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Tour de Rock gala in SidneyComedian Mike Delamont headlines Comedy for Cancer event Oct. 1, page 12

Construction takes offDevelopment projects on the rise in Sidney are raising the angst of neighbours, page 3

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Black Press Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Carlie ConnollyNews staff

Imagine your house or your work-place and the air inside affecting you or your loved ones’ health. Every-thing you have built in your life can go down the drain in what David Rog-ers says is the largest killer in work-place accidents in British Columbia since 2000.

This killer is known as asbestos. Rog-ers, president of BCHAZMAT of North Saanich, a company that tests for the mate-rial, said that every five days, one person dies from asbestos expo-sure and it’s still very prevalent in homes and workplaces today.

Phil Venoit, presi-dent of Vancouver Island Building and Construction Trades Council, has been trying to make a difference in the lives of those working with asbes-tos day in and day out.

On July 30 he sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, calling on federal, provincial and municipal governments to create a National Building Registry of all public build-ings that utilize products containing

asbestos. It asks that the registry be made available online to all workers and companies who potentially deal or have dealt with asbestos. It will allow them to become aware of its presence in the building they are cur-rently in or will be in, outlining where the asbestos is (in drywall, floor tiles, ceiling tiles, etc.).

“It will provide an ability for any construction worker that is going to

work in a building to be able to go online, bring up the building that they are going to work in and see where asbestos is contained in the building,” said Venoit.

He is also calling on the federal and provin-cial governments that utilize public marine transportation, includ-ing the Royal Canadian Navy, Coast Guard and

others to develop a National Vessel Registry of all maritime vessels that use products and equipment contain-ing asbestos. The registry would then be made available for all of the Cana-dian shipyard workers, prior to agree-ing to work with products that could potentially threaten their life.Carlie Connolly/News staff

President of Vancouver Island Building Trades, Phil Venoit, stands in front of Belmont Secondary School, a site he says was tested for asbestos.

Trades call for asbestos registryVancouver Island Building and Construction Trades Council makes national appeal

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Venoit is also asking that the last week of April be Asbestos Awareness week. As April 28 is globally known as the Day of Mourning, a day which honours those who have lost their lives while at work, Venoit found that the week could work to educate youth who are moving into the construc-tion sector about asbestos. He said the number one fatal illness in Canada, that has caused many workers to lose their lives, is from inhaling asbestos dust.

Venoit recommends the development of a national standard apprenticeship, known as Hazmat Worker, for those involved in the remediation process to have the proper skills and knowledge of the right pro-cedures in handling asbes-tos.

He is also calling on gov-ernments to move forward on legislation to ban prod-ucts that contain asbestos from being imported to Can-ada.

Today in B.C, Venoit said workers are being pulled to the side, given a two hour course, a dust mask and a pair of throw away coveralls and are put to work.

Compared to other prov-inces, he said he believes it

just isn’t enough.“There is a clear differ-

ence in the educational requirement for workers to perform the work, and ours clearly falls way short,” he said.

Rogers added he also believes B.C. is way behind when it comes to asbestos.

“A lot of it is because we don’t have the inspection and enforcement people to go out and get it done and B.C. is behind because of that,” he said.

Rogers said he doesn’t know if Venoit’s registry idea will be successful.

“A registry that people can go to — I don’t know how successful that will be,” he said. “But having every workplace with an asbestos inventory and asbestos inspection report done would go a long way to protect anybody renovat-ing ... would go a long way to protect firefighters or any emergency response people coming in.”

Mike King, lead consul-tant for AREC Environmen-tal Group — a Central Saan-ich-based hazardous materi-als testing company — said asbestos is completely safe as long as it’s not disturbed.

He uses an example from an asbestos worker train-ing course that he teaches,

based on AHERA (Asbes-tos Hazard Emergency Response Act). He said indi-vidual asbestos fibres are so small that if a person were to hold it out at arm’s length in a room with no air move-ment and let go, that single fibre would take approxi-mately seven hours to hit the floor.

“This is why it’s such a challenge to control asbes-

tos and why it’s so easily inhaled. It’s very difficult to have enough manpower from any given entity,” he said.

Venoit said asbestos is called the silent killer as it has a latency period of 20 to 25 years, sitting inside a per-son’s lungs, throat, stomach lining or intestinal walls.

“You really don’t suffer any of the effects from it

until it starts to harden and starts creating what they call pleural plaques on the side of the lung …”

AREC has visited hun-dreds of sites containing asbestos and many people have no idea they are liv-ing with it in their homes, as there is such an array of materials that contain asbestos.

King himself spent over 30 years in the trades and said he knew nothing about the material and its hazard-ous effects until he began to see them himself.

Unsure if it’s asbestos or not, he began to have severe lung problems and decided to get out the trades world six years ago.

“I was basically given the ultimatum a few years ago — find a different way to make a living or you’ll be dead within the year,” he said.

Venoit himself spent 35 years as a construction and shipyard electrician and as a result has seen many close to him die from asbes-tos-related ailments, includ-ing a retired member of his office who died a year ago. Venoit’s own brothers have already died from asbestos exposure. All were in differ-ent fields of construction, working in different prov-

inces. Today, one of the biggest

users of asbestos prod-ucts are the producers of after-market brake pads. There are still many brake pads brought into Canada every year and Venoit said that any vehicle more than three to five years old that has had the brakes done at an auto shop can have the possibility of the pads being encased with asbestos.

The Prime Minister’s Office has shared the letter with federal health minis-ter Rona Ambrose and Lisa Raitt, transport minister. The Office stated they will answer Venoit’s concerns in more detail at a later time.

Municipal governments, including Central Saanich, have endorsed and sup-ported Venoit’s concerns. He plans to meet with city councillors and MLAs around the south Island.

“Right now it’s all a mat-ter of putting together meet-ings to keep moving the ball forward,” he said. “I can’t say enough how much this product is around within arm’s length of every one of us every single day and we take 20,0000 or 30,000 breaths each day.

“Each one of those poten-tially could be the beginning of our last.”

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Scott Conrad, lab technician at AREC tests for asbestos from the materials given to him from various commercial and residential sites.

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Steven HeywoodNews staff

There’s a higher level of develop-ment activ-ity in Sidney

these days, as new con-struction projects get off the ground or are making their intentions known to neighbours and the community in general.

With it, however, has come a higher degree of concern by those same neighbours, fac-ing severe changes to properties next to their own and perhaps not meeting with the expectations they had when they bought their home. This concern has presented itself in public presentations to local government, fly-ers, newspaper ads and letters and in individual discussions with the PNR.

For the Mayor of Sid-ney, Steve Price, all of this renewed growth and developer interest in his town is a return to the pre-recession days prior to 2008, when construction was bustling each year since around 1995.

