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Panorama in running for HockeyvilleSteven HeywoodNews staff

Panorama’s hockey rink has cracked the top 10 facilities across Canada in this year’s Kraft Canada Hockeyville contest.

Now, says the man who nomi-nated the arena, the real work begins to secure the votes to get them into the top two.

Jason Fletcher, a long-time vol-unteer and hockey dad, couldn’t help but know that Panorama Recreation Centre’s Arena B made the short list during Satur-day night’s broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada on the CBC and Rogers Sportsnet. He says he was not watching but instead partici-pating in a family birthday party. No sooner were the Hockeyville finalists revealed than he started receiving texts and phone mes-sages. And when Kraft called, he had to pick up.

“It was really, really cool,” he says. “We are in the top 10 and in the top five in the west.”

Not bad for getting the nomina-tion in with only about an hour to spare back in February.

The 2015 Kraft Hockeyville con-test picks 10 arenas across the country from out of more than one thousand entries. That select group takes home $25,000 no mat-ter the outcome of the voting yet to come. Later this month, Kraft, the CBC and Sportsnet will announce the top two Hockeyville communi-ties — with each winning $100,000

toward arena upgrades. The com-munity with the most votes over-all has the added bonus of hosting an NHL exhibition game.

Fletcher says he’s pleased Pan-orama and the Saanich Peninsula ranked so highly thus far — and now it’s time to get out the vote.

“It’ll happen quick,” he says.Voting among the top 10 arenas

will commence this Saturday night (March 21) after being announced on Hockey Night in Canada at 8 p.m. (PST). Fletcher says it’s 48 hours of activity in which he and other volunteers hope to reach out on social media and the tradi-tional media to get people to vote — and vote as often as they can.

The top two communities out of

that voting will each win $100,000. Then, on March 28, same time and place, voting for the winner out of those two finalists begins.

Fletcher says it’ll be important for voters to do their thing again — should Panorama get that far.

“You can’t help but dream,” he says.

Fletcher says he nominated

Panorama Arena B to help get the facility some much-needed upgrades.

“As a volunteer, I saw the needs around the arena.”

A timekeeper for the Peninsula Panthers Junior B hockey team, Fletcher says they don’t have locker room space. Other commu-nity groups like Peninsula Minor Hockey and Peninsula Lacrosse, could use meeting and storage space. Fletcher says whatever they win through Hockeyville will only be the beginning — he hopes the community will step up through the publicity created by the contest to help meet those needs at the arena.

Panthers’ coach Pete Zubersky says he’s helping get the word out, too.

“I think it’s going to be really big,” he says.

Both Fletcher and Zubersky credited the staff at Panorama Rec. Centre for jumping on board, too. Fletcher says Panorama is already making waves on social media about the Hockeyville vot-ing period this weekend and next.

People are being encouraged to vote as often as they like. Fletcher says for Panorama to crack the top two, it’ll need at least one mil-lion votes. He’s reaching out into the community and across Van-couver Island, getting the word out, and looking for votes.

Voting starts this Saturday night at 8 p.m. at [email protected]

Arena in the top 10 in Kraft Canada contest; top entry will win $100,000 and an NHL exhibition game

Steven Heywood/News staff

Volunteer and hockey dad Jason Fletcher also knows how to write up a great application. His nomination of Panorama Recreation Centre to the 2015 Kraft Hockeyville contest has the Saanich Peninsula facility in the top 10.

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of Sidney appointee to their Advisory Plan-ning Commission, not the Victoria Airport Authority Board of Directors as reported in the Friday, March 13 News Review.

Sidney is still in the process of selecting their VAA board appointees.

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Central Saanich Police names deputy as new chiefCENTRAL SAANICH — Deputy Chief Les Sylven has been tapped to replace Central Saanich Police Chief Paul Hames, who retires in September. The promotion was announced March 13. Watch the News Review for more.

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Soil, water being tested after spillViking Air investigating spill of waste water into Reay Creek wetland at Victoria airportSteven HeywoodNews staff

A spill of waste water into a wet-land along Reay Creek on Victoria airport property is still being cleaned up this week.

Early on March 10, rinse water from Viking Air’s aircraft parts plat-ing operation spilled from a waste water storage tank into thier sec-ondary holding tank. Todd Sjerven, Viking Air’s Manager of Occupational Health and Safety and Facilities says a valve in that tank was left partially open and 1,600 litres of water spilled.

Sjerven confirmed the waste water con-tained chromium, used to protect aircraft parts. It’s also one of the heavy metals detected in testing done downstream in the Reay Creek Pond — subject of a Town of Sidney study on cleanup options.

Sjerven said the spill seems to have been contained on airport land, in the man-made wetland and containment area. Testing has not indicated the contaminants made it downstream.

James Bogusz, Vice-President of Operations for the Victoria Airport Authority, said that area is controlled by two valves that can be closed off to stop creek water from getting in, or water from getting out.

“We are able to shut those valves off to determine pollutant levels,” he said. “Viking Air did get onto clean-ing up the drain they spilled into that day.”

Sjerven said Viking Air contacted VAA immedately, which sent their airport’s fire department. He added the company also called in an envi-ronmental services company and

vacuum truck. They also notified the Capital Regional District.

The CRD, said Sjerven, regulates the company’s treatment and release of waste water. After on-site treat-ment, he said, the water is tested before being discharged into the CRD’s sewer system.

