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Volunteers arrive a dawn to set up chairs and mats, slice breakfast fruit and haul in books — it’s a demanding operation to prep for 100 expectant tots and their parents.

Books for Breakfast has ballooned from a small effort at John Stubbs Memorial school to encourage parents to read to their kids, to a monthly,

weekday community party with more children than organizers can handle.

“We thought this would be a one year thing. Four and a half years ago we thought 20 kids was a lot,” said Dar-lene Manthorpe, director of Books for Breakfast and who works at the Bel-mont Park preschool. “Now we have to cut it off at 100 because of parking.”

Entering its fifth year, the monthly, volunteer program now runs out of the gym in the Colwood Pacific Activity Centre, a branch of the Military Family Resource Centre.

It’s popularity has grown by word of mouth and parent networking, and it’s not hard to understand why — each session the kids get a free light

breakfast, are read books and get a free book to take home. Parents get to socialize over free coffee and snacks. Last year 208 different kids came to at least one Books for Breakfast, and many are repeat clients.

“This has grown just through word of mouth,” Manthorpe said. “This may be a West Shore initiative, but people come from all over Victoria.”

Langford parents Mark and Miriam Sargeant said the program has allowed them to expand their library of kids' books for their 10 month old daughter Isla.

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The roots of musicAn old fashioned folk singer and songwriter in Langford is still going strong after 40 years of performing.

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A 187-unit highrise development proposed for the corner of Veterans Memorial Parkway and Latoria Road got the nod from Colwood council to move on to public consultation.

The building would replace one single family home at 594 Latoria Road and undeveloped treed property behind it, on a 0.96 hectare (2.4 acres) lot across from the Latoria Walk subdivision.

Coun. Judith Cullington, acting-chair at the plan-ning meeting where the proposal was discussed before it was voted on at council, said the proponent may have difficulty getting neighbours to support for the development. Thirty residents came to the com-mittee meeting to express disapproval.

“Mainly they were concerned with the density and height of the proposed development, and some brought up traffic flow and pedestrian safety,” Cul-lington said.

Single-storey homes on the property next to the proposed development would be dwarfed by a tiered building with five storeys at its low end, facing Lato-ria Road, and a maximum of 11-storeys along VMP.

“I’ve been looking up at a lot of 11-storey buildings as I’ve been considering this application,” Cullington said. “It seems high for the area, but what I’ve real-ized is you don’t really look up at buildings. You just look at what’s at ground level.”

Developer Mojtaba Shahab of Parsi Development has planned ground floor commercial space, sug-gesting a restaurant and day care, as well as other offices, retail stores and live-work spaces.

Highrise project proposed near LatoriaColwood council gives initial OK to 187-unit building

PLEASE SEE: Council keen on Latoria project, Page A8

PLEASE SEE: Reading, Page A8

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Langford residents Mark and Miriam Sargeant read to their 10 month old daughter Isla. Books for Breakfast program based in Colwood has allowed the Sargeants to expand their book library for their child.

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When Terry Brennan strums his guitar, the music seems to spill out of him — tunes of love lost, love found and life lived.

He’s an old-fashioned folk and roots musician who critics call a master craftsman of songs. He records in his simple home studio in Langford using tape cassettes. His Gibson J-200 guitar, once first love of his life, “is now my sec-ond,” after his wife Kate.

For a guy who has hung out with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash and who has written hundreds of songs, many to great acclaim, Brennan has found fame — or at least commercial fame — pain-fully elusive.

At 63, Brennan has been work-ing gigs for 45 years, since the days of sneaking into clubs in the Yorkville area of Toronto as a teenager. As a youth he was on a path toward a career in profes-sional baseball, but folk and blues music of the late 1960s became his calling.

“My dad wanted me to play second base for the New York Yankees,” Brennan says laughing. “I was well on my way when Bob Dylan ruined all that.”

Brennan moved to the West Coast in the late 1960s to seek out adventure, becoming a cowboy

on a ranch in Merritt, and a miner in the Yukon. It was there, in the north with a girlfriend, he was shot at by a jealous estranged husband — fine fodder for future songs. “I remember a crazy laugh in the night,” he says. “I was lying in bed when bullets came through the wall.”

He has always kept one foot in the folk and blues scene and the other at a regular, steady job.

Being a vagabond starving artist didn’t sit well with the self-taught guitar player, who has been at everything from a restau-

rant manager to a handyman to a gardener. It’s a decision he’s wres-tled with throughout his career as a singer and songwriter.

With a voice and song writing sensibility somewhere between Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot, Brennan consistently won music writing contests in the 1990s and earned accolades as a performer, but he put more time and energy into crafting music than self pro-motion.

In the 1980s and 90s, he per-formed off and on at music fes-tivals based on reputation and

recommendations from other per-formers. These days the competi-tion is fierce, plentiful and from around the world — and folk fests are booked years in advance.

“You can make a good living between being a pop success and where I’m at,” Brennan says. “I’m not headed toward stardom. These days I’ve got more modest goals.”

Married and living in Langford for six years now, he works at GardenWorks in Colwood, but with the help of his wife as a pro-moter and manager, Brennan is

tackling the Western Canada folk circuit with renewed energy.

“It’s been six years since I’ve moved to Vancouver Island and I’ve worked way more,” he says. “There’s better venues, better audiences. I like playing for audi-ences who really listen.”

Beyond smaller venues around the Capital Region, this weekend he is performing at the Vancou-ver Island Exhibition in Nanaimo. Next year he’s aiming for folk fests in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. He’s also performing with friend Roger Plant, a per-former “who completes the musi-cal picture.”

“From the get-go he fit in like butter and jam. We’ve still never rehearsed, it’s effortless,” Bren-nan says. “Using my original songs and Roger’s fingers, we’ll get some sweet gigs.”

Playing his guitar and writing music — Brennan has a reper-toire of some 200 original songs and hundreds more that are works in progress — remains his passion. He still agonizes over every chorus and every word, although it’s easier to craft music when times are tough, not when he has a happy, stable home life.

“I’ve had a lot of sleepless nights over one word. I’m a stick-ler for a well-written song — it should sound like it fell out of the apple tree. They don’t have to be complicated, but they have a lot to say.

“You should never have to fight to know what a song is about. They’re about love lost, love found and about resolving things, a spiritual journey.”

For more on Terry Brennan, see radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Terry-Brennan.

A lifelong performer feels the pull between his passion and his livelihood

Edward Hill/News staff

Terry Brennan strums his guitar in his Langford home. The acclaimed folk and roots musician and songwriter is still going strong after more than 40 years of performing.

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Langford and Colwood are negotiating a way to straightening out their wonky municipal boundaries.

Two adjustments are proposed: The first would see the boundary along 3200 block of Jacklin Road, from Walfred Road to the Galloping Goose Trail, moved from the east side of the road to the middle. The second,

more complicated, change would have Veterans Memorial Parkway split down the middle from Kelly Road to Meaford Avenue.

During an Aug. 29 council meeting, Col-wood agreed to initiate legal proceedings to change the Jacklin Road boundary, which will entail transferring a section of road designation from Colwood to Lang-ford.

The swap will have no impact on private

properties and the municipalities will main-tain an existing agreement to share mainte-nance responsibilities for the road.

But the the latter boundary, which crosses VMP and Colwood Creek twice, involves swapping some un-developed land and Colwood isn’t ready to accept what Langford has proposed.

Colwood Coun. Judith Cullington, who was acting chair at the planning meeting when the swap was discussed, said the

land Colwood is being offered has more development restrictions, and potentially less taxable value, than the parcel it would give up.

“We could consider a land swap, but this one is not entirely fair as proposed,” Cul-lington said. “We’ll keep the door open for suggestions. I think our staff have one or two ideas for how to make it a fairer deal.”

Council unanimously declined the sec-ond boundary adjustment as proposed.

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Erin McCrackenNews staff

Business leaders plan to pitch their case for more due diligence and a regional referen-dum on a proposed $950-million light-rail rapid transit service.

A delegation of representa-tives from the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, which represents 1,000 businesses, will be championing the quest when the Victoria Regional Transit Commission meets on Sept. 13.

“No surprise — what we’re going to do is say there needs to be a third-party review in order to make this funding deci-sion,” said Bruce Carter, cham-ber president.

The chamber is now in the process of fine-tuning its ref-erendum position, developing what it thinks the question should be, who should have the opportunity to answer it, and when it could be asked.

“One of the reasons why

we don’t have a question is because we don’t know whether we’re borrowing a billion dol-lars or how we’re paying for it, or really if it is a billion dol-lars, until there’s a third-party review,” Carter said.

The magnitude of the poten-tial costs involved in the proj-ect, combined with the commis-sion’s lacking regional represen-tation, make a strong case for an external review, eventually going to voters for direction, as well as a new transit gover-

nance model, Carter said.In June, the chamber

sounded the alarm that the LRT project should undergo a third-party review and receive endorsement from voters, after it gave B.C. Transit’s proposal a business review.

Given the complexity involved, chamber officials concluded an outside party needs to analyze the proposal’s construction and operating costs, and determine the eco-nomic impact and cost-sharing options.

Since then, Carter has spo-ken with B.C. Transit represen-tatives and said he has been assured that an external review of the project will happen.

“When they get to the next stage, which is the business case development, there will be a review by an indepen-dent third party and it will be a contractor and it will go to government,” Carter said. “It’s a requirement for funding at the federal level.”

Chamber pushes for light rail referendum, review

“We don’t know whether we’re borrowing a billion dollars or how we’re paying for it, or really if it is a billion dollars, until there’s a third-party review.”

–Bruce CarterGreater Victoria Chamber

of Commerce

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Tom FletcherEdward HillNews staff

Premier Christy Clark has ended months of speculation, announcing she will wait until the scheduled date of May 2013 to face the voters in a general election.

Since winning the B.C. Liberal leadership in February, Clark has questioned whether she has a suf-ficient mandate to govern until the election date specified in provincial law. She reversed that position in interviews with selected Vancouver media outlets last week.

Clark denied that the defeat of the harmonized sales tax or party polling changed her mind. In vari-ous interviews, she emphasized the instability of the world economy and the lack of a public appetite for another election this year.

West Shore MLAs suspect Clark’s about-face on a fall election hinges on the unpopularity of her party in the wake of the defeated HST, rather than keeping to fixed elec-tion dates.

B.C.’s election law specifies a pro-vincial election every four years, but reserves the traditional right of the government to deal with unusual circumstances such as death or resignation.

Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan (NDP), who supports fixed election

dates, said the failure to pass the HST is equivalent to a non-confi-dence vote on tax policy, meaning the government should fall.

“If the HST had been defeated in the legislature, that would have been a vote of non-confidence. Instead we had 1.6 million people pass judgment on tax policy of gov-ernment, and yet they still govern,” Horgan said.

“Under normal circumstances that would say ‘you guys are done.’ This is new grounds. In Canada we’ve never voted on tax policy before.”

“I’m disappointed,” he said. “I was looking forward to defeating the Liberals in an election.”

After being sworn in as premier, Clark appointed an election readi-ness committee chaired by cabinet minister Rich Coleman and Brad Bennett, son of former premier Bill Bennett.

Election preparations recently cost Clark a cabinet minister, as Chilliwack-Hope MLA Barry Penner stepped down as attorney-general in August, citing the pressure to name a campaign team for a pos-sible fall election.

Esquimalt-Royal Roads MLA Mau-rine Karagianis (NDP) called Clark’s position a “clear flip flop,” which provokes further uncertainty of an economy in an 18-month sales-tax limbo.

“Clark said she would go into an election after the HST (referendum) because she is an unelected pre-mier,” Karagianis said, referring to the fact that Clark, while winning a by-election, hasn’t led the B.C. Liberals through a general election. “But she read the tea leaves that she would be defeated.

“The state of economic uncer-tainly magnifies itself the way Clark conducts herself. There is no vision presented for where this govern-ment is going. I think the govern-ment has gotten worse under this premier.”

Both MLAs concede voter fatigue

could undermine another election in 2011, after a federal election in May, a summer referendum and upcoming municipal elections in November. At the same time, they know the time is ripe for their party to sweep the Liberals from the office and form government.

“My preference would be good governance, not necessarily my government,” Horgan said. “The Liberals have got to show they can govern, but they’re all over the map. That happens to governments that have been around for a long time.”

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New boss selected for West Shore Mounties

West Shore RCMP have found a new commanding officer, although it’s not clear when he’ll take up his new post.

RCMP Inspector Kevin Violot will take command when he is able to move from his post in the Northwest Territories. He has 31 years with the Mount-ies and is currently the acting criminal opera-tions officer.

“He is on a quick timeline to take com-mand. That is the hope,” said Cpl. Kathy Rochlitz.

Former West Shore detachment com-mander Mark Fisher took the job as chief of the Oak Bay Police in July.

RCMP offers business fraud prevention night

West Shore RCMP and the Bank of Can-ada are conducting a fraud prevention eve-ning for businesses, merchants and the public at the Langford Legion next Monday.

Bank of Canada officials will review the detection of coun-terfeit currency and security features on authentic notes.

The West Shore RCMP will review what to do in the event a merchant is stuck with a counterfeit bill.

The RMCP com-mercial crime unit will discuss how to recog-nize fraud and identity theft.

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Business leaders plan to pitch their case for more due diligence and a regional referen-dum on a proposed $950-million light-rail rapid transit service.

A delegation of representa-tives from the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, which represents 1,000 businesses, will be championing the quest when the Victoria Regional Transit Commission meets on Sept. 13.

“No surprise — what we’re going to do is say there needs to be a third-party review in order to make this funding deci-sion,” said Bruce Carter, cham-ber president.

