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Every Tuesday and Thursday since May, Dennis Ohalloran has gotten his hands dirty, tending

to a veggie patch in the Blenkinsop Valley.

When his mental health worker sug-gested gardening, he was skeptical, despite its proven benefits for those with mental illness.

“I thought she was crazy,” said Ohalloran outside his 30-square-metre plot of cucumbers, radishes, beans, peas and lettuce.

“I thought it was pretty weird, then I came and did it and now I love grow-ing vegetables.”

Ohalloran is one of nine Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) cli-ents – people facing mental health or addictions issues and who are home-less or at risk of homelessness – who, along with five clients of Seven Oaks Tertiary Mental Health Facility, have grown vegetables at Blenkinsop Road farm as a part of the Feeding Our-selves and Others project.

“Provincial psychiatric hospitals were well known for having farming and animal husbandry and an oppor-tunity to grow their own food and to create opportunities for their patients and their staff in somewhat of a thera-

peutic milieu, a work therapy milieu if you will. We’re proud to be able to continue that tradition,” said Dr. Ian Musgrave, clinical director of ACT Services for the Vancouver Island Health Authority.

“Farming and getting your hands in the soil continues to be a real legacy of horticultural therapy. It’s wonderful to see Seven Oaks getting into that.”

Gardeners range in age from their 20s to their 60s and they are all over-coming obstacles most of us cannot even begin to imagine, said project co-ordinator David Stott.

“So many contributions have been

made,” said Stott, noting the dona-tion of gardening tools. “Perhaps most importantly time was contributed as well as advice, and especially the time of the participants.”

Provincial Court judge Ernie Quantz championed the idea for the project through his involvement with the Vic-toria Integrated Court.

“This is very much a community initiative,” Stott said. “It’s not just a Seven Oaks initiative. It’s not just a John Howard initiative. It’s not just an Integrated Court initiative. It’s every-one’s initiative and that’s why I feel really fortunate to be a part of this.”

Health Health and and healing healing in the in the gardengarden

Dennis Ohalloran shows produce he grew at Seven Oaks Tertiary Mental Health Facility on Blenkinsop Road. Ohalloran is one of 14 people who grew vegetables as a part of Feeding Ourselves and Others, a therapeutic gardening project that also supplies the Mustard Seed and Our Place with fresh food.

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Running for different reasons

There is a dense crush of wall-to-wall people when thousands runners pack the starting line on

Menzies street for the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon. The city, it seems, has no shortage of people who run.

On any given day, and especially weekends, the number of runners on the trails

around Elk Lake or Thetis Lake almost (but not quite) outnumber the dog walkers. Running clinics are flush with hundreds of marathon and half-marathoner hopefuls eying a personal best or training for a first race.

But within the ebb and flow of

fitness trends, road racing in Greater Victoria peaked about two years ago, and participant numbers are flattening or in decline.

The Victoria marathon topped out in 2010 with 13,995 finishers in four events (marathon, half-marathon, 8K and kids’ race). Last year it hit 11,674 – a 19 per cent drop. The TC10K, the other major running event in Victoria, saw 10,616 finishers in 2010, but dropped to 10,044 finishers this year.

“It’s a trend all across B.C. – on average, races are 12 per cent down,” said Bob Reid, treasurer of the Prairie Inn Harriers running club and a long-time race director and coach. “Newer races might be showing growth, but older races are plateauing or dropping slightly.”

An unsteady economy might seemingly influence athletics trends, but Reid doesn’t think so. He points to the growing

popularity of sports such as triathlon, which typically have high entry fees and expensive equipment.

“The economy doesn’t affect attendance. Money doesn’t have anything to do with it,” Reid said. “People have different interests. A lot like running, but not all like racing. Many people continue running for fitness, health and friendship.”

And despite the decline in racing attendance, people aren’t abandoning running. Support for most road race events in Greater Victoria remains strong and entries are far above numbers seen four or five years ago.

“It’s amazing we have two large races on the Island, races with over 10,000 (runners),” said Mark Nelson, co-owner of Frontrunners Langford and race director of the Bear Mountain 10K. “A lot of big cities don’t have two events of that size.

“In sheer quantity, there are nearly two events every weekend, on average, in the running and triathlon worlds ... with the majority in the Victoria area.”

Nelson said its difficult to pin down why some runners flock to some races and ignore others. This year’s first Goddess Run women’s only run sold out and had some 1,426 finishers in the half marathon, 10K and 5K races.

“The Victoria Goddess run did a good job. It’s a well-organized event that had a solid team,” Nelson said. “It had a great turnout for a first year event that had no history.”

The running culture in Victoria remains vibrant, but a race directors sense a definite shift in attitude.

Many recreational athletes have used running to build a fitness base and a launch point to other endurance sports, such as triathlon and adventure racing. Others have used running as another tool in their overall fitness regime that might include boot camps or CrossFit.

“There isn’t so much a running craze than an outdoor fitness craze,” Nelson said. “A lot of people might do trail running, the Victoria marathon, (Mind over Mountain) triathlon. A lot of people do a bit of everything.”

Phil Nicholls, owner of Island Runner and national-level marathoner in the 1990s,

says Victoria’s running culture has shifted over the decades, from a relatively small band of dedicated runners who trained intensely to a popularized activity for thousands of people looking for a challenge and to stay fit.

Nicholls points to the rapid growth of the Victoria half-marathon. From 2009 to 2010 it added more than a thousand entrants to hit more than 5,700

people coursing through the route. The marathon entries stayed steady at about 2,600 for those years.

“There is definitely also a health boom; the outdoor fitness boom is there,” said Nicholls, the race director for the McNeill Bay Half-Marathon.

“I think we are one of the better cities overall. People take fitness seriously as a lifestyle.”

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Stats tell the story

Victoria Marathon finishers2011 – 1,6312010 – 2,6432009 – 2,6212008 – 2,0422007 – 1,981

Victoria Half- Marathon finishers2011 – 5,1302010 – 5,7162009 – 4,6082008 – 4,2702007 – 3,869

TC10K finishers2012 – 10,0442011 – 10,2252010 – 10,6162009 – 9,9422008 – 8,8162007 – 8,533

Oak Bay Half-Marathon finishers2012 – 7602011 – 7792010 – 6442009 – 6212008 – 5442007 – 5012006 – 481

Black Press file photo

A runner makes her way along the Victoria waterfront.

On your mark, get set … go

The 33rd annual GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon weekend kicks off today and Saturday as more than 11,000 people flood into the Victoria Conference Centre for race package pickup, to tour the race expo and attend the speakers series.

The marathon is on Sunday (Oct. 7).

Participants will be on the race route starting with the marathon walkers at 6:30 a.m. The 8K road race starts at 7:15 a.m., the half marathon (21.1 km) starts at 7:30 a.m. and the marathon (42.2 km) at 8:45 a.m. All races start on Menzies Street at Kingston Street, and finish in front of the B.C. legislature on Belleville Street.

See runvictoriamarathon.com for more information.

Victorians serious about health and fitness, but road races see decline as people shift to triathlon, adventure racing

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“My people will sleep for 100 years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give their spirit back.”

Louis Riel didn’t know it at the time, but he was talking about Frank Lewis.

Standing six-foot-six, with blue eyes and a full head of white hair, Lewis knows the hardship and joy of being Métis.

On Sept. 20, he presented an elaborate painting portraying that dichotomy to the Royal Jubilee Hospital, where it will hang in the All Nations Healing Room.

“This painting represents the culmination of a 65-year career,” Lewis told a crowd at the unveiling.

It is likely to be his last public work in a remarkable career that leaves a legacy across the country in multiple genres, from painting to acting to graphic design.

He graduated from Oak Bay High in 1952 and attended the Vancouver School of Art – now the Emily Carr University of Art and Design – on a scholarship.

He quickly established himself as a skilled graphic designer at CBC television and in some of North America’s biggest advertising studios, winning numerous industry awards between 1957 and 1964.

In the underground music scene in Toronto and Montreal, he designed album artwork and posters for many of the future legends of jazz.

“You could go to the Pilot Tavern (in Toronto), sit down, and for 35 cents a beer, watch Thelonius Monk playing on the stand,” Lewis said.

As the golden years of bebop faded, so too did Lewis’ drive to produce meaningful art. “It was a lot of fun, but I wasn’t going anywhere,” he said.

He kept painting by undertaking a government-commissioned project to promote Canadian art.

“I painted a boxcar for the B.C. government. It was a silly idea,” he said. “We got a letter back from (then-prime minister Lester) Pearson that said, ‘No self-respecting artist would

paint on a boxcar.’”The B.C. government, led at the

time by W.A.C. Bennett, jumped at the chance for publicity and commissioned Lewis after Pearson’s letter was picked up by the national media.

The “silly idea” toured North America for two years and was featured in the New York Times and Maclean’s Magazine, among others.

In 1967, Lewis earned a spot as a young First Nation boy on the debut of George Ryga’s play, The Ecstacy of Rita Joe, at the Vancouver Playhouse. Two years later, the play opened the studio theatre of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, where Lewis mingled with the country’s elite and artists alike.

“I sat down with Chief Dan George, Jean Chrétien and Pierre Trudeau and talked about the Indian Act,” Lewis said, recalling nights out on the town with Trudeau. “He took my girlfriend away,” he said, laughing.

In the mid ’70s, Lewis landed in Cumberland, B.C., where he began accepting commissions

for murals, first illustrating Cumberland’s coal mining history on the inside of a general store in exchange for a small stipend and free groceries.

He then completed a five-by-20-metre mural of the Gumboot Navy for the Vancouver Maritime Museum to much fanfare, solidifying his reputation as a

world-class painter.“I had newspaper headlines

and I was thinking, ‘I don’t mind success, but why give me so much so quickly?’ It was really hard to deal with right away,” he said.

He met his current wife, Margaret Parker, at their 40th high school reunion in 1992.

Lewis has since produced 20 major public artworks, including the Burnside Gorge Community Mural on the Galloping Goose Trail in 2006.

He and Parker have travelled the world. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Lewis completed a mural for the boardroom of the Canadian High Commission, while Parker helped develop an architectural and art school.

They now live in Saanich, their home filled with Lewis’ dearest work. His blue eyes light up as he recalls all that connects him with his Métis heritage.

“We’re everywhere, but not together,” he said. “That spirituality is still in me, and has been all through my career.”

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Noted muralist Frank Lewis with a few of his paintings in his home in Saanich. His recent donation of a piece to the Royal Jubilee Hospital celebrates his Métis heritage, but may be the final work of public art in a colourful career.

Celebrating a lifetime of artFrank Lewis recalls his many works

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Victoria Integrated Court and the John Howard Society.

Ohalloran, who lives down-town, plans to continue his visits to the valley next year – an endeavour that affords him therapeutic afternoons in rural Saanich and fresh sal-ads at home, while providing additional fresh food to the Mustard Seed Food Bank and Our Place.

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Two masked assailants barged into a home and beat a man with a metal pipe in a morning home invasion in Saanich last Friday.

Saanich police say neighbours called police at 8:40 a.m. after a bleeding man called for help out-side of a notorious home in the 3400-block of Harriet Rd.

The property has some 270 police files associated with it since 2007, police say.

During the home invasion on Friday, two men dressed in black with their faces covered in ban-danas forced their way into the house, shoved down the hom-eowner and burst into the bed-room of a 41-year-old male resi-dent.

They struck him in the head with a metal pipe, police say.

The victim grabbed a baseball bat to defend himself, but the suspects disarmed him quickly, and then ran out of the house, fleeing the area on bicycles.

Investigators think the attack-ers also targeted a second male victim in the home, but he ran off and has refused to co-operate with police.

Sgt. Dean Jantzen said the attack wasn’t a robbery and appears targeted at the two vic-tims over a dispute.

The property is known as a flophouse and police regularly respond to complaints of drug dealing, noise, stolen goods and petty crimes. The home is also rife with municipal bylaw infrac-tions.

Jantzen said the house is occupied by the homeowner, who has done little to clean up the property.

