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Greater Victoria is in for a treat tomorrow (June 27) as Monday Magazine blazes a new trail in Victoria publishing.

As Black Press announced earlier this month, Monday Magazine has been re-imagined from an alternative weekly to a comprehensive arts and entertainment guide in print and with 24/7 updates on the web.

In addition to the new Monday Magazine, which hits the streets this Thursday, a revamped website features weekly blogs, fun videos and continuous updates from our writers with plenty of room for readers to share their thoughts and ideas.

Black Press’ Victoria community newspapers — Victoria News, Saanich News, Oak Bay News and the Goldstream News Gazette – will also host an expanded, Monday-approved arts and entertainment section in your familiar Wednesday and Friday community newspapers, complete with an events calendar that begins Friday, June 28.

The vibrant, full-colour Monday also offers extensive coverage of outdoor recreation (check out the “West Coast Wild” adventures column with Danielle Pope), sports (see how Kyle Slavin makes out in the first “Playing With the Pros”) and an expanded events calendar – available in print and also at MondayMag.com and Vicnews.com.

“Now more than ever, Monday’s focus is celebrating the wealth of talent and culture our city offers,” said publisher Penny Sakamoto.

Alongside the familiar voice of arts writer Mary Ellen Green,

effervescent film reviewer Robert Moyes and the ever-popular horoscopes by Georgia Nicols, Monday will now feature popular CTV entertainment reporter Adam Sawatsky, arts maven Janis La Couvée, independent film advice from Victoria Film Fest director Kathy Kay, the contemporary musings of CBC Radio host Jo-Ann Roberts, tips from interior design consultant Sheri Peterson, comedic relief from Mike Delamont, fashion it-girl Emma Yardley and well-known gastronaut Don Genova.

Part of the kick-off includes a contest with a chance to win a new 2013 Honda NCH50 Giorno scooter. Find all the details inside the July issue.

The new Monday includes plenty of in-depth features and information on what’s happening in Greater Victoria that you won’t find anywhere else, so we invite you to join us as we delve deeper into the arts scene and discover the adventurer within us all.

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High school arts facility gets $1M from councilReplacement project moves ahead with help from District of Oak Bay

Danielle PopeNews staff

The Oak Bay High replacement project is one step closer.

Farmer Construction Ltd. has been awarded the contract to create the dis-trict’s new school and will work with design partner, Hughes Condon Marler, through comple-tion.

The choice follows an extensive evaluation of three shortlisted firms. Negotiations between Farmer and the Greater Victoria School District are expected to result in a fixed-priced agree-ment within a few weeks. Design-build activities will begin immediately after.

“Today we have reached an important milestone in the delivery of the new high school for the students and the community of Oak Bay,” Greater Victoria Board of Edu-cation chair Peg Orcherton said.

“Having an experienced, first-class team such as Farmer Construction Ltd. to work with … is significant and we are looking forward to putting shovels in the ground this summer.”

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Yogis welcomedin Willows Park

Natalie NorthNews staff

After the Oak Bay parks and recreation commission shut him down in 2012, the organizer of free summer yoga sessions in Willows Park is ready to take a deep breath in and try it again.

“We have a permit and it’s all legit,” said Pete Rose, a yoga instructor for VI Fit-ness and Synergy Wellness Centre.

Last year Rose organized and promoted a weekly free summer yoga series in the park, but without having applied for a permit to use the park, saw just one ses-sion come to fruition before the series halted.

Following the disappoint-ment, Rose filed an appli-cation for use of the park in 2013. The commission okayed the event, Rose pur-chased insurance and yoga will now take place Tuesday nights from 6 to 7 p.m. in Willows Park.

The permit was granted on a trial basis for one year.

“Things do work if you go through the bureaucracy. It just takes a lot of planning and foresight.”

The gentle Hatha class is open to all ages and abilities and will run no matter the weather.

“Even if it’s raining, we can do fast yoga under the trees.”

Last year about 30 peo-

ple from age four to 70 – roughly half were first tim-ers – came out to what Rose describes as a truly magical location for yoga.

“It’s been practised for thousands of years in India

in the public domain. Now yoga has become popular again, which is wonderful, but it costs money. We want to give an opportunity for folks to come out and have it for free. It’s a gift back to

the people of Oak Bay – a yoga gift.”

And to receive the gift, the Lulu Lemon gear and mats aren’t necessary – just a towel will do, he added.

“There’s a cleanliness to

it. There’s nothing attached. There’s pure gift. If people love it, they can come back. And if they really love it, they can continue practis-ing elsewhere.”[email protected]

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(From left) Kirsten Pierce and Jules Payne, co-owners of Ajna Yoga Studio in Oak Bay, join Michelle Schroeder and Pete Rose, co-ordinator of Yoga in the Park, in a strecth on the field at Willows Park.

Stymied in past by bureaucracy, summer yoga classes set to go

Oak Bay closer to determining its strategy: mayorDanielle PopeNews staff

What has at least 200 legs and 33 open mouths? The turnout for a discussion on deer in Oak Bay.

More than 100 people, 33 of whom spoke, attended Oak Bay’s special committee of the whole meeting June 12 regarding the Capital Regional District’s Regional Deer Management Strategy.

The meeting was in response to the CRD’s request, last spring, that council provide a response to 10 suggestions

made around possible implementation of the strategy. Those requests were brought to a heated discussion at the meeting, which provided an opportunity for further public input.

“There are, of course, many different views on the issue, but everyone is supportive of this (consultation) process,” Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said. “I do think we are in a position now to make some decisions.”

Following the input, council was expected to make its decision on Monday (June 24, after the News’ deadline) on a number of the requests.

Strategies the CRD has looked at include pursuing fencing subsidies, improving public education around deer and the use of repellent, devising aggressive-deer protocols, changing public hunting regulations, enhancing the First Nations harvest, pursuing a catch-and-euthanize approach, refining road signage and speed limits, tracking deer-related complaints and formalizing participation in a Regional Deer Management Strategy oversight committee.

One speaker, Susan Vickery of EARS Sanctuary in Coombs, advocated for and shared

her efforts in testing out an immuno-contraceptive on her own herd of 40 rescued deer. Vickery offered sanctuary for some of the University of Victoria rabbits during its campus-wide cull in 2011.

In three weeks, Vickery was able to raise $80,000 in support funds for the rabbits and offered her services to now help find sponsors for the non-lethal contraceptive shots.

“There are a handful of people who would like to see all the deer gone and a handful of people who would like to see them all stay,” she said. “But most of us are looking for that middle ground where we can recognize everyone’s needs – our gardeners, farmers, children and the deer – and find the tools to co-exist.”

Jensen says part of the problem is that the deer have no natural predators in the area, save cars. While the CRD has no official numbers on how many deer currently live in the region, the district has seen an “explosion” of deer complaints in the last decade, and public works crews in Oak Bay have tracked the numbers of carcasses they’ve had to collect through accidents. Three dead deer were taken to Hartland Landfill in 2007, none were found in 2008, 2012 saw 23 removed and crews have removed 11 bodies in 2013.

“Mostly what we’ve heard is a general need for action,” Jensen said. “And what people are saying is that deer are not meant to be urban animals.”

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Gyro Parkin line for overhaulSaanich offers three plans for public inputKyle SlavinNews staff

Gyro Park could be unrecogniz-able in the coming years, as Saa-nich parks planners are looking to give the Cadboro Bay beach a major facelift.

Last week planners released three concept plans that outline a variety of upgrades designed to make the park more accessible and usable year-round.

