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Saanich council on Monday was expected two approve two hefty contracts as part of the municipal-ity’s move next year to keep kitchen scraps out of the landfill.

The first contract, worth $3.2 mil-lion, was to be awarded to Rollins Machinery Limited to purchase 13 new collection trucks that are capa-ble of automated bin pickup.

“We held off for two budget cycles on some of the other vehicle replace-ments until we had a decision what kind of collection and what the model is,” said Mike Ippen, Saanich’s manager of public works.

The second contract, worth $4.7 million, was to be awarded to Mitch-ell Brothers Farm. This contract is for Mitchell Brothers to receive the organics, collected in new green bins that will be provided to each Saanich household, and process the material to create compost for five years.

One more request for proposals for garbage collection remains out-standing. Ippen hopes in the coming weeks Saanich will be able to begin to process to find a supplier of the curbside garbage and organics bins.

In January council approved a new garbage collection system that will require Saanich homeowners to separate food scraps from tradi-tional trash. The new collection sys-tem will also require households to wheel both bins to the curb every two weeks.

An education campaign to pre-pare residents for the new collection system, slated to begin next year, is expected to start next month.

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Power of the Velox freight train Velox’s Lynzi Anderson, supported by Monique Boag on the ground and Freddy Rajotte, tackle Burnaby Lake fullback Genevieve Gratton.Saanich-based Velox fell short of winning its second straight premier women’s championship with a 17-13 loss, this time on home soil, as the B.C. Rugby Union held three of its top finals at Wallace Field at the University of Victoria. The UVic Norsemen won the Div. 1 Ceili’s Cup 35-25 over Burnaby Lake, while James Bay capped the day with an 18-10 win over Burnaby Lake in the Rounsefell Cup premier men’s championship. Turn to sports on page A18 for more.

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The Capital Regional District has shot down a proposal to relocate the planned regional sewage treatment plant and the biosolids plant to rural farmland in Saanich.

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjar-dins brought forward a motion to consider the proposal to last

Wednesday’s CRD board meet-ing after she was approached by a landowner willing to sell property at 1947 Burnside Rd. W., near the junction with Prospect Lake Road.

The discussions happened behind closed doors, but the board determined it would release the results of the vote due to intense public interest in regional sewage treatment.

Early estimates by CRD staff determined that moving the proj-ect to the Burnside site would require two additional pumping stations and many kilometres more pipe, and would increase the cost by 23 per cent, or an extra $200 million, for a total project cost of $962.7 million. Operating costs would be an esti-mated $734,000 higher per year.

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COMMUNITYNEWSSaanich school seeks scrap metal

Cloverdale Traditional School wants your scrap metal – anything from bar-becues and lawn mowers to old car parts and bent nails – to build a new play-ground.

The scrap metal will be recycled, with all the money going towards buy-ing new playground equip-ment.

“The parents and stu-dents at CTS are working very hard to raise money to replace two aging wooden/steel playground structures that have been around for over 20 years,” said John Schmuck, presi-dent of the Quadra Cedar Hill Community Associa-tion.

Donations can be dropped off at Cloverdale’s parking lot (3427 Quadra St.) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 25.

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A former Saanich diving coach was arrested in Edmonton and has been charged with two counts sexual exploitation, after a Greater Victoria teenager came forward claiming he was victimized by his former coach.

The Edmonton police arrested 43-year-old Trevor Palmatier last Wednesday (May 8) on outstand-ing warrants from Saanich police.

“We received information back in March of this year relating to

historical sexual related allega-tions involving Mr. Palmatier, who was a dive coach,” said Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie.

“So far we’ve have two com-plainants who’ve come forward, both of whom are previous ath-letes of his.”

Palmatier faces two counts of sexual exploitation and one count of procuring.

The charges are based on state-ments from one teenage com-plainant, from alleged incidents between June 30, 2004, and June 28, 2006, while Palmatier worked

at Boardworks Diving, based out of Saanich Commonwealth Place.

According to the Edmonton police, detectives believe Palmat-ier“ developed close personal rela-tionships with his athletes while in his position as a diving coach.”

“He may have provided gifts or some sort of benefit to the youth involved to provide him with a sexual service,” Eassie said.

Palmatier appeared in Victoria court on Friday and was released on a $5,000 recognizance and strict conditions on not being in the same locations or accompany-

ing people under the age of 18.His next court appearance is

May 29.According to Palmatier’s biog-

raphy on the Edmonton Div-ing Academy website, he began Boardworks Diving in Saanich in 1996. He left coaching there in 2007. Palmatier was named Coach of the Year by Sport B.C. in 2006.

A statement from Diving Can-ada COO Penny Joyce released reads: “Clearly, this is very unset-tling news for the diving commu-nity and we understand that many members will be very upset. The

charges, which have yet to be proven in court, remind us of the paramount importance of ensur-ing the well-being of our athletes. Nothing is more important and we take very seriously the responsi-bility of their safety and protec-tion while in our care.”

Joyce confirmed Palmatier was suspended from diving-related activities in March.

Anyone with information regard-ing these allegations is encour-aged to speak with police investi-gators by calling 250-475-4321.

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Regardless of which sport you play, the conditions of the court, rink or field – good or bad – factor in to your enjoyment of the game.

So it’s no surprise the badmin-ton players at the Cordova Bay Community Club are growing tired of their aging 67-year-old building.

