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Lori Lelonde, owner of Your Pet Pals at Nelson Square, stands at the Craigflower Bridge construction site.

She and fellow business owners in the area say the bridge project, which was originally slated to open Dec. 1, has been disastrous for business.

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WHEN WILL THE ROADWORK END? Business owners near Craigflower Bridge feel the pinch from years of ongoing infrastructure work Kyle Slavin News staff

Dec. 1, 2013 is a day Kim Reynhoudt had been looking forward to all year.

He imagined he’d be hosting a Craigflower Bridge reopening sale at his Canadian Tire store this weekend – just in time for Christmas – to welcome back customers who avoided the area during the project’s eight months of construction.

But the expected opening date changed from Dec. 1 to late May 2014, and now Reynhoudt and nearby business owners are bracing for what they say could be a dismal Christmas shopping season.

“Being that this bridge is closed right by my doorsteps, it’s had a huge impact on my sales. It’s been extremely disastrous for business,” he said. “We certainly planned for the closure for the eight months. The town talked to me and we agreed to shut

the whole bridge down and get it done quick and get it back ready before Christmas season. Normally December is my busiest month, but I’m expecting it to be a much quieter month.”

He expects he’ll have lost more than $1 million in sales by the time the bridge is complete.

Lori Lelonde, owner of Your Pet Pals in nearby Nelson Square, says her sales are down 30 per cent compared to last year.

“It’s brutal. We are just hanging on by our fingernails,” she said.

After her business felt the impact of the Admirals Bridge (June to September 2009) and Island Highway (July 2010 to June 2011) projects in recent years, Lelonde says she anticipated a downturn with the Craigflower Bridge replacement.

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Homeless gifts website to expand

A B.C.-based website that connects homeless residents with generous donors has reached its fundraising goal to expand across the globe.

Homelesspartners. com has been operating in Greater Victoria for the past four years and sees volunteers interview people at local shelters about their Christmas wish lists.

Stories are then posted to the organization’s website and locals can choose to purchase gifts for Victoria’s neediest residents.

On Nov. 20, Homeless Partners’ Indiegogo campaign reached its $10,000 goal to fund a new website that allows other cities to run the program with the click of a mouse.

Organizers in Portland, Ore., have already expressed interest in the program. Check out local stories at homelesspartners.com.

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Kids! Send us your letters to Santa and we’ll publish them in a special letter to Santa keepsake edition in the Saanich News and enter you to win a special prize, before sending them to the North Pole.

To participate, write your letter and decorate it with hand-drawn pictures and make sure to colour it.

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The letter to Santa keepsake will come out in the Dec. 11 edition of your community newspaper.

UVic biology graduate Chris Tuttle shows a handful of Scotch broom found near her house in Fairfield. Tuttle and Layne Woodfin are developing a biotechnology that could target and kill specific invasive plants based on deactivating elements of its genetic code.

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Defeating invasive plants through DNA Victoria scientists use emerging biotechnology to find the genetic kill switch for invasives Edward Hill News staff

Every fall for more than a decade, helicopters have buzzed Mill Hill park to airlift away great mounds of Scotch broom.

Volunteers and staff clip the hearty shrub by hand, a laborious process for an expensive war on invasives that has seen small victories, but still has no end in sight.

Controlling invasive species in Greater Victoria remains a choice between years of hard manual labour or years of chemical treatment. But two University of Victoria biology graduates are developing a new option – a biotechnology that could flick a “kill” switch within a plant’s genetic code.

Potentially, the treatment could precision-target specific invasive species, and without harming native plants or animals.

UVic’s Innovation Centre for Entrepreneurs helped Chris Tuttle and Layne Woodfin refine their business plan, which is focused on defeating kudzu, an aggressive vine that has choked vast areas of the U.S. southwest. Both scientists are based in Victoria, but they’ve set up what they call a “DIY” laboratory in Port Alberni – due to the low rental cost – to refine their genetic technology.

“We are seeking a clear proof of concept by April. For business development we are looking at kudzu in the U.S. because the

Scotch broom market is small,” Tuttle said. “If we can find funding (in Victoria) we’d love to focus on Scotch broom.”

The basis of the technology is called RNA interference or RNAi, relatively young field of biology that uses short strands of genetic material to deactivate specific genes within the DNA of certain organisms. This has proved extremely handy in understanding how genes work, and earned a Nobel Prize for the scientists who discovered it.

Tuttle and Woodfin are developing RNAi techniques to target genes unique to a specific invasive plant, and that would effectively turn off the plant’s ability to process nutrients, killing it and halting the ability for its seeds to germinate. Part of the development process is testing the safety and efficacy of RNAi strands, although Tuttle said its not something that can transfer between plants or other organisms.

“We’re not infecting the plant – the contagion is RNA used to reprogram the plant’s current state,” she said. “(Herbicides such as) Roundup goes after a protein that makes nutrients in a plant, that without it would die. It blocks that protein. But with ours we’ll prevent that protein from being built in the first place.”

Developing genetic technology has become far more viable for startup companies due to the steep drop in price and fast turnaround for sequencing and creating synthetic strands of DNA. Their company, called Cotyledon, would need to sequence kudzu DNA, for example, to understand how to construct interfering RNA. “Without making light of their

skills, timing is everything. They wouldn’t have been able to do this 20 years ago,” said Anne Flanagan, a scientific advisor for Cotyledon and a patent agent based in Sidney. “(DNA) sequencing is now dirt cheap. Things that used to take a week now take half an hour.”

“If you’re talking invasive species, that includes weeds on farmers’ fields. That is a multi-billion dollar market. And it would be nice to get away from chemicals.”

– Anne Flanagan Scientific advisor

Cotyledon has access to up to $93,000 from the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program, but in terms of a biotechnology company, it’s on a shoestring budget.

Still, it has filed for two technology patents.

Flanagan said she’s encouraging Tuttle and Woodfin to develop their prototype as fast as possible due the high cost of privatelyfunded scientific research. Equipment and experimental materials aren’t cheap, but the potential market for highly targeted herbicides is vast.

“If you’re talking invasive species, that includes weeds on farmers’ fields. That is a multi-billion dollar market. And it would be nice to get away from chemicals,” said Flanagan, a retired biotechnology professor from the University of Alberta.

“Kudzu is a good example of a

species that could be controlled.

They need a species they can monetize the technology around, and kudzu allows that. But once the technology is in place, the applications are limitless. It can be used on any plant species any place in the world.”

Saanich alone spends about $200,000 per year on controlling invasive species and environmental restoration. For difficult invasives like knotweed, Saanich injects a herbicide into its stems, which doesn’t always work. “Even then, it’s a two or three year program to get full control,” said Cory Manton, Saanich’s manager of parks and natural spaces.

Flanagan said the likely business path for Cotyledon is licensing the technology to a larger company, which could take on regulatory hurdles.

“It gets (Cotyledon) a revenue stream and allows them to get onto the next technology. They’ve got a lot of ideas. This is the first one,” she said. “But they’ve got to prove the concept and prove to the world they are capable of this.”

Martyn Ward, an industrial technical advisor for the NRC’s Industrial Research Assistance Program, which helps fund technology startups, said the Cotyledon project is intriguing and that Tuttle and Woodfin “appear to know their subject matter very well.”

