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TEEN ANGEL Young teens feed the hungry

homeless.

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SOOKE ROCKS ITHockey team plays a perfect

tournament in Cowichan Valley.

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Gie her a haggis

The Royal Canadian Legion was the venue for the annual Robbie Burns Dinner on Sunday night.

Toasting the haggisare, from left to right. Angus Stanfield, StuartFerguson, Calvin Whyte, Caroline Ciesek and Peter McBride.

Whyte who delivered the address to the haggis memorized the entire Burns address whileworking on a back hoe.

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Bylaw 600 passed one more hurdle towards becoming Sookes new zon-ing bylaw at a public hearing on Jan. 15. After two open houses, letters, four meet-ings over four months and referrals from 22 agencies, District of Sooke council gave the bylaw third read-ing.

Council made the decision to revamp Bylaw 500 after it came to light that proper due process with the public was not carried out.

During the public hear-

ing a number of residents came forward to express their opinions and concerns in regard to some of the changes to zoning brought about in Bylaw 600.

Opposition to zoning changes to a property on Dufour Road brought a comment from a neighbour. He felt the change from W2 to Marina W3 would impact his quiet enjoyment. The resident stated the bylaw change was trampling on all our rights from people who have not followed the rules from the beginning.

Rick Gates gave a lengthy address to council stat-

ing that these tweaks may result in situations that are worse than youve got now. He mentioned conflicting visions between the Official Community Plan and Bylaw 600, as did resident Robert Martin.

Gates mentioned the vision of a small town atmo-sphere in conflict with pro-jected growth figures.

Gail Hall felt there was nothing in the bylaw that benefitted the community.

There is a lot of non-sense in the zoning bylaw you did not put there, but did not take out, said Hall. She thinks council should

start over, stating council has got the cart before the horse.

Councillor Kerrie Reay said she was opposed to the rezoning on Dufour and the amalgamation of CTC1 and CTC2 zones and vehicle sales on the south side.

Councillor Maja Tait did not support first and second reading and said she would not support Bylaw 600. She said she was fine with the housekeeping measures but not the material changes.

Mayor Wendal Milne stated this was a lengthy process and I dont know what more a committee could have done than we did.

He said there were things

in the bylaw he didnt agree with.

People dont seem to have an interest unless it affects them, he said. I see this as a democratic, open process.

Milne said the OCP was well intentioned and needs a second look.

Council gave third read-ing to Bylaw 600. Coun. Maja Tait was opposed.

Bylaw 600 will need approval from the Minis-try of Transportation and Infrastructure before it is adopted.

Zoning Bylaw 600 passes third reading

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Read to celebrate Family Literacy DayFamily Literacy Day

takes place across Can-ada every year on Jan. 27 to celebrate adults and children reading and learning together, and to encourage Cana-dians to spend at least 15 minutes enjoying a learning activity as a family every day.

This year Family Lit-eracy Day is celebrating 15 years! More informa-tion about this nation-wide event is available

at http://abclifeliteracy.ca/fld/family-literacy-day.

The theme for 2013 is 15 minutes of fun. Taking time every day to read or do a learning activity with children is crucial to a childs development. Even just 15 minutes a day can improve a childs liter-acy skills dramatically, and can help a parent improve their skills as well.

Every year branches of Vancouver Island Regional Library cel-ebrate Family Literacy Day with a variety of fun activities for fami-lies; visit www.virl.bc.ca for details.

Join other families at the Sooke Branch Library (2065 Anna Marie Road) on Friday, Jan. 25 at 2 p.m. for a special family storytime featuring fun, hands-on literacy activities, sto-

ries, a craft and more. You will also discover lots of great ideas on how to make literacy an enjoyable and worth-while part of your daily lives. For children and their families; no regis-tration required.

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New Student Registra on Grades K-12January 28 February 1, 2013

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Student registra on takes place at your local Neighbourhood schoollocal Neighbourhood school..

