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When drinking and driving hits the walletReporter Kyle Slavin looks at the costs that come with the immediate roadside prohibition program. See the story on A3.

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Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie holds an approved screening device, used to test breath alcohol concentration on drivers suspected of being drunk. Drivers who blow over the legal limit can avoid a criminal charge with an immediate roadside prohibition, but face steep financial penalties for driver education, the ignition interlock and reactivating their licence.

Kyle SlavinNews staff

The Capital Regional District is warning park users at Beaver and Elk lakes to keep their pets out of the water after pockets of blue-green algae have popped up along the shore.

The CRD confirmed the presence of the toxic algae last Friday morning.

Larisa Hutcheson, the CRD’s acting gen-eral manager for parks and community ser-vices, said signs notifying users of the algae will be posted around the park.

Blooms of blue-green algae, also known as pond scum, appeared on Elk Lake in winter 2009 and 2011. According to Health Canada, blue-green algae usually forms in “shallow, warm, slow-moving or still water.”

Human health concerns regarding

ingested blue-green algae include head-aches, fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nau-sea and vomiting.

Health Canada says animals can get extremely sick or die, as a result of ingesting blue-green algae.

For the most up-to-date water quality advisories for CRD lakes, visit crd.bc.ca/parks/index.htm.

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Toxic algae found at Beaver Lake

Edward HillNews staff

B.C. Hydro has targeted Uptown for a fast-charging electric vehicle station, which is part of an emerging network of stations between Califor-nia and Whistler.

The direct current fast-charger can “fuel up” an electric vehicle (EV) bat-tery in less than an hour. It would be the first high-voltage station in the Capital Region and one of the first in Canada. Duncan and Nanaimo are also on B.C. Hydro’s list of 13 Island and Mainland communities desig-nated for fast chargers.

Greater Victoria has a handful of Level 2 EV stations at major down-town hotels, parkades and a few retail outlets, such as Thrifty Foods on Quadra Street.

Those mid-level stations might take four to eight hours to fully recharge a battery, and are typically aimed at those who need their EV topped-up while shopping.

Most of the fast-chargers will be on public land and leased to their respective municipalities, except for the Uptown station. In that case, B.C. Hydro will lease the station to Saan-ich, which in turn will lease the loca-tion from Uptown.

Alec Tsang, the senior technology strategist with B.C. Hydro, said loca-tions were selected for their high vis-ibility and heavy traffic load. While fast-chargers are now widespread in the U.S., these will be the first batch available for the public in Canada, he said.

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beer of the night – has come and gone. Was that your third or fourth drink?

You walk to your car and try to gauge your vertigo with each step. You’re off-kilter, but not too much. “I’m alright to drive,” you tell your-self.

As you crest the hill on Douglas Street you’re met with the flash-ing red and blue lights of a police checkpoint. This is when you start to panic, only now regretting your decision to drink and drive.

“Good evening. Have you consumed any alcohol in the previous six hours?” the offi-cer says.

It doesn’t matter what you say. The offi-cer smells the alcohol on your breath the moment you answer. You’re instructed to pull over and get out of your car.

Your heart races as you watch the officer affix a fresh mouthpiece to the handheld Alco-Sensor device; you know full well you shouldn’t have tried driving home.

You take a deep breath in and let a long, steady stream of air out of your mouth and into the intoximeter. “Fail” appears on the device’s digital screen. Tonight, your breath alcohol concentration is found to be at least 0.1 per cent. (The Criminal Code blood alcohol content – BAC – is .08 per cent.)

The officer offers, and you accept, to issue a second breath test on a different device. Once again, you fail. Based on the “fail” reading, he issues you a 90-day imme-diate roadside prohibition (IRP).

Starting now, your driver’s licence is revoked for 90 days, and your car is impounded for 30. You’re also now man-dated to participate in the responsible driver education program and have an igni-tion interlock device installed (and moni-tored) for 12 months on any vehicle you drive.

The IRP program was implemented in B.C. in September 2010 by the Superinten-dent of Motor Vehicles to tighten the prov-ince’s drunk driving laws.

The IRP program gives law enforcement officials an administrative option to deal with drunk drivers, rather than charging someone with impaired driving under the Criminal Code.

“This was all about saving lives and pre-venting injuries. That’s what the program’s focus was and what it continues to be,” said Steve Martin, B.C.’s Superintendent of Motor Vehicles. “We wanted (a program) that would provide enough disincentive to drivers to have an impact on their behav-iour.”

These disincentives, he says, come in the form of immediate, remedial and

financial penalties. From tow-ing away your car to having an interlock device, each penalty comes at a steep cost.

Add on the administrative sanctions and the fees to get your licence back, and even a first-time offender will be out-of-pocket at least $4,040. Driv-ers with multiple infractions on their licence would also face increased insurance premiums from ICBC.

“There’s a high percentage of B.C. drivers that are aware of these sanc-tions, and I think the behavioural change that we’re seeing further backs that up,” Martin said. “We’re seeing sustained fatal-ity reductions in the 45-per-cent-plus range. And that’s just unprecedented. That’s not been achieved in the period of time any-where in the world that I know of.”

While a minimum $4,040 in disincentives may seem harsh, Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie puts that number in perspective.

“Consider if they had received a Crimi-nal Code impaired driving charge and are found guilty. That comes with a fine, a min-imum one-year driving prohibition, there’s lawyer fees and now they have a criminal record for life,” he said.

Additionally, convicted impaired drivers can be ordered to participate in and pay for one or both the responsible driver pro-gram and ignition interlock program, and could also face jail time.

“The administrative IRP program seems pretty punitive, but it’s not when you com-pare it to the repercussions it could have on the individual if they went through the court system,” Eassie said.

IRP system saves time, saves money

One of the most noticeable benefits of the IRP program for police is that it saves time.

“Before IRP, cops just didn’t have the time to properly process impaired drivers – one impaired driver would take an offi-cer off the street for four hours on a busy shift,” Martin said.

“So with the IRP tool, police can pro-cess drivers efficiently at the roadside and not have to go back to the police station for hours on end. Therefore they’re actu-ally able to be out on the street and touch more impaired drivers.”

Statistics show law enforcement offi-cials in B.C. are taking full advantage of the streamlined program.

Between September 2010 and Novem-ber 2012, officers handed out 40,034 IRPs in B.C. More than half of those (22,164)

were as a result of “fail” readings. (There are also shorter, less punitive IRPs issued for having a breath alcohol concentration between .06 and .099 per cent, known as the “warn” range.)

The number of impaired driving cases to go through B.C.’s court system dropped from 7,225 in 2010 to 6,691 in 2011. Between January and November 2012, just 3,898 impaired driving cases went to court.

“The immediate roadside prohibition program has seen a reduction in the num-ber of drinking and driving cases going to court,” said a spokesperson from the Min-istry of Justice, on behalf of B.C.’s Criminal Justice Branch.

“While it will take time for the program’s full effects to be known, considering the number of concluded impaired driving court cases over the last three years does give some indication that the overall num-ber of cases is dropping.”

The cost of the interlock program starts at $1,730 for the year, while the responsible driver program – which consists of either one eight-hour educational session or 16 hours of group counselling – costs $880.

Martin says the IRP program is essen-tially cost-neutral for the province. For each “fail” reading, the province receives $750 in administrative penalties and licens-ing fees, and $150 to monitor the interlock program – all of which is used to cover the cost of keeping the program staffed and operational.

Under the IRP program, roadside screen-ing devices are set to err on the side of the driver, not the police. (The device’s “warn” range activates at .06 per cent, as opposed to the legislation’s imposed .05 per cent. The “fail” range activates at 0.1 per cent, as

opposed to .08 per cent.)“Say they blow .08 on a breath screening

device, their blood alcohol is 10 to 20 per cent higher than that,” Martin said. “We’re giving drivers a real significant cushion because the breath alcohol gives a lower reading than the actual blood alcohol would be.”

