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Foundation helps those with memory loss and their loved ones with art and musicLaura LavinNews staff

Musician Louise Rose is in mid-sentence when a petite, older woman comes up to her. “Do you know this song? Dah, dah, de, dah,

dum, dah, dah, de, dah, dum,” she trills. Rose shifts her gaze to the woman, her mouth hangs slightly open as she listens.

“Dah, dah, de, dah, dum, dah, dah, de, dah, dum,” the woman continues, her delicate hands fluttering as she sings. Rose repeats the phrase: “Dah, dah, de, dah, dum, dah, dah, de, dah, dum … you’ve stumped me,” she says after a moment.

“Dah, dah, de, dah, dum,” the woman continues. “You don’t know it?”

“Keep working at it,” Rose says. “We’ll figure it out.” The woman walks away, the tune still tripping off her tongue, her hands dancing in the air.

Rose’s gaze follows Isabel as she goes. She refocuses, then says: “It’s in there.” She’s talking about the memory of music.

Suddenly, sound fills the room. “Dah, dah, de, dah, dum, dah, dah, de, dah, dum.” Isabel’s dancing hands are deftly picking out the tune on the piano.

Rose’s mouth forms a thin line, her hands clench, tears prick at her eyes. “Music is the last to go,” she says after a moment.

Isabel (her last name was withheld to protect her privacy) is one of eight participants in the We Rage We Weep Alzheimer Foundation’s Arts and Alzheimer’s program. The program began last spring as a pilot project and, now successful, hopes to add other venues to its Oak Bay United Church home base.

“I found research that says 25 per cent of caregivers are spouses, family members and adult children,” says Marjorie Moulton, founder of We Rage We Weep Alzheimer Foundation.

‘Music is the last to go’

Don Denton/News staff

Singer and pianist Louise Rose leads the music portion of an arts and music program for Alzheimer’s sufferers at the Oak Bay United Church. The program is put on by the We Rage We Weep Alzheimer Foundation.

PLEASE SEE:Music, art give relief, Page A22

Election candidates line upWe asked candidates vying for seats on Oak Bay council this year to tell us their experience and their top issues in the community, and how they plan to solve them.

Head to head, Page A3

Courage RememberedThe News’ annual salute to Canadian military veterans.

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John Herbert

Age: did not respond

Occupation: Retired chartered accountant

Family status: Married to Ann with three adult children and three grandchildren.

Political experience: Served on Oak Bay board of variance for 12 years and on council since 1999

Lived in the community: 40-plus years

What is your single biggest issue this election? We need to protect what we have already achieved in Oak Bay during these difficult economic times. Pressures for increased density and proposals for regional mega projects present a challenge. This includes maintaining our physical assets, our infrastructure, our unique character and affordable taxes.

How do you hope to solve it? We need to maintain our tight financial controls and look for efficiencies in all areas. We also need to find a way for residents to have input into regional decisions given that 50 per cent of the taxes we levy are for other agencies, over which we have little control.

What has council done well this term? We have upgraded and improved both our recreation facilities and programs for residents of all ages. New recreation equipment has been installed, new programs introduced and energy efficiency changes made that will result in significant savings.

What would you do on council to improve it? A committee I chair is working on an Active Transportation Strategy for Oak Bay. This plan will encompass proposals for all forms of human-powered transportation. We have now received a consultant’s report containing proposals and are working with staff to cost and prioritize where to begin.

Pam Copley

Age: did not respond

Occupation: Heritage planner, B.C. Public Service

Family status: Married with three grown children

Political experience: Two-term Oak Bay councillor, CRD arts committee, Greater Victoria Public Library Board, Tourism Victoria, Royal & McPherson Theatres Society, and seniors housing, traffic and pedestrian safety, and heritage committees

Lived in the community: 35 years

What is your single biggest issue this election? The need for meaningful consultation and collaboration with citizens to ensure their input into key decisions impacting our community. Of particular importance are updating the Official Community Plan, infrastructure renewal, provision of housing options to meet local needs, and redevelopment of Oak Bay Lodge.

How do you hope to solve it? By supporting responsive, accessible local government through citizen engagement in a comprehensive OCP review process; an improved, interactive website and other communications; more informal opportunities for dialogue at town hall and neighbourhood meetings, and municipal planning that addresses identified community needs and concerns.

What has council done well this term? We continue to be committed to protecting our community’s integrity and enhancing the lives of our citizens locally and regionally through retention of community-based seniors’ housing in the public domain; development of an Active Transportation Strategy; stewardship of our natural and neighbourhood assets

What would you do on council to improve it? We could and should do a better job of bringing residents into the local government process through public engagement activities; municipal strategic and land-use planning, including transportation infrastructure; updating our bylaws and policies; implementing strategies to make Oak Bay green, active and sustainable.

Susan WoodsAge: 58

Occupation: Journalist, owner of the Moss Rock Review magazine

Family status: Married with three adult children

Political experience: Never served as an elected official but covered provincial and local government for years as a journalist

Lived in the community: I have lived on the Oak Bay boundary for 25 years. I participate in the community on a daily basis, and feel a strong affinity with the social, heritage and cultural landscape of Oak Bay.

What is your single biggest issue this election? The biggest issue is new development and secondary suites.

How do you hope to solve it? I would ensure new development respects neighbourhood sensitivity and preserves the urban canopy. Secondary suites are considered on a selective, case-by-case basis, using spot zoning and requiring the main residence to be owner-occupied.

What has council done well this term? I believe they have worked hard to listen to and reflect the wishes of the community.

What would you do on council to improve it? As a journalist I understand the impact

local decisions have on our economy, neighbourhoods and quality of life. I would bring my passion for natural and built heritage to the table, work with other levels of government to secure funding for infrastructure projects, and be an accountable and productive representative.

Gregory Hartnell

Age: 59

Occupation: Pro-life artist-historian

Family status: Married to Dawn Elizabeth Keough

Political experience: President of Central middle school student council; senator at University of San Francisco student senate

Lived in the community: Former resident of Beach Drive, Hampshire Road, Yale Street, Milton Street. I am running to warn Oak Bay voters not to emulate Victoria’s mistakes.

What is your single biggest issue this election? Unnecessary counterproductive residential and commercial property taxes, undemocratic sewage and transit levies.

How do you hope to solve it? I will never vote for a tax increase in the three-year term, or vote to increase hiring, spending or borrowing.

What has council done well this term? Taxes in Oak Bay are lower than in Victoria, but not low enough to really stimulate the local economy.

What would you do on council to improve it? I will never give myself a raise, always vote to lower residential and commercial property taxes, not approve raises for managers or unionized staff, not hire new staff or managers, not approve new borrowing or spending whatsoever.

head to headCouncil candidates

Pam Copley

John Herbert

Gregory Hartnell

Susan Woods

Oak Bay News asked each council candidate to answer questions in the leadup to the Nov. 19 municipal elections. The responses of four candidates are below. The responses of the seven

remaining candidates appeared in Friday’s News. All responses are online at oakbaynews.com.

Occupy Victoria protesters vow to battle on after evictionGroup plans ‘flash occupations’Rudy HaugenederNews Staff

Occupy Victoria is planning a series of small “flash occupa-tions” around the city in coming weeks, warns the Victoria Peo-ple’s Assembly, the group behind the protest tent city at Centennial Square.

The new protest sites will

range from downtown intersec-tions to schools, malls and even Victoria police headquarters, and last from three hours to a cou-ple of days, said spokesperson Anushka Nagji.

The action comes after the city ordered the protest camp removed from Centennial Square by Monday at noon, or face being ticketed for breaking Victoria bylaws prohibiting tents on city property during daylight hours.

