Saanich News, January 15, 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

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Coun. Judy Brownoff has a lot of questions for Canada Post, fearing municipalities across the country will be on the hook to pay for costs associated with maintaining safe and accessible community mailboxes.

The Saanich councillor says the mid-December announce-ment that the Crown corpora-tion will do away with home delivery within the next five years shouldn’t have been made before consulting municipalities.

Her concerns stem from vague wordings in the Canada Post Delivery Planning Standards Manual that don’t clearly touch

on land-use, lighting, pedestrian safety, sidewalks and mailbox maintenance.

“Why, if this is a federal edict, are they not being told to spend some money and get some stan-dards developed, then talk to municipalities,” she said.

Brownoff points to the fact that few residential streets in Saanich have sidewalks, per municipal policy, and many streets have sporadic lampposts to prevent light pollution.

“People are going to have to have a safe walking environment to get to that box. There’s going to have to lighting – who’s going to pay to put in a light standard? Is Canada Post going to pay to put in a sidewalk? I think this is

going to be them downloading costs onto us,” she says.

As for where these boxes will be installed, Brownoff is curious if they will be put on private or municipally owned land.

Canada Post estimates 6,000 to 8,000 positions will be elimi-nated by implementing nation-wide community mailboxes. The company says rising costs and falling mail volumes have ren-dered the traditional operations no longer sustainable.

In 1989, Saanich council approved a policy entitled “Supermailbox Location Poli-cies” that establishes guidelines for where Canada Post can install these boxes.

In addition to specifying

how far away a box should be from driveways, sidewalks and intersections, the bylaw indi-cates these mailboxes can’t be installed on major roads and it puts limits on how many mail-boxes there can be in one par-ticular area.

Colin Doyle, Saanich’s direc-tor of engineering, says since the policy “establishes guidelines,” what’s laid out are “desirables.”

Before any work happens, however, Canada Post will be required to receive a permit from the engineering depart-ment.

“It’s strictly an administra-tive procedure, just as other people do to work in a munici-pal right-of-way. They take out a

permit, and provided the work’s approved, they go ahead and do it, and it’s inspected by our folks,” he said.

“Prior to the installation of a supermailbox, Canada Post will submit to the Municipality site plans showing details of the pro-posed supermailbox locations and other features that may affect the acceptability of their proposed location,” the policy reads.

Brownoff expects Canada Post won’t simply drop boxes into neighbourhoods without con-sulting first with Saanich and area residents.

Canada Post’s move to community mailboxes creates more questions than answers for Saanich

Lost in the mail

Saanich Coun. Judy Brownoff, at a community mailbox on Sea Ridge Drive, says Canada Post

is offering little detail on how community mailboxes will be

installed safely and securely as home delivery is phased out.

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A Greater Victoria teenager has been found guilty of pos-sessing and distributing child pornography after she texted naked pictures of another minor found on her boyfriend’s phone.

The 17-year-old, whose iden-tity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was also found guilty of uttering threats through texting.

Judge Sue Wishart gave her ruling Thursday in Victoria Youth Justice Court after a one-

day trial last Thursday.Defense lawyer Christopher

Mackie is now awaiting a court date on a constitutional chal-lenge, which was filed last Sep-tember, asking whether or not child pornography laws should apply to cases involving young people.

“We knew (the conviction) was a necessary step, so I don’t think we were under any illu-sions that this would be the end of the road,” Mackie said in an interview.

“My client’s argument has been that this isn’t about child

pornography, which was meant to address pedophilia and exploitation. It’s about teenaged harassment or bullying and needs to be dealt with in a differ-ent manner.”

The federal government plans to table an anti-cyberbullying bill this spring in the wake of several high-profile cases, including that of Halifax teenager Rehtaeh Par-sons.

Mackie said the new legisla-tion, if passed, could be relevant to his client’s case.

“By all indications, this is a bullying case,” he said.

Teen convicted on child porn charge


Victoria Police investigators recovered a collection of gold pocket watches stolen Jan. 3 from the Royal B.C. Museum.

Port Alberni RCMP arrested the suspects, a 44-year-old Port Alberni man (formerly of Col-wood) and a 29-year-old Port Alberni woman, last week at the request of VicPD.

VicPD used a fingerprint left at the scene to trace the crime back to the Colwood man, while the eight pocket watches “had gone through a number of dif-ferent hands” before officers tracked them down locally, said Sgt. Colin Brown of VicPD’s Crime Reduction Unit.

“In this particular case, it’s a crime of opportunity,” Brown said at a press conference Thursday. “But there was defi-nitely some thought that went into it. It’s not like the museum didn’t have good security in place, they did, but you can tell, even though (the suspects) are not the most sophisticated people, they’ve certainly been involved in thefts in the past.”

The pocket watches were likely traded for drugs or cash

before the couple left Victoria for Port Alberni, and Brown said police worked quickly to recover them through local sources.

RBCM CEO Jack Lohman called the incident a “very rare occurrence,” and praised VicPD for tracking down the valuable artifacts so quickly.

“I’ve worked with museums all around the world … where there hasn’t been this great speed of work (by police),”

Lohman said.Bill Chimko, RBCM’s head of

security, said the watches were stolen from a secured glass case in the Old Town exhibit on the museum’s third floor during operating hours, but refused to go into further detail. He said security measures are being adjusted as a result of the theft.

Brian Gerald Holt and Stacy Croft are each facing a charge of theft over $5,000.

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Gold pocket watches recovered from Royal B.C. Museum heist

Daniel Palmer/News staff

Victoria police recovered a collection of historic gold pocket watches stolen from a display at the Royal B.C. Museum, while RCMP in Port Albernia arrested two suspects in the theft.

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A Greater Victoria teenager has been found guilty of pos-sessing and distributing child pornography after she texted naked pictures of another minor found on her boyfriend’s phone.

The 17-year-old, whose iden-tity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was also found guilty of uttering threats through texting.

Judge Sue Wishart gave her ruling Thursday in Victoria Youth Justice Court after a one-

day trial last Thursday.Defense lawyer Christopher

Mackie is now awaiting a court date on a constitutional chal-lenge, which was filed last Sep-tember, asking whether or not child pornography laws should apply to cases involving young people.

“We knew (the conviction) was a necessary step, so I don’t think we were under any illu-sions that this would be the end of the road,” Mackie said in an interview.

“My client’s argument has been that this isn’t about child

pornography, which was meant to address pedophilia and exploitation. It’s about teenaged harassment or bullying and needs to be dealt with in a differ-ent manner.”

The federal government plans to table an anti-cyberbullying bill this spring in the wake of several high-profile cases, including that of Halifax teenager Rehtaeh Par-sons.

Mackie said the new legisla-tion, if passed, could be relevant to his client’s case.

“By all indications, this is a bullying case,” he said.

Teen convicted on child porn charge


Victoria Police investigators recovered a collection of gold pocket watches stolen Jan. 3 from the Royal B.C. Museum.

Port Alberni RCMP arrested the suspects, a 44-year-old Port Alberni man (formerly of Col-wood) and a 29-year-old Port Alberni woman, last week at the request of VicPD.

VicPD used a fingerprint left at the scene to trace the crime back to the Colwood man, while the eight pocket watches “had gone through a number of dif-ferent hands” before officers tracked them down locally, said Sgt. Colin Brown of VicPD’s Crime Reduction Unit.

“In this particular case, it’s a crime of opportunity,” Brown said at a press conference Thursday. “But there was defi-nitely some thought that went into it. It’s not like the museum didn’t have good security in place, they did, but you can tell, even though (the suspects) are not the most sophisticated people, they’ve certainly been involved in thefts in the past.”

The pocket watches were likely traded for drugs or cash

before the couple left Victoria for Port Alberni, and Brown said police worked quickly to recover them through local sources.

RBCM CEO Jack Lohman called the incident a “very rare occurrence,” and praised VicPD for tracking down the valuable artifacts so quickly.

“I’ve worked with museums all around the world … where there hasn’t been this great speed of work (by police),”

Lohman said.Bill Chimko, RBCM’s head of

security, said the watches were stolen from a secured glass case in the Old Town exhibit on the museum’s third floor during operating hours, but refused to go into further detail. He said security measures are being adjusted as a result of the theft.

Brian Gerald Holt and Stacy Croft are each facing a charge of theft over $5,000.

