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Thursday Night Market expandsA new initiative last summer was the Thursday night markets at the Sooke Region Museum. The vendors, including food trucks, now stretch from the front of the museum all along the side by the outdoor exhibits. Top left is Tony Kost with his wood cutting boards, and top right, the vendors at the front of the museum.

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Kayak poloFast-paced action in water polo takes place every Thursday night beginning at 6 p.m. at Coopers Cove. See full story on the sport on page 28.

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Jamboree Open House

June 14, 1-4 p.m. at Camp Barnard, 3202 Young Lk Rd up at the Lodge. Welcome Neigh-bours!

After four years of intensive prepara-tion, the date is finally upon us. Officially starting on Saturday, July 11, Pacific Jambo-ree (PJ2015) will be at Camp Barnard.

They will be welcom-ing approximately 3,000 people from across Canada and some from other countries to join in this amazing week-long event.

To find out details of how this will affect you and our community, please join us for an afternoon chat up at the Lodges. Local Scouters who are involved with PJ2015 will be in atten-dance.

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BC Cancer Founda-tion door-to-door can-vassers are currently in your community. Canvassers will intro-duce local residents to the BC Cancer Founda-tion, the largest funder of cancer research in the province, and the monthly donor pro-gram.

Monthly donations support the life-sav-ing research taking place at the BC Can-cer Agency—helping to change the way the world prevents, detects and treats cancer. For security and safety pur-poses, canvassers wear ID badges and BC Can-cer Foundation purple vests. Please note that BC Cancer Foundation canvassers will invite you to take part in the foundation’s monthly giving program only and WILL NOT accept cash or one-time gifts at the door. Once you have signed up for monthly gifts, you will receive an email confir-mation immediately.

If you have any ques-tions relating to the-door-to-door program, partner in discovery monthly giving pro-gram, or a fundraiser in your neighbourhood, do not hesitate to call Sue McCulloch at 1-888-906-2873 or visit bccan-cerfoundation.com.

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New pastor in Sooke

The Terrace Pente-costal Assembly lost its senior pastor to Vancouver Island this week.

Lowell Holmquist, who has been at the church for 15 years, is now a campus pas-tor for the Christian Life Assembly in Sooke which is located west of Victoria.

“I began to sense that the church was in need of new leadership,” said Holmquist of his decision to leave.

In his decade-and-a-half in Terrace, Hol-mquist has volunteered as a firefighter and was involved with the Ter-race and District Chris-tian Council for Social Resources. Holmquist spent three years as a chaplain for the various emergency services agencies in Terrace.

He hopes to offer the same type of chap-

laincy once settled in Sooke.

Holmquist’s new Sooke church, the Christian Life Assem-bly, is a small one which currently rebroadcasts sermons from a parent church in Langley.

“My role is to help this new church estab-lish itself in Sooke,” explained Holmquist.

Holmquist has three teenaged sons with his wife Marci.

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Jamie DOLPHIN - age 21, wanted for Breach of Probation.

Joshua LAFLEUR - age 24, wanted for Obstruction/person-ation/PSP/Fail to Appear/Trafficking.

Anyone with infor-mation on the where-abouts of any of these persons can contact Sooke RCMP at (250) 642-5241 or Crimestop-

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You will be given a code number. This should be kept to your-self in order to remain anonymous.

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Three months of investigation has led the Sooke RCMP to arrest 13 individuals for drug trafficking.

Sooke RCMP and the Island District RCMP General Inves-tigation Section have arrested a thirteenth individual in relation to a three month long targeted drug enforce-ment project. Jason Morrison, 42, of Sooke was arrested on June 4, 2015, and is now facing three charges of drug trafficking. He has been released from custody by a Judicial Justice of the Peace, and is sched-uled to appear next in Western Communities Provincial Court on June 25, 2015.

“This is the thir-teenth drug related arrest we’ve made in Sooke over that last week”, says S/Sgt. Jeff McArthur, Detachment Commander of the Sooke RCMP. “This is the fifth person to be criminally charged as a result of this ongoing enforcement project.”

Sooke RCMP have been targeting drug dealers and so far 13 people have been arrested. RCMP officers assigned to the project used a variety of inves-tigative methods to gather intelligence and build a criminal case against those involved in the trafficking of ille-gal drugs in and around Sooke.

The drug bust in Sooke on May 27 on Lanark Road led to the further arrests of Sooke residents. The RCMP have, over the last three months, gath-ered intelligence and built criminal cases against those involved in the trafficking of ille-gal drugs. Investigators seized quantities of ille-gal drugs believed to be heroin, cocaine, meth-

amphetamine, GHB, and marihuana, as well as Canadian currency and a Cadillac Escalade truck.

Over a dozen local and regional RCMP officers have been assigned to the project.

S/Sgt. MacArthur said the arrests were not connected to each other. Search warrants were executed on the weekend of May 29-31 at residences in the 2000 block of Kalta-sin Road, 2200 block of French Road North and the 2500 block of Sooke River Road. He said some of the cases involved a dial-a-dope type of operation but each had their own type of operation.

