Goldstream News Gazette, April 03, 2013

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Amalgamation

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NEWS: Finding signs of a stroke at VGH A3 COMMUNITY: Teens come for cop camp A7 ARTS: Meet new apostles of Victoria theater A12

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Trash to treasure From highway-side broken records to lunch trash on Yates Street, Gordon creates works of art from found objects. His retrospective show From the Ridge is on at Metchosin Art Gallery this month along with an interactive homage project. See story page A11.

The Goldstream News Gazette is officially among the best in Canada.

The Gazette earned a blue ribbon from the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards as one of the best newspapers in Canada in our circulation category.

The annual awards feature 33 categories honouring outstanding editorial, photography, multimedia and overall excellence in community newspaper publishing.

Peninsula News Review and Saanich News were also awarded blue ribbons.

A number of other recognizable bylines among Victoria’s Black Press community newspapers also appeared at the national awards.

Arnold Lim earned first in feature photography for the Peninsula News Review; Tim Collins with Oak Bay News placed second in news; Mary Ellen Green of Monday Magazine earned a third in feature writing; in business writing Roszan Holmen earned second place for Victoria News and third went to Dani Pope with Monday Magazine.

Monday finished second in coverage of the arts; Saanich News earned third place for sports coverage and Sooke News Mirror was second in headline writing.

The 2013 competition saw more than 2,000 entries.

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Stopping strokes before they hit Victoria hospital hosts $10M project for early warning signs of a stroke

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hen Moses Pimentel found himself collapsed on his bathroom floor one Sunday morning last June, a stroke wasn’t the first ailment that came to mind. He even wondered why his wife called an ambulance.

Paramedics conducted a rapid assessment on the fit, healthy, 47-year-old Saanich parks staffer, and found telltale left body paralysis. They rushed him to the care of Dr. Andrew Penn, a neurologist at Victoria GenEdward Hill eral Hospital.

Reporting Penn and his staff at VGH, the nucleus of stroke care for Vancouver Island, found Pimentel’s underlying heart defect that triggered the stroke, but the rapid response was crucial in preventing lasting damage.

Pimentel regained control of his body the same day, was out of hospital in six days and back to work in two months.

“Without that rapid assessment who knows what would have happened? I have a physical job and a family to take care of,” Pimentel said. “I’m not sure what I would have done.”

Recognizing that quick and early detection of strokes can save lives and medical resources, the Vancouver Island Health Authority and Genome B.C. launched a $10 million project to give emergency room doctors a tool for nearly instantaneous diagnosis of a minor stroke, called a transient ischemic attack (TIA).

“If you think of stroke as an earthquake, a TIA is the rumbling before the earthquake,” Penn said during the project announcement at VGH on Thursday.

About 10 per cent of minor strokes lead to full-blown major

Edward Hill/News staff

Moses Pimentel at the Victoria General Hospital CT scan machine where he had a brain scan last June after suffering a stroke. The Vancouver Island Health Authority and Genome B.C. launched a $10 million project for early stroke detection.

About 4,000 blood samples strokes within two days, but from that database will allow the diagnosing a TIA is difficult and University of Victoria’s Genome expensive.

B.C. Proteomics Centre at the Less acute medical problems Vancouver Island Tech Park to such as dizziness and severe crunch through reams of data, all headaches can look like a TIA, to find the signal set but it can take conof proteins associated siderable medical with a TIA. resources to separate If researchers can the mimics from the nail down the pattern real thing. of proteins released “There are about by the brain during a 30 mimics of TIAs for TIA event, diagnosing different (medical) a TIA could become conditions,” Penn a relatively simple said. “The full meal blood test, rather than ticket is expensive. time-consuming brain To investigate a TIA scans. The project, costs thousands of the largest in VIHA’s dollars involving dyes, history, expects to radiation, CT scans or Dr. Andrew Penn see results within four MRIs.” years.

In 2004, VIHA allowed Penn “VIHA took a gamble and set to set up a stroke rapid assessup a TIA unit to rapidly assess ment unit at VGH, which in turn a TIA before a stroke hit. The allowed him to amass the largest stroke database in the world from project was a great success … in two years we’ve saved some 150 11,000 patients across Vancouver strokes on Vancouver Island,” Island.

Penn noted. “But with that success came failure – we were flooded with patients, but about half weren’t TIAs. They might be migraines or seizures or other things that might not need urgent care (in the ER). We needed a blood test to differentiate those who needed urgent care.”

Dr. Brad Popovich, the chief scientific officer for Genome B.C., said it’s hard to overstate the importance of Penn’s database of Vancouver Island stroke patients.

It holds more stroke information than any other major medical centre in the U.S. and Europe due to VIHA’s centralized system, and was key to unlocking $10 million to get quick TIA detection off the ground.

“The funding for this project addresses critical and immediate needs,” Popovich said. “Stroke is the No. 1 cause of adult disability and stroke patients are the leading users of long term care in Canada. This (TIA test) will be better, cheaper, faster … this will bring

tangible results to British Columbians and beyond.”

VIHA estimates rapid TIA detection technology will help doctors prevent 4,000 strokes per year in Canada, cut risks for patients due to the use of radioactive dyes during the diagnosis, cut costs to the health system in terms of patient care, and allow for better use of MRI and CT scan machines.

At VGH, the stroke assessment unit is set to expand into the hospital’s former emergency wing (the new emergency centre opened in 2009), which will give the stroke team six exam rooms and four offices, up from two rooms now.

“Health professionals want to improve stroke care. A lot of people don’t understand the devastating affects on the lives, livelihood and families of stroke victims,” said VIHA board chair Don Hubbard. “That is why this research is so important.” editor@saanichnews.com

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COMMUNITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Soccer at Savory programs starting soon

Westshore Wildcats girls soccer is gearing up for spring sessions.

Programs run for girls aged five to 11 years old at Savory school on Mondays starting April 15. Tuesday programs are for kids aged five to eight with scrimmages for girls aged 12 to 14. Visit www. westshorewildcats.ca for more information.

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Throw a few bowls at the green behind Bear Mountain Arena. For further information call Georgie 250-478-9149. editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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Metchosin fire chief Stephanie Dunlop uses a hydraulic cutter on a vehicle frame, one of the skills firefighters hope to share with their peers in Peru. They’re slated to return April 18.

Metchosin shares fire skill Firefighters pay their way to help volunteers in Peru

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ags packed and tickets booked, three Metchosin firefighters are heading to Peru.

Fire Chief Stephanie Dunlop, Capt.

Jason Humphries and firefighter Jamie Johnston are going to share some of their knowledge through Firefighters Without Borders Canada, April 2 to 18.

They are heading to Cuerpo General de Bomberos Voluntarios del Peru with a group of B.C. firefighters. The Peru volunteer department has about 10,000 firefighters in 196 fire Charla Huber halls.

Humphries and Dunlop will Reporting teach auto extrication and ventilation. The Metchosin Auto Extrication team has competed in various competitions at local and national levels.