“If they succeed, there are plenty of opportunities for controlling invasive species,” said Ward, who is based at the NRC office on Observatory Hill, a property with its fair share of Scotch broom. “If they develop the technology and then find a channel to market it, which is always a challenge, they could do very well.” editor@saanichnews.com

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Steel shortage, design flaws hamper bridge Continued from Page A1

Lelonde took a second job with the Department of National Defence and stopped taking a salary from her pet store, in order to keep all three of her employees on staff.

In July 2012, Saanich and View Royal, which share responsibility of the bridge, even delayed starting construction nearly a year to avoid this very issue. Jim Hemstock, Saanich’s manager of capital projects, said last year: The loss of access between Saanich and View Royal during the Christmas shopping season “would be devastating” to businesses.

View Royal Mayor Graham Hill says he feels bad that area businesses will suffer as a result of construction delays.

“Am I happy? Absolutely, no.

I have great empathy for the businesses that are there. There is always concern (about) businesses having additional hardships,” he said. “But the reality is, that concern should not get in the way of a structure this robust and being engineered well.”

The construction deadline was delayed twice this summer: a North American steel shortage made it difficult to acquire materials, and then it was discovered the bridge, as planned, was seismically unsafe.

Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard says while Dec. 1 was the touted “expected” completion date, the construction timeframe always had the potential to run much longer, and well past Christmas.

“There was a (financial) bonus if it was done early. I

think we’re all guilty of getting enthusiastic about the bonus target and we talked about (Dec. 1) more than we did about the range,” he said. “We optimistically looked at the earliest possible date and talked about it with enthusiasm. We weren’t realistic.”

Both Lelonde and Reynhoudt say they were under the impression Dec. 1 was firm, otherwise there would be penalties.

“All (the municipalities) say is: ‘The bridge will open when it opens. These things happen.’

We’re stuck now,” Reynhoudt said. “I accept the fact in this world we have to upgrade our infrastructure. But it is very upsetting and I certainly feel that this has been poorly executed, poorly thought out and poorly communicated.”

He says he won’t need to hire extra help at Canadian Tire this Christmas season – he typically increases his staff by 15 per cent. Lelonde won’t be adding staff either.

“I don’t know how long you can sustain this. It’s more a matter of how long before I crack,” Reynhoudt said. “I’m starting to have a hard look at all costs in the store because we have to try and get these things in line with the dramatic decrease in sales. I don’t want to lay anybody off.”

Dan Spinner, CEO of the WestShore Chamber of Commerce, says he’s concerned for the retailers, but understands things happen unexpectedly during major infrastructure projects.

“Whether it’s the downtown bridge or this bridge, you don’t know what you will find till you

find it. They’ve discovered a number of things they weren’t planning on. It’s not anybody’s fault, it’s just very unfortunate,” he said.

Despite the issues impacting businesses in his municipality, Hill says the Craigflower Bridge project is still “a good news story.”

“I think overall the best choices are being made,” he said. “As much as I’m very concerned for the well-being of our businesses, it is an essential requirement that the engineering be done right.”

Access to the area isn’t completely gone. Tillicum Bridge remains open to allow vehicles to cross the Gorge, and Craigflower Road is clear of construction.

“You can still get to where you need to go, it’s just more inconvenient,” Spinner said.

“We hope loyalty overcomes a little bit of driving.”

Lelonde says all she can do is put her head down and work hard at keeping her business afloat, hoping there isn’t another delay and crews can get the bridge finished earlier than the currently scheduled late May opening.

“It’s so hard when you put your heart and soul into something you love so much, and something like this happens and your hands are tied,” Lelonde said. “There’s nothing you can do. Every day you plug away and do what you can to keep going.

“It’s tough, but you know what? I’m one of those that’s not going to get knocked down.

I’ll get through it, I hope.” kslavin@saanichnews.com

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Daily check-in service for seniors expands Daniel Palmer News staff

A volunteer service that provides daily contact for seniors living alone is expanding across Greater Victoria.

The Reassurance for Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP), run by Silver Threads Service based in Saanich, provides weekday check-in phone calls to help seniors who live independently do so longer, said Tracy Ryan, community relations director.

“Part of the intake process is we collect emergency contact information for family or neighbours with a key who can check in,” Ryan said.

“It puts that safety measure in place to make sure everything is OK, and if we can’t make contact with them we will follow up.”

Silver Threads works with municipal police and similar programs provided by the James Bay New Horizons Society and in Oak Bay that ensure independent seniors aren’t forgotten, she said.

There’s also been an influx of newly retired volunteers who are willing to provide daily phone calls to seniors who want the service, Ryan said.

“If you think about a senior being someone who’s 65, they’re generally pretty active. What we’re finding is more of our younger seniors are volunteering to support our programs, which is great,” she said.

To request weekday phone calls from Silver Threads volunteers, call 250-382-3151, see silverthreads.ca or visit their office at 286 Hampton Rd. dpalmer@vicnews.com

B.C. anti-gang unit hits regional drug traffickers An alleged member of a violent drug trafficking gang in Greater Victoria now faces charges after being busted last April.

The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC), aided by the West Shore RCMP and Saanich police, arrested three men in April, all who are linked to distributing drugs in southern Vancouver Island.

On Tuesday, Crown approved a drug trafficking and weapons charge against 35-year-old Adam Blair Maxted Smith, of Sooke. On April 10, the CFSEU-BC arrested Smith in Delta allegedly with four kilograms of cocaine, and then found a revolver in his Sooke home.

Yoshiaki Shibanuma, 31, of Vancouver, also faces a drug trafficking charge related to the same investigation.

CFSEU-BC allege the men are part of a drug network that imports cocaine from the Lower Mainland to southern Vancouver Island to supply “dial-a-dope” drug dealers.

Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said the

men “aren’t big fish,” but caught with an alleged four kilograms of cocaine – worth about $100,000 – they aren’t minnows either.

CFSEU-BC nabbed another 35-yearold man in Victoria on the same day in April, an individual thought to be the leader of the drug trafficking gang. Houghton said charges aren’t expected against this man, and he still resides in Greater Victoria.

Houghton said the leader of the gang frequently uses violence to enforce his turf in the region.

“They use violence against rivals, and the leader of this drug network cell is the most violent player in the group,” he said.

In June, the CFSEU-BC arrested two high-level drug traffickers in Victoria, a Saanich man and a Langford man, and seized $542,000 worth of marijuana and cocaine. Investigators also found gun holsters, but no guns.

The men, described as “top of the food chain for the Greater Victoria area” for drug trafficking, were released and have yet to be charged. editor@saanichnews.com

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he magic number of $42,500 has been popping up all over Vancouver Island, thanks to the representatives of Canada’s Reno Rebate Inc. They’ve been spreading the word about government rebates for new home purchases, owner-built homes and substantial renovations to existing homes during the tenure of the HST, and $42,500 is the upper limit a homeowner can receive for a project. Together with the Ontariobased company Rebate4U, Canada’s Reno Rebate Inc. has already helped homeowners apply for rebates totaling $8 million at time of printing.

Many clients hesitate on their way out of Canada’s Reno Rebate principal Sean Leitenberg’s Fairfield office, where they have just handed over a sheaf of paperwork and receipts for a major home renovation.

