The Peninsula May 16

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We are blind to our own blindness recently collaborated with a group of Chamber members to develop a member recruitment brochure. While I don’t recommend design by committee as a method for getting things done quickly, it was an illuminating and rewarding experience. One of the components of the collateral we created was to list the member benefits we offer that are most meaningful to members. Our biggest challenge initially was narrowing the list down to the number of benefits that could fit on the brochure.

One of the reasons it is challenging for me to answer the question of why people might want to join the Chamber is because every one of our members has their own reason(s) for participating.

When we asked some members the question recently about why they are members, the answers were as varied as I had expected, and also more surprising than I had anticipated.

Whether it’s our staff and board thinking about our organization or our self-awareness as human beings, we are mostly blind to our own faults — and to our own brilliance.

I have written about the power of testimonials before. They can be compelling stories that speak to potential clients, or in our case, to members. I was reminded of this after making the difficult request to members — to provide testimonials for us. We are not wired to ask others to speak positively of us. And yet, what we received was so genuinely and generously provided that I am beyond glad that I did ask.

It can be an incredibly humbling, instructive experience to hear the unvarnished truth from someone whose intent it is to be both honest and kind. This truth can be the juice that sparks you to continue what you are already successfully doing, and it can send you to new and potentially more fulfilling directions.

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elebrate World Oceans Day at this free, family-friendly outdoor event. Join members of the Shaw Centre outside in Beacon Park on the Sidney oceanfront. There will be educational exhibits, entertainment, Four Frames Photobooth and more. The Centre will be open by donation this day only.

Exhibitors include Galiano Conservancy Association, Seachange Conservation Society, Vancouver Aquarium, Parklands Secondary School, World Wildlife Fund, ASL Environmental, Saturna Island Marine Research and Education Society, Science World, Royal BC Museum, Parks Canada, Peninsula Streams Society, Victoria Natural History Society, Vancouver Island Regional Library, Surfrider Foundation, Ocean Networks Canada, Canadian Network for Ocean Education, Compost Education Centre, Panorama Recreation Centre.

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During your estimate, Sunny will quote you a price and will stick with it — there are no hidden fees. You can trust their experienced technicians to do a fantastic job.

They offer sanitizing and Scotchgard options — this will help your cleaning last longer and keep it safe from spills and dirt. They are also able to stretch and repair carpets for issues like cigarette burns.

Environmentally friendly and efficient Sunny’s team uses environmentally friendly, bio-degradable products to get your carpets as clean as new, while ensuring they are not being detrimental to the environment. With the use of truck mounts or portable units, the technicians perform a deep cleaning of your carpet by injecting a pressurized and heated cleaning solution which immediately extracts the deeply embedded dirt and soil stains from carpets.

After the flood Has your home suffered from flood or environmental damage? Sunny Carpet and Air Duct Cleaning also does flood and restoration work — 24-hours a day, sevendays a week. The sooner they can get in to your home or office to start repairing, the better the chance of a full restoration.

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over time. Dust should be removed regularly — through consistent vacuuming — recommended at least once weekly.

Grease marks, however, through daily use and from pet oils, must be cleaned properly. If allowed to accumulate, they can, over time, degrade fibres and mute colour. Regular professional cleaning can often restore your furniture to a near ‘just purchased’ look.

When you contact Sunny’s office for an estimate, they’ll ask you about the specific content of the material. If manufactured in Canada, the label will clearly note the fibre content; these details are usually found under the centre cushion. If not, a general rule of thumb to identify the fibre type is to describe the feel of the fabric as either coarse, which tends to be synthetic, or soft and more natural, like cotton, wool or linen.

The price of cleaning is dictated by your fibre content, with natural fibres being priced slightly higher because of the degree of difficulty and moisture sensitivity. Precautions are taken to minimize potential shrinkage.

Teflon or solvent soil guard protection for moisture sensitive fabrics is highly recommended. Cotton velvet and a few other specialty fabrics are priced accordingly.

Likewise with ductwork, Sunny will maintain your HVAC system and improve its functioning and kill or retard the growth of the bacteria that poses a health hazard.

