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There are a lot of good problems in the shipbuilding and repair industry these days.

About 2,000 new jobs are expected to be created by 2020 in B.C., including 500 in Esquimalt at Victoria

Shipyards.A further 850

retirements over the next seven years are expected to clear the path for a new generation of career shipbuilders, journeymen and labourers in the wake of Seaspan’s $8-billion construction and repair contract with the federal government.

Which begs the question: can the demand be met?

Alex Rueben and his colleagues have been working more than five years to answer that question.

“Oil and gas, mining, forestry and construction in particular, those were really the predominant focus of the training institutions,” he said, tapping his ring on a coffee shop table to punctuate each industry.

“We thought, rather than building a new school that would compete with those, why not build a centre that would facilitate the training for our industry?”

In just a few weeks, executive director Rueben will officially open the Industrial Marine Training and Applied Research Centre, a modest facility located on Songhees land near the Esquimalt Graving Dock.

The two classrooms and computer lab will house about 50 students at any given time.

They’ll eventually offer a customized curriculum, ranging from marine

estimation and planning to the cross-training of qualified journeymen from other industries.

In fall 2013, the University of British Columbia will also begin offering an undergraduate degree in naval architecture and marine engineering, in part due to work done by the B.C. shipbuilding and repair workforce table, which Rueben chairs.

“We have the advantage of being

organized earlier than other (trades industries),” he said.

“We need to stay ahead of them, because they’re after the same folks we are. Once you develop a welder or an electrician or a metal fabricator or a pipefitter, they can go anywhere they want.”

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Trades the new golden ticketAs hundreds of baby boomers prepare to retire in the coming decade, a skilled trades shortage looms. The new Marine Training and Applied Research Centre aims to address the shortfall.

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Alex Rueben, executive director of the new Marine Training and Applied Research Centre, stands in front of the nearly finished training building, located on Maplebank Road on the Songhees Nation Reserve.

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No sleds on trestle crossingS.P.C.A. volunteer Adam Andrusiak reassures nervous pup, Ford, on the Selkirk Trestle during an outing last week. Andrusiak spends at least once a week with the adoptable rescued sled dog, taking him for runs on the Galloping Goose Trail and trying to get him used to the bridge.

Johnson Street bridge costs remain murkyNot all relevant project expenses included in total cost: Young

Weekend lunch programfills a need at Our PlaceSociety sees gradual increase in usage one month into projectBrittany LeeNews staff

Just over a month into a six-month pilot project at Our Place Society, it’s clear that weekend lunches are filling a need in the community.

Thanks to a nearly $50,000 grant from the Victoria Foundation, Our Place began opening on Saturday and Sunday at the beginning of December, providing much-needed lunches for Victoria’s homeless, poor, and disabled.

“People are extremely grateful that we’re open on the weekend for lunches,” said Don Evans, execu-tive director of Our Place. “It’s not addressing all the needs, but it cer-tainly helps.”

The weekend program has seen between 200 to 250 people per day

take advantage of the service so far.“We expect it will continue to

increase as people come to know about it,” Evans said. “Certainly, it’s showing a need for meals in the city.”

The society is actively looking for resources to expand and extend the pilot project, which is set to run until May.

“There’s a big gap when we close on weekends,” Evans said.

It’s a goal of the society to remain open on weekends and provide other meals in addition to lunch, he said. Recently, a $50,000 dona-tion from the McLean Foundation was made to the weekend lunch program.

On weekdays, the society sees about 800 people daily, serving between 1,200 and 1,500 meals.

November and December are cru-cial months for the fundraising that allows the society to meet its annual operating costs of approximately $3.2 million. Almost half of its rev-enue comes from donations made during these months, Evans said.

While the society is partly funded by the government, it largely relies on donations from the local commu-nity. In November, the society saw a decrease in donations of 25 to 30 per cent compared to 2011.

“Even though donations slow (during January and February), the need in the community doesn’t,” Evans said.

Donations can be made to Our Place Society by visiting ourplace-society.com or by calling 250-388-7112.

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Vancouver man robbed by new ‘friends’ in James Bay after cab rideDaniel PalmerNews staff

A 19-year-old Vancouver man was choked and robbed of a large amount of cash after catching a taxi with three men he met earlier that night.

The robbery took place Satur-

day around 3 a.m. near Beckley Avenue and Oswego Street, where the victim and the other men were dropped off after leaving a down-town hotel.

“The victim had spent part of the night with this group, but had become uncomfortable when they started talking about their crimi-

nal histories,” said Const. Mike Russell.

One of the three men left the area after exiting the cab, but the other two stayed and demanded all of the victim’s cash – more than $1,000, according to Russell.

“One of the suspects started to choke (the victim) and forcefully

take the money.”En route to the area, rookie

VicPD Const. Cam Stephen spot-ted a man running through the neighbourhood.

The officer gave chase on foot and arrested the suspect in the 300-block of Michigan St.

Police recovered the money,

but the second suspect remains at large. Russell wouldn’t specu-late why the victim was carrying the cash.

Tyler Wickes, 18 of Victoria, faces charges of robbery, breach-ing an undertaking and breaching probation.

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Victoria councillors are keeping mum while they seek legal advice on what they can and can’t reveal about a fixed-price contract for the Johnson Street Bridge project.

Coun. Geoff Young said the $63.2-million construction con-tract awarded to PCL Constructors doesn’t include costs that should be considered part of the project.

One of those is building a retaining wall beside 203 Harbour Rd., which was previously designed as a side slope on an approach road beside the city-owned lot.

The vertical retaining wall and soil removal will cost $640,000, excluding taxes and preliminary design costs, city spokesperson Katie Josephson said.

“It could be done later, however, it was felt a retaining wall would increase the future lease potential (of the property),” she said. “There are benefits to doing it now when a contractor is already working in the area.”

The work will be completed by PCL and paid for with funds from the city’s tax sale land reserve.

The cost will be recovered from the increased lease revenue, Josephson said.

Young contends the retaining wall is required to prevent fill from

the approach road from spilling onto the Harbour Road prop-erty.

“If that property was owned by somebody else, (the wall) would be required as part of the bridge project,” he said.

Construction costs are capped at $66 million, including a con-tingency fund of about $2.8 million for unanticipated costs.

That amount could rise to about $4 million, should PCL find further efficiencies over the life of the project, according to a staff report.

The remaining $26.8-million cost of the project covers design, legal and insurance costs, as well as staff time.

Ross Crockford of watchdog citizens group johnsonstreet-bridge.org said the contingency should be more substantial, as the design of the bridge is only partially complete.

“If the design changes and the steel quantities are different, then the city could pay for that as well,” he said.

At Monday’s technical briefing on the contract details for the new bridge, city staff said they have done all they can to miti-gate possible delays that could arise from city-assumed risks, such as archeological discoveries or geotechnical changes in the harbour sea bed.

“But until you start digging out there, you really don’t know,” engineering and public works director Dwayne Kalynchuk said.

Young remains confident more details will be released in the coming weeks.

“There’s a lot of information that isn’t public,” he said.Construction is due to begin this summer and the bridge is

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No National Hockey League games on TV? You might think Greater Victoria sports bars have been crying the blues.

But as they prepare to wel-come back fans of the Canucks, Habs, Flames and other NHL teams, the fact they aren’t sorely hurting is a testament to the resiliency of local operators. That, and the fact many estab-lishments don’t expect to see larger crowds for games on TV until closer to playoff time.

Nonetheless, last weekend’s announcement that a deal was reached that would end the 113-day lockout is a good tonic for the traditional post-New Year’s doldrums.