Purpose built by volunteer labour in 1946, the roughly 7,000-square-foot hall lacks many amenities one would expect at a modern-day recreation facility, like showers and locker rooms.

“There’s a whole bunch of defi-ciencies. They start at the foun-dation and work up from there,” said Ron Jordan, president of the CBCC. There’s no rebar in the con-crete foundation or insulation in the walls, the wooden posts and beams aren’t well-fastened, the roof will need replacing within a few years and there’s no sprinkler system in the building, he said.

“All those deficiencies meant it was going to be just as expensive to do a complete renovation than it would be to tear it down and build it again.”

Proposed for the existing Sut-cliffe Road site is an 18,000-square-foot facility, with eight badminton courts (instead of three), along with a multi-purpose area, bleach-ers, a pro shop, locker rooms and shower facilities.

Construction won’t begin until

development and rezoning appli-cations are approved by Saanich, which could still take months, and Jordan says it could take upwards of three years before the replace-ment building is complete.

As was done in 1946, CBCC plans to take advantage of as much volunteer labour as possible to keep costs down.

“We have, within our badminton community, people who are in the construction industry. With them as supervisors, we hope we will be

able to use people who aren’t pro-fessionals to build the building,” Jordan said.

“But we’re looking at putting up the shell (of the building) for $600,000, and another $300,000 to $500,000 to finish it.”

Ideally, CBCC hopes to acquire a $500,000 interest-free loan from the municipality, and then finance the rest through private mortgages.

Before Commonwealth Place and Gordon Head rec centres were built, CBCC was well-used by com-

munity groups of all sorts.But the last few decades have

turned the Community Club into a little-known facility, frequented by a smaller, but diehard group of badminton players.

“If we didn’t have badminton and the use of badminton, the building would be in total disre-pair,” Jordan said.

For more information on the CBCC, visit cordovabaycommuni-tyclub.ca.

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After 67 years, rec centre eyes updateLow-key badminton building in Cordova Bay showing its age

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Ron Jordan, president of the Cordova Bay Community Club, stands in the gymnasium of the 67-year-old building. A number of deficiencies with the building – primarily used for badminton these days – has led the club to decide to replace it with a new, larger facility, with eight badminton courts.

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A First Nations artist is busy creat-ing yet another unique carving for the University of Victoria.

Master carver Charles Elliott from the Tsartlip First Nation is currently working 12 and 14-hour days prepar-ing a piece of hollowed cedar that will stand as a podium for the Con-gress of the Humanities and Social Sciences being hosted by the Uni-versity of Victoria from June 1 to 8.

The podium piece features images of the creator, herons and hopefully ravens, Elliott said.

“I’m really hoping I can work in a couple of ravens on this piece because in our culture, the raven is the messenger. It would be symbolic

on the podium because as someone stands at a podium they are deliver-ing a message.”

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, known as Con-gress, is in its 82nd year and is Can-ada’s largest gathering of scholars across disciplines, and attracts more than 6,000 participants every year.

UVic last hosted Congress in 1990, when Elliott carved a totem pole for the event.

“I also carved the entrance poles to First People’s house on campus as well, so I have a few pieces at the university,” he said.

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The Victoria Police Department is warning of a man posing as a taxi driver who picks up women and gropes them.

VicPD has received 10 similar com-plaints dating back several years, but investigators don’t have a solid enough description of the suspect or his vehicle to release more information at this time.

“Right now we’re just asking for any-one who may see this to call us,” said Const. Mike Russell.

Women are being targeted by the man in the early hours of the morning, usu-ally when they are intoxicated, Russell said.

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The installation of a stop sign doesn’t often draw civic leaders, but Broadmead Vil-lage put Saanich’s mayor to work last Thursday as it marked a major milestone in the renovation of the shop-ping centre.

Mayor Frank Leonard helped install and bolt in the stop sign at the Chatterton Way entrance to Broadmead Village, officially transforming the road from a one-way exit to two-way traffic access.

The roadwork is part of a $6-million renovation that is modernizing building facades across more than 45 retail units, adding floorspace and giving a facelift to the cen-trepiece pedestrian breeze-way.

The Chatterton Way entrance, at least once patrons realize it’s there, should help ease traffic jams at the awkward Royal Oak Drive entrance and its accom-panying four-way-stop.

“When you come in (off Royal Oak Drive) it is conges-tion galore. Now people can enter and exit (through Chat-terton Way). It’s great, easy access and solves some con-gestion problems,” said Jim Griffith, past president of the Broadmead Area Residents Association, the organiza-tion which first suggested the change to the owners of Broadmead Village.

“This is a suggestion we made and they completed it. It’s just great they got the community involved.”

Shops at Broadmead remain open for business,

but much of the plaza is a construction zone as crews install new facades and side-walks. Alison Miles Cork, the senior asset manager for Grosvenor Americas, owner of Broadmead Village, expects the pedestrian breezeway to open by July and the entire renovation to be completed by the fall.

“It’s never fun doing renos, but we’re starting to see what we’ll get in the end,” Miles Cork said.

In an era of renovations at shopping hubs like Hill-side Centre, the creation of Uptown and additions at Westshore Town Centre, Broadmead needed to update its weathered 20-year-old look to attract and retain quality retailers.

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“We might have two small vacancies (after renovations). It is all forward-leased,” she said. “If its not 100 per cent (leased) it’ll be 98 per cent.”

