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With unseasonably warm tem-peratures, dry weather and lack of moisture, local fire departments are bracing for a long season of grass and mulch fires.

“With the way things are right now, things are really dry out there. Our hazard rating in Greater Victo-ria, certainly in Saanich, is at high and that means the surface fuels are very dry. So grass fires are very easy ignited,” said Capt. Richard Pala of the Saanich Fire Department.

The fire depart-ment responded to 59 grass fires in 2014. So far this year, they’ve seen 20 grass fires — 14 of which were in May and three already in June.

The main culprit: cigarette butts. “People go out and have a smoke

break and in two hours it’s gone from smouldering to flaming,” said Pala, noting that many of the fires occurred in front of businesses such as gas stations, offices or bus stops.

Broken glass, which can also magnify the rays of the sun, are also cause for concern.

The Victoria Fire Department has also seen a significant increase in

the number of mulch fires. From January to June of this year,

crews have responded to 23 mulch fires, almost double the amount they had the previous year.

“With the exceedingly dry con-ditions, they can start with some-thing as simple as a cigarette butt being carelessly discarded to some-one deliberately setting it with a match or a lighter,” said Doug Carey, deputy chief with the Vic-

toria Fire Depart-ment.

He noted it takes a minimum of one fire truck and four firefight-ers to respond to a mulch or grass fire.

In Oak Bay, the fire department is keeping a close eye on grass levels

in parks.“Right now we’re monitoring our

grass levels. Some of the areas like Anderson and Gonzales hills there, we’re starting to look at whether or not that’s going to be posted in the next week or so, with regards to fire danger for those grass areas,” said Oak Bay fire chief Dave Cockle, adding that they’ve had two bark mulch fires in June, both outside the Oak Bay Recreation Centre.

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Warm weather puts firefighters on high alertUnseasonable dry weather producing an increase in grass and mulch fires

“People go out and have a smoke break and in two hours it’s gone from smouldering to flaming.”

– Capt. Richard Pala, Saanich Fire Department

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Victoria fire chief Paul Bruce, left, and Oak Bay fire chief Dave Cockle checked out a Dallas Road beach earlier this year for beach fires. Fire officials say warm, dry weather is increasing the odds for more mulch and grass fires this summer.

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Irene Harrison and Maureen Moffat remember high school like it was yesterday.

The Victoria High graduates can recall the popular restaurant Terry’s, a 1950’s-style diner on the corner of Fort and Douglas streets, where they used to hang out after every basketball game and swim meet.

“We would get 10 people into a booth and we had our soda pop and hamburgers,” laughed Harrison. “It was a regular old soda fountain.”

For Moffat, who grew up in James Bay with the self-proclaimed “James Bay Bums,” the Dallas Road beach and the many movie theatres were hot spots for students.

“We’d swim in the winter and you’d just go out and stay out all day,” said Moffat. “We got 25 cents a week for an allowance, we’d walk to town to save the three cents each way. The movie was 15 cents so we had 10 cents

to buy French fries,” said Moffat. Harrison and Moffat, along with 70

graduates from the class of 1955, reunited at the Harbour Towers Hotel on June 10 (the day of their actual graduation ceremony) for their 60th reunion.

“There’s quite a few people who [came] that we haven’t seen in years. For some of them, it’s the first time they’ve ever come,” said Harrison. “This year because maybe they figure it will be the last big one, people really seem to be making an effort to come, which is great.”

A core group of roughly 10 grads, who have been getting together every year since the 1980s, planned this year’s milestone event.

They had people from as far away as Singapore and all over the United States and Canada return.

Stewart Smith, who finished at the top of the class out of roughly 240 students in 1955, came from New Jersey where he is a

professor at Princeton University. “It was pretty fabulous, the teachers they

had in those days were really devoted and dedicated, it was a completely different world in Victoria then,” said the 77-year-old. “It was a very egalitarian place . . . I was more interested in playing rugby and lacrosse than studying.”

All three grads said they are one of the few classes that continue to meet. While no one could pinpoint why the class is so special, Smith speculated it had to do with their former principal.

“This wonderful principal Harry Smith retired that year, he’s been there for a long time, that was special for us and we had a big celebration for his retirement,” he said. “Maybe that had something to do with keeping people together.”

Other grads from that year include Jim Taylor, a sports columnist and author, and David Anderson, former Victoria MP.

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A reunion to rememberVic High’s Class of 1955 returns for its 60th anniversary reunion with a closet full of memories

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The province is forecasting significant water supply shortages on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Haida Gwaii unless there’s significant rainfall before the end of June.

Those areas are already experiencing Level 3 drought conditions, which call for voluntary water use cuts of 20 per cent or more from municipal, agricultural and industrial users. Further water conservation measures may be ordered, including suspension of industrial water permits, if drought conditions worsen.

