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March 23, 2012 edition of the Oak Bay NewsTRANSCRIPT
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OAK BAYNEWSIn their own wordsA new documentary explores the state of homelessness in the Capital Region.
News, Page A14
Tan-ban triumphOak Bay youth celebrate provincial ban on teenaged tanning. Sports feature, Page A5
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Liam Morgan, a member of the Monterey middle school mountain biking club, catches some air as he uses one of the jumps in the school’s temporary bike park.
Travis PatersonNews staff
Monterey middle school’s mountain biking club started with Max McCulloch doing what most boys his age do, riding his bike over bumps and jumps.
Seeing how natural it was, and hearing there was a school bike league, Max’s parents, Lara and Mike, put the word out last year to start a school team.
“It was a small group, six kids, and they won the city championships for mountain biking,” Lara said.
“We wanted to get the word out that kids could indeed compete at the middle school level. We found the kids just didn’t know there was a bike league they could be part of.”
This year the group took it a giant leap forward, building a mini-park with stunts and jumps on Monterey school grounds. Happy to help, the local Home Depot, Ford dealership and Oak Bay Bikes store donated supplies and money to assist with the park.
As many as 25 kids meet each Thursday and work on their skills, learning basic mountain biking techniques, such as balancing on “skinny planks,” popping onto curbs and managing corners by learning to position their bodies.
After-school mountain biking club a hit with kids
Riding the mountains of Monterey
PLEASE SEE:Bike club seeks girls, Page A4
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Caitlyn Mullen’s small face lights up as she looks at her painting. “We have purple flowers and we have orange flowers,” she says, as she begins to describe her creation. “And I painted purple and I painted red and I painted different kinds of flowers. I painted our heads and ears and flowers and happy faces and noses and white and green and all sorts of stuff and deco-rations on our dresses,” she puffs out in a long sentence, then slaps her hands against her knees.
The four-year-old’s blond pigtails are tousled after a morning at school followed by lunch at a restaurant. Dressed in a red sweater over a yel-low t-shirt, black and white striped leggings and pink rubber boots, she is in turns shy and verbose. Typical for her age, she and her friend Zoe love pretending to be cheetahs and chasing boys; she likes to swim, cook pasta and play with her dog Takumi.
Not as typical is Caitlyn’s paint-ing. She wanted to make it spe-cial – bright and colourful – a portrait of “mom and me” as a
Christmas gift. Done in the style of Gustav Klimt, with bits of shiny paper substituting for gold leaf, the portrait is intricate, detailed and clearly a labour of love.
“It was a special project the family requested,” says Jennifer Hope, Cait-lyn’s art teacher at 4Cats Arts studio in Oak Bay.
Caitlyn started her artwork in October. While she painted, her mom – the inspiration for her portrait – battled breast cancer.
“I made a purple dress and made pink right there and pink shapes and a purple mouth on … I like purple,” says Caitlyn, rubbing her lips with her forefingers, eyes bright, focussed on her painting.
The portrait includes stars and swirls and hearts. “And we’re say-ing hello because our hands are up, and our hands are touching together and it’s sparkly because of the gold paper,” Caitlyn continues, tiny hands waving in the air as she describes the scene. “Her eyes are green, because that’s my momma.”
Diagnosed in January 2011, Cait-lyn’s mom, Charlene, endured radi-
ation, a double mastectomy and chemo-therapy. After a month of naturopathic treatments in October the family hoped for good news. In November, Charlene’s health took a sudden and unexpected turn for the worse.
“It was unfortunate that her mom got really sick,” says Hope. The pair rushed to finish Caitlyn’s painting in the hope of pre-senting it to her mom as an early Christmas gift.
“We really tried to get it done. The sad-dest part of the whole thing for me was the last day that we were together and she got it finished … her mom passed away,” says Hope.
Charlene Mullen, a fun, generous, strong woman who loved playing in the yard with her daughter and decorating their home for holidays was just 48 when she died on Nov. 24. She never saw the painting. Cait-lyn’s portrait was unveiled at her mother’s funeral.
“I smile because my mom is so happy, but my mom is gone now and I’m not going to see her again. She’s in heaven,” Cait-lyn says softly. With the wisdom of a child, she knows her mom can see her creation. “She loves it,” Caitlyn says enthusiastically bouncing on her feet and throwing her hands up.
Earlier this month the portrait of Caitlyn
and her mom hung at Red Art Gallery as part of a special display of children’s art. “Having the show at the Red Art Gallery was very special for all the kids,” said Hope. “After it’s framed, it’s like it has a new life. When they see it in the art gallery under the spotlight, it’s unbelievable.”
“I wanted to make it special for mom and bring it to heaven,” Caitlyn says.
Caitlyn has been taking art classes at 4Cats since she was three, and was happy to have her art on display, but she doesn’t see a future as an artist.
“I’m going to be a cheetah and a mer-maid,” she says. “And Zoe too.”
Don Denton/News staff
Four year old Caitlyn Mullen poses with her Gustav Klimt-inspired painting that she made as a special gift for her mom.
“Her eyes are green, because that’s my momma.”
- Caitlyn Mullen
A portrait of love
Some days the group heads up Gonzales Hill for a taste of rocky terrain.
“The kids demand more and more growth with bigger jumps, but there is no pressure,” Lara said.
“Basically, we just looked at the space and said ‘we can’t dig in,’ so it’s a portable park. We set up and break down most of the park every Thursday.”
One added bonus is to provide “a nice soft mulch” for when the kids crash, a regular part of
mountain biking. On Sundays, the skills are put
to the trail with group rides at Hartland Park, which usually brings out an eager set of parents.
If the group is missing one thing, however, it’s girls.
“No girls yet, just me,” Lara smiled. “We’re trying to encourage it. Hopefully with the road bike portion of the school racing season, we’ll get some girls out soon.”
Information for the school cycling league is available at lowerislandschoolsports.ca.
Bike club seeks girlsContinued from Page A1
Natalie NorthNews staff
Money can’t buy happiness and apparently it doesn’t afford for a winning election campaign in Oak Bay, either.
Just ask Hazel Braithwaite, who ran an unsuccessful may-oral campaign on $20,671.59 in campaign contributions, com-pared to Mayor Nils Jensen, who came in 428 votes ahead of his rival candidate with $12,467.24 in contributions.
Braithwaite’s largest contri-bution came from the Penny Farthing, which also supported Jensen’s campaign. The pub
supplied Braithwaite with a $4,768.76 contribution while supporting Jensen with $645.12.
Other corporate contributors of note include Oak Bay Marine Group, which provided the Jensen campaign with $650.
Candidates in the Nov. 19 municipal elections had until Monday to declare their campaign contributions and expenses.
Coun. Kevin Murdoch topped the list with the highest amount raised toward a coun-cillor campaign with $5,921.22, including $4,122.22 of his own contributions and $300 from Oak Bay Marine Group. Coun. Michelle Kirby, the only candi-date endorsed by the Canadian Union of Public Employees ($250 contribution), followed with contributions totalling $3,760.33. Kirby’s campaign was buoyed in part by the Victoria Labour Council ($1,000), Union of taxa-
tion Employees ($500), Denise Savoie ($100) and the B.C. Fed-eration of Labour ($100).
Councillors Pam Copley, Cairine Green and John Her-bert declared contributions of $2,981.53, $2,100 and $1,966.09, respectively. Coun. Tara Ney logged $347 in campaign contri-butions.
Unsuccessful council can-didate Corey Burger declared $1,295 in contributions, while Colleen Kirkpatrick declared $1,082.70. Bill Carver cited zero contributions and $912 in expenses. Susan Woods and Gregory Hartwell logged zero dollars both for campaign con-tributions and expenses.
In most cases campaign expenses were closely aligned with contributions.
For a full break-down of the numbers go online to www.oak-baynews.com.
Unions boost campaignsUnsuccessful mayoral candidate had biggest budget
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Oak Bay High students have stood out for passionately opposing tanning beds, but it won’t be long before they’re in the same boat as teens across B.C.
The Ministry of Health announced a provincewide ban on tanning bed use by people under the age of 18 – a change directly linked to the tan-free movement that began in Oak Bay.
Stephanie Wong and Adele Green, co-founders of the school’s Youth Against Cancer club, were “ecstatic” to hear Health Minister Michael de Jong’s announcement Tues-day morning.
“When the minister said they were actually going to restrict the use (of commer-cial tanning beds) for youth under the age of 18, we were shocked that the minister had made a decision so early, but not that he actually made the restriction,” said Wong, now
a second-year student at the University of Victoria, leading a Youth Against Cancer club on campus with Green. “It just goes to show the direct link between skin cancer and tan-ning beds.”
Wong and Green were among the first to bring the issue of banning commercial tanning bed use in the Capi-tal Regional District before the CRD board of directors in 2010. The board followed
recommendations from Van-couver Island Health Author-ity chief medical health officer Richard Stanwick and sup-ported a bylaw to ban tanning bed use by young people in January 2011.
