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Sky walk One pedestrian takes in the view while enjoying a rest on a bench as others stroll with dogs along the breakwater off Macaulay Point in Esquimalt.

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Syrian refugees slowly trickling into Victoria Pamela Roth Victoria News

The father is 36 years old, his wife is 28 and they have a two-year old son. Their English is limited, with the father knowing a few phrases, but his wife doesn’t speak any at all. His expertise is digital software programming, industrial mechanics, alternative energy and the wife is a cook.

Those are about all the details the 12 citizens with the Esquimalt Refugee Family Sponsorship Group know about the Syrian

family they are trying to bring overseas from Turkey. Philippa Catling is anxious for them arrive, but doesn’t know when that will happen.

“We have guarded enthusiasm because we have no idea how long it could take. It could take a year, it could take six weeks, we just don’t know whether some snags are going to crop up,” said Catling, noting the family is still trying to get all the necessary papers together.

“They are in a really perilous situation.

The less time they cope with those

conditions (in Turkey,) the better.”

The Esquimalt Refugee Family Sponsorship Group is among 35 constituency groups in the capital region that are working under the guidance of the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA) to sponsor Syrian refugees.

So far, 28 people (five families and a single person) have arrived in the capital region.

The first family came in mid-December.

ICA Executive Director Jean McRae expects another 60 to 70 families will arrive through private sponsorship, but it’s not

clear when exactly that will happen. It’s also still not known whether Victoria will receive any government assisted refugees, but if that does happen, McRae estimates there could be as many as 150 to 200 people or 40 families in the city.

As for those who’ve already arrived, McRae said it’s still early but so far they seem to be settling into their new Canadian life.

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The members of the Esquimalt Refugee Family group. Back row, from left to right: Naz Rayani, Bill Emery, Marg Lachmuth, Donna O’Grady, Sue Donaldson, Philippa Catling and Eleanor Rigby. Front row, left to right: Shafik Nasser, Diane White, Jenny Bourne and Kathy Allison.

They are still in the process of having a needs assessment done with settlement providers and children are getting connected with schools.

Most have had their English levels assessed and are on a wait list to get into class. The ICA is currently trying to get funding for more English classes to help with the wait list.

“Most of them, their English is quite low.

People are coming in

with lower language levels than originally anticipated,” said McRae, who’s also been working with landlords to find suitable housing for those who have yet to arrive.

“As we get more people coming I think the housing situation will be challenging and getting into a home is one of the key pieces.”

Moved by the plight of refugees fleeing the war in Syria, Catling started an onling fundraising campaign last fall to raise money

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Much to her surprise, she managed to raise about $10,000, but soon realized she couldn’t continue alone.

So Catling banded together with two other people that were members of the Esquimalt United Church. During an information session held at the church in December, the ICA outlined the process involved for privately sponsoring a refugee family. More than 80 people attended, thus beginning the Esquimalt Refugee Family Sponsorship group.

One of the interesting things about the group, noted Catling, is they come from all backgrounds. Some attend the United Church, some the Jamat Khana Ismaeli mosque while others are simply members of the community with a wide variety of talents. The

group has also been endorsed by Esquimalt council.

“What’s pleased me hugely is that it’s remained very firmly community based. It’s not the United Church, it’s not the Catholics, it’s not the Muslims, it’s a group from the community,” said Catling. “For me, it’s a bit of a relief because all of a sudden I’m not doing it all by myself.”

The father of the family the group is sponsoring has a sister already living in Victoria. Another branch of the same family are being sponsored by another constituent group in the city.

The Esquimalt group needs between $45,000 to $60,000 to support their family for one year.

So far they’ve raised about $30,000. Visit esquimaltrefugeefamil y.ca for information. editor@vicnews.com

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University students fed up with rising school debt Kendra Wong Victoria News

Bronte Renwick-Shields is fed up.

The student is in her fourth year of studying political science and applied ethics at the University of Victoria. Throughout the years, Renwick-Shields has worked two to three jobs at the time to pay for her eduction and keep up with rising tuition fees.

Despite her hard work, she has accumulated more than $30,000 in student debt, with one more year of studies still to go. She also hopes to attend grad school, but said it keeps looking further out of reach.

“It shows that it’s not that students aren’t working hard, it’s that our education system is inaccessible to students who are working full time,” Renwick-Shields said, adding her family didn’t have the funds to help pay for her education.

“It’s really difficult to look at your future and imagine that much debt on your shoulders.”