Approximately one-third of the 60 tents packed up and moved,

but other protesters vowed to stay.

In a voluntary compromise to appease the city and the Down-town Victoria Business Asso-ciation, which want to set up a temporary Christmas season skating rink in Centenniai Square, another dozen tenters moved to another location on the square.

As the eviction deadline approached, about 125 protest-ers and their supporters linked arms and shouted, “Hell no, we won’t go.” Another 75 people

milled about expressing support, but not linking arms.

No tickets were issued.The planned flash occupa-

tions are in response to the city’s action on Sunday when bylaw officers, protected by police, handed out 87 eviction notices to protesters camping in Centennial Square. The protesters were told get out by high noon Monday -- even though Mayor Dean Fortin on Friday said he suspected it wouldn’t be enough.

He said the city now has lit-

tle choice but to ask for a B.C. Supreme Court injunction order-ing the protest camp to disman-tle. With an injunction, the city can legally send in police to arrest and remove the protesters.

Fortin said police cannot legally step in to forcibly move the pro-test camp until an injunction is granted and served to the pro-testers. However, getting an injuc-tion could take days or weeks, he said, even though the city wants them out by Nov. 21.

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It’s time to lace up your runners for this year’s Oak Bay Merrython Fun Run.

The 32nd Annual Merrython Fun Run is organized by Oak Bay Rotary and supported by Oak Bay firefighters, Frontrunners, Runners of Compassion, and Oak Bay Parks and Recreation.

Take advantage of early bird registration, before Nov. 14, to save $5 and get a free toque.

“The toque is new this year and we’re hoping it’s popular,” said Henderson Recreation Centre fitness supervisor Jenny Rhodes. “We have always given out a T-shirt in the past and thought we’d try this – just in time for your winter running.”

The Merrython Fun Run takes place Dec. 4, starting at Henderson Recreation Centre, 2911 Cedar Hill Cross Rd. It includes an eight-kilometre run, four-kilometre walk and one-kilometre children’s event.

Warm up at 9:45 in the gym at Henderson rec centre. Start time is 10 a.m. with the children’s one kilometre event beginning at 11:15 a.m.

Early bird registration for participants 13 years and older is $20 and includes a runner’s toque. Children under 13 are $5 (no toque).

Registration from Nov. 15 to Dec. 1 and 4 for teens and adults is $25 (no toque) and children are $5 (no toque).

Runners of Compassion running club will be collect-ing non-perishable food items, and winter wear and blankets. Donations will be exchanged for a Recreation Oak Bay courtesy pass. All funds raised will support the Rotary Club of Oak Bay in their local and interna-tional projects.

Registration forms are available online at recreation.oakbaybc.org or at all Oak Bay recreation centres. Call 250-370-7200 for more information.

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Local governments to help design third-party reviewErin McCrackenNews staff

B.C.’s minister of Transportation and Infrastructure has ordered B.C. Transit to undergo an independent third-party review.

“It will examine the transit-system operations and performance, gover-nance and local government consulta-tion and communication processes, as well,” Blair Lekstrom said Wednesday.

In recent months, mayors through-out the province banded together to lobby the province for the review, amidst their growing concern that the Crown corporation cannot be counted on for transparency, accountability and adequate communication.

“(The review) is a significant step,” said Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard, who was among several mayors and municipal staff who raised their con-cerns with Lekstrom in September.

The review will address funding for-mulas and governance, which Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin said will highlight the need for local control of transit to move from the Victoria Regional Tran-sit Commission to the Capital Regional District.

“I think it’s important that we have regional transportation planning (rather than a transit commission) and if we can move it to the CRD that’ll

be extremely important to us,” Fortin said.

In response to the minister’s deci-sion, B.C. Transit said it welcomes the review.

“It aligns with our goals of continu-ously improving operations and pro-viding effective and efficient service across the province,” said Joanna Lin-sangan, B.C. Transit’s manager of com-munications.

“We expect that this review will con-firm our strengths and suggest ways to better meet the needs of our partners and customers.”

Local governments will be able to provide input on the design and scope

of the review.“We didn’t want him to just agree to

a review and then we not be a part of it and have it pop out at the other end,” said Leonard, who also sits at the com-mission table.

The process will begin with the development of the review’s terms of reference before the actual review gets underway, likely after the Nov. 19 municipal election.

“We will try and do it as quickly as we can,” Lekstrom said.

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Review ordered on Transit

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Local politicians hope to have more control over transit decisions affecting the region.

Oak Bay Merrython puts fun in your run

PLEASE SEE: Our View, Page A8

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Suspect done in by suspicious boating behaviour

Rudy HaugenederNews Staff

If Jeffrey Melchior had followed simple boating rules, he might never have been caught – and would have been $2.6 million richer.

But he didn’t and now the Lake Cowichan man is instead an alleged money launderer await-ing a trial that could see him locked up for years.

Amid the tightest police security ever seen at RCMP District Headquarters in Vic-toria, police last week announced they had seized more than $2.6 million U.S. in what Mounties describe as one of the largest sei-zures of laundered money in Canada.

RCMP Supt. Derek Simmonds, in charge of the federal border integ-rity program in B.C. said the money was fished out of Canadian waters near Sidney in the mid-dle of the night last March after the pilot of a suspicious fast-mov-ing boat without run-ning lights threw a suit-case of money into the water just as an RCMP patrol boat was about to intercept it.

After first recover-ing the suitcase, police arrested Jeffrey Mel-chior of Lake Cowichan, who is charged with possession of property obtained by crime and laundering proceeds of crime.

Simmonds said the seizure and arrest was the result of the 44-year-old Melchior’s bad sea-manship rather than intelligence police had gathered.

He said the five-metre rigid hull inflatable boat was just two nautical miles – six minutes – away from the U.S. bor-der when police inter-cepted the vessel. Mel-chior was not armed and the only person aboard.

Melchior’s mistake was moving at high speed, late at night, toward the interna-tional border on a route known to be used

by smugglers. If his actions had been less suspicious, the RCMP border integrity opera-tions centre might have missed him, Simmonds said.

The centre relayed the suspicious informa-tion to an RCMP marine patrol and it moved to cut Melchior off before he got to the border. There was no high-speed pursuit.

Moving currency or contraband in large sums like this is a com-mon identifier for orga-nized crime activity, Simmonds said.

Melchior, who is not in custody and was not previously known to police, is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Nov. 21.

Once the case is set-tled, if the money was used for criminal means it could be diverted into the federal govern-ment’s general revenue.

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Man busted after $2.6 million thrown from inflatable boat


RCMP Cpl. Paul Minkley holds an automatic rifle while guarding U.S. cash at a press conference in Victoria.

Hundreds will gather Friday (Nov. 11) at 11 a.m. in Uplands Park to honour the memory of those who served Canada in the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Afghanistan and in peacekeeping forces.

“We have a very good attendance,” said Oak Bay Police Chief Const. Mark Fisher. “A lot of people in the com-munity lived through the war, obvi-ously that increases our turnout. They recognize it as an important event.”

The Oak Bay Remembrance Day Ceremony is organized by the Oak

Bay Police Department and includes participation from the Oak Bay High Brass Choir, Victoria Male Choir, various Oak Bay clergy, the fifth and 12th Garry Oak Scouts, Girl Guides and the Oak Bay Fire Department.

The ceremony takes place at the Oak Bay Memorial Cenotaph, in the 2800-block of Beach Dr., beginning just before 11 a.m. on Friday. Lim-ited seating is available.

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It’s time to lace up your runners for this year’s Oak Bay Merrython Fun Run.

