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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

DeerSafe Victoria approaches CRD about joining discussionsRyan FlahertyNews staff

As the discussion about urban deer in the Capital Region heats up, some area resi-dents are asking to be a part of the problem-solving process.

In a letter to the Capital Regional District board last week, members of DeerSafe Vic-toria asked that they be included in any CRD deer management subcommittee that may form.

Though there has been plenty of attention paid to frustrated residents who support a cull, members of DeerSafe feel that the voices of those who want a more humane solution haven’t been given as much cov-erage.

“We acknowledge the issues, but we know that there are non-lethal ways of deal-ing with these so-called pest animals,” said Kelly Carson, one of the group’s founding members.

DeerSafe is not a group of “tree huggers” who simply think the deer should be left alone, she said. “We’re just all working together for a common goal, and that’s to find a long-term, sustainable solution.”

Of particular concern to the group is the potential use of Clover traps and bolt guns to capture and trap and get rid of the deer, a measure taken in communities like Cran-brook and Kimberley.

“(The city claims) it’s humane, yet they won’t let the SPCA come in and observe it,” Carson said. “That’s a really big concern for us.”

Instead, she said, the CRD should be

looking at things such as improved fencing, wildlife corridors, immuno-contraceptives to control local deer reproduction rates, and increased citizen education.

“One of the biggest problems for deer

entering urban areas is that peo-ple feed them. There needs to be a large education component to deer management going into the future.”

That sentiment is echoed by one of DeerSafe’s allies.

“In virtually every situation where there is conflict (over deer), and people are complain-ing, it’s because somebody, or a number of people are actively feeding the animals,” said Liz White, a founding member of the Ottawa-based Animal Alliance of Canada.

White, who has been involved in similar situations across Can-ada, most recently in London, Ont., said eliminating the active feeders and erecting proper fenc-ing are the best strategies for reducing the problems caused by urban deer.

But taking an even-handed approach is key, she added.

“If we can begin to look at the situation from a less politically charged position, then I think we can have some rational discus-sions about how to resolve it.”

Bolt guns should not be a part of that discussion, she added.

Non-lethal solution to deer problem sought

Don Denton/News staff

Scenes like this one on Midland Road in the Uplands are becoming common in Oak Bay and around the Capital Region District. A newly formed citizens’ group called DeerSafe Victoria wants to contribute to the discussion on deer management strategies in the CRD.

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Oak Bay live-aboard senior loses second boat in a monthItems donated after fire were lost in latest sinking

Ryan FlahertyNews staff

If it wasn’t for bad luck, these

days Fritz Schreiner would have no luck at all.

Schreiner, 83, lost most of his possessions when his live-aboard boat caught fire and sank in Oak Bay in December. The commu-nity rallied and donated supplies and clothes to Schreiner’s cause, and he got his backup vessel, a 40-year-old wooden-hulled boat,

into the water a few days later.But misfortune struck again.Schreiner’s latest home sank in

late January, along with many of the donated items he received, including a brand new generator.

Beach Drive resident Terri Kam-bites spearheaded the effort to help Schreiner out after his first boat sank.

Now she’s relaunched the cam-paign in disbelief over the most recent turn of events.

“He’s got absolutely nothing now. Everything’s gone now,” she said.

Kambites explained that Schreiner was reluctant to go to the media about his newest pre-dicament, not wanting to be seen

as a charity case. She couldn’t sit idly, however. “I’m just devastated for the man.”

Anyone wishing to donate money or supplies for Schreiner can reach Kambites via email at [email protected] or drop off donations at her home at 1526 Beach Dr.

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Your pet’s mouth: home to a dental emergency?

Natalie NorthNews staff

A digital heartbeat pumps out across the room as a woman in scrubs approaches a steel operat-ing table. The two furry legs of a

four-month-old black labrador about to be spayed flop across a heated blanket.

Veterinarian Sue McTaggart points to a broken baby tooth in the mouth of the anesthetized animal. If the dog wasn’t put under to be spayed, McTaggart wouldn’t have been able to convince the dog owner to pay for the tooth extraction, she said, even though the rot could spread below the gums to the adult tooth and on to the dog’s jawbone.

“That’s where dogs’ issues are,” McTag-gart said. “They’re not up high where you can see.”

A Fellow of the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry trained at the University of Sas-katoon and a teacher of veterinary den-tistry through her North Saanich practice, McTaggart is speaking up about what she sees as a little-known epidemic among dog and cat owners: untreated dental emergencies.

“Animals suffer in silence because, in the wild, the weakest is killed by the leader, which at home is the owner, so that’s the last person they’re going to complain to,” she said.

Inside another exam room at Dean Park Pet Hospital, McTaggart revisits images of infected mouths she’s seen come through her office, some showing exposed roots or bleeding gums, others capturing bone loss. Many illustrate dental diseases on back molars – too far back to be cleaned without anesthetic, she said.

While animal dental care may seem an innocuous topic, it’s one steeped in con-troversy across the province.

Dental specialists, such as McTaggart, maintain the position that anesthetic is required to reach all sides of all teeth and to extract trapped food, hair, grass or bac-teria below the gum line. However, a grow-ing number of registered businesses offer cosmetic cleaning above the gums, with-out using anesthetic, for far less than the suggested cleaning prices set by the Col-lege of Veterinarians of British Columbia.

One such business is K-9 Brite Bark, which has operations in Saanich, Gib-sons and Duncan. Services are marketed toward clients interested in forgoing the anesthetic and learning how to brush their pets’ teeth.

Sylvia Macdonald, who operated a for-mer Oak Bay-based grooming business known as The Barking Lot, founded K-9 Brite Bark after years of witnessing pets die due to anesthetic use, she said.

Macdonald charges between $200 and $500 to clean dogs’ teeth and up to $300 for felines. The College of Veterinarians of B.C. sets the range for cleaning, including antibiotics, pain medication and X-rays at $600 to $700 for dogs and $538 to $545 for cats.

In 2005, the provincial veterinarians college, known then as the B.C. Veteri-nary Medical Association, sought a B.C. Supreme Court injunction against Mac-donald. She was ordered to stop providing any dental care, remove the word “den-tal” from her business name and cease all advertising from the veterinary section of the yellow pages.

However, the court noted that the Veter-inarians Act does not clearly define what dentistry entails and thus could not rule on whether cleaning above the gum line should be classified as dentistry.

Dr. John Brocklebank, the college’s dep-

uty registrar, said the college has since lobbied for a clearer definition of dentistry to distinguish what constitutes cosmetic procedures.

Macdonald currently retains the right to continue cleaning teeth above the gums.

“This is not a medical service,” Mac-donald said. “I’m not poking or prodding. I’m taking the calculus and tartar off of the teeth before it goes underneath the (gums) and creates the problem and I’m teaching the client how to maintain. It’s a completely different service.”

For veterinarian Kam Brar of Lifeline Animal Clinic, the trouble with anesthetic-free cleaning is simple.

“(Teeth) may look nice and clean from the outside – the tips – but they could be totally rotten,” he said. “Ninety per cent of people we see, we can’t help, because the dental disease is too far progressed.”