Once the spill was detected, Sjer-ven said the company hired a con-tractor to pump out water from the wetland — an estimated 300,000 litres between last week and Sunday.

“We’ve confirmed that nothing got into Reay Creek itself,” he said.

Testing Sunday afternoon, he said, passed CRD, provin-cial and federal stan-dards for fresh water. Testing continues this week, Sjerven

said, to see if any heavy metals got into the soil sediments of the area.

It’s heavy metals in the sediments of the pond downstream in a residen-tial area that is the subject of con-cern in Sidney, which has set up a working group to plan for its clean up. Sjerven said he’s aware of that issue, noting this spill was unfortu-nate timing, considering the recent news about the pond.

VAA had remediated a portion of Reay Creek on its property, remov-ing contaminated soil and fixing the stream bed. Bogusz said they take pride in that work and Viking Air’s spill response was good.

“These types of spills don’t hap-pen very often,” he said.

Sjerven said Viking Air is investi-gating the cause of the spill. That will include a review of safety and work procedures. He added Viking Air has not been fined by any regula-tory agency for the spill at this time.

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One of the first to-do items for Longview Farms’ new owners is cleanup of the large piles of fill mate-rial on the property.

Ryan Vantreight, general manager,

explained to Central Saanich council on March 2 the plan is to crush only existing materials on the farm depos-ited by previous operations, includ-ing the fill material and rock deposits picked out of the soil over the years.

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Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Town of Sidney will hold Public Hearings in respect of Bylaws No. 2075, 2081 and 2084, being the proposed amendments to Zoning Bylaw No. 2015 for the Town of Sidney.All persons who believe that their property is affected by the proposed amending bylaws will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the bylaws at the Public Hearings to be held at the Sidney Town Hall, 2440 Sidney Avenue, Sidney, BC on Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Written submissions can be received at the Town Hall prior to 4:00 p.m. on March 23, 2015 or at the Public Hearing itself.The purpose of Bylaw No. 2081 is to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 2015 by rezoning the subject property from Multi-Family Low Density Residential (RM5) to a new zone, RM5 Bonus Density (RM5-B), in order to permit the construction of a 2.5 storey development consisting of 14 apartment dwelling units, of which 6 units would be “bonus density” as per Section 904 of the Local Government Act. Council is also considering the issuance of a Development Permit in connection with the above noted amendment.The property that would be affected by this bylaw is shown below in Figure 1:Civic Addresses: 9667 First StreetLegal Address: Lot 4, Section 10, Range 4 East, North Saanich District, Plan 5315

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The purpose of Bylaw No. 2075 is to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 2015 in order to: incorporate a number of minor amendments to improve the functionality of the bylaw, address some errors and omissions in the bylaw and also add or amend certain permitted and conditional uses. Specifically, the proposed changes are 1) adding new definitions for Height, Natural Grade and Finished Grade; 2) adding a description of the CD27 zone; 3) adding Home Occupation and Manufacturing, Sale, Repair or Maintenance of Boats and Marine Equipment as conditional permitted uses in the W2 zone; 4) adding spatial regulations for the CD26 zone; 5) amending the maximum permitted height to 14.5m for the CD11 zone; 6) adding Convenience Store, Film Studio, Assembly Hall, and Brew Pub as permitted uses in the M1 zone; 7) adding Home Occupation as a permitted use in the CD13 and CD29 zones; 8) adding two existing strata properties to the table of properties with Multi-Family zoning where a two-family dwelling is a permitted use; 9) altering the definition of Food or Beverage Manufacturing; 10) removing the condition of use associated with Brew Pub; 11) removing two of the three conditions of use associated with Food or Beverage Manufacturing; 12) adding Assembly Hall as a permitted use in the CD11 zone; 13) adding Brew Pub as a permitted use and Food or Beverage Manufacturing as a conditional permitted use in the CD6 and CD11 zones; and 14) adding a condition of use associated with Food or Beverage Manufacturing for the CD6 and CD11 zone.The purpose of Bylaw No. 2084 is to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 2015 by rezoning the subject property from Single-Family Low Density Residential (R1) to Single-Family Residential (R1.1), in order to allow subdivision of the property into two parcels.The property that would be affected by this bylaw is shown below in Figure 2:Civic Address: 2531 Goddard RoadLegal Address: Lot 1, Section 14, Range 4 East, North Saanich District, Plan 36064

Copies of the proposed bylaws and all background documentation may be inspected during normal working hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays) from March 10, 2015 to March 23, 2015 at the Sidney Town Hall, 2440 Sidney Avenue, Sidney, BC V8L 1Y7. Further inquiries may be directed to the Development Services Department, telephone 250-656-1725 or by email at [email protected] may be submitted by mail to the address above or by email to [email protected] and must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. on the day of the Public Hearings. All correspondence submitted will form part of the public record and may be published in a meeting agenda.

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Vantreight said the goal is to con-vert the material into usable road base to fix the farm roads and facili-ties surrounding the farm, without having to bring any new material onto the property, or having to haul any away after crushing it.

He also stressed that at no point would any of the crushed material be sold off the farm.

In an effort to be “good neigh-bours” and to work with the com-munity to avoid undue distress from the noise, Vantreight said the

work would be limited to weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Longview Farms was acquired by Westerkirk Capital Corp. in Septem-ber when the B.C. Supreme Court ordered 270 acres sold for $8.5 mil-lion under a bank foreclosure.

