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Coping with parents at sea Input sought for spray park Workshop helps kids understand life in the navy Kendra Wong Victoria News

Tracy Beck’s office resembles a child’s playroom more than the office of a program facilitator with the Military Family Resource Centre.

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The small space is covered in toys, books, craft supplies, juice boxes, snacks and two small red kid-sized tables and chairs. There are two large maps on the walls, including one with different types of animals found in various countries around the world. On the opposite wall is a whiteboard with several kids’ drawings of how they feel that day. For example, Tracy is smiling and happy, while Chelsea is tired and Thomas

is mad. Having kids draw how they’re feeling is how Beck starts her deployment workshops since she started running them 15 years ago. The weekly workshops, held at the Colwood Pacific Activity Centre, help children between the ages of three to 12 adjust to a parent being away on deployment. PLEASE SEE: Deployment, Page A5

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Beck focuses on teaching children to express their emotions and showing them there are other children also going through similar situations. Each of the four children at the Tuesday workshop are in the youngest three to five age group. Many of their fathers were deployed on HMCS Winnipeg and have been away since last June. “Lots of times you can be sad, but you can be happy in 10 more minutes. You can feel more than one thing at once,” Beck said. “You can be happy you have something but you can be sad because something reminds you of your dad. It’s okay to feel whatever you feel, there’s no wrong feeling.” To start the workshop, Beck shows the kids where their parents are that day on a map (HMCS Winnipeg was in Tokyo at the time), then they talk about the weather and time differences. Next kids have a snack and story time followed by a groundhog and Valentine’s Day craft,

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Tracy Beck, program facilitator of deployment workshops, reads to three-year-old Isaac Vallieres at the Military and Family Resource Centre which can be mailed to their parents. Beck, who brought her own children to the workshop when her husband was deployed, said the crafts and activities provide children things to talk to their parents about when they call or Skype. “If they were in Egypt, we would talk about the different things to see. It’s to give them topics to talk to dad about,” she said. “Sometimes

at this age, children say ‘hi, I miss you’, and that’s it. If we give them things to ask dad or talk about like the weather or how hot it was, it’s easier. They love to send pieces to dad.” Throughout the workshop, mentions of their fathers come up several times. Beck will ask “whose daddy is the best tickler?” or “why don’t you make cupcakes and surprise daddy when he comes

home?” For many families, being on deployments for months at a time can be difficult to cope with. Heather Vallieres enrolled her son Isaac in the workshop when her husband deployed nine months ago. She has seen a difference in her three-yearold since he started attending. “I’ve noticed even at three he wants to take more responsibility and help mom and

his little sister. He’s able to articulate what he’s thinking and feelings related to the deployment a lot better than before,” Vallieres said, adding Isaac has a better understanding of time and the countries his father has been. “He’s able to say I miss daddy, but I know daddy’s working.” The workshops are growing in popularity, mostly by word of mouth. There are four children in the three

to five age group and eight in the five to eight-year-old group. Those numbers tend to fluctuate depending on the size of deployment. The workshop is one of many services the government offers through the Military Family Resource Centre to help address the needs of military families. The facility in Colwood is one of 43 centres in Canada. For more information visit esquimaltmfrc.com. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

Veterans Cemetery expansion plans falling into place Pamela Roth Victoria News

For the past 20 years, Veterans Affairs Canada has been working on a plan to expand the Veterans Cemetery in Esquimalt. And now it appears that plan is falling into place thanks to a parcel of land from the Gorge Vale Golf Course. According to a report submitted to Esquimalt council Monday night,

the golf course is willing to sell a 0.251-hectare parcel of land to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Established in 1868, the cemetery (also known as God’s Acres) is the final resting place for those who served at sea, but has since opened to anyone who served in Canada’s military. Today, more than 2,500 military personnel and their family members are buried at the cemetery (nestled between the 12 and seventh

holes of the golf club), which is virtually full. The proposed expansion would be in a heavily wooded area on the cemetery’s northwest boundary. Unlike the existing cemetery, the expansion area would be used primarily for a columbarium, allowing for the preservation of many trees. Council took no objection to the subdivision, which now has to be approved by the Agricultural Land

Commission. “The Veterans Cemetery is a wonderful place in Esquimalt,” said Mayor Barb Desjardins. “The military is so much a part of our heritage and our community and recognizing those who gave service. In terms of creating this place and honouring them, there are very few cemeteries like this one in Canada so we really have to preserve it.” editor@vicnews.com

