EVENT BIG JUNE We’re giving away a variety of jewellery care packages this June. Visit our website to see all the gift package details. *Excluding Pandora Jewellery Receive a FREE gift with any purchase of in-stock product, repair or restoration. The more you spend the bigger the gift! FINE CUSTOM JEWELLERS BARCLAY S 106-2187 Oak Bay Ave. 250-592-1100 barclaysjewellers.com Your Jewellery is Our Specialty OAK BAY NEWS 30 years of colour Saanich artist celebrates three decades with solo exhibit at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill. Entertainment, Page A12 Going to the dogs Expanded access to McNeill Bay leads to more dog-friendly Oak Bay. Community, Page A6 Watch for breaking news at www.oakbaynews.com Friday, June 1, 2012 Brittany Lee News staff Get out your bathtubs and start your engines. This weekend’s 50th anniversary of the Oak Bay Tea Party continues a longtime tra- dition of good clean fun on Sunday, June 3. Bathtub racing has been a part of the Tea Party festivities for 44 years. “Despite how disorganized some of these tubbers look, there is a bit of skill involved in winding your way (through the course),” said Bob McLeod, a former tub racer, who organizes the event along with Russ Mal- colm. “It’s nowhere close to being a cult, but there’s people who do the circuit.” What started as an event to celebrate Nanaimo’s centennial in 1967, continues its reputation as “a good clean sport” to tub racing enthusiasts throughout B.C. The race attracts participants from as far away as Australia. The Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society hosts races in different cities throughout the year, with the Oak Bay race being just one of them. “It’s one of the (society’s) most popular races,” Margaret Johnson, vice commodore of the society, said. This year, in honour of the Tea Party’s 50th anniversary, the LNBS has developed a collectable trade dollar. “It’s always been a successful race and we thought we would like to salute them,” Johnson said. Oak Bay Tea Party celebrates 50 years, and 44 of bathtub racing Sharon Tiffin/News staff Having a whale of a time Whale watching boats try to stay ahead of a pod of orcas off Gonzales Point near the Victoria Golf Course. Canadian law prohibits disturbing marine mammals, and requires boaters to stay at least 100 metres from whales and reduce their speed to less than seven knots when within 400 metres of the mammals. Get ready to say cheese News photographers will be out all day Tuesday, June 5 taking photos for our special Day in the Life of Oak Bay edition, which hits the streets July 11. Readers are invited to send photos, taken on June 5, to us for possible inclusion. Email your high resolution jpeg attachment along with the time it was taken and details, including the name of your subject and the photographer’s contact information to [email protected] by 5 p.m. June 8. Tea Party tradition of clean fun PLEASE SEE: Bathtubber’s tip, Page A5
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OAK BAYNEWS30 years of colourSaanich artist celebrates three decades with solo exhibit at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill. Entertainment, Page A12
Going to the dogsExpanded access to McNeill Bay leads to more dog-friendly Oak Bay. Community, Page A6
Watch for breaking news at www.oakbaynews.comFriday, June 1, 2012
Brittany LeeNews staff
Get out your bathtubs and start your engines.
This weekend’s 50th anniversary of the Oak Bay Tea Party continues a longtime tra-dition of good clean fun on Sunday, June 3.
Bathtub racing has been a part of the Tea Party festivities for 44 years.
“Despite how disorganized some of these tubbers look, there is a bit of skill involved in winding your way (through the course),” said Bob McLeod, a former tub racer, who organizes the event along with Russ Mal-colm.
“It’s nowhere close to being a cult, but there’s people who do the circuit.”
What started as an event to celebrate Nanaimo’s centennial in 1967, continues its reputation as “a good clean sport” to tub racing enthusiasts throughout B.C. The race attracts participants from as far away as Australia.
The Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society hosts
races in different cities throughout the year, with the Oak Bay race being just one of them.
“It’s one of the (society’s) most popular races,” Margaret Johnson, vice commodore of the society, said.
This year, in honour of the Tea Party’s 50th anniversary, the LNBS has developed a collectable trade dollar.
“It’s always been a successful race and we thought we would like to salute them,” Johnson said.
Oak Bay Tea Party celebrates 50 years, and 44 of bathtub racing
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Having a whale of a timeWhale watching boats try to stay ahead of a pod of orcas off Gonzales Point near the Victoria Golf Course. Canadian law prohibits disturbing marine mammals, and requires boaters to stay at least 100 metres from whales and reduce their speed to less than seven knots when within 400 metres of the mammals.
Get ready to say cheese
News photographers will be out all day Tuesday, June 5 taking photos for our special Day in the Life of Oak Bay edition, which hits the streets July 11.
Readers are invited to send photos, taken on June 5, to us for possible inclusion. Email your high resolution jpeg attachment along with the time it was taken and details, including the name of your subject and the photographer’s contact information to [email protected] by 5 p.m. June 8.
Tea Party tradition of clean fun
PLEASE SEE: Bathtubber’s tip, Page A5
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Imagine growing up as a girl with no choices, no voice in the direction your life takes.
A group of female teachers, known as Women Helping Women, are hosting their second annual invitation-only Garden Party FUNdraiser in Oak Bay this weekend to help young women in Malawi further their education and raise funds for a teacher’s training college through Girls on the Move Malawi Education Foundation.
Last year’s event, which saw about 130 attendees, raised more than $20,000 for a student hostel.
This year the group of women hope to raise even more.
“We work at such a privileged institution and we know the difference education makes and we know the difference that education makes for girls,” said Susan Vachon, a teacher at St. Michaels University School and one of the group.
“We all strongly believe that in order to solve the issues, the issue of poverty and all the associated things with it, in Malawi, we need educated women.”