“It’s not like Vancou-ver where there is a dif-ferent dealer each time, here they know the individual,” said McAr-thur. He said the drugs are sometimes deliv-ered and at other times people meet up.

Remanded in police custody is 24-year-old Jamie Brittany Catt of Sooke. Released by a Judicial Justice of the Peace were Sooke residents Steve Allan Grunow, 48, Gordon Lee Thomas 24, and Brandon Clifford Ste-phens, 34. For those released on a JJP, they have strict conditions on their release and are supervised. If they breach the conditions they will be arrested.

Released on a Prom-

ise to Appear were two males from Victoria, 18 and 22 years old; and a 23-year-old female from Sooke and a 29-year-old male from Sooke. Their names are being with-held as charged are not yet laid. Four of those arrested were released with out further pro-cess and are not facing criminal charges at this time.

Asked whether there was increased drug trafficking in Sooke, MacArthur said he didn’t think so.

“It’s been a slow and steady incline from the 1970s,” he said. “There are new drugs on the scene.”

What has increased is the trafficking and use of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and GHB. McArthur said marihuana was seized as well although the searches were not

for that particular drug.He said the crack

down on drug traffick-ers is a high priority for the Sooke detachment.

“It (heavy drug use) leads to all kinds of things,” said McArthur, “like domestic violence, social decay, driving under the influence, property crime and vio-lence in the manufac-ture and distribution,”

He said the RCMP are targeting those distrib-uting hard drugs.

“This is the largest targeted drug enforce-ment project in recent

years for the Sooke RCMP”, stated McAr-thur.

“Our targeted efforts have resulted in the removal of illegal drugs from our community, and provided valu-able information to our investigators about who is actively involved in the local drug trade. We’ll be using this infor-mation to make addi-tional arrests in the near future, and expect to lay more criminal charges against those involved.”

As this project

remains ongoing, and criminal charges are now before the Courts, no additional details can be release.

If you have informa-tion to support your local RCMP in their efforts to combat the illegal drug trade in our community, call the Sooke RCMP at 250-642-5241, or anonymously through Crimestop-pers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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13 people arrested in series of drug busts

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That’s the spirit: Sheringham DistilleryOctavian Lacatusu Sooke News Mirror

A dream can ferment a long time in one’s life, gaining texture and fla-vour over the course of many years, perhaps even a lifetime.

For Jason MacIsaac, local distiller and chef extraodinaire, having his own distillery was certainly a decade-long dream; one that has, at last, come to fruition. Now, perched on top of a small hill in the heart of Shirley just overlook-ing the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is the area’s latest and hottest gem: the Sheringham Distillery.

Run solely by MacIsaac and his wife, Alayne MacIsaac, the distillery, specializes in vodka and white whisky forged with water from a on-site natural spring and local organic grains and malted barley.

Sheringham Distill-ery may be one of the smallest in B.C., but the MacIsaacs are cool with that; much like a tailored suit, or a hand-built car, the devil’s in the details.

“It gives us the oppor-tunity to really control and oversee the quality of the product, which is really important to me,” MacIsaac said, noting that after cook-ing privately for the last 10 years, preparing the ingredients in a distill-ery is similarly to what a chef does with the ingredients he cooks with — in the case of whisky for example, is to let the grain speak for itself.

“The things I’ve learned from being a chef is that you use really good ingredients, local ingredients, treat them with respect,” he said.

Two products have spawned from Sher-ingham’s beautifully-chromed stills: a smooth and textured vodka (40 per cent

alcohol) and William’s White, a white whisky with bright aromas, sweet grains and clean, yet slightly spicy fla-vour.

William’s White holds a particularly special place in MacIsaac’s heart; it originates from his middle name, Wil-liam, and that of his father, Joseph William MacIsaac. It also plays tribute to Royal Navy Captain William Kel-let, who explored and named Sheringham Point in 1846.

The current location of the Sheringham Dis-tillery also happens to be along a famous and historic rum runners’ route which operated feverishly during the prohibition era back and forth between the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

So there’s enough history to fill a small book. But how does it all get made?

“For the whiskey we use wheat from a farm in Metchosin, which we cook in our mashing kettles; water comes to a boil, then I’ll wait for the temperature to get down to 150 degrees Fahrenheit,” he said, after which he’ll add the malted bar-ley, which is a different grain, and that will con-vert all the starchiness into fermented sugars.

“I’ll let that do its thing for two hours, wait a bit, then I’ll strain the liquid off and put it into these two contain-ers and let it cool down

a bit more to room tem-perature,” he said.

Beyond this point it becomes an a deli-ciously-intoxicating sci-ence — and the long road begins — to get to the perfect and final product. It’s a process known as the “stripping run” in which the alco-hol is literally stripped in specialized stills from all the yeast and everything else.

“It’ll come out and start at a high percent-age like 75 per cent, then drop down and run the stills till it’s about the percentage where it started out, so about six per cent,” MacIsaac said, noting the product that comes out is called “low wines” - a very raw form of alcohol which is then transferred after three to four days onto the next stage of the process: “the spirit run.”

