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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 SAANICH NEWS Naming rights First Nations seek ancient name for Mount Douglas Page A3 NEWS: Saanich officer works to clear name /A5 ARTS: Steamship Terminal welcomes Bateman /A14 SPORTS: JumpShip cycling fest abandons ship /A20 Watch for breaking news at WWW.VICNEWS.COM Edward Hill News staff When someone turns on a tap in Greater Victoria, the water is clean, plentiful and cheap com- pared to most places in B.C., Can- ada and the world. Glen Brown would know. From his office in the Ministry of Com- munity, Sport and Cultural Devel- opment in Victoria, the civil ser- vant has a bird’s-eye view of water systems across the province. Holding the title of executive director of local government infra- structure and finance, he and his team are tasked with helping hun- dreds of small communities keep the water flowing in ways that are affordable, sustainable and safe. For his efforts over the past decade, the B.C. Water and Waste Association has bestowed Brown its 2013 individual award of excel- lence, a big deal if you are in the business of figuring out better ways to provide drinking water. “Glen is one of those people encouraging local governments to implement water conserva- tion plans and to help individual residents manage water better,” said Daisy Foster, CEO of the B.C. Water and Waste Association. “It takes a lot of resources to turn on a tap, but a lot of people take it for granted that safe, clean water will be there to drink.” The 48-year-old Saanich resi- dent and former commercial fish- erman works with the hundreds of small communities in B.C. with- out the resources and expertise to create long-term financial and infrastructure plans around water management. The province has some 4,000 to 6,000 individual systems of varying sizes that deliver drinking water. Brown engages with local governments and health authori- ties to find ways to keep the sys- tems up to date in terms of public safety, but in ways that won’t bankrupt a town. The Gulf Islands, for instance, struggle with consistent water quality due to surface water algae or salt water infiltration into groundwater, but don’t necessar- ily have the tax base to absorb large filtration projects. “The Gulf Islands have huge issues with quality and quantity of water. You have a demographic of people who own second homes and then people on fixed incomes. For the ability to pay, the differ- ence is huge,” he said. Closer to home, Brown points out that Greater Victoria is unique and fortunate within B.C. The Capital Regional District owns an 11,000-hectare watershed free from logging, mining or recre- ation, unlike other areas of the province. Glen Brown shows some highly mineralized water that came out of a tap from a town in the Cariboo seeking funding for a water filtration system. Brown, a Saanich resident who works in the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, has earned a provincial award for his work helping small communities manage and improve their drinking water systems. Edward Hill/News staff Keeping water safe and flowing UVic profs seek to unionize Saanich’s Glen Brown plays pivotal role with B.C.’s water systems PLEASE SEE: Watershed, Page A4 Kyle Slavin News staff The University of Victoria association that represents professors says its relationship with the university has dete- riorated to such a point that its members want legal protec- tion, in the form of a union. Jason Price, vice-president of the UVic Faculty Associa- tion, says recent “contentious” contract negotiations have highlighted just how one-sided governance discussions have become. Last month the UVic FA executive council voted unani- mously to pursue unionization. It will be brought to the associ- ation’s membership for a vote in the fall, Price said. At issue is the argument that being an association, as opposed to a union, doesn’t give the UVic FA full negotiat- ing rights. “Right now essentially the only thing we can grieve is sal- ary issues – that isn’t what’s driving this,” Price said. “What disappoints us is the working conditions issue, things related to appointment, tenure, long- term disability.” The university was unable to comment by deadline, as it did not know about the poten- tial unionization until the News sought out a response. PLEASE SEE: Watershed, Page A4 www.pharmasavebroadmead.com PHARMASAVE ® LIVE WELL WITH Serving Your Community for 20 Years 310-777 Royal Oak Drive 250 727 3505 @broadmeadpharma facebook.com/pharmasavebroadmead Pharmasave Broadmead 250.744.3301 www.roxannebrass.com [email protected] 4361 Faithwood Road BROADMEAD $729,900 301-5110 Cordova Bay Rd. CORDOVA BAY $524,900 SEAVIEW TOP S.W. CORNER 303-1007 Caledonia Ave. VICTORIA $279,000

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

SAANICHNEWS

Naming rightsFirst Nations seek ancient name for Mount Douglas

Page A3

NEWS: Saanich officer works to clear name /A5ARTS: Steamship Terminal welcomes Bateman /A14SPORTS: JumpShip cycling fest abandons ship /A20

Watch for breaking news at WWW.VICNEWS.CoM

Edward HillNews staff

When someone turns on a tap in Greater Victoria, the water is clean, plentiful and cheap com-pared to most places in B.C., Can-ada and the world.

Glen Brown would know. From his office in the Ministry of Com-munity, Sport and Cultural Devel-opment in Victoria, the civil ser-vant has a bird’s-eye view of water systems across the province.

Holding the title of executive

director of local government infra-structure and finance, he and his team are tasked with helping hun-dreds of small communities keep the water flowing in ways that are affordable, sustainable and safe.

For his efforts over the past decade, the B.C. Water and Waste Association has bestowed Brown its 2013 individual award of excel-lence, a big deal if you are in the business of figuring out better ways to provide drinking water.

“Glen is one of those people encouraging local governments to implement water conserva-tion plans and to help individual residents manage water better,” said Daisy Foster, CEO of the B.C. Water and Waste Association.

“It takes a lot of resources to turn on a tap, but a lot of people

take it for granted that safe, clean water will be there to drink.”

The 48-year-old Saanich resi-dent and former commercial fish-erman works with the hundreds of small communities in B.C. with-out the resources and expertise to create long-term financial and infrastructure plans around water management.

The province has some 4,000 to 6,000 individual systems of varying sizes that deliver drinking water. Brown engages with local governments and health authori-ties to find ways to keep the sys-tems up to date in terms of public safety, but in ways that won’t bankrupt a town.

The Gulf Islands, for instance, struggle with consistent water quality due to surface water algae

or salt water infiltration into groundwater, but don’t necessar-ily have the tax base to absorb large filtration projects.

“The Gulf Islands have huge issues with quality and quantity of water. You have a demographic of people who own second homes and then people on fixed incomes. For the ability to pay, the differ-ence is huge,” he said.

Closer to home, Brown points out that Greater Victoria is unique and fortunate within B.C. The Capital Regional District owns an 11,000-hectare watershed free from logging, mining or recre-ation, unlike other areas of the province.

Glen Brown shows some highly mineralized water that came out of a tap from a town in the Cariboo seeking funding for a water filtration system. Brown, a Saanich resident who works in the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, has earned a provincial award for his work helping small communities manage and improve their drinking water systems.

Edward Hill/News staff

Keeping water safe and flowing

UVic profs seek to unionize

Saanich’s Glen Brown plays pivotal role with B.C.’s water systems

PlEASE SEE: Watershed, Page A4

Kyle SlavinNews staff

The University of Victoria association that represents professors says its relationship with the university has dete-riorated to such a point that its members want legal protec-tion, in the form of a union.

Jason Price, vice-president of the UVic Faculty Associa-tion, says recent “contentious” contract negotiations have highlighted just how one-sided governance discussions have become.

Last month the UVic FA executive council voted unani-mously to pursue unionization. It will be brought to the associ-ation’s membership for a vote in the fall, Price said.

At issue is the argument that being an association, as opposed to a union, doesn’t give the UVic FA full negotiat-ing rights.

“Right now essentially the only thing we can grieve is sal-ary issues – that isn’t what’s driving this,” Price said. “What disappoints us is the working conditions issue, things related to appointment, tenure, long-term disability.”

The university was unable to comment by deadline, as it did not know about the poten-tial unionization until the News sought out a response.

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Stolen motor scooters recovered

Three Yamaha motor scooters that were stolen last week were recovered nearby, stashed in some bushes.

Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie said a pass-erby found the bikes Wednesday (May 15) within two blocks of where they were stolen.

“It looked like somebody stashed them and was looking to come back, but were unable to,” he said.

Two scooters parked in the 500-block of Crossan-dra Cres. and one parked in the 3900-block of Ray-mond St. all disappeared overnight on May 13.

Police recommend scooter owners invest in theft prevention devices like locks and chains to minimize their risk of being targeted.

Teen cleans up at national science fair

Lambrick Park student Vicki Kleu, 16, won a sil-ver medal last week at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Lethbridge, Alta.

Up against hundreds of other bright students from across the country, Kleu’s fully biodegradable adsor-bent oil spill pads won her prizes worth $8,800, including entrance scholar-ships to UBC, Dalhousie University, University of Ottawa and Western Uni-versity.

This was Kleu’s third consecutive year repre-senting Vancouver Island at the national science fair.

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When Victoria-area First Nations chiefs called for a meeting with colonial governor James Douglas 160 years ago, the peak of Mount Douglas was the natural spot.

The 213-metre high rocky out-crop is ingrained in Saanich First Nation creation stories and culture, but it’s existing name is synony-mous with what aboriginal people say are longstanding historical injustices. Tsawout First Nation chief Eric Pelkey calls the name Mount Douglas an insult to local aboriginal people.

The hereditary chief is lead-ing an effort to have site given its ancient name, Pkols, once again. He plans to lead a march up Mount Doug today (Wednesday) at 5 p.m. for a symbolic renaming ceremony and a reenactment of the meeting with Douglas.

“Renaming Mount Doug is to bring out to the public the sig-nificance of Pkols to Saanich and Songhees and Esquimalt. It is a sacred site and it means a lot to

us,” Pelkey said. “This has been in the heart of our elders as long as I can remember to bring back the true name of Pkols, now known as Mount Doug.”

