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OAK BAYNEWS Watch for breaking news at www.oakbaynews.comFriday, December 14, 2012
Pennies for PresentsYoung boy benefits from Children’s Health Foundation. Page A3
NEWS: New Victoria MP joins NDP caucus /A4ARTS: Interactive kid’s book hits the market /A14SPORTS: New no-fight rule will change lacrosse /A16
Laura LavinNews staff
Oak Bay’s elite turned out in force to greet the new-est member of the community as Tweed magazine was unveiled last night.
Published by Oak Bay News’ owner Black Press, Tweedwas officially unveiled by Publisher Penny Sakamoto and Director, Advertising Sales Oliver Sommer in a gala event held in the Oak Bay Beach Hotel’s David Foster Theatre.
“Tweed tells the story of a unique and eclectic community through those who know it best, its residents,” said Sakamoto. “Readers from both within and outside its geo-graphic boundaries can look forward to amazing narrative that explores the essence of what makes Oak Bay great.”
Guests included the hotel’s owners Kevin and Shawna Walker, who, along with their family, are featured in the inaugural edition of the magazine.
Others who praised the magazine included Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen and former mayor Christopher Causton, who makes his debut as columnist in the pages of Tweed.
The first edition of the Oak Bay-focused magazine, which features work from well-known local photogra-phers and writers, also contains a detailed peek into Jim Kirk’s unique home on the Avenue, in the heart of Oak Bay, and a visit with artist Pat Martin Bates.
Tweed is delivered to doorsteps with the Oak Bay News, and is available at a number of local businesses.
On a crisp December afternoon, Yukari Peerless packed up her two kids and headed to the bookstore – to get married.
None of the romance between Peer-less and Mark Davidson has been conventional, from the moment the social media-savvy couple connected via Tweetup, to Davidson’s initial Facebook friend request, to their first face-to-face meeting during last year’s
BlogWorld conference in Los Angeles. It seems fitting then, that Peerless and Davidson would exchange vows in a rather alternative venue – one that’s also home to a non-profit agency aimed at inspiring children to write their own impassioned stories.
On Dec. 7, Davidson, an online communications strategist from Los Angeles and Peerless, an ESL agent and entrepreneur based in Victoria, held hands in the window of Tall Tales Books on Cadboro Bay Road, and before a handful of friends, became
husband and wife.Of the 83 marriages commissioner
Cathy Lavoie has performed, this was the first she conducted in a book-store.
“When you think about getting mar-ried, you want it to be a positive expe-rience,” Davidson said. “You want it to be full of positive feelings and attach-ments. There’s always been a good vibe there. It just made sense.”
Storybook wedding no tall taleSpace hosts writing society, bookstore and exchange of nuptials
PLEASE SEE:Happy ending for all, Page A13
Marriage Commissioner Cathy Lavoie, left, conducts
her 83rd wedding and first in a book store as she weds
Mark Davidson and Yukari Peerless in Tall Tales Books.
Don Denton/News staff
Oak Bay Beach Hotel sets the scene for official unveiling
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As a newborn, Ethan Schandl had severe reflux and troubles eat-ing, sleeping and feeding.
His mother Fiona Schandl was sent home from the hospital with-out an explanation, told only that her baby was failing to thrive. Three years of testing eventually led to a diagnosis for the Schan-dls, but one that offered little relief from their daily struggles.
Ethan is allergic to food.Now five years old and just 15
kilograms, Ethan lives off a diet of broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, squash, yams, applesauce and hypoallergenic formula.
“It’s an ongoing battle,” Schandl said of her son’s eosinophilic esophagitis. “It’s something that he’s going to have to live with forever. It’s not a static condition either, so these six things that he
has tested fine for could turn on him at any point.”
Ethan works with a host of medi-cal professionals for issues related to his allergies, as well as one weak leg and core muscle issues. The Schandls have long been con-nected to a team at the Children’s Health Foundation in Saanich, from occupational therapists and phys-iotherapists to speech patholo-gists and dieticians. This year the foundation’s Bear Essentials pro-gram gave $1,000 toward horse-back riding lessons for Ethan, a therapy intended to strengthen weak muscles, a result of his nutri-ent deficiencies.
The sessions yielded unex-pected results for Schandl.
“It gave him an activity for him that wasn’t food related, that didn’t need a lot of energy,” she said. “He absolutely loves it. It’s his special time, a time that he’s able to control things. With his diet, we very much control it, but with the horseback riding, they let him take the lead and tell them what he wants the horse to do.”
Ethan is currently trying to eat chicken, beef and oats. Schandl had added pork and corn to his
diet, and both caused adverse reactions. Each time new food trials begin, so do the rounds of scopes and biopsies to deter-
mine whether or not his body will accept the foods.
He has already endured 12 pro-cedures, including several biop-
sies performed under general anaesthetic.
“When he wakes up, he doesn’t like to eat and he doesn’t like to drink. We typically stay in the hos-pital for longer than most kids would for a procedure … because he won’t let enough liquids in to get the IV out. This last one, he almost passed out when the IV came out. That was pretty scary in itself.”
Despite the ongoing hospital stays and the physical challenges his leg presents, Schandl says her son is altogether pleasant to be around.
“He’s lovely, happy and smiley and super funny. He suffers a lot, but you really wouldn’t know it to see him.”
The Children’s Health Founda-tion of Vancouver Island is one of this year’s recipients of funds from Black Press’ annual Pennies for Presents campaign, along with the Victoria Salvation Army. From now through Christmas Black Press is collecting donations – in the form of pennies, nickels, dimes, quar-ters, bills and cheques – at the Black Press office at 818 Brough-ton St. Collection jars will also be placed at businesses throughout Greater Victoria over the course of the campaign. Pennies for Pres-ents is an Island-wide initiative, but all the money raised here stays in Greater Victoria.
Pennies for Presents buoys Children’s Health Foundation
Steven Heywood/News staff
Ethan Schandl smiles from atop his horse Smudges as instructor Kyrie Bond looks on during a session at the Victoria Riding for the Disabled Association.
Riding a relief from severe allergies
Roszan HolmenNews staff
With a long-term goal of moving to a location on the harbour, the Maritime Museum of British Columbia is focusing on improving its product in the meantime.
“We’re here for the next five years,” executive director Jon Irwin said, referring to the museum’s current site in Bastion Square.
