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Vol. 9 Issue 4Oct 2012

Serving Port RenfrewJordan RiverOtter PointWillis PointEast SookeMalahatShirley

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2 Oct 2012

A group of Juan de Fuca residents formed a non-profit society to launch a news and advertising publication for the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area.

We provide a forum for our rural communities to share news, exchange ideas and develop a sense of community. At the same time the publication gives businesses within and outside the electoral area an opportunity to promote their products and services and reach potential customers. We also hope to make current information about the region and its services available to the many tourists who visit the area each year. Our goal is to protect, preserve and enhance rural life.

The publication will rely on community members to share their interests and points of view through articles, correspondence and photographs. We welcome articles and letters reflecting the very diverse interests of our member communities and expressing all points of view. The editorial committee reserves the right to edit for brevity, accuracy, clarity and taste. Though every reasonable precaution will be made to verify the accuracy of material submitted, the editorial committee assumes no responsibility for the content of published articles. The responsibility is that of the writers. References and descriptions of products or services are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. We’re online! www.ruralobserver.comIf you wish to submit an article for an upcoming issue of the Rural Observer, please email it to:

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BECOME A MEMBER or RENEW yOuR MEMBERSHIP!Celebrate our rural community lifestyle by helping us share stories and information about our region. Become a member of the Juan de Fuca Rural Publication Society today. Our fee structure is as follows - you may renew/join at the basic level of $20, become a “Supporter” for $50, or a “Lifetime Member” for only $100. We recommend the lifetime membership - you won’t need to remember to renew each year! The Rural Observer needs your support to keep it strong, viable and independent. Please make out cheques to the Juan de Fuca Rural Publication Society and mail to: J.Roots, 6790 East Sooke Rd, Sooke, BC, V9Z 1A6

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Fall is here and so are the bears. This summer, bear sightings in the CRD have only been up a small amount from previous years, but Conservation Officers expect the sightings and conflicts to increase. Local bears will be looking to put on a few pounds before winter and ripened fruit is a big attractant in the late summer and early fall. Most recently, many local bears in several rural areas have developed a taste for free range chickens.

Some tips to remember:1. Please keep your garbage in a location

inaccessible to bears. If you do not have secure garbage storage, you can freeze smelly food items until collection or you can take the garbage directly to the landfill. You can also use bear-resistant garbage containers (visit bearaware.bc.ca for a list of suppliers).

2. Bird seed is particularly attractive to bears. Bring bird feeders in until November or they may become bear feeders.

3. Compost, chickens and pet food are also items that, when managed improperly, become bear attractants.

4. Pick fruit and allow it to ripen indoors or pick it daily as it ripens. Don’t allow windfall to accumulate on the ground. If you would like to make the fruit available to others contact a local fruit exchange program or the food bank.

5. Berry bushes should be picked as they ripen.6. Keep chickens in at night and keep their feed well secured. 7. Clean your barbeque after each use and be sure to remove

and clean the grease trap.8. For limiting bear access to fruit, berries, livestock and feed,

beehives, compost and vegetable gardens consider using electric fencing.

Please remember it is illegal to allow bears access to garbage and other attractants. There are now significant fines for this offence under the Wildlife Act.

To report a bear sighting in your neighbourhood or on your property, please call the Conservation Officer Service at 1-877-952-7277.

3 Oct 2012

Constituency office is now open to serve constituents:

address: A2–100 Aldersmith Pl, Victoria V9A 7M8

hours: 10am–4pm, Monday–Thursday or by appointment

phone: 250-405-6550 fax: 250-405-6554 email: Randall.Garrison@parl.gc.ca

Randall Garrison, MPESQUIMALT–JUAN DE FUCA

We are here to assist constituents with Federal government programs and services.

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The Bears are Out - Keep your Garbage In!Coral Grant, Bear Aware Community Volunteer

Learn more about identifying and managing bear attractants near your home by visiting www.bearaware.bc.ca.

We gratefully acknowledge the CRD Parks Department, Ministry of Environment and the BC Conservation Foundation for their financial support.

4 Oct 2012

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Enbridge’s Balance in Trade

Here is a balance in trade between Enbridge’s glowing full page version of its safety record and its public record:

In 2008, Enbridge was sued by the state of Wisconsin for over 545 environmental violations; between1999 and 2010, it had some 804 spills; its Kalamazoo spill in 2010 was considered “the largest inland oil spill in Midwest history” and the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration sued it for $3.7 million. Given that Enbridge had known for five years that this pipe was cracked and corroded – but did nothing – it is surprising they were not charged with criminal negligence.

Clean-up costs for the Kalamazoo spill have surpassed $800 million, which is covered by insurance. However, Enbridge has now declared itself “distinct” from the Northern Gateways Pipelines Limited Partnership in order “to limit the exposure investors have for liabilities of the company not to ‘make good’ on a catastrophic spill”.

Enbridge knows that a catastrophic spill is POSSIBLE, PROB ABLE and INEVITABLE. They know they will not be able “to make good”.

The state of Wisconsin, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the US National Transportation Board can be trusted. What a pity Canada does not have similar official agencies, with laws and regulations that can be enforced.

B. MitchellVictoria

CONTRIBUTE TO THE RURAL OBSERVER

If you have an activity of a rural nature in the Juan de Fuca area that you would like covered, please send it to us. We cannot promise to print every article, but we try to, if and when space allows. Any thoughts or questions, please email us!submissions@ruralobserver.com

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5 Oct 2012

It’s been four years since Lesley Ann Manning left a long-standing position she held with The Times Colonist. She closed that door and opened another, here in East Sooke, when she started her pet service company, Walk, Sit & Stay. It couldn’t have been a better fit because caring for animals, particularly dogs, is something Lesley Ann has always done. She loves dogs, grew up with dogs and currently lives with two, Callie, an Australian cattle dog and Peggy, a Yorkie. She’s always had dogs.

Lesley Ann’s business built up over its first two years and now word of mouth and some advertising keeps her life very busy. The day starts at sunrise with her own pets awakening and moves along with dog walks, boarders and checking in with other animals that she’s been hired to attend to. She is currently connected with about 100 animals either as a pet sitter, dog walker or provider of non-kennel boarding services.

