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Pretty as a picture Ming, a Shih Tzu Bichon Frise cross, owned by Toni Burnett is unsure about the photographer, but thoroughly enjoying the pampering while being groomed by Kadie Armstrong at the Mucky Mutt Pet Salon. The newly opened pet grooming salon also features a U-Bath where do-it-yourself owners can use the raised bathtub to wash their pets. See the story on page A5.

Funding for literacy outreach programs across B.C. is being slashed as the province struggles to balance its books, and Greater Victoria co-ordinators say the move will force them to shut down operations. Kate Nonesuch, chair of Literacy Victoria Task Force, said a funding decrease from $30,000 in 2013 to $13,000 this year means outreach work will soon grind to a halt. A similar West Shore program will receive just $9,000 in funding. “We cannot possibly just dribble away our work on $13,000 across the board,” Nonesuch said. “As of Sept. 1, our work will have to finish.” The B.C. Ministry of Education funds literacy “As of Sept. 1, outreach across B.C. by our work will have allocating grants to Decoda Literacy Solutions, a non-profit to finish.” organization. Decoda then - Kate Nonesuch distributes those grants to 102 community organizations who use the cash to hire a part-time literacy outreach co-ordinator. Funding for outreach programs was cut from $2 million to $1 million in 2013, but former education minister Don McRae later reinstated that funding. In a March 2013 interview, McRae said Decoda did “outstanding work in communities large and small across the province.” But this year, current Education Minister Peter Fassbender isn’t bending to pressure from literacy advocates. Victoria co-ordinator Jan Dupuis said she often works with poor and immigrant populations through workshops at Our Place, the Inter-Cultural Association and elsewhere who need access to literacy training to land a job. “There was no consultation from the ministry on this, and we understood it had support across the board,” Dupois said. “It means you lose the momentum of those people and the community around literacy that isn’t just covered through the school system,” added Shantael Sleight, West Shore co-ordinator. Please see: Fleming: cuts ‘stupid’, Page A11

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Bishop Logan McMenamie sets a new course for more than 8,000 Anglicans on Vancouver Island Kevin Laird News staff

When most eight-year-old Scottish boys were fixated on soccer, Logan McMenamie was pondering God. So it’s not much of a stretch to learn that McMenamie, 63, became the 13th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of B.C. earlier this month. But that’s just part of the story. How does a boy who grew up in the presbyterianbased Congregational Church of Scotland end up the spiritual leader for thousands of Anglicans from Victoria to Kingcome Inlet? “For me it was a surprise that I ended up in an Anglican church,” McMenamie says from his synod office at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria. “While I was in (theological) school I never thought I’d be bishop. I never committed to that idea.” Those around him thought otherwise. McMenamie says his father saw him as quite spiritual in nature from an early age. His only question now is why his son became an Anglican. Rev. Canon Sue House, an associate priest at Christ Church Cathedral, says McMenamie always possessed the qualities of a good bishop. “I think the world of Logan,” says House, who has known and worked with McMenamie for almost 30 years on Vancouver Island. “He’ll make an amazing bishop.” “He has a very incredible ability to listen and take what he’s heard and bring it to fruition. He’s honest, hopeful and faithful. He’s very creative.” ••• McMenamie grew up in Greenock, Scotland, outside of Glasgow. His hometown was known for its shipbuilding industry and ports. At age 15, like most, he left school to work in the shipyards. From the shipyards he went into other industries and ended up in the engineering field. He met his wife Marcia, a Victoria resident, in Scotland. The pair moved to Canada as a young couple, first to Vancouver, then Port Alberni. “When I came to Canada, I was not going to church,”

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Bishop Logan McMenamie became the 13th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of B.C. earlier this month. He’s ready to take on many of the challenges the church faces. McMenamie says. He returned to church after his wife started attending an Anglican parish in Port Alberni. Friends and colleagues he knew attended the same church. And that’s where many things began to fall into place. Once inside the church walls, it wasn’t long before McMenamie was teaching Sunday school and becoming a youth leader. Soon afterwards he pondered the idea of entering the ministry. “It wasn’t a road to Damascus type of feeling,”

