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Kids back in class after arson in September Edward Hill News staff
With kids running and laughing and parents milling about, Savory elementary buzzed with eager anticipation Tuesday morning. It was like the first day of school all over again. Three weeks after fire ripped through the administrative wing of Savory, 155 students and their teachers filed back into their classrooms, happy to be home. “It was a lot of work. We are certainly grateful to the school district for help planning this, and thankful to the host schools,” said Savory principal Klaus Benker. “But we are happy to be back. We’re getting everyone settled and starting the year all over again.” In the past two weeks, every surface, shelf, toy and book throughout the school has been scrubbed clean of soot. The gym area, which school officials expected to take longer, is also ready to go. “Savory has done amazingly well getting done on time,” said SD 62 superintendent Jim Cambridge. “The air quality results are in and the school is good to go.” Fire destroyed administration offices on Sept. 11 in what West Shore RCMP allege is an arson committed by two Langford teens. A 16-year-old minor and 19-year-old Jordan Deluca are charged with arson. Savory students and staff were upbeat about the temporary move, calling it an adventure. Younger kids had two weeks in Crystal View elementary and older grades went to portables at Happy Valley. Many Savory kids walk to school, making the daily school bus a novelty. “We’ve really enjoyed having the Savory students here. The Happy Val-
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The rising cost of living is the No. 1 concern for Greater Victorian residents, surpassing homelessness as the issue pressing most heavily on hearts and minds. The finding comes out of the Victoria Foundation’s 2011 Vital Signs report, released Monday. “We’re in this new age of volatility,” said Sandra Richardson, foundation CEO. Vital Signs provides a snapshot of how we’re doing as a region, based on statistics from local, ■ Unemployment hit six provincial and national per cent in 2010, down sources on a variety from 6.4 in 2009. It of measures. It’s also was 3.3 in 2008. based on the Victoria Foundation’s own sur■ Nearly a quarter of vey. southern Vancouver Of its 1,600 survey Island residents respondents, predomireported “quite a lot of nantly women, 42 per stress on most days,” cent ranked cost of livin 2010, up from 18 ing as the most imporper cent in 2009. tant issue facing Greater Victoria today. ■ The vacancy rate Homelessness placed dropped to two per cent second at 36 per cent. as of April 2011, down In 2010, the ranking from 3.1 per cent in was roughly reversed, April 2010. with homelessness chosen by 47 per cent of ■ Read the report at respondents. www.victoriafoundation. The stats reveal a bc.ca, under Vital growing proportion of Signs. people are struggling with finances. As of 2009, there were 28,280 low-income families in Greater Victoria, a number which has been rising since 2007. Based on these low-income measures, 18.6 per cent of children under age 17 live in poverty.
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Annalise Steadman, 6, and mom Christine have a laugh before the first day of classes at Savory elementary after last month’s fire. ley PAC, teachers and students have been so wonderful in welcoming the Savory students into our school,” said Julia Sahota, principal of Happy Valley elementary. Parent Christine Steadman said the
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Oak Bay Police reserve constable Jarrod Christison and West Shore RCMP Const. Rod Fraser stand with Langford’s Matt Williams, 13, (centre) their junior rider. Williams has survived leukemia.
Communities overflow with generosity for tour Edward Hill News staff
Riders rolled into Willway elementary Wednesday hailed as heroes, a familiar but always emotional theme for this year’s Tour de Rock. Powering over the Malahat Drive from Duncan, 22 tough tour riders hit around the 900 kilometre mark as they pedalled to the West Shore and Sooke. Willway kids handed over $1,350, adding to the $675,000 fundraising tally on Wednesday. “People told us what it would be like, but experiencing the tour is a whole different ballpark,” said West Shore RCMP Const. Rod Fraser. “There are few words to express how we feel. It’s very emotional. There has been support from the get-go. It’s overwhelming how it all came together.” Police and media riders kicked off their tour nearly two weeks ago, meeting gusting wind and driving rain on a 140-kilometre leg from Port McNeill, only two days into the tour. The road was long and legs are
tired, but riders say the outpouring of generosity from dozens of communities keeps them going day after day. “I didn’t expect this much attention,” said Const. Sandi Swanson with Island District RCMP. “In every community people can’t wait to meet you or speak with you. It really feels like the people are there for you.” In Courtenay, Fraser, and others, were brought to tears after a class made the team certificates bearing the phrase “You are my hero.” Swanson was struck by the frequent kindness of strangers. At an event in Duncan, a couple walked up and handed over a $500 cheque. In Nanaimo, a golfer who saw the tour pass by, hit up his golfing buddies, tracked down the riders and handed over $1,000. “Kids in a choir singing Lean on Me, the way it was presented, that was my moment,” Swanson said. “I couldn’t stop the tears. I can’t describe it, it’s so emotional. People tell you stories and it affects you.” In Shawnigan Lake, Cpl. Manon Chouinard, with Island District
RCMP, said private school kids raised money by selling a T-shirt bearing the word “Create.” “The respect we felt from them was very moving,” Chouinard said. “It’s young people helping young people. “There are uplifting moments in every community. The amount of people who shave their heads and want to talk to us is amazing,” Chouinard continued. “We are just a vehicle to give a voice to communities. It’s a life altering experience.” By the time the riders hit Greater Victoria, their bodies could feel the impact of days of riding hard hills. Each morning you hop in the saddle, and after a few kilometres the aches melt away, they said. “Physically, everyone is tired, but you just think about your junior rider and why you are doing this,” said Fraser, who is riding for Matt Williams and Lucas Savage. “Over that Port Alberni hump, we were all focused on why we’re here. It helps us persevere, it helps us get over that hill. “For me, I ride for Matt and Lucas. They help push me over those hills.”
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Metchosin Coun. Moralea Milne wants to launch a survey of marine life in waters surrounding the district.
Metchosin seeks baseline survey of coastal marine life Charla Huber News staff
Metchosin residents are going to get to the bottom of what’s in their ocean. Metchosin council gave its OK to create a survey on shoreline habitats surrounding the district based on a sustainabiity report generated by an environmental advisory committee. “Our coastline and marine waters are invisible. People don’t understand what’s under the water,” said Coun. Moralea Milne, who sits on the advisory committee. “We have about 45 to 50 kilometres of shoreline, mostly undisturbed.” The survey plans to map and identify marine species that live in near-shore eelgrass beds or bull kelp forests, on the beach, or
creatures that inhabit both worlds. “(Eelgrass beds) are little nurseries for many fish species,” Milne said. Milne has researched possible plants and animal life that could be on the coastline, but she would like experts in the field help with the project. Council has approved the project, and now the environmental committee is looking into ways to begin the survey process using volunteers. “I am not sure how we are going to do that though. I don’t scuba dive,” Milne admits. Once coastal marine information is collected, Milne said it can be used to monitor change in the district after an emergency, such as an oil spill. “It will be used as a baseline of what is there right now,” Milne said.
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Jo-Anne Landolt, aunt of murdered Langford teen Kimberly Proctor, is in the running for a grant that she plans to use for a student safety program in B.C. schools.
Proctor’s aunt seeks safety program for all B.C. schools Edward Hill News staff
The aunt of murdered Langford teen Kimberly Proctor is seeking to launch a provincewide safety awareness program for students. Jo-Anne Landolt, 42, started seeking school safety programs in the aftermath of Proctor’s death on March 18, 2010, by two male classmates who are serving life in prison. Landolt wants to give students the chance her niece never had through the Kids in the Know, a program developed by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. To fund the program for school districts across the province, she’s in the running for a $150,000 Aviva Community Fund grant. It won’t be easy. Landolt’s idea is competing against several hundred entries pitched from across Canada and will go through several rounds of online voting. Winners will be selected in January 2012. If she wins, the grant wouldn’t cover the costs to bring the program to all 60 school districts, but she’s planning to target
areas with the highest crime rates first. Kids in the Know offers detailed lesson plans on safety and awareness at home, on the street and on the Internet, with learning collateral geared from kindergarten to Grade 8. “It talks about listening to your intuition, about healthy and unhealthy relationships,” Landolt said. “After what happened, I thought this needed to be taught in schools. “There were different safety issues with what happened to (Kimberly),” she continued. “There was Internet safety, there was luring that happened. They said she was an easy target. (Her texting) showed she had doubts about meeting them.” If Landolt is granted funding, there will still be a lot of work to implement Kids in the Know throughout the province. Some may need convincing. Many schools have Internet safety in their curriculum, but she doubts most have a comprehensive program. “Every school should have something like this. Internet safety may be in the curriculum,
but what about other aspects of safety?” she said. “Healthy and unhealthy relationships may spill over into the Internet. Luring spills over into the Internet too.” Landolt said teachers have helped test the program at her home district of Maple Ridge to positive acclaim. “Teachers said it was straight forward, that there wasn’t extra training needed. And there are lessons kids can take home, so parents can get more involved, hopefully.” Landolt is also lobbying the Ministry of Education and the premier’s office to fund and distribute the Kids in the Know program across the province. “It’s up to individual teachers, but if school boards support it and approve it, that may encourage teachers to use it,” she said. To see and to vote on Landolt’s proposal, see www. avivacommunityfund.org and search for idea number “11490” or search for “School Safety Program For Kids”. For more on Kids in the Know, see www.kidsintheknow. ca.
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On rainy days, the district even set up tents at Savory to shelter kids and parents waiting for the bus. It was fun for a while, but Steadman said her daughter Annalise is ready to restart Grade 2 at Savory. “It was a new adventure to start the year,” Steadman said. “She was excited to take the school bus.” Benker said support from teachers and the community is overwhelming. Teachers’ ongoing work-to-rule job action was effectively, although temporarily, suspended. Monks Office Supply and other donors replaced thousands of dollars of students’ contaminated school supplies, freeing parents from buying twice. “It was amazing how teachers and staff pulled together, and how the community pulled together with donations,” Benker said. “It touches the heart, it is a statement about the human spirit. In adversity, people come together and help each other out.”
