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The dominating theme of the 2013 B.C. election cam-paign is undoubtedly the economy, as resource develop-ment, environmental concerns and the rising provincial debt loom in the minds of politicians and voters.

But what isn’t being discussed in the run-up to May 14? A panel of academics and former and present politi-cians addressed that question Tuesday at the University of Victoria in front of about 150 people.

“This has been an election of abstractions – who can manage the economy, create jobs, growth, lower taxes and debts. They mean something to some voters, but a great many people don’t connect with them,” said for-mer UVic political scientist Dennis Pilon, now at York University in Toronto.

George Abbott, a former B.C. Liberal health minister and self-described “recovering politician,” said health-care costs are a pending crisis in the province, largely due to the fact people are living longer.

Current health-care costs are about $3,300 per year for the average 60-year-old, but jump to $11,600 for an 80-year-old, according to B.C. Ministry of Health num-bers Abbott presented. People lucky enough to live to 90 cost the system $22,000 on average each year, he said.

“(Health care spending) is going to be a challenge for the next 10, 20, 30 years. We are going to have to find ways of managing those pressures that we haven’t had before.”

Politicians vying to become premier should be talking about preventative and primary care, such as finding ways to reduce the use of tobacco, Abbott added.

“I wish the next government well in meeting this chal-lenge, (but) it’s not going to go away. It’s going to eat into the opportunity to make investments in other social services,” he said.

Adrienne Carr, the former B.C. Green party leader, said the non-issues in the campaign so far are global warm-ing, poverty and the larger economic crisis.

UVic panel weighs in on absent election priorities

Giving a voice to silent issues

PLEASE SEE: Economic stability, Page A2

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Where eagles inspireArtist Maarten Schaddelee works on his newest sculpture of eagles intertwined as soulmates in his studio on Vantreight Drive in Gordon Head. This weekend the prolific sculptor is hosting his 20th annual spring art show. See the story on page A5.

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Politicians need to find ways to strengthen local economies instead of relying on the global economy for growth, Carr said.

Carr criticized the “lollipop attitude” towards theoretical natural gas revenues, and said the current obsession with resource extraction will fail to produce a long-term sustainable economy. The high levels of unemployment seen in several European countries is “a hint of things to come” in Canada unless there is a shift in economic focus, she said.

Pilon told the crowd Western countries are suf-fering from the ills of a “trinket economy,” where goods are cheap, but most people have trouble finding stable work and housing.

Instead, government should focus on creating a “stability economy,” he said.

Pilon pointed to legislation passed by the 1960’s Social Credit government that forced forestry companies in the B.C. Interior to pay employees year-round, allowing families to put down roots.

“The politics of the era recognized the bottom line was about delivering stability to people as much as balancing the books,” he said.

Simon Fraser University communications pro-fessor Shane Gunster spoke primarily about the need to galvanize all levels of government on such issues as climate change through public engagement.

The public appetite is healthy for broad, mean-ingful change towards a greener economy, he said, but the media fails in its role to inform, instead leaning towards cynical reporting.

“The idea that developing our natural resources is the only way we’re going to cre-ate jobs is very disturbing,” Gunster said, and noted that he is disappointed the B.C. NDP hasn’t embraced a discussion on alternative ways to stimulate the economy.

“It’s a lost opportunity for the NDP, perhaps because they’re afraid of being tarred with the anti-development brush.”

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Economic stability remains elusive

Nobody was injured in an early morning house fire in the 3200-block of Cedar Hill Rd. on Wednes-day.

Saanich fire crews arrived around 4:40 a.m. to find flames coming from the rear of the home. Those flames were quickly extinguished, but the fire had spread to the attic.

Crews eventually knocked down the attic fire, without the flames extending into the living area.

One person was in the home at the time and escaped without injury.

Damage to the home and property is estimated at $75,000. The fire is not considered suspicious, but the cause remains under investigation.

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Some researchers sense the hundred year old ghosts in Robert Falcon Scott’s hut in Antarctica. For Victoria’s Jana Ste-fan, the building is living museum, a place of comfort in one of the most unforgiving environments in the world.

Stefan, an exhibit arts technician with the Royal B.C. Museum, returned from Antarctica at the end of February, complet-ing her second six-month stint as part of a team working to preserve Scott’s base at Cape Evans on Ross Island.

Stepping into Scott’s hut was a dream come true for the 34-year-old conservator who grew up hearing the stories of turn-of-the-century explorers like Ernest Shackel-ton and Roald Amundsen.

“I loved being in the hut. A lot of people talk about ghosts, but I never got the hee-bie-jeebies, but I do feel a presence,” Stefan says. “It’s a powerful space. There’s a lot of personal things, socks, sweaters with name tags. It’s cozy, personalized.

“The first time I went into the hut ... I got it to myself for 15 minutes. I wasn’t even though the door and I was bawling. The energy is so thick in the room. I know the story is a tragedy, but nine-tenths of the time it was a fabulous boys’ adventure.

“Seeing they way it was set up, I’m famil-iar with the stories but being really in the space it’s overwhelming,”

Stefan lead a small team of conservators from October to February in the ongoing effort to catalogue, photograph and pre-serve the thousands of items left behind at Scott’s base for his ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition. Starving and freezing, Scott and four other men died on their return trek from the South Pole in March 1912.

The preservation project, run by the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust, is attempting to preserve four bases from the early British expeditions. Build-ings created by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who led the first team to the South Pole in December 1911, fell from an ice shelf into the ocean long ago.

Scott’s hut at 10 meters wide by 25 metres long housed about 25 men. With military formality, it originally had two sec-tions, for officers and enlisted men.

Stefan’s day to day tasks involved return-ing artifacts treated and preserved at New Zealand’s permanent Scott Base, and repairing items like remnant food boxes

sitting outside for the past 100 years. The goal is to preserve the site as-is, while giv-ing the buildings and artifacts the ability to withstand the harsh perpetual winter.

“There are big food caches behind the hut, 120 boxes full of food. After 100 years they start to fall apart,” Stefan says. “And you have aggressive, awful birds eating 100 year old lentils.

“To conserve the frozen boxes, you have to dig them out, categorize them, load them on a sledge and haul them to the lab where they’re photoed and recorded, and then sledged back. And then put back exactly where we found it.”

That is the typical cycle for the 10,000 individual artifacts in and around the build-ing (the site also has two latrines and an magnetic observation building lined with asbestos).

Stefan says preserving a site about pre-serving an important era of history and the rare chance to save the first structures cre-

ated on the continent. Although isolated, she says about 2,000 people per year now visit the Cape Evans site, including tourists from cruise ships.

“This is the only surviving example of the first building built by man on a conti-nent,” Stefan says. “This was in the dying days of the age of exploration in one of the last places on earth to be conquered, and we have the physical record of doing that.”

Like her first six-month trip in 2008, Ste-fan worked and lived with fellow conserva-tors in two shipping containers, converted to a lab and living quarters.

Living conditions are “primitive” at best, she says, and most of the food in Antarc-tica tends to be long expired by the time it’s cracked open.

“Everything you eat is probably three or four years old. It’s all expired. But we take turns cooking,” she says. “You still sleep on the ground in a sleeping bag. It’s four and a half months of no showers, no laundry, no email and no phone.

“Working in Antarctica is compared to working in space. Its one of the few places where your survival depends on the peo-ple around you all day and every day.”

Stefan and her crew tended to work long hours in the near 24-hour daylight, but occasionally were able to hike and explore.

“It’s spectacular. There’s the Trans-Antarctic Mountains and big glaciers and an active volcano. If the ice breaks up pen-guins cruise by, there’s orcas and all kinds of seals. I love it. I like to work in remote places.”

Stefan’s experience at Scott’s hut allowed her to consult with the American Museum of Natural History to a create scale recre-ation of the building, which will be part of the RBCM’s “Race to the End of the Earth” exhibition opening May 17.

The show is bringing in original arti-facts and photographs from Amundsen’s and Scott’s respective expeditions, and includes a pennant owned by Cecil Mears, the dog handler for Scott’s team and who survived and went on to live in Victoria.

The RBCM exhibition will give insights to both men’s preparations and motivations, – and explore the controversial notion the expeditions were “racing.”

Stefan suspects she won’t be return-ing to Antarctica anytime soon, and her one regret was not sleeping in Scott’s hut, although nobody does.

“I’m going to ask the museum if I can spend a night in the fake hut.”

Check out explore.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca for more on the RBCM’s Race to the End of the Earth.

Freezing history at the end of the EarthRoyal B.C. Museum conservator lends expertise in preserving Scott’s century-old Antarctic base

Jana Stefan photo/Royal B.C. Museum (above); Edward Hill/News staff (left)

Royal B.C. Museum conservator Jana Stefan in front of British Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova hut at Cape Evans, Antarctica. Stefan returned to Victoria in February after a six month expedition where she was part of a team working to preserve Scott’s base from 1912.

SAANICH NEWS - Friday, May 3, 2013 www.vicnews.com • A3

Politicians need to find ways to strengthen local economies instead of relying on the global economy for growth, Carr said.

Carr criticized the “lollipop attitude” towards theoretical natural gas revenues, and said the current obsession with resource extraction will fail to produce a long-term sustainable economy. The high levels of unemployment seen in several European countries is “a hint of things to come” in Canada unless there is a shift in economic focus, she said.

Pilon told the crowd Western countries are suf-fering from the ills of a “trinket economy,” where goods are cheap, but most people have trouble finding stable work and housing.

Instead, government should focus on creating a “stability economy,” he said.

