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A 71-year-old Saanich man faces one count of first degree murder while using a firearm in the death of his wife.

Joseph Melvin Desroches was charged Tuesday night (March 18) via tele-bail in the fatal shooting of his wife, Rosa, 77, that occurred in their Cameo Street home earlier that morning.

Saanich police Sgt. John Price said Desroches was arrested at 751 Cameo St. without incident around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, after police were called to the home to assist someone who needed medical atten-tion.

At some point before offi-cers arrived, Price said the caller provided more infor-mation that led to a greater response.

“A number of uniformed police officers responded to that 911 call, they con-tained the home, and as a result of providing the containment they subse-quently called the resident out of the home. (The sus-pect) exited the home and was arrested and taken into custody without incident,”

Price said. He could not say whether the accused has been co-operative with investigators from the Van-couver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit.

Late Tuesday evening police obtained a warrant to search the home. Inside, they found the body of the deceased, as well as the family dog. Price said both had been shot.

“They did find and seize a firearm that they believe is in relation to this inci-dent,” Price said, but would not comment on the make or model of the weapon.

In the coming days police anticipate a forensic autopsy will be conducted to determine the nature of injuries and exact cause of death.

“I can tell you that there were reports of one or more shots fired, however I cannot comment on the actual method of her death. I can tell you it is a reported fatal shooting that’s being investigated,” Price said.

A neighbour who has lived on the street for 16 years, who asked not to be identified, said he knew the older couple that lived in the home. He said he didn’t see the woman leave the house very often, and

he would regularly talk to Joseph Desroches while he walked the family dog. Des-roches told him he had a military background.

Price said there are no documented mental health issues related to the home, and would not comment

on whether investiga-tors are looking at mental health as a factor in the shooting. He said there is currently no known police history involving the sus-pect, including domestic violence calls.

Desroches appeared

in court late Wednesday morning. He was remanded in custody until his next court appearance, sched-uled for March 26.

Neil MacKenzie, spokes-person for B.C. Crown Counsel, said the matter remains under review and

charges could change in the coming days.

This is Saanich’s first murder in more than three years. On Jan 18, 2011, an elderly Cadboro Bay man killed his wife and then himself in their [email protected]

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When most eight-year-old Scot-tish boys were fixated on soccer, Logan McMenamie was pondering God.

So it’s not much of a stretch to learn that McMenamie, 63, became the 13th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of B.C. earlier this month.

But that’s just part of the story.How does a boy who grew up in

the presbyterian-based Congrega-tional Church of Scotland end up the spiritual leader for thousands of Anglicans from Victoria to King-come Inlet?

“For me it was a surprise that I ended up in an Anglican church,” McMenamie says from his synod office at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria.

“While I was in (theological) school I never thought I’d be bishop. I never committed to that idea.” Those around him thought otherwise.

McMenamie says his father saw him as quite spiritual in nature from an early age. His only ques-tion now is why his son became an Anglican.

Rev. Canon Sue House, an associate priest at Christ Church Cathedral, says McMenamie always possessed the qualities of a good bishop.

“I think the world of Logan,” says House, who has known and worked with McMenamie for almost 30 years on Vancouver Island. “He’ll make an amazing bishop.”

McMenamie grew up in Gree-nock, Scotland, outside of Glasgow.

He met his wife Marcia, a Victo-ria resident, in Scotland. The pair moved to Canada, first to Vancou-ver, then Port Alberni.

He returned to church after his wife started attending an Anglican parish in Port Alberni. Friends and colleagues he knew attended the same church. And that’s where

many things began to fall into place.

He was ordained at age 37.

McMenamie served as pastor in Port Hardy, Uclue-let, Duncan and Nanaimo before becoming rector and dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria seven years ago.

As bishop, McMenamie will lead a diocese that has 43 churches, and serves more than 8,000 Anglican parishioners. McMenamie says his role won’t just be administrative.

“The role of the bishop is that of shepherd,” he says. “A bishop must always be a pastor to his people.”

He expects to travel to churches throughout the diocese, attending special events and forging ahead with new ideas to help them grow.

In recent years, the dio-cese has been forced to close 11 parishes and real-locate resources. It was an idea first mulled by the Anglican church in 1968 but it was the “courageous leader-ship” of McMenamie’s predeces-sor, Bishop James Cowan, that made it happen and ultimately the church grew stronger.

“It was difficult and painful,” McMenamie recalls.

“Once you start closing down parishes then you are closing places where people have had their children baptized, got mar-ried, buried their loved ones. Peo-ple have now come to terms with that.”

The church now is going through, as McMenamie sees it, a resurrection.