“The place is well known to us, it’s regularly attended by patrol officers,” Jantzen said. “It’s an inordinate number of calls. This house is a focal point for (crimes) like this ... it impacts the whole neighbourhood.”

The 41-year-old had a signifi-cant gash to the head and was taken to hospital. Adding insult to injury, Saanich police arrested the him on outstanding warrants after he was released from medi-cal care.

Anyone with information on this assault can call Saan-ich police at 250-475-4321 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Home invasion at notorious property

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Many chip in for gardening projectThe Horticulture Centre of the

Pacific hosts its second annual Children’s Harvest Festival Satur-day, Oct. 6, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 505 Quayle Rd.

The free festival has hands-on activities about growing and har-vesting healthy food.

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Saanich police investigators are still looking for people who

witnessed a stabbing outside Country Grocer in the Royal Oak Shopping Centre last week.

Someone stabbed a 22-year-old man several times near the north entrance to Country Gro-cer on Wednesday, Sept. 26, around 9 p.m.

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Greater Victoria is one step closer to achieving a health care goal as construction officially began Tuesday at the Heights at Mt. View, the latest addition to the Campus of Care.

The seven-storey, 260-bed residential care facility is a joint effort between Baptist Hous-ing, the Capital Regional Hospi-tal District and the Vancouver Island Health Authority.

The $60.5-million Heights at Mt. View will form one-third of the Campus of Care, a site devoted to seniors, housing for the homeless and affordable family housing.

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“It’s been our concern for a number of years as we endeav-our to provide quality residen-tial care while working in build-ings that weren’t always optimal for today’s needs.”

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Taryn Richdale didn’t prepare for the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Mara-thon like others who passed the finish line last October, but she did set a course record.

Richdale, a 23-year-old Colwood woman, was the first person in a regular wheelchair to join a team for the eight-kilometre road race, alongside her mother and a support worker.

Richdale wanted to be with her peers on

the team for Lifetime Networks Victoria, a Saanich-based char-ity devoted to building social networks for people with devel-opmental disabilities, but until 2010, only those in designed racing wheelchairs were allowed on the course.

GoodLife has since extended their insurance policy to allow for wheelchairs of all kinds on the scenic waterfront route.

“I was there to support her, not as a worker, but to be with this lady,” said Loreta Piamonte, a community support worker who has worked with Richdale two years. “At the finish, she just smiled (and said), ‘We did it.’”

Richdale, despite feeling a little nervous and overwhelmed by the size of the event, is excited to hit the 8K course again in her motorized chair adorned with Canucks stickers and her pink purse slung over one arm rest, as a message to others.

“Nothing’s impossible,” said Richdale, who after a trache-otomy speaks primarily in sign language. “Everything’s pos-sible. There is no limit. You can accomplish your dreams.”

Richdale is one of 53 people,13 of whom are fac-ing physical or developmental challenges, who are running, walking or rolling for Lifetime Networks Cruisers – the largest charity team in the marathon, for the smallest charities regis-tered.

In the last two years Lifetime Networks has raised $51,000 to support clients through the GoodLife Fitness event. This year the charity has set the goal of raising $30,000 to launch an endowment fund and ensure

their work can continue.Saanich News editor Edward

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Taryn Richdale was among the first to participate in the Victoria marathon in a regular wheelchair after Lifetime Networks, a Saanich-based charity aimed at supporting people with disabilities, advocated for the change last year. She will be participating on the Lifetime Networks eight-kilometre team along with one of her care givers, Loreta Piamonte.

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To rezone Parcel A (DD 196111I) of Lots 10 and 11, Block B, Section 26, Victoria District, Plan 1107 (1810 NEWTON STREET) and Parcel B (DD196110I) of Lot 10, Block 8, Section 26, Victoria District, Plan 1107 (1806 NEWTON STREET) from Zone RS-6 to Zones RS-6 (Single Family Dwelling, minimum lot size-560m2) and RS-4 (Single Family Dwelling, minimum lot size-460m2) in order to create one additional lot for single family dwelling use. A DEVELOPMENT VARIANCE PERMIT will be considered to vary the minimum lot width of one of the proposed lots. A COVENANT will also be considered to further regulate the use of the lands and buildings.

A copy of the proposed bylaws and relevant reports may be inspected or obtained from the Legislative Division, Saanich Municipal Hall, 770 Vernon Avenue, between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, from October 4, 2012 to October 16, 2012 inclusive, except for weekends and statutory holidays.

Correspondence may be submitted by mail to the address above or by email to [email protected] and must be received no later than 4:00 pm on the day of the meeting. All correspondence submitted will form part of the public record and may be published in a meeting agenda.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a PUBLIC HEARING will be held in the SAANICH MUNICIPAL HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 770 Vernon Avenue, on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm, to allow the public to make verbal or written representation to Council with respect to the following proposed bylaws.

A) “HERITAGE DESIGNATION BYLAW, 2012, NO. 9187”

PROPOSED DESIGNATION OF A HERITAGE STRUCTURE ON SINCLAIR ROAD The intent of this proposed bylaw is to designate the structure known as the Hamsterley Farm Water Tower at 2489 Sinclair Road, now part of the University of Victoria at Lot 1, Sections 31, 44, 45, 71 and 72, Victoria District, Plan VIP57957 (3800 FINNERTY ROAD) as a municipal heritage structure because of its signifi cance to the agricultural history of Gordon Head.


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Alberta may have the reputation as Canada’s most conservative province, but it is the first and only provincial government to commit to ending homelessness.

This commitment helped Calgary reverse its growing problem, said Tim Ritcher, president of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness.

“At the end of the day, provincial policy change will be the single most important factor in ending homelessness,” Ritcher, keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, said last week. “They have the money.”

Calgary, where Ritcher previously led a homeless foundation, was the first Canadian city to sign on to a 10-year plan to end homelessness. Since 2008, it has housed 4,000 people. Greater Victoria was the second region to sign on to the plan.

Now four years into its strategy, the Coalition reports mixed results.

In 2011-12, 639 people were housed, slightly higher than the average number housed annually since 2008. Also, 152 subsidized housing units came onstream in the region.

At the same time, the use of the emergency shelters has seen no real reductions. The number of individuals using the shelters at least once dropped only marginally in the past year, from 1,668 to 1,617.

Over the same period, the occupancy rate increased to 111 per cent, and people were turned away at the door 3,284 times.

As of March 31, there were 1,545 households on the wait list for subsidized housing. That’s up from 1,172 applicants in 2009.

“While we’ve housed people and we’re keeping them housed, we have not stopped the flow into homelessness,” said University of Victoria researcher Bernie Pauly.

She cited high rental costs and low incomes among the contributing factors.

In 2007, researchers predicted an increase of 400 to 500 homeless people in Greater Victoria every year, up from a starting point of roughly 1,500. To date, the coalition’s success has been to prevent this growth, rather than curb the problem.

Coalition co-chair and Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin made clear the goal is still to end homelessness, not simply to manage it.

At the same time, Coalition executive director Andrew Wynn-Williams said progress is being made.

“If you just walk around in the streets now, the feeling now compared to the feeling five years ago is completely different,” he said.

Esquimalt-Royal Roads NDP MLA Maurine Karagianis, however, was skeptical B.C. can provide the needed boost Ritcher calls for.

“Alberta has a different experience than us,” she said at the AGM.

“They have huge oil revenues that are coming into that province that are being used to subsidize social programs … If we had the capacity to have the oil sands to give us unlimited dollars, it would be a different scenario.”

Homeless numbers hold steady in Capital RegionLong waitlists for subsidized housing, emergency shelters remain busy

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NOTICE OF PERMISSIVETAX EXEMPTION

Pursuant to Section 224 of the Community Charter, the Council of the Corporation of the District of Saanich intends to adopt a bylaw exempting from property taxation for 3 years (2013-2015), the lands and improvements or both that are owned or held by charitable, philanthropic or other not for profi t organizations and that Council considers are used for a purpose that is directly related to the purposes of the Corporation. The properties being considered and the estimated total property taxes for all purposes that would be imposed if they were not exempt are:

Pursuant to Section 225 of the Community Charter, the Council of the Corporation of the District of Saanich intends to adopt a bylaw exempting from property taxation for 3 years (2013-2015), the lands that are Riparian land. The property subject to the bylaw and the estimated total property taxes for all purposes that would be imposed if it was not exempt are:

Pursuant to Section 224(2)(f) of the Community Charter, the Council of the Corporation of the District of Saanich intends to adopt a bylaw exempting from property taxation any area of land surrounding a building set apart for public worship. The property subject to the bylaw and the estimated total property taxes for all purposes that would be imposed if it was not exempt are:

Inquiries concerning the proposed bylaws may be directed to:

The Corporation of the District of Saanich770 Vernon Avenue, Victoria, BC V8X 2W7Telephone: (250) 475-5415

Owner/Occupier Property Description 2013 2014 2015 $ $ $Albert E. Yates, Donald L. Barclay, Charles H. Coulson, Douglas D. Waring, Mark L. Haley (Boy Scouts) 3680 Cottonwood Street 6,632 6,848 7,070

BC Hydro (District of Saanich Lease) 4400 West Saanich Road 19,747 20,388 21,051Broadmead Care Society 846 Nigel Avenue 11,599 11,976 12,365Canadian Centre of Learning for Maitreya Missionary 1834 Adanac Street 3,066 3,165 3,268Capital Mental Health Association 970 Greenridge Crescent 4,000 4,130 4,265Capital Mental Health Association 972 Greenridge Crescent 3,915 4,043 4,174Cordova Bay Community Club 941 Sutcliffe Road 11,281 11,648 12,026The Cridge Centre for the Family Confi dential Address 6,240 6,443 6,653The Cridge Centre for the Family 1251 Santa Rosa Avenue 4,927 5,087 5,253District of Saanich (Boy Scouts) 2625 Sinclair Road 7,561 7,807 8,061District of Saanich (Capital City Allotment Association) Douglas Street 23,071 23,820 24,594District of Saanich (Capital Mental Health Association) 5500 Hamsterly Road 10,788 11,139 11,501District of Saanich (Gorge Soccer Assn) Field houses-Hampton Park 549 566 585District of Saanich (Goward House Society) 2495 Arbutus Road 39,340 40,618 41,938District of Saanich (Haliburton Community Organic Farm Society) 741 Haliburton Road 7,853 8,108 8,371

District of Saanich (Saanich Heritage Foundation) 1248 Burnside Road West 1,914 1,977 2,041District of Saanich (Saanich Heritage Foundation) 4139 Lambrick Way 893 922 952District of Saanich (South Island Sailing Society) 2620 Sinclair Rd 549 566 585District of Saanich (Victoria Canoe and Kayak Club) 355/361 Gorge Road West 11,364 11,734 12,115Garth Homer Foundation 813 Darwin Avenue 74,745 77,174 79,683Girl Guides of Canada 611 Linnet Lane 24,062 24,844 25,652Gordon Head Mutual Improvement Society 4146 Tyndall Avenue 4,772 4,927 5,087Independent Living Housing Society 1610 Hawthorne Street 3,357 3,466 3,579Independent Living Housing Society 1765 Feltham Road 3,679 3,798 3,922Independent Living Housing Society 1015 Falmouth Road 3,132 3,234 3,339Independent Living Housing Society 910 Easter Road 3,151 3,253 3,359Independent Living Housing Society 238 Obed Avenue 2,932 3,027 3,126Jewish Community Centre of Victoria 3636 Shelbourne Street 9,179 9,478 9,786Luther Court Society 1525 Cedar Hill Cross Road 64,225 66,312 68,467Prospect Lake Community Association 5358 Sparton Road 9,829 10,148 10,478Province of British Columbia (Horticulture Centre of the Pacifi c) 505 Quayle Road 32,090 33,133 34,210

Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children 2390 Arbutus Road 19,198 19,822 20,466Royal Oak Women’s Institute 4516 West Saanich Road 7,438 7,680 7,930Scout Properties (B.C./Yukon) Ltd. 505 Marigold Road 8,616 8,896 9,185 Scout Properties (B.C./Yukon) Ltd. 3266 Glasgow Avenue 8,252 8,520 8,797Shekinah Homes Society 3028 Millgrove Street 4,225 4,362 4,504Shekinah Homes Society 3034 Donald Street 4,456 4,600 4,750Society of St. Vincent de Paul 4349 West Saanich Road 37,082 38,287 39,531Ukrainian Canadian Cultural Society of Vancouver Island 3277 Douglas Street 11,311 11,679 12,058University of Victoria (Velox Valhallians Sports Association) 3957 Gordon Head Road 54,308 56,073 57,896University of Victoria (Victoria Rowing Soc) Elk Lake Park Boathouse 8,836 9,123 9,420Vancouver Island Netherlands Association 733 Vanalman Avenue 11,311 11,679 12,058Victoria Association for Community Living 1512 McRae Avenue 3,654 3,773 3,896Victoria Association for Community Living 754 Lindsay Street 3,697 3,817 3,941Victoria Association for Community Living 4133 Mariposa Heights 3,229 3,334 3,443Victoria Association for Community Living 3851 Cedar Hill Cross Road 59,547 61,482 63,480Victoria Association for Community Living 4482 Tyndall Avenue 4,207 4,343 4,485Victoria Association for Community Living 595 Burnside Road West 3,120 3,222 3,326

Victoria Native Friendship Centre 231 Regina Avenue 162,032 167,298 172,735

Owner/Occupier Property Description 2013 2014 2015 $ $ $Hunter, Frances 203 Goward Road 152 157 162

Owner/Occupier Property Description 2013 2014 2015 $ $ $New Life Community Fellowship 3900 Carey Road 1,725 1,781 1,838

Victoria Full Gospel Fellowship 550 Obed Avenue 7,788 8,041 8,302


OUR VIEW

‘I know my limitations and am not shamed by them.’

