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◆ January

Taxes, taxes taxes. In Victoria, city council approved a 3.96-per-cent

increase, sparking criticism from the business community which called it unsustainable. When the

residential rate was later set at seven per cent, discontent simmered, only to resurface in the fall as an election issue.

Meanwhile, Esquimalt suffered its own tax problem, and sought justice after feeling short changed by the federal

government. The municipality called for a federal dispute advisory

panel review into an unexpected dip in its share of payment in lieu of taxes, known as PILT.

The appeal is for $564,765. It is yet to be resolved.

Esquimalt’s woes hit the news once again. This time,

it was over a police bill from the CIty of Victoria deemed to be unfair. VicPD Chief Const. Jamie Graham defended the extra $462,000 charged to Esquimalt, arguing the township has more officers on patrol than before the days of amalgamation.

The situation has escalated throughout the year with no resolution as of yet.

Esquimalt surprised Victoria by putting out a request for proposals for a new policing contract. Both the City of Victoria and the RCMP submitted a proposal to win the job.

In October, Esquimalt announced it preferred the RCMP’s bid, but that’s not the last word. Solicitor General Shirley Bond will make the final decision in the matter.

If Victoria loses the contract, it would lose $6 million in contributions towards its annual policing budget.

◆ February

◆ April◆ March

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Jamie Graham

Young women approached lonely bus stops with caution.

Starting in January, a suspect, dubbed the bus-stop masturbator, was approaching women waiting for the bus. At first he targeted Asian exchange students. He later became more brazen.

On March 26, he blocked a 16-year-old girl inside a bus shelter on Johnson Street near Fernwood Road, and while masturbating in front of her, asked the girl to touch him. Incidents continued in April, and then stopped despite police making no arrest in the case.

Victorians were startled to learn the rail portion of the Johnson Street Bridge had deteriorated to the point it was no longer safe for crossing.

The city moved quickly to permanently raise the plank to avoid liability, and re-route pedestrians and cyclists over to the south side of the traffic bridge. The rail bridge is expected to come down this February.

Meanwhile, the E&N line stopped running in March for some specific repairs that were soon discovered to be more serious than originally thought.

The Island Corridor Foundation shut down the daily passenger service indefinitely until it is able to secure $15 million from the provincial and federal governments. Getting the money depends on the results of an ongoing assessment of the 47 bridges along the train’s route. Results are expected by February.

Back in May, former members of an Island Corridor Foundation sub committee went public with concerns about governance of the E&N Rail line. Transparency is their most pressing, ongoing issue. Safety reports about the track have been kept secret. After members of the Rail Operations Liaison Advisory Committee started voicing their discontent, the committee was unofficially disbanded. In December, these ousted committee members formalized their opposition in the formation of a new oversight body, this time with no affiliation to the Island Corridor Foundation.

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Amid much organizing and public fanfare, cycling in the region got a boost with the Victoria International Cycling Festival.

The event cycled into downtown Victoria from May 28 to June 12. One of the festival highlights was the inaugural launch of Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria on May 28.

Hometown hero and celebrated Tour de France competitor Ryder Hesjedal led 800 cyclists for 140 kilometres through 13 municipalities, and another 400 riders took on the 90-km trek.

Already thinking ahead to next year, organizers planned to move the date to late June 2012, to counteract a scheduling conflict with the annual Swiftsure international yacht race. They were also considering expanding the festival from two to four weeks.

Family and friends bid a tearful goodbye to their loved ones who left CFB Esquimalt aboard the frigate, HMCS Vancouver, on July 10.

Upon arriving in the Mediterranean Sea, it patrolled with other NATO vessels to ensure safe passage for humanitarian aid and prevent weapons and mercenaries from reaching Libyan shores, where fighting was fierce between Moammar Gadhafi loyalists and rebel forces.

The mission came to a close at the end of October, and in November Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Vancouver will stay in the region until early in the new year. Their job: seeking out vessels that could be supporting terrorist activities and monitoring building unrest in the region.

HMCS Vancouver will be replaced by the East Coast-based HMCS Charlottetown in the new year.

Even with advance warning, dozens of prolific drug dealers were still caught up in the Victoria Police Department’s net in May.

Undercover officers bought cocaine, heroin and marijuana from 27 dealers operating in downtown Victoria, largely in the 900-block of Pandora Ave. and Reesen Park. One alleged dealer was arrested with the Victoria News article about the impending bust sticking out of his pocket.

Twenty-two men and women were arrested in Project Cinco de Mayo, mostly from May 17 to 19, and warrants were issued for five more people.

◆ May◆ June

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Tour de France hometown hero Ryder Hesjedal heads out on the inaugural Tour de Victoria. The Tour de Victoria welcomed cyclists of all ages and abilities offering three distances, a 20-kilometre, a 90-km and Ryder Hesjedal’s 140-km ride.

◆ July

This month marked the arrival of Esmeralda, the Chilean navy’s training vessel.

Protesters dogged at least three stops during its tour to six countries between Chile and Canada, including a small but loud group of people who greeted the vessel with a bevy of signs when it reached Ogden Point on Aug. 1.

The group sounded the alarm about the sailing vessel’s dark past when it served as a prison and torture chamber during the regime of Chilean former dictator Augusto Pinochet. Several local politicians, including Victoria city councillors and NDP MLAs Carole James and Rob Fleming, also urged the federal government to reconsider the invitation it extended to Esmeralda’s crew. The vessel continued its inaugural sail with female sailors on to North Vancouver.

◆ August


Ensigns José Palma and Francisca Lerma accompanied Esmeralda, the Chilean navy’s training ship, when it anchored at Ogden Point.


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◆ September

2011THE TOP

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The Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce kicked

off a campaign for a regional referendum on a proposed $950-million light-rail transit system. “No surprise, what we’re going to do is say there needs to be a third-party review in order to make this funding decision,” said Bruce Carter, chamber president.

Just one week later the Victoria Regional Rapid Transit report was published online. The report encompassed hundreds of details on population and employment growth, present and future travel patterns in the region and an evaluation of the selected alignment for the light-rail system between downtown Victoria and the West Shore.

By mid-September a group of B.C. mayors asked the province for an independent review of B.C. Transit, citing lacklustre communication between B.C. Transit and the Victoria Regional Transit Commission.

In early November, B.C.’s Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Blair Lekstrom ordered B.C. Transit to undergo a third-party review. The review will address funding formulas and governance, which Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin said will highlight the need for local control of transit to move from the Victoria Regional Transit Commission to the Capital Regional District.

