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Christopher SunNews staff
Childhood obesity is on the rise, but a new school program aims to make kids veggie-literate. And the way to encourage that is through education and including kids in making food decisions, which Is what Island Health’s Eat Well, Get Moving program is about.
This ninth annual campaign runs from February to April 30. Participating schools are challenged to encourage students to increase their fruit and vegetable intake
and physical activity. Students are given Crunch and Go cards to track the number of vegetable and fruits they eat, and the amount of physical activity they do each day.
“We know childhood obesity, unfortu-nately, is still climbing and it’s important to help children build healthy habits,” said Island Health community dietician Jodi Holland. “The Crunch and Go Cards encourages them to keep track of the fruits and vegetables they eat and to actu-ally do it everyday.”
Cards are collected at the end of each
month and entered into a prize draw. Some of the monthly prizes include class pizza parties, Thrifty Foods grocery store tours, and passes to local activity centres and sporting events such as skate and pool parties for an entire class.
Grand prizes, based on classrooms and schools with the highest participation level, include a Sportball program for 10 classes, balloon creations by Par-T-Perfect Victoria and a full program package at the Boys and Girls Club Outdoor Centre.
Learn more at [email protected]
Christopher SunNews staff
The visionary plan to guide development in Oak Bay for the next 30 years is up for debate Saturday.
Highlights from the 169-page official com-munity plan survey, released last week, includes overwhelming support to regu-late secondary suites (78 per cent), more housing alternatives for seniors and the dis-abled (73 per cent) and strong support for maintaining and conserving parks, trees, green space, pathways and the shoreline.
The results did not surprise Coun. Pam Copley, who chairs the OCP advi-sory committee. She said it’s validation that council and the community are on the same page.
“There is support for managed, limited growth that respects aspects of Oak Bay (that people love),” Copley said. “Most importantly, we were able to reach people who don’t typically come out to meetings or public hearings.”
Almost 33 per cent of Oak Bay house-holds responded to the survey, significantly more than the 10 to 15 per cent return rate anticipated by Points of View Research, the company hired to conduct the survey.
Feedback from the open house will be used to compose the first draft of the new OCP. Copley said the process is now more than half done with two more open houses scheduled before a final draft is presented to council, likely before the November municipal election.
“If you want some bedtime reading that is not of the light variety, there is lots online on the municipal website,” Copley said.
Find the results online at oakbay.ca. The open house will be held at Oak Bay Recre-ation Centre, 1975 Bee St. from 1 to 4 p.m.
Housing tops OCP concerns
Program pushes kids in the kitchen
Christopher Sun/News staff
Mya Morgan, 9, and Sean Walsh, 7, prepare carrots as they make breakfast bars at Windsor Park Pavilion, during the launch of Island Health’s Eat Well, Get Moving campaign.
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The man who stole a poppy donation box in November 2013 is back in police custody after being arrested for two break and enters that happened just days after his release from jail.
Darcy Bruce Morgan, 51, is being charged for breaking into a government liquor store in Saanich on Jan. 31, three days after being released and put on probation. The front window was smashed with a rock and a case of rum was taken.
On Feb. 2, a break and enter occurred at the vacuum store in Colwood.
The suspect smashed a window with a rock and stole a vacuum cleaner.
Video surveillance from both crime scenes helped Regional Crime Unit members identify the suspect.
Morgan faces two counts of break and enter and one count of failing to comply with a probation order.
Morgan was arrested in November for stealing a poppy donation box from a View Royal Convenience store. He was sentenced to three months jail for the theft and was released Jan. 28.
Kyle WellsNews staff
The Ontario Provincial Police made an arrest in Saanich in relation to a 20-year-old prison murder in Kingston, Ont.
Cordova Bay resident Brian Riches, also known as Brian Spinks, faces a first degree murder charge and is now in the custody of the Joint Forces Penitentiary Squad, an integrated unit with members from the OPP, RCMP, Kingston
Police and Corrections Service Canada.