Running for the moneyThis Thanksgiving weekend is a special one, as

we reflect on the many ways our community has come together recently.

One could not help but be touched by the support of hundreds of folks who came out for the annual Terry Fox Run last month. Their enthusiasm and giving spirit is contagious.

The Terry Fox Run for cancer research begins a wave of fundraising that rolls through the fall and into the Christmas season.

Last weekend’s CIBC Run for the Cure saw more than 4,000 runners and walkers make their way around Ring Road at the University of Victoria.

The event is fun and exciting for participants, who are in equal part sombre and thoughtful. They sang, chanted and wore all manner of pink attire, from boas and tiaras to T-shirts and tutus, emblazoned with names honouring loved ones who are battling or have been taken by breast cancer.

More than $30 million was raised across the country by this event for breast cancer research, education and advocacy.

Today (Oct. 5) is the finale of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock fundraising ride. The 17 riders trained six months – averaging 4,000 kilometres each – in preparation for the two-week, 1,000-kilometre ride down Vancouver Island.

As well, those who support them spend many months planning and fundraising to make that ride worthwhile. The riders themselves will tell you, it’s not about the cycling, but about the communities, both large and small, that support the tour along the way.

And this weekend the 33rd GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon hits the streets of the city. Competitive runners have trained hard for the event, pounding out an estimated 400 kilometres before they hit the ground running this Sunday on Menzies Street near the legislature.

Along with thousands of runners come thousands of dollars in donations for more than 20 charities supported by the marathon. The fundraising aspect of the marathon is relatively new, yet has shown great potential as it becomes more culturally intertwined with the race itself.

We applaud the physical and fundraising efforts of all these riders, runners and walkers. They help lift all of our spirits, by giving us the opportunity to share their good feelings and help those around us through our charitable donations.

A slew of friends and friends-of-friends signed up for the Tough Mudder in Whistler,

a hardcore 10- to 12-kilometre obstacle course, earlier this year.

It seemed you couldn’t go a day without hearing about another connection to someone who planned to leap small buildings and slime through obstacles to achieve the glory of completion.

I take pride in knowing these friends who intentionally ran through electrically charged wires in the Mudder, or guys and girls who climb mountains or snowshoe ridiculous hills and vales in Mind Over Mountain Adventure Racing.

I’ve never contemplated anything remotely similar, not even a simple trek up the West Coast Trail.

They’re generally strong of body and mind. I’m not.

I know these things about myself and tend to lean away from activities where I’ll likely be maimed or injured. I know my limitations and am not shamed by them.

So me, myself and I were stunned when my rubber arm twisted to support a friend and walk the half marathon this weekend. This heart over mind thing could get a person killed.

Sunday marks the 33rd anniversary of the Victoria

marathon. For an event that swarms walkers, runners and wheelers over a good chunk of the city for a day, I was stunned with how little I knew about the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon.

More than 12,000 participants are expected to fill the streets on marathon morning – with road closures throughout Victoria and Oak Bay along the route. The races range from a one-kilometre kids’ run to the full 42-kilometre marathon, starting and finishing not far from the legislative buildings.

There are four official charities benefiting from race proceeds and 20 charities that are raising

funds through a pledge process in the event.

I’m running with the Hepatitis C Education and Prevention Society’s Liver Warriors, also known as Team Daisy, for my pal.

Non-profit HepCBC provides support for those living with the blood-borne virus which attacks the liver.

The society has high hopes of raising $25,000 – enough to reopen its office, hire a part-time executive director for a year and return to helping people living with the heavy stigma of Hep C.

I figure the least I can do is take a few hours to walk this beautiful city as a way of raising awareness

of this group.One coworker (OK, he’s the boss)

and his wife are doing the half marathon as a training run for the New York Marathon next month. I’d call it insane, but he’s the boss.

Another coworker is partaking in her fourth Victoria Marathon, doing the half again to raise funds for Lifetime Networks, a non-profit to support people with disabilities in Victoria. It’s not the lure of adrenaline that pulls her, but the emotional high.

“It’s uplifting and powerful,” she says. It’s a high to witness the sense of accomplishment on the faces of folks as they cross the finish line, particularly those participants with obvious physical impairments who overcome a lot to make the trek.

The online map identifies cheer zones along the way. From what I hear, there are people in costume, those who offer inspirational quotes on posterboard and even entertainers keeping everyone – walkers and athletic specimens alike – in good spirits on the 21-kilometre route.

Fortunately, the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon welcomes walkers who can finish the half marathon course in fewer than six hours. I can do that.

I’m pretty sure. Probably. I’m no Tough Mudder and have

no desire to win or anything…Christine van Reeuwyk is a reporter

with the Oak Bay [email protected]

It’s OK not to be a tough mudder

Christine van ReeuwykIsland Girl

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Sociology is a safe investment for studentsRe: Swapping sociology for socket sets (B.C. Views, Sept. 26)Tom Fletcher’s column presents a number of misguided claims designed to lend rhetorical support to the provincial government’s intention to invest in trade and technical school facilities.

Fletcher argues that the government’s emphasis on shop upgrades in trade and technical schools implies that “dead-end programs dear to the hearts of last year’s Occupy campers will feel the pinch.”

He singles out sociology and women’s studies as examples of “aimless study” leading to unemployment (and social activism).

Fletcher’s concern seems to be that today’s students need to select courses that ensure a “safe investment” for themselves, their parents and society at large.

Sociology is a safe investment.

Sociologists have always focused on and provided necessary insights into relevant contemporary issues.

Sociologists at the University of Victoria are addressing some of the biggest questions facing government today. For instance, UVic sociologists are helping the province design health care policy on older adults living in long-term care facilities – policy shaping the lives of our parents and grandparents.

They are conducting research on increasing barriers placed on access to information and the right to know what government is doing. UVic sociologists are conducting policy research on crime control strategies, incarceration and prisons.

Last but not least, sociologists at UVic are providing training in research design, quantitative reasoning, objective data analysis and policy-relevant issues that dominate government agendas.

When a student majors in sociology, she studies a core

curriculum aimed at developing competent research skills applicable to today’s world (and labour market).

Rather than relying on stereotypes and rhetorical nonsense to incite populist indignation, sociology students learn how to enact explanations that are informed by and based on clear evidence. To be sure, sociologists are passionate about and deeply committed to their research pursuits focused on maternity care, aging, dementia, blood donation, depression, weapons use and international human rights.

Passion and commitment, combined with sound research skills, are the hallmarks of all scientific pursuits.

The evidence indicates that sociology is one of the safest investments available to ensure social policy informed by evidence and sound research.

Sean Hierchair, Sociology Department

University of Victoria

Polio support crucialas disease nearly beat

Many Canadians are old enough to remember the horror of polio from our childhoods. In the 1950s and 60s, polio killed thousands of children and left countless others living in iron lungs or with lifelong paralysis.

With the development of effective vaccines, we thought we had seen the end of this terrible disease. We were wrong.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently predicted a global polio emergency in Pakistan within three months. In 2011, 73 new cases were reported there, nearly equal to all the cases in the previous five years.

Polio is now 99 per cent eradicated globally, but without immediate action, the number of children paralyzed each year is expected rise to 200,000 in a decade. Canada contributes $35 million annually towards global polio eradication, but our spending is set to decline to just

$5 million in 2014. Prime Minister Harper has been invited by the United Nations to co-convene a meeting on polio this week. It is crucial that he recommit to our earlier funding.

Nathaniel PooleVictoria

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Pushing our kids out the door may be the best way to save the planet.

In a survey con-ducted for the David Suzuki Foundation, 70 per cent of Canadian youth said they spend an hour or less a day in the open air. And when they are out, it’s usually to go from one place to another. In other words, it’s just a consequence of trying to be some-where else.

Nearly half the young people surveyed said they don’t have enough time to join programs that would involve them in outdoor activi-ties. School, work and other responsibilities make it difficult to do things like kick around a soccer ball or go for a walk with

friends in the nearby woods.For someone of my genera-

tion this is almost unfathomable. When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our par-ents would tell us to get out of the house.

As a teenager in London, Ontario, my sanctuary was a swamp. I’d return home at the end of a day, often soaking wet and covered in mud, with my collection of insects, salamander eggs and turtles. That piqued my interest in

science. Making tree forts and lying in fields watching the clouds stimulated my imagination and creativity. Being outside made me a happy, healthy kid and made me feel connected to the world

around me. As a father, I also encouraged

my kids to enjoy time outdoors, and one of my favourite activities now is exploring nature with my grandchildren.

In just a few generations, life has changed dramatically for chil-dren. Now, they can’t seem to find the time to play outdoors. They sit in front of screens for long periods of time.

A U.S. survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found young people are engaged with enter-tainment media for an average of seven and a half hours a day.

Over seven days, that’s longer than the average workweek!

We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Face-book rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell

them it’s dirty and dangerous.As parents, grandparents,

uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Fami-lies play a key role in getting kids outside.

The David Suzuki Foundation survey found youth were 20 per cent more likely to take part in outdoor programming or explore nature on their own if they spent time outside from an early age.

Younger teens reported that getting outside with their families was the best way to connect with nature. Older youth were more likely to explore nature sponta-neously, on their own or with friends – likely because parents relax restrictions and allow them to do more of what they want.

And what they want is fun and adventure, at least when it comes to being outside. More than half

the youth said they enjoy spend-ing unstructured time in nature. This is great news.

What we need to do is encour-age them – and sometimes just get out of their way.

We need to make sure our neighbourhoods have green spaces. We need to ask teachers and school board representatives to take students outside regularly to incorporate the natural world into everything they learn.

If we don’t, we’ll never raise the next generation of environmental stewards to help protect and cele-brate the wonders of nature. After all, people are more likely to look after something they have come to know and cherish.

Parents need to remember the fun times they had outside as kids. They need to trust their chil-dren, and kick them out the door like my mom did.

Get your kids away from the screen and into the green

David Suzukiwith Leanne Clare

LETTERS

so I was looking for a quirky challenge,” Campbell said.

The challenge being: run a faster marathon time, in a suit, than the current world record holder, Paul Buchanan, who ran the 2009 Dublin Marathon (Ireland) in three hours, 24 minutes.

Buchanan’s time is acknowledged by Guinness World Records and Campbell has ironed out the necessary Guinness documentation should he lower Buchanan’s mark on Sunday.

The rules are simple: finish the race in a suit.

