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AmalgamationPart one of a series delving into the ‘A’ word

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NEWS: Finding signs of a stroke at VGH A3COMMUNITY: Teens come for cop camp A7ARTS: Meet new apostles of Victoria theater A12

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Gazette recognized nationally

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Trash to treasureFrom highway-side broken records to lunch trash on Yates Street, Gordon creates works of art from found objects. His retrospective show From the Ridge is on at Metchosin Art Gallery this month along with an interactive homage project. See story page A11.

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The Goldstream News Gazette is officially among the best in Canada.

The Gazette earned a blue ribbon from the Cana-dian Community Newspa-per Awards as one of the best newspapers in Canada in our circulation category.

The annual awards feature 33 categories honouring outstanding editorial, photography, multimedia and overall excellence in community newspaper publishing.

Peninsula News Review and Saanich News were also awarded blue ribbons.

A number of other rec-ognizable bylines among Victoria’s Black Press com-munity newspapers also appeared at the national awards.

Arnold Lim earned first in feature photography for the Peninsula News Review; Tim Collins with Oak Bay News placed second in news; Mary Ellen Green of Monday Magazine earned a third in feature writing; in business writing Roszan Holmen earned second place for Victoria News and third went to Dani Pope with Monday Magazine.

Monday finished second in coverage of the arts; Saanich News earned third place for sports coverage and Sooke News Mirror was second in headline writing.

The 2013 competition saw more than 2,000 entries.

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When Moses Pimentel found himself collapsed on his bathroom floor

one Sunday morning last June, a stroke wasn’t the first ailment that came to mind. He even won-dered why his wife called an ambulance.

Paramedics conducted a rapid assessment on the fit, healthy, 47-year-old Saanich parks staffer, and found telltale left body paraly-sis. They rushed him to the care of Dr. Andrew Penn, a neu-rologist at Victoria Gen-eral Hospital.

Penn and his staff at VGH, the nucleus of stroke care for Vancouver Island, found Pimentel’s underlying heart defect that triggered the stroke, but the rapid response was cru-cial in preventing lasting damage. Pimentel regained control of his body the same day, was out of hospital in six days and back to work in two months.

“Without that rapid assessment who knows what would have hap-pened? I have a physical job and a family to take care of,” Pimentel said. “I’m not sure what I would have done.”

Recognizing that quick and early detection of strokes can save lives and medical resources, the Vancouver Island Health Authority and Genome B.C. launched a $10 million project to give emergency room doctors a tool for nearly instantaneous diag-nosis of a minor stroke, called a transient ischemic attack (TIA).

“If you think of stroke as an earthquake, a TIA is the rumbling before the earthquake,” Penn said during the project announcement at VGH on Thursday.

About 10 per cent of minor strokes lead to full-blown major

strokes within two days, but diagnosing a TIA is difficult and expensive.

Less acute medical problems such as dizziness and severe headaches can look like a TIA, but it can take con-siderable medical resources to separate the mimics from the real thing.

“There are about 30 mimics of TIAs for different (medical) conditions,” Penn said. “The full meal ticket is expensive. To investigate a TIA costs thousands of dollars involving dyes, radiation, CT scans or MRIs.”

In 2004, VIHA allowed Penn to set up a stroke rapid assess-ment unit at VGH, which in turn allowed him to amass the largest stroke database in the world from 11,000 patients across Vancouver Island.

About 4,000 blood samples from that database will allow the University of Victoria’s Genome B.C. Proteomics Centre at the Vancouver Island Tech Park to crunch through reams of data, all

to find the signal set of proteins associated with a TIA.

If researchers can nail down the pattern of proteins released by the brain during a TIA event, diagnosing a TIA could become a relatively simple blood test, rather than time-consuming brain scans. The project, the largest in VIHA’s history, expects to see results within four

years.“VIHA took a gamble and set

up a TIA unit to rapidly assess a TIA before a stroke hit. The project was a great success … in two years we’ve saved some 150 strokes on Vancouver Island,”

Penn noted. “But with that suc-cess came failure – we were flooded with patients, but about half weren’t TIAs. They might be migraines or seizures or other things that might not need urgent care (in the ER). We needed a blood test to differentiate those who needed urgent care.”

Dr. Brad Popovich, the chief scientific officer for Genome B.C., said it’s hard to overstate the importance of Penn’s database of Vancouver Island stroke patients. It holds more stroke information than any other major medical centre in the U.S. and Europe due to VIHA’s centralized system, and was key to unlocking $10 million to get quick TIA detection off the ground.

“The funding for this project addresses critical and immediate needs,” Popovich said. “Stroke is the No. 1 cause of adult disability and stroke patients are the lead-ing users of long term care in Can-ada. This (TIA test) will be better, cheaper, faster … this will bring

tangible results to British Colum-bians and beyond.”

VIHA estimates rapid TIA detec-tion technology will help doctors prevent 4,000 strokes per year in Canada, cut risks for patients due to the use of radioactive dyes during the diagnosis, cut costs to the health system in terms of patient care, and allow for better use of MRI and CT scan machines.

At VGH, the stroke assess-ment unit is set to expand into the hospital’s former emergency wing (the new emergency centre opened in 2009), which will give the stroke team six exam rooms and four offices, up from two rooms now.

“Health professionals want to improve stroke care. A lot of people don’t understand the devastating affects on the lives, livelihood and families of stroke victims,” said VIHA board chair Don Hubbard. “That is why this research is so important.”

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Moses Pimentel at the Victoria General Hospital CT scan machine where he had a brain scan last June after suffering a stroke. The Vancouver Island Health Authority and Genome B.C. launched a $10 million project for early stroke detection.

Stopping strokes before they hitVictoria hospital hosts $10M project for early warning signs of a stroke

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Bags packed and tickets booked, three Metchosin firefighters are heading to Peru.

Fire Chief Stephanie Dunlop, Capt. Jason Humphries and

firefighter Jamie Johnston are going to share some of their knowledge through Firefight-ers Without Borders Canada, April 2 to 18.

They are heading to Cuerpo General de Bomberos Volun-tarios del Peru with a group of B.C. firefighters. The Peru vol-unteer department has about 10,000 firefighters in 196 fire halls.

Humphries and Dunlop will teach auto extrication and ventilation. The Metchosin Auto Extrication team has competed in various competitions at local and national levels.

“Auto extrication is something I am very familiar with and I enjoying showing people what I know,” Humphries said. “I am really looking forward to this and seeing how another country operates its

volunteer departments.” Even through he is going to teach others,

Humphries said, “I want to learn from their resourcefulness and bring that back with me. In Peru they do more with less.”

Johnston will teach medical procedures along with rope work and knot tying.

Other than just offering information the Metcho-sin department and others across the province are donating old and expired equipment to the project.

“They don’t have the same equipment as us and they are about 10 years behind us,” said Dunlop. Since the equipment is expired it can’t be sold or used in Canada, but the Peru department is excited to accept it, she said.

Metchosin will donate a positive pressure.“It’s a tactic you can use to control a fire. It’s an

invisible forcefield you can push the fire back with to give you a couple extra minutes,” explained Dunlop.

Another difference between firefighters in Can-ada and Peru is most buildings here are wood framed while in Peru they are concrete.

“It changes how the fire burns,” Dunlop said. “It’ll just be a hot box and you’d have to use a dif-ferent strategy. I want to learn different strategies and tactics when I am there.”

Each firefighter is paying their own way to Peru.“We’ve heard of other departments doing things

like this, like Langford going to Haiti,” Dunlop said. “It’s great we get to share our passion and help others out.”

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Charla Huber/News staff

Metchosin fire chief Stephanie Dunlop uses a hydraulic cutter on a vehicle frame, one of the skills firefighters hope to share with their peers in Peru. They’re slated to return April 18.

Metchosin shares fire skill

Charla HuberReporting

Firefighters pay their way to help volunteers in Peru

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Bags packed and tickets booked, three Metchosin firefighters are heading to Peru.

Fire Chief Stephanie Dunlop, Capt. Jason Humphries and

firefighter Jamie Johnston are going to share some of their knowledge through Firefight-ers Without Borders Canada, April 2 to 18.

They are heading to Cuerpo General de Bomberos Volun-tarios del Peru with a group of B.C. firefighters. The Peru vol-unteer department has about 10,000 firefighters in 196 fire halls.

Humphries and Dunlop will teach auto extrication and ventilation. The Metchosin Auto Extrication team has competed in various competitions at local and national levels.

“Auto extrication is something I am very familiar with and I enjoying showing people what I know,” Humphries said. “I am really looking forward to this and seeing how another country operates its

volunteer departments.” Even through he is going to teach others,

Humphries said, “I want to learn from their resourcefulness and bring that back with me. In Peru they do more with less.”

Johnston will teach medical procedures along with rope work and knot tying.

Other than just offering information the Metcho-sin department and others across the province are donating old and expired equipment to the project.

“They don’t have the same equipment as us and they are about 10 years behind us,” said Dunlop. Since the equipment is expired it can’t be sold or used in Canada, but the Peru department is excited to accept it, she said.