Loyal clients of Macdonald’s – such as Keith Mason, who had his golden retriev-er’s teeth cleaned by Macdonald for a decade – stand by her ability to work eas-ily with the animals without sedation and her willingness to send owners and their

pets to veterinarians for care when she notices anything abnormal in an animal’s mouth.

Macdonald’s website and promotional material boasts the slogan “veterinarian approved,” yet given the controversial nature of her service, she admitted, no veterinarian would risk their reputation to publicly endorse her work.

The B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ chief animal health officer sympathizes with the fear of anes-thetics from those who may have experi-enced pet loss in the past, but ultimately agrees with Brar and McTaggart. The risk involved in untreated dental issues – which could lead to valvular disease – is far greater than that of anesthetic, especially given current methods used, he said.

“If you’ve had to experience it, the trauma and the loss (of losing an ani-mal due to anesthetic) is huge and very real,” said animal health officer James Lawson, noting anesthetic complications have greatly decreased over the last two decades. The death rate of pets anesthe-tized at the SPCA hospital is about one in 20,000 for all surgeries.

“I wish there was a less expensive alter-native, but there just isn’t a viable alter-native to a veterinary hygienist,” Lawson said. “You can’t get away from anesthetics if you have to do anything substantive.”

Macdonald, who claims to have spent $100,000 in court fees defending her abil-ity to operate in B.C., maintains: “Some vets are old school and I’m sure they’re the best veterinarians and doctors out there, but people are going to more natu-ral ways of looking after their animals.”

The cost of dental insurance There’s no way around the fact that pet

insurance isn’t cheap and most insurance plans exclude dental maintenance.

Clients of Royal Oak Pet Clinic are generally referred to Trupanion.com for pet insurance, said office manager Teka Cook. Trupanion offers a week-long return period on claims and reimburses dental care costs in the case of accidents or ill-ness, but excludes maintenance coverage. Petsecure, offered through Western Finan-cial, is the clinic’s recommendation for those seeking full dental, Cook said.

To purchase enough insurance to cover a cleaning (based on the $600 recom-mended fee set by the College of Veteri-narians of B.C.), the average pet owner in Saanich would pay about $98 monthly for a dog, or $52 for a cat using Petsecure. Those rates reflect a $550 or $300 deduct-ible, respectively.

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In an opinion column published on page A6 of the Friday, Feb. 3 News (Humble Pie, Don Descoteau), the idea was floated to offer a tax incentive program to the owners of identified heritage homes to allow them an alternative to either demolition or letting the home fall into disrepair.

In fact, the municipality of Oak Bay has heritage restoration grants available for homeowners whose properties have been put on the heritage register or have been designated.

The grants, administered by the Oak Bay Heritage Foundation, are designed to defray the cost of restorations. They usually do not exceed $1,000 per project for registered homes and $10,000 for a designated building. Over a 10-year-period from the date of the first grant, the maximums are $3,000 and $10,000, respectively, for the two categories.

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Pair of vehiclestargeted by thieves

The owners of two vehicles – one of which was locked, the other unlocked – were liberated of some of their belongings last week.

Early Sunday morning, police were alerted about a theft-from-vehicle in progress in the 3300-block of Wood-burn Ave. A witness saw a man said to be in his early 20s running toward Henderson Road. A pickaxe, likely used to smash the driver’s side front window, was found next to the car. A briefcase and an iPad worth about $2,000 were stolen. The suspect was not found.

On Feb. 2, a Dell computer worth about $1,000 and a pair of wom-

en’s sunglasses were taken from an unlocked car parked in the 2000-block of Crescent Rd.

Repeat offender bustedfor third assault

A domestic dispute call at about 2 a.m. on Feb. 2 led police to an Oak Bay home where a man claimed that his girlfriend was throwing beer and punching him.

Police determined the woman was violating a court order requiring her to avoid contact with the man. She was arrested for breach of bail, but no fur-ther charges are pending, as the boy-friend chose not to file a complaint.

The woman has been charged twice before for assaulting the same man.

Separate break-insyield mixed results

Two break-ins Jan. 30 saw one thief come away empty-handed, though not without causing some damage.

The manager of an apartment build-ing in the 2100-block of Cadboro Bay Rd. discovered three laundry machines with damaged coin boxes. The coin deposit slides were pried off, but the money remained inside.

Residents of a home in the 2100-block of Foul Bay Rd. weren’t as lucky. A chunk of cement was used to smash the glass of an exterior base-ment door and gain entry. Missing were a pair of laptop computers, an Xbox and several games.

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Building a bridge to China Business internship offers unique opportunity to Camosun student and Oak Bay High alum

Ryan FlahertyNews staff

For Scott Metcalfe, a visit to Victoria’s China-town brings back memories of Beijing, with one glaring difference.

“The one thing about Beijing is that it’s just so crowded. You wonder where all these peo-ple come from,” he said.

“You get on the subway, you can’t move. You lose your friend for a second and you can’t see him. It’s quiet and peaceful here. There’s no hustle and bustle.”

Metcalfe, 22, spent three weeks in China last May as part of an internship organized through Camosun College. The Oak Bay High alum is in the Sports Management program at Camosun, where he’s learning about the business side of sports. The internship offered him a rare chance to see how things are done on the other side of the world.

“The sport facilities just blew my mind,” he said. “It was not comparable to any other coun-tries.”

Metcalfe and a handful of fellow Camosun students spent part of their time in China at Beijing Sport University, a massive training cen-tre for virtually every sport imaginable. That level of infrastructure is reflective of Chinese attitudes toward sport, he said.

“It just kind of enables them to always be active, and the education (system) branches back to sport and health too.”

When he wasn’t touring Olympic venues or working at various job placements, Metcalfe was mingling with athletes and sport officials from all over the world. He even played in a basketball game with current and former Chi-

nese pros, who have a special appreciation for a certain Victoria-born hoopster.

“They love Steve Nash,” Metcalfe said, describing a display that featured photographs of celebrated thinkers and innovators. Nash’s portrait was alongside those of Einstein and da Vinci.

“The way he passes the ball, he’s the icon of sharing, which in Chinese culture is just expected. Everything is shared.”

For Metcalfe, who is interested in pursuing a career in sports marketing, the trip was also a valuable opportunity to make contacts in the Chinese business community. In fact, he’s since been hired by a company called Youth Bridge China, which facilitates educational tours simi-lar to the one which took him there.

“You can participate in this program, get all the cultural and travel benefits out of it,” he said. “But at the same time, you’re going to get a corporate business internship, a language certificate and that really valuable Chinese net-work.”

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“Veterinarians everywhere – Australia, Britain, the United States – every single one says that if you use a penetrating captive bolt gun, there is no guarantee that the animals are going to die immediately.”

DeerSafe members have asked to speak at the next meeting of the CRD’s planning, transportation and

protective services committee, on Feb. 22.

Oak Bay Coun. John Herbert, who has been a vocal proponent of swift action on the deer issue, welcomes any input from residents.

“I think citizen voices are always important,” he said.

“My understanding is that in Cranbrook, you had lots of meetings with the public and you got a

consensus.”Oak Bay council

does not currently have a representative on the CRD’s planning, transportation and protective services committee.

