FINE CUSTOM JEWELLERS BARCLAY S 106-2187 Oak Bay Ave. 250-592-1100 barclaysjewellers.com Come In and See Our Newly Renovated Store OAK BAY NEWS Watch for breaking news at www.oakbaynews.com Friday, October 5, 2012 Tim Collins News staff “It’s a good time to begin.” That’s how Reverend Anne Privett characterizes her Thanksgiving Day ser- mon to the congregation of St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church. It will be her first sermon to the parishioners and it will come only a few days after her arrival at the 101-year-old Oak Bay institution. Privett is taking over from Reverend John Mac- quarrie, who recently retired from his duties at St. Mary. “Reverend Macquar- rie did a wonderful job at revitalizing the church,” said Rosemary Cameron, a longtime parishioner. “We have a chil- dren’s choir now and the Canadian Col- lege of Performing Arts is using our par- ish hall. We even have a preschool shar- ing our space, so a lot is happening.” That wasn’t always the case. In 2011, when St. Mary was celebrating its cen- tenary, Macquarrie acknowledged that a few years earlier the attendance at Sun- day services had been sparse. In fact, St. Mary had survived what Macquarrie called a near death experience. The Anglican diocese of B.C. had con- templated merging the congregations of St. Philip Church and St. Mary, amal- gamating them under a different name. That consideration was ultimately dis- carded and by the time of the centenary, the drop in attendance at St. Mary had been reversed, with the church show- ing a strong and sustained increase in the number of parishioners attending its services. That improved attendance has been maintained, and today the attitude at the church is buoyant. Catherine Young, the Rector’s warden at St. Mary, feels that despite the con- gregation’s sadness at losing Macquar- rie, they are looking to the future with a grateful and hopeful attitude. “Every last person (in the congregation) is excited and pleased,” said Young. “We have so much to be grateful for.” It’s a gratitude that’s shared by Priv- ett. “I’m very pleased and very grateful to be called to St. Mary,” she said. “Newness often brings perspective,” Privett wrote in her Thanksgiving letter to parishioners. “It height- ens how we see things, how we interact with what we observe and, as I have learned in these last few days, it can indeed bring forth gratitude.” That newness, and new perspective, will certainly face the congregation of St. Mary when Privett begins her Thanksgiving service. She is 28-years-old, female and as the new spiritual leader for a congregation that is still predominately made up of older adults, she knows that there may be a period of adjustment for some. “That’s yet to be seen,” she said. “I’m not concerned.” Borrowing from the Book of Com- mon Prayer, Privett writes that this is an opportunity for everyone to give thanks, “not only with our lips, but in our lives.” She writes that giving thanks is not sim- ply a matter of cultivating an attitude of gratitude but (involves) seeing things again.” Thanksgiving arrival of new rector gives congregation cause for gratitude “I’m very pleased and very grateful to be called to St. Mary.” - Reverend Anne Privett PLEASE SEE: Attitude linked to faith, Page A9 Sharon Tiffin/News staff Reverend Anne Privett, the new rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, sits in the chapel of the church on Elgin Road. Fresh face for Anglican faithful Marathon elites Omwenga wants to win in Victoria. Page A19 POLITICS: Victoria councillor joins NDP fray /A2 NEWS: Democrats listen closely to debates /A6 ARTS: Indie bookstore thrives on Quadra Street /A16
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OAK BAYNEWS Watch for breaking news at www.oakbaynews.comFriday, October 5, 2012
Tim CollinsNews staff
“It’s a good time to begin.” That’s how Reverend Anne Privett
characterizes her Thanksgiving Day ser-mon to the congregation of St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church. It will be her first sermon to the parishioners and it will come only a few days after her arrival at the 101-year-old Oak Bay institution.
Privett is taking over from Reverend John Mac-quarrie, who recently retired from his duties at St. Mary.
“Reverend Macquar-rie did a wonderful job at revitalizing the church,” said Rosemary Cameron, a longtime parishioner. “We have a chil-dren’s choir now and the Canadian Col-lege of Performing Arts is using our par-ish hall. We even have a preschool shar-ing our space, so a lot is happening.”
That wasn’t always the case. In 2011, when St. Mary was celebrating its cen-tenary, Macquarrie acknowledged that a few years earlier the attendance at Sun-day services had been sparse. In fact, St. Mary had survived what Macquarrie called a near death experience.
The Anglican diocese of B.C. had con-templated merging the congregations of St. Philip Church and St. Mary, amal-gamating them under a different name. That consideration was ultimately dis-carded and by the time of the centenary, the drop in attendance at St. Mary had been reversed, with the church show-
ing a strong and sustained increase in the number of parishioners attending its services. That improved attendance has been maintained, and today the attitude at the church is buoyant.
Catherine Young, the Rector’s warden at St. Mary, feels that despite the con-gregation’s sadness at losing Macquar-rie, they are looking to the future with a grateful and hopeful attitude. “Every last person (in the congregation) is excited and pleased,” said Young. “We have so much to be grateful for.”
It’s a gratitude that’s shared by Priv-ett. “I’m very pleased and very grateful to be called to St. Mary,” she said.
“Newness often brings perspective,” Privett wrote in her Thanksgiving letter
to parishioners. “It height-ens how we see things, how we interact with what we observe and, as I have learned in these last few days, it can indeed bring forth gratitude.”
That newness, and new perspective, will certainly
face the congregation of St. Mary when Privett begins her Thanksgiving service. She is 28-years-old, female and as the new spiritual leader for a congregation that is still predominately made up of older adults, she knows that there may be a period of adjustment for some. “That’s yet to be seen,” she said. “I’m not concerned.”
Borrowing from the Book of Com-mon Prayer, Privett writes that this is an opportunity for everyone to give thanks, “not only with our lips, but in our lives.” She writes that giving thanks is not sim-ply a matter of cultivating an attitude of gratitude but (involves) seeing things again.”
Thanksgiving arrival of new rector gives congregation cause for gratitude
“I’m very pleased and very grateful to be called to St. Mary.”- Reverend Anne Privett
PLEASE SEE: Attitude linked to faith, Page A9
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Reverend Anne Privett, the new rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, sits in the chapel of the church on Elgin Road.
Fresh face for Anglican faithful
Marathon elitesOmwenga wants to winin Victoria.
Page A19
POLITICS: Victoria councillor joins NDP fray /A2NEWS: Democrats listen closely to debates /A6 ARTS: Indie bookstore thrives on Quadra Street /A16
Victoria city councillor Isittjoins race for NDP nominationRoszan HolmenNews staff
Victoria Coun. Ben Isitt will join three others vying to represent the NDP in the upcoming byelection to replace former MP Denise Savoie in the Victoria rid-ing.
Isitt said support from the community helped con-vince him to run.
“With the NDP on the brink of forming the fed-eral government, I think it’s really important to con-tinue to provide a strong voice for social justice,” said Isitt. “I have the per-spective that is distinct from the other candidates. I am a younger person than the other candidates, I currently hold elected office, which none of them do, and I guess I take a pretty activist approach to poli-tics.”
Isitt, age 34, has been active with the party in various capacities for more than a decade, starting with his work as a youth policy director.
He met party leader Thomas Mul-cair for the first time two months ago, and said he used the oppor-
tunity to talk about his top federal issue.
“I dug right into the issue of Can-ada’s oil and gas wells and we dis-cussed different models of what could best serve the Canadian peo-
ple and the environment.”Isitt was elected to Victo-
ria city council in Novem-ber 2011 with 8,400 votes. If elected to federal poli-tics, he will be cutting his commitment as a munici-pal representative short by two years.
“That was a big factor that I had to consider in making this decision,” Isitt said.
Once Isitt receives the official nod from the federal NDP, he will join declared candidates Charley Beresford, Elizabeth Cull and Mur-ray Rankin in seeking the NDP nomi-nation.
The nomination meeting takes place at the Michelle Pujol Room at the University of Victoria Oct. 14 at 1 p.m.
Savoie, who held the Victoria rid-ing since 2006, resigned Aug. 31 for health reasons.
Three others on list hoping to replace Denise Savoie
NDP nomineesface off Oct. 9
Nominees vying for the federal NDP candidacy in Victoria will go head-to-head next Tuesday at First Metropolitan Church, 932 Balmoral Rd.
Beginning at 6:30 p.m., nominees Mur-ray Rankin, Elizabeth Cull, Charley Beres-ford – and likely Ben Isitt – will take ques-tions from a modera-tor and the public in their quest to repre-sent the NDP in the upcoming Victoria byelection.
While the byelec-tion date has not yet been announced by the federal govern-ment, the NDP will choose its candidate Oct. 14 at the Uni-versity of Victoria’s Michelle Pujol Room at a meeting starting at 1 p.m.
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Running for different reasonsVictorians are serious about health and fitness, but road races see a decline as people shift to triathlon, adventure racing
Last in a series
There is a dense crush of wall-to-wall people when thousands runners pack the starting line on Menzies street for the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon. The city, it seems, has no shortage of people who run.
