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Elton Walker, left, the owner of West Coast Brewery Tours, stands with Sean Hoyne, owner and brewmaster at the Hoyne Brewing Company premises on Bridge Street.

When Elton Walker officially began West Coast Brewery Tours last year, he knew he could be onto something big.

He’d been looking to find a way into Victoria’s thriving craft beer industry for years, and after studying the tourism numbers in 2014, the timing never seemed better. And he was right.

Victoria’s tourism numbers are red hot this summer and so is Walker’s business.

The tours, run twice a day from Tuesday to Saturday, are booked up a week in advance, and it’s not just with tourists looking to sample some of the city’s finest brews.

“I was surprised how many locals wanted to come out and see what’s happening behind the scenes of the local breweries.

They already know about the beer we have here in town, but they don’t know how it’s made,” said Walker, describing business this summer as crazy.

“The timing was just right. We’re in a craft beer revolution right now.”

Walker is hardly alone when it comes to having a booming business in Victoria this summer.

According to recent statistics from Tourism Victoria, there’s been significant growth in hotel rates and revenue — in some cases the best in years.

Year-to-date sees occupancy up 4.76 per cent and the average daily room rate is up 7 per cent.

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The revenue per available room has increased by 15 per cent.

Tickets sold through the visitor centre for local businesses also reported an increase of 80.6 per cent in sales in June over the same time last year. Year-todate, the centre has seen a 100 per

“I think we stand on our own two feet, but we’re part of a burgeoning region.

It really is exciting.”

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cent increase over 2014 through the addition of various attractions, tours and transportation member ticket sales.

So who’s coming here? It’s all over the map, said Paul Nursey, CEO of Tourism Victoria.

“We’re seeing increases in Canada (visitors), we’re seeing increases out

of the USA, parts of the west coast, in conference business.

We’re seeing an increase in cruise business, Japan, Asia, Australia, and also Europe,” said Nursey, adding the low Canadian dollar doesn’t seem to be a driving factor for Americans to travel north of the border.

Many of the tourists flock around the inner harbour or indulge in the local dining scene.

This year there has also been a great deal of interest in the birth

of baby orcas.

Nursey said it’s important to note that the city has been building towards a tourist boom during the last three years.

The Tourism Victoria marketing and communications team has also become more efficient in promoting what the city has to offer on a global scale, and the Pacific Northwest region of North America is turning into a hot vacation destination.

“I really think the Pacific Northwest of North America is becoming the next super region. Think of the great cities and destinations that are clustered right there, and how deeply we’re connected with our transportation links,” said Nursey, noting Victoria is ranked the 17th best destination in the world by Condé Nast Traveller magazine.

“I think we stand on our own two feet, but we’re part of a burgeoning region. It really is exciting.”

Tourism Victoria plans to conduct a deep economic impact study throughout 2015. The last one was in 2011, which showed $1.9 billion was generated by tourism to the local economy and 19,000 direct jobs were created.

After three solid years of growth, Nursey expects those numbers will be much larger in the next study as small businesses such as Walker’s continue to reel in the results of a booming tourism industry. editor@victorianews.com

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Woman searching for birth father Father believed to have ties with Victoria family Pamela Roth Victoria News

Caroline Racicot is on a mission to fill the hole in her heart.

She was 18 days old when her new parents came to pick her up from the Victoria General Hospital, after her 17-year-old mother gave her up for adoption.

Growing up in Mission, B.C., Racicot knew she was adopted and as she got older, she started to wonder why her birth mother gave her away.

“Even though I had a really great family growing up, there was always that missing piece — I had a lot of emotional baggage that came along with it,” said Racicot. “My parents always told me that it’s just she wanted me to have a better life.”

At the age of 15, Racicot learned her mother had only finished Grade 9, was 17 when she got pregnant and had no family support.

When she received her adoption papers, Racicot stared at her birth mother’s name – Carol Tieman. The longing to meet her birth parents grew to a point she could no longer ignore.

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Victoria born Caroline Racicot is on a mission to identify and find her birth father.

adopted mother, Racicot decided to reach out to her birth mother and tracked her down in Saskatoon. The pair chatted on the phone. The conversation went better than Racicot ever imagined.

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Racicot said. “She was happy that I reached out. She said she always thought about reaching out to me, but didn’t know if I wanted to.”