Man found dead in park

An 86-year-old man was found dead in Beacon Hill Park over the weekend.

The man, whose identity is not being released until next of kin has been notified, was found by search and rescue on June 5.

The Victoria Police Department says he succumbed to a medical condition and his death is not suspicious.

The man was found while VicPD patrol officers and search and rescue were searching for a second man down in the park as well.

The man, who was described as “potentially suicidal,” made comments about ending his life to Market on Yates staff, before leaving in a taxi headed towards the park.

The man was later found in the 700-block of Pandora Avenue.

The cases are unrelated.

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Casino gambling aboard B.C. Fer-ries has been ruled out by the provin-cial government.

The province wanted to test slot machines on Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay ferries as a potential money maker to boost revenue at B.C. Ferries but a business analysis found it would instead lose $240,000 a year, because of the staffing, equipment and tech-nology costs.

“Ultimately, the costs, risks and procedural changes required to oper-ate [electronic gaming devices] on a B.C. Ferries vessel outweigh the finan-cial gains,” the B.C. Lottery Corpora-tion review says.

Extra costs and time for BCLC and the provincial gaming enforcement branch weren’t considered in initial estimates, it says.

The review also red-flagged various potential security challenges.

“Disputes over game outcomes, thefts, delayed jackpots due to irreg-ularities, children being left unat-tended if guardians enter the gaming facility during the sailing and other issues” might cause delays for pas-sengers and damage the reputation of B.C. Ferries and BCLC, it said.

Unlike casinos on land, police couldn’t deal with a problem until the ferry docks.

The Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay run passes through U.S. waters for at least 20 minutes, the review noted.

“There is the potential that a por-tion of all sales aboard the vessels, including gaming revenue, may need to be shared with Washington State.”

Other issues included lack of a consistent connection to BCLC’s net-work and the need for ferries staff to adhere to strict BCLC cash-handling procedures and perform many of the responsibilities of casino employees, from solving technical problems to recognizing problem gamblers.

The review said allowing ferry pas-sengers to gamble at slot machines without the food, drink and entertain-ment options BCLC requires at casi-nos would be a break from current policy and might be criticized as a move towards video lottery terminals that are otherwise banned in B.C.

The province says planned mid-life upgrades to the Spirit Class ferries will expand the gift shops and relo-cate the coffee shop to take advan-tage of available space to raise more revenue.

“While the B.C. Lottery Corpora-tion’s analysis showed that this idea wouldn’t make money, we’ll remain open to other revenue-generating ser-vices,” Transportation Minister Todd Stone said.

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Parade buddiesVictoria firefighter Graeme Humber and his son, Kane, wave to the crowd during the annual Oak Bay parade on Saturday.

The Victoria Founda-tion is accepting appli-cations for its commu-nity grants program.

Applications will be accepted until Aug. 11.

Last year, commu-nity grants provided nearly $1.5 million to 86 non-profit organi-zations on Vancouver Island, bringing the total granted by the Victoria Foundation in 2014 to $13.3 million and more than $144 million since the orga-nization’s inception in 1936.

“The foundation is pleased to accept applications from local non-profits to under-take projects aimed at improving the quality of life in our region,” said Victoria Founda-tion CEO Sandra Rich-ardson.

“Through the gen-erosity of our donors, we have the pleasure each year of helping to fund a broad spec-trum of important work all across our commu-nity.”

Organizations seek-ing a community grant should visit the Victo-ria Foundation’s web-site at victoriafounda-tion.ca to learn more and to apply online.

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“We are monitoring just because the weather has been so good and we’ve had limited rain fall for almost four weeks now.”

With the warm weather expected to continue, local fire departments are asking the public to be diligent outside.

The number one way to reduce the risk of grass and mulch fires is to properly discard cigarette butts or make sure they’re completely out before walking away, and properly discarding glass jars or bottles.

For property owners, they suggest keeping lawns cut reasonably low and clearing yards of leaves that may have collected.

“Be aware that we’re in extreme drought conditions in the Greater Victoria area. We’ve just come through the driest May on record and we’re setting up for a very dry June. Please be diligent with your use of parks and recreational areas,” said Carey.

Earlier this week, the province also issued a Level 3 drought condition, urging residents to reduce their water consumption.

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Firefighters hose down hot spots on a grass fire last summer in Langford.

Firefighters asking public to be fire aware

Victoria and Capital Regional District employers expect a mild hiring climate for the third quarter of 2015, according to the latest Manpower Employ-ment Outlook Survey.

Survey data reveals that 10 per cent of employers plan to hire for the upcoming quarter (July to Sep-tember), while none anticipate cutbacks.

Another 90 per cent of employers plan to main-tain their current staffing levels.

