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There are a number of items missing from the public boat launch, which were in the original Request For Proposal (RFP) with Heavy Metal Marine in 2009. The proposal called for concrete stairs to the beach, an ancillary building and a fish cleaning station.

The grand total of the November 2010 contract for the boat launch was for $1,099,197.22.

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Camp Barnard transformation Pirjo Raits

Sooke News Mirror

Camp Barnard has always been an adventuresome place for young people. The 251acre property belongs to Scouts Canada Greater Victoria Area and many a scout has enjoyed the lake, camping, camaraderie and programs offered at Camp Barnard on Young Lake Road.

In 2015 the camp is expecting 3,000 scouts for the Pacific Jamboree, a week-long gathering of scouts of all ages. Camp Barnard is getting spruced up and readied for the event and seeking accreditation from the World Organization of the Scout Movement. In Canada there are only two accredited camps, both located in Ontario.

Camp Barnard would become the only camp in Western Canada.

What this accreditation will mean is that the camp would be able to hold adventure camps which would provide more structured and challenging events than they can presently do.

These programs would

be available to youth from the general public, not just Scouts.

The improvements, which are now ongoing, will bring the camp up to a level where other groups can rent it for their own use. Schools, church groups and any other youth-oriented group can use the facility.

“Some schools can only go to an accredited camp,” said Denyse Koo, speaking for Scouts Canada and Camp Barnard. “A lot of what we do is leadership skills training, teaching you to be in charge.”

With improvements the camp could also be designated as a safe place or receiving shelter if there was ever a tsunami or an earthquake in the area.

“We have it in place and we can help other people,” said Koo. A precedent had already been set when Koo used the skills and equipment to help neighbours who had nothing during the storm of 2006.

The funding for the improvements will, in part, hopefully come from the Aviva Commu-

nity Fund competition.

The proposal, called the Scouts Adventure Camp Development, is seeking $50,000 from Aviva. The way to secure funding is through an online voting process which is in three stages. The funding will help establish core educational and challenge programs for all age groups. The voting has already started but if Scouts Canada gets the first nod, there are more opportunities to vote.

Scouts Canada got funding years ago for

families that couldn’t afford to enroll their children in scouts. The cost is $150 per year for the weekly program.

Scout programs are available for all age groups, ranging from five years of age to 26. Kids can join at any time and all of the groups are for both boys and girls.

Of interest, said Koo, is that “man tracker” Terry Grant is now the Chief Scout and meets with youth as an inspiration.

For more information go to: www.scouts.ca.

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Le Sooke Spa’s New Location @ The Best Western Prestige Oceanfront Resort After a whirl wind of a move, Le Sooke Spa is all settled in at our new location.

The staff and I are enjoying the extra space and ambience of our new home.

It’s hard to realize when you have outgrown your current space, but we sure have now! Our new location provides our spa guests with four spacious treatment rooms, including two double rooms, steam showers, a romance treatment room with a soaker tub for two with ocean views. We now have three pedicure chairs in a private treatment room, overlooking the ocean and just a few steps outside we can accommodate up to 4 massages on our outside deck. Quite a spa experience.

Staff & executives from the hotel have shared our enthusiasm, & have provided us with the upmost support & kindness with our move. Special thank you to hotel owners Joe Huber & VP of operations Tanya Stroinig, and hotel GM Jacob Cramp.

In the short time we have been at our new location we have been able to provide a number of renovations. Special thanks to the following local companies that ensured our move & renovations took place with the upmost care & efficiency, Clarkston Construction, West Coast Design, Richardson Brushworks Painting, Riptide Plumbing , Dan & Son Electric, and Bohn Sheet Metal.

Special continued thanks to our entire spa cliental, new cliental, & of course Le Sooke Spa staff for all their flexibility & enthusiasm with our change of location, my mom, husband, & a heart warm thank you to my bull dog of a mentor RC. This change of location had enabled us to employ additional Sooke locals, & be in a situation to bring on haircuts/styling & professional make up.

We welcome tours, we are open 7 days a week, & please check out our website for details with our special “Sooke local” pricing. We strive to customize & accommodate to everyone.

For those guests and/or gift card holders of the previous spa operator “Ocean Palm” they can be contacted at their Sidney location, 250-655-7070.

We will be continuing with our mobile spa services to the world renowned Sooke Harbour House and Point no point resort as well, same staff, same service, and of course same smiles.

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Sooke Child, Youth, and Sunday breakfast brunch, small $10.95 Large $13.95 Bucketoof Corona or $18.95 Thursdays 10-11 a.m. Nachos1 p.m.

Holy Trinity Church Halloween party 5:30 p.m., 9pacific Family Centre, 9:30-11:00. a.m. to 1 p.m., $5, Nachos $13.95 Add refried beans$10.95 $3.95 Large Add beef $3.95 Homemade Margaritas pacifico $18.95 Dinner 6 p.m., show 7-9.

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Tea $2.00 Bottled water $1.25 ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Coffee Medium $2.00 Large $2.50 Knox Pres. Church. All Made fresh with cheese,lettuce & a side of refried beans with rice SOOKE PHILHARMONIC SWIM $2Beef swim, p.m.$10.95 2 Tornados or 1-3 Chicken Cribbage 7 p.m.

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Fresh Portuguese bun with pulled pork Swim atPizza SEAPARC’s Prestige, 7 p.m.

Karaoke with Pete & Taco Salad $11.95 Caesar Salad $7.45 Tortilla Soup or Clam Chowder Pulled or Pork $9.95$9.95 Steak Chicken Veggie $7.95 Euchre 6:30 p.m.

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Prestige Hotel:$3.95 6929 Black West Beans Coast$3.95 Rd Tortillas - corn or flour (package) $6.50 Refried Beans SEAPARC: 2168 Phillips Rd $2.25 Dessert Square $2.50 Nacho chips (Large Bag) $11.95 Churros Sooke Child, Youth & Family Centre: 2145 Townsend Rd www.thelazygeckosooke.ca Village Foods: 103-6661 Sooke Rd Zenwest Meditation: 4970 Naigle Rd

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Hallowe’en Party/Open Discussion. Sooke Child, Youth and Family Centre 10-11:30 a.m.

LIBRARY ACTIVITIES Pre-school storytime, ages 3-5. 10 a.m. Pls register 250-642-3022.

Knitting circle. 6:30 - 8 p.m. Free, all levels.

ADULT WALKING GROUP SEAPARC. 10-11 a.m.

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FLU SHOT CLINIC Sooke Child, Youth & Family Centre (CASA) 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

HALLOWEEN SKATE Costume skate 7-8:15 p.m.

