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End of the road

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Twenty-one riders from Cops for Cancer’s Tour de Rock take off from CFB Esquimalt enroute to Victoria’s Centennial Square Friday morning — the final destination of the ride.

Catching graffiti vandals a difficult job for policePamela RothVictoria News

When Const. Franco Brushetta took over the role of anti graffiti coordinator for Victoria police, he didn’t know much about the meaning behind the paint splashed across various properties throughout the city.

But the more he became entrenched in the position, the more he studied the psychology behind graffiti vandalism, and got to know what’s going through the mind of those committing the crime.

“There’s a whole graffiti subculture that’s out there that people need to understand,” said Brushetta. “It depends on their upbringing, where they’ve come from, their social background, who they hang out with, their friends and what not. Recognition is huge.”

Every week, Victoria police receive between six to 12 calls about graffiti vandalism in various parts of the city. Those files land on Brushetta’s desk, where he assists members with trying to determine what the tag is and who the potential tagger might be to follow up with any charges.

Brushetta estimates there are between 10 to 15 people who tag all types of infrastructure, such as power poles and mail boxes to walls and etching glass. The culprits are mainly males, ranging in age from 16 to their thirties.

Some of the vandals have been identified by police, but Brushetta said it’s difficult to prove that they are the ones committing the crime. So far police have been able to charge between two to four graffiti vandals a month, but Brushetta would like to see more arrests made.

“It’s difficult catching them. If you have video evidence or an eyewitness, you’re golden. That’s what we need,” said Brushetta. “People who are out driving around with their cell phones and see somebody actually tagging a wall, they need to call 911.”

The Downtown Victoria Business Association (DVBA) removes an average of 100 tags of all shapes and sizes within their downtown boundaries every week. Most tags at street level in the downtown core are removed within 24 hours, but city staff are seeing a rise in larger tags placed high on rooftops that take more time to remove.

In order to prevent some of the tagging, the city has launched a program that will turn a number of graffiti hot spots into 10 colourful murals. The program matches professional artists with youth

interested in public art, then create murals in six locations throughout Victoria and surrounding neighbourhoods.

Brushetta believes the program is a step in the right direction, but the problem will never go away.

“There’s always going to be people out there wanting to tag and get their name out there,” he said, noting murals seldom get marked or tagged.

During the last two-and-a-half years on the job, Brushetta has seen the graffiti problem remain steady and credits volunteer groups for going out and removing tags in neighbourhoods themselves. Removing the graffiti as soon as possible is key so they don’t become another Tolmie Lane.

For years, Tolmie Lane was riddled with graffiti and businesses were marked with hundreds of tags

of all shapes and sizes. A year-and-a-half ago, police and city officials approached business owners that backed onto the alley to paint over the graffiti and continue to do so whenever the tags returned.

Now, Brushetta said the lane has been relatively graffiti free.

“Eventually over time they will get tired of going back there because they know it’s going to get cleaned up and nobody is going to see their tags if people are taking responsibility and cleaning up the property,” said Brushetta, adding tagged property should be reported to police before it’s cleaned up.

“If they don’t (clean it up right away), then the tagger is going to think that’s acceptable and he’s going to keep coming back. It’s a simple concept, but it works.” [email protected]

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Candidates should be cautious about online posts, says profKendra WongVictoria News

A University of Victoria professor is warning candidates to be cautious about what they post online after two Island Liberal candidates withdrew from the federal election in the last few weeks for inappropriate comments made on social media.

Last week, Victoria Liberal candidate Cheryl Thomas resigned after comments made about the Jewish and Muslim communities resurfaced on a satirical website, Truth North Times.

Thomas, who worked in the Middle East, posted on Facebook in 2014 saying “the oppressed of the Warsaw ghettos and the concentration camps have become the oppressors, keeping the Palestinians who are left in their “homeland” in ghettoes.”

In 2013, she said mosques are being used as brainwashing stations.

Thomas has since apologized for the comments, stating they are “offensive and have no place in our political

discourse.”“I want to apologize

particularly to the Jewish and Muslim communities for these insensitive statements,” she wrote in a statement on her campaign page.

According to Janni Aragon, assistant professor in the department of political science and the director of technology integrated learning, Thomas made the right

decision to step down. “Her comments were

very problematic,” she said, adding parties need to vet candidates more closely.

“If you’re running for office, you’re now saying that you’re a

public person and you make yourself vulnerable to people researching you and your digital footprint.”