Metchosin will donate a positive pressure.“It’s a tactic you can use to control a fire. It’s an

invisible forcefield you can push the fire back with to give you a couple extra minutes,” explained Dunlop.

Another difference between firefighters in Can-ada and Peru is most buildings here are wood framed while in Peru they are concrete.

“It changes how the fire burns,” Dunlop said. “It’ll just be a hot box and you’d have to use a dif-ferent strategy. I want to learn different strategies and tactics when I am there.”

Each firefighter is paying their own way to Peru.“We’ve heard of other departments doing things

like this, like Langford going to Haiti,” Dunlop said. “It’s great we get to share our passion and help others out.”

[email protected]


Metchosin fire chief Stephanie Dunlop uses a hydraulic cutter on a vehicle frame, one of the skills firefighters hope to share with their peers in Peru. They’re slated to return April 18.

Metchosin shares fire skill

Charla HuberReporting

Firefighters pay their way to help volunteers in Peru

Soccer at Savory programs starting soon

Westshore Wildcats girls soccer is gearing up for spring sessions. Programs run for girls aged five to 11 years old at Savory school on Mondays starting April 15. Tues-day programs are for kids aged five to eight with scrimmages for girls aged 12 to 14. Visit www.westshorewildcats.ca for more information.

Take a trial roll at the Juan de Fuca lawn bowls

The Juan de Fuca Lawn Bowl-ing Club welcomes all to its two open houses April 13 and 14 and April 20 and 21 between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. each day.

Throw a few bowls at the green behind Bear Mountain Arena. For further information call Georgie 250-478-9149.

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COMMUNITY NEWSIN BRIEF

Megan ColeNews staff

When your three-year-old is diagnosed with a rare disease, the Internet is often the first place a parent turns for answers. Angie and Denis Edroff began searching when their daughter Jeneece was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis and they found the B.C. Neurofibromato-sis Foundation.

“We connected with them when she was first diagnosed and went to some support group meetings and shared our story, and found out that we weren’t living through this alone,” said Angie.

Support groups were the same way BCNF founder Paul Ralfs began when he formed the foundation in 1984.

Like Jeneece, Ralfs was diag-nosed as a child. The journey to creating a foundation began 30 years ago when a tumour between his kidney and spine forced him into Vancouver Gen-eral Hospital.

“I went into the hospital for nine weeks,” said Ralfs.

NF is a genetic disorder that causes tumours to grow along the nerves. The term neurofi-bromatosis is an umbrella name for three distinct dis-orders that share a common manifesta-tion of tumours that grow in the tissues surrounding nerves.

Eventually Ralfs had the tumour, along with his right kidney removed. He was unable to work following the sur-gery, and has been on disability since.

The following year, when he paid a visit to geneticist Dr. Judith Hall for test results unre-

lated to NF, the idea of starting a B.C. support group came to him.

“By that time I was feeling a need for support,” said Ralfs. “I thought I’d like to start a sup-

port group because there wasn’t any-thing in existence at that time. I thought I would ask her advice, but before I had the chance, she asked me if I wanted to start a group.”

With Hall’s help, Ralfs and 17 peo-ple held their first NF support group at Central Park in

Burnaby.Since then, the foundation

has grown to include a board of directors and is now based in Victoria.

“They have a lot more pro-grams now than when the foun-dation first began,” said Ralfs. “We send kids to a children’s camp for NF in the U.S. every summer. We also have a schol-arship for those high school students wanting pursue post-secondary and we used to hold a medical symposium, but are now doing webinars on more specialized topics.”

While the foundation contin-ues to raise money and support those with NF, Ralfs said more awareness and education is needed.

“One of the problems for a lot of NF patients is a lot of doctors won’t even take them,” he said. “I think maybe because they don’t feel they can do anything to help the patient or because of their lack of knowledge.”

Victoria foundation supports those with a rare disorder

“I thought I’d like to start a support group because there wasn’t anything in existence at that time.”

- Paul Ralfs

Jeneece recently ran into what Ralfs is referring to when a large tumour in her leg was discovered.

“Frankly it’s an NF tumour that usually shows up in adults, not some-one Jeneece’s age,” Angie said. “They weren’t used to seeing it, and when you’re not used to it, the mentality is to sit, wait and see what happens.”

Because of Angie’s experience working with the BCNF as program co-ordinator, she knew this wasn’t the kind of tumour you want to sit, wait and watch.

Instead Angie reached out to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and in February Jeneece went to see a specialist.

“He said he’d seen many tumours like Jeneece’s that had gone malig-nant very quickly,” Angie said.

While the specialist suggested the tumour be removed as quickly as possible, the decision was left to Jeneece due to potential side effects of more paralysis in her leg or more pain – a risk the teen was willing to take.

“He managed to debulk the tumours and she has had very little pain now, and no paralysis. There is a bit more sensitivity, but that’s to be expected at this point in the game. The tumour wasn’t malignant, so that is also a plus,” Angie said.

While the outcome of Jeneece’s surgery was positive, Ralfs would like to see a clinic built in co-ordination with Jan Friedman’s NF research lab at the University of British Columbia.

The foundation is currently looking into the logistics of a clinic, including hiring a part-time co-ordinator and finding funding.

The BCNF hosts the Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon and 5km Walk on June 23.

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3 cities, 7 districts, 2 towns and a townshipWe asked the mayors of the CRD municipalities: Do you support some form of municipal amalgamation?

Daniel Palmer and Kyle SlavinNews staff

It’s difficult to find anyone in the Capital Region who thinks local government is perfect the way it is.

Businesses, municipal councillors, developers – and most importantly, residents – know something needs to change, but that’s where the collective agreement ends.

Amalgamation proposals are

almost as numerous as the region’s 91 municipal politicians, but an organized and motivated group of residents is igniting a grassroots push to turn ideas into reality.

The News Gazette is taking a comprehensive look at amalgamation with a five-part series, beginning with what the Capital Region’s 13 mayors think about the ‘A’ word.

Next, we’ll talk with key

stakeholders from Halifax, a similar-sized region that went through a rocky amalgamation in the mid-1990s. Former politicians, journalists and stakeholders tell us what they’ve learned, what the process was like and how things are today.

In Parts 3 and 4, organizers from local citizen group Amalgamation Yes lay out how they plan to convince the region’s 360,000 residents that merging is better,

while politicians and devoted council attendees trumpet the beauty of direct democracy.

Finally, we discuss the changes already taking place with policing, emergency services and transit throughout Greater Victoria.

Follow the ongoing discussion on Twitter by searching the hashtag #oneyyj, and visit the Gazette Facebook page to weigh in.

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“Perhaps. The fiefdoms currently work well and amalgamation does not save money so any change should be done to solve problems. Issues such as policing, transportation, settlement patterns, sewer, etc. would be easier to resolve under a single urban authority. Successful amalgamation models must recognize low-population rural and agricultural areas – they won’t survive unless they are governed separately.”

John Ranns, Metchosin2

“No. I think we can accomplish improvements to our communities by integrating services, where appropriate. And that’s what I’ve always worked on.”

Frank Leonard, Saanich9

“No. Amalgamation, like fool’s gold, has a shiny attraction but little value. Bigger government, bigger bureaucracy does not work – bigger is not always better. Smaller government is more economic and more responsive to the real needs of residents. Where amalgamation has been tried costs have gone up and quality of service has gone down.”

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“No. I don’t believe that the history of amalgamation has illustrated benefit. I believe that the residents of my community would not particularly benefit in terms of the cost of operations and I also expect as the City of Victoria’s potholes get smaller, those in View Royal could get bigger.”

Graham Hill, View Royal5

“No. Local land use decisions are best dealt with by local communities through planning processes which incorporate the values of the residents of the area. The region could do a better job in co-ordination in such areas as public safety and transportation. The key to regional oversight is the governance model which must not allow one area or two areas to control the region.”

Barb Desjardins, Esquimalt6

“No, I don’t support Sooke amalgamating with other municipalities in the CRD, however I support amalgamation with the unorganized areas surrounding Sooke, subject to the desire of those residing there. Sooke is distinct from the municipalities in the CRD because of the geographical separation between the populated areas. But Sooke has many similar interests as the unorganized areas surrounding the municipality.”

Wendall Milne, Sooke1

“Yes. Communities as a whole are trying to strive for that wholesome sustainability and it’s difficult to do when you have a smaller geographic area, or if you have only one particular entity within your boundaries. Looking to the West Shore, I see the opportunity for some success in moving towards that model. I think we have a stronger presence and a more sustainable presence as a West Shore group.”

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“Yes. Amalgamation, done well, can give the residents of Greater Victoria better planning: of civic infrastructure, of public transportation and of land-use patterns. It can offer efficiencies in the delivery of services and programs. Program and service design can ensure responsiveness to local and community values so that all voices are heard.”

Dean Fortin, Victoria7

“I need to see the analysis of the impact on Sidney residents regarding costs, services and accessibility, first. I believe municipalities can do better in seeking benefits from closer cooperation, however.”

