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A spacious room features a large window offering a view of an Uplands yard which is also reflected in the opposite floor mirror. Drums and other percussion instruments fill the void beneath a piano tucked into the corner, while books and CDs soften the edges and corners of the room. Vibrant artwork inspires from the walls.

In the open space of what she calls her dance room, Dr. Sydney Price-Sparling shares her passion.

Specifically, she teaches the art form known as Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance that will be on display June 28 and 29 at the Victoria Hindu Temple.

The career physician spent her early years as a classically trained ballet dancer.

“I’ve never stopped dancing. Dance and medicine have always been a symbiotic relationship,” she said.

She attributes her teaching to her guru, Rajamani, with whom she first connected in the early 1970s. Prior to his death in 2003, they kept in touch, each travelling between countries.

At their first meeting, Price-Sparling was visiting India (helping out a friend during her impending childbirth) and wanted to dance while she was there.

“He said, ‘You’ll look after them. You’ll look after the community’ and I have,” she said of one of his final visits to Canada.

She teaches in her Uplands home, calling her studio Kala Mandir (temple of the arts) and describes the classic dance as rich in esthetics and infused with knowledge of the world.

“I know I learn more from teaching than I ever gave anybody,” she said.

Dr. Sydney Price-Sparling dances in

her home studio, where students learn,

among other things, the art form known as

Bharatanatyam.Christine van Reeuwyk/News staff

Experience the spirit of India

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Fourteen year-old Maddy Dorion is packing light for her summer trip across Canada

“It’s not a glamorous trip,” the Oak Bay teen said with a laugh. “It’s – lets have fun, get down to earth, experience this country … I’m just really excited to meet new people.”

Packing light meant she planned for one dress and a lot of bug spray before leaving Sunday (June 22) on the CISV Peace Bus for a 39-day trip across Canada.

“The main reason I’m doing this is I’ve traveled so much internationally, I can now really represent Canada. I’ve never really experienced Canada,” she

said. “It’s my country, I’m proud to live in Canada but I’ve never been past Vancouver.”

The recent Central middle school graduate and 11 other youth aged 14 to 16, along with three leaders will alternate camping, up to a week at a time, and billeting along the way.

The Peace Bus is a CISV Canada, (formerly Children’s International Summer Villages) program which takes Canadian youth on a trip to educate and inspire them through experiential learning and volunteering while focusing on the four pillars of CISV: human rights, sustainability, diversity and conflict resolution.

Dorion first joined a CISV project

at age 11 when she spent a month in Norway. Last year, she did an exchange that included more than two weeks in France.

“I think it’s something I’ll want to do the rest of my life,” she said. “It’s

changed who I am. I’m much more willing to take chances. I want to explore.”

She’s developed worldwide connections citing Facebook friends from far off places that she regularly interacts with.

It’s not unusual for her to start the day

Snapchatting with a pal in Brazil. During the trip, the group

volunteers in communities, engages in educational projects, participates

in team-building activities and learns about Canada. In Victoria, their volunteer work included creating harm reduction packs and a beach clean up.

She’s excited to take the trip with like-minded youth interested in learning about friendships, peace, acceptance and other cultures.

“It’s a really nice environment to be around. It’s like having another family,” she said. “I’m looking forward to meeting new people and really being able to see Canada … These are things that stick with you for a lifetime.”

A second bus, carrying those aged 15 to 18 travels west leaving Halifax on July 17.

Dorion will still get to spend some of the summer in Oak Bay before starting her first year at Vic High in the fall, as the trip is slated to end in Halifax on July 31.

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Oak Bay teen Maddy Dorion, 14, heads across Canada this week on the Peace Bus, a program through CISV (formerly Children's International Summer Villages) Canada where 12 youth and three leaders will perform volunteer work at stops along the way during a 39-day bus trip to Halifax.

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“This is a profound honour, and I wish to extend congratulations to all the scientists and researchers who have been noted today, especially those in Canada” said Weaver. “Ironically this comes in a week where the Prime Minister is trumping science as the reasoning for approving the Northern Gateway project. This from a government which has slashed funding for research, muzzled federal researchers from speaking publicly and closing vital libraries”

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Dr. Andrew Weaver is one of the world’s most highly cited scientists of 2014 says a report issued last week by Thomson Reuters.

