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Mayor Larry Cross is enthusiastic about a part-nership with the Victoria Airport Authority to create a gateway to Sidney and the south Island.

The Town of Sidney and the Victoria Airport Authority announced on May 1 a partnership to develop 10 acres of land next to the Pat Bay High-way. The municipality and the VAA have signed a

memorandum of understand-ing on a proposal to develop a commercial/industrial site south of Beacon Avenue West, between the highway and Galaran Road. Cross says he wants to see a portion of the land used for a tourist informa-tion centre that will help draw travelers off the highway and into his community.

“It’s to be the gateway to Sid-ney and the rest of the Island,”

he said, noting that the proposal will go well with a planned pedestrian highway overpass, linking the west and east sides of town.

“This is our dream,” Cross said. “Sidney will be the gateway, as we have been all along with the fer-ries, airport and Gulf Islands.

“It means we can draw more people into our town off of the highway.”

Gateway project takes off

Please see: Town, VAA to share lease revenues, page 4

Victoria Airport Authority, Town of Sidney partner on proposed commercial site along the Pat Bay Highway

Larry Cross

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Stelly’s Secondary’s Alynn Dagg, left, and Belmont’s Katie Rufh fight for the ball during Ryan Cup soccer action on the University of Victoria playing fields. Stelly’s advanced to Tuesday’s Ryan Cup final against Oak Bay.

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The Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society will have a little help in their ongoing Doug-las Creek enhancement project thanks to two recent grants.

The work is part of a five-year salmon habi-tat plan for the whole creek bed. The plan is in its third year and President of the Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society, Darrell Wick said the grants — from the Pacific Salmon Foundation for $10,000 and the Department of Fisheries and Ocean for $1,300 — will help immensely.

“The grant from the Pacific Salmon Founda-tion is especially impor-tant because it signals a strong endorsement from experts on this type of work that we’re doing things correctly,” Wick said.

Douglas Creek runs through the east side of the park on the ocean side and acts as the catchment area for much of Gordon Head’s storm water.

“Historically the whole area surrounding Mount Doug Park was forest or farm land so there wasn’t the same amount of storm water and runoff that there is now,” explained Wick.

“Now that it is so

urbanized, during heavy rains the creek has storm surges that can destroy a lot of natural habitat along the bed. Through the project we’ve been able to do things like put in large rocks along the bed to protect the sides of the creek from ero-sion.”

Wick said that this year, the Society and the District of Saanich are preparing to work on the pond behind the Douglas Creek Weir.

“We plan to enlarge the pond behind the weir to allow for more silt to settle before it travels through the rest of the creek. This summer and fall we’ll be doing the clearing and prep work as well as surveying the area and getting it ready for work next year.”

The Society and the municipality have plans to do some work on the

upper section of the stream to enhance the salmon habitat there.

“We’ll be putting in features like spawn-ing beds to encourage more salmon to return to the area.”

Wick said the creek has seen salmon returns for the past dozen or so years.

“They don’t come in huge numbers but it is definitely encouraging to see them returning.”

The Society, active in the park since 1990, will give the grant money to the District of Saanich who will execute the bulk of the projects. Volunteers from the Society will also help.

“We have many vol-unteers that help in so many ways. I can’t imagine what the park would be like without them,” said Wick.

For more informa-tion, visit mountdoug-laspark.ca.

Creek enhancement boosted by grantFriends of Mount Douglas Park Society recipients of two recent grants

Devon MacKenzie/News staff

President of the Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society, Darrell Wick, stands next to the Douglas Creek Weir.

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Peninsula News in briefWhat are your Seven Wonders?SIDNEY — What are your favourite places and things on the Saanich Peninsula?The PNR wants to hear from you as we prepare a special sec-tion called the Seven Wonders of the Saanich Peninsula. Pub-lishing May 16, the section will outline some of the most inter-esting places on the Peninsula. It promises to be a fun look at some of our special places.Alongside our Seven Won-ders, we hope to include your suggestions on what you find wonderful — natural or man-made.Send your ideas and comments to [email protected] or check us out on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/peninsu-lanewsreview.

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Students set to singSIDNEY — Grade 4 and 5 classes at Sidney Elemen-tary School will share their love of food in song.On May 7, in collaboration with singer/songwriter Paul Hann, 110 stu-dents will record their song about the Growing Young Farmers School Pro-gram.

