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Ken Prowse clearly remembers the way some people would look at him when he was living in a tent in Fernwood’s Kings Park. “It’s like you’re in a zoo and you’re the animal,” said the 54-year-old, who wound up on the streets in August 2013 after he was evicted from his apartment and had no place to go. “People walk by and they are throwing stuff at you. It’s a very negative outlook on people. It doesn’t mean we’re not human.” Living on the street wasn’t easy for Prowse. Struggling with drug addiction, many nights were spent making sure he didn’t get robbed or stabbed. Since many shelters in Victoria were full, Prowse eventually wound up living in a tent in Kings Park, a small green space in the 100 block of Caledonia Avenue near Cook Street, along with

a dozen or so other homeless people. A constant victim of theft, at times Prowse didn’t even have a blanket. “It was hard out there. It’s a whole different life,” he said. Averaging nine tents a night, the homeless living in Kings Park have drawn complaints from local residents, but church outreach worker and area resident Devin Landis decided to take action. With a local reverend, Landis began participating in early morning runs, handing out coffee and donuts to give the homeless a good start to the day and address any of their needs. It didn’t take long before a friendship blossomed with Prowse, and Landis was able to help him get in touch with a landlord and find a place to live. “To get to know them was sure a treat. The friendship with Ken – I didn’t expect that,” said Landis. “A lot of progress was made in Ken’s story

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Devin Landis, left, and Ken Prowse have been working together to arrange a neighbourhood barbecue in Kings Park on Caledonia Avenue between Cook Street and Chambers Street. so it was exciting to see how just a little neighbour could make an impact.” Prowse still struggles with his drug addiction, but feels fortunate to have a roof over his head again. In order to say thanks to the

neighbours that live around the park, he and a few other campers organized a barbecue on Saturday with hopes of breaking down some walls. Landis said the gesture humanizes the tough issue the neighbourhood

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is facing while giving residents the opportunity to get to know the campers of Kings Park. “It seems to be an ongoing story of just the campers in the park and the upset neighbours, and all for legitimate reasons. It’s

understandable how it can be inconvenient to live beside it, but at the same time there’s not enough shelters,” said Landis. “To find affordable housing is just so hard in Victoria. It’s a community problem. I think that people

just see the campers as take take take. It’s important for the community to see that the people who are camping in the park sure have big hearts and they do want to give back to the community.” editor@vicnews.com

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just that organizations want to participate, but they want to see different individuals coming together. It’s not a A new pilot project that single organization that’s doing embodies the spirit of it, it’s a bunch of strangers.” community is sprouting in Families at the neighbouring Victoria. Our Place Society will help During last week’s hand-water the garden as well. governance and priorities “We have lots of family meeting, Victoria city council members, especially approved a oneyear pilot boulevard “I think there’s a deep hunger for this those in our transitional housing, project on Pandora type of community effort and it’s not just that find working Parkway (900 block of Pandora) to open the organizations that want to participate, in a garden is very therapeutic. It can be a new community but they want to see different individuals a very calming and garden. positive influence,” The garden will coming together.” said Grant McKenzie, include four, 1.2-metre - Jim LaMorte spokesperson with the raised cedar planter society. boxes for a total area “Just playing in the of approximately nine dirt and having that sense of separates businesses on the square metres and will sit accomplishment when you north and south side, but also three feet from the Pandora actually harvest something has high foot traffic. Avenue curb. “No one seems to know each or when something blooms The project is a joint venture is a big part of positive other or they mistrust what’s between LifeCycles Project happening on the street. So our reinforcement.” Society, the Greater Victoria Food that gets harvested in idea was to do a project that Placemaking Network and the the winter will go to the Our brings people together,” said Pandora Task Force (which Place kitchen and will be used includes representatives from a LaMorte, adding a garden will allow people to reconnect with in salads and soups to help number of community groups) feed the homeless. their food and beautify the and will be maintained by the Morte expects the garden neighbourhood. two societies and surrounding will be ready to plant at the “I think there’s a deep businesses. beginning of October. hunger for this type of Many businesses have kendra.wong@vicnews.com community effort and it’s not already donated flowers, box

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Meet the candidates in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke Randall Garrison – NDP