Pilon pointed to legislation passed by the 1960’s Social Credit government that forced forestry companies in the B.C. Interior to pay employees year-round, allowing families to put down roots.

“The politics of the era recognized the bottom line was about delivering stability to people as much as balancing the books,” he said.

Simon Fraser University communications pro-fessor Shane Gunster spoke primarily about the need to galvanize all levels of government on such issues as climate change through public engagement.

The public appetite is healthy for broad, mean-ingful change towards a greener economy, he said, but the media fails in its role to inform, instead leaning towards cynical reporting.

“The idea that developing our natural resources is the only way we’re going to cre-ate jobs is very disturbing,” Gunster said, and noted that he is disappointed the B.C. NDP hasn’t embraced a discussion on alternative ways to stimulate the economy.

“It’s a lost opportunity for the NDP, perhaps because they’re afraid of being tarred with the anti-development brush.”

Continued from Page A1

Economic stability remains elusive

Nobody was injured in an early morning house fire in the 3200-block of Cedar Hill Rd. on Wednes-day.

Saanich fire crews arrived around 4:40 a.m. to find flames coming from the rear of the home. Those flames were quickly extinguished, but the fire had spread to the attic.

Crews eventually knocked down the attic fire, without the flames extending into the living area.

One person was in the home at the time and escaped without injury.

Damage to the home and property is estimated at $75,000. The fire is not considered suspicious, but the cause remains under investigation.

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A Saanich family’s newly adopted husky was stolen last week, allegedly by the previ-ous owner who had the dog removed from her care.

Saanich police say a family living in the 700-block of Hali-burton Rd. noticed their dog – acquired from the Victoria SPCA a week earlier – was missing just before noon on April 23.

The family told police they saw a suspicious woman near their home earlier that morn-ing, who Sgt. Steve Eassie said appears to be the previous owner.

Police say the woman went to a nearby pet store and pur-chased a new leash, collar and dog tag, then called a taxi and headed to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal. An employee at the pet store helped police in identifying

the woman and the dog, as she matched the description of the suspicious female on Halibur-ton Road. That description also

matched the previous owner, a 30-year-old Squamish woman.

Saanich officers liaised with Whistler RCMP and the woman was arrested in Squamish around 6:30 p.m. that same day.

Eassie said the one-year-old dog, George, was seized in Whistler on April 6 follow-ing a property offence. He said no attempts were made by the owner to retrieve the dog, so it was turned over to the SPCA. The Saanich family adopted George – and renamed him Tim-ber – in mid-April.

“We’re trying determine how this previous owner obtained the address of where her dog was placed,” Eassie said.

The B.C. SPCA is conducting an internal review to see if pri-vate information was leaked to the previous owner. The Squa-mish woman faces charges of possession of stolen property, and break and enter.

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A 19-year-old Saanich woman received minor injuries when she was struck by a slow-moving vehicle in the Tillicum Centre parking lot Tuesday night.

The incident happened likely between 9 and 10 p.m. near the movie theatres.

The driver, described as an elderly man, made eye contact with the woman after hitting her, but drove away without offering assistance.

It wasn’t until around 1 a.m., when she started feeling nauseous and disori-ented back at home, that she called for

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Inattentive left-turning drivers struck cyclists in two separate incidents in Saanich during Monday’s afternoon commute.

The first incident happened around 3:40 p.m. at the intersection of Halibur-ton Road and the Pat Bay Highway.

A 15-year-old cyclist travelling west-bound from Haliburton onto Elk Lake Drive hit the windshield and was thrown to the ground after being cut off by a driver attempting to turn northbound onto the Pat Bay. The young cyclist

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Maarten Schaddelee only needs to look out the window at his waterfront Gordon Head home to find inspiration. Eagles soar, seals swim and Schaddelee sculpts.

His monumental stone carvings mark public spaces across the region – Clover Point, Save-on-Food Memorial Centre, the Bob Wright building at the Univer-sity of Victoria. This weekend the pub-lic is invited to explore the gallery and grounds for Maarten and Nadia Schad-delee’s 20th annual spring art show at Maarnada Studios.

“I’m going back to where I started, with marine mammals, with everything I see out my window. Seals, herons, there’s lots of eagles this year,” Schad-delee remarks on Tuesday.

“(The eagles) are playing aerial games with (turkey) vultures. I’ve been here 35 years and have never seen it like this before. It’s quite a show.”

Among the 40 pieces that draw inspi-ration from nature, it’s only fitting that a centerpiece sculpture is a six foot tall red cedar carving of intertwined eagles, given the aerie outside his windows. Opening their home gives visitors a sense of the Haro Strait viewscapes that inspires the art.

“Twenty years ago people had a curiosity but they didn’t know about the work. We created a place where

people could come and view it while they could also get a sense of place and the person,” says Nadina, Maarnada’s storyteller. “It connects them to the art because the art becomes an experience for them.”

Much of Schaddelee’s public com-missioned work incorporates themes of peace and the human spirit. “My work celebrates life. When you come to the gallery, there’s no darkness here,” he says. “I had a health challenge at one

point. Now you can’t wipe the smile off my face.”

Much of his recent work celebrates marine life and the natural world as a means to promote environmental aware-ness.

“I want to create whales and dolphins, and show that their plight is our plight, show that polluting the water affects us,” he says. “Creating sculptures that bring out feelings is my part.”

Schaddelee, a son of the family that created The Dutch Bakery in Victoria, was a master cake decorator and baker until 1991, when he made the leap to full time artist. He couldn’t have done it without Nadia, he says, who helps man-age the business of art.

“It was a health challenge that made me chose. Nadia gave me complete sup-port and I never looked back. It was a huge decision,” Schaddelee says.”I had sculpted and people did buy my work, but it was making a break into the unknown. I’m proud of what Nadia and I have done here.”

Schaddelee primarily works with old growth cedar from Vancouver Island, or marble sourced in Duncan or the Main-land. He designs pieces in his head, and chips away at the pieces until the figure emerges.

“It’s not like Michelangelo who saw the image in the stone and removed the excess,” he says. “It’s a dance around that stone until the image that’s in my head is there in front of you.”

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There’s a saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of avoiding the hospital emergency ward. Or something along those lines.

The Royal Oak Chiropractic Natu-ral Health Clinic is offering a free series of heath checkups for youth on Saturday, all in the name of encouraging parents to engage their kids in preventative health habits from an early age.

Two chiropractors, an optom-etrist, a dentist, a naturopath and a massage therapist will be on hand at the clinic to give kids relatively quick exams for their eyes, spine, posture, teeth and general health. It’s the second annual Children’s Health Day offered by the clinic.

“Last year we found several prob-lems ... things that in the long-term could be serious if not detected,” said Dr. Stan Marcus, one of three chiropractors at the clinic, along with doctors Natasha Kipot and Jeff Gratton. “This is about being pre-ventative and finding things early.”

Last year about 35 kids from eight months to 14 years old went through the free health day. Marcus has designs on eventually expanding the event to a full-blown children’s health fair.

“It’s a good problem if we get too busy and then move it to a bigger venue,” he said. “The long-term goal is to have a children’s health fair at Pearkes (arena). We’d like to lead to that eventually.”

Marcus was inspired to have a children’s heath day from similar events by chiropractic associations

in the U.S., and a clinic he hosted years ago in Saanichton. Parents need reminding that kids need regu-lar physicals and health checkups, he said.

“Most people don’t get checked out (regularly). They wait until there is a problem. Here kids can hang out, see a variety of professionals,” Marcus said. “What we try to do with kids in short sessions is have them learn to be comfortable with health professionals too.”

More specific to Marcus’ field of spine health, he said spine problems can crop up from an early age, and certainly as kids get older and play sports, which can impact the ner-vous system and organ health.

Marcus said his own experience with back problems after playing rugby as a teen eventually led him into the profession.

“Contact sports wreak havoc on spines. It’s not just about back pain ... it’s about getting the body work-ing better. We tell parents to bring their kids in early, not to wait until they’re a mess,” he said.

“One year olds fall on their butt. Kids trip and fall, they’re in sports, they’re high energy. It’s life. Their spines need to be checked.”

Children’s Health Day involves health professionals from Royal Oak Chiropractic Natural Health Clinic, Royal Oak Dental, Mayfair Opto-metric Clinic and Vancouver Island Naturopathic Clinic. Child Find B.C. will also be on hand.

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There’s a saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of avoiding the hospital emergency ward. Or something along those lines.

The Royal Oak Chiropractic Natu-ral Health Clinic is offering a free series of heath checkups for youth on Saturday, all in the name of encouraging parents to engage their kids in preventative health habits from an early age.

Two chiropractors, an optom-etrist, a dentist, a naturopath and a massage therapist will be on hand at the clinic to give kids relatively quick exams for their eyes, spine, posture, teeth and general health. It’s the second annual Children’s Health Day offered by the clinic.

“Last year we found several prob-lems ... things that in the long-term could be serious if not detected,” said Dr. Stan Marcus, one of three chiropractors at the clinic, along with doctors Natasha Kipot and Jeff Gratton. “This is about being pre-ventative and finding things early.”

Last year about 35 kids from eight months to 14 years old went through the free health day. Marcus has designs on eventually expanding the event to a full-blown children’s health fair.

“It’s a good problem if we get too busy and then move it to a bigger venue,” he said. “The long-term goal is to have a children’s health fair at Pearkes (arena). We’d like to lead to that eventually.”

Marcus was inspired to have a children’s heath day from similar events by chiropractic associations

in the U.S., and a clinic he hosted years ago in Saanichton. Parents need reminding that kids need regu-lar physicals and health checkups, he said.