— Submitted

Deadline looms in Writing ContestAuthors have until May 15 to enter the Saanich Peninsula Community Writing ContestSteven HeywoodNews staff

Non-fiction is leading the way.Entries in the 2014 Saanich Pen-

insula Community Writing Contest are pouring in at the Sidney North Saanich Library and the non-fiction category has been getting the most response so far.

Charlene Bleay, a member of the library-based Writers’ Group and liai-son to the Community Arts Coun-cil of the Saanich Peninsula, says it has been fun to see the process from both sides — that of a writer and from the perspective of an event organizer.

“We are getting, on average, one entry per day,” she continued, add-ing authors can submit their work online as well.

Entries in three categories — poetry, non-fiction and fiction — must come from authors who are previously unpublished or self-pub-lished only. They must be residents of Central Saanich, North Saanich or Sidney and 19 years of age or older. There is a maximum of two entries per person.

Poetry is limited to 500 words; prose to 2,000 words. Suggested top-ics include: tall tales, romantic decay, and journeys. The contest is also open to any topic of interest.

The deadline to have them in is May 15 — at the library’s closing time.

Bleay said it was surprising to see so many non-fiction entries.

“I think people want to tell their own story,” she said. “Many of these are excerpts from people’s lives.”

Sharon Walker, Manager of the Sidney North Saanich branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library, added she has spoken to people who have been busy putting together some poetry submissions. Some, she said, were written a while ago and this contest has sparked inter-est in their authors. Walker said the contest has really brought people, authors, out of the woodwork.

“This is for anyone who has some

writing that they want to show,” said Walker. “I hope it’s a spark for people to get writing.”

“It’s an avenue for people to expe-

rience their joy,” added Bleay. “My joy comes in seeing other people’s submissions.”

Walker added she expects there

will be a variety of submissions on a wide array of topics, showcasing the creativity of Peninsula writers.

A panel of judges, consisting of writers, editors and educators, will review the entries. Six prizes will be awarded, two in each category. They include top prizes of $100 gift cer-tificates from Tanner’s Books and honourable mention awards from Island Blue, Monk Office and Tan-ner’s Books.

The winners will be announced during a special event at the library on May 29 at 6:30 p.m. Judges will name the winners and, should they

desire, read some of their own work as well.

Walker said she hopes the contest will encourage peo-ple to write all year long and expand local interest in the l ibrar y-based Writers’ Group. The group has been meeting regularly for two years. Bleay joined them last

fall and she says it’s up to members to keep it going. They meet Thurs-days at the library at 6:30 p.m. and have critique sessions, writing work-shops and more. The next one is May 8 (Thursday) with Margaret Thomp-son.

The author of seven books, Thomp-son is a past president of the Federa-tion of B.C. Writers and will discuss getting through your first draft.

To find our more about the 2014 Saanich Peninsula Community Writ-ing Contest, including the full set of rules, visit www.virl.bc.ca (under programs and events), drop by the Sidney North Saanich Library, call the library at 250-656-0944 or email [email protected].

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Sidney North Saanich Library Manager Sharon Walker, left, and Charlene Bleay of the library’s Writers’ Group hold some of the entries in this year’s Saanich Peninsula Community Writing Contest. The deadline for entries is May 15.

“This is for anyone who has some writing that they want to show. I hope it’s a spark for people to get writing.”

– Sharon Walker

SIDNEY — On Friday, May 9, Sidney will take part in a nationwide event that rec-ognizes the end of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan.

A parade will begin at the Cenotaph at the Sid-ney Town Hall and march to the Beacon Park Pavilion where a short ceremony will take place to recognize and remember those who fought and fell.

“Sidney has a long and rich military history and we feel honoured to be a part of this event that will recognize our men, women and their fami-lies who have given so much over the past 12 years in this mission,” stated Mayor Larry Cross in a media release.

The parade starts at 10:30 a.m., makes its way east on Sidney Avenue, then south onto Second Street, east onto

Beacon Avenue and arrives in Beacon Park at approxi-mately 10:45 a.m. There will be a rolling street closure which will cause minimal traffic delays.

Those marching will include members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 37, Sidney Unit #302 Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans, Sidney North Saan-ich Royal Canadian Mounted

Police, Sidney Volunteer Fire Department Honour Guard, Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Admiral Budge and Royal Canadian Air cadet Squadron, 676 Kittyhawk.

The program will include addresses by Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich — Gulf Islands, Gary Holman, Member of the Leg-islative Assembly for Saanich North and the Islands and

Mayor Cross. Two minutes of silence will be recognized and wreaths will be laid in remembrance.

