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Salmon ConfidentialDocumentary about farmed salmon and politics, featuring Dr. Alexandra Morton coming Saturday, page 13

Local rider has skilzParkland student Dillon Morrison takes top spot in the Highland race in the School Bike League, page 14

Steven HeywoodNews staff

Central Saanich has two new councillors.Alicia Cormier and Ryan Windsor were

elected Saturday night to the two vacant seats at the District of Central Saanich coun-cil table.

Cormier led the balloting with 872 votes over the two advance polls and the final elec-tion day on Saturday. Windsor was next with 859 votes.

The pair, who have not served on Central Saanich council before, fill the seats vacated by Adam Olsen (left to run for the provincial Green Party this year) and Terry Siklenkia, who resigned after moving away from the district.

The next-highest vote tally went to Bob Thompson (827). Thompson, as well as candidates Susan Mason and Christopher Graham, had served on council in the past.

In an interview Sun-day, Windsor said he watched the votes come in with 25 to 30 support-

ers and thought at times that Thompson would catch up for the final council seat. Windsor would end up taking it by only 32 votes.

Cormier, Windsor elected

Alicia Cormier

Ryan Windsor

Please see: Interim leadership possible, page 5

Devon MacKenzie/News staff

Students from Deep Cove Elementary take a look at the tiles made by students and staff from the school to commemorate its 100th anniversary. The tiles will be mounted in the school to create a mosaic-style art wall.

Hughes remembered for community serviceJeanette Hughes, 74, died April 10. Public service scheduled for April 20Devon MacKenzieNews staff

The community lost a pillar last week when Jeanette Hughes, 74, died the morn-ing of April 10 after spending two weeks in the Palliative Care Unit at Saanich Penin-sula Hospital.

Hughes’ community involvement ranged from spending nine years as a councillor with the Town of Sidney to devoting much

of her time volunteering with various orga-nizations including those related to Mul-tiple Sclerosis, which she suffered from.

One of the projects she was most proud of, said her daughter Maureen Wingerter, was the founding of the annual Christmas dinner at the Mary Winspear Centre.

“My mom had a vision to help people who would otherwise be alone at Christ-mas,” explained Wingerter.

“The Christmas dinner was one of her

most cherished community events and she worked an entire year to put it together. She hoped it would continue in the future and wanted to thank all the volunteers who helped her with it over the years.”

Hughes’ involvement with the Town of Sidney didn’t only include time serving as a councillor but also time serving on many committees and boards.

Please see: Memorial service April 20, page 9

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Pattie Whitehouse sits among a handful of empty seats in the Little Red Schoolhouse.

This is political engagement at its finest.

The cramped former one-room school in Highlands, now used to host bi-weekly municipal council meetings, has poor acoustics, so Whitehouse usually takes a front-row seat to better hear discus-sion among mayor and council.

“I also watch everybody’s expression from there, which is part of the entertainment,” she says.

Whitehouse is a Highlands council regular. Most municipali-ties have an attendee or two who sits through every meeting, keep-ing tabs on the goings-on in their community. Many of them know their respective official com-munity plan and bylaws require-ments as well as – if not better than – their elected officials.

“It’s a great way to not just keep on top of what’s going on in the community, but to under-stand what the different point of views are, how decision get to be made, and what happens when something goes awry,” she says.

And while most nights White-house, 62, sits among a sparse crowd, she fears this basic level of engagement would be lost if the Capital Region’s 13 munici-palities amalgamated in one form or another.

“I think that the majority of the

decisions that would be made and discussed (by an amalgam-ated council) would not have a lot of relevance to me. I would be fearful that the character of the Highlands would be run rough-shod over, and we would lose what we have here,” she says. “We don’t run into the kinds of problems that the big centres do.”

Despite having urban, subur-ban and rural parts to his munici-pality, Saanich Mayor Frank Leon-ard agrees.

As an outspoken proponent of integration rather than amalga-mation, he says his municipality has more in common with Main-land communities like Delta and Abbotsford – part urban, part rural, part farmland – than next-door neighbour Victoria.

“We’re a large municipality with so much diversity. The things that we have in common with our neighbours are only in pockets,” he says. “We have issues on our agenda and in my office that my neighbours don’t have.”

Both Whitehouse and Leonard believe amalgamation would also have a negative impact on the sense of community.

It’s a sentiment shared by four communities in Queensland, Aus-tralia, whose residents last month voted to de-amalgamate from a regional government.

An article from The Courier-Mail said residents felt “their iden-tity was stolen from them” upon forced amalgamation in 2008.

“This is about protecting our special place. It’s also about the way we engage. People here are very community minded and like to be listened to,” Sunshine Coast Coun. Russell Green told The Courier-Mail.

John Vickers, spokesperson for Amalgamation Yes, a grassroots Victoria-based organization that aims to raise awareness of amal-gamation in the CRD, acknowl-edges that another downside is residents could wind up paying more to get the same level of ser-vice that they’re used to.

