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Taxpayers hit twice for 911 service, says CREST Tim Collins News staff

Victoria Flower Count, as well as the tradition of greeting cruise ship visitors with a gift – originally roses, carnations and now pins. These days she still assembles floral arrangements for the Greater Victoria Art Gallery as a volunteer, and often donates arrangements to Our Place, the Victoria Symphony, as well as the Victoria Conservatory of Music. “I just get involved with everything and anybody,” she says. The self-professed people-person remembers getting caught stealing flowers from her neighbour’s yard when she was a little girl.

Taxpayers in Greater Victoria are being double billed for 911 emergency phone service, says the public agency that oversees emergency communication in the region. Telecommunications companies are charging a levy for every 911 call made from a cellphone, but that money isn’t being remitted to support the public 911 system, says Gordie Logan, board chair of Capital Region Emergency Service Telecommunications (CREST). CREST handles the 911 calls in the Capital Region for all police, fire, ambulance and other emergency services. Logan said that cellphone levy is charged by providers (such as Telus, Bell, Rogers and others), but unlike landline calls, the telecommunications companies are keeping the fee. “They charge about $1.25 for every 911 cellphone call, and I would say that their cost related to taking that call is a tiny fraction of that amount,” Logan said. In comparison, landline levies are passed along by the telephone companies to 911 call centres to offset the cost of providing that emergency service. When someone with a landline makes a 911 call, the phone company charges a 66-cent levy to the customer, Logan said. Phone companies turn over about 59 cents of that levy to CREST, which in turn uses those funds to offset operating costs passed on to municipalities. “The benefit goes not to CREST, but to the municipalities, the RCMP, B.C. Ambulance and others who have to pay for the 911 call centre,” said Logan.

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Longtime florist Norma Fitzsimmons, 90, once known as Victoria’s flower lady, is still hosts annual neighbourhood potlucks in her Saanich home, and creates floral arrangements on a volunteer basis for several local organizations.

‘Flower lady’ embodies community spirit At 90, the woman who started Victoria’s famed flower count still beautifying city Brittany Lee News staff

Tucked away in a cul-de-sac by Cadboro Bay beach sits a ranch-style home known to neighbours as the meeting place. For years, Norma Fitzsimmons has welcomed new and longtime neighbours into her Saanich home, allowing them to get to know each other through community potluck dinners.

Turning 90 in August hasn’t slowed down the longtime florist and former owner of Island Florist. Her big annual neigbourhood event and volunteer efforts remain an integral part of her life. Born and raised in Victoria, Fitzsimmons’ love of flowers blossomed at an early age. Becoming a florist was “the most wonderful thing,” she says. “I’m my happiest when I’m working with flowers.” Indeed, the former Saanich councillor – she held one term during the 1970s – was once known as Victoria’s “flower lady.” She worked with the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce and the Victoria AM Association, developing ideas to promote Victoria as a “City of Gardens.” She started the annual and now famed

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Man perishes from portable heater fire A 43-year-old homeless man died in Saanich on Sunday after his portable heating device caught fire. Thomas Fisher was sleeping near the Telus building at the corner of McKenzie Avenue and Quadra Street when the heater he was using to keep warm caught fire shortly after midnight. Saanich police, the Saanich fire department and B.C. Ambulance attended, and Fisher was rushed to the Royal Jubilee Hospital intensive care unit. He died later that day as a result of injuries from the fire. Saanich police say the incident is not deemed suspicious and the B.C. Coroners Service is now investigating. Fisher’s family, believed to be from outside Victoria, has been notified. Saanich police Sgt. Dean Jantzen called Fisher’s death sad and unfortunate, and noted the incident was traumatic for all involved. Police officers who attended have been given counselling. “It was a traumatic scene. Not the kind of thing you happen upon everyday as a police officer or even a fireman,” Jantzen said.

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Running hard for their dinner Olympians, chefs team up for obstacle course fundraiser to support farming Natalie North News staff

One week before the Chef Survival Challenge at Madrona Farm, Nathalie Chambers delights in touring the 10-hectare property, now yielding a full fall bounty on the lower slopes of Mount Douglas. She pulls a fresh carrot, still covered in soil, from a bin at her feet and passes it to a new farm visitor. She waits expectantly for the results of the taste test. “I like to watch,” says the organic farmer who runs the Madrona operation along with her husband, David. “It brings people right back.” Chambers is in the business of bringing people of all stripes back to basics when it comes to local food production and sustainability. For the last four years Chambers has focused on a local challenge, which sees top chefs run, hurdle, crawl and kayak through an obstacle course en route to creating a masterpiece meal, but that’s all about to change in the fifth iteration of the Chef Survival Challenge. Chambers has this year brought on board 10 Olympians and a television crew as she attempts to parlay the event into a reality TV show and a national fundraising event in every province in the country. The obstacle course is meant to symbolize the obstacles to farming on Vancouver Island and involving chefs was a natural fit given their stakeholder status in the food movement, she says. “Rather than dealing with high real estate prices, no mentors, pesticides, the chefs had to deal with doing the obstacles: the hurdles, the climbing wall, the boat race to condiment island,” says Chambers, who in 2008 launched a successful campaign to purchase the farm and hand it over to The Land Conservancy of B.C. “When the farm got protected, I was super excited … I was thinking about the infinite potential of

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Olympic rower Dave Calder, left, and farmers Dave and Nathalie Chambers get ready for the fun to begin at the annual Chef Survival Challenge at Madrona Farms. Island chefs must complete an obstacle course before cooking a gourmet meal with farm fresh ingredients collected from the fields. Olympians will be on hand to help the chefs on the wacky obstacle course. Chambers hopes to raise $25,000 toward local food production and education. what we could do together as a community,” Chambers says. Despite being one of the 12 TLC employees recently laid off, Chambers is keeping her spirits high and continuing to organize the event with the aim of creating a charity fund devoted to supporting farmers across Canada. All proceeds from ticket sales to

“This fundraiser is going to grow legs and become a travelling roadshow. We have the goal of entering this event in every province in Canada.” – Nathalie Chambers Madrona Farm watch the madness and partake in a prepared community feast, as well as the cash raised from the auctioning off of chef creations, will go to the Big Dream Farm

Fund, a resource Chambers hopes to make available for organizations dedicated to farmland acquisition and farming education. Last year the event netted $10,000, with corporate sponsorship having covered the cost of hosting the challenge, as it will again this year. “This fundraiser is going to grow legs and become a travelling roadshow,” says Chambers, now executive director of the Chef Survival Challenge Society. “We have the goal of entering this event in every province in Canada and once it happens in that province, it becomes a yearly event.” Local television station Shaw TV is filming the afternoon, which includes music by Lester Quitzau and the physical prowess of the Olympians invited to aid the chefs in gathering ingredients. Craig Sorochan, a master’s candidate in communications at Royal Roads University, was pulled into the fray in the lead-up to the Chef Survival Challenge when he came

to Madrona Farm while making a documentary on local farming. After “getting sucked into the culture,” Sorochan says, he began selling tickets and conducting volunteer PR for Chambers. “Ninety-nine per cent of people talk about buying locally, but only one per cent do,” says Sorochan outside Madrona’s roadside farm stand, where he has been interviewing customers already sold on the merits of eating local. “It’s going to fall on communities and the people within those communities to support the farmers.” Entry to the Chef Survival Challenge is $40 for adults or $100 for families of four. Tickets are available in advance at chefsurvivalchallenge.com, or at the Madroma farm stand, open 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Wednesday through Friday Gates to Madrona Farm, 4317 Blenkinsop Rd., will open at 11:30 a.m. and the event runs from noon until 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30. nnorth@saanichnews.com

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Behold the pink parade. CIBC’s Run for the Cure, famous for its pinkosity (as in

everyone wears pink), has added a breast cancer survivor parade to this year’s festivities. Organizers expect approximately 4,300 participants to show up at University of Victoria for the Sunday morning walk and run. “New is the survivor parade, part of the formal program of the run to honour and recognize the most important people, the survivors,” said volunteer race co-director Laura Clarke. The parade will march with the Reynolds school band, followed by a moment of silence.

One in nine Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their life, an estimated 22,700 this year. Victoria’s is the second biggest of the eight Run for the Cure communities taking part in B.C., and last year raised $628,000 of the provincial total of $4.76 million. “One hundred per cent of the net funds stay in the region and supports prevention or detection research, as well as education and awareness,” Clarke said. This year’s routes are the

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Breastfeeding moms to descend on library Natalie North News staff

The Greater Victoria Public Libraryâ€™s regular patrons will have extra company this Saturday â€“ a whole lot of breastfeeding moms. In honour of National Breastfeeding Week Oct 1. to 7, the Vancouver Island Health Authority is once again participating in the 11th Annual Quintessence Breastfeeding Challenge, an international event with the goal of setting the record for the most babies breastfeeding at one time. On Saturday, mothers are invited to breastfeed their babies at the downtown and Juan de Fuca library branches. â€œOften times we need to remind ourselves of the importance of why we do

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The arrangements and payments of levies for landlines are approved by the CRTC but those arrangements do not apply to wireless devices, said Shawn Hall, a Telus spokesperson. “And there’s very good reasons for that situation. We have our back end costs to cover for wireless services, including the cost of training our own operators to handle 911 calls in areas where there are no public service answering points.” Hall characterizes CREST’s position as “both sensational and wrong.” Logan maintained that if the emergency call centres don’t get the benefit of the 911 levies collected for the use of wireless devices, the money has to come from the general tax base. “Those taxpayers, and particularly the actual users of 911 – which could be any one of us – end up paying twice.” Logan said that since more than 70 per cent of phone services are now wireless, an estimated $2 million annually is collected from Capital Region cellphone users and kept by cellphone companies for services they don’t provide. Logan said the situation could be resolved in one of two ways.