The 32nd Annual Merrython Fun Run is organized by Oak Bay Rotary and supported by Oak Bay firefighters, Frontrunners, Runners of Compassion, and Oak Bay Parks and Recreation.

Take advantage of early bird registration, before Nov. 14, to save $5 and get a free toque.

“The toque is new this year and we’re hoping it’s popular,” said Henderson Recreation Centre fitness supervisor Jenny Rhodes. “We have always given out a T-shirt in the past and thought we’d try this – just in time for your winter running.”

The Merrython Fun Run takes place Dec. 4, starting at Henderson Recreation Centre, 2911 Cedar Hill Cross Rd. It includes an eight-kilometre run, four-kilometre walk and one-kilometre children’s event.

Warm up at 9:45 in the gym at Henderson rec centre. Start time is 10 a.m. with the children’s one kilometre event beginning at 11:15 a.m.

Early bird registration for participants 13 years and older is $20 and includes a runner’s toque. Children under 13 are $5 (no toque).

Registration from Nov. 15 to Dec. 1 and 4 for teens and adults is $25 (no toque) and children are $5 (no toque).

Runners of Compassion running club will be collect-ing non-perishable food items, and winter wear and blankets. Donations will be exchanged for a Recreation Oak Bay courtesy pass. All funds raised will support the Rotary Club of Oak Bay in their local and interna-tional projects.

Registration forms are available online at recreation.oakbaybc.org or at all Oak Bay recreation centres. Call 250-370-7200 for more information.

[email protected]


Local governments to help design third-party reviewErin McCrackenNews staff

B.C.’s minister of Transportation and Infrastructure has ordered B.C. Transit to undergo an independent third-party review.

“It will examine the transit-system operations and performance, gover-nance and local government consulta-tion and communication processes, as well,” Blair Lekstrom said Wednesday.

In recent months, mayors through-out the province banded together to lobby the province for the review, amidst their growing concern that the Crown corporation cannot be counted on for transparency, accountability and adequate communication.

“(The review) is a significant step,” said Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard, who was among several mayors and municipal staff who raised their con-cerns with Lekstrom in September.

The review will address funding for-mulas and governance, which Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin said will highlight the need for local control of transit to move from the Victoria Regional Tran-sit Commission to the Capital Regional District.

“I think it’s important that we have regional transportation planning (rather than a transit commission) and if we can move it to the CRD that’ll

be extremely important to us,” Fortin said.

In response to the minister’s deci-sion, B.C. Transit said it welcomes the review.

“It aligns with our goals of continu-ously improving operations and pro-viding effective and efficient service across the province,” said Joanna Lin-sangan, B.C. Transit’s manager of com-munications.

“We expect that this review will con-firm our strengths and suggest ways to better meet the needs of our partners and customers.”

Local governments will be able to provide input on the design and scope

of the review.“We didn’t want him to just agree to

a review and then we not be a part of it and have it pop out at the other end,” said Leonard, who also sits at the com-mission table.

The process will begin with the development of the review’s terms of reference before the actual review gets underway, likely after the Nov. 19 municipal election.

“We will try and do it as quickly as we can,” Lekstrom said.

[email protected]

Review ordered on Transit

File photo

Local politicians hope to have more control over transit decisions affecting the region.

Oak Bay Merrython puts fun in your run

PLEASE SEE: Our View, Page A8

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BRAITHWAITE, Hazel ✗

“Hazel Braithwaite volunteered for Bays United for eight years, wearing a multitude of hats. It was her leadership as

President where she shone the most.She led the Bays with a fair hand, always giving people the opportunity to speak, and by placing the needs of the soccer community in the forefront. She collaborated well with members of the club and members of the community.”

“I support Hazel in herbid for Mayor!”–Tara Kennedy, President, Bays United F.C.

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Department posts QR codes to promote websiteLaura LavinNews staff

They might look like funny little mazes popping up on a police post on Oak Bay Avenue in front of the municipal hall and on police vehicles in Oak Bay, but they’re just another way for police to reach out to the community.

“It started this past summer,” said Chief Const. Mark Fisher. “It’s just another way to get people to access our website.”

Oak Bay was one of the first departments in Can-ada to use QR codes. Fisher said most people have a basic understanding of the police service, but the website includes more detailed information.

“It helps people to become more aware of what

we do. They can access news releases and other information – it just helps us reach another seg-ment of the population,” he said.

The QR, or quick response, codes are like bar codes that are readable by many smartphones. The codes often take users to websites with addi-tional information about products or services.

The Oak Bay Police Department is keen to use social media to promote education, communica-tion and to enhance its visibility.

“More people in our community are online,” said Fisher. “All police departments are realizing that people are using web access and we have to keep current. Often that’s where people are getting their information.”

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Two victimized by international ID theft

Oak Bay police investigated two cases of identity theft last week. In one case an Oak Bay resident reported fraudulent purchases had been made in Venezuela using identification in her name. The resident had vacationed in Venezuela a year ago and police believe her documentation was compromised at that time.

In the second incident, a resident reported that a Shell credit card, that had never been activated, had its numbers used numerous times in Langley and Cloverdale running up purchases of more than $1,500.

Bike, saw snatched in break-in

Police investigated a break and enter to a garage in the 2500-block of Wootton Cres. Nov. 4. The garage door was inadvertently left open overnight and the following morning the owners discovered a Rona brand compound mitre saw missing. The saw is blue, with a 10-inch blade.

Also stolen was a Norco Nitro Niner men’s mountain bike. The bike is baby blue, with a 29-inch frame and is valued at $1,800.

Impaired driver strikes median

Oak Bay Police attended a single-vehicle collision in the 2700-block of Cadboro Bay Rd. at 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 5. A 2011 Ford Escape driven by a 29-year-old Victoria woman was northbound on Cadboro Bay Road when it struck the centre median.

The driver exhibited signs of alcohol impairment and provided a roadside breath sample resulting in a fail reading.

The driver was given a 90-day immediate roadside driving prohibition and her vehicle was impounded for 30 days.

Greater Victoria Harbour Authority outlines three-stage plan for revitalization, single ferry terminalErin McCrackenNews staff

Four applicants now have their fingers crossed they will be the chosen one to move into the CPR Steamship Terminal building.

The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority is the latest to submit its application to property landlord, the Provincial Capital Com-mission, on deadline day Oct. 28.

Bob Wright of Oak Bay Marine Group, the Maritime Museum of B.C. and Matt MacNeil of Vic Pub Co. were the original three to apply for tenancy at the Belleville Street building.

The commission cancelled the process in the spring because the applications didn’t meet its requirements. Wright and museum officials confirmed their continued interest.

The harbour authority is proposing one full restaurant, a light-menu eatery, up to three high-end tourism retail stores and exhibit and attraction space for the first and second floors. Offices, though not those belonging to the authority, would go in on the third and fourth levels.

“The idea is to get life and activity in the building year-round,” said CEO Curtis Grad. “For 40 years it’s been pay-on-entry and we’d like to bring levels one and two back to public use.”

In its proposal, the not-for-profit outlined a broader vision to one day have departing ferry passengers walk through the CPR building into a new single ferry terminal next door. That would replace and consolidate the Black Ball and Victoria Clipper ferry terminals, which currently operate on Provincial Capital Commis-sion-managed property.

If those terminals come down, a portion of the property could be developed into civic space, said Grad.

“Museum, performing arts, festival space, (space for) First Nations – there are a number of ideas that need to be vetted with all the stakeholders,” he said.

The Provincial Capital Commission’s board of directors will choose the site’s tenant on Nov. 24. Leasing negotiations should finish in December, and the tenant will be able to start preparing the building in January so that it can move in later in the year.