“Some areas you’re going to maybe spend more, some areas you’re going to spend less. I think we’ve got to just remind our-selves that we’re all part of one greater community,” he says. “We have a responsibility, as all com-munity members do, to ensure we have the best (services) that we, as taxpayers, can obtain for

our region.”Gloria McCluskey, the former

mayor of Dartmouth who was in power when Halifax amalgama-tion was forced upon the region in 1996, says the areas that aren’t urbanized tend to get lost in the shuffle amid regional governance. She fears the same thing would happen in the CRD.

“If (Greater) Victoria does this, (the City of) Victoria will be the benefactor. The rest might as well hang up their closed signs,” she says.

In Halifax, McCluskey points to a loss in basic such services as road and sidewalk repairs (money from the regional pot instead went elsewhere, as opposed to Dartmouth), and invasive species removal at Dartmouth parks as some of the most glaring impacts of amalgamation.

“Were there any positives in amalgamation? I can’t say yes,” McCluskey says.

It’s the same story for White-house in Highlands, who says she sees benefits in finding service efficiencies, but doesn’t see how

political amalgamation would be for the greater good.

“When communities are too large, you don’t have the sense of belonging, ownership or being responsible for them anymore,” she said. “I get a sense of owner-ship of the community, not just belonging to the community. I therefore feel that whatever hap-pens with it, I have a piece in that. And I say that not because I attend council meetings, but because I express my opinions on the issues that come up and affect my community.”

Leonard says he strives to find efficiencies wherever he can, but amalgamation – as he sees it – wouldn’t be a financial benefit to Saanich residents. Personally, too, as mayor he can’t look at amalga-mation with an impartial view.

“I’ve come into this municipal hall for 27 years in which every meeting I’m working to try to make Saanich an even better place to live,” he says. “I don’t know if I could objectively engage in discussion for ways to try and do away with the municipality.”

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For rural communities, bigger isn’t betterSome residents and politicians fear regional amalgamation could erode local political engagement

Louis Bockner/News staff

Pattie Whitehouse and her dog Cuilti sit on the steps of the Little Red Schoolhouse where Highlands council holds its meetings. Whitehouse, a devout attendee of those meetings, says regional amalgamation would be detrimental to smaller municipalities like Highlands.

Kyle SlavinReporting

What’s in a name?While there isn’t much of a difference anymore between a city, town or a district, the reason Saanich is classified as a district (as opposed to a village) and Esquimalt is classified a township (as opposed to a city) stems from population and area at the time of incorporation.

■ A village is less than 2,500 residents■ A town is 2,500 to 5,000 residents■ A city is more than 5,000 residents■ A district can have any population, but if the area is greater than 800 hectares with a population density of less than 5 people per hectare, it’s classified as a district■ A township is a historic classification, but is synonymous with a district

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“He is a strong candidate,” Wind-sor said of Thompson, “so I had to keep on working.”

He said he and his volunteers were able to get out on Saturday and encourage people to vote, adding he was able to answer many people’s questions as well.

“I’m ecstatic. All of our hard work has paid off.”

Cormier says she couldn’t believe she won, especially after she and her daughter had copied down the wrong vote tally Saturday night. She said she gave another candidate 100 more votes than they actually had and it was Windsor who pointed out the error. With the cor-rection, Cormier found herself in the lead.

“I’m thrilled by such a great com-munity,” she said, noting she was able to get to know a lot of people during the campaign, including some who are on fixed incomes and facing serious issues of a lack of affordable housing.

“For many people, every penny counts,” she said. “We are a very for-tunate community, on the whole, but this campaign brought it home to me how some people need more help.”

Cormier said she is passionate about local agriculture, the economy

and the district’s sustainability plan. She said she is looking forward to getting to know council procedures, diving in and getting up to speed on local issues.

Windsor, who ran in the last munic-ipal election and did not win a seat at council, said he learned to put in the time and commitment that he said translated into this win.

“You have to go to the meetings, make the commitment to learn the issues and becoming knowledgeable of council’s decision-making.”

Windsor said he’s looking forward to learning more from the current council-lors — as well as his by-election oppo-nents — and continu-ing to listen to the

electorate and getting to know the issues they are passionate about. His first order of business will be to get is feet wet at the council table with the ongoing issues of the day, and then delve into the matter of the munici-pal hall replacement project.

“I am looking forward to a more open discussion,” he said.

Voters cast 2,949 votes in the by-election — or slightly more than 20 per cent of the Central Saanich elec-torate.

The two new councillors are expected to be sworn into office at the district’s first council meeting in May.

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New councillors ready to jump into the actionCounCil nEWS

Town of Sidney - Monday, April 8, 2013


• An ad-hoc steer-ing committee consist-ing of the Town of Sid-ney, Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, Business Improve-ment Area (BIA) and the town’s community development commit-tee, will oversee local wayfinding signs.

• A tentative date of May 14 has been set for the town to hear pro-posals for infrastruc-ture projects in West Sidney. The town will send out invitations to the meeting at the Mary Winspear Centre from 5 to 7 p.m.

• The town’s parks use policy is being updated and will now allow events that charge for tickets into the local green spaces. Councillor Marilyn Loveless supported the idea, as long as those events in town parks did not compete for fees with the Mary Win-spear Centre.

• Councillor Kenny Podmore will be coun-cil’s rep. on the Sidney Volunteer Fire Depart-ment’s 100th anniver-sary committee. The department celebrates a century in August of 2014.

