Monumental homecoming Stelly’s grad Patricia Obee returns home to cheers and praise after her Olympic experience, page A10 In the right direction Sidney’s mayor praises Lekstrom’s review of B.C. Transit, page A9 Watch for breaking news at www.peninsulanewsreview.com Friday, August 17, 2012 PENINSULA NEWS Established 1912 Swimmers compete in championships in Nanaimo this week Devon MacKenzie News staff Twenty-seven local swimmers from the Saanich Peninsula Piranhas are off to the B.C. Summer Swimming Associa- tion Provincials this weekend. The swimmers competed at the Van- couver Island regional meet Aug. 4-5 in Courtenay and out of 32 swimmers from the Piranhas who participated in the heats, 27 of them are headed to Nanaimo for provincials. “I’m hoping to get the backstoke pro- vincial record and hopefully a medal,” said Phil Vellacott, 13. “When I was up at regionals two weeks ago I broke the regional record in 100 [metre] back- stroke, 100 freestyle and 50 freestyle, so I hope I can do it in Nanaimo.” The records Vellacott broke at the regional meet dated back to the ’80s. Also heading to Nanaimo with record- breaking times is a young relay team, including Sidney swimmer Vienna Wakefield, 7. “I’m really excited to swim in my relay,” Vienna said. “I swim with three other girls in freestyle and I’m hoping we get first place. If we get first, we get a medal.” Vienna and her teammates Sierra Edwards, Kaysha Bikadi and Ava Car- ius came first at the regional meet in Courtenay and also broke the regional record. “In her division they won two relays, the 200 freestyle relay and the 200 med- ley relay,” said Vienna’s mother Stepha- nie. “The freestyle relay is where they broke the regional meet record by three seconds so that was really exciting for them.” The B.C. Summer Swimming Associa- tion Provincials began Monday, Aug. 13 and wind up on Sunday, Aug. 19 at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre. [email protected]Pack of Piranhas eyes more medals submitted photo Saanich Peninsula Piranhas division 1 200 metre freestyle and medley relay regional gold medallists, left to right, Kaysha Bikadi, Ava Carius, Vienna Wakefield and Sierra Edwards. The young team not only took regional gold, but also beat the regional 200 m freestyle record by three seconds. Urgent plea Devon MacKenzie News staff The Sidney Lions food bank is sending out an urgent plea as halfway through the month of August, they’ve found their shelves close to empty. “We’ve never, ever been so low on food,” said food bank administrator Bev Elder. “We’re at the point now where we have no cereal and no canned soup. Those are things we’ve never run out of before.” Elder is concerned that with September nearing there will be a severe lack of school-oriented foods like juice boxes and snack items. “I’m worried that going into September we’ll have to turn people away because we won’t have the things they need for their kids’ lunches,” she said. “We really need any kind of school snacks and drinks and even school supplies, but we will take anything at this point.” According to Elder the food bank serves 1,100 Pen- insula-based clients a month, 39 per cent of whom are children under 16. “Having items for school lunches is essential for us and right now we wouldn’t be able to provide that.” The food bank also assists many of the communi- ty’s in-school breakfast programs, something which past Sidney elementary school principal (and incom- ing principal at North Saanich middle school come September) Kal Russell says is an essential service the schools provide to students and families. “Every day we had breakfast out for kids who need it, that way if they come to school hungry we’re always able to take care of them,” he explained. PLEASE SEE: Food for students essential: principal, page A7 As back-to-school time draws near, the food bank’s shelves are frighteningly barren National Bank Financial is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of National Bank of Canada which a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (NA: TSX). The Cannery Building #205-2537 Beacon Avenue Sidney, B.C. 250-657-2200 MANAGING THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS: YOURS! We are proud to be a part of your community The Cannery Building #205-2537 Beacon Avenue Sidney, B.C. 250-657-2200 Viola Van de Ruyt Investment Advisor
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Monumental homecomingStelly’s grad Patricia Obee returns home to cheers and praise after her Olympic experience, page A10
In the right directionSidney’s mayor praises Lekstrom’s review of B.C. Transit, page A9
Watch for breaking news at www.peninsulanewsreview.comFriday, August 17, 2012
PENINSULA NEWSEstablished 1912
Swimmers compete in championships in Nanaimo this week
Devon MacKenzieNews staff
Twenty-seven local swimmers from the Saanich Peninsula Piranhas are off to the B.C. Summer Swimming Associa-tion Provincials this weekend.
The swimmers competed at the Van-couver Island regional meet Aug. 4-5 in Courtenay and out of 32 swimmers from the Piranhas who participated in the heats, 27 of them are headed to
Nanaimo for provincials.“I’m hoping to get the backstoke pro-
vincial record and hopefully a medal,” said Phil Vellacott, 13. “When I was up at regionals two weeks ago I broke the regional record in 100 [metre] back-stroke, 100 freestyle and 50 freestyle, so I hope I can do it in Nanaimo.”