Meanwhile, the Maritime Museum of B.C. has said it has fund-ing partners waiting in the wings to help finance its plan to move to the building, if its application is approved.

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A full three weeks after the Occupy Wall Street protest camp sprang up in New York City, a few stragglers announced they were almost ready to “Occupy Maple Ridge” and “Occupy Revelstoke.”

Perhaps other pathetic protests are still being dreamed up around B.C. But most have already packed up, and in places such as Prince George, these anti-capitalist rallies never led to an illegal squat.

Let’s be clear about squats, the ones in Canada and particularly B.C. They are explicitly anti-capitalist and statist in their message, which is presumably why they were funded by government unions.

Despite the free food, power and porta-potties, these squats quickly became filthy and dangerous as the chronic street drug population replaced the spoiled young drummers and hula-hoopers who camped out to curse corporations on their iPhones.

And yes, squats are still illegal here, following a unanimous October decision of the B.C. Court of Appeal against Victoria man, David Arthur Johnston. This pretend-homeless guy’s antics are at the root of the latest squatter outbreak. Victoria and its courts caved to Johnston and allowed camping on public property at night. But he demanded 24-hour squatting rights, because some

supposedly homeless people are supposedly insomniacs too. Turns out there were plenty of shelter

beds on which to snooze, and his vague claim of a constitutional right to camp on public property was dismissed.

I had a brief exchange with an Occupy Vancouver “organizer,” one Min Reyes, as she tried to rouse the reluctant radicals of Maple Ridge. Reyes defines herself in her Twitter profile as “Flirting with Anarchism while

making love to Socialism,” which sums up B.C.’s Occupy movement as well as anything.

“My personal approach to the analysis of society relies on Marx’s historical materialism,” Reyes writes on her blog. After majoring in Marxism at Simon Fraser University, she moved on to BCIT’s journalism program, but dropped out after a couple of weeks because her studies “compromised my personal values.”

Turns out the B.C. Institute of Technology is all about “skills” to get a “job.” Bummer.

A glimpse of these “values” was on display when a reporter from CKNW radio tried to cover a heroin overdose at Occupy Vancouver. She was shouted down and accused of shaping the news to benefit “Coke and McDonalds.”

At Occupy Victoria, which I visited a few times before it

descended into another needle park, signs warned against “chem trails,” smart meters and corporations. Campers were urged to “nationalize finance, energy and food” industries. Five-year plan for tractor production, anyone?

Nationalizing banks is also at the top of Occupy Vancouver’s long, pretentious list of demands.

Why is this stale leftist ideology so pervasive? Here’s a hint: The union representing these kids’ teachers is demanding higher corporate taxes to pay for their typically self-serving, financially illiterate contract demands.

Here in Victoria, as in Vancouver, the huge growth in shelter, food, clothing and transition housing services doesn’t impress the hardcore system users. Victoria’s mayor built his reputation with years of street outreach work, but he’s still targeted for the ugliest treatment, including vandalism at his family home.

Victoria council even kowtowed by voting to “support” the squat next to city hall, where Johnston used to camp. Then they cut off the power and water, which had been commandeered rather than set up by city staff at taxpayers’ expense, as was the case in Vancouver.

In B.C.’s most “progressive” cities, we’re getting used to encountering public areas fouled by vomit, feces and used needles.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com.

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‘Occupy’ is just another squat

‘They are explicitly anti-capitalist and statist in their message.’

Review must lead to LRT referendum

The province’s promise for a third-party review of B.C. Transit’s governance model is a good start at giving Greater Victorians more control of our transportation options.

The logical next step is to ensure the results of the review include a chance to take big-ticket items, such as light rail, directly to the people for a vote.

A referendum on the proposed billion-dollar project, as well as plebiscites on other

major issues affecting public transportation, would help give the anticipated new masters of local

transit a much clearer mandate.People deserve to have their say on the

future of the Crown corporation’s operations in the region.

For months, province-wide, mayors have told the government they’re not satisfied with B.C. Transit’s current governance model.

These politicians voiced concerns about transparency, accountability and communication with the public.

The current Victoria Regional Transit Commission, though consisting of elected representatives, has little say over decisions made out of the public’s eye by B.C. Transit bureaucracy. That has to change.

And while locally elected representatives should have a say in transit governance, the taxpayers they represent should also be able to weigh in on whether they want to put their money behind a costly light-rail transit network for Greater Victoria.

The idea already has some momentum. The Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce has been calling for such a referendum, even before the province announced its review.

Expectation are growing and whoever is elected to local councils on Nov. 19 will be wise to heed the will of the people.

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Let’s imagine that at their recent assembly, “Occupy Behind the Tweed Curtain” proposed the following: Replace the Willows Beach tea room with a year-round restaurant and bring back a gas station to Oak Bay. They also propose to do away with secondary suites by creating a float home village beside the Oak Bay Marina.

With a bit of humour, some council hopefuls agreed with one or more of the proposals, resulting in the Occupy protesters abandoning a suggestion that a fast food restaurant be established on Oak Bay Avenue.

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Replacement needed now to add bedsRe: Councillor comment out of line (Letters,

Nov. 2)To the contrary of the previous writer, I wish to

applaud Coun. John Herbert for trying to get the Oak Bay Lodge replacement underway.

First, there are currently insufficient residential care beds available, and many of those facilities being used are worn, tired, and inadequate in many unrepairable ways. Complicating this is a VIHA’s first-bed-offered policy whereby you will not likely get the location of your choice as well as no estimate of your waiting time for that first placement – let alone second placement – if you decline the first-offered bed.

As of last summer there was a three- to five-year wait to transfer between institutions, which, considering the age of some residents, means no shift is possible. So, to comment on the previous writer asking how many of those additional beds

will be be occupied by locals, chances are you will not receive placement in your municipality when your time comes. Considering the baby boomer tsunami, we will soon need more care beds, not fewer, than today’s insufficient number.

Secondly, there can be an unequal social burden imposed on some members in a society. My father-in-law tolerated the addition of the four-lane McKenzie Avenue connector and a doubling and raising of the island highway both in sight of his home. Tolerating a slightly larger health institution might also be one of those burdens.

The Lodge’s replacement was needed yesterday. Let’s not delay any longer. Tell your MLA more care beds are needed now as many of our care residents, and those needing access to care, can no longer do this for themselves.

W.J. NobleOak Bay

An Occupy protest in Oak Bay would have different motives

Michael HayesGuest comment

A crucial decision now facing Oak Bay council is, ironically, little known or understood: Garry Oaks Village, the redevelopment proposal of VIHA and Baptist Housing for the Oak Bay Lodge site.

Monday, Nov. 14, council must rule on three variances requested by the developer. These involve significant, not minor, changes that will alter the Oak Bay skyline and community for 60 or more years.

Baptist Housing wants to demolish the Lodge, replacing its “campus of care” with a regional, 320-bed, six-storey building offering only complex and dementia care for Greater Victoria seniors.

Their proposed highly problematic structure will: a) exceed current height bylaws by two full storeys; b) be 50 per cent larger than the current building; c) come within a very few feet of Cadboro Bay Road and Bowker Street; and d)

encourage single-occupancy vehicle use by staff. It will sit on the highest piece of land in this part of Oak Bay. To imagine what a six-storey building there might look, stand in the parking lot of the Eric Martin Pavilion and look up – way up.

The developer claims the greater good of the region outweighs neighbour concerns. Would you agree if this was your neighbourhood?

Baptist Housing, since first unveiling its design in late September, has refused to provide a scale model that puts the proposed facility in perspective. The model has been requested more than once. Do they fear that to see the scale of the proposal will create more problems than it solves? Baptist Housing also won’t consider any substantive changes to building design, service delivery model, or patient density – changes that would allow the building profile to be lowered. The very minor alterations they have made to its footprint and setbacks have produced further

difficulties, pitting concerns of some neighbours against those of others.