Vachon and fellow teachers from Women Helping Women, started the group in support of their friend and former colleague Christie Johnson,
one of the co-founders of Girls on the Move.
Johnson’s actions to help improve the lives of many young women in rural Africa inspired the women to take part in the cause.
“You meet (Christie), this totally understated person who has literally changed the lives of hundreds of people … with no ego, and you just want to be a part of it,” Vachon said. “I can’t start a school in Africa, but I can definitely support her.”
In 2007, Johnson along with Memory Mdyetseni, who lives in Malawi, established Atsikana Pa Ulendo Secondary School in Malawi to help young women further their education.
“We came up with the idea (of Girls on the Move) and starting fundraising for our own secondary school,” Johnson said. “And in just five years we have 13 buildings and 320 students on full scholarship at this boarding school.”
Johnson, a teacher at Pearson College, and Mdyetseni developed the concept of Girls on the Move in 2006,. Their foundation formed about a year-and-a-half ago.
Atsikana Pa Ulendo, which
translates into girls on the move in Chichewa language, was started to give girls a choice, and a voice in their life. By educating these young women, it makes them employable, and therefore, self-sufficient, Johnson said.
“They can make a decision about their life and they have control,”
Johnson said. “They’re moving forward and changing their lives, and changing other peoples lives.”
Last June, the school graduated its first class of 73 women.
While the secondary school has been successful, Johnson said it soon became
clear that the young women were in need of further education.
“It became really clear very quickly that these girls are not yet independent, they need further training,” Johnson said. “We really don’t want them to finish Form 4 (equivalent to Grade 12) and then go back to the village (where) everything kind of goes backwards again.”
While the idea to build a teacher’s training college is still in its infancy, the goal is to start construction this September, depending on available funds.
Johnson estimates it could take two years to complete the building and will cost more than $200,000.
The teacher’s college, once finished, would start with 60 students each year, with the ability to take in up to 300. The program would be two years long, with one year focusing on course work and one on practicum.
While Girls on the Move can’t provide each girl with her dream education, it can give them something to work towards, Johnson said.
“If they want later on to be a pilot, or they want to go to university, once they have a job … they can save money and they can take charge of wherever they want to go from there.”
Funds raised at this weekend’s garden party will be the start of the learning facility, which includes a library and computer lab.
“It’s a big, big project,” Johnson said, adding that once complete, it could have a huge impact on the country.
“These girls will then go into far flung villages all over the country and they will spread what they know and help other girls,” she said.
For more information about Girls on the Move or to sponsor a student at APU, visit www.malawigirlsonthemove.com.
Group of Oak Bay teachers aim to help Girls on the Move build a teacher’s training college
Oak Bay garden party raises funds for girls in Malawi
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Jane Rees, left, Becky Anderson, Sarah Beeston, Susan Vachon, Dariol Haydock, Gillian Donald, Tanya Lee, Allison Weir and Bonnie Davidson raise their glasses at St. Michaels University School as they prepare for their garden party Malawi fundraiser.
“They’re moving forward and changing their lives, and changing other peoples lives.”
- Christie Johnson
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Rubber ducky I’m awfully fond of youGrade 12 Oak Bay High students Reid Linklater, centre, and Gracie Hatherill, right, try to herd the rubber duckies to head toward the finish line in Bowker Creek, while their classmates bring up the rear. The Rubber Duckie race is an annual event organized by the Environment Club which raised more than $440 for the Bowker Creek Initiative.
Every year, since 1979, the society has produced a coin saluting various organizations or celebrating significant anni-versaries, Johnson said.
Some of the previous trade dollars produced were in honour of the Royal Cana-dian Navy’s 100th anniversary, the RCMP’s 125th, and the 100th anniver-sary of St. John’s Ambulance in Nanaimo.
“It was just an idea somebody had and it’s the longest continuously running trade dollar in Canada,” John-son said, noting that she has a list of keen collectors who have been collecting the coins since the beginning.
The coin will display a LNBS logo on one side, and a logo honouring the Oak Bay Tea Party Society on the other.
Also as part of the Tea Party’s
50th, the LNBS has entered the world’s largest bathtub, which calls Nanaimo home, in the Tea Party parade for the first time.
Bathtub racing is all about having fun and earning bragging rights, McLeod said.
“It’s basically boat rac-ing,” Malcolm explained. “It has a little bit of adventure to it as well.”
The race con-sists of three cate-gories: supermod-ified, modified, and stock.
While some rac-ers tend so go all out with their tub designs – with high horse-power engines – that doesn’t mean tubs designed simply, known as stock, don’t have a chance winning for their cate-gory.
“You’ll see maybe four to six rockets, and then the rest are just there for a good time, they lumber along,” McLeod said with a laugh.
His advice: go slowly, and don’t swamp the tub.
Last year’s race saw about 24 racers, and the same is expected this year. Racers can register at Willows Beach on Sunday (June 3) between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.
The bathtub race runs from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday.
For more information about bathtub racing, see www.bath-tubbing.com. For more details on the Oak Bay Tea Party go to www.oakbayteaparty.com
Where’s the beefOak Bay Public Works Department employee Joe Achadinha, right, lines up a railing with the help of Trevor Johansen, left, as they put together the Oak Bay Tea Party’s famous Baron of Beef stand at Willows Beach. Achadinha has put the stand up for the last 27 years but will retire before next year’s event.
Continued from Page A1
Did you know?■ Bob McLeod is also seeking people to help set up the race course and haul tub racers out after the race. To volunteer as a safety boat or help set up the course, find McLeod or Malcolm by the beach Sunday morning from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Bathtubber’s tip: Don’t
“You’ll see maybe four to six rockets, and then the rest are just there for a good time.”