The records Vellacott broke at the regional meet dated back to the ’80s.
Also heading to Nanaimo with record-breaking times is a young relay team, including Sidney swimmer Vienna Wakefield, 7.
“I’m really excited to swim in my relay,” Vienna said. “I swim with three other girls in freestyle and I’m hoping we get first place. If we get first, we get
a medal.”Vienna and her teammates Sierra
Edwards, Kaysha Bikadi and Ava Car-ius came first at the regional meet in Courtenay and also broke the regional record.
“In her division they won two relays, the 200 freestyle relay and the 200 med-ley relay,” said Vienna’s mother Stepha-nie. “The freestyle relay is where they broke the regional meet record by three seconds so that was really exciting for them.”
The B.C. Summer Swimming Associa-tion Provincials began Monday, Aug. 13 and wind up on Sunday, Aug. 19 at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre.
Saanich Peninsula Piranhas division 1 200 metre freestyle and medley relay regional gold medallists, left to right, Kaysha Bikadi, Ava Carius, Vienna Wakefield and Sierra Edwards. The young team not only took regional gold, but also beat the regional 200 m freestyle record by three seconds.
Urgent pleaDevon MacKenzieNews staff
The Sidney Lions food bank is sending out an urgent plea as halfway through the month of August, they’ve found their shelves close to empty.
“We’ve never, ever been so low on food,” said food bank administrator Bev Elder. “We’re at the point now where we have no cereal and no canned soup. Those are things we’ve never run out of before.”
Elder is concerned that with September nearing there will be a severe lack of school-oriented foods like juice boxes and snack items.
“I’m worried that going into September we’ll have to turn people away because we won’t have the things they need for their kids’ lunches,” she said. “We really need any kind of school snacks and drinks and even school supplies, but we will take anything at this point.”
According to Elder the food bank serves 1,100 Pen-insula-based clients a month, 39 per cent of whom are children under 16.
“Having items for school lunches is essential for us and right now we wouldn’t be able to provide that.”
The food bank also assists many of the communi-ty’s in-school breakfast programs, something which past Sidney elementary school principal (and incom-ing principal at North Saanich middle school come September) Kal Russell says is an essential service the schools provide to students and families.
“Every day we had breakfast out for kids who need it, that way if they come to school hungry we’re always able to take care of them,” he explained.
PLEASE SEE:Food for students essential: principal, page A7
As back-to-school time draws near, the food bank’s shelves are frighteningly barren
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University of Victoria students may be greeted by picketing support staff when classes return in early September.
Last month, mediation on essential ser-vice levels between two unions – CUPE 917 and 951 – and the university failed.
Three days of hearings (Aug. 21, 22 and 24) have been set for both parties to plead their cases to the Labour Relations Board before it adjudicates essential services and staffing levels.
“[UVic] came with a long list of jobs they deemed essential,” said Doug Sprenger, president of CUPE 917. “I can’t be specific.
Let’s just say our list of [essential jobs] was short and their list was long.”
Kane Kilbey, UVic’s associate vice-president of human resources, said in a July 20 notice posted online: “It continues to be the universi-ty’s desire to reach a negotiated settle-ment at the earliest possible opportu-
nity. We remain hopeful that this can be achieved without a major disruption.”
The two CUPE unions, which represent some 1,500 non-teaching jobs such as tradespeople, food service staff, child care workers, and office and library staff, are negotiating in concert with one another. They have both been without contracts since March 31, 2010.
Students won’t face disruptions in the classroom, but could find limited cafe-teria or library services, depending on essential services levels set by the board.
Sprenger said they want to respect stu-dents’ education as much as possible, but noted they’ll be providing information to students in September on what to do when faced with a picket line.
“We think that students returning to the University of Victoria have a very strong interest in getting this labour dispute
resolved and feel it’s an important time to resolve it,” Sprenger said.
“It’s a time when all eyes are on the uni-versity and students anyway, regardless of any disruptions.”
Loree Wilcox, CUPE national servic-ing rep, told Black Press last month the unions and UVic were “too far apart” for any negotiation progress to be made.
According to CUPE, there remain nine areas of dispute between the union and the employer, including job security, ben-efits and inflation protection.
Late last week, CUPE B.C. said in a press
release, “The B.C. Liberals are [fast-track-ing] a new plan to slash jobs and money from B.C.’s already hemorrhaging college and university budgets.”
CUPE said the province’s administra-tive service delivery transformation proj-ect could mean privatization of union jobs at post-secondary institutions.
“It appears the plan is to be imple-mented for the 2012-13 school year. What is not clear is exactly how many jobs are at stake,” the press release reads.
A spokesperson from the Ministry of Advanced Education who asked not to be
identified wrote in an email that CUPE’s concerns are premature.
“Neither the government nor the insti-tutions have any predetermined idea of how savings and improvements will be achieved,” the spokesperson wrote.
