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On Women’s Day, pioneering science work rememberedGroundbreaking scientists left lasting legacy in plant pathology Travis PatersonNews staff

Studying a dying leaf of an arbutus tree on the edge of Francis-King Park in Saanich, Dr. Brenda Callan points out the different patterns of fungi that turn the iconic tree’s green leaves brown during winter.

“It’s winter distress and it’s pretty common as the arbu-tus are on the northernmost edge of their territory here,” says the research scientist with the Pacific Forestry Cen-tre. “It doesn’t mean they’re dying, though they certainly are vulnerable.”

Callan, whose work focuses on fungi and trees, has fielded calls for the past 25 years from residents con-cerned about the health of arbutus trees in Greater Vic-toria. She’s also a local mush-

room specialist, on call to emergency rooms where she identifies poisonous mush-rooms eaten by unsuspect-ing victims.

Under her arm, Callan car-ries three reference books – two from the 1920s and one from the 1940s. All are originals produced by female scientists and still relevant today, but from a time when women were rarely recog-nized as leaders in their field.

The demographics of the science field today look starkly different on the eve of International Women’s Day (March 8), but the anni-versary holds special signifi-cance for Callan. She relies regularly on the work of four Canadian women who were pioneers in the field of fungi and their effect on trees and wood: Dr. Irene Mounce (1894-1987) of Cumberland, Dr. Clara Fritz (1889-1974), Dr. Ruth Macrae (1903-1993) and Dr. Mildred Nobles (1903-1993).

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Claremont’s golden childClaremont secondary Grade 10 students cheer on their teacher assistant, Nolan Mitchell, as the student poses with all four gold medals he won as the school’s only athlete at the B.C. High School Wrestling Championships. Mitchell also won bronze for Claremont as a Grade 8 student while attending a nearby middle school, before winning four straight golds in Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12, including last Saturday’s championship win in Abbotsford. See the full story on Page A16.

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Nominees are now being accepted for the Saanich Environmental Awards, which closes on April 10. Winners will be chosen by the Saanich Environment and Natural Areas Advisory Committee (ENA).

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Applications for membership to the Eastside Public Advisory Committee (EPAC) closed on Tuesday (March 3) and the Eastside Wastewater and Resource Recovery Select Committee will begin the process of selecting 10 members for EPAC.

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Embroidering, or the ability to execute complex designs at home, might be the greatest change in modern sewing, according to Judi Caldwell, a 31-year veteran at Saw-yer Sewing Centre in Saanich.

Caldwell will be demonstrating her own tricks of the trade on Pfaff sewing machines (her favourite but only one of her specialties) at the Creative Stitches and Craft-ing Alive show in the fieldhouse of George Pearkes Recreation Centre, March 13 and 14.

“The more sewing changes, the more some things stay the same, but it’s the technology of the (com-puterized) sewing machines that has really changed the industry,” Caldwell said.

Sawyer Centre has had booths at Creative Stitches – the region’s

biggest expo for crafting – since it started 20 years ago. The show is back again this year after a one-year hiatus.

Pearkes will have 80 booths showcasing sewing machines, fab-ric, kits, darn, scrapbooking, sew-ing, knitting, craft booking and more.

Creative Stitches will host 70 classes with a particular focus on technology to reflect the evolving industry, said show organizer Nori Richens.

“The idea is it’s your ultimate creative destination, an all inclu-sive one-stop-shop for creativ-ity under one roof,” Richens said. “People love to be inspired.”

Sewing machines such as the Janome 15000, a Japanese-made leader in the field, is well worth its $8,000 price tag, Caldwell said.

“I paid $300 for my first machine in 1968. I was making $1.35 a week at Woodwards, so you can see

it was no small purchase,” she added. “It lasted 30 years and you can expect similar results from a machine for about $500 now, whether it is purely mechanical or uses a basic computer and dis-play.”

New sewing enthusiasts can enter the market with a new machine for as low as $200, but don’t expect it to be a workhorse, Caldwell cautioned.

Modern digital machines boast eight-inch display screens and can be programmed to embroider for up to three hours hands-free. They also synch with smartphone and tablet apps to easily upload designs.

It’s not a big learning curve, and it allows the operator to work simul-taneously on a second machine, which is common, Caldwell says.

“Technology is taking the per-ception of your grandmother’s craft, if you will, or something only

your grandparents or parents did, and updating it,” Richens said. “You don’t spend days learning, it’s pre-programmed, and it can also allow people from the older gen-eration to continue sewing later into life.”

New to the show this year is a Learn to Sew class for kids ages eight to 13, and among the free shows on the Fashion Stage is an All Kids Fashion show, displaying clothes made by kids. There are thousands of dollars worth of door prizes.