Members of the Saanich Police Department assisted in the arrest, a vehicle stop, on Thursday (Feb. 6) in the 4500-block of Blenkinsop Rd.
On July 24, 1994, inmate Phong Chau was found dead in his jail cell at Joyceville Institution in Kingston, Ont. with trauma to his body.
OPP Sgt. Kristine Rae said because the murder happened in a federal prison, it made it
difficult to investigate, which is why an arrest was not made sooner.
Technological advances over the years gave police alternative methods of investigation, which eventually led to the evidence making up the basis for the arrest.
Rae could not provide further details on the crime.
Riches, 40, was returned to Kingston last Friday (Feb. 7) in the custody of the [email protected]
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Murder suspect nabbed in SaanichB&E suspect arrested 8 days after release
Brian Riches, a.k.a. Brian Spinks, faces murder charge for death of inmate Phong Chau in Kingston in July 1994
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Show the love with a walk
Take a one hour walk through Oak Bay to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
The Oak Bay Community Association hosts Embrace the Night, an after dinner stroll to celebrate the walkable community.
Walk starts at 7:30 p.m. starting and ending in the Sports View Lounge at Oak Bay Recreation Centre 1975 Bee St. on Feb. 14.
Visit oakbaycommu-nityassociation.org for more details.
UVic biz schoolcracks top 50
University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business ranks 49th among North American business schools, in the most recent listings from Quacquarelli Symonds Limited.
QS, which grades colleges and universities around the world overall and by faculty of study, placed Gustavson 12th among Canadian schools on the business listing. The University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business posted the best Canadian ranking at No. 8.
CRD goes green in the kitchen
The Capital Regional District is reminding residents what it means to live sustainably with its Green 365 In The Kitchen campaign.
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Oh the weather outside is delightfulChristine van ReeuwykNews staff
Despite dipping temperatures last week, it’s business as usual on the greens of Victoria.
“Business is up a little bit (this winter). The only thing we can point to is weather,” said Jim Goddard, director of golf at Cordova Bay Golf Course. “It is overall drier, but what comes with sun is cold and wind and frost.”
At the municipally run Cedar Hill Golf Course, they nearly tripled usage last month, with 1,409 rounds of golf played compared to 494 in January 2013.
“It’s weather,” said Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard. “Green fees have gone from about $6,000 to $16,000 just for that month. … We didn’t hear anything significant about our other rec centres, that’s the one outdoor recreation we track usage.”
As February ushered in winter, frozen greens did close a couple courses some days last week but for the most part, golfers are still in full force.
“We have guys that play in shorts every day of the year here,” said Goddard. “The bad weather doesn’t dissuade the hard-core golfer. … They’d as soon miss their wedding as a golf game.”
Promotions to keep the Cordova Bay course full include a winter league, with
competitions on a daily basis.
“Winter’s still winter. We do a lot of winter marketing with loyalty programs that keep our place steady anyway,” Goddard said. “No matter what we do there’s always some closures in the winter: half days, rainy days.”
Rainfall in January was below the norm of 132.8 mm, with just 114.6 mm in Greater Victoria last month, according to an Environment Canada fact sheet. Sunshine, however, was also down: 65.9 hours in January compared to the average of 68.3 hours.
No measurable snow fell in January, well below the average of 10.9 cm. But January snowfalls can, historically, vary drastically – from no snow to 81.4 cm, based on data from Victoria International Airport.
“It’s been fairly mild,” said Scott Kolb, general manager at Victoria Golf Club. “It hasn’t been stormy and wet. … We’ve only had one (storm) every couple weeks.”
He figures attendance at the golf course was up 20 per cent among members playing this January compared to an average January.
“Our members that would normally play once or twice a month are coming out more,” Kolb said. “I’m seeing more bodies, instead of them appearing like groundhogs in March.”
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Did you know?n On Jan. 11, 2014, Victoria set a record for the most rainfall ever to fall on one January day: 45.4 mmn On Jan. 13, 2014, Victoria tied the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in January (set in 1994): 13.2 C.
