Dec.16, 2011 OakBayNews

OAK BAYNEWSGreening will go onMunicipality will continue efforts to reduce greenhouse gases in Oak Bay, despite the feds’ Kyoto Protocol withdrawal. News, Page A3

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Oak Bay residents keen on kitchen scrap pickupMayor wants to expand CRD pilot program

Ryan FlahertyNews staff

While the region’s two largest munic-ipalities have begun taking steps to add kitchen scrap disposal to their waste removal services, Oak Bay has quietly had its own program going for the past six years.

The CRD-led pilot project, which began in 2006, serves 1,200 Oak Bay homes on four of the municipality’s 10 garbage pickup routes.

Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen says it’s high time the program was expanded.

“It’s been very well received by all those people who’ve been on the pilot,” he said. “So it’s certainly my hope that we can make arrangements with the CRD to broaden the project to the whole community, and hopefully that will be something that we can look forward to in 2012.”

Phil Barnett, Oak Bay superinten-dent of public works, is also in favour of expansion, but cautioned that the municipality would require further resources to make it work.

“I think the taxpayers that are on the program now love it,” Barnett said.

“Oak Bay does like to recycle, and I know the rest of the municipality would want it, but it’s just a matter of it being worked out as to who’s going to pay for the totes and how much it’s going to cost.”

Oak Bay currently handles about two tonnes of kitchen waste per day, in addi-tion to six to seven tonnes of garbage. A single truck manned by two employ-ees handles organic waste pickup for the entire municipality. If kitchen scrap removal were offered to all residents, those resources would need to be dou-bled, said Barnett.

Both Saanich and Victoria are in the early stages of their kitchen waste dis-posal programs.

Saanich is set to begin a pilot proj-ect in April which will serve about 600 homes. The City of Victoria is soliciting public feedback on the matter via a mail-in survey.

St. Michaels University School

student Lindon Carter and his

family live in one of the 1,200 homes that are included in Oak

Bay’s kitchen scrap pickup program. The

household produces one

to two bags of kitchen waste

each week.Ryan Flaherty/News staff

PLEASE SEE: Regional organics program, Page A4

Jim ZeebenNews staff

On the morning of a press con-ference that some watchers said could herald the scientific discov-ery of the century, Rob McPher-son and his wife were debating who would take their son to early-

morning hockey practice.McPherson, an adjunct profes-

sor at the University of Victoria and his wife, Isabel Trigger, are both particle physicists involved in research that’s trying to further our understanding of how every-thing as we know it came to be.

Serving as a spokesperson for

Atlas-Canada, McPherson ended up staying home to watch the announcement by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN.

“It’s fantastically exciting,” McPherson said about the news. He spent much of the day explain-ing what it meant to media outlets

across the country.McPherson and Trigger are

among 3,000 physicists working with the Atlas team at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland.

Atlas and a competing team known as CMS released results on Tuesday offering a tantalizing

glimpse into the behaviour of the elusive Higgs boson particle.

The Higgs boson has so far only existed as a theory, though one necessary for the standard model of physics to work.

UVic scientists play key role in international research projectThe search for the ‘God particle’ will help us understand how everything we know came to be

PLEASE SEE: Particle research, Page A3

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A coalition of 22 health and environmental groups is calling on the

Liberal government to implement a provincewide ban on the use and sale of pesticides for cosmetic use.

The challenge was

issued in the midst of a government-led public consultation on the subject, which wraps up today (Dec. 16).

The group, which includes the Canadian Cancer Society, David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace and the Public Health Association of B.C., says the province needs to act fast to protect the health of its citizens, especially children.

“There are a number of municipalities – now 39 – that have adopted pesticide bylaws, but this doesn’t protect all British Columbia children from the unnecessary effects of these chemicals,” said Kathryn Seely, public issues director with the Canadian Cancer Society, B.C. & Yukon division.

Those effects can be very serious, even deadly, said Gideon Forman, the executive director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, a Toronto-based group with more than 5,000 members nationwide.

“Science that we’ve reviewed suggests that kids, in particular, are at a much greater risk for cancer and neurological illness if they’re exposed to pesticides,” he said.

The coalition would like to see legislation put in place that prohibits the use, sale and retail display of chemical pesticides for lawns, gardens and non-agricultural landscaping. It would only provide exemptions in cases where there was a public health issue.

Oak Bay, Victoria and Saanich are among the CRD municipalities with bylaws that target “non-essential” pesticide use. However, without provincial legislation there is no way to regulate the sale of the chemicals, making enforcement difficult.

“It’s not impossible, but it’ll be that much stronger when they bring in a ban on sales,” Forman said.

According to a 2010 poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society, more than 70 per cent of B.C. residents support some kind of provincial legislation restricting the use of [email protected]

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Erin McCrackenNews staff

Allegations of sexual dis-crimination levied against Oak Bay Police Department members by a female offi-cer have been resolved through mediation.

Const. Jennifer Gibbs named Deputy Chief Kent Thom and Sgt. Ray Maxwell in a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in October 2009, claiming they mistreated her because of her gender and that a male officer with less experience was promoted over her.

“The complaint required, and has received, serious treatment,” read a joint statement issued by Chief Const. Mark Fisher. “All parties engaged in this dif-ficult process in good faith, including meeting with a neutral third party.”

The discrimination case was resolved in October “to the satisfaction of both par-ties,” Fisher said. Gibbs still works at the department, as do Thom and Maxwell.

Meanwhile, racial dis-crimination allegations made by longtime Oak Bay police Const. Davin-der Dalep have yet to be resolved. Dalep named Thom in a complaint to the human rights tribunal in September 2010.

Fisher said the matter is still “under discussion.”

Dalep charged that he was unfairly criticized, overlooked for a promo-tion and left out of a special assignment due to his Indo-Canadian ethnicity.

Fisher, who took over as chief in the summer, said he doesn’t see rampant unprofessional conduct within the department.

“Those two cases will be addressed and the issues brought up in them addressed. Hopefully we can reach some sort of res-olution (in Dalep’s case).”

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“Higgs, by itself, can’t be the whole story,” McPherson said. “There has to be something else to keep it stable.”

Which is why McPherson thinks that while calling Higgs boson “the God particle” is a great way to cap-ture the public’s imagination, there are many more questions that need answering.

If scientists succeed in defini-

tively discovering the Higgs boson particle – expected to happen next year – the next step will be to find what else it is hiding.

Theories about mysteries such as dark matter, thought to make up most of the matter in the uni-verse, and even extra dimensions in space-time could be opened up for closer study.

UVic has played a key role in the development of Atlas, which searched for the Higgs boson by

using the massive particle accelera-tor at CERN. Particles are torn apart at tremendous force and slammed into layers of lead and liquid argon. Scientists measure how the energy produced by the collision relates to theories about what we already know about subatomic particles.

What scientists with both Atlas and CMS found was evidence of activity on a scale that fits into where theories suggest the Higgs boson should be.

Finding this elusive particle would help with our understand-ing of what happened in the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. That’s how long it took, theo-ries suggest, before “stuff” began to stick together in the universe.

Or, as McPherson explained to his nine-year-old hockey playing son, we’re a little closer to under-standing how to build planets, stars and even ourselves.

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Particle research project could answer some deep questions

Female officer’s complaint settled withO.B. police The equivalent of

rush hour through Oak Bay Village doesn’t produce big-city levels of greenhouse gases, but the muncipality still plans to follow through on plans to reduce its environmental footprint, despite Canada’s pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol.Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Kyoto pullout creates frustration, call to actionMayor, others vow to continue efforts to green up Oak Bay


Canada’s participation in the Kyoto accord may be over, but Oak Bay’s continued quest for a greener community isn’t slowing down.

Reaction to the announcement that the federal government has withdrawn from the international agreement has been widespread, much of it negative.

“I was very disappointed,” said Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen. “I think it’s going to cast Canada in an envi-ronmental light which will be unflat-tering.”

But the active promoter of green initiatives says it only increases the

need for action by lower levels of government. “We can certainly do our own work at the local level to model what, I think, a proper atti-tude towards greenhouse gases ought to be,” he said.

Jensen said he hopes to see the Union of British Columbia Munici-palities and Federation of Cana-dian Municipalities put pressure on federal leaders to take meaningful action on climate change.

Members of the Oak Bay Green Committee, which promotes cli-mate change awareness and has lobbied Oak Bay council for an anti-idling bylaw, are equally frustrated at the latest developments.