The show runs Friday, March 13 (the busier day), from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, March 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general admission ($2 for kids) and there are additional charges for some classes.

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Digital advances mean sewingisn’t just grandma’s domain

Judi Caldwell of Sawyer Sewing Centres in Saanich shows the state-of-the-art Janome 15000, left, a computerized machine easily programmed to spend three hours embroidering hands-free. Meanwhile, the operator can work simultaneously on a second machine, possibly an antique such as the cast iron workhorse Janome on the right.Travis Paterson/News staff

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Women’s transition houses across Greater Victoria will be able to continue helping women in need, thanks to a donation from Royal LePage.

“[The] Royal LePage Shelter Foundation was started up by Royal LePage back in the late 90s to support local shelters across Canada,” said Bill Ethier, president and managing broker of Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty.

The $42,157.93 raised by Royal LePage in 2014 was split evenly between The Cridge Transition House for Women, Victoria Wom-en’s Transition House, Margaret Laurence House and Sooke Tran-sition House.

All four shelters received half of their portion of the money in the fall, around $5,000 each. Royal LePage presented them with the rest of the money this week.

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International Women’s Daya reminder of recent sexism


Dr. Brenda Callan, a research scientist who studies plant pathology out of the Pacific Forestry Centre, holds the vintage reference books produced by her predecessors, all of them women. The research field was pushed open by Canadian women nearly 100 years ago, including the study of how fungi affects arbutus and other trees.

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All four women were stellar scholars, picking up governor general awards for their marks and other honours at university.

“Every time I go into the (PFC) herbarium I come across correspondence of theirs with handwritten notes, typed notes, all of it stored there with fungi samples and still relevant,” Cal-lan says. “A lot of the techniques they used are also still relevant, aside from the DNA sequencing we use now.”

Callan’s modern work includes the study of wood decay fungi on export logs to help decrease trade barriers, a vital part of the province’s forestry business.

Callan can’t help but wonder about the challenges her prede-cessors like Mounce – who trav-eled to Haida Gwaii to study the decaying affect of fungi on “air-plane grade” sitka spruce – must have faced.

“To imagine (Mounce) in a skirt hiking through the woods to find samples, it’s not like now,” says Callan, wearing pants and comfortable hiking boots. “Actu-ally, the women spent most of

their time in the research lab.” After studying at the univer-

sities of Manitoba and Toronto, and completing her field work at Haida Gwaii, Mounce made her way back to Vancouver Island to work at Saanichton’s Dominion Laboratory of Plant Pathology from 1942 to 1945. She would have worked longer, but had to resign at age 50 because she got married. Employment of mar-ried women was forbidden in Canada until 1955.

“Imagine how much more she could have accomplished,” Cal-lan said. “But you do have to credit the men who hired her.”

Nobles never married, but instead worked at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa from 1935 to 1969. She identified more than 400 wood-decaying fungi now referenced at the PFC in Saanich.

“I know the work environment a far more equal place to be in terms of men and women now then when they worked,” Callan said. “But I can’t imagine what it would be like to face barri-ers and challenges in their male dominated world, and come up with constant breakthroughs.”

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Continued from Page A1Did you know?n World Economic Forum’s 2014 Gender Gap report lists Canada at 19th in employment and wage equality, slightly up from its 2013 position of 21st, and one spot ahead of U.S. Iceland is No. 1.

n Canada’s ratio of workers is nearly equal (.91 woman to every man) but wages for women are .71 per cent of that paid to men.

n Canada also trails in the political realm, with just one woman in parliament for every three men and has never had an elected female prime minister (the provincial minister gender ratio is nearly equal). Advanced education continues to be a boon for Canadian women, who exceeded men in terms of post-secondary enrolment in 2014 at a ratio of 1.34 to 1.

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Women’s transition houses across Greater Victoria will be able to continue helping women in need, thanks to a donation from Royal LePage.

“[The] Royal LePage Shelter Foundation was started up by Royal LePage back in the late 90s to support local shelters across Canada,” said Bill Ethier, president and managing broker of Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty.

The $42,157.93 raised by Royal LePage in 2014 was split evenly between The Cridge Transition House for Women, Victoria Wom-en’s Transition House, Margaret Laurence House and Sooke Tran-sition House.

All four shelters received half of their portion of the money in the fall, around $5,000 each. Royal LePage presented them with the rest of the money this week.

“We try to give it out in chunks throughout the year, because they need it as the year goes on,” said Ethier.

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Saanich council is ask-ing staff and the police board to find further savings to bring down a proposed five per cent increase in the 2015 bud-get.

On Monday, coun-cil held the third of its financial planning meet-ings, where they heard once again that 2014 saw slower development growth than in the last five years.