This, of course, involves the spirit still; a beautifully-crafted chromed chamber with so many pipes and gauges that it looks it like it fell off of a Steam punk comic book. And it’s not just looks, either; this machinery is tasked to strip out and distill the alcohol even further through the process of conden-sation.

But it doesn’t end there. Lastly comes a fine balancing act that involves an extraordi-

nary ability to smell and taste — done poorly, and the final product may either come out too harsh or too soft or tasteless. Needless to say, MacIsaac points out this is one of the most important stages of the process.

“You narrow the cuts down. If you have really tight hearts cuts, which means how far in from the heads and tails you come, it’ll become a smoother and cleaner flavour,” he said, refer-ring to the process of eliminating fusel alco-hols; the volatile ones in the heads and in the tails that impart flavours which are unpleasant.

“What you want to do is decide where that starts and where it ends and cut it off between the heads and the hearts, and then cut it off between the hearts and the tails. You deter-mine this from taste and smell,” MacIsaac said, adding that where you make those cuts is what determines the profile and the flavours of the whisky.

As for the vodka, its smooth and unique aftertaste lends itself to more than just science it seems.

“A number of people who’ve come through with notable palates have tasted a hint of salt in the finish of the vodka,” MacIsaac said. “That could be from our close proximity to the sea, but otherwise,

it’s a mystery.”In the end though, it

all translates into a lot of hard work and many long days in the distill-ery — but for MacIsaac, it’s a passion, and a dream come true.

“I love it. Every-thing we do here is all manual; we carry everything from place to place, we don’t use pumps or anything, maybe in the future,” he laughed.

Everything is recy-cled as well; some locals come and pick up all the spent grains to use for livestock feed and also for com-post, so nothing really gets wasted. “The only thing we are left with at the end of the day are empty sacks of grain, that’s it,” MacIsaac said.

He noted that the Sooke community has shown a lot of support, and Sheringham Distill-ery spirits have already begun hitting the shelves of local restau-rants and liquor stores in Sooke.

“We’ll be at Point-no-Point restaurant, Sooke Harbour House, (launch party will be held there on July 10) Stonepipe Grill, Buffy’s, Castle beer & wine, and the 17 Mile Pub,” he said.

Sheringham will be present at all four Cas-cadia shops in Victoria and the Hillside liquor store as well.

“We are really excited about that.”

As for the future, MacIsaac said he would like to produce spirits made with wild fruit from the area, and at some point build a big deck just outside the distillery to allow guests at the distillery to enjoy a unique view of the Strait.

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Date: June 16, 2015Time: 7:00pmPlace: Juan de Fuca Local Area Services Building 3 – 7450 Butler Road, Otter Point, BC1. Rezoning Application a) RZ000238 – Section 90, Renfrew District, Plan

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The Salvation Army thrift store has been a place where people could purchase used clothes, household items, used electronics and at times, furniture. It was also a place to recycle television sets.

The Salvation Army operated more than 200 thrift stores from coast to coast and is considered one of the country’s larg-est national recycling operations. The items they sell are donated. The proceeds from the sale of these used items are used to support the Salvation Army’s social programs, and those in desperate need are referred by various social services agen-cies and are given items free of charge.

All of that is about to change. The Salvation Army Thrift Store is closing its doors. None of the employees at the Sooke thrift store would answer any questions. There are approxi-mately 10 employees and the store will close

on June 20. The Sooke thrift store has been an important business in Sooke since 1985.

“We are disappointed for the loss of our Sooke Thrift Store - it is a valuable member of our family and the Sooke community, and will be missed greatly! We are working our very best to accom-modate our team at the store, who are all a wonderful group of people we care deeply about,” Michele Walker, National Retail Opera-tions Manager.

Thrift stores still operating in the area:

The Salvation Army Victoria Recycling Cen-tre Warehouse: 765

Vanalman Avenue, unit 104, Victoria BC

Langford Thrift Store: 777 Goldstream Ave-nue, Langford

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Thurs June 11TODDLERTIMEAt the Sooke Library 10:30 to 11 a.m.,Hands-on activities for ages 18-36 months. Register at 250-642-3022.ADULT WALKING GROUPSEAPARC 10-11 a.m. Registration required. 250-642-8000.ROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONCRIBBAGE 7 P.M.BINGOSr’s Drop-In Centre, 12:45-3 p.m. Sooke Community HallBABYTIMEFirst Thursday of each month, 2 p.m. Sooke Library.MUSEUM MARKET 5 p.m. at the Sooke Region Museum, 2070 Phillips Rd.

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Sun June 14ROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONSunday breakfast brunch, 9-12:30 p.m., $5.Drop in pool tournament every second Sunday.SHIRLEY FARMERS’ MARKET11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Shirley Pioneer Park every Sun. to Sept. 13

Wed June 17 WALKING GROUPPeople’s Drug Mart hosts a walking club, 9:15 a.m.PARENT DISCUSSION GROUPSooke Child, Youth, and Family Centre, 9:30-11:00 a.m. (250) 642-5152 for info.ROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONDominos 10 a.m.Shuffleboard, 6:30 p.m. NASCAR POOLMeetl and Pick, Sooke Legion 7 p.m.

