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Instead of continuing to patch up North Saanich’s patchwork municipal building, the District will explore the cost of replac-ing most of it.

Senior building inspector John Post says

water leaks into the building and behind the stucco have rotted portions of the structure. Doors, window sills and flooring have been replaced in recent years, while supporting beams have been installed in places like exterior staircases to ensure safety.

It’s this piecemeal approach to maintain-

ing what is clearly a building in need of repairs or replacement that the District hopes to end, says Mayor Alice Finall.

“We’ve known for quite a while that this is an issue,” she said.

Steven Heywood/News staff

North Saanich senior building inspector John Post shows a section of the north wall of the municipal building where water and mould have contributed to the rotting of structural wood.

Rot, mould at North Saanich hallDistrict hires project manager to provide firm estimate of replacement cost

PleaSe See: Cost estimate expected soon, page 4


A symbol of Sidney’s fight to become a municipality in the early 1900s has been rediscovered and soon it will be available for all to see.

But it’s not as though this piece of Sid-ney’s history was lost altogether.

Brad Morrison of the Sidney Archives heard about a map dating from 1913, hang-ing in the Town’s public works building. He found it there, a tall frame with glass encas-ing the map — hanging on a wall behind a working wood lathe in the carpenters’ shop.

Morrison said he immediately knew it was the real thing and it needed to get a bigger audience.


Dan Loveridge, left, and Joe Iverson point to the 1913 map of Sidney that has been hanging in the Public Works shop for years.

1913 map to go on displayOld map most likely a one-of-a-kind says Brad Morrison of the Sidney Archives

PleaSe See: Sidney map is a one-of-a-kind page 13

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Sidney is going to be one of only three Cana-dian municipalities to see the expansion of a national environmental education program.

Naturehood, estab-lished by Nature Can-ada in Ottawa and Que-bec as a pilot program in 2012, is branching out and this year will spring up in Montreal, Regina and Sidney. Nature Canada is part-nering with the Friends of SHOAL Harbour (FOSH) to bring the program to the Saanich Peninsula.

Alex MacDonald, senior conservation manager for Nature Canada, says Nature-hood was designed to reach urban Canadians and expose them to the nature all around them.

“In the Ontario con-text, you don’t need to go too far from a major city to get to places like Algonquin Park, or just to find a bit of nature,” he said. “We encour-age people to try to find nature all around them.”

A majority of Canadi-ans, 81 per cent, live in urban areas, MacDon-ald continued.

“Yet even if it’s a nearby treed boule-vard, nature still exists.”

The Naturehood pro-gram has four main themes, he said: educa-tion, protection, moni-toring and celebration.

Education plays a large role, with pro-grams in schools designed to get chil-dren out into nature. Protection can involve stewardship activi-ties and even activism to reduce local use of pesticides. Monitoring, MacDonald said, looks to citizen-led science and can be as easy as seasonal bird counts.

Celebration, he con-tinued, also is a big part of Naturehood.

Nature Canada will work with FOSH to expand their All Buffle-heads Day events in the fall. That’s a celebration of the return to the area of what has been called the most punctual sea duck in the world.

“That’s a great natu-ral phenomenon,” said MacDonald.

Bob Peart, a member of FOSH and a Nature Canada board member, was instrumental in get-ting Naturehood to the

Saanich Peninsula.Peart said Nature

Canada, in partnership with Mountain Equip-ment Co-Op, will pro-vide the local group with $5,000. He said they plan to use the money to hire some-one part-time to help build up FOSH’s profile, increase its budget and expand All Buffleheads Day in October.

MacDonald added the event, scheduled for Oct. 15, will grow and will engage more youth in education about the migration habits of the Bufflehead and other birds in the sanctuary.

“It’s all about inspir-ing that next genera-tion about nature,” said MacDonald.

“We are pretty excited,” Peart said. “The Naturehood pro-gram is really designed to re-engage people with nature.”

FOSH has been work-ing to increase the pro-file of the SHOAL Har-bour migratory bird sanctuary.

“The area is part of a bigger migratory picture,” Peart said, “including Victoria’s Inner Harbour and the Esquimalt Lagoon.

“We need to draw more attention to them to help manage them in a more thoughtful way.”

Peart said FOSH was told Naturehood was coming to Sidney a month ago. They were also informed that Nature Canada’s board will be coming to town in September for the annual general meet-ing and to show its sup-

port for Naturehood’s growth and their par-ticipation in All Buffle-heads Day.

Find out more about Nature Canada’s Naturehood program at naturecanada.ca.

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Tip of the Peninsula

Greens open re-election officeSIDNEY — Elizabeth May and the Saan-

ich Gulf Islands Greens have opened a local office to support May’s re-election campaign.

The Re-Elect Elizabeth May Campaign Office is located at 355 James White Blvd.

The federal election takes place on Oct. 19, 2015. —News staff

Star support recognizedSIDNEY — Peninsula Streams Society

members recently recognized Sandy Oliver of Sidney’s Star Cinema for her continued sup-port of the organization.

On Feb. 4, Peninsula Streams’ chairman Newton Hockey presented Oliver with a plaque, expressing their appreciation. The Star, the society noted, has been running public service slides helping promote their activities since 2012.

Peninsula Streams holds its annual general meeting Feb. 14. For details, visit peninsula-streams.ca. —News staff

100K in 100 DaysVICTORIA — Habitat for Humanity Victoria

is reaching out to women, inviting them to be one of 100 to donate $1,000 each to help build a home for a hardworking single mom.

Habitat Victoria has launched their 100K in 100 Days campaign and hope to reach their goal of $100,000

by May 14. The money will be able to pay for the building of a home for the Greater Victo-ria-area family.

Find out more by calling Nancy Taylor, vol-unteer and community outreach co-ordinator at 250-480-7688, ext. 105. Or visit habitatvic-toria.com/100 for more details.

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“We received some of the details in assess-ment reports last year but council at the time felt it was more appro-priate for the new coun-cil to address it.”

Those reports are available on the Dis-trict’s website and at municipal hall.

On Feb. 2, the new council voted to have municipal staff hire a project manager. They will, said Finall, prepare plans to replace the older portions of the structure and pin down what it will cost.

Finall added the Dis-trict had the building assessed, with recom-mended repairs needed. That cost, said Chief Administrative Officer Rob Buchan, was $1.3 million.

“There was money in the budget at the time for those repairs,” he said. “But council wanted to get a bigger picture for a long-term fix.”

Repairs, he noted, would only be that — repairs — with many of the same problems com-ing back again.

“I’ve been pressing (the District) to fix it,” said Post. We can’t leave this, it’ll become a struc-tural issue.”

Portions of the stucco and wood were removed during the build-ing assessment. Post showed areas where the wood has rotted, cracks have formed in both stucco and brick, and much of the north

side of the building is covered in mould. Post added air testing within the building has shown the mould has not become an issue, but again, he said it’s only a matter of time.

