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Righting a wrongFirst Nations group seeks renaming of Mount Douglas

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Living tributeA crow finds an appropriate resting place on a grave marker in Ross Bay Cemetery.

CFB Esquimalt unionsays ‘no thanks’to morale boosterFeds’ appreciation party patronizing in wake of layoffs across the country: union boss

Daniel PalmerNews staff

The union representing civil-ian employees at CFB Esquimalt plans to boycott celebrations meant to boost morale, as mem-bers protest layoffs and attrition at the base.

Public Service Week, sched-uled for June 9 to 15, is a legis-lated annual event where fed-eral employees are given several hours off for a complimentary lunch and to attend events in rec-ognition of their efforts.

Base officials plan to hold their event June 5, but many union employees won’t be attending, said Mark Miller, B.C.’s vice-pres-ident of the Union of National Defence Employees.

“It’s difficult for us to accept being patted on the back at the same time as the government’s kicking us in the ass,” he said.

About 30 positions at the base have been eliminated through attrition or layoffs in the past two years, but hundreds more layoffs have occurred across Canada, said Randall Gar-rison, NDP MP for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca.

“Those who stay have to do more work with fewer people available, so it’s a pretty tough sell,” he said.

“I think the government has to work

more closely with the unions, and in times of constrained resources, find better ways to save money than simply by cutting positions.”

Don Denton/News staff photo

Mark Miller, B.C. vice-president of the Union of National Defence Employees, stands at the Naden entrance to CFB Esquimalt. He wants base civilian employees to boycott Public Service Week celebrations at the base.

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Edward HillNews staff

When Victoria-area First Nations chiefs called for a meeting with colonial governor James Douglas 160 years ago, the peak of Mount Douglas was the natural spot.

The 213-metre rocky outcrop is ingrained in Saanich First Nation creation stories and culture, but its existing name is synonymous with what aboriginal people still consider longstanding historical injustices.

Tsawout First Nation Chief Eric Pelkey calls the name Mount Doug-las an insult and is leading an effort to have the ancient name of Pkols returned to the site.

Pelkey is leading a march up Mount Doug today (May 22) at 5 p.m. for a symbolic renaming cer-emony and a re-enactment of the meeting with Douglas.

“Renaming Mount Doug is to bring out to the public the sig-nificance of Pkols to Saanich and Songhees and Esquimalt. It is a sacred site and it means a lot to

us,” Pelkey said. “This has been in the heart of our elders as long as I can remember, to bring back the true name.”

University of Victoria indigenous governance professor Taiaiake Alfred said renaming Mount Doug-las is akin to renaming the Queen Charlotte Islands as Haida Gwaii.

Victoria, too, is awash in place names rooted in aboriginal lan-guages – Saanich, Sooke, Esqui-malt, Metchosin and Malahat, to name a few.

“The longer vision is not to erase the colonial history. We are not seeking to rename the whole park, just Mount Doug,” said Alfred, who is a member of the Indigenous Nationhood Movement.

“We want to rename the peak to give it its proper name, as distinct from the park. This isn’t about looking for some kind of retalia-tion. It is looking to restore the balance and show respect for the original name.”

The Douglas treaties, which arguably delineated Fort Victoria colonial territory and First Nations

territory, have their origins in an 1852 meeting on the mountain between Douglas and a group of chiefs, Pelkey said.

The chiefs had actually planned to kill Douglas and wipe out Fort Victoria in retaliation for a farmer killing an aboriginal youth, he said, but were convinced otherwise by a missionary.

“The chiefs decided to spare James Douglas and not wipe out the colony and to live in peace, but they wanted a promise their way of life would be protected and their territory honoured,” Pelkey said.

That discussion and promise would become the Douglas trea-ties.

“The fact that it is called Mount Douglas is a slap in the face for our people,” he said. “It’s where the Douglas treaties were signed in 1852 by James Douglas as a repre-sentative of the Queen. Since that day, successive colonial govern-ments have not honoured those treaties.”

Douglas established what would become Mount Doug Park in 1858

as government reserve land.The City of Victoria designated

the land as a park in 1889 and it was transferred to the municipality of Saanich in 1992.

“We wouldn’t move to remove the park status, just that this is Pkols and is a sacred place,” Pelkey said.

“There are no land claims in the works.”

Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said he’s never been asked for-mally or informally by First Nations leaders to rename the mountain.

“There’s been no contact at all, and we haven’t given it any thought at all,” he said.

Saanich parks staff and police will be on hand to ensure the safety of the march with regard to vehicle traffic.

“We will try to make sure it’s safe. After the event we’ll figure out where to go from there. if and when they contact us we’ll discuss it then,” Leonard said.

The Reclaim Pkols march and the Douglas treaties re-enactment at the top of the mountain are

First Nations seek to reclaim name of Mount Doug

Tsawout First Nation Chief Eric Pelkey, dressed in traditional clothing that’s been handed down to hereditary chiefs for generations, stands near the top of Mount Douglas. He is leading a day of action on May 22 to rename the mountain Pkols, its pre-colonial name.Edward Hill/News staff

Existing name is a slap in the face for local aboriginal people, Tsawout chief says

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Sterk staying as Green leaderDaniel PalmerNews staff

The leader of the B.C. Green party no longer intends to step down, promising instead to help the party’s first MLA adjust to life in the legislature.

Jane Sterk said she was convinced to stay on as party leader at a May 15 meeting with MLA-elect Andrew Weaver, who made history by winning in Oak Bay-Gordon Head the night before, and the party’s executive director and chair.

“We have to sort out what Andrew’s role will be and how the party and I can support him in that role,” Sterk said. “Since we’ve never had a candi-date elected, it will take some time to figure out what that’s going to look like.”

Weaver will likely hire four staff members and begin setting up his con-stituency office in the com-ing weeks, said Sterk, who took 38 per cent of the vote in Victoria-Beacon Hill last week but failed to clinch the seat. Incumbent NDP MLA Carole

James received nearly 49 per cent support to retain her seat in the legisature.

Despite her personal defeat,

Sterk said the Greens are reinvigorated by Weav-er’s win and are already focused on the upcoming byelection in which Pre-mier Christy Clark will seek a return to the legislature.

Clark lost her seat in Van-couver-Point Grey to the NDP’s David Eby on elec-tion night by 785 votes, but she will remain B.C. Liberal leader.

The date for the bye-lection has not yet been announced.

The Greens plan to cre-ate constituency associa-tions across the province and increase their member-ship base, building on the success of Weaver in the coming years.

“Everybody is absolutely thrilled that it was Andrew who got elected because he is a scientist, he has that evidence-based decision-making perspective, and that makes him a stronger MLA than if he was coming from a highly partisan posi-tion,” Sterk said.