White plans to attend the Feb. 22 meeting in Victoria and hopes to spend a couple of days beforehand touring the area and getting a feel for where the problem spots are.

She promises that if the CRD decides to go ahead with a cull, she will be back.

“We’ll bring a camera and show people what a truck full of deer with their brains bashed in looks like.”

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Did you know?■ A Clover trap, named for its inventor from the 1950s, is essentially a steel-framed rectangular cage, sometimes covered with strong netting. Bait is placed at the rear of the cage, and when deer reach for it, they trip a line which shuts the door and prevents them from escaping.■ A bolt gun is frequently used in slaughterhouses to stun animals prior to slaughter. They are available in penetrating or non-penetrating varieties.

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Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins (far left) presided over a ceremony last month in which top Girl Guides from Oak Bay to Sidney and Sooke were honoured for their achievements.

Guides honoured in regional ceremonyGirl Guides and leaders from

around Greater Victoria, includ-ing Oak Bay, were recognized for outstanding achievements at a Jan. 15 ceremony in Esquimalt.

Individuals were honoured with the Canada Cord (for Path-finders, age 12 to 15) and the Chief Commissioner’s Gold Award (for Rangers, age 15-18), the highest Girl Guides of Can-ada awards that girls in those categories can achieve.

The Canada Cord recognizes

extra work done over and above the regular program. Such efforts come in the areas of community service – for example, participat-ing in the Uplands Park Broom Bash or baking pies for Our Place – leadership, relationship skills, environmental awareness, home life-skills, camping and event planning.

The Chief Commissioner’s Award marks successful achieve-ment of increased challenges at the Rangers’ bronze, silver and

gold levels, plus at least 20 hours of community service.

The gathering at the Chiefs and Petty Officers Club heard from special guests Daphne MacGregor-Greer, B.C.’s provin-cial commissioner; South Van-couver Island area commission-ers Brenda Fraser and Wendy Smylitopolous; Amanda Jagdis, the B.C. active living advisor and young Guider, and Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins.

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Race is on to get enough workers in place for new shipbuilding jobs

Erin McCrackenNews staff

A groundbreaking ceremony will happen by the end of this month at the site of a highly anticipated industry-led marine training centre to be built on Songhees Nation land.

“We hope … the facil-ity (will be) in place by the end of July,” Mal-colm Barker, vice-pres-ident and general man-ager of Victoria Ship-yards, told members of the Esquimalt Chamber of Commerce during a recent luncheon.

The 4,000-square-foot Industrial Marine Training and Applied Research Centre will be located at the end of Maplebank Road, next door to the Esquimalt Graving Dock, where Victoria Shipyards operates.

The $1.8-million centre, funded by the province and industry partners, including Sea-span Marine Corp., which owns

Victoria Shipyards, will have two classrooms and research space.

Planning of a new entry-level shipbuilding program for the centre began at Camosun Col-lege on Wednesday, and will likely launch in July, said Geoff Stevens, the centre’s project manager.

Shipwright and marine fitter apprenticeship programs may be available to students in September. “Frankly, up until recently there just hasn’t been the demand (for these trade-specific courses),” Stevens said.

The pressure is mounting for the shipyard to find and hire enough junior and senior shipbuilding managers before work begins at the end of 2013 or the beginning of 2014 on an $8-billion federal contract to construct five Canadian Coast

Guard and two Royal Canadian Navy vessels.

Hiring is underway as work at the yard ramps up on several ongoing projects, including Canada’s submarines and refits to cruise ships and naval vessels.

The shipyard employs 65 apprentices, but another 35 are

needed in all trades by year’s end. The number of workers is also expected to increase from 750 to more than 1,000 by the end of this month or beginning of March.

But filling senior-level positions is the big challenge.

“We firmly believe we’re going to get the workforce in the future, but the high-end project managers, technical people, schedulers, planners, quality control people – these are the guys that are in short supply,” Barker said.

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The first thing to understand about the race to liquefied natural gas exports is how far back in the pack B.C. is starting.

Canada has issued its first two export licences for LNG export projects near Kitimat, to sell the product of the vast Horn River and Montney shale gas deposits in northeastern B.C. One LNG plant has begun construction, the second is approved to proceed and a third is also proposed for the same region. Unlike the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline proposal, plants and associated pipelines have actually received all the necessary permits from our constipated federal-provincial environmental process.

Australia has approved six LNG projects in the last two years, with a combined construction cost of $180 billion. Reuters reports that their $34 billion Ichthys project will vault Australia past the Middle Eastern kingdom of Qatar into first place among global LNG exporters, assuming it is built by 2017. Top producing countries are Qatar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Algeria.

The second thing B.C. taxpayers need to know is that there is no other practical choice here. Huge shale gas developments around North America have meant B.C.’s days of making a tidy sum selling gas to the U.S. are coming to an

end. Natural gas replaced forest products some years ago as B.C.’s top commodity revenue stream,

helping to keep the lights on in B.C. schools and hospitals. But the domestic price is down for the long term and the U.S. has plenty of its own gas now.

The third thing to know is that there is misinformation about shale gas and “fracking.” Shaky videos show someone touching a match to water that has had gas bubbled through it, to artificially

promote the idea that hydraulic fracturing of shale deposits contaminates groundwater. This and some scientifically illiterate media reports are all it takes to get a protest movement going these days. The fact that a kilometre or more of solid rock separates B.C. shale deposits from surface water sources is seldom mentioned.

The major public health risk from B.C.’s natural gas boom is the escape of sour gas, which contains poisonous, heavier-than-air hydrogen sulfide. That’s been a problem for B.C.’s conventional gas industry for decades.

There are legitimate concerns about water use and chemical discharge from shale fracturing, and the B.C. government has scrambled to upgrade its regulations on that as well as sour gas.

Premier Christy Clark has run to the front of the LNG parade, trying

to convey the notion that multi-billion-dollar investments made years ago by Chinese, Japanese, U.S. and Korean corporations are somehow the result of her “jobs plan.”

NDP energy critic John Horgan insists that the B.C. Utilities Commission oversee all this, so the B.C. Liberals don’t subsidize these giant transnational energy companies with cheap electricity and stick B.C. Hydro ratepayers with the bill.

According to Horgan, the commission should also have lawyered away over the smart meter program for God knows how long, as analog meters become obsolete and Quebec and others modernize their electricity grids without hand-wringing or exploitation of imaginary health threats.

This is not a good time to dither. An LNG terminal is proposed for Portland, Oregon and there will be others.

LNG plants need lots of electricity, and the B.C. Liberal government wants to market B.C. LNG as the “cleanest” in the world because it’s processed with minimal burning of gas for power generation.

Will foreign buyers care about B.C.’s LNG production methods? Are B.C.’s greenhouse gas reduction targets history? More on that in a future column.

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

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Deer discussion begins heating up

Members of DeerSafe, a new citizen’s group promoting a non-cull approach to the Capital Region’s deer overpopulation, have a challenge on their hands.

The group hopes to have a seat at the table when the Capital Regional District takes its next steps in dealing with the issue.