That “new tax” usually helps absorb property tax increases by distrib-uting the burden across new homeowners and businesses.

“Traditionally, the growth in tax role has been the buffer for growth in our costs,” Coun. Dean Murdock said in an interview.

“When we’re not able to absorb that through growth, that gets passed

on to existing taxpay-ers.”

The average home-owner – defined as a property with an assessed value of $592,860 – would see a $99 increase in prop-erty tax in 2015 under the current budget pro-posal, representing a 4.48 per cent increase over last year.

That same home-owner will also see a $43 increase in sewer rate, a $26 increase in water utility and a $5 increase in garbage collection fees.

Murdock said one potential savings area is in the amount the municipality has been putting aside for its essential infrastructure replacement, which has been increasing for the past six years by .75 per cent to reach a $30-mil-lion target.

The fund now sits at about $25 million, so

one option could be to taper back those capital increases over the next four years, Murdock said.

“We’re now getting to within a range to say we have an appropriate allocation to replace crit-ical infrastructure, and we will hit that target in the next four years,” Murdock said.

“So the discussion we had was, ‘Are we close enough to reduce that number to half a per cent or .35 per cent?”

Council is also direct-ing the Saanich Police

Board to cut between $250,000 and $500,000 from its $1-million non-essential budget increase request for 2015. The police depart-ment ran over its opera-tional budget by more than $633,000 last year, and it wants another $445,000 to establish a reserve fund for equip-ment and technology upgrades.

The overall police budget including wage increases accounts for 1.87 per cent of the over-all property tax increase, according to a staff

report.“There was some

debate at the council table over this, but the motion ultimately came forward to decrease that amount,” said Mayor Richard Atwell.

Another strong debate during financial planning has been the lack of for-mal public input used to guide the budgeting pro-cess, Atwell said. While residents can speak at the start of budget meet-ings, “it’s really just pub-lic feedback, not public input,” he said.

“Several councillors

talked about the need for greater opportunity for public input earlier in the year moving for-ward,” Atwell said.

A report that addresses ways to increase public input opportunities due back to council on March 23 will provide the first chance to address some of those concerns.

The 2014 budget also saw a $409,200 payout to former CAO Paul Mur-ray, who parted ways from the municipality in December. Murray received another nearly

$55,000 in unused vaca-tion time when he left.

The severance payout represents an overall tax increase of about .42 per cent this year.

Another anomaly in the budget appears as a $1 million request to upgrade the municipal-ity’s telephone system.

Atwell said council will need further infor-mation before approving that expenditure.

Council must approve relevant bylaws for the 2015 budget prior to May 15.

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Garry Oak Ecosystems are much more than Garry Oak trees.

They have a rich diversity of wildflowers, native grasses, and creatures that are part of the func-tioning ecosystem. So says the Best Practices Manual produced by the Garry Oak Ecosystem Recovery Team (GOERT).

The report goes on to say that urban Garry oak trees now sur-rounded by lawn and daffodils do not have the same plant communi-ties and ecological processes as the original Garry oak ecosystem would have had, and are there-fore not considered to be a viable Garry oak ecosystem.

The report for the Vancouver Island Sensitive Ecosystem Inven-tory by the joint Federal/Provincial government initiative indicates that a Sensitive Ecosystem must be in a relatively natural state.

Sensitive Ecosystem units used by the District of Saanich were delineated on air photographs in the 1990s.

If the original mapper had gone

on the ground to check those areas with Garry oak overstory and lawn/garden in the understory, they would have removed these areas from the Sensitive Ecosys-tem Inventory.

The District of Saanich is basi-cally protecting these mapping errors in its Environmental Devel-opment Permit Area (EDPA).

Saanich’s own Environmentally Significant Areas (ESA) Atlas states “to be included in the ESA atlas, data must be from a comprehen-sive environmental inventory using technically acceptable standards.”

It goes on to say that: “this atlas should be used as a flagging tool

and should not be used in place of individual site assessments”.

The District of Saanich is not fol-lowing its own guidance.

Currently, there are side by side properties in Saanich that have the identical attributes of a Garry oak overstory with lawn and garden in the understory.

One property has been mapped as being within the EDPA and the other has not. Neither property should be in the EDPA. The oak trees are already protected by the tree protection bylaw.

Ted Lea, R.P.Bio.Vegetation Ecologist

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What are sensitive ecosystems, anyway?

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The Victoria Regional Transit Commission recently heard its 2013 request to add two cents per litre more to local fuel prices this year, to help cover transit service expansion, had been turned down by the province.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone let the commission know the request will be reconsidered for 2016, but it brings up a question: who should be paying more to help transit expand in this region, the people who use it, drivers, or everyone?

