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Twenty-five years ago, the Rotarians decided to hold a garage sale with tables where people could sell used goods. This simple beginning turned into the massive public event that has become the Rotary Auction and Spring Fair held each year at SEAPARC. This year’s fair takes

place on Saturday, May 2 with a 10 a.m. start. John Bridal, Director of Public Relations for the Sooke Rotary Club, said the biggest change has been going from an auction to a public event with Sooke businesses involved. He said now there is a trade fair, entertainment, food and displays. “This happened just before I got there - it suddenly ballooned,” said Bridal. Part of the goal, said Bridal was to let the local community highlight what is here. “Everyone’s been huddled around all winter and now it’s time to get out and see what’s going on.” This year the Rotar-

ians will have a new feature - gold panning. Thanks to the Vancouver Island Placer Mining Association, kids (and big kids) can, for a small fee, pan for gold. The dirt will be salted with real gold and whatever gold anyone pans out they can keep. “It’s celebrating 150 years of gold from Leechtown,” said Bridal. The auction has always been a major draw at the fair and this year is no different, except the live auction begins at 6 p.m. The silent auction goes on all day. So what wonders are being offered up at the live auction? There are four fishing charters to bid on and Bridal said

this is always a popular item. Add to that a oneweek stay at a resort in Canmore, Alberta where horseback rising is the big deal. The auction items range from the wonderful to the necessary and by that he means a huge box of toilet paper. Then there’s the multiple truckloads of gravel and wood chips, and a local dentist is even offering crown work. Bridal emphasizes the 6 p.m. start for the live auction. People can wander around sampling and gathering information from over 70 booths and be entertained by local dancers from Carole Cave Dance Studio, the Journey middle

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school rock band and other local performers. There is also a plant sale outdoors and free swimming at the pool from 1 to 5 p.m. Bridal said they are excited about the auction and fair but the best thing is what it provides to the community. “This is our major fund raiser,” said Bridal, “It allows our club to do the things we do in Sooke. We’re extremely grateful to the donors and sponsors, we couldn’t do it without their generosity year to year.” The best part - it’s FREE. SEAPARC Leisure Complex is located at 2168 Phillips Road.

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Sooke Harbourside Lions were out in force on April 23 waving to motorists on Sooke Road all to promote the Duck Race on May 9 at the Sooke Flats.

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Drinking water tours Find out where your water comes from The Capital Regional District (CRD) will be hosting annual public tours of the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area and water supply facilities from Monday, May 4 to Saturday, May 9. Every year during BC Drinking Water Week, residents of the region are invited to register for public tours of the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area and water supply facilities. The water system serves a population of approximately 340,000 people within the region. The free tours provide a first-hand look at the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area and water supply facilities. They provide an opportunity to learn more about the care taken to provide Greater Victoria with clean, safe drinking water everyday. There are two tour options: A full day (5.5 hour) tour takes participants north to south through the Sooke and Goldstream water supply areas.There are several stops including a walk to the shoreline of Sooke Lake Reservoir, a look at Rithet Creek that supplies a quarter of the water to the reservoir, a short forest walk, a lunch stop at the dam at Sooke Lake Reservoir, a stop at Goldstream Lake Reservoir and a tour of the ultraviolet disinfection facility. The full day tour leaves at 9:30 a.m. each day and returns at approximately 3 p.m. A half day (three hour) tour focuses on

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This and ThaT water supply facilities including visits to the dams at Sooke Lake and Goldstream Lake reservoirs and the ultraviolet disinfection facility. These half day tours leave at 9:15 a.m. and 1 p.m. daily. Advance reservations are required and can be made by calling 250-474-9621 from Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Coast Guard station closes Federal budget day coincided with the closure of a coast guard monitoring station in Ucluelet, the third such base to be closed by the Conservative government in 2015. Coast guard officers say that reducing the number of staff that oversees marine communications and traffic is a threat to the safety of Canadians and wildlife on the coast. The Harper government’s cuts to the marine safety network have impacted services on both coasts. Three bases have been closed so far this year in Saint John, St. John’s, and now Ucluelet. Five more monitoring stations are scheduled to close in 2015 in Thunder Bay, Rivière au Renard, St. Anthony, Vancouver, and Comox. Commercial fishers are concerned that reduced oversight will put them at a higher risk. “Thousands of Canadians make their living on our coast. The coast guard is essential to our safety,” said Keith Sullivan, President of Unifor’s Fish, Food, and Allied Workers (FFAW). Restoring funding to the coast guard would cost $5.5 million per

year, or 0.25 per cent of the cost to the government of the incomesplitting program introduced in 2015.

Missing ticket stubs The Sooke Harbourside Lions are pretty quacked up about some missing ticket stubs. On April 21, a member sold tickets to their Duck Race and forgot to keep the stubs. The ticket numbers are 351, 352, 353, 354, 355. If you have them please call Maria Medwedrich at 250-6426223. They don’t want anyone to miss out on the win.

Garrison works to protect Sooke River Randall Garrison, MP (Esquimalt Juan de Fuca) this week introduced Private Members Bills C-667 (Sooke River) and C-668 (Colquitz River) that would add the Colquitz and Sooke Rivers and watersheds to the schedule of the Navigation Protection Act and thus restore federal environmental protection to these important regional rivers. In 2012 the Conservative government’s Bill C-45 cut environmental protection to all rivers, streams, and lakes on Vancouver Island. “Both the Colquitz and Sooke Rivers are vital to their immediate neighbourhoods and to the overall environmental health of the Capital Regional District.” Gar-

rison said. “The upper Sooke watershed is the source for drinking water for Greater Victoria and the Colquitz watershed, which includes Elk, Beaver, Swan and Blenkinsop Lakes, is one of the most threatened watersheds on Vancouver Island. Passage of these bills would provide back up to the volunteer groups which have been working so hard to restore the integrity of these watersheds, including efforts to bring back their salmon runs,” said Garrison. “Not only are these ecosystems valuable in themselves, they can also play an important role in our local economy. Restoring salmon runs can help contribute to tourism and sport fishing as well as helping ensure the survival of the Southern Resident Killer Whales by increasing their local food supply,” Garrison concluded.

Two Sooke bridge options dropped District of Sooke council has removed the last two remaining locations from the list of a suggested second bridge across the Sooke River. Site 3, Soule Road, was taken off the list due to the cost needed to implement a bridge in the area. A second location known as Site 4, Calvert Road to Sunriver Nature Trail Park, was also dropped off the list due to several elevationrelated reasons, notably the steep grades in Sunriver Nature Trail Park, which would pose a potential risk to cyclists.

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Picture a parade of 300 bicycle riders on Sooke Road, both youngsters and youngat-hearts. That’s the number of bikes sold to the Sooke community over the past 15 years at the Rotary Auction & Spring Fair. The local RCMP donates most of the bikes annually. “We take in anywhere from 10-50 bikes per year, either as found property, seized or donated,” said RCMP Sooke Detachment Commander, S/Sgt. Jeff MacArthur. If the bikes cannot be reunited with their rightful owner, Sooke Rotary gets the call to retrieve them for the annual charity auction. “The Sooke RCMP is pleased to partner with the Rotary Club for this important fund raising event,” McArthur added. He noted other detachments, such as West Shore RCMP, donate their found bikes to Langford Fire Department’s Ride-ALong Program. Rotarian Roger Temple has personally rebuilt 242 of these bikes in nine years. He explains the bikes often arrive in poor condition -- bent wheels, seized gears, rusty chains, and faulty breaks. Temple spends approximately two to three hours per bike to ensure each is fully operational and safe. He also notes buyers receive a 50 per cent off coupon for labour at Sooke Mountain Cycle, should they want a once-over from the pros. The auction this Saturday will see 32 bikes up for sale. Each is auctioned to the highest

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bidder, so the prices vary but Temple estimates the average value at $60-100. He notes one special bike this year, an electric bike that he hopes may bring $250. “It’s running and holds a good charge” he said, but adds “it may not look perfect, but you’re also not spending $1,700 on a new one. We will take whatever we can get for it.” Temple estimates the bike sale earns roughly $2,000 per year for the Club, with the funds supporting youth leadership conferences, adventure projects, and scholarships. As a long-term sponsor of these projects, Temple said, “It was nice to know that the time I was spending on these bikes was going to these youth programs that I was helping administer.” He agreed that it is a little sad the prior own-

ers lost their bikes, but at least they are repurposed for a happy new owner and also benefit a good cause. He also notes that every year or two an owner is reunited with their stolen bike – sometimes with a “finder’s fee” donation to the auction. The Rotary Auction & Spring Fair is at SEAPARC this Saturday. The bike bidding starts at 10 a.m., along with the silent auction and trade fair. The bike sale ends at 4:30 p.m., the silent auction and exhibits close at 5 p.m, and the famous live auction starts at 6 p.m. (NEW TIME! Not at 7 p.m. as in prior years). The event offers live music and food all day, with a wine and beer garden opening at 4 p.m.. As well, the Vancouver Island Placer Mining Association will lead gold panning demonstrations, in observing 150 YEARS

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Important message delivered at conference ‘Always be prepared’ was the overall message

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“It’s not a matter of if, but of when,” is a phrase that was often heard at the Prestige hotel this weekend, which held the 2015 Vancouver Island Emergency Preparedness Conference. There was some lighthearted humour from key speakers, a few slideshows, even some free parking — but in truth, the subject matter yelled out a rather stern message: we need to be more prepared in case of serious emergencies, like say, the Big One; a super-megabad-earthquake that could potentially return the entire West Coast Sooke included - back to the Stone Age in one swift swing. Sooke’s elite kicked off the opening ceremony early Saturday morning, with speeches from Fire Chief Steven Sorensen, Mayor Maja Tait, T’Souke Nation Chief Gordon Planes, followed by several special guests including Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan, MP Randall Garrison, Assistant Deputy Minister for Emergency Management B.C. Pat Quealey. And there’s only one reason why visitors from all over B.C. - and indeed North America packed the parking lots and convention halls: to know what we, the public, should do in case Mother Nature decides to blow her stack one day. This included several sessions on what you need to pack for an emergency kit, how to build one, and what you need to do keep yourself and your family prepared.

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Welcoming the delegates

Mayor Maja Tait, centre, highlighted the importance of working together and being prepared as a community in face of major emergencies. Tait was among several keynote speakers at the opening ceremony during the 2015 Vancouver Island Emergency Preparedness Conference at the Prestige hotel, including MP Randall Garrison, far left; Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan; Pat Quealey, Asst. Deputy Minister - Emergency Management BC, second from right; Sooke Fire Dept. Chief Steve Sorensen, far right; and T’Sou-ke Nation Chief Gordon Planes. This avant-grande approach certainly didn’t exclude the firstresponders and emergency specialists themselves. Among the speakers was Brian Hutchinson, Captain for Vancouver Fire and Rescue, who pointed out that response agencies should be just as mindful of an event that could easily overwhelm their abilities. “We have response agencies that say, you know what, we don’t actually have to plan for a disaster, ‘we respond to emergencies every day, and when it’s the big one, we’ll just respond like we normally do’ - but I think everyone in this room knows that that’s not gonna work for very long,” Hutchinson said. He added that the initial emergencyresponse plan to earthquakes and other destructive events in B.C. was in fact from 1991 — and hasn’t been

updated until now. So, as a way to change that, Hutchinson said it was about engaging the emergency-response community and putting the plan into a new gear. “We reached out to our partners in the city, our fire prevention, our school boards, BC Hydro, and our hospitals, our care facilities and we mapped them out,” he said. “We sat down, then drew out all the damage assessment routes.” Hutchinson said his department reached out to the different fire halls to actually go out there and “pilot” these new routes - to “go out and drive it.” And it’s not even about practice makes perfect, it’s about practicing these kinds of ideas in the first place that reduces the amount of confusion to first-responders, he noted. Sending your crews out, expecting them to know their respective

looking like an Etch-aSketch, there’s only one thing that will likely happen: you’ll panic. “Now you say, I’m going to grab my kids, going to go in my home, going to do this, or that - but when it happens, all that goes out the window,” he said, adding the only way to counter the panic is by practicing your emergency-response plan on a regular basis that way, it pretty much becomes muscle memory. “See the importance of this and get involved - don’t expect your dad or your mom to do it - sign up, volunteer, prepare - you’re giving to the community, sure, but you’re preparing your family as well. Because now you know what to do when it happens.”

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Our early settlers were adventurous people, perhaps none more so than the Poirier family. Here we have Pete Poirier with a young black bear. Pete was one of the 14 children born to Joseph Poirier Sr, (the man for whom Ecole Poirier was named) and his wife Ellen. The family had caught the cub in the Otter Point woods; perhaps the mother had been shot. In any event, the young Poirier men were enjoying raising the bear cub, trying to teach him tricks, and roughhousing with him. Joseph Poirier Sr. had arrived at Sooke along with other emigres originally from Quebec and the fur trade, coming up north to Canada by wagon train from the Columbia River area after the signing of the Oregon Treaty in 1846. Many French Canadian/mixed culture families initially settled near the Sooke River to be close to some of their connections at the T’Sou-ke nation. So it was that Joseph Poirier and his young wife settled at the river flats just north of the Sooke River bridge, in the area we know as Milne’s Landing. It

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the yard of the Hugh Campbells, a pioneer family from Scotland who pre-empted in Shirley district in 1890. We’re assuming that Pete Poirier and his wife Kit were at the Campbell home visiting. The Campbells as well have had an extensive history in the area, as their daughter Christine married Edwin Clark, and they raised seven sons and a daughter. One of their grand-daughters is Dianna Seaton, a trustee on the board of School District #62. We know that this

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Introducing Wild Wise Sooke Keeping bears wild and humans safe is priority #1 Educating the public on how to live harmoniously with Sooke’s wildlife is the guiding principle of a new organization launched by former WildSafe BC regional coordinator Debb Read and Nitya Harris of the Coexisting with Carnivores Alliance in partnership with the Sooke Transition Town Society. Wild Wise Sooke will initially and primarily focus on bear management as Read continues a highly effective campaign she began 2012. Sooke is statistically one of the Canada’s leading hotspots for black bears. Problems arise as bears become habituated to dining on garbage rather than berries and roots. In turn, this creates safety issues and, in increasingly rare instances, fatal consequences for the bears. The good news: Read’s efforts have decreased the number of local complaints to conservation services by 40 per cent (down to 278 calls last spring and summer). Better still, only four bears needed to be destroyed last year in the District of Sooke compared to 16 in 2013.

Sooke is now ready for its own community wildlife education program directed by a founding working group that features Read, Harris, the District of Sooke’s Laura Byrne and Councillor Ebony Logins from the EMCS Society, Transition Sooke’s Jeff Bateman and the Chamber of Commerce’s Travis Butler. The RCMP’s Jeff McArthur and Conservation Officers Peter Pauwels and Richard DeKelver are part of the advisory team. “Ongoing public education is essential or the progress we’ve made will be lost,” explained Read. “The vast majority of people get it, but there are still folks out there who either store their garbage outside or keep it in the garage but put it out the night before pick-up. Other people leave pet food outside, keep their birdfeeders full during the summer or are careless with their compost. All this is pure bear bait and it’s guaranteed to increase the chance of dangerous interactions between the bears and us.” Sooke residents who spot a bear in their neighbourhood should immediately call the Ministry of Environment’s RAPP line at 1-800-663-WILD. In most cases, the creature will be rambling through on its way elsewhere, however the call allows conser-

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vation staff to track the local bear population. If the problem persists, Read makes a personal visit to explore the root causes and offer bearwise remedies. “Once a bear starts equating humans with food, they lose their natural wariness and become what is called ‘human-habituated,’” she explains. “They then learn to tolerate us in much closer proximity than what is safe for both bears and humans. My best advise to homeowners is to take a careful look around their property, figure out what’s attracting the bears and then take remedial steps.” Wild Wise Sooke is a good fit for Transition Sooke, said Bateman. “One key aspect of the Transition Town philosophy is the ‘inner transition,’ and Debb is working hard to change the way we respect and

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Do people still fit in the equation? There was a story recently about someone getting burned by a hot beverage at a well-known coffee shop (not in Sooke). What bothered the person involved was the fact that no one behind the counter came forward to help and they appeared not to know what to do. This could be the fault of many things, but the first issue that comes to mind is the fact that no one was trained to deal with a first aid situation. They just stood there. The second is they didn’t seem to care. Are we losing our people skills? Are we so self-absorbed that people no longer fit into the equation? We’re luckier in Sooke because we do seem to care about customers. This is common in many businesses. The staff is paid poorly and time is not spent on training in such things as basic customer service. It does not take money to tell staff to be friendly, attentive and there for the customer. The customer in front of you is more important than an in-coming phone call. They can call back, the waiting customer may decide to leave. Is the customer always right? If you lose one customer due to in-attention, you will lose more - guaranteed. Poorly paid staff are not really well trained in product knowledge either, they don’t really seem to care. And forget about after sale service, it’s non-existent. Some customers would rather pay a little more to get what they need down the street. Service does not end once the product leaves the store. The most successful businesses are ones that honour their guarantees without question. People will return to any business that treats them with respect and consideration. Those two things do not cost any money. If service is unacceptable, it makes it so much easier for a customer to shop on-line where they don’t have to deal with a sales clerk or cashier talking on the phone or over-long to another customer, ignoring them or just not being helpful. A simple “I’ll be with you in a moment” can do wonders when someone is waiting. In fact, what it does is acknowledge the customer, thereby making them feel like they are appreciated. Respect, attention and consideration don’t affect the bottom line, but lack of those will.

