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Veterans Affairs braces for job cuts in Victoria
From left, Enes Moscrip, Barb Belknap, Carol Allis, instructor Anna Wren and Ellie Wight gather around the stove as they cook dinner together at the Les Passmore Seniors Activity Centre in Saanich. The group made skillet pork chops with sweet potatoes and couscous, and a rhubarb crisp for dessert.
Vets will fall through cracks, says union Erin McCracken News staff
The elimination of frontline staff at the Victoria office of Veterans Affairs this fall will deal a devastating blow to military veterans, says the union representing employees. The federal department’s main office on the Island the will see its roster of 17 client service agents shrink by 4.37 full-time equivalent positions, as part of a nationwide downsizing “We’re plan. not processing The Victoria agents help vetpassports here. apply for We’re dealing with erans disability penpeople’s lives ...” sions and mobility aids, among – Kim Coles other services. Union of Veterans In the wake Affairs Employees of the job cuts, the Royal Canadian Legion expects to see an influx of veterans submitting more disability claims. That will further swamp the Legion’s two service officers, one each at CFB Esquimalt and in Vancouver, who are already filing papers for hundreds of vets, who turn to the Legion rather than Veterans Affairs. “The workload has increased tenfold for our two service officers in the last few months, to a point where we’re going to have to hire two more,” said Dave Sinclair, immediate past president of the B.C./Yukon Command of the Royal Canadian Legion. PLEASE SEE: Veteran’s cuts, Page A6
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Finding community in the kitchen Seniors offered free cooking skills, social activities Natalie North News staff
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t’s 3 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon and Anna Wren has nine women over for dinner. Wren is a registered dietician and the women are seniors who prescribe to her belief that healthy lifestyle education is best retained in the kitchen – rather than the doctor’s office. Wren leads a community kitchen for seniors, a free cooking program designed to boost seniors’ health and independence through meal planning and group cooking sessions. “Nutrition tends to be a lower priority when people are living on their own,”
Wren said. “It’s hard to cook for one … and it’s not as fun to eat by yourself.” Wren was motivated to launch a community kitchen targeted at older residents when her outpatient work with seniors at risk brought her in contact with people who were losing weight and suffering from improper nutrition and isolation. Today at Les Passmore Seniors Activity Centre, the seniors – who happen to all be women, though the class is open to men too – are preparing skillet pork chops with sweet potatoes and couscous and an apple rhubarb crisp for dessert. Some people with mobility issues sit and chop ingredients, some tell stories while cooking, and all go home with leftovers and a book of affordable, easyto-prepare recipes. One participant was a caterer before suffering a stroke. Her knowledge is returning as she learns to cook again. “It’s interesting how everyone finds something to do within their ability,” Wren
said. “No one is standing and watching. Even if you’re stirring a pot or measuring spices for the soup, everyone feels like they’re involved.” Wren launched the program in September 2011 at the James Bay Community Project in Victoria, and was able to continue thanks in part to a collaboration with Saanich Parks and Recreation and a $20,000, New Horizons for Seniors Program grant from the federal government. “So many seniors are living on their own and they want to stay in their homes. This is a way to keep them healthy, keep them socially connected,” said Julie Wallace, programmer with Saanich community services. Sessions run for six weeks – a term Wren and Wallace hope participants will extend independently with the co-operation of participating seniors’ centres. PLEASE SEE: Project aimed, Page A15
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Banned driver nabbed behind the wheel A 40-year-old View Royal man who wasn’t supposed to be on the road was arrested last Saturday night after his bad driving caught the attention of the Saanich police. An officer pulled over a 1992 Acura around 8:20 p.m. on Harriet Road on May 26, but the driver couldn’t produce a valid driver’s licence. He said he had a valid California licence but the officer found the man had an outstanding warrant on the West Shore for a prohibited driving charge. He was arrested, the vehicle was impounded, and the man was issued another driving prohibition. “Once again, we have a situation where we see a chronic driver with no licence who continues to drive,” said Sgt. Dean Jantzen. Traffic safety officers see, on a daily basis, cases where suspended B.C. drivers have been able to successfully receive a licence from another jurisdiction, such as Alberta or Washington state. “Regardless if you hold a licence (from another province or state), if you are suspended in B.C., you are not to be driving on our roads,” Jantzen said.
Month left on refunds for payday loans Time is running out for people to seek a refund if they were charged illegal levels of interest on loans from the Cash Store Financial Inc., a payday loan company. Consumer Protection B.C. ruled on March 23 that The Cash Store and Instaloans had charged more than 23 per cent interest on loans linked to cash cards, which is above the legal lending rate. The company has 90 days to refund customers for unlawful loans from Nov. 1, 2009 forward. The refund period ends June 30. Greater Victoria has three The Cash Store and Instaloan locations. For more, see www.consumerprotectionbc.ca/paydaylenders-portal or call toll free at 1-888-564-9963.
Kids bike rodeo at UVic on Sunday The University of Victoria’s campus security is hosting a bike safety rodeo for kids on Sunday. Kids five to 12 years old with bikes and helmets can test their riding skills and participate in face painting and other kid-friendly activities. Child Find B.C. will provide child identification booklets for parents, and safety organizations such as B.C. Hydro PowerSmart, the Red Cross, and police and fire departments will be on hand with displays. Kids safety day is June 3, 1 to 4 p.m. in UVic parking lot No. 2, off McKenzie Road.
A room with a view to the subatomic World’s most powerful electron microscope being assembled at UVic Edward Hill News staff
By this fall, the world’s most powerful microscope will fire up in a basement at the University of Victoria, and allow scientists to enter a new frontier of subatomic research. But right now, the bulky, stainless steel components are barely cut from their plastic wrap after arriving from Germany last week. UVic engineering professor Rodney Herring and Hitachi technology manager David Hoyle will spend the summer piecing together 4.5-metre high, seventonne device, known as the scanning transmission electron holography microscope (STEHM). “This is the Ferrari of microscopes,” Herring says smiling. Or is it the Lamborghini? “Ferrari,” he says. Indeed, the electron gun, aberration correctors and lens package will give scientists the ability to probe to a scale of about onefifth the diameter of an atom, or about 20 million times magnification from human sight. Nanotechnology works at the level of billionths of a metre – the nanometre. This microscope drills down into trillionths of a metre, the rarefied picometre scale. It can resolve images at 50 picometres and smaller. A silicon atom by comparison is roomy at 235 picometres across. “This is the first of its kind. It is the next generation of electron microscope,” says Elaine Humphrey, manager of the UVic advanced microscopy facility and a biology professor. “We are going below 50 picometres. In picometre technology, there’s not a lot of it around.” In the basement lab in the Bob Wright building, Herring and Hoyle joke about using duct tape to hold the microscope components together, but this is a decade-long project of mind-boggling engineering and scientific precision. Herring shopped his design to
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UVic engineering professor Rodney Herring stands next to the electron gun apparatus, one of the key components to the world’s most powerful microscope being assembled over the summer. a number of high-tech companies, but most didn’t believe the level of magnification and resolution was possible. Hitachi itself needed convincing that the engineering would work and the investment was sound. The final bill isn’t public knowledge – Herring said $9.2 million from government research grants and UVic is “less than half the cost.”
“This is the first of its kind. It is the next generation of electron microscope.” –Elaine Humphrey UVic advanced microscopy facility “(The microscope) is an expensive machine,” he said. “It’s arguably the highest level of technology made ... other than (the Large Hadron Collider) or the International Space Station.” Everything on the STEHM hits the extremes – it has the most advanced electron gun, and highest resolution imaging and largest magnification of anything on earth. The vacuum chamber in the electron gun apparatus nearly
replicates the kind of extreme emptiness of deep space. The underground metal chamber that houses the microscope effectively eliminates all sound and external vibrations. It sits on a concrete foundation physically separate from the Bob Wright building, which is built on an existing slab of bedrock too big to vibrate from passing vehicles. Herring said slight vibrations from the human voice or imperceptible pressure changes from a passing cloud would disrupt the machine, if it operated in the open – so will operate in a chamber over-pressured and lined with sound absorbing material. The metal chassis that houses the microscope’s ultra-precise electronics is a metal-composite that is extremely rigid but dampens vibrations – its internal filling is a secret known only to Hitachi engineers. Hoyle said he’s not allowed to talk about it. The UVic advanced microscopy facility hopes to have the STEHM up and running by October. Scientists and engineers from across the planet are already booking research time on the world’s most powerful microscope. Uses for the STEHM are some-
what esoteric, but the device is expected to aid breakthroughs in scores of fields, from computing and nanotechnology, to medical diagnostics and solid-state physics. It will allow physicists and chemists to peer into the atom with untold precision, allowing fundamental research that confirms physical theories of matter. “The unique feature of this microscope is that it can see atoms and tell the type of atom we’re looking at,” Herring said. “We can look at how electrons bond atoms together. We can see the fundamental chemistry of chemical bonding.” At a slightly larger scale, Humphrey said the machine will allow biomedical researchers to create, for instance, high-resolution 3-D images of neuron connections in tissues. Computer engineers can map schematics of increasingly small integrated circuits. Herring expects STEHM will remain on the cutting-edge for years to come and will put the university on the world map in terms of providing a facility for fundamental subatomic research. At UVic, the world of the very small has become very big. editor@saanichnews.com
Saanich man has truck stolen twice in four days Kyle Slavin News staff
A Saanich man was reunited with his pickup truck Tuesday – for the second time this week – after the vehicle was stolen twice in four days. The grey 2004 Mazda B2200 was first stolen from his driveway, in the 200-block of Crease Ave., overnight Friday (May 25). The owner says he left his jacket, with keys to his house and truck, inside the unlocked vehicle. On May 26, the man’s sister spotted the truck parked on Whitehead
Place in Colwood, and it was towed to the Saanich police department where it was put through forensic analysis, then returned to the owner. While the man was advised by police to change his house and truck locks, the suspects returned before that was possible. The truck was stolen from the driveway, again, around 10:30 p.m. Monday. The owner heard two males laughing, and his truck sped away. Saanich police were dispatched to the area, and officers spotted the vehicle driving along on Inter-
urban Road. They followed it on to the Trans-Canada Highway. When the vehicle passed into View Royal, Saanich police handed the file to West Shore RCMP. Saanich police Sgt. Dean Jantzen says the vehicle “made a quick turn and left at a high rate of speed” and officers lost sight of the truck. He says the truck was not lost as a result of jurisdictional issues and the transferring of files between police forces. “Everything was done right,” Jantzen said. “We will (continue following a vehicle into another municipality), and once adequate
resources from neighbouring jurisdictions are available, we then turn it over.” An person claiming to be the owner of the truck told Saanich News he recovered his vehicle without help from police. Jantzen confirmed the truck was recovered Tuesday night in the area of Whitehead Place, although he couldn’t confirm who found it. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing. Police are asking anyone with information on these thefts to call 250-475-4321. kslavin@saanichnews.com
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Tuesday marks a once-in-alifetime opportunity to watch a rare astronomical event high in the skies – the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. When Venus travels between the Earth and the sun, visible on Vancouver Island from 3:05 until 9:49 p.m. on Tuesday June 5, it will carry with it historical, as well as celestial, significance. Beginning in 1639 when the transit of Venus was first observed and recorded, it allowed early astronomers to give a sense of distance and size of objects in the solar system. “Nowadays we have radar and lasers ... and different ways of measuring distance to planets, but in the old days … by measuring Venus’ size against the surface of the sun as it went across, (astronomers) were able to determine the actual size of Venus and of the sun,” said Sherry Buttnor, with the Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. “These were smart people. They didn’t have all these computers and fancy stuff, but they
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were able to do that just by looking at the sun. “They were actually very, very close with their predictions.” The image of Venus against the sun was used to determine an accurate estimate of the scale of the solar system. A transit of Venus is rare due to the differing orbital speeds and planes of Earth and Venus – the next is in 2117. The transit has only been viewed seven times since Galileo’s invention of the telescope in 1609. “It’s neat to watch these things unfold in front of your eyes because it gives you a sense of motion,” said Buttnor, who will be photographing the transit from Metchosin. “We really are orbiting the sun. Things are moving out there. “(Viewing this) is a once-in-alifetime thing.”
