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Kitschy ChristmasSpreading Christmas cheer, one ugly sweater at a time.
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Ugly and tacky aren’t usually nouns a bud-ding entrepreneur hopes to hear about his latest work.
But for local business owner Kyle Reagan, the words couldn’t sound sweeter.
“Naughty’s also been a huge thing this year,” says Reagan, standing in a basement full of self-made ugly Christ-mas sweaters.
Armed with a glue gun, felt cutouts, ornaments and, more recently, a canvas printer, he dreams up fashion faux pas designed to stand out amongst a room filled with Value Village attire.
Ugly Christmas sweater parties have become the norm in recent years and they historically involve ani-mal vignettes on knit-ted vintage threads.
“With more compe-tition coming in, you have to be more innova-tive with the products,” Reagan says, swiping through the remnants of the Christmas rush in his workshop.
One of his most eye-brow-raising innova-
tions is a sweater with protruding screws in place of snowmen’s noses.
“You can attach real carrots to the front,” he says. “It definitely turns heads.”
There’s also demand for niche pop culture designs, he says, includ-ing canvas printer images of Justin Bieber and Psy of “Gangnam Style” fame framed with LED lights.
“I don’t have the capacity to make doz-ens of one model, so often I’ll make one elaborate sweater and sell complimentary products that are very similar on a mass pro-
duction-type scale,” he says.
The Saanich resident and Royal Roads gradu-ate used the business as a learning ground for future Internet market-ing ventures. Now in his fifth season of pro-duction, he ships his creations as far away as the United Kingdom through online orders at christmassweaters.ca.
An early estimate puts his sales at 2,100 units for 2012.
He openly shares his knowledge with other DIY-ers through online tutorials on his web-site.
“I was really standoff-
ish about it the first cou-ple of years, but there’s no secret to it – it’s glue and ornaments.”
Next year, Reagan plans to sell even more tacky sweaters by creat-ing dedicated websites for each market in the U.K., U.S. and Canada.
He may want to con-sider a website for Alberta, the province that eclipsed all oth-ers in ugly Christmas sweater sales this sea-son.
Reagan can only speculate why that’s the case.
“They’re fun-loving people out there, that’s for sure.”[email protected]
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Kyle Reagan models one of his many ugly Christmas sweater creations at his home workshop in Saanich. Reagan has been expanding his business for the past five years, selling more than 2,100 sweaters this season.
Entrepreneur spreads ugly Christmas cheer
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Accepting giftsStep 1: Show gratitude – Remember to thank the person
who gave you the gift, Backman said. In person is acceptable, but a special gift, or one from a person you don’t often see, could necessitate a card or a note.
Step 2: How to return and re-gift – Be honest when you receive the same gift twice. Show appreciation, but don’t be afraid to ask the gift-giver if they mind that you exchange it. Re-gifting, the act of passing off a gift you’ve received to someone you need to buy for, is a bit dicier, but it can be done. To do so, Backman suggests, take the gift in its origi-nal packaging, label it with the name of who gave it to you and the date. When the time is right: re-gift. If
you can pull off the manoeuvre – first made famous on The Label Maker episode of Seinfeld, which Backman delightedly recounts – then great. Just don’t get caught re-gifting within the same circle of friends or someone as bold as Elaine Benes might call you
out on your pitiful civility.Constant consciousness of your gestures,
body language, word choice and tone of voice is key to representing yourself, Backman said, but no one’s perfect. Just remember to untag those Facebook posts when you let your hair down at the New Year’s party.
“Nothing’s carved in stone,” she said. “If you do feel you’ve left a bad impression, you can correct it. The key here is that you’re growing. We all can improve ourselves.”
The holiday cards have been sent, the presents wrapped and every evening from now until the new year is scheduled and co-ordinated with
relatives, friends and colleagues. You’ve done everything right – or at least you thought you did.
’Tis the season for celebrating, and with the added festivities come added pressures and opportunities for more social blunders. The holidays are a time to shine for those with the best of politesse, and a time when those without a working knowledge of social graces let their bad manners leave a lasting impression.
“You’ve got to remember, you’re a walking, talking autobiography,“ said Elizabeth Backman, Oak Bay-based specialist in etiquette and civility. “How you present yourself, what you say, how
you appear and conduct yourself, is your calling card.”
Backman leads private coaching sessions and group workshops on how to add polish to your personal and professional pursuits and laid out some ground rules on how to navigate the season – from RSVP-ing to re-gifting – with class.