“Right now the park is looking somewhat worn out and tired, so these new facilities would cer-tainly improve the appearance and aesthetics of the park,” said Gary Darrah, manager of parks planning with Saanich.

“The main (principle for the three plans) is trying to reclaim as much of the prime waterfront space as we can for park users, rather than cars,” he said.

All three concepts call for the main gravel parking lot to be reduced in size and the area clos-est to the water re-greened and turned into open space. A second-ary parking lot – both lots will be paved – is part of all three plans to reduce the loss of vehicle parking.

Among the potential changes is moving the tennis courts closer to Cadboro Bay Road and creating a stormwater pond.

“I think everyone recognizes the fact that stormwater control and flood mitigation ... is important for us. Annually you can count on the park flooding,” Darrah said. “One of the things we’re trying to achieve with this redevelopment is comfortable year-round use of the park – not slogging through water to get to the beach or the playground.”

Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard says he’s been trying to get Gyro Park updated since 1987, so he’s optimistic the community will provide the feedback and support for a much-needed change.

“We’d like to get a concept plan adopted so that it’s a park that gets a little TLC. I would like to see it get some attention after all these years,” he said.

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A pair of deer eat away at a hedge

in a yard along Cotswold Road in

the Uplands district in Oak Bay. The

public consultation process on

strategies to deal with the abundance

of urban deer continued at Oak

Bay’s council meeting on Monday

night.Don Denton/News staff

Great deer debate continues

Danielle PopeReporting

“There are, of course, many different views on the issue, but everyone

is supportive of this (consultation) process.

I do think we are in a position now to make some

decisions.”– Mayor Nils Jensen

Oak Bay closer to determining its strategy: mayorDanielle PopeNews staff

What has at least 200 legs and 33 open mouths? The turnout for a discussion on deer in Oak Bay.

More than 100 people, 33 of whom spoke, attended Oak Bay’s special committee of the whole meeting June 12 regarding the Capital Regional District’s Regional Deer Management Strategy.

The meeting was in response to the CRD’s request, last spring, that council provide a response to 10 suggestions

made around possible implementation of the strategy. Those requests were brought to a heated discussion at the meeting, which provided an opportunity for further public input.

“There are, of course, many different views on the issue, but everyone is supportive of this (consultation) process,” Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said. “I do think we are in a position now to make some decisions.”

Following the input, council was expected to make its decision on Monday (June 24, after the News’ deadline) on a number of the requests.

Strategies the CRD has looked at include pursuing fencing subsidies, improving public education around deer and the use of repellent, devising aggressive-deer protocols, changing public hunting regulations, enhancing the First Nations harvest, pursuing a catch-and-euthanize approach, refining road signage and speed limits, tracking deer-related complaints and formalizing participation in a Regional Deer Management Strategy oversight committee.

One speaker, Susan Vickery of EARS Sanctuary in Coombs, advocated for and shared

her efforts in testing out an immuno-contraceptive on her own herd of 40 rescued deer. Vickery offered sanctuary for some of the University of Victoria rabbits during its campus-wide cull in 2011.

In three weeks, Vickery was able to raise $80,000 in support funds for the rabbits and offered her services to now help find sponsors for the non-lethal contraceptive shots.

“There are a handful of people who would like to see all the deer gone and a handful of people who would like to see them all stay,” she said. “But most of us are looking for that middle ground where we can recognize everyone’s needs – our gardeners, farmers, children and the deer – and find the tools to co-exist.”

Jensen says part of the problem is that the deer have no natural predators in the area, save cars. While the CRD has no official numbers on how many deer currently live in the region, the district has seen an “explosion” of deer complaints in the last decade, and public works crews in Oak Bay have tracked the numbers of carcasses they’ve had to collect through accidents. Three dead deer were taken to Hartland Landfill in 2007, none were found in 2008, 2012 saw 23 removed and crews have removed 11 bodies in 2013.

“Mostly what we’ve heard is a general need for action,” Jensen said. “And what people are saying is that deer are not meant to be urban animals.”

[email protected]

Gyro Parkin line for overhaulSaanich offers three plans for public inputKyle SlavinNews staff

Gyro Park could be unrecogniz-able in the coming years, as Saa-nich parks planners are looking to give the Cadboro Bay beach a major facelift.

Last week planners released three concept plans that outline a variety of upgrades designed to make the park more accessible and usable year-round.

“Right now the park is looking somewhat worn out and tired, so these new facilities would cer-tainly improve the appearance and aesthetics of the park,” said Gary Darrah, manager of parks planning with Saanich.

“The main (principle for the three plans) is trying to reclaim as much of the prime waterfront space as we can for park users, rather than cars,” he said.

All three concepts call for the main gravel parking lot to be reduced in size and the area clos-est to the water re-greened and turned into open space. A second-ary parking lot – both lots will be paved – is part of all three plans to reduce the loss of vehicle parking.

Among the potential changes is moving the tennis courts closer to Cadboro Bay Road and creating a stormwater pond.

“I think everyone recognizes the fact that stormwater control and flood mitigation ... is important for us. Annually you can count on the park flooding,” Darrah said. “One of the things we’re trying to achieve with this redevelopment is comfortable year-round use of the park – not slogging through water to get to the beach or the playground.”

Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard says he’s been trying to get Gyro Park updated since 1987, so he’s optimistic the community will provide the feedback and support for a much-needed change.

“We’d like to get a concept plan adopted so that it’s a park that gets a little TLC. I would like to see it get some attention after all these years,” he said.

[email protected]

A pair of deer eat away at a hedge

in a yard along Cotswold Road in

the Uplands district in Oak Bay. The

public consultation process on

strategies to deal with the abundance

of urban deer continued at Oak

Bay’s council meeting on Monday

night.Don Denton/News staff

Great deer debate continues

Danielle PopeReporting

“There are, of course, many different views on the issue, but everyone

is supportive of this (consultation) process.

I do think we are in a position now to make some

decisions.”– Mayor Nils Jensen

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The Centre of the Universe, a hub for astronomy education in Victoria, is closing to the public for good at the end of the summer.

The National Research Council confirmed that the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory interpretive centre will close at the end of August, after the

final student summer camps end. Two employees will lose their jobs and one will be reassigned, the NRC says. The facility has been open for 12 years.

“It’s got to do with financial constraints,” said Charles Drouin, spokesman for the NRC in Ottawa. “We do exercises that look at all the activities and programs, and rejig them. It was a tough decision, but one we felt we had to do.”

The Centre of the Universe facility – which houses historical artifacts like the original 1.8-metre mirror from the Plaskett Telescope and runs historical tours, multimedia shows and youth programs – costs about $32,000 to operate and $245,000 in employee wages, and brings in about $47,000 per year in revenue, giving the NRC a sum savings of $230,000 per year.

The NRC has a $900 million annual budget, covering 4,000 employees across 50 research facilities.

The observatory employs about 100 people in research and its engineering shop.

Drouin confirmed the astronomy facility and national historic site will have no public outreach come late August or early September, and locals and visitors will no longer be able to tour the Plaskett Telescope, in operation since May 6, 1918.

This would be the first time in decades, if ever, the facility hasn’t hosted Saturday night observing events or tours of the telescope.

“It’s one thing to do away with the Centre of the Universe, but the large telescope will not be available for public outreach,” said Nelson Walker, president of the Royal Astronomical Society, Victoria Centre.

Between 8,000 and 10,000 people visit the site each year, many of whom are children getting their first taste

of hands-on astronomy.The society has

been around as long as the observatory. Members volunteer to help NRC staff with telescope setup and tours. “Someone’s first foray into astronomy is always amazing. People gasp when they see their first close-up of the moon. It’s one thing to see it on a computer, it’s another to see it through a telescope,” Walker said.