The chamber is now in the process of fine-tuning its ref-erendum position, developing what it thinks the question should be, who should have the opportunity to answer it, and when it could be asked.

“One of the reasons why

we don’t have a question is because we don’t know whether we’re borrowing a billion dol-lars or how we’re paying for it, or really if it is a billion dol-lars, until there’s a third-party review,” Carter said.

The magnitude of the poten-tial costs involved in the proj-ect, combined with the commis-sion’s lacking regional represen-tation, make a strong case for an external review, eventually going to voters for direction, as well as a new transit gover-

nance model, Carter said.In June, the chamber

sounded the alarm that the LRT project should undergo a third-party review and receive endorsement from voters, after it gave B.C. Transit’s proposal a business review.

Given the complexity involved, chamber officials concluded an outside party needs to analyze the proposal’s construction and operating costs, and determine the eco-nomic impact and cost-sharing options.

Since then, Carter has spo-ken with B.C. Transit represen-tatives and said he has been assured that an external review of the project will happen.

“When they get to the next stage, which is the business case development, there will be a review by an indepen-dent third party and it will be a contractor and it will go to government,” Carter said. “It’s a requirement for funding at the federal level.”

Chamber pushes for light rail referendum, review

“We don’t know whether we’re borrowing a billion dollars or how we’re paying for it, or really if it is a billion dollars, until there’s a third-party review.”

–Bruce CarterGreater Victoria Chamber

of Commerce

TOWN OF VIEW ROYALNOTICE OF NOMINATION

GENERAL LOCAL ELECTION 2011

PUBLIC NOTICE is given to the electors of the Town of View Royal that nominations for the offi ces of Mayor and four (4) Councillors will be received at the Town of View Royal offi ce, 45 View Royal Avenue, View Royal, B.C. as follows:

From 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, the fourth (4th) day ofOctober, 2011 to 4:00 P.M. on Friday, the fourteenth (14th) day of October 2011, excluding Statutory holidays and weekends.

Should anyone wish to fi le nomination documents in other than offi ce hours, arrangements may be made by phoning the Chief Election Offi cer at 250-652-6884.

Nomination documents are now available at the Town of View Royal offi ce during regular offi ce hours.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE

A person is qualifi ed to be nominated, elected and to hold offi ce as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria:

• Canadian citizen;• Eighteen (18) years of age or older;• Resident of British Columbia for at least six (6) months immediately before the day nomination papers are fi led; and • not disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding offi ce.

Further information may be obtained by contacting the Chief Election Offi cer, at 250-652-6884 or Sarah Jones, Municipal Clerk, at 250-479-6800.

Given under my hand at Victoria, B.C. this seventeenth (17th) day of August, 2011.

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2011 ELECTIONS FOR GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENTNOTICE OF ADVANCE ELECTOR REGISTRATION AND

AVAILABILITY OF LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORSAre you eligible to vote at the November elections for Mayor and Council in the City of Colwood,

City of Langford, District of Highlands, District of Metchosin or Town of View Royal? If you reside or own property in Colwood, Highlands, Langford, or Metchosin, contact the administration department at the appropriate municipal offi ce to fi nd out if your name is on the current Provincial list of electors. If you reside in View Royal, please

note that registrations are accepted at advance voting opportunities and on general voting day only.

City of Langford 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue

250-478-7882

District of Metchosin 4450 Happy Valley Road

250-474-3167

Town of View Royal 45 View Royal Avenue

250-479-6800

District of Highlands 1980 Millstream Road

250-474-1773

City of Colwood 3300 Wishart Road

250-478-5999

For electors who live in or own property in Colwood, Highlands, Langford, or Metchosin and qualify as either a resident elector or non-resident elector, advance registrations will be accepted until the close of business on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. With the exception of registrations on voting days, elector registrations will not be

accepted during the period September 28, 2011 to November 20, 2011. Electors who live in or own property in View Royal and qualify as either a resident elector or non-resident elector, must register at advance

voting opportunities or on general voting day. Contact your municipal offi ce for more information.

ELECTOR QUALIFICATIONSResident Electors: Must be age 18 or older; and a Canadian citizen; and a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months im-mediately before the day of registration; and a resident of the municipality for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and not disqualifi ed by any enact-ment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualifi ed

by law.Non-Resident Property Electors:Must be age 18 or older; and a Canadian citizen; and a resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months im-mediately before the day of registration; and a registered owner of real property in the municipality for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and

not entitled to register as a resident elector; and not disqualifi ed by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualifi ed by law; and if there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector.

Resident Electors and Non-Resident Property Electors in Colwood, Highlands, Langford and Metchosin who are not on the List of Electors and who do not register in ad-vance may register at the time of voting. Electors of View Royal must register at the time of voting. All electors must register or be registered prior to voting.Resident Electors: Must produce two documents that provide evidence of the applicant’s identity and proof of residence – at least one document must contain the applicant’s signature. If you are unable to provide proof

of your place of residence, you must make a solemn declaration as to your place of residence.Non-Resident Property Electors who do not register by September 27, 2011 must register at the polling station prior to the time of voting (advance polls/general voting day). Those who have registered previously or before the close of advance registration will be on the voter’s list and their name will remain on the non-resident elector portion of the list until they no longer own the prop-erty, qualify, or majority consent is withdrawn. When

registering, you must provide proof of your identity and of your eligibility to register. At least two documents are required and at least one of those documents must bear your signature. If there is more than one registered owner for the property, only one owner can vote and only with written consent from the majority of registered owners of the real property (forms available at each municipality). Non-resident property electors in the Town of View Royal should contact the municipal hall at the phone number listed above for more information.

VOTING DAY REGISTRATION

LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORSThe City of Colwood, City of Langford, District of Highlands, and District of Metchosin are using the Provincial Voters List for the November 19, 2011 elec-tions. Beginning Tuesday, October 4, 2011 until the close of general voting for the election on November 19, 2011, Colwood, Highlands, Langford, and Metchosin will each have a copy of its list of registered electors which will, upon signature, be available for public inspection

during regular offi ce hours, Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays. Legislation prohibits distribution of the voters list to the general public. The municipal offi ces are located as follows: Colwood City Hall, 3300 Wishart Road; District of Highlands, 1980 Millstream Road; Lang-ford City Hall, 2nd Floor – 877 Goldstream Avenue; and District of Metchosin, 4450 Happy Valley Road. Anyone who is not a local government offi cer or employee acting

in the course of their duties must sign a statement that they will not inspect the list or use the information except for election purposes. An elector may request that the address or other information about the elector be omitted from or obscured on the list available to candidates and for public inspection in accordance with the Local Gov-ernment Act (request must be to appropriate jurisdiction). The Town of View Royal does not use a list of electors.

Colwood, Highlands, Langford, Metchosin electors: An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of registered electors may be made in accordance with the Local Government Act begin-ning Tuesday, October 4, 2011 and must be received

before 4:00 p.m. October 14, 2011. An objection must be in writing, may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector in the jurisdiction in which they are entitled to vote, and can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears has died or is

not qualifi ed to be registered as an elector of Colwood, Highlands, Langford, or Metchosin. (View Royal does not maintain a list of electors.)

OBJECTION TO REGISTRATION OF AN ELECTOR

• BC Driver’s License• Citizenship Card• Utility Bill (gas/water/hydro, etc.)

• BC Identifi cation Card• Real Property Tax Notice• Credit Card or Debit Card issued by savings institution• Social Insurance Card

• BC Care Card/BC Gold Care Card• Owner’s Certifi cate of Insurance and Vehicle License

IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE ACCEPTED FOR REGISTRATION PURPOSES

Ross McPhee Chief Administrative Offi cer City of Colwood

Jim Bowden Administrator City of Langford

Tina Neurauter Corporate Offi cer District of Highlands

Rachel ParkerClerk District of Metchosin

Kim AnemaChief Administrative Offi cer Town of View Royal

Dated this 7th day of September 2011

NOTICE TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF COLWOOD, CITY OF LANGFORD, DISTRICT OF HIGHLANDS, DISTRICT OF METCHOSIN AND TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL

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NOTICE OF NOMINATION GENERAL LOCAL ELECTION 2011

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of the City of Colwood that nominations for the offi ces of Mayor and six (6) Councillors will be received at the offi ces of the City of Colwood, 3300 Wishart Road, Colwood, B.C. between the hours of 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, the fourth (4th) day of October 2011 and 4:00 P.M. on Friday, the fourteenth (14th) day of October 2011 and during that period the nomination documents shall only be received on regular offi ce days and hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Should anyone wish to fi le nomination documents in other than offi ce hours, arrangements may be made by phoning the Deputy Chief Election Offi cer, Pat Crozier, at (250) 478 4566 or the Chief Elec-tion Offi cer at (250) 472 0059.

A Mayor and six (6) Councillors will be elected for a three (3) year term commencing December 2011 and terminating in 2014 after the election held in accordance with the legislation in the Local Govern-ment Act (2014).

The mode of nomination of candidates shall be as follows:

Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly qualifi ed elec-tors of the City of Colwood. The nomination documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to suffi ciently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the candidate. At the time of fi ling the nomination documents, the candidate shall also fi le with the Chief Election Offi cer or a person designated by the Chief Election Offi cer a written disclosure, as required under the Financial Disclosure Act.

Copies of all forms are available at the Offi ces of the City of Colwood, 3300 Wishart Road, Colwood, B.C. or by calling the Deputy Chief Elec-tion Offi cer at (250) 478 4566 or the Chief Election Offi cer at (250) 472 0059.

Given under my hand at Victoria, B.C. this fi fth (5th) day of September, 2011.

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After a group of Highlands residents got together for a seed swap they ended up form-ing a community group about producing local food.

The Highlands “local food group” meets monthly and has about 25 members who actively attend meetings. The group has been meeting regularly since April.

“We talk about how to grow food, who has the best pars-nips, and seed swapping,” said Ann Baird, a group member.

“It’s about building a commu-nity,” added Gord Baird, Ann’s husband. “Then the community can grow more food.”

“You want the kids to think (growing food is magic) but you don’t want adults to think it’s magic when it just appears on the shelves,” said Warren Lee, a member of the group.

Each month the group meets at a member’s garden. After a tour, they enjoy a potluck and conversation.

“The main gist behind the group is you get to learn from and share stories,” Lee said.

Ann and Gord focus on growing 100 per cent of the vegetables their fam-ily consumes. They’ve also been learning how to create soil out of composting weeds and

unwanted plants such as Scotch broom.

“We keep cutting broom and weeds and make a big pile, then we cover it with goat manure and plant squash,” Ann said.

After the gardening season, the pile becomes soil and is then used throughout the gar-den.

The local food group is made up of members with varying knowledge on gardening and food production.

“The group is about helping people get started with what-ever skills they have,” Ann said. “It’s just everybody helping everyone else.”

Lee, a climate scientist, has just started getting into garden-ing with his family.

“We are working on building a garden,” Lee said. His family has also started raising rabbits, but just as pets for now.

“This group is building a sense of community and the

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ability to share knowledge,” Lee said. He said it’s nice to have a personal contact for information instead of just looking in books.

The group helps Ann when she “has five million zucchinis and no cucumbers.”

Through the group the Bairds and Lee have learned about other High-landers who are raising their own beef and others who are growing

their own wheat.“It doesn’t have to be farm land to

grow food,” Ann said. Even though the Bairds have a

full garden, a green house, fruit and nut tress and chickens, Gord said the group is teaching them that, “we don’t know much.”

For more information on the High-lands Local Food Group or to join email [email protected].

Charla Huber/News staff

Gord and Ann Baird, along with Warren Lee, stand among their healthy garden. Highlands growers have banded together to trade tips and advice for successful veggie harvests.

Food growers in Highlands band together

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“It’s great. They’ve got a big carafe of coffee and it’s great to see other parents,” said Miriam, who took Isla to five sessions last winter and spring. “When it’s your first kid, it’s great to get back out into doing community events.”

“For parents it’s a network-ing and social time. And it’s a big event for kids. They get to see friends they’ve made,” Man-thorpe said. “It’s a party atmo-sphere and they get a book.”

Manthrope is budgeting $9,900 to cover books and expenses, funded through grants from the Sooke School District, Literacy Connection West Shore, among others. MFRC gives the space for free. Many of the volunteers are teachers with Belmont Park preschool and are critical to the success of the program.

“It’s so much fun to do,” Man-thorpe said. “We get way more back from the kids and parents than what we put in. We get so excited, it’s kind of an adrena-line rush.”

The premise behind the pro-gram is encouraging positive associations between books and reading, and to show par-ents that reading to their kids is a fun activity. The BFB vol-unteer storytellers tend to be

teachers or entertainers, who are good a getting the kids engaged and interacting with the story.

“When we read a book, we are modelling how to read. (Sto-rytellers) engage the kids, they talk about what is happening, they get kids to take part in the story,” Manthorpe said.

“We want parents and chil-dren reading together, we want them to look at books and read-ing as a lot of fun, not because it’s something they have to do.”

It may be counterintuitive, but tots from zero to six years old make an engaged audience, Manthrope said. Most don’t have a problem sitting through breakfast, two book readings and several sing-alongs. Par-ents, on the other hand, can be a touch chatty.

“It’s not a tough audience at all. The kids are fantastic,” Manthorpe said. “Kids are noisy because they are interacting with the book, so parents think they can chat. The biggest prob-lem is parents talking in the background.”

Parents interested in regis-tering for Books for Breakfast can email [email protected]. For more on Books for Breakfast, see www.sookewest-shoreliteracy.ca, under pro-grams.

