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Visitors to Island View Beach park enjoy the sunshine and ensure that their picnic supplies are in the nearby shade. Island View Beach is a popular summer destination for people seeking sun, sand and surf. It can be reached via Island View Road off the Pat Bay Highway in Central Saanich.

Tour de Rock rider raising funds for the cause Saanich Peninsula Tour de Rock rider Alan Neville-Rutherford has three events in August planned

Devon MacKenzie News staff

A car wash in June scratched the surface of local Tour de Rock rider Alan Neville-Rutherford’s fundraising plans, and he has now lined up three more events for next month.

“August is going to be a busy

month for the Tour,” said NevilleRutherford.

“On the 25 we have our longest ride of 150 kilometers which will take us close to seven and a half hours of continuous riding time.”

In between training and working, Neville-Rutherford has planned three major fundraising events including a 24-hour ride

which will wrap up during Sidney’s Thursday night market on Aug. 29, something which the local riders from the Saanich Peninsula last year, Bob McDonald and Kathryn Goodyear, did as well.

“Serious Coffee is coming onboard for the 24-hour ride and planning is in the works,” he said.

“We’ll be riding outside their

shop for most of the afternoon then moving to our booth around 5 p.m.,” explained Neville-Rutherford, adding that RCMP officers in red serge will be in attendance at the booth for the last two hours to collect donations.

Neville-Rutherford was named to the 2013 Tour de Rock team in the spring.

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“The main motivation for me to ride this year was that I had a cousin who passed away from Leukemia a year after being diagnosed,” said Neville-Rutherford.

“We were very close.”

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A former Town of Sidney employee is suing the municipality for wrongful dismissal after he was let go by the Town on June 18 this year.

Peter Payerl, who was the Town’s manager of information services since April 30, 2001, and his lawyer Darren Williams filed the civil claim July 15 in B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria.

In court documents, the plaintiff alleges he was fired for cause by the municipality but at no time had the Town reprimanded him or warned him he might be fired unless his behaviour changed, or conducted any progressive discipline.

The claim states the Town did not have cause to fire Payerl, alleging the municipality “fabricated cause to avoid paying the plaintiff his rightful contractual severance.”

Randy Humble, chief administrative officer for the Town of Sidney, said he could not comment on the matter, as it is in the court system.

The Town has not yet filed a statement of defence.

Payerl is seeking damages for wrongful dismissal, 18 months of salary, punitive damages and other costs.

He was making an annual salary of $105,000 at the time of his dismissal.

Sidney ups its CRD arts contribution Steven Heywood News staff

Arts and culture are important economic drivers for the Town of Sidney, says the mayor — not to mention the enjoyment those sectors bring to the community.

Larry Cross made those comments during a recent presentation to council by Patrick Fleck, chair of the Capital Regional District Arts Advisory Council. Fleck spoke to council on the benefits of the municipality’s involvement in the AAC and its annual financial donation to the program.

Sidney joined the arts development service of the CRD in 2009, Fleck said, with an annual donation of $5,000. This year, the Town decided to up its contribution to $15,000. That money, Fleck continued, is used to help shore up regional and local arts programs.

Locally, the Mary Winspear Centre, Peninsula Arts Council, Via Choralis and Peninsula Players are a few of the organizations that have received arts grants from the program.

“It’s a solid investment,” said Fleck. “It has had a positive impact on the community.”

Councillor Marilyn Loveless added she is hoping Central Saanich and North Saanich will see their way to increasing their contribution as well.

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Peninsula News in brief

100th anniversary of heritage schoolhouse

CENTRAL SAANICH — The Saanich Historical Artifacts Society (SHAS) will mark the 100th anniversary of their schoolhouse located at Heritage Acres.

The Saanichton Schoolhouse, a tworoom structure, was built in 1913 school and was originally located on Mt. Newton X Road. It was moved to Heritage Acres and restored in the late 1980’ with the help of the Brentwood Bay Rotary Club.

The celebration will be August 11. Visit www.shas.ca for details.

— News staff

Sidney’s low claims rate

SIDNEY — The Town of Sidney, says its mayor, has one of the lowest insurance claims rates among B.C. municipalities.