- Bob McLeod
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On June 27th Oak Bay Council will make a final decision on Baptist Housing’s variance requests for the proposed redevelopment of Oak Bay Lodge.
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Dog owners in Oak Bay will soon be able to walk their canines on McNeill Bay Beach from sunrise to sunset.
Council has approved a pilot project to expand the hours dogs are allowed on McNeill Bay Beach throughout the summer months.
In a report presented to coun-cil Monday night, members from the Windsor Park Dog Group said expanding access to the beach is the most immediate need for dog owners.
“Dogs need reasonably big spaces (to exercise in), so we looked at a whole bunch of parks in Oak Bay,” Gloria Back, from the Windsor Park Dog Group, said Tuesday.
“(McNeill Bay Beach) is a very different kind of beach. It’s cold and windy.”
Back, along with Chris Ash and a small group of volunteers, tabled the report after Mayor Nils Jensen requested a dog management report in January.
Working with Oak Bay Parks, Victoria Animal Control Ser-vices, and the opinions of both dog and non-dog owners, the group identified six areas in Oak Bay that could be made more “dog-friendly.”
McNeill Bay was chosen as a good spot for dogs because it isn’t an “ideal” beach for people without dogs.
“It’s got big pebbles … it’s got a lot of goose poop there in the summer, so it’s not very hygienic for kids to play,” Back explained.
“It’s a long strip and that’s where we feel that dogs can get exer-cise.”
For eight to 10 weeks, dogs will be allowed almost unlimited access on the beach. Dogs will be prohibited from Kitty Islet and McMicking Point, areas near the beach that will be reserved for families to use, Back said.
The current bylaw allows dogs on McNeill Bay from sun-rise to 11 a.m. and from 7 p.m. to sunset, from May through Sep-tember.
The pilot project is “a good way to move forward” in mak-ing the municipality more dog-friendly, said Jensen.
“Council came to the conclu-sion that it was a reasonable request to start with a small pilot (project),” he said.
The fact that the group’s report was so “thorough, well-researched, and balanced” lead to council’s unanimous vote for the project, said Jensen.
The project will go through
two more bylaw readings in June before being implemented.
Other suggestions in the report, which consists of 21 rec-ommendations, include looking at expanding access to dogs in other parks or beaches, as well as providing easier access to information regarding dog licensing and bylaws.
Spear grass remediation and a dog poop bag pilot project was also part of the report.
Council has asked Oak Bay parks to figure out costs and locations for the pilot project and bring recommendations back to council in late summer or early fall.
The poop bag pilot project would involve placing bags for dog owners to use in various areas of the municipality. Such programs already exist in Victo-ria, Saanich and Sidney.
“We acknowledge that not every dog owner is as respon-sible as they should be,” Back said, adding that the hope would be to see if people use the bags and whether or not the amount of dog feces in parks is reduced.
The McNeill Bay pilot project, along with other recommenda-tions from the report, will be evaluated in the fall.
The dog management report can be viewed on the municipal-ity’s website, oakbaybc.org, and public input is welcome.
“We’re looking at efficiencies, how can we make things better? How can we make our parks bet-ter, more useable?” Jensen said.
“We’re doing that on a wide range of issues across the board. … (Dog management) was just one of the many initiatives we have for community engage-ment.”
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The elimination of staff at the Vic-toria office of Veterans Affairs Canada this fall will deal a devastating blow to military veterans, says the union repre-senting the affected employees.
The main office for the department on the Island will see its roster of 17 client service agents shrink by 4.37 full-time equivalent positions. The front-line staff work with veterans applying for disability pensions and mobility aids, among other services.
Across Canada, 75 agent positions are being cut. Employees will likely start receiving their surplus notices this fall, said Kim Coles, national exec-utive vice-president of the Union of Veterans Affairs Employees, represent-ing 2,700 members, plus 500 hospital staff.
In the wake of the job cuts, the Royal Canadian Legion in B.C. expects to see an influx of veterans submitting more disability claims.
That will further swamp the Legion’s two service officers, one each at CFB Esquimalt and in Vancouver, who are already filing papers for hundreds of
vets, who turn to the Legion rather than Veterans Affairs.
“The workload has increased tenfold for our two service officers in the last few months, to a point where we’re going to have to hire two more,” said Dave Sinclair, immediate past presi-dent of the B.C./Yukon Command of the Royal Canadian Legion.
Job cuts at Veterans Affairs will only com-pound the challenge of providing for military veterans, he said.
The number of Afghan-istan vets who are now seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder from Legion-funded treatment pro-grams, and who are seeking to file claims, is only the tip of the iceberg.
“We’re not going to see the full impact of the Afghanistan veterans for another four or five years,” Sinclair said, adding it takes time for the disor-der to manifest itself.
The union is already reeling from pre-viously announced plans to terminate 552 jobs from the department over the
next three years. In the wake of the fed-eral budget in March, Veterans Affairs now plans to eliminate a total of 804 positions by 2015-16.
“How are they going to maintain the service to veterans with that? I don’t care how much stuff you say can be
done on the computer,” Coles said. “We’re not processing passports here. We’re dealing with people’s lives, people that have sacrificed for their country. That mandate is all going out the window and it’s all becoming a numbers game.”
The government’s plans to create efficien-cies will actually ramp
up delays, he said.“My gosh, (some older veterans)
could die before they actually get ser-vices they put in for in the first place.”
A spokesperson for Veterans Affairs Canada said its restructuring process will not reduce services to veterans. Rather, it will eliminate unnecessary red tape to provide “better and faster” service.
“We will continue to meet or exceed our service standard of one case manager for every 40 case-managed veterans,” the spokesperson said.
The department expects to manage its restructuring through attrition, since approximately 1,000 workers will be eligible to retire between now and 2016.
But Coles said only about 50 per cent of those peo-ple will be willing or able to retire.