Canada’s military involve-ment in Afghanistan for-mally ended on March 12, 2014, marking an end to a deadly 12-year mission that cost Canada the lives of 158 soldiers, one diplomat, one journalist and two civilian contractors. — Submitted

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The town council has been meeting in-cam-era with VAA represen-tatives. Cross said dis-cussions about the dis-position of municipal land are always held in-camera, noting council takes the matter public when it can.

He added the VAA will now conduct pub-lic information ses-sions with stakeholder groups. Further public consultation will occur during applications to the town for official community plan and zoning amendments.

Geoff Dickson, Presi-dent and CEO of the VAA, says consultation will start in June and continue throughout the summer. If all goes smoothly, he said VAA could seek the OCP and zoning amendments by the fall.

The Town of Sid-ney stated the memo-randum outlines the “principles of partner-ship relating to the pro-posed development.” A commercial/profes-sional centre is seen by both parties “as an extension to Sidney’s Beacon Avenue com-mercial district, as well as a welcoming gate-way into the Town’s downtown core.”

Sidney has been grap-pling with threats to its downtown area in the form of proposed com-mercial sites nearby. Cross in April struck a downtown revitaliza-tion task force to try to address issues sur-rounding competition

for customers, among other issues.

“I can’t think of a better development partner than the VAA,” stated Cross. “We truly look forward to work-ing with them on this exciting project.”

Dickson added the VAA’s long-term plans have included a poten-tial commercial site. Under this agreement, both the VAA and Town of Sidney will share lease revenues, to be collected by the VAA.

Dickson told the PNR Monday that the con-sultation process will ask the community what it would like to see on the site. Come the fall, he said the VAA would take a request for proposals to the development commu-nity. What is eventu-ally built there, he said, would be something the market could bear.

“It is still very early in the process,” he said.

Dickson said the

Town has expressed an interest in a tourist cen-tre for the site, adding that it would be only one component on a fraction of the area.

Cross said the Town owns .16 of an acre of the property. He said the Town did not entertain selling it to the VAA, as they want to maintain some con-trol in the project and see the gateway aspect included. Dickson said the VAA didn’t seek to buy it either, as they lease the airport land from the federal gov-ernment.

As a partner, Cross said the Town would have a proportional share in lease reve-nues (to be collected by the VAA). Discus-sions are still ongoing on whether the Town would have any say in setting lease rates or other property condi-tions.

Dickson said under the agreement the Town would share not only in any revenues, but in development costs as well. Those

would be on a propor-tional scale, he added.

Cross added that he’d like to see any of the Town’s revenue from the site go into shoring up the local business community.

Earlier this year, Sid-ney signed a memo-randum of understand-ing with the Marker Group for a proposed commercial/residential development on Town land on the waterfront. The Town later backed out of the agreement, citing the results of ini-tial tests that showed contamination in the soil. During public debate on that memo-randum of understand-ing, the town council faced anger from some residents over the potential loss of water-front land to the munic-ipality.

Cross said the two agreements are very different, noting while there were plenty of unknowns in the water-front proposal, the land near the airport does not have the same issues.

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Town, VAA to share lease revenuesThe Town of Sidney has said their partnership with the Victoria Air-

port Authority is seen as an extension to Beacon Avenue’s commercial district, currently the focal point of its new task force and a loose-knit group of business owners and residents called Save Our Sidney (SOS).

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Alex Vos, left, and Harry Marle heft the tools needed to rebuild the jumps at the North Saanich Free Ride Park. The pair, along with other volunteers, have worked to design and build upgrades to the bike park this spring.

Facelift for Free Ride ParkSteven HeywoodNews staff

Riders looking for a challenge will be happy to learn that the Free Ride Park in North Saanich is being upgraded this year.

Work crews are busy complet-ing phase one of a multi-phase plan to update the park, fixing jumps and adding new trails. The effort was made possible by a recent $3,000 donation made by the Sidney by the Sea Rotary Club and contributions from the Victoria Airport Authority and GNE Rentals.

Lawrie Robb, a board member with the North Saanich Moun-tain Bike Park Society, says those

donations and a lot of hard work from volunteers will have the site ready for the season.

“These upgrades have been in the works since around Sep-tember, 2013,” Robb said. “The building committee meets regu-larly, once or twice each month, to discuss the design and layout of the track.”

