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Stephen Olsen, executive director of the Royal Oak Burial Park, and artist Paula Jardine are preparing the park for the sixth annual Summer So(u)lstice celebration, a day of music, poetry and refreshments with a community feel slated for Saturday, June 20. The community-owned cemetery puts on the positive, friendly event in the hope that more residents will feel comfortable exploring the 134-acre property.

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With unseasonably warm temperatures, dry weather and lack of moisture, local fire departments are brac-ing for a long season of grass and mulch fires.

“With the way things are right now, things are really dry out there. Our hazard rating in Greater Victoria, certainly in Saanich, is at high and that means the surface fuels are very dry. So grass fires are very easy ignited,” said Capt. Rich-ard Pala of the Saanich Fire Department.

Saanich Fire responded to 59 grass fires in 2014, but they’ve already seen 20 grass fires this season – 14 of which took place in May and three this month.

The main culprit is ciga-rette butts.

“People go out and have a smoke break and in two hours it’s gone from smoul-dering to flaming,” said Pala, noting that many of the fires occurred in front of busi-nesses such as gas stations, offices or bus stops.

Broken glass, which can magnify the rays of the sun, are also cause for concern, he said.

Victoria Fire Department has also seen a significant increase in the number of mulch fires. From January

to June of this year, crews have responded to 23 mulch fires, almost double the amount from the previ-ous year.

“With the exceedingly dry conditions, (fires) can start with something as simple as a cigarette butt being care-lessly discarded to some-one deliberately setting it with a match or a lighter,” said Doug Carey, deputy chief with the Victoria Fire Department.

He noted it takes a mini-mum of one fire truck and four firefighters to respond to a mulch or grass fire.

In Oak Bay, the fire depart-ment is keeping a close eye on grass levels in parks.

“Right now we’re monitor-ing our grass levels. Some of the areas like Anderson and Gonzales hills there, we’re starting to look at whether or not that’s going to be posted in the next week or so, with regards to fire dan-ger for those grass areas,” said Oak Bay Fire Chief Dave Cockle, adding that they’ve had two bark mulch fires in June, both outside the Oak Bay Recreation Centre.

“We are monitoring just because the weather has been so good and we’ve had limited rain fall for almost four weeks now.”

Smouldering started mostly by cigarette butts accounts for 17 emergency responses since May

PlEASE SEE: Warm weather, Page A4

Burial park shows there’s more to death than sadnessDaniel PalmerNews staff

As Paula Jardine reflects on plan-ning her father’s burial, she remem-bers how the offerings for a sombre affair didn’t feel quite right.

A local artist by trade, Jardine started took it upon herself to

research funeral rights across the world in an attempt to create a more celebratory event for her next visit to a cemetery.

“I just thought, ‘We must bring more beauty to this,’” Jardine says.

For the past six years, that’s exactly what Jardine and her friends have been doing at the Royal Oak Burial

Park in Saanich. Each June, musi-cians, poets, local residents and many who have loved ones buried in the park gather for Summer So(u)lstice, an afternoon event that focuses on the positive memories of life.

PlEASE SEE: Royal Oak Burial Park, Page A4

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With a guarantee of nine games, and a likely 10th, the biggest draw for the annual pickleball tournament at Pearkes Recreation Centre

is the number of games, says organizer Mike Seal.

“That’s why we get people coming from Van-couver. This isn’t one of those tournaments that eliminates you after two games.”

Pickleball – for those still unsure of exactly what it is – is a blender version of tennis, bad-minton, ping pong and squash. It’s meant to be fun, easy to learn and play, and with a focus on co-ordination, control and patience.

“Like playing a giant version ping pong and you’re actually standing on the table is how I

tell it to kids,” Seal explains.Pearkes has become a bastion for the sport

where regulars, many of them retired, and some on their lunch hours, show up for three to five hours a day at Pearkes.

“It’s not uncommon for people to play three hours, go for lunch, and come back for more,” Seal said.

The annual Pearkes-based tournament runs this weekend, June 12, 13 and 14, with more than 80 players in 180 games and 34 additional playoff games on Saturday and again on Sunday.

Friday has a few less players as it’s the singles day, with women’s playoffs at 6 p.m. and men’s playoffs at 8 p.m. Saturday is the women’s and men’s doubles ladder, with playoffs at 4:20 and 4:40 p.m., respectively.

Sunday mixed doubles with playoffs for

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Pearkes Recreation Centre field house is one of seven indoor pickleball venues in the region, and hosts drop-in pickleball on Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. is reserved for advanced level players, followed by an open play from 1 to 4 p.m.

