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Kyle SlavinNews staff

A 16-year-old Saanich student is giving Mother Nature a run for her money by using an innovative science fair project to potentially improve the health of the natu-ral environment.

Vicki Kleu spent less than $10 on materi-als to invent a biodegradable adsorbent

pad that could revolutionize clean-up of marine oil spills.

“If you go down to the water you can always see a thin film of oil that’s on the water. No one really thinks that small amount is going to damage, they think, ‘It’s a small amount, it’ll be fine.’ No, it harms the ecosystem,” said Kleu, a Grade 11 Lam-brick Park secondary student.

“It’s a part of protecting our environment that needs to be done.”

Her functioning prototype pads – called Oil RiDD’rs – are made of natural fibres and have proven to hold 50 times their weight of outboard motor oil.

With Kleu’s design, oil clings to the sur-

face of the pads in a process called adsorp-tion (as opposed to absorption, where one substance permeates the volume of another substance), allowing at least 95 per cent of the oil to be recovered.

“(The pad) could be rolled up, stored – it’s not very big. So it could just get thrown out onto the spill,” Kleu said. “Because the fibres prefer the oil to the water, they don’t let go of the oil – they prefer to hold onto it. It could sit there for a while, even with wave action, and it picks up more oil than water.”

Cheryl Nigh, a teacher at Gordon Head middle school, is Kleu’s science fair men-tor. She says “the sky’s the limit” with

Kleu’s invention, as it is, on the whole, a better oil spill clean-up system than any other synthetic or natural product on the market.

“This, for me, is going to be the highlight of my career,” Nigh said.

“I don’t think I’ll ever come across another science fair student that matches Vicki’s dedication so well. … She was able to step back and look for a simple solution to a big problem. Based on her science knowledge, she was able to see the forest for the trees.”

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Vicki Kleu, a Grade 11 Lambrick Park secondary student, holds a beaker of used oil as an example of what her biodegradable oil spill pad can soak up. Kleu recently won the Vancouver Island Regional Science Fair with an oil spill pad she developed and is in the process of seeking a patent.

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For the first time in five years, the tourism industry in Victoria is poised for an upturn.

That positive picture is painted just as the man who nav-igated Tourism Victoria through its most tumultuous years is stepping down.

Chief executive officer Rob Gialloreto, who will assume the same position with Consumer Protection B.C. this summer, is leaving behind a more cohesive tourism industry and stronger Victoria brand than when he took the helm in 2008.

“Victoria’s actually come out looking pretty good, considering the global picture,” said Brian White, director of Royal Roads University’s school of tourism and hospitality management.

Gialloreto said the decision to resign was difficult, but he’s par-ticularly proud of the culture he leaves behind with a “deep pool of talent” at Tourism Victoria.

“When the recession hit, it hit everybody,” he said. “So the role for us changed a little bit, which was to keep our industry together and members focused on their core business.”

The impact of the 2008 global

recession meant the torrent of international travellers to the Island dried up.

Around the same time, the provincial government axed Crown corporation Tourism B.C. along with the steady, reliable funding.

“We used to have $500,000 (annually) from the province and then that went to zero,” Gial-loreto said.

One of his biggest frustrations has been trying to convince the B.C. government to adopt a leveraging marketing model used by Alberta and other tour-ism boards across the world.

“Instead of (government) just pouring money into tourism,

you leverage with (private) orga-nizations and say, ‘We have $1 million to invest,’” he said.

Tourism Victoria still faces the major challenge of getting major players – from hoteliers to restaurateurs to attraction own-ers – to work together for their mutual benefit, White said.

Gialloreto has also helped diversify Victoria’s brand.

The traditional image of Vic-toria remains strong as a city of gardens, high tea and pictur-esque waterfronts, but many more tourists have come to see Greater Victoria as a destination for outdoor activities and arts and culture, White added.

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Upcoming all-candidate meetings

Saanich South is having an all-candidate meeting on education issues on Sunday May 5, 7 p.m. at Claremont secondary, 4980 Wesley Rd.

Candidates for Saan-ich South are: MLA Lana Popham (NDP), Liberal Rishi Sharma, Green Branko Mus-tafovic, Conservative Joshua Galbraith and independent Peter Kappel.

Victoria-Swan Lake all-candidate meetings are Tuesday, May 7, 6:30 p.m. at the Burnside Gorge Commu-nity Centre, 471 Cecelia Rd.; and Thursday, May 9, 7 p.m. Quadra-Cedar Hill Com-munity Association, Garth Homer Centre Auditorium, 813 Darwin Ave.

Candidates for Victoria-Swan Lake are: MLA Rob Fleming (NDP); Liberal Chris-tina Bates; Green Spencer Malthouse.

Explosive injures Saanich senior

An Saanich man received chemical burns to his face, ears and chest after attempting to examine a liq-uid explosive device on his front yard on Friday.

The 70-year-old watched a group of teens in a blue pickup truck drive past his home, in the 700-block of Viaduct Ave., and toss a bottle filled with blue liquid at another group of teens walking on the sidewalk.

The man went outside around 8:45 p.m. to inspect the bottle, but as he bent down it exploded.

Saanich police Const. Chris Roberts called it a “crude explosive device made with readily available ingredients.”

The man was taken to hospital and was treated for chemical burns.

“(We want to) remind the public of the extreme dan-ger posed by the creation of homemade explosive devices and the mixing of reactive chemicals,” Roberts said.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call 250-475-4321.

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An explosion at the Midtown Park construction site on Cloverdale Avenue destroyed a cargo container, shattered nearby windows and echoed across the city. The metal door of the container landed 30 metres away in Rutledge Park.

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The propane explosion heard across Victoria on Friday was pos-sibly ignited by a pop machine in a shipping container, says a Saanich fire investigator.

At 6:23 a.m., gas from a barbe-cue propane tank exploded inside a yellow Alpine shipping container at the Midtown Park condo project, at the corner of Cloverdale Avenue and Inverness Road, which shat-tered windows and shot chunks of metal across the neighbourhood.

Saanich fire Capt. Rich Pala says the barbecue-sized propane tank was likely left on overnight inside the locked container.

“A small pop machine plugged into an extension cord from the outside is being considered as a

potential ignition source for the gas vapour cloud,” Pala said.

Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eas-sie says the police investigation is complete and the incident has been deemed an “industrial acci-dent.” No criminal charges will be laid. Saanich fire is still conducting its investigation.

Both organizations will share information with WorkSafeBC, as it conducts its own probe.

“We’ll be looking at any viola-tions of occupational health and safety regulations and what the roles of the employer might have been in that event,” said Ally Skin-ner-Reynolds with WorkSafeBC.

One worker was on site at the time of the explosion, and was in the neighbouring container.

The man, in his late 40s and a resident of Metchosin, had minor cuts and a concussion and was taken to hospital. He was back at work the same day, said Gerry Kou-tougas, owner of Midtown Park,

“We’re very happy that nobody got (badly) hurt. That’s very important,” Koutougas said.

Construction on the site wasn’t impacted by the incident and is on track for completion by December.

The explosion shredded one yel-low Alpine container, shooting big pieces across the worksite and into Rutledge park. The contorted con-tainer next to it acted as an office.

Eddie Philp, who lives at the corner Rutledge and Scotia streets was on his computer bright and early Friday, and has a direct line of sight to the yellow shipping con-tainers on the far side of the park.

He felt the shockwave of an explosion, and then watched as a twisted metal door arced into the air, and lazily floated like a leaf – as much as a sheet of metal can float – down to the grass in the middle of the park.

“I watched the door fly 100 feet into the air and then float down 100 feet,” Philp said. “It floated down, not with any speed, but it must be 200 or 300 pounds.”

The blast echoed clear across Greater Victoria as people from Oak Bay to Dallas Road and Saan-ich reported hearing, and feeling, the boom.

On Friday morning, shards of glass surrounded the apartment complex at 949 Cloverdale Ave., the dwelling closest to the con-struction site.

Quoryn Rees was just falling asleep after the night shift when she felt the earth move.

“I was just falling asleep and I heard a huge bang. The entire place shook. I started freaking out,” Rees said. “My cupboards exploded open, all the glass (from windows) was all over the floor.”

Rock blasting at Midtown Park has reverberated through the neighbourhood for months, although muffled by heavy mats.

“I’d listened to blasting from the construction site,” Rees said. “This was bigger than before. It didn’t sound like the right kind of blast. It’s not a way to wake up to a Fri-day morning.”

Mark Jackman, who lives on Sco-tia Street noted that Friday was a pro-D day for schools, and that later in the morning the park would have been crawling with kids.

Jackman said he assumed it was an earthquake. “I  jumped up and thought it was an earthquake, and went to get my kids,” he said.  “It was just huge. My bed vibrated. I felt the whole house rocking, enough to knock the pictures off the wall.”

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Saanich police are investigat-ing after a small fire appears to have been set at the Saanich Baptist Church Thursday.

Church volunteers arrived to the smell of smoke around 8:15 a.m. and unsuccessfully searched the building, in the 4300-block of Wilkinson Rd. It wasn’t until around 9 a.m. when someone noticed a smouldering pile of cedar chips in the front garden.

“Our investigators attended.

Given the recent activity, we wanted to handle this with the utmost of care,” said Sgt. Steve Eassie, referring to a rash of arsons that have popped up in Saanich and Victoria several weeks in a row.

Overnight between April 11 and 12, Saanich fire crews responded to five suspi-cious fires, including one that destroyed the ABC Country Res-taurant on Maple Street.

On April 18, fire crews dealt

with a bathroom fire at a Victo-ria hotel and a dumpster fire at a Saanich mall.

Saanich and Victoria fire inspectors and working with the police departments to deter-mine if any or all of the fires are connected.

The cause of the Baptist Church fire hasn’t been deter-mined, and Eassie says there’s a possibility it could be deemed accidental.

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Four passengers in a Toyota Corolla were taken to hospital Saturday night after a two-car collision at the intersection of Fairfield Road and Linden Street.

Victoria police say the vehi-cle, which was travelling north on Linden, unsafely entered the intersection and was broad-sided by a Bluebird cab travel-ling east on Fairfield just before 10:30 p.m.

The Corolla was sent onto its

side and came to rest against a tree. Two of the four passengers were rendered unconscious in the crash. The driver and two passengers in the cab were shaken, but uninjured. The taxi passengers helped right the car, but firefighters had to use the Jaws of Life to free the four peo-ple trapped in the car.

