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Glen Meadows land deal back on the table Owners propose gifting 100 acres of golf course to North Saanich for farm land Steven Heywood News staff
A proposal to hand over property to the District of North Saanich could be the first time within the B.C.’s Agricultural Land Reserve’s history that a golf course would become agricultural land. Owners of the Glen Meadows Golf and Country Club, the Criddle family, are resurrecting a proposal to close the facility and
split the land into large lot residential homes and farm land. This proposal first came up in 2014, but was put on hold in anticipation of the civic election last November. A public presentation was held May 13 at the Glen Meadows clubhouse, hosted by the District. By hosting the open house, it appears the municipality is favouring the idea but Chief Administrative Officer Rob Buchan said North Saanich was not there to “sell it.”
“It’s up to the public to come up with its own opinion and for council to debate its merits,” Buchan told the crowd at the open house. He explained that previous council decided last year that the District would host the meeting and invite Mark Johnson, representing the Criddle family, to explain the concept. “This proposal is unique,” Buchan continued. “I’ve never heard of a golf course in the
ALR turned back into agricultural land with a combination of residential.” Buchan added it’s unique, too, for the District to host such an open house. However, he said North Saanich did the same thing when the owners of the Sandown property proposed a commercial/agricultural land split of what was once a horse racing track. Please see: District will work with, page 4
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Walk into any elementary school classroom and there will no doubt be colourful borders on bulletin boards, alphabets tacked to the walls, crafts in the corners and science experiments in progress. What might not be readily apparent is that the majority of those colourful and engaging learning tools were likely purchased with the teacher’s own money. In this week’s instalment of the Black Press/ Staples Great Teachers feature series, we speak on that subject with four educators from Sidney Elementary. “If a school suddenly went from having 12 divisions one year to having 13 divisions the next year, that teacher would walk into a bare classroom,” says Grade 4/5 teacher Jennifer Alberring. “You’d have the furniture, and whatever you could scrounge from everyone else,” adds Grade 2/3 teacher Lisa Kjernisted. Her classroom is full of cool stuff: buckets of paintbrushes, positivity posters and a whimsical, oversized leaf at a cozy reading station. It’s the kind of classroom any kid would love to hang out in, and it’s where Kjernisted, Alberring and fellow Grade 2/3 teachers Lori Richards and Nancy Fredeen have gathered to talk about how much they actually spend on classroom supplies every year. The four have more than 80 years com-
raising efforts — but it’s rarely enough. “People say jokingly in October, ‘I’ve already spent my budget for the year,’” Alberring says. Even something as simple as a basic science experiment: mixing flour and water to create a non-Newtonian liquid, can be an issue. The teacher needs to find flour and sometimes it’s easier to pick it up with the family groceries, says Alberring. Her class bookshelf
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Sidney Elementary teachers Nancy Fredeen, left, Lori Richards, Jennifer Alberring and Lisa Kjernisted are out-of-pocket several hundred dollars annually. For on-call teachers, they say, that number can be as high as $1,000 per year.
