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Holiday spiritEsquimalt welcomes yuletide with light up
Page A6
NEWS: Monarchists blast Mayor Helps /A3ARTS: Young violinist of cusp of greatness /A7SPORTS: Cougars win streak extended /A12
A local school is now the home of a new educational and functional rainwater system.
“It’s essentially a garden that has a lot of water storage capacity within it,” said Cath-erine Orr, Uni-versity of Vic-toria environ-mental studies graduate stu-dent and leader of the rain-water system project. “What we’re trying to do here is mimic natural
systems within how we manage rainwater currently.”
The rainwater system is located at Oak and Orca Biore-gional School in Victoria, and runs almost the entire length of the school site. The rainwater is collected from the school’s roof into the 960-litre cistern and flows through an educational play feature and into a bioswale,
a linear trench with specialized soil and plants, then drains into a native plant rain garden. The majority of the water drains into the rain garden, with very little passing through the stormwater system. During a heavy rainfall, the system will slow the runoff down and improve the water quality before entering the storm drain.
“What we don’t realize a lot of the time here in the city . . . is that outlet points are receiving water that is polluted,” said Orr.
Being located at a school, Orr said this rain garden will serve mainly an educational purpose, but will still be functional.
“The kids will be maintaining the rain garden as well as the rest of the system,” said Orr. “So they’ll do things like weeding, and . . . sediment does build up in these over time, so maybe twice a year they’ll have to get the sediment out of the rain gar-den.”
PlEASE SEE: City agencies, Page A4
Andrea Peacock/Victoria News
Brooklyn Hall, 9, dumping a bucket of water into the new rainwater system at Oak and Orca Bioregional School.
GARDENING RAINtheOak and Orca Bioregional School students in Victoria learn the value of water with a unique rainwater system
Andrea PeacockReporting
Tis’ the season of giving, and last Thursday at the Jingle Mingle gala, the giv-ing was big.
The glitzy gala held at the Fairmont Empress Hotel raised a record-breaking $905,000 to support immune therapy research at the B.C. Cancer Agency Vancouver Island Centre.
The Jingle Mingle has received a lot of support in the past. Last year, it raised $602,000 and in the last seven years it has raised $2.6 million for can-cer research on Vancouver Island.
Funds raised Thursday will support the infrastruc-ture for a “clean room,” which is a highly-special-ized, sterile environment for the production of T-cells.
T-cells are a type of white blood cell that is a key com-ponent to the immune sys-tem and is a critical part of the immune therapy clinical trial happening at the Dee-ley Research Centre in Vic-toria.
The Deeley Research Cen-tre studies the response of the immune system before, during and after standard cancer treatments.
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New Victoria mayor declines to pledge allegiance to Queen
Andrea PeacockVictoria News
Members of the Monarchist League of Canada are speaking out against Mayor Lisa Helps and her decision to not pledge allegiance to the Queen on inauguration day.
“The Crown is the symbol in our coun-try of law and order, of our constitution, of our rights and freedoms, and I think it’s expected that our mayor would pledge allegiance to that system,” said Bruce Hallsor, co-chair of the Victoria branch of the Monarchist League of Canada.
Hallsor said if Helps had an issue with pledging an allegiance to the Queen, she should have brought it up as a discussion beforehand.
“We just had an election. It could have been raised as an issue, and people could have had an informed vote,” said Hall-sor. “If people are going to disrespect our traditions and our heritage, they should have been upfront about it during the election.”
Although he lives in Saanich, Hallsor said he knows many Monarchist League members live in Victoria and voted for Helps. He said if they had known what was going to happen on inauguration day, it would have “absolutely affected their votes.”
“Nobody has a problem with a debate and with people having different opin-ions, but for somebody as their first act right after an election disrespect our con-stitutional form of government without any articulated reason that makes sense, having not told voters that this is what they were going to do, is disappointing.”
When elected as a councillor in 2011, Helps pledged allegiance to the Queen. She said back then she hadn’t given it much thought.
“To be honest, as councillors, we were just given these things and [told] ‘do this’ basically,” said Helps.
It wasn’t until the end of the day last Wednesday, the day before the inaugura-tion meeting, that Helps brought up the idea to the councillors of leaving out the oath of allegiance.
However, councillors Chris Coleman,
Margaret Lucas, Pamela Madoff, Char-layne Thornton-Joe and Geoff Young said they wanted to take the pledge.
