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Secrets of the bogSonora Godfrey from Charles Stewart International Models poses for Mike Morash of Cambiguous Photography along a path at Rithet’s Bog last Friday. Morash and make-up artist Meghan Rusk (not pictured) braved the wet afternoon for the shoot, which was themed around the opening of Pandora’s Box and entertained passersby on an otherwise monotonous trail along the park’s perimeter.

Senior non-profit housing tax bill jumpsBC Assessment values skyrocket in 2015 for Saanich affordable housing providerTravis Paterson News staff

A Saanich non-profit seniors housing pro-vider is preparing to raise rents after an unex-pected hike in property assessment value last month.

Dawson Heights Housing, at the junction of Cedar Hill and Cedar Hill Cross roads, runs a trio of non-profit housing complexes primar-ily for seniors. Two of those properties, The Cedars (57 residents) and The Dawson (52 residents), saw their values jump by 22 and 11 per cent respectively. A third building is protected by a grandfathered tax-exemption.

“We’re a sustainable non-profit that exists off of rents and fees,” said executive director Karen Hope, who has appealed the valua-tions with B.C. Assessment.

“(Dawson Heights) doesn’t rely on govern-ment subsidies, because they’re not reliable in the long term,” she said. “It means a spike in rent.”

The District of Saanich allows most chari-ties – but not non-profit housing providers – to apply for property tax exemptions for three- or four-year periods. Saanich follows a community charter ruling that non-profit housing is not eligible for property tax exemp-tion unless it provides accommodation for people with physical, mental or developmen-tal disabilities. The Victoria Cool Aid Society has had multiple requests for tax exemption refused by Saanich in the past three years.

PlEASE SEE: Non-profit housing tax on rise, Page A11

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Whole Foods to anchor Uptown’s final phase

Daniel PalmerNews staff

Uptown will be getting Vancouver Island’s first Whole Foods, with doors opening in the fall of 2016 if all goes as planned at the council table.

Whole Foods’ 40,000 square-foot, custom built space is slated for the corner of Blanshard Street and Ravine Way and kicks off Phase 3 on the site, said Roberta Ferguson, general manager at Uptown.

“The land is prepped and ready to go,” Ferguson said. “We looked at other areas of Uptown, but it made total sense to give Whole Foods a custom store.”

The proposal is expected to go before committee of the whole in mid-March; other elements of Uptown’s final building phase haven’t yet been finalized, she said.

Ferguson’s team also met with Saanich’s advisory design panel and several community associations prior to the Feb. 11 announcement.

“If you don’t know Whole Foods, you’re in for a real treat,” she said. “They’ve been looking for quite awhile (on Vancouver Island) … and they highly invest in their communities.”

The first sign of that investment came last

Thursday, when Whole Foods announced a $58,000 loan to Royston-based Tree Island Gourmet Yogurt to help with expansion.

Two other significant move-ins at Uptown include Steve Nash Fitness World, which opened in December, and Michael’s, which is slated to open March 20, Ferguson

said. Steve Nash is also expanding another 5,000 sq. ft. beyond its current 15,000 sq.-ft. space due to better-than-expected membership sales.

Shaw Communications is also in the midst of outfitting a 33,000-sq.-ft. space in the clock tower building as its new call centre. About 300 Shaw employees should be settling into that space by April, Ferguson said.

Whole Foods already has four stores in B.C., with locations in development in North Burnaby (expected to open in August 2015) and North Vancouver (expected to open in summer 2017).Once complete, the Uptown store is expected to employ 150 people.

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Omnicron announced in October that Coast Capital

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The annual ritual of declaring a crisis in health care is upon us, with the B.C. Liberal government boasting that we have the best system in Canada, while the NDP and the B.C. Nurses’ Union try to portray it as the worst.

The BCNU is the last big public sector union still to settle in the latest round of contract talks. Feeding horror stories to the media is part of its strategy, and this time it was a patient at Abbotsford Hospital assigned a bed in a small shower room for a month due to chronic overcrowding. Hospital officials said his care wasn’t compromised.

We’ve seen it in Abbotsford, Surrey and elsewhere: a new hospital or expansion is built and is immediately overcrowded. As fewer doctors choose the endless demands of family practice, the expectation that all problems must be dealt with quickly and for free seems to grow as inexorably as the health care budget.