Special teams have been formed to look at reshaping the vision of the diocese over the next three to five years. And there’s work to do

externally, too.McMenamie believes the church

needs to be out in the community more, engaged in societal issues.

“We have something to say as Anglicans, as Christians, in rela-tionship to why there is poverty, why there is homelessness, why there (are) people facing addic-tions and mental issues. I’m hop-ing we get involved in all those conversations within the city.”

And while growing the church is a priority, McMenamie says, it’s not the only priority.

“We’ve tried a lot at drawing people into the church. We tried to do it with being clever with our worship. We’ve tried a lot of dif-ferent ways. Most folk in our cul-ture today don’t respond to the

institution. They think Jesus is pretty cool, but they don’t want to belong to the church.”

McMenamie says if the church is out doing the work it’s called to do by Jesus, then people will want to join the church.

“People want ritual in their life. People want a connection with God. They don’t want an argument about God. They want to experi-ence God. I’ve always tried, for those seeking a spiritual life … to give them that experience of God.”

McMenamie and his wife Mar-cia have seven adult children and seven grandchildren.

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To read an extended version of this story, visit vicnews.com.

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Bishop Logan McMenamie became the 13th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of B.C. earlier this month. He’s ready to take on many of the challenges the church faces.

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Blue-line battle for boys in blueSaanich, Vic cops face off for Special Olympics Christine van ReeuwykNews staff

Saanich and Victoria police officers will face off for a good cause Tuesday in the second annual Battle of the Badges hockey game.

“It started as friendly Victoria-Saanich ban-ter in the locker room,” said Const. Phil DiBat-tista of VicPD.

That low-key rivalry evolved into the fun-draising force, as the Victoria Police Capitals and the Saanich Police Watchdogs will play to raise money for charity.

“It’s a lot of fun for us to play. We’re all col-leagues and we work together all the time,” DiBattista said. “It’s good for us to get out there and just be part of the community, and invite the community to come out and see yes we’re police offi-cers, but we’re part of the community.”

“(Last year’s game) was well-received. We had almost a full arena at Pearkes,” said Saa-nich police Const. Damian Kowalewich, who played for the Capitals in the past. “We have more celebri-ties attending this year. Youth sensation Lily Cave, she’s singing the anthem, and of course Ace, our mascot, will come out for the kids.”

Cliff LeQuesne from 100.3 The Q! radio sta-tion will serve as mas-ter of ceremonies and Ken “Hurricane” Himes will provide the music.

“It’s all for the Spe-cial Olympics, every single minute of it,” Kowalewich said. “It’s important to promote the health and wellness for individuals from all walks of life.”

Special Olympics athletes will get to hang out in the dress-ing rooms before the game, and even drop the ceremonial puck for the first faceoff of the night between the two new police chiefs: Bob Downie from Saanich, and Victoria’s Frank Elsner.

“We’ve partnered with (Victoria Special Olympics) in the past,” DiBattista said. “We just thought we donate to them regularly, hock-ey’s fairly athletic and

it seemed like a really good fit.”

In a side bet, admin-istration of the losing team will fly the win-ning department’s flag in front of the losing team’s office the week-end following the game.

Last year, the Saanich Watchdogs won the game, and helped raise $3,000 for Special Olym-pics Victoria.

Battle of the Badges is Tuesday (March 25) at Pearkes Arena (3100 Tillicum Rd.). The

chiefs face off for the ceremonial puck drop at 7 p.m. Admission is by donation. Donations can be made directly to Special Olympics B.C. at specialolympics.bc.ca or at the [email protected]


Victoria police Const. Phil DiBattista, left, and Saanich police Const. Damian Kowalewich stand on the ice at Pearkes Arena ahead of next Tuesday’s Battle of the Badges fundraising hockey game.


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Rethink recyclingprogram

The provincial push for a producer-pay recycling system is based on the concept of charging manufacturers whose products contribute to the waste stream, such as plastic packaging.

But the soon to become government-mandated program is going to penalize some unfairly, including citizens.

For instance, it will hit the newspaper industry with a 20 cent per kilogram cost for its “packaging” – the very paper the newspapers are printed on.

That vested interest aside, it’s debatable whether the new system will achieve its environmental goals, while simultaneously driving up costs for consumers.

Although the MMBC collection system may have benefits for communities that currently do not have adequate curbside recycling programs, it is not needed in Greater Victoria, where the city has been achieving high rates of waste diversion through its own recycling collection.

Maintaining Victoria’s current program is good for the environment, and residents who receive curbside pickup of glass containers and other recyclables that MMBC wants separated.