No matter the source of people’s concern, nor a supposed return to the development lev-els of the early 2000s, the municipality is fac-ing growing pains and people are asking what can be done to ensure their neighbourhoods are treated fairly.

Held up as an exam-ple of a controversial development project is a proposed four sto-rey mixed-use building

at the corner of Fourth Street and Oakville Ave-nue.

The proposal is a combination of com-mercial on the ground floor and three levels of residential units. It applied for zoning changes to allow for more units, reduced parking and increased setback from property lines. It also asked for inclusion in Sidney’s downtown Local Area Plan (LAP), which tech-nically ends a half-block north at Bevan Avenue.

Most recently the proponents, Victoria’s Norman Homes, agreed to make changes to their application, reduc-ing the number of units from 16 to 11. How-ever, the building size remains unchanged

and is still a concern to nearby residents.

The area is, however, bustling with similar residential buildings and there are other like structures already built (First Street) or under construction (Fifth and Bevan).

Price said, in an email interview with the PNR, those structures also came to pass under site specific rezoning, requested by develop-ers and approved by the councils of the day.

“I consider (the Fourth Street proposal) to be a z o n i n g

amendment for a spe-cific property,” Price said, responding to a question on whether he considers such requests as ‘spot’ rezoning — a term being thrown around to define what some peo-ple consider inapprori-ate rezoning requests.

“(It’s) similar to any other zoning amend-ment application that we’ve received. With that in mind, the adjoin-ing condo to the north (9724, Fourth Street) was also a site specific rezoning in 2001…”

Ken and Sue Groom live in that condo build-

ing and have spo-ken against

the latest proposal. In a pre-

sentation

to council in August, they stated they found it objectionable that the project might be included in the LAP.

“This attempted spot re-zoning is directly contrary to the orderly development guide-lines contained within the Town of Sidney’s Official Community Plan (OCP),” they wrote.

They added the build-ing does not fit in with the residential charac-ter of the neighbour-hood and worry their property value will be negatively affected.

Price pointed out the term ‘spot’ rezoning is not a defined term in any Town bylaw.

Tip of the PeninsulaSaanich Inlet network launched

CENTRAL SAANICH — Adam Olsen, interim leader of the B.C. Green Party, for-mer Central Saanich councillor and member of the Tsartlip First Nation has launched the Saanich Inlet Network (SI.Net).

“This is a response to the recent announcement by Malahat First Nation and Steelhead LNG of a mutual benefits agree-ment and long-term lease to build a liquefied

natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Saanich Inlet,” he said. “Over the past cou-ple of weeks many peo-ple have contacted me expressing their concerns about this proposal.

“As a result, I decided to create a way to con-nect people and share information.”

Olsen pointed out in a media release that when projects such as Mala-hat LNG are proposed,

“it can take a while for the community to get together and find an effective voice to express itself.

SI.Net will provide people living around the Saanich Inlet a way to get together to fully participate in whatever processes unfold.”

To join the Saanich Inlet Network visit adamolsen.ca/si_net and fill out the form.

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Building activity on the risePost-recession growth sparks angst over new Sidney projects

“I would anticipate, that for some new arrivals to our community ... they are simply not accustomed to a higher level of development activity.”

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Corporal Dan Cottingham of the Central Saanich Police Ser-vice said the driver of the car apparently hesitated as they were turning off the highway, and the motorcycle struck the

car broadside. Cottingham said the driver of the bike was sent over the top of the vehicle, something that probably saved his life.

“He was conscious and talk-ing,” said Cottingham, “but he was taken to hospital with seri-ous injuries, possibly back and pelvis injuries.”

Cottingham said the driver of the car was inexperienced and may have been a contributing factor in the crash.

This intersection and a nearby

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Traffic heading south into Vic-toria from the Peninsula was affected for a few hours as police investigated the incident. Vehi-cles took a detour at Island View Road, onto East Saanich Road and through Central Saanich.

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“Nor is it understood within the spheres of municipal planning,” he stated.

“With respects to critics of these proj-ects using such termi-nology, I would ques-tion whether they even understand what the term implies or are aware of the estab-lished protocols and practices involved in an application that comes forward for a rezoning.”

As for the guidelines set out in the Town’s OCP, the mayor said it has been the direction in Sidney for years — since the mid-1990s — to encourage high den-sity development.

“Councils have been consistent in their approach to allowing increased densities, where deemed appro-priate and based on the merits of each pro-posal,” he explained, adding this focus was reinforced most recently prior to the 2014 municipal election in the Mayor’s Task Force on Downtown Revitalization.

Yet, as neighbours to the Fourth Street pro-posal, Bob and Bobbie Carey stated in a letter to council, that ques-tions why such densi-ties and rezonings must trump other policies set out in Sidney’s OCP.

“It seems that to accommodate this … increase in permitted density on the very edge of a congested

residential area,” they wrote, “we are asked to scrap the … Official Community Plan … Where does it stop?”

Calls have been made by residents for the Town to review its OCP in the wake of the increased pace of development. Price said, however, he does not necessarily see a need for it and stated that there is no longer a requirement for a municipality to do so

every five years.“The vast majority

of development proj-ects coming forward are fully compliant and supported by the OCP,” he said, adding OCPs are not cast-in-stone, static documents but are guides.

“They have the abil-ity to be amended and certainly reviewed from time to time.”

In the case of the Fourth Street proposal, Price said it’s still early

in the approvals pro-cess.

The project was reviewed Sept. 1 by the Town’s Advisory Planning Commission (APC), a body of citi-zens with a variety of backgrounds tasked with providing sober second thought on such applications. The APC voted to allow Nor-man Homes to revise their density plans and asked them to address other, more cosmetic

issues and return to them — however, they indicated if a proposal fits into current zoning regulations, there is lit-tle they can do to stop it. Where they can have an impact is on the form and character of a building. It was strongly suggested to the devel-opment team that they consider making their

four storeys look more like three — or even consider three stories outright.

Yet, under the cur-rent zoning for the property, four stories is allowed.

Price stated the Town is busier when it comes to development.

“Due to the recession (of 2008), we’ve had

very little in the way of development and now things are finally com-ing around. I would anticipate, that for some new arrivals to our community … they are simply not accus-tomed to a higher level of development activ-ity.”

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OUR VIEW

Of all the immature, ignorant whining that came out of the recent power failure in

the Lower Mainland, one example summed up the decline of our urban culture for me.

It wasn’t the people who flooded 9-1-1 with calls demanding to know when their power would be restored, or complaining about their freezers. It wasn’t those on Twitter insisting BC Hydro pay for food that went bad.

It was another social media moment.

