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OAK BAYNEWSDeveloping a cultured ear A University of Victoria professor wants to help local symphony lovers enjoy the orchestra’s new season even more. Arts, Page A14
Wake up, boarders!A local couple leads the wayas the new sport of wakeskating comes toElk Lake. Sports, Page A19
Watch for breaking news at www.oakbaynews.comFriday, September 9, 2011
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Summer sticking aroundNine-year-old Callum Orchison jumps high above the crowd at Willows Beach on his pogo stick. Callum was at the beach with his family and friends celebrating the end of the first day, albeit short, of school on Tuesday. Students started full days in class on Wednesday.
Terror never forgottenFateful timing recalled, 10 years after attacks
Kyle SlavinNews staff
On Sept. 10, 2001, Graham Egan took the elevator up 107 storeys
to the observation deck of the South Tower at the World Trade Center.
“As you’re looking out (from the observation deck), you can see little Cessna planes flying around at the same height as you, or you’re even looking down at some of them flying over Manhattan,” Egan recalls about sightseeing from the top of what was then the world’s sixth-tallest building.
The next day, the 48-year-old Saanich resident was awakened by blaring sirens at the fire station next door to his midtown Manhattan hotel.
Curious, he went down to the lobby and watched from 50 blocks away as a Boeing 767 slammed into the tower he had stood atop less than 24 hours earlier.
Planes flew into that tower and its northern counterpart that day, ultimately causing them both to collapse to the ground.
The co-ordinated terrorist attack killed 2,783 people at the World Trade Center.
North Saanich loss is Oak Bay’s gainRunners converge on municipality for a second time in 2011
Ryan FlahertyNews staff
Oak Bay’s reputation as a runner’s paradise continues to grow. This Sunday (Sept. 11) marks the first McNeill Bay half-marathon, the second major race to be run in the community in 2011, following the well-established Oak Bay half-marathon.
The race is actually a relocated version of the Land’s End half-marathon, formerly run in North Saanich.
Race director Phil Nicholls says there’s plenty of room for two similar events in the community.
“I’ve always lived in Oak Bay and I pretty much figure I grew up running on those roads,” he said. “I think it’s such a great place to run.”
Though the new 21-kilometre race has a bit of history behind it, Nicholls has had to do a lot of rebuilding, and he’s had plenty of help from the community in doing so.
The Prairie Inn Harriers Running Club and Oak Bay High’s track team will make up a large portion of the 60 to 80 volun-teers needed to help the event run smoothly, and the Oak Bay Police have also been very supportive.
“They’ve been really helpful in putting together the traffic safety plan,” Nicholls said.
The race follows an out-and-back route, starting at Oak Bay High and heading down Cranmore Road before turning north at Hampshire Road. Runners will continue northward on Mus-grave Street and Midland Road until they reach Beach Drive, at which point they will turn back to the south, carrying on all the way to the turnaround point at Falkland Road.
Because it’s the first edition of the race at this location, Nich-olls has modest expectations for the turnout. As of last week, there were just over 100 runners registered. Nicholls said he’ll be happy if the field tops out at around 200. But what the race may lack in size, it will make up for in strength.
Dylan Wykes, the Canadian record-holder at the half-mara-thon distance, will be running, as will Nanaimo’s Steve Osaduik, who holds the Goodlife Victoria Marathon mark.
Registration for the race begins at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. The race starts at 8 a.m. All funds raised will go to support Cops for Cancer’s Tour de Rock.
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Erin CardoneNews staff
Walking down Oak Bay Avenue, it’s easy to miss one of the region’s most unique dwellings perched above the throngs of people who pass by obliviously each day.
Next to the roofline of the Penny Farthing pub, Jim Kirk lives in a flat-roofed, mid-century-modern dwelling.
There are the 1970s Barcelona chairs, a near-industrial kitchen and glossy grey walls.
Outside is a bonsai garden
with trees that have been growing since the 1960s.
The loft at 2233 Theatre Ln. is one of six standout houses in Greater Victoria on this year’s home tour, a fundraiser for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
“We sell out every year,” said Joan Huzar, who chairs the event.
“I think it’s about getting inside. These are homes the owners designed themselves.”
Kirk, 71, worked with interior designer Diane Kettner on his abode, which he bought in 1988. It’s been through three
renovations since then, the most recent taking place last Christmas. He’s happy to have people stroll through his living space.
“It’s the least we can do for the community,” he said.
Last year’s house tour raised less than $30,000 for the art gallery’s programs and exhibits and the hope is to raise even more this year.
An artist will show work and prepare new pieces at each of the addresses on the self-guided tour.
Organizers say the tour isn’t
necessarily suited for children under 12, and there are stairs at all addresses, which could prevent access for people with mobility issues.
The home tour happens Sunday (Sept. 11) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets are $40, available at AGGV, 1040 Moss St., Peninsula Gallery in Sidney and all three Garden Works locations in Greater Victoria.
Each ticket purchased can be used for two-for-one admission at AGGV.
Tour opens doors to beautiful, quirkySix Victoria-area homes on display for Art Gallery of Greater Victoria fundraiser
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Home, sweet, homeJim Kirk lies about in his Oak Bay home which will be part of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s house tour. Kirk’s house is unique in its quirkiness. The tour takes place on Sept. 11.
Flesh found in runners likely hoaxAnalysis will determine what type of meat inside washed-up shoes
Vivian MoreauNews staff
Raw meat stuffed into two run-ning shoes found in separate Oak Bay waterfront locations was likely beef or pork, police say.
One running shoe was found stuffed with a flesh-covered bone in McNeill Bay by a woman walk-ing her dog along the beach Mon-day morning.
A second was found the same day in the waters by Oak Bay Marina, also with raw meat stuffed in it.
Two more were found near Glenlyon Norfolk School’s junior campus on Beach Drive on Tues-day morning.
The shoes were likely placed in the locations by local pranksters, said Oak Bay police Const. Lau-rence Riel.
The shoes were delivered to Saanich police for forensic study.
“I looked at one shoe … and let’s just say the appearance seems to be consistent with that (hoax) determination,” said Sgt. Dean Jantzen of Saanich police.
Investigators then called upon a University of Victoria anthro-pologist to identify the flesh.
“It was more a case of what it wasn’t, and it wasn’t human remains,” Riel said.
Police will continue to investi-gate the “unexplained meat” until it is identified, Jantzen said.
He added that even a hoax could constitute mischief charges being laid.
A coroner would only have been involved if the material dis-covered hd been human.
The four shoes were found a week after a woman’s running shoe with a human foot inside was found in Vancouver, the 11th such discovery in the past four years.
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Erin CardoneNews staff
Walking down Oak Bay Avenue, it’s easy to miss one of the region’s most unique dwellings perched above the throngs of people who pass by obliviously each day.
Next to the roofline of the Penny Farthing pub, Jim Kirk lives in a flat-roofed, mid-century-modern dwelling.
There are the 1970s Barcelona chairs, a near-industrial kitchen and glossy grey walls.
Outside is a bonsai garden
with trees that have been growing since the 1960s.
The loft at 2233 Theatre Ln. is one of six standout houses in Greater Victoria on this year’s home tour, a fundraiser for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
“We sell out every year,” said Joan Huzar, who chairs the event.
“I think it’s about getting inside. These are homes the owners designed themselves.”
Kirk, 71, worked with interior designer Diane Kettner on his abode, which he bought in 1988. It’s been through three
renovations since then, the most recent taking place last Christmas. He’s happy to have people stroll through his living space.
“It’s the least we can do for the community,” he said.
Last year’s house tour raised less than $30,000 for the art gallery’s programs and exhibits and the hope is to raise even more this year.
An artist will show work and prepare new pieces at each of the addresses on the self-guided tour.
Organizers say the tour isn’t
necessarily suited for children under 12, and there are stairs at all addresses, which could prevent access for people with mobility issues.
The home tour happens Sunday (Sept. 11) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets are $40, available at AGGV, 1040 Moss St., Peninsula Gallery in Sidney and all three Garden Works locations in Greater Victoria.
Each ticket purchased can be used for two-for-one admission at AGGV.
Tour opens doors to beautiful, quirkySix Victoria-area homes on display for Art Gallery of Greater Victoria fundraiser
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Home, sweet, homeJim Kirk lies about in his Oak Bay home which will be part of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s house tour. Kirk’s house is unique in its quirkiness. The tour takes place on Sept. 11.
Flesh found in runners likely hoaxAnalysis will determine what type of meat inside washed-up shoes
Vivian MoreauNews staff
Raw meat stuffed into two run-ning shoes found in separate Oak Bay waterfront locations was likely beef or pork, police say.
One running shoe was found stuffed with a flesh-covered bone in McNeill Bay by a woman walk-ing her dog along the beach Mon-day morning.
A second was found the same day in the waters by Oak Bay Marina, also with raw meat stuffed in it.
Two more were found near Glenlyon Norfolk School’s junior campus on Beach Drive on Tues-day morning.
The shoes were likely placed in the locations by local pranksters, said Oak Bay police Const. Lau-rence Riel.
The shoes were delivered to Saanich police for forensic study.
“I looked at one shoe … and let’s just say the appearance seems to be consistent with that (hoax) determination,” said Sgt. Dean Jantzen of Saanich police.
Investigators then called upon a University of Victoria anthro-pologist to identify the flesh.
“It was more a case of what it wasn’t, and it wasn’t human remains,” Riel said.
Police will continue to investi-gate the “unexplained meat” until it is identified, Jantzen said.
