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Children troop to fire hall to say thank you Girl rescued from fire, and her family, appreciate community support Charla Huber News staff

On her first day back to class, View Royal elementary student Katrina Van Winkle and hundreds of her classmates marched to the View Royal fire hall to thank the firefighters

that saved her life.

The shy nine-year old stood holding a letter she wrote thanking the firefighters, especially fire Chief Paul Hurst for risking his life to save hers.

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“Katrina gave it her best to get out,” said Hurst. “We made sure she got out.”

Emotions ran high on the sunny afternoon between firefighters, teachers and parents all with the knowledge that this story could have had a tragic end.

The Grade 3 student was airlifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital she was discharged from hospital March 16. Her first day back to school was March 27.

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Duncan man bowls first 800 for Langford

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obert Martin holds the high score at Langford Lanes.

It’s the first time he’s held a record at a bowling alley despite downing pins since he was four years old.

“It’s really nice, I’ve never had that before,” the 31-year-old said.

On Feb. 4 he not only bowled a perfect game with a score of 300, he bowled an 800 series – three games in a row with a score of 800 or higher. On that Monday night he scored 821, the leading score at Langford Lanes.

He was playing as a spare with the Monday Masters bowling league. With a oneweek gap due to Family Day, Martin was Charla Huber back on the lanes two weeks later to bowl Reporting a second 800-series finishing with 806 points.

“That’s the first time I’ve done that back-to-back,” Martin smiled. “I think it’s more difficult to get an 800 series than it is to get a perfect game. I’ve seen people shoot a 300 game, who’ve never got an 800 series in their life.”

To qualify a 300 game or 800 series for a standing record, the game must be played within a league or tournament. In sanctioned play Martin has three 300 games and three 800 series under his belt.

When he was in university Martin bowled on the Saginaw Valley State University bowling team and did a fair bit of travelling to tournaments. Now his just enjoys to play recreationally.

Wilson lives in Duncan and works downtown Victoria as a a car salesman. He is able to bowl at Langford Lanes on his way home from work.

Aside from meeting new people and having fun Wilson said, “Bowling has taught me sportsmanship.” charla@goldstreamgazette.com

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Robert Martin, 31 shows off 300 and 800 rings he’s won and his most recent bowling pin trophy for bowling the first 800 series at Langford Lanes.

Big Brothers Big Sisters benefits from bowling “We find children need several people in their lives they can go to about anything.”

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Big Brothers Big Sisters are calling all bowlers to knock down pins to help lift kids up.

Big Brothers Big Sisters have been hosting the national event for nearly 30 years. This is the second year the Victoria club is participating in Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser.

“We have been waiting so long for Victoria to have a bowling alley,” said Rhonda Brown, executive director.

The two-day event will be at Langford Lanes on April 12 and 14.

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“Through mentoring kids build skills. Girls are four times less likely to be bullied when they are mentored,” Brown said. “We find children need several people in their lives they can go to about anything.”

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POLICE NEWS IN BRIEF

Thieves snagged cash, cigarettes and lottery tickets during an early morning robbery in Langford Monday. The Langford Shell station was broken into by two masked individuals shortly after 4 a.m. in an incident similar to robberies in Nanaimo and Ladysmith within the last week, said acting Sgt. Kathy Rochlitz, of the West Shore RCMP. An RCMP police dog was unable to track the individuals

and RCMP are still waiting for the results of the forensic testing.

Social media missing girl returned home same day An 11-year-old girl is back home safe with her family.

The girl was reported missing on Monday, March 25 in the afternoon and was found minutes after 7 p.m. at a local park.

“She was found the same night, safe and sound. She is back home with her family,” said acting Sgt. Kathy Rochlitz of the

West Shore RCMP. The photo of the girl began circulating heavily on social media sites and is still being shared among users.

Bold scammer walks 92-year-old to bank

Victoria Police are asking care-home workers and residents to be vigilant, after a man scammed a 92-year-old woman out of $2,000.

The man pretended to be the woman’s nephew and said he

was in financial trouble. He then accompanied the victim to the bank.

Police believe the man is connected to other unsuccessful scams in the last two weeks.

The suspect is described as Caucasian, in his 50s, five-foot six-inches tall with a thin build, ruddy complexion and some missing front teeth.

Anyone with information is asked to call VicPD at 250-9957444 or report anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Sections 890 and 892 of the Local Government Act that a Public Hearing will be held at Town of View Royal Town Hall, 45 View Royal Avenue, Victoria, B.C. at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 for the purpose of hearing representations concerning the following proposed amendments: 1. Bylaw No. 857, 2013 proposes to amend Land Use Bylaw 1990, No. 35, as follows: A.

Section 2 of Part 1 of said Bylaw No. 35 is hereby amended by adding the following definition; “Public Safety Facility – A facility for safety and emergency services, including the provision of police, ambulance, emergency or fire protection services and related administrative, training and operational use.”

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Section 41 of Part 6 of said Bylaw No. 35, cited as ‘Land Use Bylaw, 1990, No. 35’ is hereby amended by adding the following phrase to the list of zoning designations and abbreviations as follows: “Public Safety: P-10”

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The Victoria cyclist involved in a Mar. 11 collision died last Friday. The man, in his 30’s, was rushed to Royal Jubilee Hospital’s intensive care unit after witnesses told police he was struck by a vehicle around 4:30 p.m. at the intersection of Bay and Blanchard streets.

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TAKE NOTICE that more detailed information concerning the subject bylaw and any other reports, studies or other documents that may be considered by Council can be obtained at the Town of View Royal Municipal Office, Development Services Department, 45 View Royal Avenue, Victoria, B.C. (Telephone: 250-479-6800) between the hours of 8:30am and 4:30pm Monday to Friday, March 21 – April 2, 2013.

All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person, by a representative or by written submission on all matters contained therein at the above-noted time and place. If you are unable to attend the Hearing, written comments may be mailed, facsimiled, emailed or hand delivered to the Town of View Royal by no later than 4:00pm on April 2, 2013.

Mail:Development Services Department, Town of View Royal, 45 View Royal Ave, Victoria, BC. V9B 1A6 Facsimile: 250-727-9551 Email: info@viewroyal.ca Please note that Council may not receive further submissions concerning the subject Bylaw after the Public Hearing has concluded.

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The family has moved into a townhouse in View Royal.

Katrina and her classmates yelled a big “thank you” to the firefighters, sang a song about View Royal and they left dozens of signs and banners students created to thank the department and other emergency services that assisted at the fire.