An $8-billion deal put Esquimalt on the map in late October.

The federal government awarded Seaspan Marine Corp. the multi-billion-dollar shipbuilding contract. Seaspan, which owns Vancouver and Victoria shipyards, will build a non-combat fleet that includes Canadian Coast Guard vessels, an icebreaker and joint-support navy ships.

The 20- to 30-year contract work will result in new and long-term jobs and prompt capital infrastructure investment at the shipyards.

Seaspan plans to do most of the ship construction at its Vancouver yard beginning in late 2012, while 15 to 20 per cent of the workload will fall to Victoria Shipyards.

■ Months of speculation ended when Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins announced the township

prefers the RCMP over the Victoria Police Department.

The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General has ordered a review of several problems plaguing Victoria and Esquimalt’s fractured policing relationship.

A report recommending ways to improve governance, financing and dispute resolution is expected by Jan. 30.

◆ October

◆ November

Occupy Wall Street started in New York on Sept. 17 and spread around the world

sparking local protests, including one in Victoria which began Oct. 15.

By early November, local politicians and police had had enough. The city ordered the protest camp that was set up in Centennial Square removed to make way for the Downtown Victoria Business Association’s temporary skating rink.

■ The pages of the Victoria News were filled with the faces of those seeking council seats in November.

Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin was re-elected to a second term Nov. 19, along with councillors Geoff Young, Charlayne Thornton-Joe, Marianne Alto, Pam Madoff and Christopher Coleman. Newcomers Lisa Helps, Ben Isitt and Shellie Gudgeon joined the incumbents in council chambers.

◆ December

Eighteen years after fleeing Ontario with her infant, Victoria resident Patricia

Joan O’Byrne was arrested for allegedly abducting her biological daughter.

O’Byrne and the girl’s father Joe Chisholm were embroiled in a custody battle in 1993 when O’Byrne allegedly violated a custody order and left Toronto with the 20-month-old. The girl, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, is now 20 years old and a student in Ontario. O’Byrne was escorted to Toronto where she remains in custody.


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EDITORIALPenny Sakamoto Group PublisherKevin Laird EditorOliver Sommer Advertising Director

The Victoria 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.

Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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VICTORIANEWS

With New Year’s Eve happening this weekend, many people will find themselves thrust into social situations. And whether you’re a social butterfly or wallflower, it helps to have some-thing to say after you’ve resolved that the weather is pretty mild for this time of year.

To help you either change the topic or add to the chit chat, here’s a quick look at some of the news that might make its way into cocktail party conversation this weekend.

World economyIf you’re stuck in a corner of a

party with a group of people talking about this, you want to re-think the kind of parties you go to. Seriously, though it’s a topic that’s on many people’s minds, it just isn’t a lot of fun dissecting this magnitude of a bummer. If you must chat about debt and the definition of depres-sion, maybe you could point out that Greater Victoria’s unemploy-ment rate of 6.1 per cent is slightly better than the national rate of 7.4 per cent – though this is likely going to lead to various theories about housing bubbles. Better to avoid financial advice from the guy hold-ing a plate of cocktail wienies.

Slip away and mingle with the folks talking about celebrities,

which brings up the next topic.

Famous dead peopleThe Eurozone crisis and

the Republican party lead-ership race are inevitable conversations if you’re talking to dad over the holidays. But when you’re hanging with pals, some-one is bound to bring up the latest gossip from the world of entertainment.

Assuming you’re not debating the authentic-ity of MIA (is she really a tigress fighting for fellow

Tamils or a pop princess cashing in on her parents’ heritage?) celebri-ties made news for many reasons in 2011. If you’re not equipped to opine on who made the best guest appearance on Glee, drop a few names to show you were paying attention.

Among the more notable pass-ings, such as Amy Winehouse, Steve Jobs and Christopher Hitchens, 2011 was the final year for Col. Potter of M.A.S.H. (Harry Morgan) and the guy who penned Family Circus (Bill Keane). Others who died include Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Rooney, Joe Frazier, Jack LaLanne Betty Ford, Macho Man Randy Sav-age and Peter Falk. The full list is too big to include everyone (sorry Osama) but there should be enough names here to add something to the mix.

Also, worth noting on a local level, 2011 marked the death of Alex Campbell the philanthropic founder of homegrown grocer Thrifty Foods.

Drinking and drivingThere were a few curve balls in

December regarding provincial laws on impaired driving.

In 2010, the government intro-duced some of the country’s tough-est laws against drinking and driv-ing. Then, on Nov. 30, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jon Sigurdson ruled that those laws were unconstitu-tional. That led to a fair amount of confusion about what level of alco-hol consumption was acceptable before someone could get behind the wheel. But, if someone at a party you’re at thinks they can now push the limit, please remind them that Justice Sigurdson changed his mind two days before Christmas. The tough rules are back in place, at least until June. Which is why, if you plan on having a few drinks while you’re out, one of the most important conversations will hap-pen before the party starts.

Make sure you have a safe way to get home so it’s not something you have to think about when you’re just hitting your stride defending the ethics of unfriending someone on Facebook.

Have a Happy New Year!Jim Zeeben is the editor

of the Saanich [email protected]

Topical tips for cocktail chatter

Resolutions mean changeIf you get to the heart of the matter, New Year’s

resolutions are all about one thing: Change. And as anyone who’s made it into adulthood

knows, change is the one thing that’s inevitable.We often tell stories about people who decide

they’re determined to change. January is a good month for those in the

fitness business and a bad time to be selling any of the various vices that so many of us pledge we can to do without.

Of course, most of these personal promises are doomed to fail.

There’s more to adopting a new lifestyle than simply switching wall calendars.

Popular resolutions often involve our personal health, our relationships or our career.

We tell ourselves we will eat less, sleep more and cut down on smoking/drinking/salty foods.

We will be more caring about others and spend less time with people who only seem to bring us down.

We’ll get promoted or find a new job or go back to school.

These are all noble goals that help make early January such an optimistic time.

They’re also all attainable if you can avoid the disappointment that can come when you’re focused solely on the short term.

Remember, there’s nothing wrong with aiming high as long as you don’t expect too much too soon.

Take, for example, those who decide to start running as a way to improve their health.

If you’ve been a couch potato, chances are you won’t be running in any spring marathons.

But if you listen to those who teach beginning runners, sometimes the best goal is to just get out, even if that means more walking than running.

It takes time to develop new habits. Once you do they can be tough to break,

which is why you might as well choose the habits you really want.

