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Four-year-old boxer Kinnon sneaks a taste of a cupcake held by BC SPCA Victoria branch manager Annie Prittie Bell, as the organization gears up for National Cupcake Day.
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It’s hard saying no to a begging puppy, staring into your eyes.
And it’s equally difficult saying no to the smell of fresh cupcakes, with tasty icing on top and melt-in-your mouth goodness.
Knowing the weakness of us humans, the Victoria SPCA is happy to exploit it by hosting its first National Cupcake Day, a fundraiser benefitting animals, on Feb. 24.
Besides cupcake eaters, volunteers are needed to organize, make cupcakes for human or animal consumption, or both, and collect money, said SPCA Victoria branch manager Annie Prittie Bell.
“They can start their own team or they can join ours and bring cupcakes to sell,” Prittie Bell said. “(If they start their own team) they can bring the funds they raise to us, afterwards.”
Participants who register at nationalcupcakeday.ca, will receive a package with posters and balloons to help
advertise the event.Team Victoria Critter Cakes, made up
of SPCA staff and volunteers will sell cupcakes by donation at the branch, located at 3150 Napier Ln. This will be the Victoria branch’s first time participating in the event, which started in Canada last year with just a few SPCAs and shelters.
“We decided to join because it’s a great awareness piece for the branch,” Prittie Bell said.
“It raises awareness of animal cruelty and how to work and support animals across
the country.”More than 86 SPCA and humane
societies across Canada are participating in this year’s National Cupcake Day. It is the first and only nation-wide fundraiser, benefitting animal welfare societies.
The BC SPCA is a non-profit organization funded primarily by public donations, its mission is to prevent cruelty and promote the welfare of animals.
National Cupcake Day was originally launched by the RSPCA in Australia in August 2008. The Australian RSPCA bills it as the “biggest bakeoff in the Southern Hemisphere.”
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“They can start their own team or they can join ours and bring cupcakes to sell.” - Annie Prittie Bell
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Frosted fundraiser Olivia Cavanagh, 16, and Marian Gomez, 17, sell cupcakes on Oak Bay Avenue for the Helping Homeless Hearts club. The club, started in September at Oak Bay High, is working to raise $1,000 for the Rainbow Kitchen as part of a pledge to feed the community for a week.
A Saanich man faces charges of mischief and obstructing an officer after a spray painting incident in Oak Bay village on Friday, Feb. 14.
At 1:09 a.m. a witness reported seeing a man spray painting obscenities on the exterior of HSBC Bank on Oak Bay Avenue with red paint.
Upon arrival, Oak Bay police officers found the CIBC bank was also hit with similar red paint. At 1:15 a.m., officers saw a man, who matched the witness’ description, riding a bicycle along Oak Bay Avenue.
The cyclist, 22, was stopped and a can of red spray paint was found in his bag.
Police say the man then provided a false name and birthdate, resisted arrest and tried to flee from custody, causing minor injuries to the arresting officers.
He was eventually taken to police headquarters, where the investigation continued.
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Oak Bay High school student Miller Espinosa never imagined himself on stage.
He didn’t sing, except to himself, he didn’t dance or act.
However, two years ago friends heard him singing and humming to himself and encouraged him to join the school choir. Finding that he really enjoyed singing, Espinosa decided to try acting and dancing, to experience more of the performing arts.
Now, the Grade 12 student is the lead in Oak Bay High’s musical, In the Heights.
“It just all snowballed,” said Espinosa, 17. “This September I went in for auditions and I got the part.”
In the Heights is a musical set over three days in Washington Heights in New York City. Originally written in 1999 and performed on Broadway in 2008, it’s a story about a number of mostly Dominican-American characters, struggling as they live their lives in a poor neighbourhood.
Espinosa plays the part of Usnavi, the owner of a small bodega. The character lost both parents when he was young and dreams of returning to the
Dominican Republic, where he was born. Raised by a woman known as the grandmother to everyone in the barrio, Usnavi has a love interest.
Grade 12 student Sunny Sheffman plays one of the female leads, Nina Rosario. The neighbourhood admires the character for getting a scholarship to Stanford University, but she returns home after one year with disappointing news for her family.
Unlike Espinosa, Sheffman, 17, is no stranger to the stage. She has been singing since she was five and appeared in numerous community theatre productions. She often performs with the Victoria Operatic Society. She is also no stranger to this musical. She was familiar with the story and the songs as she had practiced them in her singing classes.
