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UVic looks at cycling to ease looming parking crisis Kyle Slavin News staff
of more than a year of informal talks among the churches and community groups about poverty and food security in the Mount Tolmie, Cedar Hill and North Dairy areas of Saanich. Most churches in the area offer food and food vouchers, and McKenzie said they’ve have seen a considerable uptick in families needing help to make end’s meet.
The University of Victoria hopes upgrades to cycling infrastructure will quell the forecasted need to build more parkades in coming years. Last week Saanich council gave the university the OK to remove 28 parking spaces to make way for 234 covered bike stalls and lockers near the University Centre. “We’re still making good progress relative to having people consider other ways to get to campus other than by vehicle,” said Neil Connelly, director of campus planning and sustainability. “Eight per cent of commuter traffic (to UVic) is cycling, and that’s somewhat stabilizing. We’re looking to add amenities to make it more attractive to bike.” In recent years, especially in 2011 as the university unsuccessfully sought approval for a sevenlevel parking garage as part of its new sports complex, parking woes at UVic became a heated topic of discussion in Saanich. UVic will need 800 new parking stalls in the next five years, according to an internal transportation study from 2008. With little land left for new buildings or parking lots, UVic has successfully lobbied Saanich council to relax parking requirements, and since 2003, the university has lost 1,400 parking stalls, either to variances or building atop existing lots.
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Marlene Bergstrom, Laura Cochrane and Rev. Lyle McKenzie are part of a group trying to establish a community kitchen in the Shelbourne Valley. Three churches and two community associations signed a agreement last week to establish a formal organization with a mandate to find a location for the kitchen, and to organize its operations.
Cooks in search of a kitchen Anti-poverty group aims to create community kitchen in Shelbourne area Edward Hill News staff
The Shelbourne Community Kitchen organization has been born. All it needs now is an
actual kitchen. Three churches and two community associations in the Shelbourne Valley have officially joined forces to establish a community kitchen. The intent is to allow people to cook and share free meals together, and for the kitchen to act as a central food bank. Members from Lutheran Church of the Cross, St. Luke’s Anglican Church, St. Aidan’s United Church, the Mount Tolmie
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Community Association and the Camosun Community Association signed a memorandum of understanding on June 11, which formalizes co-operation and creates a single organization. “The MOU is important in the sense of the commitment of the partners for the ongoing project. It makes it possible for the next step, which is to find the facility,” said Rev. Lyal McKenzie with the Lutheran Church. The initiative emerged out
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