Boarding services were added about a year and a half ago and as space is limited, it is generally Lesley Ann’s current clients who are accommodated. They are free to roam her spacious abode and of course mingle with Callie and Peggy.

Pet sitting services might include several daytime visits for feeding and relief, walking and a bit of companionship. Lesley Ann also cares for cats and in the past has checked in on goats and a parrot. She is an animal lover and has an affinity for all kinds of creatures.

Dog walks tend to be off-leash with a pack that may number as many as eight. Lesley Ann is out there twice a day: in the morning she can be found at Aylard Farm and in the early afternoon at Royal Roads or possibly Devonian Park in Metchosin.

While knowledgeable about dogs prior to starting up her business, Lesley Ann says that she has learned so much more in the last four years. Pack and lead dog behaviour is something to behold: the way the lead takes the pups and less mature dogs in hand, correcting them, bringing them properly into the group and getting them to recognize pack etiquette. Lesley Ann makes

it sound as if being privy to the dogs in this way is a gift and a privilege. As well, Lesley Ann, as true pack leader, introduces each new dog to the others herself. This establishes the hierarchy or dynamic of the group: they all know that she’s in charge. This results in an easier transition and in that way, no personality issues arise.

Walk, Sit & Stay is the only dog walking, home and pet service company in East Sooke. Lesley Ann has pet insurance and is covered for the services offered. She’s

also certified in pet first aid and is bondable. As stated, not only does she care for dogs, she’ll look after your cats, your goats and go ahead…just ask. There’s no doubt that Lesley Ann simply loves animals so she may be game for whatever comes her way.

Rates vary: Dog walks range from $15 to $20 depending on the number requested per week: a single overnight stay is $40 and a cat visit is $15. For more information please visit the website at walksitandstay.ca., or reach Lesley Ann at 250-642-0458 or 250-744-0134.

Walk, Sit & Stay: your Pet’s Next to Best Friend By Janet Caplan Photo by Lesley Ann Manning

6Oct 2012

THE NAMING OF SHERINGHAM POINT by Mary Brown

The Pacheedacht people have their own name for it. In 1790, the Spanish named it Punta de San Eusevio. Then along came the British in 1846 and re-named it Sheringham Point. We’re talking about the spectacular waterfront point in Shirley with its photogenic lighthouse. The name wasn’t the result of an official decree from London, let alone Ottawa. In 1946, British Columbia was still a far-flung part of British North America. Settlers had arrived on Vancouver Island, but it wasn’t yet an official colony. It was essentially the domain of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which established a fort in Victoria in 1843.

However, by this time the British Royal Navy had established ascendency over the Pacific North West and Great Britain was approaching the peak of its far-flung if brief imperial adventure that led to our independent Canada of today. It was in that context that the name Sheringham was chosen by William Kellett, RN, the captain of HMS Herald undertaking a survey of our west coast waters. Kellett seem to have had a fairly free hand in proposing new names, giving his own name to a bluff on Henry’s Island off the coast of San Juan Island.

Kellett apparently chose Sheringham out of respect for a 51-year-old naval colleague, whom he may have known personally. William Louis Sheringham, RN, was a highly talented surveying officer who by then had attained the rank of commander. He spent the whole of his career undertaking thorough surveys of parts of the English coast, many of which he was in charge. His charts and maps were regarded as exceptionally fine and copies of those for parts of the Cornish coast have been collected as works of art.

Sheringham also assisted a notable British rear admiral, Sir Francis Beaufort, the Admiralty’s Chief Hydrographer, who compiled important sailing manuals and gave his name to the Beaufort Wind Scale, an improved version of which still has some usage today. Sheringham’s work was so esteemed by his fellow-officers that in 1875 they presented him with a ceremonial sword 11 years after he’d retired from active service as rear admiral and 4 years after he’d been promoted to vice admiral. He died in 1876.

Sheringham was born in 1795 in St. James’s, London, in what we now call the West End. He entered the Royal Navy in 1808 when Britain’s royalty had their younger sons trained as active naval officers, yet when the navy was also a route whereby a bright young man from a solid middle-class family could aspire to a good career. Cook and Nelson are prime examples. The fact Sheringham entered the navy when Great Britain and her allies were engaged in a ferocious war against Napoleonic ambition until 1815 also suggests a genuine readiness to serve his country. He became a lieutenant in 1823 and rose to become commander or additional captain after 1842 in six different ships, one of which

was called HMS Fisgard.

In 1821 Sheringham married a young woman from his home community called Caroline Matilda. They had no children, and Sheringham left everything in his will to his widow, apart from gifts to two faithful servants. The couple lived most of their life in the Portsmouth area but later moved to Paignton in Devon, then a small fishing village where, like a lot of ‘old salts’ round here, Sheringham retired while continuing to enjoy the sea. A short account in a contemporary Totnes newspaper tells of his yacht capsizing so that he had to be rescued by local fishermen. One can imagine him later being good naturedly ribbed by his friends in the ‘snug’ of the local pub, probably over a tot of rum or a spot of brandy!

Some may now think it odd that a coastal point on Vancouver Island was given the name of a man who never came near our shores! Perhaps the name will change again? Meanwhile local residents have taken ownership of the name Sheringham while William Louis has dropped into the shadows as a historical figure. However, when you learn more about him, he can arouse your interest. He sounds like what his fellow-Britons would have called ‘a decent bloke, a jolly good chap, a perfect gentleman’ but, more significantly, he represents a certain kind of naval officer, whose high level of specialized skill, commitment to excellence and attention to duty characterized not only many of those who were in the Royal Navy at that time but continue to be found in the best navies of today.

This is when the story of William Louis Sheringham resonates for present-day Canadians and becomes relevant in the context of Canada’s heritage. By the middle of the 19th century the British Navy had become not only extremely powerful but one of the most admired navies in the world. Its traditions of discipline, duty and service, its valour in conflict and its progressive, versatile maritime skills and activities made it a role model for developing navies in other countries, including our own. It was the navy in which Canadians served until the creation of our own

Canadian navy in 1910, which drew on the same proud traditions and practices.