University of Victoria indigenous governance professor Taiaiake Alfred said renaming of Mount Douglas is akin to renaming the Queen Charlotte Islands as Haida Gwaii. Victoria too is awash in place names rooted in aboriginal languages – Saanich, Sooke, Esqui-malt, Metchosin and Malahat, to name a few.

“The longer vision is not to erase the colonial history. We are not seeking to rename the whole park, just Mount Doug, we want to rename the peak to give it it’s proper name, as distinct from the park,” said Alfred, who is a mem-ber of the Indigenous Nationhood Movement.”This isn’t about look-ing for some kind of retaliation. It is looking to restore the balance and show respect for the original name.”

The Douglas treaties, which arguably delineated Fort Victoria colonial territory and First Nations

territory, have their origins from a meeting on Mount Douglas in 1852 between Douglas the governor and a group of chiefs, Pelkey said. The chiefs had actually planned to kill Douglas and wipe out Fort Victoria in retaliation for a farmer killing an aboriginal youth, he said, but were convinced otherwise by a mission-ary.

“The chiefs decided to spare James Douglas and not wipe out the colony and to live in peace, but they wanted a promise their way of life would be protected and their territory honoured,” Pelkey said. That discussion would become the Douglas treaties.

“The fact that it is called Mount Douglas is a slap in the face for our people,” he said. “It’s where the Douglas treaties were signed in 1852 by James Douglas as a repre-sentative of the Queen. Since that day, successive colonial govern-ments have not honoured those treaties.”

Douglas established what would be Mount Doug Park in 1858 as government reserve land. The City of Victoria designated the land as a

park in 1889 and it was transferred to the municipality of Saanich in 1992.

“We wouldn’t move to remove the park status, just that this is Pkol and is a sacred place,” Pelkey said. “There are no land claims in the works.”

Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said he’s never been asked for-mally or informally by First Nations leaders to rename the mountain.

“There’s been no contact at all, and we haven’t given it any thought at all,” Leonard said. Saa-nich parks staff and police will be on hand to ensure the safety of the march with regard to vehicle traffic.

“We will try to make sure it’s safe. After the event we’ll figure out where to go from there. If and when they contact us we’ll discuss it then.”

The Reclaim Pkols march is tonight (May 22) at 5 p.m. starting at the base of Mount Doug. The public is welcome and to watch the Douglas treaties reenactment at the top of the mountain.

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Tsawout First Nation chief Eric Pelkey, seen here at the top of Mount Douglas in traditional clothing that’s been handed down to Tsawout hereditary chiefs for generations, is leading a day of action on May 22 to rename the mountain Pkols, its pre-colonial name.

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UVic talk on plant hunting in China

Sue Miliken and Kelly Dodson of Far Reaches Farm – a rare plant spe-cialty nursery in Port Townsend, Wash. – are giving a special presenta-tion detailing their 2012 plant hunting expedition to Sichuan, China.

Hosted by the Friends of Finnerty Gardens, the talk is Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. in UVic’s David Lam auditorium, MacLaurin Building A144.

Tickets are free, but must be reserved in advance at the UVic ticket

centre. For more, see uvic.ca/pursuingthewild.

Free film screening at Camosun College

Academy Award nomi-nated film “5 Broken Cam-eras” is to be screened Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. at, Camosun Col-lege Landsdowne campus, room, Young Building 216.

The event is sponsored by Independent Jewish Voices, Cinema Politica, and Camosun.

Admission is free, but donations are accepted. For information, call 250-381-5120.

Talk on 150th year of colonization

Chris Arnett, author of Terror of the Coast: Land Alienation and Colonial War on Vancouver Islands and the Gulf Islands, 1849-1863, will be discussing the 150th anniversary of the colonization of indig-enous people in Victoria.

Opening remarks will be from Joey Caro, a Penelakut elder.

The event is Friday, May 24 at 7 p.m., at the UVic, David Lam audi-torium, in the MacLaurin Building A144. Admission is by donation.

That allows the CRD to avoid filtering drinking water beyond chlorination and ultraviolet disin-fection.

He pointed to Nanaimo, which is trying to finance a $65-million water filtration system for a city one-quarter the size of Greater Victoria.

“The CRD has good quality water without fil-tration. That saves a lot of money for residents in the CRD. That doesn’t happen in other places in B.C.,” Brown said. “If we had to have filtra-tion, which is the general requirement for sur-face water, we’d see a similar price as (regional) wastewater treatment. Well, maybe not that big, but it would be substantial.

“In the CRD we should be jumping for joy we have it so good. We have a significant robust ser-vice and don’t pay much.”

A key part of Brown’s job is encouraging local governments and communities to finding ways to reduce water waste and consumption. Conserva-tion strategies are often the only way a municipal-ity can avoid expensive system upgrades, such as building new reservoirs or installing bigger pipes in the ground.

“Conservation is about using water more affec-tively. There’s an environmental component and an economic component, and you’ll save as a taxpayer.”

Water management can have unexpected cost increases, even if done properly. Conservation in the CRD has worked too well – consumption has dropped enough to cause the regional water com-mission to boost water prices last year to make up for operational shortfalls.

“On the other side of the coin, if you use more water, you require more infrastructure,” Foster said. “That adds cost to residents.”

Overall, B.C. communities have done well to adopt long-term water management and conser-vation mindsets, Foster said. “Water management in B.C. has improved significantly in the past five years. We’ve seen a difference on the ground.”

Brown doesn’t disagree, but points out some communities have been surprisingly resistant to pay a few pennies more in tax to maintain their water systems. It’s a service that tends to be out of sight, out of mind.

“Water is undervalued in the province, across the board,” he said. “We still have the low-est rates for water in Canada and the world. It impacts future infrastructure needs. We’ve got communities that pay 25 cents for a cubic metre of water, where in Europe they’ll pay $6.

“Understanding the cost to deliver water to the home, and the environmental costs ... we have to start becoming more aware of that. We are going in the right direction. Education is still a big of it.”

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Price equated unionizing to “hitting the reset button” on a working relationship with administrators.

“We’re doing this because we care about this university, we care about the quality of education we deliver to our students,” Price said.

“Folks who have removed themselves from teaching and research context (for administrative roles) are not in touch with the issues in terms of education. We want to come back to a time where we were collegial, were consulted, there were more symmetrical relations and felt empowered.”

If 45 per cent of UVic FA members sup-port unionizing, the Labour Relations Board would administer an official vote, which would then require 50 per cent support to unionize, Price explained.

The Faculty Association has previously

considered unionizing, but Price said that discussion never went beyond the execu-tive council, and members always remained optimistic the relationship would improve.

“There’s always been this hope we would not have to go to these types of legal pro-tections; that we’d be able to develop a col-legial responsibility. … It hasn’t happened,” Price said.

“We’re not the only employee group on campus that have had difficulties. UVic is a great university, unfortunately it’s a poor employer.”

In January the Faculty Association was unable to reach a contract agreement with the university by a set deadline. As a result, the association’s old framework agreement was automatically renewed.

The association represents some 850 reg-ular faculty, senior instructors, limited-term faculty appointments and librarians.

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The lawyer representing a Saanich police officer who is alleged to have coaxed a man out of his home to arrest him for being drunk in public says his client was doing what was necessary to diffuse a heated, alcohol-fuelled situation.

Richard Neary said last week Const. David Smit’s arrest of a man involved in a domestic dis-pute on May 20, 2011 was made with the best intentions.

“Any errors in judgment or missteps were honest mistakes (as part of) dealing with a press-ing need to ensure the safety (of the people involved),” Neary said.

Smit’s actions are currently being scrutinized in a public hearing by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner through a hearing in downtown Victoria. Smit requested the hearing after being demoted and reprimanded by Saanich police.

It’s alleged the constable mis-led his sergeants about how the arrest was made and changed his story, which Neary chalked up to Smit having difficulty artic-ulating the circumstances sur-rounding the arrest.

“He went from a state of mind thinking he’d done the right thing, to being attacked … by his supervisors. That … left him extremely shocked and dis-mayed,” Neary told public hear-ing adjudicator Jakob de Villiers.

When Smit attended the Saan-ich home where the dispute was taking place, he found two of the three people who lived there outside. Those people can’t be named due to a publication ban.

The officer learned the third person, a man who was involved in a dispute that had ended, was still inside the home.

Neary said Smit felt arresting the man until he sobered up would help reduce any risk of him endangering himself or the other two people.

Smit knocked on the front door and the man answered. He asked the man to step out-side and Smit led him off the property to the public boule-vard, where he was immediately arrested, said public hearing counsel Bradley Hickford.

The man was arrested under the Liquor Control and Licens-ing Act for being in a state of

Saanich officer fights to clear name at public hearingintoxication in a public place. Hick-ford told de Villiers that charges very rarely stem from such an arrest, and it’s typically used by officers to take a drunk person who is in a public place out of a situation where they could harm themselves or someone else. They are released once they have sobered up.

Hickford said Smit told his supervi-sors he “found” the man in a public place, as opposed to telling them he “led” the man to a public place in order to make the arrest.

“This was not a valid and legal arrest,” Hickford said.

Once Smit explained to his superi-ors the circumstances surrounding the arrest, the man was immediately

released and driven home. He was returned home within an hour of being arrested.

The OPCC hearing is examining misconduct allegations of abuse of authority and deceit.

A Saanich police investigation in 2012 proved the deceit and abuse of authority allegations, and Smit was suspended without pay for seven days, and his rank was to be demoted to third-class constable.

