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Gateway project heating upVictoria Airport Authority’s proposed retail centre subject of two forums this month, page 7

Second in a seriesSidney author Janet Brons releases Not A Clue, part of her mystery novel series, page 3

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Tess Riley poses in the Pendray Dairy Farm corn maze. The 14-acre maze in North Saanich is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., until Oct. 31.

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Go get lost in North Saanich.Really. The whole family can get

lost in a new seasonal attraction at Pendray Dairy Farm on West Saa-nich Road — a 14-acre corn maze.

The maze opened Oct. 1 after

a whirlwind of preparation by the Pendray family. Sarah Pendray says the idea for a corn maze came up when she was discussing ideas for the farm with one of their land-scapers.

“It certainly wasn’t my idea,” she said, “but we liked the idea and after passing it with the rest of the

family, we made it happen.”In a period of six weeks, she said

they contacted other farms and eventually got in touch with Maze Play out of Idaho. Taking ideas for the maze design from the family, the company sketched it out, plot-ted it on a Global Positioning Sys-tem and used a small tractor and

mower to hew through the corn stalks to create the maze on Sept. 22.

The work took 17 hours, Pen-dray said, and afterwards they were amazed at the result.

Explore giant corn maze in North SaanichPendray Farm on West Saanich Road opens 14-acre corn maze

Please see: Maze open until Halloween, page 4


Residents of North Saanich are being asked this month about their vision for the agri-cultural land at the former horse racing track in their com-munity.

On Oct. 15, the Capital Region Food and Agricultural Initiatives Roundtable (CRFAIR) hosts a so-called ideas fair at the Saanich Peninsula Presby-terian Church at 9296 East Saa-nich Rd.

CRFAIR was contracted by the district to conduct the pub-lic consultation process into the future of the former Sandown site — specifically the 84 acres of land given to the municipal-ity by the owners, the Randall Family. In exchange, the owners retain 12 acres for a commercial development site.

Mayor Alice Finall says the session, called Vision Sandown, will start the public process to decide the future uses for the green space.

CRFAIR will lead the event and engage interested people from the Saanich Peninsula and capital region in creating a vision for the land. They will discuss how the land deal took shape, outline current ideas for the 84 acres and come up with others. The meeting runs from 7 to 9 p.m and will be facilitated by students from UVic.

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The second book of A Forsyth and Hay Mys-tery will be released on Oct. 13, titled Not A Clue and author, Janet

Brons says it wasn’t the easiest book to write.

In writing her first book, A Quiet Kill, it was written with no expec-tation that there would be a series coming out down the road, but the book was left for a continuation to occur.

“I had to fill in a number of things that had been left open at the end of the first book,” she told the PNR.

The main resolution involved her two main characters, one a British detective chief inspector and the other, a female RCMP inspector working on different sides of the world. They had come together in the first book because they were working on the mur-der of a trade commissioner at the Canadian High Commission in London. Brons said there was an attraction between them and she had to see how, or if, she would get them together.

Born in England and having grown up in Edmonton, Brons has spent a lot of time in Ottawa working at the House of Commons and the country’s foreign affairs department. She said mystery and mystery-writing has always been

of interest to her.“I’ve always enjoyed mysteries;

reading them, watching them on television and I’ve always enjoyed writing.”

Her second book, Not a Clue is set on two continents, with the one story taking place in Ottawa and the other in London. In the book, the two characters work

their cases, separated by the Atlantic Ocean. Both continue to feel the pull of their recent part-nership and while character Liz Forsyth explores her case in the

world of Russian and Chechen relations, Stephen Hay is at a standstill, waiting until the mur-derer resurfaces.

The pair doggedly work their cases. As Forsyth chases her case further into a complicated world, Hay waits until the murderer resurfaces after he finds a corpse.

When it comes to Brons’ pro-cess, she has a different way of writing.

“I wish I could say I was one of these writers who writes a thou-sand words before breakfast and every single day. I find mostly I’m writing in the afternoon. I can’t really write for more than maybe an hour and a half at a time or I feel my head’s going to explode.”

She said she writes as she goes and doesn’t have everything mapped out before she sits down. The same goes for her characters as well.

“I also find that once I’ve written a character, I sort of let them do their own thing. I wait to see what they’re going to do next,” she said.

Brons is working on her third book of the series, hoping to release it next year.

