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Tsawout First Nation Chief Eric Pelkey, seen here at the top of Mount Douglas in traditional clothing that’s been handed down to Tsawout hereditary chiefs for generations, is leading a day of action on May 22 to rename the mountain Pkols, its pre-colonial name.
First Nations act to reclaim name of Mount Doug Edward Hill News staff
When Victoria-area First Nations chiefs called for a meeting with colonial governor James Douglas 160 years ago, the peak of Mount Douglas was the natural spot. The 213-metre high rocky outcrop is ingrained in Saanich First Nation creation stories and culture, but it’s existing name is synonymous with what aboriginal people say are longstanding historical injustices. Tsawout First Nation Chief Eric Pelkey calls the name Mount Douglas an insult to local aboriginal people. The hereditary chief is leading an effort to have site given its ancient name, Pkols, once again. He plans to lead a march up Mount Doug today (May 22) at 5 p.m. for a symbolic renaming ceremony and a reenactment of the meeting with Douglas. “Renaming Mount Doug is to bring out to the public the significance of Pkols to Saanich and Songhees and Esquimalt. It is a sacred site and it means a lot to
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us,” Pelkey said. “This has been in the heart of our elders as long as I can remember to bring back the true name of Pkols, now known as Mount Doug.” University of Victoria indigenous governance professor Taiaiake Alfred said renaming of Mount Douglas is akin to renaming the Queen Charlotte Islands as Haida Gwaii. Victoria too is awash in place names rooted in aboriginal languages – Saanich, Sooke, Esquimalt, Metchosin and Malahat, to name a few. “The longer vision is not to erase the colonial history. We are not seeking to rename the whole park, just Mount Doug, we want to rename the peak to give it it’s proper name, as distinct from the park,” said Alfred, who is a member of the Indigenous Nationhood Movement.”This isn’t about looking for some kind of retaliation. It is looking to restore the balance and show respect for the original name.” The Douglas treaties, which arguably delineated Fort Victoria colonial territory and First Nations
territory, have their origins from a meeting on Mount Douglas in 1852 between Douglas the governor and a group of chiefs, Pelkey said. The chiefs had actually planned to kill Douglas and wipe out Fort Victoria in retaliation for a farmer killing an aboriginal youth, he said, but were convinced otherwise by a missionary. “The chiefs decided to spare James Douglas and not wipe out the colony and to live in peace, but they wanted a promise their way of life would be protected and their territory honoured,” Pelkey said. That discussion would become the Douglas treaties. “The fact that it is called Mount Douglas is a slap in the face for our people,” he said. “It’s where the Douglas treaties were signed in 1852 by James Douglas as a representative of the Queen. Since that day, successive colonial governments have not honoured those treaties.” Douglas established what would be Mount Doug Park in 1858 as government reserve land. The City of Victoria designated the land as a
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park in 1889 and it was transferred to the municipality of Saanich in 1992. “We wouldn’t move to remove the park status, just that this is Pkol and is a sacred place,” Pelkey said. “There are no land claims in the works.” Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said he’s never been asked formally or informally by First Nations leaders to rename the mountain. “There’s been no contact at all, and we haven’t given it any thought at all,” Leonard said. Saanich parks staff and police will be on hand to ensure the safety of the march with regard to vehicle traffic. “We will try to make sure it’s safe. After the event we’ll figure out where to go from there. If and when they contact us we’ll discuss it then.” The Reclaim Pkols march is tonight at 5 p.m. starting at the base of Mount Doug. The public is welcome and to watch the Douglas treaties reenactment at the top of the mountain. editor@saanichnews.com
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there were more symmetrical relations and felt empowered.” If 45 per cent of UVic FA members support unionizing, the Labour Relations Board would administer an official vote, which would then require 50 per cent support to unionize, Price explained. The Faculty Association has previously considered unionizing, but Price said that discussion never went beyond the executive council, and members always remained optimistic the relationship would improve. “There’s always been this hope we would not have to go to these types of legal protections, that we’d be able to develop a collegial responsibility. … It hasn’t happened,” Price said. “We’re not the only employee group on campus that have had difficulties. UVic is a great university, unfortunately it’s a poor employer.” In January the Faculty Association was unable to reach a contract agreement with the university by a set deadline. As a result, the association’s old framework agreement was automatically renewed. The association represents some 850 regular faculty, senior instructors, limitedterm faculty appointments and librarians. kslavin@saanichnews. com