“The music is so much fun, it has a Latin and hip hop flow which is great to hear,” Sheffman said. “There is also lots of depth and dimensions. It’s a very interesting storyline.”
Oak Bay musical theatre teacher Steve Price said he was surprised with how well received the show has been by students.
“It’s got really upbeat music, salsa and a lot of rap. The kids are loving it,” Price said. “Everyone who is involved knows all the words now.”
About 80 people make up the cast and crew of the musical.
As for the future, Espinosa plans to attend Camosun College in
the fall to become an electrician. However, since being bit by the theatre bug, he plans to attend theatre school afterward.
“I want something to fall back on,” Espinosa said about going to Camosun. “I really like acting. It’s such a powerful feeling to make
someone feel a certain way and feel emotions when you’re displaying a fake personality.”
Sheffman is torn between studying music or science.
“I love science as well as singing,” she said. “I really want to become a doctor. A singing doctor maybe?”
In the Heights opens Friday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. It plays on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m., Feb. 23 at 2 p.m., and Feb. 26 to March 1 at 7:30 p.m. $12 adults, $10 students and seniors. Tickets are available at the school office or at the door.
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The Quest to build is postponed for now.Consideration for a proposed luxury condominium project
on Oak Bay Avenue, named the Quest, has been deferred by Oak Bay council until a draft Official Community Plan is prepared and gets first reading. However, some councillors wanted to reject it outright because of its size.
Large & Co. Developers owner Earl Large proposes to build a five-storey, 15-unit, multi-family residential complex at 2325 Oak Bay Ave. Oak Bay’s planning department refers to the roof as a fifth floor because it will have an open deck, garden and fitness room.
The building would be built to high environmental standards and include numerous features to promote healthy
living such as chromotherapy lighting, structured and treated water, radiant heat and the fitness room. The property is zoned single-family and the proposal requires numerous variances including zoning, setbacks and an OCP amendment. Currently, an older home is situated on the 983.6 m2 lot and a large Garry Oak tree is located on the neighbouring property to the east.
Municipal staff recommended deferring consideration of the project until the new OCP is drafted, which is expected this fall. The majority of council agreed but Coun. Pam Copley voted against the recommendation.
“I don’t feel this is necessarily the right proposal here, even if it’s deferred,” Copley said. “For me, how does the community
benefit from this?”Coun. Cairine Green also wanted to completely decline
consideration of the proposal, but voted for a deferral, saying she wants to wait to see what the new OCP allows.
“It’s the right building on the wrong lot,” Green said, explaining she would rather see a low-density project on the property such as a duplex. “I’ve spent time on that lot … It would be shoehorning a giant building on a tiny lot.”
Large said he was disappointed with council’s decision but will try again once the draft OCP is released and he will take council’s input into consideration.
“I thought we had a good project,” Large said, citing a recent survey saying almost 80 per cent of Oak Bay residents approve of higher density. “We worked very, very hard in putting together what we think is beneficial for the community.”
Large added that he canvassed the community, going door-to-door to get the opinions of nearby residents for his project and it was well-received by the majority. He also held a community meeting in January about the proposal, sending out invites to 800 Oak Bay households.
Three letters opposing the project were received by council, along with an opposition petition from residents of neighbouring York House Apartments.
The Quest to build deferred
“It’s the right building on the wrong lot.”- Cairine Green
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Oak Bay High school students Liam Hunter, left, and Miller Espinosa, backed by Sunny Sheffman and Jessica Duncan, on stage for the musical production In the Heights, opening this week.
High school musical gains Height
“The music is so much fun, it has a Latin and hip hop flow which is great to hear.”- Sunny Sheffman
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I made an error in a column two weeks ago about the latest court ruling in favour of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation.
I referred to an “illegal” strike in 2012, and was quickly reminded that this teacher walkout was sanctioned by the Labour Relations Board.
After months of withholding report cards and refusing to meet with administrators, the union went to the LRB to seek permission for a full-scale strike.
They got their wish, with authorization under essential services rules for a three-day strike in the first week, and one day a week after that until the end of the school year or a settlement was reached.
For the record, the last illegal BCTF strike was in 2005, in defiance of a B.C. Supreme Court order that resulted in a $500,000 fine against the union.
That was the same year BCTF lawyers won a split B.C. Court of Appeal ruling allowing teachers to bring political propaganda into classrooms. Two out of three judges decided this was appropriate to preserve their freedom of expression.