Mystery author releases second book of series

Carlie Connolly/News staff

Author Janet Brons at her Sidney residence. She recently completed Not A Clue, the second in a series of mystery novels.

“I had to fill in a number of things that had been left open at the end of the first book.”

– Janet Brons

Carlie ConnollyNews staffr

• Central Saanich Director of Finance, Rosalyn Tanner, has resigned citing health reasons. Her contract was due to end Aug. 31, 2016 however, the municipality decided they will buy out the last year of Tanner’s contract.

• Central Saanich agreed to enter into a consulting services agree-ment with NRG Research group to complete a community survey for the price of $15, 300.

On July 27, council approved the terms of reference for the 2015 Citizen Satisfaction Survey. It had

previously been identified as a stra-tegic priority for 2015.

• Central Saanich will consult with North Saanich on a website redesign. Council voted to proceed with planning on updating their own site. Both districts share a web platform.

• Councillor Bob Thompson is seeking a community engagement process in reviewing and updating the densification and infill process. His notice of motion will be dis-cussed at the next meeting.

• Ken Peters, representing the Ride for Refuge expressed concern over a $125 event fee charged to the non-profit group.

While he said the fee was paid, he would like council’s policy reviewed.

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“We had a friend go up in a plane after it was cut and take some pictures. It looked exactly like what they had designed.

“We went from zero to 60 in about six weeks.”Tess Riley, a maze helper, said there’s an outline

of Vancouver Island cut into the corn, as well as the legislative buildings, some pumpkins as well as B.C.’s provincial bird — a Stellar’s jay. Those can only be seen by air.

On the ground, there are two mazes on the farm. One is a half-kilometre long and is designed for children. There are stations along the wood-chip trail letting kids take rubbings of various animal footprints.

The longer maze takes anywhere from 45 min-utes to two hours to complete and includes a farm-based game of Clue. In all, there are 9.2 km of trails through the maze.

Pendray said she’s been through the maze many times since it was cut. While it may be possible for visitors to get lost inside, she said since she grew up on the farm and knows how the corn was planted, it hasn’t happened to her.

“The response we’ve had so far, in our opening week, has been amazing,” she said, noting they’ve already had repeat visitors.

The maze is a seasonal effort by the farm family to make use of its excess corn. Pendray said the farm downsized this year and with fewer dairy cows, needed to find a use for its corn. The maze, so far, has been a great idea, she said.

Once they close the maze at the end of the month, Riley said the field will be harvested and used for animal feed.

The Pendray Farm corn maze is open Wednes-day to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. until Halloween, Oct. 31. Admission is $10, or $5 for children age five to 12. See vicornmaze.com for more infor-mation. To get there, turn off the Pat Bay High-way onto McTavish Road (at the interchange). Turn right on West Saanich Road and head north until you see the signs and pumpkins marking the entrance.

Photo courtesy The Heart of Vancouver Island

North Saanich’s Pendray Farm has opened a 14-acre corn maze to the public until Oct. 31.

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Maze open until Halloween

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Plenty of police offi-cers will be on the road on Halloween night and have been hard at work beforehand to educate children on proper safety when it comes to costumes, the dark and for those older youth … alcohol.

Youth Resource Offi-cer with the Central

Saanich Police, Glen Davies focusses on the Brentwood and Keating elementary schools. He hosts two assemblies each, discussing per-sonal security, pedes-trian, costume and candy safety and fire-works.

“It’s preventative education so you’re getting that information out to them before Hal-loween starts,” he said.

For pedestrians, it’s about being seen by drivers. Carrying a flashlight and having reflective material on a Halloween costume usually does the trick.

For personal safety, it’s about avoiding trick or treating alone.

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of the street, one side-walk and trick or treat all those houses and then cross the street at a crosswalk and come back the other side as opposed to crisscross-ing, running across the street,” Davies said.

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He also goes over costume safety, such as wearing visibly bright costumes or incorpo-rating something bright into the outfit.

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“It’s education and that’s the whole idea is get the message out, be safe … particularly here in Central Saanich where we have beauti-ful views of the stars

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Retail starts getting readyW

ait and see seems to be the attitude taken up by many community leaders when it comes to large, proposed retail developments like the Sidney Gateway.

For some people, waiting isn’t going to cut it. They want to make plans for what they see as simply an eventuality, or an inevitable change within the town’s borders, or outside of them.