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14 or darker welders’ glass is generally considered safe, though the glass, if scratched or nicked, opens the viewer to permanent vision loss. The safest viewing method is pinhole projection, achieved by filtering sunlight through a pinhole in a piece of cardboard onto another blank surface. The projection is remarkably clear and removes the threat of vision damage caused by staring at the sun. Astronomers from the Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society will set up transit viewing stations and solar telescopes in front of the Royal B.C. Museum, atop of Mount Tolmie and at Cattle Point in Oak Bay between 3 p.m. and sunset on Tuesday. The University of Victoria Department of Physics and Astronomy will also host a free viewing of the transit of Venus on the fifth floor of the Bob Wright Centre from 3 to 9 p.m. nnorth@saanichnews.com
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON ZONING BYLAWS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING for the purpose of a PUBLIC HEARING will be held in the SAANICH MUNICIPAL HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 770 Vernon Avenue, on TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012 at 7:30 p.m., to allow the public to make verbal or written representation to Council with respect to the following proposed bylaws and permits. A) “ZONING BYLAW, 2003, AMENDMENT BYLAW, 2012, NO. 9184” PROPOSED HOUSEKEEPING AMENDMENT TO THE ZONING BYLAW The purpose of the proposed bylaw is to amend the “Uses Permitted” in Schedule 516-Attached Housing-Accessory Unit-Zone RT-4A, of the Zoning Bylaw, 2003, by replacing the home occupation use with “Home Occupation and Daycare for preschool children” to make it consistent with the other attached housing zones. B) “ZONING BYLAW, 2003, AMENDMENT BYLAW, 2012, NO. 9185”
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Siblings Matthew and Ella Ng peer down a nearly four-metre-deep hole in the backyard of their Kenmore Road home in Saanich, which had been overgrown with grass and recently discovered by their mother, Colleen Lowe. The hole was likely a well for the Capt. Charles Dodd farmland that spanned the neighbourhood 150 years ago.
PROPOSED TWO LOT RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION ON SNOWDROP AVENUE To rezone Amended Parcel A (DD153664-I), Lots 1 & 2, Section 79, Victoria District, Plan 1318 (920 SNOWDROP AVENUE) from Zone RS-6 (Single Family Dwelling – minimum lot size 560m2) to RS-4 (Single Family Dwelling – minimum lot size 460m2) for a proposed two lot residential subdivision. A DEVELOPMENT VARIANCE PERMIT will be considered to allow variances for lot width, siting, side yard setbacks, and allowable floor space in non-basement areas. A COVENANT will be considered to further regulate the use of the lands and buildings.
Backyard hole hides history Well found in Gordon Head linked to oldest home in Saanich Natalie North News staff
When Colleen Lowe noticed a small hole in her backyard, she had no idea what she could have fallen into. She cut back a layer of grass and earth that had grown over the opening, revealing a fourmetre-deep hole, remnants of a water well, which most likely accompanied Saanich’s oldest home. Lowe, who owned the property for 12 years before noticing the hidden landscape feature at the beginning of May, was at first concerned that it was a sinkhole created by improper drainage. A visit from Saanich public works dispelled that theory. Driller David Slade later confirmed the
hole appears to be a well, either partially drilled originally or partially filled over the years – as in some 150 years. Saanich archivist Caroline Duncan was thrilled to hear the news, given the well’s location to the original site of Saanich’s oldest home on what was once property of Saanich pioneer Capt. Charles Dodd. Dodd, an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company, had built the home in 1859 on the southwest corner of his 109-hectare property, on what is today the 1700block of Kenmore Road – next door to where Lowe’s house is now. In 1978 when a new property owner chose to develop the land, the Dodd house was transplanted to Lambrick Park, where it remains today, adjacent to Gordon Head Recreation Centre. It’s owned and rented by the municipality of Saanich. “The position of the well would have fit very nicely with the position of the house,” Duncan said. “We don’t know for sure if the
well is related to the Dodd family when they were there, or a later resident of the Dodd house, but it seems to have a strong connection to the original Dodd property.” Duncan is curious to learn if other residents of the neighbourhood have made similar discoveries. “It’s a fabulous thing because even though the house was moved, there are still features of the landscape from the original site that are still there,” Duncan said. “In all of Gordon Head there were only about three other houses (from the 1850s) and I’ve always wondered why they chose that corner when they had all that beautiful coastline … but there was an old stream that ran near there.” In late May, Lowe had the hole filled. She hopes to mark the site, perhaps with a commemorative wishing well, she said. “It’s a fascinating piece of history in our own backyard,” Lowe added. nnorth@saanichnews.com
Wanted man surrenders to Victoria police Erin McCracken News staff
A man wanted for allegedly threatening to kill a pregnant woman in early May and a police officer in January turned himself in at the Victoria Law Courts Monday afternoon. Victoria police issued a public advisory last week about Marc William Bauer, 39, after they say the Greater Victoria resident evaded police custody. A war-
rant for his arrest was issued May 15. Before he surrendered to police, investigators had expressed concern that Bauer was showing signs of escalating violent behaviour that, combined with a severe alcohol addiction, make him “unpredictable and violent,” police spokesperson Mike Tucker said.
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Bauer also faces charges related to uttering death threats to a Victoria police officer in January, a case that is now moving through the courts. “VicPD wish to thank the public and media for their assistance in getting Bauer back in police custody,” Tucker said.
C) “ZONING BYLAW, 2003, AMENDMENT BYLAW, 2012, NO. 9186” PROPOSED TWO FAMILY DWELLING ON VIOLET AVENUE To rezone Lot 14, Block 12, Section 78, Victoria District, Plan 1171 (742 VIOLET AVENUE) from Zone RS-6 (Single Family Dwelling) to Zone RD-1 (Two Family Dwelling) for a proposed two family dwelling. A DEVELOPMENT PERMIT will be considered to require the buildings and lands to be constructed and developed in accordance with the plans submitted.
A copy of the proposed bylaws and relevant reports may be inspected or obtained from the Legislative Division, Saanich Municipal Hall, 770 Vernon Avenue, between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, from May 31, 2012 to June 12, 2012 inclusive, except for weekends and statutory holidays. Correspondence may be submitted by mail to the address above or by email to clerksec@saanich.ca and must be received no later than 4:00 pm on the day of the meeting. All correspondence submitted will form part of the public record and may be published in a meeting agenda.
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Veteran’s cuts felt across Canada Continued from Page A1
Job cuts at Veterans Affairs will only compound the challenge of providing for military veterans, he said. The number of Afghanistan vets who are now seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder from Legion-funded treatment programs, and who are seeking to file claims, is only the tip of the iceberg. “We’re not going to see the full impact of the Afghanistan veterans for another four or five years,” Sinclair said. Across Canada, 75 agent positions are being cut. Employees will likely start receiving surplus notices this fall, said Kim Coles, national executive vice-president of the Union of Veterans Affairs Employees, representing 2,700 members. The union is already reeling from previously announced plans to terminate 552 jobs over the next three years. In the wake of the federal budget in March, Veterans Affairs now plans to eliminate a total of 804 positions by 2015-16. “How are they going to maintain the service to veterans with that? I don’t care how much stuff you say can be done on the computer,” Coles said. “We’re not processing passports here. We’re dealing with people’s lives, people that have sacrificed for their country. That mandate is all going out the window and it’s all becoming a numbers game.” The government’s plans to create efficiencies will actually ramp up delays, she said. “(Some older veterans) could die before they actually get services they put in for in the first place.” A spokesperson for Veterans Affairs Canada said the restructuring process will not reduce services to veterans. Rather, it will
eliminate unnecessary red tape to provide “better and faster” service. “We will continue to meet or exceed our service standard of one case manager for every 40 case-managed veterans,” the spokesperson said. The department expects to manage restructuring through attrition, since about 1,000 workers will be eligible for retirement between now and 2016. But Coles said only about 50 per cent of those people will be willing or able to retire. The full impact on specific staff positions has not yet been fleshed out, the department spokesperson said, but “our staff in the Victoria area will continue to play an important role in supporting the department’s work.” emccracken@vicnews.com
By the numbers Veterans Affairs Canada plans to terminate 804 positions across the country by 2015-16. Here’s a breakdown: ■ Victoria district office cuts: 4.37 of 17 client service agents ■ Vancouver office: 5.5 of 20 client service agents ■ Penticton office: two out of eight positions ■ Job cuts in the west (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C.): 192 positions over the next three years ■ District office closures in 2013 (including in Kelowna and Prince George): seven
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Ultimate grad gift Grade 12 Spectrum Community student Larissa McCormick, with Howie’s Car Corrall owner Howie Mace and the school’s mascot Hokie, holds the keys to her used car, a 1997 318i BMW in the school’s parking lot. McCormick, who has her learners licence, was the winner picked from a draw of more than 200 entries at the school’s dry grad celebration. The car was donated by Howie’s Car Corrall.