Local consumers will effectively pay the cost of recycling twice, as producers build the price of the MMBC program into their products, and taxpayers foot the bill for curbside pickup.

Though MMBC recently provided exemptions for small businesses, the program will negatively impact local economic engines such as berry farming, where consumer preference drives the use of plastic clamshell containers for retail sales – dumping the cost onto farmers, and ultimately, customers.

This is a program that needs to be put on hold and reconsidered in its entirety.

YOUR VIEW

Re: Politics is not entertainment (Opinion, March 14)

In his novel Seeing, the 1998 win-ner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Jose Saramago, proposes an inter-esting option for voter apathy and rebellion: voting in mass, but in blank.

Voter apathy reflects the dis-connection existing between the electorate and a political system based on narrow partisan loyalties, personalities, popcorn-and-fluff, showbiz, glitz, and plenty of money whereby differences among par-ties are mostly cosmetic. The elites donate to all political parties indis-tinctly because none of the par-ties represents a serious threat of change to the status quo.

Voters have freely elected Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien, Rob Ford, Bill Vander Zalm and others who have taken us to wars of aggression, removed social safety nets, priva-tized our infrastructure, destroyed our national industry, created homelessness, closed hospitals and made soup kitchens necessary.

In free societies, such as Canada, controlling people by open violence is not necessary when other ideo-logical means are available that are far more subtle and successful than a bayonet or a club.

A population immersed in asinine subjects such TV shows, mind-less sports, gossip journalism and sensationalist crime stories cannot

possibly be expected to be dis-cerning and alert when it comes to identifying the differences between competing political and class inter-ests, including their own interest. Any political system that can form a federal “majority” government with 39 per cent of the votes in elections where 40 per cent of the people did not vote is a system that lacks legiti-macy and can only exist by using deceit, manipulation and money.

Voting is not the problem: lack of imagination, political education and civic culture is.

Carlos Flores Victoria

Local governance key for taxpayers’ budgets

Of all the levels of government that we are affected by in Canada, the municipal level is by far the one that impacts our lives the most: more than the Capital Regional Dis-trict and the provincial and federal

governments. Our property taxes are often the biggest bill that prop-erty owners have to pay.

Renters’ rents are affected by property taxes and so renters should be very concerned by city/municipal governance. The City of Victoria’s property taxes have risen by about 27 per cent in the last five years (as it happens, the cur-rent mayor’s term of office) which is more than double our inflation rate. With such an impact on our lives, the younger generations would be wise to pay attention to our closest democratic representa-tives which are Victoria’s mayor and council.

I applaud Lisa Helps for making the effort to recruit the younger generations to come and vote in our November municipal election as that is the way to make our city more affordable, sustainable and livable.

Andrew LaksVictoria

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With fingers crossed, the folks behind the Shel-bourne Community Kitchen are optimistic they have secured a kitchen.

“We have leased a very promising location on Shelbourne Street,” said Kim Cummins, program co-ordinator.

Now they wait, as their application for a tempo-rary use permit makes its way through the munici-pal machine.

“We’re very hopeful that everything will go through. People have been very positive so far.”

Shelbourne Community Kitchen officially launched in June 2013, when three churches and two community associations joined forces to establish a community kitchen where people can cook and share free meals. The kitchen acts as a central food bank for the neighbourhood.

Members from Lutheran Church of the Cross, St. Luke’s Anglican Church, St. Aidan’s United Church, Mount Tolmie Community Association and Camo-sun Community Association signed a memoran-dum of understanding to create the Shelbourne Community Kitchen.

Since June they have been working out of satel-lite kitchens, but have been looking for a perma-nent home.

Shelbourne Community Kitchen was officially incorporated as a society on March 5, 2014.

“We’re one step closer toward becoming a non-profit,” Cummins said.

In the meantime, they’re building up their volun-teer base for their garden and kitchen programs.

Part of the program is a self-selecting pantry that includes Fairway Market vouchers and gro-ceries at Lutheran Church of the Cross.

“We have almost 40 people who come and uti-lize the service,” Cummins said.

In the kitchen setting, groups of five or six peo-ple learn to prepare healthy food and share meals, clean up together and take portions home. Partici-pants gain new ideas about how to prepare deli-cious, nutritious meals on a budget.

“We’re running satellite kitchens at this point … starting to test the waters and introducing people to what a community kitchen is,” Cummins said.

The Shelbourne Community Kitchen hosts a meeting for potential new volunteers on Monday (March 24). The meeting is from 6 to 8 p.m. at St. Luke’s Hall (3821 Cedar Hill Cross Rd.).