[email protected]

Gold pocket watches recovered from Royal B.C. Museum heist

Daniel Palmer/News staff

Victoria police recovered a collection of historic gold pocket watches stolen from a display at the Royal B.C. Museum, while RCMP in Port Albernia arrested two suspects in the theft.

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Oil furnace failure sparked house fire

Investigators have deter-mined that a mechanical failure with an oil-fired furnace started a fire that destroyed a home in the 3300-block of Shelbourne Street, killing a family dog.

Assistant Chief Rich Pala, with the Saanich Fire Department, says while the cause has been deter-mined to be accidental, the flames were fuelled by nearby items.

“There was storage around the furnace that contributed to the growth of the fire. We would remind residents to make sure they don’t store any combustibles near their furnace,” Pala said.

He also noted that the home was not equipped with smoke alarms.

The fire began around 11:55 p.m. on Jan. 3 while two people were inside the home. Both managed to escape without injury.

Fire crews rescued the family dog, but attempts to resuscitate the animal were unsuccessful.

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Commercial vehicle goes up in flames

A commercial vehicle which became engulfed in fire on Sunday is now the target of a forensic investi-gation by Saanich police.

The fire happened behind businesses on the 3500-block of Quadra St. late Sunday night. By the time emergency crews arrived the vehicle was engulfed in flames.

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Victoria housing affordability forum

The Victoria Downtown Residents Association is hosting a public forum on housing affordability Jan. 30 at the Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St.

Discussion topics include the history of housing policy and afford-able housing solutions.

The panel includes local housing experts. The free event begins at 7 p.m.

This is part three of a three-part series examining proposed changes to acute care nursing in Greater Victoria hospitals.

The B.C. Nurses’ Union and Island Health are locked in a bitter dispute about chang-

ing the model of nursing, but one health care professional has seen the new system work successfully at Victoria General Hospital.

Mary Ann Desjardins, a care aide for 21 years, is stationed at the VGH neuroscience department and works with a team of two reg-istered nurses and one licensed practical nurse.

The team normally cares for about 14 patients, and Desjardins helps them eat, get in and out of bed, bathe and use the toilet.

“We’re able to do the extra little

pieces that a registered nurse doesn’t have time to do, such as comforting the patient,” she said.

“There are times when I look at a patient and decide, ‘I’m going to sit with this person because I know he or she is frightened.’”

Her team was part of a small pilot project for the care delivery model redesign (CDMR) imple-mented in acute care at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital in Sep-tember and planned for Victoria General and Royal Jubilee hospi-tals in April.

Changes would have care aides take on duties of feeding, bathing and toileting of acute-care patients in an effort to reduce costs and give patients more one-on-one time with a health care professional. Desjardins said having care aides in acute care is a positive change.

“It can lighten the load for nurses. I know it’s a good thing, I’ve seen it work,” she said.

The BCNU wants CDMR scrapped.

The union argues that model decreases, and in some cases eliminates, direct patient time with nurses. It also said care aides don’t have the same education to notice subtle changes in a patient’s health, which could be life threat-ening.

Desjardins disagrees, and said care aides have adequate training in patient observation.

“That is our main focus because before being brought into acute care, (care aids) were mostly in residential care. Nurses (in resi-

dential care) totally depend on us,” she said.

Yet CDMR is provoking worry across all units at Victoria Gen-eral, including Desjardins’, due to negative stories emerging from Nanaimo and a lack of details from Island Health, she said. “We don’t know what it’s going to look like,” Desjardins said. “It creates a bit of frustration.”

The Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU), which represents health care assistants, says its members are upset that their skills are being questioned, as they are trained professionals who work within their mandate, which includes noticing subtle changes in patients.

“It’s disheartening to hear peo-ple feel they have to advance their own interest by diminishing the role others provide,” said HEU sec-retary business manager Bonnie Pearson.

“We should be part of the care team. We are at the patient’s bed-side often where we see changes in a person’s health.”

In Alberta, the union represent-

ing nurses is fighting a similar battle as the BCNU, as care aides there have assumed the same tasks that Island Health is trying to implement.

The United Nurses of Alberta is also accusing Alberta Health Ser-vices of replacing nurses with care aides, and that union claims it has evidence proving Alberta “plans to eliminate hundreds of nursing jobs.”

The BCNU also asserts CDMR is about replacing nurses with lower-cost care aides. The union fears CDMR will eventually be adopted by other health authorities across B.C.

CDMR executive leader Rita den Otter said using care aides in hos-pitals and in acute-care wards is nothing new.

The system was introduced to smaller Island hospitals such as Cowichan, Campbell River and West Coast General in Port Alberni several years ago, and care aides work in acute care wards in other parts of Canada, the United States and in Europe.

CDMR will ease a nurse’s work-load and will not result in job losses, den Otter said.

“We all live on the Island, too, and our families come to our hos-pital for care,” she said. “When we redesign patient care, we are think-ing of our own family as well. We try very hard, always to provide the best possible care we can and show that it’s safe to come to our hospital.”

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Lightening the workload for nurses

Care aids already part of hospital health care teams

Christopher SunReporting

A care aid for 21 years, Mary Ann Desjardins is part of a health care team in the neuroscience department at Victoria General Hospital, and says employees in her position are more than capable of working in acute care wards.

Arnold Lim/News staff

“We should be part of the care team. We are at the patient’s bedside often where we see changes in a person’s health.”

– Bonnie PearsonHospital Employees’ Union

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Late night clubbingOn Jan. 7, the UVic Faculty Club

reported a break-and-enter where a window was smashed and some-one had entered the building.

A 21-year-old male suspect was located by UVic security and turned over to Oak Bay police who will be submitting charges for approval to Crown Counsel.

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NOTICE TO SAANICH BUSINESSES2014 BUSINESS LICENCES

The Business Licence Bylaw requires that all businesses operating in the District of Saanich be in possession of a valid business licence. This requirement applies to all commercial, industrial, home based and non-resident businesses operating within the municipality.

Renewal notices are mailed at the end of each year to all businesses that were licensed the previous year. Payment may be made online at www.saanich.ca, by mail or at the Saanich Municipal Hall. Business licence fees are due and payable on the first business day in January each year, or the date of application for a new business licence, if later. If you are no longer operating your business please contact the Business Licence Division at 250-475-5401 so that we can update our records. Please check the Business Licence Bylaw for licence categories and fees.

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Pursuant to the Community Charter, the public is advised that the 2014 schedule for Regular Council Meetings is available on our web site at saanich.ca, or by contacting the Legislative Division at 250-475-1775 or e-mailing us at [email protected]. All meetings start at 7:30 p.m. and are held in the Council Chambers, Saanich Municipal Hall, 770 Vernon Avenue.

Please note that this schedule may be changed by resolution of Council.

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In early March, Anaheim, Calif., will host the largest natural prod-ucts trade show in North America, a venue of all that is nutritious. For Victoria’s Paul Underhill, it’s a leap into the wildly competitive U.S. mar-ket for health drinks.

The expo will mark the U.S. launch of Rumble, a nutrition drink devised by Underhill, 44, originally as a means to cope with symptoms of cystic fibrosis. Rumble has found a foothold here, but the U.S. is a dif-ferent world.

“The west coast of the U.S. is the most competitive market for health food and beverages,” Underhill said. “There’s many more products, and companies spend a lot on market-ing. We have to rely on the strength of our product, and word of mouth.”

Over the past two years, Rumble has found its way into groceries and health food stores across Canada, and it had its biggest month yet in December after Underhill and col-leagues Kim and James McQueen appeared on Dragons’ Den.

The drink and the company have come a long way in five years, since Underhill started grinding together fruits and vegetables at his Victoria home in a desperate bid to get food into his body. Along with causing chronic lung infections, cystic fibro-sis inhibits the efficient absorption of nutrients.

In those days, Underhill hunted around supplement shops and health food stores for meal replace-ments that were nutritious, organic and didn’t taste awful. As a profes-sional researcher with degrees in psychology and law, he dug into

blending a drink from scratch. “There was nothing out there

to drink with a healthy balance. I needed something that didn’t exist. I was forced to make my own,” he said. “But obviously it wasn’t just me that needed it.”

Steve Hughes, 45, who lives in View Royal, encouraged Underhill to develop his “super shake” as a com-mercial product. He left his job as general manager of Albion Fisheries to help get Rumble off the ground.