Also the initiatives implemented in Sheringham’s time not only improved sea-going efficiency but increased safety for seafarers. Safety initiatives were later expanded, especially in view of the dramatic increase in sea-going passenger traffic that occurred by the end of the 19th century and as this year’s 50th anniversary of Canada’s Coastguard Service reminds us. Lighthouses are part of this story, with the 1685 lighthouse at Eddystone in England the precursor of many lighthouses built from the mid-1700s to the early 1900s. Sheringham Point Lighthouse was built in 1912 and a major goal of the Sheringham Point Lighthouse Preservation Society, founded in 2003, is to preserve the decommissioned lighthouse as a heritage site. The Society is also recording its history and that of its keepers, who, like William Louis Sheringham, undertook a skilled and committed task in relation to the often challenging, sometimes cruel, but always marvellous sea.

7 Oct 2012

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FARM CREDIT CANADA

Ranchers, farmers and farm gate operators should check out details of Farm Credit Canada. While primarily focused on large agribusiness, the corporation does have some interesting and useful programs and pertinent information for smaller operators.

Check them out at: www.fcc-fac.ca/en/index.asp

IMPACTS OF GOVERNMENT CHANGESThis past spring the Harper Conservatives passed a budget that made multiple changes to multiple pieces of Legislation. Some of the resulting impacts:

Gutting the Fisheries Act

Trashing the Environmental Assessment Act

Overruling the National Energy Board

Reducing the effectiveness of Statistics Canada

Eliminating federal environmental reviews on hundreds of projects across the country and here on Vancouver Island

Slashing Environment Canada’s budget

Silencing the Scientists (and anyone who disagrees with the Harper Government)

Lifting the 40 year ban on tankers on B.C.’s coast

These changes made by the Harper government have the potential to negatively impact land use in many ways. A local example: as they have done across the country, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has stepped away from monitoring and maintaining small dams such as the one that helps maintain local resident water supply and enhance fish populations on DeMamiel Creek near Sooke. By abandoning dams such at these, Harper’s government is crippling habitat protection and salmon enhancement programs.

All of these changes and reduced services exemplify the Conservative government’s poor management of government operations and their support for corporate profit over the wishes of Canadians and the sustainability of our country.

The NDP Opposition will continue to fight for the Canada we believe in. And a most effective way to send a message to the Harper government is to work hard to elect a progressive BC government in 2013.

REDISTRIBuTION

The Federal Riding Redistribution process is now underway. The proposed new boundaries for this area would mean that Shirley, Metchosin, Sooke, Port Renfrew, Colwood and much of Langford, would be placed in a new riding that would include Duncan and Ladysmith. I believe that communities adjacent to each other and having natural connections, should be in the same Riding. We should not put boundaries through the middle of communities or obvious regional areas like the Westshore. The Boundary Commission will hear suggested changes to their proposed boundaries in October and the Boundary changes should be in effect in time for the next federal election.

From the desk of Randall Garrison, MP Esquimalt Juan de Fuca

8 Oct 2012

Calendar of Events for ShirleyUnless otherwise indicated, events are held at the Shirley Community Hall

Shirley Fire DepartmentPractices held Wednesdays 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.To volunteer: 250-646-2107

Shukokai Karate for all agesMondays, 6:30-8:00 p.m.Alida – 250-642-4631

yogilatesMondays, 10:00-11:15 a.m.svakayoga@gmail.com250-646-2651

yogaWednesdays 6:45 – 8:00 p.m.svakayoga@gmail.com250-646-2651

Nia Dance/Movement Thursdays, 6:45-8:00 p.m. Sundays 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.movingmelody@gmail.comor 250-646-2995

PilatesSaturdays 9:30-10:30 a.m.Level 1, Suitable for Beginnerssvakayoga@gmail.com(250) 646-2651

Shirley Quilters and CraftersThursdays 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Shirley Women’s Institute 3rd Wednesdays 2:00 p.m. stephaniecroft@hotmail.com

Remembrance Day CeremonySunday, Nov 11, 2012 10:45 a.m.

Shirley Community Association MeetingWednesday, November 14, 20127:30 p.m.

Shirley Fire Commission AGMNovember 25, 2:30 p.m.

Shirley Fire Protection Society MeetingSunday, December 9 2:00 p.m.

Family Christmas Party & Soup lunchSaturday, December 15th

11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

10 Believe it or not, according to the families of past light keepers, the lighthouse building is haunted – and the ghost might be the one light keeper who died at the site.

9 The lighthouse was staffed until 1989 when Jim Bruton, the last full time light keeper, turned the facility over to the automated light. Another light keeper, Shirley’s own Thomas “Charlie” Cross, took the light in 1946.

8 Despite support from the community for saving it, the Federal government department responsible for the lighthouse and land had the light keeper’s home burned down in the 1990s.

7 There are more than a dozen bullet holes in the ocean side of the lighthouse structure resulting from people on boats being ‘boneheads’.

6 The Fresnel lens that floated in Mercury and created the light was removed from the lighthouse and is now housed in the Sooke Region Museum.

5 There were six light keepers in the staffed history of the lighthouse. The first full time was Eustace Arden, and the last Jim Bruton. However, there were also assistant or ‘junior’ light keepers including Mike Cross who was interviewed recently for the Society’s Oral History project.

4 Edwin Clark, who would row from Shirley to Otter Point to pick up the mail for him and his neighbours, bought Lot 82 from the Crown in 1910. That tract of land included Sheringham Point – the location that in 1912 became home to the light station.

3 In 1925, tired of getting supplies only from ocean going tenders, Mr. Arden got a road approved from West Coast Road to the lighthouse land, Sheringham Point Road, which continues to be the access from the highway to the lighthouse land at Sheringham Point.

2 After 100 years of operation, there are many mysteries surrounding the Sheringham Point Lighthouse, the light keepers and their families. The mystery of whether the land, access and structure will be preserved and protected is ongoing – but if the Lighthouse Society has anything to do with it, the lighthouse will be saved for the enjoyment of generations to come.