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Golfer Mike Fletcher reacts to a missed putt as
his friend Alastair Evans looks on during their
weekly game at Cedar Hill Golf Course. The pair was out for a round while
temperatures in Victoria hovered around zero.
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Winter’s blast mild to some
A classic winter e-blast from Vancouver Island to friends or relatives east of us features a golfer in shorts under sunny skies. That was true for January, as we had a little less rain and slightly warmer than usual temperatures.
Then came February.Tourists posed for photos in front of the
ice-caked fountain on the front lawn of the provincial legislature building. People dug around in forgotten corners of the closet for a parka to cover the -7 C
(plus wind chill) daytime lows.That’s still positively balmy for winter in
most of Canada. Yes, we live here because of the mild – as opposed to wild – climate, but we really can’t complain. In relation to the wildly low temps hitting our Prairies and East Coast counterparts, this is still the warm land.
A ski hill in Calgary closed one day last week because it was too cold. Temperatures there ranged from -21 C to -26 C with the wind chill. Once things warmed up Thursday, they were as cold as we were at the chilliest point of our week of winter.
In central B.C. east to Manitoba, a freeze set in that featured average norms of -20 C or colder when normal temperatures range from -1 C to -6 C.
Folks who shifted here from the northern part of the province, or elsewhere in Canada, scoff as we don that never-needed, too-warm sweater or mitts and toques.
This isn’t real winter to them. Yes cold records were broken on the south
coast. But while we may find it uncomfortable, we’re among the luckiest in the nation. A dip to -10 C (with the wind chill) is what we call a deep-freeze winter … and we are, after all, still in mid-winter.
Clear and cold, as opposed to wet and warm is the way of winter. Besides, a certain contingent of Greater Victorians will complain about the weather no matter what.
But don’t worry, these stretches generally only last a week or so, then folks can go back to complaining about the rain.
On April 1, medical marijuana growing licences expire across the country, and only licensed commer-cial growers will be able to legally fill a prescrip-tion for pot.
Ottawa is moving to clean up the mess it cre-ated by issuing medical licences all over the coun-try. Since then, munici-palities have complained that small-scale medi-cal licences have been greatly exceeded, with many used as fronts for a criminal drug trade that has made B.C. infamous around the world.
How big is the problem? There are about 38,000 Canadians licensed to carry marijuana for medical pur-poses, and half of them live in B.C. Their permission to grow their own or buy it from designated small-scale growers is withdrawn in a couple of months.
Here’s a look at the community level. Police in the Fraser Valley sub-urb of Maple Ridge estimate that it alone has 500 properties licensed to grow pot. No, Maple Ridge is not a world hotspot for glaucoma or arthritis. It is historically known for its secluded properties and as a base for B.C.’s prison system and the province’s Hells Angels.
Police have only an estimate because Ottawa’s bungled medical pot scheme conceals the location of licensed growers from provincial and local governments.
RCMP Insp. Dave Fleugel told Maple Ridge council last week that his detachment will first target med-
ical growers they know are linked to organized crime. But it’s difficult to determine which are legal and which are not.
“This has the potential to cripple the courts,” Fleugel said. “Something is going to have to take a back seat if we are going to go after all of them.”
The police and fire department have pro-posed an amnesty or grace period, allowing
people to disclose their location and have it properly dismantled without penalty, to help deal with the volume.
This mess was created by Ottawa in response to a court ruling that forced them to make medical pot available. The Harper government remains trapped in a failed war-on-drugs mentality that prevents any innovation or even common sense.
Then there is the circus in Van-couver, where self-styled princes of pot exploit the confusion of the medical marijuana law to run an Amsterdam-style retail trade.
Cannabis Culture, the pot and propaganda empire built by Marc Emery before he was jailed in the U.S., rants about the government’s “war on patients,” amid garish ads for “pot by post” and exotic weed varieties.
“By Health Canada’s own esti-
mate, the cost will increase from $5 per gram to $8.80 per gram – going up by nearly 400 per cent,” its web-site warns. Apparently smoking lots of weed really is bad for your math skills.