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District will work with community to determine best use Continued from page 1
The Glen Meadows proposal would see the owners give approximately 100 acres — or 77 per cent — of the property to the munic-
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Communications outage should worry boaters Re: Coast Guard hysteria sinks lower (B.C. Views, April 28). The ship monitoring stations that Tom Fletcher refers to in his column are more than just that. Coast Guard Marine Communications and Traffic Services (MCTS) Centres perform two distinct but complimentary functions. They provide vessel traffic services, much like air traffic control for ships, and provide communications and co-ordination to detect distress situations similar to a 911 centre for mariners. They also broadcast maritime safety information, screen vessels entering Canadian waters and provide marine information to other federal government departments and agencies. The MCTS Centres are the result of the merger of Vessel Traffic Services and Coast Guard Radio that occurred in 1995. This initiative was proposed by the union, which recognized that technological change provided the
opportunity to rationalize services and save money. The result was that the combined service went from 44 centres to 22 and the number of staff was reduced by one third. The reduction in staff was achieved through early retirement and attrition. Total savings of this co-operative effort are $14.5 million per year. Industry Minister James Moore is quoted as saying that “1970s era ship tracking equipment is being replaced.” That is incorrect; that equipment was replaced five years ago. The equipment that is being replaced is the communications control system. This is what controls the radio equipment used to communicate with vessels. This so-called technological innovation is a touch screen communications control system that replaces the knobs and switches and touch screens currently in use. A new touch screen to replace the old touch screen is hardly a technological innovation. Mr. Moore is also quoted as saying “these fears were also raised back in the ’60s and ’70s, when lighthouses were de-staffed.” The last round of lighthouse destaffing took place in the late ‘90s and was halted after only a few lighthouses had been de-staffed. The majority of lighthouses on the B.C. coast are still fully staffed. The recent 30-minute outage in Prince Rupert should be a wake-up call. For people on the water it was the equivalent of ATC and 911 being
out of service from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the Alaska border. If you were in trouble for those 30 minutes and called for help, your only hope of being heard would have been if you were lucky enough to have another vessel close enough to hear you. When you get in trouble on the water, seconds count. If your house is on fire you can go outside, If your boat is on fire you are in the water. This is not hysteria, this is a fact. There are many examples of mariners who only managed to make one radio call for help before “going down.” The MCTS Centre in Ucluelet has been closed and the operations have been remoted to Prince Rupert. If the same outage were to occur again, and there is no reason to believe that it won’t, it would cover the entire B.C. outer coast from Washington to Alaska. If you make your living off the water or just like to get out in your boat for fun and this doesn’t worry you, it should. Scott Hodge Unifor Local 2182 (Marine Communications Officers)
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Exploring histories and healing at Tod Inlet Local author spent six years collecting photos and stories Angela Cowan News Staff
Leafing through the pages of Gwen Curry’s book, Tod Inlet: A Healing Place, is much like taking a wander through the park itself. Readers are taken through a blend of detailed photos, morsels of history, environmentalism and the author’s own experiences. The project is actually a divergence from Curry’s usual artistic expressions as a painter and multi-media artist, and took her over six years to complete. “I started out just thinking if would be photo homage, a show,” she says. “And
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forming the project into a book was the courses, including being accepted into The Banff Centre for a short term non-fiction natural next step. Curry’s descriptive prose envelops the residency. “I was really pleased to have gotten into reader’s senses with ease and creates a porthat, especially as a first-time tal into the natural world. writer,” she says. The scents of a Japanese “I strove for a kind Working with mentors and plum tree in spring, its white a writing group, she was able blossoms raining down over of seamless continuity to hone her manuscript. the still surface of a pond, “The main thing was to or the joy of seeing mush- - whatever I was rooms in autumn, “cleaving talking about had equal give it shape, to give it form.” Weaving pieces of history the earth with their delicate weight.” from First Nations and the but determined bodies.” industrial development of She chooses words with – Gwen Curry the early 1900s with biology such precision, it’s a little and her own observations, surprising to learn that this is Curry’s first enterprise into writing books. Curry has created not only an homage to Though dabbling in some journalism and Tod Inlet, but a sampling of stories for the creative non-fiction in years past, she fully reader to wander with. admits she’d never undertaken anything like this before. PLEASE SEE: To prepare, she took several writing Book blends photos, page A8
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“This is not a complete history,” she says. “It’s delving into certain things as they come up on the trail. It’s very much a meander.” It was from her camera that she took her lead as she walked through the trails from season to season. “In something like this, it could be a 1,000 page book,” she says.