Backman’s advice on …
The Dos and Don’ts of holiday etiquette
Natalie NorthReporting
Being a good guestStep 1: RSVP – “The host or the hostess should
not have to call up to figure out who’s coming,” Backman said. RSVPs should be sent via the same method the invitation was given within 24 to 48 hours of receipt of the invite. If you can’t go, Back-man added, be honest. Don’t leave the person who has gone to the trouble of preparing the event
hanging.Step 2: Bring
a gift – If the host or host-ess doesn’t specify to bring some-thing to the party, bring a gift.
And if they do: bring a
gift anyway. A bottle of wine or
box of chocolates is a nice way to say thank you.Step 3: Use your table manners – Wait for the
host or hostess to serve themselves, sit down at the table and put their napkin on their lap before you begin to eat. The simple, yet often overlooked rule changes slightly when a large group is being served. In such a case, wait until the majority of guests have been served before you dig in.
Presenting yourself Step 1: Dress appropriately – “I err on the side of cau-
tion. I’d rather be over, rather than under dressed,” said Backman, a former fashion designer.
Women have more options – and poten-tially more opportunities to dress inappro-priately. While the holidays might be the right time for some to pull out the dress with plunging neckline, fashionistas should know their audience before they bare too much skin around the relatives.
“Certain women have a way of looking sexy – the French do it very well – they reveal enough, but not too much,” Backman said. “You want to see more. They’re not showing all of the wares.”
Step 2: Turn your phone off for the party – “How many times have you come across a person who’s talking about private things, or things that are going to make them come across as very important and they’re striding around talk-ing? As much as I like technology, it’s another no-no,” Back-man said.
Leave the phones and electronic devices turned off, or on vibrate in coat pockets and purses. The exception, Backman said: if you have young children at home with a babysittter or you’re a brain surgeon on call. In such cases, let the host know why you’re gripping your iPhone.
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An exhaustive seven-month process to find a president for the University of Victoria ended with a recognizable name earning the high-profile appointment.
Jamie Cassels, who spent 10 years as the university’s vice-president academic and provost beginning in 2001, was named Thursday as the replacement for outgoing president David Turpin. Cassels, 56, has been with UVic’s faculty of law since 1981.
“I have never seen anyone better,” Turpin said of his successor at the formal announcement. “Jamie is a visionary who brings an extraordinary mix of passion, dedication, hard work and enthusiasm to everything he does.”
Cassels will take over for Turpin, who’s
been president and vice-chancellor since 2000, as of July 1, 2013.
When asked what attracted him to this new position, Cassels said: “This univer-sity. This university is on the move, it’s growing, it has an international reputa-tion as one of Canada’s finest universities, and what an opportunity to be a part of it.”
Cassels received a unanimous recom-mendation by the university’s 20-mem-ber search committee. He’ll be the uni-versity’s seventh president in its 50-year history.
Committee chair Susan Mehinagic, also on UVic’s board of governors, called Cas-sels “a visionary” and the most qualified person for the job, even with the commit-tee looking externally, as well, to fill the position.
“He understands the UVic community
and understands how to affect change,” she said.
While Cassels acknowledged the posi-tives of Turpin’s career as president, he said his first focus will be to go out and speak to the university community about “developing a further shared vision of where we want to go and how we get there.
“Inspirations, aspirations should never be fully achieved, or else you’ve set your sights too low,” Cassels said. “I have a very ambitious sense of where we can focus and what we can accomplish together.”
Emily Rogers, chair of the University of Victoria Students’ Society, also sat on the search committee. She says Cassels’ track record at UVic is what made him the best fit for the job.
“Professor Cassels has an incredible passion for this institution, and his knowl-
edge of UVic is abso-lutely unparalleled. He really is uniquely positioned to fulfill the strategic plan and take this insti-tution to the next level,” she said.
As vice-president academic, Cassels oversaw the expan-sion of undergradu-ate and graduate student programs and services, and the development of strong programs of Indigenous educa-tion at UVic.
While dean of law, he launched the groundbreaking Akit-siraq law program that delivered legal education to Inuit students in Canada’s far north, incorporating both Western and Inuit legal concepts and traditions.
Cassels has received numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching, including a 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada’s highest award for university teaching. He was named a B.C. Queen’s Counsel in 2004 for his scholarly and service con-tributions to the legal profession.
An author of a number of books linked to legal issues, Cassels published The Uncertain Promise of Law: Lessons from Bhopal in 1993 about the environmental and human cost of the devastating 1984 explosion at a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India.
He earned his law degree from the University of Columbia. A backgrounder on Cassels notes that he has three children, and when not practicing law, is an avid outdoorsman and boater, enjoys building canoes and furniture, and repairing diesel engines.
