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$15 million more for Malahat work Christine van Reeuwyk News staff

Work will begin next year on $15 million more in safety improvements for Malahat Drive.

Premier Christy Clark announced the investment during her keynote address at the seventh annual Vancouver Island Economic Alliance Summit Wednesday in Nanaimo.

“This section of highway has seen too many accidents and we’ve heard from first responders and residents about the need for continued improvements and that’s what we’re doing,” said Clark.

“We’re going to do more work to ensure the Island’s highways meet the needs of a growing population and a growing economy.”

Work includes another Christy Clark 2.3 kilometres of median barrier on the highway north of Shawnigan Lake Road, including an area commonly called NASCAR corner.

Planting for the future Alicia Lee, a Grade 11 student at Pacific secondary, helps with the planting of native species of plants around the Langford Lake boat launch on Wednesday.

The school teamed up with the city to beautify the area and promote sustainable planting.

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Crash intensifies crawl congestion

The Colwood Crawl was slower than normal after an early morning multiplevehicle crash on the Trans-Canada Highway backed up traffic for about an hour Wednesday morning.

At 6:50 a.m. West Shore RCMP, B.C. Ambulance and View Royal Fire Rescue were called to the southbound lane of the highway near Portage Inlet, just past the Helmcken Road overpass.

RCMP spokesperson Sarah Beckett said a commercial semi-trailer truck rear ended a dump truck and then three other vehicles somehow became involved.

There were no injuries in the accident and B.C. Ambulance was called off en route. By 7:50 a.m. the accident was cleared but traffic remained backed up throughout the morning.

Power of the sun on display

Solar Colwood is hosting a solar home tour on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2 p.m. at 311 Perimeter Place.

The free tour of Linda Simrose and Amo Keinonene’s home will highlight the ways in which solar power can be used to “fuel up” an electric car and reduce home heating bills.

For more information on the tour and the story of the home visit solarcolwood.ca.

A hand for those in persistent pain Island Health’s pain program will host a public forum at Royal Jubilee Hospital’s Begbie Hall, 2101 Richmond Ave., on Wednesday (Nov. 6), at 5:30 p.m.

The focus is on family, friends and caregivers of those who suffer persistent pain.

Attendees will learn how to understand and support someone while working through their own feelings and frustrations.

Admission is free.

For more information contact Marilyn Banfield at 250-5191884 or by email at marilyn.banfield@viha. ca. editor@goldstream gazette.com

DEAD BEAR WALKING

Garbage-fed animal likely to be put down

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garbage-munching bear lurching through Highlands is creating a buzz.

B.C. Conservation officers received more than 70 calls in October, compared to the typical 20 to 30 calls annually.

“It’s pretty much one bear,” said conservation officer Peter Pauwels. “This bear is hooked on garbage and there is no shortage of it.”

The bear hits up to eight houses a night, travelling along Millstream Road, Finlayson Arm Road and several side streets.

Conservation urges residents in Highlands to secure Charla Huber all garbage and keep it indoors Reporting or another secure structure, only putting it out when pickup is due.

“Putting a rock on top of a can or a bungee cord won’t work,” Pauwels said, adding the bear has knocked apart weaker refuse structures. “It’s hitting multiple targets and trying to fatten up. Nothing has more calories (for a bear) than garbage.”

Trapping hasn’t worked so far, as the food used to lure the animal isn’t working – there is too much easily accessible garbage elsewhere, Pauwels said.

“This is frustrating, the bear is going to end up getting put down,” Pauwels said. “People are going to keep killing bears if they don’t secure their garbage. This isn’t going to go away and it will just be another bear next year.”

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B.C. conservation officers ask Highlands residents to keep their garbage inside or in a secure structure, such as this one, to keep bears out of the trash. bage-eating bear in June.

The bear is deemed habituated and residents shouldn’t get between it and garbage, Pauwels said. As well, children should not be outside alone.

By law residents are required to secure garbage and B.C. Conservation is considering enforcement including issuing tickets. The District of Highlands also plans to work with the conservation officers to spread information about household garbage practices.

“Highlanders enjoy observing the plentiful wildlife that exists here and residents would be upset to learn that human behaviour could in any way contribute to the potential euthanization of animals such as this bear,” said Mayor Jane Mendum. “We encourage all residents to secure their garbage cans in a sturdy outbuilding or garage and in doing so, help to prevent habituation of the increasing number of bears that seasonally travel through Highlands.” charla@goldstreamgazette.com

More than half the Malahat to get barriers Continued from Page A1

“We are going to get it fixed,” Clark said in the speech broadcast via conference call. “We will make that investment to save lives.”

The work, set to start in 2014, also includes a one-kilometre southbound passing lane extension, and improvements to the Whittaker Road and Holker Place intersections.

“As the main route north from Victoria, the Malahat will be an

“…we know that safety improvements to the Malahat are needed, and we’re getting on with that work.”

– Todd Stone Transportation and Infrastructure Minister

important part of our upcoming Vancouver Island Transportation Strategy,” said Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone in a news release. “Work is beginning on this important strategy and it will take some time to complete.

In the meantime, we know that

safety improvements to the Malahat are needed, and we’re getting on with that work.”

The improvements were identified in the 2012 Malahat Corridor Study, and were also identified as a priority by the Malahat Advisory Group, which includes concerned

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citizens and local first responders.

Work is scheduled to start in 2014.

An $8-million upgrade that included barriers between north and south bound lanes finished this summer. When this section is complete, more than 50 per cent of the Malahat will have a median barrier.

What do you think?

Send your comments by email: editor@goldstreamgazette.com

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Developer plans ‘vitality living’ with community, nature focus

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Randy Royer has a vision for the property around Coast Collective centre he’s calling ‘vitality living’.

As many trees as possible will be spared and the water features will be untouched. Any construction on the property must be set back 100 metres from the water, and 15 metres on either side of the creek which runs through it.

Royer views the natural surroundings as an asset rather than a hinderance to building.

“That’s important to the people that are going to be here,” he said.

The project successfully completed the rezoning process with the City of Colwood about four years ago.

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capital and drumming up investors. The project has a $10-million mutual fund trust through which it is raising equity. So far most of the capitol has come from Alberta.

Royer himself is a substantial investor in the project.

“It’s very well received,” Royer said. “People hear the vision and like it.”

Royer hopes to have the money in place some time around March 2014.

The bottom portion of the property, featuring Coast Collective’s home in Pendray House, will be untouched.

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tination in the Western Communities and they’ve just been great,” Royer said. “Coast Collective will act as the cultural cornerstone of the village.”

Cindy Moyer, the incoming executive director of the arts collective, who has previously worked for Royer, said the developer has been very supportive of Coast Collective and she sees the development as a positive move forward.

“Across the board, we feel anything that’s going to create a holistic development on that sight that celebrates the arts and makes them available to people … is a win-win,” Moyer said. “We’re all very excited about what (Royer is) talking about.”

Royer, who is based out of Calgary, has spent much of his career working in the hotel industry and developing properties throughout North America. He is the man behind the Grand Okanagan Resort in Kelowna, a 54-acre waterfront development. kwells@goldstreamgazette.com

Kyle Wells acific Landing, a development on the 12-acre property which surrounds Coast Collective arts centre, is looking for investors to help build a village.

“It’s a unique piece of property,” management team leader Randy Royer said.

“Even going back to the First Nations heritage, this was considered to be a meeting place, so that’s what we want to keep.”

Royer and his company have owned the property for five years and have plans for a multifaceted development with 165 residential units, commercial enterprises, a coffee shop, a hotel and perhaps even a small medical centre.

The vision is to have the property, which is at the end of Heatherbell Road, act as a small village, in a spirit being described as “vitality living.”

Plans are to build the village in the spirit of the property.

Your Sight Is Our Vision

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson is a graduate of the University of Waterloo School of Optometry and Vision Science class of 2013. Dr. Thompson grew up in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island where he attended the University of PEI earning a Bachelor degree of Science in Chemistry. Dr. Thompson has attended the Academy of EyeCare Excellence in Fort Worth, Texas and received specialty contacts lens training in Jacksonville, Florida.

As an intern at a veteran’s hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. Thompson received extensive training in the management and treatment of ocular disease and has a particular interest in pediatrics, contact lenses and low vision. Dr. Thompson was drawn to the island due to its active lifestyle and is excited to join the community and see all of what Vancouver Island has to offer. While not in the office he enjoys golfing, biking as well as coaching and playing hockey.

Dr. Thompson looks forward to meeting new and existing patients at both the Westshore and Gordon Head locations. Starting in November, Dr. Thompson will be at the Westshore office on Saturdays.

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Beer in groceries not that radical

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n its continuing drive to modernize liquor laws, the provincial government announced this week it’s exploring the idea that B.C.ers could buy their veggies, milk and booze all under one roof.

Although advocacy groups and the police might shout that this opens the door for easier access to booze for minors and that it might encourage more drinking by adults, previous easing of liquor laws hasn’t promoted the wholesale decay of society.

Naysayers cried doom decades ago when the province allowed the emergence of neighbourhood pubs, and then again when liquor retailing was pried from the government monopoly. In all cases, the heavy hand of regulation and oversight isn’t far off.

In the case of allowing grocery stores to sell alcohol, the idea that it is sweeping progressive change is mostly an illusion.

The government indicates it won’t increase the number of licences to sell beer and wine – it’s about shifting existing liquor retailers into grocery stores, which would use their own staff and registers to regulate sales, and presumably bear the brunt of fines if they sell to minors.

Outlets like Safeway and Wal-Mart have pharmacies, coffee chains and restaurants operating independently within their stores. Hosting a cold beer and wine store wouldn’t be a stretch. And for 221 rural grocery stores across B.C., selling booze and food staples under the same roof isn’t new.

If the government allows this reform to happen, grocery stores will have to decide if the draw of beer and wine is worth giving up display space. Most large grocers in Victoria aren’t far from liquor stores in the first place, and are often located in the same shopping complex.