Larry Cross recently attended a director’s meeting of the Municipal Insurance Authority and said Sidney “has had few claims and is among the lowest in claims history in B.C.” He credits Town staff for their work in maintining the condition of sidewalks, parks and more — which has kept insurance claims against the Town low. — News staff

Sea wall construction goes ahead Town of Sidney says due diligence was followed; steward not satisfied Steven Heywood News staff

Work on a new sea wall near the shores of Roberts Bay in Sidney resumed Tuesday morning and was completed

by Wednesday, after being ordered to stop prior to last weekend by the municipality until its approval process was reviewed by the town’s legal team.

With that advice back to the town Tuesday morning, Chief Administrative Officer Randy Humble issued a statement, saying that the Town had rescinded the stop work order and outlined the steps the municipality took before granting the property owner permission to build a poured concrete sea wall.

The Town took this step in the wake of complaints levelled by biologist and Friends of Shoal Harbour member Kerry Finley last week. Finley has charged that the Town did not follow its own sea wall policies and procedures and that the sea wall itself falls outside of private property and onto the natural boundary of the Shoal Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary.

Finley has since suggested there could be further legal action against the Town over the loss of what he called the last untouched piece of shorelines and habitat in Roberts Bay. The Town of Sidney disputes this, stating that the sea wall is on private property, as determined by a surveyor on two occasions.

Humble said through the sea wall construction application, the Town had reports from an arborist (as well as its own staff arborist) that

Submitted photo by Kerry Finley

This July, 2012 photo shows the property in question from the Roberts Bay side.

Submitted photo by Kerry Finley

This photo, taken this month, shows the same property and the wooden forms for concrete.

Douglas fir trees on the property would be placed at risk if heavy equipment needed to place rip rap — or large boulders — on the property as a sea wall were used.

The Town’s sea wall policy, he continued, does require the use of rip rap as the primary option for sea walls. It also allows for a poured concrete option if deemed necessary.

In this case, Humble said, an engineer hired by the property owner stated the equipment needed to move rip rap could not access the property, nor the beach to do the job — leaving a concrete wall the owner’s only option.

Humble said the Town referred the plan to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the provincial Ministry of Forests, Land and Range

Operations and obtained legal advice on the process followed from the Town’s solicitor.

“The Town believes it has taken this to the highest level of due diligence,” Humble said, “and we now have to allow the construction.”

The reason the wall was built, confirmed Humble, was the property owner wanted to prevent erosion of the land.

“Their engineer made it clear erosion has occurred,” Humble explained, saying that is the rationale for the sea wall — balancing property rights with the environment.

Finley disputes the impact of erosion on the property in question. He had taken photos of the Bay last year, including the property in question and says it showed little erosion at all.

Finley said the issue here is the natural boundary of the wildlife sanctuary, its definition and whether the Town has allowed an incursion of private property onto public land.

Finley has taken his case to different levels of government, including the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) which he said has jurisdiction over the sanctuary. Humble said he has been questioned by the CWS on the matter.

The News Review has also placed calls to the CWS for comment, but had not heard back as of our press time.

Finley said he is disappointed and angered by the Town’s actions and its lack of willingness to work with the Friends of Shoal Harbour and its neighbours to create an integrated management plan. editor@peninsula newsreview.com

Central Saanich B.C.’s royal baby book opens motorcyclist injured in crash Rider was struck from behind at Ogden Point VICTORIA — A motorcyclist was sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries after being struck from behind by an SUV at Ogden Point Wednesday morning.

Victoria police and a B.C. Ambulance crew quickly attended to a 55-year-old Central Saanich motorcycle rider who was hit in the cruise ship terminal parking lot.

“It looks by preliminary investigation and witness reports that the motorcycle was rear-ended by a fast traveling SUV,” VicPD spokesperson Cst. Mike Russell said.

The VicPD crash team cordoned off the area and spent several hours analyzing and reconstructing the scene. Investigators looked into whether speed or impairment were factors in the collision.

The driver of the vehicle was also taken to hospital, with non-life threatening injuries.

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VICTORIA — The guest book statement follows: “On behalf of the people of British has opened at Government House, online and in Victoria, for people to Columbia, I offer my congratulations send their greetings to the Duke and and best wishes to Their Royal HighDuchess of Cambridge on the birth nesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their son. of their son.