“Most people don’t get checked out (regularly). They wait until there is a problem. Here kids can hang out, see a variety of professionals,” Marcus said. “What we try to do with kids in short sessions is have them learn to be comfortable with health professionals too.”

More specific to Marcus’ field of spine health, he said spine problems can crop up from an early age, and certainly as kids get older and play sports, which can impact the ner-vous system and organ health.

Marcus said his own experience with back problems after playing rugby as a teen eventually led him into the profession.

“Contact sports wreak havoc on spines. It’s not just about back pain ... it’s about getting the body work-ing better. We tell parents to bring their kids in early, not to wait until they’re a mess,” he said.

“One year olds fall on their butt. Kids trip and fall, they’re in sports, they’re high energy. It’s life. Their spines need to be checked.”

Children’s Health Day involves health professionals from Royal Oak Chiropractic Natural Health Clinic, Royal Oak Dental, Mayfair Opto-metric Clinic and Vancouver Island Naturopathic Clinic. Child Find B.C. will also be on hand.

The free clinic is May 4, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., no appointment neces-sary, 207-4480 West Saanich Rd., in the Royal Oak Shopping Centre. See royaloakchiro.com.

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Pig carcasses and killer whale communication will be some of the highlights of the latest Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) oceanographic expedition.

A team from ONC, an initia-tive out of the University of Vic-toria, departed on the Canadian Coast Guard ship John P Tully Monday from the Institute of Ocean Sciences at Patricia Bay.

The ship will take 17 scien-tists, engineers and technicians for a month long expedition.

On the first segment of the trip, scientists will pull up two pig carcasses which have been decaying at the bottom of the Saanich Inlet and replacing them with two new ones.

The pig carcasses have been an instrumental part of a foren-sics experiment by Gayle Ander-son and Lynne Bell of Simon Fraser University.

For the last seven years, Anderson has been using the information gathered from the experiment, which is part of the Venus ocean observatory, to help police with cases related to water decomposition, including insight into cases of feet wash-

ing up around the Salish Sea.The second part of the first

leg of the mission will include research on the sediment dynamics in the Fraser River delta.

“We’ll be installing a whole slew of new equipment at the mouth of the Fraser River so we can study and monitor the sediment dynamics and the sta-bility of the Fraser River slope,” explained Richard Dewey, a UVic oceanographer.

“The Fraser River delta is an area that contains lots of infra-structure, including the airport, the ferry terminal and the port in Delta. So we have a lot of interest in understanding the slope stability and what would precurse a slope failure or a major slide.”

The team will also install hydrophones in the Strait of Georgia to monitor the resident killer whales and how they are affected by ship noise.

“The Strait of Georgia is a very busy shipping channel so we want to examine what, if any, effect ship noises have on killer whale communication,” said Dewey.

The second part of the expe-dition will be led by ONC scien-

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Mihaly and his team will conduct maintenance on the Neptune ocean observatory equipment as well install new equipment that will measure oxygen levels, track vocalizing sea mammals and monitor the growth of gas hydrate mounds.

“We’ll also be looking at the oxygen content of deep, low-oxygen water and how the ecology reacts to it,” explained Mihaly, noting that a warmer cli-mate and warmer waters could eventually lead to lower oxygen levels all around.

The trip, which returns to the Institute of Ocean Sciences on May 28, is the first of eight expeditions on five ships that will happen over the summer season.

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Scientists Richard Dewey (left) and Steve Mihaly from Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria set off on a month-long oceanographic expedition on the John P Tully (pictured in background) on Monday. Among other tasks, the crew plans to repair the deep sea Neptune network and check on pig carcasses being used for police forensics research.


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Doctors are normally the first people to come to mind when someone mentions a hospital.

However, if you stop to think about the devices present in hospitals, including heart monitors, electric thermometers and implantable hip replacements, the influence of engineers becomes readily apparent.

With the rising costs of health care, the demand for biomedical engineers in designing and implementing novel and innovative approaches to medical devices has grown significantly.

In 2011, the New York Times declared biomedical engineering to be the most in-demand job for the following decade. This phenomenon begs the questions: Could engineers one day replace doctors in the health-care system?

The most likely answer to this question is no – doctors must work in collaboration with engineers to achieve improved outcomes in health care. However, these engineers will need specialized training to understand the language and challenges associated in working with patients to improve care.

To address this need, the University of Victoria began offering undergraduate degrees in

biomedical engineering last fall. The program is the first of its kind in Western Canada, as most schools only offer the ability to obtain a biomedical option as part of another engineering degree program.

Not only does the University of Victoria offer students the ability to obtain a biomedical engineering degree, students can major in mechanical or electrical engineering and complete

the biomedical option by taking appropriate courses. The biomed program has been a huge success, with our initial class of 23 highly enthusiastic students making it the second-most popular choice among engineering majors.

One of the defining characteristics of the program is a unique two-course sequence that analyzes cells and organ systems from an engineering perspective. UVic is the only university in Canada to offer such quantitative physiology courses.

The students will also take an engineering design course,

specifically focused on medical device design and taught by Nick Dechev, whose own research program focuses on producing prosthetic hands.

UVic has 19 engineering faculty involved with biomedical engineering-related research projects that are prime candidates for collaboration with doctors. These areas include biophotonics, biomechanics, tissue engineering, the analysis of medical images and medical device design.

Additionally, our program takes advantage of local expertise at the Vancouver Island Health Authority and Starfish Medical, a local start-up company that originated out of the University of Victoria. Biomed students also participate in four co-operative education work term placements. Our degree program prepares students for a number of post-graduate options, including working in the medical industry, attending medical school or pursuing further graduate education in biomedical engineering.

Dr. Stephanie Willerth is founding co-ordinator of the undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program, in the medical sciences division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Victoria.

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Don’t put stock in TV debateTelevised political debates in B.C. serve a

few purposes. Viewers can see how party leaders engage in spirited discussion,

how sincere they seem, how well they know the issues and how party policy relates to those issues.

But anyone can click on a political party website to find policy statements, and reams of information can be found on news sites that offer a sense of where individuals stand on certain issues.

In essence, then, the TV debate is primarily a chance for leaders to stand before the cameras, without their respective entourages, and prove they deserve to lead the province. Or, in the case of the Greens and Conservatives, that their party deserves your vote.

The sad fact is, if one turned off the picture and only listened to the sound portion of Monday’s highly scripted, made-for-TV debate, it could have been mistaken for question period in the B.C. legislature.

Frontrunners Christy Clark of the Liberals and Adrian Dix of the NDP frequently spoke over each other’s answers, and on several occasions avoided responding directly to public questions, if at all, choosing instead to repeat party slogans.

While both provided moments of calm clarity in the debate, the leaders with no chance of forming government – Jane Sterk of the Green Party and John Cummins of the Conservatives – were merely spectators to the main verbal jousting between Clark and Dix.

Largely absent from debate around the overarching themes of “growing B.C.’s economy” (Clark) and “telling people how we’re going to pay for programs” (Dix) was talk of B.C.’s longtime top voter priorities – health care and education. They may not be the topics du jour for the leaders or their parties, but funding those areas remains a huge challenge and will affect all taxpayers.

The bickering-filled program came off more as cheesy reality TV than meaningful discussion about our province’s future. While the debate likely failed to inspire fence-sitters to get out and vote May 14, there are thankfully still opportunities before election day to learn where candidates and their parties stand.

Stephanie Willerth

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Voters should push for the predictable in their premierIn real life, people often link

predictability to dullness. “You’re so predictable,” we might snipe. “Why don’t you surprise me?”

But in leadership, predictability is a strong suit. Erratic, flip-flopping leaders breach the trust of taxpayers and should cause all of us concern, regardless of political stripe.

British Columbians saw this first-hand when Gordon Campbell brought in the Harmonized Sales Tax. Campbell and the B.C. Liberals had ruled out an HST during the 2009 election. We know how that turned out.

Manitobans are watching the same movie right now. Before the last election, NDP Premier Greg Selinger said, flat-out, that he wouldn’t raise the Provincial

Sales Tax. “Ridiculous idea that we’re going to raise the sales tax,” Selinger spat. “It’s total nonsense.

Everybody knows that.”

Two years later, he announced an increase from 7 to 8 per cent; a flip-flop rightfully causing a firestorm of controversy in Manitoba.

Voters want to know where their potential leaders stand before they have to walk into a polling station and put a tick next to a party’s name. While

it’s impossible for anyone to fully anticipate and articulate every possible challenge and scenario ahead of a four-year term in office, taxpayers want a predictable pattern set out.

How would a premier deal with plunging resource

revenues? What would happen if a crime wave or a natural disaster struck? What would the premier do if unemployment jumped or a Crown Corporation malfunctioned? Taxpayers need to see a predictable pattern of leadership to know.

NDP leader Adrian Dix knows the cornerstone issue for many voters in this campaign is trust. “We will say what we’re going to do, and we will say how we will pay for it,” he said in the televised leaders’ debate April 29.

That’s what makes two recent Dix announcements so concerning; he is shifting long-held positions seemingly on a whim. During the spring budget debate, Dix and his NDP team criticized the sale of government assets. “It’s important that we not do something as foolhardy as sell the long-term interests of the province out for the short-term interests of the governing party,”

he said at the time.That comment would have

led most taxpayers to predict that Dix opposed asset sales. No wonder his announcement last week that he would like to sell off B.C. Place Stadium came as such a shock. Daryl Walker of the B.C. Government Employees Union was stunned by Dix’s plan. “I guess the fact that they’re simply looking at it, and that there will be an opportunity to have input into it gives us a little more solace, but certainly we’re concerned about the rights of our members,” Walker said.