Change will happen. On a personal level, the next step is always the first one you need to take to get a little closer to whatever goal you set.

Jim ZeebenThe last word

‘Avoid financial advice from the guy holding a plate of cocktail wienies.’

The Victoria 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


EDITORIALPenny Sakamoto Group PublisherKevin Laird EditorOliver Sommer Advertising Director

The Victoria 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.

Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

2009 WINNER

OUR VIEW

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: [email protected] or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.

VICTORIANEWS

With New Year’s Eve happening this weekend, many people will find themselves thrust into social situations. And whether you’re a social butterfly or wallflower, it helps to have some-thing to say after you’ve resolved that the weather is pretty mild for this time of year.

To help you either change the topic or add to the chit chat, here’s a quick look at some of the news that might make its way into cocktail party conversation this weekend.

World economyIf you’re stuck in a corner of a

party with a group of people talking about this, you want to re-think the kind of parties you go to. Seriously, though it’s a topic that’s on many people’s minds, it just isn’t a lot of fun dissecting this magnitude of a bummer. If you must chat about debt and the definition of depres-sion, maybe you could point out that Greater Victoria’s unemploy-ment rate of 6.1 per cent is slightly better than the national rate of 7.4 per cent – though this is likely going to lead to various theories about housing bubbles. Better to avoid financial advice from the guy hold-ing a plate of cocktail wienies.

Slip away and mingle with the folks talking about celebrities,

which brings up the next topic.

Famous dead peopleThe Eurozone crisis and

the Republican party lead-ership race are inevitable conversations if you’re talking to dad over the holidays. But when you’re hanging with pals, some-one is bound to bring up the latest gossip from the world of entertainment.

Assuming you’re not debating the authentic-ity of MIA (is she really a tigress fighting for fellow

Tamils or a pop princess cashing in on her parents’ heritage?) celebri-ties made news for many reasons in 2011. If you’re not equipped to opine on who made the best guest appearance on Glee, drop a few names to show you were paying attention.

Among the more notable pass-ings, such as Amy Winehouse, Steve Jobs and Christopher Hitchens, 2011 was the final year for Col. Potter of M.A.S.H. (Harry Morgan) and the guy who penned Family Circus (Bill Keane). Others who died include Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Rooney, Joe Frazier, Jack LaLanne Betty Ford, Macho Man Randy Sav-age and Peter Falk. The full list is too big to include everyone (sorry Osama) but there should be enough names here to add something to the mix.

Also, worth noting on a local level, 2011 marked the death of Alex Campbell the philanthropic founder of homegrown grocer Thrifty Foods.

Drinking and drivingThere were a few curve balls in

December regarding provincial laws on impaired driving.

In 2010, the government intro-duced some of the country’s tough-est laws against drinking and driv-ing. Then, on Nov. 30, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jon Sigurdson ruled that those laws were unconstitu-tional. That led to a fair amount of confusion about what level of alco-hol consumption was acceptable before someone could get behind the wheel. But, if someone at a party you’re at thinks they can now push the limit, please remind them that Justice Sigurdson changed his mind two days before Christmas. The tough rules are back in place, at least until June. Which is why, if you plan on having a few drinks while you’re out, one of the most important conversations will hap-pen before the party starts.

Make sure you have a safe way to get home so it’s not something you have to think about when you’re just hitting your stride defending the ethics of unfriending someone on Facebook.

Have a Happy New Year!Jim Zeeben is the editor

of the Saanich [email protected]

Topical tips for cocktail chatter

Resolutions mean changeIf you get to the heart of the matter, New Year’s

resolutions are all about one thing: Change. And as anyone who’s made it into adulthood

knows, change is the one thing that’s inevitable.We often tell stories about people who decide

they’re determined to change. January is a good month for those in the

fitness business and a bad time to be selling any of the various vices that so many of us pledge we can to do without.

Of course, most of these personal promises are doomed to fail.

There’s more to adopting a new lifestyle than simply switching wall calendars.

Popular resolutions often involve our personal health, our relationships or our career.

We tell ourselves we will eat less, sleep more and cut down on smoking/drinking/salty foods.

We will be more caring about others and spend less time with people who only seem to bring us down.

We’ll get promoted or find a new job or go back to school.

These are all noble goals that help make early January such an optimistic time.

They’re also all attainable if you can avoid the disappointment that can come when you’re focused solely on the short term.

Remember, there’s nothing wrong with aiming high as long as you don’t expect too much too soon.

Take, for example, those who decide to start running as a way to improve their health.

If you’ve been a couch potato, chances are you won’t be running in any spring marathons.

But if you listen to those who teach beginning runners, sometimes the best goal is to just get out, even if that means more walking than running.

It takes time to develop new habits. Once you do they can be tough to break,

which is why you might as well choose the habits you really want.

Change will happen. On a personal level, the next step is always the first one you need to take to get a little closer to whatever goal you set.

Jim ZeebenThe last word

‘Avoid financial advice from the guy holding a plate of cocktail wienies.’

The Victoria 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

Parking mishap leads to question of compassion

On Dec. 1, I attempted to cross Johnson Street to move my vehicle from a two-hour parking area. In my effort, I tripped and fell and was unable to reach my vehicle.

In the meantime, my wife got there as the tow truck was about to tow the car away. My wife explained to the truck driver what had happened, and he immediately ran across the street and with the help of three other people, carried me to the sidewalk.

While this was happening, the meter lady gave my wife a $60 ticket.

This added insult to injury.One of the people who

assisted called for an ambulance, and I was taken to Royal Jubilee Hospital and had major surgery on my broken kneecap.

Are these parking meter

people not trained to assist a person when in trouble, or just hand out fines? She had no compassion.

I would like to thank Robin Bayley, Ali Romanow and H. Kanatrup, who stopped to assist me.

D. BerrySidney

Grinches stole Christmas from bird population

Having moved here only a few months ago, I must say my first impressions of a select few individuals are not all that great.

I walk my dog along the Galloping Goose Trail numerous times a day and on seeing the local wild birds that are scattered up and down the trail along the Happy Valley stretch – and being an avid bird watcher – I thought it would be a lovely gesture to not only place handmade bird feeders, but suet feeders as well, along our regular walkways.

I placed four handmade bird feeders and four suet feeders in different areas, to allow all who frequent Langford’s Happy Valley trail to enjoy the birds’ presence more closely.

I hung the feeders up and lo and behold no less than 48 hours later, a Grinch or two had not only removed the feeders but the small suet holders as well.