Sooke Child, Youth, and Family Centre, 9:30-11:00 a.m. (250) 642-5152 for info.

FREE ARTS AND CRAFTS 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. Sooke Library. All ages, no registration required.

ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Shuffleboard 6:30 p.m.

NASCAR meet & pick 7 p.m.

SOOKE FOOD CHI SOCIETY Volunteer at Sunriver Community Garden.

1-4(ish) p.m.

TOASTMASTERS Upstairs at Village Foods, 7 p.m. For info 642-7520.

Ages 13 - 25, 4-7 p.m. Family Medical Clinic.

All Community events which purchase a display ad will appear in our current community event calendar at no charge.

FREE EVENTS will be listed at no charge, space permitting.

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CounCil briefs

Up Sooke PRO D DAY

OCTOBER 25 IS scheduled Pro D Day for students in Sooke. Watch out for kids.

COPs fOR CAnCeR

ThE COPS fOR Cancer Tour de Rock made well over $1,175,000 in their annual fund-raising efforts.

Thanks to all those kids, teens and adults who helped in the success of this effort.

Humpback whales in the sooke vicinity.

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KnOx PRESByTERIan ChuRCh is holding their annual Craft and Treasure Sale on Saturday, October 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2110 Church Road.

UnDeR THe B ThE SOOKE SEnIORS Drop-In Centre holds regular bingo games every Tuesday and Thursday at the Sooke Community hall dining room from 12:45 to 3 p.m. you don’t need to be a senior but you do need to be 19.

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A whale’s tail or two

Sooke is bloomin’ lovely Sooke News Mirror

Judging a town by its appearance is easy, but judging a town by what it is endeavoring to do is a lot more difficult.

Sooke once again came away from the Communities in Bloom competition with five blooms.

This means a lot. It means the community is striving to maintain its small town appeal while encouraging sustainable growth with advanced environmental enhancement projects.

The Communities in Bloom (CiB) judges came to Sooke and were given tours of most of the places Sooke is proud of. The judges were squired about by Brenda Parkinson and CiB volunteers who are all part of the Mayor’s Advisory Panel on the Arts and Beautification.

They drove by places such as: John Phillips Memorial Park, Charters Creek salmon Interpretive Centre, Whiffin Spit Park, Ayre Manor and Broomhill Play Park; and visited Mariners’ Village, the Sooke Community Hall and Ed Macgregor Park and

the boardwalk. This impressed the judges.

What they saw was a community trying hard to maintain tidiness, environmental action, heritage conservation, urban forestry, landscape and floral displays. Sooke attained 84.4 per cent resulting in five blooms.

“This gives good ideas on what needs to be done,” said Parkinson. “I’m so pleased we did so well.”

The judges also came up with ways Sooke could improve. They pointed out obvious upgrading that could be done to local landscapes like replacing broken pavers and tiles and discouraging signs made out of printed paper and tacking them to boards, trees and other landscape elements. Scores of other doable improvements were made by judges Heather Edwards and Catherine Kennedy.

Overall they were impressed with Sooke’s efforts and mentioned the volunteers who are involved in every aspect of the community and the special events such as the Sooke Fine Arts Show and the Philly Fling,

which helped in earning the five blooms.

Sooke won a Criteria Award for Heritage Conservation sponsored by the Provincial Capital Commission. What impressed the judges were things such as the murals at the community hall, Millennium Memorial Park, Woodside Farm, protection of Garry Oaks, heritage apple varieties being grown at Sunriver Community Garden. The business and cultural partnerships with the T’Sou-ke First Nation and the preservation of their culture was noted as well.

A summary of some of the issues that were before District of Sooke council at their regular meeting on October 15, 2013.

Bylaws Council gave first, second and third reading to the Fee Bylaw Amendment which will sees proposed fee of $50 to be implemented by the RCMP for fingerprinting. The revenue from the collection of the fees would go to offset staffing costs at the detachment. There was some discussion on the escalating costs associated with the RCMP contract.

Staff Sgt. Steve Wright stated, that if the district didn’t sign the agreement (for police services), “you would have 90 days to get your own police force.”

Wright said that fingerprinting was not just related to criminals but was a revenue stream the district was missing out on.

Council adopted Bylaw 577 (Knox Centre), Bylaw 578 (Harbourside Cohousing) and Bylaw 579 (2078 Kennedy Street).

Third reading of Bylaw 581 met with a variety of comments from the public as well as council. The bylaw was being put into place to amend the definition of “lodge” as it relates to the development at Silver Spray.

Gail Hall questioned council as to how “lodge” defines Private Residence Club which is fractional ownership. She said CRD Bylaws 2950 and 2951 has never been rescinded and thereby CD zones could not be touched, meaning Silver Spray was a commercial zone and no rental or private ownerships would be allowed.

Mayor Wendal Milne said the district had received legal advice and council gave the bylaw third reading and adopted the bylaw. Councillor Kerry Reay was opposed stating council was rushing this and clearly there

was more work to be done.

Reports requiring action Council approved an additional $65,000 into the 2014-1018 budget for an additional public servant at the Sooke RCMP detachment. The new position will have someone taking over responsibility for care and handling of exhibits, transcriptions and criminal record checks thereby freeing up officers. It is estimated that the additional public servant will only cost the district $38,570 because of the increase in fees generated in the fees bylaw.

Director of Finance Michael Dillabaugh stated that the detachment hasn’t had a support staff increase in 20 years.

“We’re at a point where we need assistance from the District of Sooke,” said Wright. “We are asking for short term relief.”

It is estimated that the property owners in Sooke will see a two per cent increase in property taxes in 2014. Mayor Milne said this was a realistic starting point and a target they would work towards. Coun. Rick Kasper was opposed stating there were no guarantees that it was going to be two per cent.

“I can’t support this recommendation,” said Kasper, “it’s too much of a blank cheque… I know we can do better, two per cent just doesn’t wash.”

The rest of council disagreed and voted in favour.

Council wants district staff to be in place during the Christmas holiday season and turned down a recommendation to close the District of Sooke office from December 23 through to January 1.

A rezoning application for property at 1781 Minnie Road and 7057

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Let the hauntings begin...

Eeerie Acres not for the timid Britt Santowski Sooke News Mirror

For three brief days this Halloween season, an East Sooke couple is once again throwing open their house and property, in order to scare the pants off Halloween revellers.

Lindsay and Parry Trowell’s “Eerie Acres Halloween Creature Sanctuary” creaks open it’s gates for three days this year: October 25 and 26 — the Friday and Saturday before Halloween — and again on Thursday, October 31, all three days between the darkened hours of 7 to 10 p.m. Eerie Acres Halloween Creature Sanctuary is located at 1468 Woodcock Road in East Sooke.