The key to convincing the CRD board of its value in the discussion is to not come off sounding like members of PETA, the radical animal rights activist group whose supporters have worn lettuce outside Kentucky Fried Chicken and posed nude for anti-fur posters.

So far, DeerSafe has offered a rational approach to its call for humane solutions to be found.

While it may not have used PETA-style tactics to make its point, DeerSafe has become wrapped up in the mounting hysteria over the potential for the CRD to utilize such tools as a Clover trap – a cage that corrals the deer in a small space – and bolt guns, used to concuss cows and other meat animals before slaughter.

The idea of cages being set up in urban neighbourhoods is something the CRD would have to think long and hard about. As for operating bolt guns in those same areas? Many residents couldn’t even stomach the thought of rabbits being collected and shipped off from the University of Victoria. Traumatizing people is not in the cards here.

If deer, like rabbits, were as uncuddly as rats, mice or other species generally considered vermin, the conversation about a humane solution wouldn’t be happening.

Deer continue to live and propagate in our urban neighbourhoods because, like humans, they’ve found a veritable Shangra-La, offering a cornucopia of edible delights.

Interrupt that food source with fencing and enact no-feeding bylaws and the deer should move on, DeerSafe says. We suspect the animals may be too entrenched for such a strategy to achieve significant results.

Therein lies the real challenge for DeerSafe as it attempts to keep this a non-cull situation.

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Re: 1231 Victoria Ave. demolition request

Oak Bay’s heritage homes are under the threat of demolition again. This is truly “death by a thousand cuts,” as the request for demolition permits increased to 23 last year alone.

If you care about the character homes and green space in Oak Bay, write to Oak Bay council demanding preservation. The official community plan will be reviewed this year. Speak up to protect Oak Bay from developers who profit by removing old homes and gardens. They win financially and the community loses its character.

The decision whether to allow demolition of a good 1911 home with heritage value, and the construction of two new houses on the property should be made by the community, not a single developer. We should have a heritage planner to preserve the community values.

We need to speak up for our community.

Joan HeagleOak Bay

Teachers’ job action frustrates student

Re: Teachers’ job actionI feel that we are missing out

on field trips, report cards and many more opportunities.

Report cards are not just filled with grades, they’re a way of showing improvement. Without them, how do we know, as students, what to improve on?

Field trips are not just ways to “get out of class and have fun,” they really are a good tool for students to learn in a new environment with a specialist. As for sports, they are a great way to keep students active and fit, in a safe environment without violence or other

troubling problems.Some of the teachers’

demands are unrealistic and that just propels the government to become stricter. Why are teachers getting full pay when they are only doing two-thirds of the things they are supposed to do as educators?

I know that some teachers are really wanting to take their kids out on a field trip or give them a report card, as my own teacher said so. There are other voices that need to be heard. It has been going on far too long and there is no productive progress being made.

We have already missed way too many opportunities and there has been way too much time wasted on this issue. I, for one, am tired and frustrated with this situation.

Parents and students should get a say. I feel there is a lack of communication between students, teachers and parents. I feel I’m not being heard and don’t deserve any more of this.

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Clarification neededon electric bike story

Re: Scooters cause conflict on area roads (News, Jan. 27)

This article was horribly unbalanced and misleading. They were referred throughout as electric scooters while what was being written about were scooter-style electric bikes. The article painted a picture of the scooters causing conflict. A fairer viewpoint would have been that people who had caused conflict on the road in other vehicles were an issue as far as scooters go.

I have severe arthritis and had both knees replaced at a young age. I didn’t know electric bicycles existed until I bought mine in July. I know the rules. I ride with care and attention. The only time I didn’t

have both pedals on was when one broke off, which I had replaced somewhat ironically now at Scooter Underground.

I have never had a licence. A number of issues including poverty made that impossible. My scooter will pay for itself in savings from the HandyDART 14 months after the purchase.

People who can drive cannot really imagine what a joy it is to pop out to get something suddenly. It’s impossible if you are disabled. HandyDART bookings not made two weeks in advance have a high likelihood of not happening.

My scooter gets me to the pool where I swim. I can afford to go there more often now so I am healthier. So yes, I don’t pedal the thing. I can’t pedal anything. But I ride it for my health.

Don’t get two groups of electric scooter-style riders confused. People with licence suspensions should simply be prohibited from operating anything motorized. Make them take the bus so they can appreciate the joy of mobility that they are putting in jeopardy with their actions.

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The Downtown Victoria Business Association is searching for the best kissers in the city.

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The popular Valentine’s Day contest encourages Victorians to photograph themselves, lips in smooch mode, somewhere in downtown Victoria.

Photos and video are posted on the DVBA Facebook page to be evaluated by a panel of judges.

Top prize for the winning kiss is a romantic night at the Fairmont Empress, dinner for two at the Bengal Lounge and a 60-minute spa treatment for two.

The package also includes a gold-and-pearl locket donated by Violette Boutique, flowers from Poppies Floral Art and movie tickets to the Cineplex Odeon, topped off with goodies from Roger’s Chocolates.

Two runners-up will also receive dinner in downtown Victoria, chocolates and movie passes.

To enter, upload your photo or short video (must be taken in 2012) to the DVBA Facebook page. Submissions will be accepted until midnight Feb. 12 and winners will be announced on Valentine’s Day morning.

For full details and complete contest rules visit www.downtownvictoria.ca/kissinthecity.

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To help get the juices flowing for the Downtown Victoria Business Association’s Kiss in the City contest, the News asked a few residents to show us their best kissing techniques. ■ ABOVE: Jesse Nordwall and Fiona Wade share a kiss on Government Street. ■ LEFT: Barry and Linda Woldman pucker up, also on Government Street.

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They’re hoping to see romantic sparks fly among single adults and seniors during

speed-dating events held for the first time at the Central and Juan de Fuca branches of the Greater Victoria Public Library.

Devon Tatton, Juan de Fuca children’s librarian, initiated the speed-dating pro-gram after reading about U.S. libraries pro-viding the service last year.

“I really liked (the idea) because I really enjoy reading the misconnections on (online classified websites) and there were a bunch I saw (of) people seeing each other in libraries,” she said.

Single seniors, 60 and up, are invited to the Central branch in Victoria on Feb. 11,

while singles, age 25 to 40, are invited to try and find their valentine at the Juan de Fuca branch in Colwood on Feb. 14.

Dimmed lighting, romantic tunes and homemade sweets at the events will help set the mood for participants looking to find that special someone. They will each

have five minutes to sit down one-on-one before the chime sounds and it’s time to switch partners.

Participants are encouraged to bring their favourite book to help break the ice.

“Just the connection of you like to read, I like to read (will help),” Tat-ton said.

Staff will provide contact information to participants who hit it off. The Central branch event happens from 2 to 3:30 p.m., and the Juan de Fuca branch hosts its session from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Regis-tration is required for both events. Visit www.gvpl.ca, call the Central branch at 250-382-7241 or the Juan de Fuca branch at 250-391-0653 for details.

Given the calls the library has received from people age 41 to 59 wanting their own speed-dating session, one may be held in April or May. “If we get these (sessions) off the ground and running, they’re our next group, in a heartbeat,” Tatton said.