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Greater Victoria board of education trustees have once again heard impassioned arguments on the safety of Wi-Fi, and the debate isn’t likely to end any time soon. Trustee Deborah Nohr, during an operations, policy and planning meeting on May 13, brought forward a motion to purchase a radiofrequency (RF) meter to regularly monitor electromagnetic radiation levels and ensure all are within limits set to a precautionary level of 1,000 microwatts per squaremetre. While the motion went unsupported by the committee on May 13, despite commentary from invited guests speaking to electromagnetic exposure and RF meters, the loss by no means marks an end to the questions around wireless Internet use in elementary schools. “While we’re getting all these (Internet) access points in our schools, we have no idea if we’re meeting Health Canada’s standards,” said Nohr, who planned on bringing forward an amended motion using Health Canada’s higher threshold to the board of education during the May 21 meeting after the News deadline. Nohr would like to see the meter brought to schools for testing, similar to how air quality tests are conducted. “I have a deep-seated opinion (that) health safety and the safety of children is prime,” she said, adding that the effects of Wi-Fi simply are not known.
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Parents need to talk tough At least twice each year we see a real push from police against drinking and driving. Once at Christmas and again in the spring. At Christmas, age is not a consideration for police, but in springtime, the target group is clear. Drinking drivers tend to be younger in spring around graduation time. They are, frequently, young men experiencing what some would call the rites of passage. Drinking and driving, however, isn’t a rite, it’s a crime – one with deadly consequences. More than two years ago the province introduced Canada’s toughest impaired driving laws and the number of alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths went down by half. But drinking alone is still a threat to our youth, whether they get behind the wheel of a car or not. From risky sexual behaviour to an increase in physical and sexual assaults to death from alcohol poisoning, the risk to youth from excessive alcohol use or drinking to get drunk, is real. With any luck, the days of parent-sanctioned “wet” grad parties are a thing of the past. With more parents and students concentrating on dry grad activities that have youth celebrating in a safe, non-alcohol fuelled atmosphere, one would think the old hay field parties of yore have been left in the past. But some parents still believe in the old adage, ‘kids are going to drink anyway, so we’ll just make sure they don’t drive.’ That is a difficult stance to take when, as a parent, you’ve spent the last 18 years of your child’s life trying to teach them right from wrong. Then you’re telling them that wrong is OK, as long as mom or dad says so. As parents, it’s our job to make the tough decisions – even if they are not the most popular ones with our kids. All their lives we’ve made decisions for our children based on what we think is best for them. We’ve denied them sugary cereals. We’ve made them eat their broccoli. We’ve strapped unwilling toddlers into car seats, because it’s the safest way for them to ride. It may not be the easiest thing you’ve done lately, but convincing your teen that drinking alcohol to celebrate is not a necessity and could bring them harm in ways other than the risk of driving drunk will make everyone feel better in the morning. What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@oakbaynews.com or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The OAK BAY 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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Polarized politics a costly system one more time. It was not a prelude One benefit of the surprising to “nationalizing” the province’s fourth term for the B.C. Liberal train service, dream scenarios of the party is that the provincial NDP provincial council government won’t be notwithstanding. subjected to another big, Costly legal expensive ideological confrontations over remake. development projects Taxpayers are spared have been avoided. The a bill of millions in Jumbo Glacier Resort severance pay for deputy proponents finally won a ministers and other senior 20-year fight for permits, staff who would be purged and the NDP promised to in large numbers in the take them away. left-right lurch that has A larger ideological defined B.C. politics for a Tom Fletcher battle over private power generation. B.C. Views contracts has also been B.C. Ferries will avoided. The B.C. Liberals continue as an arms-length have been caught by a sudden operation, with ferry commissioner shift in power markets caused Gord Macatee in charge of service by cheap, abundant natural gas, levels as well as fare caps. The but the billions in commitments service rationalization that the government set out in the past year to independent power producers isn’t the fiasco that critics have will continue. described. The NDP platform vowed to If all those privately developed “position B.C. Ferries as an integral run-of-river hydro projects were part of B.C.’s transportation owned and operated by