“Mercifully, I don’t have to wear dress shoes,” Campbell said. “I’ll be wearing my favourite pair of racing flats from Frontrunners, which happen to match my tie.”

It seemed like a good way to marry my dual identity as a lawyer and an elite runner.”

Predominantly a trail runner, Campbell is no slouch. He finished second overall at his first 100-miler in May, the Mt. Fuji Ultra Trail in Japan, with a time of 19 hours, 26 minutes.

“My first marathon was Victoria in 2006 and I finished third with a time of 2:29:11. I don’t think I’ll be anywhere close to that, but I’m quite confident that I can break three hours.”

Plenty of tutus and mask-wearing runners have crossed the Victoria Marathon finish line before, so Campbell isn’t the first to run it in costume.

But he might be the most accomplished runner to do so.

“I hope (Campbell) doesn’t have too much chafing and I would like to see the state of the suit when he’s finished,” said Jonathan Foweraker, organizer of the marathon’s elite athletes.

Well-suited for racing Ultrarunners are accustomed

to extra gear, most wearing a belt full of water bottles and a headlamp as they run through the dark of the night.

But a tailored business suit is something else.

Ultimately, heat is Campbell’s greatest concern. Sunday’s weather calls for sun and that’s Campbell’s preference.

“I think heat is better than rain, I’m sure the suit would get

quite heavy if it got drenched,” he said.

The suit is a Paul Betenly, donated from Citizen Clothing in Estevan Village. It retails for $695 and comes with a shirt by Culturata and a red Dion tie.

Campbell visited Citizen proprietor Patrick Tier for a fitting earlier this week, though

Tier was undecided about whether or not he should leave the suit and jacket a little bit loose.

“Ultimately I’m doing the run for charity, to raise money for the Access Pro Bono Society, so I’m willing to put up with some significant discomfort to set a respectable time.”

Travis PatersonNews staff

There’s something quixotic about the way Adam Campbell is suiting up for his next adventure.

Before work, after work and on the weekends, the 33-year-old trains full time for long-distance, ultramarathon running. From nine

to five, however, he’s a lawyer with Hemminger Schmid based in Vic West.

And in true enterprising fashion, he’s tying all three together as he prepares to run Sunday morning’s GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon – in a suit.

“Although I’m a self-proclaimed ‘serious’ runner, I recognize that sport is ultimately about having fun,

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Smoke alarms save livesAs most Canadians turn back the clocks on November 4, here are some timely smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) safety tips:• When you change your clocks, test your smoke arlam.• You have less than three minutes to es-cape a fi re. So when smoke alarms sound, everyone must know what to do and where to go. Having and practising an escape plan is essential.• Install one smoke alarm on every storey and outside bedrooms. Install inside bedrooms if you sleep with doors closed. • Ensure all smoke alarms are fully powered. Never take out batteries or remove an alarm from ceiling due to a false alarm.• If your home has any fuel-burning devices such as a gas furnace, gas water heater, gas appliances, or an attached garage or carport, install at least one CSA-approved carbon monoxide outside all sleeping areas. One per storey is recommended.• Replace smoke alarms ev-

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Thanksgiving turkey fi res cause for concern at 9-1-1 centreE -Comm’s fi re dispatch team is warning families to be mind-ful of their turkey cooking during Thanksgiving week-end. “A turkey isn’t something you typi-cally see on a list of household fi re haz-ards, but we get 9-1-1 calls about ovens going up in fl ames all the time,” says Corey Kelso, E-Comm fi re dispatcher. “The result can be devastating if you’re not careful every time you have something cooking for an extended period of time.”

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someone wanting to know how long to cook a turkey – but a turkey fi re is no joke. In fact, it is a leading cause of spikes in 9-1-1 calls over the holidays.

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Analysis was undertaken on almost 50,000 fi res that occurred in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario over a 5-year period involving 663 fatalities. The fi ndings demonstrated that the death rate per 1,000 fi res in the absence of a present, functioning smoke alarm was 74% greater than when a functioning smoke alarm was present.

FIRE PREVENTION WEEK OCTOBER 7-14

Firefighters around the region will be busy educating the public about fire safety dur-ing Fire Prevention Week.

In Oak Bay, the Fire Department will be conducting the Challenge Trophy competition among area schools. On the morning of Oct. 10, firefighters will attend area schools to per-form full evacuation and safety drills – the school with the best time wins the trophy.

The firefighters will also attend municipal hall and all Oak Bay recreation centres during the week to conduct evacuation drills with patrons and employees to make sure everyone knows how to follow a fire escape plan.

“Fire Prevention Week for us is the one time of year we can draw the public’s attention to one sim-ple, important thing, that’s having a working smoke alarm that is tested regularly,” said Oak Bay Fire Department Captain Ken Gill. “If we could encour-age every resident to take that small step, then every other message we have will dovetail into that. … It all hinges on early detection and warning, so people have the opportunity to escape.”

Gill said it is a standard message, but one that is not always heeded. “It’s challenging, but it’s one step that would certainly go a long way to protect-ing property and saving lives,” he added.

From Oct. 2 to 5, the Saanich Fire Department will partner with other departments to host a fire expo aimed at teaching 911 skills, fire extinguisher safety, and home evacuation, at the Central Saanich fire hall. The program, geared towards students in Grade 5, runs daily from 9 a.m. until noon.

Firefighters will also take their fire trucks to schools across the Saanich and Greater Victoria School Dis-tricts, conducting fire drills throughout the week.

From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Oct. 13, firefighters will be on hand with fire safety resources at the Home Depot at 3986 Shelbourne St. for Home Depot Fire Safety Days.

“We’d like to encourage everyone to participate at the in-home level, not just at public schools,” said Saanich fire department Capt. Rich Pala. “Every-one should have a home escape plan. We’d like to see everyone sit down with their kids and educate them.”

The Victoria Fire Department will begin the week with opening ceremonies at Victoria City Hall Oct. 9 at 8:50 a.m. The event will begin with a fire drill at

city hall, a proclamation and the raising of the Fire Prevention Week flag. Firefighters will attend all area schools to make sure students are prepared to evacu-ate their classrooms.

“Every year we have a specific theme and this year is ‘have two ways to get out,’” said Insp. Megan Sabell of the Vic-toria Fire Department. “Everyone should have two ways to get out of every room in their

building, home, school or office. And they should not only have a plan but practise that plan as well.”

More information on Fire Prevention Week can be found at fpw.org.

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After eight years, Howard Waldner advised the VIHA board chair, Don Hubbard of his decision to move on from the position.

According to Hubbard, Waldner leaves a proud legacy at VIHA, having devel-oped a strong leadership team and a record of innova-tion and achievement.

He was the driving force behind the creation of the Royal Jubilee Patient Care Centre and the new North Island Hospitals Project.

Under his leadership, VIHA was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 employ-ers during the past four years and delivered a bal-anced operating budget each year since 2004.

The VIHA board is mov-ing forward to establish a recruitment process to replace Waldner.

With about 27,000 art pieces gathered over more than 50 years, the University of Victoria is putting some prime selections on display for its 50th anniversary celebrations.

Collections at 50: Building the Uni-versity of Victoria Art Collections, on until Nov. 24 at UVic's down-town Legacy Art Gallery, was guest curated by former gallery director Martin Segger.

“One of the biggest challenges in representing 50 years of collecting was paring down the list to fit in the

gallery,” says Caroline Riedel, cura-tor of collections.

“What began as a small group of works by Canadian and European artists has blossomed into a rich and varied teaching and research resource, thanks mainly to the gen-erosity of individual donors.”

A related exhibit, The University of Victoria: A Community of Communi-ties, features a selection of photo-graphs of life at UVic taken from Ian MacPherson’s new book Reaching Outward and Upward: The University

of Victoria 1963-2013.The photos are on display at the

Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gal-lery on the lower level of UVic’s McPherson library until Oct. 15.

The Collections at 50: Building the University of Victoria Art Collections is at the Legacy Art Gallery, 630 Yates St.

Admission is free. Everyone is wel-come.

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Sizzling, salty, delicious bacon isn’t going any-where.

Media stories are whirl-ing about a global bacon short-age, and pork in general. But for Metchosin hog farmer Tom Henry it’s business as usual.

The anticipated pork short-age stems from a drought affect-ing grain production in the U.S. With a lack of grains, animal feed prices are on the rise.

Hog farmers across Canada, the United States and Europe (the three largest pork produc-ers) are selling their animals as it’s getting too expensive to raise them.

“Shortage isn’t the right word, there’s still going to be lots of pork, it’ll just be more expen-sive,” Henry explains.

Even though the meat prices are anticipated to rise, Henry suggests the price of pork will first go down, before the price hikes.

“It’s all about supply and demand, farmers will be sell-ing off a lot of their stock and prices will go down. Farmers with 200,000 hogs will start to sell off half the herd and there will be a glut of pork on the market,” Henry said. “The farm-ers that hang in there (and keep their pigs) can do well when the price goes back up.”

Gary Stody, of the Canadian Pork Council, has been sitting next to a steadily ringing phone about this expected pork short-age.

“I’ve learned you don’t want to get in front of people’s bacon,” Stody said.

With grain prices rising, Stody estimated that hog farmers are facing an increase of $30 per hog for feed.

Canada is in a better place than the U.S. and Europe, Stody said, explaining Canada is “self-sustainable” in the pork indus-try.

The CPC anticipates the price of pork rising in about five or six months.

While drought has played a major role in the recent grain price increases, Royal Roads University associate professor Charles Krusekopf says there are more factors at play.

“Turning corn into fuel has

taken a portion of the crop to be turned into fuel products, instead of food products,” Krusekopf said, explaining the grains are sold for more money as fuel than as food, increasing its value.

While grain prices are expected to continue rising, Krusekopf said hog farmers with contracts in place guaran-teeing grains at a fixed rate will be able to produce the meat without experiencing the same financial strains.

To combat the anticipated rise in feed prices, Henry part-nered with fellow farmer John Buchanan and purchased a field of oats from a Saanich farmer.

The two brought in a com-bine and harvested the grains to feed their animals. They reaped 40 tonnes of oats, cur-

rently drying in a Metchosin barn.

“I knew grain prices were going up and I want something sustainable,” Henry said. “This brings home how vulnerable we are to the weather changes. We had no drought and excellent crops this year, but we’ll all be paying more for food.”

Purchasing local grains is saving both farmers money on feed for their animals, but also may help with selling the prod-uct. Local meat fed local grains can be a great marketing point, Henry said.

When it comes to bacon, he said, the cut of meat makes up about nine per cent of the animals. A 200-pound hog will produce about 18 pounds of Metchosin bacon.

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If Camas Books adopted the corporate lingo of mainstream advertising, the store might be tagged “new and improved.”

Or that might make its collective mem-bers collectively cringe. Victoria’s non-hier-archical hub of anarchist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and radical literature has relo-cated to a space half a block north from its former home at the corner of Quadra Street and Kings Road.

Walls in the new space are splashed with grand, sweeping murals of nature – a humpback whale arches across the back wall, a cougar guards the cash register – while scattered boxes of books attest to the chaos of moving. A volunteer work party was expected to have the store in order and reopened by Wednesday.

“I’m interested in discovering what the culture on this side of the street is like,” jokes Kim Croswell, a volunteer and mem-ber of the Camas Books collective, refer-ring to their relocation to the north side of Kings Road. “We’re fortunate that we don’t have to leave the neighbourhood. We like

it here.” Camas Books has survived for five years

on a business model that matches the phi-losophy of its book inventory. It’s a non-profit society run by a collective, where 24 members come to consensus on decision making through discussion and debate.

“We have a broad base of community sup-port. It’s reflected in the size of the collec-

tive, and volunteers give their time, skills and expertise to keep it going,” said Allan Antliff, one of the founding members of Camas Books and a University of Victoria professor of art history.

“The books we carry aren’t carried in any other book store in Victoria. We have a strong identity in the radical community, and a strong indigenous orientation. It all comes together to create a viable opera-tion,” he says.

Camas Books will fundraise to help pay for the move, but Croswell said in gen-eral, the store is financially self-sustaining through book sales and community events, such as art shows, book readings and film launches. Its volunteer base is dedicated and loyal, and more than enough to staff the store seven days per week.