Dana Larsen, who spearheaded the ill-conceived and failed decrimi-nalization petition last year, heads up the serious-looking “Medical Cannabis Dispensary.” It has done so well at its location in the drug bazaar of East Hastings Street that it’s got a branch office on Vancou-ver’s west side.
Its official-looking forms have a long list of conditions where only a confirmation of diagnosis is required. In addition to genuine conditions such as side effects of chemotherapy, it includes anxiety, psoriasis, spinal cord injury and even “substance addictions/with-drawal.”
And did you know you can get a vet’s note to buy medical pot for your pet?
Larsen has boasted about the exotic offerings of his stores, includ-ing “watermelon hash oil” at $150 for 2.5 grams. Wow man, that’s like 400 million per cent higher!
Fittingly, this farce goes back underground on April Fool’s Day. Medical users can only order ship-ments from an approved commer-cial producer.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twit-ter: @tomfletcherbc Email: [email protected]
Prescription pot pretense to end
‘The Harper government remains trapped in a failed war-on-drugs …’
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Changes will hurt patient safety
Re: Dialogue needed in nurse wars (Our View, Jan. 8)
Vancouver Island nurses are reacting to a threat to patient safety and the quality of hospital care, not having a “turf war” or a “squabble” with management.
Island Health’s plan to replace more than 122 reg-istered nurses and licensed practical nurses with unli-censed care aides on medical and surgical units in Victoria means patients will suffer. And the resulting loss of more than 226,000 annual hours of professional nursing care for some of the sickest patients in hospitals means remaining nurses will see the number of patients they care for double.
Nurses welcome care aides as additions to existing care teams to assist patients with the activities of daily living. But care aides are not trained or licensed to provide nurs-ing care – they cannot assess patients, administer medica-
tions or intervene to prevent adverse events.
Giving nurses more patients than they can safely care for will result in higher complication rates, longer lengths of stay and higher readmission rates. It could even mean failure to save a life.
Adriane Gear, Margo WiltonSouth Island co-chairs
British Columbia Nurses’ Union
Tertiary treatment would save money
Voters may hold some Cap-ital Regional District council-lors accountable for the $60 million dollars spent so far on an outdated secondary sew-age plant that still does not exist.
In the meantime, the public is learning more about the advantages to tertiary sew-age treatment from the RITE Plan. Time and technology have marched on. For some CRD directors, time has stood
still. Seaterra plans a single secondary treatment plant that will may cost more than $2 billion when all piping and upgrading is calculated.
The CRD has dismissed the idea of several smaller ter-tiary plants spread through-out the region, saying it is too costly. Yet there has not been a cost/benefit analysis done, and documentation of costs remains a secret.
Richard Atwell and MLA Andrew Weaver inform us that tertiary treatment will remove the pharmaceuticals, bacteria-resistant “super-bugs,” toxins and plastics that a secondary plant will not. The tertiary waste water is pure enough to be sold to local farmers and golf courses, can be used to irrigate boulevards and be returned safely to surround-ing wetlands.
Every summer, we are urged to conserve water. Every year, Victorians are penalized with increased user fees and fines are given for
ignoring water restrictions. Why isn’t the CRD apply-ing the technology available to help alleviate our water shortages by building decen-tralized tertiary systems? At least, this will help reduce some costs for the water users of Victoria.
Colwood now plans to opt out in favour of their own ter-tiary treatment. Their taxpay-ers will benefit from resource recovery and recyclable water.
It is clear the Seaterra plan has one guarantee. It will be so costly, it will eliminate any new projects far into the Capi-tal Region’s future.
Note to CRD: Watch as Col-wood builds its state-of-the-art tertiary plants first, at a fraction of the cost.
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Noelle has celebrated her first birthday. She has matured into an endearing,
highly spirited, delightful dog with lots of personality and intelligence. With the passing of the seasons comes the reality that she will soon be leaving us to go on for further training as either a guide dog for the blind or as a support dog for a child with autism.