He added that even a hoax could constitute mischief charges being laid.
A coroner would only have been involved if the material dis-covered hd been human.
The four shoes were found a week after a woman’s running shoe with a human foot inside was found in Vancouver, the 11th such discovery in the past four years.
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Don’t be fooled when Cordova Bay’s Bill Noble talks about making radios with peanut tubes. The former radio and phonograph salesman may have celebrated his 100th birthday on Aug. 23, but also has a computer and still keeps up with the latest news in technology.
“As a kid, I was always interested in radio,” he says, about what was high tech at the time. “It was the coming thing.”
Remarkably, for a man who was born while Sir Wilfrid Laurier was prime minister, Noble lives independently with minimal home care support. Should he pass his renewal exam, Noble will also retain his driver’s licence and continue to drive to take his wife, Kay, out for dinner.
To celebrate the big day, longtime neighbour Gwen MacPherson helped organized a surprise party. “He couldn’t believe it,” she said of the party, attended by friends and his two stepsons. “He loves the neighbours and he loves to party.”
Sitting in his easy chair in his living room, Noble smiles at
all of the recognition.He has a binder
of congratulatory certificates, including ones from the Queen and the prime minister.
Nearby, there are an assortment of flowers and cards. However, the bouquet from the local pharmacy is a little odd, Noble says, given that he takes no medications.
“I’ve been really very lucky and I realize it. I never felt that I was getting old until I reached 100, then everybody started telling me.”
Noble explains that his love of music and radio led him to move from Vancouver to Prince Rupert to sell RCA/Victor radios in 1940. He later opened record, radio and phonograph stores in Prince Rupert and Terrace before relocating to Cordova Bay to be closer to his parents.
His father, George Holmes Noble, is the
son of pioneering Oak Bay dairy farmers. Bill tells of how his father used to paddle on a log with boyhood chums out to Jimmy Chicken (Mary Tod) Island.
In Bill’s home, a walker parked beside his chair and a hearing aid are some of the few signs of his age.
But get him talking, and the tales testify to a time gone by. He recalls driving a Studebaker from Vancouver to Florida in 1928 – Texas was the worst, Noble says, with only 10 miles of blacktop on either side of Houston.
There is also his pocket camera, still in pristine condition, which he’s carried with him since the 1930s, when he bought it for a
whopping 25 cents.As a boy, he would
play on the beach in Cordova Bay during family visits to what, in the 1920s, was primarily a summer vacation area. When he returned to Cordova Bay in the spring of 1967, he was with his first wife, Evelyn, and son Stewart, both of whom have passed.
Noble, an only child,
is the last surviving member of his father’s bloodline. The family name will end with him, despite a history of long lives.
Each of his father’s nine siblings lived into their 90s, while his father passed away two weeks short of his 104th birthday.
Even Noble’s dog Rex lived until he was 23, Noble says with a
grin. “It’s in the genes. I don’t even know what the genes are,” he says. “I keep being told I have the right genes, so I’ll accept that.”
Noble shies away from dispensing any advice or words of wisdom on his long life. “My mind is an enquiring mind. I just know how darned lucky I am.”[email protected]
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Centenarian comes from pioneering Oak Bay stock
Bill Noble, 100, shows off his 1930’s Kodak pocket camera at his home in Cordova bay.Natalie North/ News staff
POLICE NEWSIN BRIEF
Endurance night passes quietly“Endurance night,” the traditional student-or-
ganized event that sees Oak Bay High students stay up the night before the first day of classes, went largely unnoticed, according to Oak Bay police. Unlike previous years, officers didn’t respond to any rowdy incidents involving youth Monday evening, said Const. Laurence Riel.
Honda stolen, truck stays putSomeone broke into a home in the 2300-block
of Windsor Avenue on Sunday, found the keys to a 1998 Honda Accord inside and stole the car, as well as a pruning saw.
The thief drove the Honda to a home in the 1300-block of Monterey Avenue, where they tried, but failed to pry off a Club steering lock from a 1988 GMC Jimmy. The suspect and the Honda have yet to be found.
St. Patrick sees multiple crimesA 1993 Honda Civic was stolen Aug. 31 from a
home in the 900-block of St. Patrick Street, but was found Sept. 1 by Shawnigan Lake RCMP.
Two days before, two vehicles on St. Patrick were damaged. Someone walked over the hood of a 2010 Hyundai in the 1000-block and tried to break off a side mirror. A similar damage report came from a home in the 1100-block, where a side mirror was nearly broken off a Volvo.
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Transit routes returned to their full schedules Tuesday after the lazier days of summer. Seven routes are affected and some have changed numbers. They include:
n No. 13 Cadboro Bay/UVic, which now operates hourly during the day, on Saturdays and extends to Shel-bourne at Cedar Hill.
n No. 10 Royal Jubilee/Dockyard returns to its regular route from Bay
Street to Wilson and Catherine now that road construction is complete.
n No. 16X UVic/Uptown Express replaces No. 26A Dockyard/UVic.
n No. 80 UVic/Swartz Bay has been renumbered to No. 76.
Customers can visit the website, www.bctransit.com, or to pick up the latest Rider’s Guide to view the updated schedules.
Just as the province’s transpor-tation officials are wading through technical data on the proposed $950-million light-rail rapid transit project, Capital Region residents can now do the same.
The Victoria Regional Rapid Tran-sit report was recently published online, and is identical to information submitted to B.C.’s Ministry of Trans-portation and Infrastructure in June, said Joanna Linsangan, B.C. Transit spokesperson.
“It’s certainly a high-profile proj-ect that has garnered a lot of inter-est from a number of stakeholders, and also just members of the general public,” she said.
“This is a big project for the entire region.”
The report encompasses several volumes that provide details on population and employment growth, present and future travel patterns
in the region, an evaluation of the selected alignment for the light-rail system between downtown Victoria and the West Shore, details on the LRT technology recommendation and the public consultation process involved.
A frequently-asked-questions page has also been updated to include information on the E&N Rail line and the affordability of LRT.
The plan was to post the docu-ments online at the same time they were submitted to the province, but the task took longer than antici-pated.
“Ideally, we would have wanted to post it up at the same time we had the business report prepared, which was back in June,” Linsangan said.
“But what we wanted to do was just compile it in a fashion that would be easy and as simple as possible for the general public to understand.”
The report is available at www.bctransit.com/vrrt.
The Victoria Epi-lepsy and Parkinson’s Centre hosts a Walk in the Park for Parkin-son’s tomorrow (Sept. 10) along the Lochside Trail.
The two-kilometre walk starts at 10 a.m. at the Garth Homer Centre (813 Darwin Ave.). Registration is at 9 a.m. and coffee and muffins will be served before the walk.
Registration is $25 and pledge forms for
the walk are avail-able by contacting the Victoria Epilepsy and Parkinson’s Centre at 250-475-6677 or at www.vepc.ca. All money raised supports local services and Par-kinson’s [email protected]
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NOTICE OF NOMINATION
Public Notice is given to the electors of the Municipality of Oak Bay that a general local election will be held on Saturday, November 19, 2011 to elect a Mayor and six Councillors for the 2012, 2013, and 2014 Council years.
Nominations for qualifi ed candidates will be received during the following times at the offi ce of the Chief Election Offi cer, Oak Bay Municipal Hall, 2167 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, BC:
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 4, 2011 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday excluding holidays from October 5 to October 13, 2011 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Friday, October 14, 2011
Nomination documents and further information on the requirements and procedures for making a nomination will be available at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall during regular business hours.
NO NOMINATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 4:00 P.M. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011
ADVANCE ELECTOR REGISTRATION
Oak Bay Residents
A list of registered Oak Bay Resident Electors has been produced on the basis of the Provincial List of Voters prepared under the Provincial Election Act which was current to July 21, 2011. An Advance Registration Opportunity for eligible electors who were not on the Provincial Voters’ List at that time will be available 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding holidays, at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall, 2167 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria BC until September 27, 2011.
In order to be registered as a resident elector, a person must meet all of the following requirements on the day of registration.
• the person must be an individual who is, or who will be on November 19, 2011, age 18 or older;• the person must be a Canadian citizen;• the person must have been a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months;• the person must have been a resident of Oak Bay for at least 30 days;• the person must not be disqualifi ed by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualifi ed by law.
(Non-Resident) Property Electors
A person who is not a resident of Oak Bay but who has been a registered owner of real property in Oak Bay for at least 30 days may register as a property elector in accordance with the Local Government Act. Special conditions determining eligibility apply to persons wishing to register as a non-resident property elector. Non-resident property owners should contact the Chief Election Offi cer at 250-598-3311 for further information.
Advance registration closes at 4:30 p.m. on September 27, 2011 and does not reopen until Monday, November 21, 2011.
LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS
Beginning Tuesday, October 4, 2011, until the close of general voting for the Election, a copy of the list of registered electors will, upon signature, be available for public inspection at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, excluding holidays. An elector may request that personal information respecting them be omitted from or obscured on the list.
OBJECTION TO REGISTRATION OF AN ELECTOR
An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of registered electors may be made in accordance with the Local Government Act until 4:00 p.m. Friday, October 14, 2011.
An objection may only be made, in writing, by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of Oak Bay and can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears on the list of registered electors has died or is not qualifi ed to be registered as an elector of Oak Bay.
Further information on the foregoing may be obtained by contacting the Chief Election Offi cer at 250-598-3311.
