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Jim Allan is back in Sid-ney, finding newfound enjoyment of life after undergoing a procedure in the Philippines to

replace damaged veins in his neck caused by a terrible fall more than 30 years ago.

Not only is he feeling normal again, but he says his experi-ence in a hospital in the Phillipines was the first time he was treated as an equal by doctors and as a participant in his own diagnosis and treatment.

These days, Jim frequently runs into old acquaintances around town. He’s re-adjusting to life in Sid-ney and the Saanich Peninsula, retired now after two years away in Ontario.

He’s jumping right back into the regular routines he enjoyed in a community he lived for 35 years.

“I’ve got no plans to go back to work now,” Jim says, noting that for those first 20 years in

Sidney, he ran Manning Press.“I just want to be able to feel

good and so I came back to Sid-ney, where I love it.”

He’s looking forward to get-ting out with friends for a beer at the Prairie Inn — maybe some of guys he used to play pickup hockey or golf with on the weekends.

Far beyond a simple retire-ment and return back to a place he loves, Jim’s return to Sid-

ney also marks a significant change in his life. For years, his friends and family watched him struggle with pain, head-aches, nausea, tremors and fatigue.

“I had pres-sure, constant pressure on the right side of my head,” he says, adding he gave up reading books as a result.

It’s gone now and for him life has gotten better.

But it took too many years to arrive here.

Steven Heywood/News staff

Jim Allan holds one of the X-rays of his head, showing damaged veins caused by a fall 30 years ago. A nine-inch scar on the right side of his head indicates where better veins from his legs were transplanted.

Living his life without pain, finally

“Doctors don’t always have the right answers. You have to work hard to find out what the problem is.”

– Jim Allan

Jim Allan spent years frustrated by the health care system until he took matters into his own hands

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In the midst of gathering dona-tions for a busy rummage sale last September, volunteers at St. Paul’s United church in Sidney discovered what could best be described as hidden treasure.

Tucked inside a small, decora-tive stone box were two pieces of delicately designed women’s jewelry that looked rather old.

“We did have a collectibles table, and so they could have been donated for that,” says Karen Booth, administrator for the church. “But when the vol-unteers opened the box and saw (the jewelry), they immediately brought it to me.”

Volunteers remembered an older woman in a blue coat drop-ping off a reusable shopping bag with the decorative box inside, but had no idea who she was.

Booth and the volunteers are concerned that the jewelry could have significant sentimen-tal value and may have been donated by mistake.

Since finding the jewelry, Booth says she and other vol-unteers have spent the last eight months putting notices in church newsletters and talking to members of the congregation, but they’ve had no luck locating either the woman who originally dropped off the items, or anyone

who knows who she might be. “It’s probably someone from

the community, because we had a little notice in the paper to donate items,” says Booth.

“If they were meant to be donated, we’ll sell them and the money will go to an out-reach program,” she says. “We just want to make sure we’ve exhausted every possibility.”

“We’d just like to connect them back to family in case they’re heirlooms. If they were my great-granny’s, I’d want my

daughter to have them.” The items have since been

appraised at a modest value, and dated to the early 1900s, likely in the ‘20s.

If you recognize the stone box and know who the jew-elry belonged to, or if you are the owner, and can identify the items and would like them back, please contact Karen Booth at the church at [email protected].

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Hidden treasure uncoveredChurch seeking owners of jewelry from rummage sale

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Karen Booth, office administrator for St. Paul’s United Church in Sidney, holds up a box that was donated to their Fall Fair sale last September, and had within it two items of women’s jewelry. Booth and the church have been trying to find out ever since if the items were donated by mistake.

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The learning landscape is constantly evolving as tech-nology advances. And teach-ers are embracing those tech-nologies as new tools.

“You see technologies per-vasive in our culture and because of that there’s carry over in our classroom,” said Josh Elsdon, who teaches the Monterey Institute of Tech-nology, an inaugural Grade 7 class that utilizes technology as part of its routine curricu-lum.

MIT is based in part on what he’d already seen as a teacher in the classroom, with stu-dents bringing in the technol-ogy of their everyday lives — tablets, laptops, smartphones — and teachers struggling to figure out the place of that technology in the classroom.

“The emergences, like the phones, that’s been inter-esting watching that evolu-tion take place,” Elsdon said. “They are a powerful tool and I think at first the reaction by most people was to say, ‘They don’t have a place in the class-room’. I think as people rec-ognize [phones] are not going anywhere — and if anything they’re getting more powerful and capable of handling big-ger and better jobs — teach-ers are trying to find a way to harness them.”

Most educators are sim-ply responding to advances in tablets and laptops and even phones as new tools to access information, present-ing information and organiz-ing thoughts.

It’s not really any different than when computers first came into the classroom and quickly became a necessity for any school to have.

“When our kids in middle school start wood shop, there are a lot of tools in there that have the ability to create things that are beautiful and functional. They also have the power to hurt and injure. Technology is the same way,” Elsdon said.

“There are a lot of possible outcomes of having access to all of that information and some of them are scary,

because it does allow an ave-nue for inappropri-ate information to come into school. In the end one of the jobs we have as educators is to show how to use the tools available to us.”

The Greater V i c t o r i a School Dis-trict employs an educational t e c h n o l o g y co-ordinator, a resource for teachers. The co-ordinator connects with educators across the system to research technology tools and to make the best use of them.

“In our district we have access to a lot of really good professional development opportunities,” Elsdon said. “A lot of it is just personal exploration as well. The tools the kids are using are the same as those coming into the households of teachers. As we use them in our personal lives we see applications (for) the

classroom.” Reynolds secondary

is one of those schools lucky enough to score big funding through a Staples program — Recy-

cle for Educa-tion.

“They get a school lab worth $25,000,” explained Don

Routliffe, general manager of the Tol-

mie Road store.

It blends the com-

pany’s passion for recycling, a passion shared by today’s youth, and engaging the com-munity.

“We are very engaged in trying to work with schools,” Routliffe said. “We get the opportunity to help build rela-tionships with that program.”

Monterey recently used technology funding for 15 iPads that are used in multiple classrooms. Through shared-grant application, they’ve funded and purchased a 3-D

printer.“Our school has really

invested in it … Monterey has made it a priority,” Elsdon said.

“We have to maintain rel-evancy. It’s hard to keep up with changing technology, especially from a budgetary point of view, but when we give those opportunities to our students, it’s a sign that we are interested in meeting them in their reality and not just trying to prepare them for a life in the older generation’s reality.”


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Rotary unfurls national prideOAK BAY — The Rotary Club of Oak Bay

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To celebrate Victoria Day, Canada Day and Labour Day, Victorians can expect to see more than 250 Canadian flags flying on lawns of homes throughout the city.

For a $50 subscription Rotarians will tem-porarily erect a five-by-three-foot flag on the subscriber’s lawn. While the majority of subscribers are from Oak Bay, Rotary Club members were able to attract friends and supporters from Esquimalt, James Bay, Fair-field, Gonzales, Broadmead, Brentwood Bay and the Saanich Peninsula. — Black Press

$10,000 donation to watershed projects

SIDNEY — Peninsula Streams Society recently received a big donation from David Spence and his wife Donna Otto of Brentwood Bay.

“Never before in our 13-year history have we received such a single large personal donation,” said Ian Bruce, executive co-ordinator of the Society. “We will receive the funds over a three year period, distributing the money into project development activities over that time.”

The donation will be used to leverage other funds for new projects and programs on Saa-nich Peninsula streams. — Submitted

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A Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) error has extended the deadline for filing income taxes to May 5 and a local man was at the centre of getting that extension.

Accountant Chris Cowland of Cowland and Associates in Sid-ney sent his staff off to enjoy the weekend and posted on his web-site that clients had some breath-ing room after the electronic fil-ing department of the CRA sent an email saying the deadline had been extended to May 5.

“They had done it last year because of a computer failure,” Cowland said. “The computers seemed to be taking filings really slow this year and I thought, maybe the CRA were being good guys.”

