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NEWS: Teen convicted on child porn charge /A12COMMUNITY: Firefighters chip in for schools /A7SPORTS: Oak Bay tennis tourney a classic /A13

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Foundation for

educationConstruction continues on the new Oak Bay high school. The new school building is expected to be finished in the summer of 2015. See the story on page A3.

Arnold Lim/News staff

The B.C. Nurses’ Union and Island Health are locked in a bitter dispute about changing the model of nursing, but one health care professional has seen the

new system work successfully at Victoria General Hospital.

Mary Ann Desjardins, a care aide for 21 years,

is stationed at the VGH neuroscience department and works with a team of two registered nurses and one licensed practical nurse. The team normally cares for about 14 patients, and Desjardins helps them eat, get in and out of bed, bathe and use the toilet.

“We’re able to do the extra little pieces that a registered nurse doesn’t have time to do, such as comforting the patient,” she said. “There are times when I look at a patient and decide, ‘I’m going to sit with this person because I know he or she is frightened.’”

Her team was part of a small pilot project

for the care delivery model redesign (CDMR) implemented at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital in September and planned for Victoria General and Royal Jubilee hospitals in April.

Changes will have care aides taking on nursing duties of feeding, bathing and toileting acute-care patients in an effort to reduce costs and give patients more one-on-one time with a health care professional. Desjardins said having care aides in acute care is a positive change.

Care aides learn to identify subtle changes

Christopher SunReporting

Part 3 in a seriesA health care assistant explains that care aids have the skills to work in acute care

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HHee tthhinkkss they’re chatting abouutt the hhhospitall jello. His nurse is actually midwaay through dozens of assessmeents.

During the minutes spent at the bedside, a professional

nurse makes dozens of critical assessments. Any one

of them could mean the difference between recovery

and something that could result in tragedy.

Take direct patient care away from nurses and

vital knowledge affecting the health of patients is lost.

B.C. should be increasing the number of nurses,

not replacing them with care aides.

Ensuring nurses remain in direct contact with

patients is crucial to you and your loved ones.

While they may not be specialists in jello, when it comes

to safe patient care, professional nurses are irreplaceable.

Please sign BCNU’s petition for an independent assessment of Island Health’s unsafe patient care model, at BCNU.org/takeaction.

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FRAMESALE

Scheeren says. “We are making very good progress. We are probably about a month ahead of concrete foundations right now.”

The first official hand over is expected Sept. 1, when Scheeren will turn over the gymnasium, on the Cranmore Road side, to the school for the 2014-15 school year. Only then can he begin deconstruction of the old gym to be replaced by the Tech Educational Area, the last building scheduled for construction.

Scheeren, an Oak Bay High graduate himself, who also headed construction for the new Tillicum Centre Target store, an 834-unit condo project downtown, the Westin Hotel at Bear Mountain as well as several projects at St. Michael’s University school and the University of Victoria, says the school is also on budget to meet the $50-million price tag for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold standard building.

“This is my alma mater. I graduated from Oak Bay High in 1975. The

opportunity to come back and build the new school is one of the most exciting projects I have ever been a part of,” Scheeren

says. “(This) is the front door to the community, a lot of people drive down everyday and when the building is finished that is going to be the first thing they see. … We want it to be something we can be proud of.”

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Students and staff at Oak Bay High are seeing their new school rise before their eyes.

Six months after Farmer Construction Ltd. won the design-build contract to take on the $50-million

construction of the new school in June 2013, students watch from classroom windows as construction transforms the building daily. Principal Dave Thomson says excitement is in the air.

“The nice thing is we have this bird’s eye view,” he says. “We watch it every day, we have got lots of interested spectators and (we) recognize how

quickly this transformation is happening.”The current two-building system will

soon be gone, amalgamated into a single 180,000-square-foot structure to be handed over by July 1, 2015, by which time the 35 to 40 construction workers on site will have tripled to approximately 120 full-time workers.

“It is one of those bitter sweet things” says Thomson. “We are excited and ecstatic to get the state-of-the-art building, but it is a bit of a tug at the heartstrings knowing how many kids and families – multi-generations that have walked through these hallways.”

Construction will take place in five phases, the first two the gymnasiums and a collection of classrooms where implementation of structural steel is expected Jan. 20. That is followed by the 420-seat theatre, main entrance, library and more classrooms. The Tech Educational Area, and the Neighbourhood Learning Centre will go up last. Once the buildings are up, both current school buildings will be replaced by a playing field, one an international-sized soccer pitch, the other a rugby field.

Despite a tight daily schedule that has seen them pour more than 1,200 metres of concrete thus far, John Scheeren of Farmer Construction Ltd., says he too was excited that they are already 20 per cent into development of the historic property – not only on schedule, but ahead of it.

“We have been fortunate with the good weather and we are running a good, efficient project here,”

Oak Bay High grad leads construction of new school


Construction continues on the new Oak Bay High school adjacent to the current school site. The first of five phases should be complete by the start of the next school year.

Building on time and budget to meet LEED gold environmental standard

Arnold LimReporting

Did you know?■ Remedial work at Bowker creek running through the property is also part of the overall plan. Construction will see improved flood control, along with a new walkway, break water and landscaping.

■ The Neighbourhood Learning Centre is scheduled to be used by Oak Bay High during school days, and the Oak Bay Recreation Centre will share administration, including programming for day care, teen drop-in and other after-school programs.