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As students went back into cleaned Savory classrooms Tuesday morning, a Downs Construction crew donned white contamination suits and pressurized face masks. The fire-damaged administration hall is sealed from the rest of the 45-year-old school, and the work area itself is sealed behind multiple pressurized chambers. Removing fire-spread asbestos is a meticulous, labourious process, said Jason Pennock, project manager for Downs. “You can’t use any power tools, (the walls) have to be broken down by hand tools,” Pennock said. “You need the right guys to muscle it out.” They expect to be finished Thursday, which will allow the office rebuild to begin. editor@goldstreamgazette.com
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Youth are also affected by the cost of living. With the average cost of a one-bedroom apartment at $806, rent is eating up 73 per cent of the average young person’s income. “For these young folks, that’s a pretty hard start,” Richardson said. But the rising cost of living isn’t just a concern for low-income individuals. “More people are impacted,” Richardson said. “As you pick up the papers everyday and speak to organizations, you just realize it’s the uncertainty.”
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Condos in Metchosin? For bees only Charla Huber News staff
Honey bees may get all the glory but hardworking mason bees are critical for spreading pollin in flowers and trees throughout the local ecosystem. At a workshop this weekend in Metchosin, biologist Gord Hutchings will demonstrate how to support the native orchard mason bee — including a hand-on look at how to build a nature-mimicking bee condo. “They are solitary bees, not hive bees. They are much like people and like to congregate, but have individual dwellings,” said Hutchings, who has studied native bees for 22 years. The mason bees naturally find small holes in trees to live and lay eggs. A bee condo is a wooden box with a grid of holes for bees to set up their nests. “People will get to set up a bee condo and then the bees with come and pollinate the fruit trees,” said Metchosin Coun. Moralea Milne, who is helping to organize the event. When laying eggs, mason bees bring the pollen onto the hole for larvae to eat. Then they lay eggs and build little mud walls between each egg. “The small larvae eat the pollen and grow and grow,” Hutchings said. An important part of owning a bee condo is cleaning cocoons to control mites. Often little mites find their way into the hole and lay eggs on bee eggs.
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A typical bee condo has mudpacked holes that seal in larvae. “We use a sand cleaning process to knock the mites off the cocoons,” Hutchings said. “The mites don’t hurt the bees, but they latch onto the bees and jump off on flowers and can out compete the bees for its food mass.” During the winter the baby bees go into diapause or a bee hibernation and emerge from the hole at the end of February. “That’s why we have to do this class outside,” Hutchings said explaining if they cleaned the cocoon inside the bees might think it’s spring time. The orchard mason bees are native to Vancouver Island are prolific pollinators. With dwindling honey bee populations, Hutchings wants people to help mason bees
thrive. He last gave a talk in Metchosin on several native bee species in the spring. Honey bees have been imported from the Middle East and other countries. The species has been struggling with colony collapses related to diseases and the weather. Hutchings said some of the survival issues with honey bee populations stems from the fact they are not native to this area. “There has been a lot emphasis on the honey bee as a pollinator,” Hutchings said. “But native bees have been here all along.” On a daily basis, mason bees are more effective at pollinating plants, but their pollinating season is shorter than honey bees. Orchard mason bees pollinate from late February to the end of May. “The cool, wet springs are too wet for the honey bees,” Milne said. “The whole point of using mason bees is they are native and already adapted to here.” Encouraging mason bees to live around homes is pretty safe, Hutchins said. “They sting like all solitary bees, but they will never go out of their way to sting you,” he said. “They either sting you by accident or if you grab them.” The native bee workshop is Saturday, Oct. 8, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Metchosin municipal hall. Cost including materials is $45. To register call Milne at 250-478-3838. reporter@goldstreamgazette.com
Newspaper delivery people lauded for efforts Arnold Lim News staff
Rain or shine, postal workers aren’t the only ones delivering. The more than 1,000 carriers who bike, walk, run and drive to deliver more than 100,000 newspapers twice a week for Black Press in Victoria, Oak Bay, Saanich, the West Shore (Goldstream), the Saanich Peninsula and Sooke, are being recognized Oct. 10 to 14 during International Carrier Appreciation Week. “It’s an opportunity for newspapers to pause and say ‘thank you’ to the carriers for their hard work. They are the unsung heroes delivering under all conditions,” said Black Press director of circulation Bruce Hogarth. “We owe a debt of gratitude for our carriers, drivers and bindery crew. As a team we are very fortunate to have the group that we have.” Michael Daudlin is one of those carriers and has been with Black Press since Grade 2. The Victoria resident is in his final year at Oak Bay High, having delivered the Victoria News for a decade. “It is a great job because you get to meet people, you
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Gazette editor Edward Hill will relive his first job as a newspaper carrier. get exercise and it ingrains you in the community,” he said. “You really become part of the neighbourhood.” Despite a busy schedule of preparing to enter university, he is still delivering the News to the people on his route — one of about 1,400 Black Press routes in the region. “I would encourage other kids to do it, it’s a great thing to do,” Daudlin said. “And I am not done yet.” As part of carrier appreciation week, Black Press management, including company owner David Black and Gazette editor Edward Hill will be out delivering routes in the next two weeks.
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hristy Clark’s first Throne Speech promised money for B.C.’s education system, but the province must do a whole lot more to ensure the next generation of British Columbians won’t be at a disadvantage on the world stage. Times are changing at a breakneck speed and new skills and forms of literacy are quickly superseding many traditions ingrained in our classrooms for decades. The real trouble is that many of these changes — the role of technology and need for independent learning, for example — do not seem to be any part of the laborious labour discussions ongoing between teachers and the province. Negotiations centre on class sizes and the number of special needs students a teacher can be expected to handle — a problem that needs solving once and for all before educators can dive into questions of which technology to bring into the classroom. If we’re not careful, we will lose an opportunity to take advantage of our current strengths as a stable, progressive corner of the planet. Taxpayers can’t afford to hand a brand new iPad to every student in the school system. But teachers know the classroom of 2011 is not the same as what it was 10 years ago, never mind 40 years ago or whenever it was the current template was established. It’s time for the province to do more than merely patch holes in the system. We need to look at what the best educators in the province and around the world are doing and find a way to improve the experience for all students. Doing so can only help the long-term fortunes of everyone in B.C. and ensure we maintain our position as a leader on the world’s stage.
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days — but 96 days is an excruciatt’ll still be dark out when alarm ingly long time between three-day clocks start waking silent neighweekends when you consider that bourhoods on Feb. 20, 2012, sigthe next longest gap between stats nalling to British Columbians that is the 44 days between Rememthe start of their workday is mere brance Day and Christmas. minutes away. The discussion around Family We, in B.C., will be the lone early risers west of Quebec that morning. Day died down once the business community spoke against Most Canadian provthe plan, saying it’s too inces have deemed the costly a venture for busithird Monday in February ness owners who’d wind the perfect day to sleep up eating the cost of in, the perfect day to either lost production or enjoy the seldom-watched having to pay staff time10 a.m. airing of The Price and-a-half. is Right, and the perfect The B.C. Chamber of day to spend with family. Commerce estimates Even our premier each stat costs the provfavours the notion of ince $270 million in lost implementing a statutory Kyle Slavin productivity — but who holiday in the middle of The Gen Y Lens can put a cost on time February. spent with family? Platforming on her Well, business owners can, and notion of Families First, Christy we will likely hear them balk at Clark proposed Family Day last January while seeking leadership of the having another financial curve ball thrown their way. But can’t they provincial Liberals. sympathize with my want for a day “One of the keys to strong famioff, and my want for the Premier to lies is having quality time together,” truly put families first? she said at the time. “I want to talk Fortunately, as part of this week’s with families and see what they throne speech, the talk of Family think and if all agree the concept of a holiday in the middle of the winter Day returned and Christy promised us a day off … beginning in 2013. makes sense we can work together As much as I appreciate the prosto find a way to make it happen.” pect of the holiday, 16 months of I can’t imagine there’s anything anticipation is way too long to wait. more B.C. families would overPutting families first shouldn’t whelmingly support than the conmean putting families first in a coucept of a day off in February. ple years. This year we went 111 days Immediacy does matter. between New Year’s and Good FriThis government was criticized day without a statutory holiday. for moving at a snail’s pace to Next year that gap will shrink to 96
scrap the HST (apparently it takes 18 months to get rid of a tax that took 12 to bring in), and a 16-month rollout of Family Day is yet another example of slow-moving bureaucracy. With a spring election planned for spring 2013, one can only assume a campaigning Christy can point to the newly reinstalled PST-GST (April 2013) and the new Family Day (February 2013) to garner support from the voting public. In an attempt to balance politicking with putting families at the top of her agenda, it seems that balance is weighted heavily toward the political side of things. Madam Premier, please expeditiously implement Family Day in B.C. in 2012. Don’t wait another 16 months before you and I and most everyone else in the province can recharge their metaphorical batteries during an extended period of winter doldrums. Politicians in our province need to look for ways to earn brownie points from the voting public, and what better way to do that than giving us a day off a year earlier than expected and letting us bake said brownies? Feb. 20 is but a few months away. Get working on giving B.C. families their first Family Day, which will be unmistakable proof you’re still putting families first. kslavin@saanichnews.com —Kyle Slavin is a reporter with the Saanich News.
‘This year, we went 111 days without a statutory holiday.’