Last year, the museum launched children’s summer camps and more interactive programming. In the year to come, it looks to build on these successes, including a plan to buy flat screen televisions to enhance
its displays.“It’s another medium for exhibits, so we
can animate and bring stories to life,” Irwin said.
Another plan in the works is connecting with oldtimer maritimers.
“One of the ideas is to do interviews with these people and capture their stories. Victoria has many people with a maritime background and a lot of these people are getting quite senior,” Irwin said.
The museum’s new fundraising campaign has a $30,000 goal. As an added incentive, from now until Dec. 31 all one-time and monthly donations will be matched by an anonymous donor.
For more information, call 250-385-4222 or visit mmbc.bc.ca.
Maritime Museum programming growsNew ideas in the works for the coming year
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Cetus Society member Erin Parsons holds a leatherback turtle skull outside the Maritime Museum of B.C. during the World Oceans Day celebration in June. The museum is looking to increase its family centred programs in the coming year and is doing a fundraiser to cover the costs.
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Fifteen days after he won a byelection for the Victoria riding, Member of Parliament Murray Rankin was sworn in to his new position Tuesday in Ottawa.
Rankin, who won a close battle with runner-up, Green Party candidate Donald Galloway, on Nov. 26, was welcomed to the NDP caucus by party leader Thomas Mulcair.
The Opposition leader said voters in Victoria have had enough of the Conservatives’ “backwards environmental policies.”
“Murray Rankin is best positioned to represent the people of Victoria and fight for their priorities,” Mulcair said in a release.
Rankin has long fought for environmental causes. Most recently he was co-president
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An alleged victim of a former Saanich priest tes-tified Tuesday that Phillip Jacobs molested him a number of times more than a decade ago, while attending St. Joseph the Worker Catholic School on Burnside Road West.
The young man, who can’t be identified, described to the court and Justice J. Miriam Gropper a num-ber of incidents of sexual touching during his time as an altar server under direction of Jacobs, at the time the parish priest.
Led by the questioning of Crown prosecutor Clare Jennings, the witness said the pattern of touching by Jacobs escalated from a hand on the back, then to his buttocks, to more direct molestation.
He described an incident where Jacobs took him to a secondary room attached to an ante room behind the church altar, where altar servers pre-pare for ceremonies.
In the secondary room, the witness testified that Jacobs “touched my genitals” with his hand, under the robe, and there was quick “skin to skin” con-tact.
The witness described another time he volun-teered to move bibles between the church and the elementary school during lunch hour.
In the room behind the altar, the witness said Jacobs again touched his genitals, and then made the witness put his hand on Jacobs’ genitals – again brief “skin to skin” contact.
“He took my hand and pressed it into his pants,” he told the court. “He used one hand to move my hand, and his other hand was around my neck.”
The witness said he didn’t see a pattern to Jacobs behaviour and was unsure how many times the priest allegedly molested him, other than it was more than once and “less than 12” times.
Until eventually telling a girlfriend later in life and then the Saanich police, the witness said he hadn’t told anyone about the abuse.
“It was all very confusing and I was upset,” he said. “I was taught priests can be trusted and confided in and are good people. It was tough to understand.”
Jacobs, 63, is charged with sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference of a person under 14 and touching a young person for a sexual purpose.
The charges involve three minors under the age of 14, with alleged incidents spanning September 1996 to June 2001, all within Saanich. Jacobs was arrested Aug. 4, 2010 and released on $25,000 bail.
In the second half of the day, Jacobs’ lead defense attorney Chris Considine chipped away at the credibility of the witness’s narrative of events, and honed in on the fact the witness was unable to recall a number of details about his time as an altar server.
The witness was unable to give a ballpark esti-mate of how many times he served as an altar server in St. Joseph the Worker church, although he suggested he did the job over three school years.
Considine asked why he didn’t stop being a server if he was being abused. “I was scared and confused,” the witness said. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Using documents provided by the school, Consi-dine suggested the witness acted as an alter server at the church over only two school years, that alter servers were chosen at random for services, and that the witness may have only served in the posi-
tion a single time. The witness denied that.The defense attorney told the witness it wasn’t
possible that he was around Jacobs all that often. “So if you served during mass, (the number of
times) must have been extremely few,” Considine said. “Your involvement on a physical level with Phillip Jacobs must have been not over two years, but maybe over a few months.”
The witness agreed with Considine that the potential window for sexual touching was smaller than he had first asserted, and that the witness had told a police officer and a trauma counsellor details of the abuse that weren’t correct.
“I could have been confused,” he said. “You don’t know how scared I was and confused.”
Near to the end of questioning, Considine asserted, “you were never abused by Phillip Jacobs were you?”
“Yes I was,” the witness shot back.Check for updates at saanichnews.com.
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Sharp eyes and trained ears are on the lookout for our avian friends.
The 54th edition of the Vic-toria Christmas Bird Count launches Saturday, when bird-ers with spotting scopes and binoculars scan the horizon for birds of all types, includ-ing the rarer species congre-gating in Greater Victoria.
“This year could be an excellent year,” said VCBC co-ordinator Ann Nightingale. “We have a lot of rare birds out now.”
Recent sightings of a flock of brown pelicans near Fisher-man’s Wharf and a blue-grey gnatcatcher at Swan Lake have been a source of excite-ment for birders in the region.
Nightingale, who counts herself as a birder as opposed to a bird watcher – as you may only hear the bird with-out seeing it – said the count is an important tool for track-ing trends with an eye on con-servation.
She hopes even more volunteers keep their eyes peeled for the Victoria event that boasts the most partici-pants from more than 2,000 bird counts from across North America.
The Dec. 15 count covers a radius of more than 24 kilo-metres in 20 designated land zones and three water zones.
“It is the longest citizen science project going and Victoria has been doing this since 1958,” Nightingale said. “It is important we look at the trends, at what is happening in Victoria so we can con-serve (the birds).”
More than 220 birders flocked to the count in 2011 and Nightingale has her sights set on even more vol-unteers, such as second-year counter Kim Taylor.
“I am always excited to learn. It is a great experience,” said Taylor, a research tech-nologist. “I have gotten the bug of seeing new birds. I am keeping a list of how many I see and it is fun to add to it.”
The long-time bird lover takes on the Albert Head Lagoon and Triangle Moun-tain count and looks forward to the challenge that puts her bird knowledge to the test.
“The game of figuring out who is who … and what they are doing is exciting to figure out,” Taylor con-tinued. “It is the thrill of seeing some things new.
