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Inaugural meeting of District of Sooke council

New council takes the reins Pirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror

The council cham-bers at the munici-pal hall was full to

overflowing as members of the public, family and friends came to see the fourth council take office on Dec. 5.

The official ceremony was punctuated with clapping and broad smiles as each councillor took their oath of office and Mayor Wen-dal Milne gave his inaugural address.

Milne thanked the previ-ous council and especially former mayor Janet Evans for her 12 years serving the community.

“It was a huge commit-ment, I think,” said Milne.

He vowed that there

would be changes coming all with the intent of cutting spending in all areas of the district’s budget. He said there were plans already in place for many initiatives but each of those decisions cost money and he wanted to ensure a balanced bud-get. He said in these uncer-tain economic times it was important to have sustain-ability for taxpayers.

“Council and staff need to start doing business in a new

way,” said Milne. He wants to control spending and stop

tax increases stating that it would be a “tough task.”

Hiring freezes, expenses incurred to attend confer-ences, capital expenses, existing contracts would all be examined under Milne’s watchful eye.

“Council will take a more hands-on approach,” stated Milne.

New as well will be a num-ber of standing committees made up of local citizens replacing the current Com-

mittee of the Whole. He said the committees would meet regularly to ensure all the processes at the local gov-ernment level were open and transparent.

Possible web casting of council meetings, earlier agendas to council and a review of the zoning bylaw were all mentioned.

“We will continue to make Sooke a great place to live,” said Milne. “We’re all in this together.”

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Ready to serve on Sooke council for the next three years are; from left, Kevin Pearson, Maja Tait, Rick Kasper, Mayor Wendal Milne, Bev Berger, Herb Haldane and Kerrie Reay.

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Pirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror

Three of the people on the previous District of Sooke council did not retain their seats, but each of them has positive plans for a future after three years as councillors.

Sheila Beech, who served two terms on council, says she is not disappointed.

She served on a number of committees including CREST, the Economic Development Commission, Sooke Program for the Arts, Sooke Region Tourism Association (SRTAS), and Sooke Literacy.

She will stay involved with the literacy group because she feels

strongly about what they have accomplished over the past three to four years. The group helps students who are “dragging behind” as well as adults.

“It’s a wonderful pro-gram for them,” said Beech. “It’s growing, growing, growing.”

She will likely stay with SRTA as well although it is hard at times to get a sitter.

Personally she wants to work in her garden and on some of her art projects.

“I’m really happy I’m not on this council, it’s a relief for me. it’s back to a neat life,” she said.

She said her thoughts have always been her own and she made sure her life was her life. She wasn’t encumbered, she said, she loved her work and loved the people.

“People are what I enjoy and that’s not going to change. Friends matter to me. I’m not concerned about what happens to my life.”

As for the incoming council, Beech said it will be fun to watch.

Dave Bennett, who

served one term on council, said he didn’t know what was around the corner or what life will bring, but he was still involved with groups like the Christ-mas Bureau now in full

swing, and the Sooke Region Museum where he works as a docent for school tours during the winter.

He will be helping with hamper distribu-tion on Dec. 21 and wrapping up every-thing from his election campaign.

Win or lose he still feels Sooke has a great volunteer community and he is wishing the community the best over the holiday sea-son and into 2012. Ben-nett may even get the travel bug as he has a son in Central America,

but that wouldn’t hap-pen in 2012.

“My family and I are looking forward to 2012,” he said.

Ron Dumont has been a three-term coun-cillor in Sooke as well as a CRD director and it’s business as usual for him now that the elec-tion is over. He is retired but gives of his time as a fundraiser for a service organization, he sits on the board of Ayre Manor Lodge and cooks for Meals on Wheels. He also sells firewood, which his wife Gail said keeps him in good

shape physically.He hopes the best

for the new council and hopes they move forward with the items which are already in place.

Thumbs Up!

Up Sooke

CHRISTMAS MOVIES

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Council is hosting a holiday movie double feature this Wednesday at the EMCS theatre — The Polar Express at 6 p.m., and Elf at 8.

THERE WILL BE pizza and popcorn sales before each movie.

HAMPER APPS DUE

DEC. 9 AT noon is the deadline for people to drop off their applications for a Christmas Bureau food hamper at Work Link, Sooke Crisis and Referral Centre or CASA.

THE SOOKE FOOD

Bank is also taking applications on Dec. 8 only.

CORRECTIONIN THE NOV. 16,

2011 issue story “Bombshells and Buicks in Sooke”, the Sooke News Mirror incorrectly said Bianca Bombshell is employed at Mom’s Cafe — she works at another local establishment. We apologize for the error and any inconvenience it may have caused.

TO ALL OF the participants who helped make the Santa Parade such a success.

What now? Ex-councillors are moving on with life

Mayor outlines new vision for SookeA

t the 2011 inaugural meeting of the new District of Sooke

council, Mayor Wendal Milne outlined the new approach which will focus on sustain-able spending, wage freezes for mayor and council, and a goal of no tax increases for the coming year while maintaining the communi-ty’s progress in improving the downtown core and pro-viding ongoing support for non-profit, volunteer organi-zations.

“We heard loud and clear in the election process that the public wants to see more accountability and careful spending by council, coupled with improvements to basic amenities such as sidewalks

and the downtown,” Milne said. “Our goal is to control spending to stop the spiral-ling tax increases while still providing basic services and moving Sooke forward.”

Milne said that council will immediately instruct staff to prepare an amend-ment to the Council Remu-neration and Benefits Bylaw, to ensure no increases in remuneration for mayor and council over their three-year term. Staff will also be asked to “find creative ways” to meet the goal to reduce the proposed budget and a previously projected six per cent tax increase so there is no increase in annual spend-ing in 2012 over 2011, and no tax increase for 2012.

While working for sustain-able spending, Milne noted that Sooke needs to con-tinue to move forward to

achieve its long-term goals of improvements in acces-sibility and beautification to the core area, and play a role in supporting the many orga-nizations that make Sooke a volunteer capital in Canada.

“We need to make sure that our decisions are balanced in order to support seniors, youth, arts and culture and the everyday worker.”

Under a new committee structure, the community can expect to see a more hands-on, transparent and open council that will play a stronger role in reviewing finance and land use issues, and offer more opportunities for public participation.