This month, two organizations are taking up a discussion on the Gateway being proposed by the Victoria Airport Authority. For their members, the issue has been a hot topic and they hope to plan ahead — already foreseeing outcomes in a plan that only really exists in conceptual form.

That’s the tack taken by local government. With no formal proposal on the table, only concepts, no one seems willing to jump into a leadership role on the issue at this time.

In some respects, that creates a vacuum. With no one talking about it, discussions on

Gateway are falling to people — as well-meaning as they are — to debate without any real facts to discuss.

What we know is the Airport Authority wants to develop a 10-acre site with new retail spaces. They’ve talked about a grocery store anchor tenant, with banking and medical services filling in the gaps. They have looked at traffic impacts and other infrastructure issues, following an open house last year to introduce the concept to the community.

There are ideas out there, and even a development company on board to try to seek out potential occupants at the Gateway. So, it’s safe to say that behind the scenes, things are happening. It could come to pass that when there are, finally, concrete site plans and a formal proposal goes to local government for review, things could happen very quickly.

Or not. Proposals such as the Sandown commercial

site and a similar, larger concept called the Jesken Centre in Central Saanich have been on the books for years ... yet still nothing has come of them.

They are, however, looming large over the Peninsula’s retail community. And many of those business owners and operators want to be prepared for the flood and not be left high and dry.

In May 1963, I walked with my two young children down Beacon Avenue in Sidney for the first time.

A quiet little place, few cars, not much of anything. Mitchell and Anderson’s hardware and lumber store, Mrs. Clark’s five and dime store, a butcher’s run by Hugh Hol-lingsworth and Stan’s grocery store. Old wooden buildings, some dilapi-dated and empty, lined the street; relics of bygone days.

Fast forward to 2015: a giant tall apartment complex has replaced Mitchell and Anderson; gone are the old stores, replaced by fashionable showy boutiques. A large structure with apartments, hotel and restau-rant now stands close to the beach, partly obstructing the east sea view at the end of Beacon Avenue.

Throngs of people, locals and tourists alike, fill the streets. Often, holidaymakers, who soak up the ambience of our town, return here to retire, a wonderful spot to call home.

Canon Beach in Oregon has the same seaside atmosphere — it is a joy to stroll the town’s byways and poke around the whimsical shops. The lovely sandy beach and statuesque rocks in the ocean draw sightseers from afar.

Canon Beach has strict ordi-nances and building codes which has resulted in growth but not sprawl — no big box stores sit close to the town. Therefore, the original beauty and character of the area has survived for generations yet to come.

In Sidney we have folks from all

walks of life, not all are wealthy or NIMBYs; each has the right to an opinion.

Several affluent people have used their assets to improve life on the Peninsula, such as Philanthro-pist Trevor Deely and his wife who donated money to hospitals to buy equipment for the betterment of all.

Newcomers, who make dispar-aging comments about Sidney’s somewhat laid back style and citi-zens, plus, criticize the council and their reluctance as gatekeepers to make hasty decisions which could

disfigure the town, should consider moving south west. As the crow flies, sits Langford, where Sport Chek, Home Depot, Canadian Tire and Costco are just a few steps from your front door.

Margaret J. JesticoNorth Saanich

Budget vs. budgetI chuckled at Tom Fletcher’s piece

on deficits and if they matter.Setting aside his partisan views,

the facts are that spending versus budgeted spending are two differ-ent things. In the areas he cited the budgets for those expenditures were increased but the actual spending has not been to the levels budgeted.

But I digress.The federal budget is around $289

billion, so a $1 billion surplus or deficit is about 0.3 per cent of all spending. How many of us who run a household budget are that precise? In a $15,000 annual household bud-get it equates to $0.86 cents a week.

Even Trudeau’s suggested $10 bil-lion deficit is only 3.5 per cent of the federal budget.

It is all about optics and politics when it comes to discussing deficits and surpluses. It has nothing to do with reality. The reality is that 85 per cent of federal spending is locked in, so absent serious program cuts and reductions in the workforce, there is nothing short of raising taxes that any government can do about a defi-cit.

Alex CurrieSidney

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Richard Talbot calls the proposed Gateway retail development project near Sidney the hot topic in the Sidney business community.

Talbot, head of the Supporting Our Sidney (SOS) watchdog group that formed prior to the 2014 municipal elec-tion, says the planned Victoria Airport Author-ity commercial site on the west side of the Pat Bay Highway has the potential to impact downtown Sidney in both positive and nega-tive ways.