The full impact on specific staff posi-tions has not yet been fleshed out yet, the department spokesperson said, but “our staff in the Victoria area will continue to play an important role in supporting the department’s work.”
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We are troubled by news that Veterans Affairs Canada is downsizing its department, including the district office in Victoria, due to budget cuts.
Unlike the days when much of its work dealt with the post-Second World War struggles and challenges faced by service personnel, Veterans Affairs today is seeing an influx of people whose experience came in such theatres as Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and various peacekeeping scenarios.
For those engaged in combat roles, their experiences might be similar to those lived through by their military predecessors. Yet the understanding today of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological illnesses is greater than the Second World War, when struggling Canadian servicemen were pigeonholed as having “battle exhaustion.”
In true military fashion, Veteran Affairs insists that none of its clients will be left behind as a result of the cuts to office personnel.
The union representing the workers, voicing a predictable doom-and-gloom response, argues that veterans will begin to fall through the cracks due to projected increases in already too-large caseloads for staff and the added time it will take to process client requests.
As in all labour-employer disputes, the truth probably lies somewhere in between.
But the telling point in this conversation comes from the Royal Canadian Legion, which, for years, has done its best, given its limited resources, to fill the void in veteran support left by the federal government.
They expect the next four or five years to produce more diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder than ever, a scenario which, if not addressed, could have devastating effects not only on the individuals, but their families.
In a time of belt-tightening, the federal government needs to make cuts.
But no matter how it is sugar-coated by Veterans Affairs, the decision to downsize the department’s front-line operations not only sets a dangerous precedent, it’s a slap in the face to individuals who have willingly and bravely served their country.
A few weeks ago I was walking through my neighbourhood, with my daughter in front of me, pedaling her tricycle.
We were on our way home from the park and my daughter was crying. Nothing too serious, she always cries when we leave the park.
Other than a whimper-ing toddler, things were going well until we were followed by three teens, about 16 or 17 years old.
I am not one to be fear-ful of teens or paint them all with the same brush. In fact, I really like rebellious teens and have a soft spot for misunder-stood youth.
But these teens were making fun of me for my weight and say-ing things I wouldn’t want to see in print.
It was two girls and a boy, but it was one of the girls who was doing the talking.
She carried on yelling loudly across the street to me. She made some hand gestures and continued to harass me – even crossing the street to walk behind me and my daughter.
The years I’ve spent in kickboxing and taekwondo would have really come in handy if I reacted how I wanted to (I have a pretty awe-some roundhouse kick, if I do say so myself).
I have never punched someone without my boxing gloves or out-side the ring. I’ve never punched
someone because I was angry. Right then I sure felt close.
I looked down at my daughter, who was still crying, and thought about the message I wanted to send to her. So I kept my hands on the tricycle instead of on the girl’s face.
All kidding aside, I don’t believe in violence, it’s no better than the behaviour of those teens.
So I kept walking, listening to the taunts and contemplating the right way to respond. What should my reaction have been? Should I have followed them home and spoke to their parents?
I was angry and if I were to respond, I would have used some choice words my daughter doesn’t need to learn quite yet.
At one point I stopped to talk to my daughter and the teens walked past me. I looked them right in the eye and watched their faces turn humble.
Maybe that was enough.These teens weren’t wearing
hoods or smoking cigarettes. They were well-groomed and appeared to be straight out of an American Eagle catalogue.
I have written many stories on
bullying and talked about the issue with kids, parents, teachers and police officers. Regardless of all the work people are doing, the problem is still here.
Bullying is nothing new, but that doesn’t make it OK or some kind of rite of passage. There are kids kill-ing themselves over things just like this.
It has been a long time since I have been bullied. Probably since I was in middle school.
I hope those teens look back on that evening a few years from now and realize it’s too late to apologize to the stranger they mocked.
Do they realize the message they were sending to my daughter?
But hey, if you are reading this, it could have been your kid or grand-child. Would you be embarrassed to know a column was published about how disrespectful they were?
The whole situation is rather embarrassing for me, too. Before writing this, I never told anyone about my evening. I was trying to forget it ever happened.
Maybe this is why bullying isn’t reported to school officials or the RCMP. If, at age 30, I am too embar-rassed to talk about it, how can we ever expect a child to?
Which is why I am writing this. I shouldn’t be embarrassed because of someone else’s poor choices.
Charla Huber is a reporter with the Goldstream News Gazette.
‘If I am too embarrassed to talk about it, how can we ever expect a child to?’
Charla HuberWritten in ink
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LETTERSSlow drivers present greatest hazard
Re: Keep pressuring high-risk drivers (Our View, May 18)
The content of your editorial is common and clearly one-sided. While I agree that the police should intervene when drivers are clearly breaking the law, I believe the main issue is drivers who travel in the left lane on a four-lane road at about the same speed as those in the right lane.
There are some signs that state, “Slower traffic keep right.” In my view, “slow” does not necessarily mean someone going below the posted speed limit. Instead, I consider those slow drivers to be the ones
who impede the left-lane traffic because they want to exercise their “right” to be in that lane. These are the self-appointed traffic enforcers.
About 25 years ago when I was living in Alberta, we had the same kind of risky drivers as we see in B.C. today. There were also signs suggesting that slower traffic stay to the right lane, but that was rarely obeyed or enforced.
Then the light came on with the powers that be. They increased the number and visibility of the signs, even highlighted them with bright green rays. It took two to four
years, but the drivers finally got it and it was uncommon to find Albertans playing traffic enforcers in the passing lane.
Travelling on the highways became safer and much more pleasant. It appears that all it took was an attitude adjustment and drivers left it up to the police to enforce the speeders in the left lane. I have little doubt that a similar change in attitude for B.C. drivers would greatly reduce the risky manoeuvres of aggressive drivers. Leave it to the police, people.
