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Speed skating coach Brenda Hennigar is off to the B.C. Winter Games, page 10
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
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save-On coming to sidney Overwaitea Food Group struck deal with Sobeys Devon MacKenzie News staff
After over forty years as a Beacon Avenue fixture, Sidney’s Safeway grocery store will soon become a Save-On-Foods after a deal was struck between Overwaitea Food Group and Sobeys last week. The Overwaitea Food Group purchased four Safeway stores in Greater Victoria previously owned by Sobeys in the deal announced “We start to last Thursday. “We are thrilled to take possession in be able to welcome mid-March and these stores, along take two or three with their existing members and stores a week over team customers to our about a six-week group,” said Overwaitea president Darperiod.” rell Jones in a state– Julie Dickson ment. “As a local grocer our philosophy is to tailor our stores and the mix in those stores to suit the needs of our customers and their communities.” Stores at Fort and Foul Bay roads in Victoria, as well as stores at Tillicum, University Heights and in Sidney will transition to Save-On-Foods locations sometime between mid-March and the end of April, said Julie Dickson, Overwaitea spokesperson. “We start to take possession in mid-March and take two or three stores a week over about a six-week period,” she said. Please see: Safeway vanishes, page 3
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Jack Spencer lets loose a rock during the Glen Meadows Masters Open Bonspiel in North Saanich that wrapped up over the weekend. Thirty-two rinks from the Island and mainland came to play at the event which has been running for 30 years.
Fred Dobbs wins People’s Choice Sea Otter Plaque will be added to Sidney’s permanent sculpture collection Steven Heywood News staff
Sculptor Fred Dobbs says his award-winning work was inspired by the Salish Sea, the creatures in it and the threats to their future that they face every day. Dobbs’ work, Sea Otter Plaque, was named the winner of the People’s Choice Award by the Town
of Sidney on Feb. 12 at a special artists’ reception at the Sidney Pier Hotel. People voted 732 times and Dobbs’ plaque came out on top. That means the Town will purchase the artwork and add it to their permanent collection featured in their waterfront walkway Sculpture Walk. Dobbs said he was thrilled and happy to have earned the People’s Choice award. He said he completed the plaque more than two years ago. “I really wanted to look at the ocean in motion,” he said of his sculpture. Please see: Sculpture Walk looking for three more, page 9