While two cents a litre isn’t a major hardship for drivers – after all, gas prices leapt 18 to 20 cents per litre in the past week or so – the gas tax is a hammer-on-the-head strategy penalizing drivers who may or may not choose to use transit in future.

Raising transit fares again to raise the needed revenue, rather than taxing drivers more, is a tactic the commission has little appetite for, knowing that many of its regular bus riders are strapped enough for cash.

For years, B.C. Transit has done its best to get more people riding the bus, here and in other urban areas of the province. In the big picture it’s the right thing to do: reduce gridlock and do less harm to the environment. But in reality, not enough people who could easily ride the bus more have committed to driving less as a way to help achieve those lofty goals.

Over time, our dependence on our vehicles has led to regular traffic logjams on both major arteries into downtown Victoria.

True, that problem is partly attributable to how Greater Victoria has developed. But when the option to take transit is there – a more user-friendly option from one year to the next – and drivers still don’t leave their vehicles at home, it’s a sign that the people in charge of the bus system still haven’t done a good enough job selling people on why taking the bus is a better choice.

It’s kind of a Catch-22: many people won’t use the system until it’s better, but more people need to use the system to allow and pay for expanded service – unless of course, those other sources of revenue are tapped.

The local politicians who make up the transit commission should ask for a public referendum on whether people are willing to pay more, either through taxes or fares, for expanded service.

If the majority say no, commission members need to grit their teeth and direct B.C. Transit to stop expanding service until such time that more people choose to ride the bus.


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Smartphone sleuthSaanich Police Reserve Const. Brent Nicholson, left, watches carefully for drivers using their cellphones along the Pat Bay Highway near Saanich Road on Wednesday. The initiative is a joint partnership with ICBC to reduce collisions due to distracted driving across the region.

Sports cardiology testing at SMU

Sports Cardiology B.C. out of the Univer-sity of B.C. Hospital is conducting testing as part of its research at St. Michaels Univer-sity School (SMUS) on Wednesday, March 11 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The research is part of a study focusing on young competitive athletes (aged 12-35) who may carry a car-diovascular disorder that can lead to sud-den cardiac death. It’s a rare to find it but also leads to a tragic occurrence.

The purpose of the research is to get an understanding of the prevalence of these disorders in our local population (B.C.) as a study like this has never been conducted in Canada. Testing is non-invasive and takes 10 minutes per athlete. Those inter-ested can register at bit.ly/1EmpGeN.

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Mercedes-Benz Canada went (adventur-ously) solo and brought the B-Class (not sold in US) to Canada in 2006, just as did with the original Smart Car.

The tall, compact, front-drive hatchback, is a different kind of Mercedes. Yet many Canadian buyers like it and typically buy about 3,000 of them annually.

We join the B-Class story when it got a modest redesign for the 2009 model year. Styling revisions included a new radiator grille with an extra-large Mer-cedes-Benz star in the centre. The front bumper has a larger air intake and the hood was also modified. Rear revisions included two-piece tail light assemblies, a new hatch release and a new-look rear bumper.

B-Class vehicles have a unique safety feature built-in to its elevated floor-pan design. Mercedes calls it the "sandwich principle” and during a severe frontal impact the powertrain assembly is cleverly engineered to slide downward, under the cabin compartment, to avoid intrusion into the passenger space.

The '09 B-Class came in B200 and the B200 Turbo models. A B200 comes with a 134-hp, 2.0-litre inline-4 engine mated to either 5 speed manual transmis-sion or a CVT (continuously variable transmission) automatic. The reliability

of this CVT is questionable and in 2011 model year vehicles it was the spotlight of a major recall. It can be an expensive repair, if not covered by Mercedes. This torque-rich gas engine is a frugal fuel user that’s rated at 10.5 litres/100 kilometres in the city and 8.6 litres/100 kilometres on the highway with the CVT and using the new 5-cycle rating method. The manual transmission allows slightly better highway fuel economy.

The turbocharged variant of the 2.0 litre engine boasts an impressive 193-hp, and is paired with a 6-speed manual trans-mission or the optional CVT automatic. This engine is rated at 10.9 litres/100

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B-Class went essentially unchanged for the 2010 and 2011 model years and was temporarily discontinued for the 2012 model year. It returned as the completely redesigned B250 for the 2013 model year and there were no major changes for 2014.

Standard features in 2013 included a fuel saving auto stop-start system,

LED daytime running lights, leather seating, 11 airbags, run-flat tires, plus Attention Assist, and Collision Preven-tion Assist systems. Yet, it still had an under-$30,000 start price.A new direct-injection four-cylinder turbo engine (208 hp) linked to new seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission was the only powertrain combo offered (no CVT). This engine can also produce an impressive 258 lb-ft of torque and it can move a B250 to 100 k/hour in less than eight seconds.