That’s why the SOS is hosting a public forum on the Gateway on Oct. 14 at the Mary Win-spear Centre.

“This plan has both pros and cons and we wanted to hold a ses-sion for information,” he said. “I don’t see the SOS taking a spe-cific position out of the forum — that will be up to local merchants.”

The SOS is a collec-tion of citizens and business owners. Tal-bot himself is a retail consultant who was critical of the Town of Sidney’s policies on local business support when new commercial developments like the Gateway — and pro-posed large retail cen-tres in North Saanich and Central Saanich — were proposed.

SOS has softened since the election last November, rebranding from Save Our Sidney to the more positive, Supporting Our Sidney. It’s in that vein that Tal-bot said they want to hold the forum.

“I want to take a fairly balanced approach,” he explained. “I think there are plusses and minuses (to Gateway) and people need to make their minds up about it.”

In July, the VAA and its contracted develop-ment company, Omi-

cron, outlined prelimi-nary site plans and, in general terms, possible tenants — from a large grocery store and bank-ing space, to other retail companies. No tenants have been announced and the VAA has not yet approached the municipality with for-mal design plans or a rezoning request. SOS, as of press time, had asked a representative from Omicron to attend and explain the long-term plan.

Most recently, the VAA approached the Agricultural Land Com-mission about having the 10-acre site along the west end of Bea-con Avenue removed from the Agricultural Land Reserve. As the area is federal land, the VAA technically does not have to follow ALR rules, but has stated it wishes to do so, acting in good faith.

Actual development of the site as a retail hub is estimated to be years away, but Talbot

said it’s important to have community dis-cussions now.

“It will have an impact on the intersec-tion (of Beacon Avenue and the highway),” he explained. “It has the potential to impact transportation issues here, including the pro-posed new fire hall in Sidney. It could make or break what happens there and it needs to be talked about now.”

On the positive side, Talbot said Gateway has the potential to keep more retail dollars

in Sidney, instead of an estimated 40 per cent of the pie heading into Greater Victoria. As well, he said depend-ing on the tenants at Gateway, it could strengthen downtown Sidney by making the retail community really focus in on Beacon Ave-nue itself.

“You might end up with a stronger down-town Sidney with Gate-way, than without it. It is, certainly, the best of the bunch.”

He does see some negatives to the pro-posal, most notably its impact on the limited retail dollars typically spent in Sidney.

The Oct. 14 forum will feature a panel of local leaders, Talbot said, which will facili-tate a question and answer session. The free event takes place at the Mary Winspear Centre at 6:30 p.m.

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Group opens floodgates on proposed retail project Supporting Our Sidney citizen group forum on Sidney Gateway first of two meetings on the proposal

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Victoria Airport Authority President Geoff Dickson, centre, and James Bogusz, right, were joined by Peter Laughlin of Omicron back in July to announce plans to pursue a new retail site on 10 acres of airport and municipal land.

BIA members to discuss GatewayMembers of the Sidney Business

Improvement Association (SBIA) are being invited to a forum Oct. 20 to discuss the proposed VAA commercial development, dubbed the Gateway.

VAA spokesperson James Bogusz is slated to be a guest speaker, as is a repre-sentative of their contracted development firm, Omicron.

The forum is for SBIA members only and runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Mary Winspear Centre.

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Black Press news-papers the Peninsula News Review and Saan-ich News posed a series of questions to the can-didates in the riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands — a riding that both pub-lications share.

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Canada’s youth unemployment rate is at 13 per cent, what would your party do to help more young

Canadians find work?

Robert Boyd, Conservative Party

All Cana-d i a n s s h o u l d be able to fully partic-ipate in the

Canadian economy. Our government has

developed specific ini-tiatives to help young Canadians make a suc-cessful transition into the labour market such as:

• increasing funding for the Youth Employ-

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• supporting 5,000 more paid internships for recent post-sec-ondary graduates and confirming support for Pathways to Education Canada, a not-for-profit organization that works with youth to increase rates of high school completion.

• investing up to $14 million in Futurpreneur Canada, from 2015-2017, to support young entrepreneurs.

• funding about 1,000 internships in 2014-2015 through the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Program in innovative small and medium-sized compa-nies.