The driver, a 21-year-old Saa-nich man, fled the scene imme-diately, witnesses said. Saanich

police arrested him later on after he got out of a taxi outside his residence.

He faces possible charges of fleeing the scene of an accident and impaired driving.

The Corolla passengers, two males and two females, were sent to hospital. Two were treated and released, while two remain in hospital, one with very serious injuries.

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The Capital Regional District (CRD) Integrated Water Services department is offering free public tours of the Greater Victoria water supply facilities including the Sooke Dam and the ultraviolet treatment plant. Learn how our high quality drinking water is delivered from the source to your tap.

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An excited Rosalee Mann escorts her grandma around her kindergar-ten classroom. She points out her pink cardboard pig artwork stapled to a bulletin board, and a poster dis-playing dozens of colourful butterfly species on the wall.

Pacific Christian School regularly welcomes some 500 grandpas and grandmas through its doors during the annual Grandparents Day event – but this year’s event saw a number of guests attend by logging in.

Using an iPad and the video chat program Skype, Bomer was able to sit in her Texas home Friday morn-ing and still play a role in the special day at her five-year-old granddaugh-ter’s school.

“It’s great to see her and all of her friends,” Bomer says over webcam. “When you live far away from your children and grandchildren, it’s just precious to have an opportunity like this. It’s important for her to know how much I wish to be there.”

Pacific Christian assistant princi-pal Will Wild says Grandparents Day gives grandparents a unique oppor-tunity to visit with their grandkids in their school environment.

“We at PCS just value community and connecting with the family, and providing opportunities where our families can interact with the chil-dren here,” Wild says.

“There’s a real joy that I see on the children’s’ faces and on the grandparents as well. The students love to take their grandparents around and introduce them to their teacher, show them the work they’ve been doing, take them on tours of the school and show them what happens around this place.”

Bomer wasn’t the only distant grandparent to participate via Skype. Nearly 40 grandparents – liv-ing across Canada, in the United States, Switzerland, Argentina and South Korea – logged online and got the virtual experience.

“Technology is amazing. If only I could just reach out and hug her it’d be better,” Bomer says after her tour with Rosalee.

Chris Berghuis, development director at PCS, says Grandparents Day has been a tradition at PCS for at least 18 years. Even staff mem-bers bring their parents and grand-parents.

“It’s a reflection of the loving com-munity here,” he says.

After tours in the morning, analog grandparents were treated to snacks and a show put on by the students.

Bomer says she’s in awe of today’s technology, which allows her to see and visit with her grand-daughter at school without having to travel.

“We couldn’t do anything like this when I was in kindergarten,” Bomer says.

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Five-year-old Rosalee Mann, a kindergarten student at Pacific Christian elementary, shows an art project to her grandmother in Texas via Skype on an iPad. The long distance online visit allowed the two to take part in the school’s Grandparents Day.

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Kleu participated in the Vancou-ver Island Regional Science Fair in April at the University of Victoria, and her project earned first place overall (plus nine awards and schol-arships). The local win means Kleu heads to Canada-Wide Science Fair in Lethbridge, Alta. beginning next week.

She’ll compete against some 500 other bright Canadian students for awards, money and prizes.

“Vicki’s project is a well-designed innovation and it’s well tested. And it’s apparent she worked hard at this,” said Randy Enkin, president of the Society for the Advancement of Young Scientists, which organized the VIRSF.

“If her project lives up to its claims, it’s an inexpensive, renew-able method to deal with oil spills, and it’s the sort of product that marinas would just have on stock to deal with any sort of spill. She’s helping solve a problem which is an immediate threat to our coastline.”

Kleu is no stranger to the Canada-Wide Science Fair. This will be her third consecutive year representing Vancouver Island, having previously won a silver medal nationally in 2011.

The adsorption materials Kleu used and her exact design remain under lock and key.

Kleu and Nigh are currently in the process of patenting the clean-up technology. Once that is complete, they’ll be looking for financial back-ing to manufacture and market the pads.

The Saanich teen says she’s not looking to make money off the prod-uct – all she wants to do in life is provide solutions that make life bet-ter for those around her.

“Even if I get nothing out of it, that’s fine. I just want it to be avail-able. I want something available to marinas to use so there’s a method (to clean up oil spills) which is cheap and actually works,” she said. “I like helping people. And I feel like that’s my passion.”

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Student, teacher seek patent and investors

Saanich police are reminding residents, especially those in rural areas, that bears are now active and attracted by the smell of garbage.

A resident of the 300-block of Via-duct Avenue West reported to police that she saw a young black bear wander out of the bushes, down her driveway and toward her garbage cans last Wednesday.

Viaduct Avenue West, near Pros-pect Lake Road, is near natural habi-tat for bears and other wildlife.

Earlier last week, members of the

Saanich staff responded to illegal household garbage dumping in the power line cutline near Prospect Lake Road. That garbage had likely been accessed by a bear.

Illegal dumping or poorly secured garbage at home could lead to bears becoming accustomed to eating food waste, and become a problem animal that could be destroyed by the conservation service.

Anyone who witnesses illegal dumping is asked to call Saanich police at 250-475-4321.

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Kyle SlavinNews staff

Saanich council has thrown its support behind an initiative that aims to com-pletely end the need for food banks.

The goal of the pro-posed National Food Strategy is to work with the other levels of government to bet-ter plan and co-ordi-nate food security, as opposed to providing continual food charity, in hopes that would eliminate demand for food banks.

“It’s about making the best use of our resources. We’ve got farmers that are in the business of growing food, we’ve got lots of food in this country,” said Coun. Dean Mur-dock, former chair of the Healthy Saanich advisory committee. “It’s about putting it to best use and finding mechanisms at the dis-posal of government to make sure that healthy food gets in the hands of people who need it and can’t afford it.”

The National Food Strategy is a proposal from Faith in Action, a Victoria-based organi-zation that focuses on addressing root causes of poverty in B.C. FIA says the existing strat-egy to feed the hungry isn’t the best way to end hunger.

“Churches in particu-lar have responded to this need by donating to a food bank, but the longer we do it, the more we realize it’s let-ting the government off the hook,” said Peggy Wilmot with FIA.

Food Banks Can-ada numbers show that 882,000 people accessed food banks across the country last year, an all-time high. More troubling, 11 per cent of those people used the service for the first time.

The three food banks in the municipality of Victoria – the Mustard Seed and smaller ser-vices at St. John the Divine and Saint Vin-cent de Paul – restrict their users to one visit each month to keep the system afloat.

“It isn’t just about people not having food, it’s about pov-erty and the high cost of housing, and liv-ing wage and having

enough means to access healthy foods,” said Linda Geggie of the Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initia-tives Roundtable.

Wilmot agreed that the guaranteed annual income needs to rise to reduce the reliance of the “working poor” on food banks.

“If people had adequate housing that didn’t cost them 100 per cent of their income, then they’d have money left over to buy food,” she said.

Murdock said the first

steps from the municipality will be an awareness cam-paign. Unanimous support from council directed staff to write letters to the pro-vincial and federal govern-ments urging them to adopt the National Food Strategy.

He also hopes to eventu-ally get resolutions sup-ported by the Union of B.C. Municipalities and the Fed-eration of Canadian Munici-palities.

– with files from Daniel [email protected]

Saanich backs initiative to reduce need for food banks

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Kleu participated in the Vancou-ver Island Regional Science Fair in April at the University of Victoria, and her project earned first place overall (plus nine awards and schol-arships). The local win means Kleu heads to Canada-Wide Science Fair in Lethbridge, Alta. beginning next week.

She’ll compete against some 500 other bright Canadian students for awards, money and prizes.

“Vicki’s project is a well-designed innovation and it’s well tested. And it’s apparent she worked hard at this,” said Randy Enkin, president of the Society for the Advancement of Young Scientists, which organized the VIRSF.

“If her project lives up to its claims, it’s an inexpensive, renew-able method to deal with oil spills, and it’s the sort of product that marinas would just have on stock to deal with any sort of spill. She’s helping solve a problem which is an immediate threat to our coastline.”

Kleu is no stranger to the Canada-Wide Science Fair. This will be her third consecutive year representing Vancouver Island, having previously won a silver medal nationally in 2011.

The adsorption materials Kleu used and her exact design remain under lock and key.

Kleu and Nigh are currently in the process of patenting the clean-up technology. Once that is complete, they’ll be looking for financial back-ing to manufacture and market the pads.

The Saanich teen says she’s not looking to make money off the prod-uct – all she wants to do in life is provide solutions that make life bet-ter for those around her.

“Even if I get nothing out of it, that’s fine. I just want it to be avail-able. I want something available to marinas to use so there’s a method (to clean up oil spills) which is cheap and actually works,” she said. “I like helping people. And I feel like that’s my passion.”

[email protected]

Continued from Page A1

Student, teacher seek patent and investors

Saanich police are reminding residents, especially those in rural areas, that bears are now active and attracted by the smell of garbage.

A resident of the 300-block of Via-duct Avenue West reported to police that she saw a young black bear wander out of the bushes, down her driveway and toward her garbage cans last Wednesday.

Viaduct Avenue West, near Pros-pect Lake Road, is near natural habi-tat for bears and other wildlife.

Earlier last week, members of the

Saanich staff responded to illegal household garbage dumping in the power line cutline near Prospect Lake Road. That garbage had likely been accessed by a bear.

Illegal dumping or poorly secured garbage at home could lead to bears becoming accustomed to eating food waste, and become a problem animal that could be destroyed by the conservation service.

Anyone who witnesses illegal dumping is asked to call Saanich police at 250-475-4321.

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Fourth and final installment on party platforms.

NDP leader Adrian Dix has finally rolled out his “fully costed”

election platform.Major policy

announcements had been released previously, but there was plenty more spending added to the total.

The NDP’s health care plan is surprisingly modest – more money for home support, residential senior care, mental health and addiction services and a rural acute care initiative totaling $159 million over three years.

As health critic Mike Farnworth points out, the residential care increase will allow seniors two baths a week instead of one. Full marks to the NDP for this part of the platform.

Increases to Community Living B.C., children and families programs and aboriginal friendship centres are also commendable.

Other NDP proposals don’t inspire as much confidence.

Raise welfare rates $20 a month and index them to inflation. Index the minimum wage to inflation too, at a time when inflation can only rise.

Set up a new child bonus program to send $70 per month for each child with family income under $25,000. Lesser payments would go to families with income up to $66,000.