The pickleball tournament social is Saturday night at Szechuan Village, 110 Burnside Rd. East,

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Mike Seal is co-ordinating the fifth annual pickleball tournament, which takes place June 12 to 14 at Pearkes Recreation Centre.

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“Death is a difficult subject for people to talk about generally,” says Stephen Olsen, executive director at the park. “There’s usually a lot of sad-ness around being here, and we just wanted to create a more uplifting environment for people, to let them know it’s not all about sadness and death.”

Established in 1923, the 134-acre grounds are only about half developed right now, Olsen says.

“A lot of people come in and don’t realize how large and beautiful this cemetery is,” Olsen says.

Music throughout the park will include Erin Onyschtschuk’s woodwind improvisations in the Woodlands along with harpist Gwyneth Evans.

Victoria-based choral group Ensemble Laude will sing in the Mausoleum at 2:15 p.m. and Van-couver’s Homegoing Brass Band will perform processional music at 1:30 p.m. and again at 3:00 p.m. to end the day.

Visitors can create unique floral tributes, messages and parchment memory flags. Local poets will also be on site to turn visitor’s memo-ries into poems.

“The celebration has just evolved in a really beautiful way. Everybody who has come to work on it has brought something new to it,” Jardine says.

Royal Oak Burial Park is operated and main-tained by the Board of Cemetery Trustees of Greater Victoria, created on behalf of the City of Victoria and the District of Saanich.

“This is our cemetery and it’s community-owned,” Olsen says. “It was visionary of Saanich and Victoria to establish and set aside this much land for a cemetery back in 1922. We’re not fac-ing nearly the same issues of declining space as other urban municipalities.”

Summer So(u)lstice takes place Saturday, June 20, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The event is free, suitable for all ages and is wheelchair accessible. Light refreshments will also be served.

“We just hope people come out and listen to some great music, and learn about the history of this community,” Olsen says.

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Royal Oak Burial Park puts on community event

Continued from Page A1

Did you know?n Since 2008, the park has included a green burial area, as well as the Little Spirits Garden, a memorial area established in 2013 for families who have lost children in infancy.

With the warm weather expected to continue, local fire departments are asking the public to be diligent outside. The number one way to reduce the risk of grass and mulch fires is to properly dis-card cigarette butts or make sure they’re com-pletely out before walk-ing away, and properly discarding glass jars or bottles. For property owners, they suggest keeping lawns cut rea-

sonably low and clear-ing yards of leaves that may have collected.

“Be aware that we’re in extreme drought con-ditions in the Greater Victoria area. We’ve just come through the driest May on record and we’re setting up for a very dry June. Please be diligent with your use of parks and recreational areas,” said Carey. Earlier this week, the province also issued a Level 3 drought condition, urging resi-dents to reduce their water consumption.

Warm weather warnings to continue for JuneContinued from Page A1


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One hundred local women have pledged $1,000 towards a Habi-tat for Humanity proj-ect in Saanich that will provide a home for a single mother and her two boys.

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The campaign was launched to help build a home for Amanda, a single mom of two young boys. Even though Amanda has a stable job, she’d had to uproot her family mul-tiple times in the last 10

years because of unfit living conditions and increasingly unafford-able rents – at times spending upwards of 70 per cent of her income on housing.

“The response from local women to help fund the building of a home for a local single mother and her kids has been nothing short of extraordinary,” says Habitat Victoria execu-tive director Yolanda Meijer.

“One thing we heard over and over during the campaign is that women really identified with Amanda’s story. Several women shared that they, too, had been in a similar situation and helped by others. Being able to ‘pay-it-for-ward’ and help some-one struggling through the same challenges was deeply gratifying for them,” Meijer says.

Campaign chair Sybil Verch of the Verch Group at Raymond James said Greater Vic-toria is a giving com-munity and that local women step up when it counts.

“What I love about Habitat for Humanity’s program is that it gives parents working hard for a brighter future a hand up at a criti-cal time in their lives,” Verch says.

Habitat Victoria is looking forward to thanking many of the donors in person at an appreciation event being held next week, inviting all of the 100 women to celebrate this remarkable accom-plishment and to per-sonally meet Amanda.

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“Death is a difficult subject for people to talk about generally,” says Stephen Olsen, executive director at the park. “There’s usually a lot of sad-ness around being here, and we just wanted to create a more uplifting environment for people, to let them know it’s not all about sadness and death.”

Established in 1923, the 134-acre grounds are only about half developed right now, Olsen says.

“A lot of people come in and don’t realize how large and beautiful this cemetery is,” Olsen says.

Music throughout the park will include Erin Onyschtschuk’s woodwind improvisations in the Woodlands along with harpist Gwyneth Evans.

