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Two employees at the District of Saanich were honoured last month with a United Way Spirit Award for running a massively successful workplace campaign to support the Greater Victoria charity.

Brandy Rowan and Jennifer Downie, administrative assistants to the mayor and chief administrative officer, say that while they chaired the municipality’s campaign, it was a group effort that made it successful.

“Everyone was willing to pitch in. It wasn’t like pulling teeth,” Downie said.

“Our goal was just to get more informa-tion out about United Way and make sure that people were more educated, through presentations at the hall, at public works,

the fire department, police department,” Rowan added.

Downie and Rowan received the Out-standing Employee Campaign Chair Spirit Award, recognizing outstanding leadership that resulted in significant growth in cam-paign results.

In 2012, Saanich employees raised $28,000. In 2013, that jumped to $42,000.

Money was raised by signing on 58 new donors, plus creative fundraising endeav-ours that involved upper management.

“We did a car wash – we had the mayor and CAO (Paul Murray) washing people’s cars. The mayor did an old, dirty van, and Paul had to wash someone’s bike,” Downie said.

The Saanich police chief and deputy chief also were willing to auction off their primo

parking spots.“What was done in the past wasn’t work-

ing. We tried to come up with ways to raise more money, create new ideas and get peo-ple excited,” Downie said.

Brittany Decker, director of community campaigns with the United Way Greater Vic-toria, said the two chairs did a “phenom-enal job” engaging staff and getting them on board for the campaign.

“It’s so crazy how much they did. And they had a lot of fun, too. And they told their employees to come up with their own ideas,” she said. “They really looked at recruiting volunteers across the organiza-tion. It’s amazing how many people it takes to make this come to fruition.”

Decker said other organizations can take Saanich’s lead in ensuring their campaign

is a success. That starts from the top and works its way down.

“One of the biggest things is they had support for the campaign at all levels, from the employees who work at job sites, right up to the mayor and CAO,” she said. “That’s really unique to Greater Victoria. We have such a close-knit community. It’s nice to see all levels of community and all levels of the municipality supportive of this campaign.”

Rowan said garnering support for the United Way wasn’t a hard sell in Saanich.

“(The United Way is) part of our com-munity, it’s a part of Saanich. It’s impor-tant to the health and wellness of our community and social growth,” she said.

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Miranda Schell is known to sing the night away, belting out Korean songs with her roommate in resi-dence at St. Margaret’s School.

She can get goofy with the best of them at the Saanich school, but the Albertan takes her role as head girl seriously and uses her “infectious enthusiasm” to craft tomorrow’s leaders.

It’s “just in her,” says leadership teacher Donna Holmwood. “It’s innate, she’s had it forever. She has an awareness and wisdom inside her. She’s had it since Grade 7.”

Jennifer Cook, communications co-ordinator at St. Margaret’s agrees. “It’s second nature to her to include everyone and empower those around her.”

Each school year since seventh grade Schell, who hails from Canmore and Cal-gary, has made Saanich her home. The 18-year-old is among 12 “lifers” to gradu-ate this June, the largest graduating class since the independent all-girls school nestled in the Lake HIll neighbourhood opened in 1908.

“She’s head girl, so she leads council, but they all feel they have conquered the world every time they hold an event,” says Holmwood, who also guides student council. “This year (council) has been an amazing group and I think a lot of it is because of her leadership.”

The teen though, feels she’s working at making sure the girls get the experience she did as a youngster leaving home at a tender age.

“When I came here, I was young and small. I was pretty freaked out,” she says. “I know the process. It’s good to let them know, to kick-start their experience. There were people that did that for me.”

Those people still stand out in her memories of school years as she made the difficult transition from living solely with her mom to sharing space with oth-ers her age, and older.

“I had a lot of in your face challenges living in residence,” she says. “I wanted to do as much as I could. It goes in a circle, what goes around comes around.”

Being an international school with a student population of 379 girls from around the world adds to the importance of being inclusive.

“She has the ability to lead when there is a need but just to step back. … With-out making them feel she has to do it, she empowers them,” Holmwood says.

Schell is a self-described behind-the-scenes worker, and that’s by design.

“I find that more important, pushing other people forward because that’s what I’ve needed in my life,” Schell says. “I had a lot of people pushing me forward.”

Her peers may not even be fully aware of the way Schell nudges fledgling student leaders into the limelight.

“She empowers her entire team,” agrees Holmwood, who also oversees student council at St. Marg’s. “That’s what leadership is. If she can inspire others to take action and to do more and learn more, then that’s a leader.”

Despite being active among the student population, and her instructors’ views she’s a born leader, Schell says there was a slight lack of confidence that she’d be accepted by her peers to lead council.

“That was a huge step for me last year,” she says.