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With thousands of elderly people living in Victoria, a local education session hopes to give seniors the tools to protect themselves against all forms of elder abuse.

World Elder Abuse Day is an international event aimed at creating a better understanding of what elder abuse is and how it can be prevented.

In Victoria, there will be two education sessions with speak-ers from local police agencies, Public Guardian and Trustee, Island Health, the Better Busi-ness Bureau and Victim Ser-vices.

Bridey Morrison Morgan is a mentor for the South Vancou-ver Island’s B.C. Association of Community Response Net-works, an organization aimed at

ending elder abuse and neglect. Morrison Morgan said she’s

seen many forms of elder abuse ranging from financial abuse when seniors sign a blank cheque and find their bank account has been tampered with to situations where grand-children move in with their grandparents and take over the house.

“I’ve heard of all kinds of situ-ations where elder abuse is hap-pening,” said Morrison Morgan.

Nansi Blenkiron, a local event organizer, said many people might not even realize that they are being abused.

“Some people might not even realize what’s going on and when they do, it’s hard to know where to turn and where to get help,” she said.

“So often they’re shamed, it might be family member that’s taking advantage of you, you don’t want to rat on them and you don’t want to turn them in, so you’re stuck.”

The sessions will talk about who to contact if you or some-one you know is being abused and the top 10 scams aimed at seniors.

World Elder Abuse Day is on Monday (June 15) at James Bay New Horizons (234 Menzies St.) from 9 to 11:30 a.m., pre-regis-tration is required, email [email protected] or call 250-386-3035. There is also another panel session at Monterey Rec-reation Centre (1442 Monterey Ave.) from 1 to 3:30 p.m., call 250-370-7300.

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“We are monitoring just because the weather has been so good and we’ve had limited rain fall for almost four weeks now.”

With the warm weather expected to continue, local fire departments are asking the public to be diligent outside.

The number one way to reduce the risk of grass and mulch fires is to properly discard cigarette butts or make sure they’re completely out before walking away, and properly discarding glass jars or bottles.

For property owners, they suggest keeping lawns cut reasonably low and clearing yards of leaves that may have collected.

“Be aware that we’re in extreme drought conditions in the Greater Victoria area. We’ve just come through the driest May on record and we’re setting up for a very dry June. Please be diligent with your use of parks and recreational areas,” said Carey.

Earlier this week, the province also issued a Level 3 drought condition, urging residents to reduce their water consumption.

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Black Press file photo

Firefighters hose down hot spots on a grass fire last summer in Langford.

Firefighters asking public to be fire aware

Victoria and Capital Regional District employers expect a mild hiring climate for the third quarter of 2015, according to the latest Manpower Employ-ment Outlook Survey.

Survey data reveals that 10 per cent of employers plan to hire for the upcoming quarter (July to Sep-tember), while none anticipate cutbacks.

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Victorians sure are enjoying the summer that has come early this year.

With temperatures above 20 degrees last weekend, people are enjoying the fact that they get to hit the beach a few weeks early.

Environment Canada has predicted it will be an unusually hot summer, which can be good for sun-lovers, but will mean an almost certain increase in grass and mulch fires in Greater Victoria — fires that are very often human-caused and easily preventable.

According to the Victoria Fire Department, they’ve already had 23 mulch fires (often started when cigarette butts are thrown into bark mulch in planters), almost double the amount they had the previous year.

The Saanich Fire Department saw 14 grass fires in May and three in the early days of June.

Both fire departments attributed many of these fires to cigarette butts that were not properly discarded and simply tossed into planters outside gas stations, bus stops and recreation centres.

Local fire departments say it takes on average one fire truck and four firefighters to respond to such fires.

It seems like a waste of resources for something that is absolutely preventable.

The answer is simple: don’t throw your cigarette butts into planters, bushes or grassy areas.

Use the cigarette canisters around Victoria and make sure they’re properly put out or wet down before getting rid of them.

Firefighters can only do so much.

Now it’s in the hands of the public to be extra diligent especially with the high temperatures and little rainfall we’ve had.

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Esquimalt resident Bruce Sharock captured this picture of a young racoon in a maple tree while walking his dog along Lyall Street.

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Readers respond: homelessness, oils, drugs

No perfect solution in housing homeless

Re: City OK’s micro-housing (News, June 10)

This would be a great idea if you could find a place in Victoria that doesn’t interfere with life in any neighbourhoods.

The whole idea is to help the homeless get off the streets.

There is no perfect solution here. It’s worth a shot to do this project. Helping others is really important.

A possible site could be the SJ Willis school grounds.

This could make for interesting summer.

Michelle CatharinaLangford

Letter-writer’s reasoning ludicrous

Re: Addicts need better access to drugs (Letters, June 3)

I guess I can now say that I’ve seen the most ridiculous Letter to the Editor ever.