Victoria-based choral group Ensemble Laude will sing in the Mausoleum at 2:15 p.m. and Van-couver’s Homegoing Brass Band will perform processional music at 1:30 p.m. and again at 3:00 p.m. to end the day.

Visitors can create unique floral tributes, messages and parchment memory flags. Local poets will also be on site to turn visitor’s memo-ries into poems.

“The celebration has just evolved in a really beautiful way. Everybody who has come to work on it has brought something new to it,” Jardine says.

Royal Oak Burial Park is operated and main-tained by the Board of Cemetery Trustees of Greater Victoria, created on behalf of the City of Victoria and the District of Saanich.

“This is our cemetery and it’s community-owned,” Olsen says. “It was visionary of Saanich and Victoria to establish and set aside this much land for a cemetery back in 1922. We’re not fac-ing nearly the same issues of declining space as other urban municipalities.”

Summer So(u)lstice takes place Saturday, June 20, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The event is free, suitable for all ages and is wheelchair accessible. Light refreshments will also be served.

“We just hope people come out and listen to some great music, and learn about the history of this community,” Olsen says.

[email protected]

Royal Oak Burial Park puts on community event

Continued from Page A1

Did you know?n Since 2008, the park has included a green burial area, as well as the Little Spirits Garden, a memorial area established in 2013 for families who have lost children in infancy.

With the warm weather expected to continue, local fire departments are asking the public to be diligent outside. The number one way to reduce the risk of grass and mulch fires is to properly dis-card cigarette butts or make sure they’re com-pletely out before walk-ing away, and properly discarding glass jars or bottles. For property owners, they suggest keeping lawns cut rea-

sonably low and clear-ing yards of leaves that may have collected.

“Be aware that we’re in extreme drought con-ditions in the Greater Victoria area. We’ve just come through the driest May on record and we’re setting up for a very dry June. Please be diligent with your use of parks and recreational areas,” said Carey. Earlier this week, the province also issued a Level 3 drought condition, urging resi-dents to reduce their water consumption.

Warm weather warnings to continue for JuneContinued from Page A1


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Be sure to disconnecton vacation

With only a few weeks to go until schools close for the summer, kids’ camps and vacations are on the horizon. And while the extra at-home time with kids can be an added stress for families, there’s usually at least one or two weeks where both parent and child can kick back together.

For most nine-to-fivers, summer vacation tends to be the choicest of time off. Christmas break is far too manic with gift-buying and family and cultural events; long weekends during the fall, winter and spring months are too short. But summer vacation – that’s the stuff of legend.

Unfortunately, too many of us are still wired to our work while on leave. A 2012 survey by California-based Good Technology estimated 57 per cent of working adults checked work emails on family outings, and 80 per cent used mobile devices to keep working outside regular working hours on weekdays. This three-year-old data has undoubtedly worsened with the proliferation of smartphones and digital work.

Overuse and misuse of technology at work has allowed work hours to expand dramatically, not just on vacation or after-hours, but inside the workplace as well. The pressure to constantly check email while completing a dozen other digital tasks means thought processes are often disjointed, leaving employees distracted and unable to keep up –which leads to chronic stress, burnout and other health problems. This result is bad for both employer and employee. By applying 20th century thinking to modern technology and the need to do more with less, a lot of companies are fostering a sick workforce. Study after study shows that employees who are given a set amount of work to do – and who are free to set their own hours – are more productive and happy people. They’re better for business. The bottom line? Vacation is you time, not work time. You won’t remember responding to emails on your deathbed, so kick back and enjoy yourself. Work can wait.

YOUR VIEW

Re: Mackay’s farewell reveals sorry state, Our View (June 3)

It is disingenuous in the extreme to use the comments of one of the most virulent anti-Harper media types in Canada to degenerate the career of a departing Conservative politician, Peter Mackay. Surely the editorial could have had some political balance. Perhaps they might have mentioned the million dollar, recently retired NDP politician, Libby Davies who has never held a private sector job in her life, or perhaps all of those million-dollar retired Liberals like Jean Chrétien, living the good life at the behest of the Canadian taxpayer.

Mackay, conveniently forgotten by the writer, just happened to be the Defence Minister during the Afghanistan conflict, brought on by the way, by the Chrétien Liberals, and which turned into the longest war Canadians have ever been involved in. And the outstanding state of equipment in the CF these days, on the ground, in the air and at sea, is the result primarily of Mackay’s superb efforts. To suggest he was “ a blip on the

political screen’’ is quite simply, an outrageous comment not worthy of a further statement.