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OAK BAYNEWS

2009

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s latest visit to B.C. was portrayed as these things are today: besieged by protesters, hiding from an ever-vigilant media, cynically campaigning for the 2015 federal election.

TV couldn’t get enough of the two “environmental activists” who dressed as waiters to slip onstage at a business breakfast in Vancouver.

They’re not environmentalists, just all-purpose protesters using the flavour of the month. They are associated with a group calling itself “No One Is Illegal,” a collection of anarchist kooks that wants to do away with national borders, and of course capitalism.

As their now-famous sign said, they want “climate justice now.” Organizer Brigette DePape explained to a co-operative CBC TV host that the recent typhoon in the Philippines that killed thousands of people was caused by global warming, which of course is caused mainly by the Alberta “tar sands.”

I won’t dwell on this routine idiocy, except to say the number of hurricanes that struck North America in 2013 was zero, and that hasn’t happened since 1994. Also, “climate justice” is like “social justice,” in that both require confiscation of earned wealth.

DePape is the former Senate page fired in 2011 for a similar sign stunt.

She’s now a professional Harper hater, with support from the U.S.-based Tides Foundation among

others.One of the issues

Harper didn’t take questions on was the consolidation of 11 federal fisheries libraries into two, one of them in Sidney, B.C.

This is portrayed as part of Harper’s so-called “war on science,” and has been compared with the Romans burning the library of Alexandria in ancient Egypt.

Fisheries Minister Gail Shea defended the cost-cutting measure by pointing out that almost all access to these libraries is now digital, so maintaining 11 duplicated sets of printed reports is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

An anonymous federal scientist fired back on his blog that the head of one of these libraries retired before the contents could even be catalogued, much less completely digitized for online access.

So this material wasn’t even properly organized? Users were supposed to browse until they stumbled on something pertinent?

The ministry reported that the average number of people other than federal fisheries staff who used these libraries averaged between five and 12 per year. That’s for all 11 facilities combined. And if anyone has even one example of information that was available and

isn’t now, they should identify it.Harper’s got plenty to answer for,

no question. To take one of many examples, spending our borrowed money on TV ads for a “Canada Job Grant” program that hasn’t even been introduced in Parliament, much less set up, isn’t just wasteful. It’s dishonest and cruelly misleading to the unemployed people the ads pretend to offer help.

Harper’s visit to B.C. added a couple of scripted events, starting with softball questions at the Vancouver business breakfast. Then he was off to a photo op at the Kinsol trestle on Vancouver Island, where he announced three more years of funding for the Trans-Canada Trail.

I’m as relieved as anyone that Harper is not killing this modest federal project that started in 1992, but this is not news.

It was a fake public event to justify the cost of a trip so Harper could address a new Conservative riding association.

And how is the federal deficit after eight years of tight-fisted Conservative rule? We’re only borrowing about $1 billion a month now, down from the Harper government all-time record deficit of $55 billion in 2009.

Some cost cutting is in order all right.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Twitter: @[email protected]

Harper rapped for wrong reasons

‘Harper’s got plenty to answer for, no question.’

Child porn case ignores bullyingLast Thursday, a 17-year-old Victoria-area

girl was convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography after she

texted naked photos of another underage girl. The images were sent to the victim, another teen and the 17-year-old’s boyfriend.

It appears the conviction met the strict definition of distributing and possessing child pornography, in this case sending around images of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. She also threatened the victim and used the photos to try to humiliate her on Facebook.

But are the actions of this 17-year-old equivalent to a pedophile trading child porn over the Internet, and thereby contributing to the harm and degradation of exploited youth?

It seems in this case, the intent of the 17-year-old was to bully and harass a potential rival.

Clearly Canadian law is unable to cope with the fast moving world of social media and the vicious world of teen bullying, mixed with a culture that encourages young girls to allow racy photos of themselves via a technology that links with ease to the Internet.

Many might agree that defaulting to a child porn charge sends a message that teens distributing photos of naked teens should be dealt with harshly under the law. Certainly bullying left unchecked has led to cases of girls committing suicide.

That said, we should call this recent case what it is – bullying and harassment due to rivalry and jealousy, plain and simple. That doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the offenses or the suffering and humiliation of the victim.

But calling this teen a child pornographer is disingenuous and distracts from the deep and ongoing problem of bullying in the age of social media (not addressed was the fact the boyfriend would have technically been in possession of child pornography, as it was his phone that stored the photos).

If nothing else, parents and educators need to make this a teaching moment. Teens and tweens need to understand legal ramifications of images and text transmitted onto the Internet, and the fact that digital images always have the potential to be distributed into the wider world.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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Re: New boathouse and rescue station given the go-ahead by council (News Jan. 8).

Kudos to Terry Calveley and all the hard working volunteers of the Oak Bay Search and Rescue Society for this important “victory.”

But what a sad commentary on the over-governance of our community this truly is. A donor-funded, volunteer-run, non-profit organization dedicated to saving the lives of humans in peril has to spend almost four years, hundreds of hours of volunteer work and tens of thousands of dollars of expense to gain approval to expand a boat house that lies hundreds of metres from the nearest residence by two-feet in height and three-inches in width.

George Orwell would be so proud. D. Gramlich

Oak Bay

I am a retired R.N. who has worked in a care home in Victoria and in an acute care hospital.

