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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

The Saanich Peninsula’s top stories from 2013 as seen in the pages of the Peninsula News Review. Our look back begins on page 3.

2013

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Greater Victoria transit plans depend on gas tax Daniel Palmer

plans into reality.

“We’ve only got three sources of funding – property tax, the fare box and the gas tax,” said VRTC chair Susan Brice.

The first tangible NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING rapid transit develop2014 COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE ment breaks ground along the Douglas NOTICE is hereby given of a PUBLIC HEARING to be held in the Central Saanich Municipal Hall, Street corridor in 2014 1903 Mount Newton Cross Road, Saanichton, BC, at 6:30 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014, with regard to the following proposed Bylaw to amend LAND USE BYLAW NO. 1309, 1999. otice is hereby given pursuant to the provisions of Section 127 of the Community with the installation of rush hour bus lanes. harter, ofCENTRAL the Council Meeting for 2014,BYLAW as follows: SAANICH LAND USEschedule BYLAW AMENDMENT NO. 1810, 2013 And while the (Temporary Use Permits for Non-Farm Uses in the Agriculture A-1 Zone) $1.5-million cost of that January 13 Special (Open) Council project is included in In general terms, the purpose of the proposed bylaw is to establish Temporary Use Permit Areas January this year’s budget, the for 20 those lands larger than 0.8ha (2 acres) zoned Agriculture (A-1) within the Agricultural Land February 3 and Reserve, and 17 provide general conditions for the issuance of temporary use permits for Non-Farm commission is waitMarch Uses 3 and that17 have received prior approval from the Agricultural Land Commission. The general coning for B.C. Transport April 7 ditions would specify that a temporary use permit may be issued for uses that would support an Minister Todd Stone to farm (Open) operation and not negatively impact the farm or neighbouring properties. Permits April 22existing Special Council respond to a request May 5 would be valid only so long as the principal use of the property remains agriculture. The general for a two-cent increase also specify that a temporary use permit shall not be issued to permit the sale in Capital Region gas May 20conditions Specialwould (Open) Council agricultural compost. tax to fund future June 2ofand 16 expansion.

July 7 and 28 (Summer Schedule – in TotheBe Confirmed) The proposed Bylaw would affect all land District of Central Saanich zoned Agriculture A-1.

“We feel we have August 18 (Summer Schedule – To Be Confirmed) A copy of the above proposed Bylaw, Land Use Bylaw No. 1309, 1999, staff reports and other used property tax and September (Specialthat (Open) of may statutory holiday) related 2information may be Council considered in by lieu Council, be inspected at the Office of the the fare box as sigSeptember 15Clerk, Central Saanich Municipal Hall, 1903 Mount Newton Cross Road, Saanichton, Municipal nificantly as we can October 6 and 20 BC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding holidays, from the date of right now,” Brice said.

November 3 and 17 p.m., Wednesday, January 8, 2014, inclusive. For more information, please this Notice to 4:30 “That’s why we’re askphone 1theand Planning December 15 Department at 250-544-4209. ing the province to give us some more gas tax.”

All persons who believe that their interest in property may be affected by the proposed Bylaw e Regular Special (Open) Council Meetings willeither be inheld inbythe Council shall and be afforded an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing, person, represenThe VRTC currently hamberstative, at the SaanichonMunicipal Hall, 1903 Newton Road, or byCentral written submission, all matters contained in the Mt. proposed Bylaw Cross at the above mmencing at 7:00 (unless mentioned time,p.m. date and place. otherwise posted).

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The Victoria Regional Transit Commission has big plans for 2014.

There’s just one problem: it needs more money to turn those

The Corporation of the District of Central Saanich

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Any transit service expansion in 2014 relies on limited funding sources.

B.C. Transit is asking the province for more gas tax money. receives 3.5 cents for every litre of gas sold in Greater Victoria.

But with the budget increasing by three per cent this year, new project funding has to come from somewhere, Brice said.

“We’d definitely like to do some expansion, but there’s such a lead time to order new buses,” she said. “So out of our contingency fund (in 2014), we took sufficient funds to order

two new buses, but we did not yet fund the operating dollars. That will come if we’re successful in our request to the province (for a gas tax increase).”