Larry Cross, Sidney12

“No. Small governments are more responsive to residents in terms of balancing desired services with the amount the community is prepared to pay for them. Amalgamation does not reduce costs, it increases them. Taxes, debt and other charges increase dramatically due to cost levels rising to the highest common denominator. Where issues and needs overlap municipal boundaries, the CRD administration structure has been praised as efficient and effective.”

Alice Finall, North Saanich13

“It would be an uninformed position to make any type of representation at this point. My job as mayor is to get information and then talk to our communities. It’s not our role as mayors to represent our personal opinions. I am certainly in support of having a better understanding of what the opportunities are for our communities to work more closely together.”

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“Perhaps. Highlanders voted to incorporate just 20 successful years ago, and we value our self-determination. The current regional governance/administrative model is diverse, dynamic, representative of local values and responsive to local needs. If other municipalities choose to join together, I maintain that potential outcomes need to demonstrate an actual net benefit for residents over the current model.”

Jane Mendum, Highlands10

“Yes. I support amalgamation if the region was divided into three areas: Saanich Peninsula, Downtown Victoria core and West Shore. The CRD is taking on too many divisions and areas aren’t getting proper representation. The CRD worked in the ’70s, but now it’s really run by bureaucracy.”

Stew Young, Langford3

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“Perhaps. The fiefdoms currently work well and amalgamation does not “Perhaps. The fiefdoms currently work well and amalgamation does not save money so any change should be done to solve problems. Issues such save money so any change should be done to solve problems. Issues such as policing, transportation, settlement patterns, sewer, etc. would be easier as policing, transportation, settlement patterns, sewer, etc. would be easier to resolve under a single urban authority. Successful amalgamation models to resolve under a single urban authority. Successful amalgamation models must recognize low-population rural and agricultural areas – they won’t must recognize low-population rural and agricultural areas – they won’t survive unless they are governed separately.”survive unless they are governed separately.”

John Ranns, MetchosinJohn Ranns, Metchosin

“No, I don’t support Sooke amalgamating with other municipalities in “No, I don’t support Sooke amalgamating with other municipalities in the CRD, however I support amalgamation with the unorganized areas the CRD, however I support amalgamation with the unorganized areas surrounding Sooke, subject to the desire of those residing there. Sooke surrounding Sooke, subject to the desire of those residing there. Sooke is distinct from the municipalities in the CRD because of the geographical is distinct from the municipalities in the CRD because of the geographical separation between the populated areas. But Sooke has many similar separation between the populated areas. But Sooke has many similar interests as the unorganized areas surrounding the municipality.”interests as the unorganized areas surrounding the municipality.”

Wendall Milne, SookeWendall Milne, Sooke

“Yes. Communities as “Yes. Communities as a whole are trying to a whole are trying to strive for that wholesome strive for that wholesome sustainability and it’s sustainability and it’s difficult to do when you difficult to do when you have a smaller geographic area, or if you have only one particular

within your boundaries. Looking to boundaries. Looking to the West Shore, I see the the West Shore, I see the opportunity for some success opportunity for some success in moving towards that in moving towards that model. I think we have a stronger model. I think we have a stronger presence and a more sustainable presence and a more sustainable presence as a West Shore group.”presence as a West Shore group.”

“Yes. I support amalgamation if the region was divided into “Yes. I support amalgamation if the region was divided into three areas: Saanich Peninsula, Downtown Victoria core three areas: Saanich Peninsula, Downtown Victoria core and West Shore. The CRD is taking on too many divisions and West Shore. The CRD is taking on too many divisions and areas aren’t getting proper representation. The CRD and areas aren’t getting proper representation. The CRD worked in the ’70s, but now it’s really run by bureaucracy.”worked in the ’70s, but now it’s really run by bureaucracy.”

Stew Young, LangfordStew Young, Langford


John Ranns, Metchosin


Wendall Milne, Sooke

“Yes. Communities as a whole are trying to strive for that wholesome sustainability and it’s difficult to do when you have a smaller geographic area, or if you have only one particular

within your boundaries. Looking to the West Shore, I see the opportunity for some success in moving towards that model. I think we have a stronger presence and a more sustainable presence as a West Shore group.”


Stew Young, Langford

Carol Hamilton, Colwood


NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGThe City of Langford has received an applicaton to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw No. 1472. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respectng matters contained in the Bylaw at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Monday, 15 April 2013, at 7:00 pm. Please be advised that no representations may be received by Council afer the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether orally or in writing, will form part of a public record.

Proposal: The purpose of Bylaw No. 1472 is to amend the City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amending the zoning designaton of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1472 from the R1 (One-Family Residental) Zone to a new P1B (Neighbourhood Insttutonal B) Zone to allow a Rugby Canada gym/dorm building.

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3 cities, 7 districts, 2 towns and a townshipWe asked the mayors of the CRD municipalities: Do you support some form of municipal amalgamation?

Daniel Palmer and Kyle SlavinNews staff

It’s difficult to find anyone in the Capital Region who thinks local government is perfect the way it is.

Businesses, municipal councillors, developers – and most importantly, residents – know something needs to change, but that’s where the collective agreement ends.

Amalgamation proposals are

almost as numerous as the region’s 91 municipal politicians, but an organized and motivated group of residents is igniting a grassroots push to turn ideas into reality.

The News Gazette is taking a comprehensive look at amalgamation with a five-part series, beginning with what the Capital Region’s 13 mayors think about the ‘A’ word.

Next, we’ll talk with key

stakeholders from Halifax, a similar-sized region that went through a rocky amalgamation in the mid-1990s. Former politicians, journalists and stakeholders tell us what they’ve learned, what the process was like and how things are today.

In Parts 3 and 4, organizers from local citizen group Amalgamation Yes lay out how they plan to convince the region’s 360,000 residents that merging is better,

while politicians and devoted council attendees trumpet the beauty of direct democracy.

Finally, we discuss the changes already taking place with policing, emergency services and transit throughout Greater Victoria.

Follow the ongoing discussion on Twitter by searching the hashtag #oneyyj, and visit the Gazette Facebook page to weigh in.

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“Perhaps. The fiefdoms currently work well and amalgamation does not save money so any change should be done to solve problems. Issues such as policing, transportation, settlement patterns, sewer, etc. would be easier to resolve under a single urban authority. Successful amalgamation models must recognize low-population rural and agricultural areas – they won’t survive unless they are governed separately.”

John Ranns, Metchosin2

“No. I think we can accomplish improvements to our communities by integrating services, where appropriate. And that’s what I’ve always worked on.”

Frank Leonard, Saanich9

“No. Amalgamation, like fool’s gold, has a shiny attraction but little value. Bigger government, bigger bureaucracy does not work – bigger is not always better. Smaller government is more economic and more responsive to the real needs of residents. Where amalgamation has been tried costs have gone up and quality of service has gone down.”

Nils Jensen, Oak Bay8

“No. I don’t believe that the history of amalgamation has illustrated benefit. I believe that the residents of my community would not particularly benefit in terms of the cost of operations and I also expect as the City of Victoria’s potholes get smaller, those in View Royal could get bigger.”

Graham Hill, View Royal5

“No. Local land use decisions are best dealt with by local communities through planning processes which incorporate the values of the residents of the area. The region could do a better job in co-ordination in such areas as public safety and transportation. The key to regional oversight is the governance model which must not allow one area or two areas to control the region.”

Barb Desjardins, Esquimalt6

“No, I don’t support Sooke amalgamating with other municipalities in the CRD, however I support amalgamation with the unorganized areas surrounding Sooke, subject to the desire of those residing there. Sooke is distinct from the municipalities in the CRD because of the geographical separation between the populated areas. But Sooke has many similar interests as the unorganized areas surrounding the municipality.”

Wendall Milne, Sooke1

“Yes. Communities as a whole are trying to strive for that wholesome sustainability and it’s difficult to do when you have a smaller geographic area, or if you have only one particular entity within your boundaries. Looking to the West Shore, I see the opportunity for some success in moving towards that model. I think we have a stronger presence and a more sustainable presence as a West Shore group.”

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“Yes. Amalgamation, done well, can give the residents of Greater Victoria better planning: of civic infrastructure, of public transportation and of land-use patterns. It can offer efficiencies in the delivery of services and programs. Program and service design can ensure responsiveness to local and community values so that all voices are heard.”

Dean Fortin, Victoria7

“I need to see the analysis of the impact on Sidney residents regarding costs, services and accessibility, first. I believe municipalities can do better in seeking benefits from closer cooperation, however.”

Larry Cross, Sidney12

“No. Small governments are more responsive to residents in terms of balancing desired services with the amount the community is prepared to pay for them. Amalgamation does not reduce costs, it increases them. Taxes, debt and other charges increase dramatically due to cost levels rising to the highest common denominator. Where issues and needs overlap municipal boundaries, the CRD administration structure has been praised as efficient and effective.”

Alice Finall, North Saanich13

“It would be an uninformed position to make any type of representation at this point. My job as mayor is to get information and then talk to our communities. It’s not our role as mayors to represent our personal opinions. I am certainly in support of having a better understanding of what the opportunities are for our communities to work more closely together.”