“We’re looking forward to this being a stepping stone to much more success for the party.”

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Will lead MLA-elect Weaver, party through transition phase

Christine van Reeuwyk/News staff

B.C. Green Party leader Jane Sterk joins husband, John, in watching the election results roll in last week. Sterk lost her seat but will remain at the helm of the party, at least for now.

Dunsmuir Road residentsto see summer construction

Expect traffic delays this sum-mer along Dunsmuir Road in Esqui-malt as public works crews replace water and gas mains and update the road corridor.

The work will take place primar-ily between Head Street and Gar-rett Place and will include sewage

and drainage improvements, road resurfacing and new sidewalks on the south side of the road. The tar-get end date is in September.

Daytime parking restrictions will be in effect in the area. Call the Esquimalt municipal hall at 250-414-7101 for more information.

Fight leads to stabbing

A Victoria man suffered stab wounds in a fight May 14 in the 2400-block of Wark St.

Victoria police officers rushed to the area around 8:30 p.m. and found the 35-year-old man bleeding. They arrested three suspects who were attempting to flee the scene.

The victim was treated in hospital and released, while the three suspects were released on bail on various charges.

Police believe all the men knew each [email protected]

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Sterk staying as Green leaderDaniel PalmerNews staff

The leader of the B.C. Green party no longer intends to step down, promising instead to help the party’s first MLA adjust to life in the legislature.

Jane Sterk said she was convinced to stay on as party leader at a May 15 meeting with MLA-elect Andrew Weaver, who made history by winning in Oak Bay-Gordon Head the night before, and the party’s executive director and chair.

“We have to sort out what Andrew’s role will be and how the party and I can support him in that role,” Sterk said. “Since we’ve never had a candi-date elected, it will take some time to figure out what that’s going to look like.”

Weaver will likely hire four staff members and begin setting up his con-stituency office in the com-ing weeks, said Sterk, who took 38 per cent of the vote in Victoria-Beacon Hill last week but failed to clinch the seat. Incumbent NDP MLA Carole

James received nearly 49 per cent support to retain her seat in the legisature.

Despite her personal defeat,

Sterk said the Greens are reinvigorated by Weav-er’s win and are already focused on the upcoming byelection in which Pre-mier Christy Clark will seek a return to the legislature.

Clark lost her seat in Van-couver-Point Grey to the NDP’s David Eby on elec-tion night by 785 votes, but she will remain B.C. Liberal leader.

The date for the bye-lection has not yet been announced.

The Greens plan to cre-ate constituency associa-tions across the province and increase their member-ship base, building on the success of Weaver in the coming years.

“Everybody is absolutely thrilled that it was Andrew who got elected because he is a scientist, he has that evidence-based decision-making perspective, and that makes him a stronger MLA than if he was coming from a highly partisan posi-tion,” Sterk said.

“We’re looking forward to this being a stepping stone to much more success for the party.”

[email protected]

Will lead MLA-elect Weaver, party through transition phase

Christine van Reeuwyk/News staff

B.C. Green Party leader Jane Sterk joins husband, John, in watching the election results roll in last week. Sterk lost her seat but will remain at the helm of the party, at least for now.

Dunsmuir Road residentsto see summer construction

Expect traffic delays this sum-mer along Dunsmuir Road in Esqui-malt as public works crews replace water and gas mains and update the road corridor.

The work will take place primar-ily between Head Street and Gar-rett Place and will include sewage

and drainage improvements, road resurfacing and new sidewalks on the south side of the road. The tar-get end date is in September.

Daytime parking restrictions will be in effect in the area. Call the Esquimalt municipal hall at 250-414-7101 for more information.

Fight leads to stabbing

A Victoria man suffered stab wounds in a fight May 14 in the 2400-block of Wark St.

Victoria police officers rushed to the area around 8:30 p.m. and found the 35-year-old man bleeding. They arrested three suspects who were attempting to flee the scene.

The victim was treated in hospital and released, while the three suspects were released on bail on various charges.

Police believe all the men knew each [email protected]

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A tug helps to separate fishing

trawler American Dynasty from the hull

of HMCS Winnipeg after Dynasty

slammed into the bow of the naval

frigate last month. Investigations into

the collision are ongoing.

Photo courtesy Transportation Safety Board

Extent of damage to warship still unknown: CFB EsquimaltDaniel PalmerNews staff

The extent of the damage to a Canadian Navy warship at CFB Esquimalt won’t be known for months, but officials are begin-ning tests on the fishing vessel responsible for the collision.

On April 23, the fishing trawler American Dynasty slammed into HMCS Winnipeg at “C’ Jetty at CFB Esquimalt, dam-aging both ships and the jetty where the Winnipeg was docked.

Early reports indicated the Dynasty’s throttle may have become stuck as it approached the drydock, sending its bow directly into the port side of the frigate, said Raymond Mathew, regional manager for TSB Pacific marine investigations.

While the navy is conducting

its own investigation into the collision, Transportation Safety Board officials are working to replicate the reported glitch.

“There are further tests that will be carried out on the engines of the fishing vessel,” Mathew said.

“Investigators have completed the dry-docking procedure (on the Dynasty) and will now con-

duct tests to attempt to replicate the engine failure.”

The Winnipeg was set to begin sea trials at the end of 2013 after a multi-million dollar overhaul, but was not expected for fleet operations until at least 2014, said Lt.-Cmdr. Desmond James, navy public affairs officer.

“Winnipeg was in extended readiness when all this hap-pened,” he said. “There is no immediate impact to (coastal defence) operations … but to give a timeline for the investiga-tion, it’s impossible to do that right now.”

The Winnipeg is one of 12 Canadian naval frigates that has or are scheduled to undergo technology retrofits as part of a program projected to cost $3.1 billion (2007 estimate).

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“There is no immediate impact to (coastal defence) operations … but to give a timeline for the investigation, it’s impossible to do that right now.”– Lt.-Cmdr. Desmond James

Scraps program exceeds targetDaniel PalmerNews staff

The City of Victoria’s kitchen scraps program has already diverted nearly 400 tonnes of waste from the Hartland landfill and turned it into compost.

That diversion rate is 37 per cent, seven per cent better than the rate predicted by city staff in February.

The early success of the pro-gram is being partially attributed to the city’s online reminder ser-vice, which sends a text, automated phone message or email on the day before garbage pickup, said city spokesperson Katie Josephson.

“The online collection day reminder tool and app are now being utilized by over 3,300 house-holds,” she said.

About 6.5 tonnes of kitchen scraps are being collected and composted from 14,000 Victoria households every day. The city is also selling compostable waste bags made of cornstarch for $10 a roll. Plastic and biodegradable bags are not accepted in kitchen scraps bins. The bags are available for pur-chase at City Hall and the Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre.