I have witnessed very sad changes to our residents’ and patients’ care, so I know the concerns of the RNs are valid in regard to altering the care model in hospitals.

In the care home, the administrative staff increased but the nurses and care aides didn’t, with the result of us not being able to give the proper care to residents in the care home.

This has a bad impact on our residents, the nurses and care aides as the staff are so restricted in their

ability to give the care that is needed as there just isn’t enough nurses and care aides to meet the needs of the residents.

One of my many questions is, is Rita den Otter, executive leader of the Island Health’s care delivery redesign, an R.N. who works with patients in acute care? Or is she, like the director of care at the care home where I worked, someone who feels she knows everything by accessing information from her computer in her office?

In reality, my care home director really did not know what it was like working on the floor with the

residents. In my experience, unless a person is actually doing the work, they don’t have the intimate knowledge of the impact of these changes and the day-to-day nursing care issues.

Our acute care hospitals actually need more RNs. I know that cost is a factor, but how many administrative workers are there?

The administration staff costs a lot of money with the result being fewer nurses with more patients and more overtime needed as the nurses workload is very high. This results in increased sick time too.

With the new care model,

having care aides do some of the patient care will result in reduced care for the patients. Care aides can definitely assist alongside the RN, but how can you compare their education (knowledge) to the vastly increased education that the RN brings to nursing care?

Decrease the administration staff and increase the RNs so their work load isn’t so high and there will be less overtime and sick time too.

This can reduce cost and will maintain good quality care with the patients.

Barbara WalkerOak Bay

It appears that in spite of major opposition from many knowing groups and persons Mayor Nis Jensen is determined to carry out the deer cull.

He does want to first educate the public about fencing and not feeding the deer yet won’t reverse his decision.

As a tax payer and constituent of Oak Bay I find this cull difficult to accept. Just yesterday there was news of a botched deer cull in Elkford where the contractor’s permit stipulated night killing only.

But in spite of that he trapped in broad daylight and the killing was witnessed by a young school boy who was traumatized by the sight.

Is this what we want our school children to witness?

Chris LloydOak Bay

I urge Oak Bay mayor and council to reconsider the deer cull and instead consider other more humane means for controlling deer.

I also urge them to encourage government to reinstate designations for the protection of wildlife.

When deer habitats are destroyed by the forest industry and other developments, deer will move into town. With much of their forest habitat logged, deer have no where else to go but places like Oak Bay.

Finally, I urge you to encourage government pension holders to demand that forest trees stay standing so the deer will stay in the forest. Sadly, the investment company that manages public sector pensions invests in the unsustainable forest industry.

Hinda AveryOak Bay

I am concerned for our mayor, and council, over the issue of deer management in Oak Bay. They have been very conciliatory in agreeing to the culling of a token number of deer. Now, those in opposition are suggesting that deer killed through auto accidents should take the place of culling. A figure of 40 animals killed in road accidents was recorded in 2013. Thereby, they openly agree with culling, by substituting road kills for targeted animals; but suggest no protection for injured drivers and property, let alone deer.

Maybe, two solutions may appeal to animal lovers: That of neutering all male deer. A simple procedure, and harmless. It would also eliminate property damage and terror inflicted upon female animals chased, cornered, and injured in unnatural urban settings, with many becoming lame in the process.

A fund of taxpayers contributions made available to those requiring deer protective fencing, gates, chemicals, electronic and other deterrents. Also, for the damage incurred to existing homeowner protection, and property.

Doug MillerOak Bay

A lesson in Elkford

OBSRS overcomes Big Brother

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Road kills no option

Reconsider the cull


EDITORIAL Penny Sakamoto Group PublisherKevin Laird Editorial DirectorLaura Lavin Editor Oliver Sommer Advertising Director

The OAK BAY NEWS is published by Black Press Ltd. | 818 Broughton St., Victoria, B.C. V8W 1E4 | Phone: 250-480-3239 • Fax: 250-386-2624 • Web: www.vicnews.com

The OAK BAY NEWS is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.

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

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

OUR VIEW

OAK BAYNEWS

2009

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s latest visit to B.C. was portrayed as these things are today: besieged by protesters, hiding from an ever-vigilant media, cynically campaigning for the 2015 federal election.

TV couldn’t get enough of the two “environmental activists” who dressed as waiters to slip onstage at a business breakfast in Vancouver.

They’re not environmentalists, just all-purpose protesters using the flavour of the month. They are associated with a group calling itself “No One Is Illegal,” a collection of anarchist kooks that wants to do away with national borders, and of course capitalism.

As their now-famous sign said, they want “climate justice now.” Organizer Brigette DePape explained to a co-operative CBC TV host that the recent typhoon in the Philippines that killed thousands of people was caused by global warming, which of course is caused mainly by the Alberta “tar sands.”

I won’t dwell on this routine idiocy, except to say the number of hurricanes that struck North America in 2013 was zero, and that hasn’t happened since 1994. Also, “climate justice” is like “social justice,” in that both require confiscation of earned wealth.

DePape is the former Senate page fired in 2011 for a similar sign stunt.

She’s now a professional Harper hater, with support from the U.S.-based Tides Foundation among

others.One of the issues

Harper didn’t take questions on was the consolidation of 11 federal fisheries libraries into two, one of them in Sidney, B.C.

