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Shelter plan hits hiccup Timing, cost takes a toll on youth project Kyle Wells and Lindsay Holman News staff

A plan to set up two portable classrooms in Langford as temporary shelters for homeless youth is falling apart over municipal red tape.

West Shore Youth Housing Task Force chair Bill McElroy said he is selling the two portables purchased in August because the City of Langford said the process to get permission to install the portables would take eight months to a year to complete, and would cost $4,000. After that, it would still come down to a council decision.

In the meantime, moving the portables and storing them would cost the group money it doesn’t have.

“I said ‘I haven’t got

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that much time,’” McElroy said.

“I’m not too happy but you have to deal with reality.”

After an article in the Gazette in August, McElroy said four people approached him wanting to help with the project, but nobody came forward with an offer of land for the portables.

Even if land was available, the process to get it rezoned proved too daunting to the group. McElroy spoke to Langford’s planning department and said he didn’t get very far.

“I didn’t get a sense this guy said, ‘we’re going to really put our heads together over here and figure out a way to make this work,’” McElroy said.

“It was, ‘you apply and then when we get the application we’ll look at it.’ I don’t think that’s a reasonable gamble.”

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RCMP are seeking a suspect spotted in surveillance video after a suspicious fire at a Colwood school Tuesday.

The staff and students were evacuated at 8:40 a.m. on Sept.

18 after smoke was discovered coming from the roof above the main foyer. Classes were scheduled to begin at 8:50 a.m. “It looked like a couple of logs smoldering,� said principal Yushy Wallace.

Colwood fire department was alerted at 8:35 a.m. “The fire was confined to the surface of the roof, it was a small smoldering fire,� said John Cassidy, assistant fire chief. “We put the fire out quickly but we had to open up the roof to see if the fire travelled. But it didn’t travel out of its origin.�

Cassidy credited the school for having an efficient, pre-planned evacuation program.

Classes resumed when the fire was extinguished and the school was deemed safe.

The smell of smoke lingered in the building and large fans circulated air in the foyer and the gymnasium. Yellow fire tape blocked off a portion of the foyer and gymnasium. “All I can say is it has been determined the fire is suspicious in nature,� Cassidy said.

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Dunsmuir middle school principal Yushy Wallace in the main foyer that was blocked off by Colwood fire Tuesday morning.

RCMP are investigating a fire found on the roof. and say it was deliberately set. “The fire on the roof was put out before police arrived on scene,� said acting Sgt. Kathy Rochlitz, West Shore RCMP. Police are looking for someone seen in video surveillance footage: a male wearing a sports jersey bearing the number 99 with shorts that hung to his calfs. He appears on the video from mid-

night to about 6 a.m.

The male is of medium build with short hair or bald.

RCMP seek any information on this case or anyone who saw this male around the school on Sept.

18. Anyone with information is asked to call the detachment at 250-474-2264 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS charla@goldstreamgazette.com

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RUNNING OLD SCHOOL Second in a series

like going to the gym and doing perfect weight training,” he said. ”Your tendons and ligaments all get stronger.

Natalie North Your feet change shape.”

News staff Equipped only with minimalist shoes when the cold was too much to handle, Shaw systematically worked hen Derek Shaw was visiting his family up his running base (after completing those six runs in Scarborough, Ont. earlier this month, in traditional footwear) and this month took on the he attracted more attention than he had McNeill Bay Half-Marathon in Oak Bay as a pace bunny anticipated during his daily run. sans shoes.

“Way to go man,” yelled a passerby. “You’re going old “The most efficient and fastest runners have excellent school.” biomechanics and they don’t need to run barefoot to The residents of the Toronto suburb have them, but it’s a lot easier to learn them were a little more impressed with the barefoot,” Shaw said. long-distance runner’s choice in footwear “I have 50 years of bad habits to overcome – or lack thereof – than the avid running and that’s not something that’s easy to do community in Victoria. But even amidst the consciously. Taking your shoes off forces you mild climate and the free spirits of the West to do everything differently.”

Coast, Shaw is a bit of an anomaly amongst Barefoot running, or natural running, his peers. may offer benefits to runners such as Shaw, He’s a barefoot runner. who was willing to take his shoes off and “It’s a cool feeling,” said Shaw, who began add milage incrementally, but even with the running in his late-40s after he had to give proper precautions, it poses risks. up his morning bicycle commute. “It’s “We know biomechanically, that people a whole different dimension to running, who run with a midfoot strike get less feeling the ground beneath your feet.” injuries because they’re not running into the On the Now the information technology ground, they’re running over the ground, consultant visits his clients barefoot to which means there’s less breaking forces at keep his feet trained on the midfoot strike the knees or the ankle or even the hips,” said – a hallmark of the style, allowing the calf, Dr. Jamie Grimes, a chiropractor at Synergy A FOUR-PART SERIES instead of the heel, to absorb the bulk of Health and former Olympic sprint coach. the shock.

“It forces us to go back to a more natural, “It’s like having a really good golf game, feeling improved biomechanical way of running.” everything in your swing, then halfway through putting But despite the efficiency and the lessened impact of on the biggest, thickest mittens and playing the rest training the foot to run as we did as kids, said Grimes of the game. That’s the difference between running who has used running on sand as training tool, the lack barefoot and running with shoes on,” Shaw said. of structure provided by a shoe can wreak havoc on Seated inside the coffee shop at Cedar Hill Golf a runner should they suffer from poor mechanics of Course, Shaw doesn’t appear much different than any laxity, hyper mobilities, pronation or a disparity in leg other middle-aged runner in town. He dons a technical length.

T-shirt and baseball cap over his silver hair, a hydration Grimes warns of the corkscrew effect that can begin belt and timing watch. But when he stands up and in the unsupported arches and continue through the walks across the café toward the trail outside, his bare shins and knees, eventually changing hip angle and feet tell a different story. external rotators of the hip and alignment through the It was here just more than a year ago that the 55-year- back. old Saanich resident first took off his shoes and ran 100 “It is true that if you run barefoot often enough, you metres along the wood chip, grass and dirt trail. do build callouses up and it protects the skin, but the But Shaw, amidst a plan to log six half-marathons problem is people going out there and thinking that in a year, was running 35 to 40 kilometres each week running without shoes on is good for you, is just silly,” in shoes and wasn’t willing to risk falling back on his added Victoria-based podiatrist Dr. William Mirchoff. schedule by adding barefoot to his regime.

“For most people, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. You’re Between those small jaunts out to the chip trail, Shaw not protecting the foot.” walked barefoot everywhere: to Mount Doug and Thetis Yet for Shaw and a growing number of barefoot Lake with his wife and dog – and, of course, to work. runners born with good biomechanics, going old school “What you learn is that your feet change really makes so much more sense. quickly when you change the demands on them, so “After a few times doing it, probably after a couple of going out of shoes and walking in those environments is weeks, I was lying in bed and my feet were just – alive,”

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Derek Shaw has been training for the last year to transition from running in shoes to becoming a barefoot runner. He started his training on the Cedar Hill golf course trail.

Shaw said. “Have you ever been to a concert where you clapped so much your hands had a tingly feeling afterward? They were just alive.” nnorth@saanichnews.com

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Football at Belmont secondary school is in full swing this fall.

Both the junior varsity and senior teams are up and ready to compete.

The senior team moved up this year from Tier 2 to the AA league. “I think we are going to be really competitive this year,� said offensive co-ordinator J.C. Boice. “We are going to have an explosive offense and we are going to put up points this season.�

The team has already played two games and while they haven’t secured a win, they have been tough competitors, Boice said.

The Bulldogs played Pitt Meadows secondary school on Sept. 7 losing a tight one

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While the JV team is lacking Grade 9 players, the senior team has only a few Grade 12 players this year and is mostly compiled of Grade 11 players.

Tyson Morison, Grade 12 left tackle is also hoping to entice more Grade 12s to help the team out this year. “If we had more guys it’ll help us for sure,� he said.

Thirty of the 45 Belmont players have been training year-round and Boice said that shows the determination of the players.

Players also travelled to a football camp in the U.S to train with American high school football players.

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The game against Pitt Meadows was the Bulldogs’ first home game of the season and the players were revved up with more than 400 spectators in the stands cheering them on. “It was an exciting game ending 25-24. Our quarterback threw 242 yards,� Boice said with a smile.

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Housekeeper faces theft charges Kyle Slavin News staff

A housecleaner who allegedly stole a WalMart gift card off a kitchen counter she was cleaning faces a theft charge, after the homeowners conducted their own detective work.

Saanich police were first contacted by the residents, who live in the 1000-block of Nicholson St., on Aug. 13 after looking into their missing gift card.

After the card disappeared on Aug. 9, the victim obtained the receipt from the initial purchase of the gift card, and was able to trace the purchases on the card with the assistance of Wal-Mart.

“As the victim suspected, the card had been emptied at the Wal-Mart, the same day it went missing,” said Sgt. Dean Jantzen.

Police were notified

and able to obtain video surveillance from the cash register where the card was used. The victims identified the purchaser in the video as the cleaning lady.

Rita Visser, a 47-yearold Saanich woman, was arrested last week and faces one count of theft under $5,000.

West Shore RCMP charged Visser with theft under $5,000 in March for another incident that occurred in View Royal in October 2011.

“We had a report that Visser, in the role of a housekeeper, had taken something from a residence,” said RCMP Acting Sgt. Kathy Rochlitz.

“There’s no connection between the two (incidents), other than the circumstances are exactly the same,” Jantzen added.

Visser’s next court appearance is Sept. 27. kslavin@saanichnews.com

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Another main area of concern is fast food wrappers and containers, but just about anything can turn up on the shoreClean water, protecting marine life, and the responsibility line. Along with cups, bottles, cans, plastic bags and discarded of the citizen are what Charlotte Gorley hopes to promote by clothing items, this year’s cleanup revealed a 33-pound pail tackling litter on the shoreof roofing tar. In total, the cleanup crew line. picked up 90 pounds and 16 garbage bags On Saturday, Sept. 16, of waste.

Gorley and 25 volunteers This year, Gorley’s team took advantage set forth to clean up the of the free services at TerraCycle, an orgashoreline of the Coburg nization that collects traditionally nonPeninsula in Colwood. recyclable items and converts them into This effort was one of new products and materials. This means many across the country that the collected waste won’t see a landfill through the Great Canaanytime soon. dian Shoreline Cleanup and People must become more aware of the third year for Gorley’s keeping the environment clean, said Gorteam, Juan de Fuca Power ley. “If you take food to the beach with Submitted photo you, make sure to bring it with you when and Sail Squadron.

The non-profit group pro- Some of the thousands of cigarette butts gleaned you leave.” motes safe and responsible from the Coburg Peninsula last weekend.

Gorley added that cleaning up doesn’t boating and the national have to be limited to one day a year. cleanup reflects the values “Most of us, on our own, take time durof the organization, Gorley said. ing the day to cleanup,” she said.

“We saw an opportunity to have a land-based event, and The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup became a national thought that this was a good fit.” program in 2002. The program provides Canadians the opporThe focus this year was cigarette butts. In two hours, Gor- tunity to clean up their communities, and boasted more than ley’s team collected more than 7,000 of them.

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The predicted wait time is typical, said Langford Coun. Lillian Spzak, especially considering that the area hasn’t zoned land for shelters or assisted accommodation to date. “What it comes down to is that there is a process that needs to be followed within the limits of the municipal act,” said Spzak.

Though the project seems to have hit a hiccup, Spzak noted that the city is in support of community needs and assisting young people.

“The next step for them may be to speak to the Juan de Fuca Parks and Recreation, or co-locate on school board land.

These places have a synergy and would work well together,” she suggested.

McElroy said estimates suggest there are around 20 youth on any given night sleeping alongside the Gal-

loping Goose Trail, by Langford Lake or couch surfing.

The task force plans to go back to the primary plan of finding a house to rent which would require permanent funding, the linchpin to the initiative, McElroy said.

Another option to explore is to co-ordinate pairing up homeless youth with residents that have rooms to rent. McElroy said policy would have to be established to assure safety.

“We’ll find something,” McElroy said, “because there’s still kids out there looking for a place to stay and the cold weather is coming. It’s just a hiccup.”