“Auto extrication is something I am very familiar with and I enjoying showing people what I know,” Humphries said. “I am really looking forward to this and seeing how another country operates its

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Even through he is going to teach others, Humphries said, “I want to learn from their resourcefulness and bring that back with me. In Peru they do more with less.”

Johnston will teach medical procedures along with rope work and knot tying.

Other than just offering information the Metchosin department and others across the province are donating old and expired equipment to the project.

“They don’t have the same equipment as us and they are about 10 years behind us,” said Dunlop.

Since the equipment is expired it can’t be sold or used in Canada, but the Peru department is excited to accept it, she said.

Metchosin will donate a positive pressure.

“It’s a tactic you can use to control a fire. It’s an invisible forcefield you can push the fire back with to give you a couple extra minutes,” explained Dunlop.

Another difference between firefighters in Canada and Peru is most buildings here are wood framed while in Peru they are concrete.

“It changes how the fire burns,” Dunlop said.

“It’ll just be a hot box and you’d have to use a different strategy. I want to learn different strategies and tactics when I am there.”

Each firefighter is paying their own way to Peru.

“We’ve heard of other departments doing things like this, like Langford going to Haiti,” Dunlop said.

“It’s great we get to share our passion and help others out.” charla@goldstreamgazette.com

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Victoria foundation supports those with a rare disorder Megan Cole News staff

When your three-year-old is diagnosed with a rare disease, the Internet is often the first place a parent turns for answers.

Angie and Denis Edroff began searching when their daughter Jeneece was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis and they found the B.C. Neurofibromatosis Foundation.

“We connected with them when she was first diagnosed and went to some support group meetings and shared our story, and found out that we weren’t living through this alone,” said Angie.

Support groups were the same way BCNF founder Paul Ralfs began when he formed the foundation in 1984.

Like Jeneece, Ralfs was diagnosed as a child. The journey to creating a foundation began 30 years ago when a tumour between his kidney and spine Sharon Tiffin/News staff forced him into Vancouver Gen- Paul Ralfs, founder of the British Columbia Neurofibromatosis Foundation. eral Hospital.

“They have a lot more pro“I went into the hospital for lated to NF, the idea of starting a Jeneece recently ran into what B.C. support group came to him. grams now than when the founnine weeks,” said Ralfs.

Ralfs is referring to when a large “By that time I was feeling a dation first began,” said Ralfs.

NF is a genetic disorder that tumour in her leg was discovered. causes tumours to grow along need for support,” said Ralfs. “I “We send kids to a children’s “Frankly it’s an NF tumour that the nerves. The term neurofi- thought I’d like to start a sup- camp for NF in the U.S. every usually shows up in adults, not someport group because summer. We also have a scholbromatosis is an one Jeneece’s age,” Angie said. “They there wasn’t any- arship for those high school weren’t used to seeing it, and when umbrella name for “I thought thing in existence at students wanting pursue postthree distinct disyou’re not used to it, the mentality is that time. I thought secondary and we used to hold orders that share a I’d like to start to sit, wait and see what happens.”

I would ask her a medical symposium, but are common manifesta- a support group advice, but before I now doing webinars on more tion of tumours that because there had the chance, she specialized topics.” grow in the tissues While the foundation continsurrounding nerves. wasn’t anything in asked me if I wanted ues to raise money and support to start a group.”

Eventually Ralfs existence at that With Hall’s help, those with NF, Ralfs said more had the tumour, Ralfs and 17 peo- awareness and education is along with his right time.” ple held their first needed. kidney removed. He - Paul Ralfs “One of the problems for a lot NF support group was unable to work at Central Park in of NF patients is a lot of doctors following the surwon’t even take them,” he said. gery, and has been on disability Burnaby.

Since then, the foundation “I think maybe because they since.

The following year, when has grown to include a board don’t feel they can do anything he paid a visit to geneticist Dr. of directors and is now based in to help the patient or because of their lack of knowledge.”

Judith Hall for test results unre- Victoria.

Because of Angie’s experience working with the BCNF as program co-ordinator, she knew this wasn’t the kind of tumour you want to sit, wait and watch.

Instead Angie reached out to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and in February Jeneece went to see a specialist.

“He said he’d seen many tumours like Jeneece’s that had gone malignant very quickly,” Angie said.

While the specialist suggested the tumour be removed as quickly as possible, the decision was left to Jeneece due to potential side effects of more paralysis in her leg or more pain – a risk the teen was willing to take.

“He managed to debulk the tumours and she has had very little pain now, and no paralysis. There is a bit more sensitivity, but that’s to be expected at this point in the game. The tumour wasn’t malignant, so that is also a plus,” Angie said.

While the outcome of Jeneece’s surgery was positive, Ralfs would like to see a clinic built in co-ordination with Jan Friedman’s NF research lab at the University of British Columbia.

The foundation is currently looking into the logistics of a clinic, including hiring a part-time co-ordinator and finding funding.

The BCNF hosts the Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon and 5km Walk on June 23.

For information visit bcnf.bc.ca mcole@oakbaynews.com

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3 cities, 7 districts, 2 towns and a township We asked the mayors of the CRD municipalities: Do you support some form of municipal amalgamation?

Daniel Palmer and Kyle Slavin News staff

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It’s difficult to find anyone in the Capital Region who thinks local government is perfect the way it is.

Businesses, municipal councillors, developers – and most importantly, residents – know something needs to change, but that’s where the collective agreement ends.

Amalgamation proposals are

almost as numerous as the region’s 91 municipal politicians, but an organized and motivated group of residents is igniting a grassroots push to turn ideas into reality.

The News Gazette is taking a comprehensive look at amalgamation with a five-part series, beginning with what the Capital Region’s 13 mayors think about the ‘A’ word.

Next, we’ll talk with key

Wendall Milne, Sooke

stakeholders from Halifax, a similarsized region that went through a rocky amalgamation in the mid1990s. Former politicians, journalists and stakeholders tell us what they’ve learned, what the process was like and how things are today.

In Parts 3 and 4, organizers from local citizen group Amalgamation Yes lay out how they plan to convince the region’s 360,000 residents that merging is better,

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“No, I don’t support Sooke amalgamating with other municipalities in the CRD, however I support amalgamation with the unorganized areas surrounding Sooke, subject to the desire of those residing there. Sooke is distinct from the municipalities in the CRD because of the geographical separation between the populated areas. But Sooke has many similar interests as the unorganized areas surrounding the municipality.”

Dean Fortin, Victoria

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“Yes. Amalgamation, done well, can give the residents of Greater Victoria better planning: of civic infrastructure, of public transportation and of landuse patterns. It can offer efficiencies in the delivery of services and programs. Program and service design can ensure responsiveness to local and community values so that all voices are heard.”

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John Ranns, Metchosin “Perhaps. The fiefdoms currently work well and amalgamation does not save money so any change should be done to solve problems. Issues such as policing, transportation, settlement patterns, sewer, etc. would be easier to resolve under a single urban authority. Successful amalgamation models must recognize low-population rural and agricultural areas – they won’t survive unless they are governed separately.”

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Stew Young, Langford “Yes. I support amalgamation if the region was divided into three areas: Saanich Peninsula, Downtown Victoria core and West Shore. The CRD is taking on too many divisions and areas aren’t getting proper representation. The CRD worked in the ’70s, but now it’s really run by bureaucracy.”