R. ChongNorth Saanich
Politicians, executivesshould respect austerity
Being long retired, I come from the generation where wages were poor, benefits almost unknown, severance packages for the working person unheard of.
Today’s public servants largely have no experience of those dreadful days.
A recent political cartoon illustrating the “Taxpayer Bank of B.C.” showed B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union members dressed in robber’s garb charging in, while MLAs exited with rich salary and pensions. I also recently read about Oak Bay, where a burst water main was allowed to gush for an entire weekend, as it was cheaper than calling out workers at “double overtime.”
Having been a government employee, private business person and elected municipal councillor for a period of nine years, I am genuinely fearful for the future. No one wants increases in taxation, but how else to meet demands?
I do not advocate a return to those earlier days when workers’ treatment was grossly unfair, so let us start with cuts at the MLAs’ pension trough, executive compensation and bonuses.
Overall, I suspect if effective attention were to be paid to these contentious and unfairly
overgenerous situations, then workers might not be so demanding.
Bluntly, we are very fortunate to live in Canada. Let us not kill the already struggling golden goose through base greed and stupidity.
Stephen LambVictoria
Site C dam processpasses enviro muster
As the Site C dam project inches toward the intense scrutiny of the environmental assessment process, it’s worth reflecting on the differences between an energy project today and one built in decades past, such as the Bennett Dam.
When the Bennett Dam was built in the 1960s in the Peace River country of northeastern B.C., the construction crew simply showed up with their tools and started working.
Not so today. B.C. Hydro estimates it will spend $300 million on the Site C dam environmental review process,
including scores of studies of animal and fish populations, along with extensive archaeological, historical and other studies.
None of these considerations figured in any significant way when the Bennett Dam was built.
Site C provides us with a rare opportunity to build upon the past in an environmentally sensitive way and to make the most of the water already stored behind the Bennett Dam, by using it to generate clean hydro power a second time on its way downstream.
The persuasive efficiency of Site C, and the unparalleled environmental scrutiny it has already undergone, bode well for the project.
That’s why, once any potential impacts have been addressed or mitigated, I’m cautiously optimistic Site C will pass through the formal assessment process with flying colours.
Jesse McClintonSaanich
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If the perfect landscape presents itself, painter Christine Reimer isn’t shy about screeching her car to a halt on the side of the highway to capture the moment. Nobody said art was safe.
The veteran Saanich artist, known for blending realism and whimsy in dramatic landscape pieces, is marking 30 years of paint-ing with a show at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, starting Sunday.
It’s her first show in Greater Vic-toria since 2010 and features a mix of landscapes and abstract florals, perhaps 25 to 30 pieces gener-ated in the past few years. The landscapes will be familiar to any-one who has travelled across the Island and the province – Rocky mountains and verdant meadows, wilderness lakes amid Douglas fir forests, Gulf Island arbutus trees stretching over water.
“I grew up on the coast, I have a bond with the coastal landscape,” Reimer said. “Being an Islander, it’s in my blood.”
She admits the abstract florals were a deviation from the hunt for landscapes – a kind of creative
rejuvenation necessary every few years.
“I get bored doing the same thing. What I’ve done over 30 years is take detours,” Reimer said. “I had a figurative period of painting quirky people in dream-like settings. I do that for a while, and then landscapes become fresh again.
“I do find it hard to limit myself to one thing – there are so many vibrant colours. I can’t help myself.
I’m obsessed with colour, I always have been.”
Reimer has been an artist since she can remember, drawing at a young age and watching her talent emerge as a teenager. She cred-its art teachers Bill West and Car-ole Sabiston at Oak Bay High and then University of Victoria instruc-tor and influential Canadian artist James Gordaneer as influencing and guiding her style and devel-opment.
Working through different medi-ums while earning her BFA at UVic, it was her great-uncle and noted painter Max Maynard (a contem-porary of Emily Carr and Jack Shadbolt in the 1930s and ‘40s) who steered her toward landscape images. “I was so inspired by the way he did landscapes,” Reimer said. “I thought I would give it a shot.”
It was a good decision. Now a professional working artist for 25 years, Reimer’s work decorates corporate offices, high-end hotels, restaurants, and galleries across B.C. “Between kids and paint-ing, I’ve worked full time,” she said. “And my husband has been extremely supportive.”
Reimer said she’s fortunate to make a living as an artist, but noted her “long-suffering” husband must tolerate intensive photography during trips – she took a thousand photos in Banff and Jasper last fall – and the occasional demand to pull over on the highway, often so she can scramble up a cliff to grab a shot. Her photography is the groundwork for her art.
“My photos allow me to recall the place with better detail. If I use other photos of places I haven’t
been, you can’t evoke the place truly.”
She admits that the last few years have been tough personally and professionally. The economic downturn across North America has squeezed budgets for com-missioned art pieces and private sales. But she still keeps up a work schedule of painting about five days a week, usually in inten-sive three-hour bursts of acrylic on canvas.
“It’s been really tough at times. The last few years. It’s been very difficult for all artists. Art is a lux-ury item for people.”
Her work will be on display for two weeks in June, but Reimer is mulling her next set of work after recently returning from England – the roofscape and old-world archi-tecture of London. “It’s something that’s tweaked my interest until I detour back to landscapes,” she said.
Reimer’s Peaks, Islands and Beyond – 30 years of Colour solo exhibit runs from June 3 to 17 at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd. The grand opening gala is Thursday, June 7, 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Artist Christine Reimer in her studio with some of the paintings she’ll be exhibiting at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill.