Dix is right to change his tune on this one: if B.C. Place was sold, taxpayers would be far better off; we don’t pay taxes in order to be in the stadium business (or liquor or car insurance or a few other things for that matter). Still, it’s a quick jump away from his longstanding philosophy.

The second flip-flop was just

as unpredictable. After months of saying he wouldn’t make any decisions on the Kinder Morgan pipeline until they filed an application, he essentially ruled it out on Earth Day.

“I think as a matter of principle, you should actually see what the application is before you address it,” he said on April 11. On April 22, he all but killed it.

Political leaders should be able to change their mind as circumstances change, but nothing had changed about asset sales or Kinder Morgan. Is this lack of predictability a harbinger that British Columbians are about to elect another Greg Selinger?

With a double-digit lead in the polls, Dix has a clear path to the premier’s office. That seems an easy prediction, unlike his actions of the past few weeks.

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Provincial gang policescratching the surface

Re: Anti-gang police publish first community report (vicnews.com)

With the B.C. Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit’s “Go Public” campaign, I breathed a sigh of frustration.

Over the last six years there has been a steady increase in gang activities, contrary to the “successes” touted by the integrated team.

Wth each bust there is a corresponding rise in the numbers of emerging organized crime groups in B.C.

The performance and effectiveness of this

agency and its partner members also has declined, and alarmingly so, as far as public security is concerned.

When I read the limited, yet colourful explanation of this new idea, I can barely keep my breakfast down.

How is this task force going to stop drive-by shootings?

There is evidence the intelligence gathering is flawed, and that we don’t deal with the root causes in our community – choosing instead to throw money at policing.

The unit is now out to capture a bigger public profile, but so far it has removed the equivalent of a drop of water in an Olympic-

sized swimming pool.Kathryn Perry

VictoriaCartoonist was off the markwith candidate commentary

Usually I enjoy your cartoons, but last Friday’s political cartoon crosses a line.

The last I heard, it was the leader of the B.C. Conservatives who had a problem with some of his candidates, not NDP leader Adrian Dix. Hence the cartoon makes no sense and increases my dislike of your editorial judgment.

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Owners of Cherry Bob Toys, Biagio and Candice Woodward are ready for their 11th Ultimate Hobby and Toy Fair on Sunday at Pearkes Recreation Centre.

Where kitsch mingles with collectible After five years and 10 Ultimate Hobby and Toy

shows, Victoria has no lack of appetite for all that is vintage and collectible in the world of toys, action figures and comics.

Pearkes Recreation Centre at Tillicum Centre is playing host to Cherry Bomb Toys twice annual fair this Sunday, where some 4,000 kids, young and old, will have the chance to peruse 200 tables of small treasures. Rare comics, Hot Wheels and GI Joes intermingle with hobby train builders and epic Star Wars collections.

“It’s old and new toys, anything that is hard to find pieces for collectors and toys for kids,” said Candice Woodward, who organizes the show and owns Cherry Bomb Toys in downtown Victoria with her husband Biagio Woodward.

The spring show features local authors Cyril Blake and Jade Braddock, creators of the were-wolf fantasy, and who will be signing copies of An Awaited Reckoning, the first book in the Solstice Moon series. “They’re bringing something new to the werewolf genre,” Woodward said. “I’m already excited to read the second (book).”

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Six years into her retirement, it’s starting all over again for Phillipa Hudson.

The retiree, if you can call her that, has switched gears as the former owner and operator of Mineral World and Scratch Patch in Sidney, and is now a commissioned painter, currently under contract to one of the world’s leading interior designers for hotels.

Hudson is finishing the third of a three-painting project, all of which measure five-foot-six-inches by eight-feet, and will hang over the registration desks at the iconic Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise in Banff National Park later this month.

“It was a huge excitement but also a lot

of anxiety, as I hadn’t been commissioned before and I have always painted on 24 by 30-inch paintings,” Hudson said.

“I put all my creative energy into jewelry and the store for 14 years. I always knew I would paint when I got the chance, and now I love it,” Hudson said.

Her paintings, which can be seen online at phillipahudson.com, are gaining notice and income, which is not what she expected from the hobby venture.

A collection of Hudson’s work, including the original two by three-foot proofs of the three paintings going to the Fairmont at Lake Louise, will be on display at the Eclectic Gallery in Oak Bay, May 6 to June 15. Hudson will be on hand Thursday night (May 9), from 7 to 9 p.m.

U.S.A.-based Hirsch Bedner Associates is leading the remodelling of the reception area at the Fairmont Chateau. It was HBA which pursued Hudson when they saw images of her West Coast and Rocky Mountain scenes.

“HBA were cruising the Internet for artists who paint mountains, looking for a particular style,” Hudson said. “They

wanted something with vibrant colours that fit with their colour scheme.”

Initially, Hudson forwarded six creations for HBA’s approval, all on two by three-foot canvases, of which HBA chose three.

Then each of the three had to be recreated three times, in similar but slightly different form, until the final selections were made.

All are of prominent landscapes from the region: Lake McArthur in Yoho National Park, Mount Rundle in Banff National Park and the Three Sisters above Canmore. Each feature golden fauna from the fall season swaying in the foreground, larch trees, aspens and marshes.

“Adjusting to the size of the canvas was easier than I thought it would be,” Hudson said. “Though I did think I was going to be painting them in the garage.”

Gracefully, HBA allowed her to scale the height of the canvases down to five-feet-six-inches from the original six-feet, because they didn’t fit through her studio door.

To bring consistency between the three paintings, Hudson limited herself to 12 colours.

“One of the things they wanted was vibrancy and colour, a touch of abstract, not totally realistic.”

It’s a considerable jump into being a professional painter as Hudson started as an adult and has only been painting since she sold Mineral World six years ago. She’s had to lay out the massive canvases on the same studio tables of her North Saanich home where she crafted jewelry.

“I’ve been mountaineering and hiking for decades and always shooting pictures. It’s those which I use for inspiration and to paint from. This is my retirement. I love it. I hope more can come from it.”

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Phillipa Hudson is producing three eight-feet wide paintings to hang in the newly renovated reception area of the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise in Banff National Park.

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Cycle tour raises mental health awareness

Hillary Werthmann commit-ted suicide 10 years ago, at the age of 20. On Wednesday, her father, Bill Werthmann, will head out on a cycle across Canada to raise awareness of mental health.

The trip, which is planned to wrap up in St. John’s, N.L. on July 13, will see Werthmann and two friends commemorate Hillary as they spark conversa-tion around depression, sui-

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Caleigh Bachop is the cap-tain, a leader and one of the reasons the Mount Douglas Rams track and field team has blown up to 85 members this year.

The team isn’t just big, it also stars a large number of contenders in many of the events, including the throwing events, which the Rams’ have struggled with in years past.

The Rams are chipping away at Oak Bay High’s monopoly of the Lower Island and Island track and field champion-ships. But Bachop just wants to see her team do its best and draw another 85 athletes out next year, when the Grade 12 student will be in her first year the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the leadership-based Morehead-Cain Scholarship program.

“(Mount Doug’s) goal for track is just maximum par-ticipation,” Bachop said. “If everyone comes out and runs their horses off, I’ll be so proud. The momentum is building, if we aim for that title the program will keep going.”

Bachop’s specialty is the 800-metre though she’s also an accomplished cross-coun-try and 1,500m runner too. The 800m is in her blood, so to speak.

Her dad, Steve, ran the 1,500m and 800m for the UVic Vikings. Her mom, Cindy, ran the 1,500m and 800m at the University of Alberta.

“Getting Mount Doug’s team this big has been a group effort between coach Al Niezen and sponsor teachers,” Bachop said. “We have 12 coaches, a lot of them alumni who’ve come back, and for a team of 85 athletes that’s awesome. Students are coming in who haven’t done any events and there’s a coach for each.

Bachop believes the variety of options boosts the num-bers.

“About 70 of the track and field athletes show up regu-larly for training,” Niezen said.

“Bachop has been really try-ing to inspire the team to new heights. She’s talked to the team and is trying to install a positive work ethic, and to try new events.”

The Rams are trying to gain points for the Island champi-onship but Niezen is unsure if the team is ready to dethrone Oak Bay.

“It kind of depends on how many athletes show up and how they do. If we get the big turnout, we can get those points.”

More than anything, Bachop wants to see the team stay as big as it is after she’s gone, and so is working to develop

social side of it with a focus on team building.

“We’ve had a bowling night and took a team road trip to a meet in Vancouver with some decent numbers, but we’ve still never had all 85 athletes

out. That is the goal,” she said.The Lower Island track and

field championships are at UVic on May 8.

The Island championships are May 15-16.

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Mount Douglas secondary student Caleigh Bachop is the captain of the burgeoning Rams high school track and field team.

Putting the Rams on track Velox rugby seek promotionCaptain a rallying point for booming

Mount Douglas Rams track teamTravis PatersonNews staff

The Velox Valhallians are on the precipice of returning to the province’s top rugby competi-tion, the CDI Premier League.

The Valhallians topped the Nanaimo Hornets 46-20 at home on Saturday to win the Cowichan Cup, Tier 2 Island championship.

The Valhallians host the Tier 2 provincial semifinal on Saturday, 3 p.m. against Abbots-ford. The winner advances to the B.C. final and a chance at promotion to the eight-team CDI Premier League.

“When you look at the club’s history we’ve never won a (men’s) B.C. final,” said first year men’s coach Aaron Frisby. The former Velox premier player coached the Velox Valkyries to the B.C. women’s championship last year.

“It’s a big ask but it’s expected of us. When you’re not playing premier rugby the support falls off. It’s hard to get premier quality players when you’re not in the CDI Premier League.”