The first would be for the telephone companies to voluntarily pass along all or part of the 911 levies to municipal 911 call centres. Logan said CREST has had discussions with the telephone companies in an attempt to convince them to voluntarily change their practices. “They’ve resisted,” Logan said. “It’s just a cash grab on their part.” Hall disagrees. “We have real costs associated with the provision of 911 services,” he said. “First of all, most of our customers don’t actually pay a separate levy for 911 calls any longer, as those fees have been rolled into single payment systems.” Hall said that while landline levies and the distribution of those funds are approved by the CRTC, wireless charges are not under CRTC jurisdiction. Hall acknowledges that some portion of the all-inclusive plans may cover the cost of 911 service, but stated emphatically that any charges levied by wireless providers covered the real costs of those companies. “I can’t speak for all the cell companies, but I know that there are significant costs to operating the system,” he said. Hall also pointed out that the distribution of levies that are, or could be charged is difficult

when those calls are made from wireless devices. “We wouldn’t be adverse to a levy being collected on behalf of a provincial system,” Hall said. “Those funds could be allocated on a per capita basis to those municipalities with (911) public service answering points operated by those municipalities.” Responding to this issue in a written statement, Justice Minister Shirley Bond said “our government continues to review a number of models and the experiences seen in other provinces.” Bond said that, to date, tax policy restrictions and industry billing practices have meant that there doesn’t appear to be an effective way to change the current model that would work for everyone involved. A government review that is long overdue, said Gord Hoth, CREST general manager. “The (Union of B.C. Municipalities) passed unanimous resolutions in 2004 and 2009 on this issue, so the government has had eight years to move on this file,” said Hoth. “Surely it could have been addressed by now. They’re allowing this cash grab (by cellphone companies) and it’s not right.” reporter@vicnews.com

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Thieves tamper with security systems at two computer stores Natalie North News staff

Police are investigating a possible connection between two similar commercial break-ins at Douglas Street electronics stores over the weekend. At about 1:15 a.m. on Sept. 23, Saanich police were notified of multiple security alarms at the Best Buy store at Uptown. Officers arrived a few minutes later to find the front door pried open and a damaged inner security gate. Glass on an interior window had also been damaged, but security film ultimately prevented entry. Investigators discovered the alarm system had been tam-

pered with from the exterior. There was no video recovered from the incident, as the store’s surveillance system had gone down earlier in the day. “Some thought and some planning had gone into trying to compromise electronic security for the store,” said Saanich police Sgt. Dean Jantzen. The next day around 3:15 a.m., police were called to the nearby Westworld Computers store in the 3200-block of Douglas St. Westworld, which had been the target of a similar attack last year, had been once again accessed through the wall of a neighbouring unit. Thieves took an estimated $40,000 worth of Apple products

including iPads, MacBooks and Mac mini computers. Forensic investigators also confirmed that there had been tampering with the alarm system for the store, and like the Best Buy incident, there was no usable video surveillance gathered. “Be forewarned. All of the serial numbers have been recorded,” Jantzen said. “If you buy an item even unwittingly, you are in possession of stolen property and it can lead to charges, and most certainly a monetary loss if you are in possession of a stolen item that we need as evidence.” Anyone with information on an individual selling Mac computers cheap, to pass that information to police at 250-475-4321.

Patrol at problem house leads to trafficking bust Natalie North News staff

When Saanich officers passed by a known problem house in the Gorge-Tillicum neighbourhood Saturday, they found exactly what they were looking for. Just after 9 p.m. on Sept. 22, a regular and reserve officer were patrolling a rental house in the 300-block of Davida Ave. They noticed an expired insurance decal on a black Acura leaving the residence.

When questioned, the driver said there were no drugs in the car – a statement quickly proven false when the officer found $3,050 in cash and what now appears to be 10 grams of individually wrapped rock cocaine beneath the emergency brake. Police have been called to the house numerous times for a range of reasons, from noise complaints to stolen property. “It does have a significant impact on the neighbours,” police Sgt. Dean Jantzen said.

“We want to be very clear that we’re there and we’re watching. “As soon as you have a home like that in a neighbourhood, it becomes a focal point – a focal point for neighbours, a focal point for us and it can be very disruptive to a neighbourhood.” The driver of the Acura, a 24-year-old Saanich resident, was arrested for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. He was released on documents for court with conditions. nnorth@saanichnews.com

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ast week’s renewed call for Capital Region local governments to help pay for Victoria’s policing sounded rather familiar. Back in 2004 or so, the City of Victoria asked for financial help to operate its yet-to-be completed new arena. Relatively few municipalities in the Capital Region agreed with the city’s premise that the arena was a regional facility that would be used by members of the greater community. Today, those jurisdictions’ financial help has evaporated, with most facing financial challenges of their own or building their own facilities to meet the demand. The policing situation is slightly different. Victoria mayors past and present have argued that the population of the city essentially doubles every day, as people from other municipalities commute to work. While that may be true, these people aren’t generally the ones causing the extra workload for Victoria police officers. Regardless of how suburban civic politicians might see it, downtown Victoria continues to be the primary focal point for regional activities, from July 1 celebrations to any outdoor event involving the legislature. And it is also the hub for social services in the region. Both come with their own set of problems. While VicPD gets assistance from other police departments for the major events, taxpayers in the city of Victoria pay more per capita for policing than any other municipality in the Capital Region. Not only that, the caseload for Victoria officers is highest in the region and far higher than the national average. That shows a need to better share the cost of policing in the city, perhaps through a regional line item on property taxes, similar to hospitals and schools. CRD municipalities surrounding Victoria have little motivation or incentive to help pay for the VicPD. Any change will take action by the province to change the way things work. Victoria needs to understand, however, that change can take a long time.

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@vicnews.com or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The Victoria News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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n the weeks leading up to was ‘What an inconvenience!’ Sunday, Sept. 2, I heard several When I emerged from my hotel mentions of some sort of national room early the next morning, no-driving day. I didn’t however, my first thought take much notice. was ‘What a gift!’ It has something to do The congested streets, with the environment, typically filled with I was told by other chaotic drivers and the backpackers and a couple sounds of angry horns, of locals I met on my were completely silent travels. and clear of all traffic. I From my Canadian could take a deep breath perspective, these green of fresh air for the first initiatives tend to be time since I arrived in the well-meaning events city. Roszan Holmen subscribed by enviro I set out on what 11th Hour sympathizers who became an eight-hour Musings participate in symbolic wander through the acts, such as turning off neighbourhoods. As the their lights for an hour. The media day progressed, more and more dutifully reports on the action, but people poured out of their homes. the vast majority of people pay little Bands of boys raced their bicycles to no attention. down the city’s steep streets. Small On Sept. 1, I got my first clue that groups of kids and families played things work differently in Bolivia. road soccer. College students I naïvely wandered into a travel launched a badminton game in the agency in the historic district of the major intersections surrounding the city of Sucre, and inquired about central plaza. booking a tour the next day. It was a glorious day. It also made Not possible, the man informed me think about home. me. No vehicles will be allowed on Over dinner that night, I talked the road for 18 hours, starting at to some European travellers about midnight. No exceptions for tour the struggles in Victoria to finally companies. implement a temporary road I blinked and sat dumbstruck for closure of our main historic street, several moments as I tried to think during a major festival at the height through the implications of this of tourist season. prohibition to the tourist industry, Businesses blocked the idea at to average citizens, to businesses first, I said. People in North America and the workings of an entire feel very strongly about the right to nation, as transport grinds to a halt. drive, I tried to explain, lacking any Then I thought about the better explanation. implications for myself. My companions couldn’t relate. I admit, my first selfish thought They come from cities which boast

entire no-car districts in their historic centres. A national no-driving day didn’t seem outrageous to them, but I know it would never fly in Canada. Business interests are much too important to shut down all traffic for a day – and rightly so. By comparison, Bolivia has a strong tradition of putting business interests behind other quality-of-life issues. For instance, Día del peatón (day of the pedestrian) started 11 years ago in Cochabamba, a city made famous for kicking out a private water company that both invested heavily in building a dam, but also dramatically raised water rates for the people. In June of this year, Bolivia nationalized the Colquiri mine, despite protests by mining company Glencore, which operated the mine previously. Depending on your world view, Bolivia’s government could be seen as a brave defender of human rights, or naïve about the importance of foreign investment to the economy. I’m not suggesting we follow its lead, but maybe take a bit of inspiration from its fearless stance. Imagine, for instance, a summerlong closure of Government Street and the hoards of people who would inevitably flock there to enjoy the pedestrian-only space. It doesn’t sound like such a bold move, once put in a global context. Roszan Holmen is a reporter with the Victoria News. rholmen@vicnews.com

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Bus-only lanes wouldn’t solve congestion problems The Capital Regional District has been considering bus-only lanes between Victoria and West Shore. When are our elected officials going to realize that we only have two highways to West Shore – two lanes each way on the Island Highway and one on the Old Island Highway. To eliminate one lane and use it for buses only will add traffic onto one lane on a highway that is close to gridlock now with two. This may allow faster travel times for buses, but it will create complete chaos for drivers. Meanwhile our elected officials talk of future rapid transit, which we all know will take years to

build and implement. However, we still have the E&N, rusty and unused, which could be utilized almost immediately with the infusion of $2 million to $3 million. We don’t need anything pretentious to start with, despite statements being made that it would be too costly. Already we have stopping points in Langford, View Royal and Vic West. The mayor of Langford is on record stating that future growth along Langford Lake would be railway friendly. Two passenger cars operating with the same fare structure as buses, with park and rides along the way

and connecting buses, would eliminate much of the present gridlock. Does this sound too complicated? I think not. It is being done all over America and Europe, so why not Victoria? Or is Victoria too old-fashioned to utilize common sense? Patrick O. Hind View Royal

High-occupany vehicle lanes accomplish little Believe it or not, I’m happy that the CRD Business and Residential Taxpayers Association is ferreting into light-rail transit numbers.