This ’70s-style family allowance

scheme is based on a “child poverty” claim that misrepresents federal statistics of relative income

distribution.The program is

optimistically budgeted at $210 million a year. Dix insists it isn’t a “big new social program,” which makes me wonder what would qualify.

It would be partly funded by cancelling a B.C. Liberal plan to establish education savings accounts for kids born after 2006. Out with self-reliance, in with the

nanny state.Another $100 million is added to

hire more teachers, to address the teachers’ union’s often-repeated but false claim of “a decade of cuts” in education.

Another $100 million goes to student grants, much of it further subsidizing the oversupply of English, education, sociology, women’s studies, journalism and other university grads who eventually discover there is little demand for their degrees. As with welfare, increasing support for bad choices can only yield more bad choices.

On a related note, the NDP will revive a ministry of women’s equality, “to promote social and economic equality to all government programs....” As with female candidate quotas, the NDP keeps the flame of ’70s socialist feminism alive.

The party totals up its new

program spending to $988 million over three years. That’s exactly the amount Dix estimates will be raised by tax hikes on corporate income, bank capital, personal income over $150,000, carbon tax on oil and gas drilling, and cancelling the B.C. Liberals’ RESP and child tax credit plans.

As for deficits, the NDP claims the B.C. Liberal budget hides a deficit of $800 million this year and similar deficits in the next two years.

The B.C. Liberals point to an impressive string of “net zero” wage settlements with public sector unions, the core of their spending control record.

Would the NDP continue to hold the line on public service wages, as the B.C. Liberals have done?

Dix’s NDP caucus and staff is stocked with former government union officials. Party president Moe Sihota is essentially a direct employee of the same unions. The B.C. Federation of Labour has shaped the NDP’s Labour Code changes, which we won’t see until after the May 14 vote.

And how much money does the “fully costed” NDP plan set aside to pay wage increases for its government union brothers and sisters? Zero.

Since this is the party that appears to be cruising to victory in the May 14 election, I’ll look at what’s not in their platform and other issues next week.

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‘Would the NDP hold the line on public service wages, as the Liberals have done?’

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Tourism industry at a crossroadsIn recent years, a number of factors have

come into play that have hindered the tourism industry in Greater Victoria.Whether it’s a declining global economy,

increased ferry fares to the Island, competition from Lower Mainland towns and cities, or U.S. President Barack Obama’s encouragement that American citizens travel more domestically, it’s been tough slugging for the thousands of people in our region who count on a healthy flow of visitors to make ends meet.

Our region saw a slow, gradual climb back from the dark days of 9-11 and was hit hard again by the financial hardships wrought by the global economic crisis of 2008.

While the picture hasn’t been entirely rosy since, there have been bright spots on the horizon for the local industry, as improved March visitor numbers showed.

With the prospects for further improvement very real as travellers settle back into holiday mode, it’s important that Tourism Victoria make the most of opportunities to market the region to them.

The recent announcement that president and chief executive officer Rob Gialloreto will be leaving the organization for a similar position at Consumer Protection B.C. should not surprise us – executive changes are inevitable.

But it’s critical at this time that the organization install a person with the combination of experience, foresight and vision to latch the region’s tourism wagon to any upswing in public desire to travel.

Diminished funding has hurt all tourism marketing organizations in B.C. In the case of Tourism Victoria, it has left them struggling to maintain the international reach it enjoyed in past years. It had to abandon the exit surveys that helped determine where visitors were coming from and forced it to primarily target visitors closer to home.

It’s still uncertain how newly created Crown corporation Destination B.C. will help matters.

Therefore, it’s even more important that Tourism Victoria find a leader who can help find creative ways to market the region to a wider audience, and bring the various players in the local hospitality industry closer together to present a unified front.

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Hartland safer for sludge plant

The CRD now plans to oper-ate a sewage sludge plant in Esquimalt (a site also close to Vic West family housing and schools) but most News read-ers may not be aware that the previous plan to operate this sewage sludge plant at Hartland landfill was safer for our com-munity.

The Esquimalt property planned for the privately-oper-ated sewage sludge plant is only 1.7 hectares in area, but a CRD report notes that a minimum of two hectares is needed for the factory complex (which would include several biodigester tanks up to 14 metres high) so quite likely the Esquimalt-Vic West site would be built right out to the property line to accommodate this major opera-tion.

An earlier CRD report also reveals that this sewage sludge processing plant would not be suitable for residential neigh-bourhoods, a point emphasized by sewage resource expert Chris Corps to an overflow audi-ence at the recent Vic West pub-lic forum.

This plant could actually include several industrial pro-cesses:

• sewage sludge screening • thermophilic anaerobic

digestion complex • energy and heat extraction

building for sewage sludge man-agement

• sludge dewatering building • thermal drying • unenclosed receiving sta-

tion for fats, oils and grease and organic waste

• operations building • gas flaring units • phosphorus (struvite)

recovery facilities

• odour control facilities • biogas treatment and scrub-

bing facility. Several of those processes

are likely to be biologically haz-ardous, chemically hazardous, or both, demanding special equipment and training for fire-fighter rescue units, as well as emergency preparedness for the many families living near to this risky sewage sludge plant.

This operation should not be sited anywhere close to these dense Esquimalt-Vic West neigh-bourhoods.

John NewcombSaanich

Few benefits from universal child care

Re: Platforms ignore low-cost child care (Our View, April 26)

Your editorial advocates for a provincially funded universal child care system. The idea sounds good but falls apart when examined more carefully.

The evidence from research actually suggests that for most children the beneficial effects of early childhood education are extremely short lived.

By the time the child is in Grade 3 there is not any cogni-tive advantage for those that went to preschool versus those that did not.

Furthermore, the longer term benefits of early childhood edu-cation that do exist are concen-trated almost entirely among poor children.

This suggests that, rather than universal child care, the government should direct its limited public resources to assistance for poor families.

Poor children have signifi-cant social disadvantages so it makes sense that an intensive preschool program would be of benefit to that specific group.

Proponents of universal child care conveniently ignore any evidence of harm caused by institutionalized child care including negative social devel-opment and various health problems.

Our provincial government is in debt and careless spend-ing on an unnecessary program for middle class and affluent families is not the path to a bal-anced budget. It only saddles our children and grandchildren with more debt and ultimately compromises the governments ability to help those who need it most.

John GalbraithVictoria

Oil tanker a low risk for coast

The B.C. NDP and environ-mental organizations such as the Dogwood Foundation and other’s policy on tanker traffic, plays to the lack of knowledge of the average B.C. resident with respect to maritime ship-ping, the design of ships and what they carry as fossil fuels.

Modern day tankers are safer than all of the other ships that ply our waters with respect to the risk of marine oil spills. Modern day tankers must be constructed with double hulls, with at least two meters of sep-aration of the oil tank from the outside hull of the ship.

The tanker is also sub-divided into numerous indi-vidual oil tanks so that  cata-strophic  damage to one part of the ship will not allow spillage from the other tanks.

If both the ports of Kitimat/Prince Rupert and Vancouver are considered and both oil pipelines were approved (highly doubtful) the number of tank-ers would be of the order of 300

to 400 per year. Additionally, tankers are even

more heavily regulated with respect navigation in restricted waters and require two escort tugs, one teth-ered.

Now, if you consider the stan-dard container ship that sails in our waters, it has fuel tanks that are considerably larger than the average tanker oil tank.

This fuel tank contains a thick molasses type of fuel that is only separated from the sea by the thick-ness of the ships steel hull, far less protection than the tanker.

Yet the number of such ships sailing from these same ports mentioned above annually are in excess of seven thousand or higher. Therefore the risk of oil fouling our pristine shores is magnitudes higher from ordinary merchant ships than the paltry number of oil tankers.

If it is deemed safe and of accept-able risk to allow thousands of

merchant ships to sail our waters, it makes little sense to prevent oil tankers which are by magnitudes safer.

The NDP policy therefore makes little sense and is being used for strictly political gain and fear mon-gering purposes.

Policy such as this also decreases significantly the revenues that Cana-dians require to maintain our stan-dard of living and to support the increasing number of social pro-grams that NDP governments pro-pose.

Robin AllenSaanich

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Saanich parks workers began sand-blasting the concrete animals at Gyro Park this week as part of upgrades to the Cadboro Bay playground.

Andrew Giles, manager of parks construction and maintenance, says it’s been a very long time since the Cadborosaurus, octopus and salmon were sandblasted, but the structures are typically repainted every few

years. “We’ve got many, many layers of paint we’re sandblasting,” he said.

Sandblasting and repainting at the park is weather dependent, but Giles says he hopes work will be complete by the end of May.

The playground’s ship is also get-ting upgrades in the coming months. Saanich crews will replace the rail-ing and some of the wood decking. They’ll also improve accessibility to the ship.

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Victory Ocean Swim fundraiser on Sunday

Brave souls will once again take to the cold ocean at Cadboro-Gyro Park for the Victory Ocean Swim fund-raiser, on Sunday May 5 at 1 p.m.

In February, 55 people swam for a few minutes or longer and brought in money and food for the Mustard Seed food bank.

This time around, event organizer Jasmine Gerwien has rounded up

scores of gift certificates and prizes for swimmers from Cadboro Bay merchants.

Ace, the Saanich police mascot, Saanich firefighters and St. John’s ambulance paramedics will be on hand.

Check out victoryoceanswim.com.

Cadboro Bay association AGM The Cadboro Bay Residents Association hosts its annual

general meeting on Wednesday May 15.Guest speaker Fred Haynes, president of the Saanich

Community Association Network, will present about “engaging the community for the development of commu-nity plans.”

The AGM begins at 7 p.m. at Cadboro Bay United Church at 2625 Arbutus Rd. For more check out the asso-ciation website at cadborobay.net.

Cadboro Bay emergency preparednessThe Cadboro Bay Emergency Preparedness committee’s

AGM happens Saturday, May 26.All residents are encouraged to attend to learn how the

committee plans to respond following a major earthquake or natural disaster.

The AGM runs from 10 a.m. to noon at Cadboro Bay United Church, 2625 Arbutus Rd.

Kyle WellsNews staff

Recreation centres throughout the Capi-tal Regional District are offering free admis-sions and hosting special events, all in cel-ebration and promotion of youth involve-ment in recreation.