“Is this for real?” they ask Sean.

That’s the most common question Sean gets, and his answer is a firm, “Yes, this is real.”

Sean understands the skepticism, though. He asked the same thing when his brother-in-law in Ontario called him and said, “You might be entitled to a rebate on the HST you paid when you did your reno.”

This rebate has been available for the last three years and it’s about to disappear. It must be claimed within two years of the purchase of a new house or condo or completion of an owner-built home or a major renovation. Even if you have sold your home, you are entitled to a rebate if your intention for the build or renovation was to keep the home.

“There is a misconception that if your home is worth more than $450,000, you are not entitled to any government rebates, but this is just not true,” says Sean.

Canada’s Reno Rebate has teamed up with builders, trades, designers and Realtors to share the good news about the potential rebate with their qualifying clients.

“We know several contractors and Realtors who are going through their files and calling everyone they helped

to fix up or buy a house between July 1, 2010 and March 31, 2013 when the HST was repealed,” he says.

It comes down to this: if you built or purchased a new home or did a substantial renovation to an existing home for yourself or for rental during that period, you are entitled to a rebate for a portion of the provincial sales tax embedded within the HST. Canada’s Reno Rebate Inc. handles all the paperwork and follows through with the government until you receive your cheque. Because Sean and his staff know the forms, the processes, and who to call, they efficiently and quickly collect the information and submit exactly what the government agencies need. The company charges no upfront fee and if you don’t receive a rebate, the application costs you nothing.

Because all the required paperwork can be done via email and fax, “clients are coming to us from all over this great province,” says Sean.

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Keeping up the momentum for typhoon relief Edward Hill News staff

Like many of Victoria’s Filipino community, Tamiko Sianen was glued to the TV as Typhoon Haiyan rolled through the homeland of her parents.

“I was devastated. It was the long weekend and was watching the Filipino news channels and seeing all the families affected,” said Sianen, a Mount Douglas high school student and student body president. “I couldn’t stop thinking about all those kids whose parents were gone.”

Sianen has a large extended family in the Philippines, who fortunately live in the north of the country and away from the devastation that has killed thousands and displace 4 million people. “We immediately tried to contact family to see if they were OK, to see if they were safe,” she said.

Students of Filipino descent at Mount Doug banded together this week for a fundraising lunch featuring traditional Filipino food, donated by 10 families.

Members from the Filipino Bayanihan Community Centre helped

dish out the food.

“We didn’t expect so many people. We sold out of main courses in 15 minutes,” Sianen said. “We raised $271 in 50 minutes.”

The Mount Doug donation adds to the growing total collected by the Bayanihan Cultural & Housing Society for the Canadian Red Cross, now nearing $40,000.

Laila Pires, treasurer for the Bayanihan society, based at the Bayanihan Community Centre on Blanshard Street, said individuals and organizations across

Greater Victoria have fundraised for relief in the Philippines.

“It’s not only the Filipino community, but the Italian community, the Polynesian community and retirement places helping with the fundraising effort,” Pires said. “It’s heartening to see individuals getting their businesses to do silent auctions.

“It’s a big consolation we’ve got support from the community in this regard.”

Like Sianen, Pires has family in Philippines who live in northern areas, away from the path of Haiyan.

She admits the scale of the devastation caught the local Filipino community off guard.

“My god I was shocked. We know (the Philippines) is in the typhoon belt and thought people would be ready, but we didn’t realize the extent of the disaster,” she said.

“People are displaced with no jobs and no school and no homes. What are they going to do for the next three to five years?”

The Victoria Filipino community is hosting a gala dinner and dance on Dec. 7 at at the Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, in partnership with the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers Union.

Pires said they’re looking to raise $10,000 from the event. The Canadian government is matching donations until Dec. 23.

“We hope not to lose the momentum, but after (the gala dinner) we’ll have to see how we can continue to help,” Pires said.

“We realize there is a lot of demand for peoples’ generosity with Christmas coming up.” editor@saanichnews.com

n Tickets for the benefit dinner at Cedar Hill rec are $30. It runs from 6 p.m. to midnight on Dec. 7. See bayanihan.ca for details on all upcoming fundraising events or email bayanihancc@shaw.ca.

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Mount Doug students Armel de la Fuente, her brother Dave and Tamiko Sianen have a taste of Filipino treats during a fundraiser at the school that raised money for Red Cross typhoon relief for the Philippines. Filipino food was donated by families of students with Filipino ancestry, and was one of a long list of fundraisers in Victoria supporting typhoon relief.

Artisan fair celebrates 25 years The Out of Hand artisan fair has come a long way since a collection of crafters gathered to display and sell their wares at the Victoria Conference Centre in 1989.

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Part of the 25th anniversary fair at Crystal Garden includes a Then and Now wall with photos and artwork from previous fairs.

The fair runs today (Nov. 29) through Sunday. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

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Christmas season a time for giving There may not be snow on the ground, but Christmas is definitely in the air.

You may have taken advantage of the recent dry spell to put up decorative lights. Santa’s helpers are now at local Take time to think of ensconced malls, and the those less fortunate hype for seasonal is in full while out shopping sales swing.

It’s hard to escape the commercial trappings of Christmas.

Nor should we. Livelihoods depend on it.

But amidst the hustle and bustle of the next month, it’s important to take some time out, and reach out to those who don’t have the means to indulge, who can’t afford to get their kids the latest toy sensation, who don’t have proper winter coats in their closets, who can’t put a holiday feast on their dinner table or may not even have a home to keep them warm.

There’s no shortage of groups and organizations who work hard all year to help make life a little easier for people who are struggling.

Those struggles are magnified during the holiday season, with all the expectations it brings.

For those of us hustling from store to store, fulfilling wish lists, it takes but a moment to drop some spare change into the Salvation Army red kettle at the front door, or to drop a winter coat, mittens or hats at a business holding a coat drive, or to place a few cans of hearty soup in the Food Bank box at the grocery store.

Better yet, pitch in by volunteering some time and energy to those worthy groups.

They’re busy this time of year, and would likely appreciate the help.

Or pledge to make an effort to help out through the year. Need doesn’t go by dates on the calendar.

They’re small gestures, but for those on the receiving end, they’re blessings.

And isn’t that what Christmas is all about?

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Ferries subsidy shakeup needed Re: Tough decisions needed by Ferries (Our View, Nov. 22) I agreed with your comments for the most part, but you were a little over the top about the slot machines. Their use is optional, so maxed-out passengers can just ignore them and thus incur no cost, but I do acknowledge that it raises the question of enabling those addicted to gambling.

As a senior I am sorry to lose my free travel Monday to Thursday, but I do understand. I enjoyed it while it lasted. Maybe a happy compromise might be to give us old folks 50 per cent off seven days a week and thus encourage us to travel more often.

Your comments about those living on smaller islands having chosen their lifestyles (“Forcing the majority to pay through ever-higher fares to service the minority doesn’t make sense”) are true and it had to be said, but I am sure it didn’t make you a lot of friends. It does raise another issue that maybe should be discussed.

There is always talk that the ferries are part of the highway system and should be subsidized.

Fair comments to be sure, but we must also address why the inland freshwater ferries, operated by the Ministry of Transportation, are 100 per cent subsidized and free to use.