Frances Litman – Green Party

Shari Lukens – Conservative

David Merner – Liberal

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First and foremost, Randall Garrison is running in the 2015 federal election to replace Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The NDP MP for Esquimalt-SaanichSooke said he has seen the damage the Harper government has done to things like democracy, veterans and Canada’s international reputation, which is why the NDP needs more seats in the House of Commons. According to Garrison, the NDP has big policy initiatives that focus on addressing issues such as climate Randall Garrison change, and affordability and availability of childcare spaces – something that’s a big challenge in B.C., no matter how much money people have. Garrison, who served as the official opposition public safety critic, is leading the fight to protect privacy rights and civil liberties from conservative surveillance legislation. He was also the LGBT critic, and had a non-government bill securing equal rights for transgender Canadians passed in the House of Commons, but it was later killed in the senate. “That guarantees equal rights for transgender Canadians. I’m very much committed to bringing that back again,” said Garrison, adding he is consistently the opposition member with the most success in getting federal dollars for his riding. Locally, Garrison is committed to creating a recovery action plan for killer whales and creating more ship building jobs in the dock yards of Esquimalt. “The conservatives promised they would get busy on that program and we’ve yet to see much progress. Those are quality, longterm jobs in this community,” said Garrison, who lives in Esquimalt with his partner Teddy Pardede. Garrison has also fought projects such as the Northern Gateway Pipeline, proposing responsible, sustainable alternatives instead. Before entering parliament, Garrison was elected to Esquimalt municipal council and was a member of the Esquimalt municipal police board. Prior to that, he was a criminal justice and political science instructor at Camosun College for 20 years. Randall is also the founding president of the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre and has pariticipated in international human rights missions.

Taking on an incumbent MP can be a daunting task, but it’s not an unfamiliar role for Frances Litman. The Green Party candidate for Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke has always seen herself in the role of underdog. “I’ve always sided with the underdog,” said Litman, 53. “When you talk about how has your life experience affected you, I suppose somewhere deep in my soul I saw myself as an underdog and related to those that were less privileged.” Litman has called the island home since the Frances Litman age of two, growing up in Saanich where she went to Reynolds Secondary, before moving to Esquimalt where she started Frances Litman Photography. High school was a time of profound and life-altering change for Litman. She landed a job with the Times Colonist while still in high school, and by graduation was living on her own after losing her parents to health issues. “It’s made me very … well I’ve never had anyone to rely on. It makes you very determined to make a success of yourself because there’s no one really to give you a leg up. I’ve worked very hard because I guess there’s that underlying fear that I don’t want to be homeless.” Litman went to both Camosun and UVic, studying business administration and applied communications, before taking a year-long photography course at Western Academy. Eventually, she gained the confidence to leave the security of a regular paycheque behind and left the job to focus on her photography business full time. It was her connection with the underdog that spurred Litman’s involvement with environmental causes and eventually the Green Party. “My underdog became the environment when I discovered that less than three per cent of all charitable giving goes to environmental charities,” she said. About five years ago Litman began Creatively United For the Planet, an Earth Week festival dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to take better care of the Earth. The festival raised her profile among environmental organizations, and the Green Party came calling earlier this year asking her to become a candidate.

Shari Lukens grew up in the wheat fields of Alberta. When she wasn’t working the golden fields on the family’s grain farm, she spent her time carving her own path on the ice. She even landed a spot at the prestigious Mariposa School of Skating. “My goal was to be world champion and that’s what I was training for,” Lukens said. But at 16, her skating dreams were ended by a drunk driver. While no longer able to compete professionally, her passion led her to coaching, and eventually Denmark, where she not Shari Lukens only taught other skaters but was also asked to teach power skating to the Danish men’s national hockey team. After returning to Canada, Lukens shifted careers to broadcast journalism. Her career led her across the province and back to the prairies. It was while working on an awardwinning documentary that Lukens was set up on a blind date with the man that would eventually become her husband. The couple lived on the mainland for a while but in 2005, they moved to Vancouver Island. Her husband was originally from the Duncan area, so the Cowichan Valley seemed like a perfect fit. But their island life together was shortlived. In 2006, Lukens’ husband was killed in a helicopter crash. “It really takes the wind out of your sails,” she said. Her father had been a pilot and she knew the risks of the profession, but she said you never imagine something like that ever happening. In August 2009 she moved to Colwood, a place she had told herself years before that “If I ever get the opportunity to move down here I would.” That love of the West Shore drew her into the area and she became highly engaged in its communities, eventually running for Colwood city council in 2011 and serving until 2014. But tragedy struck again. Just as she was preparing to run for another term her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She was forced to make what she refers to as a “life choice.” Not knowing what kind of treatment her mother would need, she decided not to run because she didn’t want any absences caused by her taking care of her mother in Alberta to force a by-election and cost tax payers more money. Now she’s onto what she calls ‘plan B,’ and has put her travel plans on hold with hopes to represent her riding in Ottawa.