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Tues June 16BABY TALKChildhood Diseases and Immunizations. At the Child, Youth and Family Centre, from 10-11:30 a.m. 250-642-5464.YOUTH CLINICAges 13 - 25, 4-7 p.m. Family Medical Clinic.KNITTING CIRCLESooke Library, 6:30–8:00 p.m. Free, all levels. Drop-in. 250-642-3022.STORYTIMEAges 3-5, 10:30-11 a.m. Sooke Library. Free but call 250-642-3022 to register WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUPSooke Harbour House. 7-9 p.m. Ongoing every 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Child, Youth & Family Centre: 6672 Wadams WayFamily Medical Clinic: 1300-6660 Sooke Rd

Holy Trinity Church: 1952 Murray RdKnox Presbyterian Church: 2110 Church Rd

Legion #54: 6726 Eustace RdLibrary: 2065 Anna Marie RdMuseum: 2070 Phillips Rd

Peoples Drug Mart: 8-6716 Sooke RdSEAPARC: 2168 Phillips Rd

St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church: 2191 Townsend RdSooke Senior’s Bus: $15 annual membership. 250-642-4662

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Sat June 13L CANADIAN LEGIONMeat draw 3 p.m.SOOKE COUNTRY MARKETOtter Pt. Rd., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Every Saturday.KID’S STUFF SWAP & SHOP Seaparc 9-12:30 p.m.SENIORS’ VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION PARTYMocktails at Sooke Comm. Hall 1-3 p.m.TAKE A HIKE @ JDFCTSThetis Lke to Francis King9 a.m. meet at Wm. Simmons Pk. on Otter Pt.. Rd. Contact Sid at 250-642-2767

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They’re young, they are talented and they are a bunch of squares. Square dance enthusi-asts that is. YOMADA connects old-time tra-ditional dance music with those who have a spring in their step… those folks who like to kick up their heels, take life less seriously and have a whole lot of fun.

YOMADA has been to Sooke before. First they gave students from the elementary schools’ a quick les-son in square dancing, then they gave them tickets to the Sooke River Bluegrass Festi-val, taking place at the Sooke Flats. And, they are doing it again. This year they are bringing their fiddles, banjos, bass, guitars, danc-ing shoes and caller to Saseenos elementary school, on June 17, for an old-timey square dance lesson. They are also offering the same to other schools in Sooke. (Contact them at: http://www.yomada.ca/contact.html ).

YOMADA’s house band, Damian Ritchie, Brad Decker, Alan Law, and Lisa Feeney, plus dance caller Craig Mar-cuk always bring the whole crowd together

for a memorable dance you won’t want to miss.

“They are easy dances taught on the spot, it’s not traditional, it’s a lot looser,” said Phil Shaver, from the Young Old Time Music and Dance Association.

Get it…? Y.O.M.A.D.A.YOMADA is a non-

profit group from Vic-toria that just wants to teach people to get up and dance to old-time music. Square or not, people are respond-ing to the group. It’s all about fun, kicking up your heels and enjoy-ing yourself.

YOMADA will give Saseenos students tickets to the Sooke River Bluegrass Festi-val (June 19-21) in the hopes they will bring their parents and have a family day of it, listen-ing to music and later on dancing under the big top tent.

“We want people to

get involved in the fes-tival,” said Shaver.

The ticket giveaway is not limited to school students though. The Sooke News Mirror is giving away three pairs of tickets to our read-ers. All they have to do is send an e-mail to: [email protected] with the correct answer to a skill test-

ing question about the Sooke River Bluegrass Festival. The question is: “What happens at the Sooke River Blue-grass Festival at 9 p.m. on Saturday night, June 20?”

Hint: go to the Sooke River Bluegrass Festi-val’s website (sooke-bluegrass.com)

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Decisions, decisions, decisions. The District of Sooke council is forever making decisions. Some of them are good, others not so much.

Take for example, the roundabout. Council is all for it and many residents are as well, but the business commu-nity is perturbed by the timing of the construction - right smack dab in the middle of tourist season. What consid-eration was given to that aspect of the project? Probably none, and if there was consideration it wasn’t serious enough.

That poor decision by council is a head scratcher. We rely on our local businesses in many ways. There are, of course, the local jobs created. But it’s more than that. If you want a town to be attractive to live, work or play in, then you have to be willing to accommodate. If you want more businesses to locate or thrive here, make decisions to encourage them to locate here. Sooke needs growth in the commercial sector and council needs to extend a help-ing hand in any way it can. Businesses really do struggle in Sooke. A couple of months of delay on the roundabout shouldn’t make any difference one way or another to the project but it will make a big difference to our business community. The commercial sector is also where more tax dollars can come from, but without a good business climate, there will not be any growth and we will remain a bedroom community with people shopping and doing business elsewhere. Is this the vision council has for Sooke? We also need to accommodate our visitors.