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GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE -Friday, September 21, 2012

POLICE NEWS

City of Langford

“Allowed” Burning Regulations

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Man sprayed in Glen Lake attack A 36-year-old man was attacked with bear spray and threatened with a hunting knife while walking in the Glen Lake neighbourhood, Sept. 17.

The man was approached by a group shortly after midnight. After the attack, the victim called 911 and described four suspects.

The West Shore RCMP were able to track down four suspects and locate bear spray and a hunting knife.

The victim was treated by emergency medical services on scene.

Two men face charges of assault with a weapon and one youth is charged with uttering threats.

Another youth was released without charges. Three of the males are known to police.

“We need to be mindful, and people need to feel safe on the streets at any time of the day,” said Acting Sgt. Kathy Rochlitz, West Shore RCMP. “This is an unusual situation for here in Langford.”

Hostage reports return negative West Shore RCMP were called to respond to a possible hostage taking at the youth detention centre, Sept. 17.

When RCMP arrived at the View Royal facility, it became apparent it wasn’t a hostage

incident. Two 17-yearold friends had barricaded themselves in a room and covered the windows, making it appear to staff as a hostage situation.

“One had a sharp metal weapon,” said Acting Sgt. Kathy Rochlitz, of West Shore RCMP. After speaking with RCMP officers the two males surrendered.

No charged were laid and the incident will be dealt with at the facility.

West Shore RCMP were called to another reported hostage situation on Sept.

18 around 2 a.m. on Helmcken Road in View Royal. RCMP remained on scene for about three hours before discovering it was not a hostage situation, but a case of paranoia, said Acting Sgt. Kathy Rochlitz, of West Shore RCMP. Police were alerted when one of the people involved sent out some text messages to a third person who called 911.

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ONLY LEAVES & TREE TRIMMINGS ARE ACCEPTABLE. NO BURNING of any wet garbage, organic waste, plastic, rubber, asphalt shingles or any similar materials.

NO BURNING on any street, lane or boulevard allowance.

• The burning of any debris resulting from logging, land clearing, construction, demolition and/or businesses shall be prohibited at all times.

• Clearances for both open air and incinerator ¿res: - from buildings 20 feet (6m) - from shrubbery and wooden fences 10 feet (3m) • Any person who lights a ¿re must have a responsible person in constant supervision and ensure that equipment necessary for control of the ¿re is readily available.

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FEBRUARY 2013 Friday, Feb. 1st Saturday, Feb. 2nd

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NOVEMBER 2012 Friday, Nov. 2nd Saturday, Nov. 3rd

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MAY 2013 Friday, May 3rd Saturday, May 4th

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Cops triumph in blood drive During August and September the West Shore RCMP detachment was competing with Langford Fire Rescue in a blood drive.

“The real winner is Canadian Blood Services,” said acting Sgt. kathy Rochlitz.

The RCMP won by a hair with 15 officers participating. From Langford Fire Rescue 13 firefighters donated. charla@goldstream gazette.com

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COMMUNITY NEWS IN BRIEF

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The Victoria Spartans football club is holding a bottle drive Saturday, Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Langford Rona.

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A scene from one of the re-enactments that will take place during the tours this weekend at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites.

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The Tour de Rock RCMP garage sale and pancake breakfast at the West Shore detachment raised $4,200 Sept. 15. In 2011 the garage sale raised $3,500.

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Bring your old bills for shredding at Veterans Memorial Park on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Shredding will be provided by Best Shredding for five items of non-perishable food or a $5 donaton to the Goldstream Food Bank.

The fundraiser will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Take a light tour of the fort Lindsay Holman News Staff

Shining light on the past after dark is what the Fort Rodd Hill Lantern Tour aims to do this Saturday.

In its tenth year, the tour reenacts daily garrison life from the 1890s to 1956. As guests are guided through the site, 18 volunteers and park staff will dress the part, wearing period uniforms, to make the past come to life in the recreated barracks and gun batteries.

The tour has been a success over the last decade, hosting many repeat visitors.

“Some people have come every year since the

tour began,” said Bob Campbell, Senior Heritage Communications Officer at the Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites of Canada.

“There’s always something new every year.

There are some surprises, but we don’t want to give anything away,” said Campbell.

Fort Rodd Hill is a national historic site. Built in the late 1890s, it served to defend Victoria and the Esquimalt Naval Base.

Tours will leave every 15 minutes from 7 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Tickets are $10, but are limited and must be purchased in advance.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call 250-478-4389. editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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Black Press employees, L-R, Don Descouteau, Dan Palmer and Travis Paterson show off their sports jerseys at work.

Staff don jerseys for Sports Day Kidsport the beneficiary of fundraising activities Casual Friday at the office typically gives employees a chance to trade in their smart duds for a casual jeans and T-shirt. Friday, Sept. 28 marks a chance to take the concept of casual one step further.

Jersey Day gives employees or students an opportunity to don their favourite jersey or team uniform, as a way to build momentum for the third annual Sports Day in Canada, which takes place Sept. 29.

“From municipal council chambers to office buildings and classrooms across the nation, we envision a sea of Canadians wearing their hearts on their sleeves on national Jersey Day,” according to sportsday.cbc.ca.

The ***News is participating, allowing all staff and newspaper carriers to wear a jersey in exchange for a $2 donation to Kidsport Victoria, which helps kids from low-income families participate in organized sports.

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staff to wear their favourite team’s jerseys,” said Black Press Vancouver Island president Mark Warner. “We encourage all our staff to stay active outside the office, and Kidsport is a well-deserving charity that helps get kids active.”

On Sports Day, local sports groups from across the country have organized events to celebrate the day, which recognizes sports’ ability to build community and promote healthy living.

This year, several Victoria based groups are hosting events: • Sept. 28: Terry Fox Run at the University of Victoria’s Centennial Stadium hosted by the Eaton Arrowsmith School. Call 250-370-0046.

• Sept. 29: The Saanich Skating Club of Victoria hosts an open from from 11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. at Pearkes Recreation Centre. Call 250-7447506.

• Sept. 29: The University of Victoria Vikes and UBC Thunderbirds women’s field hockey alumni go head-to-head, followed by a retro party for all current and former Varsity athletes. Call 250-721-8410. rholmen@vicnews.com

Firefighters from afar cutting cars to train Christine van Reeuwyk News staff

Around 75 firefighters from as far as Sechelt to host Metchosin will converge at the fire hall this weekend. Metchosin fire hosts the B.C. Extrication Expo Saturday, Sept. 22 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 4440 Happy Valley Rd. “It give the firefighters a chance to practice cutting and extrications,” said Metchosin chief Stephanie Dunlop. “It’s an unusual type of training, normal fire departments train individually.”

The event will provide an opportunity for comeraderie while training on unusual crash situations and ripping apart old cars.”

“We have an agreement with ICBC to use their old scrap cars,” Dunlop said.

“They get used for good training and then Pacific Steel comes in and removes them and recycles the cars.”

Residents are welcome to come out and get “an appreciation of the firefighters and the training the firefighters have to have,” Dunlop said. editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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The Goldstream News Gazette is published by Black Press Ltd. | 117-777 Goldstream Ave., Victoria, B.C. V9B 2X4 | Phone: 250-478-9552 • Fax: 250-478-6545 • Web: www.goldstreamgazette.com

OUR VIEW

Governance by absentia The B.C. Liberals’ cancellation of the fall sitting of the legislature means the government will have sat just 48 days in 2012.

To anyone who voted for the Liberals, and especially those who didn’t, the move is an affront to democracy and good government.

The excuse given was that new Liberals shoot need time themselves in foot ministers to study up on their with cancellation portfolios. But the reality is, the Liberals are doing their darnedest to avoid making mistakes that might ultimately relegate them further into second-party status come election time next spring.

Premier Christy Clark promised big changes to the often-domineering way the Gordon Campbell-led Liberals did things down on Belleville Street.

Seeking to distance herself from the modus operandi of the previous regime and create more open government, she called for more sittings of the legislature to allow for more consultation and more ideas to circulate.

Instead, she appears to have caved to the demands of the politicos who would rather see the Liberals play a lame-duck game of ‘out-ofsight, out-of-mind.’

With no sessions, the need for valuable allparty committee work falls by the wayside, as does the ability for bills to be passed to keep government operating properly. We recall that once under Campbell’s leadership, the lack of legislative time saw the government nearly run out of money and require an emergency session to pass a funding bill into law.

It’s true, many people will be too busy to notice that there’s not a lot of news coming out of the legislature. But the Liberals, politically floundering, aren’t doing themselves any favours.

They have an opportunity to go out with guns blazing, doing what they believe is right and letting the public decide who can better govern the province. Otherwise they come off as a party clearly running scared.

What do you think? Give us your comments by email: editor@goldstreamgazette.com or fax 250-478-6545. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.

The Goldstream News Gazette 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.

Pull up a chair, get uncomfortable Get comfortable being excitement on her face is worth uncomfortable. more to me than saving myself from I met a lady a couple of months some embarrassment. ago who said she had Getting uncomfortable written this saying on her has helped me let go of wall. She explained to grudges, forgive people me it’s a statement about plus get out in the change and making community and volunteer things happen. at events. Before I may At first I didn’t think have said “no” because it much of it, but it was the was easier. days following that really I am amazed when I start had me rethink this to think how these words saying. If we always do could change the world. what we are comfortable Environmentally, we Charla Huber could all get comfortable with nothing will ever Written in ink change, we will never being uncomfortable, by improve and the world wearing a sweater and will stay the same. turning down the heat.

For the past couple of months I Maybe we could be willing to wait have tried to live by these words, 18 hours for our electric cars to and it’s amazing the changes I see charge at home instead of filling in my own life. If I am at the gym up at the pump in a few seconds. and the workout starts to get tough, There are some fast charging I just tell myself, “Get comfortable stations around Greater Victoria being uncomfortable,” and I can such as at Royal Bay Bakery in continue through and finish the 50 Colwood. These stations can charge sit-ups or I run farther than I have an electric car in four hours. before. While at the time it’s tough, I guess the other excuse many the feeling of accomplishment is the people have for electric cars is the best pick-me-up of all. hefty price tag, myself included.

These words have been a daily Maybe I need to get part of my life and it seems to be uncomfortable saving up for an working. My daughter is in love electric car or go with the cheapest with the Hokey Pokey and when solution, riding a bike. At this point she feels that we should sing and I have not chosen to do either, but dance on the public street, I repeat because it sounds good, that may the words and just go with it. The be something next on my list.

When I look at things in my own community that bother me, such as dog poop on the sidewalk, I think the dog owners should “get comfortable being uncomfortable,” and carry a bag of poop around with them. Then I thought that while I don’t have a dog, maybe I could get comfortable picking poop so my daughter and other children don’t step in it.

If I do start carrying a little bag in my pocket to pick up the occasional puppy droppings, it’ll be my way of taking responsibility for helping to make a difference in little things that annoy me. Be the change you want see.

While this is a new slogan for me, others have been doing this a long time. When I look at anyone who has made a significant change in the world, they had to be uncomfortable. People such as Terry Fox, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. have all been uncomfortable changing the world.

But no one will forget what they have done.

Everything great in the world has made someone uncomfortable and maybe if more people looked at being uncomfortable as a good thing, we could live in a more comfortable place.

Charla Huber is a reporter with the Goldstream News Gazette.

Charla@goldstreamgazette.com

‘Anyone who has made significant change had to be uncomfortable.’

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OPINION

Being healthy actually comes naturally to us all One of the joys of being a outside. It wards off infections, grandparent is getting to see the sheds water, cools us in hot world again through the eyes of weather, and repairs itself. a child.

Still, viruses, Recently, I found bacteria, and my three-year-old parasites are evergrandson picking at alert for opportunities a scab on his arm. to penetrate our It brought a flood of protective layer. As memories because I well as frequent nicks used to do the same and cuts, we have thing. natural openings It was amazing to like mouths, ears, watch the blood from noses, anuses, and an injury dry and, genitals, each with David Suzuki over days, form a its own protective with Ian Hanington mechanisms. If an scab. Before that scab was ready to fall off, invading organism I would pick at it to see what gets inside, we have an incredible was underneath, and, wonder of barrier, our immune system, wonders – it was fresh, pink skin. constantly generating new It’s amazing how our bodies proteins to fight off infections regenerate. We get hit and bruises we’ve never even encountered. form as blood leaks into tissues.

