Humphreys said. “A lot of friendships have started here and a few romances — we’ve had a few romances blossom here.” Turkey dinners became a tradition in 2005 when Godwin organized the first Christmas lunch at St. Andrew’s. “If it wasn’t for Donna, we wouldn’t have carried on for the past 10 years,” Humphreys said about Godwin, who is currently in hospital and was unable to attend this year’s event. This year, Thrifty Foods donated 150 lbs. of carved turkey to the event. Humphreys cooked the meat with the help of Bill Judge, an 88-yearold volunteer and decade-long soup kitchen member. Please see: Volunteers help make, page 11

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First night celebrations will be a family affair Tim Collins News staff

The annual First Night New Year’s Eve celebration at the Panorama Recreation Centre is all set to go, and Angela Turnbull, a Program Assistant at the Centre couldn’t be more excited. “We’ve got swimming, skating games, activities, prizes, food, entertainment — what more could you want?” The event kicks off at 5 p.m. on Dec. 31 with a variety of activities, all with a decidedly ‘family friendly’ focus. In the swimming pool, there will be a lot of free play activities, with the added attraction of the large inflatables and other surprises to put a smile on

the kids’ faces. “We are selling tickets in advance for the two swims,” said Turnbull. “You can buy them online or by coming to or calling the rec centre.” She cautions that space is limited so it’s a good idea to get tickets early. “One swim period runs from 5 to 6:45 p.m. and another starts at 7 p.m. and goes to 8:30.” At the arena, the holiday fun skate will feature some parent and child hockey games, as well as other games for the younger children. “Or you can just come in and skate around and enjoy the atmosphere in the decorated arena,” said

Turnbull. Other entertainment options include par ticipating in family games, including Panorama’s own version of ‘Minute to Win It’, or watching as the kids work off some energy in one of the variety of bouncy castles that will be set up in the tennis bubble at the centre. “We’re also very excited that we have the Checkerboard Guy coming in to entertain everyone between 7:45 and 9 p.m.,” said Turnbull. “He juggles, tells jokes and is just a fantastic family entertainer.

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so people will have a real choice for that casual New year’s Eve family dining,” said Turnbull. “The food trucks are coming down to the tennis bubble and there will be tables and chairs set up for people to enjoy any one of a wide variety of food offerings.” Door prizes

are always important at First Night celebrations, and this year the recreation centre is giving away prizes that are in keeping with the family-themed event. “We’ve got this great camping package,” said Turnbull. “There’s a four person tent, sleeping bags, mats and backpacks ... an instant camping trip.” Summer camp and activity passes are also slated for the door prize draws. Naturally, no New Year’s celebration

would be complete without fireworks and Panorama Recreation is determined not to disappoint. “We’ll be having a great fireworks show at 9 p.m.,” said Turnbull. “It’s set to go a little earlier than some other New Year’s celebrations, but remember that this is a family event. We think the timing is perfect. A great way to usher in a new year.” editor@peninsula newsreview.com

“For the first time we also have a number of food vendors coming in

Volunteers help make Peninsula thrive Continued from page 10

A retired air force medic, Judge started volunteering in the late 1960s. At the time, he worked with special needs children in Ottawa. Now, he divides his time between St. Andrew’s soup kitchen and local choirs. In the past, he also volunteered as a caller for wheelchair square-dancing. “People are really appreciative of what we do. Sidney wouldn’t be the same place at all — it could not be the same place — without volunteers, there’s just no way,” Judge said, adding that the town would be left in the dark ages without its volunteers. Humphreys agrees. “Sidney would not be itself without the volunteer base that we have,” she said. “It wouldn’t be the close-knit community that we are.”

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Members of the Odd Fellows Columbia Lodge No. 2 brave an early morning shift at Country Grocer in Royal Oak to fill a five-ton truck with $20,000 worth of food.

donations and till donations from customers at Country Grocer. “That cash buys enough food to fill almost half of what The Mustard Seed needs for their hampers for the holiday season,” Miller said. “Country Grocer is just such a stalwart team in the community and they supported us immensely. Without them, we could have never brought this off the ground the way that we did.” Miller said part of the draw for donors was knowing that 100 per cent of proceeds went to feeding families. “When you’re looking for some way to give back and you’re not sure how to do it, you hook up with Odd Fellows and it’s an amazing thing,” he said.

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. Call 1-800-573-2928.

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