We won’t see any more purse- snatchings, break- ins or smash-and-grabs if we make substances

available to addicts on a ready-use basis.

I’m addicted to chocolate milk, so I guess I can go to a closed corner store and attain it via a break-in. Ludicrous.

Barry TatehamJames Bay

Beer makes more sense than Alberta Oilsands

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s staunch defence of the Alberta Oilsands makes less and less sense.

Oilsands oil is very expensive to produce and the long-term demand is uncertain as the world turns increasingly to cleaner energy sources.

The Oilsands are Canada’s fastest growing source of emissions, yet make up only two per cent of Canada’s GDP, while providing 112,000 jobs. Many other sectors of the economy – finance, construction, tourism, high tech, to name a few – are far more important.

By comparison, a 2013 Conference Board study showed more jobs, 163,000,

were provided by Canada’s beer industry – including brewing, distribution, transportation, wholesale, retail and agricultural products.

From this point of view, a beer pipeline might be a better idea than an oil pipeline. And a lot more popular.

Blaise SalmonVictoria

Sometimes you just need to suck it up

Re: Gender should be removed from birth certificates, says society (News, June 3)

The Trans Alliance Society wants over 99 per cent of people to have things changed for less than one per cent of the population.

No gender identity on birth certificates, but where does this stop?

In sports, for instance, should the generation of “its’ not have a LPGA but only a PGA golf association or would the Olympic Games have no gender distinction?

The list of changes would be

endless.Kids being kids make fun of

and are made fun on everything from noses, ears, weight to height.

Sometimes you just need to suck it up and soldier on.

Bob BeckwithVictoria

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Two Central Middle School students are donating part of their winnings from a pro-vincial food contest to their school’s music program.

Grade 8 student Tom Kerr and his younger brother Ian were the runners up in this year’s Hands-on Cook-off chal-lenge in the youth cat-egory.

The contest was put on by Better Together, a program that aims to show the benefits of eating together, and encouraged families to bring together food and fun in the kitchen and to eat healthier.

As part of their three-minute video submis-sion, their mother Kate filmed them making smoked salmon and dill rolls with horserad-ish cream, a recipe they came up with them-selves.

“We basically just

thought of different reci-pes and tried to fit them together,” said Ian, who heard about the contest from his grandparents. “I like cooking, it’s really relaxing. If you mess up or it doesn’t work out, you can just start again.”

Their unique recipe won them $500, half of which they’ve decided to donate to their

school’s music program. “We chose the music

program because I’ve been in it for three years and it’s been really great. We’ve done lots of fun things and have gone on trips,” said Tom, who plays the clar-inet and alto saxophone in jazz band; while Ian plays the trumpet in the honour wind ensemble.

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Central Middle School students Ian (left) and Tom Kerr have donated half of their winnings from the Hands-on Cook-off challenge to their school music program.

The annual Teeny Tiny Garden tour around Victoria proves that lit-tle things come in small packages.

On Sunday (June 14) the annual garden tour will showcase 10 of the city’s smallest backyard gems in neighbourhoods such as James Bay, Fairfield, Rockland and Fern-wood.

Many of the gardens also grow fruits and vegetables such as lemon trees and goji berry vines.

Some gardens, such as Sandra and Glo’s garden grew out of bull-dozed flattened yard five years ago and have since grown into a flour-ishing fruit oasis with lemons and limes.

While in Barbara’s Fairfield gar-den, a New Zealand ozothamnus has been used to create the outer walls of the garden, which houses copper peeling Acer griseum and South America azara. The garden

includes a ‘green room’ and healing garden.

It also includes three bonus stops on the tour at the Villa Marco Polo, the James Bay Community Allot-ment Garden and the garden at the Open Door Spiritualist Sanctuary.

The tour is a fundraiser in sup-port of Victoria Hospice and started in 2006 by a Hospice staff member who had a teeny tiny garden that was showcased on garden tours alongside large estate gardens.

Since then, the event has raised more than $100,000 for Victoria Hospice’s compassionate programs for patients.

The self-guided tour runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $25 on sale at Thrifty Foods, Capital Iron, Mayfair Shopping Centre’s concierge desk, Victoria Hospice and Dig This.

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The B.C. Easter Seals 24-Hour Camp Challenge raised more than $120,000 last weekend in Victoria.

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Among those recognized from Greater Victoria were multiple winners NZ Builders, for their striking Waino project and Abstract Developments, for two multi-family projects and marketing. Also honoured were Zebra Design and Zebra Construction, ARYZE Developments, � e Sky Is � e Limit Design, with Parsons Construction and Horizon Pacifi c Contracting for its stunning project of the year, Fir Tree Glenn.

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Things are expected to be fast and furious during a fundraiser at a Victoria dealership this week-end.