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Fire chiefs pitch Saanich for regional dispatch Transition for View Royal, Colwood seamless, say West Shore firefighters Kyle Slavin News staff
Fire chiefs from View Royal and Colwood are so impressed by the quality of service they’re receiving from the Saanich Fire dispatch centre, they’re urging other municipalities to follow their lead. On Tuesday, View Royal fire Chief Paul Hurst and Colwood fire Chief Russ Cameron called for Saanich to be at the centre of an amalgamated dispatch centre, following the first week of a five-year contract that sees both West Shore municipalities serviced by Saanich dispatchers. “I’m a full supporter of one regional fire dispatch for this region,” Cameron said at a press conference Tuesday alongside Hurst and Saanich fire Chief Mike Burgess. The Colwood chief urged other municipalities to seriously look at acquiring the services of Saanich’s dispatch centre. Saanich already answers fire calls from residents in Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, North Saanich, Central Saanich and Sidney, and on May 23 began serving View Royal and Colwood. Colwood and View Royal issued requests for proposals last fall to explore breaking off from the Langford dispatch centre. Langford dispatches for a number of small communities in the south Island while Victoria and CFB Esquimalt have their own fire dispatch. “So far things have gone very well,” Hurst said of the recent switch. “We’re receiving a top-tier service from Saanich.” The pair said Saanich’s state-of-the-art dispatch centre, built in 2008, ensures their needs are met, including a standardized method of collecting data and statistics, and safety redundancies, in the event of data or connectivity loss. “We’re able to track, with fires, were there smoke alarms in the building or not? Where they able to escape? Why not? … Is there a hole somewhere in the service?” Hurst said, referring to the Saanich dispatch centre’s data collection abilities. “We can look at the statistics and focus our efforts on the initiatives that need focus. Councils can make educated decisions in investing money in the budget (to particular initiatives).” Burgess credits Saanich politicians and taxpayers for giving the green light for the 2008 dispatch
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Veterans deserve proper support N ews that Veterans Affairs Canada is downsizing its department, including the district office in Victoria, due to budget cuts, is extremely troubling. Unlike the days when much of its work dealt with the post-Second World War struggles and challenges faced by service personnel, Veterans Affairs today is seeing an influx of people whose experience came in such theatres as Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and various peacekeeping missions. For those engaged in combat roles, their experiences might be similar to those lived through by their military predecessors. Yet the understanding today of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological illnesses is greater than the Second World War, when struggling Canadian servicemen were pigeonholed as having “battle exhaustion.” In true military fashion, Veteran Affairs insists that none of its clients will be left behind as a result of the cuts to office personnel. The union representing the workers, voicing a predictable doom-and-gloom response, argues that veterans will begin to fall through the cracks due to projected increases in already too-large caseloads for staff and the added time it will take to process client requests. As in all labour-employer disputes, the truth probably lies somewhere in between. But the telling point in this conversation comes from the Royal Canadian Legion, which, for years, has done its best, given its limited resources, to fill the void in veteran support left by the federal government. They expect the next four or five years to produce more diagnosed cases of posttraumatic stress disorder than ever, a scenario which, if not addressed, could have devastating effects not only on the individuals, but their families. In a time of belt-tightening, the federal government needs to make cuts. But no matter how it is sugar-coated by Veterans Affairs, the decision to downsize the department’s frontline operations not only sets a dangerous precedent, it’s a slap in the face to individuals who have willingly and bravely served their country.
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few weeks ago I was walking I have never punched someone through my neighbourhood, without my boxing gloves or outwith my daughter in front of side the ring. I’ve never punched me pedalling her tricycle. someone because I was We were on our way angry. Right then I sure home from the park and felt close. my daughter was crying. I looked down at my Nothing too serious, she daughter, who was still always cries when we crying, and thought about leave the park. the message I wanted Other than a whimperto send to her. So I kept ing toddler, things were my hands on the tricycle going good until we were instead of on the girl’s followed by three teens, face. about 16 or 17 years old. All kidding aside, I don’t Charla Huber believe in violence, it’s no I am not one to be fearWritten in ink ful of teens or paint them better than the behaviour all with the same brush. of those teens. In fact, I really like rebellious teens So I kept walking, listening to the and have a soft spot for misundertaunts and contemplating the right stood youth. way to respond. What should my But these teens were making reaction have been? Should I have fun of me for my weight and sayfollowed them home and spoke to ing things I wouldn’t want to see in their parents? print. I was angry and if I were to It was two girls and a boy, but it respond, I would have used some was one of the girls who was doing choice words my daughter doesn’t the talking. need to learn quite yet. She carried on yelling loudly At one point I stopped to talk to across the street to me. She made my daughter and the teens walked some hand gestures and continued past me. I looked them right in the to harass me – even crossing the eye and watched their faces turn street to walk behind me and my humble. daughter. Maybe that was enough. The years I’ve spent in kickboxing These teens weren’t wearing and taekwondo would have really hoods or smoking cigarettes. They come in handy if I reacted how I were well-groomed and appeared wanted to (I have a pretty aweto be straight out of an American some roundhouse kick, if I do say Eagle catalogue. so myself). I have written many stories on
bullying and talked about the issue with kids, parents, teachers and police officers. Regardless of all the work people are doing, the problem is still here. Bullying is nothing new, but that doesn’t make it OK or some kind of rite of passage. There are kids killing themselves over things just like this. It has been a long time since I have been bullied. Probably since I was in middle school. I hope those teens look back on that evening a few years from now and realize it’s too late to apologize to the stranger they mocked. Do they realize the message they were sending to my daughter? But hey, if you are reading this, it could have been your kid or grandchild. Would you be embarrassed to know a column was published about how disrespectful they were? The whole situation is rather embarrassing for me, too. Before writing this, I never told anyone about my evening. I was trying to forget it ever happened. Maybe this is why bullying isn’t reported to school officials or the RCMP. If, at age 30, I am too embarrassed to talk about it, how can we ever expect a child to? Which is why I am writing this. I shouldn’t be embarrassed because of someone else’s poor choices. reporter@goldstreamgazette.com —Charla Huber is a reporter with the Goldstream News Gazette.
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Slow drivers present greatest hazard Re: Keep pressuring high-risk drivers (Our View, May 18) The content of your editorial is common and clearly onesided. While I agree that the police should intervene when drivers are clearly breaking the law, I believe the main issue is drivers who travel in the left lane on a four-lane road at about the same speed as those in the right lane. There are some signs that state, “Slower traffic keep right.” In my view, “slow” does not necessarily mean someone going below the posted speed limit. Instead, I consider those slow drivers to be the ones
who impede the left-lane traffic because they want to exercise their “right” to be in that lane. These are the self-appointed traffic enforcers. About 25 years ago when I was living in Alberta, we had the same kind of risky drivers as we see in B.C. today. There were also signs suggesting that slower traffic stay to the right lane, but that was rarely obeyed or enforced. Then the light came on with the powers that be. They increased the number and visibility of the signs, even highlighted them with bright green rays. It took two to four
years, but the drivers finally got it and it was uncommon to find Albertans playing traffic enforcers in the passing lane. Travelling on the highways became safer and much more pleasant. It appears that all it took was an attitude adjustment and drivers left it up to the police to enforce the speeders in the left lane. I have little doubt that a similar change in attitude for B.C. drivers would greatly reduce the risky manoeuvres of aggressive drivers. Leave it to the police, people. R. Chong North Saanich
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including scores of studies of animal and fish populations, along with extensive archaeological, historical and other studies. None of these considerations figured in any significant way when the Bennett Dam was built. Site C provides us with a rare opportunity to build upon the past in an environmentally sensitive way and to make the most of the water already stored behind the Bennett Dam, by using it to generate clean hydro power a second time on its way downstream. The persuasive efficiency of Site C, and the unparalleled environmental scrutiny it has already undergone, bode well for the project. That’s why, once any potential impacts have been addressed or mitigated, I’m cautiously optimistic Site C will pass through the formal assessment process with flying colours. Jesse McClinton Saanich
Being long retired, I come from the generation where wages were poor, benefits almost unknown, severance packages for the working person unheard of. Today’s public servants largely have no experience of those dreadful days. A recent political cartoon illustrating the “Taxpayer Bank of B.C.” showed B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union members dressed in robber’s garb charging in, while MLAs exited with rich salary and pensions. I also recently read about Oak Bay, where a burst water main was allowed to gush for an entire weekend, as it was cheaper than calling out workers at “double overtime.” Having been a government employee, private business person and elected municipal councillor for a period of nine years, I am genuinely fearful for the future. No one wants increases in taxation, but how else to meet demands? I do not advocate a return to those earlier days when workers’ treatment was grossly unfair, so let us start with cuts at the MLAs’ pension trough, executive compensation and bonuses. Overall, I suspect if effective attention were to be paid to these contentious and unfairly
Site C dam process passes enviro muster As the Site C dam project inches toward the intense scrutiny of the environmental assessment process, it’s worth reflecting on the differences between an energy project today and one built in decades past, such as the Bennett Dam. When the Bennett Dam was built in the 1960s in the Peace River country of northeastern B.C., the construction crew simply showed up with their tools and started working. Not so today. B.C. Hydro estimates it will spend $300 million on the Site C dam environmental review process,
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Nurses took the streets in Victoria to highlight worker burnout, staffing shortages and suffering patient care in hospitals across the province. Chants from placard waving B.C. Nurses Union members were met with honks of support as the small noonday parade on May 24 walked the roads bordering Mayfair Centre. “We want to let the public know we are very concerned about our ability to give safe patient care due to the workload and a lack of staffing,” said Margo Wilton, co-chair BCNU for the south Island and a veteran 18-year nurse in Victoria. “Nurses go full-out for their entire shifts. They aren’t able to give level of care each patient deserves and is entitled to. There just aren’t enough nurses.” Managing too many patients for the level of staff is a consistent problem for nurses across all sectors of care, Wilton said, be it emergency centres, inten-
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After initial public outcry over proposed plans to close some roads to vehicles in Beacon Hill Park, more modest changes are in the works. People were fearful of the unknown, said Coun. Charlayne Thornton Joe. After reading the original plans, people thought ‘I can’t go here now,’ she said last Thursday at a city environment and infrastructure committee meeting. “We’re saying ‘yes you can.’” Last year, staff recommended permanent closures of some sections of roads that run through the park. Those closures have now been scaled back and instead, cheaper, temporary measures such as bollards and signage are now being proposed. The main changes now proposed entail removing parallel parking along Arbutus Road – starting at the foot of Quadra Street – except on evenings and weekends; closing Bridge Way at the washrooms, but adding 15-minute parking stalls; and closing Heywood Way between the cricket field and Circle Drive. The road closures are mainly intended to prevent drivers from cutting through the park. “This is meeting the concerns halfway,” said Doug DeMarzo, manager of parks planning. It keeps the spirit of the original plan, to make the park as friendly as possible to pedestrians, while maintaining vehicle access to all the park’s major amenities. In March, council directed staff to cut the project’s budget from $530,000 to $25,000. The new “bare bones” plan has nixed a proposed perimeter trail, upgrades to the parking lots
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Oak Bay tea party celebrates 50 years with fun, fireworks Brittany Lee News staff
Amusement rides, afternoon kayaking, fireworks, and a faceoff between current Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen and former mayor Christopher Causton in the annual floating teacup race. These are just some of the activities happening at Willows Beach this weekend in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Oak Bay Tea Party. While a majority of the weekend’s activities remain the same, members of the public will notice a few additions to this year’s schedule. For the first time, the Naden Band will be performing at the Tea Party. As well, fireworks, which have not been part of the annual event since 2003, are back, courtesy of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel. “We’ve had a good formula over the last number of years for the Tea Party, so we’re reluctant to make too
Project aimed at keeping seniors social Continued from Page A1
The project is aimed at reducing social isolation, enhancing quality of life and independence, increasing food security and providing basic food skills, including food safety, planning meals for one or two and shopping on a budget. The next session is slated to begin this month at the Cordova Bay 55+ Association. Funding is available for programming to continue beyond the next group. Anyone interested in the free community kitchen programs for seniors can contact Wallace at 250-4755424. A Healthy Eating For Seniors handbook, in which all of the featured meals are based, is available free of charge through the HealthLinkBC: Health and Seniors' Information Line at 250-9521742. nnorth@saanichnews.com
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Former Oak Bay mayor Christopher Causton and present Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen size each other up as they prepare for the big teacup race Sunday at Willows Beach. many changes,� said “I certainly am up to Bill Murphy-Dyson, the challenge,� Jensen chair of the Oak said. “I’m just contemBay Tea Party Sociplating how to stay ety. “Why fix a good afloat.� thing?� “It’s going to be a Also, as part of Jens- great weekend, as we en’s first Tea Party celebrate the anniveras mayor, he will be sary of a fantastic 50 going against Causton years,� Jensen said. in his first floating teaFor more informacup challenge. Caustion, see oakbayteaton has 15 races on party.com. Jensen. reporter@vicnews.com
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From landscapes to roof tops and back again Edward Hill News staff
If the perfect landscape presents itself, painter Christine Reimer isn’t shy about screeching her car to a halt on the side of the highway to capture the moment. Nobody said art was safe. The veteran Saanich artist, known for blending realism and whimsy in dramatic landscape pieces, is marking 30 years of painting with a show at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, starting Sunday. It’s her first show in Greater Victoria since 2010 and features a mix of landscapes and abstract florals, perhaps 25 to 30 pieces generated in the past few years. The landscapes will be familiar to anyone who has travelled across the Island and the province – Rocky mountains and verdant meadows, wilderness lakes amid Douglas fir forests, Gulf Island arbutus trees stretching over water. “I grew up on the coast, I have a bond with the coastal landscape,” Reimer said. “Being an Islander, it’s in my blood.” She admits the abstract florals were a deviation from the hunt for landscapes – a kind of creative
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Artist Christine Reimer in her studio with some of the paintings she’ll be exhibiting at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill. rejuvenation necessary every few years. “I get bored doing the same thing. What I’ve done over 30 years is take detours,” Reimer said. “I had a figurative period of painting quirky people in dreamlike settings. I do that for a while, and then landscapes become fresh again. “I do find it hard to limit myself to one thing – there are so many vibrant colours. I can’t help myself.
