Sooke News Mirror, June 05, 2013

SOOKE SONGS FOR LOGGERS Big Timber comes to EMCS for three performances.

NEWS MIRROR

Editorial

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Entertainment

Page 13

Sports/stats

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FAST PITCH

Page 13

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Black Press C O M M U N I T Y

N E W S

M E D I A

Agreement #40110541

The good, the bad and the wanted in Sooke’s U12 Boys’ Fast Pitch.

NEW LOCATION!

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Coching Mortgage Corp.

103 - 6739 West Coast Rd. Sooke

Classifieds P22 • 75¢

Across the street from the Post Office

Derek Parkinson 250-642-0405

Scenes from the gardens

Sooke Secret Garden Tour Britt Santowski photos

Besides featuring some amazing hidden gardening gems in Sooke and area, the Sooke Secret Garden Tour had so many other hidden art treasures. Clockwise: A cob house at ALM Organic Farm, a very organic West Coast adapted garden on Carpenter Road, metal art by Jan Johnson throughout the ALM farm, musicians from the Sooke Philharmonic perform, a burl bowl made by Phoebe Dunbar at her studio on Henlyn Road, the interior of the cob house pictured above.

The event was a fundraiser for the Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - SOOKE NEWS MIRROR

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

PRODUCE

Bone In Canadian

$5.05/kg .....................................................

Center Cut Regular or Fast Fry

2

$ 99

/lb

Grade AAA Teriyaki or Plain

Beef Stir Fry

4

$ 49

$9.90/kg ..............

Maui Style Centre Cut

Pork Chops

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Treats From the

/lb

Ground Beef

$9.90/kg ...............

Grade AAA

/ea

1 kg

Oysters

$ 99

4

$ 99

8 oz. tub

/100g

ea

Lobster Tails

5

$ 99

4 - 5 oz.

ea

1

Pancake Mix 623 g .............

Bobs Red Mill Gluten Free

Hot Cereal 680 g......................

WOW Gluten Free

00

1 2/ 00 5 2/ 00 5

Vans Gluten Free

Frozen Waffles 255 - 269 g ..

Alexia

Oven Fries 425 - 450 g...........

$

79

Quality and Convenience

Fruit Beverage

1 2/ 00 3 $ 99 2 $ 99 4

Wonton Soup 426 g .......................

Green Giant

Vegetable in Sauce 250 g

295 ml

99

Tenderflake

¢

99

Tart Shells 255 g .......................

Island Farms Denali or Country Cream Ice Cream 1.65 L .......................

Remember Your Calcium

DAIRY Island Farms

Island Farms Vanilla Plus

2 Kraft 2/ 00 Philadelphia Dips 227 g ..........

3 Kraft $ 49 Cheez Whiz 450g ............................ 5 Kraft $ 29 Shredded Cheese 340 g ............ 6 Cottage Cheese 500 g ...............

$ 99

Yogurt

Old Fashioned Ham Per 100 g

Shaved Parmesan Per 100 g

329

$

1

$

Provolone Cheese Per 100 g

29 19

+ dep

Kettle Chips

500

Per 100 g

329

$

+ dep

2.5 kg

100

4/

5 Varieties, 675 g

Heinz

6’s

Tomato Juice

1.36 L

570 g

400

8’s

+ dep

2 kg

2 kg

250 g

12’s

88’s

1.7 kg

Bulk Foods Scotch Mints ..................................

ea

BAKERY 69¢

Sour Jubes .......................................

Bits & Bites

279

$

100 g

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

59 149 ¢

....

Pitted Whole Prunes 100 g

2/ 00

398 ml

Instant Noodles

300

Naan Bread

2/ 00 Post Shreddies or Honey

300 g

Mr Noodle

100 g

Stuffing Mix 120g.........................

35 g

2/

1

600

2/

5 oz

398 ml

680 ml

09

600

2/

650 ml

Tomato Sauce

$

Spring Mix

Celery Hearts

180 - 200 g

2/

100 g

/ea

Earth Bound

Organic

1 lb

69¢

400

2/

341 ml

Old Dutch Crunch

Hunts

Primavera Pasta Salad

3’s.................................

200 g

299

Assorted

2

$

89

¢

$

Healthy Choices in our

Romaine Hearts

Romaine Lettuce

225 ml

Al Varieties, 350 g

5

100

2/

River Ranch

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/lb

B.C.

Shreddies Cereal 540 - 550 g

700

2/

425 g

Cookies

2/ 00

3’s..............................

340 - 400g

Dads

650 g

DELI

¢

2/

Garlic

49¢

$1.08/kg

3 Post Honeycomb, Sugar Crisp or Alpha Bits Cereal 7 $ 29 Stagg Chili Con Carne .................... 2 Frenchs Prepared Squeeze Mustard 99¢ 2/ 00 Kraft Flanker Dinners ....................

3 $ 39 V-H Sparerib Sauce ........................ 2 2/ 00 Pepperidge Farms Goldfish Crackers .

5 $ 49 Classico Pasta Sauce ............................... 3 2/ 00 El Paso Refried Beans .......................

4 2/ 00 El Paso Seasoning Mix .........................

2 2/ 00 Christie Red Oval Stoned Wheat Thin Crackers 5 ¢ Heinz Alphagetti in Sauce ................ 89 $ 39 Rogers Unbleached Flour ..................... 3 2/ 00 Country Harvest Bread ..................

5 $ 69 Dempsters Sesame Bagels ....................... 2 Island Bakery Premium 100% Wholewheat or Cracked Wheat Bread 99¢ $ 79 Olafson Sun Dried Tomato Burrito .... 2 $ 99 Purina Dog Chow .................................... 4 $ 49 Purina Cat Chow ..................................... 7 $ 99 Royale Double Roll Bathroom Tissue 6 ¢ Royale Facial Tissue ................................... 99 2/ 00 Scotch Brite Scrub Sponge ............................

1 $ 59 Cascade Dishwasher Detergent ........ 3

Fruit Juice

85 g

/ea

Imported

800

Stove Top

354 ml

$

89¢

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in all departments

Hot Sauce

Wong Wing

Ataflo Mango

Snap Top Carrots

“Secret Super Saver Specials”

use

Western Foods Cloth Bags

200 g

/lb

Mexican

California

Come in Every Wednesday for our

Go Green

1L

59

¢

1.30/kg............................

2/

Franks

FROZEN FROZEN FOODS FOODS Five Alive

4lb bag

Sunrype Fruit Rivers Blended

Popping Corn 454 g ..............

Cookies 227 g .............................

ea

Oranges

69

99

Whole Alternative Organic

5 2/ 00 4 $ 49 3 2/

Organic

/lb

/ea

284 ml

8

$

454 g

Bobs Red Mill Gluten Free

/lb

Mushroom Soup

Fair Trade Coffee

69

69¢

$1.52/kg

Campbells Chicken Noodle, Vegetable, Tomato or

Tribal

Organic Tomatoes

/lb

Canadian

Fresh

Tree Of Life

796 ml

49

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

159

Granny Smith Apples

/lb

4

Canteloupe

$

U.S. X-Fancy

$ 49

$9.90 kg..................

NATURAL FOODS $

$3.51/kg

Inside Round Steak $

For Your Healthy Lifestyle

HOT!!

/lb

4

lb/lb

California

Perlette Grapes

599 Bacon Ends $549

$

Halibut Fillets

3

2

Mexican

3

¢

2.18 kg...........................................................................

$ 99

Country Cottage

Fresh

SEA

/lb

$ 99

$6.59/kg..............

Basilli’s Best Beef or Chicken

/lb

Round Roast $8.80/kg ...............

Extra Lean

99

29 Black Plums

Grade AAA Beef Inside

Pork Chops $6.59/kg..............

California Red or

2

Pork 1/2 Loins $

907 g

We reserve the right to limit quantities

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

89¢

Multigrain Bagels Bran Muffins $

6’s

2

All Varieties, 900 g

400

2/

+dep

Royal City

Vegetables 398ml

89¢

Kraft

Mayonnaise 890 ml

399

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Aquafina

Water 24 x 500 ml

499

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Idahoan

Instant Potatoes

113 g

99¢

V-8 Vegetable

Cocktail Juice

950 ml

179

$

+ dep

Unico Kidney Beans or

Chick Peas 796 ml

179

$

299

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99

Herb Panini Buns $ 29

6’s

Pasta

ea

3

6’s

6’s

Unico

Butter Crust Bread $

454 g

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189

Sourdough English Muffins 89 $ 390 g

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SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Sooke BoTTle DepoT would be willing to accept BoTTleS froM The public and businesses with proceeds going to the food Bank.

BeST of all, they will do the sorting, but no garbage please.

Volunteers needed anyone who wiSheS to help volunteer for the Sooke fine arts Show can call and register for time slots. Go to www. sookefinearts.com or call the Sfa office at 250-642-7256.

update The BenefiT aT the post office to raise funds and food for the Sooke food Bank was a resounding success with $924.30 in cash and over 650 pounds of non-perishable food collected. nanCy low SaiD it was “the best yet.” and they appreciated the support of the local people we came together for the food bank.

Thumbs up To everyone who is helping support Dry Grad for our 2013 eMCS students.

NEWS • 3

CounCil Briefs

Up Sooke Helping out

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A brief recap of what was discussed and decided at the District of Sooke council meeting of May 27, 2013.

