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Oak Bay Deputy Fire Chief Dave Cockle inspects the remnants of a beach fire on Willows Beach in Oak Bay. Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Oak Bay firefighters patrol the beach Education key to prevention says deputy fire chief Erin McCracken News staff

With spring weather underway, Oak Bay firefighters have upped their patrols to douse any beach fires they spot. So far, so good. But in a matter of weeks Oak Bay firefighters will be bracing for beach fire season, which fires up in May and continues through the hot, dry summer months of July and August. Youth are sometimes, but not always, to blame for starting fires on Oak Bay’s beaches, in violation of the district’s year-round open-burning ban, which includes beach fires, said Oak Bay Deputy Fire Chief Dave Cockle. “It’s very difficult to manage and control a fire on the

beaches,” he warned. “Once we get a couple weeks of while you’re dealing with a beach very, very dry weather, there is a good risk to spread up fire, and if you have another incident into the foreshore and onto the private property.” then you’ve got Victoria or Saanich on The Oak Bay Fire Department was belatedly con- standby,” Cockle said. ■ The public tacted in recent weeks by a resident about three beach Oak Bay firefighters take a proacis permitted to fires in the King George Terrace area over Christmas. tive approach to educating the public bring their lidded Boards were stripped from a resident’s boat house and about the district’s ban. barbecues to thrown on the fire. Fire prevention officer Capt. Willows Beach. “It ends up with peoKen Gill will speak to Oak Bay “It’s very difficult to ple’s private lawn furniHigh Grade 12 students in May ture getting thrown into manage and control a fire on about the risks of setting beach the fire in order to get the beaches.” fires, among other safety issues. The class visit them started,” Cockle - Deputy Fire Chief Dave Cockle coincides with grad party season. said. “People tend to, The team of firefighters also conducts patrols, after they’ve had a few from May to September. drinks, wander up through people’s properties and “What we do with our crews from May through Septhere’s damage done.” tember is they’ll go out at about 11 o’clock at night and One of the challenges in fighting a beach fire is get- we’ll drive along the beaches and the shores to make ting to it quickly with the appropriate equipment. These sure there are no fires, and if there are, then we put blazes also take up considerable firefighting resources. them out,” Cockle said. “We’ve spotted lots.” “It takes a truck out of service for a period of time emccracken@vicnews.com

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Bringing the 1912 Detroit Electric back to her Oak Bay roots In 1912, Florence French and her veterinarian husband moved to Oak Bay from Montreal. They had their car, a 1912 Detroit Electric, delivered by train. “She used the car to drive to the Empress hotel for tea for 37 years,” said Cam Rawlinson, founding member of the Island’s chapter of the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association. It was most likely the first electric vehicle

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Broken sewer pipe fouls Cordova Bay beach Kyle Slavin News staff

The pungent odour of sewage that wafted through Cordova Bay last week was the only notification residents had that a large underground pipe had burst nearby. The PVC pipe, roughly 4.5 metres underground, was found broken around 9:30 a.m., March 21 – much to the surprise of Saanich’s engineering department. “The main was just beyond 30 years old. We would still expect that to have a lot of useful life left in it,” said Colin Doyle, director of engineering. The break came to Saanich’s attention when an engineering employee arrived on site to do maintenance and saw “the water start to boil out of the ground,” according to manager of public works, Mike Ippen. Crews worked until 4 a.m. the next day to repair and replace the ruptured pipe, a few metres west of the Haliburton pump station, on Halburton Road at Lochside Drive. “Everything is now back in operation and functioning,” Doyle said last Thursday. An investigation will examine what caused the 16-inch-diameter pipe to break. No homeowners lost service. Trucks were brought in to collect the flowing effluent and shuttle it to a functioning pump station elsewhere. One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said she was upset Saanich didn’t notify residents about the spill, as well as that the effluent leaked down to the beach.

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Steve Brown, left, chargehand with Saanich's engineering department, and Chris Korley, with Saanich's survey department, measure out where a sewage pipe was replaced after it burst last Wednesday (March 21) in Cordova Bay. “They forgot about us. … We are important. We are your taxpayers here,” she said. “Why didn’t they send a volunteer to knock on doors, or put things on doors. There are ways of communicating.” Doyle said there is no formal notification process when engineering is out making

emergency repairs. “We usually don’t go out and do a notice when we’re trying to repair something urgently,” he said. Ippen said most of the estimated 30,000 litres of sewage that leaked ended up in nearby storm drains, and flowed out into

Raucous parties not welcome Renfrew Road resident writes to council after St. Pat’s Day blowout Vivian Moreau News staff

She had barely put on her gardening gloves when Renfrew Road resident Jackie Powell saw something she’d never seen. “Two boys took a whiz right on the street between parked cars,” she said. The youth were part of a crowd of 150 that started gathering around noon at a nearby rented house on St. Patrick’s Day. Powell

watched as both men and women, some carrying open liquor, urinated in neighbours’ yards and in the street. But she hesitated before calling police. “I asked myself, ‘Am I being unreasonable? After all they’re just students and they haven’t had a big party in a long time.’ But then I thought, ‘No, this isn’t appropriate, this is really wrong.’” Two Oak Bay police officers did arrive, but it took five hours to break up the gathering. Police were also dealing at the time with other parties in the 2700-block of Cadboro Bay Rd. and on Henderson Road. Many liquor act tickets were issued and the Renfrew Road renter was warned of a $100

fine for the “all but out of control” party, a police news release stated. Daytime parties are a rarity in Oak Bay, Oak Bay Police deputy chief Kent Thom said, but attributed them to St Patrick’s Day falling on a sunny Saturday. “It seemed like the party mood was starting much earlier in the day than normal in other locations as well,” he said, noting large groups of youth were also roaming about in downtown Victoria. Powell has written a letter to Oak Bay council asking fines be increased to $5,000 from $100 for homeowners whose renters have raucous parties. vmoreau@oakbaynews.com

Cordova Bay. Very little sewage, he said, leaked onto the land near the beach. Signs were posted warning beach-users about the spill. Vancouver Island Health Authority spokesperson Shannon Marshall says environmental health officers monitored the situation, and the beach was reopened Tuesday (March 27) after tests for fecal coliform came back below unsafe levels. “The beach area affected is not a public beach. … Our EHO assessment indicates that the contaminated beach area is well marked with yellow tape and advisory signs,” Marshall wrote in an email. A spokesperson with the provincial Ministry of Environment’s environmental emergency program says they are monitoring Saanich’s cleanup and mitigation efforts. Saanich’s manager of environmental services could not be reached for comment. “We don’t know whether we can use this beach for the summer. Will we have to wait a week? A month? What has happened to the little otters? What has happened to the seals? What’s happened to the birds?” the Cordova Bay resident said. “There’s all sorts of different ways to give information (to residents), none of which were done. If there isn’t a procedure’s manual, there should be one written pretty soon,” she added. The replacement pipe was installed and buried last week. The cost of the incident is still unknown. kslavin@saanichnews.com

News assists in return of family heirlooms An Oak Bay family is breathing a sigh of relief after an unfortunate mix-up was set straight on the weekend. A bag containing family treasures, mistakenly taken from outside a Monterey Avenue home on March 15, was returned. The Wright family contacted the Oak Bay News when the bag of amateur paintings and a four-generations-old silver-plated chatelaine disappeared from the

boulevard outside the residence. They believed that its proximity to other items being given away meant it was picked up by mistake rather than stolen. Shortly after the story ran in the Oak Bay News, the items were returned. Kevin Wright, whose mother owns the heirlooms, thanked the “honest soul” who promptly returned them. “We’re thrilled to have the family connection restored,” he said. nnorth@saanichnews.com