In the coming year, the VRTC is liaising with Colwood and View Royal as they develop their master transportation plans, installing 33 new bus shelters (including at the Saanichton exchange), and moving forward with

expansion of the University of Victoria bus exchange. Discussions between Saanich, West Shore communities and the province have also begun to create bus priority lanes along the Island Highway and McKenzie Avenue.

Further expansion of bus lanes along Douglas Street through Saanich is still in its infancy, according to a Dec. 2013 VRTC planning report.

Dated at Saanichton, BC, this 23rd day of December, 2013.

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Fees persuade most smart meter holdouts to make the switch Tom Fletcher Black Press

B.C. Hydro’s imposition of manual meter reading fees has persuaded most holdouts to accept a wireless smart meter.

B.C. Hydro imposed a $35 monthly fee starting Dec. 1 for customers who refuse to part with their mechanical electricity meters, after offering the 68,000 customers who still had them the option of accepting the new meter with the radio transmission function on or off.

B.C. Hydro reported the results this week to the B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC), which is reviewing the fees. More than 48,000 customers chose the

smart meter to avoid the meter reading fee. Another 450 chose the radio-off meter, which comes with a $100 setup fee and $20 a month starting April 1 to cover costs of collecting readings.

Another 6,270 customers chose to keep their mechanical meters, and 13,110 more did not respond to BC Hydro’s letters, so they will have the $35 fee added to their bills until they choose another option.

B.C. Hydro reports that 99 per cent of its customers now have the wireless meter. Most of those have been switched to automated billing and have their daily electricity use displayed on their online account pages.

Claims of health effects from

wireless meter transmissions have been rejected by health authorities and also by the BCUC in a review of FortisBC’s wireless meter program. BCUC found that the radio frequency signal from a bank of smart meters is less than 10 per cent of the natural background level and a tiny fraction of the exposure from a cellular phone.

Citizens for Safe Technology, one of the more active opponents of the wireless grid, was represented at the hearings by Donald Maisch. BCUC rejected Maisch’s claims of health hazards, noting that Maisch’s “consulting livelihood depends on public fears and concerns about radio frequency exposure.”

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The top stories as chosen by the editorial staff at the Peninsula News Review

Compost raises big stink in Central Saanich Community takes action against Foundation Organics Devon MacKenzie News staff

Foundation Organics and Stanhope Farm had no shortage of news coverage over the past year.

A smelly summer for Tanner Ridge and Island View area residents led to hundreds of complaints about odour, noise and truck traffic from the facility to the municipality of Central Saanich, the Capital Regional District and the Agricultural Land Commission.

With large scale food scrap composting being relatively new, the laws (and enforcement of them) weren’t very clear. Many residents complained about odours

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Ray Baker is a member of Stop the Stink, a community interest group that has taken Foundation Organics to court over odour and other compliance issues. and truck traffic from the facility for years and felt they had missed out on a whole summer in 2013

because the smell was so bad they weren’t able to enjoy their yards.

In August, the CRD handed

down conditional suspensions to the facility for the contracts they had with them because of the

odour problems.

Soon after the conditional suspension was given, a license suspension was given but was appealed by Foundation Organics (it was upheld and is now under judicial review with the B.C. Supreme Court).

As of Oct. 25 the facility was also directed to remove any remaining compost in the building at the facility.

In November, the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) released a report on the operation that deemed it was operating outside of allowable farm use and that it was in contravention of the Agricultural Land Commission Act. A decision on the B.C. Supreme Court judicial review is expected early in the new year.

Most recently, on Dec. 19, the CRD charged the facility again for odour emission, this time with new public nuisance offences under the Composting Facilities Regulation Bylaw.

Peninsula municipalities love their fire halls Devon MacKenzie News staff

Two of the three municipalities on the Saanich Peninsula got updated fire halls in 2013.

North Saanich upgraded their 1970s fire hall at the corner of Wain Road and West Saanich Road to include more room for their trucks, improved training facilities including a tower and seismic upgrades to make sure it was safe.