However, their research has a flawed assumption: that high-occupancy vehicle lanes accomplish anything. Two California researchers with very impressive resumes analyzed these diamond roadways in that state’s Bay Area from 2000 to 2004. Their conclusion: “The analysis presented here suggests that in the Bay Area, instead of improving mobility, HOV lanes exacerbate the congestion problem: HOV lanes suffer a capacity drop of 400 vehicles/ hour; they increase congestion overall; they do not significantly increase the throughput of people

and they do not encourage carpooling.” A depressing aspect of Capital Regional District transportation numbers is that nothing has changed in 10 years. According to the CRD’s household travel survey, there’s been next to no growth in the number of people walking, cycling or using transit. The German city of Freiburg, with a smaller population than Victoria, proves it’s possible to increase the market share of non-automotive forms of transportation and reduce congestion and air pollution. Louis Guilbault Victoria

Readers respond: NHL lockout, ARESST, The Land Conservancy, crosswalks Housing solution to NHL lockout The real tragedy of the National Hockey League lockout is the impact on small businesses owners and their minimum wage employees. Their loss of income exacerbates the already unprecedented poverty and homelessness in both Canada and the U.S. There’s a reasonable solution, players and owners, to your disagreement over how to divide the NHL’s increased revenues, especially given that you have more than enough money to live luxurious lives and to take care of your families for generations to come. Stay on your current salaries and do something useful with those added revenues you’re coveting – eradicate homelessness. The extra money is there, your new investment will reap financial benefits, your humanitarianism will make you feel good and the people you help house eventually will have the resources to participate in, or at least watch, your sport. It’s a victory for the owners, a victory for the players and an actual life for the homeless.

And you can call yourselves, with pride, the National Housing League. Paul Austin Victoria

ARESST member clarifies group’s position Re: Victoria anti-treatment advocates push back with awareness campaign (News online) To start, members of the Association for Responsible and Environmentally Sustainable Sewage Treatment (ARESST) would like to make everyone aware that our group is very much pro-treatment. ARESST advocates for keeping Victoria’s current system of natural, marine-based treatment of Victoria’s wastewater. It is a method of treatment that is cheaper, less complex and produces far less greenhouse gases than the land-based treatment system the Capital Regional District is foisting upon Greater Victoria against the will of a majority of residents. I would like to also make the writer, Mr. Palmer, aware that our wastewater currently is screened, not filtered, before it is pumped

into the outfalls, and that the CRD’s project intends to dig up Victoria neighbourhoods and waterfront to bury a total of 44 kilometres of pipelines, not just 17 km. Brian Burchill Oak Bay

Environmentalists missing the point I was a member of The Land Conservancy back when the board made the correct decision to remove Bill Turner from his position for the reasons that you reported at the time. But when he convinced enough people to have him reinstated, I, along with who knows how many others, ceased to be a member. So it will be interesting to know how much deeper TLC’s financial predicament is now, as a result of “impossible” actions being taken to save even more properties. What also now interests me is the singular lack of understanding that environmentalists, in their zeal to protect land and animals, seem to have for the economic well-being of their fellow citizens. So, I no longer support any of them financially because they frighten me with some of their

more dogmatic pronouncements. But pipelines don’t. They are all over this country. Have been for ages, and the benefits to the quality of life for the people of this whole nation, and not just Albertans, are simply monumental. Bill Ellis Oak Bay

Drivers need to heed crosswalk activity While I am sure there are many crosswalks where pedestrians face problems, I want to talk about the crosswalk at Bay and Chambers streets. Five or six cars going by without stopping is, sadly, not a rarity, it’s actually the norm. While it is not well marked – a pedestrian-controlled light would make all the difference – it is not impossible to see if you would pay attention (and that includes you, driving the City of Victoria van last Thursday morning). Maybe you could ask yourself why the car in the opposite lane has stopped? And just because you can’t see the school, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t one and school children do cross at that particular crosswalk on their

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Gary Kangas snacks on an apple at Metchosin Community House. He will play the role of Robert Weir during the Metchosin Apple Festival on Sunday. and the Metchosin Foundation. Plenty of apple treats will be on hand for tasting including baked apples and apple juice. Apple demonstrations include making juice and sauce. A series of specialists will be on hand speaking about issues regarding heritage orchards and fruit identification. Anyone with apples on their Metchosin property is asked to bring three apples from one tree in a brown paper bag. The apples will be used in the apple bee, identifying different varieties in the area.

“We need more than one apple for proper identification,” O’Connell explained, adding this was recently done on Salt Spring Island and 311 varieties were identified. “We want to learn about the diversity of apples we have here.” “This is a really valuable exercise for old time agriculture,” added Kangas. The Metchosin Apple Festival is, Sept. 30 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Metchosin Community House, 4430 Happy Valley Rd. charla@goldstreamgazette.com

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Pulling out of his Langford driveway, Patrick Novotny saw a frantic mother desperately searching for her toddler who had wandered away. In a few minutes, the youngster was found standing with another concerned adult who had found him. The boy was in the opposite direction than the mother was looking. A few days before this incident, Novotny had been introduced to the Hero Network smartphone app while attending a birthday party. In the case of the toddler near Novotny’s house, the mother could have sent a message via Hero Network and anyone with the app in the area would receive an alert and could help look for the little boy. Thomas Okuszko created the Hero Network, an app designed to help parents find kids who wander away. The app has been downloaded nearly 5,000 times since it launched July 26. If a child is missing, a parent can send out an alert notifying anyone on the Hero Network within a 10-kilometre radius. To date, no alerts have been sent on the Hero Network. “Thank God,” said Okuszko, who lives in Sooke. Some parents may have concerns

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Artist Virgil Sampson paints a drum at his home in Central Saanich as he prepares for the upcoming First Nations and Métis Art Show and Sale.

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Art is a window into a culture, a history and a community. Virgil Sampson is one of the local First Nations artists taking part in the Fourth Annual Invitational First Nations and Métis Art Show and Sale. Sampson makes Native-designed drums of a variety of sizes, along with limited prints and some smaller items. Creativity flows in Sampson’s family, and Sampson, in part, learned to make drums from his brother, John. “The drums have always been a big part of our culture for a lot of spiritual reasons – healing and honouring, different kinds of ceremonies,” Sampson said. “A lot of our people are starting to turn towards artwork. … It’s an awesome way of practising who you are as a Native person, to exercise what has been passed down from year to year, generation to generation.” Sampson also helps by providing guidance for the organizers and recruiting artists for the show, which is held to highlight the best in First Nations art. The event takes place at the Arts Centre at Tulista Park, 9565 Fifth St., in Sidney and is hosted by

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year’s show will also feature artisans from the Métis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Cree, Ojibway, Navajo, Inuit and Chickasaw Nations. “There’s so many artists that are in this area, it changes almost every year,” Sampson said. “It’s a lot of fun.”