Sooke has grown an incredible amount even in the last 10 years, probably more in 10 years than the last 30. And the growth isn’t stopping any time soon. The infrastruc-ture and the planning hasn’t kept up. Let’s face it, people still drive and many have to. Our transit system is not designed or large enough to accommodate all areas of Sooke. Cycling is a alternative but not everyone wants to get around on a bike, and it’s dangerous on our roads.

We need to make it easier for people to enjoy our beauti-ful area, not harder. Nothing needs to be written in stone, council does have the ability to reverse decisions for the good of the community. It’s not too late to get some chutz-pah and do what is the right thing for our local business community. Council may not please the Ministry of Trans-port but they sure will please the locals - and that’s where their loyalties should lie.

ANOTHER VIEW

No one can argue against the fact that Sooke’s population has grown significantly in recent years or that the highway infrastructure in place does not effectively serve our town’s needs.

As the second fastest growing community on Vancouver Island, Sooke’s population has increased by 50 per cent in the past two decades without much money being spent on improvements along Highway 14. By 2035, it is forecast that Sooke’s popu-lation will double to over 25,000. As a result, transportation infrastruc-ture is repeatedly identified as the most important issue affecting the residents of Sooke and the economic viability of our business community. In the coming years, the urgent need for highway improvements will only increase.

Our town’s main arterial cor-ridor and only crossing of Sooke River (Hwy 14) requires immediate upgrades to improve road safety, reduce travel times and increase capacity. These are in addition to the the construction of the roundabout. It is estimated as many as 60 per cent of Sooke residents use a portion of the highway each day, many during peak travel hours and as commut-ers. Commercial and industrial traf-fic has increased in lock-step with the population and the result is that all of these vehicles travel along one 15 km stretch of single-lane road between Sooke and Langford.

In 2008, the provincial government reported, “the traffic demand on the highway is anticipated to surpass the available capacity if no future upgrades are completed resulting in service level F (breakdown flow;

demand routinely exceeds capac-ity).” The same report stated, “dif-ficult roadway geometry, limited access control and increasing traffic volumes contribute to safety perfor-mance concerns along the Highway 14 corridor.” Unfortunately, only a few improvements have addressed the serious safety and capacity issues identified in these reports. Seven years later these predictions have been proven accurate.

Provincial and District of Sooke data shows there is an accident on Hwy 14 every 36 hours. Serious accidents often result in the com-plete closure of the highway with no alternate route. These frequent bar-riers to travel between Sooke and the surrounding communities have a serious negative impact on the local economy and to Sooke residents.

Business community members have repeatedly voiced these reali-ties and over the past two years the Sooke Region Chamber of Com-merce has advocated on their behalf with six separate position letters on the issues, outlining the problems as well as the possible solutions, and sent these to the District of Sooke, our local MLAs, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Ministry of Tourism and Small Business.

The most recent position letter (which appears on the Chamber website at http://sookeregioncham-ber.com/media-news/position-let-ters) was sent out on May 29 and includes the following much-needed improvements:

Highway 14 re-alignment (including straightening);Improved road lighting along the

length of the highway from Lang-ford to Sooke and most impor-tantly at intersections. If the entire 15 ms were lit, less than 175 street lamps affixed to existing elec-trical poles would be needed;Transit improvements includ-ing facilities such as bus pull-outs, Park’n’Ride facilities, and shared parking facilities. A minimum of three new Park’n’Ride lots are required in well-known locations;The development of the local road network and parallel routes to reduce demand on the main road;Widened shoulders and bike lanes to separate slow mov-ing and stopped traffic; andPull-outs, lay-bys or passing lanes to allow improved traffic flow and cre-ate opportunities to pass slow-mov-ing industrial and commercial traffic such as logging trucks.

The Sooke Region Chamber of Commerce doesn’t have all of the answers to our community’s trans-portation issues but we do know that it is long overdue for all levels of government to work closely with the community towards resolving the current safety and capacity con-cerns regarding Hwy 14. This is a critical issues that adversely affects us all and there is a clear expecta-tion from the residents and the local business community for the District of Sooke to show leadership, to take initiative, and to support the needs of our town.

If you have any questions or would like additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the Sooke Region Chamber of Commerce office at 250.642.6112 or [email protected].

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Horse’s ‘gift’

unwelcomeShame on the horse

rider who felt it wasn’t necessary to clean up (or at least) move his horse’s gift to us all.

There is a very nar-row path at the end of Eustace Road that many people use as a short cut into Sooke. The other day when out for a walk there the gift was. Right in the middle of this narrow path. Okay for him, he sits high on his mighty steed, but for the rest of us we have to try to safely get around this mess.

As my late father used to say, “Ain’t got the brains they were born with.”

Linda BessantSooke

Shame on dumpers

On Sunday, June 7, Jessica Boquist and myself picked up 27 bags of illegally dumped drywall and house insu-lation at Muir Creek, west of Sooke.