The total cost of the upgrades was $1.6 million.

In Central Saanich, a whole new fire hall was built to act as the main hall for

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Central Saanich’s new fire hall, left, opened in August. Chief Gary Wilton and the upgraded North Saanich hall. the municipality.

The new 23,000 foot stateof-the-art building was completed in August after a Fire Underwriters Survey done nearly 10 years prior identified response times for the southern half of Central Saanich (including the Keating industrial area) were well

below what is considered appropriate.

A proposal for a new main firehall with a satellite firehall (the existing firehall at municipal office on Mount Newton X Road), became part of the district’s ongoing strategic planning process.

The district used the alter-

native approval process to obtain the funding for the $8.9 million project in 2012 and the new hall now acts as the municipality’s Emergency Operations Centre and the region’s HAZMAT Team home base. Other fire departments from around the region also use the hall

for training and education.

Over the long term the municipality estimates debt servicing fees will round the final cost of the new fire hall out to closer to $13 million and council recently decided to put any plans for a new town hall on hold until the debt repayment

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In Sidney, the topic of a new fire hall was broached in late 2013. Town council approved a plan to look into building a new hall on the school grounds of Sidney Elementary. They had received permission to do a feasibility study from the Saanich School District.

That study will look into the need for a new fire hall and the cost. It is expected there will be public consultation on the issue in the new year — should the initial study require further action by council. — With a file from Steven Heywood

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Sandown race track to be split into ALR and commercial land Steven Heywood News staff Steven Heywood/News staff

The future direction of Beacon Avenue will be determined in 2014.

Sidney’s Beacon Avenue traffic flow takes a new turn Steven Heywood News staff

Drivers of Sidney’s main street might be getting turned around in the new year — or they might not.

One thing is for certain, the Town of Sidney will have to come up with a firm direction this year.

One of the community’s biggest stories of 2013 is conflict over which direction traffic should be flowing on Beacon Avenue. The latest round of debate and public consultation on the issue is the culmination of almost a decade of quiet lobbying by one man to change a three-block section of one-way traffic back to its original two-way flow.

Denis Paquette, a Sidney business owner, has decried the one-way flow since it was implemented back in the mid-1990s. In 2013, he officially formed a lobby group — Sidney Traffic (later to changed to Tourism) Improvement Group, or STIG. Teaming up with other business owners,

STIG successfully lobbied town council to start a public consultation process into whether the street should or should not be changed.

The issue is not without controversy. Former Mayor Don Amos stands by the decision to change the traffic flow to one-way between Fifth and Second streets, as do plenty of residents and business owners who like Beacon Avenue the way it is — pedestrian-friendly. Paquette and a growing number of other business owners want to see it revert back to a full two-way pattern, a system they feel will encourage drivers, tourists and shoppers to stay longer and thereby improve the fortunes of the local economy.

With plenty of other issues surrounding Beacon traffic — from safety to the economy and downtown beautification — the public consultation on the future of Sidney’s main drag will be interesting to watch. The first public meeting to be held by the Town is Jan. 23.

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Sandown race track in North Saanich has sat vacant for years and it was in 2013 that a deal was finally reached between its owners and the municipality to redevelop the site.

The Vancouver-based Randall family and development company Omicron completed negotiations with the District in September and October to split the 39-hectare site into a large parcel (33.6 hectares) for designation as agricultural land and the remainder (4.85 hectares) rezoned as commercial property.

The deal was made after the District turned down a similar plan in 2012. What changed the second time around was the owners’ willingness to pay an estimated $700,000 to $750,000 to clean up the site — tear down buildings and remediate the soil.

The municipality rejected the first deal, saying they did not want taxpayers burdened with that cost.

North Saanich also had to come up with a similar-sized parcel of land to swap for the commercial property to ensure no

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net loss of agricultural land from the Agricultural Land Reserve.

With a new deal in place, Omicron and the District plan to meet with the public to explain the plans. In October, Peter Laughlin of Omicron told the News Review they have plans to create a commercial space on the east side of the property, nearest the West Sidney industrial area. Shopping centre concepts were floated at conventions by Omicron in early 2013 and the land was advertised for sale as a potential strip mall. Laughlin said the Randalls and Omicron are working on options for the site and will have the public review them along the way.

