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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 Sooke’s 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 you’ve 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 don’t know what more a committee could have done than we did.”

He said there were things

in the bylaw he didn’t agree with.

“People don’t 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

Maja Tait—Councillor

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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 child’s development. Even just 15 minutes a day can improve a child’s 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

8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

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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:École Millstream Elementary School (parent informa on night is Jan. 15, 7:00 p.m. at the school)École Poirier Elementary School (parent informa on night is Jan. 15, 7:00 p.m. at the school)École 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:École 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:

Sat., January 12, 10:00 a.m. – 12 noon at Sangster Elementary SchoolWed., January 16, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at Sangster Elementary School

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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District Bus Transporta on: Any students requiring school bus transporta on to and from school next fall must pre-register. Registra on forms will be made available at schools, the School Board O ce on Jacklin Road and on our website.

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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 district’s 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

Mayor’s 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 council’s 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.

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

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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.

“We’d have a flourishing industry now if they hadn’t 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 Lumber’s 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.

“Don’t 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. That’s 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 Brubaker’s 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 that’s really popular in Europe. FSA certified wood is about sustainable logging practices.

“I’m 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.

“I’m 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. We’re pretty much in control of the whole process. In 36 years, I’ve learned how to log, sawmill, dry and build. It’s 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 haven’t 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 wasn’t 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 you’re body’s not ready. And once you get to the hospital and

they start doing things to you, you’re kind of on a time limit. They’re 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 don’t 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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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

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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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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

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 didn’t 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 don’t 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 Hydro’s 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 don’t.

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 it’s interspersed with product pitches for EMF Solutions Canada, of which Byrne is coincidentally president.

Then there’s “entrepreneur-activist” Rob Metzinger, president of something called Safe Living Technologies Inc. He doesn’t run a lurid scare website, but he’s 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. I’ll 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 Sooke’s 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. It’s 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. Council’s 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 don’t always have to agree 100 per cent but they should be united once the vote is made. It shouldn’t 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. There’s 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 you’d like to drive a little further

for people who are handicapped and what

not, and it’s easier access to see things you wouldn’t

normally see.

Ken ChekerdaSooke

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

they’re respectful. As long as they’re not littering, as long as they’re 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.

Haven’t we contrib-uted more than our

fair share for conser-vation and the envi-ronment in the CRD, and isn’t 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 I’ve spent a lot of time in the back coun-try, I wouldn’t take my

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Sooke’s public boat launch saw a lot of use during the sunny weather experienced last week. The dry trend is disappearing with clouds and rain expected over the next week.

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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. It’s about get-ting to the lakes on the existing road. The fact the townies can’t 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. Fletcher’s “opi-nion” piece last week is a prime example of micro-management. Taking numbers and moving them around until they give you an answer you’re 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. It’s like a doctor saying, “well, you have a little bit of cancer, but don’t 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

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Sooke has such a tradition of people get-ting together to share a meal, not only for the nutrition but for the building of camaraderie and social exchange. Over the years the Sooke Community Hall has been such a venue for countless groups and occasions.

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 can’t 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 today’s T’Sou-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.

Kai’s 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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Selfless act of kindness will be repeatedSharron HoSooke News Mirror

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.

“It made me feel a bit happy, and sad at the same time, how they’re

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 hadn’t 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. “She’s 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 sister’s friend Madison. A grateful recipient is on the far right.

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Edward Milne c o m m u n i t y school, in part-

nership with Camosun College, is offering stu-dents a comprehensive trades program that will fast track them into the industry.

The Trades Aware-ness Skills Knowledge (TASK) program will give students training in areas like carpentry, plumbing, electrical, insulation and painting.

The program is dual credit, meaning stu-dents will receive cred-its for high school and Camosun College.

“It’s going to cover all the basic trades to get into your first year apprenticeship at Camosun College,” said Mike Huck, Edward Milne community school vice-principal.

To facilitate the pro-gram, students will be building community projects commissioned by local residents once a week.

Huck said people can request a vari-ety of small carpentry projects like decks and outdoor storage struc-tures.

“We’re going to build them here, and then transport them out onto other people’s homes, and put them up,” he said.

Huck added students will also receive indus-try trades certificates like WHIMIS, first aid, and flagging and con-fined spaces certifica-

tion. “We’re hopefully

going to be able to pre-pare them for work in the summertime and then they jump right into the apprentice-ship.”