NEW FRENCH IMMERSION (Grade K or 1) register at:cole Millstream Elementary School (parent informa on night is Jan. 15, 7:00 p.m. at the school)cole Poirier Elementary School (parent informa on night is Jan. 15, 7:00 p.m. at the school)cole John Stubbs Memorial School (parent informa on night is Jan. 17, 7:00 p.m. at the school)

LATE FRENCH IMMERSION (Grade 6) register at:cole John Stubbs Memorial School (parent informa on night is Jan. 24, 7:00 p.m. at the school)

NATURE KINDERGARTEN (at Sangster Elementary School):Parent Informa on sessions:

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Nature Kindergarten applica ons will be accepted star ng at 8:00 a.m., Tues., February 5 at the Sooke School Board O ce. Applica on forms will only be available at parent informa on sessions and a er 8:00 a.m. on February 5.

Please Note: Registra on a er these dates will be subject to space availability in each school.

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At the regular District of Sooke council meet-ing on Jan. 14, the fol-lowing agenda items were dealt with:

Bylaws:Bylaw 561: Council

gave first and second reading to Bylaw 561, Flood Regulation Bylaw, 2013. This bylaw will be used to regulate flood hazard management instead of relying on the districts bylaws.

Councillor Rick Kasper questioned why the district was going from a one page regula-tion to a 10 page bylaw.

In response, plan-ner Tracy Olsen stated the district had been close to giving misin-formation to residents. The bylaw will desig-nate certain areas as flood plains and spec-ify development levels and setback require-ments in a designated area and enforce those conditions.

Bylaw 600: Council passed the recommen-dations on a number of amendments to Bylaw 600; these include mod-ifying definitions, cor-recting administrative errors, removal of a six metre setback require-

ment from 7111 West Coast Road and to cor-rect the zoning of 1686 Whiffin Spit from RU3 to RU4 as the property is not in the ALR.

Reports:The Sooke RCMP

Mayors report showed crime is down in the Sooke region. Staff Sgt. Stephen Wright came before council and talked about the prog-ress the RCMP is mak-ing in crime preven-tion.

In 2012 Wright reported that prop-erty crime is down 15 per cent overall with residential B&Es down 38 per cent; business B&E down 44 per cent; thefts of and from vehi-cles down 29 per cent. Noise and disturbance calls down 45 per cent; assaults down 13 per cent and offences by youth down 16 per cent. Alcohol related accidents were down by 19 per cent.

The detachment is currently down three officers and costs for overtime are in check.

In December 2012, RCMP responded to 326 calls. The RCMP take an average of 4,000 calls per year.

The Sooke Commu-nity Association peti-

tioned for inclusion into the Sooke Core Sewer Specified Area. Council gave first, second and third reading to Bylaw 562. The SCA will be responsible to hire a professional to provide the engineered design for a service connection for the campground along Phillips Road.

Council passed a recommendation from the Land Use and Envi-ronment Committee for the proposed road clo-sure and exchange of Otter Point Road Right of Way adjacent to 2100 Otter Point Road. This is in preparation for the realignment of Otter Point Road to accom-modate the proposed

Grant Road connector and development.

Mayor Wendal Milne appointed Councillors Rick Kasper and Ker-rie Reay to work with the Vancouver Island Regional Library Board on aggressively seeking the start to building a new library in Sooke. The district has been spending over $390,000 per year on library ser-vices.

Correspondence:Council requested

the mayor to send a let-ter to the Sooke Bike Club requesting society and membership infor-mation and 2012 finan-cial statements.

Mayor Milne stated

he wanted to know what percentage of the membership lives in Sooke.

Im my mind, who are the people behind the club and what is their financial situation? questioned Milne.

Councillor Maja Tait said it was important to see the design of the proposed bike skills park before being able to address the con-cerns of the public. The bike club received approval for the issu-ance of $3,600 from the district to prepare plans for the park. Tait requested the district contact the contractor (Alpine) regarding the design plans. She felt

council had no appetite for the bike park. She said the bike club can-not sign a contract with Alpine as they do not have a licence of occu-pation for the area of the park they intend to use for the Bike Skills Park.