With part of his community without electricity for a third day, Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart went to his Facebook page, which has a wide following. There he pleaded with residents to stop phoning city hall to demand that a local big-box supermarket provide milk and eggs.

Power had been restored at the store only a few hours before, in the dead of night, and it’s safe to assume that all stores were working flat out to restock perishables.

Where do people get the notion that city hall, or whatever all-powerful nanny state they imagine, controls grocery stores? How do they conclude that in the midst of the worst electrical grid failure on record, BC Hydro is going to address their personal situation above all others?

Vancouver broadcast media

weren’t much better. Their big focus was that BC Hydro’s website crashed, so people couldn’t call it up on their smartphones and find out instantly when their power would be back on.

Some even questioned why wireless power meters didn’t help. Perhaps these were the same

journalists who fed the tinfoil-hat superstition about their signals.

The facts should be known by now. After an extremely dry spring and summer, a high wind shattered trees and took down more wires and poles than BC Hydro had ever coped with before. Further damage was done within areas that were already blacked out, leaving overtaxed

technicians unable to accurately assess the full extent of it.

In Coquitlam and elsewhere, poles were down in areas too rain-saturated for heavy repair trucks to reach. Yes, there were some too-optimistic repair estimates given out, in response to the constant screeching for instant answers.

About 15 years ago I experienced my worst power outage in the Fraser Valley. In a semi-rural area with little backup grid capacity (since greatly improved), my family went three days without power. This was in winter, due to wind and freezing rain followed by snow and cold.

Trickles of water kept pipes from freezing and the gas stove provided a bit of heat. I heard no complaints about the crews struggling around the clock with the dangerous job of repair. Media coverage was mostly adult supervised.

Megastorm madness isn’t an isolated case.

A couple of weeks before that, a temporary construction bump on the Lion’s Gate Bridge deck caused panic and rage.

Aggravated by a couple of accidents on the alternate route, and fed by hysterical media, drivers of West Van luxury cars were white-knuckled. Traffic choked the region that recently declined to pay a bit more for road improvements.

In both cases, people outside Lotus Land were muttering: Welcome to our world.

This is pertinent to the federal election.

Are you competent to save for your retirement with RRSPs and a tax-free savings account, or do you need the government to do it for you, by force?

Are you capable of managing your own child care, or should the nanny state create a hugely subsidized system, which has already failed in Quebec, from coast to coast?

Are you ready for the day when the machine stops?

Tom Fletcher is the legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Growth versus character

It’s certainly a shock to wake up one morning to discover that the homes next to you are going to be torn down and replaced with a multi-storey building. Or, that a quaint neighbourhood residential lot, covered in

trees, is about to be redeveloped into a multitude of smaller homes, packed in to a space where once there were only one or two homes.

There is a way to try to avoid that surprise. It’s called knowing or learning what the rules are and how the future could potentially unfold around you — when you first buy a property.

Certainly, not everyone is a local political junkie and wants to spend every waking hour watching the goings-on at municipal hall. That would be like living in a constant state of fear that the view you thought you had is under attack. Yet, buying a home or a property is only the first step. It’s important to know what might occur next door, tomorrow or several years from now.

A variety of Sidney residents are feeling the impact of a jump in construction and development in the community and many are reacting in a way that’s not uncommon when something new occurs. They raise hell at town hall.

To Mayor Steve Price’s credit, he is holding the line on the municipality’s long-standing policy of increasing its density. He’s not pulling punches and appears not be afraid of sticking his chin out.

This will put town hall at odds with some of its residents over development questions, so it becomes even more important for both sides to communicate.

As more growth occurs, such as with a proposed residential redevelopment on Resthaven Drive that would see one home replaced by 16, residents are going to react.

The main question has got to be not if construction and growth will happen, but how it will look in the end and whether its impact in existing neighbourhoods can be integrated gently, rather than shoehorned in for a quick buck.

Growth for many communities is good news. It can quickly turn to bad if the town many people thought they were moving to no longer exists.

‘Are you ready for the day when the machine stops?’


Farm tax shored up by others

Re: Farmer fears loss of tax status, PNR Sept.2.

So Mr. Neville Gar-ner fears he might lose his farm tax status if he does not provide proof he earns $2,500 from farm activities. He states: “The harass-ment has got to stop.”

Is he suggesting any-one should be able to claim farm status with-out any proof of farm income?

It’s worth noting the taxes saved by Mr. Neville when he obtains farm status, must be made up by other taxpayers.

Carl Eriksen

Central Saanich

Sidney drivers getting a break

Re: Exam fee clarity needed, PNR Sept. 2.

Driving a motor vehicle in our province is considered to be a privilege, and not a right.

ICBC has require-ments for medical examinations to be done at certain ages for different classes of licenses. All drivers 80 years of age and older require a medical examination every two years to continue the privilege of driving.

This medical exami-nation is not covered

by the Medical Ser-vices Plan and is the responsibility of the driver.

The fee that has been recommended by our professional orga-nization, The Doctors of BC, is $193. Physi-cians are not used to charging patients directly, and people in this province are not used to paying cash for physician services.

Hence, most doctors charge less than this recommended amount and the fee in Sidney varies from $75 to $135 in most offices that I am aware of. Almost everyone in town is actually getting a finan-cial break from the rec-ommended amount.

Some drivers’ exams are done for medical reasons and MSP pays $75 towards the cost

of the recommended $193. Some, but not all, physicians balance the bill for the remainder of what that office usu-ally charges for a driv-ers exam.

Maybe this will help clarify the situation.

Dr. Elizabeth Rhoades

Sidney

Ducking debates doesn’t do

Re: With more time,

will more voters care? (B.C. Views, Aug. 19).

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair will not attend a debate October 8 because Stephen Harper will not be there.

What are you, chil-dren in a daycare cen-tre? You are asking me for a job. If I went in for a job interview and told the interviewer that I would only par-ticipate under certain circumstances, would I get hired? No.

We need to hear

every word you can say to make an informed decision. We need to hear the truth of your life. I abso-lutely hate the negative propaganda that I am hearing in the media.

I have run in an elec-tion and participated in every aspect. I entered every debate, knocked on doors and had pub-lic appearances. I lost but I have the knowl-edge that I tried my hardest.

Andrew LudingtonEsquimalt

The recent $3 billion expenditure to buy votes for the Conserva-tives (re: the Universal Child Tax Credit) have left many Canadi-ans out in the cold.

I don’t think there are any Canadians who begrudge helping families trying to keep up with housing, food, day care, and ever increasing utility costs, but to hand out this tax credit to those earning in excess of $100,000 per year has been a slap in the face of many Canadians.

Seniors living on fixed incomes are hit every year with the government clawing back on benefits and contributing to the cost of living increases.