Skin cancer remains the most common type of can-cer in Canada. The B.C. Can-cer Agency estimates that 966 British Columbians will be diagnosed with cancer in 2012 and 150 will die of it. In 2004,
the total direct and indirect economic cost of skin cancer in Canada was estimated at $532 million.
“This is going to spark a generational change, which is ultimately what Adele and I have been working toward,” Wong said. “This shows you don’t have to change the way your skin looks in order to live up to the portrait of beauty. … People and youth should feel comfortable in the skin that they’re living in and shouldn’t have to feel pressured to go and use these beds that would cause them to get skin can-cer.”
Wong’s younger sister Jes-sica, a current student at Oak Bay High, has continued with her sister’s work by recently promoting a Canadian Cancer Society tan-free grad challenge at the school.
Tuesday’s announcement follows the release of a report by an indoor tanning working group that was established as a direct result of the CRD ban.
The proposed regulation under the Public Health Act does not apply to people under the age of 18 who have a medical prescription. It is anticipated to take effect this fall.
Health minister bans teens from tanningProvincewide ban began with Oak Bay students
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University of Victoria students and former Oak Bay High graduates Stephanie Wong, left, and Adele Green are happy with the banning of tanning booths for teens.
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Oak Bay council has given its stamp of approval to the Greater Vic-toria Public Library’s proposed 2012 operating budget.
If approved by its 10 municipal contributors in the region, Oak Bay’s taxpayers would be required to foot a $33,463 or 3.85-per-cent increase over last year’s bill of $868,886, bringing the district’s total share for library services in 2012 to $902,349.
Last year Oak Bay taxpay-ers were billed $868,886.
While recognizing the financial pinch increasingly felt by municipalities, library officials say they are doing what they can to stretch their financial resources.
“We really have cut to the bone,” Greg Bunyan, vice-chair of the library board, told Oak Bay council Monday night.
Municipalities are being asked to chip in $13,968,758 towards the library’s $15,648,208 total operating budget.
Adding to the fiscal challenges are declining fine revenues and provin-cial funding.
“We implemented a system to get books back, which has been good for getting books back, but has reduced the amount of money we get because books are getting back,” Bunyan said. “So that’s a reality we’ve had to live with.”
That, in turn, has impacted the library’s ability to acquire new mate-rials for its collection at a time when library usage rates have hit record highs.
The Oak Bay branch has the sec-ond highest usage rate next to the Central branch in downtown Victo-ria, council heard.
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Library system has one of the high-est per-capita usage rates in the country, and over 79 per cent of the population of Greater Victoria has library cards,” Bunyan said, noting that more than six million items were circulated last year.
Sunday service, first offered by all 10 municipal branches in the region in 2011, is an added expense, but one library officials are loathe to recon-sider to save money.
“We value your support in that regard because I think it’s an impor-tant factor for Oak Bay,” Bunyan said.
In addition to demands for books, card holders are turning to the
library system for literacy support, digital access to information, author read-ings, public-use comput-ers, language materials, workshops, e-books and home delivery of materi-als, among other services.
“You also prove that you can diversify and adapt to a changing world and not all organizations that are longstanding are able to do that so well,” said Coun. Cairine Green. “I think you’re a model for adapta-tion.”
The library has made great strides in recent years raising its profile, nec-essary for users to better understand the “depth and breadth” of available services, said Coun. Pam Copley, who sat on the library board as Oak Bay’s representative for many years.
“The good news is that you have more visitation,” she said. “The bad news is that you still don’t have quite the resources to accommodate that.”
Library officials say they are orga-nizing their efforts to identify new revenue streams and fundraising ini-tiatives to raise much-needed funds to bolster library coffers.
Oak Bay is the first of 10 munici-palities to approve the library’s pro-posed operating budget and five-year financial plan. Municipalities are being asked for their approval by May 1.
Oak Bay gives green light to library budgetTaxpayers likely to shell out $902,000 for library services in 2012
“We really have cut to the bone.” - Greg Bunyan
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The Corporation of theDistrict of Oak Bay
A schedule of the 2012 Council and Committee of the Whole meeting dates is now available. Meetings are held in the Council Chambers, Oak Bay Municipal Hall, 2167 Oak Bay Avenue. Council meetings convene at 7:30 p.m. while Committee of the Whole meetings convene at 7:00 p.m. as of April 2012.
Regular Council meetings are held on the second and fourth Monday of each month while the Committee of the Whole, starting in April, will meet every third Monday of the month. On holiday Mondays the meetings are held on the immediately following Tuesday. Oak Bay Council usually amends this schedule for the months of July, August and December. A complete list of dates is available at the Municipal Hall, or you can call 250-598-3311, or refer to www.oakbay.ca/municipalhall/meetingsandminutes to confi rm meeting dates.
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More than anything else, coal fuelled the Industrial Revolution. It was, and still is, plentiful and cheap. It’s also always been relatively easy to get at, especially if you don’t mind sending kids into mines, endangering the lives of miners, or blasting the tops off mountains.
Coal is an 18th-century fuel source, but we still rely on it for much of our energy needs. Because it’s so abundant and inexpensive, there’s been little incentive to switch to cleaner but often more expensive sources.
Burning coal pollutes the air, land, and water and is a major driver of climate change. Emissions from coal combustion contain sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, mercury, arsenic, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, lead, small particles, and other toxic materials. These cause acid rain, smog, damage to forests and waterways, and a range of serious health problems in humans, from lung disease to cancer.
And, as University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver concluded after comparing the impacts of burning tar sands oil to burning coal, “We will live or die by our future consumption of coal.” That doesn’t mean the tar sands are okay. There’s a lot more coal in the world and the impacts of mining and burning it are more severe.
Weaver stressed that, “While coal is the greatest threat to the climate globally, the tar sands remain the
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that the “world needs to transition away from fossil fuels if it wants to avoid dangerous human interference with the climate system. That means coal, unconventional gas, and unconventional oil all need to be addressed.”
Canada uses more than half its coal to generate electricity and for industry. We
export about 40 per cent, much of it to Japan and elsewhere in Asia. Canada also imports coal, mainly because it’s cheaper to ship it from the U.S. to eastern provinces than from Western Canada.
About 18 per cent of Canada’s electricity is from coal, less than the global 40 per cent average, and much less than countries like China, which uses coal to generate about 80 per cent of its electricity. But use varies across the country. According to Natural Resources Canada, “Coal is used to produce about 74 per cent of the electricity used in Alberta, 63 per cent in Saskatchewan, 60 per cent in Nova Scotia, and 18 per cent in Ontario. The coal not used to generate electricity is consumed by Canada’s steel, cement and other industries.”
Rather than looking for cleaner ways to generate energy, many industrial and government leaders
have been touting “clean coal.” This means trying to reduce some of the pollutants and CO2 by “scrubbing” them from emissions, by burying them underground in a process called carbon capture and storage (CCS), or converting coal to gas.
These are inadequate solutions. They don’t get rid of all the pollutants. Carbon capture is expensive and mostly unproven and we don’t fully understand the consequences of burying carbon dioxide. The governments of Canada and Alberta have committed $3 billion since 2008 for demonstration CCS projects, mostly for coal operations, but some for the tar sands. Even with CCS, coal plants would not be required to eliminate their CO2 emissions, just reduce them.
As long as coal remains so inexpensive to obtain and burn, with few or no dollars paid for the environmental damage it causes, it will continue to be used. And that endangers us all.
We need leadership on this. As Andrew Weaver said, “The atmosphere has traditionally been viewed as an unregulated dumping ground. There is no cost associated with emitting greenhouse gases. Economists call this a market failure. To correct this failure, a price is needed on emissions.”
With energy, it’s time to look to the future and not the past. That means finding ways to encourage clean energy development and discourage fossil fuel consumption. Carbon taxes and cap and trade must be part of the equation.
Learn more at davidsuzuki.org.
Send dirty fuel to history’s coal bin
‘Coal is an 18th-century fuel, but we still rely on it too much for energy.’
David Suzukiwith Ian Hanington
Get readyto crank it up
It’s been 23 years since a Victoria major junior hockey team made the Western Hockey League playoffs.
That was in 1989 at the old Memorial Arena, five years before the Victoria Cougars packed up and moved to Prince George.
This weekend, Capital Region puck fans can join the bandwagon, if they haven’t already, and cheer on the Victoria Royals as they battle
the always-tough Kamloops Blazers.
It’s probably an understatement to say the Royals, despite finishing
with a flourish with a pair of wins against the front-running Portland Winterhawks, are the underdogs in this series.
But that’s where the excitement lays, in the chance of knocking off a favoured team.
Fans came out to support the Victoria Salmon Kings in past years’ ECHL playoff runs.
We encourage fans to continue that tradition and give the youngsters on the ice the royal treatment, so to speak.