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NDP MLA John Horgan is crediting his constituents for changing his mind to seek leadership of the provincial party.

His announcement, made Monday in his Juan de Fuca constituency, is an about-turn from the MLA’s October 2013 decision not to run. He said at the time he wanted to “get out of the way of our younger members.”

“I’ve been approached consistently, almost daily, to re-consider my deci-sion,” Horgan told the News. “I’m seeing a broad consensus emerging that what we need is strong leadership to take on the Liberals in 2017, and I believe, and many, many others believe, that I fit that bill.”

His intention to set the stage for younger politicians has not been fruitful, he said.

“I felt that if I was out of the picture that would give them more comfort. The young peo-ple that I had hoped to step up are encouraging me to step up.”

Victoria-Swan Lake MLA Rob Fleming has expressed interest in seeking the leadership role, too, but he hasn’t yet made a final decision.

A focus on the environment and industrial development will be the keystone of Horgan’s campaign. He describes himself as a longtime NDP die-hard who believes in the importance of community, public services and ensur-

ing access for all to the “prosperity of B.C.”

“I believe I can take those values and encourage people to not just vote for the NDP, but to be excited about voting for the NDP,” he said.

Reflecting on the NDP’s sur-prising defeat in the 2013 elec-tion, Horgan said the party needs to listen to voters and make sure it is relevant to British Columbians.He finished third in the 2011

leadership race behind Mike Farnworth and winner Adrian Dix. So far, Farnworth is the only other party member to have announced his run for the leadership in 2014. A leader will be picked on Sept. 28.

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Palaeontology event brings dinosaur bones, cast of oldest bird ever to Swan Lake sanctuaryChristine van ReeuwykNews staff

A diverse variety of ancient and “younger” fossil animals and plants from the Cambrian period (550 million years ago) to the end of the last Ice Age (10,000 years ago) will be on display this week-end in Saanich.

The Victoria Palaeontology Society holds its 18th Fossil Fair on Saturday and Sunday at Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary.

“This is our society’s annual outreach public education event telling people

about the importance of fossils,” said Tom Cockburn, chair of the Victoria Pal-aeontology Society.

Fossils on display range from locally found to beyond B.C. borders, and include dinosaur bones, ammonites, tri-lobites, corals, mollusks, insects, giant palm leaves and microscopic fossils. A special display includes information and fossils surrounding the relationship between dinosaurs and birds.

“We just happen to have one person who has quite a bit of expertise about this,” Cockburn said. The expert, Gary Kaiser, a research associate at Royal B.C. Museum, will be on hand to answer ques-tions.

“We don’t have a lot of bird fos-sils because they are pretty fragile and rare,” Cockburn said. “They’re all at the museum so we can’t really be exhibiting

them. But we can talk about them.” They do have, however, a fossil cast of

the one of the earliest birds, archaeop-teryx, that lived approximately 150 mil-lion years ago.

“We have a very nice cast of one of those fossils. It’s quite large, about 17 inches by 14 inches. So it’s very visible and shows a lot of the bones and that,” Cockburn said.

Admission to the event by donation and also offers kid-friendly activities, such as a scavenger hunt, fossil rubbings and peering at the tiniest of fossils through microscope.

“We hear parents say, ‘We came for the kids’, but parents come and really start asking questions. It’s for all ages,” Cockburn said. “We have a wide range of fossils so there’s always something for people to see.”

The society also invites the public to bring in fossils for identification.

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Fossil Fair highlights 150-million-year-old historyTom Cockburn, chair of the Victoria Palaeontology Society, shows off a Hadrosaur femur bone inside the Swan Lake-Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary. The society hosts its annual Fossil Fair on March 22-23 at the nature sanctuary.

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The Belfry Theatre’s sixth-annual SPARK Festival is one of “new plays and new ideas” – a tagline that couldn’t ring truer for Target Theatre.

For nearly 30 years the company of older adults has been com-mitted to providing a voice for seniors, and over the last two has become more in tune with their own as they developed their latest piece through the Bel-fry’s incubator project.

“We’ve explored things we haven’t done before by creative writ-ing,” says Target The-atre member Susan Wilkey.

“Every word is done by us. We’ve liter-ally exposed our soft underbellies and had all sorts of things come out of us.”

Since 1986 Target Theatre has developed a repertoire of plays intended to entertain and inform.

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exploring attitudes towards seniors and their role in the com-munity, have covered everything from online fraud to prostate can-cer.

Wilkey who acts, writes and directs, had volunteered with Tar-get for two years when the group decided to take a chance and apply for development assistance through the incubator project.