The pair formed a strong bond, visiting each other on occasion, but the relationship began to unravel as

Racicot demanded to know more about her birth father.

According to Racicot, the only information she got from Tieman was that her father’s name was David, she was only with him about three times, and he was a friend of one of her brothers, but she

wouldn’t say who.

Three years ago, Racicot decided to do a family tree, but half of her life story was missing.

It’s something that bothers her every day.

“This is what I need to do. It’s a missing piece in my life,” said the 35-year-old mother of five. “I just want to know who he is. I don’t have any expectations of a relationship.

Supposedly he doesn’t know I exist.”

During the search for her birth father, Racicot has done DNA testing with three agencies that found her a third cousin match from a family of 12 with ties to Victoria.

She believes her father may be tied into that family, but isn’t sure where or if he fits in.

By sharing her story, Racicot hopes someone in Victoria might remember her birth mother and who she dated.

Her mother’s father was a man named Otto, who came from Saskatchewan and once owned wa bakery in Victoria.

Racicot has also started a Facebook group to share her story. Until her father is identified, the void she feels gets bigger every day.

“I’m basically at a brick wall here,” she said. “For my own emotional well being, I need to know where I came from so I don’t have that aching feeling constantly. I need answers.”

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Fashion Splash returns to Ship Point The live sunset catwalk show Fashion Splash is returning to Ship Point for a second year Saturday. The event features the work of 15 local designers, showcasing bathing suits, yoga wear and seasonal fashions.

Fashion Splash kicks off on Friday, Aug. 21, with a VIP pre-show at Studio Robazzo at 7:30 p.m. The fashion show takes place on Saturday, Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m. Regular seats are $10 and VIP front row seating is $40. To purchase tickets, visit eventbrite.ca.

Cycling coalition hosts heritage ride

The Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition is hosting its annual heritage ride on Sunday, Aug. 30.

The 20-kilometre group bike ride winds past heritage houses and buildings with commentary provided by the Hallmark Heritage Society.

Be sure to bring a lunch and water. The ride begins at the Old Craigflower School (2755 Admirals Road) at 10 a.m. and ends there around 2 p.m.

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The Fernwood Community Association is creating the neighbourhood’s first street mandala on Saturday.

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Canadian Blood Services is encouraging Victoria residents to register as potential stem cell donors. Approximately 25 per cent of patients will find a stem cell match within their family. The rest rely on someone they don’t know to help save their lives.

The need for blood and stem cells go handin-hand. Patients often require multiple transfusions of blood and blood products while waiting for their match and in some cases, even after the transplant.

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The Greater Victoria Public Library has begun public consultation to potentially open a new library branch to serve residents in James Bay. Last week, the library sent out a survey asking residents what type of library branch and services they would like to see.

According to Kevin Murdoch, chair of the GVPL, they’ve had hundreds of responses in the week since the survey came out.

“James Bay is quite underserved.

It’s a community of 11,000 plus people who don’t have a direct branch there,” Murdoch said. “But the specifics of what services are best suited for that are yet to be determined. The reality is, there’s a huge pent up demand.”

As part of the 1994 Victoria Accord, the province and the City of Victoria agreed to establish a vision and plan for Capital Park and other small parcels of land located behind the legislature, which would include community amenities such as a library.

An agreement between developer Jawl Properties and the city, allows the city to lease space for the library.

“It’s been on the books for a long time, but until there’s a project attached to it and a place to put it, nothing has happened,” Murdoch said. “There’s an opportunity for us to put a small branch in there.”

Based on the survey questions, the library could be an express outlet similar to the Goudy Branch with a limited collection focused on popular material, a small neighbourhood branch, similar to the Emily Carr branch or, a neighbourhood branch similar to the

one in Esquimalt.

Marg Gardiner, president of the James Bay Neighbourhood Association, said the community has been discussing the possibility of a library for years.

“James Bay is one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods on the Island and yet we have very few amenities,” she said, adding she hopes the city will commit to a full 7,000-square-foot neighbourhood branch.

But first, the project needs to get the green light from the city, that would kick in the capital investment, while the operating budget would be shared between the 10 municipalities that are currently part of the library service.

Mayor Lisa Helps said the 7,000-square foot branch is something the city will consider.