It is an adventure.”Other key birding areas
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Esquimalt Lagoon and Martindale flats. Even residential backyard birdfeeders are in the sights of those who can’t make it outdoors.
Information from all bird counts is submit-ted to the Audubon Society and Bird Studies Canada. Nightingale, a 17-year birder, hopes to surpass the 140 species and 80,000 bird-count average.
“It is important to me because I really care about what is happen-ing with the bird popu-lation,” Nightingale said. “I am a bit of a bird evangelist and this is a great opportunity for me to share the birds with other people.”
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’Tis the season to be jolly. Or is it?Earlier this week I was waiting in
line to get my daily caffeine fix at a local coffee shop. The woman in front of me was on the phone and didn’t bother to hang up while she was ordering from the young girl at the till.
Not only that, she was snippy and rude when she confirmed her order, as if she didn’t have time to ensure her multiple request of non-fat, half-sweet, extra-hot, no-whip coffee was heard cor-rectly by the server.
I know this mustn’t be an unusual situation. In fact, I know from experi-ence working in food service and, more recently, the retail industry, that people can be nasty. I’m sure I’ve been guilty of it once or twice myself. Sometimes we’re in a rush, or something else bad has hap-pened that day to put us in a nega-tive state of mind.
But what made me really take notice of this woman’s less-than-appropriate behaviour was the juxtaposition of all things festive around me. Apart from the grumpy woman, everything else was so cheery. The holiday music playing in the background, the Christmas lights shining around the windows.
Right down to the young cashier’s exceptionally polite demeanour dealing with the Coffee Grinch, the
warm feeling of the season was all around.
As I walked back to the office I wondered, even with masses of holiday cheer all around for the month of December, does the holiday season make the majority of people jolly? Or has it become a time of year where everyone is at risk of turning various shades of green as they slowly morph into the Grinch?
I have always been a strong believer in the man-tra that you get what you give. In recent months, I have seen this among peo-ple I am close to, or have
been. The people who had a tough few months (or years) were finally rewarded with something fabulous in their lives, while the ones who worked hard to build bad karma, well, let’s just say they got what they deserved.
Whether it’s the pressure of holi-day shopping, or the commitments to attend seasonal parties, dinners and get-togethers, this can be an extremely stressful time of year. But it’s also a time when it’s important to be thankful for what you have and considerate of those around you, no matter what the circum-stances.
With the new year fast approach-ing, my friends and I have decided to make a concerted effort to con-
sider our karma. There are plenty of ways to bank the good stuff, includ-ing something as simple as giving the server at the coffee shop the respect they deserve.
During the rush of the holiday season I’ve come across plenty of people who are banking good karma by contributing in larger ways to their community.
There’s a huge Secret Santa: Toys for Tots campaign happen-ing on the Saanich Peninsula, and a group of individuals are coming together once again to put on a full Christmas dinner spread in Sidney for those who might otherwise go without.
Peninsula residents have also been dropping off spare change at the News Review office. So far we’ve collected more than $2,000 with our Coins for Kids campaign, the pro-ceeds of which will go to the Toys for Tots program before Christmas.
As I said, not all good deeds have to be monumental. Karma-builders can also be simple.
Next time you’re at the bank, hold the door for someone, or when you exchange glances with a stranger while finishing up your last-minute Christmas shopping, share a quick smile.
Most of all – like the cheery young girl serving the grumpy lady in the coffee shop – remember to not let the Grinches get you down.
– Devon MacKenzie is a reporter for the Peninsula News Review.
On Monday night Saanich council reversed its ideologically driven position of preserving every scrap of agricultural land, even at the expense of logic or fairness to property owners.
Council voted to ask the provincial Agricultural Land Commission to rule on excluding four acres from the agricultural land reserve, which resides in what is now a residential neighbourhood in Gordon Head.
Most Saanich councillors, and indeed the majority of civic politicians across the Capital Region, are loathe to bulldoze farmland for housing subdivisions.
Top restaurants in Victoria boast about using local produce, farmers’ markets can’t keep up with demand, and gardening and hobby-farming are popular across the region.
But when 150 people showed up in Saanich council chambers and explained why a cattle feed lot or poultry farm is clearly a bad idea in the midst of suburbia, the politicians could sense which way the wind was blowing.
Sending the issue to the ALC isn’t the same as endorsing housing on the land in question, and the process could take a year, but it is a significant shift in thinking.
But what is most refreshing is that most councillors were able to budge from ideologically entrenched positions. This is what voters want from local politicians – the ability to listen to residents and weigh what makes sense. Even one-time farmer and current MLA Lana Popham agreed that when a municipality allows neighbourhoods to crop up around farmland, holding onto isolated parcels is punitive on the landowner.
If municipalities want to ensure property is preserved for agriculture, at times it will need to buy the land, which is what Saanich did for Panama Flats, and which the mayor is pushing for inclusion into the agricultural land reserve.
The vast majority ALR and non-ALR farmland in the region, though, resides in Central and North Saanich, and Metchosin. Excluding remnants amid suburban residential neighbourhoods doesn’t represent the destruction of farming.
Devon MacKenzie
Postscript
‘I have always been a strong believer in ... that you get what you give.’
Keep karma in mind for the holidays
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The furnace was old and needed replacing, and we weren’t sure how old the oil tank was. We decided to have the furnace removed and the tank taken away, and had an electrician wire and install electric baseboard and convection heaters throughout the house.
There are thermostats in every room, so if the room is not being used, neither is the heater. The main convection heater in the kitchen is programmed to come on half an hour before we get up and turn off at bedtime.
I would highly recommend this as an alternative to oil tanks and furnaces. Of course the other option would be to replace your oil-burning furnace with a gas furnace and getting rid of the tank at the same time.
I also wonder if there shouldn’t be some kind of regulation about replacing your oil tank every so many years, the same way a propane tank for the barbecue is only allowed so many fills before it’s considered unsafe.
Katherine BuchananVictoria
MLA pensions saddle uswith indefinite burden
When he retires in May, former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Murray Coell will start collecting his MLA pension of $89,000 a year. At least eight of
his Liberal colleagues will also begin collecting MLA pensions for the rest of their lives.
They include former premier Gordon Campbell, who collects $98,175 of B.C. taxpayers’ money a year, on top of whatever he gets for his job as Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom in London.
Congrats, I mean, wait a minute, I thought this ‘fiberal’ hypocrite government was against lifetime entitlement. That was the basis of them changing the welfare system to requiring two years employment for three years of social services, all because there are supposed to be jobs available for our most vulnerable citizens.