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Canadians have more talent than ever. But after 10 years of neglect by Ste-phen Harper, this gen-eration is facing double-digit unemployment. They earn less and carry more debt than their parents did.

The NDP will: restore the federal minimum wage and raise it to $15 an hour; create quality jobs in small business and green industries; give interns the same protections as other workers and make life more affordable by investing in childcare, housing and transit.

In partnership with small business, indus-try, NGOs and gov-ernment, the NDP will help 40,000 young Canadians get jobs, paid internship or coop placements; cre-ate apprenticeship spaces through federal infrastructure proj-ects, in federally regu-lated airports or Port Authorities and with crown corporations, while establishing firm apprenticeship ratios; partner with munici-palities and Indigenous governments to hire apprentices for infra-structure projects; and protect the safety of young workers and crack down on the use of unpaid internships.

The initiatives are fully-costed and will appear in the NDP’s bal-anced platform.

Tim KaneLiberal Party

Y o u n g p e o p l e h a v e 1 8 2 , 0 0 0 fewer jobs today than

before the recession, placing a heavy burden on them and their par-ents.

Conservatives refuse to recognize the prob-lem, and have cut 20,000 positions from Canada Summer Jobs

A Liberal government will help young Canadi-ans gain the skills and work experience they need by investing $1.3 billion over three years to:

• Create 40,000 youth jobs each year through a new, annual invest-ment of $300 million in a renewed Youth Employment Strategy;

• Create 5,000 new green jobs for youth, as part of the renewed Youth Employment Strategy, at Parks Can-ada, and with environ-mental organizations;

• Invest $40 mil-lion annually to help employers create new co-op placements for science, technology, engineering, mathemat-ics, and business stu-dents; and

• Restore a modern-ized Youth Service Pro-gram, providing $25 million per year to help young Canadians gain valuable work and life

CANADA VOTES!

Questions to the candidates: #1 Youth unemployment and jobs

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The Green Party’s Elizabeth May answers a question at a recent candidates’ forum at Lochside Elementary School as the NDP’s Alicia Cormier and Tim Kane of the Liberals await their turn.

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experience while trav-elling the country, par-ticipating in commu-nity building projects.

• Waive EI premiums for 12 months for any employers who give someone between the age of 18-24 a full time job.

Elizabeth MayGreen Party

Y o u t h in Canada are getting a raw deal. The youth unemploy-

ment rate is more than double the average

national rate, at 13 per cent.

When youth are able to find a job, it is often precarious and even unpaid.

The Green Party will ban unpaid internships.

We will also make sig-nificant investments to end the high levels of unemployment among Canada’s youth.

Green MPs will boost access to apprentice-ship and training pro-grams, and invest $5 billion to develop a Youth Community and Employment Ser-vice Corps. This pro-

gram will provide paid employment for 40,000 youth every year for four years, for a total of 160,000 youth posi-tions.

At the successful completion of each year-long program, we will award a $4000 tuition credit to each participant, to apply to further education and training.

Next week: We ask the candidates about refugees, seniors and what they think are the top issues in their home riding.

Dan EbenalNews staff

With the federal election less than two weeks away, those reg-istered to vote should by now have received their Voter Infor-mation Cards in the mail.

“Those are personalized cards that provide you very important information,” said Dorothy Sitek with Elections Canada.

Among the information pro-vided on the cards are the name of your riding as well as your polling location.

“Unlike in the provincial elec-

tions, where you can go to any poll to vote, for the federal elec-tion you must go to the poll assigned to your address,” said Sitek.

Anyone who has not yet received a Voter Information Card is advised to contact their local Elections Canada office, call the toll-free national number 1-800-463-6868 or visit the web-site elections.ca.

“If you think you’re not reg-istered or your address might not have been updated … there is an online registration tool on the Elections Canada website,”

said Sitek. “Fill in the required fields and it will confirm for you whether you are registered or not.”

The Elections Canada offices in all 42 B.C. ridings are now open seven days a week. Sitek said voters can go to any Elec-tions Canada office to register or get information if it’s easier to access an office outside your home riding. The identification needed when you head to the polls has also changed.