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Neighbours united last year over the proposed redevelopment of Oak Bay Lodge came together again Tuesday night (March 27) for the founding meeting of the Hampshire Hill Neighbourhood Association. About 40 people who live in the vicinity of Hampshire Hill – the site of Oak Bay Lodge, located at the junction of Cadboro Bay Road and Christie Way – met at Oak Bay High to share

ideas and concerns. 120 residents. The group plans “The thing that gave rise to to expand its contacts and the neighbourhood association become a conduit between was the redevelopment of Oak developers, council and comBay Lodge, but what’s come out munity groups before embark… is that traffic and pedestrian ing on the formal process of cresafety are high on everyone’s ating a constitution and bylaws list of concerns,” said Michael for the association. Hayes, Hampshire Hill spokes“Our goal is to get the neighperson. bourhood conIn addition to “Our goal is to get nected, both to Oak Bay Lodge itself and to counredevelopment, the neighbourhood cil,” Hayes said. residents spoke connected, both to “There seems to to Oak Bay’s need be a lot of interfor a formal traf- itself and to council.” est and engage- Michael Hayes fic strategy – an ment in how issue Hayes says neighbourhoods the neighbourhood association connect to development prois prepared to take on. cesses, to traffic and commuThe Hampshire Hill Neigh- nity issues.” bourhood Association currently Contact hampshirehillna@ consists of a steering commit- gmail.com for more informatee, to which Hayes belongs, tion. and an email network of about nnorth@saanichnews.com

Hit the lights and cozy up with candles Oak Bay rec and firehall snuff the lights for Earth Hour tomorrow Vivian Moreau News staff

Visitors to Oak Bay Rec’s Bee Street Sportsview lounge can sip their beers by candlelight this Saturday night. Electric lighting will be shut off during Earth Hour, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March

31. Lights will be dimmed but not shut off in the aquatic centre. At Oak Bay firehall the five firefighters on duty will shut off all unnecessary lights “We do keep one apparatus floor light on, enough so you can see,” said Fire Chief Gerry Adam. In 2011 more than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries switched off their lights for Earth Hour. The five-year-old lights-out campaign was founded and is organized by Sidney, Australiabased Earth Hour Global which advocates for climate change action. vmoreau@oakbaynews.com

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With childhood obesity on the rise, health professionals and researchers alike are seeking ways to ensure the next generation grows up healthy. David Trill, a master’s candidate in the school of exercise science, physical and health education at the University of Victoria, is studying child health through healthy eating activities. He’s currently seeking participants to get his home-based research project off the ground. “There’s been a lot of schoolbased research, but it’s working up to a certain point,” Trill said. “My approach is to try healthy eating strategies through the families because it’s the parents who are the gatekeepers for the kids.” Trill would like the help of 98 family units consisting of one parent and one child between the age of 11 and 13 years old. (Larger families may participate, though data will only be recorded from one parent and one child per family.) The goal of the project, slated for a lateApril start, is to teach simple, healthy nutritional strategies, such as cooking together, that both parents and children can take part in. It will require completing about 10 to 12 hours of activities during its eight-week duration. “I’m engaged in the research world. I’m also a very slight

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Don’t try to be like Jack After Jack Layton died, everyone knew that whoever replaced him as federal leader of the NDP would have giant shoes to fill. Layton’s talent for uniting the party and reaching out to people across the country made him a sort of folk legend, even before cancer stole him too soon at age 61. Newly selected NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, the 57-year-old Quebecer who helped Layton transform the party from a virtual non-entity in that province to a substantial force, taking 58 of 75 seats in last year’s election, is clearly a leader of some repute. What is also clear is he doesn’t have the charisma Layton had, and developed, as the Orange crush flattened the Liberal red machine to become the official Opposition to Stephen Harper’s Conservative majority in May 2011. Mulcair, who was not the first choice as leader for Capital Region MPs Denise Savoie (Victoria) and Randall Garrison (EsquimaltJuan de Fuca) until the final ballot at the recent convention, has been a virtual unknown on the West Coast – unlike Layton – for all except diehard political watchers. But does a leader known for being prickly have to be the second coming of Layton to win the hearts and minds of people west of Thunder Bay? Harper has shown that a leader can come across to many as cold and calculating, yet still win a majority in parliament. Let’s remember that even under Layton, the NDP won just 15 of 77 seats in the western provinces, including 12 in B.C. To win over non-NDP voters, it’ll take more than criss-crossing the country connecting with people, as Layton famously did – he visited Victoria more often than we might have expected for a Toronto MP. Mulcair will be put under the microscope about everything from his policies to his personality, by his supporters and critics alike, in the three years leading to the next election. In that time, he must prove he is his own person, a leader who stands on his own feet. And he must avoid handlers who would try to make him a kindler, gentler version of himself. What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@oakbaynews.com or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The Oak Bay News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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Playful Portland can teach us some It took four visits, but I finally oriented than the rest of us. figured out what Portland has that The Urban Iditarod was in the rest of the Pacific progress on a recent Northwest lacks. Saturday afternoon. This It’s a sense of humour. race, very loosely based Victoria, Vancouver, on the Alaskan dog Seattle and Portland sled competition, sees all share West Coast teams pull decorated sensibilities, climate and shopping carts along inclinations. city streets and over The Oregon city, the city’s many bridges, though, is the only one with frequent stops for that makes us smile. liquid refreshments. I saw The city’s unofficial teams of pirates, doctors, Don Denton slogan is ‘Keep Portland cartoon figures and even Weird’ and boy, do A Thousand Words penises, yes, penises. residents work hard at I asked the relaxed keeping it that way. young police officer I couldn’t find a motto for Greater sitting in his car watching the Victoria, but I’m sure it’s not along hoopla if the event was official. He the same lines. Nor do I think we’ll said no, though he thought they see any of the local mayors posing, could easily get a permit if they as did former Portland mayor Bud asked. He was just hoping that Clark, wearing only a raincoat and nobody would get hurt over the flashing a statue for a poster that next few hours until he was off shift read Expose Yourself to Art. and could let someone else take Not that long ago, Victoria care of the racers. council was arguing about whether Most Portland drinking and or not it was okay to have more eating establishments offer a than two restaurants open after the Happy Hour with drink and food bars closed, as though being able specials. My family and I enjoyed to eat after 2 a.m. was somehow a the views from the 30th floor of problem. the Portland City Grill so much we The recent decision by Oak Bay missed taking in a performance of council to not support the annual the Portland Cello Project at the palm tree sale shows a total lack of Wonder Ballroom. The orchestra a funny bone. If council was smart of cellists puts on concerts that they would have voted to keep the often feature surprising choices. We sale and planted the entire length of missed seeing the group perform Oak Bay Avenue with palm trees. heavy metal band Pantera’s songs Here are a couple of events I from their album, Vulgar Display of came across on my trek to our Power. southern neighbour that I think Lest you think that the cellists illustrate my point that Portland are a one-time joke act, they have is just far more, uh, let’s say funupcoming concerts listed for

Minnesota, Kentucky and California. In the past they have performed concerts playing everything from classical to rap music. Walking the streets you come across the Benson Bubblers – drinking fountains installed around 1912 – famous quotes inlaid in sidewalks and odd sculptures placed throughout the city. Another night we stopped at the Rogue Distillery and Public House and my son left with a bottle of maple and bacon beer, inspired by Voodoo Doughnuts, a shop that is open 24 hours a day, accepts only cash and always seems to have a lineup out the door. Their maple bar is a maple-frosted doughnut with real bacon on top. Last March, we watched as thousands of entrants took part in the annual Shamrock Run. What struck us was how many of the racers, including many of the serious runners, were dressed up in green wigs and more. We hope to get back to Portland soon and take in some more of the Rose City’s finer and funnier events. We’d like to check out the 24-Hour Church of Elvis (if the latest incarnation stays open), maybe take in an episode of the Pedal Powered Talk Show. But as much as we wished we could, we can no longer check out Velveteria, the Museum of Velvet paintings, as it closed in 2010. Maybe someone could open a spinoff here? Velvet Victoria anyone? Don Denton is Black Press Victoria’s photo supervisor. ddenton@vicnews.com