“Because of football and other specials we had on, we’ve been continuously hiring. But Janu-ary is a slower month,” said Can-dace Norris, general manager of the Shark Club Sports Bar and Grill on Douglas Street.

“Having hockey come back now is probably the best time it could have come back.”

Details are still being ham-mered out, but word is the league is preparing for a 48-game season to start Saturday, Jan. 19 – with the potential for some major regional rivals to meet opening night. That could see this region’s most-watched team, the Vancouver Canucks, take on Calgary, for example.

“There’s a lot of talk about people boycotting, but I think people will come back pretty quick,” Norris said.

Maude Hunter’s Pub on Shel-bourne Street, not far from both the University of Victoria and Camosun College, thrives at this time of year, when students return for another semester.

And manager Norm Wilson

said the lockout “didn’t really affect us whatsoever.”

“I think people are going to go out no matter what (if they have money). Where we would have really felt it would be more in playoff time,” he said.

Even if the lockout’s effects have been mini-mal, Wilson admit-ted there’ll likely be a few extra patrons sticking around on game nights.

While the effects on Vancouver’s hospitality indus-try have been significant, Dar-ren Cross, manager of the Sta-tion House Pub in Langford, said the Island has felt a trickle down effect.

“The industry is roughly down 20 per cent,” he said, qualifying that the drop is not entirely due to the absence of hockey on TV.

Cross estimates that busi-ness might have been 10 per cent higher on a night where the Canucks or Montreal were play-ing the 7 p.m. Saturday game.

At the Strathcona Hotel in downtown Victoria, which counts dozens of screens in its various bars, co-owner Grant Olson estimates bigger losses relating to the hockey lockout.

“I was saying the other day that

the overall impact (to us) might be $250,000 or even $300,000 in revenue if you lose the whole season and playoffs,” he said.

“We might have lost a third of that at this point. The fact they can do a 48-game season and we still get the playoffs, that’s

kind of the better chunk of the pie to get.”

Where the hotel’s bars have noticed the big-gest difference is in the absence of hockey fans who might stick around to watch the last period

of a late game and order a little more, he said.

Olson, a hockey fan himself, said people are generally excited about the return of the NHL.

“The hockey fans are hockey fans,” he said. “These winters are long and cold and hockey provides good entertainment, whether your team’s Detroit or Vancouver.”

All the pubs the News spoke to were planning special events to coincide with the opening night.

It may just be like the playoffs coming early.

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The lack of pro games on TV has varied effect on local pubs

Return of NHL hockey a bonus


Norman Wilson, general manager of Maude Hunters Pub and Liquor Store in Saanich, is happy the National Hockey League will soon be airing on his establishment’s many screens.

“Having hockey come back now is probably the best time it could have come back.”

– Candace Norris,Shark Club Sports Bar

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The demand and competition for skilled workers is a challenge facing industries across the province, said Abigail Fulton, vice-president of the B.C. Construction Association.

She estimates her industry will see a shortage of between 20,000 and 40,000 skilled workers over the next five years, mostly due to demand in northern B.C.

“If every kid in high school decides to go into apprenticeship and trades training, we’re still going to need 20,000 more,” she said. “We’ve got to find them from somewhere.”

Fulton manages the foreign skilled workers B.C. program, which actively recruits international talent when employers have difficulty filling positions with domestic candidates.

“These are individuals who are qualified carpenters, electricians. They’re not labourers,” she said.

In September, Fulton attended a construction job fair in Dublin, Ireland, where 10,000 people showed up.

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standards are similar to those in Canada, making the skills easily transferable.

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“A lot of the trades that we’re looking for, like ironworkers, metal fabricators and so forth, a lot of those people are getting good jobs in the shipbuilding industry, which opens up vacancies in the construction industry,” she said.

While the provincial government champions its jobs plan by pointing to such opportunities, foreign skilled workers are still required to fill some of the gaps – for managerial positions in particular – created by baby boomers retiring in record numbers.

“You’ll see a significant influx of higher skilled, executive level people who are coming in from abroad,” Rueben said, admitting a stigma still exists around international recruitment.

“There’s a real push to upskill the people we’ve got and to bring in new

generations of younger folks and underrepresented demographics into the work force.”

For now, Rueben is focused on nurturing an industry that for decades was thought to be dying.

He’s partnered with Helmets to Hardhats, an initiative that connects military veterans with skilled positions in the construction industry, and soon, shipbuilding.

He’s making inroads with First Nations groups to recruit new talent and will spend the next six months building industry-specific courses from scratch.

“Our industry used to be boom-bust,” he said. “People are actually talking about careers again.”

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A century ago in Toronto, Big Brothers and Big Sisters began matching young people with volun-teer adult mentors.

Since then, the organization has branched out to 1,000 communities across Canada.

Victoria celebrates the centennial Jan. 15 at the Greater Victoria Public Library, central branch, from 2 until 3:30 p.m.

The event includes a performance by the Getting Higher Choir and a giveaway of free children’s books. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria has been in Victoria for 33 years.

In 2012, 690 children and youth across the Capital Region were matched with a trained mentor to help build resiliency, confidence and self-esteem.

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Cleanup time in the coveBrad Kirkpatrick pressure-washes the dock at Sailors Cove Marina off Head Street in Esquimalt, cleaning off the green algae made especially slippery with the early morning frost.

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Wherever pipelines are concerned, expect an eclectic party.

With the federal government’s Enbridge Northern Gateway joint review panel wrapping up its week-long hearings at the Delta Ocean Pointe Resort, the usually picturesque waterfront erupted into a hotbed of environmental protest.

The closed-door panel, which concludes today, spent more than a week working its way through a registered list of about 280 public speakers.

Interested observers were given the option of listening to an audio-only webcast of the event – which had the distinct quality of a wartime emergency broadcast – or of watching a video feed at the Ramada Victoria Hotel, three kilometres away on Gorge Road.

Several hundred frustrated protesters rejected these two arms-length participatory options and gathered along the walkway in front of the Inner Harbour hotel.

Even Victoria MP Murray Rankin, an expert on and opponent of the pipeline project, was turned away at the door last Friday. Rankin called the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency process “fundamentally flawed,” and expressed little hope the end result would leave the public feeling heard. He also justifiably lambasted security for denying entry to the very person elected to represent the public at the federal level.

Adding fuel to the protest flames is the nihilism behind the joint review panel’s mandate.

The Conservative government’s omnibus bill, C-38, makes clear that any recommendation by the

panel is exactly that: for consideration only.

Stephen Harper’s cabinet can compel the federal environmental agency to approve the Enbridge project, regardless of public will or opinion.

There must be a sense of disillusionment amongst the panel’s members, collecting and collating the opinions of around 4,000 Canadians, knowing all the while

their words bear the weight of a novelty inflatable hammer.

To be fair, the approval or rejection of this pipeline isn’t a decision that should be taken lightly. The world wants oil from a politically stable and efficient partner. Canada bears both these qualities, relatively speaking, and has enough bitumen to fill 100 billion barrels – likely double that.

In an age where social security costs show no sign of retreat and taxpayers are gripping tightly to every penny (soon-to-be nickel), oil revenue presents a feasible way for the country to pull itself out of a fiscal recession and fill its storehouses for generations.

And then there’s the latest international energy darling and saviour to our financial woes – liquified natural gas.

B.C. is teeming with the stuff, as evidenced by a recent Chevron investment in the Kitimat LNG facility, where the province says exports could reach 75

million tonnes per year, pending agreements with Asian buyers.