Drouin said the decision to close the Centre of the Universe is not related to Ottawa’s announcement in May to reorganize the NRC as an “industry-focused research and technology organization.” “This was an independent exercise,” he said.

The artifacts and displays in the Centre of the Universe building will stay after the facility is closed. Drouin said the NRC working with local community groups to find volunteers to use the [email protected]

The project is predicted to generate more than 100 full-time jobs for the next two years, and is still scheduled to be completed by August 2015.

While designs are not yet finalized, the new school will meet the latest seismic construction standards and be built to attain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification.

It will accommodate up to 1,300 students and will include a neighbourhood learning centre, day-care and state-of-the-art performing arts facility.

Earlier this month the District of Oak Bay announced it will contribute $1 million to the cre-ation of the school’s new arts facility. Half of that will be awarded when build permits are issued, the other half granted upon completion of the project.

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High school aims for LEED gold

Feds cut astronomy outreachCentre of the Universe, telescope tours done after summer season

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The Centre of the Universe, a public interpretative centre located next to the main telescope (above) at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, is being shut down due to budget cutbacks.


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Mustard Seed receptionist Jessica Woods is smiling from ear to ear as she describes her remodeled reception area at the Queens Avenue facility.

The new counters are better suited for her height, she says, and the large, slid-ing glass service window that replaced a tiny one with bars on it allows community members who need help to do so in a more dignified way.

The changes are among the structural improvements completed in the recent HeroWork extreme makeover of the food bank, drop-in centre and chapel.

The major rejuvenation of the busy social service provider’s main floor in late May and early June, combined with a pair of major food drives, has helped Mustard

Seed kick off the summer on a bright note.“(HeroWork’s) Convoy of Awesome was

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“The (Mustard Seed’s five-ton) truck was over-full. They had to use two trucks (belonging to) donors to hold the rest. (And) I was overwhelmed by how many businesses and people and groups got together and got behind the Mustard Seed.”

Between 80 and 100 businesses and hun-dreds of volunteers were part of the week-long makeover project, the end-of-week food drive, or both. Combined with the Greater Victoria Postie Food Drive that happened the pre-vious week, nearly 15,000 kilo-grams of food was collected.

As Cox-Ziegler pointed out, however, that amount covers only about three weeks’ sup-ply for the food bank.

“In June, July and August the demand for food from families rises,” she said. “Chil-dren who would normally get

(meal) support from schools do not get that support in summertime, and there’s usually less food donations. It’s really important that the donations continue.”

In summer the food bank includes fresh food in hampers, she said. Mustard Seed recently received 360 kilograms of straw-berries from Oldfield Orchards.

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Food drives, makeover start summer rightMustard Seed receptionist Jessica Woods is pleased with her new office setup, courtesy of the recent Hero Work extreme makeover.Don Descoteau/News staff


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There are nine new faces in Premier Christy Clark’s cabinet, seven of them elected to the B.C. legislature for the first time on May 14.

They have been handed some of the hottest problems, and Clark’s marching orders in “mandate letters” for each ministry. And this is the start of a four-year term, when unpopular reforms are attempted.

Take Amrik Virk, the former RCMP inspector from Surrey who’s suddenly in charge of advanced education. His mandate includes: “Review the student loan program to make recommendations for improvement to ensure the loan program is meeting the needs of today’s students.”

Virk must also set targets to “match the skills we need with the skills we are graduating” and require post-secondary schools to “ensure student seats are being filled.”

B.C. can’t afford to keep cranking out university grads with $50,000 in debt and no job prospects in a system that’s subsidized 65 per cent.

Virk will be working closely with Education Minister Peter Fassbender, who must “ensure seamless transitions” from high school to the workforce for post-secondary trades and apprenticeships.

In his spare time, Fassbender is to overhaul the school district

bargaining agency and achieve a 10-year peace with the teachers’ union.

Justice Minister Suzanne Anton has worked as a Crown prosecutor, so she’ll have some insight into the system that still grapples with Stanley Cup rioters from two summers ago.

Her orders are to get traffic tickets and other administrative penalties out of the courts, keep working on integrating police fiefdoms and generally treat the constipation that afflicts

law enforcement today.Oh, and get that new Okanagan

prison built, to relieve a system that has inmates living in tents. And examine whether to spin off the Liquor Distribution Branch into a Crown corporation, a possible prelude to selling it.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s first test was a grilling by the Vancouver media. Yup, this Kamloops hayseed has been to the Big Smoke a few times, ridden that fancy SkyTrain and taken the odd ferry, too.

Now he has to impose the ferry route reductions that have been worked on by two previous ministers, and push Metro Vancouver through a referendum on ways to fund its own transit. If more tolls or taxes are going to be implemented, now is the time.

Coralee Oakes has made a political leap from Quesnel city hall to the Ministry of Community,

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Oakes has to figure out how to “better provide provincial support” to sport and cultural organizations, but do it with no new money. All ministers have strict instructions to balance their lean budgets and take part in the latest “core review” to identify government functions that can be sold, delegated or shut down.

New Minister of International Trade, Richmond’s Teresa Wat, has to find a way to continue the growth of lumber and other exports to China, India and elsewhere on the Pacific Rim.

On top of that, the always-delicate softwood lumber agreement with the U.S. expires in three years.

The last major eruption on that front was in 2009, when B.C. cut stumpage rates for remote coastal areas to give communities much-needed employment. The Americans were livid, just as they were with our beetle-kill harvesting efforts. And of course, the U.S.-directed environmental movement continues to target Canadian industries.

Third-term MLA John Rustad gets aboriginal relations, with specific instructions to deal with gas and perhaps oil pipelines through his Nechako Lakes constituency.

–Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

[email protected]

Cabinet rookies handed hot files

‘This is the start of ... when unpopular reforms are attempted.’

Feds abandon science education

Many parts of Greater Victoria offer a view of the large white dome atop of Observatory Hill in Saanich.

At the end of the summer, that’s about the only way people will get to take in the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory.

The National Research Council reluctantly admitted last week that it plans to close the Centre of the Universe interpretive centre and end all public outreach connected with astronomy and astrophysics at the attached Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.

This will likely be the first time in the facility’s nearly 100 year history the public has been shut out of this local national historic site.

Greater Victoria has a lot to be proud of with the observatory – for a brief moment, the Plaskett telescope was the largest in the world, and it is a site that continues to make significant contributions to precision technology and our understanding of the universe.

The scientific research arm of the site, the NRC Herzberg Institute, isn’t closing and will continue to employ more than 100 people. But the federal government’s mandate to reorganize the NRC as an “industry-focused” organization certainly doesn’t inspire confidence.

Closing the Centre of the Universe is being framed as a cost saving measure under a regime of restricted budgets, and not a consequence of the NRC’s new approach.

It’s fair to say that the federal government has decided to abandon public education linked to its federal science.

Closing the Centre of the Universe will save the NRC about $230,000 of its $900 million budget, implying the decision was driven by an ideology suspicious of and hostile to science, rather than the principle of saving a few public tax dollars.

If the government wants “industry-focused” research and advanced technology, closing the door of research centres to young people is shortsighted and counterproductive.

Out of the thousands of kids that visit the Centre of the Universe each year, if only a handful are inspired to enter engineering, math and the sciences, the public outreach has proved its worth.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views


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There are nine new faces in Premier Christy Clark’s cabinet, seven of them elected to the B.C. legislature for the first time on May 14.

They have been handed some of the hottest problems, and Clark’s marching orders in “mandate letters” for each ministry. And this is the start of a four-year term, when unpopular reforms are attempted.