“It will be expensive to change this, but is that a good reason to do nothing?” committee member David Godfrey wrote in an email to the News.

“It might be cheaper to live by stealing from your neighbours or

children, but is that the way most Canadian citi-zens want to live or pres-ent their country? This is a cowardly action by a government desperate to avoid the real issue.”

Oak Bay Coun. Kevin Murdoch was recently appointed by Jensen to head up the municipal-ity’s environment and regulatory section, which will address environmen-tal issues in all aspects of development within the community.

Rather than focus on the nega-tives of the Kyoto withdrawal, Mur-doch is optimistic that Canada’s pledge to participate in a new inter-national agreement will bear fruit.

“You’ve got to be somewhat hopeful that maybe (the federal government) will change their

tack a bit and actually put their money where their mouth is, and that may have a trickle down effect to us,” he said.

“But there’s no way of knowing at this point.”

The news only steels Jensen’s resolve to push green initiatives forward at the local level.

“I’ve always been a follower of the Brundt-land Report motto, to ‘think globally and act locally,’ and we’re going to continue to do that,”

he said.“This will motivate us to redouble

our efforts, as a leader in the reduc-tion of greenhouse gases.”

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RELATED STORY: B.C.’s climate goal, Page A16

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The questionnaire outlines three different options for disposal, all of which include kitchen waste pickup. The resulting changes to the city’s current waste removal program will be imple-mented city-wide in 2013.

While Jensen sees kitchen waste pickup as a necessary municipal service, he’d prefer a regional strategy rather than the current piece-meal approach.

“I’m certainly in very much in favour of hav-ing a region-wide project of this nature. To have a patchwork where each community has its own little scrap pickup pilot project or service, I’m not sure (that) is the way to go.”

The Falkland Road home of Ron Carter and Lara Lauzon is one of those that has benefited from the kitchen scrap removal program.

“We had a compost bin outside, but this is so much handier because we only have so much space,” son Lindon Carter said as he emptied a bag of organic scraps into his family’s tote.

Oak Bay residents currently pay $211 per year for all solid waste services. That cost includes gar-bage pickup, compost cleanup, leaf removal and operation costs for the municipality’s recycling depot and compost centre.

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Ben White will hit the ice with the Canucks before their Dec. 21 home game against Detroit.

Hockey kid to skate with CanucksRoszan HolmenNews staff

Ben White couldn’t believe it when his parents told him he’d been selected to skate with his heroes.

“Well, I thought that they were just joking,” says the nine year old, who lives in Oak Bay.

Next Wednesday, Ben will join the Vancouver Canucks for their pre-an-them skate, and on the blue line for the singing of “O Canada.”

Ben is equipped for both tasks, as a minor hockey defenceman playing in the atom division for the Victoria Rac-quet Club Kings, and as a member of a choir.

His dad, Jeremie White, entered a draw at Save-on-Foods in Saanich,

which partners with the Canucks to put on the Every Kid’s Dream contest.

“My wife and I are life-long Canucks fans,” said Jeremie. “We always looked at those kids on the blue line thinking how cute they were … (We thought) how great it would be if that happened with one of our kids.”

He entered the contest six times to better Ben’s odds. Next week, father and son will travel to Vancouver with $500 spending money.

Ben’s goal is to skate alongside his favourite player, Ryan Kesler.

So, is he nervous about this high-pro-file skate? “Not really,” he says. “It’s just amazing.”

The Dec. 21 game against Detroit will be shown on TSN at 7 p.m.

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cated teens are to blame for a picket fence that disappeared in the night over the weekend, only to resurface in the back of a neigh-bour’s pickup truck the next day.

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Don DescoteauNews staff

By the middle of December, the Oak Bay Fire Department is bracing for the potential for extra work.

The ideal scenario, says Fire Chief Gerry Adam, is that resi-dents take precautions with Christmas trees and other holi-day decorations and firefighters have a relatively quiet season.

And while no such disaster as a house burning down over the Christmas period has happened during his three decades with the force, Adam has some hints to help avoid unplanned fires.

“First and foremost, don’t use live candles,” he said. “It’s sur-prising how many people use them close to trees or (other flammable materials).”

He also reminded people to make sure live trees are kept watered. A suggestion for help-ing the tree absorb the liquid better, he said, is to cut the bot-tom few centimetres off the tree trunk and use sugar water in the stand.

Christmas lights should not be left unattended for periods of time – don’t go out with the tree lit up because it looks pretty from outside – and make sure no paper or other combustibles are sitting near lights that are on, even LED models, Adam said.

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to a chimney fire, or worse, he added.

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If people use common sense fire prevention tips, he said, the only holiday-related calls his fire-fighters should have to attend are first-responder calls for peo-ple who eat too much Christmas dinner.

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Thieves step up residential robberiesErin McCrackenNews staff

A string of break-ins in Oak Bay neighbourhoods in recent weeks has Oak Bay police pay-ing very close attention.

“Of course (we’re concerned), but I wouldn’t say worried,” said Deputy Chief Kent Thom.

Officers are watching south Oak Bay, as well as the Oak Bay-Victoria boundary along Foul Bay Road.

“Victoria is experiencing the same thing on its eastern bound-ary,” said Thom, adding that

thieves will target areas where they’ve had success before.

Information is being shared with the Greater Victoria Regional Crime Unit and Victo-ria Police Department.

Oak Bay police have narrowed down their list of suspects to about a dozen, though it’s likely that one or two people, who may be trying to feed a drug habit, Thom said, are targeting resi-dences in broad daylight when many people are at work.

Last week a camera was taken from a patron’s backpack at the Oak Bay Recreation Centre.

Police are examining surveil-lance photos taken of a suspect.

A suspect was caught and sto-len items returned after a home in the 600-block of Victoria Ave. was robbed Dec. 6. The case is being referred to the municipal-ity’s restorative justice program.

Also that day electronics were stolen from homes in the 100-block of Beach Dr. and on Kin-ross Street. Electronics were lifted from a home in the 700-block of Island Rd. on Dec. 7.

An expanded version of this story is at www.oakbaynews.com.

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One of Greater Victoria’s fallen war heroes was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General Tuesday.

John Nuttall accepted one of 44 medals from Gov. Gen. David Johnston, command-er-in-chief of the Canadian Forces, on behalf of his older brother Lt. Andrew Nuttall, who was killed by a bomb while out on a foot patrol in a Taliban-controlled section of Afghanistan in 2009.

John, who lives in London, Ont., was joined at Rideau Hall

in Ottawa by his parents, Rich-ard and Jane, of Saanich.

“I thought that was the right thing to do,” Richard said of having his youngest son accept the medal. “(John) has been profoundly affected by this and I thought, rather than me or Jane, it was best for John to go.”

The medal, recognizing individuals for outstanding professionalism and bringing honour to Canada and its mili-tary, means a lot to the Nuttall family, Richard said.

When the decoration is brought home to Saanich, it will be placed in a win-dow box that already holds

Andrew’s South-West Asia Ser-vice Medal, which recognizes those who serve in Afghani-stan more than 30 days, and

the Sacrifice Medal.“It recognizes how capable

he was, and what a good job he was doing,” Richard said of the Meritorious Service Medal. “We know that, but this is sort of official recognition of that.”

Andrew was a platoon com-mander working on the front lines of the Afghanistan con-flict before his death on Dec. 23, 2009.

The 30-year-old “molded his soldiers into a cohesive team that excelled in Afghanistan’s demanding environment,” stated a news release issued by the Governor General’s office.

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Local soldier receives posthumous honourLt. Andrew Nuttall awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in Ottawa

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John Nuttall, left, receives his brother’s medal from Gov. Gen. David Johnston.


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I can’t see it, but my friend says her eyelid is tapping out an irritat-ing non-stop beat.

“Did you see that? My eye just twitched,” she says, point-ing at the irksome spot just above the upper eye-lid of her right eye. “Some-times I’m talking and I feel like people can see it.”

The twitchiness, which she says is likely a sign of stress, arrived Dec. 1.

It’s no coincidence her eyelid began jumping on the very day that many retail sales associates, including my friend, will tell you signals shoppers to pick up the present-buying pace before Christmas day arrives.

“Everyone’s in a rush. Everyone’s trying to get that perfect gift. Every-one’s trying to get the last one,” she says.

In a way, my friend wants to be added to everyone’s gift-giving list, her name pencilled in between Aunt Dorothy and Cousin Bob.