It’s encouraging the government is hinting at other reforms that might bring consistency to liquor laws, but right now we’re still pretty far from rules that make sense.

For example, most festivals and events need to cage their patrons in “beer gardens” to prevent minors from accessing booze, but people attending professional hockey games and other stadium sporting events can drink beer in the stands without segregation. Parents can bring their kids to restaurants where mom and dad can have a burger and a beer, but the same family can’t go to a pub or a Royal Canadian Legion for the exact same meal and drink.

After living for generations under oddball liquor regulations, most B.C residents, event operators and businesses are ready for laws that are consistent, make sense and realistically balance the implications for public health.

What do you think? Give us your comments by email: editor@goldstreamgazette.com or fax 250-478-6545. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.

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red. You know how the rest goes: ’ve been thinking about excuses she blew a fail on the roadside a lot lately. Actually, I’ve kind of screening device and she been obsessing about received a 90-day drivthem. ing prohibition and the As a police officer vehicle was impounded who works at the Intefor 30 days. grated Road Safety Unit, Now this is a woman a traffic enforcement who has never been in unit responsible for any kind of trouble in her road safety throughout life, not even a speeding the Greater Victoria ticket. When I asked her area, I hear a lot of why she would take such excuses. And I really do a chance, she honestly mean a lot.

Our mandate is to Graeme LeBlanc and nonchalantly told me that she was running reduce serious injury Guest column out to grab a pack of and fatal collisions by cigarettes. It was as if the catching people doing trivial nature of her chore lessened those things that will kill or injure you or others – things like not wear- the seriousness of her actions.

I can’t tell you how many people ing a seat belt, speeding, going have spent our entire time together through that stale yellow light, texting or using a cellphone while driv- telling me that they just haven’t had anything to drink. Or that the meal ing, and impaired driving. that they just ate was cooked with The thing is, the people that I alcohol. Or they had just kissed catch know what they’re doing is wrong. Typically, the excuses reflect a person who was drunk. The list goes on. nice, normal everyday people I remember doing the breath attempting to justify something tests for a fatal impaired driving colthat they know they shouldn’t have lision a few years ago. The accused been doing. And they’re usually in the matter, since convicted, was embarrassed that they got caught. grossly intoxicated.

It’s the excuses I hear for His behaviour towards us was impaired driving that bother me vile and towards the victim was the most. Impaired driving remains callous and cruel. It remains some the No. 1 criminal cause of death of the worst behaviour from an in Canada. I would argue that it is accused that I have ever dealt with. also the No. 1 preventable criminal We were all sickened, not only cause of death in Canada. that he had killed a young lady, but In one case at a roadblock durthat he spent the evening blaming the summer, a lady drove up ing the victim for causing her own in an SUV and I could see a kid’s death. booster seat in the back. She lied It wasn’t until I was set to testify to me when I asked her if she had been drinking that night, but I could at the preliminary hearing about a year later that I learned that the smell the wine from her breath and accused and the victim were actuher lips and teeth were stained

ally good friends and had spent the evening drinking together. This person is currently serving a federal sentence, and deservedly so.

Some of the excuses I have heard seem to attempt to mitigate a criminal action of various scope and magnitude. The people that I am dealing with on an almost daily basis have lost their sense of social responsibility. Their values and duties to themselves and their community have been replaced with selfishness and indulgence.

Now, I don’t believe it is all doom and gloom. In fact, I believe we are getting much better. Love them or hate them, new laws introduced in 2010 have done more to reduce impaired driving fatalities than any other program implemented since we have been keeping the statistics.

The figures show that fatal collisions are down between 40 to 50 per cent annually, which equates to about 104 lives saved.

On a personal level, I can’t tell you how rewarding it is to be part of the largest reduction in impaired driving fatalities.

There are not too many jobs where you can say you had a part in saving 104 lives.

However, I do believe there is more work to be done. There are still far too many preventable collisions as a result of impaired drivers happening on a daily basis.

I suspect that when myself or one of my colleagues is knocking on your door to tell you that someone you love is injured or has been killed by a drunk driver, you won’t really care what the excuse is.

Acting Sgt. Graeme LeBlanc is on the Integrated Road Safety Unit in Victoria.

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LETTERS Focus on vehicle exhaust threat Re: Single-occupant vehicles more toxic than smokers (Letters, Oct. 25) I find it ironic that pot smokers want to make their habit non-criminal at the same time the Capital Regional District is at war with tobacco smokers.

Don’t they know that as legal smokers they will join the outcasts of society?

As Ms. Peets rightly points out, the World Health Organization has determined that vehicle emissions are as toxic and dangerous as tobacco smoke. We all knew this.

People committing suicide often use vehicle exhaust to end their lives. At my RCAF base in Germany, a diesel exhaust pipe into a cardboard box ended the lives of birds caught in traps at each end of the runway, bird strikes being a serious problem for aircraft.

Given the vast amount of vehicles at shopping malls and rolling down the highway, smoking bans at malls and bus shelters make no sense, except as a feel-good PR exercise.

I don’t think malls will ban polluting vehicles, or the CRD will now advise us of the safe distance from the passive fumes of vehicles.

As I progress through the city, contentedly smoking my

pipe, I am constantly accosted by individuals who remark that they like the smell. On very rare occasions, I get a negative reaction to my smoke. I like the ones best when the very sight of my pipe sends someone into an exaggerated and phoney coughing fit. I find it amusing when the individual is upwind of me, or better still, when my pipe isn’t even lit.

Take note CRD. The WHO’s report on the dangers of vehicle emissions has completely changed the game. The restrictions on outdoor smoking enacted by the CRD are now quite redundant. Further rules imposed on the issue of outdoor smoking will appear vindictive and foolish, unless there is similar action taken against vehicles.

There is a book called The Death of Common Sense. I recommend it to the CRD board.

John M. Tolley Victoria

Non-smokers’ beefs sound self-righteous I am all for everybody having the right to express their opinions, including myself, but this recent exaggerated outburst of self-righteous indignation about smokers

should not go unanswered.

The letter comparing the unpleasantness of second-hand smoke with the presence of bird excrement is an irrelevance.

For anyone to declare that smokers should be banished to wide open spaces because of their personal odour is both offensive and insulting.

As for the daft inference that throwing smokers “under a bus” would be a good thing, I would remind the proponent that punishment involving physical injury is not the way we do things in the civilized world.

I have no problem with the opinion that the smell of tobacco smoke is unpleasant and the intrusive effects of smoking in enclosed areas may well be dangerous to health.

But vicious indignation and delusional remedies do not serve the cause for even more restrictions.

I was once a 20-cigarette-aday smoker, but stopped for health reasons some years ago.

However, the decision not to smoke does not give any of us the right to threaten and insult those who have not chosen to do the same.

Like it or not, it’s their choice … at least for the time being.

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But what does this ‘proven technology’ truly mean? In the past, it has been viewed as a positive attribute meaning adequate, safe and reliable. But in today’s world of rapid technological advances and weather change, proven technology no longer has the same value, as Blackberry can attest.

Today, proven technology is often more accurately described as outdated, backward and obsolete. Is that really what we want for our city and provincial capital? Is that really the infrastructure base that we want to build on for the next decade and beyond?

The CRD plan does not provide a good platform for modernization or movement towards tertiary sewage treatment. It is an expensive, bulky, centralized plant built on a small, low-lying lot on Victoria’s beautiful harbour. It provides minimal environmental protection at a very high cost.

Why are other cities modernizing while the CRD plays catch-up to implement yesterday’s technology – secondary sewage treatment?

We cannot just sit back and accept the status quo simply because it is easier. We must embrace good ideas, grow and learn in order to continue to prosper. We must challenge the city and CRD to do the same. We all want the best for our region.

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Pumpkin smash events double Langford, Metchosin fire drop gourds for donations Saturday is all about smashing pumpkins Smash your pumpkin with the fire department this weekend.

Langford Fire Rescue hosts its first pumpkin smash at Westshore Town Centre, 2945 Jacklin Ave. on Saturday. The 105-foot ladder truck will be set up in the parking lot near the Veterans Memorial Parkway and Kelly Road intersection from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For every donation a firefighter will drop your jack o’lantern from the top of the ladder. Tools will be available for anyone who wants to hand-smash on the ground. Donations will go toward the firefighters Muscular Dystrophy campaign.

The Metchosin Fire Department holds its annual pumpkin smash at the fire hall, 4440 Happy Valley Rd. on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m.

Firefighters will take people up on a 30-foot scissor lift and let them toss a pumpkin for a donation.

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Computers, smartphones and TVs are everyday parts of our lives, but parents need to regulate technology to keep kids balanced Get off the phone at dinner, dad.

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There was a time when the art of parenting was passed down generationally. Many of the traditional skills still apply, but parents today are also jumping into the completely new, and

still unknown, world of smartphones and tablets in addition to computers and televisions. In some cases, teenagers are getting smartphones before their parents realize what the device is capable of.

The challenge in 2013 isn’t keeping new technology from our children, however, it’s teaching adults to see technology as a way to connect with people and as a learning tool, and not something passive like TV that can isolate us, says Prof.

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For some parents it means looking in the mirror at their own usage of smartphones and iPads.

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Parental monitoring of phones and other device usage is a start, but parents also need to engage their children’s use of technology and Irvine says to start by the time they’re in kindergarten.

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Fright Night So you think you can sew… a slug?

Now that Halloween is done and gone, I can hear the collective sigh from parents who like me, can’t sew, yet are forced each ■ SUSAN LUNDY year to produce FEATURE WRITER The Remarkable Costume.

For these parents, gone are the good ole days when their children were younger, had less discerning tastes and wore anything for Halloween. Witch?

Easy, wear black and a hat. Snow Queen?

Fine, white and icy-looking glitter.

I used to own a string of animal teeth, and for three years I suggested at least one child dress as a tooth fairy. I even said things like, “A tooth fairy, now that would be a ridiculous costume. I’d never have gone as a tooth fairy.” But because I had a simple costume in mind, even reverse psychology didn’t work.

