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Housing Partnership gaining ground Group aims to work with developers to start supplying affordable workforce housing as soon as next year Angela Cowan News staff

With the formation of an interim board of directors this month, the Saanich Peninsula Housing Partnership continues to gain traction in its bid to create affordable workforce housing on the Peninsula.

Spearheaded by Tim Wake, an independent consultant with 16 years of experience working in creating affordable workforce housing, and Jim Bennett, the former president of the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board, the project seeks to create affordable housing, both for ownership and rental, for the Peninsula workforce.

Wake recently presented the partnership’s goals to all three Peninsula councils at the tri-municipal meeting Feb. 11, and stressed that the group is not looking for funding from local government.

“We’re asking that council supports, in principle, the creation of the Saanich Peninsula Housing Partnership,” said Wake. “Success is the delivery of housing, not just the plan.”

Several councillors at the table congratulated the partnership team and expressed their personal support.

“It’s time to do something, not just talk about it,” said Sidney councillor Barbara Fallot.

She also stressed that developers need to get on board with stronger sound proofing to ensure multi-unit housing is family-friendly.

Please see: May inspired to seek, page 5

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Parkland player Arianne Stevenson defends Oak Bay guard Judy Cristante during the final of the South Island Junior Girls basketball championships. Oak Bay defeated Parkland and both teams qualified for the Island finals in Nanaimo Feb. 19 to 21. Read all about it on page 19.

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n Peninsula Co-op Grand Re-Opening n Saturday, February 14, 2015

Peninsula Co-op Food Centre Celebrates Grand Re-Opening Peninsula Co-op was founded in 1977 by a group of local people with a strong belief that the co-operative way of doing business could be successful. They went door to door in the local neighbourhoods explaining what a Co-op is and encouraging people to join. The Food Centre on Keating X Road opened its doors in May of that year.

Fast forward almost 38 years later to our grand re-opening that took place on February 14th. You no longer have to price your canned goods with a black grease pencil like back in 1977. Our Food Centre’s renovations encompassed much more than a fresh coat of paint and flooring.

Now we have glass doors on all our dairy and frozen foods. Our redesigned meat department allows for increased meat choices. A self-serve bakery sweet goods case so you can ‘grab and go’…..no more waiting. Larger gluten free section, cheeses from around the corner and around the world. An enhanced energy reclamation system allows us to take excess heat from our refrigeration units to help heat our store and even a reverse osmosis water dispenser.

Last but not least, we are proud that Peninsula Co-op continues to have local products that our grown at home, raised at home and produced at home.

We would like to thank our customers who continued to shop with us during our renovations and appreciated your patience.

Come by, say hello and check out our new look! We’re open 7 days a week.

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(L-R) Meat Department Manager Ron Ackinclose with long-time customer Norma Sealey.

(L-R) Ringing up some great specials, cashier Susan Pappas with Derrick McNeil.

Peninsula Co-op held it’s Grand Reopening of ithe Keating Cross Road, Saanichton location on Saturday.

Customers were treated to cake, coffee, taste testing and as well there were several prizes given out throughout the day, including a 10-minute shopping spree. (L-R) Brentwood Gas Station Manager Kevin Anderson with Marketing Manager Penny Sopel.

(L-R) Grocery Manager Stacy Watson and Food Centre Manager Rob Woodburn.

(L-R) Dad Steven Thomas with a happy Madison Thomas.

(L-R) Lynda Dickie, from Lyndies Breads, Bonnie Schuring and Bill Lyons.

(L-R) Long-time customer Jack Reid with Louise Whitelaw.

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Tour of Industry: Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

The science of the brew at Category 12 Steven Heywood

Coming up in the Peninsula News Review

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This writer cannot blame Category 12 Brewing for being left behind by the tour bus during the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce’s Tour of Industry recently — but the crowds there could be at least somewhat at fault.

The final stop on the tour was to the first craft brewery on the Saanich Peninsula — and they were handing out samples.

Category 12 Brewing opened December 19 on Keating X Road in Central Saanich. They started brewing in midNovember to meet that deadline.

The brainchild of owners Michael and Karen Kuzyk, the brewery has joined the burgeoning craft beer market in Greater Victoria.

Already, their entries into the market are being noticed.

Jeff Kendrew, the third partner at Category 12, says they have been busy brewing and trying to keep up with demand as customers discover a new player.

Keeping up and ensuring pubs and stores get what they need is always a challenge for a new brewery, he said.

Even with a November brewing start date, Michael said they ran out of stock in their first batch quite quickly.

“Beer geeks knew we existed,” he explained.

“Now, we’re doing a lot of awareness-building right now.”

Category 12 brands itself with science.

Michael has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Victoria and is putting that training to good use.

“We have been brewing small batches as a way of experimentation,” he said. “Then we ramp it up on the com-

As a follow on to the Tour of Industry series, the PNR interviewed Jeff Kendrew, Category 12 Brewing’s very own cicerone®. Don’t know what that is? Think of it, he says, as a sommelier, but for beer.

Watch the PNR for the story in a coming edition.

— Editor

Steven Heywood/News staff

Category 12’s Michael Kuzyk is described as a recovering scientist.

He has turned his degree in biochemistry into a new venture. He and his wife Karen, below, want to share their passion for craft beer. puter, once we have the recipe down, for largescale brewing.”

His biochemistry education is serving him well, Michael said of the transition into brewing beer. Getting the engines in their Keating X Road facility up to the right speed is one of the steps similar to science — as is using municipal water in the mix.

“It’s a blank canvas,” he explained, adding he can add specific traits into the water to achieve different outcomes.

It’s all blended in steel vats that were

manufactured in Central Saanich.

Michael said he’s typically working on a batch between 14 and 16 hours a day. Category 12 recently hired an assistant brewer, so the workload can be spread around.