But she doesn’t want a gift-wrapped package that holds a shiny and expensive item, one that would likely be forgotten long before next Christmas anyway.

The trinket she treasures most is patience, with a dollop of kindness thrown in for good measure.

As a customer service represen-tative working in retail she’s on

the front lines helping the crush of stampeding shoppers purchase their heart’s desire.

She’s talented at what she does, regardless of the pres-sures she will continue to face in the midst of the Christmas rush, and even when customers come back to her store to return some of the items they purchased.

Through it all, she treats customers with kindness, sharing her smile and being as cour-teous as her work shift is long, even after standing for hours on end.

But with Christmas around the corner, it seems the festive sea-son has skewed our knowledge of basic manners – all those things we repeat like broken records to our children.

Strangers, whether it’s the store greeter or the associate behind the counter gift-wrapping the present you just bought, should not bear the brunt of our busy lives.

Many of us are in a hurry to the extent where patiently waiting our turn, and a quick, ‘Hi, how are you?’ have become too time-consuming to manage.

Take the other day when my friend was on shift.

She was speaking with a cus-tomer out on the floor when

another customer walked up and, without even an ‘excuse me,’ inter-rupted with a question, eventually followed by snarkiness.

Unfortunately, she’s not the exception this holiday shopping season. It seems working in sales is like being a bomb disposal expert, with the customer as the bomb. Sometimes, no matter what you do, things can derail pretty quickly, tak-ing the ‘merry’ out of merry Christ-mas and reinforcing the ‘humbug’ in bah humbug.

“(The situation is) like a zit wait-ing to pop,” my friend says, adding that this year seems to be the sea-son of relentless rudeness.

Given all the people on our Christmas shopping lists, is it really that difficult to add a few extra peo-ple – even if we don’t know them?

No matter how long the lines are or how many people I want to buy gifts for, I’ll make it a priority to wait patiently in line for my turn at the cash register, offer my retail sales associate a smile and wish them a happy holiday.

“It doesn’t have to be anything big,” my friend adds.

It’s an opportunity to ensure the holiday eye twitching doesn’t spread. It’s also a way to pay the holiday spirit forward, and it doesn’t cost anything at all.

Erin McCracken is a reporter with the Victoria News.

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Shoppers, a little patience please

‘The trinket she treasures most is patience.’

Science needs our supportIt’s human nature to question the importance

of things we can’t comprehend, especially if we’re being asked to foot some of the bill.

But there are reasons we must continue to support scientific endeavours, probably much more than we do now.

There was worldwide excitement this week when scientists working at Europe’s CERN facility announced the results of research into the elusive Higgs boson particle. Despite the promising announcement on Tuesday, scientists still have plenty of work to do before they can confirm the existence of the Higgs boson.

The particle remains an exceptionally complicated idea about something that exceptionally complicated theories tell us is important to our ideas of how nature works.

It was coined the “God particle” by a publisher looking for a way to make a book about the Higgs boson appeal to a wider audience.

The name has stuck, much to the chagrin of physicists who know there are many more mysteries to contemplate beyond the puzzles of this particular particle.

The University of Victoria has played a key role in the development of the particle accelerator at CERN used to search for the Higgs boson. Being involved has cost the country somewhere in the neighbourhood of $100 million. But more importantly, being involved has allowed UVic to attract some of the sharpest minds in the world.

Science, more than ever, requires an international approach and Canada would be remiss not to be at the table. The spin-offs are huge and easy to understand. CERN itself gave us the World Wide Web, which began as a platform for scientists around the globe to share information.

The particle accelerators used to study the esoteric world of quantum physics are not that different from CAT scans used for decades now to take detailed medical images.

Greater Victoria works well as a region to incubate a vibrant high tech industry. Being involved with great international science can only help our region attract the brainy thinkers who can serve to inspire all of us.

Erin McCrackenPaper trail


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Yes on referendum for municipal amalgamation

Thanks to Pirjo Raits for the article on the possibility of amalgamation (Hard Pressed, Dec 2).

I would certainly vote yes on a referendum.

Each community could have citizen councils that would advise their local representative to council. That or something better.

Joanna WilkinsonVictoria

Penny collection began in memory of parents

I would like to share my pennies for Christmas story.

It all started when my mother passed away early in the morning on Christmas (Dec. 25, 1982). In her loving memory I started collecting pennies and every Christmas I faithfully rolled and donated $25 in pennies to the Salvation Army.

I continued to collect the pennies and donated them each Christmas for 12 years until my father passed away

on Dec. 21, 1994. I have this feeling I could have been

the original person to start the pennies for Christmas especially since I started collecting them 29 years ago. I am glad it caught on and that more people are doing this. It is a good thing to help out the less fortunate at Christmas time.

Tamara ShielsVictoria

Editor’s note: You too can help raise money for local charities. Drop off your spare change to the Black Press Pennies for Presents drive at 818 Broughton St. and at the Goldstream News Gazette, 117-777 Goldstream Ave. in Langford.

Wheels writer’s vehicle knowledge needs sharpening up

I enjoy your motoring section, but this week Alyn Edwards (Classic Rides) has not run a tight ship.

Concerning the Deutsches Museum he spells Alfa Romeo incorrectly, as Alpha Romeo. In the Ford special he writes “nearly unique” when unique means singular, being one of a kind, having no

like or equal or parallel, which means something is either unique or not unique and cannot be nearly unique.

Also, he describes the Horch as a leather-lined road car, when what he meant to convey was that the top was leather-lined.

It might have been nice to mention that the Protos, which crossed the line first in the great Paris-New York race of 1908, was in fact subsequently being restored right here on Vancouver Island. I saw it myself in the restoration shop a few years ago.

H.U.P. EdwardsNorth Saanich

Kitchen scrap containers must be raccoon-proof

It is a great idea for the city to collect kitchen scraps for composting.

However, the green containers need to be tightly secured – and I mean tightly – as in guaranteed tight.

No doubt raccoons, the population of which is abundant in this part of the city, will follow their sense of smell and overturn these kitchen scrap containers and pry off the lids as they have done

repeatedly with my garbage cans, even when they were weighted down with bricks. This would result in me having to clean up the mess. Yuck, dirty hands.

City Hall please take note.Sheri Tromp

VictoriaYes Victoria, there is such a thing as a free lunch

We have just returned from a holiday in Oak Bay.

During our visit we dined at Swans Hotel restaurant in Victoria and had an excellent meal and service. We spoke to a young couple at the table next to us, mentioning among other things, that we were on holiday from the U.K. After finishing their drinks etc. they bid us good day and wished us to enjoy a happy holiday. A few moments later the waitress came and said the couple had paid our bill.

We were bewildered and did not know what to say or do. We would like to express our thanks to this young couple and wish them well for a healthy and prosperous future.

Brian and Glennys Benton-Smith Derbyshire, England

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The federal government has announced an exciting NIMBY project. It will put nature in millions of backyards by establishing Canada’s first urban National Park in the country’s largest urban area.

Nestled in the east end of the Greater Toronto Area, Rouge National Park will be unlike any other. It won’t offer the panoramas of Jasper or Banff, or provide a safe haven for polar bears, like Manitoba's Wapusk National Park, or be larger than some European countries, like Wood Buffalo National Park. But it will help connect urban dwellers with nature and ultimately protect and restore a once great forest.

Rouge National Park will be established within the heart of one of the fastest growing urban areas in North America, with millions of people already living outside its borders. Home to a wealth of plant and animal life, like snapping turtles, butternut trees, and rare wetland flowers, the area’s significant and growing

human footprint is already evident – two major highways, nearby housing estates, and stormwater drainage. Managing existing and future infrastructure in the park, especially roads, will be critical so the growth and spread of surrounding suburbs don’t adversely impact its sensitive ecology.

Some parts of the park have been degraded after decades of human use, so extensive restoration efforts will have to go hand-in-hand with formal federal protection of this urban wilderness.

For example, restoring the Rouge’s once verdant Carolinian and Great Lakes forest canopy will be important because a long history of agricultural land use and timber harvesting has dramatically reduced the amount of old and mature forest in the area. Intact mature and old-growth forests are rare in northeastern North America, making up less than one per cent of forested land. Remnant patches of old forest are small

and isolated within a second-growth landscape that continues to be damaged by human activities like aggregate mining, industrial agriculture, and urban sprawl. Many scientists fear that further loss and fragmentation of remaining old forest cover will threaten wildlife that relies upon those conditions to survive.

