Peninsula News Review, January 22, 2016

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Sidney Museum Executive Director Peter Garnham holds a model Twin Otter aircraft. A larger, six-foot Lego model will be built during Sidney’s Family Day weekend next month. See page 15 for the story.

Sidney residents urge more people to speak up to stop what they call development proposals that don’t fit the neighbourhood Steven Heywood News staff

Two groups of neighbours, on opposite ends of the Town of Sidney, are petitioning the municipality to stop a pair of development requests that would see more homes wedged onto land they feel is inappropriate.

In the last year, the Town of Sidney has seen a marked increase in the amount of development permit requests made to town hall. So much so, that the Town has authorized the hiring of a temporary planner to help meet the demand for project review and various rezoning requests. Mayor Steve Price, in late 2015, addressed the growth spurt in an article in the PNR as well as addressing the increase in complaints from residents in the wake of development pressure.

Now, the neighbours of two such projects are collecting names on petitions, seeking to stop requests for increased density.

Christine Kollofrath lives on Resthaven Drive next to a proposed housing development that would see 18 homes built on a treed lot that had originally been zoned for up to 11. In late 2015, she presented a petition of more than 240 names to Sidney council, asking they deny the request to allow the seven extra homes and stick with the existing zoning.

“This (rezoning request) is not appropriate for this area,” she said. “A cookie-cutter subdivision is not in character with the neighbourhood.”

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PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW - Friday, January 22, 2016

Tip of the Peninsula slegg’s Cancer society donation next week to be an island record

VICTORIA — On Wednesday, Jan. 27 Slegg Building Materials will be presenting a $100,000 contribution to the Canadian Cancer Society’s Vancouver Island Region.

The single donation is reportedly the largest in the Canadian Cancer Society’s history for the Island.

“Everyone is touched by cancer and it has such devastating effects on entire families,” said Slegg owner Doug Skrepnek. “Slegg is proud to support such a worthy cause and give back to the Vancouver Island community.”

Skrepnek and company President Tim Urquhart, will make an official cheque presentation to the Society during a celebratory pancake breakfast at the Langford Slegg location from 7 to 11 a.m.

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SIDNEY — Beacon Community Services, in partnership with the Peninsula News Review, is seeking your nominations for the annual Hearts of the Community awards.

The 18th annual Hearts of the Community awards gala event is coming up next month.

Between now and Jan. 28, Beacon Community Services (BCS) will be accepting nominations. the awards will be handed out at a ceremony in February at the Mary Winspear Centre. Nominations can include youth, adults, seniors and groups — anyone who has made a difference in their community through volunteerism.

The Hearts are awarded at a gala event at the Mary Winspear Centre each year. In 2016, it takes place Feb. 23 at 11 a.m.

The deadline for Hearts of the Community nominations is 4 p.m. on Jan. 28. Get nomination forms at Beacon Community Services offices in Sidney or visit beaconcs.ca.

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truck traffic conflict on hovey Residents, District and First Nation at odds over use of narrow rural route Carlie Connolly News staff

“An accident waiting to happen,” is what some residents along Hovey Road in Central Saanich are saying when it comes to the frequent use of large trucks along the route.

It was a hostile environment at Monday night’s committee of the whole meeting at the District of Central Saanich offices, as residents voiced their passionate concerns on safety.

Acting mayor, Christopher Graham, had to redirect people’s focus back to the issue as passion mixed in with anger.

In December, council received a petition and delegation from residents asking that load restrictions be implemented along Hovey Road.

Again, they cited safety as their primary concern.

The issue has grown over the past couple months as residents say large commercial trucks are hauling cargo to and from the nearby Tsartlip First Nation at the west end of Hovey. The company using the route is V.I Pallet Recovery, based out of the Tsartlip community.

Resident after resident brought up their concern, from children riding their bikes up and down the road and horse riders that use the road and all of them simply not having enough room or distance away from the commercial truck traffic.

In a recent phone interview on the issue, Mayor Ryan Windsor said part of the problem is that there currently isn’t another way trucks can go.

“All the other roads that would potentially lead into there don’t quite make it,” he said.

“Gowdy (Road) for

Karen Brain of Central Saanich rides along Hovey and Tomlinson roads. instance only makes it about half way before it terminates.

It’s a fairly narrow road.”