For more information, visit victo-ria.ca and search “kitchen scraps.”

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OUR VIEW

One benefit of the surprising fourth term for the B.C. Liberal party is that the provincial government won’t be subjected to another big, expensive ideological remake.

Taxpayers are spared a bill of millions in severance pay for deputy ministers and other senior staff who would be purged in large numbers in the left-right lurch that has defined B.C. politics for a generation.

B.C. Ferries will continue as an arms-length operation, with ferry commissioner Gord Macatee in charge of service levels as well as fare caps. The service rationalization that the government set out in the past year will continue.

The NDP platform vowed to “position B.C. Ferries as an integral part of B.C.’s transportation infrastructure.” Freely translated, that means “suck B.C. Ferries back into government,” as one of their strident supporters likes to say.

That would conceal the growth of the subsidy and facilitate the kind of political and union interference that resulted in the current structure.

There will be no $10-million rehash of the B.C. Rail sale and subsequent seven-year trial, to enrich elite lawyers once again.

The NDP promised an inquiry for strictly political reasons, to drag their opponents through the scandal

one more time. It was not a prelude to “nationalizing” the province’s train service, dream scenarios of

the NDP provincial council notwithstanding.

Costly legal confrontations over development projects have been avoided. The Jumbo Glacier Resort proponents finally won a 20-year fight for permits, and the NDP promised to take them away.

A larger ideological battle over private power contracts has also been avoided. The B.C. Liberals have been caught by a

sudden shift in power markets caused by cheap, abundant natural gas, but the billions in commitments to independent power producers isn’t the fiasco that critics have described.

If all those privately developed run-of-river hydro projects were owned and operated by B.C. Hydro, the Crown corporation would have to staff them and maintain them all for the next 40 years. There are differing views about the future demand for electricity in B.C., but it can only rise with industry and population growth.

A decade of federal and provincial work to end duplication of environmental assessment won’t be undone. NDP leader Adrian Dix’s promise for “made in B.C.” reviews was a strategy to choke resource projects to death under endless procedure, which may yet be the fate of the Jumbo resort.

We will have a Seniors’ Advocate office, but it won’t be staffed up to duplicate the Ombudsperson’s role of taking complaints.

That’s good, since the Ombudsperson has become ineffective, labouring for years over a massive seniors’ report with so many recommendations it sank like a stone.

We have 85 seniors’ advocates now. They’re called MLAs, and they definitely take complaints.

They have staffed offices in their home communities and in Victoria. When they’re not doing political work that everyone denies is going on in constituency offices, those office staffers try to help people through the labyrinth of seniors’ at-home and institutional care.

A new seniors’ advocate can offer advice at the management level to help the health care system evolve, but only elected politicians are positioned to tell individuals they can’t have what they are demanding.

The government should be adding more direct services, not more bureaucrats.

There will be many arguments about the failure of the NDP to win against an unpopular B.C. Liberal government that is still weighed down by the harmonized sales tax and other heavy baggage.

This election could be the beginning of the end for the old left-right model for B.C. politics.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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‘Costly legal confrontations over development projects have been avoided.’

Parents need to talk tough

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

At least twice each year we see a real push from police against drinking and driving. Once at Christmas and again in the spring.

At Christmas, age is not a consideration for police, but in springtime, the target group is clear.

Drinking drivers tend to be younger in spring around graduation time. They are, frequently, young men experiencing what some would call the rites of passage.

Drinking and driving, however, isn’t a rite, it’s a crime – one with deadly consequences.

More than two years ago the province introduced Canada’s toughest impaired driving laws and the number of alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths went down by half.

But drinking alone is still a threat to our youth, whether they get behind the wheel of a car or not. From risky sexual behaviour to an increase in physical and sexual assaults to death from alcohol poisoning, the risk to youth from excessive alcohol use or drinking to get drunk, is real.

With any luck, the days of parent-sanctioned “wet” grad parties are a thing of the past.

With more parents and students concentrating on dry grad activities that have youth celebrating in a safe, non-alcohol fuelled atmosphere, one would think the old hay field parties of yore have been left in the past. But some parents still believe in the old adage, ‘kids are going to drink anyway, so we’ll just make sure they don’t drive.’

That is a difficult stance to take when, as a parent, you’ve spent the last 18 years of your child’s life trying to teach them right from wrong. Then you’re telling them that wrong is OK, as long as mom or dad says so.

As parents, it’s our job to make the tough decisions – even if they are not the most popular ones with our kids. All their lives we’ve made decisions for our children based on what we think is best for them. We’ve denied them sugary cereals. We’ve made them eat their broccoli. We’ve strapped unwilling toddlers into car seats, because it’s the safest way for them to ride.

It may not be the easiest thing you’ve done lately, but convincing your teen that drinking alcohol to celebrate is not a necessity and could bring them harm in ways other than the risk of driving drunk will make everyone feel better in the morning.

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CRD should preparefor a fight over sewage

In your opinion piece, you describe the proposal of Mayor Desjardins as “woefully self-serving and [something which] would only accomplish passing the buck to a different municipality.”

If that is so, how would you describe the actions of the rest of the councillors on the Capital Regional District board, particularly the nine from Saanich and Victoria? They have pulled out all the stops to ensure that only Esquimalt is adversely affected by sewage treatment infrastructure.

And now that they have successfully stuck us with the burden of dealing with their sewage, they seek to do whatever they can to build the plant as cheaply as possible, using outdated technology, so as to limit the tax increases for their

own constituents. Woefully self-serving, indeed.

This battle has only just begun. I encourage Esquimalt council to do whatever it can, whenever it can, to frustrate, delay and ultimately stop the CRD from ramming this down our throats. They should refuse to change the zoning, refuse to approve the plans, secede from the CRD and require every environmental impact assessment or review which the law permits.

And when those avenues are exhausted, take them (and by them I mean the provincial and federal governments, as well, if necessary) to court and keep fighting until they either give up or agree to change the plan to something better and more reasonable.

Failing that, I guess we’ll all get to find out just how many Esquimalt residents are willing to chain themselves to heavy equipment. While I would never

advocate such civil disobedience, I can tell you that people here really are that angry.

Let me be clear, I (and I dare say most Esquimalt residents) am not against sewage treatment, just this monstrosity of a plan. The CRD can avoid many headaches in the years to come if only they recognize that and act appropriately.

Mike BakerEsquimalt

Sewage buckpassed to Esquimalt

This statement seems extremely hypocritical considering that the “sewage buck” from the Clover Point outfall will be passed over to Esquimalt without a second thought.