“This is great, the entire school is supporting this student and for them all coming to the fire department it’s pretty noble,” said Hurst. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

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Katrina Van Winkle offers her letter of thanks to View Royal fire chief Paul Hurst. when the early morning fire started. All three were rescued.

“Without working smoke alarms this certainly could have been fatal,” said Hurst emphasizing the family had smoke alarms on all levels of the home.

“It was the smoke alarms that got them out of bed.”

Investigators found that the fire began in the basement where combustibles were stored too close to a baseboard heater in the laundry room.

Video online GoldstreamGazette.com Hurst would like to urge families to ensure they have working smoke alarms and practise fire drills and escape routes on a regular basis so there are more happy endings. charla@goldstream gazette.com

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Something old, something new Pacific students make First Nations paddles, drums

Popular annual book sale needs product Our Lady of the Rosary in Langford is gathering donations for the annual book sale.

The church social team is accepting donations of books, CDs and DVDs. For pickup call 250-474-2119.

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lending old with new, stueditor@goldstreamgazette.com dents at Pacific secondary school are learning to move forward by looking into the past.

The cohort Grade TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL 12 class at Pacific sec45 View Royal Ave., Town Hall ondary school is learning traditional First Nations creative techniques as an aspect of their arts education. The students, under the guidance of First Nations experts, The Town will be collecting lawn and garden waste (grass, leaves, flowers, shrub are creating paddles clippings, weeds and small branches) from the curbside of residential homes this and traditional hand spring on the following dates: drums, while learning about aboriginal culFor those residents who get their weekly garbage picked up on TUESDAYS, tural and the concept your lawn and garden waste pick-up day will be SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013. of heritage in general.

“There is a tribal For those residents who get their weekly garbage picked up on WEDNESDAYS, root to every person, your lawn and garden waste pick-up day will be SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013. regardless of where their ancestry comes For those residents who get their weekly garbage picked up on THURSDAYS, from,” said Charlene your lawn and garden waste pick-up day will be SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013.

George, a T’Sou-ke First Nation textile For those residents who get their weekly garbage picked up on FRIDAYS, artist who is workyour lawn and garden waste pick-up day will be SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013. ing with the students.

“So somewhere in All items are to be placed at the end of your driveway at the curbside by 7:00 a.m. the world their tribal on the day of your collection. ancestry is not that difFor more information, please contact the Town Hall at (250) 479-6800 or visit the ferent from mine.”

Teacher Sean Cowie Town’s website at www.viewroyal.ca. said the cultural aspect of the project teaches students how to look beyond their own immediate worlds.  “(There’s) beauti ful cultural exchange  and understanding, without any fanfare,” Cowie said. “It’s down  on the ground reality, we’ve got First Nations     communities work  ing pretty seamlessly     within the community                         

LAWN AND GARDEN WASTE CURBSIDE COLLECTION IN APRIL

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T’Sou-ke textile artist Charlene George helps Grade 12 student April Lammiade as she works on a First Nations-style drum during an art class at Pacific secondary school in Colwood. here.”

Haylea Walker designed her drum using a traditional coastal First Nations image of a wolf, but modified it to reflect the personality of her own dog, which, as it happens, is three-quarters wolf.

The Grade 12 student said she’s finding this component of her course rewarding, as it asks each student to consider her own background and where we all come from.

“It’s just little things that make you think and realize,” Walker said. “A lot of stuff at school doesn’t make you think, because it’s all textbook, answer, textbook, answer.”

Drum making also adds life skills.

“There’s many parts to the discipline of teaching how to make a drum … that teaches them awesome life skills for anything they wish to do in their life,” George said. “So some of the ones who might

have had a difficult time with some other areas in their life, are able to be successful here. Success in one part of their life leads to success in many parts of their life.”

The drums are made from elk hide and cedar rims, something old, and synthetic sinews, something new.

“So it’s like doing old and new together, which is what we all are,” George said. kwells@goldstream gazette.com

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Langford fire prevention officers Chris Aubrey and Lance Caven replace an old smoke detector in a Langford home.

Langford Fire Rescue provides this service and smoke detetors free of charge to all Langford residents.

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Victoria adds smoke detectors Long established Langford program still going strong Daniel Palmer News staff

The Victoria Fire Department is offering free smoke alarms to residents as part of a provincewide push to protect every home in B.C. Last year, a study by the University of Fraser Valley and Surrey Fire Services revealed almost 70 per cent of B.C. homes involved in fires did not have functioning smoke alarms.

The study also showed three quarters of 663 fire-related deaths across Canada were the result of smoke alarms that never sounded.

Victoria began implementing the program at the same time as Saanich last October, while Langford has been providing free smoke alarms for more than five years.

“We carry smoke alarms on every engine and in all of our duty vehicles,” said Kerry Zado, Langford deputy fire chief. “Whenever we respond to a call, we make sure to never leave the house until it has a working smoke alarm in it.”

View Royal Fire Rescue has offered the program for eight years.

Esquimalt and Oak Bay fire departments do not have free smoke alarm programs, but both departments said they respond to residents who request help installing the devices.

Victoria purchased 200 smoke alarms and will assess demand in the coming months, said Brad Sifert, fire prevention officer, adding he received 50 phone calls on Tuesday alone.

“If callers aren’t in our jurisdiction, I just find out the location and send an email to their fire department,” he said.

Saanich fire installed 110 smoke alarms in nearly

100 homes since October, said Lt. Andrew Collmar.

“It’s been very responsive,” he said. “Our fire chief has dedicated $1,000 to this program (this year), and we’re hoping it will be ongoing. Our ultimate goal is to have a smoke alarm in every house.”