To follow your reasoning above, are we on the coast not subsidizing, through our tax dollars, the lifestyle choices of those who live in the B.C. Interior and use those ferries?

Here’s two options: Make all

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ferries free. Can you imagine the boom in the tourism sector, among others, on all of the islands?

Or, have the inland ferries charge a reasonable amount, with the revenue used to subside the coastal ferries. Either option is more fair than what we have now.

Peter Dutton Central Saanich

Change in ferry revenue is just a smokescreen Re: Tough decisions needed by Ferries (Our View, Nov. 22) We are being led to believe that reducing the seniors discount is necessary to improve B.C. Ferries’ bottom line. Every free trip taken by seniors is paid for when BCF sends the government the bill. This change will save the corporation nothing, but may well save the provincial treasury a large sum.

Payments from government to BCF will vanish and because seniors will now travel much less, the 50-per-cent fare they pay will be dramatically less revenue, hurting B.C. Ferries’ bottom line.

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Broaden the benefit for Saanich park users Re: Cedar Hill Park users deserve more (Letters, Nov. 22) We have lived beside the golf course since 1967 and I agree with Andy Ruszel’s comments.

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When we moved here, many children played along the path or in the bushes beside the golf course.

It was wonderful to hear their voices as I worked in my garden or walked the trail. Now life is different and children can no longer play in wooded areas by themselves.

What a wonderful opportunity we have. The underused playing field would be an ideal location for an adventure playground. Parents could sit and enjoy a cup of coffee and watch their little ones play safely in the fresh air.

We already have golf, tennis, walking, running and many activities available in the rec centre for adults and older children, but there is no playground for small children in the area between Cedar Hill Road, Cook Street/Maplewood Road and Finlayson Street and Cedar Hill Cross Road.

Such a playground would indeed provide better substantial benefit for the largest number of community members, while actually costing us less. Then maybe we could have some money left to upgrade parts of the walking trail to make it safer for all ages. At the very least let us have more community input before we basically give away this beautiful public land to a private club.

Once it is gone it is gone.

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SPCA rails against Oak Bay deer cull Animal welfare group calls for deer spaying program Christopher Sun News staff

The BCSPCA and others are demanding Oak Bay council reverse its decision to allow a deer cull in the district, saying the lethal approach will not end the problem.

Two weeks ago, Oak Bay council approved signing onto the Capital Regional District’s deer management pilot project, which recommends culling up to 25 deer, with the meat, antlers and hooves going to the Songhees First Nation.

BCSPCA manager of wildlife services Sara Dubois said Oak Bay’s approval for a cull is “misguided” and a “knee-jerk reaction.”

“We’ve heard from a lot of our supporters who are really upset with this deer cull,” Dubois said.

“Take the cull off the table and have a conversation with deer management experts.”

BCSPCA CEO Craig Daniell wrote council in June to express his organization’s opposition to a deer cull in Oak Bay. The letter, he asked for community consultation on the issue and enforcement of local bylaws, as locals are feeding deer, encouraging the animals to stick around and multiply.

Dubois said deer control is under provincial jurisdiction and the province should be dealing with the issue directly.

She cited a cull in the Interior, in which 25 deer were killed, but 11 were the wrong species.

“Responding to wildlife is not something municipalities have experience in or have the support and resources to do,” Dubois said. “It’s an indiscriminate cull. They have no sense of the deer population.”

Lesley Fox, executive director for the Vancouver-based Association for the Protection of Fur Bearing Animals, said

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Biologist and president of SpayVac for Wildlife Inc. and TerraMar Environmental Research Mark Fraker prepares a syringe of medication. culls do not work.

“You kill 25 in Oak Bay and 25 from Saanich will just walk in,” Fox said. “This is a total waste of taxpayer money. Redirect the money being spent on the cull to help those specific homeowners who are complaining.

“This is nature, we are part of it and we live with it.”

The association’s mandate is to protect fur bearing animals such as fox and mink. However the increasing number of deer culls in the province is concerning its members.

“We are really scared this is going to be a pattern,” Fox said.

“What’s next? Coyotes, raccoons and maybe the year after that Canada geese?”

Fox was in talks with a number of groups and people about spaying deer with a vaccine called SpayVac. Her organization was exploring the idea of donating $50,000 toward spaying, if it meant no cull.

Is spaying the answer?

Mark Fraker, a biologist and president of SpayVac for Wildlife Inc., said SpayVac was originally developed for seals.

Fraker modified the drug,

which is derived from pig protein, so it can be used on deer, wild horses and elephants. The drug is given by injection into the animal and preliminary tests have shown that it can prevent pregnancy for up to six years. The life expectancy of deer is typically seven to eight years.

The drug costs $200 per dose and approval must be granted by Health Canada and the province’s wildlife veterinarian. While the approval process is cumbersome, Fraker said it’s not impossible.

The drug is considered experimental, as it has not been widely used. However, Fraker has used it in the U.S. but also at CFB Esquimalt and Maple Ridge, with positive results. “(In Maple Ridge) there were 10 females and they had 12 (fawns). Five years down the road after they were treated, there was only one born instead of 60,” Fraker said.

“These are typical results. That was a 50-times reduction in fawns being born.”

The best time to vaccinate deer would be in late summer and early fall, when there is a

shortage of food. That is when the cull would likely take place as well.

Fraker does not earn royalties from SpayVac sales as it’s owned by a pharmaceutical company. He earns his income as a consultant and on contracts to vaccinate animals with the drug.

Local biologist Rick Page is also a proponent of SpayVac. He said culling deer requires trapping the animal and then stunning it in the head with a bolt gun, which does not instantly kill the animal.

“After they get knocked out with a bolt gun, their throats are slit,” Page said. “They are killed by bleeding out. The deer will be put on a plastic sled to bleed out on instead of the ground.”

Mayor Nils Jensen said Oak Bay and the Capital Regional District have worked on a deer management plan for two years. He has personally met with various groups and individuals over the years to find a non-lethal solution to dealing with the deer problem and all alternatives have been explored, which

is why council finally made the decision to allow a cull.

“It’s not a decision we have taken lightly,” Jensen said. “We have had countless meetings on this issue.”

He said SpayVac was something he was very interested in, but it’s an experimental drug that would be used in conjunction with a research proposal that needs funding, something that has not materialized.

“I don’t think there is enough science behind SpayVac,” Jensen said, adding that council’s biggest concern is public safety, which needs to be addressed now.

“I heard a story about a child who came very close to being trampled on by deer. I have heard of dogs almost getting trampled on.

Recently I heard of a cyclist who was struck by a deer and knocked off his bike,” Jensen said. “Our (council’s) responsibility is to deal with those issues in a fair and reasonable manner and that’s what we are doing.” reporter@vicnews.com

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A pilot program to count pedestrians in three spots downtown with thermal-image counters is an effort to offer potential investors and retailers solid data about foot traffic, said Ken Kelly, DVBA executive director.

“We believe that with this increasingly competitive environment, we’ve got to be on our game with promoting and providing the information that investors are looking for,” he said.

The three counters are located above sidewalks outside Market Square on Johnson Street, at the southeast corner of Douglas and Fort streets and on Government Street near Murchie’s Tea and Coffee.