Lieutenant Governor Judith This is a special time for the Duke Guichon announced Monday that a and Duchess and I wish them much health and happiness signing table is availas they embark on able at her official “As third in line, their parenting jourresidence. Messages ney. may also be sent he is the future king of “As the third in online via the GoverCanada” line, he is the future nor General’s website.

King of Canada. For “As third in line, – Judith Guichon Canadians, this hishe is the future King toric occasion is an of Canada,” Guichon said in a statement. “Let us join opportunity to reflect on our strong together in celebration across the and enduring connection to the province to mark the birth of our Crown - an institution that embodies the stable character of our democfuture King.”

Those who wish to send a con- racy. It is an important symbol of gratulatory message online may do unity and stability and represents so by visiting the Governor General’s the vitality of our traditions, the permanence of our institutions and the website: www.gg.ca Communities and businesses set continuity of national life.

“Let us join together in celebraup their own greeting places, collecting infant clothing and gifts for local tion across the province to mark the birth of our future King.” charities.

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Arnold Lim is riding in this year’s Tour de Rock for Black Press.

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“He had three teenage kids and was the same age as me so it was a real eye opener.”

Neville-Rutherford has been a member of the Sidney North Saanich RCMP auxiliary since 2006 and has lived in Sidney since he moved to Canada from the UK almost 20 years ago.

Anyone interested in supporting NevilleRutherford in the Tour or in his fundraising activities can contact him at 250-208-6984. reporter@peninsula newsreview.com

Tour events Mark your calendar for these upcoming Tour de Rock fundraising events on the Saanich Peninsula: Aug. 10 — Garage sale and silent auction at Quality Brake and Muffler (9820 Fifth St. in Sidney). Garage sale starts at 8 a.m. and silent auction starts at 10 a.m.

Aug. 24 — Car wash at Quality Brake and Muffler (9820 Fifth St. in Sidney) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Aug. 28 and 29 — 24-hour bike ride in Sidney. Ride starts Wednesday at 7 p.m. and finishes Thursday at 7 p.m. in the RCMP booth at the Thursday night market in Sidney.

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Sidney food bank is now collecting bottles New bin will help fill the food bank shelves Devon MacKenzie News staff

A new collection bin for refundable containers at the Sidney Lions Food Bank will hopefully help the organization keep their shelves a little more full throughout the year.

Just over a week ago, the Bottle Depot delivered a new blue donation bin to the food bank in Iroquois Park which will be used to generate funds for the well-used service.

“We were so happy to get the bin and we’re really hoping that people in the community

will use it,” said Bev Elder, the food bank administrator.

Anybody can bring their refundable containers and drop them in the bin which is located to the left of the front doors of the food bank (9586 5th St., in Iroquois Park). The containers are then sorted by food bank volunteers and picked up by the Bottle Depot who give the refund back to the food bank.

“Our charity bins offer a great way for charities or not-forprofit groups to raise funds,” said Kelly Gorman, the operations

manager for the Bottle Depot.

“The bin is provided free of charge to the organization and they get the refund from the bottles.”

The Bottle Depot currently has three bins at their own locations which raise funds for charities year round.

A board then decides which charity the funds will go to after three months.

Recently, an initiative started by Saanich Peninsula resident Cindy Lister, the ALS Cycle of Hope, was the recipient of $3,000 that the Bottle Depot raised through

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Sidney Lions Food Bank Administrator Bev Elder shows off the new bottle recyling bin outside of the food bank in Iroquois Park. Any money from refundable containers put into the bin goes back to purchasing food for the food bank which serves over 1,000 Peninsula residents each month. their on-site bins.

“We also place bins at other places which are raising funds for causes,” explained Gorman, adding that there is currently a bin at the

Cadet hall in Esquimalt and a new bin which was just placed this week at the North Saanich Free Ride Park on Littlewood Road.

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SIDNEY — There will be a new operator of the concession facility in Sidney’s Iroquois Park sometime soon.

The current operator, the Peninsula Soccer Association, wrote to the Town on July 3 to terminate the agreement it has to run the concession, citing a lack of manpower, equipment and funding as the reason they could no longer continue.

The association had entered into a five-year agreement with the municipality on January 1, 2011.

Council expressed sympathy for the local group and hoped another might be willing to take it on.

Town staff will draft a request for proposals for the operation of the concession on a twoyear basis.