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Coast Guard hysteria sinks lower B.C. Views The Vancouver media’s frantic coverage of the Great Bunker Spill of 2015 has just about run out of fuel. By late last week, the usually serious Globe and Mail was reduced to quizzing a U.S. expert who had at first told the CBC he thought the spill response was pretty good. But then he heard that it might have taken up to 12 hours until the leaking grain ship was completely under control, which would be not so good. This U.S. expert admitted he has not “followed the Vancouver spill very closely,” and was basically speculating. But that’s OK, because the main purpose of this media frenzy is to feed the established narrative that the Harper government is gutting the Coast Guard while trying to ramp up heavy oil shipments to Asia. Yeah, that makes sense. A University of Toronto philosophy prof recently suggested that Stephen Harper likes war. Maybe he likes oil spills too. A retired captain from the nowclosed Kitsilano Coast Guard station became the latest of a series of disgruntled ex-employees and union bosses to serve as the media’s go-to critics. He contradicted Coast Guard management at every turn, dismissing them as political appointees with little operational experience. His claims about loss of spill response capability from Kitsilano

are questionable at best. There was no talk of spill response when Kitsilano closed two years ago, because it was a search and rescue station. Former B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair held almost daily news conferences as it closed. People are going to drown, warned a parade of union spokespeople. It’s been two years, and nobody has. Premier Christy Clark and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson were quick to summon TV cameras as oilsheen angst spread through condo towers. They declared the Coast Guard response a failure before they had any real understanding of it. Unifor, the union representing Coast Guard employees, has vowed a full-scale election advertising attack on the Conservatives this year. On federal budget day, Unifor protested the closure of the Ucluelet Coast Guard ship monitoring station. Similar stations in Vancouver and Comox are also closing this year, replaced by a new monitoring system run from Prince Rupert and Victoria. I asked Industry Minister James Moore, the federal minister responsible for B.C., if this is a reduction in service. He said 1970s-era ship tracking equipment is being replaced with a new system that has already been deployed on the East Coast, to improve safety. “These fears were also raised back in the ’60s and ’70s, when

lighthouses were de-staffed,” Moore said. “I remember people saying, oh my God, this is going to be the end. And it turned out to be complete nonsense.” Unifor operatives rushed to the media again last week with dire news of a half-hour outage of this new system, portraying this as evidence of a high-tech disaster waiting to happen. (Ships were told to monitor an old-school emergency radio channel for that uneventful half hour.) What the union is really doing is ramping up its election propaganda, and intensifying efforts to protect redundant positions that are being replaced by new technology. There was a similar media campaign last year targeting the consolidation of Veterans’ Affairs into Service Canada offices. There are serious problems with services to veterans, but union featherbedding would not help them. The B.C. government is also introducing digital technology, eliminating hundreds of paper-pushing jobs in the process, with a mostly realistic response from unions. But in this federal election year, realism will be in short supply. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@ blackpress.ca

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Earth Day in transition In the beginning there was silence with an energy that permeated the universe and alas in due time physical forms as well as the Earth took shape. When the sun caressed the land giving birth to many life forms on sea and on land there was sustenance for all creatures. And it was good. And over time the Earth thrived and mankind thrived and was blessed with all the goodness that nature had provided. And over many years of earthly existence man and womankind had populated the planet and lived wisely off the land. And it was good. Then man in his wisdom started to make changes to the environment. And it was called progress and technology and was created to benefit mankind and was revered in many ways. But these changes did not benefit all. Some of the changes created hardships for some people and deterioration to the land, air and waters. And this was not good. There were those who prospered from these changes and were living in great comfort from the effort put forth by a multitude of others. Many who were affected by these changes eventually rebelled because of the polluted skies, water and land that was causing decay to the purity of the Earth and illnesses to life and lack of nutrition in many parts of the globe. But much effort, funds and power was spent to convince the population that these changes had “good” intent. How could it be that the decline to the quality of life on Earth be attributed to greed and power of good intent? But the congregation of “The House of Greed and Power” turned a blind eye to the woes of the world. Even in their physical decline the administrators of global injustices refused to accept that much of their choices were part of the world’s problem. Tragedy was not on their doorstep — yet. But concerned humans realized that there is an ‘essence’ that lives within us. An essence that reaches out to all of life and governs the choices

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we make. And we ask ourselves ‘how can we as individuals share the responsibility in our life choices and hence improve the well being of our global community?” Nature can reap only what we sow. Our globally sensitive choices and actions can expand like ripples on the sea and hopefully soon the blind eyes will see and contribute with only good choices to the well being of the Earth and its inhabitants. And this would be good. J. Moncur Sooke

Library foresight needed I was in Stettler, Alberta in March and visited the town’s renovated library. It’s unbelievably great. While Stettler serves about half the population of the Sooke area, its library is at least four times the size of Sooke’s with four times the books, magazines, videos and even a lounge area with television. Meanwhile, back in slow-moving Sooke, the cramped library, and its excellent staff, continue to valiantly serve an ever-increasing number of people. And don’t forget the entirely too small parking lot, which means vehicles park on the now-busy Anna Marie Road, often dangerously doubleparked. I’ve been using the Sooke library since

I go to CBC or go use Flipboard, and when I come in to work I grab the Times Colonist and on Wednesdays I grab a copy of the Sooke News Mirror.

I try not to look at the news that often, but I usually like sitting down with an actual newspaper.

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ests in developing Port Renfrew. It has long been known that the area is rich is resources including massive fish runs, trees big enough to build a whole house from, and precious minerals hidden in the hillsides. The stoic Port San Juan invited all inside to rest from the fierce storms barrelling the Graveyard of the Pacific. Now there are a new assemblage of investment firms, and entrepreneurs that seek to provide the town the credit it deserves. We

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sooke fire-fighters cleaning up debris and oil off Phillips road near the sooke campground following three-vehicle accident. Cause of the accident was an unknown source of oil which originated from the sooke and Phillips road intersection. 1992 and sadly, it’s been a miserly evolution. And now, according to Juan de Fuca Regional Director Mike Hicks, Sooke can’t find the land for a new 1 0 , 0 0 0 - s q u a re - f o o t library. Amazing that there has not been anyone with the foresight to have been planning for the significant need for a facility that gets used a lot more than other pet projects. Do developers bear some blame? Do some have land they can donate for a library? Do they contribute to a fund for such capital projects? Or, maybe Kinder Morgan can purchase some property as a good will gesture. I’m sure there will be plenty of excuses made and finger-pointing,

which will be typical for a town that still hasn’t installed complete and logically-placed sidewalks in the town core. Shannon Moneo Sooke

Road work appreciated I would like to thank the District of Sooke for the wonderful job they did on Otter Point Road. The new pavement is nice and wide with the white line on the side so people can walk and ride their bikers and horses instead of having to dodge the traffic on the pavement. This road has not been changed since I took my son to Boy Scout Camp in the early 1970s. Nice to see you

straightened some of the corners and cut those big trees that were next to the pavement, and cut the brush so people can see when they try to drive their vehicles out of their driveways. The ditches have also been done nicely. Now that it has stopped at the border, maybe the CRD can finish the rest up to their office and the industrial area, because of them we have a lot of traffic. There is also several businesses like soil and sawmills and a towing business and a lot of new houses. A job well done. p.s. maybe the waterlines also at the same time. Gordon Stewart Sooke

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Cont’d from page 11 would all like to see job creation, increased tourist capacity, more available housing for renting/buying, and thriving amenities. Let us take time to review the Official Community Plan and make priorities with the various development corporations to understand the long term plan together. We are not planning to be the next Tofino, we are planning to be the best Port Renfrew today. Can we start by having the existing local residents buy into the new branding, and be included in the decision making process? If there is to be a card lock gas station, lets talk about the potential to create another job there, or if the water and sewage treatment are at capacity then there is opportunity to make the ultimately necessary plans towards developing a solution. At the chamber of commerce meeting last week, a local business owner was astonished to see the proposed new Port Renfrew welcome sign displayed by a man wearing a Tall Tree Music festival hoodie; both images identical in logo, in font, and word choice. The Tall Tree Capital was the slogan. Our town

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letters could also be called the “Save on Memorial Park of Port Renfrew,” home to the highly acclaimed Tall Tree Music Festival… We can do better than that. This community does not want to have the identity of your boutique music festival! We would like to schedule a community meeting in May. We need to talk about the 2003 Official Community Plan, and integrate all of this recent change. It could be positive, and it’s true we do want to keep our kids in the school here, and share how grateful we are to live here. But we need to maintain a unilateral integrity with the lands, waters, culture, and people of the area. Port Renfrew’s people must be heard and included into the rapid expansion of our some what sleepy town – we may be slow, but we are definitely not stupid. Kristine Pearson Port Renfrew

Old ‘myths’ debunked Heather Phillips regurgitates old myths, in your April 22, 2015 issue, “Paper is getting

out of touch.” The “acid rain” scare was thoroughly debunked, among findings were that the lakes supposedly made acidic by air pollution were always acidic until logging facilitated soil runoff which reduced acidity – the lakes were simply returning to their normal state in the presence of conifers. Research has shown that areas of ozone thinning in the atmosphere are normal, especially in polar areas due to cold temperatures – they do vary over time. And even an IPCC shows the limited effect that carbon dioxide can have on climate temperature, most of which has already occurred. (The IPCC then spins that limited amount into a theory of runaway warming that is not happening and did not happen in the warmer Medieval Warm Period when Vikings farmed southwest Greenland). I challenge Heather Phillips to think about the eagerness of many people to assume negatives about humans, when all around are examples of planting and nurturing, solid shelters, and advanced

medical care – most of those things helped by economical energy. That’s the energy that alarmists want to take away from poor people, while they – people like Al Gore and David Suzuki – live in large houses (plural) and jet around the world spewing carbon dioxide. On another topic: The answer to your question “Who’s in control of our tax dollars?” is voters. We live in a democracy, each of us can work to develop better candidates for office and elect them. A key attribute of those candidates should be a commitment to reduce government. Fewer laws and fewer activities would mean less opportunity and motivation to pork-barrel and be profligate. A key problem today is that many voters want to pick others’ pockets to get a free ride. An old US maxim identifies their thinking ”Don’t tax me, don’t tax thee, tax that man behind the tree.” What the fools don’t grasp is that with other people also trying for a free ride their own pocket gets picked too. The answer is in your mirror. Keith Sketchley Saanich

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Pregnant? Live in the Sooke Area? We offer the following Prenatal Services: Group Classes for the expectant mother and her partner that

cover everything you need to know to prepare for labour, childbirth and your new baby. New classes start May 6th for due dates July through September

Additional support services offering one-to-one appointments, free prenatal vitamins, food vouchers, and bus tickets. Ongoing registration. Please call Sooke Family Resource Society Member of BC Association 250-642-5152 of Pregnancy Outreach Programs Or visit 2145 Townsend Rd, Sooke This program is supported by United Way, District of Sooke and Victoria Foundation.

The Pastor's Pen Hello Sooke Family ! Much has been made of being from somewhere. Huge pieces of identity are drawn from the location and people group one comes from. So I have a question for us to ponder.....” Does it matter who we are when it comes to where we are going? “ In Ecclesiastes Solomon, son of King David and Bathsheba the Beautiful, states that, after all the results of his tests and strategies concerning living life to the fullest came back, he found the pursuit of work or food or sex or fame or anything else that seems to be so important to be “meaningless”. Really. He would say that even though you are from Sooke, or Victoria, or Nanaimo, or anywhere of a dozen lovely places, it doesn’t mean a thing....in the long run. I wondered, as I reflected on these thoughts from the great Solomon the Wise, “ What really does matter?” Amazingly, he has an answer. Ecclesiastes 9:7, “ Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do. Vs. 9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.” ( or in the rain here in Sooke ). Really? Yes, really ! You Go Solomon ! That’s great advise no matter where you’re from. I makes you grab on to the real things and let go of the fake. Here in Sooke we need to hear this.

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HOLY TRINITY Anglican Church 1962 Murray Road | 250-642-3172 HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE: 11am EVENING PRAYER: Saturday 5pm The Rev. Dimas Canjura www.holytrinitysookebc.org

KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 2110 Church Rd | 250-642-4124 SUNDAY SERVICE 10:15 am Pre-Service Singing 10:30 am Family worship Rev. Dr Gordon Kouwenberg Parents Room and well equipped Nursery

SOOKE BAPTIST CHURCH 7110 West Coast Road | 250-642-3424 SUNDAY SERVICE 10:00 am Children, youth & adult ministries

ST. ROSE OF LIMA Roman Catholic Parish 2191 Townsend Rd. | 250-642-3945 | Fax: 778-425-3945 Saturday Mass 5pm | Sunday Mass, 10 am Thursday Mass 10:30 am Children’s Religious Ed: Sat. 3:45pm Office Hours: Tue 12-3 Wed 10-12 Thurs 1-3 Rev. Fr. Michael Favero

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AUCTION AND

Dear Rotary

Supporter

A message from Rotary Club of Sooke Acting President, Mark Ziegler The 25th annual Sooke Rotary Club Spring Auction and Fair will be held on May 2, 2015 at SEAPARC Leisure Complex in Sooke.

NEW START TIME! LIVE AUCTION 6PM NEW START TIME!

Celebrating 150 YEARS OF GOLD

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Sooke

4-8pm Wine & Beer Garden

Live Auction NEW TIME! 6-8pm 7:45pm 50/50 Draw FOOD AVAILABLE ALL DAY

Alberta Adventure

Sunset Resorts, Canmore – SPT Consulting

Cape Links & Coils Little Vienna Bakery Stick in the Mud Café Stone Pipe Grill Wannawafel

Live Music Program 11am-12pm Janet McTavish 12-1pm Journey Middle School Rock Band 1-2pm Sooke Dance Studio - Carole Cave 2-3pm Trounce Alley Barbershop Quartet 3-4pm Pam Hardy & Partner 4-6pm Group Therapy - Eric James

50/50 Draw at 7:45PM $1,284 Last Year!

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10AM SILENT AUCTION Rotary Club Of Sooke

X2 = Multiple Item / Listings highlighted in GREEN are Booth Exhibitors NOTE: These are short descriptions. Detailed descriptions available on bid sheets on auction tables.

CASH, CHEQUE, VISA or MASTERCARD ACCEPTED

107

❏ 130

Anne Boquist

❏ 131

Bitchen Heat Metal Works

Kimberly Thompson Art

ARTWORK ❏ 100

Michael C Downey

❏ 133

Les Hillard

❏ 101 ❏ 102 ❏ 103 ❏ 104

Joan Taylor

Angi Photo & Design 2 Framed Photos $100

Angi Photo & Design Wildlife Photo $50

Blue Raven Gallery

2 etched glass goblets $125

Chrysalis Photo

❏ 106

Joan Taylor

❏ 107

Kimberly Thompson Art

❏ 109 ❏ 110 ❏ 111 ❏ 112 ❏ 113 ❏ 114 ❏ 115

❏ 116

❏ 117

15 Assorted Blank Photo Cards $50 Evening Flight by Joan Taylor $150 Limited Edition print Botany Bay $120 Kelp Basket $40

Pauline Chamberlain

Framed watercolour Summer Joy $150

St. Vincent de Paul

We Three Kings by Susan Crawford $150

Hanging Driftwood Decor $40

RainCoast Rustics

8X42 Painted Cedar Plank $95

Sooke Buy & Sell Ltd.