“We’re a mixture of teachers, high school and university students, writers, cab driv-ers, people who work two jobs and then come here and do shifts. It’s people from all walks of life,” says Croswell, who teaches distance learning.

Camas Books takes its name from the camas plant, a traditional aboriginal food source. In keeping with its mandate of pro-

moting indigenous rights, the store makes a point of describing its location on tradi-tional Lekwungen (Songhees and Esquimalt First Nation) territory.

“The mandate is to promote alternative knowledge and books. A huge element is the indigenous section and the decoloniza-tion section,” Croswell noted.

Antliff, a Canada Research Chair and an expert in anarchist history, and others, started the bookstore by renting shelf space at Dark Horse Books in downtown Victo-ria, and eventually raised enough money to open a retail space in Quadra Village in 2007.

Despite being a founding member, these days Antliff takes a back seat helping guide the collective.

“I do a lot of grunt work. I mop the floor and clean up. I leave the leadership to oth-ers. There are very talented people in the collective,” Antliff says. “I’m interested in art and social change. For me, it’s a good fit.”

Camas Books is hosting a reopening cel-ebration on Oct. 12, 6:30 p.m., featuring CBC Radio host and poet laureate Janet Rogers, at 2620 Quadra St.

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Camas Books volunteer and collective member Kim Croswell stands amid the store in the process of unpacking in its new location on Quadra Street.

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Fragments and Masks is a two-person exhibition of pho-tographs and paintings that explore the way people are pre-sented by the artist’s image.

The show of black and white photography by Barry Her-ring and interactive paintings by Richard Motchman opens Friday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Xchanges Gallery, 2333 Govern-ment St.

These artists use different media but their figurative work is related in that they both focus only on portions of the body in their portraits. When people pose for a portrait they decide what part of themselves to expose and what to hide.

The person performs for the artist. The artist then records the performance and manipulates it to produce an image that will be exposed to a future viewer. These images are a representa-tion of reality and provide the viewer with clues to initiate a personal narrative and form a conception of the person.

Herring uses traditional black and white darkroom techniques to create portrayals of a frag-ment of a person or he cuts fragments from portraits and recombines them. In this way, he examines how the eye, brain and memory construct an arti-ficial image and not an exact or

petrified replication. A central question is what construct does the viewer form of the original subject from the fragment?

Motchman creates portrait paintings using a narrow frag-ment of the naked person from scalp to pelvis. With each paint-ing is a mask that the viewer inter-acts with, covering or uncover-ing the face. The positioning of the mask can further fragment the portrait. The choice of mask depicted is another part of the

collaboration between model and artist.

The interaction of the viewer with the mask brings the viewer into an intimate relationship with the painting as object but also into an intimate relation-ship with the subject of the painting.

The exhibition continues at Xchanges Gallery until Oct. 28. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m.

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Michelle Jacques has been named Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

For most of the past 15 years, Jacques has held various curatorial positions in the contemporary and Canadian departments of the Art Gal-lery of Ontario, where she is currently the acting curator, Canadian art.

From 2002 to 2004, she was the direc-tor of programming at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax.

“Michelle’s broad range of experi-ence as a curator, from historical to contemporary, will make her an ideal addition to the curatorial team at the AGGV,” said gallery director

Jon Tupper. Jacques is also an educator. She has

taught writing, art history and curato-rial studies at NSCAD University, the University of Toronto and OCAD Uni-versity and is currently adjunct faculty at York University.

She is currently on the boards of Vtape and the Feminist Art Gallery and is past board member of the artist-run contemporary art centre Mercer Union, all in Toronto.

Jacques received a B.A. in art history and psychology from Queens Univer-

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A sample of Richard Motchman’s portraits to be featured in a show with Barry Herring at Xchanges Gallery.

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B.C. Ferries has the green light to raise fares by up to 12 per cent over three years and passengers should expect less

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Increases in the fare cap of roughly four per cent a year were approved Monday by B.C. Ferry Commissioner Gord Macatee.

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B.C. Ferries reported declining fare revenue in 2011, recording the lowest number of pas-sengers in 21 years. Vehicle traffic is at a 13-year low.

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No, pot’s not legal yet.But with a raise of hands, B.C.

local politicians passed a motion to ask the federal government to decriminalize marijuana.

The motion passed at the annual Union of B.C. Municipali-ties convention, Sept. 26.

“It was about 70 per cent in favour, it wasn’t close,” said Metchosin Coun. Moralea Milne. “I would hope UBCM takes it to another level. We don’t really have any jurisdiction.”

At last year’s UBCM conven-tion Milne spoke on decriminal-ization and after receiving over-whelming support, she brought the motion to Metchosin council and to the Association of Van-couver Island and Coastal Com-munities.

“The war on drugs hasn’t been a success,” Milne said. “A lot of things we enjoy cause harm … We don’t throw people in jail for eating potato chips.”

If marijuana was decriminal-ized, Milne said the drug could

be regulated similar to alcohol.“Marijuana does lead children

to come in contact with a crimi-nal element, they have to buy it from them,” Milne said. “There will still be organized crime, but this is the first way to deal with it instead of sticking our heads in the sand.”

Milne, 62, said she hasn’t smoked marijuana in 40 years and if it’s decriminalized she wouldn’t start smoking again.

“What I really enjoy is a walk in the woods or a martini. I can have a martini because it is legal,” Milne said. “When alco-hol was illegal the crime rate jumped, when it became legal it dropped. You don’t see Labatt and Molson having a turf war over market share.”

Okanagan-Similkameen direc-tor Tom Siddon, a former federal cabinet minister, said his local police reject decriminalization.

“I think we’ve been frying too many brains,” Siddon said. “It’s going to aggravate the tempta-tion of young people to move from marijuana, which may well be more harmless than a few bot-tles of beer, to being hooked on heroin, cocaine and the chemi-cal designer drugs.”

Prince George city councillor Brian Skakun drew laughter with his comment: “I tried it when I was younger; I turned out OK.”

Turning serious, he said the costs extend to police and

courts weighed down with mari-juana cases rather than “real criminals.”

Port Moody councillor Bob Elliott said his “quaint, safe city” has seen three gang-related mur-ders in the past six months. He pleaded for support for decrimi-nalization.

Coquitlam Coun. Terry O’Neill called decriminalization “the worst of all worlds,” protecting people from simple possession charges while leaving large-scale growing and sales in the hands of criminals.

Nelson Coun. Robin Cherbo said sparing recreational users from prosecution is worth it, and even outright legalization won’t stop the criminal trade as long as pot remains illegal in the U.S.

Cariboo Regional District director Joan Sorley reminded delegates that grow-ops are destructive to communities and dangerous to police and fire departments.

“If we decriminalize it, we take away the tool that the RCMP has to try and shut them down and help keep our neighbourhood safe,” Sorley said.

“I am delighted so many peo-ple have come around and are far-sighted and smart enough to know that this doesn’t work,” Milne said. “When you have a practice, a law, that is so widely abused and there is no compli-ance, you know it’s a bad law.”

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The three companies vying to build a new Johnson Street Bridge are busy perfecting their bids.

But the role of Victoria’s elected officials in the deci-sion to select a winner was the source of a lengthy closed-door discussion on Sept. 20.

Coun. Ben Isitt expressed con-

cern that city council will not be presented information about all the proposals submitted, but instead will only be informed about the bid recommended by city staff. Council’s role will then be to approve or reject the rec-ommendation.

“I can understand why disclo-sure to public would be prob-lematic, but can you explain why disclosure to council is problem-atic?” Isitt asked city lawyer Tom Zworski.

Zworski felt the answer required a closed-door meeting, and council voted to retreat to a private room.

The discussion held up last week’s public governance and priorities meeting for nearly

two hours, after which council reported on a compromise.

Council will now have two decision points. Once members approve a proposal, based on staff’s recommendation, the bridge team will then negotiate the exact terms of the contract with the winning proponent. Council will then have a second opportunity to approve or reject this contract.

Coun. Lisa Helps is satisfied with the new terms. Not getting the chance to weigh all three bids will be “hard to stomach,” she said.

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expertise needed to evaluate engi-neering proposals.

“I feel very confident in this pro-cess,” she said.

The selection process has been postponed by about one month.

In late August, the city extended the closing date for receipt of pro-posals for the bridge contract. The three companies shortlisted were granted until Oct. 18 to submit fixed-price proposals.

The extra month allows propo-nents time to “discuss potential design optimizations with the city,” say city communications staff.

Once the deadline passes, the city’s bridge team will take several weeks to evaluate the three propos-als before taking its recommenda-tions to council.

As of last week, the project is pro-gressing under the direction of a new senior project manager. Ken Jarvela, who started Sept. 17, was hired after Mike Lai resigned from his post as project director July 6.

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With apologies to the old adage, but it’s records, not rules, which are meant to be broken.

Three of the Goodlife Fitness Victoria Marathon’s big-ger records were reset last year, one of them 22 years old. And this Sunday there’s no reason those three records, plus more, can’t be broken once more in the marathon’s 33rd year.

“There’s a very good chance the men’s and women’s marathon records could fall once again,” said Jonathan Foweraker, marathon’s elite athlete coordinator.

The marathon’s board of directors made a bold choice this year by loosening the regulations for the cash bonus to course record-breakers. Previously, the course record bonus of $5,000 was reserved to Canadian citizens, meaning last year’s winner, Thomas Omwenga, who earned $3,000 for the win, was unable to collect the added $5,000 course bonus.

That changes this year as the men’s and women’s mar-athon bonuses, including $1,000 for the half-marathon, are extended to permanent residents and refugees who have been domiciled in Canada for at least a year.

Omwenga returns after breaking Steve Osadiuk’s 2006 time of two hours, 16 minutes and 49 seconds last year with a time of 2:14:33.

“Omwenga has a better personal-best than that, and we must note that in 2011 he ran a marathon in Montreal the week before. This time he’s rested up,” Foweraker said.

The Canadian-based Kenyan has won two marathons already this year, in Manitoba and Quebec, and his last race was Niagara’s Run for Grapes half-marathon, which he won on Sept. 23.

The competition is tight in the men’s elite pack with 2010-winner Philip Samoei, who came second last year at 2:25:41 and, Cache Creek’s Ryan Day, who was third last year at 2:26:42 also returning.

Elites keying in on the women’s marathon are Gillian Clayton, an Ironman triathlete who has a personal best of 2:54 from 2011, Hallie Jansen, the 2004-winner, who ran 2:45 in 2011, 2010-winner Catrin Jones, who ran 2:48 last year and Nadyia Fry, third in 2011 with 2:55.

Eyeing up first in the women’s half-marathon is another Canadian-based Kenyan, Lucy Njeri, who smashed the marathon record of with a time of 2:37:56 in 2011.

Cracking the women’s half-marathon record might be beyond Njeri, however, as Natasha Wodak set the bar high with her course record of 1:15:27 last year.

Other notables for Sunday: the masterful movement of Jim Finlayson. Now 40, the local runner joins the masters ranks. For the fourth year in a row the Victoria Marathon will act as the B.C. Championships. The advent of an expanded Elite B category means free entry to more run-ners, particularly women, from the local scene, rather than just international runners.

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Jamie Benn goes to German elite league

Peninsula minor hockey product Jamie Benn has signed on to play with the Hamburg Freezers of Germany’s premier hockey league, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

Benn’s contract enables him to return to the Dallas Stars, where he was an NHL all-star last season, if the NHL lockout ends during the German hockey season.

Stars beat writer Mike Heika came across the sign-ing on Tuesday through the Freezers’ website.

Benn makes his debut today (Oct. 5). Also on the Hamburg Freezers is ex-NHLer Matt Pettinger of Vic-toria, who last played for the Vancouver Canucks in 2010.

Japanese visit Tide comes for 40th

Royal Athletic Park will host a 40th anniversary on Saturday when the Victoria’s Ebb Tide, the over-40 rugby club, returns to the pitch where it made its debut in 1972.

