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Victoria family devastated by Nepal quake Kendra Wong Victoria News

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A Venturer’s time to shine Victoria’s Zachary Coey, 16, was one of three Greater Victoria Venturer Scouts to earn one of Scout Canada’s highest awards. “I think Scouts develops youth to be the best that they can be. It gives them leadership, mentoring and outdoor skills,” says Coey. “It tries to give you life skills and motivate you to be a leader in your community.” For the story, please turn to page 10.

Family first.

It’s a motto Rajen Shakya, the co-owner of Mint restaurant, and his wife and Nina Kansakar know all too well.

The Victoria couple spent the weekend getting in touch with their family in Nepal after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Himalayan nation between the capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara on Saturday.

The quake caused buildings to collapse, destroying several historical sites and triggered an avalanche “I was shocked. We on Mount Everest that buried part of the base camp, killing were just going to bed 16 and injuring 61. and we started trying to More than 3,000 people have died and the death toll is connect, but all the phone expected to climb in the com- lines were down.” ing days.

– Nina Kansakar Shakya and Kansakar initially heard about the earthquake from a cousin in Australia.

“I was shocked. We were just going to bed and we started trying to connect, but all the phone lines were down. It took us three hours to connect with everyone,” said Kansakar, whose family was in Kathmandu, one of the hardest hit areas.

She found out Sunday night that the body of her great aunt was found under the rubble and her cousin was still missing.

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VicPD officer faces 13 fraud, forgery charges Regional Crown Counsel approved 13-fraud related charges against a Victoria police officer Thursday from actions that stemmed while the officer was offduty.

Const. Leroy Anderson is facing six counts of forgery, six counts of possession of a forged document and one count of fraud.

Anderson was suspended with pay in September after informa-

tion was brought to the Victoria Police Department about potential fraudulent off-duty activity.

“These are trying times for everyone involved,” said Chief Const. Frank Elsner.

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Anderson’s employment status is under view by the Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board. His first court appearance it set for June 3.

New award honours emergency volunteer A special award has been named in honour of Bev Stenning in recognition of her contribution to service and leadership in the Capital Region Emergency Awareness Network.

Stenning, who died in March, was an “exemplary volunteer, teacher and leader who contributed greatly” to the emergency management community in B.C. since she joined the Victoria Emergency Management Agency in 2002.

The Bev Stenning Excellence in Emergency Management Memorial Award will be presented annually to students enrolled in the Justice Institute of B.C.’s emergency management certificate program, or the emergency and security management diploma or degree programs.

“Bev was exemplary in her work, whether it was in the classroom or in the field,” said Tom Burchill, Capital Region Emergency Awareness Network spokesperson.

“All who knew and volunteered with Bev will carry her memory deep in their hearts whenever the call comes to respond. In the field of emergency management, she truly was royalty.”

JIBC students with a demonstrated financial need can apply for the award by June 30.

To make a financial contribution to the Bev Stenning Excellence in Emergency Management Memorial Award, please visit The JIBC Foundation’s online donation page or call 604-528-5877.

Let us know Have a newsworthy item for the Victoria News? If it involves a community event or other endeavour in Victoria or Esquimalt, send it along for consideration. Email editor@vicnews.com.

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School boss leaving for Camosun Kendra Wong Victoria News

Sherri Bell … great opportunity

Sherri Bell resigned as the superintendent of Greater Victoria School District 61 to take a job as president of Camosun College last Thursday.

This was Bell’s first year as superintendent, but she has worked with the school district for nearly two decades.

“This was quite a remarkable opportunity. It’s quite a comprehensive college that I truly believe in. I live in the community and know it well, know the reputation and I’m looking forward to being a part of that educational community,” she said.

Bell served as the principal of James Bay Community School and as district principal responsible for the reconfiguration of the school district into the new K-5, 6-8 and 9-12 structure, one of her proudest accomplishments with the district.

“I’m first and foremost an educator. It is about teaching and learning and that’s a parallel to Camosun,” she said, adding that one of her first goals with the college is to establish strong relationships.

“I’ve been in leadership positions with the district for 19 years . . . and I can see the skills I’ve learned in this district are transferrable to the post-secondary setting.”

According to board chair Edith

He loves his popcorn Young autistic man takes his enthusiasm for the light snack and creates his own business Kendra Wong Victoria News

The process of making popcorn has become methodical for Asher Johnson-Dorman.

First, he takes coconut oil and pours it into the element, waiting patiently for it to heat up.

Then he pours in cups of kernels. Once they’ve all stopped popping, he flips the aluminum pot and dumps the popcorn into the big glass box, evaluating it to make sure the popcorn has the right look and texture.

Next, he combines maple syrup, sugar, butter and maple extract to make a maple caramel sauce.

Once it has been whisked together, he gently and carefully pours the sauce onto the popcorn, letting it ooze and soak into every piece.

In the final step, he packages it in individual bags neatly tying them with red ribbon and placing an “Asher’s Amazing Popcorn” sticker on the front.

Twenty-two year-old Asher is the owner of Asher’s Amazing Popcorn, that currently sells two flavours of popcorn, buttered and his own specialty Maple Caramel Crunch recipe.

Asher, who has autism, started his own business after taking an entrepreneur course that taught him how to make a business plan and deal with marketing and budgeting.

“We went through a process called Discovery in which we find out what their likes and dislikes are, what kind of environment they work best in, what

their interests and needs are,” said his mother Catriona Johnson.

“We discovered that Asher liked working with machinery . . . When he was younger, he was really into overhead projectors and coffee machines. He liked working with people and had an interest in popcorn.”

Through that program, Asher volunteered at the Victoria Theatre where he learned how to make popcorn, clean the machine and interact with customers.