History will prove that Harper is the most competent Prime Minister this country will ever see. He weathered Canada through the financial turbulence commencing in 2008 and balanced budgets are now state of the art. His major efforts on the relentless side, are to ensure that all Canadians have a secure financial future and Canada, in the face of a real terrorist threat, will be safe and secure today, and into the future. Pension splitting, income splitting and low tax rates for all, does not seem to me to come under the heading “deviations on environmental and social policies” to me.

The new NDP government in Alberta has been in office over a few coffee breaks, however the editor comments that “ change is in the wind”. Give us a break ! Every NDP provincial government in Canada, including here in BC, has been turfed from office as a result of pure incompetence, and Alberta will be no different, and you can put that

comment in the bank. Alberta is heading for a financial meltdown.

Mulcair, true to NDP form, runs around the country making commitments with no budget projections or financial accountability. His preposterous promise to restore home delivery of mail, in the face of the head of Canada Post stating that without change, by 2020, Canada Post would see a deficit of a billion dollars, means nothing to a financial lightweight like Mulcair.

Canada is the greatest country in the world and I would suggest most Canadians would agree; and are quite content with the way the country is currently functioning. And the loss of a few outstanding cabinet ministers such as Baird and Mackay will have no effect at all. Competence in the Conservative ranks abound.

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It’s hard to complain about a sunny summer. And in Saanich, there’s no reason to complain, yet.

As the biggest municipality in the Capital Regional District, Saanich used 33 per cent of the total water distributed to Greater Victoria in the month of May. In daily terms, Saanich used about 43 million of the daily average of 131 million litres used in the CRD.

But while other parts of the Island and Gulf Islands are preparing for drought, Saanich, and its immediate neighbours, are not. The provincial gov-ernment posted a Level 3 drought condition warning earlier this week. With the warning is an urgency for to voluntarily reduce water usage by 20 per cent at the residential, agricultural and industrial levels.

“The Sooke Lake Reservoir is at 92 per cent capacity, so there are no con-cerns or risk going into the summer,” said Ted Robbins, general manager of the CRD’s integrated water services.

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No drought will threaten the Uptown fountain on Saanich Road this year.Travis PatersonNews staff

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John and Sarah Pruyn have never embarked on a cross-Can-ada bike journey before. In fact, they may never have even con-templated it before.

However, since 2010, the father and daughter from Ontario have had to think about things they never thought would impact on their lives so much.

Both John and Sarah attended the same labour protest in Toronto on June 26, 2010, dur-ing the G20 summit held there that year. They had figured on a peaceful protest and set up in that city’s Queen’s Park, a pur-ported legal protest zone estab-lished by authorities for just that purpose. However, that day was when riot police swept the entire area, making mass arrests and sparking debate over police actions, rather than focussing public attention on what was going on among the G20 nations.

“With protests, there’s always the hope that your leaders will listen,” Sarah said.

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Sarah and John dipped their wheels in the Pacific Ocean in Victoria this week as they start their 110-day journey across Canada. The pair will end their journey in St. John’s, Nfld. Visit the web site above for a blog about their progress, both on the road and in political venues.

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The 11th Annual Bowker Creek Brush Up Art Show & Sale has 10 spots open to artists from across Greater Victoria.

“At the moment we have about 30 (artists) and that includes four or five guest artists including internationally renowned Pat Martin Bates, Leslie Redhead and Hugh and Karen Kaiser,” said orga-nizer Claire Christinel. “We also have a number of youth artists … We’ve had a number of artists who’ve gone on to become professionals.”

This year’s show in Bowker Park marks the clos-ing event of Oak Bay’s Arts and Culture week. The roster of 30 is primarily made up of professional artists working out of Oak Bay.

“We’ve had so many requests from people out-side of Oak Bay so in the last couple years we’ve opened it up,” Christinel said. The organizers reserve about 10 spaces for artist from the remain-der of the region.

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After 30 years of restoration, the broom is gone, but the work par-ties continue at Playfair Park.

On Wednesday (June 10) vol-unteers of all ages joined to pull invasive species along Playfair’s south fence, incluing 15 students from the Oak and Orca Bioregional School in Victoria. The effort was led by the Greater Victoria Green Team, with nine adult volunteers.

The adults stripped English ivy and other species from the fence while the kids focused on a patch of snowberry under attack with morning glory and orchard grass.

“I’ve seen morning glory and English ivy starve a Garry oak, the ivy was so thick it squeezed the oak to death,” said Kai Webb of Oak and Orca.

At just 10 yeas old, Webb has been part of “countless” invasive plant removal parties before.

“My favourite to remove is prob-ably the English ivy, it’s hard work but the most fun to pull,” Webb said.

The group of students biked to Playfair on Wednesday, a hot ride. They were greeted by Amanda

Evans, program manager for the Green Team.