Despite the negative feedback, Helps said it was not her intention to offend or protest the monarchy.
“It’s not about being anti-monarchist or republican . . . but it’s just I think as a local elected official, we’re required to affirm an oath of office to serve our community, and I think that’s what the ceremony should be about,” said Helps. “Other councillors made other decisions and I welcome that.”
Coun. Ben Isitt was the only councillor to also not pledge allegiance to the Queen when he was elected in 2011.
“I believe in democracy, and I can’t rec-oncile being accountable to the people who elected me and having these other loyalties to a hereditary bloodline,” said Isitt. “What if there was a disconnect
between what the public told us and what the Queen or her representatives told us? Where would we fall? For me, since I’ve only taken one oath, it’s an easy decision. My oath is to the people.”
There’s no requirement for B.C.’s municipal councillors to swear al-legiance to the Queen, and several Capital Region municipalities don’t at all, including Saanich, Esquimalt and Oak Bay.
For those who believe the monarchy is archaic in today’s society, Hallsor said they are not understanding Canada.
“It’s a fundamental part of who we are,” said Hallsor. “We don’t have to pledge allegiance to the head of a political party that we might not agree with, we can pledge allegiance to somebody that’s truly neutral and has been with us for generations.”
Lisa Help is now officially the mayor of Victoria. She was sworn-in to office on Thursday before a packed house at Victoria City Hall. Her first day in office was marred with controversy when she declined to pledge allegiance to the Queen in her oath of office.
Victoria mayor takes new tack with committeesAndrea Peacock Victoria News
Rather than appointing councillors to com-mittees, Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said she plans to have more of a discussion with council.
“Rather than being dictatorial and appointing people, I’ve organized it so council can have a conversation about who wants to do what,” said Helps.
“People will express their interest … and that way we can learn a little more about each oth-er’s gifts and passions and go from there.”
The appointments will take place at tomor-row’s governance and priorities committee meeting.
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Smiler Overton, a teacher at Oak and Orca, said the rainwater sys-tem will be a good opportunity to incorporate hands-on learning with classroom lessons.
“It gets kids thinking about how we’re in an ecosystem, we’re not masters of it,” said Overton.
The entire system at Oak and Orca cost about $20,000, not includ-ing all of the time Orr spent on the project as a graduate student.
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B.C. Ferries plans to move ahead with a website upgrade that will allow passengers to pay for tickets online, avoid reserva-tion fees and pay variable fares depending on demand.
The computer upgrade is to be phased in starting in 2017, with a pilot project for passengers on the main Vancouver-Vancouver Island runs. The system will offer discounted fares for off-peak sail-ings and advance booking with-out the current reservation fees.
B.C. Ferries CEO Mike Corri-gan said the project will cost $10 million to $15 million, but based on the experience of other sys-tems, it will increase ridership and reduce costs.
“It’s a variable priced book-ing system that’s used by golf
courses, hotels, airlines,” Corri-gan said. “It’s the way the world is moving. Depending how far in advance you book, what restric-tions you’re willing to put on yourself, and when you want to play, stay or travel, you’re going to get a different price.”
The price range will be deter-mined by the pilot projects. Passengers will still have the option of showing up at the terminal and paying to board, with a posted price that will be adjusted according to demand for that sailing.
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“People can actually pay for the full ferry service, includ-ing the buffet maybe, and some other services when they pay, so when they get to the ferry termi-nal, they’re basically just verify-ing their purchase and moving onboard the vessel,” Corrigan said.
BC Ferries has upgraded its fleet, but its point-of-sall system is 25 years old and requires manual fare collection.
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The Capital Regional District (CRD) invites applications/nominations from residents interested in sitting on the Water Advisory Committee to provide advice on water supply, water quality, the stewardship of the lands held by the CRD for water supply purposes and water conservation measures. There are vacancies for members representing groups concerned with the protection of fish habitats; the scientific community; resident/ratepayer’s associations, and other agencies and organizations.Meetings are held at 9 am on the first Wednesday of each month at CRD Integrated Water Services office, 479 Island Highway, Victoria, BC. Appointments will be for a two (2) year term commencing January 2015.Send us a one-page summary telling about yourself, which interest group you represent, your area of expertise, and why you would like to serve on the committee.Deadline for receipt of applications is December 12, 2014. For a copy of the Terms of Reference contact CRD Integrated Water Services.Mail, fax or email your application to:CRD Integrated Water Services Phone: 250.474.9606479 Island Highway Fax: 250.474.4012Victoria, BC V9B 1H7 Email: [email protected]
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Christmas arrives in EsquimaltTownship welcomes yuletide with annual light up event
Five-year-old Mya Belfry tells Santa her Christmas wishes when he visited the Esquimalt Celebration of Lights on Sunday night.