Loranne Hilton Chief Election Offi cer
The Corporation of the District of Oak Bay
2011 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTION
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“It was a beautiful summer day, and we looked down the street and we could just see this cloud of smoke. We realized that this was real,” he says.
“It was an eerie, eerie feeling that the roads that were packed with cars (the day before) were now empty. … There was just a steady stream of people walking up the road out of downtown.”
Egan, finance director with the Municipal Finance Authority of B.C., was in New York to discuss the province’s financial picture with credit rating agencies Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s, at a meeting on Sept. 12.
That meeting was originally scheduled for 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, says Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard, who chairs the authority.
Leonard asked to delay the
meeting by one day so he wouldn’t miss a Monday night council meeting.
“I was supposed to be two blocks away from where it happened that morning,” says the mayor, who watched the events unfold in New York from his Saanich home.
With transportation in and out of the city at a standstill, Egan spent the next few days either watching and listening to news or trying to avoid the relentless media coverage.
“I did a lot of walking around New York – I walked around Times Square twice a day, Central Park once every day. You’d see lineups of people volunteering to donate blood, or helping out at shelters or churches …
“You could really see the New York citizens gathering, trying to help out,” Egan says.
“It seemed that everybody was trying to do their best to cope.”
Ten years later, he says it feels like “a lifetime ago” that he was in New York, trying, along with tens of thousands of others, to get home during a time of chaos for the transportation system.
On Sept. 14 he caught a train to Toronto. Upon crossing the border, he recalls the entire train cabin breathing a collective sigh of relief.
“We were home,” he says. I remember looking up in the sky and seeing a plane flying overhead, and it gave me a very eerie feeling in my stomach, thinking back about what had happened a few days earlier.
“To me it was a real life-changing event to be part of, even though I was 50 blocks away. It’s something I’ll never forget.”
Memories of 9/11 eerie for Saanich manContinued from Page A1
Graham Egan, who works for the Municipal Finance Authority, stands in front of his office building on Fort Street. Egan was in New York on 9/11 and visited the World Trade Center on Sept. 10 that year.Don Denton/ News staff
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LETTERSVICTORIA NEWS - Friday, September 9, 2011 www.vicnews.com • A13
Letters to the editorThe News welcomes your
opinions and comments.Letters to the editor should
discuss issues and stories that have been covered in the pages of the News. Please keep letters to fewer than 300 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style, legality, length and taste and will not print anonymous letters.
■ Mail: Letters to the Editor, Victoria News, 818 Broughton St., Victoria, B.C., V8W 1E4
Yes, we have an increase in world population, due to some religious beliefs and lack of birth control.
Our water and food supplies are running out due to overpopulation and lack of arable land caused by erosion of land, pollution of land, air and water, human mismanagement and global warming.
Yes, farmland is being converted into housing developments.
However, I really don’t think that you can blame
these problems on deer, cougars and bears. We are lucky enough to share this planet with many different species.
As a newcomer to this area, one of the reasons we moved here was the large diversity of wildlife. If you want to avoid wildlife, I suggest you move to an urban centre, where you may be happier.
Diana MonksSaanich
Backward thinking behind wildlife cull
I read with interest your article on the Capital Regional District’s 10-year parks master plan. My experience with trying to advocate for off-road vehicle access is that the CRD has selective hearing.
As for low public participation, my take is that minimal turnout at public input sessions shows the public’s frustration or lack of interest in CRD parks, and not acceptance by non-participation.
When you read CRD Parks meeting minutes you will see that the off-road vehicle community has been lobbying for more than 10 years for a small piece of the more than 13,000 hectares of publicly-owned park lands.
I have submitted many comments as have many others interested in off-road vehicle use, but apparently they don’t qualify as quality public input.
Maybe one day after they tire of chasing off-road vehicles out of parks they will dedicate a small piece for those who choose this activity. The current policy simply makes this group of taxpayers lawbreakers.
Ben HircockMetchosin
CRD Parksnot listeningto users
Re: Learning to drive all over again (Paper Trail, Sept. 2)
Underlying Erin McCracken’s 360-degree looking is a principle – people might have done something you didn’t expect them to do. Or – gasp! – you might have made a mistake.
Many drivers aren’t looking around while in motion – they seem fixated on not running into the vehicle ahead.
But the biggest problem with road safety is the jerks who drive dangerously and hassle bicyclists.
Those jerks will only be re-educated by police in their face, repeatedly, as was done on the Malahat this summer.
Yet the People’s State of Esquimalt refuses to properly fund police. I ask voters to evaluate candidates in this fall’s elections for their support of protecting individuals.
Keith SketchleySaanich
Collaring bad drivers a public safety issue
File photo
Wildlife in our urban municipalities has come under fire by some.
A8 • www.oakbaynews.com Friday, September 9, 2011 - OAK BAY NEWS
2009
OUR VIEW
EDITORIALPenny Sakamoto Group PublisherKevin Laird Editorial DirectorDon Descoteau EditorOliver Sommer Advertising Director
The Oak Bay News is published by Black Press Ltd. | 818 Broughton St., Victoria, B.C. V8W 1E4 | Phone: 250-598-4123 • Fax: 250-386-2624 • Web: www.oakbaynews.com
OAKBAYNEWS
The other day I wandered into my local watering hole, propped an elbow on the bar and muttered, ‘the usual.’ Moments later I peered down into the depths of my drink, admiring the frothy cream contrasting with the pretty blue of the ceramic cup and knew this wasn’t the bar of my youthful dreams.
Social mores and trends change, and one of the biggest has been the way we approach drinking alcohol. I was brought up on industry tales of hard-drinking newspapermen who could pound down shot after shot, all the while hammering out faultless prose on their old manual typewriters, or focusing their cameras without missing an image. The truth was that the stereotype often held – well, maybe aside from the faultless prose, but that was what editors were for.
My first night at my first newspaper job I was interrupted from my darkroom work by a veteran reporter, who took me for an initiation drink. I ended up crawling back to the darkroom at 6 a.m. to finish my printing before the day shift and the bosses arrived.
I later spent a summer as a darkroom assistant, with unofficial chores that included going up to the cafeteria to pick up extra
large cups of ice so the staff photographers working the night shift could cool down their spirits-and-mixer combinations. The empty
bottles were tossed behind the drawers under the vast enlarger counters in the darkroom.
Legend has it that when they finally closed the darkrooms and ushered in the digital era, the photographers organized a secret night-time cleanup. Apparently, many, many garbage bags were needed for the empties accumulated over the years.
This was at a time when the Vancouver Press Club thrived. It was located very conveniently across from the Granville Street building that housed not only the Sun and Province newsrooms, but all other aspects of production, including the printing press.
That led to scenes such as one time when two writers, who were not overly fond of each other, wound up in an old-fashioned scrap in the newsroom. One man apparently pinned the other on his back on a desk, whacking him with the receiver from an old (and heavy) rotary phone – meanwhile the other combatant tried to push his rival’s head onto the spike used for message sheets.
I also worked for one Alberta
daily where every Monday the publisher would trundle out a drinks cart and serve a beverage or two of your choice to the assembled staff.
Those days are long gone.The suggestion of alcohol on
one’s breath after a midday lunch would raise eyebrows in most newsrooms (and truth be told in most businesses) these days.
Which is why I am surprised to realize that my dream of one day hanging around a dive bar called something like The Gritty Shot and complaining to a bartender named Woody or Peg Leg about my life has come true in a certain way.
It’s just that now my local is a café and the bartender is a barista. I pop into Street Level Espresso where Ken (the owner/coffee master) will cast a speculative eye across the counter before serving up an espresso (to stay) or an Americano (to go). We’ll chat about photography and cameras (Ken’s an accomplished lensman, among other things) or the world in general. It’s what he does with most regulars.
When we leave we’re brighter-eyed than when we entered the drinking establishment which, no matter how fondly we view the past, was not usually the case in the old days.
Don Denton is photo supervisor for Black Press South Island.
‘My first night on the job I was interrupted and taken for an initiation drink.’
Somalia needs world’s attention
If anything good has come out of the wretched aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, perhaps it’s the western world’s awakening to the horrific realities faced by so many of our fellow human beings.
Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the terrorist skyjackings that destroyed the World Trade Center towers and damaged the Pentagon
is a chance to pay tribute to those who died in the attacks, in the rescue efforts and in the wars that followed.
It’s also an opportunity to to shift our gaze outward and see what is happening in the world today. In particular, it is past time to act on a situation that has been allowed to deteriorate into incomprehensible suffering.
War, religious extremism and corruption are threatening the lives of 750,000 people in Somalia. Other residents of nations in the Horn of Africa are also at risk of dying in a famine that is largely man-made.
Now considered a failed state, Somalia faces extreme violence, with the militant group al-Shabab accused of stealing food aid and firing on care workers and civilians.
Make no mistake, the mass starvation of children is avoidable. Drought and food shortages are problematic, but the true hurdle is simply a matter of political will.
There are positive signs. This week an agreement was reached to prepare for elections that could bring a level of stability to the country, which has been in chaos since long before dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991.
The west has the resources to provide the needed aid as well as the security forces to ensure aid is distributed to those in need.
We just need to muster the will to act.To find out how you can help, contact the
Victoria office of the Canadian Red Cross at 250-382-2043, or visit www.redcross.ca.
Time to muster the will for action in Horn of Africa
The Oak Bay News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.
Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.
What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: [email protected] or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.