“We always start with the stew-ardship group for an area, or the

municipality, and see what needs to be done,” Evans said.

In this case, Saanich Pulling Together has targeted areas of Playfair Park and Wednesday’s work party was focused on spe-cific areas.

“We focused on the ochard grass today, an agricultural grass that’s naturalized here and at Beacon Hill Park, as well as other parks,” Evans said.

The Greater Victoria chapter o the Green Team started in Sep-tember and one of its first work parties was actually at Playfair. On Thursday the Green Team held a work party at Discovery Island.

And it’s not just parks they help out at.

On Monday, the group will visit the City Harvest Co-Op urban farm in the Camosun panhandle of Saanich on Haultain Avenue.

“I don’t have a garden and I enjoy the finished result after cleaning up an area,” said Deanna Boocock, an adult volunteer who’s been to more than 15 Green Team invasive species removal work parties.

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Kai Webb and Brooklyn Hall of Oak and Orca Bioregional School pull orchard grass during a work party to remove invasive species at Playfair Park on June 10.

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“Learning really occurs best when it’s continuous. As soon as we break that rhythm of instruction, forget-ting can occur,” says Macoun.

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2. Do math review and instruction.

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This June, as my young-est daughter turns 22, my thoughts turn back to the early 1990s, when, at six months old, she became criti-cally ill and we spent several days in the Inten-sive Care Unit at B.C.’s Children’s Hospital. There, everything was reduced to a heartbeat and only the lives of our children mat-tered.

Sierra and her older sister, Danica, were born with sleep apnea; they would stop breath-ing as they slept, and then gasp for air. Sierra’s apnea was much worse and sometimes it took so long for her to gasp, I’d have to jolt her awake. Dur-ing the day, she was as happy and playful as any six-month-old, so it was difficult for any-one to consider her as “sick.” However, her weight started to drop and eventually, her apnea became so acute that we sat up holding her up for two nights, trying to find a position to help her breathe.

After the second night, I took her to emergency at Vic General, where they booked her into the ICU for observa-tion, connecting her to heart/oxygen and breathing moni-tors. A nurse awakened me at 4:30 a.m., and said that as Sierra stopped breathing her heart rate was dropping dan-gerously low. They would do an emergency operation to insert a short breathing tube through her nose.

A series of x-rays — for which she was plastered up against a wall, limbs splayed — followed, but the ENTs could find few abnormalities other than extremely large, but not inflamed, tonsils. They decided to insert a longer

breathing tube, hook her up to morphine and send her via

helicopter to Chil-dren’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Since there was no room for me on the helicopter, I drove to Vancouver, arriving to find that Children’s Hospital felt comfortably child-centred and somehow sooth-ing. Good, because I had become quite unhinged by this point.

Sierra’s new ENT diagnosed her with obstruc-tive sleep apnea, and believed that as she fell asleep her tongue relaxed against her large tonsils, blocking off the airway. He decided to per-form an emergency operation to remove her tonsils and adenoids — she would be the second youngest child to ever have this operation.

Inside the ICU, parents clung to tiny hands barely visible under splints and bandages. Children were a tangle of wires and tape, surrounded by monitors, flashing screens, and clusters of doctors and nurses. The air hummed with a certain hushed calm, but the sight of all these tiny bodies lying prone belied any sense of peace.

I sat at Sierra’s bedside, tak-ing in the anguish around me. Although Sierra was young to be undergoing adneo-tonsillec-tomy, and although I was dev-astated, I knew it was unlikely she'd die. But for many in the ICU each day of life is a gift.

In a small bed nearby slept a nine-week old who was born with a faulty trachea to a woman called Linda. If the baby survived the night, an operation would occur to cut open her trachea and sew it up with a piece of skin from her heart. Linda’s baby did

make it through the night, and survived the operation. Her heart continued to beat through the next day and night; but it would be some time before doctors could determine if she would live. But for now, on the moth-ers’ room sign-in sheet, Linda wrote, “Today is a wonderful day!”

Sierra returned from the operating room and in a few days was her spunky self. Three weeks later, two-year-old Danica had the same oper-ation.

Today, my stomach still tightens when I realize how critical Sierra’s condition was; in fact, I’ve read literature since that considers a link between obstructive sleep apnea and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. But I’ll never forget my experience in ICU, and I’ll never forget Linda. Because each day we have with our children is a gift — “a wonderful day.”