Windsor added there is no access to the property off of West Saanich Road. Ryan Windsor Don Tom He suggested during Monday night’s committee metres wide at its narmeeting that the opera- rowest point and Windtor provide a detailed sor said that is much schedule so residents lower than their curknow when the trucks rent municipal stanwould go by. The dard of 6.7 metres for a schedule, he added, is rural agricultural road.

“Widening the road to make people aware and be able to plan gives the trucks some place to be while otharound it.

“In the absence of ers can pass. Arguably, other regulations pres- does it solve all the ently, some information problems that residents is better than no infor- perceive? Perhaps not,” said Windsor. mation,” he said.

In the end, the idea of Widening the road was raised as a pos- road widening did not sibility, but many resi- proceed past initial disdents stated they didn’t cussions.

Central Saanich like that idea. They said making the road wider placed a traffic countwould not stop the traf- ing device along the fic problem and con- road in December, to flicts with pedestrians assess how many vehiand other users of the cle trips were taking place and the size of route.

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been replaced as of last week, following allegations of tampering.

“I think we know there are vehicles coming up and down this road and really my interest is in technical data …”

Windsor said.

The decision of the committee was to defer the matter or “pend,” as Windsor phrased it, to wait for further discussions with the Tsartlip First Nation at a Community to Community Forum that took place Tuesday night.

During that session, Tsartlip Band Councillor Joni Olson voiced her concern over the road issue.

“We do have a say over these lands …” she said, adding widening the road wouldn’t satisfy the residents.

When asked by Central Saanich Councillor Alicia Holman what the long-term plan would be, Olson said it’s to build a new road. However, she added First

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Nations do not benefit from government infrastructure funding, so doing the work on their own presents a challenge.

Graham said the issue is difficult as the District is dealing with upset residents and a business. He said the situation makes a winwin situation difficult to achieve.

Tsartlip Chief Councillor Don Tom said his community takes pride in an individual starting a business. He added their council doesn’t want the Hovey Road matter to be a barrier to the relationship between the two peoples. He said he is open to collaborating to address the issue.

“Emotions are very high …” he said.

The general consensus around the table Tuesday night was to potentially form a partnership around infrastructure improvements. However, no formal decision was made to proceed. reporter@peninsula newsreview.com

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Memorial cenotaph project Rotary hopes new misses grant deadline raffle is a gold mine Central Saanich delays the plan to revise the design Carlie Connolly News staff

A proposed memorial cenotaph for Central Saanich was delayed as politicians opted to change its design.

The project missed an opportunity to apply for grant money to help finance the structure early this year.

The deadline to submit an application for financial assistance from the Government of Canada’s Community War Memorial Program was Monday, Jan. 18.

If they had been successful in getting the grant, the project would have had to have been completed by the end of March.

Many issues that came up with the proposed cenotaph included

“... The will of this current council was to take a slightly different path ...”

– Ryan Windsor the site and the design itself.

Councillor Carl Jensen said a big concern was its visibility within its proposed Centennial Park location.

He said it would be lost in the trees, facing maintenance costs associated with debris from nearby trees.

Mayor Ryan Windsor said there will never be the perfect design of the cenotaph to please everyone, but based on public feedback, council determined that the particular design wasn’t

what they wanted.

He said it’s unfortunate the District lost the grant, which he said was not a sure thing to begin with — as one can submit the design with no guarantee the grant will come through.

Although this is postponed, Windsor said he would still like to see a new cenotaph in by this year’s Remembrance Day ceremony, adding he feels it’s important to get it done.

“The original resolution in 2014 called for it to be completed by 2015, so we’re already in my mind behind schedule,” Windsor said, “but the will of this current council was to take a slightly different path and I’d like to see us stick to that.” reporter@peninsula newsreview.com

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Sidney-bythe-Sea club to kick off raffle Feb. 1 Steven Heywood News staff

With their gaming licence fresh in hand this week, the Sidneyby-the-Sea Rotary Club is chomping at the bit to launch its new fundraising campaign — the Rotary Gold Mine.

The first raffle is set to begin Feb. 1.

Club past-president and chair of the raffle committee Bob Leitch says they’ve based the campaign on one started on Prince Edward Island, which has seen success and growth since it started.

People can buy a raffle ticket number, or numbers, for a toonie each, Leitch explained.

