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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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McKenzie interchange work to start by next fall Commuters from West Shore likely to follow plans closely Tom Fletcher Black Press
Having been involved in crossfit training for several years, she only took up powerlifting in the spring. These days she’s in competition training mode, settling into a training regimen of six days a week in preparation for the Commonwealth Powerlifting and Bench Press Championship. From Dec. 1 to 5, she’ll be among 525 lifters from 15 Commonwealth countries competing at the Richmond Olympic Oval.
The B.C. government has presented three possible designs for a new interchange at Highway 1 and McKenzie Avenue north of Victoria, which Transportation Minister Todd Stone has called the worst traffic bottleneck in B.C. Stone said Monday there will be extensive consultations with area residents on the options for the new interchange, but the intent is to have “shovels in the ground” by late 2016 and the interchange open by the fall of 2018. In conjunction with the West Shore parkway project through Langford, the new interchange should “go a long way” to eliminating what south Vancouver Island commuters have come to know as the “Colwood crawl,” Stone said. The project will include separate bus lanes and a separated path for the Galloping Goose cycling and hiking trail. Stone said the ministry is confident all three options can be built within the $85 million budget of the project, and a fourth option could be considered if public input indicates that it is needed.
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Langford resident Stephanie Needham is a bookkeeper by day and a powerlifter by night. The 58 year old only began powerlifting this year but is already looking like a medal contender in her weight and age classes at an upcoming international meet.
Age just a number for powerlifter Langford lifter preps for international competition Arnold Lim News Gazette staff
Stephanie Needham lifts more than double her own weight. Perhaps more impressively, the 58-yearold powerlifter deadlifts more than 264 lbs., a number that is four times her age every time she straightens out her body and hoists
the cast-iron weights into the air. Every time the Langford resident steps up to the bar, the athlete turns heads. “Just being able to say that I can back squat 250 lbs. and I’m 58 years old, I think it keeps me young because everyone else is younger,” she said. “It’s always fun when I can do stuff that people half my age can’t do.” While her specialty is the deadlift, Needham said she is currently “grooving” on the bench press, of which she can push 132 lbs. or more into the air.
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