On any given day, and especially weekends, the number of runners on the trails around Elk Lake or Thetis Lake almost (but not quite) outnumber the dog walkers. Running clinics are flush with hundreds of marathon and half-marathoner hopefuls eying a personal best or training for a first race.
But within the ebb and flow of fitness trends, road racing in Greater Victoria peaked about two years ago, and participant numbers are flattening or in decline.
The Victoria marathon topped out in 2010 with 13,995 finishers in four events (marathon, half-marathon, 8K and kids’ race). Last year it hit 11,674 – a 19 per cent drop. The TC10K, the other major running event in Victoria, saw 10,616 finishers in 2010, but dropped to 10,044 finishers this year.
“It’s a trend all across B.C. – on average, races are 12 per cent down,” said Bob Reid, treasurer of the Prairie Inn Harriers running club and a long-time race director and coach. “Newer races might be showing growth, but older races are plateauing or dropping slightly.”
An unsteady economy might seemingly influence athletics trends, but Reid doesn’t think so. He points
to the growing popularity of sports such as triathlon, which typically have high entry fees and expensive equipment.
“The economy doesn’t affect attendance. Money doesn’t have anything to do with it,” Reid said. “People have different interests. A lot like running, but not all like racing. Many people continue running for fitness, health and friendship.”
And despite the decline in racing attendance, people aren’t abandoning running. Support for most road race events in Greater Victoria remains strong and entries are far above numbers seen four or five years ago.
“It’s amazing we have two large races on the Island, races with over 10,000 (runners),” said Mark Nelson, co-owner of Frontrunners Langford and race director of the Bear Mountain 10K. “A lot of big cities don’t have two events of that size.
“In sheer quantity, there are nearly two events every weekend, on average, in the running and triathlon worlds ... with the majority in the Victoria area.”
Nelson said its difficult to pin down why some runners flock to some races and ignore others. This year’s first Goddess Run women’s only run sold out and had some 1,426 finishers in the half marathon, 10K and 5K races.
“The Victoria Goddess run did a good job. It’s a well-organized event that had a solid team,” Nelson said. “It had a great turnout for a first year event that had no history.”
The running culture in Victoria remains vibrant, but a race directors sense a definite shift in attitude. Many recreational athletes have used running to build a fitness base and a launch point to other endurance sports, such as triathlon and adventure racing. Others have used running as another tool in their overall fitness regime that might include boot camps or CrossFit.
“There isn’t so much a running craze than an outdoor fitness craze,” Nelson said. “A lot of people might do trail running, the
Victoria marathon, (Mind over Mountain) triathlon. A lot of people do a bit of everything.”
Phil Nicholls, owner of Island Runner and national-level marathoner in the 1990s, says Victoria’s running culture has shifted over the decades, from a relatively small band of dedicated runners who trained intensely to a popularized activity for thousands of people looking for a challenge and to stay fit.
Nicholls points to the rapid growth of the Victoria half-marathon. From 2009 to 2010 it added more than a thousand entrants to hit more than 5,700 people coursing through the route. The marathon entries stayed steady at about 2,600 for those years.
“There is definitely also a health boom; the outdoor fitness boom is there,” said Nicholls, the race director for the McNeill Bay Half-Marathon.
“I think we are one of the better cities overall. People take fitness seriously as a lifestyle.”
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A runner makes her way along the Victoria waterfront.
On your mark, get set … go
The 33rd annual GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon weekend kicks off today and Saturday as more than 11,000 people flood into the Victoria Conference Centre for race package pickup, to tour the race expo and attend the speakers series. The marathon is on Sunday (Oct. 7).
Participants will be on the race route starting with the marathon walkers at 6:30 a.m. The 8K road race starts at 7:15 a.m., the half marathon (21.1 km) starts at 7:30 a.m. and the marathon (42.2 km) at 8:45 a.m. All races start on Menzies Street at Kingston Street, and finish in front of the B.C. legislature on Belleville Street.
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Volunteers in Saanich have erected a scale replica of a 3,000 year old Hebrew Temple to act as a museum of Old Testament stories.
Sponsored by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, the trav-elling Messiah's Mansion Taber-nacle is open for tours in a field at Chatterton Way and Quadra Street.
Clayton Leinneweber, direc-tor of Messiah’s Mansion, from Harrah, Okla., said the event is a visual avenue to explain sym-bolism and icons of the Old Tes-tament, and the connection of the icons to the life and death of Jesus Christ.
The walled sanctuary is about 150 by 75 feet, and the temple is 45 by 15 feet, both roughly the same dimensions, according to the Old Testament, as a wilder-ness temple built near Mt. Sinai, after the Jewish people followed Moses out of Egypt.
“This is the same size as in Moses’ day. The sanctuary is made to scale,” Leinneweber
said. “We show people how (priests) used the services ... the sanctuary is like a big story.”
Three Messiah's Mansions are touring North America, and this particular model was built in Abbotsford for use primarily
in Canada to avoid cross-border hassles. The stop in Saanich is the third this year for the Cana-dian operation, and its first time in Greater Victoria.
The sanctuary is steeped in biblical symbolism of slaying of lambs, the altar of sacrifice, breaking bread and the light of candles, and more literal objects, such as the Ark of the Covenant and the Ten Com-mandment tablets.
“A lot of it is symbolic. The lamb is a symbol of Jesus, bread represents the body of Christ and bread is a symbol for food. Smoke that rises (from incense) represents the prayers of the saints,” said Leinneweber, a school teacher in Oklahoma when he’s not setting up replica Hebrew sanctuaries.
About 30 volunteers from the local church spent three days assembling the temple.
The free tours are open to anyone. They run daily from 1 to 7 p.m. through Oct. 8 at 4401 Chatterton Way. Tours start every 15 minutes and last 75 minutes. See vicsda.ca/ark.
Clayton Leinneweber, director of Messiah's Mansion, stands with a replica of the Ark of the Covenant.
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While a website by that name does exist, Smith’s site is Govoluntouring.com, a site dedicated to helping potential voluntourists to make informed decisions regarding their activities.
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Candlelight dinners demonstrate conservation
Restaurants across B.C. will be dimming the lights, and offering special deals, to demonstrate simple ways to conserve electricity.
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Pulling out of his Langford driveway, Patrick Novotny saw a frantic mother desper-ately searching for her tod-dler. He had wandered away, but a few minutes later, the youngster was found standing with another concerned adult who had found him.
The boy was in the oppo-site direction than where the mother was looking.
A few days before this inci-dent, Novotny had been intro-duced to the Hero Network smartphone app while attend-ing a birthday party.
In the case near Novotny’s house, the mother could have sent a message via Hero Net-work and anyone with the app in the area would be alerted and could help search for the boy.
Thomas Okuszko created
the Hero Network, an app designed to help parents find kids who wander away.
The app has been down-loaded nearly 5,000 times since its launch July 26. If a child is missing, a parent can send out an alert notifying anyone on the Hero Network within a 10-kilometre radius.
To date, no alerts have been sent on the Hero Network. “Thank God,” said Sooke resi-dent Okuszko.
Some parents may have concerns about the app in the hands of child predators. Okuszko admits he cannot control who downloads the program, but expects there will be more good people looking for a lost child. “There are more eyes in the sky,” he said.
Smartphone application developed to help locate lost children quickly
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Parents Gillian and Patrick Novotny hope families sign up for the Hero Network app created by Thomas Okuszko (back).
Hero Network aims to mobilize more eyes on the street during crisis
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Leaves from the trees that give Oak Bay its name are now falling, and municipal crews have readied the leaf vacuuming equipment for the campaign which will begin soon to clear them from streets and gutters all over the Municipality. The leaf clearing program begins in late October and will continue until all leaves are collected rather than on a pre-determined street by street schedule.
The reason for this annual blitz is to prevent catch basins and storm drains from becoming clogged to the point where they cannot cope with the runoff from a moderate to heavy rainfall.
It takes quite a while to cover the entire Municipality, however, and the more leaves there are on the street at any one time, the more likely it is that problems will occur before our crews can get to the area.
We can handle the leaves deposited on the street by the normal forces of nature. We run into diffi culty, however, when residents rake leaves onto the street from their own properties in anticipation of the arrival of our vacuum, or leave other garden refuse or tree prunings on the boulevard expecting it to be picked up with the leaves. Piles of leaves on the roads also create safety hazards for cyclists.
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“Although we are a politi-cal organization, our mandate is to register American voters,” Hogya said. Hundreds of U.S. citi-zens live on Vancouver Island, he noted.
Through the website vote-fromabroad.org, expats can find information on registering to vote in their home state, a pro-cess that often differs between states. The U.S. government also has an easy-to-follow website for expat voters, www.fvap.gov.
“Many Americans’ votes may be disqualified because the new law says you must register for every single federal election, not just once,” Hogya said.
Democrats Abroad Victoria held a Super Saturday in the spring from Victoria to Campbell River, registering roughly 200 U.S. citizens to vote in the presi-dential election.