— Steven Heywood

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B.C. Ferries wants two replacement vessels No preference for local ferry bidders Tom Fletcher Black Press

VICTORIA – BC Ferries has received approval to construct three new mediumsized vessels, and the B.C. government is leaving it up to the corporation to decide where they are built.

“Certainly we’d be very supportive of the ships being built in British Columbia,” Transportation Minister Todd Stone said Tuesday. “Government does not have the purview to dictate to BC Ferries who can and cannot participate in their procurement process. That’s internal to BC Ferries.”

BC Ferry Commissioner Gord Macatee announced approval Tuesday to replace two old ferries scheduled for retirement in 2016.

The 48-year-old Queen of Burnaby serves the Comox-to-Powell River run, and the 49-year-old Queen of Nanaimo sails on the TsawwassenGulf Islands circuit.

BC Ferries announced Tuesday it

will invite qualified bids for two replacement ships with capacity for up to 145 vehicles and 600 passengers. A third with room for 125 vehicles and 600 passengers will be used for peak-season service on the Gulf Islands run and replacement duty when the other two are undergoing maintenance.

Qualified Canadian and international shipyards will be invited to bid, with a contract to be awarded by January 2014. BC Ferries CEO Mike Corrigan said the focus is on cost savings and standardization of vessels, many of which now have different deck heights and dock requirements.

The last major contract was for three Coastal-class ferries, completed by a German shipyard in 2007 and 2008. They now serve the main Vancouver Island runs.

Corrigan said BC Ferries will examine whether new ships can be run on liquefied natural gas instead of diesel. That increases the

construction cost, but fuel savings are projected to pay for themselves in as little as eight years.

The Coastal Ferries Act requires the BC Ferries Commissioner to approve capital expenditures. The order for these ferries specifies that construction must be open to a pool of bidders, and that food and retail services on board must not be subsidized by fare revenue.

Brian Carter, president of Seaspan Shipyards, which operates two facilities in North Vancouver and Victoria Shipyards in Esquimalt, said the announcement is “great news for B.C. Ferries and great news for the overall marine industry in the region.”

Seaspan is currently five months into design work, with construction due to start next spring or summer on a contract to build vessels for the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Coast Guard. The company will assess its capacity to take on such a B.C. Ferries contract once

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B.C. Ferries’ MV Klitsa arrives from Mill Bay. B.C. Ferries is looking to replace two small vessels that serve the Comox to Powell River and Tsawwassen-Gulf Islands runs. it determines the specifics of the request, Carter said.

While Seaspan has never built an LNG powered vessel, Carter said the manufacture of LNG equipment would likely take place off site.

In terms of competing against foreign firms, he said the federal shipbuilding program is giving the company and the B.C. industry in general more competitive capabilities every day.

“True efficiencies [will be] gained once we start constructing vessels.”

B.C. deficit tops $1.1 billion Tom Fletcher Black Press

VICTORIA – The B.C. government finished the last fiscal year with a deficit of $1.15 billion, according to the audited public accounts released Tuesday.

That’s up from $968 million projected as the deficit last year, an indication of the difficult task facing the government to balance the current year’s budget.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong

said the government reduced its spending $668 million in the fiscal year ended March, compared to what was budgeted.

But resource revenues, mostly natural gas, were down $1.1 billion from the 2012 budget.

Health care spending was up $585 million, education spending rose $300 million and social services spending went up $50 million compared to 2011-12. Total program spending increase 2.6 per cent, higher than the target

The Town of Sidney would like to say THANK YOU to the Peninsula Celebrations Society, Participants, Volunteers, Sponsors and Community Organizations who made the 2013 Sidney Days and Canada Day celebrations a resounding success! Your hard work and dedication continuously bring these fun, family events to our community for everyone to enjoy.

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of two per cent de Jong has set for this year.

Deficits and continued spending on capital projects pushed the province’s total debt up $5.6 billion to $55.8 billion.

“We’ve seen the largest debt increase in the history of British Columbia,” NDP finance critic Mike Farnworth said. “And this is a government that ran around during the election campaign saying it’s going to be debt-free B.C.”

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arious individuals and organizations want the province to force B.C. Ferries management to have three newly announced ships built by a B.C. shipyard.