[email protected]

Books for babiesNot to be confused

with Books for Break-fast, the Greater Victo-ria Public Library runs the “Books for Babies” program, where all new parents are given a free cloth bag, a book, a music CD and informa-tion on literacy.

About 2,000 bags per year are given to parents in the Capital Region through the libraries or public heath units. The program is funded annu-ally through TD Bank Financial Group, which gives $30,000, and the Steve Nash Foundation, which gives $15,000.

“This is a valuable program for young par-ents, and it’s free,” said Andrea Brimmell, head librarian at Juan de Fuca and Goudy branches. Library branches have reading times for babies and parents.

See gvpl.ca/about-the-library/our-community/books-for-babies or call 250-413-0365 for more information on Books for Babies.

Continued from Page A1

Reading reenforced as fun for kids, parents

The project is designed to be pedestrian friendly with land-scaping separating walkways from the street and a pond fed naturally from Latoria creek.

The applicant is asking to purchase a nearly 3,000 square metre section of city-owned, surplus road right of way that was designated to become part of VMP. The land is valued at $535,000 and the developer has suggested that money could go back into the project and be used to create a roundabout at the VMP-Latoria intersection, worth $1 million that the devel-oper would install, potentially sharing the cost with other developers in the area.

Mayor David Saunders thought this was a fair trade.

“The road (right-of-way) is non-taxable surplus land and this would be a way to start col-lecting taxes on it,” he said, not-ing that he supports the density of the project because it would increase the tax base.

“The same arguments we’re hearing in opposition to this project we heard when we were considering Latoria Walk, and I think everybody is glad we went ahead with that,” Saun-ders said. “These are the type of bold moves we have to take to set a strong foundation for the future of this city.”

The only councillor to speak in opposition to the project was Coun. Cynthia Day who said the official community plan doesn’t support such high density in the area.

“This isn’t a suitable develop-

ment for this neighbourhood,” she said. “Latoria Valley was designated as a minor centre, not a major centre.”

But Cullington pointed out that the OCP allows for higher density in exchange for more amenities.

“The proposal will benefit the City of Colwood and residents. It comes with a very strong amenity package,” she said.

In addition to road improve-ments, the developer would improve Latoria creek and make financial contributions to funds for community amenities, affordable housing, public art, and fire hall upgrades and high-rise training for firefighters.

The applicant will have to develop a riparian habitat pres-ervation plan for the creek prior to public hearing.


Council keen on Latoria project

Capital Regional District

Notice of Nomination 2011 General Local ElectionPublic Notice is hereby given to the electors of the Juan de Fuca, Salt Spring Island and Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Areas in the Capital Regional District that nominations for the office of Electoral Area Director will be received between 9:00am, Tuesday, October 4, 2011 and 4:00pm, Friday, October 14, 2011.

During that period the nomination documents shall only be received during regular office hours, 8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday – Friday, excluding statutory holidays, by a person designated by the Chief Election Officer at the Capital Regional District, Legislative Services Dept., 5th Floor, 625 Fisgard St., Victoria, B.C.

Should anyone wish to file nomination documents in other than office hours, arrangements may be made by phoning the Chief Election Officer at 250.472.0059.

Representation for the Electoral Areas will be as listed below and shall be for a 3-year term commencing December 2011 and terminating in 2014 after the election held in accordance with the legislation in the Local Government Act (2014): Juan de Fuca Electoral Area One Director Salt Spring Island Electoral Area One Director Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area One Director

(Galiano, Mayne, North Pender, Saturna, South Pender and Piers Islands)Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly qualified electors of the Electoral Area in which the candidate is running for office. The nomination documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to sufficiently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the candidate. At the time of filing the nomination documents, the candidate shall also file with the Chief Election Officer or a person designated by the Chief Election Officer a written disclosure as required under the Financial Disclosure Act.Further information on the requirements and procedures for making a nomination and copies of all forms are available at:

Capital Regional District, Legislative Services Dept., 625 Fisgard St., Victoria, B.C. Tel: 250.360.3128, or toll free 1.800.663.4425, local 3128 for Port Renfrew and Gulf Island residents;

by calling the Chief Election Officer at 250.472.0059.

Dated this 4th day of September, 2011 Thomas F. Moore, Chief Election Officer

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CHURCH SERVICES

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COLWOOD PENTECOSTAL CHURCH

2250 Sooke Road 250-478-7113

LEAD PASTOR: AL FUNKSun. Worship 9:00 & 11:00amwith Sun. School for ages 3-11

Fri Youth Meeting 7:30pm

WESTSIDE BIBLE CHURCHPastor Tim Davis

SUNDAY SERVICE: 10:30 amWednesdays @ 7:30 pm

Bible Study & Prayer3307 Wishart Rd. 250-478-8066www.westsidefamily.org

WEST SHOREPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

760 Latoria Road250-474-0452

MINISTER: Dr. Harold McNabb10:30am Worship & Church School

[email protected]

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARYROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

798 Goldstream AvenueWEEKEND MASSES:

5PM Saturday Sunday 8:30AM & 10:30AM

Pastor: Fr. Paul Szczur, SDS250-478-3482

The Anglican Church of Canada

Saint Mary of the Incarnation4125 Metchosin Road

Service at 9:30 am on SundaysFor info contact 250-474-4119

All are welcome

THE OPEN GATE CHURCHAnglican Network In Canada

1289 Parkdale Dr.Phone: 250-590-6736

Sunday Services8:30 Traditional Holy Communion BCP 10:15 Family Praise with Kings Club

(Sunday School)EVERYONE WELCOME

“Jesus Christ: The Way, The Truth, The Life”

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Call Pastor Daveat 250-479-0500

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510 Mt. View Ave.(Behind the SHELL Station)250-474-3031

Sunday services:8:30 Traditional Worship

10:00 Family Service with Childs’ Program

GORDON UNITED CHURCH935 Goldstream Avenue

10:15 am Music10:30 am Family ServiceChildren's program

starts Sept. 11Rev. Heidi Koschzeck

250-478-6632www.gordonunitedchurch.ca

Share your walking photos, videos, stories and maps. You and your community could win big!

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The track cycling season wrapped up at the Juan de Fuca Velodrome last weekend with the three day Cycling B.C.’s Provincial Track Cycling Championship.

More than 60 cyclists, mainly from Vancouver and Victoria, raced in a variety of sprints and longer distance pursuits in individual and team events.

Greater Victoria Velo-drome Association president Chris Anstey was pleased to see the track put to good use after being closed due to an insurance risk for the two previous summers.

“Track racing is not just racing, it’s a social community,” he said, pointing to the range of age (teens to seniors) and ability (three categories) converging on the track.

“A lot of riders gave up on track cycling and sold their bike when the velodrome closed,” he said. “When we were let back on the track, they had to rush out and get new bikes.”

The GVVA signed up 130 members during its season, including a record 20 juniors. Its twice-weekly “learn to ride track” courses were never empty.

Members could get on the track three days per week, Mondays for time training, Wednesdays for group rides and Sunday for open track.

Anstey is confident the track will be open again next year. “This certainly isn’t our last hurrah,” he said of the championships. “My understanding is we’ll be able to use the track next year, but I’m not exactly sure on what terms.”

A consultants report commissioned by West Shore Parks and Recreation recom-mended the GVVA’s one-year lease on the velodrome be extended to five years. But in the longer term, about 10 years down the road, the report recommended redevelop-ing the 333-metre cycling track to make way for an artificial turf field.

Anstey would rather see the existing velodrome upgraded to a better quality cycling track.

“The velodrome is one of the safest places to ride,” he said. “You don’t have to be a serious racer to enjoy it. It’s a great aerobic activity for all ages.”

For more information on the velodrome society and for racing results, see gvva.bc.ca.

Championship caps rebirth year for velodrome

“This certainly isn’t our last hurrah.”

–Chris AnsteyGVVA president

Sam Van Schie/New staff

Kim Webb, Jim Holtz and Mike Elkink warm up for the team sprint qualifier at the velodrome Friday, part of the provincial track cycling championship.

Flood of new members bodes well for track cycling


“It’s great. They’ve got a big carafe of coffee and it’s great to see other parents,” said Miriam, who took Isla to five sessions last winter and spring. “When it’s your first kid, it’s great to get back out into doing community events.”

“For parents it’s a network-ing and social time. And it’s a big event for kids. They get to see friends they’ve made,” Man-thorpe said. “It’s a party atmo-sphere and they get a book.”

Manthrope is budgeting $9,900 to cover books and expenses, funded through grants from the Sooke School District, Literacy Connection West Shore, among others. MFRC gives the space for free. Many of the volunteers are teachers with Belmont Park preschool and are critical to the success of the program.

“It’s so much fun to do,” Man-thorpe said. “We get way more back from the kids and parents than what we put in. We get so excited, it’s kind of an adrena-line rush.”

The premise behind the pro-gram is encouraging positive associations between books and reading, and to show par-ents that reading to their kids is a fun activity. The BFB vol-unteer storytellers tend to be

teachers or entertainers, who are good a getting the kids engaged and interacting with the story.

“When we read a book, we are modelling how to read. (Sto-rytellers) engage the kids, they talk about what is happening, they get kids to take part in the story,” Manthorpe said.

“We want parents and chil-dren reading together, we want them to look at books and read-ing as a lot of fun, not because it’s something they have to do.”

It may be counterintuitive, but tots from zero to six years old make an engaged audience, Manthrope said. Most don’t have a problem sitting through breakfast, two book readings and several sing-alongs. Par-ents, on the other hand, can be a touch chatty.

“It’s not a tough audience at all. The kids are fantastic,” Manthorpe said. “Kids are noisy because they are interacting with the book, so parents think they can chat. The biggest prob-lem is parents talking in the background.”

Parents interested in regis-tering for Books for Breakfast can email [email protected]. For more on Books for Breakfast, see www.sookewest-shoreliteracy.ca, under pro-grams.

[email protected]

Books for babiesNot to be confused

with Books for Break-fast, the Greater Victo-ria Public Library runs the “Books for Babies” program, where all new parents are given a free cloth bag, a book, a music CD and informa-tion on literacy.

About 2,000 bags per year are given to parents in the Capital Region through the libraries or public heath units. The program is funded annu-ally through TD Bank Financial Group, which gives $30,000, and the Steve Nash Foundation, which gives $15,000.

“This is a valuable program for young par-ents, and it’s free,” said Andrea Brimmell, head librarian at Juan de Fuca and Goudy branches. Library branches have reading times for babies and parents.

See gvpl.ca/about-the-library/our-community/books-for-babies or call 250-413-0365 for more information on Books for Babies.


Reading reenforced as fun for kids, parents

The project is designed to be pedestrian friendly with land-scaping separating walkways from the street and a pond fed naturally from Latoria creek.

The applicant is asking to purchase a nearly 3,000 square metre section of city-owned, surplus road right of way that was designated to become part of VMP. The land is valued at $535,000 and the developer has suggested that money could go back into the project and be used to create a roundabout at the VMP-Latoria intersection, worth $1 million that the devel-oper would install, potentially sharing the cost with other developers in the area.

Mayor David Saunders thought this was a fair trade.

“The road (right-of-way) is non-taxable surplus land and this would be a way to start col-lecting taxes on it,” he said, not-ing that he supports the density of the project because it would increase the tax base.

“The same arguments we’re hearing in opposition to this project we heard when we were considering Latoria Walk, and I think everybody is glad we went ahead with that,” Saun-ders said. “These are the type of bold moves we have to take to set a strong foundation for the future of this city.”

The only councillor to speak in opposition to the project was Coun. Cynthia Day who said the official community plan doesn’t support such high density in the area.

“This isn’t a suitable develop-

ment for this neighbourhood,” she said. “Latoria Valley was designated as a minor centre, not a major centre.”

But Cullington pointed out that the OCP allows for higher density in exchange for more amenities.

“The proposal will benefit the City of Colwood and residents. It comes with a very strong amenity package,” she said.

In addition to road improve-ments, the developer would improve Latoria creek and make financial contributions to funds for community amenities, affordable housing, public art, and fire hall upgrades and high-rise training for firefighters.

The applicant will have to develop a riparian habitat pres-ervation plan for the creek prior to public hearing.


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Capital Regional DistrictNotice of Advance Voter Registration & Availability of List of Registered Electors 2011 General Local ElectionPublic notice is hereby given that Advance Voter Registration closes on September 27, 2011 for Capital Regional District (CRD) Lists of Registered Electors for:

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uthern Gulf Islands Electoral Area (Galiano, Mayne, North and South Pender, Saturna and Piers Islands) CRD Lists of Registered Electors are used for voting for Electoral Area Directors, referenda, School District Trustees and Islands Trust Trustees in the CRD.

Elector QualificationsResident Elector - If you are 18 years or older on voting day (November 19, 2011), are a Canadian Citizen, have resided in British Columbia for six months and in your community for 30 days (the residency qualifications are set out in the Local Government Act), you are entitled to vote as a Resident Elector.

Non-Resident Property Elector - If you are 18 years or older on voting day (November 19, 2011), are a Canadian Citizen, have resided in British Columbia for six months, have owned and held registered title to property within the boundaries of the local community for 30 days, do not qualify as a Resident Elector, you may vote as a Non-Resident Property Elector provided that you: a) have registered on or before September 27, 2011, or b) register at the time of voting (note that Certificates to Register as a Non-Resident Property Elector are no longer required).

The following information is required at the time of application: recent land title registration of the real property (may be obtained at the Land Title Office) or property tax notice, showing the names of all

the registered owners,ces of identification (one must have a signature), and

of more than one owner of the property, a completed consent form, signed by the majority of the owners, designating you as the person entitled to vote for the property.