We have just celebrated Christmas, the day that represents the Man who is the

epitome of all that’s good. I say there are a few people out there that could learn by His example, and put back what did not belong to you. Why take what is not yours, especially when you can see it’s for the pleasure of everyone who walks, runs and strolls along a trail that represents itself as something for everyone to enjoy by its beauty and the birds that reside within its serene oasis.

The bird feeders placed out there were for all to enjoy, not for those who suffer from the “me” syndrome. So I ask that you please replace those that were taken, so they may be enjoyed by all.

The song birds could use a little help every winter, but we as a community are rewarded by knowing it’s the people who make the difference, by knowing right from wrong and what’s good from what’s evil.

To take away from the local birds, that’s just not right. Shame on those that lack the humanity in sharing – especially at this time of year.

Marika Lalonde Langford

Selfish Grinches, compassionReaders respond:

Under my umbrella A little rain doesn’t

stop this man from enjoying a stroll along the

breakwater under his umbrella.


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Letters to the Editor

Re: School boards still skirt fee issue (Letters, Dec. 23).

I am currently the teacher and program coordinator for Boulders Climbing Academy at Stelly’s secondary school and wanted to clarify on the fee status of our “climbing class”.

Just so the public is aware, our climbing class is a climbing academy much like the lacrosse, rowing and aquatics academies at Claremont, hockey at Parkland, Spencer and Spectrum, soccer at Reynolds, as well as several others in the

Capital Region. These academies are set up

to train students in a specific activity with the hopes of pursuing it at a higher level in the future. They are also set up so that no student is left behind and administrators and school board officials have policies and procedures in place for families who are unable to afford certain programs.

While it would be ideal for these programs to be free, it is difficult given the environment they are in. Our academy is

a year-long program, where students are focused on climbing or related material every school day. We have students who have transferred to our school from Kamloops, Edmonton and even South Africa.

While I cannot comment on other academies, our academy has a paid coach (the former youth national climbing team coach) who works with the students, as well as paid rock climbing guides who come in to teach the students particular

skills. These people are not teachers, but specialists in their field and need to be paid for their services.

Stelly’s secondary and the Boulders Climbing Gym make climbing very available to our students and the community. Students are able to climb for free in their normal physical education classes, for an hour right after school, in our outdoor pursuits classes and also take our recreation management course, which spends every day at the

climbing wall hosting other school groups from the Capital Region.

While this academy and others are specialty programs, they are also very unique and make school a special experience. You just have to step into these environments to get a glimpse of what these programs are doing for kids.

Ryan Braunteacher/program

coordinator Boulders Climbing

Academy at Stelly’s

Teacher responds to climbing fee criticism

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The majority of people who own property in the Capital Region won’t be disappointed when their 2012 property assessment notices arrive in their mailbox next week.

“I think people are looking at what the value of their real estate is doing. Obviously, people have got a lot of money invested in real estate,” said Reuben Danakody, an assessor at B.C. Assessment’s Victoria-based Capital Region office, which services more than 141,000 properties valued at nearly $92 billion. “Most want to see their values flourish.

“I think the fact that (market) values are stable and holding in (Greater) Victoria is probably going to be good news (to property owners).”

Millions of B.C. property assess-ment notices will be in the mail by Saturday (Dec. 31), headed across the province and around the world to people who own properties in B.C.

Details of the 2012 assessment roll won’t be released until Jan. 3.

Of those, more than 140,000 enve-lopes will reach owners of properties in the Capital Region, halfway up the Malahat Drive of the Trans-Canada Highway, the Tsawout and Songhees aboriginal communities and the Gulf Islands.

More of the paper notices in the 2012 assessment roll will be sent out this year, reflective of an increase in the number of new homes that have been built, particularly on the West Shore where land is available, Dana-

kody said.Though Greater Victoria’s housing

market hasn’t seen the increase in activity that Greater Vancouver has, Danakody said locally, the market is strong and steady.

“You didn’t see the leaps and bounds you saw in previous years, but I would describe it as a very sta-ble market,” he said, adding that con-struction may not be as brisk as it was in 2010 and 2011, but people are, however, spending money on home renovations.

“(New construction) ... shows sta-bility in the market place, and over-all economic growth is good for the community here,” Danakody said. “New construction is good. Obvi-ously it creates jobs.”

Market strength and stability is also helped by the presence of large-scale employers in the region, includ-ing several federal and provincial government departments, the Van-couver Island Health Authority and the University of Victoria, Danakody said.

People interested in knowing what their real estate portfolios are valued at as of July 1 each year are paying closer attention to their annual prop-erty assessments.

The information helps own-ers make more informed decisions about future purchases, said Dana-kody, adding the values are also sig-nificant because of their “impact on the (municipal) property taxes that (owners) would be liable for in the forthcoming taxation year.”

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Environment Canada is forecasting a clear but cool day on Sunday for the 2 p.m. event.

All swimmers earn a participation ribbon, and one participant will be named the honorary polar bear.

Festivities – including a dance party warmup courtesy of Body Dynamic Headquarters – begin at 1 p.m. Mr. Tube Steak will also be on site selling food.

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Occupy Victoria bill climbs to $241,000Erin McCrackenNews staff

The B.C. government should foot some of the bill to police the provincial capital dur-ing certain events, says Victoria’s mayor and chair of the Victoria Police Board.

Dean Fortin pointed to the $241,382 that the city of Victoria forked over on behalf of the region when the Occupy Victoria protest

overtook Centennial Square in October and November.

Of that, $104,106 went to policing, $131,160 covered municipal employee labour, and repairs and materials have so far totalled $6,116.

“We joke that every protest starts at Cen-tennial Square and heads on down to the leg-islature,” Fortin said during a recent meeting with police board members, and Victoria and

Esquimalt councillors. “Where can I send the bill ... for the Occupy Victoria?

“Right now the only place I can send it is to the citizens of Victoria and Esquimalt.”

Tough financial negotiations happen on a regular basis between Victoria’s city man-ager, B.C.’s solicitor general, other provincial departments and VicPD “to see what we can reap in terms of benefit,” said Victoria police Chief Const. Jamie Graham, noting times are

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Diane Turner is among five Greater Victoria lawyers and 28 lawyers in B.C. who were hon-oured with a prestigious and highly coveted Queen’s Counsel designation last week.

“It’s certainly very significant to me to think that there’s a cer-tain element of the legal world that has confidence in the contri-bution that I’ve made, because I really have tried to contribute,” said Turner, a North Saanich resi-dent and partner at Kelliher and Turner law firm in Victoria.

