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Ten pin bowling in Langford has given Victoria’s Special Olympics squad a new lease on life. Community, Page A3
An environmental group is seeking hunt blue-grey slugs that can distract predators with a detached tail. News, Page A6
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Long road to legal suites nears end in Metchosin Charla Huber News staff
After years of heated public debate and capped off with a referendum last fall, Metchosin is set to pass its bylaw allowing detached secondary suites. Metchosin council passed the first two readings of the bylaw unanimously last week and a public hearing has been scheduled for April 30. Coun. Bob Gramigna explained once the bylaw is passed, Metchosin homeowners can apply for and register a detached suite with the District. “That will give us a file of who has one,” Gramigna said, answering the question during the meeting on how suites will be regulated and monitored. The regulation-heavy, fivepage bylaw has many criteria homeowners must meet before a detached secondary suite is declared legal. Terms include that the size of a suite cannot be more than 70 square metres and it cannot exist on a property that already has a secondary suite. An accessory building, such as a barn, used as a detached secondary suite cannot be used simultaneously for any other purpose. A detached suite must also be within 15 metres of the principal dwelling. All detached suites must comply with all bylaws pertaining to health and fire as well as building codes. “The bylaw is written as to what is prohibited, not what is permitted,” Gramigna said. reporter@goldstreamgazette.com
West Shore Wolves team owners Dave Horner (left), Derrick Hamilton, Ken Carson and Kory Gronnestad are excited to bring junior B back to the West Shore next season. Matt Whelan photo
Wolves call the West Shore home New junior B hockey squad hits Bear Mountain this September Charla Huber News staff
Junior B hockey will soon be back at Bear Mountain arena as the West Shore Wolves gear up for its first season this September. Team owners Ken Carson, Dave Horner, Kory Gronnestad and Derrick Hamilton are excited to bring junior B back to the West Shore after the downtrodden Westshore Stingers disbanded in late 2010.
Six players have been signed to the Wolves, five of whom reside on the West Shore. The owners agree that the point of starting this team is to get West Shore teenagers playing competative hockey at home. “That’s what we did,” Hamilton remarked. “All of us played for the Juan de Fuca Gulls.” “It was a gong show — back then it was called jungle B,” Horner joked. The four owners grew up playing Juan de Fuca minor hockey and both Horner and Hamilton played junior B for Juan de Fuca. Hamilton remembers home games bringing the community together with the arena full of friends and family, something he would like to see for the Wolves. The Wolves have secured ice
times at Bear Mountain arena at West Shore parks and rec. The team’s home games will be Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. The group had initially looked at the new Westhills arena as home base. “We looked at all our options and Bear Mountain arena seemed to be the best fit,” Carson said. The Wolves are hosting a development camp for all interested players aged 16 to 20, July 6 to Aug. 9 at the Juan de Fuca arena. The Wolves have secured Victor Gervais to lead the pack as its head coach, the former coach and general manager of the junior A Victoria Grizzlies. “There will be a variety of different players. There will be players in their last couple years of
junior B and there will be young players who will get better and look to jump up to the next level,” Gervais said. “We want more local kids playing and we want to make it a community hockey club.” “(Gervais) has a great connection with the kids at a junior A level,” Gronnestad said. “We want to give these kids a place to play, we don’t want to hold them back. We are here as a stepping stone for them.” When deciding on a team name, the group of West Shore businessmen were hoping to find something that started with a “W” and “Wolves” seemed a good fit. PLEASE SEE: Possible draft, Page A9
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