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Chris Jones, GardenWorks Colwood store manager, is working on a display showcasing two patio setups for the Victoria Home Expo this weekend at West Shore Parks and Recreation.

Home experts gather on West Shore Charla Huber News staff

Decorating a patio for spring can be daunting when perusing all the options available.

The team from GardenWorks hopes to help people learn to create the best patio with the space available. GardenWorks is among those offering expertise at the Victoria Home Expo at West Shore Parks and Recreation.

In a 10-foot by 10-foot booth, Chris Jones, Colwood store manager, will display two patio setups.

“If you have a condo, that space will show you what you can do,” she said, explaining that people with larger areas to work with can just add to the ideas. “With the love of outdoor living people are spending more time on their patios entertaining. Around here there are many people living in condos or houses with

small yards.”

The patio display will showcase an edible patio loaded with potted blueberries, strawberries, herbs, citrus fruits and olives. The other option on site will be a modern contemporary patio with beautiful pottery filled with foliage and flowers.

Please see: Home expo a ‘one stop shop’, Page A11

As discussion around amalgamation grows, regionalized services are increasingly seen as a good place to begin implementing the idea.

Across the Capital Region there are four police departments, three RCMP detachments, 14 fire departments and a transit commission dominated by urban representatives.

During the half-hour drive from North Saanich to downtown Victoria, three separate 911 call centres are responsible for emergency dispatch.

“We could, in theory, dispatch for the whole peninsula by adding one more console to our (communication) centre, but there seems to be a fear to push the discussion,” said Victoria police Chief Const. Jamie Graham, a vocal proponent for a single regional police force.

Please see: Leaders support discussion of amalgamation, Page A3

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Military members stranded with demise of ferry service Charla Huber News staff

Hundreds of military personnel will soon be looking for a ride to work.

The Victoria Harbour Ferry Company will be stopping its service route from Colwood to Esquimalt on April 19 at 5 p.m.

“They indicated they were not finding it to be financially viable,”

said Capt. Jenn Jackson, CFB Esquimalt base public affairs officer.

“These 200 people will need to find a new way to get to work. Travel to and from work is the individual’s responsibility.”

Jackson lives in Esquimalt and doesn’t use the service, but has spoken to those who do and some are considering cycling or carpooling when the service ends. reporter@goldstreamgazette.com

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Chainsaw sounds echoed across Langford Lake yesterday and today (April 11) as city crews began a project to upgrade beach accessibility on the southeast side of the lake.

The move left some residents shocked and upset.

“I am disgusted,” said Marianne Thomas, who has lived on the lake for the past 13 years.

“It’s a disgrace and if I would have known I would have tried to get as many people as I could together to say ‘let’s stop this.’”

The most angering part for Thomas and fellow resident Sandy Bell was the removal of several large trees that stood on the shore of the lake near the boat launch.

“I’m kind of shocked actually, because I came home yesterday and all these trees were down,” said Bell.

drinking while sitting on the Coun. Lanny Seaton said the structure. These “riff raff” as motivation behind the project one of the men working on site is to create a friendlier atmosphere for families by putting in called them are one of the reasons why families don’t find the flush toilets, picnic tables and a beach an inviting place playground by lowto be. ering entire area of Another aspect of the the beach, a feat he “If we issue that bothered both describes as imposand Thomas was sible without the don’t take the Bell the suddenness with removal of the trees. trees down which the project was “If we don’t take carried out. the trees down we we can’t go Seaton said that at can’t go on with on with the a public Legion meetthe project,” said ing in 2008 more than Seaton. project.”

Bell said she finds – Lanny Seaton 1,000 people voted for more beach accessibilthat hard to believe. ity throughout Langford “I’m disappointed and that although the because I wonder if plan had been to wait until there could have been a more 2015, they had money in the creative solution that didn’t budget and decided to act on it. involve cutting down these old “We had an opportunity to trees but still allowed accessiget it done and we got it done,” bilities to families,” she said.

Seaton said.

The largest of the trees, The project follows similar a Douglas fir, was 43 inches across at its base and estimated ones already completed in Glen Lake Park that create infrastrucbetween 100 and 200 years old. ture aimed at children and parSeaton says smaller trees removed along the lake’s board- ents.

The request for proposals on walk was to increase visibility the project opens Monday and for police and bylaw officers closes April 29. who, he added, often respond editor@goldstreamgazette.com to complaints of young people

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everal integrated police units operate in the Capital Region, including the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team, a homicide investigation unit and a domestic violence unit, the latter formed in the wake of a 2007 murder-suicide case in Oak Bay. But the units rely on a shared funding model, which presents an inherent problem each year as budget evaluations begin and cities look for cost savings.

“As has been shown recently (when VicPD pulled one of two officers from the domestic violence unit), if I don’t think it’s working well for me, I’ll pull out and that leaves the other agencies Daniel Palmer in a lurch, which isn’t Reporting fair,” Graham said.

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins, an opponent of municipal amalgamation, has shepherded a year of frustrating negotiations around regionalized police services, both with the B.C. Justice Ministry and the Victoria Police Board. (In June 2012, Esquimalt was forced to stick with VicPD services despite its desire to save money by contracting the township’s policing to the RCMP).

But as Victoria and Esquimalt near completion of a framework policing agreement, Desjardins is singing a decidedly more optimistic tune, in hopes other municipalities will buy in.

“If we are able to reach an agreement, then there’s a huge opportunity to go forward and be a model for further regionalization,” she said.

The fear is that every municipality outside Victoria and Esquimalt would lose service and pay more under a regional police force. But Graham said the framework agreement may be able to woo other municipalities with an easy cost-sharing template that would prevent ballooning property tax bills.

“There is also this never-ending fear, I think most unfairly, that if we become a regional force, other officers will be sucked into the downtown core to deal with problems, but that’s simply not true,” he said.

While Victoria struggles with its disproportionate expenses brought on by core-city syndrome, the region’s fire departments use mutual-aid agreements to balance and co-ordinate coverage across the region.

“If there’s an issue, we call each other up and have that discussion,” said Lt.Insp. Brad Sifert of the Victoria Fire Department.

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Victoria police Chief Const. Jamie Graham supports the idea of an amalgamated police service for Greater Victoria.

Sifert and other fire prevention officers hold monthly meetings to discuss recent fires and public safety issues, an example of playing well together, he said.

In 2011, Colwood and View Royal inked a progressive automatic aid agreement, where resources are shared without having to go through formal request channels. The model could prove viable for other adjacent municipalities in the future, Sifert said.

Victoria-Beacon Hill MLA Carole James said the community-led discussions around regionalized services and amalgamation is long overdue.

Last week, she threw her support behind Amalgamation Yes, a grassroots group dedicated to a non-binding vote on amalgamation to gauge public support on the issue.

“It’s long overdue to give the public a

voice in all of this,” James said. “There have been discussions about the cost savings … but nothing based on best practices or facts.”

Liberal MLA Ida Chong and Green Party leader Jane Sterk have also said they support a discussion on amalgamation, as long as the majority of the population is in favour of it.

Desjardins, who counts herself among the naysayers for the time being, said municipalities will likely fiercely oppose taking on debt from other communities, but anything that saves money is going to be an easier sell.

“If there’s ever been an opportune time to have this discussion, it’s likely to be in the next little while,” she said.

Consistent transit funding critical: commission chair While emergency service providers dance around regionalized services, the jury is still out on the best way to make the Victoria Regional Transit Commission more accountable to taxpayers and the outlying municipalities.

Right now, the commission is made up of seven municipal politicians who are appointed by the B.C. transportation minister. Both Saanich and Victoria have two elected officials each on the commission, while the remaining three positions are filled by mayors and councillors from other Capital Region communities on a rotating basis.

Last August, an independent review panel recommended changes to the

urban-weighted commission, including opening the door to Capital Regional District control of transit or expanding to nine appointed members.

“As we move forward to big investments like rapid transit and so on, we need very broad community support before we engage in that kind of expenditure,” said Susan Brice, commission chair.

Regardless of the governance model, she said, the commission must be able to rely on steady funding beyond property tax revenue to create a functional regional transit system. “Just having another representative on the commission will not increase the dollars. You can put any level of service out there but you have to find ways to fund it.”

Brice will hold talks with transportation ministry staff next week to discuss options for the commission. Meanwhile, B.C. Transit is expected to make public its short-term recommendations to improve rapid transit by the end of April. dpalmer@vicnews.com

Steps to amalgamation 1. Preliminary: At least two municipalities approach provincial government with intention to study amalgamation.

2. Committee: Local governments form a committee to oversee preparation of a restructure study and manage public consultation.

3. Study: Province hires consultant for formal restructure study. Report would offer objective information on financial impacts, implications for local services and political representation, etc.

4. Decision: Local government committee chooses whether or not to hold a referendum on amalgamation.

A simple majority vote to approve amalgamation, in each affected municipality, would be needed to move discussion forward.