Once they have their number, players affix stickers to a toonie and drop it into a container at one of a number of local businesses.

Every Monday, the boxes are collected and a winner is drawn from among a maximum of 10,000 tickets — the amount of tickets being sold by the club as the campaign begins.

“People can play every week, or take a week off, and play again later,” he said. “Their number stays with them.”

Winners will receive 50 per cent of the money raised. The other half will be evenly split between the

Last year yearSlegg SleggBuilding Building Materials made a $100,000 donation Last Materials made a $100,000 donation to t the Canadian Society. the CanadianCancer Cancer Society.

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Celebrate With Us! January 27 Last year Slegg Building Materials made a $100,000 donation t the Canadian Cancer Society. The LARGEST single donation to the Canadian Cancer Society in Vancouver Island history!

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Sidney-by-the-Sea Rotary Club pastpresident holds a sample toonie entry in the club’s new Gold Mine weekly raffle.

Rotary club itself and a select community organization or charity that sends volunteers to help with the weekly draw.

“We are starting with a small amount of tickets to begin with,” Leitch said. “It’s not a big investment for people and the payout is potentially great. And all of that money raised stays here on the Peninsula.”

The club itself will put their share into their bursaries and grants to local youth, sports and other organizations.

“It’s a different way of fundraising for the club.”

On Feb. 1 at 4:30 p.m.,

people will be able to buy tickets at stores such as Sidney Cold Beer and Wine, Deep Cove Market, BJs Bakery, Melinda’s Biscotti, Brentwood Bay Metro Liquor, the Roost, Russ Hay’s, Spelt’s Shell and the Military Book Store.

Ticket sales end at 1:30 p.m. every Monday, with winners chosen that night and announced in the Friday editions of the PNR. Leitch said once the year-long campaign gets rolling, it stands to help up to 25 community groups directly, and many others through Rotary’s grants program. editor@peninsula newsreview.com

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Public hearings on two sites soon Continued from page 1

Kollofrath said the current residents are perfectly willing to accept pre-existing zoning of the site that would still see up to 11 new homes built and many of the trees on the lot removed.

“We were prepared for development there, we’re not against it,” she continued. “But we were prepared for that under the land’s current zoning. This is too dense, too intense, too much in this neighbourhood.”

Kollofrath has been attending regular Sidney council meetings and their advisory planning commission sessions to follow the process. She said she feels her petition has thus far only been given cursory review and, in essence, has been pushed under the rug by a council and its commission that didn’t give it enough of a look.

“For us, it came across like it wasn’t fair. It wasn’t fair for a big project like this to get all of the attention. It’s a major change.”

Over on the south side of town, Ken and Sue Groom have been vocal opponents of a planned four story building next to their Fourth Street

condo. A visit to their home, in a mostly residential area, which is also in sight of a new where buildings are supposed four-storey building under to gradually decrease in size construction at Bevan Avenue the further they get away from at Fifth Street, showed that the downtown core.

Both the Grooms and Kollothe proposed structure would loom over their exterior deck. frath said they feel a little helpEven so, the Grooms say less as council moves each they were prepared to accept application forward, meeting the site’s existing zoning — after meeting. In both cases, that would allow a shorter individual councillors have building that still might block expressed some of the same concerns as the their views, The but to a lesser “Somebody’s got to residents.

Fourth Street extent. The building proproposal for speak up. We can’t say four storeys it’s a done deal. It’s not posal was even sent back to and increased the developer housing den- a done deal.” for revision and sity on the – Christine Kollofrath was re-introlot, they echo, duced late last is simply not year. Even so, appropriate to the rest of the neighbourhood. the Grooms say what changes Ken has now started a were made didn’t change the petition of his own, to try to larger size or footprint of the convince town councillors to building.

The Grooms say they are deny the developer’s request left with talking to their neighfor bonus density on the site.

He said he’s already facing bours, hoping to have enough an uphill battle, as council people sign a petition — and recently stated it saw merit have it taken seriously by the in the developer’s proposed municipality.

“The only way to fight it,” amenity contribution — a step to seeing the density increase Ken said, “is to have more approved through the munici- voices.”

Kolofrath said she is not pality’s permitting process.