The students spoke, and the council, led by Schell and made up of mostly girls slated to graduate in June, organize spirit activities around school including St. Marg’s Olympics and cooking up at tasty breakfast for the entire staff.

“All the members are super positive and we act on more ideas than previous councils,” Schell says. “It’s not just one

person, it’s a whole group.” Recently they embarked on an “invis-

ible student, invisible teacher” initiative where the students on council seek out those they don’t know among both peers and instructors, then make the effort to get to know them.

“Our core value for this year is com-munity. So we always come back to that,” Schell says.

Thought goes into every activity. Hol-mwood says nothing is simply done because it’s “been done before.”

“There’s a real integrity about her,” Hol-mwood adds. “She thinks about every-thing that’s happening and why we do it. There’s a real intention with everything she does. She has a real, strong, moral ethic.”

As Schell embarks on her future this June, of which there are many options awaiting her, she’s happy with the per-son she’s become simply by adapting as things were thrown at her.

“I had this picture of what I would be when I was 16, which I surpassed,” she says. “You can say ‘oh my God’ or you can just go for it. You’ll learn something every time from that.”

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The Victoria SPCA is hoping a badly injured dog will recover the full use of her back legs.

Bryn, a pit bull cross, was surrendered to the BCSPCA last week. She had several injuries that appear to be from a blunt force trauma, said Annie Prittie Bell, the SPCA Victoria branch manger.

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last Thursday.Fleming had been debating

a leadership run, but backed off late last month, while Popham had previously aligned with former B.C. NDP leadership candidate Mike Farnworth before he pulled out.

Victoria NDP MP Murray Rankin is also publicly sup-porting Horgan.

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to ensure we develop our natural resources in a man-ner that provides good jobs, sustains our environment and respects First Nations’ rights,” Rankin said in a state-ment. “For over 30 years, John has been a part of that work with me. His experience and proven leadership will make him a superb premier.”

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Combining a passion for food and a passion for art, raised $15,000 for arts education.

The Only Creative Thinking Allowed Collective Society, held the seventh annual Colour Your Palate fundraising event April 15 at the University Club, raising proceeds for artsREACH, a program providing free fine art programs for public schools in Greater Victoria.

“It is a joy. I love seeing their faces. It is not an onerous thing to slip out of the paperwork of the office after school and see what they’re up to,” said Renee Pick, principal of Cloverdale Elementary. “It’s kind of fun and I love to see them in that other realm and excel. It’s just one other area that gives them the chance, I know from the families, they would never have had.”

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Earth Day 2014 will likely go down in B.C. history as less exciting than last year’s event.That was the day when, in the heat of the election campaign, NDP leader Adrian Dix announced in Kamloops that he didn’t support the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to its Burnaby terminal, because Vancou-ver shouldn’t become a “major oil port.”As of this Earth Day, it has been an oil port for exactly a century, since Imperial Oil began work on B.C.’s first refinery in 1914, in what is now Port Moody. There were no pipelines then, so crude was moved by rail or tanker. For 60 years, Trans Mountain has supplied the Chevron refinery in Burnaby that is southern B.C.’s last source of fuel. Some of the Alberta crude is piped south to be refined into fuels and some of that product is barged back up to B.C. to keep our traffic moving.Today the proposal to expand and upgrade that pipeline, and to build new oil and natural gas pipelines across the north, dominate B.C.’s political scene.In keeping with the educational aspect of Earth Day, here are some things you may not know about energy and the environment.

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eight per cent of the total.Fully 60 per cent of the oil load in North American waters is from natural seeps, where oil leaks from seafloor rock. One of the world’s largest is off Santa Barbara, Califor-nia, where 20 to 25 tons flows out each day. It’s mostly consumed by oil-eating bacteria that have adapted and proliferated.The next biggest source is leakage from cars and trucks, which collects

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Try as we might want to wish it away, homelessness is here to stay, at least in the foreseeable future.

Perhaps in an ideal world things would be different, but homelessness is a world problem, not an issue that Greater Victoria has had to deal with alone.

Yet, we were a little taken aback last week when it was announced more than one-third of Victoria and Esquimalt residents surveyed in the recent Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness don’t believe that homelessness is an issue in their community. Their views were mirrored in other Capital Region municipalities.

Sadly, it’s a mistaken perception.There were 1,659 people in Greater Victoria

who made use of a shelter in 2012-13. As of March 2013, 1,477 were on the wait list for B.C. Housing and 20,524 used a food bank in one month alone.

“There are people experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness across the region – it is not just a downtown issue.” said Andrew Wynn-Williams, executive director of the coalition, which conducts the poll throughout the region every January.

Homelessness comes in many forms from those begging on downtown streets right through to those a paycheque away from living on the street to teens couch-surfing in their friend’s apartment.