Cassels says he’s both excited and humbled about the opportunity that awaits him.
“This is a remarkable time to be taking the helm of this university. The University of Victoria is cel-ebrating its first half century, so this is a chance to take stock of our accomplishments, but more importantly, to look ahead to the next 50 years and to define our path.”
Law professor named next UVic president
“I have a very ambitious sense of where we can focus and what we can accomplish together.”
- Jamie Cassels
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NDP leader Adrian Dix has completed year-end interviews with members of the legislative press gallery. Here are highlights from my discussion with him.
TF: On the Kinder Mor-gan oil pipeline expansion proposal, federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair says the federal environmen-tal process would have to be strengthened before a project like that could get a thorough enough hearing. Do you agree?
AD: The B.C. Liberal government has signed an equivalency agreement that says that the federal decision is the pro-vincial decision on these projects. If it applies to Enbridge Northern Gateway, presumably the B.C. Lib-erals would apply it to Kinder Mor-gan.
They could have done a joint process, where [the final decision] would have gone to both cabinets. They chose instead to give up jurisdiction. They were so afraid of making any decision on Northern Gateway that they sent it over to the federal government.
So what we’ve said is within a week of coming to office, we would end that equivalency agreement, and British Columbia would make decisions about both Enbridge Northern Gateway, which applied in May 2010, and any other pipe-line, including the Kinder Morgan
proposal, for which no application has been made. Obviously it would have been desirable for everyone
had they chosen a true joint review, as they have in Site C [dam proposed for Peace River], as they did with Kemess North [rejected mine expan-sion proposal] and other cases.
TF: You don’t want dupli-cated review processes here, you just want a pro-vincial cabinet say in the decision?
AD: That’s right. TF: On your relationship
with the B.C. Federation of Labour, your caucus is considering a proposal that B.C. should once again do away with secret ballots for union certification.
AD: The B.C. Fed makes a case to the government on a series of issues on employment standards every year. Labour law, every year. WorkSafeBC, every year. Trades and training, every year.
With respect to [accepting signed union cards for certification], it is a democratic process that the Newfoundland Conservative gov-ernment just put into place a few months ago. So it’s a proposal from the labour movement and we’re looking at it.
For most of B.C.’s modern his-tory, since World War II, we’ve had that card-check system in place. The question would be whether [returning to that system] is a prior-
ity for this term in government.TF: So those kinds of things will be
made clear in your platform?AD: Absolutely.TF: You picked up some serious
money from the business community at a fundraiser in October. Is that some kind of a record for the NDP?
AD: [Laughs.] It might be a record, I don’t know. I think the business fundraiser we did at the Hotel Vancouver netted $350,000.
I think what it reflects is, this year I’ve had about 230 meetings with the business community. The pur-pose of it has been principally to build understanding, particularly on issues of skills training. With the pri-ority I give to skills training, I think I’m much more attuned to their concerns than the government has been.
TF: I suppose that kind of success in fundraising might make it more difficult to follow through with your pledge to ban corporate and union donations.
AD: I don’t think so. The B.C. Lib-eral Party has a very high level of corporate donations as a percent-age of its total. We’re overwhelm-ingly dependent on individual dona-tions. We get support from unions, but it’s not even close to what peo-ple would think.
TF: So you’ll campaign for that, as you have before?
AD: Yes.Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter
and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com
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‘This year I’ve had about 230 meetings with the business community.’
Generosity of the season
The shopping malls around Greater Victoria haven’t exactly been empty over this Christmas season, but there’s a sense people aren’t spending as much these days.
Governments at all levels are facing deficits and cutbacks, and the economy isn’t exactly roaring upward.
Despite lingering tough times, people across Greater Victoria have once again shown immense compassion and generosity over the past few months.
Each week and almost each day we’ve seen new examples youth, adults, businesses and public sector organizations working hard to bring in food, clothing and toys for people in poverty and who are homeless.
Kids and teachers at schools such as Belmont secondary, Mount Doug high and Cedar Hill middle school have brought in piles of food, gifts and cash for food banks in Greater Victoria. Oak Bay high kids created gift bags for people spending Christmas in the cancer ward.
A small army of Salvation Army volunteers have manned collection kettles at shopping centres across the region.
In driving wind and rain, the annual truck light parade wound its way through the city and people were happy to give food for the Mustard Seed, a key food bank for the region that has seen significant cutbacks this year.
Some, like a preschool owner in Fairfield, raised enough donations help more than 65 families with Christmas hampers. Or Department of Defence personnel who have come through big for the United Way.