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For Saanich’s female baseball players, Baseball BC is coming to town for a Female Provincial Select ID Camp and Girls Grass-roots Festival, Saturday, June 13 at Royal Athletic Park. The ID camp is designed to identify girls 12 years or older for high-perfor-mance provincial select teams. The festival will work on fun and development for younger girls. For more information, see base-ball.bc.ca

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The Lambrick Park-based Victoria Eagles senior Premier Baseball League squad is out of town all weekend but the junior premier boys have three games coming up in the follow-ing week, starting with a double-header Sunday, June 14 starting at 11 a.m. against Abbotsford. The Eagles take on the Victoria junior Mariners on June 16 at Lambrick Park starting at 6 p.m.

Also at Lambrick, the Midget AAA Eagles host Cloverdale Saturday, June 13, with games starting at noon and 2:30 p.m.

And while the Victoria Mari-ners PBL team has the weekend off, the junior premier team will be at home at Henderson Park this Saturday, June 13, welcom-ing the junior Abbotsford Car-

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At the Bantam AAA level, the Red Eagles return from a Satur-day roadtrip to Vancouver for two games against the Nanaimo Pirates Sunday, June 14. First pitches go at 12 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. at Carnarvon Park.

And in cricket action, the Vic-toria and District Cricket Associ-ation takes to the pitch at Wind-sor Park this Sunday, June 14, when the Islanders Cricket Club takes on the University team at 12:30 p.m.

Coming up: The Victoria Horseshoe Club hosts an open house June 26 from 3 to 7 p.m., a chance to learn about the sport and try your hand at horse-shoes.

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Sixty-year old sports car racer Bill Okell won a pair of Nasport Lite races at the Mazda Raceway, Laguna Seca, in Monterrey, Calif. on Saturday and Sunday.

It was a major success not just because he gained valuable points in the Sports Car Club of America series that he’s won twice in the last three years, but because it was his first time back in his modified 1964 MGB since he ’totalled’ it during a race in Mission back in September.

“To go down and finish strong at the course I did so well at last year, that was great for me,” Okell said.

“What I took away from this weekend is that I didn’t crash. I’m (relieved) to have the back together and be competitive. I’m 60, so there’s this stigma because I crashed, ‘Am I done racing? Is this it?.’ But I feel fine. I’m not done.”

The West Saanich resident competes in two sep-arate Sports Car Club of America series. The other is the U.S. Nationals, for which he sits third in the Western qualifying standings. The next stop in the latter series is July 4 in Portland. A podium fin-ish will keep Okell on track to qualify for the U.S. National final in Daytona, a race he’s unsure he’ll drive in as it’s at the Daytona International Speed-way. In that series Okell drives an MG Midget with the Huffaker Engineering team from San Francisco.

The Midget is more powerful than his MGB but still the equivalent to ‘throwing a brick in the air’ on a speedway such as Daytona.

“Daytona is a banked oval, not exactly what the MG Midget is built for. Are we going to be competi-tive there? Probably not, but we’ll see where we’re at after we race in Portland,” Okell said.

For now, Okell is happy to have overcome the latest obstacle, and will keep on racing.

Okell’s next Nasport race is in September.

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As part of the inaugural fundraiser for the David Foster Foundation, the Porsche Centre Victoria is holding a 24-hour race on a race car simulator.

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“The idea was to do a drive-a-thon to raise money for the David Foster Foundation,” said Paul Rossmo, general manager of Porsche Centre Victoria, who came up with the idea.

“It’s hard to drive a race car for that long and this is a race car simulator, not a video game

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“Everything you feel in the motion simulator is basically 99.9 per cent of what you feel in the race car on the track, in terms of the track texture,” said Declan Dinnadge, sales and marketing manager at VRX. “It’s a technical course and it’s quite complex.”

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All the proceeds go towards the David Foster Foundation that provides financial support for non-medical expenses to Canadian families with children in need of life-saving organ transplants.

The event kicks off Saturday (June 13) at 5 a.m., with a pancake breakfast followed by the race which begins at 6 a.m.

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CLEANING SERVICES

EXPERIENCED HOUSE-KEEPER- Reliable. Call 250-920-6516, 250-881-7444.

CONCRETE & PLACING

RBC CONCRETE Finishing. All types of concrete work. No job too small. Seniors dis-count. Call 250-386-7007.

DRYWALL

BEAT MY Price! Best work-manship. 38 years experience. Call Mike, 250-475-0542.

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(250)217-3090.ELECTRICIAN Lic.#3003. 25yrs exp. Any size job. Renos, new homes, knob & tube replacement. Sr. Disc.

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Victoria’s scorching real estate market is putting an even greater emphasis on potential buyers being ready to close the deal.

The Victoria Real Estate Board reports a total of 905 properties were sold across the region in May, a 26.8 per cent increase over the 714 properties sold in May 2014.