A few days earlier, Liberal candidate Maria Manna running in the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding also resigned after expressing skepticism about the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S.

Aragon said candidates need to be more mindful of what

they comment on, post or retweet.

“People want to know if they can trust you, what’s your judgement like,” she said, adding in the age of social media, candidates must continue with traditional campaign methods such as door knocking, but should also have a strong social media presence.

“Candidates need to be smarter. It’s unfortunate that she made these comments, but the fact that people could go and find them is an issue as well.”

Thomas’ resignations means there will be no Liberal candidate running in the Victoria riding, since the deadline for candidates to enter the race set out by Elections Canada has passed.

Her name will still appear on the ballot on the Oct. 19 election, even though she isn’t [email protected]

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Candidates should be cautious about online posts, says profKendra WongVictoria News

A University of Victoria professor is warning candidates to be cautious about what they post online after two Island Liberal candidates withdrew from the federal election in the last few weeks for inappropriate comments made on social media.

Last week, Victoria Liberal candidate Cheryl Thomas resigned after comments made about the Jewish and Muslim communities resurfaced on a satirical website, Truth North Times.

Thomas, who worked in the Middle East, posted on Facebook in 2014 saying “the oppressed of the Warsaw ghettos and the concentration camps have become the oppressors, keeping the Palestinians who are left in their “homeland” in ghettoes.”

In 2013, she said mosques are being used as brainwashing stations.

Thomas has since apologized for the comments, stating they are “offensive and have no place in our political

discourse.”“I want to apologize

particularly to the Jewish and Muslim communities for these insensitive statements,” she wrote in a statement on her campaign page.

According to Janni Aragon, assistant professor in the department of political science and the director of technology integrated learning, Thomas made the right

decision to step down. “Her comments were

very problematic,” she said, adding parties need to vet candidates more closely.

“If you’re running for office, you’re now saying that you’re a

public person and you make yourself vulnerable to people researching you and your digital footprint.”

A few days earlier, Liberal candidate Maria Manna running in the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding also resigned after expressing skepticism about the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S.

Aragon said candidates need to be more mindful of what

they comment on, post or retweet.

“People want to know if they can trust you, what’s your judgement like,” she said, adding in the age of social media, candidates must continue with traditional campaign methods such as door knocking, but should also have a strong social media presence.

“Candidates need to be smarter. It’s unfortunate that she made these comments, but the fact that people could go and find them is an issue as well.”

Thomas’ resignations means there will be no Liberal candidate running in the Victoria riding, since the deadline for candidates to enter the race set out by Elections Canada has passed.

Her name will still appear on the ballot on the Oct. 19 election, even though she isn’t [email protected]

“If you’re running for office, you’re now saying that you’re a public person and you make yourself vulnerable to people researching you and your digital footprint.”

- Janni Aragon

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Questioning candidates of Esquimalt-Saanich-SookeRandall Garrison – NDPWhat would your party do to ensure Canada’s seniors are able to live comfortably in their retirement?

Everyone deserves to retire with dignity. But nearly one third of working Canadians will face a steep drop in their standard of living when they retire, and seven out of 10 of us don’t have a workplace pension plan. Instead of strengthening public pensions, Stephen Harper raised the age of retirement to 67 and refused calls from the country’s premiers to bolster the CCP/QPP. And just like the last Liberal government, the Conservatives have done nothing to protect private pensions when companies go bankrupt. The NDP is committed to restoring the retirement age to 65, so people can retire on time. We will also boost the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) and expand the Canada pension plan so people have enough money to retire comfortably. I think it is also important to have affordable options, so the NDP has committed to invest in affordable housing that meets seniors’ needs if we are elected government.

How would your party address the need to strengthen Canada’s infrastructure and what project would you say is the highest priority for your riding?

An NDP government is committed to work with towns and cities to build new roads, bridges and community infrastructure. Specifically, the NDP will launch a Better Transit Plan to reduce gridlock and commute times across Canada by investing $1.3 billion per year over 20 years to support municipal needs. We will increase direct transfers to municipalities to build and repair roads, bridges and transit with an additional $1.5 billion annually by the end of the NDP’s first mandate. I believe it is important to work with, not against, provinces and territories to ensure effective investments while rigorously respecting their jurisdiction. We can also kick-start manufacturing with a new Innovation Tax Credit. Locally, I am committed to securing the long promised shipbuilding jobs that will be long-term, high-skilled, and well paying. Investing in shipbuilding also supports rebuilding a viable navy that has been so neglected by the Harper government.