“That’s definitely something that could happen. I think what we’re waiting for right now is to see what the community says,” Helps said. “The library is about so much more than books. The library is a space truly where community happens and so to have a neighbourhood branch is significant.”

Residents can take the survey until Sept. 11. After that, the library board will make a recommendation to the City of Victoria of what the space could look like, which Murdoch hopes to have done by September or early October.

“Ultimately, until they approve it in the city’s budget, it isn’t a project,” Murdoch said. “We’re just talking about things until there’s a budget attached to it.” kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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Five-Hundred Miles by the Proclaimers is a song Christine Diab and her son Myles know like the back of their hand.

“Myles likes the song 500 Miles because he thinks it was written for him,” said Diab, who went to university in Victoria but now lives in Duncan. “We’ve always been walkers, we walk everywhere, that’s why Myles likes the song because it is like a marching song.”

Myles, 15, has autism spectrum disorder and a developmental disability.

And every day, Christine and Myles do just as the song says — walk.

“He enjoys walking around town and talking to people he knows because where we live he knows everybody and if he doesn’t he’ll talk to you anyway,” she laughed.

Five-hundred is also the fundraising goal that Diab is trying to raise as part of Woman2Warrior, Victoria’s only women’s charity obstacle adventure race to support Easter Seals camps.

The event is a non-timed, five-kilometre run that involves a dozen obstacles designed to test strength, ability, balance and endurance.

Diab, along with her two teammates, have already raised the minimum $300 and are close to their $500 goal.

Five-hundred miles is also their team name.

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A man is in custody after allegedly exposing himself to traffic and residents downtown earlier this month.

On Friday, Aug. 7 just before 4 p.m., officers were called to the 700block of Yates Street.

The department’s 911 communications centre received a call of a man standing on the corner of Yates and Blanshard streets exposing himself to both traffic and passersby.

Patrol officers arrived and found a suspect matching the caller’s description nearby.

The man was taken into custody.

Based on the location of the incident and time of day that it took place, investigators believe that others likely witnessed the man’s actions.

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cal and/or mental disabilities, as Myles has attended Camp Shawnigan, an Easter Seals camp on Vancouver Island, for the past seven years.

“He’s doing it on his own.

It’s a typical camp experience.

Kids come back with objects they’ve created and some good memories and stories that I’m not involved with,” Diab said.

“It’s really given him a lot of independence. For a kid like him, it’s really hard because everything has to be facilitated with his parents and all we had to do was pack his clothes and drop him off — that’s how good it is.”

Shannon Bernays, director of special events on Vancouver Island with Easter Seals, said in their inaugural year on the Island, they have more than 150 people registered.

“All the funds raised on the Island stay on the Island,” Bernays said.

“It means so much to the children. Once they’ve gone for that first week, they love it so much. They start doing the countdown for the next year.

They get all excited.”

For Diab, getting down and dirty doesn’t bother her.

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who go to camp. They deal with all these challenges all the time,” she said. “If those kids can go there and do the things that they do at camp, I can do this.”

Woman2Warrior takes place on Sunday, Aug. 30 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at West Shore Parks and Recreation.

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It’s time to roll up your sleeve

For many people, it’s a scary thought rolling up their sleeve and having a needle placed into their arm to collect a pint of blood, even though the whole process only takes about an hour.

Blood and blood products, however, are a critical part of every day medical care, including major surgeries, medical procedures, cancer treatments and managing disease. Those undergoing heart surgery may need up to five donors for the operation, and those with Leukemia could require up to eight donors per week. Anyone involved in a serious car accident could need up to 50 donors to save their life, depending on the amount of blood lost. This person could be you.

Several times a year, Canadian Blood Services puts out the call for more blood donations and has done so again in Victoria this week. The national blood inventory has steadily declined this summer and needs a boost to continue to meet the needs of patients. Victoria residents are also encouraged to register as potential stem cell donors.

Approximately 25 per cent of patients will find a stem cell match within their family, but the rest will rely on someone they don’t know to help save their lives.

The need for blood and stem cells go hand-in-hand, and patients often require multiple transfusions of blood and blood products while waiting for their match or even after the transplant, in some cases.

It could be you or a loved one that’s gravely injured in a car accident or suddenly diagnosed with a serious disease. So do your part Victoria, and roll up your sleeves. Ignore the scary needle going into your arm, focusing instead on all the lives you could possibly save.