Native hand carved eagle wall hangings by Gordon Twance $40

Sooke Fine Art Gallery

Limited edition print signed by Darlene Warhurst Metz - Native Costume $50

PhairWays-Mechanical Consulting

The Most In Photography

❏ 119

Bobbie’s Birds

Framed Print $125

Framed painting Goldfinch on Parrot feather $75

Katherine Woods Sculpture & Turning Carved loon $150

❏ 122

Windsong Glass

Glass Tree Suncatcher $20

Trevor Colley

Glass Bonsai Tree $40

Bobbie Momsen

Photo on canvas: Garry Oak by Mary Waskul $150

History of Leechtown $22 X2

Rotary Club of Sooke - Literacy Committee

❏ 207

Val’s Cottage Crafts

❏ 208

Val’s Cottage Crafts

❏ 209 ❏ 210 ❏ 211 ❏ 249 ❏ 250 ❏ 251

10 lb Penalty by Dick Francis $30

Val’s Cottage Crafts

Mrs Brown’s Family Handbook $30

Certificate $20

The Reading Room Bookstore & Café Well Read Books

❏ 300

Victoria Shamrocks

❏ 301

Roy Banner - Remax Camosun Westshore

Shamrocks Toque $22 X2

Victoria Shamrocks Signed Team Jersey $100

Brenda Parkinson

Sooke Pipes and Drums golf shirt & bag $55

❏ 303

Campus Honda

❏ 304

Dana Sitar

❏ 305

Fairway Market #3

❏ 306 ❏ 307 ❏ 308 ❏ 309 ❏ 310 ❏ 311

3 Honda Hats $33 Felted Hat $60

❏ 128 ❏ 129

Sterling Silver Pendant $130 Crystal bullet necklace $35

A Sea of Bloom Floral Design Lapis & Sterling Pendant $55

Barking Dog Studio

Hand Built Bird House $60

❏ 461

❏ 463 ❏ 464

Coastal Roots Health Centre Dr. Jeffrey Gratton

❏ 604

RVT Publishing Inc.

Arbie Doll $40

Teddy Bear and Guest towels $40

Chiropractic Initial Examination & Consultation $65

❏ 650

Coastal Roots Health Centre Dr. Jennifer Gratton

❏ 651

Playland Daycare Centre

❏ 652

Sooke Dance Studio

1 week childcare age 5 to 12 $100 1 week childcare age 3 to 5 $200

Certificate toward dance lessons $75

463

❏ 501 ❏ 502 ❏ 503 ❏ 504

One Month Yoga Pass

Rico Massage

30 minutes of a 1 hour treatment $45

Whiffin Spit Massage Therapy Clinic

GARDEN ❏ 700

Len Banner Construction

❏ 701

Topo’s Landscaping Company

Sooke Health & Fitness

Electric leaf blower $89

Full season organic lawn fertilization program $140 X3

One month fitness membership $75 X3

❏ 702

Ahimsa Yoga

❏ 704

Westburn Garden Centre

❏ 705

RONA Home and Garden Langford

One month unlimited yoga pass, plus CD and t-shirt $125

DoTerra Essential Oils & Proactive Lifestyle

Topo’s Landscaping Company Ornamental Tree $100

5 in 1 Espaliered Apple Tree $50

❏ 706

CRD Parks & Environmental Services Garden Tote $75

Swift Masonry

❏ 708

First Memorial Funeral Services

Bain de Terre Shampoo Conditioner Set $50

❏ 709

EMCS Society

Island Haircutting Co.

❏ 751

Pedicure Basket $100

Gwen Pope Family Haircare

Hair products collection $75

Jordan River Soapworks

Certificate Bath & Body gift set $100

Mary Kay

Mary Kay Basket $100

❏ 752 ❏ 753

Four Garden Stones $100 Solar Powered Garden Lights $40 Plant $30

Glen’s Gardening Company

Tree pruning services $250

Murph’s Lawncutting Services

Forest Lumber & Cooperage Ltd

Linda Ferguson Designs

❏ 553

Essence Hair & Esthetics Studio

❏ 554

Joanne’s Hair Design

❏ 555

Karma Salon

Sladen Designs

Nuno Felted Scarf $100 X2

Sooke Power Supplies

Husqvarna Logging Suspenders $19

Sooke PocketNews T-shirt $15 X2

Nuno Felted Scarf $50

Sooke Museum T Shirt $20 X2

Dazzlepro Advanced GT /Sonic Toothbrush $118

Salon Service $100

Le Sooke Spa

❏ 557

Linda Ferguson - Rodan & Fields

Gift Card $25

Rodan & Fields Skin Care Regimen $222

❏ 558

Livivi Hair

Certificate towards Hair Highlighting/ Colouring $65

Certificate for lawncutting service $50

Certificate for trees & shrubs $50 Certificate for product $100 X2 Round flower box $75 X2

HOME ❏ 800 ❏ 801 ❏ 802

Barry V, Locksmith

Pushbutton remote control deadbolt lock installed $195

Dale’s Electric

Fluorescent Fixtures with tubes $38 X2

Graceful Folds

One pair 21x64 inch beige roller blinds $160

❏ 803

Home Wise Plumbing

❏ 804

NexGen Hearing

❏ 805

Riptide Plumbing

Kohler Sterling Windham Round Front 15” White Toilet bowl $200 Sonic Boom alarm clock $75

❏ 559

She Beauty Salon

❏ 560

Star Mobile Esthetics

Certificate towards Esthetics Services $20

❏ 806

Tupperware

❏ 561

Mel O Hair Salon

❏ 807

Arbutus Cove Guesthouse & Cottages

HEALTH Academy Dental

Certificate for hair services $35

❏ 556

Silver Streak Hat $15

Sooke Region Museum (Gift Shop)

Woman’s haircut by Lisa $35

Facial with eye treatment $100

Certificate for haircut, pedi & gift box $65

Saputo extra old white cheddar 4.54 kg $100 X4

❏ 1154 E-Fish-Ent Fish Company Ltd. Certificate toward purchase of salmon products $30 X3

❏ 1157 Glenwood Meats

❏ 1056 Shards Glass Studio

Certificate $50

Speedy Glass

Certificate towards wall mirror $25 X2

Thermal King Glass

Certificate towards any product or service $50

LUV-A-RUG Services Inc.

Certificate Rug Cleaning $50 X2

Sooke Flower House

Certificate for flowers $100

Bosley’s Colwood

Puppy food & dog bed $70

Wiskers & Waggs

Dog toy, indoor dog potty & free nail clip $90

My Pet Nanny

Basket of Doggie Treats and Toys $45

D’Tails Dog Grooming

❏ 954 ❏ 955

Routine annual exam $69.50 X2 Dog Bath and Tidy $35 X2

Growlies for Pets Gift Card $25

It’s Over Rover

One private dog training $69

Otter Point Veterinary Hospital Medical Examination for One Pet $60

Pawz-4-Paws

Small or medium dog groom $40

❏ 957

Sooke Harbour Pet Resort

❏ 958

Sooke Veterinary Hospital Ltd.

❏ 959 ❏ 960

Kitchen faucet assembly $165 Tupperware & Gift Certificate $40 Handmade wool toss cushion $150

Topo’s Landscaping Company

Sooke Glass Ltd.

❏ 951

❏ 953

Canada Red Chokecherry Tree ❏ 1055 Victoria Shamrocks

Saseenos Veterinary Service

❏ 952

Certificate $30

Certificate towards garbage disposal $25 X2

3 Day Pet Boarding $60

Exam & Vaccination $66

Sooke Veterinary Hospital Ltd. Feline Spay $214

Willow Wind Feed

Certificate & 10% discount card $25

LEISURE ❏ 1000 Campus Honda

2 Honda Cups $12

❏ 1002 Dollar Store

❏ 756

Woman’s haircut by Ace $30

Sooke Disposal & Recycling

Jeff’s Tree Service

Essence Hair & Esthetics Studio

One haircut (walk in only) $20 X3

❏ 1153 Dairyland

Northern Star Plumbing/Gas/ Service Ltd.

❏ 1001 Campus Honda

❏ 552

Hair Cut $25 X2

Use of coffee brewer for 2 weeks with 2 boxes of coffee $50

Home Hardware gift certificate/card $75

One hour garden consultation Sooke $50

Black clutch bag, necklace & swimsuit $125

Arbonne Gift & Certificate $75

❏ 1152 Canadian Springs Water Company

Marlene Arden, Realtor

❏ 950

Canada Red Chokecherry Tree $140

❏ 707

Cheryl’s Esthetics

❏ 902

Ahimsa Yoga

1/2 HR Reflexology Session $45 X2

Sooke Soil & Landscape

Handmade Chiffon Scarf $85 X2

❏ 861

McLaughlin Hypnotherapy

❏ 755

La Petite Boutique

❏ 860

❏ 901

Deb’s Barber Shop

Wearable art - cape $90

❏ 858

❏ 900

Reflexology 4 You

702

Certificate for housecleaning $100

RONA Home and Garden Langford

2 Honda Golf Tools $26 Arts & Crafts Gift Basket $40

❏ 1003 General Nutrition Centre Sports Basket $150

❏ 1004 Patrick Fallon

1 pair Men’s Hockey Knee Pads $35

❏ 1005 Patrick Fallon

Men’s Hockey Shoulder Pads $50

❏ 1006 Wood Travel and Cruise Suitcase set $110

4 Pack Gift Card $44 X2 Fused Glass Workshop $125

❏ 1057 View Royal Casino

Dinner for 2 & 2 Coupons $25 Slot Play $110

❏ 1058 Coastal Cycles

Bicycle tune-up $79

❏ 1059 Borton’s Spas & Pools Ltd Certificate $50

❏ 1060 Gorge Vale Golf Club

Two Rounds of golf $180

❏ 1061 Shaw Communications HD PVR + Install $380

❏ 1062 Olympic View Golf Course

Ticket to Golf booklet $90 X2

❏ 1063 Outpost Bike Co.

Bicycle tune-up $60

❏ 1064 Sooke River Bluegrass Festival Society

Ticket to Bluegrass Festival $50 X4

❏ 1065 D. Mann Contracting

Learn to ride pass at Westshore Motorcross. 1 adult & 1 child $60 X2

❏ 1066 Sooke Fine Arts Society

Tickets for two to Purchaser’s Preview $60

❏ 1067 Sooke Fine Arts Society

Tickets for two to Taste of Sooke Evening $30

❏ 1068 Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra Society

Sooke Philharmonic Season Tickets for 2 Adult $160 X2

❏ 1069 Strong Kiteboarding

Kiteboarding Starter Lesson $150

❏ 1100 Epicure Selections

Epicure Basket $100

❏ 1101 Nancy Bennett

Basket of Preserves $25

❏ 1102 Salt West Naturals

Local sea salts basket $35

❏ 1103 Serious Coffee

Coal Miners organic blend, Three Amigos coffee & 1 apron $40

❏ 1052 Sooke Community Choir 2 Concert Tickets for Sooke Community Choir $30 X2

15 dozen extra large eggs - need not be taken all at once $36 X2

❏ 1161 Pizzability

Certificate towards pizza purchase $25 X4

❏ 1162 Sooke 2 For 1 Pizza

Coupon for 2 large special pizzas $40 X6

❏ 1163 Sooke Region Food CHI

Certificate for basket of organic squash $75

❏ 1164 Sooke Region Food CHI

Certificate for a basket of garlic $75

❏ 1165 Sooke River Store

Certificate & assorted cookies $30

❏ 1166 Thrifty Foods - Colwood Smile Card $50 X2

❏ 1167 Village Food Markets Certificate $50 X4

❏ 1168 Western Foods

Certificate $50 X4

❏ 1169 Peoples Drug Mart

Purdy’s Gift Cards $25 X2

RESTAURANT ❏ 1250 Bruce & Linda MacMillan Re/Max Camosun Westside

Certificate for Stone Pipe Grill $30

❏ 1251 Buffy’s Pub

T-shirt & $25 certificate for pub food $45

❏ 1252 Cathy’s Corner Café Certificate $20

Sewer hose support $48

❏ 1401 McKay’s Electronic Experts Audio/Video component wall mount $60

❏ 1402 Sooke Centre Auto Repair AC DELCO Universal Car Battery $140

❏ 1403 Saunders Sales and Service A Bag of Subaru Swag $100

❏ 1404 Coast Capital Insurance Car care gift basket $75

❏ 1450 Bob’s Repair Centre Case of motor oil $65

❏ 1451 Dumont Tire Craft Certificate towards tire/wheel purchases and mechanical service $70

❏ 1452 Dumont Tire Craft Certificate towards tire/wheel purchases and mechanical service $95

❏ 1453 EZ Lube Automotive Certificate $25 X2

❏ 1454 Fountain Tire Certificate for services $100 X5

❏ 1455 KAL Tire Certificate towards wheel alignment & lube & oil service $200

❏ 1456 Kenco Motor Cycles & Salvage Certificate towards tire purchase $75

❏ 1457 Midas Auto Service Experts Midas Service Special oil change $50

❏ 1458 RCU Auto Parts Certificate towards purchase of used parts $50

LIVE AUCTION

Two steak dinners $26

❏ 1259 Stone Pipe Grill

Certificate $20 X3

❏ 1105 Sooke U-Brew

Wine Kit: Orchard Breezin’ Cranberry Craze, red wine kit $85

❏ 1106 West Coast Wild Seafood

Case of 12 cans regular & 12 cans smoked tuna $120

❏ 1107 Fudge In A Round

6 Pack Assorted Fudge $18

❏ 1108 Sooke Fall Fair & Quilters Guild Basket of assorted homemade and farm fresh goodies $125

Bottle of mead & honey gift pack $37 Gift Certificate $25 X3

❏ 1151 Sooke Shell/Pacemart

10 child-size ice cream cones $28.50

1268

Certificate 17 Mile Pub $50 Certificate $25

❏ 1262 Yen’s Kitchen

Dinner for 4, Menu B $44

❏ 1263 McDonalds Restaurants of Canada

Certificate for 4 extra value meals $40 X2

❏ 1264 Sooke Subway

Certificate $25 X8

❏ 1265 White Spot Restaurant Westshore Certificate $20 X5

❏ 1266 John Vernon, Re/Max Camosun Westside

Certificate to Stone Pipe Restaurant $25 X2

❏ 1267 Wild Mountain Food & Drink

Certificate for dining at Wild Mountain $25

❏ 1268 Sooke Harbour House Lunch for six $180

❏ 1269 Sooke Harbour House

❏ 1054 The Mortgage Centre

ACCOMMODATION

Dessert & special coffees for 4 $80

Olympic View Golf gift certificate $100

❏ 1350 Blackfish Bed & Breakfast

One night accommodation for two $125

Lunch For Six

Sooke Harbour House

❏ 1351 Otter Point Beach House & Dapalouno Fine Homes & Renovations

1 night accommodation for 4 with purchase of same $310

BUILDERS CORNER ❏ 1600 Al Champ

Dewalt Cordless Drill Kit $112

❏ 1601 Slegg Lumber

❏ 1651 Churchill Meadows

Load of overburden fill delivered in the Sooke area. Delivery to be completed by May 31, 2015 $100

Certificate $25

❏ 1258 Royal Canadian Legion Branch #54 Sooke

Engine oil change for a four stroke outboard $115 X2

Certificate towards purchase of Gravel Aggregate for pick-up $180

❏ 1255 Little Vienna Bakery

Certificate to world famous Mom’s Café $40

7 Boat Launches $75

❏ 1551 Sooke Marine Centre Ltd.

Black and Decker drill bit set $50

Certificate $25

❏ 1257 Mom’s Cafe

❏ 1550 Sunny Shores Resort & Marina Ltd.