Please Note:y one Non-Resident Property Elector may vote per property regardless of the number of owners. corporation is entitled to be registered as an elector or have a representative registered as an elector, and no corporation is entitled to

vote. als who are on title with corporations are not entitled to register or vote. Individuals who own an undivided interest in land on which

the balance is held by a corporation are not entitled to vote. You may register on voting day if you meet the elector qualifications set out above. For information about registering as a Resident or Non-Resident Property Elector call 250.360.3129. Port Renfrew and Gulf Island residents may call toll free, 1.800.663.4425, local 3129.

List of Registered ElectorsThe preliminary Lists of Registered Electors will be available, upon signature, for viewing at the CRD offices listed below from 8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday – Friday, unless otherwise noted. You may also call the offices to enquire whether your name is on a CRD List of Registered Electors:

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Following the close of Advance Voter Registration and beginning Tuesday, October 4, 2011, until the close of general voting, a copy of the final Lists of Registered Electors will be available, upon signature, for public inspection at the CRD offices listed above.

An elector may request that personal information respecting the elector be omitted from or obscured on the List in accordance with S.63 (protection of privacy) of the Local Government Act.Objection to Registration of an ElectorAn objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the List of Registered Electors may be made to the CRD Corporate Officer, PO Box 1000, Victoria, BC, V8W 2S6, in accordance with the Local Government Act, until 4:00pm on October 14, 2011. An objection must be made in writing, may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of the CRD, and can only be made on the basis that the person whose name appears has died or is not qualified to be registered as an elector of the CRD.

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See if this number means any-thing: $42 trillion, increasing by thousands per second.

That’s the debt owed by the world’s governments. The Economist magazine tracks its rise online with a global debt clock.

We are supposed to be scared by that long snake of digits, but it causes most people to yawn, or scratch their heads and turn to hockey or You-Tube.

You couldn’t say the numbers boggle the mind. They don’t enter the mind. Even one trillion is an empty idea — the unit followed by 12 zeroes. The distance to the nearest galaxy would be more exciting, if I could remember it.

My late wife Peggy, who worked for a while as a secretary for the Canadian Law Commission, a think tank killed by Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper, once carried a visit-ing baby around the commission’s library, telling the baby in a sooth-ing tone about the commission’s work and the contents of the books.

The global public debt means as much to the average person as the Law Commission’s work meant to the baby. Less, probably.

Peggy’s account did have the effect of a lullaby, assuring the baby that everything was okay, or soon would be after some changes in policy and jurisprudence.

On the other hand, the Econo-

mist’s online debt clock is a faint, theoretical wake-up call — a call that most people ignore. They sleep

through the signal, and continue their personal dreams or nightmares.

“Ah, but you should awaken to the danger of the debt, if you know what’s good for you,” the money-pundits say.

Should we? Fully alert people may see a finan-cial landscape that is much different to the one the conservative or neo-liberal dollar-gurus want us to see.

What is this money that we owe collectively? Money used to be coins minted from copper, silver and gold, plus the bits of printed paper that certified the existence of specific quantities of treasure held in vaults.

Not any more. Coins are small change. Serious money is just a mass of paper and electronics that the government and commercial banks and business corporations conjure up together.

They order us to accept whatever tiny or bloated share of that alleged money we can squeeze out, and exchange the computer symbols for groceries and other stuff, and trade some of it for human and environ-mental services and infrastructure — big subsidies to automobile roads, sketchy aid to buses and rail-ways.

According to the official word

from Ottawa, the flow of the “free market” has swept us into eco-nomic trouble, but helpful restraint by a government in Canada has saved this country from the worst of it. The implication is that Canadi-ans will prosper as long as we slash social and environmental programs.

The “free market” is portrayed as a relentless force of nature resem-bling Egypt’s Nile river, where smart observers of the river and their descendants, by relative accuracy in estimating this year’s deposit of river mud and the abundance of grain, were able to transform them-selves into priest-kings and living gods.

Unlike the Nile, however, the “market” turns out to be a system partly handmade and controlled by money twisters and politicians.

Social policy scholar Chuck Collins recently pointed out that 25 of the U.S.A.’s largest corpora-tions paid more to their CEOs and more to lobbyists than they paid in taxes. They dodged taxes on much of their profit by hiding it in tax havens, from Bermuda to the Cay-man Islands.

Environmental thinker Guy Dauncey in Econews urges closing of tax havens and adding a tax on junk food, to increase annual world revenues by up to $1.4 trillion. Great idea.

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On the other, September is painting a less glowing picture on a couple of other fronts.

Students taking certain Grade 11 and 12 equivalency courses through Camosun College, with an eye on post-secondary enrolment, are paying hundreds of dollars for tuition rather than receiving the courses free as they would have last year.

And of course, there is the public school teachers’ dispute with the province. Strike notice has been served, which means teachers are working to rule to start the year — no report cards or other administrative duties will be done — a scenario that threatens the strength of new teacher-student-parent relationships from the start.

Like any unionized group, teachers have won the right to collectively bargain. They have also won the right to work-to-rule.

But if adhering strictly to contract language means not doing things that allow parents to know how their child is doing at school, then such tasks need to be written into the next agreement contract as being untouchable during labour disputes.

That would require serious negotiation as well, but keeping teachers’ service at a minimum level is critical to ensuring valuable learning time is not lost.

For the sake of the students, both sides need to dispense with the political posturing, learn to compromise, hammer out an appropriate deal and get on with creating a meaningful environment in which young minds can learn.

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LETTERSTeachers have kids in mind during dispute

For the second time this summer I am disturbed by the bargaining (or lack thereof) between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association. Both stories I have read have been grossly imbalanced and paint an unjust picture of B.C. teachers.

Tom Fletcher’s coverage quotes BCPSEA bargaining bulletins and covers their position for six paragraphs but dedicates only one sentence to BCTF president Susan Lambert.

According to Fletcher’s article, the teachers have tabled four demands, all related to salary. For your information, here are some

direct quotes from the teachers’ bargaining bulletin:

“Teachers’ top priorities include: improving teaching and learning conditions (class size and composition, caseloads, learning specialist ratios, and time for class preparation), a fair and reasonable compensation package including benefit improvements commensurate with teachers across Canada (B.C. teachers are the fourth lowest paid in the country), and a return to local bargaining as the best solution to local issues.

“Premier Clark has an opportunity to make her ‘families first’ agenda real by restoring funding to schools and services to students this September. After a decade of deteriorating conditions, students should come back to school as beneficiaries of

the ruling that restores teachers’ bargaining rights and funding levels to make up for the $275 million which was cut every year since 2002.”

It seems teachers do have the kids’ interests in mind. Let’s make sure that the people who do an invaluable service to our society are appreciated and respected accordingly.

Bargaining involves two parties — the least we can do is educate ourselves about both sides of an issue before passing judgment.

Lara KremlerVictoria

Foghorns serveimportant purpose

It’s been roughly eight years since the Coast Guard silenced most of the foghorns on our West

Coast lighthouses to save $75,000 per year.

Of course, the main reason they used to justify this move was the increasingly widespread use of GPS devices.

But this same Coast Guard still feels it’s necessary to have all their visual aids to navigation in place to this day, and, presumably, well into the future.

They maintain their system of day markers, cardinal buoys, lighthouses, etcetera. So, on the one hand they seem to be saying that regardless of GPS usage, it is necessary to have these navigation aids in place. (A position I agree with.)

On the other hand, they appear to say these aids are only necessary when visibility is good.

Biologists recently found a strange monkey in the Ama-zon. They didn’t

know the unusual titi monkey, with its bright red beard and tail, even existed.

Researchers also found what they believe to be a massive river running 6,000 kilometres underneath the Amazon River. The underground Hamza River is 200 to 400 kilometres wide, whereas the Amazon ranges from one to 100 kilometres wide.

These are just two examples of how much we have yet to learn about our planet.

As for the plants and animals that share our home, a recent study — “How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?” — suggests that of the

estimated 8.7 million species on Earth, 86 per cent on land and

91 per cent in the oceans have not been described by scien-tists. And describing just means identifying and naming.

It doesn’t mean we know anything about population numbers, geographic distribu-tion, what they eat,

how they reproduce, or their relationship with other species. Authors of the

study, published in the scientific journal PLoS Biology, argue that understanding the range of bio-diversity in our world is crucial to conservation. In many cases, plants and animals are going extinct before we even know of their existence. “We know we are losing species because of human

activity, but we can't really appre-ciate the magnitude of species lost until we know what spe-cies are there,” study co-author Camilo Mora said.

As well as the titi monkey, other animals recently discovered include a small African antelope, a bacterium that consumes iron-oxide on the sunken Titanic, an underwater mushroom, a jump-ing cockroach, and a “prehis-toric” eel found in a cave in the Pacific Ocean. The eel has so many unusual features, including a second upper jaw, that it has been classified as a new species belonging to a new genus and family.

And, several species that were thought to have been extinct have since been rediscovered. However, researchers say this doesn’t mean they have recov-ered. Pretty much all of them are still at risk of extinction. In fact,

92 per cent of all amphibians and 86 per cent of all birds and mam-mals are believed to be facing extinction, and tens of thousands of species are being wiped out every year.

Many factors are at play in this biodiversity crisis, but most are related to human activity. Habitat destruction and conversion of land for agriculture and develop-ment are big ones. The spread of invasive species, overexploita-tion of natural resources, pollu-tion, and climate change are also major contributors to what some scientists are calling the sixth great extinction.

Unlike the previous mass extinctions, this one is human-caused. But the history of these extinctions should also tell us something. Nature and the planet are resilient. They bounce back after major crises, but — and this is crucial — not until the cause

of the extinction or crisis has dis-sipated. This means we humans are putting ourselves on a path to extinction.

The way out is to recognize that we are a part of the natural world and not something that stands outside of it. We abso-lutely depend on all that nature provides for our existence.

Conservation efforts are essen-tial. These will help plants and animals become more resilient to climate change, but they can also help slow climate change. For example, forests absorb and store carbon, so protecting them not only helps the plants and animals that live in them, it also helps reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

We can’t and needn’t give up hope, though. Thanks to the work of scientists and other thinkers, we learn more about our world every day.

Learning more about life on planet Earth

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When visibility drops and the fog rolls over you so fast you think someone stole the bow of your boat, you’re supposed to rely on your GPS and only your GPS.

Wouldn’t it be beneficial to have navigation aids available when you can’t see where you’re going? Obviously, they’d have to be signals that are heard rather than seen — in a word, foghorns. Their distinctive sound would help confirm your location and would also avoid collisions in the fog, in this case with the land.

I spoke to a lightkeeper years ago and he said they fought the removal of the foghorns and they would welcome their return.

Now that the government has indicated that staffed lighthouses are here to stay, I’d like to see, or hear, those lightkeepers turn on the foghorns again whenever the fog drops in.

It’s an inexpensive way to

keep this foggy coast safer.Glen Farrough

Tofino

Going private could be wrong answer

Re: Playing Monopoly with B.C. Hydro (B.C. Views, Aug. 17)

Before columnist Tom Fletcher prescribes dispensing with public-sector engineers in favour of private-sector “innovation,” he would do well to reflect on the legacy of a recent real-world example of a cost-saving private-sector “innovation” which was introduced over the objections of public sector engineers, namely the California-style leaky condo.

Robert SmithVictoria

Third choice needed in B.C. politics

With Former NDP leader Car-ole James’ announcement to run again in the riding of Victo-

ria Beacon-Hill in the next elec-tion, I have to wonder if we will ever get new people with new ideas.

People don’t like the B.C. Lib-erals. Ditto for the New Demo-crats. Both parties have egg on their faces over the HST.

With so much unhappiness in the electorate, the time appears ripe for a third party to emerge, which could effectively capital-ize on voter disgust with B.C.’s two-party system, a party that would put British Columbians first.

Third party advocates insist there is still time to find a can-didate. Only one has the neces-sary oomph: Bill Vander Zalm, who almost certainly won’t run. He is the only person who would be taken seriously by the majority of voters.

William PerryVictoria

LRT tax increase would hit low-income

Unmentioned or perhaps forgotten in the debate about

light rail transit are the renters and lower-income individuals and families.

The province will have no choice but to allow landlords to increase rents over and above the statutory limit to offset the significant tax impact. Coupled with sewage treatment, this is going to cause many hardships.

Secondly, there are going to be so few, relatively speaking, that will benefit from it. Just as minimal will be the benefits from sewage treatment.

Both of these expenditures, because of the significance of their tax implications should go to a public referendum, just as we took the HST to public referendum because of its tax implications.

We could do it at the same time as the upcoming civic elections. It would save a whole ton of money.

Bob BroughtonSaanich

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Tom FletcherBlack Press

Fewer than 500 police officers found themselves dealing with a crowd of 155,000 hockey fans and troublemakers much more quickly than they expected, a review of the Stanley Cup riot has found.

Police started out with 446 offi-cers on the streets of downtown Vancouver on June 15, and had 928 on duty by the time the situation was brought under control, said a report issued Sept. 1 by two review-ers appointed by the B.C. govern-ment.

Unlike the 1994 riot, police from different cities were able to commu-nicate, but due to a lack of practise working together, there was still confusion, the report said. Another difference from 1994 was the expan-sion of SkyTrain service, which rap-idly delivered many more people to the downtown core.

The police “meet and greet” technique that was effective dur-ing similar downtown gatherings at the Olympics in February could not function because of the size and early arrival of the crowd, said Doug Keefe, the former Nova Scotia deputy minister who conducted the review along with former Vancouver Olympic CEO John Furlong.