The National Energy Board has already greenlit LNG exports to the tune of 10 million tonnes annually, although billions of dollars still need to be invested if B.C. wants to play with the big boys. But the elephant in the room, which trumpeted loudly from the Songhees walkway this week, is the environmental cost of these lucrative ventures.

Comments from senior cabinet ministers indicate environmental protesters are no more than a nuisance, people who fail to recognize the opportunities at hand. The us vs. them mentality doesn’t play well on either side, but it seems fundamentally un-Canadian for the feds to swat away public input like a pesky housefly.

Perhaps the government could try framing the energy debate in a more tempered manner.

The so-called “modernization” of environmental regulations should be rolled out with scientists and other green stakeholders at the table, giving legitimacy to a process that’s been sold as all but a middle finger to granola-eating community farmers and their kin.

Canadians know we need diverse exports, a strong economy and long-term financial stability. We also know we need to balance that with stewarding our resources and minimizing environmental risk.

Take a moment this week to wish the joint review panel luck as they move on to Vancouver for another week of invite-only hearings – they’re going to need it.

Daniel Palmer is a reporter with the Victoria News.

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So much energy spent on energy

‘Their words bear the weight of a novelty inflatable hammer.’

It’s game on for NHL fans

Hockey Night in Canada.Four words we haven’t heard for what seems

like too long.Sure, you may have become disconnected

from the game, as “millionaire players” battled “billionaire owners” over how to share, in many cases, your hard-earned money.

But when the puck drops at Rogers Arena, the Scotiabank Saddledome, the Bell Centre in Montreal or any of the 15 National Hockey League rinks expected to host games on Jan. 19, it’ll be hard to look away.

The effect of the player lockout on the Greater Victoria hospitality industry has been significant, if not as major as in Vancouver or other Canadian NHL cities.

Without a doubt, every sports bar, lounge and restaurant with a TV – or many TVs – will have the Canucks’ first game tuned in, at least for a while. Many establishments are already planning special events related to hockey to attract more patrons.

In general, fans tend to find other diversions during their favourite sports’ off-seasons. Other sports take their place, or, in the case of hockey, outdoor pursuits often take over.

For hockey fans, the last few months have felt like an extended off-season. With no NHL on the tube, fans have resorted to watching NBA basketball – Victoria’s Steve Nash has been injured for much of his first season with the Los Angeles Lakers – junior hockey or other sports that don’t have the same broad emotional connection with the populace.

One thing is certain about the NHL, it tends to draw people together. Pro hockey is something co-workers tend to talk about the next day at the office. As the playoffs get closer – and they’ll come relatively quickly this season – gatherings start to be planned around watching the games on TV.

Certainly, some will ignore the NHL’s return. But for many of us in Greater Victoria and across Canada, it will be akin to pulling a favourite blanket out of storage. It’s familiar, feels good on a cold, dark night and is best enjoyed when shared.

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LETTERSProposed tanker route is too risky

As the joint review panel hearings wrapped up this week in Victoria, I feel grateful to have been one of a select few able to voice their opinion directly to the three-member panel.

With only 10 minutes to speak and two Enbridge representatives present (while the public was banned), I provided all the research and data I have found. In my opinion, the proposed tanker route is too dangerous for safe navigation.

Ironically, one report I found was completed for Northern Gateway Pipelines LP, (available on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency website). It revealed that during simulated tanker runs, pilots often gave the simulations a safety rating of two or three out of a possible five.

The report also revealed that these large vessels will travel through areas such as Principe Channel, which is just 1.4 kilometres wide.

Such vessels have a full turn radius of 1.8 km and can take up to 3.75 km to come to a full stop while running astern at 10 knots.

We have to keep in mind, that each of these vessels is carrying 1.5 million litres in fuel oil alone.

Plus, coastal currents can reach up to 16 nautical miles per hour.

Winter storms frequently bring gale force and hurricane force winds, and we cannot ignore the risk posed from earthquakes, such as the 7.8-magnitude event off the coast of Haida Gwaii a mere four months ago.

The risks are too great, and this is just a small portion of the concerning information I found.

While many were unable to voice their own opinions to the panel, I sincerely encourage all British Columbians to continue to investigate and question the proposed project, in order to protect our beautiful, unique and sensitive coastal ecosystems.

Julie HoweAssistant lab instructor, Royal Roads University

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Public input dubious,says hearing speaker

The hearings really are a farce. I gave my considered input on Monday night and Sheila Leggett, who was heading up the panel that night, cut off my microphone.

I am 84, very polite, but very concerned.

I registered my dismay at restrictions to the hearing process.

Why should the energy board consider Victoria’s citizens incapable of behaving themselves at a public hearing?

I related my experiences at Clayoquot in 1993, when a completely grassroots movement finally triumphed after 900 arrests.

I was one of those arrested and received a three-week jail sentence.

British Columbians will find ways to stop any proposal that risks or damages the greatest treasure we have: our environment. After telling the panel that I would be there, sitting on the road in protest, Leggett said they were not there to hear threats of civil disobedience.

Certainly, the absence of the public turned the process into merely an excuse, so that the energy board could say it did “hear” from the people. Whatever happens, British Columbians won’t allow a proposal like the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline to go through when it affects and risks that we all hold dear.

Alison AckerVictoria

Readers respond: Bus strike, NDP budgets

Bus union tactica selfish, hurtful act

The time is long overdue to make public transit an “essential service” where strike action is simply not an option any more.

Enough is enough. Buses are an absolute lifeline for thousands of people in this city who are totally dependent on public transit to get to work and school, to buy food and get to medical appointments. There is no other option for people on poverty incomes.

Shutting down bus service puts vulnerable people at serious risk of going hungry, losing employment, missing an education or even losing their life in a medical emergency.

Threatening a shutdown of the system on Jan. 22 is a mean-spirited act by a selfish union. The bus drivers have no right to use the most fragile members of the community as innocent pawns in their battle.

It makes no sense that I am forced to miss a day from a program that is helping me find work due to the self-serving actions of bus drivers who are lucky enough to have jobs at top union wages.

The bus drivers are knowingly hurting people who are the least able to take it.

Our provincial government

needs to act now to prevent a powerful union from inflicting their problems on people who are powerless.

Doreen Marion GeeVictoria

Clark and companywere deemed innocent

Re: “Will truth die on deficit hill?” (B.C. Views, Dec. 5)

In 2000 a verdict by Madame Justice Mary Humphries ruled Glen Clark’s NDP government did not commit fraud or lie about their 1995 and ’96 budgets. Justice Humphries found no case to support the oft-repeated allegations in and by the media, or its accusers, the National Citizens’ Coalition.

She said there was no conspiracy, and assumptions reached were published and available to the public, showing caution rather than deceit.

I can draw no adverse conclusions around the credibility of Elizabeth Cull (author of the ’96 budget) or Clark and my conclusions would not have been different if a lesser standard of proof had been used.

Leading forecasting agencies said the forecasts were reasonable and well within private sector forecasts.

Auditor general George Morfitt’s report agrees with

Justice Humphries and begins: “Although the media has tried to paint a different picture, the ’96 budget included no action or decision made by senior people in government elected or appointed that was not permitted by such legislation or other authorities.”

While this is written without prejudice, one can only ask why, in the face of such overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is this kind of pillory allowed to happen to people deemed to be completely innocent?

Ken DicksSaanich

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The Land Conservancy will hand Craigflower Manor and Craigflower Schoolhouse back to the province this year.