The event “started it as a little hobby, like one room in our house, just our fun passion for scaring people,” said Lindsay Trowell in conversation with the Sooke News Mirror.

The idea was born from an effort to fund their nuptials back in 2005.

“When my husband and I got married back in 2005, we wanted to have what’s called a Stag-and-Doe to raise money for our wedding … we had a Halloween party. So we made all sorts of gravestones, and we hand-made a bunch of decorations for that. And we had this party, and then we were stuck with all these decorations and for a couple of years

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Event co-founder and principal player Parry Trowell poses as the scary dude with a chainsaw. we couldn’t use them because we were in Metchosin and didn’t have space. We bought our house in 2006, and we could put up our graveyard.”

From there, the Halloween theme snuck on to the veranda, slithered into the home office, invaded more rooms inside the house, and crawled out into the woods, to become the full-fledged event it is today.

“The idea behind it is … it’s a sanctuary for anything that goes Bump in the Night. So, we have all sorts of creatures, from haunted apparitions to your typical Halloween witches to creatures you don’t really know what they are. And we’ve got 14

or 15 different stations this year, with different features in each one, and it goes in the house and then through the acreage.”

There is no age group recommendation. It’s more based on the ability to withstand tension and fear. For the younger souls, it’s up to the parents; for the older ones, well, know your limits and fear within it. The tours, which are guided, are largely based on the sense the guide gets from each group going through. For instance, if there are younger children in the crowd, the story of the Bone Crusher’s rehabilitation into a tooth fairy might not be told.

“If it’s an adult group,”

says Trowell, “we might kick it up a notch.”

“And then we have the Full Scare,” laughs Trowell, “where they would do the full tour into the woods and through the back part.”

There is a bailout area where the scared and faint of heart can recapture their happy thoughts.

The tour can take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes to complete, depending on the each group, and there are often four staggered groups going through the house at any given time. There is usually a line-up to get in, and the Trowells have an area with shelter from the rain (should it be raining) where people wait their turn. And they don’t rush people through as there is a lot to see and experience.

“There is always a guide,” confirms Trowell.

In part, the guide is there to keep the visitor safe and to keep their experience intense and surreal; and in part, because this tour happens on private property and the Trowells want to safeguard their own house. Indeed, there are anywhere from 450 to 600 people who pass through their house in the short nine hours that they are open (three days, three hours each day).

With this large influx of people, the Trowells are also heavily reliant on volunteers.

“We need at least 16 volunteers to make it happen.”

Lindsay Trowell’s first appreciation goes to her partner in crime, husband Parry Trowell.

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“My shout out would need to go to Parry Trowell (husband) the man with the dark fairy dust and makes it all happen.”

One of their key volunteers is Shannon Drewery.

“Shannon Drewery, the gate keeper of all things evil, has been a part of Eerie Acres since the very first creature arrived on our door step,” writes Trowell in an email. Additional gratitude goes to Chief Roger Beck and his family, and the entire East Sooke Volunteer Fire Department “creatures for their years [of] volunteered service at our sanctuary.”

Some of the volunteers serve as actors, participating as the many on-site creatures living (or deceased) in the sanctuary.

“We couldn’t hunt... oh I mean haunt with out you!” acknowledges Trowell.

There may still be the opportunity to volunteer, so if you are interested, contact Lindsay Trowell at lptrowell@ yahoo.ca.

The Trowells aspired to create a geographically accessible event, available to residents of Sooke, as well as one that is financially affordable. They ask for a donation, with a suggested amount of $3 per person. Alternatively, you can bring a non-perishable food item. All of the food will go to the Food Bank; all of the funds raised will go to the Friends of Copper Mine Park, located in East Sooke.

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It’s hard to believe that these smiling faces, so many of them well-known to us in our daily lives were photographed almost exactly half a century ago – and they don’t really look any older now, either.

You might still meet many of them anywhere on southern Vancouver Island today, though a few make their homes farther afield. Good sports that they were, these members of 1st Sooke Girl Guide Company took the roles of both boys and girls to become a junior dance team which entered the Victoria Day Parade and earned recognition in competitions during the 1960s.

Girl Guide Captain of the day was Valerie Tveit, assisted by Lieutenant Valerie Clark.

The girls wore costumes in Hardanger style, crafted by members of Victoria’s Sons of Norway Eidsvold Lodge, and their dance instructors were Ardy Wickheim and Mrs. Hjalmar Linnes.

At the rear: Ruth Richardson (Heeg); Betty Anderson (Isaac); Beverly Clark (Isaac); Evelyn Linell (Rhode); Marie Oakes (Wilson); Wendy Wilson (Milne). Middle: Ardis Roberts (Myette);

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The photo was taken in the old Sooke Legion Hall, the meeting place for Guides and Brownies. This first Legion Hall started out as a recycled store originally owned by businessman Fred Thornber and relocated to a site just west of today’s Legion Cenotaph on Eustace Road. The structure was enlarged

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The Zero Mile Diet author to speak The ZeroMile Diet – From Garden to Table

Celebrated organic gardener, writer and food activist Carolyn Herriot is making a return visit this month to the Sooke Garden Club. For more than 25 years, Carolyn has been growing her own food, educating communities and individuals about the need for greater food self-sufficiency, and saving/producing seeds – all in the interest of building communities that are healthier and more sustainable.

Over the past decade or so, eating local foods has become much more ‘the thing to do.’

The reasons are varied: to take a load off the environment by reducing transportation costs and the use of fossil fuels; to support local farmers and the local economy; to have more say/control over food safety and production; to ensure crop diversity; to enjoy fresher and tastier fruits and vegetables every day. The Vancouver-based 100-mile diet experiment did a lot to popularize the benefits of eating locally, but Carolyn brings everything into perspective much closer to home.

And she does this in her own inimitable style – with down-toearth practical information, genuine enthusiasm, and humour.

In her presentation ‘The Zero-Mile Diet – From Garden to Table,’ Carolyn will take the audience into her food garden and into her

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Carolyn Herriot will speak at the October 23 meeting for the Sooke Garden Club.

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All forms of gardening – whether backyard, lasagna style, keyhole style or container-based – are healthy, easy, sustainable, responsible and fun. And the results are both delicious and nutritious! This presentation is about REAL food and how eating it changes one’s life for the better.

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Please join us Wednesday, October 23, 7:30 p.m., at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church on Townsend Road.

Also on the agenda: the Club’s Fall Plant Sale and member judging of entries in the Photo Contest. New members are always welcome.

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Council’s role is about community It’s about a year before the citizens of Sooke have the opportunity to elect a new mayor and council.