“I told Paul he should try to do this. It’s not just the health-com-promised that need this. Everyone needs better choices and nutrition,” Hughes said. “We realized going from the blender at home to pro-duction was a big leap. We hired a food scientist. We knew we needed authentication.”

Kim McQueen, a naturopathic doctor, formulated the ingredients to maximize the proteins, nutri-ents and taste. They couldn’t find a manufacturer in Canada to produce Rumble, but found one in an undis-closed location the U.S. With financ-ing from friends and family, Rumble launched in October 2012 at a trade show in Toronto.

Neither a protein or energy drink or meal supplement, Rumble is designed as Canada’s first “nourish-ing drink.” The company’s first com-mercial order came from Lifestyle Markets, and the first bottle was sold at Niagara Market.

Underhill said the final product is healthier than what he made at home – McQueen insisted on pump-ing up the omega-3s, an essential fatty acid found in fish and nuts.

“Creating a tasty all-natural leading-edge nutritional drink with omega-3s was challenging. In lab

testing the formulation was worked on for over 18 months,” Hughes said. “It took time to work through the formulation to create a stable shelf life.”

In the midst of developing Rumble, Underhill’s cystic fibro-sis came on with a vengeance, and in 2011, he was on oxygen 24 hours per day. On April 22, 2011, an air ambulance shuttled him to Toronto in critical con-dition, and by a stroke of fate, he was undergoing double lung transplant surgery within 12 hours.

A year later, Underhill cycled the 100 km leg of the Tour de Victoria. Rumble went on to sponsor and Underhill rode the 1,200 km Vancouver to Banff ride for cystic fibrosis, and the company continues to sponsor cyclists and other athletes. “It was too much to even leave the house (in 2011). I was tethered to a tube. It’s hard to reconcile then and now,” he said.

As seen on TV, Rumble struck a deal with Dragons’ Den inves-tors, but Underhill said that dissolved amicably amid inter-est from an investors group

in Toronto, which is financing their push into the U.S.

From being a civil servant, a cyclist and a health nut, Under-hill never envisioned being a guy who negotiated with ven-

ture capitalists. “I never anticipated com-

ing down this path at all. But we realized we had something here,” he said. “I saw the poten-tial and my friends did too.”

Victoria health drink preps for U.S. debutCreated to help with cystic fibrosis, unlikely entrepreneurs hit growing health market

Edward Hill/News staff

Company co-founders Steve Hughes and Paul Underhill show off bottles of Rumble outside their downtown Victoria office. Originally a drink designed to combat Underhill's symptoms of cystic fibrosis, Rumble is now found across Canada and the company will launch into the U.S. in March.

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OUR VIEW

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s latest visit to B.C. was portrayed as these things are today: besieged by protesters, hiding from an ever-vigilant media, cynically campaigning for the 2015 federal election.

TV couldn’t get enough of the two “environmental activists” who dressed as waiters to slip onstage at a business breakfast in Vancouver.

They’re not environmentalists, just all-purpose protesters using the flavour of the month. They are associated with a group calling itself “No One Is Illegal,” a collection of anarchist kooks that wants to do away with national borders, and of course capitalism.

As their now-famous sign said, they want “climate justice now.” Organizer Brigette DePape explained to a co-operative CBC TV host that the recent typhoon in the Philippines that killed thousands of people was caused by global warming, which of course is caused mainly by the Alberta “tar sands.”

I won’t dwell on this routine idiocy, except to say the number of hurricanes that struck North America in 2013 was zero, and that hasn’t happened since 1994. Also, “climate justice” is like “social justice,” in that both require confiscation of earned wealth.

DePape is the former Senate page fired in 2011 for a similar sign stunt.

She’s now a professional Harper hater, with support from the U.S.-based Tides Foundation among

others.One of the issues

Harper didn’t take questions on was the consolidation of 11 federal fisheries libraries into two, one of them in Sidney, B.C.

This is portrayed as part of Harper’s so-called “war on science,” and has been compared with the Romans burning the library of Alexandria in ancient Egypt.

Fisheries Minister Gail Shea defended the cost-cutting measure by pointing out that almost all access to these libraries is now digital, so maintaining 11 duplicated sets of printed reports is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

An anonymous federal scientist fired back on his blog that the head of one of these libraries retired before the contents could even be catalogued, much less completely digitized for online access.

So this material wasn’t even properly organized? Users were supposed to browse until they stumbled on something pertinent?

The ministry reported that the average number of people other than federal fisheries staff who used these libraries averaged between five and 12 per year. That’s for all 11 facilities combined. And if anyone has even one example of information that was available and

isn’t now, they should identify it.Harper’s got plenty to answer for,

no question. To take one of many examples, spending our borrowed money on TV ads for a “Canada Job Grant” program that hasn’t even been introduced in Parliament, much less set up, isn’t just wasteful. It’s dishonest and cruelly misleading to the unemployed people the ads pretend to offer help.

Harper’s visit to B.C. added a couple of scripted events, starting with softball questions at the Vancouver business breakfast. Then he was off to a photo op at the Kinsol trestle on Vancouver Island, where he announced three more years of funding for the Trans-Canada Trail.

I’m as relieved as anyone that Harper is not killing this modest federal project that started in 1992, but this is not news.

It was a fake public event to justify the cost of a trip so Harper could address a new Conservative riding association.

And how is the federal deficit after eight years of tight-fisted Conservative rule? We’re only borrowing about $1 billion a month now, down from the Harper government all-time record deficit of $55 billion in 2009.

Some cost cutting is in order all right.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Twitter: @[email protected]

Harper rapped for wrong reasons

‘Harper’s got plenty to answer for, no question.’

Child porn case ignores bullyingLast Thursday, a 17-year-old Victoria-area

girl was convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography after she

texted naked photos of another underage girl. The images were sent to the victim, another teen and the 17-year-old’s boyfriend.

It appears the conviction met the strict definition of distributing and possessing child pornography, in this case sending around images of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. She also threatened the victim and used the photos to try to humiliate her on Facebook.

But are the actions of this 17-year-old equivalent to a pedophile trading child porn over the Internet, and thereby contributing to the harm and degradation of exploited youth?

It seems in this case, the intent of the 17-year-old was to bully and harass a potential rival.

Clearly Canadian law is unable to cope with the fast moving world of social media and the vicious world of teen bullying, mixed with a culture that encourages young girls to allow racy photos of themselves via a technology that links with ease to the Internet.

Many might agree that defaulting to a child porn charge sends a message that teens distributing photos of naked teens should be dealt with harshly under the law. Certainly bullying left unchecked has led to cases of girls committing suicide.

That said, we should call this recent case what it is – bullying and harassment due to rivalry and jealousy, plain and simple. That doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the offenses or the suffering and humiliation of the victim.

But calling this teen a child pornographer is disingenuous and distracts from the deep and ongoing problem of bullying in the age of social media (not addressed was the fact the boyfriend would have technically been in possession of child pornography, as it was his phone that stored the photos).

If nothing else, parents and educators need to make this a teaching moment. Teens and tweens need to understand legal ramifications of images and text transmitted onto the Internet, and the fact that digital images always have the potential to be distributed into the wider world.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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OUR VIEW

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s latest visit to B.C. was portrayed as these things are today: besieged by protesters, hiding from an ever-vigilant media, cynically campaigning for the 2015 federal election.

TV couldn’t get enough of the two “environmental activists” who dressed as waiters to slip onstage at a business breakfast in Vancouver.

They’re not environmentalists, just all-purpose protesters using the flavour of the month. They are associated with a group calling itself “No One Is Illegal,” a collection of anarchist kooks that wants to do away with national borders, and of course capitalism.

As their now-famous sign said, they want “climate justice now.” Organizer Brigette DePape explained to a co-operative CBC TV host that the recent typhoon in the Philippines that killed thousands of people was caused by global warming, which of course is caused mainly by the Alberta “tar sands.”

I won’t dwell on this routine idiocy, except to say the number of hurricanes that struck North America in 2013 was zero, and that hasn’t happened since 1994. Also, “climate justice” is like “social justice,” in that both require confiscation of earned wealth.

DePape is the former Senate page fired in 2011 for a similar sign stunt.