People living on permanent disability are shut out of all financial aid programs. It is almost impossible to qualify for the Disabil-ity Tax Credit unless you are totally blind, suffer from serious mental disabilities or are nearly dead.

To watch the smugness of this announcement and calling it Christmas in

Summer should be an insult to Canadians’ sensitivities.

An extensive look at this Universal Tax Credit by Financial Investors and the Cana-dian Tax Federation, the expert number crunchers, have shown this “Hollywood” dole out is going to amount to $14 per child, once you factor in the loss of the Child Tax Credit and factor in the taxes at tax time.

This is another padding for the wealthy who will put the money in their children’s

education fund or an RRSP. A closer look at the Conservative gov-

ernment’s funding policies, this Universal Child Tax Credit pales by comparison to the corporate welfare they dole out to multi-million profit companies, who cry foul when they don’t reach their ever grow-ing profit lines from one year to the next, amidst the global market.

Jo-Anne BerezanskiNorth Saanich

Tax credit doesn’t help Canadians who need it

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Political junkies will be able to get their fix of Sid-ney municipal council — even if they cannot make it to regular meetings.

Later this fall, the Town will complete the instal-lation of video and audio equipment designed to record municipal council meetings. The Town engaged the services of Granicus Government Transparency Suite (Granicus), which is already in use in Central Saanich and North Saanich to record their council meetings.

Sidney will pay approximately $12,000 to install a video camera and all related hardware and soft-ware. Videos would be posted to the Town’s web-site for public perusal and the videos archived.

Mayor Steve Price said council meetings were, at one time, broadcast by Shaw Cable, but since they left a few years ago, the Town has been mull-ing its options. He said the service will be invalu-able to those residents who might be interested in local municipal government, but who might not be able to get out to the meetings in person.

Price did not have an exact date when the video system would be operational, only to say it will be later this fall. He is anticipating a single wide view camera to be installed and each microphone wired to record councillors’ and public present-ers’ voices.

The council chambers are already wired to enable the hard of hearing better access to meet-ings.

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Candidates in this Octo-ber’s federal election will participate in a question and answer public forum this month.

The Peninsula News Review is supporting the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce as it hosts an all candidates forum Sept. 14 at the Parkland Second-ary School gym.

Chamber Executive Director Denny Warner says all candidates in the Saanich-Gulf Islands rid-ing have confirmed they will attend — apart from recently-minted Conserva-tive candidate Robert Boyd.

Boyd was only nomi-nated by the local Conser-vative constituency asso-ciation on the weekend of August 31.

Warner said she hopes all the candidates will be at the forum and confirmed at this time are Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, the NDP’s Alicia Cormier and Tim Kane of the Liberal Party.

The event will be a ques-

tion-and-answer format only.

People will be able to submit questions in writ-ing to a panel and the moderator will pose those questions to all or individ-ual candidates.

The forum’s moderator will be CTV Vancouver Island’s Lousie Hartland.

Leading up to the forum, Warner said people can submit questions at the Chamber’s website (pen-insulachamber.ca).

The candidates will be given the opportunity for short opening and closing statements, with people’s questions on a variety of issues in between. Warner said she hopes there will be a good turnout — as the forum could be one of the only opportunities to hear from the federal elec-tion candidates prior to election day on Oct. 19.

The all candidates forum is a free event and takes place at the Parkland Sec-ondary School gym (10640 McDonald Park Rd.) at 7 p.m.

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Most candidates already confirmedSomewhere in the innards of this

confounded machine are several attempts at a new column, but am

I able to find them? The answer is a defi-nite, and miserable “NO!” So here we go again. Please wish me luck!

Last week we were out in the garden collecting the rewards of a summer’s efforts at vegetable gardening. And what a summer it has been! I hope you are put-ting some of it away for later use.

Today, two lovely men arrived with many pounds of just-picked Red Deli-cious apples from our used-to-be neigh-bour’s tree. We had owned that lot years ago and I had planted that tree so, in a funny way, it seemed like the apples were coming home. I am so grateful to Jack Robertson when he arrived with his brother to bring me a big bag of them.

Some of the apples, I’ll put in the fridge to be eaten as fresh fruit. The others will, hopefully, become apple sauce to tuck away in the freezer for winter desserts. Sorry to mention that unpleasant word “winter” again.

Actually the changing seasons are wonderful. Winter is only unpleasant when you neither ice-skate nor ski and are worried about falling, break-ing a hip and spending the rest of your life unable to dance. Last winter one of my daughters gave me a set of rubber gizmos you fasten to the soles of your shoes to prevent slipping.

The weather was so mild I never used them but they are in the hall closet in case they are needed this year. My kids are good to me, thank goodness.

If your house plants have spent their summer outdoors under a shade tree, it’s getting close to the time to bring them inside.

I’d like to suggest that you examine them care-fully to make sure the pots aren’t also containing some sly intruders (sow bugs, earwigs, aphids), all

determined to survive the chilly weather by moving in with you.

Water plants well and let them drain outside, to save yourself at least one pesky watering when they come inside. Before you bring them in, decide where they are going to live this winter. It saves a lot of “to-ing and fro-ing,” especially if you are carrying them while you decide. They will need good daylight and a sau-cer under each pot to protect the table or window sill, while keeping them grow-ing happily when there is a lot less day-light.

When there is an opportunity to give advice it’s hard to shut the advisor (me) up and I can’t honestly promise to be less long-winded in the future. I can’t seem to help myself.

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Oh boy! You better not make any mis-takes when passing on a recipe, or you’re in deep dodo.

I did it when giving out a recipe for apple sauce cake, leaving out the amount of flour needed. My sincerest apologies to you brave souls who tried and ended up with a sort of apple sauce soup.

Cooks who have been baking for years would have realized that there was something very important missing and tossed the recipe aside, (thinking evil thoughts about me).

Grace, who also lives in my condo building, brought a copy of the News Review to show me my error. I am truly sorry, all you dear people who tried.

By the way, it was two cups of flour.

Helen Lang has been the Peninsula News Review’s garden columnist for more than 30 years.

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SIDNEY — Local police are warning resi-dents to be aware of a phone scam making the rounds.

Dubbed the Canada Revenue Agency (or CRA) scam, a caller identifies themselves as a fraud investigator or officer from the CRA. The caller then tells you that the CRA has important information to relay to you.

The caller provides a false file number and badge number. The caller then proceeds

to tell you there was an error with your tax return and that you owe the CRA a sum of money.

The caller then threatens that if you do not pay the fee, there will be a CRA officer attending your house to arrest you. In some instances, the caller requests that you send the money via Western Union.

Police advise that the CRA does not operate like this and people will never be asked to send money in this fashion by the CRA.