From there his love for popcorn grew.

“I got to make popcorn at the theatre,” said Asher. “I’m trying to make lots of money to buy an RV.” Catriona added he likes the sound the machine makes and the fact that he is responsible for taking care of it himself.

“He’s grown and become more social because of the interactions around the selling of popcorn.

It’s interesting and not something I thought would happen,” she said.

In December, he test ran his popcorn at a few craft fairs around town and had a positive response, making between $80 to $100 per day.

Asher will be selling his popcorn throughout the summer at the Bastion Square Public Market on Sundays.

“Asher’s Amazing Popcorn is a nice thing to have at the market,” said organizer Thea Harris.

He is one of 65 local vendors participating in the market that runs until the end of September stretching from Warf to Government Street from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

As part of the 20th annual celebrations, Harris added they’re bringing back musicians who played at the market when it first started and will host a monthly fashion show. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

Loring-Kuhanga, the board was notified of Bell’s resignation during an in-camera meeting last Wednesday.

“There’s been a lot of strong connections and relationships that she’s built in the district,” she said.

“She is an extremely hard worker, she’s a visionary. She’s got such a love and commitment for what she does.”

Benula Larsen, president of the Greater Victoria Teachers’ Association, said she was initially shocked to find out about Bell’s resignation.

“The night before I saw her at the special budget meeting and nothing was said. So when I received the email I was like ‘what?’ We wish

her luck in her new endeavours and career path,” said Larsen, who has worked with Bell for the past few years.

Larsen added they are excited to see who will become the next superintendent.

Bell will continue to work as superintendent until the end of the school year and will begin at Camosun on July 1.

Loring-Kuhanga said she doesn’t expect Bell’s resignation to have any affect on the school district’s operations.

The school board will hold a meeting this week to talk about a succession plan. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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Land sale reached ‘election target’ The B.C. government released details of its pre-election property sales Thursday, showing it came out with more money overall than appraisals or B.C. Assessment Authority values forecast.

Opposition critics called for the disclosure after obtaining government memos that showed a rush to make the deadline for the 2013-14 fiscal year, where the B.C. Liberals campaigned on a balanced budget tabled before the 2013 election.

NDP critics highlighted property in Coquitlam that sold for millions less than an appraiser estimated it would get.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong said the 14 Burke Mountain properties are an “outlier” in the dozens of land sales that closed during the Finance Ministry’s budget-balancing program. Later appraisals by the City of Coquitlam identified steeper terrain and streams with protective setbacks that limited their development, decreasing their market value by 20 per cent overall.

Development property south of the B.C. legislature beat its appraisal by $13 million, selling for $34 million to help the government meet a $350

million target to end the fiscal year.

A former hospital site in Surrey was sold for $20.5 million, $3 million less than its B.C. Assessment Authority value for property tax purposes.

Finance Ministry records showed the sale price was midway between two appraisals, one commissioned by the government and the other by the buyer.

De Jong said surplus Crown property is sold every year, with about 1,500 properties disposed of in the last 30 years. They will continue, but there won’t be another identified program in future budgets now that post-recession deficits have ended, he said.

Victoria-Beacon Hill MLA and NDP finance critic Carole James said there was an obvious rush to meet ministry targets for asset sales, and some could continue to be sold below market value without the public knowing.

Many of the surplus properties are school sites, and there are other transactions with municipalities. editor@vicnews.com

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School trustees set priorities for education over next 5 years Victoria School District drafting first-ever strategic plan Kendra Wong Victoria News

What do you think the priorities of the Greater Victoria School District should be for the next five years?

That is the question the school board has posed to students, teachers and parents to help them draft its first-ever strategic plan to establish priorities for students and its multi-million dollar budget over the next five years.

“We really felt that our district needed to have a strategic plan moving forward. We have a budget of over $200 million. We’re the sixth largest organization employer in Greater Victoria and yet we didn’t have a plan as to how to move forward,” said Edith LoringKuhanga, board chair. “We were concerned about the changing climate of public education.”

The strategic plan will help bring the board together for a “common purpose.”

“We’ve had some challenges coming together as a board, so we hope that will help with the process, but also help us establish priorities for the school district over the next few years,” said

Loring-Kuhanga.

Over the next few weeks, the board will be seeking public input through an online survey to see what they should focus on.

It has hired a planning consultant to conduct personal interviews as well.

Outgoing superintendent Sherri Bell was tasked with looking at examples and researching other school districts’ strategic plans from across the country.

“Some of the ones that I looked at were quite large and you actually have to see that there’s going to be action taken. You don’t want 15 goals with 100 actions,” said Bell. “You want something succinct so the public can look at it and see what the actions are that are going to be taken and how they relate to the goals.”

Loring-Kuhanga wouldn’t speculate on what the priorities could look like, but expects to have a draft completed

by October.

“That’s why the question is so openended so that everybody could have an opportunity to look at it,” she said.

The survey will be online from May 1-18 and can be found at sd61.bc.ca. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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Dominion Lending Centres Chief Economist Says US Style Housing Crash Unlikely in Canada Responding to recent news reports about the IMF warning of an overheated Canadian housing market, the Chief Economist for Dominion Lending Centres, Sherry Cooper, says the prospect of a soft landing is good news for homeowners, “there is no doubt that letting some steam out of the boiling markets is a good thing because were prices to rise rapidly for too long, a nasty correction would be likely.”

Bank of Canada Remains On Hold With Hopes of Economic Rebound As was widely expected, on Wednesday April 15, 2015 The Bank of Canada announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 3/4 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/2 per cent. Core inflation, at 2 percent, is a reflection of the dampening effects of a slowing economy offset by the pass through effects of the lower dollar.