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Along with enjoying a good run, the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon includes a charity pledge program.

This year 20 charities will be participating in the charity pledge program. The charities raise awareness and money by encouraging people to run or walk for their individual causes, and by collecting pledges.

The 33 Annual GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon takes place Oct. 7. In addition to the marathon, there is a half-marathon, 8K road race and Thrifty Foods kids’ run. For more details, visit [email protected]

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Shoko Inoue and Ryan May want the public to get in touch with their ecological side through music.

The Greater Victoria couple are going on the road with their Bach with Nature Cross-Canada tour, towing a tiny house across the country, planting apple trees and playing Beethoven with the people and places they feel need it the most.

“I have worked around the world in planting, organics and permaculture – and we wanted to do something for the world in 2012,” said May.

The couple wants to make sure that the show is presented to “marginalized people” and bring music and plants to wherever they are needed, he added.

Tomorrow, (Feb. 9) Tom Lee

Music is hosting a performance by Inoue, an internationally acclaimed classical pianist, to help raise money for the Bach with Nature tour. The concert happens at 7 p.m. at the music store, 2401D Millstream Rd.

Inoue’s program includes Bach-Busoni’s “Chaconne,” Bach’s “English Suite,” Beethoven’s “Tempest Sonata,” Schubert’s “Impromptu” and Ravel’s “La Valse.”

She will play a hand-made Yamaha S6 7’.

Inoue is a distinct musician who combines profound emotion with dazzling technique. She began playing at age three and after dozens of prize-winning competitions throughout Japan, studied under full scholarship with the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Later, she received her masters of art degree in piano

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Her career has included performances in such prestigious venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall and St. Cecilia Hall in Rome, and she has performed live on CBC at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. She has even

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With a degree in ecology, agriculture, and environment from McGill University in Montreal, May has also travelled the world, working as an ecologist, park naturalist, tree planter, organic farmer, agroforester, teacher and community project manager.

“It can be pared down to permaculture and classical music,” said May of the cross-country tour. “They both deal with an array of complex elements that combine to make a unified whole. It’s combining disparate themes and finding the beauty between them.”

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“People have to celebrate in this time of crisis,” said May. “They say we’re in economical and

ecological crisis, and so people have to get out and garden or get their guitar or paint a picture, so the world will become a nicer place.”

Tickets to the concert are by donation. RSVP to [email protected].

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THE ARTSDrawn from the famous characters of the Comedia del Arte-Harlequin and danced to the tuneful rags of Scott Joplin Harlequin’s Piano promises to be the best Valentines date in town.

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With guitar in hand, Shaun Verreault, frontman for popular Canadian band, Wide Mouth Mason, sits on a stool in Andy Briggs’ living room and scans the eager faces before him.

It’s Saturday night and about 40 music lovers have gathered for another concert in Briggs’ Fernwood home.

By day he is a financial controller, but by night he has been bringing well-known solo artists, bands and their fans together since 2007, as part of his Victoria House Concert B.

“I get my (music) fix from these house concerts,” Briggs says.

House concerts, though still largely underground and advertised through word of mouth, are gaining in popularity in Can-ada. Some artists even travel from home to home on house-concert circuits, says Verreault, who performed his first in Briggs’ home last August.

“What this guy has done is unbelievable,” the Vancouver resident, who has performed with his band in front of 60,000 people, tells tonight’s crowd. “It’s like the punk scene was in the ‘70s.”

Driven by a love of live music, Briggs has hosted more than 50 shows in his home, featuring the likes of Jay Semko from The

Northern Pikes, Acres of Lions, Vince Vac-caro, Steph Macpherson, Jon and Roy, Snail-house, The Autumn Portrait and Barney Bentall, among others.

The intimate live shows allow artists to try out new music on appreciative fans, as

well as share stories about themselves and the songs they perform.

“You can hear a pin drop, and that’s why it’s so amazing,” Briggs says. “It’s like being back stage for everyone.”

The venue gives Verreault the chance to

connect with fans, answer questions between sets and perform where there are no dis-tractions. For these reasons, the artist says Briggs is a true

“patron of the arts.”“It’s a well-connected guy whose arranged

it so people can come see an acoustic per-former play without a P.A. (system) and neon signs crackling in the background, and without a pool table and without a hockey game on TV,” Verreault says. “It’s just a musical, warm place.”

Fans pay $20, every penny of which Briggs passes on to the artists.

“I got my money’s worth when he (Shaun Verreault) walked by and shook my hand,” says Steve Archambault, seated three rows back where Briggs’ living and dining rooms connect.

“This is 10 times the intimacy because they’re right there,” says the Esquimalt resi-dent, who first heard about Victoria House Concert B two years ago. “This is bringing back music the way it should be. It doesn’t get any better than this.”

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St. Barnabas Church, 1525 Begbie St. presents Ensemble Pacifica on Feb. 12 at 3 p.m. This is a woodwind ensemble directed by Dr. George Corwin. Admission is

$10 at the door. For more informa-tion call 250-595-4324.

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St. Peter’s Lakehill Anglican church, 3939 St. Peter’s Rd., hosts The Victoria Police Choir on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.

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Nostalgic Romantic Music Of Old Times, Feb. 11, at 2:30 p.m. St. Mary the Virgin, 1701 Elgin Rd. Tick-ets are $25; students/senior discount.

Those who couldn’t care less about Valentine’s Day can head out to UVic’s Felicita’s Pub Friday night (Feb. 10) for an anti-Valentines show.

On-the-rise roots rockers Prairie Dance Club will be in Victoria for a triple bill with two other roots-rock locals, James Kasper & The Sound and Colin Craveiro (who fronts seven-piece band Man Made Lake when he’s not a solo act).

Prairie Dance Club is an alternative folk rock quartet

which formed in the fall of 2007. Since then they have completed a full length album as well as a five-song EP which was released in the fall of 2010.

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music in TV shows America’s Next Top Model and MTV’S 16 and Pregnant. Prairie Dance Club’s song Spring was also featured in the PBS series Road Trip Nation.

Help protest love and the over-commercialism of Valentine’s Day at the Anti-Valentine’s Concert with Prairie Dance Club, Colin Craveiro and James Kasper & The Sound at 8 p.m., Feb. 10. Tickets are $7 at the door.

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The Canadian College of Perform-ing Arts will present a special eve-ning of food, music, fun-filled games of chance, prizes and auctions Feb. 10.

“This event has become a Victoria mainstay attraction,” said Heather Roberts, Casino Royale Committee Chair. “We always sell out this event; and being recognized as Victoria’s Favourite Artsy Fundraiser in last year’s Monday Magazine M Awards helps with the prestige.

The centerpiece will be the per-formances by young artists from across the country, who train at the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Guests are encouraged to attend wearing their most playful tuxes or gowns.

The environment will allow guests to imagine they are in Montenegro,

the location used in Casino Royale the 2006 James Bond movie.

The evening will also include hors-d’oeuvres by the host and event sponsor Victoria Marriott Inner Har-bour.