So he told his hard working staff — his office handles around 800 tax returns and his employ-ees work many extra hours to complete them on time — to take some time off before the crush of the final week.

When he returned to work Mon-day, Cowland said the CRA had sent another email, notifying him and other tax professionals that the first message was an error — and that the deadline was April 30.

Figuring he’d be on the hook for penalties incurred by his clients,

especially after he passed on the initial incorrect information from the CRA, Cowland said he emailed Saanich-Gulf Islands MP Elizabeth May.

“I asked her if she could contact the Minister of Revenue, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, about this error.”

He said May responded to his

email 15 minutes later and wrote that she would do so. In an email exchange, May informed Cow-land that Findlay told her that she would be looking into “the Cow-land issue.”

“The next thing I heard, on the CBC, was that the CRA had extended the filing deadline.”

A notice on the CRA’s website states an erroneous communi-cation was made April 24 and at “Findlay’s request, 2014 tax returns filed by midnight on May 5 will not incur interest or penal-ties.”

May, speaking from Ottawa, told the News Review she has a

good working relationship with the Minister and was able to send her Cowland’s email with a note attached during Question Period on Monday, asking if Findlay could do something.

“It looked urgent, bad and fix-able,” May said of Cowland’s con-cern. “That’s the test I give these things.”

Findlay replied that she would look into it. It turned out that Cow-land’s note was the first to bring Findlay’s attention to the CRA error. During Tuesday’s govern-ment session in Ottawa, Findlay stood and reported that due to the error, the filing deadline would be extended so as not to cause any Canadians a penalty.

“I really do believe so much can be accomplished by work-ing across party lines,” May said, “especially on sensible issues. There was no need to go on the attack here. It was just a fixable error.”

Cowland said he is very much relieved and can finish off the more complex tax returns his office handles without added pres-sure.

“I’m amazed at what happened,” Cowland said.

“I’m not political and only met Ms. May once when I helped with someone’s tax return.

“I really take my hat off to that lady, for her to do that.”

Tax deadline extended, thanks to Sidney manCRA extends filing deadline after error pointed out to Ottawa by Chris Cowland


Sidney accountant Chris Cowland. He and his staff will process around 800 returns during this tax season. He made sure a CRA communications error would not put any of his clients in arrears.

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His injury was caused by a fall in Vancouver in 1982 — down 18 steps. He was struck unconscious, but soon came to, injured but seemingly OK and able to recover.

Three months later, Jim’s life would change.

“I began to feel pressure on the right side of my head. Then, under any kind of physi-cal exertion, I would get ter-rible headaches. Even yard work would lead to head-aches.”

It was another blow for Jim, who says he fought off a bout of kidney cancer in 1978.

“I was given a year to live and that’s why I left Vancouver and came to Sidney in the first place. Once you face death, it makes you look at life differ-ently.”

He recovered from that but after the fall his headaches and pressure were prob-lems he says continued and increased. It would put him on a long road, battling a health care system that was helpful on one hand — and frustrat-ingly indifferent on the other.

Jim says his family doctor, Dr. Dave McNaughton, was an advocate for his recovery from the fall. He had Jim look-ing into all sorts of procedures and treatments and referred him to many specialists in neurology and others.

“I was, at one time, told by one specialist that I had ‘sports headaches.’”

The general practitioners he worked with in B.C. and Ontario, like Dr. McNaughton, always did their best to get him specific care for his injury. However, nothing was diag-nosed by the specialists.

“Life in the 1990s was ter-rible. Especially with the head-aches. I tried to continue to play oldtimers hockey but sometimes I’d have a head-ache for two days afterwards.”

The pain persisted, his right eye began to close and he says he had surgery to keep it open.

Jim would eventually leave Manning Press in 2005 and get into real estate with Re/Max. Yet, he was constantly fighting the health system for answers to his constant pain.

Through his visits to a vari-ety of doctors — and even non-traditional practitioners who he said offered little but false hope — Jim says he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, which seemed to explain his symptoms. He met with Dr. Bill Code in Duncan, who also has MS. He went there to discuss the contro-versial Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) procedure that is said to address compromised blood flow in the veins to and from the brain. Jim himself has undergone various scans that showed he had a blockage in the vascular areas in his head.

“The MS diagnosis was

confirmed a couple of times, so I felt the CCSVI procedure would be good.”

Since he could not get the procedure done in Canada, he travelled to Newport Beach, California in 2012 to undergo the surgery. Simply put, doc-tors insert a probe into a major vein and move it to the site of the blockage. A balloon enlarges at the site and is said to relieve pressure and elimi-nate the blockage. Jim says it seemed to work.

“I came home and by the second month after recovery, I started running. I thought, ‘this is great!’”

It was a feeling that wouldn’t last.

After retiring and selling his home, Jim decided to move to Ontario. During a flight to Calgary, he says he felt a huge explosion of pain in his head — and the headaches, the same symptoms returned but at a new level of pain. He returned to California a year later and had the same pro-cedure (at a reduced rate), hoping it would take. It only

lasted two days before the pain returned.

It got so bad, he began tak-ing prescribed painkillers and was becoming a regular at the emergency room for IV drips of “the strongest things they could prescribe.”

“I knew at that point, I’ve got to do something.”

Jim says he tried to tell his story, telling doctors about his injury and that he thought there was a block-age as a result, somewhere, causing this. He didn’t think

it was MS at all and after doing his research, real-ized he probably wasn’t going to get help in Can-ada and perhaps not in the U.S.

He turned to overseas hospi-tals. A friend, Jim

Nichol, was living in the Phil-ippines and they connected. Allan ended up talking with doctors there and sent them his files, arranging a trip to see them in January, 2015.

“I’d already made up my mind, that if I couldn’t get the help I needed, I’d … take my

own life. When I went, I was just going with hope.”

He wanted to fight. He wanted to see if anyone could help. He arrived in Cebu City in the Philippines and went to Chong Hua Hospital. After meeting for two hours with five specialists in the same room and undergoing a week of tests and scans, they iden-tified blockages and injury to the veins in his neck — in a place where most doctors had not looked, he says.

In a procedure performed by Dr. Arnold Tan, damaged veins were removed from his neck, replacing them with ones from his legs. The sur-gery was extensive and left a nine-inch scar from above and behind his right ear down to his collarbone. It seemed to have worked and he was able to return home in a month, after a week of recovery in intensive care.

He says his GP told him he does not know if this proce-dure has ever been done in Canada and is checking with the Canadian Medical Journal. Some of the doctors Jim has spoken with have said to him they look for arteries as the problem — not the veins.

“Unbelievable, that’s how I am feeling now, two months after the procedure. The doc-tors there knew, because I had studied this for so long, where to look. And they listened to me.”

Jim says the surgery was apparently a first at Chong Hua Hospital and he did have to sign off on it beforehand.

“But I knew, and was shown by the vascular surgeon and the MRIs, that the vein was crushed. I knew it was right.”

Today, Jim has been walk-ing often — even to the top of Horth Hill. He is back out golf-ing again and admits he still gets tired.

“I’m allowing myself a year to build my strength back up,” he says, adding he has not had a return of the headaches that plagued him for years — and has not taken any drugs for pain.

He feels the blockages in his veins were misdiagnosed for years. It was only because he could afford it that he was able to try different surgeries outside of this country.

“Doctors don’t always have the right answers. You have to work hard to find out what the problem is, and if a treatment isn’t helping you, you might have to look outside of our health care network.”

He lavishes praise on his family doctors for being good at what they do but says peo-ple shouldn’t have to wait so long for the correct diagnosis and treatment and calls Can-ada’s health care system dys-functional as a result.

“People shouldn’t have to put up with the long waits between specialists.”

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Looking at life differently these days


Jim Allan is out walking regularly now and is telling his story to encourage others not to lose hope and to become advocates for their own health.

“The doctors knew ... where to look. And they listened to me.”