The B.C. government owns the historic properties, but TLC has operated the facilities since May 1, 2003. The manor is in View Royal and

the schoolhouse is in Saanich. The province was contributing $80,000 each year toward upkeep and maintenance of the sites, but TLC was putting donor dollars into the sites as well.

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The sites aren’t highly visited and haven’t been tourist destinations, Craighead said. Less than 1,000 people go to the sites each year.

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Craighead suggests the sites become community venues for events and functions instead of museums where most areas are roped off.

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The Land Conservancy will hand Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse, historic properties it has managed since 2003, back to the province in a cost-saving measure.

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Construction on the Craigflower Bridge, linking Saanich to View Royal and Esquimalt, will begin earlier than expected, as crews are

slated to begin work on a pedes-trian walkway in April.

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While Admirals Road will be closed for seven months, Saan-ich and View Royal, which share responsibility of the bridge,

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Jim Hemstock, Saanich’s man-ager of capital works, says included in the tender are plans for a temporary walkway over the Gorge Waterway.

“We have to do the pedestrian bridge first. Now that we’re clos-ing the road during a school year, we’ve got to get that pedestrian bridge up (before the old bridge comes down). We could start on

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The construction tender will be released later this month, and the municipalities aim to have a con-tract awarded by late February.

The cost of the project is now estimated at $11.9 million, up from the original price tag of $10.775 million.

Hemstock says the project has received an additional $775,000 grant from the Capital Regional

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Saanich and View Royal will split the outstanding $1.125 mil-lion cost, with Saanich footing 60 per cent, about $675,000. That’s $200,000 more than Saanich origi-nally estimated.

Hemstock reiterated that the numbers are just estimates right now, and nothing will be concrete until the contract is awarded.

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If you have never been allowed to play with your food, now is your chance.

The Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society is hosting the annual salmon carcass toss in the park tomorrow (Jan. 12). The public is encouraged to help throw about 100 frozen salmon carcasses in and around Douglas creek in an effort to feed vital nutri-ents into its ecosystem.

“It sounds negative, but it is posi-tive,” said society president Darrell Wick. “A lot of people don’t even know there is salmon in this creek.”

The frozen salmon, provided by the Howard English Hatchery based

near Goldstream Park, are fished from the waters of Goldstream River and transported to Mount Doug where they’ll decompose and become food for insects and fauna.

In turn, insects are consumed by the 20,000 to 40,000 young chum and coho fry that will hatch in the spring and become the next generation of salmon to spawn there.

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“We don’t have a lot of salmon coming back (since) the creek is somewhat sterile,” Wick said.

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Across our big old universe, objects orbiting other objects is a common astronomical pastime.

The moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the sun, the solar system orbits the galactic centre of the Milky Way.

A collaboration of astrophysics and astrono-mers, including two from the University of Victo-ria, have discovered something weird – a cluster of small “dwarf” galaxies is rotating in an orderly fashion around Andromeda galaxy, our nearest intergalactic neighbour.

This planet-like behaviour among galaxies has never been detected before and it fails to fit established models of how galaxies evolve.

What’s more, the orbit of these dwarf gal-axies is so vast, a single rotation is longer than the age of the universe.

They haven’t made it around once. A paper discussing this phenomenon was pub-lished last Friday in the journal Nature.

“It’s a sobering reminder of how fragile our understanding of these things are,” said UVic astrophysics professor Julio Navarro, one of 16 lead scientists involved in the project.

“How this is moving cannot be explained. Why a giant structure of galaxies rotate is uncanny, it’s not well understood yet. But it’s cool enough to point out.”

The discovery emerged from the broader Pan Andromeda Archaeological Survey, a three-year survey of a large region of space surrounding Andromeda galaxy, using the 3.6 metre Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, in Hawaii.

UVic professor Alan McConnachie, based at the Herzberg observatory in Saanich, led that project and is another co-author of the paper.

Out of the mass of observations, the team honed in on a number of dwarf galaxies in the neighbourhood of Andromeda. Rather than ran-domness, they found uniformity.

“This common property implies that these little galaxies all have a common origin, since the chance of them all just happening to be moving in the same way right now, by coincidence, is statis-tically tiny,” McConnachie said in an email.

“These little galaxies shouldn’t ‘know’ how the other little galaxies are moving – they should all be doing their own thing, independently of all the other little galaxies.

“So it looks like we are missing something pretty basic, and potentially very important.”

Navarro admits he was skeptical when the data started to suggest a group of 15 dwarf galaxies were orbiting in a well-defined plane a million light years in diameter, but only 30,000 light years thick, a similar structure to how planets orbit a star.

“I thought it would be hard to explain. We haven’t seen this often, if ever.”

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Astrophysicist Julio Navarro stands

under the 0.8-metre telescope at the

University of Victoria. Navarro is part of a

team that used data from a large telescope

in Hawaii to figure out that a cluster of

galaxies is moving in a way that defies

understanding.Edward Hill/News staff

Galactic mystery discovered by astrophysicistsUVic scientists help discover orbiting galaxies

Why a giant structure of galaxies rotate is uncanny, it’s not well understood yet. But it’s cool enough to point out.”

– Julio Navarro,UVic professor

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Its neighbours are auto repair shops and appliance outlets in what can be called the outer orbit of Victoria’s downtown core. An art gallery in the 2500-block of Douglas St. looks distinctly out of place.

But within its whitewashed walls decorated with neatly hung paint-ings, the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective has established itself as the centre for art in Greater Victoria that is dis-tinctly outside of the mainstream.

“At night the space does seem quiet, but there is a lot of activity happening here,” says Renee Craw-ford, one of the four board mem-bers of Fifty Fifty Arts Collective who also works for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. “This space is an arts hub.”

The collective is celebrating its 10th anniversary today (Jan. 11) with an exhibition from 15 local art-ists. Over the past decade, the gal-lery has hosted some 300 emerging artists and 500 musicians in what has become an institution in Victo-ria’s arts scene.

“Our role in the community is to give emerging and experimental arts space and support and experi-

ence,” Crawford says. “Those art-ists on the edge of mainstream or who are totally underground have a space to showcase their work.”

“New artists in town can have a hard time breaking into the scene. We can let them give a show,” adds Jzero Schuurman, a board member of the collective.

“We want to show Victoria is more than Emily Carr,” he con-tinued, although noting he’s not opposed to the works of Victoria’s arguably most famous painter.

The collective has seen many members come and go, but key to its survival has been a steady stream of volunteers dedicated to fostering an arts space. It also helps the rent is reasonable at their Doug-las Street space.

When Schuurman joined a few years ago, the gallery was open one day a week – now it’s seven, all staffed by volunteers. “This is a major part of our lives. We wouldn’t do it if we didn’t love it,” he said.

The gallery has allowed emerg-ing artists to learn lessons not nec-essarily illuminated in art school. At Fifty Fifty, artists must assemble and promote their own exhibits.

“This is a very DIY space. The art-ists have to curate their own shows.

They get a key (to the building) and they set it up. It gives artists a dry run on how to put together their own exhibition,” Crawford says. “Art schools don’t teach how to curate shows or how to get exhibits or create a portfolio. Being involved in an artist-run centre, in a short time you learn how the profession works.”

Fifty Fifty launched in 2003 in a retail space on Craigflower Road, and moved to Douglas Street a few years later. Allan Kollins, one of the founding members who sat on the

board until 2009, said in 2003, the stars aligned. The idealism of a group of young artists to create a collective art gallery became reality, due to an affordable retail space.

He said the name “Fifty Fifty” was drawn from a hat.