All proceeds go toward training students of the college, some of the top young performing artists in the country. CCPA will be ending its 14th season with performances with the Victoria Symphony at the end of March and a full production of Foot-loose at the McPherson Playhouse in April.

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Back in the 1860s, faux finishes were all the rage, and friends of Ross Bay Villa have launched a painfully meticulous project to recreate these time-period fakes.

“We are making an oil cloth floor covering, inch by inch, by hand,” said heritage advocate Nick Russell.

Through the application of about 20 layers of paint, sealed and sanded along the way, volun-teers hope to give the impression of faux marble tile.

‘It’s an amazing process,” said Russell. “It’s so meticulous. It really is being done with tiny little artist paintbrushes and dentist tools.”

The new floor covering is slated to fill the inner hallway of the house, built in 1865 and saved from demolition by the Land Conservancy in 1999.

Over the past decade, continuous improve-ments have been made to restore the home’s original look.

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“We know it was there, because we can see the nail patterns in the floor where it was nailed down in the hallway and there are one or two tiny whiskers of linen threads where it was torn up a century ago,” said Russell.

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wood, so figure that if you can,” Russell laughed. For instance, the home’s front door was originally red cedar but combed and finished to look like oak. Similarly, the halls were covered in paper with a faux wood finish.

“We will be printing the same thing by silk-screen,” said Russell.

Ross Bay Villa is located 1490 Fairfield Rd. It opens for viewing on the first Saturday of each month. Suggested donation $5. Public tour begins at 2 p.m. Group tours by arrangement at other times: 250-995-0022.

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Junior Braves announcer climbs to NHL Oilers Travis PatersonNews staff

Bryan Kelly has made a mid-season jump from the Saanich Braves to the Edmonton Oilers.

Until he arrived in Edmonton on Nov. 28 to start his job as a communications intern with the NHL’s Oilers, Kelly and Jordan Caldwell were a two-man broadcast team calling play-by-play for the junior-B Braves.

Despite Kelly’s loyalty to the pride of Pear-kes arena, the Camosun College applied com-munications grad couldn’t pass up a chance to jump to the big leagues.

“(Caldwell and I) always said we’re doing this for the Braves and because we want to get to the next level,” said Kelly, who applied for the internship online and was interviewed over Skype. “Everyone in the Braves organiza-tion is really supportive of the job.”

He didn’t have much time before leaving for Edmonton and his first “hello” moment: Kelly, rushing to ready himself on his first day, almost ran over goalie Nikolai Khabibulin in the hallway of Rexall Place prior to game time. But nothing’s been a bigger shock than the northern Alberta winter.

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The internship is set to end on April 1, when winter begins to ease up.

With the Oilers, Kelly helps with the team’s social media, monitoring the content and pop-ularity of the team’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. He also works on promotions, give-aways, prizes and contests and writes stories for Oilers.com about the team or the Oilers Octane ice dancers.

It’s a foot in the door of pro sports for the former Oak Bay High rugby player, who did freelance media and communications with Rugby Canada, and interned for the Victoria Salmon Kings last season.

Getting there was a bit of a rush, to say the least. Kelly was writing exams in the Royal Roads University bachelor of communica-tions program the week of his departure.

“It was pretty crazy the way I packed up and left with pretty much nothing in my bank account. I drove overnight and got snowed in by an avalanche (just north of Kelowna). I got

to Edmonton two hours before they played the Minnesota Wild. I changed into my suit in the parking lot in my truck, and in my first 10 seconds in the building I just about bumped into Khabibulin.”

During the season, Kelly will continue his studies at Royal Roads online.

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Whitfield wins duel in Nanaimo

Simon Whitfield showed he’s not letting go of his competitive edge, winning the Cedar 12K in Nanaimo on Sunday.

Whitfield won the second event of the Island Race Series with a time of 37 minutes and 36 sec-onds, just two seconds ahead of James Lander.

Based out of Esquimalt, Lander is no slouch. He’s a pro marathoner who was part of the elite group that raced among 449 of the Island’s most faithful runners.

Whitfield and Lander were neck-and-neck for the entire race with Whitfield pulling ahead in a thrilling finish.

“The race was very hard. (Lander) knows how to hurt and pushed me the whole way,” said Whit-field. “I could tell right away he was going to be very hard to shake, and he kept coming back every time I surged to test him.”

Victoria’s Sean Chester finished third overall, while Care Nelson was the first woman at 45:06, just two seconds ahead of Catrin Jones, the 2010

Victoria Marathon winner. Eight races make up the Island Race Series. The

next event is the Hatley Castle 8K on Feb. 19 on the grounds of Royal Roads University, followed by the rescheduled Cobble Hill 10K on Feb. 26.

Full race results are available at the Prairie Inn Harriers website, Pih.bc.ca.

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Submitted

Simon Whitfield, right, finishes the Cedar 12K run in Nanaimo just ahead of James Lander.

Saanich skatin’

Kelly Hwang and Ryan Comisky of the Saanich

Skating Club perform a

routine in their pre-preliminary

dance division at the recent Lynn

Hetherington Memorial

figure skating competition in Nanaimo. The

pair finished second. Results

online at Skatinginbc.com.Greg Sakaki/Black Press

Intern on the upturn

Vike makes national U20 soccer team

Soccer player Jaclyn Sawicki of the University of Victoria is going to the U20 World Cup qualifier in Panama.

Sawicki, a second-year mid-fielder, will join Team Canada for a pre-tournament camp from Feb. 13 to 27 in Costa Rica before play-ing in the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship in Pan-ama, Feb. 27 to March 11.

“Any time you an get an oppor-tunity to play with the national team says a lot about who you are as a soccer player and what your abilities are like,” said Vikes head coach Tracy David.

“You never know when an opportunity like this may arise again, so when you’re there you have to show your stuff.”

Sawicki was the Vikes 2010-11 rookie of the year and was named as a second-team CIS All-Cana-dian and first-time Canada West all-star this year.

She also earned two caps play-ing with the senior national team on their fall tour in the U.S. She’s the only CIS player on the U20 roster, otherwise made up of Canadians playing in the NCAA.

“Certainly, in the past, players have been encouraged to attend university in the states but this shows young players they do not have to go south of the border to play,” David said. “You can stay at home and have a good career here and play for the national team.”

Since 2004, Canada has won two CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championships (2004 and 2008).

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Submitted

Bryan Kelly is a long way from Pearkes arena working with the Edmonton Oilers.

Did you know?■ Despite the club lacking in the NHL win column, there has been plenty to keep the Oilers’ communications team busy. A few weeks ago they tweeted the “Frankenstein” picture of Oilers forward Taylor Hall, who needed 30 stitches to close the gash in his forehead suffered by a skate cut during pregame warmup.■ That video went viral with minutes, and earned national attention. As did Sam Gagner when he tied Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey with the most points by an Oiler in a game, with eight versus the Chicago Blackhawks on Feb. 2.