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Jane Mendum, Highlands10

“Yes. I support amalgamation if the region was divided into three areas: Saanich Peninsula, Downtown Victoria core and West Shore. The CRD is taking on too many divisions and areas aren’t getting proper representation. The CRD worked in the ’70s, but now it’s really run by bureaucracy.”

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within your boundaries. Looking to boundaries. Looking to the West Shore, I see the the West Shore, I see the opportunity for some success opportunity for some success in moving towards that in moving towards that model. I think we have a stronger model. I think we have a stronger presence and a more sustainable presence and a more sustainable presence as a West Shore group.”presence as a West Shore group.”


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“Yes. Communities as a whole are trying to strive for that wholesome sustainability and it’s difficult to do when you have a smaller geographic area, or if you have only one particular

within your boundaries. Looking to the West Shore, I see the opportunity for some success in moving towards that model. I think we have a stronger presence and a more sustainable presence as a West Shore group.”


Stew Young, Langford

Carol Hamilton, Colwood

Daniel PalmerNews staff

B.C. Transit is hop-ing to lease six of its buses to the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority this summer to transport cruise ship passengers.

However, the union representing local tran-sit bus drivers doesn’t like it.

The proposal, which would see buses transport passengers between Ogden Point and the downtown core, does not include using unionized driv-ers, said Ben Williams, Canadian Auto Work-ers local 333 president.

The recently negoti-ated union contract states B.C. Transit bus drivers must be used on any buses that

begin and end their service in Greater Vic-toria, Williams said.

“If B.C. Transit has extra equipment they can lease out, it should be going to address-ing transit issues in Greater Victoria,” he said.

The GVHA has yet to award its contract for cruise shuttle services, but B.C. Transit is a lead proponent, said Maribeth Burton, B.C. Transit spokeswoman.

“Many B.C. Transit communities including Victoria, Whistler and Kelowna scale back services during the summer season, leav-ing some resources under-utilized,” she said in a statement.

Any revenue from the contract would reduce taxpayer-

funded transit service, Burton said.

Williams vowed to file a grievance and take the matter to court, should B.C. Transit be awarded the contract.

“You’ll see protests outside B.C. Transit’s offices,” he said.

A GHVA spokesper-son confirmed negotia-tions are ongoing with potential [email protected]

Charla HuberNew staff

Over eight days at Albert Head Cadet Camp, high school students not only learned tricks of the trade from local cops – they got to arrest them.

“She’s arresting me,” yells VicPD Const. Chantal Ziegler, playing a drunk driver in a simulation. “She says I’m drunk.”

“Please be quiet m’am,” said Belmont student Janice Dalzell, as she mock arrested the drunk driver.

Fifty students from across Greater Victoria came together for the annual Greater Victoria Police Leadership camp, March 23 to 30.

“This is a program for good kids and offer leader-ship skills,” said Const. Cole Brewer of West Shore RCMP. The high school students spend eight days participating in simulation drills, marching, activi-ties and lectures.

Dalzell’s favourite activity was the obstacle course.

“I have learned how stressful it is to be an offi-cer,” the 17-year-old added.

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Belmont student Janice Dalzell mock arrests VicPD Const. Chantal Ziegler during training at police camp at William Head last week.

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The Pacific Carbon Trust orchestrated a months-long campaign of calls and letters to discredit a report from B.C.’s Auditor General on its first two big carbon offset projects, before it could be released.

Just as the audit report was about to be made public, the trust, a Crown corporation created at taxpayer expense, participated in the leaking of selected critical letters to media outlets.

Then the Speaker of the B.C. legislature, Bill Barisoff, made a final, clumsy effort to delay the release of the report.

As soon as it was out, Environment Minister Terry Lake tried to discredit it, by blustering about all the highly paid experts who swore up and down that a forest reserve near Kootenay Lake, and a gas flaring reduction project near Fort Nelson, were bona fide carbon offsets worth $6 million of taxpayers’ money.

The audit states in plain language, with charts and timelines, that the $6 million was basically given away for nothing. I look forward to further audits on this carbon offset scheme, assuming it survives after the May election, because these two projects aren’t the only boondoggles.

The Pacific Carbon Trust was set up in 2008 as part of former premier Gordon Campbell’s climate

change program. To make the B.C. government’s operations “carbon neutral,” the government and all of

its agencies were required to pay the trust $25 per tonne for their carbon dioxide emissions from fuel use.

In 2011 alone, B.C. universities paid $4.46 million to the trust. B.C.’s 60 school districts paid a total of $5.36 million the same year, and the province’s six health authorities paid $5.79 million. The money is supposed to go to projects that capture

carbon, thus “offsetting” the heating of schools, the fuel burned by ambulances and so forth.

The 55,000-hectare forest reserve is known as Darkwoods. The audit shows that the Nature Conservancy of Canada decided in 2006 to buy it, using $25 million of federal taxpayers’ money. The deal closed in 2008, the same year the Pacific Carbon Trust was formed.

From 2008 to 2010, the trust bought 450,000 tonnes of carbon offset, based on independent evaluations that all rested on the assumption that Darkwoods would be clear-cut logged.

Since the forest was already owned by Canada’s leading conservancy, this assumption makes no sense. Was the conservancy going to log it, or flip it to someone who would, after accepting $25 million in tax money

to acquire it? Legally, it could not.(I would add that the assumption

that logging releases all of the carbon in a forest is also false. Lumber actually sequesters carbon for longer than trees, which eventually die and rot.)

The audit found a similar case against EnCana’s flare reduction program, which the company used on many wells before the trust started offering money. EnCana was saving money as well as reducing emissions without collecting offsets. Therefore, the audit concluded, neither of these projects was a credible offset because the emissions savings would have occurred anyway.

Here’s the next Pacific Carbon Trust project that should be audited. In a complicated transaction, the trust bought offsets from something called the Great Bear Carbon Credit Limited Partnership. Yes, this is the world-famous forest on B.C.’s North Coast that was subject to a preservation deal hammered out between the Coastal First Nations, the B.C. government and three U.S.-backed environmental groups.

That was in 2006. The offset purchases were in 2009 and 2010, years after detailed preservation areas were mapped and codified in law.

Again, the trust paid for forest that was already preserved.

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Amalgamation, but at what cost?

A pane of glass is easier to shatter than to piece back together.

For years citizens and politicians of Greater Victoria have called for some kind of amalgamation of the many political fiefdoms of the region, and little has been done about it.

The News Gazette examines the issue of amalgamation in a five part series – the financial and bureaucratic pros and cons; how Halifax, a city similar in size to Victoria, achieved amalgamation and why it went down that road; and defacto amalgamation through regional services.

The political unification of Greater Victoria, into one city, or a group of two, three or more larger districts, seems to outsiders looking in as a no-brainer, but even the smallest steps have proven to be extraordinarily difficult.

Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay and Esquimalt have been distinct municipalities for well over 100 years, and, until recently, have had no serious grassroots or political push for a merger.

In 2008, Colwood council rejected a proposal for a civic referendum just to gauge community interest in joining with Langford. In the mid-2000s, the province funded investigations for the merger of Metchosin and unincorporated East Sooke, but even those sparsely populated, ideologically aligned areas haven’t made it work yet.

Concerns arose if Metchosin had the capacity and tax base to take on the burden of roads and bridges in East Sooke.

That example highlights that in any political merger, there can be winners and losers – some citizens might get lower taxes and better services, while others might see a loss. When it comes to property taxes and crumbling infrastructure, under political amalgamation your neighbour’s problems can become your own.

Amalgamation is a complicated and contentious question. Greater Victoria residents need to ask if erasing political boundaries is the solution, or if pushing for the elimination of duplication of municipal services is really the true goal.

Or should the status quo remain – don’t fix what isn’t broken?



LETTERS

Kids meetcamasAshton Nelson, 11, and William Credicott, 11, plant camas at Royal Roads University with Ken Elliot of Ken’s Native Plant Nursery in Duncan. The Shoreline middle school students planted 175 camas plants at the university to help reintroduce the native plant to the area.Charla Huber/News staff

Homeopathy not modern medicine

Re: Emu solution: Homeopath enhances First Nation healing (News, March 27)

Humans living in industrial-ized western countries are living longer and in better health than ever before because of western medicine and the science it’s based on.

Homeopathy is not based on science and is nothing more than wishful thinking. Test after test has shown homeopathic “medi-cines” to be no more effective than placebos. One would get as effective treatment by asking the tooth fairy to cure you.

I’m sure homeopathy has its supporters. So does faith heal-ing, laying on the hands and psy-chic surgery, all of which have as much evidence behind them as homeopathy.

Many critics have taken entire boxes of homeopath ‘sleeping aid’ with no effect. Most concoctions have so little active ingredient the majority are indistinguishable from each other. Supporters say the water retains the ‘memory’ or ‘energy’ of the active ingredient,

but there is no evidence and no science such a thing can happen.

Ground emu feathers? What’s next, Big Foot coverage? At least Big Foot coverage doesn’t have the possibility of killing some-one from lack of real medicine and vaccines responsible for improving the quality of life for billions of people and stopping real plagues. What plague has homeopathy stopped? What ter-rible crippling disease is history because of homeopathy? None.