Victoria police are trying to identify and speak with a man who approached a child under suspicious circumstances last Thursday. Around 3:15 p.m., a 10-year-old boy’s parents called police after their son reported an unknown man approached him at the corner of Oscar and Cook streets and offered to buy him a pepperoni pizza. The child was unharmed and ran home. Officers hope to speak with the man to determine the circumstances behind the interaction. The man is described as Caucasian, in this 20s, standing between fivefoot-eight to five-footeleven inches tall with an average to slim build. He has short black “stubble length” hair, a beard and piercing on the right side of his nose. He was reportedly weary a black DC hoodie with white writing and dark jeans. Anyone with informaton is asked to call 250-9957654.

Local Love fundraiser rolls into town The third annual Local Love fundraiser hosted by the Oaklands Community Association takes place Feb. 20 from 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. All the funds raised support the Oaklands Sunset Market series and increase the association’s ability to promote food security and keep farmers markets accessible. Info: 250-370-9101.

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Drug charges tarnish end of deployment Being a sailor in the navy isn’t exactly an easy job — especially for those who have a family. Some families have recently had a child when their husband or wife is given the news they are being deployed and will have to go away for six to nine months. It’s hard to imagine how that would feel, but it’s part of the job when you’re in the navy. Deployment can be tough on family life, which is why the Military and Family Resource Centre offers workshops to help children understand why one of their parents is gone for so long and where in the world they could be. Being away from loved ones for an extended period of time is difficult, which is why a story last week makes you shake your head. The HMCS Winnipeg has been gone since June, sailing to various places around the world to conduct international operations like drug interdictions and security. The work the crew of approximately 250 personnel does is certainly admirable, and something they train for long and hard. Last week, however, as the ship was about to make its way back across the Pacific to CFB Esquimalt, two of the crew members on board were charged by police in Tokyo, Japan for using a controlled substance. Instead of coming home, the members are now left in Japan to deal with the charges. It’s not known what that controlled substance was, but it really doesn’t matter. Regardless of the outcome, why would someone take a risk like that when they’re about to come home after eight months at sea? No doubt these sailors are feeling a wide range of emotions about not coming home as planned. The unfortunate part is that it’s now tarnished what was supposed to be a happy ending to another succcessful deployment at sea.

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Protesters fear peace in forests the region preserved after a century of After 20 years of representing B.C. logging that began with sailing ships. coastal First Nations to negotiate what Aside from a few diehards who are U.S.-directed activists labeled the Great either paid to protest or can’t get past Bear Rainforest agreement, a weary issuing demands, B.C. aboriginal people Dallas Smith expressed his relief and have grown tired of being used as frustration. props in global de-marketing campaigns At a ceremony to sign the final directed from San Francisco or agreement in Vancouver Amsterdam. The protesters’ last week, Smith, president tactic of organizing customer of the Nanwakolas Council boycotts that damage far-away of remote Central Coast economies might be good for communities like Bella Bella, international fundraising, but joked that he’s finally out of a it’s bad for poor people. job. Then he got serious. Formally begun 10 years ago “My communities still with $30 million from Ottawa, aren’t better places to live $30 million from B.C. and $60 yet,” he said. But the land use million from a group of wealthy agreement with the province family foundations with and forest companies over Tom Fletcher aU.S. larger anti-development a vast coastal area up to the B.C. Views agenda, the land use plan Alaska border means the remains under attack. years ahead will be better. Among the many protest outfits is He said when he started it was like Pacific Wild, which has specialized being caught in a divorce between the in Great Bear Rainforest campaigns B.C. forest industry and international and now needs a new enemy. Their environmental groups. Dutch-based credibility was demonstrated recently Greenpeace, its California offshoot when potty-mouthed U.S. pop star Miley ForestEthics and others moved on from Cyrus decided to speak out against their Clayoquot Sound battle to the B.C. coast, looking to continue the blockades B.C.’s wolf kill. Typical of celebrities, Cyrus had no against logging. “It’s the First Nations of the Coast who idea about the struggle to preserve dwindling herds of mountain caribou. stood up and said ‘no, this is how it’s She barely knows where B.C. is, a fact going to work’,” Smith said. made plain when Pacific Wild toured How it’s going to work is that logging her around the North Coast, far from will continue on 550,000 hectares of the Kootenay and South Peace regions coastal forest, with a greater share for where the wolves in question actually First Nations, and with 85 per cent of