“This is a profound honour, and I wish to extend congratulations to all the scientists and researchers who have been noted today, especially those in Canada” said Weaver. “Ironically this comes in a week where the Prime Minister is trumping science as the reasoning for approving the Northern Gateway project. This from a government which has slashed funding for research, muzzled federal researchers from speaking publicly and closing vital libraries”

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With schools behind picket lines for a second week and little hope of a quick settlement, school districts are starting to notify parents that year-end report cards won't be produced.

Two Lower Mainland school districts posted a notice to parents that report cards that were planned at the beginning of the B.C. Teachers' Federation strike won't be possible. SD 61 has not yet posted a notice that it will follow suit.

Summer school plans are looking “very tenuous” in Surrey, and some districts have already canceled their summer instruction.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender has said the partial lockout imposed on teachers will be lifted after year-end administrative days so it does not interfere with summer school [email protected]

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Teachers fundraise for college in AfricaTravis PatersonNews staff

Dariol Haydock has never been to Malawi, but she dreams of one day going there to teach in the school she’s helping build.

The vice-principal of St. Michaels University School’s middle school is part of Women Helping Women, a group of Greater Victoria teachers fund-raising with a purpose: to build a teachers college in rural Malawi. The extra-curricular project is four years and $126,000 into its drive, with most of the funds coming from the annual Garden Party FUNd-raiser, the latest of which was held on June 1, and yielded $46,000 in donations.

“There are very few universities (in Malawi); the cost is too much. And there’s a lack of primary school teachers,” Haydock said.

Women Helping Women’s goal is to build a teachers college on the same site in rural Malawi, about an hour from the capital of Lilongwe, where a girls only high school was recently erected. That school, Atsikana Pa Ulendo Secondary School (APU), was a separate initiative spurred by another local group, Girls on the Move. Its opening was met great success, and has now spawned the teachers college.

There are 320 girls enrolled in Grades 9 through 12 at APU, which opened in 2007.

The school started off as entirely scholarship-based, but an increase in “well to do” families in Malawi has since led to paid enrolment at APU and a more sustainable funding model.

“There are paying students now, which is help-ing to subsidize the scholarships so APU can con-

tinue to make them available to girls who can’t afford it,” Haydock said.

Construction for the college is underway, some-thing that happens in stages. Until all the build-ings are ready and the school is licensed, APU will make use of the ready college buildings, including a student hostel/dormitory. The goal is for the col-lege to begin offering courses in September, and graduates from APU will simply move to the col-lege level to gain the education to become certi-fied primary teachers.

“Others are helping raise funds for this (college). There’s a women’s group at Harvard, and there’s been help from Rotary clubs locally and across B.C. and Alberta,” Haydock said.

To learn more about APU and the teachers col-lege, visit malawigirlsonthemove.com.

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Building education in Malawi from a world away

Above: Three women help build a teachers’ college in Lilongwe, Malawi. It will provide women with a chance to pursue post-secondary education to become primary school teachers. Left: Malawi school supporter and SMUS vice-principal Dariol Haydock.


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OUR VIEW

A few things have changed since the last all-out teacher strike in B.C.

That was just two years ago, when the B.C. Teachers’ Federation was coming off its second-ever voluntary agreement with a 16 per cent raise over five years and what the union termed an “enhanced” signing bonus of $4,000. Even with special teacher-only top-ups, BCTF members almost rejected the last of the government’s big-spending pre-Olympic labour deals signed in 2006.

By 2012, outraged teachers were back on the legislature lawn, howling for another 16 per cent, with backup vocals provided as usual by HEU, CUPE, BCGEU and other public sector unions that settled for less. Teachers had just sailed through a crippling global recession with a series of raises, but were oblivious to all that.

Last week, the protest venue switched to Vancouver, where both the crowd and the demands looked a bit thinner. The signing bonus target is up to $5,000, but the raise is a mere eight per cent over five years (compounded, for those who passed math), plus another huge basket of cash disguised as benefit improvements and so forth. Government negotiators put their total compensation demand at 14.5 per cent.

One obvious dodge: they want the bottom two steps of the teacher salary grid dropped. That’s simply

a raise for entry-level teachers. Admittedly those are rare creatures these days with shrinking enrolment and ironclad seniority rules that allow retired teachers to monopolize substitute work.