Public Input: • A public input meeting was held by District of Sooke council on May 27 for a Development Permit and Development Variance Permit for 6750 West Coast Road. The site is the location for The Hope Centre, a four-story building encompassing 25 affordable living units and commercial space on the ground floor.

Council granted both permits to the Society of St.Vincent de Paul of Vancouver Island.

The variance permit was requested to relax the 15 metre setback to the centreline of Hwy. 14, to 13.78 metres.

The Hope Centre will have 290 sq. metres of commercial space (thrift store), 18 studio suites and seven one bedroom suites, plus 320 sq. metres of office/ school space. Tenants will have shared laundry. lounge and outdoor deck space with underground and above ground parking.

Council will also look at exploring the possibility of leasing a unitsat the centre for a seniors’ drop-in centre.

• A Development Variance Permit for 6731 West Coast Road was granted to allow relaxation of Bylaw 65, which will see removal of the requirement for off-street streetlights and boulevard trees on Atherly Road and West Coast Road with the condition that the owner pave an additional three metres on the property frontage at 6739 West Coast Road. The property will have a car and dog wash.

Councillor Herb Haldane stated he had issues with the “whole thing in general,” meaning Bylaw 65 didn’t apply in this instance.

Coun. Rick Kasper agreed that there was ambiguity in Bylaw 65 and this was an imposition on owners of the property.

Mayor Wendal Milne stated that design standards were needed for downtown.

Bylaws: • Bylaw 560 Sooke Core Sewer Specified Area Amendment Bylaw and Bylaw 558 Zoning Bylaw Amendment Bylaw for property at 1781 Minnie Rd., and 7057 West Coast Rd. Council introduced and gave first and second reading to Bylaw 560 and Bylaw 558.

Councillors Kasper and Haldane were opposed.

At issue was the capacity of the sewer pump system and the cost borne by those in the Sewer Specified Area who have been paying into the system for more than six years.

The two properties in question are outside the SSA. Coun. Kasper stated that if expansion of the sewer was going to happen it should be done right and that neighbours should be canvassed to see if they wanted to hook into the system.

“I can’t believe why they make an application to go through the whole process when they hadn’t made a decision on inclusion in the SSA,” said Kasper.

“I don’t think this is in the best interests of the taxpayer.”

Mayor Milne said this design was consistent with the long term plan and the $2,800 hook up fee per unit was equivalent to the last five or

six years those in the SSA have being paying.

“More users help pay the freight,” said Milne.

A public hearing will be held, date to be announced.

• Council adopted Bylaw 569, A Zoning Amendment Bylaw for 6535 Grant Road East.

• Council gave first and second and third reading to Bylaw 571, Sooke Core Sewer Specified Area Amendment Bylaw for 7022 Nordin Rd. • Public consultation process will take place after a motion was made by Coun.

Haldane to establish a horseshoe pitch on a half acre at John Phillips Memorial Park.

The next public information session concerns the off-leash dog park proposed for a the Ponds Corridor Park on Wednesday, June 5 at 7 p.m. in council chambers.

The next regular council meeting takes place at the municipal hall council chambers on June 10 at 7 p.m.

The council and committee meetings are video taped and can be accessed on the District of Sooke website at: www.sooke.ca.

Pirjo Raits photo

every penny Counts

Giving a helping hand to the Sooke Food Bank are (left to right) Ivy, 3; Maggie, 6; mom Erin and Avery 8. The girls brought in some nonperishable food. Food donations and pennies can be dropped off at the Sooke News Mirror office.

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May 2013 stats are very interesting...

Sooke to Sidney sales are down slightly over last year by approx. 5%, while Sooke’s sales are up by approx. 17% (yay!) Sooke had 35 residential sales: 8 under $300,000 13 between $300,000-$400,000 7 between $400,000-$500,000 3 between $500,000-$600,000 3 between $600,000-$700,000 1 between $700,000-$800,000 So it appears that the Sooke market is finally seeing some action, but please do not think our market is finished correcting. A few of these houses have been on the market for almost 2 years and most of these houses have seen many price adjustments before receiving a solid offer. Remember, sharp pricing & smart marketing will get your house sold!

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Hearing aiD CliniC

ron Kumar

Pharmacist/Owner

For those who were not able to speak to a hearing aid technician than the last time the clinic was held, we are pleased to announce that we will be holding another clinic on Thursday June 13. If you have any questions about hearing aids,want to make sure your hearing aid is working properly, or want to have a free hearing screening, we will have the mobile hearing aid team here at the store to help you. Drop in or make an appointment.

Clinic hours will be between 10:00am and 3 pm.

next Seniors Day: Thursday June 13

HELPING PEOPLE LIVE BETTER LIVES

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - SOOKE NEWS MIRROR

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$ 49

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$ 99

Pacific Caught

Sole Fillets

ea

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3 Varieties

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1 Ham

$ 32

Smoked

Yellow Cod......................

/100g

Irish

Previously Frozen

1

Roast Beef

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Cervelat

Salami

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$ 76

/100g

1/100g

$

69

Zucchini 2lbs...............................$300 ea

Organic!

Carob

Cherry Tomatoes 1 pint2/$500 Thompson Seedless

Dan D Pack Tropical

Whole Salted/Unsalted Roasted

Dan D Pack Raw

Baking Chips 39¢/100g Raisins............39¢/100g Fruit Mix 200g.....$199ea Raw

1

$ 39

Almonds.........

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/100g

/100 g

$ 99 Cashews............$179 /100g Energy Mix 1kg 7 ea

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Cordon Swiss, Brie and Apple, or Broccoli Cheese

Plain or Garlic

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1

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Honey Dews $1.94/kg...............88¢

ea

$ 98

Steelhead Fillets .....

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$ 99

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FRESH

Cantaloupe $1.94/kg........ 88

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Macaroni Salad....................................

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$4.37/kg.................

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/lb

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$ 98

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Organic!

$ 99

Fresh

Peppers

98¢

3 /lb

ea

BC Grown! Hot House Red, Yellow, Orange

Cucumbers

$ 99

Olymel Frozen Village Brand

Big, 2lb Size

BC Grown! Hot House Long English

Loin Chops $19.82/kg................ 8

Fresh

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New Zealand Lamb

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$ 88

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/lb

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Sea Food

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Dempster's Signature White or 100%

99

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Cat Food

4

¢

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Carlyle Tuna

2/ 00

Minute Maid Frozen

295ml......................

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99

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Whole Wheat Bread 2/$ 00 5

6 Varieties

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Marshmallows

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Retiring the bus and the alarm clock

JOHN VERNON “Sooke’s Real Estate Professional” PREC

Sooke’s #1 Re/Max Real Estate Agent Since 1991*

Britt Santowski

TESTIMONIAL #220

Sooke News Mirror

Darrell Danyluck, a bus driver of 34 years currently living in East Sooke, will be hanging up his bus driver’s hat.

And before he does that, he will be (happily) running over his alarm clock!

As a part of his farewell “tour,” Bev, Darrell’s wife, and Penny, Darrell’s sister greeted the passengers with donuts as they boarded the bus; Darrell warmly welcomes the regular riders onto the bus and invites them to “help themselves to some goodies.”

“Listen to this,” he urges, sitting behind the wheel of the bus, as the alarm beeps persistently in the fore-

NEWS • 5

JOHN VERNON B.A., C.H.A.

“We were most fortunate to have your professional service over the period of time we were selling our ‘retirement dream’ property. Your patience and consideration of our feelings about the sale were very much appreciated.

I want to thank you once again for representing us so diligently, faithfully and professionally in the sale of our property.” K. & H. Nathan Call John today for THOROUGH, COURTEOUS, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE and PROVEN RESULTS. - ALWAYS.

camosun westside

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email: John@JohnVernon.com

*Victoria Real Estate Board MLS

M-Th 6-6 • FRI 6-9 Weekends • 7:30-6

Britt Santowski photos

Darrell Danyluck starts his last day of work by driving over his alarm clock, the symbol of his 34-year career driving a transit bus. ground, “I won’t have to listen to this anymore!”

“It’s so old, it got to

the point we can’t turn it off,” laughs Bev, “so it would go off at four

in the morning, even on the weekends too.”

The future of the clock is still unknown.

After being run over by a fully-loaded doubledecker bus, it was still ticking. The digital display was still working, although the annoying alarm was once-andfor-all silenced.

So what will they do with all their new found silence (and time)?

According to Bev, they

Stick coffee’s available at many fine places!

will relax, complete work around the house and then go to England for a bit.

Darrell’s view is more succinct: “Going fishing,” he says.

“I’ve enjoyed it all,” sums up Darrell. “There’s a lot of memories: Santa Claus buses, parades and lots of things. I’m going to miss all the regular riders.”

Smoken Tuna, Sooke River Store, The Lazy Gecko, MaiMai’s, London Fish & Chips, DuMont Tire, Markus’, Point no Point, DeJaVu in Jordan River, Tomi’s Home Style Cooking and at the Pacheedaht Campsite in Port Renfrew and at the Bavarian Bakery in Lake Cowichan.

Up Otter Point Road left on Eustace

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SOOKE BOTTLE DEPOT &

SOOKE FOOD BANK Team Up

Britt Santowski photos

Happy Birthday to Western Foods

Left, Livia Norris gets a balloon from the Western Foods tent. From left to right: Duane Cutrell, Roy MacTavish and Richard McLeod from Sooke’s Fire and Rescue strike a pose at the barbecue. Purchases were all by donation, and all proceeds went to Muscular Dystrophy. Western Foods celebrated it’s 39th anniversary on May 25.