But it’s not as simple as just mandating it, then standing back and telling the ferry corporation to just “get ’er done.”

Even Brian Carter, the president of Seaspan Shipyards, which owns and operates Victoria Shipyards in Esquimalt, acknowledged his company will have to look at what’s being asked for first, before it can determine whether it even has the capacity and infrastructure to commit to such a Best value vs. project. perfect scenario local jobs decision forAthe Capital must be province’s Region would see the ships built in B.C., constructed on time and on budget, and with much of the work and jobs coming to Victoria Shipyards, the largest of Seaspan’s three facilities in this province.

But as the ferry corporation found when it commissioned its Celebration-class vessels some years back, international companies are well-equipped to handle such orders and will provide stiff competition for B.C. firms that are only in recent years picking up steam again.

We’d love to trumpet the regional economic activity that would be created by the further expansion of shipbuilding capabilities in Esquimalt.

At the same time, all of us as taxpayers will be footing the bill for those ferries, and it behooves the corporation to seek out the best value for money in this transaction.

Determining whether the creation of a significant number of short-term, well-paying jobs is more important than the potential to overspend for this project, if the bidding was not opened up to a worldwide competition, is a job for government, not the B.C. Ferry Corporation.

The Liberals, despite saying they will let B.C. Ferries make the final decision, have to make sure the corporation is absolutely clear on government’s viewpoint on that issue.

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Value of nature tough to pin down element that is quickly used up More than 13 per cent of when elements such as sulphur and Canada’s gross domestic product iron oxidize. Only after life evolved depends on healthy ecosystems, a way to exploit the sun’s energy according to Environment Canada through photosynthesis briefing notes obtained was carbon dioxide

by Postmedia News. removed and oxygen By contrast, the released as a byproduct.

Harper government’s Over millions of years, pet economic project, photosynthesis liberated the Alberta oil sands, oxygen, which built up to represents a mere two become 20 per cent of the per cent. But is 13 atmosphere. To this day, per cent a reasonable all green things on land estimate of the “value” of and in oceans maintain nature? With the current perspective that elevates David Suzuki the balance between oxygen and carbon the economy above all Guest column dioxide. else, it’s important to However, since the find ways to include nature’s value in our calculations so Industrial Revolution, we’ve been burning fossil fuels, liberating more it doesn’t get ignored in decisioncarbon dioxide than life can absorb. making. At the same time, it seems It’s accumulating in the atmosphere absurd to try to assign worth to and oceans and that’s driving something so vital we can’t survive climate change. without it.

Back to our experiment. We knew Most of the world’s people are about the toxic atmosphere before now urban dwellers and spend we started out and so we packed increasingly less time outdoors. As helmets and compressed air tanks, such, we assume we can create our habitat. As long as we have parks to which we don before opening the hatch. We exit and wander play in, we don’t think much about about, looking at the eerie, barren nature. So, let’s consider a thought landscape for an hour or two before exercise. becoming thirsty.

Scientists invent a time machine There’s water, but what could to take us back four billion years we trust to drink? Life is part of the before life appeared. We are hydrologic cycle that circulates transported to a time when the water around the world in rivers, planet was sterile, devoid of life. lakes, oceans and air. Soil organisms We open the hatch and go out. such as fungi and bacteria, as well And, we’re all dead! That’s because as plant roots, filter molecules from before life arose, the atmosphere water to render it drinkable. was toxic for animals like us – rich We knew that, too, and so we in CO2, ammonia, sulphur and have water bottles attached to our water, but devoid of oxygen. helmets, connected by straw to our Oxygen is a highly reactive

mouths. After many more hours, we become hungry. But before there was life on Earth there was no food for animals like us because everything we eat was once alive.

We consume the carcasses of animals and plants and absorb their molecules to form every part of our bodies.

We also anticipated that and brought food. In fact, I expected to stay a while and brought seeds to grow greens. But where could I plant them? There would be dust, sand, clay and gravel, but no soil because it’s formed by the accumulation of molecules from the remains of plants and animals.

Finally, the sun sets and although it’s warm because of greenhouse gases, we decide to build a fire so we can sit around and exchange stories. Where could we find fuel to burn? Wood, peat, dung, coal, oil and gas all store the sun’s energy as photosynthetic products that we burn to liberate fire. Before life, there was no fuel. Again, in anticipation we brought wood, kindling and paper and set them up for a fire. But fire requires oxygen, so nothing happens when we strike the match.