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ment’s contract with Telus. he annual Union of B.C. MuniciThere was not a discouraging word palities convention spent quite a about cell phone towers, the innovation bit of time talking about new wirethat spawned the anti-wireless less technology. Unfortunately, cult in California many years most of it was wasted on ignoago. Quite the contrary. rance and fear, fanned by the MacDiarmid was beseeched NDP, Green Party and some to get cell service to northern like-minded opportunists in Vancouver Island and un-serlocal government. viced parts of the Interior, and A tiny group of protesters to cut through the multi-minisgathered outside the Vantry maze still required for roucouver convention centre tine approval of towers. Cell each morning, setting up a phones save lives on remote pile of picket signs wailing highways. about imagined smart meter Tom Fletcher In the main hall, supposedly sins from privacy invasion to experienced municipal leadhuman rights violation. B.C. Views ers continued to parrot fear of One of them allowed that “microwaves” and such drivel, she was wearing “special clotheither because they believe it or because ing” to ward off the bad rays. they are pandering to those who do. That’s understandable, since BC This continued on talk radio, which Hydro calculates that a delegate’s wirestoked the smart meter “controversy” all less signal exposure from four days at week, apparently because it reliably genthe UBCM convention is equivalent to erates angry calls. standing next to a smart meter for 1,147 The descent into farce became comyears. plete when delegates had a show of And that’s not even calculating those hands on a resolution to place a moraother horrible sources of electromagnetic energy bombarding downtown Van- torium on a smart meter installation couver, such as traffic lights, spark plugs, program that BC Hydro has already paid for. The vote was too close to call, so and let’s not forget the sun or Earth’s they had to fish out their wireless votmolten core. ing devices to vote about 55 per cent in It wasn’t all foolishness, however. I favour of the moratorium. attended an economic development Premier Christy Clark was asked after panel, at which physician and cabinet minister Margaret MacDiarmid described the convention if her government would contemplate a moratorium on meter the continuing extension of rural cell installation. phone and Internet service underway “No,” she replied. This is not surprissince the extension of the B.C. govern-
ing, since the motion effectively asks BC Hydro to waste $930 million. “I’ve spent quite a bit of time talking with the experts about it,” Clark said. “I don’t share those health concerns, because when we’re surrounded by wireless and cell phones, there are a lot of other sources of the problem that they’re concerned about.” I’ve argued with numerous people about this. They often start with an exaggerated claim about the World Health Organization’s risk rating. In fact, WHO acknowledges that people who claim hypersensitivity to electromagnetic signals can’t identify them in controlled studies. WHO also notes that cellphone tower emissions are effectively five times weaker than the FM radio and TV signals to which we’ve all been exposed for decades. Cell base stations reach no more than two per cent of international limits. And smart meter signals are much weaker than that. I’m done arguing with people who make up their own facts. I’ll just address those who haven’t bought into this nonsense. Please, survey your council candidates on smart meters, and on Nov. 19, support only those who have the common sense to understand what a smart grid is. tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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LETTERS MLA column offers few solutions
Ban burning in Langford once and for all
Government ignores West Shore priorities, MLA Report, Sept. 30, 2011 I opened the paper, saw the column by Maurine Karagianis and started reading it in the hope to learn and discover something proactive and constructive but was sadly disappointed. Under cover of a few titles and glib language, she proceeded to criticize the government without offering physically possible and economically viable solutions or ideas. It was a regurgitation of old ideas for which she really could not substantiate her position on. Either something is not fast enough for her or becomes a priority because someone thought it was. From child care to the HST, and from a high school to regional transit, it was a verbose article that had no solid basis. How about discussing actual programs for planned parenting, or substantiating why a new building would provide better education for the area? How about putting numbers and facts on regional transportation such as firm ridership (number of rides per day from origin to destination), and the actual percentage of the population that would support commuter service and at what cost? It’s most disturbing to hear pundits or punters who manage to get elected, go on to pontificate on issues that perhaps local government should look into, just for the sake of blaming the provincial government and to try to sound or look good. Pierre Vallee Colwood
I was totally dismayed upon receiving a 2011-2012 burn schedule. Here we go again at the insanity of it. I have been monitoring this event over the past five to six years and have written various letters on the subject. It is obvious Langford council still has its head in the sand. It is time that I speak up again and make the people of Langford aware of events and facts. Let us start with the health risks. Dr. Richard Stanwick, chief medical health officer for Vancouver Island, has clearly stated the dangers of smoke to our health. Smoke that we see and breathe is bad enough but it is the tiny particles that we do not see that are much worse for us. A new study out of the U.S. states that children five years and younger are the most susceptible to health risks. I have personally seen women walking their babies through great clouds of smoke in our area. Here are some of my observations over the years: Whole neighbourhoods become engulfed in smoke from one fire. A policy which states clean fire, burning only garden waste, is total bunk. There is no such thing as a clean fire and it is an excuse for many to burn their trash. The situation is not enforced and when I have phoned the bylaw officer it has not made a difference. In the one instance the burner just added more debris. Start with the guy a stone’s throw from the Langford fire hall and maybe 100
metres from the downtown core. The first week of last year’s season saw blueblack smoke belching blasting down, into said core. So while you are enjoying your coffee at Tim Hortons, breathe deeply. Right behind the Loghouse Pub, the whole area plus the shopping centre near Chequered Flag restaurant is engulfed in smoke. Letters continued on Page A10
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Langford is a very progressive city. It is no longer the little rural community by Western Speedway. The fact that we’ve built brand new stadiums and then allow burning next to them dumfounds me. You can be guaranteed either the soccer, Rebels football and now our national rugby, will have some contact with smoke. Hundreds of kids are playing soccer Saturday morning, the favourite time for the good old boys to burn. The solution: start promoting composting and making Langford’s gardens beautiful. We need a facility (Alpine already has a lot of the infrastructure) where we can deposit and a call for a collection service. So burners just remember, when you put that match to your pyre, who you are affecting? If you don’t think anything of it, put your children and elderly parents
in the smoke and tell them all to breathe deeply. John McGuire Langford
Political attack ads work both ways Re: B.C. importing U.S.-style politics, B.C. Views, Sept. 23, 2011. Negative attack ads achieve voter suppression. YouTube’s “Christy Crunch” is just a humorous and accurate portrayal of her policies rather than a negative attack ad. It’s the Clark Liberals’ and the Stephen Harper Conservatives’ doomand-gloom style negative attack ads that achieve voter suppression. Otherwise, if “going negative early … worked spectacularly for Harper’s Conservatives,” as Tom Fletcher claimed, what about those attack ads that maligned
Jack Layton as well? At least hundreds of thousands of new votes went to the NDP, giving them historic opposition status. So something else is at play below the radar. I can’t see Christy Crunch or Stephen Harper and their privileged or confused followers trying door-to-door for more than a few minutes of photo-ops. Larry Wartel Victoria
Transit green pitch needs better bus frequency I noticed an ad for BC Transit suggesting that I “go green” and use the bus system. However, buses are infrequent, unreliable and unavailable in many parts of Greater Victoria. In addition, reducing transfer use to 60 minutes for one direction from 90 minutes in any direction, makes this
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Horse hanging trial comes to an end Verdict expected in early November Arnold Lim News staff
David Whiffen and Clayton Cunningham broke their silence, when the co-accused Cunningham addressed the judge during closing arguments — after both passed on taking the stand during their fourday trial. The two are charged with causing unnecessary pain and suffering to an animal and failing to provide the animal with the necessities of life,
when Jalupae, an Appaloosa horse, was allegedly hung to death by tying a rope around its neck and lifting it with an excavator. The incident allegedly took place on Sept. 15, 2009 at a farm in Brentwood Bay. “I don’t think a situation like this will happen again,” Cunningham said. “Unless they were cruel.” In between whispers to Whiffen who sat next to him, Cunningham chastised and wondered out loud why the media hadn’t ask the two accused about the facts as the trial played out. He pointed to the age of the horse, reported as 25 years by some media outlets, as inaccurate when he believes the horse was 27 when Whiffen acquired him at no cost.
Cunningham produced and referenced two documents but Judge Sue Wishart prevented him from using them because they had not been previously entered as evidence. Crown prosecutor Catherine Murray didn’t take long to jump on his final words, targeting the word cruel towards Whiffen, pointing to his “willful neglect and cruelty towards that animal,” in ignoring advice to help the horse, who was no longer “able to take in the food it was provided.” She went further by saying no one, not even defence witness Stephan Ouellet, who said he witnessed the event, could know for certain the horse was dead after the hanging and suggested it could have
been “buried alive.” Wishart quickly interrupted, stopping Murray from suggesting a scenario that could not be proven and had not been entered as evidence. “(Whiffen) didn’t know what good care was,” Murray said. “And that goes to culpability as well.” Defense attorney William Heflin drew the most animated response from attendees which included eight members of Justice for Jalupae, when he closed with, “There is no rule under legislation, regarding the protection of animals or humans, that you have to die fat.” Because Wishart will be away, the verdict is not expected until after Nov. 4. editor@goldstreamgazette.com
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Ballet Victoria dance mixes classic Bach, ’70s rock Roszan Holmen News staff
As the psychedelic refrains of Pink Floyd die off, a couple twirl centre stage, the woman’s body suspended and blowing to the sound of wind. A moment of silence, and cue the finale. Thumping beats fill the rehearsal space with new energy while ballet dancers do their hair and makeup to the rhythm. It’s the Saturday night ritual. “The mysterious things women do to draw the men in,” explains artistic director Paul Destrooper, skirting across the room to add the footnotes. “They’re getting ready to rock.” The playful number is set to the first movement from Karl Jenkins’ Palladio, the string compsition made famous by the De Beers diamond commercial, but mashed up with dance club beats by musical group Bond. The tune is a fusion of pop culture and classical music – a good description for Ballet Victoria’s latest show.