5. Implementation: Province pays for transition board to restructure local government and adopt best practices.

Local governments would remain intact during this period, which could take several years.

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Sangster elementary gears up for big one Aging Sangster elementary school will get a $2.1 million seismic upgrade.

Four classrooms, several walls and a portion of the roof will be reworked as part of the project.

During constructions students will relocate to other areas of the school. The work is to begin this summer and be complete by October.

“As a father and a teacher, I can say there is nothing more important than having a safe

place for students to learn,” said Don McRae, Minister of Education. “This upgrade to Sangster elementary is part of the most comprehensive school seismic upgrading program ever undertaken in British Columbia and will keep students safe for generations to come.”

The school has capacity for up to 215 students spanning kindergarten to Grade 6. The school was built in phases from 1957 to 1973. reporter@goldstreamgazette.com

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The Schmirler foundation chipped in $60,000 to the incubator funding drive, outpacing their previous two donations to the Victoria group of $24,000 in 2006 and $30,000 in 2009.

“We exclusively fund neonatal intensive care units,” said Chris Atchison, vice-chair of the Schmirler foundation. That point is reflected in the foundation’s slogan, “Champions start small.”

Grants go towards servicing the needs of critically ill or premature babies, he said.

Other large donations included $12,500 each from Telus and the Children’s Health Foundation, $10,000 from the Sidney Shriner’s Club #42, $5,000 from Peninsula Co-op and $1,000 each from the Royal Bank of Canada and Golf for Kids.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority determined the money would be raised for the VGH after the hospital identified the need for new incubators as a priority. “(The incubators) are expensive, highly technical units and are obviously important to these little guys’ lives,” says Rod Dewar, past-chair of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation.

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asked. “They might because they know who Andrew Weaver is, or they like what (Elizabeth) May does federally, but otherwise they’ll get a (NDP) candidate in government to make sure the Enbridge deal doesn’t go through. “(Van der Veen’s) party is against Enbridge, is going to spread the carbon tax and is a party that is going out of its way to reassure businesses.

You could see votes going to the NDP.” Oak Bay-Gordon Head candidates – including B.C. Conservative Party newcomer Greg Kazakoff – officially launched their 21-day campaigns yesterday. editor@saanichnews.com

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The leafy neighbourhoods of Oak Bay-Gordon Head are poised to be a key provincial election battleground for Greater Victoria, featuring a potential three-way race between NDP-Liberal rivals from 2009 and a high-profile B.C. Green Party newcomer.

In a region dominated by the B.C. NDP, last election veteran B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong held her seat by 561 votes, slightly more than two per cent, against NDP hopeful Jessica Van der Veen.

The four-term MLA faces Van der Veen again, and Green candidate Andrew Weaver, a headline-making climate scientist from the University of Victoria.

Neighbourhood voting polls from 2005 and 2009 indicate the Liberals and Chong retained support in areas like Ten Mile Point, Uplands, Cadboro Bay and McNeill Bay. NDP support remained strong in Gordon Head and Mount Tolmie, and made inroads into neighbourhoods of Oak Bay. The Greens remained minor players.

Whether Weaver and the Greens become a factor in this riding is the question. UVic political science professor Jamie Lawson said the dynamic is a puzzle in an electoral area

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Weaver could play the spoiler for the NDP and split the vote to reelect Chong for a fifth term – the race could be a “war between the non-Liberal parties and the centre-left,” Lawson said.

On the other hand, Chong could fall victim to the flagging fortunes of a party beset with scandals and which has seen many of its senior cabinet ministers abandon ship.

“Ida Chong may face a meltdown by the Liberals. If that’s true, those (Liberal) voters may sit on their hands, or will chose between NDP and Greens,” Lawson said. “Voting Green isn’t as scary for a pro-market voter who might usually vote Liberal, but who believes climate change exists.”

It seems less likely for B.C. NDP supporters to migrate to Green, as the NDP vowed shut down the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, what Lawson calls the “litmus test” for provincial environmental platforms.

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While a lot of water has flowed under the bridge in four years of governing since the 2009 provincial election, a look back at the results from that vote show that two other Greater Victoria ridings had even closer races.

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Metchosin mulls grants Metchosin has $5,500 to spend on grants in aid among the 15 groups seeking funding. Council faces requests from Board of Cemetery Trustees of Greater Victoria – Little Spirits Garden for $7,500 to the $200 sought by Intermunicipal Advisory Committee on Disability Issues. Belmont secondary prom committee, Juan de Fuca 55-plus centre and Vancouver Island South Film and Media Commission seek unspecified funds. Other groups include: Cowichan Energy Alternatives ($1,200), Crisis Intervention and Public Information Society of

Greater Victoria ($900), Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse for Canada Day celebrations ($3,000) Greater Victoria Bike to Work Week ($500), Hans Helgesen Parent Advisory Council ($1,500), Metchosin Equestrian Society ($1,000), Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts ($500), Metchosin Preschool Society ($2,000) The Laren Society: Journey from Inside Out ($2,000) and West Shore Arts Council ($1,250).

Metchosin plans to make decision on grants in May. editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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It’s been one year since the Mobile X support workers began offering services to the West Shore. While they don’t keep a strict tally, the numbers remain the same as the year before for the support workers work out of a minivan with a cellphone and travel across Greater Victoria.

They drive to any location to meet clients and provide them with free syringes, crack pipes and condoms.

“It’s extremely hard to connect with people on the West Shore,” said Brittney Johnstone, support worker with Victoria AIDS Resource and Community Service Society.

When working downtown Victoria the support worker explains drug use is visible and it’s easier to locate possible clients, on the West Shore most of it occurs behind doors.

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harging stations are popping up across the region including several on the West Shore.

Still, Marti Martin-Wood chooses to charge her car at home.

MartinWood lives in Metchosin where one public electric station exists and another is scheduled to be installed in the village core by the end of May. Charla Huber “I have Reporting used the one at the community house once,” said Martin-Wood. It’s easier to do at home, she added, even though a full charge can take 18 hours.

“The problem with the charging stations is they take about four hours, so you need an appointment or something to do in that time,” Martin-Wood explained.

Though she hasn’t used the charging stations much, MartinWood still thinks they are a good idea.

“We will go and park at the charging station and then take the dog for a walk or go for a hike,” Martin-Wood said.

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A gasoline-powered vehicle parks in designated electric vehicle only spots at the West Shore Parks and Recreation parking lot. The charging stations were installed in February and activated April 5. ation parking spaces designated for electric vehicles only. The lot was redesigned to add five parking spaces plus the two converted for electric charging. However, when the parking lot is full of cars, gas-fuelled vehicles are parking in the electric car only spots. The stations and signage were installed in February, but due to an installation error they were not activated until April 5.

“They have been used by nonelectric vehicles but we are hop-

ing now that they are working we hope people respect that,” said Colwood Mayor Carol Hamilton.

Colwood also installed two stations at the Park and Ride at West Shore Parks and Recreation and at city hall.

A charging station at City Centre Park has been operating since the end the March. The station works on a card system and so far it hasn’t been used said Langford parks manager Mike Leskiw.

The charging station parking is

reserved for electric vehicles only and Leskiw said patrons respect that and no gasoline-powered cars have parked there.

The Metchosin Community House also added additional parking spaces when it added the charging station in March.

Metchosin plans to add signage to both charging stations explaining the purpose, but initially will not police who parks.

“If we notice difficulty and complaints then we will install

more signage,” said Lisa Urlacher, Metchosin corporate officer.

Metchosin selected charging stations with long enough cables to stretch and reach an electric vehicle not directly beside the station.

The Royal Bay Bakery also has a long cord that can reach the vehicles so a gasoline-powered vehicle wouldn’t have to move to accommodate an electric vehicle.

Bakery owner David Grove charges his own electric vehicle at the bakery five or six times a week. He has repeat customers who bring their vehicles to charge, often from out of town from places including Pender Island and Mill Bay. “I know a courier who stops by for lunch and a quick charge,” said Grove. “You get about 25 kilometres of range for a one hour charge.”

Grove has never experienced a parking lot too full to accommodate an electric vehicle.

“I have not had that happen yet, but it will come up,” Grove said. “I think having a designated spot is a good idea, but I don’t think people should get fined for parking in it. They could just get issued an information ticket.

While the West Shore gets used to seeing electric vehicle only parking spots, Grove thinks it’s something that should be eased in,”much like handicap parking spaces were.” charla@goldstreamgazette.com

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OUR VIEW

Time for a vote on amalgamation Amalgamation shouldn’t be a scary word.

No one is taking an eraser to the Capital Region map and removing the borders that separate your municipality from those of your neighbours.

Often the discussion around amalgamation tends to drift towards the hypothetical best-case scenario (or worst-case scenario, depending on who you ask) of creating one municipality that spans from Sooke to North Saanich.

Talk of such a drastic change usually derails any objective discussion.

That’s why the concept needs to be reframed. We need to get away from arguing about hypothetical borders and specific solutions and focus on studying amalgamation as a positive step for our region.