An officer is allowed to request a hearing in circumstances where the discipline decision results in dis-missal or a reduction in rank. Smit contacted the OPCC in January 2013.

The public hearing is scheduled for two weeks of testimony.

Officer made controversial arrest in interest of public safety, argues lawyer

Migration of office wildlife

June Pretzer, Swan Lake Nature Centre’s

site manager carries a muskrat that was donated

to the centre along with other stuffed animals used for

displays. Some of the administrative staff have moved

to the newly renovated houses owned by Saanich

on Nelthorpe Street. The former

administrative space will be used for

youth programs.

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

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Elementary goes big with muralsKyle SlavinNews staff

The beautiful English ivy – an invasive species – that covered the large walls of Rogers elementary school spent years choking out and encroaching on the area’s natural Garry oak ecosystem.

But now the school is fighting back against the ivy: ripping it out and replacing it with murals of Garry oak landscapes.

Last week Saanich council approved two massive murals on the outer walls (each one 62 feet long by 10 feet tall at its highest point) of the school that were for-merly covered in ivy.

The walls were power-washed, then painted white like a large can-vas, and artist Joanne Thomson, who designed the scene, got to work on the wall almost immediately after council approval.

“The kids have been involved in this. We consulted with them, and parents and staff, and took a vote. And (Joanne’s) working with the kids who will do some drawings and give her those images to import into the final design,” said principal Maryanne Trofimuk.

Later this month or early next, depending on the weather, the school will host a full-day painting event. Every student will have the opportunity to leave the class and participate in painting the mural.

In class the students have been learning about the Garry Oak eco-system and the importance of natu-ral preservation, Trofimuk said.

“The kids have a lot of awareness of what’s going on, why we’re doing this and how the connection is so strong,” she said.

The first mural, to be done this school year, depicts a detailed Garry oak forest and Christmas Hill. The second mural will feature a forest landscape with the name of the school in large muted colours.

Council needed to OK the mural, as Saanich’s unsightly premises bylaw considers public art – even on private properties – graffiti, unless it’s approved by council or an arts jury.

The school is currently fundrais-ing to help pay for the mural proj-ect. Anyone interested in donating to the project is encouraged to contact Trofimuk at 250-727-0188 or [email protected].

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Rogers Elementary students, from left, Elise Croteau, 7, Isaac Preyser, 7, David Ross, 11, and Dayna McLean, 11, take a close look as artist Joanne Thomson shows how sketches from the school’s students will be incorporated into a giant mural outside the school.

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If the handcrafted stone-work, jutting window case-ments or ornate gabled roof-ing doesn’t give away the age of a house, remnants of a so-called California cooler just might.

A square hatch on the side of David Cubberley’s home is all that remains of pre-refrig-eration food storage – a cabi-net with high and low ducts that promoted air circulation – in his 1913 bungalow.

Hundreds of grand old homes in Greater Victoria are celebrating their first cen-tury this year. Circa 1913 was a golden era for residential construction – hundreds of houses went up to meet a growing influx of immigrants, and matched the expansion of railway lines through Victo-ria and the Saanich Peninsula.

“Victoria had a sustained economic boom. It was the last good year and there was a record number of building permits,” said Cubberley, a former Saanich councillor and provincial MLA. “Nine-teen-thirteen had a bumper crop of houses.”

The Hallmark Heritage Soci-ety of Victoria property data-base shows 230 homes were completed in 1913 and 238 in 1912, the peak of building for the era, although the list is incomplete. Construction declined dramatically through the lean and tumultuous years of the First World War.

“Then mid-way through 1913 was a world-wide reces-sion,” noted Ken Johnson, president of the Hallmark Heritage Society. “The lumber market and fisheries market slumped (in B.C.). The reces-sion started before the war. It was an unfortunate coinci-dence.”

The Hallmark society esti-

mates some 5,000 houses in Greater Victoria could be considered heritage, although only about 1,000 have been registered with the society.

“Most owners are proud and appreciate the number of heritage homes in the city,” Johnson said. “People keep them up.”

Cubberley, for one, has spent years restoring what was the first house on Grange Road (formerly Blackwood Road), designed and lived in by architect Hubert Savage.

It was one of 35 homes built in Saanich in 1913, and at five kilometres from the city core, was considered to be far out in the countryside. For his restoration efforts, Hallmark Society recently granted Cubberley an award of merit.

The home retains its arts and crafts look and thick stone columns that bookend the veranda. Tall windows

offset interior dark wood pan-elling and an original painting from 1921 of pastoral farm scenes orbits the living room walls.

Some exterior and interior elements of the house were in rough shape when Cubberley bought it 25 years ago, but overall the framing weathered the past century with little trouble.

“It is a well-built house. It has full dimension two by fours of clear Douglas fir. That wood is so strong you can’t pound a nail into it,” Cubber-ley said.

Jumping into restoration isn’t cheap and has a sharp learning curve, he noted, and it can be tough to find resto-ration experts.

“Deferred maintenance is the killer of older homes and wooden buildings. You’ve got to stay with it,” Cubberley said. “(Restoration) requires a higher order of carpentry and

joinery skills ... it’s museum quality work. It’s challenging to find the craftsmen to do it.”

People can volunteer their homes for “heritage desig-nation” if they meet certain criteria. Homes with heri-tage designation can receive grants for renovations, but require municipal council approval for alterations.

“Protecting a house is a voluntary thing. The owner has to want to do it and many owners do,” Johnson said. “These houses are important. They’re part of (our) history … they’re a part of peoples’ stories.”

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Perhaps you use an arsenal or herbicides and pes-ticides to help control your garden? Or you have a pool which requires chlorine? These chemicals aren’t eye-friendly either. If you do splash a chemical in the eye, flush the eye immediately with vast, huge, enor-mous quantities of clean cold water; then go to Emer-gency if necessary.

The good news is that eye protection is simple and inexpensive. Safety glasses and goggles that fit over prescription glasses are all that is required, and you can find them in your local hardware store. Our local eye surgeons would rather spend their weekends with their families than treating ocular injuries that are eas-ily prevented.

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OUR VIEW

One benefit of the surprising fourth term for the B.C. Liberal party is that the

provincial government won’t be subjected to another big, expensive ideological remake.

Taxpayers are spared a bill of millions in severance pay for deputy ministers and other senior staff who would be purged in large numbers in the left-right lurch that has defined B.C. politics for a generation. 

B.C. Ferries will continue as an arms-length operation, with ferry commissioner Gord Macatee in charge of service levels as well as fare caps. The service rationalization that the government set out in the past year will continue.

The NDP platform vowed to “position B.C. Ferries as an integral part of B.C.’s transportation infrastructure.” Freely translated, that means “suck B.C. Ferries back into government,” as one of their strident supporters likes to say.

That would conceal the growth of the subsidy and facilitate the kind of political and union interference that resulted in the current structure.

There will be no $10-million rehash of the B.C. Rail sale and subsequent seven-year trial, to enrich elite lawyers once again.

The NDP promised an inquiry for strictly political reasons, to drag their opponents through the scandal

one more time. It was not a prelude to “nationalizing” the province’s train service, dream scenarios of the

NDP provincial council notwithstanding.

Costly legal confrontations over development projects have been avoided. The Jumbo Glacier Resort proponents finally won a 20-year fight for permits, and the NDP promised to take them away.

A larger ideological battle over private power contracts has also been avoided. The B.C. Liberals

have been caught by a sudden shift in power markets caused by cheap, abundant natural gas, but the billions in commitments to independent power producers isn’t the fiasco that critics have described.

If all those privately developed run-of-river hydro projects were owned and operated by B.C. Hydro, the Crown corporation would have to staff them and maintain them all for the next 40 years. There are differing views about the future demand for electricity in B.C., but it can only rise with industry and population growth.

A decade of federal and provincial work to end duplication of environmental assessment won’t be undone. NDP leader Adrian Dix’s promise for “made in B.C.” reviews was a strategy to choke resource projects to death under endless procedure, which may yet be the

fate of the Jumbo resort.We will have a Seniors’ Advocate

office, but it won’t be staffed up to duplicate the Ombudsperson’s role of taking complaints.

That’s good, since the Ombudsperson has become ineffective, labouring for years over a massive seniors’ report with so many recommendations it sank like a stone.

We have 85 seniors’ advocates now. They’re called MLAs, and they definitely take complaints.

They have staffed offices in their home communities and in Victoria. When they’re not doing political work that everyone denies is going on in constituency offices, those office staffers try to help people through the labyrinth of seniors’ at-home and institutional care.

A new seniors’ advocate can offer advice at the management level to help the health care system evolve, but only elected politicians are positioned to tell individuals they can’t have what they are demanding. The government should be adding more direct services, not more bureaucrats.

There will be many arguments about the failure of the NDP to win against an unpopular B.C. Liberal government that is still weighed down by the harmonized sales tax and other heavy baggage.

This election could be the beginning of the end for the old left-right model for B.C. politics.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

Polarized politics a costly system

‘Costly legal confrontations over development projects have been avoided.’

Parents need to talk tough

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

At least twice each year we see a real push from police against drinking and driving. Once at Christmas and again in the spring.

At Christmas, age is not a consideration for police, but in springtime, the target group is clear.

Drinking drivers tend to be younger in spring around graduation time. They are, frequently, young men experiencing what some would call the rites of passage.

Drinking and driving, however, isn’t a rite, it’s a crime – one with deadly consequences.

More than two years ago the province introduced Canada’s toughest impaired driving laws and the number of alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths went down by half.