Royals’ supporters don’t even need to wait until the games come to the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre next Tuesday and Wednesday to watch the lads.
Shaw TV is airing every game in the best-of-seven series, which starts tonight (March 23) in Kamloops and continues there tomorrow night, with both games on at 7 p.m.
Ironically, the Royals’ Saturday game conflicts with the Vancouver Canucks, who are in the midst of a minor tailspin as they head toward the National Hockey League playoffs.
The last few Royals home games were jammed at Save-On, as fans clamored to get a piece of the action.
We expect much of the same for the upcoming games, so if you want to be there in person, you better act fast.
Then again, you can always get some friends together and gather around the flatscreen in the living room to catch all the action.
It’s hockey night in Canada, at its finest.
Junior hockey playoffs take over Save-On Centre
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LETTERS
Re: Blue Boat service works on many levels (Letters, March 16)
I am in complete agreement with William Perry’s comments regarding the decision to cut the Blue Boat shuttle.
The only thing I would add is that it is “totally asinine” besides “beyond idiotic.” The traffic from the Western communities is continuously getting heavier every year, with no solution to the terrible traffic congestion.
Further more, the senior naval officers making the decision to cut the Blue Boat shuttle service can not possibly be inhaling car exhausts daily while being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic during rush hour, or they would have given far more thought to it.
Tamara ShielsLangford
More TB fundingdesperately needed
Tuberculosis is a leading infectious killer, responsible for more than 1.4 million deaths each year. Yet more people than ever are being treated for this disease, and for the first time in history, death by TB is on the decline.
This is an incredible accomplishment, but we are challenged by our own success: incurable, all-drug resistant TB is now spreading due to inadequate treatment, which creates drug resistant strains of the disease.
A $2 billion underfunding of the largest TB treatment provider, the Global Fund, compounds this spread.
Canada is one of the world’s leaders in implementing programs and funding to fight TB. It is in our own interest to take a leadership role and convince the world to eliminate this funding shortfall;
there are no borders to infectious disease.
Nathaniel PooleVictoria
HST argumentneeds explaining again
It’s amazing, after all the discussion about the HST the past three years, that people still claim that voters who voted no to the HST deprived the government of revenue, and therefore shouldn’t complain about spending cuts.
How many times does this issue have to be explained? The HST was billed by the B.C. Liberals as revenue neutral. The anti-HST vote was not a mindless anti-tax protest. What most people objected to was the dishonest way the tax was introduced and the fact it represented a huge shift in the tax burden from corporations to individuals.
Steven MurrayVictoria
Others as quotableas younger Trudeau
Re: Young people are frustrated because they care: Trudeau (News, March 16)
I only have three quotes in response to Justin Trudeau’s statement that “the simplest way to effect change is to get out and vote.”
“If voting changed anything,
they’d make it illegal.” (Emma Goldman, Lithuanian activist)
“How fortunate for the rulers that the people do not think.” (Adolf Hitler)
“Without political education, the sovereign people is like a child playing with fire and constantly endangering the home.” (Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, father of the Swiss education system)
Dean HelmVictoria
Time, money wastedby municipalities
A risk in the current round of municipal budgeting is trimming instead of eliminating.
One bureaucrat stated in a Black Press newspaper that every department has been asked to do more with less.
That good notion fails in context, because some departments already try, but others don’t, so the good are penalized.
Municipalities need to eliminate activities, starting with fancy flowers in front of city hall, tree trimming instead of replanting, and costly signs.
They waste on faulty “consultation” exercises not competently done, unrepresentative surveys, and verbose reports with gratuitous graphics.
Consultants are paid to do what anyone with sense can stand on the
street and see. Unrepresentative volunteer committees are given free lunches while they do biased pondering they aren’t competent to undertake. Fortunately, Colwood is questioning subsidizing the West Shore Chamber of Commerce. Will all municipalities stick to basics instead of handouts for marketing?
A huge proportion of time is spent micromanaging development, such as Saanich’s foot-dragging and wordsmithing on secondary suites, instead of getting out of the way of honest people.
Municipalities spend on pet do-gooder projects, such as Colwood’s solar energy subsidy and its support for anti-radio activists who fail high school physics.
Government costs could be reduced by ensuring quality of staff and contractors and changing work rules. Spray-painting curbs without lifting the weeds is a small example.
Duplication of activism and regulation raises the total tax bill for businesses and residents – some subjects are under the thumb of five layers of fiefdoms.
Meanwhile citizens attempting to build, earn and live have to spend time coping with the results of inadequate policing. I doubt they want crime instead of taxes. Government is shirking its duty – protecting citizens against the initiation of force.
Keith SketchleySaanich
Try sitting in trafficin Colwood Crawl
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Know the media, change the media, be the media. That’s the message the Uni-versity of Victoria’s Social Justice Studies Program wants to get across this Sun-day (March 25).
The social justice and media conference goal is to encourage ideas about how to democratize the media by
reforming mainstream out-lets and developing alterna-tive and independent media.
The event is put on by the social justice program and Community Media Canada, a Victoria-based site dedicated to promoting democratic media activism.
It features activists and journalists including Steve Anderson, founder of Open-Media.ca, Stuart Hertzog, founder of community-media.ca and Janine Bandcroft, pub-
lisher and editor of Victoria's Street Newz.
Anderson will speak about the power of the Internet to connect people, or what he calls “Open Internet, Open Democracy.” He’s interested in what Victorians are think-ing and doing as the move-ment towards open media grows, and hopes the con-ference will encourage more people to get involved.
“It’s the leading edge to what I hope is to come …
getting the government to respond to citizens and (allowing them to) get involved in the policy making process,” he said.
The public is welcome to attend and admission is by donation.
The conference takes place from 1-5 p.m. at the UVic Leg-acy Art Gallery at 630 Yates St.
For more information, visit web.uvic.ca/socialjustice.
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Looking for some underwater fun?The University of Victoria Scuba Club hosts its
annual 24-Hour Dive Relay this weekend (March 24-25), raising funds to protect B.C. oceans and rivers.
The scuba club has partnered with UVic’s Ocean Students Society to collect proceeds for their Dog-wood Initiative’s No Tankers campaign.
The event features 24-hours of scuba lessons by donation and a variety of underwater games and activities including poker, a buoyancy com-petition and a shopping cart race. An underwater dance during the last hour of the relay will end the event.
Scuba diving participants are encouraged to gather pledges and donations until March 24, to support the cause. Prizes will be awarded to those with the most pledges.
The 24-Hour Dive Relay starts March 24 at 12 p.m. and continues until March 25 at 11:59 a.m., in the McKinnon Building Pool at UVic.
For more information and to print pledge forms, visit uvicscuba.com/24-hour-relay
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There’s nothing like a kid in a candy storeSix-year-old Ben Wise claims his Nerds bar at Sweet Delights Candy Bouquet, a new candy store on Hampshire Road in Athlone Court. The store which opened two weeks ago, is filled with sweets from around the world and is stocked with confectionaries for all ages.
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One man’s trash may be another man’s trea-sure, but in this case, it wasn’t trash at all.
On Thursday (March 15), a black plastic bag containing ama-teur paintings and a silver-plated chatelaine – a series of engraved boxes, scissors and other sewing tools each connected by a chain to a centrepiece – was taken from the boulevard outside a residence on Monterey Avenue near Windsor Road.
From the place-ment of the bag and other nearby items, it may have appeared as though the items were being discarded or given away, but in fact, they were family trea-sures being assembled for pick-up.
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Police investigated a break and enter to Glenlyon Norfolk school overnight March 12. A window on a secluded side of the school was broken and the sus-pect reached through, and took an Apple computer valued at $1,000.
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On March 15, police investigated a break and enter to an apart-ment building in the 1200 block of Newport Ave. The laundry room was entered and coin operated machines pried apart to gain access.
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In 1996, as hype was esca-lating for a much-anticipated Jurassic Park sequel, a group of Victorians, already entrenched in a world rife with dinosaurs, fossils and extinct species, opened its doors to the public.
The Victoria Palaeontology Society hosts its 16th annual Fossil Fair this weekend, giving inquisitive minds an opportu-nity to learn about the crea-tures that inhabited our planet tens of millions of years ago.
“It’s very, very exciting. Palae-ontology is the whole evolution of life on this planet, and it’s the only record we have,” said Tom Cockburn, vice-chair of the society.
And while the great dinosaurs you see on film weren’t all that common in this part of Canada, Cockburn and his colleagues at the society have discovered new fossilized specimens right in our own backyard.
“The people of the palae-ontology society have made a number of discoveries … including a number of new spe-cies that have been named,” Cockburn said. “And there’s a
number of things that haven’t been reported from the Sooke Formation – there are new spe-cies probably in there … mostly snails and bivalves.”
These sorts of fossils will be on display at Swan Lake Christ-mas Hill Nature Sanctuary dur-ing this weekend’s fair.