The goal is to be able to pair accurate foot traffic data with vehicle counts already available through the City of Victoria, Kelly said.

The retail picture continues to be rather bleak downtown. In their 2013 strategic plan, the DVBA reported the ground floor retail vacancy rate was 7.1 per cent at the end of 2012. That marked a slight improvement over 2011, but was still one of the highest rates since 2005, when year-end vacancies hit 7.8 per cent.

“I’m not convinced this’ll be the saving grace for downtown,” said Victoria Coun. Ben Isitt.

A more effective and direct strategy would be to find a way to route buses carrying cruise ship passengers into town rather than to a handful of tourist attractions, he said.

“If we can work to ensure the vast majority of passengers reach the downtown, that could have a huge impact for local businesses.”

As for the public being recorded by devices downtown, Isitt voiced concern that the DVBA did not consult with the office of the B.C. Privacy Commissioner or the B.C. Civil Liberties Union before deciding to install them.

“I think we have to be mindful of the creep of surveillance, but I’m comforted by the fact there won’t be faces recorded,” he said.

Kelly said the technology is designed strictly to register movement, not to identify anyone. ddescoteau@vicnews.com

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BY MARILYN McCRIMMON December is a month of celebration, but it is also a month of diminishing light, where the days shorten and the nights lengthen.

People who have lost a loved one experience this contrast all too painfully—while those around them enjoy seasonal festivities, their feelings of loss are intensified as they feel out of step with the festive atmosphere surrounding them.

While nothing can bring a loved one back, sometimes a simple symbolic gesture, and time spent with others who have experienced a similar loss, can be reassuring, healing and comforting.

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“It is a way to participate on the fringes of the festive season and still honour the people they have lost,” explains Marney.

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and added that she was content knowing that he would bring up their children to have the same compassion he showed toward her.

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Finest at Sea vicepresident Paul Chaddock said the 10,000 pounds (4,535 kilograms) of fish brought in last year sold by noon, roughly five hours after the sale began.

“We were just blown away by how many people turned out,” he said, adding the company wrote a cheque for more than $10,000 to B.C. Children’s Hospital.

This time around, FAS is bringing in 20,000 pounds hoping to raise even more for the cause. The fish are priced at $20 for 20 pounds, or $15 for 10 pounds and customers are asked to bring their own bucket, if possible.

Customers not interested in carting home bags of raw fish can have FAS staff freeze or vacuum pack them for an extra charge, but all proceeds related to the sale will be donated, Chaddock said.

Inspired by a similar event in Richmond that began three years ago, the fundraiser is something FAS owners and staff feel strongly about supporting, he said. “(Cancer is) just something that will, if not already, touch all of us throughout our lives, whether it’s a child or grandparent.

When you involve kids, it really hits home to people. We’ve got such an amazing hospital system here in B.C., it’s something worth fighting for.”

The sale starts at 7 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m. or when stock runs out. Finest at Sea Ocean Products is at 27 Erie St. For more, visit fishermenhelpingkidswithcancer.com or call 250383-7764. ddescoteau@vicnews. com

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Power rates going up 28% over five years Tom Fletcher Black Press

The first of a series of B.C. Hydro rate increases takes effect in April 2014, adding $8 a month to the average residential power bill.

Rate increases of nine per cent next year and six per cent in 2015 are the highest of a series of increases over five years announced Monday

by Energy Minister Bill Bennett.

The B.C. Utilities Commission will be directed to set rate increases that total up to 28 per cent over the next five years, then determine what rates are needed for the following five years, Bennett said.

Commercial rates are going up the same amount.

Bennett acknowledged that rate increases are being kept low by using a “rate smoothing” account that defers more than $1 billion of the utility’s debt. That account won’t begin to be paid down until after 2020.

B.C. Hydro CEO Charles Reid said the latest rate increases are driven mainly by a large increase in capital spending, including seismic refits of old dams at Campbell River and Ruskin, turbine expansions at two Kootenay power dams and other upgrades. B.C. Hydro’s “big build”

“They’re going to continue to take a dividend from a company that can’t afford to pay one, and the consequences for people are going to be higher costs.”

for the government to “wean itself off” dividends from the utility, but the five years of reductions don’t start until 2018.

The government has

instructed B.C. Hydro to shut down the gas-fired Burrard Thermal generating station in Port Moody by 2016, saving an estimated $14 million a year.

Join the Victoria Symphony for another season of

– John Horgan NDP energy critic

era of 1973 to 1982 produced rate increases totalling 113 per cent.

B.C. Hydro cited an annual survey

by Hydro Quebec that shows B.C. Hydro customers currently pay the third lowest rates in North America.

Montreal and Winnipeg customers pay less, and Seattle and Miami residents pay slightly more.

NDP energy critic John Horgan said Bennett avoided the impact of private power purchases on B.C. Hydro’s rate increases.

“We’re going to have increased debt for the next five years,” Horgan said. “They’re going to continue to take a dividend from a company that can’t afford to pay one, and the consequences for people are going to be higher costs.”

Bennett said the 10-year plan calls

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If the Toronto-based singer-songwriter seems edgy at all, it would make sense. Along with fielding questions related to her musical offerings, she has become somewhat of an unofficial commentator on her hometown’s now notorious political landscape across borders.

“People are asking all sorts of crazy things. They’re curious,” she says, punctuated by a string of laughter. “But I just don’t know. I’m not there.”

Since the beginning of October, Polaris Prize nominated Bulat has been taking her latest musical offering, Tall, Tall Shadow, a deeply personal and more electronically-informed, disc on the road. The third record to date for the 29-year-old is a departure from her first two indie-folk albums, which were recorded in the fully analog Hotel 2 Tango studio in Montreal. Tall, Tall Shadow was produced by Arcade Fire’s Tim Kingsbury, along with Mark Lawson and captures Bulat’s newfound fascination with a more plugged-in sound, of synths alongside her electric autoharp.

“I’ve never really been attracted to synths and electronic music in the way that I am now, so that’s been really exciting, learning this whole other language.”

And then there’s the Andean charango.

“I’m not very good at playing it the traditional way, but the people who are, the traditional players have given me their blessing,” said Bulat of the instrument she first came across while in residency at the Banff Centre in 2009.

Bulat, classically trained in piano and known for her use of the autoharp, took time away from piano before returning to write at the keyboard as an adult.

“I never felt confident in my piano playing and now I’m playing two keyboards at once, live, which is really exciting and scary. I feel like now, I’m really back in it. That’s what’s neat about all these synthesizers. In a way it’s new, but it also feels very familiar.”

Charango, a stringed instrument in the lute family, is not as loaded with history for Bulat – yet scary in a different way, for the lack of classical education with the instrument and desire to create something new in her own way.

“I hope I’m not offending professionals and traditional charango players because there is a real traditional method and there is a real traditional and canon of music. ... It is a bit difficult in Toronto to find a charango teacher – and I’ve looked. My YouTube history is full of charango videos.”

From a colourful palette, Tall, Tall Shadow paints the image of a difficult time in Bulat’s life following the passing of friend just two months prior to when she was slated to enter the studio. She scrapped the original songs and rewrote the record.