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Here’s your opportunity to share more time with your mom and creatively plan how to make her feel valued and loved. know it’s after Mother’s Day — its the one day a year we take time out to honour our moms, grandmas and all the other essential women in our lives.

Considering all that these special women do, maybe just one day a year is not enough.

Why not declare May as Mom’s Month? Then we’d have the opportunity to share more time with her and creatively plan how to make her feel valued and loved.

Think about a mini-getaway or a leisurely chance to reminiscence over dinner or tea.

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Retail Therapy A real getaway is never complete without a bit of retail therapy. With charming boutiques lining the Downtown Sidney streets, there’s a store that’s bound to please absolutely everyone. Whether you are looking for designer brands, specialty items and gifts, thrift-shop bargains, or home décor and garden items, Sidney’s shopping district has you covered.

Explore the Outdoors Hiking, biking, paddle boarding, kayaking and strolling the waterfront — and Sidney’s

beautiful sculpture walk — all offer great ways to enjoy Sidney’s lovely environment. See what Sidney Whale Watching, Pacifica Paddlesports, Blue Dog Kayaking and Here by Cycle have to offer. These outstanding businesses will have you out and about in a flash.

Relax and Unwind Don’t forget to treat yourself and your mom to some quality downtime. For a fully pampered afternoon, head to one of Sidney’s many spas or estheticians who offer an array of luxury massages and treatments. Sidney’s many hair salons also provide a wide range of outstanding services.

Discover Wine, Cheese and more Sidney offers exceptional wining and dining experiences. If you’ve not yet visited The Farmer’s Daughter Fromagerie & Wine Bar — treat yourself on your day out.

Visit Victoria Distillers, located right on the waterfront, and sample their locally distilled, internationally popular Empress gin.

Raise a glass to seaside views and delicious meals at one of Sidney’s unique restaurants.

You’ll bask in ocean breezes from the patio, or you can opt for cozy interior seating, providing the perfect ambiance to finish off your busy day. Sidney has so much to offer and has everything you need for your time out with that special woman in your life.

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Sidney Concert Band Spring Concert he Sidney Concert Band, made up of 47 members from the Saanich Peninsula, bring the gift of music to local audiences at a family-friendly afternoon concert on Sunday, May 26 at the Mary Winspear Centre. This will be their 32nd annual spring concert — this year’s theme is “Broadway Meets the Movies”.

Current president Jim Kingham has been with the Sidney Concert Band (SCB) for 15 years, playing alto sax, and on occasion, clarinet. As a vocalist, he will be one of the featured concert guests, singing the Gershwin standard “I Got Plenty o’ Nothin’” from Porgy and Bess.

Over the years, Jim has sung with various choral groups, including the 100-voice Lysenko Chorale in Toronto and barbershop harmony of the Victoria Village Squires. Jim is well-known to Sidney audiences as the longtime MC for the Peninsula Singers.

Featured performers joining the band include SCB’s premiere female vocalist, Stephanie Benbow, and newcomer Nicola Hestnes.

Joining forces will be the Killer Wails — a local four-man a cappella group, as well as dancers from the Allegro Performing Arts Centre in North Saanich.

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of ArtSea — the Saanich Peninsula Community Arts Council. Its’ musicians are volunteers and range in age from 12 to 84. They come from all walks of life and all areas of the Peninsula. Conductor Bruce Ham has put in countless hours over the past years to make the band the great success that it is today.

As part of their commitment to community, whenever possible, the SCB has reciprocated by supporting local organizations, ranging from fundraising for disaster relief to continued

support for young musicians in School District 63 Band programs and the 676 Kittyhawk RCACS Band. These relationships are important because young musicians are the future of community bands and local arts entertainment.

The Sidney Concert Band enjoys organizing and participating in community events each year. This includes performances in May, and again in November at the Mary Winspear Centre’s Charlie White Theatre,

participation in the Canada Day and Sidney Sparkles parades, a benefit concert in December where proceeds go to the school band programs or a local charity, a free concert in June at the Beacon Bandshell, and participation in the annual Island Band Festival at the Mary Winspear Centre in April.