It may be time to think about the job each elected official has done over the past year and a half. Have they done a good job?

The role of council is sometimes misinterpreted by council itself. Councillors are there to consider the well-being and interests of the municipality and its community and contribute to development and evaluation of policies and programs. They are the policy makers, the mayor is the chief executive officer and it is the CEO who gives direction to municipal officers. It is not council’s job to micromanage internal municipal affairs.

When council oversteps their perimeters this can make the entire organization dysfunctional. At council meetings there is often differing opinions, and there should be, but what should not happen is blatant disrespect for the mayor or any other members of council, or municipal officers. While disagreement is common and expected, what is not wanted is interference in matters not the province of council. It’s disrespectful and one cannot even imagine how the people hired to do the jobs at city hall feel.

While some on council may be vying for the mayor’s chair, they had better remember their past record. If they can’t play nice and think they know more than anyone else, chances are others, like the electorate, have them figured out. Sitting on council is one thing, but sitting in the mayor’s chair is another. It is often a thankless, time consuming and extensive job and one that is harder than it appears. People love you when things go their way and dislike you when they don’t. That is a sad fact.

And to top it all off, the pay isn’t that great either.

Local government is the closest to the people and council has to place the community’s interests above its own and have pride in the reputation of the municipal corporation. It’s your legacy.

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B.C. oil spill study misinterpreted BC Views

The release of the B.C. government’s detailed study into oil spill response capability off the West Coast created the usual brief wave of media shock and horror.

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And that’s in the summer!

The winter recovery rate would be more like three per cent.

Talk radio and website headlines set the narrative in minutes. How could anyone even consider running oil tankers through that pristine B.C. coastal area? It’s crazy!

Here’s the big fact clearly stated in the study by U.S.-based Nuka Research and Planning Group, and ignored by most of the media and public. There are hundreds of tankers filled with crude oil sailing through these stormy seas every year. It’s been going on

since Alaska North Slope crude was developed in the 1970s.

Six of the seven oil spill simulations run by Nuka are based on Alaska crude, because that’s overwhelmingly what has been shipped along B.C.’s North Coast for 40 years.

This lack of crude oil spill response capability has existed the entire time, without a whisper of protest or media attention, even after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster near the oil’s point of origin.

The current narrative, hammered home by U.S.controlled environmental groups and their aboriginal partners in the “Great Bear Rainforest,” is that only Canadian oil is a threat.

How much Alaska crude is shipped down the B.C. coast? According to Nuka’s analysis, it’s currently about 38 million cubic metres each year.

That’s enough to fill B.C. Place stadium to the roof – 15 times.

The Sierra-GreenpeaceForestEthics-Dogwood gang, a sort of billionairebankrolled green Team America, has worked

hard to promote the falsehood that “tar sands” oil is vastly worse than that nice fair-trade Alaska stuff. Their claims about acidity and abrasiveness of diluted bitumen didn’t hold up, and it’s still hotly contested whether the heavy oil in diluted bitumen would float, emulsify or sink in actual sea conditions.

When the federal government announced a study to determine what spilled bitumen would do in North Coast waters, that too was attacked by the Green Party as a secret scheme to prop up Enbridge’s pipeline proposal. So it’s a scandal when you don’t know the answers, and it’s a scandal when you try to find them.

Another question that gets little attention is whether it’s better for spilled oil to sink rather than wash up on beaches.

Crude oil is, if you’ll pardon the expression, organic. Spills produce a huge spike in oil-eating bacteria that leads to an increase in fish populations at a certain stage.

This was documented in a 1994 book called Degrees

of Disaster, written by an expert who stayed on in Valdez for four years, long after the TV cameras and grandstanding politicians went home.

Victoria-based Dogwood seized on a 2012 Nuka study done for the Haisla Nation at Kitimat, which found that in ocean conditions that are present more than half of the time, there would be no immediate way to respond to a spill at sea.

Dogwood’s “no tankers campaign director” hinted that this information was intentionally left out of the B.C. government study, and the media ate it up.

No tankers? Better check again.

Dogwood’s mission is clearly not to protect the B.C. coast from oil spills.

If it were, they would be protesting the ongoing risk from Alaska tankers.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalNews.com Twitter:@tomfletcherbc E-mail: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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We asked: In your opinion, which government has the most impact on our day-to-day lives: municipal, provincial or federal?

Provincial and federal right now, with all the scandals going on.

Provincial, because they seem to have the most power over everything.

Municipal. That’s the one I deal with the most. They are local.

Naomi Ponech Sooke

Lynda Kelly Sooke

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Federal, as they are the ones who give licenses to accredited hospitals, to practice and maintain standards.

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BCTF president responds to Raptors Fletcher also at risk Tom Fletcher has seen a lot in his long career as a journalist in B.C. He probably remembers how the BCTF and other unions fought for pay equity for women. He might even remember the protests that greeted B.C. teachers at their Annual General Meeting in the 1990s when we voted to support Gay Straight Alliances and safe schools for all kids. He also knows about the work we have done to promote Aboriginal education enhancement agreements, employment equity for Aboriginal teachers, and various anti-racism programs.

Every single one of those things falls under what we call “social justice.” But somehow, Tom Fletcher found an odd, outdated, and angry way to turn the work teachers do to promote tolerance, fairness, and personal responsibility into a dirty word.

No, Mr. Fletcher, teachers do not “indoctrinate” students. In our classrooms, we work hard to educate our students in a way that lets them explore the world around them, ask questions, and come to their own conclusions.

Jim Iker, President BC Teachers’ Federation

Thank you Doni Eve for your informative letter (“Know the laws!”

Oct.16, Sooke News Mirror) regarding the harm done from indiscriminate use of rat poison.

As well as those animals who initially ingest the poison there are other unintentional targets of rodenticides — raptors.

A Canadian Wildlife Services study addressed this issue at the fifth North American Ornithological Conference. All owls tested had evidence of rodenticides in their system and it was considered the cause of death.

Whether it is a poisoned rat or cat, etc., if they are then predated upon by owls, hawks, eagles the danger and mortality becomes magnified.

Worth considering.

M. Campeau Sooke

Issues with wind power “Harnessing the wind in the JdF” (Oct. 16, Sooke News Mirror) says that TimberWest and EDP Renewables Canada have established a partnership to “develop, build and operate” a 150 turbine wind farm near Sooke. The story also

claims that the two principals have signed a related MOU with the T’Sou-ke First Nations.

Wherever wind turbines have been erected next to communities, public observations have been consistent: the towers are a blight on the landscape; noise is constant and intolerable; and surrounding properties become worthless.

Shouldn’t the public and elected officials have something to say about the project?

