Goldstream News Gazette, March 25, 2015

More amenable rates allow developers to help Langford with long-term growth plan

Rick StiebelNews Gazette staff

What a difference 10 years makes in the up-and-down world of real estate and development.

When developer Malcolm Hall completed his Slipway rental apartment project in Langford in 2003, it was one of only two rental projects built in the city since 1999.

Fast-forward to the present and there’s a plethora of rental projects on the go or recently completed in Langford, including

developments on Jacklin Road, Brock Avenue, Station Avenue and Goldstream Avenue as well as Wale Road in Colwood.

For comparison, Hall points out that Duncan, with a population of about 13,000, has roughly 1,200 rental units, while Langford, with a population of

34,000, currently has around 500 units. That shows there’s definitely room for the market to grow on the West Shore, said Hall, whose Langford projects have added 175 units in the past few years.

He estimates that another 300 to 400 units are in the works for Langford alone, a trend he attributes to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation-insured mortgage rates running at around 1.75 per cent now, compared to five per cent 10 years ago.

CMHC insurance protects banks if

a developer forfeits on a loan. When developers purchase that insurance, banks offer a lower interest rate.

“I never thought it would drop to this level,” Hall said.

“It can take up to a year to go through the process to build, so you have to be careful because the market can change. We didn’t have any trouble filling the units, but I don’t think that will be the case when I anticipate that CMHC rates

will go up again.”Hall attributes the boom on the West

Shore to several factors, such as retirees looking to simplify by selling their homes and renting, and young families and couples just starting out renting until they can afford to buy. As well, he said, “the condo market is saturated with units for sale.”

Langford Coun. Denise Blackwell, chair of the city’s planning and zoning

committee, said once growth was predicted for the West Shore, Langford council made a strong commitment to create recreation, shopping and amenities, while attracting job-creating business and commercial enterprises that enable people to work where they live.

“We have worked to maintain a balance between job creation and the amount of housing we build,” she added.

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Langford-based developer Malcolm Hall stands on a stairwell at The Waverly, a rental project he built on Goldstream Avenue. Hall says the business climate is more appealing now for companies looking at building rental accommodation.

Did you know?n In 2003, the Capital Regional District’s Regional Growth Strategy identified Langford as a preferred area for growth.n According to B.C. Statistics, the population of Langford has increased from 30,430 in 2011 to 34,677 in 2014.

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View Estates neighbourhood.

Rick Stiebel/ News Gazette staff

Stormwater plan work continues in Valley View neighbourhoodEarth moved in Langford’s Willing Park project will help create playing field in area


Work has commenced on the Willing Park deten-tion pond, the final piece of the puzzle in the City of Langford’s stormwater management plan for South Langford.

Langford awarded a contract for about $1.1 mil-lion for the work to Western Watershed Designs, Inc. at the regular meeting of council on Feb. 16.

Willing Park is located off Happy Valley Road near Langford’s border with Metchosin, adjacent to the Valley View Estates residential development.

The city constructed a sediment pond last sum-mer to enable the contractor to dewater the site during construction of the new detention pond. Soil that is appropriate will be used for a playing field to be located nearby. The work is expected to be completed by the fall of 2015.

Langford obtained a Flood Protection Plan grant in 2013 for the Willing pond work, the last of the city’s five regional detention ponds in South Lang-ford. The provincial and federal government will each provide one third of the funding for the new pond through a Canada Building Grant.

Victor Chen from Langford’s engineering depart-ment said the work is an important part of Lang-ford’s flood solution plan.

“We’re also adding a trail around the pond in Willing Park,” Chen said.

Langford’s share will come from the Stormwa-ter Development Cost Charge program funded by development.

The new pond will not address stormwater from new development, however. Subsequent develop-ers will be required to meet the stipulations of the city’s land development and subdivision servic-ing bylaw and control stormwater on new sites, according to information posted on the city’s web-site.

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The Capital Regional District’s Clean Air Bylaw comes into effect on April 1.

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It also extends the smoke-free buffer zone out-side of business doorways, windows and air intakes to seven metres from the current three metres.

The CRD will be providing signs to be posted at parks and at transit shelters within the coming months.

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View Royal Garden Club members bring out their best Rick StiebelNews Gazette staff

When the buds begin to bloom, that’s a sure sign the View Royal Garden Club’s Spring Show is just around the corner.