But drinking alone is still a threat to our youth, whether they get behind the wheel of a car or not. From risky sexual behaviour to an increase in physical and sexual assaults to death from alcohol poisoning, the risk to youth from excessive alcohol use or drinking to get drunk, is real.

With any luck, the days of parent-sanctioned “wet” grad parties are a thing of the past.

With more parents and students concentrating on dry grad activities that have youth celebrating in a safe, non-alcohol fuelled atmosphere, one would think the old hay field parties of yore have been left in the past. But some parents still believe in the old adage, ‘kids are going to drink anyway, so we’ll just make sure they don’t drive.’

That is a difficult stance to take when, as a parent, you’ve spent the last 18 years of your child’s life trying to teach them right from wrong. Then you’re telling them that wrong is OK, as long as mom or dad says so.

As parents, it’s our job to make the tough decisions – even if they are not the most popular ones with our kids. All their lives we’ve made decisions for our children based on what we think is best for them. We’ve denied them sugary cereals. We’ve made them eat their broccoli. We’ve strapped unwilling toddlers into car seats, because it’s the safest way for them to ride.

It may not be the easiest thing you’ve done lately, but convincing your teen that drinking alcohol to celebrate is not a necessity and could bring them harm in ways other than the risk of driving drunk will make everyone feel better in the morning.

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One benefit of the surprising fourth term for the B.C. Liberal party is that the

provincial government won’t be subjected to another big, expensive ideological remake.

Taxpayers are spared a bill of millions in severance pay for deputy ministers and other senior staff who would be purged in large numbers in the left-right lurch that has defined B.C. politics for a generation. 

B.C. Ferries will continue as an arms-length operation, with ferry commissioner Gord Macatee in charge of service levels as well as fare caps. The service rationalization that the government set out in the past year will continue.

The NDP platform vowed to “position B.C. Ferries as an integral part of B.C.’s transportation infrastructure.” Freely translated, that means “suck B.C. Ferries back into government,” as one of their strident supporters likes to say.

That would conceal the growth of the subsidy and facilitate the kind of political and union interference that resulted in the current structure.

There will be no $10-million rehash of the B.C. Rail sale and subsequent seven-year trial, to enrich elite lawyers once again.

The NDP promised an inquiry for strictly political reasons, to drag their opponents through the scandal

one more time. It was not a prelude to “nationalizing” the province’s train service, dream scenarios of the

NDP provincial council notwithstanding.

Costly legal confrontations over development projects have been avoided. The Jumbo Glacier Resort proponents finally won a 20-year fight for permits, and the NDP promised to take them away.

A larger ideological battle over private power contracts has also been avoided. The B.C. Liberals

have been caught by a sudden shift in power markets caused by cheap, abundant natural gas, but the billions in commitments to independent power producers isn’t the fiasco that critics have described.

If all those privately developed run-of-river hydro projects were owned and operated by B.C. Hydro, the Crown corporation would have to staff them and maintain them all for the next 40 years. There are differing views about the future demand for electricity in B.C., but it can only rise with industry and population growth.

A decade of federal and provincial work to end duplication of environmental assessment won’t be undone. NDP leader Adrian Dix’s promise for “made in B.C.” reviews was a strategy to choke resource projects to death under endless procedure, which may yet be the

fate of the Jumbo resort.We will have a Seniors’ Advocate

office, but it won’t be staffed up to duplicate the Ombudsperson’s role of taking complaints.

That’s good, since the Ombudsperson has become ineffective, labouring for years over a massive seniors’ report with so many recommendations it sank like a stone.

We have 85 seniors’ advocates now. They’re called MLAs, and they definitely take complaints.

They have staffed offices in their home communities and in Victoria. When they’re not doing political work that everyone denies is going on in constituency offices, those office staffers try to help people through the labyrinth of seniors’ at-home and institutional care.

A new seniors’ advocate can offer advice at the management level to help the health care system evolve, but only elected politicians are positioned to tell individuals they can’t have what they are demanding. The government should be adding more direct services, not more bureaucrats.

There will be many arguments about the failure of the NDP to win against an unpopular B.C. Liberal government that is still weighed down by the harmonized sales tax and other heavy baggage.

This election could be the beginning of the end for the old left-right model for B.C. politics.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

Polarized politics a costly system

‘Costly legal confrontations over development projects have been avoided.’

Parents need to talk tough

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

At least twice each year we see a real push from police against drinking and driving. Once at Christmas and again in the spring.

At Christmas, age is not a consideration for police, but in springtime, the target group is clear.

Drinking drivers tend to be younger in spring around graduation time. They are, frequently, young men experiencing what some would call the rites of passage.

Drinking and driving, however, isn’t a rite, it’s a crime – one with deadly consequences.

More than two years ago the province introduced Canada’s toughest impaired driving laws and the number of alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths went down by half.

But drinking alone is still a threat to our youth, whether they get behind the wheel of a car or not. From risky sexual behaviour to an increase in physical and sexual assaults to death from alcohol poisoning, the risk to youth from excessive alcohol use or drinking to get drunk, is real.

With any luck, the days of parent-sanctioned “wet” grad parties are a thing of the past.

With more parents and students concentrating on dry grad activities that have youth celebrating in a safe, non-alcohol fuelled atmosphere, one would think the old hay field parties of yore have been left in the past. But some parents still believe in the old adage, ‘kids are going to drink anyway, so we’ll just make sure they don’t drive.’

That is a difficult stance to take when, as a parent, you’ve spent the last 18 years of your child’s life trying to teach them right from wrong. Then you’re telling them that wrong is OK, as long as mom or dad says so.

As parents, it’s our job to make the tough decisions – even if they are not the most popular ones with our kids. All their lives we’ve made decisions for our children based on what we think is best for them. We’ve denied them sugary cereals. We’ve made them eat their broccoli. We’ve strapped unwilling toddlers into car seats, because it’s the safest way for them to ride.

It may not be the easiest thing you’ve done lately, but convincing your teen that drinking alcohol to celebrate is not a necessity and could bring them harm in ways other than the risk of driving drunk will make everyone feel better in the morning.

The SAANICH NEWS is published by Black Press Ltd. | 818 Broughton St., Victoria, B.C. V8W 1E4 | Phone: 250-381-3484 • Fax: 250-386-2624 • Web: www.vicnews.com

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The SAANICH NEWS is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.

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Craigflower footbridge

openA temporary

pedestrian bridge, left, sits next to the old Craigflower Bridge

as construction work continues on

replacing the bridge and upgrading

Admirals Road. The new walkway, allowing

pedestrians and cyclists to continue to cross the Gorge

during construction, was expected to open

to the public yesterday (May 21). With its

opening, demolition of the old bridge can now

begin, and is likely to start this week.

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Gordon Head voting unique in Canada

Last Wednesday’s startlingly unexpected B.C. election results created a new and unique elec-toral-environmental grouping of citizens not found elsewhere in Canada. How is that?

First, Gordon Head residents’ newly-elected member of the provincial legislative assem-bly Gordon Weaver represents the Oak Bay-Gordon Head rid-ing and is B.C.’s first and only elected member of the provin-cial Green party.

Second is that their federal member of parliament Elizabeth May represents Saanich-Gulf Islands, and is the first and only elected member of the federal Green party.

Weaver was the lead cli-mate scientist of the panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prized with former U.S. vice-president Al Gore. The 2006 documentary film of Gore’s attempts to raise awareness of climate change was unfor-tunately named “An Inconve-nient Truth.” The truth may yet embarrass both Gore and Weaver.

The considerable interna-tional scientific research and review of recent years has pre-sented few final or definitive conclusions, but has lessened the climate-change hyperbole to which we’ve all been exposed.

The Economist noted that head of NASA’s Goddard Insti-tute reported “the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.”

Such findings in 2006 would have prevented what was prob-ably the unjustified awarding of a Nobel Peace Prize.

Odds are that in the future

Gordon Head citizens will avoid double jeopardy and have a provincial MLA and a federal MP with different party colours.

Ron JohnsonSaanich

Election results mimic 1983 for NDP

As the election returns came in last Tuesday night, I was reminded of the 1983 provincial election, when all the opinion polls and pundits predicted that there would be an easy victory for the NDP.

Nevertheless, the incumbent Socreds were re-elected with an increased majority.

Last Tuesday felt very much like, as Yogi Berra would say, deja vu all over again.

Darryl GreenSaanich

Former leader would have given NDP a win

It needs to be said. Carole James would have won this one.

She was ahead in the polls when she was replaced and has both the personality and repu-tation as a moderate.

The B.C. Liberals would have found it much harder to target her than Adrian Dix.

And she would have been much, much better in the TV debate.

Andy Mulcahy Victoria

Proposed Cordova Bay rec centre too big

Re: After 67 years, rec centre eyes update (News, May 15)

When the hall was built 67 years ago it was a commend-able achievement, built by volunteers, and a credit to the small community it would serve.

Apparently it no longer serves as a community hall, and the magnitude of the proposed replacement is staggering – square footage two-and-a-half times the size of the present building, with a resulting pro-portionate increase in traffic and parking requirement.

This would be at the west end of Sutcliffe Road – a narrow residential cul-de-sac with lim-ited access and parking.

The site is presently zoned RS-18 – single family residential, and should remain as such.

A major world-class sports facility such as proposed would be very inappropriate at the present location.

 Arthur and Dorris RoweSaanich

Prepare for a fight over sewage

Re: Don’t pass the sewage buck (Our View, May 15)

In your opinion piece, you describe the proposal of Mayor Desjardins as “woefully self-serving and [something which] would only accomplish passing the buck to a different munici-pality.”