– Jim Allan

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NORTH SAANICH — The Victoria Airport Authority will be having noxious weeds removed from its property over the next couple weeks.

James Bogusz, vice-president of operations and development for VAA, says residents and passers-by will notice landscaping contractors dressed in protective gear as they remove poisonous hem-lock from airport property.

“They will be wearing special suits to protect the workers from the hemlock,” he said. “This is just an alert, in case people want to know what it is they’re doing.”

Bogusz said the landscaping work will be done over the next week or so. — News staff

Workers in strange suits just going for the weeds, says VAA


The property tax increase in Central Saanich has been reduced to four per cent, and has the potential to drop down to three per cent.

The administration and finance committee met on Monday, April 27 and received a report from staff outlining a number of reductions and deferrals through core ser-vices, special projects and capital expenditures that would result in a direct sav-ings of $191,454.

Staff were also able to

secure an additional small communities protection grant, adding $92,149 to current District rev-enue.

As Mayor Ryan Windsor had pre-viously requested, contributions to reserves were not affected by the reductions.

The cuts did include a $25,000 reduction to legal administration costs over the five year period, part of core services that District council had wanted to exam-

ine further. “That was some-

thing we appreci-ated,” said Coun. Carl Jensen, “that staff is looking at areas where we can do some trimming.”

The committee agreed to accept staff’s recommen-dations for reduc-tions and further requested a special

meeting with the Central Saa-nich police board to ask them to help identify an additional one per cent savings from the police core services budget.

Council also asked staff to prepare the budget bylaw for consideration at a coun-cil meeting on May 11, with a special administration and finance committee meeting immediately prior detailing specific budget figures for the past three years.

Council is scheduled to meet next Monday, May 4, with specific breakdowns of the suggested reductions.

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Central Saanich seeks more savingsTax increase sits at four per cent; police service tasked with efficiencies

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Help raise $10K for charity in one hourAngela Cowan News staff

Growing out of the Victoria chapter, 100 Women Who Care Saanich Peninsula is looking for mem-bers to commit four hours a year to benefitting their local communities, $10,000 at a time.

The group meets once every three months for one hour and members donate $100 each to a non-profit organization that serves the Peninsula. Charities are nominated by members, randomly selected to narrow the choices to three, and voted on.

The inaugural meeting for the Saanich Peninsula group is next Wednesday, May 6 at Glen Meadows Golf and Country Club, 1050 McTavish Road in North Saanich.

Newcomers are welcome to register at the door starting at 6 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7 sharp.

Tax receipts will be issued directly from the selected charity, so be sure to have full contact information on the cheque.

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NORTH SAANICH — North Saanich Councillor Geoff Orr wants to invite the local First Nations to discussions about a proposed boat ramp in Pat Bay.

Orr, in a notice of motion at council’s April 20 meeting, sug-gested the District invite Chief Vern Jack of the Tseycum First Nation to a council committee meeting.

The invitation is being extended, Orr said, to include as

many local interests in the pro-posal as possible — especially since a boat ramp could have an impact on the Tseycum tradi-tional territory.

The District is exploring the idea of creating a public boat launch area at Pat Bay, following repeated public calls for such a facility in recent weeks.

At one public meeting last month, an estimated 60 people turned out to hear Brian Dunic

present to council a proposal to complete the boat ramp.

North Saanich has been in discussion with the Victoria Airport Authority and the Pen-insula Marine Access Group on the matter and face challenges to address, such as the neigh-bouring seaplane base.

Council will debate the merits of Orr’s motion at a future meet-ing.

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On behalf of the Interim Board of the Peninsula Workforce Housing Partnership, I would like to com-ment on the editorial, The key to new doors (PNR, April 22).

For the past two years, MP Eliza-beth May has convened regular roundtable meetings of an informal group of more than 50 stakeholders, to assist in addressing the multi-jurisdictional challenge that is the high cost of housing in our area, and in particular on the Saanich Peninsula. The group consisted of a cross section of the community, including elected officials, business leaders and concerned residents.

Early on in the process there was consensus around the goal, which was: “to help those who work on our peninsula afford to live here.”

The housing roundtable has focused on developing market solu-tions for what has been termed “workforce housing.” This is defined as housing that is affordable to households earning 80% to 200% of the target demographics’ median income. In this case, the target demographic is everyone working on the Saanich Peninsula; the range of housing affordability for this group of workers is from $200,000 to $500,000, and everything in between.

Recently, housing roundtable par-ticipants determined to support the creation of a Peninsula Workforce Housing Partnership, to continue and focus the work of the round-table group on developing market solutions to address the problem that is lack of available workforce housing.

Your editorial suggested that this interim body would base its model on the Whistler Housing Author-ity. This is not the case. Rather, the Whistler model is but one of many successful examples of workforce housing solutions across Canada from which important lessons can be learned.

Our Interim Board is already at work in discussions with develop-ers and planners to attempt to arrange for developer commit-ments for our first 10 units of newly planned housing as soon as pos-sible. The moment progress is made in this regard the community will be informed. We are operating on the principle of “needing action” rather than more talk.

In addition to the work carried out by the housing roundtable on workforce housing, MLA Gary Hol-man has offered to lead a study into social housing (low-income, non-market) options and requirements on the Saanich Peninsula. Hous-ing solutions for this demographic are likely to require a significant assisted or subsidized housing com-ponent.

The problem of lack of available workforce housing will not solve itself. The key to new doors on the Saanich Peninsula lies in the hands of our mayors and municipal coun-cilors, to make more land-use and planning decisions which will allow the creation of new market housing within the financial reach of local workers.

It is only through our elected officials continuing to demonstrate leadership on this front by taking

decisions to address the problem of lack of available workforce housing, and shifting away from the status quo, will we achieve our goal of helping those who work on our pen-insula afford to live here.

Silvia BonetInterim Board Chairperson

Peninsula Workforce Housing Partnership

What’s in it for them?

What are the real motives of some members of Central Saanich council who want to push through a massive land use change?

The Keating Industrial Business Park and industrial area of Central Saanich has for some time been under-utilized and is in need of improvement.

Candidates at the 2014 elections made reference to the area as a priority for enhancement so that it might be better used. Despite that, there are some councillors promot-ing a future growth area, mostly through farm land.

Why would any politician make an irreversible decision to turn ara-ble land into an industrial area that is not needed now and probably won’t be needed for another decade or longer?

The only place such massive changes should be made is via the Official Community Plan pro-cess where considered, thoughtful conversations can be had over an extended period of time before a decision is made.

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Erasing party lines possibleT

here’s a reason why Elizabeth May has been recognized as one of Canada’s best Members of Parliament.

May, who is also the federal leader of the Green Party, has often been

acknowledged by her peers in Ottawa as a great parliamentarian. This, from Liberal, Conservative and NDP members, because as we all know, May is only one of two Green representatives in the House of Commons.

The reason? It’s her relationships with her fellow MPs.

That was proved once again this week when she reached across to the Conservative majority side of the House, relaying a request from one of her constituents. It was Sidney accountant Chris Cowland’s urgent notice of a Canada Revenue Agency communication error on a supposed extension of this year’s tax filing deadline.

The minister responsible for the CRA, Kerry-Lynne Findlay responded quickly and the error corrected — five more days ‘til tax time deadline was upheld.

It was a relatively simple matter, May noted to the PNR this week, and not one she felt needed to be attacked in Ottawa. A copy of Cowland’s email and a handwritten note to her counterpart on the majority side of the aisle was all it took.

May credits that quick result to her work to reduce the amount of partisan politics that can sometimes create rancor at worst, and delays at best. It’s a great way to do business and for May, it’s necessary.

For her to be even heard in the House, she must negotiate speaking time with the dominant parties — in power or in opposition. There’s little she can do but try to work co-operatively with what could be seen as her opponents in Ottawa.

Out of that necessity comes a lesson. While MPs on different sides will argue and debate over their policies and platforms, they should not seek out an opposing stance on matters that appear to have simple fixes — like this CRA error.