“I think the person who submit-ted that name wanted more of the money to go to the artist. They didn’t want (the gallery) to be com-mercial,” Kollins said in an inter-view from Vancouver. “We wanted art that was conceptual, more experimental, not pretty pictures

on the wall.”Kollins said in the early days, the

Douglas Street space had its strug-gles with the City of Victoria. A few times, evening music shows would attract dozens of people, along with police and bylaw officers. At the same time, Fifty Fifty also received project grants from the city’s arts board.

“It was different bureaucracies. The arts and culture grants board supported us. The bylaw officer wasn’t as friendly,” Kollins said.

Fifty Fifty now primarily fund-raises through hosting music shows at venues around the city. Where other artist-run spaces have come and gone over the years, Fifty Fifty is looking to expand.

“It’s survived in part because of a burgeoning arts community in Victoria. Certain individuals and the community helped keep it alive,” Kollins says. “The collective has seen dire times. But we’ve also seen commitment from the com-munity from fundraising and sup-port.”

The Fifty Fifty 10 year celebration is Friday, Jan. 11, from 7 to 10 p.m. 2516 Douglas St. and is free. See thefiftyfifty.net.

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Alastair Bryson has been appointed chair of the Capital

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Ron Mattson has a fight on his hands in his claim of wrong-ful dismissal and defamation against the Ministry of Health and B.C. Health Minister Marga-ret MacDiarmid.

In a response filed by the min-istry Dec. 24, it claims there was just cause to fire Mattson last September 2012.

The View Royal municipal councillor announced last month he was suing the prov-ince, claiming the ministry had no reason to fire him and that comments made by the minis-try to the public were defama-tory and false.

Mattson, who worked for the ministry for 28 years, was sus-pended without pay on July 17, then fired by the ministry for allegedly passing confidential

data to a University of Victoria researcher, an allegation Matt-son denies.

The province’s defence alleges that Mattson discussed with the researcher ways to get around the province’s policies in order to get data.

“On or about June 28, 2012 the plaintiff agreed to provide confidential data belonging to the Ministry of Health, includ-ing personal identifiable linked data, to the contractor,” the document reads. “The plaintiff knew or ought to have known (he) did not have authoriza-tion at that time to receive such data.”

In response to Mattson’s claims of defamation, the reply states the ministry never referred to Mattson by name and that what it did say to the public about the firings was true and therefore not slander.

“The alleged comments were made on a privileged occasion in which the electorate of Brit-ish Columbia had a bona fide interest in learning informa-tion about the investigation,” it reads.

“Further and in the alterna-tive, the alleged defamatory comments were true in sub-stance and in fact.”

The ministry’s internal inves-tigation is ongoing.

Six employees were fired and another suspended in relation to the alleged breach of privacy.

The ministry investigation began in May after an anony-mous tip to B.C. Auditor Gen-eral John Doyle’s office.

Two research contracts with the University of Victoria and the University of British Colum-bia were subsequently sus-pended.

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Born on the 12th of November 1913 in Jangliana in India, Kartar Kaur passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving children at the ripe age of 99yrs at Victoria General from a brief illness. Predeceased by her husband Dilbag Singh, she is survived by her daughter Baldev (predeceased son-in-law Sarwan ), daughter Sheila and son-in-law Jograj, daughter Surinder and son-in-law Jasbir, son Gordy and daughter- in- law Ravinder, daughter Tarsem and son-in-law Virendra, son Komal and daughter-in-law Varsha and son Iqbal and daughter-in-law Harjeet and 20 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren in India

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Victoria Curling Club players win B.C. junior titleTravis PatersonNews staff

A long distance relationship has paid off for a pair of junior Victoria curlers.

Sanjay Bowry and Corey Chester of the Victo-ria Curling Club played second and third, respec-tively, with lead Rhys Gamache and skip Tyler Klymchuk of the Langley Curling Club.

And it all came together as the quartet cap-tured the Tim Horton’s junior men’s provincial championship (20-and-under), Jan. 1 to Jan. 6 at the Coquitlam Curling Club.

“That was definitely one of the goals that we set for ourselves at the start of the year,” Klymchuk said. “We have put in a lot of hard work, a lot of ferry trips, and it definitely feels good to win.”

Coaching the quartet is Victoria’s Todd Troyer, who was with Chester and Josh Hozak last year, when the Victoria Curling Club team won B.C.’s and went to nationals. Klymchuk went to junior nationals the year before.

“I’ve been playing against Tyler all my compet-itive career and I’ve always respected his game play on and off the ice, so when my teammates from last year aged out, it was obvious to me to get together,” Chester said. “It’s our last crack at juniors, we’ve been playing long enough to have

the passion to want to be better.”Meshing teams from separate districts isn’t

common in junior ranks, but it has happened before. If anything, it’s a sign of how competitive the sport has become. “I’ve seen traveling teams put together before, but I’m not sure they were as dedicated to traveling and train-ing together as we are,” Chester said.

That dedication comes from a motiva-tion to do more than just show up at nation-als. The last time a B.C. team won the men’s junior nationals was 2000, so the Klymchuk rink is off to as good a start as any. They went undefeated in all seven games of the provincial round robin. In the final they took an early lead against Langley Curling Club’s Tardi rink and never looked back, prevailing 9-4.

“(Chester) made a real key triple in the sec-ond end to leave us lying four in the house,” Klymchuk said.

The Klymchuk rink will now spend the next three weeks preparing for the junior national curling championships, Feb. 2 to Feb. 10 in Fort McMurray, Alta.

It’s been a long haul for the team to this point, literally. They originally formed in April when

their respective teammates aged out. This fall the schedule has taken on a pretty regular rou-tine, during which the team become weekly B.C. Ferries commuters. Bowry and Chester go to New Westminster on Wednesdays so the team can play in Royal City’s Premium League, the top league in B.C. On Sundays, Klymchuk and Gamache sail to Victoria on the early ferry, train with the team all day, and then return home.

“New West’s league is a step up for sure, the calibre is awesome,” Chester said. “And that was one of our goals, to get out there to play the best competition in the province, men or junior, so it’s a good fit for us.”

In addition to New West, the Klymchuk rink entered three World Curling Tour tournaments this season, the Cloverdale Cash Spiel in Septem-ber, Valley First Crown of Curling in Kamloops in October, and Vancouver Island Shootout here in Victoria back in November. While the team didn’t crack any purse money, they used the tourneys as a chance to bond. They also

had some notable moments, particularly a big first-round win against Edmonton’s Jamie King in Kam-loops, a team with for-mer world champions Scott Pfeiffer and Blake McDonald.

Locally, Bowry and Chester play on the Steve Streiffel rink in VCC’s Tuesday night Select League.

“(Chester and Klymchuk) set this team up and invited me along for the ride,” Troyer said. The coach is one who knows what the Klymchuk rink is up against, as he won the 1988 national champion-ship with the Mike Wood rink from North Van-couver. Troyer himself is in the midst of a busy year. The chartered accountant also volunteers as the Victoria Curling Club treasurer, and is vice chair of the 2013 Ford World Men’s Curling Championships in Victoria.

The Katherine Silversides rink of Juan de Fuca Curling Club finished seventh at the junior wom-en’s provincials in Coquitlam.

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Victoria’s Corey Chester throws a rock during 2013 Tim Hortons B.C. Junior Curling Championships in Coquitlam on Sunday (Jan. 6).

Running series starts SundayThe winter race season his here as the 2013 Frontrunners Island Race Series kicks off with the Harriers Pioneer 8K in Saanichton on Sunday (Jan. 13).

The eight kilometre loop starts at 11 a.m., beginning and ending at the Saanich Fair-grounds (1528 Stelly’s X Road).