B.C. Hydro, infrastructure.” Freely translated, the Crown corporation would have that means “suck B.C. Ferries back to staff them and maintain them into government,” as one of their all for the next 40 years. There are strident supporters likes to say. That would conceal the growth of differing views about the future demand for electricity in B.C., but the subsidy and facilitate the kind it can only rise with industry and of political and union interference population growth. that resulted in the current A decade of federal and provincial structure. work to end duplication of There will be no $10-million environmental assessment won’t rehash of the B.C. Rail sale and be undone. NDP leader Adrian Dix’s subsequent seven-year trial, to promise for “made in B.C.” reviews enrich elite lawyers once again. was a strategy to choke resource The NDP promised an inquiry for projects to death under endless strictly political reasons, to drag their opponents through the scandal procedure, which may yet be the
fate of the Jumbo resort. We will have a Seniors’ Advocate office, but it won’t be staffed up to duplicate the Ombudsperson’s role of taking complaints. That’s good, since the Ombudsperson has become ineffective, labouring for years over a massive seniors’ report with so many recommendations it sank like a stone. We have 85 seniors’ advocates now. They’re called MLAs, and they definitely take complaints. They have staffed offices in their home communities and in Victoria. When they’re not doing political work that everyone denies is going on in constituency offices, those office staffers try to help people through the labyrinth of seniors’ at-home and institutional care. A new seniors’ advocate can offer advice at the management level to help the health care system evolve, but only elected politicians are positioned to tell individuals they can’t have what they are demanding. The government should be adding more direct services, not more bureaucrats. There will be many arguments about the failure of the NDP to win against an unpopular B.C. Liberal government that is still weighed down by the harmonized sales tax and other heavy baggage. This election could be the beginning of the end for the old leftright model for B.C. politics. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com
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The recent letter, (Time costs money for sewage treatment, letters, May 15) is steeped in the notion that our present sewage system is a health risk and more expensive to build if we wait. Nothing could be further from the truth. A letter to the editor printed Feb. 24, 2008 was penned by six current and former public health officers holding top positions within the province, VIHA and CRD. They stated: “The undersigned public health officials (current and former) wish to make it clear that there is no measurable public health risk from Victoria’s current method of offshore liquid waste disposal. There have been claims to the contrary, but the facts do not support these claims.” A second misnomer from that letter and something that we hear repeated by opponents of any delay to obtain a workable plan, including politicians alike, is that by waiting, the cost of the system will be higher but only the capital costs
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Get going on green On a recent trip to the Oak Bay library I was unable to find an open parking spot – a bicycle parking spot that is. The two small bicycle racks were fully occupied. Given that the citizens of Oak Bay-Gordon Head have just voted in the first Green Party MLA in B.C., it is time for Oak Bay council and its staff managers to forge ahead with some of the ‘green’ project proposals currently before them, such as: add more bicycle parking in public spaces – use creative designs as seen in other cities; improve cycle and pedestrian safety at key intersections (e.g. Haultain/Foul Bay); introduce non-vehicular
pathways such as the Henderson corridor from Haultain to UVic; build a safe cycling route along Beach Drive; connect street cycling lanes with those in Saanich and Victoria; support safe walking and cycling to our schools; eliminate free car parking for municipal staff – an unnecessary and dubious perk. An astonishing number of students are now walking and biking to our elementary schools. These youngsters didn’t vote but their parents who are making the decision for them to walk and bike to school certainly did. Phil Wynne Oak Bay
Thank you for the coverage that you gave to the Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club annual open house (Bowl me over, News April 19). In spite of the cold, wet Sunday afternoon, we had more than 50 people drop in. They had a go at bowling and enjoyed tea or coffee with our members afterwards. Quite a few commented on the article that Kyle Wells had written, and the comments were all good. We certainly appreciate your attention and it was really beneficial for our club. Joan Roberts Oak Bay GUTTER CLEANING • WINDOW CLEANING • POWER WASHING