In order to find out if you are eligible to donate, Canadian Blood Services has an eligibility quiz on their website.

Appointments can be booked by visiting blood.ca, and walk-ins are also welcome.

Help spread the word by tagging your social media posts with #ItsInYouToGive on Facebook, Twitter of Instagram.

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Several readers took me to task for last a charitable foundation. Harper, Trudeau week’s commentary on the beginning of our and Mulcair have accepted. May and Bloc long, hot federal election campaign.

Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe were not They pointed out, among other things, invited to either of these. that there are substantial cost increases to The national media have decided that Elections Canada as well as higher spending the biggest issue currently is the trial of limits for the parties. And thanks to generous suspended senator Mike Duffy, but this has tax deductions for political turned out to be a rehash of facts donations, taxpayers subsidize and assertions heard many times all party spending whether they over by those who care. want to or not.

The expense account abuse That’s the system as it is today, has pushed the issue of senate so rather than rail against it, it reform to the forefront. Harper seems more useful to ask what declared his intention to starve we’re getting for our forced the Senate by refusing any investment in this exercise. more appointments, after most First, more leader debates. The provinces ignored his call to elect traditional main event organized their nominees.

by TV networks for Oct. 8 Trudeau, having expelled Tom Fletcher all Liberal senators from the appears to be a bust, with only B.C. Views Liberal leader Justin Trudeau party caucus, has warned that and Green Party leader Elizabeth Harper’s plan and Mulcair’s longMay expected to attend. Conservative leader standing position to abolish the Senate are Stephen Harper declined, prompting NDP both unworkable, if not unconstitutional. leader Thomas Mulcair to say he will only Trudeau has promised changes to the senate take part in debates that include Harper. appointment process, but no specifics so far.

Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair have agreed Party policies are being doled out one to a Sept. 17 debate hosted by The Globe bit at a time, and the national and local and Mail and Google Canada. This one is to candidate debates may help clarify them. be focused on the economy, which should Here are a couple that could use closer force participants to get beyond their talking scrutiny. points and pointing fingers.

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This sounds great if you’re a homeowner, but does nothing for renters, drives up the cost of housing in already overpriced urban markets and encourages more consumer debt.

Trudeau has promised an additional $2.6 billion over four years for First Nations education on reserves, and accelerated spending on school infrastructure.

Mulcair has promised to hold a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. Mulcair and Trudeau both pledge to reverse the Conservative moves to eliminate what’s left of door-todoor mail delivery, and to extend the age of eligibility for the Old Age Security pension from 65 to 67.

All of these promises are presented in the most appealing way possible by the parties that promote them, and all involve spending and taxation trade-offs that the parties would prefer not to discuss.

Another possible dividend from a formal campaign stretching more than two months is that more voters will pay attention to the real issues and actually take the time to cast a ballot. If that happens, and the long decline in voter turnout is reversed, it’s a good investment.

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A community garden on the West Shore that donates several pounds of food to families in need in Victoria had 50 pounds of potatoes stolen last week.

The teaching garden, located at the Westshore Centre for Learning and Training on Sooke Road, is a project between the Victoria YMCA and School District 61, that began eight years ago.

Throughout the year, students grow zucchini, squash, potatoes, tomatoes, coloured beans, salad mixes, carrots, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries, along with a variety of herbs.

During the summer, the YMCA harvests the produce once a week and donates several pounds to the Kiwanis House, Camp Thunderbird and the Pandora Youth Apartments, a housing program for

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But on Aug. 10, harvesters discovered an entire row of potatoes had gone missing.

“I came back from holidays and it turned out an entire row of potatoes from our garden had gone missing and when I say a whole row, I mean

“All the food has been accounted for and it really changes what we can offer these families when it just disappears.”

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50 pounds of potatoes in a 24-hour period,” said Krista Lavoie, teaching garden coordinator at the YMCA. Some dried onions and peppers had also gone missing.

According to Lavoie, each week they pre-plan their weekly harvests to determine exactly what needs to be harvested and how much can be donated. “[Potatoes] are a really good staple, especially for Camp Thunderbird who are doing huge quantities

of food for the hundreds of kids they have,” she said. “All the food has been accounted for and it’s all being used, and it really changes what we can offer these families when it just disappears.”