“I believe that transparency and accountability through

public input and participation are absolutely necessary for us to succeed in gaining the com-munity’s trust,” Milne said.

New standing committees in the areas of finance and administration and land use issues are to be established. Membership will include councillors and members of the public. They will all be open public meetings to review matters and make recommendations to council and will encourage commu-nity input and questions.

Milne acknowledged that Sooke has made a lot of progress since becoming a municipality in 1999, and he thanked the outgoing mayor and council members for their dedication and work.

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Janet Evans presents mayor elect Wendal Milne with the Chain of Office.

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The West Coast Family Medical Clinic at Evergreen Plaza recently opened and will be hosting facil-ity tours on Monday, Dec.12, 2011 from noon until 1:30 pm.

Drs. Anderson, Fors-berg, Pocock, Rabien, Saunders, and Vally, Sooke’s six family doc-tors, are now seeing their patients at the new facility.

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ily practice, the Clinic offers maternity care, a daily urgent care clinic, a youth care clinic and hosts visiting special-ists in psychiatry, gen-eral surgery, endocri-nology, and internal medicine.

The clinic is also home to the Van-couver Island Health Authority’s Integrated Health Network, cur-rently comprised of a registered nurse, regis-tered dietitian, a social

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Ziplining company a great place to workBenjamin YongSooke News Mirror

Regular Sooke adren-aline purveyor, Adrena LINE, is just racking up the accolades hav-ing received a second award in just about as many months — this time earning a nod from BCBusiness magazine last week as one of best companies to work for.

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“As a company we were pretty stoked,” said part-owner Jeremy Wilson.

“Being in a season-able (market) it’s tough. We try to make it a fun environment or they’ll look elsewhere.”

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two to four years. “We put a lot of work

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That has ensured that over the last four years Adrena LINE has been in operation, there are always familiar faces returning who have been a key component of the company’s suc-cess. Even in the face of dropping business in tourism across the southern Island, Wilson said their numbers in 2011 weren’t down dra-matically from a year previous.

“We’re not just wait-ing for people to come in that door for ziplin-ing,” he said. Instead, they have formed sev-eral strong industry ties such as with the Coho and Clipper ferries.

And, Wilson acknowl-edged, a little recogni-tion never hurts.

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Funding for a Volunteer Centre in Sooke

The Victoria Founda-tion recently awarded a grant in the amount of $14,300 to the Sooke Region Volunteer Cen-tre Committee.

These funds are for the development of a volunteer centre for the Sooke region, as well as exploring the possibil-ity of extending ser-vices to the Westshore.

The funds, which will be administrated by Sooke Cooperative Association of Service Agencies (CASA), will be used to hire a part-time volunteer coordi-nator to work with local organizations and com-munity groups who rely on volunteers to oper-ate their services.

“We know from our 2010 community survey that most organizations in Sooke rely on word of mouth to recruit

new volunteers,” said Jodie McDonald, Vol-unteer Centre Commit-tee member. “We also heard that 75 per cent of the organizations in the Sooke region need more volunteers. We’re really excited about this next step forward in establishing a vibrant volunteer centre in our community. The com-mittee has been work-ing hard for two years, and it’s wonderful that the Victoria Founda-tion has recognized the value of this project. With this funding, we can take our work to the next level.”

The long range vision for the volunteer centre is to offer various vol-unteer services includ-ing; a job bank, training centre and resource library, in order to sup-port local organizations and make it easier for them to recruit, train, manage, reward and appreciate their volun-teers. The volunteer centre will be based in Sooke with services

extending to the West-shore as relationships are built with that com-munity.

“Many people don’t know that we already have a virtual volun-teer centre operating online,” said Marlene Barry, chair of the Vol-unteer Centre Com-mittee. “Volunteer job listings are available on the Sooke Region Resources website, and we know that some organizations have already been success-ful connecting with new volunteers because of the website.”

The Sooke Region Resources website is at www.sookeregion-resources.com. Any organization can post a listing for volunteers on the site by filling out the online form.

For more information about the volunteer cen-tre, or to get involved, call Jodie McDonald at 250-580-2252.

Volunteer centre closer to reality

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Good job!The Sooke Junior Youth Empowerment Group held a modified version of the Free the Children organization’s Halloween for Hunger, a few weeks back. Together with their classmates at Journey Middle School, the group collected over 100 lbs of food donations for the Sooke Food Bank. The class that collected the most food items were offered a pizza party by Andy the Pizzaman at Sooke 2 for 1. The group, which meets on Thursday evenings at 6 p.m., emphasizes virtues, team work, youth empowerment and social service. For more information call: 778-425-0999.

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The Commission will consider applications from seniors, individuals with disabilities, persons representing organizations that provide services or represent persons with disabilities, seniors or caregivers. Appointments to ATAC are for two years. The application should focus on skills and experience that you can bring to ATAC including any experience with transit services. The deadline is January 3,

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POLICE BEATThere were 81 calls

to service between Nov. 28 and Dec. 4.

Nine vehicles had

their tires punctured after driving over nails which appear to have been deliberately left on the road on Phillips near SEAPARC Leisure Centre.

Anyone with infor-mation regarding this incident is asked to call the Sooke RCMP or Crimestoppers via their website or 1-800-222-TIPS.

December 1Police attended a sin-

gle vehicle rollover on West Coast Rd. in Shir-ley. The driver who was not injured was charged with driving too fast for road conditions. Driv-

ers are reminded that regulatory signs are posted requiring winter tires on Hwy 14 west of Grant Rd.

Bears are still roam-ing in the Sooke area and RCMP have received calls of sight-ings on French Rd. North and Sooke River Rd. Upon attendance officers have found the bears eating household garbage left outside by the homeowners.

Roadblocks were conducted at West Coast Rd. near Gordon’s Beach and Sooke Rd. near Kaltasin resulting in two drugs seizures, a three-day immediate roadside suspension, one vehicle impound-ment and several vio-lation tickets being issued.

Sooke RCMP will continue their vigi-lant efforts at reducing impaired related colli-sions despite a recent Supreme Court ruling that 90-day immedi-ate roadside prohibi-tions can no longer be issued when a driver’s roadside screening test results in a “Fail.”

Roadblocks will be conducted throughout the holiday season and

anyone found driving with alcohol in their body will be issued either a three or seven- day immediate prohibi-tion and if a “Fail” read-ing is acquired police will be undertaking the Criminal Code offence of impaired driving which requires breath samples be taken at the detachment.