She’s now a professional Harper hater, with support from the U.S.-based Tides Foundation among

others.One of the issues

Harper didn’t take questions on was the consolidation of 11 federal fisheries libraries into two, one of them in Sidney, B.C.

This is portrayed as part of Harper’s so-called “war on science,” and has been compared with the Romans burning the library of Alexandria in ancient Egypt.

Fisheries Minister Gail Shea defended the cost-cutting measure by pointing out that almost all access to these libraries is now digital, so maintaining 11 duplicated sets of printed reports is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

An anonymous federal scientist fired back on his blog that the head of one of these libraries retired before the contents could even be catalogued, much less completely digitized for online access.

So this material wasn’t even properly organized? Users were supposed to browse until they stumbled on something pertinent?

The ministry reported that the average number of people other than federal fisheries staff who used these libraries averaged between five and 12 per year. That’s for all 11 facilities combined. And if anyone has even one example of information that was available and

isn’t now, they should identify it.Harper’s got plenty to answer for,

no question. To take one of many examples, spending our borrowed money on TV ads for a “Canada Job Grant” program that hasn’t even been introduced in Parliament, much less set up, isn’t just wasteful. It’s dishonest and cruelly misleading to the unemployed people the ads pretend to offer help.

Harper’s visit to B.C. added a couple of scripted events, starting with softball questions at the Vancouver business breakfast. Then he was off to a photo op at the Kinsol trestle on Vancouver Island, where he announced three more years of funding for the Trans-Canada Trail.

I’m as relieved as anyone that Harper is not killing this modest federal project that started in 1992, but this is not news.

It was a fake public event to justify the cost of a trip so Harper could address a new Conservative riding association.

And how is the federal deficit after eight years of tight-fisted Conservative rule? We’re only borrowing about $1 billion a month now, down from the Harper government all-time record deficit of $55 billion in 2009.

Some cost cutting is in order all right.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Twitter: @[email protected]

Harper rapped for wrong reasons

‘Harper’s got plenty to answer for, no question.’

Child porn case ignores bullyingLast Thursday, a 17-year-old Victoria-area

girl was convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography after she

texted naked photos of another underage girl. The images were sent to the victim, another teen and the 17-year-old’s boyfriend.

It appears the conviction met the strict definition of distributing and possessing child pornography, in this case sending around images of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. She also threatened the victim and used the photos to try to humiliate her on Facebook.

But are the actions of this 17-year-old equivalent to a pedophile trading child porn over the Internet, and thereby contributing to the harm and degradation of exploited youth?

It seems in this case, the intent of the 17-year-old was to bully and harass a potential rival.

Clearly Canadian law is unable to cope with the fast moving world of social media and the vicious world of teen bullying, mixed with a culture that encourages young girls to allow racy photos of themselves via a technology that links with ease to the Internet.

Many might agree that defaulting to a child porn charge sends a message that teens distributing photos of naked teens should be dealt with harshly under the law. Certainly bullying left unchecked has led to cases of girls committing suicide.

That said, we should call this recent case what it is – bullying and harassment due to rivalry and jealousy, plain and simple. That doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the offenses or the suffering and humiliation of the victim.

But calling this teen a child pornographer is disingenuous and distracts from the deep and ongoing problem of bullying in the age of social media (not addressed was the fact the boyfriend would have technically been in possession of child pornography, as it was his phone that stored the photos).

If nothing else, parents and educators need to make this a teaching moment. Teens and tweens need to understand legal ramifications of images and text transmitted onto the Internet, and the fact that digital images always have the potential to be distributed into the wider world.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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LETTERSNo good argument for sewage project

Why are all our local politi-cians, municipal and provincial, racing to follow the edict from the bloated bureaucrats and their corporate sponsors in Ottawa, to build an unneeded sewage treatment system?

Why do we have to meekly fall in line and obey their demands? What will happen if we tell them to take their ruling and stuff it?

Those of us who do live here know of the many tests and studies carried out over the past 40 years that have pro-duced absolutely no evidence that the system is necessary.

When was the last time any of our ocean beaches were closed by high fecal coliform counts?

All we have is the whining of a bunch of ignorant urbanites responding to a problem that exists mostly in their fevered imagination, and egged on by the corporate interests who stand to make big bucks from this totally unnecessary project.

However, if someone wants to present a cogent argument for the economic benefits that will accrue from taking our tax money back from Ottawa and recirculating it through the com-munity I will be happy to listen.

Earl SmithSaanich

Separating Saanichsomething to ponder

Re: Larger municipalities, larger costs (Letters, Jan. 10)

The letter writer asserts that the majority of local services have been “proven” to be most effectively provided by munici-palities with populations no larger than 20,000.

In the name of efficiency, therefore, I propose that her own municipality of Saanich, whose population is already well over 100,000 and growing, be subdivided into six separate townships, each with its own mayor and council.

Considerable cost savings should be achieved by adding five new mayors, up to 40 extra councillors, five new police and fire departments and vari-ous planning, engineering and administrative posts to the local governance of our geographi-

cally compact region. That’s according to the “evidence” the writer claims is ignored by Amalgamation Yes and its sup-porters.

Moreover, I am sure other major Western Canadian cities that manage to function per-fectly well with one mayor, 10 or so councillors, one police force, one fire service and one city hall would be amazed that Greater Victoria could gain greater efficiency and fiscal pru-dence by creating yet more sep-arate and independent adminis-trative units.

John Weaver Victoria

Mainland cities show lower costs

Re: Larger municipalities, larger costs (Letters, Jan. 10)

Amalgamation Yes doesn’t advocate any particular model for future structure of munici-pal governance, however we believe in an objective evalua-tion of the merits of amalgam-ating some of our 13 separate municipalities and we have some facts to support us.

Contrary to the letter writer’s assertions, a review by Amalga-mation Yes shows conclusively that larger municipalities don’t necessarily cost more money.

Surrey, with a population of 482,000 compared to the Capital Regional District total of 349,000, collected $259 mil-lion in general municipal taxes in 2012, compared to our com-bined $314 million.

Clearly with Surrey at $545 per capita municipal tax com-pared to a range of $867 to $1,370 for our larger communi-ties in the CRD confirms we are overtaxed. And worse, our local politicians have clearly stated they intend to keep costs esca-lating with annual property tax increases that exceed the rate of population growth.

The cost of supporting four local core councils is $965,000 while Burnaby’s cost are only

$566,000. Our municipalities pay 21 employees over $150,000, and they only need 15.

Do we really need 13 fire chiefs? Even if amalgamation didn’t necessarily save money for the same cost of seven police chiefs, we could put 15 more constables on the streets.

Clearly there is good rea-son to support at least some degree of amalgamation. At the very least, an in-depth analysis overseen by the province is warranted to provide the pub-lic with unbiased information; however the province will only undertake such a review if there is public support.

That is why Amalgamation Yes is encouraging all CRD municipalities to place a public opinion question on their bal-lots.

James Anderson Saanich

Board member of Amalgamation Yes

More oil pipelines a great risk to all

Re: Many benefits from oil pipelines (Letters, Jan. 3)

The writer from Duncan points out that individuals have potential risks from their plane going down or a car accident.

While these events could become tragic incidents for individuals and their families, they cannot be compared with devastation being caused to communities impacted by the extraction activities of oil, gas and coal industries poisoning their water and environments.

So pipelines might bring us some short-term financial ben-efits, but the cost to current and future generations will rapidly wipe out those benefits.

Better for us as a province and country to quickly transi-tion to renewable sources of energy and away from all the products we derive from oil.

Meanwhile by not allowing the pipelines, we do not risk wiping out the coastal economy of our fisheries, tourism and all the small communities which depend on our clean environ-ment – one spill caused by one human error could wipe out millions of dollars now injected into our provincial coffers. That is a risk we dare not take.

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“I think it’s a slap in our face that Canada Post hasn’t come to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to see what sort of guidelines we need to develop, because it’s going to be different across Canada,” she said.

The issue is being raised around other council tables, too. Delta council last week passed a motion requesting a Canada Post representa-

tive come speak to council to address their concerns.

“One of the concerns is that many of the new mail-boxes that are being installed are really not secure,” Delta Coun. Bruce McDonald said. “They have become a very consistent target because you don’t have to break into 48 houses, you just have to break into one and you get 48 people’s mail.”