The building’s ability the withstand a signifi-cant earthquake is also in question.

The original portion of the municipal office was built in 1973, said Buchan. The current council chambers, or centre portion of the structure, was added in 1989. A public works annex was built in the 1990s and it was con-nected to the rest of the building in 2006. Repairs, he added, would only bring the older part up to 1970s standards — not adequate protection against earthquakes.

The annex and 2006-era construction will remain in place under a proposed replacement plan, said Buchan. The remainder of the build-ing would be removed and replaced with a

more functional, wel-coming and safe munic-ipal hall. He said the early proposal is to build a new wing prior to demolishing the current lobby, council chamber and east wing.

Finall said there’s been no final decision to pro-ceed with replacement — the project manager’s cost estimate and full plan must be presented to council and the com-munity first. She added council has asked that any replacement cost be based on what the District can currently afford.

“The District of North Saanich has enough in its reserves,” she said, “so we won’t have to increase taxes or bor-row.”

That is the hope, at least. Finall said she wants the cost estimate to come in sooner than later, so the municipality can make a decision.

“Our senior building inspector was clear. We need to move ahead and not ignore this.”

Continued from page 1 Council could be displacedIn the event of the replacement of North

Saanich’s municipal council chambers and entire east wing of the District building, the politicians would have to find new digs.

Mayor Alice Finall said the possibility of having no place to hold regular council meeting has been raised. Options, she said, include renting other space, or turning to their neighbouring municipal governments and their council chambers.

Finall said they could reach an agreement to hold meetings on different nights during the construction period.

Relocation plans, Finall added, would be discussed more once a decision is made to proceed with a replacement project.

Cost estimate expected soon

Angela CowanNews Staff

The Victoria Airport Author-ity Board of Directors has announced the election of a new board chair and the appointment of new members.

Mel Rinald was elected to replace Lindalee Brougham as board chair, effective Jan. 1, 2015. Rinald has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Colum-bia and worked in Canadian industry for 30 years before his retirement.

Since moving to Sidney in 1999, Rinald has served on the Economic Development Com-mittee, three terms on the Advisory Planning Commis-sion and was chair of the Steer-ing Committee for the Town’s downtown and waterfront.

New board member Rod Dewar is nominated by the Greater Victoria Chamber

of Commerce. Dewar is past president and chief executive officer of Island Savings Credit Union, past vice-president and chief operating officer for the BC Automobile Associa-tion and past vice-president of the North American Airports for Canadian Airlines Interna-tional.

Former Mayor of Saanich Frank Leonard is appointed by the Government of Canada. Leonard is also the past direc-tor of the BC Chamber of Com-merce, past president of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce and a former board member on a number of local tourism and economic devel-opment groups.

Former Sidney council-lor Marilyn Loveless is also appointed by the Government of Canada. Loveless is past alternate director and member of the Arts and Housing Com-mittee at the Capital Regional

District, past chair of the Dis-trict 63 School Board, and has been inducted into the Victoria Sports Hall of Fame.

Sharlene Smith is nominated by the District of Saanich. Smith is the owner and oper-ator of CommPlan Canada, a local communication man-agement consulting firm, and is currently past chair of the Broadmead Care Society and the vice-chair of Lymphoma Canada.

“As chair, I am delighted to have such accomplished mem-bers of the community willing to serve on our board,” said Rinald in a statement.

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“We received some of the details in assess-ment reports last year but council at the time felt it was more appro-priate for the new coun-cil to address it.”

Those reports are available on the Dis-trict’s website and at municipal hall.

On Feb. 2, the new council voted to have municipal staff hire a project manager. They will, said Finall, prepare plans to replace the older portions of the structure and pin down what it will cost.

Finall added the Dis-trict had the building assessed, with recom-mended repairs needed. That cost, said Chief Administrative Officer Rob Buchan, was $1.3 million.

“There was money in the budget at the time for those repairs,” he said. “But council wanted to get a bigger picture for a long-term fix.”

Repairs, he noted, would only be that — repairs — with many of the same problems com-ing back again.

“I’ve been pressing (the District) to fix it,” said Post. We can’t leave this, it’ll become a struc-tural issue.”

Portions of the stucco and wood were removed during the build-ing assessment. Post showed areas where the wood has rotted, cracks have formed in both stucco and brick, and much of the north

side of the building is covered in mould. Post added air testing within the building has shown the mould has not become an issue, but again, he said it’s only a matter of time.

The building’s ability the withstand a signifi-cant earthquake is also in question.

The original portion of the municipal office was built in 1973, said Buchan. The current council chambers, or centre portion of the structure, was added in 1989. A public works annex was built in the 1990s and it was con-nected to the rest of the building in 2006. Repairs, he added, would only bring the older part up to 1970s standards — not adequate protection against earthquakes.

The annex and 2006-era construction will remain in place under a proposed replacement plan, said Buchan. The remainder of the build-ing would be removed and replaced with a

more functional, wel-coming and safe munic-ipal hall. He said the early proposal is to build a new wing prior to demolishing the current lobby, council chamber and east wing.

Finall said there’s been no final decision to pro-ceed with replacement — the project manager’s cost estimate and full plan must be presented to council and the com-munity first. She added council has asked that any replacement cost be based on what the District can currently afford.

“The District of North Saanich has enough in its reserves,” she said, “so we won’t have to increase taxes or bor-row.”

That is the hope, at least. Finall said she wants the cost estimate to come in sooner than later, so the municipality can make a decision.

“Our senior building inspector was clear. We need to move ahead and not ignore this.”

Continued from page 1 Council could be displacedIn the event of the replacement of North

Saanich’s municipal council chambers and entire east wing of the District building, the politicians would have to find new digs.

Mayor Alice Finall said the possibility of having no place to hold regular council meeting has been raised. Options, she said, include renting other space, or turning to their neighbouring municipal governments and their council chambers.

Finall said they could reach an agreement to hold meetings on different nights during the construction period.

Relocation plans, Finall added, would be discussed more once a decision is made to proceed with a replacement project.

Cost estimate expected soon


The Victoria Airport Author-ity Board of Directors has announced the election of a new board chair and the appointment of new members.

Mel Rinald was elected to replace Lindalee Brougham as board chair, effective Jan. 1, 2015. Rinald has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Colum-bia and worked in Canadian industry for 30 years before his retirement.

Since moving to Sidney in 1999, Rinald has served on the Economic Development Com-mittee, three terms on the Advisory Planning Commis-sion and was chair of the Steer-ing Committee for the Town’s downtown and waterfront.

New board member Rod Dewar is nominated by the Greater Victoria Chamber

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Former Mayor of Saanich Frank Leonard is appointed by the Government of Canada. Leonard is also the past direc-tor of the BC Chamber of Com-merce, past president of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce and a former board member on a number of local tourism and economic devel-opment groups.