The Sidney North Saanich RCMP reports

that in a few cases, local citizens have lost more than $3,500.

Police advise peo-ple to not give a caller any personal informa-tion. Either hang up or tell the caller that you will phone the CRA directly to verify this information.

Recently, a Sidney resident received this call and recognized there was something suspicious about the caller.

Police state the resi-dent did the right thing by telling the caller he was going to call the CRA directly to verify the information — and

at that time, the caller promptly hung up.

Police added that a caller involved in this scam may have a “for-eign” accent and that there may be back-ground noises (sound-ing like the caller is call-ing from a telemarket-ing centre).

One of the telephone numbers associated with this scam is 613-699-2403.

If you receive any similar calls you are urged to call the Sidney North Saanich RCMP or your local police office.

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The Victoria Radio Controlled Modelers Society presented two cheques for $14,000 each to CFAX Santa’s Anonymous and the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation. It was money they raised at their Largest Little Airshow in Central Saanich last month. From left, VRCMS’ Jack Price, Christine Hewitt, executive director of Santa’s Anonymous, Gordon Benn and Karen Morgan of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation and Mike Scholefield of VRCMS.

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A copy of the Commission’s draft Terms of Reference is available on the Town’s website at www.sidney.ca. A schedule of the meetings has not been determined, however they will be held during the day and during the work week. Members will be expected to dedicate their time and expertise for a two-year term. Preference will be given to applicants with strong background knowledge and experience in economic development.

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Having spent much of her life with the Tsartlip First Nation, Sylvia Olsen has been focusing on the place between First Nations and non-First Nations communities — the place in the middle of race relations.

Olsen has written 17 books, Working with Wool being one of them. The book has won awards and is one of her most well-known. She enjoys knitting and the idea of the book came to her as she married into the com-munity, lived there and raised her kids there. She realized that every-one there was knitting what are known as Cowichan sweaters. And so, Olsen wrote about the significance of the sweater in terms of it bringing together native and non-native communities.

“The sweater is, I think, the most inter-esting historical story British Columbia has in terms of native, non-native in the sense that the native women learned to knit. They already made wool … and they created this sweater that has become incredibly famous through the 20th century,” she said.

The popular sweat-ers are seen in large stores around the world.

“They created an industry of producing these sweaters and so (they) were the main source of income for Coast Salish women and (people) loved them so everybody then had to have one.”

In terms of her inter-est in the concept of a place between the two communities, Olsen said Canada has done a bad job of race rela-tions.

“I work across the country and we just haven’t done a good job of either getting to know each other or coming to terms with each other if we do get to know each other. Neither side does a particularly good job of that,” she said.

With her children being all members of the local First Nation,

she has been interested in the place as she has lived it herself and has experienced a devastat-ing lack of understand-ing between it and neighbouring commu-

nities on the Saanich Peninsula.

She said with four First Nations here, it makes sense to have the conversation with the community.

After sitting down with the PNR, Olsen said that when it comes to her work, she is not as much a writer as she is a storyteller.

“I’ve always got sto-ries and it’s just a really good way to express them, so I’m always motivated to write because I’ve always got stories I want to tell.”

Her stories are about her observations, the people she knows and the things she has seen and she said there isn’t always a purpose.

Olsen said that peo-ple often create their own stories about what they don’t know, not on what they do and that there is often a stereo-type when it comes to on-reserve housing. Nasty, broken-down, shabby houses usually comes to mind.

“In a country like ours, we imagine that when we see a house that it has something

very much to do with the person in the house.”

Olsen is working on her doctoral degree on reserve housing, working in the field for around 20 years and liv-ing in on-reserve hous-ing for almost 40 years.

“When you’re 17 and you move as a little blonde, white girl, you move from life on the

other side and then you move onto a reserve.”

She asked how a country like Canada can pull off such an enormous disaster and mistake as on-reserve housing and wonders how that was really happened.

THE ARTSSylvia Olsen: the place between communities


Sylvia Olsen with one of her Cowichan sweaters. The Tsartlip resident and author will speak at a Sept. 11 fundraiser for the Sidney & Peninsula Literacy Festival. See page 13 for event details.

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Corporation of the District of Central Saanich

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE is hereby given of a PUBLIC HEARING to be held in the Central Saanich Municipal Hall, 1903 Mt. Newton Cross Road, Saanichton, BC, at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 with regard to the following proposed Bylaw to amend LAND USE BYLAW NO. 1309, 1999, and with regard to a proposed Temporary Use Permit.

CENTRAL SAANICH LAND USE BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 1872, 2015(1870 Keating Cross Road)

In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to amend Central Saanich Land Use Bylaw No. 1309, 1999 specifically for the property at 1870 Keating Cross Road (as shown shaded on the map) by adding text to Section 36A designating the southern non-ALR portion of the property as an area where Temporary Use Permits may be issued.

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A Temporary Use Permit has also been requested to allow a landscape contractor business to operate on the southern, non-ALR portion of the property at 1870 Keating Cross Road in conjunction with a plant nursery and other farm uses.

A copy of the proposed Bylaw, proposed Temporary Use Permit, Land Use Bylaw No. 1309, 1999, Official Community Plan Bylaw 1600, 2008, staff reports, and other related information that may be considered by Council may be inspected at the Central Saanich Municipal Hall, 1903 Mt. Newton Cross Road, Saanichton, BC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding holidays, from the date of this notice to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 15, 2015, inclusive.

All persons who believe that their interest in property may be affected by the proposed Bylaw and Permit shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing, either in person, by representative, or by written submission, on all matters contained in the proposed Bylaw at the above mentioned time, date and place. The entire content of all submissions will be made public and form a part of the public record for this matter.

No representations will be received by Council after the Public Hearing has been concluded.

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Help Vancouver Island police officers support children with cancer by laughing a little — or a lot — at a Comedy for Cancer Gala in Sidney next month.

Organizers hoping to support this year’s Cops For Cancer Tour de Rock have put together an evening of great food and entertainment at the Mary Win-spear Centre. Comedian Mike Delamont headlines the event, Thursday, Oct. 1, doors open at 6 p.m. The Tour riders arrive at around 6:30 p.m. and the gala kicks off at 7, with dinner served by Island Culinary Ser-vice, a cash bar, balloon pop and 50/50 draw. The event is for people 19-plus.

Laura Lavin, one of the organizers and editor of Monday Magazine, says the gala marks a return to local events held to support the Tour de Rock.

“There were Red Serge dinners in the past and the com-munity were very supportive,” she said, “so we’re really hoping people will step up and join in the fun and celebra-tion for the riders who will be on the second to last day of their 1,000 km ride down Vancouver Island.”