The April 11 show, one of three

the club conducts throughout the year, features something for everyone and offers a great opportunity to see something you think might look great in your garden, said spring show co-ordinator Ann Fox.

“You can anticipate tables loaded with daffodils, tulips, perennials, potted plants, flow-ering shrubs and vegetables,” she said. “Everyone brings the very best from their gardens.”

The View Royal Garden Club, established in 1949, is one of the

longest-serving continual gar-den clubs on Vancouver Island.

Admission to the Spring Show is $5 and includes refreshments and a chance to win some great door prizes. Baked goods and garden items are on sale as well, and non-members are welcome to exhibit.

The show happens Satur-day, April 11 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Shoreline community school in View Royal. Call 250-727-0076 for more [email protected]

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View Royal Garden Club co-president Sue Kelly checks entries during a previous spring show staged by the club at Shoreline Community School. The 2015 show is coming up April 11.

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Westshore women’s service club hopes event appeals to foodiesRick StiebelNews Gazette staff

Who can say no to a fundraiser featuring the flavours of choco-late?

On April 18, Soroptimist Inter-national of Victoria Westshore is hosting the first Flavour of Choc-olate culinary event, where six chefs will compete for votes on their special creations of small savoury dishes that all incorpo-rate various forms of the cocoa bean.

Competitors include Michael Nightingale, sous chef at the Four Mile Pub in View Royal, Mark Wad-sworth, executive chef at Westin Bear Mountain in Langford, Don Moloney, owner of River Road Specialty Chocolates in Sooke, Shirley Lang, executive chef at Dis-tinction Catering Services in Lang-ford, Pat Hogan, chef de cuisine at 4 Beaches Bed and Breakfast in Sooke, and Toivo Heyduck, a for-mer Chopped Canada semi-finalist and head chef at Bitter Creek Café in Stewart, B.C.

If that’s not enough to tempt your taste buds’ craving for choc-olate, renowned chef Matthias Conradi, the pastry chef at Sooke Harbour House, will be on hand to prepare a decadent dessert.

Soroptimist club spokesperson and event co-chair Deb Alcadinho said her group raises funds for projects locally and internation-ally that support women, girls and their children.

“We are excited to launch Fla-vour of Chocolate as an annual

event to raise awareness for our organization, and support worthy projects on the West Shore,” she said.

Proceeds from the event, which takes place at Westin Bear Moun-tain on April 18 starting at 6:30 p.m., will help support Anney’s Closet, a free store providing household items for women at risk, and Imagining Possibilities, a one-day conference for women age 16 to 24 that teaches life skills, provides career opportunities information and mentorship.

“We have the ability to create where we recognize a need on the West Shore,” Alcadinho said. “Pro-ceeds will also go toward future projects and financial awards for deserving women in a number of different categories.”

Presenting sponsor Diana Fri-zell, an advisor with RBC Wealth Management-Dominion Securi-ties, said she is a firm believer in the work Soroptimist Interna-tional performs in the community.

“Women supporting women not only helps women reach their full potential, it also benefits their families, communities and society as a whole,” she said in a release.

“This event gives me a way to thank the women who have men-tored me and worked beside me.”

For more information or to pur-chase tickets at $75 each, visit flavourofchocolate.yolasite.com. There are also a limited number of sponsor tables available at cost of $1,000 each.

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A proposal to put nine homes on a large lot on Atkins Road in View Royal moved a step closer to approval last week.

After listening to public comments about the project, which would see the single-fam-ily homes constructed on a roughly 1.6-acre property at 102 Atkins Rd. wedged in between the Galloping Goose Trail and the former E&N railroad tracks, council gave the pro-posal third reading.

Applicant En-Viro-Tech Contracting Ltd. must now clear up some fine details around its proposal with town staff before the item comes back to council for fourth and final reading and approval of a building permit.

Mayor David Screech said most of the concerns speakers brought forward at the March 17 public hearing were around traffic safety getting in and out of Atkins Road.

The current driveway for the prop-erty is situated mere metres from a road crossing of the Galloping Goose, a busy junction with somewhat limited visibility for approaching traffic on either side of Atkins Road.