Amalgamation Yes is taking the right approach by focusing on getting a referendum question onto the 2014 municipal election ballot. Put the question to the residents of the 13 municipalities and see if there’s an appetite to explore the option of amalgamation.

Municipalities have nothing to lose by asking the question.

The overarching goal of amalgamation is to save money by finding efficiencies in service delivery and by removing redundancies.

What ithe end result would look like in Greater Victoria is still unknown.

Proponents and opponents can point to Halifax or Abbotsford or Toronto and pick and choose their facts to back up their positions.

But until we have a case study that properly examines the ins and outs of amalgamation as it relates to Victoria, no interest group, organization or politician can offer a definitive solution.

Until something concrete happens, the conversation isn’t going to move forward in a meaningful way.

Instead, people will continue to speculate about the potential successes and hazards of amalgamation, without a sound understanding of its local impact.

Change can be scary. But looking at amalgamation as a potential option to save us time and money shouldn’t be feared.

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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Don’t count B.C. Conservatives out carbon tax falls disproportionately As the B.C. NDP launched its on rural, remote and particularly election campaign last week with a package of income tax hikes, higher northern folks who face long distances, long winters, than those in the B.C. and public transit options Liberals’ election budget ranging from slim to none. of February, a third party This has ceased to be leader confirmed his own much of an issue for the plan to increase personal urban B.C. majority, who and business income tax are focused on bridge rates. tolls, ferry fares and the It’s not readily apparent like. from his recently released The B.C. Conservatives “fiscal framework” decry the population document, but B.C. decline of rural B.C., with Conservative leader John Tom Fletcher international immigration Cummins told me his B.C. Views almost exclusively plan to phase out B.C.’s going to big cities, carbon tax does indeed while temporary foreign include raising income tax rates that were lowered to make the workers increasingly fill agricultural and industrial jobs in the Interior. carbon tax “revenue neutral.”

The party’s still-evolving platform I reached Cummins in Prince echoes the NDP’s call for more skills George, where he was continuing his aggressive courtship of northern training and increased completion rates for trade apprentices.

B.C. with an announcement that Cummins is in favour of the federal gas tax revenues would be proposed Northern Gateway oil redirected to a new fund for locally pipeline and the massive buildup determined road improvements. of infrastructure needed to add Earlier he vowed to study the liquefied natural gas to B.C.’s energy deplorable state of northern export mix. He sees that enormous ambulance service. industrial expansion as the path to Cummins has more good news shift population growth beyond the for the north: that’s where a regionally phased elimination of the south of the province.

Cummins is surprisingly cool carbon tax would begin. to one industrial project, the It’s also the area of thinnest proposed Site C dam on the Peace population, meaning the impact River, calling himself undecided. on the B.C. treasury would be less.

He also sounds skeptical about the This is, after all, a tax budgeted to B.C. Liberal plan to extend B.C.’s bring in $1.2 billion in the current electricity grid and use that to year. develop further independent power.

The B.C. Conservatives This sounds to me like political continually remind people that the

positioning rather than economic analysis. An anti-Site C independent candidate has significant support in Peace River North, creating a three-way struggle for a key B.C. Conservative target.

The B.C. Conservative platform also totals up the billions in longterm electricity contracts with private power producers and suggests the price for this clean energy has been set too high. This is another echo of the NDP’s vague position.

So if the B.C. Conservatives are gung-ho on oil and gas and think the carbon tax is a mistake, do they think there should be any effort to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions?

Cummins sidestepped that question, preferring to talk about conventional air pollution, whether it’s in the Fraser Valley or as a byproduct of a northern industrial boom.

As a long-time former Reform and Conservative MP, Cummins is acutely aware that the urban media will leap with extra vigour on any perceived gaffe of the right wing. Should a Conservative let slip that he’s skeptical about global warming, or worse, express a rustic view on social issues, all hell would break loose.

The B.C. Conservatives have started with the most detailed, costed platform of any party. Don’t count them out.

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

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Belmont acting students fiddle with hit musical A fiddler on the roof – sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little community of West Shore, Belmont secondary school is producing Joseph Stein’s hit musical, Fiddler on the Roof.

Fiddler is based on stories by Sholem Aleichem which tells the struggles of a poor Jewish milkman, Tevye, and his family, living in a ghetto in Tsarist Russia. Tevye is faced with trying to keep their old traditions alive while his daughters, who rebel these customs, claim that the world is changing. News is spreading about other Jewish villages getting orders of eviction, and this edict

Nik Neral Youth perspective soon reaches Anatevka, their beloved village.

“It has been fun these past few months, but as we get closer to the show, the tension is going to start to build,” states a proud Brett

LaPorte, who plays the role of Tevye. “I have a lot of faith in everyone who is in this production. We are all a bunch of great, energetic people and you can expect to see an outstanding performance from this group.”

I enjoy working with LaPorte, along with the rest of the cast, which is full of unique and talented people. I have really grown attached to this musical and the people involved with it. Since we all share the same passion, we get along very well. As we spend more and more time together rehearsing, we grow closer as actors and as friends, much like the

villagers in Fiddler.

“There are opportunities for a large ensemble cast, which allow for a variety of large ensemble songs and dances as well as opportunities for solos and duets,” said our teacher and director, Melissa Young, when I asked her why she chose to produce Fiddler on the Roof. “Above all, at the heart of the show, is a really great story. It rings true for me because my grandma grew up in a similar village to Anatevka and dealt with the same types of problems.” Young’s hard work and dedication always pays off. She’s an inspiration to me and the

rest of the cast.

Another great contributor to the production is Mandart Chan; assistant director and conductor.

Chan is head of the music department at Belmont secondary.

“Working on a musical, especially one like Fiddler on the Roof, is a different, and great experience,” he said. “It’s a good change of pace from what I’m used to doing with my music programs.”

Fiddler on the Roof is a piece with something for everyone. It has a genuine story that makes us appreciate all the things we have nowadays. We are so lucky

to be able to live in a time and place where we don’t have to worry about facing the kind of problems that they faced in Anatevka.

This musical is a great way to honour the people who lived through those times.

The show will be at the Isabelle Reader Theatre at Spencer middle school, 1026 Goldstream Ave., from May 15 to 17 at 7 p.m. and May 18 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are available at the front office of Belmont secondary, 3067 Jacklin Rd. for $10 for students and $12 for adults.

– Nik Neral is a Belmont secondary school student

LETTERS Conservancy clarifies carbon talk Re: Greenhouse gas leaks from Pacific Carbon Trust (B.C. Views, April 3) Tom Fletcher’s column perpetuates factual errors that fail to inform any debate regarding a carbon neutral government.

When The Nature Conservancy of Canada purchased Darkwoods in 2008, our expensive, long-term commitment to the conservation lands began.

From the outset, revenue from carbon sales was seen as critical to supporting this stewardship effort. Without the possibility of carbon sales, NCC could not have undertaken a project of this size and scope. Yet, those facts are conveniently overlooked by Mr. Fletcher.

Independent evaluations were not based on the possibility of NCC clear-

cutting the property, but rather on what would have happened had NCC not acquired Darkwoods. The alternative was acquisition by a market-based buyer and being intensively logged and subdivided. The difference forms the basis for carbon valuation.

Mr. Fletcher asks, rhetorically, if NCC would have logged Darkwoods. “Legally, it could not,” he writes.

On the contrary, NCC does log the site. We operate a small, sustainable harvest based on conservation values.

In fact, overall our ownership of Darkwoods has resulted in a $13-million economic benefit to the community, to date.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada spent three years developing the

project and exercised due diligence at every step, while working with various industry experts. The project is certified under the Verified Carbon Standard; a standard that ensures a carbon project follows internationallyrecognized protocols and has tangible environmental benefits.

Without revenue from forest carbon, the long-term protection of this 55,000-hectare property would be in jeopardy. The proceeds from the carbon sales went back into the long-term stewardship of Darkwoods – for the sake of nature and the people of British Columbia.

Tom Swann associate regional vice-president, B.C. Nature Conservancy of Canada

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Children extend more thanks Re: Children troop to fire hall to say thank you (News, March 29) Thank you for helping and supporting our school by writing and videoing what happened. We had a bottle drive and raised about $4,984.

Now we have money for Katrina and her family.

Maya Wightman, Grade 5 View Royal elementary

Cartoonist right on target with premier’s ponderings Re: Christy ponders what action to take (Editorial cartoon, March 22) says it all regarding Premier Photo-Op’s response to the Dyble report on the Liberal government’s Multicultural Strategic Outreach Plan.

Premier Clark is shown thinking to herself that she should “…

Deny direct involvement … Deny

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knowing what’s going on under my nose … blame Dix … “It’s as if cartoonist Ingrid Rice had access to the B.C. Liberal speaking notes.

Commencing in December 2011, officials from three groups – the Premier’s Office, the Liberal caucus and the B.C. Liberal Party – met to forge the outreach plan.