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Equestrians showcase skills

The 2013 Sooke Saddle Club (SSC) show season offers something for almost all types of horse lovers.

Our purpose is to provide safe fun riding experience so we present schooling shows for all levels of equestrian experience. This includes Dressage (English and Western), a Funshow, and Agility for horses — a new event this year.

SSC events are usually held at the Metchosin arena. Agility will be at Cherry Lane Equine.

High Point winners for our first Dressage Show (held April 18-19) were: Jr. Rider-Hailey Hamilton and Lucky; Sr. Rider-Christina Nash and Fortissimo. Overall High Point for the two day show went to Eve Ouradou and Tivoly. Western Dressage was offered for the first time at this show, and will be included at the next Dressage Show August 3-4 at Metchosin Arena. Contact is Eila at 250-391-1851 or eila_z@hotmail.com .

The English-Western Funshow will be on SunCourtenay – day, June 9 at Metchoe Avenue sin Arena. Riders can enter– flat classes in the ity Foods e Road,morning, Comoxand games on horseback in the afterHighway 19A The morning noon. also includes Ferry Terminal – a couple of ground classes for nd Hwy horses not yet under saddleMarket as well–as Leadey Farmers line for very young. uarters Road,the Courtenay New riders, or those Mall (Thrifty's) – horses can with new Roadenter the free noncompetitive “Nervous

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ing the horses through various obstacles. For information, contact Janine at 250-642-4867 or by email jwittich@ shaw.ca .

More information at http://members. shaw.ca/nashramblers/ Sooke%20Saddle%20 Club.htm Contributed by Gail Nash

Randall Garrison, MP ESQUIMALT–JUAN DE FUCA We’re here to help constituents with Federal government programs and services.

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Jr. High Point winner Hailey Hamilton rides on Lucky, owned by Jessy and Justin Martin of Sooke. In the background, Chloe Schlender is riding the Martin’s other horse, Trigger.

Nellie” class. This is a good opportunity to accustom horse and rider to being in the ring with a group of riders, and to learn what the Judge expects. We have a Best Turned Out Class and this is open to everyone, even if the rider does not have the elegant outfits and tack seen at big show. We emphasize safe clean tack, well-groomed horses, and clean, neat clothes.

If you like music, try the Musical Performance Classes. Choose a piece of music and design your own routine. It is not a Dressage Kur with required patterns. Costumes are allowed. The Judge is looking for creativity and how well the horse and rider work together. Pairs or even larger teams can also

enter.

Afternoon games include traditional favourites such as barrel racing, pole bending, trail obstacles, even an egg-on-a spoon race.

The games finish with a bareback class where the rider who keeps a playing card tucked between his or her leg and the horse the longest is the winner. Lots of fun and laughs. For information, contact Gail at 250-642-4515 or email nashramblers@ hotmail.com.

If you like to ride horses, come and join us. Riders are required to have BC Horse Council or equivalent liability insurance for any SSC event. Concession will be open at the Funshow. Spectators are welcome, but please leave dogs at home as they can cause a horse

to spook. Dressage shows require pre-registration; all others can register on the day.

For the new Agility event at Cherry Lane on Saturday, July 14, riders will be on the ground with their horses and will be tak-

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Animal rescue farm needs help Britt Santowski Sooke News Mirror

What happens when illness interfere’s with life? As humans, we adapt and learn to put life on hold, tend to the illness, and then resume “regular” life when that inconvenience has passed.

Sometimes, life tosses a wrench into this simple formula. Life has tossed that wrench in the general direction of Kat Mattice, the owner of Sacred Circle Farm.

Mattice is experiencing a serious illness and will be undergoing a highly invasive surgical procedure. In conversation, Mattice said her recovery time will be a minimum eightweeks. This is the bestcase scenario. And as an active farmer caring for livestock and rescued animals, this news is devastating.

So on behalf of Mattice, Margarita Dominguez of the Sooke Animal Food and Rescue Society (SAFRS) is reaching out to the community for help.

Mattice is the ower of the Sacred Circle Farm, a venture that began with one rescue animal in 2008 and has since grown to a shelter for animals otherwise destined for death. It is

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Some of the rescue dogs at Sacred Circle Farm. also a source of education and growth.

“Children can come up here and get that connectedness [of farm life]; they can grow up and advocate for the protection of farms and green space,” said Mattice.

For her, Sacred Circle Farm is a place where education and the circle of life are celebrated.

“We don’t berate, we educate,” said Mattice.

“We also show people how the path to healing is about becoming connected to our ancient futures.”

The Sacred Circle Farm needs both financial and time donations.

The farm is entirely reliant on sales (goat’s milk, kefir, organic Kombucha tea, and “honest

farm-fresh eggs”) and donations.

The farm also teaches ethical farming and husbandry practices, and they work to nurture human empathy in pairing volunteers with the rescue animals -- many of whom require a form of therapy which includes a massive bundle of love and caring.

This is the bond that connects Dominguez with Mattice.

“We both work with youth,” said Dominguez. This, she said “develops a root of empathy.”

Currently, Sacred Circle Farm needs money for medication and volunteers who can milk the goats, and tend the other animals on the farm.

“We need comprehensive teams for cleaning cages and milking goats,” said Mattice. “Spring is the beginning of the busy time for farmers.”

“It’s not all about work,” adds Mattice, “It’s also a social time.”

About her own future, Mattice speaks with frank honesty.

“I’m scared; I’m not going to lie about that.

I’m also mad. I’m going to fight [for my health], I’m too darn busy for any of this.”

Ultimately, Mattice would like to begin transitioning the farm to people who will carry on the work, and she would like to build a board-walk right into the farm so children with mobility issues can also come right in and experience the animals first hand.

But first, it’s one step at a time. The first hurdle is to get volunteers to help with the farm work, and finances to assist with the cost of maintaining the animals. And for Mattice, it’s to get the surgery that needs to be done.

People who want to contribute should contact Dominguez, who is setting up an account at Coast Capital Savings in Sooke for people to donate. It will be under the name, “Sacred

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EDITORIAL

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013 - SOOKE NEWS MIRROR

Rod Sluggett Publisher Pirjo Raits Editor Britt Santowski Reporter

The Sooke News Mirror is published every Wednesday by Black Press Ltd. | 112--6660 Sooke Road, Sooke, B.C. V9Z 0A5 | Phone: 250-642-5752 WEB: WWW.SOOKENEWSMIRROR.COM

OUR VIEW

Prioritize the ‘wish’ lists An editor’s job is to question. While this may not please everyone, it is a crucial part of what a newspaper should do. Questions, queries and opinions are relegated to the editorial page,while news stories are throughout the paper. They are not the same. One is opinion, the other is fact.

If an editor or a community newspaper doesn’t question what is going on at city hall, then they are in compliance with the goings on. A journalist is not someone who gladly embraces everything that is going on or what is being said. They should be the people who hold the mirror up to the Stick to the folks. They hold to priorities and elected account, those people who put the other made the election promises. sometimes have the requests on They bigger memory, or at least they have the archives to hold... wander through if needed.

In these economic times, it is crucial that municipal governments appear to be holding a tight grip on the public purse. The taxpayers’ money is not there to be squandered, it is there to serve all of the community in the way that is best for the most. When one preaches fiscal restraint, then that is what one expects to see.

It’s all meaningless unless it is carried out.

Sometimes you just have to say, ‘no, there isn’t any money for that right now. How about we put it on a priority list?’

Just because people want something it doesn’t mean it has to happen immediately. Some sober thought and consideration should be the cornerstone of any decision when it comes to spending our money. Stick to the priorities and put the other requests on hold until at least a dent is made in the wish list.

How to reach us: General: Phone 250-642-5752; fax 250-642-4767 Publisher: Rod Sluggett publisher@sookenewsmirror.com Office Manager: Harla Eve office@sookenewsmirror.com Editor: Pirjo Raits editor@sookenewsmirror.com Reporter: Britt Santowski news@sookenewsmirror.com Advertising: Rod Sluggett, sales@sookenewsmirror.com Circulation: circulation@sookenewsmirror.com Production Manager: Steve Arnett production@sookenewsmirror.com Creative Services: Frank Kaufman creative@sookenewsmirror.com Classifieds: Harla Eve, office@sookenewsmirror.com Vicky Sluggett

FEATURE LETTER

Forests regenerate, houses alienate Re: ‘Be Careful What You Wish For,’ editorial, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

It is an interesting point of view that logging above the Juan de Fuca Marine trail is the worst case scenario. It was always a possibility and not limited to the Ilkay lands. It is permitted by the zoning. This problem began in January 2007 when Tree Farm licenses were released by the Liberal government by Minister Rich Coleman without consultation or compensation with CRD or the JdFEA. The forestry companies promptly released lands for sale and Mr .Ilkay of Marine Trail Holdings placed an option to purchase those properties and more in October 2007.

The public immediately called for protection of the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail from the boundary of the existing 160-metre wide park to Highway 14. The call went out to all levels of government. The Auditor General’s report of July 2008 laid out exactly how the Campbell government failed to act in the public interest.

The zoning was in place when Mr. Ilkay completed the purchase of seven properties above the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail for the three companies comprising Marine Trail

Holdings. The zoning did not and does not permit dense housing.