In the proposal, the developer has agreed to provide a financial contribution toward creating pedes-trian activated crossing lights at the crossing.

An earlier version of the pro-posal that was rejected by council included more homes and had a larger footprint on the lot, Screech noted.

“It made quite a difference on the property,” he said. “The tree reten-tion and the green space with this plan is significantly better than we thought about the earlier incarna-tion.”

The mayor expected land clear-ing work on the rocky property might get underway sometime in the next few months.

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Kitchen scraps shipped to Richmond site for the foreseeable futureHartland a transfer station for scraps from West Shore, other municipalities Mike DaviesNews Gazette staff

An Island solution for regional kitchen scraps is on hold while Capital Regional District directors wait to discover if processing organics and sewage waste at a single facility is feasible.

Hartland landfill banned all organic waste at the beginning of 2015, which spurred the CRD board last fall to look to “establish a processing society in the region or in proximity to the region.”

Alpine Disposal and Recycling has an extensive kitchen scrap pick-up service on the West Shore, and Heather Baumann, Alpine’s office manager, says they definitely drop the kitchen scraps they collect at Hartland Landfill. After that, she says, they don’t know what happens to them.

It turns out the organic waste from the West Shore, along with that of the rest of the region – except Saanich, whose organic waste continues to be trucked to Cobble Hill each week for pro-cessing – is currently being barged to Richmond.

According to CRD spokesperson Andy Orr, Hartland Landfill is still accepting the organic waste, but is merely acting as a trans-fer station for the region’s organics. Kitchen scraps are received there before being barged to Harvest Energy in Richmond, where they are used in energy production.

“The process of getting a local facility has been bogged down by the whole sewage discussion,” he said. “Some people think it might be good to integrate those concepts together, so that’s where we’re at right now. Figuring out a way that might happen.”

Last fall, the CRD put out a request for proposals for a regional kitchen scraps site and facility and have since received 15 pro-posals. But on March 11, CRD staff suggested a “pause on the process” until a market sounding on available technology for sewage processing – with potential integration of kitchen scraps – is completed in May.

Staff expect the latest market sounding – put forward by Saan-ich Coun. Vic Derman multiple times over the years before it was successfully passed – to look at how residual solids from liquid waste could be integrated, treated and harvested for energy in combination with kitchen scraps.

Central Saanich has experienced firsthand the issue of biosol-ids processing on farmland. Foul smells caused the CRD to pull the food scraps licence for Foundation Organics in 2013, but the facility has since been permitted to process yard waste only.

Central Saanich Mayor Ryan Windsor said he’s worried the diversion of kitchen scraps to off-shore locations will continue for years if a solution is wrapped up in a sewage treatment facility.

“It’s fairly obvious when the proposal of combining biosolids with other scraps and creating a soil … the community responds in a way that is not positive, to put it lightly,” he said. “But I’ll wait to see the report back in a couple months.”

It’s a stance the CRD, too, has

taken in the past, vowing not to allow biosolids processing on land. CRD board chair and Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said it would be a collision of policies to change now.

“Before we can even consider that, we would have to go back and revisit a policy which was already revisited twice.”

Once a sewage market sounding is complete, the next step for organics processing would be a short-listing of proposals. CRD staff presume a couple of monthsis a reasonable timeline withwhich to respond to the 15groups that submittedproposals.

– with files fromDaniel Palmermdavies@goldstream

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Mike Davies/News Gazette staff

Tryce Barrault of Bin 4 in Langford cuts up vegetables, disposing of the excess in a bin beside the cutting station. The food scraps are picked up twice weekly from the restaurant and taken to the Hartland Landfill.

Atkins Road development moves aheadCouncil favours updated proposal, gives third reading to project

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EDITORIALOUR VIEW

The B.C. government has made its most significant moves in decades to address the needs of some of the province’s poorest people.

The largest financial commitment is for a new program to help single parents escape from the welfare trap. There are 16,000 single parents in B.C. receiving provincial income assistance or disability payments, most of them women.

Even if they could find an entry-level job, it wouldn’t pay enough to cover the child care they would need to go to work. Worst of all, the current system requires that if they enrol in training, they lose their income assistance, including dental and extended medical care for themselves and their children.

That is the welfare trap, one of the most perverse government policies to have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era.