Most fossilized discover-ies made by society members wind up stored at the discov-erer’s home for safekeeping. Anything deemed scientifically important is donated to the Royal B.C. Museum.
Also on display for the pub-lic to touch this weekend is the large femur of a Hadro-saur, a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed Alberta during the Cretaceous period (upwards of 136 million years ago).
The Fossil Fair, which mainly features Vancouver Island and B.C. fossils, is great for all ages, Cockburn said. “There’s always something a little bit different, something new to see.” New – even if it is millions of years old.
The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sun-day (March 24 and 25), at 3873 Swan Lake Rd.
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Tom Cockburn, of the Victoria Palaeontology Society, shows off a Hadrosaur femur bone inside the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary.
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In the summer of 2010, as tensions were mounting around the tent city on Pandora Green boulevard, kym “hothead” hines was there, capturing the happenings on video.
“I thought, let’s get out there on the Green – and let’s just film and see what happens,” said hothead, a moniker and pen name for the Victoria Street Newz.
Hothead also invited anyone who wanted to tell their story.
“Let them, the homeless, tell whatever stories they wanted to, and the question we wanted to ask the homeless and the community was, ‘what is the state of home-lessness in Victoria, what is the police state around that, and what are the solutions?”
The result is a documentary, called Tak-ing the Fall, premiering next week.
Police interaction was not the intentional focus of the film, hothead said. “We went out there with a camera to see what we would see, and that’s what we saw.”
All day, everyday, the homeless are stopped and moved around by police “like cattle,” he said. After the city passed a bylaw banning camping on the boulevard, he cap-tured some of the ensuing evictions.
Hothead relates personally to the subject matter.
He lived on the streets of Calgary as a 16 year old, a runaway from an abusive home
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parent, a two-spirited transgendered per-son, and now, a filmmaker.
“As a kid, I used to do art; it’s how I sur-vived emotionally and mentally,” said hot-head.
“I was very shy to work with people, but I was also very driven to work with people,”
hothead said. Hothead took film workshops and created a short about child abuse, a decade ago in Vancouver.
The invitation to do this documentary came from the Committee to End Home-lessness.
“The next thing you know we had a group formed and we came up with the term Transform Homelessness Advocacy Watch,” hothead said. “I thought I’ve got to do it because I need to have some sanity and I need to give back in my life.”
What started out as a short film trans-formed into a 45-minute documentary labeled Chapter 1. The next two chapters are already mapped out, with more projects by THAW planned in the future.
“I’ve learned how much can actually change when we simply come together and really meet,” hothead said.
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Twelve authors from Greater Victoria are nominated for 2012 Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes. Books written by the authors have made the shortlist in all seven categories from children’s literature to adult fiction.
Colwood novelist Esi Edugyan’s book, Half-Blood Blues, about jazz musicians in the months leading up to the Second World War is nominated for the Ethel Wilson Prize for fiction. The book has already won the Giller Prize and is nominated for three other prestigious prizes, including the Man Booker. Her husband, Steven Price, is nominated in the same category for Into That Darkness.
Victoria-based food magazine editor Gary Hynes is nominated for the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice award for Island Wineries of British Columbia, as is Robert Wiersema for Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen.
In poetry, North Saanich resident Patrick Lane is nominated for his Collected Poems, as is poet Susan McCaslin for Demeter Goes Skydiving.
Former Oak Bay resident now living on Thetis Island Gary Geddes is nominated for his non-fiction book, Drink the Bitter Root. Salt Spring Island author Sheryl Salloum is one of five authors vying for the Roderick Haig Regional Prize for her book, The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton. Victoria author Mike Deas’ illustrated children’s book, Dalen&Gole: Scandal in Port Angus, published by Victoria’s Orca Publishers, is up for a children’s literature prize.
Also published by Orca is Karen Rivers’ What is Real, nominated in best non-illustrated children’s book. Victoria author Caitlyn Vernon’s book about the Great Bear Rainforest is also shortlisted in that category.
BC Book Prizes gala will be held Saturday, May 12 in Vancouver. [email protected]
The United Way is looking for creative and inspiring youth.
In celebration of United Way of Greater Victoria’s 75th anniver-sary, the organization is planning a visual arts exhibit to showcase the art of youth aged 14 to 19 who reside in the Capital Region.
Young people are invited to submit art based on the theme ‘Change starts here.’ The intention is to inspire young people to respond creatively to social issues in Greater Victoria and offer ideas on how to make a dif-ference in our commu-nity. They are looking for creative, expressive and thought-provoking submissions that edu-
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Participants will have the opportunity to pres-ent their work profes-sionally, win prizes and apply for a $2,500 schol-arship to a program of their choice.
All submissions that fall within the guidelines will be showcased. The exhibit will take place at the Community Arts Council of Greater Vic-toria’s new Arts Centre at Cedar Hill April 30 to May 13. Opening night is May 4 in conjunc-tion with United Way’s YouthNOW! Awards.
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The University of Victoria Hockey Club won its third B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League title at Kamloops’ Memorial Arena on Sunday (March 18).
Dustin Taylor wired a wrist shot past Simon Fraser Univer-sity goaltender Graeme Gordon, 24 seconds into the first over-time period, to give UVic a 4-3 win.
“Words can’t describe it,” Tay-lor said after the game. “It just feels good.”
Goalie Jason Margolus earned the win in the final, making 14 saves on 17 shots.
UVic entered the tournament as underdogs in the No. 4 seed. They went on to post a 4-0 record, winning two games in shootouts and the championship in an extra frame.
“I’m so proud of them,” UVic head coach Harry Schamhart said. “They’re here because they wanted to win and because they love hockey.”
SFU took a 2-0 lead in the first period of the champion-ship game, before UVic bounced back with goals from Taylor and Brent Sutherland. The Vikes were down 3-2 to start the third. UVic defenceman Doug Evans tied the game with a wrist shot five min-utes into the third, and regulation ended with 15 minutes of score-less, nail-biting hockey.
Then came Taylor’s second goal of the game, on the first shift of overtime. UVic has won the BCIHL championship in three of the league’s six years.
The league is highly competi-tive, with teams made up of for-mer junior players. The team is non-varsity status, recognized as a club under UVic’s athletics and recreation umbrella.
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Youthful Royals ready to go Royals open WHL playoffs on road against Blazers Travis PatersonNews staff
One thing you can count on come playoff time in the West-ern Hockey League is tight-lipped coaches.
Victoria Royals coach Marc Habscheid offered little about his club’s strategy on how they’ll attack the Kamloops Blazers in the first round of the playoffs.
Games 1 and 2 of the West-ern Conference quarterfinal go tonight (March 23) and tomorrow in Kamloops. The series returns to Victoria for Games 3 and 4 on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“We’ve identified some things but we don’t want to share that,” Habscheid said. “We go over video, it’s been the routine (this week), to break (Kamloops’) game down and try to back it up with what we do in practice each day.”
Back in 1998-99 Habscheid coached the Blazers all the way to the WHL final, only to lose to the Calgary Hitmen. The Blazers have yet to win a playoff round since then and, in Habscheid’s eyes, this series is the Royals’ to steal.
“(Kamloops) had a good regu-lar season, they’ve built for this season and they expect to move on from the first round this year. The pressure’s on them.”
The coach also believes his youthful squad isn’t getting the respect it deserves for knocking off the third-place Portland Win-
terhawks in the final two games of the season.
“We beat Portland and we’ve heard, ‘well they didn’t have (Sven) Bartschi. (But) when we’re in tune we’re a decent hockey team,” Habscheid said. “We’re a very young group. We like our skill. We just have to con-centrate – not on being the best individually – but (on being) the best team.”
Aside from captain Hayden Rintoul and starting goalie Keith Hamilton, the Royals are without
a lot of deep playoff experience. To make matters worse, forwards Robin Soudek, 20, and Brandon Magee, 18, and defenceman Zach Habscheid, 20, are doubtful for Friday’s opener.
All three played in last year’s opening playoff round series against the Spokane Chiefs.
Without them, the Royals are even younger.
“We have a lot of rookies this year and they’ll be playing some big roles,” Rintoul said. “Every-one’s going to be nervous and
excited, you have to con-trol your emotions and stay focused.”
The 21-year-old defenceman was on the WHL champion Koote-nay Ice that went to the
Memorial Cup last year. Rintoul helped the Ice defeat the Winter-hawks in the WHL final, where Hamilton was the backup.
“(Kootenay) didn’t have too many rookies last year. But you have to play your role and accept your role for the playoffs, and help out in any way you can.”
Royals watchShaw TV will air all seven
games of the Royals versus Blazers quarterfinal series.
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
The seventh-place Victoria Royals defeated the second-place Kamloops Blazers just once in eight games this season. The teams open their first-ever playoff series against each other tonight.