Category 12 Brewing chose Central Saanich to locate for a variety of reasons. First, said Michael, they aren’t competing in the same general neighbourhood as the Rock Bay micro breweries.

Second, Michael grew up in Central Saanich and was happy to bring his business home.

Category 12 has produced four beers so far: Critical Point Northwest Pale Ale, Unsanctioned Belgian Inspired Saison, Disruption Black IPA and Transmutation Belgian Spec. Ale (the last two are seasonal, with the Spec.

Ale ready for March).

Following the tour, Category 12’s tap room filled up with customers and their growlers.

After moving outside and peeking into one of their neighbouring businesses, this writer misjudged the time and had to run a few blocks to catch the bus.

Category 12 is not to blame — but it was a good running gag, if you’ll pardon the pun. editor@peninsula newsreview.com

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CRD moves on with contentious park plan Island View Beach management plan, which calls for it to remain multi-use, is not without its critics Tim Collins Contributor

After being sent back to regroup following an unsuccessful and contentious effort in 2013 to introduce a new management plan for Island View Beach, the CRD is now back, forging ahead on the development of a new plan. On February 5, they completed the first step in that process but once again the effort is not without its critics.

The process, as mapped out by CRD staff, listed the first step in the development of a management plan as providing factual, scientific information about the park’s natural environment by way of their web site and through three public meetings. The last of those meetings took place at the Saanich Fairgrounds on Feb. 5 and was attended by a collection of about 70 interested residents, academics and CRD staff. Previous meetings had been held at the Leonardo da Vinci Centre in Victoria, and at Heritage Park.

The last two of those meetings were attended by representatives of a group

Tim Collins

The Capital Regional District is dealing with complex issues surrounding its proposed management plan at Island View Beach. called the Friends of Island View Beach (FIVB), a group that has consistently criticized the information being presented by the CRD as being inaccurate and misleading. Jason Austin of FIVB maintains that his efforts to present a power point presentation that specifically challenged the CRD’s information were met

with what Austin has called stonewalling by the people running the meeting.

“The first time I tried to give my point of view, the people running the meeting gave me five minutes at the end of the meeting, and then cut me off saying that they had to pack up the hall,” said Austin. “At the last meeting I wanted to present

my information, and I was essentially shouted down by one of the academics that is associated with the CRD and has provided them with information that I was going to challenge.”

Mike Walton, the CRD’s Senior Park Manager, disputes that characterization of the meetings.

“I thought that the meet-

ings went very well,” said Walton. “The goal wasn’t for people just to talk to us, but to each other ... to share their points of view... and I think we achieved that.”

When asked about statements posted by FIVB both at the meetings and on the FIVB web site that accused the CRD of distributing “misleading environmen-

tal information” and being guilty of a “breach of their duty ... to the public”, Todd Golumbia, one of the CRD’s chief architects of the new process, defended the information in an interview.

“I stand by the information that we presented,” said Golumbia. “I’ve reviewed all of the information that is available ... consulted with experts in the field ... and we’ve listened to some of the concerns expressed by people attending the meeting and gone back and reviewed the information.

I’m confident that, as much as is possible, we’ve got it right. These are very complex issues and there is a lot of information out there.”

Walton also stands by the information that was presented but acknowledges that the process inflames the people’s passions regarding the way that park land should be managed.

“We have a responsibility as stewards of the land,” said Walton. “But I’ll be the first to acknowledge that parks are for people ... as well as protected species.”

Please see: Enmity and mistrust, page 5

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Defining species at risk in Peninsula park a problem Tim Collins Contributor

“There are 33 species at risk that use the park or the immediate foreshore.”

It’s a claim by the Capital Regional District in its proposed management plan for Island View Beach that The Friends of Island View Beach (FIVB) vehemently dispute.

The group claims the CRD has inflated the number of species at risk with the inclusion of plants, insects and other animals who are either not at risk or are not even present in the park.

While one might be excused for thinking the issue could be easily resolved by consulting the experts, it appears to be a question of what experts

you want to believe.

Take the bog spider.

According to information presented by FIVB and drawn from the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), “Only single specimens were collected at these locations despite several thousand pitfall traps over multiple months. These occurrences may represent random dispersal by “ballooning from the strong population at Tumbo Island.” In other words, according to COSEWIC, the bog spider isn’t even present at Island View Beach Regional Park.

Not so, according to Claudia Copely, the Senior Collections Manager at the Royal BC Museum.

“That information is based on information in

“I can understand that people who don’t work in the area could be confused.”

– Claudia Copely 2009. We set our traps in different places ... in the wet areas ... and we’ve identified the species as living in the park.”

When asked why COSEWIC continues to post their information, and why they wouldn’t have accepted this new information and modified their own listing, Copely said that COSEWIC may have a backlog of information.

“I can understand that people who don’t work in the area could be confused.”

Similar disputes have

arisen about virtually all of the species that have been put forward by the CRD as at risk.

The whole thing is further complicated by exactly what the CRD means when they say that there are 33 species at risk “that use the park or immediate foreshore.”

According to Todd Golumbia, one of the CRD’s chief architects of the new process, it’s a complicated issue.

“With plants it’s easier, but with animals you never quite know whether they’re in the park or not. They may be there 100 per cent of the time or they might just be there for a short period as they pass through.”

Still, the FIVB insist that the number of at risk species has been inflated to promote

Enmity and mistrust apparent: Brice Continued from page 4

“It’s a socio-ecological system — people and environment — and it’s our job to bring them together.”

Walton acknowledges that the process can be difficult for all sides and points of view.

“We have to look for common ground, elevate the value of each other’s expectations ...” said Walton. “We’re going to have some difficult conversations. Some people may have to think hard about the values of some things that they have never thought about and we have to challenge ourselves.”