An emergency physician of my acquaintance provided a typical scenario for night shift at the ER. Where once nights were quiet, now there are patients waiting for hours, around the clock.

We are reminded every winter that influenza season brings a wave of people into emergency, expecting treatment for a viral infection that in most cases can only run its course.

Many people still don’t understand what “the flu” is, beyond the notion that it sounds serious enough to tell the boss you won’t be in to work. And as fewer doctors choose the endless demands of family practice, the expectation that all problems must be dealt with quickly and for free seems to grow as inexorably as the health care budget.

This week’s B.C. budget brings us a step closer to the moment when half of all provincial revenues go to keep the health care system running.

In the legislature, NDP health critic Judy Darcy blasted Health Minister Terry Lake for the government’s failure to keep its 2010 promise to find everyone in B.C. a family doctor.

Lake allowed they’re still working on that, and then plugged the latest Conference Board of Canada study showing B.C. ranks third in the world in health care outcomes, second only to

Switzerland and Sweden.Darcy, a former president of the

Hospital Employees’ Union, was quick to respond: “This is surely a first in question period, the Minister of Health going back to the record of the NDP government in the 1990s, because we’ve had the best health outcomes in Canada since 1993. The fact is that we exercise more, we smoke less and we drink less, and that’s to the credit of British Columbians.”

We also have more elderly people, as Premier Christy Clark argued in 2011 when the federal government changed its financing formula.

After years of increasing transfers by six per cent per year, the late federal finance minister Jim Flaherty announced that starting in 2014, increases would be tied to economic growth, but wouldn’t fall below three per cent.

This of course was treated as a cut, rather than continued increases above inflation. But there it is, and all provinces have to deal with it.

Darcy is quite right that personal responsibility is the key, something to remember as the usual squabbling of special interests continues.

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

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Spring a bettertime for new resolutions

By now, most of us have allowed our New Year’s resolutions to fade comfortably to the back of our minds.

The gym membership barcode attached to our keychains was used once or twice for a mid-week workout, but it’s proven more effective at scraping frost off our car’s wing mirror than in motivating us to wake up for the treadmill each morning.

Perhaps resolutions fade so quickly because we commit to them in the darkest, coldest months of the year. When there’s nothing to motivate us beyond internal motivation, it’s simply human nature to take the easy route and walk away.

A suggestion: revisit those New Year’s resolutions this week and commit to them once more. Longer and brighter days bring energy as well as a renewed appreciation for this ridiculously beautiful corner of the country. If the cherry blossoms can wake themselves up and blanket our sidewalks each February with their vibrant pink hues, then we can surely shake off the winter blues and ground ourselves for a great year ahead.

Non-profit housingneeds a better tax solution

The plight of Saanich-based Dawson Heights Housing is just one story of a growing number of non-profit housing providers facing steep increases in property tax bills, thanks to increased assessment values this year.

It appears B.C. Assessment is taking a closer look at non-profit housing in the province, and valuing its land at market value where no development covenants exist. If the non-profit wants to sell, it stands to make a pretty penny, but that’s hardly a solution for the fixed-income seniors and others who rely so heavily on a predictable rent each month. Municipalities shouldn’t be left to exempt these housing providers on a case-by-case basis. Instead, B.C. Assessment should be working with the province to come up with a viable solution that protects rent for vulnerable populations. Solutions are tough, but a fix here is critical.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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The annual ritual of declaring a crisis in health care is upon us, with the B.C. Liberal government boasting that we have the best system in Canada, while the NDP and the B.C. Nurses’ Union try to portray it as the worst.

The BCNU is the last big public sector union still to settle in the latest round of contract talks. Feeding horror stories to the media is part of its strategy, and this time it was a patient at Abbotsford Hospital assigned a bed in a small shower room for a month due to chronic overcrowding. Hospital officials said his care wasn’t compromised.

We’ve seen it in Abbotsford, Surrey and elsewhere: a new hospital or expansion is built and is immediately overcrowded. As fewer doctors choose the endless demands of family practice, the expectation that all problems must be dealt with quickly and for free seems to grow as inexorably as the health care budget.