The former Crown prosecu-tor, who was called to the bar in 1984, is an associate faculty member at Royal Roads Univer-sity in Colwood and teaches law at The Hague University in the Netherlands.

There was a lengthy selection

process involved leading up to the Dec. 22 announcement by Attorney General Shirley Bond. Candidates must be recom-mended before their appoint-ments are made by the provin-cial cabinet through an order-in-council.

The honour recognizes excep-tional merit, contribution, profes-sional integrity and good char-acter.

Mary Mouat, a founding part-ner of the Quadra Legal Centre and a leading family law practi-tioner, said she feels honoured to join the ranks of some very impressive and highly respected lawyers.

Like her fellow recipients, she has juggled a successful career with giving back to the commu-nity.

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Eric (Jack) Woodward is a lead-ing expert in aboriginal law, an instructor and adjunct professor in aboriginal law at the Univer-sity of Victoria. He founded the Woodward & Company law firm in Victoria in 1988.

Diane Raven made history when she was appointed asso-ciate dean of UVic’s faculty of law in 2009, making her the first aboriginal person to become a senior administrator in a Cana-dian common law faculty.

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Nov. 4 – Fall back: Daylight Savings Time ends.Nov. 11 – Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Esquimalt & downtown cenotaphs.Late November – Annual Gallery Walk of downtown galleries. Late November – Santa Claus parade through downtown Victoria. Local artists & artisans gear up for the holiday season – check your Victoria News for local eventsThe holidays are coming – time to make your list and check it twice!

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July 1 – Happy Canada Day! Take in Canada Day festivities & fi reworks around the Inner Harbour. To July 1 – Victoria International JazzFest. FMI: www.jazzvictoria.caJuly (Date TBD) – CFB Esquimalt Formation Fun Day. FMI: www.esquimaltmfrc.comJuly 5 – Oaklands Community Centre Market 5 to 8pm. Mid-July – Victoria SKA Festival. FMI: http://victoriaskafest.caJuly 20 to 29 – Victoria International Buskers Festival. FMI: victoriabuskers.comJuly 21 – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Paint-In. FMI: www.aggv.bc.caJuly 19 to 22 –Taste: Victoria’s Festival of Food and Wine. FMI: www.victoriataste.com

August – Free-B Film Festival, Beacon Hill. FMI: victoriafi lmfestival.comAug. 1 – BC DayAug. 2 – Victoria 150 anniversary day celebration. FMI: www.victoria.caAug. 2 – Oaklands Community Centre Market 5 to 8pm. Aug. 5 – Symphony Splash. FMI: www.victoriasymphony.caAug. 17 to 19 – Victoria Dragonboat Festival in the Inner Harbour. FMI: www.victoriadragonboat.comAug. 24 to Sept. 3 – Victoria Fringe Festival. FMI: www.intrepidtheatre.com Time for Back to School shopping!Harvest time: Savour the fl avours at your local farmer’s market.

Come cheer on the Victoria Royals at Save-on-Foods Memorial Arena. FMI: www.victoriaroyals.comOctober – Black Press Women in Business Gala. FMI: [email protected] Oct. 4 – Downtown Victoria Business Association Girls’ Night Out. FMI: www.downtownvictoria.caOct. 7– Royal Victoria Marathon welcomes runners from around the world. FMI: www.royalvictoriamarathon.comOct. 8 – Happy Thanksgiving!Late October – The annual Ghosts of Victoria Festival off ers some special spooky activities around the region.Oct. 31 – Happy Halloween!Support your Victoria Cougars Junior Hockey Club at Archie Browning Arena. FMI: www.victoriacougars.com

December – Save your change for the annual Black Press Pennies for Presents fundraiser.December – St. Ann’s Academy National Historic Site annual Christmas Nativity display and seasonal events. December – Victorian Christmas celebrations at Craigdarroch Castle. FMI: www.thecastle.caDec. 4 – Esquimalt Celebration of LightsDec. 6 – Downtown Victoria Business Association Girls’ Night Out. FMI: www.downtownvictoria.caEarly December – Island Equipment Operators’ annual Lighted Truck Parade. FMI: www.ieoa.ca Dec. 15 & 16 – Esquimalt Centennial Carole Sing Dec. 25 – Merry Christmas!Dec. 31 – Farewell 2012, Welcome 2013!

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March 8 to 11– Annual Victoria French Fest. March 9 to 11 – CHBA Home & Garden Show. FMI: www.chbavictoria.comMarch 9 to 25 – Spring Break for Greater Victoria schoolsMarch 10 – LifeMark Health Esquimalt 5KMarch 27 – Black Press Women in Business Gala. FMI: [email protected] 29 to April 1 – Victoria Curling Classic, Archie Browning Sports Centre. FMI: www.victoriacurlingclassic.comMarch 31 – Easter Eggstravaganza at Oaklands Community Centre. www.victoria.ca

April – Don’t forget to vote for the Black Press Best of the City awards! April 8 – Lions Easter Egg Hunt, Gorge ParkApril 6 to 9 – Grand Pacifi c Open Chess Tournament at the Hotel Grand Pacifi c. FMI: www.grandpacifi copen.comApril 13 – Free Run, a 5km Victoria fun run. FMI: www.peninsularunners.comApril 14 – Esquimalt Giant Garage Sale, Archie Browning Centre.April 17 – Emergency Preparedness Workshop, 1 to 3pm, Victoria City Hall. Register at 250-920-3373.April 19 to April 22 – Victoria Boat ShowApril 26 – Emergency Preparedness Workshop 7 to 9pm, Oaklands Community Centre. Register: 250-920-3373.April 28 & 29 – Fairfi eld Art Studio Tour, 11am to 4pm. FMI: www.fairfi eldartistsstudiotour.com

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June 21 – Esquimalt Mayor’s Centennial Golf Tourney at Gorge Vale golf course.

June 22 to July 1 – Victoria International JazzFest. FMI: www.jazzvictoria.ca

June 28 – Last day of school, Greater Victoria School District.

Through summer – Guided walking tour of CFB Esquimalt. FMI: 250-363-5291.

May 3 – Oaklands Community Centre Market 5 to 8pm. May 12 & 13 – Victoria Conservatory of Music Mother’s Day Garden Tour. FMI: www.victoriagardentour.comMay 12 – Victoria Tartan Parade, City Hall to Legislature Lawn via Government Street. FMI: www.victoriahighlandgames.com

May 16 – Emergency Preparedness Workshop, 1 to 3pm, Victoria City Hall. Register at 250-920-3373.May 24 to June 4 – Intrepid Theatre’s Uno Festival. May 19 & 20 – Victoria Highland Games & Celtic Festival, Topaz Park. FMI: www.victoriahighlandgames.comMay 21 – Island Farms Victoria Day Parade.May 25 – Esquimalt High Alumni events.