The authorized three-day strike went ahead in March 2012. Regular readers may recall my reports of students being indoctrinated in classrooms and in some cases
sent out as union pickets, and of the strong-arming of unionized government office staff here in
Victoria to make them join a rally on the legislature lawn. This was the strike that, according to the current media and political narrative, the provincial cabinet conspired to bring about. This notion is central to the Jan. 27 ruling of Justice Susan Griffin that orders the B.C. government to attempt to reconstruct the world of 2001.
Government lawyers filed an application with the B.C. Court of Appeal on Friday to suspend parts of this ruling. Imposing Griffin’s terms would cause “irreparable harm to the public interest of unprecedented magnitude,” they said in arguments backed by a series of affidavits from superintendents who have to keep B.C.’s war-weary public schools running.
In Surrey, returning to 2002 conditions would add $40 million to the district payroll in year one. That’s one of 60 school districts.
The government’s submission includes affidavits from superintendents around the province on its likely impact. Here’s a partial list:
Cancellation of specialty programs for vulnerable youth, construction of portables to meet arbitrary class size restrictions,
transfer of some students to other schools, closure of daycare and Strong Start preschool programs to free up space reallocated over the years, layoff of non-teaching staff, and cancellation of school participation in the international student program.
Premier Christy Clark and Education Minister Peter Fassbender have begun to push back against the conspiracy theory that has taken hold, pointing out that when the BCTF finally did get permission to strike, the cabinet of the day acted to prevent it.
Here’s a recap. In late February 2012, nearly 28,000 teachers (90 per cent) voted to go to the full strike allowed by the LRB. The government tabled legislation to impose a cooling-off period with provision for steep fines on the union for any further strike action, and appointed a mediator. This kept schools open, and eventually yielded a two-year deal.
In April 2012, the union voted to withdraw all volunteer work by teachers. By this time they had been ordered by the LRB to prepare second-term report cards, in part so students would know if they could apply for post-secondary studies.
Once again this mess is before the court of appeal. Perhaps there will be better recognition of the real world this time around.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
Twitter: @tomfletcherbcEmail: [email protected]
Who provoked a school strike?
‘The last illegal BCTF strike, in 2005, saw the union fined $500,000.’
Future cloudy for local military
The bean counters with the Royal Canadian Navy are no doubt still figuring out the impact of postponed military capital spending announced in last week’s federal budget.
What the Conservative government’s decision means in the short term for the Pacific fleet and its multitude of local suppliers is still anyone’s guess. But it could well change the way our West Coast navy does business.
As they move to balance the budget next year before the federal election, the Conservatives have planned on delaying by three years, or longer, such major expenditures as replacement of the navy’s supply ships – Esquimalt-based HMCS Protecteur is one of two in Canada – and our aging Sea King helicopters.
Some national defence experts believe all branches of the Canadian military will be tightening their belts on operations in an attempt to convince the feds to restore some of the funding down the road.
Our region counts on the military to provide a boost to the local economy. Any reductions in discretionary spending by the navy, the army reserve unit based at Bay Street Armoury and the air force helicopter squadron at Victoria International Airport could have a significant effect on Capital Region businesses.
We worry that the remaining technical upgrades on our naval frigates – work being done by Victoria Shipyards – might be in jeopardy. We also wonder whether our frigates will make fewer trips abroad, for which they need initial provisioning locally.
Similarly, our Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels, six of which are stationed at Esquimalt, could potentially be deployed less, meaning decreased part-time wages for local naval reservists.
The trickle-down economic effect may take time to materialize in Greater Victoria, but we shouldn’t be surprised if it comes to pass.
We don’t doubt political motivation is playing a role in the feds’ aim to balance the budget by 2015-16. With that in mind, and with no Conservative member of parliament to plead our economic case, the chances of the feds altering course on the military budget move appear slim.
Tom FletcherB.C. Views
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LETTERS
Recently Victoria and Colwood have agreed to place a non-binding referendum question on amalgamation on the next municipal ballot in November. Others will no doubt follow.
Voters in these communities, representing over a quarter of the population of Greater Victoria, will have a chance to state a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ preference for their municipality to explore opportunities to cooperate for integration of service delivery.
A ‘yes’ vote will trigger provincially-funded studies to determine the feasibility, benefits and costs of various models of integration. It will not trigger amalgamation. A ‘no’ vote will maintain the status quo.
Here in Oak Bay, requests for a similar opportunity are brushed aside. Most councillors have responded negatively with a variety of reasons, e.g. being too busy, having no mandate, etc. Effectively, this translates into a belief that they already have a ‘no’ mandate. But do they?