To learn more about the Langford program call at 250-478-9555. For details on the View Royal program call 250-479-7322. dpalmer@vicnews.com

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TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Sections 890 and 892 of the Local Government Act that a Public Hearing will be held at Town of View Royal Town Hall, 45 View Royal Avenue, Victoria, B.C. at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 for the purpose of hearing representations concerning the following proposed bylaw: 1. Bylaw No. 858, 2013 A. The purpose of the bylaw is to revise the requirements of the Mill Hill Residential Comprehensive Development: CD-16 zone as follows: 1. To increase the maximum lot coverage from 35% to 45% 2. To increase the allowable Floor Space Ratio from 0.45:1 to 0.53:1 3. To reduce the maximum floor space from 278 m2 (3000 ft2) to 260.1 m2 (2800 ft2) B. The lots that are currently zoned Mill Hill Residential Comprehensive Development: CD-16 are shown in Schedule “1”

Please note the following meeting dates:

C. Specifically, Bylaw No. 858, 2013 proposes to amend Land Use Bylaw 1990, No. 35, Section 43(2) of Part 6 of Bylaw No. 35, cited as ‘Land Use Bylaw, 1990, No. 35’ by deleting the “Mill Hill Residential Comprehensive Development: CD-16” zone table (between the “Camden/Conard Comprehensive Development: CD-15” zone table and “Comprehensive Development – 17 (254 Island Highway): CD-17” zone table) and replacing with the following zone table:

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Council meeting @ 7:00 p.m.

Mill Hill Residential Comprehensive Development: CD-16 General Conditions and Regulations

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Committee of the Whole meeting Afternoon session @ 3:30 p.m.

Evening session @ 7:00 p.m.

Permitted Uses • Single Family Residential • One Secondary Suite per parcel • Home Occupation Lot Size Lot Area minimum of 330 m2, provided that the average overall lot size shall not be less than 435 m2 Lot Width minimum of 12 m (39.4 ft.), except that up to 10% of the lots created by a subdivision may be permitted to reduce lot width on part of the lot to a minimum of 9 m (29.5 ft.) provided that the average width of the lot, as measured at the front, rear and midpoint of the lot, is no less than 12 m.

Floor Space Ratio (FSR) Floor Space Ratio maximum of 0.53, not to exceed a total of 260.1 m2 (2800 ft2) floor area

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Monday, April 15, 2013 Special Budget Committee of the Whole meeting @ 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Council meeting @ 7:00 p.m.

Agendas are available on our website the Friday afternoon prior to the meeting.

For more information telephone: 250-479-6800 Website: www.viewroyal.ca Email: info@viewroyal.ca

Siting of Buildings and Structures Front Yard minimum of 4.5 m Rear Yard minimum of 6.0 m Side Yard minimum of 1.2 m Side Yard Flanking minimum of 4.0 m Size of Buildings and Structures Height maximum of 7.5 m Lot Coverage maximum of 45% Finished residential floor area minimum of 70 m2 (754 ft2)” TAKE NOTICE that more detailed information concerning the subject bylaw and any other reports, studies or other documents that may be considered

by Council can be obtained at the Town of View Royal Municipal Office, Development Services Department, 45 View Royal Avenue, Victoria, B.C. (Telephone: 250-479-6800) between the hours of 8:30am and 4:30pm.

Monday to Friday, March 21 – April 2, 2013.

All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person, by a representative or by written submission on all matters contained therein at the above-noted time and place. If you are unable to attend the Hearing, written comments may be mailed, facsimiled, emailed or hand delivered to the Town of View Royal by no later than 4:00pm on April 2, 2013.

Mail: Development Services Department, Town of View Royal, 45 View Royal Ave, Victoria, BC. V9B 1A6 Facsimile: 250-727-9551 Email: info@viewroyal.ca Please note that Council may not receive further submissions concerning the subject Bylaw after the Public Hearing has concluded.

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OUR VIEW

The electric expressway More than 50 years after it first aired, many of The Jetsons nifty futuristic gadgets are ours.

The cartoon, which debuted in 1962 and was set in 2062, featured 3-D, flat screen TVs that hung on the wall, with on-demand news, video chat, robotic vacuums, moving sidewalks and flying cars.

Though we don’t see bubble-topped, personal space craft filling our skies yet, we are getting closer to futuristic with the Forget the transportation emergence of electric vehicles.

Hydrogen A quick peek at the website plugshare.com and you’ll find Highway close to 50 locations to charge your electric car in Greater Victoria – but will you find 50 electric cars?

Most electric vehicle owners have their own charging stations. These other spots, most of them installed by a business or government, are set up for convenience. The provincial government aims to have 570 charging stations set up throughout the province – at a cost of $2.7 million – this year.

The scheme is reminiscent of the mid2000s Hydrogen Highway, heavily promoted by former California governator Arnold Schwarzenegger and then B.C. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell. At the time, hydrogen fuel was lauded as the next big thing, but nary a personal vehicle fuelled by hydrogen travels our roads today.

Yet the EV charge is gaining momentum, and as more municipalities buy in to the technology, the better the infrastructure will become.

While consumers may still be shocked by the sticker price, electric vehicles have garnered glowing praise, and consumer demand will soon drive prices down. The convenience of charging stations in downtown parkades, at local libraries and in shopping malls is certainly an encouraging sign.

With charging stations beginning to pepper the highway from Sidney to Port Hardy, it may not be long until we can fold up our cars and pop them into a briefcase as we arrive at our destination.

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.

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Bacteria both friend and foe like virus. When you catch a cold, Bacteria are everywhere. A few you have been infected with a type give diseases like tuberculosis of virus scientists call Rhinovirus.

(Mycobacterium tuberculosis), Compared to bacteria, but most are very the vast majority of useful. Some lactic acid viruses are about 10 bacteria transform milk times smaller. But unlike into yogurt; others make bacteria, they cannot cheddar cheese from divide on their own. They milk. have to be inside a cell to One gram of yogurt, be able to replicate their for example, has as genes and produce their much as 10 million proteins.

Lactobacillus delbrueckii Viruses can also infect bulgaricus bacteria and the lactic acid bacteria 100 million Streptococcus Réal Roy that are so important thermophilus, which Guest Column in the dairy industry. represent for a 100g Because the bacterium cup of yogurt a total infected with a virus disappears, of 11 billion lactic acid bacteria. these viruses became known as These bacterial cultures can also bacteriophages (eater of bacteria), be purchased in small packets in or more simply “phages.” More the grocery store to make yogurt accurately, phages break up the at home. Those I bought here in Victoria looked like a white powder cells in a process called cell lysis, which releases several copies of that can be added to milk after it has been heated and slowly cooled. the phage that initially infected the bacterium.

Leaving the inoculated milk in a There are many types of phages, warm place (I personally use the but they are usually specific to oven) for few hours allows these only one type of bacteria. If one lactic acid bacteria to grow by feeding on lactose and casein in the type of phage starts infecting the lactic acid bacteria used in a milk, and to produce lactic acid, yogurt or cheese factory, it can be giving the yogurt its slightly sour catastrophic. It is like an infection taste. Other lactic acid bacteria in a hospital. It slows down the like Lactobacillus plantarum, for production of cheese and causes instance, play a key role in the economic losses until the phages fermentation of vegetables like are removed. cabbage (sauerkraut) or green Phages sometimes may even Manzanillo olives that are found in be the cause of tragic outcome. grocery stores.