The year my daughter, Danica, was eight we started musing about costumes way back in September.

“Why don’t you be a slug?” I joked and then clapped a hand over my mouth as her eyes lit up and a determined look fell upon her face. Okay. A slug. Other mothers whip up costumes like this — why can’t I? We found a pea-green sheet and bought a metre of Velcro. I draped one of the sheet’s fitted corners

over Danica’s head, took a deep breath, forbid her from breathing and started cutting.

“Open your eyes while you cut!” she hissed.

“If you’re talking, you’re breathing,” I snapped.

The shape took form; it was time to sew. I sewed and sewed and then wrapped the creation around her body.

She looked like a nun in a green habit.

So we turned the sheet around, made the front the back and cut out eyeholes.

She looked like a sickly green ghost and I was getting cranky.

“Why don’t you be the tooth fairy or something,” I suggested. “We could sew toothbrushes onto a dress and give you dental floss hair.” Then I thought about the horror of creating that costume and cursed this problem I have of opening my mouth without thinking.

“I want to be a slug.”

So I sewed some more.

Halloween is at least dark.

The real problem lay in the school costume parade.

Parents (dozens of expert sewers) would be there and my little slug looked like a child wearing a green sheet.

“You know, I could

have chicken pox at Halloween,” my daughter reminded me as I sucked the blood from a pinprick on my finger.

“Don’t think that hasn’t crossed my mind,” I said darkly. Her sister erupted in itchy red spots precisely two weeks before costumed students were scheduled to traipse through school hallways, and Danica was likely next.

When Dad came home Danica modeled the costume in progress. By this time I’d added goggles to the eyeholes, cut out arm holes (necessary for trick or treating) and cut and sewed a Velcro opening on the top for antennae — which had yet to be created.

“Try something around her neck,” he suggested. She looked like E.T. “Let’s drape this extra bit of sheet around her shoulders for slime.”

She looked like a soldier armed against gas warfare in the desert.

The next day I found martian antennae, which gave the costume a definite alien look. I considered hanging an “I am a slug” sign on her back.

Two days prior to the costume parade Danica woke up with chicken pox.

Thankfully, she was out of the contagious zone for Halloween night. So after 10 hours of costume sewing there was at least two hours of costume wearing.

“Maybe next year I’ll be the tooth fairy,” Danica said. “Actually,” her face lit up, “I think I’ll be a snail!” ●

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In Your Community

Do you have an idea, comment, or news to share in our Family section?

We’re always on the lookout for story ideas about local youth contributing to our schools and neighbourhoods or parenting success stories.

We want to hear about them.

Contact Edward Hill, editor: editor@saanichnews.com (250) 480-3238

PACIFIC CENTRE family services association Celebrate with us! Pacific Centre Family Services is celebrating 45 years of serving our community.

We will be launching our new youth program: Skookum Food and Coffee at the West Shore Child, Youth and Family Centre, 345 Wale Road on November 7th, 2013 at 12 noon. Come and join us and sample our beverages and baking and help us honour our amazing team of volunteers. Bring your unwanted pennies as we’ll be filling up our jar and closing the appeal of Pennies for Programs.

Do you need quality childcare in West Shore? PCFSA runs the REACH daycare, which is located behind Belmont High School on Jacklin Road. Not only is it well-positioned, we also offer convenient hours, the support of an early years co-ordinator and are designed particularly to cater in a non-judgmental way to young parents. They say ‘we love it here’. With a maximum of only 12 children this is a lovelyand intimate day care for 0-3 year olds. REACH offers quality, inclusive childcare in a relaxed, family-style atmosphere. Contact us now for information as we currently have space available.

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big role in their life.

“There’s a criticism and worry about mobile phones but really, the mobile device allows connection between people.

FaceTime, Skype and such programs connect us with others. In divorced households they’re great for children to connect, as well as with grandparents, and even for parents to connect with their parents for mentoring.”

Though television tends to fixate its viewers, whereas smart devices demand at least some level of interaction, it’s generally accepted that all screen time be lumped together with a daily maximum.

The Canadian Paediatric Society suggests no screen time for children younger than two, less than an hour for children two to four, and less than two hours of recreational screen time for ages five to 17.

Irvine stands behind it as a form of digital hygiene. Gradual development of appropriate use and informed decisionmaking through small steps is important.

Making little judgment mistakes and having teachable moments when risks are small can help to develop the self-discipline needed by the time children reach the middle years.

“Family values aren’t new, they just need to be updated to handle these mediums,” says Allison Rees, who’s Living In Families Effectively (LIFE) seminars have guided hundreds of Greater Victoria parents through the challenges of child rearing.

“Certainly we need screen-free zones, such as the kitchen, the kitchen table, the car, etc., to foster conversation.”

Rees’ longtime colleague Alison Miller, refers to the concept of social viruses. One

such social virus is the process of letting a child who normally has restricted screen time visit a household with unlimited or unmonitored screen time.

And that’s OK too, Rees says, as long as parent and child discuss the experience and can grow from it. Perhaps the child will get upset with their parents’ rules, which is an important part of development.

“There’s stories of teenagers who reach university and have no barometer for technology usage and are unable to stop themselves,” Rees says. “They’ll have to make their own decisions eventually. Be up front in conversation as much as possible about the amount of (television, Internet or device usage) while away from the (parents).”

A small child doesn’t have a need for confidentiality, Rees reminds us. The more early dialogue the better. In fact, Irvine suggests to get the child their own smart device, such as an iPod (which does most of what an iPhone does but without the phone), but not until they’re school age and with limited use.

“The iPod has all sorts of learning apps that can be downloaded and done together,” Irvine says. “Talk about the app, teach them how to assess apps and computer websites before they download or click on them.”

Parental passwords can be set on the iPod, as well as other controls to limit what grade school kids can access.

“Eventually, once they reach middle school,” Rees says, “they’re going to be able to access anything on the web that we can and they need to be prepared for that.” ● sports@vicnews.com

This Family’s Life

Q&A

Dionne Buckham is a mother of three girls and is the parent advisory committee president at Millstream elementary school.

“I like to know all the kids and teachers in the school,” she said.

“I just like to be involved.”

In the Buckham family there is the rule: “Everyone’s opinions count. In a big family there has to be respect for each other.”

With three active kids, Buckham said she’s learned to keep the kids busy, but to not schedule too many things or else life gets too hectic.

The family also includes one dog, two cats, three fish and a hamster.

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How do you find time for “you,” in addition to your role as “mom”?

I walk the dog at Thetis Lake park every day.

What are you reading right now?

What do you read to your kids?

Langford mom Dionne Buckham loves to spend time with her kids Daryn, 5, front, Alex 9, Madison, 12, not shown.

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I just lost my e-reader on our way to Alaska, but I was reading Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare.

My youngest likes anything by Mo Willems, my nine-year-old likes the Happily Never After series and my oldest and I read the I am Number Four series.

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What is your favourite activity together?

We like to go to the movies mostly at Cineplex Westshore or the Caprice theatre.

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What part of the day do you look forward to?

I really like picking the girls up from school. ●

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Arianna McGowan is in Grade 3 at Happy Valley elementary school in Langford. When not having a blast playing dodgeball in gym class, Arianna is involved with a skipping rope club at Royal Oak middle school.

Arianna jumps rope (she can do 100 in a row) and also helps out with bottle drives to raise money for the club so its members can go to competitions. Arianna is going to her first competition this month. ●

Lance Storey has delivered the Goldstream News Gazette for 12 years.

He really enjoys chatting and joking with his customers. Lance’s favourite pastimes are going to movies and Tim Hortons. He enjoys playing floor hockey and soccer for the Special Olympics. He also plays baseball at Layritz Park with group of special needs young adults. He enjoys the laid back game because it has no rules except for not throwing the bat. ●

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Things to do with your Westshore family this month...

Saturday, Nov. 2, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Who stays up late at night and snacks on mice?

Learn about beautiful and majestic owls during a guided walk at Mill Hill Regional Park. Free and aimed at kids and teens. Meet at the kiosk in the parking lot.

Christmas craft fair Nov, 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Royal Canadian Legion in Langford is hosting this event at 761 Station Ave. Admission is free. Eagle Ridge arena at 1089 Langford Pkwy. is hosting a crafts market Nov. 22-24. See www.earthlygoods.ca for times and details.

Open for daily skates on Dec. 1.

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hile some aspiring musicians were starting bands or rocking open mics, John McDermott was delivering newspapers.

But McDermott never aspired towards a career in music. It wasn’t until demands from the industry that he embarked on a 20-yearand-counting journey as a tenor, sparked by a recording he made as an anniversary gift for his parents.

McDermott, who this year released three recordings and embarked on but another cross-country tour, initially found his way into the business through the back door, when the 13-track disc he recorded for his parents was given to an EMI record exec. The CD, which includes one track for each of his 12 siblings and two versions of Danny Boy, became the only Canadian recording released by EMI on their classical label Angel. The following day, CBC’s Peter Gzowski played three tracks from the album and the former choir boy’s life swerved in a new direction.

“It was unbelievable,” said McDermott.

“That sent the sales on an absolute spiral.”

McDermott’s friend, Paul McGrath, worked as a producer for CBC television at the time and created a 10-minute piece on the success of the Danny Boy album. The mini-doc soon closed out the national news, and McDermott’s life as a paper carrier.

“That was it,” he said. “We couldn’t keep up with the demand. (EMI) started coming to me and saying, ‘Your sales are 50,000.

You need to put a band together and go on tour.’ I said ‘Are you kidding me?’ Who’s going to pay my rent? I work. This is an album I did for my parents.’ I said ‘thanks, but no thanks’” When sales hit 100,000 copies, EMI came back to McDermott and told him to form a band.

Still unwilling to risk losing his previous life as he knew it, McDermott successfully requested a leave of absence from his position. He called a couple of musician friends – and offered a fiddler he saw perform in a bar $200 nightly to join their group.

“That’s when my world changed. The guy I hired to play fiddle was Ashley MacIsaac.”