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With reference to last week’s B.C. election, please permit me to thank the following two bodies for the decisive Liberal victory: 1.) Jennie Kwan and her gang of 13 back-stabbers who brought down Carol James, arguably the most electable B.C. political figure since W.A.C. Bennett, and replaced her with the illustrious Adrian Dix, his forged document scandal, which would have landed him in jail were he anything other than a sycophant of the government then in power, dragging behind him like a ball and chain and who exudes all the charisma of a cross rib roast. Only someone as ill-qualified as he could have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by parlaying a 20-point lead into an
are ever compared. In the 1992 CRD referendum on sewage treatment, the cost of secondary treatment was estimated at $518 million to be split 50/50 with the provincial government. Half of that sum, $259 million becomes $408 million in 2012 dollars and when you add the estimated $54 million/year operating costs cited in that referendum over the last 20 years, which would have cost $1 billion and then conservatively add $300-400 million in interest payments from that six to eight per cent interest era, I estimate a cost savings of $1.6 billion by not building the system 20 years ago. Imagine sucking that amount of money out of our economy over the last 20 years. Now imagine sucking more than $2 billion over the next 25 year as the CRD plan will do for very little benefit. A better plan is needed to justify the cost. Richard Atwell Saanich
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Bateman Centre opens in Steamship Terminal Another side of noted artist to be on display Kyle Wells News staff
Robert Bateman doesn’t think of himself as a particularly talented technical painter. “I don’t think I’m a great painter, technically. I’m always struggling,” Bateman said. “I’m always making mistakes. … I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, I’m exploring and discovering and always trying to improve.” He sees this as a perhaps part of the reason his paintings have proven to be so popular for so many years, however. He explains hundreds of artists paint birds and wildlife, as he is known for, so it’s not the subject matter alone which draws people to his work. It perhaps has more to do with his approach, his vision of nature and this sense of discovery he approaches each project with. The Robert Bateman Centre is opening Saturday, May 25 at noon in the old CPR Steamship Terminal and will feature around 160 of Bateman’s works, ranging from his earliest years as an artist through to the wildlife paintings he has become so well known for. The exhibit will shed light on a side of Bateman few ever get the chance to see. An entire room has been devoted to Bateman’s environmental message
Bateman talking about the work, which “Most people don’t think of me as can be accessed via smart phones or somebody who paints landscapes and tablets. The gallery will have tablets to portraits, but I do. They just don’t get loan to patrons who wish to take the selfout there,” Bateman said. “I’ve always guided tour. kind of balked at being pigeonholed as Gilbert said he had some reservations a wildlife artist. It’s OK. It’s not an insult, installing the gallery in the old CPR but it’s kind of like saying Rembrandt is Steamship Terminal building, a heritage a portrait artist. Well he’s an artist in all building designed by Francis kinds of broad ways.” The second floor, Bateman even went through “I don’t know Rattenbury. where the gallery is located, an abstract expressionism was a shell, and Gilbert said period, which is represented what I’m doing had a hard time seeing at the gallery. half the time, I’m he how the gallery’s layout “That’s a major, major would all come together. show for any artist,” Paul exploring and Ultimately Gilbert is Gilbert, executive director discovering and more than happy with the of the Bateman Foundation, always trying to outcome. said. “It’s the first exhibition “It’s worked better than I that’s kind of an insight into improve.” could possibly have hoped Bateman’s life, his personal - Robert Bateman for.” interests, the work he did that A gift shop is set to open most of the world has never on the first floor of the building about seen.” a month after the gallery’s opening. A The show features original prints and service, which will be offered starting in reproductions, something Bateman said the fall, is an opportunity for visitors to has been a tad controversial. the gallery to order prints of the works on “It’s the only way to show the scope display through an interactive ordering Don Denton/News staff of my work. It would be impossible to station. Customers will pick the print they Roman Czarnomski, from Signs Of The start getting shipping and insurance want to purchase, along with options such Times, hangs a wall poster of a Robert and permissions,” Bateman said. “The as framing, and the print will be shipped Bateman painting on the outside wall of reproductions, which have been going to the customer’s home. the historic CPR Steamship Terminal on on since 1980, they’re very high quality, Money from the sales of prints will go they’re not just like a poster.” Victoria’s Inner Harbour. towards the Robert Bateman Foundation, “The most important thing is the which promotes exposure to nature for thought, the idea behind it.” paintings. Some of Bateman’s portrait young students. The majority of the paintings and prints work will also be on display, mainly kwells@goldstreamgazette.com have video and audio supplements of featuring paintings of his wife and friends.