Mayor Milne stated that the district is not building the bike skills park, the bike club is supposed to.

He said they are giv-ing the bike club the money and they are responsible for the plans, not the district,

We never envisioned it as councils job to contact Alpine, said Milne.

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THE NEXT HOME game for the Sooke Celtic takes place on Friday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. at The Log (Fred Milne Park). They play against the Saanich Fusion.

COME OUT AND support the Celtic.

TAKE A WALK A FREE COMMUNITY

adult walking group goes on excursions in the Sooke area every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m.

PRE-REGISTER AT SEAPARC. All levels are welcome to participate.

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NOMINATIONS ARE BEING accepted for the 2012 Community Business Awards presented by the Sooke Region Chamber of Commerce.

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Reviving ancient cooperage techniqueBarrel-style used to build wood sauna, hot tubs and cisterns


As the lumber industry began to slowly fade away in the 1990s, those who made their living from the forest had to reinvent themselves in order to survive.

Doug Brubaker is one such person. Since 1976, Brubaker has been milling lumber on his portable sawmill, first on one of the Gulf Islands, then on Goodridge Peninsula. When that was no longer feasible he moved his operation to Otter Point.

I got tired of chasing logging trucks for logs. At the time Forest Renewal BC was trying to help displaced forest workers and had a program geared to finding new ways to earn a living other than in the woods.

It was an excellent program, it basically gave me an income and gave me a business consultant. We worked on a business plan and that plan was accepted by the EDC and it got us going, said Brubaker.

He said he owes the fact that they are doing secondary products now to Forest Renewal, and he is disappointed the Liberals cancelled that program.

Wed have a flourishing industry now if they hadnt done that.

He said he loves Canada and Canadians but they often do not

value our natural resources as much as people for other countries do.

On Forest Lumbers property close to the industrial park along Otter Point Road, Brubaker is building out of wood. The lumber he chooses to work with is fine-grained clear cedar obtained from up-island. He fashions

water tanks or cisterns, hot tubs and saunas out of the fragrant durable wood. Each product is made using cooperage methods staves and straps.

He first began when he needed a large water tank on his property to catch rain water. He built one, in a barrel style, and had some four foot pieces left

over. He used those to build a wooden swimming pool for fun. As he was marketing his water storage units and pools he found that many people thought of the pools as hot tubs and the water tanks as saunas.

So the light bulb went off.

He said he learned a valuable lesson during that trade show.

Dont push what you have for them, listen to what they want, said Brubaker. That was in 1998.

He built a website (www.forestlumber.com) and landed a deal with a client in the United Kingdom. He sent product out in container loads. His biggest market these days is in Europe. Europeans have an appreciation for wood as much of what they produce is out of plastic, steel and concrete. He took his U.K. dealer to the beach and when he saw all of the driftwood on the beach he was stunned. The dealer said if he sent a container full of stumps and roots and driftwood to London it would sell immediately. Thats how scarce such commodities are in Europe and Britain.

Forest Lumber builds barrel-style saunas out of cedar, many with porches. They come in various sizes suitable for two people or more depending on the length. They can be either horizontal or vertical depending on preference. He wants to build small plunge pools to add to the sauna experience.

His hot tubs are a

modern version of the original wooden hot tubs made in California out of wine barrels back in the 1970s. The hot tubs are available with wood burning heaters as do the saunas.

These days Brubakers wood comes from small mills on Vancouver Island, from communities such as Courtney, Port Alberni, Errington and Sooke. He chooses to use Western red cedar.

I try to buy FSA (Forest Stewardship Council) wood as it has a chain of custody and thats really popular in Europe. FSA certified wood is about sustainable logging practices.