Input from people like designer Alex Vos and Kyle Mitchell, a champion BMX rider and course builder, has been invaluable, said Robb.

“Everything goes through Kyle,” he said. “He does most of the machine work and signs off on the designs.”

The park, located on Little-

wood Road behind the North Saanich municipal hall, will see some higher jumps for more advanced riders, as well as a connector added between two pump tracks. Robb added the society has plans to make more additions but those will depend on approvals and funding.

“It has taken a lot of planning,” said Vos. “When designing it, we had to think of the variety of skill levels and follow the land con-tours and work around existing trees.”

Volunteers have been putting in a lot of work, Robb added, noting that they hope to have this phase complete by the end of this week, weather permitting.

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The B.C. government has rolled out its ambitious overhaul of the public education system,

from kindergarten to graduate school, much to the horror of its left-wing establishment.

The formal title is B.C.’s Skills For Jobs Blueprint: Re-engineering Education and Training. It’s designed to dovetail with the Harper regime’s Canada Job Grant that requires employers to co-sponsor training spaces so they will hire the students at the end.

Elementary and middle school curriculum is being revised to increase emphasis on hands-on experience. High school and post-secondary skilled trades programs are getting more money, but it’s going to be shifted from under-performing programs that don’t lead to jobs.

Premier Christy Clark took another swipe at the bias of B.C.’s system, noting that 20 per cent of B.C. students, and nearly half of aboriginal students, don’t finish high school.

“Not only are there kids who don’t graduate, there are kids who graduate, go out and get one or two credentials before they finally find their way into a skills training program,” said Clark, who had her own wander through university campuses before going into politics.

A couple of weeks ago, Simon Fraser University president Andrew

Petter downplayed the “relatively small” skilled trades shortage for B.C. industry.

“We should not be engaged in a zero-sum kind of battle for dollars,” Petter protested.

That’s exactly what he and other university executives are looking at, and it will be based on the latest

graduate employment data and labour demand forecasts.

One of the key architects of this sweeping plan is Jessica McDonald, who shook up the public service while serving as Gordon Campbell’s deputy minister. Her report on trades training confirms what Campbell’s critics in the labour movement have long said: the government’s 10-year

experiment with the Industry Training Authority is a rudderless mess.

“Certain partners, particularly organized labour, feel marginalized,” McDonald wrote. “Others, particularly employers and employers’ associations, do not feel heard within the system. Over the recent past, several new directions have been introduced such as de-regulation of trades and modular training that have caused strain because they were not fully inclusive during development, were seen to benefit single interests, and they impacted the whole system.”

The ITA board is being replaced,

with union representation restored, and advisory councils from industrial employers will update their hiring needs.

The B.C. Federation of Labour and the construction unions have all but abandoned the NDP after Adrian Dix’s disastrous pitch for urban anti-industry votes last year. B.C. Fed president Jim Sinclair was an early advocate for rescuing skilled trades from the second-class status they received in a culture fixated on university for two generations.

That culture has created glaring problems. There are too many institutions offering the same courses. As with health care, block funding is handed out without any serious effort to measure the results. For many students, university has become an extension of adolescence, finding one’s self through philosophy or film studies.

Employers get their share of blame from McDonald. Not only did they chop up trades training to make it cheaper to obtain, their preferred source of skilled workers has been to poach from other employers who paid to train them. Skills-based employment data will be made public for students to make career choices. Finally, students coming out of high school will have a way to assess what they can expect after $50,000 or more is spent on higher education.

It’s about time.Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]

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hat would you like to see on the 10 acres of land next to the Pat Bay Highway across from the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney?

That’s the question that will be posed this summer by the Victoria Airport Authority as it promises to consult with the community on the future of the property.

The Victoria Airport Authority (VAA) and Town of Sidney rolled out of in-camera meeting with a memorandum of understanding to pursue a partnership in the commercial development of the land.

It’s a proposed partnership and the MoU outlines the steps each party will take in order to make it happen. Both

Mayor Larry Cross and VAA President and CEO Geoff Dickson say it’s a preliminary document and there are a lot of steps to complete before it’s written in stone.

Public consultation is one of those steps. Dickson says the VAA will get people’s ideas for the commercial component and then seek approvals from the Town. By this fall, he said they could be taking a request for proposals out to developers.

For the Town’s part, Cross wants there to be a gateway, a visitors centre, to attract more people into Sidney. Dickson says that’s possible, but may be limited to Sidney’s small share in the site.