Plant surveys conducted since the early 1900s in southern Ontario, the Maritimes, and New England have found, for example, that some plants, like American yew, do well in undisturbed forests but are so sensitive to human land use that they are often absent or rare in recovering second-growth forests.

Scientists believe these plants are not able to fully recover in abandoned farm fields or old logging sites, even after hundreds of years, because habitat is no longer suitable. Use of mechanical

logging and agriculture methods, such as wheeled skidders and tractors, often destroys rotten

logs and compacts and levels the ground, removing the pits and mounds that are important for the growth of many forest-dependent species, such as Indian pipe, wood sorrel, and yellow birch.

Given the importance of these habitat features to the recovery of forest plants and animals, Parks Canada, in partnership with local

community groups, regional conservation authorities, universities, and others, will need to work to restore areas in Rouge Park by planting indigenous tree species, removing invasive species, and in some places re-introducing and re-creating, by hand, the special features that are largely missing from the park, such as old dead logs, mounds and pits, and vernal ponds.

Much of this restoration work is already underway. A local conservation group, Friends of the Rouge Watershed, has planted more than 100,000 native trees and wildflowers in a monumental effort to reforest a section of the park that was set aside in honour of the late Bob Hunter, who helped start Greenpeace and is considered the father of the modern environmental movement in Canada. The group now hopes to restore critical features, such as old logs, ponds, and other habitat, in Bob Hunter Memorial Park as well as other nearby Rouge Park sites.

It’s a fitting tribute to the memory of a great environmental hero, and it’s a wonderful gift to the people of Toronto, and indeed, all of Canada, who will see the lustre restored to this once great forest. Spending time in nature is good for physical and mental health. Having a National Park in the city’s backyard will offer benefits for generations to come.

-With Faisal Moola.

David Suzuki Science Matters

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A little jingle plus a little mingle added up to more than half a million dollars for cancer research on Vancouver Island.

Generosity was running high at the B.C. Cancer Foundation’s swanky Jingle Mingle and new Jingle Soirée, held at the Fairmont Empress Hotel Dec. 7.

A crowd of 275 Vancouver Islanders gathered at the Empress to enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres while

bidding on silent and live auction items.

Jingle Mingle guests also raised their paddles high in philanthropic spirit for the event’s first Equip-a-Need – a way to raise funds for in-demand scientific equipment.

Proceeds from this year’s Equip-a-Need are going toward a state-of-the-art robotic microscope as well as other high priority research equipment at the B.C. Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Island Centre.

Cancer foundation’sJingle Mingle brings cheer and change

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The City of Victoria is pre-paring for a big 150th birthday bash.

The city’s anniversary year in 2012 includes special cele-brations on Aug. 2 – the day of incorporation in 1862 – as well as year-long merriment.

There are also many grant opportunities for artists and community groups to help cele-brate the party. The deadline for applying is fast approaching.

By Jan. 15, artists or estab-lished art groups can bid to receive between $1,000 and $20,000 to highlight the historic significance of Victoria’s iconic locations. Lighting installations, photography and performance art are among the mediums to be considered for locations

such as Carr House, the Chinese Cemetery and Market Square.

“I’m sure that there are a large number of people out there that have the perfect project in mind, and this will be a great opportunity for them to realize it,” said Allison Bot-tomley, managing producer of Theatre SKAM.

“The merit of what the city is doing, is that they are opening it up to artist proposals (and) the artists’ own intent behind the work.”

The total funding up for grabs “is subject to change and hope-fully (will) to grow,” said Alice Bacon, the City of Victoria’s 150th co-ordinator.

By Feb. 3, community groups can also apply for a grant of up to $5,000 to host their own 150-

themed project or event.Celebrations on Aug. 2 will

take place at Centennial Square, with food,

music, clowns, speeches and activities. A sim-

ilar event, dubbed Unity 150, will take place four days later, in

conjunction with the United Way of Greater Victoria’s 75th anniversary. The city also plans to host a fort-making com-petition as a tribute to the origi-nal Fort Victoria.

The Victoria Civic Heritage Trust will also develop a book and web pages featuring the architecture and development of City Hall. For more infor-mation, visit www.victoria.ca/ cityhall/arts-victoria-150.shtml.

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The Limelight Youth Art Experience is going back to the days of 1960s-era protests and they want young artists to come along.

“Activism through Art,” an exhibition of youth arts at the Cedar Hill Arts Centre, is now open to applications from people aged 12 to 24 who would

like to experience displaying and selling their work.

Submissions will be accepted from artists working in all mediums including photography, paint, sculpture and film.

Work will be adjudicated by a youth committee prior to acceptance.

Intergenerational musical performances will also be a part of Limelight’s culminating event, set for March 3.

A key feature of the program is the free training and workshops artists receive in advance of the show to develop their craft.

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Laura LavinNews Staff

Directed by Elizabeth MacIsaac, Ensemble Laude is an award-winning wom-en’s community choir dedi-cated to singing intercul-tural choral repertoire and early music (pre-1600). Its upcoming concert, The Beloved, features a fresh and diverse selection of cho-ral works celebrating adora-tion in all its forms, includ-ing signature pieces from the medieval period, joy-ously upbeat Renaissance and French Canadian songs, and a sampling of exciting contemporary works.

“Ensemble Laude has been in existence well over 10 years now,” said MacIsaac. “It began at one-third or one-fourth the size it is now. Ten singers in my basement over the years

expanded to 30 or 40.”It is a very inclusive choir.

“You don’t have to have been singing choral music for a long time or be able to read music. It just seems to be the kind of person who likes to experience rari-fied music and can hold a tune.” The singers range in age. “The age group is vast. Right now the youngest is 14 and I’m not allowed to say how old the oldest is,” she said.

MacIsaac has lead choirs for more than 25 years in Canada and France. She also enjoys an international career as a vocalist special-izing in early music and new commissions of contempo-rary music.

Spanning from east to west, ages past to pres-ent, from divine rap-ture to sweet romance, The Beloved explores the journey of the heart’s song. There will be surprise guests and moments of comic relief, including PDQ Bach’s Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John.

“We always include medi-eval repertoire as part of concert’s choral diversity,” said MacIsaac. “I do a lot of travel around the world finding music for the female voice.”

This concert however, will

include male voices, add-ing depth to the madrigals and some of the comedic pieces — yes there is funny choral music. “Laughter is so much part of the joy in life. We include elements of that whenever we can,” she

said.The Ensemble performs

several concerts on South-ern Vancouver Island every year, raising money for charity and bringing medi-eval and world repertoire to Island choral enthusi-asts. The 2011-12 season highlights feature a com-missioned work by Cana-dian composer Nicholas Fairbank, and participation in the Kathaumixw Inter-national Choral Festival in Powell River in July, 2012. Ensemble Laude has been chosen as “favourite vocal ensemble” in Monday Mag-azine’s 2010 and 2011 M Awards.

With Beloved, the singing

focuses on the love of an object and with the Christ-mas season it’s the Christ child, said MacIsaac. The concert includes Sufi poetry, and the rich imagery of exotic Persia. “There’s true Farsi music from another tradition, and percussion instruments including the medieval oud and viello,” said MacIsaac.

The concert will coincide with the release of Ensemble Laude’s CD, Inspirata, which includes lively repertoire from Hildegard von Bingen and the Libre Vermeil de Montserrat (Red Book of Montserrat), and contem-porary works by Ola Gjeilo, Eleanor Daley and Abbie Betinis.

The Beloved shows at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18, at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. The concert is by donation, “which makes people feel welcome,” said MacIsaac.

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Ensemble Laude, gathered here at Providence Farm in Duncan, performs The Beloved at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Victoria this Sunday.

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Both Neil and his wife, Patty, buy their groceries and gas from the Co-op, and for both their children, Robbie, 22, and Miranda, 16, the Co-op also provided their very fi rst jobs.

The benefi ts of the Co-op to both Pierson children have been many.

Not only does the Co-op offer good wages and benefi ts, plus an opportunity to learn invalu-able skills, but it also offers terrifi c fl exibility for students, who can work around school

and sports schedules, for example, Patty says.

“They employ so many of the kids in the community,” Neil notes, pointing out that, “most of the kids around here have worked at Peninsula Co-op.”