McMenamie says. “It wasn’t like I saw the light. I had a good (Christian) foundation from my early life.” McMenamie’s religious foundation was built years earlier in Scotland. It was the encouragement of family, friends and clergy that compelled him to go to theological school in Vancouver. He was ordained at age 37. McMenamie served as pastor in Port Hardy, Ucluelet, Duncan and Nanaimo before becoming rector and dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria seven years ago. As bishop, McMenamie will lead a diocese that has 43 churches, and serves more than 8,000 Anglican parishioners. McMenamie says his role won’t just be administrative. “The role of the bishop is that of shepherd,” he says. “A bishop must always be a pastor to his people.” He expects to travel to churches throughout the diocese, attending special events and forging ahead with new ideas to help the church grow. In recent years, the diocese has been forced to close 11 parishes and to reallocate resources. It was an idea first mulled by the Anglican church in 1968 but it was the “courageous leadership” of McMenamie’s predecessor, Bishop James Cowan, that made it happen and ultimately the church grew stronger. “It was difficult and painful,” McMenamie recalls. “Once you start closing down parishes then you are closing places where people have had their children baptized, got married, buried their loved ones. People have now come to terms with that.” The church now is going through, as McMenamie sees it, a resurrection. Special teams have been formed to look at reshaping the vision of diocese over the next three to five years. And there’s work to do externally, too. McMenamie believes the church needs to be out in the community more, engaged in societal issues. “We have something to say as Anglicans, as Christians, in relationship to why there is poverty, why there is homelessness, why there (are) people facing addictions and mental issues. I’m hoping we get involved in all those conversations within the city.” And while growing the church is a priority, McMenamie says, it’s not the only priority. “We’ve tried a lot at drawing people into the church. We tried to do it with being clever with our worship. We’ve tried a lot of different ways. Most folk in our culture today don’t respond to the institution. They think Jesus is pretty cool, but they don’t want to belong to the church.” McMenamie says if the church is out doing the work it’s called to do by Jesus, then people will want to join the church. “People want ritual in their life. People want a connection with God. They don’t want an argument about God. They want to experience God. I’ve always tried, for those seeking a spiritual life … to give them that experience of God.” McMenamie and his wife Marcia have seven adult children and seven grandchildren. klaird@blackpress.ca

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A $5,000 donation by Carlton House to the Oak Bay Seniors Activity Association was met with stunned silence by a surprised group of seniors at a recent meeting. The donation, which will go towards replacing the sound system inside the Garry Oak room at Monterey Centre, was made at the association’s annual general meeting on Monday, March 10. “There was dead silence and there were 53 people in

equipment. the room for the AGM,” said Carlton House community association president Ena relations manager Alanna Cooke. “People couldn’t get Hardinge-Rooney said the over it. It was a very generous donation was made because donation.” they wanted to help out the Cooke said the current seniors’ association and show sound system, consisting of old their support. speakers mounted “A lot of our in two corners of “People residents are the room, is of poor members there,” quality and has been couldn’t get Hardinge-Rooney in need of replacing over it. It was a said. “We give for years. very generous out community “There are these donations every two big things donation.” year … and we booming out but the - Ena Cooke wanted to keep it a sound won’t reach little more local this the entire room,” time. Cooke said. “People sitting in “We wanted to give back to the back or on the side couldn’t the community and continue hear anything.” A number of smaller speakers developing that relationship that we already have with the will be purchased and installed (seniors’ centre).” throughout the room, along reporter@vicnews.com with other sound system