Nils Jensen, Oak Bay “No. Amalgamation, like fool’s gold, has a shiny attraction but little value. Bigger government, bigger bureaucracy does not work – bigger is not always better. Smaller government is more economic and more responsive to the real needs of residents. Where amalgamation has been tried costs have gone up and quality of service has gone down.”

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Carol Hamilton, Colwood “Yes. Communities as a whole are trying to strive for that wholesome sustainability and it’s difficult to do when you have a smaller geographic area, or if you have only one particular entity within your boundaries. Looking to the West Shore, I see the opportunity for some success in moving towards that model. I think we have a stronger presence and a more sustainable presence as a West Shore group.”

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Frank Leonard, Saanich “No. I think we can accomplish improvements to our communities by integrating services, where appropriate.

And that’s what I’ve always worked on.”

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Graham Hill, View Royal “No. I don’t believe that the history of amalgamation has illustrated benefit.

I believe that the residents of my community would not particularly benefit in terms of the cost of operations and I also expect as the City of Victoria’s potholes get smaller, those in View Royal could get bigger.”

Barb Desjardins, Esquimalt “No. Local land use decisions are best dealt with by local communities through planning processes which incorporate the values of the residents of the area. The region could do a better job in co-ordination in such areas as public safety and transportation. The key to regional oversight is the governance model which must not allow one area or two areas to control the region.”

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while politicians and devoted council attendees trumpet the beauty of direct democracy.

Finally, we discuss the changes already taking place with policing, emergency services and transit throughout Greater Victoria.

Follow the ongoing discussion on Twitter by searching the hashtag #oneyyj, and visit the Gazette Facebook page to weigh in. dpalmer@vicnews.com

Jane Mendum, Highlands “Perhaps. Highlanders voted to incorporate just 20 successful years ago, and we value our selfdetermination. The current regional governance/administrative model is diverse, dynamic, representative of local values and responsive to local needs. If other municipalities choose to join together, I maintain that potential outcomes need to demonstrate an actual net benefit for residents over the current model.”

Alastair Bryson, Central Saanich “It would be an uninformed position to make any type of representation at this point. My job as mayor is to get information and then talk to our communities.

It’s not our role as mayors to represent our personal opinions. I am certainly in support of having a better understanding of what the opportunities are for our communities to work more closely together.”

Larry Cross, Sidney “I need to see the analysis of the impact on Sidney residents regarding costs, services and accessibility, first. I believe municipalities can do better in seeking benefits from closer cooperation, however.”

Alice Finall, North Saanich “No. Small governments are more responsive to residents in terms of balancing desired services with the amount the community is prepared to pay for them.

Amalgamation does not reduce costs, it increases them. Taxes, debt and other charges increase dramatically due to cost levels rising to the highest common denominator. Where issues and needs overlap municipal boundaries, the CRD administration structure has been praised as efficient and effective.”

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Belmont student Janice Dalzell mock arrests VicPD Const. Chantal Ziegler during training at police camp at William Head last week.

Kids come for cop camp Greater Victoria teens gain law enforcement experience at annual police camp Charla Huber New staff

Over eight days at Albert Head Cadet Camp, high school students not only learned tricks of the trade from local cops – they got to arrest them.

“She’s arresting me,” yells VicPD Const. Chantal Ziegler, playing a drunk driver in a simulation. “She says I’m drunk.”

“Please be quiet m’am,” said Belmont student Janice Dalzell, as she mock arrested the drunk driver.

Fifty students from across Greater Victoria came together for the annual Greater Victoria Police Leadership camp, March 23 to 30.

“This is a program for good kids and offer leadership skills,” said Const. Cole Brewer of West Shore RCMP. The high school students spend eight days participating in simulation drills, marching, activities and lectures.

Dalzell’s favourite activity was the obstacle course.

“I have learned how stressful it is to be an officer,” the 17-year-old added. charla@goldstreamgazette.com

Union dislikes transit’s plan to provide cruise ship buses Daniel Palmer News staff

B.C. Transit is hoping to lease six of its buses to the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority this summer to transport cruise ship passengers.

However, the union representing local transit bus drivers doesn’t like it.

The proposal, which would see buses transport passengers between Ogden Point and the downtown core, does not include using unionized drivers, said Ben Williams, Canadian Auto Workers local 333 president.

The recently negotiated union contract states B.C. Transit bus drivers must be used on any buses that

begin and end their service in Greater Victoria, Williams said.

“If B.C. Transit has extra equipment they can lease out, it should be going to addressing transit issues in Greater Victoria,” he said.

The GVHA has yet to award its contract for cruise shuttle services, but B.C. Transit is a lead proponent, said Maribeth Burton, B.C. Transit spokeswoman.

“Many B.C. Transit communities including Victoria, Whistler and Kelowna scale back services during the summer season, leaving some resources under-utilized,” she said in a statement.

Any revenue from the contract would reduce taxpayer-

funded transit service, Burton said.

Williams vowed to file a grievance and take the matter to court, should B.C. Transit be awarded the contract.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The City of Langford has received an applicaton to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw No. 1472. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respectng matters contained in the Bylaw at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Monday, 15 April 2013, at 7:00 pm. Please be advised that no representations may be received by Council afer the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether orally or in writing, will form part of a public record.

Proposal: The purpose of Bylaw No. 1472 is to amend the City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amending the zoning designaton of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1472 from the R1 (One-Family Residental) Zone to a new P1B (Neighbourhood Insttutonal B) Zone to allow a Rugby Canada gym/dorm building.

Applicant: City of Langford Locaton:

The land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1472 is 3025 Glen Lake Rd as shown shaded on the plan.

“You’ll see protests outside B.C. Transit’s offices,” he said.

A GHVA spokesperson confirmed negotiations are ongoing with potential contractors. dpalmer@vicnews.com

COPIES of the complete proposed Bylaw and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the Bylaw may be viewed from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Tuesday, 2 April 2013 to Monday, 15 April 2013, inclusive, at Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8. Please contact the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 with any questions on this Bylaw.

Jim Bowden Administrator

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Amalgamation, but at what cost?

A pane of glass is easier to shatter than to piece back together.

For years citizens and politicians of Greater Victoria have called for some kind of amalgamation of the many political fiefdoms of the region, and little has been done about it.

The News Gazette examines the issue of amalgamation in a five part series – the financial and bureaucratic pros and cons; how Halifax, a city similar in size to Victoria, achieved amalgamation and why it went down that road; and defacto amalgamation through regional services.

The political unification of Greater Victoria, into one city, or a group of two, three or more larger districts, seems to outsiders looking in as a no-brainer, but even the smallest steps have proven to be extraordinarily difficult.

Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay and Esquimalt have been distinct municipalities for well over 100 years, and, until recently, have had no serious grassroots or political push for a merger.

In 2008, Colwood council rejected a proposal for a civic referendum just to gauge community interest in joining with Langford. In the mid2000s, the province funded investigations for the merger of Metchosin and unincorporated East Sooke, but even those sparsely populated, ideologically aligned areas haven’t made it work yet.