TASK, which was developed by the high school and Camosun College, was instituted to meet the requests of students.

“We’re just filling a void, I think, creating this trade program in our community so they don’t have to go into town or somewhere else to get the training that we could provide here,” Huck said.

Corinna Zimmer-mann, drafting, metal-work and TASK teacher, said many students have expressed an interest in the new pro-gram.

“I can see it from the classes that I’ve been teaching already that there is a lot of inter-est; when I ask students what are they inter-ested in doing after fin-ishing school, a lot of them say trades,” she said.

Zimmermann also said the program will adequately prepare students for a post-secondary education in trades.

“A lot of post-sec-ondary institutions have said that they’re finding that kids going into trades programs don’t have the kind of hands-on intuition that they had 10 or so many years ago,” she said.

“A lot of kids don’t

have the home envi-ronment they used to, playing with mechan-ics in the home shed or using those skills at home.”

She believes TASK will help, “kids to fine tune those skills and the intuition of how to use tools safely so that they’re more prepped when they go into a trades program at the secondary level.”

Instructors from

Camosun College will also be teaching two days a week alongside Zimmermann.

The first semester of TASK will begin on Feb. 4 until July. The program is open to stu-dents in Grades 10 to 12.

To request a com-munity project, contact Huck at 250-642-5211.

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TASK gets student sready for work in the tradesSharron Ho photo

The TASK program will give students a jump into the trades field.

Pictured are Corinna Zimmermann, TASK teacher, left, and Grade 10 student, Rita Fraboni.

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The Christmas Bureau gets underway early in the fall of each year with some initial planning, and preparing for the ordering of both non-perishable and perishable foodstuffs, and by late November swings into full action, to provide food ham-pers for needy clients of our region over the holiday period.

The 2012 Campaign, which concluded on Dec. 31, saw requests for about 465 hampers processed.

“The community of Sooke responded to the call for volunteers and support in so many var-ied ways over the criti-cal weeks of the initia-tive,” stated spokesper-son David Bennett.

Cash donations raised totalled just shy of $24,500 and the degree of both non-perishable food items donated and the num-ber of volunteers of a wide range of ages, were both a most grati-fying aspect.

“It just can not be underestimated how

significant the contribu-tion to the success of this annual campaign by the members of the Sooke Fire Rescue Ser-vice and their families has become.” Their ‘Help Fill A Truck’ storefront campaign in front of Village Food Market, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Western Foods for most of the weekends in December (resulting in well over $11,000 in cash dona-tions), and their Santa

Run through our com-munity on a Saturday night (resulting in a col-lection of non-perish-able food items valued at upwards of $25,000) are essential, stated Bennett, and even the Firehall Drive-Through donations service on their final weekend.

He went on to say that the increase in community volunteers in particular and Dis-trict of Sooke staff mem-bers, to assist the fire-

fighters in front of the stores, and the number of families already plan-ning for house parties on the night of the SFRS Santa Run this coming December, is encourag-ing and exciting.

The Otter Point and East Sooke Fire Rescue Services also contrib-uted to possibly the largest collection ever of non-perishable food-stuffs from the Santa Run initiative.

Thank you, our com-

munity of Sooke, for the stronger-than-ever interest and commit-ted involvement which went toward creating much-needed core sta-ples for individuals and families at this festive time of year.

SOOKE NEWS MIRROR - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013 www.sookenewsmirror.com COMMUNITY • 19KT Shum photo

Sunrise on the horizon

East Sooke resident KT Shum sent along this photo of the sun quietly rising over the horizon.

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Community raises close to $25,000 for hampers

Hard Times

The annual Hard Times Dance takes place this Saturday at the Sooke Commu-nity Hall. Dressing in a ‘hard times’ costume or casual attire is encour-aged.

Dance to the music of Phoenix and enjoy a tasty meal of weiners and beans later in the evening.

Tickets are available at the two drug marts in Sooke for a hard times price of $5.

Doors open at 8 p.m., music starts at 9.

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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.

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A trip through the Sooke News Mirror archives:

Jan. 23, 1985Taxes going upTaxpayers in Sooke

and the surrounding unincorporated west-ern communities will face a four per cent increase in taxes, and a 15.8 per cent increase in planning costs in 1985, Sooke regional director Ray Nestman said last week.