Ballet Rocks: from Bach to Pink Floyd, devotes one half of the performance to each artist. “People think ballet is going to be Nutcracker or Swan Lake, (but) ballet continues to evolve,” Destrooper says. This performance incorporates both the classical and the contemporary, making it accessible to fans of either style and introducing them to the other. Ballet Rocks incorporates the work of six choreographers and is a collaboration with star Canadian cellist Denise Djokic. It showcases humour, drama, politics, themes of relationships and the harmony of groups moving together, explains Destrooper. So why Bach and Pink Floyd? There’s no deep connection. “I love Pink Floyd,” he says simply. “I choose music that I like. The dancers like this music and they never get to dance to it.” As for Bach, he adds, many of the classical composer’s music is timeless. “The music has so much energy, they would be rock stars nowadays, bar none.” Destrooper’s enthusiasm for
piece of music.” Showing no patience for such arguments, he emphatically says “it’s a beautiful piece of music.” At the same time, his contemporary selections also go against the grain. Many ballet companies are performing to soundscapes these days, he says. “Nobody’s doing music anymore.” Back at rehearsal, Destrooper slips between the role of director, giving gentle tips from the sidelines, to dancing a duet. Lying on his back, he lifts company newcomer and acclaimed dancer Photo contributed Sandrine Cassini, who Sandrine Cassini joins Ballet Victoria danced most recently with a company in Switcompany for its latest production. zerland. It’s the latest coup for a growing both styles is obvious and he’s critical of those who define ballet dance company. Since taking over four years ago, too narrowly. When he pitched a dance based on Vivaldi’s Four Sea- Destrooper has rid the company of sons, funders responded by saying debt, taken on nine local dancers, “Everybody does that, it’s an old grown the budget from $100,000 to
$500,000, added a fourth show per season and launched a number of community outreach programs for students and seniors. While most artistic directors don’t double as dancers, Destrooper says, “It’s a small company.” But there’s room for Ballet Victoria to grow. “Eventually, I would like to bring the whole company to tour, not just the province, but nationally and internationally.” rholmen@vicnews.com
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Sin City, the live improvised soap opera, barks its way into the public consciousness this month, with Season Two: Carnies. Directed by Ian Ferguson, the 24-episode weekly performance is centred in the 1930s midwest Dust Bowl, when travelling sideshows toured small towns, entertaining residents during a bleak time. Possibly featuring such characters as Ava the Snake Lady, the Faceless Man, the Cootch Girls, the Flying Pachenkos and assorted barkers, rousties, stooges and marks, this improv series is sure to produce something new and unusual each week. Regular cast members include local comedians Wes Borg, Morgan Cranny, Kirsten Van Ritzen, Christina Patterson, Chris Gabel, Robert Conway, Karen Brelsford and Alan Penty. Sin City runs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m., starting with a preview Oct. 18 and officially opening Oct. 25 at the Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St. Tickets are $15 each ($12 for students and seniors) at the door, or $12/$10 in advance from Ticket Rocket at 250-590-6291 or www.ticketrocket. org. Six-show packages and season passes are available for $60 and $180, respectively. Visit www.sincityimprov. Photo contributed com for schedule information and Kirsten Van Ritzen, in character as Ava the Snake Lady, other details. is just one character audience members could see in Sin editor@oakbaynews.com City’s Season Two: Carnies.
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St. Paul’s concert showcases British tunes Songs of the British Isles, a one-hour presentation at St. Paul’s Historic Naval and Garrison Anglican church, happens Oct. 16 starting at 2 p.m. The concert features organist Steven Benson, piper Roger McGuire, soprano vocalist Aubrey Antonsen and Eric Prothero-Brooks on drums. A reception will follow. Tickets, $10, are available in advance by calling 250-4744047 or they can be purchased at the door. All proceeds will support the restoration of the organ at the church, located at 1379 Esquimalt Rd.
Gallery selling off works before move
A Haultain-area art gallery is selling off artists’ works for $40 and up as it prepares to
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change locations. The Ministry of Casual Living at 1442 Haultain St. was evicted from its current location and will move by Nov. 30. To help finance the move, the gallery is selling its artwork and tapping into a grant from the Foundation for Arts Sustainability. The gallery shows about 50 exhibits annually, by everyone from novices to seasoned university professors and international artists. The sale happens tonight (Oct. 7) from 7 to 11 p.m. at the gallery.
Ballet production mixes with fundraiser
The Canadian Pacific Ballet presents the agony and ecstasy of one of the most popular love stories, Orpheus and Eurydice, at the McPherson Playhouse.
Accompanying the performance is the company’s annual fundraiser, including a special opening presentation, themed auction and gala reception. Tickets are $32.50 to $77.50. For more information, visit www.canadianpacificballet.org.
Art club artists show their work at Hillside
Studio 30 Art Club is presenting its members’ works in an exhibit in the Hillside Centre’s centre court. The show opens Thanksgiving Day (Oct. 10) and runs through the following Sunday. Visitors are invited to watch and chat with artist demonstrators on Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 15and 16), and find original art and cards for sale. More information about the club is available at www.studio 30.ca. editor@oakbaynews.com
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Get to know your mushrooms Can’t tell a Chanterelle from a Morel, but love the taste of fresh-picked mushrooms? Learn more at Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary, hosting course of three talks, a mushroom identification field trip and a drop-in mushroom identification fair. The line-up includes: • Oct. 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. – Shannon Berch, The Basics of Mushroom Identification; • Oct. 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. – Bill Jones, Edible Wild Mushrooms on Vancouver Island; • Oct. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. – Rich Mably, An Introduction to the Photography of Mushrooms; • Oct. 29 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. – Mushroom Identification Field Trip; • Oct. 30 – drop-in from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the Southern Vancouver Island Mycological Society Wild Mushroom Show. Pre-registration for the program is required, $80 for Swan Lake and Southern Vancouver Island Mycological Society members or $100 for non-members. Register at 250-479-0211. For details, visit www.swanlake.bc.ca
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Tuck into some delicious seafood during Crabfest.
The M.V. COHO offers additional sailings and special packages for Crabfest, including both overnight and daytrip options. Festival venues are located along the Port Angeles scenic waterfront, an easy walk from the Black Ball ferry terminal. Visit www.crabfest.org and www.cohoferry.com for more details.
The Fairmont Empress is celebrating the calendar’s turn to fall, beginning with a Thanksgiving Supper this weekend, Oct. 7 to 10. Priced at $75, the five-course dinner in the Empress Room includes local, slow-roasted turkey. Also this weekend is Thanksgiving Brunch on Sunday, Oct. 9. Enjoy a deluxe cold buffet and a choice of a delicious à la carte hot entrÊes, plus a decadent dessert buffet including chocolate fountain, priced at $39. Later in the month, Afternoon Tea will have a pink twist as the Empress supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Enjoy pink tea treats from Oct. 24 to 30 and $2 will go to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Pink Ribbon Teas are $47.
Spinnakers marks BC Craft Beer Month including entry, souvenir Spinnakers glass, three drink tickets and a five-course dinner with beer pairings. Additional drink tickets are $1 each. Event tickets are available through Spinnakers Brewpub at 250-386-2739.
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more wine &dine Oct. 13 – Women & Heart Disease presentation by Mayo Clinic-trained heart attack survivor Carolyn Thomas, 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Monterey Recreation Centre, 1442 Monterey Avenue off Oak Bay Ave. All welcome; admission free, but seating is limited and pre-registration is required at 250-3707300. Oct. 15 – Victoria Genealogical Society workshop First Steps in Genealogy, 10 a.m. to noon at VGS Resource Centre, 947 Alston St. Learn how to get started on your family history. Members $10; non-members $15. Register: 250-360-2808; FMI: www.victoriags.org Oct. 15 – Wanda Morris, Executive Direc-
Fridays – Church of Our Lord Thrift Shop, 626 Blanshard St. (at Humboldt), 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Household items, clothing, jewellery and more. Parking at rear of church. FMI: 250-383-8915. Fridays – Oak Bay United Church Thrift Shop/Annex, corner Granite & Mitchell, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Furniture, household goods, gently used clothing including boutique, jewellery, art, books, etc. FMI: 250-5985021, ext 0. Oct. 7 – Fantastic Fridays offers family fun at St. Luke’s Hall, 3821 Cedar Hill Cross Rd., featuring Messy Church. Free, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dinner provided. FMI: 250-477-6741 or www.stlukesvictoria.ca
tor of Dying with Dignity Canada, speaks at 2 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 2964 Richmond Rd. Challenges to the current laws on assisted dying will be discussed and other plans a person should have to ensure their wishes are respected. FMI: 250-3867772. Oct. 15 – Conversation Circle, a weekly stimulating discussion group on topics of life’s issues, both serious and fun, in a small group setting, at the James Bay Community Project, 547 Michigan St., 2 to 3:30 p.m. Reservations: 250-388-7844. Send your non-profit events to jblyth@telus.net
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Cost of living top concern says Victoria Foundation’s Vital Signs report “As we celebrate the Victoria Foundation’s 75th anniversary, initiatives like Vital Signs demonstrate the ways we continue to build traction for organizations that do good work in the community ty – in perpetuity.” Steve McKerrell, chair of the Victoria Foundation board d
Trends to watch The statistics reported in Vital Signs demonstrate some indicators are improving while others are staying the same or falling behind. For example, there is less property crime, less garbage going into Hartland Landfill, and a larger number of people who report enjoying good mental health. Trends that are worsening include: more children in government care and more living in poverty, higher housing costs as a percentage of income – especially for young people – and fewer people reporting regular physical activity.
Arts pack big economic impact The Vital Signs report helps guide granting decisions. For example, the Victoria Foundation has given grants to the Vancouver Island Addiction and Recovery Society, pictured above. The society operates Foundation House, which provides a network of support for men recovering from addictions. Jo-Ann Richards Photo.
Bucking a national trend in obesity Despite this last fact, residents of southern Vancouver Island are bucking a national trend that is seeing obesity rates rise. “It’s encouraging to see a fall in the rates of obesity because a healthy body weight is critical to preventing the early onset of disease or managing chronic diseases,” said Dr. Joan Wharf Higgins, Canada Research Chair, Health & Society and associate professor at the University of Victoria’s School of Physical Education. “The decline in self-reported physical activity rates is discouraging, though, because an active lifestyle offers many benefits, not just helping to maintain a healthy body weight. For example, engaging in physical activity can help individuals cope with stress – and Victorians report living with more stress in 2010 than previous years.” Vital Signs a vital tool Sandra Richardson, CEO of the Victoria Foundation, said Vital Signs has become a critical tool in helping the foundation identify causes that matter to Victorians. “It has helped us understand our community like never before highlighting needs and opportunities and assisting our foundation to make impactful grants.” Victoria Foundation board chair Steve McKerrell said: “the Vital Signs initiative
helps keep us in touch and on track.” McKerrell said the kind of information tracked in Vital Signs can help both individuals and organizations in making funding, donating and policy decisions. Todd Litman, executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, hopes it will do just that and that decisionmakers will challenge some of the assumptions on which the affordability index is based. For example, he says the index is skewed by the assumption that all households need to own a car and that all parents need childcare services - two of the largest expenditure categories. “A large increase in household affordability can result from unbundling parking costs, improving alternative transportation modes, and increasing the supply of affordable housing in more accessible, multi-modal neighborhoods. These solutions provide other economic, social and environmental benefits, and so represent true sustainable development,” said Litman. Victoria’s Vital Signs report, as well as source information and links, is available at: www.victoriafoundation.bc.ca This year, results of the Youth Vital Signs survey will be released in a separate report sponsored by the TELUS Victoria Community Board. The report will be released at the TED-X Youth Conference Nov. 20.