According to Susan Brice, the Chair of the CRD’s Regional

Parks Board, the enmity and mistrust between some area residents and the CRD are apparent.

“I think that a lot of it goes back a few years when something called the Cordova Strategy was brought forward.

That wasn’t a CRD document, but some people saw it as a planned strategy to fundamentally change the way the park operates,” said Brice. “It’s hard to un-ring that bell, but it’s time to move forward.”

Brice said it’s important that people realize that it will be elected representatives who decide how the park is used.

“It’s been a multi-use park for decades and as far as I’m con-

cerned it’s going to stay that way,” said Brice. “We’re going to manage the ditches, control mosquitoes and people will be allowed to enjoy the park. I’m willing to let this process play out.”

The next steps in that process involve the CRD’s gathering of information in small meetings with a variety of stakeholders, setting up round table discussion sessions and presenting a draft management plan to another set of public meetings in the hopes of getting feedback from the public.

Austin said he is unimpressed.

“The process has started off flawed. I only hope that it gets better.”

what they predict will be an environmental bias in the eventual management plan.

They say that this belief is borne out by the admission of the CRD itself.

In a January 29 letter

to the FIVB, Mike Walton, the CRD’s Senior Park Manager, said “Regarding your concern around species at risk, there are 33 known species at risk in and around the park. Nine species are known to

be resident or breeding in the park.”

The debate continues into the next phase of the process for Island View Beach Regional Park. editor@peninsula newsrevew.com

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May inspired to seek real solutions WHITE, IT’S Continued from page 1

The partnership’s goals include securing seed funding to eventually become selffunding, securing commitments for ten workforce housing units per quarter in the first year of operations, annually measuring and consistently increasing the percentage of the workforce that is resident on the Peninsula, beginning in 2016, and creating a qualification and wait list process to ensure employees working locally actually occupy new workforce housing units.

With dozens of passionate stakeholders, an interim board of directors and an action plan now in place, the partnership seems to be moving steadily forward.

The process for the initiative began in the fall of 2013, after Elizabeth May, leader of the federal Green Party, kept hearing from residents and local businesses that affordable housing was a major issue on the Peninsula. She’d heard about Wake and his efforts in Whistler to increase workforce housing, and got in touch.

“I wanted to support a forum for honest, respectable people to share on what the road blocks are to getting something done,” she said.

Not only does a deficit in affordable housing negatively impact the community, it also threatens employment, she said.

“People are more likely to leave a good

job here on the Peninsula if they find a house they love elsewhere.”

May, who attended the recent tri-municipal meeting in support of Wake’s presentation, said she was inspired to use her convening power to get a round table together to start discussing some real solutions to the problem.

“I’ve always been convinced that people of goodwill can come together and make a difference,” she said.

Due in large part to May’s tireless efforts, the partnership’s stakeholders have come from a wide cross-section in the community, including elected officials, municipal staff, architects and developers, local businesses and members of the

chamber of commerce.

Next up, the group still needs to establish a member to actually start approaching developers and a designated group to secure seed funding.

Emphasizing that continuing on with the status quo is unlikely to rectify the affordable housing shortage, Wake’s takeaway message to the three councils was “Why not?”

“We’re not asking for money,” he said. “We’re just asking for your support. There’s no risk here, so what have we got to lose?”

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Jim Parker Publisher Steven Heywood Editor Janice Marshall Production Manager Bruce Hogarth Circulation Manager

The Peninsula News Review is published by Black Press Ltd. | #103 - 9830 Second St., Sidney, B.C. V8L 3C6 | Phone: 250-656-1151 • Fax: 250-656-5526 • Web: www.peninsulanewsreview.com

OUR VIEW

Hearts of the community

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n Thursday, the Peninsula News Review joins Beacon Community Services in celebrating some of the volunteers whose dedicated service goes largely unnoticed.

Many of those people would rather we not create such a fuss but at a fundamental level — we must disagree with that sentiment.

It has been said that to maintain a good level of volunteerism in any community, those people who give of Volunteers must their time must feel ... their efforts feel as though their efforts are are appreciated appreciated.

For some, that gratitude can come from the people they are volunteering for — the shut-ins, children and visitors who might not otherwise get a meal, hunt for Easter eggs or build Lego models.

For others, a pat on the back once in a while is thanks enough — maybe an appreciation event of some kind now and then.

And for some, well, they’d rather go about their business without any such fanfare.

At its root, the annual Hearts of the Community gala celebrates all of those volunteers and more. It’s an event that gathers people whose peers nominate them for special recognition — and for young people whose community service will strengthen the fabric of the Saanich Peninsula for years to come.

People who volunteer do it for many reasons and it should come as little surprise to them that many other folk really appreciate the work they do.

So, a little gala event and luncheon is a small price to pay — some tiny degree of local fame — for that community service.

Help the News Review and Beacon Community Services fill the Charlie White Theatre tomorrow (Thursday, Feb. 19 at 11 a.m.) for the 17th annual Hearts of the Community Awards.

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@peninsulanewsreview.com or fax 250-656-5526.

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Annual health care crisis grips B.C. T

be dealt with quickly and for free he annual ritual of declaring seems to grow as inexorably as the a crisis in health care is upon health care budget. us, with the B.C. Liberal An emergency physician of my government boasting that we have acquaintance provided a typical the best system in Canada, while scenario for night shift at the ER. the NDP and the B.C. Nurses’ Union Where once nights were quiet, now try to portray it as the worst. there are patients waiting for hours, The BCNU is the last big public around the clock. sector union still to settle in the Several are drunk and latest round of contract one has urinated on the talks. Feeding horror floor. Surveys show as stories to the media is many as half of ER visits part of its strategy, and are alcohol-related, from this time it was a patient overdoses to fights, falls, at Abbotsford Hospital car crashes and chronic assigned a bed in a conditions. small shower room for Into this chaos comes a month due to chronic a mother with her young overcrowding. Hospital child, who has nasal and officials said his care chest congestion. The wasn’t compromised.