Brian Nimeroski Sooke

Twaddle and clap trap How tiresome. Again Tom Fletcher parrots conservative “talking points” as if his allegiance might lead to the Red Chamber in Mike Duffy’s and Pamela Wallin’s footsteps.

Again Fletcher is on the attack at the BCTF and all that he finds to his left. Fletcher’s point is simply that the corrupted BCTF is brainwashing our school children. What twaddle!

Are scores of kids coming home spouting leftist dogma planted by teachers?

Fletcher suggests this conspiracy is the reason “so many students are lacking in employment skills.”

Decades of budget cuts

and trashing apprenticeship programs had nothing to do with this?

And Fletcher’s assertion that there’s a myth that poverty is imposed by right wing governments. No myth, Tom. As evidence (we like evidence not ideology, Tom) look at Harper’s cuts to transfer payments, pension plans and EI, or our B.C. government loading hidden taxes through fee increases on the backs of the old, the poor and the now “working poor.” All this to pay for cuts in taxes to corporate backers that never benefitted any but a favoured few.

The burden of these cuts are borne by kids in schools, the ill languishing in hospital hallways, and those on disability.

Fletcher needs to avoid Harperesque talking points and look beyond conservative clap trap.

Ted Roberts Sooke

Regulate pot market There is a big difference between condoning marijuana use and protecting children from drugs. Decriminalization as proposed by “Sensible B.C.” acknowledges the social reality of marijuana and frees users from criminal records. That’s a step in the right direction.

What’s really needed is

Jim Isram Sooke

a legally regulated market with age controls.

Separating the hard and soft drug markets is critical. As long as organized crime controls marijuana distribution, consumers will come into contact with sellers of hard drugs like cocaine, meth and heroin. This “gateway” is a direct result of marijuana prohibition.

Marijuana is less harmful than legal alcohol. The plant has never been shown to cause an overdose death. It makes no sense to waste tax dollars on failed marijuana policies that finance organized crime and facilitate the use of hard drugs. Taxing and regulating marijuana may send the wrong message to children, but I like to think the children are more important than the message.

Robert Sharpe, MPA Policy Analyst Common Sense for Drug Policy Washington, DC

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parking to deal with.

Why can’t Sooke operate the boat launch themselves?

The residents of Sooke (with proof of residendency) could buy a monthly pass ($60) or yearly pass ($600) at the town hall. If the yearly passes were only on sale for the months of January and February, this would also let the council add to next year’s budget as they would already know what a percentage of the revenue stream would be. As people are already employed at the town hall, the cost would be very minimal to print out a coloured paper pass.

This would be displayed in the vehicle while at the launch site.

Day launch fees would still apply for people without the pass or non-residents. One person from the town hall could go to the boat launch and collect fees from the box once a day. By Sooke running the boat launch, 90 per cent of the revenue generated would be profit which could be put into the revenue stream and help offset other expenses and help lower taxes.

Sooke has already sold a lot of the park spaces, is giving a large chunk of park to a private group to use for a bike course, and now

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D. Widrick Sooke

Bi-polar behavior in council “Fiscal responsibility” is what we hear from finance chair Kasper and the rest of council, yet council passes a motion to give $3,600 to a club with no money to come up with a plan to build a

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Ellen Lewers Sooke

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Why is Sooke council so adamant that the boat launch operation has to be privatized?

As it has been built with our money, whoever runs it will be making all profit, as they had no outlay of expenses to build it. When that is done, who pays for any repairs etc., that have to be done?

Council has stated there is at least $3,000 $4,000 of work that still has to be done on the boat launch, who pays for this?

A couple of the councillors have stated that we can not have a free boat launch as Sooke has to try and recoup some of the money it expended building it.

One councillor also stated that part of the grant process was that Sooke had to employ one person part time at the launch. How do you employ someone when another group is running the launch?

Either these councillors are liars or have no idea what they are talking about. At 10 per cent of the revenue coming to Sooke, we will never recover any of the expense. I would doubt that 10 per cent will even cover the associated running expenses. They still have the issue of not enough boat trailer

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We hire a well-experienced CAO to manage staff affairs, and council hunts out another Approving Officer to come from Nanaimo twice a week on contract, (and removes the Approving Officer and Deputy Approving Officer titles from existing staff). The question is, how will an Approving Officer travelling from Nanaimo twice a week in any way improve land development application processing when we have capable staff already doing the job?

This is why we hired a professional CAO, to manage the staff for council. What made Kasper, Haldane,

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We anticipate the OCP review could take approximately one year to complete a draft for consideration by the Juan de Fuca Land Use Committee. Please consider your availability to attend about 26 regular meetings, and four community events during this time.

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Expressions of interest should be submitted to the Juan de Fuca Planning office, PO Box 283, 2-6868 West Coast Road, Sooke, BC, V9Z 0S9, by email at jdfinfo@crd.bc.ca, or by fax at 250.642.5274 no later than 4 pm on November 6, 2013.

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The Sooke Region Chamber of Commerce has been BUSY! A new service agreement in place with the District of Sooke has allowed a new chamber office located at #103, 2015 Shields Road and a new staff-person to administer the office,.

The chamber’s board has been able to make tremendous strides in a short period of time to turn the organization back into being a strong resource and advocate for the business community.

Over the past number of months the chamber’s sole focus has been on following its core purpose defined as: • being a supportive resource for local businesses to achieve greater success, • to facilitate new economic development opportunities, • to foster positive business relationships with the community,

• to constructively influence public policy and governments in supporting free enterprise, • being acknowledged and endorsed by the District of Sooke as the organization to create a healthy and prosperous business environment for the Sooke region. The chamber has been providing regular monthly reports to mayor and council to clearly communicate activities and initiatives, as well as to provide the district with recommendations to proactively plan for opportunities and challenges that are identified.

Some of the most impactful initiatives currently being worked on by the chamber for the Sooke region are: • Creating a strategy to manage a conference, convention & festivals portfolio.

• Developing a fouryear strategic plan for economic develop-

ment.

• Providing an architectural design guideline for buildings in the downtown core.

• Reviewing the Sooke region’s sign bylaw.

• Developing a marketing plan to facilitate more tourism exposure of Sooke to various demographics.

A few other exciting things happening at the Chamber are the creation of a new chamber website and a social media platform on Twitter (@sookechamber), a strategic alliance with nine other south Vancouver Island chambers for greater regional exposure and partnership with government to offer LiveSmart Energy Efficiency program for small businesses.

The chamber’s 65th anniversary event is on November 26.

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ing is on December 17.