Free drop-in fitness and swimming will also be offered all day on Friday by Saanich Rec at Gordon Head, Pearkes, Cedar Hill and Commonwealth Place recreation cen-tres. There will also be a free Mobile Skate Jam on Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Flipside at Pearkes.

A Limelight Youth Arts Show will also be held on Friday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 9 p.m. at Cedar Hill Arts Centre.

Recreation Oak Bay is offering free drop-in for youth ages 10 to 18 on Friday, May 3 from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

This includes access to the swimming pool, and the fitness room for those over 15 years old. Henderson golf course is offering $3 golf, not including club rentals, starting at 8 a.m.

“It’s just to incorporate youth in to recre-ation and recognize them,” said Lars Larsen, acting sports co-ordinator for Recreation

Oak Bay. “There can sometimes be a gap in recreation programming with youth, and progressively people are starting to realize that’s not fair.”

On the same day, the City of Victoria is offering free admission to the Crystal Pool fitness room and swimming pool after 1 p.m. for youth. There will also be a free Water Wipe-Out Challenge from 7 to 10 p.m., with water obstacle challenges, prizes, a live DJ and a barbecue.

West Shore Parks and Recreation opens its fitness and swimming facilities after 3 p.m. to youth for free.

Panorama Recreation on the Peninsula

is offering free drop-ins after 3 p.m. on Fri-day, along with a freestyle dance from 7 to 10 p.m. that same night. The Raw Citizen Dance Crew and Bigtime Special Enterprise DJs will be on hand for the event for 11 to 16-year-olds for $7 per ticket.

Esquimalt Recreation is offering free admission all day on Friday, along with a free outdoor movie at 7:30 p.m. the same day. The movie will be screened at Bullen Field behind the Esquimalt Recreation Cen-tre. A shuttle will be provided to and from The Flipside at Pearkes Recreation Centre in partnership with Saanich Rec.

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Rec centres ramp up activities for Youth Week

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In the 40th Provincial General Election, British Columbia’s voters will vote for their Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

BC Has More Ways to VoteAll voters can:

Vote in any district electoral office from now until 4 p.m. (Pacific time) on General Voting Day, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Vote by Mail You can ask for a Vote by Mail package from your district electoral office or through the Elections BC website at elections.bc.ca

Vote at advance voting Voters can attend any advance voting location in the province from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (local time), Wednesday, May 8 through Saturday, May 11. All advance voting locations are wheelchair accessible.

Vote on General Voting Day Voters can attend any general voting location in the province from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Pacific time), Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Identification Rules for VotingVoters must prove their identity and current residential address to get a ballot or register to vote at the time of voting. Any one of the following pieces of identification is acceptable:

• BC drivers licence• BC identification card• BC Services Card• Certificate of Indian Status

If you don’t have any of the above, bring two documents that together prove your identity and current residential address. A complete list of acceptable identification is available from Elections BC.

Voters without identification can be vouched for by a voter in their electoral district who has identification, or by a direct family member, or by someone who has legal authority to make personal care decisions for the voter.

Get our OTEBC App for iPhones and iPads to find the closest voting place and for information you need to vote.

Any Questions?For further information visit Elections BC’s website at elections.bc.ca or call toll-free 1-800-661-8683.

Or, contact your district electoral office. Hours of operation Monday - Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Get ready to vote.

The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Esquimalt-Royal Roads for the 40th Provincial General Election.

Esquimalt-Royal Roads Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

Maurine KaragianisBC NDP

Barbara Riggs478 Nelson St, Victoria, BC, V9A 6P4

Jared Butcher1253C Esquimalt Rd, Victoria, BC, V9A 3P4

Susan Christina LowGreen Party of BC

Linda-Mary Bluma791 Martin Rd, Victoria, BC, V8X 4E8

Chris RickettsBC Liberal Party

Larry Baryshnik3-3240 Holgate Lane, Victoria, BC, V9C 0A6

Joshua StefflerIndependent

Joshua Steffler102-1360 Esquimalt Rd, Victoria, BC, V9A 3R2

General Voting Places: Advance Voting Places: District Electoral Offices:

Colwood Pentecostal Church2250 Sooke Rd, Colwood, BC

DaVinci Centre195 Bay St, Victoria, BC

Eagle View Elem School97 Talcott Rd, View Royal, BC

Esquimalt Rec Centre527 Fraser St, Esquimalt, BC

Esquimalt Sr Comm School847 Colville Rd, Esquimalt, BC

Esquimalt United Church500 Admirals Rd, Esquimalt, BC

Sangster Elem School3325 Metchosin Rd, Colwood, BC

Shoreline Middle Comm School2750 Shoreline Dr, View Royal, BC

View Royal Elem School218 Helmcken Rd, View Royal, BC

West Shore Parks & Rec1767 Island Hwy, Colwood, BC

Wishart Elem School3310 Wishart Rd, Colwood, BC

Colwood Pentecostal Church2250 Sooke Rd, Colwood, BC

Esquimalt Rec Centre527 Fraser St, Esquimalt, BC

1195 Esquimalt RdEsquimalt, BC(250) 952-7833

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Kyle WellsNews staff

Oak Bay High students are getting their ducks in a row as they prepare for the 15th annual Rubber Duck Race and Bowker Creek Clean-up this Sunday (May 5).

The school’s environmental club hosts the yearly event to raise money for res-toration work by the Bowker Creek Ini-tiative.

Students are selling rubber duckies at the high school and in the community leading up to the event. The ducks are each numbered and the proud owners

then race their ducks down the creek starting at 1 p.m. at St. Ann’s Pond (across from the Oak Bay Fire Hall).

It’s by no means a high-speed aquatic grand prix, the rubber duckies some-times need a little nudge to get going, but despite the slow pace, the excite-ment level is high.

Last year, a large crowd turned out for an event as useful to the group’s cause as it was entertaining to the participants.

The Bowker Creek Initiative is com-mitted to restoring the ecosystem of the creek. Anyone willing to lend a hand is welcome to help remove trash from the waterway starting at 11 a.m.

“There’s just a lot of crap that we pull out and then sort,” said Grade 12 stu-dent Grace Hatherill. “We have such a beautiful creek next door to the school, it makes sense to take care of it.”

Anyone interested in purchasing a rub-ber ducky to race can call Shrubsole at Oak Bay High School (250-598-3361), or purchase one at the event. The price is “one duck for two bucks.”

The Bowker Creek Initiative volunteers will be on hand at the event to talk about the group’s rehabilitation objectives and current projects.

See [email protected]

Oak Bay enviro students no lame ducks

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The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Juan de Fuca for the 40th Provincial General Election.

Juan de Fuca Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

John HorganBC NDP

Kathy Palmer3696 Wild Berry Bend, Victoria, BC, V9C 4M7

Kerrie ReayBC Liberal Party

Jeremy Kimm101-866 Goldstream Ave, Victoria, BC, V9B 0J3

Jeremy Kimm101-866 Goldstream Ave, Victoria, BC, V9B 0J3

Carlos SerraGreen Party of BC

Miyako Saito3462 Bethune Ave, Victoria, BC, V8X 1W2

General Voting Places: Advance Voting Places: District Electoral Offices:

Crystal View Elem School2662 Silverstone Way, Langford, BC

District of Highlands W. Fire Hall1564 Millstream Rd, Highlands, BC

East Sooke Fire Hall1397 Copper Mine Rd, Sooke, BC

Forge Church2612 Sooke Rd, Langford, BC

Gordon United Church935 Goldstream Ave, Langford, BC

Lakewood Elem School2363 Setchfield Ave, Langford, BC

Luxton Comm Hall1040 Marwood Ave, Langford, BC

Metchosin Comm Hall4401 William Head Rd, Metchosin, BC

Millstream Elem School626 Hoylake Ave, Langford, BC

Otter Point Fire Hall3727 Otter Point Rd, Sooke, BC

Port Renfrew Elem School6633 Deering Rd, Port Renfrew, BC

Royal Canadian Legion 91761 Station Ave, Langford, BC

SEAPARC Leisure Centre2168 Phillips Rd, Sooke, BC

Shirley Comm Hall2795 Sheringham Point Rd, Sooke, BC

Sooke Comm Hall2037 Shields Rd, Sooke, BC

Willway Elem School2939 Mt Wells Dr, Langford, BC

Four Point Sheraton829 McCallum Rd, Langford, BC

Gordon United Church935 Goldstream Ave, Langford, BC

Metchosin Comm Hall4401 William Head Rd, Metchosin, BC

SEAPARC Leisure Centre2168 Phillips Rd, Sooke, BC

Sooke Comm Hall2037 Shields Rd, Sooke, BC

108-1016 McCallum RdLangford, BC(250) 391-2820

The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Oak Bay-Gordon Head for the 40th Provincial General Election.

Oak Bay-Gordon Head Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

Ida ChongBC Liberal Party

Bernard Beck514-737 Yates St, Victoria, BC, V8W 1L6

Bernard Beck514-737 Yates St, Victoria, BC, V8W 1L6

Greg KazakoffBC Conservative Party

Gregory Kazakoff2947 Tillicum Rd PO Box 44133 Rpo Gorge, Victoria, BC, V9A 7K1

Jessica Van der VeenBC NDP

James Dopp1850 Allenby St, Victoria, BC, V8R 3B7

Andrew WeaverGreen Party of BC

Patrick von Aderkas2696 MacDonald Dr, Victoria, BC, V8N 1X9

General Voting Places: Advance Voting Places: District Electoral Offices:

Arbutus Middle School2306 Edgelow St, Saanich, BC

Cadboro Bay United Church2625 Arbutus Rd, Saanich, BC

Church of St. Aidan’s3703 St Aidans St, Saanich, BC

Emmanuel Baptist Church2121 Cedar Hill Cross Rd, Oak Bay, BC

Glenlyon Norfolk School1701 Beach Dr, Oak Bay, BC

Gordon Head Middle School1671 Kenmore Rd, Saanich, BC

Hillcrest Elem School4421 Greentree Terr, Saanich, BC

Knox Presbyterian Church2964 Richmond Rd, Saanich, BC

Maria Montessori Academy1841 Fairburn Dr, Saanich, BC

Monterey Middle School851 Monterey Ave, Oak Bay, BC

Oak Bay Sec School2151 Cranmore Rd, Oak Bay, BC

Torquay Elem School4413 Torquay Dr, Saanich, BC

Victoria Pacific Rim Alliance Church1792 Townley St, Saanich, BC

Cadboro Bay United Church2625 Arbutus Rd, Saanich, BC

Emmanuel Baptist Church2121 Cedar Hill Cross Rd, Oak Bay, BC

Glenlyon Norfolk School1701 Beach Dr, Oak Bay, BC

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Kyle WellsNews staff

Oak Bay High students are getting their ducks in a row as they prepare for the 15th annual Rubber Duck Race and Bowker Creek Clean-up this Sunday (May 5).