Take Amrik Virk, the former RCMP inspector from Surrey who’s suddenly in charge of advanced education. His mandate includes: “Review the student loan program to make recommendations for improvement to ensure the loan program is meeting the needs of today’s students.”

Virk must also set targets to “match the skills we need with the skills we are graduating” and require post-secondary schools to “ensure student seats are being filled.”

B.C. can’t afford to keep cranking out university grads with $50,000 in debt and no job prospects in a system that’s subsidized 65 per cent.

Virk will be working closely with Education Minister Peter Fassbender, who must “ensure seamless transitions” from high school to the workforce for post-secondary trades and apprenticeships.

In his spare time, Fassbender is to overhaul the school district

bargaining agency and achieve a 10-year peace with the teachers’ union.

Justice Minister Suzanne Anton has worked as a Crown prosecutor, so she’ll have some insight into the system that still grapples with Stanley Cup rioters from two summers ago.

Her orders are to get traffic tickets and other administrative penalties out of the courts, keep working on integrating police fiefdoms and generally treat the constipation that afflicts

law enforcement today.Oh, and get that new Okanagan

prison built, to relieve a system that has inmates living in tents. And examine whether to spin off the Liquor Distribution Branch into a Crown corporation, a possible prelude to selling it.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s first test was a grilling by the Vancouver media. Yup, this Kamloops hayseed has been to the Big Smoke a few times, ridden that fancy SkyTrain and taken the odd ferry, too.

Now he has to impose the ferry route reductions that have been worked on by two previous ministers, and push Metro Vancouver through a referendum on ways to fund its own transit. If more tolls or taxes are going to be implemented, now is the time.

Coralee Oakes has made a political leap from Quesnel city hall to the Ministry of Community,

Sport and Cultural Development. One of her key tasks is to invent a framework for a “rural dividend” from liquefied natural gas development in northwestern B.C.

Oakes has to figure out how to “better provide provincial support” to sport and cultural organizations, but do it with no new money. All ministers have strict instructions to balance their lean budgets and take part in the latest “core review” to identify government functions that can be sold, delegated or shut down.

New Minister of International Trade, Richmond’s Teresa Wat, has to find a way to continue the growth of lumber and other exports to China, India and elsewhere on the Pacific Rim.

On top of that, the always-delicate softwood lumber agreement with the U.S. expires in three years.

The last major eruption on that front was in 2009, when B.C. cut stumpage rates for remote coastal areas to give communities much-needed employment. The Americans were livid, just as they were with our beetle-kill harvesting efforts. And of course, the U.S.-directed environmental movement continues to target Canadian industries.

Third-term MLA John Rustad gets aboriginal relations, with specific instructions to deal with gas and perhaps oil pipelines through his Nechako Lakes constituency.

–Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

[email protected]

Cabinet rookies handed hot files

‘This is the start of ... when unpopular reforms are attempted.’

Feds abandon science education

Many parts of Greater Victoria offer a view of the large white dome atop of Observatory Hill in Saanich.

At the end of the summer, that’s about the only way people will get to take in the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory.

The National Research Council reluctantly admitted last week that it plans to close the Centre of the Universe interpretive centre and end all public outreach connected with astronomy and astrophysics at the attached Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.

This will likely be the first time in the facility’s nearly 100 year history the public has been shut out of this local national historic site.

Greater Victoria has a lot to be proud of with the observatory – for a brief moment, the Plaskett telescope was the largest in the world, and it is a site that continues to make significant contributions to precision technology and our understanding of the universe.

The scientific research arm of the site, the NRC Herzberg Institute, isn’t closing and will continue to employ more than 100 people. But the federal government’s mandate to reorganize the NRC as an “industry-focused” organization certainly doesn’t inspire confidence.

Closing the Centre of the Universe is being framed as a cost saving measure under a regime of restricted budgets, and not a consequence of the NRC’s new approach.

It’s fair to say that the federal government has decided to abandon public education linked to its federal science.

Closing the Centre of the Universe will save the NRC about $230,000 of its $900 million budget, implying the decision was driven by an ideology suspicious of and hostile to science, rather than the principle of saving a few public tax dollars.

If the government wants “industry-focused” research and advanced technology, closing the door of research centres to young people is shortsighted and counterproductive.

Out of the thousands of kids that visit the Centre of the Universe each year, if only a handful are inspired to enter engineering, math and the sciences, the public outreach has proved its worth.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

Clive Avenue proposalhas a long way to go

We are pleased that the Oak Bay News has addressed the misleading impression given in their June 6 article with regard to The Clive development proposal.

Local residents have now reviewed four versions of this proposal.

On May 21, council asked the developer to amend the latest proposal to address the issues raised and the concerns documented by their own staff.

The proposal represents an almost total lack of compliance with zoning requirements, the parking bylaw and the Oak Bay Community Plan. The result would be inadequate setbacks on all sides of the building, lot coverage and floor area ratio in excess of the maximums, two apartments with well below the minimum permitted floor area, ignorance of the requirement for parking to be below ground and far fewer parking units than are required.

While there has been positive movement on the part of the developer since the first proposal, the changes have not addressed, to any great extent, the major amendments required to make this an acceptable and positive development for this community.

The latest proposal, with its lack of regard for local bylaws and the current OCP, would result in a building much too large for the lot in question, with the same issues that have been pointed out by residents and municipal staff since the project was first proposed in December 2012.

Such a large building would overwhelm the immediate area, provide inadequate green space, increase parking on nearby streets and increase traffic congestion at the already busy junction of Clive Drive and Oak Bay Avenue.

Let us hope the next proposed version for The Clive will be a great deal more considerate of the Oak Bay community and respectful of local laws.

Lance and Helga Traylen Oak Bay

Impatient drivers rampant in region

I do not understand Victoria drivers’ need for speed.

Musgrave Street by Willows School is a 30 km/h zone, not just during school hours but 24-7. Try to drive 30 km/h along there anytime after school and before you know it some vehicle is pushing you off the road.

The same thing happens on Fort Street by Oak Bay High, even during school hours. Drive through the school zone at 30 km/h and impatient drivers are on your bumper or passing on the right into the right turn lane just to get ahead of you.

Last week on Blanshard Street, as I was approaching Cloverdale Avenue and heading north, an irate driver was angry because I was doing the speed limit. He passed waving his fist and yelling obscenities and when I got to the next red light he was stopped beside me.

Whatever happened to police enforcement, especially in Oak Bay?

Ralph BurnsOak Bay

Tea Party complaintssound cynical at best

Re: Oak Bay Tea Party left a bitter taste (Letters, June 19)

Jim Nicholl’s attempt to sour the memory of this year’s Oak Bay Tea Party celebrations should not go unanswered.

As I heard the screams of delight from those on each of the rides at Willows Park and watched them thrill to the experience they had safely enjoyed as they dismounted, clearly the mighty dollar was

the last thing in mind as they dashed to the next one.

Sure, the cost isn`t cheap, but to claim the whole event was overshadowed by exorbitant prices and alarmingly short rides is utter nonsense. Furthermore, to proffer this as a valid reason for the exclusion of midway activities from future Tea Party weekends because he doesn’t believe that “the cost to participate in the rides equates to any sort of positive return” is just too cynical for words.

Who ever suggested that there should be a cost-benefit analysis for rides on a ferris wheel or bumper cars?

Heaven protect us from kill-joys who promote change for change’s sake just because fun for the children of all ages who flock to the Tea Party costs more than it used to.

This year the spirit and behaviour of riders and carnival staff was again, exemplary and during my several hours on site, nothing seemed to get in the way of ‘a great time for everyone,’ which is what tea parties and carnivals are about.