We have a defence system that Over time, the dark blue colour recognizes and fights against is diluted, and may move before any cell with a genetic makeup disappearing. Even broken different from our own (which is bones will heal and return to full why it’s so difficult to transplant strength. organs, tissues, or cells).

And skin, our largest organ, is Yet, pregnant women support a a miracle layer. It keeps the rest fetus that is genetically different of us inside and everything else for nine months.

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

Part of it is that medical care has become so sophisticated that doctors are able to treat more problems.

Another part is the everincreasing cost of drugs. And with a medical system, people are more likely to seek help. Still, health-care costs can’t continue to rise forever. Governments are always looking for ways to reduce costs, often by offloading a greater share of the burden onto patients.

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food.

Many have no nutritional value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

We spew chemicals into the environment by the millions of tonnes.

Molecules pour into us through air, water, and food, overwhelming or weakening our protective immune systems.

According to Harvard University doctors Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, “Our behaviour is the result of a basic failure to recognize that human beings are an inseparable part of nature and that we cannot damage it severely without severely damaging ourselves.”

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and many more problems are though healthy diet and exercise.

Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work. In 2007, the World Health Organization concluded that environmental factors contribute to 36,000 deaths and 13 per cent of the disease burden in Canada annually.

The Canadian Medical Association claims that air pollution causes more than 20,000 premature deaths a year.

According to author and environmental lawyer David R. Boyd, scientists estimate that environmental factors affecting heart and respiratory disease, cancer and birth problems contribute to anywhere from 10,000 to 25,000 deaths, 78,000 to 194,000 hospitalizations, 600,000 to 1.5 million days in hospitals, and other problems, totalling between $3.6 billion and $9.1 billion in direct and indirect costs each year.

It’s easier, more effective, and cheaper to let healthy bodies fight off disease and infections than to weaken those defence mechanisms and then compensate for them medically.

If we want a stable health system, we must put more resources into reducing pollution and environmental degradation and creating a way of life that keeps bodies and minds happy and in good health.

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Readers respond: Voter disillusionment, cost of living Voting doesn’t help predicament, reader says Re: Political raises should have more oversight (Letters, Sept. 14) The writer made some very interesting remarks and viewpoints on civil servants, local government workers etc., which I too am fed up and angry with.

Ms. Sheridan shares my disillusion with voting. I simply will no longer vote for a system geared to no changes ever, empty promises aimed to collect votes from the poor, needy, homeless – always at election time.

It is appalling, disgusting and way, way beyond humour that there are people voting and collecting copious salaries – and with no job title. Where do I start my application? How about this

one: “Help-out guy, can do some stuff, maybe, leave message, does three-day work week, four hours daily – requires $70,000 annually, medical, dental and this year’s BMW for start.”

That’s my job description from here on in. I deserve it, don’t I? I sincerely doubt that Christy Clark has ever endured a five-week month, existing off margarine and sugar sandwiches, with only ice cubes in the refrigerator. I am on disability, making $950 monthly. No telephone, no cable, no car, no pet. I am 56 and worked 22 years commercial fishing – taxed to death. I pay $750 for a one-room bachelor suite and have nothing to show for my life.

I am finished with voting for good. So please don’t tell me

that voting works. I have voted since I was 19 and look where it’s gotten me. If everyone stood together and either refused to vote, or had a national non-voter day, the sheer number of people would have to be addressed with change.

Eddie Kirmzee Victoria

Wages not keeping up with cost of living hike The Cost of Living adjustments for B.C. families, of citizens or other residents, needs a recalculation.

With fewer B.C. jobs, many exported with the logs, and the resulting fewer paycheques, shopping and spending in the B.C. market place, the pressure is

pushing B.C. prices up.

All this pressure is inflationary.

Many B.C. residents are forced out to seek jobs in Alberta or elsewhere, even lessening B.C. shopper market cash flows.

Many B.C. merchants cannot raise their prices, so are forced to fold and further reduce the B.C. market of shopping funds. Some B.C. merchants can reduce low margin stocks while displaying the higher margin stuff to shoppers. A few had to jack up prices and/or lay off staff to keep going, further reducing the local market cash flows.

We know that B.C. families cannot afford to live with this B.C. government. That leads to the next question.

Can B.C. businesses afford to operate under the jobs and

market-cash-exporting ideology, practised by the B.C. Liberals?

Dee Shoolingin Duncan

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GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE

Tour de Rock riders ready to tackle Island roads Composure is expected of kids so dedicated to the cause.”

Oak Bay cop Dorothy Junio, but So Junio, 50, along with her it’s hard not to get a little mistyhusband Jett, a Saanich police eyed walking into the Oak Bay officer, became the first husband High gymnasium when 1,500 kids and wife duo to join the team are screaming for the Cops for of police officers on the 1,000Cancer Tour de Rock kilometre journey down team.

Vancouver Island set to For her last two leave from Port Alice years in the role, the on Sunday. And while former school liaison Junio was physically officer was swept into fit leading up to the the excitement with Tour, the commitment the Oak Bay teens as meant adjusting to the they went head-toextreme balancing act of head in a fundraising managing three training face-off with Reynolds sessions per week and secondary – an attending fundraisers Natalie North and community events annual challenge that has seen students at with Cops for Cancer, Reporting both schools band on top of her work as a together to generate police officer, business tens of thousands of dollars for owner and parent of two teens the cause that fights childhood – who have had to “fend for cancer. themselves,” she said, while both “That’s what drew me into parents have been tied up. this to begin with,” said Junio. “I “It’s just been a blur,” Junio cannot believe the passion and said. “We did it one day at a time. the emotions that go along with That’s how we managed.” this. It’s contagious. The real “I don’t know how I would purpose comes out when you see have done it without (Jett),” she

Rock on Since its inception in 1998 the tour has raised $16.6 million toward pediatric cancer research and programs that help children with cancer and their families through the Canadian Cancer Society.

Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock sets off from Port Alice Sept. 23, arrives on the West Shore Oct. 3 and finishes in Victoria on Oct. 5.

For more information, including a tour schedule and how to donate, visit tourderock.ca.

“At some point you get into a team mindset, which is really neat; where you stop thinking for yourself and you’re thinking about the person in front …”

– Media rider Kyle Slavin, Saanich News added. “We motivate each other to get to the events, the training and complain about all the aches and pains (together).”

That close-knit and supportive team mentality reached beyond the Junios to 15 other riders from across the Island – a group of police officers, media members and special guests who came from a variety of fitness levels and backgrounds to pursue the shared goal of fighting pediatric cancer.

“We really gelled together as a team,” said Jose Bingham, a 38-year-old VicPD officer. “We’ve grown really close and we’re ready to get out there.”

After eight months of training, media rider and Saanich News reporter Kyle Slavin, echoes the sentiment.

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for yourself and you’re thinking about the person in front of you and the person behind you and beside you to make sure they’re not struggling, that they are with you, or they are with the team,” Slavin said. “Once everyone gets to that point, it’s really neat because you feel like a team.”

Slavin, at 25, hadn’t been on a bicycle in several years prior to joining the team and feels fully prepared for the Islandwide journey. “They’ve made the training schedule quite incremental so that you’re able to handle it if you’re 20 years old or 67 years old.”

The team’s two special guests, former junior rider Matt Webb who was diagnosed with Burkitts lymphoma at age three, and Bob “the Bobfather” McDonald, who has been a dedicated volunteer trainer and support crew member of the team since 2008, are both

of those ages, respectively.

McDonald puts a lot of other riders to shame, said Saanich police’s Jana Sawyer – another of the team’s 50-year-old contingent.

“I’ve always tried to stay in shape but biking is very different,” said Sawyer, who rides without full function in one of her lungs after several bouts of pneumonia. “I hadn’t biked in probably close to 40 years.”

But any set backs, aches and pains pale in comparison to the motivation behind the ride: supporting children with cancer.

“The thought of my son and daughter being sick like some of the kids we’ve met on tour is absolutely devastating,” said Bingham, a father of two, “so the opportunity to take part has been really special.”

“Every person on tour is going to have their ‘Aha moment’ or their moment of clarity where they realize why they’re doing it and from that point on it’ll be overwhelming,” Slavin said.

“It’s going to be the moment when a three-year-old with cancer comes up and hugs you, or comes up and thanks you, or it’s going to be when you’re in a school gym and you see 100 people who are 14, 15, 16 and they all have shaved heads and you’re just going to burst into tears and from that point on your perspective of tour will be that much different.” nnorth@saanichnews.com

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View Royal health clinic closing Belmont clinic available during school year Kyle Wells News staff

Island Sexual Health is closing its West Shore clinic as of Sept.

25. The clinic currently runs at the View Royal Square at 108284 Helmcken Rd. on Tuesday evenings.

Island Sexual Health Society executive director Bobbi Turner said numbers were dropping at the View Royal location, especially with those under 19 years of age able to go to the clinic at Belmont secondary school.

With more flexible hours at the Fort Street location, Turner said it make sense for clients to

use the services there.

“It’s kind of a combination of things but we just realized that location, it just really didn’t work, it really didn’t fit for clients,” Turner said. “It really just makes sense to try and make sure that the one location is cohesive and can meet all of our client needs.”

Getting physicians for satellite clinics can also be challenging, said Turner, and the services a clinic can offer are limited with no physician on duty.

Existing clients 19 years of age and older will have services transferred to Island Sexual Health’s Fort Street location. Clients under 19 years of age can access the services at Belmont.

The Belmont school clinic will be running throughout the school year on Thursdays from

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is open to all students enrolled in School District 62.

Funding for the clinic was secured for the year and the society is looking at ways to establish stable funding to keep the service going in the future.

Money came from a number of sources for this year, including the United Way, Telus and West Shore RCMP Community Policing.

“It’s looking pretty positive,” Turner said. kwells@goldstreamgazette.com

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Liberals announce Colwood candidate The B.C. Liberal Party has selected Colwood resident Chris Ricketts as its candidate for EsquimaltRoyal Roads in the May 2013 provincial election.

Ricketts runs Ricketts Construction Ltd. and has served as president of the WestShore Chamber of Commerce. He is currently director of the Esquimalt-Royal Roads B.C. Liberal Constituency Association.

“As someone who depends on a thriving construction industry, I believe it is vitally important that we maintain a government that is committed to keeping B.C.’s economy strong,” he said in a news release.

Ricketts is also a former president of the Canadian Home Builders Association of B.C. editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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Run response amazes Terry Fox organizer The West Shore Terry Fox Run raised $6,665 last weekend at West Shore Parks and Recreation.

Last year the run brought in $4,300.

“It’s quite amazing, I am blown away,” said Courtney Hill, organizer. She took over organizing the run from her father Dave Hill. He was a longtime volunteer who died of cancer in August.

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Broadmead BetterBack will hand over nearly $600 to the Goldstream food bank to start October. The chiropractic service had a booth at the Island Summer Games at West Shore Parks and Recreation in July.

There they offered a promotion where half of each $40 fee on site was donated to the Goldstream Food Bank which serves those in need in View Royal, Langford, Colwood, Highlands, and Metchosin.

“We regularly choose different charities throughout the community,” said Debbie Gage of Broadmead BetterBack. “We just really feel that it’s important to give back to the community.”

To donate money mail Goldstream Food Bank, Westshore

Sweets serve for cancer fundraiser Christine van Reeuwyk News staff

A pair of Langford cakeries are going pink for a monthlong dessert craze.

Until Oct. 16, Langford bakeries Lighthouse Cake Company and Ooh La La Cupcakes will be Tickled Pink, the dessert campaign to support the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure.

For each Lighthouse Razipan sold, $5 will go to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation to support breast cancer research, education and awareness programs.

“Being cake artists that type of thing fits with what we do,” said Joy Funk, who owns Lighthouse Cake Company alongside her husband.

“We always like to do things in the community, help out where we can.”

At Ooh La La the Pink Lemonade Cupcake will raise funds for the cause.

“This is definitely a cause we are happy to support,” said Sheryl Andrews, owner of Ooh La La. “We are a business of all women employees and we want to contribute any way we can to rid a disease that has impacted so many women.”

It’s the fourth year of the tasty Tickled Pink addition to Run for a Cure.