Note that Baptist Housing is a private company and this is a standard public-private partnership. In exchange for providing capital money, they get an exclusive, private operating contract for 60 years. No public access to information. They assert council must decide on these variances now, or risk losing the project because their financing plan must be completed by year-end.

If you, too, care about this sudden pressure on council (without all VIHA and Baptist Housing cards on the table) to approve a project that that is simply far too inappropriately high for the property, please write to Oak bay council, attend the council meeting on Monday, or read more about neighbourhood concerns on the Facebook page called Oak Bay Lodge Redevelopment.

Michael Hayes lives adjacent to the proposed redevelopment of Oak Bay Lodge.

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The Corporation of theDistrict of Oak BayLEAF CLEARING

Leaves from the trees that give Oak Bay its name are now falling, and municipal crews have readied the leaf vacuuming equipment for the campaign which will begin soon to clear them from streets and gutters all over the Municipality. The leaf clearing program begins in October and will continue until all leaves are collected rather than on a pre-determined street by street schedule.

The reason for this annual blitz is to prevent catch basins and storm drains from becoming clogged to the point where they cannot cope with the runoff from a moderate to heavy rainfall.

It takes quite a while to cover the entire Municipality, however, and the more leaves there are on the street at any one time, the more likely it is that problems will occur before our crews can get to the area.

We can handle the leaves deposited on the street by the normal forces of nature. We run into diffi culty, however, when residents rake leaves onto the street from their own properties in anticipation of the arrival of our vacuum, or leave other garden refuse or tree prunings on the boulevard expecting it to be picked up with the leaves. Piles of leaves on the roads also create safety hazards for cyclists.

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Greater Victoria’s eco-nomic growth rate has slumped by as much as one half of what it was prior to the global reces-sion that has crippled cities in other industrial countries, according to the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce.

Economic growth has shrunk to “a modest two to three per cent” compared to the regular growth rate in Greater Victoria of about four per cent, said Bruce Carter, chamber CEO.

But that’s still large growth compared to many American cities where shopping cen-tres are devoid of cus-tomers and stores, and unemployment is nine per cent or higher, he said.

He considers the Cap-ital Region’s six-per-cent jobless rate almost full employment, with many employers complaining they can’t find qualified and experienced work-ers to fill vacancies.

Carter said employers have told him Greater Victoria’s high housing prices make it difficult to recruit workers from outside the region.

Global economic uncertainty has ham-mered consumer con-fidence here and else-where, he said, mean-ing people are spending less and are more care-ful – making it “a little tougher on the retail side.”

That means “margins are tight” and “every-body is sharpening their pencils” to reduce costs to compensate for lower profits, Carter added.

The tightening econ-omy has affected cham-ber membership, which Carter said has shrunk slightly and now sits at about 1,500 members out of about 8,000 busi-nesses that serve the region.

However, the region’s strong housing sector and continuous growth in the ever-expanding technology sector, com-bined with the good summer results for the local tourist accom-modation industry, show Greater Victoria is in pretty good shape, Carter [email protected]

Region’s economy slows to a simmer

Roszan HolmenNews staff

Among the 250 members on board HMCS Van-couver, currently off the coast of Libya, there are a lot of stubbly-faced men.

Avoiding their daily shaving obligation is a privilege that comes with a price: a donation to the ship’s favourite charity.

At first women on board didn’t have an equiv-alent opportunity for breaking the grooming rules, said navy Lt. Matthew Mitchell, who led this year’s charitable campaign.

Now, that’s been rectified. For a donation, women win the right to paint their nails.

There have also been hot dog sales and other fundraisers. In total, they’ve raised more than enough to launch a breakfast program at Vic West elementary school.

Mitchell learned how big the need is for break-fast programs through his fiancée, who is a teacher in the area.

“It surprised me, because we’re such an affluent society,” he said, calling from a phone onboard the ship.

The Greater Victoria school district helped out by pinpointing a worthy recipient school.

“It’s touching that they would consider people

in their community who are at-risk, because we would consider the ones in the military to be the ones at risk,” said Joe Cardle, principal of Vic West elementary.

“You have these people who are serving over-seas, away from their families, yet the activities they’re involved in reminds them of why they are doing this and the people they’re supporting.”

HMCS Vancouver left for the Mediterranean Sea in July.

“Its a morale thing,” explained Mitchell, of their efforts. “It helps us stay connected to home.”

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“You have these people who are serving overseas, away from their families, yet the activities they’re involved in reminds them of why they are doing this and the people they’re supporting.”

– Joe Cardle

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Brian Richmond remembers being in the front yard listening to rock ‘n’ roll on the transistor radio when he heard the tragic news.

It was 1959 when Buddy Holly and music stars died in a plane crash, later dubbed as the day the music died.

“I was 12 years old,” recalls the artistic director of the Blue Bridge Repertory The-atre. “I remember it coming over the news and how sad I felt and how everyone felt at the time … Buddy Holly was phenomenal. He was so seminal to a form of pop-rock in the 1950s. “

Richmond’s fondness for Holly’s music, however, wasn’t the driver behind his deci-sion to bring in a touring production about the musician.

“I don’t think I would have brought the production here, had I not gone over to Vancouver to see the Buddy Holly Story … It is not an exaggeration to say the audience was up dancing in the aisles … The music was phenomenal.”

Richmond attended the show on a casting search. Zachery Stevenson, who plays Holly, was one of Richmond’s students around the turn of the millenium, back when Richmond was chair of the department of theatre at

the University of Victoria. Victorians have come to know Stevenson

in several professional acting roles, includ-ing Hank Williams, as well as through his pop-folk duo, called the Human Statues.

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story premiered in 1989. This production was produced by Vancouver’s Arts Club.

It’s the first time Victoria’s Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, launched in 2008, has brought in a show by another theatre com-

pany. “It’s an experiment for us,” said Rich-

mond. “It’s a little bit scary because you have to make a fairly large financial commit-ment to doing this kind of thing. You have to just hope that people will like it.”

The venture seems to be going well. As of Nov. 4, 2,000 tickets had been sold, rep-resenting 60 per cent of seats available for the three-performance run. Already, Blue Bridge has broken even on its investment.

“It’s getting up to being one of our highest pre-sells,” he said.

Success could mean Blue Bridge starts presenting more outside productions, along-side the three they produce each year.

“I’m more than happy to say this is a phe-nomenally entertaining show,” said Rich-mond.

The year 1959 marked the end of a decade “we view as our childhood, and one of the happiest periods in our culture,” he explained. “Holly represented this aspect of ‘50s life. … Given our rather tumultuous and uncertain times, it’s nice to remind our-selves of this kind of youthful joy.”

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Mark your calendar■ What: Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story■ Where: Royal Theatre■ When: Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 16 at 2 and 8 p.m.■ Tickets: Evening performances – $53.25 for adults, $48 for students and seniors. Matinees are $48.25 for adults and $40 for students and seniors, at rmts.bc.ca or 250-386-6121.

Blue Bridge takes on rendition of Buddy Holly’s life

Jeremy Holmes, left, Scott Carmichael, and Zachary Stevenson in the Arts Club Theatre Company’s production of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.

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Jazz artist Dee Daniels sings her favourite songs by the men of jazz. Concert at 8 p.m. Tickets, $35 at rmts.bc.ca or $40 at the door.