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in the January MPR); however, the second quarter is expected to see a rebound to 1.8 percent growth, revised up from earlier expectation. The Bank continues to assert that, “Underneath the effects of the oil price shock, the natural sequence of stronger non-energy exports, increasing investment, and improving labour markets is progressing.”

This will be aided by an improvement in the U.S. economy and the easing in financial conditions.

Chief Economist for The Bank is hopeful Dominion Lending Centres that global growth will strengthen in coming months to 3-1/2 percent—consistent There remains a good deal of uncertainty with their forecast in January’s Monetary in this sequence: While March Policy Report (MPR)—as a direct result employment in Canada improved of central bank rate cuts and quantitative substantially, business investment easing in Europe. Lower commodity remains disappointing, manufacturing is prices will boost growth in some weak—especially in the auto sector—and countries. The Bank also believes that the improvement in trade has been less strong growth will resume in the United than expected.

States after a weak first quarter, which, of Real GDP growth is projected to rebound course, has yet to be confirmed. in the second quarter and subsequently First quarter growth in Canada has been strengthen to average about 2 1/2 per revised downward to 0.0 percent in the cent on a quarterly basis until the middle April MPR (from 1.5 percent growth of 2016. The Bank expects real GDP

growth of 1.9 per cent in 2015, 2.5 per cent in 2016, and 2.0 per cent in 2017.

The Bank also believes the risks to the outlook are balanced, an upgrade since the last policy meeting in March. As a result of this view, they judge that the current degree of monetary stimulus is appropriate and have left rates unchanged.

I am cautiously optimistic that the Bank has got it right, but I continue to believe that the risks are on the downside for the economy and inflation. My forecast for Canadian growth this year is 1.5 percent-below the Bank’s 1.9 percent forecast.

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Cooper, one of North America’s most respected economic experts, points out that existing home sales were down 2 percent year-over-year in January, but were still up moderately outside of Alberta. Later data suggests that in February, sales rose month-over-month as gains in Toronto and Vancouver offset faltering markets in other parts of the country. More recently, Sales of existing homes in Canada rose in March from February, led by gains in the big Toronto and Vancouver markets.

Sales were even up in Calgary where sales had slowed in recent months in the wake of the oil price decline.

“With home ownership at a record high of 70 percent of households and interest rates at record lows, national sales growth will stabilize at a modest pace,” says Cooper. “However, steady demand from immigrants and non-resident purchasers in Toronto and Vancouver should continue to support housing markets. In addition, Millennials are in their first-time homebuying years. While many might be priced out of the single-family home market, many will take the plunge into condos.”

On the supply side, housing starts and completions are down and are now trending slightly above household formation rates. Taking replacement demand into consideration, the current pace of overall home construction is at appropriate levels to meet long-run demand. We have also seen evidence of a recent increase in dedicated rental housing construction as institutional investors are providing increased funding in this long-overlooked area of the housing market. Condos have effectively replaced traditional apartment units and are an affordable alternative for those who are priced out of Toronto’s detached housing market. Rental vacancy rates remain at extreme lows in Vancouver and Toronto.

Cooper says the bottom line is that there is little evidence of an upcoming U.S.-style housing crash anywhere in Canada, even in the hardest hit energycentered markets.

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Find out where your water comes from and how it’s treated

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A day of crafts Donna Muir, left, Pat Fenske, Debbie Erb, Anna Manser, Wendy Jones and Sheryl Boyd work on craft using mosaics, including birdhouses at the Silver Threads Victoria location.

The Capital Regional District will host its annual public tours of the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area and water supply facilities from May 4 to 9.

The free tour provides a firsthand look at the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area and our water supply facilities, which serves more than 350,000 residents in the region. It provides an opportunity to learn more about the care taken to provide Greater Victoria with clean, safe drinking water every day.

The tours leave from the main parking lot at Thetis Lake Regional Park. There are two tour options available.

A full-day (5.5-hour) tour takes participants north to south through the Sooke and Goldstream water supply areas. There are several

stops, including a walk to the shoreline of Sooke Lake Reservoir, a look at Rithet Creek that supplies a quarter of the water to the reservoir, a short forest walk, a lunch stop at the dam at Sooke Lake Reservoir, a stop at Goldstream Lake Reservoir and a tour of the ultraviolet disinfection facility. This tour leaves at 9:30 a.m. each day returning at approximately 3 p.m.

The half-day (three-hour) tour focuses on water supply facilities, visiting the dams at Sooke Lake and Goldstream Lake reservoirs and the ultraviolet disinfection facility.

These tours leave at 9:15 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Advance reservations are required and can be made by calling 250-474-9621 from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. editor@vicnews.com

Provincial seniors advocate calls for more home care, fewer drugs As many as 15 per cent of B.C. seniors in residential care could have more independence with assisted living or community care support, B.C.’s Seniors Advocate says.

Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie also compared statistics for B.C. seniors in home and residential care with those in Alberta and Ontario, finding B.C. patients are prescribed more antipsychotic drugs and receive less physiotherapy and recreation therapy than other provinces.

Mackenzie said the potential overuse of residential care is “troubling on a couple of fronts” with the shortage of residential care beds for high-needs seniors.

“Most seniors would prefer to live independently than in residential care and so we want to ensure all supports and alternative living arrangements are exhausted before we move someone to residential care,” Mackenzie said. “If we are filling even five per cent of these scarce beds with folks who could live independently, that is 1,500 beds that could open up provincewide.”

Health Minister Terry Lake said the ministry is aware of the problems highlighted by the report, and is putting more resources toward home care and com-

munity health services, with spending up $1.2 billion to $2.8 billion since 2001.

Lake said B.C. has two programs underway to deal with overprescription of medications in care facilities.