Clark is responsible and

accountable for the operations of her Premier’s Office, she chairs the Liberal caucus and is Liberal party leader. Yet she professes to know nothing of activities of her officials and has signed the re-nomination papers for John Yap, her minister who resigned after Dyble exposed that Yap was directly involved in the sleazy

affair.

Any British Columbians who believe that she, like Hogan’s Heroes character Sgt. Schultz, “knows nothing,” probably also believe that there are fairies dancing at the bottom of their gardens.

May 14 cannot come soon enough.

We have a Liberal Party in denial of successive scandals.

A Green Party that refuses to cost the promises in their platform – and a B.C. Conservative Party in perpetual internal disputes.

It’s time for a positive change.

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Audience the winner this week PACE is performing its spring show, And the Winner Is! The fast-paced musical variety show spans genres from movies to Broadway musicals and American Idol to American Bandstand.

Hundreds of students from kindergarten through Grade 12 will perform at the Isabelle Reader Theatre, 1026 Goldstream Ave. Show dates are April 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 27 at 7 p.m. with 2 p.m. matinees offered April 20, 21 and 27.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

They can be purchased at the Westshore Learning Centre, 814 Goldstream Ave. or by calling 250-391-9002.

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Sandy Webster-Worthy, PACE director, often coaches her son Calum Worthy for upcoming acting auditions over Skype. Worthy lives in Los Angeles and stars in the show Austen & Ally.

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Be sure to ask your optometrist or optician about the lens options that are available, including the following: Anti-reflective coating: This feature helps eliminate annoying reflections and the “ghost” images some people see. AR coated lenses actually transmit more light for clearer vision. These lenses can help people who drive at night by reducing glare from oncoming headlights.

Photosensitive lenses: These special lens materials “darken” when you are exposed to different intensities of outdoor light. The brighter it is outside, the darker the lens becomes. This lens works best when you are outdoors and therefore is not the best sunglass for driving.

UV coating: A protective coating that blocks harmful ultraviolet rays. The latest UV coatings can help protect the eyes without changing the look or color of the lenses.

Color tinting: Any color tint can be added to your lenses in gradients ranging from 10-90%. This can be used for style, to give your glasses a unique look, or for certain health reasons (eg. cataracts). Color tints can be combined with UV coating for added protection in the sun.

Scratch protection: A clear coating that helps protect plastic lenses from scratches and other superficial damage. This option is pretty much mandatory for just about anyone wearing plastic or high index lenses.

There are different scratch resistant coatings available depending on the level of protection a person needs.

All of these options, combined with advances in lens design (for example aspheric, progressive and high index lenses), mean that today’s spectacle wearer is guaranteed greater comfort. While at your Optometrist’s office ask what your best lens options are for your prescription.

Before he was plastered all over the Disney Channel, Calum Worthy spent years on stage at Isabelle Reader Theatre.

The 22-year-old is best known for his leading role as Dez on hit Disney show Austin & Ally.

The Claremont grad is in Victoria for a few days to rehearse and perform with students in the Sooke School District’s Program for Academic and Creative Enrichment (PACE) program.

Fans of the show are recognizing him on the street.

“It’s really cool I always have some connection with the fans like we went to the same school or something,” Worthy said.

“When girls recognize me it’s fun. I felt so awkward in middle school and high school. I am still dorky and awkward, but now it’s less awkward and dorky.”

Honouring his roots and the community he grew his talent in, Worthy has a role in PACE show And the Winner Is! that starts tonight in his old stomping grounds. The show runs for 10 days and Worthy will be in the first four shows, April 18 to 21.

Worthy says his comfort on the stage stems from the tender age of three months old.

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“I was born in January and was in the (PACE) show in April,” Worthy said. He continued throughout his school years. “PACE gave me an opportunity to get comfortable on stage. I really feel PACE was the best opportunity I had to hone my talent.”

He said participating in the variety shows enabled him to practise singing, dancing, comedy and hosting.

When he is shooting Austin & Ally in front of a live audience each week, it brings him back to his stage days with PACE. “On Austin & Ally there aren’t multiple shoots, if you don’t get it the first time then that is a problem,” he said.

Worthy also spend five years studying at a children’s professional acting school on weekends in Vancouver.

At age nine, Worthy landed his first lead role in a BBC miniseries I was a Rat. “The best advice I was ever given was you shouldn’t try to book the role, you should make it the hardest decision for them not to book you,” Worthy said.

Even with a passion for acting, Worthy still hones his craft and trains with coaches to improve his skills.

“My mom even coaches me over Skype.” charla@goldstreamgazette.com

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Doug poRuCHnY

403 - 2900 ORiLLia MLS # 321564 $219,000

24 - 15 HeLMcken Rd MLS # 309218 $484,900

Compare the value of this top floor home with the vaulted ceilings. Extremely bright with large windows plus a skylight in the kitchen. Recent upgrades include quality cork flooring, custom vanity and designer toilet in the bath, new countertops in kitchen, freshly painted, new light fixtures.

Efficient kitchen has pass through to Dining area (could easily be made into a breakfast bar). Master bedroom is large and features a walk in closet. Laundry in the suite, plus a storage room. Prime Location only half a block from shopping, 1 block to the rowing club, across from the Gorge Waterway, on several bus routes. Your small pet is welcome.

LoRI kERstEn Managing Broker

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Elegant executive end unit townhome set in the heart of a beautifully landscaped complex of other quality homes! Tastefully decorated throughout, the 9’ ceilings & open plan design create a very pleasant ambiance. The kitchen has custom maple cabinetry & an island bar. There are engineered hardwood floors, a living room with gas fireplace & a family room which opens to a private patio & garden with small forest beyond.

Upstairs is a spacious master with soaker tub in the ensuite & large walk-in closet plus 2 other good sized bedrooms. With a double garage, tons of storage & a location close to amenities such as parks, schools & the Galloping Goose Trail. Pet friendly, ideal for professionals, retirees or families alike.

CHERYL LAIDLAW

nEAL CARMICHAEL

250-474-4800 • www.rlpvictoria.com

AMAnDA oRR

I have been very fortunate to live, work and visit nearly every “corner” of Canada. Having called Calgary, Yellowknife, Ottawa, Rankin Inlet, Edmonton, Inuvik, Montreal and now Victoria home. This has given me a great perspective on people’s needs and their housing. I enjoy being an active and engaged member of the Victoria Real Estate Board as a professional REALTOR® and have been on the MLS® Committee for the past two years. I have enjoyed working all over the city as an agent in the last many years but have always had more connection to Langford and Colwood, where I have lived for the past 7. I am always available for your real estate questions and never too busy for your referrals. For professional advice with attention to detail please call and ask for Neal Carmichael.

Royal lepage Coast Capital Realty 132B-2945 Jacklin Road (Westshore Town Centre)

RogER LEvEsquE

A12 • www.vicnews.com

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - GOLDSTREAM

NEWS GAZETTE

Your Community Food Store SOOKE

LANGFORD

6660 Sooke Road Open 7 Days a Week 7:30 am to 10:00 pm

“Locally Owned & Operated Since 1974”

We reserve the right to limit quantities

5-A-Day for Optimum Health

BUTCHER’S BUTCHER’S BLOCK BLOCK Anitbiotic Free Whole

6.59 kg .....................................................

Antibiotic Free

3

Cross Rib Roast $

/lb

4

49

9.90 kg ..............

Freybe Assorted Varieties

Pepperoni Sticks $

/ea

SEA

/ea

2

European Wieners

2

$ 49

/100 g

5

99

+ dep

300 g

6 4/ 00 5 $ 79 1

Coconut Oil 454 g ...................

Thai Kitchen

Noodle Bowls 68 g...................

Hot Kid Superslim

Zevia

$

49

59 $ 29 4 2/ 00 4

Seventh Generation

+ dep

Paper Towels 2’s .....................

Wisecrackers

Rice Crackers 100 g ............

Artisan Crackers 114 g....

Quality and Convenience

FROZEN FROZEN FOODS FOODS McCain Crescendo

Rising Crust Pizza 770 - 900 g

1 $ 99 7 $ 29 2 $ 99 4 $

Meat Pies 200 g ........... ....................

Snowcrest

Berry Blend or Strawberries 1.5 kg Libby

5

$ 69

Vegetables 3 Varieties, 1 kg ......

Breyers Classsic

Ice Cream 1.66 L ........................

Remember Your Calcium

DAIRY

2% Yogurt 650 g ..... ...................

09

Island Farms

5 Island Farms 2/ 00 Light Cream 500 ml ..................... 3 Armstrong $ 99 Cheddar Cheese 600 g ................. 7 Kraft Singles $ 99 Cheese Slices 500 g ....................... 4 Island Farms

2/ 00

Sour Cream

Per 100g

Per 100g

1

227 g

00

3

4

00

Christies

Cookies

300 g

299

$

750 - 890 ml

399

$

100 g

2/

Grape Juice 1.36 L

500

2/

+ dep.

