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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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Hockeyville tickets up for grabs Saanich Peninsula residents eligible for special ticket draw NORTH SAANICH — Residents of the Saanich Peninsula will have a ticket draw of their own for the Kraft Hockeyville preseason NHL game won by Panorama Recreation Centre earlier this year. Panorama, the Kraft Hockeyville team and the North Saanich local organizing committee announced Monday ticket details for the Monday, Sept. 21 game between the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks. Panorama won the NHL preseason game and $100,000 for arena upgrades in the 2015 Kraft Hockeyville contest in April. NHL officials visited the area and other local venues and determined the game would be held at the Q Centre in Langford. All tickets are going by way of a supervised public lottery, taking place at Panorama Saturday, Aug. 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, Saturday, Sept. 5 (10 to 4) and Sunday, Sept. 6, from noon to 6 p.m. Saanich Peninsula residents are eligible to enter a residents’ draw — which requires proof of residence. People will have to place their ballot in person. They must be at least 19 years old and have photo ID to enter for a chance at winning two tickets. All draws will be held Sept. 9 and announced at Panorama’s main arena Sept. 10, with results posted to panoramarecreation.ca. For official rules and regulations for the ticket lottery, visit the above website or check out facebook.com/ panoramarecreation or Kraft Hockeyville Facebook page at facebook. com/khv2015. — News staff
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RCMP Auxiliary Constable Alan Neville-Rutherford watches for cyclists as Corporal Erin Fraser takes notes during a bike patrol in North Saanich and Sidney recently. Officers at the local RCMP detachment regularly get out on their bikes to better connect with the community and reach parts of the Peninsula easily accessible by bicycle.
Patrolling the Peninsula by bike Local RCMP uses bike patrols to increase visibility, crime prevention Steven Heywood News staff
The Saanich Peninsula is known as a destination for cyclists using the Lochside Regional Trail and the area’s back roads for recreation. There are weekends where Sidney coffee shops are bustling with the click-click of specialty biking shoes. It’s only natural, then, that the local detachment of the RCMP would join in. Recently, the PNR was able to ride along with two RCMP members — Corporal Erin Fraser and Auxiliary Constable Alan Neville-
Rutherford — as they conducted a short bike patrol. Each year, the local detachment hosts a course on cycling skills, specific to the task of patrolling by bicycle. Neville-Rutherford says the course lasts about a week and covers topics such as quickly mounting and dismounting, maneuvering a bike safely in tight spaces and down stairs and even how to safely dismount and draw a firearm, should the need call for it. The course is taken by both auxiliary and regular, full-time officers and they train up to the same standard. That allows auxiliary members to be able to ride
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with their armed counterparts, he explained. Fraser added that since last year’s shooting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, all RCMP auxiliary members must be accompanied by an armed regular officer when on duty. Bike patrols, however, are decidedly more sedate on a day-to-day basis. The philosophy, said Neville-Rutherford, is to increase police visibility in parks, trails and even on the street. “We are closer to people and are more approachable on a bike,” he said. Please see: Bike patrols give officers, page 5
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