As you stand in the chilly January air – now car-less and unlicensed – your mind wanders to a moment some 30 minutes ago – even before you made the poor deci-sion the get behind the wheel. You think back to settling up with the bartender. Few people would imagine a $40 tab for the night would turn into a $4,000 bill.

“One does not have the right to drive, nor drink. If planning on doing one, leave out the other,” said Saanich police Const. Matt Cawsey, who spent five years on Saanich’s traffic safety unit. “We realize alternative transport can be inconvenient or limited in certain areas, but (drinking and driving) is just not worth it.”

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Cost of drinking and drivingFail - blood alcohol content (BAC) above 0.1 per cent, or for refusing to provide a breath sample)

$4,040 and 90-day IRP

Warn - BAC between .06 and .099 per cent

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The night out

Province makes drinking and driving prohibitively expensive and inconvenient – and outside the criminal justice system – in a bid to change driver behaviour

Photo illustration by Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Saanich News reporter Kyle Slavin is tested for breath alcohol concentration with an approved screening device. A 90-day immediate roadside prohibition (IRP) will cost drinking drivers a minimum of $4,040.

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B.C. Hydro has a March 31 dead-line to have the chargers installed and operating.

Rules for recouping costs for EV charging has evolved over the past year. B.C. Hydro previously asserted that as the primary power utility in B.C., it was the only entity that could legally sell electricity.

Tsang said the Crown corporation dug into the details of its regulatory regime and found that municipalities are exempt – they can provide and sell electricity without being a regis-tered utility.

Mark Boysen, the sustainability co-ordinator for Saanich, estimates the fee to fully fuel a EV battery on a fast charger will be about $4 or $5. Uptown plans to install the charger in the underground parking lot clos-est to Wal-Mart.

This may be the year where EV charging stations take root across Greater Victoria. Colwood has four Level 2 charges within its borders and six more due this year. Victoria has a few public charging stations in city parkades, with a plan for seven total.

Saanich plans to install six Level 2 charging stations by March 31 – at each of its recreation centres, at the Cedar Hill Golf Course and the municipal hall. Those will be avail-able for free.

B.C. Hydro is allocating $100,000 for each of the 13 fast-chargers, drawn from the $14.3 million provin-cial Clean Energy Vehicle Program. Those stations will be B.C.’s input to a series of stations along the High-way 99-I5 corridor from California to Whistler, optimistically dubbed the “West Coast Green Highway.”

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Saanich police are warning people to be wary of handing over money at your doorstep to anyone claiming to be collecting for charity.

Police arrested a man on Friday for fraudulently collecting money by claiming to represent the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

A homeowner called police to the 700-block of Claremont Ave. around noon after he heard “some loud pounding at his front door.”

“When he opened the door a sus-picious man claimed to be canvass-ing for the Heart and Stroke Foun-dation,” Staff Sgt. Scott Treble said in a release. The homeowner denied

the request for donation, and called police. The suspicious man rode away on a bike.

Police later learned from neigh-bours that this man had gone door-to-door in the area, and had been given small amounts of money.

Officers spotted the man biking along the shoulder of the Pat Bay Highway and directed him to pull over. He flipped the cops his middle finger and attempted to flee.

Police arrested him a short time later on Cherry Tree Bend. The 32-year-old suspect will appear in court in March.

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A greenhouse destroyed in a fire two years ago at the Horti-culture Centre of the Pacific will rise again as the centerpiece Mel Couvelier Pavilion.

The single-storey, $1.5-million building is set to break ground on Friday after members of the non-profit garden and horticul-ture college voted to finance construction with a mortgage.

The pavilion is expected to give the 105-acre garden a con-stant stream of revenue through rentals from weddings and cor-

porate meetings, fed from the nearby Vancouver Island Tech-nology Park.

“This is intended to be the core income centre for the soci-ety,” said Roger Charles, execu-tive director of the HCP. “After two years of sweating and hair pulling, we are thrilled to be in this position.”

What is now a large, fenced concrete slab held a large green-house, which burned in a spec-tacular fire on Feb. 16, 2011. Called the Glass House and donated by Saanich 33 years ago, it acted as a picturesque, although imperfect wedding venue.

“It wasn’t useful in the winter or the heat of the summer. You either baked or froze,” Charles remarked. “This (new) building will provide a very nice location

for weddings, corporate meet-ings and social events.”

At what Charles reckoned was the best-attended society meeting in the HCP’s 35-year history, members overwhelm-ingly supported a plan to bor-row $750,000 from VanCity. The remainder of the construction budget comes from insurance, a $250,000 loan from Saanich, and more than $300,000 from fundraising.

The timber-framed pavilion is planned as 3,000 square feet, with large south-facing windows and a “green” roof. Construction is expect to last eight months.

The HCP’s business case esti-mates the pavilion will bring in about $225,000 per year and leave the society with a healthy income, while paying down the mortgage and repaying Saanich.

“We tend to be booked all sum-mer for weddings. That was an important revenue source before the fire,” Charles noted. “It’s neces-sary to replace what was lost with a long-term, reliable income stream. (The pavilion) would be a substan-tial improvement. With a 365-day operation, we’d get revenue even over Christmas.”

HCP is dedicating the pavilion to former Saanich mayor Mel Cou-velier, who was instrumental in establishing the HCP society in 1979, securing Crown land, and then building the gardens in the 1980s. Couvelier worked to fundraise for the pavilion project up to the week

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“We wouldn’t have the centre without (Couvelier),” Charles said. “In honour of his enormous contri-bution, naming it after him is the right thing for us to do.”

The ground-breaking ceremony is Jan. 25, 10 a.m. at 505 Quayle Rd. and is open to the public.

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Roger Charles, executive director of the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific, stands in front of where the centre’s greehouse building burned down nearly two years ago, and where the Mel Couvelier Pavilion will be built this year. Members of the non-profit society voted to take on a mortgage to help finance construction.

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The news was trumpeted with alarm here on Vancouver Island, which along with

the Gulf Islands is the heartland of tinfoil-hat opposition to smart meters.

Of the 140,000 power customers who didn’t have a wireless meter by the end of the year, many have simply refused. Now B.C. Hydro has sent letters informing them “we can no longer delay the installation of a new meter at your home.”

“StopSmartMetersBC” sent out a panicky e-mail advising its resistance movement to brace against “storm trooper tactics” from B.C. Hydro staff, and urging phone and fax attacks on their MLA office.

“Anger and outrage should be expressed, in a quiet way, so that we don’t sound hysterical, but people are being threatened, police called, etc.,” the anonymous e-mail helpfully suggests.

B.C. Hydro has also confirmed what I told you a few months ago. Those bogus locks, chicken wire cages and important-looking signs, which were sold like modern-day snake oil, have no legal effect to prevent the utility from working on its own equipment. These obstacles to inspection have been and continue to be removed, along with dangerous grow-op bypasses and fiddled mechanical meters.

The technical arguments against wireless meters have been demolished. False news reports and

website claims still circulate, but no fires have been attributed to the installation of 1.7 million wireless

meters in B.C. About 1,200 faulty meter bases have also been replaced at B.C. Hydro’s expense, and as crude power-theft bypasses have been removed, the incidence of electrical fires, already rare, has dropped substantially.

Another popular myth is increased electricity bills. Yes, if your bypass is removed, your bill will go up. Like gas pumps,

power meters are required by federal law to be accurate.

Which brings us back to Team Tinfoil, which has been sold a cascading series of fantastic tales about the effect of wireless signals that are already ever-present in all modern communities.

A Toronto-based expert group called Bad Science Watch has tackled claims of “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” head-on. I highly recommend their 10-page report and qualifications at badsciencewatch.ca.

In plain language, with references to the best available scientific studies, it describes the double-blind tests that prove people who claim this sensitivity are not actually able to detect when they are or are not being exposed to wireless signals. No X-Men candidates have come forward.