Former Sidney council-lor Marilyn Loveless is also appointed by the Government of Canada. Loveless is past alternate director and member of the Arts and Housing Com-mittee at the Capital Regional

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Sharlene Smith is nominated by the District of Saanich. Smith is the owner and oper-ator of CommPlan Canada, a local communication man-agement consulting firm, and is currently past chair of the Broadmead Care Society and the vice-chair of Lymphoma Canada.

“As chair, I am delighted to have such accomplished mem-bers of the community willing to serve on our board,” said Rinald in a statement.

The Victoria International Airport is the 10th busiest air-port in Canada with over 1.64 million passengers per year.

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There’s a constant among most — if not all — the companies on the Saanich Peninsula chamber of Commerce Tour of Industry.

Not only are each of the businesses suc-cessful in their own right, but each of them have had to innovate to some degree in order to thrive.

Such is the case for Central Saanich com-pany J.S. Foster Corpo-ration.

Started by Joseph Foster in 1970, the business was a small machine shop with a few employees and “a modest assortment of manual machines and tools.” His son Jack, who still runs the business, grew up in the shop and embraced new technol-ogy as it came along. In the 1980s, his shop became known as one of the first to provide computer controlled machining.

Daniel Arnold, opera-tions manager, led the tour, explaining por-tions of the machining process and introduc-ing tour participants to their specialty prod-ucts — developed out of the need to survive.

In 1992, the com-pany branched out into sporting goods with Islander Reels, a big name in west coast fly and saltwater fishing.

In 2002, JSF Tech-nologies was created and it’s tasked with developing and build-ing solar-powered traf-fic safety signals and lights. Over the last few years, Arnold said, JSF Technologies has found markets around the world — the U.S., Africa, Dubai — and has made between 300 and 400 installations of their products through-out Greater Victoria.

“We’re doing it here,

no where else,” said Jack Foster. “It’s our technology and it’s nice to be able to do some-thing for ourselves.”

The machining, painting, mounting and

assembly is all done at their Keating X Road site.

Most of their devices are sold and shipped to the U.S., Arnold added. Canada remains a grow-

ing market for them — where for some rea-son he said, they have to go out of their way to prove solar really works. It’s starting to catch on, he continued,

noting Brentwood Bay even has a few of their signals up and running.

Weather-resistant and resilient in the face of extreme hot and cold temperatures, the warning devices built by JSF Technologies work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No trenches are required to install them and they are monitored by radio.

All it takes to program them, Arnold said, is a USB connection.

Adopting new tech-nology has been key to diversifying their prod-uct lines and workforce. Even their base busi-ness — the machining — has been affected by advancements in tech-nology.

The work, Arnold explained, requires a lot of raw materials. Instead of losing some of it in the machining process, he said they can recycle a lot of it.

“Because metal and materials can be recov-ered, it can be repro-cessed into raw bars again,” he said. “Today, there’s very limited waste.”

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Operations Manager Daniel Arnold of J.S. Foster Corporation shows Tour of Industry participants some of the metal they work with to create Islander Reels and other products.

Tour of Industry: Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

Being early adopters of tech helped JSF grow


Client relations manager Jonathan Weatherbe, centre, points out some of the internal workings of JSF Technologies’ solar traffic safety lighting systems.

The Tour continuesin the Feb. 13 PNR:

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Premier Christy Clark’s push to re-engineer the B.C. education system is moving ahead in B.C.’s 25 post-secondary institutions.

One of the first tasks for Andrew Wilkinson in his new role as advanced education minister was to outline the shift in operating grants for colleges and universities to in-demand occupations. By 2017, a quarter of the money for post-secondary institutions will be directed to areas where labour force surveys forecast a need.

This was greeted with some alarm when it was announced last year. Simon Fraser University president Andrew Petter at first downplayed the coming skills shortage as “relatively small” and warned against pushing post-secondary institutions into a “zero sum battle for dollars.”

Petter has since come on board. He and others have been assured that in spite of Clark’s rhetoric suggesting trades training is in and university is out, the news for SFU and other universities isn’t all that bleak.

Wilkinson is completing a province-wide tour of all post-secondary institutions this week, and I reached him at his visit to Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.

“The response to this has generally been pretty good,

because the students are putting this pressure on institutions themselves,” he said. “Some of the institutions are … shrinking things like teacher education and putting more effort into the science-based, quantitative fields that are often related to these in-demand occupations.”

The surplus of teacher graduates has been noticeable, but that’s largely a function of oversupply, much of it in urban areas. In the Cariboo, for example, teaching jobs are projected to have the highest number of openings by 2022, followed by nursing and retail and wholesale trade managers. Then come heavy duty mechanics and electricians, but also paraprofessional jobs in legal, social, community

and educational services.Province-wide, it’s part of a

broader demographic shift to fewer children and more retirees. In fact the government started this targeted funding a decade ago with health care, forcing universities to produce more doctors, nurses, lab techs and so forth.

The retiring baby boom is expected to account for more than half of the openings in the next decade, which will expand the skills demand across most fields, beyond the trades training for the anticipated liquefied natural gas industry and other high-demand

industrial areas such as truck driving.

Wilkinson notes that of the ministry’s $1.9 billion budget, about 60 per cent goes into general post-secondary education, for introductory courses that students take when they are seeking a career path, through undergraduate studies to professions.

“So I think the idea that we’re going to somehow minimize or diminish funding in that general education, arts and science category is just not true,” he said.

Key to this shift is measuring the performance of courses offered at colleges, universities and technical schools. Each year, the ministry surveys about 30,000 graduates to find out whether their studies helped them find a related job.

The results are available on a website that breaks them out by institution and general study area. To find it, do a web search for “BC student outcomes” and select the “executive dashboard” to check the results for courses and schools in your region.

The site provides charts showing the percentage of students who land relevant jobs. Not surprisingly, it tends to be higher for technical programs and lower for fine arts.

It also shows grads’ average wages, a sobering but useful bit of information for high school students and their parents.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. [email protected]

Post-secondary re-engineering begins

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B.C.’s pot attitude rolls onT

he attitude towards marijuana in this province is in sharp contrast with the approach in other parts of Canada.

Proof of that comes in details from a court document, filed as part of an application to seize a property near the Aldergrove border crossing which was the subject of a massive search last week.

Although the large property just drew public attention last week, the documents

suggest it has been used for marijuana production since 1993. That’s a 22-year period.

It is important to keep in mind that, in 1993, growing and selling marijuana for

any purposes was illegal in Canada. While there were advocates for medicinal marijuana, which has since been allowed, growing, selling and using the product could lead to criminal charges. Yet as the documents suggest, there was plenty of marijuana being grown in Langley (and other parts of B.C.) at that time. Some was for local consumption, and some was truly for medicinal purposes.

However, the vast majority was grown for shipment to the U.S. and other countries, often in return for other drugs or guns.