The Tour de Rock starts Saturday, Sept. 19 in Port Alice and finishes Friday, Oct. 2 at the Victoria Spirit Square. A team of 20 police officers and one media rider have been raising money to support kids with cancer.

We have riders from both Sidney North Saanich RCMP, Devin Fidler, and Central Saanich Police, Dillon Sahota, this year, “ Lavin continued. “The gala is a great way to thank them for their service and sacrifice which will help children fighting cancer and their families through research and Camp Goodtimes.”

“We are so grateful to have so much support from the community so far,” Lavin said. “Our organizing committee has grown as folks from the business community have joined with us to create this fundraiser which has the potential to make the lives of kids with cancer in our community better.”

Tickets are $50 each or busi-ness and groups can sponsor a table for $500. That table price includes reservations for seven — and one of the Tour riders. Lavin said it’s a great way to get to know a rider personally and learn about the Tour itself.

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Comedian Mike Delamont will lend his award-winning and critically-acclaimed talent to the Oct. 1 Comedy for Cancer Gala, in support of this year’s Tour de Rock.

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Her dissertation, she explained, looks at the government program that was set in place for housing and she will be mak-ing a future book a memoir of how she has lived, worked and studied on-reserve housing for many years.

“I lived in it for 35 years and it was a very faulty, mistaken adventure, it really was.”

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Bob McDonald and Sylvia Olsen will be giving a discussion at the SHOAL Centre in Sidney Sept. 11 in a fundraiser for the second Sidney & Peninsula Literary Festival.

McDonald, host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks science program, will be giving a more illustrated talk focusing on three Canadian astro-nauts in space and some of the expe-riences they’ve had there. He will also relate his own experience, as he has also done some of the things that the astronauts have.

Olsen, a local storyteller, will talk about how cultures can come together. She will focus primarily on the place between native and non-native communities. Having spent a majority of her life living in Tsartlip First Nation and being non-native herself, her children are still of mixed heritage and so her stories focus around where different sorts of people come together.

The fundraising event is Sept. 11 beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at Tanner’s Books in Sidney or at Munro’s Books in Victoria or online at sidneyliterary-festival.ca.

Gillian Crowley, Festival commit-tee volunteer, encourages people to purchase tickets as soon as possible as they are selling quickly. Proceeds from ticket sales go directly towards the festival.

This is the Literary Festival’s sec-ond year and will be held Oct. 2 to 4. It was held for the first time in 2013 and has since had a break.

“I think we’ve managed to get a buzz going out there and we feel that it’s going to be really well attended,” Crowley said.

They have been able to bring in some regional and local writers to give readings and there will be around 16 authors with another three writers who will be working in the schools with a local school pro-gram on the Friday of the Festival. [email protected]

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Craig Henderson has been into classical music for as long as he can remember, since start-ing to play the piano at age six.

His father, Gordon, who is a guitar player in the trio that bears his son’s name, later helped spark his interest in big names like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Tony Benett — stars he covers in his band on a regular basis.

“I was always drawn to the piano, in particular,” said the 20-something musician at his Deep Cove home.

“I’ve always really liked music because my dad would always play music really loud when mom was out of the house and he introduced me to a lot of stuff that we play, the three of us.”

Gordon was in a rock band in his early to mid-20s

Craig’s current group — the Craig Henderson Trio — consists of his first jazz piano teacher, Bill Kent, who plays bass and his father, who plays guitar. Kent taught the younger Henderson to play jazz piano. But when he was 12, Craig said he wanted to try veering away from classical music. He stayed with Kent until he was around 15.

The band started off with just Craig playing piano and the oth-ers playing guitar and bass, with no singing. But as they got more and more into it, Craig began to sing and the music took on a life of its own.

Their repertoire is mostly songs out of what’s called The Great American Songbook with music written mostly from the 1920s to 1950s.

It’s not every day that one sees a young man in his early 20s into the classics, but for Craig, it’s just something different about the songs that they play that has

him drawn.“There’s a quality to them

that I don’t hear in a lot of other music. There’s a quality that this music has that’s unique to that genre that I can’t really find in most other genres,” he said.

Although he likes other music as well — Billy Joel being one of his favourites — he is inspired by the jazzy Michael Bublé in the way he interacts with his audi-ence.

“I always admire performers that are not just good musicians but really know how to put on a good show and Bublé is defi-nitely one of those guys.”

The trio currently performs every second Thursday at the Empress Hotel in the Bengal Lounge. They also perform at birthdays, weddings and fun-draisers. Craig said the music those type of events is kept low key, as people are usually tak-ing part in other activities. He added the band is there, in the

background, for others to enjoy.“It’s just a genre of music that

people kind of universally seem to enjoy. I haven’t really met anybody that actively hates that kind of music,” he said.

Craig performed Monday at the Saanich Fair and said that was probably one of his biggest shows as it was his first time performing there with the band, covering a range of well-known artists.

Craig constantly takes a cover letter down to businesses in Vic-toria, always trying to see where they can play next.

Playing the piano every day, Henderson has started songwrit-ing, but won’t perform his songs publicly until he is ready.

He plans to eventually move to Vancouver to pursue his dreams of making a living as a performer.

“I’m kind of taking things one step at a time.”[email protected]

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Craig Henderson of North Saanich plays piano and sings in a trio with his father and his first jazz piano teacher.

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NORTH SAANICH — Before the rain came in North Vancouver, Pen-insula Track’s Myrtle Acton and Peggy Mor-fitt were both topping the podium in the B.C. 55-plus Games, previ-ously known as the B.C. Seniors Games.

While it might be a surprise to many who still think that older women can no longer take part in track and field activities, Acton, in the women’s 80-84 cate-gory, and Morfitt, wom-en’s 75-79 class, both won their gold medals in the hammer throw-ing event. Acton, who lives in Sooke but trains at Parkland Secondary School with Pen Track, set two new Canadian age-group records.

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Added to these two wins, Acton also brought back four other gold medals, having tri-umphed in the discus, with a throw of 15.49m, the javelin (13.47m), weight throw (6.92m) and shot with 5.95m, although she threw 6.14m in that event in the Throws Pentathlon.

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It’s back to school week for some, but back to yoga week for the little guys and girls taking part in the story yoga pre-school program at the Greenglade Com-munity Centre.

Founder and Instructor of Story Yoga, Vanessa Braun will be teaching the first class of the year on Sept. 8, running inde-pendently from the rec. centre.

Founded in 2009, Story Yoga was origi-nally designed as more of an extra cur-ricular program that used literature as a segue into inspiring a yoga experience for children with Braun doing summer camps, consultations and adult work-shops. In 2012, she was presented with the opportunity to teach a preschool pro-gram for kids as there was a space that needed to be filled. She then began teach-ing one class with 10 kids at Greenglade. Now into its third year and offered five days a week, Story Yoga has grown to 40 kids.