It also exposes key “activists” in Canada. The most prominent

is Dr. Magda Havas, an associate professor at Trent University who has “developed a career denouncing the safety of low-frequency electromagnetic radiation.” She gives speeches, promotes her book and has worked with one David Stetzer to promote an “EMF filter” to sell to those who insist they feel what science shows they don’t.

Havas has appeared on TV “news” shows with “activist-entrepreneur” Kevin Byrne. His website appears to be a hub of cell tower and smart meter scare reports, but it’s interspersed with product pitches for EMF Solutions Canada, of which Byrne is coincidentally president.

Then there’s “entrepreneur-activist” Rob Metzinger, president of something called Safe Living Technologies Inc. He doesn’t run a lurid scare website, but he’s appeared on CBC and CTV as some sort of authority. (The main hazard emanating from TVs these days is bad information.)

As the election approaches, a fight is gearing up between the NDP and the B.C. Green Party for the ignorant, superstitious and angry vote. The Greens in particular have damaged their credibility in a desperate bid to quiet their own tinfoil-chapeau wing.

There are bozo eruptions ahead. I’ll have more on that in a future column.

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

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Sizeable costs to mental illnessThe scaling back of mental patient

facilities at Riverview in Vancouver and, to a certain degree, Eric Martin

Pavilion in Victoria decades ago, offered hope for hundreds of people who were previously expected to live out their lives away from the public eye.

When we hear of cases where individuals battling mental illness are involved in serious

attacks on others and even murder, we wonder, even if only for a few moments, whether such an experiment has proven successful.

The cases of the young Sooke man charged with murdering his mother, after numerous previous incidents of violence; and the Victoria man on trial for stabbing an innocent boy at a bus stop, after seeing in the boy’s face someone he believed was in a gang that was trying to kill him, are examples of people falling through the cracks.

We don’t advocate a return to the days of institutionalizing people with mental disabilities simply because they can’t function at a high enough level to live on their own.

But for people who demonstrate the inability to function safely in society in relation to others, there needs to be an alternative to being hospitalized or locked up in prison. That option needs to be available early for families who can no longer care for the person, often due to the fact that the individual is an adult.

The long-term effects and costs, both financial and human, of removing the institutional option from our health-care system surely outweigh the cost of operating such facilities for those who need it.

Whether there will ever be the political will to change the system, to create a broader spectrum of care for those battling mental illness, remains to be seen.

We hope the province looks seriously at this option to give everyone a chance to live a healthier life.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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LETTERSB.C. liquor laws doing their job to save lives

Re: Booze laws encourage drinking (Let-ters, Jan. 18)

Letter writer Eileen Nattrass implies peo-ple aren’t concerned about drunk drivers, the drinking laws in B.C. are too lax, peo-ple’s lives don’t count, and she concludes, “change is needed now.”

Many people are concerned about drunk drivers, beginning with the very visible campaigns run by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

According to ICBC, two years after the B.C. Liberals introduced Canada’s tough-est provincial impaired driving law, an estimated 104 lives have been saved and impaired driving has dropped significantly.

In response to Ms. Nattrass’s questions:1) According to Statistics Canada, B.C.

ranks fifth amongst provinces/territories in alcohol consumption per capita, thus British Columbians drink more than some Canadians and less than others.

2) Last call for serving alcohol in B.C. is generally 2 a.m., however municipalities can lower last call down to midnight or raise it up to 4 a.m. if they so choose, thus,

it is not the Liberal government to blame for closing times as late as 4 a.m. Further-more, most other provinces have 2 a.m. closing times or later.

3) A quick search on the Internet shows many provinces allow liquor to be served in theatres and sporting events.

4) Currently, in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, restaurants can serve wine that customers bring in themselves.

Ms. Nattrass states that “drinking laws need to be tougher” which harkens back to the era of prohibition, and we all know how that turned out.

The revenue from liquor taxation con-tributes to the enforcement of B.C.’s stiff laws that discourage drinking and driving.

In summary, some people do care about drunk drivers, B.C.’s drinking laws are not lax relative to other jurisdictions and peo-ple’s lives do count.

Robert WatersSaanich

Gov’t responsible for helping poor

Re: Taking aim at poverty, at the local scale (News, Jan. 16)

I commend the generosity, love and com-mitment of these good citizens and their humanitarian endeavour. However, I feel that individual charity cannot be a substi-tute for just social policies.

Our governments have a responsibility to implements laws to look after our citi-zens. It is an incongruence that our coun-try can engage and fund aggressive (and expensive) military adventures abroad, but cannot feed or shelter its own citizens, repair our decaying infrastructure, look after the sick and the elderly, protect our educational system or care for the environ-ment due to lack of funds.

In Canada, three quarters of a million of our compatriots use food banks to eat, one-fifth of them are working poor, often employed by the same employers who only at Christmastime piously discover that the poor require clothing, food and shelter.

The right to eat is a fundamental right closely associated with the right to live, but not recognized in Canada. We allow the irrational and anarchic free market to decide who eats and who doesn’t; who lives and who dies.

Frankly, I detest campaigns that keep blaming “fortune,” “luck” or “destiny” as the cause of hunger, poverty and home-

lessness. The culprit has a name: an extremely unequal economic system con-trolled by an ever smaller affluent elite.

I always remember Dom Helder Camara, former Bishop of Recife, Brazil: “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.”

Carlos Flores Sr.Saanich

Prison sentences don’t reflect value of life

Re: Two years in prison for Saanich man who stole 148 guns (News, Jan. 18)

After reading this article I have an answer to my question of what a human life is worth.

Lucky Jhagra was found guilty of stealing $270,000 worth of guns. For that he gets sentenced to two years in prison.

Tracy Smith, after she mowed down Mahenthiran Janarthan on his motorcycle, killing him with her car, gets sentenced to one day in jail.

Doing the math using these figures, a human life is worth just under $370. Wow.

Kevin PuddySaanich

Be aware of what you wear

Have you ever wondered about your clothes? Where are they made? Who made them? As a teenager, I asked myself these questions and decided to find out.

My clothes are mostly made offshore, roughly 95 per cent. The country that produced the most was China.

A basic Chinese textile worker works 17 hours a day, six days a week. The working conditions inside a Chinese tex-tile factory are poor.

Workers face constant discrimination, forced overtime, go months without pay, and when they lose their job, they don’t receive pension or severance pay. They are given no safety training for their job.

Workers work in very dark, damp, and very hot workplaces. Around one mil-lion workers are injured at work every year. There are frequent accidents like fires, where there are instances of people dying because the doors were closed to prevent people from escaping with clothes.

Cotton is the most common material in my clothes. It takes roughly 20,000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of cotton, equivalent to a T-shirt. Pesti-

cides and insecticides run off into local ecosystems. Polyester is the second most common material and is the least environmentally friendly material.

Polyester is a synthetic material, a by-product of petroleum, created by heating and producing chemicals. China, where 53 per cent of the world’s polyester is made, uses coal to produce electricity.

As a concerned teenager, I would hap-pily pay more for my clothes that are environmentally and people friendly.

Grey HillSaanich

Why amalgamate police when RCMP will do

Re: Victoria police chief pushes for regional force (News, Jan. 16)

The new approach, according to the Victoria police chief and the police union, refuses to see the reality – their option is just too costly.

When the plea went out, it seemed a dark art conjured from Victoria’s politi-cal cauldron, the default tactic of this city’s police boss.

The message rang more prosaic than amusing. “Amalgamate,” Jamie Graham mused. It’s like a furniture store or some-thing.

It’s the latest twist in a story of ram-pant intrigue, including turmoil in police management and city debt, often accom-panied by competing (sometimes per-sonal) agendas.

The impact on the old-fashioned busi-ness as usual, not to mention those who undertake it, has been devastating.