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Cleverly sneaking around bushes, over paths and under branches.Arranging stacks for better transportationRetrieving house numbers with quick side glances.Racing the clock to give out the newsInconsistent weather keeps our job fun.Even the earth cannot stop us from delivering to you.Rain, snow or storm we always deliver for youOften barked at by petsFacing challenges like that prickle bush in our wayTaking our cart out and delivering in the spring is as good as it gets.Having the opportunity to smell all your � owers is special we must sayEven when we tire, we stay dedicated and continue onwardsYou may know us as your delivery carriers or paper crewEach and every wednesday and friday we bring you news by 6 PMAlways careful to respect you and bring you good service

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Dr. Clement Persaud recently gave a talk titled Laughter is Really Good Medicine, which he said he believes is an ingredient for health and well being.

Originally from north-ern Ontario, he came to Victoria in 1999 for early retirement and continues to do health education throughout the city and other areas in Canada and abroad.

“There has been a great deal of attention

paid to the physiologi-cal affects of laughter over the last, say, 10 years and research-ers have found defi-nite effects on the body when laughter or humour begins,” he told the PNR.

Persaud’s discus-sions in Canada are to two groups: First Nations and seniors. His most recent talk was held a week ago at The Centre For Active Living 50+ in Central Saanich. He said his talk on laughter is one that’s very popular.

In doing his presen-tation, his wife Donna was present to help assist in some of the discussion.

He had two objec-tives in mind that day. One was to get people to laugh, however that could be achieved. This was done by means of jokes along with relat-ing personal humorous life experiences.

The second objec-tive was showing the audience how laughter affects the body, begin-ning with the brain and working downwards.

Persaud said that seconds after an indi-vidual starts laughing,

the brain senses the laughter and there are changes in the brain that produce endor-phins (a pain-relieving hormone).

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Together those two hormones help with pain relief, giving people a sense of feel-ing good. He said that laughter also affects our immune system by helping to produce more killer cells which fight germs.

“When we begin to laugh there are actu-ally more antibodies that fight infection, again appearing in our saliva and in our blood, so laughter boosts our immunity,” he said.

In the blood, laughter will work overtime and, he said, help to lower blood pressure. Blood pressure falls when we laugh, which also has an impact on reducing blood sugar.

“They found that people who laugh over-time, their blood glu-cose level falls.”

Laughter helps to promote and speed up wound healing, he said. Although it’s not suffi-cient alone for that, if the person is treated with the appropriate antibiotics and treat-ments, combined with laughter, the healing is then speeded up.

A major effect of laughter is that it helps to suppress inflamma-tion, so people with mild arthritis can be helped with a program of regular laughter.

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Encouraging laughter among older age groupHaving a laugh can provide many health benefits

Please see: Socialization helps maintain, page 17

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VERNON — The Province of B.C. has announced the three communities chosen to host the 55+ BC Games in 2017 through to 2019.

These cities were successful in their bids following a process conducted by the BC Senior Games Society that determined the winners from a total of six submissions. The City of Vernon will host the 2017 Games. The

cities of Cranbrook and Kimber-ley will host in 2018. The City of Kelowna will round out the decade in 2019.

The most recent 55+ BC Games successfully wrapped up in North Vancouver last month.

The BC Senior Games Society anticipates each of these com-munities will benefit from a local economic impact of more than $2 million from the thousands

of participants expected to take part in the Games.

“On behalf of our Society and the 55+ BC Games, we would like to thank and congratulate the three winning bid communities,” said Wayne Naka, president of BC Seniors Games Society. “Our members will be extremely excited about the opportunity to travel, stay, and compete.”

— Submitted

That article, released this week, states that face to face socializing is more powerful than phone calls and emails in guarding against depression.

Persaud also referenced another article from 2013 that stated social connections drive the upward spiral of positive emotions and health.

“As people age, isolation can occur a little bit more often and so when we socialize and have more connectedness with oth-ers, be it family or friends or people in the neighbourhood or our communities, it raises our level of well-being because we’re more likely to laugh and share positive emotions and it adds to heart health and overall well being,” he said.

In targeting seniors, he said it’s because they are a group that could do with a simple approach or therapy for increasing well being, connectedness, socializ-ing more and positive emotion.

He said that laughter during that socializing period really increases health benefits.

Persaud plans on returning to the Saanich Peninsula in Decem-ber to deliver another talk.

Continued from page 16

Socialization helps maintain health

Host cities chosen for the 55-plus BC Games

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JEAN ALISON EVERARD (Nee Reid)

July 23, 1926 - Sept. 28, 2015

Passed away peacefully at Saanich Peninsula Hospital at the age of 89 after a brief illness.