Their first gig: opening for The Chieftains at a sold out show Oct. 5, 1993 at the

Rebecca Cohn Theatre in Halifax.

“I would hate to be getting into the business today, but at the same time, we didn’t really follow the rules when we were getting into it,” he said. “I’ve never been in a band, I’ve never toured, I’ve never played a show and now I’m the opening act for the No. 1 Celtic band in the world? How do you do that?”

McDermott felt the performer’s rush that night and knew he had found his calling. He quit his job the next day.

“It felt right,” he said. “And it still feels good.”

Though McDermott says there’s “no chance in hell” he’d pass up singing his famed Danny Boy at a show these days, he’s moved into a time where he can tell the kind of stories he wasn’t comfortable talking about in his younger years.

McDermott wrote The Gift of Years about his uncle, a prisoner of war at the Changi Japanese war camp, while Along the Merry Road to Hell deals with his brother’s addiction and subsequent death.

An advocate for veterans’ support and palliative care, he backs both causes through his not-for-profit charitable foundation, McDermott House Canada.

Originally formed with the goal of expanding the palliative care unit at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital, the foundation’s scope reaches beyond the borders of his home province. McDermott House leaves behind half the revenue from each of their charity shows in the cities they visit to support local veterans programs.

McDermott formed the foundation in 2010, the same year he was awarded a Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation for his work on behalf of veterans. The outspoken singer and honorary member of the War Amps of Canada has steadily continued to ramp up his fundraising efforts benefit CDs and charity events in both the United States and Canada.

“Alcoholism is not something that’s just in John McDermott’s world. It’s a very, very real part of some life experiences for some people. So to talk about it – I don’t think there’s a downside. It’s just who I am. And I don’t think the government does enough for veterans, so I say that. I don’t think they do enough for hospice care and I say that.”

McDermott’s latest recordings include A Traditional Christmas, My Gentle Harp: A Tribute to Thomas Moore and A Day to

Myself, a thinly-released album, back by popular demand. Now mid-tour and with an as yet unnamed set of piano and voice hymns also slated for release this winter, the 58-year-old is showing no signs of stopping – but isn’t afraid of the day when it arrives.

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eagan Johnston spent her last year of high school developing a plan for how she would return. the 18-year-old singer-songwriter and former student of both reynolds and Vic high schools spent much of her Grade 12 year writing songs for her freshlypressed debut eP. the result: Winter’s Child, a disc heavily influenced by relationships – the kind she’d like to tackle with other young people. “i’m quite into feminism and activism. i feel the need to talk to girls in high school about what they’re up against,” said Johnston, underlining the importance of relationships and female friendships. “there are a lot of tough things that girls experience in high school that don’t get talked about. i do tackle some of those things in my songs.” the classically trained Johnston has been playing the piano since she was five and dabbling in songwriting since the age of nine, with a focus on composition over the past four years. though easily welcomed into Victoria’s music scene, moving her songs from private to public was a shift to which Johnston was particularly mindful. “i’m almost self-conscious putBerKley VoPNFJörð Photo ting myself in (the scene) when it’s Eighteen-year-old Teagan Johnston releases her debut EP, Winter’s Child, full of people i’ve looked up to.” one of those people is aidan Knight, who had influenced ultimate goal. She is.

Johnston’s indie-folk sound, well before her voice “i’ve known since i was in Grade 9 that i wanted teacher anne Schaefer connected her with Colin to do writing and have a music career, so i’ve had Nealis, bass player for Knight. Nealis produced a plan throughout my high school years of getting Winter’s Child, which features accompaniment it together before i was done – to have something from Knight and Steph MacPherson. solidly recorded. it was really great in my last year “it was super great to get involved with Steph to get done what i wanted to get done and to colMacPherson and aidan because it felt like i was laborate with people i’ve looked up to for quite getting on the other side of something i’ve been some time. i’m trying to figure it out step by step.” looking at for a while,” Johnston said.

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Film OPENiNG

ENDER’S GAME -(SilverCity/ Westshore) Yet another teen book series comes to the big screen, this time featuring a young boy with exceptional powers who is cultivated as a military leader destined to save the Earth from a deadly alien attack.

With Harrison Ford.

LAST VEGAS -(SilverCity/ Westshore) Four sixty-something pals head to Las Vegas for a last hurrah. The geriatric laughs will be generated by Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline.

FREE BIRDS -(SilverCity/Westshore) Animation goes to the birds in this comedy about a mismatched pair of turkeys who travel back in time to change the course of history . . . by getting a certain very tasty fowl off the holiday menu. With the vocal talents of Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson.

DIANA -(Odeon) The very talented Naomi Watts looks convincingly beautiful as the doomed Princess Diana, in a biopic that focuses on the last two years of her life, including her secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

ABOUT TIME -(Odeon) Writerdirector Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill) has been getting great reviews for this romantic comedy about a young man who knows how to time travel. When he decides to do something about his nonexistent love life, things become more complicated than he imagined.

With the great Bill Nighy, and Rachel McAdams as the heart throb. ★★★★ RUSH -(Caprice) Gifted mainstream director Ron Howard (Apollo 13) delivers high-octane thrills and lots of human drama as he tackles this biopic about the legendary 1970s rivalry between Formula 1 race car drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. ★★RIDDICK-(Roxy, 8:45) Vin Diesel blasts back into outer space for the latest iteration of this gory

and terrifying sci-fi series about a fugitive who once again finds himself battling alien predators and bounty hunters who want his head – literally.

SWEET SUMMER SUN: HYDE PARK LIVE -(Odeon) For those who missed out on the latest mini-tour by the Rolling Stones, check out this one-night-only showing of the documentary based on their recent, extremely well-reviewed performance in Hyde Park as they played their hits for an ecstatic hometown crowd. Mon., Nov. 4 only.

CONTiNUiNG

ALL IS LOST -(Odeon) Cinema icon Robert Redford is great in a near-wordless performance as a solo yachtsman whose life is threatened after his sailboat has a devastating collision with a rogue shipping container in the middle of nowhere.

See review.

BAD GRANDPA -(SilverCity/ Westshore) Head jackass Johnny Knoxville spins off his “crazy grandpa” character into a full-length comedy about an irascible and incorrigible 86-year-old troublemaker who takes an accident- and crimeridden journey across America with his 8-year-old grandson. Spike Jonze (!) co-wrote the story.

THE COUNSELOR -(Odeon/ SilverCity/Empire Uni 4) Ridley Scott helmed this pretentious, inert and disappointing crime thriller about a lawyer who learns the (very) hard way that it’s a bad idea to get involved in the illegal drug business.

Written by Cormac McCarthy and starring Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Michael Fassbender, and Cameron Diaz. See review. ★★★★ CAPTAIN PHILLIPS -(Odeon/SilverCity/Empire Uni 4/ Westshore) Talented director Paul Greengrass (Bourne Supremacy) tells the true tale of a ship captain (Tom Hanks) whose boat is captured

by Somali pirates. Tense but also thoughtful, a thriller with a brain. ★★½ CARRIE-(SilverCity/Empire Uni 4/Westshore) Stephen King’s horror classic gets a competent but unnecessary remake at the hands of Kimberly Peirce (***Boys Don’t Cry).

Chloe Grace Moretz plays the shy high school outcast, while Julianne Moore is her religiously obsessed mom.

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inema icon Robert Redford clearly suffered to make All Is Lost. The film presents a harrowing account of a solo yachtsman’s attempt to survive a mounting series of challenges, after his 39-foot sailboat has a devastating collision with a rogue shipping container in the middle of the trackless Indian Ocean.

The unnamed “our man” awakes to find water pouring into his boat after it was holed by a sharp corner on the trailer-sized container. With all his navigation and communication electronics ruined, he grimly sets about crudely patching the large puncture just above the water line.

Within a day he is set upon by a massive storm, one that he and the boat barely survive.

Nothing if not resourceful, the sailor digs out an old-fashioned sextant and a book on celestial navigation, slowly charting his limping progress towards the distant shipping lanes, where he hopes a passing freighter will respond to his distress flares. That’s assuming, of course, that his meagre rations of food and water can sustain him, and those circling sharks find something else to eat.

Austere and rich in equal measure, Lost is cinema at its most pure. Nearly wordless, this oneman tour de force of acting sees Redford create a richly-drawn character out of simple actions and a face that displays an evolving series of emotions, as this gifted and determined sailor does everything he can to survive … while slowly realizing he will likely perish.

Writer-director J.C. Chandor (Margin Call) does a great job of pacing as he works on an exceptionally small canvas. The film is intensely claustrophobic at times, and quietly harrowing, but Chandor includes sunny moments and underwater shots where the floating hull and nearby schools of fish create a mood of dreamy, otherworldly beauty. This won’t be to all tastes, but Lost is well directed and marvelously acted.

Rating: ★★★1/2

OF MEATBALLS 2 -(SilverCity/ Westshore) The wacky animated comedy about an infamous machine that churns out scary food-animal hybrids was popular enough to merit a sequel. Consider yourself warned!

With the vocal talents of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, and Will Forte. ★★½ DESPICABLE ME 2 -(Caprice) The 2010 original, about a loathsome criminal mastermind who was reformed by the love of three young orphan girls, was a goofy delight.

The sequel, although still clever, is much more scattershot, with an unimaginative plot and unwelcome dashes of mean spiritedness. Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, and Russell Brand supply the voices. ★★★½ ENOUGH SAID -(Odeon) The latest from delightfully quirky writer-director Nicole Holofcener (Please Give, Friends With Money) features a divorced woman who

sets her sights on a man – only to learn that he is the much-loathed ex-husband of her new gal pal. This sweet, clever, sexy, and insightful sort-of romantic comedy stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine Keener and, sigh, the late James Gandolfini.