This is portrayed as part of Harper’s so-called “war on science,” and has been compared with the Romans burning the library of Alexandria in ancient Egypt.

Fisheries Minister Gail Shea defended the cost-cutting measure by pointing out that almost all access to these libraries is now digital, so maintaining 11 duplicated sets of printed reports is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

An anonymous federal scientist fired back on his blog that the head of one of these libraries retired before the contents could even be catalogued, much less completely digitized for online access.

So this material wasn’t even properly organized? Users were supposed to browse until they stumbled on something pertinent?

The ministry reported that the average number of people other than federal fisheries staff who used these libraries averaged between five and 12 per year. That’s for all 11 facilities combined. And if anyone has even one example of information that was available and

isn’t now, they should identify it.Harper’s got plenty to answer for,

no question. To take one of many examples, spending our borrowed money on TV ads for a “Canada Job Grant” program that hasn’t even been introduced in Parliament, much less set up, isn’t just wasteful. It’s dishonest and cruelly misleading to the unemployed people the ads pretend to offer help.

Harper’s visit to B.C. added a couple of scripted events, starting with softball questions at the Vancouver business breakfast. Then he was off to a photo op at the Kinsol trestle on Vancouver Island, where he announced three more years of funding for the Trans-Canada Trail.

I’m as relieved as anyone that Harper is not killing this modest federal project that started in 1992, but this is not news.

It was a fake public event to justify the cost of a trip so Harper could address a new Conservative riding association.

And how is the federal deficit after eight years of tight-fisted Conservative rule? We’re only borrowing about $1 billion a month now, down from the Harper government all-time record deficit of $55 billion in 2009.

Some cost cutting is in order all right.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Twitter: @[email protected]

Harper rapped for wrong reasons

‘Harper’s got plenty to answer for, no question.’

Child porn case ignores bullyingLast Thursday, a 17-year-old Victoria-area

girl was convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography after she

texted naked photos of another underage girl. The images were sent to the victim, another teen and the 17-year-old’s boyfriend.

It appears the conviction met the strict definition of distributing and possessing child pornography, in this case sending around images of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. She also threatened the victim and used the photos to try to humiliate her on Facebook.

But are the actions of this 17-year-old equivalent to a pedophile trading child porn over the Internet, and thereby contributing to the harm and degradation of exploited youth?

It seems in this case, the intent of the 17-year-old was to bully and harass a potential rival.

Clearly Canadian law is unable to cope with the fast moving world of social media and the vicious world of teen bullying, mixed with a culture that encourages young girls to allow racy photos of themselves via a technology that links with ease to the Internet.

Many might agree that defaulting to a child porn charge sends a message that teens distributing photos of naked teens should be dealt with harshly under the law. Certainly bullying left unchecked has led to cases of girls committing suicide.

That said, we should call this recent case what it is – bullying and harassment due to rivalry and jealousy, plain and simple. That doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the offenses or the suffering and humiliation of the victim.

But calling this teen a child pornographer is disingenuous and distracts from the deep and ongoing problem of bullying in the age of social media (not addressed was the fact the boyfriend would have technically been in possession of child pornography, as it was his phone that stored the photos).

If nothing else, parents and educators need to make this a teaching moment. Teens and tweens need to understand legal ramifications of images and text transmitted onto the Internet, and the fact that digital images always have the potential to be distributed into the wider world.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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“It can lighten the load for nurses. I know it’s a good thing, I’ve seen it work,” she said.

The BCNU wants CDMR scrapped. The union argues that model decreases and in some cases eliminates direct patient time with nurses. It also said care aides don’t have the same education to notice subtle changes in a patient’s health, which could be life threatening.

Desjardins disagrees, and said care aides have adequate training in patient observation.

“That is our main focus because before being brought into acute care, (care aids) were mostly in residential care. Nurses (in residential care) totally depend on us,” she said.

Yet CDMR is provoking worry across all units at Victoria General, including Desjardins’, due to negative stories emerging from Nanaimo and a lack of details from Island Health, she said. “We don’t know what it’s going to look like,” Desjardins said. “It creates a bit of frustration.”

The Hospital Employees Union (HEU), which represents health care assistants, says its members are upset that their skills are being questioned, as they are trained professionals who work within their mandate, which includes noticing subtle changes in patients.

“It’s disheartening to hear people feel they have to advance their own interest by diminishing the role others provide,” said HEU secretary business manager Bonnie Pearson. “We should be part of the care team. We are at the patient’s bedside often where we see changes in a person’s health.”

In Alberta, the union representing nurses is fighting a similar battle as the BCNU, as care aides there have assumed the same tasks that Island Health is trying to implement. The United Nurses of Alberta is also accusing Alberta Health

Services of replacing nurses with care aides, and that union claims it has evidence proving Alberta “plans to eliminate hundreds of nursing jobs.”

The B.C. Nurses’ Union (BCNU) also asserts CDMR is about replacing nurses with lower-cost care aides. The union fears CDMR will eventually be adopted by other health authorities across B.C.

CDMR executive leader Rita den Otter said using care aides in hospitals and in acute-care wards is nothing new.

The system was introduced to smaller Island hospitals such as Cowichan, Campbell River and West Coast General in Port Alberni several years ago, and care aides work in acute care wards in other parts of Canada, the United States and in Europe.

CDMR will ease a nurse’s workload and will not result in job losses, den Otter said.