There are no plans for residential units on the non-agricultural

land.

North Saanich council calls the deal a good one for the community. Mayor Alice Final told the PNR the offer is a generous one.

“This offer will return much of the land to agricultural use, but at the same time result in a 12 acre (4.85 hectare) commercial development. The net benefit for the community will be tremendous,” said Finall. “The deal is slated to add $1.2 million to our tax base in the first five years, according to the business plan.

It’s a good deal for everyone concerned, and a very generous offer by the Randall family.”

Actual remediation work is yet to begin. Redevelopment of the site, too, is still in the works.

Community loses Jeanette Hughes Devon MacKenzie News staff

The community lost a pillar in April of 2013 when Jeanette Hughes, 74, died after spending two weeks in the Palliative Care Unit at Saanich Peninsula Hospital.

Hughes’ community involvement ranged from spending nine years as a councillor with the Town of Sidney to devoting much of her time volunteering with various organi-

zations including those related to Multiple Sclerosis, which she suffered from.

One of the projects she was most proud of was the founding of the annual Christmas dinner at the Mary Winspear Centre.

Hughes’ involvement with the Town of Sidney didn’t only include time serving as a councillor but also time serving on many committees and boards and she was remembered

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Come get your share Sidney Business Improvement Area begins Steven Heywood News staff

Sidney businesses encourage you to come get your share of what’s on offer in their Vancouver Island community. In 2013, the Sidney Business Improvement Area (SBIA) was launched to create a local brand with plans to market it throughout Greater Victoria and abroad.

In the spring, the Town of Sidney authorized the SBIA to begin collecting a fee directly from businesses in the main downtown core of the community. The Town will collect the fee (a total of around $250,000 annually) and pass it on to the SBIA. The money will be used to create marketing material (online and print), pay for advertising campaigns and develop webbased ads, video and more.

The goal of the SBIA is to help improve the local economy, allowing small business owners in Sidney to better compete with area shopping interests.

The SBIA also plans to market Sidney and Saanich Peninsula attractions and events — another way to attract people to the area. Past SBIA marketing committee chair Angus Matthews said they plan to target audiences mostly outside of Sidney. The brand — Distinctly Sidney — is being paired with the catchphrase, “Come Get Your Share” which in itself can be combined with the great things Sidney has to offer (such as ‘Shopping: Come Get Your Share’, or ‘Wonder: Come Get Your Share’).

Locally, the brand has appeared on B.C. Transit buses and on billboards. People can check up on the marketing efforts at the SBIA website, distinctlysidney.ca.

The effort to create the SBIA was an attempt to bring business owners together for a single purpose — to improve the local economy. What could have been the community’s third business organization turned out to be the death knell of another.

Shortly after the establishment of the SBIA, the Sidney Business Association (SBA) folded, citing a lack of money and support from the municipality.

The Town of Sidney had earlier stated it was owed just under $20,000 in summer street market operation fees by the SBA. That leaves two local business organizations — the SBIA and the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, which addresses business issues and needs in Sidney, Central Saanich and North Saanich.

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life is just too stressful

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John Sampson Jr., Bernice Smith and Kelly Paul speak to the media following the Heliset Håle Marathon. Between May 18 and June 21, the runners and their supporters ran through Island First Nations communities to raise awareness of help available for people contemplating suicide.

Marathon for Island First Nations Kelly Paul’s Heliset Hale Marathon helping create healthy communities Devon MacKenzie News staff

Kelly Paul from the Tsartlip First Nation ran 535 kilometres from Fort Rupert at the north end of the Island, back to the Peninsula between May 18 and June 21 this year in an endeavour she called the Heliset Håle Marathon.

The marathon served to raise awareness of suicide prevention in Island first

nations communities.

Paul’s own family suffered a tragedy when her brother committed suicide four years ago.

Paul said no one knew he had been contemplating it and that’s a barrier she wanted to see broken down.