In late December, Saanich South MLA Lana Popham

posted to Twitter saying her entire community mailbox was stolen.

A report from Brownoff was expected to be brought forward to council Monday night. Among the recom-mendations was requesting Canada Post re-evaluate the financial and social impacts the decision may have on municipalities and taxpayers.

She also recommended the decision needs to be looked at with a focus on age-friendly

communities, crime preven-tion, safe walking spaces, maintaining the infrastructure and security.

“Canada Post needs to re-evaluate how they’re doing their business. I think they need to be brought to task – you start with contacting and communicating with munici-palities,” she said. “We’re going to fight for answers.”

Canada Post did not return a request for comment by the News’ press deadline.

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“You learn to fall down with your knees and your hands to protect yourself, that’s a learned skill,” said Michelle Tannock, a visit-ing professor with UVic’s centre for research in early childhood. “That gives them a sense of the bound-aries of what they can do and what they can’t do,

versus expecting that oth-ers will protect them.”

Tannock agrees more talk is circulating about the role of risk in childhood devel-opment and she would like to see this idea influence educational programs and play areas and structures.

Victoria playground equipment dealer Merv Walker said the call for alternative playgrounds is growing, but he heeds cau-tion. He believes the push for risk creates a grey area for complying with safety regulations for playgrounds established by the Cana-dian Standards Association (CSA).

He worries the rules are being ignored. He even noticed a potential infrac-tion in the photo of a nature-based playground at Pearce Crescent in the Saanich News, with uneven logs next to a pathway.

“If a child falls off an icy log for instance, the end of a log, and hits the pathway, it’s not covered by CSA,” Walker said. “CSA is what we have. I may or may not agree with it. In some cases

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Saanich’s parks planning and design manager, Gary Durrah, said the decision for the Pearce Crescent playground was based more on space and cost than anything else. Safety can be a concern, Dur-rah said, but it is certainly addressed.

“We do our best to mini-mize the chance of injury. So we still have to put in proper safety surfacing,” Durrah said. “It’s a very dif-ficult thing to regulate.”

What needs to kept in mind moving forward is the difference between risk and hazard.

Playgrounds actually have low fatality and injury rates, Mueller said, espe-cially compared to other common occurrences such as riding in cars. The dis-tinction is key.

“It doesn’t mean play-grounds should have some nails sticking out,” he [email protected]

Kyle WellsNews staff

A trend towards the so-called bubble-wrapping of children, or helicopter par-enting, is giving way to the notion of the importance and benefits of introducing risk in childhood play.

Ulrich Mueller, a psy-chology professor at the University of Victoria, estimates the overprotec-tion of children started in the 1980s and ’90s, when parents began to invest more in their children, but also became more afraid of harm.

Over the past 10 years, Mueller believes those atti-tudes have started to shift. Experts are starting to view playgrounds, which encour-age imaginative play and appropriate risk taking, as

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“This is how children learn what they cannot do and can do, therefore they learn about their own com-petence,” Mueller said.

Mueller and Enid Elliot, an early learning and care instructor at Camosun Col-lege, are currently studying a nature kindergarten pro-gram based out of Sangster elementary in Colwood to see the effects of natural play.

As the study is ongoing there are no results yet, but the researchers are looking at motor development, fit-ness levels, attention spans and emotional develop-ment in the cohorts of tots.

Elliot said the early results are positive towards incorporating risk into play.

“I’m convinced that chil-dren need to have some ways of practicing how to take risks and how to be safe,” Elliot said. “People have much more catastrophic injuries if they don’t learn from an early

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All the tooth trauma of the past came flooding back when my hysterical teenage daughter called, crying: “My tooth’s been knocked out!”

Images swirled in my mind: painful bloody mouth, hockey player smile; the size of cheque I’d be writing to the dentist. And so I braced myself for the inevitable drama as I arrived to pick her up.

She tilted her head towards the light, opened her mouth and pointed. I squinted. Really? Yes, a piece of her front tooth was cer-tainly missing, but this was not exactly Night of the Jack-O-Lantern.

When Danica, age six, first announced that her front teeth were wiggly, I assumed all children loved markers of maturity and started singing, “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.” But then I real-ized Danica was not even brushing them.

For six weeks they hung by strings, getting increasingly yellow, gums bulging above them. Finally, the school Christmas pageant approached, and Danica, cast as one of the three wise men, was to sing a solo verse of We Three Kings.

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teria, Danica's teeth fell out in quick succession. The minute she stepped from the house, she developed a new, closed-mouth smile and started hiding her mouth behind her beloved stuffy or her long hair.

No one knew she had lost her front teeth. Nativity play? Her stuffy got a starring role as she

sang (muffled) into its fur. Christ-mas dinner with extended family? She used the new smile and cover-ing hand. No one outside our house ever saw her toothless.

Over the years, family tooth drama continued. My younger daughter, Sierra had her first tooth pop out with the help of a teeter-totter. Her second tooth came out shortly afterwards, but as she finally went to place her own tooth under the pillow, Danica, in a big sisterly way, confided that the tooth fairy was actually just Momma.

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Heather Stretch is a farmer with a husband Lamont and three ener-getic boys, Jackson 11, Walker, 8, and Levi, 6. She co-owns Saanich Organics with two other women, and together they sell organic pro-duce to families and chefs around Victoria.

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Making a difference in your communityFaelan Prentice Faelan Prentice is a Grade 12 student at Reynolds Secondary in French Immersion. Since Grade 10 he has led Reynolds’ Vital Youth Program, which allocates funds donated by the Victoria Foundation.

He volunteers at Ocean Networks Canada at UVic. Next year he plans to go to UBC, Dalhousie or McGill focusing on the sciences.

Sierra Kachan Sierra Kachan, 16, is involved in grad and the leadership programs at Oak Bay High. Last year, Sierra spearheaded the Cops for Cancer benefit concert that raised close to $1,000. As a co-leader

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age to start to learn to man-age their own risk.”

“You learn to fall down with your knees and your hands to protect yourself, that’s a learned skill,” said Michelle Tannock, a visit-ing professor with UVic’s centre for research in early childhood. “That gives them a sense of the bound-aries of what they can do and what they can’t do,

versus expecting that oth-ers will protect them.”

Tannock agrees more talk is circulating about the role of risk in childhood devel-opment and she would like to see this idea influence educational programs and play areas and structures.

Victoria playground equipment dealer Merv Walker said the call for alternative playgrounds is growing, but he heeds cau-tion. He believes the push for risk creates a grey area for complying with safety regulations for playgrounds established by the Cana-dian Standards Association (CSA).

He worries the rules are being ignored. He even noticed a potential infrac-tion in the photo of a nature-based playground at Pearce Crescent in the Saanich News, with uneven logs next to a pathway.

“If a child falls off an icy log for instance, the end of a log, and hits the pathway, it’s not covered by CSA,” Walker said. “CSA is what we have. I may or may not agree with it. In some cases

I think it goes too far, but that’s my personal feeling. Everything we do has to conform to CSA. It’s that simple.”

Saanich’s parks planning and design manager, Gary Durrah, said the decision for the Pearce Crescent playground was based more on space and cost than anything else. Safety can be a concern, Dur-rah said, but it is certainly addressed.

“We do our best to mini-mize the chance of injury. So we still have to put in proper safety surfacing,” Durrah said. “It’s a very dif-ficult thing to regulate.”

What needs to kept in mind moving forward is the difference between risk and hazard.

Playgrounds actually have low fatality and injury rates, Mueller said, espe-cially compared to other common occurrences such as riding in cars. The dis-tinction is key.

“It doesn’t mean play-grounds should have some nails sticking out,” he [email protected]

Kyle WellsNews staff

A trend towards the so-called bubble-wrapping of children, or helicopter par-enting, is giving way to the notion of the importance and benefits of introducing risk in childhood play.

Ulrich Mueller, a psy-chology professor at the University of Victoria, estimates the overprotec-tion of children started in the 1980s and ’90s, when parents began to invest more in their children, but also became more afraid of harm.

Over the past 10 years, Mueller believes those atti-tudes have started to shift. Experts are starting to view playgrounds, which encour-age imaginative play and appropriate risk taking, as

a helpful aid to develop-ing motor skills and confi-dence.

“This is how children learn what they cannot do and can do, therefore they learn about their own com-petence,” Mueller said.