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“One of my shows was called ‘Witness,’ and this is exactly the same thing. Witnessing the degradation of lands, the degradation of species.” – Gwen Curry appreciation for the beauty as well, says Curry in the book. “Despite the ravages of the past century, Tod Inlet retains a spirit of peace and renewal.” Next up, Curry will be featured at the Green Drinks monthly meeting Tuesday, May 26. Curry will read from the book and is also bringing along several people featured in the work to talk about their own experiences with Tod Inlet. The evening runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Zanzibar Café, 1164 Stellys Cross Road in Central Saanich. Admission is $10 and includes appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages. To RSVP, contact Alicia Cormier at alicia_ cormier@shaw.ca or call 250-893-5070. reporter@peninsula newsreview.com
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A uniquely Indian and grand car show class. It is obviously driven by a great deal of passion and pride. India has a very rich motoring India’s finest exhibition of vintage heritage dating back to 1897, when a automobiles and motorcycles is the resident of Calcutta, imported the first Cartier “Travel with Style” Concours car into India which was a De Diond’Elegance. By Nigel Matthews Bouton. The following year there were This year it took place at the hisfour cars in Bombay. Jamshedji Tata torical Jaipur Polo Club in New Delhi, India’s finest exhibition of an Indian pioneer industrialist, who located the racecourse. Cartier vintagewithin automobiles and founded the Tata Group, which has has enjoyed a long-standing relationmotorcycles is the Cartier grown into India’s largest conglomership with India and in particular the “Travel with Style” Conate company, owned one of them. Maharajas dating back to 1911. They cours d’Elegance. Ratan Tata, who is the great grandson would entrust Cartier This year it took placetoatdesign and of the company founder and Chairset their precious stones into magnifithe historical Jaipur Polo man Emeritus of Tata & Son, was at cent pieces of jewelry. Club in New Delhi, located the Concours and enjoying a personal The opulence and elegance of India’s within the racecourse. inspection of the cars on display as long-standing automotive legacy has in persuading some of the diffident Cartier has enjoyed a we performed our judging duties. Tata returned to India thanks to the vision owners to display their automobiles, long-standing relationship purchased Jaguar and Land Rover and hard work of the event creator in some cases, vehicles that have not with India and in particular from Ford in 2008 for $2.6 billion. and director, Mark Shand, a British been publicly viewed before. the Maharajas dating back I’m sure Mr. Tata enjoyed viewing the travel writer and conservationist. It is unique and it is India’s closest to 1911. They would entrust 1951 Jaguar MKV, it’s a pity there Sadly, in 2014 and he was comparison to the most famous event Cartierhetodied design and set weren’t any old Series I Land Rovers dearly missed at this year’s in the world the Pebble Beach Contheir precious stones into event. present. The other person responsible for cours d’Elegance. It is a comparatively magnificent pieces of The Maharajas possessed an incredthe event is the renowned Indian young event, which focuses on India’s jewelry. ible purchasing power and only automotive historian and expert, His automotive heritage, unlike Pebble The opulence and elegance bought the finest products, particularly Beach. Vehicles are not shipped to Highness Rana Manvendra Singh of passion and pride. now taking an interest in nowned Indian automotive of India’s long-standing when it came to cars. A quarter of the Barwani wholegacy hand picks the India from all over thea world because India has very rich momaintaining and restorand expert, His automotive has some ofhistorian Rolls-Royce production between 1912 rarest restored and preserved vintage only vehicles from within India canback toring heritage dating ing their cars to the high Highness Rana Manvendra returned to India thanks to and 1947 went to India. automobiles from across enter. it remains that 1897, when a resident standards required for suchI hopetothat who hand the vision and hard workIndia. Singh of Barwani Having lost a number of significantly The Cartier Concours, which began way because this is what makes so of Calcutta, imported itthe an international event. picks some of the rarest of the event creator and important cars, the Indian Government special, celebrating the distinctiveness in 2008, has generated great excitefirst car into India which Having visited a restoration restored and preserved director, Mark Shand, a put measures into place to protect ment Indianand collectors. vintage More automobiles of India’s post-Independence automowas a De Dion-Bouton. shop in Kolkata, I have to from Britishamongst travel writer their automotive heritage by eliminatowners are now taking an interest in India. tive heritage. gives people chance TheIt following yeara there mention that the quality of across conservationist. Sadly, he ing the export of cars from India. It maintaining and restoring their cars to to see some magnificent cars from were four cars in Bombay. workmanship. Given the The Cartier Concours, died in 2014 and he was is also extremely difficult to import the highmissed standards required esteemed stables Tata of Indian royal Jamshedji an Indian equipment that they the have, which began in 2008, has dearly at this year’s for such a vehicle manufactured after Jan 1st an international event. Having visited patrons and noted private collectors, pioneer industrialist, who it is amazing and absolutely generated great excitement event. 