And if it isn’t bad enough that they put these burdens on B.C. taxpayers indefinitely, at the same time they tore up contracts and told the BCGEU, HEU, BCTF and others to tighten their belts. The B.C. Liberals never campaigned on that and never gave us a chance to vote for that.
Andre MollonLangford
China trade agreementbad for environment
I am opposed to the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPPA). I believe this agreement will cripple our country’s ability to control proper environmental policies and can have the effect of losing millions of dollars of Canadians’ hard-earned money.
If this deal goes through, Chinese companies such as CNOOC, which is seeking to
purchase Alberta oil sands developer Nexen, could be given the power to sue Canadian taxpayers if we decide to make new laws that inhibit their work in our country.
Furthermore, I question the ethics of these Chinese companies, many of which are state-owned; consequently supporting an authoritarian regime. The Chinese government denies its people basic democratic rights. We would be sinking to that level if we bring this treaty into force without public scrutiny or debate, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing.
This deal must be stopped to help preserve the well-being of all Canadians.
Chance DaviesVictoria
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CRD traffic safety advocate’s statements refuted by research
Re: Spike in pedestrian-driver collisions prompts warnings (News, Dec. 12)
I question Alan Perry’s statements regarding crosswalks with flashing lights doing “little to decrease pedestrian crashes.”
I requested access to the background research for the claim from Mr. Perry and, so far, he has been unable to fulfill my request.
In January 2012, the Federal Highway Administration in the United States released a memorandum, in which they listed nine research-proven countermeasures that have the greatest effect on improving road safety.
Two of these measures were
flashing lights at crosswalks and pedestrian crossing islands.
Mr. Perry’s statement suggesting that crosswalks can give pedestrians a false sense of safety is not backed up by solid research.
According to the U.S. study, a high-intensity activated crosswalk has shown up to a 69-per-cent reduction in pedestrian-related crashes and a 29-per-cent reduction in roadway crashes.
This kind of crosswalk displays a flashing orange light, followed by a red light indicating that traffic should come to a full halt. Pedestrian islands mid-road resulted in a 46-per-cent drop in pedestrian crashes.
As Victoria roads become more congested, I would rather see an increase in safety infrastructure than a culture of blaming the pedestrian.
We are all pedestrians. Drivers, on the other hand, need to hold a licence.
Drivers are responsible for slowing down and scanning intersections and pedestrian crossings with great attention.
Traffic safety campaigns for pedestrians are important, but it is simply a fact of life that pedestrians will make mistakes.
We can avoid some tragic results if drivers watch out and cities put in place research-proven safety measures.
Brenda MacKinleySaanich
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Joyce Kline is continuing a tradition this week-end, one that last year brought 158 turkeys to her doorstep.
Kline is the coordinator of a Christmas hamper party, which she has hosted for 11 years. Due to its growing popularity, she’s moved the opera-tion from her home to the Victoria College of Art campus, where on Sunday a massive crew of vol-unteers, all armed with hamper contributions, will assemble the packages.
“These are not hampers of Kraft dinners and canned beans,” Kline said. “It’s lovely fresh food, so people can invite guests in the privacy of their own home and have their dignity.”
Last year, the group produced 158 hampers, 21 of those for gluten-free households. Each package includes: a frozen turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing mix, milk, eggs, butter, coffee, tea, fresh fruit, vege-tables, bread, dessert and an extra goodie or two.
“Some people will be bagging the larger bulk stuff, while the kids are counting carrots and other people are hauling hampers. … It’s pretty awe-some.”
Kline, who began coordinating the hamper party in Ontario in 1995, would like to see the tradition spin off in other neighbourhoods.
If anyone would like to make a last-minute dona-tion, or to give at the event this weekend, contact Kline at [email protected].
“The thinking behind it originally (was) if you were going to a potluck, you bring something,” Kline said. “Everyone who wants to bring a contri-bution is welcome (to volunteer). It makes every-body equal.”
Extra contributions not wrapped in hampers go to the Salvation Army, which distributes the food.
While volunteers organize and wrap hampers from noon until 6 p.m., local bands Oya and Dream-A-Little will supply the entertainment.
Victoria College of Art is located at 1625 Bank St.
Ambria Jade Yerrell, seen here at nine months old, sleeps among the hubbub at Joyce Kline and Peter Such’s Christmas hamper-making party last December. Baby Ambria came to the party with her mother Carmen Harlson and grandmother Tracy Yerrell.
Urban forest strategy in works
Oak Bay’s green spaces will be afforded a little more protection in the years to come.
Coun. Tara Ney put forward a motion to preserve, protect and enhance the urban forest at Monday’s council meeting (Dec. 10). The idea received a warm reception in council chambers.
“We have a tree protection bylaw, but this will augment and consider ways to move forward on more than a regulatory front,” said Mayor Nils Jensen. “Being pro-active is what we’re looking to do with this strategy.”
Crafting the urban forest strategy coin-cides with the creation of a new official com-munity plan for Oak Bay – a project Jensen hopes to see com-pleted sometime next year.
“Depending on the degree of feedback we receive, we’re flex-ible, but expect to do the bulk of the work in 2013,” Jensen said.
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View Royal Coun. Ron Mattson is suing the province of British Columbia and Health Minister Margaret Mac-Diarmid for wrongful dismissal and defama-tion in response to his firing from the Ministry of Health in September.
Mattson, first sus-pended without pay on July 17, was fired by the ministry for alleg-edly passing confiden-tial data to a University of Victoria researcher, an allegation Mattson vehemently denies.
A statement of claim submitted by his law-yer, Christopher Siver, says Mattson never had the authority to access ministry data in the first place.
It states that all he did was submit an application to have the researcher added as an approved user of a database related to a contract between the university and the gov-ernment.
The dismissal came after 28 years working for the province. Matt-son has also served as a View Royal councillor for a total of 16 years.
“I was devastated when I was suspended,” he said in a statement.
“I loved my job, and was one of those for-tunate individuals who looked forward to going to work each day. I was shocked and humiliated when I was escorted out of the building after my suspension.”
In a confidential let-ter from the ministry to Mattson, Graham Whit-marsh, deputy minis-ter, told Mattson his “actions demonstrate a careless disregard of your fiduciary obli-gation to protect the highly confidential and sensitive data that is entrusted to the Minis-try’s care.”