One is a training program for staff to more accurately determine psychiatric signs, and the other is working with doctors and pharmacists to find behavioural alternatives to anti-psychotic drugs.

Mackenzie’s review is based on assessment surveys given to B.C.’s 25,000 seniors in residential care and 29,000 home care clients. It found that a third of residential care patients are being prescribed antipsychotic medication, but only four per cent have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. Antidepressants are administered to almost twice as many patients as have that diagnosis.

The survey found 12 per cent of seniors in B.C. residential care received physiotherapy, compared to 25 per cent in Alberta and 58 per cent in Ontario.

Recreational therapy was also more widely used in Alberta than B.C. “Getting seniors moving properly and keeping them moving is absolutely key to maintaining function and independence,” Mackenzie said. editor@vicnews.com

“If we are filling even five per cent of these scarce beds with folks who could live independently, that is 1,500 beds that could open up province-wide.”

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Disaster prep 101 You would think the devastating earthquake in Nepal last week, and to a lesser degree, a quake off our shores in Haida Gwaii, would be stark reminders of the need to be prepared for natural disasters.

Unfortunately, these calamitous events are noted and then for most of us quietly put in the recesses of our mind to soon be forgotten.

Scientists and emergency management professionals remind us that we must be ready for an imminent future disaster. We live in one of Canada’s most seismically active regions.

Yet, sadly few of us are illprepared for the aftermath of an earthquake of any other disaster that might strike the Greater Victoria Region.

Each year, thousands of people face emergency situations that could change their lives forever. Don’t be caught off-guard. Know the hazards in your area and take the time to assemble your family emergency kit.

During an emergency, you and your family could be on your own for an extended period of time. Emergency services may not be readily available, as increasing demands are placed on responders. It may take emergency workers some time to get to you as they help those in most critical need. As well, access to phones, gas, water, sewer and electrical services may be cut off.

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Readers respond: spies, homeless and politicians Government spying is out of control

I am very concerned about how government spying has grown secretive, expensive and out-of-control.

An independent inquiry recently found CSEC (Communications Security Establishment Canada) guilty of misusing public funds and “serious breaches” of values and ethics.

I’ve been shocked to learn how the government’s spy agency CSEC is using taxpayer money to spy on innocent Canadians.

We know they spied on thousands of law-abiding airport travellers, and even tracked their movements for weeks after.

More than 150,000 Canadians spoke out and stopped the government’s last attempt to spy on us through Vic Toews’ online spying bill. Now they’re using CSEC to spy on us while covering their tracks with their new Bill C-13 that would give our telecom provider immunity for handing over our private information

without a warrant.

The cost of this spying is staggering. Taxpayers are on the hook for over $850 million to pay for CSEC this year, and over $4 billion to buy them a lavish new headquarters that the CBC has called a “spy palace” and the “most expensive government building ever built.” This represents a massive waste of public funds.

Over 40,000 Canadians and over 50 major organizations are speaking up to protest the government’s reckless online spying behaviour. They’ve formed a huge non-partisan privacy coalition I encourage each and every Canadian to learn more about our right to privacy at OurPrivacy.ca Gordon Muir Victoria

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Local politician sticks snouts into the trough Letter-writer Stan Bartlett’s satirical expose is not far from the truth.

Victoria city council is negotiating to hire a warehouse somewhere downtown with regards to the storage of hundreds of stolen shopping carts that are being used by the homeless to keep their belongings.

The city set aside $45,000 for this project. These shopping carts are $600 to replace by the supermarkets who for some reason or another fail to report that they have been stolen.

Cities like Melbourne, Auckland and Wellington do not have these problems. They actually arrest offenders for stealing carts, so in turn they

Re: CRD mulls hike in directors’ pay (News, April 22) And we wonder why people are cynical of politicians. Not one of these directors talked about sticking their snouts in the trough when running for office, but the minute they are in for a four-year contract, they want more.

Victoria councillors started whining first about getting more benefits even though if they were at all competent, they would have checked out the job benefits before they applied to voters for the post.

Maybe they could have mentioned it during their campaign? No. That would have been honest and how would they ever get their appointment to the Senate by being honest?

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Coast Guard hysteria sinks lower The Vancouver media’s frantic coverage of the Great Bunker Spill of 2015 has just about run out of fuel.

By late last week, the usually serious Globe and Mail was reduced to quizzing a U.S. expert who had at first told the CBC he thought the spill response was pretty good. But then he heard that it might have taken up to 12 hours until the leaking grain ship was completely under control, which would be not so good.

This U.S. expert admitted he has not “followed the Vancouver spill very closely,” and was basically speculating. But that’s OK, because the main purpose of this media frenzy is to feed the established narrative that the Harper government is gutting the Coast Guard while trying to ramp up heavy oil shipments to Asia.

Tom Fletcher Yeah, that makes sense.

B.C. Views A University of Toronto philosophy prof recently suggested that Stephen Harper likes war. Maybe he likes oil spills too.

A retired captain from the now-closed Kitsilano Coast Guard station became the latest of a series of disgruntled ex-employees and union bosses to serve as the media’s go-to critics. He contradicted Coast Guard management at every turn, dismissing them as political appointees with little operational experience.

His claims about loss of spill response capability from Kitsilano are questionable at best. There was no talk of spill response when Kitsilano closed two years ago, because it was a search and rescue station.

Former B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair held almost daily news conferences as it closed. People are going to drown, warned a parade of union spokespeople.

It’s been two years, and nobody has.

Premier Christy Clark and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson were quick to summon TV cameras as oil-sheen angst spreading through

condo towers. They declared the Coast Guard response a failure before they had any real understanding of it.