Predeceased by beloved husband Hedley Joseph Everard (DFC), Loving stepmother to Jane and Jim (Jann) and supportive third grandmother to Gareth and Taylor.

Jean was born in Dodsland, Saskatchewan, the only child to George and Mable Jane Reid. She graduated from the Edmonton General Hospital as a nurse and, after additional training in psychiatric nursing, obtained a Bachelor of Nursing from McGill University in 1968. Jean’s nursing career took her from the RCAF (Flying Offi cer Nursing Sister, Auxiliary) to the Canadian Nurses Association, and she was licensed in both Washington and Florida. She travelled widely with Hedley, spending eight years in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

While semi-retired in Naples, Florida, she continued to nurse at both the hospital and occasionally at the greyhound racetrack where, as she was quick to point out, she was there for the people, not betting on the dogs!

Jean retired to Sidney, BC in 2002 where she remained active curling and lawn bowling, as well as teaching and playing mah-jong and duplicate bridge. Jean was a life-long learner, loved attending nurses’ reunions and cherished the friendship and intellectual stimulation of groups such as the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW). She would, and could, debate any topic. She paid special attention to relationships and kept them vital. Well into her eighties, Jean could travel across Canada, staying with an old friend or former colleague who would welcome her under their roof.

Following cremation, Jean will be interred in the family plot in Fergus, ON,

alongside her parents. If desired, donations may be made to the CFUW Charitable Trust.

DONNA MARSHALLIt is with great sadness that we announce the

passing of Donna Marshall, nee Gait.Donna passed away on September 30th in “The View” hospice in Comox BC, after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. She leaves behind her loving husband Steve and her much loved family.Donna was born February 2, 1953 in Victoria BC and has lived in the Bowser area for the past forty years. All her grandchildren will miss their “Gramma Good Bean”.

A celebration of Life for Donna will be held Sun., Oct. 25 from 11am-2pm at

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IN THE MATTER OF THE

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1933 Keating X Road Central Saanich, BC. Claims a Warehouse-man’s Lien against the following person vehicle left in storage at Penin-sula Mini Storage. If not paid in full on or before the date stated the vehi-cle will be sold or dis-posed of: Scott Mattison-Kelly of the last known address of 325-800 Kelly Road Victoria, BC V9B 5T6. AFTER October 17, 2015 amount owing $663.00. Vehicle de-scription: 1980 Dodge 2WHDR White Van. VIN - B11ANAK107770

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Six months ago, the com-posite price index for prop-erties sold on the Saan-ich Peninsula was about $435,000.

That has now jumped to an average of $450,000, with the pressures for higher prices continuing to apply themselves in the local mar-ket.

“The change really started in about February of this year,” said Patrick Schorle, owner of Pacifica Real Estate Inc. in Sidney. “By the early spring we were seeing a defi-nite increase and, although we were hesitant back then to call it a trend, it seems obvious now that things have turned around and the market is staying very strong.”

Part of the reason for the rebound in prices is a simple application of the economic principle of supply and demand.

“In September of last year we had 4,253 listings. This year, during the same month, we saw only 3,478. That’s about an 18 per cent decrease. That has really made it a seller’s market with homes staying on the market for shorter periods and prices rising.”

One of the trends Schorle sees returning to the Penin-sula is the upsurge of Ameri-can buyers looking for recre-ational vacation properties.

“With the interest rates as low as they are now, and the exchange rate being what it is, U.S. buyers can come in and purchase a waterfront property at what amounts to a 30 per cent discount. It’s really helped to create a resurgence of that type of

buyer.”Schorle said the sale of

properties for recreational purposes — properties that may only be occupied for very limited periods of the year — is not a new phe-nomenon.

“When the Canadian dol-lar was stronger we had peo-ple from other parts of Can-ada, especially Alberta, com-ing here to pick up vacation homes. We also know that some Canadians went down to buy up cheap properties in the U.S.A. after the 2008 meltdown. Now it’s Ameri-cans coming here.”

Schorle said that over the past six months he has sold about a half-dozen homes to American buyers. He said it’s a trend seen by other realtors.

“They are looking for larger properties ... homes on the waterfront ... and def-initely with a preference for newer properties,” he said.

Schorle added he doesn’t feel the purchase of homes as recreational properties has a negative impact on the

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“It’s really just an indicator of what a beautiful location we have here and how lucky we are to live here full time.”

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