While this engine does like pricey premium fuel, it’s rated at 9.2 litres/100 kilometres in the city and 6.6 litres/100 kilometres on the highway using the 5-cycle rating method. The new auto-matic obviously has an important role in attaining those impressive highway economy numbers.

The Mercedes-Benz B-Class is probably the safest compact car sold in Canada. Its brand-new (2015) start price is still under $30,000, however, popular add-

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Safety Recalls: 2009 to 2014 Mer-cedes-Benz B-Class:2011: An internal transmission drive belt may fail on vehicles equipped with a Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT). Dealers will inspect and, if neces-sary, replace the CVT gearbox assembly.

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With spring just around the corner, so is the high school rugby season. With the public schools in the middle of Spring Break, just one game is on the calendar this week, when Glen-lyon Norfolk School visits home team Saint Michaels University School, Wednesday, March 11 at 3:45 p.m. More game will take place in late March when the schools return from the break.

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On the women’s side, UVic has two teams partic aipating, with the yellow team kicking things off at 10:06 a.m. March 6 versus York. Victoria Blue opens against Calgary at 10:50 a.m.

Crossover play continues on Saturday with the Cup Final set for 6 p.m. and the Plate Final slated for 3:18 p.m. Tickets for all games will be available at the stadium. For more information and the full schedule, visit www.canadianuniversity7s.com/

Also on the Vikes calendar this weekend is the 41st Elk Lake Spring Regatta for the Men’s and Women’s Rowing, Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8, and with this weekend’s predicted weather, it will be the perfect opportunity to cheer on the local rowers. For more details, visit govikesgo.com/regattainfo

Victoria Junior Field Hockey returns to the pitch with a “Try field hockey for free” camp this Sunday, March 8, from 10 to 11 a.m. on the UVic turf. A great way for young athletes from ages four to 18 to try out the sport for no cost, upon arrival, they’ll be treated to free gear for the session, plus experienced coaching and plenty of fun!

Vancouver Island Ladies Field Hockey Association opens play March 7 with the Renegades and

Ravens at 9:30 a.m., followed by the Lynx 2 and Sailors at 11 a.m. and the Cardinals and Blue Jays at 2 p.m. Rounding out the day will be the hellish match-up of the Devils and Demons at 3:30 p.m., before Lynx 3 and Pirates end the day off at 5 p.m. All games will be played at the UVic turf.

Lake Hill Little League and SVI Softball are still taking registra-tions for the 2015 ball season. Children can start as early as the age of three up until 18 years old. In person registrations are over, however you can still regis-ter online at lakehillball.com

Want to join the boys (and girls) of summer...behind the plate? Victoria’s umpire clin-ics for both new and returning umpires are coming up later this month. New prospective umps (pee wee age and older) should register for the Level 1 clinic. Returning Level 1 umpires can register for the Level 2 clinic.

Level 1 runs at Central Mid-dle School March 23 and 25 at 7 p.m., March 26 and April 2 at 6 p.m. Each sessions is expected to run 1.5 to 2 hours. The day-long Level 2 course is scheduled for Saturday, March 28, begin-ning at 8:30 a.m. at Pacific Insti-tute of Sports Excellence (by Camosun College Interurban campus). Additional clinics are also scheduled in Duncan and Nanaimo.

- Devon Gall is an avid sports fan and athlete, and Grade 12 student at Mount Douglas sec-ondary.

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Saunders’ knee close to ready for Blue Jays seasonSaanich native Mike Saunders of the Toronto Blue Jays will be close to ready for the MLB 2015

season despite having major surgery last weekend on his left knee. The Blue Jays open the season against the New York Yankees on April 6.Saunders, who the Blue Jays acquired from the Seattle Mariners this winter offseason, stepped

on a sprinkler head in Dundein, Fla., during spring training last week and tore the meniscus in his knee.

According to the Blue Jays’ website, Saunders opted to surgically remove the meniscus, knowing it was likely damaged beyond repair. It will mean a greater chance for arthritis and other complica-tions later in life.

Injuries are nothing new for Saunders, who is the Jays’ likely starter in left field this season after he fell behind other outfielders in the Mariners’ depth chart. His OPS of .791 (combined on base and slugging percentage) was second only to Mariners team leader Robinson Cano in 2014.

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Calm, careful and cal-culated, Nolan Mitchell searches out his words like he executes his moves on the wrestling mat.

The Grade 12 Clare-mont secondary stu-dent quietly won his fourth straight B.C. High School Wrestling Championship gold medal on Saturday, but he’s not bragging. How-ever, he’s no longer the rogue wrestler he was, a shy Grade 9 stu-dent who happily slid under the radar as the school’s unknown pro-vincial champion.