Ilkay said he is well aware of the restrictions on the Juan de Fuca parcels and has no intention of seeking rezoning “We fully understand that it is very clear and very limiting “Times Colonist Oct 30, 2008.

Logging is supposed to be a sustainable industry in this province. If it is done in a way that destroys the land permanently then every citizen of this province should be alarmed and the regulations changed and enforced. The logging above the JdF Marine Trail will be difficult with its 15 plus ravines and steep slopes.

The companies involved have an opportunity to showcase best forestry practices. That being said, the area has been logged once in my life time. There are residents of Sooke who worked on replanting it.

During the past 50 years, the forest on Charters River on the route to Grassy Lake was logged, the old growth above Sombrio Beach was logged, the grove at Well’s O ‘Weary was logged. Of these three logged areas, the only one not available for recreation, park or wild life is Wells O’Weary. It was cleared for housing.

Efforts have continuously been made locally to protect the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail. The Capital

Regional District is the only level of government that responded to the public outrage with the purchase 2,350 hectares of lands at Jordan River, Sandcut, Weeks Lake and lands in the Sooke Hills including Charters River when these lands were reoffered in March of 2009.

The CRD parks budget is tapped out until 2016.

Sooke and Vancouver Island residents enjoy their wild surroundings but between Sooke and Port Renfrew only three per cent of the land is preserved or protected for wild life or public use. This includes the recent CRD purchase, the provincial and federal parks and the flora and fauna reserves. Preservation of wilderness is essential to the areas identity as “Wild by Nature.”

Our wish is that the Clark government will create a buffer for the JdF Marine trail extended to Highway 14; logged or not. Despite logging, the forest will regenerate. Building houses forever alienates these lands from either logging or wilderness.

Dense housing is the worst case scenario for this wilderness.

Rosemary Jorna Otter Point

The Sooke News Mirror welcomes your letters and opinion pieces. It is a forum for issues. Letters should be factual, temperate in language and as brief as possible. We do not print letters containing poetry, libel and offensive language. We request those wishing to submit “longer” letters to keep to one subject. We will edit your letters if necessary and we reserve the right to reject letters which state the same points made by others on the same subject. We make every effort to publish letters as promptly as possible, but we do not guarantee all letters will be published. Letters must contain the writer’s first and last name along with their address and phone number. Addresses and phone numbers will not be published. Letters are checked for authenticity.

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We asked: What can be done to better improve traffic flow in Sooke?

Coming from Otter Point Rd. onto the Sooke, you can’t turn left onto Townsend. Take out that noleft turn. I don’t know what that was done. A lot of lefthand turns are difficult in Sooke.

Jackie Dexter, Otter Point

Club pitch can be used by public Re: Editorial “Public Process” May 29, 2013 Our View The Sooke Horseshoes Association wishes to bring to your attention some misconceptions that were published in the above noted article. They are as follows: • This association is a non-profit sporting venue which will have the use of the 1/2 acre in John Philips Park but it was not as stated in your articles GIVEN to the association. It will be open to the general public so anyone can play on the courts except when utilized by the members of the association.

• The fee for the annual membership is approximately $35 per year which will go towards the maintenance of the property which is now being handled by the district.

• This association will be fully supported by its members with annual fees and donations as is the Victoria Horseshoe Association.

The taxpayers of Sooke will not be funding this venue.

Rick Hobday Secretary/Treasurer Sooke Horseshoe Association

Volunteers set the tone A great many things

We have a lot of intersections with trees that you can’t see through, like down

by Broomhill Park, where there are branches down.

Go out and trim away the trees that are an obstruction. Speed limits are also ridiculously slow.

Tom Mizera Sooke

Put in a round-about at the Evergreen Plaza.

Ultimately, you need a back route so local traffic doesn't have to use the highway.

Rick Greenhough Sooke

Frank Stanford Sooke

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Private land not a private park

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A benefit held for the Sooke Food Bank featuring B.K. Morrison raised $2,385.67 for the organization. Pictured on the left is Sooke Food Bank president Ingrid Johnson and on the right of the cheque is Legion president Wendy Lambert. B.K. Morrison is second on the left. both inspired and impressed me at the MBTA Tourism Symposium that Sooke hosted from May 26-28.

I don’t want to diminish the value of any of these things by comparing, but I do feel a need to tell as many people as possible how impressed and inspired I was by the effort put forth by the Sooke Region Museum folk; I was not the only one.

It’s no small feat to feed 100 mountain bikers. Indeed, mountain bikers are known in tourism circles as being the ultimate tourists, because we eat so much. A buddy of mine in the business refers to us as ‘5000 calorie per day tourists.’

The spread put on by the museum folk was truly phenomenal, just based on quantity alone. But the quality... well, now that’s what made it so special. The salmon was prepared perfectly, the home baked goods were amazing and every other aspect of the feast was exemplary. All the delegates I talked to were blown away by the hospitality shown by these kind members of our community, and also very impressed by the museum itself, which remained open long past closing hours.

One of the delegates, Phillip, told me that they had ‘no barbeques like this’ referring to the preparation of the

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salmon, but then again there aren’t a lot of salmon in Brazil where he traveled from.

The 135 delegates involved in various ways in mountain bike tourism will leave Sooke with some great memories, and full bellies! I would like to thank the good people of Sooke who helped them to feel welcome by feeding them and serving them with care and respect.

Thank you — all you volunteers. This was a very special event which will reverberate positively for years to come, and we have you to thank for setting the tone.

Lorien Arnold Sooke

Re: “Wreaking Havoc in the Woods,” May 29 Sooke News Mirror.

The writers were obviously among the e n v i ro n m e n t a l i s t s whose massive outcry against development resulted in Ender Ilkay having to log the land which he tried to rezone for another purpose.

Now, as then, it is not your private park. He’s not going to “donate” it to you to use as your private park. You have to deal with the fact that this is a direct result of your actions. He’s engaged the local First Nation community, is providing jobs and revenue as best he can and is recouping his investment. The only “losers” in this situation are the environmentalists who are now forced to lie in the rather uncomfortable bed they have made for themselves.

Jason Kitt Sooke

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Editor’s allegations not true It is irresponsible for the editor of the Sooke News Mirror to allege that council uses public meetings as window dressing: “In many cases, the decisions have already been made and it seems the public part of the process is just for show.”

No factual evidence was presented. As “evidence” the editorial cites how some money has already been spent in exploring the public amenities identified in the Parks Master Plan.

Spending is sometimes required to decide if a project is a good fit for our community. Such spending does not indicate a decision has already been made.

The role of a community newspaper is to support democracy with fair and balanced reporting and reasoned opinion. The Sooke News Mirror undermines this role with inflammatory statements presented as fact - discouraging the very public process it purports to hold dear.

If people believe the Sooke News Mirror and decide their ideas and input have no bearing on the public decisionmaking process, why would they bother to participate?

The editor questions the honesty of council members with this very serious allegation that decisions have already been made. Certainly each council member may go in with some opinion. But in Sooke, council and staff bend over backwards to hear public input, amend plans and go back to the drawing board when necessary.

There is more than one side to any issue.

Public debate is healthy and that is what this council is facilitating. Plans are altered according to public input and concerns.

That is what I see this council doing, not what the Sooke News Mirror has alleged.

Michael Linehan Sooke

Don’t waste money on dog park

Re: No need for another dog park Thank you Thomas and Storm Kowalchuk. As a dog owner

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and former resident of Vancouver, I couldn’t agree more with your letter. We also moved here to get away from the excessive rules and regulations that accompany city life. As you and others have pointed out, there are already plenty of parks and beaches to take your dog to in and around Sooke, on or off-leash. As well, the establishment of an official dog park will most certainly fuel calls for a ban on pets at places like Whiffin Spit.

I might add for anyone unfamiliar with dog parks that such places are breeding grounds for fleas and the sites of frequent dog/people fights.

I hope Sooke Council isn’t seriously considering wasting our time and tax money on such an asinine, antidog idea.

Trevor Paul Sooke

Taking aim at Fletcher Is Tom Fletcher serious when he says union workers’ pay and benefits make them the “New upper class?”

I would think the hundreds of insider middle and upper level managers who ride the gravy train at ICBC, BC Hydro, Community Living BC, the health ministry and the government of B.C. would better fit that description.

Of course Fletcher can never pass on an opportunity to take a shot at teachers. Too bad Fletcher isn’t a better student of history. He would realize that right leaning and left leaning B.C. governments have launched politically motivated attacks on the BCTF for decades.

Christy Clark’s latest plan to impose her political will on the bargaining table to remove teachers’ collective bargaining is just another example of this long and tiresome trend that will bring more labour unrest. Fletcher ends his typical venom and vitriol with a way-outthere observation that the BCTF is mobilizing to fight capitalism.

Any communists under your bed, Tom? Ted Roberts Sooke

Process is not flawed While I sometimes agree that the ‘public process appears flawed’ and that democracy is meeting challenges in Sooke, it seems wrong to me to use, as an example, the highly visible and transparent efforts of local clubs and causes which benefit the foundations of our community — youth and physical activity for people of all ages.

However, that’s not why I’m writing this.

You made a serious error in your May 29 editorial, and I can only hope that you will take steps to address it.

Your words, “The district paid $3,600 for a plan for the bike park which we haven’t seen yet” are simply untrue and misleading.

Sooke council opted at an open meeting, and at Councillor Kasper’s suggestion, to pay $3600 plus HST for Alpine Bike Parks’ ‘ParkStart’ package: http:// www.alpinebikeparks. com/services_detail. php?id=park_start.