“May was another great month for local real estate. It’s been a very active month for sales and listings, and we continue to see consumer confidence in our market as people continue to purchase properties,” said Victoria Real Estate Board pres-ident Guy Crozier.

“We’ve not seen this many sales in May since 2007 when we saw 963 properties sell in the month.”

Real estate agent Cassie Kangas of DFH said the potential for a quick sale is yet another reason for buy-ers to be pre-approved and ready to close the deal.

“Knowing the house you’re look-ing at may have an offer the first day, you need to have everything ready. Could be the difference between get-ting it or not.”

Kangas points to a house that had come on the market on a Saturday morning, she took her clients to see it that same afternoon.

“We were in the house when the realtor phoned me to say ‘My clients are on their way to the office, there’s already two offers,” she recalled. “We hadn’t even looked in the base-ment yet. You have to be prepared, because if you’re not you’re not

going to get it.”Having financing in place is just

one of the areas where realtors can assist their clients in buying or sell-ing their home.

“The big thing is that every house is different, and there is information you need when selling your house.”

Kangas said she regularly needs to come up with information on items such as building permits, zon-ing and bylaw information.

“We need to have so much infor-mation. People who try to sell their houses by themselves don’t under-stand the questions that are going to come up so they don’t have all that information at their fingertips all the

time, and they don’t know where to get it,” said Kangas.

She said permits can be a major issue that can have serious ramifica-tions on the sale of a house.

“People do work without permits or they just don’t know what kind of permits are required,” she said. “If someone does come and inspect your house for some reason and they realize you have done all this work incorrectly, they can make you take it out.”

She said checking for possible oil tanks on a property is another issue that should be investigated before a sale, along with going over strata documentation. Kangas advises

going over a strata’s rules, bylaws, 24 months of minutes as well as any depreciation reports.

“There could be an assessment coming the next year for $60,000 and you’re on the hook for it. You have to read that stuff,” she said.

Kangas said it’s important for realtors to have good relationships with local governments as well as those in the banking and legal fields in order to address any issues that may arise.

“There’s stuff that buyers have no idea they should be asking and there’s stuff that sellers have no idea they should be disclosing. We’re here to know all that.”

Realtors have information at their fingertips

Dan Ebenal/News Staff

Cassie Kangas looks over the lot plans for a home. Realtors can help identify potential complications in the sale and purchase of a home.

NET UNCONDITIONAL SALES / TOTAL, JUNE 2014

NEW LISTINGS / TOTAL, JUNE 2014

ACTIVE RESIDENTIAL LISTINGS / TOTAL, JUNE 2014

MONTH TO DATE, JUNE 8/15 COURTESY VICTORIA REAL ESTATE BOARD

Victoria sales in May up 26.8 per cent from May of previous year

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VICTORIA102-1120 McClure St., $425,500MLS 348642, Sunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunLorraine Stundon, 250-812-0642

203-1040 Southgate St., $274,900MLS 350200, Saturday 11-1Pemberton HolmesRichard Gadoury, 778-977-2600

1-225 Vancouver St., $529,000MLS 352077, Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesRichard Gadoury, 778-977-2600

548 Agnes Street, $519,000Saturday 1-3 One Percent RealtyTania McFadden, 250-589-0248

101-640 Michigan St., From $399,000Daily 12-5 Chard Developments250-383-2999

11-840 Craig� ower Rd., $200,000MLS 351197, Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesRichard Gadoury, 778-977-2600

2022 Romney Rd. $1,089,000MLS 348422, Saturday 1-3Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-818-8736

402-1015 Pandora AvenueMLS 344423, Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Robyn Hamilton, 250-384-8124

G-349 Foul Bay Rd., $599,900MLS 349238, Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesRichard Gadoury, 778-977-2600

OAK BAY24 Sylvan Lane, $1,699,000MLS 351834, Sunday 1-3Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-818-8736

1016 Hampshire Road, $679,000MLS 352297, Saturday 2:30-4:30RE/MAX CamosunDaniel Clover, 250-507-5459

945 Falkland Road, $669,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Glen Myles, 250-385-2033

VIEW ROYAL7 Price Road, $659,888MLS 351830, Saturday 2:30-4:30RE/MAX CamosunApril Prinz, 250-744-3301

ESQUIMALT10-850 Parklands Drive$345,000MLS 350486Saturday 1-3 Fair RealtySukhmeet Grewal, 250-704-9794

SAANICH EAST2486 Sinclair RoadSunday 2-4Newport RealtyJulie Rust, 250-385-2033

1-1080 Greenridge Cres, $492,000MLS 352274, Sunday 2-4Sotheby’s International Realty CanadaGlynis MacLeod, 250-661-7232