B.C. residents have had a more laissez-faire attitude towards marijuana since the late 1960s.

It seems likely that, if the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado turns out to be successful, marijuana will be legalized throughout North America some day.

If that does happen, B.C. marijuana activists, and the laissez-faire attitude that so many B.C. residents have, will have played a major role.

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Amazed with noise complaints

Having lived within earshot of the air-port for over three decades, I’m well aware of the ambient and acoustical qual-ity of our environment and quality of life. As a transportation hub, we can expect to tolerate a certain level of noise. But we can also be assured that there are noise complaint boards, policies, procedures and laws to protect citizens from deleteri-ous levels.

For example, over a decade ago, after receiving numerous complaints about the noise caused by private acrobatic aircraft, the VAA acted to ban the exercise. After that the complaints declined and the pub-lic was satisfied with normal commercial and private operations.

Over two decades ago, I participated in the required DND Environmental Assess-ment of helicopter flight operations from the Esquimalt base to the Sidney airport. These operations did not specify that on-the-ground hovering exercises were part of the plans.

SeaKing helicopters are one of the noisi-est military helicopters and their replace-ments are even noisier. Not only are they loud, up to 121 decibels, but deeply pene-trating at an array of frequencies known to exacerbate stress and hypertension. This is why their hovering routines and training are generally carried out away from the public on designated military bases.

Because of the especially dense quality of the air, and the propagation of different frequencies across open spaces and water, the sphere of influence is much larger here, so that, as your letter writer from Summergate Village noted, “ we often have to yell to be heard” over the barbecue.

So just suck it up, she admonishes those who disagree, and be just damn happy that the military will be here to rescue us from terrorists and tsunamis.

Ultimately, the problem arises with our government and the serious damage that it has done to democracy and environ-mental regulation. In attempting to re-elect our last MP, we were not only given the

Gary-Go-Round, but the 443 military base was shifted from Esquimalt, the environ-mental review was waived, and the public was not informed about the significant health, environmental and economic impacts of these saber-rattling, military maneuvers.

J. K. FinleySidney

Safe driving cannot be assured

Lisa Domshy confuses two aspects of driving, in saying that driving is a privilege not a right, in your Jan. 28, 2015 issue.

She is fortunate she doesn’t live in the USSR where people had to get government permission to move, nor in an Islamic totalitarian country where females are very restricted.

The question is how to evaluate risk to others from the individual driver’s perfor-mance. That’s the purpose of a license. But the system does not evaluate psychol-ogy, thus can’t ensure safe driving. That’s why police are supposed to be on the street to re-educate those who put others at risk. Does Domshy vote for more polic-ing?

And the system supposedly rescinds a driver’s license for repeated bad behav-iour, but it seems that doesn’t happen until someone who has been caught driv-ing dangerously dozens of times kills someone.

Domshy certainly is correct that one can be a bad driver at any age.

Yet there are medical conditions affect-ing young people, such as anorexia ner-vosa which the Canadian Medical Asso-ciation considers unsafe to drive with. In contrast, the CMA considers that angina does not disqualify a driver of an enclosed vehicle that keeps the driver warm (whereas a motorcycle does not so risk is much higher).

Whether or not the average doctor is familiar with the guidelines is a question.

Keith SketchleySaanich

Tom Fletcher’s wolf kill justifi-cation facts are

selective (PNR, Feb. 4). I’ve read govern-

ment documents like, Implementation Plan for Ongoing Manage-ment of Boreal Caribou (Rangifer tarandus cari-bou pop. 14) in British Columbia as well as the Boreal Caribou Science Update MoE 13 October 2010 and the scientists explain very clearly that the Caribou popu-lation decline is due to “anthropogenic dis-turbances” explicitly described as “destruc-tion, degradation and/or impairment of bio-diversity and natural processes” caused by humans, mostly indus-try and not wolves.

The scientists clarify, “Decreasing the expected rate of decline in the Boreal Caribou population and significantly reduc-ing the probability of extirpation may be achieved by protect-ing Caribou and their habitat from industrial activities, and manag-ing the size and/or mitigating the effects of industrial footprint” and suggest such actions as “protecting habitat from industrial activities by changing practices associated with industrial activi-ties and standardizing operating and planning practices.”

They suggest reme-diation by, “restoring habitat disturbed by

past industrial activi-ties, and developing industry standard man-agement practises” and give examples includ-

ing, “industrial and mil-itary effluent pipeline leaks and flare stack leaks creating mineral licks introducing toxins

and mortality” as well as “air-borne pollutants and flare stack sour gas poisoning.”

They state, “Caribou have low productiv-ity rates, bearing one young per year” and “Caribou have many natural predators, besides wolves, includ-ing black bear, griz-zly bear, wolverines, lynx and even golden eagles, observed preying on neonatal caribou calves in the spring.”

Other cumulative threats besides wolves and energy production include, “residential and commercial devel-opment, agriculture, mining, transportation and service corridors, hunting and logging,

natural system modifi-cations including dams and water manage-ment /use, invasive and other problematic species such as deer migrating into cari-bou habitat carrying disease and parasites, pollution and climate change causing habitat shifting and food alter-ation and temperature extremes.”

To blame the wolves and create this witch

hunt, as a helicopter pilot of 20 years in the South Peace region explained it to me, is unjustifiable. This, coming from a man who admits enjoying hunting and killing wolves, who sees the truth regarding what’s happening with the caribou with his own eyes.

Stacey GaigaPort Alberni

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see my brother Herb recently but there is nothing quite as pleas-

ant as sleeping in your own warm bed.

Once again I was reminded that we are further into spring than they are in Cedar

(south of Nanaimo). There is nothing show-ing in his many big pots and certainly nothing in the open ground. Years ago, when my

family lived in Qua-licum Beach, my gar-dening mother used to bemoan the fact that spring growth in the area surrounding Victoria was ten days — at least — ahead of the same vegetation in Qualicum Beach.

She seems to have been right as there are several yellow crocus almost in bloom on the balcony and the tulip foliage is several inches high, whereas the tulips I planted in one of my brother’s flower beds two years ago haven’t even broken the sur-face of the soil.

This reminds me that I promised his Man Fri-day Anthony, a pack-age of Little Marvel shelling pea seeds for his small vegetable gar-den on the property. At the same time I’m get-ting one for myself and planting them tomor-row (or the next day. Soon, anyway).

The seeds have to go into one of my big five gallon pots and I’ll up-end a tomato cage and put it in as a sup-port after planting the seeds. If I wait until the peas sprout, I’ll never get the cage between the sprouting seeds

without squishing at least one hopeful pea.

I find this exciting ... the first seeds planted this spring! The start of something wonderful! Whoopie!

Buying the pea seed will be a test of my will-power. When standing in front of a seed rack I’m almost overcome with desire ... shall I plant carrots and maybe spinach and maybe Swiss chard as well, and what about some broad beans and some corn and ... and ...