Kraft

Peanut Butter 1 kg

599

$

Quaker

Life Cereal 3 Varieties, 450 g

299

Gallo

1.47 L

80’s

Olive Oil

500 ml

399

$

Heinz

Baked Beans

in Sauce, 796 ml

179

$

Lipton

Onion Soup Mix 4’s

400

2/

BAKERY 89¢ 169 $ 49 1

.

Sierra Mountain 100 g

Welchs White or Concord

570 g

2’s

100 g

400

$

4’s

Panada Licorice

375 ml

400 g

690 g

...................

.Trail Mix

113 - 192 g

85 g

+ dep

McLarens Sweet Onions, Gherkins or

Manzanilla Olives

615 g

Chocolate Covered $ Macadamia Nuts ..

Senior’s Day Thursdays • Save 10% on Most Items

Mayonnaise

250 g

600 g

100 g

ea

$ 89

+ dep

Bulk Foods

1

500

2/

$ 99 Hellmans

650 ml

900

59

Pint

700

2/

297 - 334 g

12 x 355 ml

$

4 lb bag

All Varieties, 500 g

Salad Dressing

Wine Gums

Cherry Tomatoes

310 - 430 g

Kraft Pourable

2/

/lb

Organic Oranges

907 g

Pepsi Cola

BBQ Chickens Sundried Tomato & Roasted Guacamole $ 99 Garlic Penne $ 19 Mild or Authentic 59 Ea

6

+ dep

5

4/

89¢

1.96kg

Organic

3 Varieties, 213 ml

All Varieties

Roast Beef Per 100g

00

499

1

1

10

3/

$

$ 99

99

12 x 355 ml

2/

00

365 - 395 g

326 g

DELI $

Coca Cola

Roasted Coffee

Healthy Choices in our

in Brine

All Varieties

250 ml

Sprouts

4

2/

300 g

Maxwell House

500 ml

Goat Feta

¢

Pineapple in juice

Swanson

3 lb bag............................

B.C.

375 g

99

398 ml

Texas

796 ml

BBQ Sauce

Dole

7

13 oz............................

Pink Grapefruit

150

2/

00 Bean

1 Unico Red Kidney Beans or Chick Peas 1 $ 99 Quaker Corn Bran Cereal ................ 2 ¢ Milano Animal Cookies ................... 99 2/ 00 Shake N Bake Coating Mix ............

4 $ 69 Bakers Chocolate Chips ................... 2 $ 99 General Mills Gluten Free Chex or Rice Chex Cereal 3 ¢ Unico Pizza Sauce ...................... 69 $ 29 Nishki Sushi Rice .................................... 3 $ 99 Quaker Ready To Serve Oatmeal . 2 ¢ Pastaville Pasta .............................. 69 2/ 00 El Paso Tortilla Shells ...................

4 $ 99 El Paso Salsa or Picante Sauce ....... 2 $ 79 Christie Ritz or Cheese Ritz Crackers . 3 ¢ Island Bakery Premium 100% Whole Wheat Bread .. 99 $ 69 Dempsters Multigrain or Century Grain Bread . 2 $ 99 Silver Hills 16 Grain Bread .................. 2 ¢ Fancy Feast Cat Food ................................. 69 2/ 00 Lean or Prime Cuts Dog Food ................

3 $ 99 Purex Double Roll Bathroom Tissue 2 $ 29 Spongetowels Ultra Choose A Size Towels .. 2 $ 69 Tide 2X Liquid Laundry Detergent .... 7 $ 99 Bounce Fabric Softener Sheets ........... 3

Heinz

Stevia Sodas 355 ml .................

Taylor Farms

Realemon Juice 945 ml ..................................

¢

375 ml

800

2/

in all departments

69

¢

Family Pack Burgers

300 g............................

Asian Pears

“Secret Super Saver Specials”

Mushroom Soup

99

Yves Garden / Prima

China

Come in Every Wednesday for our

Campbells Cream of

6

$

/lb

500

use

284 ml

700

2/

California Navel

2/

3’s

/ea

Cloth Bags

Fair Trade Coffee

¢

Avocado

899

/100 g

Level Ground Organic

Everland Organic

/ea

Green 159 Go Western Foods

$

$ 99

/100 g

Santa Cruz Organic

2.8 L

Organic

Salmon Candy Shrimp Nuggets

NATURAL FOODS $

89

1.96 kg

2 lb bag..........................

Asian/Baja Chopped Salad 2/

Spartan Apples

$

For Your Healthy Lifestyle

Apple Juice

99¢

B.C.

/ea

4

Coloured Peppers

/ea

$ 99

375 g ....................

lb/lb

B.C. Mixed

Long English Cucumbers

Machine Peeled

Ocean Master

1

B.C. Large

/lb

250 g ...................

Freybe

¢

1.08 kg............................................................

Double Smoked Bacon $ 99

...............................

1.5 kg

/lb

449

9.90 kg ...............

Freybe

499 Lasagna

Fresh

Sole Fillets

99

49

99 Celery

Beef Cross Rib Steak $

Bassili’s Best Meat or Cheese

Garlic Sausage $ .................................

/lb

6

500 g....................

Frebye

California

Antibiotic Free Boneless

Lean Ground Beef $ 99 8.80 kg ..............

Antibiotic Free Beef

PRODUCE

2

Chicken $

Treats From the

We reserve the right to limit quantities

AD PRICES IN EFFECT APRIL 17 THRU APRIL 23, 2013

Fresh, Great Tasting Meat

300 g

772 Goldstream Ave. Open 7 Days a Week 7:30 am to 10:00 pm

.........

99

¢

Strawberry Bar Cake Butter Flake Buns $ 79 6’s

1

Multigrain Rye Bread $ 49

454 g 6’s

2

ea

899

$

ea

Chocolate Chip Muffins $ 99 6’s

www.westernfoods.com

3

Carrot Cake Bars 59 $ 6’s

3

ea

www.vicnews.com • A13

GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE - Wednesday, April 17, 2013

A Guide to User-Friendly Trails Go beyond the parking lot and pick up your copy of “A Guide to User-Friendly Trails” featuring easy-to-use walking, hiking and wheeling trails in Greater Victoria, BC. Features: • Trails suitable to individuals of diverse ages, levels of mobility and endurance.

• Trail profiles and maps to enable users to determine which parks and amenities to visit.

Louis Bockner/News staff

Grade 4 students from Colwood’s David Cameron elementary stand in front of the school’s sign to promote the scrap metal fundraising drive. The drive runs through the month of April with on-site collection bins set up at the school on April 20 and 27.

Pick up your copy at Capital Regional District Offices, West Shore Parks & Recreation and municipal halls in the Westshore area.

Download it at www.westshorerecreation.ca/userfriendlytrails

Kids trade metal for money Louis Bockner News staff

Students at Colwood’s David Cameron elementary want West Shore residents to donate scrap metal in order to raise money for extra curricular activities.

“The money we raise through this scrap metal drive goes directly to students so that they can enjoy music, go on field trips, play sports and have up-

to-date computers,” said Fern Smythe, president of the Parents Advisory Council.

The drive runs through the month of April and residents can drop off metal to an on-site collection bin at the school on April 20 and April 27. Smythe says the school can also arrange for pick up.

Residents can also bring metal directly to Schnizter Steel, 307 David St., and donate it to

the schools account (#Davi80).

Schnitzer Steel is giving the school premium pricing for all scrap metal through the month.

Acceptable items include cars, lawn mowers, bed frames and more. Smythe says the fundraiser teaches kids the power of recycling and helps to clean up West Shore as a whole.

For more information call Fern Smythe at 250-588-0084. editor@goldsteamgazette.com

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NEWS GAZETTE

GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE - Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The JENNER

2013 CHEVROLETTRAX

TR8794 REG: $22,845

Sale Price:$21,999

2013 BUICKENCORE

2013 CHEVROLETSPARK

EC2660 REG: $28,545

SP2835 REG: $13,345

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Sale Price:$27,799 Sale Price:$12,999 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

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1730 ISLAND HIGHWA 1-866-281-445

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Brow

1-866-281-4450

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www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com 2013 CHEVROLETEQUINOX

2013 CHEVROLETSONIC

XX2054 REG: $28,6351730 ISLAND HIGHWAY

Sale Price:$27,599

www.vicnews.com • A15

1-866-281-4450

SC3411 REG: $15,950

Sale Price:$15,499

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450 Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

2013 CHEVROLETTRAVERSE

XT8834 REG: $39,320

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

Sale Price:$36,599

2013 CHEVROLETCRUZE

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

CR5844 REG: $16,595

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Sale Price:$15,599 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

Sale

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2013 CHEVROLETAVALANCHE 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY XA9591 REG: $67,330

Sale Price:$52,999 Price:

1-866-281-4450

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

1-866-281-4450

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

2013 CHEVROLETMALIBU

MB8372 REG: $30,925

Sale Price:$28,599

2013 BUICKREGAL RE6315 REG: $39,545

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Sale Price:$36,599

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing 2013 Mon.–Thurs.