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Development of a five-story resi-dential building at the site of the cur-rent McLarty’s Furniture building on Third Street is on hold.

Councillor Mervyn Lougher-Goodey noted in a report at council’s

April 8 regular meeting that financing for the project has fallen through.

Elsewhere in the community, the Bowerbank townhome project, which had been on hold for some time, is back on track.

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Get our heads out of the sandThe outrage was easy to visualize

while reading Lisa Perry’s Amalgamation won’t work, in the March 20 Peninsula News Review.

The tone was down right combative at the mere suggestion of entertaining the idea of amalgamating some districts.

To me, amalgamation of the Victoria area doesn’t mean we should just amal-gamate in the same way that Toronto or Halifax did or for the same reasons. For the people whose task it is to look at what can be gained or lost, they should be looking at those cities as examples to be learned from.

Although it is interesting to note in the case of Halifax that each of the districts were given five years to reject the amal-gamated city and go back to being their own district either singly or wholly.

Wouldn’t you know, it is still amalgam-ated into one city today.

The analogy I like to think of is avia-tion. Just because William Henson’s ‘Ariel steam carriage’ of 1843 failed to achieve the desired effect of flight, does that mean we should blindly trod down the road of having little fiefdoms and incomplete communities on the penin-sula or the rest of Victoria for that mat-ter?

I would say, emphatically, no. The editorial of the PNR in that same

issue made a good point. It should be thought of as more of an

identity question. We won’t know if amalgamating Victo-

ria will result in cost savings, perhaps it wont materialize, but what if: what if we could make a better whole community

or communities by including the parts of that make it or them such a nice places to live instead of balkanizing and remain-ing ignorant to the possibilities.

Let’s at least get our heads out of the sand and look at it.

Eric DillerNorth Saanich

Pay the fine and thank GodI would like to respond to the letter re:

tickets to those who did not slow down or move over.

I personally am very glad that this law has come to be.

I was an emergency room nurse who had the misfortune to be on duty on two separate occasions when police officers were brought in after being hit at the side of the road.

They died. So you got a ticket. Suck it up, admit

you were wrong, pay the fine and thank God that your impatience and poor judg-ment did not lead to another senseless tragedy.

Geri MolsonCentral Saanich

Canada is not North KoreaA short time ago, our local Member

of Parliament, Elizabeth May sent out a tweet comparing Canada to North Korea.

The absolute insanity of such an allu-sion will be quite obvious to anyone.

Then, instead of apologizing for such an insulting reference, May doubled down on her lunacy and proudly defended her comments publicly.

Now, I could easily sit here and fill the

pages of this newspaper with the rea-sons such thinking is delusional, purely partisan, idotic and utterly disgraceful, but that would be a waste of time.

So, since Ms. May is so cocksure that she is in the right, I am issuing a open invitation for her to accompany me to one of our local veterans clubs and run her comparisons by some Korean War vets.

Surely, having backed up her opinions on a national stage, sitting down with a few octogenarians won’t be an issue.

Come on Liz, the first round is on me.Mike ShoesmithCentral Saanich

LETTERS

Amalgamation, traffic fines, the Green MPReaders respond:

Amalgamation not the status quo

Congratulations to the Penin-sula News (Black Press) for taking a comprehensive look at amalgamation. It’s long overdue.

What’s interesting is that amalgama-tion has to be studied and justified. There appears to be no requirement on those opposed to amalgamation to jus-tify the current system. It’s analogues to being innocent until proven guilty.

The responses by the regions mayors to the question: “Do you support some form of municipal amalgamation” were interesting. Most of the mayors had a no or yes response, only the mayors of Cen-

tral Saanich and Sidney felt they needed more information and analysis before they could respond. What exactly that means is not clear.

The mayor of Langford supports three municipalities: the downtown core , the West Shore and the Peninsula.

With one municipality for the Pen-insula there would be one mayor, not three, one CEO, one chief engineer, one planning director, one municipal clerk, etc. Would that benefit the taxpayers?

With a bigger planning area, would it be possible to achieve better land use planning – concentrating industrial and commercial developments in the appro-

priate areas and saving valuable farm lands? Would the amalgamation of Sid-ney, North and Central Saanich prevent unnecessary competition for industrial and commercial developments in an effort to maintain a viable tax base?

Would a single municipality on the Peninsula be better able to plan for affordable housing without impacting negatively on current property owners?

Let’s hope the question of amalgama-tion is not left primarily to those who fear change or to those who have a vested interest in the status quo.

Carl EriksenCentral Saanich

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As the B.C. NDP launched its election campaign last week with a package of income

tax hikes, higher than those in the B.C. Liber-als’ election budget of February, a third party leader confirmed his own plan to increase personal and business income tax rates.

It’s not readily appar-ent from his recently released fiscal frame-work document, but B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins told me his plan to phase out B.C.’s carbon tax includes raising income tax rates that were lowered to make the carbon tax “revenue neutral.”

I reached Cummins in Prince George, where he was continuing his courtship of northern B.C. with an announcement that federal gas tax revenues would be redirected to a new fund for locally deter-mined road improvements. Earlier he vowed to study the deplor-able state of northern ambulance service. Cummins has more good news for the north: that’s where a regionally phased elimination of the carbon tax would begin. It’s also the area of thinnest popula-tion, meaning the impact on the B.C. treasury would be less. This is, after all, a tax budgeted to bring in $1.2 billion in the current year.