Westerkirk, a private investment firm based in Toronto, also owns Viking Air in North Saanich, and is headed by local resident Sherry Brydson.

For more information, visit longviewfarms.ca.

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Central Saanich Lions Club President Ken Burkowski joins Diane Phillips, left, and Georgia Pike after the club donated IPhones to both women. The devices include built-in, voice-activated tap and touch apps and more to assist with the needs of the visually-impaired.


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Monday, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Hall, 1620 Mills Road, North Saanich, B.C. to consider the following proposed Bylaw:

North Saanich Zoning Bylaw No. 1255, Amendment Bylaw No 1369

In general terms, the purpose of Amendment Bylaw No. 1369 is to amend District of North Saanich Zoning Bylaw No. 1255 with respect to its application to un subdivided allotments of land owned by members of the Towner Bay Country Club in the Towner Bay area. The amend-ments would allow these allotments to be treated as individual “lots” under the Zoning Bylaw, while recognizing the existing siting of those residential dwellings that have been constructed on allotment boundaries. The land in the Towner Bay area that is a�ected by these amend-ments is shown in the supplied sketch.

Amendment Bylaw No. 1369 would also change references to “guest/caretaker’s cottage” to “guest cottage” throughout the Zoning Bylaw, and remove incorrect references to guest cottages from the RA-1 zone regulations.

All persons who deem their interest in property a�ected by the proposed bylaw amendment shall be a�orded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions at the Public Hearing.

All relevant documentation, including copies of the bylaw(s) pertaining to the above, may be inspected at the North Saanich Municipal Hall, 1620 Mills Road, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays) inclusive.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Monday March 23, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Hall, 1620 Mills Road, North Saanich, B.C. to consider the following proposed Bylaw:

North Saanich Zoning Bylaw No. 1255, Amendment Bylaw No 1369

In general terms, the purpose of Amendment Bylaw No. 1369 is to amend District of NorthSaanich Zoning Bylaw No. 1255 with respect to its application to un subdivided allotments of land owned by members of the Towner Bay Country Club in the Towner Bay area. The amend-ments would allow these allotments to be treated as individual “lots” under the Zoning Bylaw, while recognizing the existing siting of those residential dwellings that have been constructed on allotment boundaries. The land in the Towner Bay area that is a�ected by these amendments is shown in the supplied sketch.

Amendment Bylaw No. 1369 would also change references to “guest/caretaker’s cottage” to “guest cottage” throughout the Zoning Bylaw, and remove incorrect references to guest cottages from the RA-1 zone regulations.

All persons who deem their interest in property a�ected by the proposed bylaw amendment shall be a�orded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions at the Public Hearing.

All relevant documentation, including copies of the bylaw(s) pertaining to the above, may be inspected at the North Saanich Municipal Hall, 1620 Mills Road, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays) inclusive.

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Visitors will once again be welcome at the Pat Bay Highway information centre as they arrive on Vancouver Island via a BC Ferries vessel.

The building is currently undergoing renovations and is expected to re-open by May 15. Denny Warner, executive director of the Saanich Penin-sula Chamber of Commerce, says the Chamber renegoti-ated its lease with the Real Property Division of the pro-vincial Ministry of Technol-ogy, Innovation and Citizens’ Services.

“For the first year, we get it for one dollar,” Warner said. “Beyond that, I cannot say as the documents are still being drafted, but it will be signifi-cantly better (than in previous years).”

The centre closed in the winter of 2013. At the time the Chamber cited costs — both the expense of running the service and the impact of rodent infestations and other structural deficiencies — as reasons behind the closure. Warner said all that will be taken care of. BC Hazmat is addressing the rodent prob-lem, she said, and South Island Power Sweeping is cleaning the exterior of the building.

Warner added there needs to be work done on the flooring and footings of the structure as well. She said the building was considered for demolition at one point, but thanks to the help of Chamber members, it will survive.

Warner said their main funding source — the Town of Sidney — has not increased its annual contribution to the operation of the Chamber or its visitor service centres. The Chamber operates its current one on Beacon Avenue next to the Mary Winspear Cen-tre. She said to cut costs and

be able to keep the Pat Bay facility open year-round, the Chamber administration will move there from its office in the Lunn building on Beacon Avenue. That lease, she said, expires at the beginning of May.

The Beacon Avenue Visitor Information Centre will remain open. It is also the home of the Sidney Business Improvement Area Society. Warner added the Chamber is currently talk-ing with the District of North Saanich, seeking a contribu-tion of site maintenance for the Pat Bay location.

Warner added the Cham-ber will seek out some of the former volunteers from when the Pat Bay Highway cen-tre was still open and try to attract new ones to help make it work.

“We will also be looking at the way we deliver visitor ser-vices,” she said, “for example, going out to people’s cars.”

Asked if that could look like the 1950s-style drive-ins, War-ner said something like that could fit in with the Chamber’s long-term vision for the site, to help increase visitor traffic.

The loss of visitor traf-fic into the information cen-tre, and subsequently to area businesses, was another rea-son the Chamber is re-opening on the highway.

“There were unforeseen consequences with the clo-sure,” she said. “There’s an estimated 2.5 million visitors off of the ferries each year. Some businesses told us they saw a decline in visitors, related to the loss of the (cen-tre).

“The Pat Bay Highway is a main route. The centre received around 20,000 visi-tors each year when it was only open seasonally. The plan is now to stay open year-round.”

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The Pat Bay Highway Visitor Information Centre will re-open in May.