2009 WINNER
Don DentonEye on the City
OAK BAY NEWS - Friday, September 9, 2011 www.oakbaynews.com • A9
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LETTERSVICTORIA NEWS - Friday, September 9, 2011 www.vicnews.com • A13
Letters to the editorThe News welcomes your
opinions and comments.Letters to the editor should
discuss issues and stories that have been covered in the pages of the News. Please keep letters to fewer than 300 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style, legality, length and taste and will not print anonymous letters.
■ Mail: Letters to the Editor, Victoria News, 818 Broughton St., Victoria, B.C., V8W 1E4
Yes, we have an increase in world population, due to some religious beliefs and lack of birth control.
Our water and food supplies are running out due to overpopulation and lack of arable land caused by erosion of land, pollution of land, air and water, human mismanagement and global warming.
Yes, farmland is being converted into housing developments.
However, I really don’t think that you can blame
these problems on deer, cougars and bears. We are lucky enough to share this planet with many different species.
As a newcomer to this area, one of the reasons we moved here was the large diversity of wildlife. If you want to avoid wildlife, I suggest you move to an urban centre, where you may be happier.
Diana MonksSaanich
Backward thinking behind wildlife cull
I read with interest your article on the Capital Regional District’s 10-year parks master plan. My experience with trying to advocate for off-road vehicle access is that the CRD has selective hearing.
As for low public participation, my take is that minimal turnout at public input sessions shows the public’s frustration or lack of interest in CRD parks, and not acceptance by non-participation.
When you read CRD Parks meeting minutes you will see that the off-road vehicle community has been lobbying for more than 10 years for a small piece of the more than 13,000 hectares of publicly-owned park lands.
I have submitted many comments as have many others interested in off-road vehicle use, but apparently they don’t qualify as quality public input.
Maybe one day after they tire of chasing off-road vehicles out of parks they will dedicate a small piece for those who choose this activity. The current policy simply makes this group of taxpayers lawbreakers.
Ben HircockMetchosin
CRD Parksnot listeningto users
Re: Learning to drive all over again (Paper Trail, Sept. 2)
Underlying Erin McCracken’s 360-degree looking is a principle – people might have done something you didn’t expect them to do. Or – gasp! – you might have made a mistake.
Many drivers aren’t looking around while in motion – they seem fixated on not running into the vehicle ahead.
But the biggest problem with road safety is the jerks who drive dangerously and hassle bicyclists.
Those jerks will only be re-educated by police in their face, repeatedly, as was done on the Malahat this summer.
Yet the People’s State of Esquimalt refuses to properly fund police. I ask voters to evaluate candidates in this fall’s elections for their support of protecting individuals.
Keith SketchleySaanich
Collaring bad drivers a public safety issue
File photo
Wildlife in our urban municipalities has come under fire by some.
A8 • www.oakbaynews.com Friday, September 9, 2011 - OAK BAY NEWS
2009
OUR VIEW
EDITORIALPenny Sakamoto Group PublisherKevin Laird Editorial DirectorDon Descoteau EditorOliver Sommer Advertising Director
The Oak Bay News is published by Black Press Ltd. | 818 Broughton St., Victoria, B.C. V8W 1E4 | Phone: 250-598-4123 • Fax: 250-386-2624 • Web: www.oakbaynews.com
OAKBAYNEWS
The other day I wandered into my local watering hole, propped an elbow on the bar and muttered, ‘the usual.’ Moments later I peered down into the depths of my drink, admiring the frothy cream contrasting with the pretty blue of the ceramic cup and knew this wasn’t the bar of my youthful dreams.
Social mores and trends change, and one of the biggest has been the way we approach drinking alcohol. I was brought up on industry tales of hard-drinking newspapermen who could pound down shot after shot, all the while hammering out faultless prose on their old manual typewriters, or focusing their cameras without missing an image. The truth was that the stereotype often held – well, maybe aside from the faultless prose, but that was what editors were for.
My first night at my first newspaper job I was interrupted from my darkroom work by a veteran reporter, who took me for an initiation drink. I ended up crawling back to the darkroom at 6 a.m. to finish my printing before the day shift and the bosses arrived.
I later spent a summer as a darkroom assistant, with unofficial chores that included going up to the cafeteria to pick up extra
large cups of ice so the staff photographers working the night shift could cool down their spirits-and-mixer combinations. The empty
bottles were tossed behind the drawers under the vast enlarger counters in the darkroom.
Legend has it that when they finally closed the darkrooms and ushered in the digital era, the photographers organized a secret night-time cleanup. Apparently, many, many garbage bags were needed for the empties accumulated over the years.
This was at a time when the Vancouver Press Club thrived. It was located very conveniently across from the Granville Street building that housed not only the Sun and Province newsrooms, but all other aspects of production, including the printing press.
That led to scenes such as one time when two writers, who were not overly fond of each other, wound up in an old-fashioned scrap in the newsroom. One man apparently pinned the other on his back on a desk, whacking him with the receiver from an old (and heavy) rotary phone – meanwhile the other combatant tried to push his rival’s head onto the spike used for message sheets.
I also worked for one Alberta
daily where every Monday the publisher would trundle out a drinks cart and serve a beverage or two of your choice to the assembled staff.
Those days are long gone.The suggestion of alcohol on
one’s breath after a midday lunch would raise eyebrows in most newsrooms (and truth be told in most businesses) these days.
Which is why I am surprised to realize that my dream of one day hanging around a dive bar called something like The Gritty Shot and complaining to a bartender named Woody or Peg Leg about my life has come true in a certain way.
It’s just that now my local is a café and the bartender is a barista. I pop into Street Level Espresso where Ken (the owner/coffee master) will cast a speculative eye across the counter before serving up an espresso (to stay) or an Americano (to go). We’ll chat about photography and cameras (Ken’s an accomplished lensman, among other things) or the world in general. It’s what he does with most regulars.
When we leave we’re brighter-eyed than when we entered the drinking establishment which, no matter how fondly we view the past, was not usually the case in the old days.
Don Denton is photo supervisor for Black Press South Island.
‘My first night on the job I was interrupted and taken for an initiation drink.’
Somalia needs world’s attention
If anything good has come out of the wretched aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, perhaps it’s the western world’s awakening to the horrific realities faced by so many of our fellow human beings.
Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the terrorist skyjackings that destroyed the World Trade Center towers and damaged the Pentagon
is a chance to pay tribute to those who died in the attacks, in the rescue efforts and in the wars that followed.
It’s also an opportunity to to shift our gaze outward and see what is happening in the world today. In particular, it is past time to act on a situation that has been allowed to deteriorate into incomprehensible suffering.
War, religious extremism and corruption are threatening the lives of 750,000 people in Somalia. Other residents of nations in the Horn of Africa are also at risk of dying in a famine that is largely man-made.
Now considered a failed state, Somalia faces extreme violence, with the militant group al-Shabab accused of stealing food aid and firing on care workers and civilians.
Make no mistake, the mass starvation of children is avoidable. Drought and food shortages are problematic, but the true hurdle is simply a matter of political will.
There are positive signs. This week an agreement was reached to prepare for elections that could bring a level of stability to the country, which has been in chaos since long before dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991.
The west has the resources to provide the needed aid as well as the security forces to ensure aid is distributed to those in need.
We just need to muster the will to act.To find out how you can help, contact the
Victoria office of the Canadian Red Cross at 250-382-2043, or visit www.redcross.ca.
Time to muster the will for action in Horn of Africa
The Oak Bay News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.
Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.
What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: [email protected] or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.
2009 WINNER
Don DentonEye on the City
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Hollywood glitz coming to VictoriaErin CardoneNews staff
Hollywood-themed martinis, appies, a photo shoot and an appearance by firefighter calendar models are all on the bill for a pyjama party of the classy sort.
The Sept. 17 party is a fundraiser for the not-for-profit Greater Victoria Film Commission, which markets the region as a setting for movies, TV shows and other productions.
The evening’s events also feature an appearance by a Hollywood actor, yet to be named.
‘It’s a higher-end event just for women that’s never been done before,” said organizer Maria Manna. “Women can be themselves and have fun, but it’s got class and it’s for a great cause.”
The event happens at the Coast Victoria Har-bourside Hotel and Marina, 146 Kingston St. Women are asked to come dressed in their pyja-mas at 6 p.m.
Tickets include a “swag bag” worth $130, the photo shoot, food and music. There will also be a fashion show with professional models from the Barbara Coultish Modeling Agency.
Tickets are $185 with a room (based on double occupancy) or $135 without. For more information or to reserve tickets, please call 250-940-1101 or email [email protected].
*Reservations please, subject to availability. Offer valid Sept. 01-30, 2011.Some restrictions apply. Group travellers subject to additional restrictions.
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Getting physical for mental healthDanskin giving his all to get mental health message out there
A former University of Victoria male athlete of the year has com-pleted his third grueling physical challenge in as many years in support of the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Mike Danskin, who attended St. Michael’s Uni-versity School and is a for-mer member of Canada’s national rugby team, ran approximately 75 kilome-tres in the Grand Canyon on Aug. 26 – from the canyon’s south rim to its north rim and back again – as part of his “1 Day for the CMHA” fundraising and aware-ness campaign.
Danskin, 31, came up with the ini-tiative in 2009 because he felt the mental health cause was being over-looked by many charity fundraisers. He was also looking for new ways to challenge himself physically, having retired from rugby three years earlier.Merging the two concepts seemed a
logical step.Danskin’s first fundraiser saw him
summit four mountains near Banff while raising more than $10,000 for the CMHA.
Last year, he and two friends ran the length of the 75-km West Coast Trail, completing the distance in less
than 18 hours. He raised more than $14,000.