Both businesses are located in the 700 block of Goldstream Avenue. editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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Many West Shore food stores also offer the $2 B.C. sharing donations at the checkout or drop off non-perishable donations at Western Communities food stores or at the food bank during operating hours between 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on the first three Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each month.

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The Canadian Cancer Society CIBC Run for the Cure is the largest singleday, volunteer-led Canadian national event in support of breast cancer. Last year, more than 4,200 walkers and runners raised Sharon Tiffin/News staff $628,999 in Victoria.

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Tour de Rock rickshaw stolen It was locked up, but the lock was breached and thieves made off with the ornate rickshaw, sometime before Sept.

12.

“It’s made out of steel, like rebar, and it was hand-fabricated. It was very ornate, decorated in a South Asian-type theme,” said Saanich police Sgt. Dean Jantzen.

“It’s a fairly large thing, and I guess it’s quite unwieldy.”

Police are asking anyone who may have seen the ornate, colourful rickshaw after it had been taken, to call police.

“A rickshaw is not something you can

miss,” Jantzen added.

The rickshaw was expected to net $1,000 at an Oct. 3 auction.

On Aug. 24, a thief stole a gift basket of hair products from a Tour de Rock fundraiser at Pearkes Recreation Centre.

A man was arrested the next day in possession of the items.

Anyone with information on the missing rickshaw is asked to call police at 250-475-4321.

If you wish to make a donation to Tour de Rock, visit tourderock.ca. kslavin@saanichnews.com

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On a beautiful September afternoon the late summer sun warmed my face.

I’d scored an hour out of the office and the conditions couldn’t have been better, except for the fact that I balanced on the ledge of the CIBC building 13-stories above View Street, not sure if I should laugh, cry or vomit.

I froze instead.

Why does someone uncomfortable with heights decide to rappel down the side of an office building dressed as a gingerbread cookie?

Because when you’re a reporter, beautiful opportunities are handed to you on a regular basis and even when your instincts suggest these opportunities will shave decades from your life, you agree to them.

Not because you want to overcome fears or prove anything, but because you love a good story. The penchant toward wearing a costume fit for a tyke is tougher to explain.

With a harness cinched tightly around my core clad in a brown felt jumper with the feet hacked off, I pretended I knew how to navigate the side of building like a pro, and questioned just when my life got so weird.

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show host from the Zone@91.3.

Lamb, who suggested he was merely the most vocal about his nerves, agreed to rappel when he was put on the spot live on the air by colleague Pol Plastino. The agreement evoked random pangs of panic for Lamb in the quiet moments leading up to Thursday’s event.

“I was coming up with excuses until I was strapped in the harness,” Lamb said. “I would be going about my day and then it would hit me: this shivery feeling – a cold feeling of doom.”

prior to the event, the rappel was a mission of sheer duty, rather than personal pleasure.

Leonard’s drop was completed with $4,800 in donations raised, landing him the honour of top fundraiser. After the event, the perpetually composed veteran of public events admitted to an overwhelming feeling of relief.

“It’s a thing to strike off the bucket list,” said Craig Heinz, manager of special events for B.C. Lions Society Victoria.

“There were a lot of people who didn’t think they could

“There were a lot of people who didn’t think they could do it, who were considering backing out and then they just stepped up to the plate and actually did it.”

– Craig Heinz “I decided as soon as it was my turn to walk the plank of death, (I would) just to do it and get it done and out of the way as soon as possible,” Lamb said.

While I was systematically inched my running shoes down the concrete and peeked into the office space of kindly executives along the way – who can resist extending a warm smile and wave at a woman dressed as a cookie? – I felt the fast approaching shadow of a stealthy gentleman darting to the ground at what appeared to be breakneck speed.

Speeding toward the street without so much as looking down was the approach taken

by Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard, who shares Lamb’s aversion to heights.

For Leonard, who was enticed to join the drop just 10 days

do it, who were considering backing out and then they just stepped up to the plate and actually did it.”

Fantastic is a word I would apply to the situation despite appearing happy, but yet terrified in front of my colleagues and friends.

Easter Seals Drop Zone volunteers, sponsors and characters with all kinds of far superior costumes – bat girls, super girls, Rainbow Brite, the Star Trek crew, a giant kidney, Daisy the cow – combined their super powers to make this year’s Drop Zone the most successful yet. Some 60 droppers raised more than $140,000 to benefit Easter Seals on Vancouver Island including Easter Seals House and Easter Seals Camp Shawnigan. nnorth@saanichnews.com

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Step back in time as Fort Rodd Hill opens its doors for an afterdark guided tour. See the gun batteries by lantern light and eavesdrop on re-enactors in uniform going about the daily activities of garrison life. Take in the sights, sounds and smells of life at Fort Rodd Hill during the period of 1897-1956. Tours leave every 15 minutes from 7 to 9:15 p.m. Tickets: $10, call 250-478-4389.

Red reveals internal struggle of renowned artist Belfry Theatre hosts awardwinning play on life of Mark Rothko Daniel Palmer News staff

From the moment the audience enters the Belfry Theatre, the atmosphere is both chaotic and ominous.

Huge canvasses swallow the stage walls, familiar deep red and black rectangles painted with remarkable similarity – at least to the untrained eye – the work of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko.

Drops of paint litter the stage floor leading toward a plywood work table covered in brushes, stained rags and plastic buckets, giving the unmistakable, oilsoaked feel of an artist’s studio.

Set designer Peter Hartwell’s attention to detail is indicative of the quality of Red, the Belfry’s first offering of the fall season on the life of Rothko from playwright John Logan.

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Jameson Parker and Oliver Becker paint the stage in Red by John Logan, now on at the Belfry.

With huge screenplays like Gladiator, The Aviator and Hugo under his belt, it’s clear Logan has a gift for storytelling. He took home the 2010 Tony Award for best

play for Red. The opening scene reveals Rothko, played by the impressive Oliver Becker, lost deep in thought as he stares deeply into an imagi-

nary half-finished creation.

His musings are cut short by the arrival of a new and overtly earnest assistant, Ken (played by Jameson Parker).

The entire play takes place in Rothko’s New York studio in 1958-59, at the height of the artist’s fame, when he was creating a series of paintings for the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan’s Seagram Building.

In a scene that illustrates director Michael Shamata’s enthusiasm for authentic detail, Ken methodically staples a three-metre canvas to a wooden frame before he and Rothko smother it in crimson paint from top to bottom.

Sound designer and renowned local composer Tobin Stokes brings to life Rothko’s dependence on music to inspire the creative process.

The audience witnesses Rothko’s attempt to hold onto his revolutionary beliefs while embracing the reality of commercialism and fame.

The dialogue is rich, the actors engaging and not a moment is provided to allow the mind to wander from this satisfying performance.

Red runs until Oct. 14 at the Belfry Theatre and tickets range from $25 to $40. For more information, call 250-385-6815 or visit belfry. bc.ca/red. dpalmer@vicnews.com

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Jennifer Warnes is an American singer and songwriter best known for her rich distinctive voice, her interpretations of work by James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, and Buffy Sainte Marie, and for her association with the soundtracks of a number of popular films during the 1970s, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s.

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Wednesday, Sept. 26 at the Alix Released in January 1987, Warneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Goolden Performance Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x161; 907 Pansixth album Famous Blue Raincoat dora St. Doors open at 6:30 with is a tribute to Canadian icon Cohen, the show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are with whom Warnes toured as a $41.50 in advance and $45 at the backup singer in the 1970s. doorâ&#x20AC;&#x161; available at hightideconcerts.

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Campy but fun, filmmaker lives the dream Natalie North

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John Varszegi sits in front of his computer screen grinning.

“This is not for bragging,” he says through his thick Hungarian accent. “James Cameron …

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Varszegi scrolls through the List of Canadian directors Wikipedia page with a finger pointed to the screen. He pauses. “…

John Varszegi.”

The Hillside/Quadra neighbourhood bachelor suite-turned blue-screen studio represents all that Varszegi could not access as a boy driven to make films in communist Hungary.

Since founding not-for-profit organization HTVBC seven years ago, the 56-year-old single dad and home-care worker has directed and edited more than 100 short films.

Initially known as Hungarian Television of B.C., HTVBC began as a source of Hungarian community programming for online and TV platforms, but Varszegi has since broadened his scope to include any aspect of B.C. or Canadian culture.

He is driven by a desire to screen at international film festivals and support emerging local actors and writers. “All of the actors are mostly local because we want to support them with references. We’d like to somehow support and push the local, non-professional film

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Filmmaker John Varszegi, right, founder of the HTVBC Film Studio, with actor Randy Parker. Varszegi, shoots lowbudget films around Victoria. community.”

Last year’s big project was Unsound Innocence, a campy, feature-length action flick laden with gunfire and fake blood and shot entirely in Spectrum Community School. It was recently accepted into Mexico’s Oaxaca FilmFest.

Anyone visiting the Observatory Hill or Beaver Lake recently may have seen equally offbeat and adrenaline-charged shoots from his current project The Ten Dimension Theory, a science-fiction action film, based on Rob Bryanton’s book Imagining the Tenth Dimension.

Stretching the limits of lowbudget, independent filmmaking, Varszegi shot a boat chase scene in Victoria’s Inner Harbour and used Craigdarroch

Castle to stand in for the Vatican for his latest epic.

“It’s a bit tongue in cheek,” said Randy Parker, a 53-year-old actor who has enjoyed playing the lead role in Varszegi’s last two features. “When you work with what you can on a shoestring budget, sometimes it goes off your intended focus and you just work with it. …

If it goes a little off at a certain point and it’s a little campy and people are laughing, but they’re happy and entertained in the end, that’s OK.” Varszegi is still in need of more actors to fill in all of the roles in The Ten Dimension Theory.

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WHL B.C. division preview Black Press sports reporters preview the B.C. Division for the 2012-13 season Victoria Royals Last season: 24-413-4, seventh in Western Conference, fourth in B.C. Division.

Swept by Kamloops in opening round of playoffs.

Head coach: Dave Lowry (first season, 2nd as WHL head coach).

Assistants: Enio Sacilotto (third season), Ben Cooper, (second season), Geoff Grimwood (first season).

General Manager: Cam Hope (first season).

Key losses: After guiding the Royals through the transition from Chilliwack to Victoria, coach-GM Marc Habscheid took an advisory role within RG Properties, the hockey related company that owns the Royals.

Key player losses: F Kevin Sundher, D Hayden Rintoul and F Robin Soudek all graduated.

Twenty-year-olds F Mike Forsyth and G Keith Hamilton were released during the preseason.

Returning 18-year-olds F Zane Jones and D Kade Pilton were traded. D Zach Habscheid is playing for the Sioux Falls Stampede of the U.S. Hockey League (Jr. A).

The 20-year-olds: D Tyler Stahl, F Jamie Crooks, F Alex Gogolev.

The imports: F Alex Gogolev, Russia and G Patrik Polivka, Czech Republic.

Key returnees: D Tyler Stahl, D Keegan Kanzig, D Jordan Fransoo, F Steven Hodges, F Brandon Magee, F Logan Nelson, F Jamie Crooks, F Ben Walker.

New faces: Lots of them. Hope and Lowry inherit a team of full of assets, but one that’s been missing that winning feeling. Already they’ve pared the team down to its core, while adding Russian import Gogolev, a premier leftwinger in the WHL, and goalie Polivka.

Watch for: Left wingers Gogolev and Crooks to lead a high-powered Royals offence, a solid top six that includes Nelson, Magee, Hodges and a beefed-up Ben Walker. Rookie netminder Polivka has been lights out in the preseason.

Just notes: Carolina Hurricanes’ prospect Tyler Stahl missed most of last season due to a concussion suffered in the fourth game. It hasn’t softened

Victoria Royals defenceman Jesse Zgraggen battles with Vancouver Giants forward Carter Popoff in front of goalie Patrik Polivka during preseason play at SaveOn-Foods Memorial Centre on Saturday.

The Royals won 4-2.

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Royals home opener Operatic anthem singer Mark Donnelly, of Vancouver Canucks fame, will usher in the Victoria WHL season on Saturday night (Sept. 22). Puck drop is 7:05 p.m. versus the Giants.

Stahl, who starts the season on a six-game suspension for a check to the head against Kelowna on Sept. 7.