Taking responsibility and extending the tax deadline takes care of tax professionals’ worries and even those of ordinary Canadians (have you all got your taxes done yet?).

It is, realistically, hard to imagine such co-operation on major federal policy issues, but it’s nice to know that for some things, party lines can be erased.


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Every year on the second Sunday in May, mothers all over North America are celebrated. This year, May 10 will be no exception, especially here on the Saanich Peninsula.The country of Canada began celebrating Mother’s Day after it was fi rst observed in the U.S. in 1914. The day was thought up by Anna Jarvis, a woman from West Virginia who lost her mother in 1905. In 1907, Jarvis held the fi rst memorial celebration for her mother and she soon devoted herself to ensuring that Mother’s Day would become a recognized holiday all over the country.In 1914, the day fi nally came as Mother’s Day was accepted as a national day of appreciation for mothers from all walks of life.The tradition of celebrating Mother’s Day doesn’t just happen in North America. The day is celebrated all over the world, most commonly in the months of March, April or May.

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PUBLIC NOTICENotice is hereby given that the District of North Saanich will be reviewing its Five-Year Financial Plan Bylaw 2015 - 2019 at a meeting to be held in the North Saanich Council Chambers on Monday May 04, 2015 at 7:00 pm. Public comments are welcome.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Monday, April 20, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Hall, 1620 Mills Road, North Saanich, BC to consider the following proposed amendment to the District of North Saanich O�cial Community Plan (OCP) Bylaw No. 1130 (2007) and District of North Saanich Zoning Bylaw No. 1255:

1) District of North Saanich O�cial Community Plan Bylaw No. 1130 (2007) Amendment Bylaw No. 1340 (2015).

2) District of North Saanich Zoning Bylaw No. 1255 Amendment Bylaw No. 1382 (2015).

In general terms, the purpose of Amendment Bylaw No. 1340 is to amend the O�cial Community Plan Bylaw No. 1130 in order to expand the Development Approval Information Area to all areas of the District of North Saanich and to add additional exemptions to the Development Permit Guidelines. The lands that are the subject of the amendment bylaw include all lands within the District of North Saanich.

In general terms, the purpose of Amendment Bylaw No. 1382 is to amend the Zoning Bylaw No. 1255 in order to expand the secondary suites program to other areas of the District of North Saanich and to modify secondary suite requirements. The lands that are the subject of the amendment bylaw include all R-1, R-2, R-3, RA-1, RA-2, RA-3, RA-4, RA-5, RA-6, CD-1, CD-3, and CD-4 zoned properties within the District of North Saanich.

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Tourism in the Greater Victoria region, says Paul Nursey, will grow and benefit many people if neigh-bouring communities act as partners instead of competitors.

Nursey, the president and CEO of Tourism Vic-toria, gave the keynote address at the Sidney Busi-ness Improvement Area Society annual general meeting on April 22. He talked to the audience at the Charlie White Theatre about opportunities available by working together for the same pur-pose.

“We need stickiness as a destination,” he said. “People, tourists, they want to explore more while they are here and if they do, they stay even longer.”

Tourism makes up what he called a “mobility econ-omy” — today’s visitor wants to engage in the community they are in, he said, and that means connecting more with the people and businesses of places like Sidney and the Saanich Peninsula.

Where groups like Tourism Victoria and the SBIA comes in, he continued, is in creating demand.

“That is key. The SBIA does that in Sidney and Tourism Victoria does it regionally and both need to work in concert to benefit each other on a greater scale.”

Nursey added that when each group succeeds, jobs are created, wages improve and the returns on tourism promotion investment are increased.

“These regional partnerships are important to Tourism Victoria,” he said, “as people here and from abroad tend to move around the region.”

As a result, Tourism Victoria has been working with the SBIA and others to cross-promote Sidney and the Peninsula. That work has been paying off, he noted, saying since February, average occu-pancy rates in Greater Victoria hotels have been at 62 per cent — and pushing 70 per cent in March.

“Compare that to 2012 when we had a 62 per cent average overall that year.”

Nursey said tourism is booming again, all over the world.

“Now we just have to play it right,” he said, add-ing this region’s biggest competition for tourism dollars is the rest of the world.

This year, Nursey said Tourism Victoria has released its spring campaign: Victoria, B.C.: Beyond Words. He added the industry will be look-ing for incremental growth in 2015, through tell-ing the region’s stories and addressing seasonal issues, among other strategies.

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right now. Initially, I was skeptical about this particular model’s abilities.In the Fiesta – which is a smaller and lighter vehicle – it seemed to fit symbi-otically. But adding additional weight and bulk to an already small engine had me thinking if it was going to work out as well as it did.I must stay I was pleasantly surprised. For daily commuting, this Focus does the job and does it well.Though you also have to take things at face value with this car. It’s not going to accelerate particularly quickly. So, if your plan is to try and merge ahead of other motorists from a stoplight, you might want to choose Plan B.

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THE ARTS

Concert commemorates experiences from the First World War


Through music and memorabilia, stories and song, step back through time and get a glimpse of what it was like to live through one of the most impacting events in human history.

The Ad Hoc Troubadours and the Canadian Expedition-ary Force Commemoration Society are presenting Keep the Home Fires Burning May 8 and 9, paying tribute to the men and women, both military and civilian, who answered the call to action in the First World War, particularly in a local sense.

“It’s stories about the period, specific to the Saanich Pen-insula,” says Harry Martin, musical director for the show.

In addition to hearing tales of how the war affected our little corner of the world, the concert will also feature a range of songs that served to help the country as a whole express its hope, and its grief.

In a time when entertainment was often of short supply, music was the one thing that never waned, and the songs often had rich histories themselves.

“We’ve tried to associate the songs with the stories,” says Martin.

Like how Sanford Bennett’s In the Sweet By and By, a simple hymn written in 1868 about finding peace in heaven, became the mourning song of thousands of people 100 years and one day ago.

On May 7, 1915, news of the devastating sinking of the RMS Lusitania rippled through the crowd at a Manhattan train station. Struck by the loss of over 1,200 lives in one fell swoop, the people stopped where they stood and spon-taneously began to sing In the Sweet By and By. That griev-ing solidarity moved American composer Charles Ives who was on the platform, and he later incorporated the hymn into his Orchestral Set No. 2 in a movement called From Hanover Square North, at the End of a Tragic Day, the Voice of the People Again Arose.

The concert will also feature a rendition of Silent Night, in honour of the 1914 Christmas Truce, one of the most remarkable movements of peace in a horrifically violent

time in human history. German and British troops engaged in a series of wide-

spread and unofficial ceasefires throughout the week lead-ing up to Christmas in 1914, exchanging food and souve-nirs, swapping prisoners and even playing games of soccer in no man’s land. Helping to make it all possible was the joint singing of Silent Night, which was sung in English and German at the time, says Martin.

The concert at St. Paul’s will also feature many upbeat and cheerful songs as well, with favourites like Alexander’s Ragtime Band, You Made Me Love You, Pack Up Your Trou-

bles, For Me and My Gal and It’s a Long Way to Tipperary. Finding which songs to feature proved to be more of a

challenge than Martin was expecting. “I thought, ‘how hard could it be to find 20 songs?’ Well,

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finding the two most popular songs from each year, taking the results from the Hit Parade.

Angie’s If you’ve ever wanted to hear a hurdy-gurdy...William Pint and Felicia Dale are coming to the Deep Cove Folk

Society Friday, May 8, and they’re bringing their unique catalogue of sea shanties and maritime music with them.

Playing guitar, octave mandolin, whistles and a hurdy-gurdy (a fantastic instrument from the 1100s — Wikipedia it, you won’t be disappointed), their performances are truly one of a kind.

The show is at St. John’s United Church, 10990 West Saanich Road. Admission $7 at the door, refreshments by donation.

Watch the Arts section in the May 6 paper for more detail.

ArtsBy

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Ian & Coco have a flair for storytelling, and the show is set to be an engaging blend of folk, jazz, pop and soul.