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UVic on path toward fall strikeLabour board to rule on essential services after negotiations fail
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University of Victoria paint shop employees Len Ashmore, left, and Rob Barton repaint crosswalk lines on Ring Road as they get the campus ready for the new school year. Unions representing UVic employees remain far apart from UVic management and can’t come to an agreement on essential service levels, let alone a contract.
“It appears the plan is to be implemented for the 2012-13 school year. What is not clear is exactly how many jobs are at stake.”
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So, the Summer Olympics are over for another four years.
Television, with all of its magic and the benefit of highlight pack-ages, made it almost seem that we were watch-ing our athletes compete live, not on a tape delay, from London.
Following up a more successful Games, medal-wise, than 2008 – we got a similar number of med-als with nearly 60 fewer athletes – we can expect renewed calls to support our athletes in more ways than just watching them on TV, cheering when they succeed and empa-thizing with them when they don’t.
The Canadian Olympic Commit-tee would love to have more finan-cial support for our country’s ath-letes at the Games and in the years leading up to them.
Most local athletics clubs, from youth soccer to track and field to swimming and diving – often train-ing grounds for future Olympians – would cease to exist without the financial and volunteer support of parents and donors.
But is it up to the general pub-lic to care what happens after the Olympics to athletes from across the country?
Time for a memory test. How many of you remember that moguls skier Alexandre Bilodeau won Cana-
da’s first gold medal at the Vancou-ver Winter Games in 2010? Good. Now who has any clue what he’s done competitively or off the slopes
since then?How about figure
skater Joannie Rochette? We all wept a tear for her in 2010, as she bravely competed and triumphantly medalled, despite the death of her mother in Vancouver a week or so earlier.
Has anyone kept track of this valiant young athlete, outside of those relative few who were already interested in fig-ure skating?
The fact many more summer sport athletes than winter live and train in the Victoria area makes them more visible than those hail-ing from Ontario or Quebec. But even among those individuals, the ones who wind up qualifying for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro will still leave our sight, for the most part, for three or four years.
Is this a bad thing? It depends on how you look at it.
For example, how closely have any of us, other than those inter-ested in climatology, followed the progress of University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver since he co-won the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2007?
Speaking of UVic, how many
people have followed what Peter Gustavson, namesake of the busi-ness school at the university, has been doing since he sold his Cus-tom House Currency Exchange busi-ness for $370 million?
We have individual and team suc-cess stories all over the region, in various areas of interest, from ath-letics to business to academia.
Unless those involved continue to be visible in our daily lives, or at least make the news on a semi-reg-ular basis, we tend to forget about them and focus on the success story of the day.
In general, the media supply us with stories of the here and now – there’s a reason they call it “news” – not recaps of old stories that we cheered in days gone by. The fact that certain specialty TV channels show NHL, NFL or NBA finals from decades past, however, is a sign that some of us want to relive old glories and are pparently willing to pay for the privilege.
We absolutely need to recognize the efforts of our Olympic athletes. After all, we don’t have many other opportunities to exhibit national pride, especially with a certain gov-ernment in office in Ottawa.
But to expect people to keep carrying the torch much long than when the next stories come around to catch our attention is unrealistic.
– Don Descoteau is the editor of the Victoria News.
During Canadian federal, provincial and municipal elections, the number of ways to cast a vote is slim. You can show up to your polling station on election day, vote at advanced polls, or with special permission, mail in your ballot.
Voting in the vast majority of places in Canada has resolutely remained stuck in the past – ticking a ballot with a pencil. Technological advances have been confined largely to optical counting devices. A few municipalities have flirted with touch screen voting machines and telephone voting for municipal elections.
Last week, B.C. became the latest government to announce it will examine if voting options should be brought into the 21st century, namely casting a ballot via the Internet. The federal government has already said it wants to try online voting in a by-election by 2013.
With voter turnout at all jurisdictions continuing to decline, giving people convenient options to vote can only be a good thing. There’s no guarantee Internet voting will crack the apathy of the non-voting public, but there’s a good chance younger adult voters might finally be engaged. People with limited mobility, and where travelling to a polling station is too onerous, would also have the chance to exercise their rights from home.
Of course there are serious technical and psychological hurdles to cross. The public needs to have confidence that voting via the Internet still means anonymity and integrity, and that their vote will be counted. Election officials need to have confidence the system will allow people to vote only once, and that it can’t be hacked and seeded with fraudulent results.
The May 2012 federal NDP leadership vote, which allowed members to cast votes online, showed both the strengths and weaknesses of the system.
The voting website was subject to attempted sabotage by hackers, which slowed the voting process, but they weren’t able to compromise actual voting results.
Internet voting remains far from perfect, but it deserves a chance, alongside our trusty pencil and paper.
‘We can expect renewed calls to support our athletes.’