When a phage called beta Although these bacteria are very small, they still can contract a cold- phage infects a bacterium called

Corynebacterium diphtheria, it produces a very potent toxin and a disease (diphtheria) that can kill people. Today, the diphteriatetanus-pertussis (DTaP) vaccine contains an inactive toxin, which allows vaccinated children to build immunity against the diphtheria toxin. Before law required pasteurization of milk, raw milk was one of the ways diphtheria was transmitted.

The first to discover phages was a Canadian born in Montreal: Félix d’Hérelle (1873-1949). He found a phage of dysenteric bacteria that could clear a cloudy culture without the phage being retained by a porcelain filter. In time, other phages were discovered and became models in the study of the molecular basis of life.

Today we know that phages may play an important role as a genetic shuttle between different types of bacteria, which is one mechanism that explains the development of resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.

Between 1896 and 1899, before his discovery of bacteriophage, d’Hérelle received a grant from the Canadian Minister of Revenue to develop a method of fermentation of maple syrup for the production of whisky. The minister was HenriGustave Joly de Lotbinière (18291908), the seventh governor of British Columbia from 1900 to 1906.

Réal Roy is a microbiologist and an assistant professor in the department of biology at the University of Victoria.

‘Compared to bacteria the majority of viruses are about 10 times smaller.’

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Morning sun lights up a band of clouds hanging over the Olympic Mountains in Washington State and passing freighters in the Strait of Juan De Fuca.

LETTERS

Wearing a helmet is critical for cyclists’ safety Re: Driver remains fearful of riding in traffic in the city (Letters, March 22) I devote much of my time promoting a campaign sponsored by the British Columbia Brain Injury Association (Helmet hair or Long Term Care) designed to make others, especially children, aware of the importance regarding head protection and the benefits of helmets.

Therefore, the statement in this letter, “feeling sorry for cyclists obeying traffic laws and wearing helmets,” motivates me even more to promote helmet safety to kids and hopefully save a few lives.

I agree there are definitely things that need changing, such as lane and barrier designs, and drivers’ attitudes toward cyclists here in B.C., but what should not change is the requirement to wear a helmet when riding a bike.

It is the one fundamental piece of equipment that must remain a constant in the attempt to prevent serious brain injury.

Wearing a helmet may not protect you from being hit by a car, but it will protect you from one of the most serious injuries you could unfortunately ever receive, permanent brain damage.

As I always say, the choice is between ‘Helmet Hair or Long term Care.’

Happy helmet wearing.

Greg Goldberg Victoria

Quality of letters questioned by reader Re: Much admired Uruguayan leader sets bad precedent (Letters, March 22) Gregory Hartnell doesn’t seem to understand the differences between sustainability, birth control and eugenics. In his letter, he encourages us to be confused about the words, too.

The dictionary defines eugenics as “a science that deals with the improvement (as by control of human mating) of hereditary qualities of a race or breed.”

While eugenics does usually imply a kind of forced population control, which sounds quite scary, examples of how it is practiced these days are quite varied.

Arranged marriages, apartheid, the caste system and ethnic cleansing – all can be considered “code for eugenics.” Forced population control is very different from making abortion free, legal, safe and accessible.

Why is it a surprise to anyone that “greens” are also in favour of legal, safe and accessible birth control? People are the biggest cause of climate change, so fewer (unwanted) children is one (and not the only) way to slow the environmental damage we are already causing in this world.

Even if someone who is green happens to also be in favour of birth control, why is this an

issue? Making a statement like “green is code for eugenics” makes Mr. Hartnell sound like another right-wing, anti-abortion, anti-environmentalist from the U.S. Can’t you be a little more selective with your letters?

Alan Johnson Victoria

blogging long enough to visit a polling station.

Instead of printing paranoia, why not run some more photos of the abundant nature scenes around Victoria? Life is very beautiful when you get out and see it.

Murray Sinclair Victoria

Reference to Agenda 21 like 9/11 conspiracy

B.C. Ferries top-heavy in management

Re: Much-admired Uruguayan leader sets bad precedent (Letters, March 22) For the third time in as many months, your newspaper has printed letters warning readers about the supposedly ominous Agenda 21, a voluntary, nonbinding environmental plan from the United Nations.

Is your editorial section so desperate for content that it includes arguments that are the intellectual equivalent (using the term generously) of a 9/11 conspiracy theory?

For context, in the recent Victoria federal byelection, Christian Heritage Party candidate Philip Ney included similar warnings about Agenda 21 in his platform, and received 0.49 per cent of the vote. And the 192 people who chose this last-place candidate likely include more than just those who put down their cheese-curl snacks and got away from their basement

There is a lot of talk about cutting sailings and raising fares

by B.C. Ferries, but nothing about looking at cutting costs at their head office.

There are too many vicepresidents and a huge public relations department that is totally unnecessary. Tourists can get all the info they need from the website or a travel agent.

Frankly the highly trained and professional union employees could run the ferries without the interference of people at head office, many of whom have no experience in the field and

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Re: Urban speed limit reduction Before proceeding with changing the posted speed limits from 50 to 40 km/h, an inquiry into the cost of changing all the signage should be considered.

As ballooning tax hikes are imminent with the new sewage project, paying more for this project as a taxpayer does not interest me. You can set the speed limit at whatever you want and if there isn’t proper enforcement nothing will change.

The problem begins with enforcement and will end there.

Christina Smith Saanich

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More than 600 people are expected to walk, run and roll their way along the Oak Bay waterfront April 14 as they help raise money and awareness for the fight against multiple sclerosis.

Some at this year’s Scotiabank MS Walk will be living with MS themselves; others will be participating in support or memory of a loved one.

“Whether it’s for themselves, their mother, brother or friend, participants have many personal reasons to join the annual MS Walk and to help find a cure to MS, a complex, unpredictable and often disabling disease of the central nervous system,” said Ashley Hodgins, Manager of Development, South & Central Vancouver Island Chapter, whose father also has MS. “The energy at Willows Beach Park is exciting as people living with MS every day feel the support of their friends, family and community in the effort to find a cure.”