CHEVROLETSILVERADO

CREW CAB XP1344 REG: $36,990

2013 CHEVROLETSILVERADO

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

5 Days Only

2013 CHEVROLETVOLT CHEVROLET

APRIL 18-22

Sale Price:$42,999

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

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Sale Price:$25,599

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

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Every NEW Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Corvette have been reduced.

REG CAB XP4614 REG: $28,905

Sale Price:$19,999

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Brow

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www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

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1730 ISLAND HIGHWA 1-866-281-445

2012 CHEVROLETCAMARO CM5860 REG: $57,845

Sale Price:$48,999

2013 BUICKENCLAVE

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.co

1730 ISLAND HIGHWA 1-866-281-445 GE1535 REG: $61,710 www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Brow 1-866-281-4450

Sale Price:$57,599 www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

2013 CHEVROLETSILVERADO

HD XP4338 REG: $52,275

Sale Price:$42,999

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

2013 CHEVROLETTAHOE LTZ

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450 XL3342 REG: $78,040 www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

Sale Price:$68,499

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

2013 CHEVROLETCORVETTE 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY

CV8701 REG: 1-866-281-4450 $69,025

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

Sale Price:$61,599

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

SAVE UP TO

1500.00

$

in Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick OR GM Loyalty Bonuses ASK US HOW

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*Vehicles may not be exactly as shown.

2013 GMCSIERRA EXT CAB

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

GP9226 REG: $32,030

Sale Price:$20,999

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450 Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

2013 BUICKVERANO VR5528 REG: $24,545

Sale Price:$22,499 2013 GMCACADIA www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

GA1141 REG: $62,005 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY

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Sale Price:$57,999

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2013 BUICKLACROSSE LA2961 REG: $44,635

Sale Price:$39,999

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - GOLDSTREAM

NEWS GAZETTE

GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE - Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The JENNER

2013 CHEVROLETTRAX

TR8794 REG: $22,845

Sale Price:$21,999

2013 BUICKENCORE

2013 CHEVROLETSPARK

EC2660 REG: $28,545

SP2835 REG: $13,345

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Sale Price:$27,799 Sale Price:$12,999 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

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1730 ISLAND HIGHWA 1-866-281-445

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Brow

1-866-281-4450

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www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com 2013 CHEVROLETEQUINOX

2013 CHEVROLETSONIC

XX2054 REG: $28,6351730 ISLAND HIGHWAY

Sale Price:$27,599

www.vicnews.com • A15

1-866-281-4450

SC3411 REG: $15,950

Sale Price:$15,499

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450 Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

2013 CHEVROLETTRAVERSE

XT8834 REG: $39,320

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

Sale Price:$36,599

2013 CHEVROLETCRUZE

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

CR5844 REG: $16,595

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Sale Price:$15,599 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

Sale

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

2013 CHEVROLETAVALANCHE 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY XA9591 REG: $67,330

Sale Price:$52,999 Price:

1-866-281-4450

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

1-866-281-4450

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

2013 CHEVROLETMALIBU

MB8372 REG: $30,925

Sale Price:$28,599

2013 BUICKREGAL RE6315 REG: $39,545

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Sale Price:$36,599

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

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CHEVROLETSILVERADO

CREW CAB XP1344 REG: $36,990

2013 CHEVROLETSILVERADO

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

5 Days Only

2013 CHEVROLETVOLT CHEVROLET

APRIL 18-22

Sale Price:$42,999

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

Sale Price:$25,599

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Browsing

VT8651 REG: $49,590

Every NEW Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Corvette have been reduced.

REG CAB XP4614 REG: $28,905

Sale Price:$19,999

Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Brow

1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY 1-866-281-4450

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1730 ISLAND HIGHWA 1-866-281-445

2012 CHEVROLETCAMARO CM5860 REG: $57,845

Sale Price:$48,999

2013 BUICKENCLAVE

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1730 ISLAND HIGHWA 1-866-281-445 GE1535 REG: $61,710 www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com 1730 ISLAND HIGHWAY Mon.–Thurs. 9-7pm • Fri.–Sat. 9-6pm • Sunday – Closed for Brow 1-866-281-4450

Sale Price:$57,599 www.jennerchevbuickgmc.com

2013 CHEVROLETSILVERADO

HD XP4338 REG: $52,275

Sale Price:$42,999

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Brenda Sunter, View Royal Reading Centre’s vice chair, show’s off one of the mugs the association had made to celebrate the centre’s 70th anniversary which will culminate in an open house on Saturday (April 20).

View Royal reading centre celebrates 70 20-year volunteer at the centre.

In 2007 the library News staff changed its status to Coffee, cake, and con- reading centre to get versation will be served more funding but the at the View Royal Read- following year the goving Centre’s 70th anni- ernment changed policies resulting in funding versary this weekend. being cut all together.

The centre, founded Y NADA HW TRANS-CA in 1943, is in its third Since then the centre location – the previous has been kept open by being the basement of 40 volunteers, donaTO DOWNTOWN VICTORIA tions from patrons, and town hall – and holds the honour of being local and provincial Greater Victoria’s lon- grants.

The centre’s chair, gest running library.

“There ain’t nobody Doreen Jackman, says in town who’s got a that despite the ecolibrary that old, espe- nomic hardships they COLE cially one that is run by still manage to keep ISLAND volunteers,” said vice over 25,000 books on chair Brenda Sunter a the shelves and offer a personal service that is harder to find in bigger institutions. small library in d re Featu flyer SMARTlike“Atthisa we know our y's a d to ISLAND JUAN DE FUCA patrons and we know McCARTHY GOLF COURSE ISLAND their tastes,” she said.

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Preparing for the other ‘grey tsunami’

First generation of developmentally disabled adults reach senior years Edward Hill News staff

With The Beatles piped into her headphones and a paintbrush in hand, 52-year-old Cindy Walsh dabs watercolours onto her latest work in the Garth Homer Centre.

Behind her, Dolores Wilkinson, 79, peruses a book of funny animals with community services worker Alison Webb. Standard morning activities for the day centre for adults with developmental disabilities.

Only a few decades ago Wilkinson and Walsh would have been a rare breed – the life expectancy of people with Down syndrome and other cognitive impairments was considerably lower than the general population.

They are members of the first cohort in history of developmentally disabled adults reaching their senior years in large numbers, a phenomenon forcing the provincial government to rethink how it cares for a population that is aging and vulnerable.

“Now we are into the first generation of people with developmental disabilities who are getting old,” says Mitchell Temkin, CEO of the Garth Homer Society.

“We believe community inclusion and acceptance has helped life span increase. It’s a baby boomer generation … and there’s lots of them.”

The Garth Homer Centre, for one, is trying to take a leadership role in how service providers adjust to the wave of aging adults that is yet to be accounted for through government funding.

Now with 30-plus clients between age 50 and 80 in day programs, last May the centre hired

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Dolores Wilkinson, 79, and community services worker Alison Webb read through a book of ugly animals at the Garth Homer Centre in Saanich. Wilkinson is among the first generation of people with a developmental disability growing into old age.

Phemie Guttin, a registered nurse, as its first director of geriatric services.

“I suspect the number of (senior) clients will grow quickly,” Guttin says. “This is happening in a lot of sites. We never had a significant number before, it wasn’t on the radar.”

Much like the regular population of adult clients, senior clients engage in art, reading and writing, cooking, a drama program and music therapy – programs to keep them mentally and physically engaged.

Cognitively disabled people age like anyone else – they become frail, medical costs go up and some, especially people with Down syndrome, get early onset

dementia.

As their clients age, Garth Homer staff, caregivers and the facility will need training on caring for the elderly and the infrastructure to match, but it’s not clear where the money will come from.

Temkin says developmentally disabled people reaching old age has presented a quandary for government – agencies like Garth Homer are funded to deal with disabilities and not geriatrics, while the health care system doesn’t pay for people with disabilities.

A simmering problem is that perhaps a quarter of disabled people in B.C. are cared for by their parents at home; parents

who are part of the grey wave of retiring baby boomers.

“Kids are aging as parents are aging. If you’re the sole support and you reach an age where you can’t care anymore, it’s a scary place to be as a parent,” Temkin says. “It’s a big problem and there is a policy vacuum. …When the system was created, nobody thought about people getting old.”

Community Living B.C., the Crown agency that provides funds and services for people with developmental disabilities, projects it will see 300 clients each year for the next four years reach age 55 and older, adding to the thousands that exist now.

A government review of CLBC

in 2011 laid out a “12 point” plan to improve service for its clients, including creating an aging client strategy. The plan offered $144 million in new funding to meet demands of an overall growing client load.

“Everyone recognizes that (funding) won’t meet the full demand,” said David Hurford, spokesperson for CLBC. “A gap is there with respect to demand, but the government said more funding is coming with the implementation of the 12 point plan.”