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PICKERS

ROBBINS WREATHS Looking for Pickers... Large Volumes We Buy Greens 27 Inches Long Cedar and Douglas Fir 32/lb White Pine,Noble Fir Sil-ver Fir and Mountain Hemlock 37 /lb. Call 1 250 757 9661 Qualicum email : [email protected]

SALES

SLEEP COUNTRY CANADA is hiring : Sales Associate in Victoria, BC! Apply now: visit www.sleepcountry.ca or email your resume: [email protected]

VOLUNTEERS

BC CANCER Agency is look-ing for a Café Volunteer. No experience is necessary, only a willingness to learn. Commit-ment would be a 3 hour shift per week for a six month peri-od M-F between 7 am and 4 pm. Please contact Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

BIG BROTHERS Big Sisters Victoria is looking for volunteer Big Brothers and Sisters to match with Little Brothers or Sisters based on similar inter-ests. Experience the magic of everyday moments with a friend. Commitment is 2 to 4 hours per week for at least one year. Call 250-386-2269.

FOR THE Love of Africa is looking for volunteers to man-age the society’s social media in collaboration with their pub-licity manager. Call 250-386-2269.

PERSONAL SERVICES

MIND BODY & SPIRIT

KRIPALU MASSAGE, Reiki, Acupressure, Chair Massage. I have relaxed clients that have been with me for 5-12 years. See testimonials on website. Women only. Located in beautiful setting off the Gorge. Call 250-514-6223 or online: www.andreakober.comTake $20 off your second booked massage!

PERSONAL SERVICES

HOLISTIC HEALTH

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PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEORETOUCH, RESTORE, EditPhotos. Home Movies to DVD.Also, Portraiture, Baby, Family+ Maternity. 250-475-3332. www.cwpics.com

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

FRIENDLY FRANKCAGE: WIRE, lrg, 23x14x16,$10. Original Cabbage Patchdoll, $25. (778)426-3424.

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HOKEY POKEY record and other young dances for chil-dren, $5. Call (250)598-1265.

SEWING MACHINE, Singer ivory, $25. Children’s set table & 4 chairs $25. (250)479-0182

FUEL/FIREWOOD

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

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ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-elry. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700.

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RENTALS

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PARKING SPACE near Lans-downe Camosun College. 3 min. walk to campus. Only $75/mo. Save $55/mo (more with reduced rate for two vehi-cles). Chris, 250-595-0370.

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

GOLDSTREAM AREA- 1400 sq ft, newly furnished. W/D, D/W, A/C. Big deck & yard, hi-def TV, parking. Working male only. $650 inclusive. Call Ray 778-433-1233.

SUITES, LOWER

DEEP COVE: lrg 1 bdrm, acreage, hot tub. W/D, cats ok, N/S. $850+. 250-656-1312

WANTED TO RENT

SENIOR NON-SMOKING re-tired couple from Ontario look-ing to spend 3 months Jan-Mar in Sidney or Victoria this winter, have spent last 7 years with same owner in Saanich and Sidney which is no longer available. Ref’s upon request. Please email: [email protected]

SIDNEY: SENIORS looking to sublet condo/apt, 5 mos. be-ginning Nov 1. 807-548-4878.

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO SERVICES

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

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AUTO SERVICES

WASH AWAY that summer grime. Interior, exterior and complete car detailing. Sidney Auto Detailing 250-655-6395 sidneyautodetailing.ca

CARS

2010 CHEVY Cobalt LT, 4 door, black, power everything, auto, A/C, less then 73,000km, $9000 with full tank of gas! Call 250-634-8586.

We Buy Cars!Scrap Junk

Running or Not!Cars Trucks Vans$50 to $1000FREE TOW AWAY

250-686-3933MOTORCYCLES

2008 HONDA Motorcycle, 919 (red). Only 22,000 km. Just serviced. No drops. $4,900. Call (250)361-0052.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLESFOR SALE

2013 34’ Keystone Cougar 293SAB Fifth Wheel. Immacu-late, only used 4 weeks. 5 year warranty available. 3 slide outs, rear room with bunks, 2nd bathroom, alumi-num frame, bike rack, electric awning. Lots of extras nego-tiable. $35,500. 250-882-6707.

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CARPENTRY

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

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

CLEANING SERVICES

AFFORDABLE! SUPPLIES & vacuum incld’d. All lower Is-land areas. 250-385-5869.

ELECTRICAL

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

BERNIE OSBORNE Electric Res/Com. Reasonable rates. Lic #15478. 250-386-9108.

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. Work Guaran-teed. Any size job. Call (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

FENCING

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


GARDENING

(250)208-8535. Landscaping Tree & hedge pruning, full yard clean-up, soil delivery, hauling. 25yrs experience.

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LAWNS and Gardens need special care after a summer of drought. Call 250-516-5367 for a free consultation with a Pro-fessional Gardener.

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

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GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free estimate

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

Vinyl Siding CleaningRoof Sweep & De-MossingCarpentry * Yard Cleanup

Handyman RepairsFree Estimates

WCB Insured, BBB Certifi ed; Now accepting Visa/ MC

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HANDYPERSONS

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

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


HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

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

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

HAUL A WAY Junk & garbage removal. Clean & green. Free quotes. Sr disc. 778-350-5050

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

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

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

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

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


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FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.


MASONRY & BRICKWORK

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

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A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

HIGH QUALITY and FAST. Professional Painting. $20./hr. Free est. Glenn 778-967-3607.

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LADY PAINTERServing the Peninsula for over 20 yrs. Interior/exterior. Call Bernice, 250-655-1127.


PAINTING

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.

PLUMBING

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BLAINE’S WINDOW WASH-ING. Serving Sidney & Brent-wood since 1983. Averagehouse $35. 250-656-1475

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ArtsTHE WEST COAST

Chamber Players will be presenting An Afternoon with JS Bach and GP Telemann on Sept. 27 at 2 p.m. at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Sidney. Featuring Soprano Nancy Washeim in Cantatas by Bach

and Concerto for Piccolo Trumpet as well as Concerto for Two Horns by Telemann. Tickets will be sold at Tanner’s Books and at the door.

ART SHOWS AT the Community Arts Council of the Saanich Peninsula

Tulista Gallery. Into the Garden, Sept. 5 to 20 — Embroiderer’s Guild of Victoria: fine needlework in a colourful variety of styles. Visit cacsp.com for show details.