A variety of different mediums will be presented including carving, knitted items, drums, silver pieces, beads, cedar weavings and more. “It’s a really good show,” Sampson said. “People that are collectors and are semiserious collectors can come and meet the artists.” Through the show, artists are given the chance to share their heritage, history and culture with others through their art, Sampson said. The public is in turn given the opportunity to learn more about First Nation’s culture – including everything from the importance of drumming to the use of cedar. “(There are many) spiritual meanings that go behind our designs and carving and images,” Sampson said. “It brings a better understanding to other cultures of our culture.” Some artists will be working on-site and providing demonstrations for visitors. The gallery itself is set up to reflect the intent and spirit of the event. There will be music played and stories told to add ambiance. This year’s show is shorter than in years past. It runs from Friday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Oct. 21. The show is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry is free. kwells@goldstreamgazette.com

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Emerging artist Richard Wong has his first solo show during October at the Island Blue Art Store, 905 Fort St. Beginning Oct. 1 his Songbirds of Victoria series will show at the store, and Wong himself will be on display Oct. 13 between 1 and 3 p.m. demonstrating his art and meeting the public. Wong, who began painting less than two years ago, uses a special process to prepare the masa paper, which is a form of rice paper, on which he paints. The masa paper is then pasted onto a canvas frame. “Apparently, what I am doing is rare,” said Wong. “I did a quick Google search of masa paper paintings, and there are only a few people teaching this technique anywhere.” He learned the technique from Judi Pedder, an artist based in Comox. “What I like about this technique is that it gives the paintings a delicate, batik look. The preparation process adds depth to the painting without me having to do too much more, other than paint in the image,” he said. Wong’s songbirds are created using a mixture of Oriental brush and water colour technique and were a hit at the Esquimalt Arts Festival on Aug. 12. “Many people came looking for me there and were happy to see my art,” said Wong. “It’s been one of those journeys that seems endless. I knock on a door and when it opens up what’s on the other side is amazing. I guess I will just continue to knock on those doors – I just have to have a peek behind and see what’s there.” Wong’s art can also be seen at The Gallery in

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Rebels on a roll Westshore Rebels host Langley Rams for first place Charla Huber News staff

The Westshore Rebels (6-1) are looking to extend their six-game winning streak in the B.C. junior Football Conference when they host the Langley Rams (5-0-1) on Saturday. Itâ€™s the Rebelsâ€™ final home game of the regular season. Kickoff is 4 p.m. at Westhills Stadium. â€œWe have an attitude where we take what we want,â€? said head coach John Cardilicchia. â€œWe are ready to spill our guts and leave everything on the field.â€? The Rebels are coming off a 33-3 road win over the Chilliwack Huskers on Saturday (Sept. 22). â€œIf we win on Saturday it would virtually guarantee us a home playoff game,â€? said Roger Wade, Rebels president. â€œIn my 10 years as president, we havenâ€™t hosted a playoff game. I would love to be sitting here at home instead of on the road.â€? The thought of winning a seventh game in a row brings Wade, a Langford councillor, back to 1982 when he was defensive tackle for the Victoria Hornets, and enjoyed a seven-game winning streak of his own. Wade played for the team from 1981 to 1983. Itâ€™s a continuation of the resurgent Rebels, who

won five games last year and lost in the semifinals to the Vancouver Island Raiders. The Rebelsâ€™ only regular season loss this year came at the beginning of the season, also to the Raiders. Since then the Rebels have knocked off the Chilliwack Huskers twice, the Kamloops Broncos twice and the Okanagan Sun once. The Rebelsâ€™ and Ramsâ€™ only meeting this year was in preseason, which the Rams won 35-30. â€œThe Rams were the last team I ever lost to in 1982,â€? Wade said. Leading the way for the Rebels against Chilliwack on Saturday was running back Greg Morris, who carried the ball 19 times for 150 yards, one of them a 43-yard scamper, while scoring two touchdowns. Receivers Eric Eggleston and Fik Yitna each recorded a touchdown pass and kicker Quinn Van Gylswyk hit a 32-yard field goal and converted all four touchdowns.

Rebels with a cause The Rebels have been raising funds for three-yearold Hannah Day of Langford. Hannah is battling a rare form of cancer and her parents have both left their jobs to care for her. The team raised more than $500 for the family at a car wash, Sept. 14. The money will be presented to the family at the home game, Sept. 29. As part of the fundraiser, all students with valid I.D, can come to the game against the Langley Rams for a $2 donation to the Day family. charla@goldstreamgazette.com

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With three wins in their first four games the midget Victoria Spartans are off to great start to the Vancouver Mainland Football League season. The Spartans, aged 16 to 18, will hit the halfway mark of the season on Sunday when they host the Chilliwack Giants (2-2) at Westhills Stadium. Kickoff is 1 p.m. â€œItâ€™s been two years since we won the provincials and weâ€™re off to a good start, but itâ€™s a very competitive league this year,â€? assistant coach Paul Mulholland said. Head coach Dave Shortt and Mulholland have led the team for six years now.

This yearâ€™s squad has a mix of players, with a dozen high school grads, half from the Mount Douglas Rams and half from the Belmont Bulldogs, and a group of grads from the Spartansâ€™ 2011 provincial championship bantam team. Quarterback Brett Johnson is out, however, with a broken leg. Last year Johnson stepped in as QB after a couple of games and helped the Spartans to a second-round exit from the playoffs. Instead, the Spartans are relying on Lowell MacDonald, a defensive lineman who hasnâ€™t played quarterback since bantam. â€œLowell is doing well, heâ€™s come through with some good passing, heâ€™s a smart QB and knows the game,â€? Mulholland said. The Victoria Spartans 12-man bantam team is away this weekend against the Cowichan Bulldogs on Sunday. sports@vicnews.com

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Greg Morris carries the ball versus the Kamloops Broncos on Sept . 16 at Bear Mountain Stadium. Morris rushed for 103 yards and two touchdowns and the Rebels won 48-41.

Grizz crack top 10 national rankings The Victoria Grizzlies earned national attention this week cracking the inaugural Canadian Junior A Hockey League top-10 ranking at No. 8. The Grizzlies were not rated last year but made it to No. 8 based on its earlyseason results of five wins in six games, first in the B.C. Hockey Leagueâ€™s Island division. This weekend the Grizz host the Coquitlam Express (4-1), 7:15 p.m. Saturday night. The Grizz defeated the Express 2-1 on Sunday, winning two of three from last weekendâ€™s road trip.

Leading the way was Grizzlies forward Gerry Fitzgerald, this weekâ€™s BCHL Player of the Week. The 19-yearold, one of the famed Grizzlies triplets, scored a goal and assist in each of the Grizzlies wins over Coquitlam and the Chilliwack Chiefs. Goalie Michael Stiliadis was outstanding with a .942 save percentage.

Royals host playoff nemesis for two The Kamloops Blazers visit the Victoria Royals tonight (Sept. 28) and Sunday afternoon at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre the B.C. Division rivalry heats up. Both squads are undefeated, as the Royals won two against the Vancouver Giants and the Blazers swept two from the Kelowna Rockets. Leading the Blaz-

ers are Swiss star Tim Bozon and rugged Regina winger J.C. Lipon. Both return from the Blazers squad that swept the Royals in the first round of the 2012 playoffs.

Braves get busy, Cougars hit Storm The Saanich Braves look to continue the hot start at George Pearkes arena tonight (Sept. 28) against the Kerry Park Islanders in VIJHL play. Itâ€™s the last of three games in three nights for the Braves (3-1), who played Wednesday against the Westshore Wolves (4-3) and Thursday against the Nanaimo Buccaneers (4-3) (results were past press time). The leagueâ€™s only undefeated team, the Victoria Cougars (6-0), visit the Campbell River Storm (3-2) tonight.

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The shifting dynamic of the UVic Vikes women’s field hockey season returns to normal this weekend as the UBC Thunderbirds visit for two games. Start time is 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the UVic field hockey turf. It’s the first meeting between the Vikes and T-Birds, who have each swept the Calgary Dinos for two wins. Without the Alberta Pandas this year, the Canada West conference is limited to the Vikes (2-0), Thunderbirds (2-0) and Dinos (0-4). “It’s a tough matchup this weekend,” said Vikes assistant coach Krista Thompson. “UBC is very strong.” The Vikes will benefit wit the return of Oak Bay High grad Kathleen Leahy, who helped the junior national team win silver at the Junior Pan American Championships and qualify Canada to the 2013 Junior World Cup last week. The Thunderbirds, however, have seven players returning from the junior national team. UBC is the Canada West favourite with senior national team midfielders Poonam Sandhu and Natalie Sourisseau. The top two teams will advance from Canada West to the CIS nationals in Ontario this year, which is good news for the Vikes, who hold a two-game lead on the Dinos. “We still have to do our job

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against Calgary,” Thompson said. “They’re similar to us in that they are young.” The Vikes have 11 new players, while Calgary lost eight from their silver-medal team that made the national finals last year. One of those new Vikes, incidentally, is secondyear player Alanna MacDonald of Coquitlam, who was orphaned from the Alberta Pandas. The rest are rookies. So to further develop the young core of players and keep the team on the field, the Vikes are competing in the premier division of the Vancouver Women’s Field Hockey Association. It adds seven games and means the Vikes will be playing beyond Christmas, well past the usual end date. And that doesn’t include the Vikes weekly exhibition matches against the Island Wildcats, Victoria’s 2012 entry into the premier league. UBC also plays in the Vancouver premier league, which boasts ex-CIS players, as well as junior and senior national players past, present and future. But the Vikes preference is to play CIS first, Thompson said. “The premier league games are tough, and the Wildcats give us a very difficult game every Wednesday to help us develop,” Thompson said. Later this fall, CIS and Field Hockey Canada will meet with the goal of preserving women’s field hockey as a Canada West sport. “They would like to come up with a proposal to keep it healthy in Canada, as Field Hockey Canada would like to maintain their relationship with the CIS,” Thompson said. Sat. Sept. 29: VIRU women, Nanaimo at Velox Valkyries,11:30 a.m. at Velox field.