1950 into the country without being aThe restoration shopresponsiin Kolkata, I have to Indian who can befounded seen walking around the the Tata Group, first class. It is obviously amongst collecother person subjected to as much as 181 percent mention that the quality of workmanPolo field as others participate in the which has grown into driven by a great deal of tors. More owners are ble for the event is the reduty. ship. Given the equipment that they catered and afternoon highontea. Cont. next page Manvendra was very successful have, it is amazing and absolutely first Visit the picture gallery at drivewaybc.ca By Nigel Matthews
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Annual Touch A Truck event funds pediatric cancer research Team 4 Hope offers medical research grant for third year Angela Cowan News staff
The annual Touch A Truck event at Panorama Rec. is a community favourite, with kids of all ages clambering over a smorgasbord of big rigs, honking horns, spraying the fire hoses and fantasizing about trundling down the road. And behind all the fun and games is a group of people who are driven to finding a cure for childhood cancer. Team 4 Hope was founded in 2011 by Lisa Hopkins, 10 years after her son Jordan’s first diagnosis of neuroblastoma. “We wanted to give something back to the medical community,” says Colette Hopkins, Lisa’s sister-in-law and member of Team 4 Hope from the beginning. Hopkins is visibly emotional as she talks about her nephew. “He was diagnosed when he was two, and he turned 16 this year.” Jordan beat the cancer, something only a small percentage of kids do. “It’s aggressive, and it’s deadly,” she says. “And there haven’t been any real advances in researching this particular cancer in 20 years.” Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid cancer in children, which essentially means tumours outside of the brain. It is also the most common cancer, period, in infancy. And because the initial symptoms can be similar to a flu — fatigue, loss of appetite, fever and joint pain — it can be incredibly difficult to diagnose and treat at an early stage. In fact, in approximately half of all cases, neuroblastoma has already spread to other parts
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Lily Edgell, left, and Mattea Munro show off their freshly painted faces at last year’s Touch A Truck event at Panorama Recreation Centre. of the body before it’s ever diagnosed. There are 11 children just in the Victoria area who have been fighting neuroblastoma since the Team’s creation in 2011. “We’ve lost a couple of those kids,” says Hopkins. “Some are in remission, and some have relapsed.” The survival rate once neuroblastoma has relapsed is 30 per cent, a statistic that hasn’t changed in decades, despite major advances in other fields of cancer research. It’s one of the reasons the team is working so hard to fundraise. According to Team 4 Hope’s cancer information on their website, in Canada, less than two per cent of the National Cancer Institute’s annual budget is spent on all 12 major groups of pediatric cancers combined. And yet, it reads, cancer kills more children than any other disease and more than asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes and pediatric AIDS combined. Helping to narrow the research gap, Team 4 Hope has raised more than $250,000 in five years, with more than $26,000 coming from
the Touch A Truck event alone. The funds are made available to medical researchers through a grant process that will hopefully yield new treatments for neuroblastoma. “It’s seed money,” says Melissa Drolet, a member of the team. “In medical research, $250,000 isn’t a lot of
money, but it gives them enough to get preliminary results, and then they can take that and apply for government funding.” This will be the third year the team has been able to offer a grant. The women of Team 4 Hope also work hard to make sure that the money they do raise is able to go straight to the researchers, and funnel a minimum of 85 per cent of the proceeds directly back into the cause. “We go out of our way to find volunteers and get donations,” says Drolet, and adds that the only costs incurred by Touch A Truck this year have been the insurance and partial costs for a billboard. Everything else has come through donations or corporate sponsors.
