July 18, 2012

A Day in the Life

Saanich PHOTOGRAPHED JUNE 12, 2012

SPECIAL EDITION TO THE JULY 18, 2012

SAANICH NEWS

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10:20 a.m.

Gas bar attendant Tori ďŹ lls the tank with a smile.

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A busy morning at the Wilkinson Road Peninsula Co-op as customers get ready for their day. Michelle Cabana

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A thumbs up from gas bar attendant Nathan at Peninsula Co-op at 4472 West Saanich Road.

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Beautiful Saanich in 18 hours W

ith 110,000 residents calling Saanich home in a municipality of 100 square kilometres, there’s never a shortage of compelling people living their lives and doing interesting activities.

Over 18 hours on June 12, we sent nine photographers to the businesses, homes, parks, farms, trails and streets that make up this vast community.

It was a day of sunny breaks and rainy showers that seems typical of this year’s summer. Our photographers highlighted people working hard, enjoying time with their family and experiencing the natural environment, parks and playing fields of this community.

We hope you enjoy our record of a single day in Saanich.

—Edward Hill, editor

06:35

Photographers Don Denton Edward Hill Roszan Holmen Arnold Lim Erin McCracken

Page Loten, owner of Broadmead Bakery cafe in the Broadmead Village Shopping Centre, prepares a shipment of fresh baked goods for delivery to Tru Value Foods, Euphorium Cafe and the Cordova Bay Golf Course.

Natalie North Travis Paterson Kyle Slavin Sharon Tiffin

-Thanks to reader Wayne Swanson for the photo of a bee on a wild rose on page 1, taken June 12, 3:30 p.m. Thanks also to all the readers who submitted photos to A Day in the Life Saanich.

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06:50 Hilda Cook enters the pedestrian tunnel under the Pat Bay Highway as she takes her morning walk.

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Al Casanova trims up shrubbery as part of regular maintenance at the Royal Oak Shopping Centre.

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07:15 Olympic team rowers set out for their morning training session at the national training centre based at Elk Lake.

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07:50 John Williams sweeps around an antique truck inside the Rootcellar grocer on McKenzie Avenue, as he and other employees prepare to open up for the day.

08:18 Grade 10 student Birch Bansgrove skateboards down Borden Street en route to school at Reynolds secondary.

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09:00 Recreation manager Wendy Thomas, second from right, leads, left to right, Kay Napolitano, Jean Forest, Mabel Bancroft, Michael Oswell, Beulah Rhoads and Irv Thomas through a morning exercise class at the Berwick Royal Oak retirement community on Elk Lake Drive.

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09:23 Nikko Springford, right, puts the finishing stitches in his top hat while Zola Auld sews a dress during textiles class at Reynolds secondary school.

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10:39 Brenda Sheffar checks for cracks in the eggs at Morning Fresh Eggs farm on Blenkinsop Road.

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09:58 Bob Wilkes, chemistry group co-ordinator, and Vu Nguyen work on an ion chromatograph at Maxxam in the Vancouver Island Tech Park.

Maxxam checks for contaminants in water and soil samples.

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11:06 CTV Vancouver Island cameraman Scott Weston records Sgt. Dean Jantzen during a press conference in the Kirby Room at the Saanich police department.

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11:24 UVic Pride co-ordinator Kailey Willetts unpacks a shipment of 6,000 condoms at the Student Union Building. The Pride office has resources available free of charge to any member of the community, not just university students.

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12:05 11:35 Brandon Schwartz, left, and Rob Galey work on a potato washing line machine at Galey Farms in preparation for the potato harvest.

Henry Ravensdale prepares to hoist his canoe onto the roof rack of his car at Gyro Park, following a onehour paddle along the coast of the nearby Uplands neighbourhood.

Ravensdale made a name for himself 21 years ago when he attempted to paddle a canoe around Vancouver Island, a trip that was cut short twothirds of the way along.

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12:28 Elaine Ethier, left, and Maryann Nevile share a laugh at Mattick’s Farm, outside Adrienne’s Tea Garden. It was the first time the pair chatted since Ethier and her husband returned from a 12-month vacation that included such destinations as Australia, the Cook Islands, Turkey, Italy, Portugal and Southeast Asia.

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12:37 Empire Landscaping’s Curtis Butcher gets the bed ready for planting at the Capital City Allotment Gardens.

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12:47 Corbin Lord, 2, peeks out from a driftwood fort while his big sister Isla, 4, writes on the wood with a piece of charcoal during a family outing to Gyro Park in Cadboro Bay.

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13:01 Barbara McDougall of Metchosin hones her kayaking skills with Yves Aquin instructor and owner of Go Kayak, in the waters off Gyro Park.

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13:06 Saanich Parks worker Dave Ord, right, and crew plant annuals outside Saanich Commonwealth Place.

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13:15 Patricia Jutras, owner of Cadboro Bay Book Company, right, helps Saanich author Helen Stewart choose a children's book for her granddaughter.