I’m obsessed with colour, I always have been.” Reimer has been an artist since she can remember, drawing at a young age and watching her talent emerge as a teenager. She credits art teachers Bill West and Carole Sabiston at Oak Bay High and then University of Victoria instructor and influential Canadian artist James Gordaneer as influencing and guiding her style and development.
Working through different mediums while earning her BFA at UVic, it was her great-uncle and noted painter Max Maynard (a contemporary of Emily Carr and Jack Shadbolt in the 1930s and ‘40s) who steered her toward landscape images. “I was so inspired by the way he did landscapes,” Reimer said. “I thought I would give it a shot.” It was a good decision. Now a professional working artist for 25 years, Reimer’s work decorates corporate offices, high-end hotels, restaurants, and galleries across B.C. “Between kids and painting, I’ve worked full time,” she said. “And my husband has been extremely supportive.” Reimer said she’s fortunate to make a living as an artist, but noted her “long-suffering” husband must tolerate intensive photography during trips – she took a thousand photos in Banff and Jasper last fall – and the occasional demand to pull over on the highway, often so she can scramble up a cliff to grab a shot. Her photography is the groundwork for her art. “My photos allow me to recall the place with better detail. If I use other photos of places I haven’t
been, you can’t evoke the place truly.” She admits that the last few years have been tough personally and professionally. The economic downturn across North America has squeezed budgets for commissioned art pieces and private sales. But she still keeps up a work schedule of painting about five days a week, usually in intensive three-hour bursts of acrylic on canvas. “It’s been really tough at times. The last few years. It’s been very difficult for all artists. Art is a luxury item for people.” Her work will be on display for two weeks in June, but Reimer is mulling her next set of work after recently returning from England – the roofscape and old-world architecture of London. “It’s something that’s tweaked my interest until I detour back to landscapes,” she said. Reimer’s Peaks, Islands and Beyond – 30 years of Colour solo exhibit runs from June 3 to 17 at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd. The grand opening gala is Thursday, June 7, 5 to 7:30 p.m. editor@saanichnews.com
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Antarctica beguiles “I stand by as a freeway of penguins travels to and from the breaking waves in lane after lane of determination. It’s like being up against the wall at Grand Central Station at rush hour and the flow of birds is fascinating.” - From Victoria poet Jay Ruzesky’s blog
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His voice softens when Victoria poet Jay Ruzesky talks about the time he spent in Antarctica this winter. The trip was the realization of a lifelong dream to see the place where Ruzesky’s maternal great-grandfather’s first cousin, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, had discovered the south pole in December 1911. Normally never one at a loss for words Ruzesky pauses trying to describe the allure of the place that even in summer is 98 per cent covered in ice. “It feels immediately like you’ve entered a place unlike any other in the world, the only other place would be like going to space or to the moon because it is so devoid of us and continues to be. There’s no planes flying overhead, no telephone wires, no distant sounds of motors.” And even though travelling on a tourist ship there were still
beaches where you could land and be the first human to do so, he said. Fifteen years ago Ruzesky wrote but set aside a novel about Amundsen’s south pole adventure. He is best known for his 2001 poetry collection, Blue Himalayan Poppies and novel, The Wolsenburg Clock, which was nominated for the City of Vicoria Butler Book Prize. On leave now from teaching duties at Vancouver Island University he is starting in on another manuscript, a non-fiction account blending his visit with Amundsen’s. Ruzesky travelled with his brother from Chile to the Antarctic peninsula on a 235foot refitted research ship that was home for 10 days in December last year, 100 years after Amundsen travelled there. With guides the duo kayaked and watched tens of thousands of gentoo and chinstrap penguins as well as leopard and Weddell seals. They saw icebergs calve and learned the difference between bergs and floes. “It was a pilgrimage in the real old sense of the word,” Ruzesky said, “to this place that had been in my imagination since I was a little kid. It had a mythical status. It was
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Author Jay Ruzesky, who is writing a book about his trip to Antarctica. where heroes came from.” From his first sighting aboard the ship, Ruzesky said he had the strange sense of being home. “Yet it was weird to feel at home in a place so inhospitable to human beings.” About 1,000 scientists live at research stations in Antarctica, which is about 14 million kilometres squared and 28 million in the winter when sea ice doubles the continent’s size. About 25,000 tourists visit each year.
Although Antarctica is usually thought of as blue and white, it really has about 10,000 shades of blue, he said. Constantly changing light alters the colour and texture of whatever you are gazing at. When his guide heard Ruzesky was keen to see any spot where Amundsen might have been he took the brothers in a zodiak to see the peaks on Two Hummock Island where Amundsen went skiing more than 100 years ago – “the first tourist,” Ruzesky said. Picking their way through a colony of penguins Ruzesky was at first disappointed at clouds covering the peaks. But then, as he recorded in a blog, the weather shifted. “It stops snowing and the clouds lift so fast it’s as though someone just removed a tarp from the sky. The clouds simply disappear and are replaced by deep blue sky and bright sun.” He spent the next hour feverishly taking as many shots as he could, before clouds moved in again. Although not a religious man, Ruzesky said that day was a profound experience. I have kayaked through castellated icebergs, I have communed with penguins, I have caressed thousands-year-old ice and allowed the heat of my fingers to melt it. In Antarctica you have to come to terms with immensity. To learn more about Ruzesky’s trip go to http://jayruzesky.blogspot.ca/ editor@oakbaynews.com
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Mount Douglas secondary runners Ethan and Thomas Getty are competing at the track and field provincials in Burnaby this weekend. The elder Thomas is a medal hopeful in the senior category 1,500m and 3,000m, while Ethan is a triple threat at the bantam level (Grade 9) in the 400m, 200m and 100m sprints.
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ount Douglas Rams track team brothers Thomas and Ethan Getty are separated by two years in age, and 1,100 metres on the track. Seventeen-year-old Thomas is in Grade 11 and specializes in middle distance running, his shortest event being the 1,500m. Fifteen-year-old Ethan is in Grade 9, but his focus is on the sprinting distances, the longest being 400m. “We’re pretty competitive in everything else (non-running) we do,” said Thomas. “Though I guess Ethan would be the better lacrosse player, since he’s still playing and I no longer do.” Both have qualified for the high school track and field provincials at Burnaby’s Swanguard Stadium on Saturday and Sunday (June 1 and 2), having helped the
Mount Doug Rams to second place at the Island championship, behind powerhouse Oak Bay High. Thomas finished second in the 1,500m and first in the 3,000m at the Island track championship. And though Ethan was equally adept in the bantam-age (Grade 9) Island championship, he might want to consider competing in a longer race, as on paper, his results improved as each distance grew. Ethan finished fourth in the 100m, second in the 200m and first in the 400m. Track wasn’t the house sport growing up, say the brothers, but has become it. Ethan plays Saanich Tigers lacrosse, and Thomas did, while younger brother Graeme, 12, competed in running at Arbutus middle school (before the season was cancelled). Dad did some running as a youth, Thomas said, but for the boys running just came naturally. “Back in elementary we’d lap the school field,” Thomas said. “I did well but didn’t win every race. But I found liked the strategic aspect of the longer distances.”
Ethan, however, prefers to the short courses. “I just seemed to like sprinting.” There’s no ceiling to what the brothers can accomplish, as both transfer well to dirt paths of cross country during the fall running season. Thomas has a year remaining before competing at the university level to Ethan’s three, should he go that route. “Ethan is part of a special group of younger Mount Doug runners coming up,” Rams coach Al Niezen said. “We’ve got 20 kids going to provincials and half are Grade 9s.” For Thomas, the biggest challenge this weekend is could come from his elite high school track teammates Liam Kennel of Oak Bay High and Ben Weir of Glenlyon Norfolk School. Weir was injured for the Island finals but finished second behind Thomas in the 1,500m and 3,000m of the Lower Island. Kennel is only 16, but is a threat at the senior level as part of the Oak Bay track team looking to continue its domination of the combined girls and boys team title. Brendan Restall leads the Bays team, which is deep in talent once again. If all goes well, Restall will win the 400m again before graduating to the UVic Vikes next year, Mount Doug has its top shooters as well, with Katelyn Hayward a lock to win the 3,000m one more time before she graduates. Hayward will most likely forego the 1,500m steeplechase, the very event she set the B.C. record in last year, to nurse Katelyn Hayward a leg injury she sustained during the high school cross country season.
In the field No Island school has been able to match the crew of throwers coming out of Lambrick Park in recent years. This year Lambrick’s Mason Kereszti is hoping for three medals. The defending B.C. javelin champ was first in the discus and javelin and second in the shotput at the Islands. sports@vicnews.com
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Victoria-trained rowers Scott Frandsen and David Calder are silver medalists once again. The Beijing runners-up in the men’s pair duplicated their famous effort from the 2008 Olympics and brought home one of three medals earned by Canada from last week’s 2012 World Cup in Switzerland. “Our training and hard work has proved that you can teach an old dog new tricks,” Calder said. Picked to compete Our training in one of seven boats at this year’s London and hard work Olympics, the duo of has proved that Calder and Frandsen lost only to New Zea- you can teach land, which was the an old dog new favourite going in to tricks.” the world cup. – Dave Calder “We’ve got the countdown to London in our heads right now.” One of the biggest surprises was Canada’s men’s eight slipping to bronze in Sunday’s final, despite setting the world’s best time in the heat on Friday. Coxswain Brian Price and rower Malcom Howard of Victoria return to lead the goldmedal winning boat from Beijing, with Ontario rowers Will Crothers, Jeremiah Brown, Andrew Byrnes, Conlin McCabe, Rob Gibson and Doug Csima, plus Gabe Bergen from 100 Mile House. The lightweight women’s double of Tracy Cameron and Lindsay Jennerich finished second in the B final, the equivalent to eighth overall. Canada’s women’s eight lost gold in a photo finish to U.S.A. Our southern neighbours squeaked out a gold-medal victory over Canada by .03 of a second. The rowers return to Canada this week though the women’s eight will continue to train and compete in Europe. sports@vicnews.com
All-stars commit to Chargers Five Island all-stars have committed to the Camosun Chargers men’s basketball team for the 2012-13 Pacwest college season: Oak Bay Bays’ Evan Woodson and Kaz Kobayashi, Mount Douglas Ram Curtis Wilson, Claremont Spartan Desmond Slack and Cowichan guard Mitch Knippleberg. sports@vicnews.com
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Cricket league seeks young blood Saturday studies with bats and bowls Travis Paterson News staff
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Speedy square The men’s (pictured from 2011 above) and women’s elite race of the Bastion Square Grand Prix goes Sunday morning, part of the Robert Cameron Law Cycling series this weekend, which includes the time trials at Clover Point tonight and B.C. road championship in Metchosin on Saturday.