Police asking for public’s assistance in locating suspectAngela Cowan News staff

A man is still at large after robbing the Rest-haven Store in Sidney at knifepoint.

At approximately 3:30 p.m. on Saturday (March 14), a Caucasian man produced a knife at the store and took cash from the register before fleeing on foot. Police were unable to locate the suspect.

Sidney and North Saanich RCMP say the man is between 25 and 30 years old, approximately five-feet-ten-inches tall, with shaggy brown facial hair and a thin to medium build.

The suspect was wearing a black North Face vest over a purple Adidas hoodie at the time of the robbery. On the front of the Adidas hoodie was a large Adidas logo.

Police are seeking the assistance of the public in locating and identifying the suspect.

Anyone with information regarding the robbery is asked to call the Sidney North Saanich RCMP at 250-656-3931, or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS(8477).

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March has been a good month for the B.C. NDP and it’s been a while since I’ve been

able to say that.Opposition critics fired a shot

amidships at the B.C. Liberal government when they began questioning the lack of progress by the new Auditor General for Local Government.

This experimental vessel was launched in Premier Christy Clark’s leadership campaign and two years after it set sail, it is listing, taking on water and in danger of sinking.

The original idea was to expand the B.C. Auditor General’s office so it could check the financial performance of local governments too. Business groups were concerned about municipal taxes going up too quickly, with staff growing even as the province grappled with a hiring freeze.

Mayors and councillors began to talk of mutiny over that plan, protesting that their budgets are already required to balance and are subject to annual audits.

But this will be “performance auditing,” Clark insisted, not just making sure the figures add up. It will determine the public is receiving “value for money” on projects like arenas and services like police, by comparing different communities’ results. A new AGLG

office opened in Surrey.The “value for money” promise

is on the rocks. The government appointed a quasi-independent board (hello, BC Ferries and TransLink) that hired chartered accountant Basia Ruta, a veteran of the federal Auditor General office who had also served as chief financial officer at Environment

Canada and had done local government audits in private practice.

NDP local government critic Selina Robinson started asking why this office has spent $5.2 million and produced only one audit out of a promised 18. Community Minister Coralee Oakes, a former Quesnel councillor in her first cabinet post, allowed that there had been some rough water but there is smooth sailing

ahead.Then came a big leak, in the form

of a “work environment review” of the good ship AGLG that was given to the NDP by a seasick crew member.

It described chaos below decks, with “shifting priorities and unclear direction,” as well as “wasted time and work” and “inefficient use of consultant and staff resources.”

Worse, the review noted a human resources monitor had been stationed at the office for most of January to maintain a “respectful

workplace for all employees.”“A peacekeeper,” as NDP leader

John Horgan described the grim scene.

“This is like we’re in Cyprus.”Then it was confirmed that when

the AGLG board tried to conduct a performance review, Ruta’s response was to hire a lawyer. Ruta seems to be decisive when protecting her job, if not when hiring, running the office or meeting her own work targets.

Whatever goodwill had been restored with local governments over this experiment is likely gone. Municipal staffers have been dealing with new auditor demands as their councils grind away at their own budgets and now they see signs that what they have contributed may well have been swept overboard.

Oakes remains on deck, eyes fixed on the horizon. An audit of capital procurement in Rossland is finally scheduled to be done by the end of March, she said. Similar reports on Delta and Sechelt are due in April. The latest revision of that schedule is underway, no doubt in another series of long, acrimonious meetings.

Clark addressed the situation in her last question period before the legislature’s spring break this week. She didn’t have a lot to say about the AGLG’s voyage of the damned, mostly familiar rhetoric about “lower taxes, less red tape” and so on.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Time to pull the cordW

e’re coming in for a landing, finally, after a few weeks of debate on the activity at the Victoria International Airport.

Letters have been arriving at the gates quite steadily since the Peninsula News Review’s story about helicopter noise issues first lifted off late last year. It seems the article unearthed some people’s long-checked baggage and lately the debate has been making the rounds on the carousel.

It’s time to put your seats in the upright position and stow those tray tables. While we dislike having to curtail public discourse, it might be time to roll the debate into the hangar — for now.

We’ve heard most sides of this story and much of it boils down to which side of the aisle someone is sitting on.

On your right, if you look out the window, you will see supporters of the local military, aircraft in general and those willing to put up with airport noise — as people have since the airfield was opened in the 1930s.

On your left, there’s the people for whom the noise is a constant bother and there may be nothing anyone can do — apart from closing the airport or making it a “virtual” airspace.

And where people are seated — along the aisle, at the window or in the middle — affects their outlook on the voyage.

One thing we know for sure in all of this — the airport isn’t going anywhere. In many respects, we all have to get used to that fact.

The Saanich Peninsula is a transportation hub and a gateway for the rest of Vancouver Island. That has its benefits — and it has its drawbacks. The living space we have must be looked after and that means retaining jobs and industry, balanced with managing its impact on residents. As the airport grows and new aircraft fly in, that means consulting with the public and looking to mitigate noise where it can be helped.

Hopefully everyone has enjoyed their flight. We look forward to hearing from you again.

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I have no idea how long you have lived in Greater Victoria. You and your readers need to do some historical research regarding the presence of deer in our urban and farming commu-

nities around Victoria.I am 74, born in Victoria, and have lived

here all my life. I suspect there were deer present back in the good old days of Sir James Douglas. However, during my life time deer only began to show up, I believe sometime in the 1980s. As a youngster I lived my first nine years in south Saanich, never saw a deer. During the first seven years of my marriage I lived in Sidney, Deep Cove, Brentwood Bay and Royal Oak, never saw a deer.