During the marathon, Paul visited high schools and middle schools to encourage youth to celebrate life, inspire hope and reconnect with each other to

embrace healing.

She and her running partners Bernice Smith and John Sampson Jr. also raised over $20,000 to cover the costs of the marathon as well as to go towards improving the LAUWELNEW school gym so it can be used a community activity centre, something she believes creates healthy individuals and healthy communities that can lend support to people contemplating suicide.

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t’s the start of a new year and there’s plenty to look forward to on the Saanich Peninsula.

The Peninsula is truly an active community and the people making it all happen are back for more this year. That holds true for local industry and retail businesses, as owners and employees look to have a busy year ahead — improving on their fortunes from 2013, working to be a part of a larger marketing initiative started by the local business improvement association — and continuing to contribute to the well-being of the Peninsula as a whole.

That was evident in their continued support of many charities and events throughout last year — Tour de Rock, the Sidney Lions Food Bank, Toys for Tots and even the News Review’s own Coins for Kids effort that saw us raise more than $3,000 once again — thank you!

The fact There are so many that the same — or community events amount more — money ... that locals and was raised by a variety of groups visitors can enjoy this year is testament to the Peninsula’s generosity.

Now, being repaid for that generosity might not be high on anyone’s wish list for 2014. Yet there are plenty of activities and events everyone can enjoy that should ensure people have a fun year, as always, in our community.

Not only is the local arts community active and growing, places like the Mary Winspear Centre are expanding their reach and putting more shows on offer. Then there are the many community events — such as Family Day, the sculpture walk, farm tours, parades, fireworks, music and much more that locals and visitors can enjoy.

The coming together of arts and the commercial areas of the Peninsula should stand to keep the community vibrant this year. Not only do they bring activity to enjoy, but they support people in need and give us all a stronger feeling about living and working here.

This year, look forward to what you can bring to the community.

Spread the word in 2014 — you really cannot miss what’s happening on the Saanich Peninsula.

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I appreciate that this is ere are a few things I’d like to hopelessly naive but setting aside see in B.C. political life in the enough time to consider issues coming year, but won’t. could, at least in theory, lead to that An orderly schedule of happening occasionally. legislature sittings, one Certainly the hastily in the spring and one in staged mock combat of the fall. our legislature today isn’t I canvassed this topic winning new friends for with Premier Christy Clark any political party. The in our year-end interview main growth area today is and got the usual people who have given up runaround about how it on the whole thing. has always been optional An opposition with since old Gordon what’sideas. his-name set the schedule The B.C. NDP will of sittings and elections have another leadership more than a decade ago.

Tom Fletcher contest in 2014 and they’d Spring is for the budget B.C. Views better bring more modern and MLAs sit in the fall policy to the table than if they need to discuss they had in the last one. legislation.

Remember the big issues in that They need to all right, but what pillow-fight? governments want to do is ram Me neither. I had to look them it through as fast as they can, up. Health care? Local organic so that’s what they do. The last carrots into the hospital food. couple of years of this have been a Forest industry? A job protection sham worthy of a South American commissar to force the mills to banana republic with three stay open. Resource development? chambers running simultaneously They’re for it, unless you’re against and opposition members trying it. to prepare as they run down the These guys need a Tony Blairhallways. type makeover. They need to be for It leads to mistakes in new laws something and they need to leave and adds to the public’s cynicism the past behind. about the whole business but it Media that care about more gets things done with minimum than conflict. exposure of the government to News organizations are in criticism. Stephen Harper would bad shape these days and approve. the competition for a rapidly A political debate about fragmenting audience is having real issues, rather than just a some ugly effects. competition to score points in an One thing that needs to go endless election campaign.

is obsessive coverage of who’s winning and who’s losing. If the news media are going to be interested mainly in the gaffes and gotcha moments, is it any surprise that’s what politicians try to provide?

The Canada Post announcement that it has to wind up home delivery offers a recent example.

Is it really so outrageous for the CEO to suggest that walking to the corner is good exercise? When there’s a 24-hour news cycle to fill, it’s a scandal!