If our elected officials are certain of this position, then what is lost by posing the question? The cost of placing the question on the ballot is minimal.
During the last decade, local government legislation was amended such that the province cannot force amalgamation. Fair enough. Any
movement in that direction must come from the municipal governments themselves. Also fair enough. But what if a council refuses to seek a mandate from their electorate on the question? Is that fair?
Normally, our system of government contains checks and balances to curb the excesses of power. But the current legislation has placed municipal councils in a serious conflict of interest, because power, once attained, is not easily relinquished. It’s a basic unsavoury aspect of our human nature, even for well-meaning council members.
Refusing to allow residents the opportunity to deliver such a mandate, has the effect of denying basic democratic rights, and that seems like an abuse of power.
If residents were smart enough to elect this council, are we not smart enough to give them a mandate through a non-binding referendum question?
The need to implement cooperative relationships with neighbouring municipalities will not subside without a clear direction either way. Can we afford more needless deaths due to botched multi-jurisdictional policing and fragmented 911 systems problems?
Are we satisfied to watch the squabbles of non-elected CRD members as their delays incur millions of dollars in excess
costs? Can we ever hope to pay the cost of the Uplands sewer separation, now topping over $2,300 per Oak Bay household? Do we really need 13 fire chiefs and separate fire departments? Do we not cross the Blue Bridge and attend the McPherson/Royal theatres? Don’t we all write Victoria as our postal address? Are we disappointed by infrastructure planning that does not meet
daily travel needs?Regardless of how residents answer
the above questions, shouldn’t they at least be given the opportunity to exercise their electoral franchise and provide clear policy direction to our local government?
Savvy politicians will recognize the gravity of this mess. It’s shaping up to be the key election issue in 2014 that will not go away, and municipal candidates across the region will be required to declare a clear position.
We’d like what Victoria and Colwood are having.
A little democracy.Lesley Ewing
Oak Bay
We’ll have what they’re having
I, like many in Oak Bay, am entirely against the proposed deer cull and would like to ask mayor and council the following:
You claim there is a deer overpopulation in Oak Bay. What determines over-population? Has anyone ever done a legitimate deer count? You have stated you will kill the deer. Does the population of Oak Bay agree? Have you ever had a referendum on this?
Maybe you have heard complaints from a few residents but people who enjoy seeing the deer won’t write or phone to complain about them.
There is a bylaw against feeding deer. Is it enforced?
There are car and deer accidents and I understand Cadboro Bay and Cedar Hill X roads are the worst areas. Have you increased deer awareness signage? Have you reduced speed limits? Does the Oak Bay Police Department have increased radar surveillance? Do you have proof that by killing 25 deer no others will replace them? You state some 40 deer have been killed by cars or other accidents, yet you still claim an overpopulation.
I think it would be prudent to look into the above questions and provide answers to residents before you consider a cull.
Roberta ChadwickOak Bay
Lesley Ewing
Re: Old man take a look at your facts (BC Views, Jan. 22). I’m extremely happy that more people, including Neil Young,
are voicing their opposition to the tar sands. In particular, plans to expand extraction, production and transportation of any fossil fuels, even if some of what they say is sensational or not factual.
Tom Fletcher needs to stop sweating the small stuff, stop trying to be right and get with the big picture, instead of sitting at his computer. If he had spent anytime outdoors even in a backyard garden, he would get it. The daffodils have been poking through the ground for more than two weeks, in January!
Forty years ago in Rossland we got 30 to 40 feet of snow a year. The snow has steadily declined since then and this year, Rossland has less than four feet. Climate change is upon us and in a huge way.
Paraphrasing Patrick Lane: We are eating the world. We are devouring the oceans and the land. We are drinking the lakes and the seas and eating the mountains and plains. We are eating and eating until there is almost nothing left for our children to come.
If we wait for scientists to give us definitive proof, the whole world will look like a nuclear bomb hit it. Besides, most of the objective scientists have been muzzled and the others are on the payroll of big oil.
The one fact that is indisputable is the human race cannot continue to consume like it does. We must reduce, reduce, reduce.
Dave SeccoOak Bay
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Questions before cull Change is upon us
Daniel PalmerNews staff
Massimo Segato settles in for his usual afternoon coffee break at Macchiato Caffe on Broad Street, a welcome reprieve after managing the lunch rush a few blocks away at Italian Food Imports.