The next stage will involve Noelle going on to advanced training in Delta near the BC Guide Dog Services office, where she will work with a certified mobility instructor for approximately four months. There, they will carefully monitor her strengths and weaknesses as they pertain to her future life as a working dog. If she passes, she will be paired with her ‘forever’ person and together they will train for a further month under the guidance of the certified mobility instructor.
In the meanwhile, we have stepped up our efforts to ensure that Noelle will leave us well-versed in all the fundamentals necessary for her to succeed.
We now visit shopping malls, food stores, libraries, coffee shops and community centers more frequently and attend Sunday church services in order to expose her to crowds singing, clapping and sitting quietly.
At the same time, we try and give her many happy walks on the beach, in dog parks and in forested trails, so that her days are filled with a good combination of work and pleasure.
As Noelle moves towards the next stage of her life, we can’t help but feel saddened that her time with us is drawing to a close. This past year has been so enriching for us and she has been such a dominant force in our lives that we know she will leave a big void that will be hard to fill. Not having her bouncy little self making demands on our time and then thanking us by cuddling up contentedly next to us with her head in our laps will be forever missed. However, we know she was bred for a purpose and if she succeeds she will bring great joy, empowerment and independence to someone who needs her. It’s with this thought in mind, I must dry my tears, leash her up and take her out.
If you are interested in learning more about becoming a puppy raiser, please the visit the BC Guide Dog Services website, bcguidedog.com.
- Tara Douglas is fostering and training Noelle for B.C. Guide Dog Services
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Guide dog in training, Noelle, all dressed up to celebrate Rabbie Burns Day.
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When it comes to categorizing the kind of material played by Pearl Django, violinist Michael Gray takes a broad-brush approach.
“You can call it hot swing, gypsy jazz, hot club music. I just call it music,” he says, refusing to pigeonhole his Seattle-based group’s style. “Stylistically, it’s based on the Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt (music of the 1930s and ‘40s). It’s very Parisian, very European sounding, but we use that as a jump-ing-off point for what we do.”
The quintet returns to the city this weekend to co-headline Saturday’s (Feb. 15) Victoria Django Festival performance with Reinhardt enthusiast Denis Chang at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.
At last year’s festival, Pearl Django members were pleasantly surprised at the reception they received from Victoria concert goers, Gray says.
“The audience is very well educated. They know what they should hear and what they’re looking for,” he says. At the same time, there were many newcomers who gained a new understanding of and appreciation for the genre.
For the uninitiated, the elements of the style that tend to strike listeners most are the rhythm and the beautiful melodies, Gray says. While Pearl Django is comfortable playing jazz stan-dards, the group is equally at home playing origi-nal compositions.
He refers to the group as “melodic improvi-sors” whose style is similar to that of violinist Grappelli and guitarist Reinhardt, who developed their own style of rhythmic jazz.
The spirit of Django Reinhardt will abound at the two Victoria festival venues this weekend.
On Friday at the White Eagle Hall, the upstairs
space will feature performances by Brishen, fronted by teen guitar sensation Quinn Bachand, plus the Brett Martens String Band and guests. Downstairs, a venue labelled The Painted Caravan offers a more “chill” space where per-formers will jam in a cabaret feel.
“This recreates the underground of Paris speakeasies and dance cabaret,” said Django Fest co-ordinator Oliver Swain.
A similar separation of venues happens Saturday at St. Andrew’s, which will become the “Parisian Opera House” concert stage, while the church’s Kirk Hall down the corridor morphs into the Hot Club of France, with a cabaret-style vibe and dancing.
Pearl Django winds up the show Saturday following a performance by Chang, who will play with one accompanist.
A Montreal-based guitar-ist who has worked hard to promote and sustain interest in this energetic form of jazz, Chang is a regular performer at DjangoFest Northwest on Whidbey Island, the conti-nent’s largest festival devoted to gypsy jazz and co-founded by Pearl Django.
Also on the card Saturday are local artists Daniel Lapp, The Capital City Syncopaters and Chris Sartisohn. The main concert (8pm start) is all ages while the cabaret (7:30 pm
start in the Kirk Hall) is 19-plus. St. Andrew’s Church is at Courtney and Douglas streets.