Homeopathy supporters com-plain about big pharmacy, but this is exactly what the industry has become. Their so-called med-icines don’t need actual ingredi-ents or research because it isn’t based on science.

The human race is facing a number of serious issues. Per-haps the most significant is the number of people who cling to superstition or ignorance and deny science. We’ve never fixed any problems by wishing them away or magical thinking. Turn-ing away from science will only condemn our children to poverty, blight and disease.

Michael DaveyLangford

More farming needed in Greater Victoria

Re: Caught between a cow and a hard place (News, vicnews.com)

If the Alberg’s neighbours think cow poo is smelly, they should be thankful the Albergs didn’t bring in pigs or chickens.

But as things stand, I think we need more agriculture in the city and less city in the country.

I support the Albergs and their dispute with Saanich.

Rick WeatherillSaanich

New family lawneeds tweaking

Re: Breaking up is hard to do (Our View, March 22)

As earlier noted, the governing B.C. Liberals forgot the advice of a former Liberal Prime Minister that “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.”

If that PM’s son Justin Trudeau inherited any politically astute genes, our governing provincial party should have sought his advice in drafting the new B.C. Family Law Act.

Any such federal level input

could only have improved the present Orwellian legislation with which we are now saddled.

It will shock more than a few B.C. couples to learn that if they’ve been in common-law relationships for two or more years – thanks to the new and obviously misnamed Family Law Act – they’re now considered equivalent to being legally married. Now lacking a multi-year opt-in option for such couples, this retroactive law is unaccept-able.

The reported child protection aspects of the Act should be sup-ported, but without changes the current Act will reduce social stability.

Many that have “roommates with privileges” will be checking

calendars to verify co-habitation dates. Some will be ending their conjugal relationships thereby confirming a new normal shorter time-frame for sequential monog-amy in B.C.

There’s always hope that after our May provincial election, the government will amend the Fam-ily Law Act to deal with family issues only.

A better bet is that there will be legal challenges based on the above-noted retroactive issue, and that there will be a court rul-ing requiring government to cor-rect the currently ill-considered Act.

Let’s close the bedroom door to government busybodies.

Ron JohnsonSaanich

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Easter feedColwood Mayor Carol Hamilton helps serve meals during Our Place’s annual Easter lunch at their building on Pandora Avenue in downtown Victoria.

Victoria councillors are giving downtown tour bus operators two years to come up with more envi-ronmentally friendly innovations.

Four bus companies were rec-ommended to use dedicated parking space downtown for a two-year term at last week’s gov-ernance and priorities committee meeting.

“We gave a very strong mes-sage to staff to create incentives for low emissions and low-noise vehicles in the future,” said Coun. Lisa Helps.

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pany to change their fleet.”Staff had recommended a three-

year term for parking space allot-ment.

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The City of Colwood wishes to establish a revitalization tax exemption program in order to encourage the development of hotels, motels and lodges to improve upon the inventory of quality rooms available to the travelling public.

Council has the following objectives for the program which are established by this bylaw: • to encourage new hotel, motel and lodge investment in the City of Colwood; • to promote a higher standard of overnight accommodations and enrich the visitor’s experience

while staying in the City of Colwood; and • to generally reinforce the City’s commitment to the long term development of the tourism

industry in Colwood.

The program is intended to accomplish these objectives by providing a tax exemption to eligible properties. This tax exemption will provide tax certainty to the property owner and reduce the municipal property tax burden on eligible hotel, motel and lodge properties for a period of up to ten years.

In order to be eligible for tax exemption under this bylaw, the project must be for a hotel, motel or lodge property where the new construction value, as determined based on the building permit(s) issued, must be two million dollars ($2,000,000) or greater.

Renovations to existing buildings will not be eligible under this bylaw. Each project must be approved by Council prior to the beginning of construction.

The amount of an annual tax exemption will be equal to that part of the municipal portion of property taxes imposed under section 197(1)(a) of the Community Charter calculated by deducting the baseline assessment (BC Assessment’s last published land and improvements assessed value immediately before the commencement of the project) from the current assessed value and applying the difference to the current municipal tax rate. It will not include an exemption from any local service tax or business improvement area tax. The maximum term of a revitalization tax exemption will be ten years.

In effect, the revitalization tax exemption will cap the municipal portion of the levy at the pre-construction amount for ten years, except for changes in tax rates. In the unlikely event that the new assessment drops below the baseline assessment, there will be no revitalization tax exemption.

A revitalization tax exemption may be cancelled by Council if any of the conditions fail to be met. If this occurs, the owner will be required to pay the proportional amount of the municipal taxes for the remainder of the year.

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From a ridge Will Gordon can look back and peek at what’s ahead and that’s exactly his plan for his show From the Ridge.

The Colwood artist’s retrospective will feature large paintings and sculpture from the past, slipping in the addition of found objects, to his most recent works created completely with found objects.

“There might be the odd thing of paint on them, but basically just as I found them and I assemble them,” he said. “Techni-cally speaking they can be disassembled and reassembled into another beast. Each one has a particular character.”

Fish skin, spent bullet casings and bones are not uncommon in his works that are bound with wire.

“I use the wire, not just as an attach-ment device, but also as a drawing, a line in space,” he said.

“It’s a zero footprint … using objects I’ve always found fascinating anyways.”

That was part of the allure for Hailey Finnigan, curator at Metchosin Art Gal-lery that will host the show starting April 4.

She came across his work in September during the Visions of Metchosin show.

“I love his art, he puts them together in such a mindful way. He combines fantas-tic colours and shapes. And everything is just so balanced and pleasing to the eye,” she said. “ I love that he is very mindful

about his place in consumer culture.” While she was impressed with his

work, he was impressed by the organiza-tion, space and rural setting of Metchosin Art Gallery.

“She came and saw all the recent work, and the past work, and said, ‘hey you need to do a retrospective,’” Gordon said.

The show will also kick off The Homage Project – a series of performances around the region.

“Because Will is so environmentally conscious about his art making, he feels that performance art really is the next direction because it doesn’t involve any material at all,” Finnegan explained. “He’s going to be doing all sorts of neat things you can’t do in the gallery because, in a sense, the gallery is limiting,” Finnegan said.

The participatory events will focus on people’s conceptions of what art can be and how it relates to the natural world.

Gordon hopes to do two performance projects – what he’s calling ‘meetings’ – in April.

“The first one is going to be Earth. So there will be a reference to one of those land artists that did work in the ’60s and ’70s,” he explained. “It’s history of art education in part, but it’s being aware or mindful of soil or dirt. … I’m going to invite people to participate in Earth itself.”

People, not necessarily artists, will come out and dig holes, fill holes, and tell stories related to soil.

“Those personal connections make the learning a lot more real,” he said. “It’s trying to integrate everyone, not just art-ists.”

The website thehomageproject.ca should be online by the show opening tomorrow (April 4).

The show at Metchosin Art Gallery, 4495 Happy Valley Rd. runs April 4 to 28 with the opening celebration on April 6 from 2 to 5 p.m.

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Singing, dancing and clown-ing around – it’s not often par-ables of Jesus are so creatively extracted from the bible as in Godspell.

The famed Broadway musical was launched decades before the players behind Epiphany Productions were born, but an emerging generation of Victoria artists with the new theatre com-pany will launch Godspell this spring, and in a church no less.

The stained glass-lit hall at St. Matthias Church provides a backdrop to a script that bor-rows heavily from the Gospel of St. Matthew, but also doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Jesus, played by 24-year-old Griffin Lea, for one, will be recog-nizable with the Superman logo across his chest.

“It’s a modern take on (God-spell),” said co-director Joseph Goble. “Why not make Jesus Superman? He is the Bible’s Superman.”

Goble, 21, and 20-year-old Noelle Antonsen, both busy performers and December 2012 graduates of the Canadian Centre for the Performing Arts (CCPA) in Oak Bay, are the driv-ing force behind the offbeat musical and Epiphany Produc-tions theatre company.

Godspell didn’t make it to the stage at the CCPA, but Goble and Antonsen were eager to launch it anyway, so why not on their own?

“We already knew people per-fect for the roles. And it’s impor-tant to create stepping stones for emerging artists,” Antonsen said. “We see so much talent here in Victoria but it’s hard to break into the theatre world.”

Antonsen and Goble are wedg-

ing in duties of directing, pro-duction and possibly musical accompaniment in Godspell with regular jobs – he is a lifeguard and swim coach, and she works for the Out of Ireland store. Goble, Antonsen and Lea are also performing in Kaleidoscope theatre’s Singin’ in the Rain at the McPherson Playhouse this month.

“We already have six days per week of rehearsals on top of our jobs and on top of Godspell,” Antonsen said. “Being at CCPA teaches you to function well in crazy-busy situations.”

They launched Epiphany Pro-ductions as a Christian-based theatre company, although both remain uneasy with that brand-ing. Gobel is keen on big musi-cals and Antonsen enjoys edgier modern drama, both say Victo-ria has room for productions safe for kids, parents and grand-parents.

“In general we want to appeal to anyone of any age and back-

ground and belief,” Antonsen said. “It’s not so much a church brand as family-friendly plays. Par-ents can know our plays will be good for anyone.”