Derrick JohnsOak Bay

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I would like to thank Mayor Nils Jensen for conducting an open meeting on the “deer problem” on June 12. This is what should have happened at the Capital Regional District level a year ago, as was pointed out by more than one speaker.

Deer have been migrating into Oak Bay in recent years as they have been losing their natural habit, in what used to be more rural areas of the CRD.

People want to see the deer removed, but one topic was not touched on: the method of killing or, more politely, population reduction.

The clover trap/bolt gun is not humane and is used in slaughter houses for domestic animals held in restraints, much different from a wildly thrashing live animal, thrown down and held by force while someone puts a bolt gun to her head and hopes he gets it right.

A wildlife biologist spoke about a humane alternative, a contraceptive for animals called SpayVac, which could be used in a pilot project. It would put Oak Bay on the map as being a compassionate, forward-looking place, as opposed to a place with a medieval mentality no

longer controlled by thinking human beings.

With regard to the mothers who spoke out vehemently about the loss of their gardens to the deer and the inability of their children to walk barefoot on the grass, why not get a little dog for the children? They would love it, it would teach them about kindness to animals, and no deer would enter their yard. Deer stay away from dogs. The only downside might be that Mom might have to pick up the dog feces.

Val BoswellSaanich

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Treasure was everywhere at Oak Bay’s Garagellennium XIV, but no finds were so impressive as the fundraising efforts of a few community groups.

This year’s event, more than ever, took on a theme of money for a cause, from boating groups and arts collectives to charities and personal medical needs. But one post on UsedVictoria.com spurred an impressive effort, when operators of the local clas-sified site decided to help a fam-ily raise funds for their little boy, Owen, who is battling leukemia.

“We had already planned to do Garagellennium, but when someone alerted us to this ad, we knew we had to help,” said UsedVictoria community co-ordinator Carly Russell-Huntley. “We never expected the kind of support we saw, though, or what would happen next.”

Staff of UsedVictoria, which is owned by News publisher Black Press, posted flyers asking community sellers in the June 8 event to drop off unsold items to UsedVictoria’s Garagellennium location for delivery to the char-ity sale happening the next day.

The hope, Russell-Huntley said, was to fill her pickup truck with donated goods. But so many saleable items were donated that the company had to rent a moving van to take the haul to the family fundraiser.

Owen’s family was over-whelmed and more than $1,000 was raised for his needs. Yet, while looking on the classifieds site, they spotted another char-

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“It was just amazing to me how one small post on our site could trigger such a butterfly effect,” Russell-Huntley said. “One action turned into support for two children and the commu-nity wanted to keep that support alive. It was the perfect, local way to reuse items, which is really what we we’re all about.”

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As a sure sign that summer has arrived, ferries serving the Capital Region are boosting sailings for tourist season.

The M.V. Coho switched to its summer schedule June 21 with four daily roundtrip sailings between Victoria and Port Ange-les. The passenger and vehicle ferry departs Victoria at 6:10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. with returns from Port Angeles at 8:15 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 5:20 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

The Victoria Clipper adds a third sailing to its schedule between B.C.’s capital and Seattle, departing daily at 11:20 a.m., 5:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. from the Inner Harbour.

The Victoria Clipper III was back in ser-vice last week after a minor engine room fire forced it to make an emergency stop in the San Juan Islands on June 14.

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Victoria is about to get a lit-tle more queer, thanks to the efforts of the Victoria Film Fes-tival.

Just in time for Pride Week, the festival has partnered with Out In Schools, the Camosun College Student Society and Victoria Pride Society to pres-ent the first Reel Queer Film Festival, June 28 to 30.

The festival is open to all and will explore “the world of queer” in a lighthearted and engaging event at the Vic The-atre. Four major films are fea-tured including Margarita, She’s a Boy I Knew, Jihad for Love and Beyond Gay.

The event also features six cult classic options for two nights of “Reel Queer Roulette” and four special youth shorts.

“Part of our mandate is to celebrate different philosophies and lifestyles and we really spent a lot of time looking into quality films that show-cased that,” says festival director Kathy Kay. “I don’t think that queer cinema is widely repre-sented here, and this is, at least, a start.”

From the eye-opening journey through the life of Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth and her male-to-female gender transition in She’s a Boy I Knew, to Vancouver filmmaker Bob Christie’s celebrated Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride, there promises to be something for everyone (Christie will also attend the screening via Skype).

While fun is the basis of the festival, there’s a more serious side to the event and awareness is its focus.

“I think the entire commu-nity will benefit [from this fes-tival],” says Camosun’s Daphne Shaed, director in the student society. “The advocacy work I do is always directed at those who do not have the opportu-nity, either through identity or exposure, to be informed about the experiences of otherness in a society that privileges the per-formance of hegemony.”

Jillian Wedel, regional facili-tator of Out In Schools, is responsible for the youth component of the festival. Her efforts to “work towards ending homophobia/transphobia in schools and communities” uti-lizes the power of film to inspire and create social change.

“We are very excited to be a part of the youth portion of Victoria’s Reel Queer Film Festival in order to further our goals of promoting diversity and cultivating a climate of acceptance among the youth in our communities,” Wedel says.

The youth films originated from a handful of short films shot for the Out in Schools roster, as well as the winning films from its Rise Against Homophobia short video contest.

Kay says the response she’s received from the community has been real affirmation to VFF’s deci-sion to host the event.

“The more people who find ways to show their support of diverse communities, the more aware-ness can be brought to that need. This is really just the periphery for us, but it’s an evolution.”

For a full list of showtimes and ticket prices, visit victoriafilmfestival.com.

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Just in time for Pride Week, the festival has partnered with Out In Schools, the Camosun College Student Society and Victoria Pride Society to pres-ent the first Reel Queer Film Festival, June 28 to 30.

The festival is open to all and will explore “the world of queer” in a lighthearted and engaging event at the Vic The-atre. Four major films are fea-tured including Margarita, She’s a Boy I Knew, Jihad for Love and Beyond Gay.

The event also features six cult classic options for two nights of “Reel Queer Roulette” and four special youth shorts.

“Part of our mandate is to celebrate different philosophies and lifestyles and we really spent a lot of time looking into quality films that show-cased that,” says festival director Kathy Kay. “I don’t think that queer cinema is widely repre-sented here, and this is, at least, a start.”

From the eye-opening journey through the life of Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth and her male-to-female gender transition in She’s a Boy I Knew, to Vancouver filmmaker Bob Christie’s celebrated Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride, there promises to be something for everyone (Christie will also attend the screening via Skype).

While fun is the basis of the festival, there’s a more serious side to the event and awareness is its focus.

“I think the entire commu-nity will benefit [from this fes-tival],” says Camosun’s Daphne Shaed, director in the student society. “The advocacy work I do is always directed at those who do not have the opportu-nity, either through identity or exposure, to be informed about the experiences of otherness in a society that privileges the per-formance of hegemony.”

Jillian Wedel, regional facili-tator of Out In Schools, is responsible for the youth component of the festival. Her efforts to “work towards ending homophobia/transphobia in schools and communities” uti-lizes the power of film to inspire and create social change.

“We are very excited to be a part of the youth portion of Victoria’s Reel Queer Film Festival in order to further our goals of promoting diversity and cultivating a climate of acceptance among the youth in our communities,” Wedel says.

The youth films originated from a handful of short films shot for the Out in Schools roster, as well as the winning films from its Rise Against Homophobia short video contest.

Kay says the response she’s received from the community has been real affirmation to VFF’s deci-sion to host the event.