The transition to the RCMP will be less bumpy but rest assured, the promise to ensure that the police service will not diminish, rather will thrive, and we have everything to gain, specifically some $22 million a year. Now there’s a selling point that requires no plea.

Lisa PerryVictoria

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Saanich police are hopeful the arrest of a well-known offender Friday morning will put to rest the recent rash of vehicle break-ins.

An officer spotted the man around 9 a.m. on Glasgow Avenue near Quadra Street car-rying a hockey bag. He was arrested for an unrelated breach offence.

The hockey bag, however, had been sto-len from a truck parked a block away over-night. The man was also in possession of a men’s coat, stolen overnight from a parked car nearby.

The man was also in possession of crys-tal meth, weigh scales and several phones.

Saanich police say this area of Quadra Street is one of the locations that’s been hit hard by a recent spike in thefts from autos. Police last week said there were 62 reports of vehicle break-ins in Saanich in the first two weeks of January.

The 35-year-old arrested Friday morning will appear in court in March.

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Saanich police nab known offender for vehicle break-ins

Kyle SlavinNews staff

The driver of a 2012 Toyota RAV4 that flipped over in a three-car crash Thursday night is lucky to have escaped without serious injury.

The 46-year-old woman behind the wheel of the SUV stopped at the

stop sign at the intersec-tion of Henderson and Lansdowne roads. She continued driving and entered the intersection, but drove directly into the path of a westbound Toyota Camry.

That collision caused the RAV4 to flip onto its side and slide into a third vehicle, a Nissan that was

stopped at the adjacent stop sign.The driver of the SUV was

trapped in the overturned vehicle for 30 minutes before emergency crews were able to free her. Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

“In talking to the investigators, it is very fortunate that the injuries weren’t far worse than what they

were,” said Oak Bay’s deputy police chief, Kent Thom.

Traffic analysts from the Saanich police department were called in to investigate the crash.

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The social gathering, aimed not only at advertising and marketing professionals, but students and the general public, gets underway at 7 p.m. at BMW Victoria, 95 Esquimalt Rd. Central to the event is a two-hour screening of the annual Cannes Lions Reel.

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Surrey-based Mainroad Group has added the former Saanich Peninsula Rentals to its stable of traffic management services. The latter, in business on the South Island since 2004, has moved its base from Sidney to Langford and become SPR Traffic Services.

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College members, of which there are just 84, are selected for their exceptional contributions to the profession and their communities … Chris Fudge has taken on

the job of executive director of the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce.

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Satnam S. Basi has been named the manager of retail banking for Canadian Western Bank Group’s Victoria branch at 1201 Douglas St.

He has 34 years’ experience in banking and is a long-time resident of Oak Bay … James Fry has been hired as the new director of sales and marketing at the Hotel Grand Pacific. Fry, who starts Jan. 28, had previous stops at the Vancouver Airport Marriott and the Delta Burnaby Hotel and Conference Centre

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Now that B.C. Transit and the union representing its workers have hammered out a deal, regular bus service may still be disrupted for weeks due to a backlog of mechanical work.

About 50 buses are lined up for repairs, thanks to the months-long strike action that included an overtime ban.

“We expect it’s going to take not a few days, but more along the lines of a few weeks before you see the system return to normal,” said Ben Williams, president of the driver’s union, CAW local 333.

The two-year tentative deal struck last Wednesday immediately ends job action, including the one-day strike that had been planned for this week.

Union members and the transit board will ratify the agreement in the coming days. Employees will see a two per cent pay increase retroac-tive to April 2012, and another two per cent increase in 2013.

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“Nobody will give you that assurance that something will never happen, it’s only for the term of the con-tract,” Williams said.

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The union wants to be part of any decision to bring in Vicinity buses in the

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“I’d imagine we’d be back at the table next January,” he said. While typical con-tracts last three years, the net-zero man-date brought forward by the province required only a two-year agreement.

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For Chris Ho it is about connection. Despite the title of his newly released,

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“(Chris) balances a very artistic, true, unapologetic creative voice and a really cut-to-the-chase strong pop sound simultaneously,” said album co-producer Sam Weber. “It was (about) the tunes. … Making a record where we really didn’t want to compromise anything from a creative means.”

Weber, a fellow solo artist and member of local band River, met Ho only a year ago but made an instant bond with the young songwriter before coming on as a recording engineer for Ho’s first full-length album. One year later, he is proud and excited not only for the album release, but for audiences to enjoy a precision and honesty that shines both on the stage and in the studio.

“If you go to a live show without knowing the tunes, a (musician) has a long way to go to win you over,” Weber said. “But Chris is able to. (He) makes everyone feel comfortable on an artistic level

and an entertaining level. It is without compromise, it is not cheap. He can really grab your attention and maintain it.”

Despite recent success, his rise through the ranks has been a methodical one. Sparked with home recordings shared

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in Toronto, he defers credit to the songs, rather than himself.

“I think what stands out is that music becomes something that is bigger than yourself,” Ho said. “It very much comes out of an unconscious process where you are suddenly compelled to write a song and you don’t know what it is going to be about. You almost discover a song rather than write it.”

It may be that selflessness that helps audiences connect with the University of Victoria graduate who feels solace in finally having his 12-song album out there, out of his system and open for interpretation.

“There is a strong feeling of relief because it does feel like you are getting something off your chest a little. … It is kind of like keeping an emotion bottled up. The release of the album (is) the moment you release,” the Saanich resident said. “It is basically (about) having the ability to share a part of yourself. (People) hear it and say your album really helped me get through this. … Or it came at a perfect time in my life because I was going through something similar. It is the magic of how everyone can interpret a song differently and have that be relatable.”

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Help bury D.O.A.Legendary Vancouver punk band

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only remaining founding member of the band, Joe Keithley is seeking the New Democratic Party nomination in Coquitlam, B.C.

Make a date with history and catch D.O.A’s farewell tour at Club 9ONE9, 919 Douglas St., Sunday Jan. 27.

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According to author Van Clayton Powel, you are not what you eat, rather how.

Powel will be in Victoria this week to discuss the theory behind his book You Are NOT What You Eat: How Diges-tive Problems Might be Making You Sick at both the Emily Carr and Central branches of the Victoria Public Library.

It is impossible to be healthy without proper digestion – no matter how nutritious your diet, says Powel.

According to his research, many of us are not digesting very well.

“Looking at what you eat and good nutrition is only half the equation,” says Powel.

He says we also need to follow eating habits that enable the body to absorb and utilize nutrients properly.

The Whistler-based author is a former nurse who special-ized in addictions treatment and emergency psychiatric assess-ments.

He also spent years in Asia training in traditional medical sys-tems, martial arts, yoga and meditation.

Inspired by his own battle with chronic digestive problems, Powel was surprised to find the solution not in what he ate, but in how he ate – an approach used successfully in Asia for thousands of years, yet fits in perfectly with the latest medical science.

“We keep blaming foods for our digestive problems, wheat, dairy, gluten, meat, etc.,” says Powel. “I’m convinced a huge part of the equation is not the food, but our damaged and ineffective digestive systems. In my case, my digestive problems were so bad I thought I was going to have to survive on a diet of white rice and a few steamed vegetables for the rest of my life. Today I can eat anything I want without a problem, and all my symp-toms have disappeared.”

This program will be presented at the Emily Carr branch on Thursday, Jan. 24, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and at the Central branch on Saturday, Jan. 26, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

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Crimson Tide a new pathway for national rugby playersTravis PatersonNews staff

Assuming his career as an up-and-coming rugby player continues to move forward, Shea Wakefield will have to say goodbye to his career as a lacrosse player.

The Western Lacrosse Association holds its annual entry draft in a few weeks but Wakefield, who could possibly go as a late-round pick, is hoping he’ll be too busy playing rugby to com-mit.

He hopes to be playing rugby during the WLA sea-son this summer, or next, in the Canadian Rugby Cham-pionship.