As an avid sports fan, Segato grew up playing basketball for Camosun College and like many dedicated Seattle Seahawks fans, felt a life-long sense of disappointment vanish with the team’s Superbowl win earlier this month.
“We’ve been Seahawks fans since ’82 when they beat the Miami Dolphins in the divisional. We finally got one,” he says.
But it’s the semi-annual buzz of the Olympics that conjure up a particularly proud sporting moment in the Segato family tree.
Massimo’s grandfather, Guglielmo Segato, was 27 when he won both gold and silver medals in cycling for Italy at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
A framed photo of Guglielmo hangs prominently behind the counter at the family’s deli, while Massimo’s father keeps the prized medals in a bank vault for safe keeping.
“I’ve been told there aren’t many medals left from those games,” Massimo says. “It was between the First and Second World War, so a lot of the medals were melted down (for the war effort). But I don’t know how much is folklore or fact.”
Massimo can’t say what happened to the steel-frame, two-gear Bianci racing bike – “it’s the oldest bicycle company in the world” – used by his grandfather to achieve the 100-kilometre time-trial wins.
Competitive cycling in 1932 was much different than today’s road races, where athletes feed off one another’s energy and utilize the slipstreams of their competitors.
Instead, Olympic cyclists battled their own will on open, empty roads.
“My grandfather won the gold medal in the team time trial and the silver in the individual time trial,” Massimo says. “It wasn’t what we think of as a road race today.”
Massimo and his brother, Maurizio, last saw their grandfather in 1976 – he passed away in 1979 – when their family immigrated from a small town in Treviso province to the rocky shores of Vancouver Island.
It’s been 29 years since the family took over Italian Food Imports, still in its original location at 1114 Blanshard St. The Segato brothers have since opened two thriving cafés in the downtown core with business partner, Sean Sloan.
“It’s a family business,” Massimo says. “When my parents were away on a trip to Italy (in 1996), we started dabbling with new ideas, and decided to give it a two-year window to see what could
happen. That was 18 years ago.”
What will Massimo and his sports-loving family be watching most closely during the Sochi Olympics?
“Hockey is the big one, but the beauty of the Olympics is the sports you never get to focus on come to the forefront, and then there’s the stories behind the sport,” he says.
“If Canada and Italy are playing each other, we’ll see. But we’re Canadian, we’ll be cheering for Canada all the way.”
Olympic roots run strong for brothers Family’s link to Games helps fuel love of sports
“Hockey is the big one, but the beauty of the Olympics is the sports you never get to focus on come to the forefront, and then there’s the stories behind the sport.”
– Massimo Segato on watching the Winter Games
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Maurizio, left, and Massimo Segato hold a photo of their grandfather, Guglielmo Segato, who competed in cycling events at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
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“We want to bring people from off campus. It was aimed at people who
either are writers themselves or they’re passionate about reading. Then of course we’re hoping that students would come,” said John Barton, editor of The Malahat Review. “The writers could be at any level of experience. It’s not aimed at so-called professional writers, but they would be welcome as well.”
The seasonal literary magazine ceased hosting issue launches to concentrate on one large event with “heft to it” to draw more attention, Barton said. The Malahat’s second annual WordsThaw, billed as “An Intellectual Icebreaker at the Cusp of Spring” runs Feb. 20 to 22 at UVic.
“Every person who buys a WordsThaw pass will get a subscription to The Malahat,” Barton said. “It’s a way of reaching out to the local reading and writing community and offering them another way to subscribe to the maga-zine. and a way for us to meet the readership.”
A Lansdowne Lecture by Vancouver writer Daphne Marlatt, who celebrates the fluid relationship between language and place, will open WordsThaw 2014 tomorrow night.
“She looks at place and language together,” Barton said. Her works include two novels, several poetry pieces, and
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Friday features Words on Ice: Evolution of the author with panelists paulo da costa, Cynthia Flood, Phil Hall, Anita Lahey, David Leach, Daphne Marlatt, Miranda Pearson, and Benjamin Willems. Barton hosts the event with Yvonne Blomer.
“We’re using them to sketch the trajectory of a writer,” Barton said of the writers who hail from as far off as Toronto. They cover the spectrum from rookie to senior writers.
“Each writer represents a snapshot about where each given writer might be in their career,” Barton said. “This is probably the purest literary event of the whole series.”
Saturday sessions include Author as Avatar: Social Media and Blogging; Spirit of Place: Writing local history; The
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The diversity of panels – covering social media to local history to poetry and exploring spiritual issues – is an intentional bid to appeal to all generations, and utilize The Malahat’s strength as a literary entity.