Our family moved near Oldfield Orchard in 1971 and we are still happily living there. I have always grown fruit trees, ber-ries and had a large productive garden. Then, the deer wandered in. Since then I have reduced my orchard to one pear tree. I have been forced to fence my vegetable and berry garden and install fences and gates to keep the deer from entering my

back yard. So, we have gone from no deer to hundreds of domestic, urban deer in a relatively short period of time. These are not wild deer.

They are several or many generations removed from the wild population. They show no fear of humans and contrary to what you say do not have a skittish nature. They stand there and look defiantly at me until I either chase or throw rocks.

Urban domestic deer have become habituated to humans and human activi-ties around them. We all know from per-sonal experience and media coverage that deer have dramatically impacted our lives.

The cost to the many residents of Greater Victoria who enjoy having a beau-tiful yard and producing their own food and to the farmers who rely on production of food for their livelihood is immense.

The frequency of accidents involving deer and vehicles and even cyclists is very concerning.

It is difficult to understand the argu-ments presented by those who believe we should all change our lives to accommo-

date these marauding deer. These deer are not wild animals and are

causing havoc! The obvious solution is to eradicate the

deer. This is pest control.All the other suggestions to deal with the

deer problem, of which there are too many to elaborate on, do not work.

We human beings are responsible for the debacle that faces us today. Just to add to the problems we endure the prolifera-tion of Eastern Cotton Tails and Grey Squir-rels is also a result of irresponsible release of these once caged animals near Victoria. They too, cause considerable damage and inconvenience.

So much for living harmoniously with once wild animals in an urban com-munity. To conclude, the latter part of your article’s heading should read, “we have NOT done enough.”

I am not holding my breath! Seems politi-cians and management can not make any major responsible decisions these days.

Mike DavisCentral Saanich

Urban deer are not wild animals, they are pests

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Aviation is a beautiful thingRegarding “Small planes more worrying,” March 11.The writer is upset by helicopters and small airplanes

flying over Sidney. I think he would benefit from visiting the airport and talking to a few pilots.

The young student pilots flying over our neighbour-hoods may fly us to Toronto or Shanghai in a few years and I like to think that they will have the right stuff when it counts.

There is no substitute for real flying. Simulators are good for teaching pilots how to deal with some major fail-ures, because if a pilot mis-handles a situation there will be no loss of life or property. However, some situations require reflex-like action in order to save the aircraft, and the best way for the necessary habits and reflexes to be formed is by flying small aircraft.

Most of these training flights also have a professional flight instructor (commercial pilot) on board. The prob-ability of risk to people on the ground is extremely remote.

As for helicopters using runways rather than taking off vertically, those pilots are practicing procedures that would allow them to fly in clouds or greatly reduced vis-ibility. It is important that these military and Coast Guard SAR crews are comfortable on nasty nights as well as sunny afternoons.

The fact that the Airport Authority receives landing fees is inconsequential in comparison. Victoria airport has been a training airport continuously since 1939. Unless

the writer has been living in his house since before that time he could easily have chosen, as I did, to live

away from the airport departure paths. Aviation is a beautiful thing.

Embrace it!B. Scott

North Saanich

Tongue firmly in cheekI object to the noise created by all those amateur driv-

ers on the Pat Bay Highway. Why can’t people just stay home and play their driver

simulation video games? I’m sure most of them are just driv-

ing around for pleasure and don’t have a legitimate need for being in their cars. Just last week, I counted over 300 cars in one hour at Beacon and High-way 17.

Many of these cars have the L or N placard on them and it’s well known that inexperienced drivers cause most of the accidents. There is no need for them to practice driving on our roads!

I even see them driving near my house and it terrifies me.

I also hear noisy military vehicles on the highway, another example of Harper’s militarist expansion plans.

Why can’t we just eliminate all these vehicles and reserve the highway for when I want to travel on vacation? That would eliminate most of the noise and reduce accidents.

We can then live in peace and quiet and only use the highway when I think it’s important.

Satire intended.Vern Little

Sidney

Fed up with tax increasesCentral Saanich council is once again doing the unen-

viable job of reviewing and debating the annual budget developed by staff.

The end result, for the past 16 years at least has been a property tax increase (significantly more than the inflation rate) and is frequently accompanied by an announcement of a varia-tion of the old cliché: “It’s a difficult task each year to keep taxes low while maintaining ser-vices.” I expect that a similar tax increase will come to pass this year.

With a couple of exceptions, council members have [in the past] voted to accept staff recom-mendations to approve a tax lift.

An approved motion that would freeze or reduce taxes has not occurred.

This year, several councillors are rookies and they will likely rely even more on staff recom-mendations.

To rescue them from the budget tedium, I suggest that council only look at the bottom line and direct staff to regroup and come up with a budget that does not increase the bot-tom line.

Central Saanich now has the dubious distinc-tion of being the third highest taxed of the 13 municipalities in the Greater Victoria area.

Tax payers might be moved to contact coun-cil and let them know that you are fed up with tax increases.

Frank WitthoeftCentral Saanich


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Aside from a few housekeeping details, it’s business as usual for the Brentwood Bay Revitalization Committee this year.

