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Esquimalt wants more say in mail plan Council seeks more consultation on location of Canada Post’s community mailboxes

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The Township of Esquimalt wants Canada Post to halt the installation of community mailboxes until more public consultation can be done. “The very first thing that we’re doing is requesting a moratorium on the placing of mailboxes until we have further public consultation,” said Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins. She said there have been concerns from residents about where the boxes will be installed, security, lighting and accessibility.

Desjardins said the township hasn’t received any reassurance from Canada Post that there will be any further consultation other than the pamphlets that were mailed out to residents about what the mailboxes could potentially look like and where they will go. “You’re going to place things in an already developed community, some people will have disabilities and others will have difficulties being able to access certain places, those things all need to be taken into account,” she said, adding that there should be more of a back and forth discussion between residents and the corpora-

tion. At a committee meeting last week, council also directed staff to see what role the municipality has in dictating where the boxes can go. “There may need to be lighting, sidewalks, garbage cans – all of those things are adding on to the costs of a municipality,” added Desjardins. “Although Canada post needs to save money, they don’t need to do it on the backs of municipalities.” PlEASE SEE: Residents, council kept informed, Page A4

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Esquimalt officially launched the construction of the Admirals Road corridor improvement project Friday, with a special ceremony at the Colville Road train station. Dignitaries at the

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Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen, left, Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins and Minister of State John Duncan at the launch of the Admirals Road corridor improvement project Friday. Kevin Laird/Victoria News

$1.2 million loan from the Municipal Finance Authority and $600,000 from the township. The project has been years in the making, Desjardins said. Originally, the federal government was going to cover all the costs of the project, but when the township discovered work needed to be done on underground infastructure more money was needed. “It’s not until you start digging that you realize there’s more to it,” Desjardins said. The busy corridor

carries more than 18,000 vehicles per day and is a regional roadway servicing CFB Esquimalt, Saanich, View Royal and Esquimalt. “We must recognize Admirals Road as a regional commuter route for residents and tourists, but it is also importantly a neighbourhood. Many of the design features in the project recognize that fact,” Desjardins said. Duncan said the federal government is committed to infrastructure projects across the

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New service keeps neighbours in loop Victoria residents can now keep track of all proposed land-use changes within their immediate area with a new service that launched last week. PlaceSpeak, a location-based public consultation platform, in partnership with the City of Victoria launched a free service that uses a unique “geolocation” process to send notifications directly to residents who want to know what is being planned for their area. Victoria is the first city in Canada with this new service. For more information or to sign up for notifications, visit placespeak.com.

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Ben Jestico and Trisylan Nelson are part of the UVic team behind Bike Maps (bikemaps.org), a map of cycling incidents that relies on crowd sourcing.

The region’s most dangerous cycling intersections identified Bike Maps data provides perspective for cycling commuters in Victoria Travis Paterson News staff

BikeMaps.org released the eight most dangerous areas for cycling this week and two of the spots are in Saanich, involving intersections with the Galloping Goose. After six months online, the University of Victoria launched project BikeMaps.org has collected 500 bike incidents in the Capital Regional District. The eight most dangerous intersections for cycling are in Saanich, Oak Bay, and Victoria. “We launched in October and we already have 500 reports from the CRD,” said University of Victoria associate professor Trisalyn Nelson, who created the project with a team from UVic’s Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research geography lab. “To put it in context, ICBC reports about 130 incidents per

year, just by asking for public data, we have twice as much data from the last six months as we’ve ever had for a period.” The goal for Bike Maps is to act as a global map where cyclists can record near misses as well as incidents, as the collected data of nearmisses are also indicative of danger areas. In a few weeks Nelson and her team will meet with representatives from Saanich and its Planning, Transportation and Economic Development Advisory Committee, to see how they can partner. “When we launched Bike Maps it created a baseline data, so as Saanich puts protected bike lanes in, we can survey how effective they are, this is a tool for surveillance,” Nelson said. The newly finished Cook Street Complete Street project provided

Saanich with protected bike lanes, going both ways, from Quadra Street to Maplewood Road is an example of that. Bike Maps is also hoping to create a case study on the impact of the coming cycle tracks Victoria recently committed to. “It turns out no one has done a before and after study on the impact of cycle tracks, and because Victoria has no cycle tracks, we can do it,” Nelson said. Based on the demand of foreign users, Bike Maps is being translated into Dutch, Spanish, French and German. The first Android app for Bike Maps is scheduled to be ready in late June, followed by an IOS version for Apple products. To visit the region’s eight most dangerous cycling spots since November visit bikemaps.org/blog. reporter@saanichnews.com

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CREST has made a significant stride forward on implementing a plan to upgrade its technology. General Manager Gord Horth told the annual meeting of CREST stakeholders last week that the organization was successful in acquiring new frequencies from Industry Canada last year. Fifty organizations providing safety services and emergency response in the Capital Region use the CREST system for radio communications.