She was among the group of about 12 play-ers who met with Geof-frey Ewert, a facilitator provided by the the-atre to introduce dif-ferent methods of gen-erating material and help shape their words into Firewall, a fusion of nostalgia and tech-nology.

“They sometimes say to amuse seniors, give them puppies or small children,” Wilkey says. “(But) we actu-ally have acting and it’s been a delight. We meet every Tuesday morning and it’s been a wonderful thing to experience. We’re try-

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Tickets to these shows range from $10-$20. The festival includes professional development work-shops, and more than 40 free events, includ-ing mini plays and this Saturday’s midway party bursting with theatre, dance and prizes.

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With one term on Saan-ich council under her belt, it was this week in 1996 that Ida Chong, a relative newcomer to politics, won the B.C. Liberal party’s nomination to run in the NDP-held Oak Bay-Gordon Head.

The article in the March 20 edition of the Saanich Newsdescribes the Thursday night vote by Liberal cardholders that saw Chong, an accountant, beat two-time candidate Paul McKivett.

“Signs in the air, rising and falling with a chanted name. IDA. IDA. IDA. There were McK-ivett signs too, but their holders had neither the energy or the numbers of that other chanting mob,” the story reads.

By the time the 575 ballots were tallied, Chong came away with 62 per cent of the vote.

“Chong’s speech was emo-tional, calling for unity and look-ing toward what promises to be a tough election,” the Newsarticle reads. “’We’re just get-ting started,’ Chong promised. ‘Our next step now is to defeat Elizabeth Cull and the NDP.’”

On May 28, 1996, Chong defeated Cull in a tight race where just 640 votes separated the two candidates.

The Liberal MLA spent her first term in opposition, before the Liberals won the 2001 elec-tion.

Chong was elected again in 2005 and 2009. Her last term as MLA did not come without its challenges, as she was targeted for recall by HST opponents. That recall attempt failed.

On May 14, 2013, Chong lost her long-held Oak Bay-Gordon Head seat to Andrew Weaver,

the first-ever provincially elected Green Party member.

Last August, the Liberal gov-ernment appointed Chong to the University of Victoria board of governors. The following month she took a position on the board of directors for the Rick Hansen Foundation.

In a recent interview with the News, Chong said she hasn’t ruled out another run at poli-tics, but does not yet want to comment on whether that would be at the municipal, pro-vincial or federal level.

In October 2012, Cull ran unsuccessfully for the NDP nomination in the federal rid-ing of Victoria, losing to Mur-ray Rankin, who went on to get elected. McKivett is now presi-dent of the Saanich Legacy Foun-dation.

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■ 1993 - Saanich council makes four amendments to its tree preservation bylaw after the prov-ince grants municipalities new tree protection powers. Council hears at the time that the bylaw is not strong enough and “Saanich could (still) lose a lot of green.” Last week council amended the bylaw in an attempt to mitigate the loss of the urban forest canopy.

■ 1997 - Employees at Tillicum Centre’s Eaton’s store face an uncertain future after the com-pany announces that location is one of 31 across the country that may face closures. Of three options on the table – closing, selling the store, or renegotiating the lease – the latter was what employees were hoping for. The Eaton’s store closed and was replaced by Zellers. The Zellers store shut its doors in mid-2012, and Target Canada opened in that spot in May 2013.

■ 2001 - Saanich erects a statue of 81-year-old farmer Roy Hawes on the trestle overlooking the Blenkinsop Valley. The statue was installed to reflect the rich agricultural history in that com-munity. The statue still stands on the wood trestle that crosses Blenkinsop Lake. Hawes was 88 years old when he passed away on Oct. 24, 2007.

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The News’ weekly historical feature looks at then-councillor Ida Chong’s victory to secure the Liberal party nomination

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Hockey fans are in for a treat Saturday as the Victoria Royals drop the puck on the first round of the 2014 Western Hockey League playoffs – with home-ice advantage.

While the Royals had some early-season injuries to work through, the players came together suc-cessfully as a team, buying into the systems the coaching staff had set out last year, says general manager Cam Hope. Even mid-season trades like Axel Blomqvist and Travis Brown were carefully selected not only for their hockey skills but also their ability to fit in right away with their new team-mates and coaches.

“Honestly, (our success) has come from the players committing themselves – the guys have committed to having a winning season. We don’t have a player in the top points in scoring in the

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Where the Royals have enjoyed some individual stand-outs is between the pipes, where Coleman Vollrath and Patrik Polivka have shone all season. The two finished the regular season ranked third and fifth respectively in the WHL with save per-centages of 0.928 and 0.915. “I think we’ve got two of the best goalies in the country and right now both of them have been playing very well.”