These examples are the tip of the iceberg of those who give a little and a lot. Most people won’t see the joy they bring to kids who live in poverty, seniors who struggle on meager fixed incomes, and families given a chance to have a hearty meal that might normally fall outside their limited budget.
We hope Christmas season helps bring out the best in people, and this year again, we think it has.
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Now that the majority of our elected representatives have voted to push ahead with the building of an on-land sewage treatment facility, I would ask that each of them commit the following.
First that all costs associated with the building and operation of this new facility be passed on to taxpayers as an identified line item on their property taxes.
Secondly, that each municipality agrees to prepare a document outlining the various options to
pay for sewage treatment. This should include options that range from simply raising property taxes to options that would see reductions to current service costs until a break even point is reached.
Finally these options should be sent out to all residents in each municipality with the option receiving the greatest number of votes being implemented.
Bruce ClineOak Bay
It may be the perception that we are under threat; new houses not quite what I have in mind, new buildings that seem too big for my comfort, people a bit more threatening wandering around. Whatever it is, there seems to be a recurring compulsion in Oak Bay to demand we “do something” about it.
The latest response is the awkwardly worded Heritage Plan survey (offered on the greatly improved Oak Bay website). Full of nebulous value statements and redundant questions, it is a noteworthy example of how not to ask questions, make choices, and establish priorities.
Our desire to add new regulations or bylaws should be approached with extreme caution. Once in place, they are hard to remove. They move us away from guidelines
that can be discussed, appealed or amended and move us towards a confrontational environment that escalates into the abyss of civil servants and lawyers.
It is amazing hubris to think that somehow our decisions now are the best ones in our community, that the citizens in the 1930s, or ‘50s, or ‘90s, or after us, couldn’t decide how the community should evolve. A loose set of rules, common sense and an attitude of personal responsibility have worked very well to get Oak Bay to the remarkable place it is.
The survey should be rewritten to embrace simplicity, expect choices, and rank priorities. If it can’t do that it should be abandoned.
Nick WemyssOak Bay
As per usual with this secretive Harper government, they announced Cnooc’s – China’s state-owned oil company – takeover of Canadian fossil fuel company Nexen at 5 p.m. on a Friday, a time they hoped nobody would be paying attention.
Further, this takeover is occurring concurrently with the equally secretive FIPA process (China-Canada Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement) process.
Like other trade agreements, FIPA would allow Chinese companies to sue Canadian governments in more secretive tribunals if they do anything to counter their interests.
Because of NAFTA, for example, Quebec is being sued for placing a temporary moratorium on fracking. Fracking is an extremely environmentally destructive method for harvesting natural gas. Quebec made a prudent, precautionary decision with regards to a
potentially dangerous and currently under-studied practice in light of the growing body of research pointing to its negative consequences. Some claim that when natural gas – a supposedly “clean” energy source – is extracted by fracking, it is potentially as dirty as coal.
Often these agreements increase the comparative advantage of one country over another, rather than equally benefiting both sides. Thus, great care and public consultation is required, especially in a democratic country like Canada.
Alternatively, Harper seems intent on getting the oil out as fast as possible by ramming through this and other legislation in a secretive manner, regressing our environmental policy to the 1970s, in a fashion that instills little confidence that the interests of Canada, or the world as a whole, are being served.
Denver CarereOak Bay
Along our beautiful shorelines, here in Oak Bay and in the CRD, some people who happen to own property along our publicly owned foreshore (below the high tide line, in almost all cases) have slowly been stealing our public foreshore beaches and rocky areas.
Natural beauty has been destroyed with illegal paving, the building of walls and fences, placing no trespassing signs below where they actually own, or through other ways of preventing access or deterring people by trying to trick them into thinking the foreshore is their
private property when it isn’t. The District of Oak Bay and the CRD needs
to ensure that further theft of the public foreshore and other public areas will not happen and should make efforts to see that current structures that were illegally placed are removed.
There is also a need for improved beach access and signage.
These areas are for all of us and not just a few. Max Jones
Oak Bay
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executive director of Our Place Society and launched his own grassroots organization. Rather than being tasked with top-level administration, he now works directly with people on the street, helping people by lending an ear,
a ride, a coffee, or a referral as needed.
Every December, he brings 50 members of his street family to Butchart Gardens. This is the 10th year the tourist attraction has handed out the complimentary
When he was first invited to Butchart
Gardens, Terry wasn’t sure it sounded like much fun.
“I didn’t know what it was going to be like,” he said, his swollen hands and dishevelled hair hinting at the rough nights he’s spent on Victoria streets.