Renwick-Shields is one of hundreds of post-secondary students who marched from Centennial Square to the B.C. legislature on Wednesday to protest the rising cost of tuition fees and unsustainable amount of student debt.

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More than 100 post-secondary students marched from Centennial Square to the B.C. legislature on Wednesday to protest the rising cost of tuition fees and unsustainable amount of student debt.

The average postsecondary student graduates with roughly $35,000 in debt, while student loan interest rates are 2.5 per cent above prime.

B.C. is the only province in Canada without a needsbased grants system for students, according to rally co-organizer Kenya Rogers, a third year political science student at UVic. “Post-secondary education is continually

made more and more unaccessible for the majority of young Canadians,” Rogers said.

With the upcoming provincial election in 2017, organizers want politicians to put student issues into platforms and urge the provincial government to freeze tuition fees immediately, increase core funding and progressively eliminate tuition fees in B.C. over the next 10 years.

Federally, organizers are calling for the government to implement a publicly-funded post-secondary education act, modelled after the Canada Health Act. Seamus Wolfe, who was at the rally, is completing his masters in political science.

The new father is juggling school, finding work and looking after his child.

“Starting off your family life already with a huge amount of debt makes

things like owning a home totally out of reach,” he said.

“It’s absurd that I’m in such a huge amount of debt and I’m already starting to put aside money for my two-year-old daughter’s education. It’s just mind boggling.”

It is estimated student debt across the country is more than $15 billion.

This was the first rally to protest rising student debt in Victoria in the last five years. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

Canada Revenue Agency scam resurfaces in Vic Pamela Roth Victoria News

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) scam has resurfaced in Victoria and Esquimalt, prompting police to release a few recordings of a fraudster leaving a message.

Victims of the scam typically receive a phone call from an angry caller, claiming to represent the CRA and that taxes are owed. The caller leaves voicemails demanding potential victims call them back or face immediate criminal sanctions for unpaid or fraudulently filed taxes.

Const. Kathi Brown, a Burnside-Gorge community resource officer, recently spoke with a group of seniors about the scam. The following

week she was contacted by a senior who had received a number of calls from the fraudsters.

When Brown called the number left by the fraudster, the phone was answered with a “Canada Revenue Agency” greeting. Despite being frightened by the call, police said the senior in this case did not fall victim.

Since the scam surfaced last summer, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has received more than 10,000 calls from across Canada. Last August, Victoria police were flooded with calls from citizens that were traumatized by the scam.

In some cases, the victims attempted to turn themselves in for what they believed to be non payment of their taxes.

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instances during the last 14 months where victims have sent money to the fraudsters. In December, a 101-year-old resident of the James Bay New Horizons Centre told staff she was contacted by the scammers.

Staff spoke with residents and discovered two of their members had fallen victim to the scam.

One lost $450 — half her monthly rent — and the other lost $600. The centre gathered the funds to cover the rent. Staff also reached out to various partners in the community to inform them about the scam.

Police are urging members of the community to speak with friends, colleagues and loved ones about fraud. editor@vicnews.com

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Dog licences can be renewed online The City of Victoria is now giving dog owners the chance to renew dog licences online.

Anyone wanting to do so can go to the website, victoria.ca/payments, enter the account number from the dog licence renewal notice or search using an address.

Dog licences can also be renewed at City Hall, the Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre, Victoria Animal Control Services, the SPCA and 12 local businesses.

Dog owners that renew on or before Feb. 29 will save $20 and be entered into a draw to win the first dog tag of the year.

The cost for a dog licence on or before Feb. 29 is $30 for neutered or spayed dogs and $40 for unaltered dogs. In 2015, there were 6,500 dogs licenced in Victoria.

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Proposed bike lanes fire up Fairfield Pro-rape group not residents and business owners welcome in Victoria Pamela Roth Victoria News

When Victoria council unveiled its plan to build a network of eight bike corridors throughout the city during the next five years, Mayor Lisa Helps expected there would be some push back from the community.

In order to make sure residents and business owners fully understand the proposed network (named Biketoria), the city has held information sessions and workshops, collecting feedback to produce design concepts for each corridor.

So far, city councillors have heard a lot of excitement from residents about the network, but merchants in the Cook Street Village continue to worry about losing valuable parking that’s already difficult to find.

Last month, Cook Street Village business owner Bart Reed started a petition collecting 34 signatures from other business owners along the popular street that’s been pegged for one of the corridors.