Frances Litman – Green PartyWhat would your party do to ensure Canada’s seniors are able to live comfortably in their retirement?

Over 600,000 seniors live in poverty. The Green Party would introduce a Guaranteed Livable Income that ensures that Canadians of all ages have the means to live in dignity with a roof over their head and food on the table. This will save money through better health outcomes and reduced crime rates as well as improving our quality of life. Our National Pharmacare Program will provide seniors with affordable access to the medicines that they need. By expanding and coordinating the patchwork of public and private schemes, and bulk purchasing of generic drugs, Canadians could save up to $11 billion annually.

Ninety per cent of seniors deal with at least one chronic disease. Treating those diseases amounts to 60 per cent of all senior health care costs. But often those in need of long term care end up in emergency rooms, which are not designed to meet their needs and have high costs. Greens support an Aging in Place approach which supports seniors with homecare that enables them to stay at home, in their community, safely and comfortably.


The gap between the infrastructure funding our communities need and the funding they receive is estimated at $350 billion. Investing in better roads, bridges, water and wastewater treatment, affordable housing, transit and cycling infrastructure creates local jobs as well as improving our cities and towns. The Green Party would provide one point of the GST — about $6.4 billion annually — to fixing up and building infrastructure in our communities.

In Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, there are two main priorities. We need to ensure that the federal government contributes its fair share to wastewater treatment (sewage) for the core area and other areas. This needs to happen without the pressure of artificial deadlines, allowing for a good local process. Second, the federal government needs to invest in better transit and cycling infrastructure.

Shari Lukens – ConservativeWhat would your party do to ensure Canada’s seniors are able to live comfortably in their retirement?

Canada’s seniors have saved and worked their entire lives, and I believe they know best how to make financial decisions about their futures and their retirement. Seniors at all income levels are benefitting from tax cuts and enhanced benefits introduced by the Conservative government. For example, tax-free savings accounts have provided 2.7 million seniors with a secure and flexible savings option that protects their money from being eroded by taxes; pension income splitting is providing significant tax relief to over one million senior couples; increases to Guaranteed Income Supplement benefits are helping Canada’s most vulnerable seniors, and increases to the Age Credit and the Pension Income Credit are providing significant tax relief to eligible seniors.

As a result of these measures, about 400,000 seniors have been removed from the tax rolls completely.

A re-elected Conservative government will establish a $2,000 Single Seniors Tax Credit that will extend additional annual tax relief to nearly 1.6 million single and widowed seniors in Canada who have pension income. When combined with the existing $2,000 Pension Income Credit that is claimed by 4.6 million seniors already, this new measure will double the tax relief available to single seniors annually, beginning in January 2017.


The economic success of Canada — and of the riding of Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke — depends greatly on the strength of our communities. Infrastructure projects benefit residents, families, businesses and visitors alike while generating economic growth and creating jobs.

Our government’s commitment to infrastructure represents $80 billion over the next 10 years. I am committed to investing in public infrastructure to reduce commuting times for families, enhance our economic productivity, and encourage job creation and economic growth.

David Merner – LiberalWhat would your party do to ensure Canada’s seniors are able to live comfortably in their retirement?

A Liberal government will reverse Conservative cuts and provide Canadians with a more secure retirement. We will restore the eligibility age for Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement to 65, putting an average of $13,000 annually into the pockets of the lowest income Canadians as they become seniors.We will: increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement for single, lower income seniors by ten per cent, providing up to an $920 more to Canada’s 1.25 million lowest income seniors, including 900,000 single women.OAS and GIS will be indexed to a new, more accurate, and more generous Seniors Price Index of goods most commonly purchased by seniors. In periods when the Consumer Price Index grows faster than the Seniors Price Index, the traditional Consumer Price Index will be used. We will continue to allow income splitting for seniors. We will work with the provinces and territories, workers, employers and retiree organizations to enhance the Canada Pension Plan and make it more generous at lower cost.

Liberals support voluntary deferral of CPP and OAS pensions until age 70 in return for higher pensions. We also support raising the age for mandatory withdrawal from RRSPs.