If you have any infor-mation about a crime that’s been commit-ted…

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Sooke man linked to stolen vehiclesChristine van ReeuwykBlack Press

A Sunday drive in Central Saanich ended in arrest for a Sooke man.

Central Saanich Police Service and Sidney North Saanich RCMP arrested a man driving a stolen vehicle near Brentwood Bay around 12:45 p.m. on Nov. 27.

The tale started early that day.

Around 3 a.m. wit-

nesses reported a sus-picious person and vehicle near Old East and West Saanich roads. When officers arrived, the man was gone and the vehicle was towed. The next call came around 5 a.m. for a car in the ditch in the 900-block of Stelly’s X Rd. Both vehicles were later reported sto-len.

At 9:30 Central Saan-ich police got a call about a smashed win-dow in a car parked near the intersection

of Stelly’s X and West Saanich roads. Soon, a suspect came to light and around noon police were alerted he was in a business near Wallace Drive and West Saan-ich Road. When police arrived the man ran.

Central Saanich Police Service and Sidney North Saanich RCMP contained the area and called out a Victoria police ser-vice dog. Meanwhile, a resident reported to police that his van had just been stolen. The

details of the van were broadcast to police and the van was seen by an RCMP officer helping with the containment.

The officer stopped the van and a 19-year-old Sooke man was arrested. Possession of stolen property charges are pending and the driver is also under investigation for other incidents over-night. Anyone with any information on these events can contact the Central Saanich police at 250-652-4441.

8 • EDITORIAL www.sookenewsmirror.com WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2011 - SOOKE NEWS MIRROR

EDITORIAL Rod Sluggett PublisherPirjo Raits EditorBenjamin Yong Reporter

The Sooke News Mirror is published every Wednesday by Black Press Ltd. | 112-6660 Sooke Road, Sooke, B.C. V9Z 0A5 | Phone: 250-642-5752 WEB: WWW.SOOKENEWSMIRROR.COM

On Southern Vancouver Island we have 13 differ-ent districts, towns, cities

and one electoral area. Each of them supports mayors, regional directors, councils, fire departments, munici-pal hall staff, CAOs, build-ings, you name it. In the 14 different jurisdictions there are 77 councillors each paid over $10,000, probably averaging about $15,000. That’s about $1.1 million, for the mayors add another $500,000 or so, the CAOs each get close to $150,000/year depending on the size of the com-munity, the well paid professionals, etc., etc. etc. The numbers are staggering.

Yes, we do need profes-sionals; yes, we need councils and mayors and fire chiefs; yes, we need to run our communities but are we at risk of becoming even more over-burdened with bureaucrats and gov-ernment employees?

The issues that councils face are not unique and each time something comes up the wheel is reinvented. I’m pretty sure if there was a little more communication and sharing of ideas and solutions most municipali-ties could also reduce their corpo-rate structures, legal fees and per-sonnel.

We need to think about the cost and the future of this ever expanding public work force. Around the world countries, like Greece, are implod-ing because of the cost of retaining such a huge civil service and munici-palities across this country are fly-ing headlong into the same sort of abyss.

Where is all of this money to sup-port this political infrastructure sup-posed to come from? Naturally it is the taxpaying public already sink-ing under the tax debt they carry to keep all this afloat. Amalgamation is

an issue that would need to go before the voters and they should decide whether it is a idea whose time has come.

So what is the solution? For one thing we already have regional districts which, in a sense, are a fourth level of governance and they get paid through

property tax dollars as well. With a little cre-ative adjustment per-haps we could amal-gamate communities

and perhaps we would have less, if any, use for a CRD. The same people are already sitting around the table making regional decisions. We already have regional services that we all pay, including the RCMP. Does Oak Bay still need its own police force? Saanich? Does it cost taxpayers less to have smaller police forces?

On the south Island we have natu-ral boundaries and these could be used to divide the region into four larger municipalities. What would this look like? Could bigger commu-nities deliver more services for less money? Or will this create a unimagi-nable quagmire of red tape and inef-ficiency? We know residents want to be able to speak with the elected people about their issues in their own community. And they should and they could providing each commu-nity had representation at the table based on their populations. So, we

would have the greater municipality of Victoria which is made up of Vic-toria, Oak Bay, Saanich, Esquimalt; Peninsula made up of North Saan-ich, Sidney and Central Saanich; Westshore made up of the com-munities of Highlands, View Royal, Langford, Colwood, Metchosin and East Sooke. The Sooke municipality would consist of the area stretching from Sooke to Port Renfrew. No one seems to realize where the boundar-ies of each of these municipalities are anyway.

We all realize that politicians, in whatever hierarchy they exist, want to keep control over their own fief-doms. Planning advisory commit-tees made up of un-elected com-munity members could assess the municipality’s’ needs and make rec-ommendations to their elected pub-lic servant. They would, of course, have to carry some weight and there should be some sort of obligation to take their recommendations seri-ously.

So what would we end up having? Four municipalities with fewer coun-cillors, CAOs and staff; an amalgam-ated police force; rapid transit paid for by all the municipalities; shared municipal works yards; a louder voice at the provincial and federal level; and broader planning for road networks, to name just a few ben-efits.

What would we lose?

Pirjo Raits is the editor for the Sooke News Mirror. This editorial was printed in the Southern Vancou-ver Island papers.

Dare I say the “A” word?

PirjoRaits

Hard Pressed

Crosswalk is dangerous

OUR VIEW

I almost killed someone on Sunday. I’m still shaking and probably so is the kid

who ran across the road at the Townsend Road intersection. I had to slam on my brakes to avoid the young man who was running and came into my view very suddenly.

This crosswalk needs to be removed for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, it is dangerous and anyone using it takes their life in their hands. The vehicles waiting to turn left into the Village Food mall effectively camouflage

anyone trying to use the crosswalk. Drivers cannot tell if they are stopped waiting to turn or stopped for a pedestrian. It happens all the time and it is (heaven forbid) a serious accident waiting to happen.

Now the district is planning a right in, right out entrance on Townsend which is a good idea but a crosswalk in the vicinity is not. It does not alleviate the danger of crossing Sooke Road at that point. We do not need a crosswalk there, it is only about a 100 feet from the one at the bus stop and about a 100 feet from the corner of Otter Point Road and Sooke Road. Use some common sense before someone gets killed.