Although this year’s challenge is complete, Danskin is still accept-ing donations for the cause and hopes to raise $20,000.
The majority of the money will go to a “Youth and Mental Health” fund for the creation of an e-learning tool to help grade school teach-ers develop curriculum relating to mental health
issues.In addition, 10 per cent of the
money raised will be given to Victo-ria’s Umbrella Society, a non-profit mental health advocacy group.
To contribute to Danskin’s efforts, visit his blog, 1dayforthecmha.blog-spot.com and click on the “donate now” link.
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An Evening in the Circle with Spirit GuidesFriday, September 16, 2011
Victoria’s Jane Kennard is a clear channel for these beautiful beings of light. We will invite the guides to speak through Jane about our world and our lives in these shifting times. We will
also invite audience questions of the guides on any topic.
Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street7:30 pm, doors open at 6:45
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Erin CardoneNews staff
Mary Douglas-Hunt picked up the phone at home in Oak Bay last Wednes-day. It was her husband, Cliff, on the line and he immediately asked if she was sit-ting down.
“She won gold!” he said.The couple’s daughter, Victoria police
Const. Lane Douglas-Hunt, had finished first in the Toughest Competitor Alive contest at the World Police and Fire Games in New York City.
“Oh, man, I was just so, so (proud). I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ I was just so excited,” Mary said. “We’re still shaking our heads in disbelief.”
The win comes less than a year after Lane, 24, was stabbed in the hand while on duty. She had been investigating a reported case of shoplifting in the 700-block of Douglas Street on Jan. 17 and as she exited the convenience store, a sus-pect came at her with a knife.
Lane suffered serious wounds to her left hand, requiring months of rehabilita-tion which kept her away from the gym for much of the spring, her mother said.
As soon as she was able, Lane got back to her rigorous workout routine of two hours of exercise each day.
The Toughest Competitor event com-bines eight sports into a gruelling 14-hour day. Despite being disqualified from the rope-climb component – the rope touched
her foot – Lane came out on top.“It was a long day of compe-
tition, but it is so rewarding to come away with the medal,” the Oak Bay High grad said in a statement. “It was very cool to be competing against fellow cops and firefighters from around the world and collectively celebrate our accomplishments and suc-cess.”
Added Victoria Chief Jamie Gra-ham: “Const. Douglas-Hunt has worked tirelessly on her rehabili-tation and for her to accomplish this achievement at the interna-tional level reflects highly on her, her supportive family and col-leagues.”
Douglas-Hunt wasn’t the only VicPD officer to collect a medal at the games. Sgt. Mike Chicorelli and canine officer Max picked up
gold and bronze medals, in the explosives detection competition. The pair won gold in vehicle searches and bronze for build-ing searches.
The World Police and Fire Games, which wrapped up Monday, happen every two years. This year 15,000 competitors from 70 countries competed in 65 events.
VicPD officer ‘Toughest Competitor Alive’Lane Douglas-Hunt wins international competition following on-the-job injury
Photo contributed
Const. Lane Douglas-Hunt, here executing the deadlift, won a gold medal at the World Police and Fire Games in New York City last week.
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Attendees must be 19 or older. Tickets are $10 in advance, available at Everything Wine, or $15 at the door. For more information, please call 250-474-3959.
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Victoria woman recognized for work to prevent child abduction
Roszan HolmenNews staff
For more than 20 years, Crystal Dunahee has never let her missing son’s name slip from the headlines.
Turning her tragedy into her personal mission, she organizes an annual fund and awareness-raising event for Michael and missing children throughout
the province.Dunahee’s advocacy led her
to preside over Child Find B.C. and to serve on the board of Child Find Canada.
She also supported the launch of B.C.’s AMBER Alert system in 2002, which distributes up-to-date information about child abductions to the public through widespread media broadcasts. The system has been adopted by every
province in Canada.Dunahee is among 14 people
to receive the 2011 Order of British Columbia.
“The Order of British Columbia recognizes the excellence and achievements of our citizens. It is the highest honour we can bestow on individuals in our province,” said Lt.-Gov. Steven Point.
Other recipients of B.C., to be presented Oct. 4 in Victoria, are:
• Luigi Aquilini, developer, Vancouver Canucks owner
• Peter Norman Baird, for his work uniting aboriginal and non-aboriginal people
• Gordon Campbell, former
premier of B.C.• Yuri Fulmer, described as
a “dynamic entrepreneur and dedicated volunteer”
• Tim Jones, longtime leader of North Shore search and rescue
• Dr. Phil Muir, long-serving physician in Hazelton
• Jim O’Rourke, West Vancouver; mining engineer
• Karen O’Shannacery, Vancouver advocate for homeless people
• Baljit Sethi of Prince George, advocate for immigrants
• Ellen White of Nanaimo, native educator and activist
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Online petitions and other protests started popping up when Campbell was announced last week as one of 14 recipients of the province’s highest award. Critics complained that previous premiers such as Dave Barrett and Mike Harcourt have not received it, while former premier Bill Bennett was named to the Order in 2007 – 20 years after he left office.
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Victoria woman recognized for work to prevent child abduction
Roszan HolmenNews staff
For more than 20 years, Crystal Dunahee has never let her missing son’s name slip from the headlines.
Turning her tragedy into her personal mission, she organizes an annual fund and awareness-raising event for Michael and missing children throughout
the province.Dunahee’s advocacy led her
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She also supported the launch of B.C.’s AMBER Alert system in 2002, which distributes up-to-date information about child abductions to the public through widespread media broadcasts. The system has been adopted by every
province in Canada.Dunahee is among 14 people
to receive the 2011 Order of British Columbia.
“The Order of British Columbia recognizes the excellence and achievements of our citizens. It is the highest honour we can bestow on individuals in our province,” said Lt.-Gov. Steven Point.
Other recipients of B.C., to be presented Oct. 4 in Victoria, are:
• Luigi Aquilini, developer, Vancouver Canucks owner
• Peter Norman Baird, for his work uniting aboriginal and non-aboriginal people
• Gordon Campbell, former
premier of B.C.• Yuri Fulmer, described as
a “dynamic entrepreneur and dedicated volunteer”
• Tim Jones, longtime leader of North Shore search and rescue
• Dr. Phil Muir, long-serving physician in Hazelton
• Jim O’Rourke, West Vancouver; mining engineer
• Karen O’Shannacery, Vancouver advocate for homeless people
• Baljit Sethi of Prince George, advocate for immigrants
• Ellen White of Nanaimo, native educator and activist
Protests greet honour for CampbellFormer premier Gordon Campbell is among the recipients of
the Order of B.C., prompting protests against the move as well as congratulations for his long career in politics.
Online petitions and other protests started popping up when Campbell was announced last week as one of 14 recipients of the province’s highest award. Critics complained that previous premiers such as Dave Barrett and Mike Harcourt have not received it, while former premier Bill Bennett was named to the Order in 2007 – 20 years after he left office.
Campbell resigned his seat in March and has since been appointed Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
The Order of B.C. is selected by a committee chaired by Chief Justice Lance Finch, and includes B.C. legislature speaker Bill Barisoff, Union of B.C. Municipalities president Barbara Steele and John Furlong, former head of the 2010 Olympics and a member of the Order of B.C.
A14 • www.oakbaynews.com Friday, September 9, 2011 - OAK BAY NEWS
Vivian MoreauNews staff
When she began teaching a course in music appreciation based around the Victoria Sym-phony Orchestra season, Mikki Reintjes wasn’t sure how much interest there would be.
Eight years later, as it was the first time it was offered, the Uni-versity of Victoria continuing edu-cation class is full with 30 partici-pants.
“It’s (for) people who are taking their first steps in classical music,” Reintjes says of the students, who range in age from 20-somethings to people in their 70s.
The eight-session course cor-responds with selections from the VSO’s performances for the 2011-12 season. This year, stu-dents will learn about Gustav Mahler’s rarely performed “Das Lied von der Erde,” as well as Viv-aldi’s “Four Seasons.”
“Not many will know that it is based on poems Vivaldi wrote,” Reintjes says of his recognizable
four-part composition. “Each sea-son has its own sonnet and the music depicts the words in each sonnet.”
Symphony musicians make guest appearances in the class, complete with instruments. “Lots of people have never seen these instruments up close,” Reintjes says.
Although the course covers only the classical music playlist, there are many other performances on the VSO’s schedule this fall and winter.
The six-part Beltone pop series features Hollywood composer Sean O’Loughlin leading Music of the Silver Screen, including themes from Gone With the Wind, Lord of the Rings and Jaws.
Another highlight of the season will be Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9.”
“Some thought there was a curse in writing a Ninth Symphony,” VSO maestra Tania Miller wrote in a letter to subscribers, “others just didn’t know how to respond to such a masterpiece.”
There is also a four-perfor-mance holiday concert series and a three-part royal tea series; the latter consists of lighter matinée repertoires.
VSO executive director Mitchell Krieger says staying versatile is just one reason the symphony had 10 sold-out concerts last year and also how the orchestra has man-aged to stay in the black six of the last seven seasons.
“In a relatively small city such as ours, we have to appeal to a lot of different people,” Krieger says.
The 50 shows that the Victo-ria Symphony is scheduled to perform “give people who want to hear a certain kind of music the opportunity to do that, but provides enough interest so that some subscribe to many different series.”
For more information about the UVic course, Masterworks of Symphonic Literature, go to www.learningthatshapes.ca/fall. To check out the VSO season lineup, visit www.victoriasymphony.ca.