The chamber is also doing a targeted recruitment of new Board of Director members for 2014 and is specifically seeking people in Sooke who have professional experience in finance, law, marketing, tourism, land development, education, and government relations. Incoming chamber president Michael Nyikes has stated he needs dedicated leaders in these different areas of business expertise to stepup-to-the-plate and assist him in taking the chamber to the next level.

Nominations for new Board of Director members will be accepted until November 15 and interested candidates are encouraged to contact the chamber office at info@sookeregionchamber.com or 250642-6112 for more information.

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Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. · For financial advice services and appointments, visit us at #301-2015 Shields Road during hours listed above. · Need business and personal teller services? · Visit us at Shoppers Drug Mart during hours listed above. · Need an RBC ATM machine? · Chevron Sooke Pantry now has a full-function RBC ATM available from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., offering withdrawal, deposit, bill payment, funds transfer and passbook update capability. · Need to access your safe deposit box? · Visit our RBC Westshore Town Centre, located at 2945 Jacklin Road during extended bank hours: 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Friday and 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. Closed Sunday.

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Celebrating young artists

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Keaton Ollech to perform with Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra

He is only 15 years old, but his talents have wowed audiences and judges in musical competitions, enough to win the Chrysler Concerto Competition held in April, 2013.

Keaton Ollech performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Opus 15 winning first prize in the yearly competition which showcases and celebrates the talents of young musical students.

Ollech is a Victoria native who started lessons with May Ling Kwok at age eight. He has already won gold and silver medals from the Royal Conservatory, as well as securing first place in solo piano in the B.C. music festival provincials.

Ollech will be performing Opus 15 with the Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Norman Nelson on October 26 and 27.

Beethoven’s Opus 15 was written between 1796 and 1797 and was his first published piano concerto. He dedicated it to his pupil Countess Anna Louise Barbara (Babette) Keglevic and Beethoven himself played the piano in the first performance in Prague in 1798. This C major concerto reflects Beethoven’s assimilation of the styles of

Keaton Ollech

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Mozart and Haydn, while its abrupt harmonic shifts demonstrate Beethoven’s musical personality.

The Sooke Phil program, which has a youth theme, also presents Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Symphonic Suite based on Les Miserables, and includes the well-known musical hits At the End of the Day, I Dreamed A Dream, Master of the House, On My Own, and Do You Hear The People Sing. The orchestra will be joined by music students from School Districts 61 and 62 for this piece.

The Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra under maestro Norman Nelson play Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, Op.93.

The final piece on the program is Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony,

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“The 8th is one of Beethoven’s more joyous and, for him, lighthearted symphonies which is an enormous pleasure to play. The last movement is a challenge to see just who can finish first,” said Nelson.

A portion of every ticket sold will go towards music programs in SD 61 and SD 62.

The Don Chrysler Concerto Compeition is part of the Sooke Philharmonic Society’s commitment to support and encourage youth in their musical development.

The performances take place in Sooke on Saturday, October 26 at the Edward Milne Community Theatre at 6218 Sooke Road at 7:30 p.m. and in Victoria at Alix Goolden Hall, 907 Pandora Street on Sunday, October 27 at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are available in Sooke at Shoppers Drug Mart, Wood Travel & Cruise, the South Shore Gallery and Little Vienna Bakery. Tickets can also be ordered online at: www.sookephil.ca and full season, four concert series tickets can be purchased as well.

For more information on the Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra and the upcoming concerts go to www.sookephil.ca or call 250415-0999. Follow the Sooke Philharmonic on Facebook.

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Celebrating 100 years in Sooke

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The100th anniversary of the Sooke Fire Rescue is celebrated with an exhibit in the upper gallery at the Sooke Region Museum. The museum is open from 9 to 5 every day except Mondays during the winter months.

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Books, books and more books Chairman of the Vancouver Island Regional Library Bruce Jolliffe, executive director Rosemary Bonanna and Juan de Fuca Regional Director Mike Hicks were on hand to officially open the new VIRL Port Renfrew library this past Saturday.

“We are pleased to continue our commitment to Port Renfrew with these beautiful new facilities, expanded hours and expanded service” said Jolliffe. Hicks commented on the “tremendous asset the library brings to Port Renfrew” and how appreciative the residents were of their library.

The newest branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library offers a designated reading area and seating, Children’s Literacy Station, wireless access and Internet stations, an increased DVD collection and a new selection of best selling books.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE THE ESTATE OF TERRANCE GEORGE SMITH, Deceased, formerly of 7033 Brooks Place, Sooke, BC V9Z 0P9 NOTICE is hereby given that creditors and others having claims against the estate of the above deceased are hereby required to send the particulars thereof to the undersigned Executor, c/o #201-300 Gorge Rd. West, Victoria, BC V9A 1M8 on or before December 5, 2013, after which date the estates’ assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

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Sooke elementary school students were learning to make soap.

Parent Erica is showing James, Abi and Rylee how to stir the mixture. The students will be selling their soap at the Sooke elementary school craft fair in November.

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West Coast Road to be included into the Sewer Specified Area (SSA) was defeated by council. The applicant was exploring the option of creating 800 sq. metre lots without inclusion in the SSA. The applicant was considering a secondary treatment system for sewage.

Mayor Milne stated he could not support this option as it flew in the face of the Liquid Waste Management Plan and he couldn’t support anything other than inclusion in SSA. The applicant has the option of canvassing the neighbouring properties as to whether

they would want to connect to municipal sewer.

A recommendation to freeze the salaries of exempt staff at the District of Sooke was opposed by Councillor Maja Tait and Kerry Reay but council passed the recommendation for a two-year salary freeze.

Volunteer fire fighters may get a bit more in their Christmas card if a recommendation from the Finance and Administration Committee comes to pass. The committee put a recommendation before council to approve in principal a $1,000 honorarium to volunteer fire fight-

ers who meet the minimum service and training requirements to be a volunteer.

Mayor Milne made a motion to form a committee to work with the Firefighters’ Association to work on the details of how this would work.

There were some comments regarding the need for simple recognition and appreciation and other comments on creating a target by throwing money at some volunteers and not others.

Coun. Haldane stated that money was a better show of appreciation than a bag of goodies with a calculator and a toy watch. He

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East Sooke Official Community Plan Update Citizens’ Committee to be Appointed This is Your Chance to Get Involved

A Citizens’ Committee is to be established to participate in the East Sooke Official Community Plan (OCP) review process. The eleven member Citizens’ Committee will be comprised of residents and land owners in East Sooke who represent a broad cross section of community interests and values.

We anticipate the OCP review could take approximately one year to complete a draft for consideration by the Juan de Fuca Land Use Committee. Please consider your availability to attend about 26 regular meetings, and four community events during this time.