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Residents, council kept informed: Canada Post Continued from Page A1

Anick Losier, spokesperson with Canada Post, said they have been in communication with the township and residents about where the boxes will go and have sent out an online survey in which the response rate was 30 per cent. “We’ve had meetings with the municipality to better understand their criteria,” she said. “We’ve taken all of that information and incorporated it into the planning process in order to select the best possible site for each neighbourhood.” She added in April they also went door knocking to 107 sites where the boxes are proposed to get residents’ thoughts on the location. Victoria MP Murray Rankin said it’s not enough. “[Municipalities] are simply saying

we want more more planning and community consultation and I support that,” said Rankin. “Canada Post is jamming this as quickly as they can. It’s hurting seniors, it’s hurting those with disabilities, it’s hurting small business people.” The next step is distributing lletters to confirm the location of the community mailboxes to affected residents and then starting installation at the end of 2015, added Losier. There are more than 3,000 households and 47 business addresses in Esquimalt that will be affected by the change. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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Victoria, Oak Bay join forces to damper beach campfires Christine van Reeuwyk Black Press

With the onset of early summer weather, Oak Bay Fire has already dealt with six beach fires in recent weeks. The local fire department paired up with Victoria Fire to hammer home the message that fires are not allowed on local beaches. “This year what we’re trying is a new approach to providing greater awareness with the beach fire situation in the City of Victoria and District of Oak Bay and just some of the struggles that we’ve had trying to convey the importance of the messaging in regards to how potentially dangerous these could be to not only the environment but people trying to enjoy the beach,” said Victoria Fire Chief Paul Bruce. In a bid to combat illegal fires and improve awareness, joint patrols by police, fire and bylaw officers will take place on Victoria and Oak Bay beaches each weekend throughout the summer. Those found with a fire could be fined $350 to $2,000 in Victoria and $50 to $2,000 in Oak Bay. “Our beaches are beautiful and we want to keep it that way for everyone,” said Oak Bay Fire Chief Dave Cockle. Smoke from a beach fire not only impacts air quality for nearby residents, it is toxic. When burned, driftwood releases carcinogenic dioxins into the air due to combustion of the sea saltsaturated wood. “It’s the products that are picked up from the ocean and the salt as well as the other products that are picked up out of the sea and rolled up on the beach,” Cockle said “The other thing that you don’t see is how they get them started. They use some kind of an inflammatory starter to get it going, usually barbecue lighter fluid or something along those lines.” Beach fires are often difficult to access due to their location. A small or smouldering beach fire can be time consuming to put out, tying up emergency responders who may be needed elsewhere in the community. “As a single engine company we’re tying up the resources that we have in Oak Bay every time we have to do one of these,” Cockle said. When a fire is discovered or restarts at 2 a.m.

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Readers respond: CRD money, drug sites and Suzuki An offer the CRD can’t afford to refuse? I find it shocking that the Capital Regional District is reportedly continuing to spend more than $100,000 a month for Seaterra to manage the now-abandoned plan to build a sewage treatment plant at McLoughlin Point. I would like to make an offer to the CRD that would sharply reduce these costs. If the CRD abolishes Seaterra for a bargain-basement fee of only $25,000 a month, I would be pleased to set up my agency to manage the non-existent project. I think an appropriate name for this new body would be the UIC – Useless Irrelevent Commission. My proposed UIC would also set a high standard for honesty and accountability in local government since I would be happy to provide monthly, weekly or even daily reports documenting in detail that I am doing absolutely nothing that will benefit the publish and

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Put safe drug sites in politicians’ backyard Re: City ready to start safe consumption site talks (News, May 20) The debate on safe consumption sites is about to be renewed. One fact though which must not be overlooked is that no matter how many such sites are opened, the addicts still need to buy their illicit drugs from dealers on the street, and many addicts still finance their drug purchases through the proceeds of crime. Wherever such sites are located, the drug dealers will surely set up nearby. Neighbours will doubtless see an increase in break-ins, smash and grabs, purse snatchings, etc. Let the elected councillors who wish to support these sites be the first to volunteer their own neighbourhood as

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David Suzuki column missing key facts Re: Milkweed is a monarch’s best defence (Science Matters, May 22) Missing from David Suzuki’s claim about the effect of agricultural chemicals on milkweed that monarch butterflies like to eat is what they ate before large fields of corn and soybeans existed. Corn was developed by tribal people in the southwest U.S. and Mexico, then widely adopted elsewhere. The prime growing area of corn and soybean in the U.S. – eastern Iowa – was grass prairie two centuries ago, were there many monarch butterflies there then? Also missing is how much milkweed there was in crops before herbicides were introduced, given that corn was planted in rows and columns to facilitate mechanical weeding in

perpendicular directions, and tillage practices were also used to control weeds. As for honey bees, Suzuki’s claim that a type of insecticide puts them in grave danger has been disproven by research and experience. Timing of pollination varies with crop and area, so honey bee hives are moved around to maximize benefit to bees and crops. Beekeeper and farmer want win-win dealings, so they time use of insecticide. Suzuki overlooks research showing that parasites are the main enemy of bees, and that hive housekeeping is a big factor – many beekeepers have only a normal number of hive failures over winter. He also overlooks that some Ontario statistics are misleading because they are based on self-selecting responses from only a small proportion of beekeepers and don’t reflect a long cold winter that many beekeepers did not properly prepare for. Keith Sketchley Saanich