His reluctance, however, was no match for Rev. Allen Tysick’s persistence. After a few gentle invites, Tysick simply said, “Be there.”
It worked. On a chilly mid-December night, Terry – who didn’t give his last name – boarded a bus for the field trip.
He and Tysick met for the first time about a month ago. Terry woke
up early one morning outside a 7-Eleven to see Tysick’s face peering down at him.
“I said, ‘Who the hell are you?’” Terry said. During the cold, rainy night, someone had stolen his sleeping bag and urinated on him.
“Al saved my life,” he said.Terry refused to go to
hospital, so Tysick loaded him in his van and drove him around with the heat on until he warmed up. When a leg infection forced Terry into hospital days later, Tysick
visited him.It’s what the Dandelion Society is
all about.In 2011, Tysick resigned as
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Rev. Allen Tysick plays the part of big kid on a brass pony, during a visit with 50 of his Dandelion Society ‘family members’ to Butchart Gardens. Tysick leads a bus trip out to the Gardens to see its Christmas displays every December, thanks to free tickets.
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tickets.“We do many things
in the community,” said Butchart Gardens’ spokesperson Graham Bell. Ticket giveaways happen often, but aren’t advertised with a press release, he added.
“To us, it’s about doing these things for people, rather than for the recognition.”
For Tysick, it’s about giving his street family an opportunity they normally wouldn’t get.
At 5 p.m. Tysick greeted people at a designated downtown corner as they arrived by foot in singles and pairs.
Soon after, an ITT Wilson’s tour bus transported everyone to their destination in Central Saanich – another corporate donation.
For two hours, the group wandered through the Gardens’ Twelve Days of Christmas displays. Dandelion volunteers handed out hot chocolate and cookies before the group boarded the bus for home.
“Three cheers for the bus driver,” called Tysick from the front of the bus. A chorus of Hip Hip Hoorays erupted.
One couple staying in the shelters was among the group.
“They walked along Butchart Gardens hand in hand,” Tysick said. “It’s something that made their Christmas and they told me that… and it’s stories like that that make me want to pull another one together.”
Terry called the experience beautiful.
This Christmas marks an extra special one for the 51-year-old. It will be his first spent outside prison in more than 20 years.
Terry was released May 15 after accumulating sentences equalling 28 years behind bars.
He moved to Victoria and has been on the wait list for housing for the past four months.
“I love Christmas. I always have,” he said. “I hope I don’t spend it on the street.”
Visit hopeliveshere.ca for information about the Dandelion [email protected]
OAK BAY NEWS - Monday, December 24, 2012 www.oakbaynews.com • A9
25 Gemini Awards as well as the Governor General’s lifetime achievement award.
In her years with 22 Minutes, she made news headlines by humanizing and humiliating stiff politicians outside Parliament
and by ambushing press conferences, all with an endearing east-coast accent and cheekiness.
In 2011, Walsh made national headlines for knocking on the door of Toronto Mayor
Rob Ford, who promptly called police and attempted to have her arrested for trespassing.Walsh comes to Victoria for one night only, fresh off a
two-week run at Vancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre.She performs in support of Metro Studio’s Raise
the Roof campaign, where partial proceeds will go to installing air conditioning in the theatre.“It’s really exciting Mary is launching (our campaign),”
said Heather Lindsay, general manager at Intrepid Theatre.In partnership with the Victoria Conservatory of
Music, Intrepid will be putting a new roof on the studio and upgrading it to a theatre in 2013.
“The most exciting and relatable thing is the air conditioning, because I think our audience members can
really relate to that, “ Lindsay said. “Most of them have been in a hot room with us at some point.”
Tickets are $100, but $50 will go directly to the fundraising campaign and will include a $50 charitable tax receipt, she said.
Find tickets at ticketrocket.org or by calling 250-590-6291.
THE ARTSToo far from the family to enjoy the feelings of shame and disgust that
are an inevitable part of the holidays? Fret no more. Come enjoy, as Jay and Grayson insist you play charades; force you to join in the sing-along; require that you model the horrific sweater from Aunt Ethel. Logan’s pub, 1821 Cook St., will be open from 3 to 9 p.m. on Dec. 25, serving Christmas dinner.
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The line between humour and rage often rests on a knife’s edge.
No one embodies this truth more readily than Mary Walsh, a stalwart of the Canadian sketch comedy circuit who brings her one-woman show Dancing With Rage to Metro Studio Feb. 19.