“This is trying to explode that and reach into areas where we wouldn’t necessarily perceive as being inter-ested,” he said. “It’s kind of to break our brand.”
Also on Saturday, writers who registered ahead will enjoy a mid-session program of one-on-one critiques with writers such as Maleea Acker, Dede Crane, JoAnn Dionne, Catherine Greenwood, Matthew Hooton, Steve Noyes, Aaron Shepard, Robin Stevenson and Christine Walde.
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feature IntervIew: tegan QuInThe next issue of Monday Magazine, out Thursday (Feb. 20), is anchored by a feature interview with Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara. The sisters have four Juno nominations, a hit record and dates next month in Victoria and Nanaimo. Visit mondaymag.com.
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Funny Women Festival - Kirsten Van Ritzen hosts two nights of female comedic variety from performers near and far. Until Feb. 23. funnywomenfestival.com.
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When Jada Benwell found out her dad and a few of his neighbouring businesses were going to host a lunch for Victoria’s homeless at Our Place this month, she sprang into high gear.
The Grade 5 student at Deep Cove elementary in North Saanich and daughter of Russ Benwell, owner of the Red Barn Markets, decided she was going to collect 400 pairs of warm socks, toques and more in a campaign called Socks Box. She placed collection boxes at her school, Kelset Elementary, Toast Cafe and at Melinda’s Biscotti in Sidney.
There are also boxes up at the Red Barn Market (West Saanich Road, Mattick’s Farm, Vanalman Avenue and Latoria Walk). Jada said she plans to gather some of her best friends on the day of the lunch and hand out the warm clothes to people in need.
Jada said she has done a lot of fundraising in the past and wanted to help people again at the Feb. 23 lunch at Our Place, sponsored by the Red Barn, Back Fit and the Roy Group.
“There’s a whole bunch of awesome people supporting me,” she said.
Caleb Bentham, in Grade 3 and son of Back Fit owner Craig Bentham, said he’s helping his friend because there are other people who need warm clothes.
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Jada is collecting socks and more because she knows a lot of people are better off than others, and this is one way of giving back to the community.
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Learn more at redbarnmarket.ca/community-events. Find out about Our Place at ourplacesociety.com.
Jada Benwell, 10, right, along with help from friends and family including, from left, Summer Bentham, 6, Caleb Bentham, 8, and Quinn Benwell, 8, has been collecting socks, toques, gloves and scarves in her homemade Socks Boxes to distribute to those less fortunate.
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As the B.C. Hockey League regu-lar season nears its end, the Victoria Grizzlies are cranking their game up.
The Grizzlies (34-13-3-3), winners of six in a row heading into this Fri-day’s (Feb. 21) home game against Alberni Valley, regained the overall lead in the BCHL standings with a perfect 3-0 weekend.
The latest Victoria victory came Sunday in Surrey, where the Grizzlies built period leads of 1-0 and 2-1 en route to a 5-2 win.
Cole Pickup, Garrett Forster and Jay Mackie, with an empty net goal, scored in the third period for the winners, who were outshot 12-10 in the frame. Jacob Kearley and Myles Fitzgerald bagged the other Grizzlies goals, while Alec Dillon turned aside
29 of 31 shots for the win in net.Victoria chalked up a pair of wins
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Jesse Schwartz and Myles Fitzger-ald led the attack with two goals each against the Warriors on Friday.
Fitzgerald added two goals and assisted on brother Leo’s third-period goal against the Vees.
With nine games remaining on the schedule, the Grizzlies are the hot-test team in the league. They hope to extend their streak against the Bull-dogs on Friday (7:15 p.m.) at The Q Centre (formerly Bear Mountain Arena) and in Port Alberni on Satur-day. Victoria hosts Surrey for a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday.
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Also that night, the Saanich Braves host North champ Comox Valley in Game 2 of the crossover series at Pearkes Arena at 6 p.m.
On Friday, at 7:30 p.m., Peninsula Panthers host the Westshore Wolves in Game 3 of their best-of-seven series.
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Housing is a fundamental human need, yet here in Victoria, the high cost of living, often paired with health or social factors, can put this basic necessity out of reach for many.
For the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, that’s simply not ac-ceptable.
The Coalition’s mission is to end home-lessness by 2018, so that all people fac-ing homelessness in Greater Victoria will have access to safe, affordable, appropri-ate, permanent housing, with support if they require it.