Hockey Fri. Sept. 28: VIJHL, Kerry Park Islanders at Saanich Braves, 6:30 p.m., Pearkes arena. Fri. Sept. 28: VIJHL, Nanaimo Buccaneers at Peninsula Panthers, 7:30 p.m., Panorama arena. Sat. Sept. 29: BCHL, Coquitlam Express at Victoria Grizzlies, 7:15 p.m. Bear Mountain Arena.

Homecoming weekend Vikes athletics are holding a series of alumni events as part of the university’s 50th anniversary festival, Friday (Sept. 28) and Saturday. Former Vikes rower and Olympic medalist Mike Lewis will speak about his journey to Beijing, Sept. 29 at 10:30 a.m. in the Social Sciences and Math Building in Room A120. Register ahead uvic.ca/ anniversary/festival. Women’s alumni field hockey game, 1 p.m., followed by men’s alumni game at 2 p.m., Saturday. Men’s and women’s alumni basketball games, Friday, women at 6 p.m. men at 8 p.m. in McKinnon Gym.

The hope for the Vikes is to stay in the CIS, and use the premier league as a complementary resource. There’s no obvious answer to how that will shake out, except that the format of the nationals will probably change, Thompson added. A secondary option could see the Vikes enter the premier league full time, but that is a less desirable fallback at this point. “There’s a few models where teams aren’t in the CIS but are playing in the championships, such as UVic rowing,” Thompson said. The Vikes annual Ivy League tour taken in August is also an important part of the schedule. This year the Vikes beat Harvard and Brown universities, but lost to Dartmouth and Yale. sports@vicnews.com Fri. & Sun. Sept. 28 & 30: WHL, Kamloops Blazers at Victoria Royals, 7:05 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Sunday at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.

Soccer Fri. Sept. 28: CIS men, Alberta Golden Bears at UVic Vikes, 7:15 p.m., CIS women, Winnipeg Wesmen at UVic Vikes 5 p.m. at Centennial Stadium. Sat. Sept. 29: CIS women, Manitoba Bisons at UVic Vikes, 5 p.m., CIS men, Saskatchewan Huskies at UVic Vikes, 7:15 p.m. at Centennial Stadium.

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MISCELLANEOUS WANTED ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewellery. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700

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

TRANSPORTATION

WE BUY HOUSES Osteoporosis~MS~Fibromya lgia? Increase Performance? Commercial Vibration machine. Clinically proven. (250)287-2009.

ANTIQUE/CLASSICS

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

WANTED TO RENT

HOMES WANTED

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, ﬁr, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.

DOWNSIZING/ SACRIFICE. Glass & white oak china hutch - wall mount or buffet. $200. White solid oak entertainment/ media storage centre $250. (250)656-9717.

TOWNHOUSES

FABULOUS SWEEPING OCEAN VIEWS Looking for an incredible low maintenance home with minimal yard work, amazing views & move-in ready? Beautiful 2bdrm + large den, two sunrooms, two decks, hardwood ﬂoors, gas F/P, skylights, 2.5 baths, garage + more. Built for view & privacy. 2200 sq ft. Dead-end, quiet street steps to beach. Saxe Point Park area. $575,000. 250-383-0206, 250-382-7890. Seasidevictoria@gmail.com

HOME THEATER Audio system, boxed, never used, $300. Collector plates (endangered species), full set (10), $200. Call (250)474-2325. HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

1-800-910-6402

www.PreApproval.cc DL# 7557

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

SIDNEY: QUIET cozy 1 bdrm. W/D, utils incld, NS/NP, completely furnished. Avail. Nov. 1st. $995/mo. (250)656-7184. BERNINA 820 QE Sewing Computer - high end sewing & quilting machine w/ 40 cm long free arm, stitch regulator, dual feed. $4500. (250)882-5465.

DreamCatcher Auto Loans “0” Down, Bankruptcy OK Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals

LANGFORD: SPACIOUS 1 bdrm, 1 bath, laundry, $850 mo all util’s incl. Avail Oct. 1st. NS/NP. (250)389-0983.

SUITES, UPPER

FUEL/FIREWOOD

FURNITURE

SHIPPING CONTAINERS 20’ or 40’. Buy or Rent. Safe and secure. Easymove Container Services. Serving Vancouver Island. 1-(888)331-3279

HOUSES FOR SALE

CAYCUSE Very rare 5 acre treed park-like Property with well-maintained furnished home - 1500 sq.ft, 3-bdrm, 2 bath. Extremely close to Pristine Cowichan Lake. Perfect for recreational property or full time living. Reduced to sell $378,800. Exceptionally low yearly cost. Not leased land. Call 250-745-3387 or 250-478-2648

WEDGEWOOD CHINA for 8, pattern (Petersham), $75. Call (250)380-7559.

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.

STORAGE

REAL ESTATE SERVICES

CERTIFIED FOOT Care Nurses for seniors only $35 (limited time offer). Call me at 250588-4312. Visit us at h t t p : / / w w w. i s l a n d h a p py feet.com/ 100% infection control.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO

AUTO FINANCING Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

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

APARTMENT/CONDOS CONDO, GREAT top ﬂr 2-br updated well-kept close to UVic & Camosun. Well run building, elevator, low monthly fee includes HEAT and HOT water. Immediate possession. Adult only, no pets, no rentals. $244,400 250-995-1818.

TRANSPORTATION

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

REAL ESTATE

NEWS

Qualicum Beach: $295,000 1512 sq.ft. modular, 5yrs old, on own land in 45+ Coop Park. 2bdrm +den, 2baths. Close to beaches and golf courses. (250)738-0248

Thousands of ads online updated daily

1 & 2 Bdrm suites & cabins. Perched on a cliffside with panoramic ocean vista, overlooking The Saanich Inlet. 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. 250478-9231.

Garage Sales

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

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WESTHILLS: NEW 1 bdrm apt. $950+ util’s. Close all amens. W/D. NS/NP. Avail. Nov. 1st. Call 250-477-5610 or email scottman12@shaw.ca

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

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

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

GARAGE SALES LANGFORD- 998 Kingsgate Drive, Sat, Sept 29th, 9-3pm. Jeneece Edruff Fundraiser. SAANICHTON, ST. Mary’s Church, E. Saanich Rd & Cultra Ave. THRIFT SALE, Saturday, Sept. 29th, 9:30 amNoon. Everyone Welcome! Good Parking!

ALL YOU NEED IN PRINT AND ONLINE bcclassiﬁed.com

GARAGE SALES

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SAANICH NEWS - Friday, September 28, 2012 TRANSPORTATION

TRANSPORTATION

CARS

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES FOR SALE

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

For scrap vehicle FREE Tow away

858-5865

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

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

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES

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

TRANSPORTATION

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES

TRUCKS & VANS

“2004 RAV4 4WD”- $13,500 ﬁrm. 4 cyl, auto, silver, Michelins, 120,000 km,Victoria only vehicle. Complete maintenance history. Lady-driven, no accidents, excellent condition, keyless entry. Model Recommended In Top 10 by Consumer Reports. (250)479-5545.

$50-$1000 CASH

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

TRANSPORTATION

1999 ML 320 V6 Mercedes Benz SUV, good shape, low mileage. New tires, loaded, 4 wheel drive, $9000 obo. Call (250)478-5836 or cell (250)818-5754.

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

INMOTION 2006 Dodge Caravan, 1 owner,

local, only 65,000 kms. Super clean inside & out. Exc cond. Well maintained. $9900 obo. Call 250-995-1378.

MARINE BOATS

Time for a NEW car?

Watch for our Auto Section

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

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www.bcclassiﬁed.com HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES HAULING AND SALVAGE

ACCOUNTING/TAX/ BOOKKEEPING

CONTRACTORS

GARDENING

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

ACCOUNTING Vida Samimi

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

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

AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, Guards, windows, powerwashing, roof de-moss, repairs. Insured. Call (250)507-6543.

DRYWALL

250-216-9476 ACCEPTING clients, From the Ground Up, custom landscapes, home reno’s, garden clean-ups.

Certiﬁed General Accountant Bookkeeping, Audit, Payroll, HST. Set up & Training. E-File

TAX 250-477-4601

CARPENTRY BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748. COMPLETE HOME Renos. Carpentry, Drywall, Painting. Licenced insured. Call Darren 250-217-8131. DECKS, STAIRS, interesting projects. 30 years experience. Frank, (250)477-3315. McGREGOR HOME Repair & Renos. Decks to doors. Small jobs OK. WCB. (250)655-4518

CARPET INSTALLATION MALTA FLOORING Installation. Carpets, laminates, hardwood, lino. BBB 250-388-0278

CHIMNEY SERVICES JKG CHIMNEY. Clean, Repairs, Gutters, Roof Demoss, Torch On Flat. 250-588-3744.

CLEANING SERVICES CLEAN ALL. Excellent cleaner. Honest & reliable. $20./hr. (250)477-9818, (250)580-7504 MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estates, events, ofﬁces. BBB member. (250)388-0278. PRIVATE HOUSEKEEPER. Has available openings. Exc ref’s. $25/hr. 778-433-4340.

COMPUTER SERVICES A HOME COMPUTER Coach. Senior friendly. Computer lessons, maintenance and problem solving. Please call Des 250-656-9363, 250-727-5519. COMPUDOC MOBILE Computer Services. Repairs, tuneups, tutoring, web sites, etc. 250-886-8053, 778-351-4090.