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Robert Budd, left, and Roy Henry Vickers bring the artistry of their new book (inset) to a show at Madrona Gallery this weekend.
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Robert Budd has been lucky since birth. “When I was two-days old my brother named me Lucky. My parents named me Robert when I was seven days old. But everyone calls me Lucky,” says the 37-year-old author. His brother Adam, older by six years, did not want to add another sister to the family of four children. “He thought he was lucky to have another boy.” More than luck has brought Budd some notoriety, he is the host of CBC radio’s Voices of B.C. and author of the book Voices of British Columbia, in which he recounts the stories of B.C’s pioneers from hundreds of voice recordings taken in the late 1950s. Budd’s latest book, Raven Brings the Light, is a collaboration with one of the country’s renown First Nation’s artists, Roy Henry Vickers.
Vickers contacted Budd 18 months ago, searching for some recorded interviews he had used as inspiration for some of his art. The artist invited Budd to Tofino to listen to one of his storytelling workshops. “We hit it off like gangbusters,” says Budd of meeting 66-year-old Vickers. After hearing Vickers tell the story of Raven, Budd envisioned a book. “We just started rolling and he was completely inspired,” says Budd. Vickers created 19 new images for the book which tells the story of a boy named Weget who is destined to bring light to the world. With the gift of a magic raven skin, Weget fulfills his destiny. The book, released earlier this month is already in its second printing. Meet Budd and Vickers at a book signing and art show at Madrona Art Gallery, 606 View St., on May 24 and 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information go to harbourpublishing.com. llavin@vicnews.com
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Langford interchange to open in June Spencer Road traffic access to be closed
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atelynne Miller, 18, uses the crosswalk at Spencer Road to cross the Trans Canada Highway every day to attend classes at West Shore Learning Centre on Goldstream Avenue. On June 15 she will have to find a new route when the crosswalk closes at the same time as the Leigh Road interchange opens. “It’s sure going to be a hassle,” Miller said. “I’ll Charla Huber probably have to use the Millstream Reporting overpass.” The new route will add about 20 minutes to her daily commute. “It’s already taking me about 15 minutes to walk to school and half an hour to get to the gym,” she said. The City of Langford is looking into adding an overpass at Spencer Road for pedestrians and bicycles, but that would cost $2 million the city doesn’t have in the budget. “We are pretty confident it will be used and we will be looking for money from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure,” said Michelle Mahovlich, Langford’s
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Katelynne Miller uses the crosswalk at Spencer Road and the Trans Canada Highway twice a day. Leigh Road interchange, left, opens on June 15. director of engineering. While it’s “a lot of money” Miller said, “they will still need to build it.” Until the overpass is built, pedestrians and cyclists will need to cross the highway at either Millstream or Leigh roads. The interchange project went dormant after Leigh Road was extended to the highway and the bridge was installed in the summer of 2009. The Leigh Road interchange is now slated to open at 6 p.m. on June 15. “It was a quieter night to open
without weekday commuters,” Mahovlich said. “We also didn’t want to open it right before the Canada Day weekend.” Traffic patterns in the area will change as vehicles will be unable to cross the intersection of Spencer Road and the TCH. “A barrier will be placed across the road to the highway,” Mahovlich said. The traffic signal at the intersection will be deactivated and the three ramps at the Leigh Road interchange will open. People accustomed to making
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Barbs claim city rugby championship St. Michaels romp to Colonel Hodgkins trophy against GNS
about what it means to be a Barbarian from the time we’re in Grades 5 and 6. It’s passed down not just from older kids, but from our parents.” The Rams, to their credit, surged in the second half using its massive forward pack to barge ahead but couldn’t convert their work into tries.