The point of this exercise is to illustrate the very foundations of our lives – air, water, photosynthesis, soil and food – are made possible by the web of life that evolved on a once-sterile planet. Living organisms create, cleanse and regenerate those vital elements. Who needs nature? We do. Without nature, we would not be here. How do we put an economic value on that?

‘It seems absurd to assign worth to something we can’t survive without.’

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Sidney awards new contract to collect trash as well as kitchen and organic waste Steven Heywood News staff

A new garbage collection contract in the Town of Sidney will cost taxpayers 56 per cent more when it comes into effect in January, 2014.

Town council voted recently to award a five-year, $1.67 million garbage collection deal to Emterra Group. The contract will include weekly garbage pickup — as per the current practice in Sidney — as well as collection of separated kitchen and other organic waste.

Town staff pointed out only Sidney and View Royal offer weekly garbage pickup, noting most municipalities in the south Island region have gone to biweekly collection.

The new contract, which includes disposal of trash from the Town’s downtown garbage containers, will cost taxpayers around $156 per year, per household. That’s compared with the current contract costing only $100. That, staff stated, will

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Councillor Mervyn LougherGoodey asked why the Town is sticking with weekly pickup, when the cost will increase significantly.

Jokingly, Coun. Steve Price said there would be a 100 per cent increase in smell if Sidney didn’t stay with weekly service.

“It’s not just garbage any more,” added Coun. Marilyn Loveless, noting that the Capital Regional District’s Heartland landfill will no longer accept compostables or organics after January, 2015.

That’s the reason for the new contract, she said.

Lougher-Goody also wondered about the lowest bidder being quite a bit under the other two companies.

Alpine (Sidney’s current contractor) bid just over $2 million and BFI Canada bid $4.1 million.

Council approved the new garbage contract, with Lougher-Goodey the lone holdout.

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Shakespeare set for Sidney in September See the Bard on Beacon during Sidney Shakespeare by the Sea Devon MacKenzie News staff

Sidney will be getting a little more culture this summer as Sidney Shakespeare by the Sea is set to take the stage in September in an unusual location.

Beacon Park and the bandshell will play host performers from Victoria Shakespeare by the Sea and Discovery Dance Theatre Sept. 6 to 8 in performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet.

Sidney Shakespeare by the Sea is being produced by the TIDES Group and organizer Steve Duck said he’s looking forward to bringing the productions to Sidney.

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Duck said that although he already has an inkling that the Saanich Peninsula will have an appetite for the event, this year’s program will serve as a gauge for how much interest there is in having the event become an annual thing.

“I see the weekend in September as a possible gateway for something bigger, something more like a festival,” he said.

With Sidney already being a destination for theatrical and musical productions thanks to the Charlie White Theatre at the Mary Winspear Centre, Duck said it was a natural choice

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“It really is an amazfor the Town to host an outdoor theatre event ing, unique location to host something like in the summer.

“And depending on this in and it’s going to weather, we will always be really fun,” he said.

Five performances have the option to move the performance are scheduled for The indoors at the Char- Bard on Beacon Sidney Shakespeare lie White, by the Sea. On so it will go Friday, Sept. 6 on rain or at 7:30 p.m. A shine,” he Midsummer added.

Night’s Dream The idea will be perwas pitched formed at the to the Town Charlie White of Sidney Theatre (this early last is the only s u m m e r performance but time scheduled constraints Steve Duck to be at the and bylaws Mary Winwhich forbid events requiring tickets spear Centre).

On Saturday, Sept. in Beacon Park put the idea on hold until this 7 there will be performances at 2 p.m. and year.

Now, Duck said, with 7 p.m. outdoors in Beathe bylaw revised and con Park of A Midsumticket sales started, it’s mer Night’s Dream and all systems go for the on Sunday, Sept. 8 there will be performances new event.

at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Beacon Park of Romeo and Juliet.

Performances scheduled outside may be moved to the Mary Winspear Centre due to weather conditions.

All performances are ticketed with proceeds supporting the Victoria Shakespeare by the Sea and Discovery Dance Theatre.

Tickets, $25, can be purchased from the Mary Winspear Centre box office by calling 250-656-0275 or by visiting www.marywinspear.ca.