1 And the number one fact about the Sheringham Point Lighthouse is that all this year and next we are celebrating a Centennial of service for the lighthouse and those who served the public as its keepers. Please join us.

John Walls is a member of the Board of the Sheringham Point Lighthouse Preservation Society. WEB: sheringhamlighthouse.org

The Top Ten Facts about the lighthouseat Sheringham Point by John Walls

9 Oct 2012

Shirley Day – Reminder Of The ‘Old Country Fair’ by Nicole Gardner

Shirley Day has become a very well-attended community celebration, and on Sunday August 12th, people came out in droves to celebrate our wonderful community. Shirley Day is a major annual fundraiser for the Community Association, as well as a day of coming together as a community in an old country fair atmosphere.

Inside the hall, a blind auction was well-supported by the community, with items like zip-lining, kayaking and much more up for grabs. Thank you to all the businesses and people who donated items, and also to those who placed bids in support. Also in the hall there was a concession, where people enjoyed delicious fresh-cooked foods, everything from burgers to samosas to Marg’s famous cheesecakes.

Outside, there were a variety of crafters and farm markets, a media exchange and more in the park as well as face painting and massage. The midway, as always, was very popular with kids of all ages, with games like the Barbie Dunk Tank and Plinko among others. And the Shirley Volunteer Fire Department had their trucks on display.

The watermelon eating contest was a crowd-pleaser, as was the 3rd annual pie-eating contest. Fire fighters from Metchosin, Otter Point, and Shirley Fire Departments all munched into the pies, with the reigning champion, Rick Gardner, coming out the winner. The hula-hoop contest was enjoyed by all. There was a beer garden with Lighthouse brewery products on tap as well as local Tugwell Creek meads. The salmon barbeque proved popular, and with the live music of Route 66 and Diamond Eagle, it was a great way to end the day.

Village Foods donated a beautiful (and delicious!) cake to mark the 100th anniversary of the Sheringham Point Lighthouse, the 25th anniversary of the Shirley Volunteer Fire Department and the 75th anniversary of the Shirley Community Hall which are all being celebrated in 2012, and we appreciated the speeches that each representative made regarding their history.

Locals who have passed on and who made notable contributions to the community were honoured on the burl that hangs inside the community hall next to the kitchen window. This year Lorna Ross, Charles Cross, and Jean Whiffin were added to the burl. Their contributions to our community will be sorely missed, but gratefully remembered.

SHIRLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION· Provides and maintains the Shirley Hall for private and public events· Organizes Shirley Day in August and spring and fall craft fairs· Maintains Pioneer Park for the enjoyment of all· Provides a home for the Shirley Fire Department and JDF Emergency· Provides emergency shelter in case of disaster· Community Association meets 2nd Wed of Jan, March, May, July, Sept

and Nov.

Join the Shirley Community Association and be a part of more than 70 years of community spirit and volunteerism. Membership is $10 per year.

www.shirleycommunity.org sca@shirleycommunity.org

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Thanks again to the many volunteers who put in time to make Shirley Day the success that it was: the Dunns, the McDannolds, the Gardners, the Days, the Mintens, the Shiptons, the Teneyckes, the Blaneys, the Tidwells, the Gilbertsons, Ron Ramsey, Melody Kimmel, Jean Conway, John “JT” Thomas, Donovan Ray (our fire chief), Margaret Johnson, James Powell, Rowan Buelow, our facepainters Lily and Georgia, Marnie Swaile, Adina and Mary-Claire and others who volunteered in the midway, DJ Ken “Hurricane” Himes, the Route 66 Band and Diamond Eagle, Sonja de Wit, Rose Alexander, Fiona Millard, and Gwen Isaacs for the classical quartet, Sheringham Point Lighthouse Preservation Society, Tugwell Creek Meadery, Lighthouse Brewery, Shirley Volunteer Fire Department, Dwight International School, and the Sooke District Lions and Lionesses. For any volunteers I’ve overlooked please accept my apology! We appreciate you all!

At Shirley Day there is something for everyone. Mark next year’s date on your calendar: Sunday August 18, 2013, and join us in celebrating our community!

*See photos from this years festivities on the next two pages.

We are getting together to form a farm centered

cooperative community Would you like to hear more?

Call Susan, 250 642-1714

10 Oct 2012

Photos provided by Bernard Leblanc and Marcie Gauntlett

11 Oct 2012

East Sooke Community

CalendarEast Sooke Volunteer Fire Department1397 Coppermine RoadFire Practice Thursday nights 7:00 p.m - 9:00 pmChief Roger Beck 250-642-4411Volunteers needed!

East Sooke Fire Protection AndEmergency Services CommissionFire Hall meeting room Third Monday 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Healthy Bodies FitnessCardio & Strength ClassEast Sooke Fire Hall Mon., Wed. & Friday 9:30 am - 10:30am Tues & Thurs 8:00 am - 9:00 am

Boot CampTues & Thurs evng. 6:30 pm - 7:30 pmSat. morn: 9:30 am - 10:30 amInst: Marita 250-589-3947

Hatha yoga Classes East Sooke Fire Hall Wednesday. - 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Inst: Connie 250.889-0753Classes start Sept. 12th Karate Classes For All AgesEast Sooke Fire Hall Tuesday -6:00 pm - 9:00 pmInstructor: Armin 250-642-3926

NEW ClASS JazzerciseEast Sooke Fire Hall Registration ClassMon. Sept 24 @ 7pmClasses Tues. & Thurs. 9:30 -10:30 amStarting October 2ndInstructor: Kayt 250-812-9348

Friends of Coppermine Park SocietyEast Sooke Fire Hall Tentative Meeting & AGM Saturday, Nov. 17 @ 10:00 am copperminepark@telus.net Playground Equipment & Suggestions

East Sooke Women’s Meditation Group Meets Mondays Call for info - 250 642-7282

East Sooke Community ParticipationWhat would interest you?Jazzercise Classes? Scrap booking?Ballroom Dance class? Craft Café?Drop in Coffee Café to Chat? Reply to: copperminepark@telus.net

Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue joins the Neighbourhood!The non-profit organization Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) is moving to the neighbourhood. After over 2 years of negotiations, RCM-SAR finalized the purchase of Glenairley, a 25.3-acre waterfront property on the North side of East Sooke Road, on July 31st.