Alpine delivered on every aspect of this program, and provided it without receiving a deposit, or a signature on a contract. Alpine is arguably the world leader at what it does.

Alpine has proven to be an excellent and trustworthy partner, and we are extremely fortunate that their team have agreed to work with Sooke in developing this amenity for our citizens.

The results of the ParkStart program can be easily found by clicking the ‘Bike Skills Park’ button on the Dis-

trict of Sooke’s homepage, which you can find here; http://www. sooke.ca/.

The graphic on the Bike Skills Park information resource page is part of the ParkStart package, as is the preliminary design, which required Alpine to come to Sooke to conduct a physical site inspection and meet with staff. You can view the preliminary plan here: http://sooke.ca/ EN/main/government/ devser vices/parks/ documents/12-0629SookeSitePlan.pdf.

The preliminary design has been used as a tool to build a general understanding of the project. Anyone with a computer and an interest in the bike skills area need only reference the district’s website to get an idea of what is going to happen and the process behind

it all. It is as transparent as can be. More developed plans are currently in the works and will be made available within the next month in preparation for the open house in June.

The John Phillips Park conceptual plan was put together in 2006 after almost two years of truly democratic process, through volunteer citizen committees. The result of that process lead to this: http://www. sookenewsmirror.com/ news/174421621.html.

The bike skills area is nothing new, and nothing deceptive occurred to get people to accept it as part of the conceptual plan for the park. I would point to the efforts of the Sooke Bike Club and the young people petitioning council to consider Cont’d on page 9

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Amazing Sooke elementary school

Cont’d from page 10

Each of the elementary schools in Sooke have junior reporters writing about what is happening at their school.

their interests as real democracy in action.

You have written somewhere in the neighbourhood of half a dozen articles regarding the bike skills area of John Phillips Park, and I frankly am perplexed by the nature of your allegations.

I’m not here to tell you how to do your job.

All I can do is give feedback on what I see.

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Jumprope for Heart is an annual fundraiser taken on by schools in Sooke. On May 24, the students at Sooke elementary spent the afternoon doing a number of activities in support of this fundraiser.

The event serves two primary functions. The first is to raise funds for Heart and Stroke research. The second is to instil a habit of healthy living amongst our students.

“Only 7 per cent of Canadian children and youth are meeting the daily recommendation of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity,” said the Jump Rope for Heart website.

In spite of the seriousness of the event, the yard at Sooke elementary was filled with a lot of laughter, and a lot of jumping.

“It is our 17th year of participating in the Heart and Stroke Jump Rope for Heart event,” said principal Kerry Arnot. “We had a wonderful afternoon of trying out many different ways of skipping and everyone enjoyed themselves.”

There are many things happening at Sooke elementary school.

Smencils, Smencils, Smencils! If you are unfamiliar with what smencils are, they are scented pencils. Mr. Treloar’s class is having a fundraiser and selling them. We raised about $500 for field trips. Mr. Treloar and Mrs. St. Jean arranged a field trip for both of the Grade 5 classes to go bowling at Langford Lanes in the morning and swimming at SEAPARC in the afternoon. Many people hadn’t been bowling very much and it was some of those peoples’ first time.

The Grade 4 and 5 students had a choice of doing track and field.

Some of the track and field events were long jump, high jump, 100 meter relay, etc. The

Beach day is another day were we go to a nice beach and have fun with all of our friends all day.

At the end of the year there are Grade 5 and D.A.R.E graduations.

If you are wondering what D.A.R.E is it is a program to help kids stay away from drugs and alcohol.

As you can see, Sooke elementary is a busy place.

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track and field event meets are at Belmont secondary school in Langford on June 5 after school and the other event is on June 7 during school.

On Friday, May the 31 was sushi and pizza for all the students.

Last week on Friday, May 24 was Jump Rope for Heart, which is a fundraiser for the Heart

and Stroke Foundation.

Jump Rope for Heart is a day where there are stations that include jump ropes, drawing on the basketball court outside, and videos.

Fun day is happening soon in June. Fun day is a school day where we just do fun stuff, like obstacle courses. It is all run by the staff of Sooke elementary.

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Acreman and Muir wedding

It could hardly have been more glamorous, the joining in marriage of Robert, one of the seven tall sons of Benjamin and Rebecca Jane Acreman and Florence, younger daughter of John Stephen Muir and his wife Eliza Throup.

The 1929 wedding was celebrated in the original Knox Presbyterian Church with the Reverend Samuel Lundie officiating.

While Florence’s much celebrated pioneering great-grandparents were the Scottish John and Ann Muir Sr who settled at Woodside in 1851, the Acremans, from Newfoundland, lived for a period in Vancouver before their arrival in Sooke in 1915.

Florence’s cousin, Vera Mesher from Colwood, was her maid of honour, while Robert’s older brother John, who was at the time Esquimalt’s Chief of

Police, served as the groom’s best man.

The demure but engaging smile of Florence Muir, as she posed in her salmon-pink scalloped dress with an armload of gorgeous

blossoms and ribbons, was an introduction to her life-long role in the community, where she raised a family, taught music, and for many years served as an authority on local

history and as a correspondent for the Victoria daily newspapers.

Robert Acreman, who like his brothers enjoyed sports and community activities, worked as a shipwright on the waterfront, mainly for Sooke Harbour Fishing and Packing Co. The couple made their home on the main Sooke Road, near Maple Avenue in a cottage that no longer exists. Widowed in 1971, Florence remained in her marriage home, surrounded by her historical treasures, until her passing in 1995.

The Acremans raised two children, Robert, who makes his home today on original Muir property in Sooke, and Diane (Alexander) who now lives in Sidney but frequently visits her old home town.

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Upcoming Public Meetings Climate Change Action Committee Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 3:30 pm

Regular Council Meeting Monday, June 10, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Mayor’s Public Advisory Panels The public is invited to attend the Mayor’s Public Advisory Panel meetings at the Prestige Resort Meeting Room: - Economic Development - Steve Grundy, Chair – 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm - Arts and Beautification - Brenda Parkinson, Chair – 4th Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm - Community Health and Social Issues - Nicky Logins, Chair –2nd Wednesday of each month 7:00 pm

INVITATION TO COMMUNITY GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS The Mayor’s “Promote Sooke” Task Force would like to invite community groups, individuals and other stakeholders to attend a “Promote Sooke” workshop on June 19th, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the District of Sooke Council Chamber.

The Task Force would like to provide an opportunity for local groups to share ideas and stories and to provide examples of projects currently promoting the community.

If you are unable to attend the workshop but have something to share, please contact the District of Sooke office at 250-642-1634 or info@sooke.ca

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SEAPARC Free Community Adult Walking Group. 10-11 a.m.

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YOUTH CLINIC Youth Clinic (13-25), 13006660 Sooke Rd, Family Medical Clinic, 4-7 p.m.

DOG OBEDIENCE CLASSES Sooke Dog Club, Tues nights info 250-642-7667.

KNITTING CIRCLE Sooke Public Library, 6:30– 8:00 pm. Free, all levels.

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Arts & Entertainment Bluegrass festival is back better than ever SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013

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Festival set for Father’s Day weekend

when they formed the band to play gigs every Sunday night at Swans Pub in Victoria.

“We thought the name Moonshiners would fit for a bar band,” said Herbst.

But it is all about the music after all, and the Moonshiners play classic bluegrass, honkey tonk, blues and funk.

Herbst says they are probably more diverse than the average bluegrass band. They are known for their powerful three-part harmonies, danceable grooves and wild instrumental excursions. They are West Coast urban.

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t’s been two years since there’s been a bluegrass festival in Sooke and there are many fans who have missed the yearly event usually held mid-June.

“We’re on!,” exclaims Larry Statland, one of the festival directors.

For 11 years, the banjos and fiddles, guitars and bass were heard resounding through the valley as bands struck up a chord and let ‘er rip. Some of the best bluegrass pickers and strummers journeyed out to Sooke to start off the season of bluegrass festivals. But, for the past two years, the fiddles were silent at the Sooke Flats and people missed it, said Statland.

This year, the festival, which takes place June 14 to 16, will have a new feature — square dancing!

“We’re going to have a Saturday night square dance under the tent,” said Statland. “A real live square dancer with a caller and a band.

The caller promises to be gentle with the newbies, so don’t be scared.”

Statland mentioned that this used to be the way guys met girls and it still works.

The organizers are trying to round up a huge circus tent which they say would be ideal for the dance.

There is a resurgence of square dancing in Victoria and it is mostly young people who are do sa doing, allemande letting and rolling away with a half sashay.

“We’ve been organizing dances with them, we hope they show up cause they are a lot of fun,” said Statland. “The more people there, the better it is. Square dance has a rural base and it kind of disappeared and it’s interesting how young people go back to it.”

He said a lot of older folks remember square dancing and thinks it would be great to have both groups there at the same time.

dies and ear catching fills, and Ira Pelletier’s guitar playing is soulful and intense. They play a mix of traditional bluegrass, old time songs and instrumentals, as well as original tunes.

The Sweet Lowdown is an acoustic roots trio from Victoria. Drawn together by mutual passion for old-time groove, hard driving bluegrass, sweet harmonies and well-wrought songs, The Sweet Lowdown (Amanda Blied, guitar,; Shanti Bremer, banjo and Miriam Sonstenes, fiddle) blend original song-writing with old

other people, the main stage is secondary,” he said. “The best music you’re going to hear is in the campsites and everyone can stand by and listen.”