As we’ve commented before, we can’t continue to bury our heads and hope the problem goes away. It won’t solve itself without some sort of intervention from government and other organizations.

Obviously, there needs to be more public education on the issue. If one-third of the survey respondents do not think homelessness is an issue then the word isn’t getting out beyond the nonprofit organizations and government.

But even more emphasis should be put into mental health services and supportive housing.

You only need to open your eyes to see the devastation of homelessness.

Pretending the problem isn’t there is a tragedy in itself.

A6 • www.vicnews.com Wednesday, April 23, 2014- SAANICH NEWS

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My name is David Black. I am the majority owner of Black Press, the company that owns this newspaper. This is the first of two columns address-ing what I see as the greatest threat to the B.C. environment in our lifetime. I am a rea-sonably sensible and conservative business-man, not an alarmist. All of the information in this column can be confirmed from public sources.

The oil indus-try wants to export Alberta bitumen to Asia via tankers. Under no cir-cumstances should we allow that to happen. A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline, together with the fish and wildlife that depend on it, for hundreds of years.

Bitumen, even if it is diluted, does not float in sea water if there is sediment present. This has been proven many times, most

recently in a thorough Environ-ment Canada study published on Nov. 30, 2013. Page 51 of the study provides graphic evidence

of sunken bitumen. Given that there is an abundance of sedi-ment along the B.C. coast, the bitumen will sink rapidly and there will be little chance of recovering any of it if there is a spill. By Northern Gateway’s own admission the likelihood of a bitumen spill at sea is over 10 per cent over the next 50 years. Others say

that it is much higher. We are in agreement with the position taken by the Coastal First Nations that even the slightest risk of a spill of bitumen at sea is unac-ceptable.

The grounding of the Exxon Val-dez in Alaska in 1989 is often held up as an example of how bad an oil spill at sea can be, however, a spill of bitumen at sea would

be much worse. The Exxon Val-dez carried light crude and lost 250,000 barrels, one-eighth of a tanker load. The light oil floated and could be removed from the beaches. Even so, after four years of work with up to 11,000 work-ers and 1,400 boats involved, less than 10 per cent of it was recov-ered. Roughly 200,000 birds and many kinds of other wildlife were killed. Approximately 1,300 miles of shoreline were affected and the fishery has yet to fully recover. Bitumen is very different. It would harden up on shore and much of it would sink to the bottom, mak-ing it unrecoverable and killing virtually everything with which it came in contact. Imagine if we lost a full tanker load.

Some say that, with GPS-based navigation and double hulls, spills such as Exxon Valdez are not possible today. They are wrong. Double hulls do not pre-vent hull fracture if there is a collision at speed, only if there is a gentle scrape. As for the GPS claim, most marine accidents

are caused by human inatten-tion, not by a lack of knowledge about position. All ships carried systems to indicate their loca-tion before GPS came along. The Exxon Valdez crew could have glanced at their instruments to determine their location but they didn’t, neither did the crew on the Queen of the North. Marine disasters regularly occur and a quick search of the internet shows human error is most often the problem. Undoubtedly there will be many more marine acci-dents in future. Our grandchil-dren will not thank us if we will-ingly risk the destruction of the B.C. coast on our watch.

Fortunately there is a solu-tion that is beneficial for all con-cerned: all we have to do is build a refinery at Kitimat. The refinery will convert the bitumen to gaso-line, diesel and jet fuel which float and evaporate if they are spilled. Often little or no spill remediation is required. These refined fuels simply do not cause the habitat destruction of conventional or

synthetic crude oil, or anywhere near the devastation caused by bitumen.

The second part of this op-ed will run in the next issue. It will discuss the enormous value-add benefits and environmental advantages of a modern green refinery. The pipeline from Alberta and the tanker fleet to export the refined fuels will also be considered.

Let me declare my biases. I am for creating thousands of good permanent jobs in B.C. I am for creating billions of new tax dol-lars for government coffers. I am for reducing the planet’s green-house gas emissions. I am for building an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for building a modern tanker fleet that carries only refined fuels that float and evaporate if spilled. I am against shipping bitumen in tankers.

If you agree that we should not put bitumen in tankers please contact your local MP and say so. The Canadian government makes a decision on this next month.

David Black

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Sewage treatment site not the biggest issue

There have been numerous let-ters published lately, suggesting where the sewage plant should or could be sited. We’re not there yet.

We need to first of all study the options for sewage treatment. What is the best technology to fit our unique, local marine envi-ronment? Do we even need treat-ment in the near future consider-ing the scientific evidence? Is this an environmental emergency? What is a realistic timeline?