Something else that’s changed since 2012 is that the government has granted the BCTF’s wish to bargain directly with the province. The

education ministry executed a takeover of the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association after last year’s election, and installed veteran industrial union negotiator Peter Cameron. He’s backed up by long-time labour specialist Lee Doney, whose task is to keep the teacher deal within Treasury Board limits that have defined all other public sector union settlements.

Doney made it clear last week that no mediator is going to come in and “split the baby” as long as the BCTF position is so far beyond the current compensation framework.

Despite constant union complaints of low wages and deteriorating working conditions in B.C. schools, education grads remain lined up around the block hoping to get in. Why is that?

For those who have been

exposed to life outside school for a while, it’s fairly simple. The job market out here in the real world is tough. And here’s how the real world evaluates a teaching job.

Start with 189 working days, each nine hours long as per the accepted definition, and the top-heavy seniority list that places the average teacher salary at around $72,000 a year. That works out to $42.32 an hour, plus a suite of benefits that most private sector employees can only dream about, starting with three months of prime-time vacation.

I am occasionally lectured by teachers that the job goes far beyond five hours in the classroom and an additional four hours a day preparing and marking. They throw out different estimates, variously defined. Alas, it’s a salaried job, and we salaried employees in the real world don’t waste a lot of time counting hours. Here’s the work, here’s the deadline, here’s the pay. Take it or leave it.

Consider another union demand that seems to be just another thinly disguised raise. The BCTF wants a large increase in preparation time for elementary school. There are no duties being added here. For this one item, government negotiators calculate the cost to taxpayers at $86.2 million every year by the fifth year of the BCTF proposal.

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

A brief history of teacher demands

‘I am lectured by teachers the job goes far beyond five hours in class.’

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More than social media needed to stop elder abuse

Recognizing and reporting elder abuse is a lot more complex than the province’s latest public relations plan to promote the issue on social media.

Asking people to use a hashtag to discuss elder abuse in B.C. will be about as effective as the #bringbackourgirls — an online community discussing the kidnapping of 230 Nigerian girls. And about as effective as the Kony 2012 online video about the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa who has been indicted for war crimes.

Both of these social media-based efforts certainly did raise awareness. However, the Nigerian girls are still missing and Joseph Kony is still out there. Nice ideas, but as is the lament about online campaigns, they only go so far and our attention spans are so short, we move on to the next best thing.

Where an online campaign will have an impact on elder abuse issues in B.C. is in raising its profile. It’s altogether possible that more information will reach people genuinely interested in the issue and take definitive action.

That action will be ensuring people have a place to go, or people to talk to when they witness or are victims of abuse. As explained by B.C.’s new Seniors Advocate, Isobel Mackenzie, it’s a start in the wider dissemination of information – but people still need to know how to recognize elder abuse. That vital information might possibly find its way through the chaff of online comments and opinions.

While it’s important to have an opinion on elder abuse, it’s also vital to be able to find resources and support for those who have been victimized. If that can be done in 140 characters or less, great.

If not, it’s a waste of time.Like most issues that need serious help,

resolving elder abuse will need people to put down the phone, turn off the laptop and talk to their neighbours to learn how they can have a real impact.


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Oak Bay Coun. Tara Ney has called for more community gardens for Oak Bay, saying that there needs to be places for food production.

Community gardens beat paved space any day, but wouldn’t dedicating more public space to them only take away from the little park space and wildlife habitat still remaining in Oak Bay?

The place for growing food is the backyard, but this is exactly what the current council’s rush to residential densification is going to destroy. Even if space were to be found for community gardens, most people would not trek off to an allotment at a distance.

Gardening is an individual occupation and the backyard a canvas for personal creativity -- or so it was in the original conception of sub-urban living. That vision valued privacy, but the innate human need for private space and time is sometimes devalued in current eco-communitarian thinking.

At the recent official community plan open house, most notes posted on the information tables provided asked for more green space and less building. Most comments ran counter to the developer-driven agenda for commercial/residential densification that the current council seems determined to push through.

Towns historically grew outward from centres

of trade. People came to a weekly or daily market to buy and sell. The spread of living spaces around these urban cores we call “sub-urbia”, but maybe we should think of them as “super-ruralia.” If we labelled residential family-raising neighbourhoods differently, we might value them differently.