Hot ticket:A Night Out With the Boys,Alix Goolden Hall, Nov. 19


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Character comedian returns homeVictoria native Mike Delamont portrays Carlo Rossi, the smooth Californian winemaker in his show Mike Delamont: A One-Night World Tour. After staging a sold-out solo show during last summer’s Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival, Delamont brings a new act back to his hometown this month. He plays at the Victoria Event Centre on Nov. 11, at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance at mikedelamont.com and Rebel Rebel (585 Johnson St.) or $20 at the door (1415 Broad St.).

Acclaimed jazz pianist to play Hermann’s

Multi-award-winning jazz pianist Nancy Walker brings her original compositions to Victoria.

The National Jazz Awards Keyboardist of the Year in 2008, along with her trio of Ted Quinlan, Kieran Overs and Ethan Ardelli, take the stage at Hermann’s Nov. 19 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $15 in advance and for Victoria Jazz Society members, or $18 at the door (753 View St.). For advance tickets, contact the Victoria Jazz Society at 250-388-4423, the Royal and McPherson Box Office at 250-386-6121and www.rmts.bc.ca or in person at Lyle’s Place and Ditch Records.

Submissions sought for film festival

Grab your cameras. The Victoria Film Festival’s FilmCAN is back.

FilmCAN returns this year, expanding its reach and offering a great opportunity for young filmmakers to have a taste of the film making process from creation to distribution and promotion, right up to the exhibition of their film at a major film festival.

The FilmCAN competition invites budding young filmmakers from middle and high schools on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands to make a short film on a subject of their choice and upload it to the FilmCAN website.

The winning films from each category will be awarded prizes

and be shown on the big screen at the Victoria Film Festival.

Films must be between two and four minutes in length and be uploaded to http://vimeo.com/groups/filmcan by Dec. 15 to be eligible.

More details can be found at www.victoriafilmfestival.com or by contacting [email protected]

Poetry readings kick-start P.K. Page trust fund

Twelve poets will read from the works of renowned Victoria writer, the late P.K. Page.

The readers will also tell listeners of their relationship with Page and present one of their own poems.

The event helps launch the P.K. Page Trust Fund, which hopes to raise $10,000 across the country and will benefit poets and poetry in Canada, and will be managed by the League of Canadian Poets. It happens at Open Space, 510 Fort St., from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. on Saturday (Nov. 12). Admission is $5, which goes toward establishing the fund. Chapbooks will also be for sale.

Page died in her home in Oak Bay on Jan. 14, 2010. She was 93. Page wrote more than 40 books, earned eight honourary doctorates from Canadian universities and was inducted to a variety of prestigious assemblies, such as being named Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999.

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Ryan FlahertyNews staff

Picture yourself at the grocery store. You have a list in front of you, but you can’t find anything on it and even the thought of asking for help is over-whelming.

Meanwhile, people buzz around you on all sides, oblivious to your helpless-ness.

The scenario is an example of an everyday task that can be a struggle for someone who’s had a brain injury.

To help those who face such chal-lenges, the Victoria Brain Injury Society has a created a new “Coping Strategies” program – one of eight offered by the non-profit.

The society hosts its fourth annual fundraising gala, Nov. 19 at the Victoria Marriott Inner Harbour.

“An evening of black and white … because grey matters!” is the theme of

the evening, which will feature a cham-pagne reception, tapas, silent and live auctions, and a concert performance by tenor Ken Lavigne and some “secret” special guests.

In accordance with the theme, the dress code for the evening is black and/or white formal wear.

Last year’s event raised $55,000 for the society. This year’s goal is an even $100,000, said Nicole Nelson, the orga-nization’s director of resource develop-ment.

“Awareness of our organization and what we do has grown exponentially because of the connection between brain injury and concussions,” Nelson said. “Our wait list has grown so the need to have this gala has grown.”

The society has set a goal of elimi-nating its waitlist by next year. Tickets for the gala cost $150, and can be pur-chased by calling 250-598-9339.

[email protected]

Gala supports grey matterMurdered Langford teen Kimberly Proc-

tor is the subject of a feature story in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

New York-based journalist David Kush-ner came to Victoria for the sentencing hearing for killers Kruse Wellwood and Cameron Moffat in May.

The writer dwells on the role the Inter-net and technology played in the young men luring Proctor into their trap.

Wellwood, 17, and Moffat, 19, are serving life in prison.

Vanity Fair is available on newsstands and the full article Murder by Text is online at vanityfair.com.

Proctor’s aunt Jo-Anne Landolt is look-ing to launch a school safety program and is part of an online competition for a $150,000 Aviva Community Fund grant.

Voting runs until today (Nov. 9) at avi-vacommunityfund.org. To vote, search for idea 11490.

[email protected]

Proctor’s story detailed in Vanity Fair feature


Greater Victoria home prices fell slightly last month.

The average price for single-family house dropped by $26,557 to $595,836 in October.

However, it’s not as bad as it seems.The median price -- half priced higher and half

lower -- actually increased by almost $5,000 from September to $539,750 and is the price gauge real-tors say better reflects market true conditions.

However, Victoria Real Estate Board President Dennis Fimrite calls current home prices a “gen-eral softening” compared to the recent past.

Sales increased in Greater Victoria last month with 483 homes and other properties selling through the Victoria Real Estate Board’s Multiple Listing Service -- up from 458 sales in September and 467 sales in October of last year.

October sales included 260 single family homes, 145 condominiums, 46 townhouses and 10 manu-factured homes.

“It is encouraging to note that sales last month were higher than in the previous month and com-pared to October of last year,” said Fimrite in a statement.

He said there will always be month-to-month fluctuations in prices and that “average prices are particularly susceptible to change depending on whether more higher priced or lower priced prop-erties sell in a particular month.”

The total number of properties for sale slowed last month – 4,687 compared to 4,940 in Septem-ber.

The average price for condominiums last month was $307,329, down from $332,490 in Septem-ber. The median price for condos dropped slightly to $277,000

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Ryan FlahertyNews staff

Picture yourself at the grocery store. You have a list in front of you, but you can’t find anything on it and even the thought of asking for help is over-whelming.

Meanwhile, people buzz around you on all sides, oblivious to your helpless-ness.

The scenario is an example of an everyday task that can be a struggle for someone who’s had a brain injury.

To help those who face such chal-lenges, the Victoria Brain Injury Society has a created a new “Coping Strategies” program – one of eight offered by the non-profit.

The society hosts its fourth annual fundraising gala, Nov. 19 at the Victoria Marriott Inner Harbour.

“An evening of black and white … because grey matters!” is the theme of

the evening, which will feature a cham-pagne reception, tapas, silent and live auctions, and a concert performance by tenor Ken Lavigne and some “secret” special guests.

In accordance with the theme, the dress code for the evening is black and/or white formal wear.

Last year’s event raised $55,000 for the society. This year’s goal is an even $100,000, said Nicole Nelson, the orga-nization’s director of resource develop-ment.

“Awareness of our organization and what we do has grown exponentially because of the connection between brain injury and concussions,” Nelson said. “Our wait list has grown so the need to have this gala has grown.”

The society has set a goal of elimi-nating its waitlist by next year. Tickets for the gala cost $150, and can be pur-chased by calling 250-598-9339.

[email protected]

Gala supports grey matterMurdered Langford teen Kimberly Proc-

tor is the subject of a feature story in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

New York-based journalist David Kush-ner came to Victoria for the sentencing hearing for killers Kruse Wellwood and Cameron Moffat in May.

The writer dwells on the role the Inter-net and technology played in the young men luring Proctor into their trap.

Wellwood, 17, and Moffat, 19, are serving life in prison.

Vanity Fair is available on newsstands and the full article Murder by Text is online at vanityfair.com.