But a small share is better than no share at all. Sidney now has a stake in a third major commercial development site on the Saanich Peninsula, which could certainly help downtown economic fortunes if done right.

At this early stage, it appears the VAA wants to work with the municipality and is eager to have a project that is complementary to their neighbours. That’s good news as Sidney works to improve its own visitor experience.

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Who will notice the spills?

I very much agree with David Black’s April 23 article stating, “The oil industry wants to export Alberta bitumen to Asia via tankers. Under no cir-cumstances should we allow that to hap-pen. A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline and the fish and wildlife that depend on it, for hun-dreds of years.”

I also agree that a refinery should be built to refine the bitumen in Canada rather than

exporting refining jobs to Asia.

Where I differ with Mr. Black is that it would make a lot more sense to build the refinery at the site of the tar sands rather than allowing Enbridge to pipe the bitumen across northern B.C. Who is going to notice spills in wildness areas?

Jean Woodland Sidney

Nail in the coffin

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Trans Pacific Partner-ship is yet another nail in Canada’s coffin. Our internet bills will rise because of high cost surveillance and smaller providers will disappear. The TPP, in favour of the USA, undermines Canada’s rules. Thanks to the current federal govern-ment, rules and regu-lations are watered down in many fields.

Forget inspections, fines and research — we can’t even depend on safe food anymore. All these trade deals with other countries are not for Canadian

benefits — they are for foreign investors who take their money, along with our resources, and run.

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Sharon LawrenceSaanichton

Pot problemsI was amazed to see

how much TV time the marijuana addicts received on their drug day, April 20.

I don’t believe for one minute all those

people had medical problems.

Their problem is simple — they are addicts. I am not an expert on lung disease but it would appear to me, observing the black clouds of smoke

they were inhaling, that this will kill worse than cigarettes.

Not only does it affect their minds, it kills the lungs. A per-son who smokes pot for kicks should have their health care bill

quadrupled so the taxpayer does not get stuck for it.

Countries that have legalized it are already sorry. It’s causing big problems.

Eileen NattrassSaanichton

There are a few things that can be done with no or very little cost to Sidney as well

as the other town centers on the Peninsula to enhance their livabil-ity as well as the businesses that call them home.

The first thing is to support amalgamation between Sidney, North Saanich and Central Saa-nich. Following amalgamation, put hard limits on the amount of land that can be turned into retail space and housing for that mat-ter. This would have two posi-tive outcomes. One — it would

eliminate competition from new areas such as what is currently being proposed at Sandown. But it would not be able to prevent areas, such as Jesken Centre, in First Nations communities from popping up. Two — it would make built up land much more valuable while at the same time protecting farmers and farmland.

The second action that would boost traffic to other Sidney busi-nesses would be to support the creation of a roofed farmers mar-ket in downtown Sidney so North Saanich and Central Saanich farm-

ers/crafts people would have an all weather outlet instead of the nice but albeit weather dependent Thursday evening markets.

The third action would be to open zoning laws up, allowing workshops (think light industrial) within the downtown area with residences above in combined zones, with appropriate bylaws of course.

Fourth, decouple parking requirements from developments. This would allow expensive land that is only being used as tem-porary automobile storage to be

used for permanent money mak-ing retail or residential use.

Fifth, encourage town halls on the Peninsula to allow businesses to use parklets — a temporary sidewalk extension providing weather dependent retail floor area or table space.

Public transit also needs to be improved. In the long term this costs the taxpayers less money and reduces health care costs due to a physically and mentally healthier population.

Eric DillerNorth Saanich

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Today I thought I’d talk about hydrangeas. These shrubs are wonderful, requiring little care, just lots of

water during their growing season and judicious pruning as they start producing new growth in the spring.

These shrubs will, if allowed, become too large for the space you have allotted them, so pruning is necessary before they hog more than their

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It’s a common lament: some kids have nothing to do. Typi-cally, it’s the adults who complain the most and usually only after a serious incident and call on local leaders to do something about it.

Not as often, it’s a younger per-son stepping forward to make a similar case. April Hautaluoma, a former Parkland Secondary School student who is currently attending Camosun College, made a plea to Sidney town coun-cil this month, asking them to consider a new youth centre.

“It would be a safe location after dark where you can partici-pate in activities,” she said.