Formerly known as the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary –Pacific, RCM-SAR is a comprised of 1,000 volunteers spread throughout 46 community-based stations in B.C. dedicated to providing 24/7 marine search and rescue and boating safety services.

The Sisters of St. Ann owned Glenairley since 1957 and mostly used it as a retreat for their members while leasing the property from time to time to outside organizations.

Glenairley will become the headquarters for a small office team of 6, as well as a training centre where small classes of no

more than 6 to 8 students learn basic and advanced SAR principles in the classroom, in the Fast Rescue Craft Simulator and on the water. It’s our plan to house the crew members on the property when they are there for training.

The RCM-SAR Board of Governors is in the early stages of developing its plans for the property; but the priority is to enhance and protect the biodiversity of the area and ensure the property is sustainable for future generations.

“We’re very lucky to have this property, the Sisters of St. Ann called it an ecological haven and I agree,” Stan Warlow, RCM-SAR Executive Officer, said. “We will be doing world-class marine search and rescue training here but more than that, I envision Glenairley to be the cornerstone for not only our organization but for the whole community as well. We want to collaborate with the community as much as possible.”

RCM-SAR plans once established will be to offer the property to local community groups for meetings, conferences, retreats and social events. A portion of

the property will be arable land for local groups or individuals to lease for farming.

Preet Grewal is the Special Projects Officer for the RCMSAR

12 Oct 2012

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13 Oct 2012

Planning A New Fire Hall For East Sooke by John Corsiglia

You might have heard that there’s been some activity around the East Sooke Fire Hall recently! There’s been the intent to replace or upgrade the existing fire hall for several years and there has been lots of effort from successive Fire Commissioners to find a way forward.

Earlier this year, an inspector from the Fire Underwriter’s Survey (FUS) came to the East Sooke Fire Hall and asked why we still operate from a fire hall that was pronounced too small for our growing “medium size community” [1000+] way back in1994! Fortunately, the Commission was already on the case. A few days later, the land purchase for a new fire hall was completed (without borrowing funds) with the assistance of several CRD departments.

Since then, attention has shifted to focus on the planning and design of the new fire hall. Firefighters, Officers, and Commissioners have worked with the CRD Engineering Department to prepare a detailed request for proposals [RFP] to which nine Architectural / Design firms responded. From the outset, the watchwords have been functionality, economy, and community process. The issues have been discussed for many years. When planning is complete and costing fully calculated the Commission will place the project before the community for its approval in the form of a referendum. Along the way opportunities for community input will be included in the process.

Now, in September 2012 with the assistance of CRD Engineering, we have completed our evaluation of the proposals and selected David Nairne Associates (DNA) to complete the conceptual design for a larger and more functional fire hall, to be located on East Sooke Road closer to Gillespie Rd.

Besides our growing population, we have steep, rocky hillsides, winding roads and scant water supplies as well as dense forest areas interfacing with habitation. Over time, the Fire Department must upgrade to two engines, two tenders, a first response vehicle, and a forest fire response vehicle. All this apparatus, equipment and supplies must be stored indoors so it is protected from freezing and vandalism. Also, the building must be built to be functional after a major earthquake.

It is important to note that we are faced with both the carrot and the stick. If we avoid building a new fire hall and the FUS downgrades our level of protection readiness, it would be as if we are “playing chicken” with both Mother Nature and an insurance industry that has the authority to withdraw our present preparedness discount and increase our fire insurance rates by a reported $850 per year per residence! Building a new fire hall will be far less expensive than paying such high “unprotected” fire insurance penalties.

Since 1994, almost all of the Fire Commissioner’s recommendations

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have been addressed (access to surface water, training, communications etc.). However, it has taken time to work through the recommendations and plan for a required fire hall. A more recent 2008 study (KMP Engineering) showed that renovation of the old small fire hall would be impractical and could have resulted in an inadequate and extremely expensive fire hall without a community hall. After the community dismissed the option of locating a fire hall in Coppermine Park, the Commission arranged to purchase a 1.0 ha parcel of land on East Sooke Road for the future fire hall.

DNA is known for innovative design and for helping clients achieve cost-effective, functional, and attractive buildings. One former client told a commissioner: “They helped us find funding--something no other firm seemed willing to do.” Because of our requirements and economic considerations, DNA proposes a people-friendly wood-built interior complex including office, training, meeting, and kitchen areas housed within a larger metal structure that will provide 6 tandem apparatus bays as well as space for storage and equipment maintenance and supplies.

RCMSAR a non-profit organization has the following staff vacancies at their East Sooke headquarters known as Glenairley.

Bookkeeper full time: familiar in Quick Books, fund accounting, maintaining a full set of books.

Training Support (contract): well organized, knowledge of marine programs, Adobe publishing and Microsoft Office software.

Caterer/Chef part time: Prepare meals etc., Maintenance /cleaners part time

Wanted parties interested in leasing the farm land for market gardens, pasture or bring your ideas.

Please email resumes to the Executive Officer: stan.warlow@rcmsar.ca

the Ring of Fire. But in all recorded history there has been no major earthquake along the Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia coast. Is there an explanation for the absence of big earthquakes in the area, even though the geological structure of the Ring continues? The question has been very important for urban, transportation, and industrial planners (especially those wanting to find earthquake-free sites for nuclear power plants) and for policy-makers. Researchers from the United States and Canadian Geological Surveys, and several universities and scientific institutions have devoted much attention to this question.

Careful re-surveys of east-west highways, and of the precise positions of mountain summits used to make maps during the past 80 years, have shown conclusively that the overall plate motion is continuing. The mountains in southern Vancouver Island are being jiggled and moved a bit toward the mainland; Puget Sound is being squeezed and made a bit narrower, and there is a distinctive pattern to the source of the small earthquakes and to the gradient of temperature with depth at the edge of the continent. However, direct evidence of motion between the major plates is lacking, and it appears that at the Cascadia Subduction zone the two plates are “locked”. Stress within this portion of the Earth’s crust, therefore, must be building up enormously. In time, the rocks will have to give way, and the stress be released by an earthquake.