“It feels fantastic (to win), especially with the rough season I’ve had,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell is quite pos-sibly Claremont’s top athlete, despite not wrestling competitively at all this season until he arrived at the pro-vincials in Abbotsford last week.

After winning the B.C. championships from 2012 to 2014, a

broken ankle in August stunted Mitchell’s start to the 2014-15 season. When he returned prior to Christmas, he con-tracted mono and was held from training until early February.

“I went into provin-cials with three weeks of preparation. It took a lot of hard work to stay the course after such devastating setbacks but it made winning my

fourth B.C. gold medal that much sweeter,” he said.

While there is no wrestling program at Claremont – Mitchell has commuted to Dun-can the past five years to train there and only represents Claremont at the Island and pro-vincial championships – he’s hoping there’s a growing interest.

Mitchell also instructs wrestling, among other sports, as an assistant to P.E. teacher Carmine Spara-nese.

“He’s an ambassador of the sport, the kids automatically respect him and buy in when he’s talking,” Sparanese said.

Mitchell will gradu-ate and head to univer-sity this year, leaving behind four champion-ship banners among the many on Clare-mont’s wall of fame in the gymnasium.

In Abbotsford last week, Mitchell man-aged to beat Campbell River’s Mike Herman in the semifinal and then Surrey’s Amar Atwal in the 54-kilogram gold final.

That he did it on three weeks training proves his discipline.

“There is no replace-ment for competitive matches,” Mitchell said. “With that being said it was a tough jour-ney to try and prepare in three weeks. How-ever, I felt confident in my experience and being mentally ready.”

Qualifying for provin-cials is another story, as he had to petition to get in. Because his spleen was still swollen

he wasn’t ready for the Island championships, he needed special per-mission for provincials.

As for university, he’s currently weighing his school option and set-ting his sights on the 2016 Junior National Wrestling Champion-ships.

Thus ends the Nolan Mitchell wrestling era at Claremont, though the school is never one to write off. It wouldn’t surprise Sparanese if a wrestling program was born in the next few years.

“Ten years ago, there was no Claremont golf or swim academy, so never say never around here,” said Sparanese, who taught Mitchell at Royal Oak Middle School.

“It would take the help of a commit-ted coach, it needs someone who is will-ing to put in the time to recruit and develop the wealth of athletes at Claremont,” Mitchell said.

Grade 8 Saanich wrestler Kiana Shew (40 kgs), who won gold at Islands, also competed at provincials and won silver, losing the gold medal to a much older Grade 12 student. Shew is home schooled and represented SIDES as well as the Greater Vic-toria Commonwealth Bulldogs. Donovan Huynh also represented from the Bulldogs but was unable to medal. [email protected]

Perfect sweep for Claremont’s lone wrestler Claremont’s Nolan Mitchell overcomes mono, ankle injury to win fourth straight provincial gold medal


Above: Nolan Mitchell in the Claremont weight room. The wrestler will compete at university in Canada next year. At right: Mitchell with his first gold in 2012, Grade 9.

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Today my early-20s daughters live in cities. They’ve travelled widely — one backpacking through Southeast Asia, another traipsing around Nicara-gua. They under-stand buses, subways and air-ports. They’re “city savvy.”

They’ve come along way from their childhood.

Growing up on rural Salt Spring Island, the girls were city inno-cents. For exam-ple, once when they were very little, we went with a group to see a musical in Vancouver. Arriving early, a few of us grabbed food in a restau-rant and then strolled back along the sidewalks to the theatre.

We came to an intersec-tion and as four solid lanes of cars zoomed passed, lit-tle Danica looked up with a worried frown.

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stoplight would change, a “walk” signal would emerge and we’d simply walk across the crosswalk.

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But the girls’ first city bus ride was the most memorable exam-ple of rural head butting urban.

This occurred when, with great anticipatory enthusiasm, we decided to leave the car at home and bus to Saanich Common-wealth Pool for swimming with Nana.

We raced off the ferry, over stairs, through pas-sageways, up elevators and into the sunny out-doors to be first in line for the double-decker bus that

would take us into town. Everything was in order. We were the first to climb aboard, and therefore got our choice of seats. Eagerly, the girls selected three spots on the upper level of the bus, right at the front, near a big window.

The bus engines revved, the girls looked excitedly around them — as if it were the launch of boats at Splash Mountain — and off we went.

The bus motored onto the familiar highway and within a few minutes the girls settled into the rou-tine, the excitement of a new experience slowly subsiding. Then the bus turned off the highway into Sidney. And stopped to pick up passengers. And started. And stopped. Danica and Sierra’s heads whipped around at me.

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this new experience! Isn’t it fun!”

They frowned and looked out the window. They sighed with relief as the bus stopped at a light and they could see the highway again.