MS Walk participants can choose a three-, six- or nine-kilometre route, all wheelchair/scooter accessible, and dogs on leashes are welcome.

While fundraising is one of the primary goals of the annual event, it’s also an essential tool to help

raise awareness of the disease and its impact on individuals and families.

Most often diagnosed in young adults from 15 to 40 years old, MS is a chronic, often disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord that can affect vision, hearing, memory, balance and mobility.

Canadians have one of the world’s highest rates of multiple sclerosis, also the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in Canada.

Every day, three people in Canada are diagnosed with the disease.

The MS Society, through events like the annual Scotiabank MS Walk, May’s MS Awareness Month and July’s MS Bike Tour – Cowichan Valley Grape Escape, raises money to fund research to find a cure.

Proceeds also support local programs for people affected by MS to help them maintain a higher quality of life and deal with the issues related to the disease. Initiatives include information and referral, supportive counselling, self-help and support groups, financial assistance and recreation and social programs.

To register for the Scotiabank MS Walk or for more information, call 250-388-6496 or visit online at www.mssociety.ca editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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Celebrate Easter the Bear Mountain way Meet at the Mountainside Athletic Club, 1999 Country Club Way, at 10 a.m. for a family hike to Goldstream Parks. The event is free but pre-register for a ride back. Hot chocolate and coffee provided around the campfire.

After go for a swim at the athletic club from noon to 2 p.m.

Skip the eggs and head for the golf balls March 31 and April 1. The driving range is open from 2 to 4 p.m.

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Top-flite chess comes to Victoria

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Chess players aged 6 to 80 will vie for top spot during the seventh annual Grand Pacific Open tournament this weekend.

Numerous out-of-town players will join the local contingent to bring the total number of competitors beyond the 100 mark.

Surrey’s Tanraj Sohal, 15, winner of the B.C. Open championship last month, provides an example of where chess can take a young player.

In January he was awarded a full ride scholarship to Webster University in St. Louis.

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Play begins at 6 p.m. today (March 29) and continues during the afternoon and evening on Saturday and Sunday. The final round is Monday starting at 10 a.m.

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Local jazz pianist has the world on a string Victoria jazz stalwart celebrates 90th birthday Kyle Wells News staff

From Jerry Bryant’s perspective the world is flat, and that’s just the way he’d like it to stay.

The jazz pianist, vocalist and former educator, who turns 90 Monday, isn’t interested in any major highs or lows. He attributes his longevity to taking life on an even keel, appreciating all it has given him and constantly striving to learn.

“It affects people differently,” said Bryant on the topic of age. “I guess my gift, the phenomenon, the miracle, seems to be my ability to be on new ground every day.”

In celebration of this milestone, the Island Big Band, with which Bryant has played for about seven years, is getting together for a special birthday performance April 1 at Hermann’s Jazz Club.

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Jazz pianist and singer Jerry Bryant turns 90 years old on Monday, April 1, and he will be celebrating the occasion with the Island Big Band at a special performance at Hermann’s Jazz Club.

Bryant started playing with the band after his wife, Cecilia, died in 2005 and he found himself in need of a purpose. He retired from teaching in 1983, after a long career as an educator in both the United States and Canada. His long list of achievements includes starting the jazz pro-

gram at Esquimalt High school.

“This band turned out to be a kind of spiritual refuge and it’s growing into a beautiful thing,” Bryant said. “It’s spiritual nourishment, really. It’s everything I need to be spiritually healthy.”

Music has been a part of Bryant’s life since the beginning.

Born on April Fool’s day in 1923 in Kansas City, his uncle was famous blues singer and rock and roll pioneer Big Joe Turner. Bryant grew up around musicians such as Oscar Peterson and Bill Haley, soaking in the music surrounding him.

Even after a long lifetime of playing and teaching music, Bryant said he is still constantly learning. One of the reasons he joined the Big Band was to improve his sight reading, a skill in which, he confesses, he has never excelled.

This desire to learn and grow is what Bryant believes keeps him feeling young.

“I just want to stay and grow and learn how to read these charts and keep up with these guys. This is what’s making me look and appear to be cute and young. It’s a chance to try and keep up with these people.”

Band trumpeter Bryn Badel said it’s an honour to have Bryant in the band.

“As the bearer of the torch he’s handing it off to us,” Badel said.

“It’s really important to pay tribute to that.

“The jazz tradition is really an oral tradition. … A lot of it’s handed down. The only way to learn it is to be in the moment, to live with guys like that day in and day out – and to learn from them.”

Through all the music he has heard, a few pieces and musicians stand out for Bryant. He admires Count Basie as a musician, for his style of understatement. I’ve Got the World on a String by Harold Arlen, made famous by Cab Calloway and Frank Sinatra, is a favourite tune.

Perhaps most appropriate is another favourite of Bryant’s, Duke Ellington’s I Guess I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So. “What I believe and what I love, it doesn’t have to be proclaimed from the highest tree loudly,” Bryant said. “To be privileged is to stay and support and be in the background. … I’m just lucky to be here.”

Tickets for Jerry Bryant’s 90th Birthday Party are $10 and are available at Hermann’s Jazz Club (753 View St.). Show is at 8 p.m. reporter@vicnews.com

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Stars shine in Love Letters Victoria’s Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre is in the midst of a run of A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize nominated drama Love Letters.

The show, which runs until March 30 at the McPherson Playhouse, stars Canadian Hollywood star Bruce Greenwood alongside Canadian television icon Janet Wright.

Greenwood is known for his appearances in Star Trek, Double Jeopardy, The Core, Thirteen Days, Capote, Eight Below, Firehouse Dog and, most recently, alongside Denzel Washington in Flight. He has also played prominent roles in a trio of award winning Canadian films by Atom Egoyan: Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter and Ararat.

He is joined by Wright – star of stage, television and film – who has appeared at many of the major theatres across Canada including Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre and Ontario’s Stratford Festival.

Two seasons ago she starred as Ma Joad in the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed production of The Grapes of Wrath. Though she is best known for her successful portrayal of Emma Leroy on CTV’s Corner Gas (2004-09), Wright has also appeared in many prominent films including Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Bordertown Café, and A Perfect Storm with

George Clooney.

“I am delighted to be working again with two of my favourite actors,” said Brian Richmond, Blue Bridge artistic director and director of Love Letters.