Perhaps most recognized for her Newfie-infused satire on the long-running CBC series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Walsh incorporates many of the characters she has played over the years into the show, including the infamous warrior princess Marg Delahunty, Dakey Dunn, Mom Reardon and Tim Horton’s loiterer and close-camera gossip Connie Bloor.
Dancing with Rage follows several stories, from a blind woman who regains her eyesight to a mother travelling the country in search of her lost child.
Throughout the show, Walsh embodies her classic and emerging characters in seasoned fashion to illustrate the rage brought on by modern politics, capitalism and pop culture.
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Mary Walsh, a stalwart of the Canadian sketch comedy circuit, brings her one-woman show Dancing With Rage to Metro Studio Feb. 19.
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Ballet Victoria is in the stu-dio hard at work on its new, original production of The Gift of Pandora’s Box.
A holiday performance is a Christmas tradition for Vic-toria’s dance troupe, and this year they bring a tale inspired by Greek mythology to mod-ern day, setting The Gift of Pan-dora’s Box in a family home at Christmas.
Uncle Geoff has travelled the world and returned with gift boxes for everyone, however he has one special box that is not meant to be opened. When curiosity gets the better of Pandora and she opens the box, panic, chaos and hilarious pandemonium ensue.
In his signature style, artis-tic director and choreogra-pher, Paul Destrooper has developed a unique program that showcases dance and focuses on the dramatic and theatrical elements of good story telling.
The characters in this work are developed around archetypes, filled with local colour. A nutcracker, a witch, a dragon, a fairy and more are interwoven with the family celebrating Christmas.
Local pianists Jane Edler and Wendy Stouffer take the role of visiting family mem-
bers and play a section of Lady Gaga music and a section of Tchaikovsky. Destrooper has used much of Tchaikovsky’s
familiar Nutcracker score as a background for this entirely new piece.
“Familiar music and a pleth-
ora of characters will make the work accessible to a wide vari-ety of audiences,” Destrooper said. “Ballet fans will appreci-ate the artist’s technical prow-ess while the novice audience can simply enjoy beautiful dance and a fun story.”
The Gift is a story of hope and Ballet Victoria is a troupe that is hopeful many families will be able to attend.
“Every year for our holi-day show, we offer tickets to charity groups and we will do that again this season,” said Destrooper. “We also realized that we can do more. We can offer families entertainment that is affordable, fun and that hopefully, introduces young people to the arts.”
To give area residents an opportunity for a family out-ing, the company has reduced all tickets for kids 12 and under to $15. The inexpensive ticket is valid for all four per-formances of The Gift of Pan-dora’s Box at the Royal The-atre.
The Gift of Pandora’s Box leaps on to the Royal Theatre stage on Dec. 27, 28, and 29 at 7:30 p.m. and on Dec. 30 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at rmts.bc.ca and 250-386-6121. For more information visitbal-letvictoria.ca.
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Dancer Risa Kobayashi leaps over Ivy and Jack, young members of the Ballet Victoria company.
Don DescoteauNews staff
The well-documented Christmas ceasefire between Allied and Axis soldiers on the Western Front in Europe is near-ing its centennial.
The combatants halted their pitched battles briefly on Dec. 24 and 25 to celebrate Christmas together, enjoy a drink, exchange gifts, and in some cases play a game of soccer.
It was a show of humanity between ene-mies who found they weren’t so different from each other after all.
So what is it about this time of year that softens hard hearts and leaves Christians and secular people alike contemplating the meaning of the season?
Rev. Ian Victor, who presides over St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on Douglas Street in downtown Vic-toria, estimates about 70 per cent of people who attend their Christ-mas Eve services are not regular congrega-tion members.
While few visitors come looking to be con-verted or even enlight-ened, he says, many incorporate the event into their family tradi-tions, enjoying the sing-ing of carols and the feelings of goodwill that envelop the room.
To make tonight’s service (7 p.m.) more accessible to non-churchgoers, St. Andrew’s will focus on readings with broad appeal, Victor says, and a sermon “that doesn’t presume prior knowl-edge of the (Christian) message.”
That message can hit home, with laypersons and practising Chris-tians.
As the convenor of the St. Andrew’s wor-ship committee, church elder John Mitchell finds himself busy with details surrounding the service in the days leading up to Dec. 24. But once things get underway and he’s able to sit down and take in what’s happening, he sometimes finds him-self transported.
“I like Ian’s sermons,” Mitchell says. “And
sometimes what he says hits a nerve with me and I can feel God’s presence a little bit more.”
Victor explains that phenomenon with a ref-erence to ancient tradi-tion.
“In Celtic spirituality they talk about ‘thin places,’ those times when heaven seems a little closer,” he says.