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Religious right’s rejection of science is baffling Is the world getting teacher was tried, nuttier? Looking at convicted, and fined recent events in North for teaching evolution. America, it’s hard Meanwhile, not to conclude that candidates vying humanity is taking a for the Republican crazy step backwards. presidential I recall a time when nomination reject science and scientists the overwhelming were taken seriously, scientific evidence for but lately they’ve human-caused climate been getting knocked change. David Suzuki around, especially in Mitt Romney and with Ian Hanington the U.S. and Canada. Newt Gingrich once The State of held rational positions Tennessee, for example, passed but have since capitulated to the a law that allows teachers who fossil fuel lobby. Rick Santorum don’t believe in evolution or just seems out of touch on every human-caused climate change issue, from rights for women and to challenge existing scientific gays to the environment. He’s theories. Yes, students should referred to climate change as a be encouraged to think critically “hoax” and once said, “We were and to question everything they put on this Earth as creatures are taught but, given the current of God to have dominion over political climate in the U.S., this is the Earth, to use it wisely and likely to lead to misinformation. steward it wisely, but for our In the 1920s, a Tennessee school benefit not for the Earth’s …”

Some of these people put their misguided beliefs above rational thought. Republican senator James Inhofe, one of the more vocal and active climate change deniers in U.S. politics, recently said, “God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.” That statement is in keeping with the Cornwall Alliance’s Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming, which has been signed by a range of religious leaders, media people, and even some who work in climate science, such as Roy Spencer, David Legates, and Ross McKitrick. It says, in part, “We believe Earth and its ecosystems – created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably

suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth’s climate system is no exception.” It also states that reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and fossil fuel use will “greatly increase the price of energy and harm economies.” The economy matters more than the environment, and God won’t let puny humans damage “His” 6,000-year-old creation anyway. That’s not to criticize religion; only those who let it blind them to science and who would use it to advance agendas that don’t even reflect the spirit of their own traditions. Lest we get too smug in Canada, we must remember that we have politicians who hold similar religious views and are just as anti-science, although Canada has so far managed to keep religion largely out of politics. But recent cutbacks to government scientific research

and staff show that many of our leaders also believe that the environment should take a back seat to corporate interests, and that any science that gets in the way must be hushed up or discredited. Never mind that the environment is real and that we depend on it for survival and that the economy is a human invention that can be altered to suit the times. Never mind that a long-term healthy economy depends on a healthy environment and that placing all our bets on non-renewable and polluting fuels is folly. These people want to ignore both the problems and the solutions for the sake of short-term and shortsighted benefits for a relatively small number of people. Whether they justify it with religion or political ideology, it still doesn’t make sense. Learn more at suzuki.org.

species co-existing together within its ethereal system; life and death both contributing to its surreal architecture. Ever since humanity’s exordium into nature’s prodigious framework, we have done nothing but attempt to mutilate it: clearcutting inhabited forests, building cities, creating pollution and oceanic oil spills, etc. Now we have so selfishly come to a point where a deer walks through our backyard or gets hit by a car and we devise a plan to impede their reproduction and disrupt nature’s evolutionary process. The only reason deer are in our municipality is because we sabotaged their home to build ours. Deer do not understand the difference between a natural food source and a commercial crop; they are trying to survive within the dysfunctional environment that our genus has fabricated. Through my window into the backyard I see birds singing and

squirrels leaping from tree to tree; they are inferior to our race just as the deer are, should we get rid of them as well? Please let nature be nature; it’s never done any wrong unto us other than let us exist with it. Tyler Parker Oak Bay

Readers respond: Transit funding, living with deer Generate other revenue sources for infrastructure There are other alternatives to revenue generation than the traditional property taxes and hiking the gas tax dedicated for improving transit. We do not need to rely just on traditional means of revenue generation towards funding the requisite transit infrastructure to serve Greater Victoria over the next 25 years. At present, as reported, B.C. Transit is seeking approval of a $106-million budget for Greater Victoria bus service rather than imposing a property tax hike of anywhere up to 10 per cent. Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin would like to see a three-per-cent gas tax increase to allow Victoria to gather a reserve fund to pay for transit infrastructure. Meantime, Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard calls such a tax increase extremely premature. The problem is this debate

epitomizes the approach of reliance on only traditional revenue sources. We need to start thinking outside of the box. For instance, in the Lower Mainland there are suggestions to tolling the George Massey Tunnel and other crossings to pay for requisite transit infrastructure. That possibility could be made reality if Metro Vancouver and the province support the suggestions in a recent TransLink report examining potential revenue streams, including tolling major bridges and the tunnel. The report, “Evaluation of Revenue Sources to Support Transportation Improvements in Metro Vancouver,” looked at a wide range of new funding options, including tolls on existing crossings over the Fraser River, that would include the Alex Fraser Bridge and George Massey Tunnel. A special committee comprising the

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Brian Jackson retires after 17 years in Victoria Vivian Moreau News staff

He’s read the news on the BBC and goosestepped with John Cleese, yet Brian Jackson is most familiar to Victoria residents as the symphony’s principal pops conductor. After 17 years though, Jackson, 68, is retiring. This weekend he will conduct his last three performances as PPC. With the Canadian College of Performing Arts he will conduct the troupe through 45 minutes of Broadway song and dance medleys. “You’re getting a theatrical experience for a symphonic price,” says Jackson. It’s the fourth time he’s collaborated with the Oak Bay-based college, a group of performers he describes as wonderful. “They’re young but respectful and professional.” Victoria is a long way from Jackson’s Ontario home, but even further from where he grew up in Cornwall, England. From a working class family, Jackson says at age two he sang along with the radio and was picking out tunes on an aunt’s piano. By five he was taking piano lessons and by age 13 was off to Clifton College in Bristol on a music scholarship where he learned to conduct and play the organ. At Clifton he also met John Cleese. Although Cleese was four years older, the actor who went on to Monty Python fame picked out Jackson to work alongside him in an outdoor play. “He was the platoon sergeant and that’s where he got that walk – he was 6’4” even at that time,” Jackson recalled.

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Victoria Symphony Orchestra’s principal pops conductor Brian Jackson retires after a final series of concerts this weekend. Cleese went on to Cambridge and Jackson to Oxford to read music. At 21, he took a break from music and to work at the BBC as a studio manager. But music called. “On the other side of the glass the BBC symphony would be recording and I would be telling the conductor ‘the brasses are too loud here, are you sure you mean this tempo?’” Adventure also then called and he emigrated to Canada in 1968, ending up in Peterborough, Ont. as a church organist.