roam. Cyrus’s handlers spoon-fed video and statements to urban media, who were so anxious to exploit her global popularity that they played down the fact she was at the wrong end of the province spouting nonsense. After periodically attacking their own B.C. agreement as inadequate, Greenpeace and ForestEthics have moved on to what they call the “boreal forest,” which we like to call northern Canada. The same bully tactics with forest products customers and producers have been featured. This time, a Quebec company that signed an accord in 2010 is suing Greenpeace for “defamation, malicious falsehood and intentional interference in economic relations.” Aboriginal companies on the B.C. coast will continue to log, including areas of old-growth forest and secondary growth. They will continue to export logs as economics dictate. They will continue to harvest animals, including grizzly bears. And, I expect, they will continue to be subjected to attempts to supervise and direct them by members of urban society’s new religion, environmentalism. The leaders of this movement don’t like peace. It’s bad for their business. Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress. ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

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Instead of making their way home with the rest of their colleagues, two crew members on board the Canadian navy’s HMCS Winnipeg ship have been detained by police in Tokyo, Japan for using a controlled substance. On Feb. 1, three members of the ship were detained by Japanese authorities while the ship was conducting a port visit in Tokyo. Two of the members were military and one was a civilian employee. One of the military members has since been released, but charges have now been laid against the two other crew members, who remain in Tokyo. Sub-Lt. Melissa Kia from CFB Esquimalt said it’s not known what the substance was, but noted the navy has a zero-tolerance policy for illicit drug use and possession.

In a statement released Wednesday, Admiral Gilles Couturier, commander for the Maritime Forces (Pacific), called the allegations troubling. “While it is too early to speak to the specifics of any actions or investigations at this time, I can state definitively that our response will be based on facts and will serve to remind and ensure all who serve in the RCN (Royal Canadian Navy) that unacceptable behaviour, whatever its nature, has no place within our ranks,” Couturier said. With a crew of approximately 250 personnel, the ship left Esquimalt on June 15, 2015 and took part in three international operations. One of those included a multinational campaign against drug trafficking in the Carribbean. The ship then went on to the Mediterranean Sea as part of Operation Reassurance — Canada’s measures to promote security and stability in Central and Eastern Europe in light of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. The ship left the

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LukeFest honours young musician who died in fire Family, band members rally for concert Travis Paterson Black Press

For Maurice and Terry Rachwalski, the first annual LukeFest music festival is shedding light on just how many musicians and bands are based in the capital region. Their eldest son Luke was 22 when he moved to Montreal in 2014 with his band of Gordon Head-based musicians, Canvas. The progressive jazzrock band was just finding its “fit’ when tragedy struck. An early morning fire swept through the apartment building Luke lived in, killing the 22-year-old, and an unnamed 18-year-old woman on Jan. 9, 2014. Luke died by asphyxiation, leaving his bandmates, and the music communities of Victoria and Montreal in shock. A year later, LukeFest is shaping up to be a night of musical collaboration that wasn’t happening otherwise, which is just the thing Luke would have loved. “He was all about collaboration and sharing musical ideas,” said Devin Venoit, a

Gordon Head resident who graduated from Lambrick Park Secondary with Luke. “He was the guy in the library with a guitar, always playing and teaching others his songs. You’d hear other [kids] playing Luke’s songs on the guitar at the beach, Luke would teach them.” Rachwalksi sang in Canvas with drummer Venoit, and guitarists James Fraser and Peter Ransford. The crew was a cast of characters, no doubt about it, said Venoit. The plan to move to Montreal was in the works for a while before it happened in 2013. For the trip, they outfitted a short yellow school bus for the tour across Canada. Rather than set up gigs along the way, however they rigged the school bus so the band could play while manager and go-getter Rudy Schwabe drove. When they got to Montreal, the city was a better fit for Canvas’ progressive jazz rock sound than the West Coast, ska-centric scene of Vancouver Island, Venoit said. Venoit will be joined in the LukeFest house band with Kady Savard from LegUp and Sex Weather, Ransford, who’s now with 9Volt Whiskey, George Anstey, guitarist from Saanich metal-band