Instead of following this path of logic, the Capital Regional Dis-trict has focused on deadlines and funding. It has designed a system based on expedience. It has grasped at straws to come up with a plan that will merely satisfy flawed regulations from higher levels of government. In its desperate search for property, it came up with a plan that will take wastewater on an amusement ride around the Capital Region at the taxpayers’ expense. It’s all a

facade. The CRD has missed the mark.

The real focus should be seek-ing a realistic deadline to get this right.

A million dollars a month would go a long way toward establishing the facts with Ottawa. Then, somewhere down the road, the horse can lead the cart to a suitable site.

Dave FergusonSaanich

Transit rulingunreasonable

Re: Bus drivers balk at route announcing (News, April 16)

The hallmark of a just society is how much accommodation it makes for those of us who are marginalized from the mainstream, whether such marginalization arises from ethnicity, religion, or physical or mental disability.

However, these accommodations should also be practical and reasonable in all the circumstances.

B.C. Transit’s recent ruling

compelling Victoria bus drivers to call out all bus stops on their routes to accommodate passengers who are visually impaired is neither reasonable nor practical.

Fortunately, the number of people suffering visual impairment is remarkably low, and it is more than likely that about 95 percent of the time drivers will never even have visually impaired persons on their buses for weeks, if not months, at a time.

Does it not make far greater sense if visually impaired passengers -- whose impairment is often quite obvious as they board the bus (the white cane is one obvious giveaway) -- simply informed the drivers that they wanted off at a certain stop? The drivers would then make a point of calling out those stops when they came to them.

The above-suggested modification of B.C. Transit’s ruling makes a lot more sense and should satisfy everyone.

Barry GaetzVictoria

Saanich funding stamps out graffiti vandalism

Re: Saanich residents wage war on graffiti (News, April 16)

It’s good that Saanich is putting money into stomping on graffiti.

The effectiveness of quick action was proven decades ago, including by the New York city subway system – with the arrival of new stainless steel cars city staff started a policy of quick removal.

Bureaucrats and politicians actually supported keeping a promise – remove it within 24 hours.

Saanich Const. Mark Pam-minger correctly identifies the moral issue – defacing someone

else’s property, whereas some officials and media people in the Victoria area excuse it as artistic expression.

As for content of the graffiti, the greater Victoria area is espe-cially negative. Are parents and teachers doing their job?

I do caution people about the good notion of not letting vandals take over the neighbourhood.

Some vandals can be aggres-sive if approached by watchful neighbours, so it may be more prudent to call the Saanich Police Department’s non-emergency number at 250-475-4321 rather than confront an unauthorized graffiti vandal.

Keith SketchleySaanich

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Business opponents of Multi Mate-rial BC are planning a court challenge to reverse the takeover of B.C.’s curb-side recycling system by the stew-ardship agency.

They continue to urge the pro-vincial government to freeze the new MMBC system before it takes effect May 19, but are also laying the groundwork for a legal battle.

Kelvin McCulloch, CEO of the Buck-erfield’s chain of farm supply stores, is urging other businesses to sign and submit their MMBC contract but then give notice to the government that they won’t pay fees or otherwise cooperate with the new system to collect packaging and printed paper.

McCulloch intends to gather opt-out letters from numerous busi-nesses across B.C. and deliver them to the province.

If the MMBC rollout continues, he said, they will argue in court that the MMBC contracts were invalid and they were coerced to join the govern-ment-created recycling monopoly.

“We’re fairly confident at this point it will be struck down,” McCulloch said. “No company in their right mind would sign that contract of their own free will.”

The province contends MMBC is voluntary and various industries could instead form their own sepa-rate waste-collecting organization.

That option is not practical or rea-sonable, McCulloch said.

“The suggestion that we are able to launch or own stewardship program independent of MMBC is a sham.”

The MMBC program aims to trans-fer recycling costs from municipal taxpayers to the producers who gen-erate packaging and printed paper, while collecting more containers and material types than before.

But many businesses argue they’re unfairly compelled to pay far higher fees than a similar system run in Ontario.

Critics say MMBC’s three-member interim board is controlled by exec-utives with multinational firms like Unilever and Proctor and Gamble who have manipulated the launch of the new program to their benefit rather than the interests of most B.C.

businesses.Questioned by the NDP last week,

Environment Minister Mary Polak said she expects a more representa-tive 15-member permanent board to be named soon after MMBC’s launch.

Polak said it’s logical the biggest industries that pay the most into MMBC get a large role.

A new advisory council was also recently unveiled by MMBC with reps from several B.C. business groups, but critics say it has no real power.

Pausing the program and the pay-ment of fees by member businesses would cut off the money MMBC will send to most local cities that agreed to continue curbside pickup.

“Any delay in implementation for those communities would mean a loss of that savings,” Polak said, add-ing many municipalities have already budgeted to receive promised MMBC payments.