“In which case, I don’t think a WLA team will be happy with me coming and going,” Wakefield said. “It’s not like I’m a first-rounder, so I’d have to work really hard just to make it (in the WLA).”

Wakefield’s path to pro-vincial rugby starts this Sat-urday as the Oak Bay athlete be among 66 players wear-ing a Crimson Tide jersey when the Tide host the Van-couver Wave.

Westhills Stadium, the home of Rugby Canada, will host the triple header, with the senior women starting the day at 11:30 a.m., fol-lowed by the under-20 men at 1:15 and the senior men at 3 p.m.

“This is a chance for any-one not already on Rugby

Canada’s radar to get noticed and for those guys in and out of the loop, too,” Wakefield said.

He would know. The 21-year-old forward, usu-ally in the second row of the scrum, is in his second year with the Vikes.

Wakefield hasn’t worn the maple leaf but he trains three times a week with the national team’s development roster. And the path ahead of him is clear, starting with a good performance in the Tide’s two upcoming games. The next one is a road game Feb. 2 against the Fraser Val-ley Venom.

Ideally, playing for the Tide will help players get noticed for the B.C. Bears or Pacific Tyees, whichever provincial team happens to be playing in the CRC this summer.

The Tide will draw from the Island’s premier teams – Castaway Wanderers, James Bay and UVic Vikes – as well as players from first divi-sion sides Velox, Cowichan, Nanaimo and Port Alberni.

Standing out amongst the team of all-stars won’t be easy. There will be less structure than that of a Vikes game in the Canadian Direct

Insurance Premier League, where Wakefield plays.

“It is a (veritable all-star) team but for now it should compare to a premier game because we’ve been together for a lot less time,” Wakefield said. “With only three prac-tices, it will be a lot less pol-ished.”

Without the chemistry and structure of a club team, defensive breakdowns are to be expected.

In that case, Wakefield sees personal athleticism as the way to get noticed. That might come as good news to the speedy backs, such Vikes “flier” Luke McClos-key, a St. Michaels Univer-sity School grad, as they’ll be hoping to use Westhills artificial turf to turn defend-ers inside out.

“If we don’t have the pat-terns, we’ll be looking for guys to create stuff on their own. Players will have to work with what’s in front of them and not have it as scripted.”

Watching from the side-lines will be Tide manager Hans de Goede, who played for the team from 1972 to 1987, and was captain 25 times.

This time around, card carrying members of the national team are not permitted to play in the McKechnie Cup. But it was different for de Goede.

“Back then if you played for Canada you were expected to represent at all levels. I played for my club (James Bay), B.C., and the Crimson Tide. If a higher level team was playing, it took precedent.”

According to the B.C. Rugby Union, the McKech-

nie Cup was last awarded to the Fraser Valley Venom in 2004. The Tide won it in 2003 and before that, the Pacific Pride under-23 team, which took part for a few years.BCRU also states the McK-echnie Cup, named for an Island doctor who became Chancellor of UBC from 1918 to 1944, was first awarded in 1895, which is believed to be

the birth year of the Crim-son Tide. The women’s Tide play for the Ruth Hellerud-Brown Cup, with national team selectors keen on find-ing new players. The U20 men will play for The Dun-bar Keg with hopes of being selected for Canada’s entry to the Junior World Rugby Trophy.

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Evan Cambridge and Jack Nyren of Oak Bay’s Castaway Wanderers, and Chris Miles of Saanich’s Velox, have been named to the B.C. sevens teams going to the 2013 Las Vegas Invitational Sevens in February.

Las Vegas is North America’s largest invi-tational youth sev-ens tournament and B.C. is the defending champions. The team is run by Victoria-based coach Shane Thompson as a path-way to identify and develop young ath-letes for future Rugby World Cups and Olym-pic Games.

Rams perfect at Towhee tourney

The Mount Douglas Rams won all three games at the senior boys Towhee Tourna-ment in Comox on Fri-day and Saturday.

The Rams defeated Sentinel 76-66, Wel-lington 74-69 and host G.P. Vanier 68-61.

Thursday night AAA basketball

Reynolds Roadrun-ners host the Oak Bay Bays in girls AAA high school basketball league play Thursday (Jan. 24) at 5:45 p.m. Stelly’s visit Claremont at 5:45 while Bel-mont’s boys and girls teams visit Spectrum, 5:45 and 7:30 p.m.

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Oak Bay’s Shea Wakefield, a former junior Victoria Shamrocks player, will likely give up lacrosse in his pursuit to play rugby for Canada. Wakefield will play for the Crimson Tide on Saturday.

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Grizzlies defender Nolan de Jong carries the puck around Vernon Viper Liam Board during the Grizz’ 1-0 win Sunday at Bear Mountain Arena. Sharon TiffinNews Staff

Grizz bear through Capitals, Vipers Grizzlies pull off wins despite suspensions and mixed up lines

Travis PatersonNews staff

A “mish mash” lineup isn’t slowing the Victoria Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies were without six of their regulars, all suspended, in Wednesday’s 5-4 loss to the Alberni Bulldogs. But the Grizz bounced back with a 4-2 win over the Cow-ichan Capitals on Friday and sur-vived a gritty 1-0 win over the Ver-non Vipers in a matinee on Sunday at Bear Mountain Arena.

“We played really hard in Alberni, we were without six regulars and had some bounces that didn’t go our way, but rebounded on Friday (against Cowichan) and another big win (Sun-day),” coach Bill Best-wick said.

Bestwick did his best to roll four lines through the first two periods but moved to a double shift of the Fitzgerald triplets for a good portion of the third period. It resulted in the win-ning goal.

Myles Fitzgerald surprised Vipers goalie Austin Smith with a quick shot for the game winner nine minutes into the third period. Smith stopped 37 shots otherwise and was named the games second star behind Michael Stiliadis, who was named the first star for his 23-save shutout.

“I’ve been playing (the Fitzgeralds) more in the third period over last two weeks,” Bestwick said. “I’m a four-line guy. I want to get all four lines engage, but the Fitzgerald don’t get all that tired.”

Most recently the Fitzgeralds have chipped in killing penalties, though Bestwick would prefer to use them on the powerplay and at even strength.

Despite their size, Bestwick says the triplets are deceivingly good at wearing down the opposition in a way that’s different from the hard-hit-ting ways of players such as Mazurek and converted defenceman Chris Albertini.

“Puck possession is important and (the Fitzgeralds) making the defend-ers turn in their end and retrieve pucks. (The Fitzgeralds) are as good as anybody because you can’t take chances and be too risky with them or they’ll eat you alive. So they’re a tough line to play, a line I feel com-fortable using in any situation.”

Blake Thompson and Pearce Evis-ton, two of the six Grizzlies to receive suspensions from Jan. 12 game inci-dents against the Chilliwack Chiefs, served their one game versus Alberni and were back with the team on Fri-day. Stefan Nicholishen was also sus-pended for just one game but has not returned and is day-to-day with an injury.

It’s meant a different look to the Grizzlies, who had recently come to rely heavily on the second line of

Turner Lawson, David Mazurek and Nikolishen.

“They were our best line, a go-to line for us and have been real good,” Bestwick said. Eviston, a trade dead-line acquisition, has partnered up with Myles Powell and Mark McLel-lan, though all lines other than the Fitzgeralds are subject to change until the multitude of suspensions from the Jan. 12 game are finished.

Suspensions still goingThe Grizzlies were hit with 22

games in suspensions for post game fights after the 2-1 win over the Chilli-wack Chiefs at Bear Mountain Arena on Jan. 12.

Three players hit the biggest were Lawson, and newcomers Kade Pil-

ton and Keyler Bruce. Lawson got the most with eight games, three for leaving the bench to fight, two for fighting at the end of the period and two more for leav-ing the bench to pro-voke an incident. Pilton was next with six games for the same incidents while Bruce got five games, three for leav-ing the bench to join the fracas and two for a blow to the head.