The group held their annual general meet-ing March 5 to discuss the success of last year’s events, their financial standing and the slate of upcoming events, and not much is changing, said Ginny Alger, chair of the committee.

The Brentwood Bay Festival is set for June 6, the annual Strawberry Dance opens its doors June 20 and Music in the Park kicks off its weekly concerts July 8.

The festival brings in 4,000 to 5,000 people to the community throughout the day, said Alger, kicked off with a parade and chock full of entertainment, good food and the vendors from the Saanich Pen-insula Market.

This year the committee is looking for someone to take over as co-ordinator. “We do have a couple people who are willing to help, but we still need someone to take the lead,” said Alger.

The lineup for Music in the Park — Wednesdays in Pioneer Park — is still being finalized, but the ever-popular Shaky Ground will be the series’ clos-ing band August 19.

The weekly concerts attract about 500 people each, said Alger.

“We get everything from babes in arms to seniors, and people from all over Central Saanich and even Victoria.”

“It’s just a really fun evening, and good entertain-ment.”

Later in the year, the committee partners with the Grand Cariboo Opry to put on two perfor-mances of a spectacular variety show that raises money for the Sidney Lions food bank and Mus-tard Seed.

Last year’s Opry performances raised $24,000, split between the two food banks.

On the business side of things, the committee is financially stable, said Alger, thanks in large part to dedicated support from the community.

“We get a grant from the district, but that accounts for maybe 20 per cent of what we spend every year,” she said. “The rest is raised through donations. A lot of businesses make donations to us, and a lot of individuals as well. That’s what keeps us going.”

“We couldn’t do what we do without that sup-port.”

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The group held their annual general meet-ing March 5 to discuss the success of last year’s events, their financial standing and the slate of upcoming events, and not much is changing, said Ginny Alger, chair of the committee.

The Brentwood Bay Festival is set for June 6, the annual Strawberry Dance opens its doors June 20 and Music in the Park kicks off its weekly concerts July 8.

The festival brings in 4,000 to 5,000 people to the community throughout the day, said Alger, kicked off with a parade and chock full of entertainment, good food and the vendors from the Saanich Pen-insula Market.

This year the committee is looking for someone to take over as co-ordinator. “We do have a couple people who are willing to help, but we still need someone to take the lead,” said Alger.

The lineup for Music in the Park — Wednesdays in Pioneer Park — is still being finalized, but the ever-popular Shaky Ground will be the series’ clos-ing band August 19.

The weekly concerts attract about 500 people each, said Alger.

“We get everything from babes in arms to seniors, and people from all over Central Saanich and even Victoria.”

“It’s just a really fun evening, and good entertain-ment.”

Later in the year, the committee partners with the Grand Cariboo Opry to put on two perfor-mances of a spectacular variety show that raises money for the Sidney Lions food bank and Mus-tard Seed.

Last year’s Opry performances raised $24,000, split between the two food banks.

On the business side of things, the committee is financially stable, said Alger, thanks in large part to dedicated support from the community.

“We get a grant from the district, but that accounts for maybe 20 per cent of what we spend every year,” she said. “The rest is raised through donations. A lot of businesses make donations to us, and a lot of individuals as well. That’s what keeps us going.”

“We couldn’t do what we do without that sup-port.”

For more information, visit brentwoodbay.info.

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Shaky Ground, Victoria’s premiere party band, is already scheduled to be the closing act for this year’s Music in the Park series in Pioneer Park, Brentwood Bay. File Photo


Whether you’re a true story devotee or a fiction aficio-nado, you’ll be in for a treat April 2 when respected authors Stephen Hume and

M.A.C. Farrant headline the next evening in the Red Brick Reading Series. The pair will be reading from some of their most recent works.

“We’re delighted to have two more excel-lent local authors here to share their work and help us raise funds for the October Literary Festival,” said Sharon Hope, presi-dent of the Sidney and Peninsula Literary Society.

Hume’s most recent book, A Walk with the Rainy Sisters, invites readers to share in his love and awe of British Columbia. Other works include Lilies and Fireweed, a collection of essays exploring the contribu-tion women have made in shaping B.C., and Bush Telegraph, also a collection of essays that won a B.C. 2000 Book Prize.

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Farrant, well known for her acerbic wit

and originality, is the author of over a dozen works of fiction, non-fiction and essay, including The World Afloat - Miniatures, pub-lished last year and which won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.

Her memoir, My Turquoise Years, pub-lished in 2004, was later adapted for the stage and premiered at Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre in 2013.

Both Hume and Farrant teach writing at the University of Victoria and other educa-tional institutions.

The Red Brick Reading Series aims to connect local authors and local readers, and is a key fundraiser for the Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival happening this October.

Through a “Sponsor an Author” intitia-tive, the festival organizers have created an opportunity for the community to donate funds toward the costs of organizing the festival.

The readings begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2 at the Red Brick Café, 2423 Beacon Ave. in Sidney.

Tickets are $10, and are available at Tan-ner’s Books in Sidney and Munro’s Books in Victoria.

There will also be live music, book sign-ings and a 50/50 draw.

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The final instalment of the Saanich Pioneer Society’s Talk and Tea spring series is this Sun-day (March 22), opening the doors into history and the beginnings of the Butler family.

In 1868, George and Fanny Butler arrived on the Peninsula and settled on 160 acres of pre-empted land. Nearly 150 years later, Joan Butler Gilbert will tell the stories of their early pioneer-ing experiences and their impact on the area, including how Keating Cross Road was once named Butler’s Cross Road, and the family’s involvement with industrial development and farming.