Electoral area direc-tors of the Capi-tal Regional District approved a tax levy of $569,380 Jan. 7, an increase of $77,510 over 1984.

The increases are due to the provincial gov-ernment’s withdrawal of financial support.

Community planning programs previously covered by provincial grants now must be paid out of the local taxes. The increase is largely due to the prov-ince rejecting a plan-ning grant application for $43,000 to cover set-tlement plan reviews in the western communi-ties.

Mr. Nestman said the 1985 tax bill for Sooke, Langford, Colwood and View Royal “is a more realistic figure as it

reflects more the true costs of planning.”

Jan. 20, 1993 Harbour plan to go

to vote Sooke residents will

have the final word on whether the contro-versial Sooke Harbour, Basin and Inlet Manage-ment plan will be imple-mented.

About 150 residents, mostly waterfront property owners, voted almost unanimously in favour of putting the final draft of the plan to a plebiscite vote

of all Sooke ratepay-ers before it is sent to the CRD directors for approval.

Many at Wednes-day evening’s stand-ing room-only meeting at the Community Hall dining room felt a plebi-scite was the only way they could make sure concerns about the plan are addressed.

This, despite assur-ances from commit-tee members, regional director Lorna Barry and senior CRD plan-ner Yoon Chee that public input would be

adhered to. “Your concerns will

be listened to, I can guarantee you that,” Chee said.

Over 750 property owners singed a peti-tion opposing a num-ber of aspects of a draft plan, drawn up by a cit-izen’s committee with the assistance of a CRD planner.

Jan. 20, 1999East Sooke APC

chair under fireThe chair of the East

Sooke Advisory Plan-ning Commission is

under investigation after he was discov-ered counselling Sil-ver Spray developer Michael Thornton on how to get his contro-versial rezoning appli-cation approved.

In an Nov. 2 email cor-respondence obtained by the Sooke News Mirror, Alan Strickland tells Thornton that he has “to stick by my instincts as a communi-cator and counsel you that the best spin here is to appear to cooper-ate with (regional direc-tor Diane) Bernard’s request for an environ-mental review, and to acknowledge it publicly, in order to start work-ing on getting her feel-ing ‘comfortable’ with a decision to approve.”

The correspon-dence was sent from Strickland’s Ministry of Finance office where he is employed as a com-munications manager.

When contacted by the News Mirror about the correspondence, Strickland asked to be a faxed a copy of the email before comment-ing. He then failed to return repeated calls by the News Mirror.

Jan. 26, 2005Sooke says ‘no’ to

borrowing for roads

The people have spo-ken -- twice.

That’s the thoughts of many on the prevail-ing side in Saturday’s District of Sooke refer-endum. The municipal-ity’s quest to borrow $2.6 million for a pair of road projects was thwarted by 1,608 elec-tors casting “no’ bal-lots.

On the other side, 1,312 voted in favour -- a difference of 296 -- of borrowing for High-way 14 upgrades in the downtown and phase one of the parallel con-nector.

“Sooke residents

rejected a poorly con-sidered road plan in Saturday’s referendum, with the covenant on the golf course repre-senting the real heart behind the ‘no’ vote,” said Jen Smith, a repre-sentative of the Sooke Area Residents Asso-ciation, alluding to the proposed road going through the John Phil-lips Memorial Golf club property.

“I only hope that in the next golf course rezoning (public hear-ing) on Jan. 31, the mayor and council finally decide to listen to the majority.”

LOOKING BACKBACK when

File photo

Work on the Evergreen Mall road took place at this time in 2011.

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Thurs.Thurs.January 24January 24ROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONCribbage - 7 p.m. Pool Darts - 7:30 p.m. SOOKE PUBLIC LIBRARYPreschool Storytime, from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Sooke Library Branch, 2065 Anna Marie Rd. Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, fi ngerplays and more. Ages 3-5. Call 250-642-3022 to register.