“When I look back at it now, it was about trying to reach out in a certain way and trying to lift myself up. It’s about me. I can only write from my own experience, but I was hoping that the people I was thinking about when I wrote it would like it. I was really making it with the hope that certain people would hear it. That’s already been done for me.

Everything else on top of that is wonderful.”

Tall, Tall Shadow is about joy and heartbreak and ultimately, looking forward towards the light.

“I try to limit saying what the songs are about, because I want to give people the space of feeling what they feel for the songs,” she says. “I hope people will see themselves in the songs.”

Bulat plays Sugar Nightclub (858 Yates) at 8pm Dec. 4, along with the surreal woodsman tunes of Jonas Bonnetta in Evening Hymns. Tickets, $18 advance, ticketweb.ca.

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t’s not often that Victoria’s homeless and disadvantaged people are behind a book launch or an art show, and are not just the subject.

And it’s not often easy for them to express their inner struggles and feelings openly, but that is what they will be doing at the Downtown Story Collective’s opening reception, this Saturday evening at Dales Gallery.

The Downtown Story Collective is a group of Victoria inner-city residents that have been meeting every Tuesday at Our Place Society to learn and practise ways to express themselves through different types of art, said co-facilitator Meghan Richey.

“This is a culmination of what they have been doing all year,” Richey said. “They are excited and nervous about the reception.”

The group started in January 2012 as a free drop-in class that offered a safe and nurturing place for people to explore their creativity. The supplies are donated by various individuals and the space is donated by the Our Place Society Chapel. The facilitators volunteer their time.

Much of the work in the book will be displayed at the reception, which will also have an open mic for poetry readings. Original artwork will also be on display and for sale, with proceeds going towards keeping the non-profit group going, which is a struggle.

“We rely on people’s donations,” Richey said.

“The people who come every week want this to continue and I think we will continue. I hope it will continue.”

The reception starts at 6:30 p.m. Dales Gallery is located at 537 Fisgard.

More information about the Downtown Story Collective can be found at thedscollective.wordpress.com

Fashion in action - The Out of Hand artisan fair is celebrating its25th anniversary with Fashion in Action, a show featuring fashions available at the fair. Christmas classics will be on the turntable while ballerinas from Ballet Victoria parade down the runway. Proceeds to benefit Ballet Victoria. At 7pm, Crystal Garden. $8/25.

SuN. Dec. 1 Merry and Bright- Raise a glass at Intrepid Theatre’s annual fundraiser with the casts of Pick of the Fringe winners Grim and An Improvised Quentin Tarantino and bid on one of a kind experiences. Cash raised supports festivals, venues and programming. Tickets, $40, at ticketrocket.org.

Stage Fri. Nov. 29 an eMily carr christMas - Theatre Inconnu’s youth project presents young artists, along with pros, in a play written and directed by Timothy Gosley. Featuring puppets, Carr’s writing, carols, and a shadow play. Runs Nov. 29 and 30 at 7pm and Dec. 1 at 2pm at the Berwick Royal Oak, 4680 Elk Lake. Continues Dec. 6 -14 at Merlin’s Sun Home Theatre.

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MusIc Fri. Nov. 29 JiM Byrnes - Blues musician/actor, Jim Byrnes stops by The Charlie White Theatre (2243 Beacon) in Sidney.

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Tickets, $15, ticketweb.ca. shad - Touring with his fourth album, the Juno-Award winning rapper makes a Victoria appearance with We Are the City at Sugar (858 Yates).

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While he has enjoyed a career in sales and retail for 11 years now, Sears’ reputation for customer service made joining the company an easy choice.

“I had heard about the great customer service Sears provided, and when a friend who worked for the company confirmed it, I knew it would be a great fit,” Domingo recalls.

When not at the store, you’ll likely find Domingo with his wife, Carolina, and their three busy boys, 17, 15 and 12-years-old. Sports, camping and other fun activities are often on their family calendar, and having moved to Victoria 11 years ago from Toronto, he appreciates the laid-back lifestyle and the ability to pursue many of these pastimes year-round.

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The Victoria HarbourCats made a series of major announcements this week as the West Coast League baseball team introduced Jim Swanson as the new general manager and vicepresident.

Swanson is relocating here from Prince George and will handle the team’s business and administration.

Meanwhile the HarbourCats will be led by the same coaching staff of co-head coaches Dennis Rogers and Bob Miller, and assistant coach Ben Jackson.

Swanson oversaw the World Baseball Challenge in Prince George which had almost as many games as the HarbourCats’ 54, but compressed into 11 days.

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After meeting in the Island AAA boys soccer championships the Oak Bay Bays and Reynolds Roadrunners met again in the bronze medal game of the AAA Boys Soccer Provincials in Burnaby on Saturday.

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one thing is constant: that there’s a love of baseball. The on-field product is something we’ll focus heavily on.

We’ll find every edge to win a championship. You don’t do this if you don’t want to win a championship.”

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Sutherland routed the Bays 6-0 in the semifinal then won in the tournament final over Burnaby Central 2-1.

Reynolds went 3-0 in pool play, needing a shootout win over Panorama Ridge.

Reynolds fell to Burnaby Central 3-1 in the other semifinal.

“I’m very proud of the players,” Reynolds coach J.J. Atterbury said. “They played well, represented their school with pride and demonstrated a lot of heart.”

Reynolds won the Fair Play Award for sportsmanship.

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It’s an age-old rivalry as the James Bay Athletic Association visit the UVic Vikes for the Barnard Cup Island senior men’s rugby championship at UVic’s Centennial Stadium roday (Nov. 29).

The Barnard Cup series is one of the longest sporting traditions in western Canada, dating back to 1911. James Bay has won it 56 times.

The Vikes/Victoria College has won it 12 times.

Kick-off is at 7 p.m. under the lights of Centennial.

Like a ghost, Marcus Davis deceptively moves through the football field. Would-be tacklers line him up only to come just inches shy of getting a hand on him.

If you can get close enough to Davis to get straight-armed, you’re doing well.

The Grade 12 Mount Douglas student and Rams star was named the AAA High School Football Player of the Year for the second year running at the awards banquet in Vancouver on Tuesday.

The electric Davis, who scored touchdowns from all areas of the field as a running back, wide receiver, kick returner and defensive back, is playing the trophy down for now. “(Player of the Year) doesn’t matter too much, the main goal is to win the championship, on top of that it’s just a bonus.”

The Rams face the Terry Fox Ravens in the AAA Subway Bowl high school championship in B.C. Place on Saturday.

Shaw TV will broadcast the game with a 7 p.m. kick-off.

The entire Rams team attended the Tuesday banquet and picked up some heavy hardware. Lineman Zach Wilkinson took home a trophy as important as he is big, as he’ll depart the Rams’ program as the provincial defensive MVP. Offensive lineman Christian Krause and Aarmin Purewal were named to the AllStar team with defensive lineman James Nicholas and Julian Luis. Seye Farinu, a nimble tack-

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Regardless of the accolades the only thing on Rams’ minds is beating Terry Fox and going down in history for winning three straight AAA B.C. titles.

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‘Repatriation’ designed to keep athletes in CIS CIS loosening strict rules to win top athletes back Travis Paterson News staff

As a desirable school with plenty of successful sports teams the University of Victoria could see a bump in NCAA student-athletes for the 2014 fall season.