Keeping the home fires burning


Keep the Home Fires Burning on May 8 and 9 will feature memorabilia and artifacts from the First World War, like this display from the Sidney Museum.

PLEASE SEE:Concert featuring, page A18


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With many of the tunes surviving to this day, he’s hoping the audience will know them and sing along.

Refreshments will be available by donation, with proceeds going to the Sidney Lions food bank.

The concert runs at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 8, and 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 9. Please note that previous posters may have listed the Satur-day matinee time incor-rectly.

Tickets are $15, avail-able at the door, or in advance from St. Paul’s Church office at 2410 Malaview Avenue, Tan-ner’s Books at 2436 Beacon Avenue, or by emailing your name, phone number and number of requested tickets to [email protected]

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Concert featuring First World War songs and stories

Canadiana fibre art show at Tulista GallerySidney show first stop in a two-year Canadian tour Angela Cowan News staff

Say the word ‘art,’ and the first image that jumps to mind for most is likely a paintbrush or length of charcoal, or a sketchbook with scribbled pencil drawings capturing images to be elaborated on later. But wool, cotton and silk can also be used to create works of art that are as beautiful as they are intricate.

Starting today, the Fibre Art Network (FAN) and the Community Arts Council of the Saa-nich Peninsula (CACSP) are combining the allure of fabric creations with an exploration of the nature of Canada into Canadiana, a travelling exhibit that showcases works from 30 FAN artists from Western Canada and the Yukon.

The show first debuted in Palmerston North, New Zealand in January, and today’s opening at the Tulista Park Gallery kicks off the first stop in a two-year tour of Canada, says Dale MacEwan, a local member of FAN who brought the show to Sidney.

Equal parts painting, collage, quilt and tap-estry, the pieces in Canadiana are the prod-ucts of hours of labour, and true works of art.

“A lot of us started out as quilters,” says MacEwan. But a quilt conjures up an image of laying it across the foot of a bed, and that’s not what they’re meant for, she adds, emphasizing the amount of work that goes into each piece.

“It’s a slower art. Often there’s a lot of sur-face design,” says MacEwan. “Stamping fabric, painting, dying the fabrics. There’s a blending of textures and printing.”

Photos can be printed onto fabric and lay-

ered or used individually as well, and the whole thing is often stitched with intricate designs to add yet another dimension to the piece.

It’s similar to a painter creating her own canvas before even touching a brush to it.

The labour-intensive process is borne of a love of the different textures, she says.

“I love the feel of it, touching it. It’s the tex-ture, the quality of the fabric.”

Cotton, silk, organza and wool felting can all be used in creating the pieces, and inspiration can come from any corner.

MacEwan herself is inspired by the pho-tos she takes. Never without a camera in hand, she captures the lines of stones, tree branches, and frost-edged leaves and trans-forms them into fabric reflections of nature, subtle in design yet totally engaging.

One of her latest pieces, and one she’s including in Canadiana, Island Time melds the soft greys and blues of stone, carved over cen-turies into striated curves, beneath the angled corners of tree branches. The effect is reminis-cent of a shadow lying over still water, though MacEwan actually used two layered photos to create the effect.

Many of the other pieces in the show are also inspired by nature, celebrating the wide variety of natural landscapes across the coun-try.

All the pieces in the show will be for sale, but inquiries must be made directly through the artist, and pieces can be collected once the two-year tour is over.

Canadiana opens today at the Tulista Art Centre, 9565 Fifth Street in Sidney. The show is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Free admis-sion and free parking.

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Dale MacEwan holds up Island Time, one of the pieces she’s entered into the upcoming Canadiana fibre art show at the Tulista Art Gallery.


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For the Saanich Pen-insula, the Mary Win-spear Centre serves as a hub of arts and culture activity, sup-porting independent theatre, painters, musi-cians, cultural events and more, and is spreading its reach fur-ther every year.

It’s a small centre — with one 310-seat the-atre and two meeting rooms — but the Mary Winspear saw 215,000 people travel through its doors in 2014, up about 30,000 from 2013.

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The province has completed regional marine plans with 18

First Nations on the coast, from northern Vancouver Island up to the Alaska border.

The marine plans are to be an extension

of the 2007 coastal land use plan that has become known as the Great Bear Rainfor-est agreement. The four regions are Haida

Gwaii, Central Coast, North Coast and North Vancouver Island, but they do not attempt to intrude on the key federal jurisdictions of

shipping and fisheries management.

Aboriginal leaders said they were pro-ceeding with B.C. and environmental organi-

zations, but the federal government has not participated in what they call MaPP, the Marine Planning Part-nership for the North Pacific Coast.

Haida Nation Presi-dent Peter Lantin said the marine plan for the waters around Haida Gwaii sets aside 20 per cent as a marine reserve and discus-sions with Ottawa are underway to add more area around Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve. But with pipe-lines and oil and gas projects proposed for the region, the plans are not complete.

“When we embarked on this journey a decade ago, the whole intent was to be com-prehensive marine planning, which involves everything,” Lantin said. “So as the environment’s changed over the last 10 years around those federal jurisdictional issues, we’ve seen them not want to be part of this process.”

Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea’s office issued a state-ment in response to the announcement in Vic-toria.

“The Department of Fisheries and Oceans did not participate in MaPP as it is involved in similar initiatives with similar partners such as the Canada-B.C. Marine Protected Area network strategy, which achieves marine

protection and conser-vation goals through a joint federal-provincial approach, collabora-tive decision-making and a participatory pro-cess.”

Doug Neasloss, rep-resentative of the Cen-tral Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance, thanked Tides Canada and the Gordon and Betty Moore Founda-tion, a San Francisco-based environmental charity started by a co-founder of Intel Corp., for continuing to sup-port the establishment of protected areas on the B.C. coast.

U.S. donors work-ing through the Tides Foundation put up $60 million in 2007 to par-ticipate in the Great Bear Rainforest land use agreement. B.C. and the federal govern-ment put up $30 million each.

Around the province

B.C., First Nations reveal marine plans on the north coast

B.C. government map

Four marine areas have been defined, North Vancouver Island, Central Coast, North Coast and Haida Gwaii.



Delightful squeals of children at Iroquois Park in Sidney signals another busy spring league evening for the Peninsula Football Club.

Peninsula FC, as it is known, is in its third week of spring league and each ses-sion begins with the younger kids who are just learning about the sport of soccer. It’s a popular program, says Club President Mike Synnuck, adding it has doubled the amount of registrations in the last three years.

“We’ve gone from 80 kids three years ago, to 150 and now we’re up to over 200 kids,” he said.

For children under six years old, Synnuck said the coaches help them learn the game, introducing them to the fundamentals.

“Hopefully, we get them interested in it. Here, we emphasize having fun and getting a bit of exercise.”

If they do like the sport, he continued, players can transfer over into the Club’s fall and winter league.

The idea, he said, is to help build up the soccer program here. Peninsula FC — which is the new branding for the Peninsula Minor Soccer Association in celebration of its 40th year in 2014 — is a cradle to grave organi-

zation, Synnuck said. It provides opportunities to play from a young age, well into the teens and on into adulthood. Player numbers go up and down, he added, and their spring league is designed to help even things out over the long term.

“The challenge for the club is retention. We do get some really great players com-ing out of the Saanich Peninsula, and some do tend to gravitate to other interests or to other soccer clubs.”

Yet, the local club continues to grow, especially among the younger children taking

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That goal is going to be expensive, however. Synnuck noted turf

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While spring league runs only until mid-June, parents and play-ers still have the oppor-tunity to sign up for the fall and winter season. Early registrations are being accepted until May 30. Visit peninsula-soccer.ca.

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Cole Addlestone, left, and Callum Parlby react with joy and a bit of wrestling, as spring league soccer skills drills begin at Sidney’s Iroquois Park. Right, coach Adam Addlestone tries to explain the ‘no-hands’ rule to one of his young players.