Fri.Fri.January 25January 25ROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONShort mat 1-3Short mat 1-3Drop-in darts at 8 p.m. Drop-in darts at 8 p.m. VITAL VITTLESVITAL VITTLESFree lunch from 11:30 a.m. Free lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Holy Trinity to 1 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church on Murray Road. Church on Murray Road. Everyone welcome. Everyone welcome. SOOKE PUBLIC LIBRARYSOOKE PUBLIC LIBRARYBabytime, from 10:30 a.m. Babytime, from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Come and enjoy to 11 a.m. Come and enjoy rhymes, songs, fi ngerplays rhymes, songs, fi ngerplays and stories with your baby. and stories with your baby. Ages 0-18 months. Call Ages 0-18 months. Call 250-642-3022 to register. 250-642-3022 to register. Celebrating Family Literacy Celebrating Family Literacy Day at the library. Day at the library.

Tues.Tues.January 29January 29BABY TALK 2012BABY TALK 2012Childhood Diseases and Childhood Diseases and ImmunizationsImmunizationsAt the Sooke Child, Youth At the Sooke Child, Youth and Family Centre (CASA and Family Centre (CASA building) 2145 Townsend building) 2145 Townsend Road from 10-11:30 a.m. Road from 10-11:30 a.m. YOUTH CLINICYOUTH CLINICWest Coast Family West Coast Family Medical Clinic from 4 to 7 Medical Clinic from 4 to 7 p.m. for ages 13 to 25. p.m. for ages 13 to 25. SOOKE DOG CLUB SOOKE DOG CLUB OBEDIENCE CLASSESOBEDIENCE CLASSESContact 250-642-7667 Contact 250-642-7667 for more information and for more information and registration. registration.

Weds.Weds.January 30January 30ROYAL CANADIAN ROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONLEGIONShuffl eboards 6:30 p.m.Shuffl eboards 6:30 p.m.Ladies Darts 12 p.m. Ladies Darts 12 p.m. TOASTMASTERS TOASTMASTERS Located upstairs at Village Located upstairs at Village Foods, starting at 7 p.m. Foods, starting at 7 p.m. For further information, call For further information, call Allan at 250-642-7520. Allan at 250-642-7520.

Sat.Sat.January 26January 26SOOKE FALL FAIR FLEA MARKETOld fashioned valentine card making in the Sooke Community Hall dining room. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. -- all supplies provided. Free event, everyone welcome. Call Candace at 250-474-5771 to book a table. SOOKE FIRE RESCUEGarage sale at fi re hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds will be used to send Sooke volunteer fi refi ghters to Panama to assist with training in Boquete. Tables $10, for more info contact 250-642-5422.

Mon.Mon.January 28January 28ROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONShort mat 1-3 p.m. Euchre 6:30 Pool League 7 p.m.

Sun.Sun.January 27January 27

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23

The Garden Club at 7:30

The Garden Club at 7:30

p.m. at St. Rose of Lima

p.m. at St. Rose of Lima

Church. Speaker Dave

Church. Speaker Dave

Jewitt, “Ponds & Water

Jewitt, “Ponds & Water

Features.” Everyone Features.” Everyone

welcome. welcome.

HARD TIMES DANCEAt the Sooke Community Hall, live band “Phoenix” on Saturday, Jan. 26. Tickets available at Peoples Drug Mart and Shoppers Drug Mart, dress casual or hard times costume. GOSPEL BLUE GRASS CONCERTSooke Baptist Church at 8 p.m. on Satuday, Jan. 26. Tickets at Peoples Drug Mart and Shoppers Drug Mart. PHILIPS LIFELINE Learn how Lifeline service works and understand the benefi ts of having Lifeline in your home. At Sooke Legion, start at 2:30 p.m.

MORE EVENTS SATURDAY, JAN. 26

Cooper CoveCooper Cove

Capital Regional District

A water main cleaning program will be carried out in various areas of Colwood, Langford and View Royal between January 1, 2013 and April 30, 2013.Short periods of low pressure and discolouration of water can be expected. Commercial establishments such as laundromats and beauty salons will receive advance warning of flushing in their vicinity. If you require such notification, please contact CRD Integrated Water Services, 479 Island Highway, Victoria, BC, at 250.474.9619.In no case can responsibility be accepted for any damage arising out of the use of discoloured water.