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Sitar/tabla combination on tap at UVicSitar virtusoso “Surmani” Anupama Bhagwat brings her unique Indian sound to the David Lam Auditorium on Sunday (Sept. 11). Tix: $15, $10 for students, under-13 is free. Available at the door, or call Sri at 250-721-2672.THE ARTS
Learn ABCs of the VSOIt’s back-to-school time at UVic for classical music lovers
Vivian Moreau/News staff
Mikki Reintjes has taught a music appreciation class for eight years based on the Victoria Symphony Orchestra’s performance schedule. The class has been full every year.
OAK BAY NEWS - Friday, September 9, 2011 www.oakbaynews.com • A15
YouTube success only part of Acres of Lions’ strategy
Don DescoteauNews staff
It’s September and Victoria band Acres of Lions is getting a reaction from fans and others in the music business.
On the homestretch of participation in the Peak Performance Project, the alternative rock quartet is gearing up for some local shows, including the Rif-flandia indie music festival later this month.
Before that comes another key show, tomorrow night (Sept. 10) at Sugar night-club, when they’ll release their new CD, Collections, featuring their first single, “Reaction.”
“We spent the last week learning how to be a better band and how to take that show on the road,” said guitarist and keyboard player Tyson Yerex of the Peak project’s summer boot camp. That’s where the 20 finalists in the big-money contest are mentored about everything from recording and market-ing themselves to touring and live per-formance.
“It’s one thing to get up there and play
the new single the way you recorded it… the stage is more about creating moments.”
Like many acts involved in the Peak competition, the band has been busy this year juggling live performance and recording schedules with undertaking the tasks and appearances set out under the rules of the contest.
Among those challenges was to cre-
ate a viral video.The video for “Reaction,” a pop-in-
fused, toe-tapping tune currently on radio playlists of alternative stations in Victoria and Edmonton, features friends and people the band met along their Canadian tour.
The band used a “clever marketing trick,” as Yerex calls it, by leveraging friendships made over the past four years of touring to create a fast-paced visual presentation of the song.
“It ended up being an amazing video project,” he said.
Where their previous attempt attracted 1,500 views in all, the new song has received close to 2,000 You-Tube hits in the first week alone.
With no history before their first album, the band toured Canada with the material for four months in a van, mak-ing friends wherever they landed, Yerex said. Getting their music out there has helped boost their exposure, he added.
“It’s great feeling like (touring) really wasn’t for nothing – that feels really good. The ball is starting to roll … We’ve got to keep kicking it until it turns into an avalanche.”
Showtime at Sugar is 9 p.m., opening acts are Treelines and Mike Edel.
Tickets, available at the door, include a digital download of the new CD.
OAK BAY NEWS - Friday, September 9, 2011 www.oakbaynews.com • A15
Sourdough critters tell storiesVictoria illustrator Eliska Liska and Cobble Hill
author Kathy Sager launch their first children’s book, Suzie’s Sourdough Circus, with a reading on Sunday (Sept. 11).
The book sees a cast of sourdough performers get into all kinds of trouble as they blow bubbles to make the bread rise.
The launch (2 p.m. at Tall Tale Books, 795 Fort St.) is a great opportunity to experience working with sourdough first hand, as both women are adept bakers. The book includes not only stories, but recipes for bread, flapjacks and other sour-dough goodies.
Exhibit captures words, humanity A Victoria artist highly regarded for her talents
when she puts paintbrush to canvas is the focus of Show Up, a new exhibit at Dales Gallery and Framing Studio.
Victoria oil painter Stephanie Harding creates contemporary and classic works that depict peo-ple and nature.
“She has a versatility, intelligence and humour that she brings to her painting,” said gallery owner Alison Trembath. “It’s really beautiful work.”
The free show is on display at 537 Fisgard St. and runs until Oct. 4. The gallery is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Acres of Lions; Lewis Carter , left, Dan Ball, Tyson Yerex and Jeff Kalesnikoff release their new CD tomorrow (Sept. 10) at Sugar.
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Pacific Restaurant invites Victorians to celebrate the end of the traditional
autumn harvest during with a Chinese Moon Festival.
Continuing through Sept. 12, the restaurant will celebrate with an auspicious East-meets-West set menu, dim sum and a time-honoured Chinese tea cer-emony performed by local tea master, Daniela Cubelic from Silk Road.
The Chinese Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn or Mooncake Festival, is tra-ditionally associated with the tale of the archer, Houyi and his wife, Chang’e, the Goddess of Immortality. Legend has it that after taking an immortality pill, Chang’e fl ew up to the moon where she continued to live, while Houyi set up residence on the sun. The bright mid-autumn moon is said to be the result of Houyi paying his
wife a visit. A specially-prepared three-
course Chinese Moon Festival menu will be offered in the restau-rant on each night.
Cubelic has selected Chinese tea pairings for each dish and the res-taurant’s sommeliers have chosen contemporary wine pairings. The menu will cost $38.88 per person, with tea pairings for an additional $8.88 or wine pairings for $28.88.
As part of the celebrations on Saturday night, Sept. 10, a lion dance will be performed for good luck at 6 p.m. Cubelic will also perform a 30-minute traditional Chinese tea ceremony in The
Mark at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, perfect for those wishing to enjoy the restaurant’s weekend dim sum. Tickets are free, however reservations are required to observe the ceremony – call 250-380-4458. Dim sum will be offered on both Sat-urday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Coming up on Salt Spring Island Oct. 2 is the annual Apple Festival, “a chance to visit Apple Heav-en while still on earth,” or-ganizers promise.
Growing more than 350 apple varieties organically, Salt Spring is the ideal lo-cation for this non-com-mercial, farm-related festi-val. Visit farms and orchards, taste about 100 varieties of apples at just one of the farms, sample pies baked with 15 apple varieties, experience apple history dating back to 1860 and more.
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Natalie NorthNews staff
They were a symbol of life over death, of victory and of Canadian sol-diers.
They were seven silver maple memorial trees planted on April 20, 1917 along Vining Street at Victoria High school to honour those who fought in the First World War.
Last March they were removed, sparking a debate over what trees should replace the maples.
Seamus Howley, director of facilities for the Greater Victoria School Dis-trict confirmed that seismic upgrad-ing and renovations at the school led to the removal of the dying trees. Their trunks were also in decay, as outlined in a Feb. 28 removal permit issued to the school district.
The district would like to see the trees replaced with a similar maple tree and, at this point, are consider-ing red maples.
“Within a relative short period of time,” Howley said, “the school and the community would have the same appearance that was there before.”
However, an expert consulted about replacing the trees actually advised against maples.
Ray Travers says oak trees are bet-ter suited for the urban site and will live about 300 years, twice as long as maples. A forester, Travers is also a member of the Pacific Coast Branch of the Western Front Association, which works to raise awareness of the First World War.
Last year, the Greater Victoria School District held an open consul-tation, advising the community that the trees needed to come down and asking for input. The trees will be planted in a commemorative cere-mony on Nov. 10, 2011. The cost of the new trees, excluding labour, is estimated at $5,000.
“From a symbolic point of view, (memorial) trees are seen as a vic-tory of life over death,” Travers said. “They are also places where families could come and grieve … a symbol of their soldier sons marching off along tree-lined streets in France and Flanders to the front where many of them didn’t come home.”
Maples or oaks?Latter better for Vic High memorial - expert
Have a fry, guyVicki Cameron shares french fries with her son, Shay Seward, 8, outside the Kiwanis Tea Room at Willows Beach, celebrating the end of the first day of school.Sharon Tiffin/ News staff
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If it’s a body of water, Taylor Han-ley can ride it.
From roadside ponds to Elk Lake, the flexibility of wakeskating means even a flooded culvert is ideal for the new sport.
Wakeskating is a cross between wakeboarding and skateboarding. The “skater” is pulled by a boat, Sea-Doo or even a 30-metre winch, and skims the surface of the water on a board that doesn’t have bindings.
Wakeskaters even wear ordinary sneakers.
“The better they drain, the better they’ll work,” said 19-year-old Han-ley. “Nike makes some mesh shoes but if there’s nothing else, Van’s classics will do.”
In August, Hanley flipped his way to a national champi-onship at the 2011 Canadian Wake Championship on the Thompson River in Kamloops. Most events involved wakeboarding as wakeskating has yet to “blow up,” Hanley said.
“Wakeskating has grown rapidly over
the last five years but its still under the wakeboarding (category),” said Kim McNight, executive director of Water Ski and Wakeboard B.C.
“Wakeboarding is still growing, but wakeskating is growing faster.”
McNight and the committee over-see towed watersports in B.C. and are based in Esquimalt on Admirals Road.
McNight figures about 15 per cent of wakeboarders are wakeskating.
“The B.C. contingent of riders is very well represented with national champions (like Hanley) coming from Shawnigan and Sproat lakes.”
In fact, the sport has actually been around since the late ’90s but is mostly big in Florida and the U.S., the home of pro wakesports.
The oppor-tunity to do more tricks on a wakeskate, like spinning the board underfoot while in mid-air, is what attracted Hanley to the sport four years ago.
“I wakeboarded a lot but there’s just so much more freedom on a wakeskate, I never went back.”
Still, despite being national champion and with a few sponsors already, the money isn’t enough to keep the Claremont grad afloat. Han-ley is apprenticing as an electrician and hopes to make it to Florida next year, where pro wakeboarders like Saanich’s Kevin Henshaw have a permanent residence.