ESCAPE PLAN -(SilverCity/Caprice) Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up in a brutal actioneer about two convicts who will do anything to break out of the world’s most secure prison. ★★★½ GRAVITY -(Odeon/SilverCity/Empire Uni 4/Westshore) Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in a harrowing, brilliantly-executed thriller about two astronauts aboard a space station who survive an accident only to find themselves drifting helplessly through space, with little hope of rescue or survival. ★★★½ PRISONERS -(Caprice) Quebec director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies) has been getting great praise for this bleak and violent police procedural about two kidnapped girls and the dad who will do anything to get them back.

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smart college student with a knack for gambling (Justin Timberlake) hooks up with a sinister offshore entrepreneur (Ben Affleck) who runs an online poker empire from a corrupt Caribbean island. This has become one of the worst-reviewed movies of the year.

TURBO -(Caprice) The latest from Dreamworks Animation is a family comedy about an ordinary garden snail who acquires magic powers – and the chance to achieve his dream of winning the Indy 500. With the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Maya Rudolph, and Samuel L. Jackson. ★★½ WE’RE THE MILLERS -(Caprice) A crass comedy about a long-time pot dealer who hires a stripper and two feral teens to pretend to be his middle class family as cover for when he smuggles a massive load of weed across the border from Mexico to the States.

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MOVIE MONDAY - screens Still Mine, a marvellous – and underseen – drama. Themes of aging are

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GOOD OL’ FREDA -(Fri.-Sat., Nov. 1-2: 7:00) Beatlemania takes on a slightly more subdued note in this documentary focusing on Freda Kelly, who was lifelong secretary for the Fab Four.

ALL THE WRONG REASONS -(Fri.Tues., Nov. 1-5: 9:00) The complex and increasingly muddled relations between four co-workers at a big-box department store are at the heart of this dramedy by director Gia Milani.

This is the last film made Glee’s Cory Monteith.

SHORT TERM 12 -(Sun.-Tues., Nov. 3-5: 7:00) A 20-something who works as a supervisor at a foster-care facility experiences both personal and professional challenges.

THE STONE ROSES: MADE OF

STONE -(Wed.-Thurs., Nov. 6-7: 7:00) Influential British rock icons The Stone Roses, who broke up in the mid-’90s and reunited in 2012, are profiled in a documentary praised as “warm an energetic” by The Guardian.

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★★½ THE WORLD’S END -(Fri.-Sat., Nov. 1-2: 3:00, 7:00, 9:10 In a disappointing but occasionally funny follow-up from the makers of Shaun of the Dead, five old friends reunite for a pub crawl only to find themselves in a droll sci-fi actionadventure of epic proportions. ★★½ DESPICABLE ME -(Sat.Sun., Nov. 2-3: 1:00 matinee) The 2010 original, about a loathsome criminal mastermind who was reformed by the love of three young orphan girls, was a goofy delight. The sequel, although still clever, is much more scattershot, with an unimaginative plot and surprising amounts of mean spiritedness.

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FROM VAGABOND TO POWER SMART NEW HOME OWNER. ROB MICKELBERRY’S JOURNEY TO THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY After nearly a year travelling on a “rock star” bus from one end of North America to another, Rob Mickelberry, his wife and three children were ready to re-establish permanent roots back home in Victoria.

“We bought a property while we were on the road,” says Rob, “then lived in the old house while we sub-divided the lot and built a new home that would be ours.”

Because Rob wanted the home – completed in May 2013 – “for the long haul,” he was determined it would not cost a fortune to run.

Rob Mickelberry

By calling in certified energy advisors City Green Solutions early in the design process, Rob was able to build-in a number of refinements – including an air source heat pump, triple glazing, a heat recovery ventilation system and extra insulation – that resulted in the home achieving a remarkable EnerGuide 88 rating from Natural Resources Canada.

That makes it, says Mike Young of City Green, “approximately 59 per cent more energy efficient than if this home had been built to BC Building Code standards.” It will also save Rob an estimated $1,500 to $1,800 a year on his energy bills.

Icing on the cake: the high EnerGuide rating also qualified Rob for $2,000 in incentives from the BC Hydro Power Smart New Home Program, and he’s eligible for the ENERGY STAR® Package incentive of $150 per home for installing qualified energy-efficient lighting and appliances.

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Continues until Nov. 9. Tickets, $20, at ticketrocket.org. 250-391-7078.

Dogwood Line) and Bonfire Blondes (Ethan Caleb of the Archers). AT Alix Goolden (907 Pandora). Tickets, $15/10 through Ditch (784 Fort).

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rocky horror show liveKaleidoscope Theatre celebrates the 40th anniverary of the world’s most beloved rock ‘n’ roll musical. Starring Pat Rundell, Sarah Anne Murphy, Griffin Lea, Kelly Hudson and more with direction by Roderick Glanville with musical direction by Yanick Giroux and choreography by Briony Blake. At the McPherson Playhouse, rmts.bc.ca.

victoria quilters guild christmas sale - Art quilts, baby quilts, bed quilts, original hand bags, placemats, table runners, Christmas ornaments, stockings and hangings, aprons and more at the Salvation Army Citadel (4030 Douglas). From 2-7pm Nov. 1 and 10am-4pm Nov. 2.

atomic vaudeville’s fall caBaret - Victoria’s favourite Vaudevillian sketch comedy troupe presents its annual Fall cabaret at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad).

Oct. 31 and Nov. 2. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8pm. Tickets are $18/22/35 at ticketrocket.org or 250-590-6291.

the vampire’s faith struggles – from dracula to true Blood and twilight - Dr. J. Gordon Melton, expert on religious history, author of some 35 books on American religion, new religious movements, and several volumes on vampires, including The Vampire Book: An Encyclopedia of the Undead, speaks on recent trends in vampire scholarship and their relationship to religious studies at the University of Victoria’s Cinecenta. The lecture is slated for 4:30pm, followed by a screening of the Canadian cult classic Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.

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Come and learn about our Reminiscence Neighborhood Wednesday, November 6 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm The Sunrise Reminiscence Program has a 30-year history of creating pleasant, secure days for seniors with memory loss. Join us and learn how we can help families and other memory loss caregivers. Guest speaker, Dean Bryson from London Drugs Ltd. will speak about Behaviour Management.

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diwali cultural show Celebrate the Festival of Lights with Indian classical and semi-classical dances, Hindi and Punjabi songs at UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium. The annual dance program has been running since 1998 to bring cultural awareness to the population of Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Island and to raise funds for the Victoria Hindu temple. 6:30pm.

Tickets, $18 at 250-721-8480. uvic.ca/ auditorium.

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shakespeare in film - The Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival presents Shakespeare in Love at SilverCity Victoria, as a part of their fundraising for the 2014 season.

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rhythms of the night Conductor, composer, instrumentalist and raconteur Matt Catingub presents an evening of high-energy music from around the world. At 8pm at UVic’s Phillip T Young Recital Hall and Saturday at 8pm at the Royal Theatre.

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Polish Baroque. Singers, sackbuts, violins and organs illuminate the works of Jarzçbski, Mielczewski, Szarzyñski and Zieleñski, Polish composers who, in the 17th century, adopted the emerging idiom of the Italian baroque. 8pm at Alix Goolden (907 Pandora) Tickets. $27, rmts.bc.ca. singing for good - Four singersongwriters join forces to raise money for the Bandwagon Music Therapy project (musicheals.ca). Join these talented women for an evening of song at Gorge-ous Coffee (300 Gorge).

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SuN. Nov. 3 international guitar night - Showcasing some of the world’s greatest players, the tour takes Nanaimo Nov. 1; Duncan Nov. 2; and UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium at 8pm Nov. 3. 2013 features IGN founder Brian Gore, with Italy’s Pino Forastiere, Mike Dawes from England, and Quique Sinesi from Argentina.

Tickets, $25. internationalguitarnight. com. pete rock & cl smooth - The hip-hop duo come on the scene in ‘91 blending CL smooth’s vocals with Pete Rock’s obscure soul and jazz record samples. Their reunion show features CAMP LO And DJ Jetts. At 9ONE9 (919 Douglas). Tickets, $17.80, Breathe. ticketweb.ca.

galleries Fri. Nov. 1 masterful images: art of kiyoshi saito - Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997) was one of the grand masters of the 20th-century Japanese print movement known as saku hanga, meaning “original creative print.” Until Nov. 3 at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1040 Moss). aggv.ca. elemental - The Blue Whale Gallery, housed inside The Sculpture Studio at (211 Harbour), hosts its inaugural exhibition opening. From 6-9pm, Nov. 1, for elemental featuring the works of David Ladmore, Laurie Ladmore, David Hunwick and Melanie Furtado. Until Nov. 30. urBan thunderBirds - Artists and co-curators lessLie and Rande Cook realize this exhibition as a two-part installation exploring issues related to urban life and consumer culture through paintings, prints, photography and mixed media. The work uses contemporary concepts while connecting too traditions of Coast Salish and Kwakwaka’wakw culture. aggv.ca. Until Jan. 12 at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1040 Moss).

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Grade 11 Spectrum Thunder player Tye Pettepiece, No. 13, breaks past a Holy Cross Crusader at Spectrum Community School last Friday (Oct. 25), for the Thunder’s only touchdown of the game, a 50-6 loss. The Thunder wraps its inaugural AA season against the Sequam Seahawks in Delta on Saturday.

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Pace is the trick Strategy wins Island XC championship Travis Paterson News staff

Reynolds secondary student Erik Evans won the Vancouver Island senior boys cross country championships in surprising fashion at Beaver Lake Park.

And now Evans leads the Island contingent into the high school cross country provincial championship in Langley on Saturday.

Evans finished 17th at the cross country provincials last year but is now one of the top contenders. He used strategy and experience to outduel Oak Bay’s Liam Kennel and Dover Bay’s Peter Oxland in the Island championship when Kennel took a healthy lead to start the 6.7-kilometre race.

“Kennel is a dedicated track runner with a lot more training than I do,” Evans said. “He has massive speed and can start with a 400-metre out of my realm so I went with my pace that I know. I started a little quicker than usual but built with a pace as I went.”

Evans ran shoulder-toshoulder with Oxland, eventually catching Kennel in the second of the race’s three laps. Oxland finished second.