❏ 1650 Bedrock Gravel Sales

❏ 1254 Jasmine Restaurant

❏ 1261 The Lazy Gecko Restaurant

Sheila’s Coast Crunch Granola $13

Bicycle tune up $70 X2

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❏ 1400 Fennell’s RV Repair

Certificate for Stone Pipe Grill $50

❏ 1053 Sooke Cycle

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❏ 1253 Cheri Sutherland Re/Max Camosun Westside

❏ 1104 Sheila’s Coastal Crunch Granola

❏ 1150 Jenny’s Olde Country Fare

Three nights camping $90

❏ 1160 Parkland Poultry

❏ 1260 Tammi Dimock, Realtor

❏ 1050 Bart Van De Berk

❏ 1051 Sooke Community Association/ Sooke River Campsite

Certificate $20

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2 nights stay at 2 BR unit $500

❏ 1256 Mai Mai’s Bistro

❏ 1109 Tugwell Creek Honey Farm

Historic Tour of Leechtown, goldpanning & lunch $100

❏ 1159 Kelz Sweet & Savory Bake Shop

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❏ 1352 Sooke Harbour Resort and Marina

Breakfast for 4 $50

FOOD

❏ 1007 Investors Group Financial Services Inc. Box of golf balls $50

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SEAPARC Leisure Complex, 2168 Phillips Road, Sooke BC

Helen and Jenn

PETS

Goodlife Wellness - Sue Rowland RMT

BEAUTY ❏ 500

❏ 857

❏ 862

Goodlife Wellness - Sasza Zawasza

Initial consultation & 2 hypnotherapy sessions $250

Certificate for carpet cleaning $200

Gift card $50 X4

❏ 856

Playland Daycare Centre

Goodlife Wellness - Ocean Spirit Massage

Introductory Essential Oil Package $35 X3

Sooke Museum Hoodie $50 X2

❏ 400

❏ 855

RBC Royal Bank

One Hour Massage Session $90

❏ 462

❏ 854

Certificate towards septic pump out $100

Gift certificate $50 X4

Wooden toy $20

❏ 603

Goodlife Wellness Group Leslie Rose Certified Yoga

Happy Carpet Cleaners

Mel Hull

Deep Tissue Swedish Massage $45 X2

❏ 551

Geri Pudwell

Sooke Region Museum (Gift Shop)

Night Owl Accessories

Wooden Grader $35

Numa Farms Nursery

❏ 314

❏ 127

Mel Hull

❏ 754

Silver Streak Boats

❏ 315

❏ 602

❏ 851

Honda Bear and T shirt $19

Barb the Barber

❏ 313

B & K Jewellery & Gifts

❏ 601

Coast Environmental Ltd

❏ 853

Campus Honda

❏ 550

T-shirt and bobble head $26

Katherine Woods Sculpture & Turning

❏ 126

❏ 600

❏ 850

❏ 852

KIDS

Arbonne

❏ 124

4 art cards $28

Spa Service $120

❏ 505

Kathy’s Kreations

Rico Massage

❏ 460

Certificate $25

CLOTHING

❏ 302

❏ 458

Penelope’s Book Stop

Certificate $20

❏ 252

❏ 457

Royal Roads University

Hatley Through the Seasons book and 2 passes to Hatley Gardens $49

Hair Cut & Colour $95

Thirty Minute Massage $50

Sooke Pocket News

The Three Strategies of the Unstoppable Woman $30 X3

Pure Elements Hair Design & Bodyworks Ltd

One hour acupuncture session $90

Hot Money by Dick Francis $30

Val’s Cottage Crafts

❏ 563

Infra-red sauna & 1/2 hour Massage $80

❏ 456

❏ 312

❏ 125

❏ 454

Trevor Colley

To the Hilt by Dick Francis $30

Pure Elements Hair Design & Bodyworks Ltd

One Hour Private Yoga Therapy $65

❏ 206

Windsong Glass

Earrings $15 X2

❏ 453

Signed book $20

The Chronicles of Downton Abbey $7

Clover Care Massage

Naturopathic Exam and Consultation $140

Bart van de Berk

❏ 123

Glass Star Suncatcher $8 X2

❏ 452

❏ 455

Sooke Fine Art Gallery

Limited edition print by Darlene Warhurst Metz - Blackfoot Holy Woman $50

Wood-turned pen $35

The Reading Room Bookstore & Café

Scrapnaturally

❏ 118

❏ 121

❏ 205

RoxDesigns

Handmade Sterling Silver necklace $45

❏ 451

Childrens Book $25

Patty Dowler - Seaside Basketry

Picture of Women’s Hockey Team Canada $75

❏ 120

❏ 201

Hexham Abbey by Joan Taylor $250

❏ 105

❏ 108

❏ 200

❏ 450

Walnut platter $65

BOOKS

Jim Gregory

Cherry wood bowl $70

Metal Art Piece $50

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❏ 134

Limited Edition Print

Big Boy Art Box $60

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Fishing Charters

2 Reel, Duffy’s, Crab Shack, Reel Excitement ❏ 1459 Sooke Total Auto Recycling Ltd. Certificate for quality used parts $75 X2

❏ 1460 Sooke Towing / Otter Point Collision Towing $50

❏ 1461 Sooke Towing / Otter Point Collision One month vehicle outdoor storage $50

❏ 1462 Suds & Pups Gift card for Car or Pet wash $25 X2

❏ 1463 Tri-City Collision Oil change, check belt, hoses, lights, fluids & tire pressure plus exterior car wash for one car $70

❏ 1464 West Coast Collision Certificate towards Auto Detail Service $150

❏ 1465 Great Canadian Oil Change Certificate towards oil change $20 X4

❏ 1466 Integra Tire 4-wheel Balance for car or light truck $50 X2

MARINE/FISHING ❏ 1500 Island Outfitters Ltd D-Shock freshwater rod & reel $30

❏ 1501 Pacific Sportsfishing Charters Fishing tackle & t-shirt $100

❏ 1502 Silver Streak Boats Peek Polish $12

❏ 1503 Silver Streak Boats DOT approved life jacket $100 X2

❏ 1757 Jamieson & Irwin Assoc. Chartered Accountants

Certificate 2014 or 2015 tax return $200

❏ 1758 Mayhue & Company

2 standard wills for spouses $400

❏ 1759 Sooke Fax & Copy Centre Certificate $25 X2

❏ 1760 Sooke Moving & Storage Moving (2 men for 1 hour) $100 X3

❏ 1761 Sooke Moving & Storage 1 month storage 20 ft unit $125 X3

❏ 1762 Sooke Voice News

One COLOUR display ad 4 x 5 and in Tweets $195

❏ 1763 The Geek Shop

One hour computer service $75 X2

❏ 1652 Drivers Welding

❏ 1764 RBC Royal Bank

❏ 1653 Dulux Paints

❏ 1765 Darcy Abell Computer Service & Support

❏ 1654 Sooke Slinger Services Ltd.

THIS & THAT

Certificate for Welding Service or Steel sales $50 Certificate for 2 gal Dulux Lifemaster paint $165 1 load of 3/4 inch road base delivered within 1 hour of Sooke village center $350

❏ 1655 Steve’s Hauling

Certificate towards Hauling/Refuse Removal $100

RESP Contribution $100 2 hours computer service $100 X2

❏ 1800 Barking Dog Studio

6 to a bag fire starter $4 X2

❏ 1801 Brenda Parkinson Photo Album $15

❏ 1802 Campus Honda

2 Honda Lanyards $12

❏ 1656 VI Rentals

❏ 1803 East Sooke Grocer and General Store

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

❏ 1804 Edward Jones

Certificate towards Equipment Rentals $25 X4

❏ 1700 Connect Hearing

Amplified cordless telephone with case $190

❏ 1701 Seafirst Insurance Earthquake Kit $100

❏ 1750 EHQ Development

Web development & hosting $372

❏ 1751 Hallgren and Faulkner Standard Will $250 X2

1 New Full 20lb Propane Tank $65

Corkscrew, Winepourer & Decanter $35

❏ 1805 Gail Powell

Hand Blown Vase $25

❏ 1806 Gail Powell

Carnival Glass Serving Plate $15

❏ 1807 Mason Financial Ltd. Bottle of wine $25

1701

❏ 1752 Accutax Accounting Services Certificate for Accounting or Tax Services $200

❏ 1753 Capital Computers & Web Hosting

2 hours of computer servicing or repair $100

❏ 1754 Fleming and Company, CGA

Certificate toward Tax and Accounting Services $100

❏ 1755 H&R Block

Certificate towards income tax preparation $100

❏ 1756 Jake Grant - Jewelry Design Art & Décor

Jewellery cleaning and setting-check $28

Earthquake Survival Kit Seafirst Insurance

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Sooke is a busy place: always lots going on

Octavian Lacatusu photos

Always plenty to do in Sooke Top left: Nona Robertson proudly standing by her artwork at the Student Art Show at the Sooke South Shore Art Gallery. Her favourite theme is portraying the importance of mental health awareness in today’s society. It is also the South Shore Gallery’s first anniversary. Top right: The Sooke Harbour Players talking about waste disposal at the Small Town Big Talent Show at EMCS on Saturday - as you can probably tell, the skit ended with someone breaking wind. Bottom left: Canadian musician Scott Shea performed for the Sooke Fold Music Society on April 18. Bottom right: Sookies picking up their freshest flowers and pottery goodies at the Sooke Garden Club on Saturday’s sunny afternoon.

Local musician Gord Phillips travels Sooke Hiway Octavian Lacatusu Sooke News Mirror

Gord “I need to play” Phillips thought if he can get a job where he doesn’t have to cross the Sooke River Bridge bridge every day, he’d be a really happy guy - so he got his wish: he now drives the school bus and on the side teaches guitar lessons from his house. Ah, but there’s more to the man behind the guitar - he’s passionate about telling stories to people of all walks of life, about the adventures through life and nature using nothing but the untethered power of song. And it just so happens that this unique way of storytelling has caught so much nationwide attention that he’s now in the third

Octavian Lacatusu photo

Sooke musician Gord Phillips is a finalist on CBC’s Searchlight: the hunt for Canada’s best new artist music contest. He is seen here at the recent giant garage sale at SEAPARC.

and final round of CBC’s Searchlight: the hunt for Canada’s best new artist music contest. It’s called Sooke Hiway - a song which began 11 years ago at a time when Sooke was caught for four months in a whirlwind of rain, snow and ice that nearly crippled the town entirely. “It was chaos. All those houses by the tire shop were flooded up to the vehicles. I went up to go to work, I couldn’t - so I went back up the driveway, got my surf board, I went to go out that way, there were trees down everywhere,” he said. As he was walking back up towards his house having nearly given up, he turned around and looked at the staggering theatre of everything that was hap-

pening around him. “I just sat there and looked

‘Music’s my religion and the outdoor is my church; that’s just how I live my life.’ --Gord Phillips Musician over at the ocean and at the road, and I thought, ‘wow, this is a pretty important road. When it’s closed, nothing’s going on,’” Phillips said. This road is incredible, because it’s the only one. You can’t take another one to get anywhere, so anything that’s happened in the last 200 years here, happened on that road.”

It was simply tuning into a different frequency - or as he calls it, “power lines” - the inexplicable black matter of our subconscious mind of which all art of every form is created. The end result is a song about adventure that you can take with you wherever you go- more so, as Phillips explains it, travelling to a place where you can go to be at peace - a place where you can just figure stuff out. “Wise men come from the north and naive ones from the south,” he said. “Once you’ve taken this road up to Sombrio Beach and you spent a weekend on your own by yourself in the middle of that beautiful place and you come back down Continued on page 16

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Gord Phillips... You just gotta laugh at fart jokes all the time.” It’s not just fart jokes though (even if they are still pretty funny) Phillips just generally enjoys teaching youth about music and about solving their issues in life in a positive, constructive way - such as his current project, the Restitution song. “There’s a program that we do with the kids and it’s called restitution; it helps kids learn to listen to each other and to work out their troubles on their own in a respectful manner,” he said, adding that the program really inspired him do write a song about it. “Every elementary school now is learning that song for Music Monday on May 4, so I have 1000 kids learning the Restitution song right now,” Phillips said, adding that it’s a work in progress. Listen to CBC’s Q to see where Gord Phillips places. There are 225 musician candidates from all across Canada.

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into that world that you lived in, it’s never the same.” For Phillips, a devout outdoorsman, Sooke Hiway is in a way a reflection of his own journey and experience through life, which took him from his ancestral home of Sarnia, Ontario, thousands of kilometres across Canada and to the coastal wonder of the West Coast. “Music’s my religion and the outdoor is my church; that’s just how I live my life,” he said. His love for music never really subsided, even when he started life fresh in Sooke. After a while of joining free bands and as many music gigs as he could, he said it wasn’t about the money, or the fame. It was about playing music and having fun. “Every Thursday we have “Singing Thursday” on the bus - I have an in-house microphone and we just jam,” Phillips said. “I always say, it’s a lot more fun working with kids than it is adults.

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Getting their hands in the dirt Children’s garden club gaining in popularity

Pirjo Raits

Sooke News Mirror

Kids love getting their hands in the dirt and growing things. The natural world is even more fascinating when seen through the eyes of a child and they seem to take to gardening like a duck to water. Six years ago Anne Boquist and other gardening enthusiasts started the Sooke Children’s Garden Club and the numbers of kids who want to take part has been growing steadily. “There’s more kids than ever,” said Boquist. “We’re having six workshops instead of five now and it is growing in popularity.” The club meets throughout the summer from May until October. All children from the age of three and up are welcome to attend and learn to grow. The club is free for families thanks to community sponsors. At each “workshop” at the Sunriver Community Garden the

Pirjo Raits photo

Little gardeners at the orientation meeting for the garden club.

Capital Regional District Notice of

Shirley-Jordan River OCP Review Open House Date: Saturday, May 9, 2015 Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Place: 2795 Sheringham Point Road, Shirley, BC Come view and comment on the Draft OCP. Staff will be available to answer your questions. For further information or to add your email to our contact list or to submit comments on the draft OCP, please email jdfinfo@crd.bc.ca or call 250.642.1500.

Rubber Duck Race & gardeners take part in everything from environmental awareness, planting vegetables and flowers, they learn about healthy food and take part in garden crafts. They are divided into groups and alternate between the different “workshops.” Each year at the end of the season they make scarecrows. In May they will be learning about edible weeds. The instruction comes for a group of 15 dedicated volunteers and they teach the young gardeners what

they want. As an example, at the orientation meeting held on April 23, the kids learned how to make aprons out of old blue jeans and tasted kale chips. One of the intentions of the club is to encourage children to support the Sooke Fall Fair. The Sooke Children’s Garden Club will be at the Rotary Auction and Spring Fair on May 2 at SEAPARC and parents can sign their children up, or they can email Anne Boquist at: aboquist@shaw.ca .

JDRF Family Fun Day Sat. May 9

Fun! Games!

1111-3

Sooke Flats

Food!

!st Duck Across the Finish Line Wins

$1000

Duck Race tix at Shoppers & Peoples

Sooke Harbourside Lions

Community

Calendar Thurs Apr 30OD

Fri May 1tal

Sat May 2

Sun May 3A

At the Sooke Library 10:30 to 11 a.m.,Hands-on activities for ages 18-36 months. Register at 250642-3022. ADULT WALKING GROUP SEAPARC 10-11 a.m. Registration required. 250642-8000. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION CRIBBAGE 7 P.M. BINGO Sr’s Drop-In Centre, 12:45-3 p.m. Sooke Community Hall BABYTIME On the first Thursday of each month, 2 p.m. Sooke Library. BOOKS FOR BREAKFAST CASA 10 a.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 8-11 p.m. SOOKE SENIOR’S BUS Lunch and shopping trips to Victoria. Call June 250642-2032 for information. SACRED CHANT CIRCLE 7:30 p.m. Sooke Yoga & Wellness, Hope Centre. 6750 West Coast Road. ARTIFACTS ART SHOW at the Sooke Region Museum SMOKIN TUNA OPENS

Meat draw 3 p.m. WIZARD OF OZ Sooke Youth Show Choir, EMCS, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. ROTARY AUCTION AND SPRING FAIR SEPARC 10 a.m. start, exhibits, silent and live auction, bike sale, food and entertainment - FREE ST. ROSE OF LIMA GARAGE SALE 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Something for everyone. FREE SWIM AT SEAPARC 1-5 p.m. Sponsored by Rotary SOOKE COMMUNITY CHOIR In My Life, Songs of rivers and blackbirds, Shirley Comm. Hall 8 p.m.

Sunday breakfast brunch, 9-12:30 p.m., $5. Blue Grass Music, 2:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. Drop in pool tournament every second Sunday. WIZARD OF OZ Sooke Youth Show Choir EMCS 2 p.m.

TODDLERTIME

VITAL VITTLES

ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION

SHOPPERS 250-642-5229

DRUG MART

COMMUNITY CALENDAR DEADLINE: THURSDAY @ 3PM Items for Community Calendar must be non-commercial and free to the public. Please limit to 25 words.

ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION

Directory: Where to find what

Mon May 4 PARENT PARENT & TOT DROP-IN

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. PSYCHIC FAIR Bay Centre-May 4-10

Child, Youth & Family Centre: 6672 Wadams Way 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 Sooke Senior’s Bus: $15 annual membership. 250-642-4662 Municipal Hall: 2205 Otter Point Rd Sooke Community Hall: 2037 Sheilds Rd.

Tues May 5

Wed May 6

Summer safety. At the Child, Youth and Family Centre, from 10-11:30 a.m. 250-642-5464.

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. ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Dominos 10 a.m. Shuffleboard, 6:30 p.m. NASCAR POOL Meet and Pick, Sooke Legion 7 p.m.