Calm yourself, silly! It’s way too early for corn and you should have planted the broad bean seed last fall if you wanted an early crop. You could try a row of carrots and one of spinach, but don’t

plant the whole pack-age, save some for a little later, just in case. Maybe you could afford a package of sweet pea seed and plant them. They smell so lovely later, while you are on your knees, weed-ing the Shasta daisies. Now, please tell me how THEY got in here?

It’s not even the right season for Shasta dai-sies. They normally bloom considerably later than sweet peas. But I suppose if you planted your sweet peas in late June, they might flower together. This is only a guess as I have never tried it!

It’s another dull, grey day, much like the weather in Cedar while I was there.

Disappointing, when the sea is so blue when the sun shines. But the visit wasn’t to see the ocean, but to see Herb, who is suffering (not patiently) from an inability to speak clearly. I think this is called aphasia and it is terribly frustrating for the sufferer. I learned a couple of new swear words from him that I’m unlikely to forget as they were shouted out in a rage, poor man!

His head is full of spe-cialized medical knowl-edge that took years to acquire and now it is hidden in a tangled mess of unruly cells. What a loss of a good brain!

While there I wanted to mention that last year’s dead blooms on the hydrangeas should be removed down to the nearest growth bud, but the gardener would, I’m pretty sure, regard this as inter-ference, so I kept my mouth firmly shut.

A kind word to read-ers might be in order. It’s actually past the best time to prune grapevines but if you haven’t done it already take the secateurs and lop off all long vines waving in the wind, back to a swelling growth bud, about 18 inches from the main stalk.

Don’t worry that you might take off too much and the vine will die. These things are so hardy it would take a chain saw to discour-age them.

Helen Lang has been the Peninsula News Review’s

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North Saan-ich thriller author Martin Boden-

ham is doing for fund managers and private equity investors what John Grisham has done for lawyers.

Weaving his many years of experience in the financial industry into his writing, Boden-ham has published two fast-paced novels that delve into the criminal under-ground of finances, including run-ins with Mexi-can drug cartels and the Mafia, and he has clearly found his niche.

His debut novel, The Geneva Connection, is currently sitting at the top of Amazon’s financial thriller best sellers list, and Once A Killer, published in late 2014, is close behind at number two.

For those with a taste for thrill-ers, it’s easy to see why the titles have risen to the top.

Geneva opens with a gritty and unrelent-ing scene where the head of the Caruana cartel’s enforcement team tortures an unfortunate, unnamed man for information, and from there, read-

ers are thrust into the world of private equity investment at break-neck speed, juggling multi-million dollar deals, deception and criminal underpin-nings.

It’s a story Boden-ham had in mind for years, but it took wind-ing down his London-based private equity firm to actually get the time to put it down on paper.

“When you’re in the middle of a career, you

often don’t have time to do anything else but eat and sleep,” he says, laughing.

“I studied languages in school. I’m a bit of an

English ped-ant, if you like, and it was always something I wanted to turn my hand to.”

He says he wrote his debut novel “by the seat of his pants,” but

despite the inexperi-ence, found an agent and publisher almost immediately, partly,

he says, because of his familiarity with the industry.

“If I’m reading a book

that cuts across an industry, I don’t want to be bogged down with the turgid details,

but I want to know that the author is bas-ing it on some kind of authenticity,” he says.

“I do that with my financial background. I base a lot of it on actual facts, and actual deal making. There are dodgy investors out there who want to use legitimate financial institutions to launder their money.

“You normally know when you’re being approached by dodgy money, and you have to sort of politely say, no thank you, that’s not for us.

“But I started think-ing, what if someone unknowingly became embroiled in that kind of thing, and didn’t find out until it was too late?”

That ‘what if’ started him off on the road to a best seller, and encouraged him to keep writing.

Bodenham took the publishing process into his own hands with Once A Killer after his agent had a near-fatal brain hemorrhage in 2013. Not wanting to sit on the manuscript for another year or two while he searched for another agent, he self-published.

“For me, it was more a question of not want-

ing to sit on it, and I’d had quite a num-ber of readers asking when the next one was coming out,” he says. “That’s why I write, because that gives me the greatest kick, know-ing that you’ve enter-tained someone.”

Though the self-pub-lishing route proved successful, Bodenham says he’ll veer back onto the traditional path with his next book.

Bodenham’s third novel, tentatively titled The Apple Polishers, is a somewhat apropos narration of a corrupt American administra-tion about to topple over because it’s being brought down by a massive debt burden.

The Apple Polishersis slated for publica-tion hopefully later this year, he says, depend-ing on his current negotiations with two agents.

In the meantime, Bodenham is hard at work writing a fourth novel, and plans to keep turning them out as the ideas keep com-ing.

For more informa-tion, visit martinboden-ham.com.

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THE ARTSLocal author tops Amazon’s financial thrillersThe Geneva Connection and Once A Killer sitting in top two spots in financial thriller best sellers

Images contributedBodenham’s first two books are currently in the top two spots of Amazon’s financial thriller best sellers list.

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North Saanich author Martin Bodenham’s is hoping his third fast-paced financial thriller, tentatively titled The Apple Polishers, will be published later this year.

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Choir formed purely for the love of singingNo auditions or public performances for new North Saanich choirAngela CowanNews Staff

For those who love to sing, but get cold feet and sweaty palms at the thought of performing in front of a crowd, the Peninsula Acad-emy of Music Arts has the perfect solution.

Beginning this Thursday (Feb. 12), the Academy is starting up a choir for adults who want to sing,

without the pressure of audition-ing or public performances.

“Some people just want to get together and sing,” said Diana Eng-lish, who co-founded the Academy in 1987.

“I’ve had so many people ask me over the years if we were doing a choir where they didn’t have to worry about the pressure of get-ting ready for a performance.”

Taught by Lloyd English, the

choir will go through all the warmups and practice of a regular choir, including learning a varied repertoire of songs and how to sing two and three parts.

“Part of the fun of singing in a

group is learning how to sing in harmony,” said Diana.

Lloyd has over 30 years of expe-rience in the music world, and has directed the Salt Spring Sing-ers and Pender Island Singers for many years.

The choir has its first meeting this Thursday (Feb. 12) from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Peninsula Academy of Music Arts, 1662 Mills Road in North Saanich.

Singers are requested to call ahead if they plan on attending, and can sign up at any time on a month-to-month basis. The choir meets weekly, and membership is $45 per month.

For more, visit peninsulaacad-emy.ca or call 778-426-1800. [email protected]

SIDNEY — Join the Literary Kitchen Sink open mic tomorrow (Feb. 12) at the Sidney North Saa-nich Library to support local writers and poets, and hear featured poet and novelist Pamela Porter.