How many people know that Canada Post’s unfunded pension liabilities amount to $6.5 billion, as it continues to pay a dwindling workforce to hand out mostly advertising flyers? Should they just keep doing that until they run out of cash? Are taxpayers really expected to maintain another two-tier service that’s only available to selected urban people?

Facts to go with opinions.

Whether it’s the government’s fantasy figures on job creation or the opposition’s arithmeticchallenged child poverty claims, serious problems can’t be understood, much less solved, without defining them accurately.

Submitting government advertising to scrutiny by the Auditor General to make sure it is accurate and nonpartisan would be a good place to start.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

‘Remember the big issues in that pillow-fight? Me neither. I had to look them up.’

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Looking back Some of the News Review’s favourite images of the year

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A team in the Slegg Lumber Build-A-Quick-Boat-Race on July 1 (Canada Day) in Sidney works hard to get to shore.

Events Calendar January Blood Donor Clinic IROCC Speed Weekend Randy Elvis Friskie Hilarious Hillbillies Hit Sidney Robbie Burns Dinner

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Blood Donor Clinic Classic Albums Live Ft. The Beatles Abbey Road Johnny Vallis Buddy Holly Tribute Palm Court: Valentines Day Family Day

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A welder repairs the joins on a truck as it carries a large coal conveyor from Ramsay Machine Works in Sidney across the Victoria airport for transport to Vancouver.

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Aquarium, chamber lose their leaders Devon MacKenzie News staff

Two major organizations on the Saanich Peninsula lost their executive directors in 2013.

Angus Matthews announced his exit from the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre in November after seven years at the helm.

Matthews had been involved with the Centre since before it was even a concrete idea in 2005 and in January of 2006 he was appointed executive director.

Since then SODC has become one of the Saanich Peninsula’s main attractions and has seen successes far beyond what he had imagined.

Matthews had no plans to move to another job after the SODC but said he was looking forward to the future and what it would bring.

SODC was accepting applications for the executive director position until mid-November. An announcement on the successful candidate is expected in the first months of the new year.

Over at the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, Chris Fudge left his post as executive director mid-November with just under a year’s time under his belt.

Fudge joined the Chamber in January of 2012 after serving as the Senior Manager of Member and Visitor Services for Tourism Whistler.

Fudge moved on to a position with B.C. Transit working with their regional transit team — a group that works collaboratively with municipalities in B.C. and their transit programs.

As of Nov. 25, the day to day management of the Chamber office operations continued under Linda Duivenvoorden, the Chamber’s Office Administrator. The chamber still has not publicly posted to fill the executive director position.

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Peninsula facing a doctor shortage Devon MacKenzie News staff

In the fall of 2013, Dr. Ambrose Marsh, Chief of Staff at Saanich Peninsula Hospital, and Karen Morgan, the Executive Director for the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation made a presentation to the three councils during a tri-municipal meeting regarding the dwindling numbers of doctors in the area.

With approximately 50 per cent of family doctors on the Saanich Peninsula slated to retire in the next seven years, the two forces are teaming up to try and bring in more.

One of Marsh’s main concerns with the dwindling number of doctors on the Peninsula lies in the number of doctors available at Saanich Peninsula Hospital.

According to Marsh, the challenges don’t just lie in not having enough doctors immediately, but also in recruiting family doctors for

the future.

Morgan and Marsh estimate the hospital will need five doctors in the immediate future to be able to operate at the optimum level.

To that end, the hospital and the hospital foundation reached out to local government to open a discussion on how to better recruit and retain medical professionals on the Saanich Peninsula.

Some of Marsh’s ideas for recruitment include new clinic models (several doctors working in one clinic rather than single practices), tax breaks, real estate funds and benefits, but he also made it clear that it isn’t only about throwing money at potential doctors.

All three municipalities got on board with Marsh and Morgan in November and December and agreed to help the cause.

More on the story will develop in 2014 as plans are made and implemented to find more doctors.

A year in politics

2013 saw the Saanich Peninsula welcome a new MLA and two busy party leaders Steven Heywood News staff

The Saanich Peninsula saw a significant change in provincial politics in May’s election.