If you are interested in volunteering for the Citizens’ Committee, please submit an expression of interest letter outlining: where you live or own property in East Sooke, your contact information, why you are interested in participating, and any particular interest or expertise you may have that would be an asset to the process.

said there was a disconnect between the volunteers and council and the community, and the honorarium would be a thank you for what they do for us.

A committee will be formed to work out the details and approval in principal was given to the $1,000 honorarium.

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Sports & Recreation Head injury ends Bantam girls game with a tie On the morning of Sunday, Oct. 20, the Bantam girls played against Peninsula.

Head coach Steve Couture was very confident about the team.

“They’ve been practicing very hard,” he said. “ They are hard to play against, because they have lot of good and tall Submitted photo players, always a chal- Front left to right; Kaitlin Mckelvey, Morgan Couture (wearing a mouth guard) and Desiree Cumming. lenge against them.”

The Sooke girls put in the first goal, with “Alison Sudlow played Cumming.

“There’s a third ‘A’ to a nice and direct pass an awesome game, she from Morgan Couture was everywhere on be addressed, and we to Kailey Purnell. the ice and Michele hope to be able to do In the second period, Lacombe was amazing it this week,” said the Peninsula managed to in front of the net!” Rory coach. So on Saturday tie up the score. And Wood, Alyssa LLoyd, afternoon, the new then a good rebound Kaitlin McKelvey and captain and her team from Rory Wood passed Desire Cummings give played against the Victhe advantage back a strong offensive to the toria Peewee Girl Zone. to Sooke. In the third Peninsula. It was a great It was a friendly game, period, while the “penal- team. “ Next time we will since some of the Zone ity kill” Peninsula found win, for sure, it’s great team players are from their way once again tie- we tied the game but Sooke. For the second now I know, actually we time this season so far, ing the game, 2-2.

Michel Lacombe got a The game suddenly know we can do this.!” shut out. came to an abrupt end Also, two of the playwhen one of the Sooke Captain and assistants ers finished the game players had to quit the selected game due to a shoulLast week, head with a “hat trick,” der-check that resulted coach Steve Couture Alyssa Lloyd (second in a bad fall and a minor and his assistant Simo- this season) and Celina head injury. nis Stephan, had been Palco (her first one Couture called in the choosing their Captain ever). Morgan Couture got one goal as well. paramedics, and the and assistant captain.

It’s important to menmedical staff at the ER “It was a very tough confirmed that injuries choice to make,” recalled tion that those goals were minimized by the Couture. “So many play- don’t happen alone as Rori Wood, Kaitlin Mckfact that the player ers comes in mind.” wore a mouth-guard.

But after doing “inter- elvey, Kailee Purnell “It is as important as views with the players and Jennifer Simonis the neck guard or any and their parents, they each got an assist. It other piece of equipe- make the final decision. was a great game and a ment,” said her mother, The captain for this good team effort.

Submitted by Melanie Dube season will be Morgan Melanie Dube Ultimately, Couture Couture and her assiswas very happy with tants will be Kaitlin his defence.

Mckelvey and Desiree

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Sooke Peewee A’s takes home the Silver Medal at the Victoria Ice Hawks Thanksgiving Classic The Sooke Peewee A team went undefeated until the final game, at the Victoria

Thanksgiving Classic this past weekend.

They played hard and with a lot of heart,

and finished second out of eight teams in the Prevost Division.

Congratulations to all

the boys on a great weekend of hockey!

From http://sookeminorhockey.ca/

Atom C’s played with end-to-end action Over the past weekend, the Sooke Atom Dev team played in Kerry Park’s Atom Development Thanksgiving Day Tournament. Winning all

four round robin games, 10-0, 13-0, 8-0, 7-3 and ultimately meeting up with Kerry Park in the Finals, it was an intense game with end to end action,

superb goaltending and a very fired up crowd!

1-1 at the end of the first period, it was anyone’s game, but the Sooke Atom Dev team turned

up the pressure and took home the championship in a sweet 4-2 victory.

(Photo online.)

Submitted by Erin Fitchett

Spirited playerS from atom C2 hoCkey raiSe fundS for the team

Britt Santowski photo

Risto Ringma, Evan Fletcher and Connor North of the Sooke C2 Atom hockey team, fundraising on the morning of October 19.

According to hockey dad James Fletcher, they boys (along with the five other fundraising stations throughout Sooke) were “aspiring to raise $2,000” in this one day sugar-blitz. The funds received from the sale of Krispy Kreme donuts would go towards their December tournament in Cowichan.

Sari Ringma, manager of the Sooke Atom C2 team, followed up with the Sooke News Mirror to say they raised over $1800 on Saturday for their hockey team.

“We would like to thank everyone in Sooke for their support and generosity,” Ringma comments.

“We couldn’t have done this without their help!”

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Sooke Loggers mens’ soccer team comes out slump, performs strong After a slow start to the season, the men’s soccer team, Sooke Loggers, played against the Peninsula Slayers and harvested a strong victory with a five-nil win.

The Loggers traveled out to Sidney’s Iroquois Park this past weekend and thrashed the Peninsula Slayers 5 nil, outplaying Peninsula from start to finish.

“All of my players got a chance to see the park so I was most happy with that,” team coach Drew Porter said. “We signed two more players this week that will bolster the squad even more. Kirk Snelling, a former Celtic, came out to practice for a run last week and liked the look of things, so I was thrilled to sign him as he will bring great experience and talent to a young squad.”

Finding committed players is an ongoing challenge.

“Work and family commitments is something you always have to work around when you put a team together, nobody here at the amateur level gets paid to play so a guy like Kirk, with his calibre, I’ll take him when I can get him,” said Porter.

“Ryan Haldane was my other signing and it looks like he has great athletic ability. He is a big aggressive guy who shows a ton of promise in front of the goal. The guy isn’t afraid to shoot which makes him a natural up front. We will just have to see how it all unfolds.”

The Sooke Loggers Division 3 senior mens’ soccer team hit their stride on the Thanksgiving long weekend and dominated Bays United for a 4-1 victory.

“It could have been 10-1 if several goalmouth scrambles and a couple of posts and bars hadn’t got in the way,” said Porter about the Thanksgiving game.

“I knew we were ready to turn the corner and come up with a decisive win, I’m just glad it was this weekend.”

Games previous to the Thanksgiving weekend have not been as fruitful.

Two weeks ago the Loggers lost a squeaker to Cordova Bay 3-2 and the next week after that they came up a little flat and tied the Golden Wings from Campbell River. Both of those games, according to Porter, the Loggers could have come away with wins, “but some less than acceptable refereeing especially in the Cordova Bay game killed us.”