“We understand that people will con-tinue to experience homelessness in our community due to economic, health or other reasons outside of their control,” says Andrew Wynn-Williams, executive director of the Coalition. “Our goal is to prevent homelessness where we can and shorten the time people experience it.”
A partnership of all levels of gov-ernment, service providers, business members, the faith community, post-sec-ondary institutions and private citizens dedicated to ending homelessness in Greater Victoria, the key to the Coalition’s success will be its ability to bring part-ners and organizations together to build affordable housing, supportive housing and create additional rental supplements.
How urgent is the need? The Housing and Homelessness in
Greater Victoria report identi� ed some of the myriad needs facing the Capital Re-gion. Beyond the lack of available hous-ing for those with low incomes, the report also identi� ed a shortage of supportive housing for those with complex needs.
In one year, 1,617 unique individuals accessed Greater Victoria’s emergency shelters, yet even this does not re� ect all of those in need. During the Coalition’s February ‘point in time’ count exploring how many people sought, on that one night, temporary accommodations such as emergency shelters, transitional hous-es, budget motels and hotels, the number totalled 1,170. Further, 1,545 applicant households in Greater Victoria currently
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The pocket-sized, waterproof guide is available at many service agencies across the region and has proven extremely popular; it’s currently being updated with the hope of hav-ing more copies on the street in March.
“There was a great need, absolutely,” says Hilary Marks, a member of the group that worked with the Coalition to create the guide.
The Victoria project is unique in that it was the local homeless community that recog-nized the need to have the information in one place, in a compact, durable format, and it was homeless individuals themselves who did much of the research and information-gather-ing, with the help of the Coalition, Marks says.
“It was something that was needed and the homeless community that got together and said, ‘Let’s do it.’ For people who think home-less people are lazy and not smart, this proves them wrong.”
For more information or to view the guide, visit www.victoriahomelessness.ca/streetsur-vivalguide
sit on the Housing Registry, a list of those in need of subsidized housing.
While it’s clear Greater Victoria’s signi� cant housing shortage for those with lower incomes is a primary driver of homelessness in the region, additional factors exacerbating the situation include poverty, domestic violence, challenges facing on- and off-reserve Aboriginal people, untreated mental illness and ad-diction.
How do we address the challenge?
While it’s dif� cult to state exactly how many housing units are required to ad-dress the need, the Coalition offers a few educated estimates based on the evidence.
Research shows at least 13 per cent of those 1,617 shelter users would require supportive housing and since not every-one in need of supportive housing visits a shelter, at the bare minimum, 250 sup-portive housing units are needed. If 250
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More supported housing like Paci� ca Housing’s Camas Village, shown here at the 2011 opening with Supported Housing Coordinator Angela McNulty-Buell, would help address homelessness in Greater Victoria.
is minimum, other data indicates the need could be as high as 719 units.
For affordable housing, the ‘point in time’ count and the Housing Regis-try waitlist, paired with the unknown number of people living in vehicles, couch sur� ng, sleeping outdoors and experiencing other types of homeless-ness, suggest at least 1,500 units are needed.
However, a plan to increase housing must be considered in the context of a broader strategy addressing the many other underlying causes of homeless-ness.
“Our success is evident on the streets of Victoria,” says Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin, Coalition Co-Chair. “Since the Coalition began in 2008, we have built 706 units of supportive and affordable housing and provided rental assistance with supports to more than 90 of our hardest-to-house citizens. We have accomplished a lot, but ending homelessness in our com-munity will take more work. Now is the time to renew our commitment.”
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got a bad tooth infec-tion. If we don’t treat it and the tooth rots, the infection could get to a point where it’s life threatening.’”
It was an intense introduction to Mercy Ships, but one she appreciated. Powell spent seven months last year working in Guinea for the Chris-tian charity organi-zation that uses the hospital ship Africa Mercy as a platform for delivering free medical care. Last month she returned to the ship – after a five-week detour in Texas for training – for a two-year tour, starting in the Republic of Congo.
“The practice I work at (in Sidney) is really good and I enjoy it, but I’m excited to go back to the boat,” she said before leaving. “It’s a different focus than working a regular
day job. We’re all there working for humanity, to serve others.”
People volunteering their skills for Mercy Ships have to pay for room and board on the ship, flights and spending money. Pow-ell estimates she needs $21,000 for the two years.
Powell entered the dental program with the idea that it could lead to volunteering overseas. “The idea percolated for a long time. I always thought I’d like to help people and not necessar-ily live a comfortable North American life.”