Abbotsford is 11-4-1 in Tier 2 Mainland play this season after being relegated with just one win in 14 CDI matches last season. Velox was rel-egated in 2011 and has toiled in Tier 2 the past two seasons in the confusingly named Okana-gan Brewery League 1. This year Velox played in the Island’s Tier 2 equivalent Cowichan Cup.

The key to Velox’s revival is getting premier quality and even national level players. Once the door opens, more will follow.

“We’re looking at other options, including UVic, which we believe has a lot of premier quality of players that don’t get identified because the program is so deep.”

Saturday is a triple header for Velox men’s rugby as they host a Div. 3 semifinal vs. the Brit Lions at 11:30 a.m. and face Abbotsford in the Okanagan Brewery League 2 semi at 1:15 p.m.

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VicSoccer’s debut as a rec soccer league couldn’t have started on a busier day.

The first game was Sunday at 5 p.m., about eight hours after many of the city’s most active resi-dents ran the TC10K.

Eighteen players showed up to play the inaugu-ral VicSoccer match at Hampton Park. Not a bad turnout despite the original time being bumped two hours by the Gorge FC women’s provincial B Cup soccer match.

“It’s going to take a little time but the word of mouth is getting out there,” said VicSoccer orga-nizer Steve Teska.

“The main message we want to spread is that we are not trying to compete or take away from any of the other leagues in the city. We are just giving another option for the players to have a run around.”

The next match is Saturday, 3 p.m. at Hampton Park. Signup is online at vicsoccer.ca.

“It’s a pretty good response since only a handful of people are promoting it around the city so far,” Teska said.

The soccer fanatic is willing to roll with the punches that come with getting a league off the ground, especially one that’s a bit outside the box compared to what the city is used to.

“It’s a new concept,” Teska said. “The way it works is there’s no official teams in VicSoccer. Players are competing for themselves and every-one else.”

When you sign up you choose a side, possibly with your friend, for example, and your position, which is on a first-come-first-serve basis.

“You show up, get your jersey, take your posi-tion and you go from there. It’s amazing to see how well the people gel and come together. It’s very interactive and social.”

Though it’s new in Victoria the league is based on a proven model, KWSoccer, in Teska’s home-town of Kitchener-Waterloo.

“KWSoccer is successfully entering its fourth year with over 2,000 followers, which is about five percent of the soccer community in Kitchener-Waterloo,” Teska said.

“It takes a while but people come to understand it. Stats are kept online, and prizes go to the top point getters, etc. We are competitive, but it’s a completely new concept and the players learn that.”

All 11-a-side matches are officiated as are most nine-a-side matches. Teska plans to host games big and small.

“In three years there’s been zero cards issued, not a suspension or ejection, no fights or anything. It’s a respect thing. We know we’re not out to win the World Cup.”

VicSoccer is for players 16-and-over and Teska is hoping to add women’s and masters age games, run year-round, and expand to other fields.

“With registrants interacting through social media we can do so much. The league is about flexbility. Prices vary but they’re quite reasonable and we provide a true soccer experience.”

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VicSoccer organizer Steve Teska, a former Victoria Highlanders employee, sees a market for a flexible but competitive soccer league in Victoria.

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

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

FRENCH PROVINCIAL matching chesterfi eld and chair (green), both in very good condition. Wood and glass coffee table, wooden legs, glass top, in very good condition. Asking $250 for all 3 items. Call (250)592-0304.

MEDICAL SUPPLIES

MEADOW PRO Respiratory care unit with Concentrator & Patient instructions. $2500. (250)478-3769.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

2 MICHELIN Tires, (Ice and Snow), 205/55R16, like new, 1 year old, $200 for the pair. Call (250)360-0892.

CONSTRUCTION TOOLS- Hilti Makita, Ridgid, Bostitch and more. Call (250)479-3950.

CUSTOM WOODWORK: Re-covered wood; furniture, pic-ture framing. Built in or mobile furniture at reasonable prices. Call (250)812-8646.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

DIGITAL CANNON camera, used once. Evolution Walker, used 1 month never put out-side, fold up basket. Steno chair. Call (250)380-4092.

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

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

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

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

TOOLS

DRYWALL TOOLS- texture machine, open to offers. (250)478-8921.

SERJOB

CAREER VICES/SEARCH

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

COLLEGE HEIGHTS. 3-level,4bdrm +1bdrm suite. BeautifulOcean & City views. 0%Down! Easy to buy. Call(250)753-0160 for more info.

COLLEGE HEIGHTS. 5bdrm +1bdrm suite. GorgeousOcean & City views. Easy tobuy. 0% Down! Call (250)753-0160 for more info.

COLLEGE HEIGHTS. Beauti-ful Ocean & City views.4bdrms + 2bdrm suite. Easy tobuy. 0% down. (250)753-0160for more info.

WATER VIEW FROM EVERY WINDOW; Must see 2 year oldWesthills home in pristine con-dition. 2261 sq’ 4 bdrm, 4baths incl. custom master en-suite with 6’ whirlpool tub. Le-gal 1 bdrm. suite with sep. en-trance incl. W/D; Many extras.everything still under warranty.OPEN HOUSE Friday. Sat &Sunday 12.30 - 4pm for moreinfo.call 778-433-1767 or go to propertyguys.com ID#192352------- 3042 Waterview Close

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TRANSPORTATION

TOP CASH PAID

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Free Towing $$$ 250-885-1427 $$$

AUTO SERVICES

AUTO FINANCING

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

COZY COTTAGE on 2.14 acres a stone’s throw from the ocean. This 800sqft, 2 bed-room home was completely renovated in 2007 with new electric, plumbing, bathroom, kitchen, roof, etc. It is close to schools, a corner store, and neighbourhood pub and is only 5 kms to downtown Courte-nay. The property is zoned for 2 dwellings so you could live in the cottage while building your dream home and after rent out the cottage for extra revenue. Gardener’s paradise with sev-eral heritage fruit trees, ber-ries, grape vines and beautiful roses. The Royston area re-ceived a grant this year to put in sewer. (778)428-1159.

GARDENER’S PARADISE1 acre. 4-bdrm character

home, 1800 sq.ft. Wired shop, Shed. 1720 Swartz Bay Rd., $555,000. (250)656-1056.

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

GORDON HEAD- (4062 Felt-ham Pl) 3 bdrm Rancher, w/appls, F/P, garage. Close to Uvic, Shelbourne. $519,000. Move-in now, Motivated seller. MLS #321255. 250-514-3286.

MUST SEE: 3 Bdrm, 1 1/2 Bath, sep. offi ce with private entry nestled in Qualicum Woods. Just 5 mins to Village, beach, forest & 2 golf courses. Low maint. gardens, fenced backyard, offers privacy & peaceful surrounding. Lots of updates & reno’s, infra-red sauna in garage. $349,000.00 If interested call:250-594-5654

Sidney luxury Condo- beauti-ful 2 Bdrms, 2 full baths, close to downtown, ocean views. #201-9942-Third St. $498,000.778-351-1239 ID#192331www.propertyguys.com

HOUSES FOR SALE

Incredible 5 acre treed PARK-LIKE PROPERTY

with Well-Maintained Furnished Home - 1500 sq.ft, 3-bdrm,

2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake,

in the town of Caycuse. Perfect for recreational

property or full time living. Motivated seller $378,800.

Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land.

Call [email protected]

HOMES WANTED

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REAL ESTATE

MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

OTTER POINT RV Trailer Park. 40’ park model trailer (no pad fees) 3 slide outs + 30’x52’ lot, fi nished deck & shed in new condition. Open to offers. Call 306-290-8764.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

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.

DUNSMUIR HOUSETHE NICEST

OCEANFRONT PARK1 BDRM- $850.

Heat, hot water included. New kitchen/bathroom.

No smoking!(250) 388-4943 or

(250) 813-2134

ESQUIMALT- LRG 2 bdrm, $950 *1/2 month free*, W/D. 55+. NS/NP. (250)385-7256.

SAANICH, STUDIO Apt, laun-dry, cable, heat, hydro, $675. 250-748-1310, 250-380-7421.

SIDNEY 1-bdrm, top fl oor cor-ner. Balcony, prkg. N/S. $800./ mo. June 1. (250)812-4154.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

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

HOMES FOR RENT

SIDNEY 2 Bdrm upper. Hdwd fl rs, garage, laundry. Cat OK. N/S. $1300. (250)812-4154.

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

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

SUITES, LOWER

BRENTWOOD BAY- 1 bdrm grd level suite, priv entrance, NS/NP. D/W, W/D. $800+ utils. Call (250)652-1725.

COLWOOD- 2 level, 1 bdrm. 5 appls. $900. inclusive. NS/NP. 250-380-0700.

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

RENTALS

SUITES, LOWER

COLWOOD- REFURBISHED 2 bdrm bsmt suite, $900 inclds utils. June 1. Call 250-391-9923 after 12 noon.

DEEP COVE lrg 1 bdrm, acreage, hot tub. W/D, cat ok, N/S. $850+ util. 250-656-1312

GLANFORD. 2-BDRM, 1100 sq.ft. bright/quiet. Reno’d kitch & bdrm, 8’ closet. W/D, full bath, storage, priv entr, 25x30 yrd, near bus & amens. N/S, N/P. $980. heat, h/w, hydro/ net incld. Refs. 250-704-0197.

GLEN LAKE- newly reno’d, close to bus, trails, shopping, utils incld, shared W/D. $850. N/S. Pet? (250)216-4291.