The group then initiated a campaign in August to target U.S. voters living in Canada from 11 key swing states.
“No Republican candidate has
ever won the White House with-out Ohio,” Hogya said.
“We have sent thousands of votes to swing states. And I’m going to be looking ... to see if our efforts have borne fruit.”
He attended the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina earlier this month and said the national party is “very conscious” of the fact that Can-ada can deliver thousands of votes.
“We’re major player,” Hogya said.
Ontario-based Republicans Abroad Canada has no active chapter in B.C., said spokesper-son Kelli White, but the stream-lining of online voter registra-tion has made the organization’s efforts to inform expats much easier.
“The website, fvap.gov, even allows you to download an emergency absentee ballot in case your official absentee bal-lot doesn’t arrive from your vot-ing state,” she said. “With all of the accessibility and stream-lining that technology has allowed, the number of absentee votes in almost every state has increased.”
The next presidential debate takes place Oct. 16, with a vice-presidential debate Oct. 11.
There are Democrats Abroad chapters in 51 countries and members in more than 120 coun-tries, according to Hogya.
For more information on Dem-ocrats Abroad and to find out about future viewing parties, email [email protected].
Find info on Republicans Abroad at republicansabroad.ca.
With the NHL season on hold, Vic-toria bar owners and restaurateurs are lamenting the loss of a guaran-teed seat-filler.
But another bloodsport could attract an equally passionate crowd, should licensed establishments choose to deviate from sports pro-gramming.
The first of three U.S. presidential debates between Democratic Presi-dent Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney took place Wednesday. The remaining contests continue through this month.
“We thought we’d have a party to celebrate,” said Giles Hogya, chair of Democrats Abroad, Victoria chapter.
The organization, which helps reg-ister expatriate U.S. citizens to vote, held a fundraiser and viewing party
Americans in Victoria ramp up for U.S. electionDemocrats are active in region; Republicans, not so much
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Democrats Abroad, Victoria chapter chair Charles Meadow.
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What does it mean to “be church” in the 21st century?
It’s a question that will be addressed during the Thanks-giving Day visit to Oak Bay United Church by the Right Reverend Gary Paterson. The newly elected Moderator of The United Church of Canada; the timing of the question couldn’t be more appropriate.
Paterson and the entire United Church is being chal-lenged by a sometimes frac-tious membership, a rise in fundamentalist dogma across North America, and an erosion in United Church membership that is nothing less than pre-cipitous. At slightly less than a half-million members nation-wide, United Church member-ship is about half of what it was 40 years ago, and those num-bers continue to decline.
That decline has been linked, by some, to the church’s strat-egy of blurring the lines between religion and social conscience. The United Church has led the way in taking positions on a plethora of social issues, includ-ing the ordination of women and homosexuals, the environment, homelessness, the treatment of prisoners, First Nations rights, and even the boycott of goods produced in Israeli settlements. The election of Paterson as Moderator is, in itself, a state-ment of the socially progressive nature of the church. He is the first openly gay man to serve in that position.
Paterson feels that the church has to reach out to the grow-ing cohort of Canadians who claim to be “spiritual, but not religious.”
He believes that the church is fol-lowing the word of God, and that it’s time that people rediscover “what ‘being church’ really means.”
“What are the practices that sustain and shape our faith?” asked Paterson. “How can the church model a different kind of commu-nity so that peo-ple want to be a part of that?”
It’s a question that David Ewart, a retired United Church minister addresses regularly in his blogs. Ewart stops short of blaming the social activ-ism of the United Church for the decline in membership and acknowledges that it is a prob-lem faced by virtually every mainstream Christian church in the 21st century. He main-tains that the United Church’s current course will see a fur-ther halving of membership by 2025.
Paterson recognizes the chal-lenge but insists that the church is on the right track.
“In the book of Michah, we’re asked the same question: ‘What does the Lord require of you?’ The answer is to do justly, love mercifully, and walk humbly with God. We’re trying to live up to that challenge,” he said.
He said that churches have a responsibility to address social issues and to put them within the context of Christian faith. In the absence of that approach, he said, the church will ulti-mately lose its relevance. “Jesus spoke out about social issues,”
said Paterson. “He invited tax collectors and others who had been shunned to share his table. He drove money lenders from the temple. What is that if not social activism?”
Paterson is confident that people will find relevance in the United Church’s socially con-scious approach to faith. “But it’s not about us getting them back,” said Paterson. “It’s about going to where they are, physi-cally and philosophically, and engaging them.”
The Reverend Keith Howard, one of the ministry team at Oak Bay United Church, says that Paterson’s approach matches the approach of the Oak Bay congregation. “There’s no magic answer,” said Howard. “We are a congregation that is trying to make the switch to being rel-evant to the young families who left the church.” Howard said that his congregation is trying to make connections through a flexible schedules and innova-tive ideas for services and by ensuring that newcomers, espe-cially those with children, are made to feel comfortable and included in the congregation.
Oak Bay United Church faces challenges“A survey … I think it was in 2010,
showed that people between 30 and 45 felt that traditional churches were judgemental, arrogant, and unwilling to listen. We don’t want to be any of those things,” said How-ard.
Whether the course of the United Church will ultimately right the ship or whether it will prove to be the undoing of the United Church of Canada is yet to be seen, but Pater-son is confident that the church is on the right track.
“Traditional methods are not working,” said Paterson. “We have to demonstrate that the centre of
‘being church’ flows from the sense of being filled with the Spirit.”
It’s that sense of engagement and excitement that Paterson hopes to inspire as he delivers the service on Thanksgiving Sunday.
The service begins at 10 a.m. and will be celebratory in nature – a reflection, said Paterson of his faith in God, his belief in the work of the United Church of Canada and of his confidence in the course that church has charted into the future.
Information regarding the Oak Bay United Church can be found at oakbayunitedchurch.ca.
The Right Reverend Gary Paterson, the newly elected Moderator of The United Church of Canada, will visit Oak Bay United this Sunday.
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THANK YOU TO ALL OUR BLACK PRESS NEWSPAPER CARRIERS & DRIVERS
Black Press community newspaper carriers showed their support for sport last Friday by donning a favourite team jersey while they delivered their paper routes, as part of na-tional Jersey Day.
Recognizing both the hard work of the dedicated carriers to deliver the local news every week and the importance of sport in the life of a vibrant community, Black Press asked its 1,100 carriers to submit photos of themselves “on the job” in their team colours, says Black Press Director of Cir-culation Bruce Hogarth.
A fl ood of photos arrived, showing carriers in action while delivering the Oak Bay News, Victoria News, Saanich News, Goldstream News Gazette, and Peninsula News Re-view. A sampling of the submissions is printed here for our readers to enjoy.
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Nicola Valley rancher Judith Guichon has been named B.C. Lieutenant Gov-ernor, as Stó:lo Grand Chief Steven Point’s five-year term comes to an end.
Guichon runs the family cattle ranch in the Nicola Val-ley. She has served as presi-dent of the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association, a director of the Grassland Conserva-tion Council of B.C., and on provincial government task forces on ranching and species at risk.
“Mrs. Guichon has dedicated herself to her com-munity, province and country,” Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper said in a statement Monday. “She is a leader in keeping British Columbia’s agriculture and cattle industries environmentally sound and she has worked hard to promote and protect the
ranchers of British Columbia.”Premier Christy Clark thanked Point for his
work and congratulated Guichon.“She has a deep appreciation for the history
and traditions of British Columbia and has spent a lifetime ensuring that we all stay connected to our roots – particularly through her work with the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association,” Clark said.
Lieutenant Governors are appointed by the Governor General on the recommendation of prime ministers. They serve five-year terms as the Queen’s representative in each province, declaring new legislation and performing cer-
emonial duties around the province.Point is a former provincial court judge. Before
being named to chief commissioner of the B.C. Treaty Commission, Point served as an elected chief of the Skowkale First Nation for 15 years. He also served as the tribal chair of the Stó:lo Nation Government, and Grand Chief of the Stó:lo Tribal Council.
For Privett, that new attitude is intricately linked to her faith in Christ. “It’s a whole new way of beholding life, one another and the world that challenges the predomi-nant narrative of our society,” she said.
“It’s a lesson that might be taken,
not just by the parishioners of St. Mary, but by everyone. … A lesson that gratitude can often come from looking at things with new eyes, a new attitude and an appreciation for what we’ve been given.”
Information on St. Mary the Vir-gin Anglican Church can be found at stmarysoakbay.bc.anglican.ca.
Come celebrate 28 years of high-quality, juried products pre-
sented by the Strawberry Vale Craft Fair, Nov. 3 and 4 at
11 High St., at the corner of Burnside Road.
In addition to some new faces joining the list of exhibitors,
organizers look forward to seeing what’s new from those who
are returning.Stu Hawthorn of Stu’s Wooden Wonders brings pens, mag-
nifying glasses, bowls and more, while Foggy Mountain Forge
showcases unique metal items, such as jellyfish, fish, candle
holders, kitchen art, vases, door knockers and garden art – great
for ideas for the male on your shopping list.