The B.C. Conservatives continu-

ally remind people the carbon tax falls disproportionately on rural, remote and particularly northern

folks who face long dis-tances, long winters, and few public transit options. This has ceased to be much of an issue for the urban B.C. majority, who are focused on bridge tolls, ferry fares and the like. The B.C. Conserva-tives decry the popula-tion decline of rural B.C., with international immi-gration almost exclusively going to big cities, while temporary foreign work-

ers increasingly fill agricultural and industrial jobs in the Interior. The party’s still-evolving platform echoes the NDP’s call for more skills training and increased com-pletion rates for trade apprentices.

Cummins is in favour of the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline and the massive buildup of infrastructure needed to add liq-uefied natural gas to B.C.’s energy export mix. He sees enormous industrial expansion as the path to shift population growth.

Cummins is surprisingly cool to one industrial project, the pro-posed Site C dam on the Peace River, calling himself undecided. He also sounds skeptical about the B.C. Liberal plan to extend B.C.’s electricity grid and use that to develop independent power.

This sounds to me like political

positioning rather than economic analysis. An anti-Site C indepen-dent candidate has significant sup-port in Peace River North, creating a three-way struggle for a key B.C. Conservative target.

The B.C. Conservative platform also totals up the billions in long-term electricity contracts with private power producers and sug-gests the price for this clean energy has been set too high. This is another echo of the NDP’s vague position.

So if the B.C. Conservatives are gung-ho on oil and gas and think the carbon tax is a mistake, do they think there should be any effort to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions?

Cummins sidestepped that, talk-ing about conventional air pollu-tion.

As a long-time former Reform and Conservative MP, Cummins is acutely aware that the urban media will leap with extra vigour on any perceived gaffe of the right wing. Should a Conservative let slip that he’s skeptical about global warming, or worse, express a rus-tic view on social issues, all Hell would break loose.

The B.C. Conservatives have started with the most detailed, costed platform of any party. Don’t count them out.Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and

columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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‘The B.C. Conservatives decry the population decline of rural B.C.’

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Time for a vote on amalgamation

Amalgamation shouldn’t be a scary word.No one is taking an eraser to the Capital

Region map and removing the borders that separate your municipality from those of your neighbours.

Often the discussion around amalgamation tends to drift towards the hypothetical best-case scenario (or worst-case scenario, depending on who you ask) of creating one municipality that spans from Sooke to North Saanich.

Talk of such a drastic change usually derails any objective discussion.

That’s why the concept needs to be reframed. We need to get away from arguing about hypothetical borders and specific solutions and focus on studying amalgamation as a positive step for our region.

Amalgamation Yes is taking the right approach by focusing on getting a referendum question onto the 2014 municipal election ballot. Put the question to the residents of the 13 municipalities and see if there’s an appetite to explore the option of amalgamation.

Municipalities have nothing to lose by asking the question.

The overarching goal of amalgamation is to save money by finding efficiencies in service delivery and by removing redundancies.

What the end result would look like in Greater Victoria is still unknown.

Proponents and opponents can point to Halifax or Abbotsford or Toronto and pick and choose their facts to back up their positions. But until we have a case study that properly examines the ins and outs of amalgamation as it relates to Victoria, no interest group, organization or politician can offer a definitive solution.

Until something concrete happens, the conversation isn’t going to move forward in a meaningful way.

Instead, people will continue to speculate about the potential successes and hazards of amalgamation, without a sound understanding of its local impact.

Change can be scary. But looking at amalgamation as a potential option to save us time and money shouldn’t be feared.


Get our heads out of the sandThe outrage was easy to visualize

while reading Lisa Perry’s Amalgamation won’t work, in the March 20 Peninsula News Review.

The tone was down right combative at the mere suggestion of entertaining the idea of amalgamating some districts.

To me, amalgamation of the Victoria area doesn’t mean we should just amal-gamate in the same way that Toronto or Halifax did or for the same reasons. For the people whose task it is to look at what can be gained or lost, they should be looking at those cities as examples to be learned from.

Although it is interesting to note in the case of Halifax that each of the districts were given five years to reject the amal-gamated city and go back to being their own district either singly or wholly.

Wouldn’t you know, it is still amalgam-ated into one city today.

The analogy I like to think of is avia-tion. Just because William Henson’s ‘Ariel steam carriage’ of 1843 failed to achieve the desired effect of flight, does that mean we should blindly trod down the road of having little fiefdoms and incomplete communities on the penin-sula or the rest of Victoria for that mat-ter?

I would say, emphatically, no. The editorial of the PNR in that same

issue made a good point. It should be thought of as more of an

identity question. We won’t know if amalgamating Victo-

ria will result in cost savings, perhaps it wont materialize, but what if: what if we could make a better whole community

or communities by including the parts of that make it or them such a nice places to live instead of balkanizing and remain-ing ignorant to the possibilities.

Let’s at least get our heads out of the sand and look at it.

Eric DillerNorth Saanich

Pay the fine and thank GodI would like to respond to the letter re:

tickets to those who did not slow down or move over.