According to Reed, city staff conversed with business owners last week and were told as many as 40 out of the 60 parking spaces could be removed. If that were to happen, Reed said it would destroy businesses in the area.

“It’s extremely difficult to find parking already and everybody knows it...You would see, over the next two or three years, about five or six businesses closing shop, which means fewer people in the village,” said Reed, who would like to see the bike lanes moved one block over to Vancouver Street. “We’re not saying no to bike lanes, we’re saying it can not be here for some very technical reasons.”

Don Monsour, president of the Fairfield Gonzales Community Association, has also received hundreds of emails and phone calls about the project going through Cook Street Village. Most of the emails are from people “dead against it,” citing concerns with parking, safety and traffic flow in an area that’s already congested.

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“We’re not saying no to bike lanes, we’re saying it can not be here for some very technical reasons.”

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Helps said the number of parking spaces that could be removed on Cook Street has yet to be determined. One idea she’s heard about and likes is slowing down cars passing through the village to the same speed of pedestrians. The key, however, is to find a design solution that works.

“We’ve got to do this in a way that works for the villages because people go to the villages for business,” said Helps. “Were making lots of changes in all sorts of areas. There’s a lot going on and in this instance, we need to work with the businesses to make this work for them because if it doesn’t work for them, it’s not going to work.”

The proposed bike network is designed for all ages and abilities, and is made up of protected bike lanes, neighbourhood greenways and off street pathways.

Council has asked staff to take their time collecting comprehensive feedback from business owners. A final recommendation on the design is expected to be made to council in the spring. editor@vicnews.com

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A planned meet up at the legislature this weekend of men with pro-rape and misogynistic behaviour is being told their views are not welcome in Victoria.

Return of Kings is a blog for heterosexual, masculine men and, according to the website, meant “for a small but vocal collection of men in America today who believe men should be masculine and women should be feminine.”

The site is run by blogger Roosh Valizadeh, whose real name is Daryush Valizadeh. He’s written a number of blog posts titled “Men

should start recording sex with a hidden camera,” “Why women shouldn’t work,” and “Women must have their behavior and decisions controlled by men.”

On Saturday, Feb. 6, the group has planned 165 meetings in 43 countries, including one in Victoria.

City Coun. Jeremy Loveday is calling the group’s proposed meet-up “disgusting.”

“I think that type of hatred and misogyny has no place in Victoria,” said Loveday, adding he’s received a number of emails from women saying they don’t feel safe with this type of event planned. “That type of discourse has no redeeming value.”

The meeting is set to take place outside the B.C. legislature by the war memorial. It is in a public place, therefore city council does not have the authority to disallow the group’s

use of the space.

Victoria police said they have heard concerns from members of the community and are “keeping a watchful eye towards keeping everyone safe.”

Loveday hopes the event will be used as a spring board to end violence against women. He also put a call out on Twitter to mayors to see how elected officials can be leaders in fostering discussions about masculinity, ending violence against women and rape culture.

“We need to find other avenues to discuss issues that are facing men in our society and discuss some of the negative feelings that people have and turn them into inclusion,” Loveday said, adding he doesn’t believe anyone will even show up to the event. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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Industry studies estimate that about 10 to 20 per cent of all insurance claims contain an element of fraud or exaggeration. Applying those estimates here means fraud is costing us up to $600 million per year, or more than $100 annually on every auto insurance policy.

Fraud cheats everyone and comes in all shapes and sizes.

To learn more about auto insurance fraud, go to icbc.com/fraud

Other types of fraud are less obvious.

Fraud like this includes exaggerating the extent of an injury, misrepresenting a previous medical condition or slanting the situation when reporting a claim. It’s not unheard of for people to embellish their claim by including vehicle damage unrelated to the crash, or to claim they can’t work when they’re actually back on the job. These tactics may not make the news, but the costs add up and come out of all of our pockets – we all end up paying for those who cheat the system.

ICBC combats fraud with their Special Investigation Unit, which last year looked at more than 5,000 claims les. This includes a cyber unit that employs information publicly available on the internet and social media to investigate suspected fraudulent claims.

They’re in the process of increasing their focus on investigations, including training and analytics technology that ags patterns and predictors of fraud.

By stepping up efforts to reduce fraudulent and exaggerated claims, along with managing injury claims costs, ICBC is working to take pressure off rising insurance rates.

Fraud. It cheats us all.

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Appraising antiques like science Kendra Wong Victoria News

Appraising antiques is like a science to Alison Ross.