The next major milestone will be finishing the breeze-way component, which will provide plenty of outdoor seating, and is what the devel-oper coins a “community hub.”

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Another election campaign has come and gone, with the rit-ual posturing of political par-

ties and most news media search-ing for anything they can portray as a conflict.

Now comes the time to wonder why not enough people cared, or informed themselves about the real problems of running this $40 billion corporation called the B.C. govern-ment.

Why would they, when the whole thing is pre-sented as a combination of beauty contest and sports event, with endless discussion of polls and “attack ads” and who’s ahead and what’s the score?

Again we have seen the truth of former prime minister Kim Camp-bell’s observation that elections are no time to talk about serious issues. Indeed, there are some things you can’t speak of at all.

Peace River North MLA Pat Pimm caused a stir at a candidates’ debate when he referred to con-stituents’ concerns that disabled children can cause difficulties in classrooms.

He didn’t say classrooms should be segregated, although that’s a discussion worth having. He didn’t deny the need for more support for special needs kids. But his oppo-nents immediately portrayed it that way, and media seized on the con-

flict without letting the facts get in the way.

West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan had a similar experi-

ence when he referred to his study of poverty in that affluent area. He noted that there was a high correlation between single parenthood and kids in poverty. Pick-ing on single mums, his detractors exclaimed, and that’s what got reported.

The B.C. Conservatives kicked their Boundary-Similkameen candidate out of the party because he wrote an article say-

ing women shouldn’t choose to be single mothers.

You can talk about child poverty, as long as you only discuss it based on federal statistics that don’t mea-sure poverty. Christy Clark started doing this as soon as she became B.C. Liberal leader, one of several issues where she dispensed with the facts and tried to copy a popu-lar NDP stance instead.

She was all about families, which can of course be single people, sin-gle parents or pretty well anything you want them to be.

In fact the decline of the tradi-tional family and the abdication of responsibility by many parents, fathers in particular, are central factors in the problem of poor chil-dren. But you can’t talk about that,

at least not during elections.Whole areas of political discus-

sion have devolved into euphe-misms that are chosen because they can’t be defined. Everybody’s in favour of “affordable housing.” What they won’t admit is that this is code for subsidized housing, because then they would have to talk about how much the subsidy is, and who has to pay for it.

Good grief, that might raise the question of whether the state should be taking money away from some people and giving it to others so they can live where they other-wise couldn’t afford to live.

We even have rules preventing the media from reporting polls on election day. People might be influenced by this, you see. If you tell them Party X is far ahead, they might stay home and mow the lawn instead. If you tell them someone is making a comeback, they might change their vote because they want to be on the winning side, or the one that has “momentum.” Just like any other sport.

The news media are steadily los-ing influence with the public. There are many factors involved, includ-ing the vast array of information sources that are available at most people’s fingertips.

Another factor is treating the pub-lic like they’re idiots.

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Don’t pass the sewage buckThe regional sewage treatment project has

no shortage of critics. Citizen opposition groups in Greater Victoria decry that

the venture is a colossal waste of money, and residents and politicians in Esquimalt don’t want treatment plants in their backyard.

Trying to shoehorn a large piece of sewage treatment infrastructure into an urban area is guaranteed to anger and disrupt the lives of some residents and businesses, which is rightly a concern of Esquimalt council.

But the latest desperate offering by Esquimalt’s mayor to have the Capital Regional District consider relocating the entire project to rural farmland in Saanich is woefully self-serving and would only accomplish passing the buck to a different municipality.

The landowner has a right to offer the land for sale and the CRD board can give it a look, but to push this as a viable location for sewage and sludge treatment plants gives only false hope to those Esquimalt residents potentially impacted by the project.

It also comes years after painstaking and costly studies were undertaken to decide on where to locate sewage treatment infrastructure.

The CRD rejected the proposal – the Burnside Road West location is provincially protected agricultural land reserve and the move would add some $200 million to an already expensive $783 million project.

On the upside, the property offered is 16 hectares and would allow a single location for regional sewage treatment, and is far from homes. But the considerable downside is pumping sewage from the Macaulay and Clover Point outfalls about 13 kilometres across the city for treatment on the farmland, and then back to an outfall.

That’s almost as bad as the proposal to pump (or truck) biosolids 18 kilometres to Hartland landfill for energy extraction.

Building a treatment plant at an industrial site at McLoughlin Point and potentially at the warehouse complex on Viewfield Road, in the middle of residential Esquimalt, is probably the best of a hard situation, given the geography of Greater Victoria and available land in the city.

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Given the risks to B.C. and the planet from developing the tar sands and moving diluted bitu-men, and given that any review of the Kinder Morgan proposal would identify such risks, opposition to the proposal, early on, seems reason-able.

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Many reasons to avoid sewage treatment

Re: Enough reasons exist not to build sewage plant (Letters, April 26)

In his letter Ted Dew-Jones listed seven reasons that discredit the idea that Victoria needs a land-based sewage treatment plant.

I not only agree with him whole-heartedly but I think he could have added a few more things that should negate the whole bizarre idea of this project. Some additional things that everyone doesn’t even think about are:

•Are we going to build a billion dollar sewage treatment system to treat all the things that are cur-rently going down our sewer pipe? Not water or water soluble items.