If that is so, how would you describe the actions of the rest of the councillors on the Capital Regional District board, particu-larly the nine from Saanich and Victoria? They have pulled out all the stops to ensure that only Esquimalt is adversely affected by sewage treatment infrastruc-ture.

And now that they have success-fully stuck us with the burden of dealing with their sewage, they seek to do whatever they can to build the plant as cheaply as possible, using outdated technology, so as to limit the tax increases for their own constituents. Woefully self-serving, indeed.

This battle has only just begun. I encourage Esquimalt council to do whatever they can, whenever they can, to frustrate, delay and ulti-mately stop the CRD from ramming this down our throats. They should refuse to change the zoning, refuse to approve the plans, secede from the CRD and require every environ-mental impact assessment or review which the law permits.

And when those avenues are exhausted, take them (and by them I mean the provincial and federal governments as well, if necessary) to court and keep fighting until they either give up or agree to change the plan to something better and

more reasonable. Failing that, I guess we’ll all get to find out just how many Esquimalt residents are willing to chain themselves to heavy equipment. While I would never advocate such civil disobedience, I can tell you that people here really are that angry.

Let me be clear, I (and I dare say most Esquimalt residents) are not against sewage treatment, just this monstrosity of a plan. The CRD can avoid many headaches in the years to come if only they recognize that and act appropriately.

Mike BakerEsquimalt

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Daniel PalmerNews staff

Victoria is conducting a comprehensive review of the Victoria Conference Centre in hopes of lur-ing business back to the Capital Region.

Past and upcoming bookings for 2013 will see 40,000 fewer delegates attend events at the con-ference centre compared to a high of 137,000 del-egates in 2007.

Most North American cities, including Victoria, subsidize their conference facilities as economic generators. Cities can be slow to take action when economies change, said Bruce Carter, Greater Vic-toria Chamber of Commerce CEO.

“That corporate market has all but disappeared for a number of reasons, partially due to econom-ics, but also partially due to social responsibility,” he said.

“Public bodies generally need to be pushed. If this were a private business, (the review) would likely be done much faster, with less consultation.”

Conference centre bookings from U.S. organiza-tions have failed to bounce back in the wake of the recession due to stiff competition from other Cana-dian cities and smaller delegate numbers, said Car-rie Russell, managing director of consultant firm HVS Global Hospitality Services.

“At its peak, Victoria was almost 50/50 with (hosting) U.S. and Canadian conferences,” she said.

Tighter passport regulations, a depressed U.S. economy and competition from newer regional facilities such as the Vancouver Conference Centre are all factors in Victoria’s lack of recovery, Russell added.

Hoteliers use conference bookings as a “bed-rock of occupancy” to set room rates, said Tour-ism Victoria CEO Rob Gialloreto.

“Conferences book business way in advance. If you’re relying 100 per cent on leisure travel, that’s a really risky way to do business,” he said.

While other Canadian cities have seen hotel room bookings and revenue increase since 2008 lows, Victoria has actually declined, Russell said.

“The trend in Victoria has been one of the poor-est in the country.”

Conference centre general manager Jocelyn Jen-kyns said the 8,000 hotel rooms in Greater Victo-ria, along with the long-term lease inked on Crystal Garden, are reflective of an optimistic period when the region had a more buoyant tourism economy.

“In 2007, we were turning away business,” she said. “We do really well in terms of what we’re able

Sluggish conference centre reflects lagging tourism

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

A totem stands tall inside the Victoria Conference Centre. The facility is struggling to win back business.

to generate, but because we have this abundance of hotel rooms in the city, we always have this ongoing challenge to bring more business.”

The conference centre anticipated more bookings when it leased the Crystal Garden, a 30,000-square-foot facility across the street at 713 Douglas St., to its existing 40,000-sq.-ft. capacity.

Gialloreto said all stakeholders “recognize the numbers are going in the wrong direction” and are eager to see the recommendations of the VCC review.

“Everybody would like to see better perfor-mance out of the conference centre. How to get that done is a much trickier proposition.”

The review is expected to take months, said City of Victoria spokesperson Katie Josephson.

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Christine van ReeuwykNews staff

When Tania Swan’s children entered school full-time she returned part-time.

Backed by a bachelor of science from the Uni-versity of Victoria, the Sooke woman sought pro-grams with the goal of returning to the workforce after 12 years as a stay at home mom.

She learned of, researched, and signed on for the 10-week part-time Employment Skills Access Program at Royal Roads University.

“It was work, but it was transformational, because it assisted me in recognizing what I was doing was transferrable,” she said, of skills devel-oped during the first dozen years raising her kids. “They were marketable and transferable and I needed to look at them that way.”

The government-funded training program often highlights for people the skills they already pos-sess, said Sandra Cranz., ESA lead program coor-dinator for Continuing Studies at RRU.

“A common theme that we find is folks are lacking confidence and inability to talk about the skills that they have,” Cranz said. “We have a three-day behavioural interview component that really helps people build their confidence.”

Participants often range in age from early 20s to late 60s, including those with no post second-ary education to those with masters degrees, who are out of the workforce for myriad reasons.

“It really focuses on helping people figure out the preferred employment with the preferred employer – it’s really about figuring out where your passions are and your beliefs and values and trying to match those with an employer,” Cranz said.

The approach worked for Swan, who wound up in a three-month contract at a job she continues to pursue.

The next program starts with orientation May 23 at RRU. To find out if you’re eligible contact Kirsten Amadu 250-391-2600 ext 4533 or Cranz ext 4521.

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Jane Sterk staying on as provincial Green leader

Daniel PalmerNews staff

The leader of the B.C. Green party no longer intends to step down, promis-ing instead to help the party’s first MLA adjust to life in the legislature.

Jane Sterk said she was convinced to

stay on as party leader at a May 15 meet-ing with MLA-elect Andrew Weaver, who made history by winning in Oak Bay-Gor-don Head the night before, and the par-ty’s executive director and chair.

“We have to sort out what Andrew’s role will be and how the party and I can sup-port him in that role,” Sterk said. “Since we’ve never had a candidate elected, it will take some time to figure out what that’s going to look like.”

Weaver will likely hire four staff mem-bers and begin setting up his constitu-ency office in the coming weeks, said

Sterk, who took 38 per cent of the vote in Victoria-Beacon Hill last week but failed to clinch the seat. Incumbent NDP MLA Carole James received nearly 49 per cent support to retain her seat in the legisa-ture.

Despite her personal defeat, Sterk said the Greens are reinvigorated by Weav-er’s win and are already focused on the upcoming byelection in which Premier Christy Clark will seek a return to the legislature.

Clark lost her seat in Vancouver-Point Grey to the NDP’s David Eby on election

Sterk to lead MLA-elect Weaver, party through transition phase

night by 785 votes, but she will remain B.C. Liberal leader.

The date for the byelection has not yet been announced.

The Greens plan to create constituency associa-tions across the province and increase their mem-bership base, building on the success of Weaver in the coming years.

“Everybody is absolutely thrilled that it was Andrew who got elected because he is a scientist, he has that evidence-based decision-making per-spective, and that makes him a stronger MLA than if he was coming from a highly partisan position,” Sterk said.

“We’re looking forward to this being a stepping stone to much more success for the party.”

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A total of 350 volunteers are needed to run the annual Operation Trackshoes event.

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Victoria’s Congregation Emanu-El, one of the country’s oldest synagogues, is celebrating its 150th year with public tours led by Canada’s first ordained maggidah (female storyteller), Shoshana Lit-man.

The tour touches on the history of Jewish-Canadians from Victoria, who included the first Jewish judge

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Kyle WellsNews staff

Robert Bateman doesn’t think of himself as a particularly talented technical painter.

“I don’t think I’m a great painter, technically. I’m always struggling,” Bateman said. “I’m always making mistakes. … I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, I’m exploring and discovering and always trying to improve.”

He sees this as a perhaps part of the reason his paintings have proven to be so popular for so many years, however. He explains hundreds of artists paint birds and wildlife, as he is known for, so it’s not the subject matter alone which draws people to his work.

It perhaps has more to do with his approach, his vision of nature and this sense of discovery he approaches each project with.

The Robert Bateman Centre is opening Saturday, May 25 at noon in the old CPR Steamship Terminal and will feature around 160 of Bateman’s works, ranging from his earliest years as an artist through to the wildlife paintings he has become so well known for.

The exhibit will shed light on a side of Bateman few ever get the chance to see. An entire room has been devoted to Bateman’s environmental message

paintings. Some of Bateman’s portrait work will also be on display, mainly featuring paintings of his wife and friends.

“Most people don’t think of me as somebody who paints landscapes and portraits, but I do. They just don’t get out there,” Bateman said. “I’ve always kind of balked at being pigeonholed as a wildlife artist. It’s OK. It’s not an insult, but it’s kind of like saying Rembrandt is a portrait artist. Well he’s an artist in all kinds of broad ways.”

Bateman even went through an abstract expressionism period, which is represented at the gallery.

“That’s a major, major show for any artist,” Paul Gilbert, executive director of the Bateman Foundation, said. “It’s the first exhibition that’s kind of an insight into Bateman’s life, his personal interests, the work he did that most of the world has never seen.”

The show features original prints and reproductions, something Bateman said has been a tad controversial.

“It’s the only way to show the scope of my work. It would be impossible to start getting shipping and insurance and permissions,” Bateman said. “The reproductions, which have been going on since 1980, they’re very high quality, they’re not just like a poster.”