WHL at home, and on TV■ Game 1: Fri., March 23, 7 p.m. at Kamloops ■ Game 2: Sat., March 24, 7 p.m. at Kamloops ■ Game 3: Tues., March 27, 7:05 p.m. at Victoria■ Game 4: Wed., March 28, 7:05 p.m. at Victoria ■ Game 5: Fri., March 30, 7 p.m. at Kamloops ■ Game 6: Mon., April 2, 7:05 p.m. at Victoria ■ Game 7: Wed., April 4, 7 p.m. at Kamloops
Nominees have been released for the fourth annual Celebration of Women in Sport awards gala, April 1 at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence.
The event honours women’s achieve-ment in sports, highlighting the impor-tance of sport for girls and women in all stages of athletic development.
Nomination categories include ath-lete, coach, sport builder and volunteer. Shortlisted athletes are cross-coun-
try mountain biker Mical Dyck, road cyclist Annie Ewart, weightlifter Jeane Lasson, national field hockey player turned Vikes media officer Ali Lee, paracyclist Karen March and Canadian rugby star Barbara Mervin.
As of Monday, rowing’s Allison Dobb was the only coach nominated. Linda Gilmour (kettlebell), Irene Schell (B.C. Summer Games) and Wilhelmina Hel-ena Toews (Duncan Community Fit-
ness/Sports) are shortlisted in the builder category.
Chantal Brodeur (Special Olympics) and Jennifer Erlendson (road cycling) are up for volunteer of the year.
Paralympic gold medalist Michelle Stilwell and 2011 World Cup rowing champion Lindsay Jennerich will speak at the event. For tickets or more infor-mation, visit piseworld.com.
Women in Sport gala release shortlist
Cougars, Panthers in cat fightGame 3 of the Brent Patterson Memorial
Trophy, VIJHL final is 7:30 p.m. tonight (March 23) at Panorama. Game 4 goes tomorrow, 6:30 p.m. at Panorama, and Game 5, if necessary, is
3 p.m. Sunday at Archie Browning Sports Centre. 3
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Saanich’s Jordan Groenheyde tries to slide past Peninsula’s Ryan Hunter during Game 5 of the VIJHL semifinals at Pearkes arena on March 14. Photo by Christian J. Stewart
Braves season ends in alarming fashionSaanich Braves fall within a goal of VIJHL final
Travis PatersonNews staff
The Saanich Braves hockey season went up in smoke last Saturday.
The Braves surrendered a 3-1 series lead in the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League semifi-nals and were eliminated by the Peninsula Pan-thers in Game 7.
There was no fire, but there was a fire alarm, and with somewhat con-troversial timing.
Three minutes into the first overtime period, the fire alarm at Pearkes arena was pulled and dis-rupted the game. Play resumed after a lengthy break, and Panthers forward Ryan Hunter scored five minutes into the second overtime to win 3-2.
“Kudos to the Peninsula Pan-thers,” said one hockey coach, unrelated to the two teams. “If whoever pulled the fire alarm did it on behalf of the Panthers, good for them. It was clear they were rolling that top line every second shift.”
That line – Trevor Yee, Joe Densmore and David Stephens – connected for the 2-2 tying goal in the second period, Densmore from Yee and defenceman Chris MacDonald.
But the alarm provided a rest for both teams, and had no outcome on the game, said Braves coach Brad Cook.
“It was random, that’s for sure. I’ve been in that rink for seven years and never seen it happen. But it had no bearing on the game. Though I’m not sure how (Peninsula’s) developing those kids on the bench with the top line playing so much.”
The win completed the Panthers’ comeback from a 3-1 series deficit to kill the Braves’ season.
“Peninsula got better as the series went on,” Cook said. “They fell into a comfort zone with what would work against us, and identified some of our weaknesses.”
Panthers goalie Stephen Heslop was solid, as both he and Braves goalie Tanner McGaw faced 56 shots in Game 7.
“You weren’t going to get a soft one on Heslop,” Cook said. “We didn’t do a good enough job of getting him to move.”
It’s a bittersweet ending to a season with high expecations for the Braves. The Braves have not
won the VIJHL since 1996, and have not been in the final since 2006.
On the positive side, it was an unpredicatble series, Cook said. Thirteen games in three weeks is a great experience for the younger Braves, many of whom will play two to three more years of junior hockey.
“This team went from a 12-win season (last year) to the verge of making the finals and packing
the rink with fans. We’re pretty happy with the season.”
Braves captain Ty Jones ended the season tied for the VIJHL scoring lead and is the leading con-tender for the Jamie Benn Trophy as league MVP.
Jones returned from junior A this season and carried the Braves to second overall. He also helped linemate Jack Palmer win the rookie scor-ing title.
Who returns to the Braves in 2012-13 is already up in the air, with Jones debating a return to junior A and a chance at a Div. 1 scholarship in the NCAA.
Palmer is expected to stick with the Brandon Wheat Kings next year, having played two games as a callup in October.
The Braves official prospects’ camp is set for July 6 to 8 at Pearkes arena.
“This team went from a 12-win season (last year) to the verge of making the finals and packing the rink with fans.”
– Brad Cook
Soccer
Lower Island Women’s Soccer Association fi nal standings
Premier GP W L T PtsProspect Lake 14 10 2 2 32Gorge United 14 10 3 1 31Gordon Head Gold 14 9 1 4 31Nanaimo 14 7 7 0 21Vic West FC 14 6 7 1 19Castaways FC 14 5 5 4 19Lakehill FC 14 1 12 1 4
Sports statsHockey
Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League
Victoria Cougars lead Peninsula Panthers 1-0 in best-of-seven VIJHL fi nal
Victoria Hockey League
2011-12 regular season awardsLeague Champion - Stars Best G.A.A. - Sharks M.V.P. Pat Papineau (Stars)Scoring Champion Pat Papineau (Stars)Best goalie: Dave Brumby (Sharks)Best defenceman: Trent Brandvold (Stingers)Most Sportsmanlike Player: Jordan Landolt (Knights)Rookie: Jordan McNeill (Stars)
Upcoming games:Doug Day women’s cup fi nal Sunday, Mach 2512 p.m. at Braefoot Park Castaways FC vs. winner of Vic West/Victoria Athletics
Stephanie Shergold semifi nals Sunday, March 2512 p.m at Hampton ParkD2-Saltspring vs. D2-Lakehill Reds12 p.m at UVic Turf fi eld No. 3O30A-Gorge FC vs. D2-Juan de Fuca
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UKRAINIAN EASTER FOOD FAIR. Sale of homemade perogies, borscht, cabbage rolls, Easter breads, baking, beet horseradish, kobassa & Ukrainian Easter eggs. Wheel-chair access. Free admission. Sat. March 24, 10am-noon. St. Nicholas Ukrainian Hall, 1110 Caledonia Ave. 250-384-2255.
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LEGALS
COURT BAILIFF SALE
Lunds Auctioneers & Appraisers Ltd.
(250-386-3308) 926 Fort Street, Victoria, B.C., on behalf of Comox Valley Bailiffs Ltd. acting under
authority of a Writ of Seizure and Sale, will offer for sale by public auction on Tuesday,
March 27, 2012, the interest of the judgment debtor,
Corinna Dreger, in the following goods and
chattels purported to be:
- Household goods and furnishings including artwork by Jasmine
Becket-Griffi th and on Tuesday, May 29, 2012: - 2 (two) diamond rings
All items sold on an “As Is Where Is” basis.
This sale is subject to cancellation without notice.
CARETAKERS/RESIDENTIAL MANAGERS
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
LEGALS
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LOST AND FOUND
FOUND: CD case full of CD’s on Bowerbank Rd, March. 14. Call 250-516-4332.
FOUND PRESCRIPTION sun-glasses in brown case on Ex-eter Rd. Call to identify (250)595-0650.
LOST: AUSTRALIAN hat, round rim, beige colour, West-shore Mall (Colwood) area (sentimental). 250-391-8610.
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T-MAR INDUSTRIES located in Campbell River is hiring for the position of Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic. Posi-tion comes with a competitive benefi t package and applicant must possess a valid driver’s license. Contact Tyson Lam-bert. Mail: 5791 Duncan Bay Road, Campbell River BC V9H 1N6 Fax: 250-286-9502 Email: [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL/MANAGEMENT
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SALES
TELEPHONE SALES persons required for a local fund raiser. Sales experience is an asset. Evenings Mon-Fri 5pm-9pm. $11/hr+ incentives. Please call 250-384-4427, leave detailed message.