Fortunately for Hanley, he won’t have to practise alone. Three years ago he convinced his girlfriend to take up the sport.
Hayley Zedel had no board rid-ing experience when Hanley insisted she try wakeskating.
“I couldn’t stand up,” said Zedel, who is going to the University of Vic-toria this fall after graduating from Stelly’s in June.
“Eventually we had to put me on
a wakeboard until I got the hang of the muscle memory out there. Then I switched back and it’s been wakeskating ever since.”
Zedel tied for second of the four girls who competed in wakeskating at the championships in Kamloops, and she won the provincials in Deep Cove earlier this summer.
The two will continue riding the warmer waters of the fall, but will need neoprene socks and gloves as they continue into the colder months. Most often they wakeskate behind a Sea-Doo on Elk Lake but they try to make as many trips to Sproat Lake as possible.
And now that Hanley has a winch, he can turn any old bog into a water park.
Wake upThe newest watersport of wakeskating works anywhere and is ready to “blow up”
Photo by Alex Webb
Wakeskater Taylor Hanley performs a flip on Elk Lake.
Submitted
Taylor Hanley and Hayley Zedel.
Diver named to Pan Am juniors
Thirteen-year-old Emily Schmidt is at the Pan American Junior Championships in Medellin, Colombia, wrapping up on Mon-day.
Schmidt, of Saan-ich, is the only diver from the Boardworks diving club at Saanich Commonwealth Place to join the 24-member junior diving team.
Schmidt will com-pete in all three dis-ciplines: the spring-board, 3 m and 10 m tower platform. She qualified for the games in July when she won all three diving events for her age group at the 2011 Speedo Junior National Cham-pionships in Quebec.
The Medellin facility is outdoors, offering the added challenge of heat, wind, rain and sun.
Rams surf into season
As school opens this week the Mount Douglas Rams football team is already ready to go. The club is fresh off a visit to Hawaii for a preseason camp and exhibition game.
The team enjoyed 30 C weather while training on two Islands, Oahu and Kauai, while managing to snorkel the famed Hanauma Bay, swim with giant sea turtles, tour Pearl Harbour and paddle board at Hana-lei Bay, coach Mark Townsend said.
The Rams played their only game in Kauai and won an offensive showdown, 34-31, against the Kapa’a Warriors.
Rams’ quarterback Jordan Deverill threw for 219 yards and three touchdowns, going 18 for 28 with zero interceptions.
Grade 10 receiver Marcus Davis caught six passes, two for touchdowns, and two interception. Travis Johnson also caught a touchdown pass for Mount Doug. Grade 12 Terrell Davis rushed for 139 yards on 16 carries, scoring two touchdowns.
Track cycling season wraps with provincial championshipsSam Van SchieNews staff
More than 60 cyclists, mainly from Vancouver and Victoria, raced in a variety of sprints and longer-distance pursuits in individual and team events last weekend.
Greater Victoria Velodrome Association presi-dent Chris Anstey is pleased to see the track put to good use after being closed due to an insur-ance risk for the two summers previous.
“Track racing is not just racing, it’s a social community,” he said, pointing to the range of ages (teens to seniors) and abilities (three catego-ries) converging on the track.
“A lot of riders gave up on track cycling and sold their bikes when the velodrome closed,” he said. “When we were let back on the track, they had to rush out and get new bikes.”
The GVVA signed up 130 members during its season, including a record 20 juniors. Its twice-
weekly “learn to ride track” courses were never empty. Mem-bers could get on the track three days a week, Mondays for time training, Wednes-days for group rides and Sunday for open track.
Anstey is confident the track will be open again next year. “This certainly isn’t our last hurrah,” he said of the championships. “My understanding is we’ll be able to use the track next year, but I’m not exactly sure on what terms.”
A consultants report commissioned by West Shore Parks and Recreation recommended the GVVA’s one-year lease on the velodrome be extended to five years. But in the longer term, about 10 years down the road, the report recom-mended redeveloping the 333-metre cycling track to make way for an artificial turf field.
Anstey would rather see the existing velodrome upgraded to a better quality cycling track.
“The velodrome is one of the safest places to ride,” he said. “You don’t have to be a serious racer to enjoy it. It’s a great aerobic activity for all ages.”
The B.C. Provincial Championship ran Sept. 2 to 4 at the Juan de Fuca velodrome. For more information on the velodrome society and for rac-ing results, see gvva.bc.ca.
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Rugby fans in their glory
The fall season of the Vancouver Island Rugby Union has started but the buzz among locals is Canada’s opening match against Tonga at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
On Wednesday (Sept. 14), Canada and Tonga meet at 10 p.m. (PST) in Whangarei on TSN.
Earlier this week a dozen mem-bers of the Canadian squad visited a youth school, the Bay of Islands College in Kawakawa, where stu-dents aged nine to 14 performed a local haka for the players before engaging in a game of touch rugby.
Hopefully the experience will help assimilate the Canadians into New Zealand’s rugby-steeped culture. During their round robin play the Maple Leafs will twice be greeted with a pre-game war dance, the Sipi Tau, when they face Tonga and the haka when they face New Zealand on Oct. 10.
Canada is currently coming off two weeks of training camp in Aus-tralia where they lost to a very strong Australia Barbarians team 38-14 in front of 5,000 fans. Canada then defeated the Queensland XV in a controlled scrimmage, 33-14.
James Bay’s DTH van der Merwe scored one of Canada’s two tries against the Barbarians, setting up former UVic Vike Phil Mackenzie for the other.
Locally, the Island’s first division starts Saturday (Sept. 10) with Port Alberni versus the UVic Jutes, 11:30 a.m., at Wallace Field, and Velox against the UVic Norsemen, 1 p.m. at Wallace Field.
Also on Saturday, James Bay hosts the Castaway-Wanderers first division club at 1 p.m. at MacDon-ald Park.
The Island men’s elite division opens on Sept. 17 with UVic at CW and James Bay at Velox.
In its first year the McNeill Bay Half Marathon could set the record for the fastest half-mara-thon time in Victoria. So believes co-organizer Phil Nicholls, who knows a thing or two about dis-tance running.
In 1986 Nicholls was the first Victoria-bred runner to win the GoodLife Fitness (Royal) Victo-ria Marathon. He did it again in 1989 and 1990.
The plan is to make the first the fastest, and in doing this Nicholls confirmed the partici-pation of Canada’s best distance runner, Dylan Wykes.
The race starts at Oak Bay
High on Sunday (Sept. 11) at 8 a.m., winds through the Uplands and along Beach Drive, eventu-ally finishing back at Oak Bay High.
Wykes wants to beat Jon Brown’s 2002 time of one hour, two minutes and 32 seconds at the Victoria half-marathon.
Nicholls is big on Wykes, the latter having achieved a two hour, 12 minute full marathon time last year.
“It’s a fast course,” Nicholls said.
“And (Wykes is) currently Can-ada’s fastest in the five kilometre (13:43), the 10 km (28:12) and has a half-marathon personal best of 1:02:14.”
If Wykes doesn’t do it, former Victoria resident and current Victoria marathon record-holder
Steven Osadiuk might.Osadiuk holds a 1:04 personal
best in the half-marathon and will provide a good push for Wykes, Nicholls said.
The Oak Bay race is the spiri-tual successor to the Lands End half-marathon, which would have been in its 18th year, but lost its home venue of Sandown Raceway.
Nicholls joined with the Oak Bay High track team, the Prairie Inn Harriers Running club and the Oak Bay municipality and police force to host the event.
Wykes is preparing for the Canadian marathon trials, part of the the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Oct. 16, in hopes of qualifying for the London Olympics in 2012.
The preseason continues for the Victoria Royals with a game against the Vancouver Giants in Ladner tonight (Sept. 9) and Maple Ridge tomorrow.
The Royals are carrying a 31-player roster but have started mostly regulars in anticipation of the Sept. 24 home opener versus the Giants.
Yet to win, the Royals dropped their first two preseason matches on the road, 4-2 to the Kamloops Blazers on Friday and 7-2 to the Kelowna Rockets on Saturday.
Forward Robin Soudek scored an unassisted, short-handed goal for Victoria against Kamloops. Parksville blueliner Kade Pilton continued his solid camp, scoring against Kamloops and getting an assist against Kelowna.
Pilton wowed the crowd during the Aug. 31 intrasquad game when he stole the puck at his own blue line and rushed through the opposing defenders, before depositing a shot under the cross bar over the right arm of goalie Adam Iwan.
Next home game: Sept. 16Rockets vs. Royals, 7:05 p.m.
Middie helps B.C. to national final Victoria junior Shamrocks transition player Jesse King
helped Team B.C. to within one goal of the U19 national field lacrosse championship.
B.C. lost 13-12 to Ontario in the gold medal final of the 2011 First Nations Trophy, held Sept. 2 to 4 in Burnaby.
At the U16 level, B.C. defeated Ontario 11-10 to win the U16 Alumni Cup national trophy.
King, a midfield from Claremont secondary, finished fourth in team scoring during the U19 tournament, with 18 goals and six assists in six games, and was named to the U19 all-star team.
Student named to Youth SevensGlenlyon Norfolk School’s rugby fly half Fergus Hall is the
lone south Island representative on Canada’s National U18 men’s rugby seven team competing in the Youth Common-wealth Games in the Isle of Man. The tournament runs tomor-row (Sept. 10) with a playoff round on Sunday.