Concerns arose if Metchosin had the capacity and tax base to take on the burden of roads and bridges in East Sooke.

That example highlights that in any political merger, there can be winners and losers – some citizens might get lower taxes and better services, while others might see a loss. When it comes to property taxes and crumbling infrastructure, under political amalgamation your neighbour’s problems can become your own.

Amalgamation is a complicated and contentious question. Greater Victoria residents need to ask if erasing political boundaries is the solution, or if pushing for the elimination of duplication of municipal services is really the true goal.

Or should the status quo remain – don’t fix what isn’t broken?

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.

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Greenhouse gas leaks from Trust change program. To make the B.C. The Pacific Carbon Trust government’s operations “carbon orchestrated a months-long neutral,” the government and all of campaign of calls and letters to its agencies were required discredit a report from to pay the trust $25 per B.C.’s Auditor General on tonne for their carbon its first two big carbon dioxide emissions from offset projects, before it fuel use. could be released.

In 2011 alone, B.C. Just as the audit report universities paid $4.46 was about to be made million to the trust. B.C.’s public, the trust, a Crown 60 school districts paid corporation created a total of $5.36 million at taxpayer expense, the same year, and the participated in the leaking province’s six health of selected critical letters to media outlets.

Tom Fletcher authorities paid $5.79 million. The money Then the Speaker of B.C. Views is supposed to go to the B.C. legislature, Bill projects that capture Barisoff, made a final, clumsy effort to delay the release of carbon, thus “offsetting” the heating of schools, the fuel burned by the report. ambulances and so forth.

As soon as it was out, The 55,000-hectare forest reserve Environment Minister Terry Lake is known as Darkwoods. The audit tried to discredit it, by blustering shows that the Nature Conservancy about all the highly paid experts of Canada decided in 2006 to buy who swore up and down that a it, using $25 million of federal forest reserve near Kootenay Lake, taxpayers’ money. The deal closed and a gas flaring reduction project in 2008, the same year the Pacific near Fort Nelson, were bona fide Carbon Trust was formed. carbon offsets worth $6 million of From 2008 to 2010, the trust taxpayers’ money.

The audit states in plain language, bought 450,000 tonnes of carbon offset, based on independent with charts and timelines, that evaluations that all rested on the the $6 million was basically given assumption that Darkwoods would away for nothing. I look forward be clear-cut logged. to further audits on this carbon Since the forest was already offset scheme, assuming it survives owned by Canada’s leading after the May election, because conservancy, this assumption these two projects aren’t the only makes no sense. Was the boondoggles. conservancy going to log it, or flip The Pacific Carbon Trust was it to someone who would, after set up in 2008 as part of former accepting $25 million in tax money premier Gordon Campbell’s climate

to acquire it? Legally, it could not.

(I would add that the assumption that logging releases all of the carbon in a forest is also false.

Lumber actually sequesters carbon for longer than trees, which eventually die and rot.)

The audit found a similar case against EnCana’s flare reduction program, which the company used on many wells before the trust started offering money. EnCana was saving money as well as reducing emissions without collecting offsets.

Therefore, the audit concluded, neither of these projects was a credible offset because the emissions savings would have occurred anyway.

Here’s the next Pacific Carbon Trust project that should be audited. In a complicated transaction, the trust bought offsets from something called the Great Bear Carbon Credit Limited Partnership. Yes, this is the worldfamous forest on B.C.’s North Coast that was subject to a preservation deal hammered out between the Coastal First Nations, the B.C. government and three U.S.-backed environmental groups.

That was in 2006. The offset purchases were in 2009 and 2010, years after detailed preservation areas were mapped and codified in law.

Again, the trust paid for forest that was already preserved.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com tfletcher@blackpress.ca

‘The audit states that $6 million was basically given away for nothing.’

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Kids meet camas Ashton Nelson, 11, and William Credicott, 11, plant camas at Royal Roads University with Ken Elliot of Ken’s Native Plant Nursery in Duncan. The Shoreline middle school students planted 175 camas plants at the university to help reintroduce the native plant to the area.

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LETTERS Homeopathy not modern medicine Re: Emu solution: Homeopath enhances First Nation healing (News, March 27) Humans living in industrialized western countries are living longer and in better health than ever before because of western medicine and the science it’s based on.

Homeopathy is not based on science and is nothing more than wishful thinking. Test after test has shown homeopathic “medicines” to be no more effective than placebos. One would get as effective treatment by asking the tooth fairy to cure you.

I’m sure homeopathy has its supporters. So does faith healing, laying on the hands and psychic surgery, all of which have as much evidence behind them as homeopathy.

Many critics have taken entire boxes of homeopath ‘sleeping aid’ with no effect. Most concoctions have so little active ingredient the majority are indistinguishable from each other. Supporters say the water retains the ‘memory’ or ‘energy’ of the active ingredient,

but there is no evidence and no science such a thing can happen.

Ground emu feathers? What’s next, Big Foot coverage? At least Big Foot coverage doesn’t have the possibility of killing someone from lack of real medicine and vaccines responsible for improving the quality of life for billions of people and stopping real plagues. What plague has homeopathy stopped? What terrible crippling disease is history because of homeopathy? None.

Homeopathy supporters complain about big pharmacy, but this is exactly what the industry has become. Their so-called medicines don’t need actual ingredients or research because it isn’t based on science.

The human race is facing a number of serious issues. Perhaps the most significant is the number of people who cling to superstition or ignorance and deny science. We’ve never fixed any problems by wishing them away or magical thinking. Turning away from science will only condemn our children to poverty, blight and disease.

Michael Davey Langford

More farming needed in Greater Victoria Re: Caught between a cow and a hard place (News, vicnews.com) If the Alberg’s neighbours think cow poo is smelly, they should be thankful the Albergs didn’t bring in pigs or chickens.

But as things stand, I think we need more agriculture in the city and less city in the country.

I support the Albergs and their dispute with Saanich.

Rick Weatherill Saanich

New family law needs tweaking Re: Breaking up is hard to do (Our View, March 22) As earlier noted, the governing B.C. Liberals forgot the advice of a former Liberal Prime Minister that “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.”

If that PM’s son Justin Trudeau inherited any politically astute genes, our governing provincial party should have sought his advice in drafting the new B.C. Family Law Act. Any such federal level input

John Horgan

could only have improved the present Orwellian legislation with which we are now saddled.

It will shock more than a few B.C. couples to learn that if they’ve been in common-law relationships for two or more years – thanks to the new and obviously misnamed Family Law Act – they’re now considered equivalent to being legally married. Now lacking a multi-year opt-in option for such couples, this retroactive law is unacceptable.

The reported child protection aspects of the Act should be supported, but without changes the current Act will reduce social stability.

Many that have “roommates with privileges” will be checking

calendars to verify co-habitation dates. Some will be ending their conjugal relationships thereby confirming a new normal shorter time-frame for sequential monogamy in B.C. There’s always hope that after our May provincial election, the government will amend the Family Law Act to deal with family issues only.