CONCRETE & PLACING ALL TYPES of Concrete & Carpentry work specializing in all types of retaining walls, large or small. IKON Construction since 1980. Call 250-4782898 or 250-880-0928. RBC CONCRETE Finishing. All types of concrete work. No job too small. Seniors discount. Call 250-386-7007.

AARON’S RENO’S Drywall, taping, texture. Insured/bonded. Free est. 250-880-0525. 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 250-361-6193 QUALITY Electric. New homes, renos. No job too sm. Seniors disc. #22779. AT&T ELECTRIC. Renovations. Residential & Commercial. Knob & tube replacement. #26125. (250)744-4550. EXPERIENCED ELECTRICIAN. Reasonable rates. 250744-6884. Licence #22202. GNC ELECTRIC Res/Comm. Reasonable rates for quality work. #43619. 250-883-7632. KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991. LICENSED, BONDED & F.S.R. Electrician, 30 yrs. Exp. Residential, new construction & renos. Knob & tube removal. Aluminum wiring upgraded and made safe. Lic.#3003. (250)590-9653. NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $40/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

(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 BSC. 250-882-3129 Fall clean up, Lawn aeration & fertilize-soil-hedges & more. DPM SERVICES, lawn & garden, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141 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. LEVEL GROUND Landscaping

250.388.3535 HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES MOVING & STORAGE

PLUMBING

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

DONE RIGHT MOVING $80/hr. Senior and student discount. No travel time before or after. SMOOTH MOVES. Call Tyler 250-418-1747. MALTA MOVING. Residential & Commercial - BBB Member. (250)388-0278.

PROMINENT PLUMBING and Gas. Licenced, insured, dedicated to excellent workmanship and customer service. Work guaranteed. 250-5887645 prominentplumbingandgas.ca

HANDYPERSONS

PAINTING

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

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

BEETLES RESIDENTIAL Renovations Ltd. Bathrooms, decks, painting, landscaping and handyman services. Fully insured and guaranteed. Free estimates. Call 250-889-4245. BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Stairs, Painting, General household repairs. Free estimate. Call Barry 250-896-6071 SENIOR HANDYMAN. Household repairs. Will assist do-it-yourselfers. Call Fred, 250-888-5345.

PLASTERING

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk. Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK. PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774 SMART GUYS Hauling. Garden waste, junk removal, clean-ups, etc. Reliable, courteous service. 250-544-0611 or 250-889-1051.

HAULING AND SALVAGE $20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279. CITY HAUL- a lot of junk won’t ﬁt in your trunk, you’re in luck I own a truck. 250-891-2489.

Complete Garden & Arborist Services. Lawns, hedges. Insured. Free est. 250-818-0587

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

NO JOB too BIG or SMALL. SENIOR’S SPECIAL! Prompt, reliable service. Phone Mike (ANYTIME) at 250-216-7502.

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

HOME IMPROVEMENTS GEOF’S RENO’S & Repairs. Decks, stairs, railings, gates & small additions. 250-818-7977.

SAFEWAY PAINTING

High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior Residential/Commercial Jeff, 250-472-6660 Cell 250-889-7715 Member BBB

Peacock Painting

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

FENCING

FURNITURE REFINISHING

GARDENING 10% OFF. Mowing, Power Raking, 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

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

ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS DEMOSS Dr. $499 per/roof. 2 years warranty. We also install new roofs? Call 250-589-4998

RUBBISH REMOVAL MALTA GARDEN & Rubbish Removal. Best Rates. BBB member. (250)388-0278.

STEREO/TV/DVD WANTED: PVR (inexpensive) for a single parent. Please call 250-514-6688.

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.

LOCAL TREE CO. 30 yrs exp. Bucket truck, chipper. We buy logs. Insured. (250)883-2911.

EXCAVATING & DRAINAGE

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

PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, old world texturing, coves, ﬁreplaces. Bob, 250-642-5178.

TREE SERVICES

BUBBA’S HAULING. Mini excavator & bob cat services. Perimeter drains, driveway prep, Hardscapes, Lot clearing. Call 250-478-8858.

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

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

YARD ART Tree, Hedge & Shrub Pruning Lawn Care. 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.

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

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

250-652-2255 250-882-2254 WRITTEN GUARANTEE Budget Compliance

UPHOLSTERY UPHOLSTERER work. Your fabric 250-480-7937.

NEEDS mine.

15% SENIORS DISCOUNT

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.

BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning Roof demoss, gutters. 25 yrs. Cell 250-884-7066, 381-7127. DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning. Windows, Gutters, Sweeping, Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pressure Washing. 250-361-6190. 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.

A24 • www.saanichnews.com

Friday, September 28, 2012 - SAANICH

This Weekend’s

Select your home. Select your mortgage.

OPENHOUSES Published Every Thursday

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

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

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Sept.27 - Oct. 3 edition of

6-1464 Fort St, $389,900

103-620 Toronto St, $289,000

108-1024 Fairﬁeld Rd, $324,900

4029 Providence, $899,888

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Betsy Gutnik, 250-885-1357

Sunday 2-4 One Percent Realty Valentino, 250-686-2242

Sunday 2:30-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Bill Ethier, 250-920-7000

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Deborah Kline 250 661-7680

pg. 5

1044 Davie St, $799,000

404-1122 Hilda St. Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Karen Scott, 250-744-3301

pg. 6

pg. 9

pg. 5

pg. 10

pg. 22

pg. 36

pg. 12

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291

Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Bill Chudyk 250 477-5353

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Geoff McLean, 250-744-3301

Saturday 2-4 RE/MAX Alliance Ron Neal, 250-386-8181

pg. 6

Sunday 12:30-2 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra, 250-380-6683

1161 Finlayson St., $399,900

6-1012 Terrace Ave, $299,900

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

Saturday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Michelle Vermette, 250-391-1893

pg. 27

2386 Dalhousie, $845,000

3973 Lexington Ave, $828,000

Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Marc Owen-Flood 250-385-2033

Sunday 2-4:30 Re/Max Camosun Ed G. Sing, 250-744-3301

pg. 17

Daily Noon-5 exc Fridays Concert Properties 250 383-3722

Saturday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Rob Angus, 250-391-1893

pg. 13

Saturday 12:30-2 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Jerry Mireau, 250-384-8124

pg. 5

Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Lynn MacDonald 250 479-3333

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jenn Raappana, 250-590-3921

403-1204 Fairﬁeld, $588,888

pg. 5

pg. 3

Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Julie Rust, 250-477-1100

Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Richard Severs 250 216-3178

pg. 13

302-1000 McClure, $224,900 Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663

pg. 12

pg. 27

pg. 16

Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Andrew Holenchuk 250 744-3301

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Re/Max Camosun Don Bellamy, 250-744-3301

pg. 5

Sunday 1-3 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Stuart Price, 250-479-3333

1513 Bank, $469,900 Sunday 11-1 One Percent Realty Valentino, 250-686-2242

pg. 1

pg. 36

pg. 5

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291

pg. 11

pg. 27

Saturday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Cheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422

pg. 8

pg. 13

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301

1877 Feltham Rd, $519,900

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Roy Coburn 250-478-9600 pg. 28

pg. 27

pg. 12

267A Glenairlie Dr., $529,900

2151 Burnside Rd West pg. 11

pg. 10

pg. 7

204-1121 Esquimalt, $224,800 pg. 5

pg. 15

pg. 11

5602-737 Humboldt, $499,500

840 Coles, $565,000

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Rob Vandoremalen, 250-477-5353

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Sylvia Schumann, 250-474-4800

pg. 11

Saturday 1-3 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Jodie Farup, 250-477-1100

410-1005 McKenzie, $269,800 pg. 18

pg. 19

4044 Angeleah Pl, $499,900 Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-744-3301

1450 McKenzie, $489,000

pg. 19

495 Goward Rd, $699,900 pg. 15

Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Roxanne Brass, 250-744-3301

pg. 19

2828 Inlet Ave., $483,000 pg. 15

3456 Carter Dr, $705,000 Saturday 2:30-4:30 Pemberton Holmes Jerry Mireau, 250-384-8124

pg. 29

pg. 14

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Deanna Noyce 250 744-3301

pg. 26

Saturday 2-4 & Sunday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Cassie Kangas 250 477-7291

Saturday 2:30-4 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

pg. 18

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808 pg. 27

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny, 250-474-4800 pg. 15

pg. 18

2255 Henry, $469,000 pg. 27

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Wendy Herrick 250-656-0131

pg. 21

4030/4040 Borden St, $229,900

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Sutton West Coast Realty Fred Lerch, 250-889-2528

6728 Woodward pg. 9

Saturday 12-1:30 One Percent Realty Guy Efﬂer 250 812-4910

Sunday 12:30-2 Sparling Real Estate Ltd. Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511

pg. 18 Sunday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663

pg. 26

204-2360 James White, $224,900 pg. 18

20-1473 Garnet, $409,000

pg. 14

pg. 19

407-1009 McKenzie, $199,000 Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 384-7663

pg. 27

pg. 29

302-3724 Harriet, $214,900 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Allen Tepper 1-800-480-6788