Then the bus crossed the smooth, straight thor-oughfare (which they knew led directly to the pool) and started putter-ing through West Saanich.

“What?” they cried in unison. “We could be at the pool by now.”

Their faces took on a grumpy sort of look.

About 60 minutes later (it’s a 15-minute drive via highway) we arrived at the pool, met Nana, splashed in the water, jumped off the diving boards.

“Time to catch the bus back to the ferry,” I announced brightly.

The girls stared at me and turned to their grand-mother.

“Please, Nana,” they begged with a touch of hysteria. “We’ll pay you to drive us to the ferry.”

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A convoy of women on bicycles going from one craft beer tasting to another will ride as part of Victoria Beer Week.

The tour, Pedalin’ for Pints, also falls on Inter-national Women’s Day, Sunday (March 8).

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ada, and it’s also the craft beer capital of Canada,” said Rose Lee, co-owner of The Ped-aler. “It just made sense to pair the two [and] do something to showcase women and beer.”

A bike tour beer tasting is a good fit for women, said Lee.

“Women are less likely to want the big drunken beer crawls.

We can’t get drunk on bikes, so it really is a tasting.”

The tour will also be a good way to show-case women that work in the beer industry, said Lee.

One stop on the tour will be Spinnakers Gas-tro Brewpub, where Kala Hadfield works as a brewer.

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‘I don’t like beer,’ [but] there’s such a wide vari-ety of flavours [includ-ing] fruity, citrusy [and] red wine flavours,” said Hadfield. “It’s not just all fizzy, sweet, yellow stuff.”

Lee echoed the thought that there is a craft beer for everyone.

“I think women would be surprised that [if] they think they don’t like beer, they will find that craft beer they do in fact like.”

The tour will also go to Driftwood Brew-ery, Moon Under Water Brewpub and end at Canoe Brewpub. Tick-ets are $59 each and include bicycles pro-vided by The Pedaler, a chocolate truffle and craft beer pairing at several breweries.

Participants are asked to meet at The Pedaler, 719 Douglas St. at 12:45 p.m. for a 1 p.m. start. The tour will finish at approxi-mately 4:30 p.m. at Canoe Brewpub. Bicy-cles will be picked up from Canoe so partici-pants can stay as long as they like.

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DID YOU KNOW | Notaries are obliged to give legal advice in areas they are authorized to practice

NEW LISTINGS/TOTAL, FEBRUARY 2014

ACTIVE RESIDENTIAL LISTINGS/ TOTAL, FEBRUARY 2014

» 542/412» 1,108/1,064» 3,480/3,770

FEBRUARY 2015 SALES, FEBRUARY 2014

Steven HeywoodBlack Press

If you have ever purchased or sold a home, you’ve prob-ably met a notary public.

They’re the folks who hold all the legal documents for you to sign at the end of the process.

But, as two notaries pub-lic from Sidney’s Salvador Davis & Co. explain, there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than you might think.

Lisa Ehrlich, a partner in Salvador Davis & Co with Laurie Salvador, and Shawna Farmer say from start to fin-ish of a single home sale, the work can last up to three months.

“It’s not as simple as some people might think it is,” says Farmer. “We collect mortgage documents and information on behalf of real estate agents, lenders, mort-gage companies and our cli-ents.”

Notaries, adds Ehrlich, often are the ones who dis-cover builders’ liens against properties, outstanding taxes, covenants and other surprises that a purchaser might not be aware of.

In Sidney, Ehrlich says, many seniors have taken advantage of property tax deferrals — and they might not remember how much money is owing to the

municipality. While the pur-chaser is not on the hook for these outstanding taxes, Farmer says the property title cannot transfer to new owners until it’s paid. It’s all part of the negotiation pro-cess, she adds.

Other non-financial issues, like rights-of-way, mineral rights and building schemes can be present on a prop-erty title. While notaries do not clear those items unless hired to do so, they do com-pile and help clear financial charges on title during the process of buying or selling

a house.A typical home buying-

or-selling process starts, for notaries, with meeting a client, asking if they have specific needs and then gathering up all of the legal documents. Ehrlich says the next step involves the real estate agent, lender or bro-ker in order to get the title free and clear of any issues. It’s throughout this process that all disclosures must take place — again, so there are no surprises.

Closing day, “is a big day,” says Ehrlich. It means buy-

ers are transferring over a lot of money and sellers are receiving it. For many peo-ple, she says, it can be the biggest transaction of their lives.

At this stage, or even ear-lier, adds Farmer, they like to ask their clients about how they want to hold title. For couples buying a home, it can be done in two ways: as joint tenants where both own right of survivorship, or; as tenants in common where both parties own a share of the property and upon the death of one, the

wishing of their will would be followed.