The school’s environmental club hosts the yearly event to raise money for res-toration work by the Bowker Creek Ini-tiative.

Students are selling rubber duckies at the high school and in the community leading up to the event. The ducks are each numbered and the proud owners

then race their ducks down the creek starting at 1 p.m. at St. Ann’s Pond (across from the Oak Bay Fire Hall).

It’s by no means a high-speed aquatic grand prix, the rubber duckies some-times need a little nudge to get going, but despite the slow pace, the excite-ment level is high.

Last year, a large crowd turned out for an event as useful to the group’s cause as it was entertaining to the participants.

The Bowker Creek Initiative is com-mitted to restoring the ecosystem of the creek. Anyone willing to lend a hand is welcome to help remove trash from the waterway starting at 11 a.m.

“There’s just a lot of crap that we pull out and then sort,” said Grade 12 stu-dent Grace Hatherill. “We have such a beautiful creek next door to the school, it makes sense to take care of it.”

Anyone interested in purchasing a rub-ber ducky to race can call Shrubsole at Oak Bay High School (250-598-3361), or purchase one at the event. The price is “one duck for two bucks.”

The Bowker Creek Initiative volunteers will be on hand at the event to talk about the group’s rehabilitation objectives and current projects.

See [email protected]

Oak Bay enviro students no lame ducks

Low-cost dentistry on offer at Camosun

Camosun’s certified dental assistant students are offering low-cost preventa-tive dental care for people age 5 to 21, starting today (May 1) until May 17.

Selective polishing, x-rays, sealants, oral hygiene instruction and fluoride application available at the Dental build-ing, Lansdowne campus, 3100 Foul Bay Rd.

Call to book an appointment at 250-

370-3184 or see camosun.ca/smile. Procedures $20 or less.

Fun Fridays for kids at St. Luke’s Hall

Kids can enjoy arts and crafts, games, theatre fun, songs and stories during Fantastic Fridays at St. Luke’s Hall, 3821 Cedar Hill Cross Rd., 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Events are free. See stlukes-victoria.ca.

Career day, open house at Camosun Interurban

Camosun College is hosting an open house and career fair May 2, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at the Interurban campus.

The fair is open to adults and teens

and all areas of the campus are open, from the trades shops to the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE).

Programs based at Lansdowne cam-pus will also be setting up displays.

See camosun.ca/openhouse.

Linden singers offer Cuban rhythms

The Linden Singers present a concert featuring music that includes jazzy 20th century American show tunes and the rhythms of South America and Cuba. Guest artist Kelby MacNayr & Friends will present a set of songs from the of 1950s Cuba.

May 15, 7:30 p.m., Lutheran Church of the Cross, 3787 Cedar Hill Rd. See lindensingers.ca.

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The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Saanich North and the Islands for the 40th Provincial General Election.

Saanich North and the Islands Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

Gary HolmanBC NDP

Janis Gauthier2161 Fulford-Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC, V8K 1Z7

Scott McEachernIndependent

Joseph McEachern1756 McTavish Rd, North Saanich, BC, V8L 5T9

Adam OlsenGreen Party of BC

Kenneth Johnston10373 Patricia Pl, Sidney, BC, V8L 3J7

Stephen P. RobertsBC Liberal Party

John Vowles2-2379 Bevan Ave, Sidney, BC, V8L 4M9

General Voting Places: Advance Voting Places: District Electoral Offices:

Bayside Middle School1101 Newton Pl, Central Saanich, BC

Brentwood Bay Elem School7085 Wallace Dr, Central Saanich, BC

Capital City Yacht Club10630 Blue Heron Rd, North Saanich, BC

Community Gospel Chapel147 Vesuvius Bay Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC

Deep Cove Elem School10975 West Saanich Rd, North Saanich, BC

Fernwood Elem School150 Fernwood Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC

Friendship Comm Church7820 Central Saanich Rd, Central Saanich, BC

Fulford Elem School203 South Ridge Dr, Salt Spring Island, BC

Galiano Lions Hall992 Burrill Rd, Galiano Island, BC

Gathering Strength Facilities7728 Tetayut Rd, Central Saanich, BC

Gulf Island Sec School232 Rainbow Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC

Highway Christian Fellowship Church10364 McDonald Park Rd, North Saanich, BC

Holy Trinity Church1319 Mills Rd, North Saanich, BC

Keating Elem School6843 Central Saanich Rd, Central Saanich, BC

Mary Winspear Centre2243 Beacon Ave, Sidney, BC

Mayne Island Agricultural Hall430 Fernhill Rd, Mayne Island, BC

Panorama Rec Centre1885 Forest Park Dr, North Saanich, BC

Pender Island Comm School5714 Canal Rd, North Pender Island, BC

Saanich Fairgrounds - Main Hall1528 Stellys Cross Rd, Central Saanich, BC

Saanich Peninsula Presbyterian Church9296 East Saanich Rd, North Saanich, BC

Saanichton Bible Fellowship2159 Mt Newton Cross Rd, Central Saanich, BC

Saturna Island Rec Centre104 Harris Rd, Saturna Island, BC

Shoal Centre10030 Resthaven Dr, Sidney, BC

ArtSpring Art Centre100 Jackson Ave, Salt Spring Island, BC

Saanich Fairgrounds - Poplar Room1528 Stellys Cross Rd, Central Saanich, BC

Shoal Centre10030 Resthaven Dr, Sidney, BC

1528 Stellys Cross RdCentral Saanich, BC(250) 952-4100

The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Victoria-Beacon Hill for the 40th Provincial General Election.

Victoria-Beacon Hill Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

Karen BillBC Liberal Party

Derrold Norgaard100-848 Courtney St, Victoria, BC, V8W 1C4

Carole JamesBC NDP

Paul Ramsey1684 Chandler Ave, Victoria, BC, V8S 1N6

John ShawCommunist Party of BC

John Shaw733 Claudette Crt, Victoria, BC, V9C 0A1

Jane SterkGreen Party of BC

Arian Acker20-915 Glenvale Rd, Victoria, BC, V9A 6N1

John Sterk919 Garthland Pl W, Victoria, BC, V9A 4J5

General Voting Places: Advance Voting Places: District Electoral Offices:

Central Middle School1280 Fort St, Victoria, BC

George Jay Elem School1118 Princess Ave, Victoria, BC

James Bay Comm School140 Oswego St, Victoria, BC

James Bay New Horizons234 Menzies St, Victoria, BC

Marriott Inner Harbour728 Humboldt St, Victoria, BC

North Park Manor875 North Park St, Victoria, BC

Sir James Douglas Elem School401 Moss St, Victoria, BC

Sundance Elem School1625 Bank St, Victoria, BC

James Bay New Horizons234 Menzies St, Victoria, BC

North Park Manor875 North Park St, Victoria, BC

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Tom FletcherBlack Press

NDP leader Adrian Dix released the par-ty’s full election platform last Wednesday, detailing new spending that adds up to $988 million over the next three years.

Bigger budgets are proposed for legal aid and crime prevention, a new ministry of women’s equality, $4 million to review oil pipeline projects the NDP opposes and $10 million to hold an inquiry into the sale of BC Rail operations a decade ago.

The new measures are on top of earlier

NDP platform announcements to launch a $210 million-a-year child benefit for low-income families, boost seniors’ home care, add more teachers and raise welfare rates and index them to inflation. The minimum wage would also be linked to inflation and the lower wage for alcohol servers would be eliminated.

The platform also promises to move the date of the 2017 B.C. election to the fall, which would extend an NDP government’s mandate to four and a half years if the party wins the May 14 election.

Dix emphasized the NDP’s claim that the

B.C. Liberal pre-election budget is not bal-anced as the government says, but hides a deficit of nearly $800 million by underes-timating program spending in the current year and overestimating money from selling government assets.

“Our spending commitments are in bal-ance with our revenue measures, so our platform will not add a penny to the Liberal deficit,” Dix said at a news conference in front of the B.C. legislature.

The platform puts numbers on the NDP’s promise to divert some carbon tax reve-nues to transit and green projects around

the province. That spending would start with $30 million this fiscal year, rising to $40 million next year and $50 million in year three.

Crime prevention and restorative justice programs would get an extra $2 million each in the first year of an NDP govern-ment. Legal aid spending would increase $2 million this year, $5 million next year and $10 million in year three.

The NDP budget totals include no new money for public service wage increases or capital projects beyond those that are already committed to.

NDP adds to spending in full platform

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Daniel PalmerNews staff

The controversy over a bong mascot in Esquimalt continues to gain momen-tum.

At an Esquimalt council meeting last week, council directed staff to look into whether the township has the author-ity to restrict advertising on The Bong Warehouse, a smoke product shop near Admirals and Esquimalt roads.

The shop’s owner, Ryan Price, has been using a bong mascot periodically

to promote his business along Esquimalt Road.

In response to public complaints, Coun. Tim Morrison brought forward a motion to restrict the use of costumed mascots in public spaces for the pur-pose of advertising.

The bylaw was forwarded to staff for input, but a second motion by Coun. Dave Hodgins could spell the end for Price’s mascot as well.

“I made a motion that staff research how we could implement something right away ... to have this mascot cease

and desist while the bylaw is being developed,” Hodgins said.

Price said he’s disappointed the town-ship is dedicating public resources to punishing a small business, and believes most of the criticism stems from a lack of understanding about his products.

“I’m not going to just lay down. Quite often, you need to fight for change,” he said, comparing his business to a local pharmacy.

Hodgins said the township is receiv-ing too many complaints to sit back and do nothing.

Esquimalt seeks means to ban bong mascotOwner of the Bong Warehouse Ryan Place shows his bong mascot in his store on Esquimalt Road. Esquimalt council is exploring legal maneuvers in a bid to ban the mascot from appearing in public.

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

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The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Saanich South for the 40th Provincial General Election.