The city’s top cricketers aren’t from here, they moved here. And maybe it will always be that way. But it’s not stopping John Wenman and company from the Victoria and District Cricket Association from believing the Lower Island can once again rise to a competitive level equal or better than the B.C. Mainland Cricket League. “It was about 20 to 25 year ago that our clubs could rival the Mainland,” Wenman said.
The difference is that many of the better cricket players have immigrated to B.C., and there are plenty more ex-pat players in the Vancouver area than in Victoria. Still, Wenman finds it odd the top teams are not better, because Greater Victoria has more cricket teams than ever. Which is where Wenman comes in. Now 69, the retired teacher from Stelly’s secondary learned the game here, where he was born and raised. His former team, the University School Incogs, is celebrating its 100th season this year. Wenman long ago shifted to recruiting and teaching, and is behind the league’s Saturday morning cricket school at St. Michaels University School. The program begins on June 2, for kids aged
eight to 14, and runs until the last Saturday in August. Seminars last two hours and range from cricket introduction for newbies to development for return players. Younger students use softer equipment until they’re a little older, or have got the hang of the game. By 14, some players are ready to join the Colts, a designated youth team playing in the less competitive mid-week league. “Through the summer program we’ve put through quite a few players to the Colts, and have seen players move from the Colts into the more competitive weekend league,” Wenman said. To register contact Wenman at 250598-5477, or jawenman@telus.net. sports@vicnews.com
Spartans enshrine sporting history It’s been 50 years since Claremont secondary school opened its doors to Saanich. And from those doors has emerged a seemingly non-stop stream of athletes ranging from city champions to Olympians. As part of its 50th anniversary on Saturday (June 2) Claremont is revealing the Wall of Fame in the main hallway and gym. The school is inducting 27 athletes, who played a range of sports from major league pitcher Rich Harden and national team soccer player Wanda Rozwadowska, to Ironman triathlete turned paralympic rower Tony Theriault and track star Debbie Scott. The youngest is diver Riley McCormick, 20, who is set for his second Olympics this summer. Claremont’s also putting rugby’s Peter Simmonds and Ed Kubek in for coaching excellence, and Joe Lott and
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COLWOOD- COZY 1 bdrm bsmt suite, $720 inclds utils & wifi. Close to Royal Roads Univ, shopping, Galloping Goose trail. Pet friendly, N/S. June 1. Refs. 250-294-5516. MAPLEWOOD AREA- New small 1 bdrm, partly furnished. Inclds utils, laundry, basic cable. Very quiet. $795./mo. NS/NP. Call (250)383-3425. MARIGOLD AREA- 1 bdrm, shared lndry, quiet. NS/NP. $850, (immed). 250-727-6217. SAANICH- LARGE, 2000sq ft, 2 bdrm, lights & heat incld, N/S, N/P, refs, $1100 mo. Avail now. 250-652-0591. SAANICHTON, BRIGHT, quiet priv 1 bdrm + computer room, water view, wifi & sat TV, off street parking. N/S, N/P. $750 all inclusive. Avail July 1. Call (250)652-2774.
TOWNHOUSES
SMALL 3-BDRM house. Newly updated. Large yard, storage shed, W/D. $1400.+ utils. Text or call (250)858-2763.
SIDNEY: NEW 3 bdrm + den, laundry, NS/NP, $1800. Avail July 1st. Call 250-217-4060.
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Supported, independent living in a bright corner suite, like new, in the heart of historical James Bay, near Inner Harbour. FOR SALE OR RENT!
FUEL/FIREWOOD ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fir, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391. SEASONED FIREWOOD Vancouver Island’s largest firewood producer offers firewood legally obtained during forest restoration, large cords. Help restore your forest, Burndrywood.com 1-877-902-WOOD.
OAK DINING table, 2 ext., hutch/buffet, 6 upholstered chairs with arms, exc. cond., $825. Call (250)381-0033.
TILLICUM MALL. Furnished Rm in apt. bus route. NS/NP. $550 inclusive. 250-893-8727.
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE
SUITES, LOWER SAVE ON COMMISSION Sell your home for $6900 or 1% plus $900 fees FULL MLS SERVICE!
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HOT TUB, needs new pump, $200. obo. (250)884-2090.
Jasmine Parsons www.jasmineparsons.com One Percent Realty V.I.
HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?
RENTALS
NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS$2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enterprise Cres, Victoria. Goldstream Press Division.
APARTMENT/CONDO
MISCELLANEOUS WANTED ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewellery. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700
SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES
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CARS 2007 CUSTOM Chev HHR. Excellent condition. Loaded. White. 119,000 km, mostly hwy driven. On-Star. $11,900 firm. 250-755-5191.
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This beautiful 2004 Volkswagen Touareg has been well maintained. With only 135,000 KM on an economical and spirited V6 engine, all wheel drive and tow hitch with electric brakes. Unique 6 spd Tiptronic auto transmission which will do the shifting for you or let you shift yourself for a sportier driving exp. Boasting a well equipped interior, rear mounted CD changer, this SUV cannot be missed! $16,500
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UTILITY TRAILERS ARROW TRUCK Canopywhite, canopy roof is 4” above truck roof. Big space back window. Excellent condition. $700. Call 250-361-0052.
MARINE BOATS
FOR FATHERS DAY 1990 ROLLS-ROYCE As new only 86,000 km Dealer serviced $19,900 Call 778-440-9773
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BOAT HOUSE, 40’X20’, for up to 35’ boat, high door easily accommodates a command bridge boat. Located at North Saanich Marina $50,000. obo (250)665-6045, (250)999-3248 or (250)418-1780.
WE’RE ON THE WEB
$$$ BOATS Wanted. Any size. Cash buyer. Also trailers and outboards. 250-544-2628.
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Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation (the Regional Government) has affordable rental apartment and townhouse suites across metropolitan Vancouver. Fraser Tolmie Apts1701 Cedar Hill X Rd 1-877-659-4069 1701 Cedar Hill X Rd 1-877-659-4069 1 and 2 bdrms 1-877-659-4069 www.frasertolmime.ca 1 & 2 Bedrooms 1701 Cedar Hill X Road www.frasertolmime.ca for pics
MALAHAT 1 & 2 BdrmsPanoramic views. Serene & secure. All amenities on-site, firewood. $700-$1200 inclusive. Monthly/Weekly. Pets ok with refs. 25 min commute to downtown Victoria. Must have references. 250-478-9231. SIDNEY, 2 bdrm Apt on Beacon, June. 1st, $1350. Peter (250)544-2300. Firm Mgmt.
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BRAEFOOT AREA, avail now. Fully furn’d 1 bdrm on bus route, W/D, $600 all utils incld, N/S, N/P 250-721-0418
HOMES FOR RENT
WANTED: COMPUTER (home or laptop), DVD player and small Dumbbell Weights for working out. 250-514-6688
HOUSES FOR SALE
All Makes, All Models. New & Used Inventory.
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BIG ANNUAL SALE. Emmanuel Baptist Church, 2121 Cedar Hill X Rd, Saturday June 2nd, 9am-1pm. Lots for sale! Bake table. Fundraiser for local and global projects. COLWOOD, 3612 Pond Side Terr (off of Latoria Rd.), Sat, June 2, 8am-2pm. Multi Family Sale. Follow the signs. ESQUIMALT- 935 Inskip St, Saturday and Sunday, June 2nd and 3rd, 9-1pm. FIRST BAPTIST Church 875 North Park St. Saturday June 2nd. Treasure sale- 9am-1pm. SAANICHTON- 2573 James Island Rd, Sat, June 2, 9am3pm. SIDNEY, 10159 Third St., Sat, June 2, 9am-1pm. Household items, camping gear & more.
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GARAGE SALES
W. SAANICH, 1258 Knockan Drive, Sat, June 2, 10am-2pm. Multiple Family Sale.
YARD SALE & TEA Sat. June 2nd, 9am-2pm St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 1100 Colville Road. Gently used household goods and collectibles. Frozen perogies, cabbage rolls & cakes. Tea, coffee and small desserts will be served.
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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
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ACCOUNTING/TAX/ BOOKKEEPING
DRYWALL
GARDENING
GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS
HAULING AND SALVAGE
MOVING & STORAGE
PLASTERING
ACCOUNTING Vida Samimi
AARON’S RENO’S Drywall, taping, texture. Insured/bonded. Free est. 250-880-0525.
From the Ground Up
250-216-9476
PERIMETER EXTERIORS. Gutter Cleaning, Repairs, Demossing, Upgrades. WCB, Free estimates. 250-881-2440.
✭BUBBA’S HAULING✭ Honest, on time. Demolition, construction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, topsoil, mulch), garden waste removal, mini excavator, bob cat service. 250-478-8858.
DIAMOND MOVING. 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $85/hr. Call 250-220-0734. MALTA MOVING. Serving Vancouver Island, surrounding islands and the Mainland. BBB Member. (250)388-0278.
PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, old world texturing, coves, fireplaces. Bob, 250-642-5178.
AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.
PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774
PAINTING
AVAILABLE- SMALL JOBS. Drywall, plumbing,etc. Senior’s discount. Jim (250)858-4091.
SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.
Certified General Accountant Bookkeeping, Audit, Payroll, HST. Set up & Training. E-File
TAX 250-477-4601 PENNIE’$ BOOKKEEPING Services for small business. Simply/Quickbooks. No time to get that paperwork done? We do data-entry, GST, payroll, year-end prep, and training. 250-661-1237.
DRYWALL PROFESSIONAL: Small additions, boarding, taping, repairs, texture spraying, consulting. Soundproof installation;bath/moisture resistance products. Call 250.384.5055. Petrucci’s Drywall. MUD on the RUN. Small drywall repairs, textures & renovations. Ross, (250)812-4879.
ELECTRICAL
BUSINESS SERVICES
250-361-6193. QUALITY Electric. Expert: new homes &renos. No job too sm#22779.
BOOKKEEPING, p/u & drop off, 16 years experience. Tina 250-245-1390
AT&T ELECTRIC. Renovations. Residential & Commercial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550.
CARPENTRY
EXPERIENCED ELECTRICIAN. Reasonable rates. 250744-6884. Licence #22202.
BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748. JOURNEYMAN- 30 yrs exp. Decks, fences, stairs, interesting projects. Call Frank, (250)477-3315. McGREGOR HOME Repair & Renos. Decks to doors. Small jobs OK. WCB. (250)655-4518
CLEANING SERVICES ECO-FRIENDLY CLEANING. Excellent refs & attention to detail. Keri (250)658-2520. MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estate organizing, events, parties, office cleaning. BBB member. (250)388-0278. SPOTLESS HOME Cleaning. Affordable, Experienced, Reliable, Efficient. (250)508-1018
COMPUTER SERVICES A HOME COMPUTER Coach. Senior friendly. Computer lessons, maintenance and problem solving. Des, 250-6569363, 250-727-5519. COMPUDOC MOBILE Computer Services. Repairs, tuneups, tutoring, web sites and more. Call 250-886-8053.
CONCRETE & PLACING RBC CONCRETE Finishing. All types of concrete work. No job too small. Seniors discount. Call 250-386-7007.
CONTRACTORS BATHROOM REMODELING. “Gemini Baths” Plumb, Elec. Tile, Cabinets. 250-896-9302. CARPENTRY, DRYWALL, kitch/bath, wood floor, tiles, plumbing, renos 250-213-6877
DRAFTING & DESIGN DESIGN FOR PERMIT. w w w. i n t e gra d e s i g n i n c . c o m Call Steven (250) 381-4123.
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GNC ELECTRIC Res/Comm. Reasonable rates for quality work. #43619. 250-883-7632. KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991. NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $35/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.
EXCAVATING & DRAINAGE BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini excavator & bob cat services. Perimeter drains, driveway prep, Hardscapes, Lot clearing. Call 250-478-8858.
FENCING ALL TYPES of fencing, repairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637. DECKS/FENCES, licensed & insured. Call Fred (250)5145280. thelangfordman.com QUALITY CEDAR fencing, decks and installation, pressure washing. For better prices & quotes call Westcoast Fencing. 250-588-5920.
(250) 858-0588 - Tree Service - Landscaping - Lawn & Garden Clean ups - Hedge trimming & Pruning - Pressure washing - Gutters Free estimates * WCB www.mowtime.ca ARE YOU in need of a professional, qualified, residential or commercial gardener? www. glenwood gardenworks.com AURICLE LAWNS- Superior lawn care-gardens, hedges & fert-weed mgmt. 882-3129 DPM SERVICES, lawn & garden, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141 FREE MULCH on all Landscaping we install for you. Visit our Nursery and pick your plants! Call 250-391-9366. GARDEN DESIGN or redesign You install or we do, Huge Discount at our Nursery. Call 250-391-9366. GARDEN OVERGROWN? Weeding, lawn cuts, cleanups, pruning. John Kaiser 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236. LANDSCAPE & TREE care hedges/pruning/shaping. Lawn & garden. Maint. 18 yrs exp. WCB. Andrew, (250)893-3465. LAWNCUTTING~ QUALITY Work! Most smaller city lots $30. Andy, (250)475-0424. NO JOB too BIG or SMALL. SENIOR’S SPECIAL! Prompt, reliable service. Phone Mike (ANYTIME) at 250-216-7502.
HANDYPERSONS
BEETLES RESIDENTIAL Renovations Ltd. Bathrooms, decks, painting, landscaping and handyman services. Fully insured and guaranteed. Free estimates. Call 250-889-4245. BIG BEAR Handyman & Painting Services. No job too small. Free Estimates. Senior discounts. Barry 250-896-6071 YOUNG SENIOR Handyman. Household repairs. Will assist do-it-yourselfers. Call Fred, 250-888-5345.
HAULING AND SALVAGE #1 JUNK Removal & Hauling. Small Renos. Moving/Packing. Free estimates. Cheapest in town. Same day emergency removal. Call 250-818-4335. $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. FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.
10% OFF. Aerate, Rototill, Mowing, Hedge / Shrub trimming, clean-up. 250-479-6495 J&L GARDENING Specialty yard clean-up and maintenance. Master gardeners. John or Louise (250)891-8677 250-208-8535 WOODCHUCK: Neglected garden? Spring clean-ups, hedges, power raking, aerating, weed/moss stump, blackberry & ivy removal. 24yrs exp. WCB.
M&S OXFORD Home/Commercial Reno’s & Painting. Patio’s, Decks, Sheds, Hardwood and Trim. 25 yrs exp. Quality Guar. 250-213-5204.
INSULATION MALTA WOOL-BLOWN insulation/ Spray foam application. (250)388-0278. BBB member.
CBS MASONRY BBB A+ Accredited Business. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flagstone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Patios, Sidewalk Repair. Replace, Rebuild, Renew! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. Call (250)294-9942 or 250-589-9942. www.cbsmasonry.com CBS MASONRY BBB A+. Chimney, Fireplaces, Rock, Flagstone, Concrete, Pavers, Repair, Rebuild, Renew. “Quality is our Guarantee.” Free Competitive Est’s. Call (250) 294-9942/589-9942. www.cbsmasonry.com
FURNITURE REFINISHING. Specializing in small items, end-tables, coffee tables, chairs. Free pick-up & delivery. References available. 250-475-1462.
GARDENING
MALTA ASBESTOS, Mold removal. Attics, drywall & more. (250)388-0278. BBB member.
MASONRY & BRICKWORK
FURNITURE REFINISHING
U-NEEK SEATS. Hand cane, Danish weave, sea grass. UK Trained. Fran, 250-216-8997.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
HAULING & 250-889-5794. WEEDING, PRUNING, hedges, hauling, etc. $25/hr, free est. Call Steve (250)727-0481 YARD ART. Yard Maintenance, Tree & Hedge Pruning, Lawn Care. Call 250-888-3224
GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS 250-889-5794. DIAMOND DAVE Gutter Cleaning. Thorough Job at a Fair Price! Repairs, gutter guard, power/window washing, roof de-moss. Free no obligation estimates. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, Guards, windows, powerwashing, roof de-moss, repairs. Insured. Call (250)507-6543.
RECYCLING.
MAMMOTH Landscaping & Masonry - Have the luxury of masons & horticulturists working together on your project. For consult call Calvin Veenstra 250-883-7666 mammothlandscaping.com ROMAX MASONRY. Exp’d & Professional. Chimneys, Brick Veneer, Rockwork, Cultured Stone, Interlocking Paving. Fully insured. Estimates. Call 250-588-9471 - 250-882-5181
MOVING & STORAGE 2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on local moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.
217-9580 ENIGMA PAINTING Renos, commercial, residential Professional Friendly Service. ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Discounts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694. A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wallcoverings. Over 25 yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220. COLOURS & IDEAS. Exterior/ Interior Painting. All work waranteed. Call (250)208-8383. DRYWALL REPAIRS & HOUSE PAINTING. Free estimates. If you, your family or friends need any of the above give Joseph Bronson a call 250-686-0663. Reasonable rates in a tight economy. I take pride in the end results. LADY PAINTER Serving the Peninsula for over 20 yrs. Interior/exterior. Call Bernice, 250-655-1127.
PRESSURE WASHING DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.
ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS A&R ROOFING Ltd. Residential & Commercial. New & reroofing expert. Torch-on, cedar shakes, roof repairs, gutter cleaning. WCB covered. Free estimates. Mike 250-516-3944
STUCCO/SIDING PATCHES, ADDITIONS, restucco, renos, chimney, waterproofing. Bob, 250-642-5178. RE-STUCCO & HARDY Plank/Painting Specialist. 50 years experience. Free estimates. Dan, 250-391-9851.
SUNDECKS .
SAFEWAY PAINTING
High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior Residential/Commercial Jeff, 250-472-6660 Cell 250-889-7715 Member BBB ST PAINTING free est, written guarantee and full ref’s. WCB ins. Call Kaleb (250)884-2597.
Peacock Painting
TILING A1. SHAWN The Tile GuyRes/ Comm/ Custom/ Renos. 250-686-6046 TILE & Stone Installations. All types / materials / areas. Call (250)-884-8976.
250-652-2255 250-882-2254
TREE SERVICES LOCAL TREE CO. 30 yrs exp. Bucket truck, chipper. We buy logs. Insured. (250)883-2911.
WRITTEN GUARANTEE Budget Compliance
UPHOLSTERY
15% SENIORS DISCOUNT YOUR PERSONAL Interior Painter. No Job too Big or Too Small. Call Gilbert today for free quote. (250)886-6446.
UPHOLSTERER work. Your fabric 250-480-7937.
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WINDOW CLEANING
PLUMBING EXPERIENCED JOURNEYMAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured. Reliable, friendly. Great references. Call Mike at KNA (250)880-0104. FELIX PLUMBING. Over 35 years experience. Reasonable rates. Call 250-514-2376. FREE ESTIMATES. Reasonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544. KERRY’S GAS & PLUMBING SERVICESRepair, maintenance & install. 250-360-7663.
DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning. Windows, Gutters, Sweeping Roofs, Pressure Washing, Roof Demossing. Call 250361-6190. GLEAMING WINDOWS Gutters+De-moss. Free estimate. 18 yrs. Brian, 514-7079. WCB.
WINDOWS ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Windows Wholesale, Discounts! 50 years Construction experience. 250-382-3694.