The team has significant momentum heading into playoffs, including wins against some of the top teams in the league. “When you’re winning it changes everything,” Hope says, noting that prep-aration for playoffs will likely continue as it has for games all season for both players and coaches. After all, as the saying goes, if it ain’t broke...

“It will be the same sort of preparation as always. The coaches really do their homework,” Hope says. As for the players, “they have shown they can play with and beat the best teams in the WHL and now it’s time to do the same in the play-offs.”

The importance of the home-ice advantage is significant – giving the boys in blue a little extra push in their skates, and upping the intimidation factor for opponents who know they’ll have to work extra hard to win at Save-on-Foods Memo-rial Centre, notes Fransoo.

Hope agrees. “I think it’s really important, especially this year

when we have our own rink, and when we fill it like we have done the last few games. The fans have really taken to this team – they’re really behind this group of players – so it’s a pretty imposing place for opponents to play.”

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Join the Victoria Royals in Game 1 of their 2014 WHL Playoff run, Saturday, March 22, when the team takes on the Spokane Chiefs. The puck will drop at 7:05 p.m. at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

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If needed, Game 5 is scheduled in Victoria for

Saturday, March 29 at 7:05 p.m., Game 6 will go March 31 in Spokane and Game 7 is Wednesday, April 2 back at Save-in-Foods Memorial Centre at 7:05 p.m.

Heading into the playoffs with a string of sold-out home games that has pushed the Royals into the top 10 in the WHL for attendance, “it’s been electric at the rink,” says Devin Mazur, the Roy-als’ Director of Ticketing. “The players feed off the crowd and the atmosphere. Going into the play-offs, our goal is to continue to give the players that

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When the final whistle blew on the regular sea-son last Friday night, the team finished second in their division and third in the Western Conference, with a record of 48 wins, 20 losses, one overtime loss and three shoot-out losses.

While the team relied on all its offensive players to put the puck in the net, their goalies stood out between the pipes, sharing duties throughout the sea-son to finish ranked third and fifth in the WHL.

With 20 wins and eight losses, Coleman Vollrath brings into playoffs a Goals Against Average of 2.29 and a Save Percentage of 0.928. Goalie partner Patrik Polivka has 28 wins and 12 losses, with a GAA of 2.56 and a Save Percentage of 0.915.

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Showing discipline when they needed it, the Royals recorded an average of just 13.8 penalty minutes per game, the best in the BC division.

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For a brief weekend every two years, figure skat-ers at the Racquet Club of Victoria Skating Club forget about landing a triple Salcow, lutz and axel.

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“Our skaters work so hard all year at the national and international level, so every two years to have this, it’s a total change,” said Matt Willis, assis-tant director for Aladdin and skating club coach. “You’re not thinking about the technical and what judges want to see. All you’re worried about is entertaining an audience.”

Willis said anyone who attended the club’s Grease production in 2011 will remember the cali-bre of costumes, professional lighting and world-class production co-ordinated by director Deena Beacom during the fundraising performances.

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Medical fax story prompts changes at imaging clinic

A medical imaging clinic is changing its fax number and notify-ing doctors of privacy rules after a Victoria man received hun-dreds of private medi-cal imaging requests to his home fax machine.

After the News exclusively told David Mason’s story last week, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commis-sioner followed up with both Mason and the intended receiv-ing clinic, whose fax number differed from Mason’s by one digit.

“The clinic has decided to change its fax number,” said Cara McGregor, privacy commissioner spokes-person.

The new fax num-ber, along with privacy guidelines for faxing and emailing personal information, is being distributed by the clinic to all relevant physician offices, McGregor said.

Mason received more than 200 medi-cal imaging requests to his home fax machine since [email protected]

Coroner IDs victim of fatal Saanich condo fire

The B.C. Coroners Service identi-fied Mary Monica Pollard, 81, as the woman who died following a condo fire Sunday.

The early afternoon fire, in a

third-floor bedroom, on March 16 was extinguished by sprinklers at the Chatterton Way condo building.

Firefighters found Pollard unre-sponsive. She was taken to Royal Jubilee Hospital, where she died.

The fire was deemed [email protected]

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GLANFORD- 1 bdrm, lrg living rm+ kitchen. W/D. $750 inclds utils. N/P. (778)350-2446.

GORDON HEAD. 3-bdrm, Furnished, 1200 sq.ft. May 1st. Bus #39 to Uvic. $1600. + utils. (250)885-5588.