For their own needs, Neil and Patty ap-preciate both the values of the locally based com-pany and the fact that it’s just down the road, whether

for picking up the week’s gro-ceries at the Food Centre or fi lling up the tank in the car.

The fact that the Peninsula Co-op staff are always friendly and eager to lend a hand

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grocery store,” Patty says.

That community feel extends to the company’s support for many organizations, from sports teams and local events to a company-wide commitment to the Tour de Rock. In addition, the Co-op makes a number of larger contributions to initiatives such as the Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children’s Jeneece Place.

And, for families like the Piersons, when the annual Co-op rebate cheque lands in the mailbox – a timely event just before Christmas – the rewards of membership make the holidays just a little more special.

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Mummers break winter bluesMummers Masque is an ode

to the English tradition of mum-mering, when holiday revellers (called mummers) roamed door-to-door dressed in disguise, offering amusement and enter-tainment in the form of music, dance and a play.

In exchange for food, drink and warmth they sang, danced and acted out the story of Father Christmas, St. George and the Dragon, a Turkish Knight, Death

and Rebirth. “This is a very interesting

Christmas show that is an inter-esting change from the Christ-mas standards that are out this time of the year. It is a short, family-oriented opera by Cana-dian composer Dean Bury,” said director Joanne Hounsell.

Instead of opening your door this year, you’ll be able to see the mummers at St. Ann’s Acad-emy in Victoria. Shows run Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 18 and 19 at 2:30 p.m.

Presented by Saltwater The-atre, The Mummers Masque invites one and all to a rollicking, fun Christmas story for every-one. “Brought to you by the fin-est musicians with the lightest of hearts, the Mummers Masque will lift your spirits and warm the bleak midwinter,” said Houn-sell.

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Put some country in your Christmas at the eighth annual Canadian Country Christmas Tour, in support of Victoria Hospice.

The holiday showcase features an acoustic lineup of country hits and Christmas classics performed by five of Canada’s top country recording artists and songwriters, including Duane Steele, Jake Mathews, Lynae and Denis Dufresne, Gary Fjellgaard and Samantha King.

The holiday concert is the first collaboration between the tour and Hospice, which will

receive net proceeds from ticket sales.

“It’s a great way of bringing about a new awareness for maybe a demographic that hasn’t necessarily heard about Hospice,” said Tamara Dean, who is organizing the event for Victoria Hospice.

The concert happens Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Upstairs Cabaret, 1127 Wharf St. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30, available at hightideentertainment.net, Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records or the Victoria Hospice thrift boutique, 1315 Cook St.

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One of the most rewarding aspects of the holiday season is not what we re-ceive ourselves, but what we do for oth-ers. Need a few ideas?

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Don’t forget your furred and feath-ered friends. The local animal shelter may well be in need of supplies or a helping hand at a time of year when people’s thoughts can be elsewhere. The cold weather can also mean frozen water and little food for birds...take a few minutes to take care of some of our smallest creatures.

Here in Victoria, where a generosity of spirit is plentiful, there are also plen-ty of organized opportunities to give back...meaning plenty of fun!

• In the Westshore, Christmas in City Centre Park, this Saturday, Dec. 18, with the lighted fi re truck parade, offers crafts, hot chocolate, a visit from Santa, skating and more – plus the opportu-nity to support the local food bank with

non-perishable food donations. The fun runs from 5 to 8 p.m.

• In Sidney through Dec. 23, donate $1 to cast your vote for your favourite entry in the Sidney Business Associa-tion Festival of Trees at the Mary Win-spear Centre, with all proceeds to the Sidney Lions Food Bank. Watch for the winners in the Dec. 31 edition of the Peninsula News Review.

• Through Jan. 2, visit the Inn at Lau-rel Point and lend your support for local families at the third-annual Great Gin-gerbread Showcase. Cast your People’s Choice vote in exchange for a donation to Habitat for Humanity Victoria. Bal-lots and donation boxes are located at the hotel’s front desk and third-fl oor display area.

• The 11th annual Bear Wear fund-

raiser for the Queen Alexandra Foun-dation for Children continues at the Hotel Grand Pacifi c on Belleville Street through Jan. 3. Teddy bear fans can view the 25 bears – decked out with fashionable fl are by generous sponsors – and vote for their favourites. All funds raised support the Queen Alexandra School Age Program, whose therapists work with the students, education as-sistants and teachers to develop suc-cess strategies for children entering the school system. Last year alone, the pro-gram helped 1,868 children.

• Celebrate the holidays while sup-porting local children at the BC Chil-dren’s Hospital Foundation’s Festival of Trees, decorating the Fairmont Em-press through Jan. 3.

• On Dec. 17, the second annual Vic-toria Figgy Pudding Carolling Com-petition welcomes festive carollers to downtown street corners where they’ll compete for best singing and costumes beginning at 1 p.m.

The fun concludes with a group sing-along at 3:15 p.m. at Bastion Square. The event runs rain or shine – non-perishable food item donations will be collected for the Mustard Seed Food Bank. Visit www.victoria.ca/fi ggypud-ding for more details.

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The Capital Region is full of great ways to spread the holiday spirit, including the Figgy Pudding Carolling Competition, Dec. 17 (right).

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While outdoor ice skating is a winter staple in much of Canada, the opportuni-ties are generally limited in Victoria – until the holidays arrive!

In Centennial Square, the Downtown Victoria Busi-ness Association’s rink wel-comes skaters daily through to Jan. 2.

In the Westshore, head to City Centre Park and the new Westhills Arena for a spin on their outdoor rink, circling a lighted sailing ship.

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Through Jan. 2 – Third-annual Great Gin-gerbread Showcase in support of Habitat for Humanity Victoria, at the Inn at Laurel Point.

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To Dec. 24 – Island-grown, fresh-cut Chris-tams trees in support of Scouts Canada’s Camp Barnard, 4 to 8 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends at Royal Oak Canadian Tire Garden Centre.

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Jan. 9 to 14 – Visual Poetry from St. Michael’s University School students at Oak Bay’s Eclec-tic Gallery, in support of War Child (Canada) and Amma Organization. FMI: www.eclectic-gallery.ca

Jan. 19 – The Native Plant Study Group pres-ents Recent Trends in Botanical Field Research in BC with plant ecologist and taxonomist Dr. Terry McIntosh, 7 p.m. UVic, MacLaurin Bldg, Rm D116. Non-member drop-in fee: $3. FMI: www.NPSG.ca Send your non-profi t events to [email protected]

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The deadline is approaching for local arts organizations intending to apply for a Capital Regional District Arts Development Project Grant. The grants provide support for:

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• Support the invaluable work of the Victoria Hos-pice with a Country Christmas concert at the Upstairs Cabaret on Wharf Street Dec. 20. Featuring fi ve of Canada’s top country recording artists and songwrit-ers – Duane Steele, Jake Mathews, Samantha King, Gary Fjellgaard and Pear – enjoy an acoustic evening of country hits and Christmas classics. Tickets are $30 from HighTideEntertainment.net, Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records or the Victoria Hospice Thrift Boutique.

The Hospice’s Celebrate a Life trees will also be available for those who would like to add a tribute card with a personal message and/or support Hospice through a donation, which helps provide ongoing fi -nancial support to core services and programs. For de-tails, call 250-952-5720 or email [email protected]

• The Spirit of Giving continues at The Bay Centre through Jan. 3 in support of the Mustard Seed Food Bank. For every new “like” on Facebook, “follow” on Twitter, or comment on their blog, The Bay Centre will donate $2 to the Mustard Seed Food Bank, with the aim of raising $5,000.

Continue your support of the Mustard Seed by visit-ing the Food, Fashion & Art exhibit at The Bay Cen-tre. Showcasing 14 one-of-a-kind dresses – made from food labels and designed by fashion design students from the Pacifi c Design Academy – shoppers can vote for their favourite garment by making a donation to the food bank (minimum suggested donation is $2). In return, shoppers are eligible to win a $100 gift card from The Bay Centre. Non-perishable food and cash donations for the Mustard Seed will also be accepted on Level 2 until Dec. 24.

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Ottawa’s decision to with-draw from the international treaty on climate change doesn’t change B.C.’s deter-mination to reach its ambi-tious greenhouse gas reduc-tion targets, Environment Minister Terry Lake says.

Lake spent last week at the international climate conference in Durban, South Africa, where the focus was on trying to extend the 2005 Kyoto Protocol. Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent announced Monday that Canada will be the first country to formally with-draw from the Kyoto agree-ment, because it places an unfair burden on developed countries while exempt-ing China, India and other developing countries.