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With great sadness we would like to announce the passing of Clark- Diane Lousie (Jones) Sept 17, 1954 – January 12, 2013. She suddenly passed away after being involved in a tragic accident. Diane is predeceased by both of her parents Elsie and

Victor Jones of Victoria, BC. and her best friend and cousin Tom McPherson. She is survived and will be profoundly and forever missed by her loving daughter Lisa Huck (Brooks), son-in-law Mike Huck, son Billy Brooks, and her two beautiful grandchildren, Samuel and Abigail, whom she loved to bits and pieces. Diane was also was very excited about sharing her love with her soon to be third grandchild. Diane will be sorely missed by her three brothers, Victor, Richard and David, and her extended family Scotty, Kelly and Ethan. Diane grew up on a beautiful farm in Metchosin, BC where she developed her strong work ethic, rode horses, and raised cattle and sheep for the 4H Club. She later resided in Sooke, BC. where she continued her love of farming, riding horses and raising animals. She spent many years owning and operating a thriving farm and deeply enjoyed all aspects of a rural life and was closely attached to the land. She was a member of the Vancouver Island Saddle Club for many years, where she competed in the cutting horse sector. Diane was a long time employee of the Sooke School District and proudly belonged to the CUPE Union # 459 where she will be sadly missed. Diane was an avid outdoors woman who loved fi shing, riding horses, gardening and ATVing. She had many friends who loved her and who she in turn thought of as her family. Diane will always be missed and be remembered by all as a hard working, adventurous dancing queen, with a heart the size of her beautiful smile. "May your golden angle wings carry you through to your next adventure". A celebration of life for Diane will be held on January 26, 2013 at 1pm at Edward Milne Community School in Sooke, BC.

CLARK- DIANE LOUSIE (JONES) Sept 17, 1954 – January 12, 2013

CONTACTMELINDA BRAKE

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Our father, who art in heaven,Hallowed be thy name;Thy kingdom come;Thy will be done,On earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our trespasses,As we forgive those who trespass against us.And lead us not into temptation;But deliver us from evil.For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,Forever and ever.Amen.

In loving memory of

Sarah (Sally) Daley NickersonSeptember 2, 1953 - January 8, 2012

Jack AndrewsFebruary 10,1950- January 04, 2013

With much sadness we announce that our beloved Richard John Andrews... (Jack Andrews) lost his brave battle with leukemia on the

4th of January. Surrounded with love from wife Becky, daughter Morgan, son Wesley, daughter in law Leah and old, cherished friends.Pre-deceased by father Wesley K., mother

Barbara, step mom Marms, and brother Stephen.Leaving behind grandson Jaxson, sister Shirley

(Dale), Wendy (Brenda), David (Sharon), many nieces and nephews, Kavanagh family and many friends and acquaintances.A memorable man of few words, a curious

mind, a wry sense of humor, and a passion for carving and all that was wood! And of course those solitary beach walks with his Muggins.Celebration of life to be held on the 9th of

February at his favorite haunt, Buffy's 2-5 pm.Followed by family gathering on the 10th of

February.We carry your heart with us (we carry it in our

hearts) forever.

Love You Johnny

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ON BEHALF of the Board of Directors and the Volunteers of the Sooke Residents in Need/Sooke Crisis Centre, I would like to sincerely thank the community of Sooke for the overwhelming support we have received in the past month. Donation of warm jackets, blankets, sleeping bags, groceries and money have been generous and so very much appreciated . Thanks Sooke. Liz Johnson, President

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The 25th Sooke Fine Arts Show opened on Thursday night with purchasers waiting in line to get into the show and see the latest

works from the 275 artists who submitted entries.The adjudicators chose 375 pieces from the 551 art-

ists who responded to the call for entries to the juried art show and sale.

The 10-day show was once again staged in the SEA-PARC Leisure Complex where a group of talented and hard working volunteers transformed the cavernous space into an amazing gallery.

“We had a lovely weekend and a lot of people,” said Sally Manning, show coordinator. “It is a colourful and happy show.”

Many Sooke artists stood out as the winners in the 25th Anniversary Artists Awards. They included Pat-rick Irwin for his acrylic and oil two-dimensional paint-ing “Port Alberni,” Best Two-Dimensional work.

The Best Three-Dimensional work award was awarded to Jan Johnson for his “Minotaur Overseeing Intake,” while Debbie Clarkson took the award for the Best Photography for her “La Habana Elegante #3.” Dana Sitar’s “When I Do Not Follow the Rules” took the award for Best Fibre. Honourable mentions were given to Chuck Minten for his “Circle of Friends” wood table and Anne Boquist’s “YoYoTokTik” gourd and found object piece.