Running for office was only a matter of time for David Merner, who is representing the Liberal party in the newly defined Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke riding. From his time as a political science major in university to his current role as the executive director of the Dispute Resolution Office in B.C.’s Ministry of Justice, Merner has been heavily involved with the provincial and federal Liberal David Merner parties. The 53-year-old has also been an observer at two of the biggest presidential elections in modern history — 2006 in Haiti and 2014 in Ukraine. “There were certainly security risks and concerns,” says Merner of both situations. “But people were also so grateful that Canadians were there to help.” A father and a husband, Merner and his wife, human rights lawyer Annemieke Holthuis, have raised four daughters in Victoria. The youngest, 12, attends Ecole Victor Brodeur. Their 18-year-old is doing a one-year program at Mahindra College in India (part of the United World College family of schools, which includes Metchosin’s Pearson College). Meanwhile their oldest, a pair of 20-year-old twins, are in university, one in pre-medical school at Queen’s and the other environmental studies at Dalhousie. “Still one at home but it’s the start of empty-nest syndrome,” joked Merner. “Previously we had been so busy driving around.” Before he worked in the justice industry Merner started at Harvard University and ended up doing a masters at Oxford University in the 1980s, where, little known to Canadians, he played hockey for the Oxford Blues. “It was a semi-pro league. We played in the [traditional] Oxford versus Cambridge [rivalry],” Merner said. “The fans loved it, they wanted Slapshot, they wanted all that bad behaviour, it was something else.” To this day Merner still plays hockey three times a week, including twice in the morning before work.

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For three days of the week, Frank Bailey wears his pyjamas under his regular clothes and walks out the door. He heads to Royal Jubilee Hospital with his pillow and book, Peter Pan Must Die by John Verdon, in hand. Once inside the hospital, Bailey weighs himself, takes his temperature and blood pressure, grabs his chart and heads over to his designated bed for the evening. He gets three sets of warm sheets to make the bed, then takes out his book, climbs in and waits for the nurse to hook him up to a dialysis machine for the evening. “It’s very comfortable. You get used to the staff,” Bailey said. It’s become a routine for the 75-yearold Victoria resident, who is one of 13 Greater Victoria residents participating in Island Health’s in-centre Nocturnal Hemodialysis Program. The $62,000-pilot program began in February and is the first of its kind on Vancouver Island. Hemodialysis helps remove toxins and extra water from the blood. The longer a patient is receiving treatment, the more toxins can be removed. Instead of the conventional four-hour treatment during the day, the new program puts patients on hemodialysis for eight hours while they sleep at night. Bailey has been on the treatment for the past six months.

“After the four-hour one, I was feeling exhausted, no energy, nothing,” said Bailey, who suffers from kidney failure. “The first couple of days were iffy, but after that I felt a whole lot better. I had a lot more energy than I did before. Now I can do anything when I come home.” Jenny Di Castri, manager of renal services, south island with Island Health, said the program has been very successful since it launched. Patients have been able to go back to work or school, play sports, spend time with their families, take fewer medications and have less strict dietary limitations, she added. “Their blood work is much improved, which means they feel better physically. They’re able to take back more time in the day,” said Di Castri, noting the youngest patient is in their 30s and the oldest in their mid 80s. “Dialysis is very time consuming. Say your treatment starts at 7 a.m. and you’re done by noon. You’re often very tired by the end of the treatment and you then go home and take a nap. The whole day is gone. By doing it overnight, they’ve got a whole day ahead of them.” The program has been so successful that officials hope to expand it in January to include another six patients. Twenty patients are currently on the wait list. Island Health also hopes to open a similar program in Nanaimo. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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The community is rallying behind an elderly woman who recently had a number of plants stolen off her patio. On Aug. 21, a Victoria senior had Begonias, Jasmine, Daisy, Perwinkle, Lavender, Lamb’s Ear, Schlefera and cacti swiped from her property in the 1330 block of Hillside Avenue. According to Mayor Lisa Helps, the woman reached out to her through email explaining what happened and asking for assistance. “She’s a low-income senior so she doesn’t have the money to replace them. But the