The Grooms say the pro- sure how the council will posed structure doesn’t fit decide on the land proposal

at Resthaven and Ardwell streets, but did note some of the politicians were asking questions and at least one councillor (Tim Chad) stated he was against it from the outset. Those comments and that from other councillors gives Kollofrath some hope for changes to the proposal.

“If developers think they can do what they want, I can speak up and say what I want, too,” she said. “Somebody’s got to speak up. We can’t say it’s a done deal. It’s not a done deal.”

Kollofrath said she expects the development proposal to come back to council on Feb. 9, with a public hearing expected in the days afterward. While she would like the project halted, she admitted she doesn’t think that’s likely.

So, she’s hoping for increased public awareness of the issue, and for more people to have their say.

Ken Groom said he expects the Fourth Street condo project to go to public hearing on Feb. 9.

He’s encouraging people to show up and let council know a lot of people oppose the plan. editor@peniinsula newsreview.com

Maber Flats project moves ahead in Central Saanich Carlie Connolly News staff

The Maber Flats project is getting under way after three recommendations were passed at the District of Central Saanich’s recent committee of the whole meeting.

The District, pending final ratification, will proceed with site works on the Maber Flats parcel and seek potential partnerships with community

groups to perform ongoing management on invasive species.

The municipality also approved putting out a Request For Proposals (RFP) for a detailed design of the proposed water drainage facility.

This includes conducting stakeholder consultation and moving previously-approved funds into the 2016 budget year.

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Friday, January 22, 2016 - PENINSULA

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OUR VIEW

Taking the high road on Hovey

W

e often get a sense of comfort when we think of home — and the same could arguably be thought of with roads.

When we think back to a time when we used to live in little to no fear of safety, taking off our training wheels to ride down our safe residential roads, mom and dad watching nearby, it’s safe to say that same level of comfort is no longer around on Hovey Road in Central Saanich.

Residents along Hovey and Tomlinson roads have lamented the growing number of large trucks rushing by on the narrow rural street. As a result of the activity, paired with neighbourhood use of the street, safety questions come up time and time again.

At the same time, issues of hope and prosperity for the neighbouring First Nation community come up. The Tsartlip community borders the area and access to and from the First Nation is by that same road. And that includes commercial truck traffic originating from a Tsartlip-based business.

Some residents see the whole situation as a loselose situation. People want a place safe for the next generation and horse riders want to enjoy a safe ride. It’s also a potential lose-lose for an entrepreneur trying to make a name for himself and support his loved ones.

Yet, out of all the negativity and hostility surrounding these conflicting road uses, must come a decision that probably won’t please everyone.

The status of the road remains in question, with little to nothing being proposed to help solve the conflict. So what will happen next?

More raised voices and pointing fingers, yet the dust will settle and the road will remain.

Whether it’s widened or rebuilt, or another access is created, safety should always remain at the top of everyone’s priority list.

Will that mean taking trails or sidewalks? Maybe.

Will it mean the loss of a business? Possibly.

Whatever the decision, the easiest way to resolve the conflict is communication and with that, respect.

Anger will continue as that comes with the passion in standing up for what one cares about.

But the taking of the high road should still stand true.

It means discussion over fighting, respect over anger and communication people to people, community to community.

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@peninsulanewsreview.com or fax 250-656-5526.

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YOUR VIEW

Say ‘no’ to bonus density in Sidney I agree with a number of recent letters to the editor published in your newspaper. Many reflect the growing alarm about frequent and undesirable rezoning.

In order to get bonus density in many areas, properties require rezoning. If the Town supports rezoning wherever they see fit, this can happen not just in our backyard but in anyone’s backyard in Sidney.

This current direction in town planning is making real estate investment in Sidney a higher risk than it should be. Come, retire, then spend months of your life fighting to preserve your real estate investment. Doesn’t sound like fun and guess what, it isn’t.

Anyone and everyone can see that the building being proposed on Fourth Avenue is way too high and massive in relation to the adjacent strata buildings and low profile residential neighbourhood. It doesn’t fit!

Nice building — wrong location.

The amenity contribution and the four additional units requiring bonus density and rezoning offer no significant benefit to the surrounding community.

I would urge all those concerned to write or email the mayor and councillors and also attend and speak at the public hearing, tentatively scheduled for Feb. 9. If we do not act to stop harmful municipal planning decisions now, we will end up with an over built, unattractive town. Say ‘no’ to bonus density.