Seating at all events is on a first come, first served basis (festival seating).

For additional event information, email info@tidesgroup.com. reporter@peninsula newsreview.com

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This is notice to the residents of the Town of Sidney and the District of North Saanich that the two adjoining municipalities have requested the Province of British Columbia to adjust their legal boundaries such that the portions of Canora Road and McDonald Park Road shown outlined in heavy black on the sketch plans below, which are currently within District of North Saanich, would become part of Town of Sidney.

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Derelict boats in Brentwood Bay eyed for action council nEWS

District of Central Saanich - Monday, July 22, 2013 Devon MacKenzie News staff

• A member of the gallery spoke on concerns she shares with other members of the community surrounding derelict boats and floating docks in Brentwood Bay and Tod Inlet. Former councillor Adam Olsen also spoke, suggesting a follow up

by Transport Canada on obstacles located in the navigable waters in the area might be in order.

• A property on Springlea Road is a step closer to being subdivided after council approved a minimum frontage exemption that would allow the owners to apply to panhandle the lot.

Originally the owners had applied to subdivide the lots side-byside, but it was decided a panhandle, something that hasn’t been done in the area for years, would be more suitable.

“It may be that we haven’t approved a panhandle lot in 12 years but we have to listen to what the residents want,” said Councillor Carl Jensen, noting that neighbours in

the area were opposed to the long, skinny sideby-side lots originally brought forward.

quently use the Gulf Islands National Park for overnight trips.

The district will work with the CRD to get the pilot going and report

• A trail that would link Butterfield Park and the Gail Wickens Trail could be the result of a zoning amendment that would allow the subdivision of a 10-acre property on Thomson Place. The applicants are asking to subdivide the property into two pieces and are gifting the trail as part of the agreement. The costs to do the work to the trail, including surveying and assessment, would be covered by the applicant.

• A new salt/sand shed will be erected on the southwest corner of the public works yard on Keating X Road after council approved a development permit for the structure.

• A pilot project offering overnight parking for kayakers leaving from Island View Beach will begin sometime this summer and run until late fall.

Central Saanich staff and the CRD indicated there is an appetite for overnight parking for kayakers who fre-

Overloaded trailer rolls into the ditch

back to council on the results.

• A review of the soil removal and deposit bylaw was deferred to

a committee meeting.

• Council did the first three readings on two animal control bylaws which will ban inten-

tional feeding of wildlife (deer, raccoons, rabbits and squirrels) in the municipality. The bylaw, which is part of the CRD deer manNational Energy Board

National Energy Board

agement strategy, will most likely be officially adopted at one of council’s next meetings. reporter@peninsula newsreview.com Office national de l’énergie

Office national de l’énergie

Public Notice

FUNDING AVAILABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NEB REGULATORY PROCESS REGARDING THE TRANS MOUNTAIN EXPANSION PROJECT National Energy

Office national

Board l’énergie The National Energy Board (NEB or Board) will make funds available under its ParticipantdeFunding Program (PFP) to assist directly affected persons to participate in the regulatory process of the proposed Trans Mountain National Energy Office national Expansion project.

Board de l’énergie

Trans Mountain ULC intends to seek Board approval to expand the existing Trans Mountain pipeline system from its current capacity of 300,000 bpd (barrels per day), to approximately 890,000 bpd. The application is expected to be filed with the NEB in late 2013. For more information on this project, please visit www.neb-one.gc.ca, where you can sign up for process and PFP updates via e-mail.

The NEB will hold public information sessions in fall 2013 in the vicinity of the proposed pipeline to explain the Participant Funding Program and the hearing process.

Funds will be made available to help persons who are directly affected or have relevant information or expertise review and comment on a project application to be submitted by the proponent, Trans Mountain. Funding must be used to prepare for and participate in the hearing process, which will be announced by the Board at a later date. To receive funding, all approved recipients will be required to apply to participate and be granted intervenor status in the NEB’s regulatory process for this project.

A funding review committee, independent of the regulatory process, will consider all applications for funding and make recommendations on the allocation of funds.

Funding applications can be submitted beginning now until 60 days after the Board releases its list of intervenors. The hearing date has not yet been set, as an application has not yet been filed. When the NEB sets a hearing date, that information will be made public. Funding will only be awarded for hearing related activities conducted after your PFP application has been approved. Please review the Participant Funding Program Guide to determine when and how to apply for funding and what funding will cover.