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Lake said in an interview Tuesday he understands Ottawa’s position, because the second round of the Kyoto agreement would only apply to 16 per cent of the world’s emitters.

“It doesn’t affect what we’re doing here in B.C.,

which is to continue on with our goals of 33 per cent reduction by 2020 and 80 per cent reduction by 2050,” Lake said.

With B.C.’s carbon tax in its fourth year, Lake said there has been a slight reduction in the province’s emissions. There is one more increase set for July 2012, with offsetting busi-ness and personal income tax cuts to keep it revenue neutral to the province.

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Lake said there is still a lot of international interest in B.C.’s carbon tax, which remains almost unique despite the view of econo-mists that it is the best way to put a price on carbon emissions.

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Lake met with Australia’s director of climate policy, and learned that Australia is developing a liquefied natural gas production facil-ity with full carbon capture. Lake said B.C. will study that effort for its own natu-ral gas export plans. Shift-ing Pacific Rim countries from coal to gas can have a major effect on reducing greenhouse gases, he said.

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Farewell to thee, O’ captain. The Victoria Grizzlies

started the week with a bit of a shocker, trading Sean Rob-ertson to the defending league champion Vernon Vipers for future considerations and the rights to Zach McPhee (on injured reserve with the WHL Everett Silvertips).

Both the Vipers and Grizzles are struggling this season, but the deal’s prime goal is to get Robertson the NCAA schol-arship he deserves, Grizzlies general manager Vic Gervais said.

“We traded Sean to get him a scholarship just like we traded (Nick) Buchanan to Penticton (in September). Penticton and Vernon are the best two teams in junior A to get scholarships from – Buchanan just got one (to Minnesota State-Mankato), and Robertson will get one if Vernon goes a long ways.”

Robertson turns 21 in Feb-ruary and is desperately seek-ing the NCAA scholarship he was on track for three years ago, before a broken leg wiped out his 2009-10 season.

Robertson makes his Viper debut Friday night against the Trail Smoke Eaters and will add offence to a defensive corps that has scored just four goals.

“I bring experience and know what to expect,” said

Robertson, who played ban-tam and midget rep in Juan de Fuca after starting minor hockey in Duncan.

“You won’t get anything flashy from me. I just take care of my own end first and go from there.”

Robertson was the last remaining Grizzly who was with the team when it played in the 2009 Royal Bank Cup. He’s served with the club since he was 16.

He’s also the second Griz-zlies’ captain to be dealt in the last year, with Jake Baker going to the Smoke Eaters after just 11 games in 2010-11.

“Jake’s trade was different,” Gervais said.

“It’s got nothing to do with Victoria (being a bad place to get a scholarship), we’ve got-ten lots of kids scholarships. Sometimes (scouts) need to see something different from a player. After five years, going to a new team can showcase (Robertson) in a different role, or the same role but on a bet-ter team.”

For the record, it worked for Baker, now in his rookie year with Northern Michigan University and skating along-side fellow Grizz’ alum Brian Nugent.

Robertson learned of his trade on Sunday, after assist-ing on a one-timer goal by Jar-ryd Ten Vaanholt that lifted the Grizzlies past the Powell River Kings 4-3 in overtime earlier that day.

“I was told I’d be moved for the right deal and I couldn’t be happier coming to a first-class organization like Vernon,” said

Robertson. “(The Grizzlies are) kind of an underachieving team. Our record didn’t show how good we really are.”

“We don’t expect him to be a saviour or anything. We just need him to be steady and be part of a shutdown pair,” said Vipers’ head coach/GM Jason Williamson. “He’s a pretty good all-around defenceman with Royal Bank Cup expe-rience. He’s a player we tar-geted for some time.”

The Grizzlies and Vipers are fighting for the fourth and final playoff spots in their respec-tive conferences.

The move means more ice time for the youthful group of Grizzlies blueliners.

“Obviously losing Sean hurts our club a little bit. We’re still not going to give up, we’re looking for players to fill that role,” Gervais said.

Nolan de Jong, Braxton Bilous and Stefan Gonzales will see more ice time as a result. It also gives Gervais a total of five player cards to fill by the Jan. 10 deadline, with hopes of signing David Walchuk, Kevin Woodyatt and Jaden Schmeis-ser (Saanich Braves) to full time status.

Grin and bear itImport Brad Gehl was sent

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“He wasn’t working out here, a little too busy off the ice and we weren’t happy with that,” Gervais said.

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As much as Sean Robertson, right, loved his Grizzlies, they loved him back, but the captain will finish his BCHL career as a Vernon Viper.

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Chris Franklin might be the new man in town but the head coach of the Oak Bay High boys basketball team is quick to tip his hat to the previous coach, Josh Elsdon.

Elsdon stepped down after last season to focus on other things in life, one of them being the basketball program at Monterey middle school, where he’s a teacher.

Franklin isn’t a teacher, but does bring a strong coaching resumé as the assistant coach for Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Dolphins.

“I’m quickly learning a lot about the school’s connection to the community and athletes past and present, hosting the Gary Taylor Classic this weekend and the Alumni game last week,” Franklin said.

“Elsdon has put this team in a very good posi-tion for this year. Plus he’s got lots of kids playing ball over at Monterey and if you have someone like him in the system teach-ing the next generation, it’s a real benefit.”

It was also Elsdon who was behind the organiz-ing of the Oak Bay Alumni game on Saturday between the Bays of past and present.

Lining up against for the Alumni was a mixed roster of players. Some went on to wear the blue and yellow at UVic – such as Reese Pribil-ski, Chris Trumpy and Mitch Gudgeon. Some played at Camosun, including 2011 grad Drake Downer, as well as others from as recently as last year.

The Alumni won, but the Bays were OK with that, having defeated Coquitlam’s Terry Fox Ravens 72-53 in an exhibition game on Friday.

During Franklin’s time with the Dolphins there was no bigger threat north of Duncan. Dover Bay won provincials in 2007 and took last year’s Island championship on a buzzer-beater over the Claremont Spartans.

“When you get to coach Oak Bay on the Island, you don’t complain,” Franklin said.

This weekend’s Gary Taylor Classic will define a lot of teams, including the Bays. Their biggest win so far was over the No. 1 ranked Ravens last week.

On Tuesday, the Bays won their second league game of the school season, topping Cla-remont 84-74.

The Gary Taylor wraps up with semifinals at 6:30 and 8:15 p.m. on Friday night. The first place game goes 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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Sitting in the bleach-ers of the dive tank at Saanich Common-wealth Place, Riley McCormick looks up at the rest of the competi-tion.

The springboards and platforms are packed with divers from across Canada tak-ing turns in preparation for the Winter National diving championships underway until Sunday (Dec.18).

Some dives evoke claps – though with divers hitting the water every five seconds it’s hard to know which one to watch.

“As big as this event is, you don’t want to peak yet. This is still just the stepping stone,” McCormick said.

“At the same time, you can’t take it too lightly.”

The goal this week-end is for McCormick to finish in the top two on the 10-metre plat-form, thereby qualify-ing to represent Canada at the Diving World Cup in London, England this February.

“That’s where you want to hit your best.”

Not only is the World Cup a test event for the London Olympics in July, competing there would put McCormick on track for his sec-ond appearance at the Olympic games, having finished 16th in Beijing 2008.

The 20-year-old is on leave from Arizona State University where he competed the past two seasons, finishing second in the NCAA on the 10m in his rookie year and winning the PAC 10 conference on the 10m in both years.

“The NCAA was pretty hectic coming out of high school. Practices were twice a day plus a full course load, and we competed almost every weekend.”

And when the NCAA season ends, the inter-national season begins.

“It’s easy to burnout,” he said.

Which is why McCor-mick told his school he’d be taking this year off to campaign for the Olympics back when they recruited him from Claremont three years ago.

McCormick is among several senior mem-bers of Saanich’s Board-works diving club com-

peting this weekend, including Fraser McK-ean (Auburn Univer-sity) and Shane Miskiel (Ohio State), as well

as Rachel Kemp, last year’s 10m silver med-alist at the summer nationals.

[email protected]


Chris Hall to be sidelined for start of NLL season


The same week the Wash-ington Stealth opened its pro lacrosse exhibition season, head coach Chris Hall began his fight against cancer.

Hall, a Victoria Shamrocks leg-end, leads a heavy contingent of Victoria coaches and players that make up the Stealth fran-chise based in Everett, Wash.