The new program takes effect in September. It will not only continue income assistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, it promises to cover their child care and transportation costs for an approved training program of up to one year.

Medical and child care costs will then be covered for up to a year after training, to allow a transition to employment.

Approved training means training for jobs that are identified as in demand, requiring high school

and occupation-specific training that can be completed in a year or less. They include retail sales, general office work and assistance jobs in health services.

Another overdue policy change is to double the allowable earnings for all income assistance recipients from $200 to $400 a month. This gives people a chance to improve their

circumstances by taking whatever part-time or casual work they can manage, without having that little income cut from their already meagre welfare cheques.

And then there was the recent decision to end the claw-back of parental child support payments from income assistance payments.

The province has for many years run a costly child maintenance enforcement program to track down (mostly) deadbeat dads and force them to pay at least a token amount to support their children. Now when they pay child support to a single parent on income assistance, they will at least have the satisfaction of knowing the children actually receive the extra benefit.

These harsh, historic policies were built around a philosophy that welfare is a temporary last resort,

to be withdrawn as soon as some other source of income is identified. That is a valid if unfashionable position to take on behalf of working taxpayers who pay for all this, but it only makes sense if the income assistance recipient has a realistic option.

For those who are already in the entry-level job market, the minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour in September, from $10.25 to $10.45. This is the beginning of an annual review that will tie the wage to the consumer price index.

A paltry sum, to be sure, but anyone who still thinks jacking the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is a magic solution that won’t cost some entry-level jobs is clinging to a socialist dream world. • • •

I have been contacted by several low-income seniors who read my recent column on B.C.’s Seniors’ Advocate. They were asking where to find out if they are eligible for support programs such as the SAFER rent subsidy, assistance for Medical Services Plan premiums, property tax deferment and grants to help with home modifications for disabilities.

I apologize for this oversight. One place to start is the Seniors’ Advocate toll-free information line, 1-877-952-3181, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Twitter: @tomfletcherbcEmail: [email protected]

Making real progress on poverty

Interchange idea isn’t dead yet

Last week, B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone trumpeted the province’s long-awaited transportation plan as “a roadmap for the next 10 years on how we will expand and improve our transportation network to ultimately improve the quality of life for us all.”

The B.C. On the Move plan is the result of 13,000 responses from British Columbians about their perceived infrastructure priorities. But the lack of detail in the plan is frustrating, given the hype of its release by the province.

It didn’t take 13,000 responses to inform the government that Vancouver Island’s top traffic problem remains the logjam at McKenzie Avenue/Admirals Road and Highway 1, a malaise which draws primarily from West Shore-based commuters.

Anyone anticipating a specific timeline and commitment to an interchange at the intersection had to be disappointed with last week’s On the Move announcement.

While the province committed to key, but unspecified, Highway 1 upgrades between Langford and Saanich to “reduce congestion and improve commuter mobility,” there was less certainty around the interchange idea.

The ministry did, however, commit to revisiting the potential for a future interchange at the busy intersection as a way ease congestion along the region’s busiest commuter route.

Preliminary engineering work is already underway as part of a feasibility study into such a project.

Cost is clearly the major factor for an interchange, which some estimates put in the $80-million to $100-million range. The province stated it will be looking to partner with the feds and local governments to ease congestion and improve safety along the corridor.

While the Conservative government dispensed with its infrastructure grants some years back, in an election year, who knows what might happen? Then again, finding money for an interchange would gain more traction if we had a sitting government MP.

Just look at the McTavish Road monstrosity, a project built when Gary Lunn was the area’s Conservative MP and a cabinet minister.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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‘The welfare trap has survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era.’

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EDITORIALOUR VIEW

The B.C. government has made its most significant moves in decades to address the needs of some of the province’s poorest people.

The largest financial commitment is for a new program to help single parents escape from the welfare trap. There are 16,000 single parents in B.C. receiving provincial income assistance or disability payments, most of them women.

Even if they could find an entry-level job, it wouldn’t pay enough to cover the child care they would need to go to work. Worst of all, the current system requires that if they enrol in training, they lose their income assistance, including dental and extended medical care for themselves and their children.

That is the welfare trap, one of the most perverse government policies to have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era.

The new program takes effect in September. It will not only continue income assistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, it promises to cover their child care and transportation costs for an approved training program of up to one year.