Africa Mercy, slightly smaller than a Coastal class B.C. Ferry, has five surgical operating theatres and a full labo-ratory, but the dental practice was run out of a compound in the city of Conkary.
Hundreds of people
lined up twice per week for dental care, and the service worked on a triage system – children and those with life-threatening infections went first, followed by those with physical disabilities.
“We tend not to see this here, but some molar infections can cause swelling and
can block the airway. We did have a couple people in a critical stage ... and we had to get them to go to the hospital. It was life and death.”
Last June she returned to her par-ent’s house in Saanich, but with the idea of returning to the Africa Mercy as soon as pos-sible.
“I said ‘Welcome back!’ She said, ‘Not for long,’” said her mom, Penny Powell. “She just loved it. She felt like she was doing some-thing to help people. She was determined to go back.
“I thought it would be dangerous. But her dad and I are really proud she’s doing this.”
Powell described life onboard the Africa Mercy as “cushy.” “You go from the outside where it is hot, sweaty, humid and loud to inside the ship, where it’s like a little Ameri-can bubble.”
For more on Mercy Ships, see [email protected]
Edward HillNews staff
The girl, no more than five years old, was placed in the dentist’s chair, screaming. The dentist in charge told Alice Powell to hold the girl’s head – now! – so she could deliver a needle of antibiotics.
Whatever the 28-year-old Saanich woman expected for her first day of work in West Africa, it wasn’t hold-
ing down terrified children. It con-tradicted everything she’d leaned at Camosun College to be a dental assistant, but in this case, it helped save the young girl’s life.
“Normally, you try to make den-tistry a nice experience and you try not to traumatize people,” Powell said.
“The dentist said ‘think of it this way: This child may never have access to dentistry again, and she’s
On a mission of mercy
Photo contributed
Alice Powell, 28, is donating two years of her life to Mercy Ships, a charity that delivers medical and dental care to impoverished nations.
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Video series from climate science institute promotes understanding of the issuesDon DescoteauNews staff
Understanding what is causing climate change is one thing. Knowing what actions to take to halt that phenomenon, or even reverse it, is quite another.
The latest installment in an online video series produced by University of Victoria-based Pacific Institute of Climate Solutions offers real-world solutions to address the problem head-on.
While one of the program’s loftier goals is to provide tools for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to government policymak-ers worldwide, the scientists who wrote it aimed for it to be accessible to anyone look-ing to improve their knowledge of what is happening and what they can do about it.
“With our first course, we strictly avoided scientific jargon,” Institute executive direc-tor Tom Pederson said. “That’s really impor-tant. You want the public to understand the concepts, so you have to put it in language that is accessible to anyone interested in the topic.”
That 2011 program, titled Climate Insights, is a 13-part series of short videos culminating with the optimistically named, What YOU Can Do About Climate Change.
“The trick is to not look at it as this huge undertaking that is beyond the reach of
individuals or households,” Pederson said.The Institute, which includes climate sci-
entists at B.C.’s four largest universities, has introduced a multi-unit, two-and-a-half
hour section entitled ‘Mitigation Needs and Action,’ and ‘Government Tools and Initia-tives, Part I and II.’ The first is aimed at a general audience, from individuals to edu-cators at all levels. The second targets poli-cymakers and civil servants – B.C.’s govern-ment is encouraging each of its 28,000 civil servants to take the online course.
The initial videos were designed to lay out the seriousness of global climate change, but the point of the new releases is to give people hope for a positive future, not scare them, Pederson said.
“We’ve told them that we have an unprec-edented problem, but we can fix this, and here’s how, then we lay out the steps to take action. Then the challenge will be for peo-ple to start asking their politicians, ‘Why aren’t you doing these things?’”
The Institute’s peer-reviewed videos are being viewed by people in dozens of coun-tries, said communications officer Robyn Meyer. A component titled Climate Science Basics, also available on the Institute’s web-site, has been translated into Finnish, Ger-man and even Chinese.
“The value of it is there has been misin-formation out there about climate change and this is an opportunity for people to inform themselves in a way that is under-standable,” she said.
A good primer for newcomers to the issue, she said, is a piece called Clear the Air, which refutes common misconceptions and myths about climate change.
To check out the video course, visit pics.uvic.ca/ and click on Climate Insights 101 under Education.
Climate change made simple
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Thomas Pedersen, executive director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria, practises what he preaches, as he plugs in his Nissan Leaf outside his office.
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