“We all live on the Island, too, and our families come to our hospital for care,” she said. “When we redesign patient care, we are thinking of our own family as well. We try very hard, always to provide the best possible care we can and show that it’s safe to come to our hospital.”

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age to start to learn to man-age their own risk.”

“You learn to fall down with your knees and your hands to protect yourself, that’s a learned skill,” said Michelle Tannock, a visit-ing professor with UVic’s centre for research in early childhood. “That gives them a sense of the bound-aries of what they can do and what they can’t do,

versus expecting that oth-ers will protect them.”

Tannock agrees more talk is circulating about the role of risk in childhood devel-opment and she would like to see this idea influence educational programs and play areas and structures.

Victoria playground equipment dealer Merv Walker said the call for alternative playgrounds is growing, but he heeds cau-tion. He believes the push for risk creates a grey area for complying with safety regulations for playgrounds established by the Cana-dian Standards Association (CSA).

He worries the rules are being ignored. He even noticed a potential infrac-tion in the photo of a nature-based playground at Pearce Crescent in the Saanich News, with uneven logs next to a pathway.

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Saanich’s parks planning and design manager, Gary Durrah, said the decision for the Pearce Crescent playground was based more on space and cost than anything else. Safety can be a concern, Dur-rah said, but it is certainly addressed.

“We do our best to mini-mize the chance of injury. So we still have to put in proper safety surfacing,” Durrah said. “It’s a very dif-ficult thing to regulate.”

What needs to kept in mind moving forward is the difference between risk and hazard.

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Making a difference in your communityFaelan Prentice Faelan Prentice is a Grade 12 student at Reynolds Secondary in French Immersion. Since Grade 10 he has led Reynolds’ Vital Youth Program, which allocates funds donated by the Victoria Foundation.

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age to start to learn to man-age their own risk.”

“You learn to fall down with your knees and your hands to protect yourself, that’s a learned skill,” said Michelle Tannock, a visit-ing professor with UVic’s centre for research in early childhood. “That gives them a sense of the bound-aries of what they can do and what they can’t do,

versus expecting that oth-ers will protect them.”

Tannock agrees more talk is circulating about the role of risk in childhood devel-opment and she would like to see this idea influence educational programs and play areas and structures.

Victoria playground equipment dealer Merv Walker said the call for alternative playgrounds is growing, but he heeds cau-tion. He believes the push for risk creates a grey area for complying with safety regulations for playgrounds established by the Cana-dian Standards Association (CSA).

He worries the rules are being ignored. He even noticed a potential infrac-tion in the photo of a nature-based playground at Pearce Crescent in the Saanich News, with uneven logs next to a pathway.

“If a child falls off an icy log for instance, the end of a log, and hits the pathway, it’s not covered by CSA,” Walker said. “CSA is what we have. I may or may not agree with it. In some cases

I think it goes too far, but that’s my personal feeling. Everything we do has to conform to CSA. It’s that simple.”

Saanich’s parks planning and design manager, Gary Durrah, said the decision for the Pearce Crescent playground was based more on space and cost than anything else. Safety can be a concern, Dur-rah said, but it is certainly addressed.

“We do our best to mini-mize the chance of injury. So we still have to put in proper safety surfacing,” Durrah said. “It’s a very dif-ficult thing to regulate.”

What needs to kept in mind moving forward is the difference between risk and hazard.

Playgrounds actually have low fatality and injury rates, Mueller said, espe-cially compared to other common occurrences such as riding in cars. The dis-tinction is key.

“It doesn’t mean play-grounds should have some nails sticking out,” he [email protected]

Kyle WellsNews staff

A trend towards the so-called bubble-wrapping of children, or helicopter par-enting, is giving way to the notion of the importance and benefits of introducing risk in childhood play.

Ulrich Mueller, a psy-chology professor at the University of Victoria, estimates the overprotec-tion of children started in the 1980s and ’90s, when parents began to invest more in their children, but also became more afraid of harm.

Over the past 10 years, Mueller believes those atti-tudes have started to shift. Experts are starting to view playgrounds, which encour-age imaginative play and appropriate risk taking, as

a helpful aid to develop-ing motor skills and confi-dence.

“This is how children learn what they cannot do and can do, therefore they learn about their own com-petence,” Mueller said.

Mueller and Enid Elliot, an early learning and care instructor at Camosun Col-lege, are currently studying a nature kindergarten pro-gram based out of Sangster elementary in Colwood to see the effects of natural play.

As the study is ongoing there are no results yet, but the researchers are looking at motor development, fit-ness levels, attention spans and emotional develop-ment in the cohorts of tots.

Elliot said the early results are positive towards incorporating risk into play.

“I’m convinced that chil-dren need to have some ways of practicing how to take risks and how to be safe,” Elliot said. “People have much more catastrophic injuries if they don’t learn from an early


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Craig Northey and Bruce McCulloch may not be young or drunk, but the two veteran Canadian per-formers are by all means

punk.“Both of us don’t like to be told

what to do,” says Northey, founding member of Vancouver-based rock band Odds, who is once again col-laborating with McCulloch, Kids in the Hall member, writer/director and actor.

“That’s my theory about musi-cians and comedians and why they got into this – because they wanted a job where no one told them what to do.”