The Victoria-based antiques appraiser, auctioneer and owner of Kilshaw’s Auctioneers Ltd. is able to look at an item and, depending on the item, reveal its unique history to owners within minutes.

As an appraiser, Victoria residents bring their items to Ross, who in turn, gives value to them.

“You pick up an object, you spin it around and you use your experience to determine date, what it is and based on the experience of having sold similar items, you come up with a value,” Ross said. “(We’re) looking for medium, date, style, condition, artist.”

Items as small as grandma’s teacups to larger items such as paintings and furniture can be appraised — some of which have more personal value than monetary.

It can take anywhere from five seconds to hours to appraise an item.

Ross’ love of history started at a young age and in 1994, she completed her master’s degree in art history, with a speciality in northwest coast art.

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Victoria-based antiques appraiser Alison Ross (left) will be appraising items this Saturday at the second annual What’s it Worth fundraiser for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Her work has even led her to research and auction a painting of Tsar Alexander III by Johann Koler, leader of the Estonian national awakening and painter, for $80,000. She also sold a painting by Albert Bierstadt, a Germanborn American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West, for $200,000.

Though the process of appraising is methodical and similar almost every time, Ross enjoys the aspect of not knowing what history one object can hold.

“You have a structured framework that you follow almost every time, but every

time it’s something different,” she said.

“Everybody has stuff and everybody wants to know what that stuff is worth.”

Ross, along with fellow appraiser and auctioneer Jeff Dean, will be appraising items at the secondannual What’s it Worth fundraiser for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria this

weekend.

Attendees can bring up to two portable items and at least one will be assessed by Ross and Dean.

“I think people are just dying to know about their own pieces that they might have been curious about over the years.

Whether it’s a piece of jewellery from the 1940s or whether it’s a signed first edition book. People are very curious to learn more about it. Also, people like to see what other people bring and learn about it. It’s a very fun event,” said Penny Davis, co-chair of the event committee.

All the funds raised will help support exhibitions and programming at the art gallery.

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Biketoria will likely work in only a few areas Biketoria sounds like a lovely idea.

The City of Victoria describes it as a bold vision for the future of biking that consists of a network of up to eight bike corridors throughout the city for all ages and abilities.

City staff and a team of international city-building, cycling experts are currently working to identify the locations and look and feel of each cycling corridor, which will be implemented in 2018. It’s a commitment to become one of the best cycling cities in the world.

The network will be made up of three types of facilities: protected bike lanes, neighbourhood greenways and off street pathways. Some neighbourhoods in Victoria already have one of these along the side of their street.

But as Mayor Lisa Helps expected, not everyone is on board with the bike lane plan, especially those living in Fairfield.

One of the proposed corridors runs along Cook Street and through the village. Business owners fear a loss in already precious parking spots will mean less customers and possibly the closure of some stores. They aren’t against the bike network, but would simply like to see it moved one block over to Vancouver Street, which sounds like a reasonable solution.

Residents living on Vancouver Street, however, say parking is already difficult to find and don’t want any spaces taken away. It’ll likely be the same story for a few more congested neighbourhoods that the bike lanes are proposed to pass through.

The city is going to have to find another solution for areas that are already congested. Biketoria sounds like a lovely idea, but it’s also an ambitious one that will likely only work in a few select areas.

The Victoria News is a member of the National Newsmedia Council, which is an independent organization established to deal with acceptable journalistic practices and ethical behaviour. If you have concerns about editorial content, please contact: editor@vicnews.com or 250-480-3265.

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Readers respond: Converting Mount Edwards into low barrier housing a great idea

Pandora bike lane a waste of taxpayers money

Thanks for the story on the potential Cool Aid site at the old Mount Edwards Care Home. It seems like a great building for Cool Aid to renovate and take some of the pressure off of the local housing crisis.

It is ironic that the folks at the Christ Church School are opposed to this idea.

There is a tent city across the street from the church and an empty building around the corner yet they stand against Cool Aid. Hypocrisy and irony in the same sentence.

One neighbour is attacking the proposal because he does not want it in his backyard. Chances are it is not his backyard. Does he live there? Probably not yet he is blocking it.

Maybe the Christ Church could build a wall down Rockland Avenue so the private school students will be safe. In a perfect world, the church could donate money to Cool Aid for the renovation so the tent city situation could be alleviated.

I live in the neighbourhood and it is a great idea to convert Mount Edwards into low barrier housing. I support the Dandelion Society and I will support the Cool Aid Society on this project.