Two visiting Japanese teams, the Osaka Gentlemen and Tenri Old Bears will each play an over-55 game against an Ebb Tide squad that will change throughout the day,

followed by an over-40 game. “Spectators shouldn’t

expect sparkling rugby, that’s left for the young, although the over-40 game may have flashes of brilliance,” said Ebb Tide member Mark Bry-ant.

The event starts Saturday at 1 p.m. with the over-55 games beginning at 1:30 p.m. and the over-40 match at 3 p.m., followed by a traditional rugby reception and dinner at Four Points Sheraton at 6 p.m.

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Proposal deadline too soon admit Ironman organizersTravis PatersonNews staff

Greater Victoria has been left out of the running in the contest to be the new home of Ironman Canada.

Several factors came into play against bringing the world-class long distance triath-lon to Elk Lake but the biggest was getting 10 municipalities on board in time for the deadline of an Oct. 13 annoucment.

“We were disappointed,” said Hugh Mac-Donald of SportHost Victoria. He submitted the proposal to the World Triathlon Corpo-ration by Sept. 24, which owns the Ironman licences, on behalf of Greater Victoria.

The WTC released a shortlist on Monday of Whistler, Vernon and Huntsville, Ont., as the final three cities.

“While Victoria as a venue was ranked at the top, (WTC) didn’t have the confidence that we could get the permits and required support from 10 municipalities within five to 10 days,” MacDonald said.

“We weren’t surprised, it’s a lot of hoops to go through in our community to get events.”

The WTC told MacDonald the chances of bringing Ironman Canada to Victoria were much better if the race could wait until 2014. But with competitors chomping at the bit to sign up, WTC is moving fast to find a new 2013 home for the race that lived in Penticton from 1982 to 2012.

“There will be some discussion about the result,” MacDonald said. “We were being encouraged by different groups, we were looking at August but were encouraging WTC to look earlier or later.”

In one way, MacDonald can wipe his brow over the loss of stress.

There was no shortage of support from the triathlon and non-triathlon community to bring Ironman here. But there was legitimate concern, said MacDonald, of just when to fit the massive migration of triathletes and their supporters into the summer event calendar.

“2013 is an exceptionally busy year, some events haven’t been officially awarded yet.”

The World Youth Climbing Championships are coming Aug. 10 to 18, bringing as many as 2,000 people from 45 countries for the event hosted at Stelly’s secondary.

The Subaru Western Triathlon Series also runs the Sookie International half-Ironman, usually the third Saturday in August.

Soon to be confirmed is the Canadian Dragon Boat Championships at Elk Lake, which MacDonald is committed to bringing here, for the weekend of Aug. 24 to 26.

Victoria already has the International Dragon Boat festival, with 70 teams on the Inner Harbour, Aug. 10 to 12. And though it’s not as major a factor, the Canadian Amateur Golf Championships at Royal Colwood Golf course are Aug. 11 to 15.

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Mike Spracklen had his share of detractors, but he didn’t think it was enough to tip him out of the boat.

Earlier this week Rowing Can-ada made a bold decision to fire the decorated coach. Off-and-on since 1990, Spracklen guided Canadians to multiple Olympic and World Championship gold medals, helping Silken Laum-man to fame in the 1990s and, in recent years, the crews of the men’s heavyweight eight and pairs to the Olympic podium.

The national program is restructuring, which includes hiring a new performance direc-tor for the heavyweight men’s program, based at Elk Lake, to be announced later.

“Mike has left a significant legacy and we respect and cel-ebrate his many achievements,” said Peter Cookson, the high performance director.

“Two medals (in London) does not meet our expectations – we are driven to improve on this.”

“Certainly I was surprised,” Spracklen said from his Sidney home on Tuesday. “I still have something to offer, providing my health stays good then I’ll con-tinue coaching. I want to go and help people who want my help, and I’ll continue to do what I can for them.

“If they don’t want my help, I don’t want to be with them.”

Just as several current row-ers stepped forward to defend Spracklen on Tuesday, he’s also been the target of controversy since about 2010, mainly from men’s pair of Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen, who’ve openly criticizing his style of coaching.

The CBC published a letter on Tuesday from Frandsen in support of Spracklen’s removal, but he and Calder passed up a request for comment to the News.

From the CBC letter, Frandsen voiced harsh words, accusing Spracklen of creating an inner circle of rowers, with an “us against them” mentality against the rest of the rowing team, and for employing an unfair selec-tion process for the international boat crews.

But current rower and 2012 Olympian Lindsay Jennerich – who fought and won against Rowing Canada for the right as the only women’s boat to train at Elk Lake under Spracklen – and Kevin Light, a member of the 2008 Olympic gold-medal heavyweight eight, are among

the many who disagree with Calder and Frandsen’s outlook, as well as Rowing Canada’s.

“Removing Spracklen not only weakens the future of the heavy men’s rowing team, it removes an aura of excellence, dedication and hard work from the entire high performance system... Right now Rowing Canada is in a pro-cess of eliminat-ing some of the best resources to rowers that exist in this country … firing Mike Sprack-len is proof that the system is not making choices based on winning. They are mak-ing them based on politics. What wins medals is belief in the plan. Myself and many others now have none,” Jennerich wrote in an email to the News.

Light too, is upset.“Cookson is a nice guy, and

as a rower he always treated me well, but he made a wrong decision and hasn’t realized the ramifications of what he’s done,” Light said.

In their announcement to release Spracklen, Rowing Can-ada also promoted coach John Keogh to the role of perfor-mance director for the women and Al Morrow as the head of the lightweight men’s program, which now moves from Elk Lake to London, Ont.

Spracklen, now 75 years old, and his wife Annie, have resided in Sidney full time since 2000, but still own a home in Marlow, just west of London, England, close to the famous Henley-On-

Thames, the hallowed waters of of rowing.

It’s hard to imagine that even in his later years, Spracklen won’t have any high-performance opportunities come his way. His international resumé dates back to the 1976 Olympics in Mon-treal, where he helped Britain’s men’s double scull to silver. In

the 1980s he coached Oxford to defeats of Cambridge in The Boat Race.

And even with the nega-tive comments and controversy

around him earning national press attention in the last two years, his time in Canada can hardly be called anything but a success.

Spracklen’s been part of seven gold medals for Canada since 1990, and in 2002 he was named the International Rowing Federa-tion Coach of the Year as a Cana-dian coach.

“I will continue coaching some-where, unlikely here,” Spracklen said. “I will just grab my thoughts together and decide where I should go, or what’s available to me.”

Spracklen is fond of his time in Canada but is disappointed in Rowing Canada’s decision.

“It only takes one person to think you’re not capable. There will always be athletes who don’t make the team and they’ll com-plain. It’s something I’ve dealt with all my life as every rowing coach has.”

[email protected]

A cold goodbye to gold medal coach

Photo by Kevin Light Photography

Mike Spracklen in the chilly winter air on Elk Lake.

“Rowing Canada is eliminating some of the best resources to rowers in this country.”

– Lindsay Jennerich


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REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

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COMING EVENTS

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UKRAINIAN FOOD SALE Sat, Oct 6, 10am-noon. 1110 Caledonia Ave,

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LEGALS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND

OTHERS

Re: ESTATE OF MARY KATHLEEN

DAVEY, also known as MOLLIE DAVEY, late of #312 - 1642 MCKENZIE

AVENUE, VICTORIA, BC, DECEASED

NOTICE is hereby given that creditors and others having claims against the estate of the above de-ceased, or against the trustees or trust property of the above trust, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at 1269 Grant Street, Victoria, BC, V8T 1C1 before November 2nd, 2012, after which date the Executor will distribute the said estate and the Trustees will dis-tribute the trust property among the parties enti-tled thereto, having re-gard only to the claims of which he then has no-tice. SCOTT DONALDTAYLOR,ExecutorBy his Solicitors HORNE COUPAR

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TRAVEL

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CHILDREN

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TRADES, TECHNICAL

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PETS

PET CARE SERVICES

ARE YOUR fi sh safe? Reef and fresh water. Aquarium Service. Call (778)677-7701.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

APPLIANCES

WANTED: CLEAN fridge’s, upright freezers, 24” stoves, portable dishwashers, less than 15 yrs old. McFarland In-dustries, (250)885-4531.

BUILDING SUPPLIES

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

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8 SPIDER plants in pots, $4/ea. 8 Geraniums plants in pots, $4/ea. 250-652-4199.

ADJUSTABLE ELECTRIC single bed w/ Certa mattress, incls bedding, $75 obo. Call (250)475-6627.

MAN’S 3 piece suit, pure vir-gin wool, never used, w 36” h 5’8”, $89 obo. (250)727-9425.

NEW AMEROCK 20” towel bar in box, antique bronze, $15. Call (250)383-5390.

PET CARRIER, heavy fabric, zipper enclosure and shoulder strap, $25 obo. (250)598-0750

TENDER TOOTSIE slippers, size 8, $15. Call (250)595-3070.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

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

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FURNITURE

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GARAGE SALES

MEDICAL SUPPLIES

ELECTRONIC SCOOTER Shop Rider Voyager 778S. Used indoors except for 3 trips outside. Exc. cond., $1200 obo. Call (250)472-1361.

FULL SIZE electric Scooter by Victory, excellent condition, 4 wheels, adjustable seat, head-light, horn and mirror. Asking $750 obo. Call (250)655-7404.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

500 RECENT paperbacks, $.50; Altas Lathe, $900; 1200 hand crafted earrings/necklac-es, $2-$7, large amounts 50% off. Call (250)655-3347.

BERNINA 820 QE Sewing Computer - high end sewing & quilting machine w/ 40 cm long free arm, stitch regulator, dual feed. $4500. (250)882-5465.

DOWNSIZING SALE. Rock-er/Recliner, Sears Special, dark brown, $125, Charbroil BBQ, side burner-rotisserie, $100, electric body heater/vi-brator, $35. Call 250-655-4185


MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

FOR SALE 1-200 KW/250KVA/300 amp 480 generatorCat engine 3406B c/w 1-1800litre double wall Tidy Tank.$7000. Call 250-949-8133.

HOME THEATER Audio sys-tem, boxed, never used, $300.Collector plates (endangeredspecies), full set (10), $200.Call (250)474-2325.

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. Allshapes & colours available.1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?

LOWREY ORGAN Symphonic Holiday.4 channels, upper/low-er keyboard, about 4’L x 2’W x3.5’H, $600. obo. SCOOTER - Rascal Continental,good work-ing order $400. (250)544-2116

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

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MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

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REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

10353 DEVLIN Plc, Sidney. Private Rancher. $499,000. 3 bdrm, 2 bath, lrg treed lot. Complete details atw w w . p r o p e r t y g u y s . c o m ID#192295www.realtor.ca mls #307481

CAYCUSEVery rare 5 acre treed

park-like Property with well-maintained furnished home - 1500 sq.ft, 3-bdrm, 2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake. Perfect for recreational

property or full time living. Reduced to sell $378,800.

Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land.Call 250-745-3387 or

250-478-2648

OAK BAY. Updated home on two levels. 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, sunroom + patio, new everything. 1766 sq ft & 956 unfi nished sq ft. $658,000. Call 250-598-6902.

Qualicum Beach: $295,0001512 sq.ft. modular, 5yrs old, on own land in 45+ Coop Park. 2bdrm +den, 2baths. Close to beaches and golf courses. (250)738-0248

SOOKE RANCHERBeautiful, immaculate,

1,649 sq ft executive rancher located in Whiffen Spit Estates, Sooke, BC.

10,000+ sq ft lot. Asking price $429,900.

250-686-5372

REAL ESTATE

HOUSES FOR SALE

$399,000. Next to VGH, 2 bdrm + 3rd or offi ce, 2 lvl, end unit, windows on 3 sides. Large family room, 2 fi replac-es, pet allowed. 71-14 Erskine Ln., Tel: 250-478-0269. Open House, 2PM-4PM, Sat & Sun. www.Comfree.com/367097

CORDOVA BAY. REDUCED! (Bring Offers). 3 bdrm, 3 bath Character house, view. with 1-bdrm suite. $575,000. (below appraisal) Call 250-818-5397.