As a result of his dis-missal, Mattson, 59, said he has been forced to retire and has had his income cut in half. He claims his reputation has “been destroyed” and his “ability to ful-fill (his) duties as an elected official is uncer-tain.”
“I did nothing wrong and expected to be fully exonerated,” Matt-son said. “I still do not know the real reason I was fired, and I remain shocked and humili-ated.”
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The ministry’s internal investigation into the alleged privacy breach is ongoing.
Six employees have been fired and another suspended in relation to the alleged breach of privacy.
The ministry investigation began in May after an anonymous tip to B.C. Auditor Gen-eral John Doyle’s office about possible con-tracting irregularities.
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An 83-year-old woman faces deportation to India, but has found an ally in Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP Randall Garrison.
Canadian immigration authorities notified Surjit Bhandal on Dec. 7 that she will be deported with a pre-removal assessment Jan. 9. Until then she had been waiting for her application to remain in Canada to be processed.
Surjit came to Canada five years ago on a visitor visa. Jasminder Bhandal, her biological nephew who calls her mom, is fighting for her to stay and live in Canada.
He says Surjit is frail and needs the assistance of a cane and other people to help her walk and move around. She lives on Bear Mountain in Langford with Jasminder.
Garrison said she should be able to remain in Canada on compassionate grounds.
“This is the peril of her life, no one can care for her (in India),” Garrison said, adding that the fam-ily is worried Surjit will die or be mistreated if she is sent back to India.
Surjit raised Jasminder and his brother from birth. The men’s biological mother is disabled and was not able to care for her boys. The men grew up in India with their mother, father and Surjit.
“They call her mother. They have two moth-ers,” Garrison explained.
The men and their biological parents immi-grated to Canada 20 years ago, but since Surjit is their aunt and not considered immediate family, she was unable to come to Canada.
Jasminder’s father stayed in India to care for Surjit. When he died five years ago Jasminder and his brother brought her here on a visitor visa.
Jasminder cares for Surjit and covers her living costs along with his brother, who lives in Surrey, Garrison said.
“The (immigration) minister has discretion to offer her permanent residency or temporary resi-dence,” Garrison said. “I don’t care how he uses his power, just as long as he uses it.”
Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP Randall Garrison, left, Jasminder Bhandal, centre, and Surjit Bhandal, right, held a press conference last Friday to highlight the plight of Surjit being scheduled for deportation to India.
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Tall Tales was one of the first Victoria locales Davidson expe-rienced with Peerless and her young son while visiting the city.
“It was a no-brainer,” Peerless agreed. “Why didn’t I think of that?”
While the ceremony took place, store co-owner Drew Lormier stood behind the coun-ter and greeted a customer, business as usual.
“It’s very unique,” said Lorm-ier, who owns Tall Tales with wife Kate. “We’re very flattered. It reaffirms what we are trying to do with our store – to make it a place where families want to come.”
Much of the atmosphere of Tall Tales is a result of the group with which they now share the storefront. Non-profit organiza-tion, The Story Studio Writing Society, which offers writing workshops to kids both in the shared studio and in schools, has been based in the space since January, 2012.
Earlier in the week, a group of much smaller people filled the seats where the wedding guests sat, flanked by shelves of brightly coloured books. An after-school group of kids gathered to put the finishing touches on their comic books, a series led by local Magic Teeth cartoonist Gareth Gaudin.
“We take the kids through the process in a very tactile, playful way,” said Paisley Aiken, pro-gram founder of The Story Stu-dio.
After three sessions, each student of a Studio course goes home with a bound book of their own work.
“They get to experience suc-cess as an author,” Aiken added. “It’s about having an experience where they want to enjoy writ-ing, find their creativity and develop it.”
Courses at The Story Studio – featuring authors across genres – are open to anyone, with reg-
istration on a donation basis. Over the last year, the society, which has applied for charita-ble status, has worked with 300 kids, including some in school programming in the Greater Victoria and Sooke school dis-tricts, an aspect of the work Aiken would like to see expand.
The Story Studio partnership and the wedding further Tall Tales’ otherwise uncommon reputation.
In the summer of 2011, fac-ing financial troubles, the Lorm-iers launched Tall Tales’ “hero” program, a subscription service to the store through which cus-tomers register to make auto-matic monthly payments of $10 that can be used month-to-month or held indefinitely to make larger purchases. Within a month of its launch, more than 300 people had registered for the program, many of whom have decided to continue to subscribe today.
“The only reason why we’re still here is because we put out a call with that program,” Lorm-
ier said. “It was a way for peo-ple to support us that wasn’t a charity.”
When the Lormiers moved their business from their down-town storefront on Fort Street to The Story Studio building in Oak Bay in September, it cut costs and offered more acces-sibility to those who wouldn’t otherwise have made the trip downtown, Lormier said. He hopes to see the store and stu-dio collaborate on joint literacy events in the future, including an activity-based pre-school book club. But the doors could very well be open to more mat-rimonial occasions.
“This is the sort of story my grandparents told,” David-son said of the international romance. “I just knew. As silly as that sounds, as cliché as that sounds, I just knew.”
And while the sentiment of love stories gone by remains for the lovers who met via Twitter, the details are now written in 140 characters or less.
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A Sidney budgie is getting poked and prodded by a few people as the star of a new interactive children’s book for touch screen devices.
Grape-Jelly Cheeks, based on a real bud-gie, is the star of Sidney’s Nicola Furlong and Glynne Turner’s first interactive kids
book. Mystery and suspense
writer Furlong plunged into the children’s tale after getting an iPad. Already a multi-published author who’d delved into the value-added online supplements for her sto-
ries, Furlong wanted to dive into the kid-die pool taking a story she’d already writ-ten, and putting it on the modern edge of technology.
“You can tell stories so much more interactively,” Furlong said. “We’re really enjoying telling stories. To tell them in this manner blows me away.”
Using the Interactive Touch Books plat-form online gave them the financial abil-ity to put the paper book into the multi-layered option for touchscreen devices. They went about making what Turner
calls a “nice little story with simple visuals.”
“The idea of doing it ourselves was appealing,” Turner said. “That’s the
creative outlet.” Saving Grape-Jelly Cheeks is told
through a cappella singing in hopes of having children and parents laughing and joining in to help rescue a budgie. The musical tale features Turner’s music throughout.
“There’s a number of surprises on the page,” Furlong said, dragging a seed across the screen to the sounds of disco music.
