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Relief from daily commute coming with interchange Overdue improvement at Admirals-McKenzie section of TCH expected in three years’ time Travis Paterson News Staff
suggested he look into bronze casting. “I was instantly intrigued. Carving is art by subtraction – you start with a lump and end up with a smaller product,” says Cooke, who developed a keen interest in preserving wildlife along the way. “Working with clay is an additive process that provides a lot more leeway.”
West Shore commuters can get excited over the announcement of provincial and federal funding for the long overdue Trans-Canada Highway interchange at the intersection of Admirals Road and McKenzie Avenue. The price tag is $85 million – $52 million from B.C.’s 10-year On The Move plan and nearly $33 million from the federal conservative government’s New Building Canada Fund infrastructure budget. “Construction will be underway likely within a year and the improvements should be realized by the folks who live here a couple of years after that,” Todd Stone, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure said at Wednesday’s announcement. The concept for the interchange, seen by many as the logical solution to the daily gridlock goes back nearly 30 years. Its momentum stopped in 1995, when Saanich’s concerns over the welfare of Cuthbert Holmes Park, among other things, helped cast it aside. Saanich Coun. Leif Wergeland believes Cuthbert Holmes Park won’t be a concern or setback during the consultation and planning stages for the upcoming interchange.
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Artist Brent Cooke holds an eagle head, part of a piece he’s working on, at his Langford home studio. It’s been a successful summer for Cooke, who won the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Robert Bateman Award for his contributions to conservation through his artwork, and was named the Artists for Conservation’s Festival Artist Patron for 2015.
Conservation a priority for artist Brent Cooke an emerging arts luminary on the national and international scene Rick Stiebel News Gazette staff
What started out as a hobby in high school and a passion for preserving
wildlife morphed into an award-winning calling for sculptor Brent Cooke. The Langford resident, who received a Canadian Wildlife Federation award in Ottawa recently, began carving driftwood in his teens, making many of his own tools. “The biggest problem with that is the pieces are one-offs and you’re never really able to recover the cost and the time for selling one piece at a time in that medium,” he says. That changed in 1999 when a friend
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