Don DescoteauHumble Pie
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A celebration with a sad sideLike the Peninsula News Review, the Sidney labratory of the Centre for Plant Health (in North Saanich) celebrates its 100th birthday this year. It was established as the Dominion Experimental Farm in 1912. Unlike the local newspaper, the century-old research lab is slated to close in the near future. Due to federal budget cutbacks, plans are in place to shut the lab down by 2014, to the opposition of Saanich Gulf Islands MP Elizabeth May, Peninsula municipal councils and many residents. The federal government plans to eliminate 19,200 jobs in the next three years as it slashes $5.2 billion in spending.
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Your article, Peninsula Streams celebrates a decade of protecting our environment (News, July 18) reminds us of what an asset Peninsula Streams Society is to our community.
Consequently, the society’s many supporters were very disappointed when the new
majority on North Saanich council (Team North Saanich and Coun. Ted Daly), over the strong objections of Mayor Alice Finall and councillors Celia Stock and Elsie McMurphy, cut by half the usual environmental grant in aid to the society.
Peninsula Streams has
co-ordinated important stream restoration and habitat conservation in North Saanich and elsewhere.
It provides a popular interactive program for students in Grade 3 classes at nine local schools, teaching watershed education, Pacific salmon
lifecycles and streamside restoration.
Peninsula Streams has a long established and well earned reputation for environmental and public service.
The North Saanich community has received very good value for the grants given, justifying
council’s support. While making this dramatic
cut in aid to Peninsula Streams, the same majority on council found additional dollars to double a grant in aid to the Peninsula Celebrations Society – for a float.
Sheila IrvingNorth Saanich
Grant cuts to streams protectors gains negative attention
Biblical reasons don’t impede gay marriage
Re: Want gay fries with that order? (The Gen Y Lens, Aug. 10)
“…The majority of those who don’t support same-sex marriage probably operate … on biblical principles …”
What Biblical principles are those? There is no Biblical definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. 1 Timothy 3:12 states “Let deacons marry only once” (in contrast to Catholic unmarried priests). There is no indication of the gender of the marriage partner. Many Biblical marriages were polygamous. Abraham pretended his wife was his sister and pimped her out for his personal safety, as well has having a child by a servant (centuries before Schwarzenegger). Noah had children with his daughters.
There are same-gender marriage ceremonies in early
church documents, discovered by John Boswell.
Most who base their opposition to equal marriage rights on a verse in Ecclesiates seem content to ignore more numerous instructions forbidding pork, certain seafoods, mixed fabrics, women speaking in church (1 Timothy 2:11-14) and the injunction not to judge others. If one is to cherry pick Biblical verses, there are better verses to select.
It is a pleasure for me to perform weddings for loving couples, regardless of gender.
Rev. J. McRee (Mac) Elrod retired Unitarian minister
Draft horses belong on streets; tour buses don’t
I am a horse fan and especially a fan of Clydesdales and other draft horses, which is why I support their ongoing contributions to Victoria.
Clydes plowed the fields of
the farms on the Peninsula. They hauled trees. These horses have built the Victoria of today as much as people have. For residents with rural roots, such as me, they represent even more.
These draft horses have an easier life now, pulling passenger carriages and trolleys through our streets and Beacon Hill Park. They contribute to the character of the city and most of all are a symbol of our history.
Not so the large old highway buses which dominate our streets and make much of downtown unpleasant from April through October. It is the buses which city council should restrict.
Marg GardinerVictoria
Better deer population control methods exist
The province of B.C. has issued a permit for killing deer to the city of Cranbrook. Kimberley and
Invermere have also applied for deer cull permits.
The method to be used is the clover trap/bolt gun which has been used to kill close to 500 deer in Helena, Montana. The clover trap resembles an oversized hockey net which is baited with food to attract deer during the night. When the deer enter and start to eat, a door will drop behind them, holding them captive until the morning when they will be dispatched with the bolt gun.
The CRD is asking for feedback from the public about a deer cull in this city. What is not widely known is that there are immunocontraceptive vaccines available for use on wildlife in Canada and the U.S. These have been tested and proved effective.
If you do not want to witness a clover trap/bolt gun in your back yard, I urge you to speak out before it is too late.
Val Boswell Saanich
Devon MacKenzieNews staff
Like the Queen, this year the Peninsula Players will celebrate their Diamond Jubilee of 60 years of local the-atre.
The group known as the Peninsula Players was first formed at a meeting in November of 1952 at St. Andrew’s Hall in Sidney. Their first show was held the next year on March 7 at North Saanich School and consisted of three short plays. The Players’ first full length production, Laburnum Grove, took
place in November of the same year.
In 1955 the Players entered the B.C. Drama Festival for the first time and have since won many awards at subsequent festivals, including two in the B.C. Drama Festival finals this year.
Peninsula Players have produced around 150 shows during their 60 years of existence and currently perform four or five shows a year at the Charlie White Theatre, the Berwick Royal Oak and Muse Winery in North Saanich.