While rescuing Cheeks, readers can touch, explore and discover surprises, like the dancing bird seeds, chatty squir-rels and a chorus of sassy sparrows.
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Forget Santa’s belly-jiggle and spend an evening watching the canes, zils and veils of Asmira’s School of Oriental Dance as they take the stage Dec. 15.
The belly dancing elves are ready to celebrate the season and enchant audiences with their annual Christmas recital this weekend.
More than 40 dancers of all skill-levels from beginners to professionals will perform a variety of styles from classical raqs sharki to folkloric tribal fusion dances.
It all takes place at the Metro Studio Theatre, 1411 Quadra St. at 8 p.m. Tickets are available in advance for $16, and for $18 at the door. Reduced ticket prices for children and seniors are available.
Advance tickets are available at Lyle’s Place, 770 Yates St., Cleopatra’s Bedroom, 654 Fort St., and Asmira’s Studio, 746A, Yates St.
Asmira McConnell puts a seasonal twist on the Oriental art of belly dancing.
Put some wiggle in your wassailArt gallery events
On Sunday, Dec.16, from 2 to 4 p.m. children and their families are invited to explore West Coast winter landscapes inspired by Emily Carr at Family Sunday at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss St. On Sunday Dec. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. enjoy seasonal jazz standards performed by talented Victoria youth. Drop in for this informal performance as styled by the Uni-versity Jazz Advocates and Mentors All-Stars.
A West Coast Christmas Victoria’s Carli
and Julie Kennedy ring in the holidays with West My Friend and The West Coast Christmas Tour show in Victoria at the Superior Cafe, 106 Superior St., on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m.
Audiences can expect traditional Christmas favourites as well as independent multi-instrumental sessions and blended harmo-nies for which Carli and Julie Kennedy and West My Friend are known. For reservations call 250-380-9515.
Ho-Ho-Holiday FolkWith a ho-ho-ho and a rum-a-tum-tum, the
Clover Point Drifters – at least two of them bear-ing a distinct resemblance to Santa Claus – slide into Norway House for a celebration of all things tacky and overfed.
The Victoria Folk Music Society presents The Clover Point Drifters – Yule Tidal Debris, after open stage, at 7:30 p.m. at Norway House, 1110 Hillside, Dec. 23. Admission is $5.
For more go to victoriafolkmusic.ca.
Jam in the new yearJoin the New Years Eve Jazz Party 2012 with
the Victoria Jazz All-Stars featuring Ian McDou-gall, Louise Rose, Roy Styffe, Ken Lister and Kelby MacNayr.
There will be a deeply swinging and fun eve-ning of standards in the cozy setting of Her-mann’s Jazz Club, played by some of Canada’s most celebrated jazz musicians.
Dec. 31, from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $35/ $30 (U-Jam, VJS, advance). Seating is limited, reserve at 250-388-9166.
Advance tickets available at Hermann’s Jazz Club, Allison Piano and Larsen’s Music.
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Royals win crucial points from Thunderbirds
Victoria-bred goalie Brandon Glover of the Seattle Thunderbirds has been strong this season but his team couldn’t stop the Victoria Royals on Tuesday.
The Royals (17-13-0-1) took a 6-2 road win, and moved into sixth in the West-ern Conference, two points ahead of the Thunderbirds (16-15-1-0).
Glover, a former South Island Royals (Thunderbirds) major midget player made 37 saves on 43 shots.
Alex Gogolev opened the scoring for the Royals with his 12th goal of the year in the first period and scored one of the Royals’ three power play goals late in the game for his 13th.
Austin Carroll, Brett Cote, Jamie Crooks and Logan Fisher also scored for the Roy-als.
The Royals are in Red Deer tonight (Dec. 14) and Edmonton tomorrow, before a 13-day break.
Ryan Cochrane named Canada’s acquatic athlete of the year
Ryan Cochrane of Saanich and diver Emilie Heymans of St. Lambert, Que., are Aquatics Canada’s male and female ath-letes of the year for 2012.
Aquatics Canada athletes compete in diving, swimming, synchronized swim-ming and water polo.
Cochrane, 24, won silver in the 1,500m freestyle at the London Olympics, adding to his Olympic bronze medal from 2008. Heymans, 30, won a bronze medal in the 3m synchronized diving with partner Jen-nifer Abel, and made history by being the first Canadian Olympian to win medals at four straight Olympics.
Esquimalt wrestlers take wins from Abby tournament
A select group of Island wrestlers attended last weekend’s Abby Invitational Wrestling Tournament in Abbotsford, and came home with good results.
Athletes from Ucluelet, Port Alberni, Campbell River, Victoria, Cowichan, and Nanaimo attended as the Vancouver Island Wrestling club, and trained together for the first time in Abbotsford on Friday night.
“By the end of the day Saturday both the girls and the boys had put in domi-nant earning impressive overall team points,” said coach Mike Thompson of Esquimalt High.
Esquimalt’s Warren Clark was able to dominate the 70 kgs weight class. His only real challenge came from teammate Mitchell Keeping in the finals, Thompson said.
Also impressive was John Fayad from the Victoria Bulldogs club team who won the cadet boys 60 kgs class.
Racquet Club qualifies ice dance team to nationals
Ice dance team Andie Lynn Gingrich and Liam Kinrade of the Racquet Club Figure Skating Club of Victoria placed seventh overall at the novice dance at the Skate Challenge in Regina last weekend.
Their rendition of the compulsory West-minister programme was tops among all 26 teams.
The pair will attend the Skate Canada 2013 Figure Skating Championships, Jan. 13 to 20 in Mississauga, Ont.
Coach Matt Willis said he’s extremely happy with their accomplishment. Willis has now left to coach brother-sister dance team Leo and Pilar Maekawa as they compete in Zagreb, Croatia. [email protected]
National governing body takes ‘first step’ towards removing fighting
Travis PatersonNews staff
Look away Don Cherry, you won’t want to see this.
Fighting, of the bare knuckle variety, took a hit on Tuesday (Dec. 11) as the Cana-dian Lacrosse Association made any inten-tional occurrence of fisticuffs an automatic ejection from the game, at all levels of box lacrosse.
It’s a nation wide rule change that affects local teams from the Western Lacrosse Association, B.C. Junior Lacrosse League, junior B and intermediate leagues.
Until Tuesday, any two willing combat-ants in a box lacrosse game could come together to trade punches, and serve a five-minute major for their effort, just enough time to catch their breath. And now the barbaric one-on-one contests, which have magically existed outside the law, are being deemed a sideshow by the CLA.