Other winners include Heather Hamilton’s “Internal Reflections” pendant (Best Jewellery); Jo Ludwig’s “No Title” glass piece (Best Glass); Metchosin’s Judi Dyelle won Best Ceramic for her “White Series #1”; and Jeff Molloy’ for his mixed media piece “A Man of the Cloth.

Other honourable mentions went to Debbie Jansen for her fused glass, “Untitled”, Eliza Heminway’s fibre wall piece, “The Haberdasher’s Garden” and Leonard Butt’s “Uchi” raku sculpture.

The adjudicators each chose a work for Juror’s Choice. Richard White gave full marks to Nicolas Van-dergugten’s lino block print “Bridgework #3”; Grant Leier (substituting for Carol Sabiston) awarded Dee de Wit’s “Still Life with Mango” his kudos; and juror Nixie Barton chose Johannes Landman’s oil painting “Benchwarmer.”

Manning said the attendance was keeping in line with past years as were the sales.

25 Years of incredible art

Pirjo Raits photo

Bonnie Jones takes a close look at Michael MacLean’s “Ambassador”

The Sooke FolkMusic Society normally cur-

tails it’s activities for the summer, but thisSaturday, July 30, we are delighted to bringback Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart for a spe-cial summer concert at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, as part of their “Driver ‘til she drops”tour; a reference to their Chevy Suburban,which now has some 465,000 miles on theodometer

Stacey Earle andMark Stuart met for the first time 1991 ata songwriters night in Nashville TN. Theyknew that night it was one of them things thatare just meant to be. They were married in 1992.

It would be quite a balancing act at that time raising a family and trying to make a living along with all theother stuff that came with getting by, “but wemanaged,” Stacey said as she looked back ather first encounter with the world of touring.

Stacey Earle’s first show was on an arena stage in Sydney, play-ing rhythm guitar in her brother’s band, Steve Earle & the Dukes.

She spent about a year and a half on tour with her brother, and then returned to Nash-ville to start a career of her own as a country/folk singer/songwriter.

“I was 30-years-old and asking/seeking a recording deal in Nash-ville.At that age it was like asking God to turn back the world clock.”

Mark Stuart went to the finest of music schools, he started his schooling listening and admiring his uncle’s guitar playing and his dad’s fiddling. By age 15 he would find himself

playing in the school ofhonky tonks and beer joints in and around Nashville in his dad’s band.

Mark was off the road when he met Sta-cey and that very night he would play the firstnote of her music never leaving her side. Mark

still somehow foundthe time to work on his own music record-ing his solo record and touring.

Mark, as well, spent some time in the Dukes in the 1990s. Like Earle, he recalls it as a time ofglamour: appearing on the Tonight Show with

Jay Leno, and MTV. “I had someone tun-

ing my guitar, strappingon my guitar,” he said. “Now we carry our stuff three flights up in the Red Roof Inn.”

Over the years Sta-cey and Mark havelearned so much from each other. Their songs are the diaries of their life — good times andbad, thereby complet-ing the love they have.Together they share the full load of gettingby day-by-day.

They’ve gone onto release their duo albums, Never GonnaLet You Go in 2003 and S&M CommunionBread in 2005, and their Gearle Records 2008release Love from Sta-cey and Mark which is available at thehir live shows only.

While, no doubt, each still remains an individual solo artist with solo releases, suchas the 2008 release of Mark Stuart’s Left of

Nashville and Stacey Earle’s The Ride also in 2008), it is throughthe respect of each oth-er’s work and years ofplaying together that they have created theirunique sound. And that sound allows each indi-vidual to shine through. Stacey and Mark are no doubt together ‘til death do they part.

Please be sure to join us for what will bea memorable evening with these two very engaging singer/song-writers.

The gig is on Satur-day, July 30 at Holy Trin-ity Anglican Church, at 1962 Murray Road.Doors open at 7:30 p.m. with show at 8. Ticketsare $15 and are avail-able at the door or in advance at Shopper’s Drug Mart.