They have a
rehearsal room, stor-age, workshop and meeting facilities at the former Saanichton elementary school on Mount Newton X Road. Their long-term goal is to have a com-pletely self-contained facility where they can not only rehearse, build sets and store costumes, but also per-form.
To celebrate their Jubilee year, the group will perform a review of the historical events
from William the Con-queror in 1066, up to William, Duke of Cam-bridge in 2012. The show contains read-ings from writers over the last 1,000 years, sketches, comedy and music.
“Canadian Heritage sent out a notice early in the year for groups to do something for the Queen’s Jubilee,” explained Richard Mills of the Players. “We thought we might get a small group together and what we came up with was a kind of review that features the high points of the kings and queens of England over the years. It’s a fun show, there’s some very good actors in it and it’s lighthearted. We have fun with it.”reporter@peninsulanews
review.com
THE ARTSA jewel in the crown for Peninsula PlayersLocal theatre troupe celebrates its 60th by honouring the Queen’s 60th on the throne, with humour and history
“It’s a fun show, there’s some very good actors in it and it’s lighthearted.”
– Richard Mills, Peninsula Players
Crown Jewels■ What: Peninsula Players’ production of Crown Jewels.
■ Where: Charlie White Theatre in the Mary Winspear Centre.■ When: Saturday, Aug. 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 26 at 2 p.m.■ Tickets: $12, available through the Mary Winspear box office at www.marywinspear.ca or call 250-656-0275.
Tom FletcherBlack Press
The B.C. government has pro-vided $16.8 million for community arts and culture grants for the cur-rent year, matching last year’s total with help from a dwindling 2010 Olympic legacy fund.
Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Ida Chong announced the funding Monday in Victoria, along with B.C. Arts Coun-cil chair Stan Hamilton.
The BCAC has juries that assess funding applications and has so far doled out about $6 million of this year’s budget.
With less than half the money allocated in Chong’s current min-istry budget, another $6.75 million came from the 2010 Sports and Arts Legacy. That $60 million fund was created in the 2010 budget to offset earlier recession-driven cuts to adult arts and sports organiza-tions from provincial gambling rev-enues. It will be gone after this year
and there is no indication where it might be made up next year.
When the recession hit in 2008, the B.C. Liberal government cut grant funding from the B.C. Lottery Corp. from $156 million to $113 mil-lion, then raised it back to $120 mil-lion to restore funds to school dis-trict parent advisory councils.
Applicants were told arts and sports funding from lotteries would be restricted to organizations for young people and the disabled.
Premier Christy Clark promised to restore funds while campaigning for the party leadership last year. Once elected, she announced a $15 million increase in gambling funds for a range of organizations includ-ing community service clubs, fairs, festivals and museums.
Chong said she sometimes meets artists and organizations who are not aware they can apply to the B.C. Arts Council for grants. Appli-cation forms are available at www.bcartscouncil.ca.
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“We know so much more about nutrition now and what a huge role it plays in keeping them engaged in their learning. Eating small snacks through-out the day are a big part of that.”
But even though the food bank is dangerously low on school-related items with Sep-tember just around the corner, Elder also noted that staple items at the food bank are dan-gerously low.
“With 12 per cent of the people we serve being seniors 65 and older, we really need those staple items too like canned beans, canned soups even basics like Kraft Dinner we’ve basically run out of. It’s scary.”
If you are interesting in donating to the Sidney Lions food bank, drop offs can be made directly to the food bank at 9586 Fifth Street (in Iroquois Park) or call 250-655-0679 for more [email protected]
Sidney Lions food bank administrator Bev Elder stands with what little food remains at the food bank on Wednesday. The essential community service is currently experiencing the lowest donations they have ever seen and are asking for community’s help to replenish their school-oriented food items.
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Homeowners might have scared intruder
A break-in in the 7700 block of East Saanich Road has Central Saanich police seek-ing information. On Tuesday, Aug. 14 a break and enter was reported at a townhouse. The homeowners believe the house was entered while they were out during the day, but police aren’t certain that’s the case.
“Nothing was stolen from the home, but all the rooms
had been entered and gone through so it could be that the owners scared the suspect away,” said Cpl. Janis Jean of the Central Saanich police.
Police are asking anyone who observed suspicious activity in the area around 6:30 p.m. to contact them at 250-652-4441.
Pricey bike swiped from Fairway Market
A bike theft also has police
asking for the public’s help. On Aug. 10 a mountain bike valued at $1,200 was stolen from behind Fairway Market in Brentwood. A witness saw a man wearing dark clothing and a grey backpack with blond hair pedalling one bike while towing another westbound on Wallace Drive. The stolen bike is described as being a black men’s Norco 125. Anyone with any information is asked to contact police at 250-652-4441.
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Mere hours before crews began improvements to the intersection of Sayward Road and the Pat Bay Highway, the province’s transportation minis-ter stood at the dangerous corner to announce a $3 million plan to improve safety.