After the Stealth played the Toronto Rock in a preseason match hosted at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday, Hall, who lives in Victoria, spoke for the first time since starting a six-week treatment for throat cancer, with which he was diagnosed in

early November. “It’s overwhelm-

ing how much support I’ve got-ten from friends and family in the lacrosse world,” Hall said in the team’s post-game video.

“I didn’t know if I’d make it this weekend and it’s been fantas-tic to be here, really helped me through it.”

It’s a considerable achieve-ment by Hall considering he’s undergoing heavy bouts of che-motherapy and radiation treat-ment.

Hall is hoping to make this weekend’s camp in Everett, then take a step back.

The Stealth’s game versus the Toronto Rock was a rematch of

the 2010 and 2011 NLL Champions Cup, which the Stealth won in 2010 and lost in 2011 under Hall’s guidance.

Assistant coach Art Webster, also a former Shamrocks coach and player, will assume the head coaching role during Hall’s leave.

The Stealth boast a core of current and former Shamrocks

such as Lewis Ratcliff and Rhys Duch, as well as an ex-Victoria Salmon Kings ECHL hockey player vying for a regular season spot, Milan Gajic. The latter was the lone Gajic to take a crack at pro hockey while brothers Nenad, Ilija and Alex played col-lege lacrosse and are now on the Colorado Mammoth of the NLL.

[email protected]

Ex-Shamrocks coach battling cancer

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Riley McCormick lands feet first during a practise dive off the short platform for this week’s national diving championships at Saanich Commonwealth Place.

Olympic countdown

Chris Hall

Canadian winter diving national championships

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Sitting in the bleach-ers of the dive tank at Saanich Common-wealth Place, Riley McCormick looks up at the rest of the competi-tion.

The springboards and platforms are packed with divers from across Canada tak-ing turns in preparation for the Winter National diving championships underway until Sunday (Dec.18).

Some dives evoke claps – though with divers hitting the water every five seconds it’s hard to know which one to watch.

“As big as this event is, you don’t want to peak yet. This is still just the stepping stone,” McCormick said.

“At the same time, you can’t take it too lightly.”

The goal this week-end is for McCormick to finish in the top two on the 10-metre plat-form, thereby qualify-ing to represent Canada at the Diving World Cup in London, England this February.

“That’s where you want to hit your best.”

Not only is the World Cup a test event for the London Olympics in July, competing there would put McCormick on track for his sec-ond appearance at the Olympic games, having finished 16th in Beijing 2008.

The 20-year-old is on leave from Arizona State University where he competed the past two seasons, finishing second in the NCAA on the 10m in his rookie year and winning the PAC 10 conference on the 10m in both years.

“The NCAA was pretty hectic coming out of high school. Practices were twice a day plus a full course load, and we competed almost every weekend.”

And when the NCAA season ends, the inter-national season begins.

“It’s easy to burnout,” he said.

Which is why McCor-mick told his school he’d be taking this year off to campaign for the Olympics back when they recruited him from Claremont three years ago.

McCormick is among several senior mem-bers of Saanich’s Board-works diving club com-

peting this weekend, including Fraser McK-ean (Auburn Univer-sity) and Shane Miskiel (Ohio State), as well

as Rachel Kemp, last year’s 10m silver med-alist at the summer nationals.

[email protected]


Chris Hall to be sidelined for start of NLL season


The same week the Wash-ington Stealth opened its pro lacrosse exhibition season, head coach Chris Hall began his fight against cancer.

Hall, a Victoria Shamrocks leg-end, leads a heavy contingent of Victoria coaches and players that make up the Stealth fran-chise based in Everett, Wash.

After the Stealth played the Toronto Rock in a preseason match hosted at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday, Hall, who lives in Victoria, spoke for the first time since starting a six-week treatment for throat cancer, with which he was diagnosed in

early November. “It’s overwhelm-

ing how much support I’ve got-ten from friends and family in the lacrosse world,” Hall said in the team’s post-game video.

“I didn’t know if I’d make it this weekend and it’s been fantas-tic to be here, really helped me through it.”

It’s a considerable achieve-ment by Hall considering he’s undergoing heavy bouts of che-motherapy and radiation treat-ment.

Hall is hoping to make this weekend’s camp in Everett, then take a step back.

The Stealth’s game versus the Toronto Rock was a rematch of

the 2010 and 2011 NLL Champions Cup, which the Stealth won in 2010 and lost in 2011 under Hall’s guidance.

Assistant coach Art Webster, also a former Shamrocks coach and player, will assume the head coaching role during Hall’s leave.

The Stealth boast a core of current and former Shamrocks

such as Lewis Ratcliff and Rhys Duch, as well as an ex-Victoria Salmon Kings ECHL hockey player vying for a regular season spot, Milan Gajic. The latter was the lone Gajic to take a crack at pro hockey while brothers Nenad, Ilija and Alex played col-lege lacrosse and are now on the Colorado Mammoth of the NLL.

[email protected]

Ex-Shamrocks coach battling cancer

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Riley McCormick lands feet first during a practise dive off the short platform for this week’s national diving championships at Saanich Commonwealth Place.

Olympic countdown

Chris Hall

Canadian winter diving national championships

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This Weekend’s

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

Find more details on the Open Houses below in the Dec.15-22 edition of

Published Every Thursday

OPENHOUSESSelect your home.

Select your mortgage.

Oak Bay 250-370-7601Westshore 250-391-2933

Victoria 250-483-1360Sidney 250-655-0632

www.vericoselect.comChatterton Way 250-479-0688

OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

308-935 Johnson St., $319,900Sunday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunDaniel Clover 250 507-5459 pg. 9

219-50 Songhees, $675,000Sunday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunDaniel Clover 250 507-5459 pg. 8

301-50 Songhees, $549,900Sunday 2:30-4Re/Max CamosunDaniel Clover 250 507-5459 pg. 8

205-25 Government, $254,000Saturday 2-4Duttons & Co Real Estate pg. 1

3-828 Rupert TerraceSaturday & Sunday 1-4Royal Lepage Coast CapitalMurray Lawson 250 385-9814 pg. 8

23-60 Dallas, $494,900Saturday 1-3MacDonald RealtyLorraine Stundon 250 812-0642 pg. 10

2239 Shelbourne St., $399,000Sunday 1-3Boorman’s Real EstateRod Hay 250-595-1535 pg. 11

1842 Chandler Ave, $649,000Saturday 2-4Re/Max AllianceJulie Swift, 250-479-8706

1959 Fairfi eld Rd., $859,000Saturday & Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast CapitalMaggie Thompson, 250-889-5955 pg. 11

309 Kingston, $769,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3DFH Real EstateCassie Kangas 250 477-7291 pg. 10

508-1433 Faircliffe, $359,900Saturday 11-1Sutton Group West Coast RealtyChris Barrington Foote, 250-479-3333

1116 Readings Dr., $699,000Saturday 1-3Royal Lepage Coast CapitalCheryl Bejcar 250 592-4422 pg. 12

987 Falkland, $949,900Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes Eli Mavrikos 250 896-3859 pg. 22

1001 Foul Bay Rd, $860,000Saturday 2-4Macdonald Realty LtdEleanor V Smith 250 388-5882 pg. 11

3175 Midland Rd.Saturday & Sunday 2-4Century 21 QueenswoodMike Van Nerum, 250-477-1100 pg. 12

10 Helmcken RdDaily noon-4Pemberton Holmes David Hale 250 812-7277 pg. 7

76-14 Erskine Lane, $419,900Saturday 1-3Re/Max CamosunBruce Hatter, 250-744-3301 pg. 5

1023 Dunsmuir, $419,888Saturday & Sunday 1-3Pemberton HolmesGunnar Stephenson, 250-884-0933 pg. 13

5024 Cordova Bay, $999,900Saturday 2-4Newport RealtyBrett Jones, 250-385-2033 pg. 2

4459 Fairmont Pl, $599,900Saturday 2-4Re/Max AllianceDavid Rusen, 250-386-8875 pg. 13

70-4061 Larchwood, $404,900Saturday 2-4Sutton Group West Coast RealtyChris Barrington Foote