An emergency physician of my acquaintance provided a typical scenario for night shift at the ER. Where once nights were quiet, now there are patients waiting for hours, around the clock.

We are reminded every winter that influenza season brings a wave of people into emergency, expecting treatment for a viral infection that in most cases can only run its course.

Many people still don’t understand what “the flu” is, beyond the notion that it sounds serious enough to tell the boss you won’t be in to work. And as fewer doctors choose the endless demands of family practice, the expectation that all problems must be dealt with quickly and for free seems to grow as inexorably as the health care budget.

This week’s B.C. budget brings us a step closer to the moment when half of all provincial revenues go to keep the health care system running.

In the legislature, NDP health critic Judy Darcy blasted Health Minister Terry Lake for the government’s failure to keep its 2010 promise to find everyone in B.C. a family doctor.

Lake allowed they’re still working on that, and then plugged the latest Conference Board of Canada study showing B.C. ranks third in the world in health care outcomes, second only to

Switzerland and Sweden.Darcy, a former president of the

Hospital Employees’ Union, was quick to respond: “This is surely a first in question period, the Minister of Health going back to the record of the NDP government in the 1990s, because we’ve had the best health outcomes in Canada since 1993. The fact is that we exercise more, we smoke less and we drink less, and that’s to the credit of British Columbians.”

We also have more elderly people, as Premier Christy Clark argued in 2011 when the federal government changed its financing formula.

After years of increasing transfers by six per cent per year, the late federal finance minister Jim Flaherty announced that starting in 2014, increases would be tied to economic growth, but wouldn’t fall below three per cent.

This of course was treated as a cut, rather than continued increases above inflation. But there it is, and all provinces have to deal with it.

Darcy is quite right that personal responsibility is the key, something to remember as the usual squabbling of special interests continues.

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

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Spring a bettertime for new resolutions

By now, most of us have allowed our New Year’s resolutions to fade comfortably to the back of our minds.

The gym membership barcode attached to our keychains was used once or twice for a mid-week workout, but it’s proven more effective at scraping frost off our car’s wing mirror than in motivating us to wake up for the treadmill each morning.

Perhaps resolutions fade so quickly because we commit to them in the darkest, coldest months of the year. When there’s nothing to motivate us beyond internal motivation, it’s simply human nature to take the easy route and walk away.

A suggestion: revisit those New Year’s resolutions this week and commit to them once more. Longer and brighter days bring energy as well as a renewed appreciation for this ridiculously beautiful corner of the country. If the cherry blossoms can wake themselves up and blanket our sidewalks each February with their vibrant pink hues, then we can surely shake off the winter blues and ground ourselves for a great year ahead.

Non-profit housingneeds a better tax solution

The plight of Saanich-based Dawson Heights Housing is just one story of a growing number of non-profit housing providers facing steep increases in property tax bills, thanks to increased assessment values this year.

It appears B.C. Assessment is taking a closer look at non-profit housing in the province, and valuing its land at market value where no development covenants exist. If the non-profit wants to sell, it stands to make a pretty penny, but that’s hardly a solution for the fixed-income seniors and others who rely so heavily on a predictable rent each month. Municipalities shouldn’t be left to exempt these housing providers on a case-by-case basis. Instead, B.C. Assessment should be working with the province to come up with a viable solution that protects rent for vulnerable populations. Solutions are tough, but a fix here is critical.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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1. There is an error or omission respecting a name or address;

2. There is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of a parcel;

3. An exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.

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LETTERSSaanich ‘abusing authority’ by expanding enviro bylaw

Property ownersshould be compensated for environmental protection

Justice requires that people owning properties that we collectively want to “preserve” should be fully compensated.

Instead of rewarding behaviour that preserves nature, Saanich’s bylaw penalizes it.

The message this bylaw sends is: “If you preserve nature on your land, you risk losing your property

rights. If you cover your property with black top or buildings, you can keep them.”

I guess this can’t be theft because they made it a law; but it looks a lot like it to me.

J. CliffordSaanich

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Re: Biologist blasts District over environmental bylaw confusion, News (Feb. 13)

In order to protect Sensitive ecosystems, the provncial government gave Saanich the authority to put restrictions on certain properties when these sensitive ecosystems exist.