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Meridian Residences lifting up the heart of Sidney Steven Heywood News staff
SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES IN BUYING AND SELLING YOUR HOME The Peninsula News Review is looking to help tell your stories about buying and selling your home. Our editorial staff are collecting story ideas for this page. So, whether you are a first-time home buyer or a senior couple looking to downsize, contact us to share your story and it just might help someone else going through one of the biggest events of their lives. You can call the editor at 250-656-1151, ext. 128 or email editor@peninsulanewsreview.com to share your ideas.
Saanich Peninsula-based developers, the Marker Group, are about to break ground on their new, five storey residential building in the heart of downtown Sidney. And even before the first shovel turned over the dirt, the project had sold 14 of its 24 units — plus its commercial space on the ground floor. Construction of the Meridian Residences on Third Street began this week with the demolition of the former McLarty’s Furniture building. Mike Cronquist, vice-president of business development with the Marker Group, says they have been pleased with customers’ response to the project. “It’s generally being used by people who are downsizing,” he said. “With our other projects at Seaport West, the Pier and another in North
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The Meridian Residences in downtown Sidney are already more than 50 per cent sold. Saanich, we can get a handle on what people are looking for and it seems many want to downsize,” The residential units in the Meridian will range from 1,100-square-foot, two-bedroom spaces, to 800-squarefoot single units. They include high quality furnishings, storage on the same floor as well as some in-suite storage space.
“It really will be a comfortable space to downsize into,” said Cronquist. The street-level commercial space has been designed as a working and living space. An owner, explained Cronquist, could run a business up front and live in the back. In general terms, he said the space can be used for a fully commercial enterprise
— or as a home — and easily revert back again to commercial space. “It’s the right answer for that location,” he said. Located steps away from Beacon Avenue, Sidney’s retail hub, the Meridian is designed to encourage people to walk to their favourite shopping places. With only one parking stall per unit, that lifestyle — interacting
with neighbours and businesses in the downtown core — will be a fact of life for owners, Cronquist said. Of the 10 residential units left on the market, Cronquist said they have a fairly wide price range. There are six one-bedroom units available (as of midMay), starting at $309,900 and jumping up to $374,900 at the penthouse level. Four of the remaining units have two bedrooms and will cost between $419,900 and $519,900. Demolition of the existing structure began this week and Cronquist said they will be working at the same time on getting their building permit from the municipality. He estimates construction time will be between 12 and 14 months. To find out more, visit meridianresidences.ca. editor@peninsula newsreview.com
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more details in Real Estate Victoria, available FREE on news stands & in home delivered copies of this community newspaper VICTORIA 83 Saghalie Road, From $411,121
510-10 Paul Kane Place, $769,900
10-850 Parklands Drive, $345,000
MLS 345139, Saturday 2-4 MLS 348185, Sunday 2-4 Fair Realty Fair Realty Daily 12-5 Kevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 Kevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 Bosa Properties, 8-896 Admirals Road, 250-382-2672 202-1050 Park Boulevard, $410,000 $295,000 MLS 350378, Sunday 1-3 902-373 Tyee Road, MLS 351229, Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty $379,900 Macdonald Realty Marie Blender, 250-385-2033 MLS 351003 Sandra Kamper, Sunday 1:30-3:30 SAANICH EAST 250-514-1224 Burr Properties Ltd. 2931 Sea Point Drive, Mike Pearce, 250-382-6636 $1,188,000 OAK BAY MLS 350224, Sunday 2-4 728 Yates Street, 3342 Henderson Road, Newport Realty Daily 12-5 (except Friday) $699,900 Julie Rust, 250-385-2033 Concert Properties MLS 351163, Sunday 2-4 250-383-3722 1577 Gregory Place, Royal LePage $425,000 102-608 Broughton Street, Coast Capital Realty MLS 351085, Sunday 1-3 Anna Bjelde, 250-888-9001 From $229,000 Sutton Group West Coast Wednesday - Sunday 12-5 Realty Chard Development Ltd., ESQUIMALT Chris Fairlie, 250-479-3333 250-590-9440 1060 Tillicum Road, 4435 Torquay Drive, Saturday & Sunday 1-4 208-455 Sitkum Road, $598,900 Royal LePage $379,900 MLS 349938, Sunday 2-4 Coast Capital Realty MLS 350069, Saturday 2-4 Macdonald Realty John Monkhouse, Newport Realty Scott Vannan, Noah Dobson, 250-385-2033 250-216-6343 250-388-5882