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Esquimalt History With five kilometres of bike lanes and more to come with the Admirals Road corridor improvement project, Esquimalt continues to be bicycle friendly. And with the 21st annual Greater Victoria Bike to Work Week in full swing, a brief look at cycling history seems appropriate. As with the modern variations of bicycles, the early bicycle went through many developments from the two-wheel velocipede, the high wheel bicycle (Penny Farthing) to the safety bicycle. While the bicycle was undergoing changes, the activity shifted from a mode of transportation to a leisure activity for men and, more importantly, women. Cycling became an activity enjoyed as a pastime that allowed women to enjoy increased mobility through towns as well as participate in group outings and picnics.

A cycling group in Goldstream Park in 1896. garb worn everyday as it offered greater mobility while riding. It wasn’t long before cycling became competitive. It is generally accepted that the first recorded bicycle race took place on May 31, 1868 in Paris, when James Moore won a 1.2-kilometre race on a wooden bike with iron tires inlaid with ballbearings, helping him beat his competitors. Road racing quickly became popular

Group outings to parks, such as Goldstream, were common in the late 19th century. Given the long journey, Six Mile House in View Royal, offered a rest spot for riders. Owner Mrs. Price even included a room for women to refresh themselves while en route. In the picture above, the women are donning cycling suits; these outfits differed from the traditional

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especially in Europe and the United Sates, as did endurance racing. Local brothers William (Torchy) and Doug Peden, became internationally known as champions on the Six-Day racing circuit. These gruelling multiday events drew huge crowds to indoor venues like Madison Square Gardens. ••• Greg Evans is head archivist at Esquimalt Municipal Archives.

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Sunday, May 31 Victoria International Kite Festival. Clover Point, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volkssport – 5/6/10/11 km walk. Meet at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd., Saanich. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Doug at 250-477-0833.

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Friday, June 19 Aboriginal Cultural Festival. Three-day celebration of Aboriginal peoples, arts and culture. Royal B.C. Museum. Info: aboriginalbc. com. Fernwood Market. Vic High School Plaza, 4 to 8 p.m. Info: thefca.ca. International Military Band Concert presented by Naden Band of the Royal Canadian Navy. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St., 7:30 p.m. Info: rmts.bc.ca or call 250-386-6121.

Saturday, June 20 Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at Glanford Park, Kenneth Street, Saanich. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Hazel at 250-385-5439.

Sunday, June 21 Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at Harbour Towers, 345 Quebec St. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Randy at 250-590-7175.

Saturday, June 27 Volkssport – 6/10 km walk. Meet at McMinn Park, Maplegrove Street, Saanich. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Rob at 250-6584998.

Thursday, July 2 Esquimalt Farmers Market. Esquimalt Town Square, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Info: esquimaltmarket. com.

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United Way Greater Victoria is celebrating youth and their accomplishments with its annual YouthNow Awards this week. At the 17th annual awards ceremony, United Way will dole out nine awards to youth between the ages of 11-29 who are working to better their community. “It’s been really inspiring to see what young people are doing in our community,” said Heather Skydt, communications and marketing director at United Way Greater Victoria. “It’s been great seeing the type of people who come forward and they’re ever inspiring to us at United Way.” The awards include individual volunteer awards for different age categories, the green

Esquimalt hosting giant block party Mark your calendar, Esquimalt. It’s time to party. Esquimalt Parks and Recreation is hosting a giant block party this Saturday (May 30) on Fraser Street in front of the Esquimalt Recreation Centre. And the best part? It’s free. Party-goers can an enjoy an afternoon with friends and neighbours while taking part in traditional backyard games, get goofy in the photo booth, build an illustrated community storyboard and check out the art corner. Kids can enjoy crafts and activities with Esquimalt Recreation summer camp leaders, face painting and jump around in the bouncy castle. Many community organizations will be there to discuss their programs, including the Victoria Police Department where you can learn more about Block Watch. The Lions Club will also host a concession. The block party runs from 1 to 4 p.m. For more details, please go to esquimalt. ca. editor@vicnews.com

award, the big change award, the youth worker award, the youth friendly business award, the friendship award and the group volunteer award. Harpreet Bhela is the chair of the YouthNow Council and sits on the committee responsible for selecting the winners. “Sometimes it gets really difficult to choose someone when you’re like ‘these people are both great’, but it comes down to overall what they’ve done, how many people they’ve helped and how selfless they were,” said Bhela. “It’s important to recognize youth in the community for what they’ve done because if you don’t, no one really knows what’s going on or what someone has done for everyone else around them … it’s nice to let them know ‘thanks so much,

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years they’ve had more than 1,000 applicants, many of whom were nominated by family members, teachers or fellow youth workers.

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