Premier Christy Clark said she is as frustrated as anyone that more

charges haven’t been laid, but police are trying to be as thorough as pos-sible.

“It was those drunken louts who caused this problem,” Clark said. “It wasn’t police, it wasn’t other citi-zens. It was them.”

Only two charges were laid as of last week against rioters. Vancou-ver Police launched a website Aug. 30 with pictures to help the public identify offenders caught by the many cameras that were used the night of the riot. VPD Chief Jim Chu said he wants a full review of 1,600 hours of video and other evidence so people who committed major offences don’t get off with lesser punishment.

Police asked City of Vancouver officials to make the outdoor gath-ering a ticketed event and check everyone for alcohol, but there wasn’t time to organize that, Keefe said. The 100,000 people who massed in the streets outside the live site led to congestion and confu-sion that allowed looting and van-dalism to continue for several hours.

The report makes 53 recommen-dations to prevent or contain future incidents, including having the RCMP and Vancouver Police tactical squads train together. Police and fire services across the region should have a clear framework for covering major regional events.

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A downtown office building’s security team called Victoria police the afternoon of Aug. 29 when three employees suddenly fell ill at once. They complained of light-head-edness, disorientation and numb limbs.

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Tom FletcherBlack Press

A work-to-rule campaign by public school teachers, scheduled to begin on the first day of school, is only one dispute expected in education

in the coming year.The B.C. Teachers Federation

confirmed Aug. 31 it will file strike notice to take effect Tuesday morn-ing, Sept 5. The BCTF says phase one will be to refuse administrative duties such as meeting with princi-

pals, supervising playgrounds and writing report cards.

The union and the employers’ association are far apart on a range of issues, including salary and a list of benefit improvements sought by the BCTF.

One major point in dispute is the meaning of a B.C. Supreme Court decision handed down this spring on the government’s 2002 removal of class size and composition from teacher bargaining. BCTF president Susan Lambert says the decision

means the government must add $336 million to the public school budget to guarantee a level of service.

“Teachers are deter-mined in this round of bargaining to regain those lost services, jobs and resources to meet students’ needs,” Lambert said.

Education Minister George Abbott has repeatedly said any settlement must fit with the government’s “net zero” mandate that other public service unions have already accepted. Abbott said in an inter-view that the BCTF is demanding “restora-tion of the world as it existed in 2001, and once that’s done, then they’ll start talking.”

Abbott said the court does not pre-scribe an outcome, but gives the two sides a year to work out a compromise.

On another long-run-ning dispute, Abbott said he hopes to have amendments ready for the fall legislature ses-sion to revamp the B.C. College of Teachers. He said the current sys-tem still allows teach-ers who have com-plaints against them to surrender their teach-ing certificate, avoid a disciplinary record, and then get reinstated to teach in a different district later on.

A review of the college last year by Victoria lawyer Don Avison found that even teachers with criminal convictions, includ-ing one case of sexual assault of students and another of cocaine traf-ficking, were able to resume teaching.

A bright spot for the new school year is the completion of B.C.’s full-day kindergarten project, which is now available province-wide. There are 37,000 kindergarten students expected to enrol in the program, after a $150 million invest-ment in classrooms and an operating bud-get expanded to $345 million.

Abbott said some parents were appre-hensive about putting five-year-olds into a full-day school pro-gram, but the pilot program last year was well received. “It was remarkable how the kids embraced play-based learning that is a part of the kindergar-ten program,” he said.

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Jesse Thomas Brown says he’s not nearly as interesting as the characters he describes in his songs – which may be true.

Or, it might just be that the tenacious singer-songwriter is far more comfortable sitting at a key-board than selling himself to the masses.

“I’m not great at self-promo-tion,” he said. “It’s hard to try to convince someone to listen to you without sounding arrogant.”

Brown, 32, has just completed his second album of piano-driven pop-rock. An Idiot’s Tale is named from the opening lines of Shake-speare’s MacBeth and dedicated to his hero, comedian George Car-lin, who died during its produc-tion.

“It’s an obsession,” he said of his self-recorded work. “I started playing the piano when I was 14 and once I got good enough at it that it was fun, it (became) an all-consuming thing.

A composer since the age of 16, Brown has been compared to

everyone from Bruce Springsteen and Elton John to James Taylor – comparisons that highlight a style not as common among today’s emerging artists.

“He almost has an old-fashioned sensibility and approach to his music and a kind of theatrical flare, which is what I enjoy about it,” said Lap of Luxury Sound Stu-dios owner Scott Bennett.

He and engineer Scott Hender-son worked on the recording of Brown’s 2008 CD, Tanglewood.

For his latest disc, Brown con-sulted with Henderson and Ben-nett and recorded both the instru-mental and vocal parts from his Saanich home.

“I think of myself as a songwriter who sings,” Brown said. “To me, singing is just a means to express-ing a song. I’m certainly not a great singer by any stretch.”

The only instrument he didn’t play on An Idiot’s Tale is drums, a role filled by his second-cousin, Grade 12 Belmont band student Lucas Johnson.

“It’s real. It’s not the hip hop stuff you hear on the radio that’s over-produced … It’s well thought-

through and well-written and actu-ally means something,” Johnson says of the music.

“Instrumentally, it’s different. You don’t hear piano (with) sing-ing much anymore. It’s really refreshing to hear that, instead of (the) auto-tuned dance music you hear on the radio.”

Both of Brown’s albums have sprung from a 65-song repertoire he wrote over 10 years. While he doesn’t officially launch his sec-ond CD until this weekend, he already has half of the recording finished for his third, tentatively titled The Passenger Waits.

Never too far from his home

studio, Brown, an avid reader and lover of figure skating – he’s a for-mer skater himself – can be found walking his dog, Ainsley, and lis-tening to his current favourite art-ists: Randy Newman, Eleisha Eagle and yes, Lady Gaga.

“He’s highly dedicated to that calling,” Bennett said of Brown.

“He’s a pretty genuine singer-songwriter kinda dude. I haven’t run across anyone quite yet that spends that amount of time in the writing of the material.”

[email protected]

OAK BAY NEWS - Wednesday, September 7, 2011 www.oakbaynews.com • A15

Dedicated artist churns out the songsTHE ARTS

Check it out■ What: An Idiot’s Tale CD release party, with special guest Katie Schaan■ Where: The Fort Café, 742 Fort St.■ When: Doors open at 7 p.m., showtime at 9 p.m., Sept. 10■ Tickets: $10 in advance at The Fort and Picnic Café, $12 at the door.

Photo by Adriana Durian

Singer songwriter Jesse Thomas Brown looks comfortbale behind the piano at his Saanich home. He’ll unveil his new CD, An Idiot’s Tale, at the Fort Street Cafe on Saturday (Sept. 10).

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Judges have selected 40 works for final adjudication from a total num-ber of 168 entries in the Victoria College of Art’s The Underlying Spirit: Homage to Emily Carr contest and show.

The finalists’ works will be on exhibit at Madrona Gallery starting Friday (Sept. 9) with an official opening at 7 p.m. Judges Kerry Mason, Martin Segger, Fran Willis and Jan Ross will be selecting first, second and third prizes on the day of the opening. Top prize for the Carr-inspired contest is $1,000, with $500 for second and $250 for third.

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Former Oak Bay-based activist and writer launching book

Author-poet Gary Geddes of Thetis Island, reads next week from his new book Drink the Bitter Root: A writer’s search for justice and redemp-tion in Africa.

The reading takes place at The Well, 821 Fort St., on Monday (Sept. 12) at 7 p.m.

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Jesse Thomas Brown says he’s not nearly as interesting as the characters he describes in his songs – which may be true.

Or, it might just be that the tenacious singer-songwriter is far more comfortable sitting at a key-board than selling himself to the masses.

“I’m not great at self-promo-tion,” he said. “It’s hard to try to convince someone to listen to you without sounding arrogant.”

Brown, 32, has just completed his second album of piano-driven pop-rock. An Idiot’s Tale is named from the opening lines of Shake-speare’s MacBeth and dedicated to his hero, comedian George Car-lin, who died during its produc-tion.

“It’s an obsession,” he said of his self-recorded work. “I started playing the piano when I was 14 and once I got good enough at it that it was fun, it (became) an all-consuming thing.

A composer since the age of 16, Brown has been compared to

everyone from Bruce Springsteen and Elton John to James Taylor – comparisons that highlight a style not as common among today’s emerging artists.

“He almost has an old-fashioned sensibility and approach to his music and a kind of theatrical flare, which is what I enjoy about it,” said Lap of Luxury Sound Stu-dios owner Scott Bennett.

He and engineer Scott Hender-son worked on the recording of Brown’s 2008 CD, Tanglewood.

For his latest disc, Brown con-sulted with Henderson and Ben-nett and recorded both the instru-mental and vocal parts from his Saanich home.

“I think of myself as a songwriter who sings,” Brown said. “To me, singing is just a means to express-ing a song. I’m certainly not a great singer by any stretch.”

The only instrument he didn’t play on An Idiot’s Tale is drums, a role filled by his second-cousin, Grade 12 Belmont band student Lucas Johnson.

“It’s real. It’s not the hip hop stuff you hear on the radio that’s over-produced … It’s well thought-

through and well-written and actu-ally means something,” Johnson says of the music.

“Instrumentally, it’s different. You don’t hear piano (with) sing-ing much anymore. It’s really refreshing to hear that, instead of (the) auto-tuned dance music you hear on the radio.”

Both of Brown’s albums have sprung from a 65-song repertoire he wrote over 10 years. While he doesn’t officially launch his sec-ond CD until this weekend, he already has half of the recording finished for his third, tentatively titled The Passenger Waits.

Never too far from his home

studio, Brown, an avid reader and lover of figure skating – he’s a for-mer skater himself – can be found walking his dog, Ainsley, and lis-tening to his current favourite art-ists: Randy Newman, Eleisha Eagle and yes, Lady Gaga.

“He’s highly dedicated to that calling,” Bennett said of Brown.

“He’s a pretty genuine singer-songwriter kinda dude. I haven’t run across anyone quite yet that spends that amount of time in the writing of the material.”

[email protected]

OAK BAY NEWS - Wednesday, September 7, 2011 www.oakbaynews.com • A15

Dedicated artist churns out the songsTHE ARTS

Check it out■ What: An Idiot’s Tale CD release party, with special guest Katie Schaan■ Where: The Fort Café, 742 Fort St.■ When: Doors open at 7 p.m., showtime at 9 p.m., Sept. 10■ Tickets: $10 in advance at The Fort and Picnic Café, $12 at the door.

Photo by Adriana Durian

Singer songwriter Jesse Thomas Brown looks comfortbale behind the piano at his Saanich home. He’ll unveil his new CD, An Idiot’s Tale, at the Fort Street Cafe on Saturday (Sept. 10).

Five-piece Buenos Aires-based troupe comes to Victoria for a concert and dance. Tix: $35 at door (600 Richmond Rd.) or $30 in advance, available by calling 250-388-7653 or 250-477-6360.

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Field narrowed down for Carr-inspired art contest

Judges have selected 40 works for final adjudication from a total num-ber of 168 entries in the Victoria College of Art’s The Underlying Spirit: Homage to Emily Carr contest and show.

The finalists’ works will be on exhibit at Madrona Gallery starting Friday (Sept. 9) with an official opening at 7 p.m. Judges Kerry Mason, Martin Segger, Fran Willis and Jan Ross will be selecting first, second and third prizes on the day of the opening. Top prize for the Carr-inspired contest is $1,000, with $500 for second and $250 for third.

The exhibit runs through Sept. 16 at the gallery, located at 606 View St.Opening hours are noon to 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday, and 10 a.m. to

6 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday.

Former Oak Bay-based activist and writer launching book

Author-poet Gary Geddes of Thetis Island, reads next week from his new book Drink the Bitter Root: A writer’s search for justice and redemp-tion in Africa.

The reading takes place at The Well, 821 Fort St., on Monday (Sept. 12) at 7 p.m.

The book is based on interviews Geddes did with victims of violence in Rwanda, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Somaliland.

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When Mary Douglas-Hunt picked up the phone at her house in Oak Bay, her husband on the other end of the line asked if she was sitting down.

“She won gold,” exclaimed Cliff Hunt.

The couple’s daughter, Lane Douglas-Hunt, won the gold medal in the Toughest Competi-tor Alive competition in the World Police and Fire Games in New York City last Wednesday.

“Oh, man, I was just so so (proud). I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ I was just so excited,” Mary said last Thursday. “We’re still shaking our heads in disbelief.”

The win comes less than one year after Lane, 24, was stabbed while on duty. As a VicPD officer, she was investigating a reported

shoplifting in the 700-block of Douglas St. on Jan. 17. As she exited the convenience store, a suspect came at her with a knife.

Lane suffered serious stab wounds to her left hand, requir-ing months of rehabilitation and keeping her away from the gym much of the spring, her mother said.

Guy Hervé Seguin was charged with attempted murder in the incident. He stands trial in Febru-ary 2012.

As soon as she was able, Lane got back to her rigorous workout routine of two hours of exercise each day, Mary said.

The Toughest Competitor event combines eight sports into a gru-elling 14-hour day. And despite Lane being disqualified from the rope-climb component for touch-ing her foot to the rope, Mary said, she still came out on top.

“It was a long day of competi-tion, but it is so rewarding to come away with the medal,” Lane said in a statement.

“It was very cool to be compet-ing against fellow cops and fire-fighters from around the world and collectively celebrate our accomplishments and success.”

Added Victoria police Chief Jamie Graham: “Const. Douglas-Hunt has worked tirelessly on her rehabilitation, and for her to accomplish this achievement at the international level reflects highly on her, her supportive fam-ily and colleagues.”