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Rugby fans in their glory
The fall season of the Vancouver Island Rugby Union has started but the buzz among locals is Canada’s opening match against Tonga at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
On Wednesday (Sept. 14), Canada and Tonga meet at 10 p.m. (PST) in Whangarei on TSN.
Earlier this week a dozen mem-bers of the Canadian squad visited a youth school, the Bay of Islands College in Kawakawa, where stu-dents aged nine to 14 performed a local haka for the players before engaging in a game of touch rugby.
Hopefully the experience will help assimilate the Canadians into New Zealand’s rugby-steeped culture. During their round robin play the Maple Leafs will twice be greeted with a pre-game war dance, the Sipi Tau, when they face Tonga and the haka when they face New Zealand on Oct. 10.
Canada is currently coming off two weeks of training camp in Aus-tralia where they lost to a very strong Australia Barbarians team 38-14 in front of 5,000 fans. Canada then defeated the Queensland XV in a controlled scrimmage, 33-14.
James Bay’s DTH van der Merwe scored one of Canada’s two tries against the Barbarians, setting up former UVic Vike Phil Mackenzie for the other.
Locally, the Island’s first division starts Saturday (Sept. 10) with Port Alberni versus the UVic Jutes, 11:30 a.m., at Wallace Field, and Velox against the UVic Norsemen, 1 p.m. at Wallace Field.
Also on Saturday, James Bay hosts the Castaway-Wanderers first division club at 1 p.m. at MacDon-ald Park.
The Island men’s elite division opens on Sept. 17 with UVic at CW and James Bay at Velox.
In its first year the McNeill Bay Half Marathon could set the record for the fastest half-mara-thon time in Victoria. So believes co-organizer Phil Nicholls, who knows a thing or two about dis-tance running.
In 1986 Nicholls was the first Victoria-bred runner to win the GoodLife Fitness (Royal) Victo-ria Marathon. He did it again in 1989 and 1990.
The plan is to make the first the fastest, and in doing this Nicholls confirmed the partici-pation of Canada’s best distance runner, Dylan Wykes.
The race starts at Oak Bay
High on Sunday (Sept. 11) at 8 a.m., winds through the Uplands and along Beach Drive, eventu-ally finishing back at Oak Bay High.
Wykes wants to beat Jon Brown’s 2002 time of one hour, two minutes and 32 seconds at the Victoria half-marathon.
Nicholls is big on Wykes, the latter having achieved a two hour, 12 minute full marathon time last year.
“It’s a fast course,” Nicholls said.
“And (Wykes is) currently Can-ada’s fastest in the five kilometre (13:43), the 10 km (28:12) and has a half-marathon personal best of 1:02:14.”
If Wykes doesn’t do it, former Victoria resident and current Victoria marathon record-holder
Steven Osadiuk might.Osadiuk holds a 1:04 personal
best in the half-marathon and will provide a good push for Wykes, Nicholls said.
The Oak Bay race is the spiri-tual successor to the Lands End half-marathon, which would have been in its 18th year, but lost its home venue of Sandown Raceway.
Nicholls joined with the Oak Bay High track team, the Prairie Inn Harriers Running club and the Oak Bay municipality and police force to host the event.
Wykes is preparing for the Canadian marathon trials, part of the the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Oct. 16, in hopes of qualifying for the London Olympics in 2012.
The preseason continues for the Victoria Royals with a game against the Vancouver Giants in Ladner tonight (Sept. 9) and Maple Ridge tomorrow.
The Royals are carrying a 31-player roster but have started mostly regulars in anticipation of the Sept. 24 home opener versus the Giants.
Yet to win, the Royals dropped their first two preseason matches on the road, 4-2 to the Kamloops Blazers on Friday and 7-2 to the Kelowna Rockets on Saturday.
Forward Robin Soudek scored an unassisted, short-handed goal for Victoria against Kamloops. Parksville blueliner Kade Pilton continued his solid camp, scoring against Kamloops and getting an assist against Kelowna.
Pilton wowed the crowd during the Aug. 31 intrasquad game when he stole the puck at his own blue line and rushed through the opposing defenders, before depositing a shot under the cross bar over the right arm of goalie Adam Iwan.
Next home game: Sept. 16Rockets vs. Royals, 7:05 p.m.
Middie helps B.C. to national final Victoria junior Shamrocks transition player Jesse King
helped Team B.C. to within one goal of the U19 national field lacrosse championship.
B.C. lost 13-12 to Ontario in the gold medal final of the 2011 First Nations Trophy, held Sept. 2 to 4 in Burnaby.
At the U16 level, B.C. defeated Ontario 11-10 to win the U16 Alumni Cup national trophy.
King, a midfield from Claremont secondary, finished fourth in team scoring during the U19 tournament, with 18 goals and six assists in six games, and was named to the U19 all-star team.
Student named to Youth SevensGlenlyon Norfolk School’s rugby fly half Fergus Hall is the
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DOWNTOWN SIDNEY 1-bdrm north facing condo in The Landmark w/ underground parking, close to sea with views, NP, $1000 mo, call 250-652-7707.
FERNWOOD AREA Apt, large 2 bdrm, $960/mo. Avail now. Call 250-370-2226 for viewing.
SIDNEY CONDO- 2 bdrm, NS/NP. $1375 + hydro, close to all amens. 250-656-4003.
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MALAHAT 1 & 2 Bdrms- Panoramic views. Serene & secure. All amenities on-site, fi rewood. $700-$1200 inclu-sive. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min commute to downtown Victoria. Must have references. 250-478-9231.
SENIORS ONLY - Cubbon Apart-ments We currently have 1 bed-rooms starting at $775.00 per month, a one bedroom at $1000. Cubbon is pet friendly - cats and small dogs, is close to downtown Victoria, buses and parks. 1035 North Park Please call 250-383-1162 to view - email - [email protected] Wetherby Apartments for Seniors - 55+ only please. We cur-rently have 2 bedrooms available starting at $1,075.00 - includes hot water. 3205/3215 Wetherby Road. Please call 250-598-1650 - email - [email protected] Sorry - no pets allowed.
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DEEP COVE: cozy 1bdrm, wood fl oors, acreage skylights $950 cat ok ns. 250-858-6511
$$$ BOATS Wanted. Any size. Cash buyer. Also trailersand outboards. 250-544-2628.
For sale BEST OFFER by Sept 17th. 16ft SundownerSki boat, Brentwood SeasideMarina (seahorses cafe). Sub-mit to: [email protected] SalesGarage Sales
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ABSOLUTELY THE BEST! New, reno’s, historical, decks, driveways, etc. WCB/Member of BBB. John, 250-658-2656.
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EXPERIENCED JOURNEY-MAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured. Reliable, friendly. Great references. Call Mike at KNA (250)880-0104.
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With every push of the pedals, Nanaimo RCMP Const. Sandi
Holman knows she is getting closer to her goal of helping kids with cancer.
Prior to joining the 2011 edition of the Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock, Holman wasn’t much of a cyclist.
“I could barely take one hand off the handlebar to wave at somebody without going into the ditch,” she said.
Now Holman, 30, has no problem riding wheel-to-wheel at fast speeds with the other 21 members of the team, which is made up of members of police, military and media.
“I’m feeling good. Definitely in better shape,” she said. “Training rides are really good and we’re still out there three times a week. At first I was a little apprehensive to be riding so close to everybody, but it comes naturally now. We’re riding inches away from each other and it’s a lot of fun. We probably looked like a bunch of fools when we first started, but now we’re a pretty sleek-looking team.”
The team has come together to raise money for Camp Goodtimes, a place where sick children go to forget about the worries and health issues they are forced to deal with every day.
Holman and other members of Tour de Rock visited Camp Goodtimes in July as part of their tour duties, an experience Holman said motivated her further to keep focused on completing her mission.
“After going to Camp Goodtimes … and putting
faces to what we’re actually doing, seeing these kids and the facilities and talking to the (camp director), and seeing where all the money we’re raising is going to, it made it a lot more real. It was something tangible that we could see and meeting the kids was a huge
motivator.”Holman said visiting Camp
Goodtimes was an upbeat and positive experience, as the team was there to “pump them up and get them excited.”
“They were running around and screaming and having a great time and at the end of the day, that’s what you want to see,” she said.
Though the riders continue to work hard training three times a week – the team trains for hills, speed and endurance to be able to tackle everything Island roads can throw at them – fundraising is becoming critical with just weeks to go before the official start of the journey.
“The fundraising is going well, but it can be exhausting with so many events to attend. It makes the riding look like the easy part,” she said. “I’m just really looking forward to starting the Tour, visiting all of the communities and the people, and holding those big cheques in our hands. I want to get there and start the ride.”
Tour de Rock starts on Sept. 24, when it begins the 1,000-kilometre journey in Port Alice before swinging north to visit Port Hardy on Sept. 25. The riders will visit communities along the east coast of northern Vancouver Island before cutting across and visiting Tofino and Ucluelet on Oct. 1. They arrive in Nanaimo Oct. 2 and finish in Victoria on Oct. 7.
Last year the effort raised $1.4 million.
Visit www.tourderock.ca to find an event to attend to donate to Holman’s or the team’s efforts, or simply donate online.
The Tour de Rock began in 1998, started by Const. Martin Pepper of Saanich police. Since then, the Tour has raised more than $13 million to help support children with cancer.
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Black Press newspapers on Vancouver Island will publish this special feature page spotlighting police officers taking part in this year’s Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock.
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Nanaimo RCMP officer Sandi Holman will ride the length of Vancouver Island this month in the Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock to raise money for pediatric cancer research.
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