“The more people who find ways to show their support of diverse communities, the more aware-ness can be brought to that need. This is really just the periphery for us, but it’s an evolution.”

For a full list of showtimes and ticket prices, visit victoriafilmfestival.com.

[email protected]

Reel Queer Film Fest launches


The Reel Queer Film Fest crew includes Jillian Wedel, left, MaryAnne Dieno, Kathy Kay, Daphne Shaed and Donovan Aikman.

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Vancouver’s Readman is a musician, folk-singer, songwriter and music journalist, originally from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He is the former leader of Canadian Celtic/folk favourites Fear of Drinking and has played with The Arro-gant Worms. Tickets are $5 and are available at the door.

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Pieces of old teeth with shiny bits of gold are being trans-formed into cash for a cause.

Matt Evans and Dawn

Webster, husband and wife dentists at Fort Street Dental Centre, collect unwanted gold teeth pulled from patients’ mouths. The gold is melted down, sold and the money is donated to charity.

“We just ask every patient who needs to get an old crown or gold tooth pulled out if they want to donate it,” Webster said.

Most people would get between $30 and $40 per

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After cashing in more than two years of teeth, the hus-band and wife dentistry team

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Jeneece Place, near Victoria General Hos-pital, is a large home where families can stay while their chil-dren receive care at the hospital.

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The donation goes toward the $325,000 annual operating costs for Jeneece Place.

The dentists decided to donate to Jeneece Place after their daughter, Amelia Mae, became very ill at only seven weeks old. She spent two days in hospital and her parents witnessed many children with other serious illnesses.

The couple did not use Jeneece Place, but began thinking about out-of-town families with sick children.

“I got to wrap my baby and take her home,” Webster said. “We were sitting at the hospital with the rest of the sick kids and it tore our hearts out.”

The 200-tooth collec-tion started after Ame-lia Mae’s illness. Now she is a healthy two-and-a-half year old and has a younger sister, eight-month-old Sarah Elaine.

“Maybe one in 50 people say they want to keep (their tooth), the rest donate,” Web-ster said.

Fort Street Dental Centre continues to collect gold, choos-ing a different charity each time. Gold dona-tions can be dropped off at 102-1780 Fort St.

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Stepping through the door of The Local General Store on Haultain Road, one is greeted with a pleasantly fragrant aroma.

Almost sensing the visitor’s curiosity about the source of the fragrance, shop co-owner Alix Harvey leads him to a corner of the shop where a vintage full-sized Beach stove is mostly covered by a collection of organic body care products.

Next to it is a cupboard housing custom-made pottery – mugs, plates and other items – made by at-risk women in Vancouver who are being taught new job and life skills. Nearby is a shelf featuring hemp underwear and shirts, courtesy of a Bellingham supplier.

“The idea, as much as possible, is to be sourcing local and B.C. and Pacific Northwest products,” says Harvey, a retired special education teacher who wasn’t ready to kick back yet.

The non-grocery items are just part of the mix for the Local, which opened about a month ago next to Adams Food Fair – a more traditional corner grocery store. There’s a section of raw whole grains, and an electric mill for turning rice, oats and wheat into flour. While there’s many gluten-free products here, Harvey clarifies that this is not a “health-food store,” but a “whole food store.”

With the help of husband Chris Harvey, a retired assistant superintendent of schools for Greater Victoria, and a pair of enthusiastic staffers, Harvey is chasing her dream of narrowing the distance between consumers and their sources of food and other specialty products.

With fresh baked goods, a modest amount of produce, organic chocolate, specialty pet foods and artisan crafts, this shop is as much destination as old-time general store.

A word that comes up more than once in the conversation is “relationships,” as in knowing your suppliers and your customers. Both are important, Harvey says.

She calls the shop a combination grocery store and gift shop. Sounds like a true definition of a general

store if there ever was one.

– The Local General Store, 1440 Haultain Rd., 778-265-6225. Open 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Find them online at thelocalgeneralstore.ca and on Facebook.

Baby shop opensat Mattick’s

A Greater Victoria couple is hoping to turn their experiences as parents into business success. Momease Baby Boutique is the brainchild of Lyra McLean and husband, Adam, who are offering what they call “innovative and well-researched products” for the

modern family in their new shop at Mattick’s Farm in Cordova Bay. The emphasis is on Canadian suppliers and unique, common sense items that make life easier for new parents. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Check out their Facebook page for more information.

Design spacestudio high-tech

Technology reigns supreme at the newly opened Studio 531 design space at 531 Herald St. in Chinatown.

Moore Architecture has teamed up with Monk Office Supply and DIRTT, the sustainable international design

firm, to create a flexible-use, high-tech integrated workspace that not only is home to Moore’s team, but also has room for independent designers to rent on a weekly or monthly basis. To find out more, email Tom Moore at [email protected].

Mobile-basedrenter info here

Vancouver-based Manaya, which has created software to allow potential renters to view available suites on their smartphone, is teaming up with property managers in Greater Victoria to

offer the service here. Renters get a text message whenever a suite matching their needs comes available. For more information on the program, visit manaya.ca.

Send your business news tips to [email protected].

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Husband-and-wife team Alix and Chris Harvey have opened The Local General Store, a unique grocery/gift shop on Haultain Road.

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So far, so good for HarbourCatsHarbourCats enter break atop division

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The Victoria HarbourCats earned a “messy win” over the visiting Bend Elks on Sunday, 3-2 at Royal Athletic Park.

It gave the HarbourCats 10 wins in 14 games as the baseball team entered a five-day break in the West Coast League schedule this week. The next game isn’t until Saturday when the HarbourCats visit the Cowlitz Black Bears (6-6) in Wash-ington.

“Five days off, what a luxury. We’d rather be playing but we’ll take it,” coach Dennis Rogers said.

The HarbourCats took two of three against the Elks (12-6), the first place team in the WCL’s southern division.

The HarbourCats earned only one of three runs on Sunday. Jordan Ellis scored on a passed ball in the fourth inning. Justin Burba singled in the sixth inning scoring Chris Lewis and advancing David Schuknecht to third base. Shuknecht scored the winning run on a wild pitch during the next at bat.

Left hander Bryan Conant earned the win, pitching four scoreless innings of relief.

“It was a bit of a messy win,” said right fielder Austin Russell, who went hitless in two at-bats. The former Esquimalt Little League player piled up the hits earlier in the month, but has gone without a hit since June 17 in Kelowna.

“With our hot start and adding on more players and more talent, we’re going to get real good here. Every day we mesh more and winning helps,” Russell said. “Right now (Bend is) just another team, it’s early still, but good to come out with the series win.”

Batters from both sides made solid con-

tact with the ball on Sunday, but the heavy humidity and light drizzle of rain kept the ball in the park.

“It was noticeable the ball wasn’t going anywhere. On a sunny day the ball flies pretty well here, but it always depends on the weather,” Russell said.

This week’s unofficial break, which is the longest of the two-month season, is a time for the players to work on fundamentals and for coaches Rogers and Bob Miller to get a chance to look at the team, which will add its final players later this week.

But Rogers was quick to temper expec-tations as the team is barely one quarter of the way through the 54 game schedule, though it has played one third of its home games.

“At the end of the (Sunday’s) game I told the team it was a good weekend, we won the series and be proud of that, but reminded them to stay on task with a lot of things,” Rogers said. “They’re in the defini-tion stages of their careers, in total con-trol of their thoughts and effort level. Fif-teen games into it we have a little bit of tempo going with our club. We’re probably two or three players away from being fully enhanced so it’s very exciting.”

The players enjoyed a day off on Monday and will spend Friday traveling to Cowlitz.