Interested persons are encouraged to review information on the proposed project before submitting an application.

This information, as well as the Participant Funding Program Guide, the Application for Funding Form and the Contribution Agreement can be found on the Board’s website (www.neb-one.gc.ca) under Public Participation.

For more information contact:

CENTRAL SAANICH — A 33-year-old North Saanich man had a bout of bad luck when his utility trailer, which was overloaded with plywood, caused his vehicle and the trailer to veer and roll over into the ditch on the side of the highway near Mount Newton X Road around noon on July 22.

The man was not injured and was charged with having an overweight trailer and vehicle.

Heather Dodds Participant Funding Coordinator Tel: 1-800-899-1265 ext. 3130 E-mail: PFP.PAFP@neb.one.gc.ca

— News staff/Central Saanich Police Service

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49 each

LADY SPEED STICK STAINGUARD (65g - 76g) ANTIPERSPIRANT/DEODORANT, IVORY (709mL) or OLAY (295mL - 400mL) BODY WASH Selected Types

6

each

EQUALS 32 ROLLS

HUGGIES or PAMPERS SUPER BOXED DIAPERS Selected Types & Sizes

7

each

HEAD & SHOULDERS CLINICAL (420mL) or SHAMPOO (700mL) Selected Types

30

99

each

6

TAMPAX TAMPONS (40’s), ALWAYS PADS (20’s - 48’s) or LINERS (60’s - 120’s) Selected Types

HUGGIES or PAMPERS BABY WIPES Selected Types & Sizes - 6.99

99¢

99

each

each

ROYALE DOUBLE (16 Roll) or MEGA (12 Roll) BATHROOM TISSUE Limit 4. After limit 8.99

G•U•M MANUAL TOOTHBRUSH (1’s), AQUAFRESH (90mL) or COLGATE TOTAL (85mL) TOOTHPASTE Selected Types

699

2299

99

2/ 99 or 4.99 each

Saturday, July 27 to Thursday, August 1

LIFE BRAND COMPLETE MEAL REPLACEMENT (6 x 235mL) or ON THE GO (6 x 237mL) SHAKES Selected Types

4

99 each

BELLE COLOR HAIR COLOUR Selected Types

1599

%

each

each

off*

LIFE BRAND VITAMINS or NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS Selected Types & Sizes

30

%

off*

RIMMEL LONDON LASTING FINISH PRO NAIL ENAMEL, SALLY HANSEN NAIL TREATMENTS or ENAMEL Selected Types

While quantities last. We reserve the right to limit quantities. *Our regular price. †Offer valid on the purchase total of eligible products using a valid Shoppers Optimum Card® after discounts and redemptions and before taxes from Saturday, July 27 to Monday, July 29, 2013 only. Maximum 18,500 points per offer regardless of total dollar value of transaction. Excludes prescription purchases, products that contain codeine, non-pointable items, tobacco products (where applicable), lottery tickets, stamps, transit tickets and passes, event tickets, gift cards, prepaid card products and Shoppers Home Healthcare® locations. Offer applies to photofinishing services that are picked up and paid for on the days of the offer only. Not to be used in conjunction with any other points promotions or offers. See cashier for details. Shoppers Optimum Points® and Shoppers Optimum Bonus Points® have no cash value but are redeemable under the Shoppers Optimum and Shoppers Optimum Plus programs for discounts on purchases at Shoppers Drug Mart. The savings value of the points set out in this offer is calculated based on the Shoppers Optimum Program® rewards schedule in effect at time of this offer and is strictly for use of this limited time promotion. The savings value obtained by redeeming Shoppers Optimum Points will vary depending on the Shoppers Optimum Program reward schedule at time of redemption and other factors, details of which may be found at shoppersdrugmart.ca. ® 911979 Alberta Ltd.

BENADRYL ALLERGY CAPLETS (100’s), REACTINE ALLERGY LIQUID GELS (25’s) or TABLETS (30’s - 36’s) Selected Types

50

%

off*

SELECTED SUMMER TOYS, PATIO FURNITURE, DECOR or ACCESSORIES While quantities last.

No rainchecks