A complaint by Chris Albertini from that game is being followed up on by West Shore RCMP. One of the Chilliwack Chiefs coaches allegedly swung a stick at Albertini while the latter was in the hallway between the benches.

Junior B call upsDespite the fact they’re arch rivals

in the VIJHL, Brody Coulter as cap-tain of the Victoria Cougars and Shawn McBride a top line winger on the Saanich Braves, the two make a solid fourth line for the Grizzlies with Dante Hahn.

Coulter and McBride even had a chance to score the game’s first goal with a 2-on-1 in the third period, although the pass didn’t make it through the defender. The two will rejoin the Grizzlies when their respec-tive runs for the Island and provincial junior B championships are over.

“Coulter and McBride are both very good players. All this experi-ence is great for McBride, who’ll be with us next year, and we’d like to have (Coulter) every game but we know he’s on a very good team so we’re fortunate to have him.”

Cougar hits 100 points Last week Coulter

became the first player in Victoria Cougars junior B his-tory to break the cen-tury mark.

Coulter scored three goals as the Cougars defeated the visiting Oceanside Generals 5-2 on Thursday at Archie Browning Sports Centre.

The closest a Cougars player ever came was former Grizzly Mike Ham-mond, who scored 98 points for the Cougars in 2006-07.

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EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

HELP WANTED

CITY OF Yellowknife invites applications from qualifi ed candidates for the following positions: Pumphouse and Liftstation Tradesperson - Public Works Department Competition #902-137 Closes: February 1, 2013. Pumphouse and Liftstation Maintainer - Public Works Department Competition #902-135 Closes: February 1, 2013. Building In-spector II - Planning and De-velopment Department Com-petition #220-125U Closes: February 1, 2013 Submit re-sumes in confi dence by the closing date, to: Human Re-sources Division, City of Yel-lowknife, P.O. Box 580, Yel-lowknife, NT., X1A 2N4; Fax (867) 669-3471 or Email: hr@yellowknife.ca Please di-rect all inquiries to the above listed email address. For more information on these positions, including the required qualifi -cations, please refer to the City of Yellowknife’s web page at: www.yellowknife.ca or con-tact Human Resources at 867-920-5603.

Payroll Clerk required to join our dynamic fast paced environment. Your skill set should include strong or-ganization and time man-agement skills, attention to details, excellent communi-cation skills, computer liter-ate, accounting knowledge, payroll experience is an as-set, must have the ability to work under strict deadlines. Fax resume 250-956-4888 or email kposlowsky@le-mare.ca. Closing date Janu-ary 23, 2013.

SALES

0860005 BC Ltd. in Victoria, Req’s F/T Sales people for Mini Massage & power brace-lets, $13Hr. & a Supervisorwith 1-2 years Exp. $18.50hr.Email: dor1310@gmail.com

TRADES, TECHNICAL

JOURNEYMAN AUTOMO-TIVE Service Technician. Han-na Chrysler Ltd in Hanna, Al-berta needs a few more good people. Busy, modern shop. $25-$31/hour + bonus, bene-fi ts. Great community. Inquire or send resume. Fax 403-854-2845; Email:Chrysler@telusplanet.net

PYRAMID CORPORATION is now hiring! Instrument Techni-cians and Electricians for vari-ous sites across Alberta. Send resume to fax 780-955-HIRE or hr@pyramidcorporation.com

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

DROWNING IN Debt? Helping Canadians 25 years. Lower payments by 30%, or cut debts 70% thru Settlements. Avoid bankruptcy! Free con-sultation. Toll Free 1 877-556-3500 www.mydebtsolution.com

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.

www.pioneerwest.com

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: it’s that simple. Your credit/age/income is not an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

M O N E Y P R OV I D E R . C O M $500 Loan and +. No Credit Refused. Fast, Easy, 100% Secure. 1-877-776-1660.

LEGAL SERVICES

CRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certifi -cation, adoption property ren-tal opportunities. For peace of mind and a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO

RETOUCH, RESTORE, Edit Photos. Portraiture, Baby +Family, Maternity. Home Mo-vies to DVD. 250-475-3332. www.cwpics.com

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

BUILDING SUPPLIES

METAL ROOFING & siding sales. Seconds avail. Custom roof Flashings. 250-544-3106.

FREE ITEMS

free: 84 Architectural Digest (Apr/77-June/98). 21 Interior Design (July/80-March/85). Call 250-595-5365.

FRIENDLY FRANK

BEAUMONT STOVE, works great, $75. Call 250 656-6413.

BLOW DRYER, Conair, inclds attachments, barely used. $5. James Bay. 250-380-8733.

BRAND NEW ladies winter boots, size 10 from Aldo, brown, $50. Small metal dis-play rack, $45. (778)440-6628.

LA-Z-BOY rocker/recliner, green fabric, gently used, re-cently cleaned, $99 obo. Call (250)382-2422.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fi r, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.

BONE DRY fi r, cut 12” long, split and stacked, seasoned, 1 year undercover, $300/cord, kindling $5.00/bundle. 250-642-4790

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

FUEL/FIREWOOD

FIREWOOD Bone dry Doug-las fi r, seasoned, $200/cord. Free del. with 2 cord order. Call 778-679-7687or 250-413-7126

SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest fi re-wood producer offers fi rewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords. Help restore your forest, Burndrywood.com 1-877-902-WOOD.

FURNITURE

2 OCCASIONAL chairs, 1 black w/arms, 1 zebra stripes on white, no arms, $200/each Paid 3 years ago $1200 at Sandy’s. (250)656-1750.bellringer85@yahoo.com for pictures.

BUFFET, solid hard wood, 18”Dx50”Wx79”H, red/ brown tone, Made in Quebec. $155. (250)380-8733.

SOLID OAK dining room suite, buffet and hutch w/3 drawers, 6’ oval table w/ped-estal, 6 chairs, excellent condi-tion. Call (250)475-1588.

GARAGE SALES

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

AT LAST! An iron fi lter that works. IronEater! Fully patent-ed Canada/U.S.A. Removes iron, hardness, smell, manga-nese. Since 1957. Visit our 29 innovative inventions;www.bigirondrilling.comPhone 1-800-BIG-IRON

BIG BUILDING Sale. This is a clearance sale. you don’t want to miss! 20x20 $3,985. 25X24 $4,595. 30X36 $6,859. 35X48 $11,200. 40X52 $13,100. 47X76 $18,265. One End wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca

CHINESE CARPET- 12’x9’. Beautiful condition, dark blue background. $1,400. Water colour paintings by Joyce Mitchell, (from private collec-tion) Canadian artist. Call 250-388-3718.

FOR RESTLESS or cramping legs. A fast acting remedy since 1981, sleep at night, proven for 31 years. Mon-Fri 8-4 EST 1-800-765-8660 or www.allcalm.com

HEAVY DUTY sewing ma-chine, “Artisan 618-1SC”, as new with rolling adjustable ta-ble, light & attachments. $1000 obo. (250)384-2976.

STEEL BUILDINGS/ Metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x 40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x 150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206. www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

MOVING IN 1 week, every-thing must go. Solid wood kitchen table w/ 4 chairs & centre leaf, couch, chairs, misc kitchen stuff, cookware, pictures, microwave. No rea-sonable offer refused. All must go. Call 1(587)297-1961.

NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS- $2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enter-prise Cres, Victoria. Gold-stream Press Division.