Im taking high quality short pieces of cedar and turning them into something quite valuable, said Brubaker. His hot tubs have a life span of 20-30 years and his saunas can last 50 years.

Im really careful about the quality of the wood.

His water cisterns most often end up in places like Hawaii and other areas where fresh water is scarce.

The wood is the most important part of the process and Brubaker said they have managed to survive because they have always been careful and conservative.

We are able to go right from the raw, wet wood from a mill to kiln-drying our own wood and re-sawing it. Were pretty much in control of the whole process. In 36 years, Ive learned how to log, sawmill, dry and build. Its kept it interesting I guess.

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Brian Chester sands a cedar hot tub, above. Doug Brubaker checks the fit of the staves on a barrel sauna, centre, and below, a wooden water storage cistern in Hawaii.

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Although aware-ness of mid-wifery is still developing in Canada, a local practice has seen more and more expect-ant parents walk into its doors.

Uta Herold, a regis-tered midwife with over 30 years of experience, opened Sooke Mid-wifery in October 2011. And despite being rela-tively new, the practice has seen an increase in clients over the years, which Herold attributes to word of mouth.

In 2012, she presided over the birth of 40 babies from Sooke. In the same year, Sooke resi-dents made up 80 per cent of her clients, which she expects to increase to 90 per cent in 2013.

They realize that [midwives] are part of the medical system, like an integrated part of the medical system in B.C., and therefore, they say, Well then, I havent really had this individualized care with my doctor the first time, but this time I would really like to do that, Herold said.

Sooke resident and mother-of-two, Crystal Herie, is one of those women.

The delivery of her first child involved a significant amount of medical intervention, which resulted in a c-section delivery.

There was a lot of medical intervention, I got induced and I wasnt told how much it heightens the chance of having a c-section, Herie said.

Your chance of hav-ing a c-section goes up 50 per cent when you get induced because youre bodys not ready. And once you get to the hospital and

they start doing things to you, youre kind of on a time limit. Theyre not going to let you go four or five days after being induced before you have your baby.

The experience led Herie to do more research, and for the birth of her second child, she contacted Herold.

She ended up deliver-ing her second child in hospital naturally.

I ended up having him naturally at the hospital without medi-cine or anything, and I knew it could be done. The difference between the two births was just so polar opposite, Herie said.

She is now in training to become a doula to provide support and help parents navigate through the labour process.

Although midwifery is slowly growing in prominence, Herold

said there are still mis-conceptions that it is not regulated or medi-calized, which is oppo-site from the truth.

Midwives are health care practitioners who specialize in low-risk pregnancy, child birth and postpartum.

The health care pro-fession was regulated and implemented into the medical system in 1998, and is covered by the B.C. Medical Ser-vices Plan (MSP).

The maternity care that we provide is basi-cally the maternity care a doctor provides, Herold said. With all the tests, ultrasounds, blood tests and what-ever maternity care is outlined by the guide-lines here in B.C.

Midwives also moni-tor the mother and baby for complications like gestational dia-betes and high blood pressure. In the event

of a problem, they refer to obstetricians and specialists.

Herold said the main difference between doctors and midwives is time.

We dont have to take care of any other patients, we can afford to provide that individ-ualized care, she said. They want to be treated individually, they want a care provider having time for them, and this is something that we can guarantee.

Midwives hold lon-ger appointments with their clients, and also act as the primary

care provider for par-ents throughout the pregnancy, labour and birth. They also offer comprehensive prena-tal and postnatal care, and make home visits for up to 12 days after the birth. And despite popular belief, most births by midwives occur in hospital rather than at home.

A normal labour and birth, in my opin-ion, can really happen everywhere, Herold said. The most impor-tant thing is really hav-ing a professional care provider who detects any risks.

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Here is a meal you can prepare ahead, cook and freeze for those rushed days of baseball, soccer, etc.