most heartbreaking thing was she’s had some of these plants since the early 1990s,” Helps said. “You imagine, you water your plants and develop a relationship with them.” Helps passed along the request to Victoria Police Chief Frank Elsner and the city’s parks department, hoping they could provide further assistance. Elsner said they are investigating the incident, but with thin leads, he was not hopeful they would be able to recover the plants. Elsner took to social media sending out an initial tweet, saying “This weeks biggest Jerk Award goes to whoever stole the

flowers off the balcony of an elderly lady.” Since then, Elsner and Helps have received an overwhelming response from the public wanting to donate plants and money to help the woman replace those she lost. “A lot of people said they wanted to donate. It’s been overwhelming, the response. That’s what we wanted to do was start that,” Elsner said. “Was that the worst crime we had that week? No. But it was one of those where somebody was so vulnerable and it was just so senseless.” Local business Aqua Irrigation Systems Inc., a sprinkler installation

Museum rolls out events There is something for everyone this month at the Royal B.C. Museum. Beginning next week, the museum will be offering a variety of events ranging from documentary screenings to musical performances and lecture series, to interactive learning-based events. Scientist Jean-Michel Geneste will give the lecture series on Predator and Prey: The Art of Chauvet on Friday, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. As part of the Floating Museum Series, audiences have the chance to connect via live streaming to Ocean Networks Canada engaging in

underwater research 300 kilometres off the B.C. coast on Saturday, Sept. 12. There will also be screenings of the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria’s new film Perspectives on Faith & Identity: A Youth Documentary Project and Canyon War, which offers a look into the Fraser Canyon War in 1858, and the Gold Rush Film Festival, which will present a series of feature length and short documentaries related to the B.C. gold rush. For a full list of events visit royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/events/ calendar/.

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Generosity of Victorians amazing Living in Vancouver for most of my life, I’ve become used to seeing homicides, robberies and crises day after day on the six o’clock news. I’d come home, turn on the TV and think ‘Okay, who died today?’ That’s why when a feel-good community story pops up, people tend to sit up and take notice. For example, at the end of August an elderly woman had her plants stolen from her patio in the 1330 block of Hillside Avenue. The low-income senior, who couldn’t afford to replace many of the plants she’d been looking after for the past decade, emailed Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps for assistance. Helps passed it on to Victoria Police Chief Frank Elsner and the city’s parks department, hoping they could do something for the woman. After a few tweets, Elsner and Helps received an overwhelming response to the woman’s problem. Within a few hours, people in the community were offering to donate plants and money to help replace the ones the woman lost — and on Tuesday, the woman received the generous donation. It’s a unique but not entirely rare story in Victoria. Most residents go about their day as usual, but when someone in the community needs help there is no hestitation and people step up to the plate almost as quickly as the problem arose. This issue also features another story of a Fernwood resident helping a homeless man find a place to live, instead of sleeping in the nearby Kings Park. The generosity of Victorians never ceases to amaze me. Keep it up, Victoria — it’s one of the reasons I chose to live here.

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Maureen Mackintosh’s heritage home on South Turner Street is one of six homes on display during the 62nd Annual Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s House Tour. of circus-themed wall hangings including a jester head that Mackintosh made herself. “It doesn’t have a theme because it’s just whatever I like. Whatever tickles my fancy,” she said, adding that she enjoys anything that is clown or circus-themed. The home was originally built in 1887 by a well-known Victoria photographer, who used it as a rental house. Mackintosh bought it 31 years ago. She had to build it from the ground up and did renovations slowly over the years, eventually restoring it to its former glory.