Saanich is abusing their authority by including properties in the Environmental Development Permit Area (EDPA) where there is no sensitive ecosystem.

A Saanich biologist reviewed my property and could not find any sensitive ecosystem here.

However, she would not remove my property – including my house – from the EDPA.

I am restricted from the removal, deposit or disturbance of soil, so I can’t put a shovel in the ground or construct a small structure that normally doesn’t require a building permit.

I am not allowed to build a sidewalk, trail or install a lawn sprinkling system and I’m restricted from the maintenance of sewer and water services.

I have hired a registered biologist that has confirmed that no sensitive ecosystem exists on my property. Saanich still refuses to exclude my property from the EDPA.

They are abusing the authority given them.

Norman WebbSaanich

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Re: Biologist blasts District over environmental bylaw confusion, News (Feb. 13)

I don’t see a big deal here. Given the behaviour of so many sellers and developers (build now, ask forgiveness later), I fully support Saanich keeping a broader scope on the EDPA. If a homeowner wants an

exemption, let them ask.Yes, Saanich can and should do

a better job of informing those affected. This however can easily be corrected.

Personal profit should not supersede the greater (global?) good. The last administration already messed that up with their weak enforcement policies.

John PhillipsSaanich


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Saanich police and the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team (GVERT) spent Sunday afternoon talking a man in his 60s out of his home.

Saanich police officers arrived to a home in the 5000-block of Lochside Dr. around 12:20 p.m. in response to a potential domestic violence incident. Police were told there were weapons that could be accessed inside the home, said Sgt. Steve Eassie.

As a result, police called in the region’s emergency response team around 2 p.m. GVERT negotiators made contact with the occupants and all but one man exited the home shortly after.

As a precaution, police evacuated the two residences to either side of the home of focus, and the man eventually surrendered to police at 11:35 p.m. and was arrested for weapons-related offences.

“We are thankful that this incident could be resolved without harm to anyone,” Eassie said. “We thank the public for their understanding and co-operation.”

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Karen Hope, executive director of Dawson Heights Housing, is worried the non-profit housing provider will be forced to raise rent after big jumps in assessed value in 2015.

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exemption status, Dawson Heights hasn’t applied, Hope said. And while B.C. Assessment is doing what it’s mandated to do (using neighbouring mar-ket indicators when assessing property values), Hope has filed an appeal with the Crown corpora-tion. She’s since found out that a great number of non-profit housing organizations have launched appeals in 2014 and 2015, hoping to reduce costs.

It’s come to the attention of B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association, who are monitoring the situation.

“What we see is that most non-profit (housing) costs are rising, operating housing is expensive to begin with, and we want a mandate to keep costs low but not based on tax,” said Jill Atkey, director of research and education with the Vancouver-based organization.

“We understand that the only revenue source for cities is tax. They’re in a difficult position,” Atkey said.

The idea that non-profit housing associations could benefit from a lower tax rate has been ban-died about before. However, it could take provin-cial legislation to overrule the community charter-based municipal bylaws to allow non-profit hous-

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“Imagine if we didn’t have to pay that,” Hope said.

Tina Ireland, B.C. Assessment’s director of evalu-ation services, said B.C. Assessment is not cur-rently considering interpreting the legislation dif-ferently for non-profit housing, meaning it will con-tinue to be classified as residential.

Which makes it an issue that needs attention, said Hope, who is preparing to deliver 75 letters from residents to Victoria-Swan Lake MLA Rob Fleming.

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The Saanich Braves open the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League playoffs against the Westshore Wolves tonight (Feb. 18), while last Sunday, they took a few hours to hon-our a number of play-ers and volunteers for their contributions to the Braves’ 2014-2015 season.

The big winner on the night was forward Jack Rachwalski, earn-ing the Most Valuable Player Award, as well as the Iron Man Award, having played in all of the Braves’ 48 games

this season.Another double

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Goalie Brandon Ward, who led the VIJHL with 1,900 min-utes played, was named the team’s Rookie of

the Year. Forward Jor-dan Parmar took home the Most Improved Player Award. Recently acquired Nick Kean was honoured as the Braves Top Scorer, while second leading scorer Evan Horvath was selected as the team’s Unsung Hero for the season.