It also frightens me that the crosswalk is not equipped with flashing lights. In the dark days of winter, people are almost impossible to see and we owe them their life if they have to cross the road. Let’s think this through before work starts on that particular intersection. Cough up some cash for a flashing light and we would be doing some good for pedestrians as well as drivers.

I’m pretty confident that I am not the only person who has had a close call at that crosswalk. Get on it.

I almost killed someone...

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Protect yourself from scams

Fraudsters have begun the holiday sea-son with some impres-sive phishing attempts. I’ve attached one that I received today from Canada Post. I disabled the ‘gif’, (a picture inserted in the email), that was attached and the hyper text links by saving the file in text format.

You’ll notice the email address looks legitimate and the letter is actually well written in English, unlike the infamous Nigerian let-ters or Russian letters that often have spelling errors.

We should raise awareness and let the general pubic know what’s happening and how to prevent it.

1. If you don’t know who the email letter is from don’t open it.

2. If you have Out-look installed on your home computer and mobile computers you should turn off the Outlook preview pain located under the ‘View’ control bar section.

3. Don’t click on the hypertext links they could install a Trojan that will steal account codes and passwords if you do online banking

4. Keep your home computer and mobile computers hardware and software patches up to date.

5. Keep a virus detec-tion software up to date on your home com-puter and mobile com-

puters.6. Install a personal

firewall and keep it up to date on your home computer and mobile computers.

7. If you get the email – delete it immediately do not get curious and view it – that might be all it takes to activate embedded code.

8. The biggest days for fraudsters are on the weekends when it’s the most difficult for the banks and credit card providers to detect compromises, so be on guard for shoulder surf-ers and keep your card in sight and in your hand preferably.

9. Have a safe a happy holiday

Mark BernardSooke

Idea has merit

Thank you so much for your thoughtful examination of our urgent need for amalga-mation.

With the recent municipal elections bringing fewer changes than we had hoped the current inertia will con-tinue. Meanwhile, at just about every dinner party or social gather-ing recently I have found most people very enthusiastic about amalgamation. A recent quick CHEK tv news poll (November of this year) had viewers 70 per cent in favour of amalgamation.

Your idea of four regional municipali-ties has much merit. The anti-amalgamation forces argue that Oak Bay has little or nothing in common with East Sooke and are quick to point out the mixed results in both Toronto and Montreal.

Your perspective has much to offer. The one caveat I have is that scrapping the CRD might give carte blanche to the develop-ers who would not hesi-tate to pave the entire Saanich penninsula. I have railed at CRD members for not fulfill-ing their mandates (Vic Derman is a sterling exception). Without some kind of greater authority overseeing a regional plan the poten-tial for uncurtailed sub-urban growth without proper infrastructure planning makes me shudder.

Again, my thanks for your article and I hope it provokes a great deal of interest. I hasten to add that I have abso-lutely no background in urban planning (I am a painter) but will follow this with great interest and will share it with others.

Sylvia Bews-WrightVictoria

Say the “A” word,

Yes, yes please dare to say the “A” word!!

Everyweek I look in

the paper to see evi-dence that amalgama-tion is being discussed. Please keep it in the news and in front of people’s faces.

It just makes so much sense. It has to make it to a vote at the next election.

Laurie Fisher Colwood

Politicians need to walk their talk

Two things Sooke council should keep in mind in reducing bud-gets are eliminating functions and the need for better policing.

The usual bureau-cratic approach to reducing budgets is to trim every department. But that hurts those who were efficient and did not ask for too much. It is far better to eliminate functions. The typical municipal-ity has many cutesy and do-gooder proj-ects. Examples range from the Stonehenge sign in View Royal to Saanich’s meddling in the federal/provincial subject of the radio fre-quency emissions from smart meters.

On the other hand, most municipalities are under-policed, which puts residents and visitors at undue risk. The moral purpose of

government is to pro-tect individuals against the initiation of force, which is the only thing that can stop human creativity and produc-tivity for life.

For Sooke’s bud-get and responsibili-ties that is policing to stop the dangerous driver, bully, thief, rap-ist and murderer. Even if all savings from other activities were put into policing society would be better off.

Voters in Sooke should ensure that poli-ticians walk their talk. Usually once elected they weaken under pressure from many directions, as they lack clear values and guts. They should be acting for the long term, not special interest groups.

Keith SketchleySaanich

The last three

letters are respond-ing to the editorial on page 8 which was also printed in the Victoria

region Black Press newspapers.

Deliver by mail or hand to our office, or e-mail editor@sooke newsmirror.com.

Letters should be 300 words or less, and we may edit for length, tone and accuracy. Please include contact informa-tion, address and phone number.

Letters

LETTERS

Have you been to the Festival of Trees (at SEAPARC and the Prestige Hotel), and what do you think of it ?

Yes, and I think it’s wonderful.

Heather Downs

It’s very nice, very unique.

Brenda Vander Deenner

It’s great, fabulous. What better thing to raise

money for (than the BC Children’s Hospital).

Dave Long

It’s beautiful. We just

happen to be visiting, we’re from Alberta.

Menzo Vander Deen

YOUR VIEWS

SELLING SOOKE SINCE 1985

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Creating a Sooke tradition

Pirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror

Tap dancing soldiers, hip hop mice and

classical ballet are all included in this year’s Sooke Dance Studio production of The Nut-cracker in a Nutshell.

The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia on Dec. 18, 1892.

Back in its day it was not a success but it has since gone on to become a Christ-mas staple with ballet companies around the world. It is a tradition Carole Cave loved as a young pre-teen and she has brought that joy of dance and the start of a tradition to her stu-dents.

This year she has 40 dancers performing in The Nutcracker in a Nut-shell and it is a joyous and frenzied period of activity.

“It’s a smaller group this year, there are lots of costume changes, it’s busy,” said Cave. “The dancers like it, the

more costumes the bet-ter.”

The dancers, of all ages, have been rehearsing every week-end, with the principal dancers putting even more time than that.

This is the third year for the Sooke version of The Nutcracker and it is hopefully becoming a tradition for families. Each year Cave adds something to her origi-nal production. Last year she added the Waltz of the Flowers, this year it is the open-ing party scene choreo-

graphed by Kathie Hun-wick.