Scimitar, and keyboardist Marty Schoeps, among others. “I really think there is an uncovered music scene here in Saanich, it’s one of those things that people don’t realize,” said Terry, Luke’s mom. The Rachwalski’s have benefited from an A-list of members from the Greater Victoria music scene. Atomique, Daniel Lapp, Rocktography, the Victoria Conservatory of Music, Guitar Pal, Tartan Group and more have all contributed. “We can’t thank Daniel enough,” said Maurice, Luke’s father. Among the features of the evening is the VIP package, a chance to rub shoulders with Bill Henderson of Chilliwack and the other performers during the Rock Star portion of the night. Most important is the theme of musical mentors such as Henderson and Mike Demers of The Lonely, Roy Orbison tribute band, who’ll work with up-and-coming performing musicians. Proceeds will go towards Luke’s Gift scholarship fund for young musicians to the attend Chwyl Family School of Contemporary Music (Luke wasn’t one for classic styles), and to Luke’s Legacy, a songwriting concept in which

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The B.C. government has confirmed plans to house up to 88 campers on the Victo-

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Working as a volunteer counsellor in Victoria, Bruce Chambers has noticed a troubling trend amongst many successful men. On the outside, they appear to have fulfilling lives with their partner, children and career, but find themselves feeling lonely, isolated, depressed and anxious, and they can't figure out why. According to Chambers, some of the men have suggested that it's likely because they don't have any close friends. It's a trend he's noticed in about half of his male clientele.

school and college years, but lose touch as they enter various stages of adulthood whereas women tend to hold on to those friendships for life. Chambers said men are typically taught to be strong and not talk about their feelings or problems, but such things are necessary to build meaningful friendships and connect with people. He's also seen more men in their 20s move away from home and branch out into the world not knowing how to make friends. “There's a whole trend towards virtual friends. Some people have a lot of virtual friendships, but they begin to notice that it's not very fulfilling and they long for faceto-face friendships,” said Chambers. “Online is a great way to meet people with similar interests, but the next step is to transition that into

“I think a lot of men notice their relationships with other men are not as close as women’s relationships with other women. A lot of men may not understand that leaves them with a less fulfilling life.” — Bruce Chambers

“I think a lot of men notice their relationships with other men are not as close as women's relationships with other women,” said Chambers, a counsellor for three years. “A lot of men may not understand that leaves them with a less fulfilling life.” It's a problem Chambers sees amongst men of nearly every age. Many have friends during their high

face-to-face.” Chambers can relate to many of the young men. In his early 20s, he was one of those guys who ventured out into the world without any social skills and had no idea how to behave. He went to counselling where he was taught some practical skills. Those skills, he said, have made all the difference and he's now better at friendships and found value in

having those connections through life. Through the Victoria-based Citizens' Counselling Centre, Chambers now teaches other men the practical skills they need to build meaningful friendships. Starting Feb. 15, an eight-week group for men called Tools For Building Friendships, is designed to help men discover the benefits of friendship, see how other men handle it and learn practical new skills. The sessions were first held last fall to a group of enthusiastic men. “One of the things they were most enthusiastic about is telling their stories to other men, talking about their challenges with friendships, what they want out of friendship. These are very personal things for men to be telling other men

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to practice his skills through the week compared to skiers from the Lower Mainland, the stiff competition isn't scaring him. The Games will be Hart's first foyer into a big competition, but he's also competed in a number of local races including the Teck GS U14 earlier this year and Own the Podium U12 last year, both at Mount Washington. John Trimmer, head coach of the Mount Washington Ski Club, said Hart's dedication to the sport sets him apart from other athletes. “It is a larger commitment to anyone outside the community,” Trimmer said. “His dedication, his love of the sport is definitely his strength. He's always out there working on his skiing and being with his teammates.” Since he's one of the younger competitors in the U14 age group, Hart hopes to finish in the top 20 at the Winter Games. “I just want to try and go faster all the time,” he said. “If I could finish in the top 20, that would be fine.” Saanich's Meaghan Ellard-Webster and Oak Bay's Taylor Brooke and Luka Djurickovic will also represent the Vancouver Island-Central Coast zone at the Games. The B.C. Winter Games takes place Feb. 25 to 28 in Penticton. Other sports include archery, badminton, biathlon, curling, diving, figure skating, ringette and skiing cross-country. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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HANDYPERSONS BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071. HOUSE & Yard repairs. no job too small. OAP Discounts, free est. Andy, 250-886-3383.

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