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The Oak Bay Barbarians retained the Howard Russell Cup as Lower Island high school boys AAA rugby champions with a 39-17 win over the Mount Douglas Rams at Oak Bay High on Thursday. Grade 12 student Conor McDiarmid led the Barbs with a hat trick of tries. Captain Evan Cambridge scored the second try of the day as the Barbs used a well rounded attack to stymie the talented but new-to-rugby Rams. “The Rams are a team of great athletes, you can see that, and we had to use our skill and structure to win,” Cambridge said. Cambridge, a graduating senior and B.C. Youth 7s team member, will join the UVic Vikes rugby program next year. Vikes head coach Doug Tate was at the game watching his son, Barbs’ fly half Morgan Tate. On the opposite side of the field, Rams’ fullback Mason Swift gave the Barbs all kinds of fits. Swift is headed to play running back for the Guelph Gryphons football squad in the CIS this year and showed his skills are transferable. “Rugby’s in my blood, I’m half Tongan, but I never played until
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Mount Doug Rams flanker Sasha Shurvin tackles Oak Bay Barbarians captain Evan Cambridge in the Howard Russell Cup, Thursday (May 16) at Oak Bay High. The Barbs won 39-17. (last year),” Swift said. “Really I love it, but I just haven’t played enough.” Swift lined up at centre most of the season but was moved to fullback for the Howard Russell Cup by coach Matt Staples. And the decision paid off. “I think we’d rather face Swift at centre so he has less space to
start with,” said Cambridge. Swift’s runs almost always started from standing, at times on his heels, not that it mattered, as he casually slapped off at least two tacklers per carry. Early line breaks and a game’s worth of tackle breaks may have sapped Swift’s extraordinary fitness, though he continued to
break Barbarians’ tackles at half speed. Swift also managed multiple try-saving tackles including two during one set of Barbarian phases. The win is another notch in the historic rugby program so important to the Oak Bay High culture. “It means a lot to win this trophy,” Cambridge said. “We hear
The St. Michaels Blue Jaguars romped to a 56-5 win over the Glenlyon Norfolk Gryphons in the AA Colonel Hodgkins Cup immediately following the Howard Russell on Thursday. GNS fielded a team full of Grade 10s and 11s and to their credit, scored the try of the day to end the game, said Blue Jags coach Ian Hyde-Lay. All four above teams qualified for the first round of provincials, which happen Saturday (May 25) at Brentwood College. The No. 3 seed Blue Jags are missing a handful of key regulars and will likely call up some talented Grade 10s when they face No. 14 seed Ladysmith in AA play. The 11 seed Gryphons face McRoberts (Richmond). In AAA play No. 8 Oak Bay faces No. 9 Carson Graham and No. 14 Mount Doug draws No. 3 Earl Marriott. sports@vicnews.com
JumpShip postponed, ‘will return’ in 2014 Cycling Festival changes look without JumpShip and Tour de Victoria Travis Paterson News staff
The most popular spectator event of the Victoria International Cycling Festival is taking a one-year hiatus. Due to a lack of necessary sponsorship the JumpShip event will not happen in 2014, a blow to the Cycling Festival’s overall experience. It’s not for a lack of sponsors per se, but a lack of cash to cover the event’s costs, said Eban Tomlinson, JumpShip event director. “The current climate is sponsors want to give us in-kind and a festival this size needs $80,000 for indelible costs, for insurance and porta potties and the land, so it’s difficult for us.” JumpShip invites top stunt-jumping cyclists from all over the world to compete for cash prizes on a world-class course built on a barge at Ship Point. It’s been a huge draw for foot traffic to the festival’s final weekend the past two years and was slated to headline its own weekend
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Rain parted for sunshine and a crowd on the final day of the second annual JumpShip at Ship Point in June 2012. at this year’s festival, June 14 to 16. The barge draws a huge crowd of spectators, including hundreds in the neighbouring beer garden. Despite disappointment from JumpShip
fans feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, Tomlinson added. “Even if JumpShip is scaled down the event’s cash costs will remain the same,” Tomlinson said.