What people most miss as spreading cities engulf them with noise, pollution and brutal architecture, is a natural, spacious, less commercialized environment.

Houses originally dotted landscapes among fields and woods, which children in past generations could access for healthy outdoor play. This is super-ruralia, not sub-urbia. The latter implies some sort of demotion from the hectic excitements of deep urbanism … but the environment most healthy for the human animal is a modification of the wild, rather than a fringe of commercialism.

Too many people on planet Earth suffer a life in crowded housing from which they travel to a crowded workplace in a crowded crush of public transport. Never alone, never quiet … no wonder crime rates and mental disorders increase as cities grow.

Barbara Julian Oak Bay

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Re: OCP tweaks in the works (News, June 18). This doesn’t cover the large amount of community input ignored by the OCP committee during the public involvement charade.

The OCP process began with a survey, which was biased towards multiple housing and neglected other topics. Any survey is only competent in direct proportion to the questions asked.

I chose to limit my comments to something I consider important – the health and safety of young children playing on Oak Bay beaches. It is a goal in the current OCP – “to provide clean and safe beaches for public use.” I was very concerned to find that this goal had been excluded, so I wrote to the OCP committee. The reply I received did not address my concern or offer to reconsider the eliminated goal.

It is hypocritical to put in the draft OCP phrases like “community health and well-being” or “public health and safety” without any described methods of achieving this. We need clean and safe beaches and it should be a priority goal. Children play there, close to the sand and barefoot, and it is definitely a public health issue. Garbage, glass, cigarette butts, etc., should be cleared from the beaches in the summer months before the public arrives.

Perhaps a possible reason behind the deletion of this OCP goal may have been a report to council by the Windsor Park Dog Group, which targeted parks and beaches in Oak Bay for year-round dog walking? Certainly council was in violation of the current OCP when it designated McNeill Bay beach for year-round dog use in 2012. Read the WPDG report on the municipal website and form your own opinion.

Safety is also an issue on this same beach. Large boulders placed at the east end several years ago have now mostly collapsed. As well as reconstruction, a tide and current movement study is needed to prevent further erosion of sand along the bay.

No municipality’s OCP should be a victim of personal agendas or manipulation. It should stand as a statement of intent for all citizens.

Helen SladeOak Bay

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Do it yourself

Kudos to the Oak Bay News and Oak Bay municipality for promoting a great community event Garagellennium XV.

Thanks to the generosity of our garage sale shoppers, more than $300 was raised for the Victoria Humane Society. High paws and slobbery kisses from the animals.

Susan WilliamsOak Bay

I regularly see trash at Carnarvon Park, often from people too lazy to get out of their cars and put it in the trash bin.

The best way for me to get over it is to clean up after those losers; in moments it’s gone and I forget about it.

Ed LienOak Bay

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give some positive direction to young people today. I really want to encourage the leaders of tomorrow.”

Victoria Hindu Temple will highlight dance as well as food and other aspects of the culture during an open house June 28 and 29 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the temple in Saanichton, 1934 Cultra Ave.

“This gives (the students) a chance to present what they’ve learned. I’ve really been struck by their thirst and energy,” Price-Sparling said. “I think this is an opportunity to really open and flower and understand one another.”

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Uplands sisters Mirai and Akari Hayashi will represent Zone 5 at the B.C. Junior Girls Golf Championships at The Dunes July 1 to 4.

After two days of play at Cedar Hill and Gorge Vale golf courses June 14 and 15, Mirai emerged victorious to take home the Dale Shaw Trophy with a total gross score of 159 (76 and 83). Playing conditions for both days were unexpectedly cold and windy.

Mirai’s 83 at Gorge Vale is somewhat

amazing as she was fighting her driver the entire front nine, and badly twisted her knee on her approach to the eighth green. A quick tape-up after nine gave her some relief, although she continued to limp and flex her knee the entire back nine; Akari was runner-up with a gross total of 176 (84 and 92).

The Norma Kronlund Trophy was presented to Bee Borvornsuwan of Uplands as the Low Net winner with a total of 146. Borvornsuwan arrived in Canada from Taiwan just over a month ago as an exchange student at Mt. Doug secondary school.