A Liberal government will make the largest new infrastructure investment in Canadian history. We will: nearly double federal infrastructure investment to almost $125 billion over the next decade, as described at realchange.ca; provide new, dedicated funding to provinces, territories, and municipalities for public transit infrastructure, social infrastructure and green infrastructure; help fund public infrastructure projects by creating a new Canada Infrastructure Bank; and invest $100 million more annually to support the development of clean technology, as well as $200 million each year to support innovation and clean technologies in forestry, fisheries, energy and agriculture.

Frances Litman Shari Lukens David MernerRandall Garrison

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B.C. Lottery Corporation considering second casino

The B.C. Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has asked six communities throughout the region whether they would be interested in hosting a casino or community gaming facility.

Greater Victoria currently has one casino and two bingo facilities — View Royal Casino, Playtime Victoria (on Tillicum Road in the District of Saanich) and Bingo Bingo in Esquimalt.

After looking at existing play, population trends, traffic patterns and tourism during a recent assessment, the BCLC indicated there’s opportunity for a second gaming facility in the region.

Saanich, Oak Bay, Victoria, Esquimalt, Esquimalt First Nation and the Songhees First Nation have

been identified as the markets with potential.

Local governments are asked to respond in writing, indicating whether they are interested in being considered a host. Any facility proposals put forward will require the local government to seek and consider adequate community input and other consultation requirements.

Local governments that host a casino or community gaming centre receive a 10 per cent share of the province’s net gaming income generated by those facilities. Last year, View Royal received more than $4 million in gaming revenue from the View Royal Casino. The money was used to fund library services and other community programs.

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Tour de Rock wraps up rideKendra WongVictoria News

With sweat dripping down their noses and the soft, rhythmic sound of dozens of cyclists breathing in unison, the Tour de Rock riders made a final push into CFB Esquimalt last week surrounded by fellow police officers.

Twenty-one riders completed the 14-day, 1,000-kilometre Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock beginning in Port Alice, running the length of Vancouver Island and finishing in Victoria’s Centennial Square Friday afternoon.

The tour raised funds for the Canadian Cancer Society, which uses the money to fund pediatrics cancer research and programs that help children with cancer and their families.

But the ride wasn’t easy. Participants started training in March, cycling three days a week and as much as 200 kilometres a week.

“It’s very physically demanding, you have to be fit to do the tour. I got sick and didn’t have a lot of energy (during the tour) but that’s when the team really pulled together and encouraged me,” said Hilary Eastmure, media rider with Vista Radio.

“We met so many many amazing people and they have such

heart felt stories to tell you. It’s important to listen to it and take it all in and come away from it with positive motivation instead of getting down about all the people we’ve lost to cancer. It’s about staying focused and finding a cure.”

Riders also stopped in 27 communities, including 46 schools along the way.

Const. Matt Rutherford with the Victoria Police Department said meeting kids at schools has been the best part of the tour.

Hearing the stories of kids affected by cancer and lost their battle was the hardest. Some

riders broke down and cried.

“I definitely welled up with some of those stories,” said Rutherford. “The families that have lost a child because of cancer are so resilient and so positive about life. It’s amazing to see.”

A number of schools also raised money for the cause, including Oaklands Elementary School.

The school of 443 students raised more than $18,000 in a month through raffles, door-to-door donations and a head shave.

The fundraiser was in honour of Rene Soto, a student who was a junior rider during last

year’s Tour de Rock. He passed away from cancer in the summer.

“He had so much resilience. He had a love for life that you wouldn’t believe,” said Oaklands principal Holly Holt. “The last weekend of his life he was at Camp Goodtimes making friendship bracelets. I think that says it all. That’s who he was.”

She noted there are two other students — one in kindergarden and the other in Grade 1 — who are currently battling cancer.

“It is a cause that is very near and dear to this community,” Holt said. [email protected]

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Twenty-one riders from Cops for Cancer’s Tour de Rock take off from CFB Esquimalt enroute to Victoria’s Centennial Square Friday morning — the final destination of the ride.


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Social media posts can be damaging

Living in a world where people are glued to their cell phones, it’s never been more crucial to be aware of the things we post online.

Many people may not be aware that various parts of their Facebook page are open to the public, allowing bosses, journalists and anyone else to pry into what they’ve said or done in the last however many years.

Liberal candidate Cheryl Thomas has learned this lesson the hard way after comments made about Jewish and Muslim communities resurfaced on the online publication, True North Times.

In 2014, Thomas posted on Facebook, saying “the oppressed of the Warsaw ghettos and the concentration camps have become the oppressors, keeping the Palestinians who are left in their “homeland” in ghettoes.”