Nel Welby will demonstrate her talent for constructing and
designing a wide range of purses, bags and blankets, while
while fun and functional reversible pants and jackets and other
children’s clothing by Sew Cute Creations will be a favourite
with families.Do you have one or two more challenging people on your gift
list? Be sure to take in Debra Slaco’s collection of functional and
sculptural pottery, Wil Rapp’s honey, jams and candles, Salsa by
Rene, Christmas decorations by Melissa and Kristin Sardy and
Sheri Ewacha-Poole’s latest acrylic and watercolour paintings.
New to the show this year is Scruffy Dog Barkery, comple-
menting the returning ToddlersNTails and their creations of pet
products, baby blankets and more, Roz Van Dyk’s “Shattered By
Light” Stained glass sun catchers, vases, ornaments and candle-
holders, and Luana Johnston with her collection of colourful
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‘I know my limitations and am not shamed by them.’
Running for the money
This Thanksgiving weekend is a special one, as we reflect on the many ways our community has come together recently.
One could not help but be touched by the support of hundreds of folks who came out for the annual Terry Fox Run last month. Their enthusiasm and giving spirit is contagious.
The Terry Fox Run for cancer research begins a wave of fundraising that rolls through the fall and into the Christmas season.
Last weekend’s CIBC Run for the Cure saw more than 4,000 runners and walkers make their way around Ring Road at the University of Victoria.
The event is fun and exciting for participants, who are in equal part sombre and thoughtful. They sang, chanted and wore all manner of pink attire, from boas and tiaras to T-shirts and tutus, emblazoned with names honouring loved ones who are battling or have been taken by breast cancer.
More than $30 million was raised across the country by this event for breast cancer research, education and advocacy.
Today (Oct. 5) is the finale of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock fundraising ride. The 17 riders trained six months – averaging 4,000 kilometres each – in preparation for the two-week, 1,000-kilometre ride down Vancouver Island.
As well, those who support them spend many months planning and fundraising to make that ride worthwhile. The riders themselves will tell you, it’s not about the cycling, but about the communities, both large and small, that support the tour along the way.
And this weekend the 33rd GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon hits the streets of the city. Competitive runners have trained hard for the event, pounding out an estimated 400 kilometres before they hit the ground running this Sunday on Menzies Street near the legislature.
Along with thousands of runners come thousands of dollars in donations for more than 20 charities supported by the marathon. The fundraising aspect of the marathon is relatively new, yet has shown great potential as it becomes more culturally intertwined with the race itself.
We applaud the physical and fundraising efforts of all these riders, runners and walkers. They help lift all of our spirits, by giving us the opportunity to share their good feelings and help those around us through our charitable donations.
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A slew of friends and friends-of-friends signed up for the Tough Mudder in Whistler, a hardcore 10- to 12-kilometre obstacle course, earlier this year.
It seemed you couldn’t go a day without hearing about another connection to someone who planned to leap small buildings and slime through obstacles to achieve the glory of completion.
I take pride in knowing these friends who intentionally ran through electrically charged wires in the Mudder, or guys and girls who climb mountains or snowshoe ridiculous hills and vales in Mind Over Mountain Adventure Racing.
I’ve never contemplated anything remotely similar, not even a simple trek up the West Coast Trail.
They’re generally strong of body and mind. I’m not.
I know these things about myself and tend to lean away from activities where I’ll likely be maimed or injured. I know my limitations and am not shamed by them.
So me, myself and I were stunned when my rubber arm twisted to support a friend and walk the half marathon this weekend. This heart over mind thing could get a person killed.
Sunday marks the 33rd anniversary of the Victoria
marathon. For an event that swarms walkers, runners and wheelers over a good chunk of the city for a day, I was stunned with how little I knew about the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon.
More than 12,000 participants are expected to fill the streets on marathon morning – with road closures throughout Victoria and Oak Bay along the route. The races range from a one-kilometre kids’ run to the full 42-kilometre marathon, starting and finishing not far from the legislative buildings.
There are four official charities benefiting from race proceeds and 20 charities that are raising
funds through a pledge process in the event.
I’m running with the Hepatitis C Education and Prevention Society’s Liver Warriors, also known as Team Daisy, for my pal.
Non-profit HepCBC provides support for those living with the blood-borne virus which attacks the liver.
The society has high hopes of raising $25,000 – enough to reopen its office, hire a part-time executive director for a year and return to helping people living with the heavy stigma of Hep C.
I figure the least I can do is take a few hours to walk this beautiful city as a way of raising awareness
of this group.One coworker (OK, he’s the boss)
and his wife are doing the half marathon as a training run for the New York Marathon next month. I’d call it insane, but he’s the boss.
Another coworker is partaking in her fourth Victoria Marathon, doing the half again to raise funds for Lifetime Networks, a non-profit to support people with disabilities in Victoria. It’s not the lure of adrenaline that pulls her, but the emotional high.
“It’s uplifting and powerful,” she says. It’s a high to witness the sense of accomplishment on the faces of folks as they cross the finish line, particularly those participants with obvious physical impairments who overcome a lot to make the trek.
The online map identifies cheer zones along the way. From what I hear, there are people in costume, those who offer inspirational quotes on posterboard and even entertainers keeping everyone – walkers and athletic specimens alike – in good spirits on the 21-kilometre route.
Fortunately, the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon welcomes walkers who can finish the half marathon course in fewer than six hours. I can do that.
I’m pretty sure. Probably. I’m no Tough Mudder and have
no desire to win or anything…Christine van Reeuwyk is a reporter
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Sociology is a safe investment for studentsRe: Swapping sociology for socket sets (B.C. Views, Sept. 26)Tom Fletcher’s column presents a number of misguided claims designed to lend rhetorical support to the provincial government’s intention to invest in trade and technical school facilities.
Fletcher argues that the government’s emphasis on shop upgrades in trade and technical schools implies that “dead-end programs dear to the hearts of last year’s Occupy campers will feel the pinch.”
He singles out sociology and women’s studies as examples of “aimless study” leading to unemployment (and social activism).
Fletcher’s concern seems to be that today’s students need to select courses that ensure a “safe investment” for themselves, their parents and society at large.
Sociology is a safe investment.
Sociologists have always focused on and provided necessary insights into relevant contemporary issues.
Sociologists at the University of Victoria are addressing some of the biggest questions facing government today. For instance, UVic sociologists are helping the province design health care policy on older adults living in long-term care facilities – policy shaping the lives of our parents and grandparents.
They are conducting research on increasing barriers placed on access to information and the right to know what government is doing. UVic sociologists are conducting policy research on crime control strategies, incarceration and prisons.
Last but not least, sociologists at UVic are providing training in research design, quantitative reasoning, objective data analysis and policy-relevant issues that dominate government agendas.
When a student majors in sociology, she studies a core
curriculum aimed at developing competent research skills applicable to today’s world (and labour market).
Rather than relying on stereotypes and rhetorical nonsense to incite populist indignation, sociology students learn how to enact explanations that are informed by and based on clear evidence. To be sure, sociologists are passionate about and deeply committed to their research pursuits focused on maternity care, aging, dementia, blood donation, depression, weapons use and international human rights.
Passion and commitment, combined with sound research skills, are the hallmarks of all scientific pursuits.
The evidence indicates that sociology is one of the safest investments available to ensure social policy informed by evidence and sound research.
Sean Hierchair, Sociology Department
University of Victoria
Polio support crucialas disease nearly beat
Many Canadians are old enough to remember the horror of polio from our childhoods. In the 1950s and 60s, polio killed thousands of children and left countless others living in iron lungs or with lifelong paralysis.
With the development of effective vaccines, we thought we had seen the end of this terrible disease. We were wrong.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently predicted a global polio emergency in Pakistan within three months. In 2011, 73 new cases were reported there, nearly equal to all the cases in the previous five years.
Polio is now 99 per cent eradicated globally, but without immediate action, the number of children paralyzed each year is expected rise to 200,000 in a decade. Canada contributes $35 million annually towards global polio eradication, but our spending is set to decline to just
$5 million in 2014. Prime Minister Harper has been invited by the United Nations to co-convene a meeting on polio this week. It is crucial that he recommit to our earlier funding.
Nathaniel PooleVictoria
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Pushing our kids out the door may be the best way to save the planet.
In a survey con-ducted for the David Suzuki Foundation, 70 per cent of Canadian youth said they spend an hour or less a day in the open air. And when they are out, it’s usually to go from one place to another. In other words, it’s just a consequence of trying to be some-where else.
Nearly half the young people surveyed said they don’t have enough time to join programs that would involve them in outdoor activities. School, work and other respon-sibilities make it difficult to do things like kick around a soccer ball or go for a walk with friends in
the nearby woods.For someone of my genera-
tion this is almost unfathomable. When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our par-ents would tell us to get out of the house.