Search of the coastal marshes has identified layers of fresh-water vegetation that had dropped below sea level and been buried by tidal mud—at least six sudden burials in the past 2000 years or so. And the remains of a drowned forest near the mouth of the Copalis River in Washington has trunks of large spruce and red cedar trees still standing upright in three metres of salt water. Such trees do not grow in salt water, so the land must have suddenly dropped. Growth rings – nature’s accurate bar codes – of these trees, compared with those on higher elevations and still living show that the last growing season for the flooded trees was the year 1699. This date is confirmed, although with less precision but in several locations, by radiocarbon data. The inescapable conclusion is that a major earth movement – an earthquake – drowned part of the coast shortly after 1699.

If the event were a major earthquake and it occurred offshore, it should have produced a tsunami. There are no historical records of tsunamis in North America, but in Japan meticulous records of tsunamis and known associated earthquakes have been kept for a thousand years. Study of these records soon found, sure enough, entries describing a major tsunami, called an “orphan” because it had no identified parent earthquake, that struck the east coast of Japan on a date which, when translated into the Western calendar, is January 27,1700!

The Earthquake of January 1700by Fred Roots

In the article on earthquakes and tsunamis in the May 2012 issue of the Rural Observer, it was stated that although small and moderate earthquakes have been and still are fairly common in the Juan de Fuca area, there has not been a major earthquake since 1700. Many people have asked what we know about the big earthquake in 1700, and what that one was like.

The story of what is known about the last big earthquake in the area is an international detective story involving a wide range of investigators – Native Peoples, anthropologists, geologists and geodesists, highway surveyors, nuclear power plant planners, medieval rice merchants, city officials, Shinto history specialists, oceanographers, and experts in space technology – some of whom just would not give up in the search to find out what happened in the area centuries ago. The incentive, of course, has been to find out as much as possible whether there have been big earthquakes in the past, whether they are likely to happen again, and if they did, what they would be like.

Stories told by the Native peoples living along the coast, from Nootka in northern Vancouver Island down to northern California, include accounts of sudden big waves that washed away whole communities when there were apparently no storms, and were watched by people who were on higher ground or out to sea in canoes. When the people returned to where the villages had been there was nothing left and no survivors. Some stories such as those handed down through generations by people living at Neah Bay near the mouth of Juan de Fuca Strait, describe changes in sea level and of the landscape “where the sea flowed like a river through the valley, then left the bay dry for four days, and returned again”; or at Pachena Bay near Bamfield “where the earth shook, and everything was washed away”. There are, of course, no exact dates to these events, but we are told that it happened “a long time ago, but not at a very remote period”.

As the geological structure of this part of the world became understood, and it was seen that Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula are part of the western edge of the North American crustal plate which is colliding with and being under-thrust by the eastward-moving Pacific Ocean plate (known to geologists as the Juan de Fuca plate) along a major suture known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and that all are part of a continuous chain of earthquake-producing fractures and associated volcanoes rimming the entire Pacific Ocean, known as the Ring of Fire, these stories fell into a pattern.

Of the nineteen most disastrous earthquakes that have occurred anywhere on Earth in the past century, sixteen have been along

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large area is through severe earthquakes. Careful study of the matching turbidites on the submerged continental slope from near Nootka in the north to southern Oregon has revealed forty-one earthquake events in the past ten thousand years, of which nineteen have been “full margin ruptures” in which the break has propagated along a considerable portion or the full length of the subduction zone. The interval between the successive ruptures varies quite widely, but has been on average about 240 years in the southern part of the zone, with the earthquakes still major but somewhat less intense, about magnitude 8 or so, while in the northern part the successive quakes have been commonly about four centuries apart, but with an apparent intensity at least ten times as great—magnitude 9 or higher.

Thus, the best evidence we have today is that the last major earthquake to affect the Juan de Fuca region occurred at 21:00 local time on 26 January 1700, with a magnitude 9 or greater (similar in power to the offshore quake in Chile in 1960 or off Sumatra in 2004), and that this earthquake was the most recent of a long series of major crustal jerks that have occurred in this area at intervals of three or four centuries during the past several thousand years.

An excellent and very entertaining source of more information on this subject is the book by Jerry Thompson, “Cascadia’s Fault”, published by Harper-Collins, Toronto 2011, which contains references to the many scientific studies upon which the above note is based.

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The Japanese records do not, of course, have any information about the source of the tsunami, except that it was not local. But a little study showed that the waves must have come from almost due east, from somewhere near the coast of North America. The angle of the waves and their progression along the coast of Japan ruled out South America, Alaska, Kamchatka, the East Indies or New Zealand as a source. So Cascadia was almost certainly the origin, and it fits perfectly with the evidence of the drowned forests in Washington that the land suddenly sank and killed the trees after the 1699 growing season – and agrees with the stories told by the Native people.

That tsunami caused damage in six villages in Japan whose records have been examined. It destroyed houses one and one-half kilometres inland; it reached a hill where a shrine to the god Inari still stands, and was given religious significance; in one village the headman ordered women and children to retreat to higher ground. Some of the most colourful descriptions of the tsunami –seven big waves over a period of four hours—is in the account of seeking payment for a cargo of rice in a ship that was unable to enter port and then sank. From all these accounts, it has been deduced that the tsunami waves were at least five metres high when they reached the shore. Such a colossal disturbance, caused by an event 7,800 kilometres distant (compare with the waves that damaged the coasts of Sri Lanka in 2004 from the magnitude 9.2 earthquake off Sumatra which is 2,500 kilometres away) leaves little doubt that the 1700 Cascadia earthquake was huge, of a magnitude of 9 or higher. (See the May 2012 Rural Observer for a description of scales of severity of earthquakes.)