May 26 & 27– Swiftsure International Yacht Race. May 28 to June 3 – Bike to Work Week. FMI: www.biketowork.ca/victoria/btww

Jan. 1 – Government House New Year’s levee, 10am to noon.Jan. 1 – Victoria New Year’s Day Levee, 9 to 10:30am, City Hall.Jan. 1 – Esquimalt Levee, Council Chambers, 1 to 2:30pm.To Jan. 2 – Skating outdoors at Centennial Square.To Jan. 3 – Festival of Trees at the Fairmont EmpressJan. 7 – Central Music program Christmas tree chipping, 10am to 4pm, Central Middle School.

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July 1 – Happy Canada Day! Take in Canada Day festivities & fi reworks around the Inner Harbour. To July 1 – Victoria International JazzFest. FMI: www.jazzvictoria.caJuly (Date TBD) – CFB Esquimalt Formation Fun Day. FMI: www.esquimaltmfrc.comJuly 5 – Oaklands Community Centre Market 5 to 8pm. Mid-July – Victoria SKA Festival. FMI: http://victoriaskafest.caJuly 20 to 29 – Victoria International Buskers Festival. FMI: victoriabuskers.comJuly 21 – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Paint-In. FMI: www.aggv.bc.caJuly 19 to 22 –Taste: Victoria’s Festival of Food and Wine. FMI: www.victoriataste.com

August – Free-B Film Festival, Beacon Hill. FMI: victoriafi lmfestival.comAug. 1 – BC DayAug. 2 – Victoria 150 anniversary day celebration. FMI: www.victoria.caAug. 2 – Oaklands Community Centre Market 5 to 8pm. Aug. 5 – Symphony Splash. FMI: www.victoriasymphony.caAug. 17 to 19 – Victoria Dragonboat Festival in the Inner Harbour. FMI: www.victoriadragonboat.comAug. 24 to Sept. 3 – Victoria Fringe Festival. FMI: www.intrepidtheatre.com Time for Back to School shopping!Harvest time: Savour the fl avours at your local farmer’s market.

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December – Save your change for the annual Black Press Pennies for Presents fundraiser.December – St. Ann’s Academy National Historic Site annual Christmas Nativity display and seasonal events. December – Victorian Christmas celebrations at Craigdarroch Castle. FMI: www.thecastle.caDec. 4 – Esquimalt Celebration of LightsDec. 6 – Downtown Victoria Business Association Girls’ Night Out. FMI: www.downtownvictoria.caEarly December – Island Equipment Operators’ annual Lighted Truck Parade. FMI: www.ieoa.ca Dec. 15 & 16 – Esquimalt Centennial Carole Sing Dec. 25 – Merry Christmas!Dec. 31 – Farewell 2012, Welcome 2013!

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As we bid farewell to 2011, Greater Victoria galleries welcome 2012 with a whole host of new exhibits.

The Royal BC Museum welcomes a special exhibit this winter – ideal for fans of photog-raphy and wildlife.

The best 108 images from Wildlife Photog-rapher of the Year – an international competi-tion that had more than 41,000 entries from 95 countries – are on display at the museum through April 9.

This visually striking exhibition showcases photographs in 17 categories, with each photo and caption telling the inspirational, astonish-ing and sometimes humorous stories of our fascinating natural world.

“This is like the Oscars of wildlife photog-raphy,” said Martin Cooper, the only Canadian winner, from Burnaby. “It’s important that we have special contests and museum exhibitions like this, to remind us of the rich wildlife in our urban areas as well as out in the wilds.”

The annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is run by London’s Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine. The competition uniquely combines the work of gifted amateurs, professionals and young photographers.

Also downtown, West End Gallery hosts its British Columbia Group Show. Catch a glimpse of the West Coast in the works of Phyllis Anderson, Steven Arm-strong, Rod Charlesworth, Richard Cole and Patricia Johnston.

Explore the whimsical side West Coast life as fea-tured in works by Greta Guzek, Paul Jorgensen and Grant Leier, historic houses and remembered holidays treasured in the paintings of Pierre Giroux and Paul

Paquette, and Victoria’s famous fl orals, artfully ar-ranged by Laura Harris and Elka Nowicka.

Legacy Art Gallery explores Victoria’s architecture with the Emergence of Architectural Modernism II: UVic and the Victoria Regional Aesthetic in the late 1950s and ‘60s.

Showing through Feb. 26, the show explores through plans, drawings, photographs and architectural models how, during the late ‘50s and ‘60s, a small number of legacy architectural fi rms changed Victoria’s built envi-ronment with forward-looking planning and bold new architectural forms.

At the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the extraor-dinary, contemporary Coast Salish art collection of Victoria residents George and Christiane Smyth opens Jan. 6. Victoria Collects: The Salish Weave Collection is a companion exhibition to Victoria Collects, opening at the gallery on Feb. 6.

From top left: Eclectic: Visual Poetry poster image; Royal BC Museum: Thomas P Peschak, Giant Beachcomber; Legacy Gallery: Hubert Norbury, Bay Parkade Entry 1960.

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Describing themselves as “activist collectors,” the Smyths’ mission is to promote the works, not just pas-sively acquire and display them. The Salish Weave Col-lection includes 20 recent works – representing carving, painting and printmaking – by Canadian Coast Salish artists Susan Point, lessLIE, Maynard Johnny Jr., Dylan Thomas, John Marston, Luke Marston, Angela Mar-ston and Chris Paul.

Opening Jan. 9 at Oak Bay’s Eclectic, with a recep-tion from 5 to 7 p.m., is Visual Poetry.

In conjunction with St. Michael’s University School, the gallery will host a special show featuring original artwork and poetry by SMUS Senior School students to raise money for two global charities focused on cre-ating opportunities for youth. The exhibition, fi ttingly entitled Visual Poetry, features creative writing and art students in Grades 11 and 12 combining their talents, with the artists illustrating the poets’ words.

All funds generated will be shared between War Child Canada and the Amma Organization, specifi cally its primary and secondary schooling projects in India. The exhibition continues through Jan. 14.

Looking ahead, the Oak Bay’s Red Gallery celebrates its fi rst anniversary with a special show Feb. 1 to 29.