We’ve seen it in Tom Fletcher child’s cough led her to B.C. Views throw up, so off to ER they Abbotsford, Surrey and went, blithely assuming elsewhere: a new hospital that this is where you or expansion is built and bring a kid with a cold. is immediately overcrowded. We This week’s B.C. budget brings are reminded every winter that us a step closer to the moment influenza season brings a wave of when half of all provincial revenues people into emergency, expecting go to keep the health care system treatment for a viral infection that running. in most cases can only run its In the legislature, NDP health course. critic Judy Darcy blasted Health Many people still don’t Minister Terry Lake for the understand what “the flu” is, government’s failure to keep its beyond the notion that it sounds 2010 promise to find everyone in serious enough to tell the boss B.C. a family doctor. you won’t be in to work. And as Lake allowed they’re still working fewer doctors choose the endless on that and then plugged the latest demands of family practice, the Conference Board of Canada study expectation that all problems must

showing B.C. ranks third in the world in health care outcomes, second only to Switzerland and Sweden.

Darcy, a former president of the Hospital Employees’ Union, was quick to respond: “This is surely a first in question period, the Minister of Health going back to the record of the NDP government in the 1990s, because we’ve had the best health outcomes in Canada since 1993. The fact is that we exercise more, we smoke less and we drink less, and that’s to the credit of British Columbians.”

We also have more elderly people, as Premier Christy Clark argued in 2011 when the federal government changed its financing formula.

After years of increasing transfers by six per cent per year, the late federal finance minister Jim Flaherty announced that starting in 2014, increases would be tied to economic growth, but wouldn’t fall below three per cent.

This of course was treated as a cut, rather than continued increases above inflation. But there it is and all provinces have to deal with it.

Darcy is quite right that personal responsibility is the key, something to remember as the usual squabbling of special interests continues.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

‘But there it is and all provinces have to deal with it’

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LETTERS Squadron at the airport for more than 25 years

Re: Amazed with noise complains, PNR letters Feb. 11. wholeheartedly respect the views and concerns regarding aviation noise on the Saanich Peninsula stated in the above noted letter to the editor.

As a resident of Sidney (living on the west side of the Pat Bay highway), I am also acutely sensitive to aviation noise, particularly having two young children at home. I must state however, that my decision to purchase a home inside the control zone of the 10th busiest airport in Canada was made consciously.

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This decision was guided primarily by cost, location, services, quality of schools, proximity to employment for both myself and my spouse and most importantly the opportunity to live in the vibrant and welcoming communities of Sidney and North Saanich.

I did, however, prepare myself and my family for the fact that there would be a reasonable expectation of aviation-related noise as the trade off to enjoying these phenomenal benefits.

I would like to take this opportunity to correct one of the assertions that I have heard

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a number of times from various sources over the years which was echoed in the letter.

The author mentions that the 443 Squadron military base was shifted from Esquimalt

to the Victoria airport.

443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron has been operating from the Victoria airport for more than a quarter century since it moved from the Shearwater (Nova Scotia) airport.

While there were some basing studies related to the Sea King replacement aircraft (of which I was part of), I can categorically state that there have never been any plans to base maritime helicopter operations in Esquimalt.

Maritime helicopters such as the CH148 Cyclone and the CH124 Sea King require a full services airport for much of their routine

Readers respond: Combine the town halls; doggie doo; art display Town needs have aligned What an amazing opportunity for coordinated planning and cohesiveness in our community.

North Saanich needs to replace its municipal hall, Town of Sidney its town hall and the Town of Sidney apparently needs to replace its fire hall. It is not often that these opportunities align themselves at the same time and with teamwork and leadership this needed community infrastructure could be achieved with a minimum cost to the taxpayer.

North Saanich and Sidney could build a shared building with three pods: one for North Saanich administration and one for Town of Sidney administration and a shared central gathering place for a council chamber; after all councils only meet on an intermittent basis so sharing of the space is simply a matter of scheduling.

This sort of shared building would provide opportunities for natural integration of common service, operational economies of scale and sharing of staff and yet still provide the distinct society that each council seems bound to preserve.

A mutual location that seems ideal would be use of the surplus community

lands immediately south of the Mary Winspear Centre on lands owned by the Sidney and North Saanich Memorial Park Society. These memorial lands are for the joint use of the two communities and ideally suited for a location for a welldesigned town hall. By leasing the land the annual rent would go to subsidize the operations of the Mary Winspear Centre which indeed is the community cultural centre for both Sidney and North Saanich.

A well-designed building would start to heal the architectural blight that now exists in this location with its unfinished parking lot, its graffiti-ridden skateboard park and tired collection of cobbled together re-used dilapidated mobile trailers: indeed it would become the hub of our twin communities and reflect our pride in our Peninsula.

Once up and running the new fire hall, complete with ambulance centre, could be built on the current location of the Sidney town hall, thus providing natural synergy as the centralized emergency precinct, thus minimizing disruptions.

Let’s hope our community leaders grasp this unique opportunity for community building.

Richard Holmes.

North Saanich

This is Sidney, behave responsibly This is an open letter to the person who is not picking up after their dog on Beacon Avenue, as well as on some of the side streets, and on the Sidney waterfront walk.

It is inconceivable that in this day of enlightenment — and of free available disposable bags for this very purpose — that someone should allow their dog to soil our beautiful town, much less the main street and waterfront walk.

Where is your sense of pride and selfrespect? Please, stop.

This is Sidney, after all. Behave responsibly.