As a teenager in Lon-don, Ontario, my sanc-tuary was a swamp. I’d return home at the end of a day, often soak-ing wet and covered in mud, with my collec-tion of insects, salaman-der eggs and turtles. That piqued my interest in science. Making tree
forts and lying in fields watching the clouds stimulated my imagina-tion and creativity. Being outside made me a happy, healthy kid and made me feel connected to the world around me.
As a father, I also encouraged my kids to enjoy time outdoors, and one of my favourite activities now is exploring nature with my grandchildren.
In just a few generations, life has changed dramatically for children. Now, they can’t seem to find the time to play outdoors. They sit in front of screens for long periods of time.
A U.S. survey by the Kaiser Fam-ily Foundation found young people are engaged with entertainment media for an average of seven and a half hours a day.
Over seven days, that’s longer than the average workweek!
We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Face-book rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.
As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Fami-lies play a key role in getting kids outside.
The David Suzuki Foundation survey found that youth were 20 per cent more likely to take part in outdoor programming or explore nature on their own if they spent time outside from an early age.
Younger teens reported that getting outside with their families was the best way to connect with nature. Older youth were more likely to explore nature spontane-ously, on their own or with friends – likely because parents relax restrictions and allow them to do more of what they want.
And what they want is fun and adventure, at least when it comes to being outside. More than half the youth said they enjoy spend-
ing unstructured time in nature. This is great news.
What we need to do is encour-age them – and sometimes just get out of their way.
We need to make sure our neigh-bourhoods have green spaces. We need to ask teachers and school board representatives to take stu-dents outside regularly to incorpo-rate the natural world into every-thing they learn.
If we don’t, we’ll never raise the next generation of environmental stewards to help protect and cele-brate the wonders of nature. After all, people are more likely to look after something they have come to know and cherish.
Parents need to remember all the fun times they had outside as kids. They need to trust their chil-dren, and kick them out the door like my mom did.
david suzuki.org.
Get your kids away from the screen and into the green
David Suzukiwith Leanne Clare
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on the front door, a visitor watches Bill Lunt
zip across his floor, one knee on a four-wheeled scooter, to answer the doorbell.
He gets around relatively well for a guy who fell off a roof 20 months ago and is still faced with serious mobility issues. Those physical challenges make it tricky for
Lunt, a professional home and renovation designer along with twin brother, David, to do the work he’s been become accustomed to for the better part of the last 30 years.
The brothers grew up working for their dad in the family business, Ted Lunt Designs. Five years ago, when Ted’s dementia reached an advanced stage, his sons took over the company and renamed it Mesa Design Group.
Timing is everything, they say, but it doesn’t always go in one’s favour. Bill’s accident came during a recession that was having and continues to have an effect on the home construction and renovation industry.
With David bearing the brunt of the load initially, to the point where he was “a heart attack waiting to happen,” the partners decided to “reinvent ourselves,” Bill says.
One of the first things they did was to pare back expenses. The Mesa office, once located in a $3,500 per month space, is officially in David’s north Langford home.
With recessionary forces squeezing the market and competition fierce, they recently took another major risk as a way to retain a piece of the pie: they cut their prices to 1992 levels.
Aware that some designers offer a low-ball cost to get a job, then add on charges for every little change along the way, Mesa moved to a fixed-price, per-square-foot charge for new construction design and quoted prices on specific reno jobs.
“Communication (early and often) is key when you’re dealing with people. An informed client is an easier client to deal with,” David says.
“Our goal is (still) to give them the best bang for their buck within the guideline of their design,” adds Bill.
The brothers still relish their role as a “facilitator between the homeowner and the jurisdiction,” being able to understand municipal zoning regulations and restrictions that affect what the client can do.
“Our dad’s attitude was that it’s not always about just drawing pretty pictures on paper for someone,” Bill says.
“He saw himself as playing more of a designer-consultant role.”
Things can go sideways on a construction project, no matter what the size. But the brothers are proud of the fact that they are available to help their clients until the job is done, despite the fact they aren’t swinging the hammers or pouring concrete.
Mesa Design Group, 250-382-2893 or mesadesigngroup.ca.
Esquimalt depotexpands services
The Westshore Bottle Depot, which moved onto Ellery Street in Esquimalt last April, began accepting small appliances in the summer, and items such as sewing machines, exercise machines, power tools and electronic toys at no cost. A full list of products accepted is available at islandreturnit.com
under the small appliances menu. The depot is open seven days a week at 935 Ellery St.
Call 250-381-1482 for more information.
Wright makes returnto Marine Group
Randy Wright, son of Oak Bay Marine Group founder Bob Wright, has been installed as chief executive for the tourism-based company. Bob Wright has no plans to retire completely at nearly 82, but wanted to bring in his son to run the business on a daily basis to allow him a day off now and again. Randy Wright, who worked 22 years with the Marine Group, spent the past 12 years as vice-president of marketing and sales for Har-bour Air.
Business goings-onaround and about town
Travel agent Normand Scha-fer of Far and Away Adven-tures (250-385-3001) is now a certified Tahiti Specialist, having visited the tiny South Pacific islands and completed a training program run by the national tourist office … Baan Thai restaurant has launched a new website (BaanThaiVicto-ria.ca) and instituted the Baan Thai fan club, where customers can find special offers … Olive the Senses, specializing in fresh extra virgin olive oils and bal-samic vinegar, is open in the Hudson Building, 1701 Douglas St. Visit olivethesenses.com.
Bill Lunt, left, and David Lunt of Mesa Design Group have worked together in the building industry in Greater Victoria since the 1980s, first with their father, Ted, now on their own.
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Many fatal fi res start at night
Smoke alarms save livesAs most Canadians turn back the clocks on November 4, here are some timely smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) safety tips:• When you change your clocks, test your smoke arlam.• You have less than three minutes to es-cape a fi re. So when smoke alarms sound, everyone must know what to do and where to go. Having and practising an escape plan is essential.• Install one smoke alarm on every storey and outside bedrooms. Install inside bedrooms if you sleep with doors closed. • Ensure all smoke alarms are fully powered. Never take out batteries or remove an alarm from ceiling due to a false alarm.• If your home has any fuel-burning devices such as a gas furnace, gas water heater, gas appliances, or an attached garage or carport, install at least one CSA-approved carbon monoxide outside all sleeping areas. One per storey is recommended.• Replace smoke alarms ev-
ery 10 years, and CO alarms every 7-10 years (depending on manufacturer) whether battery operated or hard-
wired into your home’s electri-cal system.Carbon monox-ide is colour-less, odourless and tasteless. So without a CO alarm, humans cannot detect its presence. Despite the average home
having several potential sources of the deadly gas, studies show that nearly 60 per cent of Canadians have not installed a CO alarm. In addition to being impossible to detect, CO also has anoth-er nefarious trait. Symptoms of carbon monoxide expo-sure mimic the fl u, without the fever. It is routinely responsible for thousands of clinic and hospital visits each year, and is commonly misdiagnosed. Prolonged or extreme exposure causes nausea, dizziness, confusion, the loss of physical mobility, brain damage and ultimately, death. More home safety resources can be found on the www.safeathome.ca web site.
Investigations into home fi re deaths very often fi nd that a smoke alarm did not sound. It may have been discon-nected or not in working order. The batteries may have been dead, or some-one may have taken them out. Smoke alone won’t necessar-ily wake you up. In fact, the fumes could put you into an even deeper sleep. Often, victims never wake up. Se-
niors will often need assistance from fam-ily members to put safety measures into place. As well, family mem-bers are in the best position to reinforce the precautions necessary to help their loved ones prevent or respond to a fi re. Focus on
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INSTALL smoke alarms inside every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on every level of the home, including the basement.
Larger homes may need ADDITIONAL smoke alarms to provide enough protection.
For the best protection, INTERCONNECT all smoke alarms so when one sounds they all sound.
An IONIZATION smoke alarm is generally more responsive to fl aming fi res and a PHOTOELECTRIC smoke alarm is generally more responsive to smoldering fi res. For the best protection, both types of alarms or combination ionization and photoelectric alarms (also known as dual sensor alarms) are recommended.
Smoke alarms should be INSTALLED away from the kitchen to prevent false alarms. Generally, they should be at least 10 feet (3 meters) from a cooking appliance.
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Thanksgiving turkey fi res cause for concern at 9-1-1 centreE -Comm’s fi re dispatch team is warning families to be mind-ful of their turkey cooking during Thanksgiving week-end. “A turkey isn’t something you typi-cally see on a list of household fi re haz-ards, but we get 9-1-1 calls about ovens going up in fl ames all the time,” says Corey Kelso, E-Comm fi re dispatcher. “The result can be devastating if you’re not careful every time you have something cooking for an extended period of time.”
E-Comm has received some odd calls to 9-1-1 before – including
someone wanting to know how long to cook a turkey – but a turkey fi re is no joke. In fact, it is a leading cause of spikes in 9-1-1 calls over the holidays.
“A fl ame in your oven can start easily and escalate quickly,” says Kelso. “Oil drippings through a thin tinfoil turkey pan or bits of leftover food residue inside your oven are extremely fl ammable in a high temperature setting.”