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U12 Sooke Thrashers defeat Bays United The young players have demonstrated steady improvement over the season: Sooke Thrashers coach

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The U12 Sooke Thrashers defeated Bays United, 3-2, last Saturday at Fred Milne Park. “They did pretty good, not too bad, they stuck with their guys a bit,” said coach Chris Cox. He said the boys need to work on their passing, but added they have improved steadily over the season. “They’re getting a lot better from the beginning, they’re starting to play like a team now.” The weekend’s victory was dedicated to assistant coach Steve Waring, who is currently recovering from a broken leg. Clockwise from top left, Sooke player, Zack, 11, dribbles the ball down the field. Sooke Thrasher Brad, 11, goes to grab the ball from his opponent. Goalie Aiden, 11, leaps to make a save.

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The Sooke Bantam C ice hockey team cemented a perfect tournament run at the annual Cowichan Valley Bantam Tournament with a convincing 8 to 2 win over Cowichan Val-ley Capitals in the gold medal game on Sunday, Jan. 6.

The win as noted by coaches and managers was an all around team effort with everyone bringing their A game throughout the tourna-ment.

Sooke’s first game of the round robin was on Friday, Jan. 4 against Saanich C, a rival from League play on lower island. The game was hard fought with a Sooke victory 7 to 4. Goal scorers included: Aiden Ostoposki (3), Dominic lacroix (2), and Marco Carello (2). Helpers were from Brad Staiccu, Zach LIn-dal, Brad Angus, and Dryden Alexander.

Sooke’s second game was a shutout of Victo-ria, 11 to 0. Goal scor-ers included Aiden Goluch (1), Zach Lindal (2), Dominic Lacroix (4), Aiden Ostroposki (2) Dryden Alexander (1), and Sheldon Kelly (1). Helpers were net-ted by Dominic Lacroix, Zach Lindal, Sheldon Kelly, Dryden Alexan-der, Aiden Goluch, and Aiden Ostroposki.

The MVP of the game was Dominic Lacroix. The game was fraught with penalties as Sooke racked up a total of 18 minutes, was beaten yet by Victoria whose players saw 26 in the box. Sooke goal-tender Maxim Clouser stopped all 33 shots on goal in the victory. The Sooke shooters racked up a total of 40 shots on goal during the game.

The last game of the round robin was against the tough Nanaimo Clip-pers team where the score remained tight into the third period --- 4 to 4 with sooke pulling way to win 7 to 4. Goal scorers included: Domi-nic Lacroix (2), Dryden Alexander (3), Aiden Ostroposki (1), and Brad Staicuu (1) with

helpers coming from Kiara Taylor and Leif Norquay Paul. Dryden Alexander, with the hat trick, was named the game’s MVP.

With a perfect 3 and 0 in the round robin, the team went up against one of their toughest opponents, the Juan De Fuca Grizzlies.

The game was back and forth with a 2 to 2 tie through second period. Sooke went up 3 to 2 and pulled away 6 to 3.

Goals were scored by Dominic Lacroix (2), Marco Carello (2), Dryden Alexander (1), Aiden Ostroposki (1) with helpers coming from Kieren Connor, Kiara Taylor, Dryden Alexander, Leif Norquay Paul, and Aiden Goluch. Game MVP was Marco Carello.

There were only six penalty minutes in the game, but a lot of shots on goal as Sooke had 40 and JDF had 39.

Sooke went through

to the gold medal against the undefeated Cowichan Capitals.

The team put their best game effort of the tournmanet and came out on top 8 to 2.

Everyone played 100 per cent with out-standing performances by gold medal winning game.

MVP Maxim Clouser faced 39 shots on goal. A feisty performance was put forth by Gar-rett Chiasson and Eric Strain on defence to stop the top guns from Cowichan. Box score finished up Dominic Lacroix (2), Dryden Alexander (2), Aiden Ostroposki (2), Marco Carello (1), and Kiara Taylor (1) with assists from Marco Carello.

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The Bantam C team pictured with their Cowichan Valley Bantam Tournament trophy.

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The Sooke Celtic had a 6-0 loss against Bays United at Fred Milne Park (The Log) last Friday.

Sr. bball team earns second place

Esquimalt Fire Tour-nament at Esquimalt Secondary, Jan. 18-19.

Game 1: EMCS, 69 Esquimalt, 64

Edward Milne com-munity school aveng-ing an early season two point loss, came out in the first quarter with a full court man press on Esquimalt.