The afternoon events are a way for locals and those new to the area to hear stories about the families and communities that have made the Peninsula what it is today.

“They’re good stories,” says Susan Myerscough, vice president of the Saanich Pioneer Society. “They’re interesting and they’re diverse. They give you a glimpse into how things used to be here.”

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Admission is $7 for general public, or $5 for members.

The Society’s Talk and Tea series resumes in the fall. For more information, visit saan-ichpioneersociety.org.

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Local award-winning authors M.A.C. Farrant, left, and Stephen Hume are the next pair of writers to headline the Red Brick Reading Series, a fundraiser for the Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival. The pair follow the highly successful and sold-out evening with poets Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane in February.

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Stephen Hume and M.A.C. Farrant follow sold-out poets’ reading in February


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tAlk AnD teA. The Butler Family on the

Saanich Peninsula with Joan Butler Gilbert. Sunday at the Log Cabin Museum in Saanichton on March 22 at 2 p.m. Members $5. Museum located at 7910 Polo Park Crescent (behind Thrifty Foods).

HealthsAAniCh peninsulA

Better Breathers invites Saanich Peninsula and area residents to network and learn about the Disability Tax Credit — tax tips and credits available to Canadians living with disabilities. Anyone with a lung condition, family, friends and community members are invited to join us on Monday, March 23 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the SHOAL Centre, 10030 Resthaven Dr., Sidney.

MeetingsCfuW sAAniCh

peninsulA presents Dr. Andrew Wender, Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Victoria. Dr. Wender will speak on “The Middle East in a Time of Convulsive Transformation: The Urgent Legacies of History.” Tuesday March 23, 7 p.m. at Mary Winspear Centre.

VolunteersVolunteerinG in

pAlliAtiVe care is a uniquely rewarding experience. Volunteers support end of life patients and families. For more about the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Palliative Care Volunteer Program, contact Yasmin Rampuri at (250) 652-7519 or email [email protected].


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Do you remember the saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try — try again”?

That’s exactly what I am attempt-ing to do. I had written most of the column for today’s paper and it has disappeared. It’s floating around somewhere out in limbo, like a lonesome piece of space debris.

I plaintively ask the computer “Why are you doing this?” and it snorts, “Because I’m mad at you.”

No point in annoying this machine any further!

I get carried away sometimes and go off on a different path ... not a garden path, either.

This reminds me of the garden path I assembled in our Melissa Street front garden.

There were two large berms facing one another alongside the street. I made a path between them from large round cement pavers, placed about eight inches apart. It looked inviting to me, and sort of a secret entrance to an enchanted garden. I read a lot fairy tales as a child and obvi-ously never quite recovered.

I think I’ve already told you about the smallish area left as a

wild, wooded place on one side of the driveway. To me it was a small forest and I made a path into its centre where my grandchildren could have tea.

This little bit of woodland proved attractive to a few neigh-bourhood kids who periodically would sneak in to enjoy a tiny bit of wilderness. They, too, could feel the lure of unspoiled nature. They actually wanted to build a fort there, which I could under-stand, but not allow! It was a peaceful spot and as long as I was

there to protect it, it would so remain. Eventually there will likely be a house

there, I suppose, but it remains unspoiled and beautiful right now.

That poor clematis that I’m going to give away is making new growth — not a lot so far, but there are clusters of leaves appear-ing, which means I should get a move on.

Tomorrow for sure! (I hope!) I wish my keenest gardening daughter

were here. She would have everything orga-nized and probably finished while I’m still thinking about it.

Helen Lang has been the PNR’s garden columnist for more than 30 years.

Helen LangOver the Garden

Fence

Even small wooded areas can offer the lure of unspoiled nature

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CELEBRATIONS

OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION of LIFE

RENEE MARGARET CHALMERS

~nee Bartlett~Longtime resident of Sid-ney passed away Feb 25, 2015 in Nanaimo Palliative Care Hospital. Survived by 4 children, Leigh-Ann, David, Shar-on & Alison, 8 grand chil-dren, 2 great grand chil-dren. She will be sadly missed by her family and friends.✱Open House will be held at the Anglican Church Hall, 9691 4th Street, Sidney, BC, March 21, 2015. Celebration of Life 1-3pm.

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Tip of the Peninsula

CorrectionSIDNEY — Tara Cumming is a recent Town

of Sidney appointee to their Advisory Plan-ning Commission, not the Victoria Airport Authority Board of Directors as reported in the Friday, March 13 News Review.

Sidney is still in the process of selecting their VAA board appointees.

The News Review regrets the error. — News staff

Central Saanich Police names deputy as new chiefCENTRAL SAANICH — Deputy Chief Les Sylven has been tapped to replace Central Saanich Police Chief Paul Hames, who retires in September. The promotion was announced March 13. Watch the News Review for more.

— News staff

Elections spending committee seeks your opinions by April 17

VICTORIA — Saanich North and the Islands MLA Gary Holman and the rest of the Special Committee on Local Elections Spending invite people to make written sub-missions on their views regarding candidate and third party election campaign spending limits in B.C.

Submissions can be made by April 17 at www.leg.bc.ca/cmt/leel.

Regional public hearings are going to be held in Surrey, Terrace, Fort. St. John, Prince George, Kamloops, Cranbrook, Penticton and Vancouver.