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Mike Synnuck, club president, added he hopes it never has to be used but with many recreation facilities adopting them, they felt they should as well. It was club member Terry Prince, a cardiologist, who suggested they get one.

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✱Afternoon and evening shifts 16-20 hours per week. $11.25 an hour

Interested parties may drop off their resumes between 9am and 5pm at:

GOLDSTREAM PRESS#220-770 Enterprise Avenue, Victoria, BC

V8X 6R4

HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD

BISTRO SUISSE in Sidney is looking for experienced SERV-ER and BUS PERSON, full or part time in busy, casual fi ne dining restaurant, immediate start. Enthusiastic and fl exible candidates bring in their re-sume or email([email protected])

MEDICAL/DENTAL

Licensed PracticalNurses - LPN’S

WEEKEND POSITIONSBayshore Home Health is currently seeking Licensed Practical Nurses for Week-end Positions to support our Pediatric / Adolescent clients for home care in the Greater Victoria areas. Pediatric experience is an asset. We do offer client specifi c training and support as required. If you are an LPN and enjoy working with children, we would love to hear from you.

Employee Benefi t Package available.

Interested individuals areencouraged to Fax resume

to our Burnaby offi ce:1-866-686-7435 or e-mail

[email protected]

RN Home Support Supervisor for Hornby and Denman Is-lands. Summer coverage with potential for full time. Contact Lori Nawrot,l o r i @ h o r n b y d e n m a n -health.com Hornby and Den-man Community Health Care Society

VOLUNTEERS

ARBUTUS SINGERS Music Education is looking for choir volunteers to work with the Choir Director to support and encourage the children in the ChoirKids program, helping them to fully engage and par-ticipate, while emphasizing having fun and enjoying mu-sic. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.THE SALVATION ARMY ARCis looking for a kitchen helper and a dining server to help prepare and serve meals to ARC residents and community members. Call Volunteer Vic-toria at 250-386-2269.WEAR 2 START SOCIETY is looking for a boutique volun-teer to assist in outfi tting un-employed women in need who are preparing for job inter-views and the workplace. The volunteer helps put the client at ease and provides a posi-tive atmosphere. Call Volun-teer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

PERSONAL SERVICES

MIND BODY & SPIRIT

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Spring Special $60.Hot Stone MassagePenetrating heat from

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Spring Special $80.with Raindrop Therapy $90.

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Women only, men by referral250-380-8733

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MANAGER - COMMUNITY LIVING SERVICES

Victoria, BCEmbracing Hopes, Inspiring Possibilities, Leading Change

At TCS we offer highly individualized, solution-focused services to individuals with developmental disabilities, families and communities. Fundamental to our purpose is the selection and support of committed staff members.

We are seeking a skilled, experienced and self-directed individual for a management position to develop, enhance and monitor opportunities for community inclusion for individuals with a developmental disability.

Applicants must demonstrate extensive experience as a Community Service Worker in a community setting. Supervisory experience, mediation and advocacy skills are assets.

The successful applicant will be an excellent interpersonal communicator and able to maintain a flexible schedule as necessary. She/he will also be a team player that is able to build relationships with individuals, staff members, home share providers and CLBC.

This position is based in Victoria. A vehicle is required and mileage will be provided. We offer competitive salary with an excellent benefit package. The closing date to apply is

May 20, 2015. Please submit resumes to [email protected]

Service, Commitment, LeadershipThompson Community Services

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AUCTIONS

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UNDER $200

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UNDER $200

ROUND OAK pedestal table, $150. 45”diameter. Call (250)478-4010.

FREE ITEMS

FREE LAVENDER & 3 to 4’ Rosemary landscape ties and rich soil, good condition. Also, landscape rocks. Call 250-478-6363, 778-697-5999.

FRIENDLY FRANK

BARBECUE. NATURAL Gas (not propane). With side burn-er, rotisserie. Good working order. $75. (250)881-8833.



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BERNARDIN JARS: Three 2L, six 1L widemouth, six 250ml, pkg 2-pce lids. All $15. 250-383-5390.

BLACK ADULT Wheelchair, good condition, $99 obo. Call (250)478-0906.

HYDROMETER, CONTAGRIP Boots, camp stove (missing hose). $10. ea. 778-265-1615.

OAK COFFEE table and 2 end tables, $95. Call (250)478-4010.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fi r, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.



GARAGE SALES

BRENTWOOD- #51 7390 West Saanich Road, Sat, May 2, 9-3pm. Large family Sale!

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS- $2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enter-prise Cres, Victoria. Gold-stream Press Division.

RECLINING SOFA & chair- 6-piece pine bedroom & oak dining room suites, fi replace, patio set. Call (250)216-2699.

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1 & 2 Bdrm suites & cabins. Perched on a cliffside with panoramic ocean vista, over-looking The Saanich Inlet. Se-rene & secure. All amenities on-site, fi rewood. $500-$1200 inclds utils. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min com-mute to downtown Victoria. Must have references! Call 250-478-9231.

SIDNEY 1-BDRM apt, balco-ny, parking, quiet, near beach. $850. (250)812-4154.

SUITES, LOWER

SIDNEY: 1-BDRM, Private level entry, laundry, parking, cat ok. $820. (250)812-4154.

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SIDNEY. GENTLE caring ten-ant wanted for 1-bedroom fur-nished, ground fl oor suite. Central to buses, grocery, ser-vices. No pets, no smoking. Reduced rent in exchange for yard watering. 250-655-1250.

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WESTSHORE WANTED: Em-ployed, hard working single mom with 14 yr old girl and well trained cat, looking to rent 2 bdrm suite, house, cottage (approx $1000-$1200/month). Exc. ref’s. Please call 250-208-0386, leave message.

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO SERVICES

FREE REMOVAL of all vehi-cles, cash paid for some. Any condition. Call (250)889-5383

CARS

1993 BMW: 3.4 L engine, au-tomatic, Kashmir (beige/gold), 4-disc brakes. Brakes, tire tread still in good shape, re-cent O2 sensor and throttle switch replaced, rear wheel drive, power windows/locks/ sunroof, 2-12” subs and Ken-more amp. 200,000 km, all re-ceipts for work done. Very fun car to drive. $4000 obo. Call 250-812-6008 or email [email protected]

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SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES

1984 FORD Bronco XLT, only 100,000 km on 351W on pro-pane, 10-1 compression, KeithBlack pistons, Comp cam. C6auto completely rebuilt. Havereceipts and specs. Body rustybut drivetrain better than new.Good 31” tires. $3500. CallMonty, 250-216-3408.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

CARPENTRY

JEREMIAH’S CARPENTRY- Small repairs, interior fi nishing, weather proofi ng, decks, fenc-ing. Reasonable rates. In-sured. Call 250-857-1269 or www.jeremiahscarpentry.com

JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER Reduced rates - Sun Decks, Fences and Siding. Call Ward (250)881-0296.

McGREGOR HOME REPAIR Decks, doors, stairs, walls, etc. Sm jobs ok. 250-655-4518

CLEANING SERVICES

HOUSECLEANING SERVICE $25/hr., serious, competent and reliable with European exp. Call (778)677-4780.

ELECTRICAL

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

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $40/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

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ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

GARDENING

20% OFF! Pruning, cleanup, soil/mulch del (max 2 cu yd), hauling, aerate (250)479-6495


GARDENING

(250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Lawn care. Comm/Res. Aer-ating, power raking, land-scape design, all planting, riv-er rock & patio stones, Ivy, blackberry & yard clean-up.

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A&R LANDSCAPING. Certi-fi ed Horticulturist, yearly main-tenance, clean-ups, pruning, renovating older gardens, great rates, Seniors Discounts. Call (250) 686-4361.

Auricle- 250-882-3129 Spring clean up lawn aeration & ferti-lize-soil-hedges, irrigation

FULL YARD SERVICES Spring clean-ups, Lawns, Gar-dens and Pressure Washing. Free est. Keith (778)351-4328.

OVER 20 years experience, lawns, edging, clearing, prun-ing, design. Reasonable rates. Call Andrew 250-656-0052 or 250-857-1269.