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Erik Evans of Reynolds leads his school’s boys and girls teams into the provincial championship in Langley. without any strategy, we just ran hard until the bottom of the last hill of the third (and final) lap. At that point I knew that I couldn’t sprint

with Oxland at the final so I challenged him in the third lap because that’s what I had to do if I wanted to win the race.”

Evans’ specialty is crosscountry, not track, as the Grade 12 student is primarily a triathlete, though that is up in the air these days.

“I’m not on any particular training regime for triathlon right now, my dad is my unofficial coach, though I’d like to compete at the Western Canadian High School triathlon Championships (at Shawingan Lake) in May. “I’m hoping to go out with a bang at provincials. I know what it takes, I’ve been here four years in a row, and to win Islands means a lot.”

Dover Bay was first among boys teams at Beaver Lake with Oak Bay second, Carihi third, Reynolds fourth, Claremont fifth and Mount Douglas sixth.

Desirae Ridenour of Mill Bay won the girls race for the second straight year with Chloe Hegland of Parkland secondary in second, the top finish for a Greater Victoria athlete.

Madelyn Brunt of Oak Bay was fifth and Morgan Roskelley 10th, helping their team to first overall among the girls’ teams. Mount Doug’s powerhouse crop of junior girls finished third in the team standings but has declined to race at the senior provincials.

Watch out for them in the coming years. Stelly’s girls finished fifth and also declined provincials, opening the door for the sixth-place Reynolds girls to compete in Langley. sports@vicnews.com

Somebody saved the best for last as the Belmont Bulldogs will try to crack the staunch defence of the Mount Douglas Rams in a AAA B.C. High School Football match at Westhills Stadium today (Nov. 1).

Kick off is 6 p.m., the last game of the regular season.

It will be an exciting test for the Bulldogs’ skilled running back tandem of Jordan Worth and Sam Varao against the best defence in the province. In five games, all wins, the Rams have four shutouts, an unheard of stat in football.

The Rams have a mighty duo of its own, with standout Marcus Davis and Julian Luis lining up in the backfield.

“We look forward to challenges in front of us,” Bulldogs coach Kevin Harrington said. “Mount Doug is a huge hurdle.”

The Bulldogs (3-2) go into the match of the season on a high, having pulled off a sensational comeback to beat the Handsworth Royals 24-23 in North Vancouver last week.

In one of the oddest starts to a football game, the Royals recovered three on-side kicks in the first quarter and took a 17-0 lead before the Bulldogs took possession.

“We didn’t have the ball once in the first quarter,” Harrington said. “We’re feeling lucky to have been able to come back against Handsworth. You can’t spot a team like Handsworth that many points and expect to come back and win it but these guys did.”

Once the Bulldogs got rolling Handsworth couldn’t stop them, as the Bulldogs tacked on twopoint conversions to all three of its touchdowns.

Jordan Worth led the Bulldogs with a 58-yard touchdown rush. Sam Varao carried the ball for a TD and a two-point conversion, and an 18-yard TD reception.

Regardless of what happens against the No. 1-seed Rams, it’s been a great season for the Bulldogs.

Last week Davis rushed for four touchdowns in the first half on carries of 24, 53, 24 and 80 yards against the West Vancouver Highlanders. Mount Douglas led 40-0 at half and won 47-0. Davis totaled 256 yards rushed on seven carries. Luis and Pato Vega plunged in from close for TDs and quarterback Joe Clarke threw a pass to Seye Farinu for a TD. Kicker Callum Duke converted five of seven TDs. sports@vicnews.com

Sabres set for provincials After a season of second place finishes, the St. Andrew’s Sabres are ready to re-emerge atop the single-A boys high school soccer pyramid.

The Glenlyon Gryphons edged the Sabres last week 2-1 at GNS in the A Island championships.

Playoffs are currently underway in the city for the crossover A, AA and AAA Colonist Cup and Colonist Shield. But the Sabres are already looking ahead to the 16-team A provincials, Nov. 6 to 8 in Abbotsford.

“We hope to get a chance to face GNS again,” said Sabres coach Mark Cristante.

Speculation is Immaculata and GNS are the top single-A teams going into the provincial tourney.

“GNS will probably be ranked No. 1 as the defending champs. (St. Andrew’s) is likely in the top four as they won it in 2011 and were second in 2012.

“We have a nice mix of Grade 9, 10, 11 and 12 students and one Grade 8, and are hoping to build on this for years to come,” Cristante said. sports@vicnews.com

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They competed in a different time, an asterisk-era for the sport of cycling. Many of HesNot sure if Canadians wanted jedal’s teammates on Garmin a history lesson on doping in have already been implicated, cycling this week, but they sure suspended and banned for sins pre-Garmin, including core got one. members of the team Speculation that David Zabriskie and Victoria cyclist Ryder Christian Vande Velde, Hesjedal doped in who were part of the 2003 became truth U.S. Postal Service after he was forced to team with Lance Armadmit it on Wednesstong. Vande Velde day. recently served a sixDanish cyclist month ban ending in Michael RasmusMarch 2013 for blood sen’s new book Yeldoping with the U.S. low Fever is the latPostal Service team est tell-all of a career Travis Paterson from 2004-06. enhanced by doping, Island Insider Hesjedal’s crime is in his case from 1998 petty in comparison. to 2010. In it, he tells of introducing synthetic erythro- It’s possible he wouldn’t be the poietin (EPO), which boosts the Hesjedal we know today if he red-blood cell count, to Hesjedal hadn’t taken the risk that he did and Seamus McGrath during to stay in cycling’s elite circles their world series mountain bik- back then.

“I believe that being truthing season in 2003. He goes on to suggest it helped them qualify ful will help the sport continue to move forward, and over a for the 2004 Olympics.

Hesjedal released a state- year ago when I was contacted ment on Wednesday through by anti-doping authorities, I Slipstream Sports, the parent was open and honest about my company of his Garmin-Sharp past,” Hesjedal said. “I have seen cycling team, admitting to the the best and the worst of the sport and I believe that it is now matter: “… even though those mis- in the best place it’s ever been.”

Tyler Hamilton said in his takes happened more than 10 years ago, and they were short- 2012 book The Secret Race, if lived, it does not change the you didn’t dope, you wouldn’t fact that I made them and I have be competing in the world’s lived with that and been sorry best races. It was Hamilton who for it ever since. To everyone finally brought down Lance Armin my life, inside and outside strong. Hamilton, a former U.S. the sport – to those that have Postal Service teammate of Armsupported me and my dreams strong’s, said the cyclists even – including my friends, my fam- had a name for those who raced ily, the media, fans, my peers, without performance enhancing sponsors – to riders who didn’t drugs (PEDs): paniagua (from make the same choices as me the Spanish phrase for bread all those years ago, I sincerely and water), during the sevenapologize for my part in the dark straight years that Armstrong past of the sport. I will always be won Tour de France championsorry.” ships from 1999 to 2005.

Unfortunately, this shouldn’t Hamilton goes out of his have come as a shocker. way to point out that Jonathan Hesjedal and McGrath should Vaughters, another former teambe absolved, for the most part, mate of Armstrong’s, didn’t like

doping and Armstong pushed Vaughters off the team.

Vaughters is the director of Garmin-Sharp, Hesjedal’s team, which was built on a mantra of clean racing. The team is so transparent, not only is it squeaky clean in terms of PED test results, but it makes a policy of releasing its cyclists’ data after race stages. (The data shows the daily wattage output by the cyclist and it’s not rocket science that a wattage reading is one of the easiest measures for PED usage. What’s more is Garmin, a GPS company, makes the power meters to sell to everyday cyclists. It’s quite genius, really.)

It’s not to say cycling isn’t healing from a dark time. It is. But Hesjedal’s 2012 Giro D’Italia win still stands as a great achievement.

And personally, after evading the topic for five years, I’m relieved.

I, like most Canadian media, had completely ignored the topic of Hesjedal’s history and PEDs. I guess I figured he wore a blindfold and ear plugs before and druing his time on Lance Armstong’s U.S. Postal Service team in 2004-05, when it ran “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program the sport has ever seen,” said the U.S. Anti-Doping Administration. Granted, Hesjedal wasn’t on the Tour de France yet, but he was among cycling’s elite at a time when EPO was the drug of choice.

Which is why books like Rasmussen’s and Hamilton’s are great for the sport. The books may anger a few cyclists but overall they help the sport heal and move forward, which Garmin-Sharp has been a leader in doing since 2007. Cycling is healing itself, and cyclists calling each other out is part of the process. The real scandal is if a positive test result comes from a Garmin-Sharp cyclist in 2014.

Now, that would be news. sports@vicnews.com

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SAANICH: 4406 Leney Plc., Sat., Nov. 2nd, 8am-3pm. Indoor estate sale.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fir, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.

ANTIQUE WALNUT cedar chest, $250.

7 Hummel figurines. (250)654-0056

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ELECTRIC FIREPLACE in a beautiful oak finished cabinet for sale at 118 Aldersmith. $175 obo. Call (250)995-2992 HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

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NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS$2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enterprise Cres, Victoria. Goldstream Press Division.

SAANICH WEST- 1246 Hastings St, 3 bdrm Rancher, 2 garage, dining/living/family rooms, 2 bath (ensuite), F/P, appls incld, new roof. Walking distance to Interurban campus. Reduced price, $460,000.

Call 250-477-4600.

HOUSES FOR SALE

TRUCKLOAD Mattress Sale,All sizes, All models ON SALE! Sidney Buy & Sell 9818 4th St. Sidney. sidneybuyandsell.ca

WASHER/DRYER Frigidaire white, 8 cycle HD, $550.

(778)351-3349.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewelry. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700

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TRANSPORTATION

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CARS

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SUITES, LOWER MARIGOLDcozy 1 bdrm, woodstove. shared W/D, quiet.

NS/NP. $850. 250-727-6217.

MAYFAIR AREA, 1 bdrm main floor, close to bus & shopping. $950, all inclusive.

Nov. 1. NS/NP. 250-380-2741.