Although the good citizens of Oak Bay and Victoria appear to be unable to “take one for the team” and find a site to deal with

the bulk of the region’s sewage discharge, they are not financially constrained in finding the funds to pump this inconvenience over to Esquimalt. Apparently the “sewage buck” only stops at McLoughlin (Point) and Viewfield (Road).

The best of a hard situation, to paraphrase your editorial, is for Esquimalt to “suck it up and be a team player.” By not dealing with a hard situation and not being team players on the Clover Point, Oak Bay and Victoria are simply passing the problem on to someone else.

Hypocrisy: the state of pretending to have virtues or moral principles, etc., that one does not actually have.

Filippo FerriEsquimalt

Treatment plant to scalewould be just fine

In a few short paragraphs, you state that Esquimalt doesn’t want any sewage treatment plants and we should suck it up because

there is no other option than the current plan.

Neither is true. None of my neighbours are opposed to taking our share of sewage treatment, so long as those plants are appropriate for the land we have.

McLoughlin Point is too small for a large, centralized plant and has only residential road access. A smaller, decentralized plant using modern technology, however, may fit just fine.

Viewfield Road is right next to a grocery store and directly across the street from residences, with zero setback, which is not where sludge plants are typically built, for reasons ranging from safety to smell.

Stop calling us NIMBYs and stop thinking old-school treatment: the day the Capital Regional District starts to plan smartly, consults residents first and brings a plan to Esquimalt that properly fits in our neighbourhood, is the day the opposition ends.

Meagan KlaassenEsquimalt


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Sewage plant editorial strikes a chord in EsquimaltRe: Don’t pass the sewage buck (Our View, May 15)

Victoria MLA Jamescould have won for NDP

It needs to be said. Carole James would have won this one. She was ahead in the polls when she was replaced and has both the personality and reputation as a moderate. The B.C. Liberals would have found it much harder to target her than Adrian Dix.

And she would have been much, much better in the TV debate.

Andy Mulcahy Victoria

NDP tactics failed,not their ideology

The demographics are changing. It’s not a traditional B.C. anymore and that to me is amazing.

But to verbalize the elephant in the room: With Christy Clark re-elected, with a majority no less, will Dix be dropped with a thud? I had thought he would have announced his resignation by now.

Outright predictions gave way to minute dissections of specific ridings that seemed to brace for the inevitable.

The whys and hows of this are for future posts. But this is a fact, sad, but a fact nonetheless. The New Democrats were unable to pull it out, during

a year in which it seemed enthusiasm would all be on their side.

The good news is that we the electorate, let alone the NDP, won’t be caught off guard again, and that all this talk from the pollsters and media about how we’re living in B.C., just isn’t true. The NDP lost a tactical race Tuesday night, not an ideological one. The polls told us the Liberals were not working hard enough, but voters didn’t listen.

Democracy survives.Melek Demir

Saanich

Election resultsmimic 1983 for NDP

As the election returns came in last Tuesday night, I was reminded of the 1983 provincial election, when all the opinion polls and pundits predicted that there would be an easy victory for the NDP. Nevertheless, the incumbent Socreds were re-elected with an increased majority.

Last Tuesday felt very much like, as Yogi Berra would say, “deja vu all over again.”

Darryl GreenSaanich

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Re-elected Victoria-Beacon Hill NDP MLA Carole James applauds a televised concession speech by party leader Adrian Dix on election night with Victoria-Swan Lake MLA-elect Rob Fleming. One reader surmises that the New Democrats might have won the election had James remained as leader.

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The City of Victoria came one step further to replacing the Johnson Street Bridge on Friday, with the official start of construction on the $92.8-million project.

The new lift bridge – soon to be the largest of its kind in Canada – is purported to create 900 jobs and generate $500 million in local economic development. It features on-road bike lanes, a multi-use trail, and a pedestrian pathway and is designed to withstand an 8.5 magnitude earthquake.

“This is an exciting day in the City

of Victoria,” said Mayor Dean Fortin.The area near the existing

Johnson Street Bridge is now an active construction site. The public can expect to see more crews and equipment arriving over the coming weeks. A temporary trestle will soon be built on the north east side of the bridge to support the cranes and equipment needed.

The current bridge will remain open to pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles, and marine traffic until the new bridge opens to traffic in late 2015.

Miller said the union is also worried about discussions to centralize engineering and public works decisions in Ottawa, which he says could lead to the removal of day-to-day decision-making power from the base commander.

“Historically, whenever anything is centralized and bundled, there’s a very real fear of it being

contracted out,” he said.

While CFB Esquimalt hasn’t seen the same level of cuts to DND civilian jobs as other Canadian bases, the boycott is intended to support some 2,000 union members who have lost their jobs nationally.

“These people who are having their very lives upset, they know the federal government is not being sincere with their appreciation

for us,” Miller said.Base officials

are aware of the union’s position on Public Service Week celebrations, said Capt. Jenn Jackson, CFB Esquimalt base public affairs officer.

“The event is meant to recognize the exemplary work done by the defence team’s civilian employees every day, so we do sincerely hope that all civilian employees will participate in the recognition. But we do respect that they may decide not to,” she said.

In 2012, nearly 17,000 Canadian public service positions were axed as a result of the federal government’s Budget 2012 implementation bill, which amounted to a 5.5 per cent reduction from 2011 staffing [email protected]

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Sean Brock, left, vice-president/district manager of PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc., Ron Cannan, Conservative MP for Kelowna-Lake Country and Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin dig in during the official groundbreaking ceremony Friday for construction of the new Johnson Street Bridge. Work will begin in earnest in the coming weeks.

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If the handcrafted stonework, jutting window casements or ornate gabled roofing doesn’t give away the age of a house, remnants of a so-called Califor-nia cooler just might.

A square hatch on the side of David Cubberley’s home is all that remains of pre-refrigeration food storage – a cabinet with high and low ducts that pro-moted air circulation – in the 1913 bungalow.

Hundreds of grand old homes in Greater Victoria are celebrat-ing their first century this year. Circa 1913 was a golden era for residential construction – hundreds of houses went up to meet a growing influx of immi-grants, and matched the expan-sion of railway lines through Victoria and the Saanich Penin-sula.

“Victoria had a sustained economic boom. It was the last good year and there was a record number of building per-mits,” said Cubberley, a former Saanich councillor and provin-cial MLA.

The Hallmark Heritage Soci-ety of Victoria property data-base shows 230 homes were completed in 1913 and 238 in 1912, the peak of building for the era, although the list is incomplete. Construction declined dramatically through the lean and tumultuous years of the First World War.

“Then midway through 1913 was a world-wide recession,” noted society president Ken Johnson. “The lumber market

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“Protecting a house is a vol-untary thing. The owner has to want to do it and many own-ers do,” Johnson said. “These houses are important. They’re part of (our) history … they’re a part of peoples’ stories.”