It’s complex, says Ehrlich, and part of life planning.

To make sure it goes smoothly, Farmer and Ehrlich say people need to trust their notary. In the case of Salvador Davis & Co, they say they get most of their business via refer-rals. That speaks loudly to their reputation in the com-munity.

“It’s what we do,” says Farmer.

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Salvador Davis & Co notaries public Lisa Ehrlich, left, and Shawna Farmer. There’s more to a simple signing of documents for your real estate deal, they say. Notaries spend hours behind the scenes.

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1-2620 Shelbourne St., $575,000MLS 339588, Saturday 1-3 Pemberton HolmesTreza Sbaraglia, 250-884-5729

305-409 Swift Street, $349,900MLS 347256, Saturday & Sunday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyRobert Young, 250-385-6900

404-104 Dallas Road, $355,000MLS 346208, Saturday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunEd Sing, 250-744-3301

208-455 Sitkum Road, $399,900MLS 345989, Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyNoah Dobson, 250-385-2033

102-1120 McClure, $459,900Sunday 2-4 RE/MAX CamosunLorraine Stundon, 250-812-0642

OAK BAY3154 Stevenson Place, $739,000MLS 346718, Saturday & Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Brian Meredith-Jones, 250-384-8124

ESQUIMALT10-850 Parklands Drive, $347,900MLS 345139, Sunday 2-4Fair RealtySukhmeet Grewal, 250-704-9794

SAANICH EAST2931 Sea Point Drive, $1,249,000MLS 347193, Sunday 2-4 Newport RealtyJulie Rust, 250-385-2033

3914 Quadra Street, $429,500MLS 345940, Sunday 1-3One Percent RealtyMaria Furtado, 250-881-3754

810 Piedmont Gardens, $749,000MLS 346156, Saturday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunPeter Gray, 250-744-3301

303-3363 Glasgow Avenue, $259,900MLS 347311, Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJonas Solberg, 250-217-9970

973 Owlwood Place, $815,000MLS 346499, Saturday 2-4Royal LePageCoast Capital RealtyLuke Beckner, 250-893-7162

908 Woodhall Drive, $669,000MLS 340719, Sunday 1-3Macdonald Realty Ltd.Sophak Sim, 250-857-4347

4942 Cordova Bay Road, $775,000MLS 343314, Saturday 2-4 Newport RealtyJulie Rust, 250-385-2033

305-1514 Church Ave., $399,000MLS 345823, Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJune Wing, 250-479-3333

SAANICH WEST1063 Hyacinth Avenue, $569,000MLS 344487, Saturday 2-4Boorman’s Real EstateRod Hay, 250-595-1535

3912 Carey Road, From $229,000Saturday - Monday 1-5 Macdonald RealtySheila Aujla & Sophak Sim, 250-744-4441

4564 Stratford Road., $1,399,000MLS 345248, Saturday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunRoxanne Brass, 250-744-3301

1086 Burnside Rd. W., $556,000MLS 346594, Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Rob Garry, 250-384-8124

740 Travino LaneTuesday - Sunday 1-4Royal LePageCoast Capital RealtyScott Munro, 250-477-5353

SAANICH PENINSULA203-2779 Stautw Road, $139,888MLS 347130, Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyShelly Reed, 250-213-7444

1965 Brackman Way, $469,800MLS 345711, Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Mike Hartshorne, 250-474-6003

7182 West Saanich Road., From $370,000Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-3Royal LePageCoast Capital RealtyMurray Lawson, 250-477-5353

WEST SHORE3707 Ridge Pond Road, $699,900MLS 339007, Saturday 2-4Sotheby’s InternationalRealty CanadaBrad Maclaren, 250-380-3933

2655 Sooke Rd., from $199,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunJohn Percy, 250-508-1551

1315 Artesian Court, $429,900MLS 346501Saturday 2-4 Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091

103 & 105-990 Rat-tanwood Place, From $319,900Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyKomal Dodd, 250-479-3333

3562 Desmond Drive, $569,000MLS 346679,Saturday 12-2 & Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesGregg Mah, 250-384-8124

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OPENHOUSESMAR. 6 - MAR. 12, 2015

768 Danby Place, $574,900MLS 347356, Sunday 2-4

Sotheby’s International Realty

Canada

Brad Maclaren, 250-380-3933

300 Selica Road, $579,900MLS 347462,

Saturday 2-4 & Sunday 11-1

DFH Real Estate Ltd.

Sarah Williamson, 250-516-7772

2648 Crystalview Drive,$599,999Saturday 2-4

RE/MAX Camosun

Deidra Junghans, 250-744-3301

2244 Players Drive, $728,800MLS 344755, Saturday 1-3

RE/MAX Camosun

Craig Walters, 250-744-3301


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