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MLS 351261, Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheri Crause, 250-592-4422 5280 Parker Avenue, $958,000
3912 Carey Road, From $249,900
Saturday - Monday 1-5, Macdonald Realty Sheila Aujla & Sophak Sim, 250-744-4441
3117 Esson Road, MLS 350192, Saturday 2:30-4 $425,000
One Percent Realty Guy Effler, 250-812-4910
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MLS 350383, Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Mike Lock, 250-384-8124 23-3230 Rutledge St., $289,900
MLS 351035, Saturday 3-5 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Paul Holland, 250-477-5353 1564 Agnew, $668,000
Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheri Crause, 250-592-4422
MLS 350506, Saturday 2-4 Fair Realty, Sukhmeet Grewal, 250-704-9794
7182 West Saanich Road., 768 Danby Pl., $565,000 From $365,000 MLS 349942, Sunday 2-4
Saturday & Sunday 1-4, Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Murray Lawson 250-477-5353
Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Brad MacLaren, 250-380-3933
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3018 Waterview Close, $599,900
Saturday 1-3, Sutton Group West Coast Realty Wendy Thompson 778-678-4321
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Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Mike Hartshorne, 250-474-6003
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Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Scott Munro, 250-477-5353
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305-7161 West Saanich Rd. $274,800
105-990 Rattanwood Pl., From $319,900
3349 Sewell Rd. $598,900 MLS 350127, Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun MLS 347357, Saturday 12-2 Dale Sheppard, 250-478-9600 RE/MAX Camosun SAANICH Deanna Noyce, 2684 Nugget Terrace, PENINSULA $639,900 A-10419 Resthaven Drive 250-744-3301 MLS 351359, Sunday 1-3 Sunday 2-4, Jonesco Real Estate Inc DFH Real Estate Ltd. 528 Stornoway Drive, Frances Wade, 250-656-0131 Roger Jones, 250-361-9838 $439,900
MLS 347819, Sun. 1-3 RE/MAX Camosun Craig Walters, 250-655-0608
Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Shelly Reed, 250-213-7444
Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Komal Dodd, 250-479-3333
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“It’s a fun day for families,” says Drolet. “We fill the parking lot with big trucks.” Fire trucks, ambulances, construction machinery, race cars and even Zambonis will be on hand for kids to explore. And with a barbecue, face painting and bouncy castle to boot, kids are sure to have a good time, even after they’ve exhausted all their truck adven-
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Seniors Sidney Kiwanis club gets back on its feet meeting Advocate First set for May at SHOAL in Sidney 30Centre Town hall meeting set for May 27
SIDNEY — Isobel Mackenzie, B.C.’s Seniors Advocate, is hosting a town hall in Sidney next week to hear concerns from seniors and their family members to learn what is, and what isn’t, working for seniors in the community. Mackenzie will also discuss her role, seniors’ concerns heard in B.C., upcoming projects and monitoring activities. The audience is encouraged to participate in questions and discussion. The town hall runs from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27 at the Mary Winspear Centre. Admission is free. For more information, visit seniorsadvocatebc.ca/ community. — PNR
SIDNEY — The movement to bring an active Kiwanis Club back to life in Sidney is holding an organizational meeting this month. On May 30, organizers will be calling on all interested people to elect the club’s board and set out how often they will meet. Kiwanis member Ken Smith recently approached the News Review about the plan to bring the club back to Sidney, after it folded in late
2012. It had dwindled to around nine active members. Smith, who lives in Oak Bay, joined fellow Kiwanis Club member Patrick Ewing of Victoria in March, to drum up support for the Sidney club. Now, after consulting with the mayor of Sidney, Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce and others, they have found there is a need for the club’s community works. Local Kiwanis clubs have developed a variety of local projects throughout the years, states a media release. The former Sidney and Peninsula
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