– with files from Ben [email protected]

Victoria saw building boom in 1913

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David Cubberley stands outside his restored 100-year-old home in Saanich. Hundreds of homes are turning a century old after a building boom in Victoria from 1912-13.

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If the handcrafted stonework, jutting window casements or ornate gabled roofing doesn’t give away the age of a house, remnants of a so-called Califor-nia cooler just might.

A square hatch on the side of David Cubberley’s home is all that remains of pre-refrigeration food storage – a cabinet with high and low ducts that pro-moted air circulation – in the 1913 bungalow.

Hundreds of grand old homes in Greater Victoria are celebrat-ing their first century this year. Circa 1913 was a golden era for residential construction – hundreds of houses went up to meet a growing influx of immi-grants, and matched the expan-sion of railway lines through Victoria and the Saanich Penin-sula.

“Victoria had a sustained economic boom. It was the last good year and there was a record number of building per-mits,” said Cubberley, a former Saanich councillor and provin-cial MLA.

The Hallmark Heritage Soci-ety of Victoria property data-base shows 230 homes were completed in 1913 and 238 in 1912, the peak of building for the era, although the list is incomplete. Construction declined dramatically through the lean and tumultuous years of the First World War.

“Then midway through 1913 was a world-wide recession,” noted society president Ken Johnson. “The lumber market

and fisheries market slumped (in B.C.). The recession started before the war. It was an unfor-tunate coincidence.”

Cubberley has spent years restoring what was the first house on Grange Road (for-merly Blackwood Road), designed and lived in by archi-tect Hubert Savage. For his res-toration efforts, the Hallmark Society recently granted Cub-berley an award of merit.

The home retains its arts and crafts look and thick stone columns that bookend the veranda. Some exterior and interior elements of the house were in rough shape when Cub-berley bought it 25 years ago, but overall the framing weath-ered the past century with little trouble.

“It is a well-built house. It has full dimension two by fours of clear Douglas fir. That wood is so strong you can’t pound a nail

into it,” Cubberley said. Jumping into restoration isn’t

cheap and has a sharp learning curve, he noted. Not only that, it can be tough to find restora-tion experts.

“Deferred maintenance is the killer of older homes and wooden buildings. You’ve got to stay with it.”

People can volunteer their homes for “heritage designa-tion” if they meet certain cri-teria. Homes with heritage designation can receive grants for renovations, but require municipal council approval for alterations.

“Protecting a house is a vol-untary thing. The owner has to want to do it and many own-ers do,” Johnson said. “These houses are important. They’re part of (our) history … they’re a part of peoples’ stories.”

– with files from Ben [email protected]

Victoria saw building boom in 1913

Edward Hill/News staff

David Cubberley stands outside his restored 100-year-old home in Saanich. Hundreds of homes are turning a century old after a building boom in Victoria from 1912-13.


ClarificationA Friday story

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The issue, which passed unanimously after much consultation, was a tenancy agreement between the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority and float home residents at Fisherman’s Wharf.


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Kyle WellsNews staff

Robert Bateman doesn’t think of himself as a particularly talented technical painter.

“I don’t think I’m a great painter, technically. I’m always struggling,” Bateman said. “I’m always making mistakes. … I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, I’m exploring and discovering and always trying to improve.”

He sees this as a perhaps part of the reason his paintings have proven to be so popular for so many years, however. He explains hundreds of artists paint birds and wildlife, as he is known for, so it’s not the subject matter alone which draws people to his work.

It perhaps has more to do with his approach, his vision of nature and this sense of discovery he approaches each project with.

The Robert Bateman Centre is opening Saturday, May 25 at noon in the old CPR Steamship Terminal and will feature around 160 of Bateman’s works, ranging from his earliest years as an artist through to the wildlife paintings he has become so well known for.

The exhibit will shed light on a side of Bateman few ever get the chance to see. An entire room has been devoted to Bateman’s environmental message

paintings. Some of Bateman’s portrait work will also be on display, mainly featuring paintings of his wife and friends.

“Most people don’t think of me as somebody who paints landscapes and portraits, but I do. They just don’t get out there,” Bateman said. “I’ve always kind of balked at being pigeonholed as a wildlife artist. It’s OK. It’s not an insult, but it’s kind of like saying Rembrandt is a portrait artist. Well he’s an artist in all kinds of broad ways.”

Bateman even went through an abstract expressionism period, which is represented at the gallery.

“That’s a major, major show for any artist,” Paul Gilbert, executive director of the Bateman Foundation, said. “It’s the first exhibition that’s kind of an insight into Bateman’s life, his personal interests, the work he did that most of the world has never seen.”

The show features original prints and reproductions, something Bateman said has been a tad controversial.

“It’s the only way to show the scope of my work. It would be impossible to start getting shipping and insurance and permissions,” Bateman said. “The reproductions, which have been going on since 1980, they’re very high quality, they’re not just like a poster.”

“The most important thing is the thought, the idea behind it.”

The majority of the paintings and prints have video and audio supplements of

Bateman talking about the work, which can be accessed via smart phones or tablets. The gallery will have tablets to loan to patrons who wish to take the self-guided tour.

Gilbert said he had some reservations installing the gallery in the old CPR Steamship Terminal building, a heritage

building designed by Francis Rattenbury. The second floor, where the gallery is located, was a shell, and Gilbert said he had a hard time seeing how the gallery’s layout would all come together.

Ultimately Gilbert is more than happy with the outcome.

“It’s worked better than I could possibly have hoped for.”

A gift shop is set to open on the first floor of the building about a month after the gallery’s opening. A service, which will be offered starting in the fall, is an opportunity for visitors to the gallery to order prints of the works on display through an interactive ordering station. Customers will pick the print they want to purchase, along with options such as framing, and the print will be shipped to the customer’s home.

Money from the sales of prints will go towards the Robert Bateman Foundation, which promotes exposure to nature for young students.

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Another side of noted artist to be on display

Bateman Centre opens in Steamship Terminal


Roman Czarnomski, from Signs Of The Times, hangs a wall poster of a Robert Bateman painting on the outside wall of the historic CPR Steamship Terminal on Victoria’s Inner Harbour.

“I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, I’m exploring and discovering and always trying to improve.”- Robert Bateman


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THE ARTS Audiences will be treated to a masterpiece of 19th century drama with Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, June 4, 5 and 6 to 16. Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre brings the story of a country farmer who become jealous of his big-city brother and his unsettling wife to open its 2013 season. For more information go to bluebridgetheatre.ca.

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Robert Bateman doesn’t think of himself as a particularly talented technical painter.

“I don’t think I’m a great painter, technically. I’m always struggling,” Bateman said. “I’m always making mistakes. … I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, I’m exploring and discovering and always trying to improve.”