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Vivian MoreauContributor
His voice softens when Victoria poet Jay Ruzesky talks about the time he spent in Antarctica this winter. The trip was the real-ization of a lifelong dream to see the place where Ruzesky’s maternal great-grand-father’s first cousin, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, had discovered the south pole in December 1911. Normally never one at a loss for words Ruzesky pauses trying to describe the allure of the place that even in summer is 98 per cent covered in ice.
“It feels immediately like you’ve entered a place unlike any other in the world, the only other place would be like going to space or to the moon because it is so devoid of us and continues to be. There’s no planes flying overhead, no telephone wires, no dis-tant sounds of motors.” And even though travelling on a tourist ship there were still
beaches where you could land and be the first human to do so, he said.
Fifteen years ago Ruzesky wrote but set aside a novel about Amundsen’s south pole adventure. He is best known for his 2001 poetry collection, Blue Himalayan Poppies and novel, The Wolsenburg Clock, which was nominated for the City of Vicoria But-ler Book Prize. On leave now from teach-ing duties at Vancouver Island University he is starting in on another manuscript, a non-fiction account blending his visit with Amundsen’s.
Ruzesky travelled with his brother from Chile to the Antarctic peninsula on a 235-foot refitted research ship that was home for 10 days in December last year, 100 years after Amundsen travelled there. With guides the duo kayaked and watched tens of thou-sands of gentoo and chinstrap penguins as well as leopard and Weddell seals. They saw icebergs calve and learned the difference between bergs and floes.
“It was a pilgrimage in the real old sense of the word,” Ruzesky said, “to this place that had been in my imagination since I was a little kid. It had a mythical status. It was
where heroes came from.” From his first sighting aboard the ship,
Ruzesky said he had the strange sense of being home.
“Yet it was weird to feel at home in a place so inhospitable to human beings.”
About 1,000 scientists live at research sta-tions in Antarctica, which is about 14 million kilometres squared and 28 million in the winter when sea ice doubles the continent’s size. About 25,000 tourists visit each year.
Although Antarctica is usually thought of as blue and white, it really has about 10,000 shades of blue, he said. Constantly changing light alters the colour and texture of what-ever you are gazing at.
When his guide heard Ruzesky was keen to see any spot where Amundsen might have been he took the brothers in a zodiak to see the peaks on Two Hummock Island where Amundsen went skiing more than 100 years ago – “the first tourist,” Ruzesky said.
Picking their way through a colony of pen-guins Ruzesky was at first disappointed at clouds covering the peaks. But then, as he recorded in a blog, the weather shifted.
“It stops snowing and the clouds lift so fast it’s as though someone just removed a tarp from the sky. The clouds simply disap-pear and are replaced by deep blue sky and bright sun.”
He spent the next hour feverishly taking as many shots as he could, before clouds moved in again. Although not a religious man, Ruzesky said that day was a profound experience.
I have kayaked through castellated ice-bergs, I have communed with penguins, I have caressed thousands-year-old ice and allowed the heat of my fingers to melt it. In Antarctica you have to come to terms with immensity.
To learn more about Ruzesky’s trip go to http://jayruzesky.blogspot.ca/
Victoria poet returns from pilgrimage to family explorer’s landing spot
Antarctica beguiles“I stand by as a freeway of penguins travels to and from the breaking
waves in lane after lane of determination. It’s like being up against the wall at Grand Central Station at rush hour and the flow of birds is fascinating.”
- From Victoria poet Jay Ruzesky’s blog
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Royal Oak Burial Park, with artist Paula Jardine, host the third annual Summer So[u]lstice June 23.
It is an opportunity for the public to experience and enjoy the grounds of the Burial Park in a unique and different way. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., enjoy live music and poetry when Wendy Morton and Rhonda Ganz turn your memories into poems made from your words. Stroll through the terraces, find your ancestors and ask questions of staff, visit the Woodlands green burial area and see the plans and site for the Little Spirits Garden, a special community memorial dedicated to infant and child loss. For more information, go to robp.ca
In the CommunityAlex Tilley, founder and
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signed 123 hats and for every hat signed, Tilley Endurables donated $5 to the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Victoria. In addition to the $615 raised by the signing, Tilley Hat owners contributed another $75 for a combined total of $690.
Highlights of the signing include one man with 13 hats, and another person with a United Nations Canadian Peacekeeping light blue Tilley hat that had seen service in the Persian Gulf.
Awards & AccoladesAfter more than 100
nominations and a public vote, the West Coast Social Media Awards have narrowed the field to category finalists which will now be evaluated by the judges’ panel. One winner in each category will be revealed June 8 at the awards dinner at the Victoria Conference Centre, emceed by Erica Ehm.
Madrona Gallery is celebrating its second anniversary and invites art lovers to stop by from 1 to 4 p.m., June 2, for a party and Nicholas Bott’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
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Brothers lead Rams to track and field B.C.sTravis PatersonNews staff
Mount Douglas Rams track team brothers Thomas and Ethan Getty are separated by two years in age, and
1,100 metres on the track. Seventeen-year-old Thomas is in Grade
11 and specializes in middle distance run-ning, his shortest event being the 1,500m. Fifteen-year-old Ethan is in Grade 9, but his focus is on the sprinting distances, the longest being 400m.
“We’re pretty competitive in everything else (non-running) we do,” said Thomas. “Though I guess Ethan would be the bet-ter lacrosse player, since he’s still playing and I no longer do.”
Both have qualified for the high school track and field provincials at Burnaby’s Swanguard Stadium on Saturday and Sun-day (June 1 and 2), having helped the
Mount Doug Rams to second place at the Island championship, behind power-house Oak Bay High.
Thomas finished second in the 1,500m and first in the 3,000m at the Island track championship.