One of the statistics in this year’s Vital Signs report is that the arts and culture sector in Greater Victoria contributed $170 million to the B.C. economy in 2010. The information comes from a study – the first of its kind – conducted on behalf of the Victoria Foundation, the CRD Arts Development Service, the Greater Victoria Development Agency, ProArt Alliance and Tourism Victoria. The study shows the sector supported the equivalent of 5,440 person years of employment, which generated $21 million in annual property taxes. “This report underlines how important the arts are in building our communities and in contributing to a quality of life that makes the capital region a great place to live,” said CRD Arts Committee chair Vicki Sanders. The report is available at www.crd.bc.ca/arts Jo-Ann Richards Photo
Victoria residents are concerned about the cost of living but love the natural amenities of their community. They are still wed to their cars for commuting, report better mental health than they did last year, but say they are involved in less physical activity. These are some of the results from the 2011 Vital Signs®, an annual community report card produced by The Victoria Foundation. The report is a combination of public opinion and statistics that provides a snapshot of livability and wellbeing in Greater Victoria. This is the sixth year the foundation has produced Victoria’s Vital Signs, which is sponsored by Island Savings Credit Union. It is the fourth year survey respondents were asked to identify what they think are the most important issues facing Greater Victoria today. For the first time since the question was asked, cost of living moved ahead of homelessness to top the list. Addictions, housing and mental illness were the third, fourth and fifth areas of concern followed by transportation, employment, community planning/ development, health care and elder care. This year respondents were asked for the first time to list the best things about Greater Victoria. Natural environment, climate, walkability, air quality, and festivals and events were the top five answers. “This demonstrates the value of and need for green spaces in both urban and rural settings across the region,” said Sarah Webb, climate action control coordinator for the Capital Regional District. “The findings in Vital Signs demonstrate the critical need for focused urban growth near employment, goods and services so that sustainable transportation like transit and cycling can be used. Three of the top 10 identified issues are land use, transportation and employment, so addressing this triad presents significant opportunities to improve environmental health, encourage sustainable economic development and enhance quality of life for residents.”
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ON THE RUN: GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon
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t’s common knowledge among marathoners: Victoria’s is a “faster” marathon, offering one of the better chances for a longdistance runner to shave a minute or two off his or her regular time. Sunday’s GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon isn’t too hilly, but it’s still a 42.2-kilometre route with heavy sea air and a good chance for rain. Faster than some of the bigger marathons in North America, perhaps, but it’s still gruelling in every sense of the word. “A lot of runners get their personal bests here,” said Jonathan Foweraker, in his first year as coordinator of the marathon’s Dairyland elite athlete program. “It is known as a fairly fast course, with a very high proportion of marathoners getting their Boston qualifiers here,” Foweraker said. Not everybody goes on to run in Boston, but it’s a mark of distinction among marathoners and is part of what draws runners to Victoria each October. That trend continued last year with 516 of the 2,558 Victoria marathon finishers cracking the Boston time barrier, the third most for any marathon in Canada, behind Ottawa (715) and Toronto (520), according to MarathonGuide.com. A long-time participant and volunteer, Foweraker is now responsible for bringing the big names to Victoria such as projected winner Thomas Omwenga of Kenya. “We’re known for having a smaller size so we can give more attention to all our athletes. (Unlike some bigger races) we hope our elites won’t feel lost in the mix. The hope is to establish ongoing relationships to bring elite runners back again.”
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If 2010 Victoria marathon winner Philip Samoei wants to defend his title, he’ll need to fend off Thomas Omwenga, the latter being a candidate to break the course record. Samoei won the Manitoba Marathon in June despite running an extra loop on part of the course.
Gilbert Kiptoo hopes to finish the race he started last year. Kiptoo held the lead in 2010 for about 38 kilometres but pulled out due to injury at the two hour mark. On Sept. 25 Kiptoo won the Marathon Oasis de Montreal Half-Marathon, with Samoei in second.
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Trisha Steidl is a former NCAA rowing champion and current Seattle University track and field program head coach, multitasking with an Olympic campaign. Steidl and state counterpart Chelsea Van DeBrake hope to meet the U.S. standard of 2:46. Photo submitted
Among those returning are last year’s overall winner Philip Samoei of Kenya, who won in two hours, 23 minutes and 24 seconds, and fellow Kenyan Gilbert Kiptoo, who suffered an injury in the final kilometres but was part of the elite group with Esquimalt’s James Lander (second in 2010). Omwenga, if in good form, is within reach of breaking Steve Osadiuk’s 2006 course record of 2:16:49. A three-time winner of the Vancouver Marathon (2007, 2008 and 2010), Omwenga has a personal best below 2:11 and ran this year’s Montreal Marathon in 2:14:35.
Three-time winner Suzanne Evans is back, this time as the B.C. favourite in a women’s elite group paced by two potential Olympians. Last year Evans was second at 2:53:53. A similar finish would put her in contention a topthree placing on Sunday.
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The trio of Kenyans — Samoei, Kiptoo and Omwenga — will undoubtedly pace the marathon, with Ryan Day of Victoria and Steven Crane of Olympia, Wash. possibly in that mix. Foweraker also said no one should be surprised to see 40-year-old Graeme Wilson from Vancouver in the lead group. Wilson is aiming for 2:26, the masters’ record for Victoria. Lucy Njeri of Toronto joins Vancouver’s Suzanne Evans as elites in the women’s marathon. Evans won three straight in Victoria from 2005 to 2007. Challenging them is a pair of Americans, Trisha Steidl (Seattle) and Chel-
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sea Van DeBrake (Yakima), targeting the U.S. Olympic team’s qualifying standard of 2:46.
The other half Last year’s second-overall finisher in the full marathon, James Lander, is looking to win his first Victoria half-marathon title. Previous women’s half-marathon winners, Lucy Smith (2003 and 2007) and Marilyn Arsenault (2009) — both from Victoria — look to defend the home course against visitors Kathy Butler, Natasha Wodak and Lisa Harvey.
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SPORTS NEWS IN BRIEF UVic an empty nest
The University of Victoria are void of Vikes this weekend as the men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey and rugby teams are all on the road. The women’s field hockey team (2-4) is in Edmonton to face the University of Alberta Pandas (2-2-2) for two games. On the soccer pitch the men’s soccer team (4-2-2) enjoys a bye weekend while the women’s soccer team (4-2-2) visits the Trinity Western Spartans (6-1) on Saturday and the UBC Thunderbirds (5-1-1) on Sunday. All three men’s and the women’s Vikes
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A leg up Lethbridge Pronghorns player Jericka Versikaitis, left, kicks the ball from UVic Vikes player Nathalie Scharf at Centennial Stadium on Saturday. Last weekend the Vikes tied the Calgary Dinos 1-1 and defeated Lethbridge 5-1.
Sun. Oct. 9: GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon, start times: 6:30 a.m. marathon early start, Menzies and Kingston streets; 7:10 a.m. eight-km road race wheelchair and visually impaired start, Belleville between Menzies and Oswego; 7:15 a.m. eight-km road race start, Belleville Street between
rugby teams will also enjoy a bye weekend for Thanksgiving.
Lions spike win at Chargers’ tourney
The Lambrick Park Lions won the 2011 High School Boys’ Fall Classic volleyball tournament, hosted by the Camosun Chargers at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence last weekend. Lambrick Park edged the Pacific Christian Pacers in the championship game while Duncan Christian squeaked past the Mount Douglas Rams in the consolation final. Lambrick’s Lucas Dellabough was the tourney MVP with all-stars Tallen Phillips (Oak Bay), PCS’s Levi Saphir and J.S. Salokavi, and Lambrick’s Brad Pardy and Evan Guy.
Menzies and Oswego streets; 7:25 a.m. half-marathon wheelchair and visually impaired start, Menzies and Kingston streets; 7:30 a.m. half-marathon start, Menzies at Kingston; 8:40 a.m. marathon wheelchair and visually impaired start at Menzies and Kingston streets; 8:45 a.m. marathon main start at Menzies and Kingston streets; 10:15 a.m. Thrifty Foods kids run at Kingston Street, just off Menzies Street. Fri., Oct. 07: VISL Div. 1, Lakehill vs. Vic West, 8 p.m. at Braefoot Park.
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Level play University of Victoria Jutes rugby player Tyler Sangha, left, is grounded by Nanaimo Hornets opponent Kiko Halaliku during the Jutes’ first division win, 55-17, in Nanaimo last Saturday.
Sat., Oct. 8: VISL Div. 1, Juan de Fuca vs. Gordon Head, 6 p.m. at Juan de Fuca fields.
Hockey
Fri. Oct. 7: WHL, Medicine Hat Tigers at Victoria Royals, 7:05 p.m., Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Sat. Oct. 8: BCHL, Surrey Eagles at Victoria Grizzlies, 7:15 p.m., Bear Mountain Arena.
Volleyball
Fri. & Sat., Oct. 7-8: Camosun Chargers Senior Girls’ High School Tournament, Pool A:
Lambrick Park, Riverside, Seaquam; Pool B: South Delta, Brentwood College, Highland; Pool C: Crofton House, Mark Isfeld, Belmont; Pool D: Oak Bay, Duncan Christian, Guildford Park; Pool E: North Delta, St. Michaels, Claremont, Spectrum; Pool F: Princess Margaret, Mt. Doug, St. Margaret’s, Reynolds. Friday games: 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45 and 8 p.m. at Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence and St. Margaret’s School. Saturday games: 8:40, 9:50, 11 a.m., 12:10 and 1:20 p.m. at PISE & St. Margaret’s: Medal games 2:30 and 3:40 p.m. at PISE only.