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ABBA Exteriors Inc.“Spring Clean-Up Specials”Gutter & Window CleaningConcrete Power Washing

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GRAND XTERIOR Cleaning & Repairs- Gutters, roofs win-dows, PW. 250-380-7778.


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BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

HANDYMAN SERVICES. Lawns, fences, pruning, fl oor-ing, painting, drywall, small re-no’s. Mike/Chris 250-656-8961

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

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

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

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.

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

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

PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-888-1221.

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


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JONATHAN’S LANDSCAP-ING Irrigation Repair/install, hedge trimming, yard clean-up, tree pruning, lawn maint. 10% Sr. disc. 250-889-2113.

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CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, fi replaces,fl agstone rock, concrete, natural & ve-neered stone. Replace, re-build, restore, renew! Free competitive est. www.cbsma-sonry.com; Call (250)589-9942, (250)294-9942.

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PRESSURE WASHING

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STUCCO MAN- All types of Stucco/ Painting. Repairs, ad-ditions, renovations. Free esti-mates. Dan, 250-391-9851.

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Our editorial staff are col-lecting story ideas for this page. So, whether you are a first-time home buyer or a senior couple looking to downsize, contact us to share your story and it just might help someone else going through one of the biggest events of their lives.

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AS OF APRIL 27/15 - COURTESY OFVICTORIA REAL ESTATE BOARD

Travis PatersonNews staff

The region’s Solar Colwood and Solar CRD subsidy iniative has passed but the trend for homeown-ers to consider installing solar hot water heating systems or solar pho-tovoltaic panels is still growing, says Judith Cullington, former Colwood councillor who was behind the now-defunct Solar Colwood hot water program.

One of the preconceptions with solar that potential buyers get hung up on is the so called ‘payback period.’

“It really is an odd thing about renewable energy, that buyers (auto-matically) question what the pay-back period will be,” Cullington said.

The payback period is the return on investment, how much, and how long.

“No one asks what the payback period will be with a new car or a granite counter top, but with solar, everyone wants to know that.”

And the reality is it’s quite strong.Cullington has solar photovoltaic

at her house and on a sunny day it not only provides her house’s elec-trical needs, it supplies the excess energy to other houses in her neigh-bourhood. Because she’s tied into the grid, she gets that money back from her hydro bill.

“We’re very lucky in B.C., B.C. Hydro makes it very easy to install solar compared to other places in

the world. Once people understand what a strong return on investment you can get I think we’ll see a greater number of people installing solar,” Cullington said.

“Anyone who is looking to invest in their future should know you’ll get a very competitive nine per cent return on investment from a solar hot water system. For most of us

that’s better than we’re going to get on a bank’s interest, a particularly solid investment if you’re planning on staying in the house.”

Solar Colwood results showed an average savings from the hot water system on energy bills of saving 44 per cent on the hot water bill. But misconceptions still exist.

“One of the biggest is ‘I can’t afford

it,’” Cullington said, “which is inter-esting, because it means, you can’t afford to save money. Every house is different, and yes there is a money upfront but savings grow as hydro rates increase, and we’re seeing that they’re really increasing.”

There’s also mistruths about sun, of which Victoria has plenty enough of to enable a solar system.

Seeking payback on solar energy in homes

Pro Eco Energy Evacuated Solar Water Tubes

An increase in the information about household hydro usage would do wonders to increase awareness among homeowners, Judith Cullington says. “People are shocked when they learn what really drives the bill up.”

VICTORIA — The Victoria Real Estate Board reports that March, 2015 saw a 27.7 per cent increase in prop-erty sales.

That’s 734 properties sold in that month, compared with 575 sold in the same month last year.

“We saw 393 single family homes in the region sell in the month of March,” said Victoria Real Estate Board

President Guy Crozier. “The last time we saw numbers this high in March was in 2010 when 414 single family homes sold.

“And though we see sales numbers have increased compared to last year, we see fewer active listings for sale compared to last year.”

There were 3,769 active listings for sale on the Mul-tiple Listing Service® at the

end of March, 6.9 per cent fewer than the 4,050 active listings in March 2014.

The Multiple Listing Ser-vice® Home Price Index benchmark value for a single

family home in the Victoria Core this time last year was $560,500. The benchmark value for the same home this month has increased by 1.64 per cent to $569,700.

“Why the increase in activ-ity? We expect the market to be busy in the spring — real estate has a seasonal trend. What was interesting this year was that the momen-tum we saw in the market over the course of 2014 has continued to increase,” Cro-zier added. “Consumer con-fidence in local real estate appears to be high.”

— Submitted by VREB

Greater Victoria real estate market makes big jump in March“We expect the market to be busy in the spring

— real estate has a seasonal trend.”– Guy Crozier, VREB board president


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338 Foul Bay Road, $790,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyDavid Harvey, 250-385-2033

1754 Lee Avenue, $699,000MLS 350145,Saturday & Sunday 12-2Sutton Group West Coast RealtyChris Fairlie, 250-479-3333

1570 Rockland Ave., $829,900Saturday 11-12:30Sutton Group West Coast RealtyTroy Petersen, 250-858-1134

208-455 Sitkum Road, $379,900MLS 350069, Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyNoah Dobson, 250-385-2033

126 Howe Street, $819,900MLS 348497, Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Shelley Saldat, 250-384-8124

ESQUIMALT1060 Tillicum RoadSaturday & Sunday 1-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyJohn Monkhouse, 250-216-6343

1328 Lyall Street $639,900Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyTroy Petersen, 250-858-1134

SAANICH EAST2153 Jahn Place, $439,000MLS 349881, Sunday 2-4Holmes Realty Ltd.Magdalin Heron, 250-656-0911

4716 Amblewood Dr., $969,000MLS 347265, Saturday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunKaren Scott, 250-661-0922

209-3206 Alder Street, $265,000MLS 349858, Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGoran Tambic, 250-592-4422

1509 Thorncliffe Rd., $880,000MLS 346815, Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesChris Leblanc, 250-418-0717

106-4480 Chatterton Way,MLS 350187, Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJames Smith, 250-858-2696

201-1505 Church Ave., $174,900MLS 348063, Saturday 11-1Boorman’s Real EstateRod Hay, 250-595-1535

5009 Cordova Bay Rd, $2,998,000MLS 349083, Sunday 2-4Jonesco Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath & Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

2931 Sea Point Drive, $1,188,000MLS 347193, Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyJulie Rust, 250-385-2033

3660 Doncaster Drive, $739,900MLS 350052, Saturday & Sunday 1-4Saanich Peninsula RealtyJohn Romashenko, 250-656-0145

SAANICH WEST3912 Carey Road, From $249,900Saturday - Monday 1-5 Macdonald RealtySheila Aujla & Sophak Sim, 250-744-4441

740 Travino LaneTuesday - Sunday 1-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyScott Munro, 250-477-5353

302-4536 ViewmontAvenue, $295,000MLS 345782, Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesCheryl Ashby, 250-478-9141

1063 Hyacinth Avenue, $559,900MLS 348956, Sunday 2-4 Boorman’s Real EstateRod Hay, 250-595-1535

SAANICH PENINSULA3183-2600 Ferguson Rd.,MLS 345119, Sunday 2-4(Buzz ‘Mitchell’ to access)Jonesco Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath & Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

7887 Patterson Road, $737,000MLS 350010, Saturday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunCraig Walters, 250-655-0608

1166-2600 Ferguson Rd, $319,900MLS 349040, Sunday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunRon Phillips, 250-655-0608

7182 West Saanich Road., From $365,000Saturday & Sunday 1-4, Royal LePageCoast Capital RealtyMurray Lawson, 250-477-5353

305-7161 West Saanich Road, $274,800MLS 347819, Saturday & Sunday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunCraig Walters, 250-655-0608

8753 Beaumaris PlaceSunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJulie Demelo, 250-888-9131

WEST SHORE7-3650 Citadel Pl.,$679,900MLS 349655, Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Rosemarie Colterman, 250-592-4422