Proctor’s aunt Jo-Anne Landolt is look-ing to launch a school safety program and is part of an online competition for a $150,000 Aviva Community Fund grant.

Voting runs until today (Nov. 9) at avi-vacommunityfund.org. To vote, search for idea 11490.

[email protected]

Proctor’s story detailed in Vanity Fair feature


Greater Victoria home prices fell slightly last month.

The average price for single-family house dropped by $26,557 to $595,836 in October.

However, it’s not as bad as it seems.The median price -- half priced higher and half

lower -- actually increased by almost $5,000 from September to $539,750 and is the price gauge real-tors say better reflects market true conditions.

However, Victoria Real Estate Board President Dennis Fimrite calls current home prices a “gen-eral softening” compared to the recent past.

Sales increased in Greater Victoria last month with 483 homes and other properties selling through the Victoria Real Estate Board’s Multiple Listing Service -- up from 458 sales in September and 467 sales in October of last year.

October sales included 260 single family homes, 145 condominiums, 46 townhouses and 10 manu-factured homes.

“It is encouraging to note that sales last month were higher than in the previous month and com-pared to October of last year,” said Fimrite in a statement.

He said there will always be month-to-month fluctuations in prices and that “average prices are particularly susceptible to change depending on whether more higher priced or lower priced prop-erties sell in a particular month.”

The total number of properties for sale slowed last month – 4,687 compared to 4,940 in Septem-ber.

The average price for condominiums last month was $307,329, down from $332,490 in Septem-ber. The median price for condos dropped slightly to $277,000

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Real estate sales show mixed results

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firstly, I couldn’t have done it without Russ Hays,” she said, as the shop’s owner, Mike Cler-mont, outfitted her with a high-end racing bike, unlimited maintenance and gear at cost for the past two seasons.

“But I actually raced as if I was Russ Hays the person,” she laughed.

In a humorous misunderstanding, she was introduced as cyclist Russ Hays from Victoria, B.C. The mistake was repeated

over the public address system at the beginning of each and every stage of the 11-day, Tour of America’s Dairyland race in Wisconsin in June.

“I couldn’t fig-ure it out. A girl named Russ?”

Still, San-brooks finished 13th overall among the 67 pro women who started the race, third among the eight racers entered

from Team Kenda.“I was frustrated because I couldn’t get

into the single digits. It’s a learning experi-ence with a lot of positioning and tactics. Every little move matters,” she said.

Travis PatersonNews staff

Destroyed. Annihilated. Murdered.Choice words to describe a night of competitive

cycling. But to hear Shalie Sanbrooks, a seemingly gentle and happy 28-year-old, describe her first night of racing in the Victoria Cycling League back in 2009 is to hear the tale of a proud survivor.

“I don’t know why I kept going. I remember it was just up and down climbing, over and over. That’s the thing about cycling,” she said.

“After races you think ‘I’ve never hurt like this before.’ Then you sign up again.”

Since then Sanbrooks balanced a schedule of full-time work and high performance training, and turned it into the enlightening future she had hoped for – a pro contract to race with Team Kenda (presented by Geargrinder) for the 2012 season.

To Sanbrooks, hearing those magic words – pro racing – means everything to her right now.

“I’m super grateful to have jumped the gap to pro as soon as I did. It’s so hard for women to go pro from amateur.”

Needless to say, Sanbrooks went on to win the Victoria Cycling League’s elite women’s trophy twice since joining up. As for the pro contract, Sanbrooks will receive a travel voucher, have her races paid for and get a professionally customized bike that’s hers to sell at the end of the season. Her team will split the prize pot of any wins. Team Kenda is from Indiana but Sanbrooks will be based out of St. Louis, MO., from March to September.

It’s a major achievement for Sanbrooks as there aren’t a lot of pro women’s teams.

Getting the contract took getting noticed.

Breaking

SPORTSHow to reach usTravis Paterson 250-381-3633 ext [email protected]

She had to save to do it, but next year Shalie Sanbrooks will race as a pro cyclist

Photo by Patrick Hui

Shalie Sanbrooks leading the sprint in the women’s giro of the 2011 RBC Gran Fondo from Vancouver to Whistler. Sanbrooks finished the 120-kilometre race on Sept. 10 in fifth. The route climbs a total of 2.4-km.

Photo by Rob Livingston

Victoria Outlaws ball carrier Kalen Jules puts his hand where he shouldn’t during the Outlaws 15-14 defeat of the Victoria Hitmen.

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Sanbrooks is headed to New Zealand this month to train for the winter.

The last transitionIt should be noted along with her effort

and sacrifice, Sanbrooks also has a recent history as a world-class triathlete.

Sanbrooks insists it’s her background of proper training and “knowing how to hurt” that’s kept her on the road. In fact, her original motive for relocating from Ladysmith to the border of Victoria and Saanich in 2009 was to continue as a tri-athlete.

“Once I realized I couldn’t run like (Kirsten) Sweetland, I soon gave it up. There’s nothing like (starting a triathlon by) killing the swim and having a good bike, only to get (passed by others) in the run,” she said.

A cost of livingA lot goes into becoming pro.In preparation for the upcoming race

season Sanbrooks is embarking for New Zealand this week where she’ll train under pro conditions until she goes to St. Louis in March.

All the while she’s relying on her own savings to cover rent and day-to-day expenses.

It’s part of a limitation that’s kept her out of the discussion as a top-10 cyclist in Canada, said former coach Houshang Amiri.

“For me, Sanbrooks hasn’t achieved her potential, so it’s hard to say where she could be in the national rankings. Top-10 is not out of her range,” he said. “She’s very motivated and is definitely an athlete with potential.”

Amiri is the master coach of the Pacific Cycling Centre in Victoria. He worked with Sanbrooks in 2010 and is currently working with Olympian Erinne Willock, 30, of Team Tibco and national junior champion Annie Ewart, 18, who is set to go pro next year as well.

“You have to be good to get in (a pro team), and better to stay there,” he said.

For Sanbrooks, it means this time next year she’ll have another decision to make. Based on her results she’ll either continue racing or, might have to take time to work and train.

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A bounce off an opposing player’s helmet has the Victoria Outlaws going to Kamloops this week-end for the pee wee football provincials.

On Oct. 30 the Outlaws defeated the Victoria Hit-men 15-14 for the second time in a week, winning the Island pee wee (ages 9 to 11) championship.

It dethrones the Hitmen from their reign as pro-vincial champions for two years running. The Out-laws play the winner from the interior league on Saturday (Nov. 12).

What made the Island final an unforgettable game for Outlaws coach Zac Kremler, was the prior circumstance of events.

“Our 14-0 win on Oct. 22 was the first time any-body beat the Hitmen in two and a half seasons.”

In the final it was the Outlaws down 14-0. It took a fourth quarter comeback to win 15-14 on touch-downs from Gideone Kremler and Dante Carbone. Kalen Jules caught a conversion pass on the first TD. Kremler’s conversion kick on the second TD “was low but bounced miraculously off a helmet and through the posts for the win,” Zac said.

Full recap online at [email protected]

AFC No. 7 entertainsWith the Victoria Grizzlies away,

the tough guys came out to play at Armageddon Fighting Champion-ship No. 7: Break Out, Saturday at Bear Mountain Arena.

Derek Medler’s first round win headlined a night of 12 mixed mar-tial arts fights.

For a full recap and story visit www.vicnews.com

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Get the meds outDerek Medler, top, defeated Brian Grimshaw at Armageddon Fighting Championship No. 7: Break Out, Saturday at Bear Mountain Arena. Photo by Kris Gower

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Vikes men host CIS soccer nationals, women outTravis PatersonNews staff

It’s go time for the UVic Vikes men’s soccer team as they open the Canadian Interuni-versity Sport national champi-onships against the Montréal Carabins on Thursday.