I personally am very glad that this law has come to be.

I was an emergency room nurse who had the misfortune to be on duty on two separate occasions when police officers were brought in after being hit at the side of the road.

They died. So you got a ticket. Suck it up, admit

you were wrong, pay the fine and thank God that your impatience and poor judg-ment did not lead to another senseless tragedy.

Geri MolsonCentral Saanich

Canada is not North KoreaA short time ago, our local Member

of Parliament, Elizabeth May sent out a tweet comparing Canada to North Korea.

The absolute insanity of such an allu-sion will be quite obvious to anyone.

Then, instead of apologizing for such an insulting reference, May doubled down on her lunacy and proudly defended her comments publicly.

Now, I could easily sit here and fill the

pages of this newspaper with the rea-sons such thinking is delusional, purely partisan, idotic and utterly disgraceful, but that would be a waste of time.

So, since Ms. May is so cocksure that she is in the right, I am issuing a open invitation for her to accompany me to one of our local veterans clubs and run her comparisons by some Korean War vets.

Surely, having backed up her opinions on a national stage, sitting down with a few octogenarians won’t be an issue.

Come on Liz, the first round is on me.Mike ShoesmithCentral Saanich

LETTERS

Amalgamation, traffic fines, the Green MPReaders respond:

Amalgamation not the status quo

Congratulations to the Penin-sula News (Black Press) for taking a comprehensive look at amalgamation. It’s long overdue.

What’s interesting is that amalgama-tion has to be studied and justified. There appears to be no requirement on those opposed to amalgamation to jus-tify the current system. It’s analogues to being innocent until proven guilty.

The responses by the regions mayors to the question: “Do you support some form of municipal amalgamation” were interesting. Most of the mayors had a no or yes response, only the mayors of Cen-

tral Saanich and Sidney felt they needed more information and analysis before they could respond. What exactly that means is not clear.

The mayor of Langford supports three municipalities: the downtown core , the West Shore and the Peninsula.

With one municipality for the Pen-insula there would be one mayor, not three, one CEO, one chief engineer, one planning director, one municipal clerk, etc. Would that benefit the taxpayers?

With a bigger planning area, would it be possible to achieve better land use planning – concentrating industrial and commercial developments in the appro-

priate areas and saving valuable farm lands? Would the amalgamation of Sid-ney, North and Central Saanich prevent unnecessary competition for industrial and commercial developments in an effort to maintain a viable tax base?

Would a single municipality on the Peninsula be better able to plan for affordable housing without impacting negatively on current property owners?

Let’s hope the question of amalgama-tion is not left primarily to those who fear change or to those who have a vested interest in the status quo.

Carl EriksenCentral Saanich

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I was really delighted to get a pleas-ant phone call from Ian Vantreight who wanted me to understand their reason for attempting to sell some of their land. He is, he assured me,

still very much a farmer and keen to keep their land in agriculture and that the land the family proposes to sell is not really arable, as it is rocky, rather than being good soil.

I’d like an unbiased opinion on this, if such is available.

As they say in Finland (or is it Den-mark?) “I’m from Missouri.”

People age and get increasingly tired (I know all about this) and if an opportunity arises where they can sell, and retire, its hard not to jump at it. But land is too valuable to lose it to development.

I have sent my cheque to Central Saanich municipality to start a fund to buy this wonder-ful land and keep it for future farmers. I can’t do it alone, so please do help. I sent my cheque for

$1,000 to the administrator for Central Saanich municipality. The address is Central Saanich Municipal Hall, 1903 Mt. Newton Crossroad, Saanichton, B.C. V8M 2A9. On the back of the cheque I wrote: “Not to be cashed except to help buy the arable Vantreight property that is to be put on the market.”

I suggest you do the same.I’m not rich, live on my old age pen-

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I’m not trying to earn a medal, just trying to do something worthwhile during my lifetime. If we can keep this lush farmland for farmers, not house builders, I’ll die happy!

Helen Lang has been the Peninsula News Review’s garden columnist for more than 30 years.

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I was really delighted to get a pleas-ant phone call from Ian Vantreight who wanted me to understand their reason for attempting to sell some of their land. He is, he assured me,

still very much a farmer and keen to keep their land in agriculture and that the land the family proposes to sell is not really arable, as it is rocky, rather than being good soil.

I’d like an unbiased opinion on this, if such is available.

As they say in Finland (or is it Den-mark?) “I’m from Missouri.”

People age and get increasingly tired (I know all about this) and if an opportunity arises where they can sell, and retire, its hard not to jump at it. But land is too valuable to lose it to development.

I have sent my cheque to Central Saanich municipality to start a fund to buy this wonder-ful land and keep it for future farmers. I can’t do it alone, so please do help. I sent my cheque for

$1,000 to the administrator for Central Saanich municipality. The address is Central Saanich Municipal Hall, 1903 Mt. Newton Crossroad, Saanichton, B.C. V8M 2A9. On the back of the cheque I wrote: “Not to be cashed except to help buy the arable Vantreight property that is to be put on the market.”