Hunwick is the ballet instructor for the Sooke Dance Studio and is affiliated through the

Lighthouse Academy of Dance. Cave said Hun-wick teaches her stu-dents the Royal Acad-emy program.

“For years she’s wanted to do the party scene,” said Cave. “It’s fun and a real dream to choreograph.”

Both teachers love the process. The hall-way full of kids getting ready to go on stage, the flurried costume changes, the whole pro-cess makes for a very

festive atmosphere, said Cave.

Dancers provide a sugar coated treat

Cont’d on page 11

Pirjo Raits/ submitted photos

Carole Cave presents the annual Nutcracker in a Nutshell at EMCS theatre.

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Committee VolunteersApplications are invited from Sooke residents or business owners interested in serving on a Council committee. Volunteer members on committees and commissions help Council with making decisions by making recommendations.

If you are interested in volunteering please submit a completed Appointment Application form available at the District of Sooke Municipal Hall or at www.sooke.ca by 4:30 pm, Friday, January 13, 2012 to:

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For information on the District of Sooke committees, please go to the District website.

Upcoming Public Meetings

Regular Council MeetingMonday, December 12, 2011 at 7:00 pm

This schedule is subject to change. Please call 250-642-1634 to confi rm meetings.

Council meeting agendas may be viewed at www.sooke.ca

Notice of Council Meeting Schedule(pursuant to Section 127(1) and 94 of the Community Charter)

A schedule of regular council meetings for 2012 is available at the Municipal Hall and on the Meetings page at www.sooke.ca. A schedule of all upcoming Council and committee meetings is posted on the public notice board outside the Municipal Hall, and is updated regularly.

Regular meetings of the Council are held at 7:00 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of each month, except on holidays, in the Sooke Council Chamber, which is located above the Sooke Fire Hall at 2225 Otter Point Road.

Committee of the Whole meetings may be held at 7:00 p.m. on the fi rst and third Monday of each month, except on holidays, in the Sooke Council Chamber.

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Two professional guest dancers will be a part of the program this year. David Beales who has performed with Goh Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Ballet Victoria and his partner Suzy Vining will dance in the Land of the Sweets as Span-ish Chocolate dancers. They are doing their own choreography.

“The kids are so excited to have the guest performers, Cave said. “Both have dances with the Royal Win-nipeg Ballet. It’s great for the dancers, it’s an opportunity to mingle with them and watch them perform.”

Two of Cave’s danc-ers, Emily Albert and Emily Payne, will be dancing at Nutcracker productions in Victoria. Albert will dance for Alberta Ballet as well as for the local production while Payne will dance

with Canadian Pacific Ballet.

“It’s another stepping stone for them,” said Cave.

This year some of the principal roles were filled through auditions, while other characters were given to suitable dancers or one’s the dancers requested. This year the audience

can look forward to a new “treat,” the Dance of the Reed Flutes.

The Nutcracker in a Nutshell is a seasonal dance production for the studio dancers and it is also a fund-raiser for Sooke Family Resources Society. Part of the ticket price will go to the local agency. Donations also come to

the studio. This year, a beautiful sleigh used in one of the scenes was built and donated to the studio by the Prewett family.

Nutcracker in a Nut-shell begins its seasonal run on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 5 p.m. and on Sun-day, Dec. 18 at 2 p.m. at Edward Milne Commu-nity Theatre. Advance

tickets are available at Bee’s Knees and Sooke Dance Studio. For more information call 250-642-6607 or find them on Facebook.

Nutcracker in a Nutshell a seasonal favouriteCont’d from page 10


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What’s Up in SookeWhat’s Up in Sooke This WeekThis WeekWed.Wed.December 7December 7TOASTMASTERSTOASTMASTERSSooke Harbour Sooke Harbour Toastmasters meet and Toastmasters meet and greet night at Village greet night at Village Foods from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Foods from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Call Allan at 642-7520 Call Allan at 642-7520 with any questions.with any questions.

DOUBLE HEADERDOUBLE HEADERThe Sooke Youth Council The Sooke Youth Council is hosting two holiday-is hosting two holiday-themed movies at the themed movies at the Edward Milne Community Edward Milne Community School theatre in the School theatre in the evening: The Polar evening: The Polar Express at 6 p.m. and Express at 6 p.m. and Elf at 8 p.m. There will Elf at 8 p.m. There will be pizza and popcorn be pizza and popcorn sales at 5:30 and 7:30. sales at 5:30 and 7:30. Minimum suggested Minimum suggested donation of $2.donation of $2.

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PARENT’S GROUPPARENT’S GROUPPlaygroup, support, and Playgroup, support, and lunch for parents under lunch for parents under 25 and their children. At 25 and their children. At Sooke Family Resource Sooke Family Resource Society every other Society every other Thursday 10:30am-1pm. Thursday 10:30am-1pm. Call 250 642-5152 for Call 250 642-5152 for info. info.

Fri.Fri.December 9December 9

VITAL VITTLESVITAL VITTLESFree lunch every Friday Free lunch every Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Holy Trinity Hall on at the Holy Trinity Hall on Murray Road. Everyone Murray Road. Everyone is welcome.is welcome.

CHRISTMAS BUREAUCHRISTMAS BUREAUToday is the last day for Today is the last day for people to apply to receive people to apply to receive a Christmas Bureau food a Christmas Bureau food hamper. Applications are hamper. Applications are due at noon and can be due at noon and can be dropped off at Work Link, dropped off at Work Link, Sooke Crisis and Referral Sooke Crisis and Referral Centre, or CASA. It can Centre, or CASA. It can also be dropped off at also be dropped off at the Sooke Food Bank on the Sooke Food Bank on Thursday, Dec. 8 only. Thursday, Dec. 8 only.

Mon.Mon.December 12December 12

EUCHRE NIGHTEUCHRE NIGHTStarts at 7 p.m. sharp at Starts at 7 p.m. sharp at the Sooke Legion.the Sooke Legion.

CALLING ALL QUILTERSCALLING ALL QUILTERSSooke Quilters meet Sooke Quilters meet every Monday from 1 every Monday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Knox to 4 p.m. at the Knox Presbyterian Church Presbyterian Church 2110 Church Rd. All skill 2110 Church Rd. All skill levels welcome.levels welcome.