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Vanessa Petrovic’s new Oak Bay business is for the dogs. Last month, Petrovic expanded her Mucky Mutt Pet Salon with the opening of a second location in Oak Bay. The new salon at 105-2250 Oak Bay Ave. in the lower level of Monterey Mews, offers fullservice dog grooming, nail clipping and bathing, as well as a U-bath service for the do-ityourself owner. Opening a second location has been on Petrovic’s radar since she purchased the 21-year-old business located on East Burnside Road in 2010. During peak time in the summer, she books grooming appointments two weeks in advance. The U-bath is an extremely popular option as bathing dogs at home can be messy and difficult for people who don’t have the space. The raised bathtub provides an alternative to washing medium and large breed dogs in the household bathtub or backyard. “I was looking at Hillside, as that’s very much in the middle of the city,” Petrovic said. “I had

delivered company tailored been looking for a few years, messages to people waiting just keeping my eyes open and on hold while music played, then this location in Monterey before leaving to spend time Mews came up. I walked in and with her aging parents. Eight thought, this is it. This would years ago, she began looking work.” for a new career and got a partPetrovic started renovating time job at a kennel. She took the space in October and had various courses and then got planned to open in January, a job working with animals for however because it was an the Capital Regional District, older building, the space before deciding to purchase the needed more work than was Burnside pet salon. anticipated. She The Oak Bay spent almost $50,000 “I wanted it location of Mucky in renovations and to be top-of-the- Mutt is open six a further $20,000 for equipment. line from the get- days a week and has everything “I wanted it to go.” that the Burnside be top-of-the-line - Vanessa Petrovic location has, except from the get-go,” cat grooming. Petrovic said. “It has Cat grooming takes a certain everything I want in a grooming expertise and Petrovic wants to shop.” wait before she starts offering A true animal lover, Petrovic it at her Oak Bay location. She has two dogs and two cats has six employees between the – and she shares the love two stores with plans to hire with Broken Promises Animal two more. Rescue. For every walk-in nail “Business is picking up,” clipping her salon does, she Petrovic said. “We have a solid donates $1 to the Victoria noncustomer base coming from profit, last year, $2,500 was Oak Bay that used to come to donated to the animal rescue the Burnside shop. Like any organization. new business, it’s going to take Before getting into the pet a little time. Fifty per cent are salon business, Petrovic owned new clientele.” a hold messaging service reporter@vicnews.com business for 12 years, which