He sees this as a perhaps part of the reason his paintings have proven to be so popular for so many years, however. He explains hundreds of artists paint birds and wildlife, as he is known for, so it’s not the subject matter alone which draws people to his work.

It perhaps has more to do with his approach, his vision of nature and this sense of discovery he approaches each project with.

The Robert Bateman Centre is opening Saturday, May 25 at noon in the old CPR Steamship Terminal and will feature around 160 of Bateman’s works, ranging from his earliest years as an artist through to the wildlife paintings he has become so well known for.

The exhibit will shed light on a side of Bateman few ever get the chance to see. An entire room has been devoted to Bateman’s environmental message

paintings. Some of Bateman’s portrait work will also be on display, mainly featuring paintings of his wife and friends.

“Most people don’t think of me as somebody who paints landscapes and portraits, but I do. They just don’t get out there,” Bateman said. “I’ve always kind of balked at being pigeonholed as a wildlife artist. It’s OK. It’s not an insult, but it’s kind of like saying Rembrandt is a portrait artist. Well he’s an artist in all kinds of broad ways.”

Bateman even went through an abstract expressionism period, which is represented at the gallery.

“That’s a major, major show for any artist,” Paul Gilbert, executive director of the Bateman Foundation, said. “It’s the first exhibition that’s kind of an insight into Bateman’s life, his personal interests, the work he did that most of the world has never seen.”

The show features original prints and reproductions, something Bateman said has been a tad controversial.

“It’s the only way to show the scope of my work. It would be impossible to start getting shipping and insurance and permissions,” Bateman said. “The reproductions, which have been going on since 1980, they’re very high quality, they’re not just like a poster.”

“The most important thing is the thought, the idea behind it.”

The majority of the paintings and prints have video and audio supplements of

Bateman talking about the work, which can be accessed via smart phones or tablets. The gallery will have tablets to loan to patrons who wish to take the self-guided tour.

Gilbert said he had some reservations installing the gallery in the old CPR Steamship Terminal building, a heritage

building designed by Francis Rattenbury. The second floor, where the gallery is located, was a shell, and Gilbert said he had a hard time seeing how the gallery’s layout would all come together.

Ultimately Gilbert is more than happy with the outcome.

“It’s worked better than I could possibly have hoped for.”

A gift shop is set to open on the first floor of the building about a month after the gallery’s opening. A service, which will be offered starting in the fall, is an opportunity for visitors to the gallery to order prints of the works on display through an interactive ordering station. Customers will pick the print they want to purchase, along with options such as framing, and the print will be shipped to the customer’s home.

Money from the sales of prints will go towards the Robert Bateman Foundation, which promotes exposure to nature for young students.

[email protected]

Another side of noted artist to be on display

Bateman Centre opens in Steamship Terminal


Roman Czarnomski, from Signs Of The Times, hangs a wall poster of a Robert Bateman painting on the outside wall of the historic CPR Steamship Terminal on Victoria’s Inner Harbour.

“I don’t know what I’m doing half the time, I’m exploring and discovering and always trying to improve.”- Robert Bateman

Telling raven’s tale

A local filmmaking duo jet-ted to France last week as their latest collaboration once again reached amazing heights at the Cannes International Film Festi-val.

Director Jeremy Lutter and screenwriter/producer Daniel Hogg took off to iconic festival for the screening of the short film Floodplain, part of Telefilm

Canada’s Not Short on Talent program. The recognition fol-lows the success of their previ-ous work Joanna Makes a Friend, which screened at Cannes in 2012.

The story behind Floodplain, a coming-of-age-tale of a young couple who raft across an inte-rior B.C. floodplain, was written by fellow University of Victoria

alumnus and BBC National Short Story Award winner, D.W. Wilson and largely funded by a National Screen Institute Drama prize and an indigogo campaign.

The two have collaborated on more than 20 films since they met as UVic students at the Vic-toria Film Producers’ Associa-tion launch party in 1999.

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Laura LavinNews staff

Robert Budd has been lucky since birth.“When I was two-days old my brother named

me Lucky. My parents named me Robert when I was seven days old. But everyone calls me Lucky,” says the 37-year-old author.

His brother Adam, older by six years, did not want to add another sister to the family of four children. “He thought he was lucky to have another boy.”

More than luck has brought Budd some noto-riety, he is the host of CBC radio’s Voices of B.C. and author of the book Voices of British Columbia, in which he recounts the stories of B.C’s pioneers from hundreds of voice recordings taken in the late 1950s.

Budd’s latest book, Raven Brings the Light, is a collaboration with one of the country’s renown First Nation’s artists, Roy Henry Vickers.

Vickers contacted Budd 18 months ago, search-ing for some recorded interviews he had used as inspiration for some of his art. The artist invited Budd to Tofino to listen to one of his storytelling workshops.

“We hit it off like gangbusters,” says Budd of meeting 66-year-old Vickers.

After hearing Vickers tell the story of Raven, Budd envisioned a book.

“We just started rolling and he was completely inspired,” says Budd. Vickers created 19 new images for the book which tells the story of a boy named Weget who is destined to bring light to the world. With the gift of a magic raven skin, Weget fulfills his destiny. The book, released earlier this month is already in its second printing.

Meet Budd and Vickers at a book signing and art show at Madrona Art Gallery, 606 View St., on May 24 and 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more informa-tion go to harbourpublishing.com.

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Robert Budd, left, and Roy Henry Vickers bring the artistry of their new book (inset) to a show at Madrona Gallery this weekend.

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As flowers bloom in the late spring and summer sun of Greater Victoria, so, too will the art such beauty inspires.

Nearly 40 artists will be working out of and showcased by hotels throughout Greater Victoria from now until the end of October for the third annual Artishow Victoria.

“Art is an integral part of our community, and our life,” Oak Bay Tourism director Hazel Braithwaite said at the event kickoff May 1 at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel. “They basically took the concept from a blank canvas to what it is today, a full-fledged painting – planning it out, adding brush strokes and layers. Every year it gets better and better and bigger and bigger.”

Eight hotels will host an artist in residence, typically one per month each, along with other art-centric events. The Chateau Victoria Hotel and Suites will host Art Lunches and the Fairmont Empress will see local artists painting on the hotel grounds Sundays from June 30 to Sept. 1.

Kenna Fair is the artist in residence at the Beach Hotel and will paint there May 22 to 24. Her work will be displayed through the month.

Fair’s work focuses on the ocean and its inhabitants, above and below the water. She said the event is beneficial to artists as it connects them to other industries, such as tourism.

“Exposure. I get to meet people that don’t run in similar circles,” Fair said. “That kind of stuff is priceless for an artist, particularly if you’re trying to make a living.”