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RENTALS
THIS HOME HAS IT ALL! This 16 year old custom built 3600 sqft, 3 storey home features 4 bdrms, 4 baths, fabulous kitchen, roomy living room, natural gas fireplace, master bdrm with 4 pce ensuite. Great rec room (31x14) in finished basement. Completely finished 40x57 deluxe shop with separate bath. Property is 2.26 gorgeous, well kept acres. Visit www.albernihomes4u.ca for more information on this “one of a kind” property. Asking $629,000 RE/MAX Mid Island Realty Port Alberni, B.C. John Stilinovic 250-724-4725 Toll Free 1-877-723-5660
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CARS
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$50-$1000 CASH
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For scrap vehicle
SOOKE - Brand new, 3 bedroom 3 bath townhouse, including ensuite with shower stall. Laundry room, garage, storage locker and some views. Available now. Looking for responsible and reliable long term tenant, non-smoking. Small pets ok with pet deposit. Jeff 250-744-9903
TRANSPORTATION AUTO FINANCING
2 BR Langford. incl. heat/elec/ water/garbage p/u, on bus route, private patio, parking, non smoking, cat ok. avail now. $1050. 250-474-0122 FERNWOOD AREA Apt, large 2 bdrm, $960/mo. Avail now. Call 250-370-2226 for viewing. GORGE POINT Inn- 2 bdrm, 2 bath, underground parking, F/P. $1295. (250)923-2844. HILLSIDE: THE Pearl; 2 bdrm condo, 6 appl’s, parking, storage. NS/NP. $1500/mo. Call (250)652-6729. MALAHAT 1 & 2 BdrmsPanoramic views. Serene & secure. All amenities on-site, firewood. $700-$1200 inclusive. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min commute to downtown Victoria. Must have references. 250-478-9231. SOOKE- 2 & 3 bdrms, fully furnished condos, $1200. $1500. These boutique style town homes are the ideal home base. Steps from the resort’s private Marina and amenities, these beautifully appointed 2 & 3 bdrm condos offer spectacular ocean views, full laundry, covered parking stalls high speed internet and all utilities included. 250-3456116 or anna@fairmontcreek.ca
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858-5865 SPORTS & IMPORTS MAZDA MIATA, Special Edition 1992. Black with tan leather interior, power windows, 182,340 km. t’s a beauty! $4600. (250)385-0876. OKANAGAN’S Largest Used Car Super Store. Always open online at: www.bcmotor products.com 250-545-2206 RECREATIONAL VEHICLES FOR SALE
RV: GOLDEN Falcon 1997 5th wheel, 26 feet, $15,000. Call (250)479-1771.
SCRAP CAR REMOVAL
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CAYCUSE: WELL maintained Recreational Property/Home. 1500 sq.ft, 3 bdrm 2 bath, 5 acres, garage. A stone throw from pristine Cowichan Lake. $399,900. Furnished. Ready to move in! Call 250-478-2648 250-745-3387.
LANGFORD. BRIGHT Newer 2-bdrm home. Hardwood, skylites, modern kitchen, updated bath. Mortgage cheaper than rent. Arbutus Ridge MHP $103,900. Ross Tapping, Fair Realty, (250)857-1336.
BEATERS UNDER $1000
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HOUSES FOR SALE
SUITES, UPPER
BRAND NEW 4 bdrm, 3 bath, townhouses. From $369,900. Ask about 100% financing. 2733 Peatt Rd. Open weekends. (250)727-5868. www.karenlove.com Karen Love Remax Alliance
REAL ESTATE SERVICES
ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewellery. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700
TRANSPORTATION
SAANICHTON: RENO’D, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 1400sqft, 15mins dwtwn, deck, fenced, garage, walk ocean, close to ammens, bus. Peaceful area. N/S, small pet, $1400+ shared util’s. Oct. 1. (250)655-0717.
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CASH PAID FOR ALL VEHICLES in
all conditions in all locations
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SUITES, LOWER BRENTWOOD BACHELOR Large, ground level. Priv. entrance, parking, close to bus. NS/NP. $750. (250)652-9454. BRENTWOOD BAY, 1 bdrm, on bus route, all utils incl’d, shared W/D, $750 mo, N/S, N/P, Oct. 1, 250-652-8516. CENTRAL SAANICH, grd level, 2 bdrm, patio, utils & lndry incl’d, N/S, N/P, avail Nov. 1, $850 mo. Call 250-652-9699. BACHELOR Suite- Colwood, on quiet 1/2 acre, private entrance, parking. Small pet? $650. (250)474-1894. COLWOOD- 2 level, 1 bdrm. Laundry, parking, close to bus. $850 inclusive. NS/NP. 250-380-0700. GLANFORD AREA, 2 bdrm bsmt suite, avail now, $1000 mo, no lndry, N/S, N/P, 250479-9569 or 250-514-2007. GORGE-HARRIET, Lrg 1 bdrm, priv ent & prkg, utils incl. NS/NP. Oct 1. $725/mo. 250384-0460 (leave a message). SIDNEY, 1 bdrm, quiet, upscale area, ocean view, F/P, priv yard, utils incl, N/P, N/S, $900, Nov. 1, 250-656-4268 westjim9@hotmail.com SOOKE- LRG new 2 bdrm, W/D, 4 appls, close to amens, prkg, N/S. Refs. $950 inclds utils. (Immed) (250)294-0874. TRIANGLE MTN., lge furn’d 1 bdrm, lndry, brand new appls, all inclusive, avail immed, N/S, N/P, $1000 mo, 250-474-6469
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COMPUTER SERVICES
GARDENING
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INSULATION
PLUMBING
ACCOUNTING Vida Samimi
COMPUDOC MOBILE Computer Services. Repairs, tuneups, tutoring, web sites and more. Call 250-886-8053.
AURICLE LAWNS- Fall aeration & fertilize, hedges, irrigation blow-out, bulbs. 882-3129
WE SWEEP your roof, clean your gutters & remove your waste. Fair prices. Insured. Fred, (250)514-5280.
MALTA BLOWN insulation & batting. Removal. Best rates. BBB member. (250)388-0278.
MASONRY & BRICKWORK
EXPERIENCED JOURNEYMAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured. Reliable, friendly. Great references. Call Mike at KNA (250)880-0104.
BILL’S MASONRY. Brick, tiles, pavers. All masonry & F/P repairs. Chimney re-pointing. 250-478-0186.
FREE ESTIMATES. Reasonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.
Certified General Accountant Bookkeeping, Audit, Payroll, HST. Set up & Training. E-File
TAX
250-477-4601 PENNIE’$ BOOKKEEPING Services for small business. Simply/Quickbooks. No time to get that paperwork done? We do data-entry, GST, payroll, year-end prep, and training. 250-661-1237
CARPENTRY ABSOLUTELY THE BEST! New, reno’s, historical, decks, driveways, etc. WCB/Member of BBB. John, 250-658-2656. BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748. THE CARPENTER & Sons. Renos, Suites, Painting. Guaranteed. Darren (250)217-8131 WES OBORNE CARPENTRY Great quality with references to match. Wes (250) 480-8189
CARPET INSTALLATION DARCY’S CARPET & LINO. Install, repairs, laminate, restretch, 35 yrs. 250-478-0883. MALTA FLOORING Installation. Carpets, laminates, hardwood, lino. BBB 250-388-0278
CLEANING SERVICES AUNTIE MESS CLEANING. Reliable, efficient, honest, 40 years exp, seniors discount. $20/hr. Call 250-634-1077. FRIENDLY HOUSEKEEPER has immediate openings, MonSat. Ref’s avail. 778-440-3875. HOUSEKEEPER EXPERIENCED, reliable. References. 250-920-6516, 250-881-7444. MALTA HOUSECLEANING. BBB. Best rates. Residential/Comm. 250-388-0278 NEED HELP cleaning your house? Call Dorothy at (250)478-8940.
COMPUTER SERVICES A HOME COMPUTER Coach. Senior friendly. Computer lessons, maintenance and problem solving. Des, 250-6569363, 250-727-5519.
CONTRACTORS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST! New, reno’s, historical, decks, driveways, etc. WCB/Member of BBB. John, 250-658-2656. CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood floor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877
DRYWALL
DPM SERVICES:Maintenance Lawns, clean-ups, pruning, hedging, landscaping & gutters. 15 yrs exp. 250-883-8141.
Winter is coming, time to call & book your gutter cleaning! Rob: 250-882-3134 platypusvictoria.com
GARDEN OVERGROWN? Big cleanups our specialty Complete garden maint. Call 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.
HANDYPERSONS
C.B.S. Masonry Brick, Stone, Concrete, Paving, Chimneys, Sidewalks, Patios, Repair, Replace, Re-build, Renew. “Quality is our Guarantee” Free Est’s & Competitive Prices. (250)294-9942, 589-9942 www.cbsmasonry.com
Aroundthehouse.ca ALL, Repairs & Renovations Ben 250-884-6603
WESTSHORE STONEWORKS Custom Stonework. Patios & Walkways. (250)857-7442.
PREPARATION FOR Fall, Winter & Spring. Professional garden & landscape services. Maintenance, design & installations. Call (250)474-4373.
ACTIVE HANDYMAN Reno’s, drywall, decks, fencing, pwrwash, gutters, triming, yrd work, etc. Sen disc. 595-3327.
Fall Lawn and Garden Services. Insured, WCB, Free Estimates. 250-884-9493
cedarcoastlandscaping.ca
DRYWALL- NO payment required till job is finished. (250)474-9752. MALTA DRYWALL & Painting. Residential/Commercial. BBB member. (250)388-0278.
ELECTRICAL 250-361-6193. QUALITY Electric. Reno’s plus. Visa accepted. Small jobs ok. #22779 AT&T ELECTRIC. Renovations. Residential & Commercial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550. KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991. WATTS ON ELECTRIC, Residential, Commercial, Renovations. #100213. 250-418-1611.