Aside from the eco-criminality of the

dumping, I think there could be a related concern of the cost of proper disposal: $5 per bag. But then, it could be argued that this expense should be taken into account as part of home building/renovation, therefore zero excuse for illegal dumping, particularly near a waterway and beautiful walking trail.

Hopefully the perpe-trators will read or hear about this letter and be ashamed enough of their behavior to never do this again.

George McFetridgeSooke

Stall the roundabout

I made a presenta-tion to council last week regarding the timing of the proposed roundabout construc-tion, and the response I got was, while sympa-thetic to the concerns of the business commu-nity, there was nothing they would/could do about it.

I don’t understand why our elected offi-

cers have not, over the years, stood up for what is best for the Sooke business com-munity with the Min-istry of Transport. It is our town, not Langford or Victoria.

The proposed start of construction for the roundabout of July or August will be devastat-ing for our down town business community, will be an incredible inconvenience to the large numbers of locals and visitors trying to move around Sooke at the busiest time of the year. Look what hap-

pens to traffic when an accident occurs; double or triple that to fivedays a week, eight hours a day. Why would people put up with that to shop in Sooke, and how will many peo-ple be able to shop in Sooke if they have lim-ited transportation? Plus the major con-struction of the Royal Bank will still be going on. And it will create havoc with our Sooke Fine Arts Show and the at least two other big events already planned for this summer.

Our council is taking

the word of someone from MOT that every-thing will be okay, just a slight inconvenience. Baloney — they don’t live here, they don’t have a business here, they don’t hire local people to manage the expected higher sales,

We asked: What do you think about the local Salvation Army Thrift Store closing down?

Pretty unhappy to hear that, because it’s not supporting jobs,

it’s supporting families as well.

Angus MoffattSooke

I think it’s a focal point of the community, so it’s a bit of a

shock. It’s a shame to see them pulling out.

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they are not really con-cerned.

Our council needs to put themselves in the place of a local business person, who needs the summer sales volume to help make it through the winter months, who has invested their monies and talents in Sooke, who don’t get a pay cheque unless they have sales; and right now that local business person needs support.

All we are asking is that the start of con-struction be put off until the second half of Sep-tember, when the bulk of our tourist traffic is done and the incon-venience of it all has a chance to be handled.

The District will say that it costs more to do the construction in the fall compared to the summer. But what is the potential cost to Sooke business and residents if our sum-mer business season is ruined?

I hope the people of Sooke will email or call the mayor and council, and tell them to stand up for Sooke, do what’s right, and delay the start of construction.

Randy WeltersSooke

Cat fight

continuesIn relation to the let-

ter “Cats Should be Licensed” Sooke news Mirror, June 2, 2015, I would like to say that I understand the writer’s frustration about her flowers and my sug-gestion is to surrender them with a piece of metal fence like we do with our vegetables. I know it is not ideal, but it is better than punish-ing an entire commu-nity with more rules and bylaws.

Regarding cats’ hunt-ing, I, personally, would love to see the hunting instinct vanish from humans and animals.

Nevertheless, with the flower problem solved and with the hunting instinct being impossible to resolve we can now talk about pet owners. All sorts of people own dogs and cats, some of them beat them to death while others treat them as their children. Some pet owners prefer to protect them by keep-ing them inside and some others seem to believe they are safe outside. These are the individual preferences

on a democratic soci-ety and without them we would not be who we are today as a coun-try. Bylaws and rules are not fair to every-body and in this case, the less fortunate will pay the price.

Ninety per cent of the world’s population is seduced by the peace-ful Zen style of cats and also by the enthusiastic and loyal companion-ship of dogs. However, the difference between dogs and cats is that dogs can bite and attack; especially, now-adays, with humans using them for personal profit such as dog fights or puppy mills.

Do you think that puppy mills and peo-ple who train dogs for fights do not exist here in Sooke? Unfor-tunately, they do and this is something that perhaps you would like to get involved to help the animals instead

of blaming council for not being cruel against those who have lit-tle in life. A cat bylaw will only penalize the elders, the disabled and the low income fami-lies and will send more cats to the gas cham-ber. We are in times of economic recession and in the majority of the cases an animal is the only family or friend a child and a per-son has. The pound is 50 km away from Sooke and the impounding fee asked was $100 just for the first day.

Please, madame, next time you write a letter to the public search for the pertinent facts and statistics on the subject before expressing your opinion.

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To the guy in the red truck who hit a pregnant deer in front of my house on Whif-

fin Spit. What you did was unimaginable till that day. You struck a pregnant doe so fiercely that her stom-ach split open, bursting out her unborn twins into the middle of the road. You did not put on your brakes or even swerve to avoid her. In fact after you saw what you did, you sped up. You knew what you had done, yet you chose to leave the carnage you created for so many others to deal with. Starting with my neigh-bour coming home, passing you speeding away. It was him who pulled the dead mama deer and her two alive babies off to the side of the road. What about the people who stopped and ultimately rescued these two fawns? Can you imag-ine removing these babies from their moth-ers burst stomach to save them? What about the man from Mainline who had to clean up

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He was a popular fel-low, Billy Burnett, driv-ing the stage between East Sooke, Metcho-sin and Victoria. Billy was the eldest son of a true pioneer lady – his mother in earlier days had run the first hotel in Sooke, at the foot of Murray Road, built in 1864 because of the Leech River gold rush.