The Toughest Competitor Alive competition is considered one of the premier events of the World Police and Fire Games.

It includes a five-kilometre cross-country run, shot put, 100-metre sprint, 100-metre swim, 20-foot rope climb, bench press, pull-ups and a obstacle course.

Lane isn’t the only VicPD officer to collect a medal at the games.

Sgt. Mike Chicorelli and canine officer Max picked up a gold and a bronze medal on Wednesday as well, in the explosives detection competition. The pair won gold in vehicle searches and bronze for building searches.

The World Police and Fire Games happen every two years. This year’s games feature 15,000 competitors in 65 events, from 70 countries. The games started Aug. 26 and wrapped up on Sept. 5.

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Lane Douglas-Hunt deadlifts 300 pounds at a workout session in Victoria. The 24-year-old is a constable with Victoria police, and recently won the Toughest Competitor Alive competition at the 2011 World Police and Fire Games in New York City.

Grow a Native Plant Garden. Residents of the Capital Region are invited to participate in a FREE workshop on gardening with drought-resistant native plants. Instructor Patricia Johnston will provide instruction on native plant identification, their benefits and how to use them. An overview of CRD Water Conservation programs will be provided and participants will be given a tour of a native plant garden. These informative workshops will be held at Swan Lake Nature House, located at 3873 Swan Lake Road in Victoria.

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City of LangfordNotice of Nomination

General Local Election 2011

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of the City of Langford that nominations for the of ces of Mayor and six (6) Councillors will be received at the of ces of the City of Langford, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, B.C. between the hours of 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, the fourth (4th) day of October 2011 and 4:00 P.M. on Friday, the fourteenth (14th) day of October 2011 and during that period the nomination documents shall only be received on regular of ce days and hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). Should anyone wish to le nomination documents in other than of ce hours, arrangements may be made by phoning the Deputy Chief Election Of cer, Lindy Kaercher, at (250) 478 7882 or the Chief Election Of cer at (250) 472 0059.

A Mayor and six (6) Councillors will be elected for a three (3) year term commencing December 2011 and terminating in 2014 after the election held in accordance with the legislation in the Local Government Act (2014).

The mode of nomination of candidates shall be as follows:

Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly quali ed electors of the City of Langford. The nomination documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and shall state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to suf ciently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the candidate. At the time of ling the nomination documents, the candidate shall also le with the Chief Election Of cer or a person designated by the Chief Election Of cer a written disclosure, as required under the Financial Disclosure Act.

Copies of all forms are available at the Of ces of the City of Langford, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, B.C. or by calling the Deputy Chief Election Of cer at (250) 478 7882 or the Chief Election Of cer at (250) 472 0059.

Given under my hand at Victoria, B.C. this fth (5th) day of September, 2011.

Thomas F. Moore, Chief Election Of cer



Public Hearing

Notice of Public Hearing on Bylaw No. 1359; being the proposed Bylaw to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 for the City of Langford, is hereby given. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respect-ing matters contained in the Bylaw at the PUBLIC HEARING to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Monday, 19 September 2011, at 7:00 pm. Please be advised that no comments may be received by Council after the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether made in person or in writing, will form part of a public record.Purpose: The purpose of Bylaw No. 1359 is to amend the

City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amend-ing the zoning designation of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1359 from R2 (One and Two-Family Residential) to the R4 (One-Family Resi-dential 4) zone in order to permit the construction of one single family dwelling and an accessory building containing a secondary suite.

Applicant: Naveen Bains Location: The land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1359 is

2657 Florence Lake Road as shown shaded on the plan.

COPIES of the complete proposed Bylaw and other related material may be viewed during of ce hours 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, 5 September 2011 to Monday, 19 September 2011, inclusive, at the Langford City Hall, Second Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8. Please contact Grant Liebscher in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 with any questions on this Bylaw.

Jim BowdenAdministrator


Public Hearing

Notice of Public Hearing on Bylaw No. 1362; being the proposed Bylaw to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 for the City of Langford, is hereby given. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respect-ing matters contained in the Bylaw at the PUBLIC HEARING to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Monday, 19 September 2011, at 7:00 pm. Please be advised that no comments may be received by Council after the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether made in person or in writing, will form part of a public record.Bylaw No. 1362Purpose: The purpose of Bylaw No. 1362 is to amend the

City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amend-ing the zoning designation of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1362 from RM2 (Attached Housing) zone to MU1A (Mixed Use Residential Commercial A) zone to allow for the redevelop-ment of the site consisting of two (2) new apart-ment buildings.

Applicant: M’akola Housing SocietyLocation: The land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1362 is

554 Goldstream Avenue as shown shaded on the plan.

COPIES of the complete proposed Bylaw and other related material may be viewed during of ce hours 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, 5 September 2011 to Monday, 19 September 2011, inclusive, at the Langford City Hall, Second Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8. Please contact Leanne Taylor in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 with any questions on this Bylaw.

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After a rainless summer, knee-high grasses lie trampled against the rocky ground at 1388 Hillside Ave. in Victoria.

To some, the grounds of the apartment building is an eyesore and a sign of a neglectful landlord.

To others, including the landlord under fire, it’s a commitment to a more sustainable way of living free of gas-guzzling mowers and artificially green plants nurtured with treated city water.

Last Thursday, apart-ment owners Rosalyn and Gordon Alexander stood up to public scrutiny for their prac-tices at a city bylaw hearing. Given 14 days to adhere to a clean up order by Victoria, they chose instead to appeal.

“Over the 28 years we have owned and managed this build-ing, several residents … have indicated their pleasure in the blue-bells in the spring and the golden grasses in the summer,” the cou-ple wrote in a letter.

They also acknowl-edged one or two com-plaints, and the exis-tence of some invasive species, such as ivy and broom, which have since been cut back.

It’s an argument that cropped up recently at Saanich municipal hall.

In July, Maleea Acker successfully appealed an infraction notice, delivered in response to her back-to-nature lawn.

“Naturescaping,” as opposed to traditional landscaping, isn’t a new concept but one that’s gaining ground.

Saanich encourages its principles of provid-ing a diversity of native plants to enhance wildlife habitat, such as butterflies and song-birds. The Greater Vic-toria Public Libraries hosted a seminar on the concept this spring to inform gardeners wanting to make the switch.

While a naturescape is intended to look more natural, it isn’t about letting the yard go wild. It still requires maintenance, albeit of

a different kind.The distinction between

messy and natural is proving controversial in urban areas.

In Victoria, bylaw officer Andrew Dolan deemed the long grass and weeds at 1388 Hill-side to be unsightly, as well as presenting a risk of fire and of aggravating seasonal allergies.

Victoria council sees merit to native plants, but found the Alexanders too far on the lais-sez-faire end of the spectrum.

The issue has been post-poned, giving the Alexanders

four months to tidy the yard of some unkempt garden beds and other materials.

“I suspect at a later date, we might get some direction from council to figure our how we can accommodate property owners who wish to maintain the native look and feel to the yard,” said Rob Woodland, director of legislative and regulatory services. “When the (yard maintenance bylaw) was drafted and adopted, those types of things really weren’t in people’s minds.”

Neglect versus naturescapeDebate continues on allowing lawns to go back to nature


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Len Barrie isn’t just the owner of the Victoria Grizzlies, he’s now the head coach.

The 42-year-old former NHL player, Tampa Bay Lightning owner and deposed Bear Moun-tain CEO has stepped into the top coaching slot of the Junior A franchise.

Barrie assumed a coaching role during last season’s playoffs, when the squad struggled and lost against top-ranked Powell River Kings. Head coach Victor Gervaise was made assistant after the Grizzlies were out of the play-offs in round 2.

“We lost in Game 7,” Barrie

said. “We have unfinished busi-ness and we want to win a cham-pionship.”

Barrie has demanding expec-tations for the team, which will see a number of new faces this season.

“We are going to be a big physi-cal team and we are not going to be fun to play against,” Bar-rie said. “It’s an exciting time for junior hockey. It’s exciting to work with the kids.”

With marrying his responsibili-ties of owner and coach, Barrie joked, “the good news is I can’t get fired.”

Gervais holds positions of Griz-zlies general manager as well as assistant coach. This will allow him to do more behind-the-

scenes duties, such as organizing player travel and analyzing game videos. “It’s the stuff I like to do,

and I am the kind of guy who likes to stay out of the limelight,” Ger-vais said.

A new addition to the team is Rob Doyle, 47, who will be the team’s associate coach, working mainly with defense players.

The three coaches know each other well, and all played for the Frankfurt Lions team in Germany in 2000.

“Len is probably one of the most motivating people,” Doyle said. “He is a natural with the kids.”

While this will be Doyle’s first time helping coach a team, he has always been involved in the sport. He played 20 years of pro-fessional hockey, much of it in the Austrian elite league, and was NHL scout for the the Tampa Bay Lighting.

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A U.S. football coach will help give extra bite to the Belmont Bulldogs this year as a new sea-son opens this Friday.

Belmont’s varsity and junior varsity squad are going head to head against Edward Milne Wolverines at Bear Mountain Sta-dium.

The Bulldogs have a new offen-sive co-ordinator from Seattle, J.C. Boice, who moved to Canada with his son Court Boice.

J.C. coached football in the States and will bring a level of intensity to the team, said head coach Kevin Harrington.

With additional guidance from J.C, varsity player Keith Wil-liamson said “everything is up tempo.”

For Court, 15, playing football in Langford isn’t much different from the game he’s used to since Canadian high school football follows American rules and field dimensions.

“The players learn fast up here.

The game is very similar and the pace is similar,” Court said. “Peo-ple should check out our games ‘cause we are going to roll who-ever we go up against.”

Court, a quarterback, is only in Grade 9, but he has big goals. “I am shooting for the varsity team,” he said.

Harrington’s goals for the sea-son are for the varsity team to win the Tier 2 B.C. champion-ships. Next year the team will move up to a AAA ranking.

For Williamson, an inside receiver and an outside line backer, this is his third year play-ing for the Bulldogs.

“I am hoping we go undefeated for the whole season and win the (B.C.) championship that which we missed last year.”

The varsity team finished sec-ond in the B.C. championships last season.

“On the ride home on the ferry the boys looked at me and said, ‘so we start Monday?’” Har-rington said, speaking about their dedication to the game and the school.

Over the summer Harrington, has volunteered his time with the players, working on drills and conditioning to ensure this year’s athletes are ready to compete.

“The kids have been working since March and all through the summer,” Harrington said.

The junior varsity team made it to the Island playoffs last season, but lost in the first round. The junior varsity boys are playing their first year of AAA ball.

Thirty players are registered for varsity and 21 for junior varsity.

“We certainly need more JV players,” Harrington said. He would take up to 40 players for each team.

West Shore students in grades 8 and 9 can play for the junior varsity team.

The Belmont Bulldogs double header features middle school appreciation day — all middle school students are offered free admission to Bear Mountain Sta-dium.

“They can see what it’s like (to be on the team) when they finally make it to high school,” William-

son said. “It’s great and I like all the players and coaches.”

The first 500 people at Bear Mountain stadium will receive a free hot dog. The team is asking

for a $2 donation for non middle school entrants.

The junior varsity team plays at 3 p.m. and varsity plays at 5:30 p.m. on Friday.


Rob Doyle and Len Barrie are joining Victor Gervais as the coaching staff for the Victoria Grizzlies.

Bulldogs football primed for strong season


Belmont Bulldogs Keith Williamson, 16, and Court Boise, 15, are gearing up for their first game of the season against Sooke on Friday at Bear Mountain Stadium.

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A18 • www.vicnews.com Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - VICTORIA NEWS

Victoria Royals Team Burgundy goalie Jesse Jenks holds his pads tight as Team Grey’s Josh Adkins fires a shot off the side of the net during a training camp scrimmage at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.Don Denton/News staff

Slick-skating 15-year-old Joe Hick-etts gets his first taste of Western Hockey League play this week. The highly touted defenceman signed last week with the Victoria Royals for the 2011-12 season.

Hicketts is the Royals’ first draft pick, chosen 12th overall in the 2011 WHL bantam draft.

The Kamloops native is the only 1996-born player of the 31 on the club’s preseason roster.

The Royals and Vancouver Giants

tangle in a pair of exhibition matches this weekend, Friday in Ladner and Saturday in Maple Ridge.

Hicketts can play five regular sea-son games for the Royals. Once his major midget hockey season is over in the spring of 2012 he is eligible to join the Royals full time.

The Royals host the Kelowna Rockets in a preseason tilt Sept. 16, 7:05 p.m. at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.

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HELP WANTED

LEMARE GROUP is currently seeking a loader/hoechucker operator for the North Vancou-ver Island area. Full time union wages. Email resumes tooffi [email protected] or fax to 250-956-4888.

ON-CALL WORKERS re-quired for newspaper fl yer in-sertion Tuesday, Wednesday and/or Thursdays. $10.23 per hour. Evenings 5pm to 1am. Also occasional 9am to 5pm shifts available. No experience required. Please apply in per-son between 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday at Gold-stream Press (Island Publish-ers). #200-770 Enterprise Crescent.

WAREHOUSE & DELIVERY SUPERVISOR

Trail Appliances Ltd., the leader in the appliance industry, are searching for a Warehouse Supervisor to work in our Victoria distribu-tion centre. This role will focus on supervising a team of fi ve, inventory control, customer service and deliv-ery operations. The ideal candidate will offer the following competencies; a proven ability to supervis-or, coach and mentor, knowledge of inventory control principles, the ability to provide internal and exter-nal customer service, strong computer skills and the ability to effectively multi task. The ability to move large & bulky materials is also a major requirement as the successful candidate also must be able and willing to work on the delivery trucks as a driver or swam-per for vacation relief or illness situations. The shift for this position will include a rotating Saturday.