Northey was, and still is, attracted to the DIY ethic that came from the ‘80s punk era and how it marked the end of a time in music where, in order to record an album, artists had to overcome a series of roadblocks: a $20,000-price tag and a sound engi-neer who wouldn’t let you touch any of the controls, he says. Band mem-bers were huge stars, unapproach-able people living in another world.

“When punk came along, it made it for you and me, and you could do it yourself and you don’t need to spend all that money on it, because it wasn’t the point of the music,” he says. “You could speak about your reality and have a lot of fun, because it’s going fast and it’s going hard and it’s going to be fun. I think that has stayed with anybody who was ever involved in punk rock in any way, or enjoyed even listening to it: you can do it yourself; you just have to do

it. Everything that Bruce and I do, we make up. It’s coming from nowhere and then it exists. If somebody says you can’t do it, that’s the reason you do it.”

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essays, soon to be released in a book by the same title. While the stories are very much from the mind of McCulloch (and directed by Blake Brooker) its writer is quick to credit Northey’s stage presence – not only for his artistic contributions, but simply as a punk from the same era.

“We’re of the same vintage. ... I can confirm or deny something he says just by shared human experience,” Northey says. “all of what he does is about a form of the truth, whether it’s comfort-able for people to hear or not.”

For Northey, who scored Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, among other works for the famed sketch troupe, the part-

nership is successful based on their shared worldview and how they complement each other in a “musical way.”

“It’s a strange way to put it, but he understands music and his taste in music complements mine. We give and take

and push and pull and come up with new things. What he comes up with isn’t exactly what I would have imagined, but together we come up with something new. We’ve learned that dialectic, as the university kids say.”

Toronto-based musician Brian Connelly worked with McCulloch on an ear-lier iteration of the show. Building on Connelly’s contributions, Northey worked on Young Drunk Punk with McCulloch in los angeles to arrive at its current form, something that will only have been per-formed a handful of times before it hits UVic’s Farquhar auditorium.

Much of Young Drunk Punk centres around family and fatherhood, a theme with which Northey, a father of three teens, can identify. and despite any trappings of adult life, Northey, like l.a.-based McCulloch, remains very much a punk at heart. It all comes back to the disdain for being told what to do, while going after an artistic vision.

“You become possessed by music, or in Bruce’s case, a vision for what will make people laugh, about the truth, and about combining the two in your own way. It’s a disease that you can’t shake and I see that in anyone else who’s younger and who’s trying to do a similar thing and make music. ... That grassroots thing (about) punk rock – that’s back. Because there’s no giant infrastructure of major labels that you have to jump through all these hoops to be a part of – and it’s all about social media and building grassroots support for what you do – it’s no different than it was in 1979.”

Northey and McCulloch take their grassroots punk rock ideals to the stage at 8pm Jan. 24. Tickets, $28/35, at tickets.uvic.ca.

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TYSON K. ElDEr phOTO Odds’ Craig Northey joins Kids in the Hall’s Bruce McCulloch during his Young Drunk Punk show next Friday Jan. 24 at UVic.


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In the weeks before the city goes movie mad for the Victoria Film Festival, CineVic is offer-ing an opportunity for local aspiring film artists to polish their direct-

ing skills with two days of workshops with an independent filmmaking great.

The society of inde-pendent filmmakers hosts director Carl Bessai – Lola (2001), Emile, with Sir Ian McKellen in 2003, and No Clue 2013’s film-noir comedy star-ring Brent Butt and Amy

Smart , among a long list of films which have screened at top festivals around the globe – for intensive workshops Jan. 25 and 26.

In Directing Actors on Jan. 25, Bessai focuses on the principals of improv and rehearsal. Sunday’s Directing for the Camera session will explore the

physical execution of scenes on camera with emphasis on blocking and scene coverage moti-vated by scripted mate-rial. Each day runs from 10am to 6pm at CineVic, 1931 Lee and comes with a cost of $165/$295 for the general public.

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eventsfri. JAn. 17BamBi Boudoir’s Burlesque BaBes revue - Join the Burlesque Babes and beautiful Passion and Performance dancers for a night of burlesque and sexy entertainment at Logan’s (1821 Cook). Starring: Bambi Boudoir, Jett MaJique, Damian Frost, Dirty Dollie, Scarlett Pearl, and the dancers of Passion and Performance. Hosted by the fantastic, Kitty David and introducing Burlesque Kitty, Miss Maeve Big-Top. $15, 8pm.

sAt. JAn. 18theatre skam’s Birthday Bash - Join SKAM at Oddfellows Hall to celebrate 19 years of theatre in Victoria. Their fundraising evening includes live music and dance, a chance to take home a massive raffle prize pack, including season tickets and tons o’ swag from local businesses – and who knows what else.?$19 / $69 with SKAMraffle ticket. 8pm at Oddfellows Hall (1315 Douglas). skam.ca.

stagewed. JAn. 15home is a Beautiful word - Playwright/journalist Joel Bernbaum, in a work commissioned by the

Belfry Theatre, spent over a year interviewing hundreds of people to form a portrait of homelessness in our community, in the words of our community. Described as moving, enlightening, funny and surprising. Tickets, $25, tickets.belfry.bc.ca. Until Jan. 19.

ignorance - The Old Trout Puppet Workshop presents an original piece dubbed “a puppet documentary of the evolution of happiness in an attempt to unleash the mightier shrieks that surge within us.” Whoa. At the Roxy Theatre (2657 Quadra). Tickets, $26.25-42. 250-385-4462. bluebridgetheatre.ca. Until Jan. 19.