Sometimes, it’s the talent. Sometimes it’s the refereeing.

“That one was hard to swallow after coming back from a goal down to leading 2-1 and then having the referee decide the game with two botched calls that led to the Cordova Bay comeback. Oh well, you just have to suck it up and move on to the next game,” said Porter.

The following week the Loggers played the Golden Wings from Campbell River and had a ton of chances but ran into a goalie that stood on his head.

He really made some uncanny saves and the Loggers just couldn’t stick it past him. “A real credit to the guy,” assessed Porter, “he had a great game in goal.”

That was two frustrating weekends in a row for the Loggers.

There was no lack of stronger than the oppoeffort from our players sition.”

Hard work is in their — just no luck what-sofuture. ever.

“If the boys think Great credit goes to the Sooke players this I’m going to let off in last weekend against terms of fitness, they Bays. Their consistent are sadly mistaken,” effort payed off to earn said Porter. “The hard the 4-1 win which was work during the week extremely gratifying always pays off. We’ve to watch. They played hit a stride now and I the ball on the ground, want to do everything kept their shape for the I can to keep us there.”

The two consecutive most part of the match and were good in all wins have pumped the facets from defending players.

“We have strung a to attacking.

Very exciting game couple of solid wins to watch as they together so the boys drummed up some have got a real thirst clever plays. If you for the wins now. Our weren’t at the soccer next game is against park on Sunday, you Nanaimo this next missed and entertain- weekend at home so I ing game. Paul Rudd look for another strong scored one of the best performance from us,” hat-tricks Sooke has said Porter. “Compeseen in a long time and tition for positions is Daniel Bergerud added always a good catathe other. Great credit lyst for the make-up of goes to Brendan Her- a team and it looks as lihy on a late call-up to though the dilemma of play in the pipes for the choosing a starting lineup is becoming a more Loggers.

“Brendan wasn’t the difficult chore for me. busiest keeper on the That in itself is a good day however, when he thing. Best players will was called on to make always start which the saves and distrib- makes it tough for me ute the ball he did all cause all my guys are the right things for us,” playing well. Some of said Porter. “It’s great the quality play these when you can look to guys are producing is other players within comparable to Division the club to help out 1 soccer. Not only the when needed. I have play but some of the been running the boys goals scored this weekpretty hard at practice end were spectacular.”

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Applications for Membership Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission The Capital Regional District (CRD) invites applications from residents interested in sitting on the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission to provide advice on parks and recreation in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area.

East Sooke Malahat Otter Point Port Renfrew

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Where representation from the areas above cannot be achieved, a representative may be selected from the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area at large.

Appointment will expire December 31, 2015.

Meetings are held at 3:00 pm on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Juan de Fuca Planning office, #2 – 6868 West Coast Road, Sooke, BC. Send us a one-page summary telling about yourself, your area of knowledge and why you would like to volunteer on the Commission.

Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, November 22, 2013.

Mail, fax or email your application to: Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission PO Box 283, #2 – 6868 West Coast Road, Sooke, BC V9Z 0S9 E: wmiller@crd.bc.ca T: 250.642.1500 ext. 208 F: 250.642.5274

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STARR runners shine in spite of fog

Upcoming Public Meetings Community Grant Review Committee Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Regular Council Meeting Monday, October 28, 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:

“Everyone is welcome to join us for a run – generally a run is about an hour, sometimes less and Saturdays usually the longer run,” said runner Jackie Eddy. “We have speedies, medium and slower runners and do a mix of road and trail, and we have FUN!” Britt Santowski photo

STARR runners, from left to right, Jackie Eddy, Steve Kent, Mark Ziegler, Amanda Johnston, Claude Laforce, Tory Van Ek, Vince Trahan and Tom Burgess. They meet three times a week, 6 p.m. on Tuesdays at SEAPARC, and again at 6 p.m Thursday and 9 a.m. Saturdays just outside of the Sooke News Mirror office (across from Sooke Health and Fitness).

- Economic Development - Steve Grundy, Chair – 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013 AT 7:00 PM - Arts and Beautification - Brenda Parkinson, Chair – 4th Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm CANCELLED - Community Health and Social Issues - Nicky Logins, Chair – 2nd Wednesday of each month 7:00 pm

This schedule is subject to change.

Please call 250-642-1634 to confirm meetings.

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Sundays gridiron battle between Spartans and Cowichan Bulldogs

Those gnarly junkyard bulldogs brought their A game to Westhills Stadium. The only problem for them was that the Spartans also brought their A-plus game! With Jared “leg of” Steele having nine kickoffs from our eight touchdowns on the day, with five converts (10 points) and only one return for a Bulldog touchdown (sloppy blocking), their only score from Spencer “the tank” Logan deked and fought his way to another touchdown. Will “the animal” Gourchounov had three touchdowns and Connor “pinball” Pettepiece scored four more.

Ultimately, the Spartans downed those gnawing Bulldogs 52-8.

The only mishap on defence was a fumble recovered by “Slippery” Sam Lowden, playing with AvAn “pitbull” Wickheim. They held their offence to a few first downs.

Caleb “budder” Carrier had another stellar outing at center with 100 per cent snapping success and ran the ball for 13 yards with Logan lead blocking. Hunter “amazing” Swift had another great outing blocking on the line and swept out-

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Annual Water Main Cleaning Western Communities A water main cleaning program will be carried out in various areas of Colwood, Langford, View Royal, Sooke, and East Sooke between October 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014.

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

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

side for a 12 yard run. Newcomer Jason “spitfire” Boyd on his first sweep play ran an incredible 27 yard run-all 55 pounds of him-full of heart. Needless to say on such a win all players did their job well and we look forward to next Sunday’s game against the Hitmen at Westhills.

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Meetings are held at 9 am on the first Tuesday of each month at CRD Integrated Water Services office, 479 Island Highway, Victoria, BC. Appointments will be for a two (2) year term commencing January 2014.

Send us a one-page summary telling about yourself, which interest group you represent, your area of expertise, and why you would like to serve on the committee.

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The top place winner for the Coho Fishing Derby was Karl Bouchard.

He was fishing with his son, Dominick. Their fish, that weighed in at 12 pounds, won them the prize of $1,454.00, which was 50 per cent of the total sales of tickets. The fish was caught off of Sooke Harbour in a water depth of about 500 feet, using an anchovy. The other half of the funds was split between two local charities: Sooke Food Bank, and the Charters Creek Salmon Center.

According to Angela King, one of the coordinators of the event at the Crab Shack, they also cleaned, filleted and bagged approximately one and half wheelbarrows full of donated coho for the Sooke Food Bank.

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