Mueller and Enid Elliot, an early learning and care instructor at Camosun Col-lege, are currently studying a nature kindergarten pro-gram based out of Sangster elementary in Colwood to see the effects of natural play.

As the study is ongoing there are no results yet, but the researchers are looking at motor development, fit-ness levels, attention spans and emotional develop-ment in the cohorts of tots.

Elliot said the early results are positive towards incorporating risk into play.

“I’m convinced that chil-dren need to have some ways of practicing how to take risks and how to be safe,” Elliot said. “People have much more catastrophic injuries if they don’t learn from an early


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Craig Northey and Bruce McCulloch may not be young or drunk, but the two veteran Canadian per-formers are by all means

punk.“Both of us don’t like to be told

what to do,” says Northey, founding member of Vancouver-based rock band Odds, who is once again col-laborating with McCulloch, Kids in the Hall member, writer/director and actor.

“That’s my theory about musi-cians and comedians and why they got into this – because they wanted a job where no one told them what to do.”

Northey was, and still is, attracted to the DIY ethic that came from the ‘80s punk era and how it marked the end of a time in music where, in order to record an album, artists had to overcome a series of roadblocks: a $20,000-price tag and a sound engi-neer who wouldn’t let you touch any of the controls, he says. Band mem-bers were huge stars, unapproach-able people living in another world.

“When punk came along, it made it for you and me, and you could do it yourself and you don’t need to spend all that money on it, because it wasn’t the point of the music,” he says. “You could speak about your reality and have a lot of fun, because it’s going fast and it’s going hard and it’s going to be fun. I think that has stayed with anybody who was ever involved in punk rock in any way, or enjoyed even listening to it: you can do it yourself; you just have to do

it. Everything that Bruce and I do, we make up. It’s coming from nowhere and then it exists. If somebody says you can’t do it, that’s the reason you do it.”

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essays, soon to be released in a book by the same title. While the stories are very much from the mind of McCulloch (and directed by Blake Brooker) its writer is quick to credit Northey’s stage presence – not only for his artistic contributions, but simply as a punk from the same era.

“We’re of the same vintage. ... I can confirm or deny something he says just by shared human experience,” Northey says. “all of what he does is about a form of the truth, whether it’s comfort-able for people to hear or not.”

For Northey, who scored Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, among other works for the famed sketch troupe, the part-

nership is successful based on their shared worldview and how they complement each other in a “musical way.”

“It’s a strange way to put it, but he understands music and his taste in music complements mine. We give and take

and push and pull and come up with new things. What he comes up with isn’t exactly what I would have imagined, but together we come up with something new. We’ve learned that dialectic, as the university kids say.”

Toronto-based musician Brian Connelly worked with McCulloch on an ear-lier iteration of the show. Building on Connelly’s contributions, Northey worked on Young Drunk Punk with McCulloch in los angeles to arrive at its current form, something that will only have been per-formed a handful of times before it hits UVic’s Farquhar auditorium.

Much of Young Drunk Punk centres around family and fatherhood, a theme with which Northey, a father of three teens, can identify. and despite any trappings of adult life, Northey, like l.a.-based McCulloch, remains very much a punk at heart. It all comes back to the disdain for being told what to do, while going after an artistic vision.

“You become possessed by music, or in Bruce’s case, a vision for what will make people laugh, about the truth, and about combining the two in your own way. It’s a disease that you can’t shake and I see that in anyone else who’s younger and who’s trying to do a similar thing and make music. ... That grassroots thing (about) punk rock – that’s back. Because there’s no giant infrastructure of major labels that you have to jump through all these hoops to be a part of – and it’s all about social media and building grassroots support for what you do – it’s no different than it was in 1979.”

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In the weeks before the city goes movie mad for the Victoria Film Festival, CineVic is offer-ing an opportunity for local aspiring film artists to polish their direct-

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sAt. JAn. 18theatre skam’s Birthday Bash - Join SKAM at Oddfellows Hall to celebrate 19 years of theatre in Victoria. Their fundraising evening includes live music and dance, a chance to take home a massive raffle prize pack, including season tickets and tons o’ swag from local businesses – and who knows what else.?$19 / $69 with SKAMraffle ticket. 8pm at Oddfellows Hall (1315 Douglas). skam.ca.

stagewed. JAn. 15home is a Beautiful word - Playwright/journalist Joel Bernbaum, in a work commissioned by the

Belfry Theatre, spent over a year interviewing hundreds of people to form a portrait of homelessness in our community, in the words of our community. Described as moving, enlightening, funny and surprising. Tickets, $25, tickets.belfry.bc.ca. Until Jan. 19.

ignorance - The Old Trout Puppet Workshop presents an original piece dubbed “a puppet documentary of the evolution of happiness in an attempt to unleash the mightier shrieks that surge within us.” Whoa. At the Roxy Theatre (2657 Quadra). Tickets, $26.25-42. 250-385-4462. bluebridgetheatre.ca. Until Jan. 19.

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Oak Bay sat third and Mount Douglas sixth on the Island list, followed by Belmont in eighth and Spectrum at No. 9.

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Elite youth rugby players from around B.C. are off to the Nevada desert next week to compete in the annual Las Vegas High School Invitational Sevens tournament.

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Two men’s sides will make the trip, made up of players from the B.C. U-18 and U-17 teams. On the roster is Oak Bay Barbarians standout Jack Nyren, who, like Crossley, is making a return trip to the tour-nament, which runs Jan. 24 and 25.

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Johane Mui isn’t one to back down from a challenge on the tennis court.

That much was clear on Sun-day, as she faced hard-hitting teenager Emily Hooton in the women’s open final of the New Year’s Classic at the Oak Bay Recreation Centre tennis bubble.

At 48, she threw her racquet into the open mix and was promptly ranked No. 1, having won the women’s 45-and-over division in the Classic the previ-ous three years.

After taking the opening set 6-4 then dropping the next 7-5, Mui’s experience and savvy helped her post a hard-fought 6-4 win over Hooton in the decid-ing set to take her first open divi-sion singles crown in this tour-nament.

“It’s was nice to hit against someone who hits harder than my peers,” Mui said afterward. “This gives me fire to pursue provincial and national (play) and extend my career.”

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Having played the Classic the past nine or 10 years and advanced to various finals in the past five, she sees the tourna-ment as a good local event that helps hone one’s skills.

“It gives you that competitive edge and sometimes it comes down to the mental game,” she said, referring to the final, in which she battled Hooton to gain momentum.

Over the years, this tourna-ment has also given numerous young players their first com-petitive experiences, not to men-tion the opportunity to test their mettle against older players.

A case in point was the men’s open division, which saw 14-year-old Aaron Diemer face 17-year-old Austin Hoole in the final. Hoole, ranked No. 2 in the 17-player draw, cruised to a 6-4, 6-1 victory Sunday.

Both teens are provincial-calibre players who are seri-ous enough about the sport to adjust their schooling to allow for more tournament play.

“(The Classic) is a good prep-aration for other tournaments and a good development event. Plus it’s fun,” said Hoole, who will play under-18 singles at a B.C. selection series event this weekend in Vancouver. Diemer is in the U-16 division.

The finalists, who are also practice partners, have both played the Classic since they were pre-teens.

“I always love playing in this tournament. They do such a great job,” Diemer said. “This is a tournament that always has lots of great competition.”

The Classic attracted 210 play-ers of all levels this time around, said organizer Ed Bakker, tennis co-ordinator with Recreation Oak Bay.

While the total number of entries was the same as last year, the tournament has seen growth in the junior age catego-ries, he added.

“We’re now a fully sanctioned Tennis B.C. tournament, which allows (juniors) to gain provin-cial points,” he said.

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School District No. 62 (Sooke) requires a Land-scape Horticulturalist. If you have a Landscape Horticul-turist Trades Qualifi cation, we are most interested in hearing from you. For more information about our Dis-trict, please refer to our web-site at www.sd62.bc.ca This is a new position and will receive a fi nal pay rating 6 months after the new in-cumbent starts as per the job evaluation plan.Interim hourly rate of pay: $21.94Qualifi ed individuals are in-vited to submit their cover letter and resume, including the names and telephone numbers of at least two ref-erences on or before Janu-ary 24, 2014 to:

Dawn CoughlinHuman Resources

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(Sooke)3143 Jacklin Road

Victoria, BC V9B 5R1

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO SERVICES

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Registered NursesBayshore Home Health

Bayshore Home Health is currently seeking Registered Nurses to support our Pedi-atric/Adolescent clients for home care in the Vic-toria/Duncan areas. Pediat-ric experience is an asset. We do offer client specifi c training and support as required. If you are an RN and enjoy working with chil-dren, we would love to hear from you.