•The proposed sewage treat-ment plant will only eliminate solid waste. All liquid waste and water soluble products will continue to be pumped directly into the ocean.

Many of the items that we think should be excluded from going into the ocean will in fact still go there. All of the water and water soluble products will continue to be sent directly to the ocean as it is now.

•A vast portion of the solid waste that they are planning to remove from our sewers is in fact edible green garbage which we put into our garburator systems and is perfectly edible for the sea life.

How much of the “solid waste” would not have to be treated if all municipalities instigated a green waste collection program? Do we have to spend over a billion dollars to do this?

• New programs should be set up to help us to return the “sewage sys-tem” back to what it was originally intended to be used for.

• Programs should be set up to explain to us how to eliminate some of these things that many of us put into our sewers.

• Unused pills and medical items should be easier to return to any pharmacy, not just the one where you bought them.

• Just because latex paint is water soluble doesn’t mean you should wash your paint tools into the sew-age system.

• If the label has come off the paint container it’s not accept it at the recycle depots. Should we have to put everything in one can with a label or throw it into our garbage?

• Who needs pink toilet paper? Don’t use bleached or coloured paper. Use unbleached paper, it does the same job and is cheaper to

manufacture. It keeps it out of our sewers.

Johannes KarpesVictoria

Bus lanes wouldn’t cut down travel time

Re: Bus only lanes on Douglas Street

Four minutes. This being the time advantage

gained for the proposed expenditure of $600,000 to designate two lanes on Douglas Street as bus-only during rush hour.

This is so slight as to be meaning-less, particularly when considered against expense.

Vancouver adopted a similar designated bus-only lane program in 2007 at an expense of $207,000, despite an earlier study (2004) warn-ing that this was unlikely to produce relevant results. As predicted, the passengers didn’t reach their destination any faster after the money was spent.

Officials said most cars using the curb lane were turning anyway, so only caused minor delays.

Perhaps it’s time to consider a larger view.

Rather than continuing to take away traffic lanes on major roads in order to construct gardens why not consider that Greater Victoria will benefit from having proper traf-fic corridors that can accommodate the volume of traffic?

Traffic that is moving wastes far less fuel, and greatly reduces emis-sions.

With traffic flowing properly on major routes there will be less incli-nation for motorists to seek short-cuts through residential neighbour-hoods, with obvious benefits. With traffic flowing properly, buses will make good time without resorting to the unnecessary expense of infra-structure changes.

The counter argument will run that building new roads is contrary to the green ethic.

I agree absolutely. But by the same measure taking away existing routes causes longer delays with predictable consequences.

Stuart EastwoodColwood

Status quo on deer problem intolerable

I recently saw another deer injured and either maimed for the rest of its life or condemned to a slow lingering death.

When will our elected local government exercise its responsibility and deal with the issue of too many urban deer?

Their response has turned out to be no response at all. The decision to turn the matter over to a committee was a pure abdication of responsibility because a small but very vocal minority run the issue.

As a result, the problem is still with us and growing worse. I like to see the occasional deer, but there is simply too many in an urban setting.

I for one am unhappy. The status quo is being ignored by the deer and as a result more and more of these encounters will occur with the

poor deer almost always being the loser.Ed Walker

Oak Bay

Homeowners can coexist with urban deer

Re: Local governments let deer run rampant (Letters, May 8)

Enough is enough. We are appalled at some Oak Bay residents’ refusal to consider a simple and sensible solution to their problem: If you don’t want to share the land with us, you move to your downtown core.

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Live and let live or just go away. John Deer, on behalf of his herd.

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Solar Colwood is looking to expand both its borders and its deadline in the hopes of moving more prod-uct.

If proposed changes are passed by Colwood and Natural Resources Canada, the primary source of funding for Solar Colwood, grants for the solar hot water heaters would be avail-able to all homeowners in the Capital Regional District.

Uptake for the solar hot water heater grants has been slow in Col-wood. Only 34 grants out of an available 880 have been used. On a per capita basis, the success is greater than that of Solar B.C. or any other community in Canada, organizers say, but still well below targets.

“We always knew (targets) were high,” Coun. Judith Cullington said. “This is the area where we’re clearly falling below targets and so how do we do a better job of putting our solar installers to work?”

Solar Colwood has been ongoing since June 2011. The city has spent a total of $8,366 so far, with fur-ther in-kind time from staff valued at $41,002. Cullington said the changes would come at no further cost to the city.

If approved by Col-wood council, the

changes will then have go to Natural Resources Canada for its approval.

Some initial conversations have shown that NRCan is willing to look at the idea, but it requires a formal proposal before it can go ahead.

Cullington has hopes the changes will come into effect this summer.

Although it would join the project as a partner, the CRD can approve its contribution at the staff level, said Cullington, and the changes won’t have to come before its direc-tors for a vote. CRD staff will be pro-viding in-kind time.

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The sights and sounds of Mexican tradition are coming to Victoria for the fifth annual Mariachi Festival on May 17 at the Alix Goolden Performance Hall.

Up to 36 performers from Mexico, Texas and Vancouver will showcase the centuries-old traditional Mexican music, with a sneak peek performance at the Inner Harbour on Friday morning.

“It’s a very unique family festival, very rich in music and history, and it brings a little bit of education about what we have in Mexico,” said director/producer Alex Alegria, who heads his own mariachi band, Los Dorados (the Golden Boys) in Vancouver.