“The most important thing is the thought, the idea behind it.”

The majority of the paintings and prints have video and audio supplements of

Bateman talking about the work, which can be accessed via smart phones or tablets. The gallery will have tablets to loan to patrons who wish to take the self-guided tour.

Gilbert said he had some reservations installing the gallery in the old CPR Steamship Terminal building, a heritage

building designed by Francis Rattenbury. The second floor, where the gallery is located, was a shell, and Gilbert said he had a hard time seeing how the gallery’s layout would all come together.

Ultimately Gilbert is more than happy with the outcome.

“It’s worked better than I could possibly have hoped for.”

A gift shop is set to open on the first floor of the building about a month after the gallery’s opening. A service, which will be offered starting in the fall, is an opportunity for visitors to the gallery to order prints of the works on display through an interactive ordering station. Customers will pick the print they want to purchase, along with options such as framing, and the print will be shipped to the customer’s home.

Money from the sales of prints will go towards the Robert Bateman Foundation, which promotes exposure to nature for young students.

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Bateman Centre opens in Steamship Terminal

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Roman Czarnomski, from Signs Of The Times, hangs a wall poster of a Robert Bateman painting on the outside wall of the historic CPR Steamship Terminal on Victoria’s Inner Harbour.

“I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, I’m exploring and discovering and always trying to improve.”- Robert Bateman

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Telling raven’s tale

A local filmmaking duo jet-ted to France last week as their latest collaboration once again reached amazing heights at the Cannes International Film Festi-val.

Director Jeremy Lutter and screenwriter/producer Daniel Hogg took off to iconic festival for the screening of the short film Floodplain, part of Telefilm

Canada’s Not Short on Talent program. The recognition fol-lows the success of their previ-ous work Joanna Makes a Friend, which screened at Cannes in 2012.

The story behind Floodplain, a coming-of-age-tale of a young couple who raft across an inte-rior B.C. floodplain, was written by fellow University of Victoria

alumnus and BBC National Short Story Award winner, D.W. Wilson and largely funded by a National Screen Institute Drama prize and an indigogo campaign.

The two have collaborated on more than 20 films since they met as UVic students at the Vic-toria Film Producers’ Associa-tion launch party in 1999.

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Laura LavinNews staff

Robert Budd has been lucky since birth.“When I was two-days old my brother named

me Lucky. My parents named me Robert when I was seven days old. But everyone calls me Lucky,” says the 37-year-old author.

His brother Adam, older by six years, did not want to add another sister to the family of four children. “He thought he was lucky to have another boy.”

More than luck has brought Budd some noto-riety, he is the host of CBC radio’s Voices of B.C. and author of the book Voices of British Columbia, in which he recounts the stories of B.C’s pioneers from hundreds of voice recordings taken in the late 1950s.

Budd’s latest book, Raven Brings the Light, is a collaboration with one of the country’s renown First Nation’s artists, Roy Henry Vickers.

Vickers contacted Budd 18 months ago, search-ing for some recorded interviews he had used as inspiration for some of his art. The artist invited Budd to Tofino to listen to one of his storytelling workshops.

“We hit it off like gangbusters,” says Budd of meeting 66-year-old Vickers.

After hearing Vickers tell the story of Raven, Budd envisioned a book.

“We just started rolling and he was completely inspired,” says Budd. Vickers created 19 new images for the book which tells the story of a boy named Weget who is destined to bring light to the world. With the gift of a magic raven skin, Weget fulfills his destiny. The book, released earlier this month is already in its second printing.

Meet Budd and Vickers at a book signing and art show at Madrona Art Gallery, 606 View St., on May 24 and 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more informa-tion go to harbourpublishing.com.

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Robert Bateman doesn’t think of himself as a particularly talented technical painter.

“I don’t think I’m a great painter, technically. I’m always struggling,” Bateman said. “I’m always making mistakes. … I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, I’m exploring and discovering and always trying to improve.”

He sees this as a perhaps part of the reason his paintings have proven to be so popular for so many years, however. He explains hundreds of artists paint birds and wildlife, as he is known for, so it’s not the subject matter alone which draws people to his work.

It perhaps has more to do with his approach, his vision of nature and this sense of discovery he approaches each project with.

The Robert Bateman Centre is opening Saturday, May 25 at noon in the old CPR Steamship Terminal and will feature around 160 of Bateman’s works, ranging from his earliest years as an artist through to the wildlife paintings he has become so well known for.

The exhibit will shed light on a side of Bateman few ever get the chance to see. An entire room has been devoted to Bateman’s environmental message

paintings. Some of Bateman’s portrait work will also be on display, mainly featuring paintings of his wife and friends.

“Most people don’t think of me as somebody who paints landscapes and portraits, but I do. They just don’t get out there,” Bateman said. “I’ve always kind of balked at being pigeonholed as a wildlife artist. It’s OK. It’s not an insult, but it’s kind of like saying Rembrandt is a portrait artist. Well he’s an artist in all kinds of broad ways.”

Bateman even went through an abstract expressionism period, which is represented at the gallery.

“That’s a major, major show for any artist,” Paul Gilbert, executive director of the Bateman Foundation, said. “It’s the first exhibition that’s kind of an insight into Bateman’s life, his personal interests, the work he did that most of the world has never seen.”

The show features original prints and reproductions, something Bateman said has been a tad controversial.

“It’s the only way to show the scope of my work. It would be impossible to start getting shipping and insurance and permissions,” Bateman said. “The reproductions, which have been going on since 1980, they’re very high quality, they’re not just like a poster.”

“The most important thing is the thought, the idea behind it.”

The majority of the paintings and prints have video and audio supplements of

Bateman talking about the work, which can be accessed via smart phones or tablets. The gallery will have tablets to loan to patrons who wish to take the self-guided tour.

Gilbert said he had some reservations installing the gallery in the old CPR Steamship Terminal building, a heritage

building designed by Francis Rattenbury. The second floor, where the gallery is located, was a shell, and Gilbert said he had a hard time seeing how the gallery’s layout would all come together.

Ultimately Gilbert is more than happy with the outcome.

“It’s worked better than I could possibly have hoped for.”

A gift shop is set to open on the first floor of the building about a month after the gallery’s opening. A service, which will be offered starting in the fall, is an opportunity for visitors to the gallery to order prints of the works on display through an interactive ordering station. Customers will pick the print they want to purchase, along with options such as framing, and the print will be shipped to the customer’s home.

Money from the sales of prints will go towards the Robert Bateman Foundation, which promotes exposure to nature for young students.

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Roman Czarnomski, from Signs Of The Times, hangs a wall poster of a Robert Bateman painting on the outside wall of the historic CPR Steamship Terminal on Victoria’s Inner Harbour.

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Steven HeywoodNews staff

When the last polling station reported in Tuesday night, the NDP’s Gary Holman clung to a 52-vote lead and only cautiously accepted the news that he had been declared the winner of Saanich North and the Islands.

“I won’t believe I’m elected until Elections B.C. confirms it,” he said in a call with the News Review Tuesday night.

Holman said there is still the counting of mail-in and absen-tee ballots to come — that and the final tally which won’t hap-pen until May 27 by Elections B.C.

First, however, Elections B.C. will conduct a recount. Since the race was decided by under 100 votes, there is an automatic recount by the district electoral officer.

Don Main, Elections B.C. communication manager, says a recount can happen when the vote spread between the top two candidates is less than 100, or if it’s requested by a candi-date. Yet to be counted, he said, are absentee and mail-in votes, as well as ballots cast at the district electoral office between when the election was called and 8 p.m. on May 14.

Should the final tally after May 27 result in a vote differential that is one-five hundredth of the total votes cast in Saanich North and the Islands, Main said there would be a judicial recount.

Roberts, as a result, still has his hopes up. He spent much of the evening watching the results pour in and monitoring tweets and posts on his phone.

“There was that strange last polling sta-tion that took a lot of time to report,” Rob-erts said Wednesday morning. “The mail-ins and absentee votes are still out there as well.

“We’re not quite done.”

Adam Olsen of the Green Party, mean-

while, looked to play the spoiler all night and at the end of the evening, was only around 300 votes off the leaders in Saanich

North and the Islands. With additional votes expected to be counted on May 27, even he cannot be counted out at this stage.

“Realistically, even though it is a close finish here, the eventual result depends on the remaining ballots,” he said. “Having said that, I haven’t con-ceded yet.”

Olsen said what the result in this riding means is that people cannot ever say that their vote does not count.

“We turn out to vote like few others in this province,” Olsen said of Saanich North and the Islands, which had a 64.8 per cent voter turnout — exceeding the provincial avarage of 52 per cent.

Olsen added he’s not unhappy with his third place finish at this stage, saying his strong campaign here helped bolster the fortunes of the Greens on the Island.

Andrew Weaver was elected B.C.’s first Green MLA in Oak

Recount for Saanich North and the IslandsBay-Gordon Head.

“We broke through,” Olsen said. “Andrew is a tremendous candidate. It helped, having a couple of strong campaigns around him.”

As for his leader, Jane Sterk, her future at the head of the Green Party is up to her, Olsen said. He credited Sterk for putting the party in a posi-tion to have the second candidate win in a first-past-the-post election in this country.

Again, he said he’ll be on pins and needles until the final vote count later this month.

South Island MLAs, he said, will now have t work very hard with local government and other groups to ensure the Liberals hear their needs.

Roberts said he’s happy to see his party back in a majority gov-ernment. He said it’s fantastic and reflects the voters’ desire to have a part in government committed to the economy and seeing a more prosperous province.