Saanich South Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

Joshua GalbraithBC Conservative Party

Joshua Galbraith4841 Sea Ridge Dr, Saanich, BC, V8Y 2R7

Peter KappelIndependent

Peter Kappel646 Vanalman Ave, Victoria, BC, V8Z 3A9

Branko MustafovicGreen Party of BC

David Helland4125 Cedar Hill Rd, Victoria, BC, V8N 3C2

Lana PophamBC NDP

Forrest Nelson180 Homer Rd, Victoria, BC, V8Z 1V6

Samuel Godfrey670 Wilson St, Victoria, BC, V9A 3H2

Rishi SharmaBC Liberal Party

Harinder Jawl4084 Hatfield Rd, Victoria, BC, V8Z 7J4

General Voting Places: Advance Voting Places: District Electoral Offices:

Church of the Nazarene4277 Quadra St, Saanich, BC

Claremont Sec School4980 Wesley Rd, Saanich, BC

Cordova Bay Elem School5238 Cordova Bay Rd, Saanich, BC

Gateway Baptist Church898 Royal Oak Ave, Saanich, BC

Glanford Middle School4140 Glanford Ave, Saanich, BC

Lake Hill Elem School1031 Lucas Ave, Saanich, BC

Lochside Elem School1145 Royal Oak Dr, Saanich, BC

McKenzie Elem School4005 Raymond St N, Saanich, BC

Northridge Elem School4190 Carey Rd, Saanich, BC

Prospect Lake Elem School321 Prospect Lake Rd, Saanich, BC

Royal Oak Middle School751 Travino Lane, Saanich, BC

Salvation Army Citadel4030 Douglas St, Saanich, BC

Spectrum Comm School957 Burnside Rd W, Saanich, BC

Strawberry Vale Elem School4109 Rosedale Ave, Saanich, BC

Willis Point Comm Centre6933 Willis Point Rd, Central Saanich, BC

Salvation Army Citadel4030 Douglas St, Saanich, BC

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The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Victoria-Swan Lake for the 40th Provincial General Election.

Victoria-Swan Lake Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

Christina BatesBC Liberal Party

Derrold Norgaard1173 May St, Victoria, BC, V8V 2S7

Rob FlemingBC NDP

James Dopp1850 Allenby St, Victoria, BC, V8R 3B7

Spencer Alexander MalthouseGreen Party of BC

Genya Agathoklis305-955 Cook St, Victoria, BC, V8V 3Z4

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Braefoot Elem School1440 Harrop Rd, Saanich, BC

Burnside Gorge Comm Centre471 Cecelia Rd, Victoria, BC

CDI College950 Kings Rd, Victoria, BC

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Craigflower Elem School2766 Admirals Rd, Saanich, BC

Doncaster Elem School1525 Rowan St, Saanich, BC

Garth Homer Centre813 Darwin Ave, Saanich, BC

Les Passmore Seniors Centre286 Hampton Rd, Saanich, BC

Oaklands Elem School2827 Belmont Ave, Victoria, BC

Reynolds Sec School3963 Borden St, Saanich, BC

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Ancient poetry all the rageKyle WellsNews staff

A mythological hexametre poem from the time of Christ might not sound like first choice material for modern “yolo”ing teenagers, but a group of theatre students might just surprise you.

The 15- to 18-year-olds take advanced theatre classes at Kate Rubin’s Theatre and Drama Studio and perform one major show at a professional venue per year. This year they are taking the stage at Intrepid Theatre, 2-1609 Blanshard St., starting May 8.

“They’re a group of very committed, focused and experienced theatre students,” Rubin said.

Metamorphoses is Roman poet Ovid’s epic masterwork, first published sometime around 8 AD. Through more than 250 myths, the work covers the history of humanity from the creation of the world to the times of the Roman Empire.

Fast forward 2,000-odd years and American playwright Mary Zimmerman adapts the poem for contemporary theatre, modernizing the language and paring it down to a few select myths. The play ran on Broadway in 2002 and won several Tony Awards that year.

Rubin hadn’t even considered the play for her class, but a couple of the students knew of it and asked for it as their major project.

“They saw it when they were 10 years old and they loved it,” Rubin said. “There’s a lot of humour in it and the text is not dense, it’s modern so it’s easy to understand. It’s poetic but really accessible.”

Actors Sara Merner, 16, and Shayna Linds, 18, were the two students to suggest the play. Merner read it last summer, while Linds saw it performed about five years ago. Each thought it a perfect project for

the troupe, both for its content and for the challenge.

“It just stuck with me completely,” Linds said. “It’s got some gorgeous writing. … There’s 10 of us playing over 60 characters, so we all have to get out of our comfort zones at times.”

“There’s a lot of teenage emotions that people can relate to within the play,” Merner

said. “A lot of the Greek myths, they’re very old, but they’re adapted so that they can be more modern and people can relate to them now.”

Doing a show at a playhouse is a worthwhile experience for the students, said Rubin, as they learn firsthand how to stage a play with proper lighting, sets and acoustics.

An added challenge to this production is a water feature that takes centre stage. A 16-inch high pool plays more than a small role in the retelling.

“A lot of the action takes place in the

water,” Rubin said. “That’s going to be quite a cool and interesting moment to see how that goes.”

One of the myths surrounds King Midas, who wishes all he touches turns to gold. The wish is granted and it goes swimmingly until the King’s young child jumps into his arms.

Rubin has adapted the myth to a modern setting and to feature a queen rather than a king because, as she explained, she usually has far more girls than boys in her theatre classes.

“They’re not just moral tales, there’s some that are more metaphoric,” Rubin said. “Sometimes they’re just more allegories or they’re myths that just tell a story. You put your own interpretation to them.”

Phoenix Theatre put on a production of the play about six years ago in Victoria, to general acclaim. This is the first time the material will have been tackled by young actors here though. Rubin said they’re ready.

“We make an assumption about teenagers sometimes about what they can handle. But I think it’s all about how it’s done and how they connect to it.

“They’re high-functioning, committed, totally into it kind of teens. Lots of energy and really keen.”

Metamorphoses runs from May 8 to 11 at 8 p.m., with 12:30 p.m. matinees on Thursday, May 9 and Friday, May 10 and a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, May 12. Tickets are $12 for adults, $9 for students and seniors, and are available at the door. May 8 is a preview night, with tickets $9 for adults and $6 for students and seniors.

Advance ticket sales are available by phone at 250-370-9800 or email at [email protected].

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Actors Ariel Glidden, as Goddess, top, Cole Bodin as Vertumnus, left, and Shayna Linds as Pamona, with the Kate Rubin Theatre and Drama Studio, will perform in Metamorphoses: Based On The Myths Of Ovid.

“There’s a lot of humour in it and the text is not dense, it’s modern so it’s easy to understand. It’s poetic but really accessible.”

- Kate Rubin

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Vincent Gale (as Rupert Chase), left, and Nicola Lipman (as Nora Chase) in the Belfry Theatre’s production of Let Me Call You Sweetheart.

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Inspired by a chance meeting at Salt Spring Island’s Harbour House Hotel, the charming new musical, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, fuses nostalgic tunes with new compositions that swing, sway and syncopate.

The story revolves around 85-year-old Nora Chase who has two new loves in her life, the joy of singing and her new beau, musician Murray Sullivan.

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Reyataz. Kaletra. Zerit. Norvir.

The names, strange to pronounce and numerous in variety, adorn pill bottles glued to an eight-foot sculpture of a martini-style cocktail glass.

They are all medications for people with HIV and concurrently bring life and struggle to those infected with the lentivirus.

Oak Bay resident Peggy Frank used to take 49 pills per day. She was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 after a humanitarian trip to Africa.

“I just felt like the medical nomenclature of calling the combination of drugs a cocktail was ironic,” Frank said. “It didn’t feel like a cocktail to me.”

As both an artist and an activist, Frank has constructed the sculpture out of plastic, a steel frame and hundreds of pill bottles. Frank and a friend are heading out today (May 1) to drive the cocktail glass across Canada, to the Kingsbrae Garden Sculpture Competition in St. Andrews, N.B.

The piece is titled “This is not a cocktail party” and is one of 16 finalists at the competition.

“It’s neat for me because it recognizes the sculpture on its own, without it having to do with health and everything else,” Frank said.

Thanks to advances in medical science, Frank now only has to take five medications per day.

Not all the bottles in the piece, most of which were donated, are directly HIV medication bottles, but most are related, as HIV and its medications can lead to cholesterol imbalances, heart problems, depression and a myriad of other health concerns.

“The cocktail allows people who are HIV-positive to have the joy of living. And yet it’s more complicated than that,” Frank said.

The piece also features shimmering red ribbons from Kenya, giving the piece an African connection. Frank has an organization, called positively AFRICA, for which she raises funds and awareness to help support families and orphans living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.

Different people see different messages or meaning in the piece, Frank said. Although it started

out as a meditation on the number of pills people with HIV have to take, Frank said it has taken on new meaning for her as she realized the amount of plastic used to make pill bottles.

Frank figures she’s taken medication from more than 2,000 bottles of pills over her 25 years with the virus. That’s a lot of plastic.

“The plastics are not easily disposed of, there’s residue of all the medications in each of those plastic bottles. What do we do with that kind of stuff?”

The cocktail sculpture will be making a series of stops across Canada, where Frank will advocate for the HIV community and promote donations to her organization.

With HIV/AIDS not nearly the newsy talking point it once was, Frank said people living with the illness are somewhat forgotten. No longer a death sentence, an HIV diagnosis still brings a lifetime of health struggles and a considerable stigma, which Frank said discourages people from talking about it and getting tested.

“We talk about criminalization of HIV, we talk about people infecting other people, and I really think that’s not the story,” Frank said. “There’s a lot of policies that are based on fear and stigma, and they create a world where HIV is bound to flourish.”

Frank believes a vaccine

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Peggy Frank with her sculpture ‘This is not a cocktail party.’ She is driving the piece across Canada to raise awareness of HIV treatment.

Artist raises awareness of complexity of HIV treatment

Living with HIV a hard pill to swallow is on the way in the next 10 to 20 years, and works to make the message of HIV one of hope, progress and life.

“All that research will eventually come up with some kind of resolution. I think we’re going to see a world without AIDS. I

am hopeful. And then, there will be a cocktail party.”

Anyone interested in supporting the journey can donate through the Vancouver Island Per-sons Living with HIV/AIDS Society at vpwas.com. [email protected]

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Gorge ‘holding the torch’ in cup soccerTravis PatersonNews staff

High schooler Olivia Cass scored the winning goal as Gorge FC defeated the Magnuson Mariners 1-0 in extra time at Hampton Park on Sunday.