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With a thirst for creation, Fred Dobbs was the kind of kid who sculpted bars of soap into art or constantly doodled on a piece of paper in the classroom. It was inevitable that some day Dobbs would turn his love for creating sculptures into a profession that’s taken him around the world. “The idea of being a maker of things has always sort of been part of my core,” said Dobbs, a sculptor based in Victoria. “It’s so gratifying having spent hours on something and then you have a piece that is your own, and you are able to enjoy the fruits of your labour.” Dobbs first began dabbling with sand sculptures in the 1980s, where he went on to compete in international events, winning titles in Canada, the U.S. and the world championships. He eventually turned his passion into a livelihood, working as a professional sand

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New bursary helps youth A new bursary for former youth in care has been established by Victoria company WCG, with a focus on students going into the trades at Camosun College. The $10,000 annual bursary ($5,000 each for a male and female student), is designed to help youth who don’t have the benefit of parental support at the start of their career path. “We hope to give them a real boost through the independence, confidence and skills they’ll gain,” said WCG president Darlene Bailey. “We know from our training experiences that education helps young people on a solid path towards becoming mature adults and contributing citizens.” The female recipient of this year’s bursary is an associate arts student in the pre-social work stream. She has chosen to pursue social work as a career and a means of putting her past experiences and caring nature to good use. The male recipient is a community support and education assistant student, who said he is excited at the prospect of starting at Camosun to continue working towards his professional goals. Former youth in care taking any of Camosun’s post-secondary programs can apply for the bursary, but preference will be given to students enrolled in trades foundation programs, such as automotive, electrical, fine furniture, heavy mechanical, nautical, plumping and pipe, professional cook and welding.

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The cities of Victoria and Saanich are adding 13 new electric vehicles to their fleet. The joint purchase (Victoria will purchase nine electric vehicles, while Saanich will purchase four) will save the municipalities more than $100,000 in rebates provided by the province. The vehicles are propelled by one or more electric motors powered by rechargeable battery packs and are expected to be on the street by the The Camelot end of the year. 455 Kingston Street, Victoria, BC 250-384-3336 Independent Retirement Living with SupportiveThe Services purchase is part of B.C.’s Clean Energy Vehicle incentive available to all individuals and organizations when buying or leasing electric and hybrid vehicles.

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PLUMBING FREE ESTIMATES. Reasonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.

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The late Bonnie McComb Kreye inspired many people through her pottery and paintings. Now a handful of artists will get to seek inspiration in her Gordon Head studio, three months at a time. In memory of his wife, Donald Kreye and his daughters Zoe Kreye and Sarah Marcotte are opening Bonnie’s studio to three artists per year, through a studio residency with the Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA). “My two daughters and I were looking for some way to commemorate her, to do something that she would’ve done herself, and the idea of having this studio available to people that needed it came up,” said Donald. “I knew if I left it, it would fill with garden stuff, so I thought I better do something.” Wendy Welch, executive director of VISA, said the residency is a first for Greater Victoria. “We just kind of started talking about it, realizing that Victoria doesn’t really have an artist residency program,” she said. “We’re pretty excited since this hasn’t been done before in Victoria.” Originally from Alberta, Bonnie and Donald moved to Salt Spring Island in the late ’70s, where Bonnie worked as a studio potter before becoming an art instructor. In the late ’80s, she began teaching art in the school district, mostly in alternative education programs. “She had a real empathy and appreciated the students who were different, the students who were struggling, the students who had talents that weren’t recognized,” said Donald. She retired in 2005 and continued making art, delving into abstract paintings. However, she was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in the spring of 2012, but that didn’t stop her from pursuing art and doing a solo show the following spring. “She had well over a year of really good quality time,” said Donald. “She was doing chemo, but she was pretty active, still. She was really energetic and vigorous during that time.” Bonnie passed away on Canada Day 2013, leaving behind her 30-square-metre studio. Now, two years later, the space is ready for someone else. The private studio offers a serene setting for artists to hone their craft, with work tables, a washroom and a kitchenette. The residency is open to artists of all disciplines, preferably those with a decent level of experience. Three residency dates have been set for next year: Jan. 5 to March 31, May 2 to July 29 and Sept. 6 to Nov. 30. An exhibition is scheduled at the Slide

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Room Gallery, an independent non-profit art gallery, to showcase the artists’ work at the end of the year. The application deadline for all three residency dates is the end of November. Those interested are asked to submit a cover letter, 10 digital images of recent work, 300 to 500 words outlining your project plans for the residency and preferred residency dates. Donald said he hopes the program will preserve Bonnie’s memory for years to come while influencing artists of numerous styles and backgrounds. “Bonnie had spent her life as an artist and a supporter of the arts, and I think it’s a way of keeping her name current and to give something back to the community that was supportive of her,” he said. For more information, visit vancouverislandschoolart.com/kreyestudioresidency.html. editor@vicnews.com

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