HAULING AND SALVAGE
BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini excavator & bob cat services. Call 250-478-8858.
DIAMOND DAVE Gutter cleaning, gutter guard, power washing, roof de-mossing. Call 250-889-5794.
FENCING
GUTTER CLEANING, repairs, de-mossing. Windows, power washing. 250-478-6323.
FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & delivery. References available. 250-475-1462. U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-382-8602.
GARDENING 10% OFF! Yard Cleanups, Mowing, Pruning, Hedge & Shrub Trim. 250-479-6495.
AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.
DIAMOND MOVING. 1 ton 2 ton, 5 ton. Prices starting at $75/hr. 250-220-0734. MALTA MOVING. Best Rates. BBB Member. Residential/ Commercial. (250)388-0278.
SENIOR HANDYMAN Household repairs. Will assist do-it yourselfers. Fred, 250888-5345.
GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS
FURNITURE REFINISHING
2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on local moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.
MALTA HANDYMAN. BBB member. Best rates. (250)3880278.
EXCAVATING & DRAINAGE
ALL TYPES of fencing, repairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637. MALTA FENCING & DECKS. BBB member. Best rates. (250)388-0278.
MOVING & STORAGE
PAINTING ✭BUBBA’’S HAULING✭ Honest & on time. Demolition, construction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, topsoil, mulch), garden waste removal, mini excavator, bob cat service.(250)478-8858.
A PROFESSIONAL WOMAN painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wallcoverings. Over 22 yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
CLIFF’S PROFESSIONAL painting Int/Ext, new const. Free Est. Call 250-812-4679.
ABSOLUTELY THE BEST! New, reno’s, historical, decks, driveways, etc. WCB/Member of BBB. John, 250-658-2656.
GUTTER CLEANING. Repairs, Maintenance, Gutterguard, Leaf traps. Grand Xterior Cleaning Services. WCB Insured. Call 250-380-7778.
BLAINE’S PAINTING- Quality workmanship. $20 hr, 20 yrs exp. Blaine, 250-580-2602.
Peacock Painting
250-652-2255 250-882-2254
MALTA DRAIN Tiles. Replace and Repair. BBB member, best rates. (250)388-0278.
PERIMETER EXTERIORS. Gutter cleaning, repairs, upgrades, roof demossing. WCB, Free est. 250-881-2440. V.I.P. GUTTER Cleaning. Gutter guards, all exterior, power washing, roof de-mossing, spray, windows. Package deals! Insured. (250)507-6543
CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164. FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.
WRITTEN GUARANTEE Budget Compliance
MALTA HOUSE Renos & Repairs. BBB member. Best rates. (250)388-0278. RENOS BY Don, 25 yrs exp. New, renos, repairs, decks, fencing, bathrooms, kitchens. Senior discounts. Licensed, Insured, WCB, 250-588-1545.
PLASTERING PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, old world texturing, coves, fireplaces. Bob, 250-642-5178.
PRESSURE WASHING DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.
ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS FOUR 12 ROOFING Licensed insured. BBB member. Re-roof new construction. 250-2167923. www.four12roofing.com
RUBBISH REMOVAL MALTA GARDEN & Rubbish Removal. Best Rates. BBB member. (250)388-0278.
STUCCO/SIDING PATCHES, ADDITIONS, restucco, renos, chimney, waterproofing. Bob, 250-642-5178.
TILING A1. SHAWN The Tile GuyRes/ Comm/ Custom/ Renos. 250-686-6046
TREE SERVICES
IFIX HANDYMAN Services. Household repairs and renovations. Free estimates. Call Denis at 250-634-8086 or email: denisifix@gmail.com
HYDRA GREEN CLEAN Gutter Clean & Repair roof de-moss, window washing and hauling. Fully licensed and great prices. Call for your free estimate! 250-893-6869
KERRY’S GAS & PLUMBING SERVICESRepair, maintenance & install. 250-360-7663.
15% SENIORS DISCOUNT
PLUMBING FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonable rates. Call 250-514-2376.
LOCAL TREE CO. 30 yrs exp. Bucket truck, chipper. We buy logs. Insured. (250)883-2911.
UPHOLSTERY UPHOLSTERER work. Your fabric 250-480-7937.
DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning. Windows, Gutters, Sweeping Roofs, Pressure Washing, Roof Demossing. Call 250361-6190.
GIVE THEM A PAPER ROUTE! All it takes is an hour or so after school Wednesday and Friday. And even better... there are no collections required.
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GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE - Friday, October 7, 2011 Page 40 week beginning October 6, 2011 Real Estate Victoria
Select your home. Select your mortgage.
This Weekend’s
OPENHOUSES
Published Every Thursday
Oak Bay 250-370-7601 Victoria 250-483-1360 Westshore 250-391-2933 Sidney 250-655-0632 www.vericoselect.com
876 Craigflower, $549,900 pg. 48
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291
1120 Baldwin, $574,900 pg. 23
924B Richmond, $475,000 Saturday 3-5 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara 250 384-8124
2511 Cranmore, $739,000 pg. 20
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Sunday 2-4 Brown Brothers Real Estate Robert Young 250 385-8780
pg. 22
Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Dave O’Byrne 250 361-6213
Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Tim Taddy 250 592-8110
Sunday 2:00-3:30 Re/Max Camosun Daniel Clover 250 507-5459
pg. 47
Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Avtar Kroad, 250-592-4422
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Daily noon-4 Pemberton Holmes David Hale 250 595-3200
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Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Ltd Greg Phillips 250 385-2033
pg. 19
103-101 Nursery Hill, $340,000 Saturday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808
pg. 33
303-101 Nursery Hill Dr.
Saturday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Richard Gadoury 250-384-8124
Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Shelly Reed, 250-479-3333
pg. 1
208-845 Yates St., $259,900 pg. 14
pg. 19
Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Neil Rawnsley 250-592-4422
Saturday 2-4 Burr Properties Ltd. Chris Gill, 250-382-6636
Saturday 12-2 Burr Properties Ltd. Mike Pearce, 250-382-6636
2731/33 Mt. Stephen, $625,000
927 Devonshire Rd., $439,900 pg. 10
pg. 21
530 Harbinger, $799,000 Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Laurie Abram 250 385-2033
pg. 11
Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye, 250-384-8124
Saturday 1:30-3:30 Sutton Group West Coast Mary Beaumont 250 889-2233
Saturday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680
pg. 9
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Saturday 2-4 MacDonald Realty Lorraine Stundon 250 812-0642
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Sunday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Roxanne Brass 250-744-3301
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3250 Eagles Lake Rd, $824,000
Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663
pg. 10
Saturday 12-2 DFH Real Estate Dennis Guevin 250 477-7291
pg. 24
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291
Saturday 11-1 One Percent Realty Valentino, 250-686-2242
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Sunday 2-4 Holmes Realty Ltd. Nancy McLean, 250-656-0911 pg. 24
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3067 Alouette
Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Brett Jones, 250-385-2033
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301
Saturday 2:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty Ron Kubek 250-652-5098
pg. 26
Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Rick Shumka 250 384-8124
Saturday & Sunday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye 250-384-8124
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Saturday 1-2 Re/Max Alliance Ron Neal 250 386-8181
Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Jim Bailey 250-592-4422 pg. 30
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119-2733 Peatt Rd., $374,900 Saturday-Monday 1-3 2733 Peatt Rd., Show Suite #119 Re/Max Alliance Karen Love 250-386-8875
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975 Ironwood, $849,900 Saturday 2:30-4 Re/Max Alliance Ron Neal 250 386-8181
pg. 48
2766 Ronald Rd, $417,000 pg. 28
Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Doug Sunray 250 477-1100
pg. 16
3945 Olympic View Dr, $1,595,900 pg. 30
Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Brendan Herlihy, 250-642-3240
pg. 37
2116 Sooke Rd, $484,900 pg. 27
104-9115 Lochside, $849,900 Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jenny Stoltz 250 744-3301
pg. 10
224 Seafield, $479,000
7864 Fairmeadow Pl, $535,000 Thursday 9:30-11:30 Newport Realty Ltd. Pat Fehr, 250-385-2033
pg. 35
3350 Sewell, $759,000
63-1255 Wain Rd
Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. John Smith 250-477-7291
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Sharen Warde 250 592-4422
Saturday 11-1 Re/Max Camosun Brad Maclaren, 250-727-5448
7231 Peden Ln., $597,500 pg. 9
pg. 7
112-2920 Phipps Rd, $374,500
Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Frances Wade, 250-656-0131 Saturday 2:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty West Ron Kubek 250-652-5098
Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Anke Venema, 250-477-1100
pg. 2
44-2070 Amelia Ave, $299,000 pg. 27
Daily 1-4 Kahl Realty Jason Kahl, 250-391-8484
Saturday & Sunday 12-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445
2420 Mount Baker, $699,000
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1246 Parkdale, $499,900
11-7583 Central Saanich, $132,000
4-4570 West Saanich
Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Century 21 In Town Realty Magda Melounova, 604-323-6984
pg. 31
1201 Millstream, $825,000
2518 Shoreacres, $1,299,000
7227 Peden Ln., $597,500
9-400 Culduthel Rd, $365,000 Saturday 12-1:30 Keller Williams Realty West Ron Kubek, 250-652-5098