Robert Dunn Victoria

I would be thrilled if the construction of the proposed bike lane for Pandora were cancelled, not just pushed back.

Seasoned cyclists I have talked to think the plan is “insane.” I agree!

Pandora is a well-used one way thoroughfare on which cyclists have ample room to pedal. The plan, with its ghetto for the incompetent will slow traffic at intersections (with its separate signals) and make easy access to stores on both side of the street difficult. For cyclists who shun the ghetto on Pandora and use the regular street, motorists will probably give them little room. I would stay off the street entirely.

After the city’s Blue Bridge fiscal fiasco, I would hope that there would be a taxpayers revolt over this additional waste of public money.

Let’s see what we can do on the next election! (if not before).

women in Fairfield who saw my toddler having a meltdown and chose to point and laugh. It’s hard not to automatically defend myself, to shed light upon why he has decided to scream ‘I hate you’ down the road, but it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what small (or big) thing is happening in our lives that caused this. What matters is, why you felt it necessary to put us down at all.

It bothers me when people are unnecessarily mean. You didn’t have to make that comment, to point and laugh. You could have kept your mouth shut and left me not feeling awful about myself. What do you gain from making someone else feel bad? Nothing of substance. Maybe a fleeting moment of power but that’s gone as soon as it comes, so why?

I write to you, the person who someone else has made feel bad and is doubting their self worth. To that person I say, do your best to ignore the haters and focus on the people in your life who love and appreciate you for who you are.

Robert McInnes Victoria

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Parents can use everyday tasks to teach literacy Maureen Blaseckie Contributer

For the modern family with shared Jan Dupuis, a literacy outreach coor- work responsibilities and scheddinator with learnnowvictoria.com, uling conflicts, time is a precious says everyday tasks can be turned into commodity.

However, Dupuis said an opportunity to teach even 15 minutes a day for critical life skills. a literacy-based activity ”It is more of a thread can dramatically improve that runs through the a child’s skill. It may even different areas of life,” help parents improve their Dupuis said. “We used to skills. think of literacy as readThe Greater Victoria ing and writing but it’s so Library system makes an much more.” effort to anticipate the Family Literacy Day on needs of children and famJan. 27 anchored a weekilies. long awareness campaign While traditionally a stressing the importance Jan Dupuis, source for books, it is also of engaging in literacyLiteracy Outreach helps promote computer related activities as a famCoordinator literacy by providing Interily.

It’s never too soon to introduce chil- net access for households that do not have a computer of their own. dren to books and stories.

Community associations in BurnDupuis advocates reading to them side Gorge and James Bay, as well as when they are still infants.

Songs, poems and nursery rhymes the Military Families Resource Centre are also excellent tools to show devel- have programs to help families build oping minds how words enrich the a literacy rich program into daily life.

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Family Day Events ■ Bring the kids to the Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre for some family fun to celebrate BC Family Day. Ride the slide, try out the giant floating obstacle course, or fit in a workout in the weight room or cardio area. Facility hours are 10 a.m. To 4 p.m., with free admission after 1 p.m.

■ With the support of the Province of British Columbia, the Royal BC Museum is pleased to offer Free Admission on Family Day, a chance for everyone to enjoy the permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions, along with an assortment of special events and activities, including a performance from Pacific Opera Victoria. Free admission does not include IMAX. The Royal BC Museum will be open on Family Day (Monday, Feb. 8) from 10 am to 5 pm.

■ Family Day celebration at Esquimalt Recreation Centre (527 Fraser St.) on Saturday, Feb. 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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■ Family Day at the Victoria Public Market on Monday, Feb. 8 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The day includes a magic show with Donald Dunphy at 11:30 a.m., followed by balloon twisting, face painting and live music. Info: downtownvictoria.ca.

■ Family Arts Festival at the Cedar Hill Rec Centre (3220 Cedar Hill Rd.) on Monday, Feb. 8 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kids of all ages can enjoy a wide variety of performances and hands-on artistic, musical and theatrical activities. Info: saanich.ca.

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p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Learn what keeps these plans green year-round and sip some forest tea with a Capital Regional District regional parks naturalist. Meet at the Francis/King Nature Centre off Munn Road. Info: crd.bc.ca.

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The Family Day long weekend in Sidney has been drawing in thousands of people over the three-day break since the province created the February holiday three years ago. Sidney jumped at the chance to highlight all that it has to offer and this weekend, the third Family Day Lego weekend promises to be bigger than ever.