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

General Manager for Pacifi c Playgrounds in Black Creek. Basic knowledge of account-ing and computers needed. Responsibilities include: Per-sonnel management, resort improvements, marketing and managing annual operations. Previous property manage-ment and/or hospitality indus-try experience preferred. Send resume to: [email protected]

MEDICAL/DENTAL

SHOME TAY FAMILIES

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

HELP WANTED

P/T Flexible hours, 3-8 hours per month, retail merchandis-er. Must work independently, internet access. Send resume to [email protected]

TRADES, TECHNICAL

SERVICE MANAGERBailey Western Star & Freightliner Trucks Inc is currently seeking a F/T Service Manager to maintain a professional effi cient working environ-ment for our busy service department.EXPERIENCE:• Ability to multi-task

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• Good verbal, written and interpersonal and skills.

• Strong computer and analytical skills.

• Knowledge of the Truck & Trailer Industry.

• Valid driver’s license.Fax resume to:

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VOLUNTEERS

VICTORIA COOL AID So-ciety’s Rock Bay Landing Shelter needs volunteers (19 and over) to sort donations plus provide access to show-ers, laundry and clothing. Shifts are 2 to 4 hours, days or evenings. Other positions in-cluding supervision of comput-er access are available. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

VICTORIA WOMEN in Need seeks retail sales volunteers for one of its three shops car-rying good quality secondhand items, weekly, long-term. Oth-er positions available. Call Vol-unteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

VICTORIA YOUTH Custody Services seeks adult recrea-tion volunteers to participate in courtyard and gym activities such as volleyball and basket-ball, weekly for at least 6 months. Other positions available. Call Volunteer Vic-toria at 250-386-2269.


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MIND BODY & SPIRIT

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FINANCIAL SERVICES

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PERSONAL SERVICES

LEGAL SERVICES

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PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

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HAMMOCK, Closely wovenstring, top quality, $60.(250)383-4506.

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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

LARGE DOLL HOUSE (30”x36”) & Country Store (16”x25”) Both furnished with many collectibles inside & out. Can sell separately. Best offer. Come & see! (250)592-1690.

MUSTANG WINTER green petite size long jacket and bib pants (never used) $499. 2 VW/ Audi mountain bike hold-ers $100. ea. Car brochure & magazines 1950s & 1960s, Edsel, Ford and Datsun own-er’s manuals. (778)426-2835.

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

PENTAX CAMERA with 3 lenses and fl ash, good cond. 4 Michelin 17” snow tires, used 2 seasons. (250)479-5208.

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

STEEL BUILDING. “The big year end clear out!” 20x22 $4,259. 25x24 $4,684. 30x34 $6,895. 35x36 $9,190. 40x48 $12,526. 47x70 $17,200. One End wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

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


MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

STEINWAY- BOSTON Studio Grand, model 178, ebony, 6 years, immaculate, references. Home studio professional quality. Custom cover includ-ed. $15,000. Serious enquiries only please (250)594-5072.

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FOR SALE BY OWNER

LADYSMITH HANDYMAN Special. 3bdrms up, lrg LR, double garage, lrg storage. Ocean & city view. 1bdrm suite down. Owner will carry mortgage. $1200 month; or rent for $1,800 month. (250)753-0160.

NANAIMO 3 HOUSES. Gor-geous Ocean & City views. Easy to buy. Reasonable Down! Owner will carry mort-gage. 250-753-0160

SAANICH WEST- 1246 Has-tings St, 3 bdrm Rancher, 2 garage, dining/living/family rooms, 2 bath (ensuite), F/P, appls incld, new roof. Walking distance to Interurban cam-pus. Reduced price, $460,000. Call 250-477-4600.

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

SIDNEY- 2444 Amherst Ave. 1300 sq.ft. updated character home looking for a family w/2 children and a dog. Fenced south facing corner lot near the Salish Sea. Walk to town and schools. Organic gardens & fruit trees, fi replace, hot tub, 6 appls. Free TV forever.... New price- $484,000. (250)656-6136.

SIDNEY 9805 2nd St- lrg south facing 1 bdrm apt. Ocean view, lrg full length bal-cony, in-suite laundry, guest suites, underground parking pet free, secure concrete building w/monitored entrance. No rental restriction, low con-do fees. (778)426-0007. Ex-cellent investment [email protected]

HOUSES FOR SALE

AFFORDABLE AND quiet. 55+ community in Ladysmith. Home of the famous Festival of Lights!!!! Carefree manufac-tured homes on easy care lots for as low as $119,700. Low monthly lot fee. On transit. Close to parks, community centre, pool and amazing trails. Only 50 minutes from Victoria and less than 20 min-utes to Nanaimo. New Home Warranty. Contact Duck Pater-son @ 250-246-0637 or email: [email protected]

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MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

OTTER POINT RV Trailer Park. 40’ park model trailer (no pad fees) 3 slide outs + 30’x52’ lot, fi nished deck & shed in new cond. Reduced to $117,900. obo. Owner willing to look at fi nancing. Call (306)290-8764.

RENTALS

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SIDNEY: 2 bdrm rancher, completely remodeled, close to town. NS/NP. Avail Feb 1. $1200+ utils. 604-836-5407.

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RENTALS

HOMES FOR RENT

SOOKE 3 BR rancher on acreage, 2 full baths, 7 appl., heat effi cient/pump, $1400, n/s, refs. Avail. Feb. 1. 250-642-2015

ROOMS FOR RENT

SIDNEY. LARGE room, close to bus, central location. $550. Avail immed. (778)679-0461.

SUITES, LOWER

1-BDRM LARGE bsmnt suite, Gordon Head. All utils incld. N/P. $750./mo. (250)721-1074

2 bedroom suite. In a excellent neighbourhood. call 250-885-8063 email - [email protected] - $1250 per month.

ESQUIMALT- 2 bdrm ground level, W/D, cat ok. N/S. $1025. + 1/3 gas heat. Avail now or Feb. 1st. (250)385-2846.

FERNWOOD/Bay St- 2 bdrm suite, W/D, own entry. $1200 inclds utils. (250)370-1981.

HARRIET/UPTOWN- fully fur-nished 3 bdrm, reno’d, 4 appls, bus route, NS/NP. $1400 in-clusive. W/D. 250-480-0849.

MARIGOLD- the coziest 1 bdrm, W/S, shared W/D, quiet. NS/NP. $850. 250-727-6217.

NORTH NANAIMO: Semi-furn private suite. New fl oors & paint. Shared laundry. FREE hydro & cable. N/S, No Parti-ers. $850/mo. Move in now; don’t pay rent until Feb. 1st! 250-756-9746.

RENTALS

SUITES, LOWER

ROYAL OAK- grd level 2 bdrm, newly reno’d, close to all amens, NS/NP. $950 heat & H/W incld. 250-704-6613.SAANICH- 2 BDRM, 1 bath; Available Feb 1. $985; 250-686-6923. Laundry; parking; patio; yard; storage; small dog? Call (250)686-6923.UPTOWN 1-bdrm. 820 sq.ft, 3 storage rms, patio, yard, prkng, own entr & driveway. NS/NP. $850. inclusive. 250-361-3508WATERFRONT. NORTH Saa-nich. Large 2-bdrm, 2 bath. $1800./mo inclds utils. Pos-sibly small boat moorage +. Pet OK. N/S. (250)656-5999.

SUITES, UPPER

SIDNEY- QUIET cozy 1 bdrm. W/D, utils included, NS/NP, furnished or unfurnished. Avail Feb. 1. Call (250)656-7184.

AUTO FINANCING

TRANSPORTATION

RECREATIONAL VEHICLESFOR SALE

1998 TRAVELAIRE 5th wheel. Excellent condition forfurther info call 250-652-9660or view at 2537 Mt Newton XRds.

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES.