Hautaluoma says an assign-ment last year at Camosun on the issue of youth having nothing to do had her interviewing stu-dents, mostly teens, this school year. Those interviews gave her an idea of what some teens would like to see in a youth cen-tre. Those include games, sports, tools for helping with homework, guidance counselling or peer sup-port, job and event postings.

She did address current youth programs active on the Saanich Peninsula — such as the Extreme Teen Lounge at Greenglade Com-

munity Centre. That program, she noted, is for youth aged 11 to 15 only.

“An issue is some of these places are out-of-the-way,” said Hautaluoma, “and geared to younger teens. There needs to be something closer.”

She said she looked into various locations to site a new youth centre and on the Saa-nich Peninsula, there are difficulties with nearly everywhere and a lack of public transit options.

The ideal location, she said, was between Deep Cove and Dean Park, which is an area close to existing bus routes. Sidney itself, she added, would prove difficult due to the high cost of leasing space or the expense of building something new.

This complaint is nothing new, said Councillor Tim Chad.

“This is the fourteenth or fif-teenth time since I’ve been on council that somebody has pre-sented this sort of thing,” he said.

Chad, who sits on the local rec-reation commission, added he supports the work done by the Mary Winspear Centre and Pan-

orama Recreation Centre (which operates Greenglade). He said, however, the information col-lected by Hautaluoma is valuable and should be seen by Panorama and others.

“We’ve already done this,” noted Coun. Mervyn Lougher-Goodey, referring to a place called The Teen Hut which was located near the Mary Winspear

Centre at one time.He said ideas like this

takes a lot of work and leadership but a singu-lar problem has always been the fact that teens move on and the void is often never filled.

“That turns (a youth centre) into what the community doesn’t want and they close. It’s a tough go.”

Coun. Melissa Hailey said such programs

need youth buy-in, otherwise such projects could be relegated to the realms of being lame.

Hautaluoma agreed more could be done to expand or enhance existing youth programs on the Saanich Peninsula.

She added a key to getting more youth out to local events — geared towards them or not — would be increased advertising of those activities in the school and in the community.

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The 100 or so members of the club are organizing their fifth annual garage sale and invite

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“It’s going to have everything from the kitchen sink to furni-ture, clothing, jewelry — you name it, we pretty much have it.”

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A special member of the Saanich Penin-sula Hospital Auxiliary was honoured last month.

On April 23, Margaret Tangye was hon-oured for her 40 years of membership and service with the Auxiliary.

Tangye, who was recovering from leg sur-gery at the time, was awarded with a certifi-cate and flowers by members of the Auxil-iary, including President Susan McLoughlin, Past-President Janie Scott, Public Relations Coordinator Enid Burns and Joan Marsh.

“For years, Margaret has provided splen-did leadership and guidance as Parliamen-tarian for the Auxiliary and assumed the responsibility for constitutional revisions and updates and assuring that our man-dates were fulfilled,” explained Burns.

“A dedicated and retired teacher, wife, parent and concerned citizen, she has con-tributed most generously her time and effort without thought of self.”

Tangye’s involvement with the Auxiliary began in 1974. She was born in Saskatch-ewan, attended university there and taught at the University of Saskatchewan for two years. Tangye eventually moved to B.C. and taught for many years and became involved with the Auxiliary.

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June 1 West Coast Ride to Live1 Victoria Youth Musical Theatre4 - 6 Access Awareness Trade Show7 Rotary Monte Carlo Gala8 Murray Hat� eld Magic Show8 Victoria Toy Show12 Byrd Dawg13 Canine Chaos17 Winspear Cup Golf Tournament19 & 20 Thunder From Down Under21 & 22 Let’s go to the Hop21 & 22 Garden City Cat Show

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THE ARTSWinspear Summer Concert SeriesEntertainment to grace local arts hub on Thursday nights through summer monthsDevon MacKenzieNews staff

The Mary Winspear Centre is gearing up for a busy summer, including the new Summer Con-cert Series beginning later this month.

The series, which is designed to attract the crowds of people who attend the Sidney Street Market on Thursday nights, begins May 29. The series will feature different performances every second week through the summer.

“The idea was to run a series of concerts and entertainment during the same night as the market so those who attend the market have a chance to attend right afterwards,” explained Carey Salvador, the Winspear’s marketing coordinator.

“There is going to be some-thing for everyone, a mix of dif-ferent shows and styles and a lot of great local talent.”

Salvador added that the Cen-tre has aimed to provide tickets at affordable prices and will be selling tickets to the shows at their booth during the Sidney Street Market. Ticket sales for the shows have already begun online.