Marjorie Johnson Sidney

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Gateway to nowhere How can the Gateway to Sidney be on the west side of the main highway and away from our foremost shopping, financial and dining areas? It makes no sense.

The VAA (via developers) are hankering to redirect residents and visitors from our beautiful town towards some sort of mini-Langford area.

Do we really want to divert visitors to some area devoid of character, then let them leave thinking that they have actually been to Sidney?

Moreover, as mentioned in past weeks by other writers, there already exists a high vacancy rate in the downtown core of Sidney; more retail/commercial space on the west side of the highway seems superfluous.

Our downtown is charming and very easily accessible for all to benefit from the huge array of amenities that are currently on offer.

Visitors and residents have the very pleasant “gateway” of Beacon Avenue with which to enter our downtown and enjoy the natural ambiance of the street, then shortly arrive at our fantastic waterfront.

Furthermore, the Gateway proposal suggests that seeking out a grocery store, financial and medical tenants would be ideal.

We already have three large grocery stores and numerous financial facilities in our downtown. I personally wouldn’t want to see one of our conveniently located businesses disappear to the “other side.”

Additionally, if this development is allowed to proceed, how are we expected to trek over to this Gateway?

Many residents in Sidney travel by mobility scooters, bicycles and by walking. Is there a plan for a cycling/pedestrian bridge over the highway?

I conclude by recounting my casual discussions with numerous friends/residents, that by far the general consensus is that the Gateway development is unwarranted.

Let’s hope that town council sees this proposal as unnecessary too.

Remember, it’s Sidney-by-the-Sea not Sidney-by-the-Runway.

Adam Kanczula Sidney

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Readers respond: Radiation effects; missing Dave Presence of EMR a serious discomfort I used to make a point of shopping in Sidney, now I don’t.

The Town and many businesses have chosen to supply wifi and other Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) to every one that enters the town.

For me, the relatively high levels in the downtown core causes headaches. Others may not recognise the association, they just know they are uncomfortable and avoid the places of discomfort. Brentwood Bay, with its saturation from wifi, is even worse.

For some strange reason some think their “right” to text message someone trumps people’s right to well being.

The science to support the need for radiation levels at far below the amount found in Sidney for health reasons has been well proven — repeatedly proven in numerous, highlycreditable scientific journals.

It has been known for decades that low levels of radiation are the cause of many health issues.

Norm Ryder Central Saanich

Proud to be campagning According to Tom Fletcher, “an employee of the B.C. branch plant of Sierra Club lurks, appar-

ently co-ordinating media and protesters” regarding logging in the Walbran Valley (Avatar Sequel Bombs in Walbran, Jan 12).

He’s referring to me.

Far from lurking, I’m proud to be campaigning with Sierra Club BC to save the some of the last significant stands of unprotected old-growth on Vancouver Island. (And, to correct but one of the many misleading or false claims in Fletcher’s piece, Sierra Club BC is entirely independent.) Fletcher’s diatribe reveals him as Teal Jones’ willing stenographer, uncritically regurgitating the logging company’s talking points.

Fletcher and Teal Jones may believe it is morally and ecologically acceptable to cut down these magnificent trees and destroy complex, delicate ecosystems. Sierra Club BC doesn’t, and nor do the majority of British Columbians, who support concerted action to defend endangered old-growth trees, wildlife, a stable climate, clean water and clean air.

British Columbians know that these things form the lifesupport system of our planet and support long-term prosperity and a diverse economy, including sustainable secondgrowth forestry for current and future generations. A growing list of independent reports from B.C.’s Auditor General, the Forest Practices Board and even a Liberal MLA highlight the need for urgent action to save our

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Precious man lost I heard the dreadful news of the trailer fire. The radio report said it was a 59-year-old man on the Tsawout Reserve who had died in the fire. No name was given, but I know several people who live there.

On Saturday I scooted to Peace Lutheran Church for their weekly soup. I was met at the door by a regular who said, “Our Dave is dead. He died in the fire.”

None of us could believe it.

It couldn’t be the Dave that we knew so well. I visualized him as always smiling. I never heard him speak a negative word and the last I saw him he was at St. Elizabeth’s Friendly Hours on Jan. 14 — the day he died.

I considered him to be a true friend who would help me if necessary. His spirit is with us still. It is full of warmth, joy, love and peace.