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Sex clinic meets an unmet need The news that the Saanich-based Island Sexual Health Clinic may be forced to close its doors due to a funding shortfall has us worried about a future devoid of the desperately needed services it provides the community. Island Sexual Health Society touts itself on its website as being “more than just birth control.” It’s a shame that after so many decades serving the community, the society still needs to stress that it does more than just hand out condoms to high schoolers. After 44 years in operation, it’s impossible to know exactly how many PAP exams and sexually transmitted infection tests it has administered. What we do know is that these tests save lives through the early detection of diseases like cervical cancer and HIV/AIDS. More than 26,500 Greater Victoria residents use the clinic every year, most of whom don’t have a family doctor. These patients could soon be shut out of much-needed health services. But prevention is the best medicine when it comes to sexual health, and it’s the potential loss of Island Sexual Health’s education programs that we fear will have the most resounding impact on our community. At many schools, sex ed isn’t a constant part of the curriculum – it’s often covered in one afternoon session. The ease of access to sex-related information, photos and videos on the Internet has taken the place of healthy education for youth and teenagers of late. Island Sexual Health has been working with the Capital Region’s three school districts to educate students in age-appropriate, accurate and realistic ways on safe sex, puberty, pregnancy and birth control. If Island Sexual Health is forced to scrap its program, and sex ed returns to being treated as the elephant in the classroom, students will not be prepared to make smart, healthy decisions. And isn’t school about preparing them as much as we can for all they face in life? We can point fingers at government or health agencies for the lack of funding, but it won’t do any good. Island Sexual Health is in desperate need of our financial help, and we owe it to the society, for the health of our community. 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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NDP’s survival on the line least two trips, one to Vienna and The B.C. NDP leadership contest Bristol, England to do “research” is officially underway, with the and attend a poverty conference in entry of Vancouver Island veteran high-end hotels. John Horgan in a reluctant reprise If it wants to retain of his 2011 run against any shred of credibility Port Coquitlam MLA Mike as it spouts misleading Farnworth. poverty statistics and Unfortunately for them, simplistic solutions, the weekend campaign events party must get rid of were overshadowed by Kwan, who has two years revelations of flagrant left to max out her MLA abuse of taxpayers’ money pension. by the executive and MLA pensions were a board of the Portland factor in the 2010 ouster Hotel Society. A pair of Carol James, who of audits released last Tom Fletcher infuriated the old guard week on this network B.C. Views by trying to defuse a of Downtown Eastside public backlash against a social agencies revealed systematic looting of the $28 million generous pay and benefits package worked out in private between the a year in taxpayers’ money that has NDP and the B.C. Liberals. Kwan kept this supposed charity running. Alas for the NDP, local MLA Jenny would later take a leading role in the caucus revolt that forced James Kwan not only failed to keep an out as leader. eye on it, her recently separated Long-time political watchers husband was one of the executives will see the PHS abuse as a bigger, who took part for years, and she uglier version of the Nanaimo benefited to the tune of $35,000 in Commonwealth Holdings Society luxury travel. That’s what we know scandal. There, the siphoning off about, since much of the evidence of bingo funds from charities cost wasn’t produced for the auditors. Mike Harcourt his job as premier. When this Lifestyles of the Rich In that case, NDP MLAs sat on the and Famous scheme finally came board, took their monthly cut and to light, Kwan hastily paid back kept quiet. the $35,000 and announced she’s There’s more. Horgan became taking an unpaid leave of absence. enraged last year at the reporter Her tearful claim that she believed who took a tip from the B.C. nothing was wrong is simply not Liberals to reveal the NDP was credible. She not only must have skimming constituency office known of her husband Dan Small’s budgets to pay for its own “ethnic jet-set ways, she participated in at

outreach” operation in Vancouver. Horgan had rubber-stamped the plan with a since-dismissed legislature accountant, and thought he had kept it secret after the Auditor General blew the whistle. His willingness to assess its ethics remains in question to this day. Then there is Craig Keating, who took over as party president from Moe Sihota last year. Did he inherit the $72,000 salary negotiated by Sihota with the B.C. Federation of Labour and two of its largest unions? If so, do Horgan and Farnworth think this is appropriate? Will the party’s joined-at-thehip relationship with government unions even be discussed in the carefully staged leadership contest that’s about to begin? Then there’s the policy shipwreck left behind by Adrian Dix. His plan to use environmental assessment as a weapon to torpedo industrial projects remains popular with the party’s urban base. Farnworth and Horgan have paid lip service to the notion that projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion should be properly assessed. Meanwhile the federal NDP fights to keep stacking public hearings with pre-selected protesters. The party may wish to consider what would give its next B.C. leader any hope of governing. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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I doubt Victoria residents would be happy about a cull for this reason alone. Some have argued that the deer were here first. This is not rational – human communities have displaced habitat since we started grouping together thousands of years ago. Another said that the deer would not be coming to town if humans had not destroyed their habitat. This is pure nonsense. We have not destroyed the deer habitat. Ask any hunter. There are more deer in the province now than at any time in the last few generations. Logging has created much richer habitat for the expansion of their population. Wild populations tend to expand into all available, safe and viable environments. I believe there are more deer in our city now, for the most part, because there are no predators or animals to harass them. As a boy, we put our dog out in the morning and brought him in before dinner. He was too small