A better bet is that there will be legal challenges based on the above-noted retroactive issue, and that there will be a court ruling requiring government to correct the currently ill-considered Act. Let’s close the bedroom door to government busybodies.

Ron Johnson Saanich

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Victoria tour buses urged to go green Victoria councillors are giving downtown tour bus operators two years to come up with more environmentally friendly innovations.

Four bus companies were recommended to use dedicated parking space downtown for a two-year term at last week’s governance and priorities committee meeting.

“We gave a very strong message to staff to create incentives for low emissions and low-noise vehicles in the future,” said Coun.

Lisa Helps.

“But you can’t just tell a com-

pany to change their fleet.”

Staff had recommended a threeyear term for parking space allotment.

Councillors also considered a proposal from a local business owner to use low-speed electric vehicles, but the proponent was unable to provide sufficient evidence the vehicles complied with provincial safety standards. dpalmer@vicnews.com

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Easter feed Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton helps serve meals during Our Place’s annual Easter lunch at their building on Pandora Avenue in downtown Victoria.

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Council has the following objectives for the program which are established by this bylaw: • to encourage new hotel, motel and lodge investment in the City of Colwood; • to promote a higher standard of overnight accommodations and enrich the visitor’s experience while staying in the City of Colwood; and • to generally reinforce the City’s commitment to the long term development of the tourism industry in Colwood.

The program is intended to accomplish these objectives by providing a tax exemption to eligible properties. This tax exemption will provide tax certainty to the property owner and reduce the municipal property tax burden on eligible hotel, motel and lodge properties for a period of up to ten years.

In order to be eligible for tax exemption under this bylaw, the project must be for a hotel, motel or lodge property where the new construction value, as determined based on the building permit(s) issued, must be two million dollars ($2,000,000) or greater.

Renovations to existing buildings will not be eligible under this bylaw. Each project must be approved by Council prior to the beginning of construction.

The amount of an annual tax exemption will be equal to that part of the municipal portion of property taxes imposed under section 197(1)(a) of the Community Charter calculated by deducting the baseline assessment (BC Assessment’s last published land and improvements assessed value immediately before the commencement of the project) from the current assessed value and applying the difference to the current municipal tax rate. It will not include an exemption from any local service tax or business improvement area tax. The maximum term of a revitalization tax exemption will be ten years.

In effect, the revitalization tax exemption will cap the municipal portion of the levy at the preconstruction amount for ten years, except for changes in tax rates. In the unlikely event that the new assessment drops below the baseline assessment, there will be no revitalization tax exemption.

A revitalization tax exemption may be cancelled by Council if any of the conditions fail to be met.

If this occurs, the owner will be required to pay the proportional amount of the municipal taxes for the remainder of the year.

A Special Committee of the Whole meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, April 4, 2013 @ 6:00 p.m. to receive public comment.

For more information about the Revitalization Tax Exemption Program, please contact Rebecca Johnson, Director of Finance, at rjohnson@colwood.ca.

This Notice is given in accordance with Section 227 of the Community Charter.

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Homage to create connections to nature Christine van Reeuwyk News staff

From a ridge Will Gordon can look back and peek at what’s ahead and that’s exactly his plan for his show From the Ridge.

The Colwood artist’s retrospective will feature large paintings and sculpture from the past, slipping in the addition of found objects, to his most recent works created completely with found objects.

“There might be the odd thing of paint on them, but basically just as I found them and I assemble them,” he said. “Technically speaking they can be disassembled and reassembled into another beast.

Each one has a particular character.”

Fish skin, spent bullet casings and bones are not uncommon in his works that are bound with wire.

“I use the wire, not just as an attachment device, but also as a drawing, a line in space,” he said.

“It’s a zero footprint … using objects I’ve always found fascinating anyways.”

That was part of the allure for Hailey Finnigan, curator at Metchosin Art Gallery that will host the show starting April 4.

She came across his work in September during the Visions of Metchosin show.

“I love his art, he puts them together in such a mindful way. He combines fantastic colours and shapes. And everything is just so balanced and pleasing to the eye,” she said. “ I love that he is very mindful

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Details on one of the many sculptures that Colwood artist Will Gordon will show in Metchosin this month. about his place in consumer culture.”

While she was impressed with his work, he was impressed by the organization, space and rural setting of Metchosin Art Gallery.

“She came and saw all the recent work, and the past work, and said, ‘hey you need to do a retrospective,’” Gordon said.

The show will also kick off The Homage Project – a series of performances around the region.

“Because Will is so environmentally conscious about his art making, he feels that performance art really is the next direction because it doesn’t involve any material at all,” Finnegan explained. “He’s going to be doing all sorts of neat things you can’t do in the gallery because, in a sense, the gallery is limiting,” Finnegan said.

The participatory events will focus on people’s conceptions of what art can be and how it relates to the natural world.

Gordon hopes to do two performance projects – what he’s calling ‘meetings’ – in April.

“The first one is going to be Earth. So there will be a reference to one of those land artists that did work in the ’60s and ’70s,” he explained. “It’s history of art education in part, but it’s being aware or mindful of soil or dirt. … I’m going to invite people to participate in Earth itself.”

People, not necessarily artists, will come out and dig holes, fill holes, and tell stories related to soil.

“Those personal connections make the learning a lot more real,” he said. “It’s trying to integrate everyone, not just artists.”

The website thehomageproject.ca should be online by the show opening tomorrow (April 4).

The show at Metchosin Art Gallery, 4495 Happy Valley Rd. runs April 4 to 28 with the opening celebration on April 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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New apostles of Victoria theatre Performing arts grads launch theatre company through Godspell Edward Hill News staff

Singing, dancing and clowning around – it’s not often parables of Jesus are so creatively extracted from the bible as in Godspell.

The famed Broadway musical was launched decades before the players behind Epiphany Productions were born, but an emerging generation of Victoria artists with the new theatre company will launch Godspell this spring, and in a church no less.

The stained glass-lit hall at St. Matthias Church provides a backdrop to a script that borrows heavily from the Gospel of St. Matthew, but also doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Jesus, played by 24-year-old Griffin Lea, for one, will be recognizable with the Superman logo across his chest.

“It’s a modern take on (Godspell),” said co-director Joseph Goble. “Why not make Jesus Superman? He is the Bible’s Superman.”

Goble, 21, and 20-year-old Noelle Antonsen, both busy performers and December 2012 graduates of the Canadian Centre for the Performing Arts (CCPA) in Oak Bay, are the driving force behind the offbeat musical and Epiphany Productions theatre company.

Godspell didn’t make it to the stage at the CCPA, but Goble and Antonsen were eager to launch it anyway, so why not on their own?

“We already knew people perfect for the roles. And it’s important to create stepping stones for emerging artists,” Antonsen said. “We see so much talent here in Victoria but it’s hard to break into the theatre world.”

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ground and belief,” Antonsen said. “It’s not so much a church brand as familyfriendly plays. Parents can know our plays will be good for anyone.”

Victoria has no shortage of theatre groups, but Goble and Antonsen have found broad support in the local arts community.