Analysis was undertaken on almost 50,000 fi res that occurred in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario over a 5-year period involving 663 fatalities. The fi ndings demonstrated that the death rate per 1,000 fi res in the absence of a present, functioning smoke alarm was 74% greater than when a functioning smoke alarm was present.
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK OCTOBER 7-14
Firefighters around the region will be busy educating the public about fire safety dur-ing Fire Prevention Week.
In Oak Bay, the Fire Department will be conducting the Challenge Trophy competition among area schools. On the morning of Oct. 10, firefighters will attend area schools to per-form full evacuation and safety drills – the school with the best time wins the trophy.
The firefighters will also attend municipal hall and all Oak Bay recreation centres during the week to conduct evacuation drills with patrons and employees to make sure everyone knows how to follow a fire escape plan.
“Fire Prevention Week for us is the one time of year we can draw the public’s attention to one sim-ple, important thing, that’s having a working smoke alarm that is tested regularly,” said Oak Bay Fire Department Captain Ken Gill. “If we could encour-age every resident to take that small step, then every other message we have will dovetail into that. … It all hinges on early detection and warning, so people have the opportunity to escape.”
Gill said it is a standard message, but one that is not always heeded. “It’s challenging, but it’s one step that would certainly go a long way to protect-ing property and saving lives,” he added.
From Oct. 2 to 5, the Saanich Fire Department will partner with other departments to host a fire expo aimed at teaching 911 skills, fire extinguisher safety, and home evacuation, at the Central Saanich fire hall. The program, geared towards students in Grade 5, runs daily from 9 a.m. until noon.
Firefighters will also take their fire trucks to schools across the Saanich and Greater Victoria School Dis-tricts, conducting fire drills throughout the week.
From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Oct. 13, firefighters will be on hand with fire safety resources at the Home Depot at 3986 Shelbourne St. for Home Depot Fire Safety Days.
“We’d like to encourage everyone to participate at the in-home level, not just at public schools,” said Saanich fire department Capt. Rich Pala. “Every-one should have a home escape plan. We’d like to see everyone sit down with their kids and educate them.”
The Victoria Fire Department will begin the week with opening ceremonies at Victoria City Hall Oct. 9 at 8:50 a.m. The event will begin with a fire drill at
city hall, a proclamation and the raising of the Fire Prevention Week flag. Firefighters will attend all area schools to make sure students are prepared to evacu-ate their classrooms.
“Every year we have a specific theme and this year is ‘have two ways to get out,’” said Insp. Megan Sabell of the Vic-toria Fire Department. “Everyone should have two ways to get out of every room in their
building, home, school or office. And they should not only have a plan but practise that plan as well.”
More information on Fire Prevention Week can be found at fpw.org.
Celebrating Fire Prevention Week in Greater Victoria
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Oak Bay Firefighter Kyle Beaumont prepares for rooftop drills.
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Firefighter training in Nanaimo.
Jeff NagelBlack Press
BC Ferries has the green light to raise fares by up to 12 per cent over three years and passengers should expect less frequent sailings on some major runs.
Increases in the fare cap of roughly four per cent a year were approved Monday by B.C. Ferry Commis-sioner Gord Macatee.
The ferries regulator also directed BC Ferries to come up with more than $54 million in sav-ings over four years, including $30 million through service cuts.
BC Ferries will trim some sailings start-ing Oct. 9, particularly when vessels are run-ning with light pas-senger loads on major routes between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.
Regular odd-hour sail-ings won't be affected, but nearly 100 even-hour sailings are to be scrapped between those terminals this fall and winter to help save an estimated $1 million.
Tsawwassen-Duke Point sailings that have been running less than 25 per cent full account for nearly half the planned cuts.
Potential cuts to Gulf Islands routes are to go to public hearings in advance of any deci-sion.
BC Ferries reported declining fare revenue in 2011, recording the lowest number of pas-sengers in 21 years. Vehicle traffic is at a 13-year low.
The province injected an extra $80 million into the ferry service this year to avert the threat of considerably higher fare increases as well as deeper service cuts.
One option Macatee expects the corporation to explore is the possi-ble conversion of some ferries to natural gas, reducing the impact of high fuel costs.
The corporation is to file an alternate fuel use plan within 30 days, as well as a separate plan to cut fuel consump-tion.
Ferry fares going up, sailings reduced
Take out your frustrations at broom bash
Bring your fam-ily, tools (loppers and clippers) and gloves to join in the fun of removing Scotch Broom, ivy and ever-green Daphne Oct. 20 and 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. Meet on Beach Drive at the entrance to Cattle Point and sign in at the registration table. Encourage others to become members of the Friends of Uplands Park. Contact Mar-garet Lidkea at 250-595-8084 or go to friendsofuplandspark.wordpress.com for more information.
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Members of the Monterey Centre will roll out the barrel so that everyone’s sure to have fun at Oktoberfest on Thursday, Oct. 18 from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Before the lively entertainment is underway, guests will be served Jager schnitzel, potato pancakes, braised red cabbage and black forest cake for dessert.
The bar opens at 5 p.m. Cost is $20 for members and $23 for non-members.
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President and CEO Howard Waldner of the Vancouver Island Health Authority is retiring in April 2013 after eight years in the job.
VIHA board chair Don Hubbard said Waldner leaves a proud legacy, having developed a strong leadership team and a record of innovation and achievement.
He was the driv-ing force behind the creation of the Royal Jubilee Patient Care Centre and the new North Island Hospitals Project.
Under his leader-ship, VIHA was rec-ognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 employers during the past four years and delivered a balanced operating budget each year since 2004.
The VIHA board is moving forward to establish a recruitment process to replace Waldner.
Clients of Our Place Society were treated to an early Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings Thursday through the mid-day meal period.
More than 1,000 of the city’s home-less and most vulnerable citizens were expected to sit down to enjoy turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetables,
stuffing and pie for dessert.“Thanksgiving is a special time to be
grateful and be with loved ones. For many of the people we welcome, we’re the clos-est family they have,” said Our Place Soci-ety executive director Don Evans. “We want everyone to feel a sense of belonging and enjoy a great meal.”
More than 30 volunteers, including some local politicians, served up meals and attended to patrons at the society’s cafeteria at 919 Pandora Ave.
To help defray costs of the dinner or any other services offered by Our Place, visit ourplacesociety.com or call 250-388-7112.
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THE ARTSThe Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss St, presents the work of
31 ceramic artists working on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition emphasizes the “back to the land” movement of the early 1970s as the impetus for the explosion of ceramic activity in this region. Oct. 5 to Feb. 3, go to aggv.ca for more information.
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If Camas Books adopted the corporate lingo of mainstream advertising, the store might be tagged “new and improved.”
Or that might make its collective mem-bers collectively cringe. Victoria’s non-hier-archical hub of anarchist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and radical literature has relo-cated to a space half a block north from its former home at the corner of Quadra Street and Kings Road.
Walls in the new space are splashed with grand, sweeping murals of nature – a humpback whale arches across the back wall, a cougar guards the cash register – while scattered boxes of books attest to the chaos of moving. A volunteer work party was expected to have the store in order and reopened by Wednesday.
“I’m interested in discovering what the culture on this side of the street is like,” jokes Kim Croswell, a volunteer and mem-ber of the Camas Books collective, refer-ring to their relocation to the north side of Kings Road. “We’re fortunate that we don’t have to leave the neighbourhood. We like
it here.” Camas Books has survived for five years
on a business model that matches the phi-losophy of its book inventory. It’s a non-profit society run by a collective, where 24 members come to consensus on decision making through discussion and debate.
“We have a broad base of community sup-port. It’s reflected in the size of the collec-
tive, and volunteers give their time, skills and expertise to keep it going,” said Allan Antliff, one of the founding members of Camas Books and a University of Victoria professor of art history.
“The books we carry aren’t carried in any other book store in Victoria. We have a strong identity in the radical community, and a strong indigenous orientation. It all comes together to create a viable opera-tion,” he says.
Camas Books will fundraise to help pay for the move, but Croswell said in gen-eral, the store is financially self-sustaining through book sales and community events, such as art shows, book readings and film launches. Its volunteer base is dedicated and loyal, and more than enough to staff the store seven days per week.
“We’re a mixture of teachers, high school and university students, writers, cab driv-ers, people who work two jobs and then come here and do shifts. It’s people from all walks of life,” says Croswell, who teaches distance learning.
Camas Books takes its name from the camas plant, a traditional aboriginal food source. In keeping with its mandate of pro-
moting indigenous rights, the store makes a point of describing its location on tradi-tional Lekwungen (Songhees and Esquimalt First Nation) territory.
“The mandate is to promote alternative knowledge and books. A huge element is the indigenous section and the decoloniza-tion section,” Croswell noted.
Antliff, a Canada Research Chair and an expert in anarchist history, and others, started the bookstore by renting shelf space at Dark Horse Books in downtown Victo-ria, and eventually raised enough money to open a retail space in Quadra Village in 2007.