Anyone who receives a fighting major also receives a game misconduct.
“After lengthy discussions and revisions the updated rule enforces that fighting is not tolerated,” says a CLA release.
The no-fighting decision is mostly based on a report presented to the CLA board in October. The presenters were an appointed committee which spent five months prepar-ing their review.
Those at the heart of box lacrosse don’t believe this will end fighting, however, and some pressing questions remain. Among them is the fact that box lacrosse has a con-fusing set of rules and is a gladiator sport with stick work that could make a staff-wielding ninja think twice about standing in front of the net. Heavy cross checks, vio-lent slashes and brutal interference, much
of it away from the ball, happen without recourse on a nightly basis.
The biggest question for stakeholders of the game is why the CLA has moved to expel fighters but not suspend them. Fight-ing in youth lacrosse in B.C. brings auto-matic ejections and subsequent suspen-sions.
Without an automatic suspension tied to the fighting rule, the consensus is that fight-ing will continue in the WLA and BCJLL, predominantly at the end of games.
“Are we going to solve all the problems or issues from fighting in year one? No we’re not. We’ll see what issues arise, and deal
with them as they come along. Our objec-tive is somewhere down the road when a fight breaks out, it’s a rare occurrence, and people will say ‘Oh wow, a fight,’” said Ron McQuarrie, who is vice president of B.C. Lacrosse Association and was part of the committee to tasked with the fighting review.
“It’s a first step, an improvement, and people know that. Will there still be fighting? Probably, but there will be consequences. Fighting doesn’t play a part in sports, except (mixed martial arts).”
McQuarrie said the decision was heavily influenced by the ultimate safety of players,
with the modern concussion epidemic a part of that. Field lacrosse played a small part, as a model of lacrosse without fight-ing.
“We felt people will recognize this is a good move. It’s where we want to take our box game,” McQuarrie said.
Despite early reports to the contrary, the WLA has said it will have to abide by the new rule, though consensus is the league doesn’t like it.
“My understanding is that it’s a compul-sory ruling, and we’ll be examining that, but if that’s the case, then (the WLA) will be moving forward in that direction,” said WLA commissioner Casey Cook.
For years, junior and senior box lacrosse organizations in Canada simply defended its permission of fighting by pointing to its on-ice brother. That, too, is changing.
“The CLA decision is consistent with cur-rent values in society, given the discussions around (fighting and violence) in hockey and all sports,” Cook said.
Whether or not suspensions will be attached to the instigator penalty can still be determined prior to the season.
Until then, call it the vulnerability factor.“On the surface it’s a great rule but it
leaves some tough decisions to the refer-ees,” said Victoria junior Shamrocks GM Rod Wood.
As it stands, a lesser-skilled player can challenge a skilled player into a fight with the potential reward of removing the “vic-tim” from the game, Wood suggested.
McQuarrie, who is in a contradicting spot as assistant coach on Wood’s junior Sham-rocks, said the CLA committee is aware of the vulnerability.
“We do expect that, if someone’s beating the living daylights out of you, you’re going to defend yourself. It’s up to the official to determine who the clear instigator is and that person gets tossed.”
Brock Armour of the Victoria Shamrocks drops his gloves with Steve McKinlay of the Coquitlam Adanacs during the Western Lacrosse Association playoffs in August, 2012. This fight earned a two-minute penalty, but will now come with a game misconduct due to a rule change.
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Austin Carroll is on a roll. He scored the Teddy Bear toss goal on Saturday against the Swift Current Broncos and had a Gordie Howe hat trick versus the Seattle Thunderbirds on Tuesday.
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Fri. Dec. 14: VIJHL, Comox Valley Glacier Kings at Saanich Braves, 6:30 p.m., Pearkes arena.
Fri. Dec. 14: VIJHL, Victoria Cougars at Peninsula Panthers, 7:30 p.m. at Archie Browning Sports Centre.
Fri. Dec. 14: BCHL, Prince George Spruce Kings at Victoria Grizzlies, 7:10 p.m. Bear Mountain Arena.
Sun. Dec. 16: BCHL, Cowichan Capitals at Victoria Grizzlies, 6 p.m., Bear Mountain Arena.
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Mount Douglas Rams running back Mason Swift stiff arms a would-be tackler from the Vancouver College Fighting Irish in the Subway Bowl, AAA high school football provincial championship on Dec. 1. Swift was named the Subway Bowl MVP and will play for Team B.C. under-18 in January.Christian J. Stewart Photography
Scholarships on the lineTravis PatersonNews staff
At 6-foot-6 and still a “junior,” or Grade 11 stu-dent by Canadian standards, Ashton MacKinnon is set to stand out in front of top collegiate scouts in Texas later this month.
The giant quarterback is one of six players from the Mount Douglas Rams AAA Subway Bowl cham-pionship team to make Team B.C. for a Football University (FBU) tournament in San Antonio, Dec. 30 to Jan. 6.
One of the key elements of the under-18 tourna-ment, which pits Team B.C. against teams from U.S.A. and Europe, is that players are assigned to one position.
The final 36 players were selected following last Friday’s (Dec. 7) one day camp at the B.C. Lions training facility.
“A big part of the challenge will be to prepare in a short period of time for a quality opponent who you are unfamiliar with, and play multiple games within only a few days of one another,” said Rams head coach Mark Townsend, who is going as Team B.C.’s running backs coach and special teams co-ordinator.
“Having said that, everyone is in the same boat and I know it will prove to be a memorable and rewarding experience for players and coaches.”
MacKinnon will share the quarterback duties with Ballenas Whaler star Liam O’Brien. The 6-foot-4, 200 lbs. pivot from Qualicum is this year’s AA player of the year.
Remarkably, four of the six Rams going are in Grade 11. Marcus Davis, B.C.’s AAA player of the year, made the team as a wide receiver, while
monster-sized Zach Wilkinson (6-foot-5, 245 lbs.) and Christian Krause (6-foot-4, 320 lbs.) are going as offensive linemen.
Rams seniors Mason Swift, a two-time Sub-way Bowl MVP, and Brian Dowds, this year’s Big Kahuna scholarship winner, will go as running back and wide receiver, respectively.
From the Belmont Bulldogs, Grade 12 player Brodie Henderson will join Wilkinson and Krause on the offensive line. Interestingly, five of six offen-sive linemen are coming from the Island, with Brock Mould of Ballenas and Chae-Cody Faickney of the Nanaimo Redmen named as well.