As part of the inaugural fund-raiser for the David Foster Foun-dation, the Porsche Centre Victo-ria is holding a 24-hour race on a race car simulator.

Porsche clients will have the opportunity to compete in an endurance race, with each racer taking one-hour time slots on the VRX Z-55 iMotion race car sim-ulator. Similar to a walkathon, drivers will get friends, family or businesses to sponsor them by paying for every kilometre suc-cessfully driven.

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As Audi perfects its auton-omous driving technology, it’s using ‘deep learning’ to train computers to imitate the human brain.This breakthrough played a critical role for a recent 885-kilometre autono-mous-drive of “Jack,” the Audi A7 Sedan from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas. The deep learning process is at the centre of a drive to produce a commercially available vehicle that can pilot itself to any desti-nation with little human help. Audi is cooperating with such key suppliers as NVIDIA, the digital-tech company based in Santa Clara, California, to create a vehicle computer the way human brains process new information. To understand the concept, think of the car’s way of learning as being similar to that of child. Caregivers teach a baby to identify things perceived with sens-es: a circle, a square, colors. Object edges are very important in this process.

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A group of people who’ve signed up for a songwriting workshop sit in chairs in a circle in a sunny cor-ner room at Westin Bear Mountain Golf Resort and Spa.

On the floor, next to a set of song lyrics penned by one of the group, sits Neil Osbourne, lead singer for iconic Canadian rock band 54-40. Fresh off a Saturday evening con-cert outside the hotel the night before – and a vigorous afternoon bike ride up to the resort in the

heat this day – he’s analyzing the makeup of the song with the help of the others.

“What if you tried this second verse as the first verse?” Osborne asks, to which the songwriter, a 40-ish man in a red bandana, perks up and says “OK” to this potential “a-ha” moment.

While his song may have been a little more polished than others brought to this session, the idea of getting people of disparate tal-ents and skill levels is the whole idea of the June workshop series kicked off Sunday by the Victoria Conservatory of Music, in part-nership with a new education and entertainment entity labelled Bear Mountain Music.

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“It’s about community and people’s own individual dreams and having an opportunity and encouragement to explore those things,” he says. “It could happen at any time during your lifetime where you feel like you’re getting that much closer to actually taking that step. You’ve wanted to pick up a guitar (or) sing a song at a house party. Lots of times the only thing that sort of stops people is they just don’t know where to go

or have the opportunity, so we’re providing the opportunity at an affordable price.”

The workshop series, the remaining of which cost $20, includes a range of other styles, from this weekend’s (June 14) DJ session with D.J. Murge, to Camp-fire Songs with Jan Randall of CBC’s The Irrelevant Show and a fiddle workshop with North Amer-ican champion Ivonne Hernandez.

Dan Matthews, CEO of Bear Mountain owner Ecoasis, has been instrumental in providing a cultural injection to his company’s sprawling neighbourhoods. His kids are conservatory students and his objective is to see music and culture expanded here as a way to establish a more broad-

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“Arts and culture have an incredible role in people’s lives,” Gann says. “Music connects peo-ple; music brings joy and vibrancy. Daniel, by coming on board with us, is helping accomplish one of Dan Matthews’ goals.”

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“Learning really occurs best when it’s continuous. As soon as we break that rhythm of instruction, forget-ting can occur,” says Macoun.

“When kids come back to school in the fall, a good chunk of that time in the initial few weeks of school is spent reviewing and re-learning from the pre-vious year. That’s okay, but it does take away from when new learn-ing can occur.”

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This June, as my young-est daughter turns 22, my thoughts turn back to the early 1990s, when, at six months old, she became critically ill and we spent several days in the Intensive Care Unit at B.C.’s Children’s Hospital. There, everything was reduced to a heartbeat and only the lives of our chil-dren mattered.

Sierra and her older sis-ter, Danica, were born with sleep apnea; they would stop breathing as they slept, and then gasp for air. Sier-ra’s apnea was much worse and sometimes it took so long for her to gasp, I’d have to jolt her awake. During the day, she was as happy and

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“Although Sierra was young to be undergoing adneo-tonsillectomy . . . I knew it was unlikely she’d would die. But for many in the ICU each day of life is a gift.”

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Thirteen-year-old Jesse Cum-mings is one busy kid.

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Church Cathedral celebrates its 150th anniversary. Festival incorporates floral artistry with music, art and a silent auction. Christ Church Cathedral, 930 Burdett Ave., noon to 4:30 p.m.


Sunday, June 14Festival of Flowers. Christ

Church Cathedral celebrates its 150th anniversary. Festival incorporates floral artistry with music, art and a silent auction. Christ Church Cathedral, 930 Burdett Ave., noon to 4:30 p.m.


Thursday, June 18Esquimalt Farmers Market.