And though Ethan was equally adept in the bantam-age (Grade 9) Island champi-onship, he might want to consider com-peting in a longer race, as on paper, his results improved as each distance grew. Ethan finished fourth in the 100m, second in the 200m and first in the 400m.
Track wasn’t the house sport growing up, say the brothers, but has become it. Ethan plays Saanich Tigers lacrosse, and Thomas did, while younger brother Graeme, 12, competed in running at Arbu-tus middle school (before the season was cancelled).
Dad did some running as a youth, Thomas said, but for the boys running just came naturally.
“Back in elementary we’d lap the school field,” Thomas said. “I did well but didn’t win every race. But I found liked the stra-tegic aspect of the longer distances.”
Ethan, however, prefers to the short courses. “I just seemed to like sprinting.”
There’s no ceiling to what the brothers can accomplish, as both transfer well to dirt paths of cross country during the fall running season. Thomas has a year remaining before competing at the uni-versity level to Ethan’s three, should he go that route.
“Ethan is part of a special group of younger Mount Doug runners coming up,” Rams coach Al Niezen said.
“We’ve got 20 kids going to provincials and half are Grade 9s.”
For Thomas, the biggest challenge this weekend is could come from his elite high school track teammates Liam Kennel of Oak Bay High and Ben Weir of Glenlyon Norfolk School. Weir was injured for the Island finals but finished second behind Thomas in the 1,500m and 3,000m of the Lower Island.
Kennel is only 16, but is a threat at the senior level as part of the Oak Bay track team looking to continue its domi-nation of the combined girls and boys team title. Brendan Restall leads the Bays team, which is deep in talent once again. If all goes well, Restall will win the 400m again before graduating to the UVic Vikes next year,
Mount Doug has its top shooters as well, with Katelyn Hayward a lock to win the 3,000m one more time before she graduates. Hay-ward will most likely forego the 1,500m steeplechase, the very event she set the B.C. record in last year, to nurse a leg injury she sus-tained during the high school cross coun-try season.
In the fieldNo Island school has been able to
match the crew of throwers coming out of Lambrick Park in recent years.
This year Lambrick’s Mason Kereszti is hoping for three medals. The defending B.C. javelin champ was first in the discus and javelin and second in the shotput at the Islands.
Victoria-trained rowers Scott Frandsen and David Calder are silver medalists once again. The Beijing runners-up in the men’s pair dupli-cated their famous effort from the 2008 Olym-pics and brought home one of three medals earned by Canada from last week’s 2012 World Cup in Switzerland.
“Our training and hard work has proved that you can teach an old dog new tricks,” Calder said.
Picked to compete in one of seven boats at this year’s London Olympics, the duo of Calder and Frandsen lost only to New Zea-land, which was the favourite going in to the world cup.
“We’ve got the count-down to London in our heads right now.”
One of the biggest surprises was Canada’s men’s eight slipping to bronze in Sunday’s final, despite setting the world’s best time in the heat on Friday.
Coxswain Brian Price and rower Malcom Howard of Victoria return to lead the gold-medal winning boat from Beijing, with Ontario rowers Will Crothers, Jeremiah Brown, Andrew Byrnes, Conlin McCabe, Rob Gibson and Doug Csima, plus Gabe Bergen from 100 Mile House.
The lightweight women’s double of Tracy Cameron and Lindsay Jennerich finished sec-ond in the B final, the equivalent to eighth over-all.
Canada’s women’s eight lost gold in a photo finish to U.S.A. Our southern neighbours squeaked out a gold-medal victory over Canada by .03 of a second. The rowers return to Canada this week though the women’s eight will con-tinue to train and compete in Europe.
Mount Douglas secondary runners Ethan and Thomas Getty are competing at the track and field provincials in Burnaby this weekend. The elder Thomas is a medal hopeful in the senior category 1,500m and 3,000m, while Ethan is a triple threat at the bantam level (Grade 9) in the 400m, 200m and 100m sprints.
Katelyn Hayward
Our training and hard work has proved that you can teach an old dog new tricks.”
– Dave Calder
“Ethan is part of a special group of younger Mount Doug runners.” – Rams coach Al Niezen
All-stars commit to ChargersFive Island all-stars have committed to the
Camosun Chargers men’s basketball team for the 2012-13 Pacwest college season: Oak Bay Bays’ Evan Woodson and Kaz Kobayashi, Mount Douglas Ram Curtis Wilson, Claremont Spartan Desmond Slack and Cowichan guard Mitch Knippleberg.
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Cricket league seeks young bloodSaturday studieswith bats and bowlsTravis Paterson News staff
The city’s top cricketers aren’t from here, they moved here. And maybe it will always be that way. But it’s not stop-ping John Wenman and company from the Victoria and District Cricket Associa-tion from believing the Lower Island can once again rise to a competitive level equal or better than the B.C. Mainland Cricket League.
“It was about 20 to 25 year ago that our clubs could rival the Mainland,” Wenman said.
The difference is that many of the bet-ter cricket players have immigrated to B.C., and there are plenty more ex-pat players in the Vancouver area than in Victoria.
Still, Wenman finds it odd the top teams are not better, because Greater Victoria has more cricket teams than ever. Which is where Wenman comes in.
Now 69, the retired teacher from Stel-ly’s secondary learned the game here, where he was born and raised. His for-mer team, the University School Incogs, is celebrating its 100th season this year.
Wenman long ago shifted to recruiting and teaching, and is behind the league’s Saturday morning cricket school at St. Michaels University School. The pro-gram begins on June 2, for kids aged
eight to 14, and runs until the last Satur-day in August. Seminars last two hours and range from cricket introduction for newbies to development for return play-ers. Younger students use softer equip-ment until they’re a little older, or have got the hang of the game.
By 14, some players are ready to join the Colts, a designated youth team play-ing in the less competitive mid-week league.