Having directed both Greenwood and Wright in a crosscountry tour of the Canadian Musical Cruel Tears in the mid-1970s, Richmond is an ardent fan of both Greenwood’s and Wright’s talents. “It is wonderful to have watched their work over the decades and to have an opportunity to work with them on this superb piece of writing,” he said.

“Victoria audiences are in for a thrill,” Richmond added. “This is a rare opportunity to see two of our country’s finest actors rejoin their creative energies at the height of their careers.”

Love Letters is at the McPherson Playhouse until March 30. Tickets can be purchased individually, or at a special price by buying a Blue Pass for two plays or more to the company’s upcoming season.

For Blue Passes call the Blue Bridge office at 250-385-4462. For single tickets call the McPherson box office at 250-386-6121, go to rmts.bc.ca or visit the McPherson box office in Centennial Square. llavin@vicnews.com

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Ready to rock Men’s World Curling starts Saturday Travis Paterson News staff

They’re young, they’re fit, and they’re not worried about the field they’re up against.

The Brad Jacobs rink from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., make up Team Canada at the Ford World Men’s Curling Championship beginning tomorrow (March 30) at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.

It’s their first time at the World Championships. They’re one of the youngest Canadian teams ever and they’re not pretending they’re a favourite just because they’re wearing the maple leaf.

Canada’s first game of the roundrobin schedule is against China’s Rui Liu at 2 p.m. Saturday.

“To be honest, we haven’t scouted the other teams. We feel like our biggest opponents are ourselves, we’re trying to play at 100 per cent. We’ve always looked at it that way, and we’ll continue to look at it that way for the rest of our lives.”

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Jacobs, 27, is the youngest Canadian to skip at the world championship since Kevin Martin was 24 in 1991. Vice-skip and third Ryan Fry is 34, second E.J. Harnden is 29 and lead Ryan Harnden is 26. Even their alternate Matt Dumontelle is only 28.

“We’re more concerned with what the rocks are going to be doing.

Really, the opponents are out there to help you to read the ice and help you make your shots.”

Three of the foursome have represented Northern Ontario at the Brier the past five years but it wasn’t until they added Fry at third that they managed to win the 2013 Brier in Edmonton earlier this month.

“This is our first time wearing the maple leaf on the back. Once we put the clothes on for practice, we’ll feel like what it is to be Team Canada and what it stands for.”

Canada faces a fierce field, with teams such as Scotland’s two-time world champion David Murdoch, which lost to Canada’s Randy Ferbey rink in a riveting 2005 Men’s World final, also played in Victoria; Sweden’s Niklas Edin, which won the Victoria Curling Classic in an equally tough field last week; and

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busy,” Jacobs said.

“After the brier it was back to work, practice, gym, supper and then bed.”

Results from this week’s Worlds will help define the field for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

The top seven finishers from this year’s and last year’s World Championships will go to Sochi, as well as two more teams from an upcoming qualifying event in December.

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Northern Ontario skip Brad Jacobs, right, and third Ryan Fry discuss a shot during the final of the 2013 Brier Canadian championship.

Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud, which won silver at the 2010 Olympics.

Though a lot of the teams here for Worlds competed in the Classic in Esquimalt’s Archie Browning Sports Centre last week, the Jacobs rink was back to the grindstone. The team only arrived in Victoria yes-

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In fact, since winning the Brier on March 10, it’s been a mad rush to get ready.

“We thought about asking past champions (for advice), but never got around to it, we’ve been too

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Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre is down to 6,500 seats with its current curling configuration.

Round-robin play runs to Thursday, with the top four teams advancing to the page playoffs. The goldmedal game is 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 7.

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Phantom magic on ice Big season from little program Travis Paterson News staff

The Victoria Phantoms senior A women’s hockey team recently stamped a solid ending to a most precarious season in the South Coast Female Amateur Hockey League.

Despite taking a team of just 11 players, with two forward lines, the Phantoms finished third at provincials, tying the eventual champions Kamloops Vibe in Game 1 but losing to the Richmond Devils 2-1 in the semifinal. (Victoria won 11-4 over Simon Fraser University in Game 2.)

In the fallout, coach John LouPoy is hoping the team can use the upcoming offseason as a time to recruit a few extra bodies for next year.

“Going to provincials with two lines is, nobody does that, it’s insane, you can’t expect to win any games with two lines,” LouPoy said.

“Obviously it would be great to have as many women out as possible to tryouts in September.

Senior A is very high level hockey and the Island is a hotbed of talent for this level of playing, but getting the players to commit is

NEWS GAZETTE

Senior A is meant to be competitive and the Phantoms want to win. Not just any player can make the cut, even if it doesn’t make Lou-Poy popular with every player who wants to be a Phantom. Then again, no coach ever is.

Nor is Lou-Poy running some sort of dictatorship. After a few years with Lou-Poy at the helm, the team made the decision to self coach themselves. It lasted one year, and they asked him back.

Since Lou-Poy became involved in 2008-09 the Phantoms have been to provincials three times and won it twice, in 2009 and 2010.

The game plan with two lines is simple.

“We have to play very carefully, and we can only get away playing the way we do because we have very smart players,” Lou-Poy said.

“We try to slow the game down.

We try to create lots of faceoffs.

Anything to get a break. It was a tough go for us this season and it’s remarkable that we did this well.”

Sharks are VHL champs

Sharon Tiffin/News Staff

Victoria Phantoms Pam Lou-Poy, middle, takes a shot at Simon Fraser University’s goalie Lea Lewis and checked by Sam Schivler, left, at Archie Browning Sports Centre last month. challenging.”

School, careers, travel and mothering all make it hard on young women to commit, he said.

Plus, senior A women’s hockey (ages 19 and up) tends to fly under the radar in B.C., and it’s no differ-

ent in Greater Victoria. Because the number of senior A caliber players is limited in here, Lou-Poy, who has coached the team four of the past five seasons, is saddled with some tough decisions. (Also threatening the team’s future is

the recent disbandment of the South Island Breakers midget AAA team, for girls aged 16 to 18. There has often been as many as eight or nine Breakers graduates playing on the Phantoms in a year, with five this season.)

The Sharks are Victoria Hockey League champions for 2012-13.

Chad Linger, Tyler Tachnyk and Ben King scored to lift the Sharks to a 3-1 win over the Lions on Tuesday night in Game 4 of the best-of-five VHL playoff final.

Goalie Dave Brumby was named the Sharks’ playoff MVP. Lions’ forward Clayton Lainsbury, a Victoria Salsa alumnus from 2003-04, led all playoff scorers with seven goals and 11 assists for 18 points in 12 games.