John Boxall Sidney

A splendid display of art What a splendid art display in Island Blue Print’s window in downtown Sidney.

Not only a fine Ted Harrison painting, but accompanying childrens’ art.

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Windsor suggests using Peninsula Streams Society ‘in lieu’ of an environmental department Angela Cowan

A breakdown of committee-approved grants:

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Central Saanich’s special administration and finance committee has approved a total of $96,425 for the District’s 2015 grant-in-aid applications, including $20,000 to the Boys and Girls Club and $17,500 to the Saanich Pioneer Society.

A total of 27 grants were approved by the committee — the majority between $500 and $5,000 — with preference going to organizations based in Central Saanich and those that have a direct effect on the District.

Though the District has no official limit on how much can be allocated for grants-in-aid, the committee had agreed to use one per cent of property taxes — $136,300 — as a guideline in deciding their totals.

The committee also agreed, after some discussion, to use the median of the councillors’ suggested amounts, rather than a weighted average, predominantly because of Councillor Chris Graham’s choice to allocate $0 to each submission which substantially brought down the average amounts.

Graham had submitted late written correspondence outlining a number of reasons explaining his decision to not support the allocation of any funds through the grant process.

He stated he does not believe council is following the current “Grants-in-Aid” policy and that council does not have the expertise to allocate the funds without being subject to personal biases.

He added that the majority of funds given out over the years are recurring and funding operating budgets, rather than specific projects.

A better course of action, he said, would be to explore seed funding and special projects funding.

He further emphasized the money council allocates out should be prioritized back into

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Central Saanich, something he said is not happening adequately.

The committee also approved a motion from Mayor Ryan Windsor to defer the grant request for $10,000 from the Peninsula Streams Society to council’s next meeting to discuss the possibility of including the funding as a supplemental 2015 budget item, rather than through grants-inaid.

Windsor suggested that, as the District does not have an environmental department, the Peninsula Streams Society could provide environmental services in lieu of an internal department.

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The committee also asked that District staff provide a list of the organizations that have received funding through the grants-inaid program for the past five years to give council the opportunity to consider whether any of the organizations could be considered for the supplemental 2016 budget.

Council was expected to ratify the grant allocations at Monday’s meeting, after the News Review’s deadline. reporter@peninsula newsreview.com

Airport commercial property back on the table soon Steven Heywood News staff

A traffic study on the potential impact of a new commercial development on Beacon Avenue on the west side of the Pat Bay Highway in Sidney is in the hands of the municipality.

James Bogusz, vicepresident of operations and development of the Victoria Airport Author-

ity (VAA), says the traffic study is complete and is with the Town of Sidney for their review.

The VAA held a series of open houses after the proposal to develop a 10-acre site was raised last year. Bogusz said people felt such a plan could impact traffic off the highway and onto Beacon Avenue.

A study was done, he said, to look at options.

The VAA has proposed a mixed commercial development and has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Town. Sidney holds some of the land to be used.

Bogusz said the VAA still has to seek changes to Sidney’s official community plan and zoning bylaws and negotiate the use of Town ser-

vices to accommodate the project — but that is months away.

Bogusz noted there has been some interest from the commercial sector in the property, but added it’s all hypothetical right now.

He said the VAA and Town must continue discussions and take any plans to the public before ground is broken.

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Aviation Career Day this Saturday Representatives from industry and educational programs to be present at B.C. Aviation Museum Angela Cowan News Staff

The B.C. Aviation Museum is hosting their fourth annual Aviation Career Day this Saturday (Feb. 21) to bring together industry members and aviation enthusiasts, particularly students.

“It’s to really show the kids that to have a career in aviation, it’s not necessarily just to become a pilot or flight attendant,” said Virginia Brown, co-ordinator for career day and a museum volunteer.

The job market is fairly open from the engineering and technical sides of things, she added, along with a constant need for proficient welders.

Search and rescue, manufacturing and air traffic control are also avenues.

The event not only gives students the chance to talk to prospective employers and find out about various careers, it also helps them take the first steps by connecting them with educational institutions, said Brown, “It’s a good way to marry the two

together,” she said.

The air cadets will also be at the event, giving younger enthusiasts a place to get their foot into the aviation world, she added.

Though it’s geared specifically toward students, Brown said previous years have seen interested people coming in off the street.

“We try and put high school students, from Grade 10 to 12, together with corporate and educational people, but it’s also really for anybody who wants to look into the aviation industry.”

“We’re going to have a barbecue as well,”

said Brown. “We’d like to make it a fun day for everyone, and have people enjoy the museum for what it is, which is a really great place to be.”

Businesses and educational institutions attending the career day include the BCIT Aerospace Program, Department of National Defence, Viking Air, Victoria Flying Club, Transport Canada, University of Victoria, North Island College, NAV Canada, Victoria Airport Authority, Victoria Airport Firefighters, Coastal Pacific Aviation, Civil Air Search and Rescue Associa-

tion, Air Cadets and Camosun College.

Aviation Career Day runs from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21 at the B.C. Aviation Museum, 1910 Norseman Road in Sidney.

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‘Stage Stars’ showcased at Charlie White Dancers from 9 to 21 performing jazz, hip-hop, tap and more Angela Cowan News Staff

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ore than 40 dancers from the Karen Clark Dance Studio will be taking the stage next Friday (Feb. 27) to show off their skills and get one more shot at perfecting their stage presence before competition season.

“Stage Stars” will feature dancers as young as nine years old and up through to 21 years old in a variety of genres, including jazz, tap, hip-hop, ballet and theatre dancing.

“This is our shakedown performance,” says Karen Clark, owner of the studio. “It’s all about getting them out in front of an audience.”