pg. 27
31-2560 Wilcox
354 Gorge Rd W, $629,000 Saturday 1-3 Fair Realty Steve Blumberg, 250-360-6069
Sunday 2-4 Fair Realty Kevin Ramsay 250 217-5091
2200 Harrow Gate, $639,000
7663 Sigmar Pl.
304-3180 Albina, $222,000 Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Velma Sproul 250 384-7663
pg. 44
2-2320 Oakville Ave
3877 Holland, $1,350,000 Sunday 2-4 Burr Properties Shirin Purewal 250 382-8838
pg. 31
662 Goldstream, $249,900
pg. 6
5045 Prospect Lake, $1,139,000 Saturday 2-4 One Percent Realty Valentino, 250-686-2242
Sunday 11-1 RE/MAX Camosun Brad Maclaren, 250-727-5448
604 Stewart Mtn Rd, $729,000
1135 Clarke Rd, $544,000
982 Meadowview, $695,000 Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Eamon Coll 250 479-3333
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Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Jerry Mireau, 250-384-8124
Saturday 12:30-2:30 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye 250-384-8124
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Geoff McLean 250 744-3301
Daily 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445
519 Judah, $424,900
21-881 Nicholson, $729,000 Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Jacquie Jocelyn, 250-384-8124
Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Scott Garman 250 896-7099
Saturday 2-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911
Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Nancy Vieira 250 384-8124
pg. 30
4168 Clinton Pl., $679,900
1-630 Huxley St, $350,000
104-4494 Chatterton, $419,000
3-516 Sturdee
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Doreen Halstenson, 250 744-3301
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun April Prinz 250 744-3301
pg. 18
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Alliance David Rusen, 250 386-8875
Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Rick Shumka 250 384-8124
Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Paul Holland 250 592-4422
7666 East Saanich, $539,000
2942 Irma
88 Sims, $468,888
996 Owlwood, $689,900 Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291
pg. 10
pg. 25
4045 Nelthorpe, $745,000 Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Cheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422
Saturday 2:30-4 One Percent Realty Guy Effler 250 812-4910
140 Kamloops, $514,900
2222A Arbutus
1501 Eric, $844,500
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Bill Chudyk 250 477-5353
pg. 47
27-5110 Cordova Bay, $529,900
4386 Elnido Cres., $594,900 Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Lee Johnston 250-478-9600
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Lynne Sager 250 744-3301
Sunday 2-4 Burr Properties Ltd Patrick Skillings 250 382-8838
2638 Killarney, $1,238,000 Saturday 2-3 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Lisa Williams 250 514-1966
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Carol Crabb 250 477-7291
pg. 27
6-942 Boulderwood, $639,000
1501 Athlone
7-704 Rockheights, $599,900
610 Dunedin, $599,000 Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Patricia Parkins, 250-385-2033
pg. 25
4123 Ambassy, $519,000
Saturday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun John Percy 250 744-3301
420-1315 Esquimalt Rd, $413,900
401-708 Burdett Ave, $399,000
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Sharen Warde 250 592-4422
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Dave Lynn 250 592-4422
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663
2310 Weiler Ave., $499,900
746 Gorge Rd W, $565,000
4963 Dustin, $724,900
4329 Faithwood, $744,900 1240 Bewdley, $579,900
304-1518 Pandora, $269,900 Daily 1-3 (check in at 1564 Fort St) Fair Realty Kevin Ramsay 250 217-5091
pg. 23
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Rick Turcotte, 250-744-3301
Saturday 2-4 Burr Properties Ltd Patrick Skillings 250 382-8838
8-126 Hallowell, $429,000
310 Robertson, $649,000
Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680
Saturday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680
pg. 19
405-3614 Richmond, $429,000
4520 Rithetwood, $799,000
10 Helmcken Rd
408-1012 Collinson St., $299,000 Monday 2-4 Newport Realty Kim Emerson 250-385-2033
pg. 12
1720 Taylor, $599,000
pg. 20
1204-751 Fairfield, $269,000 Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Jordan Thome, 250-477-5353
Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Kim Emerson 250-385-2033
Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Adrian Langereis 250 514-0202
Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Shelley Saldat, 250 589-4014
4030 Zinnia, $659,900
1719 Llandaff, $529,000
4536 Rithwood, $798,000
104-1436 Harrison St, $269,000 Saturday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Jim Fields, 250-384-8124
Sunday 1-3 Newport Realty Holly Harper 250 888-8448
1877A Feltham Rd, $609,900
2487 Eastdowne, $769,500 Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Bruce Gibson 250 385-2033
pg. 9
4674 Lochside, $1,088,000
2657 Cedar Hill Rd, $539,900 Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291
pg. 8
1627 Hybury, $659,900
898 Currandale Crt., $799,000
304-2210 Cadboro Bay, $399,000
1351 Merritt
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Sharen Warde 250 592-4422
pg. 21
2184 Windsor Rd., $649,000
290-2022 Foul Bay, $189,900 Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Adrian Langereis 250 514-0202
Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Luisa Celis, 250-477-1100
Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Velma Sproul 250 384-7663
3-4771 Cordova Bay, $895,000
2032 Penzance, $995,000
780 Johnson Street, $419,000 Daily 12-5 Sotheby’s International Realty Scott Piercy 250 686-7789
pg. 45
3075 Eastdowne, $839,900
N1106-737 Humboldt, $799,000 Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Adrian Langereis 250 514-0202
320-3969 Shelbourne, $319,900
2189 McNeil
501-1204 Fairfield Rd, $629,000 Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Robert Buckle 250 385-2033
Saturday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Roxanne Brass 250-744-3301
3520 Upper Terrace, $969,900
106-65 Songhees
Saturday 2-4 Brown Brothers Real Estate Robert Young 250 385-8780
Saturday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Scott Garman 250 896-7099
pg. 18
105-3048 Washington, $379,900 Monday 12-3:30 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Jan Dickson, 250-418-5805
4175 Prospect Lake, $624,900
Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Rich Humphries 250 592-4422
105-3900 Shelbourne, $299,000
1978 Fairfield, $1,390,000 Sunday 1-3 Newport Realty Ltd Greg Phillips 250 385-2033
Check the page number below in Real Estate Victoria or visit www.revweekly.com
Find more details on the Open Houses below in the October 6-12 edition of
833 Hereward, $459,900 Saturday 1-2:30 Re/Max Alliance Ron Neal 250 386-8181
OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY
Saturday 2-4 One Percent Realty Lilian Andersen, 250-213-3710
pg. 34
201-3220 Jacklin Rd, $309,900 pg. 30
Saturday 12:30-2:30 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown, 250-380-6683
pg. 35
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This Weekend’s Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Jean Omelchenko,250-474-6003
116-996 Wild Ridge, $299,900 pg. 35
864 Arncote Pl
Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Sue Daniels, 250-642-3240
pg. 34
pg. 47
Daily 1-4 Kahl Realty Lyle Kahl, 250-391-8484
Saturday 12:30-2:30 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra 250 380-6683
2390 Echo Valley Dr, $689,900 pg. 19
Sunday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291
pg. 48
Daily 1:30-4:00 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Ltd. Sheila Christmas, 250-477-1100
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Todd Mahovlich 250 893-6618
969 Glen Willow, $509,000 pg. 5
Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Chris Marrie, 250 920-8463
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Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun David Rusen, 250-386-8875
1019 Skylar Circle
Saturday & Sunday 12-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445
3067 Alouette pg. 18
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pg. 12
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pg. 35
101 & 201-608 Fairway, $299,900 Daily 1:30-4:00 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Sheila Christmas, 250-477-1100
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pg. 35
723 Windover Trc., $879,000 Sunday 1-3 Gallie Realty Barbara Gallie 250-478-6530
3067 Alouette
Saturday 12-4 Re/Max Alliance David Strasser, 250-360-1929
pg. 34
1250 Parkdale, $509,900
1192 Parkdale, $459,900
206-611 Goldstream, $247,900
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pg. 35
3445 Karger, $589,900
115-2763 Jacklin, $289,900 Saturday 11-12:30 Re/Max Alliance Ron Neal 250 386-8181
408-3226 Jacklin $279,900
994 Dunford
2186 Stone Gate, $664,900 Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Shirley Zailo 250-478-4828
Saturday & Sunday 2:30-4:30 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown 250-380-6683
Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Oct. 6-12 edition of
Saturday-Thursday 11-4 Newport Realty Blair Watling 250 642-2233
pg. 37
2733 Countryside Pl, $698,500
1919 Maple Avenue pg. 34
Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Ivan Delano, 250-744-8506
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun John Vernon 250-642-5050
pg. 12
pg. 38
2324 Hoylake Cres, $439,000 Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Brad Maclaren, 250-727-5448
pg. 31
601 Kingsview
Monday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Cheryl Laidlaw 250 474-4800
1019 Skylar Circle pg. 35
Thursday-Saturday 1-4 Re/Max Alliance David Strasser 250-360-1929
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Premier wants Vancouver riot trials broadcast Tom Fletcher Black Press
Attorney General Shirley Bond has ordered Crown prosecutors to ask judges to allow TV and radio coverage of court proceedings for those accused of participating in the Stanley Cup riot in June. The vow was made in the throne speech Monday, and Premier Christy Clark elaborated on it in a news conference after the speech. “When it comes to the Stanley Cup riots, those guys had no problem doing their crimes quite in public, with all kinds of people taking pictures and doing videos all around them, so I think they should have no problem being tried in public either,” Clark said. A spokesman for the Criminal Justice Branch initially said Crown prosecutors are opposed to broadcasting criminal proceedings. Bond said Tuesday she has signed an order directing them to seek permission to broadcast, with charges expected to be laid this month against dozens of suspects. Radio and TV are only allowed in courts with the permission of the trial judge, and even if that is granted, coverage is restricted by a long list of rules. They include a broadcast delay until at least two hours after the court session has ended, and the ability of “any witness, counsel or other participant in the proceedings who objects to being identified pictorially or by voice” to avoid being recorded. Bond rejected the suggestion that broadcasting riot cases is designed to shame the participants. “I don’t think it’s
about public shaming at all,” Bond said. “I think it’s about an event that impacted all of British Columbia and beyond. And I think there is a public interest in ensuring that this is a transparent, open process.” NDP justice critic Leonard Krog said the government’s call for televised prosecution is a gimmick to divert public attention from the overburdened court system, which has seen cases more serious than drunken vandalism dismissed due to delays. “I don’t suspect that judges
are going to be interested in having cameras in courtrooms to deal with what are often minor offences,” Krog said. He also criticized the proposal in Monday’s throne speech to deal with backlogged courts by allowing retired judges to come back and work part-time. Trials are often adjourned for weeks or months due to availability of witnesses or other delays, and a part-time judge may not be available when needed, he said. editor@goldstreamgazette.com
Hockey fans gather around a burning trash can in the early hours of the Stanley Cup riot in downtown Vancouver June 15. Boaz Joseph/ Black Press
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