“Everybody understands if we can’t fund it we shouldn’t put it on. People are glad we’ve decided to postpone it rather than run a deficit so that we can make 2014 a much better year.” Planning has already turned to 2014 for JumpShip organizers. Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria, which ended smack in the middle of the Inner Harbour during the final weekend last year, has also moved dates. It will happen in September so Hesjedal can attend, post race season. “We’ve still got a slate of nine events and yes, it’s a shame to lose JumpShip, but we’re good to go and moving ahead,” said VICF chair John Briggs. “it is a loss for that particular weekend.” The VICF starts with the Robert Cameron Law Series on Friday, May 31, a weekend of road cycling stages with a time trial, road race and Bastion Square criterium. New this year to the VICF is Ride, Don’t Hide, a mass participation event to benefit the mental health of women and their families. Ride, Don’t Hide has three distances along Dallas Road to Oak Bay, 7.5 kilometres, 22 km and 29.5 km. It will be officially announced today at Oak Bay Bikes. sports@vicnews.com
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SPORTS STaTS Vancouver Island Secondary School Track and Field Championships May 15 & 16 at UVic Outstanding Female Athlete Agnes Esser (Frances Kelsey) Discus record, 49.75 m, Shot Put record, 13.55 m Outstanding Male Athlete Thomas Getty (Mount Douglas) 3,000m Record 8:34.93 Most Inspirational Athlete Thomas Getty (Mount Douglas secondary) 1st 800m 1:56.68 1st 1,500m 4:00.29 1st 3,000m 8:34.93 New Records Chicago Bains (Quamichan) Bantam Girls 80m Hurdles ,11.97 seconds Brendan Hoff (Carihi) - Bantam Boys 3,000m, 9:11.40
Thomas Getty (Mount Doug) - Sr. Boys 3,000m, 8:34.93s Brody Brubacher (Lambrick Park) Bantam Boys 300m Hurdles 43.78s Agnes Esser (Francis Kelsey) - Sr. Girls Discus, 49.75 m Seever Rondquist (Timberline) Bantam Boys Javelin, 52.12m Brendan Hoff (Carihi) Bantam Boys 1,500m, 4:11.43s Agnes Esser (Francis Kelsey) - Sr. Girls Shot Put, 13.55m Chicago Bains (Quamichan) - Bantam Girls 300m Hurdles 44.70s Callum Montgomery (Dover Bay) - Jr. Boys 400m 53.93s Max McCullough (Oak Bay) - Bantam Boys 1,500m Steeplechase, 4:52.21s
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Eye hazards in the backyard Some day soon the rain will stop, and we will venture outdoors to do dour bit in making Victoria “the Garden City”. Before setting out to tame your own personal wilderness, stop and think about your eyes (and other body parts). Pruning and trimming can be hazardous. A branch snapping back and hitting the eye can cause mechanical damage and possibly toxic reaction or infection. A projectile, from a weedeater or lawnmower, can also cause serious damage to your body. Perhaps you use an arsenal or herbicides and pesticides to help control your garden? Or you have a pool which requires chlorine? These chemicals aren’t eye-friendly either. If you do splash a chemical in the eye, flush the eye immediately with vast, huge, enormous quantities of clean cold water; then go to Emergency if necessary. The good news is that eye protection is simple and inexpensive. Safety glasses and goggles that fit over prescription glasses are all that is required, and you can find them in your local hardware store. Our local eye surgeons would rather spend their weekends with their families than treating ocular injuries that are easily prevented. Have a happy and safe spring and summer.