Porter has won more than a dozen provincial, national and international awards for her writing, including four collections of poetry, three nov-els and a picture book for children. Her verse novel, The Crazy Man, won the Governor Gener-al’s Award, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and the Red Cedar Award.

The open mic is an opportunity for writers to share their work with an appreciative audience. Writers of all genres and experience are invited to read their poetry, story excerpts, memoir or other written words, and will have up to five minutes to read.

Writers are asked to arrive a few minutes early to register; if the number of writers exceeds the number of reading slots, names will be drawn from a hat.

The Open Mic is sponsored by the Sidney North Saanich Library Writers Group, open to writers of all genres to share and discuss their writing in a supportive environment. Activities include guest speakers, networking opportunities and feedback and critiquing of written works. New members are always welcome.

For more information, contact the library at 250-656-0944.

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Award-winning poet and novelist Pamela Porter will be speaking at the upcoming Literary Kitchen Sink Open Mic tomorrow (Feb. 12).

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VICTORIA — B.C. will likely be the only province in Canada to report a balanced bud-get for the current year and project surpluses for the next three years, Finance Minister Mike de Jong says.

In a briefing for reporters on what to expect when the annual budget is presented Feb. 17, de Jong said the surplus for the cur-rent year will be larger than the $444 million forecast in November.

Corporate and per-sonal income tax has been stronger than expected, but there is no certainty that will continue into the new

fiscal year that begins April 1.

The second straight surplus after billions in deficits the previous four years will be used to pay down debt, but there is some room for helping poorer people, de Jong said. He hinted that this may include a change to the long-standing practice of deducting spousal child support payments from social assistance and disability payments to single parents.

“There are some areas where we believe there have been pres-sures on the program-ming side,” de Jong said.

“We have a little more ability to deal with them and relieve

some of that pressure, to assist people in greatest need.”

NDP House leader Mike Farnworth said he is hopeful the child support clawback pol-icy will be changed after more than a year of protest by the oppo-sition. And he said the government isn’t telling the whole story about balancing the budget using “tax increases by another name.”

“You’re going to see higher Medical Ser-vices Plan premiums, higher ICBC rates, we’re already seeing higher fees for camp-ing,” Farnworth said.

The next budget will also provide tax relief for the wealthiest B.C. residents, as a two-year

increase on incomes more than $150,000 a year comes to an end. De Jong imposed the 2.1 per cent hike in his pre-election budget in 2013, after then-NDP leader Adrian Dix prom-ised a similar move to help balance the books.

The recent plunge in oil prices has had a major impact on rev-enues to Alberta, Sas-katchewan and New-foundland, but B.C. has largely escaped that due to continued gas production but little oil from B.C. petroleum fields.

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So, he has arranged with the Town to have the map removed from the works yard and have it put on display at the Sidney Museum on Bea-con Avenue.

“It’s the map that the Town produced for the first time it asked to be incorporated as a municipality,” Morrison said.

In an excerpt from the Town of Sidney’s Town Talk newslet-ter, Morrison penned a brief outline of what happened in 1913 when the Sidney Board of Trade petitioned the prov-ince to become a village.

The Premier, citing the trou-ble of other smaller B.C. com-munities to take on the finan-cial responsibilities of being a municipality, rejected Sidney’s bid. It was, after all, only the year before that the Board of Trade — and the Sidney and Islands Review newspaper — was formed. It took nearly another 40 years until Sidney was declared a village in 1952. It was incorporated as the Town of Sidney in 1967.

The 1913 map shows the Board of Trade was hope-ful that year — it says it’s a “map of Sidney, incorporated in 1913.”

Dan Loveridge and Jim Iver-son, carpenters for the Town,

found the map in their building six or seven years ago. No one seems quite sure when it was placed there, most estimating that it probably arrived there 20 years ago. Prior to that, it was stored in the basement of town hall. Morrison noted it may have been on display at some point after it was cre-ated.

Loveridge and Iverson said they enjoyed having it up on the wall.

It shows early residential areas, three rail lines and a rail terminal wharf on the water-front. It’s also missing a few things that would come later — the Pat Bay Aerodrome (now Victoria International Airport) in 1938/’39 and the

Pat Bay Highway that essen-tially cut the community in half.

The fact the map has printed on it: “Sidney, incorporated in 1913” makes the map a bit of a novelty, Morrison said — at the very least a one-of-a-kind.

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A corner of the 1913 map of Sidney hanging in the Town’s public works building. There’s an effort afoot to have it put on display at the Sidney Museum.

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VICTORIA — There’s a good chance you or someone you know has or will have a run-in with a scammer this year.

The Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island works to help consumers avoid scams of all kinds from the door-to-door handyman to telemarketing scams.

On Wednesday, the BBB released its annual Top 10 Scams list.

“There not much of anything new – just a varia-tion of what we’ve seen before, but they’re all scams,” said BBB chief executive officer Rosalind Scott.

The Bureau logs every scam that it receives throughout the year by phone, email and website.

For the full list and what to watch for, visit bbb.org/vancouver-island. — Black Press

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Many things spring to mind when talking about a healthy life-style: lots of greens, reg-ular exercise, getting a

good night’s sleep. But there are many other subtle aspects, like having a strong social support network, mak-ing time for creative pursuits and getting enough healthy touch.

Imperative for devel-opment in children, having that physical contact with others is something that adults need too, says Devon Jones, a registered massage therapist and owner of Touch of Well-ness clinic in Brent-wood Bay.

“Missing that healthy touch is a really sad thing. Babies who don’t get enough touch can actually be diagnosed with failure to thrive, and it impacts adults too,” she says.

Jones has a unique perspective on the importance of touch; massage and bodywork were an integral part of her therapy when she was diagnosed with leukemia in late 2012, and she says that con-tact can be incredibly healing for those going through health crises.

“From before I got sick and even more so now, a lot of people gravitate toward me who have dealt with cancer,” says Jones. “I think a lot of the time, their family and friends are afraid to touch them, they’re afraid of hurting them.”

Receiving massage and healthy touch, whether it’s just a sim-ple laying on of hands, or deep tissue work, is a huge part of the recovery process, she says.

And it’s just as ben-eficial for those who aren’t dealing with a serious diagnosis, par-ticularly since nowa-days so many people work seated at a desk, often in front of a screen.

“We’re putting our-selves in a compro-mised position for hours on end. Massage

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On a more general scale, massage can benefit just about every system in the body.

“It can decrease inflammation and pain, improve mobil-ity, improve circulation, relieve anxiety, improve digestion and over-

all maintain a healthy body. More than any-thing, prevention is important.”

It’s important to find a practitioner you feel comfortable with, she adds. Practitioners all have different person-alities and approaches to treatment, with dif-ferent results.

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Notice of Budget MeetingsPlease note that the Town of Sidney will be holding meetings over the next several weeks to consider the Town’s 2015-2019 Financial Plan as follows:

• Monday, February 16th – Special Committee of the Whole Meeting

• Tuesday, February 24th – Special Council Meeting – Final Budget Deliberations (continued on 25th if required).