GORGE-HARRIET- Quiet, lrg 1 bdrm, grd level, priv ent, utils incld, parking. NS/NP. $745/mo. Avail now. Call 250-384-0460 (leave a message).

HAPPY Valley 1 bdrm w/ in suite lndry. Prvt ent. D/W, FR, ST, M/W incl. Newly Built. N/S N/P. Avail now. $850 250-634-0772

MARIGOLD: 1 bdrm, shared W/D, quiet. NS/NP. $850 utils incld’d. Call 250-727-6217.

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

TOWNHOUSES

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1993 ACURA INTEGRA(bought in the USA), 204,810,km, in good condition. $2500.Call (250)884-6861.

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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.

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LANDSCAPE & TREE Care Hedges-tree pruning, garden-ing/landscaping. WCB. 18 yrs exp. Andrew 250-893-3465.

MIKE’S LAWN and Garden. Clean-ups, weeding & More. Senior’s discount. Free esti-mates. Mike 250-216-7502.

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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.


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HANDYMAN- Light Mainte-nance & Repair. Call for esti-mate. (250)818-2709.

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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.

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

PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-881-1221.

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

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ARAM RENO’S Basement, bathrooms, additions Free est. WCB/Insured 250-880-0525

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

JACK NASH, serving Victoria over 30 yrs. I do it all! Free es-timates WCB. 250-881-3886.


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COMPLETE HOME Repairs. Suites, Renos, Carpentry, Dry-wall, Painting. Licensed and insured. Darren 250-217-8131.

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VIRGO INTERIORS- Certifi ed Interior decorator specializing in color schemes that work the fi rst time. Call (250)[email protected]

LANDSCAPING

250-216-9476 ACCEPTING new contracts; landscape and carpentry. BBB/Insured. Res /Comm. www.ftguland.com

ANDREW’S GARDENING and Landscaping. Clearing, weeding, pruning, rock work, carpentry, lawns. 20 yrs exp. Ins. Call 778-967-1246

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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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(250)858-6747. WRIGHT Bros Moving. $70/hour. 4 ton / lift. Seniors discount. Call Philip.

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PAINTING

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


PAINTING

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.

SAFEWAY PAINTING

High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior

Residential/Commercial Jeff, 250-472-6660 Cell 250-889-7715

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STACYANN SCHIFFNER Painting & Colour Design. WCB + Ins. Professional Guar-antee. Free est.250-213-1054.

PLUMBING

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

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

FREE ESTIMATES. Rea-sonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.

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PRESSURE WASHING

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203-928 Southgate St, $314,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyCheri Crause, 250-592-4422

960 Hereward Rd,$498,888Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunNickole Goeujon, 250-478-9600

304-55 Songhees, $649,900Sunday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-6900

199 Olive St, $825,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124

1765 Hollywood, $2,699,000Saturday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunMarsha Crawford, 250-889-8200

733A Humboldt (200 Douglas)Saturday, Sunday & Monday 1-4Macdonald Realty Helene Roy, 250 883-2715

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101-1235 Johnson St, $279,900Saturday 2-4One Percent RealtyValentino Prundaru, 250-686-2242

803-250 Douglas St.Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate LtdLynnell Davidge, 250-896-1852

503-68 Songhees Rd, $359,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Will Carrilho, 250-384-8124

202-330 Waterfront, $489,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124

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T208-66 Songhees, $895,000Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunRoland Stillings, 250-744-3301

607-620 Toronto,$234,500Saturday 2-4Macdonald RealtySandra Kamper, 250-514-1224

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26-1498 Admirals Rd,$139,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Eileen Jespersen, 250-686-4820

20 Newcastle Crt, $579,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesMurray Clodge, 250-818-6146

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969 Greenridge, $499,900Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124

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937 Step Moss Close, $669,000Sunday 2:30-4:30Re/Max CamosunDeb Coburn, 250-812-5333

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958 Kinglet Pl.,Saturday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunDarryl Roth, 250-478-9600

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Don DescoteauNews staff

For home buyers, moving can be stressful, no matter if one is a first-time purchaser, scaling down to a smaller place or moving up to a larger home.

If you want to remove a fair chunk of that stress, there are various strat-egies for reducing it. And the nice part is, most can be utilized long before the sales agreement is signed or the moving company is booked.

Barbara McDonell with Clutter Queen Services often works with people to get rid of unwanted items in advance of move.

“I get them look at one item and ask, ‘do I love it and do I use it?’ If not, they should seriously consider donating it or selling it,” she says. “If they can’t answer right away that they love it, they usually don’t.”

She recommends starting with large items to maximize downsizing efforts and get you thinking about whether your old furniture will fit in the new place.