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I have been amused and sometimes frustrated following the back and forth arguments of car vs. deer and cull vs. keep, in our local Oak Bay News. Many of the arguments are emotionally charged and illogical in their appeal. These are the ones I find frustrating and should not sway our opinion on what should be done. I was raised in Oak Bay and am glad to be back here in my “home” community. Despite what some people may claim, the sight of a deer in Oak Bay in the ‘50s and ‘60s, especially South Oak Bay, was extremely rare if ever. I never saw a deer in Oak Bay until I returned in 2001. Previously, it was argued that humans are superior. A silly argument – unless you mean more intelligent, i.e. rational. Another will say that deer should be removed because “they eat my roses” etc. Yes they do a lot of damage in gardens, public and private, but

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Camosun College expands with new trades school Christine van Reeuwyk News staff

Construction of a new trades school kicked off with fanfare at Camosun College’s Interurban campus. The province’s Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk joined faculty, staff and students to break ground on the $30-million trades centre. “Throughout British Columbia, we are building skills and trades training through targeted investments in infrastructure, equipment and programs,” Virk said. The Centre for Trades Education and Innovation, a 7,432-square-metre building, will house a marine and metal trades training program that will include welding, sheet metal, metal fabrication, nautical and ship building, and more. The existing trades facilities will also be refurbished as part of the project. The new facility will accommodate an additional 370 full-time equivalent seats

in trades training programs. Currently, the college has more than 2,200 students each year in 20 different trades foundation and apprenticeship programs. “This new facility will help propel our college and our region to the very forefront of trades education and innovation,” said Camosun president Kathryn Laurin. “Not only will it allow Camosun to expand into new program areas like renewable energy and ship building, but it will provide our trades students the unique opportunity to learn from related disciplines like business and technology, and take part in practical, hands-on experiences through our emerging partnerships with industry.” The new Centre for Trades Education and Innovation is expected to be complete in the summer 2015. The overall project, including renovation to the existing Jack White and John Drysdale buildings, is expected to be complete in spring 2016. reporter@saanichnews.com

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Opposition education critic and Victoria-Swan Lake MLA Rob Fleming called literacy B.C. Ministry of outreach program cuts Education spokesperson an “economically stupid Ben Green said the decision,” as Decoda partnership with Decoda leverages funding with has helped develop a donations and relies community-based literacy on volunteer task force model and has improved committees. literacy awareness, “In the fall of last year, coordination and the importance of literacy outreach across B.C. programs was expressed He said while the “This by all sides of the house government recognizes at the bi-partisan finance the significance of that is about committee,” Fleming said. partnership, it remains “This is about supporting committed to maintaining supporting people who want to a balanced budget. people improve themselves, and “The (Education) who want live a dignified, better Ministry provided more life and get into paid than $27 million to to improve employment … This is literacy programs across themselves, not a lot of money, but B.C. last year, including it’s money necessary StrongStart centres, and live a to support an efficient the Ready, Set, Learn dignified, service that’s provided program, the Changing Results for Young better life.” right across British Readers program as well - Rob Fleming Columbia.” Fleming said he’ll urge as funding for public Fassbender and Premier libraries,” Green said. Christy Clark to reinstate the $1 The Raise a Reader program also million grant in the coming weeks. receives $500,000 annually from dpalmer@vicnews.com the province, he said. Continued from Page A1