BABY TALK

YOUTH CLINIC

Ages 13 - 25, 4-7 p.m. Family Medical Clinic. KNITTING CIRCLE

Sooke Library, 6:30–8:00 p.m. Free, all levels. Dropin. 250-642-3022. STORYTIME Ages 3-5, 10:30-11 a.m. Sooke Library. Free but call 250-642-3022 to register WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Sooke Harbour House. 7-9 p.m. Ongoing every 2nd Tuesday of the month.

WALKING GROUP

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Locally Raised BC Poultry

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

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Ice Cream Bars or Ice Pops Assorted Sizes

for

Fresh Strawberries 1lb clamshell

2 pack, 4.39 per kg

California “Berry Bowl”

Whole Frying Chicken

Pepsi, Schweppes or 7Up 1lt

Island Farms

Ice Cream 4lt

¢ LICABL PP

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Sunrise Farms

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Canadian

Beef Simmering Short Ribs

Canadian AA

11.00 per kg

Boneless Cross Rib Pot Roast 13.20 per kg

Per

Schneiders

Country Naturals Chicken

Meat Pies

Schneiders

Fort Hardy

480-720gr

568gr

Country Naturals Chicken or Beef Burgers

400gr

750gr

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil Regular or Non Filtrato, 500ml - 1lt

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Lasgana Sheets 360gr

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86-110gr

Olivieri

600-700gr

600ml

85gr

Parmesan Cheese

12x100gr

Iogo

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250gr

599

Probio Yogurt

Kraft

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Filled Pasta

Instant Noodles

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350gr

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Bone in Pork Butt Steak

7.69 per kg Imported

Strip Loin Grilling Steak

3x8oz

49 Per

Hertel’s

Olymel

375gr

450gr

Bacon

Fresh Gourmet Sausages

Grimm’s

Wieners

Sizzlin’ & Bavarian Smokies

11.00 per kg

450gr

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REGULAR PRICES

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Everland

Organic Coconut Oil or Quinoa

2lt

500ml or 681gr Stouffer’s

Del Monte

256gr

12x50ml

Bistro Crustini

Real Fruit Frozen Bars

Frozen Yogurt

for

Stouffer’s

640gr

201-340gr

Saute Sensations

Sara Lee

Creme Pie

2lt

499

Everland

Skinny Cow Frozen Treats

Everland

100% Pure Coconut Water 520ml

LICABL PP

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Assorted Sizes

400ml

Nestle

Dinner Entree

555-652gr

Organic Coconut Milk

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4$ for

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Kraft

Dressing

Heinz

Rogers

Christie

Belvita Crunch Breakfast Bites

Classic Roast Ground Coffee

10kg

3x375ml

Kraft

Bull’s Eye

Cracker Barrel Cheese Slices

Saputo

Feta Cheese

Armstrong

600gr

210gr

Cheese

170-200gr

77 Rice Works

Jet-Puffed Marshmallows

425ml

Gourmet Rice Crisps

400g

Christie

Nescafe

156gr

100-200gr

Natural Cheese Snacks

Kraft

Barbecue Sauce

Nescafe

Instant Coffee

250gr

920gr

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475ml

Picnic Pack

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8x14-18.5gr

220-240gr

2$ for

Knorr

112-167gr

Black Diamond

Old Dutch

Shredded Cheese

for

Cheestrings

276-384gr

336gr

Nature Valley, General Mills or Betty Crocker

Mayonnaise

900ml

Black Diamond

Restaurante Tortilla Chips

340gr

Hellmann’s

Simply Broth

Pasta or Rice Sidekicks

3$ for

for

Snack Better

Value Size Bars or Snacks

890ml

Dairyland

Sahale Snacks

2% or Chocolate Milk

113-142gr

473ml

272-552gr

375-454gr

for

Classico

600gr

275-300gr

San Pellegrino

for

2$ for

Casa Fiesta

Seasoning Mix

Casa Fiesta

35-40gr

Green Chilies or Sliced Jalapenos

LICABL PP

Refried Black Beans 398ml

McCain

for

2lt

Kraft

Sparkling Spring Water

Kraft

Philadelphia Dips

Selected, 454-800gr

LICABL PP

Philadelphia Cream Cheese Spread

227gr

Olympic

Sour Cream 500ml

250gr

3$ for

128-142gr

334-433gr

Aquel

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Assorted Sizes

Fried Potatoes

Traditional or Ultra Thin Crust Pizza

Angie’s

399

Cinco De Mayo Casa Fiesta

Boom Chicka Pop

6x330ml

for

EES EF

for

Sparkling Fruit Beverage

EES EF

2$ McCain

900gr

220gr

Planters

Dry Roasted Peanuts

3lt

A Pinch of Goodness and a Dash of Delight!

Fried Potatoes

225gr

399

Old Dutch

Box Potato Chips

Canola Oil

410-650ml

McCain

Planters

Peanuts Resealable Bag

Capri

Pasta Sauce

for

PLUS A

Barilla

Pasta

Planters

Cashews

499

PLUS A

499

3$ for

4$ for

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Kraft

Dressing

Heinz

Rogers

Christie

Belvita Crunch Breakfast Bites

Classic Roast Ground Coffee

10kg

3x375ml

Kraft

Bull’s Eye

Cracker Barrel Cheese Slices

Saputo

Feta Cheese

Armstrong

600gr

210gr

Cheese

170-200gr

77 Rice Works

Jet-Puffed Marshmallows

425ml

Gourmet Rice Crisps

400g

Christie

Nescafe

156gr

100-200gr

Natural Cheese Snacks

Kraft

Barbecue Sauce

Nescafe

Instant Coffee

250gr

920gr

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Folgers

Flour

475ml

Picnic Pack

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Cappuccino or Latte

Selected, 265-300gr

8x14-18.5gr

220-240gr

2$ for

Knorr

112-167gr

Black Diamond

Old Dutch

Shredded Cheese

for

Cheestrings

276-384gr

336gr

Nature Valley, General Mills or Betty Crocker

Mayonnaise

900ml

Black Diamond

Restaurante Tortilla Chips

340gr

Hellmann’s

Simply Broth

Pasta or Rice Sidekicks

3$ for

for

Snack Better

Value Size Bars or Snacks

890ml

Dairyland

Sahale Snacks

2% or Chocolate Milk

113-142gr

473ml

272-552gr

375-454gr

for

Classico

600gr

275-300gr

San Pellegrino

for

2$ for

Casa Fiesta

Seasoning Mix

Casa Fiesta

35-40gr

Green Chilies or Sliced Jalapenos

LICABL PP

Refried Black Beans 398ml

McCain

for

2lt

Kraft

Sparkling Spring Water

Kraft

Philadelphia Dips

Selected, 454-800gr

LICABL PP

Philadelphia Cream Cheese Spread

227gr

Olympic

Sour Cream 500ml

250gr

3$ for

128-142gr

334-433gr

Aquel

It’s Never too Early to Go for a Refreshing Dip!

Assorted Sizes

Fried Potatoes

Traditional or Ultra Thin Crust Pizza

Angie’s

399

Cinco De Mayo Casa Fiesta

Boom Chicka Pop

6x330ml

for

EES EF

for

Sparkling Fruit Beverage

EES EF

2$ McCain

900gr

220gr

Planters

Dry Roasted Peanuts

3lt

A Pinch of Goodness and a Dash of Delight!

Fried Potatoes

225gr

399

Old Dutch

Box Potato Chips

Canola Oil

410-650ml

McCain

Planters

Peanuts Resealable Bag

Capri

Pasta Sauce

for

PLUS A

Barilla

Pasta

Planters

Cashews

499

PLUS A

499

3$ for

4$ for

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Freybe

Schneiders

Fat Free or Tomato Basil Turkey Breast

49 100 gr

Sushi

Per

100 gr

Hummus

285gr

227gr

99 Dinner for Two

Spring Roll

Medium

Deli Salad

10 Piece Sushi Lovers

Available at select stores only.

Per

100 gr

Calzone

Tribe

8 Piece Happy California Rolls

Cooked or Smoked Chicken Breast

Per

799

Maplelodge

Smoked Bavarian Ham

•Greek •Macaroni •Red Potato with Sour Cream •Broccoli & Grape

Available at select stores only.

Seafood • Quality Foods

Previously Frozen

Sockeye Salmon Fillets

Fresh

Skinless Halibut Fillets

Per

100 gr

per 100 gr

Previously Frozen

Frozen or Previously Frozen

Digby Scallops 10/20 size

Jelly Beans

Machine Peeled Shrimp

99 100 gr

Quality Fresh

English Licorice Allsorts, 220gr

90gr

Unsalted, 325gr

Sweet Treats

¢ Per

100 gr

Per

Hold the Salt Pine Nuts

per 100 gr

Hold the Salt Pepitas

499

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Bakery

Calabrese Buns

Calabrese Bread

Chocolate Chip Muffins

for

Golden West

D’Italiano

English Muffins

Bread

6’s

600-675gr

9” Apple Pie

for

6 pack

Turtle Cheesecake

Cheesecake Slice

Works Out to

$ .00 each

Country Harvest

Bread

Selected , 675gr

2$ for

Works Out to

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107

❏ 130

Anne Boquist

❏ 131

Bitchen Heat Metal Works

Kimberly Thompson Art

ARTWORK ❏ 100

Michael C Downey

❏ 133

Les Hillard

❏ 101 ❏ 102 ❏ 103 ❏ 104

Joan Taylor

Angi Photo & Design 2 Framed Photos $100

Angi Photo & Design Wildlife Photo $50

Blue Raven Gallery

2 etched glass goblets $125

Chrysalis Photo

❏ 106

Joan Taylor

❏ 107

Kimberly Thompson Art

❏ 109 ❏ 110 ❏ 111 ❏ 112 ❏ 113 ❏ 114 ❏ 115

❏ 116

❏ 117

15 Assorted Blank Photo Cards $50 Evening Flight by Joan Taylor $150 Limited Edition print Botany Bay $120 Kelp Basket $40

Pauline Chamberlain

Framed watercolour Summer Joy $150

St. Vincent de Paul

We Three Kings by Susan Crawford $150

Hanging Driftwood Decor $40

RainCoast Rustics

8X42 Painted Cedar Plank $95

Sooke Buy & Sell Ltd.

Native hand carved eagle wall hangings by Gordon Twance $40

Sooke Fine Art Gallery

Limited edition print signed by Darlene Warhurst Metz - Native Costume $50

PhairWays-Mechanical Consulting

The Most In Photography

❏ 119

Bobbie’s Birds

Framed Print $125

Framed painting Goldfinch on Parrot feather $75

Katherine Woods Sculpture & Turning Carved loon $150

❏ 122

Windsong Glass

Glass Tree Suncatcher $20

Trevor Colley

Glass Bonsai Tree $40

Bobbie Momsen

Photo on canvas: Garry Oak by Mary Waskul $150

History of Leechtown $22 X2

Rotary Club of Sooke - Literacy Committee

❏ 207

Val’s Cottage Crafts

❏ 208

Val’s Cottage Crafts

❏ 209 ❏ 210 ❏ 211 ❏ 249 ❏ 250 ❏ 251

10 lb Penalty by Dick Francis $30

Val’s Cottage Crafts

Mrs Brown’s Family Handbook $30

Certificate $20

The Reading Room Bookstore & Café Well Read Books

❏ 300

Victoria Shamrocks

❏ 301

Roy Banner - Remax Camosun Westshore

Shamrocks Toque $22 X2

Victoria Shamrocks Signed Team Jersey $100

Brenda Parkinson

Sooke Pipes and Drums golf shirt & bag $55

❏ 303

Campus Honda

❏ 304

Dana Sitar

❏ 305

Fairway Market #3

❏ 306 ❏ 307 ❏ 308 ❏ 309 ❏ 310 ❏ 311

3 Honda Hats $33 Felted Hat $60

❏ 128 ❏ 129

Sterling Silver Pendant $130 Crystal bullet necklace $35

A Sea of Bloom Floral Design Lapis & Sterling Pendant $55

Barking Dog Studio

Hand Built Bird House $60

❏ 461

❏ 463 ❏ 464

Coastal Roots Health Centre Dr. Jeffrey Gratton

❏ 604

RVT Publishing Inc.

Arbie Doll $40

Teddy Bear and Guest towels $40

Chiropractic Initial Examination & Consultation $65

❏ 650

Coastal Roots Health Centre Dr. Jennifer Gratton

❏ 651

Playland Daycare Centre

❏ 652

Sooke Dance Studio

1 week childcare age 5 to 12 $100 1 week childcare age 3 to 5 $200

Certificate toward dance lessons $75

463

❏ 501 ❏ 502 ❏ 503 ❏ 504

One Month Yoga Pass

Rico Massage

30 minutes of a 1 hour treatment $45

Whiffin Spit Massage Therapy Clinic

GARDEN ❏ 700

Len Banner Construction

❏ 701

Topo’s Landscaping Company

Sooke Health & Fitness

Electric leaf blower $89

Full season organic lawn fertilization program $140 X3

One month fitness membership $75 X3

❏ 702

Ahimsa Yoga

❏ 704

Westburn Garden Centre

❏ 705

RONA Home and Garden Langford

One month unlimited yoga pass, plus CD and t-shirt $125

DoTerra Essential Oils & Proactive Lifestyle

Topo’s Landscaping Company Ornamental Tree $100

5 in 1 Espaliered Apple Tree $50

❏ 706

CRD Parks & Environmental Services Garden Tote $75

Swift Masonry

❏ 708

First Memorial Funeral Services

Bain de Terre Shampoo Conditioner Set $50

❏ 709

EMCS Society

Island Haircutting Co.

❏ 751

Pedicure Basket $100

Gwen Pope Family Haircare

Hair products collection $75

Jordan River Soapworks

Certificate Bath & Body gift set $100

Mary Kay

Mary Kay Basket $100

❏ 752 ❏ 753

Four Garden Stones $100 Solar Powered Garden Lights $40 Plant $30

Glen’s Gardening Company

Tree pruning services $250

Murph’s Lawncutting Services

Forest Lumber & Cooperage Ltd

Linda Ferguson Designs

❏ 553

Essence Hair & Esthetics Studio

❏ 554

Joanne’s Hair Design

❏ 555

Karma Salon

Sladen Designs

Nuno Felted Scarf $100 X2

Sooke Power Supplies

Husqvarna Logging Suspenders $19

Sooke PocketNews T-shirt $15 X2

Nuno Felted Scarf $50

Sooke Museum T Shirt $20 X2

Dazzlepro Advanced GT /Sonic Toothbrush $118

Salon Service $100

Le Sooke Spa

❏ 557

Linda Ferguson - Rodan & Fields

Gift Card $25

Rodan & Fields Skin Care Regimen $222

❏ 558

Livivi Hair

Certificate towards Hair Highlighting/ Colouring $65

Certificate for lawncutting service $50

Certificate for trees & shrubs $50 Certificate for product $100 X2 Round flower box $75 X2

HOME ❏ 800 ❏ 801 ❏ 802

Barry V, Locksmith

Pushbutton remote control deadbolt lock installed $195

Dale’s Electric

Fluorescent Fixtures with tubes $38 X2

Graceful Folds

One pair 21x64 inch beige roller blinds $160

❏ 803

Home Wise Plumbing

❏ 804

NexGen Hearing

❏ 805

Riptide Plumbing

Kohler Sterling Windham Round Front 15” White Toilet bowl $200 Sonic Boom alarm clock $75

❏ 559

She Beauty Salon

❏ 560

Star Mobile Esthetics

Certificate towards Esthetics Services $20

❏ 806

Tupperware

❏ 561

Mel O Hair Salon

❏ 807

Arbutus Cove Guesthouse & Cottages

HEALTH Academy Dental

Certificate for hair services $35

❏ 556

Silver Streak Hat $15

Sooke Region Museum (Gift Shop)

Woman’s haircut by Lisa $35

Facial with eye treatment $100

Certificate for haircut, pedi & gift box $65

Saputo extra old white cheddar 4.54 kg $100 X4

❏ 1154 E-Fish-Ent Fish Company Ltd. Certificate toward purchase of salmon products $30 X3

❏ 1157 Glenwood Meats

❏ 1056 Shards Glass Studio

Certificate $50

Speedy Glass

Certificate towards wall mirror $25 X2

Thermal King Glass

Certificate towards any product or service $50

LUV-A-RUG Services Inc.