Victoria has no shortage of theatre groups, but Goble and Antonsen have found broad support in the local arts com-munity.

They’ve surpassed their $1,000 fundrais-ing target for Godspell through the crowd-sourcing website Indiegogo. St. Mat-thias donated the church hall in return for a tithe (yes, 10 per cent) from ticket sales going to the Rain-bow Kitchen Society. Remaining profit from ticket sales from five performances will go to pay the seven actors.

Godspell itself lacks a distinct plot, but is a series of vignettes where Jesus teaches parables to a small group of followers, and those followers act those lessons out as frenetic, overjoyed clowns.

“The cast will play instruments while singing and dancing. I was nervous at our first rehearsal, but it sounds awesome so far,” Antonsen said. “It is going to be different for Victoria theatre.”

“It’s lighthearted. It’s lots of laughs. Even with the crucifix-ion he’s not nailed to the cross,” Gobels points out. “It’s a beautiful play. You can do anything as long as you stay true to the intent of high energy and fun.”

Godspell runs May 30, 31, June 1, 2 at 7:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m. matinee on June 2 at St. Matthias Anglican Church, 600 Richmond Rd. See epiphanyproductions-theatre.wordpress.com for ticket information or to donate to its Indiegogo campaign.

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Thomas King, left, Adriana Ravalli, Nabil Ayoub play those eager for New Testament parables from Jesus, played by Griffin Lea (lower centre) in an upcoming production of Godspell at St. Matthias Church.

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White Knight Painting is giving the Victoria Brain Injury Society a hand this week, donat-ing an estimated $3,000 worth of services to

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repair and paint the society’s pro-gramming room. The work is part of Bob Fuchs’ company’s fifth annual Charity Paint Giveaway. Past recipi-ents have included the Bridges for Women Society, the Single Parent Resource Centre, the Cridge Transi-tion Centre for Women and McDon-ald House, a Cridge Centre support centre for people suffering from brain injuries.

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Ron and Bobbi Germain opened their first Beltone Hearing Care Cen-tre in Victoria in 1974. The company has grown to 12 locations on the Island, including four in the Capital Region – downtown, Hillside, West Shore and Sidney. The couple’s son, Jeff, and his wife Sharon, who live in Comox and bought three of the loca-tions from Ron and Bobbi in 2008, recently assumed ownership of all 12 locations. They plan to increase the company’s online presence and streamline their processes in store to help service customers better, Jeff said.

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The Vancouver Island Health Authority has named Dr. Brendan Carr acting CEO to replace outgoing boss Howard Waldner. VIHA decided last week to suspend its search for a permanent replacement until after the provincial election … London Drugs board chair and CEO, Brandt Louie, was honoured with the Uni-versity of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business distinguished entrepreneur of the year award. Louie will receive his award at a gala dinner May 22.

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The Johnson Street Bridge replacement project is on schedule and on budget, Victoria councillors heard last week.

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“One never wants to be dismissive of some of the risk concerns … but we’ve laid off some risk to the builder, and we haven’t gone into the contingency funds,” Coun. Chris Coleman said.

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Lynne Hibak holds a broad grin as she sweeps her fingers across an iPad, light-ing up swirling streams of colour in the shape of a heart.

For the 32-year-old client of the Garth Homer Society in Saanich, the touch screen offers entertainment and easy access to the Internet. For other devel-opmentally disabled adults at the day facility, the technology offers an unex-pected voice to the world.

Hibak uses the iPad to research birds and animals she sees while volunteer-ing at Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary. Her friend Laurie Fairweather does the same at Glendale Gardens, a.k.a. the Horticul-tural Centre of the Pacific.

“My fingers don’t always go where I want. You can make mistakes with the iPad and it’s no big deal,” Fairweather says. “If I come across a plant I don’t know at Glendale Gardens I can take a picture (with the iPad) and find it.”

The iPad and its applications are so successful in giving creative outlets to Garth Homer Centre clients, the society bought 14 last fall.

High-functioning clients like Hibak and Fairweather adapted quickly, but then so did those with significant developmental impairments.

Clients who normally struggle to pick up small objects can assemble virtual jig-

saw puzzles and paint with their hands.For clients with autism, people who

require and demand strict routines, the iPad allows staff to create visual, indi-vidualized schedules using digital photos of the client doing tasks – eating lunch, driving in the van, and going to a park. The clearer the routine, the lower the anxiety.

Lack of keyboard and mouse is key to the equation, especially for those with limited hand-eye co-ordination.

“We have clients with no capability to draw or hold a pen, but they can still use their hands and fingers. All of a sudden they can make art without obstacles,” says Rob Baker, a staff member who works with clients requiring a high level of care.

Baker introduced his personal iPad to Garth Homer about a year ago to gauge the level of interest. After a few moments using the hands-on device, clients were hooked.

“Clients use it to make choices,” says Colina Titus, director of client services. “For those who can’t speak, it’s a fantas-tic tool.”

Garth Homer executive director Mitch-ell Temkin said the society will likely buy more iPads this year for the 90 clients who regularly access the devices.

“We mistake diminished communica-tion capacity with diminished cognitive capacity, and that is completely false,” Temkin says. “The iPad is tearing down communications barriers.”

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Garth Homer Society client Laurie Fairweather holds an iPad as Lynne Hibak traces thermal imaging colours using an art application.


The Reformed Episcopal Church of The Holy Trinity. Founding Member of The Anglican

Church in North America. MEETING at Saint John the

Baptist Heritage Church, Sunday afternoons at 2:00pm,

Glencairn Lane, Colwood. Bishop Charles Dorrington

778-426-3212.

WEST SHOREPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH760 Latoria Road

250-474-045210:30am

Worship & Church Schoolwww.ws_pres.islandnet.com

[email protected]

COLWOOD PENTECOSTAL CHURCH

2250 Sooke Road 250-478-7113

LEAD PASTOR: AL FUNKSun. Worship

9:00 & 11:00amwith Sun. School for

ages 3-11 Fri Youth Meeting 7:30pm

CALVARY CHAPEL WESTSHORE

Simply Teaching the Bible..... SimplySunday 10am

2805 Carlow Rd.778-679-2092

www.ccwestshore.comA Calvary Chapel Church Plant

CHURCH OF THE ADVENTANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA

www.colwoodanglican.ca

510 Mt. View Ave.(Behind the SHELL Station)

Rev. Kenneth Gray250-474-3031

Sunday services:8:30 Traditional Worship

10:00 Family Service with Childs’ Program

The Anglican Church of Canada

Saint Mary of the Incarnation4125 Metchosin Road

Service at 9:30 am on SundaysFor info contact 250-474-4119

All are welcome

Gordon United Church935 Goldstream Avenue

250-478-6632www.gordonunitedchurch.ca

Rev. Heidi KoschzeckMusic by Tim Olfert

Favourite hymns 10:15amWorship 10:30

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARYROMAN CATHOLIC

CHURCH798 Goldstream Avenue

WEEKEND MASSES:Saturday 5PM

Sunday 8:30AM & 10:30AM

Pastor: Fr. Paul Szczur, SDS250-478-3482

CornerstoneChristian FellowshipNEW WESTSHORE SERVICES

59 min. service Sunday 2-3pm

2637 Sunderland Place (Peatt & Arncote Ave)

Call Ric for more info:250-727-8003

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The May-August Activity Guide is now available online and in person at Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre.Due to unforeseen circumstances the May-August Activity Guide will be distributed in the Goldstream Gazette on Friday April 5, one day after registration.

Stop by Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre and pick up a copy or visit us online at www.westshorerecreation.ca

REGISTRATION BEGINS Thursday, April 4 at 6 AM

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May-August Activity Guide Available NowSpring and Summer programs for the whole family including summer camps for kids.


VOLUNTEER HELP WANTED

Langford Emergency Support Services ( ESS ) is a team of volunteers who respond during emergencies to provide essential services including food, lodging, clothing, etc. to people who have been evacuated from their homes by such disasters as re, ood, earthquake, etc. We work together with Langford Protective Services, Langford Fire Rescue, and Emergency Management British Columbia. If ESS is of interest to you, please contact us for further information. Or, feel free to sit in on our training meetings, held at 7pm on the 2nd Monday of each month (except December, July, and August) at Langford No.1 Fire Hall 2625 Peatt Rd. Should you decide to join ESS, you will receive free training, which will not only enhance your own preparations for disasters, but also enable you to make a rewarding contribution to your community.

E-mail [email protected] Phone 250-857-0118

MASTER OF COUNSELLINGWith your Master of Counselling from CityU, an accredited, not-for-profit university, you’ll be prepared to help others when they need it most. Your coursework will be delivered by experienced practitioners and a clinical internship will put your new tools into practice.The program is offered in convenient mixed mode format, combining face to face with online instruction. It will prepare you for professional registration with the BCACC and the CCPA.Currently accepting applications.