She said examples of those amounts are $1.5 million a year com-ing to Richmond and $917,000 to Nanaimo.

Mike Klassen, B.C. director of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said he’s not aware of any cities reducing their property taxes as a result of the expected MMBC savings.

“That’s one of the things that’s been most misleading – the idea that this was going to save money for the general taxpayer,” he said.

Klassen argues consumers will pay twice – their local taxes won’t go down but they’ll also pay higher retail prices as businesses pass along the MMBC charges.

He said most mayors and councils are being cautious and aren’t spend-ing MMBC savings until they actually arrive – meaning there’s still oppor-tunity to freeze the rollout.

“That suggests to me they’re also very wary of the program and have a fallback program in case things don’t work,” Klassen said. “The world doesn’t all of a sudden turn upside down if we pause this program and take some time to reflect on how to do this well.”

Small businesses with single store-fronts are exempted from MMBC’s requirements. But Klassen said fran-chisees don’t qualify, leaving hun-dreds of small businesses like meat shops and Subway sandwich outlets facing hefty costs.

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The Victoria Conservatory of Music marks 50 years in the community with two events to benefit the institution.

Uncork Your Palate takes place April 30 at the Crystal Garden, where wine-makers of the Naramata Bench offer samples of their spring releases paired with food from the city’s best restaurants. Live music and an eclectic silent auction round out the evening. Tickets are $95.

The conservatory also hosts its 32nd annual Mother’s Day garden tour on May 10 and 11. Tickets are $30 and available at Thrifty Foods and the Victoria Conservatory of Music, 900 Johnson St.

As part of the 50th anniversary event, the Victoria Soul Choir featuring Checo Tohomaso performs at Alix Goolden Hall for $10 on May 11.

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Multicoloured leafy greens, red currants or hazelnuts, Carolyn Herriot encourages residents to get foodie in their gardens.

A featured speaker at Victoria’s largest building, renovation and décor show, Herriot will delve into edible gardening during the Home Expo at West Shore Parks and Recreation April 25 to 27.

“My focus for right now is a lot of people are expressing interest in growing more food in their gardens. We’re seeing a switch from growing ornamentals to growing edibles,” said the three-time author. “You don’t have to rip your garden out, you can just introduce plants you can eat.”

Her books take a journey through the garden in much the way her presentations will: A Year on the Garden Path – a 52-week Organic Gardening Guide, The Zero Mile Diet – A Year-round Guide to Growing Organic Food, and a companion book, The Zero-Mile Diet Cookbook – Seasonal Recipes for Delicious Homegrown Food.

Saturday she tells show-goers Have Your Garden and Eat It Too! introducing them to “ornamental edibles.”

“There are lots of lovely plants that people have forgotten about because we haven’t grown them in so long. The bonus is you can enjoy the feature and you can eat it as well,” she says. “They forget about grain, they can grow nuts and berries and fruits, leafy greens. …

I think it adds more colour to our world really and it adds a lot more diversity that’s for sure. And I think it’s the most responsible thing to do.”

That leads to her second talk, immediately following the first, The Zero-Mile Kitchen - From Garden to Table.

“My focus is about nutrition … to introduce new foods into the kitchen and diet,” she said. “It’s important to know, when you’re growing lots of home grown produce, what to do with it. There’s a huge problem right now because a lot of people don’t know how to cook.”

With the ongoing concerns over food security, and uncertainty with drought plaguing produce provider California, she’ll connect the dots to local food.

“This is a really bad time for us not to know how to grow food to feed ourselves,” she said. “It’s to inspire. It’s not to frighten people … we’ve just forgotten.”

Herriot grows her certified-organic seed business (seedsofvictoria.com) at the Garden Path Centre for Organic Gardening.

Her first talk Saturday, April 26 runs from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. with the second from 3:15 to 4 p.m. at the Home Expo.

The 29th annual Victoria Spring Home Expo runs April 25 to 27 in the three rinks at West Shore Parks and Recreation, 1767 Island Hwy. in Colwood. Friday runs 1 to 9 p.m., Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. General admission is $5.

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and works its way down.“One of the biggest things is

they had support for the cam-paign at all levels, from the employees who work at job sites, right up to the mayor and CAO,” she said. “That’s really unique to Greater Victoria. We have such a close-knit commu-nity. It’s nice to see all levels of community and all levels of the municipality supportive of this campaign.”

Rowan said garnering support for the United Way wasn’t a hard sell in Saanich.

“(The United Way is) part of our community, it’s a part of Saanich. It’s important to the health and well-ness of our community and social growth,” she said. “It’s a great organization to sup-port.”

The United Way raised $5.8 million from workplace drives and individual donors during its annual campaign. The money will be used to support com-munity programs through more than 100 local agencies.