Professional mariachi group Cocula promise to get the audience moving

when they take the stage dressed as charros (otherwise known as “Mexican cowboys”) complete with sombreros, flashy belts and colourful suits.

Cocula hails from what is believed to be the birthplace of mariachi in Jalisco, Mexico. While its origins date back to the 16th century, the modern mariachi of trumpets, strings and guitar only developed in the late 1920s, Alegria said.

“Back in the day, we didn’t have trumpets, instead there were drums and a little flute, the chimirilla. That instrument is almost like a flute but with a much different sound,” he said.

Texas-based Los Arrieros is also adding their world-class musical expertise to the festival in Victoria, as well as stops in Vancouver and Nanaimo.

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The Mariachi Festival begins May 15 in Vancouver, where Alegria has arranged to screen a 1941, a period when mariachi was at its height of North American success, Mexican film at VanCity theatre.

“We also wrote a specific

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The sights and sounds of Mexican tradition are coming to Victoria for the fifth annual Mariachi Festival on May 17 at the Alix Goolden Performance Hall.

Up to 36 performers from Mexico, Texas and Vancouver will showcase the centuries-old traditional Mexican music, with a sneak peek performance at the Inner Harbour on Friday morning.

“It’s a very unique family festival, very rich in music and history, and it brings a little bit of education about what we have in Mexico,” said director/producer Alex Alegria, who heads his own mariachi band, Los Dorados (the Golden Boys) in Vancouver.

Professional mariachi group Cocula promise to get the audience moving

when they take the stage dressed as charros (otherwise known as “Mexican cowboys”) complete with sombreros, flashy belts and colourful suits.

Cocula hails from what is believed to be the birthplace of mariachi in Jalisco, Mexico. While its origins date back to the 16th century, the modern mariachi of trumpets, strings and guitar only developed in the late 1920s, Alegria said.

“Back in the day, we didn’t have trumpets, instead there were drums and a little flute, the chimirilla. That instrument is almost like a flute but with a much different sound,” he said.

Texas-based Los Arrieros is also adding their world-class musical expertise to the festival in Victoria, as well as stops in Vancouver and Nanaimo.

“Los Arrieros is one of the best mariachi bands in the United States,” Alegria

said.Alegria and his fellow

bands will perform a

special preview concert at Victoria’s Inner Harbour at 11 a.m. across from the Fairmont Empress Hotel.

The free event will provide onlookers with a taste of what they’ll be inclined to witness later that evening at Alix Goolden Performance Hall.

The Mariachi Festival begins May 15 in Vancouver, where Alegria has arranged to screen a 1941, a period when mariachi was at its height of North American success, Mexican film at VanCity theatre.

“We also wrote a specific

song for the Canadian festival we’ll be playing for the first time in Victoria. It talks about all the mariachis coming out of the conflict of the Mexican

revolution and coming to Canada,” he said.

For more information, go to mariachifestival.ca or buy tickets, (adults $38.50, senior $33.50, student $33.50, children $28.50) for the Victoria performance through the

Royal McPherson Box Office at 250-386-6121 or at rmts.bc.ca.

[email protected]

THE ARTS James Joyce’s Ulysses is one of the most influential novels of all time. A new exhibit, co-curated by department of English graduate students, examines its relevance to longer developments in history, culture, art, media, politics and economics. May 21 to Aug. 12, Malt-wood Prints and Drawings Gallery at the McPherson Library, UVic.

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Celebrate the sounds of Mexico

Submitted photo

The Mariachi Festival brings a taste of authentic Mexican history to the Alix Goolden Hall on May 17.

The music of Mexico comes to the Inner Harbour in a free preview of the Mariachi Festival

“It’s a very unique family festival, very rich in music and history, and it brings a little bit of education about what we have in Mexico.”

- Alex Alegria

Well-known Sidney-based artist Nancy Rotolo presents a one-woman show at the Community Arts Centre in Sidney from May 21 to 25.

The show features Rotolo’s colourful new work in oils and acrylics, highlighting her unique interpretation of colour and light across diverse subject matter.

“Nancy’s work is wonderful,” said Kathy Hargreaves, a fan of Rotolo’s work. “It never fails to amaze me how Nancy captures the essence of her subject, whether she is painting a seascape, forest, flower, or animal. Her level of skill is remarkable.”

Rotolo started sketching and painting as a young child. She attended the Art Students League in New

York after high school. Prior to moving to

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Rotolo’s paintings are rich in colour and texture demonstrating a high level of craftsmanship. Her artwork reflects her deep love of nature, a powerful understanding of animals, and a great wonder about the world. Her award-winning paintings are in private collections across North America and Europe.

Rotolo’s new works will be on display at the Community Arts Centre, 9565 Fifth St., Sidney, in Tulista Park.

The centre is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Admission is free.

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‘Lion’ is among Nancy Rotolo’s new works that will be on display at the Community Arts Centre in Sidney this month.

After 17 years, Victoria’s Uno Fest is now North America’s longest-running festival of solo performance.

Following last year’s successful festival, which featured Hawksley Workman’s The God That Comes, this year marks the 300th show at Uno Fest.

The 10-day curated festival features some of the best solo performers from across North America, including Fringe favorites Jayson McDonald, Tara Travis and John Grady, alongside national successes Itai Erdal’s How to Disappear Completely, Evalyn Parry’s Spin, Cliff Cardinal’s Huff, Johanna Nutter’s My Pregnant Brother and Brian Fidler’s Broken.