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WrestlingResults from top-6 fi nishers at

Alberni Invitational 2012 Wrestling Tournament,

Feb. 2-4

Club championship Pts1 Alberni Valley WC 2512 Capilano North Shore 2163 Campbell River WC 1514 Victoria Bulldogs 935 Abby WC 576 Salt Spring Island WC 377 Cowichan WC 378 Guru Gobind 349 Frazer Valley WC 12

OPEN 73 kg1 Cappus, Michael2 Straus, Dylan (Esquimalt grad)3 Humphries, Joe4 Hanscomb, Oren

Juvenile women (1994-95 born)75 kg1 Forbes, Daley ADSS2 Murphy, Avery Reynolds3 Fearnley, Gayle Carson Gra.

Juvenile men (1994-95 born)66 kg ... 5 Ellis, Lochlan Reynolds

70 kg1 Clark, Warren Esquimalt

74 kg ... 6 Abubahair, Moh. Esquimalt

84 kg 1 Gill, Rajin MEI2 Matthews, Brett Stelly’s

Cadet Boy Pts1 ADSS 812 STM 653 WJ Mouat 574 Terry Fox 395 Dover Bay 336 Abby Tr 327 Esquimalt 288 Stelly’s 249 STA 1610 Van.College 15

Cadet boys (1996-97 born)41 kg1 Mitchell, Nolan Esquimalt 2 Opeda, Paul Van College3 Kullar, Tejpaul Abby Trad. 4 Huynh, Donovan Stelly’s

54 kg1 Wagner, Jordan ADSS 2 Falk-Chalmers, T. Dover Bay 3 Huynh, Michael Stelly’s

74 kg1 Ramirez, Julian NW 2 McKenzie, J. STM 3 Leippi, Liam Stelly’s 4 Jones, Kole Esquimalt

School boy (1998-2000 born) 73 kg 1 Salittle, Ben Neill MS2 Martin, Cole Esquimalt

Royals host EverettAt last, Sam Grist

scores again. The Peninsula

product notched just his second career goal in the

WHL as his Tri-City Americans defeated the Victoria Royals 6-3 on Saturday. The former Victoria Grizzlies defenceman also tallied an assist.

Grist was one of the positives for Victoria hockey fans to take away from the fact the Royals lost both games during their weekend swing through Washington State, includ-ing a 6-5 shootout to the Spokane Chiefs on Friday.

Gleaning the positives is what being a younger team is all about. Another reason for optimism is the four game goal scoring streak Jamie Crooks is on. Crooks leads the Royals with 29 goals as Victo-ria host the Everett Silvertips, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday night at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.

Grist now has two goals in 102 WHL games. It took him 96 games to get his first goal, which came back on Jan. 14.

Grizzlies bear down After a run of high

scoring, one-sided losses the Victoria Grizzlies plugged the defensive leak on Saturday in a 2-1 loss

to the Powell River Kings. Granted the Grizz’ came up

short of a win, but the team’s goals against average earned a much-needed respite after losing 8-5 to the Coquitlam Express on Friday.

Former Grizzly Teal Burns, who was also a junior-B Victoria Cou-gar, returned with the Kings on Sat-urday. Burns was assigned to the BCHL’s Nanaimo Clippers in Janu-ary by the WHL’s Everett Silvertips. Nanaimo then traded his rights to Powell River at the deadline, and Burns scored three goals and eight assists in his first nine games.

The Grizzlies play in Coquitlam on Friday (Feb. 10) and Saturday in Port Alberni.

Cougars and Braves in captains duel

One-game efforts are great for conver-sation, which Sam Gagner is finding out, but the true bread and butter of scoring

leaders is piling up the multiple point games.

It’s how former Saanich Braves player Wade Murphy, now with the Penticton Vees, has climbed to 77 points in 46 games, second overall in B.C. Hockey League scoring (as of Feb. 5).

It’s also how Ty Jones of the Saanich Braves has caught Brody Coulter of the Victoria Cougars in what has become a captains’ duel for the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League scoring race.

As of Monday each had 68 points, Jones with 33 goals and 35 assists, Coulter with 27 goals and 41 assists.

Jones had a late start and has played seven less games. He finally caught and sur-passed Coulter with a four point game on Feb. 1. Jones scored twice and added two assists, while Mitch Johnstone scored a hat trick in the Braves 11-0 drubbing of Peninsula Panthers at Pearkes arena.

Jones held the torch for just 24 hours, however, as the Braves lost to the Cougars 5-2 in Esquimalt the next night. Jones scored the first goal, one minute and 27 seconds into the game. But the Cougars roared back with two goals by Chris Bannister, and one each from Steve Axford, Connor Stephens, and Graham Zagrodney. Coulter had two assists.

The Cougars host the Oceanside Generals Thursday, 7:15 p.m., the Braves host Kerry Park, 6:30 p.m. on Friday.

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The man who brought the pumpkin festival and street per-formers’ festival to Victoria has set his sights on yet another new festival idea.

John Vickers is well on his way to launching the Victoria International Chalk Art Festival.

The idea took shape when he travelled to Sarasota in Decem-ber to learn about that city’s fes-tival. Founded by Denise Kowal, the event attracted 250,000 peo-ple.

“I met the organizer of that festival,” said Vickers. “She has signed on as our new volunteer artistic director.”

Victoria’s version has many elements planned.

First, a chalk artist will cre-ate 37-square-metre 3-D drawing at Centre Court in the Bay Cen-tre. Second, a designated area for kids will let budding young artists express themselves in chalk.

Thirdly, Vickers is seeking approval to close Government Street between Fort and Yates streets for Sept. 15 and 16, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., for the festival.

The pavement, if not deemed to be too bumpy, will be trans-formed into a canvas for 15 international artists and 30 local artists.

The Downtown Victoria Busi-ness Association has expressed preliminary support for the con-cept.

“While it is always a balanc-

ing act to create appropriate venues without compromising the ability of our individual busi-nesses to remain open and even do better than they usually do as a result of your efforts, you have demonstrated a great flare for achieving this in the past,” wrote general manager Ken Kelly.

The association’s events com-mittee will review his applica-tion for assistance.

Vickers still faces one major stumbling block. He recently discovered a city bylaw forbid-ding anyone, except licensed buskers, from drawing on pub-lic sidewalks.

“There seemed to be gen-eral unanimity (on city council) on the idea that it was a cool project, and that we thought it would add lovely flavour to a variety of city events happening for the 150th anniversary,” said Coun. Marianne Alto.

Vickers was instructed to

apply for a special event permit, which would include some form of exemption from the general prohibition against chalk draw-ing.

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Art for the decadesJohn Vickers hopes to tie his

new chalk art festival into the City of Victoria’s 150th anniversary by directing artists to recreate images of Government Street over the decades.

His is among 68 applications received by the city to secure an arts grant for the anniversary. The Greater Victoria Spirit Committee was due to announce grant recipients Jan. 30.

The process has been delayed, but the spirit committee was expected to ratify a short list of applicants last week.

The grants available range from $1,000 to $20,000.

Chalk up another festival

Photo by Tracy Lee Stum

This 3D chalk drawing from 2010 is called Mouse Trap. Check out the artist’s work at www.tracyleestum.com.

Sidewalk art basis for new festival in Greater Victoria

Oak Bay strata owners will be challenged to comply with a new regulation recently announced by the provincial government, accord-ing to information from the non-profit Vancouver Island Strata Own-ers Association.