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April 9, 2013, 7:00pm May 14, 2013, 7:00pm June 11, 2013, 7:00pm City University of Seattle in Victoria305-877 Goldstream Ave. Langford, BC V9B 2X8

RSVP to 250.391.7444

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Travis PatersonNews staff

New general manager Mark de Frias is boldly taking the Victo-ria Highlanders where they’ve never gone before, to the front page of Playboy’s website.

Playboy Mexico, that is.It’s all part of an out-of-the-box

approach to recruiting players this season, the first with de Frias and head coach Steve Simonson at the helm of the Highlanders’ premier men’s team.

The Highlanders have a his-tory of fielding imports such as Ash Burbeary of England last season and even Tynan Diaz of Australia from four years ago.

This year de Frias is big on a Belgian player who is commit-ted to attending the Highland-ers’ upcoming trials, April 8 to 10, at the Pacific Sports Institute of Excellence.

But it’s interest and requests from young males in Mexico that are filling the GM’s inbox.

“It’s not exactly where every-one would think we’d be found (in the media),” de Frias said.

You can say that again. But it also makes sense, given the, ahem, demographics of the site’s viewers, and that country’s penchant to produce high level soccer players the numbers of which Canada does not have.

As of Monday the GM had 40 requests from the story, which,

to be clear, is strictly about soc-cer, a feature on how the High-landers organization got off the ground and it’s direction.

It’s also clearly directed at recruiting players for the High-landers men’s Professional Development League team and not the premier women’s side, respectfully, which will feature local players as it returns to the Pacific Coast Soccer League.

The story came about as Play-boy Mexico’s web editor Erick Tapia, who interviewed de Frias and wrote the story, is friends with Highlanders new adminis-tration assistant Saul Garcia, a UVic grad who hails originally from Mexico.

“In terms of responses from one particular article it’s gener-ated a lot of response for the PDL men’s team. If anything its just more proof how important it is to us to compete, and to find a hidden gem out there,” de Frias said.

“And it helps our branding objectives of going global, it broadens the horizon of an ama-teur club playing fully profes-sional teams.”

With the Fraser Valley (Abbotsford) Mariners dropping out of the PDL this year it means the Northwest division is down to seven teams and, more impor-tantly, is down to three instead of four playoff spots.

The Highlanders will return

the Hughes brothers, Jordie at striker and Tyler on defence, as well as six or seven UVic Vikes, de Frias said. Only eight players on the PDL roster can be over 23-years-old.

“We want to make it into the playoffs and the championship final. But five of the last six years the finalists have come from our division, most of them MLS reserve clubs, fully professional. It’s no easy thing.”

Hey, no one can argue with what works.

The Highlanders aren’t expecting 40 prospective Mexi-can players to show up at trials next week. But they’d also be surprised if two, maybe three, of the most interested players didn’t make it here.

In the end the players are ulti-mately selected by Simonson, though it’s also de Frias’ job to bring in as many quality players as possible.

It’s also up to import players to travel here and cover their own costs during their stay, though players selected to the team will get most, or perhaps all, of their travel and accommo-dation costs reimbursed.

Trials run 8 p.m. at PISE begin-ning Monday night.

Interested players need to be in touch with the Highlanders office 250-590-8432 email [email protected].

[email protected]

Craig Gorman scores a goal for the Victoria Highlanders during the 2012 PDL season. Gorman is returning with a core of UVic Vikes, who may be joined by a number of players trying out from Mexico.

Gary Woodburn photo

Highlanders seek Mexican playboys

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Somewhere behind a mob of Victoria Cougars is goalie Evan Roch. The team celebrates the VIJHL championship, winning the Brent Patterson Memorial Trophy with a four game sweep of the Comox Valley Glacier Kings, completed with a 5-2 win in Comox on Saturday.

Travis PatersonNews staff

The Brent Patterson Memorial Trophy is staying in Victoria.

Captain Brody Coulter scored a goal and two assists as the Victoria Cougars defeated the Comox Valley Glacier Kings 5-2 to finish a four-game sweep of the Glacier Kings on Saturday (March 30) and win back-to-back Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League titles.

The Cougars and Glacier Kings both advance to the 2013 Cyclone Taylor Cup, April 11 to 14 in Courtenay, with the Glacier Kings entering as the hosts.

Kelyn Opel, Dane Feeney, Sam Rice and Jordie Davie also scored for the Cougars in the title clinching win on Saturday. Goalie Evan Roch made 13 saves on just 15 shots for his 10th win over the postseason.

Backup goalie Michael Herrin-ger, a Victoria Royals prospect from Comox, earned a 21-save shutout in Game 3, a 5-0 Cougars win at Archie Browning Sports Centre on March 28.

Sam Rice was named the series MVP for the Cougars. The 20-year-old forward recorded hat tricks in Games 1 and 2 of the final, and finished tied for the playoff scoring lead (13 goals, 18

assists in 14 games) with team-mate Dane Feeney (11 goals, 20 assists in 14 games).

The Cougars only lost two games in the playoffs, one in the opening round to the Peninsula Panthers and once in the second round to the Saanich Braves.

The Cyclone Taylor Cup field is still incomplete. As of Monday the Castlegar Rebels and Okana-gan Knights were in the Koote-nay International Junior Hockey League final. The Pacific Junior Hockey League champions Rich-mond Sockeyes defeated the Aldergrove Kodiaks in the other final.

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Cougars sweep Glacier Kings in VIJHL final

Kurt Horne of the Victoria Eagles will attend the Canadian junior national team’s spring training camp this month.

Horne, a 16-year-old left-handed pitcher, joins 28 other players from across Canada to compete at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Fla., April 12 to 21.

Also attending is Eagles gen-eral manager Gautam Srivastava as a guest coach for the camp.

The annual camp features daily practices and seven exhibi-tion contests against MLB pros-

pect teams, including a match against a Toronto Blue Jays development squad on April 16 in Dunedin.

Horne played for the Victoria Eagles premier team last year, throwing 55 innings with an earned run average of 2.00 and a 5-2 record. He helped the B.C. Selects capture silver at the Can-ada Cup last summer.

Last year Srivastava became a regional scout for the Minnesota Twins. He was Baseball Canada's 2010 Coach of the Year and for the past two years he has been

the manager of the B.C. Selects at the national cup.

B.C. Premier Baseball League season begins this weekend as the Eagles visit the Nanaimo Pirates for a double-header on Saturday.

The Victoria Mariners season starts Saturday, April 13 when the Parksville Royals visit for a double-header at Henderson Park, 12 and 2:30 p.m. The Eagles first home game is also April 13, when the Whalley Chiefs visit Lambrick Park for two games, 12 and 2:30 p.m.

Eagle joins junior national team

The Brad Jacobs rink roared ahead of the field at the World Men’s Curl-ing Championship this week winning its first three games.

Team Canada’s Jacobs rink, of Sault St. Marie, Ont., won 7-6 over China on Saturday, came back

from giving up a four-ender to win 8-6 over Fin-land in Draw 3 on Sunday morning, and won 9-4 against Scotland in Draw 5 on Sunday night.

The round robin con-tinues today (April 3) with Canada facing Japan at 8:30 a.m. this morning

in Draw 12, and against Russia at 1:30 p.m.

Round robin play ends Thursday with Canada facing Denmark at 2 p.m. and against Sweden at 7 p.m.

Tiebreakers and play-offs begin Friday.

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Jacobs rink shoots ahead

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

INFORMATION

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Registered Nurses &Licensed Practical NursesBayshore Home Health

Bayshore Home Health is currently seeking Registered and Licensed Practical Nurs-es to support our Pediatric clients for home/school care in the Victoria area. Pediatric experience is an asset, al-though we do offer client specifi c training, Trach/Vent courses and other on-going training supports. If you are an RN or LPN and love working with children, we would love to hear from you.

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Under the Warehouse’s Lien Act: Against the fol-lowing persons goods left in storage, if monies are not paid in full by 5pm, Tues May 7, 2013 and the contents of the lockers removed from the premises @ 878 Viewfi eld Rd, Victoria, BC that the contents of the following lockers will be sold at silent auction on Wed May 8th at 11am-2pm at 878 View-fi eld Road. Guy Belleau, Nilda Bondoc, Jane Chipps, Clayton Cray-croft, Kristine Dudley, Er-nest Gehrmann, Lorraine Johnson, Gil Lefebvre, Christine Marcotte, Doug McMillan, Caitriona Merkley, Denis Nowlan, Donna Patterson, Ayjah Peterson, Shannon Price, Steve Schmidt, Jim Simpson, Rob Sulli-van, Angela Thomas, Chris VanStigt

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

SPORTING GOODS

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WESTSHORE AREA: Condo 655 Goldstream and Veterans $1250. 2 bdrm, full bath. 5 mins to Juan de Fuca. 10 mins to Royal Roads University. 4th fl oor, unfurnished. D/W, W/D. Cable/internet ready. Elec. F/P, NS/NP. Balcony, exercise room, secured parking/stor-age. Avail. May 1st. Call 250-592-6048.