Plus Slow Pitch Jam, Open Stage, Flat Picking Competition, Instrument Workshops including the fiddle, banjo, guitar, dobro and mandolin, and the Big Top Square Dance on Saturday night.

Weekend Pass $50 - Friday Only $20 - Saturday Only $30 - Sunday Only $10 - Tickets available at the Royal McPherson Box Office 250-386-6121 or at any Victoria Bluegrass Association

event. Ticket prices do not include camping fees (which will vary according to a campers requirements).

The festival is family friendly and features a

released their debut album which was nominated for 2012 “Album of the Year” by the Vancouver Island Music Awards.

More information on the festival, the entertainers, tickets and schedule is available on the Sooke River Bluegrass Music Festival website at: www.sookebluegrass.com Be there or be square (dancing that is).

Dates:

June 14, 15, 16

Place:

Sooke Flats, Sooke River Campground

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Above, The Moonshiners, right, Sweet Lowdown and below, Daniel Lapp. All set to perform at the Sooke River Bluegrass Festival.

“There’s not very many events where young and old can participate — I’d like to see that,” The festival, along with the main stage performances, will have a number of workshops for musicians, as well as, what Statland calls the best part, the jamming around the campsite.

“Most music festivals are meant for people to listen, but here you go and play music with

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Weekend pass: $50 Friday only: $20 Saturday only: $30 Sunday only: $10 Available at: Royal McPhersonPlayhouse or Victoria Bluegrass Association Camping priced seperately.

Who’s playing?

Friday - June 14 7:45 - 8:25 Riverside Bluegrass 8:30 - 9:10 Daniel Lapp 9:15 - 10:00 Moonshiners

wide range of acoustic talent, food vendors and music workshops.

All of the bands performing are from Vancouver Island and include such notables as The Sweet Lowdown, Clover Point Drifters, Maple Mountain Boys, Moonshiners, Riverside Bluegrass Band, Eric Day and Friends, Riverside Trio and the Hub City Rambler Duo. The Moonshiners first played at the Sooke River Bluegrass Festival in 2010, except they were all in different bands at the time; Flash in the Pan, Skagway and Last Train.

This year, after the festival hiatus, the Moonshiners are back with a new name and a vengeance.

“We’re excited about that,” said Chris Herbst.

“It’s good that the festival is back on.”

The Moonshiners got their name from an old traditional song called Moonshiner and they adopted the moniker

Prince George, British Columbia, Daniel Lapp learned the joy of fiddle music from his grandfather, five uncles and numerous accordion playing aunts. Family events were excuses to play music and he carries this tradition into a new era and contemporary culture.

The Maple Mountain Boys are a bluegrass band based in the Cowichan Valley who are quickly becoming fan favourites. Bringing together a group of veteran and new musicians, they showcase their own unique style of hard driving bluegrass that ranges from easy listening to traditional flavoured songs.

The Hub City Ramblers bring their own west coast style to the traditional brother duo.

The music they play speaks to old world sensibilities, but leaves you feeling fresh and new. Brad Shipley’s mandolin work is filled with cascading melo-

time roots music to create a sound that is both unique and timeless.

Originally conceived as a duo in 2008 by Blied and Bremer, The Sweet Lowdown recorded a seven song EP with Adam IredaleGray (Fish & Bird), touring and performing in the Pacific Northwest.

By the spring of 2010, the duo was ready to develop a fuller sound and fiddler Sonstenes joined the group. The newly formed trio quickly set to work refining their new sound and in January 2011 they traveled by train to Parry Sound, Ontario, to record their self-titled debut album with musician and sound engineer Andrew Collins (Creaking Tree String Quartet, Foggy Hogtown Boys). By 2011 the trio had garnered quite a local following and won the Monday Magazine M-Award for Favorite Roots/World Music Group. In June they

Saturday - June 15 10:00 - 11:00 S l o w Pitch 11:00 - 12:00 Open Stage 12:00 - 12:50 E r i c Day & Friends 1:00 - 1:50 The Sweet Lowdown 2:00 - 2:50 Clover Point Drifters 3:00 - 3:50 Hub City Ramblers 4:00 - 4:50 Maple Mountain Boys 5:00 - 5:50 TBA 6:00 - 6:50 TBA 7:00 - 7:50 Clover Point Drifters 8:00 - 8:50 The Sweet Lowdown 9:00 - 11:00 B i g Top Square Dance Sunday - June 16 10:30 - 11:30 TBA 11:40 - 12:30 Maple Mountain Boys 12:40 - 1:30 Moonshiners For more information go to: http://www. sookebluegrass.com/ festival/

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Island arts festival planned for September Pirjo Raits

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Bringing artists of all genres together is the ultimate goal for Katie Bennett. Bennett is a photographer with an eye for the unusual, both in her work and the creativity in others.

In 2011 she organized a not-for-profit community event in Victoria and in 2012 in the Cowichan Valley.

The Vancouver Island ArtistFest brought together musicians, dancers, visual artists, performing artists, body painters, craftspeople and vendors. This year Bennett is bringing the VIAF to Sooke, to the Sooke Flats specifically. What isn’t specific at this point is the date, but she hopes it will be in September as a sort of

Date: June 13, 2013 Time: 7pm to 9pm summer wrap up.

“I’m eager to bring it here,” she said. “I grew up here, it’s my home town.”

Last year, the festival was expanded and it became a fundraiser for Surfrider Vancouver Island. Surfrider is responsible for cleaning up beaches on Vancouver Island.

“As an artist on Vancouver Island, I find that most, if not all, of my inspiration for my work comes from my surroundings, our beautiful beaches and temperate rain forests.”

She said this festival will give artists the opportunity to give

back to community members who have supported them in the past, but also to the environment that has supplied them with endless inspiration.

It’s meant to be a mixed festival, so if anyone has products they have made or partially made, for example upcycled clothing, they are welcome to be a part of the one-day event. She is looking for local business owners who would like to get involved with a VIP Sooke Pass program, as well as an Ultimate Sooke Getaway contest.

Her vision is to encourage festival attendees

to experience the area while they’re here, and to promote Sooke as the “ultimate” tourist destination.

Bennett is hoping to get a lot of families out to enjoy the music, vendors, food and a farmers’ market. Vendors will come from all over the island, said Bennett.

“There really are a lot of amazing artists in the area,” she said. The festival will be a free event.

Check out the previous festival on Facebook.

Interested vendors, musicians or artists can contact Bennett at: vanislandartfest@hotmail.ca.

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Good Timber honours loggers and the history of the woods Good Timber Songs and Stories of the Western Logger June 14 at 8 p.m. June 15 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

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Honouring and paying respect to the loggers who helped build this province is one of the aims of the musical revue, Good Timber. But, it’s also about good music and stories.

Audiences can expect a show that pays a lot of respect to loggers and the history of logging on the coast and islands,” said cast member John Gogo. Based on the logger poetry of Robert E. Swanson, ‘the Bard of the Woods,’ this amazingly talented ensemble has created a show of songs and stories played against a multi-media backdrop of rarely-seen archival imagery. The music was written through a collaborative effort including Gogo, artistic director Ross Desprez and musical director Tobin Stokes and others.

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NOTICE TO WAIVE PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to Section 893 of the Local Government Act, notice is hereby given that the Public Hearing concerning the following zoning bylaw amendment has been WAIVED. Bylaw No. 570, Zoning Amendment Bylaw (600-2) has been given first and second readings and it is at the intention of the Council of the District of Sooke to give the Bylaw further consideration at the Regular Council meeting scheduled for 7:00 pm, MONDAY, June 10, 2013 in the Council Chamber of the Municipal Hall, 2225 Otter Point Road, Sooke, B.C.

Bylaw No. 570, Zoning Amendment Bylaw (600-2) The intent and purpose of Bylaw No 570, Zoning Amendment Bylaw (600-2) is to rezone the property at 2083 Anna Marie Road, legally described as Lot 9, Section 10, Sooke District, Plan 30302 from Town Centre Mixed Use (CTC) to Large Lot Residential (R1).

A Town Centre Commercial zoning was applied to 2083 Anna Marie Road in error in 2008 under Bylaw No. 270, Sooke Zoning Bylaw 2006. This error was identified by the owner and staff during the Bylaw No. 600, Sooke Zoning Bylaw 2013 public consultation process. The owner has requested that the error be corrected and that the property’s zoning be returned to Large Lot Residential (R1).

As per the owner’s wishes, the District of Sooke has initiated a rezoning application process to correct the zoning at 2083 Anna Marie Road to its original zoning of R1.

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Left to right, cast members Ross Desprez, John Gogo, Sarah Donald. revue. The music goes over really well with old time loggers and their families, he said.

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Copies of the proposed bylaws, and relevant background documents, may be inspected at the offices of the District of Sooke Planning Department, 2205 Otter Point Road, Sooke, BC, between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays), commencing from May 30, 2013 to and including June 10, 2013 until noon (12 pm).

If you have any questions regarding this application, please contact the Planning Department at (250) 642-1634.

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Songs inspired by logger poet in Good Timber revue Cont’d from page 17

what he sings.

“I used to log in Port Renfrew in the early 80s,” said Gogo. “I was a chockerman for a couple of years, and I am a fourth generation Vancouver Island logger.”