Both of the above meetings will take place at the Town of Sidney Council Chambers, beginning at 6:00 p.m. All persons wishing to comment on the Five Year Financial Plan may do so at the above meetings, at any regular Council meeting prior to February 23rd, or through written submission.

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Pictures worth a thousand wordsSteven Heywood/News staff

Sidney Volunteer Firefighters Association members Aaron Kary, Craig Pelton and Jeff Tomlin present tokens of appreciation to Harry Nunn, Brad Morrison and Gail Peterson for the trio’s hard work in creating a book celebrating the department’s 100th anniversary in 2014. The book was completed in time for last summer’s centennial events in downtown Sidney.


Beacon Community Service’s fourth annual Youth Job Fair gives local teens the chance to meet with prospec-tive employers, find out what they’re looking for and maybe even get hired on the spot.

This year’s fair has 20 businesses and organi-zations coming to the SHOAL Centre to help guide youth through the world of business and employment.

“Our target market is students in School District 63 who are in high school, from 14 to 18, but everyone in that age group is welcome to come,” says Sara Lawton, youth employ-ment program co-ordi-nator for Beacon Com-munity Services.

Potential employ-ment aside, the event is also about educating youth, she adds. It’s a way for teens to get the inside track on what different businesses are looking for.

Coast Capital Insur-ance, for example, will talk about what kind of qualifications they look for in future employ-ees, as will B.C. Ferries, who may also be doing some seasonal hiring at the fair.

And for those who

may not have any work experience, several organizations will be on hand recruiting volun-teers.

“For the younger stu-dents who still might need some experience, they might be able to

get in as a volunteer,” said Lawton.

The Royal BC Museum and Volunteer Victoria, for example, are always looking for new volunteers and the pro bono experience can help round out a

spartan resumé. The key, says Law-

ton, is to treat the entire fair as an interview.

“The idea is to come prepared with your resumé,” she says. “Come dressed to meet employers who are hir-ing, and put your best foot forward.”

Businesses attending include Panorama Rec-reation, McDonalds, Fairway Market, Sid-ney All Care, Save-on-Foods, Tanner’s Books and Peninsula Co-op.

Beacon Commu-nity Services is also hosting a free resumé writing and interview skills workshop this Friday (Feb. 13) at the SHOAL Centre from 2 to 4 p.m. Register at https://eventbrite.ca/event/15190878326.

The job fair runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. next Friday (Feb. 20) at the SHOAL Centre, 10030 Resthaven Drive in Sidney.

Youth aged 14 to 18 are invited and encour-aged to attend. The first 100 registrants receive a free gift bag.

To register, visit https://eventbrite.ca/event/15191092968.

For more informa-tion, contact Sara Law-ton at [email protected] or 250-656-5537.

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Beacon Community Services holds its fourth job fair for youth at the SHOAL Centre on Resthaven Drive in Sidney on Feb. 20.


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AT St. Stephen’s Church Hall, 7921 St. Stephen’s Road, Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. Dance to the music of Twelve O’Clock Rock. Free admission and desserts and beverages provided. Visit parishcs.ca for details.

ALL VOICES CAN Sing! All voices welcome. The Gettin’ Higher Choir welcomes new singers Feb. 16 and 23. Come and check us out. You audition us, we don’t audition you. For full details visit: gettinhigherchoir.ca/choir_life or call 250-920-4160

IF YOU LIKE to sing, join the Good Time Singers every Friday at 11 a.m. at Rest Haven Lodge at 2281 Mills Rd. in Sidney. Ask for Agnes. Please have your flu shot.

EventsST. VALENTINE’S

BRIDGE and Scrabble Luncheon at St. Paul’s United Church on Saturday, Feb. 14, noon to 3 p.m. A delicious luncheon, door prizes and top score prizes are offered. Tickets available at the Church Office 250-656-3213. 2410 Malaview Avenue at 5th. Wheelchair accessible.

SIDNEY HOOKERS ARE a group of traditional rug hookers. They meet the third Tuesday afternoon each month. New hookers welcome. Call 250-656-4201 for information.

FOLKDANCE IS FUN! Sidney International Folkdancers meet on Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. Andrews Church (9681 Fourth St.). No partner needed, no experience needed, all welcome. Wear comfortable shoes and bring water. See folkdanceisfun.ca for more or call Linda 250-652-5818 or Karen 250-655-0654.

GET AWAY WITH a Good Book kickoff at the Sidney North Saanich Library. Read books, write reviews, win prizes, have fun! Find out about Adult Reading Program

(now to February 28), get reading recommendations and enjoy refreshments. Register at 250-656-0944.

GOOD MORNING RHYMETIME at the Sidney North Saanich Library. Bring your littlest ones to the library for stories, songs, rhymes and fun. Thursdays to Mar. 5, 10:15 to 11 a.m. Ages 0-5 years. Free. Drop-in. For information, call 250-656-0944.

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Humpty Dumpty’s Glory: Playing with words in Wonderland at the Sidney North Saanich Library. Join UVic doctoral student Kylee-Anne Hingston for an amusing look at word play in Lewis Carroll’s Alice books. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 7 to 8 p.m. Free. Register at 250-656-0944.

HealthFALL PREVENTION

(OSTEOFIT) classes begin for the Spring session at SHOAL Activity Centre, Feb. 24 and run to April 2 (12 sessions) every Tuesday and Thursday, 10 to 11 a.m. These classes are designed for both men and women to help

prevent falls and strengthen bones and muscles in a safe and gentle manner. Call to register 250-656-5537.

REGISTERED YOGA CLASSES at SHOAL Activity Centre in Sidney now allow drop-ins Mondays from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursdays 9 to 10 a.m. Kathleen Fournier focuses classes for participants aged 40 and over.

MeetingsLITERARY KITCHEN

SINK Open Mic at the Sidney North Saanich Library. Writers are invited to read their poetry, story excerpts, memoir, or more for up to 5 minutes. Or join the audience and support local writers. Featured writer is Pamela Porter, award-winning poet and novelist. Thursday, Feb. 12, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. (writers should arrive a few minutes early). Free. For information call 250-656-0944.

PENINSULA STREAMS SOCIETY will hold its annual general meeting on Sat. Feb. 14 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Brentwood Bay Lodge, 849 Verdier Avenue with the Honourable Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for

Saanich-Gulf Islands as guest speaker. All welcome. For more details and to RSVP, contact Peninsula- [email protected].

NEW MEMBERS WELCOME — Senior Women’s Book Club meets once a month, second Monday, 1:30 p.m. for discussion. Call 250-656--5562.

SIDNEY SISTER CITIES association meets third Thursday of the month at the Sidney North Saanich Library (Nell Horth Room) at 7 p.m. Help us build our sister relationships with Anacortes; Cairns, Australia; and Niimi, Japan. For more information check our new website: sidneysistercitiesassociation.com.