She has since filed an incident report with the West Shore RCMP. “We will investigate any criminal act or alleged criminal act that is reported. We’ll look at all avenues of investigation,” said Cst. Alex Bérubé with the West Shore RCMP, adding that they haven’t had many cases of thefts from community gardens.

Lavoie has also put up signs notifying people of where the food goes and said they will consider installing a motion sensor camera in the fall.

“It’s trying to find, are these people who need food taking food or it is people who are misinformed who think the garden is just a space for anybody?” she said. “If somebody walks through and they pick an apple, I think that’s fabulous. It’s when you actually sneak and take it in large quantities, that’s when it becomes unfair.”

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The organization is collecting backpacks, shoes and clothing to distribute to kids as well.

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Local author pens ninth book Supernatural thriller hits shelves in September Kendra Wong Victoria News

Local author Grant McKenzie is breaking into the U.S. book market with his first hardcover supernatural thriller set to hit shelves next month.

Speak The Dead begins with six-year old Sally Blue who is awoke one night by a gun shot. She runs into her parents’ room to find her father missing and her mother dead. In her mind, she hears her mother’s voice call ‘Run. Sally, Run’ and takes off into the night.

The book begins 25 years later, with Blue working as a mortician’s beautician.

“One night she’s working and she hears this horrible car accident and she rushes out there. There’s a woman who was hit by a car and is lying

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supernatural element that differs from the five other edge-of-yourseat thrillers McKenzie has published.

“I let the reader make up their mind about how much they want to believe or how much they want to accept because you can read the book without accepting any of that supernatural element,” McKenzie said.

“I wanted to write in a way that in theory, it could happen in real life. Sally’s perceptions might not always be true, but that’s up to the reader to decide.”

McKenzie recently signed a five-book deal with New York publisher Polis Books with Speak The Dead being one of McKenzie’s first big pushes to enter the U.S. book market.

McKenzie is also the author of Switch, Angel With A Bullet and No Cry For Help.

The book will be released on Sept. 15 and will be available both online and in major bookstores.

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“It gets into the conscience. Why it they need to perform does what it does, how specifics in a way certain routines that explains it with does it work? It’s the repeatedly. Pure O lightness and humour biggest mystery inside lacks the physical – it’s definitely dark your own head.” characteristics of in some parts – I do A heartbreaking, typical OCD, so allow for a deeper and hilarious take McLeod has none exploration of that.” on coming of age, of the repetitive To McLeod, doing mental illness and behaviours that go the show is along with the mental illness.

“When you make yourself cathartic, however, the Victoria Fringe “(Mental recite the Lord’s Prayer 300 will be the debut illness) is not for the full length a hashtag. As times a day when you’re 13, performance. “I’ve a storyteller I you’re going to find yourself in done a 20-minute look for gaps in version as spoken the communal wacky situations.” word. It received dialogue. I’ve - Brendan McLeod good, positive been heartened feedback. You do by the approach worry going on stage consciousness, Brain people are taking that everyone’s going maps McLeod’s to destigmatize to hate you. I’m really experiences with mental illness, what interested to see how obsessive compulsive the corporations a general audience disorder – from a are doing with their reacts and how the Twitter campaigns, but teenager struggling work translates.” to understand his sometimes they lose McLeod said he’s obsessions to an adult the specifics.” fortunate to be able battling psychosis.

With Brain, a new to perform and live a “When you make monologue McLeod productive life. yourself recite the is bringing to this “I try hard not to Lord’s Prayer 300 year’s Victoria Fringe frame it as super times a day when Theatre Festival, Aug. positive. I don’t like you’re 13, you’re 27 to Sept. 6, the this disorder. I think it’s going to find yourself former Canadian Slam made me more honest in wacky situations. champion hopes to … forced me to be Let’s talk about engage and enlighten more open as a human some of the weird audiences. being. When things go situations OCD leads “It’s my mental wrong you have to be to, and how laughter illness procedural,” open. Friends help out lessens the stigma he said. “It’s sort of when you lose your of mental illness and a fun exploration inner compass, they makes for a deeper, of the nature of keep you company, more empathetic consciousness and they show you the understanding of it,” thought. It’s the world as it is and he said. biggest mystery, the keep you on track. I definitely have a new How to Fringe appreciation for that.”

The Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival runs Brain is on at the Aug. 27 to Sept. 6 and includes 11 days of Wood Hall at the uncensored, untamed and uncut live comedy, Victoria Conservatory drama, dance, magic, music, spoken word of Music beginning and physical theatre. There are more than Thursday, Aug. 27.

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After a slow start to the season, things started to heat up on the mound during the second half and the

team finished second in the west division with a record of 29-24, behind the Bellingham Bells.

“As far as the season goes, we didn’t make the playoffs, we didn’t win a league championship and we didn’t set any league attendance records for the overall season, but I think we’re trending in the right direction,” said Jim Swanson, HarbourCats general manager.

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Some of their success came from outfielder Kevin Collard, who led the team with seven home runs and 35 RBI. After coming off his freshman season with Sacramento State, PJ Floyd hit eight home runs, including exhibition games.

Nanaimo-native Griffin Andreychuk led the team with a batting average of .385.

“He’s a Vancouver Island guy through and through. He had a tremendous average and really was a catalyst to us finishing that stretch that we did with 21 wins in our last 29 games,” Swanson added.

Infielder Alex DeGoti closed out what is likely his final season with the team as well. The Miami-native, who has played with the team for the last three years, was also inducted into the HarbourCats Ring of Honour at Royal Ath-

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The team also set a league single game attendance record with 4,627 people on opening night.

Swanson noted they will also be coming up with new promotional ideas to get fans to the park as well.

For fans unable to use tickets from the 2015 season, they can be exchanged for entry into a 2016 game for a limited time. Bring your tickets to the office and the face value will be applied toward the purchase price of either season tickets for 2016 or 10-packs.

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Perry Bamji and his wife Annamaria, sit with a selection of antique books found in a box from auction more than 40 years ago, along with a 140-year-old Bible that has now been returned to its original family, the Fenemores, in England.

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140-year-old Bible sent home Jennifer Blyth Black Press

It took considerable research, a healthy dose of luck and some divine intervention, but a 140-year-old Bible is back with its original family in England after decades across the Atlantic.

Perry Bamji and his wife, Annamaria, came across the Bible 40 years ago when they were newly married and setting up their home in the English town of Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Searching the local auction for furniture, Annamaria, an art historian, was tempted to purchase an “odds and ends” box of books, contents unknown.

Tucked inside, in addition to two titles dating from 1774 and an 1805 dictionary, wwas a beautiful 1874 Bible.

When the Bamjis moved to Canada in 1981, the Bible came with them, first to their home in Kingston, Ont., where Perry, an electrical engineer, taught at Queens University until 2006, when they moved to Fairfield.

As the couple downsized from a larger home into a condominium, certain things had to go and the Bible, while much loved, was too big for their space.

A skilled researcher, Annamaria then set about trying to find the Bible’s original family, starting with the book itself.

“The first page is always the family page.

They had taken it out (when they sent it to

auction) but they forgot to tear off the middle pages, which has the marriages, births and deaths,” Annamaria says.

After more than a year combing through Internet files, Annamaria contacted a former colleague and historian, John Webb, who still lived in Oxfordshire, asking if he knew any families with the names represented on the Bible’s family pages: Fenemore, Boddington and White.

In a completely unrelated coincidence, Webb had in fact met a George Fenemore at an Oxfordshire cancer clinic. Thinking he could possibly be an ancestor of the Fenemore family listed in the Bible, Webb put Annamaria in touch with Fenemore. After conducting a little of his own research in the U.K., Fenemore concluded that the Bible had indeed belonged to his ancestors. “[For John Webb] to know just one Fenemore and for it to be the right one, it was very strange,” Annamaria says.

The Bamjis wanted to send the valuable Bible as a gift, and asked only that the Fenemores pay the postage for the 5.5-kilogram book, which they were happy to do, Annamaria says.

The serendipity didn’t end there, however.

Upon receiving the Bible in Oxfordshire, Fenemore opened it at random to an image of St. Peter. He later told the Bamjis he had

been warden of St. Peter’s Church for 40 years. “I have a feeling there is a bit of Divine intervention,” he reflected in an email.

The Bamjis are pleased the Bible is back with its original family.

“We have enjoyed

this Bible in our homes for well over 40 years and it is now returned to its home in the custody of George Fenmore and the family members who follow him,” Perry says.

“It has gone home,” Annamaria agrees.

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