THE VICTORIA MENDELSSOHN Choir directed by Simon Leung invites only experienced Altos, Tenors and Basses to audition for their Fall 2015 Season. Auditions will take place on Sept. 12 and 13 from 2 to 5 p.m. at 4918 Cordova Bay Road. Contact Clara at [email protected] or 250-590-6335 to book your audition time and for more information.

EventsPENINSULA COUNTRY

MARKET, Saturday mornings, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saanich Fairgrounds. Enjoy a country morning among friends. Call 250-216-0521 or visit peninsula-countrymarket.ca.

Health

LEARN TO SKATE with Peninsula Figure Skating Club! Registration night takes place Thursday, Sept. 10 at Panorama Recreation Centre from 5:30 to 7 p.m. For more information see pfsc.homestead.com or email [email protected].

ACTIVE LISTENING COURSE Beacon Community Services at SHOAL Centre is offering a course for those interested in volunteering as part of the Friendly

Visitors program. Mondays and Wednesdays Sept. 14 to 30. 1 to 3 p.m. Free. Call Deb at 250 656-5537 ext. 106 or [email protected].

FALL PREVENTION FOR Men and Women, SHOAL Centre, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Sept. 15 to Oct. 22; $95. A great course to help with anyone who is at risk of falling. Call 250-656-5537 to register.

JEWEL SPOONER RETURNS with the

SHOAL Centre Song Circle, every Friday, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 11 until Oct. 30 (no circle Oct. 9). This is a great opportunity to sing golden oldies, folk, sea shanties and treasured songs (no experience necessary). Fees apply. Call to register, 250-656-5537.Instruments welcomed.

MeetingsTHE PENINSULA

GARDEN Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Sept. 14 at the Mary Winspear Center in Sidney. Ann Nightingale of the Rocky Point bird Observatory will give us an illustrated talk about

the many species of birds found on Vancouver Island. Visitors welcome. Non-member drop-in is $5.

THE CANADIAN FEDERATION of University Women (Saanich Peninsula) will hold the first meeting of the fall on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Mary Winspear Centre. Rebeccah Nelems will be the guest speaker (Empathy and Evolving Conceptions of Citizenship in a Digital World). Her research particularly looks at how being “plugged in” is particularly affecting Canadian youth. Visitors are welcome.

COMMUNITY CALENDARTHE NEWS REVIEW provides this community calendar free of charge, giving preference to Saanich Peninsula clubs, organizations

and individuals holding non-profit events in our readership area. Publication is not guaranteed. Calendar items should

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REAL ESTATE


Mayor of Central Saanich Ryan Windsor and President of the Saanich Fair, Clara Knight, cut the ribbon Sept. 2 to officially open the Kidz Zone at the Saanich Fair. Assistant Central Saanich fire Chief John Robertson, right, looks on with his kids along with new police chief, Les Sylven and Central Saanich police officer, Anil Apa and his child.

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Haunted Bookshop9807 3rd St. 250-656-8805 Hours: 10-5 dailyEmail: [email protected] Haunted Bookshop (est. 1947) buys, sells & appraises quality books, ephemera & maps, serving the recreational reader, the scholar & the collector.

Haunted Bookshop9807 3rd St. 250-656-8805 Hours: 10-5 dailyEmail: [email protected]“Haunted by the ghosts of all great literature”, the Island’s oldest bookshop (Est. 1947) offers volumes in most subjects – from the antique & unusual to the almost new.

Dig This9813 3 St, Sidney, BC V8L 3A6Phone:(778) 426-1998 Hours: from 10am daily, Sun noon

Dig This Sidney is a sophisticated & inspiring gift and outdoor living destination located just off Beacon.

Christine Laurent Jewellerswww.christinelaurentjewellers.ca2432 Beacon Ave. 250-656-7141Hours: Tues to Sat, 10 am to 5 pmShopping for that special person on your list can often be a challenge. Not so when you visit Christine Laurent Jewellers and behold their incredible selection of gorgeous Diamonds, Gold and Birthstone jewellery, Sterling Silver and specially selected giftware to please the most discriminating person on your list.

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ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH

Sunday Worship & Children’s Program at 10:30 amMinister: Rev. David Drake

Music: Mary Lou DayFifth & Malaview, Sidney250-656-3213

www.stpaulsunited.info

RESTHAVEN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH9300 Willingdon Rd. 250-544-0720

www.sidneyadventist.ca Saturday Worship ..........................11:00

“Everyone Welcome”

SAANICH PENINSULAPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

9296 East Saanich Rd.at Willingdon

10:00 a.m. ............................Worship

SUNDAY SCHOOL & NURSERYA Warm Welcome Awaits You!

Rev. Irwin Cunningham250-656-2241

Come Worship With UsEveryone Welcome

Sunday Worship 10am9300 Willingdon Road

Pastor Travis StewartT: 250-885-7133

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Fifth & Malaview, Sidney250-656-3213

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RESTHAVEN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH

9300 Willingdon Rd.250-544-0720

www.sidneyadventist.ca Saturday Worship 11:00

“Everyone Welcome”

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ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH

Sunday Worship & Children’sProgram at 10:30 am

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TOP FLOOR SIDNEY CONDO!

$199,5002 bedroom, 2 bath freshly updated top � oor condo. New paint, carpet, lino, baseboards, lights, toilets, sinks, taps, stove & hardware. Enjoy views of the garden & trees. 55+. Garden plots available. Small pet ok. Short stroll to Shoal Centre, library & Sidney Village!


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Michell's is a sixth generation family owned and operated farm growing seasonal produce year round. The Michell family has been a part of the community since the late 1800's and has been farming land in Central Saanich for over a century. The farm started out growing berry's and potatoes on 100 acres of land. Today we have evolved to 500+ acres and grow over 50 products including fruits, vegetables, and grains. There is always something to offer at the farm market located at 2451 Island View Road, between the Pat Bay Highway and Lochside Trail. In the spring you will � nd fresh tender lettuces, rhubarb, local asparagus and throughout the summer there is a lovely abundance of berries, greens, beans, peas, broccoli, cauli� ower, and more. The best time of the year though is the transition into early fall, when the corn is plump and sweet, apples and

squash are ready for baking and the Brussels Sprouts are just around the corner. The Pumpkin Patch opens in October where families and friends gather to pick their pumpkins, smile for photos and make memories

together. Throughout winter there are plenty of root veggies, cole crops, leeks and the very popular 'Spring Greens' round out the season in February and March. Michell's pasture raised beef is also available year round, which is hormone and antibiotic free. The cattle are grass fed and � nished with Michell grains and most of the year can be seen from the side of Island View Road. Majority of our cattle are bred and raised from birth at Michell's Farm,

which guarantees a 100 percent local product. The Michell family and everyone at Michell's Farm would like to thank our customers for their support over the years! Happy Harvest!

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