Certificate Rug Cleaning $50 X2

Sooke Flower House

Certificate for flowers $100

Bosley’s Colwood

Puppy food & dog bed $70

Wiskers & Waggs

Dog toy, indoor dog potty & free nail clip $90

My Pet Nanny

Basket of Doggie Treats and Toys $45

D’Tails Dog Grooming

❏ 954 ❏ 955

Routine annual exam $69.50 X2 Dog Bath and Tidy $35 X2

Growlies for Pets Gift Card $25

It’s Over Rover

One private dog training $69

Otter Point Veterinary Hospital Medical Examination for One Pet $60

Pawz-4-Paws

Small or medium dog groom $40

❏ 957

Sooke Harbour Pet Resort

❏ 958

Sooke Veterinary Hospital Ltd.

❏ 959 ❏ 960

Kitchen faucet assembly $165 Tupperware & Gift Certificate $40 Handmade wool toss cushion $150

Topo’s Landscaping Company

Sooke Glass Ltd.

❏ 951

❏ 953

Canada Red Chokecherry Tree ❏ 1055 Victoria Shamrocks

Saseenos Veterinary Service

❏ 952

Certificate $30

Certificate towards garbage disposal $25 X2

3 Day Pet Boarding $60

Exam & Vaccination $66

Sooke Veterinary Hospital Ltd. Feline Spay $214

Willow Wind Feed

Certificate & 10% discount card $25

LEISURE ❏ 1000 Campus Honda

2 Honda Cups $12

❏ 1002 Dollar Store

❏ 756

Woman’s haircut by Ace $30

Sooke Disposal & Recycling

Jeff’s Tree Service

Essence Hair & Esthetics Studio

One haircut (walk in only) $20 X3

❏ 1153 Dairyland

Northern Star Plumbing/Gas/ Service Ltd.

❏ 1001 Campus Honda

❏ 552

Hair Cut $25 X2

Use of coffee brewer for 2 weeks with 2 boxes of coffee $50

Home Hardware gift certificate/card $75

One hour garden consultation Sooke $50

Black clutch bag, necklace & swimsuit $125

Arbonne Gift & Certificate $75

❏ 1152 Canadian Springs Water Company

Marlene Arden, Realtor

❏ 950

Canada Red Chokecherry Tree $140

❏ 707

Cheryl’s Esthetics

❏ 902

Ahimsa Yoga

1/2 HR Reflexology Session $45 X2

Sooke Soil & Landscape

Handmade Chiffon Scarf $85 X2

❏ 861

McLaughlin Hypnotherapy

❏ 755

La Petite Boutique

❏ 860

❏ 901

Deb’s Barber Shop

Wearable art - cape $90

❏ 858

❏ 900

Reflexology 4 You

702

Certificate for housecleaning $100

RONA Home and Garden Langford

2 Honda Golf Tools $26 Arts & Crafts Gift Basket $40

❏ 1003 General Nutrition Centre Sports Basket $150

❏ 1004 Patrick Fallon

1 pair Men’s Hockey Knee Pads $35

❏ 1005 Patrick Fallon

Men’s Hockey Shoulder Pads $50

❏ 1006 Wood Travel and Cruise Suitcase set $110

4 Pack Gift Card $44 X2 Fused Glass Workshop $125

❏ 1057 View Royal Casino

Dinner for 2 & 2 Coupons $25 Slot Play $110

❏ 1058 Coastal Cycles

Bicycle tune-up $79

❏ 1059 Borton’s Spas & Pools Ltd Certificate $50

❏ 1060 Gorge Vale Golf Club

Two Rounds of golf $180

❏ 1061 Shaw Communications HD PVR + Install $380

❏ 1062 Olympic View Golf Course

Ticket to Golf booklet $90 X2

❏ 1063 Outpost Bike Co.

Bicycle tune-up $60

❏ 1064 Sooke River Bluegrass Festival Society

Ticket to Bluegrass Festival $50 X4

❏ 1065 D. Mann Contracting

Learn to ride pass at Westshore Motorcross. 1 adult & 1 child $60 X2

❏ 1066 Sooke Fine Arts Society

Tickets for two to Purchaser’s Preview $60

❏ 1067 Sooke Fine Arts Society

Tickets for two to Taste of Sooke Evening $30

❏ 1068 Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra Society

Sooke Philharmonic Season Tickets for 2 Adult $160 X2

❏ 1069 Strong Kiteboarding

Kiteboarding Starter Lesson $150

❏ 1100 Epicure Selections

Epicure Basket $100

❏ 1101 Nancy Bennett

Basket of Preserves $25

❏ 1102 Salt West Naturals

Local sea salts basket $35

❏ 1103 Serious Coffee

Coal Miners organic blend, Three Amigos coffee & 1 apron $40

❏ 1052 Sooke Community Choir 2 Concert Tickets for Sooke Community Choir $30 X2

15 dozen extra large eggs - need not be taken all at once $36 X2

❏ 1161 Pizzability

Certificate towards pizza purchase $25 X4

❏ 1162 Sooke 2 For 1 Pizza

Coupon for 2 large special pizzas $40 X6

❏ 1163 Sooke Region Food CHI

Certificate for basket of organic squash $75

❏ 1164 Sooke Region Food CHI

Certificate for a basket of garlic $75

❏ 1165 Sooke River Store

Certificate & assorted cookies $30

❏ 1166 Thrifty Foods - Colwood Smile Card $50 X2

❏ 1167 Village Food Markets Certificate $50 X4

❏ 1168 Western Foods

Certificate $50 X4

❏ 1169 Peoples Drug Mart

Purdy’s Gift Cards $25 X2

RESTAURANT ❏ 1250 Bruce & Linda MacMillan Re/Max Camosun Westside

Certificate for Stone Pipe Grill $30

❏ 1251 Buffy’s Pub

T-shirt & $25 certificate for pub food $45

❏ 1252 Cathy’s Corner Café Certificate $20

Sewer hose support $48

❏ 1401 McKay’s Electronic Experts Audio/Video component wall mount $60

❏ 1402 Sooke Centre Auto Repair AC DELCO Universal Car Battery $140

❏ 1403 Saunders Sales and Service A Bag of Subaru Swag $100

❏ 1404 Coast Capital Insurance Car care gift basket $75

❏ 1450 Bob’s Repair Centre Case of motor oil $65

❏ 1451 Dumont Tire Craft Certificate towards tire/wheel purchases and mechanical service $70

❏ 1452 Dumont Tire Craft Certificate towards tire/wheel purchases and mechanical service $95

❏ 1453 EZ Lube Automotive Certificate $25 X2

❏ 1454 Fountain Tire Certificate for services $100 X5

❏ 1455 KAL Tire Certificate towards wheel alignment & lube & oil service $200

❏ 1456 Kenco Motor Cycles & Salvage Certificate towards tire purchase $75

❏ 1457 Midas Auto Service Experts Midas Service Special oil change $50

❏ 1458 RCU Auto Parts Certificate towards purchase of used parts $50

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Two steak dinners $26

❏ 1259 Stone Pipe Grill

Certificate $20 X3

❏ 1105 Sooke U-Brew

Wine Kit: Orchard Breezin’ Cranberry Craze, red wine kit $85

❏ 1106 West Coast Wild Seafood

Case of 12 cans regular & 12 cans smoked tuna $120

❏ 1107 Fudge In A Round

6 Pack Assorted Fudge $18

❏ 1108 Sooke Fall Fair & Quilters Guild Basket of assorted homemade and farm fresh goodies $125

Bottle of mead & honey gift pack $37 Gift Certificate $25 X3

❏ 1151 Sooke Shell/Pacemart

10 child-size ice cream cones $28.50

1268

Certificate 17 Mile Pub $50 Certificate $25

❏ 1262 Yen’s Kitchen

Dinner for 4, Menu B $44

❏ 1263 McDonalds Restaurants of Canada

Certificate for 4 extra value meals $40 X2

❏ 1264 Sooke Subway

Certificate $25 X8

❏ 1265 White Spot Restaurant Westshore Certificate $20 X5

❏ 1266 John Vernon, Re/Max Camosun Westside

Certificate to Stone Pipe Restaurant $25 X2

❏ 1267 Wild Mountain Food & Drink

Certificate for dining at Wild Mountain $25

❏ 1268 Sooke Harbour House Lunch for six $180

❏ 1269 Sooke Harbour House

❏ 1054 The Mortgage Centre

ACCOMMODATION

Dessert & special coffees for 4 $80

Olympic View Golf gift certificate $100

❏ 1350 Blackfish Bed & Breakfast

One night accommodation for two $125

Lunch For Six

Sooke Harbour House

❏ 1351 Otter Point Beach House & Dapalouno Fine Homes & Renovations

1 night accommodation for 4 with purchase of same $310

BUILDERS CORNER ❏ 1600 Al Champ

Dewalt Cordless Drill Kit $112

❏ 1601 Slegg Lumber

❏ 1651 Churchill Meadows

Load of overburden fill delivered in the Sooke area. Delivery to be completed by May 31, 2015 $100

Certificate $25

❏ 1258 Royal Canadian Legion Branch #54 Sooke

Engine oil change for a four stroke outboard $115 X2

Certificate towards purchase of Gravel Aggregate for pick-up $180

❏ 1255 Little Vienna Bakery

Certificate to world famous Mom’s Café $40

7 Boat Launches $75

❏ 1551 Sooke Marine Centre Ltd.

Black and Decker drill bit set $50

Certificate $25

❏ 1257 Mom’s Cafe

❏ 1550 Sunny Shores Resort & Marina Ltd.

❏ 1650 Bedrock Gravel Sales

❏ 1254 Jasmine Restaurant

❏ 1261 The Lazy Gecko Restaurant

Sheila’s Coast Crunch Granola $13

Bicycle tune up $70 X2

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❏ 1400 Fennell’s RV Repair

Certificate for Stone Pipe Grill $50

❏ 1053 Sooke Cycle

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❏ 1104 Sheila’s Coastal Crunch Granola

❏ 1150 Jenny’s Olde Country Fare

Three nights camping $90

❏ 1160 Parkland Poultry

❏ 1260 Tammi Dimock, Realtor

❏ 1050 Bart Van De Berk

❏ 1051 Sooke Community Association/ Sooke River Campsite

Certificate $20

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2 nights stay at 2 BR unit $500

❏ 1256 Mai Mai’s Bistro

❏ 1109 Tugwell Creek Honey Farm

Historic Tour of Leechtown, goldpanning & lunch $100

❏ 1159 Kelz Sweet & Savory Bake Shop

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❏ 1352 Sooke Harbour Resort and Marina

Breakfast for 4 $50

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❏ 1007 Investors Group Financial Services Inc. Box of golf balls $50

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PETS

Goodlife Wellness - Sue Rowland RMT

BEAUTY ❏ 500

❏ 857

❏ 862

Goodlife Wellness - Sasza Zawasza

Initial consultation & 2 hypnotherapy sessions $250

Certificate for carpet cleaning $200

Gift card $50 X4

❏ 856

Playland Daycare Centre

Goodlife Wellness - Ocean Spirit Massage

Introductory Essential Oil Package $35 X3

Sooke Museum Hoodie $50 X2

❏ 400

❏ 855

RBC Royal Bank

One Hour Massage Session $90

❏ 462

❏ 854

Certificate towards septic pump out $100

Gift certificate $50 X4

Wooden toy $20

❏ 603

Goodlife Wellness Group Leslie Rose Certified Yoga

Happy Carpet Cleaners

Mel Hull

Deep Tissue Swedish Massage $45 X2

❏ 551

Geri Pudwell

Sooke Region Museum (Gift Shop)

Night Owl Accessories

Wooden Grader $35

Numa Farms Nursery

❏ 314

❏ 127

Mel Hull

❏ 754

Silver Streak Boats

❏ 315

❏ 602

❏ 851

Honda Bear and T shirt $19

Barb the Barber

❏ 313

B & K Jewellery & Gifts

❏ 601

Coast Environmental Ltd

❏ 853

Campus Honda

❏ 550

T-shirt and bobble head $26

Katherine Woods Sculpture & Turning

❏ 126

❏ 600

❏ 850

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KIDS

Arbonne

❏ 124

4 art cards $28

Spa Service $120

❏ 505

Kathy’s Kreations

Rico Massage

❏ 460

Certificate $25

CLOTHING

❏ 302

❏ 458

Penelope’s Book Stop

Certificate $20

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❏ 457

Royal Roads University

Hatley Through the Seasons book and 2 passes to Hatley Gardens $49

Hair Cut & Colour $95

Thirty Minute Massage $50

Sooke Pocket News

The Three Strategies of the Unstoppable Woman $30 X3

Pure Elements Hair Design & Bodyworks Ltd

One hour acupuncture session $90

Hot Money by Dick Francis $30

Val’s Cottage Crafts

❏ 563

Infra-red sauna & 1/2 hour Massage $80

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❏ 125

❏ 454

Trevor Colley

To the Hilt by Dick Francis $30

Pure Elements Hair Design & Bodyworks Ltd

One Hour Private Yoga Therapy $65

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Windsong Glass

Earrings $15 X2

❏ 453

Signed book $20

The Chronicles of Downton Abbey $7

Clover Care Massage

Naturopathic Exam and Consultation $140

Bart van de Berk

❏ 123

Glass Star Suncatcher $8 X2

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❏ 455

Sooke Fine Art Gallery

Limited edition print by Darlene Warhurst Metz - Blackfoot Holy Woman $50

Wood-turned pen $35

The Reading Room Bookstore & Café

Scrapnaturally

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❏ 121

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RoxDesigns

Handmade Sterling Silver necklace $45

❏ 451

Childrens Book $25

Patty Dowler - Seaside Basketry

Picture of Women’s Hockey Team Canada $75

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Hexham Abbey by Joan Taylor $250

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❏ 200

❏ 450

Walnut platter $65

BOOKS

Jim Gregory

Cherry wood bowl $70

Metal Art Piece $50

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Limited Edition Print

Big Boy Art Box $60

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Fishing Charters

2 Reel, Duffy’s, Crab Shack, Reel Excitement ❏ 1459 Sooke Total Auto Recycling Ltd. Certificate for quality used parts $75 X2

❏ 1460 Sooke Towing / Otter Point Collision Towing $50

❏ 1461 Sooke Towing / Otter Point Collision One month vehicle outdoor storage $50

❏ 1462 Suds & Pups Gift card for Car or Pet wash $25 X2

❏ 1463 Tri-City Collision Oil change, check belt, hoses, lights, fluids & tire pressure plus exterior car wash for one car $70

❏ 1464 West Coast Collision Certificate towards Auto Detail Service $150

❏ 1465 Great Canadian Oil Change Certificate towards oil change $20 X4

❏ 1466 Integra Tire 4-wheel Balance for car or light truck $50 X2

MARINE/FISHING ❏ 1500 Island Outfitters Ltd D-Shock freshwater rod & reel $30

❏ 1501 Pacific Sportsfishing Charters Fishing tackle & t-shirt $100

❏ 1502 Silver Streak Boats Peek Polish $12

❏ 1503 Silver Streak Boats DOT approved life jacket $100 X2

❏ 1757 Jamieson & Irwin Assoc. Chartered Accountants

Certificate 2014 or 2015 tax return $200

❏ 1758 Mayhue & Company

2 standard wills for spouses $400

❏ 1759 Sooke Fax & Copy Centre Certificate $25 X2

❏ 1760 Sooke Moving & Storage Moving (2 men for 1 hour) $100 X3

❏ 1761 Sooke Moving & Storage 1 month storage 20 ft unit $125 X3

❏ 1762 Sooke Voice News

One COLOUR display ad 4 x 5 and in Tweets $195

❏ 1763 The Geek Shop

One hour computer service $75 X2

❏ 1652 Drivers Welding

❏ 1764 RBC Royal Bank

❏ 1653 Dulux Paints

❏ 1765 Darcy Abell Computer Service & Support

❏ 1654 Sooke Slinger Services Ltd.