This week the Canadian Interuniversity Sport axed one of its strictest rules and removed the one-year penalty for Canadian athletes who transfer to a Canadian university from the NCAA. The one-year sit out penalty was originally put in place to prevent Canadians from taking the risk and going to the NCAA. But it isn’t effective, Hamilton said.

The CIS also opened the door this week to increased scholarship packages for student-athletes, which will be explored through a pilot project that allows CIS women’s ice hockey programs to offer greater athletic scholarship packages. Instead of being limited to tuition and compulsory fees, as all CIS athletes are, women’s hockey programs can offer to cover room, board and books, as the NCAA does.

The pilot goes hand in hand with the repatriation rule, and both were a long time coming, says UVic Vikes director of athletics and recreation Clint Hamilton, former CIS president.

Hamilton was a co-chair of the

“It’s a double-edged sword, Canada West task force that was created a few years ago for this I’m not opposed to (the repatriation) as the hope is you get a few purpose.

“These rules send a strong kids back,” Beaucamp said.

There will likely be a signal to Canadians few Vikes athletes who who’ve chosen to lose their spot either attend U.S. destinanext year or in the tions,” Hamilton said. coming years because “Canada West and of the changes. HamilUVic are strong supton understands, but porters to create conit’s a casualty of the ditions for top Canaprocess. dian athletes to pursue “Our coaches are their post-secondary at Canadian instituArmando Tura held accountable to recruit (top student tions.”

Clint Hamilton athletes). When it While he admits it’s ironic UVic doesn’t have a wom- comes to our rosters were looken’s hockey team – and no, there ing to sport the best student-athare no plans for UVic varsity letes we can,” Hamilton said.

Beaucamp isn’t against the expansion, he affirmed – Hamilton says the women’s hockey repatriation but he is realistic situation was an obvious choice that it doesn’t fix the original because so many of its players problem.

“Will there be an annual flow went to U.S. schools.

As for the increased scholar- of Canadians coming back? Not ship packages, they will be lim- necessarily. You’ve got a few facited in that the team will still tors. Students can now go down be under the same cap, though (to the NCAA) without worry it will have flexibility in how it about wasting a year. If you do allocates its money to players. go, and you don’t really play, you Canadians can finally get a “full had to sit out another year and ride” scholarship here in their that was two years without playing basketball. That’s two years own country.

The task force is not done yet, out of an already short university career.” either, said Hamilton.

Beaucamp won’t, however, “We’re moving towards other types of things we can do to recruit Canadians already ensure Canadian student ath- enrolled at NCAA schools. If letes want to attend Canadian they contact him, however, he is open to the possibility. schools.”

“There’s a high percentage of As for the potential bumper crop of Canadians transferring students who don’t have a sucfrom the NCAA this year, Vikes cessful career down there, so we men’s basketball coach Craig may see a bit of a bump back.” sports@vicnews.com Beaucamp is unsure.

How the Vikes shaped Nash Book features Steve Nash’s rise in Victoria Travis Paterson News staff

There are many in town who can recall the glory days of 1980s and 90s basketball in Victoria.

Even if you were there, you won’t have seen it in the same light as co-authors Dave Feschuk and Michael Grange, who revisit Steve Nash’s Victoria upbringing in a new book, Steve Nash: The Unlikely Ascent of a Superstar.

The bio piece brings Nash’s start in Victoria back to life with new relevance, with a revisionist approach based on modern sports science.

Feschuk and Grange focus on the major elements which shaped Nash into a future NBA star, beginning with former national team player Eli Pasquale’s decision to leave Sudbury, Ont. for the UVic Vikes.

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Perhaps Steve Nash would have leaned towards soccer if it wasn’t for the UVic Vikes dominant basketball teams.

A series of links are made from the impact of the 1980s Vikes and how they ultimately affected Nash’s decision to make a goal of playing in the NBA.

The authors unearth telling data through interviews with legendary Vikes coach Ken Shields and 1980s Vikes players Ian Hyde-Lay, who later coached Nash at St. Michaels University School, and Pasquale, who should have played in the NBA. From the book: “While Pasquale was playing on the national team, it was the UVic campus where teenaged Nash went to basketball games and snuck in after hours to work on his game. It was also where Shields, the Canadian national team coach, gave that high school kid a chance to practice with the best players in the country, Pasquale among them.”

It also keys on the influence of then-Vikes rower Silken Laumann, and how Shields re-appropriated the Vikes rowing team’s high performance strategies to his basketball team and how that, in turn, affected Nash. And it doesn’t end there, tracking the many instances a “butterfly has flapped its wings” in Nash’s direction.

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Keeping an iPhone eye on the baby Local engineer uses Kickstarter to fund baby monitor innovation Kyle Wells News staff

A Greater Victoria resident is among the first onboard Kickstarter in its second month in Canada.

Kevin Larsen, a father of two, mechanical engineer and now president of Uberwatcher Technologies Inc., is using the online crowd-sourcing platform in the hopes of getting his new baby monitor product, Uberwatcher, off the ground.

When Larsen and his wife, Joann, had their first child about two years ago, the proud parents decided to buy smartphones to make staying in touch easier.

With various apps available they figured it would be simple to find a portable baby monitor product that could be integrated with their iPhones.

To their surprise, the search turned up fruitless.

“There wasn’t anything there that was portable,” said Larsen, who lives in Langford. “We searched and searched and then it was ‘OK, maybe there’s nothing out there yet, let’s see if it’s pos-

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Working with a friend in the computer industry, Larsen came up with a basic design and a wish list of functions and the two got to work. Camosun College printed a rudimentary model of the design on a 3-D printer, to give a better sense of the final product.

Then they started forging contacts with manufacturers, including one in China that turned out to be ideal. Now Larsen has a few prototypes to use himself and take to baby fairs to gauge the response.

“Overwhelming response,” Larsen said. “There were people who wanted to buy it on the spot.

Everybody loved it, they loved the idea, the concept, the portability. So that was great.”

Next came the hard part: the search for investors.

Larsen’s need for funding happened to coincide with Kickstarter launching in Canada on Sept. 9. Kickstarter allows everyone from writers to filmmakers to inventors, to fund projects through the kindness of many.

Instead of looking for one or two major investors, the site allows average people to pledge as little as $1 to a project. Each project sets a funding goal and a time limit.

If the goal is met by the time limit, the creator gets the money; if it isn’t, all those who pledged

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Kevin Larsen invented a portable baby monitor which streams to an iPhone and is trying to raise investor cash through Kickstarter, a crowd-sourcing website recently launched in Canada. get their money back.

“There was a rumour that they were coming to Canada and as soon as they did, we jumped on that boat,” Larsen said. “They’re a fabulous site for getting good exposure for good projects.”

Larsen’s goal is to raise $89,000

by Dec. 29. As of Nov. 27, $2,775 had been pledged by 29 backers.

If the goal is met, the money will be used to order an initial production run of 1,000 Uberwatchers to sell.

“Obviously if it took off, that would be fabulous,” Larsen said.

“I want to get it out there for other parents too, because we fought with the mirror on the back seat (of the car to see the baby while driving).”

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2011 PEGASUS 4W Scooter.