I suggest you do the same.I’m not rich, live on my old age pen-

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A sceptical friend asked me, “What’s in it for you?” The answer is, “Protect-ing farm land for the future. This is very

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I’m not trying to earn a medal, just trying to do something worthwhile during my lifetime. If we can keep this lush farmland for farmers, not house builders, I’ll die happy!

Helen Lang has been the Peninsula News Review’s garden columnist for more than 30 years.

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Keep farmland for farmers

SIDNEY — Sidney will once again host the Torque Masters Car Club’s annual car show in the downtown this summer.

This year, the event is scheduled for Sunday,

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— Steven Heywood

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• In as many days last week, the Sidney North Saanich RCMP stopped and fined two drivers and impounded their vehicles for speeding exces-sively on the Pat Bay Highway. Both vehicles were clocked doing around 130 km/h.

• On April 6 Sidney North Saanich RCMP and the Cen-tral Saanich Police Service responded to a vehicle in the ditch on Stelly’s X Road. The driver was located once offi-cers arrived and was given a roadside screening test for alcohol. After failing the test, the driver was issued a 90-day immediate roadside prohi-bition and a 30-day vehicle impound.

• On April 6 Sidney North Saanich RCMP responded to an assault and robbery of a man by several youth. RCMP tracked down a suspect using a police dog and arrested a young man for mischief, escap-ing, robbery and assault.

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Memorial service April 20Those included the Advi-

sory Planning Commission and the Town of Sidney Advi-sory Committee for People with Disabilities, something which Sidney Councillor Kenny Podmore recalls.

“I knew Jeanette ever since I came to Sidney,” explained Podmore. “I, like many others, drove her to meetings in and around Victoria which were all connected to people with disabilities. Jeanette included me in most of the meetings and I slowly became involved as a volunteer as well. I ended up serving with her on the Town Of Sidney Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities and never ceased to be amazed with her enthu-siasm.

“Even though Jeanette herself had her own health issues, she never let it hold her back. She was a true inspi-ration to others and she will be sadly missed.”

Hughes was also known for her work with the Vancouver Island Library Board, the Sid-ney Sister Cities Association and she was the recipient of a Hearts of the Community Vol-unteer Award and the Leader-ship Victoria Alumni Award, both in 2012.

“She was the most amazing woman to pass through the

Town of Sidney in the last 30 years,” said long time friend Laurel McIntyre. “No one could hold a candle to her.”

Hughes’ family said they are planning to donate her specially-modified van to the Mary Winspear Centre so that it can be used to help others with disabilities.

Sidney Classical Orchestra, another organization Hughes was involved in, will be dedi-

cating their concert on April 19 to her.

Hughes’ funeral is sched-uled for Saturday, April 20 at 10 a.m. at the Mary Winspear Center. Her book titled Wil-derness Dream, will be avail-able at the reception after the funeral. Proceeds will be donated to a Sidney-based charity.

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Jeanette Hughes, seen here in an older photo from her family, died April 10 at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital.

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• Sidney Classical Orchestra Friday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church in Sidney (10030 Third St.) Walter Prossnitz (piano) will perform Mozart’s E flat major Piano Concerto, No. 14. Also on the program will be Haydn’s Symphony in E flat major. The concert is being dedicated to Jeanette Hughes. Tickets available at Tanners Books, Russell Nursery, City Scribe, Victoria Conservatory of Music, Long & McQuade in Victoria and Tom Lee Music in Langford. $20 for adults, $10 for students. For more information call 250-480-1133.

• The Chris Millington Big Band hits the stage this week at the Mary Winspear Centre. On Saturday, April 20, the 14-piece band will bring the sounds of Michael Bublé, Aretha Franklin as well as some spicy Latin rhythms to the Bodine Hall. Tickets for the event on April 20 at 7 p.m. (dancing begins at 8) are available online at www.marywinspear.ca or through the Mary Winspear Centre box office at 250-656-0275.

• Elvis Elite — A World Class Tribute to the King, scheduled for Sunday, April 21 at the Charlie White Theatre at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney, has been cancelled.

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Local community groups across B.C. are hosting screenings of the film Salmon Confidential, and the Saanich Peninsula is no exception.

On April 20, MP Elizabeth May, Provincial Green Party leader Jane Sterk and biologist Dr. Alexandra Morton will present the film, which zones in on the mysteries of B.C.’s declining salmon stocks. After, the group will engage in discussion about salmon,

the economy, politics, science and the upcoming election.

The screening, which takes place at the Mary Winspear Centre, is being hosted by the Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society.

Those interested in attending the film are asked to arrive at 6:30 p.m. for the screening at 7 p.m. Tickets are $3 at the door.

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SIDNEY — The Greater Victoria School Bike League (SBL) season kicked off last month with its second annual BikeJam interac-tive festival at Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre and the second event in the SBL season saw a local Saanich Peninsula teen take top place on the podium.

Dillon Morrison, a Grade 9 student at Parkland Secondary School took first place in the SkilzJam compe-tition (held at Hartland) for his age group last weekend.

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The bike league has been around since the 1980s during the moun-tain biking boom, with a surge in the last three or four years expanding to include the variety of styles.

“We all believe that being good at all these different skills carries through into the differ-ent aspect of the sport you choose … there’s lots of crossover when you get to the higher competitive levels,” Farrar said.