“I think Christmas Eve seems to be one of those thin times, in that it provides (an experi-ence) outside of the everyday.”
Mitchell notes how some people turn to God only in times of cri-sis, or when they feel they need a lift. He says he always feels he has a place to go to find comfort, and it doesn’t always mean going to church.
“It’s a special time for Christians, too,” Victor says, acknowledging the universal appeal of the Christmas season.
“But for people who are trying to live as dis-ciples 52 weeks of the year, it’s not that much out of the ordinary. This is the same Christ we worship (all) year. It’s wonderful to cele-
brate the beginning of the incarnation, but it’s only part of the story. What Jesus grew up into is more important than who he was as a baby.”
In the Christmas Eve service, Victor says, “we try to move people past the bambino wor-ship and consider the whole meaning of what we’re about and what his whole life stood for.”
Echoing Victor’s com-ments, Rev. Michael Caveney of St. Aidan’s United says 60 to 70 per cent of the 200-odd people who attend the Saanich church’s popu-lar Christmas Eve ser-vice are not regular con-gregation members.
“I think people are just trying to get in touch with their spiri-tual values,” Caveney says, trying to explain why many people set aside the evening of
Dec. 24 to attend church.
Similar to his counterpart at St. Andrew’s, Caveney’s Christ-mas Eve sermon tonight (7 p.m.) steers away from detailing the story of Jesus’ birth, and focuses instead on the themes of Christmas Eve.
“For us it’s really a celebration of the fact that God
cares,” he says. “You know, it’s those four cornerstones of our faith: peace, love, joy and hope. It’s just a cel-ebration of that and we celebrate it through tra-ditions, through being with family.”
Mitchell’s brow wrin-kles as he delicately explains his dim view of the watering down of the season in popular culture. So many com-mercial and public ref-erences refer to it as “the holiday season,” purposely omitting the word Christmas in a show political and cul-tural correctness.
“People forget how this all started with Jesus,” he says.
The majority of local Christian churches host Christmas eve ser-vices. To find one near you, simply do a web search for churches in Victoria.
Local churches will welcome many visitors tonight for their annual Dec. 24 services
Universal message of peace
Rev. Michael Caveney
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Highlanders leave W-League for PCSL
The Victoria Highland-ers top women’s team will return to B.C.’s Pacific Coast Soccer League after three seasons in the United Soccer Leagues W-League.
New general manager Mark deFrias said the deci-sion to discontinue the W-League team does not prevent the Highlanders from remaining true to its vision and commitment to the development of the women’s game locally and nationally.
The cost of travel has always been the challenge with the women’s team, which survived with a title sponsor last season, and played as the Peninsula Co-op women’s team.
“With the changing land-scape of women’s soccer it would not have made sense for the Highlanders FC to remain in the W-League for 2013,” deFrias said. “We are strong supporters of the USL and look forward to continuing to compete on the men’s side in the USL Premier Development League.”
The Highlanders played many successful seasons in the PCSL as the Victoria Stars.
Velox rugger named player of the year
Velox Valkyries Shannon Kane is the Canadian Direct Insurance Women’s Player of the Year for the B.C. pre-mier league.
A back rower, Kane was an integral figure in Velox’s undefeated 2011-12 season that ended with them win-ning the Adidas Women’s Premiership first Gordon Harris Memorial Cup since 2008.
Velox led the league with an average of 45 points per game, and Kane ranked third in her team with four tries.
A former national team age-grade rugby standout at the U19 and U23 levels, Kane has recently spent the fall pursuing bobsledding.
This past November, Kane was competing at the North American Cup and contin-ues to excel on the track in tournaments held in Whistler and Calgary.
Four Valkyries received Player of the Year nomi-nations: Jesse Olynyk (14 tries), Lindsay Anderson, Natalie Tam and Selinna McGinnis.
Travis PatersonNews staff
Kenny Goodland isn’t from this Island, but he knows a thing or two about its storied rugby team, the 107-year-old Crimson Tide.
Goodland, a Newfoundlander, suited up for the Atlantic Rock during the nation-wide Super League of years past, and faced the Crimson Tide many times, including losing to them in the finals.
Now Goodland is taking the helm of the Tide as new head coach, with co-coach Roger Rob-inson. The longtime Castaway Wanderers duo have partnered before, leading CW youth and U20 teams.
They’ll assume the same for-mat, with Goodland, 36, handling the forwards, and Robinson, a former national player, organizing the backs.
They also have the help of local rugby great Hans de Goede, as manager, as they shape the latest version of one of the oldest rugby teams in the world for its Jan. 26 return against Vancouver.