TRADES, TECHNICAL
DL Baker Construction Canada is looking for Journeymen Carpenters and Foremen in Kitimat. BC, Cana-da. Red Seal Preferred. Carpenters must have experience with installa-tion of footing forms, slab on grade forms, build and install wall, column and elevated horizontal forms. Ability to layout work, off supplied control lines. And the ability to cor-rectly rig and hoist material, ability to signal, rig and work safely with cranes. Project Terms is Project Based Wages are in accordance with Project Labour Agreement be-tween Kitimat Modernization Em-ployer Association and Coalition of British Columbia Building Trades for the Kitimat Modernization Project Please forward resumes to [email protected]
DL Baker Construction Canada is looking for Laborers and Foremen in Kitimat. BC, Canada. Red Seal Preferred. Laborers will possess competency in assisting on the in-stallation of all types of formwork, performing general labor work and placing concrete. Have the ability to correctly rig and hoist material, ability to signal, rig and work safely with cranes. Project Terms is Pro-ject Based Wages are in accor-dance with Project Labour Agree-ment between Kitimat Modernization Employer Associa-tion and Coalition of British Colum-bia Building Trades for the Kitimat Modernization Project Please for-ward resumes to [email protected]
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APPLIANCES
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BUILDING SUPPLIES
METAL ROOFING & siding sales. Seconds avail. Custom roof Flashings. 250-544-3106.
FREE ITEMS
FREE: FREEZER, 12 cu ft, works well, needs new seal, you pick up, (N. Saanich). Call 250-655-1541.
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BERNARDINE CANNING jars, eight, new, 1 litre. $6. 250-383-4578.
TABLE, 30” square w/ two 8” drop leaves, 2 dinette chairs, $25 obo. Call 250-519-0277.
WHITE KITCHEN chandelier with 3 glass shades. $50. (250)652-3168.
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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
FURNITURE
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ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-ellery. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700
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HOUSES FOR SALE
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APARTMENT/CONDO
ARGYL MANOR, 9861 Third St., 1 BDRM, F/S, commonW/D, N/S, N/P, HT/HW incl’d,$850/lease. Avail April 15th.Call 250-475-2005, ext: 227.
FERNWOOD AREA Apt, large2 bdrm, $875. (Immed). InclsH/W. 250-370-2226 to view.
FERNWOOD AREA Apt, largeBach, $540/mo. Avail now.Call 250-370-2226 for viewing.
Fraser Tolmie Apts1 and 2 bdrms1-877-659-4069www.frasertolmime.ca1 & 2 Bedrooms1701 Cedar Hill X Roadwww.frasertolmime.ca for pics
Capriet Rental1.250.381.5048
VALBURN COURT: Bachelorsuites avail. Walking dist. toMayfair Mall. On bus route.$675. NS/NP. 778-430-5415.
ROCKLAND AREA Apt, lrg 1bdrm, incls heat & H/W, $780(Immed) 250-370-2226 to view
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APARTMENT/CONDO
MALAHAT 1 & 2 Bdrms- Panoramic views. Serene & secure. All amenities on-site, fi rewood. $700-$1200 inclu-sive. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min commute to downtown Victoria. Must have references. 250-478-9231.
COTTAGES
SIDNEY CHARMING garden cottage, sea view & beach ac-cess on bus route to Sidney & Victoria, near ferries & airport. Totally reno’d, with beautiful fi r fl oors, 1 bdrm (fi ts queen or smaller), 1 bath (shower, no tub), open kitchen/dining & liv-ing area, 4 appliances, off street prkg. $1000. NP/NS. Opportunity to garden. Long term preferred. 250-656-3003.
DUPLEXES/4PLEXES
SIDNEY- 3 bdrm (behind Thrifty’s) 1 bath. Reno’d. NS/NP. $1375+(250)656-4003
RENTALS
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OPEN HOUSE: Sat., March 17th, 2-4pm, 202-455 King-ston St. 1 bdrm +den in the Camelot Seniors building. Ser-vices incld; daily meal, house-keeping and heavy laundry. Beautiful building, great staff. Call Luella at 250-519-0550.
STORAGE
SHIPPING CONTAINERS 20’ or 40’. Buy or Rent. Safe and secure. Easymove Container Services. Serving Vancouver Island. 1-(888)331-3279
SUITES, LOWER
CORDOVA BAY- cozy 2 bdrm grd level, W/D, hydro incld, $920 mo. Appt (250)658-4760.
SUITES, UPPER
LANGFORD 3 bdrm 2 bath 1200 sq ft upper, n/s, newly renovated, all new fl ooring & paint, deck, wood f/p, w/d, d/w, large south facing front yard on quiet cul-de-sac. April 1, $1500, pet negotiable, refer-ences 250-516-3453, [email protected]
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CARS
1991 JAGUAR Sovereign, good condition, loaded, must be seen, 237,000 kms, $2500 obo. Call 250-595-2662.
2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded. White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 fi rm. 250-755-5191.
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GARAGE SALES
GORDON HEAD, 1613 Lon-gacre Dr., Sat, March. 24, 9am-3pm. Moving Sale. Everything must go! Too many items to list. See you there.
LAKEHILL, 4200 Leaf Hill Green, Sun, March. 25, 10am-2pm. Downsizing Sale.
GARAGE SALES
NORTH SAANICH, 1550 Ea-gle Way, Sat, March. 24, 10am-2pm. No early birds. Nails, nuts, bolts, plumbing & electric supplies. Household & gardening items.
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CARPENTRY
CUSTOM PLANER- (Fir, ce-dar) baseboards, casings, crown molding (any shape). Call (250)588-5920.
CLEANING SERVICES
HOUSEKEEPER EXPERI-ENCED, reliable. References. 250-920-6516, 250-881-7444.
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COMPUTER SERVICES
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DRAFTING & DESIGN
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DRYWALL
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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
ELECTRICAL
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AT&T ELECTRIC. Renova-tions. Residential & Commer-cial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550.
EXPERIENCED ELECTRI-CIAN. Reasonable rates. 250-744-6884. Licence #22202.
GNC ELECTRIC Res/Comm. Reasonable rates for quality work. #43619. 250-883-7632.
KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.
NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $35/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.
WATTS ON ELECTRIC, Resi-dential, Commercial, Renova-tions. #100213. 250-418-1611.
VAEXCA TING & DRAINAGE
BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini ex-cavator & bob cat services. Call 250-478-8858.
FENCING
ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.
FURNITURE REFINISHING
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GARDENING
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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
GARDENING
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NO JOB too BIG or SMALL. SENIOR’S SPECIAL! Prompt, reliable service. Phone Mike (ANYTIME) at 250-216-7502.
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GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS
250-889-5794. DIAMOND DAVE Gutter Cleaning. Thor-ough Job at a Fair Price! Re-pairs, gutter guard, power/win-dow washing, roof de-moss. Free no obligation estimates.