FOR SALE BY OWNER. #30 Lekwammen Drive. 55+ com-plex. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, den, family room, dbl. garage. LP $319,900. Irma (250)477-4117

SIDNEY Spectacular Rancher. Inside & Out! Very private, 12ft hedge ¾’s way around house. Beautiful exposure on a quiet, well maintained Cul-de-sac! Call 250-656-2222 or for more info: www.propertyguys.com ID#192329

HOMES WANTED

WE BUY HOUSESDamaged House?

Pretty House? Moving? Divorcing? Estate Sale?

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

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MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

By Owner, $47,900. 1260sqft, 3 bdrm mobile, exc. cond., 5 new stainless appl, W/D. Fully upgraded. New furnace, air tight stove. Family park. Call (250)478-8455.

REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE SERVICES

SAVE ON COMMISSIONSell your home for $6900

or 1% plus $900 feesFULL MLS SERVICE!

CALL: 250-727-8437Jasmine Parsonswww.jasmineparsons.comOne Percent Realty V.I.

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. $700-$1200 inclusive. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min com-mute to downtown Victoria. Must have references. 250-478-9231.

COLWOOD 2 bdrm condo, 4th fl oor, elevator, 5 appls, insuite laundry, F/P, prkg incld, N/P. $1100. Oct. 1. (250)474-6855.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

GLANFORD AREA- Avail now 3 bdrms, 2 bath upper, $1400. 5 appls, 2 balconies, quiet str. Yard is shared. Sm pet ok. Call Equitex 250-386-6071.

SIDNEY- 5TH STREET Available now. 2 bdrms, $950. small pet ok, coin op. In-cludes HW & parking. Call Equitex, 250-386-6071.

WESTHILLS: NEW 1 bdrm apt. $950+ util’s. Close all amens. W/D. NS/NP. Avail. Nov. 1st. Call 250-477-5610 or email [email protected]

COTTAGES

DEEP COVE: cozy 1bdrm, wood fl oors, acreage, skylights $950 mo, N/S. 250-656-1312.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

SIDNEY EXECUTIVE suite. near ocean & town. $1295. Short/ long term.250-656-8080

HOMES FOR RENT

1-LEVEL WHEELCHAIR ac-cessible 4 bdrm, 2.5 baths. Approx 2400 sq.ft. Pets, kids welcome. N/S. Avail immed. $1700/mo. (250)656-2242.

CENTRAL PARK area, 3-4 bdrm home, full bsmt, W/D incl’d, $1450. 250-479-6569.

LOCHSIDE AREA, waterfront lrg 1 bdrm, close to James Is-land wharf, quiet, 4 appls, $800 incls heat. N/S, small pet neg. (250)544-0470.

SIDNEY- 2 BDRM, garage, yard, deck, F/S, W/D. $1350. Avail Nov 1. (250)812-4154.

SENIOR ASSISTED LIVING

RETIRED? LOOKING FOR A FINE

RESIDENCE IN A GREAT LOCATION?

Look no more, the loca-tion is #202-455 King-ston Street, James Bay; steps to the Inner Har-bour, shopping, the Sen-iors Center & downtown. It features independent living with services at the Camelot. The condo is charming and like new and now being offered for sale at $179,900 which is vastly under ap-praised value. As a bo-nus to a buyer, the own-er will cover your service fees for the fi rst three months and… provide a moving package to! (a rental lease agreement may also be considered.)View it anytime, please call owner at 250-652- 9725 or cell at 250-415- 1001, for information.

RENTALS

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

VICTORIA HOUSING. $475- $575 all incl, suits working/stu-dents, disability. 778-977-8288

SUITES, LOWER

C. SAANICH. 1-Bdrm. $850. inclds utils & laundry. NS/NP. Avail immed. 250-418-0780.

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

SAANICH- LARGE, 2000sq ft, 2 bdrm, lights & heat incld, N/S, N/P, ref’s, $1100 mo. Avail now. 250-652-0591.

SUITES, UPPER

SIDNEY: QUIET cozy 1 bdrm. W/D, utils incld, NS/NP, com-pletely furnished. Avail. Nov. 1st. $995/mo. (250)656-7184.

TOWNHOUSES

SIDNEY- NEW 2 bdrm + den, W/D. NS/NP. $1700 mo. Avail immed. Call 250-217-4060.

WANTED TO RENT

SENIORS 65/66 looking for private, quiet unfurn. cottage or suite, up to $900. Prefer Saanich area. We will provide exc. care of your property, NS/NP. 778-679-2044

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO FINANCING

Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

DreamCatcher Auto Loans“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK -

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TRANSPORTATION

AUTO SERVICES

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

CASH PAIDFOR ALL VEHICLES in

all conditions in all locations

250-885-1427Call us fi rst & last, we pay the highest fair price for all

dead & dying vehicles.Don’t get pimped, junked or

otherwise chumped!

CARS

1977 CADILAC Eldorado, beige metallic. Cruise control, automatic. Very good cond., only 80,000 km. $3000. obo. Please call (250)477-7076.

1984 380 SE Mercedes, 126. Daily driver, gold with sunroof. Leather interior, no rust. $1800. obo. (250)595-7573.

1985 CADILLAC Seville, 70,000 k. Mint condition. White leather upholstery. 1 owner. $3,500. Call (250)656-1560.

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

$50-$1000 CASH

For scrap vehicleFREE Tow away

858-5865

‘99 SUNFIRE, Painted & in-spected, $2500. 778-425-3604 250-532-0751

SPORTS & IMPORTS

1981 MERCEDES 300SD Tur-bo Diesel for sale. 281,000 KMS, (Champagne colour) in fair condition, asking $3000. Maintenance log available. Call 250-885-9010.

TRANSPORTATION

RECREATIONAL VEHICLESFOR SALE

1982 HYBRID Westphalia.Can run on diesel or veggieoil. 1.9l 1996 Jetta engine.$12K. Serious enquiries only.Nanaimo (250)591-3711.

2005 TIFFIN Allegro bus 21,500 miles, 400 Cumminsdiesel, 6 speed Allison trans-mission, Freightliner Chassis,3 slides, solar panels, starchoice satellite, 7500 Onangenerator, fully loaded, im-maculate. $129,500. Smalltrades considered. Call 250-656-5875 or 250-889-3042.

22’ 5TH wheel, $4,900. Or sellwith 2006 Chevy Silverado to-tal package (asking $14,900).Incld’s Tonneau Lid. All excel-lent cond. Call (250)655-1147.

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES

“2004 RAV4 4WD”- $13,500fi rm. 4 cyl, auto, silver, Miche-lins, 120,000 km,Victoria onlyvehicle. Complete mainte-nance history. Lady-driven, noaccidents, excellent condition,keyless entry. Model Recom-mended In Top 10 by Consu-mer Reports. (250)479-5545.

VTRUCKS & ANS

1995 PLYMOUTH Voyager Van, 7 seater, 1 family owned,well maintained, woman driv-en, low mileage (164,000KMS). Asking $2900. Call(250)477-4256.

MARINE

BOATS

$$$ BOATS Wanted. Any size. Cash buyer. Also trailersand outboards. 250-544-2628.

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.

COMPLETE HOME Renos. Carpentry, Drywall, Painting. Licenced insured. Call Darren 250-217-8131.


CARPENTRY

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

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

INSTCARPET ALLATION

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

CHIMNEY SERVICES

JKG CHIMNEY. Clean, Re-pairs, Gutters, Roof Demoss, Torch On Flat. 250-588-3744.


CLEANING SERVICES

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

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

PRIVATE HOUSEKEEPER. Has available openings. Exc ref’s. $25/hr. 778-433-4340.

COMPUTER SERVICES

A HOME COMPUTER Coach. Senior friendly. Computer les-sons, maintenance and prob-lem solving. Please call Des 250-656-9363, 250-727-5519.

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


COMPUTER SERVICES

HAGENS COMPUTERS. New and used computers. Sales and service. 250-655-3566.

CONCRETE & PLACING

ALL TYPES of Concrete & Carpentry work specializing in all types of retaining walls, large or small. IKON Construc-tion since 1980. Call 250-478-2898 or 250-880-0928.

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

WE’RE ON THE WEB


CONTRACTORS

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

DRYWALL

AARON’S RENO’S Drywall, taping, texture. Insured/bond-ed. Free est. 250-880-0525.

DRYWALL PROFESSIONAL:Small additions, boarding, tap-ing, repairs, texture spraying, consulting. Soundproof instal-lation;bath/moisture resistance products. Call 250.384.5055. Petrucci’s Drywall.

MUD on the RUN. Small dry-wall repairs, textures & reno-vations. Ross, (250)812-4879.


ELECTRICAL

250-361-6193 QUALITY Elec-tric. New homes, renos. No job too sm. Seniors disc. #22779.

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

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

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

LICENSED, BONDED & F.S.R. Electrician, 30 yrs. Exp. Residential, new construction & renos. Knob & tube removal. Aluminum wiring upgraded and made safe. Lic.#3003. (250)590-9653.


VAEXCA TING & DRAINAGE

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

FENCING

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

FURNITURE REFINISHING

U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UKTrained. Fran, 250-216-8997.

Time for a

NEW car?



GARDENING

10% OFF. Mowing, Power Raking, Hedge/Shrub Trim-ming, Clean-up. 250-479-6495

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

(250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Yard a mess? Fall pruning & clean-up. Blackberry & ivy rmvl, weed control. 24yrs exp.

250-216-9476 ACCEPTING clients, From the Ground Up, custom landscapes, home re-no’s, garden clean-ups.

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

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311-1619 Morrison, $209,000Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesTracey Lang, 250-661-7214 pg. 5

205-1115 Rockland, $229,900Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422 pg. 10

1021 Pendergast St, $799,000Saturday 12-1One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242 pg. 12

828 Rupert TerraceSaturday & Sunday 1-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMurray Lawson 250 385-9814 pg. 7

1704-647 Michigan St, $199,900Sunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyInder Taneja, 250-686-8228 pg. 5

754 Humboldt, $398,900Daily Noon-5 exc FridaysConcert Properties 250 383-3722 pg. 7

101-66 Songhees, $519,900Saturday 1-3Address Realty Ltd.Michelle Vermette, 250-391-1893

G1-395 Tyee Rd, $529,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDavid Stevens, 250-477-5353 pg. 9

305-2920 Cook St, $315,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtySylvia Therrien, 250-385-2033 pg. 16

206-1610 Jubilee, $227,900Saturday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLarry Lineham, 250-661-7809 pg. 5

A-707 Linden St, $449,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291 pg. 17

432 Kipling St, $625,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRobert Nemish, 250-744-3301 pg. 12

409 Chadwick Place, $1,299,900 Saturday 2:30 - 4PMRe/Max CamosunKevin Koetke, 250 744-3301 pg. 32

1018 Joan Cres, $899,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyRobert Buckle 250 385-2033 pg. 12

1477 Finlayson, $524,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunDaniel Clover 250 507-5459 pg. 5675854

G1-395 Tyee Rd, $529,000Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDavid Stevens, 250-477-5353 pg. 12

406-708 Burdett Ave, $565,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Bill Knowles, 250-656-0131 pg. 6

405 Chester, $269,000Saturday 1-4DFH Real Estate LtdPatti Locke-Lewkowich 250 477-7291 pg. 11

733A HumboldtDaily noon - 5 pm (exc Thurs & Fri)Fair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 480-3000 pg. 1

2416 Mowat, $549,900Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyChuck Meagher, 250-477-1100 pg. 13

205-2125 Oak Bay Ave, $405,000Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyHiro Nakatani, 250 661-4476

1480 Beach, $1,649,000Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyRichard Severs 250 216-3178 pg. 14

7-314 Six Mile, $499,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunClayton Jeffs, 250-744-3301 pg. 11

304-121 Aldersmith, $269,900Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate LtdSharon Stevens-Smith 250 474-6003 pg. 14

9-1529 Cooper Rd, $169,000Sunday 11-1Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 29

156 Levista Pl, $589,900Sunday 2-4One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242

209D-1115 Craigfl ower, $269,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jenn Raappana, 250-590-3921