Unifor, the union representing Coast Guard employees, has vowed a full-scale election advertising attack on the Conservatives this year. On federal budget day, Unifor protested the closure of the Ucluelet Coast Guard ship monitoring station. Similar stations in Vancouver and Comox are also closing this year, replaced by a new monitoring system run from Prince Rupert and Victoria.

I asked Industry Minister James Moore, the federal minister responsible for B.C., if this is a reduction in service. He said 1970s-era ship tracking equipment is being replaced with a new system that has already been deployed on the East Coast, to improve safety.

“These fears were also raised back in the ’60s and ’70s, when lighthouses were de-staffed,” Moore said. “I remember people saying, oh my God, this is going to be the end. And it turned out to be complete nonsense.”

Unifor operatives rushed to the media again last week with dire news of a half-hour outage of this new system, portraying this as evidence of a high-tech disaster waiting to happen. (Ships were told to monitor an old-school emergency radio channel for that uneventful half hour.)

What the union is really doing is ramping up its election propaganda, and intensifying efforts to protect redundant positions that are being replaced by new technology.

There was a similar media campaign last year targeting the consolidation of Veterans’ Affairs into Service Canada offices. There are serious problems with services to veterans, but union featherbedding would not help them.

The B.C. government is also introducing digital technology, eliminating hundreds of paper-pushing jobs in the process, with a mostly realistic response from unions.

But in this federal election year, realism will be in short supply.

••• Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Queen’s Venturer Scout Award is one of the organizations highest honours Kendra Wong Victoria News

Victoria’s Zachary Coey completed one of the hardest hikes he had ever done.

As part of Scouts Canada, Coey and 30 other people, hiked up Gambier Island off the Sunshine Coast in 2004.

It was a muddy, wet, forested island with an incredibly steep incline. Each step was almost the equivalent of climbing a metre in elevation, said Coey.

After the five-hour-long hike, the group finally reached the top.

“It was raining pretty heavily. The rest of my group was told to make a shelter using a tarp. I had packed a hammock and I slept in there instead,” said Coey.

“In the middle of the night, the group’s shelter filled with water because it wasn’t flat ground.

When it’s raining and there’s no flat ground, it’s really nice to not be wet.”

The hike was one of the most difficult Coey had completed at the time.

It was also when he fell in love with Scouts.

“That was one of the moments when I thought ‘ya, this is pretty sweet,’” said the 16-year-old Reynolds secondary student.

Over the past nine years, Coey has moved up through Scouts and is currently part of Venturer Scouts, a program for youth aged 14 to 17 years old.

He has clocked hundreds of volunteer hours being a teacher assistant and tutoring math and science at his high school, and organizing camps for younger Scouts.

This year, he expects to tally more than 400 volunteer hours.

“I think Scouts develops youth to be the best that they can be. It gives them leadership, mentoring and outdoor skills,” said Coey. “It tries to give you life skills and motivate you to be a leader in your community.”

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Kate Adams, area youth commissioner with Scouts, said Coey’s outgoing nature helps people come out of their shell.

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“Youth that I know that do have the Queen’s Venturer Award go through an awful lot of work, they’re always looking for ways to contribute to the community” said Ron Planden, area commissioner for Greater Victoria for Scouts Canada.

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When I first learned I would be moving to Victoria, I was overwhelmed with excitement.

I grew up in Vancouver, but every summer my family would spend several weeks visiting my grandparents on the Island. We would feed ducks at Beacon Hill Park, eat ice cream at the Beacon DriveIn, walk through Chinatown and the Inner Harbour, and have tea at the James Bay Tea Room.

I have so many fond memories of Victoria over the past 26 years.

But I admit, work has pulled me away from visiting this fine city recently.

After graduating from Langara College in Vancouver (I previously earned my degree from Simon Fraser University), I got my first paid job in the field working as the community and sports reporter at the Smithers Interior News in northern B.C. Smithers is a friendly, active small town where many clubs and programs run on the generosity of volunteers. I had the opportunity to meet and talk to so many interesting people and photograph the community on a weekly basis.

Now I’m ready for a new challenge and to return to the city that was the setting of so many of my childhood memories.

What I enjoy most about journalism is sharing people’s stories and that is what I hope to do with the

Victoria News.

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A native of Sherwood Park, Alta., Chase was acquired from the Calgary Hitmen in November. In 61 games with the Royals and Hitmen, Chase notched 20 goals and 39 assists for 59 points. The 1995-born forward also notched 11 points (7g-4a) in 10 post-season contests with Victoria.

The 6-0, 188-lbs. centre has recorded 221 points (78g-143) in 265 career WHL games to go along with 32 points (15g-17a) in 38 playoff appearances.

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In January, Hicketts, along with Royals’ head Coach Dave Lowry helped Canada win the gold medal at the 2015 World Junior Championships. In seven tournament games with Team Canada, Hicketts recorded three assists to go along with a +3 rating and two penalty minutes. Hicketts also skated in two games for Team WHL in this year’s Subway Super Series against Team Russia and registered one goal and one assist.

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Public Tours of Water Supply Facilities May 4 - 9, 2015

The Capital Regional District will be hosting their 26th annual public tours of the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area and water supply facilities including the Sooke Dam and the ultraviolet treatment plant. Learn how our high quality drinking water is delivered from the source to your tap.

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“Caregiving can be extremely challenging, both physically and emotionally,” says Meriel Randerson, the society’s support and education coordinator for Greater Victoria.

The society helps caregivers recognize that one cannot travel alone on the dementia journey.

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Family urges people to donate to relief efforts Continued from Page A1

Shakya was able to find most of his family at a cousin’s wedding also in the Kathmandu Valley during the quake.