Because the time of arrival of the tsunami on the east coast of Japan was precisely recorded, and the speed of travel of tsunami waves in the open ocean is quite well known, it is possible to estimate with fair accuracy when the earthquake occurred. The calculations show that the big shock happened at about 21:00 (of what would today be considered local time) on 26 January 1700. This is consistent with the Native stories that the waves came in during a winter night.

Research has further shown that the 1700 quake was not an isolated event. Sediment samples from the seabed slopes off Vancouver Island and Washington show evidence of submarine landslides, producing a distinctive material known as turbidite, at intervals. Although the sediments on the seabed off this part of the coast come from different rivers (Fraser, Skagit, Columbia, etc,) that are hundreds of miles apart each with different drainage characteristics, they have matching numbers and age-spacing of turbidites, indicating that there must have been nearly simultaneous triggering of landslides. The only way that such triggering could have come about over such a

identification especially as each instar of each caterpillar species may look quite different from the instar before. So is it a new instar or new species?

Milbert’s Tortoiseshell caterpillars change colour and behaviour yet again in their fifth and final instar. They are now intricately marked; black with forked black hairs on top, yellow green with forked yellow green hairs on the bottom and two lines down the side; one greenish yellow, the other orange yellow dashes. They are now covered all over with fine white dots and fine white hairs. They no longer shelter in leaf tents but have become solitary, feeding alone and exposed, on the nettle leaf until ready to weave a small silk pad and change into a chrysalis. Some time in the late summer the adults will emerge to feed and winter over to start the cycle again in spring. We have the privilege of their presence on Vancouver Island though I have only seen them 3 times in 9 years; in the ashes of our fire pit, on the top of a bluff in the Sooke Hills and in the garden at Malahat farm. That year Malahat Farm was graced by a number of Milbert’s Tortoiseshells. There is much to be learned about the life cycles

of butterflies living in the Capital Regional District below the snowy San Juan Ridge. Here Milbert’s Tortoiseshell is univoltine, having just one generation a year with the adult butterfly living to an incredible age of 9 months or more. In eastern Canada, they have one or two shorter summer generations. How do such differences in length of life span happen within the same species? Answering that question will help scientists understand aging.

Unlike the Satyr Angle wing Butterfly which stays close to home, the Milbert’s Tortoiseshells flies far from the nettle patch they fed on covering a lot of territory before choosing a mate and finding a new nettle patch for their young. For some butterflies the males and females are easy to tell apart. Milbert’s Tortoiseshells males have hairier forelegs then the females but I have never had the opportunity to see enough of them to make the comparison. Maybe if we save enough stinging nettles some of us may see enough Milbert’s Tortoiseshells to recognize those hairy, masculine, legs.

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Milbert’s Tortoiseshell Anglais Milberti and Stinging Nettles by Rosemary Jorna

When I first saw Milbert’s Tortoiseshells twenty or more were flying, flickering like autumn flames, at the edge of a meadow near Ottawa. I just had to know more about these brilliant butterflies with their red cat’s eyes and deep edging of orange then yellow. All that colour disappeared in a moment as they closed their wings and the tortoise shell pattern on the under wing blended in with the shadows.

Like the Satyr Angle wing (Rural Observer Vol.9 Issue 2 May 2012) Milbert’s Tortoiseshell Anglais milberti is in the butterfly family Nymphalidae or Brushfoot. Those of you lucky enough to have seen butterflies close up may have been puzzled to see only 4 legs on some of them as butterflies are true insects and insects all have 6 legs. In the Brushfoot’s the first pair of legs have atrophied into small, brush like appendages believed to be used to help clean the proboscis and antennae of these butterflies.

Milbert’s Tortoiseshell is another of the leaf tiers, the butterflies whose existence is dependent on stinging nettles as the food source for their caterpillars. This butterfly is one of our long lived butterflies that survives the winter as an adult tucked into brush piles or cracks in the bark

This butterfly lays its eggs in large, multilayered clusters on the leaves of stinging nettles. The newly hatched caterpillars are yellow green with rows of long black forked hairs emerging from black tubercles; they stay together to feed; many mouths can handle difficult plants, like the stings on the nettles more easily then one. As there is safety in numbers, many caterpillars cluster together to confuse predators. They feed together stripping the leaves completely until they have shed their skins 3 times. When the caterpillars reach their 4th instar they move out on their own and, like their fellow Brushfoot’s Satyr Anglewing caterpillars cut, fold and stitch with silk a leaf to create a shelter. They may share this shelter with caterpillars of the other leaf tier species. This adds to the whole confusion of caterpillar

Musings on Music by Heather DeRome

“AWWW, do I have to???” What’s a mom to say? I couldn’t say yes and I couldn’t say no. I wanted her to WANT to do it.

When my daughter started violin lessons, my goal for her was that she would keep playing as long as she loved it, and my hope that she would keep her enthusiasm throughout her childhood years and grow into the musician that was kindling inside.

How do you keep something that requires training and practising fresh and fun for a kid? I mean, realistically, there were bound to be dry periods and I did not want her to stop practising, and improving and therefore getting bored and quitting.

Looking back, it was all games: “Hey, let’s play Harry Potter! Put on your Hogwarts uniform and first you can be Hermione and then Ginny and Lavender and I forget who else, and you can all take turns playing your piece for me!” By the end, (mwa ha ha) the unsuspecting child had played her piece several times over. On rare occasions, when we’d have a hideous hard passage to overcome, we had the penny game. I bribed her at a penny per repetition and 25 cents later we were over the hurdle.

With music, there are so many facets. To be the best artist we can, we must draw upon all our resources to the fullest. Music uses the logical, pattern-oriented, analytical left brain, it calls upon the intuitive right brain, it harnesses our spirituality, and then requires us to bring these three aspects to their highest manifestation using our bodies. When it’s all working together, we are not consciously making it happen, but it seems to be happening of its own. It carries us along rather than it being we who are controlling it. It’s a beautiful place to be!! That is our goal as musicians. If we are supporting children on this path, it can be a very delicate balance that we are trying to maintain, between letting them be in their own zone and helping them develop.