Sun.Sun.December 11December 11

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FOOD DRIVE FOOD DRIVE The Sooke Fire The Sooke Fire Department will be Department will be outside Village Foods outside Village Foods and Western Foods and Western Foods from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Saturday and Sunday collecting non-perishable collecting non-perishable food items.food items.

Tues.Tues.December 13December 13

YOUTH CLINICYOUTH CLINICAt Harbour Medical Clinic At Harbour Medical Clinic from 4 to 7 p.m. For more from 4 to 7 p.m. For more info call 250+642-4233.info call 250+642-4233.

BABY TALKBABY TALKThe VIHA Sooke Health The VIHA Sooke Health Unit is featuring a Unit is featuring a presentation car seat presentation car seat safety from 10 to 11:30 safety from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Sooke Child, a.m. at the Sooke Child, Youth and Family Centre Youth and Family Centre (CASA building). Call (CASA building). Call 250-642-5464 with any 250-642-5464 with any questions.questions.

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READING ROOMREADING ROOMThe annual Christmas The annual Christmas event with Father event with Father Christmas is today from Christmas is today from 1 to 3 p.m. Music and 1 to 3 p.m. Music and candy canes for the candy canes for the kids, bring cameras for kids, bring cameras for pictures. pictures.

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Seasonal helpingChelsea, Lynn, Jodie and Leona from Shoppers Drug Mart pose with items donated by their customers for the Sooke Food Bank. The Sooke News Mirror is also collecting donations for the food bank. Donors receive a free non-commercial classified ad when they donate to the Sooke Food Bank.

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Young musicians from Journey Middle School were out on Saturday morning playing a few tunes to raise money for school band. The Sooke Christmas Bureau, with volunteers, was out collecting donations. Pictured from left: firefighter Kyle Sutherland, Fire Chief Steve Sorensen, firefighter Ben Temple, and District of Sooke employee Mike Dillabaugh.

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“Today Christ is Born.”

A glorious antiphon for Christmas Day,

in settings by Byrd, Sweelinck, Cima, Poulenc, Nanino, Marenzino, Visioli and Vlahek.

Plus Corelli’s Christmas Concerto performed by Trio West.

And more!

odie Christus Natus Est

Sooke Saturday, 7:30 pm December 10

Holy Trinity Church 1962 Murray Road

Langford Sunday, 7:30 pm December 11

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What Christ-mas would be complete

without a live, fragrant, needle-dropping tree? And it happens you can pick one up from the Sooke Soccer Club right at Fred Milne Park during the month of December.

Players, parents and volunteers will be tak-ing turns doing four-hour shifts selling 250 Island-farmed, pesti-cide-free trees, ranging in size from five-feet for $28 to 12-feet for $102, until they run out. All the money raised is going towards an ongo-ing major project, said Sooke Pumas captain Lindsay Jenkins.

“We’re trying to build a turf field — so it’s an all-weather field — because several of our games get cancelled in the year because we’ve got poor drainage. It rains too much here,” she said, laughing.

Three of the Celtic men’s team’s back-to-back home games were postponed last month because of frozen, and flooded conditions, respectively.

“It’s really tough, we miss out on a lot of games. Not just the adults, the youth too,” said Jenkins, who added an artificial sur-face would be useful for other things besides just soccer.

This is the third year

the club has done a tree sale, which is the main fundraising effort of the year. Previously, there were other efforts as well like beer gardens at games, 50/50 draws and a banquet. But everything was handled by Jenkins and another Puma, Jen Royer-Col-lard, and it became too much, so they are look-ing for anyone willing to come on board to organize events.

The cost to bring a turf field to Sooke is somewhere between $800,000 and $1,000,000, which includes the cost of labour. So far, they’ve collected about $15,000.

“I know the govern-ment subsidizes parts of it, so if you can raise

a certain amount they’ll give you (some) back. And a lot of the other associations have got-ten corporate sponsors and stuff, so we’re kind of hoping and looking for something like that as well.”

The location of a pro-spective spot has yet to be determined. She said it would be nice if it were located at Fred Milne Park since the soccer clubhouse is there, but for now the main focus is to come up with the funds.

People can stop by the park to pick up a tree Monday to Friday from 4 to 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In the first week of January, Jenkins said

the Sooke Soccer Club is also trying to set up a tree chipping and bot-tle drive.

“It’ll be by donation, $5 or whatever you want to pay to get rid of your tree.”

Fundraising for a new soccer fieldBenjamin Yong photo

P l a y e r s a n d volunteers from the Sooke Soccer Club were setting up the makeshift Christmas tree compound to raise money to build a turf field for Sooke. from clockwise left: Kim Ebbs, Sean Ebbs, Graham Royer-Collard, Laura Lockhart, Jen Petrie, Taralyn Devocht, Lindsay Jenkins.


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A family was saved from a fire by their six-year-old son Caleb Cool just over a week ago on Nov. 28.

At 1:24 a.m. that morning, the Sooke Fire Department was called out to a structure fire on Tominny Road.

Contained to the master bedroom, the blaze was likely started by a candle left burn-ing while the occupants retired for the night. The whole family was asleep when the boy woke to use the rest-room. He saw smoke and banged on his door to awaken his mom.

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Digital cameras con-tinue to be popular. If you don’t have one, how will kids of the future be able to laugh at their parents crazy hairdos and fashion? Hint: buy a camera with rechargeable bat-teries to save money and time.

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The Sooke RCMP detachment appears to be doing its job accord-ing to the area’s resi-dents.

The results from a client satisfaction sur-vey, which was distrib-uted through the Sooke News Mirror, indicated that about 71 per cent of respondents felt the RCMP was either very effective (23.08) or effective (46.15). Only 14 per cent of the 78 people who sent back the survey felt the ser-

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Though Sooke RCMP Staff Sgt. Don Brown noted that fewer peo-ple than last year com-pleted the survey, he was still pleased with the results.

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A suspicious fire gut-ted the lower level of a West Coast Road home Sunday afternoon, leav-ing its uninsured own-ers with no place to live this Christmas.

Police and fire mar-shall investigators were combing through the remains at Bill and Fern Dunn’s home Monday.

The fire was spotted Sunday afternoon by a passing motorist who alerted a neighbor. The Dunn’s, who also lost two cats in the blaze, were in Sooke at the time.