Not only did Gary Holman become the first New Democrat MLA in the history of the riding (Saanich North and the Islands), he had to do it in an exceedingly close race.

It took an official Elections B.C. recount after election night tallies had Holman leading the B.C. Liberals’ Stephen Roberts by only around 200 votes. That count would eventually hold up and Holman would become MLA, following longtime B.C. Liberal politician Murray Coell.

The provincial election on the Saanich Peninsula was a tight, three-way race between Holman, Roberts and Adam Olsen. Olsen, a former Cen-

tral Saanich District councillor, left municipal politics to run for the Green Party in B.C. He made a strong run for the seat but ended up in third place. Olsen’s effort is generally seen as having split the vote in the riding, but the result did reflect the area’s growing interest in the Green Party.

In no small measure, the reason for that is Elizabeth May. The federal leader of the Green Party, May is MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and has had a rewarding year of her own.

May was honoured by her peers on Parliament Hill and by Ottawa media as one of the hardest-working and busiest MPs in the House and in her constituency. She was also given the honour, if one could call it that, of being one of the worst-dressed MPs — but she chalks that up to being just too busy to worry about that.

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676 KittyhawK air Cadet Squadron Christmas tree chipping by donation runs Jan. 4 and 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1979 deHavilland Way in Sidney (near the airport). All proceeds support the 676 Air Cadet Squadron. Also feel free to bring your empty bottles, cans and juice containers for the 676 Kittyhawk returnables program.

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Wednesday, January January 1, 1, 2014 2014 -- PENINSULA PENINSULA NEWS NEWS REVIEW REVIEW Wednesday,

Panthers host the Braves to kick off the new year Devon MacKenzie News staff

The Peninsula Panthers were solidly entrenched in second place in the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League Southern Division as they hit the Christmas Break.

The team has been solid at home over the first 32 games of the regular season and going into the final third of their schedule, they hope to capture some of that magic on the road.

“We have been better than good at home,” explained Pete Zubersky, Panthers manager of hockey operations.

“But for some reason the wins have been a lot tougher to get on the road. We usually have a better record at home but this year the ice has been “We have been slanted out on the Peninsula.” better than good Zubersky also at home.” said he would like to add a forward – Pete Zubersky or two as the team hits the Jan. 10 carding deadline but does not want to make any harsh moves that would destroy the team’s chemistry.

“We are loaded on the back end and could use a goal scorer or two,” he said, “but some of our kids have really grown and really matured, like Connor Logan and Tate Coughlin. They just keep getting better.

“We’re hoping that Reece Costain can get back and hit his stride after Christmas and Zack Smith seems to be figuring it out and is starting to score like we all knew he could. We’ll see what happens. I know that our Head Coach and GM Brian Passmore is working the lines so it will be interesting to see how it pans out.”

The Panthers are looking to start 2014

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Cole Glover, a Panthers forward, will be counted on in the new year to put points on the board for the team. off with a bang when they hit the ice New Year’s Day for a 4 p.m. start against the Saa-

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their regular schedule when the Oceanside Generals make their final visit to Panorama.

McDonald’s Peninsula Minor Hockey player of the week Name: Samuel Eagles Age: 10 Team: Peninsula Eagles Atom A Favourite Player: Cole Glover See Samuel skate with the Panthers Friday!

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Lions tree chip this month Arts open CENTRAL SAANICH — Ready to dispose of your Christmas tree? The Central Saanich Lions Club is having their annual Christmas Tree Chip Jan. 2 to 5 and Jan. 11 and 12.

Take your trees to 1703 Keating X Rd., across from the municipal yard between 9 a.m.. and 4 p.m. The Lions will take your donation to chip the tree. Money raised will support various local causes taken on by the Lions.

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NORTH SAANICH — Peninsula Academy of Music Arts Open House is on Saturday, Jan. 11 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Free Introduction to Ukulele for Adult Beginners Workshop from 1 to 2 p.m. and information on all music programs, lessons and workshops in the new year.

Space is limited for the Ukulele Workshop so call ahead for a spot, 778-426-1800.

The Academy shares the Legion building at 1662 Mills Road, so look for the sign on top of the building and park in the main back lot.

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