thurs. JAn. 16caBaret - Langham Court Theatre turns back the clock to 1931 Berlin for the classic musical revival. Directed by Roger Carr. Tickets, from $21 at langhamtheatre.ca.

tues. JAn. 21come and Play with ryan and chris - The Copper Owl (1900 Douglas) transforms into a 1990s classroom during this new stand-up, improvised musical night of comedy from Ryan Bangma and Christopher Vickers. If you like laughing and learning, it’s the comedy extravaganza you’ve been looking for. $12.

sin city: kingdom of thrones- The peasants and royalty of a medieval castle evoke an improvised fairytale world during the the fourth season of the improvised soap with live direction by creator Ian Ferguson and comedic magic of Kirsten Van Ritzen, Wes Borg and Morgan Cranny among others. At the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad) every Tuesday at 8pm. $15/$12.

Musicwed. JAn. 15Barenaked ladies - Toronto-based pop artist Clara Venice joins the legendary Canadian band, who take 25 years of pop-rock hits, along with songs from their latest record, Grinning Streak, to UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium. $95-120, tickets.uvic.ca.

fri. JAn. 17five alarm funk -The 10th anniversary celebration of five-alarm proportions goes down at Sugar (858 Yates). Hear why their fourth album Rock the Sky”was nominated for a Juno at 8pm. Tickets are $20 in advance at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records or ticketweb.ca.

sAt. JAn. 18randy elvis friskie - The King returns when longtime tribute artist relives memorable moments from Prestley, with guests Marilyn Monroe, Ann-Margaret and Shelley Fabares at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets, $39.50, rmts.bc.ca.

Wordsfri. JAn. 17Black holes: more than meets the eye - Dr. Laura Ferrarese from UVic’s department of physics and astronomy discuses how black holes may play a more important role in the evolution of galaxies than anyone had anticipated. 6:30pm at Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 View. Free, but registration is required. eventbrite.ca/e/cafe-scientifique.

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Daniel PalmerNews staff

A Greater Victoria teenager has been found guilty of possessing and distributing child pornography after she texted naked pictures of another minor found on her boy-friend’s phone.

The 17-year-old, whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was also found guilty of uttering threats through texting.

Judge Sue Wishart gave her ruling in Victoria Youth Justice Court after a one-day trial last week.

Defence lawyer Christopher Mackie is awaiting a court date on a constitutional challenge, which was filed in September, asking whether or not child pornography laws should apply to cases involving young people.

“We knew (the conviction) was a necessary step, so I don’t think we were under any illusions that this would be the end of the road,” Mackie said.

“My client’s argument has been that this isn’t about child pornog-raphy, which was meant to address pedophilia and exploitation. It’s about teenaged harassment or bul-lying and needs to be dealt with in a different manner.”

The federal government plans to table an anti-cyberbullying bill this spring in the wake of several high-profile cases, including that of Hali-fax teenager Rehtaeh Parsons.

Mackie said the new legislation, if passed, could be relevant to his client’s case.

“By all indications, this is a cyber-bullying case,” he said.

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Teen convicted on child porn charge SPCA seizes dogsCharla HuberNews staff

A Metchosin couple faces charges after the SPCA seized three dogs and a cat from their property.

SPCA officers removed Ger-man shepherd Shiva, poodles Chompers and Mr. Tibbs, and a cat from Dave and Beverly Bickerdike’s home, while executing a war-rant in August. Charges were laid in December.

“Crown counsel took a while to look over the charges,” said SPCA Const. Lynsay Bailey. Charges were not released publicly until the couple was notified.

“The German shepherd had a painful hind end, Mr. Tibbs was severely emaciated and had bad fleas, Chompers had painful skin and teeth issues,” said Bailey. Mr. Tibbs was euthanized, the other three animals were adopted out.

“Our primary goal is for the animals to remain with their family,” Bailey said. “We’ve been there several times over several years, they are fairly familiar with the process. Animal cruelty charges are the last step. … It’s very rare that jail time is given.”

If convicted, the Bickerdikes could face up to five years in prison, a fine of $75,000 and a lifetime prohibition of owning or having pets.

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The Greater Victoria School District has ten exemplary middle schools that welcome all students to their responsive and safe environments.

In order to learn about the many choices available at our middle schools, parents/guardians and students are invited to attend the Middle School Information Nights that are listed below. The meetings will be held at the schools and begin at 7:00 pm.

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Rockheights Middle School, Monday, January 27, 2014École Cedar Hill Middle School Tuesday, January 28, 2014École Arbutus Global Middle School Wednesday, January 29, 2014École Lansdowne Middle School Thursday, January 30, 2014Gordon Head Middle School Monday, February 3, 2014École Central Middle School Tuesday, February 4, 2014École Shoreline Community Middle School Wednesday, February 5, 2014Monterey Middle School Thursday, February 6, 2014Glanford Middle School Tuesday, February 11, 2014Colquitz Middle School Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Rockland Avenue Greenway Enhancement and Road ClosureRockland Avenue is a City of Victoria greenway that links Oak Bay Avenue to Quadra Street. Greenways provide links between urban destinations and encourage people to walk or cycle.