After six months, he was conducting the Peterborough Symphony. He was 25. Four years later he took time to study in Germany and Vienna before heading to the London, Ontario symphony where he conducted for 36 years. In 1995 Jackson stepped in as choral society conductor with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra and in turn became principal pops conductor. “I knew by age 45 I was not going to the Berlin Philharmonic, I knew I wasn’t at that level, so I created my own sort of genre:

pop concerts.” And although Jackson will conduct the opening set of pop concerts next season, the series will have a facelift, VSO’s executive director says. In a bid to attract younger audiences the pop series will include a Beatles Sgt. Pepper tribute, says Mitchell Krieger. Guest conductor Sean O’Loughlin will step behind the music stand as well as maestra Tania Miller, who will conduct the Christmas concert. Jackson will continue to conduct London, Sudbury and Kitchener/Waterloo symphonies, but he will miss the VSO. “It’s now one of the top orchestras in the country – they’re disciplined and they love what they’re doing.” vmoreau@oakbaynews.com

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e’s standing in the streetlight as want to recreate what makes film noirs so great – the fog clears, his face hidden the witty banter, the value of the intellect and the between his hat and grey morality of the post-war world.” the upturned collar of Led by Morris, who works with “We want to his trench coat. He’s here to dance The Canadian Improv Games as an with a dame. She steps out from the recreate what associate artistic director nationally shadows and … makes film noirs and a regional director locally, the Paper Street Theatre is producing cast includes local improvisers Missie so great.” its third full-length show, An Peters, Chris Gabel, Scott Thompson - Dave Morris Improvised Film Noir where the and Byron Kjeldsen. audience – and actors – will find out See An Improvised Film Noir what happens between the man in the trenchcoat on March 30 and 31 at Intrepid Theatre, 1609 and a mysterious dame. Blanshard St. Directed by Pick of the Fringe’s Dave Morris, The show is at 8 p.m. and tickets, $12, are the show is more an homage to the film genre available at the door. than a parody of the tropes, he said. For more information on Paper Street Theatre “Often film noir is improvised as parody – but go to www.paperstreettheatre.com. that’s not what we’re doing,” said Morris. “We llavin@vicnews.com

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Philomela Women’s Choir satisfies with glorious food Sink your teeth into a concert of choral repertoire throughout the ages on the topic of food with the University of Victoria Philomela Women’s Choir led by Mary Kennedy. From the renaissance round, Hey, Ho, Nobody’s at Home to Bartok’s Bread Baking, to a commissioned suite of children’s songs about food by composer Ben Bolden, to familiar jazz pieces Java Jive and Chili Con Carne, Food Glorious Food is set to make your mouth water. Special guest Louise Rose will accompany the choir in a commissioned arrangement of the spiritual I'm gonna sit at the welcome table. Rose, who received an hon- Louise Rose orary doctorate from UVic in 2000, has been a friend and mentor of Kennedy for many years. The concert will also offer an opportunity for the audience to join with the singers in a trio of popular songs about food. “We can't divulge the titles,” says Kennedy.

“You'll just have to buy a ticket to find out.” Of special note at this concert will be the addition of a group of male choristers who will join with the women in the Champagne Chorus from Die Feldermaus. Audience members are encouraged to bring donations of non-perishable food to the concert, which is a fundraiser for Our Place. Don Evans, Our Place executive director, will be on hand to speak about the work of the society and receive tax-deductible monetary donations. To further support the work of Our Place, there will be a raffle for a sushimaking workshop hosted by chef Takumi Kitamura. The concert takes place on April 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall in the music wing of the MacLaurin Building at the university. Tickets, $12 in advance or $15 at the door, are available through the University Centre Box Office by phone, 250-721-8480 or online at auditorium.uvic.ca/tickets. llavin@vicnews.com

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1. Children at the Pender Island school take part in a music session as part of the Island Mosaic project, Pender Island School. 2. Harpist Alison Vardy at a Ptarmigan Taking Flight seniors’ performance at James Bay Lodge. The Taking Flight program received one of the 2012 grants from the Ernest and Hazel Kay Fund. Created from a bequest of $1.1M from the Kay family, this fund, administered by the Victoria Foundation, supports projects to improve the quality of life for seniors on southern Vancouver Island. 3. Ptarmigan facilitator Tina Farmilo and children in the Island Mosaic arts project on Mayne Island. 4. Ptarmigan staff and participants at the Strength Within summer camp for survivors of childhood cancer, Pender Island.

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Giving wing to art’s power for learning, healing, connecting By Sarah Monteith For Patrick Smith, artistic director and cofounder of the Ptarmigan Music and Theatre Society, the arts are an essential link for building connection and vitality in communities. “I believe the arts reflect the very best of the soul of humanity,” he said. Smith, a professional musician and formerly a member of the Vancouver folk group Under The Moss, formed the Ptarmigan Society charity with band mate John McLachlan in 1991. Since then, the society has developed free or low-cost and accessible art programs and recitals that aim to engage, innovate, educate and promote healing in communities throughout Vancouver Island and in Vancouver. The society currently runs three core programs; Mosaic for children and youth, Taking Flight for seniors, and Strength Within for people with disabilities and survivors of illness. Over the past decade, the Victoria Foundation has provided close to $25,000 for Ptarmigan programs on southern Vancouver Island. Mosaic: a medley of art for children and youth Mosaic organizes a variety of visual art workshops and musical and theatrical performances. It also fosters creative mentorships for children

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and youth living on the southern Gulf Islands. The goal has been to give students living in these small, isolated communities the opportunity to socialize and learn about their local history through different art mediums. Since its conception in 2007, Ptarmigan has conducted 2,000 hours of workshops, recruited 43 local artists, and has involved 800 children in Mosaic events. Bryce Woollcombe, a teacher on Pender Island, credits the Ptarmigan Society for sustaining the performing arts on the island amid the increasing decline in arts funding for schools and says some children have been inspired to pursue a career in the arts as a result of the society’s mentorships. “Having the expertise, the time, the instruments and the moxie to just do community arts is essential. Ptarmigan does this with thoughtful, artful, stubborn patience.” Taking Flight: soars with seniors Ptarmigan’s Taking Flight program brings vocal and instrumental recitals to seniors living in Victoria and the Gulf Islands, with the objective of having a positive impact on quality of life. All performances are planned with the consultation of the care facilities, therapists and activity coordinators. For many seniors, live performances are inaccessible due to their financial

or physical limitations. For Smith, this is a good reason why this program exists. “We wanted to take our programs right to the communities where people could have a hands-on experience with artistic engagement.” Harpist Alison Vardy, who is also Ptarmigan’s program coordinator, has performed at seniors care homes and the Victoria Hospice and said patients and their families are appreciative of the atmosphere created by her music. “The feedback I get is how relaxing and soothing the harp music is,” she said. “I always get thanked – and once I got a kiss from a woman whose husband was a [hospice] patient!” Strength Within: tapping the healing power of the arts The Strength Within program focuses on providing members of the special needs community with ways to experience positive interactions through workshops and music events in hopes of encouraging social engagement, creativity, and self esteem. Activities span a range of art forms, from music to drama, to visual arts to dance, giving participants – such as survivors of childhood cancer – the opportunity to express their experiences and connect with others who’ve shared similar trauma. For more information on programs, events,

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24-hour game a hockey festival Rink of Dreams 24-hour game goes Saturday to Sunday Travis Paterson News staff

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Lawyer Nav Parhar, left, and investment advisor Harp Sandhu model the 2012 Rink of Dreams hockey sweater. The stylish keepsake goes to players who participate in the 24-hour hockey game from noon to noon, Saturday (March 31) to Sunday at Bear Mountain Arena.