They’ve surpassed their $1,000 fundraising target for Godspell through the crowdsourcing website Indiegogo. St. Matthias donated the church hall in return Edward Hill/News staff for a tithe (yes, 10 per Thomas King, left, Adriana Ravalli, cent) from ticket sales Nabil Ayoub play those eager for New going to the RainTestament parables from Jesus, played bow Kitchen Society.

by Griffin Lea (lower centre) in an Remaining profit from upcoming production of Godspell at St. ticket sales from five performances will Matthias Church. go to pay the seven actors. ing in duties of directing, proGodspell itself lacks a distinct duction and possibly musical accompaniment in Godspell with plot, but is a series of vignettes regular jobs – he is a lifeguard where Jesus teaches parables to and swim coach, and she works a small group of followers, and for the Out of Ireland store. those followers act those lessons Goble, Antonsen and Lea are out as frenetic, overjoyed clowns.

“The cast will play instruments also performing in Kaleidoscope theatre’s Singin’ in the Rain at while singing and dancing. I was the McPherson Playhouse this nervous at our first rehearsal, but it sounds awesome so far,” month.

“We already have six days per Antonsen said. “It is going to be week of rehearsals on top of our different for Victoria theatre.”

“It’s lighthearted. It’s lots of jobs and on top of Godspell,” Antonsen said. “Being at CCPA laughs. Even with the crucifixteaches you to function well in ion he’s not nailed to the cross,” Gobels points out. “It’s a beautiful crazy-busy situations.”

They launched Epiphany Pro- play. You can do anything as long ductions as a Christian-based as you stay true to the intent of theatre company, although both high energy and fun.”

Godspell runs May 30, 31, June remain uneasy with that branding. Gobel is keen on big musi- 1, 2 at 7:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m. cals and Antonsen enjoys edgier matinee on June 2 at St. Matthias modern drama, both say Victo- Anglican Church, 600 Richmond ria has room for productions Rd. See epiphanyproductionssafe for kids, parents and grand- theatre.wordpress.com for ticket information or to donate to its parents.

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Guests were also treated to a preview of the season’s fashion scene with Mayfair fashion stylist Bonnie Pollard while the Aveda Institute’s Roxana Da Costa offered her tips for this spring’s makeup and skincare trends.

And as a sweet treat just in time for Easter, Purdy’s Chocolates’ Peter Higgins led a delicious “edible workshop” chocolate tasting.

Lucky guests also took home a selection of terrific prizes. Aruna Dey, campaign coordinator for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada’s Light the Night Walk, won an iPod Nano from Used Victoria, Julie Evans, manager of Sands Funeral Chapel – Colwood, won chocolate for a year from Purdy’s, and Annette Quan, from Stephen Whipp Financial, won a 60-minute Classic Boathouse Massage from the Oak Bay Beach Hotel.

Planning is already under way for the fall gala and the annual Black Press Women in Business Awards – watch your community newspaper for details and start thinking about local women making a difference.

Jo-Ann Roberts, CBC Radio One; Penny Sakamoto, Black Press Group Publisher; Gayle Robinson, President of Robinson’s Outdoor Store; Micky Fleming, President and CEO Cherish Community Living; and Shellie Gudgeon, Victoria City Councillor.

Attending from Island Savings are (from left) Sandi Norton, Ruth Saunders, Sheri Kasnik, Jennifer Fournet, and Karen Witkowski.

Kimberly Brown, National Bank Financial and Annette Quan, Manulife Securities.

Black Press Director of Sales Oliver Sommer welcomes guests.

Lacey Sheardown, Director of Marketing for Used Victoria.com and Beverly Booth of Oak Bay Beach Hotel.

Christina Bates of One Tooth Activewear with Gina Wakeham of Vibes Fitness.

Sylvia Trudeau and Colleen Meyer, Budget Car Sales.

Heather Skydt, Director of Communications, United Way, Greater Victoria, and Kathleen Burton, Director of Development, Victoria Hospice.

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Bridge update sounds positive The Johnson Street Bridge replacement project is on schedule and on budget, Victoria councillors heard last week.

Construction will begin April 15 on temporary trestles that will support cranes and other equipment.

City crews will also begin replacing centuryold sewage and storm water pipes near the area.

“One never wants to be dismissive of some of the risk concerns … but we’ve laid off some risk to the builder, and we haven’t gone into the contingency funds,” Coun. Chris Coleman said.

Early tests show no signs of human remains or other archeological discoveries that could delay the project.

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Original Joe’s opens in Saanich Tuscany Village in Saanich has a new tenant, Original Joe’s Restaurant and Bar, which opened on Sunday in the former Applebee’s space. Coowner Michelle Britton and her husband also own the location in Westshore Town Centre in Langford. The eatery is the 59th in Canada for the company, which claims to be the fastest-growing casual dining establishment in the country. For menu details, visit originaljoes.ca.

Don Descoteau Biz Beat

Bosley’s shows appreciation

For the month of April, Bosley’s Pet Food Plus is offering customers the opportunity to help out local animal shelters. “Paws” will be available in-store to purchase for donations of $1, $2, $5 or $10. During donation drives this weekend (April 5 to 7) and next (April 12 to 14), pet food, supplies and toys will be accepted, to be passed on to shelters in the area. There are seven Bosley’s stores in Greater Victoria. Visit bit.ly/104sxUr for locations.

Painting company offers charity service White Knight Painting is giving the Victoria Brain Injury Society a hand this week, donating an estimated $3,000 worth of services to

Capital Regional District Notice of

Annual Water Main Cleaning Western Communities A water main cleaning program will be carried out in various areas of Colwood, Langford and View Royal between January 1, 2013 and April 30, 2013.

Dr. Cameron McCrodan, Dr. Brent Morrison, Dr. Ann-Marie Stewart and Dr. Chris Snow

Has my vision changed?

How frequently should one “change ones glasses?”

There is no hard and fast answer to this question.

Certain people are able to keep the same prescription for two or three years, sometimes longer, while others require more frequent changes. Nearsighted children and adults between age forty and sixty, usually fall into the latter category, often requiring new prescriptions annually for several years.

Typically, most adults will require lenses for reading and near work, when they reach their early forties. If distance vision is good without glasses, “readers” are often all that is necessary; but if distance correction is needed, bifocals or progressive lenses are most commonly prescribed. The reading prescription usually changes about every one to two years until age sixty or so. After sixty, barring eye health problems such as cataracts, the vision is usually very stable, and only minor changes are required.

The best way to monitor these changes is to have routine eye examinations. Not only do these timely visits ensure the eyes are healthy, they are the most effective way to ensure a person is seeing as well as he or she should.

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Short periods of low pressure and discolouration of water can be expected. Commercial establishments such as laundromats and beauty salons will receive advance warning of flushing in their vicinity. If you require such notification, please contact CRD Integrated Water Services, 479 Island Highway, Victoria, BC, at 250.474.9619.

In no case can responsibility be accepted for any damage arising out of the use of discoloured water.

repair and paint the society’s programming room. The work is part of Bob Fuchs’ company’s fifth annual Charity Paint Giveaway. Past recipients have included the Bridges for Women Society, the Single Parent Resource Centre, the Cridge Transition Centre for Women and McDonald House, a Cridge Centre support centre for people suffering from brain injuries.