The new regulation affects one in four properties in the province -- almost 500,000 strata properties – and half of the properties in Greater Victoria and the Lower Mainland.

It requires strata corporations with five or more strata lots to com-plete a “depreciation report” disclos-ing the estimated cost and timing of major repairs to common property.

The strata corporation must com-plete the required report within two years or hold a vote of owners that passes a resolution to opt out.

The association will provide infor-mation to help strata corporations

plan how to proceed, said its presi-dent, Sandy Wagner.

“Although the new regulation is an important improvement in con-sumer protection, (the association) continues to advocate for a compre-hensive review of strata legislation and improved accountability for developers and strata managers,” she said.

The association supports the direction of the new regulation for a few reasons. It encourages better planning for major repairs, supports greater disclosure of the condition of common property that will reduce financially devastating “surprises” for buyers of strata properties, and empowers stratas to waive the new requirement by passing a resolution supported by a three-quarters vote of owners.

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Technology is a fast-growing sector of the B.C. economy. The industry is a magnet for highly educated professionals attracted to world-class high-tech clusters including the life-sciences, digital media and wireless, information and communications technology, ocean sciences and motion picture production.

The average wage of $63,440 is more than 52% above the average for all jobs in British Columbia, which makes this sector even more attractive to job seekers. In 2009, the high-tech industry provided 84,000 jobs with a total salary bill that added up to $5.3 billion, up from $4 billion in 2007. The job growth will continue, with a projected 57,000 technology jobs open-ing by 2019, and an annual growth rate of 2.2%.

British Columbia attracts global technology leaders, including Pixar, Disney, Boeing, MDA, Mi-crosoft, Sierra Wireless, SAP, Dolby Canada, and Intel. These major technology companies look for a stable economy with a supply of experienced employees and a supportive government. British Columbia has both. It helps that the University of British Columbia is rated No. 1 in terms of technology licensing, an indicator of a high level of success and a culture that nurtures innovation.

A healthy high-tech sector also attracts investors who are impressed by the industry’s performance. Revenues have more than tripled in the decade leading up to 2007, and were up another 4.4% by 2009, to $18.9 billion. Currently, investors receive a 30% refundable tax credit, supporting up to $100 million in investment every year. The provincial government, seeing the role they can play in this fast growing sector, will increase the value of this program by $3 million, allowing more individuals known as ‘angel inves-tors’ to put their own capital directly into eligible small business, and to offer strategic expertise.

B.C. firms attracted more than 19% of Canada’s venture capital investments in 2010, with B.C. the top province in life sciences venture capital investments.

High technology wears many hats. The BC Can-cer Agency is a world leader in cancer research, and B.C. is North America’s third-largest centre for film and TV production, averaging $1.2 billion in spending per year, 80% of which is foreign money. The global entertainment and media in-dustry is expected to grow by five per cent a year to 2014, when it will hit $1.7 trillion. B.C. is well positioned to take advantage of this growth.

The high-technology industry is not an island. This sector supports B.C.’s entire economy by helping other industries become more innovative, productive and globally competitive. Digital media and interactive gaming technologies are being used in education, agriculture, mining and health care.

A perfect example of technology being devel-oped to save a B.C. treasure is a company fight-ing a yearly nightmare. Every British Columbian is totally aware of the danger of wild fires to one of our most treasured and valuable assets, our magnificent forests which stretch through every corner of our province.

Forest Technology Systems, based in Victoria, is a world leader in the design and manufacture

of remote weather monitoring equipment used to predict, prevent and manage wildfires. They are the single largest fire weather-monitoring network in the world. You see examples of their work every day when you see the fire danger signs on the roads across North America. The data used to provide the info on those signs is from their equipment. During forest fires, their equipment is used to help forest agencies fight the fires and know where to deploy resources. It makes perfect sense that one of their oldest customers is the BC Ministry of Forests.

This highly successful British Columbia company has had phenomenal growth over the years with a staggering 68% growth in sales in 2011, this despite the slow down of the world economy. The company

is still maintained as a private company with 50 employees and growing and with up to $10M in annual sales.

Not to rest on their laurels, FTS is expanding into global markets including Germany, Korea, Ja-pan, China and Australia. This expansion requires recruiting new employees to fill good, stable, high-level jobs. The future is very bright for FTS

Other impacts are more global. With an estimated 5.3 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide – India and China added 300 million subscribers in 2010 alone – the demand for digital, wireless and screen-based entertainment is immense. These two countries, India and China, are undergoing mass movements to urbaniza-tion, which also gives B.C. opportunities to offer them clean, efficient energy, waste reduction and health-care solutions. B.C. is perfectly aligned to supply a healthy portion of this demand in the coming years.

Airplane sales around the world are expected to reach $US3.6 trillion over the next 20 years to replace aging planes and expand fleets, providing opportunities for our advanced manufacturing sector. Plus, as a climate change leader, we are at the forefront of renewable energy technology development. Finding new markets for our solar, wind, biomass and other technologies can help turn B.C. into a cleantech powerhouse.

As Canada’s Pacific Gateway, B.C. is strategi-cally located to reach growing global markets. In addition, B.C. is close to technology and entertainment hubs in Los Angeles, Silicon Val-ley and Seattle.

Under the BC Jobs Plan, the provincial gov-ernment will work with the federal government to meet our workforce needs and expedite the immigration process for researchers and scien-tists in other parts of the world who want to bring their expertise to British Columbia. B.C.’s fast-tracked immigration process through the Provincial Nominee Program encourages firms to locate in B.C. so they can hire experienced business immigrants.

The B.C. government’s focus on this sector, identified as one of the eight key sectors with the greatest opportunity to bring new dollars into our economy from our most important trading partners, helps nurture an industry that has immense potential to accelerate growth throughout the province.

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The CRD wants to hear from the public on the boundary for the new Jordan River Regional Park Reserve.

Join us at a community meeting for an information review, presentation, and workshop. We want to gather your ideas on what lands should be retained as parkland and what could be declared as surplus.

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TINKYADA

RicePasta

276

130 ml

GREAT JAMAICAN

GingerBeer796

680-900 g

375 ml 100 ml

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196NaturalHam

per 100 gCALIFORNIA

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WOOLWICH

Goat Cheddar or Mozzarella

656

500 ml

ISLAND FARMS

Vanilla Plus Yogurt76¢

PEAK FREANS

Cookies296

FREYBE

190 g

CAKES ETC

Raspberry Heart Cookies

456

PEPPER’S OWN

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456per 100 g each

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96¢6 oz Pkg

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BC JUMBO

BrownMushrooms

259

BOBS RED MILL

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BeefStew

396

280-454 g

+ dep. 6x296 ml

Asst. Asst.453-680g

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136per 100 g

Fair Trade. Assorted. 454 g.

All Varieties. Limit 4. 600 g

All Var.

CLASSICO

PastaSauces25%

LOCALPORTOFINO BAKERY

Multigrain Bread

296

per lb8.73 kgBoneless

Boneless

FRESH

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296NavelOranges

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199 per lb4.39 kg

per lb5.71 kg

4 lb bag

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Feb 8, 2012 Oak Bay News