This week’s break is also a time for co-owner and president John McLean to reflect on the first few weeks.

“Patience is the biggest thing I’ve learned so far,” he said. “And having a contingency

plan.”Each game day, a staff

of about 20, not includ-ing volunteers, meet at noon at the Harbour-Cats’ Vancouver Street office. Most game days go until 10:45 p.m., when the field is raked.

“On opening day in preparation for our first night, we practiced our new ticketing system all day and afternoon. We invested in it, and it worked fine, then we opened the gates and the scanners weren’t working. So you always have to be prepared,” McLean said.

The HarbourCats have enjoyed a strong gate, announcing 1,246 in paid attendance on Sunday. The Harbour-Cats are third in the league with an aver-age of 1,424 per game, behind the Medford Rogues, 1,429, and Bend Elks, 1,566.

It’s hard to gauge how much of an effect winning is having on the fan draw, but it’s clear the connection to the players is a tangible one, as Nick Piv-etta pitched two wins for the HarbourCats before signing a pro contract and joined the Washington Nationals minor league system two weeks ago.

“People always love a winner, there’s no question,” McLean said. “We made a con-scious effort to recruit first year and second year players who can come back next year. We want the core of this team to go back to their college teams after the summer and talk about how wonderful the team expe-rience, the coaching and the fans were in Victoria.”

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The HarbourCats are fitting in nicely at Royal Athletic Park, having won seven of the first nine home games.

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The Maple Ridge Burrards upended the Victoria Shamrocks for the second time this season, winning 10-9 in Maple Ridge on Sunday.

The Shamrocks (7-3) retain first in the Western Lacrosse Associa-tion ahead of the second place Burrards (6-4), thanks to the Shamrocks’ 13-6 defeat of the Coquitlam Adanacs (4-6) on Friday (June 21) at Bear Moun-tain Arena.

Rookie Mitch Jones led the Rocks with two goals and two assists against the Burrards on Sunday. Corey Small and Scott Ranger each scored a hat trick in Friday’s win over the Ads.

Small is second in WLA scoring with 25 goals and 25 assists for 50 points. Maple Ridge’s Curtis Dickson is first with 38 goals and 32 assists for 70 points.

Next up for the Shamrocks is a home game Wednesday, July 3 versus the Burnaby Lakers.

Junior Shamrocks split in Langley, Delta

The Victoria Jr. A Sham-rocks split its road trip week-end with a 17-16 win over the Delta Islanders on Saturday and 19-14 loss to the Langley Thunder on Sunday.

Czech import Dominik Pesek and Chris Wardle scored in

overtime to push the Sham-rocks past Delta on Saturday. Devon Casey picked up a whopping eight assists and two goals for 10 points in the win on Saturday, with Jesse King also notching seven help-ers.

Brody Eastwood’s four goals and four assists went for naught in a los-ing cause on Sunday.

The Jr. Shamrocks are home Saturday, June 29, 5 p.m. to the

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Baby Rocks double Islanders, Ads

The Victoria Intermediate A Shamrocks beat the Delta Islanders 12-10 on Sunday, in Delta, and defeated the Coquitlam Adanacs 11-9 at Bear Mountain Arena on Sat-urday.

Nate Wade, Connor Leies and Cole Pickup each scored twice for Victoria with Ryan Taylor, Graham Winship, McLean Chicquen and Jordan Green adding one each on Sat-urday

The Int. A Rocks (10-2) are second in the B.C. Intermedi-ate A Lacrosse League behind the Richmond Road Runners (11-1).

Former Vikes track star on triathlon podium

Calgary’s Ellen Pennock, a former UVic Vikes cross coun-try and track sensation, ran to second place at the Edmonton World Cup sprint triathlon on Sunday.

Joining Pennock on the podium was Victoria’s Kirsten Sweetland, 24, who wins her

first international in three years with bronze.

Canada’s Amelie Kretz, only 20 years old, won the women’s race and made it a sweep for Canada.

All three finished within 17 seconds of each other.

The sprint is shorter than the regular Olympic distance event, with a 750-metre swim, 20-kilometre bike and five km run, making for an up-tempo race.

Olympian Kyle Jones took silver, the only Canadian male on the podium. Vic cyclist surprises as national champion

Curtis Dearden, 31, won the Canadian Road Cycling time trial championshp last week completing the 39-kilometre race in 48 minutes and 24 sec-onds.

The mechanic at Russ Hay’s Bike Shop in Victoria races part time for the Russ Hay’s Accent Inns Team with a primary focus on his time trial racing.

Oak Bay’s Adam deVos fin-ished 10th.

There was another Victo-ria surprise in the women’s time trial championship, with 23-year-old Anika Todd taking silver.

Tripleshot Racing Club rider and UVic grad covered the 27 km distance in 40:40.

The championships ran in St. Georges, Que., Thursday and Friday.

Anika also finished seventh in the elite road cycling cham-pionship on Friday. Victoria based pro Rob Britton was fourth in the men’s road cycling championship.

Running 2013 Navy Run at CFB Esquimalt, June 23

Place Div/Tot Div Guntime Pace Name City Time1 1/55 M2534 33:25 3:21 Jonathan Gendron Victoria 33:25 2 1/61 M3544 36:19 3:38 Felipe Edora Victoria 36:17 3 2/55 M2534 36:39 3:40 Mathieu Rocheleau North Saanich 36:38 4 2/61 M3544 37:26 3:45 Michael Arensen Victoria 37:26 5 1/30 M4554 38:07 3:49 Mark Ritchie Victoria 38:07 6 3/55 M2534 38:31 3:52 Mike Janes Victoria 38:31 7 3/61 M3544 38:50 3:53 Chris Skinner Victoria 38:48 8 4/61 M3544 39:03 3:55 Howard Manderson Sooke 39:03 9 5/61 M3544 39:28 3:57 Wade Smith Cowichan Bay 39:28 10 6/61 M3544 39:32 3:58 Warren Beattie Victoria 39:30 11 1/28 M0124 40:04 4:01 Iain Wilson Ancaster 40:00 12 4/55 M2534 40:07 4:01 Ian George Victoria 39:58 13 1/6 NOAGE 40:11 4:02 Tony Elwell 40:10 14 1/32 F3544 40:24 4:03 Kirsten Arensen Victoria 40:23 15 5/55 M2534 40:42 4:05 Richard Boxhall Victoria 40:39 16 7/61 M3544 40:43 4:05 Greg Schoenbaechler 40:42 17 1/10 M5564 40:47 4:05 Robert Gebbie Victoria 40:45 18 2/28 M0124 40:48 4:05 Maxime Forest Winnipeg 40:35 19 6/55 M2534 40:58 4:06 Iain Meredith Victoria 40:43 20 8/61 M3544 41:10 4:07 Chris McCrea Victoria 41:09 21 9/61 M3544 41:15 4:08 Andrew McDonald Victoria 41:13 22 3/28 M0124 41:22 4:09 Sully Heraud 41:09 23 4/28 M0124 41:31 4:10 Angus Brown Victoria 41:26 24 7/55 M2534 41:58 4:12 Johnny Peters Victoria 41:49 25 8/55 M2534 41:59 4:12 Frank Downs Victoria 41:56 26 10/61 M3544 42:18 4:14 Simon Brown Victoria 42:13 27 9/55 M2534 42:36 4:16 Keven Jolicoeur Sooke 42:33 28 10/55 M2534 42:37 4:16 Mat Dawkins Langford 42:28 29 11/55 M2534 42:43 4:17 Alexander Nicholson Victoria 42:19 30 5/28 M0124 43:00 4:18 Ben Puszka Victoria 42:57