Esquimalt Lions Club member Willy Federation warms up the hot dogs. The Lions gave away hot dogs, coffee and hot chocolate following the parade.
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Vehicles of all shapes and sizes made their way down Esquimalt Road for the annual Celebration of Lights Sunday night. The 30-minutes parade included more than 30 floats, vehicles, marchers and clowns.
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Christmas arrives in EsquimaltTownship welcomes yuletide with annual light up event
Five-year-old Mya Belfry tells Santa her Christmas wishes when he visited the Esquimalt Celebration of Lights on Sunday night.
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At 15 years old, Victo-ria resident Ryan How-land is well on his way to becoming a profes-sional world-renowned violinist.
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“She would have to look after [my brother and I] at the same time. So instead of just doing nothing, we decided to do violin lessons,” said Howland.
Although he takes lessons at the conser-vatory once a week, Howland also practices four or five hours a day on his own.
“All along the way, we’ve really focused on being goal-oriented and striving to get to the next level,” said van
der Sloot. “Because of [Ryan]’s work ethic, he was able to progress through these goals.”
This past summer, Howland won first place in the Victoria Performing Arts Festi-val, as well as first at the provincial competi-tion in Penticton.
For the past year, Howland has been going back and forth to Interlaken, Switzerland to take masterclasses with Zakhar Bron, a premier violin teacher in Europe.
Howland’s current goal is to do well in international competi-tions.
He has been accepted to compete at the International Boris Goldstein Violin Com-petition in January in Bern, Switzerland.
“The [competitions] I’m doing now, the level is so high [and] I’ve just started getting to that level.”
To pay for all of his trips overseas, How-land has to busk on the streets downtown. For a two-week trip to Switzerland, Howland busked for two months almost every day. He does it for the money,
but also for the fun and experience, he said.
“I like to perform for other people and of course violin is a great way to do that and express yourself to oth-ers.”
Van der Sloot said funding is often a cause for concern in these sit-uations.
“It’s a major issue, because the families see this major talent in these kids and want to give them every oppor-tunity, but it’s tough,” he said. “It’s a lot of money.”
In November 2013, the Chi Mei Museum in Taiwan loaned How-land a French violin from 1848. The violin is worth 60,000 euros ($84,276.30). Last month, Howland was approved to exchange his violin for an even higher quality one from the Chi Mei Museum. He recently went back to Tawain to choose one and take it home.
Howland is in Grade 10 at Oak Bay High School, but in March he auditioned for the International Piano Academy in Imola, Itlay and was accepted. His classes there with
Bron’s assistant Mauri-cio Sciaretta started in October.
“It’s an intensive course where I go for two weeks every time and I have 10 lessons every time, for a total of 40 lessons in one year.”
Despite being so advanced, Howland said he still gets ner-vous every time he goes on stage.
“After a few minutes of playing it begins to feel better,” he said.
Once he graduates high school, Howland plans to study violin in either Switzerland at the Zurich University of the Arts, or in Germany at the Kronberg Acad-emy.
Howland said he feels he still has so much to learn.
“A few years ago I
would think what my success would feel like and I would think that I would be so happy when I would achieve some of those goals, but once I have, I feel like I’m still not quite there yet. I still have a long way to go. Every time, my standards increase.”
Howland will have a fundraising concert for the upcoming interna-tional competition on Jan. 11 at James Bay United Church at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets, $15 each, are available at Long & McQuade (756 Hillside Ave.), Ivy’s Book Shop (2188 Oak Bay Ave. and via Michelle How-land at 778-432-3777 or [email protected].
Young violinist, 15,has promising futureRyan Howland has been accepted to compete at the International Boris Goldstein Violin Competition in Switzerland
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Victoria’s Ryan Howland, 15, is on his way to becoming a well-known solo violinist, having studied with some of the best in the world.
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Ebola isn’t likely to be the world-ending pandemic doomsayers have been predicting since at least the 1960s – or longer, if you happen to be a fan of Nostradamus.