Sheila Anderson, eldest daughter of Alex-ander Gillespie of Gle-nairley (and mother of former federal Liberal Cabinet Minister David Anderson) recalled, years ago, “from 1910 to 1929 when I was there ... in those days we had Billy Burnett who had a stage coach – he’d take his team and wagon, he and Tom Parker did the shopping for you – they went around to the shops – they bought the things, and the bill was sent later – so you see in some ways, it was easier then.”

After the gold rush days had settled down, Mrs. Burnett left her hotel, hastily built on pilings on the water-front of Sooke Harbour. Occupants who move into the new co-op housing enterprise cur-rently being built near Horne and Murray Roads will find them-selves on a historic location, so near where the gold seekers disem-

barked and headed up the trail to the gravel flats where the Leech and Sooke Rivers met.

Mrs. Burnett, who had three sons - Billy, George and Dave, mar-ried a Mr. Keil who owned the land imme-diately west of Wood-ward Point on the East Sooke shore. This became the home base for the stage run to Victoria. At that time, there was no cross-ing from East Sooke to Sooke except by water, as Gillespie Road and the connecting bridge had not yet been con-structed.

The arrival of the stage, which brought mail, freight and the news, was a valued hall-mark of those times, and stage drivers are fondly remembered for

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the horrific scene after the fawns had been res-cued.

The scene was tragic for all passers by to see, both young and old alike, a sight no one is sure to forget. The doe was in the middle of the road, how is it you did not see her, or did you? Why would you not have stopped? Were you texting? Were you drinking? Under-stand that this neigh-bourhood is disgusted by your actions and lack of morals. Shame on you.

To all those who paraded up and down Whiffin Spit slowly driving past seeing the tragic site. We as a neighbourhood hope it was a wake up call for all to slow down and pay attention while driving. There are end-less pets and wildlife killed and maimed on this road as it is. Next time it could be a child.

Lastly, we all thank the person who gave this beautiful mama deer some dignity by covering her in flowers. It is this site that some of us will take and we thank you from the bot-tom of our hearts. Your display of compassion will never be forgotten.

Bonnie Shambrook Sooke

Revisit cat bylaw

Imagine for a moment there were no dog bylaws in Sooke, as this was the reality not so long ago across Canada.

You open your front door or go anywhere in Sooke and you see dogs roaming at will, stop-ping traffic, defecating where they were, dog territory fights occur-ring, mating behaviour, resting in your yard, chasing and or kill-ing whatever they felt inclined to.

Now be in 2015, and this is the reality for cats where no spe-cific bylaws exist and any costs for damages or deterrents fall to the nonowner. For 10 months I have been the solitary public voice for the opposition of con-tinuing this irresponsi-ble pet ownership until Millicent Cowan’s let-ter last week. I am for-ever grateful as many conversations about outdoor cats with citi-zens result in stories of damage, and upset. The most extreme is a resident selling a home because of 18 roaming

cats in the neighbor-hood. Plans to use a yard again to garden and enjoy necessitate a move out of a Sooke core neighbourhood.

People are hesitant to come forward as they do not want to alienate their neigh-bours. Rather, those of us affected, complain

to each other. Unfortu-nately, this results in no change at the munici-pal level. This issue must be revisited by council.

A few months ago

when defining perim-eters and definitions of wildlife, Council-lor Kasper mentioned repeatedly his concern for continuing with the bird feeder in his yard.

I stopped counting at three the number of times he brought this up. His vote against cat control bylaws, and comment highlighting his strong opposition was his 20 plus years in government and how cat issues were never a big problem with people having to

use common sense. His seniority has nothing to do with the present. If there was an excess of common sense, council would find an excess of free time instead of developing bylaws to manage lack of com-mon sense. His vote felt self-serving. I wonder how many outdoor cats

he has leaving his yard? Carmen Neumann

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Octavian Lacatusu Photo

Splash!Rush Adventures/Stickleback Eatery owner Scott Taylor as well as other kayak water polo players fight for the ball during last week’s exciting game at Coopers Cove.

Octavian LacatusuSooke News Mirror

What happens when you take water polo and throw a kayak into the mix? Well, you get a unique sport called (wait for it) kayaking water polo — or kayolo, for short.

Kayaking and water polo? Yes. It’s a real thing. In fact, it takes place right here in Sooke every Thurs-day night just in front of the Stickleback Eatery off of Coopers Cove; so you can both dine out in the evening sunshine, and watch a gladiator-style water battle unfold right in front of you.

Don’t think that just because they’re in kayaks that the sport is any less intense; unlike normal water polo where your biggest challenge is keeping yourself afloat, there’s always a chance you could receive a paddle to the face, or capsize.

“You can score with your paddle or block the ball, or you can also score with your arms and wrestle your way through to the other team’s net just like classic water polo,” said Scott Taylor, owner and operator of the Stickleback restaurant and Rush Adventures, a kayaking/marine sport recreation centre right next door.