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An overpowered and under-manned EMCS

senior boys’ basketball team fell to the Glen-lyon Norfolk Gryphons 130-61 last Thursday in their season home opener.

The Wolverines went into the matchup with only seven players in the lineup thanks to some unforeseen events — key centre Jason Demoe is out for five weeks following a bout of appendicitis, and 6-3 Ryan Ehman, just back from a trip to Tanzania, was battling a bad reaction to some malaria medication.

“We get Ryan back on Monday,” said head coach Trevor Bligh.

Both Ehman and Demoe were sorely missed as the home team simply couldn’t compete size-wise with GNS. One of their burly forwards, which Blight guessed to weigh in at around 280 pounds, set up shop underneath the basket snatching up rebound after rebound. Second and even third attempt field goals put the Gryphons up by as much as 29-7 at the end of the first quarter.

“We could not match

up man-to-man,” said Bligh. “In the second quarter (we) packed everyone in the cen-tre.”

That left outside jump shots open for their opponents, which they couldn’t capitalize as easily on. That, cou-pled with an aggressive full-court defence, nar-rowed the gap to a 13 point deficit.

Unfortunately, the Wolverines suffered yet another blow to their roster that night. Blight said shooting guard

Brad Smith received a chop to the back of

the knee that sidelined him for the rest of the

evening. In the second half, small forward Tris-

ten Griffin sat out for a quarter after a tumble to the hardwood.

“At one time we had five (players),” he said.

After the break, the third quarter turned into a high-scoring affair with the Wolver-ines scoring 28 points to the Gryphons’ 32. One highlight for the boys in white was their ability to draw fouls — and number three Eric Albert was able to con-vert six out of his eight free throw attempts.

Bligh said it was all

EMCS guards all night, combining for a total of 45 out of the team’s 61 points. Not all that sur-prising considering the missing forwards.

“We’re going to be giving up height here for the next month, so we have to try and keep the ball out of the post.”

The next exhibition game is away at Vic High and the Wolverines will be back home against St. Andrew’s on Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. League play doesn’t start until Janu-ary 11 at St. Michael’s.

SPORTSSPORTSWolverines drop home opener with skeleton crewSeven players started the game, five finished

Benjamin Yong photos

Senior EMCS point guard Ryan Albert, left in white, goes up for a 12-foot jump shot over a GNS defender; brother Eric Albert, right in white, has his layup attempt swatted away by the opposing team. The Wolverines lost 130-61.

Eric Albert, left, sinks one of his six completed free throws for the night; Ryan Albert, right, puts on the moves while closely guarded.

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SEAPARC STAR SEAPARC STAR of theof the WEEK WEEK✪✪This week’s shining star is four year old Ali Staffanson. Like any star, she is bright and radiant with a sparkling personality. She and her family haven’t yet decided whether or not she will be home schooled or attend Ecole Poirier’s French Immersion Program. Regardless of which route they take, Ali is very excited about learning how to read so she can read lots of Princess stories. She has many sports interests including swimming, yoga and dance. Her most current sports endeavor has been into the Martial Art of Taekwondo. Ali is the only girl in our “Little Kickers Taekwondo” club, but that doesn’t bother her at all. She says that she loves the punching, is very happy to have her own uniform, likes doing the “kyup” (yell when striking and kicking) and added that her instructor Michelle is just great. Her instructor tells us that Ali is very keen, catches on quickly and remembers what she has learned. Her Mom is an artist and Ali is following in her footsteps. We were told that she is very creative and is a precise artist, with an eye for making things look realistic. She likes to draw faces and dragons and does so very well. At home she cleans up after herself, tidies her room and shares the job of feeding the fi sh with her Dad. She has performed ballet on stage at the Sooke Community Theatre and also at the “Art in the Park” event where she was the only fl ower that showed up for the performance, but thanks to her not being shy, the show went on! We were told by her Mom that Ali is really quite fearless and has gone dirt biking with her Dad and loved it! She obviously has a great imagination and wants to be a “Dragon Rider” when she grows up! She loves to visit Masi, Grampa and her Uncle in Victoria because she has lots of fun with them and especially loves going with them to Starbucks for a “Steamer”. She loves what she calls the “Festible of Trees” and has already seen the ones at the Empress and SEAPARC and was on her way to see the trees at the Prestige after meeting with us. She is described as a sweet, smart, sassy and beautiful young lady with good manners and an adventurous nature. It was a pleasure talking with you Ali, thank you for being our SEAPARC Star of the Week! Congratulations on being nominated!

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Three young Sooke footballers have helped the Victoria Renegades junior bantam team to an undefeated — albeit shortened — regular season that came to a close with a loss two weekends ago at the provincial champion-ship semifinals in Maple Ridge.

Andy Abell, Bailey McMillan and Con-nor Ward, in their first year of junior bantam, played in the game where they lost 30-10 to the Meadow Ridge Knights.

“The weather was just horrible, pouring and pouring rain,” said Renegades’ head coach Karn Dodd.

“Both teams were fumbling the ball all over the place. They scored off our turn-overs, (but) we didn’t score off theirs.”

Dodd said the Ren-egades’ main down-fall was a lack of game experience. The previ-ously four-team junior bantam league was whittled down to two — Victoria and Nanaimo. The other Victoria squad, the Spartans, didn’t field a team this year and the Cowichan Valley Bulldogs had to fold theirs due to inju-ries.

Normally, the Ren-

egades would play an 11-game season. Only facing Nanaimo four times meant they missed out on seven crucial games. The coach believed that, biases aside, they had a lineup capable of going all the way.

“(We were) going in to play a team that played 10 teams to get where they are.”

The trio from Sooke put up with the com-mute because there is currently no local option for the 12 to 13-year-old age group for the sport. Once they get a little older, they can sign up for the Wolverines at Edward Milne.

“The first year guys all did a great job, they worked hard to improve and all have improved,” he said, adding Andy, Bailey and Conner should expect more successes next year as seniors.

“Sooke has done a great job getting kids out for football. The numbers are going up in Westshore and Sooke, and are going down in the city itself.”

Dodd was hopeful that next year will bring some new opponents in their division.

“There’s nothing defi-nite, I know Comox and a couple other teams are thinking of joining the league and starting programs as well.”