But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the potential to be, nor should governments be chided for taking measures to limit the spread of the disease.
We don’t want to add to the fear-mongering surrounding Ebola, but neither should its deadliness be set aside, or its potential to spread through the population if measures aren’t taken.
People now look back on the Y2K crisis, calling it a fizzle, or worse, a hoax.
“There wasn’t a computer meltdown, nothing happened,” is a common complaint.
Truth is, a lot happened. A lot of hard work was done leading up to the year 2000 to update software and fix mission-critical hardware, so yes, the planes didn’t fall out of the sky on Jan. 1, 2000.
Ebola needs to be dealt with the same way. Taking measures now like quarantines and limiting travel prevents a bigger problem later. Considering its long incubation period and the short time it takes to kill its host, Ebola is unlikely to get a foothold — but the danger of a pandemic can’t be set aside.
SARS, hantavirus, Rift Valley fever, even the ancient black plague have all presented the possibility of a pandemic at one time or another. But we don’t need to look to exotic diseases.
Even influenza, the flu that we deal with on a yearly basis has proven potential to spread out of control – the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic killed up to 100 million people around the world.
Surely, we can live with a few deer
With response to the on-going conversation around deer in urban settings I’d like to note that in countries where there are millions of people, such as India, dogs, cats, ducks, birds, horses, donkeys, monkeys, camels, elephants, water buffalo, cows, pigs and cars, motorbikes, buses and pedestrians all manage to share not only the city, but the road together and we can’t live with a few deer!
Frances LitmanEsquimalt
More funding needed for police
Your Nov. 21 article on Shellie Gudgeon’s reasons for not seeking re-election is interesting.
One example is the push for lower speed limits, which is useless without enforcement that re-educates drivers. (And bicyclists and pedestrians who cause their own problems by their own dangerous behaviour.)
Politicians shouldn’t be
surprised at lack of response to their pet do-gooder projects.
Lack of policing in general has been a major cause of loss of business downtown, thus lower tax revenue. Crime hurts poor and mentally challenged people most of all, as they have fewer resources to help them recover from loss of property such as mobility aids and loss of income from injury by assault.
I challenge Lisa Helps to do better than her predecessorsin funding and managing police.
Keith SketchleySaanich
When Christy Claws comes to visit
The fall session of the B.C. Parliament closed in late November, with NDP Leader John Horgan condemning Premier Christy Clark’s abysmal attendance record of being present for only eight of 24 sittings.
There’s always been something misty and twisty about Christy’s take on politics,
and her response was in keeping with this; immediately firing back that she was attacked because of her gender, and that she was busy elsewhere.
We all remember in 2012 she said she tried to avoid being in Victoria as much as possible, because of “the sick culture and lack of real people there.”
However, she made sure to attend the final day of the legislative session, coinciding with lighting up the B.C. Legislature’s Christmas decorations; there is no way that she would miss such a photo-op, of course.
Last year the B.C. Liberals returned to power mainly on the strength of Premier Clark’s endless campaign promises about a rosy future that lay ahead, with the exportation of liquified natural gas. All those promises of the Prosperity Fund that would result, and B.C. becoming debt-free meant everyone would benefit.
Now foreign investors’ plans to build pipelines, plants and shipping terminals are rapidly evaporating, and smelling like so
much bad gas. Just maybe the premier has
been spending her absentee days in Northern B.C. at a franchise of Santa’s Workshop putting B.C. Liberal Party elves to work on loading up a huge LNG-powered sleigh. Imagine the political brownie points for a Christmas Eve trip by Christy Claus to dole out gifts to B.C.’s many underprivileged children.
Despite an election theme of “Families First,” B.C. has the highest child poverty rate in Canada, yet her government persists in the claw back of child support from a single parent on temporary or disability assistance, equal to payments received from their child’s absent parent.
This mean-spirited policy ensures that the child remains in poverty; come to think of it, when that LNG-powered sleigh makes its way through the starry Christmas Eve night, maybe that red-suited lady at the controls should really be addressed as Christy Claws.
Bernie SmithParksville
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A year-end interview with Premier Christy Clark. For an extended version see the opinion section at vicnews.com.
TF: Are you still confident that we’re going to see a major LNG project approved by the end of 2014?
PCC: We’re still in negotiations with Petronas and Shell, so I don’t know if it will be by the end of 2014, but I’m hoping in the next few months.