Beltone ownership stays in the family Ron and Bobbi Germain opened their first Beltone Hearing Care Centre in Victoria in 1974. The company has grown to 12 locations on the Island, including four in the Capital Region – downtown, Hillside, West Shore and Sidney. The couple’s son, Jeff, and his wife Sharon, who live in Comox and bought three of the locations from Ron and Bobbi in 2008, recently assumed ownership of all 12 locations. They plan to increase the company’s online presence and streamline their processes in store to help service customers better, Jeff said.

Nominations open for 2013 VIATeC awards With categories ranging from

Technology Company of the Year and Innovative Excellence to Startup of the Year and Employer of the Year the annual Victoria Advanced Technology Council (VIATeC) Technology Awards recognize a wide variety of tech sector firms around the region and Vancouver Island. The awards gala, set for June 20 at the Victoria Conference Centre, is a celebration of the “imagination economy,” said VIATeC executive director Dan Gunn. Nomination deadline is April 9. For a full list of categories and more information, visit tinyurl. com/2013techawards.

Names in the news around Greater Victoria The Vancouver Island Health Authority has named Dr. Brendan Carr acting CEO to replace outgoing boss Howard Waldner. VIHA decided last week to suspend its search for a permanent replacement until after the provincial election … London Drugs board chair and CEO, Brandt Louie, was honoured with the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business distinguished entrepreneur of the year award.

Louie will receive his award at a gala dinner May 22.

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A voice for those who live in silence Developmentally disabled embrace tablet technology

ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA www.colwoodanglican.ca

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West Shore The Anglican Church of Canada Saint Mary of the Incarnation

Edward Hill News staff

Lynne Hibak holds a broad grin as she sweeps her fingers across an iPad, lighting up swirling streams of colour in the shape of a heart.

For the 32-year-old client of the Garth Homer Society in Saanich, the touch screen offers entertainment and easy access to the Internet. For other developmentally disabled adults at the day facility, the technology offers an unexpected voice to the world.

Hibak uses the iPad to research birds and animals she sees while volunteering at Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary. Her friend Laurie Fairweather does the same at Glendale Gardens, a.k.a. the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific.

“My fingers don’t always go where I want. You can make mistakes with the iPad and it’s no big deal,” Fairweather says. “If I come across a plant I don’t know at Glendale Gardens I can take a picture (with the iPad) and find it.”

The iPad and its applications are so successful in giving creative outlets to Garth Homer Centre clients, the society bought 14 last fall.

High-functioning clients like Hibak and Fairweather adapted quickly, but then so did those with significant developmental impairments.

Clients who normally struggle to pick up small objects can assemble virtual jig-

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Garth Homer Society client Laurie Fairweather holds an iPad as Lynne Hibak traces thermal imaging colours using an art application. saw puzzles and paint with their hands.

For clients with autism, people who require and demand strict routines, the iPad allows staff to create visual, individualized schedules using digital photos of the client doing tasks – eating lunch, driving in the van, and going to a park.

The clearer the routine, the lower the anxiety.

Lack of keyboard and mouse is key to the equation, especially for those with limited hand-eye co-ordination.

“We have clients with no capability to draw or hold a pen, but they can still use their hands and fingers. All of a sudden they can make art without obstacles,” says Rob Baker, a staff member who works with clients requiring a high level of care.

Baker introduced his personal iPad to Garth Homer about a year ago to gauge the level of interest. After a few moments using the hands-on device, clients were hooked.

“Clients use it to make choices,” says Colina Titus, director of client services.

“For those who can’t speak, it’s a fantastic tool.”

Garth Homer executive director Mitchell Temkin said the society will likely buy more iPads this year for the 90 clients who regularly access the devices.

“We mistake diminished communication capacity with diminished cognitive capacity, and that is completely false,” Temkin says. “The iPad is tearing down communications barriers.” editor@saanichnews.com

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MEETING at Saint John the Baptist Heritage Church, Sunday afternoons at 2:00pm, Glencairn Lane, Colwood.

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May-August Activity Guide Available Now Spring and Summer programs for the whole family including summer camps for kids.

The May-August Activity Guide is now available online and in person at Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre.

Due to unforeseen circumstances the May-August Activity Guide will be distributed in the Goldstream Gazette on Friday April 5, one day after registration.

Stop by Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre and pick up a copy or visit us online at www.westshorerecreation.ca

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Langford Emergency Support Services ( ESS ) is a team of volunteers who respond during emergencies to provide essential services including food, lodging, clothing, etc. to people who have been evacuated from their homes by such disasters as re, ood, earthquake, etc. We work together with Langford Protective Services, Langford Fire Rescue, and Emergency Management British Columbia.

If ESS is of interest to you, please contact us for further information.

Or, feel free to sit in on our training meetings, held at 7pm on the 2nd Monday of each month (except December, July, and August) at Langford No.1 Fire Hall 2625 Peatt Rd.

Craig Gorman scores a goal for the Victoria Highlanders during the 2012 PDL season. Gorman is returning with a core of UVic Vikes, who may be joined by a number of players trying out from Mexico.

Should you decide to join ESS, you will receive free training, which will not only enhance your own preparations for disasters, but also enable you to make a rewarding contribution to your community.

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Highlanders seek Mexican playboys Travis Paterson News staff

New general manager Mark de Frias is boldly taking the Victoria Highlanders where they’ve never gone before, to the front page of Playboy’s website.

Playboy Mexico, that is.

It’s all part of an out-of-the-box approach to recruiting players this season, the first with de Frias and head coach Steve Simonson at the helm of the Highlanders’ premier men’s team.

The Highlanders have a history of fielding imports such as Ash Burbeary of England last season and even Tynan Diaz of Australia from four years ago.

This year de Frias is big on a Belgian player who is committed to attending the Highlanders’ upcoming trials, April 8 to 10, at the Pacific Sports Institute of Excellence.

But it’s interest and requests from young males in Mexico that are filling the GM’s inbox.

“It’s not exactly where everyone would think we’d be found (in the media),” de Frias said.

You can say that again. But it also makes sense, given the, ahem, demographics of the site’s viewers, and that country’s penchant to produce high level soccer players the numbers of which Canada does not have.

As of Monday the GM had 40 requests from the story, which,

to be clear, is strictly about soccer, a feature on how the Highlanders organization got off the ground and it’s direction.

It’s also clearly directed at recruiting players for the Highlanders men’s Professional Development League team and not the premier women’s side, respectfully, which will feature local players as it returns to the Pacific Coast Soccer League.

The story came about as Playboy Mexico’s web editor Erick Tapia, who interviewed de Frias and wrote the story, is friends with Highlanders new administration assistant Saul Garcia, a UVic grad who hails originally from Mexico.

“In terms of responses from one particular article it’s generated a lot of response for the PDL men’s team. If anything its just more proof how important it is to us to compete, and to find a hidden gem out there,” de Frias said.

“And it helps our branding objectives of going global, it broadens the horizon of an amateur club playing fully professional teams.”