1-3211 Shelley, $399,900

2013 Wenman Dr, $589,000

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Diana Winger, 250-384-8124

pg. 27

pg. 18

4105/07 Torquay Dr, $799,000

Saturday 2-3:30 The Condo Group, Burr Properties Ltd. Mike Janes, 250-382-6636

4806 Amblewood Dr, $799,000

Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Cheryl Ashby, 250-478-9141

2879 Inez Dr., $499,000

Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Cathy Duncan & Associates 250 658-0967

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Brad MacLaren, 250-727-5448

pg. 19

4360 Interurban Rd, $389,000

1905 Portway, $949,000

150-4488 Chatterton Way, $423,888

Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Jeff Shorter, 250-384-8124

Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Sandy Berry, 250-385-2033

4032 McLellan St, $437,000

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Goran Tambic, 250-592-4422

Saturday 2-4 MacDonald Realty Lorraine Stundon 250 812-0642

pg. 27

2882 Dysart, $639,900

4612 Cliffwood, $849,900

Sunday 1-3 Newport Realty Robert Buckle 250 385-2033

Saturday 12-2 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

101 Kiowa Pl, $1,295,000

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Goran Tambic, 250-384-7663

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Gary Bazuik, 250-477-5353

1428 Edgeware Rd., $549,900

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Garreth Jones, 250-744-3301

Saturday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara 250 384-8124

pg. 26

637 Kenneth St, $494,500

3942 Aspen Pl., $769,000

4038 Cumberland, $524,000

349 Lampson, $749,900 pg. 8

Sunday 11:30-1 Newport Realty Sandy Berry, 250-385-2033

pg. 1

512 Ridgebank, $542,000 Saturday 2-4 Sutton West Coast Mikko Ikonen 250 479-3333

402-940 Boulderwood Rise, $469,000

10-3235 Alder St, $279,900

1762 Howroyd, $499,000

pg. 3

Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer 250 384-8124

pg. 14

pg. 15

3991 Cherrilee, $759,000 pg. 14

pg. 6 Saturday 1:30-4 Century 21 Queenswood Mike Van Nerum 250 477-1100

Saturday 1-3 Re/Max Camosun Craig Walters, 250-744-3301

pg. 26

3926 Jean Pl, $649,000 Sunday 2-4 Duttons & Co. 250-383-7100

770 Claremont, $759,000 Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny 250-474-4800

pg. 11

Saturday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Brian Meredith-Jones 250 477-1100

pg. 31

1213 Cumberland Crt, $544,900

Saturday 3-5 Pemberton Holmes Andrew Mara 250 384-8124

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Rick Turcotte, 250-744-3301

300 Palmer, $784,800

Sunday 11-1 Re/Max Camosun Judy Campbell 250 744-3301

Saturday 2-4 Sutton West Coast Mikko Ikonen 250 479-3333

pg. 15

4404 Bartholomew

2280 Florence St

Saturday 2-4 Suzy Hahn Address Realty 250 381-7899

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Komal Dodd 250 479-3333

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ron Bahrey, 250-477-7291

46-901 Kentwood Lane, $445,000

Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Rick Shumka 250 384-8124

501-1235 Johnson, $199,000 pg. 10

pg. 18

202-940 Boulderwood, $434,900

314-999 Burdett, $569,000

623 Manchester, $459,000 Sunday 1-3 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Rosemarie Colterman 250 592-4422

Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty Marijane Smith, 250-385-2033

Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Realty Bill Chudyk 250 477-5353

Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Michael Luyt, 250-216-7547

2078 Newton Sunday 2-4 Boorman’s Realty Graham Bavington, 250-415-1931

4160 Springridge, $508,000

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Bill Carnegie 250 474-6003

4216 Shelbourne, $559,000

pg. 33

110-1035 Sutlej St, $449,000

405-1035 Southgate, $229,900 Sunday 2-4 MacDonald Realty Lorraine Stundon 250 812-0642

Saturday 2-4 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653

pg. 5

pg. 14

1590 Howroyd, $530,000

402-103 Gorge Rd E, $439,000

733A Humboldt Daily noon - 5 pm (exc Thurs & Fri) Fair Realty Ryan Bicknell 250 480-3000

Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Noah Dobson 250 385-2033

pg. 29

pg. 13

402-2210 Cadboro Bay, $310,000

705-845 Yates, $339,900

2-389 Tyee Rd, $579,000

pg. 14

3800 Hobbs, $789,000

412-225 Belleville St, $469,900 Sunday 1-3:30 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Bev Blumer, 250-415-6900

pg. 15

pg. 13

2625 Orchard Ave, $719,900

301-1488 Dallas, $469,900 Saturday 2-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Paul Holland 250 592-4422

Saturday 2-4 Kroppmann Realty Dale Kroppmanns, 250-478-0808

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Suzanne Mitchell, 250-477-7291

9-1529 Cooper Rd, $169,000 2921 Gosworth, $445,000

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Clifton Mak, 250 479-3333

4011 Birring Pl, $999,900

1565 Cedarglen Rd, $717,000

3-285 Superior, $499,000 Sunday 1-3 Newport Realty Marie Blender, 250-385-2033

pg. 14

107-991 Cloverdale Ave, $225,000 1480 Beach, $1,649,000

113-21 Erie, $515,000

859 Maddison, $649,900

21-4120 Interurban, $364,900 Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Suzanne Mitchell, 250-477-7291

835 Rogers, $628,000

4035 Cumberland Rd, $539,900

302-1318 Beach Dr, $374,900

754 Humboldt, $398,900

210-932 Johnson, $224,900

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Brown Brothers Real Estate Robert Young 250 385-8780

pg. 11

104-820 Short St, $349,000

101-75 Songhees, $690,000 Saturday 1-4 Sutton Group West Coast Bill MacDonald 250 479-3333

Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Corie Meyer 250 384-8124

Sunday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Shannon Jackson, 250-474-6003

pg. 13

3163 Balfour, $529,900

1606 Belmont Ave, $739,900 Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291

Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Rick Couvelier, 250-477-7291

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 Fair Realty Ray Kong, 250-590-7011

pg. 18

3614-1507 Queensbury, $339,000

2314 Richmond, $424,900

101-1790 Rockland, $239,900 Saturday 12-1:30 RE/MAX Alliance Ron Neal, 250-386-8181

pg. 12

1648 Richardson, $939,000

720 Tiswilde, $518,000 Open Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd John Almond 250 384-8124

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Daniel Clover 250 507-5459

204-1537 Morrison St, $249,900

615 Broughton, Daily 12-5 Sotheby’s International Realty Scott Piercy, 250-383-2999

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Roxanne Brass, 250-744-3301

631 Avalon Rd., $629,000

305-2920 Cook St, $315,000 Saturday 2-4 Newport Realty Sylvia Therrien, 250-385-2033

pg. 13

308-1342 Hillside, $185,000

828 Rupert Terrace Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Royal Lepage Coast Capital Murray Lawson 250 385-9814

901 McKenzie Ave, $439,900

1477 Finlayson, $524,900

2231 Shakespeare, $419,900

503-68 Songhees Rd, $419,000 Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Elena Plotnikoff, 250-818-3232

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Cassie Kangas 250 477-7291

NEWS

pg. 20

10371 Patricia, $460,000 pg. 27

Sunday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Scott Garman 250 896-7099

pg. 18

3963 Juan De Fuca

2463 Wilcox, $499,000

Saturday 2-4 Macdonald Realty Ltd Eleanor V Smith, 250 388-5882

Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Gabriella Pakos 250 384-8124

pg. 15

pg. 21

pg. 20

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This Weekendâ€™s Published Every Thursday

OPENHOUSES

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

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Sept.27-Oct 3 edition of

7448 East Saanich Rd., $484,900

7627 Wallace, $532,500

418 Jayhawk, $529,900

2742 Whitehead Pl, $329,000

3571 Desmond, $479,000

1145 Sikorsky Rd, $269,900

Saturday 10-2 Sutton West Coast Realty Jonas Solberg 250 479-3333

Saturday 1-3 RE/MAX Alliance Ron Neal, 250-386-8181

Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Deidra Junghans, 250-474-6003

Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Camela Slack, 250-661-4088

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ron Bahrey, 250-477-7291

pg. 22

Saturday & Sunday 12-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Mike Hartshorne 250 889-4445

pg. 6

7160 Francis, $575,000

pg. 31

pg. 20

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Des Dennis 250 477-7291

117-643 Granderson, $365,000

Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Giovanna, 250-477-5353

10383 Resthaven Dr, $479,900

pg. 20

Sunday 12-2 Pemberton Holmes Ltd Gregg Mah 250 384-8124

9216 Mainwaring, $589,000

pg. 25

Saturday 1-3 DFH Real Estate Wendy Herrick 250-656-0131

2588 Legacy Ridge

Sunday 1-2:30 Re/Max Camosun Adrian Langereis, 250-999-9822 pg. 21

pg. 26

1984 McTavish Rd, $479,900

pg. 6

727 Grousewood, $649,900 pg. 3

Saturday 2:30-4 Pemberton Holmes Shawn Adye, 250-384-8124

102-2733 Peatt Rd, $379,900 pg, 531236

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Re/Max Alliance Karen Love, 250-386-8875

Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Komal Dodd 250 479-3333

402-1240 Verdier, $328,500 Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty May Hamilton, 250-477-5353