For a family of 4 to 6

2 lbs ground beef, pork or chicken,

1 finely chopped onion,

salt, pepper, 1/2 loaf stale whole

wheat, (which has been moistened with warm water), or 1 cup cooked quinoa or 1 cup, raw, rolled oats.

You may add dry mustard, nutmeg, cloves or paprika.

3 free range eggs, mixed in.

Boil approx. 6 medi-

um-sized potatoes. Mash when done.

Grease a baking dish. Put in the meat mixture. Top with the mashed potatoes.

You may add parme-san cheese or other cheese on top or put on your lovely homemade tomato sauce from your preserve cellar.

Cover and bake at 350 for 1 1/2 hours until bubbles show through the potatoes.

Serve hot with a salad

or cooked vegetables. If freezing, allow to

cool thoroughly before sealing in an airtight bag and freezing.

Use within a month. Sometimes I make two or three dishes to use the oven more effi-ciently.

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B.C. Views The news was trumpeted with

alarm here on Vancouver Island, which along with the Gulf Islands is the heartland of tinfoil-hat opposition to smart meters.

Of the 140,000 power customers who didnt have a wireless meter by the end of the year, many have simply refused. Now BC Hydro has sent letters informing them we can no longer delay the installation of a new meter at your home.

StopSmartMetersBC sent out a panicky e-mail advising its resistance movement to brace against storm trooper tactics from BC Hydro staff, and urging phone and fax attacks on their local MLA office.

Anger and outrage should be expressed, in a quiet way, so that we dont sound hysterical, but people are being threatened, police called, etc., the anonymous e-mail helpfully suggests.

BC Hydro has also confirmed what I told you a few months ago. Those bogus locks, chicken wire cages and important-looking signs, which were sold like modern-day snake oil, have no legal effect to prevent the utility from working on its own equipment. These obstacles to inspection have been and continue to be removed, along with dangerous grow-op bypasses and fiddled mechanical meters.

The technical arguments against wireless meters have been demolished. False news reports and website claims still circulate, but no fires have been attributed

to the installation of 1.7 million wireless meters in B.C. About 1,200 faulty meter bases have also been replaced at BC Hydros expense, and as crude power-theft bypasses have been removed, the incidence of electrical fires, already rare, has dropped substantially.

Another popular myth is increased electricity bills. Yes, if your bypass is removed, your bill will go up. Like gas pumps, power meters are required by federal law to be accurate.

Which brings us back to Team Tinfoil, which has been sold a cascading series of fantastic tales about the effect of wireless signals that are already ever-present in all modern communities.

A Toronto-based expert group called Bad Science Watch has tackled claims of electromagnetic hypersensitivity head-on. I highly recommend their 10-page report and qualifications at www.badsciencewatch.ca.

In plain language, with references to the best available scientific studies, it describes the double-blind tests that prove people who claim this sensitivity are not actually able to detect when they are or are not being exposed to wireless signals. No X-Men candidates have come forward.

It also exposes key activists in Canada. The most prominent is Dr. Magda Havas, an associate professor at Trent University who has developed a career denouncing the safety of low-frequency electromagnetic radiation. She gives speeches, promotes her book

and has worked with one David Stetzer to promote an EMF filter to sell to those who insist they feel what science shows they dont.

Havas has appeared on TV news shows with activist-entrepreneur Kevin Byrne. His website appears to be a hub of cell tower and smart meter scare reports, but its interspersed with product pitches for EMF Solutions Canada, of which Byrne is coincidentally president.

Then theres entrepreneur-activist Rob Metzinger, president of something called Safe Living Technologies Inc. He doesnt run a lurid scare website, but hes appeared on CBC and CTV as some sort of authority. (The main hazard emanating from TVs these days is bad information.)

As the election approaches, a fight is gearing up between the NDP and the B.C. Green Party for the ignorant, superstitious and angry vote. The Greens in particular have damaged their credibility in a desperate bid to quiet their own tinfoil-chapeau wing.