At first look, the Rink of Dreams 24-hour charity hockey game is a lot of things. It’s a minimum of four dressing rooms in constant rotation, an hourly exchange as hundreds of players, 15 at a time, populate the home and away benches of Bear Mountain Arena from noon on Saturday (March 31) to noon Sunday. It’s Marty the Marmot refereeing four- to six-year-old kids. It’s 39 other mascots battling for the attention of kids and parents off the ice. “More than anything it’s family, family, family,” said lead organizer

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Calgary Flames fans can bid on a signed Mike Cammaleri jersey in the silent auction. The hockey part of it is straight forward. Players, sometimes in teams and sometimes individually, show up prior to their ice slot, be it 2 p.m. or 2 a.m. They gear up, and slip on either a Team Grey or Team Blue sweater. The 2012 version of the sweater, made by Teamworks, has a fresher design and with new sponsors from the 2011 black versus white uni’s. The game wraps up at noon on Sunday with closing ceremonies. The inaugural Rink of Dreams raised $104,000 in 2011 for the Victoriabased Help Fill A Dream Foundation. Last minute player, and even team spots are still available through Rinkofdreamsvictoria.com or through Sandhu at Harp.sandhu@ macquarie.com. sports@vicnews.com

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Vic players get call against USA The future looks bright for women’s field hockey in Victoria. Three members of Canada’s under-21 team and four more on the under-17 team are playing in the Canada vs. U.S.A. Challenge in Vancouver, April 4 to 8. Defender Kathleen Leahy of the University of Victoria Vikes (Oak Bay High), midfielder Paige Norris of the Boston College Eagles (Mount Douglas) and midfielder Maddie Secco of Oak Bay High will represent the South Island on Canada’s U21 squad against U.S.A.’s under-19 team in the fourmatch series. Still in Grade 12, Secco is the only Victoria athlete currently rostered with the national women’s senior team. Leahy will play her first major game since recovering from ACL surgery this year. Canada is also entering an under-17 team led by Vikes assistant coach Krista Thompson. That team features Jenna Dhillon of St. Michaels University School, Elspeth McGillivray of Glenlyon Norfolk School, Gillian Kirkpatrick of Oak Bay High and Kristina Walters-Shumka of Claremont. The Canada vs. U.S.A. Challenge junior national test series is a warm-up for the Junior Pan American Championships in September. sports@vicnews.com

Harp Sandhu. “We want people to know just how much there is to do, there’s so much to check out and hang around, it’s basically a hockey carnival atmosphere Saturday afternoon and evening. It’s really just using hockey as an excuse to bring families together for a fun charity event.” Outside is a Telus Kinnect tent, mini cars for kids and plenty of games. There’s also a bar in the arena with Hockey Night in Canada on TV. “But best of all is a ton of awesome prizes with 200 balloons at $5 each, and all prizes are a minimum $10 value,” Sandhu said. One balloon that will be heavily sought after has two Vancouver Canucks tickets to the April 8 home game with Helijet passes and a room at the Four Seasons hotel. “We also have a chuck-a-puck at 4 p.m. Saturday to win Canucks tickets, B.C. Ferries passes and a $100 dinner card for April 8.”

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Despite winning mul- ums for entire weekends) tiple trophies in recent in the 2011-12 series: Ausyears, Canada has tralia, Dubai, South Africa, attended only half of the New Zealand, USA, Hong IRB World Series rugby Kong, Japan, Scotland and sevens events since los- England. It’s a massive ing “core status” step for Canin 2009. ada, which That changed won the on the week2011 Pan-Am end when Canrugby sevens ada, based out in Guadalaof the West jara. And it Shore, finished comes just as first in a qualithe national fier tournament team readthat the Interies for the national Rugby Sean White sevens’ Board will use debut at the to expand its core status 2016 Olympics in Rio de from 12 to 15 countries. Janeiro. IRB created a qualifying “We knew what we had bracket at the Hong Kong to do and we knew what tournament with Canada the status was in terms finishing first, Spain sec- of how to become a core ond and Portugal third. team,” said Canada’s It means next year Can- coach Geraint John. Canada will compete at every ada ended the Hong Kong IRB event (sevens tourna- tourney as it defeated ments are full-day events, Spain for the second time jamming full-size stadi- on the weekend, earning

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more pressure on him. Hicks is what I call a gatekeeper. There’s a few guys like him, and you’ve got to win that (fight) to get to the next level.” Travis Paterson Bergen, meanwhile, is looking to News staff follow Island MMA training partner Derek Medler in becoming another From the undercard to the head- top-10 ranked fighter in Canada liner, fighters are climbing the ladder through the AFC. Bergen’s fight thanks to the Armageddon Fighting with Adam Smith is the second time Championship. they’ve been pencilled in. The two Since 2009, all seven of the mixed were lined up for AFC 7 back in martial arts organization’s events November, when Bergen defeated have boasted a card rich with Island step-in fighter Dave Logan instead. fighters, often with bigOf course, the ger names brought in to beauty going to “I believe there is the fightsofmeans serve as headliners. you Now it’s Victoria’s time a place in this sport never know who’ll to shine. in the match of for a guy who is just put AFC No. 8: Vengeance, the night. is scheduled for April 14 tough, and that’s “In the undercards, at Bear Mountain Arena, Bronson (Petterson).” Bronson Petterson and the last four fights brings a style that’s – Jason Heit feature Victoria-based exciting,” Heit said. AFC veterans Ryan From Campbell Janes, Nick Driedger, River, Petterson will Karel Bergen and Diego Wilson. fight Chris Anderson in a fight that Though Wilson’s fight against Dun- Heit did little to accommodate. can’s Corey Gower is the last of the “That fight seemed to already be night, it isn’t necessarily the mar- set,” Heit said. “I believe there is a quee match. place in this sport for a guy who is “Pick any one of those fights, all of just tough, and that’s Bronson. He’s a them look exciting, and have earned guy we’ve scouted in the local scene a local following,” said AFC co-orga- and wanted.” nizer Jason Heit. “Since (AFC) started Without a polished defence, Petwe’ve been all about developing local terson has the potential every time talent, now we’re seeing it.” he fights to become a fan favourite Wilson, Driedger and Janes are all because he makes it an absolute war, out of Vic West’s Zugec Ultimate Mar- Heit added. tial Arts, and are all known for their Zuma youngster Alexi Argyriou is slick grappling and ground game. also on the undercard. It’s Argyriou’s All three are on a fast ascent, second attempt at his MMA debut though Janes’ opponent, Marcus after an injury pulled him out of Hicks, carries an interesting element. AFC 7. Tickets for AFC 8 are availHicks has 31 fights to his name, and able at Sports Traders, the Juan de though just 11 are wins, it’s 27 more Fuca Recreation Centre and online at fights than Janes has. Armageddonfc.com. “I’d say this is one of those fights Full line up at Vicnews.com. Janes has to win,” Heit said. “There’s sports@vicnews.com

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Director of Administration The Mustard Seed serves Victoria’s under-privileged population through Outreach efforts, a Food Bank, Advocacy and Chaplaincy services, a Recovery Farm, and Street Church. We have a senior leadership opening for a Director of Administration. If you are an experienced ministry professional with a demonstrated capacity in creating solution-oriented systems in a uniquely challenging environment, having developed education, experience and calling in a ministry setting, we encourage you to apply. Working for our Executive Director, and alongside 3 other Directors (of Ministries, Food Bank and Hope Farm) the DoA will provide specific leadership to the ongoing development of the Mustard Seed’s HR function, renewed Volunteer programs, and overhauled Communications strategy, while overseeing a new Drop In Centre staff, and participating in long range planning and visioning. Currently, the DoA has a staff of 3, relating weekly to 2 dozen staff and key volunteers in the multi-facetted, 18/7 ministry of the Mustard Seed Community. See mustardseed.ca for more information. Applicants who can articulate a clear Christian commitment and who are active and participating members of a local Christian church, can e-mail a resume package to Nancy Snowsell nancy@mustardseed.ca or deliver to 625 Queens Ave, Victoria, BC during office hours 8am - 4pm. Applications close on Monday, April 2nd, 2012.