Good Timber first opened at the Royal BC Museum in the summer of 2010 and has been touring on the West Coast with stops in many of the communities where logging has been a part of the history and economy.

By the end of 2013 Good Timber will have toured to 16 BC communities, performing 154 shows for an audience of 27,000+.

“It’s a personal thing for me to be doing this,” said Gogo. “I enjoy chatting with the old loggers after the show and listening to the stories they have to tell. I honour these people for the hard work they did.

Loggers got a bad name for awhile but they did hard, honest and dangerous work. The loggers I knew from Sooke and Port Renfrew are great guys and I honuour them for contributing to B.C.’s history.”

Good Timber, pays homage to the legendary Bulls, hookers, hiriggers, fallers, whistle punks, locie engineers, and millworkers from a time when loggers climbed trees.

The Other Guys Theatre Company’s artistic director, Ross Desprez, was inspired by a dogeared copy of Rhymes of the Western Logger, a compilation of logging camp poetry by Robert E. Swanson. If you’d stumbled into a skid road smoke shop or camp commissary during the 1940s or ‘50s you would have seen well-thumbed copies of Swanson’s chapbooks sticking up among the Reader’s Digests. Swanson achieved legendary status among the BC coast loggers, doing for them what Robert Service did for the gold miners of the Klondike.

Poems like The Cat Skinner’s Prayer, The Death of Rough House Pete, and BC Hiball lament the hazards of work in the woods.

Good Timber comes to Sooke for three shows only, June 14 and 15, at the Sooke Community Theatre,

Edward Milne community school, 6218 Sooke Rd. “I liked the idea of showing history in different ways and I like the idea of theatre and music,” said Lee Boyko, Executive Director of the Sooke Region Museum.

Created and presented by Victoriabased the Other Guys theatre company, the singers, musicians and actors perform against an outstanding multimedia backdrop of rarely-seen images from the BC Archives. The Other Guys Theatre Company is committed to developing theatrical presentations reflecting the history and culture of our community while supporting the livelihoods of local professional and emerging artists.

For more information about Good Timber or the Other Guys Theatre Company, visit www. otherguystheatre.ca Tickets for Good Timber are $22 ($20 for students/seniors) and are available in Sooke at Shoppers Drug Mart, Peoples Drug Mart or the Sooke Region Museum.

Museum members receive a $2 discount when purchased at the museum.

To purchase tickets by phone call Ticket Rocket at 250-590-6291 or online at www.ticketrocket.org.

The show has received critical acclaim: “The show is a delight... some of the best musical talent in Victoria... a really great show!”

CBC Radio “Good Timber logs BC history in song… marriage of music, poetry brilliantly performed.”

Times Colonist, Victoria.

“The love loggers had and have for the forests comes through loud and clear in Good Timber. In these ecologically dangerous and divisive times, that’s good to remember.”

Georgia Straight, Vancouver.

“A musical revue, and an expertly executed, top-notch one at that. A damned fine piece of theatre.”

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Greetings from the Needlecraft Section.

This year has gone by so quickly hasn’t it?

And we at the Sooke Fall Fair are looking forward to our usual wonderful display of what Sooke “does.”

We take great pride in having one of the most colourful Needlecraft exhibits around, thanks to all of you who participate.

An update for you: To All quilters, “Quilts of Valour” may be entered with special categories - Lap size and Twin size - made by a group - Lap size and twin size in both Adult and Senior Sections (lap size is 50” by 70” and twin size is 72” by 96”).

These quilts are to show our appreciation, support and encouragement to our military who have put their lives at risk.

This project is supported

by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 54 and the quilts

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Quilting entered in the 2007 Sooke Fall Fair. will be turned over to the appropriate receiving person for distribution after the fair.

There has been great interest in machine embroidery since the demonstration at last year’s fair. We therefore

have added categories for machine embroidery on clothing, and also on household articles and on any quilted article in both Adult and Senior Sections.

The B.C. Association of Agricultural Fairs &

The Pastor's Pen

Remembering Our Loved Ones

A year ago last week Louise Lemire - Elmore died tragically in a accident close to her home. On the anniversary of ones death we remember their presence and impact in our lives. Louise sure did touch many during her lifetime. Her spirit and presence is felt for those in remembering our sister.

When you have lost a loved one such as a spouse, a parent, a child, a sibling and a friend in thinking about them, their presence may seem so fresh as if they are still here with you. In my ministry over the years people have taught me so much with their wisdom and witnessing, showing the goodness of our human nature. Being thankful and showing one’s appreciation is a quality that some people excel at. During my time here at St. Rose the T’sou-ke Nation has shown to me that when a member of the band has died how they as a people are so thankful to those who have come for the funeral on behalf of the family and community. The support and just being there for one another when there has been a loss a tragedy shows to me how they love and care for one another.

In closing it is good to show everyday our appreciation and thankfulness to those who touch our lives for the day could come suddenly when they will not be there.

Fr. Mike Favero St. Rose of Lima Parish hoLy trinity anglican church 1962 Murray Road | 250-642-3172 Holy coMMunion ServiceS Sunday & Wednesday 10am Saturday 5pm Revs Dr. Alex and Nancy Nagy www.holytrinitysookebc.org

knox preSByterian ChurCh 2110 Church Rd | 250-642-4124 Sunday Service 10:15 am Pre-Service Singing 10:30 am Family worship Rev. Dr Gordon Kouwenberg Parents Room and well equipped Nursery

Sooke BaptiSt ChurCh 7110 West Coast Road | 250-642-3424 Sunday Service 10:00 am Children, youth & adult ministries Pastor Dwight Geiger Email sookebaptistchurch@telus.net

St. roSe of Lima roman catholic Parish 2191 Townsend Rd. | 250-642-3945 | Fax: 778-4253945 Saturday Mass 5pm | Sunday Mass, 10 am Thursday Mass 10:30 am Children’s Religious Ed: Sat. 3:45pm Office Hours: Tue 12-3 Wed 10-2 Thurs 1-3

Exhibitions has added a category of Aprons, featuring Agricultural Products of B.C. The winning entry of this category will be taken to the annual convention in Kamloops in October to be judged against all others that won the class in competing provincial agricultural fairs. The winner of this competition receives a cheque for $50 and a beautiful plaque. All details will be highlighted in the upcoming prize catalogue listed under “Members Choice Award.”

During our two-day event Sept. 7-8, we will feature a wide variety of demonstrations in the Needlecraft section including machine

embroidery, knitting, embroidery by hand, quilting, weaving and spinning. Times will be posted on our schedule of activities prior to Fair weekend.

For further information call June at 250642-2032 or Ida at 250642-4110.

We continue to search for display memorabilia including trophies, historical ribbons and an old-fashioned ice-cream maker.

Become a volunteer and join us at our next meeting at the Sooke Community Hall, downstairs June 18, 7 p.m, as we plan for “Our First Hundred Years.”

Further information at the June 29 flea market at the Sooke Community Hall.

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Looking back A look through the Sooke News Mirror archives: June 4, 2008 Possible spirit bear sighted in East Sooke When Saskatoon tourists thought they saw a white “spirit bear” on a trail in East Sooke Park, the couple reasoned that bears must just be white out west.

In fact, the incredibly rare sub-species of black bears is endangered and only known to exist on B.C.’s northcentral coast. It takes both parent carrying a recessive gene to produce a cub with the characteristic white coat.

If the elusive bear is found, genetic studies can determine how it got here.

Fewer than 400 spirit bears exist on the B.C.’s north-central coast.

June 4, 2003 Show doesn’t go on when propane permeates EMCS The last act of a kids’ drama night was cut short last Friday after someone left a propane stove on at Edward Milne community school.

As the final play unfolded on the community theatre stage, the twiner comedy was interrupted by an announcement telling the audience of parent sna relatives and the performers to vacate the building.

Someone had not turned off on of the propane stove’s burners on in the school’s commercial kitchen, according to Sooke fire department’s Bob Kelsey.

Kelsey said people did not seem to understand the potential of

danger of liberated propane. He encountered audience members reentering the building to get a coffee or retrieve personal belongings, which wasn’t the smartest thing to do.

June 3, 1998 102 EMCS students to graduate Saturday Graduation day is rapidly approaching for Edward Milne community school’s Class of ‘98 which will mark the official day Saturday.

The school’s 102 graduates will receive their graduation honours during a ceremony in the school’s gymnasium beginning at 2 p.m.

Graduates, families and friends will be treated to presentation by class historians, as well as valedictorian Joel Butler.

June 2, 1993 Lights

out from Sooke to Sidney A power outage that hit Sooke Thursday morning was part of one of the most massive to ever hit Greater Victoria.

Tom Burns, B.C. Hydro’s south-Island senior field operations manager, said 33,000 customers were without power from about 11:45 a.m to noon. The lights went out in Sidney and everywhere in the Western Communities, Sooke, and was far out as Jordan River.

June 1, 1988 Sooke is featured in major magazines Sooke is once again featured in the current issues of two major

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Museum seeking Whether they’re growing beachy things

out of it or into it

Pirjo Raits photo

The Sooke Region Museum is seeking things from the beach. This could be an item found while beachcombing, a favourite memory in art form or a piece of furniture made from salvaged driftwood.

Above is a selection of floats found along the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The Sooke Region Museum’s temporary summer exhibit is titled Beach Day at the Sooke Region Museum, and they are looking for your found treasures.