The set of plans for CLBC is expected to be rolled out in upcoming months, Hurford said, which includes an aging strategy and funding protocols between the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social Development.

A key component for the CLBC aging strategy is developing a care plan with families and parents to ensure their disabled adult child has clear continuity of support.

“Families looking after children have to worry about their mom and dad aging. It is a two-fold issue,” Hurford says. “If mom and dad become frail, we provide the supports to individuals and their aging parents.

“The key is to approach families and ask what they want, and how to facilitate what they want.

We don’t come at them with a program.”

Hurford says the issue of aging clients has been on the CLBC’s radar for about five years, but it was the accidental death of a 76-year-old client in the West Shore in 2011 that prompted a deep review of its services for seniors. The B.C. Coroners Service made a number of recommendations to improve the safety of seniors within CLBC programs.

“That situation required a close look at aging people in CLBC care.

It was a turning point for us,” Hurford said. editor@saanichnews.com

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Fish & Bird has enjoyed a lot of success and attention since releasing the album – two Western Canadian Music Awards nominations (2011 and 2012), three official invites to the International Folk Alliance Conference, major Canadian folk festivals, rave reviews and international attention, and the top most frequently played album on Galaxie’s Folk/Roots channel for 2011.

The future is even more promising though, as the band is touring the UK next fall after being picked up by an agent at Folk Alliance.

Fish & Bird’s fourth album is slated for a winter release, so keep your ear to the ground on what’s to come.

The new album will be recorded on Mayne Island at Fiddle Head Studios. The yet to be titled album will be released in early 2014, and the band will be breaking out some new material on this tour.

Hear Fish & Bird along with Dougal Bain McLean and Seattle’s Impossible Bird, a duo featuring Nick Drummond, former frontman and songwriter for Seattle band The Senate and Victoria native fiddler Tyler Carson, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Upstairs Cabaret. Tickets are $14 and are available at Sitka. llavin@vicnews.com

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Ukulele fans willing to be strung along Victoria Ukulele Week culminates with mass uke jam session

Daniel Palmer News staff

With its mild climate, lush parks, the Pacific Ocean hugging its shorelines and even the occasional palm tree, Victoria is Canada’s closest comparison to a tropical paradise.

Perhaps that’s why a familiar Hawaiian instrument, the ukulele, has seen a resurgence in popularity as of late.

“There’s been a growing ukulele community in Victoria,” said Paul Laverick, a manager at Larsen Music and organizer of the fourth annual Victoria Ukulele Week.

“There’s a lot of young people playing it now. I think it’s the social aspect of playing and singing together.”

Running April 18 to 28, Ukulele Week has been so successful partly because the ukulele is so easy to learn and play, Laverick said.

Hawaiians created the ukulele in the 19th century, modelled on the Portuguese cavaquino, a small four-string guitar.

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Paul Laverick, among a wall full of ukuleles at Larsen Music on Cook Street, will be teaching a ukulele beginners class during Ukulele Week which runs April 18-28. ment,” Laverick said.

“It is sort of a goofy instrument, and the people who play are usually up for a bit of silliness.”

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shops planned in Esquimalt and Victoria throughout the week.

There are also several concerts taking place at venues like Black Hat Bistro and Hermann’s Jazz Club, while professional ukulele performer Ralph Shaw will strut his skills at Norway House, 1110 Hillside Ave.,

on April 26.

Shaw will also be running his own workshop on April 27, which concert goers can attend for free.

A decent ukulele costs about $40, but the top-of-the-line instruments can cost $1,800, Laverick said.

“It’s a nice thing to carry around with you,” he said. “I got stopped the other day on the way to work, someone saw my ukulele and asked me to play Happy Birthday for their friend. … I definitely know people who have ukuleles stashed in every nook and cranny, so there’s always one to have around.”

The week culminates in the annual Uke Mass Love-In finale concert, where last year about 250 people filled Market Square with the sweet sounds of the ukuleles in unison.

The free event takes place April 28 between 1 and 3 p.m. at 560 Johnson St., and Laverick hopes to break last year’s attendance record.

“We’re also doing a beginner workshop where you can show up at the music store with nothing and we can provide you with an instrument there to have a feel and try a few chords,” he said. “Otherwise, I would suggest keeping one on your person at all times during the week.”

For a full listing of events, visit larsenmusic.ca or call 250-389-1988. dpalmer@vicnews.com

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Dynamic duo visit vespers Colwood’s Church of the Advent brings the dynamic duo of Don Thompson and Phil Dwyer for its next concert in the popular Jazz Vespers series.

Two of Canada’s pre-eminent musicians celebrate 30 years of musical friendship with a new recording and series of performances on the south coast throughout the middle of April, including the April 21 concert in Colwood.

Thompson is a respected jazz artist known for his awardwinning recordings as well as work with jazz giants such as Jim Hall, George Shearing, John Handy, Paul Desmond, Boss Brass and Lenny Breau. He has won Juno awards and is known as a highly respected music educator and it was as such that he met Dwyer at the Banff Centre in 1982.

Qualicum Beach resident Dwyer is well known and respected as a pianist, saxophonist, arranger, composer, entrepreneur and educator.

Many of the highlights of his career have occurred working alongside Thompson in settings ranging from their telepathic duo setting to big bands and orchestra. Dwyer also received critical recognition recently for his award winning orchestral recording Changing Seasons.

He also toured in 2012 across the country with his innovative Canadian Songbook project.

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Don Thompson and Phil Dwyer will perform at Colwood’s Church of the Advent vespers series this weekend.

He is also familiar to Canadian audiences through his frequent appearances on CBC Radio.

The Thompson/Dwyer will perform at 7 p.m. at the Church

of the Advent, 510 Mount View Dr. on April 21. Admission is free; there will be a free-will offering. editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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Cougars fall in Cyclone final Travis Paterson News staff

Like it or not, the Victoria Cougars are settling for silver for the second year in a row.

The Cougars lost 4-1 to the Richmond Sockeyes in the gold medal final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup in Comox on Sunday.

Matthew Ho scored the only goal of the first period to put the Cougars up 1-0 and goalie Evan Roch held the Cougars in it with some good saves and some luck.

But the luck ran out as the Sockeyes scored three goals in the second period to chase Roch. Michael Herringer, a Victoria Royals prospect, came in to replace Roch, though the Sockeyes scored once more. Jeremy Hamaguchi, Jake Roder, Liam Lawson and Rudie Thorstenson scored for the Sockeyes.

The Castlegar Rebels took home the bronze medal with

a 5-4 comeback win over the host Comox Valley Glacier Kings. The Glacier Kings went up 3-0 early on goals from Sheldon Brett, Tyson Rennie and Nick Tupper. But the Rebels came back with five straight goals, from Jamie Vlanich, Kody Disher, Vlanich again, Erik Alden and Travis Wellman. Glacier King Rylan Ball scored the only goal of the third period but the Glacier Kings couldn't draw even.

The Sockeyes, which three weeks ago won the Pacific Junior Hockey League title, went a perfect 4-0 in the Cyclone Cup provincial Junior B hockey championship.

The Cougars finish 2-2, having defeated the Kootenay league champion Castlegar Rebels 1-0 and tournament host Comox Valley Glacier Kings 6-1.

The Sockeyes had the Cougars’ number all weekend,

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Victoria Cougars goalie Evan Roch, Richmond Sockeyes forward Jeremy Hamaguchi, No. 8, and Cougars defencemen Graham Zagrodney, No. 24, look for the puck during the gold medal final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup provincial junior B championship on Sunday. winning 5-2 in their round robin game on Friday and then 4-1 in the final.

The Sockeyes now advance to St. Malo, Man., this week for the Keystone Cup, Western Canadian junior B hockey championship. “(Victoria) is a good team

and our guys had to play real hard,” said Richmond head coach Aaron Wilbur.

The Cougars graduate several players from its core, including captain Brody Coulter and assistant captain Sam Rice. sports@vicnews.com

Rugby’s centre of attention Travis Paterson News staff

Rugby Canada’s Langford factory is now producing a full line of products.

The nation’s locally based rugby program held its first annual awards dinner at the Westin Bear Mountain on Saturday.

Of the dozen award winners, seven were players who’ve trained regularly with the under-20 and senior national teams at Rugby Canada’s Centre of Excellence at City Centre Park in Langford.

It’s all part of Rugby Canada’s newly established development model, with players coming through the provincial channels and into the under-20 and senior national programs at the COE. Tyler Ardron was named the men’s 15s Player of the Year.

He is quick to attribute his success to the amount of time he’s spent on the Island in the past few years. For Ardron, a former McMaster Marauders CIS rugby player, it’s meant relocating to Langford full time, twice.

“When I came out in 2012 I didn’t know where to live,” Ardron said. “Now there’s about 10 of us who live in Langford. And it’s starting to catch on (with the community), people recognize me now.”

Though the men’s and women’s national programs have been more-orless based in Victoria for over a decade, having players living in Langford is a new phenomenon.