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13:45 Saanich police Const. Darrell Underwood waits for traffic as he checks vehicle speeds along Quadra Street near Tolmie Avenue.

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14:05 Alarm dispatchers Brooke Hanford, left, and Jocelyn Hubman monitor callouts across the city at Saanich’s fire dispatch and communications centre.

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14:40 Men at work on the plaza area in the second phase of the Uptown commercial and retail development.

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14:20 Firefighter Joel Jackson hangs fire hoses to dry in a tower inside Saanich Fire Station No. 1 on Vernon Avenue.

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Dan Dekker, owner of Cordova Hair, gives Percy Butler, 86, a trim. Butler’s been going to Dan for a haircut for nearly a quarter of a century.

Cordova Hair, which has been at Cordova Bay Plaza for roughly three decades, will be relocating to Mattick’s Farm in August.

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15:40 Grade 4 ballet students, from left, Elyse Bourgeois, 13, Sierra Dunbar, 12, Ariane Long, 14 and Zoe Jacques, 12, pose for photo day outside their Wendy Steen Mitchell Dance class in the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill.

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Bill Zaalberg tosses garden waste out of his van at the Saanich public works yard.

Bev Andrews a Saanich resident for 33 years, waters her garden on a cloudy afternoon.

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16:15 Susan Caygill, host at the Cedar Hill Golf Course, stacks chairs as she nears the end of her work day.

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Chris Chisholm, head of outreach for the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics, stands next to the 94-year-old Plaskett telescope within the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory just prior to a tour. The telescope is still used nightly by professional astronomers.

Head teaching pro Jamie Murphy adjusts Meagan Kacan’s golf swing on the driving range of the Cedar Hill Golf Course prior to the Golf for Gals lesson.

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16:33 Kate Phoenix, owner of the newly opened McMorran’s Beach House restaurant, puts a pizza in the oven.

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16:30 Saanich News reader Liam Aloni takes a self portrait while flying solo above the Victoria airport.

16:37 Saanich councillor Dean Murdock plays fetch with his two-year-old son Caelum and dog Bella near his home.

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16:43 Assistant gardener Linda Petite clears weeds from the kids’ garden at the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific, formerly known as Glendale Gardens.

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17:18 On the artificial turf at the Pacific Institute for Sports Excellence, Natalie Cavallin, 15, left, and Leanne Babcock, 14, warm up before practice with the Vancouver Island Wave, a high-performance team with the B.C. Premier Youth Soccer League.

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17:17 17:10 Kylen Paterson, 22 months old, supports the spring caterpillar population with fresh herbs in his granparents’ backyard.

Chris MacDonald cleans a camera at Kerrisdale Cameras.

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17:50 Bottle Depot employees Satya Scott, left, and Erin Foster sort recyclables at the Glanford warehouse.

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17:46 Grade 5 students from St. Patrick’s elementary school Ignacio Contreras, left, Padraic O'Neill, centre, and Jacob Fulton, right, race down the track at the 40th annual Vikes Relays at Centennial Stadium at the University of Victoria.

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17:23 Veteran pressman Dave Hacking checks the print quality of the Cowichan News Leader at the Black Press printing press on Enterprise Crescent in the Glanford industrial area.

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18:00 Becky Wong, Marlene Richards and Michelle Smith, walking Nieko the dog, enjoy an evening jog along Royal Oak Drive near Broadmead Centre.

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18:31 Christie Marnell walks Winston the dog while her husband Dustin pushes their four-month-old baby up the steep road to the top of Mount Doug.

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18:16 Terry Hamel warms up with horse Bobbi-Jo at the Beaver Lake Equestrian Centre ring.

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18:17 With his friend Travis Denley looking on, Mike Smith goes for the alley-oop shot at the Lochside elementary basketball court.

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19:21 Seven-year-old Violet Johnson enjoys a leisurely skateboard at the Lambrick Skate Park.

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18:45 Twelve-year-old karate student Sam Smyth-Callow throws a kick at Warrior Martial Arts at the Quadra Sports & Fitness club in Saanich.

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19:05 Gina Pecorelli and Chris Poirier-Skelton finish up a daily walk on the chip trail around Cedar Hill Golf Course.

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19:34 Samuel Brouwer, 11, slides underneath the tag of pitcher Jordan Stark during Mosquito baseball action at Lambrick Park.

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Water polo players Stephanie Watson, front, battles Benoit Carriere, back, who prepares to shoot during a scrimmage at Saanich Commonwealth Place.

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20:00 Coun. Susan Brice, centre, and the rest of Saanich council listen in at a public hearing at Saanich Municipal Hall.

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21:28 University of Victoria student Taylor Entz presents his show the Beat Laboratory on UVic radio station CFUV 101.9 after a long day at school.

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22:00 A view from the top of Mount Tolmie where Saanich glows from the light of homes and businesses as another day comes to a close.

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