There are bozo eruptions ahead. Ill have more on that in a future column.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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Smart meter deniers last stand

United we stand, divided we fail

OUR VIEW

Bylaw 600 has been given third reading meaning that it will become Sookes latest zoning bylaw.

The speed with which the original bylaw (Bylaw 500) was put into place points out the errors that can occur when pressure is put on council to expedite something as important as a bylaw. Council could not have envisioned all of the changes instituted and what they would mean to property owners. Council should not and does not operate in a vacuum and they are responsible

to the people who put them on council. Time is needed to fully digest issues of this complexity and haste, as it turns out, makes waste. Never mind the costs in staff and legal fees that resulted.

There are three members on council who voted in the original Bylaw 500. Two voted in favour of Bylaw 600 and one was opposed. Its a lonely place being the only dissenting vote.

What we are seeing now, after the first year, is how the council is sifting into position. One councillor appears to disagree with many of the decisions, others are trying to look at issues with open minds and some are just trying to figure out what their roles are. Councils role is to make informed decisions based on the information presented. They are not staff, nor do they have that knowledge. They are local citizens who are supposed to represent the rest of us. They dont always have to agree 100 per cent but they should be united once the vote is made. It shouldnt become personal. Dissension can be a good thing as it makes one have to consider the other side. After all, we have a broad spectrum of opinions in Sooke and council represents that.

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OTHER VIEWS

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We asked: Do you believe there should be access for motorized vehicles in CRD park lands?

No. Because I think CRD park lands are for walking

and doing outdoor activi-ties. Theres lots of space for RVs and ATVs and that kind of stuff, so I think the park should be for walking

in.

Bob TurleySooke

Sure. Because youd like to drive a little further

for people who are handicapped and what

not, and its easier access to see things you wouldnt

normally see.

Ken ChekerdaSooke

I think it would be okay as long as its got limits and

theyre respectful. As long as theyre not littering, as long as theyre not ruining

habitat.

Leighanne Georgeson Sooke

No. I think it makes it un-safe for older people and

very young people.

Patty KruyerSooke

Honesty confirms faith in young

On Saturday after-noon I left my purse in a grocery basket at Western Foods. I disco-vered this as soon as I went to get out of my car at home, and retur-ned immediately to find a young girl had turned it in to the store.

I have no idea who she was, but she has my sincere thanks. Her integrity and honesty confirms my faith in humanity.

C. PinalskiSooke

Enough forest is protected

Some facts to put Sooke parks in geo-graphical perspective.

B.C.s land base is 95 million hectares, or just a little larger than France and Germany combined. Sixty mil-lion hectares is forest. More than half has had little or no human dis-turbance. There are 25 million hectares of old-growth forest. Sixty-two per cent are over 100 years old, 41 per cent are over 140 years old, and 14 per cent are over 250 years old. Almost four million hectares of old-growth forest is pro-tected, and another 11.5 million hectares

will likely never be har-vested due to conser-vation, inaccessibility or other restrictions. B.C. has over 13 million hectares or approxi-mately 13.8 per cent of the province protected in parks and protected areas where no for-estry, mining or indus-trial development is allowed. This is higher than the United Nations target of 12 per cent of the land base.

(source: Council of Forest Industries)

Sooke has desig-nated over 20 per cent of its land base as park, with an additional five

per cent required on sub-division, while Capital Regional Dis-trict Regional Parks is 5.4 per cent of the total CRD land area. Sooke contributes nearly $220,000 per year to CRD parks, land acqui-sitions, and climate action and adaptation. We invested $23 mil-lion and pay upwards of $515 per household to exceed the provin-cial standard for sew-age treatment, while Victoria et al dump their raw sewage into the ocean.

Havent we contrib-uted more than our

fair share for conser-vation and the envi-ronment in the CRD, and isnt it time that we re-open one road (that we already have) to restore legal recre-ational access to our lakes and channel it on a designated route where it will do no harm?