The year prior, she said mosques are being used as brainwashing stations, and in 2012, Thomas said: “Santa has to be white!! You can’t have a brown guy with a beard sneaking into your house in the middle of the night! You’d be calling the bomb squad!”

The comments leave a person wondering, what on Earth was Thomas thinking? But it’s probably safe to say she wasn’t expecting those comments would ever come back to hurt her, especially in the middle of an election campaign. The 60-year-old, who’s worked in the Middle East, has since stepped down, leaving no Liberal candidate for the Victoria riding.

So the next time you get into a Facebook discussion about a controversial topic, or post endless selfies of your beach vacation, you might want consider that you never quite know who your audience is.

When political careers or careers in general are being compromised because of posts on social media, we must ask ourselves, is it really necessary to share our entire lives and thoughts online?

The federal budget document began with an ominous warning about deep cuts. Social programs, justice and corrections would be spared as much as possible, but no department would escape the knife.

The stark truth was revealed in a table of figures. Health care spending, the core of the Canadian state, was cut by 3.8 per cent in just the first year of the fiscal plan, as population and need continued to grow.

No, this is not from the Stephen Harper budget of April 2015, or any other in the last decade. It’s from the Jean Chretien budget of 1995, more than 20 years ago. That’s the last time anyone actually cut health care spending.

But wait, you may say. Didn’t I hear that Harper has slashed health care spending by $30 billion? Yes, you probably did hear the biggest, most brazen lie of this election campaign, either from the government unions that advertised it or the politicians who parrot it.

If health care really is everyone’s high-priority issue, as pollsters have long assured us, voters should at least know the facts.

After cutting provincial health and social services transfers for years to end the string of operating deficits that began under Pierre Trudeau and continued under Brian Mulroney,

Liberal finance minister Paul Martin rose briefly to the top job.

In 2004, Martin staged meetings with premiers, emerging with what was billed as “a fix for a generation,” with federal health transfers to rise six per cent each year into the future.

The future for Martin’s government lasted only two years, as his minority was replaced with one led by Harper.

These galloping increases continued until the Conservative majority of 2011, after which then-finance minister Jim Flaherty came to Victoria to inform provincial finance ministers of the new plan. (I was there, and the joke was that this was as far from Ottawa as Flaherty could get without leaving Canada.)

The six-per-cent increases, by that time triple inflation, would continue for another five years. Starting in 2017-18, increases would be tied to economic growth, with a minimum hike of three per cent, still well ahead of today’s inflation. That remains the Conservative plan today.

All provinces east of Saskatchewan pitched a fit. Manitoba’s NDP finance minister termed it “un-Canadian.” Lefties immediately called it a cut, to which Flaherty replied that transfers to provinces would rise from $30 billion to $38 billion in 2018-19, and continue to grow after that.

In B.C., then-finance minister Kevin

Falcon praised the long-term approach, acknowledging that health spending was ballooning to half of the provincial budget and had to be brought under control as baby boomers start to retire. B.C. has largely accomplished that, with spending increases below three per cent and health care outcomes that continue to lead the country.

As the current election campaign turns into the home stretch, Statistics Canada has announced a milestone. For the first time in history, the number of seniors exceeds number of children. This demographic shift is inexorable, predictable and must be addressed by whoever wins the Oct. 19 federal election.

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is on record that he will scrap the Conservative formula for growth-based increases that he pretends are cuts, returning to six per cent every year while balancing the budget. Little detail has been provided on how this would be done.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced in Surrey last week that he will ante up an extra $3 billion over four years for health care, and “sit down with the provinces immediately” to renegotiate, a rerun of Paul Martin’s political theatre.

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Pacific Opera Victoria kicks off season with Otello

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Thirty-five years ago, Timothy Vernon found his baby.

He didn’t expect the Pacific Opera Victoria to reach the level of professionalism it is today, but he’s thoroughly delighted that it has.

According to Vernon, subscriptions for the opera are way up this season when subscriptions for other companies across the country are down.

Vernon is thrilled to be kicking off another exciting season with the premier of Gieuseppe Verdi’s Otello Oct. 15.

“Otello has a fabulous opening scene — there’s this enormous all-engulfing storm and it involves chorus and rituals and orchestra parts. It’s loud and full of brilliant light and dark effects,” said Vernon,

adding the production will have between 40 to 50 people on stage and another 40 to 50 people in the orchestra.