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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.

DJEMBE DRUM. 11� diameter, good sound. with stand, $325. Victoria (250)380-8733.

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

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

LANGFORD MOBILE home in Seniors Park, upgraded interior, fully furnished, A/C, fenced yrd, shed & workshop. PRICE REDUCED to $35,000. Call 250-590-2450.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewelry. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700 WANTED: STATIONARY Bike (inexpensive) for working out. Please call 250-514-6688.

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OTTER POINT RV Trailer Park. 40’ park model trailer (no pad fees) 3 slide outs + 30’x52’ lot, finished deck & shed in new condition. Open to offers. Call 306-290-8764.

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ESQUIMALT- LRG 2 bdrm, reduced to $995/mo, W/D. 55+. NS/NP. (250)385-7256.

UPPER SUITE - large, newly renovated - 3 bedroom!. Open concept with cooks kitchen, gas counter top and wall oven, lots of cupboards and counter space. Private in suite laundry.

Large deck off kitchen. Sunny fenced private yard with second ground patio. Dog run off upper deck. Corner lot on a double cul de sac. Walking distance to everything. Bus and trolley stop at end of street. Cedar shed for extra storage and lots of parking.

Utilities included. No smoking, pets ok. Available Immediately. 250-658-0996.

SWAN LAKE. Large 1-bdrm, ground level. Private yard & deck. Share laundry. $900. inclusive. (250)386-0531.

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

2003 R/T Durango, fully loaded, leather, midnight black, full tint package and more. Immaculate inside and out, 126,000 km. (Moving). Have all receipts, $6900 obo. Call (250)217-2988.

2008 TOYOTA TACOMA 4x4mint, 65,000 km, 4 doors, automatic. Asking $26,700. Call (250)655-6558.

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SOOKE- TOP floor corner, ocean front 2 bdrm condo.

Fresh paint, clean, new kitchen floor. NS/NP. $925. Call Cornelia 250-391-8484.

WESTSHORE AREA: Condo 655 Goldstream and Veterans $1250. 2 bdrm, full bath. 5 mins to Juan de Fuca. 10 mins to Royal Roads University. 4th floor, unfurnished. D/W, W/D. Cable/internet ready.

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F/P, NS/NP. Balcony, exercise room, secured parking/storage. Avail. May 1st. Call 250592-6048.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES SOOKE, 3-bdrm, 4-plex, $750 mo, on bus route, nice deck & yard. Call 250-478-2450.

UPTOWN AREA, 3 bdrms, 1/2 Duplex, avail now, $1300 mo.

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UPTOWN AREA, 5 bdrm, 1/2 Duplex, avail now, $1750 mo.

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LANGFORD- 2 bdrms, 4 appls, $1100 inclds utils.

Available now. (250)885-9128.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

LANGFORD (Costco). Bus, shops, school. 2 Bdrm suite, fenced yard, 4 appls, water incl’d, shared laundry, $1050 mo + utils, NS/NP. Avail March 1. Call (250)881-2283.

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VIEW ROYAL 2 bdrm. New paint & carpets. $1100. inclds utils, cable, internet, laundry.

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GLANFORD- LARGE 2 bdrm, bright, quiet. Reno’d kitch & bdrm, 8’ closet. W/D, full bath, storage, priv entr, sm yrd, near bus, amens. NS/NP, $980. heat, h/w, hydro/internet incld.

Refs. Apr 1. 250-704-0197.

GORDON HEAD- lrg 1 bdrm, close to UVIC, bus, Mt. Doug park. W/D, F/P, lrg yard. $875+ 1/3 utils. Avail now. Call 250-686-7995, 250-479-5205, 250-885-9099.

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2008 DERBY Scooter, 49cc, no motorcycle licence req’d, great shape, 5000 km, w/ helmet. Must sell (Moving). $1400 obo. (250)217-2988.

1989 FORD Grand Marquis.

V8, 186,000 km. $1000. Call (250)642-5006.

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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

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the March 28 April 3 edition of Real Estate Victoria

316 Raynor, $474,900

4016 Rainbow Hill, $739,000

Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Brett Jones, 250-385-2033

3-1880 Chandler, $599,900 Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Cheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422

306-75 Songhees, $698,000 Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333

2632 Mt Stephen, $549,900 Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Maggie Thompson, 250-889-5955

pg. 11

pg. 7

pg. 5

pg. 3

pg. 11

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer, 250-818-3216

pg. 1

pg. 10

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

pg. 10

pg. 12

Saturday 2-4 Fair Realty Diana Winger, 250-999-3683

1054 Colville Rd.,

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye, 250-384-8124

pg. 7

Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

pg. 12

Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Sandy Berry, 250-385-2033

Saturday 2:30-4:30 Address Realty Ltd. Rob Angus, 250-391-1893

Saturday 2-4 JONESco Real Estate Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

Tuesday-Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital James Liu 250 477-5353

pg. 13

pg. 15 Saturday & Sunday 10-1 Re/Max Camosun Deana Fawcett, 250-744-3301 pg. 18

103-982 Rattanwood, $319,900 Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Komal Dodd 250 479-3333

16-1893 Prosser, $394,000 Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Barbara Ronald 250 744-8211

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

pg. 13

pg. 13

pg. 13

3648 Doncaster Dr, $849,000 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty June Wing, 250-479-3333

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-655-0608

pg. 15

Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Ed G Sing, 250-744-3301

5657 Sooke Rd., $979,900 pg. 15

pg. 13

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Saturday 2:30-4 RE/MAX Camosun Kevin Koetke, 250-478-9600

9490 Eastbrook Dr pg. 13

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun David Silletta, 250-744-3301

pg. 24

pg. 23

2367 Tanner Ridge, $859,000 pg. 23

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Roy Stevenson, 250-477-7291

2883 Cudlip Rd., $399,000 pg. 15

626 Bradley Dyne Rd, $649,900 pg. 24

Saturday 1-3 Coldwell Banker Slegg Realty Charles Murray, 250-812-8983

pg. 23

Saturday 2-4 JONESco Real Estate Ian Heath, 250-655-7653

3022 Miner, $509,900

pg. 14

301-4529 West Saanich

Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Rich Humphries 250 592-4422

pg. 5

2380 Alta Vista Pl, $699,000 pg. 5

538 Meredith Cres, $432,000 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Ed G Sing, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-4 Address Realty Ltd. Patrick Achtzner, 250-391-1893