“It was quite a relief. All my mom’s side of the family was there,” he said.

“Those two hours of waiting were the hardest. My mom said she never felt anything like that before.”

Shakya said the home he grew up in is gone.

“It’s in ruins,” he said. “For me, when I see all those monuments that have fallen down — those are the places I used to play as a kid, we’d climb up and down the stairs, watch the sunsets and watch the world go by and it’s all gone now.”

Just the magnitude of the destruc-

tion and the casualties – it makes me cry everyday.”

They were in Nepal only two months ago with their two children and took photos of the monuments that are no longer standing.

“I feel like I’ve lost the place that I grew up. All the historic things, I was so proud of Nepal architecture,” added Kansakar. “When I see the pictures of it crumbling down, it’s devastating. What am I going to show my kids now?”

In the aftermath, Shakya said the best way to help is to donate to organizations such as the Red Cross.

According to Phyllis Argue, manager of government relations for B.C., Yukon for the Canadian Red Cross, a field assessment coordination team has been deployed to Nepal to assess the situation and find out what addi-

tional support is needed.

She said the best way to support their effort is to make a financial contribution.

“One of the values of giving to the Red Cross is our presence in countries that have national Red Cross Societies.

They are working in the moment and can mobilize immediately,” said Argue.

Red Cross also offers a family link program where people in the affected area can update family members on their condition. People searching for family can also post online who they are searching for at www.redcross.org/ find-help.

Families searching for Canadians who may be living or travelling in the affected region can contact Foreign Affairs Canada at 1-800-387-3124.

Rajen Shakya, co-owner of Mint and his wife Nina Kansakar outside the restaurant Monday afternoon.

Shakya and Kansakar’s families were in Nepal when the earthquake struck.

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Habitat for Humanity hits $50K in 100K in 100 Days campaign Habitat for Humanity Victoria has raised more than $50,000 to build a home for a single mother, as part of its 100k in 100 days campaign.

The campaign challenges 100 women to donate $1,000 each to help build a home for Amanda, a single mom or two boys, with the ultimate goal of raising $100,000.

According to campaign chair Sybil Verch, Amanda has had to uproot her family once every year because of unfit living conditions and unaffordable rents.

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Fairfield Artists Studio Tour. Fairfield, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: Fairfield Artists Studio Tour.

Victoria Soul Gospel Choir performance – a fundraiser for the Fairfield Gonzales Community Assoc. First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd., 7 p.m. Info: victoriasoulgospel.ca.

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Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at Prospect Lake Road at Goward Road, Saanich. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Pat at 250-4799118.

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Victoria Model Shipbuilding Society hosts its annual tribute to the Battle of the Atlantic at Harrison Pond on Dallas Road at 11 a.m. Info: 250 385-9552.

Jane’s Walk in West Bay. Walkers meet at the corner of Wollaston and Head streets in Esquimalt, 11 a.m. Info: esquimalt.ca.

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Move For Health Day. As a participant in Move For Health Day, Esquimalt Parks and Recreation will offer drop-in admissions of $2. Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser St., 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Info: 250-412-8500.

Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at 2139 Sooke Rd., Sooke. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m.

Contact Dave or Gail at 250-642-4515.

Tuesday, May 12 Keeping the Peace – a discussion on the Site C Dam, co-hosted by Sierra Club B.C., Wilderness Committee, Amnesty International Canada and KAIROS Victoria. First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd., 7 to 9 p.m. Info: ana@ sierraclub.bc.ca.

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April Wine. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St. Tickets available at the Royal and McPherson Box Office.

Victoria Target Theatre Society presents I’m Still Here? James Bay New Horizons, 234 Menzies St., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

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Saturday, May 16

Getting to Know Dementia. Alzheimer Society of B.C. workshop, 10 a.m. to noon, Hillside Seniors Health Centre, 1454 Hillside Ave. Preregistration required. 250-370-5641 and press ‘2,’ WellnessCentreRegistration@viha.ca.

Angela Hewitt Solo Benefit Piano Recital at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, 7:30 p.m. Info: christchurchcathedral.bc.ca.

Friday, May 8 Arion Male Voice Choir Canadian Gems Concert.

Centennial United Church, 612 David St., 7:30 p.m.

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Sunday, May 17 Volkssport – 6/11 km walk. Meet at Elk Lake parking lot, Brookleigh R. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Francine at 250-361-4583.

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In and Around Esquimalt Calendar May 1 Mayor’s Online Open Door. Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins welcomes township residents to meet with her via Twitter for an Online Open Door to discuss matters of community interest. Via Twitter, #EsqChat from 10 a.m. to noon.

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May 2 Emergency preparedness workshop. Learn how to be prepared for an emergency. To register, please call the Esquimalt Recreation Centre at 250-4128500.

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May 3 Jane’s Walk in West Bay. Walkers meet at the corner of Wollaston and Head streets in Esquimalt, 11 a.m. Info: esquimalt.ca.

May 9 Community Recycling Depot. Archie Browning Sports Centre, 1151 Esquimalt Rd., 9 a.m. to noon. Info: 250-893-3851.

May 21 Esquimalt Farmers Market. Esquimalt Town Square, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Info: esquimaltmarket.com.

May 23 Scrap metal fundraiser. Macaulay Elementary School, 1010 Wychbury Ave., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Info: macaulay.sd61.bc.ca.

May 24 Esquimalt Cycling Festival. Archie Browning Sports Centre, 1151 Esquimalt Rd. Info: esqbikefest@gmail.com.