“The Liberals have always had a plan for that,” he said.

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NDP MLA-elect Gary Holman watches results come in last Tuesday at his Sidney campaign office in the riding of Saanich North and the Islands.

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Tom FletcherBlack Press

Premier Christy Clark said she will wait until election results are finalized and she has met with her 49 MLAs before deciding where to seek a seat to replace the one she lost last Tuesday.

NDP challenger David Eby defeated Clark by more than 700 votes in Vancouver-Point Grey, knocking on doors while Clark traveled the province on the leader’s tour.

At a news conference, Clark shrugged off the loss, saying the seat was closely contested when Gordon Campbell held it and that she also had little time to campaign there.

Asked repeatedly about polls that predicted her doom, Clark noted that she discussed that briefly with Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper when he called to congratulate her on winning the party’s fourth term.

And she offered some advice on polling to reporters who gathered at the Vancouver cabi-net offices.

“You guys get this stuff for free,” Clark said. “You should take it for what it’s worth.”

Results don’t become official until May 27, and there could still be changes in current leg-islature: 50 B.C. Liberals, 33 NDP MLAs, B.C. Green Andrew Weaver and Delta South inde-pendent Vicki Huntington. Hunt-ingon won re-election in Delta

South, a landmark for an inde-pendent to win twice without party affiliation.

Independents Bob Simpson in Cariboo North and John van Dongen in Abbotsford South, fell to their B.C. Liberal chal-lengers.

A high-profile climate sci-entist, Weaver benefited from the same highly concentrated campaign effort that produced a seat for national Green leader Elizabeth May.

Clark said she regrets the loss of cabinet ministers Ida Chong and Margaret MacDiarmid, but she is pleased to have a balance of 25 returning MLAs and 25 newcomers in the B.C. Liberal caucus.

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Future expansion eyed for Ogden PointNatalie NorthNews staff

Victoria is home to Canada’s busiest cruise ship port of call and the 500,000 visitors expected to disembark at Ogden Point in 2013 means no other city is competing for the title.

But with the projected increase in cruise traffic comes a need for expansion – a master plan now two years in the making for the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority.

The plan for the future of the hub, shaped by consultation with the public and dependent on zoning from the city likely won’t be complete for another year.

Curtis Grad, the GVHA’s chief executive officer and president discussed early details of expansion, from the possibility of an additional berth to those notorious breakwater handrails.

“With the larger ships coming on board and the Panama Canal being expanded, we will see larger ships in this market and they could be upwards of 330 to 360 metres long,” Grad said.

Another challenge: half of the port is landfill. The reclaimed land has less capacity for development, but plays an important role in supporting crews, Grad said. Since dredging two years ago, the berths can easy accommodate ships up to

315 metres in length.“As we continue to grow in

the Alaska market over the next 20 years, we will actually need a fourth berth, likely in the Victoria area, not necessarily at Ogden, to capture the growth.”

Esquimalt and Sidney are as yet uninvestigated possibilities, he said.

Bigger changes won’t be on the way until after the master plan is complete, a process expected to take the better part of this year.

In the meantime, 2013 will bring smaller upgrades which fall within the current zoning restrictions. A key component: a multipurpose float facility which would allow water taxi service

to downtown and decrease congestion, and allow whale watching boat access.

Other changes include the installation of a covered passenger waiting area made from the reclaimed E&N Railway roof. Reconfiguration of the parking areas, improvement of walking pathways and linking with the city’s harbour pathway are among the finer details.

Victoria Coun. Pam Madoff is hopeful the harbour authority will continue to uphold the standard set during the upgrading the tenancy agreement at Fisherman’s Wharf, which saw a unanimous agreement formed after months of consultation.

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Harbour authority CEO Curtis Grad hopes to attract more ships to Ogden Point.

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JumpShip postponed, ‘will return’ in 2014Cycling Festival changes look without JumpShip and Tour de Victoria

Travis PatersonNews staff

The most popular spectator event of the Victoria International Cycling Festival is tak-ing a one-year hiatus.

Due to a lack of necessary sponsorship the JumpShip event will not happen in 2014, a blow to the Cycling Festival’s overall expe-rience.

It’s not for a lack of sponsors per se, but a lack of cash to cover the event’s costs, said Eban Tomlinson, JumpShip event director.

“The current climate is sponsors want to give us in-kind and a festival this size needs $80,000 for indelible costs, for insurance and porta potties and the land, so it’s dif-ficult for us.”

JumpShip invites top stunt-jumping cyclists from all over the world to compete for cash prizes on a world-class course built on a barge at Ship Point.

It’s been a huge draw for foot traffic to the festival’s final weekend the past two years and was slated to headline its own weekend

at this year’s festival, June 14 to 16.The barge draws a huge crowd of specta-

tors, including hundreds in the neighbour-ing beer garden.

Despite disappointment from JumpShip

fans feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, Tomlinson added.

“Even if JumpShip is scaled down the event’s cash costs will remain the same,” Tomlinson said.

“Everybody understands if we can’t fund it we shouldn’t put it on. People are glad we’ve decided to postpone it rather than run a deficit so that we can make 2014 a much better year.”

Planning has already turned to 2014 for JumpShip organizers.

Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria, which ended smack in the middle of the Inner Harbour during the final weekend last year, has also moved dates. It will happen in Sep-tember so Hesjedal can attend, post race season.

“We’ve still got a slate of nine events and yes, it’s a shame to lose JumpShip, but we’re good to go and moving ahead,” said VICF chair John Briggs. “it is a loss for that particular weekend.”

The VICF starts with the Robert Cameron Law Series on Friday, May 31, a weekend of road cycling stages with a time trial, road race and Bastion Square criterium.  

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Rain parted for sunshine and a crowd on the final day of the second annual JumpShip at Ship Point in June 2012.

St. Michaels romp to Colonel Hodgkins trophy against GNSTravis PatersonNews staff

The Oak Bay Barbarians retained the Howard Russell Cup as Lower Island high school boys AAA rugby champions with a 39-17 win over the Mount Douglas Rams at Oak Bay High on Thursday.

Grade 12 student Conor McDiar-mid led the Barbs with a hat trick of tries. Captain Evan Cambridge scored the second try of the day as the Barbs used a well rounded attack to stymie the talented but new-to-rugby Rams.

“The Rams are a team of great athletes, you can see that, and we had to use our skill and structure to win,” Cambridge said.

Cambridge, a graduating senior and B.C. Youth 7s team member, will join the UVic Vikes rugby pro-gram next year. Vikes head coach Doug Tate was at the game watch-ing his son, Barbs’ fly half Morgan Tate.

On the opposite side of the field, Rams’ fullback Mason Swift gave the Barbs all kinds of fits. Swift is headed to play running back for the Guelph Gryphons football squad in the CIS this year and showed his skills are transferable.

“Rugby’s in my blood, I’m half Tongan, but I never played until

(last year),” Swift said. “Really I love it, but I just haven’t played enough.”

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started from standing, at times on his heels, not that it mattered, as he casually slapped off at least two tacklers per carry.

Early line breaks and a game’s worth of tackle breaks may have sapped Swift’s extraordinary fit-ness, though he continued to

break Barbarians’ tackles at half speed. Swift also managed mul-tiple try-saving tackles including two during one set of Barbarian phases.

The win is another notch in the historic rugby program so impor-tant to the Oak Bay High culture.

“It means a lot to win this tro-phy,” Cambridge said. “We hear

about what it means to be a Bar-barian from the time we’re in Grades 5 and 6. It’s passed down not just from older kids, but from our parents.”

The Rams, to their credit, surged in the second half using its massive forward pack to barge ahead but couldn’t convert their work into tries.

Jags run over GNSThe St. Michaels Blue Jaguars

romped to a 56-5 win over the Glenlyon Norfolk Gryphons in the AA Colonel Hodgkins Cup immedi-ately following the Howard Russell on Thursday.

GNS fielded a team full of Grade 10s and 11s and to their credit, scored the try of the day to end the game, said Blue Jags coach Ian Hyde-Lay.

All four above teams qualified for the first round of provincials, which happen Saturday (May 25) at Brentwood College. The No. 3 seed Blue Jags are missing a hand-ful of key regulars and will likely call up some talented Grade 10s when they face No. 14 seed Lady-smith in AA play. The 11 seed Gryphons face McRoberts (Rich-mond).

In AAA play No. 8 Oak Bay faces No. 9 Carson Graham and No. 14 Mount Doug draws No. 3 Earl Mar-riott.

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Barbs claim city rugby championship

Don Denton/News staff

Mount Doug Rams flanker Sasha Shurvin tackles Oak Bay Barbarians captain Evan Cambridge in the Howard Russell Cup, Thursday (May 16) at Oak Bay High. The Barbs won 39-17.

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Outstanding Male AthleteThomas Getty (Mount Douglas) - 3,000m Record 8:34.93

Most Inspirational AthleteThomas Getty (Mount Douglas secondary)1st 800m 1:56.68 1st 1,500m 4:00.291st 3,000m 8:34.93

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OTTER POINT RV Trailer Park. 40’ park model trailer (nopad fees) 3 slide outs +30’x52’ lot, fi nished deck &shed in new condition. Opento offers. Call 306-290-8764.

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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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SAANICH, STUDIO Apt, laun-dry, cable, heat, hydro, $625.250-748-1310, 250-380-7421.