This is the first year in many that Parkland school has had a team in the SBL.

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Dillon Morrison, a Grade 9 student from Parkland Secondary School, took first place in his category at the School Bike League Hartland race on April 9th.

NORTH SAANICH — The Wilson Rink from North Saanich’s Glen Meadows Curling Club won the right to represent Vancouver Island South in the 14th annual Pacific Interna-tional Cup April 17 to 21 at the Richmond Curl-ing Centre.

This competition is for teams that have played together in a regular league for a full season. Each club selects teams to rep-resent their men’s and women’s leagues.

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Central SaaniCh lawn Bowling Club Open House Sunday, April 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Centennial Park clubhouse (1800 Hovey Road.) Free intro to lawn bowling. For more information contact Margaret Smith at 250-655-9249.

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fundraiser Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Co-op Gas Bar (Keating X Road and Veyaness Road) and Spelt’s Gas (East Saanich Road and Wallace Road). Both sites will also be collecting bottles, funds from which will go towards dry grad events.

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Sidney SiSter CitieS Association meets third Thursday of the month at the Sidney North Saanich Library (Nell Horth Room) at 7 p.m. Our guest speakers April 18 are Peter Wainwright and Peter Garnham from the Sidney Museum. For more information check our new website www.sidneysistercities association.com.

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EVENING VELVET coat, (brand new), black, size large. $85 obo. Call (778)440-6628.

SOFA AND love seat (fl oral), in good condition, $99 obo. Call (250)652-0549.

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LANGFORD MOBILE home in Seniors Park, upgraded interi-or, fully furnished, A/C, fenced yrd, shed & workshop. PRICE REDUCED to $35,000. Call 250-590-2450.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

ESQUIMALT- LRG 2 bdrm, $995 *1/2 month free*, W/D. 55+. NS/NP. (250)385-7256.

QUADRA, 11TH fl r view, 1 bdrm, D/W, new lam fl ooring, N/P, N/S, $975. 250-361-9540

SAANICH- 55+ furnished 2 bdrm, balcony faces Swan Creek, 5 appls, in-suite W/D. $1100, utils incld 250-479-5437

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

MILL HILL area- 2 bdrm on bus route, W/D, nice yrd/porch, priv, sm shed. N/S sm pet ok. $1000 negotible w/yard work. (250)475-2303.

UPTOWN AREA, 5 bdrm, 1/2 Duplex, avail now, $1650 mo. Call Harj at 250-686-8847.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

SIDNEY- DELIGHTFUL Gar-den suite, furnished. Walk to work, amenities & ocean. NS/NP. $850. (250)656-9194.

ROOMS FOR RENT

SIDNEY. FURN’D room. Sat-ellite, laundry, heat, hydro. No drinking. $500. 250-654-0477.

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

GOLDSTREAM AREA: 1400 sq ft, newly furnished, w/d, d/w, a/c, big deck & yard, hi-def TV, parking. $650 inclu-sive. Ray 778-433-1233.

SUITES, LOWER

BRENTWOOD BAY- Brand new 1 bdrm, 1 bath, ground fl oor, own entry NS/NP. D/W, W/D. $800+ utils. Call (250)652-1725.

COLWOOD- BRIGHT, quiet 2 bdrm, $1100 incls utils, D/W, shared lndry, A/C, int hookup, N/S, N/P. Ref’s. 250-391-7915.

ESQUIMALT, 2 bdrms, har-bour views, sunroom, $910. Avail immed. (250)474-4453.

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TILLICUM/ BURNSIDE area: 3095 Irma Street. 2 bdrm, $875./mo inclds utils, share laundry. Call 250-588-8885.

UPTOWN- Large 1 bdrm, ground level. Private yard & deck. Share laundry. $850 in-clusive. (250)386-0531.

SUITES, UPPER

BRENTWOOD BAY, bright 3 bdrm, 2 bath. Gas F/P, D/W, own lndry, large deck & yard. NS/NP $1500. (250)589-9997.

NORTH SAANICH: 1 bdrm, 900 sq ft, ocean views, lrg deck, lrg dining room. $900, all inclusive. Shared laundry. Call (250)656-9621.

NORTH SAANICH- bright upper suite in Deep Cove, ocean views, priv entrance, deck, W/D, hydro, cable incld. $750. Call 778-679-0092.

TOWNHOUSES

SIDNEY- NEW 2 bdrm + den, W/D. NS/NP. $1600 mo. Avail now. Call 250-217-4060.

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SIDNEY, MATURE lady, N/S, N/D, long term, (June or July), 2-3 bdrm, Pier or Landmark Building. Call (250)629-3102.

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1993 BAYLINER 2452, in ex-cellent condition, 2 sounders &GPS, head, galley, canopy,9.9 hp 4 stroke Yamaha on hy-draulics, downriggers, dinghyin 27’ newer Van Isle Marinaboathouse near the ramp.Best offer. 250-656-6136.