Prognosis: It will take Lowry at least this season to build the type of team chemistry that “takes care of itself,” but it will happen.

Prediction: Forty wins and a first round playoff exit in seven games.

- Travis Paterson, Victoria News

Vancouver Giants Last season: 40-262-4, second in B.C. Division, fourth in the Western conference, lost in six games to Spokane in first round of playoffs.

Head coach: Don Hay (eighth season, 14th in WHL).

The 20-year-olds: D Wes Vannieuwenhuizen, F Taylor Makin, D Joel Neibrandt.

Key returnees: Besides the 20-year-olds, Cain Franson, D David Musil, F Marek Tvrdon, F Dalton Sward.

Key losses: F Brendan Gallagher, F Jordan Martinook, F James Henry, G Adam Morrison, D Neil Manning.

New faces: D Joel Neibrandt, G Liam Liston, G Tyler Fuhr.

Up front: The Giants lose three

of their top five point-getters from last season, including 40-goal men Brendan Gallagher and Jordan Martinook. Returning to carry the offensive load are 19-year-olds Tvrdon and Franson.

On the blue line: Led by newly-appointed captain Vannieuwenhuizen, the Giants have five rearguards back from last season, including NHL prospects Musil and Brett Kulak. Neibrandt won a WHL championship in 2011 with the Kootenay Ice. In net: Giants acquired 19-yearold Liston from Lethbridge to assume the starting goaltending duties from Morrison, who won 35 games last year.

Prognosis: A dip in production without Gallagher, who was a game-breaker last year. Look for the defence to drag the team into one of the last playoff spots in the Western conference.

- WHL files/Travis Paterson

Prince George Cougars Last season: 24-46-0-2, 10th in Western Conference, fifth in B.C. Division, missed for the third time in five years.

Head coach: Dean Clark (fourth season, 16th overall) Key losses: G Drew Owsley, team MVP of 2011-12. Owsley played 64 games. D Jesse Forsberg played with an edge. He was dealt to the Seattle Thunderbirds.

The 20-year-olds: F Brock Hirsche, D Dan Gibb and D Dallas Ehrhardt.

The imports: 1994-born Latvian defenceman Rinalds Rosinskis.

Key returnees: G Fordyce, D

Gibb, F Troy Bourke, F Alex Forsberg, F Daulton Siwak, F Chase Witala, F Jordan Tkatch and F Hirsche.

New faces: Colin Jacobs (from Seattle) and Jari Erricson (from the Everett Silvertips).

Watch for: Alex Forsberg, the first overall 2010 bantam pick, who is eligible for selection in the 2013 NHL draft. He recorded 40 points (15 goals and 25 assists) in 51 games as a rookie last year.

Prognosis: Still a young team, mistakes are going to happen as players learn the game.

- Alistair McInnis, Prince George Free Press

Kelowna Rockets Last season: 31-314-6, sixth in Western Conference, third in B.C. Division. Swept by Portland in the opening round of the playoffs.

Head coach: Ryan Huska (sixth season, 11th on staff).

Key losses: F Brett Bulmer (turning pro), G Adam Brown (graduated), and C Spencer Main (retired, injury).

The 20-year-olds: D Mitchell Chapman, F Dylen McKinley and F T.J. Barnett.

The imports: F Filip Vasko, 18 (Slovakia), and Henrik Nyberg, 18, (Sweden).

Key returnees: F Colton Sissons, F Zach Franko, D Damon Severson, D Myles Bell, D Madison Bowey and G Jordon Cooke.

New faces: F Ryan Olsen, G Jackson Whistle, D Mitchell Wheaton, C Rourke Chartier, 15th overall pick in 1996 Bantam Draft.

Did you know: Bowey won a gold medal with Team Canada at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial U18 world championship in Slovakia.

The prognosis: If Kelowna can score on a nightly basis, then 35 to 40 wins and a second-place finish in the B.C. Division shouldn't be out of the question.

- Warren Henderson, Kelowna Capital News

Kamloops Blazers Last season: 47-20-2-3, second in Western Conference, first in B.C. Division. Lost in Game 7, second round of playoffs to Portland.

Head coach: Guy Charron (third season).

Key losses: F Chase Schaber, D Bronson Maschmeyer, F Brandon Herrod, all graduated.

The 20-year-olds: D Madaisky, F Dylan Willick, F Brendan Ranford and F Jordan DePape.

The imports: F Tim Bozon, Switzerland; D Marek Hrbas, Czech Republic.

Key returnees: F Ranford, F Bozon, F Willick, D Hrbas, D Tyler Hansen, D Tyler Bell, D Madaisky (if he is back), G Cole Cheveldave, F JC Lipon and F Colin Smith.

New faces: D Jordan Thomson, F Rob Trzonkowski.

The prognosis: Expectations in Kamloops are higher than they have been in more than a decade.

The Blazers have the necessary tools this season to make a run at the Western Conference championship and Ed Chynoweth Cup. — Marty Hastings, Kamloops This Week

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Dear Ironman, please be patient Tight deadline limits proposal Travis Paterson News staff

No one in Greater Victoria needs convincing – the region would love to be the new home of Ironman Canada.

That’s been the consensus since Ironman Canada owners, the World Triathlon Corporation, included Victoria on a list of desired destinations for 2013. Granted, it means putting aside the obvious commitments needed to host a race of Ironman’s magnitude.

“We let WTC know we’re very interested, whether or not we can meet the conditions for the Sept. 24 deadline,” said Hugh MacDonald of SportHost Victoria.

“With such a short timeline there is little we can do but submit a proposal of the route, and local interest to make it work.”

The world famous long distance triathlon was bumped by Penticton in August, after 30 years, and MacDonald, with help from the Victoria triathlon community, is hoping to beat out Whistler, Vernon, Kelowna, Calgary and other cities that plan to meet the WTC’s proposal deadline of Sept. 24.

MacDonald is spearheading the cause, and has brought plenty of world-class events to Victoria.

With Monday as the proposal deadline, however, there is little more MacDonald can do but gather a lot of handshake agreements from the necessary stakeholders who agree in principle that they will support the race.

“The route is multi-munici-

Photo by Jim Finlayson

Saanich-based triathlete Magali Tisseyre on the trails of Elk Lake. Tisseyre says Ironman is the next step for Victoria’s triathlon scene. pal, and it’s critical to have the municipalities on side,” he said.

A lot of factors come into play, from the nitty gritty of who will pay for police and approve road closures, to whether the picturesque stretch of Dallas Road and the Inner Harbour can be factored into the race. There’s also an Ironman expo on the Saturday needing 15,000 squarefeet, and a banquet for 2,000 that night. Those would have to be downtown, which is where most of the accommodation would be for the expected 2,500 athletes, plus family, coaches and friends who come with them.

An ideal route for Ironman Canada would likely start with the 3.8 kilometre open water swim in Elk Lake, a 90km bike loop (done twice) through Saanich, the Highlands, Central Saan-

ich, North Saanich, and Sidney, and a 42km run ending at Victoria’s Inner Harbour.

Quebec-raised triathlete Magali Tisseyre, a top-ranked pro, just moved back to Saanich, where she previously lived for a year and half. Last month Tisseyre won the half Ironman at the first Ironman Mont-Tremblant and, as a native of Montreal, she’s seen the impact Ironman is having on Mont-Tremblant.

“They don’t know much about triathlon out there, but as soon as Ironman came to Mont-Tremblant, all of a sudden there was a whole new potential for tourism in the summer,” said the 30-yearold. Mont-Tremblant is committed to being a permanent training location and has repaved 70 per cent of the road course, she added.

Tisseyre was seventh at the world half Ironman championships last month and is nearly ready to do her first full Ironman race, with many more to come.

“Having Ironman would put Victoria on the international map and open it up to the world.”

One question that still looms is why Penticton chose to walk away from Ironman after 30 years and welcome Challenge Penticton instead, for 2013.

Managing director Steve Meckfessel of WTC said meetings with Penticton happened as late as the week of the Aug. 26 race, and that WTC believes it’s not asking for too much from the host municipalities.

“The model that was in Penticton and the model in which we operate is similar and has proven to serve the athletes and host cities well, it’s proven successful,” Meckfessel said. WTC plans to announce the new host

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When one door closes (temporarily), another opens.

Ryan O'Byrne, Colorado Avalanche defenseman has returned to his native Victoria and will spend his time during the NHL lockout as an assistant coach on the Victoria Grizzlies.

Head coach and general manager Bill Bestwick introduced O'Byrne as the team’s newest member on Wednesday.

“O’Byrne is a great role model for our community,” Bestwick said. “He will inspire these guys.”

The deal was made possible due to a quibble between the NHL owners and NHL Players Pssociation, of which O’Byrne is the team rep for Colorado.

In 2003, O’Byrne was traded from the Salsa (Grizzlies) to the Nanaimo Clippers, where he played briefly for Bestwick before attending Cornell (NCAA). O'Byrne will not be paid by the Grizz, rather, the team will donate money to the Ryan O'Byrne Youth Sports Society.

“Obviously the lockout is unfortunate, but this lets me give back to the community,” O'Byrne said.

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WAREHOUSEMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LIEN ACT Notice is hereby given that Kustom Towing, (2009) Ltd, 3297 Douglas St, Victoria, BC, V8Z 3K9 will be selling: 1990 FORD F250 Owner R. Fisher 2FTEF26NXLCA37718 2007 NISSAN FRONTIER Owner J. Rieger 1N6AD09WX7C406549 Will be sold on Sept 28, 2012. At 647B Dupplin Rd, Victoria, BC between 10am-2pm.

FREE ART WORKSHOP. Tuesday evenings 6 - 8pm, for 6 weeks. Sept. 25 - Oct. 30. at Colwood Pentecostal Church, 2250 Sooke Rd. To register, call Janis (250)478-4138.

HAIRSTYLIST WANTED full time/part time for First Choice Hair Cutters in their Victoria location. Guaranteed $11/hour, 25% proďŹ t sharing, paid overtime, beneďŹ ts, paid birthday, vacation pay, annual advanced training and advancement opportunities. Call 250360-1923 today for an interview.

AUCTION SALE Notice is hereby given by

West Coast Super Storage Ltd., 3220 Otter Point Rd, Sooke, BC, V9Z 0K8 that the following item(s) will be open for bids between 9am-12pm on

September 29, 2012 on the premises to cover costs incurred.

Only CASH accepted.

PERSONALS STEAMWORKS: A club for men to meet men. 582 Johnson St., Victoria. 250-3836623 steamworksvictoria.com

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES D&J Isley and Sons Contracting Ltd. in Grande Prairie, AB. is looking for BUNCHER, SKIDDER, FORWARDER and PROCESSOR Operators If you are looking for full time work, please submit your resume to hr@isley.ca or fax 780532-1250

*Bonnie Royston (ENC3122) - Household goods placed in storage

by Laura Marie Dunnett. *Klayton Ottesen (ENC3079 and ENC3080) - Household goods and commercial workshop tools.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING EVENTS

BOBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ANNUAL FLEA MARKET (Whippletree Junction) Sat, Sept. 22, 9am-2pm Customers & Vendors Welcome!

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HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD TIM HORTONS,1820 Island Hwy, 1 position available for Full time Supervisor. Must be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 40 hours per week. 12.00/hour. Must have 1 to 2 years experience in supervising in quick service restaurant, and holding valid food safe and ďŹ rst aid certiďŹ cates.

Apply in restaurant between 7am and 3pm or email timhorton2538@hotmail.com.

LABOURERS SEEKING CONTRACT LABOUR CREW FOR GRAPPLE YARDERS FRASER VALLEY and VANCOUVER ISLAND

NOW HIRING HEAVY HIGHWAY/ HEAVY CIVIL PROFESSIONALS To join Flatiron at our Edmonton & Fort McMurray locations.

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Special Guest: Magic by the Renegade Wizard (David Kendall) Back-up Kats & Jammers September 29, 2012 7:00-10:00PM The Q Building 2750 Quadra Street Tickets Available Video to go (Sooke) Alloy Music ( Langford) The Q And The Door

An Alberta Construction Company is hiring Dozer and Excavator Operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilďŹ eld road and lease construction. Lodging and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Construction at 780-723-5051.