[Days after this interview, Petronas announced a delay in their investment decision until 2015.]
TF: I talked to a couple of SFU climate mitigation specialists, and they agreed that it’s unlikely to the point of impossible to have a major LNG industry and still meet Gordon Campbell’s ambitious greenhouse gas target of a 33 per cent reduction by 2020. What do you think?
PCC: I think that we may prove them wrong. Many of these facilities, not all of them, will be partly or fully electrically powered up, so that reduces those impacts, and there’s going to be a real incentive to invest in new technology to minimize that as well.
I think the bigger picture is what really matters, which is that in shipping 82 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas
to Asia, we help them get off coal and other dirtier sources of oil, and that is the biggest contribution that we’ve ever made to reducing climate change.
TF: Ontario and Quebec have taken a page from your book. They have seven conditions for an oil pipeline, Energy East, which involves conversion of gas pipelines and taking Alberta oil to the East Coast. What do you think?
PCC: I think they took our five conditions and elaborated on them. So you’ve got British Columbia, Alberta,
now Ontario and Quebec, all signed on to some version of the five conditions. And of course Enbridge and Kinder Morgan as well.
TF: What about the conditions they have added?
PCC: One of the things they say they want to protect against is a shortage of natural gas coming to Ontario and Quebec. These are the same two provinces that have put a moratorium on extracting natural gas. They want to make sure that we do it here, good enough for us to do, and send it to them, but they won’t do that themselves. I look at their last two conditions, and I roll my eyes a little bit.
TF: All the way to New Brunswick, they’ve basically bought the anti-hydraulic fracturing myth?
PCC: Yes. Somehow they all watched an American mockumentary or whatever you call it, and believed it. Here in British Columbia we do fracking better than anywhere in the world. It is the gold standard.
TF: Finance Minister Mike de Jong says we have a surplus estimated at more than $400 million for this fiscal year, and he suggested that much of that would have to go to pay off deficits from previous years. Of course the opposition is interested in welfare rates and in particular ending child support clawbacks. What’s your view?
PCC: Like any family that’s been through tough times, the first thing you need to do when you get back to finding a job and making an income again, is to pay off your credit cards. And that’s what we’re going to do.
We are going to see if we can find ways to improve some of the programs over time, but can’t do that until we can afford it. It’s typical, the NDP want us to spend the money before we have it.
•••Tom Fletcher is legislature
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The Victoria Cougars extended their winning streak to six games fol-lowing a 6-3 victory over the Peninsula Pan-thers Sunday afternoon in Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League action.
Brett Lervold scored two of his three goals in the first period.
The Cougars (24-3-1-0) showed why they possess the top-ranked penalty kill in the VIJHL. Peninsula had a two-man advan-tage for one minute and six seconds, which carried over from the first period to the sec-ond. In addition, the Panthers received a five-minute man advan-
tage early in the third period. They, however, were unable to capi-talize on either one of those power plays.
Down 4-0 after 20 minutes, Peninsula ral-lied with the only two goals of the second period to cut the defi-cit in half.
Ryan Carson opened the scoring as he took a John Kretzschmar pass and one-timed it past Alex Olson at 6:43.
And with Sean Buchanan in the pen-alty box for Peninsula, Lervold scored at 11:21 to give the Cougars a 2-0 lead. Assisting on the goal were Ryan Buse and Sam McMul-len who extended
his point streak to 16 games.
Lervold scored his second of the after-noon when his shot beat Alex Olson over the shoulder at 13:25.
Then at 15:43, Michael Fretz gave Vic-toria a 4-0 lead after tip-ping home an Aiden Sil-zer-Hooker point shot.
Peninsula (7-23-0-1) finally scored its first goal of the game midway through the middle frame as Sean Buchanan head-manned the puck to Nathan Looysen who made a nice deke on Anthony Ciurro before potting his first of two goals on the afternoon.
A kneeing penalty to Hunter Frampton would put Victoria on its fifth power play.
While playing short-handed, Panthers’ Nathan Looysen received a penalty shot which was stopped by Ciurro. Celebra-tions were short-lived when the Panthers cut the lead in half on a shorthanded goal from Braeden Pearce at 16:57.
McMullen and Looy-sen would exchange goals at 11:36 and 13:17 respectively.