Next for the COE is a dormitory to

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Maria Samson and Tyler Ardron are the 2012 national 15s rugby team players of the year.

house players for short and extended training camps, though Ardron was unsure about staying there over the long term.

“I don’t know how that will change things but it will be very helpful to players coming here for the first time.”

The 21-year-old captained Canada to second place at the 2012 Americas Rugby Championship hosted in Langford back in October. Since then he completed a full semester towards his economics and finance degree at McMaster University in Hamilton and is now back in Langford, continuing his studies online, while preparing for a massive summer schedule on Canada’s sevens

and 15s teams.

Ardron’s 15s Player of the Year counterpart is Maria Samson, a second rower from Calgary.

Eleven of the trophies are brand new.

Prop Hubert Buydens, a former Castaway Wanderers player, won the resurrected Canadian Shield, the national 15s Player’s Player of the Year award, as voted on by his teammates. The Canadian Shield was last awarded in 2006-07, shared between World Rugby Cup veterans Morgan Williams and Pat Riordan, who both played club rugby in Victoria.

Also winning awards on Saturday were Jen Kish and John Moonlight winning the respective women’s and men’s sevens Player of the Year trophies.

Bianca Farella and Lucas Hammond were named the respective Young Player of the Year (under-20) awards. Coach of the Year awards went to Chris Silverthorn (male) and Jen Ross (female).

The Match Official of the Year is Andrew McMaster and the Provincial Union Award went to the Federation de Rugby du Quebec.

Volunteer of the Year Award went to Dean Kittleson of Calgary, Alta.

“The players will get their recognition, so it’s really important to recognize everyone that makes the game happen, the volunteers, referees and administrators,” said Gareth Rees, manager of the men’s 15s team. “(The awards dinner) is something that can become an annual event.” sports@vicnews.com

The ice may be out at Bear Mountain Arena but there is already reason to look forward to the Victoria Grizzlies 2013-14 season in the B.C. Hockey League.

Namely, the return of the Fitzgerald brothers.

BCHL fans should rejoice the Grizzlies’ are retaining the services of arguably the league’s most electric line of siblings Myles, Leo and Gerry.

Few lines bring highlight reel plays and competitive drive the likes of the Port Alberni trio.

Their play carried the Grizzlies to first in the league for a good stretch of the season and, when an injury ended Gerry’s season, the Grizz’ season seemed to hit the injury reserve too – though the team bounced back to play two full playoff rounds.

The fact the Fitzgeralds are returning to Colwood in September instead of entering Div. 1 of the NCAA to the Grizzlies is due to some missing pieces in their education to date.

After their breakout year in 2012-13 it’s clear the bros were ready for Div. 1 this September. The yhave a scholarship deal with the Bemidji State Beavers, but not until 2014-15.

“They’re Div. 1 calibre players, there’s no question about that, they just have to make themselves Div. 1 post-secondary eligible,” Bestwick said.

“Their focus hasn’t been academics. They’ve been given that opportunity now to focus on academics while they play their last year of Jr. A hockey. I’m certain that they comprehend the value of the opportunity they have and I’m sure they’ll be successful,” Bestwick added.

Many Div. 1 hockey programs showed interest in the brothers, but the best offer so far is from the Bemidji State Beavers, who are willing to give all three a chance together. Bemidji is also willing to wait while the brothers upgrade their marks at Camosun College in the fall and winter semesters.

As for the Grizzlies, it will be hard for Bestwick to repeat the magic of this season. The esteemed coach, with help from Craig Didmon, overhauled the Grizzlies’ depleted roster last summer and created a league contender.

The club never recovered from a series of gameending incidents against the Chilliwack Chiefs on Jan. 17.

“Unfortunately for us (that) debacle with Chilliwack significantly impacted our uniform in relation to suspensions,” Bestwick said.

From Jan. 17 onward the Grizzlies players were suspended a total of 33 games, including one to Bestwick.

“We’re very proud of what we accomplished, we also know we came up short getting the league title. We came up short of getting to the Coastal final and beyond. And when you don’t win your last game I think you’re always disappointed,” Bestwick said.

“We’ll make some changes, yes, but I don’t foresee ever making as many as last summer.” sports@vicnews.com

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Oak Bay Barbarian Conor McDiarmid is tackled by St. Michael’s University School’s Mark Kiggundu with Dawit Workie in support during the Boot game at Oak Bay High School last week. Michael’s won 10-5.

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The St. Michaels University School Blue Jaguars

brought the Gareth Rees Boot Game trophy home with a 10-5 win over the Oak Bay Barbarians in high school rugby play last week.

The close-scoring game was played at Oak Bay with high winds making for an unpredictable kicking game.

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The renowned Shawnigan Lake Stags rugby program reared reclaimed its dominant form winning the Vancouver Island Seven Aside Rugby Championships at UVic’s Centennial Stadium on Sunday (April 14).

The Stags won the Radu Shield in the final, 31-7 over the St. Michaels University School Blue Jaguars.

Saanich Police sponsored the tournament, as the Shield is named for Saanich Police officer Roy Radu, a former captain of Canada’s 15s team.

The Oak Bay Barbarians finished third, defeating G.P. Vanier 19-15 in the third-place game.

The top four teams, Shawnigan, St. Mikes, Oak Bay and Vanier all qualify for the high school boys rugby sevens provincials at the University of B.C., April 27 and 28.

Brentwood finished fifth, Cowichan was sixth, Shawnigan Lake’s B squad was seventh and Ladysmith was seventh.

The Glenlyon Norfolk School Gryphons took down the Pacific Christian School Pacers 24-12 for ninth place.

Over 1,200 visit for Scrum Fest Schools from far and near scrummed down in the Spartan Scrum Fest earlier last week, from Thursday to Saturday at Claremont secondary.

The fifth annual Scrum Fest featured 30 high school teams in the senior and junior boys divisions. The event drew approximatley 1,200 visiting players, coaches and parents said organzier Phil Ohl, coach of the Claremont Spartans.

This year’s tourney included a middle and elementary school clinic and jamboree with instruction from UVic Vikes coach Doug Tate and B.C. Sevens youth coach Shane Thompson.

A high schoo. players clinic was put on by members of Rugby Canada’s men’s team. sports@vicnews.com

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Flanker Zach Khan scored the try for St. Mikes. Dowit Workie converted the try and also notched a penalty goal.

Oak Bay's Matt Carson scored his team's only try.

The win is a bit of an upset for St. Mikes. Oak Bay is

much bigger, and is led by a core of provincial level players, Tyler McDiarmid, Conor McDiarmid, Jack Nyren and Morgan Tate (scrum half) in the backs and Evan Cambridge in the back row of the scrum. Which goes to show St. Mikes is also going to be a force among boys rugby high school teams this year.

But instead of running with the bigger schools at the AAA level, St. Mikes has chosen to play within their numbers at the AA level, though they'll play crossover games with AAA teams in the city's high school rugby league. It should give St. Mikes a fighting chance when it comes time for provincials.

The decision to play at the AA level is due to St. Mikes’ lack of physical size more than its lack of numbers, coach Ian Hyde-Lay said.

“This year’s team is tiny, they more than punched over their weight class (Wednesday).

“It will wear on them, we have eight games coming up, and it’s going to be an issue keeping them ready.

“We have some guys who are at the provincial level in terms of talent, but are in different situations.”

The boot game was St. Mikes’ second win of the season, having earlier defeated the Claremont Spartans 28-5. sports@vicnews.com

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Vimy Ridge remembered The community commemorates the battle at Vimy Ridge with a candlillight ceremony. It was held April 9 at the Langford cenotaph in remembrance of the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge, France. Visit www.facebook.com/GoldstreamNewsGazette, for more images.

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BC Rail conflict complaint rejected Tom Fletcher Black Press

A conflict-of-interest complaint against Premier Christy Clark for her role in the 2003 sale of BC Rail assets has been dismissed.

Saskatchewan lawyer Gerald Gerrand reviewed the complaint made by Abbotsford South MLA John van Dongen after he quit the B.C. Liberal Party last year.

In a 40-page decision released last Wednesday, Gerrand found that Clark had no way to benefit personally from the sale, and that her decision to absent herself from 2003 cabinet discussions did not demonstrate a real or perceived conflict of interest.

Clark said Wednesday she is relieved that the report is out, putting to rest what she described as “rumours, gossip and nasty untruths” about her conduct as education minister a decade ago.

“It’s cleared the air on this,” Clark said.

“For me it’s proof that anybody can say anything, and it doesn’t have to be true for it to be hurtful, and it doesn’t have to be true for it to be reported again and again and again.”

Gerrand was harshly critical of some of van Dongen’s accusations, noting that they arose nine years after cabinet meetings that van Dongen attended as agriculture minister.

Van Dongen’s complaints about Clark’s dealings with a lobbying firm representing one of the bidders for BC Rail are “replete with suspicion and innuendo,” Gerrand wrote.

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