JOHN McNEIL CD RELEASE

Required for an Alberta Trucking Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a minimum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be willing to relocate to Edson, Alberta. Scheduled Days Off. Call Lloyd 780-723-5051

HELP WANTED

Initial volumes to cover 4 to 6 months; longer terms available.

Ideal opportunity for experienced loggers with a track record of production efďŹ ciencies i.e. production per day, on-grade output.

Competitive rate package plus bonus offered.

PERSONAL SERVICES

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

LEGAL SERVICES

COMPUTER EQUIPMENT

FRIENDLY FRANK

COMPUTER. Compaq PC with Windows XP. Includes Microsoft OfďŹ ce, 17â&#x20AC;? ďŹ&#x201A;at-screen monitor, mouse, keyboard & speakers. $50. 250-380-8733.

MAGIC CHEF Refrigerator, excellent cond, white, $99 obo. (250)477-3370.

CRIMINAL RECORD? Guaranteed Record Removal since 1989. ConďŹ dential, Fast, & Affordable. Our A+BBB Rating assures EMPLOYMENT & TRAVEL FREEDOM. Call for FREE INFO. BOOKLET

1-8-NOW-PARDON (1-866-972-7366) RemoveYourRecord.com

FREE ITEMS FREE. NAVY Corduroy cover for Ikea folding single bed.

James Bay. (250)380-8733.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE FRIENDLY FRANK BUILDING SUPPLIES METAL ROOFING & siding sales. Seconds avail. Custom roof Flashings. 250-544-3106.

BARGAINMixed Master, Braun, multi-practic 100, never used, $99. (250)658-8201.

MANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 3 piece suit, pure virgin wool, never used, w 36â&#x20AC;? h 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;8â&#x20AC;?, $90 obo. (250)727-9425.

PHILLISHAVE RAZOR (brand new), $24. (250)380-9596 SMALL WOOD desk with swivel ofďŹ ce chair, $60. Call (250)727-7741.

SOFA, $40. Coffee table, glass top, $10, both in good condition. Call (250)881-8133.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

ALL YOU NEED IN PRINT AND ONLINE www.bcclassiďŹ ed.com

HAND CROCHET Afghannewly made, rainbow colours, 40â&#x20AC;?x56â&#x20AC;?. $15. (250)383-5390.

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

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

PRACTICAL NURSING For those with a desire to help others and make the world a better place. Sprott Shaw gives you the skills to actually do it. Our programs put you on a path to making a difference in our world and the lives of others.

NEW Provincially Recognized PN program. Available at select campuses.

Please reply to: P. O. Box 089 C/O BC ClassiďŹ eds #102-5460 152nd St. Surrey BC V3S 5J9

PERSONAL SERVICES

Financial Aid May Be Available

ART/MUSIC/DANCING PIANO LESSONS. All Ages & Levels. Have fun while learning to play. (Will drive).

Call 250-881-5549.

PIANO LESSONS by experienced Teacher, RCM trained.

Colwood/Metchosin area (all ages welcome). 250-391-7915

FINANCIAL SERVICES GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877987-1420. www.pioneerwest.com

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO RETOUCH, RESTORE, Edit Photos.

Portraiture-Baby+Family Maternity. Home Movies to DVD. Call 250-4753332. www.cwpics.com

CALL VICTORIA:

250-384-8121

SPROTTSHAW.COM Formerly known as Sprott-Shaw Community College. *Not all programs available in all campuses.

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GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE -Friday, September 21, 2012 MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE

RENTALS

TRANSPORTATION

TRANSPORTATION

FUEL/FIREWOOD

FOR SALE BY OWNER

HOMES WANTED

MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

SUITES, LOWER

CARS

TRUCKS & VANS

CAYCUSE Very rare 5 acre treed park-like Property with well-maintained furnished home - 1500 sq.ft, 3-bdrm, 2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake.

Perfect for recreational property or full time living.

Reduced to sell $378,800.

Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land.

Call 250-745-3387 or 250-478-2648

WE BUY HOUSES

MNT DOUG area: Large 1 bdrm, reno’d. Inclusive, small dog welcome, N/S. $850. Call (250)721-0281, (250)858-0807

2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded.

White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 firm. 250-755-5191.

SIDNEY, WATERFRONT home, 1 bdrm, fully furn’d, all utils incl’d, F/S, W/D, small dog ok, N/S, avail now. $1000 mo. Ref’s. Call (250)665-6367.

1995 PLYMOUTH Voyager Van, 7 seater, 1 family owned, well maintained, woman driven, low mileage (164,000 KMS). Asking $2900. Call (250)477-4256.

$50-$1000 CASH

SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest firewood producer offers firewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords. Help restore your forest, Burndrywood.com 1-877-902-WOOD.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE HOME THEATER Audio system, boxed, never used, $300.

Collector plates (endangered species), full set (10), $200.

Call (250)474-2325.

PARKING LOT Furniture Sale! Loveseat $49., Rocker $49., Kitchen Chairs 4/ $39., Mattresses/ Box Springs from $19. Each. Much More! BUY & SAVE, 9818 4th St., Sidney. buyandsave.ca Visa, M/C. SHOP-RIDER 4W SCOOTER new batteries, annual checkup. New Evolution 4 wheel walker w/basket+ additional Walker. Very fancy wine rack, w/lock & key. Fireplace tools.

Call for more details, (250)380-4092.

Call: 1-250-616-9053 www.webuyhomesbc.com

REAL ESTATE SERVICES

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS$2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enterprise Cres, Victoria. Goldstream Press Division.

Damaged House?

Pretty House? Moving?

Divorcing? Estate Sale?

We will Buy your House Quick Cash & Private.

Mortgage Too High and House won’t sell?

Can’t make payments?

We will Lease Your House, Make your Payments and Buy it Later!

SIDNEY- NEW 2 bdrm + den, W/D. NS/NP. $1700 mo. Avail immed. Call 250-217-4060.

RENTALS

TRANSPORTATION

TOWNHOUSES

APARTMENT/CONDO COLWOOD 2 bdrm condo, 4th floor, elevator, 5 appls, insuite laundry, F/P, prkg incl’d, N/P. $1100. Oct. 1. (250)474-6855.

FABULOUS SWEEPING OCEAN VIEWS Looking for an incredible low maintenance home with minimal yard work, amazing views & move-in ready? Beautiful 2bdrm + large den, two sunrooms, two decks, hardwood floors, gas F/P, skylights, 2.5 baths, garage + more. Built for view & privacy. 2200 sq ft.

Dead-end, quiet street steps to beach. Saxe Point Park area. $575,000. 250-383-0206, 250-382-7890.

Seasidevictoria@gmail.com

MARINE ‘99 SUNFIRE, Painted & inspected, $2500. 778-425-3604 250-532-0751

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES 1999 ML 320 V6 Mercedes Benz SUV, good shape, low mileage. New tires, loaded, 4 wheel drive, $9000 obo. Call (250)478-5836 or cell (250)818-5754.

DEEP COVE: cozy 1bdrm, wood floors, acreage, skylights $950 mo, N/S. 250-656-1312.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

LAKEFRONT PROPERTYDesirable location in Sooke, $575,000. View by appt.

(250)658-9133.

REAL ESTATE BUSINESSES FOR SALE

HOUSES FOR SALE

DO GOOD. Feel good. Own your own Good Earth Coffeehouse! Free Franchise Seminar October 2, 7:00pm Uptown Shopping Centre Victoria For details and to register franchise@goodearthcafes.com 1888-294-9330.

Exceptional coffee and wholesome food since 1991.

FOR SALE BY OWNER. #30 Lekwammen Drive. 55+ complex. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, den, family room, dbl. garage. LP $319,900. Irma (250)477-4117

BUYING - RENTING- SELLING

CALL: 250-727-8437

Jasmine Parsons www.jasmineparsons.com One Percent Realty V.I.

OPEN HOUSE

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BROADMEAD, 4635 Falaise Drive. Sat. Sept. 22, 9am12pm. A mantel and more!

SUITES, LOWER

250-885-1427

GARAGE SALE View Royal 24 Jedburgh Rd. Sat. Sept 22, 9-3.

COLWOOD- 1 bdrm, own ent, patio, shared W/D, NS/NP. $850 incls utils, 250-391-7915

Call us first & last, we pay the highest fair price for all dead & dying vehicles.

Don’t get pimped, junked or otherwise chumped!

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

OPEN HOUSE: 2 BR / 2 BA Condo #216 - 1375 Bear Mtn Pkwy. $314K. Sat 1 - 3.

LANGFORD: SPACIOUS 1 bdrm, 1 bath, laundry, $850 mo all util’s incl. Avail Oct. 1st.

NS/NP. (250)389-0983.

Time for a NEW car?

1-800-910-6402

SHIPPING CONTAINERS 20’ or 40’. Buy or Rent. Safe and secure. Easymove Container Services. Serving Vancouver Island.

1-(888)331-3279

OPEN HOUSE: 2 BR / 2 BA Condo. #208 - 300 Waterfront Cres. $519K. Fri. 11am-1pm, Sat & Sun 1-3pm.

$$$ BOATS Wanted. Any size. Cash buyer. Also trailers and outboards. 250-544-2628.

www.PreApproval.cc DL# 7557

ROOMS FOR RENT

SAVE ON COMMISSION Sell your home for $6900 or 1% plus $900 fees FULL MLS SERVICE!

BOATS

DreamCatcher Auto Loans “0” Down, Bankruptcy OK Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals

GREAT HOUSING. $425$625. Clean, quiet, comfortable. All incl. 778-977-8288

SOOKE RANCHER Beautiful, immaculate, 1,649 sq ft executive rancher located in Whiffen Spit Estates, Sooke, BC. 10,000+ sq ft lot.

Asking price $429,900.

250-686-5372

WANTED: FLAT screen TV or PVR (inexpensive) for a single parent. Call 250-514-6688

local, only 65,000 kms. Super clean inside & out. Exc cond.

Well maintained. $9900 obo.

Call 250-995-1378.

COTTAGES

ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewellery. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700 WANTED 1990 to 1994 Nissan Truck, 4 cylinder auto, standard cab, regular box.

(250)385-9361.

2006 Dodge Caravan, 1 owner,

SIDNEY CONDO- 2 bdrm, NS/NP. $1375 + hydro, close to all amens. 250-656-4003.

RENT-TO-OWN in Cobble Hill, Open concept home, fully irrigated landscaped yard w/hot tub. 2Bdrm upstairs w/2Bdrm in-law-suite downstairs. Close to Shawigan Lake, 30 minutes to Victoria & 20 minutes to Duncan. $2100/m. $500/m rent credit. Apply at: www.Island-Rent-To-Own.com

858-5865

AUTO FINANCING

HOMES FOR RENT

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

FREE Tow away

Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

SIDNEY: FURN deluxe, newer, walk to town. All incl.

Weekly/Monthly 250-656-8080

TREADMILL, FREE Spirit 814 Sears model, hardly been used, great condition, folds up for easy storage, $150 obo.

Call (250)544-1235.

For scrap vehicle

By Owner, $47,900. 1260sqft, 3 bdrm mobile, exc. cond., 5 new stainless appl, W/D. Fully upgraded. New furnace, air tight stove. Family park. Call (250)478-8455.

FOR ALL VEHICLES in all conditions in all locations

GARAGE SALES

LANGFORD: YEARS of accumulation! Furniture, China, pictures, Christmas, books. Endless array! Sat & Sun all day.

2401 Fleetwood Court.

CARS 1984 380 SE Mercedes, 126.

Daily driver, gold with sunroof.

Leather interior, no rust. $1800. obo. (250)595-7573.

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ACCOUNTING/TAX/ BOOKKEEPING

CARPET INSTALLATION

COMPUTER SERVICES

DRYWALL

ELECTRICAL

FENCING

GARDENING

ACCOUNTING Vida Samimi

MALTA FLOORING Installation. Carpets, laminates, hardwood, lino. BBB 250-388-0278

COMPUDOC MOBILE Computer Services. Repairs, tuneups, tutoring, web sites, etc.

250-886-8053, 778-351-4090.

AARON’S RENO’S Drywall, taping, texture. Insured/bonded. Free est. 250-880-0525.

AT&T ELECTRIC. Renovations. Residential & Commercial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550.

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

(250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Yard a mess? Fall pruning & clean-up. Blackberry & ivy rmvl, weed control. 24yrs exp.