QUALITY HOMES in quiet, historic Ladysmith in a 55+ community.

Homes from $114,900. A selection of floor plans and lots of options. Pets allowed. Homes are CSA A277 approved. Only 45 minutes from Victoria & 5 minutes from Nanaimo airport. Call Duck Paterson 250-246-0637 or email to: info@lmfhomes.ca

MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

TRANSPORTATION AUTO ACCESSORIES/ PARTS

SET OF 4 Michelin all season tires on rims, P265/70R17 L2X A/T2. $650. (250)479-3775.

AUTO FINANCING

APARTMENT/CONDO SAANICH: 55+ furnished 2 bdrm, balcony faces Swan Creek, 5 appls, in-suite W/D. $1200. utils incld 250-479-5437 SIDNEY- DOWNTOWN. 1400 sq ft, $1800. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, 6 appls, 1 secure prking. NS/NP. Nov 1. (250)655-4184.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES SIDNEY- 3 bdrm sxs duplex, 1.5 bath, NS/NP. $1375+ utils.

Available now (250)656-4003.

SOOKE, 3-bdrm, 4-plex, $750 mo, on bus route, nice deck & yard. Call 250-478-2450.

HOMES FOR RENT LANGFORD: LARGE 3-bdrm, 5 appls, large yard & garden.

N/S. $1650. + utils. Call Cam at 250-880-0070.

RECREATION

RV RESORT ON THE LAKE

GORDON HEAD- (4062 Feltham Place) 3 bdrm rancher, w/appls, F/P, garage. Close to UVic, Shelbourne. New price$449,000. Move-in now, motivated seller. To view: 250514-3286.

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Spots available at Great Rates. Daily, weekly, monthly. Pool, Hot tub, exercise room, laundry, putting green, hiking, fishing, Pickle Ball Court.

Free coffee in one of the best clubhouses on the island. Nanaimo area. www.resortonthelake.com 250-754-1975 or admin@resortonthelake.com

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Mauve Friday is Coming.

1983 PORSCHE 944 Sports seats, sunroof, custom sound system, new starter, new battery. $6,400. (778)433-4145.

1990 CHEVROLET Cavalier Z 24, 3.1 Litre. Only 70,000 km on rebuilt motor. Newer Luc High Performance clutch, 5sp trans, near new Hankook tires. Red, sun roof, mint interior, power doors/windows (new motors and regulators). Pioneer stereo w/iPod adapter, sub woofer, Pioneer 6x9 3 way speakers. Same owner since 1990, have all receipts. $3000.

Chris, 250-595-0370 lv mess.

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55 BENTLY 4 door in white, 6 automatic with a/c, lhd. ex California car. Needs paint and bodywork. Sacrifice price only $14,000. Call (289)2967411.

BRITISH CLASSIC bargains.

69 Royals Royce silver shuttle.

Rust free. Excellent throughout, low mileage. Right hand drive. Ideal for Hong Kong buyers. Only $8,500 firm and fair. Call (289)296-7411.

POPULAR HOT selling import camper 1978 VW raised roof model only 90,000 miles, 4 speed, F/S, knee deep in rubber. Need a vacation, pick up and drive back from East Toronto. First sensible offer takes it. Call (289)296-7411.

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OTTER POINT RV Trailer Park. 40’ park model trailer (no pad fees) 3 slide outs + 30’x52’ lot, finished deck & shed in new cond. Reduced to $117,900. obo. Owner willing to look at financing. Call (306)290-8764.

2007 KIA RIO EX- 72,000 km, pl, pw, AM/FM/CD, heated seats, 5 speed, great cond, great mileage. Prefect for student or 2nd family car. $5495, obo. (250)514-7624.

RENTALS

AFFORDABLE OASIS in the community of Langford: This bright south-facing 950 sqft manufactured home has it all: open floor plan, 2 bdrms + den on private, landscaped and fully fenced 5000 sqft lot in well managed 55+ park. This park is permanent and zoned as a mobile home park. Asking $64,900. See Details and Photos at: http://langfordhome4sale. blogspot.ca/ or call 250-4747198 to view.

FREE TOW AWAY

NEWER UPPER 3 BR, 2BA, 2 Decks, 6 appl. $1400. 250642-0203

CLOCK SHOP for Sale- repair watches, jewelry. Battery accessories. Established shop.

Large clientele. 1046 Fort St. For more info: 250-361-4480.

5 BDRM - 3 bdrm, 2 full bath up. Big storage, wood F/P, heat pump, Sep entr. Close to Beckwith Park on Cul de Sac. Large lot w/fruit trees. Lower suite; 2 bdrm, 1 lrg full bath. $625,000. (250)479-7201.

Scrap Junk Broken Down Cars Trucks Vans

SUITES, UPPER

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

$50 to $1000

NORTH NANAIMO: Attention Students/Working Professionals: fully furnished room, nice, quiet area.

Own bathroom, cable, FREE WiFi, shared kitchen and laundry. N/S, N/P, no partiers. $550/mo. Avail. immediately. 250-756-9746

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Suites, Renos, Carpentry, Drywall, Painting. Licensed and insured. Darren 250-217-8131.

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EXPERIENCED JOURNEYMAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured.

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FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonable rates. Call 250-514-2376.

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CLEANING SERVICES HOUSEKEEPER EXPERIENCED, reliable. References.

250-920-6516, 250-881-7444.

STELLAR CLEANING Services. Carpet/ Window/ Gutter Cleaning. Call (250)294-5422.

ELECTRICAL AT&T ELECTRIC. Renovations. Residential & Commercial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550.

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FENCING ALL TYPES of fencing, repairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

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ABBA EXTERIORS Gutter cleaning & repairs. Seniors discounts. WCB, Insured. Free estimates. (778)433-9275.

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JUNK BOX- We Do All The Loading

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.

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Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK. PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774 SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount.

Brad 250-217-9578.

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc.

Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

GARDEN OVERGROWN? Weeding, lawn cuts, cleanups, pruning.

John Kaiser 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all.

Call 250-361-6164.

JACK NASH, serving Victoria since 1980. We do it all! Free estimates WCB. 250-881-3886

2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on local moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.

INTERIOR DESIGN

PAINTING

VIRGO INTERIORS- Certified Interior decorator specializing in color schemes that work the first time. Call (250)721-2777. designerg@shaw.ca

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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250-744-8588, Norm.

TREE SERVICES BUDDY’S TREE SERVICESTrimming, pruning, chipping, removals, hedges, lawn care, Insured. Keith, (250)474-3697.

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To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every number 1 to 9 must appear in: • Each of the nine vertical columns • Each of the nine horizontal rows • Each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes

Remember no number can occur more than once in any row, column or box.

Today’s Solution

34. No. Saudi Arabian desert 36. Constitution Hall is HQ 37. Scree (plural) 39. Apple, pear, quince 40. Religious song 41. 17th Hebrew letter 42. Attached at the base 48. Reflexive form of one 50. Carbolic acid 51. Worldly rather than spiritual 52. Worked for income 53. A Loloish language 54. One point E (clockwise) of due N 55. Common college degree 56. Of cadmium DOWN 58. East by north 1. Female peafowl 59. Delightful surprises 2. Return to custody 60. Color 3. Citizen of Cairo 4. What was that?

5. Gardens in fishbowls 6. Cause to be or to become 7. Civic or Accord 8. Chicories 9. Set of data 12. Fan-based music awards 13. Wealthy 17. __-fi: “Star Trek” genre 19. Helped 20. Blue Nile source (alt. sp.)

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Sudoku

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week beginning October 31, 2013 Real Estate Victoria

OPENHOUSES

Select your home.

Select your mortgage.

NEWS GAZETTE

OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

Published Every Thursday

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Oct. 31- Nov.6 edition of Real Estate Victoria

Oak Bay 250-370-7601 Victoria 250-483-1360 Westshore 250-391-2933 Sidney 250-655-0632 Chatterton Way 250-479-0688 www.vericoselect.com

404-75 Songhees

Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333

606 Speed Ave, $215,000

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Scott Munro, 250 477-5353

3673 Blenkinsop, $509,000 pg. 5

4034 Locarno Lane, $839,900

107-75 Songhees, $725,000 pg. 10

Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333

pg. 6

Sunday 2-4 Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd. 250-383-7100

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Keith Ferguson, 250-744-3301

1270 Beach, $329,000 pg. 1

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422

403-1050 Park Blvd, $259,900 Sunday 2:30-4:30 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jeff Bishop, 250-477-7291

pg. 5

202-1425 Fort, $339,000

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Maggie Thompson, 250-889-5955

pg. 6

1221 Richardson St, $884,900 pg. 11

106-853 North Park, $599,900 Saturday 3-4:30 Royal LePage Coast Capital Rick Humphries, 250-889-2310

pg. 6

203-1420 Beach Dr, $399,900 Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Glen Myles, 250-385-2033

pg. 11

244 King George, $1,159,900 Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny, 250-474-4800

pg. 12

32-1344 Beach, $219,000

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422

pg. 6

pg. 8

pg. 17

1105-1630 Quadra St, $195,000 Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Anna Bjelde, 250-592-4422

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Ginny Barlow, 250-474-6003

Saturday 1-3 JONESco Real Estate Inc. Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653 pg. 21

406-1615 Belcher Ave, $219,900

pg. 12

pg. 3

3 Woodville Pl, $345,000 Sunday 2:30-4:30 Re/Max Camosun Deb Coburn, 250-812-5333

33-70 Cooper, $149,000 Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Fran Jeffs, 250-744-3301

pg. 12

15-840 Craigflower Rd, $213,000 pg. 10

210-1745 Leighton Rd, $239,900 Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheri Crause, 250-592-4422

199 Olive, $839,900

Saturday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Andrew Plank, 250-360-6106

pg. 22

Sunday 11-1 Macdonald Realty Ltd Eleanor V Smith, 250-818-6662

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer, 250-818-3216

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422

948 Garthland, $1,499,800 Saturday 1-3 JONESco Real Estate Inc. Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653

pg. 12

Sunday 12-2 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jeff Bishop, 250-477-7291