SAWMILLS FROM only $3997. Make money and save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info and DVD: 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT www.NorwoodSawmills.com/ 400OT

WASHER AND Dryer (May-tag), Heavy Duty, 1 year old, like new, white, $850. Call (250)629-3102.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-elry. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700

HOUSES FOR SALE

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

408-3170 Irma St- $219,900. 2bdrms, 1 bath, quiet, 45+.More info: (250)385-3547.w w w p r o p e r t y g u y s . c o mID#192291

SPACIOUS SINGLE family N.Nanaimo 3bdrm, 2bath, openfl oor plan, family room. Updat-ed kitch & bath, soaker tub,new roof. Near bus, ammen’s.$280,000. 250-756-3593

HOMES WANTED

WE BUY HOUSESDamaged House?

Pretty House? Moving? Divorcing? Estate Sale?

We will Buy your HouseQuick Cash & Private.Mortgage Too High and

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MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

OTTER POINT Trailer Park.40’ park model trailer (no padfees) 3 slide outs + 30’x52’ lot,fi nished deck & shed in newcondition. Open to offers. Call306-290-8764.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

COOK 1065 BURDETT St- 1 bdrm, $825, 2 bdrms, $1075.New carpet/paint. Inclds hy-dro/cable/heat/prking. NS/NP.Walk to town. (250)386-7791.

OAK BAY Junction: 2-bdrm inquiet, 55+ bldg. $850. Heat,h/w incl. Avail. Feb.1 N/P.Share purchase req’d. 1678Fort St. (250) 595-4593.

SIDNEY CONDO: 55+, 2bdrm, 2 bath, heat, hot waterand basic cable incld. $1200,NS/NP. Call (250)665-6314.

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

LANGFORD: PRIME Re-tail/Commercial Building, 2800sq ft, parking & fenced area,(934 Goldstream Ave.), availFeb. 1st. Call 250-(723)-4683or (250)723-5841 (Att: Len).

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

DOWNTOWN SIDNEY: Brightnewer 1 bdrm deluxe suite.Short term. (250)514-7747.

HOMES FOR RENT

LANGFORD- 2 bdrms, 4 appls, $1100 inclds utils.Available now. (250)885-9128.

SIDNEY, 3 bdrm, newly re-no’d, full bsmt, fenced yard,1.5 bath, N/S, N/P, $1475 mo,avail Feb. 1. (250)710-4185 orleslie_daw@hotmail.com

EDUCATION/TRADE SCHOOLS

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RENTALS

HOMES FOR RENT

SIDNEY RANCHER. 3-bdrm, 2 bath, large family room. 5 appl’s, 2 storage sheds, pri-vate fenced yard on quiet cul-de-sac. NS/NP. $1700./mo. Call (250)655-1499 to view.

SIDNEY, ROBERT’S Bay area. 3 bdrm, 2 baths plus family room. Large workshop on quiet cul-de-sac. $1750./mo. (250)656-5682.

OFFICE/RETAIL

LANGFORD: PRIME Re-tail/Commercial Building, 2800 sq ft, parking & fenced area, (934 Goldstream Ave.), avail Feb. 1st. Call 250-(723)-4683 or (250)723-5841 (Att: Len).

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, 778-433-9556.

SUITES, LOWER

GORDON HEAD, 1-bedroom. Close to UVic, bus routes. Separate entrance, kitchen-ette and shared laundry. Quiet. No pets/smokers. Dam-age deposit, references re-quired. $670/mo. Free wi-fi , heat, hydro. Available Feb 1st. 250-727-2230; 250-516-3899.

GORGE WATERWAY. 1bdrm Inclds utils, net, tv, laundry. NS/NP. $750. 250-384-6755.

LANGFORD 2-BDRM. W/D, D/W. New paint, bathroom & wood stove, patio. Priv, own ent, prkng, shared hydro. Sm pet ok. $800. 250-479-0432.

RENTALS

SUITES, LOWER

LANGFORD, LRG 1 bdrm + den + sunroom, grd level, F/S, W/D, own ent, N/S, N/P, ref’s (Immed), $1000. 250-474-6057

SAANICH- LARGE 2000 sq.ft 2 bdrm. Lights & heat incld, NS/NP. Refs, $1000 mo. Avail now. 250-652-0591.

SIDNEY- 1 BDRM, 1 bath ground fl oor suite, F/S, W/D, large kitchen & living room, lots of storage, N/S, no dogs. $885 + hydro. Available now. Call (250)654-0410.

TILLICUM/BURNSIDE- (3095 Irma St), 2 bdrm lower suite, shared laundry, own entry. $900 inclds hydro. Call 250-383-8282, 250-588-8885.

VIEW ROYAL. 2-bdrm $1100. Includes utilities. W/D. NS/NP. Feb. 15th. (250)474-2369.

SUITES, UPPER

SIDNEY- 2 BDRM main. yard, deck, garage, laundry. Pet OK. $1200. Call (250)812-4154.

TOWNHOUSES

2 BDRM townhouse for rent in Courtenay. 5 appls, 1.5 baths, carport. NS, NP, quiet and clean renter please. Close to shopping amenities, NIC and CFB Comox. Refs rqrd. Available March 1st. $800/mth. 250-923-2557.

TRANSPORTATION

ANTIQUE/CLASSICS

1956 CONSUL MKI Estate Wagon, ONE OF APPROX 15 IN THE WORLD. Body, paint and motor all done. Lots of new parts. The car needs as-sembly. Will Trade for British & Cash. MUST SELL. No Time. Have all receipts. $7000, (250)490-4150, Penticton, BC

AUTO FINANCING

Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

DreamTeam Auto Financing“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK -

Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals1-800-961-7022

www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO SERVICES

TOP CASH PAID. For ALL unwanted Vehicles.

Call (250)885-1427.

CARS

1995 SAAB TURBO 9000- V6, 140,000 km. $3200. (250)592-2391.

1998 PONTIAC Grand Prix GT US car - 193,000 miles, lady driven since 2003. $2200. Alan, (778)426-3487.

2000 RED MUSTANG V6 110, 600km. Automatic, fully load-ed, new front brakes, alterna-tor, battery. No accidents, one owner. $6300. 250-652-2870.

2002 INTREPID ES, radiant red metallic. 103 km’s, all pow-er, leather interior, excellent cond, $6000 obo. 1 owner. 3.5L engine. Call (250)361-6400.

2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded. White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 fi rm. 250-755-5191.

TRANSPORTATION

CARS

2009 PONTIAC G5- $14,500. Air conditioned, electric win-dows, 4 new tires/2 spare. 45,000 km. 2 year warranty left. Senior giving up licence, reason for sale. Call (250)360-0892.

$50-$1000 CASH

For scrap vehicleFREE Tow away

858-5865VTRUCKS & ANS

1988 FORD 16’ cube Van, 176,000 KMS, good condition, $2950. Call (250)656-7132.

1997 CHEVY Suburban Van- 1 owner, immaculate condi-tion, 240,000 km, V6, seats 7. $3400. Call (250)592-2391.

MARINE

BOATS

BOATHOUSE FOR SALE, 27x10’ interior dimension, power, lighting, pigeon proof, taller than other boat houses. Below cost at $15,000. Call 250-656-6136.

1993 BAYLINER Classic 2452. In excellent condition. Head, galley, canopy, 9.9hp 4-stroke Yamaha. Dinghy & extras. $17,000. (no trailer). Call 250-656-6136.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi

Certifi ed General Accountant

Bookkeeping, Audit,Payroll, HST. Set up &

Training. E-FileTAX

250-477-4601

CARPENTRY

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

INSTCARPET ALLATION

MALTA FLOORING Installa-tion. Carpets, laminates, hard-wood, lino. BBB 250-388-0278

CLEANING SERVICES

AUNTIE MESS CLEANING Reliable, effi cient, honest, 40 yrs exp. $20/hr. 250-590-2946

GREAT RATES! Guar. clean-ing since 1985. Supplies & vacuum incld’d. (250)385-5869

MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estates, events, offi ces. BBB member. (250)388-0278.