The Harriers Pioneer 8K is the first of eight in the Frontrunners Island Race Series, followed by the Cob-ble Hill 10K on Jan. 27.

Sean Chester and Care Nelson) won last year’s series. Vince Brotherston and Nancy Baxendale won the men’s and women’s masters. The Prairie Inn Harriers won the team stand-ings.

Online registration for Sunday is closed but runners can sign up at Frontrunners (1200 Vancouver St.) on Saturday, or at the fairgrounds before the race.

Junior rink eyes national title

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Coach Todd Troyer, left, with Rhys Gamache, Sanjay Bowry, Corey Chester, and Tyler Klymchuk, are the 2013 B.C. Jr. champs.

“This team has high expectations and additional pressure because Chester and Klymchuk have been to nationals before.”

– Todd Troyer

Travis PatersonNews staff

If Marcus Davis isn’t on the radar of any NCAA schools by now, the radar is broken.

From the outset of Team B.C.’s 38-18 win over U.S.A.’s all-star team of high school players at the Foot-ball University International Games in San Antonio, Texas, on Saturday, wide receiver and kick returner Marcus Davis of the Mount Douglas Rams and quarterback Liam O’Brien of the Ballenas Whalers (Parksville)

were a dynamic duo that couldn’t be stopped. Davis started the game with a kickoff return to U.S.A’s 31 yard line. On the next play, Davis burned his initial coverage and then leapt over top of his secondary cov-erage to catch a pass from O’Brien on the goal line, and fell into the endzone for a touchdown.

Davis was named MVP of the game, a heady title to go on his resumé next to his recent crowning achievement as the 2012 B.C. High School Football Player of the Year.

“From the start of the game we

came out firing,” said the 17-year-old Davis, still in Grade 11.

“That just gave us all the momen-tum to carry us throughout the game. Nothing else can compare to this. Texas is where football is made.”

O’Brien rushed for three more touchdowns and handed off to run-ning back Mason Swift (Mount Doug Rams) for an eight yard touchdown run as Team B.C. stunned U.S.A.

“The first three possessions all started inside the 50 I think. Coming out there that fast and quieting them

down and taking the motivation out of them was huge.”

With the win, Team B.C. improved their record to two wins and no losses at the FBU International Games, having beaten Team Europe 49-14 on Thursday (Jan. 3).

Also playing for Team B.C. from the Rams were wide receiver Brian Dowds, offensive linemen Christian Krause and Zach Wilkinson and quarterback Ashton MacKinnon.

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If the fans sitting next to you at Tuesday’s (Jan. 15) Victoria Royals game look sleepy, they probably are.

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Hockey 101 has grown to 70 teams this year and uses various ice slots ranging from 3 p.m. on a weekend to 10:45 p.m. on a week-night. So don’t blame your Royals neighbour for yawning, he/she may have been playing hockey until midnight the night before. Tickets for Hockey 101 players and friends are still available with $2 going to support KidSport Victoria.

The Blazers will play the Royals again on Wednesday. Tonight the Royals visit the Everett Silvertips and tomorrow the Seattle Thunder-birds.

Vikes hoops at Winnipeg,Manitoba this weekend

The UVic Vikes basketball teams return to the floor this weekend, a month since their last Canada West game, as they travel to play the Winnipeg Wesmen and Mani-toba Bisons.

The Vikes women (6-4) are fourth in the in the Canada West Pacific Division while the Wesmen (5-6) are fourth and the Bisons (2-9) in the Prairie Divison.

Chargers home after tough second half openers

The Camosun Chargers men’s and women’s basketball teams opened the second-half of the PacWest season with losses to the Vancouver Island Mariners in Nanaimo last Friday.

Both Chargers teams are at home today (Jan. 11), women at 6 p.m. and men at 8 p.m. against the Langara Falcons at PISE. Tomorrow the Douglas Royals visit, men at 1 p.m. and women at 3 p.m. at PISE.

WLA will comply with new fighting ruleGreg SakakiBlack Press

The Western Lacrosse Association may not like it, but it will live with it.The WLA board of governors agreed at an emergency meeting Saturday to

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“We’re not happy with the rule,” said Earl Nicholson, Timbermen general manager. “But it’s going to be the interpretation of it that’s going to be key, with the officials.”

The CLA’s new Rule 45 brinigs down a game misconduct on any player who fights. If there is a clear instigator or clear aggressor, only the offending player will be ejected.

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“Everybody else is following it and there’s a question of liability if you don’t follow it, so I don’t think we’ve got a lot of leeway,” Nicholson said.

The WLA’s official press release noted that the board of governors “voted reluctantly to comply” and had “concerns with the lack of clarity” of the word-ing of Rule 45.

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Dennis passed away peacefully surrounded by his family. He is survived by his beloved wife, Joyce, of 62 years, daughter Susan (Stuart), sons Robert and Richard (Trish), grandchildren David, Brent, Stefanie (Jason), Russell, Angela and numerous great grandchildren plus a larger extended family including Kassandra, Sarah, Meaghan and Rachel. Dennis was pre-deceased by his sister Beverley and grandson James.Dennis was a well-known local athlete in his early years playing soccer, rugby and competing in track and fi eld events. He graduated from Oak Bay High School in 1948 playing sports for his school as well as for and against several other teams including the YMCA, local First Nations groups and the Armed Forces.He worked for 36 years for the Province of BC and made many good friends during those years. Dennis was active with the boating community in Victoria. He had a great love for woodwork, gardening and the Gulf Islands, and was happiest at the family cabin or any marina. Family members fondly remember summers full of fi shing, camping and road trips. He taught us how to get along with others and how to complete our projects with care, patience and precision. A special thanks to staff at the Royal Jubilee Hospital and to Dr. Merali for their care and compassion.A celebration of Dennis’ life will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday January 12 at Sands Funeral Chapel, 1803 Quadra Street. In lieu of fl owers, donations can be made to the Patient Care Center at the Royal Jubilee Hospital (1952 Bay Street Victoria, BC V8R 1J8, Tel: 250.370.8000).

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

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

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

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

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

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

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

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

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

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

HOUSES FOR SALE

Incredible 5 acre treed PARK-LIKE PROPERTY

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

2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake,

in the town of Caycuse. Perfect for recreational

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

Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land.

Call [email protected]

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REAL ESTATE SERVICES

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

COLWOOD 2 bdrm condo, 4th fl oor, elevator, 5 appls, insuite laundry, F/P, prkg. N/P.$1100. Avail Feb. Call 250-474-6855.

OAK BAY Junction: 2-bdrm in quiet, senior’s 55+ bldg. $850. Heat, h/w incl. Jan.15 or Feb.1 N/P. Share purchase req’d. 1678 Fort St. (250) 595-4593.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

ESQUIMALTUnique Building

Must see

1 BDRM Very quiet, ocean views, Clean, well maintained.

Laundry, Sauna, Elevator, Hot Water, Heat. (250) 388-9384

GRANT MANOR Newly renovated

suites, Starting at

$675 per moTo view call 250-642-1900

JAMES BAY: Corner 2 bdrm Condo, 2 bath, NS/NP, prkg avail. $1295. 250-361-9540.

JAMES BAY- spacious 1 bdrm, $795+ utils. NS/NP. Avail Jan 1. (778)430-2116.

ROYAL OAK- (near Common Wealth pool) new updated 1 bdrm condo, W/D. ns/np. $825 inclds utils. (250)652-7729.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

LANGFORD 3-BDRM. $1100. Fenced yard, pellet stove, W/D. NP/NS. (250)642-4010.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

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

HOMES FOR RENT

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

SHELBOURNE: 2 bdrm, re-no’d. $1250+ util’s. Avail now. Call (250)477-9575.