The festival is also presenting the entertaining, raunchy and always controversial (and former Uno Fest performer) Mike Daisey in his return to Victoria with American Utopias at the Metro Studio May 16 and 17 as a special pre-Uno Fest event. In American Utopias Daisey explores how we create public spaces where we act out our dreams of a better world.

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What would your child’s ideal summer camp experi-ence look like?

Whether you’re looking for a day camp to engage and entertain the kids dur-ing the week or an away camp at one of Vancouver Island’s lake-front getaways, families have many options to choose from.

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Belmont wins first Ryan Cup city trophy

Having dropped last year’s Ryan Cup final, the Lambrick Park Lions came out determined to win it Thursday afternoon (May 9) at UVic.

Emily Aspden and Emma Entzminger scored to put Lambrick ahead 2-0.

But the Belmont Bull-dogs, in its first Ryan Cup high school girls city soccer final, came back to win 3-2 on goals from Kate Payter, Kristen Livingstone and Marisa Livingstone.

Barbs draw Rams in city rugby final

The Mount Douglas Rams are back in the rugby mix. The historic rugby pro-gram took a break recently as the province’s top foot-ball program took over as the school’s premier con-tact sport and won back-to-back B.C. champion-shps.

But rugby is at the core of the Saanich school’s his-tory and not only are the Rams back, they’re in the city’s AAA final.

The Rams challenge for the Howard Russell cup against the perennial pow-erhouse Oak Bay Barbar-ians, 3:15 p.m. at Oak Bay High on Thursday.

The Esquimalt Dockers faced the Glenlyon Norfolk Gryphons on Monday for

the right to challenge St. Michaels University School in the Colonel Hodgson Cup AA city final. Results were past press time.

That final follows the Howard Russell at Oak Bay.

Highlanders win in PCSL return

The Peninsula Coop Highlanders defeated the Kamloops Heat 4-1 at Tyndall Park on Sunday afternoon, the Highlanders’ debut return to the Pacific Coast Soccer League.

Jaclyn Sawicki and Katie Kraeutner both scored before the 15-minute mark. Jackie Harrison added to the lead, then came a suc-cessful penalty shot by Liz Hansen.

All four Highlanders goals came in the first half.

“We made a lot of changes in the second half, we were checking out some of the players and we had two youth players play-ing at the end there,” said coach Dave Dew.

Jr. Shamrocks split mainland road trip

The Victoria junior Sham-rocks split the weekend’s games with an 11-8 loss to the Langley Thunder at home on Saturday, fol-lowed by an 11-9 road win over the Delta Islanders on Sunday.

The Rocks are now 3-1, tied for second place in the B.C. Junior Lacrosse League standings.

The Rocks host the Coquitlam Adanacs at Bear Mountain Arena at 5 p.m. Saturday (May 18).

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Velox Valkyries captain Brittany Sims appreciates the pass from Burnaby Lake player Kim Donaldson as she’s crushed by Valkyries tackler Lynzi Anderson during Saturday’s provincial rugby final at Wallace Field.

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The veteran forward pack of the James Bay Athletic Association commanded its way to an 18-10 victory over Burnaby Lake in the Canadian Direct Insurance Premier League Rounsefell Cup Final on Saturday, one of three provincial rugby finals at UVic’s Wallace Field.

“We knew our forward pack would need to match their’s, at least,” said James Bay captain Spencer Dalziel.

The Bays rarely gave up the ball and took their time grinding the game down. Peter Gillespie scored JBAA’s first try to make it 5-5 at the half.

Oak Bay High grad Sean White scored a pen-alty goal to start the second half.

Mitch Bancroft and Jim de Goede scored two more tries off an impressive series of rucks by the JBAA forwards for an 18-5 lead.

“They outplayed us,” said Burnaby Lake cap-tain Mike Gough.

It’s the 24th provincial title for the Bays, which also won the Island championship last month.

Velox slip in Harris Cup finalBurnaby Lake rode a dominant first half to

edge the Velox Valkyries 17-13 for the Gordon Harris Memorial Cup, emblematic of the 2013 B.C. Rugby Adidas Women’s Premiership cham-pionship.

Burnaby roared to a 14-3 lead in the first half

with Velox’s Monique Boag knotting the only score on a penalty goal.

The second half saw a reverse in momentum with Velox winning the rucks they weren't win-ning in the first half. It led to two tries, one from captain Brittany Sims and the other fullback Selina McGinnis, 14-13.

But Burnaby managed to find just enough in the late going to hold on, with Julia Sugawara converting a penalty goal.

High school rivals joined on UVicThe UVic Norsemen defeated Burnaby Lake

Rugby 35-15 in the second of the day's trilogy of championships, the men’s First Division Ceili’s Cup final.

Late tries by Luke McCluskey and Kapi Vataiki sealed it for UVic, which stayed true to the Div. 1 theme and trotted out first-year rookies. Granted, some of those rookies are very much on the radar of the national team program.

The scored finished 15-10 at half for Burnaby. UVic kept in it thanks to the fine kicking of local product Fergus Hall, a Glenlyon Norfolk School grad. Centre Dustin Dobravsky and winger Keenan Horton scored second-half tries for UVic, while Hall kicked 15 points.