9708 Fifth St, $599,900

4009 Cedar Hill Rd, $550,000 Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast James Gardiner (250) 507-4333

pg. 18

407-2881 Peatt Rd, $314,900 pg. 15

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

pg. 10

pg. 8

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

5410 Fowler, $549,900

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

Saturday 3-5 Pemberton Holmes Claire Yoo, 250-384-8124

19-300 Six Mile Rd, $385,000

Saturday, Sunday & Monday 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Mike Hartshorne, 250-516-7772

Saturday 2-4 JONESco Real Estate Ian Heath, 250-655-7653

4275 Parkside Cres, 569,900 pg. 10

Friday, Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Gay Helmsing, 250-360-7387

8675 Ebor Terr, $679,800

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

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Lee Johnston, 250-478-9600

pg. 5

1015 Braeburn Ave. 1-9901 Third St, $524,000

2227 Edgelow St.

1619 Hybury Pl, $549,000

Click on Link (on the right)

pg. 7

112 & 110-1505 Church Ave. pg. 13

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Neil Docherty, 250-478-9600

672 Strandlund Ave, $334,900

12-3255 Rutledge

Saturday 1:30-2:30 Boorman’s Rod Hay, 250-595-1535

pg. 18

207-2732 Matson Rd, $234,900 pg. 14

7931 Larkvale Rd., $499,900

768 Piedmont Dr., $595,000

1-3211 Shelley St, $374,900

Sunday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Richard Acomba, 250-744-3301

Sunday 12-2 Newport Realty Sandy Berry, 250-385-2033

pg. 13

Sunday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Patrick Achtzner, 250-391-1893

1287 Tattersall Dr, $637,000 pg. 12

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Rick Shumka 250 384-8124

Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Vicky Turner 250 592-4422

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Ed G Sing, 250-744-3301

644 Baxter Ave, $609,900

Saturday 12-2 Address Realty Ltd. Rob Angus, 250-391-1893

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Kathryn Alexander, 250-881-4440

pg. 8

982 Mckenzie, $324,900

114-1110 Willow St.

5 Gorge Rd E., $419,000

207-2520 Wark St, $204,900

pg. 7

1801 Laval Ave, $449,888

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

pg. 6

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

101 Kiowa Pl., $1,199,950

11-4318 Emily Carr Dr, $519,000

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye, 250-384-8124

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

308-1450 Beach Dr., $399,000 pg. 10

Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Vicky Turner 250 592-4422

Sunday 12-2 Newport Realty Sandy Berry, 250-385-2033

987 Falkland Rd., $899,900

814-160 Wilson St, $284,900

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Camela Slack, 250-661-4088

pg. 7

303-625 Admirals Rd, $179,900 pg. 10

pg. 1

101-982 Rattanwood, $319,900

Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital James Liu 250 477-5353

1590 Ash Rd, $1,099,000

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

204-837 Selkirk Ave, $286,900

449 Victoria Ave., $799,900

204-1715 Richmond Ave., $269,900

Saturday 11-1 Re/Max Camosun Lee Johnston, 250-478-9600

Saturday 2-4 Boorman’s Graham Bavington, 250-415-1931

110 Beach Dr., $799,900

109-11 Cooperage, $679,900

Saturday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

pg. 5

pg. 3

1995 Fairfield, $699,900

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Mark Imhoff, 250-590-1775

pg. 23

1787 Bay St, $449,888 pg. 5

1494 Fairfield

Sunday 2-4 Brown Brothers Real Estate Robert Young 250 385-6900

Monday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Jean Thorndycraft, 250-896-4580

556 Heatherdale

1194 Foxridge, $700,000

1052 Colville Rd.,

104-2608 Prior St, $299,900

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pg. 11

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pg. 18

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pg. 20

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Oak Bay hosts star-studded ‘Miracle’ gala Kyle Wells News staff

The lights are ready to dim and tables set as the Oak Bay Beach Hotel prepares to host its first David Foster Miracle Concert.

The hotel hoped to hold the gala last year, but the theatre wasn’t ready in time.

With the hotel up and running since December, co-owner Kevin Walker is eager to host the celebrity studded event, which will feature the foundation’s namesake in a starring role.

“We’re very excited about it.

(Foster) will not only be sharing his music, he’ll be sharing his story with us,” Walker said. “People will go away with a sense that

David Foster they’ve made a friend in David Foster.”

The David Foster Foundation, which started in 1986, raises

money to support families of children receiving organ transplants.

The foundation’s annual gala event is one of its primary fundraising events.

Another source of funding came this year in the form of volunteer work by South Island Telus Community Ambassadors, a group of current and retired employees that raise money in the community for a number of causes.

To help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the foundation last year, the ambassadors held a garage sale, a barbecue and a slow-pitch softball tournament to raise money for the cause.

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The family was helped by the David Foster Foundation, which paid their mortgage and rented an apartment in Toronto so they could be with their child.

“It was a beautiful moment for me,” Walker said, adding they host the event so “Canadian families can have the support that their really cherish, deserve and value when they’re facing their moment of crisis.”

raising $15,408.

“We were very excited and very happy to be able to come and present this,” said co-president Donna Davidson. “We’ve never done anything that big.”

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The province moved its decades-long treaty settlement effort another step forward Tuesday, turning over key Crown properties to two aboriginal communities on southwestern Vancouver Island.

Incremental treaty agreements transfer 596 hectares of land southeast of Port Renfrew to the Pacheedaht First Nation, and another 420 hectares newer Nitinat Lake to the Ditidaht First Nation.

Some land can only be transferred when the two communities settle their territorial claims.

Both chiefs praised the government for offering land early, the latest of a series of efforts to speed treaty talks and generate economic activity.

“They are transferring these lands as an act of good faith,” said Pacheedaht First Nation Chief Marvin McClurg. “It also shows our people that the past 16 years of negotiations has not been for nothing.”

Ditidaht First Nation Chief Jack Thompson said it has been a long and frustrating effort. “Truly this is a beginning of getting some of our land back for the Ditidaht people,” Thompson said.

McClurg described the Pacheedaht land as some of the most beautiful and significant in the traditional territory. After discussions with the community and experts, it will likely be used for a cultural centre to welcome tourists, he said.

Aboriginal Relations Minister Ida Chong said the first of the Ditidaht lands would be transferred after Tuesday's agreement. The second parcel will be turned over after agreement in principle is reached, and the third will take effect with a final agreement. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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