BEAT MY Price! Best workmanship. 38 years experience.

Call Mike, 250-475-0542.

FURNITURE REFINISHING

CONCRETE & PLACING

ARE YOU in need of a professional, qualified, residential or commercial gardener? www. glenwood gardenworks.com

Certified General Accountant Bookkeeping, Audit, Payroll, HST. Set up & Training. E-File

TAX 250-477-4601

CARPENTRY BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748.

COMPLETE HOME Renos.

Carpentry, Drywall, Painting.

Licenced insured. Call Darren 250-217-8131.

CLEANING SERVICES MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estates, events, offices. BBB member. (250)388-0278.

PRIVATE HOUSEKEEPER. Has available openings. Exc ref’s. $25/hr. 778-433-4340.

ALL TYPES of Concrete & Carpentry work specializing in all types of retaining walls, large or small. IKON Construction since 1980. Call 250-4782898 or 250-880-0928.

COMPUTER SERVICES A HOME COMPUTER Coach.

Senior friendly. Computer lessons, maintenance and problem solving. Please call Des 250-656-9363, 250-727-5519.

CONTRACTORS CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood floor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877

DRYWALL PROFESSIONAL: Small additions, boarding, taping, repairs, texture spraying, consulting. Soundproof installation;bath/moisture resistance products. Call 250.384.5055.

Petrucci’s Drywall.

ELECTRICAL 250-361-6193 QUALITY Electric. New homes, renos. No job too sm. Seniors disc. #22779.

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small.

Kendra, 250-415-7991.

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $40/hr.

Work Guaranteed. Any size job.

(250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-216-8997.

GARDENING

EXCAVATING & DRAINAGE

10% OFF. Mowing, Power Raking, Hedge/Shrub Trimming, Clean-up. 250-479-6495

BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini excavator & bob cat services.

Perimeter drains, driveway prep, Hardscapes, Lot clearing. Call 250-478-8858.

J&L GARDENING Specialty yard clean-up and maintenance.

Master gardeners.

John or Louise (250)891-8677

AURICLE BSC. 250-882-3129 Fall clean up, Lawn aeration & fertilize-soil-hedges & more.

DPM SERVICES, lawn & garden, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141 GARDEN OVERGROWN? Weeding, lawn cuts, cleanups, pruning.

John Kaiser 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

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www.goldstreamgazette.com • A27

GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE - Friday, September 21, 2012

This Weekend’s

Select your home.

Select your mortgage.

OPENHOUSES Published Every Thursday

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

110-1035 Sutlej, $449,000 Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Sylvia Therrien, 250-385-2033

409 Chadwick Place, $1,299,900 Saturday 2:30 - 4PM Re/Max Camosun Kevin Koetke, 250 744-3301

pg. 44

204-137 Bushby, $339,000 Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Cheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Sept. 20 - 26 edition of

501-1235 Johnson, $199,000

3114 Woodburn, $775,000

4011 Birring Pl, $999,900

495 Goward, $699,900

Saturday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara 250 384-8124

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Marsha Crawford, 250-889-8200

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

Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Roxanne Brass, 250-744-3301

pg. 12

306-75 Songhees, $750,000 pg. 16

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

pg. 11

305-1000 McClure, $229,500 Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Bruce Gibson 250 385-2033

203-1041 Rockland Ave, $264,900 Saturday 11-1 Sotheby’s International Don. St. Germain, 250-744-7136

pg. 14

Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Inder Taneja, 250-686-8228

pg. 6

304-365 Waterfront Cr, $549,000 pg. 6

pg. 29

Sunday 11-1 One Percent Realty Valentino, 250-686-2242

pg. 1

Saturday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Justine Cooper, 250-477-1100

pg. 12

pg. 13

pg. 13

441 Stannard, $699,000

pg. 14

pg. 41

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Guy Crozier, 250-744-3301

pg. 28

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Cheryl Woolley, 250-477-7291

pg. 43

pg. 39

510-620 Toronto St, $319,000

pg. 5

pg. 40

pg. 6

623 Manchester, $459,000 Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663

pg. 17

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Clayton Jeffs, 250-744-3301

Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Brad Gregory 250 744-3301

Saturday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Jim Fields, 250-384-8124

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

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

Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663

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

pg. 2

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Cathy Duncan & Associates 250 658-0967

pg. 9

pg. 29

2361 Queenswood pg. 12

pg. 9

5220 Worthington, $749,900

pg. 41

pg. 5

pg. 18

pg. 41

Tuesday 4-6:30 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Michael Luyt, 250-216-7547

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

pg. 20

pg. 11

pg. 34

pg. 43

pg. 19

pg. 19

Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663

Saturday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Sheila Christmas, 250-477-1100

pg. 21

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Jeannie Lau, 250-477-5353

pg. 21

763 Lavender, $405,000 Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Barbara Ronald 250 744-8211

pg. 22

Saturday 2:30-4 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

pg. 41

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

pg. 16

pg. 9

1173 Garden Gate Dr., $1,190,000 Saturday 2-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes Team, 250-656-0911

1590 Howroyd, $530,000 pg. 20

Saturday 3-5 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara 250 384-8124

pg. 24

pg. 21

204-2360 James White, $234,900 Sunday 12:30-2 Sparling Real Estate Ltd. Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511

pg. 23

pg. 21

1733 Texada, $1,350,000

5460 Old West Saanich, $1,069,000 pg. 1

Sunday 1-3 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653

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

pg. 41

pg. 3 Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Rene Blais 250 655-0608

3877 Holland Ave., $1,095,000 pg. 21

Sunday 2-4 Burr Properties Shirin Purewal 250 382-8838

pg. 23

pg. 22

8650 Richland, $939,000 1235 Astra Pl, $535,000 pg. 18

Wednesday 2-4 Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd. Colin Moorman, 250-383-7100

Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Ann Watley, 250-656-0131

14-4525 Wilkinson, $379,900 pg. 19

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

1919 Waterloo, $1,148,000 pg. 10

Sunday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680

103-10459 Resthaven Dr, $179,000

363 Obed pg. 20

Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Bruce Gibson 250 385-2033

1620 Mortimer St.

934 Craigflower, $379,000 pg. 7

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

pg. 22

Saturday 12-2 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

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

108-7583 Central Saanich /Rd, $139,900

2828 Inlet Ave., $483,000 pg. 43

pg. 39

pg. 12

pg. 9

pg. 40

pg. 6

1-9628 Second, $775,000 Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Graham Bavington, 250-415-1931

404-1000 Esquimalt, $248,888

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

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

1309 Blue Ridge, $599,900

pg. 43 Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Karin Barlow 250-385-2033

pg. 21

2879 Inez Dr., $519,000

pg. 18

Saturday 11:30-1 Re/Max Camosun Adrian Langereis, 250-999-9822

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Cassie Kangas 250 477-7291

1295 Knockan Dr, $639,900

3777 Jennifer, $719,900

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Cathy Duncan & Associates 250 658-0967

pg. 21

111-3921 Shelbourne, $299,000

4029 Providence, $899,888 Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Michael Luyt, 250-216-7547

Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-744-3301

3120 Esson Rd, $464,900

3963 Juan De Fuca

3536 Richmond, $499,900 Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291

pg. 21

7-3228 Wicklow, $417,000

Friday & Saturday 3:30-5:30 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Don Beckner 250 477-5353

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Roxanne Brass, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Zane Willis, 250-479-3333

pg. 14

21-4120 Interurban Rd, $364,900

46-901 Kentwood Lane, $445,000

4102-2829 Arbutus, $1,149,000

Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Paul Holland 250 592-4422

1020 Richardson, $749,900 Saturday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Rebecca Ross 250 744-3301

pg. 28

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Brad Gregory 250 744-3301

Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Gordon Lee, 250-385-2033

171 Obed, $439,000

11-864 Swan St, $323,900

Thursday 6-8 Cornerstone Properties Kevin Wensley 250 475-2006

4030/4040 Borden St, $229,900

1250 Craigflower, $425,500

302-1000 McClure, $224,900 pg. 9

pg. 41

349 Lampson, $749,900

409-2747 Quadra, $229,000 pg. 14

1698 Donnelly, $479,900

1111 Lockley, $379,000

66 Wellington Ave., $995,000 Saturday 2-4 Burr Properties Ltd. Patrick Skillings, 250-382-8838

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Guy Crozier, 250-744-3301

pg. 20

4030/4040 Borden St, $349,900

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

pg. 20

4379 Elnido, $639,900

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

A-707 Linden St, $449,900 pg. 3

Sunday 11-1 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Patricia Kiteke, 250-384-8124

Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Chris Markham 250 477-1100

pg. 21

4044 Angeleah Pl, $499,900

3884 Haro, $769,000 pg. 19

325 Masters Rd, $349,500

Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Norma Campbell, 250-477-5353

pg. 19

Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jeff Bishop, 250-474-6003

828 Rupert Terrace Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Murray Lawson 250 385-9814

pg. 15

100 Dorothy, $449,900

305-3010 Washington, $259,900 pg. 6

Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Fran Jeffs, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Inder Taneja, 250-686-8228

5709 Wallace, $707,000

20-1473 Garnet, $409,000

4994 La Quinta

30-300 Six Mile Rd, $379,900

451 Chester, $639,900

A19 Cook St, $659,900

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Neils Baartman, 250-812-1178

13 Jedburgh, $469,500

Saturday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Michelle Vermette, 250-391-1893

Saturday 1-4 RE/MAX Camosun Mark Lawless, 250-744-3301

pg. 3

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Garreth Jones, 250-744-3301 Saturday 3-5 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny, 250-474-4800

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

Friday 4-6 & Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301

6-1012 Terrace Ave, $299,900 pg. 13

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

1158 Camrose

Friday 1-3 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653

152 Levista Pl, $584,900

23 Cook St.

Saturday 12-1:30 One Percent Realty Guy Effler, 250-812-4910

pg. 19

7-314 Six Mile, $499,000

637 Cornwall

403-520 Dunedin St, $229,900

Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Sandra Kamper, 250-514-1224

pg. 15

pg. 21

4953 Highgate Rd, $1,069,000

1929 Leyns, $649,900

2339 Chilco

104-1121 Oscar St. pg. 13

1044 Davie St, $799,000

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 474-6003

pg. 15

1017 Monterey, $549,000 Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Marc Owen-Flood 250-385-2033

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

11-4318 Emily Carr, $539,000

9-1529 Cooper Rd.

1161 Finlayson St., $424,900 Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

933 Collinson St, $555,000

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Cassie Kangas 250 477-7291

pg. 43

7 Price Rd, $669,900

208-203 Kimta Rd

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Maggie Thompson, 250-889-5955

614 Craigflower Rd, $429,000

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Maggie Thompson, 250-889-5955

Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Debbie Hargreaves 250 384-8124

pg. 8

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Wendy Herrick 250-656-0131

pg. 41

3077 Dysart Rd, $498,888

3995 Hopesmore Dr., $599,900

Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Gary Bazuik, 250-477-5353

4035 Cumberland Rd, $539,900

pg. 6

20377 Spring Rd, $415,000

733A Humboldt

Saturday 2-4 Duttons & Co Real Estate Ltd. David Logan, 250-383-7100

Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Mike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100

pg. 44

1-3211 Shelley, $399,900

Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Sandra Kamper, 250-514-1224

103-620 Toronto St, $289,000

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jack Windle, 250-477-7291

pg. 15

1216 Beach, $1,197,000

754 Humboldt, $398,900

Daily noon - 5 pm (exc Thurs & Fri) Fair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 480-3000

3942 Aspen Pl., $769,000

1007-620 Toronto St, $269,000

Saturday 2-4 Sotheby’s International Don St. Germain, 250-744-7136 Daily Noon-5 exc Fridays Concert Properties 250 383-3722

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Scott Garman 250 896-7099

2237 Windsor, $759,000

Saturday 2-4 Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd. Colin Moorman, 250-383-7100

1479 Lang St, $849,900

pg. 15

2740 Dewdney, $1,070,000

1704-647 Michigan St, $199,900 pg. 10

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

pg. 41

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Megan John, 250-477-7291

pg. 22

3-801 Langham, $399,999

1897 Gonzales Ave, $759,000

405-1020 Esquimalt, $219,900

6-759 Sanctuary, $429,900

546 Meredith

6980 East Saanich Rd., $554,900

Sunday 1-3 RE/MAX Camosun April Prinz, 250-744-3301

Saturday 1-3 Fair Realty Jinwoo Jeong, 250-885-5114

Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Paul Holland 250 592-4422

Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 474-6003

Sunday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Julie Rust, 250-477-1100