“Through the summer program we’ve put through quite a few players to the Colts, and have seen players move from the Colts into the more competitive weekend league,” Wenman said.
It’s been 50 years since Claremont sec-ondary school opened its doors to Saanich. And from those doors has emerged a seem-ingly non-stop stream of athletes ranging from city champions to Olympians.
As part of its 50th anniversary on Satur-day (June 2) Claremont is revealing the Wall of Fame in the main hallway and gym. The school is inducting 27 athletes, who played a range of sports from major league pitcher Rich Harden and national team soccer player Wanda Rozwad-owska, to Ironman tri-athlete turned paralym-pic rower Tony Theri-ault and track star Deb-bie Scott. The youngest is diver Riley McCor-mick, 20, who is set for his second Olympics this summer.
Claremont’s also put-ting rugby’s Peter Sim-monds and Ed Kubek in for coaching excel-lence, and Joe Lott and
Gerry Montgomery in the builder category.
The induction cer-emony begins at 5:30 p.m. in the gym, with a formal mention of each athlete. More athletes will be added in the coming years.
It’s all part of an open house for alumni begin-ning at 3 p.m.
The school will be open with a series of designated “era rooms” for alumni to mix with their graduation year.
Fri. June 1: W-League, Seattle Sounders at Peninsula Co-op (Highlanders), 4:30 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.
Sat. June 2: PDL men, Abbotsford Mariners at Victoria Highlanders FC, 7 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.
Sat. June 2: PCSL premier men, Okanagan Challenge at Victoria Highlanders reserve, 7 p.m., Hampton Park.
Sat. June 2: PCSL premier men, Poco City FC at Vic United, 4:30 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.
Sun. June 3: PCSL premier men, Vancouver Thunderbirds at Victoria United, 4:30 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.
Sun. June 3: PCSL premier men, Poco City FC at Victoria Highlanders, 4:30 p.m., Hampton Park.
Sun. June 3: W-League, Colorado Rush at Peninsula Co-op (Highlanders), 2 p.m., Royal Athletic Park.
Lacrosse
Fri. June 1: WLA, Nanaimo Timbermen at Victoria Shamrocks, 7:45 p.m., Bear Mountain Arena.
Sat. June 2: Int. A, Maple Ridge Burrards at Victoria Shamrocks, 1:30 p.m., Bear Mountain Arena.
Sat. June 2: BCJLL Jr. A, Delta Islanders at Shamrocks, 5 p.m., Bear Mountain Arena.
Claremont archives
Claremont rugby great Casey Walt lifts the 1970 Howard Russell Cup (city trophy). Walt joins the wall of fame as one of sports stars to come from Claremont.
Spartans enshrine sporting history
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Speedy squareThe men’s (pictured from 2011 above) and women’s elite race of the Bastion Square Grand Prix goes Sunday morning, part of the Robert Cameron Law Cycling series this weekend, which includes the time trials at Clover Point tonight and B.C. road championship in Metchosin on Saturday.
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When a Victoria police offi-cer radios for backup from Esquimalt, a five-second delay can feel like forever.
Long delays through the regional emergency commu-nications system (CREST)are rare, but dead air remains enough of a problem in pockets of Esquimalt to demand a new transmission site in the town-ship.
Police and other users have immediate radio communica-tion about 99.55 per cent of the time, according to the CREST annual report.
A recent Planetworks consul-tant study indicated that over-all, the system is working well, but has experienced call delays of more than five seconds due to heavy congestion.
“In Esquimalt there are areas where coverage isn’t as good as officers would like,” said Gord Horth, general manger of Capital Region Emergency Service Telecommunications (CREST).
“Officers need immediate access. If they don’t get that immediate access, the aver-age queue is 1.2 seconds dur-ing busy times, but we have instances of three or four sec-onds,” Horth said. “In an emer-gency, counting one, two, three,
four can be significant. At peak times you can get delays and we want to minimize those delays.”
Victoria police Const. Mike Russell said the Planetworks report confirms problems offi-cers have been struggling with for years – radio interference and other technical hang-ups with the system.
“There are still issues in Esquimalt and James Bay, but we are encouraged by the (Pla-networks) independent report. It validates concerns we’ve been having for years now," Russell said. “We are encour-aged CREST accepts the report and is moving forward.”
Complaints with the CREST system have ebbed since the days when police and firefight-ers opted to use cellphones in the face of CREST dead zones and spotty radio coverage.
CREST board chair Gordie Logan, a Colwood councillor, said the agency is continually trying to improve service in the downtown core where tall buildings and deep parking garages can kill the signal.
“When tall buildings go up, it distorts the signal, but you don’t know (the extent) until you do testing,” he noted. “There are ongoing (CREST) infrastructure upgrades in the downtown core. It won’t ever end.”
Building a transmission site in Esquimalt and securing more frequencies for the system, are the top priorities of the agency this year. It also plans to upgrade transmission sites to improve reliability in James Bay, Saanich, Oak Bay and the West Shore.
“Complaints have dropped off compared to what they used to be. We are still working with the Victoria police to iden-tify and address specific areas,” Logan said.
“CREST had issues in the early days, but the concept is sound,” Horth noted. ”There is always room to improve and that is the path we are on.”
Anther key task this year is convincing Industry Canada to release more radio frequencies for the system. Now serving 40 emergency agencies in the Capital Region, CREST is reach-ing its capacity for radio traffic, “has a limited ability to grow” and is justified in requesting five more transmission chan-nels, Planetworks’ report said.
At the same time, the CREST board is starting to look at next generation technology to replace the existing $10.6 mil-lion system. Planetworks sug-gested a new system could be phased in as debt on the cur-rent system is paid out over the next three to five years.