Alexandra MartinSooke

Access denied due to eco-saviours

Recent comments associate hiking a baby into the back country with saving the envi-ronment, but none of them claim a net bene-fit to the baby, which more or less describes the priorities.

One online com-ment describes the awesome backpacks that are available to haul a baby around. If enough townies with cool backpacks sub-ject babies to the easily foreseeable and poten-tially fatal risks of the backcountry, which include deer ticks, pre-dators, or simply fal-ling down, the unfor-tunate epitaph might be RIP baby. The environment is sorry. While Ive spent a lot of time in the back coun-try, I wouldnt take my

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baby out there on an ATV, much less allow him (or Grandma) to be packed out there by any of those eco-savi-ors on foot, no matter how gloriously trendy it might be.

As for motorized vehicles, it seems unli-kely that any part of the wood cabin, (produced by mechanized log-ging operations), or the aluminum canoe (pro-duced by mechanized mining operations), got to the lake without first being transported on a vehicle, on a road. Even Beacon Hill Park has a road in it, and that is one park I would take my baby to.

The issue is not and never has been about motorized vehicles in parks or sacrificing babies to save the envi-ronment. Its about get-ting to the lakes on the existing road. The fact the townies cant get their eco-sensitive cars in there is no reason to deny access to the rest of us.

Terrance MartinSooke

Taking issue with Fletcher

Mr. Fletchers opi-nion piece last week is a prime example of micro-management. Taking numbers and moving them around until they give you an answer youre happy with. The final facts as well as the num-bers will always be the same; the extraction, transport, and use of oil in combustion engi-nes is toxic period. It transforms natural landscapes, disturbs and kills wildlife, spoils waterways, lakes and oceans, poisons our atmosphere, accelera-tes climate change, and

on and on.To debate that once

pristine lakes and water-ways in wilderness areas are now within acceptable levels of tox-icity, but still rising, and at this time no more harmful to humans than drinking from an urban lake, does not make me feel any bet-ter. In fact, it saddens me even more knowing that this sort of rheto-ric will somehow make sense to a few. Its like a doctor saying, well, you have a little bit of cancer, but dont worry about it.

To continue investing and building mega-in-frastructures that sup-ports our continued dependence on oil, rather than investing in our future generations by developing cleaner energy sources and their infrastructures, is just short sighted.

It is time for Canada to turn the corner and become more sensitive to domestic and world pollution issues and take a leadership role again. To become an oil

state will only make the inevitable transition even harder both politi-cally and economically.

Tom EberhardtOtter Point

Clarifying press release

Thank you for print-ing our press release regarding the Age Friendly Community Grant for the Sooke Seniors Volunteer Con-nections Project in the Jan. 16 Sooke News Mir-ror.

Although it is

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explained in the article, we wish to describemore clearly how the Sooke Seniors Volun-teer Connections grant was achieved. Council and staff at the District of Sooke investigated applying this grant opportunity towards the provision of lights and sidewalks for thedowntown core, how-ever, it was determinedthat this particular grant could not be usedfor that purpose. Since only municipalities are

eligible to apply for the grant, the districtsuggested local senior serving organizations come up with ideas for the grant proposal.

The Sooke Region Volunteer Centre Com-mittee (SVRCC) pro-posed a Seniors Volun-teer Connections initia-tive in light of the cur-rent challenges facing a number of our seniorsto access volunteer opportunities. SVRCC

developed the founda-tion for the grant appli-cation, district staff completed it and coun-cil approved sending in the application.

That we were suc-cessful at a time when our seniors and seniors organizations are ingreat need is excit-ing and encouraging.Sooke Region Commu-nity Health Initiative(CHI) will be overseeing the grant and reporting

to the District of Sooke. The Sooke Region Vol-unteer Centre Commit-tee will be doing thework as a sub-commit-tee of CHI. We all lookforward to continuing our collaborations with seniors, the organiza-tions that serve them.