COTTAGES

METCHOSIN: 1-BDRM coach house. Avail May. 1st. $800 mo inclds: cable, W/D. Util’s not incld’d. N/P, N/S. Call (250)478-8438.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

PRIME WATERFRONT Loca-tion. 1 acre in Shirley with easy low bank access to pri-vate beach. 1 bdrm, 1 bath in over 1100sq ft, clean, new F/S, new fl ooring, FP, W/D. NS/NP. $600/mo + utilities. Call 250-646-2088.

SOOKE, 3-bdrm, 4-plex, $750 mo, on bus route, nice deck & yard. Call 250-478-2450.

UPTOWN AREA, 3 bdrms, 1/2 Duplex, avail now, $1300 mo. Call Harj at 250-686-8847.

UPTOWN AREA, 5 bdrm, 1/2 Duplex, avail now, $1750 mo. Call Harj at 250-686-8847.

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GORDON HEAD- lrg 1 bdrm, close to UVIC, bus, Mt. Doug park. W/D, F/P, lrg yard. $875+ 1/3 utils. Avail now. Call 250-686-7995, 250-479-5205, 250-885-9099.

LANGFORD (Costco). Bus, shops, school. 2 Bdrm suite, fenced yard, 4 appls, water incl’d, shared laundry, $1050 mo + utils, NS/NP. Avail immed. Call (250)881-2283.

SWAN LAKE. Large 1-bdrm, ground level. Private yard & deck. Share laundry. $900. in-clusive. (250)386-0531.

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CARS

1989 FORD Grand Marquis. V8, 186,000 km. $1000. Call (250)642-5006.

2002 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA GL TDI. 138,000 km, diesel, auto, leather. Local car, power everything. $8700. Call (250)727-2448.

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

$50 to $1000Scrap Junk

Broken Down Cars Trucks Vans

FREE TOW AWAY

250-686-3933

MOTORCYCLES

2008 DERBY Scooter, 49cc, no motorcycle licence req’d, great shape, 5000 km, w/ hel-met. Must sell (Moving). $1400 obo. (250)217-2988.

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TRANSPORTATION

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES

2003 R/T Durango, fully load-ed, leather, midnight black, full tint package and more. Im-maculate inside and out, 126,000 km. (Moving). Have all receipts, $6900 obo. Call (250)217-2988.

VTRUCKS & ANS

1969 CHEVY Pickup, 350 Au-tomatic, headers, dual ex-haust, runs mint, excellent condition, 60,000 miles. A must see to believe, asking $6000 obo. (250)893-9817.

TRANSPORTATION

VTRUCKS & ANS

2008 TOYOTA TACOMA 4x4-mint, 65,000 km, 4 doors, au-tomatic. Asking $26,700. Call(250)655-6558.

UTILITY TRAILERS

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

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To solve a Sudoku puzzle,every number 1 to 9must appear in:• Each of the nine vertical columns• Each of the nine horizontal rows• Each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes

Contents will be sold on location at 1621 Island

Highway by process of sealed bid. Viewing will be from

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on April 13th 2013.

Notice is hereby given that on April 13th 2013

West Shore U-Lock Mini Storage Ltd., 1621 Island Highway, Victoria B.C. will

sell the contents of the lockers listed below if the monies owed are not paid

and contents removed from the premises;

John Neill 1427BChris Busch 2118ANaomi Wilson 2073ACharles Atkinson 1259A

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi

Certifi ed General Accountant

Bookkeeping, Audit,Payroll, HST. Set up &

Training. E-FileTAX

250-477-4601

CARPENTRY

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

INSTCARPET ALLATION

MALTA FLOORING Installa-tion. Carpets, laminates, hard-wood, lino. BBB 250-388-0278

CLEANING SERVICES

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

MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estates, events, offi ces. BBB member. (250)388-0278.

COMPUTER SERVICES

COMPUDOC MOBILE Com-puter Services. Repairs, tune-ups, tutoring, web sites, etc. 250-886-8053, 778-351-4090.

ELECTRICAL

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

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

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


ELECTRICAL

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

VAEXCA TING & DRAINAGE

BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini ex-cavator & bob cat services. Perimeter drains, driveway prep, Hardscapes, Lot clear-ing. Call 250-478-8858.

FENCING

ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.THE LANGFORD MAN- decks, fences, quality work, competitive pricing, licensed & insured. Fred, (250)514-5280.

GARDENING

(250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Yard & garden overgrown? Aerating, pwr raking, pruning. Weed, moss, blackberry, stump & ivy rmvl. 25yrs exp.

250-479-7950FREE ESTIMATES

• Lawn Maintenance• Landscaping• Hedge Trimming• Tree Pruning• Yard Cleanups• Gardening/Weeding • Aeration, Odd JobsNO SURPRISES NO MESS

www.hollandave.ca

ECOCUTS LAWN CARE - Less Emissions & Less Noise - Call for Spring Cleanups - Free Est. 250-216-6996www.ecocutslawncare.comDPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141


GARDENING

(250) 858-0588- Tree Service - Landscaping- Lawn & Garden Clean ups- Hedge trimming & Pruning- Pressure washing - Gutters

Free estimates * WCBwww.mowtime.ca

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

ELITE GARDEN MAINTENANCELAWN MOWING,

CLEAN-UPS, LANDSCAPING

PROJECTS

778-678-2524

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

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

SPRING CLEANUP special: $25/hr. Weeding, Pruning, etc: Free est’s. Steve 250-727-0481

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

11 DIAMOND DAVE- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free ests. (250)889-5794.

VIP GUTTER CLEANING

Powerwashing, de-moss-ing, roof sweeps, repairs, windows, gutter guards. Insured. Free Estimates.

250-507-6543.


HANDYPERSONS

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

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

HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

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

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

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

✭BUBBA’S HAULING✭ Hon-est, on time. Demolition, con-struction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, top-soil, mulch), garden waste re-moval, mini excavator, bob cat service. 250-478-8858.


HAULING AND SALVAGE

JUNK BOX- We Do All The Loading

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

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

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

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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

HAPPY VALLEY Reno’s. Home repairs, small reno’s. No job too small. 30 years experi-ence. Call (250)474-7277.

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

RENOS BY Don, 25 yrs exp. New, renos, repairs, decks, fencing, bathrooms, kitchens. Senior discounts. Licensed, Insured, WCB, 250-588-1545.

THE MOSS MAN Chemical- Free Roof De-Mossing & Gut-ter Cleaning since 1996. Call 250-881-5515. Free estimates!www.mossman.ca

INSULATION

MALTA BLOWN Insulation. Attics - interior/exterior walls & sound silencer. (250)388-0278


INSULATION

QUALITY INSULATION blown fi berglass. Affordable rates. WCB. (250)896-6652.

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flag-stone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Natural & Veneered Stone. Replace, Rebuild, Renew! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. (250)294-9942/(250)589-9942. www.cbsmasonry.com

ROMAX MASONRY. Exp’d & Professional. Chimneys, Brick Veneer, Retaining Rock Walls, Cultured Stone, Interlocking Paving. Excavating. Fully in-sured. Estimates. 250-588-9471

& MOVING STORAGE

111 WRIGHT Moving-123 ton. $80/hr for 2 men. Senior’s dis-count. Call Phil (250)383-8283

11 DIAMOND Moving- 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $85/hr. Call 250-220-0734.

2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.

DONE RIGHT MOVING $80/hr. Senior Discount. Free Est’s. No travel time before or after. SMOOTH MOVES. Call Tyler at 250-418-1747.

PAINTING

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

B L Coastal Coatings. Quality, reliable, great rates. All your Painting needs. (250)818-7443

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


PLUMBING

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

FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonablerates. Call 250-514-2376.

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

PRESSURE WASHING

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

RUBBISH REMOVAL

MALTA GARDEN & Rubbish Removal. Best Rates. BBBmember. (250)388-0278.

STUCCO/SIDING

RE-STUCCO & HARDY Plank/Painting Specialist. 50years experience. Free esti-mates. Dan, 250-391-9851.

TREE SERVICES

BUDDY’S TREE SERVICES-Trimming, pruning, chipping,removals, hedges, lawn care,Insured. Keith, (250)474-3697.

WINDOW CLEANING

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.

GLEAMING WINDOWS Gut-ters+De-moss. Free estimate.18 yrs. Brian, 514-7079. WCB.

NORM’S WINDOW Cleaning.250-812-3213. WCB.www.normswindowcleaning.ca

SERVICE DIRECTORYwww.bcclassified.com 250.388.3535

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authorization 37. “Rubber Ball” singer Bobby 39. Express pleasure 40. Women’s undergarment 41. 3rd largest whale 49. Exist 51. The 4th state 52. Expressed pleasure 53. Cutting part of a knife 55. Civil Rights group 56. Makes taunting remarks 58. = 100 paisa in Bangladesh 59. American steam engineer James 62. Golfer Snead 63. Type of health insurance 64. Thyroid-stimulating hormone 65. Point midway between S and SE 66. Patti Hearst’s captors 67. E. British University river

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Victoria’sLargestBuilding,RenovationandDecor Show!

victoria’s premier show of the year!

April 19-20-21 2013

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Admission $5.00Bear Mountain Arena

Juan de Fuca Curling Arena Juan de Fuca Arena

Show Hours:Friday

1:00 pm - 9:00 pmSaturday

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