920 River Rd, $400,000 pg. 8

Sunday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Mark McDougall, 250-477-5353

Saturday 11-1 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 477-7291

pg. 23

6660 Rhodonite, $289,900 pg. 22

pg. 22

Daily 1-4 Kahl Realty Jason Kahl 250-391-8484

Saturday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Patrick Achtzner, 250-391-1893

Saturday & Sunday 3:30-4:30 Re/Max Alliance Karen Love, 250-386-8875

pg. 23

B-2720 Phillips Rd., $470,000 Sunday 2:30-4:30 Pemberton Holmes Gregg Mah, 250-384-8124

pg. 28

Saturday & Sunday 1-3 Gallie Realty Barbara Gallie 250-478-6530

pg. 25

pg. 31

pg. 22

2698 Lakehurst Dr, $509,900 Saturday 12:30-2 SmartMove Real Estate Gary Brown, 250-380-6683

927 Jenkins Ave, $494,900 pg. 31

404-866 Goldstream, $339,900 Sunday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Doug Poruchny 250-474-4800

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Shirley Zailo 250-478-4828

681 Lombard, $699,000 pg. 5

2167 Blue Grouse, $775,000 Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Jeff Shaw 250 477-7291

Saturday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Kathryn Alexander, 250-479-3333

3431 Luxton

Sunday 2:30-4:30 Sparling Real Estate Ltd. Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511

771 Danby, $314,900

Saturday 2:30-4 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra, 250-380-6683

662 Goldstream Ave., $239,900 pg. 22

15-2070 Amelia Ave, $209,900 pg. 20

Sunday 2-4 Century 21 Queenswood Realty Jennifer Scheck, 250-477-1100

3080 Metchosin, $289,900

Saturday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Jason Binab, 250-744-3301

Sunday 2-4 Re/Max Camosun Ed G Sing, 250-744-3301

303-829 Goldstream Ave, $285,000

597 Ridley Dr, $438,900

1290 Lands End, $799,000 Sunday 2-4 JonesCo Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath 250-655-7653

Thursday - Monday 3-5 Gordon Hulme Realty Don King 250 656-4626

Saturday & Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jenn Raappana, 250-590-3921

2550 Crystalview Dr., $569,500

Saturday 2:30-4 One Percent Realty Guy EfďŹ‚er 250 812-4910

8930 Tumbo

7161 West Saanich

pg. 22

3286 Hazelwood, $479,900

pg. 20

1033 Damelart Way, $438,000

pg. 22

723 Percy Pl, $529,000

Sunday 1-3 Address Realty Ltd. Patrick Achtzner, 250-391-1893

1647 Dean Park Sunday 2-4 Sparling Real Estate Ltd. Trevor Lunn, 250-656-5511

pg. 21

104-10110 Fifth, $202,900

8650 East Saanich, $579,900 Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd Bill Carnegie 250 474-6003

pg. 36

Saturday 12:30-2 SmartMove Real Estate Blair Veenstra, 250-380-6683

3421 Sunheights, $449,900

2610 Selwyn Rd, $446,000 pg. 22

Sunday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Danielle Smith, 250-384-8124

THANK YOU!

pg. 23

pg. 21

Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Philip Illingworth, 250-477-7291

pg. 17

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th

Thanks to the following companies and organizations for supporting United Wayâ€™s 2012 Community Campaign through our Loaned Representative Program.

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Philanthropy

NEWS

The Victoria Foundation & Black Press Working Together – how philanthropy shapes our community 3

Unique learning opportunities support health and stability With the support of the community, many local organizations are helping kids and adults learn healthy ways to deal with difficulties in their lives. Below are a few of the recent groups that received a grant from the Victoria Foundation to offer educational programs with a difference. Living and Learning Through Loss is a program designed to help young adults between the ages of 13 and 18 deal with the experiences of significant loss in their lives. Good Grief Workshops provided in schools include classes on psychology, communication, peer counselling and leadership. In 2011 they delivered 77 workshops to over 2,300 youth in the Greater Victoria area and plan on delivering up to 130 this year reaching another 3,900 youth. The organization also offers support groups, individual counselling and crisis response and support. “Our Learning Loss Group programs continue to change the lives of youth in a more positive and healthy direction,” says Charlie Troger, Board Chair. Coming up on October 24th, the organization is delivering a three and a half hour workshop for individuals who work with youth and who would like to gain more understanding and tools to support them through grief and loss. More information can be found by calling Grief Education Program Director Shauna Janz at 250-857-9642 or visiting their website, www.teenloss.com. Power to Be provides adventure-based programs designed for youth and families in need of support. They look to help individuals deal with substance use, social isolation, economic disparity, physical health problems, discrimination and other issues that can cause some youth to become

discouraged and derailed in school and unable to function effectively. Through a collaborative approach and caring staff, they inspire connections with nature through an inclusive year-round outdoor education curriculum that promotes physical heath and emotional well-being, develops interpersonal and leadership skills, teaches environmental and social stewardship, offers peer mentorship, and supports community engagement and family connectedness. Visit www.powertobe.ca or call 250-385-2363. Power of Hope is a non-profit organization that delivers arts-based experiential learning programs to teens from diverse cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds, including a distinctive 8-day overnight summer camp. Though they take many forms, all programs are designed for youth to explore their creativity, learn from diversity, and express themselves through music, art, poetry, or hip hop to connect with others in a positive, supportive community. More information: www.powerofhope.org or call 250-381-4673. Bridges for Women inspires women impacted by violence or abuse to reclaim their lives by gaining employment, economic security, health, safety and independence. A range of services are offered, including programs aimed at employment, entrepreneurship and career mentoring. To sign up for computer training or other classes, visit www.bridgesforwomen.ca or call 250-385-7410. The Victoria Foundation is proud of its long-standing support of our region’s charitable organizations from all sectors, and of the donors who help to create smart and caring communities in our region.

Since 1936, the Victoria Foundation’s permanent endowment has had the power to connect people who care with causes that matter. If you wish to make a difference in your community – one that has lasting impact, start here. Call Sandra Richardson, CEO for information at 250.381.5532. www.victoriafoundation.bc.ca

THINK FAR-SIGHTED AND FAR-RANGING.

1. Learning and Living Through Loss partnered with Power to Be to give participants an opportunity to take part in a recent canoe trip. 2. Power To Be staff and participants gather for a photo on a recent outdoor experience. 3. Students enjoying the Hip Hop Hope! program put on by Power of Hope. 4. Bridges for Women welcomes female adults and youth who are preparing for employment.

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Arts & Culture Belonging & Leadership Economy Environment Getting Started Health & Wellness Housing Learning Safety Standard of Living Transportation

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Photos by Gunnar Freyr Steinsson To book events call 250-381-3484 or e-mail adminassist@vicnews.com

■ Saanich Volunteer Services Society 20th Anniversary ■ September 20 ■ McRae House grounds

Saanich Volunteer Services Society celebrates 20th anniversary Bill and Marguerite Bergmann.

Maxine Reed, Kathryn Beaumier and Dave Brown.

Heather Fetherston and Lisa Mort-Putland.

Volunteers Molli Holser, Laureen Matheson and Blair Matheson.

Saanich Coun. Paul Gerrard, Mike Goldsworthy, Nikki McWalters and Becky Goodall.

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Susan Zerb, executive director of Saanich Volunteer Services Society, and Saanich Coun. Paul Gerrard, cut the ribbon of the new Commemorative Wayfinder as Ida Chong, MLA for Oak Bay - Gordon Head looks on. Marianne Eng, Lynn Hanman and Margaret Ashmore.

Iris Dann and Carol Pickup cut the cake.

Tyler Sampson, Ian Gibbs and James Gartshore.

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Saanich seniors were well represented when nearly 100 volunteers, clients, supporters and staff gathered at McRae house to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Saanich Volunteer Services Society Sept. 20. Guests learned about the journey of “the little agency could” with reminiscences from guest speaker and founding member, retired Saanich councillor Carol Pickup. From its humble beginnings with just 13 volunteers and 30 clients the agency now boasts nearly 250 volunteers and over 1,030 clients! Volunteer activities include providing a neighbour with companionship and a supportive arm while visiting, a lift to appointments and other community events and many other neighbourly acts of kindness. The original mission to help Saanich residents live independently by providing coordinated volunteer services remains the focus of the organization today. Quoting event MC, past president Theresa Vogel, Saanich Volunteer Services Society chugs along, changing lives and circumstances one at a time, until, eventually, a whole municipality is the beneficiary of change. The significance of the volunteer services’ impact on the community was shared by Oak Bay - Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong, Coun. Paul Gerrard and current President Iris Dann, before Executive Director Susan Zerb and Gerrard cut the ribbon on the agency’s gift to the community, a commemorative interpretive sign installed on the Cedar Hill park chip trail adjacent to the society’s office. The sign features a beautiful graphic map of the park, samples of flora and fauna and a community bulletin board for posting neighbourhood information - a lasting legacy for all those who have contributed toward improving the lives of their neighbours.

Celebrating 20 years of Neighbours helping Neighbours

Call 250-595-8008 to find out how you can help by contributing time, ttalent or with a donation.

www.saanichvolunteers.org

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NEWS