Another area ripe for decluttering, she says, is storage lockers.

“I find that people are paying a lot of money for (outside) storage. People will often discover things they haven’t used in ages and may never use again, like 30 copies of a university thesis. If you don’t get rid of it, you’re paying to move it, if you happen to be gong to another city.”

By the time you’re ready to start looking seriously for a new home – maybe you’ve already found one that fits your needs – there are cer-tain logistical steps to take.

Once clients settle on his services, says Realtor John Hircock, he works with people to find out where they are in the buying procedure.

“I do a bit of an interview to see if they’re pre-approved (for a loan) and who their mortgage broker is,” he says. “I want to make sure they have a little better understanding of the process.”

He helps clients understand what they need to have in place before they buy, but also has a good check-list that includes other service pro-viders who can help make buying a home a smooth experience.

“The real estate agent is just one of the professionals that people are going to use,” Hircock says, listing such tasks as hiring a home inspec-

tor and a moving company, and hav-ing documents vetted and signed by a lawyer or notary public. “There’s a whole bunch of people who are going to be involved in that transac-tion, perhaps even an accountant.”

Part of the package he offers includes a closing costs worksheet to help eliminate surprises or under-estimation of the funds needed to complete a deal. “You need to have a bit of money set aside to trans-fer your services (such as hydro, cable, phone and home heating) in addition to all the closing costs, like the property transfer tax (for which exemptions are available for first-time buyers).”

Once the house search gets down to the offer stage, only three things

can happen: the seller can reject it, they can counter with a different price, or they can accept it. Regard-less of the seeming simplicity of the transaction, it can still be a stressful time, Hircock says.

“It takes time and sometimes there’s multiple offers. Explaining that process, letting a client read through a blank contract of pur-chase and sale, helps people have at least a general understanding of the process (going in).”

When the moving date is con-firmed, people can do various things to prepare, says Cathy Haynes, the Downsize Diva.

One of her first suggestions? If you plan to use movers, book them early (mid-month specials are often available). If you plan to pack your own boxes, use strong ones that can close at the top and be stacked and list contents clearly on the side.

As for the aforementioned service transfers, book well ahead so as not to have service interrupted. Other items to change include licences and insurance, credit cards, bank information, subscriptions and get-ting your mail forwarded to the new address for up to six months.

If those are the “must-dos,” Haynes says, the “nice-to-dos” include leav-ing things for your home’s buyer, such as warranties and instruction manuals for appliances and dated invoices for major renovations.

“You also want to let them know where the shutoffs are for the water, and leave behind paint cans from recent painting jobs for touchups,” she says. “It’s also nice to leave the names of a couple neighbours, espe-cially the Block Watch captain; your favourite cafés and maybe a parks and rec booklet. Oh and don’t forget the remotes for the garage doors.”

Overall, a little forward planning can help make the moving process a pleasure rather than a chore.

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Location, Luxury and LifestyleThe warmth of Craftsman modern combined with a LOCATION that pivots on City Excitement and Ocean breezes, is perfectly delivered in this 2007 year home, o� ering up to � ve bedrooms! PLUS the Exterior dreams of a Garden Oasis with a gorgeous Gazebo and workshop, crowned by spacious decks and hot tub. Entertain friends, proud of your Executive, easy-care Lifestyle; walk to Fisherman’s wharf, or stroll to Beacon Hill park, Dallas Rd beaches, and the Inner Harbour. $735,000

Manor From HeavenLocated in prestigious Uplands, a magni� cent Tudor-revival mansion. Generously proportioned rooms, kitchen features � oor to ceiling butler’s pantry and upscale appliances. Park-like gardens with trellises, water features and pergola. Double garage accessed via private lane. A stunning world-class residence. $2,198,000

Let It Be 3880 sqft home set on a lovely sun drenched .74ac in Ardmore by the Sea, the region’s most coveted locale. Beautifully updated, ocean view Arts and Craft residence. Feel the warmth of tradition provided by hardwood � oors, dormers, wainscoting, co� ered ceilings, and relaxing verandahs. Ardmore, famous for warm swimming beaches and golf courses, is close to ferries and the airport. If space, elegance and location is your wish, hurry! $939,000

� e TuscanyLuxury single family home crafted by iconic builder Roger Garside. Constructed in 2005 to provide resort style design and elegance in Sidney by the Sea. Lavishly � nished home with vaulted ceilings for a spacious, bright and airy e� ect. Ideal for those requiring a Master on the main � oor, and easily left after vacationing, or a family home with 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. Enjoy French doors to your patio for private gas barbecue entertaining. $639,800

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