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A20 • www.oakbaynews.com Friday, March 23, 2012 - OAK BAY NEWS
C-707 Linden, $419,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Lynnell Davidge, 250-477-7291 pg. 25
1211-160 Wilson, $694,000Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunAdrian Langereis 250 744-3301 pg. 37
209-835 View, $159,900Saturday 2-4Sutton West Coast RealtyJonas Solberg 250 479-3333 pg. 38
604-75 Songhees, $679,000Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 8
101-1501 Richmond Rd, $299,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunCraig Walters, 250-744-3301 pg. 16
1005-225 Belleville, $649,900Saturday 2-4Sutton West CoastHiro Nakatani 250 661-4476 pg. 39
1020 RichardsonSaturday & Sunday 1-4RE/MAX CamosunMark Lawless, 250-744-3301 pg. 7
1356/1350 McNair StSaturday & Sunday 2-4Macdonald RealtyNicholas Bardon, 250-686-5064
3108 Mars St, $558,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyRick Hoogendoorn, 250-592-4422
720 Linden Ave.Saturday & Sunday 1-4RE/MAX CamosunMark Lawless, 250-744-3301 pg. 7
402-11 Cooperage, $448,000Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastLynn MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 8
309-1012 Collinson St, $299,000Saturday 1-3Newport RealtyDavid Harvey, 250-385-2033 pg. 6
6-920 Caledonia St, $439,000Sunday 1-3Newport RealtyPatricia Parkins, 250-385-2033 pg. 6
402-1000 McClureSaturday & Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdDave Bhandar, 250-384-8124 pg. 6
208-305 Michigan, $185,000Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 6
305-649 Bay, $242,900Sunday 2-4Century 21 QueenswoodJulie Rust 250 477-1100 pg. 9
1810 Hollywood Cres., $875,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood Realty Ltd.Mike Ryan 250-477-1100 pg. 16
34 Phillippa Pl, $969,900Saturday 3-4Pemberton HolmesStacey Dewhurst 250 384-8124 pg. 17
1145 Johnson, $469,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyDon Beckner 250 477-5353 pg. 13
1482 Thurlow, $649,900Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalTom Croft 250 592-4422 pg. 13
203-1120 Fairfi eld Rd, $395,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyCheri Crause, 250-592-4422
1306 Richardson St, $669,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunEd G Sing, 250-744-3301 pg. 16
309-930 North Park, $224,900Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663 pg. 12
1121 Fort, $183,900Daily exc Friday 2-4Newport RealtyBlair Watling 250 385-2033 pg. 9
2820 Wyndeatt, $399,000Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesNicole Burgess 250 384-8124 pg. 22
204-1539 Morrison, $269,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291 pg. 25
3-727 Linden AveSaturday 2-4Newport RealtyMarc Owen-Flood, 250--385-2033 pg. 14
754 Humboldt, $198,900Daily Noon-5 exc FridaysConcert Properties 250 383-3722 pg. 11
3-828 Rupert TerraceSaturday & Sunday 1-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMurray Lawson 250 385-9814 pg. 15
405-1235 Johnson, $173,000Saturday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLenna Dallen, 250 479-3333 pg. 5
6-920 Caledonia Ave, $439,000Sunday 1-3Newport RealtyDavid Harvey, 250-385-2033 pg. 6
301-380 Waterfront, $569,625Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 13
2239 Shelbourne St, $369,000Sunday 2-4Boorman’sRod Hay 250-595-1535 pg. 17
1021 Craigdarroch, $739,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyRobert Buckle 250 385-2033 pg. 17
404-104 Dallas Rd, $429,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Susan Carley, 250-477-7291 pg. 25
807-66 Songhees, $629,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Susan Carley, 250-477-7291 pg. 25
577 Toronto StSaturday 12-2Pemberton HolmesJoseph Martin, 250-361-8167 pg. 16
451 ChesterSaturday & Sunday 1-4RE/MAX CamosunMark Lawless, 250-744-3301 pg. 7
441 Victoria, $929,000Sunday 2-3:30Newport RealtyRick Allen, 250-385-2033 pg. 17
877 Newport, $969,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyTim Taddy 250 592-8110 pg. 25
2226 Windsor, $879,000Saturday 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith 250 388-5882 pg. 18
101-1807 Oak Bay AveSaturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jeff Bishop, 250-474-6003 pg. 16
104-1450 Beach Dr, $325,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Suzanne Mitchell, 250-477-7291 pg. 6
2120 Kings, $749,999Saturday 2-4DFH Real EstateCassie Kangas 250 477-7291 pg. 18
205-2125 Oak Bay, $346,500Saturday 2-4Sutton West CoastHiro Nakatani 250 661-4476 pg. 39
736 Falkland, $1,060,000Sunday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyMike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100 pg. 18
8-127 Aldersmith, $459,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMarsha Crawford 250 889-8200 pg. 18
172 Levista, $699,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdTara Niedoba 250 857-0178 pg. 38
103-101 Nursery Hill, $319,900Sunday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns 250-478-0808 pg. 6
22-127 Aldersmith Pl, $469,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRoy Coburn, 250-812-1989 pg. 6
1143 Lugrin, $460,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalBrian Andrew 250 592-4422 pg. 12
305-1083 Tillicum, $289,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 19
13-1182 Colville, $425,900Sunday 2-4Fair RealtyRay Kong, 250-590-7011 pg. 38
25-909 Admirals, $379,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdShelley Saldat, 250 384-8124 pg. 14
946 ShearwaterSaturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunDale Sheppard 250-478-9600
544 ParadiseSaturday 11-1 & Sunday 1-3Jonesco Real EstateWayne Garner 250 881-8111 pg. 18
1366 Craigfl ower, $569,900Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 17
934 Craigfl ower, $419,000Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesNicole Burgess 250 384-8124 pg. 14
1370 Craigfl ower, $429,000Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 17
7-704 Rockheights, $565,900Saturday 2-4MacDonald RealtyLorraine Stundon 250 812-0642 pg. 37
778 Cameo, $599,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdIvica Kalabric 250 384-8124 pg. 21
1711 Christmas, $615,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyRich Humphries 250 592-4422 pg. 12
303-7143 West SaanichSunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBill Bird 250 655-0608 pg. 1
2624 Arbutus Rd, $699,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunRoxanne Brass, 250-744-3301 pg. 21
1 Cadboro Heights Pl, $479,900Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Suzanne Mitchell, 250-477-7291 pg. 21
205-1870 McKenzie Ave, $225,000Saturday 1-3Coldwell Banker Slegg RealtySonya Stewart, 250-516-5008 pg. 5
4942 Cordova Bay, $1,049,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdKevin Starling 250 889-4577 pg. 21
202-2589 Penrhyn, $349,900Sunday 2-4MacDonald RealtyLorraine Stundon 250 812-0642 pg. 37
3880 Synod, $499,900Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jeff Bishop, 250-474-6003 pg. 54010001
4682 Scottswood, $499,000Sunday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 20
909 Lucas Ave, $584,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max AllianceDavid Rusen, 250-386-8875 pg. 19
3482 Bethune Ave., $469,500Saturday 1-3Fair RealtyBianca Rose 250-360-7599 pg. 36
4674 Lochside, $1,048,000Saturday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdDeborah Kline 250 661-7680 pg. 20
4032 Malton, $1,150,000Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunGuy Crozier 250-744-3301 pg. 24
4665 Amblewood DrSaturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesJasmin Gerwien, 250-384-8124 pg. 20
102-820 ShortSunday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyLuisa Celis, 250-477-1100 pg. 21
20-934 Boulderwood, $579,900Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalSharen Warde 250 592-4422 pg. 13
5202-2829 Arbutus, $539,000Saturday 12-2RE/MAX CamosunKaren Jensen, 250-744-3301 pg. 38
1877A Feltham Rd, $599,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRick Turcotte, 250-744-3301
1086 Totemwood, $829,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunKeith Watson 250 744-3301 pg. 20
305-820 Short St, $349,888Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNorma Campbell, 250-477-5353 pg. 6
360-4488 ChattertonSaturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 14
1750 Tiffi n Plc., $549,900Saturday 2:00-4:00Century 21 Queenswood Realty Ltd.Alison Stoodley 250-477-1100 pg. 19
3401 Clovelly Court, $544,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyGlen Myles, 250-385-2033 pg. 19
2830 Parkview, $543,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyMike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100 pg. 21
502-2829 Arbutus, $699,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBruce Hatter, 250-744-3301 pg. 8
1990 Haultain, $609,000Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422 pg. 20
1708 Carnegie, $549,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyJohn Monkhouse 250 385-2033 pg. 20
949 Doumac, $499,000Sunday 12:30-2:30Fair RealtyBianca Rose 250-360-7599 pg. 36
23-901 Kentwood Ln, $449,000Saturday 2-4One Percent Realty Vancouver IslandJames Andersen, 250-213-3710 pg. 6
528 Walter Ave, $439,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBruce Hatter, 250-744-3301 pg. 21
68 Regina, $419,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLorraine Williams, 250-216-3317 pg. 21
4744 InterurbanSaturday 3-5Pemberton Holmes LtdJoseph Martin, 250 474-4176 pg. 21
570 O’Connell Pl, $469,900Saturday 1-4DFH Real Estate LtdPatti Locke-Lewkowich 250 477-7291 pg. 22
4921 ProspectSaturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesDiana Winger 250-999-3683 pg. 22
9-520 Marsett, $589,700Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRoxanne Brass, 250-744-3301 pg. 15
201-651 Jolly, $199,900Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyBlair Watling 250 385-2033 pg. 8
70-530 Marsett Pl, $614,900Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyJosh Verbruggen, 250-848-2887 pg. 5
638 Ralph St, $449,000Sunday 3:30-5:30Fair RealtyBianca Rose 250 360-7599 pg. 36
481 KerSunday 1-3Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 pg. 22
2051 Brethour Pkwy, $424,500Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 23
2182 Weiler, $379,000Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 35
660 Birch Rd, $577,000Saturday 2-4Holmes Realty Ltd.Steven Klipper, 250-656-0911
104-7701 Central Saanich Rd, $142,000Saturday 11:30-1:30Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 23
8761 Pender Park Dr, $799,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRoss Shortreed, 250-858-3585 pg. 22
2577 Heron Way, $159,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesEileen Jespersen, 250-686-4820 pg. 23
9216 Mainwaring, $589,900Saturday 12-1:30Re/Max CamosunAdrian Langereis 250 744-3301 pg. 37
203-2440 Oakville, $299,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesNicole Burgess 250 384-8124 pg. 23