Despite being a founding member, these days Antliff takes a back seat helping guide the collective.
“I do a lot of grunt work. I mop the floor and clean up. I leave the leadership to oth-ers. There are very talented people in the collective,” Antliff says. “I’m interested in art and social change. For me, it’s a good fit.”
Camas Books is hosting a reopening cel-ebration on Oct. 12, 6:30 p.m., featuring CBC Radio host and poet laureate Janet Rogers, at 2620 Quadra St.
Independent Camas Books thrives outside the mainstream
Edward Hill/News staff
Camas Books volunteer and collective member Kim Croswell stands amid the store in the process of unpacking in its new location on Quadra Street.
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Fragments and Masks is a two-person exhibition of pho-tographs and paintings that explore the way people are pre-sented by the artist’s image.
The show of black and white photography by Barry Her-ring and interactive paintings by Richard Motchman opens Friday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Xchanges Gallery, 2333 Govern-ment St.
These artists use different media but their figurative work is related in that they both focus only on portions of the body in their portraits. When people pose for a portrait they decide what part of themselves to expose and what to hide.
The person performs for the artist. The artist then records the performance and manipulates it to produce an image that will be exposed to a future viewer. These images are a representa-tion of reality and provide the viewer with clues to initiate a personal narrative and form a conception of the person.
Herring uses traditional black and white darkroom techniques to create portrayals of a frag-ment of a person or he cuts fragments from portraits and recombines them. In this way, he examines how the eye, brain and memory construct an arti-ficial image and not an exact or
petrified replication. A central question is what construct does the viewer form of the original subject from the fragment?
Motchman creates portrait paintings using a narrow frag-ment of the naked person from scalp to pelvis. With each paint-ing is a mask that the viewer inter-acts with, covering or uncover-ing the face. The positioning of the mask can further fragment the portrait. The choice of mask depicted is another part of the
collaboration between model and artist.
The interaction of the viewer with the mask brings the viewer into an intimate relationship with the painting as object but also into an intimate relation-ship with the subject of the painting.
The exhibition continues at Xchanges Gallery until Oct. 28. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m.
Michelle Jacques has been named Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
For most of the past 15 years, Jacques has held various curatorial positions in the contemporary and Canadian departments of the Art Gal-lery of Ontario, where she is currently the acting curator, Canadian art.
From 2002 to 2004, she was the direc-tor of programming at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax.
“Michelle’s broad range of experi-ence as a curator, from historical to contemporary, will make her an ideal addition to the curatorial team at the AGGV,” said gallery director
Jon Tupper. Jacques is also an educator. She has
taught writing, art history and curato-rial studies at NSCAD University, the University of Toronto and OCAD Uni-versity and is currently adjunct faculty at York University.
She is currently on the boards of Vtape and the Feminist Art Gallery and is past board member of the artist-run contemporary art centre Mercer Union, all in Toronto.
Jacques received a B.A. in art history and psychology from Queens Univer-
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With about 27,000 art pieces gathered over more than 50 years, the University of Victoria is putting some prime selections on display for its 50th anniversary celebrations.
Collections at 50: Building the University of Victo-ria Art Collections, on until Nov. 24 at UVic's down-town Legacy Art Gallery, was guest curated by former gallery director Martin Segger.
“One of the biggest challenges in representing 50 years of collecting was paring down the list to fit in the gallery,” says Caroline Riedel, curator of collections.
“What began as a small group of works by Canadian and European artists has blossomed into a rich and varied teaching and research resource, thanks mainly to the generosity of indi-vidual donors.”
A related exhibit, The University of Victoria: A Community of Communities, features a selec-tion of photographs of life at UVic taken from Ian MacPherson’s new book Reaching Outward and Upward: The University of Victoria 1963-2013.
The photos are on display at the Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery on the lower level of UVic’s McPherson library until Oct. 15.
The Collections at 50: Building the University of Victoria Art Collections is at the Legacy Art Gal-lery, 630 Yates St.
Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.The gallery is open Wednesday through Satur-
Winchester, Blue Bridge team up for fundraiserWinchester Galleries and
Blue Bridge Repertory The-atre are holding their fifth annual Art Exhibition and Sale from until Oct. 6 at Win-chester Gallery’s Oak Bay location, 2260 Oak Bay Ave.
A fundraiser for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, this exhibition features the work of more than 20 of Vic-toria’s and Canada’s lead-ing visual artists with more than 60 works donated to assist Blue Bridge launch
its season.“From the beginning of
Blue Bridge Repertory The-atre, both the Winchester Galleries, and the visual art-ists of Victoria they repre-sent, have been amongst our most dedicated and stron-gest allies,” said Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre founder and producing artistic direc-tor Brian Richmond. “In our efforts to build a world class, professional, classical the-atre company for the people
of Victoria, these enormously talented artists have contrib-uted more than $100,000 of their work to help support the formation of Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre.”
Interested viewers can pre-view and place early bids on all the work on sale at Win-chester Galleries from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Friday Oct. 5 and Saturday, Oct. 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Continuing with the new initiative from last year that
proved so popular, interested buyers will also be provided the opportunity to enter the Art Lottery which features several works from Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre’s past four years of inventory and which carries works valued up to $8,500 which may be secured at a fraction of their appraised market value.
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Cash prizes entice faster runners to marathon Travis PatersonNews staff
With apologies to the old adage, but it’s records, not rules, which are meant to be broken.
Three of the Goodlife Fitness Victoria Marathon’s big-ger records were reset last year, one of them 22 years old. And this Sunday there’s no reason those three records, plus more, can’t be broken once more in the marathon’s 33rd year.
“There’s a very good chance the men’s and women’s marathon records could fall once again,” said Jonathan Foweraker, marathon’s elite athlete coordinator.
The marathon’s board of directors made a bold choice this year by loosening the regulations for the cash bonus to course record-breakers. Previously, the course record bonus of $5,000 was reserved to Canadian citizens, meaning last year’s winner, Thomas Omwenga, who earned $3,000 for the win, was unable to collect the added $5,000 course bonus.
That changes this year as the men’s and women’s mar-athon bonuses, including $1,000 for the half-marathon, are extended to permanent residents and refugees who have been domiciled in Canada for at least a year.
Omwenga returns after breaking Steve Osadiuk’s 2006 time of two hours, 16 minutes and 49 seconds last year with a time of 2:14:33.
“Omwenga has a better personal-best than that, and we must note that in 2011 he ran a marathon in Montreal the week before. This time he’s rested up,” Foweraker said.
The Canadian-based Kenyan has won two marathons already this year, in Manitoba and Quebec, and his last race was Niagara’s Run for Grapes half-marathon, which he won on Sept. 23.
The competition is tight in the men’s elite pack with 2010-winner Philip Samoei, who came second last year at 2:25:41 and, Cache Creek’s Ryan Day, who was third last year at 2:26:42 also returning.
Elites keying in on the women’s marathon are Gillian Clayton, an Ironman triathlete who has a personal best of 2:54 from 2011, Hallie Jansen, the 2004-winner, who ran 2:45 in 2011, 2010-winner Catrin Jones, who ran 2:48 last year and Nadyia Fry, third in 2011 with 2:55.
Eyeing up first in the women’s half-marathon is another Canadian-based Kenyan, Lucy Njeri, who smashed the marathon record of with a time of 2:37:56 in 2011.
Cracking the women’s half-marathon record might be beyond Njeri, however, as Natasha Wodak set the bar high with her course record of 1:15:27 last year.
Other notables for Sunday: the masterful movement of Jim Finlayson. Now 40, the local runner joins the masters ranks. For the fourth year in a row the Victoria Marathon will act as the B.C. Championships. The advent of an expanded Elite B category means free entry to more run-ners, particularly women, from the local scene, rather than just international runners.
Peninsula minor hockey product Jamie Benn has signed on to play with the Hamburg Freezers of Germany’s premier hockey league, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
Benn’s contract enables him to return to the Dallas Stars, where he was an NHL all-star last season, if the NHL lockout ends during the German hockey season.
Stars beat writer Mike Heika came across the sign-ing on Tuesday through the Freezers’ website.
Benn makes his debut today (Oct. 5). Also on the Hamburg Freezers is ex-NHLer Matt Pettinger of Vic-toria, who last played for the Vancouver Canucks in 2010.
Japanese visit Tide comes for 40th
Royal Athletic Park will host a 40th anniversary on Saturday when the Victoria’s Ebb Tide, the over-40 rugby club, returns to the pitch where it made its debut in 1972.
Two visiting Japanese teams, the Osaka Gentlemen and Tenri Old Bears will each play an over-55 game against an Ebb Tide squad that will change throughout the day,
followed by an over-40 game. “Spectators shouldn’t
expect sparkling rugby, that’s left for the young, although the over-40 game may have flashes of brilliance,” said Ebb Tide member Mark Bry-ant.