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CARPENTRY

LAPWING CARPENTRY. Decks, fences, quality repairs, renos & insulation. 10 years experience. Call 778-967-1246

McGREGOR HOME Repair & Renos. Decks to doors. Small jobs OK. WCB. (250)655-4518

CLEANING SERVICES

PAULA’S HOUSECLEANING $20./hr. Reliable, honest. Sid-ney, N.Saanich. 250-656-2401

COMPUTER SERVICES

COMPUDOC MOBILE Com-puter Services. Repairs, tune-ups, tutoring, web sites, etc. 250-886-8053, 778-351-4090.


ELECTRICAL

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

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

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

FENCING

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

GARDENING

22YRS EXP Garden clean-ups weeding, etc. All areas of city. $25/hr. No tax. 250-656-7045.


GARDENING

(250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Yard & garden overgrown? Aerating, pwr raking, pruning. Weed, moss, blackberry, stump & ivy rmvl. 25yrs exp.

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1 J&L Gardening yard clean-up and maintenance. Master gardeners. John or Louise (250)891-8677.


GARDENING

SPRING CLEANups, complete maintenance. Residential & Commercial. 250-474-4373.


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WE-CUT-LAWNS(Lawn and Garden services.)“Don’t let the grass growunder your feet.” Call us at250-655-1956 (Peninsula).

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

11 DIAMOND DAVE- window,gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss,gutter guards, power washing.Free ests. (250)889-5794.

HANDYPERSONS

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

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HANDYPERSONS

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Stairs, Painting, General household repairs. Free esti-mate. Call Barry 250-896-6071

HANDYMAN DAN. Quality workmanship. Free estimates. Call 250-656-6789.

HANDYMAN SERVICES. Lawns, fences, pruning, fl oor-ing, painting, drywall, small re-no’s. Mike/Chris 250-656-8961

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. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.

GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413.


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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.

SMART GUYS Hauling. Gar-den waste, junk removal, clean-ups, etc. Reliable, cour-teous service. 250-544-0611 or 250-889-1051.

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THE MOSS MAN Chemical- Free Roof De-Mossing & Gut-ter Cleaning since 1996. Call 250-881-5515. Free estimates!www.mossman.ca

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

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

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ROMAX MASONRY. Exp’d & Professional. Chimneys, Brick Veneer, Retaining Rock Walls, Cultured Stone, Interlocking Paving. Excavating. Fully in-sured. Estimates. 250-588-9471


& MOVING STORAGE

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

DIAMOND Moving- 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $80/hr. Call 250-220-0734.

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

WRIGHT BROS Moving. $80/HR for 2 men. Senior’s discount. Philip (250)383-8283

PAINTING

ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694.

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

B L Coastal Coatings. Quality, reliable, great rates. All your Painting needs. (250)818-7443


PAINTING

DALE’S PAINTING Int/ext. Prompt, courteous, 25yrs exp $25/hr Free est. 250-516-2445

LADY PAINTERServing the Peninsula for over 20 yrs. Interior/exterior. Call Bernice, 250-655-1127.

PLUMBING

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

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

PRESSURE WASHING

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

STUCCO/SIDING

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


WINDOW CLEANING

BLAINE’S WINDOW WASH-ING. Serving Sidney & Brent-wood since 1983. Averagehouse $35. 250-656-1475

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.

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After serving a year as the first vice-presi-dent of the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Commu-nities (AVICC), Sidney mayor Larry Cross has been elected its new president.

The AVICC - a body formed for the purpose of representing in one organization the vari-ous municipalities, First Nations and regional districts of Vancouver Island, Sunshine Coast, Powell River and the Central Coast - held its 64th annual general meeting and conven-tion in Sooke this week-end. Cross replaces outgoing president Joe Stanhope, chair of the Regional District of Nanaimo. Cross cred-ited Stanhope as a good leader with a great sense of humour.

Cross said Sunday he is looking forward to the role and expects to be just as busy as he was as first vice-presi-dent.

“We are dealing with a variety of issues,” he said of the AVICC’s cur-rent mandate.

On the conference’s agenda are issues pertaining to B.C. Ferry rates, oil spills and marine disaster response, tsunami debris and farming opportunities on the Island. The issue of genetically-modified crops was voted on, said Cross, and the AVICC will forward a resolution to ask the B.C. government to ban them from the Island.

Cross added he’s in a good position to act as the AVICC president, as he’s close to the capital and can better facilitate meetings with various government ministers. He said he plans to lead the association as he does the council of the Town of Sidney — like a tight ship.

Cross to lead AVICC

Larry Cross


Sidney plans to put up a new sign, welcoming travellers to town.

The town plans to retain a two-year lease with the Airport Travelo-dge on a small piece of property at the corner of Beacon Avenue and

Highway 17. The lease costs the municipality $200 per year. The site has been vacant since 2009, when a fish boat called Wanda was removed. The boat had been there since 2002. A staff report states the town hopes to keep the site over the long-term to use for a significant entrance feature. However, with only $10,000 budgeted

for the site this year, all the town can pay for is landscaping upgrades and a modest welcome sign. In effect, it would be used as a placeholder should the town wish to invest in something larger at a later date.

“I’m not sure if this is something that we should be doing,” said Coun-cillor Steve Price, who said he was

worried about potential lease rate increases on land used only for a sign.

Price added the town has plenty of boulevard space and if the rate jumps in two or three years, “it would be time to take the sign down.”

Council did, however, unanimously approve the plan.

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