Studio reconnects with lost art of photo developing Kyle Wells News staff

Nowadays when one thinks of a photograph the likely association is a duck-faced selfie taken on an iPhone with no print life beyond an Instagram posting. For some though, this simply will not do. Victoria’s Luz Studios is in the business of making the old new and the new old, using seemingly antiquated techniques to add an old-fashioned spin to modern photography. Kyle Wells/News staff Through owners Quinton Gordon Quinton Gordon and Diana Millar are making what's old and Diana Millar’s own work, as new through their photography business Luz Studios. well as through workshops run portrait. by the couple, the studio strives “There’s a slowness in there and you actually towards bringing a hands-on relationship back to get to connect and relax,” Millar said. “There’s the process of capturing images. that one picture and you can be part of that “It was the frustration of the digital age process almost from start to finish.” taking it further and further away from being The pair run workshops on a variety of physically connected to what you’re doing,” photographic mediums and have run tintype Gordon said of the idea behind founding the workshops in locations such as schools and a studio. “There’s muscle memory in all of it. It’s farm in Saanich. They have built portable dark what craftsmanship is, it’s you have to develop a boxes which can be used in the field to develop hand and an intuition for it, as well as a technical photos. knowledge.” Workshops are often geared towards youth, One of the main techniques the studio uses is but also adults who are interested in trying the collodion process, a wet plate photographic their hand at some old time plate and film process developed in the 1850s and used during photography. For some youth especially, the old the American Civil War. Specifically, the pair work technology can be quite a shock. in tintype, a colloidal process which creates a “One of the boys comes up to me and is like direct positive image on metal. ‘I think broke the camera,’ and it was actually The process itself is one of speed and the film rewinding, that sound. He had no idea,” precision. The photographer has about 10 to 15 minutes to prepare the plate, take the photograph laughed Millar. “We know the excitement we get from making this art, and so the workshops are a and develop the image, or else it simply will not great way to filter that down.” work. For more information on the studio, memberDespite the notable clarity and detail of the ships for access to darkrooms and workshops image, the nature of the process was seen as a visit luzstudios.com. major limitation and it fell out of favour when kwells@goldstreamgazette.com the new, more convenient gelatine dry plate technology came along. “We’re drawn to the characteristics of photography that originally were seen as its limitations,” Gordon said. “The need to work with that immediacy.” Millar said the process is also unusual for the person being photographed, in the case of a

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Aiko Sutherland fears the day she must turn in her license. Getting her licence at 18, like for many teens, was a right of passage, freedom of mobility and a step closer to adulthood. However, after a lifetime of driving, the 82-year-old wonders when she will have to permanently hang up her car keys. “I have never taken a driving test and I thought at 82, I would have to,” Sutherland says. “I was asking a guy at ICBC and he said my driver’s licence is good until my birthday, in July, so maybe that’s when I’ll have to.” Sutherland already limits her driving to daytime only, sticking to familiar routes. She is aware her response time to a sudden road hazard may not be as quick as a younger person and she is concerned about her eyesight, which deteriorates for most people as they age. However, she recently had a medical exam and her doctor said she was fine. For Jean Connon, 76, giving

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Originally from the Philippines, Norma Tolentino, 84, moved to Canada in 1981 and she has been living in Oak Bay for five years. She worked as a nanny and housekeeper before retiring in 1996, but she continues to keep busy. “I am a choir member at St. Patrick’s Church and I am active with the Filipino Canadian Association,” Tolentino says. “I also sing and dance.” Tolentino also likes giving back to the community and helping those who are less fortunate and in need. She often cooks for people at a soup kitchen and enjoys caring for sick people. In life, she has always tried to follow three edicts her parents instilled in her: be honest, work hard and be true to herself.

However, Victoria psychiatrist Dr. Ian Gillespie, who sat on the driver fitness advisory group for the office of the superintendent of motor vehicles, says age and driving ability is not directly related, but that the medical conditions that can affect driving becomes more common in older people. “There are people who are 55 who do not have the cognition to drive and there are many competent drivers in their 90s,” Gillespie says. He says all drivers should have a driving retirement plan. On average, senior men live about 10 years after giving up their licence while