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Most anyone who has laced up a pair of running shoes has felt compelled to make up an excuse every so often and let up on their training when life gets in the way.

Not Evan Fagan. Back in 2011, then 74 years

old, Fagan wasn’t about to have something as commonplace as a little prostate cancer throw him off his game. He placed sec-ond in the Oliver half-Ironman before undergoing radiation and as soon as he was able, he was back out on the course. It’s that kind of commitment that has brought Fagan to the finish lines of 143 marathons, more than 50 ultra marathons and 89 triath-lons since he started racing as a 49-year-old.

“A lot of women and men my age stop because they get injured or they have some sort of other sickness,” says the swimming septuagenarian, fresh off a lap set in the YMCA-YWCA.

“People like me are extremely lucky. I had that one episode and I’ve got no effects from it – except for that I glow in the dark from the radiation. I’ve been lucky.”

Fagan’s attitude towards every aspect of competition is as warm and joyful as the greet-ings he offers to a constant stream of friends, met through fitness, who pass through the doors to the Y. His race times may have declined since the cancer, but his enthusiasm hasn’t. To be able to “play around at a mostly young per-son’s event” is still just as fun for Fagan, who can get the

same satisfaction from the pic-turesque races courses – and their completion – regardless of whether or not he logs a four-hour or a six-hour marathon time.

“Since I’ve been running slower, I’ve gotta tell you, I’m feeling pretty good,” he says. “The sense of accomplishment is still there but the exhaus-tion (isn’t). Maybe I don’t push myself as much as I could have because I’m trying to be careful not to hurt as much.”

But Fagan’s definition of pushing himself is very differ-ent from most. Not too many people can boast successful Ironman completion, and even fewer seniors have three to their name. Fagan trained and

gained a 15-hour time and made it to the podium on a third-place finish. There will be more.

“You think: ‘Aw, I’m never going to do this again and then 24 hours later, you say, ‘Where’s the next one?’ Marathoners are the same. I know so many people who say ‘I’m not doing another one of these runs ever again,’ and sure enough, six months later, they’re back at it.”

Fagan has been back, race after race, from sprint triathlons in North Vancouver to biathlons or trail runs in Hawaii and mara-thons along the Yakima River Canyon.

His journey to the Frontrun-ners Walk of Fame began right here, at what was known then as the Royal Victoria Marathon. The crowds came helped pro-pel him to a 3:56 finish.

“It was fantastic. I didn’t have any thoughts of the future at that time. It’s in your home-town and the Victoria marathon course is really one of the best. It was a sunny, great day here in 1988.”

This Thanksgiving weekend, Fagan will return to the birth-place of his passion. He’s regis-tered for the full GoodLife Vic-toria Marathon on Oct. 12, his first in two years.“It’s a lifestyle, a very healthy lifestyle,” he says. “I just realize that I’m so lucky to be able to do what I do.”

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Question: How many of you knew that Sunday, June 15 was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day?

I suspect the day slipped by with most of the good citizens of this demographi-cally aging community largely unaware of the sig-nificance of the day. Most media ignored it.

What a wonderful world it would be if giving something as insidious as elder abuse its very own day of recognition was enough to eliminate a culture of abuse directed at seniors.

According to federal literature one in five Canadians believes they know of a senior who might be experiencing some form of abuse. And, a B.C. advo-cate for seniors worries that she lives in a society that tolerates the “systemic abuse of the elderly.”

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ness Day, he rightly declared: “Every senior deserves to age with dignity and to feel appre-ciated and respected in their communities. I encourage all British Columbians to … join with communities across the world to raise awareness and share strategies that support and protect seniors.”

Elder abuse takes many forms such as: physical (hit-ting, pushing, shaking, inap-propriate physical or chemical

restraints and harm created by over or under medicating); psychologi-cal (actions that decrease their sense of self-worth and dignity); financial (actions that decrease the financial worth of an older person without ben-efit to that person); and neglect (inac-tions that may result in harm to an older person).

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she has been assisting seniors through-out B.C. access federal and provincial services, navigate the health care sys-tem and find health services.

She says: “For me (this role) has highlighted the plight of many seniors in our communities who are bewil-dered, angry, frustrated, sad and over-whelmed by the lack of support they need.”