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HELP WANTED

We are still hiring - Dozer & excavator operators required by a busy Alberta oilfi eld con-struction company. We require operators that are experienced and preference will be given to operators that have construct-ed oilfi eld roads and drilling locations. You will be provided with motels and restaurant meals. Competitive wages, bonus and transportation daily to and from job sites. Our work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Call 780-723-5051.

HOME CARE/SUPPORT

HANDICAPPED SENIOR gentlemen still drives, I have a 2 bdrm, 2 bath Apt. I require a live-in Caregiver, min care needed, pays well. Senior lady preferred. Apply to Box # 638.

HOTEL, RESTAURANT, FOOD

COOKS. PUERTO Vallarta Amigos is hiring 2 F/T cooks in Victoria, BC. 3 yrs experience a must. Plan, prepare, cook & complete various Mexican dishes. $13.75/hr. Email re-sume to [email protected]

COOKS WANTED!Marquise Group is looking for Cooks for the Victoria area. F/T, P/T and casual positions available. Previous cooking experience in a healthcare setting preferred. Food Safe Level 2 required. Candidates will be required to complete a Criminal Record Check & TB Test.

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TRADES, TECHNICAL

COMMERCIAL TRANSPORT MECHANIC, certifi cation re-quired. Dynamic manufactur-ing & processing company in Vancouver is currently accept-ing resumes. Competitive wage and benefi ts. Email re-sumes to [email protected]

VERY BUSY Service Depart-ment. Frontier Peterbilt Sales Estevan SK. has immediate openings for truck and trans-port technicians, engine expe-rience an asset. Top wages and benefi ts. Please send re-sumes attention John Murie. Fax: 306-636-6321, e-mail: [email protected] Carrier Ltd in Fort St John is looking for a 4th year apprentice or journeyman mechanic with trans-port experience. We encourage 2nd and 3rd year apprentices to apply as well. Contact James; [email protected]. Affordable housing is available. Supply resume & ab-stract.


TRADES, TECHNICAL

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September 23, 2011Olympic Log Sort Ltd. pro-vides contract and custom log sorting to major Coast-al forest products compa-nies.THE POSITION:OLS is currently seeking a Log Sort Operations Su-pervisor to join our Stillwa-ter Log Sort Operation lo-cated in Powell River, British Columbia.QUALIFICATIONS:We require an individual with 5-10 years of log sort management experience. You possess coastal expe-rience in your profession and understand the neces-sity for the timely out turn of a fi rst rate product. You are considered to be a good leader with excellent communication skills. You bring to the job a good working knowledge of ap-plicable occupational health and safety regula-tions, related marine expe-rience, well-developed computer skills and a background in industrial relations management. A BC Scaling License is an asset for this position. OLS offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefi t package and the potential to achieve annual perfor-mance rewards. If you have the skills and qualifi -cations required for this position, please reply in confi dence: Patrick Davidson, Business ManagerFacsimile: 604.681.8906Email: [email protected] Deadline: Friday, September 23, 2011, as only short listed candidates will be contact-ed, OLS thanks you in ad-vance for your interest in our Company.

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HEALTH PRODUCTS

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FINANCIAL SERVICES

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LEGAL SERVICES

DIAL-A-LAW: access free in-formation on BC law. 1-604-687-4680; 1-800-565-5297; www.dialalaw.org, audio available. Lawyer referral ser-vice: need a lawyer? Learn more by calling 604-687-3221; 1-800-663-1919.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO

DIGITAL PHOTO retouch, ed-iting, add/remove objects/peo-ple. Tribute posters, home mo-vies to CD/DVD. 250-475-3332. www.cwpics.com

PETS

PET CARE SERVICES

GET My Leash Dog Walking We provide in-home, personal-ized care and exercise for your beloved dogs. Call Lisa @ 250-419-3006 or [email protected]

LUCKY PUP is a dog walking and dog hiking service in Vic-toria BC that provides on-leash, individual, group and off-leash dog hikes for lucky pups in the city and the outly-ing areas. Visit www.luckyp-up.ca for more information or contact Selina via e-mail at: [email protected] or by phone at (250) 507-5236.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

BUILDING SUPPLIES

METAL ROOFING & siding sales. Seconds avail. Custom roof Flashings. 250-544-3106.

FRIENDLY FRANK

21” TOSHIBA TV, w/built-in VCR $40. Technics receiver w/speakers $25.250-370-2905

2 TABLE lamps, $15. Corner table, $10. Coffee table $15. Area rug, $40. (250)881-8133

BATHROOM SCALE (Sun-beam), brand new, $25 obo. Call 250-380-9596.

BLACK & DECKER jig saw, like new, variable speeds, $20. Call 250-656-1640.

SMALL GE coloured TV, 6”x8” screen, $25. 4 head JVC VCR, $25. Call (250)477-3370

FUEL/FIREWOOD

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fi r, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.

SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest fi re-wood producer offers fi rewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords, fast delivery. Help restore your for-est, Burndrywood.com or 1-877-902-WOOD.

FURNITURE

ESTATE: $6000. Made In Canada Solid Mahogany Bed-room Ste $1999., Organic Cot-ton Queen-size Mattress set $499., Sears-O-Pedic Pocket Coil, Pillow-Top King-Size 4pc Mattress set $499.; Trundle Bed $249.; Sofa/Bed, Book-cases, Desks, Lamps, Large Deluxe Lighted Wall-Unit, Cherry Dinette, Oak D/Ped. Dining Table w/6 Sides & 2 Arm Chairs $799., More! BUY & SAVE 9818 4th St., Sidney. buyandsave.ca Visa, M/C.

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BUILDING SALE... “”Rock bottom prices”” 25x40x12 $7350. 30x60x15 $12,700. 35x70x16 $15,990. 40x80x16 $20,990. 47x100x18 $25,800. 60x140x20 $50,600. End walls included, doors optional. Pio-neer Steel Manufacturers Di-rect 1-800-668-5422.

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CAN’T GET Up your stairs? Acorn Stairlifts can help! No obligation consultation. Com-prehensive warranty. Can be installed in less than 1 hour. Call now 1-866-981-6591.

DO-IT-YOURSELF Steel Buildings priced to clear- make an offer! Ask about free deliv-ery, most areas! Call for quick quote and free brochure - 1-800-668-5111 ext. 170.

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SAWMILLS FROM only $3997 - make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-ellery. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700

REAL ESTATE

ACREAGE

82.8 ACRES, 300’ lakefront, S Cariboo. Beautiful, pastoral, private, rural setting. Borders crown land. Adjacent 80+ acre parcel available.

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$328,000Value. Newer. 1436’ Rancher2/3 Bedrooms.

2 Bath Sooke Core.

Hardwood, Stainless appl, Gas,

Heat exchange + Extras.Email: [email protected]: 250-881-0164

MORTGAGES

Mortgage Help! Beat bank rates for purchases and refi -nances, immediate debt con-solidation, foreclosure relief, and equity loans. Free, fast, friendly, private consultations.

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RECREATIONAL PROPERTY

RARE OPPORTUNITY: wa-terfront property on beautiful Jim Lake, (70 Mile House) .83-acre with 360 sq ft insulat-ed cabin, located near Green Lake/Watch Lake. Rare priva-cy, only three lots on the lake, good fi shing for rainbows to 10 lbs, nice swimming, surround-ed by crown land. Great trails for hiking, ATV and snowmo-bile. Seasonal 10-km back road access in 4x4 or pick-up. FSBO. $230,000. 250-395-0599. (Please see bchomesfor-sale.com/70mile/frank.)

RENTALS

ACREAGE

BEAUTIFUL WOODED lot, 54 acres, $19,900. South east shore NS, ideal for hunting and camping or cottage. List-ing #B-B977 ask for Monika 1-877-637-2553 or fax 1-902-637-2553. 1-902-637-3797.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

DOWNTOWN LANGFORD: $695; just reno’d 1 bdrm. Also 1 bdrm, $725. Adult oriented character building; no pets; refs. Rudi 250-818-5878.

DOWNTOWN SIDNEY 1-bdrm north facing condo in The Landmark w/ underground parking, close to sea with views, NP, $1000 mo, call 250-652-7707.

FERNWOOD AREA Apt, large 2 bdrm, $960/mo. Avail now. Call 250-370-2226 for viewing.

MALAHAT 1 & 2 Bdrms- Panoramic views. Serene & secure. All amenities on-site, fi rewood. $700-$1200 inclu-sive. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min commute to downtown Victoria. Must have references. 250-478-9231.

WORKSHOP/ LIVING SPACE FOR RENT Insulated 700 sq ft workshop is ideal for small business, woodworking, hob-byist. Living space has separ-ate entrance with large bed-room, separate laundry room, full bath, open kitchen living area & 2 decks. New Applianc-es include washer, dryer and dishwasher. Located on 4 acres in cobble Hill (Arbutus Ridge area). Fenced veggie garden. Great 30 min walk to beach. Rustic but charming. Avail Sept 1. $1200. call 250-709-2010 for details.

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WORKSHOP/ LIVING SPACEFOR RENT Insulated 700 sq ftworkshop is ideal for smallbusiness, woodworking, hob-byist. Living space has separ-ate entrance with large bed-room, separate laundry room,full bath, open kitchen livingarea & 2 decks. New Applianc-es include washer, dryer anddishwasher. Located on 4acres in cobble Hill (ArbutusRidge area). Fenced veggiegarden. Great 30 min walk tobeach. Rustic but charming.Avail Sept 1. $1200. call 250-709-2010 for details.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

LANGFORD/MILL Hill, brandnew half of duplex, 2 bdrms on2 levels, partially furn’d, kitch-en comp furn’d, shared lndry,refs req, now until Jan. 31/12,N/S, N/P, $1300 incls hydro &water, 250-478-6923.

SAANICH- (CENTRAL) 2 lrg bdrms+ sun rm, new reno,appls/fl rs, F/P, 3 bath, 2800sqft. NS/NP. $1800+ utils. AvailNow. 250-361-6183.

HOMES FOR RENT

3 BED, 2 full baths, ensuite, 5 appl. large//fenced yard, onacreage, Whiffen Spit, $1350+ utils, n/s, n/partiers, refsreq’d, avail Now DiscountOAP, & Military.250-642-2015

COLWOOD, 2 bdrm + den char home, 1 block fromocean, fenced yard, newly re-no’d, $1700 mo, 250-478-2590

SOUTH OAK BAY character, furnished, Jan 7 - Mar 10, allinclusive rent. $1700 mo. Catcare req’d. (250)[email protected]

WHY RENT when you canown? 0% down; $1600/mo.Call 250-360-1929 BinabStrasser - Re/Max Alliance.

SUITES, LOWER

2 BED, Bright large walk-out suite, wheel chair accesible.N/S. $900 + utilities.Ref’s. Req. N/Partiers discountOAP. 250 -642-2015

ALBERT HEAD/METCHOSIN1 bdrm, grd fl oor, N/S, N/P,priv ent, incls utils, waterfronton Witty’s Beach, south view,$800/mo. Call 250-478-0056.

BRIGHT 1BDRM new reno’s,backyard, priv ent, prkg,NS/NP $800, utils inc. immed.250-475-2627, 250-857-4685.

COLWOOD- 1 bdrm, shared laundry, priv ent, NS/NP. $850incls util. Quiet, 250-391-7915

COLWOOD FURNISHED 2- level 1 bdrm. Laundry, park-ing, close to bus. $890 inclu-sive. NS/NP. 250-380-0700.

DEEP COVE. Lrg 1 bdrm,acreage, hot tub. W/D, cat ok,N/S. $850+ util. 250-858-6511

HIGH QUADRA self cont 2bdrm grnd lvl, w/d ns/np$1050 utils incl (250)479-4254

NEAR BEAR Mtn. Bright, spa-cious 2-bdrm w/ views, 5appl’s. Sep. laundry, F/P,patio, yard, NS/NP. $1150.inclds utils. (250)391-8817.

SAANICH: FURNISHED large 1 bdrm suite. NP/NS. Avail.Sept. 1. Ref’s req’d $900/moinclusive. Call 250-721-0281,250-858-0807.

SIDNEY, GRD level, quiet 2 bdrm, 1000 sq ft, bright, privpatio. Close to town & bus,N/S, $1000 mo, 778-426-1817

SOOKE- LRG new 2 bdrm, W/D, 4 appls, close to amens,prkg, N/S. Refs. $950 incldsutils. (Immed) (250)294-0874.

TILLICUM/CAREY, bright 1-bdrm. Full bath. Sep ent, closeto amens, NS/NP. $725 inclshydro/electric/WD. Avail Oct. 1250-294-4070, 250-588-5195.

VIEW ROYAL- 2 bdrms, shared laundry. N/S. 1 smallpet ok. $1100 inclds hydro/wa-ter. Call (250)658-4735.

SUITES, UPPER

BRENTWOOD, LARGE studio exclusive suite, country set-ting, furn’d or unfurn’d, $675mo, N/S, N/P, 250-652-3082.

SAANICHTON, 1BDRM suite on quiet acreage with deck,fi replace, storage, parking,laundry, heat incl. $995. NS.250-652-6729

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TRANSPORTATION

AUTO FINANCING

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WANT A Vehicle but stressed about your credit? Christmas in August, $500 cash back. We fund your future not your past. All credit situations ac-cepted. www.creditdrivers.ca 1-888-593-6095.

AUTO SERVICES

ISLAND AUTO Body & Paint, 25 yrs. 1210 Stelly’s X Road. 250-881-4862.