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Select your home. Select your mortgage. Oak Bay 250-370-7601 Victoria 250-483-1360 Westshore 250-391-2933 Sidney 250-655-0632 Chatterton Way 250-479-0688 www.vericoselect.com
251 Government, $647,000
OPENHOUSES Published Every Thursday
733A Humboldt
104-2211 Shelbourne, $294,000
3000 Uplands
203-1642 McKenzie, $384,900
Daily noon - 5 pm (exc Fri) Fair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 480-3000
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301
Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes David Scotney, 250-384-8124
Saturday 11-1 & Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Ltd Eleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882
pg. 16
Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Fred Lerch, 250-889-2528
514-160 Wilson, $289,900 pg. 19
Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ron Bahrey, 250-477-7291
pg. 11
402-21 Erie Street pg. 11
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Bon Hollier, 250-514-8007
pg. 18
C-113 Superior, $489,500 pg. 42
Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Frank Chan 250 477-7291
3-727 Linden Ave Sunday 1-3 Newport Realty David Harvey, 250-385-2033
210-1061 Fort, $189,900 Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Bruce Gibson 250 385-2033
pg. 6
1494 Fairfield, $309,900 Thursday - Sunday 1-4 Brown Brothers Real Estate Robert Young 250 385-8780
pg. 16
2959 Irma St, $589,000 Saturday 1-4 & Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Ed G Sing, 250-744-3301
pg. 18
206-20 Olympia, $219,900 Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Dorothee Friese, 250-477-7291
pg. 12
1050 Pentrelew, $698,000 Saturday 12:30-2:30 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara 250 384-8124
pg. 19
pg. 11
pg. 20
pg. 9
Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Bill Chudyk 250 477-5353
pg. 42
306-75 Songhees
Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Murray Clodge, 250-818-6146
pg. 12
2743 Higgins St
Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Plank 250 360-6106
pg. 19 Saturday 12-2 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny 250-474-4800
3901 Seaton, $444,900
Saturday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Claire Yoo, 250-477-1100
pg. 6
103-1527 Cold Harbour Rd, $279,900
Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jeff Bishop, 250-474-6003
Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Bruce Gibson 250 385-2033
1362 Grant St Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Cloverdale Lisa Redding 250 882-0868
pg. 40
404-300 Waterfront, $548,500 Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Frank Chan 250 477-7291
403-819 Burdett, $439,900 Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Pat Meadows, 250-592-4422
Saturday 12-1:45 Fair Realty Ray Kong, 250-590-7011
27 Pilot, $799,000 Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Patricia Parkins, 250-385-2033
pg. 9
604-75 Songhees Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333
1149 Hampshire, $1,029,000
pg. 13
3093 Washington, $729,000
Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291
Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Robert Buckle 250 385-2033
2112 Pentland, $950,000
Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Bill Chudyk 250 477-5353
pg. 18
pg. 19
pg. 15
304-1121 Oscar St, 369,900
Sunday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Irina Lobatcheva, 250-391-1893 Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Lynn MacDonald 250 479-3333
113-21 Erie Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Lynn MacDonald 250 479-3333
pg. 7
pg. 40
pg. 17
pg. 23
1366 Craigflower pg. 20
Saturday 12-2 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301
pg. 10
Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Eamon Coll 250 479-3333
Sunday 3:30-5 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra, 250-380-6683
pg. 20
405-1159 Beach Dr, $735,000
Saturday 10-1 Pemberton Holmes David Johnston, 250-384-8124
pg. 21
pg. 5
pg. 21
pg. 23
Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty David Stevens, 250-477-5353
pg. 22
Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Marie Dorland 250 384-8124
pg. 24
pg. 24
Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer, 250-384-8124
pg. 15
pg. 37
Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680
pg. 23
2-4318 Emily Carr, $539,000 pg. 24
Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Wendy Herrick 250-656-0131
pg. 14
3922 Quadra, $425,900 pg. 22
Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Gladys Walsh 250-384-8124
pg. 25
3735 Doncaster, $699,900
pg. 23
Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Fair Realty Ray Kong, 250-590-7011
pg. 40
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Bruce Hatter, 250-744-3301
pg. 42
2879 Inez, $579,000 Saturday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Mike Chubey, 250-391-1893
Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Neil Rawnsley, 250-592-4422
2-1182 Colville Rd, $417,900
317-1680 Poplar Ave, $239,900
Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Bruce McCulloch, 250-479-3333
Sunday 2:30-4 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301
pg. 21
4823 Prospect Lake Rd, $1,165,000
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Alliance David Rusen, 250-386-8875
pg. 5
Sunday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Mike Chubey, 250-391-1893
934 Craigflower, $379,000
994 Cottontree Close, $659,900
4071 Carey, $474,000
Saturday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Paul Askew 250 744-3301
Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Nicole Burgess 250 384-8124
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Bon Hollier, 250-514-8007
Saturday 3-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911
pg. 13
pg. 42
pg. 22
2540 McLaren, $499,900 pg. 43
pg. 8
1912 Woodley Rd., $1,124,500
910 Lucas Ave, $458,900
485 Constance Ave, $699,900 pg. 41
pg. 24
1178 Woodheath
1326 Lyall St, $499,900 Saturday 2:30-4 Re/Max Camosun April Prinz, 250-744-3301
Saturday 11-1 MacDonald Realty John Boyle 250 388-5882
pg. 42
308-3260 Quadra St., $259,900
20-4771 Cordova Bay, $899,900
843 Parklands Dr, $469,000
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Dave Lynn 250 592-4422
Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291
Saturday 11-1 MacDonald Realty John Boyle 250 388-5882
pg. 33
2380 Queenswood, $1,245,000
982 Taine, $459,900
4008 Bow Rd, $775,000 pg. 42
Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Patricia Parkins, 250-385-2033
Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Jordan Thome 250 477-5353
1170 Sunnygrove, $749,000 pg. 42
Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Gary Bazuik, 250-477-5353
5203-2829 Arbutus, $867,500
Friday - Sunday 12-4 Pemberton Holmes Ivica Kalabric, 250-384-8124
Saturday 12-2 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301
Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Cathy Duncan & Associates 250 658-0967
3236 Cedar Hill
43-5110 Cordova Bay, $579,000
1370 Craigflower, $439,000
Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Susan Carley, 250-477-7291
754 Humboldt, $198,900 pg. 6
pg. 24
1245 Esquimalt, $250,000
2625 Orchard Ave
Saturday 2-4 Address Realty Ltd Michelle Vermette, 250-391-1893 Daily Noon-5 exc Fridays Concert Properties 250 383-3722
Sunday 1-3 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Vic Smith 250-479-3333
pg. 14
101-66 Songhees Rd, $589,900 pg. 32
pg. 21
pg. 15
5365 Alderley Rd
2817 Foul Bay Rd, $519,900
Saturday 1-3 & Sunday 2-4 Jonesco Real Estate Wayne Garner 250 881-8111
637 Cornwall, $619,000 Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Guy Crozier 250-744-3301
Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Sylvia Therrien, 250-385-2033
pg. 20
2213 Windsor, $854,900
402-11 Cooperage
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Peter Crichton, 250-889-4000
Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye, 250-384-8124
Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Kathryn Alexander, 250-881-4440
1275 Dominion Rd, $469,900 pg. 19
pg. 6
2520 Cadboro Bay, $669,000 Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Bill Knowles, 250-656-0131
616-160 Wilson, $369,000 pg. 10
pg. 24
Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Neil Rawnsley, 250-592-4422
Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Anke Venema, 250 477-1100
Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Norma Campbell, 250-477-5353
2434 Camelot, $699,000
3470 Bonair, $1,649,900
18-300 Six Mile Rd., $389,900
Sunday 2-4 Burr Properties Ltd Patrick Skillings 250 382-8838
pg. 24
pg. 6
66 Wellington, $1,095,000 pg. 17
pg. 21
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Stephanie Peat, 250-656-0131
Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Norma Campbell, 250-477-5353
Saturday 2-5 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown, 250 380-6683
Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Cheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422
pg. 24
3942 Aspen, $795,000
2676 Arbutus Rd, $999,000
2339 Chilco, $547,900
407-380 Waterfront, $428,000
pg. 5
pg. 10
pg. 21
423 Creed Pl pg. 20
pg. 14
2-4341 Crownwood Ln, $629,000
44 Demos, $405,000
Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Cheri Crause, 250-592-4422
301-1715 Richmond Ave
pg. 14
207 Anya Lane, $699,900 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Jessica Amorim, 250-479-3333
Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Mike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100
Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Rick Shumka 250 384-8124
4030/4040 Borden St, $239,900
3983 Cedarwood, $549,000
pg. 6
203-1120 Fairfield Rd, $389,000
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Emma Dixon-Will, 250-370-7788
pg. 14
402-288 Eltham, $399,900
263 Beechwood, $619,900 Saturday 1:30-3:30 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Morley Bryant, 250-477-5353
pg. 23
1934 Waterloo, $689,900
pg. 13
205-1223 Johnson St, $299,000
Saturday 2:30-4:30 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Laurel Hounslow 250 592-4422
607 Wilson, $399,900
Saturday 2-4 Boorman’s Rod Hay, 250-595-1535
pg. 6
105-1220 Fort, $309,900 Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Bev Blumer, 250 384-8124
pg. 37
pg. 23
305-820 Short, $329,888
110-1505 Church Ave, $227,900
Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Noah Dobson 250 385-2033
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Bonnie Johnston 250 744-3301
pg. 8
4800 Sea Ridge, $799,900 Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Cheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Brad Gregory 250 744-3301
1536 Winchester, $709,000
Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663
Saturday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Ltd Eleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Lynne Sager 250 744-3301
pg. 23
407-1009 McKenzie, $229,000
2046 Kings Rd, $559,500
pg. 15
412-225 Belleville St, $499,900
pg. 21
4-118 Aldersmith
301-380 Waterfront, $529,900
Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333
Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer, 250-384-8124
pg. 43
4941 Lochside, $729,900
4665 Amblewood, $769,900
2226 Windsor Rd
510-188 Douglas
Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Alliance David Rusen, 250-386-8875
336 Richmond Ave, $799,000 Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Lynne Campbell, 250-812-4949
pg. 17
Saturday 12-2 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Laurel Hounslow 250 592-4422
Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Gary Bazuik, 250-477-5353
Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Gunnar Stephenson, 250-884-0933
Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Mike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100
403-455 Sitkum Rd., $559,900
1-1246 Fairfield, $169,000 pg. 6
pg. 18
1323 McNair, $499,999
1161 Finlayson, $438,000 Saturday 2:30-4 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301
Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Noah Dobson 250 385-2033
pg. 21
895 Falkland, $689,900
32 Pilot, $669,900
3-828 Rupert Terrace Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Murray Lawson 250 385-9814
pg. 40
1709 Fernwood Rd, $399,000
Saturday 3:30-5 Re/Max Camosun Emma Dixon-Will, 250-370-7788
3166 Somerset, $517,900
Check the page number below in Real Estate Victoria or visit www.revweekly.com
Find more details on the Open Houses below in the May 31 - June 6 edition of
1141 Oscar St
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Mette Pedersen, 250-744-3301 Saturday 12-2 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jeff Bishop, 250-474-6003
This Weekend’s
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Check the page number below in Real Estate Victoria or visit www.revweekly.com
Find more details on the Open Houses below in the May 31 - june 6 edition of
1075 Primrose, $534,900
1677 Texada, $839,000
301-6880 Wallace
10522 Lyme Grove, $1,195,000
2386 Setchfield Ave, $549,786
3019 Dornier, $259,900
Saturday 2-4 Jonesco Real Estate Wayne Garner 250 881-8111
Sunday 1-3 One Percent Realty Tania McFadden 250 589-0248
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291
Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Gay Helmsing, 250-360-7387
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Brad MacLaren, 250-727-5448
Daily 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445
pg. 41
Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445
pg. 25
pg. 25
pg. 35
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Gaye Phillips, 250-655-0608
Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Bill Knowles, 250-656-0131
Saturday 11-1 Holmes Realty Ltd. Vern Totten, 250-656-0911
pg. 32