Esquimalt Town Square, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Info: esquimaltmarket.com.

Bridges for Women Society annual general meeting. Camosun College Lansdowne Campus, 3100 Foul Bay Rd., 5:30 p.m. Info: 250-385-7410 or email [email protected].

Friday, June 19Aboriginal Cultural Festival.

Three-day celebration of Aboriginal peoples, arts and culture. Royal B.C. Museum. Info: aboriginalbc.com.

Fernwood Market. Vic High School Plaza, 4 to 8 p.m. Info: thefca.ca.

International Military Band Concert presented by Naden Band of the Royal Canadian Navy. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St., 7:30 p.m. Info: rmts.bc.ca or call 250-386-6121.

Saturday, June 20Volkssport – 5/10 km walk.

Meet at Glanford Park, Kenneth Street, Saanich. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Hazel at 250-385-5439.

Climb Out of the Darkness fundraising walk – awareness of maternal mental illness. Presented by Victoria Department of Midwifery.

Clover Point, 10 a.m.Architectural cycling tour.

Learn about architecture in Victoria led by architects and designers. The ride begins at Centennial Square at 10 a.m. Bring a lunch. The ride is 20 easy kilometers.

Victoria Cat Rescue Corps strawberry tea and rummage sale. Knox Presbyterian Church, 2964 Richmond Rd., 1 to 4 p.m. Info: 250-656-1100 or victoriacatrescue.com.

Summer So(u)lstice, an afternoon of music, poets and remembering departed friends and family. Royal Oak Burial Park, 4673 Falaise Dr. in Saanich, 1 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, June 21Volkssport – 5/10 km walk.

Meet at Harbour Towers, 345 Quebec St. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Randy at 250-590-7175.

Jazz-Gospel Worship Service featuring Maureen Washington, Kelby McNayr and Aidan Miller. First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd., 11 a.m. to noon.

Wednesday, June 24TeeJay and SlideManBlues,

two of the biggest names in Victoria Street music. Gorge-Ous Coffee, 103 Gorge Rd. West, 7 p.m. Info: 250-384-4330.

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If you own, lease or otherwise occupy private property containing a glass-fronted gas burning fireplace, fireplace insert or heating stove, you should read this notice.Under a court-approved class action settlement certain manufacturers are offering, free of charge, barriers intended to prevent burns from the hot glass fronts. Further information is below.

NOTICE* OF SETTLEMENT APPROVAL AND CLAIMS PROCEDURE OF A CLASS ACTION INVOLVING CERTAIN GAS BURNING FIREPLACES, FIREPLACE INSERTS AND STOVES

TO: ALL PERSONS IN CANADA WHO OWN, LEASE OR OTHERWISE OCCUPY PRIVATE PROPERTY CONTAINING A FIREPLACE FROM ONE OF THE SETTLING DEFENDANTS DESCRIBED BELOW

CERTIFICATIONA lawsuit commenced in British Columbia has been certified as a class action against CANADIAN HEATING PRODUCTS INC., MILES INDUSTRIES LTD., MONESSEN HEARTH CANADA, INC., and MONESSEN HEARTH SYSTEMS COMPANY (doing business as VERMONT CASTINGS GROUP) (the “Settling Defendants”), by the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the “Court”).WHAT IS THE LAWSUIT?It is an action concerning the risk of burns from contacting the hot glass fronts of some gas burning fireplaces.WHAT IS THE SETTLEMENT?The British Columbia Supreme Court has approved a settlement under which the Settling Defendants have agreed to provide, free of charge, barrier screens or screen kits for certain of their Fireplaces to reduce the burn risk. WHO IS INCLUDED IN THE SETTLEMENT?Class Members are all persons in British Columbia, plus all persons elsewhere in Canada who choose to “opt in”, who have one of the Settling Defendants’ gas fireplaces, inserts or stoves (“Fireplaces”) in their home that was installed between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2014.If you live in British Columbia and have such a Fireplace you are automatically included in the class action settlement. If you live elsewhere in Canada you may choose to opt into the settlement. You should immediately review the full legal notice in this matter to ensure that you understand your legal rights. Further details on the proposed settlement and on opting in are available via the telephone numbers and email & website addresses set out in this notice. Claim Forms and Opt in requests MUST BE SUBMITTED by June 6, 2016. If your communication is not received in time it may not be considered valid. WHAT DOES COURT APPROVAL MEAN? Class Members are bound by the settlement. Notice of the proposed settlement was published in April and May, 2015. The settlement was approved by the Court on May 26, 2015.WHERE CAN I OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION, OR OBTAIN A FIREPLACE BARRIER OR SCREEN? Class Members should contact: Crawford Class Action Services (the “Administrator”) Suite 3-505, 133 Weber Street North Waterloo, ON N2J 3G9 Toll Free: 1-877-739-8933 Fax: 1-888-842-1332 Email: [email protected] I NEED TO PAY ANYTHING TO PARTICIPATE?No. You do not need to pay any money to participate in the settlement. Class members pay nothing. The lawyers appointed by the Court to represent the Class will be paid by the defendants under the settlement.WHO ARE THE LAWYERS FOR THE CLASS?The following law firm represents the plaintiffs and the class, and will answer questions about the class action:Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP, 25th Floor, 700 West Georgia Street, Vancouver B.C. V7Y1B3Contact [email protected] Or Mike Wagner @ 604-661-9388 or Robert Anderson, QC @ 604-661-9372(*) This Notice is just a summary. For more detailed information, including a list of all defendants and the definitions used in this Notice, please go to www.fireplaceclassaction.com or contact the Administrator listed above, or contact the lawyers above.