479 Joffre St, $459,900 pg. 11

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Andrew Plank, 250-360-6106

pg. 13

pg. 10

pg. 16

pg. 12

pg. 13

pg. 13

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Velma Sproul, 250-213-2858

pg. 8

11-4140 Interurban Rd, $289,900

Saturday & Sunday 1-2 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Bill Knowles, 250-656-0131

pg. 14

Sunday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Fran Jeffs, 250-744-3301

571 Caselton Pl, $634,900

4-9925 Third, $709,000

Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Sandy Berry, 250-818-8736

Saturday 3-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

Sunday 3-4:30 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Derek Braaten, 250-479-3333

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer, 250-818-3216

pg. 15

pg. 5

pg. 13

pg. 13

pg. 14

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Marsha Crawford, 250-889-8200

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Deb Coburn, 250-812-5333

Saturday & Sunday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

9820 Seaport, $499,500

pg. 23

pg. 12

Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Gaylene Salina, 250-479-3333

pg. 15

305-1145 Sikorsky, $289,900 Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 474-6003

pg. 15

Saturday & Sunday 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Mike Hartshorne, 250-889-4445 Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

pg. 10

pg. 9

2655 Sooke Rd, $219,900 pg. 15

Thursday thru Monday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Brad Gregory, 250 744-3301

pg. 18

pg. 2

2160 Erinan, $739,000 pg. 18

Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Don Beckner, 250-477-5353

pg. 9

476-480 Becher Bay Rd, $499,900 pg. 10

Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124

Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Karn Dodd, 250-479-3333

pg. 19

pg. 10

873 Tutor, $489,900

875 Walfred, $579,900 pg. 23

Sunday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Doreen Halstenson, 250-744-3301

pg. 18

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Mikko Ikonen, 250 479-3333

pg. 22

2332 Nicklaus, $999,000 pg. 15

10500 McDonald Park, $585,000 Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Nicole Burgess, 250 384-8124

pg. 18

106-611 Brookside, $225,000 pg. 23

14-2115 Amelia, $352,000 pg. 12

Sunday 2:30-4 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown, 250-380-6683

593 Latoria Rd, $294,000

406-611 Brookside, $189,000

Saturday 11-1 Re/Max Camosun Keith Ferguson, 250-744-3301

Sunday 12-1:30 Holmes Realty Magdalin Heron 250 656-0911

pg. 15

A-3153 Metchosin, $349,000

82-2600 Ferguson, $349,000

pg. 5

pg. 15

3467 Happy Valley Rd.

30-3650 Citadel Pl, $559,000

2466 Mt. St. Michael, $534,900

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny, 250-474-4800

Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Bill Ethier, 250-920-7000

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Brad Maclaren, 250-727-5448

Sunday 12-1 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Ginny Barlow, 250-474-6003

922 Bullen, $397,000

pg. 6

pg. 13

pg. 15

2641 Platinum Pl, $799,900

7744 Wallace Dr., $628,888

Saturday 11-1 Re/Max Camosun Rick Turcotte, 250-744-3301

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jenn Raappana, 250-477-7291

891 Wild Ridge Way, $399,900

302-2250 James White, $268,900

905 Violet Ave, $514,000

pg. 15

314-1145 Sikorsky Rd, $274,900

1290 Eston Pl, $924,500

887 Royal Oak Dr, $639,900 Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Robert Nemish, 250-744-3301

Saturday 12-2 One Percent Realty Lanny Parsons, 250-514-1550

Saturday 12-4 Re/Max of Nanaimo John Cooper, 1-866-956-6228

1020 Burnside Rd W, $599,000

A-1704 Feltham Rd, $549,900 Saturday 11:30-1:30 Re/Max Camosun Peter Gray, 250-744-3301

pg. 23

2018 Bowcott Pl, $574,900

4009 Carey Rd, $469,900

40-4360 Emily Carr Dr, $499,900 pg. 3

Saturday & Sunday 12-4 Re/Max Camosun Peter Gray, 250-744-3301

Saturday 1:30-3:30 Re/Max Camosun Valerie Edwards, 250-477-9947

2462 Selwyn Rd, $424,999

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jenn Raappana, 250-590-3921

10-1550 North Dairy

Sunday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

pg. 23

3795 Burnside Pl, $549,900

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Keith Ferguson, 250-744-3301

20 Phillion Pl, $624,900

920 Pemberton Rd, $839,900 Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Debbie Hargreaves 250 384-8124

pg. 9

3963 Juan De Fuca, $1,189,900

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Shelly Reed, 250-213-7444

503-250 Douglas St., $299,000

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye, 250-384-8124

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Rosemarie Colterman, 250 592-4422

2879 Richmond Rd, $439,900

708-373 Tyee Rd, $315,000

Sunday 1-3 Newport Realty Marie Blender, 250-385-2033

pg. 13

202-1680 Poplar, $219,000

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast James Gardiner (250) 507-4333

Saturday 3-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

32-2587 Selwyn, $74,900

1218 Clearwater Pl, $559,900

8781 Forest Park Dr, $739,900

25-4318 Emily Carr, $625,000

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Saturday 11-1 Newport Realty Sandy Berry, 250-818-8736

pg. 14

2094 Ferndale, $629,000

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422

Saturday 1-2 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911

13-10471 Resthaven, $349,900

4300 Maltwood, $849,000 Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Ruth Stark, 250-477-1100

pg. 5

8781 Forest Park Dr, $739,900

3934 Cedar Hill X Rd, $860,000 pg. 2

pg. 13

pg. 16

4009 Cedar Hill Rd, $529,900

pg. 10

733A Humboldt (200 Douglas) Saturday, Sunday & Monday 1-4 Macdonald Realty Helene Roy, 250 883-2715

4-3981 Saanich, $349,000

Saturday 2-4 One Percent Realty Guy Effler, 250-812-4910

29 Brigadoon, $849,000

106-55 Songhees, $569,800

Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Shelly Reed, 250-213-7444

pg. 9

2824 Arbutus, $929,000 9-314 Six Mill Rd, $450,000

Saturday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921

Saturday, Sunday & Monday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-655-0608

8721 Lochside, $799,000

1575 Jasper, $639,900

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Lynne Sager, 250 744-3301

832 Leslie, $489,000

Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Brian Meredith-Jones, 250 477-1100

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4675 McMorran, $709,000

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Don Beckner, 250-477-5353

503-1745 Leighton, $259,900

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Dale Sheppard, 250-478-9600

885 Swan, $449,500

831 Rogers Ave, $629,900

4-1160 Burdett, $519,000

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Susan Carley, 250-477-7291

Sunday 2:30-4 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown, 250-380-6683

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Scott Munro, 250 477-5353 pg. 6189926

Saturday 11-1 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Plank, 250-360-6106

7161 West Saanich Rd, $276,900

4285 Quadra, $524,900

Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Ltd. Eleanor Smith, 250-818-6662

304-1665 Oak Bay Ave, $239,900

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Rick Shumka, 250 384-8124

Saturday 2-4 One Percent Realty VI Ray Kong, 250-590-7011

pg. 14

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Brad Maclaren, 250-727-5448

3015 Dornier Rd.

Daily 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Mike Hartshorne, 250-889-4445

pg. 15

519 Bickford, $529,900

Sunday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808

pg. 16

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n Women in Business Gala n Tuesday, October 22 n Oak Bay Beach Hotel

Black Press honours Greater Victoria’s Women in Business Black Press welcomed women from across Greater Victoria last week to celebrate the annual Women in Business Awards.

Hosted in the David Foster Theatre at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, the awards recognized outstanding local women in four categories. After receiving numerous nominations from the community, this year’s honours went to Jane Ellmann, from Muse Winery, as Business Owner of the Year, Robin Tunnicliffe, Rachel Fisher and Heather Stretch, from Saanich Organics, as Eco-Entrepreneur, Julie Evans, from Sands Funeral Home, as the Above & Beyond winner, and Christina Dhesi, from Colliers International, as this year’s Rising Star.

A chance for women to come together to celebrate their successes, share their knowledge and learn from some of the best in the region, the afternoon also included the “Five 4 Five” panel, featuring Jennifer Hawes, from Coldstar Freight, Alison Ross, from Kilshaw’s Auction, Kathy Kay, Director of the Victoria Film Festival, Daisy Orser, from Rootcellar, and Michelle LeSage, general manager of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel.

Guests enjoyed the talents of Roxana Da Costa, from the Aveda Institute, who demonstrated how to keep skin looking its best, and as a delicious treat, Purdys head chocolatier Gary Mitchell led guests through a chocolate tasting. Several lucky guests also went home with prizes from Purdys and the hotel’s Boathouse Spa, while Debra Simpson won the grand prize from Pacific Coastal Airlines.

Helping make the event possible were premier sponsor Thrifty Foods, along with Island Savings, Aveda, Purdys Chocolatier, and the Women’s Enterprise Centre.

Looking ahead, mark your calendars for spring when the next Women in Business gala will celebrate the women making a difference in your community.

The for 5 Power Panel From left, Alison Ross, Kilshaws Auction, Jennifer Hawes, Cold Star Freight, Daisy Orser Root Cellar, Michelle Le Sage, Oak Bay Beach Hotel and Kathy Kay, Victoria Film Festival.

Saanich Organics’ Robin Tunnicliffe and Heather Stretch won the Eco-Entrepreneur award.

Rising Star award winner Christina Dhesi.

Above and Beyond award winner Julie Evans.

Business Owner of the Year Jane Ellman from Muse Winery.

Derek Hockley and Elise Yarema from Thrifty Foods.

Kimberly Brown, from National Bank Financial, and Purdys Head Chocolatier Gary Mitchell.

From left, Barbara Fabian, Michele Wilson and Leslie Dheensaw from Island Savings Credit Union.

From left, Tammy Averill, Country Grocer Marketing Manager, Black Press Greater Victoria Group Publisher Penny Sakamoto and Laura Walsh, Interim Director of Development at Our Place Society.

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