The first step, which started Wednesday night, involved the installation of a flashing congestion ahead sign on the highway south of Cordova Bay Road. The sign is expected to be up and running by the end of next week.
“This is [an intersection] that has affected many families in this area in not a very positive manner,” said Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom.
Pat Bay and Sayward is one of the most danger-ous intersections in the province, having been the site of more than 338 crashes since 2007.
A community group was formed last year, involv-ing local and provincial politicians, community members, B.C. Transit and the Ministry of Trans-portation, to come up with short- and medium-
term solutions to the issues at the intersection. Those changes, supplied by the working group, are what Lekstrom announced.
If the changes proposed under the $3 million plan don’t accomplish safety and traffic improve-ments, Lekstrom said there’s a possibility that, more than a decade from now, a long-term solution like an interchange could be built there.
Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard says the message he’s hearing from residents is an interchange isn’t wanted.
“The mayors on the Peninsula have gone to the interchange idea and our community really doesn’t want that here. So [transportation] minis-ters have used that divided voice to say, ‘We won’t do anything until you folks make up your minds.’ Fortunately the safety issue trumped everything,” Leonard said.
The congestion light is the only change travel-lers will see happen in 2012, Lekstrom said.
By spring of next year, a right-turning decelera-tion lane onto Sayward, a bus stop pullout south of Sayward and a northbound acceleration lane from Sayward will be built. There will also be a transit priority queue lane installed.
Saanich South MLA Lana Popham, who sat on the working group, spoke to Black Press earlier this month to say she was expecting the changes to happen sooner.
“The reason why it needs to happen right now is the longer we wait, the more chance we’re going to see more accidents,” Popham said. On Wednes-day, she said the announcement was “fantastic.”
This week’s installation of the congestion sign will require the closure of one northbound lane on the Pat Bay between 6:30 p.m. and 3 a.m.
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Mayors pleased with findingsDaniel PalmerNews staff
Capital Region District offi-cials should be able to appoint a transit commission and have a say over changes that affect their public service, a review of B.C. Transit operations has rec-ommended.
Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom appointed a review panel in March after complaints that the provincially appointed B.C. Transit board was making costly changes without con-sulting the communities whose fares and property taxes cover more than half the cost of transit service.
“I think it’s very, very posi-tive in the general direction [it’s headed,” said Sidney Mayor Larry Cross. “I’m particularly pleased to see the recommenda-tion for much greater municipal involvement in Transit. That’s absolutely critical.
Lekstrom promised to respond to the recommendations dur-ing the September Union of B.C. Municipalities conference.
Joe Stanhope, chair of the Regional District of Nanaimo, was on hand with Lekstrom to release the report Tuesday. Stan-hope said the recommendations of the review team are “exactly what we wanted.”
“There were some problems, and the basic problems were communications,” he said.
CEO Manuel Achadinha said B.C. Transit admitted the gover-nance model required modern-ization and the report provides concrete steps to make that hap-pen.
“We’ll operate under the gov-ernance structure provided to us by the province,” he said.
Stanhope raised the alarm in 2011 after B.C. Transit notified local officials of a doubling of management fees, after munici-
palities had adopted their bud-gets for the year. Nanaimo also protested a plan to move some of the community’s new buses out and replace them with older ones.
The provincial government pays 47 per cent of costs for B.C. Transit service in partnership with 58 local governments.
B.C. Transit has a target to double its ridership to 100 mil-lion passenger trips by 2018.
When he ordered the review, Lekstrom ruled out any increase in provincial funding.
On Tuesday, he declined to comment on specific recom-mendations until they have been reviewed and discussed by local communities.
Report recommendations■ A local government advisory panel to consult on system-wide capital expenditures.■ Local governments should share information on long-term transit budget changes, land use and zoning decisions.■ The province should amend the B.C. Transit Act to allow multi-year operating agreements.■ B.C. Transit should report to municipalities twice a year on ridership, cost per capita, passengers per capita and other performance measures.
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Peninsula rower Patricia Obee returns home from the London Olympics on Monday, Aug. 13 via the Victoria International Airport. She was greeted by a crowd of supporters, including her mother.
Olympian Obee comes homeDevon MacKenzieNews staff
On the evening of Monday, Aug. 13, a handful of weary local Olympic athletes including Stelly’s secondary grad Patricia Obee, landed back on Canadian soil.
“I’m not super pumped on our results considering how well our training had been going,” said Obee. “But it was an awesome experience and I know there’s more to come.”
Obee, 20, and her teammate
Lindsay Jennerich, 29, failed to advance to the London Olympic final of the lightweight women’s double sculls Aug. 2, finishing fourth in the semifinals. Only the top three advanced to finals.