Friday’s show, 19-plus only, starts at 8pm at the White Eagle Hall, 90 Dock in James Bay.
Dance workshops take place at the two ven-ues at 7:30pm Friday and 7pm Saturday. As well, an outdoor festival jam with various festival performers happens Saturday from 1 to 2pm in Centennial Square.
Advance tickets are available at Ditch Records, Lyle’s Place and Larsen Music for $20 (Friday only), $30 (Saturday only) and $40 (weekend pass). Find more information at The Victoria Django Festival on Facebook.
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The two play hockey on the same team and will represent Vancouver Island U16 at the upcoming B.C. Winter Games in Mission.
“We both went to tryouts last year … and we didn’t make it,” Charlesworth said. “We went back this year and we both made the team.”
Charlesworth and Mollenhauer were two of the 20 that made the cut after 60 players tried out in Nanaimo.
“I was really determined this second time,” Mollenhauer said. “I was excited that I made it and really excited that we both made it.”
Both girls grew up with hockey. Charlesworth used to watch her mother play when she was young and her grandmother bought her mini sticks to encourage her. As she got older, she attended par-ents and tot hockey at Oak Bay ice rink with her dad and when she was seven, she joined a team.
“I really hated it,” Charlesworth said. “I started bawling my eyes out. I thought I would be the best one there, but everyone there had already played for a year or two.”
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“I also like playing the boys. It’s fun to beat them.”
Mollenhauer’s interest also stems from her parents. Her dad grew up in Ontario playing on frozen ponds, and her mother is a field hockey Olympian. She tried ice hockey because of Charles-worth’s influence. However,
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“When I was younger, I liked wearing all the gear,” Mollenhauer said. “In most sports you’re not able to do that.”
The girls will be under pres-sure on two fronts at the Games in Mission from Feb. 20 to 23. They are determined to see their team win plus how well they play determines what happens next year.
“I’m a bit nervous because there will be scouts watching the whole time,” Charlesworth said. “For the U18 team, you have to be invited to play.”
Besides hockey, Charlesworth participates in cross-country, track, plays basketball and soc-cer at Oak Bay High. The Grade 9 student isn’t sure how far she will pursue hockey but is leaning towards becoming a chiroprac-tor or physiotherapist,when she graduates.
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Every new home built for sale by a licensed residential builder in B.C. isprotectedbymandatorythird-partyhomewarrantyinsurance.It’sthestrongestsystemofconstructiondefectinsuranceinCanada.
Thissimple,practicalguideoutlinesmorethan200possibledefectsthat are searchable online. This includes the most common defect claimsthatmightbesubmittedunderahomewarrantyinsurancepolicy–fromwindowsthatmalfunction,todrivewayorinteriorconcretefloorsthathavecracked,tosidingthathasbuckled.
Designedprimarilyforconventionallow-rise,wood-framehomes,theguidealsoprovidessomehelpfulguidelinesforthecommonpropertyofmulti-unitbuildings.
Residential ConstructionPerformance Guide
February2011
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A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.HAMLYN PAINTING WCB + Ins. Guaranteed satisfaction. Free est. Call 250-213-1054.NORM’S PAINTING- Why wait till Spring? Reasonable, Reliable. Ref’s. Over 25 yrs experience. 250-478-0347.OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.
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EXPERIENCED JOURNEY-MAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured. Reliable, friendly. Great references. Call Mike at KNA (250)880-0104.
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PRESSURE WASHING
DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.250-744-8588, Norm.
ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS
RUPE’S ROOFING: Torch onshingles or metal. Fully in-sured. References; ticketedroofers. Call Rupe 250-415-7130 or Mike 1-250-533-9410.
TILING
SHAWN THE Tile Guy- Res/ Comm/ Custom/ Renos. Freeest. Call 250-686-6046.
TREE SERVICES
BUDDY’S TREE SERVICES-Trimming, pruning, chipping,removals, hedges, lawn care,Insured. Keith, (250)474-3697.
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