Donna Petrie, executive director of the Sidney Business Improvement Area Society (SBIA), says the town isn’t going to be caught off guard like it was that first try. In February 2015, the Family Day event here drew an estimated 8,000 people over the three-day long weekend. Petrie thinks there will be the same amount of families in Sidney again this weekend.

To help them see all they can see of the Lego festival, Petrie said the SBIA has made some changes.

First on that list is a new program. It lists all of the events happening in downtown Sidney from Feb. 6 to 8. Each day’s events begin at 10 a.m. and run to 4 p.m.

The activities range from Lego displays and building at the Sidney Pier Hotel and Rockfish Divers’ underwater Lego building at Glass Beach near the Beacon Wharf, to a downtown-wide scavenger hunt and family-oriented activities at the Mary Winspear Centre.

Petrie noted that professional Lego builder Robin Sather is back again — this time working on a six-foot Twin Otter aircraft in honour of sponsor Viking Air — the local company that builds the real aircraft.

Panorama Recreation Centre brings kid-friendly activities to the Mary Winspear Centre on Sunday and Monday. The centre itself hosts a community organization open house that will appeal to families.

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To get people from one end of town to the other, Petrie said Travelodge is sponsoring a free shuttle bus. It will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, between the Mary Winspear Centre and the Pier Hotel, with a stop at the Sidney Museum — itself in the middle of its annual Lego exhibit.

Downtown businesses are participating in a scavenger hunt. The contest starts this weekend and ends March 31. Prizes are up for grabs.

The SBIA program includes a list of open restaurants this weekend, as well as information about some of the Saanich Peninsula’s tourist highlights.

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She said visitors to the sanctuary can often be found bird watching with a pair of binoculars.

“A favourite find at the moment is to be able to spot the beautiful plumage of the pine grosbeak, and who doesn’t love the majestic bald eagles that have been regular visitors of late,” said Burton, who reminds visitors that dogs are not permitted in the sanctuary..

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PISE staff will be on hand to facilitate the activities and guide technique, although children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

PISE will also be collecting gently used shoes and donating them to Kicks for Kids.

“We are excited to open our gymnasium doors for families to experience physical literacy on B.C. Family Day,” said PISE CEO Robert Bettauer. “We know that parents and children love playing together and through

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At the young age of 18, Victoria athlete Patrick Keane is already rowing his way to success.

The University of Victoria student was named the junior athlete of the year by Rowing Canada Aviron at the 35th annual gala that honoured athletes for leadership and performance in Ottawa last month.

Keane was the only rower from B.C. to receive an award.

“I was surprised. I was truly honoured just because I knew there were a lot of other junior recipients out there,” said the lightweight rower. “To be identified as the top, I was really honoured.”

Keane’s love for the sport began in Grade 8. At the time, he was trying his hand at a number of other sports including soccer and track and field. He eventually took up rowing after a friend encouraged him to join.

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“I really enjoy the amount of work that you put in is the result you’ll get. It’s a very honest sport and I really admire that,” he said, adding rowing has had a positive influence in his life. “It’s kept me busy and kept me out of trouble.”

Now, Keane has taken the next step to professional rowing and is competing at the collegiate level in the men’s program with UVic. His dedication to the sport (they practice twice a day for two hours) has paid off.

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Morguard.

“We’re very excited to be moving into the formal approvals process for the final phase of the mixeduse neighbourhood that is Uptown,” Nagle said.

“There’s a strong appetite for rental housing and a local need for rental housing,” he said, “… this will help to meet the local need for more rental homes.”

Rental suites will range in size from studio to twobedroom homes.

Uptown has submitted a proposed 11-storey building that will include studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom suites,

Artist’s rendering

Uptown is now moving to build its long proposed residential unit at the north end of the development. The plans include a proposed 11-storey building (134 rental suites and townhomes) as well as 55,000 square feet of new retail space that will complete the northwest end of Uptown Boulevard. seven ground-floor townhomes and

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Uptown Boulevard at the corner of Carey Road and Ravine Way, next to the 40,000 square-foot Whole Foods store and 4,000 square-foot multi-tenant building currently under construction and scheduled to open in fall 2016.

The current building design features exterior suite entrances, large rooftop spaces for the use of residents and dedicated, secure bicycle and automobile parking.

Originally, Morguard was going to partner with a developer for a pair of 36-storey residential towers with up to 600 units.

But those were different market conditions and different days, Nagle said.

“We began the redevelopment of this property in 2008 and so much has changed in the neighbourhoods in and around Uptown since that time,” Nagle said.