Taylor said the sport wasn’t exactly planned; it just happened to be so awesome that it naturally attracted more players to it — and, of course, giving his customers a chance to grab a beer out on the patio and watch these guys splash feverishly back and forth for the win.

The team usually gets together to set up the arena and nets around 5 p.m., and they start around 6 p.m. — finishing the game around 8 or so.

Taylor said his passion for kayak water polo was 13 years ago when a friend introduced him to it.

“I thought, what a great connection with Rush

Adventures that we do with the kayaking and stuff, so I started that a few years ago, and people having been coming out ever since to play and to watch,” he said.

“We’ve been playing kayak water polo for 13 years now.”

With more action than a Pirates of the Caribbean film (the one that wasn’t terrible) there’s no sitting on the bleachers or the docks and watch the game unfold; everyone’s involved, everyone’s playing all the time. And good news is, the team is currently looking for players.

Taylor said that if you are new to kayaking, you would have to do a trial, as well as a wet exit in which you learn how to get out of the boat properly without, y’know, drowning.

“Takes them a little while to get used to it. Some of these guys have never played; paddle or kayaks or anything before this sport.” he said. “There’s no one on the Island playing this sport, so we feel pretty special to be able to play this year-to-year.”

New participants can either bring their own kay-aks or borrow some of the kayaks; only issue is helmets, due to the potential of getting whacked up the nostril by a wet paddle. But that isn’t a big problem either, said Taylor, pointing out that a hockey helmet would be acceptable. “You’ll play two or three games, but it’s a sport you can pick up pretty quick.”

He said they play from the end of April all the way through to end of September — he added that these guys would be crazy enough to play in the winter.

“We always said we’re going to do a Christmas or New Year’s morning, that should be pretty fun,” Taylor said.

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The Atom division Sooke Seahawks hoped to finish the regular season undefeated Sunday as they took on the Peninsula Wildcats at Goudy Field in Langford.

The game featured a beaten Sooke team against a winless Peninsula team and certainly played out that way. The Seahawks scored early and often as they came out hungry in their quest to be only the second team ever from Sooke to have an undefeated regular season.

Knowing they were playing a weaker opponent and the fact it was the last game of the regular season the coaches took the opportunity to give everyone who hadn’t run the ball a chance to line up with their first ever carries.

Starting running-backs Malaki Allen and Dayton Planes scored great touchdowns before the back ups came in.

Planes also had two spectacular catches in the contest playing his best game of the season in limited action. Starting Quarterback Chris-tian Kaisinger also hit the score sheet with a touchdown before being replaced by back up QB Angelo Avila in the second half.

Avila scored a 60 yard touchdown on his first run in the second half.First time ever ball carriers Michael Widner, Trysten Schroeder and Aus-tin Perry all scored touchdowns in their chance to run the ball. Big Seahawk Skyler Rossiter swatted away Peninsula tacklers like bees as he scored a conversion given his first opportunity to play running back.

Other players with strong runs in their first chances were team captain Mikey Lundell, Xzander Adams and mighty Brody Berfolo with a nifty 20 yard run to the outside.

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The Hawks put up a helluva fight against the Cats, maintaining their reputation for their number-one line of defense.


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with help from assis-tant coaches Mike Kai-singer and Qzzy Avila did an outstanding job teaching these young boys fundamentals and proper tackling tech-niques.

Defensive Captain Gabe Nelson and Safety

Malaki Allen were the biggest factors in solidi-fying the best defense in the league but it truly took a team effort to achieve the teams suc-cess. Head Coach and Offensive coordina-tor Darryl Pollock also gives Nelson and Allen

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Planes raising his ath-letic ability the last few games the Seahawks are firing on all cylin-ders heading into next week’s playoffs.

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Young hockey referee wins award

On May 24, 2015, Morgan Couture was awarded the “Most Deserving Official of the Year.” The young lady is a member of the SHMA and received the award at the VIAHA AGM held in Nanaimo.

On the morning of the award ceremony, Morgan admitted she was a little bit nervous.

“When I received the invitation to attend the AGM of VIAHA, I was very surprised! I didn’t really realize how important this was until I went to the meeting,” she said. “Once there, I realized it was for all the Island, from the north to the south, and then I got really nervous.”

After she got her award, Morgan said that it would be great to get invited to ref in a girls pro-vincial tournament, or something a bit bigger then the play off this year.

On her second year of refereeing, Mike Justason, referee in chief of the Sooke Association, noted that Morgan deserved that recognition he and put her nomination through the association.

Couture is a young player whose hockey experi-ence dates back to when she was just eight years old.

For the past couple years she chose to play with the boys and just finished her second year with the Bantam boys division. Two years ago, Morgan decided to join her dad in the referee team to be able to contribute to the game on a different level. It is something she enjoys and wants to get better at it as well.

“I will work even harder next season as a ref and has a player as well,” she said, adding she believes that being a great hockey player helps to be a great referee is well,” Morgan said.

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