The shows, Salvador contin-ued, will begin at 8 p.m. and will be a mix of musical and perform-ing arts groups.

Kicking off the series is local band The Lion The Bear The Fox with special guests Sam Weber and Ian Sherwood. Byrd Dawg, an Everly Brothers and Simon and Garfunkel tribute band, takes the stage June 12. Award-winning Canadian songstress Holly McNarland plays July 3. Victoria Ballet is confirmed but

not yet scheduled.“We’re really looking forward

to the shows and the different mix of things we have sched-uled,” said Salvador, adding that the Centre is also teaming up with the Peninsula Academy of Music Arts and Mountain Dream Productions to host summer camps through July.

For more information, regis-tration forms or advance tickets to the Summer Concert Series

shows, visit [email protected]

Coming up at the Mary Winspear Centre• Summer Rocks summer camp at the Winspear Centre

in partnership with the Peninsula Academy of Music Arts. This camp is for youth aged 12 to 18 and caters to all instru-ments. Runs July 21 to 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a Saturday matinee performance. Learn new songs, how to write music, how to lead a band, play a solo, sing harmonies and more. Cost is $275 per person per week and registration deadline is July 18. Call 250-656-0275 or visit www.marywin-spear.ca for more information.

• The Mary Winspear Centre and Mountain Dream Pro-ductions presents a singing, acting and dancing Musical Extravaganza July 7 to 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This full day summer program is an action packed, fun filled two weeks. Young performers ages 9 to 18 will learn all about acting, singing and dancing. Call 250-656-0275 or visit www.mary-winspear.ca or www.mountaindreamproductions.ca.

Submitted photos

Above and below: Byrd Dawg and Holly McNarland will both perform during the Winspear’s Summer Concert Series.

COMING UP IN ARTS

• Writer’s tool-kit: Getting through your first draft at the Sidney North Saanich Library. Join author Margaret Thompson as she shares tips on getting your novel, short story, or non-fiction piece through the first draft. Thurs-day, May 8, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Hosted by the Sidney North Saa-nich Library Writers Group. Free. Call 250-656-0944 to reg-ister.

• The Society for the Community Arts Theatre at Stelly’s is hosting a benefit dance featuring the Commodores Big Band on Friday, May 9 at 7 p.m. at Bay-side Middle School (1101 Newton Pl. in Brentwood Bay). Tickets, $15, avail-able at The Dollar Den in Brentwood and at the door. Proceeds go to sup-port the design and construction of a new community arts theatre at Stelly’s Secondary School. For more information, visit theatreatstellys.com.

• Canine Chaos with Suzanne Cloth-ier is at the Winspear Centre Friday, June 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. Spend a great eve-ning relaxing with other animal lovers. Tickets ($25) avail-able by calling 250-656-0275 or www.marywinspear.ca.


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SIDNEY — Internationally-acclaimed mezzo-soprano Kathryn Whitney, together with tenor Danny Daniels and pianist Braden Young, will be singing a selection of familiar and famous songs from the British Isles and Europe on Sunday, May 25, as a fund-raiser to support the work of the MS Society.

The concert will be presented in

St. Paul’s United Church on Malaview Avenue in Sidney and begins at 2:30 p.m. Admission will be by donation to the MS Society.

An estimated 100,000 Canadians have MS, including many on the Pen-insula, and the Society funds both research and rehabilitation services for those with this disease.

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A group of Stelly’s Secondary School graduates are giving a helping hand to some of their fellow students this weekend.

The grad executive recently organized a fundraising concert in order to help fellow grads who can’t afford

to attend the gradua-tion festivities in June.

“This concert will benefit those who are financially unable to attend grad or rent or purchase attire for the day,” explained Grade 12 student Connor Wil-liamson.

“What we want to do is guarantee that every student has the oppor-tunity to share such

an amazing moment, while feeling and look-ing good.”

Williamson went on to explain the idea for a fundraising concert for their fellow grads came from a grad exec student named Armand Birk.

“Armand is a musi-

cally talented and devoted student to his school. After he came up with the idea he assigned roles for peo-ple and I chose the role of marketing the event,” said Williamson.

The concert, which takes place this Satur-day, May 10 at Brent-

wood Hall (7082 Wal-lace Dr.) will be head-lined by local band Aivia with perfor-mances by Reverie and Papaya. Tickets are $10 at the door and there will be soft drinks and light food available.