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Kamloops Blazers centre Matt Needham battles Victoria Royals centre Ben Walker behind the net at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre during the Blazers 7-5 win in Game 3 of the WHL playoffs on Tuesday (March 27). Needham scored once as the Blazers staged two comebacks to take a 3-0 series lead in the WHL quarterfinal series. Updates online at Vicnews.com.

Vikes rowing split Brown Cup with UBC UVic Vikes men’s and women’s crews split the Brown Cup with their counterparts, the UBC Thunderbirds, on the Gorge Waterway on Saturday (March 24). The annual Brown Cup brings rowing back to its heritage, as the eight-person sculls follow the natural features of the Gorge, 3,500 metres from Tillicum narrows to the Johnson Street Bridge. And it couldn’t have been closer, as both the men’s and women’s premier eight-person races ended with less than a second in separation. The Vikes women defeated UBC by a

0.63-second margin, while UBC edged the Vikes by 0.93 of a second in the men’s race. The Vikes’ eightperson reserve boats swept UBC’s, with the Vikes men 12.60 seconds ahead and the women 19.74 seconds in front. Later on Saturday the Vikes rowing program met for its annual banquet. Third-year athlete Will O’Connell and fifthyear team captain Leanne Fells, both from Victoria, were named UVic’s male and female rowers of the year.

Varsity women’s eight: Megan Smith (coxswain), Ingrid Braul (stroke), Claire McCormick (seven), Alyssa Weninger (six), Erika Shaw (five), Lara Kemp (four), Emma Watt (three), Ruby Walser (two) and Teresa Berkholtz (bow). Varsity men’s eight: Jane Gumley (coxswain), Brendan Downey (stroke), Will O’Connell (seven), Ross Bringgold (six), Anthony Linton (five), Connor McGuigan (four), Lee Hall (three), Marc Verkuyl (two) and Jon Chandler (bow). sports@vicnews.com

I Shall Not Hate: Moving Forward from Forgiveness to Compassion Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, speaking on compassion as a road to reconciliation. Thursday, April 26 at 7:30 – 9 PM Mark R. Isfeld School Gym 1551 Lerwick Road, Courtenay Dr. Abuelaish will sign copies of his book “I Shall Not Hate” following his speech. Copies will be available for sale. Tickets on sale now: $15 (general seating, cash only) available through the Sid Williams Theatre Ticket Centre or online at www.sidwilliamstheatre.com (credit cards accepted).

Conference on Apology and Forgiveness: Moving Forward on a Path of Healing Friday, April 27 from 8:30 – 4:30, North Island College, Courtenay, Stan Hagen Theatre A conference for professionals and volunteers in education, youth, seniors and other social services, victims services, restorative justice, faith communities, and the general public. No conference fee, but registration required – forms and further information available from the Community Justice Centre at www.CJC-ComoxValley.com, click on Conference and Training opportunities.

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Select your home. Select your mortgage. Oak Bay 250-370-7601 Victoria 250-483-1360 Westshore 250-391-2933 Sidney 250-655-0632 Chatterton Way 250-479-0688 www.vericoselect.com

15-850 Central Spur Rd, $610,000 Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Barbara Ronald, 250-744-8211

pg. 14

pg. 11

pg. 15

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Toby Trembath 250 385-2033

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes David Scotney, 250-384-8124

Sunday 2-4 Sutton West Coast Hiro Nakatani 250 661-4476

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Robert Buckle 250 385-2033 pg. 15

pg. 9

pg. 35

pg. 7

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291

pg. 14

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Shelly Reed, 250-213-7444

pg. 31

Saturday 1-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 477-7291

pg. 17

Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Karen Jensen, 250-744-3301

pg. 10

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Peter Crichton, 250-889-4000

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Andrew Holenchuk 250 744-3301 pg. 14 Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Paul Holland 250 592-4422

pg. 8

pg. 32

Saturday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Ltd Eleanor V Smith 250 388-5882

pg. 34

pg. 38

pg. 18

Saturday 11-1 Address Realty Ltd. Mike Chubey, 250-391-1893

2252 Cranmore, $589,000 pg. 6

Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara 250 384-8124

pg. 18

pg. 15

pg. 14

pg. 8

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny, 250-474-4800

pg. 5

pg. 39

Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291

pg. 18

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Sheila Aujla 250 388-5882

pg. 20

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Tara Niedoba 250 857-0178

pg. 38

121 Paddock, $459,000 pg. 11

pg. 32

404-104 Dallas Rd, $429,900 Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Susan Carley, 250-477-7291

1717 Newton, $469,000

pg. 38

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Wendy Herrick 250-656-0131

pg. 19

411-201 Nursery Hill, $249,000 pg. 17

pg. 32

Saturday 12:30-2:30 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Leah Werner 250-474-6003

pg. 20

Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Sylvia Therrien, 250-385-2033

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301

pg. 20

pg. 8

1810 Hollywood Cres., $875,000 Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Ltd. Mike Ryan 250-477-1100

pg. 38

1464 Begbie St, $439,900 Sunday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Adam Hales, 250-391-1893

Sunday 1-2:30 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Norma Campbell, 250-477-5353

18-840 Craigﬂower, $247,000 pg. 19

Saturday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Jennifer Holt 250 896-4438

pg. 8

1020 Richardson, $779,900 Saturday 1-4 RE/MAX Camosun Mark Lawless, 250-744-3301

pg. 39

pg. 13

Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty David Harvey, 250-385-2033 pg. 13

pg. 5

Saturday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Joseph Martin, 250-361-8167 pg. 12

1912 Woodley Rd., $1,124,500 pg. 33

1600 Seahaven, $299,800

pg. 14

Saturday 11-1 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Donna Gabel, 250-477-5353

706-103 Gorge, $229,900

34 Demos Pl, $412,500

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Christina Carrick, 250-857-6045

pg. 17

Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Bruce Hatter, 250-744-3301

pg. 22

Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Anke Venema, 250 477-1100

pg. 16

Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Eamon Coll 250 479-3333

pg. 22

Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital David Thibault 250 477-5353

pg. 20

770 Cameo St, $575,000 pg. 19

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Deana Fawcett, 250-893-8932

pg. 35

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Carl Latzel 250 384-8124

pg. 38

305-820 Short St, $349,888 Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Norma Campbell, 250-477-5353

pg. 6

2-3955 Oakwinds Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Alliance Rob Cvitanovic 250 704-6970

pg. 39

2830 Parkview, $543,000 Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Mike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100

pg. 16

pg. 23

pg. 10

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer, 250-384-8124

pg. 21

Sunday 2-4 Sutton West Coast Realty Elke Pettipas 250 479-3333

pg. 10

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Lu Ann Fraser, 250-384-8124

pg. 21

Saturday 2-4 Sotheby’s International Cathy Travis, 250-380-3933

pg. 1

1086 Roy, $639,900 Sunday 2-4 One Percent Realty Valentino Prundaru 250-686-2242

pg. 39

1313 Roy Rd, $619,000 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Christina Carrick, 250-857-6045

pg. 23

304-4535 Viewmont, $239,900 Saturday 3-5 Re/Max Camosun Rick Turcotte, 250-744-3301

539 Crossandra, $339,000 Saturday 12-1:30 One Percent Realty Guy Efﬂer 250 812-4910

pg. 30

487 Ker Sunday 1-3 Fair Realty Kevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091

pg. 23

pg. 31

Sunday 1-4 Access Realty Dave Vogel, 250-588-8378

pg. 21

pg. 23

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301

pg. 12

pg. 24

4-10072 Third St

4095 Braefoot Rd, $928,000 Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Ed G Sing, 250-744-3301

108-7583 Central Saanich Rd, $176,300 Saturday 3-5 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Joseph Martin, 250-474-4176