The majority of the rental units will be one bedroom. All seven townhomes will be ground level with street access from Carey Road or Ravine Way, and parking lot access from the interior. editor@vicnews.com

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At the Los Angeles auto show the Sure, there are all sorts of regucentrepiece of the Volvo display was latory, legal and insurance issues its Concept 26 interior for an autonto be resolved in order to allow omous vehicle. driverless operation of a vehicle.

In autopilot mode, this cockpit can There are also road infrastructure transform into a mobile office, or the issues that need to be addressed, driver can watch a movie or simply including, and probably most imrecline and relax. Hey, you might The driverless portantly, expanded and consistent even look forward to that boring or self-driving car is high-bandwidth coverage. On the repetitive commute to work. rapidly moving from plus side, however, autonomous The driverless or self-driving car is rapidly moving from concept to re- concept to reality and vehicles are expected to reduce perhaps eventually eliminate ality and fully autonomous cars will fully autonomous cars and vehicle collisions and ease traffic likely arrive sooner than you think. will likely arrive sooner congestion.

In fact, many currently available Volvo logically (it’s a Swedish trait) new vehicles already have limited than you think. figure that autonomous driving autonomous driving capability. A Bob McHugh will initially be introduced on 2016 Acura MDX I drove recently dedicated motorways. Its focus is is a good example, as now comes on the long-haul trip and the daily commute to standard with the award winning AcuraWatch work, which it calculates as taking 26 minutes package. (on average) - hence the Concept 26 name.

A grouping of high-tech systems, AcuraWatch A fleet of Volvo vehicles with an autonomous can prevent the new MDX from straying out of a driving mode will be put in the hands of real traffic lane, getting too close to a vehicle ahead customers in Gothenburg, Sweden next year. A and it will brake automatically to avoid an imdriver will be able to switch into the autonomous pact with another vehicle, or a pedestrian. While mode for a predetermined period (depending it could effectively drive itself on a freeway, a on distance and traffic flow) between motorway warning alert sounded if I dared take both hands exits. off the steering wheel for a few seconds.

BMW, on the other hand, is heavily involved in Later this year, Cadillac will introduce Super developing a self-parking vehicle technology, Cruise Control, in it’s new 2017 CT6 and CTS using a BMW i3. Remote Valet Parking Assismodels. In addition to other advances, this systance includes a unique 360-degree collision tem will allow a driver to take both hands off the avoidance protection system that uses four steering wheel at highway speeds. Another step

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Using a smart phone or watch a driver can instruct the vehicle to go park itself in a multi-level parking lot. The driverless car then takes off on its own, autonomously self-steering through the building, seeking an empty stall to park, shutdown and lock itself. Robo Bimmer can also be started remotely and summoned to pick up its driver at the same entry/exit location.

Every major auto maker is stepping up work on autonomous vehicle technology. Toyota, GM and Mercedes-Benz are all heavily invested in autonomous vehicle development and expected to bring products to market.

Ford recently announced that it’s tripling the size of its autonomous vehicle development fleet and accelerating on-road testing, which starts in California later this year. Its demo vehicle is a Fusion Hybrid sedan with puck-power, a new Solid-State Hybrid-Ultra Puck Auto sensor. About the same size and shape as a hockey puck, this puck can map and create real-time 3D models of its surrounding environment.

Autonomous vehicle development also transcends traditional auto production sources. Google, the internet search engine and browser behemoth, surprised everybody back in 2010, when its autonomous vehicle development work was revealed.

It’s now working with a number of traditional automakers and is expected to have a fully autonomous vehicle ready for market by 2020.

Other Silicon Valley giants getting on autonomous vehicle action include Tesla and Uber. Yes, of course, they’re working on a Robo-Taxi. Not sure

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what they have planned for the in-trip friendly customer conversation but it should be interesting.

Please note, “automated” is arguable a more accurate but less widely used descriptive term than “autonomous” for the new generation of self-driving vehicles. Early self-driving vehicle experiments were done with vehicles that generally relied on a magnetic strip embedded in the road and were typically called automated vehicles.

A brave new world of motoring is almost upon us. bob.mchugh@drivewaybc.ca

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With almost 400,000 MGBs built over the course of 18 years, you’d think that there would be very little left that the entire world didn’t know about MG’s most prolific model.

Of course, there’s no secret when it comes to the engine, transmission and suspension, which were heavily based on those of the MGA. And, it’s equally well known that unlike the MGA, the MGB used unibody construction. But here are a few things you probably didn’t know.