893 Dunford Cres., $749,900Saturday 1-3Royal LePageCoast Capital RealtySladja Stojkovic, 250-208-4154 pg. 26

973 Shadywood Dr.Sunday 1-3Re/Max CamosunShane King, 250-661-4277 pg. 14

4190 Lynnfi eld Cres., $799,900Saturday & Sunday 2-4DFH Real EstateSandy McManus 250 477-7291 pg. 26

102-820 Short St., $364,900Saturday 2-4Century 21 QueenswoodMike Ryan, 250-477-1100 pg. 26

5-881 Nicholson St., $549,000Saturday 2-4DFH Real EstateWendy Herrick 250-656-0131 pg. 9

4029 Providence, $960,900Saturday 1-3One Percent RealtyValentino Prundaru, 250 686-2242

1550 Rowan St.Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesCorie Meyer 250 384-8124 pg. 14

4942 Cordova Bay, $1,049,000Saturday & Sunday 1-3Pemberton Holmes LtdKevin Starling 250 889-4577 pg. 13

1808 Rossiter Pl, $555,000Sunday 2-4Century 21 Queenswood RealtyGray Rothnie, 250-744-7034 pg. 13

4279 Westervelt, $869,900Sunday 1-3Newport RealtyColin Gareau, 250-812-3451 pg. 13

3205 Kingsley, $539,000Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesAndrew Mara 250 384-8124 pg. 14

3850 Palo AltoSaturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesCorie Meyer 250 384-8124 pg. 14

101-3614 Richmond Rd.Saturday 1-3Re/Max AllianceDavid Strasser, 250-360-1929

3730 Blenkinsop, $598,800Saturday 2-4Re/Max CamosunLucy Richardson 250 744-3301 pg. 14

33-610 Mckenzie Ave, $365,000Saturday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyGoran Tambic, 250-384-7663 pg. 15

746 Gorge Rd W, $565,000Saturday 2-4Macdonald RealtyScott Garman 250 896-7099 pg. 15

1268 Tall Tree Pl, $729,900Saturday 2-4Pemberton HolmesBrendan Herlihy, 250-642-3240 pg. 15

32 Lurline (off Harriet), $329,900Sunday 2-4Re/Max AllianceDavid Rusen 250-386-8875 pg. 15

41 Obed Ave, $349,900Sunday 1-3Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDoug Poruchny, 250-474-4800 pg. 15

10921 Inwood Rd., $598,000Sunday 2-4Sutton Group West CoastInez Louden 250 812-7710 pg. 18

9378 Bitterroot Pl., $209,000Saturday 1-3Holmes RealtyMagdalin Heron 250 656-0911 pg. 19

2176 AmherstSunday 12-2DFH Real Estate Ltd.Megan John, 250-477-7291 pg. 18

2118 Weiler Ave., $429,900Saturday 2-4DFH Real Estate Ltd.Stephen Postings, 250-656-0131 pg. 19

487 Royal Bay Dr., $629,000Sunday 2-4Brown Bros. Agencies Ltd.Sonya Jakovickas, 250-385-8780 pg. 20

3431 Luxton, $699,000Saturday 2:30-4:30Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 20

3019 DornierDaily 12-4DFH Real Estate LtdMike Hartshorne 250 889-4445 pg. 20

117-643 Granderson, $369,000Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes LtdGregg Mah 250 384-8124 pg. 27

2186 Stone Gate, $664,900Saturday 12-2Re/Max CamosunShirley Zailo 250-478-4828 pg. 20

563 Brant Pl., $624,900Sunday 2-4Pemberton Holmes David Hale 250 595-3200 pg. 20

1224A Goldstream Ave, $389,900Saturday 2:30-4:30SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown, 250-380-6683 pg. 20

3314 Hazelwood Rd., $515,000Saturday & Sunday 1-4Pemberton Holmes LtdRoss Casey 250 384-8124 pg. 20

119-2733 Peatt Rd, $374,900Friday-Sunday 1-3Re/Max AllianceKaren Love, 250-386-8875 pg. 5


304-611 Brookside, $219,000Thursday to Sunday 1-4Pemberton HolmesGreg Long, 250-384-8124 pg. 6

2945 Andre Rd, $398,000Saturday 2-4Royal Lepage Coast Capital RealtyDonna Gabel, 250-477-5353 pg. 19


3463 Yorkshire Pl.Sunday 2-4Royal LePage Coast Capital RealtyDonna Gabel, 250-477-5353 pg. 20

994 Dunford, from $359,900Daily 1-4Kahl RealtyLyle Kahl 250-391-8484 pg. 19


103-996 Wild RidgeSaturday & Sunday 2:30-4:30SmartMove Real EstateGary Brown 250-380-6683 pg. 20


205-2695 Deville, $334,900Saturday 1-3Pemberton HolmesCorie Meyer 250 384-8124 pg. 10

4709 Kevere Rd., 639,000Saturday & Sunday 12-3Sutton West Coast RealtyClaude Falardeau 250 479-3333 pg. 20

4556 Royal Island, $639,900Saturday 1-3DFH Real Estate Ltd.Tom Muir 250-477-7291 pg. 24

957 Shawnigan Lake Rd, $319,900Thursday-Friday 1-4, Saturday & Sunday 11-4Coldwell Banker Slegg RealtyDaniel Weiss 250 383-1500 pg. 21

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■ B.C. Cancer Foundation Jingle Mingle fundraiser ■ Wednesday, Dec. 7 ■ Fairmont Empress Hotel

John Tidman and Jingle Mingle Chair, Bonnie Campbell.

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Michael and Susan McLoughlin show off their auction numbers in advance of the auction.

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Dan Sharp, Pam Russell and Dale Olsen share a laugh.

Friends Nancy McQuinn and Tronie Brown.

A little Jingle plus a littleMingle equal over half a

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Connie Lee Ahern and Dale Gann.

Steve Reid and Laura Walsh enjoy the evening at the Jingle Mingle.

Dave Ganong and his wife, Lisa Williams, enjoy the festivities.

BC Cancer Foundation CEO Doug Nelson speaks to a packed house at the fundraiser.

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Together, we raised over $510,000 for breakthrough cancer research on

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Thank you to Jingle Mingle and Jingle Soiree’s donors, sponsors, in-kind supporters, guests and volunteers

who made this year’s event a success!

On Dec. 7, the BC Cancer Foundation’s swanky Jingle Mingle and brand new Jingle Soirée secured a staggering $510,000 for invaluable cancer research at the BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Island Centre.

Beneath the shimmer and chic attire of the holiday event, guests were keenly aware of the evening’s goal to improve cancer out-comes for Vancouver Island patients.

Gathered at the Fairmont Empress Hotel, Jingle Mingle guests also raised their paddles high in philanthropic spirit for the event’s fi rst Equip-a-Need—a way to raise funds for in-demand scientifi c equipment.

Proceeds from this year’s Equip-a-Need will fund a state-of-the-art robotic microscope as well as other high priority research equipment, helping BC Cancer Agency scientists fi nd answers that will transformimmunotherapy research on Vancouver Island.

“I’m so humbled by the generosity of each guest, said Bonnie Campbell, Jingle Mingle Chair, "Thank you to all of our donors and supporters for making this an outstanding evening.”


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Described as a balance between art and science, medical radiography is the latest diploma program to be offered at Camosun College.

Announced last week by Advanced Education Minister Naomi Yamamoto, the two-year program will see 16 full-time students cycle through the program each year.

“This is an exciting new opportunity,” said Camo-sun president Kathryn Laurin. “(Medical radiogra-phy technology) is a leading example of the inter-disciplinary approach to modern health care that combines the diverse skill sets of sophisticated technology and traditional care-giving.”

The program comes with a $3.1-million price tag, paid for by the province, for start-up costs and the purchase of equipment.

Medical radiography technologists use X-rays to help make diagnoses with computer-generated images, for ailments ranging from broken bones to abnormalities of the heart, blood vessels and brain.

The program will include theoretical and practi-cal training. The first class is expected to begin in September 2012.

Upcoming information sessions on the program will be held Jan. 9 and 23 at Camosun’s Lansdowne campus (Fisher Building, Room 100).

For more details on the new medical radiol-ogy technology program, visit camosun.ca/learn/ programs/mrt.

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Christmas Store Hours Cloverdale Avenue, Victoria

will remain open 24 hours.Cloverdale Avenue, Victoria Cloverdale Avenue, Victoria

December 14th–23rd

6am–Midnight

Weekly Specials in Effect until Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

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Prime RibOven RoastNaturally Aged 21 Days$13.21/kg

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Over Limit Price:$1.49/lb, $3.28/kg

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