A faithful adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello, the production stars Lithuanian tenor Kristian Benedikt in

the title role, and also showcases American opera singer Todd Thomas as Lago and Canadian soprano Leslie Anne Bradley as Desdemona.

Otello is an illustrious general with an adoring life, until Lago sets out to destroy him and tear his marriage apart. With intuition and lies, malevolence and false kindness, Lago plays on his general’s vulnerability. The tragedy unfolds inexorably and a love born in hope spirals into violence and desolation.

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Otello started about two weeks ago. Unlike theatre, the singers must arrive with all their lines already memorized.

As the opera’s artistic director, Vernon is responsible for selecting the three productions this year. When deciding what to perform, he traces the history of the repertoire in the company and develops a feel for what the audience is ready for. With 400 years worth of opera, Vernon has plenty

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“I like to show people how wonderful the creativity is of these great composers and how infecting they can be and entertaining as well. When you get a score such as Otello, at the absolute peak of his (Verdi) creativity, that’s an astonishing thing,” he said, adding the drama, lighting, set and costumes are all important for a production.

“It’s (opera) very special. You have to go in, sit down, open your ears, your heart, be ready for music and be ready to be engaged. Opera is very involving.”

Otello runs Oct. 15 to 25 at the Royal Victoria Theatre. Tickets range between $25 and $135.

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Weeks before Kristia Di Gregorio was diag-nosed with breast can-cer, she released a CD that made her proud.

The singer-song-writer from Victoria recorded the album with Joby Baker, who’s produced numerous Juno and Grammy winning tracks. Di Gregorio thought this would be the break out for her music career.

“I was going to tour and had all these plans,” she said. “Instead, it was a years worth of treat-ment.”

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Four months after her diagnosis, Di Gre-gorio had a mastec-tomy. When Christ-mas arrived a month later, it was particu-larly hard because it marked the third anni-versary of the death of her father, who lost his battle with cancer on Christmas Eve.

Feeling like her dreams were falling out of reach, Di Gre-gorio decided not to give in to despair and began conceptualizing a music video proj-ect that would allow her to share a song – Oh My Heart, that she wrote when she started to experience chest pains.

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Di Gregorio’s jour-ney towards becom-ing cancer free is still not over. Since her mastectomy, she’s had her ovaries removed and discovered one of them also had some cancer.

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The process of brew-ing soda is a simple task — it's the art of finding flavours that mix well together that's the chal-lenge.

Matt Phillips, founder of Phillips Soda Works, has found the right mix of flavours with his two signature ginger ale and root beer sodas.

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The soda shop is an off shoot of the locally-owned and operated Phillips Brewing Com-pany, that made the jump to the soda mar-ket (they still brew beer as well) roughly five years ago.

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Penny Stone remembers viv-idly the day she helped rescue dozens of sled dogs from a facil-ity in Whistler.

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Victoria’s other goals were fired in by Tyler Soy and Alex Forsberg on the power play, while Jack Walker would score the fifth and final goal for the home team. Nick Chyzowski scored Kamloops’ lone marker in the second period.

Royals’ defenceman Joe Hicketts notched three assists to sur-pass former Chilli-wack Bruin Brandon Manning for the most assists by a defender in franchise history. Hicketts has tallied 94 assists in his 170 game career, while Manning recorded 91 assists in the 200 contests he played with the Bruins.

Victoria’s netminder Coleman Vollrath tied former Royal goalten-der Patrik Polivka for most victories in club history at 56.

The Friday night game saw the Royals score on two power play opportunities in a 4-2 victory over the Blazers.

The Royals will wrap up their six-game home stand with a weekday back-to-back series against the Spokane Chiefs on Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Royals snuff out Blazers

Victoria Royals Tyler Soy celebrates on his back after scoring on a power play against Kamloops Blazer goalie Connor Ingram. Soy and Ingram both ended up on their backs after tripping over each others’ skates following the goal. Royals won the game, their second in two nights against the Blazers 5-1 to begin the season with a 4-0-0 record.

Don Denton/Victoria News

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Summer may be behind us, but fall fun is in full swing. Okto-berfest kicks off Oct. 2. Put on your lederhosen and enjoy the many fun events and activities around town.

The 30th annual Vic-toria Fall Home Expo is happening at Pearkes Community Centre Oct. 16 to 18. The Oct. 14 edition of the papers will have a feature wrap with a full exhibitor list and information on the show, make sure to check it out and come and visit us at our Black Press booth.