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Leads in Parkland Secondary’s performance of Legally Blonde — Isobel Sheridan, left and Carenza Stevens — get their costumes ready for their upcoming performance.

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he PNR caught up with two of the lead actresses in Parkland Secondary School’s musical performance of Legally Blonde, The Musical to talk characters, challenges and their love of acting.

Grade 10 student Isobel Sheridan is excited to play the lead, Elle Woods.

“It feels really great,” she said in an interview, while dressed in a hot pink

dress with sequinned glitter and neon pink high heels.

She said she loves playing the character of Elle as she is very strong and independent.

“At the beginning of the show she doesn’t see her full potential but she’s a very smart, witty girl, and she gets pushed to see her own potential and it’s really great.”

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She also found her character relatable.

“I find it very easy to connect with her because she’s very much like most girls in high school and what they go through with relationships and everything.”

Sheridan began acting when she was just nine years old and hadn’t done any musical theatre in the past year. She did, however, work with different theatre companies when she was younger.

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smile and making them laugh.”

Legally Blonde hits the stage Feb. 3 to 6 at Parkland Secondary.

and I love if I have a really funny character.

“I love making other people smile,” she continued, “and that’s like my main thing when I’m being Paulette, I just love making people

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Carenza has taken part in a lot of dance throughout her life, performing for around 14 years. She picked up acting over the past few years at Parkland and has been in musical theatre for around three years.

She was a dancer in Grade 10 in the production of Zombie Prom, but this is the first year she has gotten a lead role.

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She said her character is very fun and crazy, but with that comes challenges in trying to keep in character the whole time.

She said her character is strong throughout the play, adding she has to be very vibrant the whole time, which she said is a fun challenge.

“I really enjoy having to play this different kind of character.”

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What does she like about acting?

“You get to be someone else. It’s nice to pull away from whatever you’re going through and you get to become someone else and you get to make it your own.”

Best friend to Sheridan’s character is hairdresser Paulette Bonafonte, being played by co-lead actor

and Grade 12 student, Carenza Stevens.

When Sheridan’s character, Elle, gets to Harvard University, Bonafonte is one of the first people she connects with. Carenza said the pair are kind of the same — both kooky and obsessed with Ireland.

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Van Bruggen who played Reno Sweeney in the musical which ended a short run on stage Friday, Jan. 15, said it was a really exciting performance for her and it was her first lead role.

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The Lego awakens at the Sidney Museum Star Wars and aviation take centre stage during Family Day

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The Sidney Museum Lego display is on until March 30. The Museum is located at 2423 Beacon Avenue and is open between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily.

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Hundreds of people have already visited the Sidney Museum’s 11th annual Lego display this month, after it officially opened at the beginning of January.

That’s good news, says the Museum’s Executive Director Peter Garnham. That means interest is high — and it’ll probably grow stronger as Sidney’s planned Family Day long weekend hits the Town Feb. 6 to 8.

The Museum’s annual display was the root of the Family Day focus on Lego — as well as the popularity of the most popular toy in the world. Garnham himself is a model-maker and most of the collections at the Museum were put together by him and his sons Jason and David.

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Sidney Museum’s growing annual Lego display has a large Star Wars flavour. Here, a model depicts a Stormtrooper atop a Dewback, as seen in the original 1977 movie Star Wars.

This year, collections from Kim Pugh (Lego Friends — a distinctly female version of the building blocks) and Ray Konrath (Star Wars models and scenes) have been added to the display.

In all, Garnham said, there are more than 400 models to see — up from the estimated 250 last year. It took,

he continued, seven people eight hours to set up all the displays — compared with the 11 hours it took four volunteers in 2015. The work is well worth it for the Museum, he said, noting that last year’s Lego show drew in around 10,000 people.

That’s the lion’s share of the estimated 16,000 people who visited the

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In addition to the many Star Wars models and displays, the Museum’s collections include pirates, vehicles and a 6,000piece Taj Mahal that Garnham said took him 35 hours to build.

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Later this month, the Peninsula Speed Skating Club will do its best to attract new athletes to the ice in North Saanich.

On Wednesday, Jan. 27, the club is offering the public a free ‘Bring a Friend Night’ event.