Place Div/Tot Div Guntime Pace Name City Time 1 1/16 M0124 16:45 3:21 Andrew Patterson Belle River 16:45 2 1/17 M2534 17:35 3:31 Matt Carlson Victoria 17:35 3 2/16 M0124 18:50 3:46 Matt Telfsur 18:49 4 2/17 M2534 18:54 3:47 Matt Walsh Langford 18:54 5 3/17 M2534 19:09 3:50 Daniel Smith Victoria 19:09 6 1/19 F0124 19:28 3:54 Catharine Farish Vancouver 19:28 7 1/22 M3544 19:50 3:58 Akos Krasznai 19:48 8 1/20 M4554 20:43 4:09 Andre Pickersin Victoria 20:40 9 2/20 M4554 21:04 4:13 Mark Cunningham Victoria 21:01 10 4/17 M2534 21:47 4:22 Andrew Gregg Victoria 21:43 11 3/20 M4554 21:52 4:23 Majid Dehshiri Victoria 21:52 12 1/15 F4554 22:37 4:32 Jane Gibson Victoria 22:31 13 3/16 M0124 22:54 4:35 Taylor Holmwood Victoria 22:51 14 2/22 M3544 22:59 4:36 Tony Specht Victoria 22:55 15 5/17 M2534 23:10 4:38 Matthew Marzstelli Victoria 23:10 16 6/17 M2534 23:40 4:44 David Marcotte Victoria 23:32 17 7/17 M2534 23:46 4:46 Andre Aubry Victoria 23:42

18 4/16 M0124 23:59 4:48 Gregory Allan Victoria 23:54 19 1/24 F2534 24:00 4:48 Carly Youlton Victoria 23:56 20 2/24 F2534 24:26 4:54 Laura Coxson Victoria 24:21 21 5/16 M0124 24:30 4:54 Guillaume Leblanc Jonquiere 24:29 22 3/22 M3544 24:33 4:55 Leroy Bourgoin Victoria 23:51 23 3/24 F2534 24:36 4:56 Edith Boulanger Victoria 24:32 24 4/24 F2534 24:40 4:56 Natashia Erickson Victoria 24:17 25 8/17 M2534 24:40 4:56 Clayton Erickson Victoria 24:16 26 1/22 F3544 24:42 4:57 Kimberly Chaisson Victoria 24:34 27 4/20 M4554 24:43 4:57 Ang Li Victoria 24:30 28 2/22 F3544 24:44 4:57 Melody Tuinman-Love Navarre 24:28 29 4/22 M3544 24:44 4:57 Magnus McElory Victoria 24:30 30 1/5 NOAGE 24:47 4:58 Charles Kuyper 24:19

Women’s age group winners 10 KM1 F3544 Kirsten Arensen Victoria 40:24 2 F2534 Mary-Jil Coude 43:15 3 F2534 Jessica Loughead Victoria 44:19 4 F2534 Jody Dans Victoria 47:01 5 F2534 Rosetta Duncan 48:15 6 F2534 Michelle Stroulger Lake Cowichan 48:21 7 F3544 Alice Dean Victoria 49:57 8 F0124 Sam Prowse Victoria 50:48 9 F2534 Amanda Moreira Vancouver 50:50 10 F3544 Stephanie McFarlane Victoria 51:05

Women’s age group winners 5 KM1 F0124 Catharine Farish Vancouver 19:28 2 F4554 Jane Gibson Victoria 22:37 3 F2534 Carly Youlton Victoria 24:00 4 F2534 Laura Coxson Victoria 24:26 5 F2534 Edith Boulanger Victoria 24:36 6 F2534 Natashia Erickson Victoria 24:40 7 F3544 Kimberly Chaisson Victoria 24:42 8 F3544 Melody Tuinman-Love Navarre 24:44 9 F2534 Ashley Eyre Victoria 25:06 10 F0124 Madeleine Brown Victoria 25:17

Men’s age group winners 5 KM1 M0124 Andrew Patterson Belle River 16:45 2 M2534 Matt Carlson Victoria 17:353 M0124 Matt Telfsur 18:50 4 M2534 Matt Walsh Langford 18:54 5 M2534 Daniel Smith Victoria 19:09 6 M3544 Akos Krasznai 19:50 7 M4554 Andre Pickersin Victoria 20:43 8 M4554 Mark Cunningham Victoria 21:04 9 M2534 Andrew Gregg Victoria 21:47 10 M4554 Majid Dehshiri Victoria 21:52

Men’s age group winners 10 KM1 M2534 Jonathan Gendron Victoria 33:25 2 M3544 Felipe Edora Victoria 36:19 3 M2534 Mathieu Rocheleau North Saanich 36:39 4 M3544 Michael Arensen Victoria 37:26 5 M4554 Mark Ritchie Victoria 38:07 6 M2534 Mike Janes Victoria 38:31 7 M3544 Chris Skinner Victoria 38:50 8 M3544 Howard Manderson Sooke 39:03 9 M3544 Wade Smith Cowichan Bay 39:28 10 M3544 Warren Beattie Victoria 39:32

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Boot barrier broken downThe Salvation Army in Greater Victoria is

helping remove a barrier to employment for people looking to get into jobs that call for approved footwear.

The organization’s third annual Breaking Down Barriers Boot Drive, on now through July 15, encourages people with new or gently used work boots to drop them off at Capital Iron, 1900 Store St.

Boots can also be dropped off at any time of year at Sally Ann thrift stores at 2695 Quadra St. or 525 Johnson St.

TEDx courts Victoria speakersTEDxVictoria organizers are looking for the

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COMMUNITYNEWSIN BRIEF

Daniel PalmerNews staff

While many freshly christened univer-sity graduates escape the ivory tower for a beach, lake or backpacking trip, two Vic-toria-based brothers are taking their love of adventure to a new extreme, kayaking from Brazil to Florida over the next seven months.

Graham and Russell Henry left for Belém, Brazil on June 10 and won't be back on North American soil until January.

“I think the biggest hassle has been get-ting all of our stuff there,” said Russell, 21, before the brothers’ departure.

The seed was planted when Russell was tasked with planning an expedition for his adventure sports certificate class through Thompson Rivers University last year.

Thanks to their father’s love of sea kaya-king, the brothers were already naturals on the water.

“We had custom paddles at the age of five,” Russell said.

Early experiences at the YMCA’s Camp Thunderbird in Sooke solidified a love for the outdoors, starting the Henrys on a path that has brought them to their cur-rent 6,500-kilometre trek through Amazo-nian wilderness, heat, isolation and open ocean crossings.

“The biggest and scariest factor is the human factor,” said Graham, 22. “You can pitch a tent on a shoreline, but you don’t know what the next person you see will do or how they’ll react.”

The trip begins at the mouth of the Amazon River, continuing along the South American coastline to Venezuela, where

the Henrys don’t expect to hit civilization for up to two weeks.

From there, the brothers turn their sea kayaks, donated by Current Designs, north to island-hop across the Caribbean Sea towards Florida.

When they return, the Henrys plan to use their experience to inspire elementary and high school students to dream big and embrace the outdoors.

“We want to take this trip as a speaking tour across Western Canada to get kids thinking outside the box,” Graham said, adding youth today need to free them-selves of an “increasingly bubble-wrapped world.”

To read more about the Henrys’ adven-ture and follow updates along the way, visit henrykayak.com.

[email protected]

Victoria brothers plan kayak trip of a lifetime

Submitted photo

Graham Henry, left, and brother, Russell, leave in September for a seven-month sea kayaking trip from Brazil to Florida.


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