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BRIDGE tournament, Saturday, Feb. 21 at St. Elizabeth’s Church, 10030 Third St., Sidney from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Hosted by CWL. Lunch served. Proceeds to Saanich Peninsula Hospital and Women’s Transition House. For tickets, call Olga Sweet, 778-426-1941.

VICTORIA CAT RESCUE Corps is holding their annual Spay/Neuter Blitz, starting Feb. 16. Victoria Cat Rescue will pay the full cost of the procedures for a limited time. For more, call 250-656-1100 or visit victoriacatrescue.com.

VolunteersSHOAL ACTIVITY

CENTRE is looking for a volunteer for two hours a week for our Computer Lab Drop-In to help seniors with iPad and tablet questions. If you are interested please contact Anna Hudson 250-656-5537 ext. 117 or [email protected].

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Grace's long and useful life ended, quite suddenly but peacefully, on Jan 7 at age 96, with family at her side. Our vibrant mother, aunt, grandmother and great-grandma truly triumphed over old age--happy, highly social and remarkably productive right to the end.

The eldest and last-surviving child of legendary Island naturalist and storyteller, Freeman "Skipper" King, Grace was born in Perdue, Sask. during the family's migration from England. Grace and sisters Gwen and Kay were raised in Sidney, where she was a keen dancer, champion tennis player, nature lover, and onetime staffer at the Sidney Review. In 1939 she met and then married RCAF-man Bob Prittie of Burnaby at a dance. After the war, Grace put Bob through UBC working jobs from cleaning lady to hostess in West Vancouver's fi rst French restaurant. (Later her family would enjoy a culinary standard rare for the 60s.)

Tragedy struck in 1949 when fi rst child, King, died of polio. It would be several years before she overcame her grief to begin a new batch of kids. The 50s and 60s found Grace in Burnaby raising three more children, teaching preschool, advocating for Downs Syndrome kids, all while managing husband Bob's political campaigns. Moving to Ottawa in 1963, she slipped easily into life as an MP's wife. A return to Burnaby in 1968 led to her next role, wife of Burnaby's new Mayor Prittie, including a highly successful diplomatic adventure to Kushiro, Burnaby's sister city in Japan.

After a divorce, Grace met widower Svend Mariager (at a dance!) and a new seafaring life began. They fi shed for prawns in the 70s in Howe Sound aboard Svend's "Vita" then moved to Piers Island where they fl ourished as paragons of island self suffi ciency and community service, and thanks to Grace's hospitality and Svend's homemade beer. With the move to Saltair in the 90s the ever-creative Grace jumped into new community pursuits, devoting many hours to both the Chemainus Museum and Hospital Thrift Shop.

When Svend died, Grace, 90, reinvented herself again, moving into the Peninsula Residence in Sidney, on the very site of a house where she had lived as a girl. Supported by family, she spent 6 happy years there, making many new friends--notably the Crafty Grannies, local legends for their tireless charity-focused quilting and knitting. Indeed Grace's fi nal community service was to present this year's large cheque just two weeks before she died.

Grace will be greatly missed by many. Survived by daughter Heather Prittie (David Hocking), sons Bruce Prittie (Susan) and Ian Prittie (Elaine Iodice), grandchildren Carla, Sarah, Laura, Simon, step-grands Dawn, Tanya, Morgan, Simon and Rob, and 9 great grandchildren--including new baby Ella Grace.

Grace King's life will be celebrated by family and friends in a gathering on Feb 21 at The Peninsula Residence, 2290 Henry St., Sidney, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

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On December 31, 2014, at Amity Drive and Aldous Terrace, North Saanich, B.C., Peace Officer(s) of the Sidney RCMP seized, at the time indicated, the subject property, described as: $570 CAD, on or about 15:01 Hours, and a Nokia cell phone, on or about 15:01 Hours. The subject property was seized because there was evidence that the subject property had been obtained by and/or used in the commission of an offence (or offences) under section 5(2) (Possession for purpose of trafficking) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act of Canada. Notice is hereby given that the subject property, CFO file Number: 2015-2606, is subject to forfeiture under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will be forfeited to the Government for disposal by the Director of Civil

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With a strong shot at making it through to pro-vincials this year, the Parkland Secondary Junior Girls basketball team is getting a head start on fundraising, beginning with a car wash on Valen-tine’s Day.

One of three teams battling it out in the Lower Island playoffs right now, the girls were on their way to a makeup game with Claremont Friday afternoon to determine first place in the standings.

“If we make it all the way through to provincials, we’ll need thousands of dollars,” said team manager Lynn Fanelli. “They’ve had a pretty stel-lar season. They’ve only lost one game in league play, and so we thought we’d better start fundraising.”

The team will be out in all their basketball gear washing cars and hoping to show the community how committed they are to their team, said player Miel Guerra Alva.

“We’ve had a really good season, and all of us are really determined and committed to this team,” she said. “I’m hoping we’ll get a lot of support.”

“What we’re trying to do is tackle every game,” added fellow player Lauren Fanelli. “We want to go far, but we’ve just got to play every game as it comes.”

It has been decades since Parkland had a junior girls team make it through to provincials, said Lynn, and it’s sure to be exciting.

The car wash runs Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m at Spelt’s Shell gas station, 7856 East Saanich Road in Saanichton, and is by donation. For more, con-tact [email protected].

Girls hoops team needs your supportJunior Girls basketball fundraising for hopeful run to the provincial finals


Parkland’s Miel Guerra Alva, No. 3, and Lauren Fanelli, No. 9, put pressure on other teams. A fundraiser or two hopes to lift the pressure from a team trying to get to provincials.

“We’ve had a really good season, and all of us are really determined and committed to this team.”

– Miel Guerra Alva

The season is winding down for the Peninsula Panthers Junior B hockey team.

The local squad has three

games remaining before the play-offs begin — and all three are at home at

Panorama Recreation Centre.The Panthers dropped

a 7-2 decision to the Victoria Cou-gars Feb. 4 and hosted the Westshore

Wolves Feb. 6.Peninsula welcomed Saa-

nich Feb. 9 and the team’s final regular season game is Friday, Feb. 13 — and that one is the annual Peninsula

Minor Hockey Appreciation Night.

Parkland hosts hoops finalsParkland Secondary School hosts the

2015 3A south Island boys basketball playoffs Feb. 26 to 28. The PSS boys team is currently ranked fifth among the Island’s 3A teams.

Baseball around the cornerSpring season registration for 2015 is

now under way for the Peninsula Base-ball and Softball Association. Registra-tion is open until Feb. 15.

For details, contact the registrar at [email protected] or visit pbsa.ca for more information.

In Central Saanich, registration for Little League goes Feb. 14 and 15 between 1 and 4 p.m. at the clubhouse at Centennial Park.

For details, visit [email protected]

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