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computer analogy and ask: If this is true, why do I have to buy a new laptop every five years? Regardless, I love the part where the researchers say it is faulty to assume that aging leads to a steady deterioration of brain function. They discovered that most standard cognitive measures are flawed, confusing increased knowledge for declining capacity. The team used computers programmed like humans to support their theory. When a computer absorbed a limited amount, its performance on cognitive tests resembled that of a young adult. However, exposed to data that mirrored a lifetime of experiences, its performance looked like that of an addled senior looking for his sandals. The researchers concluded: “It is time we rethink what we mean by the aging mind before our false assumptions result in decisions and policies that marginalize the old or waste precious public resources to remediate problems that do not exist.” That got me thinking about how we assess the cognitive skills of drivers over the age of 80. In B.C., the government’s DriveABLE program measures the mental agility of seniors by way of a cognitive com-

puter test. This testing has been widely criticized as intimidating and foreign to many seniors’ skill sets. Seniors who fail this test – and many do – must submit to a nervewracking road test. If the Cognitive Science team is right, we are obliged to ask if seniors are failing DriveABLE’s cognitive testing because they are dulled by old age or because they simply aren’t given enough time to

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Carmen MacLean, 77, was born in Montreal and after living throughout the world and Canada, she moved to Oak Bay from Parksville three years ago with her husband. The mother of four and grandmother of eight was able to travel extensively because she worked for the Canadian Foreign Service as an administrative assistant. Her husband of 56 years worked for the Canadian International Development Agency and was in the military, which allowed her to see most of Canada. “I’ve lived in every province in Canada except New Brunswick and Saskatchewan,” MacLeans says. “I’ve lived in (12) foreign countries.” MacLean is a regular at Monterey Centre and keeps busy with both assisting and participating in many of the activities at the seniors’ centre. She is the stage manager for the Notables, she takes piano lessons and she exercises three times a weeks. “I am very involved with Monterey Centre,” MacLean says. “It’s a great place.”

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talking about the values of the individuals and what do they want to leave in the community … what’s their footprint going to be: If you’re doing that yourself you can relate better to the people you’re talking to.” Insurance, designated RRSPs or tax free savings accounts attributed to the foundation in wills are just a few ways residents donate after death to the charity of his or her choice. “The beauty of it is the individual can have control and use of the assets in their lifetime, but they’re putting the plan in place, on the proper advice,” Neely says. “You can look after yourself, family and then think about impact in the community.” She finds people take joy out of working with the charity, knowing how his or her donation will be used, either specifically or in general. “Sometimes people want to just leave money to the com-

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ENJOY THE CERTAINTY THAT YOU HAVE MADE A GOOD DECISION. What will your legacy be? You can guide the future of your community and the causes you care about by making a legacy gift to the Victoria Foundation. Our endowment fund is one of this community’s greatest strengths, allowing us to manage charitable gifts and bequests in perpetuity. We continually build the fund and invest in our community - granting annually to a broad range of charitable organizations and worthy causes. If community matters to you, the Victoria Foundation is where you can make your priorities known.

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The BC Government is now off-loading our recycling decisions to Toronto.

Under its new regulations, the BC Government has set up an association led by big corporations to take over the local Blue Box recycling program throughout BC. If you look closely, you’ll see that of seven board members, six are executives of Toronto-based multi-national corporations, with the seventh weighing in from Montreal. How do you like that, British Columbia? This means, unlike the current program run locally by BC municipalities, this new program will be managed not by people whose first responsibility is our local environment, but rather, their Bay St. profits. That can’t be a good thing for BC. The most perplexing thing is that we currently have a Blue Box program that works, is efficient, and costs BC homeowners just

$35 a year on average. The new proposed system does not guarantee to keep our local environment as its first priority, nor does it guarantee that there won’t be job losses here in BC. It doesn’t guarantee service levels, or say anything about how big business will pass along the costs to you when you go to pick up a pizza or buy groceries. Yikes! Perhaps this is why several of BC’s municipalities refuse to sign onto the new program, calling it a “scam.” Given that, maybe it’s time you called Premier Clark to keep BC’s environmental decisions right here in BC where they belong.

What’s going on here?

Email Christy Clark at premier@gov.bc.ca or call 250-387-1715. For more info, visit RethinkItBC.ca. #RethinkItBC. This Message is brought to you by:

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