Artishow co-founder Kerry Liggins was inspired by the level of support for artists in Europe, where she spends part of the year and felt compelled to try and instill a similar spirit here.

“When I would go around I would be so impressed, and I thought ‘why can’t we be doing something like that in Victoria?’” she said. “With funding cutbacks there are fewer and fewer opportunities for artists to show their works.”

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Kinder Morgan’s proposed twin-ning of the Trans Mountain oil pipe-line through the Lower Mainland looks more likely with the B.C. Liber-als staying in power than if the NDP had won last week’s election.

NDP leader Adrian Dix had vowed to block a big increase in oil tanker exports from Metro Vancouver. His reversal of a previous pledge to wait for a formal project application became a major campaign issue.

Premier Christy Clark said voters weren’t impressed by “the idea that

you’re going to say ‘no’ to economic development before you even see it.”

She said the province will put any Kinder Morgan proposal to the same requirements as the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline to Kitimat, including world-leading safeguards against ocean and land spills as well as a substantial share of benefits for B.C.’s risk.

The Trans Mountain pipeline from northern Alberta to Burnaby has operated for more than 50 years, but Kinder Morgan wants to nearly triple its production, resulting in more oil tankers plying Pacific waters.

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When Tania Swan’s children entered school full-time she returned part-time.

Armed with a bachelor of sci-ence degree from the University of Victoria, the Sooke woman sought programs with the goal of return-ing to the workforce after 12 years as a stay-at-home mom.

She ultimately signed on for the 10-week part-time Employment Skills Access Program at Royal Roads University.

“It was work, but it was transfor-mational, because it assisted me in recognizing what I was doing

was transferrable,” she said, of skills she developed raising her kids. “They were marketable and transferable and I needed to look at them that way.”

The program often highlights skills that people already possess, said Sandra Cranz, lead co-ordi-nator for the program in Royal Roads’ continuing studies depart-ment.

“There tends to be a common theme, that folks are lacking confi-dence and the ability to talk about the skills they have,” she said. “We have a three-day behavioural interview component that really helps people build their confi-dence.”

Participants range from their early 20s to late 60s, and include people with no post-secondary education and others with mas-ter’s degrees who are out of the workforce for various reasons.

The program can be emotional, given its reflective nature, but the benefits are great, Cranz said.

“It really focuses on helping people figure out the preferred employment with the preferred employer. It’s about figuring out where your passions are, and your beliefs and values, and trying to match those with an employer.”

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The transformation experi-enced by Swan is not uncommon, Cranz said.

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JumpShip postponed, ‘will return’ in 2014Cycling Festival changes look without JumpShip and Tour de Victoria

Travis PatersonNews staff

The most popular spectator event of the Victoria International Cycling Festival is tak-ing a one-year hiatus.

Due to a lack of necessary sponsorship the JumpShip event will not happen in 2014, a blow to the Cycling Festival’s overall expe-rience.

It’s not for a lack of sponsors per se, but a lack of cash to cover the event’s costs, said Eban Tomlinson, JumpShip event director.

“The current climate is sponsors want to give us in-kind and a festival this size needs $80,000 for indelible costs, for insurance and porta potties and the land, so it’s dif-ficult for us.”

JumpShip invites top stunt-jumping cyclists from all over the world to compete for cash prizes on a world-class course built on a barge at Ship Point.

It’s been a huge draw for foot traffic to the festival’s final weekend the past two years and was slated to headline its own weekend

at this year’s festival, June 14 to 16.The barge draws a huge crowd of specta-

tors, including hundreds in the neighbour-ing beer garden.

Despite disappointment from JumpShip

fans feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, Tomlinson added.

“Even if JumpShip is scaled down the event’s cash costs will remain the same,” Tomlinson said.

“Everybody understands if we can’t fund it we shouldn’t put it on. People are glad we’ve decided to postpone it rather than run a deficit so that we can make 2014 a much better year.”

Planning has already turned to 2014 for JumpShip organizers.

Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria, which ended smack in the middle of the Inner Harbour during the final weekend last year, has also moved dates. It will happen in Sep-tember so Hesjedal can attend, post race season.

“We’ve still got a slate of nine events and yes, it’s a shame to lose JumpShip, but we’re good to go and moving ahead,” said VICF chair John Briggs. “it is a loss for that particular weekend.”

The VICF starts with the Robert Cameron Law Series on Friday, May 31, a weekend of road cycling stages with a time trial, road race and Bastion Square criterium.

New this year to the VICF is Ride, Don’t Hide, a mass participation event to ben-efit the mental health of women and their families.

Ride, Don’t Hide has three distances along Dallas Road to Oak Bay, 7.5 kilome-tres, 22 km and 29.5 km. It will be officially announced today at Oak Bay Bikes.

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Rain parted for sunshine and a crowd on the final day of the second annual JumpShip at Ship Point in June 2012.

St. Michaels romp to Colonel Hodgkins trophy against GNSTravis PatersonNews staff

The Oak Bay Barbarians retained the Howard Russell Cup as Lower Island high school boys AAA rugby champions with a 39-17 win over the Mount Douglas Rams at Oak Bay High on Thursday.

Grade 12 student Conor McDiar-mid led the Barbs with a hat trick of tries. Captain Evan Cambridge scored the second try of the day as the Barbs used a well rounded attack to stymie the talented but new-to-rugby Rams.

“The Rams are a team of great athletes, you can see that, and we had to use our skill and structure to win,” Cambridge said.

Cambridge, a graduating senior and B.C. Youth 7s team member, will join the UVic Vikes rugby pro-gram next year. Vikes head coach Doug Tate was at the game watch-ing his son, Barbs’ fly half Morgan Tate.

On the opposite side of the field, Rams’ fullback Mason Swift gave the Barbs all kinds of fits. Swift is headed to play running back for the Guelph Gryphons football squad in the CIS this year and showed his skills are transferable.

“Rugby’s in my blood, I’m half Tongan, but I never played until

(last year),” Swift said. “Really I love it, but I just haven’t played enough.”

Swift lined up at centre most of the season but was moved to full-back for the Howard Russell Cup by coach Matt Staples.

And the decision paid off.“I think we’d rather face Swift

at centre so he has less space to

start with,” said Cambridge.Swift’s runs almost always

started from standing, at times on his heels, not that it mattered, as he casually slapped off at least two tacklers per carry.

Early line breaks and a game’s worth of tackle breaks may have sapped Swift’s extraordinary fit-ness, though he continued to

break Barbarians’ tackles at half speed. Swift also managed mul-tiple try-saving tackles including two during one set of Barbarian phases.

The win is another notch in the historic rugby program so impor-tant to the Oak Bay High culture.