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HOMES FOR RENT

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

NEAR COOK St. village, new 2 bdrm 5 apls prvt fenced yard small pet ok $1400 N/S. May15/ June 1. 250-383-8800

VIC WEST: July 1. Bright sun-ny 3 bdrm+ sunroom, 2 lvng rms, near ocean, $1650. 1 pet ok. N/S, ref’s. 250-383-8800

SUITES, LOWER

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

KEATING, 1300 sq ft, 2 bdrm, grd level, N/P, N/S, $1000 mo + utils. June. 1. (250)888-8668

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

QUADRA/MCKENZIE, newer grd level 2 bdrm, 2 full baths, F/S, lndry, part use of dbl gar-age, N/P, N/S, $1200 + part utils. Avail now. (250)658-5123

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

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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/main St. Garden, sunroom/den, W/D, D/W, F/P, parking, N/S, N/P. $1325 + utils. Avail June. 1st. Call Geoff 250-508-3937.

TOWNHOUSES

SIDNEY- 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath w/garage, gas F/P new, sun-room. NS/NP. $1550+ utils. Avail July 15. (250)656-7456.

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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.

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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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2000, 26’ Golden Falcon 5th wheel, 3 way fridge, slide out, new hot water 10gal tank, queen bed. In exc. cond. Stored in Ladysmith. $7200 fi rm. Call (250)580-2566.

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7’x12’ Deck Utility Trailer. Good for small tractors and quads. 4 wheels, loading ramps, green. $1350 obo. Call (250)384-7954.

MARINE

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TOTAL PACKAGE now! 39’ Tradewinds Asp Cabin Crusi-er, twin Cummins diesels, en-closed sundeck & bridge, 2heads sleeps 4-6. Very wellmaintained, boat house kept inNorth Saanich Marina. Asking$116,000. 50’ x 25’ enclosedboathouse available as part ofcomplete cruising and moor-age package. Ready to go!Call (250)361-7343.

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ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi

Certifi ed General Accountant

Bookkeeping, Audit,Payroll, HST. Set up &

Training. E-FileTAX

250-477-4601

CARPENTRY

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

McGREGOR HOME Repair & Renos. Decks to doors. Small jobs OK. WCB. (250)655-4518

INSTCARPET ALLATION

CARPET, LINO installation re-stretches & repairs. 30 years exp. Glen, 250-474-1024.

DRAFTING & DESIGN

GRAPHIC DESIGN. Business cards, logos, ads, posters. Rea-sonable. in.fl [email protected].

HOME RENOVATIONDesign for PermitCall Steven- 250. 381.4123.

ELECTRICAL

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.

GNC ELECTRIC Res/Comm. Reasonable rates for quality work. #43619. 250-883-7632.

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.

FENCING

ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

THE LANGFORD MAN- decks, fences, quality work, competitive pricing, licensed & insured. Fred, (250)514-5280.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

FURNITURE REFINISHING

FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & deliv-ery. References available. 250-475-1462.

GARDENING

(250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Lawn or moss? No job too big. Aerating, pwr raking, pruning. Weed, moss, blackberry, stump & ivy rmvl. 25yrs exp.

250-216-9476 ACCEPTING new clients, From the Ground Up, custom landscapes, fi nish carpentry, garden clean-ups.

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ACTION YARD CARE. 15 + years exp. Honest & reliable. Quality work. 250-744-6918.

AURICLE BSC 250-882-3129 Spring clean up Lawn aeration & fertilize-soil-hedges & more.

DPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141

GARDEN OVERGROWN? Weeding, lawn cuts, clean-ups, pruning. John Kaiser 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

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ELITE GARDEN MAINTENANCEClean ups, Lawn and Garden Care,

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INTELLIGENT IRRIGATION Eco-friendly, cost-saving main-tenance, installations, free est. Call Christian 250-508-0502.

J&L Gardening yard clean-up and maintenance. Master gar-deners. Call John or Louise (250)891-8677.

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

SPRING CLEANups, complete maintenance. Residential & Commercial. 250-474-4373.

TWO BROTHERS Lawn & Garden. Mowing, Clean-Ups, Garden Maint. (250)888-8461

YARD ART Tree, Hedge & Shrub Pruning Lawn Care. 250-888-3224

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250-507-6543. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, guards, pow-er washing, de-moss, Insured.

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free est.

HANDYPERSONS

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

HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

CITY HAUL- a lot of junk won’t fi t in your trunk, you’re in luck I own a truck. 250-891-2489.

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.

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

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JUNK BOX- We Do All The Loading

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.

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

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

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

FLOORING SALEOver 300 Choices

Lowest Prices Guaranteed!Laminates - $0.59/sq ftEngineered - $1.99 sq ftHardwood - $2.79 sq ft

Overnight Delivery in most of BC!www.kingoffl oors.com1.877.835.6670

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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.

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Michelle Mahovlich, Langford’s director of engineering.

While it’s “a lot of money” Miller said, “they will still need to build it.”

Until the overpass is built, pedestrians and cyclists will need to cross the highway at either Millstream or Leigh roads.

The interchange project went dormant after Leigh Road was extended to the highway and the bridge was installed in the summer of 2009. The Leigh Road interchange is now slated to open at 6 p.m. on June 15.

“It was a quieter night to open without weekday com-muters,” Mahovlich said. “We also didn’t want to open it right before the Canada Day week-

end.”Traffic patterns in the area

will change as vehicles will be unable to cross the intersection of Spencer Road and the TCH.

“A barrier will be placed across the road to the highway,” Mahovlich said.

The traffic signal at the inter-section will be deactivated and the three ramps at the Leigh Road interchange will open.

People accustomed to making left turns off Spencer Road to the highway heading up-Island will now have to use Leigh Road to access the highway.

At the end of May or early June the intersection at Gold-stream Avenue and Leigh Road will become a four-way stop, but there will be a non-stop flow

from Goldstream to Leigh Road.A fourth ramp proposed for

the interchange has no time-line scheduled for it. When it is eventually added, access to Goldstream Avenue from the TCH near West Shore Parkway, will be permanently closed.

The interchange cost $25 million paid for primarily by five private developers on Bear Mountain and South Skirt Mountain. The province is also chipping in $4 million while the municipality is not putting any cash into the project.

“It’s the biggest capital proj-ect for Langford. The arena and bowling alley cost $15 million,” Mahovlich said. [email protected]

Katelynne Miller, 18, uses the crosswalk at Spencer Road to cross the Trans Canada Highway every

day to attend classes at West Shore Learning Centre on Gold-stream Avenue.

On June 15 she will have to find a new route when the cross-walk closes at the same time as the Leigh Road inter-change opens.

“It’s sure going to be a hassle,” Miller said. “I’ll probably have to use the Mill-

stream overpass.”The new route will add about 20

minutes to her daily commute.“It’s already taking me about 15

minutes to walk to school and half an hour to get to the gym,” she said.

The City of Langford is looking

into adding an overpass at Spencer Road for pedestrians and bicycles, but that would cost $2 million the city doesn’t have in the budget.

“We are pretty confident it will be used and we will be looking for money from the Ministry of Trans-portation and Infrastructure,” said

Langford interchange to open in June

Charla HuberReporting

Spencer Road traffic access to be closed

Charla Huber/News staff

Katelynne Miller uses the crosswalk at Spencer Road

and the Trans Canada Highway twice a day. The crosswalk will close once

the Leigh Road interchange, left, opens on June 15.

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■ Lifetime Networks annual fundraiser ■ Friday, May 10 ■ Union Club

Joanna Frey played piano with the Lifetime Networks Band.

Adam Wilson and Tammy Averill of Country Grocer.

Kalee Andrew, Tessa Andrew and Sean Sutherland.

James Leonardo and Mike Mackereth.

Cam Culham, Stephanie, Kathleen and Kevin Cook.

Drew Denny, Michael Tarantino from AAA Stamp, Jewelry and Coin Inc., Elissa Bergman from Victoria Almost Free Magazine, and Dee Dee Tarantino.

Kyara and Edison Kahakauwila of L.A. Limousines.

Tammy Hatter from Royal Lepage, Amy Bell, Carmine De Michele, and Alisha Clark.

Braiden and Linda Gilmour of Iron Bell Fitness.

Lifetime Networks hosted 182 guests at the Union Club of BC May 10 for the 10th anniversary Gala Dinner and Auc-tion in support of individuals with developmental disabilities. � e gala was presented by Scotia Private Client Group, and emceed by Stephen Andrew of CTV.

Lifetime Networks creates opportunities for people with disabilities and their families, providing friendship and sup-port services so that all people can live rich and rewarding lives in our community – safely and with friends that care.

“We live in a world abundant with opportunity. Opportu-nities to see, explore and share moments. Moments that are o� en made more special when shared with a friend. At Life-time Networks we understand the importance of friendship as being one of the cornerstones to a ful� lling life.

“If you’re looking for friendship and support, be part of our network. Because it’s more than the moment that matters, it’s who you share it with.”

To learn more visit us online at www.Lifetimenetworks.org or call 250-477-4112.

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ChickenQuesadilla

486

Back Ribs

MADEIN-STORE

4ALBERTA

RAISED

EXTRA LEAN

GroundBeef356

BONELESS

StewingBeef396

Rand.Cuts

2%Asst.

1 L

2/6002 Flav. 170 g

540 ml

Select+ dep.Assorted4x311 g

SANTA CRUZ

SparklingFruit Beverage

Asst.Asst.630 g

PUREX

BathroomTissue 596

Double 12 Roll

each

Mandarins

each76¢

BC GROWN

BunchSpinach each

Now BackFor The SeasonFor The SeasonFor The SeasonLOCAL

Victoria Grown

TomatoesGLANFORD

GREENHOUSE