The theme revolves around what visitors and members of our community see and do at our beaches in the Sooke Region. Curated by Brianna Shambrook, she conceived the exhibit when reflecting on her time as a student at John Muir elementary. They used to have Beach Days at Aylard farm playing in the sand and looking at tide pools.

The topics that will be covered in the exhibit are:

• Explanations on how some of our beaches were formed and also information on tides and currents • Human and Natural History • First Nations • The culture of people who lived on the beach • Surfing • Beachcombing

For display, they are looking for objects people have found while

beach combing the region’s beaches.

Objects that have drifted here from the Japanese tsunami are especially wanted. Specific objects Shambrooks would like to see include beach wood furniture, small surf boards, beach glass art and art made from materials found on the beach. These objects will be on display for the duration of the exhibit and will be returned at the end.

This is Brianna Shambrook’s third exhibit here at the Sooke Region Museum. She also curated last year’s summer exhibit Sooke: Connections to Royalty on the Royal Jubilee and the new permanent Maritime Exhibit.

Also being revealed at Open House is their renovated exhibit on T’Sou-ke and Pacheedaht Chiefs curated by Shambrook and Jessica Hill.

If anyone would like to share their stories or get additional information on any of these topics they can contact Shambrook at the museum at musasst@Sookeregionmuseum.com 250-642-6351.

The exhibit opens at their annual Open House event June 23 and closes September 6.

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SPORTS • 25

Please send sports tips to Britt Santowski at: news@sookenewsmirror.com

Sooke Blue Flames burn for more players Britt Santowski Sooke News Mirror

Saturday’s weather was great for a two game set of fast pitch softball at Art Morris Park. The Sooke U12 Boys, also known as the Sooke Blue Flames, faced some great pitching in the first game and lost 16-7 to Langford.

In the second game, the Sooke Blue Flames defeated View Royal 20-13. The boys made some nice defensive plays to tag out runners at the plate, and were very aggressive on the base paths.

Britt Santowski photo

Luke Arden pitching for the Sooke Blue flames in a game against Langford Lightning.

“It’s very developmental at this stage,” said Darrell Ell, the team coach. The goal is to catch any developing bad habit and correct it, and to catch any developing good habit and nurture it. “These players are a dedicated bunch, and are having a lot of fun trying different positions and learning this great game.”

The season, which started in mid-April and runs through to the first week in July, consists of about 20 games. In addition, local tournaments can lead to Provincials championships.

With only three teams on the Island, Ell would like to see more players come out and try the game. Fast pitch softball is an excellent team sport and develops great life skills. And even though it’s a boys team, there is room for girls to join in as well.

“Be sure to come by the park and see us practice and play and maybe you can join us next season.”

Their website is www.sookefastball.com. with notes from Darrell Ell

Sooke Pool league rackS uP the fun

Sooke Seahawks Atoms win 8-6 over Saanich Wolverines

The Village Food Markets Seahawks saw a hard-fought defensive battle with the wily Wolverines on a hot Sunday afternoon. Sixteen of 22 players played almost the whole game with defense allowing only one touchdown early in the game. Then a persistent, cunning and aggressiveness comeback was led by cornerback L.P. Gagnon, with over seven play-ending tackles-Caleb “butter” Carrier getting three quarterbacks sacks. Spencer Logan saw four backfield and numerous downfield tackles. Shoring up the defense was #60, Owen “the animal” Cheng who despite weighing only 70 pounds drove many a Saanich-player backwards with his might. Grayson Hoolaef achieved a fumble recovery.

Miguel Black, Jacob LaMontagne, Nakoda Ward, Josh Campana, and Peter Wahls shored up the D-line, and prowling the backfields, Ben Power,

Keegan Young, Quinn MacDonald, and Keefe Monteiro.

Offense was slower to get going with many a first-down from newest quarterback, Spencer Logan and veteran team leader Jared “man of” Steele, with great pitches and handoffs to Hunter Nicks, Owen ChengJacob Barney. Caleb Carrier anchored the offense with 100 per cent complete snapping and the quarterbacks worked their magic with a hand-off to #68 Kieran Franklin. He ran a 65 yard touchdown like a gazelle, with only one awesome fake to the inside and running it all the way for our first touchdown, Jared Steele with Carrier holding kicked the two point convert to solidify the win.

The next game will be against Nanaimo.

Andy Carrier

Submitted photo

The winning team of the league playoffs are from the left Bill Davidsen, Brian Green, Fuzzy Fedosenko, Bill Schoemeyer, and in front Bev McGirr. Missing from picture is Jane Stewart, Chris Curtis and Dennis Pierson.

The Sooke Pool League had their season windup, with a Scotch doubles pool tournament, followed by awards and dinner at the Sooke

Legion. The winner of the league high average award went to Herbi Woods Sr. for the second consecutive year with an average of 79 per cent.

The Sooke Pool League is a fun league open to both males and females playing at the Sooke Legion.

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Chief Planes speaks at Sooke’s Mountain Bike Tourism Symposium

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ingful relationships between First Nations and recreational interests. She said getting the First Nations youth involved in mountain biking would be an important way to work with First Nations.

Chief Planes also spoke to the importance of mountain biking for the tourism sector in Sooke.

“The days of logging and fishing are long gone,” he said. “There is a huge opportunity in this area,” he said. “Everyone will gain. There is value in this for hotels, First Nations, the environment, stores, restaurants.”

Planes told delegates something about the significance to his people of Sacred Mountain (Broomhill).

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At the end of the panel, Lorien Arnold of the Sooke Bike Club asked Planes if delegates could ride Sacred Mountain later that day, and the Chief gave his nod. When conference workshops ended for the day, over 40 delegates rode the trails on Sacred Mountain.

As rain began to fall again, muddy groups of riders burst out of the bushes onto the road.

Cries of “That was so much fun!”, were heard over and over, as they

headed to the shower and dinner in one of Sooke’s fine restaurants.

The symposium brought delegates together to discuss the critical issues that will facilitate the growth of the mountain biking tourism sector.

“Mountain biking tourism flourishes when we have the right support in the right places,” said Martin Littlejohn head of the Mountain Bike Tourism Association, the hosting body for the symposium.

Delegates enjoyed over 25 workshops, keynote addresses and social functions, with many examples of how communities are developing innovative local mountain biking initiatives. From the investment in a local mountain bike tourism industry in Burns Lake to replace the devastated logging and milling industries, to the building of bike playgrounds across the continent, mountain bike tourism

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Running May 26-28, the symposium attracted 135 delegates to Sooke from communities all over B.C., including the T’Souke First Nation.

Chief Gordon Planes spoke on the panel “First Nations Traditional Territories & Mountain Biking: Respect & Collaboration.” Planes expressed interest in working with the community to advance the health and fitness of the younger generation.

“I can see these youth on bicycles,” he said.

“The five to 15 year olds. In 10 years we will see a huge shift.”

Planes talked about the need for hard work to preserve the natural beauty of Sooke.

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Sooke swimmers kick it up a notch The past month has been very busy for the Sooke swimmers in Island Swimming, here are some exciting updates.

On May 11-12, Island Swimming hosted the Medley Challenge Meet. This meet was a great racing opportunity for all the swimmers to show off their diversity in all four of the strokes; butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.

Here are some special highlights: Lucy Bridal took off 20 seconds in the 400 free. Clarke

Hopkins achieved a 10 and under-AA time in the 200 free, and Nicholas Ralph took five seconds off in his 50 backstroke.

The swimmers in attendance were: Lucy Bridal, Clarke Hopkins, Nicholas Ralph, Tekahra Tarnowski, and Christian Zakharchuk.

This past weekend (May 25-26) was the Nanaimo Spring Sprint, hosted by the Nanaimo Riptides. Lucy Bridal and Katie Houlahan were the two Sooke swimmers who went

up Island for this meet.

Both girls qualified for finals in at least three of their events and showed off their mental toughness with two long days of racing.

Great job girls.

As the swimming seasons winds to an end, the swimmers are getting ready for their final meet of the year the Vancouver Island Regional (VIR) Championships. To qualify for this meet the swimmers must have achieved at least one A-time in the past year. The following swimmers will be

attending VIR Champs next weekend (June 7-9) at Saanich Commonwealth Place; Katie Houlahan, Lucy Bridal, Clark Hopkins, Daniel Prissick, and Nicholas Ralph. Good luck swimmers!

One final shout out to Katie Houlahan who was accepted into the CSI Institute for Sport

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Oryan and Trish from Edmonton enjoyed a productive day on the water last week off Sooke with a nice catch of halibut, salmon and crab.

The weather has come around and with it decent fishing. The weekend’s water conditions were ideal which lead to a number of boats on the water.

Chinooks have been caught in all the local hot spots up to 25-pounds.

This is the time of year when you hear of a fish over 40-pounds but, with the hatchery versus wild scenario in place, chances are we won’t see one. The good thing is the majority of chinooks being caught are of the hatchery variety. Fishing the usual 50 to 65 feet trolling close to shore on the rigger has been the ticket in 100 feet or less. Halibut continues to be strong with lots of boats catching their limit with an average size in the 25 to 35-pound range which is good because with the new coast wide halibut regulations any

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Port Renfrew fishing over the weekend was good as well. Halibut fishing was very good along with chinook fishing on the Swiftsure Bank and on the beach. Looks like the summer salmon outlook should be good. Also in Renny there are no chinook size restrictions so if you catch a nice one you can keep it.

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