With time running out, Panthers head coach Rob Mortin pulled his goalie with 3:17 left in regulation. And with 6.2 seconds remaining, Lervold would score into an empty net for his first hat-trick since Feb. 5, 2014.
Victoria Cougars’ Garnett Roberts crashes in to Peninsula Panthers’ goalie Alex Olson after a hit from Panthers’ Grayden Hohl during second period action Sunday at Archie Browning Recreation Centre on Sunday. Cougars won 6-3.
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The Victoria Cougars extended their winning streak to six games fol-lowing a 6-3 victory over the Peninsula Pan-thers Sunday afternoon in Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League action.
Brett Lervold scored two of his three goals in the first period.
The Cougars (24-3-1-0) showed why they possess the top-ranked penalty kill in the VIJHL. Peninsula had a two-man advan-tage for one minute and six seconds, which carried over from the first period to the sec-ond. In addition, the Panthers received a five-minute man advan-
tage early in the third period. They, however, were unable to capi-talize on either one of those power plays.
Down 4-0 after 20 minutes, Peninsula ral-lied with the only two goals of the second period to cut the defi-cit in half.
Ryan Carson opened the scoring as he took a John Kretzschmar pass and one-timed it past Alex Olson at 6:43.
And with Sean Buchanan in the pen-alty box for Peninsula, Lervold scored at 11:21 to give the Cougars a 2-0 lead. Assisting on the goal were Ryan Buse and Sam McMul-len who extended
his point streak to 16 games.
Lervold scored his second of the after-noon when his shot beat Alex Olson over the shoulder at 13:25.
Then at 15:43, Michael Fretz gave Vic-toria a 4-0 lead after tip-ping home an Aiden Sil-zer-Hooker point shot.
Peninsula (7-23-0-1) finally scored its first goal of the game midway through the middle frame as Sean Buchanan head-manned the puck to Nathan Looysen who made a nice deke on Anthony Ciurro before potting his first of two goals on the afternoon.
A kneeing penalty to Hunter Frampton would put Victoria on its fifth power play.
While playing short-handed, Panthers’ Nathan Looysen received a penalty shot which was stopped by Ciurro. Celebra-tions were short-lived when the Panthers cut the lead in half on a shorthanded goal from Braeden Pearce at 16:57.
McMullen and Looy-sen would exchange goals at 11:36 and 13:17 respectively.
With time running out, Panthers head coach Rob Mortin pulled his goalie with 3:17 left in regulation. And with 6.2 seconds remaining, Lervold would score into an empty net for his first hat-trick since Feb. 5, 2014.
Victoria Cougars’ Garnett Roberts crashes in to Peninsula Panthers’ goalie Alex Olson after a hit from Panthers’ Grayden Hohl during second period action Sunday at Archie Browning Recreation Centre on Sunday. Cougars won 6-3.
Don Denton/Victoria News
Cougars win streak extended to six games
Don DentonVictoria News
Victoria High School teacher Jean Campbell arrived at the school five years ago to teach physi-cal education and coach the girls volleyball team. That year the team finished dead last in its divi-sion.
This year the team finished in first place.The progress of the volleyball team is just one
small indicator of the steps the school has taken to promote sports at all levels.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s Vic High had been a sports powerhouse but over time that reputation faded. This was compounded when the catchment rule, forcing kids to attend the school in their area, was lifted allowing students to choose their own school.
The result was Vic High lost many athletes to schools with a reputation for their current sport teams.
Campbell, who says “we do a lot to promote Vic High’s athletics,” listed some of the ways the school is highlighting its sports activities.
The school schedules some league play during school hours and allows all students out of class to watch the games.
They hold Spirit Days where the teams will play against teachers during the noon hour.
The Parents Advisory Council has provided new uniforms and funded travel to out of town tourna-ments. This is important as “it helps our teams get
better by playing stronger opponents” and “kids like to travel so the trips are a good way to bring them in.”
Physical education classes are an important part of the curriculum and include components such as ice skating at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.
There is a strong intramural program that oper-ates during the lunch hour and indoor soccer games after school on Fridays.
Team members coach at Central Middle School, an outreach that passes along skills and highlights the school sports programs to kids who live right between Vic High and Oak Bay High School.
On Jan. 7, as part of the school’s open house for Grade 8 students and their parents who want to check out the school, Campbell will have her volleyball team playing and available to answer questions about the school’s athletic programs and activities.
Campbell does point out that school athletics are not just about competition.