The win was a club effort, said UVic flanker Jeff Nishima-Miller, a recent grad of St. Michaels University School in Saanich and former rival of Hall's in school play.

“We had so many injuries all year,” he said.

“We had to call guys up from the thirds all the time. We learned to play with heart.”

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James Bay make it 24

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Belmont’s Kristen Livingstone, left, battles for the ball with Lambrick Park’s Emily Aspden during the Ryan Cup final at UVic. Belmont won 3-2.

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CorrectionB.C. Weightlifting champion Isa-

iah Brasset’s result was incorrectly reported in the May 10 issue of the News. Brasset, a Grade 8 student at Royal Oak middle school, lifted 64 kilograms in the clean and jerk event, and 44 kgs in the snatch event to win gold in the 56 -kilo-grams class.

Nolan Mitchell, a Grade 10 stu-

dent at Claremont secondary, won silver.

Congratulations to Brasset and Mitchell. The News regrets the error.

Travis PatersonNews staff

Gorge FC’s soon-to-be premier women’s team came within a goal of winning the provincial soccer Leeta Sokalski Cup B Cup title on Saturday only to fall 2-1 to the Burnaby Selects.

It was one of six provincial soccer finals held at Westhills and Goudy fields in Langford. The only other local squad representing was also a Gorge FC women’s team, which fell 3-0 in the Women’s Classics to the Coastal FC Supra.

It was the B Cup that Gorge nearly won, however.

Tied 1-1 and about 15 minutes into the second half, the B Cup final looked to turn in Gorge’s favour when Burnaby took a red card and went down to 10 players.

But before Gorge could take advan-tage, Burnaby struck on a miscue to take a 2-1 lead.

From there on it was all Gorge.

“(Burnaby) hung on for dear life. We were the better team for the last 30 minutes and weren’t missing by much,” Gorge coach Rick Zaharia said.

“It was very exciting to watch, we created so many opportunities, we just didn’t finish them.”

The former coach of the Victoria Highlanders women’s reserves team will return to guide the Gorge team in 2013-14 as it is promoted to the premier division of the Lower Island Women’s Soccer Association from Div. 1.

Tryouts are in early August.Zaharia expects the Gorge team

will gain interest from premier level players.

“We’ll want to take some on to be competitive but we also want to have a balance with the players that got the team into this tier,” he said.

Tegan Lang scored Gorge’s goal on Saturday.

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Dave Mann photo

Gorge’s Janet Bisson, centre, narrowly misses scoring on a header against Burnaby Selects in the provincial B Cup final at Westhills Stadium on Saturday. Burnaby won 2-1.

Gorge’s next premier team burned in finals

Weightlifting coach Jeane Lassen with Isaiah Brasset and Nolan Mitchell.

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MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

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

WANTED. PLANTER pots for tomatoes, etc. Plastic is fi ne, larger size. For no charge, please. (250)380-8733.

TOOLS

FULL SET of drywall tools+ extras, texture machine, open to offers. (250)478-8921.

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COLLEGE HEIGHTS. 3-level, 4bdrm +1bdrm suite. Beautiful Ocean & City views. 0% Down! Easy to buy. Call (250)753-0160 for more info.

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COLLEGE HEIGHTS. Beauti-ful Ocean & City views. 4bdrms + 2bdrm suite. Easy to buy. 0% down. (250)753-0160 for more info.

GARDENER’S PARADISE1 acre. 4-bdrm character

home, 1800 sq.ft. Wired shop, Shed. 1720 Swartz Bay Rd., $555,000. (250)656-1056.

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FOR SALE BY OWNER

COZY COTTAGE on 2.14 acres a stone’s throw from the ocean. This 800sqft, 2 bed-room home was completely renovated in 2007 with new electric, plumbing, bathroom, kitchen, roof, etc. It is close to schools, a corner store, and neighbourhood pub and is only 5 kms to downtown Courte-nay. The property is zoned for 2 dwellings so you could live in the cottage while building your dream home and after rent out the cottage for extra revenue. Gardener’s paradise with sev-eral heritage fruit trees, ber-ries, grape vines and beautiful roses. The Royston area re-ceived a grant this year to put in sewer. (778)428-1159.

FOR SALE by Owner Town-house $389,500. MLS #320099. 20-1950 Cultra Ave, Saanichton. For viewing call 250-818-7038 or 250-544-0718 for more information.

GORDON HEAD- (4062 Felt-ham Pl) 3 bdrm Rancher, w/appls, F/P, garage. Close to Uvic, Shelbourne. $519,000. Move-in now, Motivated seller. MLS #321255. 250-514-3286.

MUST SEE: 3 Bdrm, 1 1/2 Bath, sep. offi ce with private entry nestled in Qualicum Woods. Just 5 mins to Village, beach, forest & 2 golf courses. Low maint. gardens, fenced backyard, offers privacy & peaceful surrounding. Lots of updates & reno’s, infra-red sauna in garage. $349,000.00 If interested call:250-594-5654

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HOUSES FOR SALE

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Wetherby ApartmentsFor Seniors - 55+ 3205 Wetherby RoadSeniors only please - 55+.Bachelor - $7251 bdrm - $9152 bdrm - $1100This seniors only building has on site laundry, outdoor and covered parking, Shop-ping at Hillside Mall is just steps away. Pets welcome with some restrictions.