Marlene Barry, Chair

Sooke Region Vol-unteer Centre Com-

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Many, many women, and men as well, have joined in preparing food in the very best local tradition. OAP organiza-tion #88, spearheaded by Phyllis Johnson, was a leader in organizing seniors meals in the hall. Two of the dedi-cated women cooks, among the many in ear-lier years, were Marga-ret Money and Marga-ret Simpson.

This photo taken in the hall dining room, February 1970 shows two rows of diners, at their twice-weekly ses-sions. We cant identify them all, but on the left side we see Muriel Pear-son with a loaded fork. Muriel was a musician, retired to live in the Whiffin Spit area, who contributed her fiddle

music to many events.On the right hand

side we see Ida Planes in the cable knit swea-ter, grandmother to todays TSou-ke Chief Gordon Planes. Next to her is Vicki Carosella, grandmother to Gor-die Carosella, a well-known Sooke mecha-nic. Further along, we see Kai Jensen in a dark sweater, sipping his tea. A Saseenos dairy farmer in the 1930s and 40s, Kai helped maintain the Sooke Har-bour Cemetery.

Kais wife Margaret should have been sit-ting alongside him, perhaps she was away

with a cold that day. Margaret was born at Otter Point in 1907 to Charles and Jane King, for whom King Creek was named, and her long history meant she was a devoted contri-butor to the archival records of the Sooke Region Museum.

Others that are likely among those seen here are Doug Worthington, Millie Hill and Mary

Abbott. Each of the community gathering places that grace our region from East Sooke to Port Renfrew has made similar contribu-tions to our lives and wellbeing.

Elida Peers, Historian

Sooke Region Museum

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Two Christmases ago, Emily Tipper, 10, was walking around down-town Victoria when she noticed a significant number of homeless people sleeping on the streets.

The observation led her to ask her father, What do the homeless have to eat for Christ-mas?

After learning that the homeless are forced to visit soup kitchens or struggle to find food, Emily resolved to dis-tribute lunches the fol-lowing year.

It made me feel a bit sad how many people are homeless on the street, Emily recalled.

She immediately began collecting and returning bottles to gather funds, which raised about $400 -- $50 of which was a gener-ous and unsolicited donation.

The money funded 150 bagged lunches and 30 additional sand-wiches. Each packed lunch contained a tur-key salad sandwich, gingerbread cookie, candy cane, an orange and a bottled water.

The entire operation was a family affair, with brown bags taking up every surface of the Tipper household.

With a car trunk loaded with food, Emily, along with her father, older sister, and a friend, headed out to feed the homeless on Dec. 23.

With little success finding homeless peo-ple in Sooke, the quar-tet drove into Victoria, where they distributed all of the food within three hours.

They handed out the bagged lunches in areas like Yates Street, Johnson Street, the Sal-vation Army, the Mus-tard Seed, and Rock

Bay Landing. The positive experi-

ence left Emily, who conceived of the entire initiative, with mixed emotions.

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homeless and have to struggle to get food, she said.

And it made me feel happy how I was help-ing them.

A prominent mem-ory from the afternoon was when a homeless

woman spotted the charitable girls, and ran down the street to greet them.

The woman grate-fully accepted a bagged lunch, and broke down into tears, stating she hadnt eaten in days.

She then shared a word of caution with Emily, and advised her to stay in school to avoid the hardships of poverty.

After witnessing the positive impact of their efforts, the girls agreed they would return next year, but with double the amount of food.

With 300 bagged lunches as a target, Emily has already begun collecting bottles.

According to her father, Mark Tipper, all of the Tipper children have altruistic tenden-cies, with Emily being a very sensitive child.

Emily is a very emo-tional person, and she always thinks of others first, he said. Shes always been that way.

In October 2012, Emily shaved her head and raised $800 for Cops for Cancer.

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With the help of her family, Emily Tipper, left, prepared the lunches for the homeless headed to town with her older sister Breanne, centre, and her sisters friend Madison. A grateful recipient is on the far right.

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