105-990 Rattanwood Place, From $319,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyKomal Dodd, 250-479-3333

4954 Rocky Point Rd., $749,000MLS 350014, Sunday 2:30-4:30RE/MAX CamosunRoy Coburn, 250-812-1989

1192 Parkdale Creek Gar-dens, $439,900Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jenn Raappana, 250-474-6003

3279 Anchorage Ave., $799,900MLS 346697, Sunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunLynne Sager, 250-744-3301

5255 Parker Ave., $799,900MLS 346813, Saturday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunLynne Sager, 250-744-3301

617 Phelps Avenue,MLS 348911, Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJames Smith, 250-858-2696

3392 Rockwood Terrace, $649,900MLS 349873, Sunday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunDeb Coburn, 250812-5333

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OPENHOUSESMAY 1 - MAY 7, 2015

300 Selica Road, $579,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Mike Hartshorne, 250-474-6003

310 & 312-1395 BearMountain $359,900Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyTroy Petersen, 250-858-1134

103-611 GoldstreamAvenue, $287,900MLS 345925, Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Cheryl Ashby, 250-478-9141

214 Jaime Place, $534,900MLS 349973, Sunday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Mike Hartshorne, 250-474-6003

SOOKE21-1976 Glenidle Road, $165,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePageCoast Capital RealtyAnna Bjelde, 250-888-9001

2045 Kaltasin Rd., $829,900MLS 346980, Saturday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunRoy Coburn, 250-812-1989

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The region’s Solar Colwood and Solar CRD subsidy iniative has passed but the trend for homeown-ers to consider installing solar hot water heating systems or solar pho-tovoltaic panels is still growing, says Judith Cullington, former Colwood councillor who was behind the now-defunct Solar Colwood hot water program.

One of the preconceptions with solar that potential buyers get hung up on is the so called ‘payback period.’

“It really is an odd thing about renewable energy, that buyers (auto-matically) question what the pay-back period will be,” Cullington said.

The payback period is the return on investment, how much, and how long.

“No one asks what the payback period will be with a new car or a granite counter top, but with solar, everyone wants to know that.”

And the reality is it’s quite strong.Cullington has solar photovoltaic

at her house and on a sunny day it not only provides her house’s elec-trical needs, it supplies the excess energy to other houses in her neigh-bourhood. Because she’s tied into the grid, she gets that money back from her hydro bill.

“We’re very lucky in B.C., B.C. Hydro makes it very easy to install solar compared to other places in

the world. Once people understand what a strong return on investment you can get I think we’ll see a greater number of people installing solar,” Cullington said.

“Anyone who is looking to invest in their future should know you’ll get a very competitive nine per cent return on investment from a solar hot water system. For most of us

that’s better than we’re going to get on a bank’s interest, a particularly solid investment if you’re planning on staying in the house.”

Solar Colwood results showed an average savings from the hot water system on energy bills of saving 44 per cent on the hot water bill. But misconceptions still exist.

“One of the biggest is ‘I can’t afford

it,’” Cullington said, “which is inter-esting, because it means, you can’t afford to save money. Every house is different, and yes there is a money upfront but savings grow as hydro rates increase, and we’re seeing that they’re really increasing.”

There’s also mistruths about sun, of which Victoria has plenty enough of to enable a solar system.

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An increase in the information about household hydro usage would do wonders to increase awareness among homeowners, Judith Cullington says. “People are shocked when they learn what really drives the bill up.”

VICTORIA — The Victoria Real Estate Board reports that March, 2015 saw a 27.7 per cent increase in prop-erty sales.

That’s 734 properties sold in that month, compared with 575 sold in the same month last year.

“We saw 393 single family homes in the region sell in the month of March,” said Victoria Real Estate Board

President Guy Crozier. “The last time we saw numbers this high in March was in 2010 when 414 single family homes sold.

“And though we see sales numbers have increased compared to last year, we see fewer active listings for sale compared to last year.”

There were 3,769 active listings for sale on the Mul-tiple Listing Service® at the

end of March, 6.9 per cent fewer than the 4,050 active listings in March 2014.

The Multiple Listing Ser-vice® Home Price Index benchmark value for a single

family home in the Victoria Core this time last year was $560,500. The benchmark value for the same home this month has increased by 1.64 per cent to $569,700.

“Why the increase in activ-ity? We expect the market to be busy in the spring — real estate has a seasonal trend. What was interesting this year was that the momen-tum we saw in the market over the course of 2014 has continued to increase,” Cro-zier added. “Consumer con-fidence in local real estate appears to be high.”

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The recent federal bud-get greatly enhanced the significance, and

potential long-term value, of Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) for all adults over the age of 18. Effective immediately, each TFSA account holder’s annual eli-gibility becomes $10,000 — a very significant increase from the previous $5,500.

Until the recent federal budget changes, the maxi-mum contribution eligibility totalled $36,500.

With the new rules, effec-tive immediately, this ceil-

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adult’s eligibility will increase by another $10,000, each January 1.

Because neither earnings nor capital gains in a TFSA are ever subject to income tax, these accounts are a superb savings and invest-ment vehicle.

Younger Canadians and others in relatively low mar-ginal tax brackets, can use their TFSA as an alternative to their RRSP — preserv-ing RRSP contribution eligi-bility for the future, when

marginal tax rates become higher, and the triggered tax refund more significant.

With the new c o n t r i b u t i o n limits dramati-cally increasing the potential of a TFSA, the long-term benefits of TFSAs should now rival those of the RRSP program.

Younger adults can use the TFSA as a short-to-medium range vehicle to

save for a down payment, a car, or other major pur-chase.

But as they age and as incomes grow, they can begin using their TFSA as a long-term investment vehicle.

Their invest-ment strategy can gradually shift

from a shorter-term focus, to one of long-term wealth-creation, with the objective of eventually supplement-ing future workplace pen-sions, RRSP draws, Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS) ben-efits.

RRSP or RRIF accounts trigger tax consequences with every withdrawal.

All draws from TFSAs are tax-free.

Withdrawals do not count as taxable income which may otherwise trig-ger a “claw-back” of part, or all, of a retiree’s OAS ben-efit. Nor, for lower-income retirees, will a draw from a TFSA account negate Guar-anteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits for which the pensioner may be eligible.

Furthermore, any funds withdrawn from a TFSA

may be replaced in part or in full in any subsequent year — in addition to the annual increase in contribu-tion eligibility.

With the most recent increase in eligibility lim-its, the TFSA can now be viewed as a major vehicle for wealth-creation and wealth-preservation for Canadians. This is particu-larly important given that Defined-Benefit, and even Defined-Contri-bution, pen-sion plans are enjoyed by a fast-shrinking minor-ity of employees. More than ever before, Canadi-ans, hoping to enjoy a comfort-able retirement, will need to sup-plement their CPP and OAS payments with their own investment portfolios.

Although a majority of adults already have a TFSA account, relatively few are taking full advantage of its potential, even when they can afford to do so. Many simply use their TFSA as a low-interest savings account, without realizing its potential as a vehicle for longer-term wealth-cre-ation. Hopefully, the most

recent federal budget pub-licity will serve to raise awareness, at all ages, of how best to take advantage of the TFSA.

In retirement, some Cana-dians are fortunate to not need to draw on their TFSA. Yet, by continuing to utilize their full eligibility, the TFSA can become a major tax-free component of their even-tual estate — an important consideration for some.

For those 18 or older who have not yet opened a TFSA account, it is important to realize that their annual eligibility is cumulative.

Keep that in mind, particu-larly when receiv-ing a bonus, an

inheritance, or other wind-fall. If in a high marginal tax rate, such windfall may best be deployed to an RRSP. If in a low tax bracket, the TFSA may be the best choice.

A retired corporate executive, enjoying post-retirement as an independent Financial Consul-tant (www.dolezalconsultants.ca), Peter Dolezal is the author of three books, including his most recent, The Smart Cana-

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