“It means a lot to win this tro-phy,” Cambridge said. “We hear

about what it means to be a Bar-barian from the time we’re in Grades 5 and 6. It’s passed down not just from older kids, but from our parents.”

The Rams, to their credit, surged in the second half using its massive forward pack to barge ahead but couldn’t convert their work into tries.

Jags run over GNSThe St. Michaels Blue Jaguars

romped to a 56-5 win over the Glenlyon Norfolk Gryphons in the AA Colonel Hodgkins Cup immedi-ately following the Howard Russell on Thursday.

GNS fielded a team full of Grade 10s and 11s and to their credit, scored the try of the day to end the game, said Blue Jags coach Ian Hyde-Lay.

All four above teams qualified for the first round of provincials, which happen Saturday (May 25) at Brentwood College. The No. 3 seed Blue Jags are missing a hand-ful of key regulars and will likely call up some talented Grade 10s when they face No. 14 seed Lady-smith in AA play. The 11 seed Gryphons face McRoberts (Rich-mond).

In AAA play No. 8 Oak Bay faces No. 9 Carson Graham and No. 14 Mount Doug draws No. 3 Earl Mar-riott.

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Mount Doug Rams flanker Sasha Shurvin tackles Oak Bay Barbarians captain Evan Cambridge in the Howard Russell Cup, Thursday (May 16) at Oak Bay High. The Barbs won 39-17.

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Vancouver Island Secondary School Track and Field Championships

May 15 & 16 at UVic

Outstanding Female AthleteAgnes Esser (Frances Kelsey) - Discus record, 49.75 m, Shot Put record, 13.55 m

Outstanding Male AthleteThomas Getty (Mount Douglas) - 3,000m Record 8:34.93

Most Inspirational AthleteThomas Getty (Mount Douglas secondary)1st 800m 1:56.68 1st 1,500m 4:00.291st 3,000m 8:34.93

New RecordsChicago Bains (Quamichan) - Bantam Girls 80m Hurdles ,11.97 seconds

Brendan Hoff (Carihi) - Bantam Boys 3,000m, 9:11.40

Thomas Getty (Mount Doug) - Sr. Boys 3,000m, 8:34.93s

Brody Brubacher (Lambrick Park) - Bantam Boys 300m Hurdles 43.78s

Agnes Esser (Francis Kelsey) - Sr. Girls Discus, 49.75 m

Seever Rondquist (Timberline) - Bantam Boys Javelin, 52.12m

Brendan Hoff (Carihi)Bantam Boys 1,500m, 4:11.43s

Agnes Esser (Francis Kelsey) - Sr. Girls Shot Put, 13.55m

Chicago Bains (Quamichan) - Ban-tam Girls 300m Hurdles 44.70s

Callum Montgomery(Dover Bay) - Jr. Boys 400m 53.93s

Max McCullough (Oak Bay)- Bantam Boys 1,500m Steeple-chase, 4:52.21s

Patrick Keanne (St. Andrew’s) - Jr. Boys 1,500m Steeplechase, 4:56.54s

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Bantam Boys Team Awards1. Lambrick Park 1152. Oak Bay 110.53. Alberni 484. St. Andrews 47.55. Mt. Douglas 38

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Junior Girls Team Awards1. Oak Bay 296.52. Cowichan 533. Mt. Douglas 444. St. Andrews 355. Dover Bay 34

Junior Boys Team Awards1. Oak Bay 104.52. Cowichan 1003. Dover Bay 724. Mt. Douglas 525. Belmont 43

Combined Bantam Team Awards1. Oak Bay 296.52. Cowichan 1533. Dover Bay 1064. Mt. Douglas 965. Belmont 69

Senior Girls Team Awards1. Oak Bay 1552. Reynolds 593. Francis Kelsey 574. Mt. Douglas 495. St. Andrews

Senior Boys Team Awards1. Oak Bay 1462. Mt. Douglas 813. Dover Bay 694. Cowichan 615. Claremont 53

Combined Senior Team Awards1. Oak Bay 3012. Mt. Douglas 1303. St. Andrews4. Cowichan5. Dover Bay

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THE LANGFORD MAN- decks, fences, quality work, competitive pricing, licensed & insured. Fred, (250)514-5280.

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A fuel truck crash in 2011, which resulted in the spilling of 43,000 litres of fuel into the river, also brought to people’s atten-tion the importance and fragility of the river, he said.

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The lawyer representing a Saanich police officer alleged to have coaxed a man out of his home to arrest him for being drunk in public says his cli-ent did what was necessary to diffuse a heated, alcohol-fuelled situation.

Const. David Smit’s arrest of a man involved in a domestic dispute on May 20, 2011 was made with the best intentions, Richard Neary said last week.

“Any errors in judgment or missteps were hon-est mistakes (as part of) dealing with a pressing need to ensure the safety (of the people involved),” Neary said.

Smit’s actions are being scrutinized in a public hearing by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner. The officer requested the hearing after being demoted and reprimanded by Saanich police. It’s alleged that he misled his sergeants about how the arrest was made and changed his story, which Neary chalked up to Smit having dif-ficulty articulating the circumstances surrounding the arrest.

“He went from a state of mind thinking he’d done the right thing, to being attacked … by his supervisors,” Neary told public hearing adjudica-tor Jakob de Villiers.

When Smit arrived at the home where the dis-pute was taking place, he found two of the three people who lived there outside. Those people can’t be named due to a publication ban. The officer learned the third person, a man who was involved in a dispute that had ended, was still inside the home.

Neary said Smit believed arresting the man until he sobered up would help reduce any risk of him endangering himself or the other two people.

Smit knocked on the front door and the man answered. He asked the man to step outside and Smit led him off the property to the public bou-levard, where he was immediately arrested, said public hearing counsel Bradley Hickford.

The man was arrested under the Liquor Control and Licensing Act for being in a state of intoxica-tion in a public place. Hickford told de Villiers that charges very rarely stem from such an arrest, and it’s typically used by officers to take a drunk person who is in a public place out of a situa-tion where they could harm themselves or others. They are released once they have sobered up.

Hickford said Smit told his supervisors he “found” the man in a public place, as opposed to

telling them he “led” the man to a public place in order to make the arrest. “This was not a valid and legal arrest,” Hickford said.

Once Smit explained to his superiors the cir-cumstances surrounding the arrest, the man was immediately released and driven home. He was returned home within an hour of being arrested.

The OPCC hearing is examining misconduct alle-gations of abuse of authority and deceit.

A Saanich police investigation in 2012 proved the deceit and abuse of authority allegations, and Smit was suspended without pay for seven days, and his rank was to be demoted to third-class con-stable. An officer is allowed to request a hearing in cases of dismissal or a reduction in rank. Smit contacted the OPCC in January 2013.

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