“It’s a different feel in the theatre than in the studio,” says Clark. “Some have done this many times before, but for the

new little ones, we try to make it as pleasant an experi- working hard to polish up their performances, says Clark. ence as possible.”

“These kids are pretty dedicated, and we’re “There’s a certain confidence that comes, no matter what level they’re at, from having a successful perfor- happy to have them.”

The show starts at 7 p.m. mance.”

Friday, Feb. 27 Clark says she’s particu“It’s very at the Charlie larly looking forward to intimate. It allows White Theatre hosting the show in at the Mary the Charlie White Thethe performers Winspear Cenatre. to still feel tre, 2243 Bea“It’s a lovely theatre, con Avenue. and it’s a proper comfortable.”

Tickets are theatre, but it’s – Karen Clark $13.50 and very intimate. are availIt allows the performers to still able at the box office, marywinspear.ca or by calling 250-656feel comfortable.”

Dancers will per- 0275.

For more information, visit form on their own in solos, or in twos karenclarkdancestudio.com or call and threes, or small 250-658-0445. reporter@peninsulanewsreview.com groups, and they’ve been Gordon Lee Photography

Ashley Young, left, and Julie Herle of the Karen Clark Dance Studio.

Amanda Abelenda shows off the flexibility and poise she’s developed at the studio.

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ARTs In Brief We’re Gonna Groove with Led ZepAgain

Rock and Roll fans prepare yourselves, Led ZepAgain, the band Jimmy Page himself said is “as close as you’ll ever get to the real deal,” is coming to Sidney.

Playing classics like Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song and Black Dog, Irish vocalist Swan Montgomery channels Robert Plant with eerie accuracy, and Jim Kersey pays tribute to the late John Bonham with passion.

Guitars start blazing at 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 2 at the Charlie White Theatre at the Mary Winspear Centre, 2243 Beacon Ave. Tickets are $42.53 and are available at the box office, at marywinspear.ca or by calling 250-656-0275.

Allegro solo show

The Allegro Performing Arts Centre presents their annual solo performance show, featuring accomplished dancers that trip the light fantastic all on their own.

A variety of dance genres will be showcased, including jazz, modern and hip hop.

Two shows run on Saturday, March 7 at 1 and 7 p.m. at the Charlie White Theatre at Mary Winspear Centre.

Tickets are $14.50, and are available at the box office, at marywinspear.ca or by calling 250-656-0275.

Twists and turns

Celebrate the year’s second Friday the 13th with Marian Call at Deep Cove Folk Society’s next club night.

Described by a fan as “acoustic joy jazz,” Call’s music pairs folk and rock with classical and gospel influences, with lyrics full of triple rhymes and unexpected twists and turns.

Deep Cove Folk Society’s club nights are held on the second Friday of the month at St. John’s United Church, 10990 West Saanich Road.

Doors open at 7:15 and the show begins at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 13. For more, visit deepcovefolk.ca.

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small garden on my broths it me, or by any er’s property, where he chance is it my delights in providing the machine? kitchen with fresh vegetaThey say a poor bles. workman always I know that wonderful blames his tools, so I guess feeling myself. If you didn’t it could be me. My comget around to planting puter has swallowed my Broad beans last fall you article, just when I was could plant the seed now going to add a couple of and expect a crop in July wonderful words of wisor maybe early August. dom and now it is gone Helen Lang If you like creamed Lima forever. I’m blessed if I Over the Garden beans, you would probcan remember what I was Fence ably enjoy creamed Broad going on about, no doubt beans as well. something to do with For those of you who are just spring, but that is a big topic. What on earth shall I do now? Start all over beginning to cook, the sauce is a plain white sauce. Melt a heaping again seems to be the only answer. teaspoon of butter (margarine), then add a level tablespoon of white flour.

• • • • Stir until they are blended, then add It’s still a little early to start most about 3/4 cup of milk and stir until planting outdoors, although not too smooth. Cook over gentle heat until early to plant peas, maybe spinach, it bubbles and thickens, before addchard and radishes, especially if you ing the already cooked, steamed cover the seed bed with Reemay beans. Add salt to taste, and you’ve cloth. It allows water to pass through got it!

I’m pretty sure the article I lost had but protects against light frost.

Let’s talk for a moment about a bit about dwarf iris in it. I think you’d love these beautiful small planting peas.

Once you have prepared a seed plants, grown from bulbs planted in bed, dig in plenty of composted the fall. The one called iris reticumanure or good compost (is there a lata is exquisite, both small, a dark bad kind? I don’t think so!) Then put blue, with a thin fuzzy yellow streak down each petal. There is another, in your pea seed.

I like Little Marvel myself for its not quite as spectacular, named Dangenerosity — instead of one pod fordia. If you love small, but glorious at the end of a stem, there are two! flowers, plant some of these dwarf These aren’t as big pods as the Alder- iris next fall. A cluster of these bulbs man variety produces, but are both planted about two inches apart in a big pot would be a heart stopping early and delicious.

I’m going to get some tomorrow, sight next spring. If you have a heart soak them overnight and plant them problem, avoid even a glimpse! the next day.

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Bricks from airport historic building will live on Site to be redeveloped for aviation industry Steven Heywood News staff

There’s little left but dirt, construction materials and a pile of dusty bricks.

The Second World War-era building that once housed the administrative staff of 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron was recently demolished, but some of it will live on.

James Bogusz, vicepresident of operations and development for the Victoria Airport

Authority (VAA), says bricks from the structure will find new life in a monument in North Saanich.

“We have been working with Wallace du Temple and the North Saanich Heritage Commission,” he explained.

“We have met a few times and are looking to do something at Hospital Hill — the lookout area on Mills Road.”

That spot is across from the North Saanich municipal hall and was upgraded when the

VAA built its Flight Path multi-use trail.