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LR/DR/2bdrms with view, den, gas FP, secure bldg. 2 underground parking spaces. Maintenance fee includes hot water/gas/landscaping. 1 pet OK. $339,900 (250)753-9123

DUPLEX/4-PLEX OPEN HOUSE- Sat & Sun, Nov 23 & 24, 1-4pm. New Duplex’s For Sale, Duncan, BC at 5909 & 5911 Stone Haven Rd, in Stone Manor Estate’s (behind Hospital). 1850sq ft each, 3 bdrms, 4 bath, 5 appls and much more. $309,000.

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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.

RENTALS APARTMENT/CONDO QUADRA VILLAGE- lrg 1 bdrm, cat ok, hwdflrs, utils incld, $830. (250)812-4154.

SIDNEY- DOWNTOWN. 1400 sq ft, $1800. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, 6 appls, 1 secure prking. NS/NP. Avail Now. (250)655-4184.

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Bright lg Bach 1,2,3 br. Units Fully reno 5 min drive to DT Victoria Full time on site manager

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

SIDNEY- 2444 Amherst Ave. 1300 sq.ft. updated character home looking for a family w/2 children and a dog. Fenced south facing corner lot near the Salish Sea. Walk to town and schools. Organic gardens & fruit trees, fireplace, hot tub, 6 appls. Free TV forever....

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PARKSVILLE- furnished studio apt. for professional person. NS/NP, self-contained. $700. Call (250)248-4902.

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STEINWAY- BOSTON Studio Grand, model 178, ebony, 6 years, immaculate, references.

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

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MAPLEWOOD- Lrg 1 bdrm suite beside main house, own entry, parking, shared W/D. NS/NP. $975 inclds utils. Avail Dec 1. Call 250-592-4288.

CRYSTAL POOL: 1 bdrm, full kitchen, shared bathroom, $565.

NS/NP, non-drinker.

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WATERFRONT. NORTH Saanich. Above grnd, large 2bdrm, 2 bath. $1800./mo + 1/2 utils. Possibly sm boat moorage +. NP/NS. (250)656-5999.

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NS/NP. Call (250)656-9194.

HOMES FOR RENT 4-BDRM HOUSE, near Commonwealth Pool. N/S, N/P. $1900 + utils. (250)920-6282 or (250)361-1569.

SAXE POINT- 3 bdrm, 2 bath, brand new executive home w/ocean view & high end finishes. $2350 inclusive. Pets considered. (250)686-1513.

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SUITES, LOWER CENTRAL SAANICH: Large studio, close to bus, W/D. NS/NP. $625 inclds utils.

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LANGFORD: 2-BDRM, in suite laundry, parking, lots of closets. NS/NP. $1100 heat & lights incld. (250)686-4445.

LANGFORD (Mill Hill)- large, bright, quiet 1 bdrm, on bus route, parking NS/NP. Refs. $950 inclusive. (250)478-5261 MARIGOLDcozy 1 bdrm, woodstove. shared W/D, quiet.

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

ROYAL OAK- grd level 2 bdrm, newly reno’d, close to all amens, NS/NP. $950 heat & H/W incld. 250-704-6613.

SAANICH- PRIVATE suite, close to Uvic. Shopping and buses are convenient; completely furnished. NS/ND. Avail now. $650. (250)721-0418.

SIDNEY- 1 bdrm, priv entrance, laundry, parking, cat ok. $800. (250)812-4154.

SIDNEY WATERFRONT home, 1 bdrm, fully furnished, all utils incld, F/S, W/D, small dog ok, N/S. $1100/mo. Refs.

Call 250-665-6367.

14’ FIBERGLASS boat with 50 HP Suzuki, 4 stroke, used only for 13 hours. $6,000 obo.

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TOWNHOUSES 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.

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SIDNEY 3-BDRM, 2.5 bath. 5 appl’s, gas F/P, garage, sunroom. NS/NP. $1600. + utils.

Avail Nov. 15. (250)656-7456.

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1966 CHEVY Pick up, 1/2 ton short box, burgundy. 3 in the tree, 6 cylinder. Good condition, runs great, comes with second set of winter tires and rims. Second owner for last 45 years, in Victoria. $6,000 obo.

Call: 250-479-0441 or email: havoc@telus.net AUTO ACCESSORIES/ PARTS

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69 Royals Royce silver shuttle.

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He Said, She Said We asked Joscilyn and Brian Jupp

Q: WHAT WAS THE CLINCHER FOR YOU ON THIS HOUSE DEAL? SHE SAID: There’s three bathrooms and they’re all nice, but there’s lots of potential to make them even nicer. Plus being heavily pregnant, I liked the fact the house was move-in ready.

HE SAID: The garage grabbed my attention.

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Move fast on that home with everything Don Descoteau News staff Searching for a home that would meet their needs, not just now but years down the road, wasn’t a quick experience for Joscilyn and Brian Jupp.

After spending five months looking at photos and property specs and trooping through numerous homes around the West Shore, the couple found what they wanted in Langford.

“We were living in a two-bedroom condo with one child and we were lucky enough to get pregnant again,” Brian recalls.

“We wanted a house regardless, but having a second child on the way put a little urgency into the situation.”

For the Jupps – Brian, 36, manages the Caprice Theatre in Langford and Joscilyn, 26, is a nurse at Victoria General Hospital – a big part of the process was determining what features they wouldn’t budge on and where they might be willing to compromise.

“We knew we needed at least three bedrooms and two bathrooms, because as girls grow up, we know they spend lots of time in the bathroom,” says

Joscilyn, who gave birth to their second daughter just six weeks ago.

The couple had been looking casually at homes through last winter to get a sense of what was out there. In spring the search became more serious, as they enlisted a realtor and searched for new listings that matched their requirements.

They found the market more competitive than expected and homes that met their needs on price and features were lost to other home buyers ready to pounce.

When their realtor contacted them about the five-bedroom home they ultimately bought, they were away on vacation.

But with more of a feel for the market after their house-hunting experience, they didn’t hesitate to make a deal when they returned, Brian says.

The property appealed for many reasons. With very young children, having the bedrooms on the same floor was important. So was the idea of having a large yard.

Shelley Mann, president of the Victoria Real Estate Board, says today’s real estate market

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Langford homeowners Joscilyn and Brian Jupp, with daughter Julia, 1-1/2, relax in their sizeable backyard last month. is far different than a few years back, when deals were written after a first showing and properties often entered a bidding war.

Prices have remained flat for months on single family detached homes in the region and there’s good choices – nearly 1,300 are currently listed.

Mann agrees with the Jupps about the need to act fast on quality homes, especially with interest rates still low. “If they’re looking for a pretty spe-

cific property and see one come up, they have to jump on it. There’s a lot of people looking for the same thing.”

The previous owner of the Jupps’ house had completed much of the work toward creating a rental suite, a fact the busy young couple is thankful for and one that will boost their home’s resale value.

Unlike some of their friends, they didn’t need that rental income to afford the mortgage pay-

ments, Joscilyn says. Converting the suite to usable family space has tripled their square footage.

“A lot of people my age … are compromising their living space to be able to afford a house,” she says.

“I’ve been starting to tell my friends to start saving for a house even if they’re six months or more out from seriously looking, so they’re ready (when they find that perfect home).” ddescoteau@vicnews.com

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