One of the reasons the engine bay of the MGB was so wide was to accommodate the Twin Cam cylinder head of the MGA Twin Cam. But many development and reliability problems sent BMC scurrying away from the powerful but problematic engine.

The MGA coupe works development car, registered KMO 326, served as a high-speed test bed for the MGB’s revised front suspension and disc brakes.

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shade carried over from the MGA. Although the MGB/GT design was prepared by Pininfarina, the original concept for the car came from MG General Manager John Thornley, who conceived the fastback as a poor man’s Aston Martin.

Although North American-bound MGBs received a new padded dashboard without a glove box beginning with the 1968 model year, UK market cars continued on with the less-yielding metal dashboard.

There are plenty other little bits of trivia about the MGB that might not necessarily be considered secrets. For the North American market, 1969 was the first year of reclining seats and the last year of leather seating surfaces.

In 1973 and 1974, U.S. market B/ GTs received fabric upholstery, while roadsters used vinyl. And of course there were those unsightly rubber bumpers that were introduced in midyear 1974 as the most expedient way to meet new 5-mph crash regulations.

The solution to meeting the new federal headlight requirement was even less elegant: raise the ride height until the lights were legal. It didn’t do much for the handling, but the car continued to sell until the bitter end in 1980.

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What if there was a place – in the middle of winter – where you could congregate and cozy up next to someone to listen live to some fresh-off-the-notepad songs.

Yup. Song and Surf is back for its ninth year with a whole new roster of music artists.

The festival runs this weekend, from Feb. 5 to 8, starting at 11 a.m. on Friday.

Known as a “boutique-style” festival of music, dance and chillaxation, it is held every winter on the wild northwest coast of Port Renfrew.

Like previous years, it is held at the Big Fish Lodge, a bed and breakfast right by the beach overlooking the gap between the mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Hot this year is Man Made Lake, a band of seven sharply dressed “chaps” all of whom combine their distinctive talents in music to create a melody that sings to your heart and soul.

Whether it’s the modern indie synths of keyboardist Brent Gosse, the heavy rock oomph of Morgan Hradecky, the classical and funkiness of pianist Nate Bailey, the “mercurial” sound of bassist Aaron Blair, or the soaring solos of guitarist Steve Parker, they all unite to warm up

your day with some of the finest tunes on the West Coast.

After all, that was the whole point of Song and Surf when it first launched; not only to give people a warm place to be, but to enjoy some live and fresh music.

“Nothing was happening here in winter, no cultural event, no venue, nowhere for people to come and experience all the ocean storms, the hiking, everything you can do in winter not just in summertime,” said Rob Stewart, owner of Big Fish Lodge and co-creator of Song and Surf.

Stewart, a musician, says giving the opportunity for young artists to perform together and connect in such a unique place was just too hard to resist.

“We wanted to organize something where people can come out in a small group, get a boutique feel to live music, so we’re really humble it caught on,” he said, adding that he wanted people to experience something a little more exclusive than the usual summer festival he cohosts, Tall Tree.

“You’re getting really highquality artists in a very intimate venue,” he said. “There are beach fires, a wood-fire hot tub, so it’s action here all day and night.”

It’s easy to see why; mountainscape as far as the eye can see, long and wide stretch of beaches

and campgrounds, as well as the soothing swirls and rolls of the Pacific ocean.

Mike Hann, Song and Surf’s cocreator, as drawn to Port Renfrew’s natural aura for this very reason. Hann, a native of Victoria, was travelling with his band, Quoia, when he met Stewart.

“When we started, that time Port Renfrew was making the transition from being a logging town to a sort of fishing and ecotourism destination,” Hann said.

“The event really helps introduce people to the area because it encourages them to go out and explore, go on little spirit quests.”

Unlike Tall Tree, which runs every summer, Song and Surf has a completely different vibe, more low-tune and relaxing, yet positive and warm; much like a hot cup of cocoa.

The lineup of musicians, which is split between a day and a night section of the event, offers a rich variety of genres, from indie rock, trance, alternative to jazz and the blues.

Other performances this weekend include Yukon Blonde, Jesse Roper, Fleetwood Smack, Lovecoast, Halal Beats, Fox Glove, Primitive, B-Mid, Think Tank and The Funkee Wadd.

For info on tickets, schedule and transportation, please visit the Song and Surf Music Festival 2016 Facebook page.

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Popular Australian blues artist Ash Grunwald was among the performers during last year’s Song and Surf music festival.

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