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Jesse Henselin of Stelly’s hurls a pass away, as she is blocked out by Belmont’s Claire Church, during Tuesday’s city high school girls AAA basketball league game in Langford. The Bulldogs used a strong second half to pull out a 40-31 victory After a break from league play, Stelly’s has road games Feb. 2 at Mount Douglas and Feb. 4 at Oak Bay. Belmont hosts the city playoffs Feb. 11 to 13.

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The Peninsula’s speed skating club is seeking new club participants and will hold a free session on Jan. 27.

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Harriers back in action Island Race Series returns Sunday at Cobble Hill 10K

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The race comes on the heels of the Pioneer 8K race that opened the 2016 Island Race Series in Central Saanich on Sunday, Jan. 10.

The Cobble Hill 10K starts and finishes at George Bonner Middle School, Cobble Hill Road. The 10K is hosted by the CeeVacs Road Runners.

Runners can register online until 6 p.m., Friday Jan. 22 at www.vira. bc.ca or on race day.

Race day registration is open on Sunday until 10:30 a.m. Race organizers advise people to get to the school early to register to avoid disappointment. Check virs. bc.ca/series to register or for more event information.

“The 65 volunteers from the CeeVacs Roadrunners running club look forward to hosting over 500 runners take to our flat, fast course,”

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points and 267 finishers over all eight races in the season. The Comox Valley Road Runners were second and the CeeVacs Running Club (Cowichan Valley), third.

The top runner (on points) in the 2015 series was the PIH’s Craig Odermatt (825 points). Top female points-getter was the PIH’s Claire Morgan (816).

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If you’re a homeowner who recently purchased a new pad with a little financial help from mom and dad, you’re not alone.

More first-time home buyers are turning to their parents to help with a down payment on a home, according to a new report by the Society of Notaries Public of B.C. The fall real estate report, an internal online survey of members from across the province of key real estate topics in November, found half of notaries’ first-time home buyer clients are typically getting help with their down payment from their parents.

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As part of the annual online survey, 133 of the 340 membership notaries completed the online survey.

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B.C. aims to hire 1,600 more nurses by March Tom Fletcher Black Press

VICTORIA — The B.C. government is planning to catch up on its long-standing nursing shortage by hiring 1,643 full-time Registered Nurses by the end of March.

Health Minister Terry Lake and B.C. Nurses’ Union president Gayle Duteil announced Tuesday, Jan. 19 they have reached a staff increase agreement that

has been the main obstacle to signing a new contract.

The previous deal expired nearly two years ago, and the dispute over staffing was headed for arbitration.

Duteil said the last BCNU contract in 2012 contained a commitment to fill these positions, but more than 1,600 have not been.

“To the nurses working 16-hour shifts today, to the nurses working short in the emergency department and operating rooms across

B.C., to community nurses with overwhelming caseloads, this agreement means relief is on the way,” Duteil said.

Lake said the first priority is to offer full-time positions to some of the 7,000 casual nurses working in B.C. Nurses from other provinces would be the next choice, and international recruiting would take place after that.

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BC Nurses' Union president Gayle Duteil speaks at a rally protesting the nursing shortage at the B.C. legislature, May 2015. be moving back with their families to British Columbia, given the economic downturn in Alberta,” Lake said.

By region, the plan targets recruiting of 400 nurses for Fraser Health, 300 for Interior Health, 290 for Island Health, 100 for Northern Health, 235 for Vancouver Coastal Health, 238 for the Provincial Health Authority and 80 for Providence Health Care, which runs St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Fraser Health CEO Michael Marchbank said each nursing position costs

the health authority about $100,000 a year, and the new positions can be accommodated from existing budgets.

NDP health critic Judy Darcy questioned whether that many nurses can be hired in little more than two months, after the original 2012 promise to hire more than 2,000 nurses has only resulted in about 500 up to now.

“We know that the long waits for hip replacement, knee replacement, you name it, has been due to shortages, including nurs-

ing shortages,” Darcy said.

“We’ve been paying incredible overtime. Huge burnout, high injury rates, wait lists, hallway medicine, all of those things are a consequence not having met this promise.”

Duteil said 16-hour shifts have become “the new normal” for many RNs, and the agreement is a relief.

She urged casual nurses in B.C. to contact the union by email immediately at hireanurse@bcnu.org to express interest in the new positions.

— Black Press

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