SPOTLESS HOME Cleaning. Affordable, Experienced, Re-liable, Effi cient. (250)508-1018

COMPUTER SERVICES

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

CONTRACTORS

CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood fl oor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877

CLASSIFIED ADS WORK!Call 250.388.3535

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

ELECTRICAL

250-361-6193- RENO’S, res & comm. Knob and tube rmvl. 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.

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

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $40/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

VAEXCA TING & DRAINAGE

BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini ex-cavator & bob cat services. Perimeter drains, driveway prep, Hardscapes, Lot clear-ing. Call 250-478-8858.

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

J&L GARDENING Specialty yard clean-up and mainte-nance. Master gardeners. John or Louise (250)891-8677.

250-216-9476 ACCEPTING new clients, From the Ground Up, custom landscapes, fi nish carpentry, garden clean-ups.

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

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

GARDENING

(250) 858-0588- Tree Service - Landscaping- Lawn & Garden Clean ups- Hedge trimming & Pruning- Pressure washing - Gutters

Free estimates * WCBwww.mowtime.ca

ELITE GARDEN MAINTENANCECommercial and

Residential. New Year Contracts.

Clean-Ups & Landscaping250-915-1039

FRUIT TREES Overgrown? Shaping trees & roses. Black-berry clearing. Call John, 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

250-889-5794. DIAMOND Dave Gutter & Window Clean-ing at Fair Prices!

250-507-6543. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, guards, win-dows, power washing, roof de-moss, repairs. Insured.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

PERIMETER EXTERIORS. Gutter Cleaning, Repairs, De-mossing, Upgrades. WCB, Free estimates. 250-881-2440.

HANDYPERSONS

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

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

EXTERIOR/ INTERIOR. New, repair. Deck, step, fence. Car-pentry, paint. 250-588-3744.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

HAULING & Recycling. Call (250)889-5794.

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

ALL-HAUL JUNK REMOVAL Const Debris, Garden Waste. Call John 250-213-2999.

CITY HAUL- a lot of junk won’t fi t in your trunk, you’re in luck I own a truck. 250-891-2489.

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.Haul a Day- Pete, 250-888-1221. www.911junk.com

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

HAULING AND SALVAGE

✭BUBBA’S HAULING✭ Hon-est, on time. Demolition, con-struction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, top-soil, mulch), garden waste re-moval, mini excavator, bob cat service. 250-478-8858.PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774

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.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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

INSULATION

MALTA BLOWN Insulation. Attics - interior/exterior walls & sound silencer. (250)388-0278

QUALITY INSULATION blown fi berglass. Affordable rates. (250)896-6652.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

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

& 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.

A1 DIAMOND Moving- 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $85/hr. Call 250-220-0734.

A2Z WRIGHT Moving. 3 ton, $80/hr for 2 men. Senior’s dis-count. Call Phil (250)383-8283

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

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.

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

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

NORM’S PAINTING- Why wait till Spring? Reasonable, Re-liable. Refs. 25 yrs exp. Call 250-478-0347.

PLUMBING

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

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

PLUMBING

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

FIRST RESPONSE Plumbing. New construction, reno’s, hwtanks, toilets, clogged drains.All of your plumbing needs.Call to talk with a plumber.24hr service. Free est. No jobtoo small. 250-704-8962.

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

PRESSURE WASHING

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

RUBBISH REMOVAL

MALTA GARDEN & Rubbish Removal. Best Rates. BBBmember. (250)388-0278.

TREE SERVICES

BUDDY’S TREE SERVICES-Trimming, pruning, chipping,removals, hedges. Insured.Keith, (250)474-3697.

WINDOW CLEANING

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

GLEAMING WINDOWS Gut-ters+De-moss. Free estimate.18 yrs. Brian, 514-7079. WCB.

NORM’S WINDOW cleaning &gutters. Reasonable rates.250-812-3213, 250-590-2929.

WINDOWS

ALFRED, ALFRED QualityWindows Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years Constructionexperience. 250-382-3694.

SERVICE DIRECTORYwww.bcclassified.com 250.388.3535

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SAANICH NEWS - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 www.saanichnews.com • A19

Jeff NagelBlack Press

B.C.’s new Auditor General for Local Gov-ernment (AGLG) says her first audits to probe spending in local cities will be under-way by the end of April.

Basia Ruta started work this week at the newly opened AGLG office in Surrey.

The Ontario chartered accountant and senior federal bureaucrat will lead perfor-mance audits of municipalities and regional districts and deliver non-binding recom-mendations to help improve local govern-

ment efficiency and effectiveness.Ruta hasn’t decided which communities

she’ll scrutinize first.Ruta said she intends to meet munici-

pal reps, financial executives, chambers of commerce and other stakeholders before formulating a service plan and deciding on initial audits within the first 100 days.

“We can do horizontal audits that could impact many, many communities on a sin-gle issue,” Ruta said. “It doesn’t have to be just focused on one community. So you can have broad-based issues, broad-based objectives that you go and pursue.”

Procurement procedures and policing costs are examples of topics where Ruta said she might examine multiple cities’ practices simultaneously.

Other potential topics include the sus-tainability of infrastructure, environmental issues and whether cities are making good use of revenue-generating tools.

The AGLG was created by the provincial government despite objections from some B.C. cities who feared it could turn into a witch hunt for waste that failed to take into account differing municipal priorities, and that might duplicate existing audits.

“We do not question policy,” Ruta said. “We wouldn’t be commenting on tax rates, for instance. We wouldn’t be commenting on collective agreement negotiation rates – that’s really a matter of policy.”

But she said audits could weigh in on whether the performance of a civic pro-gram or function is meeting its objectives or whether adoption of best practices might bring better value for money.

The AGLG’s website at www.aglg.ca also includes an area for citizens to suggest audit topics.

editor@saanichnews.com

Municipal auditor general sets up shop

Capital Regional District

IDEA grants support arts programming that is new, innovative or developmental. Applicants should be non-profit societies whose mandate is in an area other than the arts or that are ineligible for other CRD arts grants.For complete guidelines see: www.crd.bc.ca/arts

Application Deadline: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 4:30 pm

To establish eligibility, please contact:CRD Arts Development625 Fisgard Street, Victoria BCT: 250.360.3215artsdevelopment@crd.bc.ca

CRD IDEA Grants

First 300 registrants are guaranteed pick up. Registrants after 300 are subject to availability. Victoria residents only. All TVs must be intact and placed outside the home (exact location to be determined upon registration). TVs with broken CRT tubes cannot be collected.

Let’s be smart with our power. For a limited time call 1-866-919-5865 and schedule your free pick-up with 1-800-GOT-JUNK? between February 4 – 15. powersmart.ca/pick-up

AN OLD TV CAN BE HARD TO GET RID OF.WE’LL PICK UP YOUR OLD, ENERGY WASTING TV AND RECYCLE IT. FOR FREE.

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VisionMattersHealthy Eyes.Doctor Delivered.

Dr. Stephen Taylor

*Denotes Optometric Corporation250-744-2992

www.saanichoptometry.ca

Dr. Daisy Tao* has joined Dr. Stephen Taylor,*Dr. Charles Simons* & Dr. Victor J. Chin*

119-3995 Quadra @ McKenzie (in Saanich Centre)

Caring for Your GlassesWe wash our windshields when they are dirty,

why not do the same for our glasses? Dirty, scratched, and misaligned glasses distort our sight, and increase glare problems. They do not, however, harm our eyes. Scratches may weaken the lenses’ resistance to impact.The following are some easy tips for proper eyeglass care:• Clean your glasses regularly using warm water and soap or special eyeglass cleaners to remove oils and dirt from the lenses.• Keep your glasses in their case when not in use.• Never set glasses down with the lenses touching the table or counter top.• Put on and take off your glasses using two hands. Hold each temple about midway, and gently slide them over your ears.• Avoid letting others try on your glasses as this may throw off the alignment.• Have your glasses readjusted periodically.

If vision problems persist even with clean, dry, and properly adjusted glasses, consult your Optometrist.

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