The experience has left her wonder-ing if she lives in a society that toler-ates the “systemic abuse of the elderly.”

The COSCO seniors’ advocate says what B.C. needs is a Seniors’ Week and a strong declaration that we must do better for the elderly. “If we help them we will help everyone. It is not about entitlement. It is about fairness, justice and dignity.”

You can make a modest start by vis-iting the government’s Seniors Action Plan at seniorsbc.ca and checking out the strategy to reduce elder abuse.

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Beryl Big Canoe is a volunteer with the John Howard Society where she has men-tored a teenager going on eight years. “She’s a great gal, 20 years old now, but she was just 12 and in a vulnerable position when I first met her. We really became buddies. I still see her about twice a month.”

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David Smith, 82, was born in Vancouver and moved to Cadboro Bay in 1942 when his father was posted at The Gordon Head Officer’s Training Centre.

Smith attended school at Cedar Hill Elementary and the orginal Mount Douglas High School.

After high school David worked in fishing camps and as a commercial fisherman for a year.

He still loves sport-fishing. With that under his belt he returned to school in Vancouver and became a journeyman photo-lithographer where he obtained employment for 24 years with the provincial government as an aerial photographer and navigator.

Smith has a wife, two daughters and three grandchildren. He’s currently enrolled in a French course at the Goward House Activity Centre, located at 2495 Arbutus Rd., where he also enjoyed their water colour courses, held at Goward House earlier this year.

“(You have to) learn to roll and hum with the punches.”

Lina Dyer came to Victoria in 1951 from Germany. She’s been visiting the Saanich Sil-ver Threads Service at the Les Passmore Cen-tre since 1998.

“We used to love bowling at Mayfair. It was a shame the alley was taken down. We loved it. So some of us from the group started with shuffleboarding (at Les Passmore) and we’ve been doing it ever since. Some days you play better than others but it’s always just for fun.”

Dyer keeps busy with the lawn and garden, as much as she has to, “to keep it up.”

She also delivers the Goldstream Gazette twice weekly in her home town of Langford.

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Honora Bowring, 76, was born in Lancashire, England during the Second World War.

At 18, she moved to Manchester to become a nurse before working in midwifery in Liverpool, where she remembers listening to the Beatles. She moved to Canada in 1964 with her husband, settling in West Vancouver, where she decided on a brief career change.

“I sold real estate,” Bowring says. “I wanted to try something different. I was curious.”

Bowring enjoyed working in real estate and enjoyed some success, but eventually returned to nursing.

Bowring’s husband passed 34 years ago. She has two daughters, one living in New York, the other locally, as she works for B.C. Ferries. There are five grandchildren, ranging in age from 11 to 19.

Bowring’s biggest life achievement is finding contentment.

She had a short, but good marriage. She’s happy with her family and, she did a lot of volun-teer work in developing countries.

“I’m happy,” she says. “I’m happy with my everyday life.”

The nomination deadline is coming to a close for the 2014 Valued Elder Recognition Award. The Centre on Aging, University of Victoria, marks the United Nations International Day of Older Persons on Oct. 1 with the presention of the VERA. Nominees are due by Monday, June 30, at 4:30 p.m. at the Centre of Aging, 250-721-6369.

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FOUND KEYS at bus stop corner of Esquimalt & Head St. Call 250-590-9296 or 778-433-0207.

FOUND SET of keys- 3 keys on double ring on Oakland Ave, please call to claim, (250)595-2361.

FOUND SUNGLASSES Royal Blue on Dallas Road. Call to claim, 250-381-3096.

FOUND THUMB port Belford and the Gorge. Call to claim (250)475-6242.

LOST: HEARING aid, on Pat Bay trail, between Tapping & Munro. June15. 250-889-4103

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VOLUNTEERS

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OFFICE CORNER computer desk, beech and green laminate with keyboard tray, fi ling drawer and stationary drawer. 24” x 72”, formerly used in professional offi ce but would also suit home/student use. Excellent condition. Ask-ing $150. Call Jim at 250-656-1151, ext.126.

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RBC CONCRETE Finishing. All types of concrete work. No job too small. Seniors dis-count. Call 250-386-7007.

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soL DESIGN-BUILD. Handi-cap accessibility design & in-stallations. Res./Comm. Reno-vations & new construction. Dan (250)661-7316.