With school starting up again, it’s a good time to reflect upon how we can support our children in their endeavours. Books about learning strategies discuss how kids all learn differently, but how are we all the same? Humour me: You’re a kid. You’ve finally mastered. . . the cartwheel! You say: “Hey everybody!...” (pick one)I’m great!How’s this?WATCH ME!!!

Did you pick “C”?

This is very profound for children and it’s also so simple that we parents do not realize how important it is.

And how did you learn to talk? Did you begin by learning the alphabet? No, you listened and copied. Every time you copied a new word, your parents repeated it back to you and

were overjoyed! (“He said MAMA!!!”). It really is that simple. Children learn by watching and being watched, and they develop by copying and being mirrored. Being appreciated with joy and enthusiasm is what fosters their interests. With my daughter’s violin, I always knew that if I could change the “AWW MOM!!!” into “WATCH ME!!!” we’d be good to go.

Heather DeRome teaches music and performs in the greater Victoria area.heatherderome.com

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How I spent my summer vacation

The summer of 2012 is coming to a close. Many students are reporting to teachers and classmates on what they did over the summer months. I therefore offer a partial inventory of my activities.

As is the usual pattern on southern Vancouver Island, the weather forecast always seemed to be pleasant with increased likelihood of more pleasantness through the weekend. Despite the good growing weather, our tomatoes continue to disappoint and even the deer seem disinterested in our peas and beans.

While my garden was another example of great effort with little return, that cannot be said for many farmers in the region. My regular visits to the farmers’ markets in Goldstream, Metchosin, Sooke and Shirley have helped to restore my faith in local food production. Consumer participation is up across the region and the notion of supporting local growers, and growing a little something at home, has taken hold. Government can offer programs for growers, but nothing works better than people showing up with cash to enjoy a fresh local product.

For the past few years I have talked about sport fishing and the impact of the recreational fishery on local economies. What I have implied but not discussed is the social and psychological benefits of going fishing for a day. In late August I put up the “gone fishing” sign and headed to Port Renfrew to spend a day on the water with two old buddies and their fathers. The four of them have been going on fishing holidays since we left high school. It is an opportunity for them to fill the freezer for the coming winter as well as maintain relationships and catch up on what the kids are up to and what the future may hold.

As the rookie in the boat, I was given honours when the Chinooks started to nibble. The thrill of the strike is something that can be described but really must be experienced. I had two beside the boat - I maintain that my friend with the net spent too much time admiring the salmon and not enough time getting the fish in the boat - but was not able to land the mighty symbol of the west coast. Nothing for the freezer, but a lasting memory of time spent with old friends and a reminder of the importance of salmon to our coastal experience.

From catching salmon to growing them, I have continued to seek solutions to the decommissioning of the Bill James Dam on DeMamiel Creek, upstream from the Sooke Salmon Enhancement Society’s site. Local residents have been working overtime to persuade the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to continue to manage the dam in the public interest. Along with local representative Mike Hicks and Member of Parliament Randall Garrison, we are unanimous in our support of this public work. The challenge has been to get decision makers to see the value of maintaining the dam. The provincial government had suggested to me that a water use plan of the Sooke region may prove useful in protecting the infrastructure. Unfortunately, that commitment has not yet been realized.

I visited the northwest of BC as part of an energy tour gaging support and opposition to the various large scale projects on the drawing board. I will report in a later edition what I learned from communities and First Nations. But also on my radar was an important issue affecting us here on the Island – the Tsunami debris in Haida Gwaii. I had the opportunity to be toured around by a reporter and a camp ground manager and, at present, there is no co-ordinated plan to deal with debris washing up on the shores of Haida Gwaii. Local landowners pick up bar fridges, styrofoam floats, Japanese pop bottles and other flotsam that washes up daily. This first wave of garbage is uniformly light in weight, and arrives on the wave surface - but soon, the heavier items will begin arriving deeper in the water column. I was shown overflowing garages and outbuildings as the landowners await word on what is to be done with the debris. There is also growing concern that exotic sea life may be attached to the debris and adversely affect the environment of Haida Gwaii.

The debris is coming to a shoreline near you, soon. Senior governments must have a plan to manage the volumes of material coming our way. I plan to voice my concerns to the government in the next session of the Legislature. I encourage you to write to Premier Christy Clark and let her know that waiting for the refuse to pile up is not an option.

You can write to her at: PO BOX 9041, STN PROV GOVT, Victoria, BC, V8W 9E1 or via e-mail at premier@gov.bc.ca.

John Horgan, MLA Juan de Fuca www.johnhorgan.ca john.horgan.mla@leg.bc.ca

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A Sea of Bloom p.4 250-642-3952

Alice McLean Pottery p.7 250-642-3522

Cadillac Imaging & Implants p.15 250-590-2040

Custom Digging p.14 250-413-7685

Deb’s Barbershop p.16 250-391-7566

Doug Read - Pemberton Holmes Realty p.12 250-642-2705

East Sooke Fire Protection Commission p.13 250-642-4411

Envirotemp Refrigeration p.6 250-893-4530

Farm Centred Community - Susan p.9 250-642-1714

Felix Irwin - Chartered Accountant p.4 250-642-5277

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From the Garden... at French Beach p.7 250-646-2425

Guitar Lessons - Heather Derome p.17 250-642-1901

James Craven & Associates p.3 250-744-9455

JdF Emergency Program p.7 250-642-2266

JdF Parks & Recreation Commission p.15 250-642-1500

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Juan de Fuca Veterinary Clinic p.5 250-478-0422

KC Natural Homes p.18 250-642-0535

Kimmel Massage Therapist p.11 250-646-2865

Markus’ Wharfside Restaurant p.11 250-642-3596

Marlene Bowman - Seagirt Pottery p.17 250-642-7620

Mosaic West Consulting Services p. 7 250-642-0399

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Numa Farms p.9 250-474-6005

Otter Point Electric p.4 250-588-4324

Race Rocks Automotive p.3 250-478-1920

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Sheringham Point Lighthouse Pres. Soc. p.20 250-646-2528

Shirley Community Association p.9

Sooke Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair p.20

Spanish Lessons p.8 250-642-1714

Tale of the Whale p.18 250-642-6161

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