Obee and Jennerich had been training together a short while prior to the Olympics after Jennerich and her longtime training partner, Tracy Cameron, split following Cameron’s unex-pected retirement announce-ment on June 8. Obee, who was originally set to be an alternate for the team, was asked to step
up as part of Rowing Canada’s official Olympic team.
Joining Obee on her return flight were men’s eight rowing team members and silver med-allists Andrew Byrnes and Doug Csima, and men’s lightweight double sculls rower Douglas Vandor.
Families, friends and support-ers of the athletes were joined by Ida Chong, Minister of Com-munity, Sport and Cultural Devel-opment, in welcoming home the local [email protected]
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Sidney teen Courtenay Neville-Rutherford is on her way once again to the Canadian National Legion Track and Field Championships.
Neville-Rutherford, 16, will be attending the championships for the second time in the hammer throw, a track and field event where the name of the game is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. Neville-Rutherford has been training in hammer throw for eight years.
“I’m excited, I’m really hoping to medal [at nationals],” she said. “I think it will be a different experience than last year just because of where it is.”
Last year, Neville-Rutherford, a long-time Pen Track member, began working with Pacific Athletics under coach Sheldon
Gmitroski in Victoria. She said her eventual goal is to aim for bigger and better competitions like the Pan Ams and the Olympics.
Although slightly daunted by the travel distance to Prince Edward Island, the teen will be accompanied to Charlottetown by her teammates to compete in the national event.
“It’s seven hours of travel so it’s a long time but I’m going with my team so it should be fun,” she said.
Last year’s games were
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“I placed first in the Coquitlam Track and Field Championships where I threw 54.11 so I’d like to get 56,” she said.
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It is with profound sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our dear sister Linda, In Victoria BC on July 5, 2012.Linda was born in Yorkton, Sk on Nov 15, 1947 to Bill and Kay Knecht. At the age of 7 the family moved to Kindersley, SK. where Linda completed her education. Right out of high school she started her career with the CIBC in Kindersley. From here she transferred to Medicine Hat and then on to Victoria BC where she remained until her retirement from banking. While in Medicine Hat she got reacquainted with Sydney Stanners and then they moved to Victoria, BC. When Linda retired from CIBC they moved to Sidney BC where she found employment with Peninsula Physio Therapy Clinic where she remained until her passing.Linda was predeceased by her parents Bill and Kay Knecht, nephew Darin Trzaska and a very special cousin-in-law Glenn Salter, and numerous family members.Linda is survived by her husband Sydney Stanners, her sister Bev Copeland and family Tracey (Rob) Stitchbury Josh, Trevor (Lynnette) Copeland Stephen and Saige, Sister Susan(Ken) Wilkie and family Terri(Warren) Fehr Emily and Connor, Jeff (Elaine) Wilkie Shannon and Reid, sister Patricia (Pete) Trzaska and family Ryan (Maxine) Hunter, Harleigh, Cash, and Cruz, Paige (Dan) Trzaska. Cousin Sandra Franklin and a very special long time friend Barb Stewart.Linda loved to knit and crochet and did volunteer work for the needy. She liked to travel and enjoyed her trips to Hawaii and Vegas and many weekend getaways to Bed and Breakfasts. In lieu of fl owers donations may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Linda will be greatly missed by her family and friends. Love you Lindy.
Knecht, LindaNov. 15, 1947 - July 5, 2012
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Passed away on August 6, 2012 at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital, at the age of 91 years. Blanche was prede-ceased by her husband John Douglas “Speed” Kermode in 1992. Blanche is survived by her brother, Thomas Joyce of Seattle, WA, nieces, nephews, god children and their fami-lies.At Blanches instructions there will not be a ser-vice. Cremation has tak-en place. Her ashes will be placed in the Ker-mode plot at Royal Oak Burial Park.
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Selkirk Paving, part of the Interoute Construction Ltd. group of companies, located in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, is looking for a F/T Shop Supervisor to manage a fl eet of over 300 pieces of construction equipment. Some travel will be required.
Duties / Tasks; ·Manage shop activities·Dispatch mechanics·Maintain maintenance records ·Manage fl eet licences·Help purchaser w/ parts orders
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An Alberta Construction Com-pany is hiring Dozer and Exca-vator Operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfi eld road and lease construction. Lodg-ing and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Con-struction at 780-723-5051.
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Marquise is seeking casual Floor Care Maint Workers to join our team at various Hospitals in Victoria. 2 yrs. exp. preferred. Must have fl ex availability. Able to work weekdays and weekends. Vehicle and valid driver’s licence required. Candidates required to complete a Criminal Record Check.
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HAIRSTYLIST WANTED full time/part time for First Choice Hair Cutters in their Victoria lo-cation. Guaranteed $11/hour, 25% profi t sharing, paid over-time, benefi ts, paid birthday, vacation pay, annual ad-vanced training and advance-ment opportunities. Call 250-360-1923 today for an inter-view.