Tickets for the May 26 concert are $20 and are available through the Mary Winspear Box Office at: marywinspear.ca or by calling: 250-656-0275. sidneyconcertband.com

What to do in the Garden in May

BY ELIZABETH CULL, DIG THIS ay is the month when everything happens in the garden. The cool weather seeds you planted in March and April are really starting to grow, and as the soil warms up, you can plant all the heat-lovers.

Keep planting lettuce, mesclun, radishes, Asian greens, beets and carrots. If it gets hot, give greens a little shade. By planting a little every two weeks, you can be sure to have salad fixings well into the fall.

The eight basic warm-season vegetables should go in later in May or even early June when the weather is (hopefully) reliably warm: beans, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, melons, peppers, squash and tomatoes. Buy plants for eggplants, tomatoes and peppers, but you can still grow the rest from seeds.

If you started tomatoes from seed indoors, you should be hardening them off by putting them outside every day, and after a few days, over night.

Now that the night-time temperature is around 10 degrees, it’s safe to plant tomatoes outside. But wait a bit longer until it’s really warm for peppers, eggplants and the rest.

You can warm up the soil by covering it with clear plastic for a few days when it’s sunny. Use a soil thermometer to find out how warm your soil is.

Start cucumbers, squash and melons now in pots for planting out later. These plants hate to be transplanted so you don’t want to start them too early or leave them too long in starter pots.

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If you find cilantro always goes to seed too quickly, try this trick. Seed cilantro thickly as you would mesclun mix in a flat or pot. Water well and place the container where it gets morning sun, but some shade in the afternoon. I’ve done this for the last few years and had great results harvesting cilantro frequently as a “baby green”. I even grew it indoors this way under lights all through the winter.

Plant seedlings of annual herbs, including basil, cilantro and parsley wherever you have room in your vegetable or flower beds. Plant perennial herbs like chives, oregano, rosemary and thyme in permanent beds; put mint in containers to keep it under control.

Plant fall blooming perennials like asters, Helenium, Japanese anemones and mums now for spectacular autumn flowers. Make a note now, while spring bulbs are fading, about where you want to add more this fall.

Add colour to shaded spots: If you lack light, grow hybrid fuchsias in garden beds or containers; just pinch them back as they grow to make them bushy. Also try astilbes, begonias, coleus and impatiens. Add a pop of bright colour with a brightly coloured pot or garden ornament. Or simply move a colourfully-planted container into a shady spot and swap it out later when it begins to miss the sunlight.

If we have another hot, dry summer, you’ll want to think of ways to conserve moisture in the soil. Spread a

two-inch layer of mulch such as bark chips over the root zones of permanent plants like azaleas and rhododendrons. Water slowly and deeply in the early morning or evening when the air is cool and calm. Don’t cut lawns too short, and water lawns to one inch of water every two weeks. Under this regime, lawns will turn the colour of straw but will bounce back after temperatures cool in fall.

Detail the garden. Once plants are in the ground, add adornments like birdbaths, lanterns and whimsical statues for a finished look.

Take time to sit in your garden and really see it. Spending quiet time in the garden is one of the best ways we know to relax and get rid of the stress of the day. digthis.com

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Picnic in the Gardens Wednesday nights, June 5 to Aug. 28, from 5 to 8 p.m.

he Gardens at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific (HCP) are extending their hours every second Wednesday night, beginning June 5. They invite families and friends to come and picnic on the grounds. Admission is by donation. Bring your own dinner and find a bench or lawn to enjoy your meal while savouring the sounds of local musicians.

Local art vendors will be onsite and you can browse their selection of goods, or visit the master gardener booth with your gardening questions.

The plant sale area has a selection of propagated plants — you might find a leafy friend to take home.

Find the list of vendors and musicians on the HCP website. Bring your sketch book, guitar and outdoor games and enjoy the evening.