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COTTAGES

DEEP COVE- cozy 1bdrm,wood fl oors, acreage, skylights$895/mo, N/S. 250-656-1312.

HOMES FOR RENT

LANGFORD. 3-BDRM + den. 2 bath, double car garage,huge deck, quiet street, 5 minsto all amens. N/S. $1900 mo +utils. (Immed). 250-686-4445.

SUITES, LOWER

BRENTWOOD BAY- 1 bdrm grd level suite, priv entrance,NS/NP. D/W, W/D. $800+utils. Call (250)652-1725.

COLWOOD- 2 lvl, furnished 1 bdrm, 5 appls. $800 inclu-sive, NS/NP. 250-380-0700

COLWOOD- BRIGHT, quiet 2 bdrm, $1000 incls utils, D/W,shared lndry, A/C, int hookup,N/S, N/P. Ref’s. 250-391-7915.

GORDON HEAD: 1 bdrm, NS/NP. $650 incld’s cable,prkng. June 1. (250)472-8381

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.

SAANICHTON: LRG reno’d,1or2 bdrm, 5 appls, N/S, pet?$1300 utils incl. 250-652-5003

SIDNEY: 2 bdrm, lrg back-yard, gardens. 12x12 insulatedshed. N/S. $1100+ utils. Avail.June 15th. Call 250-888-5972.

SIDNEY, Greenglade area. Avail. now! Bright, newly re-no’d 2 bdrm, W/D, storage,parking. NS/NP. 1 yr lease.$900. + utils. (778)426-4556.

SOOKE 1 br + offi ce, large quality walk-in + private stor-age, laundry rm, F/P, all in-cluded, sm pet, quiet N/S, refs,$835. Phone 250- 589-5337

UPTOWN: 3 bdrms, newly re-no’d, 4 appls, bus route,NS/NP. $1600 utils included,own laundry. 250-480-0849.

SUITES, UPPER

BRENTWOOD BAY, 3 bdrm, 2 bath. Free Rent for May. Gas F/P, D/W, lndry, lrg deck/yard.NS/NP $1500. (250)589-9997.

ESQUIMALT, MAIN fl oor Character suite, N/S, N/P,$800 incls utils. (250)385-2846

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. $1325 + utils. Avail June.1st. Call Geoff 250-508-3937.

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2001 HONDA Accord (pewter grey), 4 door, 4 cylinder, auto, low kms (137,000), CD player, power options, tinted windows, alarm, lady driven, in excellent condition in and out. Asking $5600 obo. (250)592-1268.

2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded. White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 fi rm. 250-755-5191.

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2004 FORD MUSTANG Con-vertible, 40th anniversary Spe-cial Edition. Black Beauty! 56,000 km, V-6 automatic, new soft top, fully loaded. $11,500 obo. Serious inquiries only. 250-474-1293, Barb.

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UTILITY TRAILERS

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

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HOME RENOVATIONDesign for PermitCall Steven- 250. 381.4123.

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

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

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

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SPRING CLEANUP special: $20/hr. Weeding, Pruning, etc: Free est’s. Steve 250-727-0481


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AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.

BEETLES RESIDENTIAL Renovations Ltd. Bathrooms, decks, painting, landscaping and handyman services. Fully insured and guaranteed. Free estimates. Call 250-889-4245.

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Stairs, Painting, General household repairs. Free esti-mate. Call Barry 250-896-6071

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

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

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

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


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

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

SMART GUYS Hauling. Gar-den waste, junk removal, clean-ups, etc. Reliable, cour-teous service. 250-544-0611 or 250-889-1051.

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M&S OXFORD Home/Com-mercial Reno’s & Painting. Patio’s, Decks, Sheds, Hard-wood and Trim. 25 yrs exp. Quality Guar. 250-213-5204.

MULTI UNIT to Home Renos. Free Est’s. Call Green Bird Development. (250)929-4685.


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MASONRY & BRICKWORK

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ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694.A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.B L Coastal Coatings. Quality, reliable, great rates. All your Painting needs. (250)818-7443

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


PAINTING

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.

ST PAINTING free est, written guarantee and full ref’s. WCBins. Call Kaleb (250)884-2597.

PLUMBING

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

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PRESSURE WASHING

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STUCCO/SIDING

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TREE SERVICES

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Nearly 100 police officers from across the Pacific Northwest and as far away as Texas rumble into Western Speedway next week for the North American Motor Officers Association’s annual conference.

For the first time on Vancouver Island, the Victoria Police Department is host-ing the Langford event starting May 15, will see officers participate in riding pro-ficiency clinics, use-of-force and firearms seminars, then wind up the four-day con-ference May 18 with a ride through West Shore communities.

The event is open for public viewing from the Speedway bleachers during many of the events, he added.

Units outfitted with Harley David-son, Victory and BMW motorcycles will compete in separate categories in profi-ciency events.

“We do tears, where two guys on Harleys have a string between them and they have to do the entire course

Victoria police officers Sgt. Glen Shiels, Const. Steve Twardy and Const. Ken Fetherstonwill be part of the North American Motor Officers Association’s annual conference, hosted by VicPD at Western Speedway.

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without breaking the string,” said VicPD Const. Steve Twardy. “It’s pretty amazing to watch the skill of some of these guys … but I’m sure there will probably be a few crashes.”

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