1250 Craigfl ower, $425,500Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalPaul Holland 250 592-4422 pg. 14

1004 Gosper Cres, $449,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyColin Walters, 250-479-3333 pg. 14

1581 BurnleySaturday 1-2:30Re/Max CamosunAdrian Langereis, 250-999-9822

1158 Camrose, $587,500Saturday 2-4RE/MAX CamosunFran Jeffs, 250-744-3301 pg. 18

981 Annie, $599,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRoland Stillings 250-744-3301 pg. 18

901 McKenzie Ave, $439,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Fair RealtyRay Kong, 250-590-7011 pg. 15

3991 Cherrilee, $759,000Sunday 2-4Newport RealtyRobert Buckle 250 385-2033 pg. 15

3963 Juan De FucaSaturday 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882 pg. 15

4030/4040 Borden St, $229,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250 658-0967 pg. 1

910 Lucas Ave, $438,900Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyNeil Rawnsley, 250-592-4422 pg. 9

4806 Amblewood Dr, $799,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesDiana Winger, 250-384-8124

930 Tuxedo, $664,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunJohn Percy 250 744-3301 pg. 15

3800 Hobbs, $789,000Saturday 11-1Sutton Group West Coast RealtyStuart Price, 250-479-3333 pg. 15

3777 Jennifer, $699,900Saturday & Sunday 12-2DFH Real Estate Ltd.Jeff Bishop, 250-474-6003 pg. 15

4030/4040 Borden St, $229,900Saturday & Sunday 1-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250 658-0967 pg. 3

1822 Fairhurst, $629,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 18

44-4318 Emily Carr, $659,900Sunday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422 pg. 11

991 Lohbrunner, $785,000Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyZane Willis, 250-479-3333 pg. 15

3121 Carman, $585,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesKent Deans, 250-686-4141 pg. 18

2676 Arbutus Rd, $935,000Saturday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyAnke Venema, 250 477-1100

1905 Portway, $949,000Saturday 2-4 DFH Real EstateCassie Kangas 250 477-7291 pg. 18

4694 Lochside, $669,000Sunday 1-3Sutton West Coast RealtyElke Pettipas 250 479-3333 pg. 18

1309 Blue Ridge, $589,900Saturday 2-4Newport RealtySylvia Therrien, 250-385-2033 pg. 16

2828 Inlet Ave., $459,900Saturday 12-2Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 29

210-4535 Viewmont Ave, $259,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunRick Turcotte, 250-744-3301 pg. 19

1299 Geric Pl, $769,000Saturday 2-4One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242 pg. 19

386 Quayle RdSunday 1-3Sutton Group West Coast RealtyJ Ross Bruce 250 479-3333 pg. 19

15-4619 Elk Lake, $449,900Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLorraine Williams, 250-216-3317 pg. 29

3077 Dysart Rd, $498,888Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyInder Taneja, 250-686-8228 pg. 19

101 Kiowa Pl, $1,245,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtySandy Berry, 250-385-2033

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14-4525 Wilkinson, $379,900Saturday 11-1DFH Real Estate Ltd.Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291 pg. 6

7891 Patterson, $649,900Saturday 12:30 - 2PMRe/Max CamosunKevin Koetke, 250 744-3301 pg. 32

201-2415 Amherst, $398,800Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

9620 Glenelg, $799,000Saturday 2-4JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3

8630 Moxon, $624,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate LtdElfi e Jeeves 250 477-7291 pg. 20

6694 Tamany, $569,000Saturday 1-4Sutton West CoastMikko Ikonen 250 479-3333 pg. 28

711-2779 Stautw, $184,500Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dennis Guevin, 250-477-7291 pg. 20

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9751 Fourth StTuesday & Wednesday 1-3, Saturday 12-2Gordon Hulme RealtyDon King 250 656-4626 pg. 10

7448 East Saanich Rd., $479,900Saturday 2-4Sutton West Coast RealtyJonas Solberg 250 479-3333 pg. 28

7161 West SaanichThursday - Monday 3-5Gordon Hulme RealtyDon King 250 656-4626 pg. 11

6-10072 Third, $509,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

11075 Salal, $640,000Saturday 2-4JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3

2320 Oakville, $419,000Friday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdKarenTaber 250 384-8124 pg. 29

211-9882 Fifth, $219,000Saturday 1-2Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

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7701 Grieve, $460,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Cornerstone PropertiesKevin Wensley 250 475-2006 pg. 2

2463 Costa Vista Pl, $559,000Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunGary Anderson, 250-744-3301 pg. 19

301-9858 Fifth, $259,000Saturday 3-4Holmes RealtyMichele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 27

1145 Sikorsky Rd, $269,900Saturday & Sunday 12-4DFH Real Estate LtdMike Hartshorne 250 889-4445 pg. 21

100-594 Bezanton Way, $324,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Diana Winger, 250-384-8124

727 Grousewood, $649,900Saturday 2:30-4Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124 pg. 21

3128 Antrobus, $549,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Sutton Group Seafair RealtyAllan McDowell 250 213-8848 pg. 21

2162 Bellamy Rd, $700,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesAndrew Plank 250 360-6106 pg. 21

102-2733 Peatt Rd, $369,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Re/Max AllianceKaren Love, 250-386-8875 pg. 5

662 Goldstream Ave., $239,900Daily 1-4Kahl RealtyJason Kahl 250-391-8484 pg. 16

2850 Aldwynd, $329,900Tuesday thru Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdPat Guiney, 250 391-6400 pg. 22

867 Wild Ridge, $399,900Saturday 2-4SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683 pg. 21

2627 Country Terr, $474,800Friday 4-6Re/Max CamosunJason Binab, 250-744-3301

1104 Monica, $729,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdDeborah Kline 250 661-7680 pg. 23

607 Hammond, $428,800Sunday 2:30 - 4PMRe/Max CamosunKevin Koetke, 250 744-3301 pg. 32

3888C Duke Rd, $609,900Sunday 2:30-4:30Re/Max CamosunRoy Coburn, 250-812-1989 pg. 21

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If the City of Victoria hoped to keep a low profile as it seeks to limit media access to information, it picked the wrong time of year.

Last week marked Right to Know Week in Canada, meaning cities across Canada held forums and summits to discuss the strength of freedom-of-information legislation at the federal, provincial and municipal level.

Smack in the middle of the week, news broke of Victoria’s applica-tion to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner to limit requests made by Focus Magazine.

Under Section 43 of the Freedom of Infor-mation and Protection of Privacy Act, the city argues some requests for informa-tion by Focus are repetitious and systemic and interfere with city operations.

It may be an unprecedented move in British Columbia, and the timing of the application served to shine a spotlight on the city’s actions.

Experts and advocates speaking at a forum held in Victoria on Friday used the event to ground their dis-cussion.

Lawyer Micheal Vonn, policy director for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, questioned the city’s argument that it can’t keep up with Focus Magazine’s numerous requests for information due, in part, to a lack of resources.

“What is the analysis between the budget of the communications

department and the budget (allocated to) Freedom of Information?” she asked.

David Flaherty, B.C.’s first Information and Privacy Commissioner, also criticized the city. He likens Section 43 to the penalty box.

During his term as commissioner, Flaherty said, he put an anti-abortion lobby group in the penalty box after they filed huge requests for information to the health authority.

“But these are journalists,” he said, comparing his historical case to the one before the commissioner today. “That’s not your usual whacko applicant. I cannot believe that the City of Victoria has got itself in the situation where it is saying to a media organization, ‘You can (only

make one request at a time).’”

But Vincent Gogolek, executive director of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association, warns it’s too early to make any firm conclusions.

“Maybe (the city) is just a thinned-skinned public body whose freedom-of-information process doesn’t work that well,” he said. “Maybe they’re tired of the negative coverage (by Focus).”

This is the more likely reasoning behind Victoria’s actions, but without seeing the nature of the requests filed by Focus, it’s hard to tell, Gogolek added.

Being a member of the media doesn’t necessarily preclude one of being guilty of what the city alleges, he said. “That’s why we have a commissioner to see what the public body has to say and rule accordingly.”

The office of the Privacy Commissioner sent out a notice of hearing, but as of yet no date has been set for the hearing.

Timing ironic for Victoria’s crackdown on information requestsExperts weigh in on city’s move to limit the number of FOI requests

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“We thought we’d have a party to celebrate,” said Giles Hogya, chair of Democrats Abroad, Victo-ria chapter.

The organization, which helps register expatriate U.S. citizens to

vote, held a fundraiser and view-ing party in the Maple Room of the Sticky Wicket pub Wednesday night.

“Although we are a political organization, our mandate is to register American voters,” Hogya said. Hundreds of U.S. citizens live on Vancouver Island, he noted.

Through the website votefroma-broad.org, expats can find infor-mation on registering to vote in their home state, a process that often differs between states. The U.S. government also has an easy-to-follow website for expat voters, www.fvap.gov.

“Many Americans’ votes may be disqualified because the new law says you must register for every single federal election, not just once,” Hogya said.

Democrats Abroad Victoria held a Super Saturday in the spring from Victoria to Campbell River, registering roughly 200 U.S. citi-zens to vote in the presidential election.

The group then initiated a cam-paign in August to target U.S. vot-ers living in Canada from 11 key swing states.

“No Republican candidate has

ever won the White House with-out Ohio,” Hogya said.

“We have sent thousands of votes to swing states. And I’m going to be looking ... to see if our efforts have borne fruit.”

He attended the Democratic National Convention in North Car-olina earlier this month and said the national party is “very con-scious” of the fact that Canada can deliver thousands of votes.

“We’re major player,” Hogya said.

Ontario-based Republicans Abroad Canada has no active chapter in B.C., said spokesperson Kelli White, but the streamlining of online voter registration has made the organization’s efforts to inform expats much easier.

“The website, fvap.gov, even allows you to download an emer-gency absentee ballot in case your official absentee ballot doesn’t arrive from your voting state,” she said. “With all of the accessibility and streamlining that technology has allowed, the number of absen-tee votes in almost every state has increased.”

The next presidential debate takes place Oct. 16, with a vice-presidential debate Oct. 11.

There are Democrats Abroad chapters in 51 countries and mem-bers in more than 120 countries, according to Hogya.

For more information on Demo-crats Abroad and to find out about future viewing parties, email [email protected].

Find info on Republicans Abroad at republicansabroad.ca.

[email protected]

Americans in Victoria ramp up for U.S. electionDemocrats Abroad active in region; Republicans, not so much

Don Denton/News staff

Democrats Abroad, Victoria chapter members Heidi Burch, Giles Hogya and Charles Meadow stand in front of a billboard on the Pat Bay Highway that encourages U.S. citizens to vote for President Barack Obama.


childrenshealthvi.org

Here’s a great children’s story.The Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children has been renamed Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island.

Please join us in welcoming our new name!

We are excited about the change because the

new name tells the story of what we do and

where we do it. Our Foundation has a 90-year

legacy of helping children thanks to you, our

incredible donors and supporters. Our new

name sets the stage for helping even more

children in the years to come.

Here for your children

The newly-named Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island will continue to promote the health and well-being of children, youth and families all over Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. This includes funding for facilities, organizations, programs, and equipment for children in need.

The Queen Alexandra legacy lives on

The Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island continues to support the Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health in Victoria. And the name “Queen Alexandra” will forever be part of our legacy.

How we help:

Across the IslandsWe provide grants to organizations that support the health and well-being of children and youth through their programming. We also fund families experiencing urgent and unforeseen medical needs, including travel and accommodation and specialized medical equipment.

Jeneece PlaceWith the support of our entire community, our Foundation funded, built and operates Jeneece Place. This 10-bedroom home provides a supportive and inexpensive environment for families who travel to Victoria for their child’s medical care.

West Shore and Sooke Child, Youth & Family CentresWe own and operate these facilities in which child and youth related health and social service agencies use the facilities at cost – so that their resources can be directed to helping children.

HerWay Home HerWay Home is a program funded by our Foundation to reduce

Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s HealthWe support programs at the Centre, such as physical therapy, wheelchair seating and bracing for children with special needs, and early childhood development.

If you would like more information or wish mation or wish to donate, please visit childrrenshealthvi.orgor call 250 519 6722or call 250-519-6722.


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