Explore your creative talents during picnic night. Consider signing up for a Paint and Picnic class with Rose Cowles. The first lesson, Simple Succulents, on June 5 is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. All levels welcome. Register at: 250-479-6162. hcp.ca/event/may-picnic-night

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Growing Peas to Perfection

BY FAYE AT RUSSELL NURSERY ew garden crops rival the perfection of crisp peas in late spring. Getting them started early is the secret, as they prefer to grow in cooler temperatures. Read in Peas in Particular to see a foolproof way to beat cold weather, critters and rot.

Since writing that article a few years ago, I have become more sophisticated, and now use well-draining trays for my damp vermiculite instead of milk cartons on a heat mat with grow lights suspended from the ceiling — faster and easier in limited space.

I currently let them get to about four inches tall before planting outside, as the starch is used up from the seed and the varmints aren’t so interested in this ‘food source’. I’m careful to harden them off before moving them out to the cold.

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We are often asked “What is the difference between snap peas and snow peas?”

It’s hard to remember which is the flat one and which is the one with peas in it? The way I remember is that snow lies flat on the ground, and snow peas are the flat edible pods.

Snap peas, aka Sugar Snap, have fully formed peas inside. Both kinds have edible pods, mangetout or eat it all.

Dwarf Peas While I’ve always grown both Tall Telephone and Sugar Snap Pole in the ground at home, and in large pots with bamboo poles at the nursery. Another option is to grow dwarf

peas that do not need a trellis. Allegedly, they produce more peas per square foot, and would be ideal for smaller gardens, patios and balconies.

Plant your peas in a block, not in rows, so you can just reach down into the branches and harvest.

Cornus twigs for pea support I’m trying Little Marvel at the nursery in a large pot, planted densely all over the soil, with pretty red Cornus twigs to give them something to climb on.

Some of the many good varieties of dwarf peas are: Sugar Ann, Little Marvel, Sugar Lace II, Lincoln Homesteader and Dwarf Grey Sugar.

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From March to December, take in the lunch in at the tasting bar and bistro. The talented culinary team has curated a menu made from local ingredients throughout the season.

Executive Chef Desiree Perrin and her team create unique dishes that capture the freshest offerings from across the Island and surrounding Gulf Islands – perfectly paired with award-winning Church & State wines.

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Starting May 30, join the talented team from Oxygen Yoga & Fitness for a relaxing and rejuvenating yoga class set within the lush vineyards at Church & State Wines.

Whether you’re coming from the office, classroom or home, this will be a special way to unwind and recentre your body, mind and soul.

Overlooking rows of lush vines, the Oxygen instructor will lead you through flow yoga inspired by the winery. After class, enjoy a glass of wine paired with small plates of locally sourced charcuterie and fruit. In the

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Learn about Great Blue Herons from a man who knows them well. Over half a century of watching, writing, drawing, listening and living among birds, Rob Butler’s views have transformed from ecology and behaviour of birds to a unifying vision of nature and human culture which he calls ‘Nature Culture’. Rob Butler’s research career includes the social behaviour of crows, ecology of herons, and migration of birds.

Rob is an adjunct professor of Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University and has published over 150 works for scientific and popular audiences. He has had scores of appearances on television, radio and in newspapers. He wrote and co-produced, with Mike McKinlay, two films on nature and culture.

Friends of Shoal Harbour and Roberts Bay Residents are sponsoring this evening with Rob Butler, ornithologist, artist and film maker. The lecture will be followed by a screening of a film, “Returning” about the Salish Sea, produced by Rob Butler and Mike McKinlay.

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Aviation enthusiasts, young and old, are invited to the Victoria Flying Club’s annual Community Day and Open House. Visitors can tour the 80-year old facility and learn about the planes that have made their home there.

Several flight instructors will be ready to share the joy of flight with visitors in the Redbird FMX flight simulator or on a Discovery Flight.

Vintage and modern planes will be open for viewing, some even for sale. Career-minded individuals can bring their questions and talk with flight instructors about study plans.

Meet members from local Search and Rescue, NavCanada, Canadian Owners & Pilots Assoc., UVic Business Admin Aviation program, and the Vancouver Island Women in Aviation.

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