VTRUCKS & ANS

1990 TOYOTA 4x4. Extended cab, V6, 5-spd. 227,000 km.White, great truck! $6500. Call(250)479-3680.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi

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Bookkeeping, Audit,Payroll, HST. Set up &

Training. E-FileTAX

250-477-4601SAVE ON Bookkeeping & Ac-counting. Small business year ends, payroll & T4s. Personal tax returns from $49. Avail weekends. Mike 250-595-8110

CARPENTRY

BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748.

ELECTRICAL

(250)217-3090.ELECTRICIAN 30 yrs exp. New homes and Renos. Knob & tube replace-ment. Service calls. Senior’s Disc. Free est. Lic.#3003.

250-361-6193 Quality Electric Reno’s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779.

AT&T ELECTRIC. Renova-tions. Residential & Commer-cial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550.

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.


FENCING

ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

FURNITURE REFINISHING

FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & deliv-ery. References available. 250-475-1462.

GARDENING

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GARDENING

DPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141

FRUIT TREES Overgrown? Pruning, clean-ups, garden maintenance. John Kaiser, 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

250-507-6543. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, guards, pow-er washing, de-moss, Insured.

ABBA EXTERIORS Gutter cleaning & repairs. Seniors discounts. WCB, Insured. Free estimates. (778)433-9275.

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free est.


HANDYPERSONS

BIG BEAR Handyman. Paint-ing, household repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

HANDYMAN- Light mainte-nance. Leaky taps, caulking, stain fabric/fl oor removal, elec-trical outlets & switch. Call (250)818-2709.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

FAMILY MAN Hauling. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.

GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413.

SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.


HAULING AND SALVAGE

JUNK BOX- We Do All The Loading

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitchen/bath, wood fl oors, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877

JACK NASH, serving Victoria over 30 yrs. We do it all! Free estimates WCB. 250-881-3886

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

BILL’S MASONRY. Brick, tiles, pavers. All masonry & Chimney re-pointing. F/P re-pairs. 250-478-0186.

CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flag-stone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Natural & Veneered Stone. Replace, Rebuild, Renew! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. (250)294-9942/(250)589-9942. www.cbsmasonry.com

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2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.

DONE RIGHT MOVING $70/hr. Senior Discount. Free Est’s. No travel time before or after. BBB accredited. Call Tyl-er at 250-418-1747.

PAINTING

A2Z PAINTING. Free esti-mates. Quality Interior Paint-ing. Call Erin (250)294-5422.

ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694.

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

LADY PAINTERServing the Peninsula for over 20 yrs. Interior/exterior. Call Bernice, 250-655-1127.

NORM’S PAINTING- Why wait till Spring? Reasonable, Reliable. Ref’s. Over 25 yrs experience. 250-478-0347.

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.

PLUMBING

FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonable rates. Call 250-514-2376.


PLUMBING

EXPERIENCED JOURNEY-MAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fairrates. Insured. Reliable,friendly. Great references. CallMike at KNA (250)880-0104.

PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.250-744-8588, Norm.

ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

RUPE’S ROOFING: Torch onshingles or metal. Fully in-sured. References; ticketedroofers. Call Rupe 250-415-7130 or Mike 1-250-533-9410.

TILING

SHAWN THE Tile Guy- Res/ Comm/ Custom/ Renos. Freeest. Call 250-686-6046.

WINDOW CLEANING

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When a bizarre blackout swept across the City of Victoria last month, traffic continued to flow smoothly through some of the city’s busiest intersections.

The hour-long power outage during rush hour on Dec. 5 was the biggest test yet for Victoria’s streets operations manager David Myles and his team, who have been installing back-up batteries at key traffic signals across the city.

“Currently, we’ve got three intersections with battery backup, capable of running for two hours with red-yellow-green,” he said.

Controls at Hillside Avenue and Douglas Street, Blanshard Street and Hillside and Blanshard at Tolmie Avenue are all able to regulate the flow of traffic during a power outage and can switch to flashing red to conserve power for several more hours if needed.

The intersections were chosen primarily for public safety reasons using data from ICBC, B.C. Hydro and the municipality, Myles said.

“Priority is given to areas where power outages have been more common, as well as the size of an intersection. The units we are installing protect the system from power loss or blackouts, power surges and power drops, or brownouts.”

Parts of neighbouring Saanich were hit by the blackout, but didn’t see dead traffic lights along its major roadways.

That municipality has battery backup at 23 intersections along the McKenzie Avenue, Shelbourne Street and Quadra Street corridors.

Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units are now only installed in new signals, said Saanich engineering, as its larger UPS program

was finished years ago.“We have spent a lot of money

on emergency preparedness ... as part of preparing for an earthquake or an emergency of some sort. We’ve funded big and small pieces,” said Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard.

At a cost of about $5,000 for one battery and installation, it will be years before all 145 of Victoria’s signal-controlled intersections and pedestrian crossings are equipped with emergency power.

But engineering crews are steadily covering ground, with plans to install batteries at another four intersections in 2014, Myles said.

“When we finally get there, we’d like to have a battery backup on all our intersections. For this year, we’re looking at Douglas and Finlayson, Douglas and Bay, Blanshard and Bay and Hillside at Shelbourne.”

Myles doesn’t anticipate another major blackout rolling through Greater Victoria any time soon, but said drivers should still take the time to familiarize themselves with traffic rules in the event of power failure.

“(Dec. 5) was a good test for us, because the intersections with battery backup worked just as (they were) supposed to.”

-With reporting from Edward [email protected]

Blackout proves illuminating for Victoria


Victoria municipal workers Don Shillington, left, and Don Davenport make adjustments to a new stoplight on the corner of Harriet Road and Gorge Road East, at the border of Victoria and Saanich. Traffic lights in the city, many of which went dark during a major blackout in Victoria’s core last month, are gradually having backup battery power installed to enhance safety during emergency situations.

Daniel PalmerReporting

City plays catchup with backup power at busy intersections

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250-995-0449106-1505 Admirals Rd. (near Thrifty Foods)

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*Denotes Optometric Corporation250-744-2992

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Dr. Daisy Tao* has joined Dr. Charles Simons* & Dr. Victor J. Chin*

119-3995 Quadra @ McKenzie (in Saanich Centre)

*Denotes Optometric Corporation

www.cseyecare.com

www.oakbayoptometry.com

www.mayfairoptometric.com

DR. TREVOR PEDDLE *DR. CHARLES SIMONS *

Dr. Daisy Tao

How not to readWhen reading, you should be seated at

a desk or in a comfortable chair, not lying on your stomach or on your side. Your back should have a normal curve and not be scrunched or propped up with one arm. If used for a long time the horizontal reading position can seem nor-mal, even though it causes eyestrain. The visual system gets used to a distorted perspective, but the muscles which coordinate the eyes have to work hard to prevent double vision.

Once you decide to be in a comfortable chair, you need to consider what kind it will be. It should permit the feet to be flat on the floor. If the feet do not reach, try a phone book under them. The lower back should be supported, and the desk or table should be at waist level when the person is seated. Working at a surface that is too high gives a similar distortion to viewing a movie from the front row, far side. You know how uncomfortable that can be, not only on your neck but on your eyes as well. A rule of thumb is that the reading distance should be no shorter than the length of your forearm. Be good to your eyes, they are the only two you will ever have.

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Community Partners:

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Connecting people who care with causes that matter®

Saanich Volunteer Services Society

IS PLEASED TO PRESENT

A Target Theatre

Production

Stayin’ Alive

And Afternoon Tea

This community event is free of

charge to all our volunteers, clients

and supporters

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available

Thursday January 23rd 1:30-3:00 pm

Cedar Hill Golf Course

1400 Derby Road

Come and join us for a fun afternoon of entertainment and

treats

If you want to make an impact in your community please

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9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Mon.- Fri.

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Parents and preschoolers (3 years and up) are invited to visit their neighbourhood school.

♦ Participate in hands‐on learning activities. ♦ Tour your neighbourhood school. ♦ Learn about community resources available to support families.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:15 — 6:00 pm

Join us at your neighbourhood school.

Brentwood Elementary 250 652 3996 KELSET Elementary 250 655 4648 Cordova Bay Elementary 250 658 5315 Lochside Elementary 250 658 5238 Deep Cove Elementary 250 656 7254 Prospect Lake Elementary 250 727 3314 Keating Elementary 250 652 9261 Sidney Elementary 250 656 3958

Every success for every child www.sd63.bc.ca We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Education.

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