The federal election is almost here and you can make a difference. Get out and vote, Oct. 19. See page 3 and 4 for candidate Q&As.

New and notable in the neighbourhood

Now open in the Cook Street Village is The Village Taverna. Located right in the heart of Cook Street Village, just around the corner from Starbucks on Pendergast Street. The variety of tastes you can enjoy in their restaurant are a care-ful fusion of traditional and contemporary Greek cuisine, readily prepared using only

the best, freshest ingre-dients. If you loved Eugenes’s Green Res-taurant you will love The Village Taverna even more.

If pizza is your pas-sion you will be excited to know that Pizzeria Prima Strada will be opening a third location at Fort and Foul Bay. Owners Cristen DeCaro-lis Dallas and Geoffrey Dallas are excited to join the neighbourhood. “(We’re) excited to be sharing our passion for Neapolitan pizza in a great new neighbour-hood. Honestly, for us, it’s always been about being in neighbour-hoods. Prima Strada is the place you can walk or bike to with family and friends for a great experience,” says Dal-las.

Citizen Clothing is very excited to

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Keeping healthy is vital to feeling good and Vivi Therapy is passionate about help-ing people be better and feel better. “We are passionate about body-work and our com-

munity and are here to support our clients in staying healthy and mobile and to supply local body workers with superior quality products at incredible prices,” says owner Roxanne Derkson. Located at 1608 Camo-sun St., Vivi offers a variety of pain relief services such as regis-tered massage, felden-krais and acupuncture. They also have a retail store where you can pick up all of your mas-sage supply needs.

A sneak peak at things to come — Yuk Yuk’s International Comedy Club will be coming to Victoria in spring of 2016. Stay tuned to the Victoria News for more infor-mation on this exciting new addition to the Victoria entertainment scene.

October scoop in Victoria

Has your business moved or recently opened? Contact Lisa Holliday-Scott at [email protected] or Steven Arneson at [email protected].


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We’re taking a closer look at glass recycling collection.Our fleet of new trucks — with a separate compartment reserved just for glass recycling — will be in your neighbourhood soon. That means that your glass bottles and jars are now required to be separated from other recyclables into a separate blue box or similar sized container to qualify for curbside pick up. This new step will help keep our materials streams uncontaminated for current and future resource recovery efforts.

Look for our mailer package with a helpful label and other separation and safety tips or visit www.crd.bc.ca/glass

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ICICLE CHRISTMAS lights, 10 bundles $5/each. Call (250)652-1348.

KENMORE VACUUM cleaner $99. Call (250)592-0947.

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STEEL BUILDINGS. Madness Sale! All buildings, all models. You’ll think we’ve gone mad deals. Call now and get your deal. Pioneer Steel, 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

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

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PARKING SPACE near Lans-downe Camosun College. 3 min. walk to campus. Only $75/mo. Save $55/mo (or more for long-term). Chris, 250-595-0370.

ROOMS FOR RENT

VICTORIA FURNISHED room in newer house, $550 incl. N/P. Avail now (250)886-6855.

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ACCESS TO water. Mature respectful quiet hygienic N/S.Bright 12x16 + ample closetensuite. Sunny deck, 7 appl.$875+. N/P. (778)433-8822.

SUITES, LOWERDEEP COVE: lrg 1 bdrm, acreage, hot tub. W/D, catsok, N/S. $850+. 250-656-1312

TOWNHOUSESLAVENDER CO-OP is accept-ing applications for a quiet,bright 3 bdrm townhouse, gar-age/storage, W/D hookup,fenced backyard. $1051/mo.Share purchase $2500. Grossincome $47,000+. Applicationsavailable in the glass case out-side the Community Hall at10A-620 Judah St.

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AUTO FINANCING

AUTO SERVICESFREE REMOVAL of all vehi-cles, cash paid for some. Anycondition. Call (250)889-5383

CARS 2010 CHEVY Cobalt LT, 4 door, black, power everything,auto, A/C, less then 73,000km,$8,000 with full tank of gas!Call 250-634-8586.

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RECREATIONAL VEHICLESFOR SALE

2013 34’ Keystone Cougar 293SAB Fifth Wheel. Immacu-late, only used 4 weeks. 5year warranty available. 3slide outs, rear room withbunks, 2nd bathroom, alumi-num frame, bike rack, electricawning. Lots of extras nego-tiable. $35,500. 250-882-6707.