Game time is 7 p.m. at Cen-tennial Stadium, the last of four quarterfinals that day.

Entering the tournament are eight university squads from across the nation, the Carabins, Saint Mary’s Hus-kies, McMaster Marauders, Alberta Golden Bears, Cape Breton Capers, McGill Red-men, Toronto Varsity Blues and the University of Victoria.

Each team either won its conference championship or was a finalist, while the Vikes enter as hosts. The Vikes

(11-3-2) did win the Canada West bronze medal, however, with a 1-0 win over the Trinity Western Spartans (8-4-2) on Sunday.

But it was the underdog Golden Bears (7-3-4) pulling off massive upsets to win Can-ada West gold and a spot in this week’s nationals.

The fourth place Golden Bears defeated the first place

Vikes 2-1 in the semifinal on Saturday and then won on a goal in the 89th minute to beat the UBC Thunderbirds 1-0 in the final.

“It was ‘supposed’ to be us in the gold medal game but now we’re the ‘other team’ (going into nationals),” coach Bruce Wilson said.

Veteran goalie Dan Kilpat-rick made seven stops on Sun-

day to earn a clean sheet. All-star rookie duo Craig Gorman and Cam Hundal connected for the bronze medal game’s only goal, with Gorman redi-recting a Hundal shot.

Mitrou will start in goal on Thursday as the outstanding tandem continue their rota-tion.

“I have all the confidence in both of them,” Wilson said.

Women’s watch endsThe Vikes women also lost

in the Canada West semifinal as three different Trinity West-ern Spartans scored to defeat the Vikes 3-0 in Langley on Fri-day.

Jacqueline Harrison scored for the Vikes in their 2-1 loss to the UBC Thunderbirds in Saturday’s third place game.

Award winnin’Hundal’s (Surrey) two goals

and eight assists helped earn him the Canada West rookie of the year award. Hundal’s effort also made Wilson look all the more genius in the eyes of his peers as the Canada West coach of the year.

Making the first all-star team from UVic are Mitrou, defender Gavin Barrett and midfielder Gorman, with Hundal named to the second team. Midfielder Jaclyn Sawicki was named to the women’s first team and fullback Amy Lawrence to the second team.

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Travis PatersonNews staff

There were a few mistakes made but the St. Andrew’s Sabres executed at the level they knew they could. The boys soccer team won the A pro-vincial championship in Kamloops on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Mulgrave (West Vancouver).

“We never played a bad game,” said coach Mark Cristante.

“Even the game we lost we deserved to win (against Unity Christian).

“The boys were well focused and took it very serious, from meal preparation to ice baths, the seniors led and the others followed.”

Cristante is a former UVic Vike and Gorge senior men’s player and has been the head coach for the past three years.

St. Andrew’s was AA last year and because of fluctuating numbers has done the yo-yo between A and AA over the past few seasons. The Sabres last won a provincial A title in 2003.

This year’s provincial run consisted of a 7-0 win over Bulkley Valley, 4-3 loss to Unity Christian, 5-0 win over host St. Ann’s and a 3-1 playdown win over Pemberton.

Giordano De Paolis scored twice against Mul-grave in the final and Fabian De la Fuente scored the other. De Poalis’ eight goals in five games won him the golden boot award while the tourna-ment MVP when to St. Andrew’s Leo Falzon.

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Ball in Vikes court

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UVic’s Craig Taylor, left, heads the ball away from Trinity Western’s David Malmura during the Vikes 1-0 win.

St. Andrew’s Giordano De Paolis won the golden boot and Leo Falzon was the MVP at provincials.Submitted

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Electronic music showcased at demonstration

The University of Victoria hosts the Cana-dian Electroacoustic Community for a full day of electroacoustic music and celebration during the association’s 25th anniversary tour. Presen-tations will include a seminar on trends in elec-tronic music, a demonstration on controllers and synthesizers, presentations by students in the music and computer science program and eve-ning concerts featuring robotic instruments.

The event is free and open to the public Nov. 15, from 10:30 a.m. to midnight in various rooms in B wing of the MacLaurin Building.

Book and record sale returnsto support United Way

Clean out the bookshelf for a good cause.

The UVic Libraries’ United Way Book and Record Sale is back again and organizers are seeking donations of books, records, typewrit-ers and record players in good condition for the charity sale and silent auction.

DVDs and CDs are also accepted for the Nov. 29-Dec. 1 sale, but journals, magazines, text-books, encyclopedias, Readers Digest and VHS tapes are not.

Bring donations to the Cinecenta entrance of the Student Union Building Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or to the McPherson Library until Nov. 23. Donations will also be accepted in the Michèle Pujol Room of the SUB from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 24 to 27.

Research from various faculty revealed in symposium

This year’s seventh annual faculty research symposium is hosted by the history in art department and showcases the work of faculty and sessional instructors across campus. Imag-ining/Creating/Meaning features speakers from the departments of medieval studies, anthropol-ogy, and history in art.

Visiting Orion Lecturer and keynote speaker Christy Anderson of the University of Toronto hosts Live Words and Experience: The Crafting of Renaissance Buildings.

The symposium is free and open to the public from 9:30 a.m. Nov. 18 in the Wild Rose room of the University Club.


“They need help with services and support and have difficulty accessing it because they don’t have the funds.”

Moulton’s father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s about 10 years before his death. “I watched my mother going through it,” she says.

She started the foundation five and a half years ago, beginning with Project Life-saver of Greater Victoria, a bracelet that uses radio frequency technology to track patients with dementia who wander away from home.

The majority of the foundation’s funding comes through individuals and families. It also gets some corporate donations.

“Last April it seemed the right time, and we were in a position financially, to start another program. … There are other groups around the world that do this and get good results. It fits our mandate of supporting individuals (with dementia) and their care-givers,” Moulton says. “Participants come and enjoy the art and music, and being engaged, and the caregivers can go and run errands, or meet a friend for coffee maybe,

or just have a break.”The room is now filled with the sound

of Rose on the piano and the voices of the group participating in a sing-along. The singing comes after a snack of yogurt and fruit which follows an hour of art facilitated by Esther White, co-ordinator of the paint-ers group with the Juan de Fuca Arts and Crafts Guild.

“I was with the school district for 25 years,” she says. “I worked in special edu-cation and with autistic children. There are a lot of similar problems: remembering things, following directions – it all ties in.”

She tries to make the sessions engaging, following the lead of the participants. Art projects include everything from making collages and painting Easter eggs to flower arranging and cookie decorating. “There were five guys over there,” White says, pointing to a now empty table. “As fast as they were decorating them, they were eat-ing them.”

The free, two-hour, once-a-week program, which runs 10 weeks, costs about $5,000 to operate, says Moulton. Expenses include the venue, honorariums for the artists and musicians, refreshments, music and art

supplies.“It’s still a small program because it’s a

pilot project,” says Moulton. “Currently it’s only available in Oak Bay. With a few more generous donations we hope to spread to a few more locations in the city,” she says.

As the music hour winds down, Rose

picks one last song for the happy chorus to sing. Till We Meet Again rings out and Isabel, wearing a bright red sweater that contrasts sharply with her snow white hair, sings in a clear, sweet voice, her frail hands dancing to the tune.

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Music, art give relief to caregivers, enjoyment to seniorsContinued from Page A1

Isabel demonstrates how she would put on a helmet during wartime service in London, England during a discussion at the We Rage We Weep arts and music program for Alzheimer sufferers at Oak Bay United Church. Fellow participant Carl listens in (last names withheld).


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