The semifinal win advances Gorge into the B Cup women’s provincial soccer final May 11 at Royal Athletic Park.

“We could have pressed on the ball bet-ter but last week we beat (North Shore) in penalty kicks, so it’s nice not to have to go to PKs – you never like doing that,” said Gorge coach Rick Zaharia.

Cayley Zaharia helped set up the Cass goal about eight minutes into overtime.

“It would have been nice to get the results in regulation but they had some good players, they had some speed in the middle and we have to credit them.”

It’s the fourth time in five years this Gorge team, with Rick Zaharia coaching, has qualified for provincials.

It’s the first time they’ve made the final. And what a year to do it, as the provincial A, B and Masters/Classics (over-35) and under-21 Cup finals are all at Royal Athletic Park on May 11.

Win or lose in the B.C. final, Gorge is on its way to the premier division of the Lower Island Women’s Soccer Association next year. The team won 12 and drew once in 15 games to win the Div. 1 table and earn a promotion.

Cass, a Grade 12 student at Spec-trum Community school, is the young-est, though there are four more under-18 Gorge products on the squad this year. The youth is countered with a trio of clas-sics eligible players (over-35), and a core of 22 year olds. In A Cup play on Sun-day the Castaways FC fell to Surrey United while Prospect Lake fell at home to North Shore.

“I guess we’re holding the torch (for local clubs) at provincials,” Zaharia said.

Gorge’s classics team will also appear in the final with a bye as the region’s only classics team.

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SPORTSGorge FC into B Cup provincial final

Photo by Dave Mann

Gorge FC’s Jesse Johnston-Hill, left, clears a corner kick with teammates Tegan Lang, goalkeeper Kailee Mann, Joni Phillips and Olivia Cass, on the ground, during Gorge’s 1-0 win over the Magnuson Mariners at Hampton Park on Sunday.

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Marlene Donaldson of the Velox Valkyries fights through Simon Fraser University tacklers in the Adidas Women’s Premiership playoff semifinal held at Velox field on Saturday. The Valkyries won 41-5.

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Travis PatersonNews staff

The Velox Valkyries are headed to the Harris Cup pro-vincial women’s rugby cham-pionship final for the third straight year.

The Valkyries defeated SFU 41-5 in the Adidas Women’s Premiership semifinal at Velox on Saturday. Burnaby Lake ousted United Rugby Club in the other semifinal, 13-5.

It sets up a rematch of last year’s Harris Cup final won by the Valkyries.

“We’re happy because we’re in the finals,” said first year coach Oliver Scott. “But it’s a bit frustrating to prepare for a bigger challenge without a more competitive opponent (in the semifinal).”

Seven different Valkyries scored tries Saturday: Brit-tany Sims, Davine Burton, Kelsey Oetting, Lynzi Ander-son, Courtney Sims, Frede-rique Rajoute and Monique Boag, who also converted three of the tries.

Just as there is disparity in the quality of competition there is also disparity within the Valkyries squad. After the Valkyries won the Har-ris Cup there was an exodus of players. About half of last year’s starting premier play-ers returned. Several times this season the team has run training with less than 15 players, far short of the desired 22 players on a game-day roster. This comes after the women’s program easily outnumbered the men during

training nights at Velox the past three years.

Former national team prop and longtime Valkyrie Mar-lene Donaldson leads the for-wards, which is the strength of the squad.

“There’s been some frustra-tions but we also have a good core and everyone’s pulled up their socks,” Scott said.

Burnaby thrashed the Valkyries 76-22 in the regu-lar season. Velox’s top men’s side won the Cowichan Cup Div. 1 Island championship on Saturday, 46-20 over the Nanaimo Hornets.

Velox is hosting an open house and community address Sunday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 3957 Gordon Head Rd.

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Gorge ‘holding the torch’ in cup soccerTravis PatersonNews staff

High schooler Olivia Cass scored the winning goal as Gorge FC defeated the Magnuson Mariners 1-0 in extra time at Hampton Park on Sunday.

The semifinal win advances Gorge into the B Cup women’s provincial soccer final May 11 at Royal Athletic Park.

“We could have pressed on the ball bet-ter but last week we beat (North Shore) in penalty kicks, so it’s nice not to have to go to PKs – you never like doing that,” said Gorge coach Rick Zaharia.

Cayley Zaharia helped set up the Cass goal about eight minutes into overtime.

“It would have been nice to get the results in regulation but they had some good players, they had some speed in the middle and we have to credit them.”

It’s the fourth time in five years this Gorge team, with Rick Zaharia coaching, has qualified for provincials.

It’s the first time they’ve made the final. And what a year to do it, as the provincial A, B and Masters/Classics (over-35) and under-21 Cup finals are all at Royal Athletic Park on May 11.

Win or lose in the B.C. final, Gorge is on its way to the premier division of the Lower Island Women’s Soccer Association next year. The team won 12 and drew once in 15 games to win the Div. 1 table and earn a promotion.

Cass, a Grade 12 student at Spec-trum Community school, is the young-est, though there are four more under-18 Gorge products on the squad this year. The youth is countered with a trio of clas-sics eligible players (over-35), and a core of 22 year olds. In A Cup play on Sun-day the Castaways FC fell to Surrey United while Prospect Lake fell at home to North Shore.

“I guess we’re holding the torch (for local clubs) at provincials,” Zaharia said.

Gorge’s classics team will also appear in the final with a bye as the region’s only classics team.

[email protected]

SPORTSGorge FC into B Cup provincial final

Photo by Dave Mann

Gorge FC’s Jesse Johnston-Hill, left, clears a corner kick with teammates Tegan Lang, goalkeeper Kailee Mann, Joni Phillips and Olivia Cass, on the ground, during Gorge’s 1-0 win over the Magnuson Mariners at Hampton Park on Sunday.

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Marlene Donaldson of the Velox Valkyries fights through Simon Fraser University tacklers in the Adidas Women’s Premiership playoff semifinal held at Velox field on Saturday. The Valkyries won 41-5.

CIS Athlete of the YearGraduating UBC Thunderbirds volley-

ball player Shanice Marcelle of Saanich was crowned the top CIS women’s ath-lete on Monday. Story at Vicnews.com.

Travis PatersonNews staff

The Velox Valkyries are headed to the Harris Cup pro-vincial women’s rugby cham-pionship final for the third straight year.

The Valkyries defeated SFU 41-5 in the Adidas Women’s Premiership semifinal at Velox on Saturday. Burnaby Lake ousted United Rugby Club in the other semifinal, 13-5.

It sets up a rematch of last year’s Harris Cup final won by the Valkyries.

“We’re happy because we’re in the finals,” said first year coach Oliver Scott. “But it’s a bit frustrating to prepare for a bigger challenge without a more competitive opponent (in the semifinal).”

Seven different Valkyries scored tries Saturday: Brit-tany Sims, Davine Burton, Kelsey Oetting, Lynzi Ander-son, Courtney Sims, Frede-rique Rajoute and Monique Boag, who also converted three of the tries.

Just as there is disparity in the quality of competition there is also disparity within the Valkyries squad. After the Valkyries won the Har-ris Cup there was an exodus of players. About half of last year’s starting premier play-ers returned. Several times this season the team has run training with less than 15 players, far short of the desired 22 players on a game-day roster. This comes after the women’s program easily outnumbered the men during

training nights at Velox the past three years.

Former national team prop and longtime Valkyrie Mar-lene Donaldson leads the for-wards, which is the strength of the squad.

“There’s been some frustra-tions but we also have a good core and everyone’s pulled up their socks,” Scott said.

Burnaby thrashed the Valkyries 76-22 in the regu-lar season. Velox’s top men’s side won the Cowichan Cup Div. 1 Island championship on Saturday, 46-20 over the Nanaimo Hornets.

Velox is hosting an open house and community address Sunday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 3957 Gordon Head Rd.

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Leg lockedPacific Christian School high jumper Luke Weaver, 16, reacts as he hits the bar during the high school track and field meet at UVic’s Centennial Stadium last Wednesday (April 24). The sixth and final meet of the school season is today (May 1) at UVic including the shot put, long jump, 3,000-metre, 100m sprint and 4x100m relay, among other events. The Lower Island track championship is next Wednesday (May 8) at UVic.

The Victoria junior Sham-ocks kicked off the B.C. Junior Lacrosse Season with two wins, beating the New Westminster Salmonbellies 11-10 at Bear Mountain Arena on Saturday

and the Coquitlam Adanacs 8-6 in Coquitlam on Sunday.

Shamrocks rookie Max Fred-rickson scored a hat trick and two assists. Chris Wardle scored six points on Saturday and five

points on Sunday. Shamrocks goalie Cody Hagedorn stopped a combined 89 of 105 shots.

The Int. A Shamrocks beat the Salmonbellies 12-8 on Saturday.

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Bob Wright, Founder, President and CEO of Oak Bay Marine Group, passed away peacefully at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria British Columbia in the early evening hours of April 17th with his beloved wife Yun at his side.

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Bob followed his passion for the ocean and moved west with a dream. Some 50 years later, the “Gumboot Fisherman” leaves a legacy with operations in Canada, the U.S., and the Bahamas.

Bob was a born leader whose passion and enthusiasm were infectious. Described as a visionary, a dreamer, and a creator, Bob’s larger-than-life personality inspired all those who knew him.

He will be lovingly remembered by his wife Yun, children Randy, Robin and Ronald, his grandchildren, his OBMG family and all those who shared in his life. At Bob’s request, there will be no funeral. Information on a celebration of life will be communicated when the details have been fi nalized.

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FRENCH PROVINCIAL matching chesterfi eld and chair (green), both in very good condition. Wood and glass coffee table, wooden legs, glass top, in very good condition. Asking $250 for all 3 items. Call (250)592-0304.

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1 & 2 Bdrm suites & cabins.Perched on a cliffside withpanoramic ocean vista, over-looking The Saanich Inlet. Se-rene & secure. All amenitieson-site, fi rewood. $500-$1200inclds utils. Monthly/Weekly.Pets ok with refs. 25 min com-mute to downtown Victoria.Must have references! Call250-478-9231.

SAANICH- 55+ furnished 2 bdrm, balcony faces SwanCreek, 5 appls, in-suite W/D.$1100, utils incld 250-479-5437

SAANICH, STUDIO Apt, laun-dry, cable, heat, hydro, $675.250-748-1310, 250-380-7421.