The event starts Saturday at 1 p.m. with the over-55 games beginning at 1:30 p.m. and the over-40 match at 3 p.m., followed by a traditional rugby reception and dinner at Four Points Sheraton at 6 p.m.
Elites target records
Proposal deadline too soon admit Ironman organizersTravis PatersonNews staff
Greater Victoria has been left out of the running in the contest to be the new home of Ironman Canada.
Several factors came into play against bringing the world-class long distance triath-lon to Elk Lake but the biggest was getting 10 municipalities on board in time for the deadline of an Oct. 13 annoucment.
“We were disappointed,” said Hugh Mac-Donald of SportHost Victoria. He submitted the proposal to the World Triathlon Corpo-ration by Sept. 24, which owns the Ironman licences, on behalf of Greater Victoria.
The WTC released a shortlist on Monday of Whistler, Vernon and Huntsville, Ont., as the final three cities.
“While Victoria as a venue was ranked at the top, (WTC) didn’t have the confidence that we could get the permits and required support from 10 municipalities within five to 10 days,” MacDonald said.
“We weren’t surprised, it’s a lot of hoops to go through in our community to get events.”
The WTC told MacDonald the chances of bringing Ironman Canada to Victoria were much better if the race could wait until 2014. But with competitors chomping at the bit to sign up, WTC is moving fast to find a new 2013 home for the race that lived in Penticton from 1982 to 2012.
“There will be some discussion about the result,” MacDonald said. “We were being encouraged by different groups, we were looking at August but were encouraging WTC to look earlier or later.”
In one way, MacDonald can wipe his brow over the loss of stress.
There was no shortage of support from the triathlon and non-triathlon community to bring Ironman here. But there was legitimate concern, said MacDonald, of just when to fit the massive migration of triathletes and their supporters into the summer event calendar.
“2013 is an exceptionally busy year, some events haven’t been officially awarded yet.”
The World Youth Climbing Championships are coming Aug. 10 to 18, bringing as many as 2,000 people from 45 countries for the event hosted at Stelly’s secondary.
The Subaru Western Triathlon Series also runs the Sookie International half-Ironman, usually the third Saturday in August.
Soon to be confirmed is the Canadian Dragon Boat Championships at Elk Lake, which MacDonald is committed to bringing here, for the weekend of Aug. 24 to 26.
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Rowers upset with Rowing Canada coach’s dismissal
Travis PatersonNews staff
Mike Spracklen had his share of detractors, but he didn’t think it was enough to tip him out of the boat.
Earlier this week Rowing Can-ada made a bold decision to fire the decorated coach. Off-and-on since 1990, Spracklen guided Canadians to multiple Olympic and World Championship gold medals, helping Silken Laum-man to fame in the 1990s and, in recent years, the crews of the men’s heavyweight eight and pairs to the Olympic podium.
The national program is restructuring, which includes hiring a new performance direc-tor for the heavyweight men’s program, based at Elk Lake, to be announced later.
“Mike has left a significant legacy and we respect and cel-ebrate his many achievements,” said Peter Cookson, the high performance director.
“Two medals (in London) does not meet our expectations – we are driven to improve on this.”
“Certainly I was surprised,” Spracklen said from his Sidney home on Tuesday. “I still have something to offer, providing my health stays good then I’ll con-tinue coaching. I want to go and help people who want my help, and I’ll continue to do what I can for them.
“If they don’t want my help, I don’t want to be with them.”
Just as several current row-ers stepped forward to defend Spracklen on Tuesday, he’s also been the target of controversy since about 2010, mainly from men’s pair of Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen, who’ve openly criticizing his style of coaching.
The CBC published a letter on Tuesday from Frandsen in support of Spracklen’s removal, but he and Calder passed up a request for comment to the News.
From the CBC letter, Frandsen voiced harsh words, accusing Spracklen of creating an inner circle of rowers, with an “us against them” mentality against the rest of the rowing team, and for employing an unfair selec-tion process for the international boat crews.
But current rower and 2012 Olympian Lindsay Jennerich – who fought and won against Rowing Canada for the right as the only women’s boat to train at Elk Lake under Spracklen – and Kevin Light, a member of the 2008 Olympic gold-medal heavyweight eight, are among
the many who disagree with Calder and Frandsen’s outlook, as well as Rowing Canada’s.
“Removing Spracklen not only weakens the future of the heavy men’s rowing team, it removes an aura of excellence, dedication and hard work from the entire high performance system... Right now Rowing Canada is in a pro-cess of eliminat-ing some of the best resources to rowers that exist in this country … firing Mike Sprack-len is proof that the system is not making choices based on winning. They are mak-ing them based on politics. What wins medals is belief in the plan. Myself and many others now have none,” Jennerich wrote in an email to the News.
Light too, is upset.“Cookson is a nice guy, and
as a rower he always treated me well, but he made a wrong decision and hasn’t realized the ramifications of what he’s done,” Light said.
In their announcement to release Spracklen, Rowing Can-ada also promoted coach John Keogh to the role of perfor-mance director for the women and Al Morrow as the head of the lightweight men’s program, which now moves from Elk Lake to London, Ont.
Spracklen, now 75 years old, and his wife Annie, have resided in Sidney full time since 2000, but still own a home in Marlow, just west of London, England, close to the famous Henley-On-
Thames, the hallowed waters of of rowing.
It’s hard to imagine that even in his later years, Spracklen won’t have any high-performance opportunities come his way. His international resumé dates back to the 1976 Olympics in Mon-treal, where he helped Britain’s men’s double scull to silver. In
the 1980s he coached Oxford to defeats of Cambridge in The Boat Race.
And even with the nega-tive comments and controversy
around him earning national press attention in the last two years, his time in Canada can hardly be called anything but a success.
Spracklen’s been part of seven gold medals for Canada since 1990, and in 2002 he was named the International Rowing Federa-tion Coach of the Year as a Cana-dian coach.
“I will continue coaching some-where, unlikely here,” Spracklen said. “I will just grab my thoughts together and decide where I should go, or what’s available to me.”
Spracklen is fond of his time in Canada but is disappointed in Rowing Canada’s decision.
“It only takes one person to think you’re not capable. There will always be athletes who don’t make the team and they’ll com-plain. It’s something I’ve dealt with all my life as every rowing coach has.”
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UBCM speaks with one voiceDaniel PalmerNews staff
If you lobbed a rock through any downtown Victoria res-taurant last week, chances are you’d have hit a visit-ing politician.
Representatives from more than 200 municipalities, First Nations and regional districts descended on the Victoria Con-ference Centre for the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities confer-ence for four days.
Attendees tackled 203 resolutions – down from 224 in 2011 – on issues ranging from the endorsement of marijuana decriminalization to infrastructure spending.
Provincial and federal minis-ters held panel discussions with mayors and councillors, while Premier Christy Clark and oppo-sition NDP leader Adrian Dix used the platform for pre-elec-tion posturing.
In short, it was a lot to digest.“The UBCM serves a couple of
different functions,” said Jamie Lawson, political scientist at the University of Victoria. “Increas-ingly, (UBCM is) the voice of ser-vice delivery and infrastructure,” he said, adding the conference
provides a venue for municipal leaders to share ideas and to build political clout.
“It’s also become a kind of place where the provincial pre-mier can deliver a state of the
union address once a year,” he said.
Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard, for-mer UBCM president, said the conference is useful for gauging the pulse of the province.
“These (resolutions) form the basis of pol-icy and then, with one voice from all the local governments in B.C., you go to work to try
and affect provincial and federal policies to match ours,” he said.
The most recent example of this occurred last fall when the province’s RCMP policing contract came up for a 20-year renewal. After UBCM passed res-olutions around the ballooning costs of RCMP services at their 2010 conference, Minister of Jus-tice Shirley Bond authorized the appointment of 10 local politi-cians to the RCMP contract man-agement committee.
Coun. Dave Hodgins was glad to receive the support of UBCM last week on Esquimalt’s resolu-tion to seek greater consultation from the federal government
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He called a provincial Police Services presentation from assistant deputy minister Clay-ton Pecknold “basically just a regurgitated survey of issues,” and said the province needs to focus more on solutions.
Leonard said the resolutions can and do create change, point-ing to previous successes where resolutions convinced higher-level governments to give munic-ipalities more gas tax and 100 per cent of traffic fine revenue.
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Opposition to more oil tanker traffic through coastal waters without proper safeguards, and opposition to Enbridge pipeline and Kinder Morgan pipeline projects.
Call for federal government to decriminalize marijuana and research its taxation.
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West Shore and Sooke Child, Youth & Family CentresWe own and operate these facilities in which child and youth related health and social service agencies use the facilities at cost – so that their resources can be directed to helping children.
HerWay Home HerWay Home is a program funded by our Foundation to reduce
Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s HealthWe support programs at the Centre, such as physical therapy, wheelchair seating and bracing for children with special needs, and early childhood development.
If you would like more information or wishmation or wishto donate, please visit childrrenshealthvi.orgor call 250 519 6722or call 250-519-6722.
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