THIS & THAT

Certificate for Welding Service or Steel sales $50 Certificate for 2 gal Dulux Lifemaster paint $165 1 load of 3/4 inch road base delivered within 1 hour of Sooke village center $350

❏ 1655 Steve’s Hauling

Certificate towards Hauling/Refuse Removal $100

RESP Contribution $100 2 hours computer service $100 X2

❏ 1800 Barking Dog Studio

6 to a bag fire starter $4 X2

❏ 1801 Brenda Parkinson Photo Album $15

❏ 1802 Campus Honda

2 Honda Lanyards $12

❏ 1656 VI Rentals

❏ 1803 East Sooke Grocer and General Store

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

❏ 1804 Edward Jones

Certificate towards Equipment Rentals $25 X4

❏ 1700 Connect Hearing

Amplified cordless telephone with case $190

❏ 1701 Seafirst Insurance Earthquake Kit $100

❏ 1750 EHQ Development

Web development & hosting $372

❏ 1751 Hallgren and Faulkner Standard Will $250 X2

1 New Full 20lb Propane Tank $65

Corkscrew, Winepourer & Decanter $35

❏ 1805 Gail Powell

Hand Blown Vase $25

❏ 1806 Gail Powell

Carnival Glass Serving Plate $15

❏ 1807 Mason Financial Ltd. Bottle of wine $25

1701

❏ 1752 Accutax Accounting Services Certificate for Accounting or Tax Services $200

❏ 1753 Capital Computers & Web Hosting

2 hours of computer servicing or repair $100

❏ 1754 Fleming and Company, CGA

Certificate toward Tax and Accounting Services $100

❏ 1755 H&R Block

Certificate towards income tax preparation $100

❏ 1756 Jake Grant - Jewelry Design Art & Décor

Jewellery cleaning and setting-check $28

Earthquake Survival Kit Seafirst Insurance

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SEAPARC Leisure Complex, 2168 Phillips Road, Sooke BC

www.sookerotary.com/auction

SILENT AUCTION ITEMS continued

❏ 1808 Midway Distributors Propane torch kit $84

❏ 1809 Peoples Drug Mart

Last Year’s 50/50 Draw WINNER

❏ 1852 Happy Homebrewers

1 Ultra Premium Wine with Bottles, includes wine making $250

❏ 1853 Mayfair Flower Shop

Logitech Computer Speaker System $100

2014 winner, Margaret Senke accepting $1284 cheque from Rotarian John Bridal check out www.sookerotary.com for this year’s winning number

Certificate $25

❏ 1810 Peoples Drug Mart

❏ 1854 Rotary Club of Sooke

Sony Headphones $45

Entrance fee to Raft Race at Canada Day $60

❏ 1811 Stan Eakin

❏ 1855 Sooke Harbour Players

POP PHONE $20

❏ 1812 The Salvation Army Store Gift Basket $40

❏ 1813 This N That

Travel adapter, clock radio & one pack 12 worms per month for a year $83

Sooke Whale Watching Passes Salty Towers Oceanfront Retreat & Charters

Two tickets to Tommy $40 X2

❏ 1856 Sooke Harbourside Lions

Quack pack for Duck Race May 11 $20 X2

❏ 1857 Sooke Tool Rental ❏ 1819 Gail Rose - Thirty One Gifts

20lb propane bottle fill $20 X5

❏ 1858 Titanium Tents And Events Ltd

A SPECIAL Rotary Thanks:

❏ 1821 Anonymous

❏ 1859 West Coast Super Storage & Moving

Opening Ceremonies Guests:

❏ 1817 All Sooke Arts & Crafts

❏ 1850 Brian Rimmer Rimmer Auctioneer

❏ 1860 Sooke Harbour House

❏ 1818 Garry Cook

❏ 1851 Sooke Harbour Taxi

❏ 1861 Stella & Dot

❏ 1814 Wilson Diving

Wine & Bring-A-Bag Thermal $30

Snorkel Set $60

❏ 1815 Shawna Farmer - Notary Public Summer Themed Gift Basket $100

❏ 1816 Tulabelle Designs

❏ 1820 TD Canada Trust, Sooke Branch Swag Bag $45

Tent Rental $100

2 months free storage - any size container $273 X2

Snorkel Set $55

Berry Bags $96 Gift Basket $65

Auction Services $300

Certificate for the gift shop $40 Certificate $50

Ten $5 taxi coupons $50 X2

Birdhouse $60

6PM LIVE AUCTION Rotary Club Of Sooke

NOTE: These are short descriptions. Detailed descriptions available on labels at auction.

X2 = Multiple Item / Listings highlighted in GREEN are Booth Exhibitors ❏ 17

AdrenaLINE Adventure Tours Ltd Certificate valid for 1 Adult or 1 Youth Zipline Tour $80 X2

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Peoples Drug Mart ❏1

Stick in the Mud

One hour roasting session with The Stick’s Roast Master. Includes 5 lbs of coffee at the end of the session $125

❏2

Mainline Landscape Supplies

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Wilson Bobcat Ltd.

❏4

Sooke Salmon Enhancement Society

Concrete Native Mask $40

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HHS Drilling & Blasting Ltd.

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Richardson Brush Works

❏ 21

The Crab Shack

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Salty Towers Oceanfront Retreat & Charters

❏8

Victoria Box and Paper

❏9

Seaside Productions

❏ 10

John Horgan

2 x 4 ft skylight $165

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Sooke News Mirror

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Rainforest Tours

Legislature Lunch & tour for two $50

Quarter Page Ad including colour processing $407 Guided hike, lunch, transportation $135 X2

Sooke Evergreen Physiotherapy Ltd.

Gift Basket of exercise items incl gift certificate for 1 hr massage $200

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Box of 96 rolls of toilet paper $70

Pickup of split firewood delivered $150

Kiri Hammock with stand $200

Two adult passes for tour with Sooke Whale Watching $244

Print - Contemplation by Michel DesRochers $75

Starline Windows Ltd.

6 hour Coho Fishing Charter for up to 6 persons $600

Anonymous Donation

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Wenstob Timber Resources Ltd / Xemex Industries Ltd

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Seaflora

❏ 13

Warburton Woodworks

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Beaches West: The Homestead

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Phillips Sonicare toothbrush PLUS professionally designed teeth whitening system $500

Port Renfrew Marina

PRM khaki vest (size XL) + 2 nights camping & moorage $109

Butler Bros Supplies

Sand Box & sand delivered in Sooke area $500

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Stan Eakin

Painting - Sunnfjord by Stan Eakin $150

Elinor and David McClimon 12 yards screened soil, delivery not included $200

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Sooke Home Hardware

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Point No Point Resort

BROIL-KING BBQ $500 One night stay $270

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Sooke News Mirror Half page ad $674

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Reel Excitement Salmon Charters

❏ 43

Bobbie Momsen

4 hour salmon charter $325 Photo on canvas: Orca by Mary Waskul $150

❏ 44

Jordan River Gravel Aggregate delivery or excavator work $300

❏ 45

Atomique Productions 2 - Two Day Passes to Rock the Shores $300

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SPT Consulting Up to 1 week stay at Sunset Resort in Canmore Alberta $1,350

Beauty products selection $202

Two night stay for two $360

Tale of the Whale Art & Antiques

Yellow cedar burl bowl $300 Gift Basket $150

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V.I.C. Scratching Post

❏ 51

South Shore Gallery & Artist Supply

Cat Condo $170

Stone & Concrete Sculpture by Oceanstone Studio $68

❏ 52

Peoples Drug Mart

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SEAPARC Leisure Complex

- CRD Director Mike Hicks - Sooke RCMP Detachment - Piper Lynn Moffat

To Supporters Offering Cash Donations: - BC Island Vacation Homes Ltd. - Clarkston Construction - Dependable Construction - Dr Bartley S Wilson / Sooke Dental Centre - Dr. Louise Morin, Optometrist - Fred Whittaker - Island Land Surveying

- Pungente the Plumber - Roads End Contracting - Sally’s Massage Therapy Studio, Goodlife Wellness - Shayne Fedosenko, Realtor - West Coast Tire and Wheel - Western Island Tree Service - Yateman Automotive (Shell Station)

To Supporters Offering Goods and Services: -

RCMP Sooke Fax & Copy Sooke Home Hardware Village Foods

Facilities: - District of Sooke - Ecole Poirier - Eric James & Group Therapy - RE/MAX - SEAPARC - Sooke Community Association - Sooke Fire Department - Sooke Harbour Electric - Sooke Historical Society - Sooke Moving and Storage - Sooke Region Museum - Sooke River Hotel / Castle Liquor Store - Sooke Signs - T'Souke Nation Food: - Cape Links & Coils - Little Vienna Bakery - Stick in the Mud Café - Stone Pipe Grill - Wannawafel

Ambience: - Kelly Keys, Sooke Flower House - RONA Home and Garden Centre John Topolniski - Vancouver Island Placer Miners Association Garden: - Holy Trinity Anglican Church - Sara Pearson - Sooke Garden Club - T'Souke Nation Volunteers: - EMCS Sooke Youth - Brian Rimmer, Auctioneer - SEAPARC staff - Sooke Seahawks Football - Wood Travel and Cruise

Plus the many family members and friends of Rotary who lend a hand in setting up and running this great event!

16GB Mini iPad $370 SEAPARC Annual Family Pass for up to 5 family members $730

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Eagle Eye Outfitters & 2 Reel Fishing Adventures

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Rob Martin

Dr. Chris Bryant

One computer-designed all porcelain crown procedure, allinclusive, (evaluation, radiograph, minor laser assisted gingival recontouring) $1,100

Shoppers Drug Mart Bistro Set $150

5 hour salmon fishing charter $500

Original Painting, Artist Glen Wade $250

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Shoppers Drug Mart

Jock’s Dock

Dr. Chris Bryant

Chemainus Theatre & Hotel Package for two $375

❏ 49

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❏ 14

Wittich Environmental Services

Rumsby Construction

Duffy’s Salmon Charters

Hand crafted planter box $500

❏ 37

Sooke Wood Art

2 hours backhoe time $200

- Mayor Maja Tait

Two night accommodation for two $250

❏ 48

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Limited Edition Print $50

Adult Friendly Gift Basket $125

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One night stay at Best Western Prestige Resort $250

Accent Inns

Sooke’s Home Team REMAX Camosun Westside

Best Western Prestige Ocean Front Resort & Convention Centre Sooke

❏ 11

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23 yds mixed chip Sooke delivery $224 RC Helicopter w/ Camera $260

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TR Express

Gift Basket for HIM $100

❏ 21.5

Sooke Fine Art Gallery

❏7

Pail Dulux white acrylic exterior paint $335

FishingSooke.ca

Royal Colwood Golf Club

Gift Certificate for two green fees $300

Pick, Shovel & Pry Bar $100

❏ 20

1 hour trucking dump truck $85

2015 Sooke Salmon Enhancement Society Derby Ticket $50 X2

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- Janet McTavish Singing O Canada - T'Sou-ke Nation Elder Shirley Alphonse - MLA John Horgan

Half Day Fishing Charter $425 Custom maple privacy screen, 3 section, art show quality $2,500

To All Performers: - Janet McTavish - Journey Middle School Rock Band - Sooke Dance Studio, Carole Cave

- Trounce Alley Barbershop Quartet - Pam Hardy & Partner - Group Therapy, Eric James

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WALKOM, HELEN RUTH Passed away peacefully on Thursday April 23, 2015 at the age of 82. Beloved mother of Daniel (Cynthia) and Brian McIntyre (Rose). Proud grandma of Andrea, Kendall, Kyle and Easton. Survived by her sister Wynne and predeceased by sisters Eileen, Elsie and brother Bud. Helen was a loving and dedicated mother who always put the needs of her family before her own. She fondly remembered her time in Sooke and the Western Communities and the many friendships she made. Helen will be greatly missed by all who knew her. We would like to thank the many doctors and staff at the Royal Jubilee Hospital; Renal and Cardiac Care Clinics for their exceptional care and support. Visitation will be held at Sands Funeral ChapelColwood on Wednesday April 29, 2015 from 1-2 pm. A Graveside Service will be held at Hatley Memorial Gardens, 2050 Sooke Rd. Colwood on Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. Reception to follow at Sands Funeral Chapel - Colwood.

SANDS of COLWOOD 250-478-3821

CALL FOR ENTRIES 13TH ANNUAL Kitty Coleman Woodland Art & Bloom Festival. Fine Art and Quality Crafts Juried Show. Presented in a spectacular outdoor setting May 16, 17 and 18 Applications for Artisans are available at woodlandgardens.ca 250-338-6901

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HAVE YOU LOST YOUR RING? Gold ring, could be a wedding ring, was found in Sept. Please describe ring to claim. Call Sooke News Mirror. 250-642-5752

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Killam, (Anderson) Dorothy RNABC, St. Pauls Hospital, Vancouver, BC December 10, 1934 April 18, 2015 passed beyond the veil peacefully holding her daughters hand at home with her faithful dogs present. She is survived by her children Susan Fisher (Gordon), James Killam (Amie), Elizabeth Liu (John), George Killam. Grandchildren John, Nicole, Jordon, Zachary, Orry, Marlee, Brandon, Kevin, Stehanie, Cecily. Dorothy loved living amongst the flowers and next to the ocean. An extra ordinary lady, mother, grandmother and nurse, she enriched all our lives. In liu of flowers please contribute to a local seniors program and/or the spca or equivilant. Celebration of Life Luncheon to be held for family and friends at 7030 Wright Road on Sunday from 1-4 pm

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SOOKE HOSPICE SOCIETYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Plant a Memory Thurs., May 7- Peoples Drug Mart Fri., May 8 - Shoppers Drug Mart Sat., May 9 - Sooke Home Hardware 10 am - 4 pm.

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Kendal was a beautiful person, who was passionate about music, nature and the arts. She spent much of her life as a resident of the Sooke community and was adored by all whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives she touched. Her zest for life was demonstrated by her love of the outdoors, and she spent much of her time appreciating nature by biking, swimming and hiking with her husband and son by her side. She worked for 22 years in a care home, where she nurtured and cared for the elderly and sick and was well-liked among the residents at the home and her co-workers. She was a devoted daughter, mother and wife. She filled her home with the sounds of her singing. Kendal is survived by her husband Kelly Brame, son Leland Brame, step daughter Alanna Brame, mother Stella Lewis and brother James Butler.

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SOOKE Family Resource Society Employment Posting The Sooke Family Resource Society (SFRS) is seeking a maternity-leave term position for a Family Support Worker to provide individual family support and facilitation of parent/children programs in the Sooke area. The successful candidate must have a combination of relevant education and experience (ECE, CYC, Education, Social Services or related field), excellent communication, organization, as well as outreach, early learning, and adult education skills. Must have a class 5 Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s License and vehicle. A valid First Aid Certificate and a clear criminal record check are requirements for hire. SFRS follows the CSSEA wage scale. Resumes with cover letter should be submitted to Sooke Family Resource Society 6672 Wadams Way, Sooke, BC, V9Z 0H3; fax 250-6427663; attention: Children and Family Services; or emailed to info@sfrs.ca (Subject: FSW Position) until 1:00pm May 20, 2015.

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The Blob: Why warmer oceans are a big concern Travis Paterson Black Press

They call it “The Blob,” and it’s threatening to change marine habitats off the coast of B.C. and Alaska. The Blob is an anomaly of nutrient-poor, warm water, the likes of which seasoned oceanographers haven’t seen before, says Tom Okey, a Victoria-based marine ecologist and adjunct environmental studies professor at the University of Victoria. It could further affect the pole-ward migration of marine life already occurring along the Pacific coast. “West Coast fishermen are chasing tuna to Alaska,” Okey said. “Fishermen recently caught a skipjack tuna – a tropical fish – in the mouth of the Copper River, one of Alaska’s most iconic salmon rivers.” The Blob began appearing at the end of 2013, and spread to an area covering 1.5-million square kilometres across the Gulf of Alaska. It arrived in the nearshore waters of Vancouver Island at the end of 2014, “where the waters remain much warmer than usual,” Okey said. Okey has authored and co-authored papers in several peerreviewed journals summarizing the impacts of climate change on Canada’s Pacific region, calculating the vulnerability of Pacific Northeast waters to the effects of climate change. He’s quick to point out that while the ocean is highly variable, there are too many indicators suggesting the marine ecosystem is undergoing significant change, and it’s not for the better. A naturally occurring cool period in the coastal Pacific Ocean from 2006 to 2013, known to researchers as a cold regime, is believed to have masked the underlying signals of longer-term oceanic changes. That cool regime delayed more conspicuous changes in the ocean as well as our own socioeconomic changes, Okey says. Frank Whitney, with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich, said winter winds blowing across the Pacific are possibly being impacted by decreased sea ice cover, which in turn

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could be driving up the ocean temperature. “The warming of the Arctic and decrease in the cover of Arctic summer sea ice may have caused weakened westerly and stronger southerly winds in the North Pacific starting in the fall of 2013. As a result, warmer southern waters were pushed northward,” Whitney said. Researchers say the Blob is responsible for low nutrients, low biological productivity and changes in currents, salinity, stratification, dissolved oxygen and acidity. Okey said it has also been linked to changes in the distributions, productiv-

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Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Sections 890, 891 and 892 of the Local Government Act, that a Public Hearing: Will be held at: Port Renfrew Community Centre Located at: 6638 Deering Road, Port Renfrew, BC On: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 starting at 7pm To consider adoption of an amendment to Bylaw No. 3109: Bylaw No. 3986 - cited as “Comprehensive Community Development Plan for Port Renfrew, Bylaw No. 1, 2003, Amendment Bylaw No. 7, 2014”. The purpose of Bylaw No. 3986 is to amend Bylaw No. 3109, Comprehensive Community Development Plan for Port Renfrew, Bylaw No. 1, 2003, by amending Section 4.4 to include residential uses, by amending Section 17 to clarify wording and by deleting the easterly portion of Lot 1, District Lot 17, Renfrew District, Plan VIP79040 from the Residential designation and adding it to the Tourism Commercial designation and by deleting the easterly portion of Lot 1, District Lot 17, Renfrew District, Plan VIP79040 from the Community Residential One (CR-1) zone and deleting the westerly portion of Lot 1, District Lot 17, Renfrew District, Plan VIP79040 from the Tourism Commercial One (TC-1) zone and adding the entire parcel to a new Tourist Commercial 1A (TC-1A) zone for the purpose of reconciling existing land use with the property’s land use designation and zoning (17242/17245 Parkinson Road – Coastal Kitchen/Hicks), shown on maps below.