PARTS & Services Represen-tatives at Jacobson Ford Sal-mon Arm BC- We are looking for exciting, customer friendly, dynamic individuals capable of working in a fast paced work environment. Parts and ser-vice experience an asset but not necessary, email resume to [email protected]
PART-TIME Employee need-ed immediately! Lottery sales experience required. In Touch Cards & Gifts, Sidney, BC. Tel.: (250) 656-4316. Apply in person please.
Required for an Alberta Truck-ing Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a minimum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be willing to relocate to Edson, Alberta. Fax resumes to: 780-725-4430
THE LEMARE GROUP is accepting resumes for the following positions:• Grapple Yarder Operators• Hooktender• 2nd Loader Buckerman• Line Machine Operator Chaser• Off Highway Logging Truck Drivers• Excavator Operator with Logging Road Construction experience • Certifi ed Driller/Blaster• Heavy Duty MechanicsFull time with union rates and benefi ts. Please send resume by fax to 250-956-4888 or email offi [email protected].
CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATOR. Chwk Bridge Const Co has an im-mediate opening for an exp and en-ergetic estimator. The successful candidate will be able to analyze and prepare estimates for bridges, precast products and earthworks. This is a full time position. Wages TBD with experience. Must be self-motivated and able to work inde-pendently. Email resume with a handwritten cover letter to [email protected] or fax to 604-702-0620. No phone calls.
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Cullen Diesel Power Ltd’s Nanaimo branch requires an Outside Salesman for Vancouver Island. Respon-sibilities include planning & making sales calls on existing & new customers, preparing & presenting quotations for parts, service & products. Applicant must have exceptional interper-sonal, communication & planning skills. A good understanding of engines & transmissions is important. Preference will be given to graduates of a post secon-dary sales & marketing program.
INSERTING MACHINE opera-tor required for busy Alberta printing plant. Previous Alpha-liner or other machine experi-ence an asset. Mechanical & computer aptitude required; [email protected].
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AUTOMATED TANK Manu-facturing INC. is looking forwelders. Due to a huge ex-pansion to our plant located inKitscoty, Alberta, 20km west ofLloydminster. We have open-ings for 10-3rd year apprentic-es or journey person welders.We offer best wage in indus-try. 3rd yr apprentice $28-$30/hr, journey person $32-$35/hr, higher with tank expe-rience. Profi t sharing bonusplus manufacturing bonus in-centive. Full insurance pack-age 100% paid by company.Good working environment.Join a winning team. Call Basilor Blaine at; (offi ce)780-846-2231; (fax)780-846-2241 orsend resume to [email protected]; p roduct ion@auto tanks.ca .Keep your feet on the groundin a safe welding environmentthrough inhole manufacturingprocess. No scaffolding or ele-vated work platform.
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Enterthe dragonArnold LimNews staff
Parm Ollek’s arms and legs are burning.Gripping her wooden paddle, she plunges
it into the water alongside 19 other pad-dlers, their dragonboat knifing through the waterway.
Despite the pain, final preparations for the Canada Dry Victoria Dragonboat Festi-val are going well and Ollek feels fortunate to be on the water.
“It is totally fun. I am higher than a kite, I really am,” she said. “I am experiencing something totally out of my box.”
You wouldn’t know it, but the business systems co-ordinator for Maximus Canada had never done anything athletic in her life.
Ollek and most of her teammates spend their days at a desk – she doesn’t even remember the last time she felt like part of a team. That all changed a year ago after dis-covering dragonboat racing as a volunteer.
“I couldn’t believe what a wonderful event it was. The energy, it was so positive,” she
said of last year’s festival. The team takes to the
waters of the Inner Harbour this weekend (Aug. 17, 18 and 19) focused on performing inside and outside the boat – paddling in unison inside it, and raising funds for the B.C. Cancer Foundation outside it.
“My goal at the end of the day isn’t about winning and losing at all,” Ollek said. “It is a matter of being a part of something and giving back.”
Coach Paul Barton has been quietly impressed with the team.
Barton, a first-time coach, appreciates the commitment each paddler invested into the twice-weekly practices and looks forward to a strong performance come race day.
“They are raring to go,” Barton said. “It has been great. I had no idea what to expect from them, but from the first minute it was
eager happy faces. It has been an amazing experience.”
Despite less than eight weeks to train, the rookie boat placed second in its heat at the Gorge Fest Dragon Boat Regatta last weekend and hope to gel even more in time for this weekend.
“Dragonboating is the definition of teamwork. If you don’t interact as a team in the boat, there is a negative effect,” Barton said.
“Everyone feels great about contributing to someone other than themselves. This is hard. After every practice they are burnt out, but they are smiling. It is great.”
Ollek is smiling, despite the aching in her body. As captain of Maximus Power she is focused on the team, a team that spreads much farther than just the 20
people on the boat.“My values are such that I want to give
back to the community anyway I can,” she said.
“It is in my heart to do these things. It is what I believe in.”