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WESLEY’S ONE Hour Courier Service. Starting at $7.00 up. Call 250-920-9024.


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(250)217-3090.ELECTRICIAN Lic. #3003. 30yrs exp. Renos, Knob & Tube Replacement. Sr.Disc.No job too big or small

250-361-6193 Quality Electric Reno’s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779.

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250-858-7004; COMPETITIVE rates. Res/Comm. AA Clarke Electric Ltd. Lic#100789

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

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

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U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-216-8997.

GARDENING

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250-216-9476; LANDSCAPE carpentry design and build. BBB/Insured. Accepting new contracts. www.ftguland.com


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AURICLE- Spring cleanups, lawns. Call for all your garden needs. 250-882-3129.

DPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141

LANDSCAPE & TREE- lawns, hedges, tree pruning, garden-ing, landscaping. WCB. 18 yrs exp. Andrew 250-893-3465.


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ABBA EXTERIORS Gutter cleaning & repairs. Seniors discounts. WCB, Insured. Free estimates. (778)433-9275.

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AROUND THE HOUSE.ca ALL repairs & renovations. Call Ben (250)891-7395.

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

HANDYMAN SERVICES. Small renos, fences, hauling, lawns, etc. (778)977-5854.

STUCCO, Hardy Plank siding, painting, carpentry & roofi ng. Free est. Dan 250-391-9851.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

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

FAMILY MAN Hauling. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774

PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-888-1221.


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SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

COMPLETE HOME Repairs. Suites, Renos, Carpentry, Dry-wall, Painting. Licensed and insured. Darren 250-217-8131.

JACK NASH, serving Victoria over 30 yrs. I do it all! Free est WCB. 250-881-3886.

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FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

HOUSEHOLD SERVICES

YOUR Home Solutions. Pro painting; deck, fence & reno carpentry. Nick 250-686-8502.

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CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flag-stone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Natural & Veneered Stone. Replace, Rebuild, Renew! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. (250)294-9942/(250)589-9942. www.cbsmasonry.com

RAIN HAPPENS Landscape & Stonework. Call Nicolaas at (250)920-5108.


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DONE RIGHT MOVING $80/hr. Senior Discount. Free Est’s. No travel time before or after. BBB accredited. Call Tyler at 250-418-1747.

PAINTING

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

BIG BEAR Painting. Interior & Exterior. Quality work. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071

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

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

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The B.C. government has begun allowing “happy hour” discounts for alcoholic drinks, imposing minimum drink prices that force some outlets to raise their prices.

Effective this week, the minimum price for draft beer or cider in B.C. is 25 cents per fluid ounce, which puts a 12-ounce sleeve at $3, a 20-ounce pint at $5 and a 60-ounce jug at $15. Using a one-ounce minimum, the lowest permitted price for any alcoholic drink is $3.

The release of the regulations Friday was greeted with protests from some pubs that were offering drink specials below that price.

The regulations also give licensed restaurants the ability to serve drinks without a food order, although their licence still requires them to offer a full food menu.

The B.C. government's liquor policy review also levels the field between pubs and restaurants by allowing families with children into pubs at mealtimes.

The B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association issued a statement reminding its members that the new rules also allow customers to carry a drink from a lounge to an adjoining restaurant. Licensees are also allowed to transfer small amounts of stock from one to the other if they run out of a particular product.

In a policy directive to industry associations, local governments and police agencies, the government's Liquor Control and Licensing Branch says the lower price may be applied selectively for “ladies night” specials or “team night” for players in uniform.

There are no changes to pricing requirements for licensee retail stores, manufacturer stores and wine stores, which continue to be able to vary the price of liquor throughout the day, as long as

the price is set at or above the purchase price of the product from the Liquor Distribution Branch.

“Two for one” drink specials continue to be prohibited, as in most other Canadian jurisdictions, since they are considered a strategy likely to promote intoxication.

Minimum prices do not apply to catered events, or special occasion licences.

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Happy hour discounts now legal at B.C. bars

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The B.C. government set the minimum price for draft beer or cider at 25 cents per fluid ounce, which puts a 12-ounce sleeve at $3.


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Entertain all year long with a natural gas barbecue. Add a patio heater or fire pit for cosy warmth and ambience. Transform your outdoor living space with

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