With the Fraser Valley (Abbotsford) Mariners dropping out of the PDL this year it means the Northwest division is down to seven teams and, more importantly, is down to three instead of four playoff spots.

The Highlanders will return

the Hughes brothers, Jordie at striker and Tyler on defence, as well as six or seven UVic Vikes, de Frias said. Only eight players on the PDL roster can be over 23-years-old.

“We want to make it into the playoffs and the championship final. But five of the last six years the finalists have come from our division, most of them MLS reserve clubs, fully professional.

It’s no easy thing.”

Hey, no one can argue with what works.

The Highlanders aren’t expecting 40 prospective Mexican players to show up at trials next week. But they’d also be surprised if two, maybe three, of the most interested players didn’t make it here.

In the end the players are ultimately selected by Simonson, though it’s also de Frias’ job to bring in as many quality players as possible.

It’s also up to import players to travel here and cover their own costs during their stay, though players selected to the team will get most, or perhaps all, of their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed.

Trials run 8 p.m. at PISE beginning Monday night.

Interested players need to be in touch with the Highlanders office 250-590-8432 email trials@ victoriahighlandersfc.com. sports@vicnews.com

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Cougars sweep Glacier Kings in VIJHL final Travis Paterson News staff

The Brent Patterson Memorial Trophy is staying in Victoria.

Captain Brody Coulter scored a goal and two assists as the Victoria Cougars defeated the Comox Valley Glacier Kings 5-2 to finish a four-game sweep of the Glacier Kings on Saturday (March 30) and win back-to-back Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League titles.

The Cougars and Glacier Kings both advance to the 2013 Cyclone Taylor Cup, April 11 to 14 in Courtenay, with the Glacier Kings entering as the hosts.

Kelyn Opel, Dane Feeney, Sam Rice and Jordie Davie also scored for the Cougars in the title clinching win on Saturday.

Goalie Evan Roch made 13 saves on just 15 shots for his 10th win over the postseason.

Backup goalie Michael Herringer, a Victoria Royals prospect from Comox, earned a 21-save shutout in Game 3, a 5-0 Cougars win at Archie Browning Sports Centre on March 28.

Sam Rice was named the series MVP for the Cougars. The 20-year-old forward recorded hat tricks in Games 1 and 2 of the final, and finished tied for the playoff scoring lead (13 goals, 18

assists in 14 games) with teammate Dane Feeney (11 goals, 20 assists in 14 games).

The Cougars only lost two games in the playoffs, one in the opening round to the Peninsula Panthers and once in the second round to the Saanich Braves.

The Cyclone Taylor Cup field is still incomplete. As of Monday the Castlegar Rebels and Okanagan Knights were in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League final. The Pacific Junior Hockey League champions Richmond Sockeyes defeated the Aldergrove Kodiaks in the other final. sports@vicnews.com

Eagle joins junior national team Kurt Horne of the Victoria Eagles will attend the Canadian junior national team’s spring training camp this month.

Horne, a 16-year-old lefthanded pitcher, joins 28 other players from across Canada to compete at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Fla., April 12 to 21.

Also attending is Eagles general manager Gautam Srivastava as a guest coach for the camp.

The annual camp features daily practices and seven exhibition contests against MLB pros-

Jacobs rink shoots ahead

pect teams, including a match against a Toronto Blue Jays development squad on April 16 in Dunedin.

Horne played for the Victoria Eagles premier team last year, throwing 55 innings with an earned run average of 2.00 and a 5-2 record. He helped the B.C. Selects capture silver at the Canada Cup last summer.

Last year Srivastava became a regional scout for the Minnesota Twins. He was Baseball Canada's 2010 Coach of the Year and for the past two years he has been

The Brad Jacobs rink roared ahead of the field at the World Men’s Curling Championship this week winning its first three games.

Team Canada’s Jacobs rink, of Sault St. Marie, Ont., won 7-6 over China on Saturday, came back

the manager of the B.C. Selects at the national cup.

B.C. Premier Baseball League season begins this weekend as the Eagles visit the Nanaimo Pirates for a double-header on Saturday.

The Victoria Mariners season starts Saturday, April 13 when the Parksville Royals visit for a double-header at Henderson Park, 12 and 2:30 p.m. The Eagles first home game is also April 13, when the Whalley Chiefs visit Lambrick Park for two games, 12 and 2:30 p.m.

from giving up a fourender to win 8-6 over Finland in Draw 3 on Sunday morning, and won 9-4 against Scotland in Draw 5 on Sunday night.

The round robin continues today (April 3) with Canada facing Japan at 8:30 a.m. this morning

in Draw 12, and against Russia at 1:30 p.m.

Round robin play ends Thursday with Canada facing Denmark at 2 p.m. and against Sweden at 7 p.m.

Tiebreakers and playoffs begin Friday. sports@vicnews.com

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

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewelry. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700

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MEADOW PRO Respiratory care unit with Concentrator & Patient instructions. $2500.

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RENOS BY Don, 25 yrs exp.

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JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.

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SPRING CLEANUP special: $25/hr. Weeding, Pruning, etc: Free est’s. Steve 250-727-0481

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SPRING CLEANups, complete maintenance.

Residential & Commercial. 250-474-4373.

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THE MOSS MAN ChemicalFree Roof De-Mossing & Gutter Cleaning since 1996. Call 250-881-5515. Free estimates! www.mossman.ca

CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flagstone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Natural & Veneered Stone.

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MOVING & STORAGE 111 WRIGHT Moving-123 ton. $80/hr for 2 men. Senior’s discount. Call Phil (250)383-8283 11 DIAMOND Moving- 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $85/hr.

Call 250-220-0734.

2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on local moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.

DONE RIGHT MOVING $80/hr. Senior Discount. Free Est’s. No travel time before or after. SMOOTH MOVES. Call Tyler at 250-418-1747.

FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonable rates. Call 250-514-2376.

FREE ESTIMATES. Reasonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.

PRESSURE WASHING DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.

250-744-8588, Norm.

RUBBISH REMOVAL MALTA GARDEN & Rubbish Removal. Best Rates. BBB member. (250)388-0278.

STUCCO/SIDING RE-STUCCO & HARDY Plank/Painting Specialist. 50 years experience. Free estimates. Dan, 250-391-9851.

TREE SERVICES BUDDY’S TREE SERVICESTrimming, pruning, chipping, removals, hedges, lawn care, Insured. Keith, (250)474-3697.

WINDOW CLEANING

PAINTING A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.

Windows, Gutters, Sweeping, Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pressure Washing. 250-361-6190.

INSULATION

B L Coastal Coatings. Quality, reliable, great rates. All your Painting needs. (250)818-7443

GLEAMING WINDOWS Gutters+De-moss. Free estimate.

18 yrs. Brian, 514-7079. WCB.

MALTA BLOWN Insulation.

Attics - interior/exterior walls & sound silencer. (250)388-0278

ST PAINTING free est, written guarantee and full ref’s. WCB ins. Call Kaleb (250)884-2597.

NORM’S WINDOW Cleaning.

250-812-3213. WCB. www.normswindowcleaning.ca

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