Ben Meek was named the winner of the Coaches Award, while recently added Liam Sproule was given the Norm Kelly Con-sulting Award as Top Playoff Contributor from the previous sea-

son. Meek, Sproule and captain Dayne Ellison were honoured as the Braves’ three graduat-ing players.

The team also acknowledged the vol-unteers and staff who keep the team on the ice. Equipment man-ager Bob Hleuka was honoured with the Most Dedicated Volun-teer Award.

- Christian J. Stewart is a Saanich-based com-munications profes-sional and contributing editor and photogra-pher with Independent Sports News.

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Graduating Saanich Braves players Liam Sproule, Dayne Ellison and Ben Meek, received jerseys and framed photos at the team’s Sunday awards banquet.

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Aboriginal men gath-ered at the B.C. legisla-ture Feb. 12 to urge per-sonal responsibility to reduce violence against aboriginal women and children.

The fourth annual Gathering of Men culmi-nated with a ceremony on the legislature steps, where MLAs joined par-ticipants to acknowl-edge that violence against women and chil-dren is not traditional or acceptable.

MLAs joined the ceremony and affixed moose hide patches to their lapels to mark the day. Paul Lacerte, founder of the campaign and executive director of the B.C. Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, said the goal is to distribute one million moose hide patches to spread the message.

Across Canada, aboriginal women aged 15 and older are three times more likely to experience violence and be assaulted by their partners than non-aboriginal women.

“Women are bearing the burden of abuse, but they also have to bear the burden of advocacy to affect change, and this is a man’s problem as much as it is a wom-an’s problem,” Lacerte said. “Violence towards women and children has never been a part of our culture.”

Aboriginal Relations Minister John Rustad said the campaign is unique and has the gov-ernment’s support.

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Paul Lacerte, right, leads a group of mostly aboriginal men in a drum ceremony in front of the B.C. legislative building on Feb. 12.


French culture will be celebrated at the 18th annual Victoria French Fest from March 5 to 8.

Kicking off the festival with traditional songs from Quebec is musical group Le Bal à l’huile. The event will be held at Victoria Event Centre on March 5 at 7:30 p.m.

The four-day festival includes two days of free activities and concerts at Centennial Square on Feb. 7 and 8, from noon to 4 p.m.

Regional Francophone and Francophile music groups will be performing non-stop on the Radio-Canada Stage.

Francophone artisans will exhibit their products and different Francophone organizations will be in attendance to share information.

On March 8 at 10:30 a.m., there will be a traditional Sugar Shack brunch at Ambrosia.

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to discover traditional French Canadian maple syrup-based dishes.

In honor of International Women’s Day, three women who have been driving forces in the community for many years, will be presented with awards at Centennial Square.

The event is sponsored by the Francophone Society of Victoria.

For more information, please go online to francocentre.com.

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As part of our 2014 Community Grants, ten grants totalling over a quarter

million dollars were funded in the area of food security. They included

projects to provide meals for vulnerable seniors and children, an initiative

to preserve traditional First Nations food knowledge, and activities to

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WAREHOUSE LIEN ACT

Notice is given that Triple T Developments Ltd., 3333 Tennyson Ave. will sell atits premises on March 4, 2015, the following vehicles for the purpose of satisfyingthe Warehouse Lien. Bids close at 1pm.• Vehicle 1997 Pontiac

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HELP WANTED

Community Health Nursesought in Port Hardy, BC. Re-quest job description or apply to [email protected] by Feb 22. Competitive salary offered. Tel. 250-949-6625

SMALL ENG/SAW/OUTBOARD MECHANIC WANTED.

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SALES

HOLMES Realty is currently in a position where we would like to expand by hiring a li-censed Realtor to work in the position of a Buyer Agent. This position would comprise of working with our buyer clients in showing property, hosting open houses, drafting/present-ing offers and follow-up. Ideal-ly, applicants will have at least a year of successful real es-tate experience and a desire to work on a team. We are a busy team with progressive ideas and we all love what we do. To apply, [email protected] or call 250-656-0911www.HolmesRealty.com

VOLUNTEERS

THE SALVATION Army is looking for kitchen helpers and servers at 525 Johnson Street to help provide the 16,000 meals the organization serves every month. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

VOLUNTEERS

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volunteer training. Successful candidates will receive training to provide

resource-focused support for single parents. Training will

run on Thursdays from 12:00 - 2:30, from

March 26 - May 28.