Do Not Contact the Court about this Notice.For any questions, please contact the Administrator or the lawyers listed above

THIS NOTICE HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE BRITISH COLUMBIA SUPREME COURT

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IN MEMORIAM GIFTS

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TENDERS

NOTICE of Omicron Opportu-nity for BC Hydro Work: Omi-cron Construction Ltd. (“Omi-cron”) is requesting interested trade contractors to submit their Pre-Tender Qualifi cation Statements for the construc-tion of the new BC Hydro Vic-toria Operations Facility locat-ed within Victoria, BC. The Project: The project consists of a six-phase redevelopment of the BC Hydro Victoria Opera-tions Facility. The scope will include construction of a two-storey main Operations Build-ing (total building area of 6,973 sq.m./75,056.7 sq.ft.), a Fleet Services Building, a Haz-mat Storage Building and a Covered Parking Structure. Scope of Work – Design Pack-ages 1: Omicron will be invit-ing bids for this project from pre-qualifi ed trade contractors. Interested trade contractors are invited to submit pre-ten-der qualifi cation statements for the following specifi c scopes of work to be bid as separate tender packages: Earth-works/Civil, and Security Fencing. Please forward all questions to the Senior Con-struction Manager, Ron Fran-cis ([email protected] / 604-632-4356)

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HOST FAMILIES WANTEDThe Victoria Grizzlies need host families for Junior A hock-ey players aged 16-20. Separ-ate room required. Food allow-ance and home game tickets provided. Westshore, Sooke, Royal Oak, Saanich West ideal but other locations con-sidered. For more information on a great way to be involved in junior hockey in your com-munity please [email protected]

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LOUISIANA-PACIFIC Ltd., Golden, BC. Operations Planner JOB PUR-POSE: To work with LP’s Forest Resources Division team to annual-ly plan and develop 265,000 m3 of timber. To prescribe and use forest-ry practices that meets legislated and LP Corporate requirements. Refer to LPCorp.com for further de-tails. If you have questions please call Mr. Tim Arnett at 250-344-8856

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The Victoria News has an opening for a multimedia Advertising Consultant.

By joining the leading community newspaper serving Victoria, you can develop a rewarding career in advertising and marketing while contributing to one of the most vibrant communities in the region. The team environment at The Victoria News will inspire you to the highest level of customer partnership and reward your motivated approach to excellence. You should be a strong communicator, well organized, self motivated and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. Advertising sales experience is preferred. A car and a valid driver’s license are required.

The Victoria News is a member of Black Press, Canada’s largest private independent newspaper company with more than 150 titles in print and online in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Hawaii, California and Ohio.

Send your resume with cover letter by Friday, June 12, 2015 to:

Oliver Sommer, Associate [email protected] Broughton StreetVictoria, BC V8W 1E4

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PRODUCTION WORKERSCanada’s Largest Independently owned news-paper group is currently looking for Part Time Production Workers for its Victoria location.This is an entry level general labour position that involves physical handling of news-papers and advertising supplements.REQUIREMENTS:• Prior bindery and/or

machine operator experience would be an asset

• Motivated self-starter willing to work in a fast paced environment performing repetitive tasks

• Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs and stand for long periods of time

• Ability to work cooperatively in a diverse, team based environment

• Must be reliable, dependable, have excellent communication skills and good attention to detail

• Must have own transportation

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Interested parties may drop off their resumes between 9am and 5pm at:

GOLDSTREAM PRESS#220-770 Enterprise Avenue, Victoria, BC

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ZONE CHECKERSThe Victoria News is looking to hire Zone Checkers to service the growing distribution needs in the Northpark/Oakland area. The right candidate must have excellent communication and organizational skills. Basic knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Outlook Express is recom-mended. Your attention to de-tail and ability to work with minimal supervision sets you apart from other applicants. Duties include supervision of newspaper carriers, recruit-ment and hiring of new car-riers, canvassing new areas of delivery, monitoring of carrier performance and follow up on reader delivery concerns. A re-liable vehicle is a must. A Vul-nerable Sector Criminal Record Check is also manda-tory. This part time position is ideal for applicants available for afternoon and weekend shifts. Please email your re-sume to Cindy Brown, Victoria News Circulation Coordinator: [email protected] phone calls please.