9336 MarylandSunday 11:30-1:30Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 23
204-1196 Sluggett, $242,000Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastMary Beaumont 250 889-2233 pg. 23
107-10160 Third, $259,000Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 14
7161 West Saanich, $269,900Daily 1-3Re/Max CamosunDon King 250 656-4626 pg. 9
916 Grilse, $889,000Saturday 11-1Pemberton HolmesDiana Winger 250-999-3683 pg. 23
2377 Henry Ave, $639,000Saturday 2-4Holmes RealtySteven Klipper, 250-656-0911
426-9882 Fifth St, $279,900Saturday 11-1Holmes Realty Ltd.Steven Klipper, 250-656-0911
9045 Lochside Dr, $975,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunGary Anderson, 250-744-3301 pg. 26
9876 Seventh St, 539,000Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunLee Johnston, 250-478-9600 pg. 23
2368 OakvilleSunday 11-1Holmes Realty Ltd.Steven Klipper, 250-656-0911
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Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Mar. 22-28 edition of
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This Weekend’s
Check the page number below in Real Estate Victoria or visit www.revweekly.com
Find more details on the Open Housesbelow in the Mar.22-28 edition of
Published Every Thursday
OPENOPENHOUSES1058 Marchant, $399,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 23
1632 BarrettSaturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyJim Bailey, 250-592-4422 pg. 23
8-2070 Amelia, $305,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 35
10929 Boas Rd, $859,000Sunday 2-4Holmes RealtySteven Klipper, 250-656-0911
870 Falkirk Ave.Sunday 2-4Re/Max AllianceJim Parsons, 250-382-1816 pg. 23
590 Seacliffe, $719,900Sunday 2-4JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3
970 Birch Rd, $550,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Judy Gerrett, 250-656-0131 pg. 22
2139-2600 Ferguson, $299,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 35
1950 Polo Park ClSaturday & Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Henry Van der Vlugt 250-477-7291 pg. 23
7951 Larkvale Rd, $785,000Sunday 12-2Holmes Realty Ltd.James Bridge, 250-656-0911 pg. 22
28-2070 Amelia Ave, $239,500Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Frances Wade, 250-656-0131 pg. 23
1826 Millstream RdSaturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunShane King, 250-744-3301 pg. 26
3436 Aloha Ave, $699,900Sunday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808 pg. 26
974 Moss Ridge, $629,900Saturday 1-4DFH Real EstateJenn Raappana, 250-474-6003 pg. 38
3522 PromenadeSunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunKaren Jensen, 250-744-3301 pg. 38
631 Glacier Ridge, $499,900Saturday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunFran Jeffs, 250-744-3301 pg. 27
117-643 Granderson, $369,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdGregg Mah 250 384-8124 pg. 32
2200 Harrow Gate, $629,000Sunday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyAnke Venema, 250-477-1100
907 Dawn Lane, $565,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 13
2324 Hoylake Cres, $418,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 28
3334 Myles Mansell Rd., $409,000Saturday 2:30-4SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra 250-360-6683 pg. 26
987 Ironwood, $729,900Saturday 12-2Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 26
662 Goldstream Ave., $249,900Daily 1-4Kahl RealtyJason Kahl 250-391-8484 pg. 15
3292 Mary Anne, $499,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 27
620 Lomax, $1,275,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesBruce Warburton 250-893-0117 pg. 27
2954 Golden Spike, $334,900Saturday 2-4Fair RealtyRay Kong, 250-590-7011 pg. 38
584 Kingsview Ridge, $514,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 27
22-3049 Brittany, $339,900Saturday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyDiego Lauricella, 250-479-3333 pg. 37
1001 Wild Ridge WaySaturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesJerry Bola 857-0178 pg. 38
2154 Nicklaus DrSaturday & Sunday 2-4DFH Real EstateRon Bahrey, 250-477-7291 pg. 26
101-2600 Peatt, $344,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMark McDougall 250 888-8588 pg. 10
557 Delora, $519,900Sunday 2-4Coldwell Banker Slegg RealtyBarbara Scott, 250-383-1500 pg. 27
608 Fairway Ave. $329,900Daily 1:30-4:00Century 21 Queenswood Realty Ltd.Jennifer Scheck 250-477-1100 pg. 5
593 Latoria, $285,000Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 14
3363 Mary Anne, $499,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 27
3431 Luxton, $699,900Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 27
3436 Mary Anne CresSunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJulie Demelo, 250-479-3333 pg. 26
2298 Setchfi eld, $587,500Sunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunFran Jeffs, 250-744-3301 pg. 28
2735 Cornerstone TrcSaturday 12:30-2SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra 250-380-6683 pg. 27
304-611 Brookside, $198,000Daily 12-4Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 10
2589 Buckler, $479,900Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital Justine Connor 250 474-4800 pg. 37
1204 Muirfi eld, $829,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdJim Reslein 250 384-8124 pg. 26
2620 Bamboo, $679,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBruce Hatter, 250-744-3301 pg. 27
2683 Lakehurst, $425,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunCurtis Lindsay 250 744-3301 pg. 27
867 Arncote, $449,900Sunday 1:30-3:30Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMorley Bryant, 250-477-5353 pg. 28
2839 Acacia Dr, $442,900Saturday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808 pg. 26
1622 Millstream, $799,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 40
563 Brant PlSaturday & Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes David Hale, 250-812-7277 pg. 2
1616 Millstream, $799,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 40
2167 Pyrite Dr, $314,500Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesBrendan Herlihy, 250-642-3240
678 Augusta Pl, $529,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesJacqueline Baker, 250-384-8124 pg. 29
1629 Jersey Rd., $479,900Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Farrell Magnusson 250-477-7291 pg. 29
957 Shawnigan Lake, $319,900Thurs & Fri 1-4 & Sat & Sun 11-4Coldwell Banker Slegg RealtyDaniel Weiss 250 383-1500 pg. 30
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ACROSS 1. Plant louses 7. Breezed through11. A native of Africa12. Goidelic 13. External14. __ Lilly, drug company15. Fence entrance16. Enclosed yard18. Drug company20. Food consumers21. Strongly disinclined23. Small goose 24. Launched Apollo25. Soft stem center26. Longest river in Ayrshire27. Sodium29. Lion sign30. Southwest Airlines (abbr.)
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DOWN 1. A later idea 2. Jabs 3. Hello 4. Frost a cake 5. Decaliter 6. Genus Gallinago birds 7. Auspices 8. A short-lived fashion 9. This (Spanish)10. Bambi and her mom11. Emphasized a syllable13. Limit the inheritance of a property16. 2nd month (abbr.)17. Wyatt __, OK Corral19. Given with gold & muhr
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A rmed only with ginger ale, a bowl and a candle, Bob McDonald won over a cafeteria full of young stu-dents.
McDonald recalls demonstrating an “invisible fire extinguisher,” using the car-bon dioxide in pop fizz to extinguish a flame. This is among the tricks Canada’s best-known science journalist has used to get children interested in the basic principles of sci-ence.
“You can introduce kids to the most complicated subjects, but as long as you bring them into it in a very straight forward way, they’ll stay with you,” said McDonald, who relocated from Toronto to Victoria last summer.
“You’ve got to make it look magical and then say, ‘No, it’s not magic; it’s science. Science can be magical and it’s wonderful.”
The host of several past children’s tele-vision shows and CBC’s long-running radio science program, Quirks & Quarks, McDon-ald doesn’t limit using fun to just teaching kids.
He studied English, philosophy and the-
atre and has been able to stay at the cut-ting edge of science journalism simply by coming to interviews prepared. He writes about science news using standard tenets of good storytelling: settings, characters, plot lines and tension.
Since his days working at the Ontario Science Centre in the 1970s, where he was occasionally asked to comment on local news programs, McDonald has demon-strated a knack for engaging these skills and translating complex scientific hap-penings into terms the general public can
understand. “It’s not about me,” he
said. “It’s about the stories. I just happen to have an entertaining way of telling the stories that people like. … As journalists we offer stories. We’re not handing out PhDs; we’re entertain-ing people.”
Larry Yore, a retired dis-tinguished professor from the University of Victoria’s
department of curriculum and instruc-tion and expert in the field of science education research, sympathizes with the task laid on journalists when it comes to reporting on scientific matters.
“If you’re not aware of the subtle differ-ences in how scientists use language and how we, as lay people, use language, you frequently miss the message that is being
transmitted,” said Yore.“As an interface between those commu-
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terms,” Yore said. “That is a very difficult task.”
McDonald doesn’t limit what topics he’ll cover, but during his formative years he followed early space exploration. That contributed to a lifelong passion for every-thing extraterrestrial.
Medical science, however, has presented some challenges, he admits, particularly around some of the physiological terminol-ogy.
“There’s a difference between being stu-pid and being ignorant,” McDonald said. “I see myself as a translator between people who speak a foreign language – science – and the person on the street. Sometimes when I get a guest who (falls back on) sci-entific jargon, I’ll stop the tape and say we have to speak in plain English. … It’s not dumbing it down. It’s clarifying. It’s mak-ing it clear, so that it’s understandable because that’s our job.”
With with help of three producers, McDonald continues to produce Quirks & Quarks from the basement of his home in Victoria’s Fairfield neighbourhood.
McDonald was honoured with the Order of Canada in 2011 and holds six honorary degrees from Canadian universities. He has published several books, including “Measuring the Earth with a Stick: Sci-ence as I’ve Seen It,” a collection of essays recounting his experiences as a science journalist.
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“I see myself as a translator between people who speak a foreign language – science – and the person on the street.”
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