LANGFORD (Costco). Bus, shops, school. 2 Bdrm suite, fenced yard, 4 appls, water incl’d, shared laundry, $1000 mo + utils, NS/NP. Avail immed. Call (250)881-2283.

SIDNEY: BRIGHT 1Bdrm grnd level, private entry, $700 incls utils. No laundry. Avail now. NS/NP. 250-655-1917

SIDNEY- (CLOSE to down-town, beach access) 1 bdrm newly reno’d, shared W/D, lrg fenced yrd+ patio, on bus route. Pet? $850. inclusive. Call (250)514-2533.

SIDNEY, Greenglade area. Avail. now! Bright, newly re-no’d 2 bdrm, W/D, storage, parking. NS/NP. 1 yr lease. $900. + utils. (778)426-4556.

SUITES, UPPER

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

SIDNEY LRG 2 bdrm Apt, 1.5 bath, modern open kitchen, garage, 1 blk to ocean/main St. Garden, sunroom/den, W/D, D/W, F/P, parking, N/S, N/P. $1365 + utils. Avail June. 1st. Call Geoff 250-508-3937.

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO FINANCING

DreamTeam Auto Financing“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK -

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www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

CARS

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

$50 to $1000Scrap Junk

Broken Down Cars Trucks Vans

FREE TOW AWAY

250-686-3933

SPORTS & IMPORTS

2004 FORD MUSTANG Con-vertible, 40th anniversary Spe-cial Edition. Black Beauty! 56,000 km, V-6 automatic, new soft top, fully loaded. $11,500 obo. Serious inquiries only. 250-474-1293, Barb.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLESFOR SALE

2000, 26’ Golden Falcon 5th wheel, 3 way fridge, slide out, new hot water 10gal tank, queen bed. In exc. cond. Stored in Ladysmith. $7200 fi rm. Call (250)580-2566.

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES

VTRUCKS & ANS

2008 TOYOTA TACOMA 4x4- mint, 65,000 km, 4 doors, au-tomatic. Asking $26,700. Call (250)655-6558.

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TRANSPORTATION

UTILITY TRAILERS

7’x12’ Deck Utility Trailer. Good for small tractors and quads. 4 wheels, loading ramps, green. $1350 obo. Call (250)384-7954.

MARINE

BOATS

$$$$ BOATS WANTED $$$$ AlSO OUTBOARDS AND TRAILERS. CASH BUYER. $$$$$ 250-544-2628 $$$$$

TOTAL PACKAGE now! 39’ Tradewinds Asp Cabin Crusi-er, twin Cummins diesels, en-closed sundeck & bridge, 2 heads sleeps 4-6. Very well maintained, boat house kept in North Saanich Marina. Asking $116,000. 50’ x 25’ enclosed boathouse available as part of complete cruising and moor-age package. Ready to go! Call (250)361-7343.

GARAGE SALES

COLWOOD- 3383 Aloha Ave, Sat, May 4, 9-3pm. Vintage clothing, toys, freezer, brass beds, sm fridge+ more.

COLWOOD MULTI-FAMILY- 3265-3271 Wishart Rd, Sat, May 4, 9-3. Sports, household, clothing and misc.

FERNWOOD Plant sale. Fri., Sat 8-4pm. Tomato, Fushia, dahlia tubers, geraniums, per-ennials. 2335 Shakespeare St

GARAGE Sale Rock and Roll Saturday May 4, 9-4pm 1000 CD’s from 70’s-80’s. 100 Trib-ute posters, Cassettes galore, Numark Mixing equipment and professional speakers (will sell separately) , Xbox, Playstation 2 and games. ETC... 792 Kona Crescent----- 250-727-0890

OAK BAY, 1970 Lulie St., Sat, May. 4th, 8:30am-12pm. Too many items to list. No earlies!

GARAGE SALES

SIDNEY. SAT. May 4, 8am-2pm. Street garage sale on Bowcott Place, cul-de-sac off Canora Rd. Tools, books, adult clothes, shoes, house-hold items, etc.

Garage SalesGarage Sales

SERVICE DIRECTORYwww.bcclassified.com 250.388.3535

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.


CARPENTRY

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

CLEANING SERVICES

HOUSEKEEPER EXPERI-ENCED, reliable. References. 250-920-6516, 250-881-7444.

COMPUTER SERVICES

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


DRAFTING & DESIGN

HOME RENOVATIONDesign for PermitCall Steven- 250. 381.4123.

ELECTRICAL

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

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

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.

THE LANGFORD MAN- decks, fences, quality work, competitive pricing, licensed & insured. Fred, (250)514-5280.

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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? Aerating, pwr raking, pruning. Weed, moss, blackberry, stump & ivy rmvl. 25yrs exp.


GARDENING

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

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

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GARDENING

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GARDENING

ACTION YARD CARE. 15 + years exp. Honest & reliable. Quality work. 250-744-6918.

Bryan’s Lawn & GardenMaintenance, Clean-UpsPruning, Landscaping Pwr Washing, Irrigation

30 Years Experience Best prices Guaranteed

[email protected]

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

ELITE GARDEN MAINTENANCEClean ups, Lawn and Garden Care,

Landscaping Projects, Horticultural.

778-678-2524

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

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

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

MIKE’S LAWN and Garden. Weeding, Clean-ups, & more. Senior’s discount. Free esti-mate’s. Mike 250-216-7502.

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


GARDENING

YARD ART Tree, Hedge & Shrub Pruning Lawn Care. 250-888-3224

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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

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

HANDYPERSONS

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

AROUND THE HOUSE.ca ALL repairs & renovations. Call Ben 250-884-6603.

BEETLES RESIDENTIAL Renovations Ltd. Bathrooms, decks, painting, landscaping and handyman services. Fully insured and guaranteed. Free estimates. Call 250-889-4245.

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

HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

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


HAULING AND SALVAGE

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.

JUNK BOX- We Do All The Loading

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.

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


HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

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

FLOORING SALEOver 300 Choices

Lowest Prices Guaranteed!Laminates - $0.59/sq ftEngineered - $1.99 sq ftHardwood - $2.79 sq ft

Overnight Delivery in most of BC!www.kingoffl oors.com1.877.835.6670

M&S OXFORD Home/Com-mercial Reno’s & Painting. Patio’s, Decks, Sheds, Hard-wood and Trim. 25 yrs exp. Quality Guar. 250-213-5204.

SMALL JOBRENOVATIONS

& HOME REPAIR

Phone: (250) 213-5781• Kitchen and bathroom• Home suites to code • Fencing, decks, porches• 15% discount for seniors

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


MASONRY & BRICKWORK

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

& MOVING STORAGE

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave Moving- 2 men, 5 ton, $85/hr.

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.

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

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

STRAIGHT Line Pro Moving Servic-es. 15 years exp. “A” rating, in-sured, WCB, fast effi cient, friendly exp crews call 250 883 4229 Low rates.

WRIGHT BROS Moving. $80/HR, 2 men/3 ton. Seniors discount. Philip (250)383-8283

PAINTING

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

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

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


PAINTING

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

SAFEWAY PAINTING

High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior

Residential/Commercial Jeff, 250-472-6660 Cell 250-889-7715

Member BBB

ST PAINTING free est, written guarantee and full ref’s. WCB ins. Call Kaleb (250)884-2597.

Peacock Painting

Commercial/ResidentialInterior/Exterior

250-652-2255250-882-2254Written Guarantee

Call for detailsBudget Compliance

15% SENIORS DISCOUNT

PLUMBING

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

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


PLUMBING

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

PRESSURE WASHING

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

STUCCO/SIDING

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

TREE SERVICES

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

UPHOLSTERY

UPHOLSTERER NEEDS work. Your fabric or mine.250-480-7937.

WINDOW CLEANING

BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning.Roof demoss, Gutters. Licensed and affordable. 250-884-7066.

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.

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 - Friday, May 3, 2013 www.vicnews.com • A19Page 22 week beginning May 2, 2013 Real Estate Victoria OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

105-225 Belleville, $449,000Sunday 1-3Victoria Classic RealtyShaun Lees 250 386-1997 pg. 9

4-1001 Terrace, $339,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBonnie Johnston 250 744-3301 pg. 6

1273 Denman St, $539,000Saturday 1-2:30Sutton Group West Coast RealtyShelly Reed, 250-213-7444

541 Cornwall, $789,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422 pg. 11

214-50 Songhees, $449,900Sunday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunDaniel Clover 250 507-5459 pg. 9

204-1715 Richmond, $249,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesRick Couvelier, 250-477-0921 pg. 8

5 Gorge Rd E, $419,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyCamela Slack, 250-661-4088

654 Langford, $369,000Sunday 2-4Century 21 QueenswoodBrian Meredith-Jones 250 477-1100 pg. 16

3020 Washington, $391,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Elfi e Jeeves, 250-477-7291 pg. 11

1121 Kings, $625,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalSharen Warde, 250-592-4422 pg. 26

116-75 Songhees, $998,000Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 6

636 Belton, $439,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalPat Meadows, 250-592-4422 pg. 10

1255 RichardsonSaturday & Sunday 2-4Sutton West CoastMikko Ikonen 250 479-3333 pg. 26


1102-835 View St, $349,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Peter Crichton, 250-889-4000 pg. 5

101-75 Songhees, $685,000Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 6

1741 Patly, $1,197,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Cathy Travis, 250-384-8124 pg. 10


302-1000 McClure, $199,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 592-4422 pg. 9

1903 Chambers St, $425,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyCheri Crause, 250-592-4422

208-1025 Hillside, $229,000Saturday 2-4Sutton West Coast RealtyJonas Solberg 250 479-3333 pg. 25