May 28 Esquimalt Farmers Market. Esquimalt Town Square, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Esquimalt is Esquimalt Municipal Archives justifiably proud of its Image from HBC many parks, each with brochure advertising an interesting history. the sale of a portion One of the oldest of Transfer Woods in parks in the township 1939. is Transfer Woods, What better setting renamed Highrock Park to remind us of (also known as Cairn the importance of Park) in the 1960s in preserving our natural conjunction with the surroundings. development of This year the Rockheights At 71 meters, the highest the township subdivision. point in Esquimalt is located celebrated The land, Earth Day by originally part of within the park and marked hosting a twoConstance Cove by a cairn erected in 1962 to day community Farm and owned commemorate the township’s clean-up at by a subsidiary Highrock Park, of the Hudson 50th anniversary. which included Bay Company, the removal of was named invasive species, the military are imbedded “Transfer” because it planting of native trees in its stone base. This was there that horses is given rise to the park and shrubs, the laying owned by the Victoria of a new trail.

Transfer Company were often being referred to This has become as Cairn Park. transferred from the an annual event with Adjacent is the south side to the north participation from local smallest natural area side of the township. students, community in the township, the In 1939, in order to groups, businesses, one hectare Rockcrest pay property taxes, township staff and Park once part of the company sold a residents. And new the original Transfer portion of the property team members – Woods. When added as building lots on goats who assisted to Highrock Park, the the north side of Old with invasive species township enjoys the Esquimalt Road while removal. The event natural beauty of more the school board reminds us all that than eight hectares of purchased property as every day is Earth Day. protected land. a future school site.

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Move For Health Day. As a participant in Move For Health Day, Esquimalt Parks and Recreation will offer drop-in admissions of $2.

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Dwulit had casual discussions with friends about a market and in October a group of women got together to discuss the idea. “They were from every imaginable, amazing walk of

life that you could imagine,” she said.

From that meeting, a board of seven was created and the idea of a farmers market was fast tracked.

Soon discussions were held with the city, and Dwulit has worked full-time since January to get the idea off the ground.

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The farmers market will start small with an emphasis on food and quality. It has room for 34 vendors and six food trucks.

Dwulit said her group is trying to encourage backyard growers to step up their growing and produce extra produce. Every farmer who sells produce won’t have to pay for a table this year.

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“We’re a small town so having the ability to have fresh produce and farmers market-type items is exciting,” she said. “There is so much buzz about this. The community is ready to turn out.”

The Esquimalt Farmers Market runs every Thursday, beginning May 21, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Town Square. klaird@blackpress.ca

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MS Society of Canada launches new Flee or Fight Campaign

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In 1991, it seemed that David Allin was at the top of his career.

For 10 years, Allin worked as a diplomat in the Canadian Foreign Service and travelled extensively all around the world. As part of his job, he worked as a senior policy advisor and legal advisor completing multi-year stints in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

But it was on a trip to Ireland that things began to change.

It started with a tingling in his thumb that doctors at a walk-in clinic couldn’t diagnose.

On St. Patrick’s Day, after hours of treaty negotiations, he felt an incredible pain in his shoulder that persisted.

Then a few weeks later, while he was in Portugal engaging in a heated debate with a lawyer, he experienced overwhelming fatigue.

“It was like a complete blanket, I had to sit down,” said Allin. “I got up the next day and slept in the car for the entire day. In Switzerland, I started to have difficulty walking, I was slurring my speech, so my team sent me back to Ottawa.”

After a series of tests and an MRI, Allin was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system.

“It was the uncertainty. What does it mean for career, for your personal life, what does it mean for how you’re going to live your life?” said Allin. “These were all huge question marks, none with any answers. You have to see with time and see how your type of disease develops.”

Unlike some people with the disease, Allin, who currently lives in Victoria, was able to continue working until he retired.

He now has a wife and two children and spends roughly three days of the week at the MS Society in Victoria on North Park Street doing physiotherapy or working as the Board Chair.

Allin said that many Canadians are aware of the disease, but do not know that the country has the highest rate of MS in the world.

As a way of increasing awareness of MS, the Society has launched a new campaign called Flee or Fight.

The campaign is meant to encourage people to stand up and learn more about the disease.

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Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system It can cause symptoms such as loss of balanced, impaired speech, extreme fatigue, vision impairment, changes in mood and cognition and impaired mobility.

It is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in Canada.

An estimated 100,000 Canadians have the disease.

It is usually diagnosed in people between the ages of 15 to 40.

To reach a confirmed diagnosis of MS, neurologists will use MRI scans to look for tissue damage in the brain.

In 2014, the MS Society of Canada funded 49 MS-focused researchers, 63 MS research trainees and three multi-centre collaborative research grants.

VOLUNTEER To learn more about volunteering for the Carnation Campaign, call Hailey Smith at 250-388-6496 ext.

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The 39th annual Carnation Campaign kicks off next Friday. Watch for events and locations around Greater Victoria

“We are asking Canadians to make a choice once they learn the fact that Canada has the highest rate of MS in the world,” said Tania Vrionis, president of the MS Society of Canada, B.C. and Yukon Division.

“They can flee, or they can fight. However, we ask the questions knowing that the vast majority have already chosen to fight and are looking for more ways to be effective in ending MS and joining forces with the MS Society is a way to do that.”

May is MS Awareness Month across Canada. In addition to the Flee or Fight Campaign, there are several awareness and fundraising activities happening in Victoria over the next month.

One of the largest and longest running initatives is the MS Carnation Campaign on May 8 and 9. Volunteers are needed to exchange live carnations outside grocery stores and coffee shops in various neighbourhoods to increase awareness about MS and programs available on the Island.

Together we will end multiple sclerosis.