On Monday, January 27, 2014, the City will close a section of Rockland Avenue to motorists between Quadra and Vancouver Streets, to make the greenway safer and more enjoyable for pedestrians and cyclists.

Local vehicle traffic will still be able to access Rockland Avenue from Vancouver Street, but there will be no exit to Quadra Street.

The road will close for one year to provide the community an opportunity to experience the enhanced greenway, and for the City to assess any changes in traffic volumes on nearby streets and intersections.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Christ Church Cathedral, Chapter Room 930 Burdett Avenue (Access from side entrances)

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Locals ranked highon weekly hoops list

Claremont Spartans sit at the top of this week’s Sport Vic-toria Vancouver Island senior boys level 4A rankings and also jumped into the B.C. top 10 list at sixth after last week’s honourable mention.

Oak Bay sat third and Mount Douglas sixth on the Island list, followed by Belmont in eighth and Spectrum at No. 9.

Reynolds sits at No. 5 in the Island 3A rankings, followed

by Stelly’s in sixth and Pacific Christian at No. 10. In 2A, St. Michael’s tops the chart on the Island and provincially, fol-lowed on both lists at No. 2 by Lambrick Park.

Local rugby juniorsheading to Las Vegas

Elite youth rugby players from around B.C. are off to the Nevada desert next week to compete in the annual Las Vegas High School Invitational Sevens tournament.

Making the trip with the women’s under-18 team are Oak Bay High and Castaway Wanderers’ player Caroline Crossley, and UVic Vikes player Nicole Crowley.

Two men’s sides will make the trip, made up of players from the B.C. U-18 and U-17 teams. On the roster is Oak Bay Barbarians standout Jack Nyren, who, like Crossley, is making a return trip to the tour-nament, which runs Jan. 24 and 25.

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Don DescoteauNews staff

Johane Mui isn’t one to back down from a challenge on the tennis court.

That much was clear on Sun-day, as she faced hard-hitting teenager Emily Hooton in the women’s open final of the New Year’s Classic at the Oak Bay Recreation Centre tennis bubble.

At 48, she threw her racquet into the open mix and was promptly ranked No. 1, having won the women’s 45-and-over division in the Classic the previ-ous three years.

After taking the opening set 6-4 then dropping the next 7-5, Mui’s experience and savvy helped her post a hard-fought 6-4 win over Hooton in the decid-ing set to take her first open divi-sion singles crown in this tour-nament.

“It’s was nice to hit against someone who hits harder than my peers,” Mui said afterward. “This gives me fire to pursue provincial and national (play) and extend my career.”

Mui, who also won mixed doubles with partner Jared Mar-

tin, said the Classic has helped improve her game and allowed her to remain competitively active.

Having played the Classic the past nine or 10 years and advanced to various finals in the past five, she sees the tourna-ment as a good local event that helps hone one’s skills.

“It gives you that competitive edge and sometimes it comes down to the mental game,” she said, referring to the final, in which she battled Hooton to gain momentum.

Over the years, this tourna-ment has also given numerous young players their first com-petitive experiences, not to men-tion the opportunity to test their mettle against older players.

A case in point was the men’s open division, which saw 14-year-old Aaron Diemer face 17-year-old Austin Hoole in the final. Hoole, ranked No. 2 in the 17-player draw, cruised to a 6-4, 6-1 victory Sunday.

Both teens are provincial-calibre players who are seri-ous enough about the sport to adjust their schooling to allow for more tournament play.

“(The Classic) is a good prep-aration for other tournaments and a good development event. Plus it’s fun,” said Hoole, who will play under-18 singles at a B.C. selection series event this weekend in Vancouver. Diemer is in the U-16 division.

The finalists, who are also practice partners, have both played the Classic since they were pre-teens.

“I always love playing in this tournament. They do such a great job,” Diemer said. “This is a tournament that always has lots of great competition.”

The Classic attracted 210 play-ers of all levels this time around, said organizer Ed Bakker, tennis co-ordinator with Recreation Oak Bay.

While the total number of entries was the same as last year, the tournament has seen growth in the junior age catego-ries, he added.

“We’re now a fully sanctioned Tennis B.C. tournament, which allows (juniors) to gain provin-cial points,” he said.

For results from the New Year’s Classic visit bit.ly/1iJbYGB.

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FRIDAY

17JANUARY

SATURDAY

18JANUARY

SUNDAY

19

3 DAYS ONLY!

CLUB PRICE

749ea.

3 DAYS ONLY!

CLUB PRICE

199ea.

EXTREME

PRICE

Prices effective at all British Columbia Safeway stores Friday, January 17 through Sunday, January 19, 2014 only. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Some items may not be available at all stores. All items while stocks last. Actual items may vary slightly from illustrations. Some illustrations are serving suggestions only. Advertised prices do not include GST. ®™ Trademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under license by LoyaltyOne, Co. and Safeway. Extreme Specials are

prices that are so low they are limited to a one time purchase to Safeway Club Card Members within a household. Each household can purchase the limited items one time during the effective dates. A household is defi ned by all Safeway Club Cards that are linked by the same address and phone number. Each household can purchase the EXTREME SPECIALS during the specifi ed advertisement dates. For purchases over the household limits, regular pricing applies to overlimit purchases. On BUY ONE

GET ONE FREE items, both items must be purchased. Lowest priced item is then free. Online and in-store prices, discounts, and offers may differ.

Documents

Oak Bay News, January 15, 2014