PROFESSIONAL/MANAGEMENT

WE are seeking qualifi ed Manage-ment Couple for mobile home com-munity in beautiful Cultus Lake, BC! On-site opportunity with housing provided. One team member will perform offi ce duties, the other maintenance and upkeep. E-mail resume and/or cover letter to:[email protected] or fax to 1.604.858.5939.

VOLUNTEERS

MOTHERS AGAINST Drunk Drivers is active in community education and awareness, vic-tim services, fundraising, youth programs, advocacy, media relations, court monitor-ing and presentations. MADD is looking for enthusiastic vol-unteers to join their team in Victoria BC. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

THE CANADIAN College of Performing Arts is looking for a few great volunteers to help with answering phones, data entry and providing support to students and administration. Located in Oak Bay, the col-lege is one of the country’s top musical theatre training cen-tres and relies on volunteer support. Call Volunteer Vic-toria at 250-386-2269.

THE MS Society is looking for a food coordinator assistant to organize the food and bever-ages for breakfast, lunch and rest stops for participants and volunteers of the 2015 Grape Escape Bike event, July 4-5. If you have good customer ser-vice, an understanding of food safe requirements and would like to work at Shawnigan Lake School or on the route during the event, call Volun-teer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

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EXPLORE MIDDLE Eastern Music. Small group of musi-cians & singers looking for oth-ers to play with us, any instru-ment; a willingness to learn Turkish & Arabic songs. Call Robert 250-383-7364.

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

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

BEAT MY Price! Best work-manship. 38 years experience. Call Mike, 250-475-0542.

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KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Company. Res/Com. Lic #86952. Call 250-415-7991.

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LANDSCAPE & TREE Care Lawns, garden, tree prun-ing/shaping, hedge trimming, design, monthly maintenance. Insured, reliable. References. Call Andrew, 250-893-3465.

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

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

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

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Victoria’s scorching real estate market is putting an even greater emphasis on potential buyers being ready to close the deal.

The Victoria Real Estate Board reports a total of 905 properties were sold across the region in May, a 26.8 per cent increase over the 714 prop-erties sold in May 2014.

“May was another great month for local real estate. It’s been a very active month for sales and listings, and we continue to see consumer confidence in our market as people continue to purchase properties,” said Victoria Real Estate Board presi-dent Guy Crozier.

“We’ve not seen this many sales in May since 2007 when we saw 963 properties sell in the month.”

Oak Bay realtor Cassie Kangas said the potential for a quick sale is yet another reason for buyers to be pre-approved and ready to close the deal.

“Knowing the house you’re looking at may have an offer the first day, you need to have everything ready. Could be the difference between getting it or not,” said the realtor with DFH Real Estate.

Kangas points to a house that had come on the market on a Saturday morning, she took her clients to see it that same afternoon.

“We were in the house when the realtor phoned me to say ‘My clients are on their way to the office, there’s already two offers’,” she recalled. “We hadn’t even looked in the base-ment yet. You have to be prepared, because if you’re not you’re not going to get it.”

Having financing in place is just one of the areas where realtors can assist their clients in buying or selling their home.

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She said permits can be a major issue that can have serious ramifica-tions on the sale of a house.

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She said checking for possible oil tanks on a property is another issue that should be investigated before a sale, along with going over strata documentation. Kangas advises going over a strata’s rules, bylaws, 24 months of minutes as well as any depreciation reports.

“There could be an assessment coming the next year for $60,000 and you’re on the hook for it. You have to read that stuff,” she said.

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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23Worrying about

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SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22

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SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, don’t be afraid to readjust your work schedule if you are running out of gas. You can handle mul-tiple projects at once, but don’t do so at the expense of your health.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20

Capricorn, attention to detail is a staple of your work ethic. Try not to get too caught up in the minor details, as you might end up missing the big picture.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18

Aquarius, be there for a friend who needs you in the coming days. This friend has been there to support you in the past, so now it’s your turn to provide

support.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20This week you are

more comfortable relaxing and engaging in fun pursuits, Pisces. Immerse yourself in creative projects.

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Your Weekly Horoscope

Brian Rundle Photo

Reader’s Photo of the WeekA look at an Anna’s nest. Brian Rundle set his camera & tripod up then got out of the area and opened an app on his phone, watching the show from afar. Reader’s Photo of the Week is sponsored by the Stickleback Eatery located at Coopers Cove. Send high-res photos to: [email protected]

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