Holman is on the committee with other MLAs from both sides of the floor of the leg-islature. It is headed up by MLA Jackie Tegart of Fraser-Nicola.

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Soil, water being tested after spillViking Air investigating spill of waste water into Reay Creek wetland at Victoria airportSteven HeywoodNews staff

A spill of waste water into a wet-land along Reay Creek on Victoria airport property is still being cleaned up this week.

Early on March 10, rinse water from Viking Air’s aircraft parts plat-ing operation spilled from a waste water storage tank into thier sec-ondary holding tank. Todd Sjerven, Viking Air’s Manager of Occupational Health and Safety and Facilities says a valve in that tank was left partially open and 1,600 litres of water spilled.

Sjerven confirmed the waste water con-tained chromium, used to protect aircraft parts. It’s also one of the heavy metals detected in testing done downstream in the Reay Creek Pond — subject of a Town of Sidney study on cleanup options.

Sjerven said the spill seems to have been contained on airport land, in the man-made wetland and containment area. Testing has not indicated the contaminants made it downstream.

James Bogusz, Vice-President of Operations for the Victoria Airport Authority, said that area is controlled by two valves that can be closed off to stop creek water from getting in, or water from getting out.

“We are able to shut those valves off to determine pollutant levels,” he said. “Viking Air did get onto clean-ing up the drain they spilled into that day.”

Sjerven said Viking Air contacted VAA immedately, which sent their airport’s fire department. He added the company also called in an envi-ronmental services company and

vacuum truck. They also notified the Capital Regional District.

The CRD, said Sjerven, regulates the company’s treatment and release of waste water. After on-site treat-ment, he said, the water is tested before being discharged into the CRD’s sewer system.

Once the spill was detected, Sjer-ven said the company hired a con-tractor to pump out water from the wetland — an estimated 300,000 litres between last week and Sunday.

“We’ve confirmed that nothing got into Reay Creek itself,” he said.

Testing Sunday afternoon, he said, passed CRD, provin-cial and federal stan-dards for fresh water. Testing continues this week, Sjerven

said, to see if any heavy metals got into the soil sediments of the area.

It’s heavy metals in the sediments of the pond downstream in a residen-tial area that is the subject of con-cern in Sidney, which has set up a working group to plan for its clean up. Sjerven said he’s aware of that issue, noting this spill was unfortu-nate timing, considering the recent news about the pond.

VAA had remediated a portion of Reay Creek on its property, remov-ing contaminated soil and fixing the stream bed. Bogusz said they take pride in that work and Viking Air’s spill response was good.

“These types of spills don’t hap-pen very often,” he said.

Sjerven said Viking Air is investi-gating the cause of the spill. That will include a review of safety and work procedures. He added Viking Air has not been fined by any regula-tory agency for the spill at this time.

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“We’ve confirmed that nothing got into Reay Creek itself.”

– todd Sjerven


One of the first to-do items for Longview Farms’ new owners is cleanup of the large piles of fill mate-rial on the property.

Ryan Vantreight, general manager,

explained to Central Saanich council on March 2 the plan is to crush only existing materials on the farm depos-ited by previous operations, includ-ing the fill material and rock deposits picked out of the soil over the years.

Longview Farms clearing the horizon

PlEASE SEE: Farm creating road base, page 4

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Inspired by an already enor-mous show of community support for six-year-old Kai

Hennessey and his family, Justin McGregor — the newly installed manager at Sidney’s Save on Foods — turned the store’s 100th birthday celebrations on Sunday, March 8 into a fund-raiser.

Kai was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma just before Christmas and has been staying at the Ronald McDonald house in Vancouver with his parents, Kevin and Setsu. Kai’s illness is highly treatable, but the kinder-gartener will need to undergo six months to a year of chemo-therapy, and his family’s life has been transplanted to the main-land in the meantime, with all the financial and emotional chal-

lenges that entails. When McGregor saw the story

in the News Review, he was com-pelled to help.

“It was important for us to include Kai in our celebrations,” he said.

The store ended up raising more than $1,800 for the Hen-nesseys through customer and staff donations, and the Sidney fire department donated $200 themselves, said McGregor.

Local caricaturist Ryan For-rester from Fun Sketches also donated all proceeds from his portraits at the event.

To make sure staff were encouraged to talk about it, McGregor issued a challenge: if the store beat their $1,500 goal, each of the managers on duty that day would get a pie in the face.

The motivation worked, and the end of the day saw more

than $1,800 raised for Kai — and McGregor, assistant manager George White and supervisor Jared Dyck with whipped cream all over their faces.

Kai’s mother Setsu and grandma Lois Broughton were also able to make the trip over, much to the delight of the gro-cery store staff.

“Setsu was able to make it over for the event and got to witness firsthand the amazing power of a strong and caring community,” said Kevin Hennessey.

“We want to send out our thanks to the community of Sidney,” added McGregor. “I’ve been blown away by the amount of support this community has shown to Kai and his family.”

For more information or to donate to the family, visit http://www.gofundme.com/j42gsk.

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Throwing pies to help Kai beat cancerSidney Save on Foods staff threw pies after beating fundraising goal for local family

Pie eyedSidney Save on Foods supervisor Jared Dyck, left, assistant manager George White and store manager Justin McGregor all took a pie in the face as part of a fundraiser last week for six-year-old Kai Hennessey, currently battling a rare form of lymphoma. Photo contributed


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