“Athletics allows kids to be part of a community and that community supports them even when other things aren’t great.”
Right now is high school basketball season and both the boys and girls teams play tomorrow night ( Dec. 11) starting at 5:30 p.m. The boys play again on Dec. 18 at 7:15 p.m., the last game before the Christmas break.
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Want to volunteer? Opportunities are available through these positions at Volunteer Victoria. Please call 250-386-2269 or online at volunteervictoria.bc.ca.
Special Olympics is looking for a five-pin bowling head coach to prepare lesson plans and direct athletes and assistant coaches. Practices take place Tuesday evenings at Miracle Lanes in Sidney.
Canadian Red Cross, is looking for an extreme weather volunteer for the disaster management program. Ideal candidates are flexible, have excellent communication skills, and an ability to make decisions under stress.
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Hope Through Achievement Foundation is looking for someone with grant writing experience, who is able to come into the office for a few hours a week to filter potential grant providers from a secured database.
Glenwarren Lodge is looking for a volunteer for about one hour every week. The volunteer would take the truck cart from room to room and sell items from it to residents of the long-term care facility.
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Erin Coverdale’s con-tributions with United Way started small. She was 18 when she started with HP Advanced Solu-tions, fresh out of high school, and she signed up to donate every two weeks through the United Way salary deduction program.
Five years later, the 23-year-old has grown to become a leadership donor and volunteer at United Way of Greater Victoria, as well as the chair for HP Advance Solution’s 10-person United Way employee campaign committee and is a volunteer on the UnitedNOW Coun-cil.
But it wasn’t until Coverdale worked for United Way as a loaned representative for four months in 2013 that she saw the extent of United Way’s reach in Greater Victoria.
“Until then I hadn’t realized how many types of social issues are in our community, and the number of struggles people are dealing with here in Vic-toria,” Coverdale said.
“It makes you grate-ful and it motivates me to help more. It’s also
comforting to see the support that is there for people, especially when you learn the many tragedies people are dealing with, things you wouldn’t have seen.”
Coverdale works in communications with HP Advanced Solu-tions, the company that covered her salary while she worked for United Way last year. The four-month experi-ence as a loaned rep-resentative was a busy one, she said.
“A lot of people have heard of United Way but don’t understand how it works. One of the things I did was to help dispel any misun-derstandings and lack of knowledge, and to touch base with where donations are going and how they impact the community.”
It meant organizing a lot of people and stay-ing on top of changing situations, particularly event details.
“It can be stressful, but it’s very rewarding and it’s helped me in my role (at HP), espe-cially the presenta-tions. You really learn to get messages out and to motivate.”
The United Way loaned representative
program is a 16-week program during which the candidate works on some of the 400 United Way workplace campaigns across the region. By participat-ing, companies benefit
from public recognition as a committed donor and community sup-porter. The employee works under the super-vision of a professional United Way fundraiser to develop skills includ-
ing sales, customer ser-vice, teamwork, inter-personal, public speak-ing and leadership.
For more informa-tion, please go online to visit uwgv.ca.
Erin Coverdale, an employee with HP Advanced Solutions, is a loaned representative with the United Way of Greater Victoria. “I hadn’t realized how many types of social issues are in our community, and the number of struggles people are dealing with here in Victoria,” says Cloverdale on her work with the United Way.
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Daniel Lapp’s Home for Christmas concerts. Alix Goolden Performance Hall, 907 Pandora Ave., 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets available in person at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, online at vcm.bc.ca/homeforchristmas or phone 250-386-5311.
Thursday, Jan. 1Government House New Year’s Day Levée.
Government House, 1401 Rockland Ave., 10 a.m. to noon. Guests are encouraged to arrive early to avoid a long line-up.
Victoria New Year’s Levée. Victoria City Hall, 1 Centennial Square, noon to 1:30 p.m. Info: Victoria.ca.
Esquimalt New Year’s Levée. Esquimalt City Hall, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Info: 250-414-7101.
Saturday, Jan. 3Chip in for the Kids Christmas tree recycle. The
B.C. Lions Society’s helps you dispose of your Christmas tree in an environmentally-friendly manner at one of six recycling depots around Greater Victoria: Broadmead Village Shopping Centre, Save-on-Foods – Fort and Foul Bay location, Westshore Town Centre, University Heights Shopping Centre, Sooke Home Hardware and Tillicum Shopping Centre.
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