Edging a 44-39 half-time lead, senior guard Chris Shankar pen-etrated the dockers defence for layups, while Grade 11 post Quinn Yates dominated inside, as he controlled defensive rebounds and was strong on the offensive glass.

Never trailing in the second half senior point guard, Eric Albert, distributed the ball and ran the offence, helping EMCS to a 56-47 lead going into the fourth.

Great team defence and control of the defensive rebounds helped EMCS come out on top

Game 2: EMCS, 85 Cedar, 73

Facing Cedar of Nanaimo in the second round, a full team effort was used as forwards Ryan Ehman, Brandon Willson, and Tristen Griffen all had their best rebounding game of the season.

Grade 11 shooting guard, Sean Mckenzie, was instant offence coming off the bench, scoring 12 points in 12 minutes of play includ-ing two big three point-ers.

Grade 11 post, Quinn Yates, had a monster game in side for the boys from Milnes Land-ing.

Yates gave up five inches to his 6’9” Cedar check, but wisely used his 60 plus pounds to shower the Cedar defence for 42 points and 18 rebounds -- many of those as 16-18 foot baseline jumpers.

Senior guard Chris Shankar stands 5’7”. Shankar plays like he’s the fastest 6’5” guy you’ve ever seen.

In his third and final season with the EMCS Wolverines, Shankar is dominating defences. He had 21 points, 19 rebounds, nine assists and nine steals.

One assist and one steal off of a quadruple double.

EMCS trailed at the end of the first quarter 22-26 and 44-47 at the half.

The team contin-ued to play great team defence.

Quinn Yates contin-ued to drop hoops on the the other end of the floor as EMCS took the lead with three minutes left in the third with 52-48, and never looked back.

Stretching the game open with a 25 point fourth quarter, EMCS advanced to the finals with a 85-73 victory.

Finals: EMCS, 36 David Thompson, 70

The AAA boys from Vancouver’s Central Mainland division came out the gates blazing. Using a 1-3-1 half court press that smothered the Wolverines, stag-nating any good offen-sive looks and taking a 21-5 lead.

And stretching it to 37-15 at half.

The Wolverines strug-gled to get anything on the offensive end going. Sean Mckenzie added a quick 7 points of the bench at the end of the third to make it 54-26 after three.

Falling to tournament champoins 36-70, disa-pointed in not winning, the team is glad to be adding to the trophy case a second place plaque.

Quinn Yates and Chris Shankar were named as first team tournament allstars.

The senior boys resumed league action yesterday at 5:30 p.m. at Edward Milne, against Lambrick Park Lions, ranked second.

They will travel to Parklands on Thursday in a game that will see the winner likely go to the playoffs.

by coach Trevor Bligh

Senior boys basketball team make strong appearance at tourney

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REGISTRATIONJanuary 27, 9-12 (Sun)February 9, 9-12 (Sat)

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Winter Pitching PracticeStarting January 9th to March 13th.

Wednesday nights at Journey Middle SchoolSquirt and Pee Wee ages: 7:00pm to 7:45pmBantam and Midget ags: 7:45pm to 8:30pm

Please have a catcher with mask for each pitcher. Drop in fee of $2.00 per player.

Winter Batting PracticeStarting January 14th to March 11th

Monday nights at Journey Middle SchoolTime: 7:00pm to 8:30pm

This is open to Squirt to Midget ages.Drop in fee of $2.00 per player.

Winter Pitching PracticeSix sessions held on Saturday starting in February

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Seahawks start training


The Sooke Seahawks have started their cross training program to pre-pare for the upcoming season.

According to coach Andy Carrier, the clin-ics works on areas like conditioning andstrength training.

The kids received the opportunity to work with coach Tim Kearse, a former wide receiver with the CFL and NFL.

Carrier said he saw rapid improvement in the young players after they trained withKearse for just 45 min-utes.

“It was night and day.

The posture, the speed, the everything.”

Carrier added it has been nice to watch the players, who range between the ages of 7 to 14, interact.

“It’s amazing to watchthem interact, the older kids were helping thelittle guys.”

The Sooke Seahawkswill be training twice a week from Jan. 17 to Feb. 28.

The spring season will begin on the first weekend of March.

For early registra-tion and more informa-tion, visit www.victoria-football.ca or [email protected].

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The Sooke Seahawks pictured with coach Tim Kearse during a cross training clinic.

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