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Stephen Postings, 250-656-0131

pg. 34

pg. 15

pg. 18

pg. 39

pg. 22

pg. 24

A28 • www.goldstreamgazette.com

Friday, September 21, 2012 - GOLDSTREAM

This Weekend’s Published Every Thursday

9554 Sharples Rd., $490,000

Saturday 2-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes Team, 250-656-0911

Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Curtis Lindsay, 250-744-3301

pg. 35

pg. 24

1173 Garden Gate Dr., $1,190,000 Saturday 2-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes Team, 250-656-0911

pg. 35

pg. 24

Saturday 2-4 Holmes Realty Willy Dunford 250 656-0911

pg. 3

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Elfie Jeeves 250 477-7291 pg. 23

202-2349 James White, $284,500 Saturday 1-2:30 Holmes Realty Magdalin Heron 250 656-0911

pg. 25

71-7701 Central Saanich Rd, $124,900 Saturday 1:30-3:30 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty May Hamilton, 250-477-5353

pg. 39

pg. 23

Saturday 2-4 & Sunday 12-4 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

pg. 12

pg. 24

Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty David Stevens, 250-893-1016

pg. 25

Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Rick Turcotte, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Cheryl Woolley, 250-477-7291

Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Fran Jeffs, 250-744-3301

Saturday 11:30-1:30 Re/Max Camosun Austin Torres, 250-744-3301

pg. 26

pg. 23

Sunday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Hans Hegen, 250-858-0424

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

B-416 Gamble, $324,900

1104 Monica, $729,000

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Leslie Manson 250 744-3301

Saturday 11-3 Fair Realty Kevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091

Saturday 1:30-3 Re/Max Camosun Shirley Zailo 250-478-4828

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

pg. 24

pg. 25

pg. 7

B-2720 Phillips Rd., $470,000 pg. 26

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Diana Winger, 250-384-8124

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

pg. 12

pg. 30

pg. 10

6662 Rhodonite, $289,900 Saturday & Sunday 3:30-4:30 Re/Max Alliance Karen Love, 250-386-8875

pg. 5

pg. 26

10953 West Coast Rd, $549,000

3571 Desmond, $479,000 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ron Bahrey, 250-477-7291

pg. 39

Saturday& Sunday 11-4 Newport Realty Blair Watling 250 642-2233

402-635 Brookside, $398,000 Sunday 12-4 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

Sunday 2:30-4:30 Pemberton Holmes Gregg Mah, 250-384-8124

Sunriver Estates Sales Centre

2983 Dornier Rd, $399,900

549 Delora Dr, $529,000

664 Orca Pl, $549,900

Saturday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

pg. 16

100-594 Bezanton Way, $324,900

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Chris LeBlanc, 250-478-9141

7065 Willis Pt

WIN $500

Saturday 2:30-4 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye, 250-384-8124

305-606 Goldstream, $269,000

1038 Haslam, $419,900

204-627 Brookside, $309,900

Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Dale Sheppard, 250-478-9600

727 Grousewood, $649,900

Saturday 2-3:30 Re/Max Camosun Adrian Langereis, 250-999-9822

201-2829 Peatt Rd, $219,900

9384 Brookwood, $209,900

pg. 25

pg. 5

404-866 Goldstream, $339,900 Sunday 11-12:30 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny 250-474-4800

270 & 274 Atkins Rd.

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

1011 Oliver, $499,900

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

pg. 39

662 Goldstream Ave., $239,900

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

8541 Bexley, $513,000 pg. 24

pg. 25

1234 Goldstream Ave, $529,000

3369 Sewell Rd, $439,000

311-10461 Resthaven, $379,000 pg. 23

pg. 44

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Julia Abraham, 250-744-3301

203-594 Bezanton Way, $295,000

8930 Tumbo Pl.

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Rene Blais 250 655-0608

Saturday 11:30-1:30 Re/Max Camosun Adrian Langereis, 250-744-3301

828 High Forest, $699,900

pg. 24

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Realtors lend a hand Donation covers major expense for soup kitchen Don Descoteau News staff

When people line up for lunch at the Rainbow Kitchen in Esquimalt, volunteers aren’t worrying so much about how the organization will cover costs.

Making rent is something the non-profit society won’t have to fret about for the rest of this year, after receiving a $10,000 gift Tuesday from members of the Victoria Real Estate Board.

“We’re totally funded by donations like this,” said Garth

Walmsley, board president of the Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society. “I’m not sure what we would have done without this grant. It’s a great relief to have our rent taken care of.”

The society, operating out of the former Anglican church at 500 Admirals Rd., has an annual budget of $65,000. It has no paid staff, but still must pay for utilities, garbage pickup, cleaning services, some food items and, of course, rent to the Anglican Diocese.

Even with Tuesday’s donation, the society still needs about $30,000 to cover expenses to its fiscal year-end next March, Walmsley said.

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Chargers to hit downtown parkades Roszan Holmen News staff

There aren’t many electric vehicles out there yet, but seven new charging stations are slated for installation in city parkades by next spring.

Charging a vehicle at one of the stations will take between three and eight hours. There will be no cost for the electricity over and above the standard parking rates.

At this stage, Coun.

Geoff Young doesn’t “have a problem with giving the industry a bit of a kickstart.”

“These things are still pretty marginal economically,” he said.

When electric vehicles become more common, he said, the city will need to start charging for power.

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has budgeted approximately $20,000 for the installation of 10 charging stations, including three stations for use by its own fleet.

The province has pledged $2.74 million, or up to 75 per cent of the capital installation cost, through its Community Infrastructure Fund.

“This is really all about making sustainable transportation options easier for residents, businesses and visitors to Victoria,” Mayor Dean Fortin said. rholmen@vicnews.com

Kitchen are supplying a service that is desperately needed in our community,” said Victoria Real Estate Board president Carol Crabb, who attended the cheque presentation and heard from some of the clients.

“When you’re not in that position – when you don’t need those services – you’re not always aware of (these services).”

More than a dozen charities sent in proposals for the real estate board grant, Crabb said.

Not only do agents donate financially, she added, their flexible schedules allow them to volunteer their time as well.

Call 250-384-2069 for more information. editor@vicnews.com

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Volunteers Viola Vatter, left, Chu Hui-Jung, Ken Oswald and Angela Yang prepare lunch at the Rainbow Kitchen last year. The Admirals Road soup kitchen was given $10,000 by the Victoria Real Estate Board on Tuesday.

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Opposition raps rescue plan for Burns Lake mill Tom Fletcher Black Press

The B.C. government’s plan to award new logging rights so the Burns Lake sawmill can be rebuilt has a chance of working, but it is taking too long, NDP forest critic Norm Macdonald says.

Jobs Minister Pat Bell and local MLA John Rustad announced Monday that the government will award a new community forest tenure to the Burns Lake Native Development Corp., which was a partner in the Babine Forest Products mill along with Oregon-based Hampton Affiliates.

That would provide 150,000 cubic metres per year, and a new area-based First Nations woodlands licence would add another

“I remain optimistic, and I certainly hope for the community’s sake that we’ve found something that is not only environmentally responsible, but that can provide … some good opportunities.”

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65,000 cubic metres a year.

Bell said a partnership of area First Nations will be formed to share another tenure that would make another 380,000 cubic metres of wood available to the rebuilt mill.

The new forest tenure will mainly come from lower-value timber stands that were not included in the forest inventory before, and will include salvage trees for bioenergy production, Bell said.

Hampton Affiliates CEO Steve Zika said if all that timber is delivered, it will allow the company to build a smaller mill to replace the one destroyed by fire in January.

The company expects to make a final decision in December.

Macdonald said Tuesday he supports the plan, which he helped work out on a special committee that toured the region.

But he said the B.C. Liberal government wasted several months by exploring more extreme

options, such as logging wildlife corridors and protected areas.

“I remain optimistic, and I certainly hope for the community’s sake that we’ve found something that is not only environmentally responsible, but that can provide workers and communities and First Nations there some good opportunities,” Macdonald said.

Cariboo North independent MLA Bob Simpson said the government is apparently hoping to expand the wood pellet industry to use more of the pine beetlekilled trees in the area. He said logging whole trees for pellet production isn’t viable without subsidies.

Simpson said he supports the idea of area-based tenures and making more timber available for

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“What I’m opposed to is that they’re doing it as an 11th-hour, last-ditch attempt so that John Rustad and Pat Bell, going into the May 2013 election, can either be cutting a ribbon or touting good news, without any forethought for the province-wide implications of this,” Simpson said. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

After 28 years buying lottery tickets together, long-time Victoria friends Jimmy Sivertson and John Boyd finally got their lucky break.

The pair will share a $2-million prize after winning the BC49 jackpot on Sept. 8. Boyd purchased the ticket at Haultain Grocery.

The men have worked together at the Victoria shipyards for 20 years. The B.C. Lottery Corporation stated that Sivertson plans to buy a new boat and share his half of the prize with his family.

“I’m thinking about going to test drive a new hot rod and maybe we’ll take a family trip,” Boyd said.

There was no word on whether either man plans to quit their job. rholmen@vicnews.com

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Black Press is proud to be an official sponsor for the 2012 Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock, with news reporter Kyle Slavin on the 18-member tour team as a media rider. To follow Kyle Slavin’s Twitter updates from the final weeks of training and throughout the ride, follow @TDRKyle.

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Bob McDonald has helped train riders for the past four years. Matt Webb is a childhood cancer survivor who has been a junior team member for 15 years.

Both have found themselves on an emotional and physical journey in the fight against pediatric cancer.

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Having helped train Tour de Rock riders since 2008, McDonald knows how challenging the 1,000-plus kilometre cycle down the length of Vancouver Island can be. But, he said, it’s nothing compared to what some kids go through every day of their lives.

McDonald’s motivation to help raise funds for pediatric cancer research comes from close to home.

His granddaughter, Lochlyn, was born with Costello syndrome, a genetic disorder that delays growth. Having the syndrome makes five-year-old Lochlyn more susceptible to cancerous tumours.

“She was in the hospital for the first 98 days of her life and we weren’t sure she was going to make it,” the 67-year-old Sidney resident said.

“She’s now just turned five ... and so far, so good. She’s doing really well.”

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Matt Webb, left, and Bob McDonald have a connection to Tour de Rock. teammates, isn’t new to the Tour de Rock circuit. His son, Saanich police Const. Rob McDonald, was a rider in 2007. And for the past four years, the father-son team has worked with the riders, preparing them for the two-week trek.

Being asked to ride with this year’s team was just a way for McDonald to stay involved and contribute more to the cause, he said.

“It’s just so exciting,” he said.

Matt Webb Webb’s memories of his childhood cancer come in flashes. Three months before his fourth birthday he was diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma.

For two years he was in and out of B.C.

Children’s Hospital in Vancouver in a cycle of chemotherapy and recovery. The Easter Seals House was his home away from home, but he’s thankful his memories of the time are dim.

“It’s a half-dozen single frame images in my mind. Nothing more,” said Webb, 20, now 15 years cancer free. “That in itself is a blessing.”

Indeed, the gruelling regime of chemotherapy was almost fatal. By chance, his doctors realized the chemicals had eaten a hole in his large intestine. That outcome helped doctors establish new protocols for treating kids with chemotherapy.

“They had to stop the treatment early. It would have killed me for sure, even if the cancer didn’t.”

Born and raised in Saanich, and in the same house his great-great grandfather built 110 years ago, Webb is one of the few people to directly experience both sides of Tour de Rock as a childhood survivor and junior team member. When Tour de Rock offered the invitation last Christmas, he eagerly jumped onboard.

As a 15-year junior rider – a child who has cancer or cancer in remission – Webb has lived Tour de Rock as long as he can remember.

Webb said he’s looking forward to experiencing Tour de Rock in the 27 stops that dot the Island.

“I’m used to the overwhelming response in Victoria each year,” he said. “But up Island, (riders) are blown away. Little communities give so much, some give more than bigger communities. I’ve heard so much about it I’m eager to see it myself.”

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