In nearby Cadboro Bay, Goward House opens a special exhibit of work by young emerging artists from Frank Hobbs Elementary, Arbutus Middle School, Lambrick Park Secondary and Mount Douglas Sec-ondary School. A reception Jan. 8 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. will open the exhibit.

In the West Shore, Coast Collective Gallery presents Beginnings, Jan. 11 to 22 followed by the intriguing Art from the Attic, Jan. 25 to Feb. 5, concluding with the fi rst annual Collective Art Garage Sale Feb. 4 and 5.

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Visitors to the Royal B.C. Museum can experi-ence nature like never before: Through the lenses of photographers from around the world.

The visually striking Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition showcases photographs in 17 categories, including Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Underwater World, Wild Places and Photojournalist of the Year.

Each photo and caption tells the inspirational and sometimes humorous stories of the fascinat-ing world of nature.

“It’s pretty exciting,” said Martin Cooper, the only Canadian winner, from Burnaby, B.C.

“I went to the premier in London and it was a black tie affair and to be here in the B.C. museum and experience it again is brilliant. They’ve done a wonderful job presenting this at the museum.”

Cooper’s photo was chosen from among 41,000 entries from 95 countries by a judging panel that included some of the world’s most respected

nature photographers and wildlife experts.“Wildlife Photographer of the Year is truly a

treat and not just for photography buffs – there is a beauty and majesty in the photographs that will appeal to all,” said Royal B.C. Museum CEO Pauline Rafferty.

Now in its 47th year, the annual competition is run by London’s Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.

This is the premiere exhibition of 108 winning images, and the only scheduled stop in North America. The exhibition runs until April 9.

Cooper’s winning image is of a coyote on a stretch of railway tracks near his home. “That morning I was waiting for a beaver in the creek, this was a bonus,” he said.

Cooper is an amateur photographer who dusted off his camera a few years ago after moving from England to Canada. “Over the past five years it’s become a passion again – I love every second of it,” he said.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibi-tion at the Royal B.C. Museum, opened Dec. 16 and includes 108 photographs displayed on large backlit panels with detailed captions telling the story behind the image and technical details on the photographic equipment used by each pho-tographer.

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Fred Pierce, a volunteer with the Royal B.C. Museum, uses his flashlight magnifier to read the label for one of the images, In The Flick Of A Tail, on display in the exhibit Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

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From his office in Washington, D.C., Dick Patrick, president of the Washington Capitals, recalls the home his grandfather Lester Pat-rick lived in on Linden Avenue in Fairfield.

“It was before my time, but my father told me stories,” Dick says. His father, Muzz, a Canadian box-ing champ turned pro hockey player, was born and raised in Vic-toria. Muzz and brother Lynn won the Stanley Cup while playing for Lester, when the latter coached the New York Rangers in 1940.

Lester had previously won the Stanley Cup as a player and coach, his name engraved multiple times upon it. But even though 1940 was the first time Muzz and Lynn won hockey’s Holy Grail, it was the second time their names were engraved on it.

“I guess back in 1933 there wasn’t really a protocol for what to do with the Stanley Cup,” Dick says. “The story my dad told me is, after the Rangers won it, Les-ter kept it in his basement for the summer. (Muzz and Lynn) wanted their names in it too. Being teenag-ers, they etched their names into it with a nail.

“They got in a lot of trouble for that.”

Back in 1911, brothers Lester and Frank were supported by dad Joe Patrick when they used the family’s lumber fortune to create the Pacific Coast Hockey Associa-tion and build two arenas, one in Vancouver and one in Oak Bay.

The league ran successfully until 1926. Lester then moved on to the more promising NHL and grew to become one of New York’s most legendary characters, the Silver Fox. He was a newspaper darling and ran the New York Rangers and then Madison Square Gardens. Lester returned to Victoria each summer and never sold his house in Fairfield. In 1949 he formed the Victoria Cougars minor hockey team.

Frank followed a similar route,

coaching the Boston Bruins in the 1930s before retiring to Vancouver. Both passed away in 1960.

But Lester and Frank were only two of six from their gen-eration. Also living in James Bay were brother Ted and sisters Lucynda (Cynda), Dora and Myrtle. It was said that if Ted hadn’t suffered a serious leg injury in a child-hood accident, he too would have won the Stanley Cup.

Proud to be PatricksAway from the rink, but

still in Victoria, the family continued to flourish.

Cynda Patrick followed her parents’ – Joe and Grace – religious upbringing, and married reverend John Wes-ley Miller.

“Cynda was a church organist and vocal soloist, not uncommon in that day when you were married to a minister,” says Gordon Miller, grandson of Cynda and one of Victoria’s remain-ing Patricks.

“My father was named Frank Patrick Miller, after my great uncle. My father carried a keen interest in the family (genealogy) and led the historian patriarch position in the family.”

That keen interest is part of an ongoing pride in the Patrick name, which Miller admits is due in part to the family’s hockey fame.

“Was there pressure to be inter-ested in hockey? Yes. And we all follow it, to an extent,” Miller says. “Was there pressure to play? No.”

Some things have passed down, however. Like his grandmother, Miller is a musician, a piano instructor and music master at Oak Bay United Church.

Miller says the family continues to honour the Patrick heritage. For example, his sister is named Cynda and he has a son and daughter with Patrick and Patricia in their names.

“The extended family still gets together regularly, on the Island and mainland. We still feel a strong family connection. I think it’s safe to say it’s the notoriety of the hockey Patricks that is part of what keeps us together. Do we talk about hockey when we get together? Not much.”

Miller grew up in Ottawa and his migration to Victoria is parallel to that of Joe and Grace Patrick’s over 100 years ago.

It started in Oak BayWhen the Patrick family came to

Victoria, they came with a dream to start a professional hockey league.

On Jan. 2, 1912, Lester’s Victo-ria Senators hosted the New West-

minster Royals at the brand new arena, which was later known as Patrick Arena, on an out-of-the-way piece of property in Oak Bay.

Monday (Jan. 2) marks the 100th anniversary of that game, one that transformed the Patrick family name into hockey royalty. It wasn’t just the first game in Vic-toria, it was the first game of the PCHA, which existed until 1926 when it merged with the Western Canada Hockey League.

Thirty-seven years later, in 1949, during the excitement over the new Memorial Arena construction on Blanshard Street, Victoria Daily Times sports writer Archie Wills ran a summary of hockey history in the city. He revisited an original game report, describing how the red, white and blue coloured Sena-

tors lost that first game 8-3 to the dazzling Roy-als, in their black and orange jerseys.