733A Humboldt (200 Douglas)Saturday - Monday noon - 5 pmMacdonald Realty Helene Roy, 250 883-2715 pg. 1

3161 Alder St, $535,000Sunday 1-4Access Realty Ltd.Dave Vogel, 250-588-8378 pg. 10

1446 Pembroke, $349,900Sunday 1-3Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 pg. 10

3-9 Moss, $649,000Saturday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunJason Leslie, 250-478-9600 pg. 11


1763 Bay, $375,000Saturday 2-4Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd.250-383-7100 pg. 1

1440 Slater Pl, $659,900Saturday & Sunday 1-4Re/Max CamosunDan Juricic, 250-514-8261

5-216 Russell, $469,900Sunday 2-4DFH Real EstateDavid Dand 250 477-7291 pg. 8

107-250 Douglas, $231,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate LtdLynnell Davidge, 250-477-7291 pg. 8

306-75 Songhees, $698,000Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 8

1720 Beach, $1,050,000Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyKathryn Alexander, 250-881-4440 pg. 11

402-2340 Oak Bay, $315,000Sunday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunJason Leslie, 250-478-9600 pg. 12

12-1519 Cooper Rd, $189,900Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyColin Walters, 250-479-3333 pg. 12

215 Helmcken, $509,000Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalSharen Warde, 250-592-4422 pg. 26

59-14 Erskine LaneSunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLorraine Williams, 250-216-3317 pg. 12

7-126 Hallowell, $399,900Sunday 1-3Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 pg. 12

317 Bessborough, $795,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunLorraine Stundon 250 812-0642 pg. 25

204-837 Selkirk Ave, $279,900Saturday 2-4Address Realty Ltd.Rob Angus, 250-391-1893

1158 Greenwood, $489,900Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalMark McDougall, 250-588-8588 pg. 13

376 Kinver St., $409,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Pemberton HolmesAllen Tepper, 250-686-6325 pg. 13

730 Rockheights, $634,900Saturday 1-3One Percent RealtyTania McFadden, 250-589-0248 pg. 12

2606 Midnight Pl, $648,500Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Tricia Basi, 250-384-8124 pg. 19

4-854 Caroline, $589,900Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyJim Russell 250 592-4422 pg. 12

205-1571 Mortimer, $209,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalRosemarie Colterman 250 592-4422 pg. 9

1533 Granada Cres, $539,900Saturday 11-1Re/Max CamosunRick Turcotte, 250-744-3301

4341 Cedar Hill RdSaturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyKami Norman, 250-477-5353 pg. 13

22-899 Royal Oak, $598,800Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Frank Chan, 250-477-7291 pg. 17

304-1663 McKenzie, $382,500Saturday 11-1Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882 pg. 14

1801 LavalSunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyFred Lerch, 250-889-2528 pg. 13

3672-1507 Queensbury, $549,900Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Susan Carley, 250-477-7291 pg. 17

304-1618 North Dairy, $329,900Sunday 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882 pg. 14

723 Lily Ave, $589,900Sunday 2:30-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyKim Mohns, 250-479-3333 pg. 26

3963 Juan De Fuca Terr.Saturday 2-4 & Sunday 11-1Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith, 250-818-6662

2-4360 Emily Carr Dr, $635,000Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Mike Lock, 250-384-8124 pg. 13

12-3255 Rutledge, $291,000Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyHiro Nakatani, 250-661-4476

4029 EliseSaturday & Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalGiovanna Balaiban, 250-477-5353 pg. 14

804 Beckwith, $529,900Saturday 2-4Sutton group West CoastKomal Dodd, 250-479-3333 pg. 14

3224 Bellevue Rd, $639,000Sunday 12:30-2SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra, 250-889-3926 pg. 13

3236 Cedar Hill, $574,500Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 13

20-1286 Tolmie, $519,900Saturday 11-1Pemberton HolmesRick Couvelier, 250-477-0921 pg. 9

102-1660 Feltham, $339,900Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12-5Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Ivica Kalabric, 250-384-8124 pg. 7

4030/4040 Borden StSaturday & Sunday 2-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250-658-0967 pg. 1

5131 Delmonte Ave, $694,900Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGoran Tambic, 250-592-4422 pg. 13

4634 Amblewood, $899,000Saturday 2:30-4One Percent RealtyGuy Effl er, 250-812-4910 pg. 25

2320 Hollyhill, $659,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyJacqueline Squire 250 477-1100 pg. 14

1273 Filmer, $529,000Friday 11-1 & Saturday & Sunday 1-3RE/MAX CamosunJason Leslie, 250-478-9600 pg. 14

5313 Sunter’s Track, $899,900Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesRick Couvelier, 250-477-0921 pg. 14

15-5187 Cordova Bay, $749,000Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalSharen Warde, 250-592-4422 pg. 26

315-1010 Bristol Rd, $254,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDavid Stevens, 250-477-5353

220-1680 Poplar Ave, $166,900Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesJeff Shorter, 250-384-8124 pg. 6

4901 Sea Ridge, $610,000Saturday 2-4Fair RealtyKevin Ramsay, 250-217-5091 pg. 14

4541 Pheasantwood, $899,900Sunday 2-4Sutton group West CoastDeborah Kline, 250-661-7680 pg. 14

5178 Rambler Rd., $939,888Saturday 2-4Sutton group West CoastDeborah Kline, 250-661-7680 pg. 14

2201 Arbutus Cove, $1,349,000Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalSharen Warde, 250-592-4422 pg. 26

7-910 Maltwood Terr, $459,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunDeborah Coburn, 250-812-5333 pg. 5

2-909 Carolwood, $499,900Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 8

2829 Arbutus, $995,000Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyJordy Harris, 250-385-2033 pg. 6

101 Kiowa Pl, $1,199,950Sunday 2-4Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-818-8736

4058 Raymond St, $439,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jenn Raappana, 250-590-3921

8-7751 E Saanich, $349,000Saturday 2-3Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

8655 Forest Park, $699,000Sunday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

10500 McDonald Park, $585,000Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesNicole Burgess 250 384-8124 pg. 8

32-7751 E Saanich, $349,000Saturday 2-3Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

98-7701 Central Saanich, $149,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

6665 Buena Vista, $624,000Saturday 2-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

8546 Aldous, $549,900Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyNoah Dobson 250 385-2033 pg. 18

8930 Tumbo Pl, $1,075,000Saturday 2:30-4:30Re/Max CamosunJason Binab, 250-744-3301

2244 Mills Rd, $539,900Saturday 3-5Fair RealtyChris Dusseault, 250-516-8773 pg. 18

302-9945 Fifth St, $314,900Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyColin Walters, 250-479-3333 pg. 18

1739 Lopez Pl, $779,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyDavid Harvey, 250-385-2033 pg. 15

9706 Fifth St, $599,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunCraig Walters, 250-655-0608 pg. 18

2428 Mt St Michael, $549,000Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291 pg. 18

2410 Prima Vista, $549,900Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422 pg. 18

9766 Fourth St.Tuesday-Saturday 1-3Gordon Hulme RealtyDon King 250-516-1202 pg. 8

9876 Seventh St, $509,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunPeter Gray, 250-744-3301 pg. 15

8520 Ballenas Pl., $729,000Sunday 2-3Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

203-2427 Amherst Ave, $184,000Saturday 1-3Sparling Real Estate Ltd.Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511 pg. 15

1380 Oceanspray Dr, $524,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Judy Gerrett, 250-656-0131 pg. 15

1739 Lopez PlaceSaturday 2-4Newport RealtyDavid Harvey, 250-385-2033 pg. 18

Lot 1 York Ridge Pl, $325,000Sunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunDeborah Coburn, 250-812-1989 pg. 2

Lot 1 York Ridge Pl, $325,000Sunday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunDeborah Coburn, 250-812-1989 pg. 21

101-982 Rattanwood, $319,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 19

2916 Mt Wells, $439,900Sunday 12:30-2SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683 pg. 20

1024 Grob CourtDaily 12-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Mike Hartshorne, 250-889-4445

1177 Deerview Pl, $699,500Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 19

2827 Lake End RdSaturday 2:30-4SmartMove Real EstateBlair Veenstra, 250-380-6683 pg. 19

207-2732 Matson Rd, $285,900Wednesday-Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunNeil Docherty, 250-478-9600 pg. 5

2680 Deville Rd, $379,900Sunday 4-5Fair RealtyChris Dusseault, 250-516-8773 pg. 19

838 Pears Rd., $475,000Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesCorie Meyer, 250-384-8124 pg. 20

2588 Legacy Ridge, $474,900Saturday 1-3One Percent RealtyMaria Furtado 250 881-3754 pg. 20

4859 Rocky Point, $399,900Saturday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808 pg. 16

2383 Echo Valley Dr, $605,000Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyInder Taneja, 250-686-8228 pg. 19

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2742 Whitehead Pl, $329,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyCamela Slack, 250-661-4088

2216 Players Dr., $709,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Deidra Junghans, 250-474-6003 pg. 20

991 Acadian Rd, $424,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 20

103-982 Rattanwood, $319,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 19

4042 Metchosin, $529,900Sunday 2:30-4SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683 pg. 20

933 Step Moss Cl, $699,000Sunday 2-4Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-818-8736

962 Dunford, $439,900Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastKomal Dodd 250 479-3333 pg. 19

637 Rason, $489,900Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyFred Lerch, 250-889-2528 pg. 20

875 Wild Ridge Way, $419,900Sunday 2:30-4SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683 pg. 20

642 Hope Rd, $519,900Sunday 2-4Sutton West Coast RealtyElke Pettipas 250 479-3333 pg. 20

741 Bexhill Rd, $499,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808 pg. 16

294 Hatley Lane, $829,800Saturday 11-1Re/Max CamosunDale Sheppard, 250-478-9600

203-594 Bezanton Way, $294,000Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 6