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

AFFORDABLE, EFFICIENT bookkeeping or Payroll Servic-es avail. Call (250)858-5370.

CARPENTRY

ALLHOME Reno’s & Restora-tions: Kitchens, bath, addi-tions, re-modeling. We build custom homes. Decks, rail-ings & fences. 35 yrs experi-ence. General maintenance. Comm/Res. 250-213-7176.

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

JEREMIAH’S CARPENTRY- Interior fi nishing, weather proofi ng, decks, fencing, lami-nate fl oors. Reasonable rates. Insured. Call 250-857-1269 or www.jeremiahscarpentry.com

CLEANING SERVICES

AFFORDABLE! SUPPLIES & vacuum incld’d. All lower Is-land areas. 250-385-5869.

Spik N’ Span Cleaning. Excel-lent rates. Esquimalt/Victoria. Senior Disc. (778)432-3588.

CONCRETE & PLACING

RBC CONCRETE Finishing. All types of concrete work. No job too small. Seniors dis-count. Call 250-386-7007.


ELECTRICAL

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

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Company. Res/Com. Lic #86952. Call 250-415-7991.

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. Work Guaran-teed. Any size job. Call (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

FENCING

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

GARDENING

(250)208-8535. YARD & gar-den overgrown? Lawn cuts/ repairs. Tree & hedge pruning. Soil/mulch delivery. 25yrs exp.

(250) 858-0588- Lawn & garden maint.

- Landscaping- Fences & Decks

- Hedge & Tree Services- Pressure Washing

Free estimates * WCBwww.mowtime.ca

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


GARDENING

GARDEN OVERGROWN? Cleanups, lawn cuts, pruning, blackberry clearing. Call John 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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 estimate

ABBA Exteriors Inc.“Fall Clean-Up Specials”Gutter & Window CleaningConcrete Power Washing

Vinyl Siding CleaningRoof Sweep & De-MossingCarpentry * Yard Cleanup

Handyman RepairsFree Estimates

WCB Insured, BBB Certifi ed; Now accepting Visa/ MC

*Seniors Discounts*(778)433-9275

www.abbaexteriors.caLocally owned Family business

ALWAYS BRIGHT & Clean. Grand Xterior Cleaning. Re-pairs, Gutters, roofs windows, PWash, lights. 250-380-7778.

HANDYPERSONS

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.


HANDYPERSONS

HOUSE & Yard repairs. no job too small. OAP Discounts, free est. Andy, 250-886-3383.

RENO SPECIALIST- Carpen-try, drywall, plumbing, tiling electric. Kitchen & bath. 20yrs exp. Fully insured. Alain 250-744-8453. www.justrenoz.com

HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

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

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

HAUL A WAY Clean & green. Junk & garbage removal. Free est. Fall disc. 778-350-5050

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.

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

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

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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CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, fi replaces,fl agstone rock, concrete, natural & ve-neered stone. Replace, re-build, restore, renew! Free competitive est. www.cbsma-sonry.com; Call (250)589-9942, (250)294-9942.

RAIN HAPPENS Landscape & Stonework. Call Nicolaas at (250)920-5108.


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(250)858-6747. WRIGHT Bros Moving&Hauling.Free estimate $80=(2men&3tontruck)Sr Disc.

Done Right Moving $85/hr. A+ BBB. Senior Disc. No travel time before/after local moves. Penny 250-418-1747

PAINTING

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

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

HIGH QUALITY and FAST. Professional Painting. $20./hr. Free est. Glenn 778-967-3607.

✫ DON’S PAINTING ✫(250)479-8748. 30 years exp. Interiors. Free Estimates.

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

PLUMBING

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


PLUMBING

FULL SERVICE plumbingfrom Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50off your next job if you presentthis ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.250-744-8588, Norm.

WINDOW CLEANING

ABBA EXTERIORSProfessional gutter cleaning & repairs. Window cleaning. Roof de-mossing, package discounts. “Locally owned

Family business”. WCB, BBB Certifi ed; Now accepting Visa/

MasterCard. (778)433-9275.

ALWAYS BRIGHT & Clean. Grand Xterior Cleaning. Re-pairs, Gutters, roofs windows,PWash, lights. 250-380-7778.

COME CLEAN WINDOWS.“Shining for You”. Fully in-sured. Free est. 250-881-6385 www.ComeCleanWindows.com

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