Belmont coach Alexis Sanschagrin is also going as the defensive backs coach.
As for special teams coach Townsend, he’s already picked the punt and kick returners.
Inserting the electric Davis as punt returner is a no-brainer, with Davis and the province’s most dev-astating running back, Maleek Irons (W.J. Mouatt), lining up deep as kick returners. Davis returned five kicks/punts for touchdowns in the regular season and had a 65-yard punt return in the first quarter of the Subway Bowl.
The FBU International games are held in con-junction with the U.S. Army All-American Games, a well-hyped, televised promotion of the country’s top high schoolers.
Three of the junior Rams players will play for Team Canada in the 15-and-under U.S. Army All-American games; Junior Rams running back Manny Lopez, defensive lineman Byron MacKin-non and offensive lineman Jesse Woollard.
The ultimate goal for the players is to earn notice by NCAA and CIS scouts looking to give out scholarships.
Div. 1 GP W L T PtsCowichan FC 13 12 1 0 36Bays United 11 10 1 0 30Saanich Fusion FC 11 9 1 1 28Nanaimo Utd. FC 14 8 5 1 25Vic West FC 12 7 5 0 21Castaways FC 14 3 9 2 11Sooke Celtic 10 3 6 1 10Gorge FC 14 3 10 1 10PLSC Lakers 13 2 11 0 6Saltspring FC 12 1 9 2 5
Recent gamesSaltspring FC 1 Saanich Fusion 7Castaways FC 0 Bays United 13Sooke Celtic 2 Prospect Lake 1 Gorge FC 3 Nanaimo Utd. 2Cowichan FC 1 Vic West FC 0
Leading scorers GJordie Hughes, Bays United 24Patrick Nelson, Saanich Fusion 12Kellen Holden, Bays United 10Ryan Andre, Cowichan FC 10Cooper Barry, Saanich Fusion 9Matthew Northrup, Bays United 6Dan Citra, Cowichan FC 6Chris Wellsman, Vic West FC 6Gord Akerman, Saltspring FC 5Tony Maestrello, Nanaimo Utd. 5
Lower Island Women’s Soccer Association
Team GP W L D Pts1 Prospect 11 8 0 1 252 Castaways 11 7 2 1 223 Saan.Fusion 10 5 3 1 164 Vic West 11 5 5 0 155 Vic A’s 11 4 3 3 156 Nanaimo 11 1 7 3 67 Lakehill 11 0 10 1 1
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Roszan HolmenNews staff
After seven years of quietly cultivating vegetables and rais-ing chickens, Mason Street City Farm operator Angela Moran is ready to take her business to the next level.
By spring, she plans to delve into aquaponics – and she’s reaching out to the com-munity, both for donations and with a unique offer.
“Aquaponics is so perfectly suited to the city,” said Moran, who leases a privately-owned, 1,000-square-metre lot in the North Park neighbourhood and sells her produce to local restaurants.
The concept of aquapon-ics links fish tanks and garden beds for the benefit of both.
It works this way: rainwater fills the fish tank; fish water nourishes plants; and gar-den beds recycle oxygenated water back to the fish.
It doesn’t require much space and can be set up almost anywhere – includ-ing on concrete, Moran said. It also uses 90-per-cent less water than conventional farm-ing as it recirculates water.
Building an aquaponics system isn’t a new idea for Moran, but the timing is finally right to get started. “I was pregnant when I found out about aquaponics, but I had to
step back,” she said.About four years later, her
daughter can now play in a fenced-in area between rows of veggies while Moran works.
She also just signed a three-year lease on the property. “(Until now) it’s always been year-to-year. It’s a big victory … (because) it’s hard for you to make any significant busi-ness investment that can make you really good money, if you don’t have that security of tenure.”
Sitting just blocks from downtown, Mason Street City Farm has been in continuous cultivation since the 1980s.
With help from friend Jesse Brown, Moran plans to build
the aquaponics system on her farm by next spring, and to hire four paid interns.
She’ll be reaching out to organizations like Our Place Society and the Intercultural Association for potential appli-cants, who will have to meet a low-income criteria to qualify.
“A big part about food jus-tice and food sovereignty is changing who has access to the knowledge to grow food,” said Moran.
As for her own business, Moran is toying between two types of fish – a tasty food fish named tilapia, or the heartier koi, a “hot commodity” among backyard pond owners.
Angela Moran and fellow farmer Jesse Brown, along with one of their 19 chickens, sit amongst the kale at the Mason Street City Farm. The farm is aiming to use techniques of aquaponics to grow food.
Visit the farm, make a donation:Check out the Mason Street City Farm (on Mason between Vancouver and Cook streets) Dec. 16 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Moran is trying to raise $12,500 to build the aquaponics system and pay the interns. Read more or donate to the project at indiegogo.com/farmforthefuture.
Tom FletcherBlack Press
Politicians and aboriginal leaders have signed a three-year extension to their ground-breaking deal for resource sharing on 4.5 million hectares of northern Vancouver Island and the adjacent coast.
At a signing ceremony at the B.C. legislature Monday, Nanwakolas Council president Dallas Smith said other B.C. First Nations were skepti-cal of his group entering into forestry, mining and hydroelectric power deals without having trea-ties.
But after it was established in 2007, the number of Nanwakolas members participating has grown from six to 10, and similar “strategic engagement agreements” have been signed around the prov-ince. The agreement is leading towards a formal deal with coastal forest companies, a proposed coal mine and several proposed independent power projects, Smith said.
The region extends from Port Hardy to Comox, and a broad swath of the adjacent coast that includes Bute Inlet, Knight Inlet and north to Cape Caution. Also included are the Kliniklini and Homathko River watersheds.
Aboriginal Relations Minister Ida Chong said the agreement affects up to $6 billion worth of power projects, but Smith said the specifics are confidential due to discussions with private power developers.
The province has agreed to pay $2.26 million to the Nanwakolas Council to implement the agree-ment and build capacity to issue permits for con-struction.
Rick Jeffery, president of the Coastal Forest Products Association, said the agreement will help companies work out their own logging agreement on the entire traditional territory.
“It’s very hard for us to go into capital markets and raise money to rebuild mills or fund opera-tions if you don't have any certainty on the land base because of First Nations issues, so this is very positive,” Jeffery said.
B.C. extends aboriginal land agreement
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