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CARS

2001 CONVERTIBLE Mus-tang, new black roof, 6 cyl, $8000 obo. 250-514-3007.

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CARS CARS

2002 HONDA Civic EX. 4-door, 5-speed, sport pack-age, silver with grey interior. One owner, all service records avail. Power windows/locks, air. 111,000 km. $7,500. 250-884-2295.

VTRUCKS & ANS

2007 DODGE Dakota, silver, 41,000kms, auto, a/c, cruise. $13,000. Call 250-884-6998.

2010 FORD Ranger, 33,780 kms, dark grey, 207HP V6, auto w/ overdrive, warranty, $16,900 obo. (778)430-8008.

MARINE

BOATS

For sale BEST OFFER by Sept 17th. 16ft SundownerSki boat, Brentwood SeasideMarina (seahorses cafe). Sub-mit to: [email protected]

CLARK’S HOME RENOVATIONS(Family Owned & Operated Business)

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Service InstallationTubs, Surround, Sinks,Taps, Vanity, Drains,

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi

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Bookkeeping, Audit,Payroll, HST. Set up &

Training. E-FileTAX

250-477-4601

PENNIE’$ BOOKKEEPING Services for small business. Simply/Quickbooks. No time to get that paperwork done? We do data-entry, GST, payroll, year-end prep, and training. 250-661-1237

CARPENTRY

ABSOLUTELY THE BEST! New, reno’s, historical, decks, driveways, etc. WCB/Member of BBB. John, 250-658-2656.

BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748.

INSTCARPET ALLATION

DARCY’S CARPET & LINO. Install, repairs, laminate, re-stretch, 35 yrs. 250-478-0883.

MALTA FLOORING Installa-tion. Carpets, laminates, hard-wood, lino. BBB 250-388-0278

CLEANING SERVICES

CARING BONDABLE clean-ing since 1985 for lower Island areas. Supplies and vacuum incld’d. Call (250)385-5869.

FRIENDLY HOUSEKEEPER has immediate openings, Mon-Sat. Ref’s avail. 778-440-3875.

MALTA HOUSECLEANING. BBB. Best rates. Residen-tial/Comm. 250-388-0278

‘ON ANGEL’S WINGS HOME-CARE’ Private, professional housecleaning. Bonded & In-sured. $25./hr (778)440-1700.

COMPUTER SERVICES

A HOME COMPUTER Coach. Senior friendly. Computer les-sons, maintenance and prob-lem solving. Des, 250-656-9363, 250-727-5519.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS


COMPUTER SERVICES

COMPUDOC MOBILE Com-puter Services. Repairs, tune-ups, tutoring, web sites and more. Call 250-886-8053.

CONTRACTORS


CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood fl oor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877

REDSEAL JOURNEYMAN Carpenter. Simple hourly rate. (250)886-1596.

ELECTRICAL

AT&T ELECTRIC. Renova-tions. Residential & Commer-cial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550.

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.

WATTS ON ELECTRIC, Resi-dential, Commercial, Renova-tions. #100213. 250-418-1611.

VAEXCA TING & DRAINAGE

BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini ex-cavator & bob cat services. Call 250-478-8858.

FENCING

ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

MALTA FENCING & DECKS. BBB member. Best rates. (250)388-0278.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS


FURNITURE REFINISHING

FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & deliv-ery. References available. 250-475-1462.

U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-382-8602.

GARDENING

250-208-8535 WOODCHUCK: specializing in Lawn (Sod & Seed), Landscaping, Tree & Stump, Hedges, Blackberry, Ivy removal, Yard Cleanup, 23 yrs exp. WCB.

AURICLE LAWNS- Hedge, beds, irrigation, commer, stra-ta. 25 yrs. Insured. 882-3129.

COMPLETE PROPERTY maintenance programs. Monthly, weekly visits. Yard Cleanup pros. (250)885-8513.

*DIRTY DEEDS* now offers, along with our regular garden-ing services, an irrigation tech-nician and a 100% trained Permaculture Gardener for de-signing and maintaining your garden using sustainable land design. Contact *Soul* at *250-510-4769*

DPM SERVICES: Lawns, clean-ups, tree pruning, hedg-ing, landscaping & gutters. 15 yrs exp. Call 250-883-8141.

GARDEN OVERGROWN? Big cleanups our specialty Complete garden maint. Call 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

MAINTENANCE, RENO’S, creative design installation. Ponds to patios, res. and comm. Call (250)474-4373glenwoodgardenworks.com

WEEDING, PRUNING, hedg-es, hauling, etc. $25/hr, free est. Call Steve (250)727-0481

*YARD CLEAN UP* Hedge trimming, Pruning, Rototilling, Garbage removal, Lime, Grass cutting, Aerating and Fertiliz-ing lawns. Mention this ad and get 10% off *100% Done Right Guarantee*. Contact Rick at 250-510-4769.

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

DIAMOND DAVE Gutter cleaning, gutter guard, power washing, roof de-mossing. Call 250-889-5794.

GUTTER CLEANING, repairs, de-mossing. Windows, power washing. 250-478-6323.

GUTTER CLEANING. Re-pairs, Maintenance, Gutter-guard, Leaf traps. Grand Xteri-or Cleaning Services. WCB Insured. Call 250-380-7778.


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PERIMETER EXTERIORS. Gutter cleaning, repairs, up-grades, roof demossing. WCB, Free est. 250-881-2440.

V.I.P. GUTTER Cleaning. Gutter guards, all exterior, power washing, roof de-moss-ing, spray, windows. Package deals! Insured. (250)507-6543

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Ben 250-884-6603

ACTIVE HANDYMAN Reno’s, drywall, decks, fencing, pwr-wash, gutters, triming, yrd work, etc. Sen disc. 595-3327.

AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.

ASK ROB. Carpentry, decks, landscaping, bobcat work, ma-sonry and renos. Free Esti-mates. Call 250-744-4548.

BIG BEAR Handyman & Painting Services. No job too small. Lowest Price. Free Es-timates. Call 250-896-6071.

MALTA HANDYMAN. BBB member. Best rates. (250)388-0278.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-386-1119.

✭BUBBA’’S HAULING✭ Honest & on time. Demolition, construction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, topsoil, mulch), garden waste removal, mini excavator, bob cat service.(250)478-8858.


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IFIX HANDYMAN Services. Household repairs and reno-vations. Free estimates. Call Denis at 250-634-8086 or email: denisifi [email protected]

MALTA DRAIN Tiles. Replace and Repair. BBB member, best rates. (250)388-0278.

MALTA HOUSE Renos & Re-pairs. BBB member. Best rates. (250)388-0278.

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M&S OXFORD Home/Com-mercial Reno’s & Painting. Patio’s, Decks, Sheds, Hard-wood and Trim. 25 yrs exp. Quality Guar. 250-213-5204.

RENOS BY Don, 25 yrs exp. New, renos, repairs, decks, fencing, bathrooms, kitchens. Senior discounts. Licensed, Insured, WCB, 250-588-1545.

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MALTA DRYWALL & Paint-ing. Residential/Commercial. BBB member. (250)388-0278.

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

WESTSHORE STONEWORKS Custom Stonework. Patios & Walkways. (250)857-7442.


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C.B.S. Masonry Brick, Stone, Concrete, Paving, Chimneys, Sidewalks, Patios, Repair, Re-place, Re-build, Renew. “Quality is our Guarantee” Free Est’s & Competitive Pric-es. (250)294-9942, 589-9942 www.cbsmasonry.com

THE STUCCOMAN. Chimney repair work. Free estimates, 20 year warr/guarantee. Sen-ior discount. (250)391-9851.

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2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.

DIAMOND MOVING. 1 ton 2 ton, 5 ton. Prices starting at $75/hr. 250-220-0734.

MALTA MOVING. Best Rates. BBB Member. Residential/ Commercial. (250)388-0278.

PAINTING

A PROFESSIONAL WOMAN painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wallcoverings. Over 22 yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

BLAINE’S PAINTING- Quality workmanship. $20 hr, 20 yrs exp. Blaine, 250-580-2602.

FAIR RATES- Quality job. Free estimates. Licensed. In-sured WCB. (250)217-8131.

NORM’S PAINTING. Quality work. Reasonable, Reliable. Refs. 25 yr exp. 250-478-0347

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.

SOUTH ISLAND Painting Co. Int/ext, 20 yrs exp, ref’s, quality and satisfaction guar-anteed. Call (250)580-4841.

PLUMBING

EXPERIENCED JOURNEY-MAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured. Reliable, friendly. Great references. Call Mike at KNA (250)880-0104.

FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonable rates. Call 250-514-2376.

FREE ESTIMATES. Rea-sonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.

KERRY’S GAS & PLUMBING SERVICES- Repair, mainte-nance & install. 250-360-7663.

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PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, old world texturing, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-642-5178.

PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.


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RE-STUCCO & HARDY Plank/Painting Specialist. 50years experience. Free esti-mates. Dan, 250-391-9851.

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A1. SHAWN The Tile Guy- Res/ Comm/ Custom/ Renos.250-686-6046

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DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, SweepingRoofs, Pressure Washing,Roof Demossing. Call 250-361-6190.

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A nearly $1-million condo in Cordova Bay is one of the grand prizes for this year’s Dream Lottery for B.C. Children’s Hospitals.

The condo at 758 Sayward Terr., assessed at more than $900,000, is one of five grand-prize options in the lottery, and comes with a trip to England and a BMW.

Viewing times for the Cordova Bay condo are noon to 4 p.m. on Sept. 10, 11, 24, 25 and Oct. 1 and 2.

Other prize houses are in the Langley area and in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour. Vancou-ver Canucks season tickets are in the mix as well, as the so-called dream bonus prize. They can be swapped for a trip for two to Fiji, or $9,000 cash.

The deadline to enter for the Canucks tickets or other options is Sept. 9. The deadline for other prizes is Oct. 7. The draw happens Oct. 31.

For ticket prices and information see bcchil-dren.com.

Luxury Saanich condo a Children’s Hospital lotto prize

GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE - Wednesday, September 7, 2011 A29

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General voting day for the 2011 District of Metchosin local government general election is November 19, 2011.

Public Notice is given to the electors of the District of Metchosin that nominations for the offi ces of mayor and four councillors will be received by the Chief Election Offi cer or a designated person at the

District of Metchosin Municipal Hall4450 Happy Valley Road, Victoria, BC V9C 3Z3

from October 4, 2011 at 9 a.m. to October 14, 2011 at 4 p.m.excluding holidays and weekends.

Nomination documents are available at the District of Metchosin Municipal Hall during regular offi ce hours, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. excluding holidays and weekends. Interested persons can obtain information on the requirements and proce-dures for making a nomination by contacting Rachel Parker, Chief Election Offi cer, at 250-474-3167, or Thomas F. Moore, Deputy Chief Election Offi cer, at 250-472-0059.

Qualifi cations for Offi ceA person is qualifi ed to be nominated, elected, and to hold of-fi ce as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria:

• Canadian citizen;• 18 years of age or older;• resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are fi led; and• not disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding offi ce.

Rachel Parker Chief Election Offi cer

2011 General ElectionNotice of Nomination

A30 Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - A30 • www.goldstreamgazette.com Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE

Kyle SlavinNews staff

Cigarettes, smokes, cancer sticks — whatever you call them, the University of Victoria has banned their use inside Ring Road.

Smokers are now being politely asked to move elsewhere on campus if they want to light up between classes.

“There hasn’t been any resistance to this,” said UVic spokesperson Patty Pitts, adding that extensive student and staff consultation has been conducted since the spring. “We did change our policy back in 2007, where we were asking people not to smoke within 10-metres of any buildings, but I understand we were still receiving com-plaints of second-hand smoke coming in through windows or venting systems.”

The majority of buildings, traffic and students are inside Ring Road, especially between classes.

Fifteen designated smoking benches have been set up around campus where smokers are requested to congregate.

Pitts says an education campaign has been underway for months, as internal publications, notices and posters are being sent around and displayed.

As well, the university has hosted six quit smoking sessions this summer to help smokers kick their habit, if they so choose.

Enforcement will be peer-driven, Pitts says. “In the past, the campus community has demon-strated a great deal of compliance with our smok-ing policy.”

For more information on the smoking ban or to see a map of where the designated smoking benches are located, visit www.uvic.ca/smoking.

UVic bans smoking within Ring Road

Make sure they make it to class safely.This school year, prepare your kids for the road with a BCAA Student Membership. They’ll be protected with the same Road Assist services as our Basic Membership like towing, changing fl at tires, boosting batteries and opening locked doors. Rest easier this semester knowing they’ll always be a phone call away from a BCAA trained technician who can help. Members, add a Student Membership for $51, non-members pay $87.25.*

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Goldstream News Gazette and Victoria Hyundai give back to our loyal readersGoldstream News Gazette and Victoria Hyundai are proud to support Western Speedway and would like to offer readers a chance to enjoy an exciting family night out at Victoria’s only racetrack! Enjoy a night at Western Speedway on us! Clip the coupon below and treat your family of four to our Stock Car Race Night September 10th!

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On a later restart Wade had Aumen on his outside and these two drivers traded the lead with Aumen actually leading lap twenty-four and fi ve. Wade got the inside groove when Aumen baubled just a bit and regained the lead on lap twenty-six. Wade went unchallenged to the chequered fl ag with Aumen, Wilkie, Parkinson, and Cottam rounding out the top fi ve positions. This is the third win for the #95 car with Kirt Rompain with one victory and Wade taking the last two. Interestingly enough this is the second time Aumen has chased Wade to the fl ag in this highly competitive Series.

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