Submitted photo

Kids represent Sooke on the Victoria Renegades junior bantam football team that won the Island championships last month. From left: Bailey McMillan, Andy Abell with the trophy and Conner Ward. Below, the entire championship team piles on the field for a victory photo.

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Midget — Another league game this past weekend had Sooke Midget rep hosting Kerry Park.

Kerry Park opened the scoring in the first period against Nick Dueck who manned the net for Sooke. Strong defense for Sooke from Brandon Corn-bill and Alfred Nelson held off Kerry Park for the remainder of the period, but the oppo-nents claimed another goal on a power play in the second extending the lead to two.

Not to be outdone,

Jared Pleasants and Nick Pfeifer assisted for a goal from Luke Pitrie midway in the second. Kerry Park came back with one of their own and the score after two was visitors 3, Sooke 1.

Early in the third a power play goal from Jared Pleasants with assists from Nick Pfe-ifer and Brendan David brought Sooke back in the game, but it was Kerry Park with two more goals in the third taking the win, Kerry Park 5, Sooke 2.

Peewee (girls) — On Saturday, the peewee

girls were facing their second league game at SEAPARC against Cow-ichan Valley.

It was a clear domi-nation by the Sooke Thunderbirds early on — after the first period, the girls was leading by 5-1. It was a very good team effort and the girls were very confident all the way through the game.

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Atom C1 — The Sooke Thunderbirds AtomC1 boys team, sponsored by Dale’s Electric, defeated the Sooke Thunderbirds AtomC2 team 13-1 on Sunday at SEAPARC. The C1 boys took con-trol of the game early and did not relent. While all of the C1 boys put forward a great offensive effort, Tra-vis McCrea and Alex Perman scoring a goal each, anchored their virtually indomitable defense.

Sooke Minor Hockey wrap up

Benjamin Yong photo

Players gather near Sooke Thunderbird midget T3 goaltender Nick Dueck in a game against the Juan de Fuca Grizzles in October.

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Sooke skating star Pilar Maekawa performed a solo number on Saturday afternoon at the opening ceremonies for the new outdoor-air ice rink in Centennial Square in Victoria. Look for a story update on her and brother Leo in next week’s Mirror.

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There’s chill, and then there’s Mason Swift.

The could-have-been, probably should-have-been all-star running back for the Mount Douglas Rams foot-ball team was taking it pretty easy while many football fans were glued to the Grey Cup a little over a week ago.

In fact, he was having a nap.

And so he should have.

The Grade 11 stu-dent was recovering from the Rams’ 54-7 upset of the province’s top-ranked St. Thomas More Knights (Burn-aby) in their AAA semi-final at the University of B.C., and was rest-ing for the champion-ship final against W.J. Mouat last weekend, which they won 42-35 (the first AAA title for Mount Doug).

With provincial MVP Terrell Davis at the cen-tre of the Rams’ hype – all of it deserved – many may not realize Swift has been virtually

step for step with Davis, splitting the rushing duties. Swift and Davis (Grade 12) often line up on either side of quar-terback Jordan Dever-ill. The running backs shared 31 carries in the Rams’ quarter-final playoff win over Lord Tweedsmuir with Swift taking the ball 15 times for 153 yards, and Davis 16 times for 160 yards.

In the semifinal win on Nov. 26 they split 28 carries with Swift totalling 75 yards and two touchdowns while Davis rushed for 163 yards and three touch-downs.

“Both Davis and Swift are powerful backs who like to run over defend-ers … they are very similar in that respect,” coach Mark Townsend said.

As a defender trying to stop either, there is no lesser evil to choose from. Both are adept at

keeping their legs driv-ing on contact, often breaking tackles and carrying defenders for additional yards.

What Townsend also loves is how unselfish their play is without the ball, “blocking their tails off for one another.”

But back to that nap. It’s all part of the plan

to stay real, Swift says. “We’re pretty high

coming off beating (the Knights) as badly as we did and we need to keep down to earth, stay mellow to get the win over Mouat.”

Then again, Swift deserves his rest after putting in a two-sided effort as a linebacker, scoring one of his touchdowns in the semifinal after scoop-ing up a punt blocked by the Rams’ Nik Lar-sen.

Whatever the reason, Swift wasn’t about to let the Grey Cup inter-

rupt his routine.“For me, playing foot-

ball is a way to get the second level of educa-tion paid for. I’ve had a couple of looks from universities in Canada, but I’m still waiting for those looks from down south,” he said, adding a spot in Canadian uni-versity football would do just fine.

Now, being an inte-gral part in bringing home the B.C. provin-cial championship, those looks should come a little easier.

After a close first quarter in the semifi-nal, the Rams began to pull ahead of the heav-ily favoured Knights, who had been named the sixth best high school team in Canada last week according to website Canada Foot-ball Chat. Mount Doug was listed as the 16th, but moved to sixth last week.

Sooke’s Mason Swift comes into his own

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Mason Swift, the other star running back of the new B.C. Varsity AAA champions the Mount Douglas Rams. He was named MVP in the 42-35 victory over W.J. Mouat Secondary on Saturday.

Helps Mount Douglas win provincials

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Winter fishing the last week off Sooke hasbeen very good. Good weather, calm watersand steady fishing from start to finish keeps onebusy and warm.

Out in front of theSooke Harbour in 100 plus feet dragging thebottom for best results. Try the J-79 squirt trolled behind a purple Hot Spot with a glow insert should get the job done. Glo hootchiesas well as anchovies are good choices.

Nothing like hooking into a 15 pound winterchinook. It feels like it’s a lot bigger and withnon-stop action the arm gets pretty tired.

On the derby scene is the second annualBoxing Day Salmon Derby. Fishing starts atdawn on Monday, Dec.

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In the recent Coho Derby anglers donatedover 500 pounds of fish to the food bank. Untilnext time.

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Local guide Gord Martin holding one of his many good sized halibut caught in the spring at Constance Bank off Victoria. Martin heads up a group of hali highliners in the upcoming halibut seminar to be held on Feb. 18, 2012 just before the March 1 halibut opening with proceeds going to the Charters River Salmon Interpretive Centre. Thisseminar will provide valuable information in preparing for a day of halibut fishing. Safeanchoring, understanding tides and currents, finding a good spot, as well bait and gear tips. Should be a good time and makes for a great Christmas present. Tickets are $35 and are on sale at Eagle-Eye Outfitters this Saturday.

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