313-1620 Mckenzie Ave

205-1870 McKenzie Ave Sunday 1-3 Coldwell Banker Slegg Realty Sonya Stewart, 250-516-5008

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes David Scotney 250-384-8124

1530 Kenmore Rd, $629,000

3781 Winston, $529,900

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Dale Sheppard 250-478-9600

303 Bessborough

577 Toronto St

Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Cheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422

Saturday 2-4 Sutton West Coast Hiro Nakatani 250 661-4476

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Dale Sheppard 250-478-9600 Sunday 12-1:30 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns 250-478-0808

pg. 27

406-1068 Tolmie, $279,000 pg. 22

4616 Ocean Park Pl., $999,900

103-101 Nursery Hill, $319,900

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Suzanne Mitchell, 250-477-7291

4412 Columbia, $699,900

4580 Gordon Point, $1,098,000

1632 Seahaven

309-1012 Collinson St, $299,000

502-250 Douglas, $389,900 Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Marie Blender, 250-385-2033

Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Lynn MacDonald 250 479-3333

pg. 15

720 Linden Ave, $699,900 Saturday & Sunday 1-4 RE/MAX Camosun Mark Lawless, 250-744-3301

pg. 12

pg. 34

4173 Buckingham, $659,000 pg. 21

4953 Highgate Rd, $1,099,000

109-11 Cooperage

210-1061 Fort, $199,900 Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Bruce Gibson 250 385-2033

30 Lekwammen Dr, $323,900

pg. 8

308-1505 Church, $196,900

N601-737 Humboldt, $649,000 724 Craigﬂower

Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Graham Bavington, 250-415-1931

2 Cadboro Heights, $489,900

4665 Amblewood

301-1121 Esquimalt, $209,900 Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Lorraine Williams, 250-216-3317

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Ed Ho, 250-477-7291

Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Fred Hiigli 250 385-2033

7-704 Rockheights, $565,900 Sunday 2-4 MacDonald Realty Lorraine Stundon 250 812-0642

pg. 23

18-4391 Torquay, $444,888

462 Sturdee St, $599,900 Saturday 1:30-3 RE/MAX Camosun Diana Devlin, 250-744-3301

pg. 23

3905 Scolton

Saturday 1:30-3 Address Realty Ltd. Mike Chubey, 250-391-1893

172 Levista, $699,900

Saturday 1-3 One Percent Realty Maria Furtado 250 881-3754

4041 Palmetto, $1,049,000

774 Patrick, $769,000

16-477 Lampson St, $249,900

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Michelle Vermette, 250-391-1893 Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Murray Lawson 250 385-9814

pg. 38

5005 Cordova Bay, $849,000

617 Lampson, $424,900

pg. 10

101-66 Songhees, $609,900 pg. 12

4034 Elise, $499,900

1990 Haultain, $609,000

305-1083 Tillicum, $289,900

3393 Henderson, $659,000 pg. 10

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

Sunday 2-4 Boorman’s Real Estate Michael Boorman, 250-595-1535

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jenny Stoltz 250 744-3301

1366 Craigﬂower, $569,900

312-2100 Granite, $234,000 Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Colin Gareau, 250-812-3451

pg. 12

Sunday 2-4 Address Realty Limited Shaughna Boggs-Wright 250-391-1893

Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Norma Campbell, 250-477-5353

pg. 21

734 Chesterlea Rd, $485,000

205D-1115 Craigﬂower Rd, $459,900

2073 Crescent Rd, $824,900 pg. 15

Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Nicole Burgess 250 384-8124

108-848 Esquimalt Rd, $159,900

2112 Pentland, $1,055,000 Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara 250 384-8124

pg. 20

934 Craigﬂower, $419,000

1001 Foul Bay Rd, $860,000

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Kevin Starling 250 889-4577

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Alliance David Rusen, 250-386-8875

401-1620 Mckenzie Ave

604-75 Songhees, $679,000 Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333

pg. 22

4942 Cordova Bay, $1,049,000 pg. 20

pg. 31

909 Lucas Ave, $584,900

5202-2829 Arbutus, $525,000

1250 Craigﬂower

14-60 Dallas Rd., $599,000 Sunday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Fran Jeffs, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Vinnie Gill, 250-744-3301

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheri Crause, 250-592-4422

983 Dunsmuir, $524,888

2728 Belmont, $549,900

401-1035 McClure, $274,900

Sunday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Eli Mavrikos 250 896-3859

pg. 15

pg. 21

3488 Bethune, $549,900

114 Lekwammen Dr, $269,888

304-1121 Oscar St, $375,000

3-828 Rupert Terrace Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Gary Bazuik, 250-477-5353

Sunday 12-1:30 Newport Realty Bruce Gibson 250 385-2033

pg. 19

308-732 Cormorant

208-305 Michigan, $185,000

301-50 Songhees Sunday 2:30-4 Re/Max Camosun Daniel Clover 250 507-5459

607 Wilson, $399,900

1021 Craigdarroch, $739,000

305-649 Bay, $242,900 Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Julie Rust 250 477-1100

110-1035 Sutlej

pg. 5

807-66 Songhees, $629,900 Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Susan Carley, 250-477-7291

Saturday 2-4 Sutton West Coast Hiro Nakatani 250 661-4476

Saturday & Sunday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Carl Latzel 250 384-8124

1-1146 Richardson, $379,900 Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Paul Whitney, 250-889-2883

114-1110 Willow, $449,900

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Joanne Brodersen, 250-477-7291

607-103 Gorge Rd E, $199,900

754 Humboldt, $198,900 Daily Noon-5 exc Fridays Concert Properties 250 383-3722

3958 Hidden Oaks Pl

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Dale Sheppard 250-478-9600

pg. 13

1709 Fernwood Rd, $458,000 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Fred Lerch, 250-889-2528

1632 Seahaven, $299,800

Sunday 12-1 Address Realty Ltd. Irina Lobatcheva, 250-391-1893

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Lynne Sager 250 744-3301

205-1223 Johnson St, $299,000 Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Murray Clodge, 250-818-6146

1275 Dominion Rd, $519,900

Sunday 1-3 Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Donald St. Germain 250-380-3933

4-118 St Lawrence, $429,000

1121 Fort, $183,900

Mar. 29 - Apr.4 edition

142 South Turner, $709,900

Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Century 21 In Town Realty Magda Melounova 604-323-6984

Check the page number below in Real Estate Victoria or visit www.revweekly.com

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the

107-75 Songhees, $850,000

305-545 Manchester Rd., $214,900

Daily exc Friday 2-4 Newport Realty Blair Watling 250 385-2033

Published Every Thursday

1005-225 Belleville, $649,900

15-860 Central Spur, $610,000 Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Barbara Ronald 250 744-8211

OPENHOUSES

1-1020 Queens, $359,000

451 Chester Saturday & Sunday 1-4 RE/MAX Camosun Mark Lawless, 250-744-3301

This Weekend’s

pg. 21

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Joanne Brodersen 250-477-7291

4636 Falaise, $589,900

9130 Ardmore, $1,299,000

Saturday 2:30-4 One Percent Realty Guy Efﬂer 250 812-4910

Sunday 2-4 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653

pg. 30

pg. 38

pg. 3

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OPENHOUSES

Check the page number below in Real Estate Victoria or visit www.revweekly.com

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Mar.29- Apr.4 edition of

10384 Bowerbank Rd, $619,999

2558 Selwyn, $499,000

205-80 Regatta Landing

3416 Turnstone, $479,900

Sunriver Estates Sales Centre

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Sam Sihota, 250-744-3301

Sunday 2:45-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny, 250-474-4800

Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Shirley Zailo 250-478-4828

Saturday & Sunday 2:00-4:00 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Ltd. Alison Stoodley 250-477-1100