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

GOLDSTREAM AREA: 1400 sq ft, newly furnished, w/d, d/w, a/c, big deck & yard, hi-def TV, parking. $650 inclu-sive. Ray, 778-433-9556.

SUITES, LOWER

CEDAR HILL Golf course- 1 bdrm, private entrance, off street parking, W/D, utils in-cluded. NS/NP. Refs req. Avail Feb. 1. $800. 250-595-0505.

COLWOOD- 1 bdrm Bach, patio, shared W/D, N/S. $820 mo incls utils. 250-391-7915.

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

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

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

SIDNEY 1 BDRM- own W/D, $850+ shared utils w/upper suite. Available now. Call (778)426-1524.

SIDNEY, 2 bdrm, grd level, utils incl’d, $1000 mo, N/S, N/P, (Immed). (250)656-1384.

RENTALS

SUITES, UPPER

SIDNEY 2 BDRM upper- own W/D, $1300+ shared utils w/lower suite. Available Feb 1. Call (778)426-1524.

TOWNHOUSES

LAVENDER CO-OP is accept-ing applications for a 2 bdrm wheelchair accessible Unit w/ garage, W/D hookup, $918/mo. Share purchase $2500. Appli-cations available in the glass case outside the Community Hall at 10A-620 Judah St.

TRANSPORTATION

ANTIQUE/CLASSICS

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

AUTO FINANCING

DreamTeam Auto Financing“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK -

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

www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

AUTO SERVICES

TOP CASH PAID. For ALL unwanted Vehicles.

Call (250)885-1427.

CARS

1995 SAAB TURBO 9000- V6, 140,000 km. $3200. (250)592-2391.2002 INTREPID ES, radiant red metallic. 103 km’s, all pow-er, leather interior, excellent cond, $6000 obo. 1 owner. 3.5L engine. Call (250)361-6400.2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded. White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 fi rm. 250-755-5191.2009 PONTIAC G5- $14,500. Air conditioned, electric win-dows, 4 new tires/2 spare. 45,000 km. 2 year warranty left. Senior giving up licence, reason for sale. Call (250)360-0892.

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VTRUCKS & ANS

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

MARINE

BOATS

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

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

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi

Certifi ed General Accountant

Bookkeeping, Audit,Payroll, HST. Set up &

Training. E-FileTAX

250-477-4601

CARPENTRY

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

INSTCARPET ALLATION

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

CLEANING SERVICES

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

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

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.

CONTRACTORS

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

250.388.3535

CLASSIFIED ADS MEAN MORE BUSINESS


DRYWALL

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.

ELECTRICAL

250-361-6193- RENO’S, res & comm. Knob and tube rmvl. No job too small. Lic# 22779.

(250)590-9653.ELECTRICIAN 20 yrs + exp. Residential: New homes & Renos. Knob & tube replacement. $40./hr. Senior’s Discount. Lic.#3003.

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.

VAEXCA TING & DRAINAGE

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

FENCING

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

GARDENING

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

20% OFF Fall clean-ups, racking, mowing, hedge/shrub trimming. (250)479-6495.

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


GARDENING

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

Free estimates * WCBwww.mowtime.ca

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

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

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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

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

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

HANDYPERSONS

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

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

HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

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

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


HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.

GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413.


HAULING AND SALVAGE

✭BUBBA’S HAULING✭ Hon-est, on time. Demolition, con-struction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, top-soil, mulch), garden waste re-moval, mini excavator, bob cat service. 250-478-8858.

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

SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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

INSULATION

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

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

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

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

& MOVING STORAGE

2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.

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


& MOVING STORAGE

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

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

PAINTING

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

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

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

SAFEWAY PAINTING

High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior

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

Member BBB

Peacock Painting

250-652-2255250-882-2254

WRITTENGUARANTEE

Budget Compliance15% SENIORS DISCOUNT

PLUMBING

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


PLUMBING

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

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

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

PRESSURE WASHING

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

RUBBISH REMOVAL

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

UPHOLSTERY

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

WINDOW CLEANING

BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning Roof demoss, gutters. Li-cenced 25 yrs. 250-884-7066.

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

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

WINDOWS

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

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This Weekend’s

Check the page number below in Real Estate Victoria or visit www.revweekly.com

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Jan.10 - 16 edition of

Published Every Thursday

OPENOPENHOUSESSelect your home.

Select your mortgage.

Oak Bay 250-370-7601Westshore 250-391-2933

Victoria 250-483-1360Sidney 250-655-0632

www.vericoselect.comChatterton Way 250-479-0688

201-55 Songhees, $749,900Sunday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-6900 pg. 3

604-420 Linden, $419,900Saturday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-6900 pg. 3

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

307-4480 Chatterton, $530,000Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 6

1494 Fairfi eld, $299,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Brown Brothers Real EstateRobert Young 250 385-6900 pg. 3

306-75 Songhees, $698,000Saturday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 6

209-2529 Wark, $209,999Saturday 11-1Pemberton HolmesAndrew Plank 250 360-6106 pg. 6

102-670 Dallas, $549,000Sunday 1-3Newport RealtyMargaret Foreman 250 385-2033 pg. 6

311-2022 Foul Bay Rd, $139,000Saturday 2-3Century 21 Queenswood RealtyAlison Stoodley, 250-477-1100 pg. 9

402-1433 Faircliff Lane, $283,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyLaurel Hounslow, 250-592-4422 pg. 5

402-1122 Hilda, $219,900Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes Rick Couvelier, 250-477-0921 pg. 5

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

404-1122 Hilda St.Sunday 2-3:30Re/Max CamosunKaren Scott, 250-744-3301 pg. 5

1610-647 Michigan St, $314,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunAdrian Langereis, 250-999-9822

1327 Lang, $479,000Saturday 2-4One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242 pg. 23

101-75 Songhees, $685,000Sunday 1-4Sutton Group West CoastBill MacDonald 250 479-3333 pg. 5

307-120 Douglas, $429,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesAndrew Plank 250 360-6106 pg. 6

101-1041 Rockland, $325,000Saturday 2-4Duttons & Co. Real Estate Ltd.250-383-7100 pg. 1

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

N410-737 Humboldt, $639,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBonnie Johnston 250 744-3301 pg. 8

506-327 Maitland, $269,900Saturday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMaggie Thompson, 250-889-5955 pg. 9

203-1477 Yale St, $455,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMiles Takacs, 250-999-9822

3380 Upper Terr, $1,790,000Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunLynne Sager 250 744-3301 pg. 10

405-2125 Oak Bay Ave, $459,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunMiles Takacs, 250-999-9822

2046 Kings Rd, $519,000Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunLynne Sager 250 744-3301 pg. 10

16-2319 Chilco, $449,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Re/Max CamosunFran Jeffs, 250-744-3301 pg. 8

9-1529 Cooper Rd, $169,000Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunJudy Campbell 250 744-3301 pg. 23

71-14 Erskine Lane, $399,900Sunday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyJodie Farup, 250-477-1100

152 Levista, $589,900Saturday & Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesGurcharan Chauhan 250-384-8124 pg. 10

A-1142 Craigfl ower Rd, $369,900Saturday 12:30-2SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683

1137/1139 Heald Ave, $629,900Sunday 1-3Re/Max AllianceKaren Love, 250-386-8875 pg. 10