“The bricks are quite brittle,” Bogusz said.

“But crews have been picking out the good ones — and we’ll use approximately 1,000 of them in the park.”

A monument is in the works, he said, but a final design is not yet ready.

It will pay tribute to the men and women who served at the airport in the late 1930s to the end of the war.

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He said by the end of the year, most — if not all — of the land will be handed over to the authority.

“Into 2016, we’ll look at some design changes and try to facilitate some new aviation development,” he said.

Bogusz said the property is being shopped out to potential clients and there could still be some road or building construction in the future.

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Bricks, Bogusz said, will be incorporated into the final design.

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Writers of all genres welcome. Thursday, Feb. 26, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Register at 250-656-0944.

A FestiVAl oF Favourites musical event at Sidney’s Peace Lutheran Church, 2295 Weiler Ave. (off Lochside) Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m. Enjoy great selections from classical to classics of the 1920s through the ‘60s, featuring Laura Cave, pianist and singer. A benefit for the Fireside Room Project. Tickets and info at peacesidney. ca or 250-652-6058. scottish Folk Fun. Come try Scottish Folk Dancing at the Centre 1229 Clarke Rd. in Brentwood Bay next to the library. First time free. Tuesdays 10 to 11:30 a.m. and Tuesdays and Fridays 7 to 9 p.m. All welcome. Wear soft soled light-weight shoes. Contact: janet. mitchell@shaw.ca.

Events

BeekeepinG At the Sidney North Saanich Library.

Curious about what it takes to be a beekeeper? Join Dr. John Esling for an introduction to this ancient art.

Sponsored by UVic Speakers Bureau.

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 7 to 8 pm. Free.

Register at 250-6560944. shoAl centre Will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary

The News Review provides this community calendar free of charge, giving preference to Saanich Peninsula clubs, organizations and individuals holding nonprofit events in our readership area. Publication is not guaranteed. Calendar items should be mailed, dropped off at our office, or e-mailed to editor@ peninsulanewsreview.com. on Tuesday, March 10, with a buffet lunch, entertainment and door prizes.

Tickets available by phone or drop by the Centre. 250-6565537. Doors open 11:30 a.m. — lunch served at noon.

Don’t miss this fun birthday celebration.

Join the sidney Senior Singles on a trip to the Chemainus Dinner Theatre for the buffet lunch and show on Wednesday, March 11. The show is Ring of Fire, Project Johnny Cash. Transportation leaving from the SHOAL Centre at 10 a.m., returning about 5:30 p.m. on March 11. Deadline for ticket purchase is Monday, Feb. 23.

Call Colleen at 250665-6638.

Get AWAy With a Good Book kickoff at the Sidney North Saanich Library.

Read books, write reviews, win prizes, have fun! Find out about Adult Reading Program (now to February 28), get reading recommendations and enjoy refreshments.

Register at 250-6560944.

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Bring your littlest ones to the library for stories, songs, rhymes and fun.

Thursdays to March 5, 10:15 to 11 a.m. Ages 0-5 years.

Free. Drop-in. For information, call 250-656-0944.

Health

FAll preVention (osteoFit) classes begin for the Spring session at SHOAL Activity Centre, Feb. 24 and run to April 2 (12 sessions) every Tuesday and Thursday, 10 to 11 a.m. These classes are designed for both men and women to help prevent falls and strengthen bones and muscles in a safe and gentle manner. Call to register 250-6565537.

Meetings

cFuW sAAnich peninsulA presents guest speakers, Norgrove and Anné Penny speaking about establishing a program for children with disabilities in Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. at Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney. Please join us for this fascinating talk.

Multiple sclerosis support group has just started in Sidney.

It will meet Thursday, Feb. 26, and every fourth Thursday of the month, at the Army Navy and Airforce unit 302 (ANAF) hall on 4th Street in Sidney from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Followed by a yoga session adapted for the specialist needs of those living with MS. Ample accessible parking available.

Contact Karen at karencurtis37@gmail. com for details. the White cAne Club meets at SHOAL Centre for those with vision impairment, on the first Thursday of each month. Next meeting is Thursday, March 5, 1:30 to 3 p.m. Presentation will be by the CNIB store. literAry kitchen sink Open Mic at the Sidney North Saanich Library. Writers are invited to read their poetry, story excerpts, memoir, or more for up to 5 minutes. Or join the audience and support local writers.

Free. For information call 250-656-0944. neW MeMBers WelcoMe — Senior Women’s Book Club meets once a month, second Monday, 1:30 p.m. for discussion.

Call 250-656--5562. sidney sister cities association meets third Thursday

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of the month at the Sidney North Saanich Library (Nell Horth Room) at 7 p.m. Help us build our sister relationships with Anacortes; Cairns, Australia; and Niimi, Japan.

For more information check our new website: sidneysister citiesassociation. com.

Misc.

dAFFodil sprinG BridGe tournament, Saturday, Feb. 21 at St. Elizabeth’s Church, 10030 Third St., Sidney from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Hosted by CWL. Lunch served.

Proceeds to Saanich Peninsula Hospital and Women’s Transition House.

For tickets, call Olga Sweet, 778-4261941.

Volunteers

Volunteer serVices At SHOAL Centre is looking for volunteers to join our team of Friendly Visitors. An active listening course to support interested friendly visitors will commence March 11.

For more information please call Deb Greenaway 250-6565537 ext. 106 or email: dgreenaway@ beaconcs.ca. shoAl ActiVity centre is looking for a volunteer for two hours a week for our Computer Lab DropIn to help seniors with iPad and tablet questions. If you are interested please contact Anna Hudson 250-656-5537 ext.

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Successful candidates will receive training to provide resource-focused support for single parents. Training will run on Thursdays from 12:00 - 2:30, from March 26 - May 28.