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Jennifer Downie, left, and Brandy Rowan, co-chairs of the District of Saanich’s United Way campaign, show off the Outstanding Employee Campaign Chair Spirit award they received for their successful United Way fundraising efforts in 2013.

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Alyshia Joinson, 17, and Ash-ley Griffith, 14, are stars on wheels. The two play out of Pacific Institute for Sport Excel-lence and were part of the Zone 6 wheelchair basketball team at the 2014 B.C. Winter Games. Now, they’ll have a chance to see the sport played at a high level and meet Paralympians.

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Saanich teens Alyshia Joinson, above, and her BC Winter Games teammate Ashley Griffith will head to Richmond to see the national women’s wheelchair basketball team play after being identified as up-and-comers in the sport.


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The Green Party hopes the National Energy Board allows them to speak up.

Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver, Green Party leader Elizabeth May and Interim Leader of the B.C. Green Party Adam Olson held a press conference along the waters of Dallas Road, requesting the NEB introduce cross-examination into the hearing process on the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion from

Alberta to Burnaby. “I applied for intervenor status so

I could stand up for my constituents and offer them a voice in the process,” Weaver said. “Like others, I applied under the expectation that intervenors would have the right to cross-examine the proponent during the oral-hearing process.”

Weaver, May and Olsen were granted intervener status by the NEB April 2 for the hearings that will begin next year on the proposed twinning of the pipeline that would almost triple capacity from

approximately 300,000 to 890,000 barrels daily.

“This is a watershed moment for the B.C. government’s claim that it will stand up for British Columbians,” Weaver said. “Without oral cross-examination the government has little ability to credibly and transparently represent the best interests of British Columbians in this process.”

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B.C. Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver, right, speaks during a press conference held along the Dallas Road waterfront April 17. Weaver wants cross-examination be allowed in the hearing process for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. He was supported by Adam Olsen, interim leader of the B.C. Green Party and Green Party MP Elizabeth May.

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APPLIANCES

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REAL ESTATE

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NANAIMO WATERFRONT 2nd fl oor condo. 1500 sq.ft. LR/DR/2bdrms with view, den, gas FP, secure bldg. 2 under-ground parking spaces. Main-tenance fee includes hot wa-ter/gas/landscaping. 1 pet OK. View anytime. $339,900 Re-duced to $329,000. (250)753-9123

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OPEN HOUSE- Sat & Sun, every weekend, 1-4pm. NewHome For Sale: 5887 Stone-haven Dr, 2050sq ft, 2 bdrm +den + rec room heat pump, 5appls, central vac, $364,500.Near hospital. Quality homesat an affordable price. CallGord (250)710-1947.

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-4PM. 2614 Ernhil Dr. Totallyrenovated 3 bdrm, 2 bathhome. New exotic H/W fl oors.Lrg 8’ shower of master bdrm.Large landscaped fenced lot.Must see. $459,000. BONUS: WE WILL PAY YOU THE RE-ALTOR FEES ON CLOSING. phone (250)590-1632.

PRIME OAK Bay; New price$635,000. 1 block to WillowsBeach, close to shops andschools. 1940’s 2 bdrm, bath.Full basement. 2516 Dalhou-sie St. (corner of Musgrave).Call 250-858-8475 or 250-472-8475. OPEN HOUSE: Sat.1-3.

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SIDNEY CONDO for Sale in the Shoal Centre. Thinking of downsizing or buying into a great investment? There’s 1 bdrm, 1 bath, a full kitchen, all appliances and has 4th fl oor views of Malahat & gorgeous sun sets. Presently rented at $1475/mo. Asking $273,000. Across from Library & Rose gardens. Call (250)655-1956, by appt only. A Real Gem in the Heart of Sidney.

HOUSES FOR SALE

AFFORDABLE AND quiet. 55+ community in Ladysmith. Home of the famous Festival of Lights!!!! Carefree manufac-tured homes on easy care lots for as low as $119,700. Low monthly lot fee. On transit. Close to parks, community centre, pool and amazing trails. Only 50 minutes from Victoria and less than 20 min-utes to Nanaimo. New Home Warranty. Contact Duck Pater-son @ 250-246-0637 or email: [email protected]

REAL ESTATE

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1 & 2 Bdrm suites & cabins. Perched on a cliffside with panoramic ocean vista, over-looking The Saanich Inlet. Se-rene & secure. All amenities on-site, fi rewood. $500-$1200 inclds utils. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min com-mute to downtown Victoria. Must have references! Call 250-478-9231.

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COTTAGES

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LANGFORD 1-BDRM grnd fl oor suite, own patio, full kitch-en, F/S, D/W, built-in vac, in-suite laundry. Utils incld. Close to shops, Galloping Goose, Royal Roads, golf course, bus route. NS/NP. $850. (Immed). 250-474-0079.