1054 Colville, $539,900Saturday & Sunday 2-3:30Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124 pg. 8

349 Lampson, $729,000Saturday 11:30-1:30Re/Max CamosunAdrian Langereis, 250-999-9822

613 Sturdee, $409,900Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyLorraine Williams, 250-216-3317 pg. 10

103E-1115 Craigfl ower, $364,900Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyShelly Reed, 250-213-7444 pg. 23

302-1124 Esquimalt, $204,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunBonnie Johnston 250 744-3301 pg. 8

924 Esquimalt Rd, $249,900Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Ivica Kalabric, 250-384-8124 pg. 19

1004 Falaise Pl, $545,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMark Meichsner, 250-661-3079 pg. 10

5410 Fowler, $575,000Sunday 2-4One Percent RealtyValentino, 250-686-2242 pg. 23

3478 Calumet, $498,000Sunday 2-4Century 21 QueenswoodBrian Meredith-Jones 250 477-1100 pg. 11

3290 Maplewood, $495,000Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyFred Hiigli 250 385-2033 pg. 11

3666-1507 Queensbury, $497,000Sunday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291 pg. 8

1-3211 Shelley St, $384,500Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDoug Poruchny, 250-474-4800 pg. 10

104-1521 Church, $239,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291 pg. 6

4407 Elnido, $879,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes Ltd.Ivica Kalabric, 250-384-8124 pg. 19

1642 Tampico, $569,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar, 250-592-4422 pg. 11

3963 Juan De FucaSaturday & Sunday 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882 pg. 11

304-1505 Church Ave, $189,900Saturday 12-1:30Sotheby’s InternationalDon St. Germain, 250-744-7136

3434 Bonair, $1,049,000Saturday 1:30-3:30JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 3

1905 Portway, $948,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3DFH Real EstateCassie Kangas 250 477-7291 pg. 10

4379 Elnido Cres, $639,900Saturday 2-4Sotheby’s InternationalDon St. Germain, 250-744-7136

930 Tuxedo, $649,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunJohn Percy 250 744-3301 pg. 11

5203-2329 Arbutus, $799,500Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalDon Thome 250 477-5353 pg. 8

991 ScottswoodSaturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyMay Hamilton, 250-477-5353 pg. 11

4035 Cumberland Rd, $512,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Kroppmann RealtyDale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808 pg. 16

1687 Brousson, $539,000Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesShawn Adye, 250-384-8124 pg. 11

1213 Cumberland, $509,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunCraig Walters, 250-744-3301 pg. 10

403-1521 Church, $300,000Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291 pg. 6

4224 PanoramaSunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdRick Shumka 250 384-8124 pg. 11

11-4318 Emily Carr, $539,000Friday 1-3JonesCo Real Estate Inc.Ian Heath 250-655-7653 pg. 9

4030/4040 Borden St, $289,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4Cathy Duncan & Associates250 658-0967 pg. 7

107-40 Gorge Rd West, $289,888Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 8

8-3957 South Valley, $549,900Saturday 1-3Fair RealtyRay Kong, 250-509-7011 pg. 9

303-4515 Pipeline, $398,000Saturday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdTom Dunn 250 384-8124 pg. 5

742 Jasmine Ave, $379,900Saturday 12:30-1:30DFH Real Estate Ltd.Deidra Junghans, 250-474-6003

316 Brunswick Pl, $524,500Saturday 12-1Re/Max CamosunBrad Maclaren, 250-727-5448 pg. 12

538 Meredith Cres, $449,000Saturday 2-4 & Sunday 1-4Re/Max CamosunEd G Sing, 250-744-3301 pg. 12

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Veteran news photographer still drives Car 4:The green 1978 Ford

Thunderbird was a fi xture at Vancouver-area news events for decades. If the car was there, so was one of the Vancouver Sun’s most experienced and prolifi c photographers – Ralph Bower.

Bower’s car was equipped with a Century two-way radio and his was Car 4 when the call came in from the Sun photo department. His assignments led him to photograph Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the BC Lions, Vancouver Canucks and the Whitecaps.

Reporters of the day loved to ride with Bower in the luxurious green Thunderbird, cleverly sidestepping trips with other photographers in austere company camera cars. He was paid mileage so the thrifty cameraman had his nearly new car with its 400-cubic-inch engine converted to run on propane at 19 cents a gallon.

He racked up the kilometres driving the Thunderbird to assignment after assignment: Prime ministers, royalty, movie stars, prison riots, every Vancouver mayor, children, animals, natural disasters, villains and heroes.

He had loved cars since he was a young teen growing up on the same North Vancouver block where he still lives today. At age 15 years he saw a carpenter using the running board of his beautiful dark blue 1932 Chevrolet coach to saw wood. Ralph put together

$175 he had saved from his bicycle delivery job at North Vancouver’s Cunningham Drugs to buy the car. He drove it to high school.

He worked at various North Vancouver service stations pumping gas and doing lube jobs after school and on weekends until he could trade up to a sleek 1950 Chevrolet Fleetline fastback. “The principal called my mother to request that I not bring the car to school because it was newer and better than most of the teachers drove,” he recalls.

He took an extra year of high school for university entrance, planning to become a chartered accountant for the Cates tugboat company. But an opportunity for employment as a copy runner opened up at the Vancouver Sun and he took it as a summer job.

When he was transferred to the photo department he never wanted to leave. His fi rst assignment was at Children’s Hospital. To this day, he asks

for donations to the hospital instead of selling his photographs.

The young news photographer bought a year-old baby blue 1957 Pontiac Laurentian convertible to carry him to his assignments. He was in that car on June 17, 1958 at Vancouver’s Hastings Race Track when a frantic radio phone call came in from the Sun newsroom that the Second Narrows Bridge had collapsed. He was just minutes away and beat the emergency crews there. Eighteen ironworkers lost their lives and Ralph Bower’s photographs were front page across the country.

His favourite camera car was a special-order 1967 Oldsmobile 442 with a big motor and all the options. The last time he drove that car was through Langley to get a photo down by the U.S. border. A speeding Pontiac station wagon came over a hill and rammed him. His car swerved out of control and fl ipped into a ditch. The other driver ran

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Ralph Bower’s 1978 Thunderbird continues as his daily driver from his days using it as his photo car more than 40 years ago.

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from the scene of the accident and it took 30 minutes for rescuers to get Ralph out of his car. He walked away but his camera equipment was written off along with the Oldsmobile.

Years later, he drove his Thunderbird to a police standoff in East Vancouver where he captured the photo of a distraught man holding his son upside down outside a fourth-fl oor apartment. That photo was carried by newspapers all over North America and won a National Newspaper Award.

Ralph Bower and his venerable 1978 Ford Thunderbird retired from the Vancouver Sun on Dec. 31, 1996. “The speedometer had gone around four times and I took a photo of it every time it hit 99999.9,” he says.

The Thunderbird continues as his retirement car. It has travelled 465,000 kilometres. Ralph Bower has had 12,000 published photographs and seven exhibitions of his work, including the history of Hastings

Park Race Track which he has chronicled since starting at the Vancouver Sun in 1955.

He is admittedly sentimental about cars, owning a fully restored 1931 Ford Model A coupe – the same type of car his father drove to his job at the North Vancouver ferry ticket offi ce. His newest car is 1993 Lincoln Continental Town Car Cartier Edition that has travelled less than 5,000 kilometres and is in new condition. “I even wax that car underneath,” he says.

But the car he is closest to is the T-Bird that carried him to his photo assignments for the last two decades of his career. It is completely original right down to the two-way radio under the dash. Ralph Bower has a spare 1978 Thunderbird stored in his garage for parts to ensure he can keep driving his last news photo car.

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