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ity and abundances of marine species including plankton, fishes, mammals and birds. Okey and colleagues, including Dr. William Cheung of the UBC Fisheries Centre, estimated that some marine fishes along the coast are shifting northward at an average of 30 kilometres per decade, though other research suggests an even faster rate. But species shift at different rates, Okey said. “What you get is re-shuffling and mismatches of co-evolved species,” he said. “When predators are showing up to feed, the plankton or other prey are sometimes not there at the same time that they used to be.” Okey said there’s a pretty long list of indicators that suggest species are reshuffling fast. “We have some examples of past events with similar shifts, such as previous El Ninos including the early 1990s and 2005, when Pacific mackerel arrived in B.C. in huge numbers. As voracious predators, they ate much juvenile salmon and their prey. We need to prevent species extinction and we need to find approaches to help maintain the functional health of the system with reshuffled species, so we can help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.” One type of approach that Okay and colleagues are focusing on is spatial vulnerability assessment, the search for ‘climate refugia (areas of slower change), which can be protected or otherwise managed. DID YOU KNOW? Predicting climate change impacts on Pacific salmon is complicated, but salmon are cold-water species in both marine and freshwater habitats, and are affected by changes in nearshore habitat and offshore food resources. It doesn’t look good for Pacific salmon species in the current ocean climate, Okey said. Chinook salmon may be particularly sensitive. As the preferred prey of the threatened resident Orca population in Canada’s Pacific, Orcas may be particularly affected by this warm anomaly thanks to decreasing food supply.

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Curator’s Corner: Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic collection Born in Victoria on April 27, 1916, Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic was one of Canada’s most celebrated portrait artists. At the Sooke Region Museum we are lucky to have nearly a dozen of her pieces in our permanent art collection. Pavelic descends from one of Victoria’s most prominent families. Her grandfather, the renowned David Spencer, built a retail enterprise in Victoria upon his arrival in the mid1800s and her father, William Spencer, helped manage the family business in the early 1900s. Pavelic’s family home was called Hael-y-Bryn (Welsh for brow of the hill) and was situated across the road from Craigdarroch Castle. In 1951 her grandfather’s home, the Spencer Mansion, was given to the city of Victoria and became the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Pavelic spent much of her childhood traveling to Europe, drawing and playing music. She took formal piano training, but due to health concerns she could not pursue it as a career.

art scene of New York, she pursued her passion for realism and portraiture. During her time in New York she met Nikola Pavelic, son of the former prime minister of Yugoslavia. They married in 1948 and had a daughter in 1950 in Victoria. For the next couple of decades Pavelic focused on being a mother and

spent some time in New York. In the 1970s she became a founding member of the Limners, a prestigious group of artists in Victoria. Throughout the later part of the 1900s Pavelic accepted numerous commissions for portraitures. Eventually she settled on Ardmore Drive in North Saanich and

spent some time creating sketches and paintings of her surroundings there. Due to Pavelic’s close relationship with Sooke historian Elida Peers, she gifted many pieces of her art to the museum. Peers recalls how very pleased she was to have the supCont’d on page 36

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Clockwise: Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic’s charcoal drawing “Black Diamond” (1996.007.001), reproduction of her portrait of Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1992.038.001), collage “Black Sky” (1991.012.001), and oil painting No. R-20 from her Relationship series (1989.055.001). Instead, she focused on her art. At eight years old Pavelic was introduced to Emily Carr, who would become her mentor. At age 15, Carr invited Pavelic to showcase her drawings at an exhibition in Carr’s Peo-

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think she will go far for she is young yet. I think her work is good—very good” (excerpt from Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms). In the 1960s, while experiencing the busy

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port of her good friend Myfanwy Pavelic, one of Canada’s top artists, when the museum began organizing the annual Fine Arts Show in 1986. Mrs. Pavelic not only allowed the museum to use the prestige of her name in the first major award of the show, the Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic Award for Best In Show, but she began the tradition of presenting a piece of art to the museum each year. In our collection is a framed charcoal drawing from 1971 titled “Black Diamond” (1996.007.001). The piece was donated to the museum in 1996 in honour of the Fine Arts Show. It is in a sleek silver frame, which is characteristic of most of her pieces in our collection. This drawing demonstrates Pavelic’s fascination with abstraction, simplicity and shapes. In addition to experimenting with shapes, she also explored the art of collage and landscapes. In her piece “Black Sky,” she uses coloured paper to create a landscape (1991.012.001). The 1976 image has a black sky, orange ground, and three rocks. The artwork is in a metal silver frame, has white matting and is signed in the lower left corner. The museum also has a reproduction of one of her most well-known works, which is the official portrait of Canadian Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1992.038.001). The original is acrylic on canvas and the image shows the pensive Trudeau wearing his trade loden cape and a signature red rose on his blazer’s lapel. Trudeau commissioned Pavelic as the artist of his official portrait, but she insisted that

he had to come to her studio in Sidney, B.C. so she could get to know him. While at her studio she spent two days studying Trudeau and created several drawings and took videos and photographs. The painting won the F.H. Varley Medallion for Best Portrait Painting in

1998. In the 1970s and 80s Pavelic developed a portrait series called Relationships. From this series, the museum has an oil painting of Herbert Siebner and his daughter Angela (1989.055.001). This 1984 Acrylic was No. R-20 in Pavelic’s series.

The painting is in a wooden frame that is painted light gray. This painting is an excellent example of Pavelic’s ability to capture realism, depth and emotion in her portraits. Pavelic presented this piece to the museum on the opening night of the Fine Arts Show in 1987.

A picture of Pavelic gifting this painting to the museum can be found in the August 5, 1987 edition of the Sooke News Mirror. Additional Pavelic pieces in the museum’s collection include a signed print of her portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, a charcoal drawing of a woman

titled “Elza Mayhew,” a silk screen print of a man’s face titled “Karl” and a watercolour from her Landscape of Love series titled “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore Art thou Romeo.” Pavelic earned numerous awards and recognitions in her lifetime including the Order of

Canada, the Order of British Columbia and an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria. She passed away on May 7, 2007 at the age of 91. Brianna Shambrook Collections and Exhibits Manager Sooke Region Museum

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Sports & Recreation Take a swing at badminton in Sooke Octavian Lacatusu Sooke News Mirror

Those looking around for an easy-toget-into sport that will get their heart pumping during all seasons of the year, here’s a good one: Badminton. Often misconceived for a slower, more sensible sport, badminton can be quite the heartbeat pusher, as it entails pacing back and forth to get the right shot (or any shot for that matter). And unlike many other sports, it can be played indoors as well, hence making it an excellent fitness activity for those winter month evenings. Roger Temple, one of the main co-ordinators of the Sooke Badmin-

ton club, says on top of all the sports he’s taken part in over the years- such as running marathons, biking and tennis, badminton still remains his favourite. “I’m 67 and I’ve been playing since I was 14 years old, when I played with the school team in England for a few years,” he said. “I never stopped playing badminton - it’s definitely my preferred sport.” What keeps people hooked and on their toes, Temple says, is the speed of which badminton matches progress - unlike tennis, which moves a lot slower in comparison. “If you’re playing singles side to side, you’ve really got to move. Ten-

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Roger Temple demonstrating a badminton serve at the Fred Milne field. nis is slower because you got a lot more time to go across the court to get the ball,” he said. “With badminton, you got to really be on your toes.” It makes sense, considering the surprising speed of which the ‘birdie’ or ‘shuttlecock’ as it is technically

named, can move at. According to Temple, the “shuttlecock” - the moment in which the birdie hits the pan of the racket - is poised to enter the Guinness Book of Records at 162 miles per hour (261 km/h) -- the speed it travels on the smash -compared to squash`s

151 mph (243 km/h) and a mere 138 mph (222 km/h) for tennis. “Hopefully the record will help move it out of other racket sports’ shadows, particularly in regions where tennis and squash reign supreme,” he said in hopes this may bolster the sport’s image.

But it’s not just the speed, or the competition, it’s the inclusivity of new players - boys and girls - including a relaxed age bracket. As such, players at the moment vary between roughly 11 years for the youngest, and up to 70 for the oldest - in other words, if you can handle a badminton racket and make a swing, you are qualified to take part. And don’t worry about your skill set, either - Temple says one of the badminton club’s highlights is its members’ ability to play with the skill level of a new player, regardless of how experienced they actually are. Meaning, you don’t need the swing strength of a comet to show you’re capable of taking part in the sport. “We have some heavy-hitters who have a real game, but then we play to whatever level it is,” Temple said.

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“We try to put in some consideration to that person so they don’t feel like they’re out of it.” Temple added by saying the club encourages youth to get into the sport, particularly high school students who get it as part of their physical education program anyway. “We try to back that by letting them (the youth) come out to join us - it’s a good way to get people into it,” he said. To take part, the wardrobe and equipment list is rather simple: a breathable shirt, comfortable running shoes, shorts (if the weather allows) a badminton racket and a birdie. The Sooke Badminton Club, meets regularly from September through June on Tuesday evenings at Edward Milne community school gym at 7:30 p.m.

Peewees play home opener at SEAPARC diamond The Triangle / Sooke Peewee and Mosquito baseball teams were at it again this weekend, having their first game at their SEAPARC home field this past Saturday. The rain clouds parted exactly at game time and the huge crowd assembled for this ratherhistoric event; the spectators enjoyed a festive atmosphere by watching great baseball, basking in the sun, and of course, complemented by the traditional barbequed hot dogs. The Sooke Peewees had a thrilling nail-biter with their JDF opponents going well over two hours in length. At the end of the back and forth battle, JDF came away with a narrow victory. Solid defensive plays by Josh Heslop, Chris Piatkowski, Beau Hicks and Connor North kept the game close and a line drive snagged by Tyson Wilkinson brought the crowd to their feet. The Sooke Mosquitos lost their game to their JDF opponents experiencing some powerful pitching from the JDF team. Sooke slugger Burney Ped-

neault blasted a beauty into center field to the delight of the Sooke fans. Sooke residents Dave Meek, Chris Cox and son Brad Cox have umpired the Sooke games to this point. The Sooke Mosquitos will play their next SEAPARC home double header this coming Saturday at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The Peewees take to the field at 4 p.m. There is, however, a serious shortage of umpires - any parent, baseball player or retiree wanting to help the Sooke kids and be part of a great game can take a one-day course and have an incredibly rewarding experience. Anyone interested should contact Dave Meek 250-208-8022.

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Sooke’s Atom division Seahawks win big versus Westshore Warriors

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Neither the rain or the cold stopped the Seahawks last Saturday from giving all their best against the Westshore Warriors. Seahawks Defensive Tackle Xzander Adams (pictured) takes a block while Safety Malakai Allen sets his sights on Warriors Offensive Guard Torin O’Hara. The ‘hawks will face off verus Gordon Head Raiders on Sunday, May 3, at the Goudy Turf Field in Lanford at 10 a.m.

Atom division Seahawks now 3-0 with hard fought win over the Westshore Warriors Our Sooke Seahawks got off to a rough start in their first home game against the Westshore Warriors last Saturday. It was cold, raining hard, and the Warriors enjoyed a significant size advantage. The Warriors scored a touchdown on their very first possession. Down 6-0, Seahawk coaches Tony Nelson, Ozzy Avila, and Mike Kaisinger used

positive encouragement to give our little guys courage. “Hit them low, and they will come down!”, Coach Tony shouted. The Seahawks defense went on to use a combination of sheer determination, hard hits, and swarm tackles to paralyze the Warriors offense. In one play, Seahawks Avila Angelo was flattened by a legal straight arm from Warriors tough guy Torin O’Hara. That only emboldened teammate Brody Berfelo to promptly take down Torin an instant later. Brody’s next play was to help Avila up off the field. The Seahawks offense responded with 4 unanswered touch

downs. Two from Gabe Nelson, one from Christian Kaisinger, and another from Avila Angelo. In an interview following the game, Seahawks Defensive Captain Gabe Nelson summarized the day. “Those guys were big!” Final score, Seahawks 24 - Warriors 6. Our Sooke Seahawks next home game is vs the Gordon Head Raiders on Sunday May 3, 10 a.m. at Goudy Turf Field in Langford. Submitted by Erik Lundell

Hot Car of the Week: 1994 Bentley Brooklands

Last week’s Hot Car of the Week section in the Sooke News Mirror launched off with a rodded-up Buick Regal from hell, but this time, we’re going for something a little more sensible: a 1994 Bentley Brooklands belonging to one lucky lady here in Sooke. Entirely hand-built in Crewe, England, the Brooklands was one of the world’s most exclusive luxury sedans - lined with the finest leather, genuine oak, glass and smooth-brushed metals that money can buy, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single piece of interior trim that isn’t fit for royalty. Beneath that long beige hood is a Rolls-Roycederived 6.75-litre V8 - but that doesn’t matter, because unlike a Ferrari, or a hot-blooded sports car that begs to show off its ferocity, the Brooklands doesn’t need to impress anyone - because it is

the very embodiment of automotive class and royalty; in a Brooklands, you’ve arrived before you’ve even set off. For those wondering, the Brooklands was named after the Brooklands race circuit in Surrey, United Kingdom, where the nation’s wealthiest would congregate and test out their speed machines back in the day. These prestige cars once commanded a price tag of well over $200,000 - today, one can be had for the same price of a brand-new Honda Accord. Hmm... choices, choices... Next week’s Hot Car... it’s originally Australian and it’s neither car, or pickup truck -- it’s both.

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Fishing Adventures Salmon fishing in Sooke has been getting better every week, depending on where the bait balls are located. We have been trolling from the Sooke Harbour mouth west on most salmon trips and finding the salmon somewhere between the harbour mouth and Sheringham Lighthouse. Running the gear on the bottom in 120 to 140 ft of water has produced both smaller winter feeders and larger returning hatchery Spring salmon and even a couple of nice halibut. Getting good reports from boats trolling salmon at Otter Point and just west of the point. Seen a few nice hatchery Spring salmon brought into the dock up to the 12 to 17 lb. range. Best baits have included anchovy and herring, as the bait in the salmon stomachs has been pretty much exclusively herring, even had herring hanging out of the salmon’s mouths on the way into the boat. The herring have been visable on the sounder and result in salmon on the lines when the bait has been located. We are having success with glow teaser heads and brightly coloured green and silver flashers. Halibut fishing has also been good, as is normal for this time of year. Good reports of smaller halibut to 45 lbs are coming in from; the harbour mouth, bluffs, bump off the trailer park, and points west of Otter Point. Best baits for halibut fishing can include a variety of fresh offerings. Contrary to some beliefs I have been told by commercial fishers and some Sooke old timers that halibut like fresh meals, not rotten stinky ones. Herring, octopus, mackerel, squid, and salmon bellies are always popular bait choices for halibut, be sure to take more bait than you think you will need, as many times there will be smaller fish that will steal your bait. A lot of new fishers are intimidated or confused by “halibut tides”, hearing that anchoring in the wrong tide can not only be dangerous but also unproductive. Look for slower moving tide changes, check the current charts as well as the tide tables. I was always told not to anchor in anything moving over 1.8 knots of current. Record the conditions when you catch halibut, and try to duplicate the tide and current factors. Some more fun derby action - Island Outfitters “Just for the Halibut” derby this last weekend was won by Mike Koff with a 70.3 lb halibut from Oak Bay waters. Upcoming events: The Sidney Salmon Derby May 1/2, Sooke Halibut Derby May 23/24, and Alpine Juan De Fuca Fishing Tournament June 20/21. Tight Lines, Ron Neitsch, 2 Reel Fishing Adventures

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