INFORMATION Contact the South & Central Vancouver Island Chapter of the MS Society at 250-388-6496, email info.victoria@mssociety.ca or at www.mssociety.ca

MS Awareness Month Events: May — iMpressionS Art Exhibit launch party at Habit Coffee from 5-7 p.m. This event will be showcasing 12 artists living with MS that participate in our art therapy group. The art will remain at Habit throughout May, and each week we will highlight three artists.

May 8-9 — The 39th Annual Carnation Campaign. This event will be held throughout the city. We will have volunteers stationed outside grocery stores and coffee shops in various neighbourhoods. They will be exchanging fresh carnations for donations, as well as increasing awareness and giving information about MS, and programs for those living with it in our city. Each location has its own hours, however the standard time for each location will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

May 15-16 — Carnation Caravan. This event will be held in various local pubs and bars.

Two teams of volunteers will be at the locations exchanging fresh carnations and streaks of red hair extensions for donations. The caravan will appear in various neighbourhoods over the course of the Friday and the Saturday from approximately 5 p.m.-10 p.m.

May 22 & 29 — Gentle Yoga Class. There will be two classes hosted by Christina Marie, a certified yoga instructor. Each class will go from 6-7 p.m. on each Friday and will be held at Gordon Head Rec Center. The classes will be gentle, calming and open to all skill levels. The location is accessible and the space is large. Admission will be by donation of a minimum of $10.

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“There’s been a demographic shift in the Canadian landscape, and many of the challenges we’re facing with our aging population used be dealt with in the family network,” said Patricia Jelinski, CEO of United Way Greater Victoria.

“We have people who’ve never been married, or never had

children, or they’re divorced. Whatever the case, they’re alone, and somehow the family network has eroded.”

That erosion leads to isolation, which is a catalyst for depression, malnutrition and premature death, Jelenski said.

Targeting isolation is key, and there’s no one way to do it. People slowly grow apart from their network and are largely unaware when they’ve slipped into a state of depression.

United Way supports a variety of seniors programs in the region by funding organizations such as James Bay New Horizons, Silver Threads and Saanich Volunteer Services Society.

“Programs pull people into the community and provide a sense of belonging, so it’s about making sure there are programs available for

people to belong to in the area where they live,” said Lee Anne Davies, director of community investment with United Way Greater Victoria.

“You need that network, so people will be there to notice if your health starts to fail,” Davies said. “Sometimes you don’t notice or are in denial, but others will look out for you.”

Local philanthropist Bev King is a United Way supporter who stepped up to create a Sunday dinner program at the James Bay New Horizons community centre, “making Sundays a little less lonely,” she said.

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It started in October with a bi-weekly Sunday dinner program with nutritious themed hot meals, entertainment and games that proved to be very popular. The program has grown to become a weekly event, thanks to King’s support.

“I think about how much the elderly people in my life have given to me, to my family and to my world,” King said. “This generation has been through so much in comparison to my generation. Giving to create something as simple as a welcoming dinner event just for those seniors who are on their own, it’s worth it just to see them having such a good time together over a classic Sunday dinner.”

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Book of prophecy says: Get out of town!

Brian Kieran Seniors

Like many seniors I lament the decline of our once great daily newspapers. Many of us grew up dependant on them for our news.

I had the good fortune to grow up in them.

The very sad thing is their decline.

The contest of wills between editorial and advertising has always been a fact of life. I learned that lesson early on in my career. In the 1970s I was briefly editor of the Nelson Daily News.

The publisher was an advertising man whose mandate was to pander to the powerful merchants of Baker Street. He lived in mortal dread of what I might say on the editorial pages.

One day I was watching life go by on Baker Street from my office window when a city works crew pulled up to do some routine street maintenance. I took notes as three city workers idly leaned on their brooms while one of their junior co-workers completed the task at hand. I decided to share this appalling waste of taxpayers’ dollars with my readers.

I must note here that Nelson was in the iron grip of Mayor Lou Maglio who could have played body double for Don Corleone in the Godfather movies. I must also add that the city works department was generously populated with members of Maglio’s extended family.

When my piece appeared next day, the mayor flipped out. The Baker Street merchants flipped out because they were not subsidizing independent controversial thought and my publisher

flipped out because he feared the mayor even more than the merchants.

I was summoned to the mayor’s office to be lectured on the role of the city’s newspaper. When I failed to show the appropriate measure of regret Maglio became so livid that he had two cigarettes going simultaneously.

I pointed this out and left city hall a marked man.

Sometime later my best friend David showed up from the coast and we decided to celebrate his visit with an evening on the town. In the 70s, an evening on the town in Nelson meant just one thing, a visit to one of the local hotel bar rooms. At every establishment we were refused service at the door. Clearly, word had spread from the mayor’s office to the merchants that the editor of the daily paper was persona non grata.

David was freaked and consulted his “I Ching” for guidance on my behalf. The I Ching is a complex ancient and classic Chinese divination text.

Accessing its wisdom involves the production of seemingly random numbers that unlock the book’s prophecies.

Many guru-like, latterday 1970s hippies (David) packed it everywhere.

As the saying goes, we “threw” the I Ching and it spoke to us in no uncertain terms.

I paraphrase: “Some battles you win; some you lose; get out of town now!”

We immediately consumed a litre of Similkameen Superior red and called it a night.

The next morning I was awakened by the ringing telephone.

It was the publisher of the now-defunct Nanaimo Free Press.

He said he had heard on the grapevine that I might be looking for work and offered me the job of city editor over the phone, sight unseen.

This coincidental

cosmic collision of rejection and opportunity had me in a state of stunned amazement. David just smiled like Confucius.

Not remarkable at all, he said, patting the I Ching.

Of course, I accepted the new posting and got my butt out of Nelson as fast as possible.

When the Nelson Daily News was shut down years later I shed not a tear. I was told the publisher ended up working in a butcher shop.

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