They shaped the game

Despite giving so much to the game, there will be little fan-fare for the Patricks on the PCHA’s centennial anniversary. The WHL Victoria Royals will play at home Monday against the Calgary Hitmen, but that’s only by coincidence.

Since the passing of Frank and Lester in 1960, their role in changing the sport has been relegated to the historical archives.

But it was during the summers in the family home on Michi-gan Street that Frank would return from run-ning the Vancouver Millionaires. He and Lester were rarely sat-isfied with the flow of the game, and often made changes, shap-ing hockey as its known today.

Frank is credited with introducing the blue line/offsides and

raising the stick in celebration of a goal, and Lester with installing the red line. These rules were neces-sary, as the PCHA used forward passes, which the NHL didn’t adopt until 1928-29.

Together, they hashed out even more rules, including numbers on jerseys, an assortment of penal-ties and the penalty shot.

Lester’s Senators became the Aristocrats and eventually the Cougars. It is said, in Victoria sports writer Eric Whitehead’s book The Patricks: Hockey’s royal family, that when Lester sold the Cougars team to Detroit (Cougars/Falcons/Red Wings), the buyers were shocked when he revealed the contracts were 100 per cent verbal.

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100 years of hockey in VictoriaPatrick family shaped the modern game from house on Michigan Street

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SPORTSHow to reach usTravis Paterson 250-381-3633 ext [email protected]


Gordon Miller, one of the two remaining family heads from the Patrick family, stands at the Victoria Arena monument on Cadboro Bay Road. The monument is across the street from where the Patrick Arena once stood. It was there, in 1925, the Victoria Cougars beat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup. Inset: The original arena in Oak Bay seated 3,500 and was made entirely out of wood. Its grand opening was a public skate on Christmas Day, 1911. The arena was destroyed by fire Nov. 11, 1929

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HANDYPERSONS

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HANDYPERSONS

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

SENIOR HANDYMAN- Household repairs. Will assist do-it yourselfers. Fred, 250-888-5345.

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

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


HAULING AND SALVAGE

✭BUBBA’’S HAULING✭ Honest & on time. Demolition, construction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, topsoil, mulch), garden waste removal, mini excavator, bob cat service.(250)478-8858.

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

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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IFIX HANDYMAN Services. Household repairs and reno-vations. Free estimates. Call Denis at 250-634-8086 or email: denisifi [email protected]

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INSULATION

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PAINTING

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

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KERRY’S GAS & PLUMBING SERVICES- Repair, mainte-nance & install. 250-360-7663.

RAINTEK SPECIAL! Keep your basement dry with Rain-Tek! Camera inspection & roto-rooting of your perimeter drain tiles for $129.www.raintek.ca 250-896-3478.


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PRESSURE WASHING

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

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STUCCO/SIDING

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TILING

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Page 44 week beginning December 22, 2011 Real Estate Victoria OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY/AGENCY

403-827 North Park St, $249,900Saturday Dec. 24 & Dec 31 1-2Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLarry Lineham, 250-661-7809 pg. 5

1959 Fairfi eld Rd., $859,000Saturday Dec 31st & Sunday Jan 1st 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalMaggie Thompson, 250-889-5955 pg. 10

1001 Foul Bay Rd, $860,000Saturday Jan 8 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith 250 388-5882 pg. 15

10 Helmcken RdDaily noon-4 (exc Dec 25, 26th & Jan 1)Pemberton Holmes David Hale 250 812-7277 pg. 2

5149 Cordova Bay, $1,249,900Saturday Dec 31st 1-3Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyBob Krueckl 250 477-5353 pg. 8

4942 Cordova Bay, $1,049,000Wed Dec 28, Sat Dec 31 & Wed Jan 4 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdKevin Starling 250 889-4577 pg. 24

5-881 Nicholson St., $549,000Saturday Dec 31 12-2DFH Real EstateWendy Herrick 250-656-0131 pg. 6

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Fat Phege’s Fudge Factory unable to renew lease past April 2012

Erin McCrackenNews staff

A couple and their young daugh-ter walk into the small, cozy shop where the sweet smell of fudge has permeated the air for the past 35 years.

The woman, a regular cus-tomer, greets Carol Friesen with a hug and says, “We love you.”

Herman Friesen and his wife Carol have had to tell customers they will be closing after 20 years of owning Fat Phege’s Fudge Fac-tory.

It was the first business to open in Victoria’s Market Square 35 years ago.

Market Square owners, Anthem Properties, informed the Saanich residents in October that their lease won’t be renewed past April 2012.

“One gentleman has been com-ing here since he was this high,” Herman says, motioning his hand near his knee. “He said, ‘You can’t go. You’re not allowed.’ We hear that all the time.”

In a letter to the Friesens, the company said it is changing Mar-

ket Square “from a festival retail centre to a street-oriented mixed-use retail centre.” By upgrading the quality of retailers and their units, the firm said it hopes to allow the market to stay competi-

tive and appeal to a more sophis-ticated clientele.

“I don’t see how we don’t fit into that,” Herman says.

The company told the couple it wants to combine their unit with

a recently vacated neighbouring space that faces Store Street. Her-man says he has no interest in expanding.

“I’m sad I’m going to lose track of my kids,” Carol says, emerging

from her side of the shop where she serves ice cream, french fries and mini doughnuts, among other goodies, to customers at her take-out window.

“And when she calls them kids, they’re 35 years old now,” her husband says from his side of the shop where a long coun-ter holds dark chocolate-covered ginger, nuts, French nougat, Turk-ish delight, candies and several flavours of fudge, including maple walnut, chocolate chip cookie dough and Bailey’s Irish cream, among others.

The couple has been tending to the sweet-tooth tastes of tourists as well as three generations of Greater Victoria residents since they first walked into the shop one Sunday afternoon in 1992.

“I bought this place in 10 min-utes on a gut feeling,” says Her-man. He and his wife became the fudge factory’s third set of owners. Brooke Phemister first opened the shop in 1976.

“It’s been a journey. I’ve learned everything the hard way.”

Despite facing an uncertain future, he plans to stay positive and keep his options open.

“Let’s put it this way, I always find stuff to do to keep me busy,” Herman says with a smile. “If building planes in Bolivia comes up, then I’ll build planes in Bolivia.”

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Haven for sweet-tooth tastes closing up shop

Erin McCracken/News staff

Fat Phege’s Fudge Factory, which was the first business to open at Market Square 35 years ago, will close its doors at the end of April. Proprietors Herman and Carol Friesen have been unable to renew their lease.

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