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Sterk to stay on Christy Clark in no rush to seek seat as Green leader Tom Fletcher
gathered at the Vancouver cabinet offices. “You guys get this stuff for free,” Clark said. “You should take it for what it’s worth.” Results don’t become official until May 27, Premier Christy Clark said she will wait and there could still be changes in current legisuntil election results are finalized and she has lature: 50 B.C. Liberals, 33 NDP MLAs, B.C. Green met with her 49 MLAs before deciding where Andrew Weaver and Delta South independent to seek a seat to replace the one she lost last Vicki Huntington. Huntingon won re-election in Tuesday. Delta South, a landmark for an independent to NDP challenger David Eby defeated Clark win twice without party affiliation. by more than 700 votes in Vancouver-Point Independents Bob Simpson in Cariboo North Grey, knocking on doors while Clark traveled the province on the leader’s tour. Jenna Hauck/Black Press and John van Dongen in Abbotsford South, fell At a news conference, Clark shrugged off Premier Christy Clark to their B.C. Liberal challengers. A high-profile climate scientist, Weaver benthe loss, saying the seat was closely conat a campaign stop tested when Gordon Campbell held it and in Chilliwack, where efited from the same highly concentrated camthat she also had little time to campaign candidates won seats. paign effort that produced a seat for national Green leader Elizabeth May. there. Clark said she regrets the loss of cabinet Asked repeatedly about polls that predicted ministers Ida Chong and Margaret MacDiarmid, but she is her doom, Clark noted that she discussed that briefly with pleased to have a balance of 25 returning MLAs and 25 newPrime Minister Stephen Harper when he called to congratucomers in the B.C. Liberal caucus. late her on winning the party’s fourth term. tfletcher@blackpress.ca And she offered some advice on polling to reporters who
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Leader to take party through a transition phase Daniel Palmer News staff
The leader of the B.C. Green party no longer intends to step down, promising instead to help the party’s first MLA adjust to life in the legislature. Jane Sterk said she was convinced to stay on as party leader at a May 15 meeting with MLA-elect Andrew Weaver, who made history by winning in Oak Bay-Gordon Head the night before, and the party’s executive director and chair. “We have to sort out what Andrew’s role will be and how the party and I can support him in that role,” Sterk said. “Since we’ve never had a candidate elected, it will take some time to figure out what that’s going to look like.” Weaver will likely hire four staff members and begin setting up his constituency office in the coming weeks, said Sterk, who took 38 per cent of the vote in Victoria-Beacon Hill last week but failed to clinch the seat. Incumbent NDP MLA Carole James received nearly 49 per cent support to retain her seat in the legislature. Despite her personal defeat, Sterk said the Greens are reinvigorated by Weaver’s win and are already focused on the upcoming byelection in which Premier Christy Clark will seek a return to the legislature. Clark lost her seat in Vancouver-Point Grey to the NDP’s David Eby on election night by 785 votes, but she will remain B.C. Liberal leader. The date for the by-election has not yet been announced. The Greens plan to create constituency associations across the province and increase their membership base, building on the success of Weaver in the coming years. “Everybody is absolutely thrilled that it was Andrew who got elected because he is a scientist, he has that evidence-based decision-making perspective, and that makes him a stronger MLA than if he was coming from a highly partisan position,” Sterk said. “We’re looking forward to this being a stepping stone to much more success for the party.” dpalmer@vicnews.com
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