SIDNEY 1-bdrm, top fl oor cor-ner. Balcony, prkg. N/S. $800./mo. June 1. (250)812-4154.

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SIDNEY- DELIGHTFUL Gar-den suite, furnished. Walk towork, amenities & ocean.NS/NP. $850. (250)656-9194.

SOUTH OAK Bay: Walk tobeach, 1 bdrm+ den, terrace.$1095 inclusive. Avail now toDec. Flex term. 250-595-4757

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SIDNEY 2 Bdrm upper. Hdwdfl rs, garage, laundry. Cat OK.N/S. $1300. (250)812-4154.

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COLWOOD- 2 level, 1 bdrm. 5 appls. $900. inclusive. NS/NP. 250-380-0700.

COLWOOD- BRIGHT, quiet 2 bdrm, $1100 incls utils, D/W,shared lndry, A/C, int hookup,N/S, N/P. Ref’s. 250-391-7915.

COLWOOD- REFURBISHED 2 bdrm bsmt suite, $900 incldsutils. June 1. Call 250-391-9923 after 12 noon.

DEEP COVE lrg 1 bdrm,acreage, hot tub. W/D, cat ok,N/S. $850+ util. 250-656-1312

GLANFORD. 2-BDRM, 1100 sq.ft. bright/quiet. Reno’d kitch& bdrm, 8’ closet. W/D, fullbath, storage, priv entr, 25x30yrd, near bus & amens. N/S,N/P. $980. heat, h/w, hydro/net incld. Refs. 250-704-0197.

GLEN LAKE- newly reno’d, close to bus, trails, shopping,utils incld, shared W/D. $850.N/S. Pet? (250)216-4291.

LANGFORD (Costco). Bus,shops, school. 2 Bdrm suite,fenced yard, 4 appls, waterincl’d, shared laundry, $1000mo + utils, NS/NP. Availimmed. Call (250)881-2283.

MARIGOLD AREA- 1 bdrm, shared lndry, quiet. NS/NP.$850, May 1. 250-727-6217.

SIDNEY: BRIGHT 1Bdrmgrnd level, private entry, $700incls utils. No laundry. Availnow. NS/NP. 250-655-1917

SIDNEY- (CLOSE to down-town, beach access) 1 bdrmnewly reno’d, shared W/D, lrgfenced yrd+ patio, on busroute. Pet? $850. inclusive.Call (250)514-2533.

SIDNEY: Private 1 BDRM AllINC 800.00 / no smkg/petsJan 250-516-8255

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BRENTWOOD BAY, bright 3bdrm, 2 bath. Gas F/P, D/W,own lndry, large deck & yard.NS/NP $1500. (250)589-9997.

SIDNEY LRG 2 bdrm Apt, 1.5 bath, modern open kitchen,garage, 1 blk to ocean/mainSt. Garden, sunroom/den,W/D, D/W, F/P, parking, N/S,N/P. $1365 + utils. Avail June.1st. Call Geoff 250-508-3937.

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The goal of the event, and the week itself, is to showcase the four pillars of emergency

management, which are prepa-ration, mitigation, response and recovery.

“We want to bring awareness to the importance of emergency preparedness,” said Lieut. Troy Mollin, emergency program officer with View Royal Fire Res-cue.

“We want to educate the pub-lic on things that they can do to be prepared for an emergency or mitigate some of the risks and hazards of their area.”

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View Royal fire department will also facilitate two emer-gency preparedness workshops on Wednesday, May 8 at munici-pal hall, 45 View Royal Ave. The first runs from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and the second from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

For more information or to register for workshops email [email protected] or call 250-479-7322. [email protected]

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View Royal Fire Rescue is joining forces with other munic-ipalities and organizations to raise awareness of emergency preparedness during the sixth annual Emergency Prepared-ness Week, May 5 to 12.

The week kicks off with an afternoon of displays and dem-onstrations at the Juan de Fuca seniors centre, 1767 Island Hwy. on Sunday, May 5, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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“We want to bring awareness to the importance of emergency preparedness,” said Lieut. Troy Mollin, emergency program officer with View Royal Fire Res-cue.

“We want to educate the pub-lic on things that they can do to be prepared for an emergency or mitigate some of the risks and hazards of their area.”

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activities for kids. Mollin also encourages peo-

ple keep their eyes open, as different municipalities will be hosting events throughout the week.

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Lt. Troy Mollin, officer of the emergency program at View Royal Fire Rescue, stands in front of an emergency management trailer that will be on display at the Juan de Fuca seniors centre on May 5.

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Amy Marle first joined the fight to cure MS by participating in her work’s Scotiabank MS Walk team. While she knew about multiple scle-rosis, it was by learning more through volunteering that the 22-year-old realized how much MS affects people just like her, every day.

A complex disease of the central nervous system, MS is most often diagnosed in young adults, aged 15 to 40. It is unpredictable, affecting vision, hearing, memory, balance and mobility, and there is no cure.

In many ways, MS also targets young women, who are three times more likely than men to develop the disease. That knowledge spurred on Marle’s volunteer efforts, and today she is a leader in engaging youth through a variety of MS events and fundraising.

“It’s so nice to see people of all ages coming out to the events and work-ing to support the MS Society,” Marle says, encouraged by the many young people who are contributing to the campaign efforts. “A lot of people know someone’s mom or dad who has MS, but they don’t really know what’s involved with that. I think these events are a really good way to educate people about it.”

Today Marle is helping organize MS Carnation Campaign sites and volunteers and has been integral in increasing the number of younger volunteers participating in MS Awareness events and fundraising, says Ting Rattigan, MS Awareness/Carnation Campaign co-ordinator. Marle is an organizer of a Bachelor/Bachelorette auction fundraiser at the University of Victoria and the UVic End MS Club, and is a recent MS Hero Award recipient.

The efforts of volunteers like Marle are essential to the MS Society and the MS Awareness Campaign.

No longer just a weekend, May is MS Awareness Month. The annual MS Awareness Campaign takes place

throughout May, with the goal of raising awareness of multiple sclerosis in addition to much-needed funding for research and programs right here at home for people living with MS.

The cornerstone of the campaign is the annual Mother’s Day weekend Car-nation Campaign, and as in years past, dedicated volun-teers will be at various loca-tions throughout Victoria May 10 and 11, sharing information about MS and collecting dona-tions.

To build on the campaign and spread awareness through-out the month, the MS Aware-ness Campaign is adding new events and ways to donate. Among those are events that speak particularly to younger people, Marle notes.

Highlights include two all-ages music nights at Hillside Moka House, a brand-new event featuring talented local singer-songwriters Amy Wood, performing May 4, and River, per-forming May 18.

On May 9, Marle and her team of volunteers will head out on a “Carna-tion Crawl,” visiting local pubs and restaurants to give out MS informa-tion and fresh carnations by donation to patrons. Volunteers find the event a great way to engage with individu-als in a fun, social atmosphere and to get a conversation on MS started, Rattigan explains.

Engaging with students at local schools has also generated a terrific response, Marle notes. On May 8, stu-dents at local high schools, including Mt. Douglas, Reynolds, Oak Bay and Spectrum, will “Streak for MS” – for a donation they can buy a red streak for their hair to show their support.

1 Day in May, a new addition to the campaign, encourages people to donate what they make in 1 day so that 1 day there will be no MS. For

more information, visit www.1dayinmay.ca.

Recognizing that the way people donate today is evolving thanks to developments in society and technol-ogy, the MS Society has also devel-oped new ways for people to contrib-ute to the campaign.

For example, in addition to direct donations at local shopping centres during the Carnation Campaign, people can now “Text-to-Give” throughout the month of May and donate online via a cell phone-scan-able QR code.

In addition to the donations, more volunteers are always needed, Marle says, encouraging people – especially young people – to get involved. Not only do volunteers feel good know-ing they are having a positive impact on the lives of those with MS, but the Society itself is wonderful to work with, Marle says. “They are a remark-able organization to volunteer for, and they build such good connec-tions between the staff and volun-teers.”

years past, dedicated volun-teers will be at various loca-tions throughout Victoria May 10 and 11, sharing information about MS and collecting dona-

To build on the campaign and spread awareness through-out the month, the MS Aware-ness Campaign is adding new events and ways to donate. Among those are events that The annual MS Carnation fundraising campaign kicks off this

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COMING UP:May 4 – Moka House Music Night with Amy Wood; show starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Hillside Moka House. Admission by donation.

May 8 – Students at participating schools will donate to receive red hair extensions to “Streak for MS.”

May 9 – Carnation Crawl volunteers will visit local pubs and restaurants sharing info and exchanging fresh carnations for a donation.

May 10-12 – Help end MS with Mr. Lube, as $2 from every oil change supports the MS Society.

May 10 & 11 – Look for Carnation Campaign volunteers at various locations during the weekend.

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ChickenThighs296

PARADISE ISLAND

ShreddedParmesan

426

ISLAND FARMSLOCAL

IN-STOREDEMO

FRI & SAT 2-6PM

LOCAL

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ShreddedLOCAL

BC GROWN

FRENCH’S

SqueezeMustard2/500

Leoncini Hamwith Herbs

NATURAL & ORGANIC

per lb2.12 kg 946 ml

+ depCALIFORNIA

BroccoliCrowns96¢

Asst. Asst.

COCONUT DREAM

CoconutBeverage

226

FRESH

ChickenDrumsticks

226BONELESS

ChuckSteaks396

Prices in effect Apr 30 - May 6

per lb4.98 kg

Asst.

Asst.Asst.

Asst.Asst.

LOCAL

4FRESH!

OCEAN WISE

HalibutFillets

FRESH

ChickenBreast326 per lb

7.18 kgBone-inper lb8.73 kg

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Tree Island Yogurt

250 g

354 ml

241-297 g

ISLAND FARMS

IceCream

496

170 g

113 gAsst.Flav.

Asst.500 ml

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196

170 g bag 250 ml 500 g

Asst.

142-184 g 946 ml

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SourdoughBowl

376each

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PORTOFINO

Rustic Multigrain Bread

326

329

189

33per 100 g

11per 100 g

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Seasonings, Shells & Beans

PEPPER’S OWNSpinach Salad with strawberries, goat cheese & almonds

496

OrganicPasta Sauce

2/500SIMPLY NATURAL

OrganicSalsa

196Asst.470 ml

66 g720 g 675 g

125-200 g

250 g

4 L

Coho SalmonFilletsPreviously Frozen

Skin On

126

499

per lb2.78 kg

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