107-608 Fairway, $317,900Saturday 12-2DFH Real Estate Ltd.Mike Hartshorne, 250-590-3921

2688 Deville, $229,900Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Deidra Junghans, 250-474-6003 pg. 20

1015 Braeburn Ave. Friday to Monday 12-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Mike Hartshorne, 250-516-7772

2367 Sunriver, $469,900Saturday 2-4Macdonald RealtyJane Logan, 250-920-6868 pg. 21

5577 Medberry, $699,000Saturday 2-3Century 21 QueenswoodRuth Stark 250 477-1100 pg. 16

6962 BrailsfordSaturday 2-4RE/MAX AllianceRon Neal, 250-386-8181 pg. 28

2461 Sooke River, $389,900Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyNoah Dobson, 250-385-2033 pg. 21

5575 Medberry Cl, $579,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-385-2033

6999 Brailsford, $599,900Saturday 2-4One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242 pg. 26

525 Saltspring View, $589,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 21

2216 Baron Rd, $469,000Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtySandra Govender, 250-592-4422

3582 Pechanga, $449,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalGary Bazuik, 250-477-5353 pg. 21

1630 Kristen Way, $359,900Saturday 11-1Pemberton HolmesApril Spackman, 250-818-0942 pg. 25

Park Place, $339,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Re/Max of DuncanKim Johannsen 250 748-7200 pg. 24

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Chatting and laughing outside the gym, three young men wait eagerly to start their third powerlifting session. The main goal: to get big muscles, they say.

The Langford CrossFit gym normally booms with the sound of music and crash-ing weights, but it is unusually quiet on this Sunday afternoon.

Twins Scott and Neil Mauridis, 19, and Kyle Valad, 23, wait in silence for coach Ray Hodgkinson to begin the 1.5 hour weekly session in the gym, lit only by the sun streaming through a window.

The athletes listen carefully to instruc-tions but show apprehension when weights are added to the shiny, silver weightlifting bar. As the volunteer coach adds a 15-pound plate on each side, their concern becomes vocal.

“Yikes,” says Kyle, followed by, “That’s scary,” from Scott.

The three young men began training with Special Olympics B.C.-Victoria 18 months ago. They all participate in track and field, floor hockey and basketball. Kyle qualified to compete in the B.C. Special Olympics for track and field and will run in the 200-metre sprint in July.

But this is their first shot at powerlifting.Scott approaches the bar slowly,

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A wide grin illuminates his face as he walks away proudly.

While Kyle readies himself at the bar, Hodgkinson guides him through proper form. Keep your back flat and arms straight, he tells the young man. After three reps, Kyle, too, leaves the bar stand-ing tall.

Neil, Scott’s twin, has been watching the two and with a little push from his mom, he’s ready to give it a try. He struggles to lift the bar and only wants to use his fin-gertips. His mom cheers for him, and Neil walks away saying “just one.”

“You can’t walk away without a high-five,” Hodgkinson says raising his hand.

“Their progress is pretty good with technique and form,” says Hodgkinson, a former Nanaimo Timbermen lacrosse player. “Today we got up to 65 pounds and we started with an eight-pound trainer bar. That’s measurable progress (in three weeks).”

This is the first time Special Olympics powerlifiting has been offered in Greater Victoria and this short program was cre-ated to see if it could become an annual one. Special Olympics B.C.- Victoria will assess the program in June and it may con-tinue in the fall.

“Special Olympics is a really good pro-gram and it opens doors (to opportuni-ties) for them that most people don’t get,” says Caroline Mauridis, Scott and Neil’s mother and Kyle’s caregiver. “In my family, we don’t close the door until they see that they can’t do something.”

The three athletes, all who have Down syndrome and live in Saanich, are train-ing with Hodgkinson in a 12-week pilot program, which he hopes will grow and develop.

“Eventually we’ll be going to meets and going to other regions. These guys want to compete,” Hodgkinson said.

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“We’ve had interest in the past, but never had a coach or enough volunteers. This is only possible because Ray is volun-teering his time and CrossFit Zone is donat-ing the space.”

“I jumped at the opportunity, it was a no brainer,” says Hodgkinson. “I had a sister who had Down syndrome.”

Hodgkinson’s sister, Selina, died at 14 months after complications from surgery.

“I always wanted to help kids with spe-cial needs,” Hodgkinson says. “I do this in my sister’s memory.”

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Relief from carbon tax on farms and promotion of B.C.-grown agricultural products are key promises in the campaign for the May 14 provincial elec-tion.

The B.C. Liberal Party and the B.C. NDP have argued for a decade about the best way to promote local food consump-tion. The NDP platform prom-ises to reinstate the “Buy B.C.” program that identifies prod-ucts grown anywhere in the province.

The B.C. Liberal government ended that program, and in 2012 it committed $2 million to regional “Buy Local” promo-tions that they say are more adaptable to local needs. The party’s current platform prom-ises to double that funding to “promote 50- and 100-mile diets.”

Neither party is specific about assistance for tree fruit growers. The NDP pledges to “help orchardists with replant-ing and other costs,” while the B.C. Liberals offer to “begin work on a permanent and sustainable tree fruit replant program, to be implemented fol-lowing the current three-year, $2 million program.”

In its pre-election budget, the B.C. Liberal government has offered $20 million in carbon tax relief for greenhouse and flower growers, in addition to an exemption for coloured gasoline and diesel used on farms.

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• The B.C. NDP promises $8 million per year starting in 2014 for agriculture programs. Plans include pilot programs to use B.C. produce in hospitals and long-term care facilities.

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Hike for HospiceAs people lace up their shoes and

set off on the second annual Hike for Hospice this Sunday, they’ll be walking together in celebration of those who receive hospice care and those who deliver it.

“We see the relationship between Victoria Hospice and the community as a supportive and necessary one,” says Dave Traynor, communications manag-er of the Victoria Hospice. “We use the phrase ‘we care for the community we depend on.’ And it’s a pleasure to see the community come out to support us.”

Check in time for the hike is 9 a.m.,May 5, at Fisherman’s Wharf, and the 3.5 kilometre route, winding alongVictoria’s scenic waterfront, gets under-way at 10 a.m. Registration is at the site or online at www.victoriahospice.org/hike-for-hospice.

The hike gives people a chance to remember loved ones, raise awareness of hospice palliative care in general and promote work done by volunteers and professionals in the � eld. But it also rasies funds for the Victoria Hospice, a not-for-pro� t entity, which depends on collecting half of its annual $7 million budget directly from the community through donations.

“Without that support, we don’t con-tinue,” says Traynor.

More than 150 people (and many four-legged companions) took part in the inaugural event last year. Most of the teams had their own theme, dis-played prominently during the colour-ful “Parade of Teams,” which kicked off the day’s festivities.

The Victoria Hike for Hospice is

actually part of a larger, national event, organized by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, as part of National Hospice Palliative Care Week, May 5-11.

The national theme — “Canadians are aging. We’ve done the math. Have you?” — encourages professionals, caregivers and the public to advocate for better hospice palliative care . . . especially as the population ages.

The local message is similar, saysTraynor, “but it’s about the so-called ‘Silver Tsunami’ that is coming.”

He adds, “The Boomer demographic is a force of nature that has affected every age group it’s rolled over since World War 2. Awareness of the need for effective end-of-life strategies and programs is growing, and we’re going to see this become a much more public part of the health-care discussion. We believe that Victoria Hospice has a sig-ni� cant role to play, both in being part of the solution (increased availability of

hospice care) as well as lead-ing the growth and expertise of end-of-life care, which is about much more than just hospice care. It’s about living well until you die.”

Victoria Hospice is a registered charity that provides end-of-life care, offered in patients’ homes, or within the hospice’s 17-bed in-patient unit. It also provides medical consultation to patients in other health care facilities. Hospice staff and trained volunteers offer comfort for patients and support for their families, rather than attempting to cure progres-sive and life-limiting illness. Donations to Victoria Hospice can be made onlineat www.VictoriaHospice.org.

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A � ourishing rooftop garden is a much-loved feature of Victoria Hospice’s In-Patient Unit at the Richmond Pavillion.

“Gardens bring peace and comfort, and the rooftop garden is about having something visual and not clinical as patients and their families take a breather from hospice,” says Kelly Redlin, an organizer of Victoria Hospice’s fundraising Teeny Tiny Garden Tour. “Gardens are life af� rming.”

“Gardens and hospice care have strong links,” adds Dave Traynor, also of Victoria Hospice.

The rooftop garden was part of the inspiration to launch an annual fundraising garden tour — coming up on Sunday, June 9. The eighth annual event promises to be as popular, fun and informative as ever.

Participants will visit 14 small gardens, including a rose lovers’ haven, a garden that successfully works around rock, a water feature garden, and a garden that includes two beehives amid a miniature Garry Oak ecosystem.

The decision to focus on small, mostly backyard gardens sets this garden tour apart from others in Victoria.

“The name comes from the contrast between the gardens on our tour, which are usually in people’s back yards, and not something like Butchart, or large, multi-acre set-ups,” says Traynor. “But each one is unique and there’s always something special about them. The group of volunteers that organize the tour each year are passionate about their own gardens and they love to highlight those extra-special ones they � nd in their travels.”

An added feature this year will be inclusion of a master gardener available to answer questions at twoof the locations.

Tickets for the June 9 event can be purchased at Thrifty Foods locations, Dig This or the Victoria HospiceThrift Boutique, at 1315 Cook St.

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