LANGFORD- SPACIOUS 1 bdrm, 1 bath, laundry, $850/ mo includes all utils. Avail May 1. NS/NP. (250)389-0983.

MARIGOLD: 1 bdrm, shared W/D, quiet. NS/NP. $850 utils incld’d. Call 250-727-6217.

SUITES, UPPER

MAIN FLOOR. 3-bdrm. Fire-place, completely reno’d - new appl’s, large patio. Near UVic & Camosun. N/S, N/P. $1350. + utils. (250)477-5179.

RENTALS

SUITES, UPPER

SIDNEY 2-BDRM upper. $1600./mo. Oil heat. Inclds cable, internet, parking & yard maintenance. Shared W/D. Walk to all amenities. May 1st or earlier. Call (250)882-6661.

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO FINANCING

AUTO SERVICES

$$$ TOP CA$H PAID $$$. For ALL unwanted Vehicles, any condition. Call (250)885-1427.

CARS

1993 ACURA INTEGRA (bought in the USA), 204,810, km, in good condition. $2500. Call (250)884-6861.

TRANSPORTATION

CARS

MUST SELL 1999 Saturn, 4 door, 5 passenger. Manual trans. Very good on gas. 192,000 km. Clean inside and out. Well maintained. Excellent body and engine. Asking $1,100. Call (250)813-2458

NISSAN MICRA 1990, 164K. Toyota Corolla 1992. Each $1300. obo. (250)704-8170 .

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VTRUCKS & ANS

MUST SELL 2003 Windstar LX, 7 passenger. Sliding doors 174,000 km. Good running condition. Priced for quick sale $2,700. Call (778)440-3045

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ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi

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CARPENTRY

BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748.

DECKS, STAIRS, interesting projects. 30 years experience. Frank, (250)477-3315.

JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER with 32 years exp in renova-tions, new construction+ all re-pairs. Spring Time discounts. Frank, [email protected]

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

CONCRETE & PLACING

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

ELECTRICAL

(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.

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

GNC ELECTRIC Res/Comm. Reasonable rates for quality work. #43619. 250-883-7632.


ELECTRICAL

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.

FURNITURE REFINISHING

FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & deliv-ery. References available. 250-475-1462.

GARDENING

(250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Yard & garden overgrown? Lawns have weeds & moss? Aerating, pwr raking. Blackber-ry/Ivy removal, landscaping.

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GARDENING

GARDEN OVERGROWN? Weeding, lawn cuts, clean-ups, pruning. John Kaiser 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

GORDON Head area pre-ferred lawn cutting. Most lawns $30. Gary - 250-472-0635

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

Level Ground Landscaping Lawn and garden service and renovation. Arborist service. Call Neil 250-818-0587.

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

250-507-6543. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, guards, pow-er washing, de-moss, Insured.


GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free est.

HANDYPERSONS

BIG BEAR Handyman. Paint-ing, household repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

HANDYMAN- Light Mainte-nance & Repair. Call for esti-mate. (250)818-2709.

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.

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Fine arts like metal sculpting, acrylic painting and writing and revising fiction are expert tasks requiring years of expert train-ing – but everyone has to start somewhere.

For 30 years, the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts (MISSA) has been offer-ing that opportunity through small intensive workshops, where professional artists guide inquisitive minds to explore their work in an inspiring loca-tion.

Known for excellence in ceramics, painting and 2D arts, those at the helm of the non-profit organization are striving to update its reputation.

“One of the things that’s kind of neat is that all of our studios are open and we welcome peo-ple to walk around and see what everybody else is doing and talk to each other,” said MISSA exec-utive director Dave Skilling.

“It may be a bit corny, but we call it the MISSA magic that hap-pens out there for two weeks.”

For the first time this sum-mer, MISSA offers workshops in steampunk jewelry, comics and visual storytelling and digi-tal music production alongside the more traditional mainstay programs for which it is known, held on the grounds of Pearson College. Local musician Daniel Lapp leads a two-day West Coast fiddle workshop, while DJ Chris Long teaches a two-day intro-duction to digital music-making.

Skilling sees the programs as an opportunity for any art-ist regardless of ability to take a couple of days out to explore their creativity.

For those in residency pro-gram, it’s a chance to spend two weeks focused on their art with a mentor, while MISSA cooks the meals. The school is also designed to get artists across disciplines meeting and learning from each other.

Founded by artists in 1984, MISSA has continued to provide immersive programs that oper-ate on several levels of creative stimulation.

“They wanted to get a pro-gram together that one was

taught by practicing artists, but two was for the whys behind art, as opposed to just the how-tos,” Skilling said.