Saturday-Thursday 11-4 Newport Realty Blair Watling 250 642-2233

pg. 24

763 Hanbury, $539,000

10450 Allbay, $449,000 Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Sandra Hoff, 818-5775

Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Bruce Gibson 250 385-2033 pg. 10

pg. 25

pg. 24

pg. 9

466 Green Mountain, $1,190,000 pg. 24

Daily 1-3 Gordon Hulme Realty Don King 250 656-4626

pg. 9

Saturday 2:30-4 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown 250-380-6683

Sunday 2-4 Fair Realty Ray Kong, 250-590-7011

2455 Prospector, $725,000

306-2250 James White, $299,900 pg. 24

970 Birch Rd Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Judy Gerrett, 250-656-0131

pg. 12

pg. 26

594 Delora

6467 Central Saanich, $699,000

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Bill Carnegie 250 474-6003

pg. 26

2390 Echo Valley, $684,900 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Alliance Dennis Jabs 250 882-7393

28-2070 Amelia Ave, $239,500

pg. 26

pg. 24

Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Jerry Bola 857-0178

Saturday 11-1 Address Realty Ltd. Adam Hales, 250-391-1893

2446 Liggett, $719,000

Daily 1:30-4:00 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Ltd. Jennifer Scheck 250-477-1100

Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Doug Sunray 250 477-1100 pg. 12

pg. 38

Sunday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808

pg. 16

2425 Galland

3436 Aloha Ave, $699,900

1001 Wild Ridge Way

pg. 26

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Century 21 Queenswood Brian Meredith-Jones 250 477-1100

pg. 28

pg. 33

pg. 38

Daily 12-4 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes David Hale, 250-812-7277

662 Goldstream Ave., $249,900 pg. 11

pg. 26

pg. 10

pg. 25

Saturday 2:30-4 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra 250-380-6683

Saturday 1-3 Century 21 South Island Realty Peggy O’Connor 250 744-1300

pg. 31

pg. 1

Daily 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445

pg. 25

1622 Millstream, $799,900 pg. 26

4556 Royal Island, $639,900 Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Tom Muir 250-477-7291

3019 Dornier

Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Komal Dodd 250 479-3333

Thurs & Fri 1-4 & Sat & Sun 11-4 Coldwell Banker Slegg Realty Daniel Weiss 250 383-1500

pg. 33

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Shane King, 250-661-4277

594 Delora

3571 Desmond, $569,000

1616 Millstream, $799,900

Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Mark McDougall 250 588-8588

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ron Bahrey, 250-477-7291

Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Komal Dodd 250 479-3333

pg. 26

Breaking News

Saturday 2-4 One Percent Realty Valentino, 250-686-2242

pg. 27

2059 Kennedy, $1,690,000 pg. 26

Saturday 10:30-12:30 Pemberton Holmes Diana Winger 250-999-3683

pg. 27

6753 Rhodonite Dr, $349,900 pg. 25

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Deana Unger, 250-642-3240

All of Victoria’s breaking news online at vicnews.com oakbaynews.com saanichnews.com goldstreamgazette.com

pg. 27

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pg. 29

pg. 25

1684 Cole Rd, $399,000 pg. 39

pg. 29

957 Shawnigan Lake, $319,900

pg. 26

2620 Bamboo, $669,900

Saturday 2-4 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653

pg. 26

pg. 39

3341 Betula, $468,800 Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445

pg. 28

pg. 25

683 Mount View, $385,000

2154 Nicklaus Dr Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ron Bahrey, 250-477-7291

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Jim Reslein 250 384-8124

2735 Cornerstone Trc

123-945 Bear Mountain, $515,000

Sunday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808

pg. 26

304-611 Brookside, $198,000

563 Brant Pl, $549,800

Daily 1-4 Kahl Realty Jason Kahl 250-391-8484

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445

Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Doug Sunray 250 477-1100

1204 Muirﬁeld, $809,900

3228 Sedgwick, $489,900

549 Delora Dr., $599,000 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Hans Hegen 250-858-0424

Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Suzanne Mitchell, 250-477-7291

2066 Leal, $629,000 pg. 3

pg. 34

pg. 27

816 Finlayson Arm Rd, $629,900

608 Fairway Ave

828 Bexhill Pl

3436 Aloha Ave, $699,900

971 Huckleberry, $379,900 Sunday 1-2:30 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny, 250-474-4800

Sunday 2-3:30 RE/MAX Camosun Diana Devlin, 250-744-3301

Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Lynn MacDonald 250 479-3333

Sunday 2-4 Address Realty Ltd. Rob Angus, 250-3911893

9045 Lochside Dr, $975,000

pg. 35

2458 Prospector, $575,000

Saturday 12:30-2 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown 250 380-6683

2795 Lakehurst Dr, $459,900

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Frances Wade, 250-656-0131

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Gary Anderson, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Ted Tyrrell, 250-477-7291

pg. 10

3689 Ridge Pond, $539,900

2779 Lakehurst Dr pg. 24

pg. 26

2446 Liggett, $719,000

974 Walfred

Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Mark McDougall 250 888-8588

pg. 30

pg. 38

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes David Scotney, 250-384-8124

Saturday 12:30-2 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra 250-360-6683

1250 Parkdale, $469,900

2433 Prospector Way, $649,000

408-3226 Jacklin, $279,900

Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Donna Gabel, 250-477-5353

7161 West Saanich

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

141-1335 Bear Mountain, $419,900 Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Carol Stevens, 250-477-7291

Daily 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Don King 250 656-4626

Sunday 12-2 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Paul Holland 250 592-4422

pg. 31

593 Latoria, $285,000

7161 West Saanich, $269,900

Saturday 1-2 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

Sunday 2-4 Jonesco Real Estate Wayne Garner 250 881-8111

pg. 35

3334 Myles Mansell Rd., $409,000

2818 Pickford

301-2380 Brethour Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Bernie Wilkinson 250 477-5353

pg. 25

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OAK BAY NEWS - Friday, March 30, 2012

sceneandheard

P H O T O

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Photos by Adriana Durian To book events call 250-381-3484 or e-mail adminassist@vicnews.com

■ Victoria Symphony 2012/13 season launch ■ Tuesday, March 27 ■ Three Point Motors

Symphony reveals an exciting season for music lovers

Music Director, Tania Miller shares her excitement about the coming season.

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Robert Fraser, bass trombone, attempts to telepathically read the VS Pop series concerts.

Patrons Margaret Patrick and Ted Chambers.

Luxe Home Interiors owners Scott Elias and Darren Ausmus.

Barbara Adams and Pat Elemans with past president Deedrie Ballard.

Pianist Shoko Inoue and Kevin Bazzana.

Sponsorship Manager Yvette Guigueno, and Manager of Donor Relations Jane Currie.

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The Victoria Symphony revealed the details of its 2012/13 season at an event held at Three Point Motors on Tuesday night. Canadian superstar violinist James Ehnes returns, 17year-old prodigy Jan Liesieki debuts and for the first time ever, the Victoria Symphony will perform Nielson’s Symphony No. 5. The new season is the 10th for Music Director Tania Miller who has programmed Mozart’s Requiem and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in celebration of her anniversary. It was also announced that the VS Pops Series will feature an exciting array of concerts from flamenco to the Beatles to Cirque de la Symphonie. And the Concerts for Kids Series begins in November with The Snowman. Among winter’s highlights will be one of Canada’s most popular singer-songwriters, Chantal Kreviazuk, debuting with the orchestra in December and performing her greatest hits surrounded by the symphonic splendour of the Victoria Symphony. Subscriptions for the 2012/13 season are on sale now through the Victoria Symphony Box office 250-385-6515.

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