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Local band Reverie will be one of three groups performing May 10 at Brentwood Hall for a Stelly’s Secondary fundraiser.File photo

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Scam and Fraud Prevention Workshop, Wednesday, May 14 from 10:30 a.m. to noon is being offered at SHOAL Activity Centre, by local RCMP, focused on helping seniors and the general public to understand and prevent fraud and scams. Please call to register at 250-656-5537. Free for Activity Members, small fee for everyone else.

FundraisersTwelve hour uniFor

food drive Saturday, May 10 at Save On Foods in Sidney. Unifor Local 333 is partnering with Save On Foods and 100.3 the Q in an attempt to raise $10,000 of food and cash during a 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. food drive and barbecue. Come, donate and help feed families in our communities.

Spring Fling aT St. Mary’s Church in Saanichton (1973 Cultra Ave.) happens on Saturday, May 10 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The usual great Thrift Sale will be taking place plus home baking, books and the garden shop. Refreshments available. Free admission. Good parking.

houSe oF ruSSell presents Date Night on Friday, May 9 from 5 to 8 p.m. Appetizers provided by Jazzaniah Cafe, hairstyles provided by House of Russell stylists and makeup provided by a Shoppers Drug Mart makeup artist. Tickets are $10 per person and can be purchased at House

of Russell. Proceeds go to the Sidney Lions Food Bank.

helping aFrican Grandmothers is hosting a Spring Bonnet Fashion Show and Tea on Saturday, May 10 at 1 p.m. in the St. Andrew’s Church Hall. Prizes will be given for the best decorated bonnets. Tickets are $20 each, call Glenda Lightbody at 250-656-4421 or through the church office, 9691 Fourth St., Sidney.

Kid stuffgood morning

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norTh Saanich Residents Association Annual General Meeting takes place Tuesday, May 13 at 7 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church at the corner of East Saanich and Willingdon Roads. Guest Speakers: Mayor Alice Finall and Alanna Holroyd, Greater Victoria Rental Development Society. Presentation Partnering to Deliver Non-subsidized Rental Market Accommodation. Please contact President Geoff Orr for more information at 250-656-4562.

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under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will be forfeited to the Government for disposal by the Director of Civil Forfeiture unless a notice of dispute is filed with the Director within the time period set out in this notice. A notice of dispute may be filed by a person who claims to have an interest in all or part of the subject property. The notice of dispute must be filed within 60 days of the date upon which this notice is first published. You may obtain the form of a notice of dispute, which must meet the requirements of Section 14.07 of the CFA, from the Director’s website, accessible online at www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The notice must be in writing, signed in the presence of a lawyer or notary public, and mailed to the Civil Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234 Station Provincial Government, Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.

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Piranhas are back in the water at Panorama Recreation Centre but that’s no reason to stay out of the deep end.

The Piranhas Swim Club resumed prac-tices on May 3, the start to their summer season. Club presi-dent Marie Truong says even though the swimmers are already getting their feet wet, they won’t turn away any child who wants to swim with the group.

A summer swim club, the Piranhas are 72 strong and practice up to five hours each week. During the win-ter months, explained Truong, club members could only swim a max-imum of two hours a week. Any more and a swimmer would be considered part of the open categories at competitions.

The Piranhas will be taking part in eight swim meets this sum-mer, including a home event July 12 and 13 at Panorama. It’s for these competitive events that the coaches are getting their swimmers ready. Regionals take place at Commonwealth Pool this year and, overall, the season is short.

“It’s essentially a three-month season,” Truong said.

Even so, she said the club is a great com-munity of swimmers and their families — and that’s the reason she got involved three years ago and is the president this year.

The club itself has been around since 1979, making this their 35th anniversary, says board member Alan

Jackson. He has been with the club since 1998 when his own kids got involved and has done a variety of jobs for the club, including acting as its treasurer.

“It is a fun club,” said Truong. “We do have competitive swimmers and some of their goals are to make the pro-vincials. But we won’t turn away any child who wants to try swim-ming.”

Swimmers are placed in divisions based on age groups and they compete against oth-ers in those categories. Truong said the club

hopes to get 28 or 30 kids to provincials this year.

To learn more about the club, go online to www.sidneypiranhas.com.

SPORTSPiranhas jump back in the pool at Panorama


Young Piranhas Swim Club member Linnea takes a lap with a paddleboard during the club’s opening day at Panorama on May 3.


Piranhas swimmer Justin looks over his shoulder during practice.


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