2-3955 Oakwinds StreetSaturday 11-1Newport RealtyJulie Rust, 250-385-2033

301-3880 Quadra StreetMLS 349451, Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDeborah Piper, 250-477-5353

4892 Lochside DriveSaturday 2-4Newport RealtyJulie Rust, 250-385-2033

2336 Hollyhill Place, $879,999MLS 350924, Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Robyn Hamilton, 250-384-8124

2489 Cadboro Heights LaneSunday 2-4Newport RealtyJulie Rust, 250-385-2033

3923 Orchard Lane, $379,900MLS 352048 Sat. & Sun.1-3RE/MAX AllianceKaren Love, 250-818-8522

SAANICH WEST2693 Azalea Lane, $334,900MLS 350363, Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesKevin Starling, 250-889-4577

1230 Burnside Rd. West, $414,900MLS 348120, Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesKevin Starling, 250-889-4577

740 Travino LaneSaturday & Sunday 1-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyScott Munro, 250-477-5353

104-3244 Seaton Street, $159,000MLS 351797, Sunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunMarsha Crawford, 250-744-3301

3912 Carey Road, From $249,900Saturday - Monday 1-5Macdonald Realty 250-744-4441Sheila Aujla & Sophak Sim

#302-4536 Viewmont Avenue, $295,000MLS 345782, Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Cheryl Ashby, 250-478-9141

2836 Murray Drive, $895,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMark McDougall, 250-483-3562

454 Ker Avenue, $545,000MLS 352293, Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGoran Tambic, 250-592-4422

1060 Laburnum Road, $689,900MLS 349519, Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyDeborah Kline, 250-661-7680

41 Lurline Avenue, $499,900MLS 351505, Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyTroy Petersen, 250-858-1134

SAANICH PENINSULA2030 Salem Terrace, $719,000MLS 351877, Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyGordon Lee, 250-385-2033

3183-2600 Ferguson Road, $259,000MLS 345119, Sunday 2-4Jonesco Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath & Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

7859 Scohon Drive, $549,000MLS 350458, Sunday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunRon Phillips, 250-655-0608

7182 West Saanich Road., From $364,500Saturday & Sunday 1-4, Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMurray Lawson, 250-477-5353

11012 Oriole Ln, $1,149,000MLS 350397, Sunday 2-4Jonesco Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath & Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

10217 Surfside Pl. $1,668,000MLS 346525, Sunday 2-4Jonesco Real Estate Inc. 250-655-7653Ian Heath & Marilyn Ball

WEST SHORE201-755 Goldstream Avenue, $319,900MLS 348158 Sat. 12-3 & Sun. 1-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyAlan Wiggins, 250-507-2759

3351 Wishart Road, $419,900Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Mike Hartshorne, 250-474-6003

3692 Wild Country Lane, $734,900MLS 349954, Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124

593 Latoria Road, From $299,000Sat. & Sun.1-4 Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124

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OPENHOUSESJUNE 12 - JUNE 18, 2015

301-3234 Holgate Lane, $519,900MLS 351136, Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124

3375 Turnstone Drive, $419,900Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jenn Raappana, 250-474-6003

927 Lobo Vale, $384,900Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jenn Raappana, 250-474-6003

#103-611 Goldstream Avenue, $287,900MLS 345925, Saturday 1-3Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Cheryl Ashby, 250-478-9141

310 & 312-1395Bear Mountain $349,900Saturday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyTroy Petersen, 250-858-1134

26-172 Belmont Road, $339,900Sunday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jenn Raappana, 250-474-6003

SOOKE21-1976 Glenidle Road, $157,000MLS 349428, Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyAnna Bjelde, 250-888-9001


Summer has arrived… and so have the latest homes at Westhills.Join us for this exciting Delta-inspired event as we kick off summer. Enjoy the sounds of

live Delta blues by the Juno Award Nominated Bill Johnson Blues Band while savouring

southern flavours freshly created by award-winning chefs. Take a stroll through our

popular Legacy Series show homes, plus be the first to get an early preview of our

elegant, modern Group 5 Townhomes and chic new Contempo homes.

Meet us in Paradise Falls at Westhills. Follow the Langford Parkway into Westhills, then

follow the open house signs (and the music) to the Westshore Parkway and Paradise Falls.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

WESTHILLSBC.COM SALES OFFICE: 250-474-5899

Single Family Homes from $499,900 | Townhomes from $399,900 All prices include net GST

Two new fully furnished Legacy Series show homes.

3 GREAT NEW HOME STYLES AT WESTHILLS.

while savouring

follow the open house signs (and the music) to the Westshore Parkway and Paradise Falls.

Bill Johnson Blues Band

KICK OFF TO SUMMER

BLOCK PARTY!

June 20th | 12 to 4pm


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