Sunday 2-4 Sparling Real Estate Ltd. Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511
Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Camela Slack, 250-661-4088
Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty May Hamilton, 250-477-5353
460 Montcalm
892 Paconla, $599,000 pg. 26
pg. 26
Sunday 2-4 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653
pg. 3
Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Gordon Lee 250-385-2033
Saturday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Julie Rust 250 477-1100
Saturday 2-4 Jonesco Real Estate Roger Jones 250 361-9838
pg. 25
Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Judy Gerrett, 250-656-0131
573 Crossandra Cres, $299,500
1380 Oceanspray Dr, $549,000
Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Jackie Adkins, 250-477-5353
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Judith Gerrett, 250-656-0131
pg. 6
pg. 27
Friday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Ann Watley 250-656-0131
pg. 27
Saturday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Julie Rust, 250-477-1100
pg. 40
Saturday 11:30-1:30 Re/Max Camosun Peter Gray, 250-882-3333
pg. 26
pg. 28
pg. 28
pg. 12
pg. 12
pg. 43
pg. 27
pg. 28
pg. 42
1757 Fairfax, $738,800 Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Wendy Herrick 250-656-0131
3605 Pondside Terr, $474,900 Saturday 2-4 Address Realty Ltd. Adam Hales, 250-391-1893
Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Kellie Elder 250 384-7663
Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Keith Ferguson 250 744-3301
pg. 32
pg. 28
Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Bonnie Johnston 250 744-3301
786 Walfred Rd, $1,228,888 Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Daryl Ashby, 250-478-9141
5308 Rocky Pt Rd, $599,000
pg. 26
pg. 12
pg. 3
Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes David Scotney, 250-384-8124
Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Goran Tambic, 250-384-7663
pg. 27
pg. 28
10176 Tsaykum, $599,000 pg. 43
Sunday 12-2 RE/MAX Camosun Jason Leslie, 250-478-9600
pg. 29
pg. 11
Sunday 12-2 Re/Max Camosun Brad MacLaren, 250-727-5448
Saturday 3-4 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911 pg. 26
8540 Lochside Dr
1110-6880 Wallace Dr, $729,900
Sunday 2:30-4 Holmes Realty Ltd. James Bridge, 250-656-0911
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Cheryl Woolley, 250-477-7291
7161 West Saanich Rd, $379,900 Thursday-Monday 3-5 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-655-0608
pg. 26
pg. 40
pg. 30
5924 Sooke Rd, $324,900 Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Lorenda Simms, 250-642-6361
pg. 31
pg. 28
Sunriver Estates Sales Centre Saturday-Thursday 11-4 Newport Realty Blair Watling 250 642-2233 pg. 29
pg. 34
pg. 31 Thursday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680
pg. 30
pg. 36
pg. 30 Saturday 1-4 Pemberton Holmes Diana Winger 250-999-3683
pg. 40
pg. 30
678 Augusta, $489,900 Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Jacqueline Baker, 250-384-8124
68-2587 Selwyn, $168,000
2458 Prospector, $559,000 Saturday 1:30-3 RE/MAX Camosun Diana Devlin, 250-744-3301
pg. 36
pg. 29
pg. 43
929 Deloume Rd, $514,900 Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Lee Johnston, 250-478-9600
Daily 1-4 Kahl Realty Jason Kahl 250-391-8484
217 Carmanah Pl, $620,000 Saturday 12:30-2 Pemberton Holmes Shelna Atkinson, 250-384-8124
Saturday 1-3 Cornerstone Properties Jordan Louis, 250-661-8065
3250 Walfred Pl, $445,000 pg. 29
662 Goldstream Ave., $254,900 pg. 43
Sunday 2:30-4:30 RE/MAX Camosun Jason Leslie, 250-478-9600
3001 Alouette, $489,900
11396 Chalet, $1,199,000 8069 Thomson Pl, $874,900
Saturday & Sunday 3:30-4:30 Re/Max Alliance Karen Love, 250-386-8875
877 Tutor Way, $449,000
Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jean Omelchenko, 250-474-6003
2954 Rockhill Pl pg. 5
6652 Rhodonite, $309,900
6-3650 Citadel, $699,000
Sunday 12:30-2:30 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Anke Venema, 250 477-1100
33-2120 Malaview Ave, $424,900
pg. 30
pg. 30
pg. 2
2607 Country Terrace, $489,900
Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 474-6003
pg. 8
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Shirley Zailo 250-478-4828
2239 McIntosh, $399,000
47-2817 Sooke Lake Rd, $99,900
pg. 3
pg. 13
27-551 Bezanton, $487,500
477 Royal Bay, $699,000
Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes David Hale, 250-812-7277
1290 Lands End Rd, $859,000
Daily 1:30-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Chuck Meagher, 250-477-1100
335 Chapel Heights, $925,000 Sunday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Lynn MacDonald 250 479-3333
579 Tena, $440,000
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Tony Wick, 250-478-9600
pg. 5
681 Donovan, $449,900 Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445
Saturday 12-2 Re/Max Camosun Rick Turcotte, 250-744-3301
10314 Gabriola Pl, $522,000
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Gay Helmsing, 250-655-0608
pg. 29
pg. 31
608 Fairway Ave, $249,900
2363 Echo Valley Dr, $589,500 Saturday 11:30-1 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra, 250-380-6683
201-2829 Peatt Rd, $224,900
8735 Pender Park Dr, $795,000
Saturday 1-2 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911
pg. 29
2957 Robalee Pl, $384,900
6-2056 White Birch, $499,500 Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Pat Meadows, 250-592-4422
Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Shirley Zailo 250-478-4828
2433 Prospector Way, $629,000 pg. 28
pg. 40
Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 474-6003
3418 Pattison, $454,900 Sunday 2-4 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra, 250-380-6683
Sunday 2-3:30 Re/Max Camosun Don Burnham, 250-516-1510
Sunday 3-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Anke Venema, 250 477-1100
771 Danby, $679,900
116-866 Brock, $260,000
973 Tayberry, $409,900
2340 Moore Pl, $577,500
Saturday 2-4 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653
Saturday 2-4 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653
Thursday - Monday 3-5 Gordon Hulme Realty Don King 250 656-4626
pg. 26
Saturday & Sunday 2:30-4 Pemberton Holmes Shelna Atkinson, 250-384-8124
7161 West Saanich
2828 Inlet, $499,000
Saturday 1-3 Fair Realty Jinwoo Jeong, 250-885-5114
Saturday 2-4 Sparling Real Estate Don Sparling, 250-656-5511
11275 Hickory, $799,000
735 Daffodil
Daily 1:30-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Jennifer Scheck, 250-477-1100
613 Amble Pl, $499,900 pg. 6
pg. 30
608 Fairway Ave, $369,900
102-2380 Brethour Ave, $349,000
9616 Seventh St, $599,900
107-7 Gorge Rd W, $175,000
Sunday 12-2 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301
pg. 43
Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Hans Hegen, 250-858-0424
pg. 29
2200 Harrow Gate, $629,000
549 Delora Dr, $579,000
pg. 6
407-2341 Harbour Rd, $319,000
767 Turnberry Pl, $685,000
560 Ker, $569,888
Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Doreen Halstenson, 250 744-3301
pg. 27
202-2050 White Birch, $229,900
4705 Kerryview, $2,999,900
Saturday 11:30-1:30 Re/Max Camosun Bruce Hatter, 250-744-3301
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Mel Jarvis, 250-478-9600
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Doreen Halstenson, 250 744-3301
321-2245 James White, $169,000
407-2341 Harbour, $319,000
3814 Roland
Sat 2-4 Pemberton Holmes May Chamberland 250 384-8124
Saturday 1:30-3 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra, 250-380-6683
pg. 43
C-2055 White Birch Rd, $445,000 pg. 27
pg. 28
837 Gannet, $449,000
656 Stewart Mountain Rd
8813 Moresby Park, $630,000
211 Maddock Ave W, $439,000
Sunday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Laurie Mains 250 477-1100
pg. 27
Saturday 1-2 Holmes Realty Michele Holmes, 250-656-0911
15-2070 Amelia Ave, $224,500
15-4583 Wilkinson, $499,900
Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Alliance Claude Delmaire 250 386-8875
pg. 28
5-2323 Harbour, $729,000
301-2421 Sidney, $346,000
21 Lurline Ave
Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Guy Crozier 250-744-3301
Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Ann Watley 250-656-0131
pg. 14
1563 Dean Park Rd, $699,900
2836 Murray, $954,900 Saturday 2:30-4:30 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Chris Markham 250 477-1100
Saturday 2-4 Sparling Real Estate Don Sparling, 250-656-5511
1719 Barrett, $729,000
1260 Loenholm Rd, $464,000 Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Wayne Hyslop, 250-477-7291
pg. 27
1511 Oceanspray Dr, $789,000
4176 Carey, $559,900
NEWS
Sunday 2-4 Address Realty Ltd. Adam Hales, 250-391-1893
pg. 28
Sunday 12-2 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Shelley Stancin, 250-857-3044
901 Pratt, $489,900 Saturday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Paul Askew 250 744-3301
2528 Selwyn Rd, $578,500
pg. 43
pg. 29
pg. 11
3023 Arado, $549,900
2640 West Shawnigan Lake, $749,900
Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445
Saturday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Paul Askew 250 744-3301
pg. 31
pg. 43
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The innovative world of ‘makers’ Machine tinkerers, computer hackers live a DIY mantra Erin Cardone News staff
On a desk below a bright window sits a wooden cube, a rainbow mess of wires spraying from its top and sides forming a 3-D printer. Four metres away sits a mini beer brewery that looks like a 1920s refrigerator in dull black. Under one of the taps, a plastic cup has a skiff of brew in the bottom. Another two metres and there are chisels, lathes and saws, sawdust and wooden workbenches. Next, a propane forge, anvils, hammers. Tucked under the bench, a casting forge for bronze work. The Victoria Makerspace, on Central Saanich Road, is the hobby shop of one of the most diverse range of talents on the south Island. Its members are designers, woodworkers, blacksmiths, hackers and do-it-yourself brewers. “Makers” are part of a growing worldwide trend with roots in the
artisan movement. The idea is people can make the things they need by learning from local experts, rather than buying products exported from faraway markets. “The thing most driving me is building a community of people who like to learn. Really neat things come
“We’re really trying to reach out to people who make things with their hands.” –Derek Jacoby Victoria Makerspace out of it,” says Derek Jacoby. Jacoby started Victoria Makerspace a year and a half ago. It began as a hackerspace – a society of people who develop open hardware and media – but became a makerspace for more diverse talents soon thereafter. “The mix (of talents) is sort of a model that I think is really making a name for itself,” Jacoby says. He likens the space to a library, where people can gain access to information, or in this case tools and
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Vanessa Pattison of Victoria Makerspace peers at a black skull created by a the 3-D “printing” machine in the computing workshop. The group is hosting fair in July. know-how, for a certain project. Thomas Gray signed on with the Victoria Makerspace with Jacoby from the start. He leaves his laser cutter at the space – a tool well out of the reach of most people’s budgets – for others to use. “Thirty years from now, this is going to be astounding stuff and people are going to have one at home,” he said, referring to the laser cutter. “That’s why I think it’s important to see this stuff now. My kids are going to do their university projects with a laser cutter.” With the goal of meeting other makers in the region and possibly making connections that can help the Makerspace
grow beyond its hacker, wood and metal shops, Jacoby and the space’s members are hosting the Island’s first Mini Maker Faire in North Saanich. The
deadline for makers applications is June 15. “We’re really trying to reach out to people who make things with their hands,” Jacoby says.
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Looks strange, sounds impossible. Using a computer-generated design, the printer accepts and melts plastic. Thin strings of melted plastic are slowly pumped onto a platform that moves on a twodimensional plane. As strings build and pile onto each other, the computer generated image becomes a 3-D object. editor@peninsulanewsreview.com
■ Vancouver Island Mini Maker Faire is July 28-29 at the Panorama Recreation Centre, 1885 Forest Park Dr., North Saanich. Entry $15. ■ Deadline to enter a product is June 15. ■ See vi.makerfaire.ca.
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A 1931 Ford Model A truck was the first to ceremoniously pull into the reopened drive-in in May at Paul’s Motor Inn. Paul’s has brought car hop service back for the summer on weekends to celebrate the restaurant’s 60th anniversary. The original drive-in closed in 1972, but the restaurant, with its retro style still clearly visible through big windows facing
Douglas Street, has operated at of the motel since then. Some of the original carhops were brought back for the reopening in late May. The event proved so popular that the restaurant ran out of hamburger and fries and was forced to shut down three hours earlier than it planned. The closure of the original drive-in predates new drive-in staff. During their interview for the job, the first question they faced from general manager
Michael King was “What’s a car hop?” “A lot of them didn’t know what it was,” King said. The drive-in has 17 parking stalls and five picnic tables. “If it takes off and there’s enough call for it, we’ll do it again next summer,” said King. The drive-in is open for carhop service from 4 to 11 p.m. Fridays, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays until Sept. 30. rholmen@vicnews.com
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