“It gives people an opportu-nity to express their individual search and creative passions, rather than in a strictly craft sit-uation where you all learn to do one thing, one way.”

MISSA operates on a break-even model, with most weekend workshops set at $210 includ-ing lunches and snacks, and the option of paying to stay on cam-pus.

Registration for courses of varying length is now open for anyone 19 and up, regardless of experience, and space is limited.

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DJ Chris Long teaches a two-day introduction to digital music-making through the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts this summer.

Imagine checking out garden seeds the same way one checks out library books.

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Parents of school-aged children have a unique perspective on teachers.

Most parents are far removed from the days sitting in classrooms listening to les-sons. Regardless how they view their own experience, their interest in education takes new emphasis once their kids begin school.

Are the children getting good instruction, are they enjoying learning and making prog-ress? All are ongoing concerns parents have as the school years roll by.

Teachers, and the work they do on a daily basis, are a central part of a positive answer to those questions and more.

Mount Douglas secondary parents advi-sory council president Wendy Joyce, a pub-lic school parent since 2000, knows well that some teachers have more impact than others on how our children do in school and how they feel about time spent there.

“When I look at all the teachers we’ve encountered over the years, it’s not neces-sarily about who’s got the most experience, but more about who can inspire the kids, who’s engaging and who can make that con-nection with kids,” she says.

Taking time to get to know a student and what makes them tick is also a key ingredi-ent to making a difference, she adds.

She recalls that her son’s Grade 5 teacher took an interest in him and enjoyed reading his writing, but was also aware he had a younger sister. Upon being shown a colour-

ful painting by the Grade 2 sibling, the teacher bought a matte for the work and quietly gave it to the brother, saying the painting would look nice framed.

Fast forward eight years to today. Hav-ing heard her daughter remark how she is

enjoying social studies class for the first time, Joyce gained a glimpse into why, dur-ing a parent-teacher interview.

The teacher told Joyce that he doesn’t focus primarily on marks, but is also con-cerned whether his students are stressed out about school or life in general, or have anxiety about pending exams.

“It showed me that he’s taking a real interest in kids’ well-being,” she says. “They have a lot of time set aside in class to talk about things and debate things, or he talks about his own experiences, to show them he’s also a human being.”

Such a holistic approach seems to get the best out of students, who feel they are spe-cial or that they matter, Joyce says.

John Bird, president of the Victoria Con-federation of PACs, has been around local schools for 26 years and has had six chil-

dren of his own come through the system.In his experience, technology has played

a part in children being more knowledgable when they get to school these days.

“We’re moving from simply giving them information to teaching them how to pro-cess information,” he says.

The best teachers get students excited about learning, he says, instead of trying to make them conform. Bird uses an analogy from his basketball coaching experience.

“We’re coaching kids at a younger age to be more dynamic players than we used to. They know more about the game by the time they (start playing),” he says. “The youngest kids have it already and the best teachers make sure they don’t dampen it.”

Joyce has heard various times from fellow parents over the years how “that teacher just does not get my kid.”

She doubts anyone could go through the entire K-12 with their child and not encoun-tering both types of teacher.

She lights up when talking about running into teachers her children have had in past who ask about them, their unique interests and the direction they appeared to be tak-ing in prior years.

That kind of connection, she says – clearly they were paying close attention to their students at the time – can’t help but have an impact on children down the road.

“That says to them, ‘I’m a special indi-vidual to this person, I’m important,’” Joyce says. “All those things that really make a difference.”

Parents appreciate excellence in teaching Moms and dads see a variety of teaching styles over the years

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The annual University of Victoria Arts MFA Exhibit offers answers about contemporary art. Featuring the work of six graduate students in the master of fine arts program, the exhibit – In Your Eyes – offers an accessible approach to contem-porary art in a wide variety of disci-plines.

“Most artists generally don’t want to confound audiences,” said Paul Walde, visual arts professor and graduate advisor. “They’re trying to convey messages in ways that are comprehensible in some form. But people expect it to work like adver-tising. With advertising, you’re driv-ing by a billboard and you instantly get it, whereas a good work of art will hopefully engage you along the lines of a good novel or a good play.”

In Your Eyes offers six sepa-rate solo exhibits in one, as each graduating student – Megan Dyck, Ethan Lester, Neil McClelland, Kai-tlynn McQueston, Carley Smith and Jeroen Witvliet – has their own space in the Visual Arts building.

“With all the works in this exhibi-tion, there are lots of opportunities for people to bring their own expe-riences and histories to bear upon the things they’re seeing,” Walde said. “Most artists would agree that whatever you walk away with and whatever experiences you have, all are valid interpretations of the art.”

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St. Luke’s Play-ers bring Prepare to Meet Thy Tomb to the church hall stage in late May.

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