Interested individuals please contact Raina Pierce at:

[email protected] or call 250.385.1114

BRIDGES FOR Women So-ciety is looking for social me-dia volunteers with expertise in Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms to as-sist with their indiegogo and public awareness campaigns. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

VICTORIA THERAPEUTIC Riding Association is looking for an experienced horse per-son to handle horses in a therapeutic riding program. Training will be provided. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

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PETS

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

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32” FLAT screen TV $100. 7” android 4.1 internet tablet $50. Cannon power shot SD550 $50. (250)381-2427.

FOOD PRODUCTS

BEEF FARM GATE SALES. 1516 Mt. Douglas Cross Rd. Hours Friday & Saturday 10-4. Naturally raised, hormone free beef. Individual cuts sold, sharp, frozen & double wrapped. (250)477-3321.

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10 PKGs (18 ea) Depend un-derwear, women, S/M. 28-40” waist $99. 250-381-9075.

2 ARMY Jackets, $40/each, extra large vest, $10. Call 778-265-1615.

CAT CARRIER bedding etc... everything under $50. Call (250)656-0708.

COFFEE TABLE- wood, 40”lx18”wx15.5”h. $25, fi rm Call (250)595-6734.

LARGE COPCO steel stove top kettle, dark chocolate. New $50, Sell $30. (250)383-4578.

LG PHONE, $30. Shaw PVR $54. House phone $15 (250)592-0947.

STEEL, 5 shelves wine rack & 2 3 gallon car boys, $30. (250)727-0371.

TAJ MAHAL framed picture $20. Tool box with tools $50. Call 778-433-2899.

WHEELCHAIR- BARGAIN,$99. (250)727-2646.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fi r, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.

FURNITURE

ANTIQUE 1900 Sideboard w/ unique hutch. Warm tiger oak, original brass pulls. $550. obo. Could deliver (250)598-7387.

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NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS- $2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enter-prise Cres, Victoria. Gold-stream Press Division.

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PORTABLE SAW, $20. Rout-er table, $30. Back-pack treesquare, new, $25. 4 Michelintires, ice and snow, (17”) likenew, paid $1000 asking $200.Hope chest, antique, $250.Call (250)479-5208.

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STEEL BUILDINGS/metalbuildings 60% off! 20x28,30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120,60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online:www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.

STEEL BUILDINGS. “Really big sale!” All steel buildingmodels and sizes. Plus extrasavings. Buy now and we willstore until spring. Call PioneerSteel 1-800-668-5422 or visitonline: www.pioneersteel.ca

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ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-elry. Estates/private librariespurchased. Galleon Books &Antiques, 250-655-0700.

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DVD RENTAL business. Sell-ing due to illness. Fully stocked$5500 obo. 250-542-0743www.tigressevideoretals.mydvdkiosks.net

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LAVENDER CO-OP accept-ing applications for a 1 bdrm,$620/mo. Quiet area, sm petok, W/D hook up, insuite stor-age, lrg bright kitchen. Grossincome $25,000 +, share pur-chase is $2,500. Applicationsavailable in the glass case out-side the Community Hall; 10A-620 Judah St.

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LANGFORD (Costco)- Bus, shops, school. 2 Bdrm suite, fenced yard, 4 appls, water incl’d, shared laundry, $1050 mo + utils. NS/NP. Avail now. Call (250)881-2283.

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2$298for

"Little Potato Company"Blushing Belle or Baby Boomer Potatoes1.5lb bag

2$498for

Chilean "No. 1"Organic Blueberries6oz clamshell

2$498for

88¢per lb

California "Fresh" Organic Bunched Broccoli4.14 per kg 188

per lb

Mexican "Grown"Organic Red Bell Peppers8.55 per kg 388

per lb

4”Cineraria

2$7for

4”Lucky Bamboo1499

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