“We’re coming off a popular tournament with the (America’s
Rugby Championship), and a suc-cessful tournament, so hopefully we can ride the coattails of that a little bit ,” said Tide coach Kenny Goodland.
The Tide’s senior men’s team won’t look much like the last one, which hosted touring Irish side Ballymena at Esquimalt’s Bullen Park in 2009.
But the revival of the McKech-nie Cup has brought back B.C.’s three-way regional competition, and in a festival type format. The Saturday of rugby will feature a triple-header against Vancouver at Westhills Stadium in Langford. The premier women will play for the Ruth Hellerud-Brown Cup, the U20 men for the Dunbar Keg cup, and the premier men for the McK-echnie Cup.
The Tide had its first assembly of potential squad members in Cowichan earlier this month, but many players, including some top UVic Vikes, were unavailable due to exams.
“That was really to gauge the interest and we got a good start,” Goodland said. Things will move fast now as there are only two more sessions, Jan. 12 at UVic and Jan. 20 at Cowichan.
The B.C. Rugby Union estab-lished some key rules for select-ing the team. No import players, which is logical, and no national team members, which makes no sense, Goodland said.
“If Rugby Canada wants to look at this as a pathway, which, as a regional competition, would be ideal, then why not play the carded guys?”
About a dozen of the nation’s top rugby players are playing pro-fessionally overseas. The rest are in the B.C. premier league.
There are some loopholes. Rugby Canada has scaled down
its national team for now and that means CW scrum half Kyle Arm-strong, who played two games in the ARC, is available to the Tide. The Ontario import has been play-ing with CW long enough to be considered local. Like Armstrong, Robinson also played for the Tide.
Otherwise, to be a true rep side, there’s also an understand-ing to use at least one player from each club in the Vancouver Island Rugby Union, though all teams were represented at the first try-out.
“We’ll do our best, I guess,” Goodland said.
Other players who have looked promising are Cowichan veteran Robin MacDowell, a handy full-back, as well as a strong UVic contingent, with Oak Bay’s Shea Wakefield, Pat and Doug Fraser (unrelated), and Jake Gylnicki, for-mer captain of Canada U20 team.
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Regional rugby competition amps up
The break is over as the Camosun Chargers women’s basketball team hosts its annual Christmas break tour-nament starting Friday (Dec. 28).
Visiting are Vancou-ver Island University, Langara and Mohawk (Toronto) colleges.
Play opens Friday at 5:30 p.m. with V.I.U. and Langara, fol-lowed by Camosun vs Mohawk at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday Dec. 29: 5:30 p.m. Mohawk vs. VIU; 7:30 p.m. Langara vs. Camosun.
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A new pediatric isolation ward at Victoria General Hospital is open. The room is used to treat children fighting cancer.
“The greatest portion of funds raised for this project came from families whose children have expe-rienced cancer and benefited from the care at Victoria General Hospi-tal,” said Melanie McKenzie, execu-tive director of Victoria Hospitals Foundation.
“They gathered together through a number of events to raise these dollars and inspire our community.”
The isolation room will protect children from infection when their immune system is compromised and provide additional clinic space to allow more children to receive chemotherapy and supportive care closer to home.
“When you have a child with cancer it exhausts you emotionally and it affects everybody who knows you,” said Derrick Hamilton, whose daughter Jaimey has been cared for in the Pediatric Oncology Unit at VGH since 2005.
VGH is Vancouver Island’s pediat-ric specialty hospital, treating 90 per cent of Island children.
“The parents who have put their
commitment and energy behind this project are inspiring,” said Dr. Brian Sinclair, medical director of pediat-rics.
“Not only have they supported their own children during challeng-ing times of illness, but they have made a significant contribution to improving care for all children on Vancouver Island.”
Construction cost was $135,000, with $121,500 raised by the com-munity through Victoria Hospitals Foundation; $8,100 from Vancouver Island Health Authority and $5,400 from the Capital Regional Hospital District.
“This critical project is the result of families seeing a need, finding a way and making a difference that will help kids and their families as they battle cancer,” said Graham Hill, Capital Regional Hospital Dis-trict Board Chair and mayor of View Royal.
“The Capital Regional Hospital District is pleased to have helped our families in providing this extra barrier of protection and in sharing in a tangible symbol of what can be done when our community comes together.”
New children’s isolation ward opens at Vic General
Kyle Wells/News staff
Santa Claus and his helper elf arrive at Victoria General Hospital by B.C. Ambulance Service HeliJet to visit children in the pediatric unit on Dec. 13.
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