Interested individuals please contact Raina Pierce at: raina@1-up.ca or call 250.385.1114 BRIDGES FOR Women Society is looking for social media volunteers with expertise in Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms to assist with their indiegogo and public awareness campaigns.

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SPORTS

Panthers off to Island basketball finals Steven Heywood News staff

Parkland’s game against Oak Bay in the South Island junior girls basketball finals on Friday didn’t quite go the way coach Larry Green wanted — but all is not lost.

His team, which finished first in the league this season and holds an overall winning record, advanced to the Island Championships in Nanaimo this weekend and Green says they’ll be pulling out all the stops.

Parkland lost to Oak Bay 77-59 on Feb. 13 at Central Middle School. Green said they lost starter Sarah Gibson after she fouled out in the first half.

“That affected us, definitely,” he said, adding his players stepped up to fill the gap and played well for most of the game.

Oak Bay seemed to have prepared for Parkland, having lost to them two times before. Forward Georgia Alexander scored 40 as Oak Bay handled Parkland’s

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Parkland’s Olivia Erfle has her shot blocked by Oak Bay’s Natalie Froese. Erfle did regain the ball and score two points in the play. pressure defense with quick passes and deep post play.

The Panthers’ Arianne Stevenson poured in 33 points.

Lauren Fanelli added 16 and

Emma Dennis had 5.

Dennis, who leads Parkland with 28 three-pointers on the season, said she learned the team can pull

together when one of their starters is lost.

“We’ll come back fighting,” she said.

The loss was an emotional

one for Parkland, but Stevenson said they support each other and will overcome.

“I think (Oak Bay) played well and we’ll be ready for them next time,” she said.

Stevenson, Parkland’s’ top scorer and assists leader, added the game was a wake up call but noted her teammates still have a lot of good ball left to come.

“We never quit.”

Green said his team has some work to do for the Islands Feb. 19 to 21 at Wellington school in Nanaimo.

Oak Bay, he said, has improved a lot this season and will be a tough opponent in his team’s goal to get to the provincials.

To that end, Green said he’ll be changing up both offense and defence this weekend — strategies his players have been practicing for weeks, he said.

“It has been a good year,” said the coach. “We’ve had unbelievable support from the school and we owe them a huge thank-you.” editor@peninsulanewsreview.com

Home team wins Glen Meadows bonspiel undefeated

Teams from the southern Island came to play in fourday competition Angela Cowan News Staff

After four days of intense competition at the Glen Meadows Masters Bonspiel last week, four teams emerged victorious from their divisions.

The Wayne Scott team, comprised of Scott, Lawrence Woytowich, Paul Addison and Gerry Vantreight of Glen Meadows, took the trophy in the ‘A’ division. They were undefeated through the finals and showed off the “cream of the crop” of the league, said co-ordinator Ray Johnson.

“This was nice, because it’s our home club,” said Woytowich. “And believe it or not, we’ve never won our home club. This was our first time winning here.”

“We have the best masters spiels in the province,” said Addison,

Angela Cowan/News Staff

Winner of the ‘A’ division and undefeated through the entire Men’s Masters Curling Bonspiel at Glen Meadows (Feb. 10 to 13) in North Saanich, Lawrence Woytowich, left, Wayne Scott, Paul Addison and Gerry Vantreight collect their trophy and prize winnings. smilng as he and the team accepted their trophy.

Runner up for the ‘A’ event was the Steve Begg team, also from Glen Meadows, with Begg, Gary Rowe, Al Thomson and Adrian Koolman.

Coming in close behind and winning the ‘B’ division with only one loss to their name was the Garry Franklyn team from Mill Bay, with Franklyn, Terry Bompas, Randy McLeod and Ray Holman.

The runner up in ‘B’ was the Paul Kondal team from Kerry Park, with Kondal, Bruce Ovens, Al Brown and Glenn Marsh.

Winner of the ‘C’ division was the Bob Gallaugher team from Duncan, with teammates Brian Aaberg, Bud Harbidge and James Turner.

The Mike Debeck team from Kerry Park took the runner up spot, with Debeck, Dick McCarthy, Ray Hutchinson and Sandy Stewart.

And winner of the ‘D’ division, who had to win two more matches than teams in the ‘A’ spot, was the Wayne Silver team from the Esquimalt Curling Club. Paul Langoon, George Marcyniuk and Denis Lieutard joined skip Silver to beat out ‘D’ runners up from Victoria, the Don Allan team, also with Brian Morin, Phil Marsh and Alf Wiebe.

Glen Meadows’ annual Men’s Masters is a 32-team bonspiel open to players 55 and over, who are members or spares of a Masters curling league.

For more information, visit glenmeadowscurling.com. reporter@peninsulanewsreview.com

SPORTS In Brief Black Press Carrier Night with the Victoria Royals

Black Press community newspapers in Greater Victoria — including the PNR — have free tickets for our paper carriers for the Saturday, Feb. 21 Victoria Royals game.

If you are a carrier, the family of a carrier — or a reader who wants to reward a carrier for a good job — drop by the office of the PNR (1039830 Second St. in Sidney). We have free tickets available on a first come-first served basis.

VIJHL playoffs

• The Peninsula Panthers Junior B hockey team played a wildcard match Monday night (Feb. 16) to determine the final team into the VIJHL playoffs this season. Look for coverage in Friday’s PNR as the game started after our press deadline for this edition.

On the court

The Parkland Panthers senior boys basketball team is getting ready to host the 3A South Island Championships Feb. 19 to 21.

Parkland is currently ranked fourth on Vancouver Island in the 3A division and has had a great year in what is coach Roger Pires’ final season.

The school also hosts the 3A Island finals Feb. 26 to 28, promising to be a busy weekend of basketball on the Peninsula.

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