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Allison Crowe comes back to Sidney Oct. 23. Enter to win a pair of tickets, page 17
North Saanich’s Murray Farmer takes over as Hon. Colonel at Victoria regiment, page 3
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Downtown Sidney Oct 31 3pm to 5pm
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Farmer jumps into new role
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Get ArtSea in Sidney
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Carlie Connolly News staff
Beginning today and running until Oct. 25, Sidney will be a busy town as more than 400 artists from across the Island will be celebrating arts and culture with the ArtSea Festival. Up first will be the Sidney Fine Art Show, today through Sunday in the Bodine Hall at the Mary Winspear Centre. The show will take place today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the event is either $6 per day or $10 for a three Enter now for day pass. your chance to win The popular fesa pair of tickets to tival will end with the ArtSea Festival’s the Fall Studio annual Gala on Oct. Tour on the 24th 21 — and a $50 and 25th from Pier Hotel gift card. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Send your name, Local artists open phone number their studios up to and home town to display their varieditor@peninsuous art pieces to lanewsreview.com the community. prior to Monday, Oct. 19 at 9 a.m. The ArtSea Gala The PNR will draw will take place on four winners and Oct. 21 for $10 contact them by with all performphone. ers being from the Peninsula local school systems. Every penny will go towards the Arts in the Schools Program. A new addition this year will be two Paint and Wine nights taking place on the 17th and 24th from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The first will take place at the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre and the second night (24th) at Brentwood Bay’s Empourium coffee shop (7103 Trafalgar Square). With over 40 businesses participating during the Festival, hosting many local artists, it will be a busy 10-day event for all to see. Visit cacsp.ca for full event details. reporter@peninsulanewsreview.com
Gala tickets up for grabs
Pick of the pumpkin patch
Steven Heywood/News staff
Toting their pick of the pumpkin crop from Central Saanich’s Michell Farms are Dustin Carpenter (from left), Marina Hansen, Amanda Tanuis and Dave Hansen. Vern Michell says this season’s crop is good, despite the hot, dry weather this summer.
Candidates make a final push Steven Heywood News staff
The federal election is Monday, Oct. 19 and this is the final weekend for candidates and parties to reach undecided voters — or shore up their support in ridings across the country. The PNR reached out to the four candidates in Saanich-Gulf Islands, asking about their plans for the weekend and what they hope voters will think about as they head to the polls.
Tim Kane says he has learned a lot about himself on the campaign trail in SaanichGulf Islands. The Liberal Party candidate is also realistic about his chances of winning in the riding, currently held by incumbent MP and Green Party leader Elizabeth May. “If I’m elected, there will probably be a Liberal govern-
ment (in Ottawa) as well,” Kane A said this week. D A “Honestly, I know CAN about the odds of that happening.” The Liberal Party has never won in SaanichGulf Islands, a riding created in 1987 out of two larger ones on the south Island. The NDP won the riding in 1988. In 1993, the Reform Party took it and — in the form of
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either Reform, Alliance or the Conservative parties — held it until 2011 when May defeated Conservative Gary Lunn. Prior to 2011, the Liberal Party was always second or third in the polling results, coming the closest to unseating the right-of-centre parties in 2008 (losing by only around 2,600 votes) until 2011 when they placed a distant fourth. PLEASE SEE: Election messages, page 9