Medical and child care costs will then be covered for up to a year after training, to allow a transition to employment.

Approved training means training for jobs that are identified as in demand, requiring high school

and occupation-specific training that can be completed in a year or less. They include retail sales, general office work and assistance jobs in health services.

Another overdue policy change is to double the allowable earnings for all income assistance recipients from $200 to $400 a month. This gives people a chance to improve their

circumstances by taking whatever part-time or casual work they can manage, without having that little income cut from their already meagre welfare cheques.

And then there was the recent decision to end the claw-back of parental child support payments from income assistance payments.

The province has for many years run a costly child maintenance enforcement program to track down (mostly) deadbeat dads and force them to pay at least a token amount to support their children. Now when they pay child support to a single parent on income assistance, they will at least have the satisfaction of knowing the children actually receive the extra benefit.

These harsh, historic policies were built around a philosophy that welfare is a temporary last resort,

to be withdrawn as soon as some other source of income is identified. That is a valid if unfashionable position to take on behalf of working taxpayers who pay for all this, but it only makes sense if the income assistance recipient has a realistic option.

For those who are already in the entry-level job market, the minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour in September, from $10.25 to $10.45. This is the beginning of an annual review that will tie the wage to the consumer price index.

A paltry sum, to be sure, but anyone who still thinks jacking the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is a magic solution that won’t cost some entry-level jobs is clinging to a socialist dream world. • • •

I have been contacted by several low-income seniors who read my recent column on B.C.’s Seniors’ Advocate. They were asking where to find out if they are eligible for support programs such as the SAFER rent subsidy, assistance for Medical Services Plan premiums, property tax deferment and grants to help with home modifications for disabilities.

I apologize for this oversight. One place to start is the Seniors’ Advocate toll-free information line, 1-877-952-3181, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Twitter: @tomfletcherbcEmail: [email protected]

Making real progress on poverty

Interchange idea isn’t dead yet

Last week, B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone trumpeted the province’s long-awaited transportation plan as “a roadmap for the next 10 years on how we will expand and improve our transportation network to ultimately improve the quality of life for us all.”

The B.C. On the Move plan is the result of 13,000 responses from British Columbians about their perceived infrastructure priorities. But the lack of detail in the plan is frustrating, given the hype of its release by the province.

It didn’t take 13,000 responses to inform the government that Vancouver Island’s top traffic problem remains the logjam at McKenzie Avenue/Admirals Road and Highway 1, a malaise which draws primarily from West Shore-based commuters.

Anyone anticipating a specific timeline and commitment to an interchange at the intersection had to be disappointed with last week’s On the Move announcement.

While the province committed to key, but unspecified, Highway 1 upgrades between Langford and Saanich to “reduce congestion and improve commuter mobility,” there was less certainty around the interchange idea.

The ministry did, however, commit to revisiting the potential for a future interchange at the busy intersection as a way ease congestion along the region’s busiest commuter route.

Preliminary engineering work is already underway as part of a feasibility study into such a project.

Cost is clearly the major factor for an interchange, which some estimates put in the $80-million to $100-million range. The province stated it will be looking to partner with the feds and local governments to ease congestion and improve safety along the corridor.

While the Conservative government dispensed with its infrastructure grants some years back, in an election year, who knows what might happen? Then again, finding money for an interchange would gain more traction if we had a sitting government MP.

Just look at the McTavish Road monstrosity, a project built when Gary Lunn was the area’s Conservative MP and a cabinet minister.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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LETTERS

OPINIONTransit’s future lies in an appropriate funding model

Many people think of Canada as a landscape of forests, mountains, water and ice, but the Canadian experience is fast becoming focused on glass and concrete. Our 2011 census revealed that 81 per cent of us now live in cities. And despite taking up less land space, our environmental impact continues to grow. As the United Nations notes, cities cover only two per cent of the world’s land area but produce 60 per cent of CO2 emissions — including a significant proportion from urban transportation, as people commute to school and work on increasingly crowded roads and transit networks.

Changing the way we move through cities is a critical step in reducing carbon emissions. The most direct way to accomplish this is to provide urbanites with reliable alternatives to automobile travel. By investing

in walkways, cycling networks and efficient public transportation — including rapid rail and bus systems — cities can promote healthy lifestyles while protecting the environment. A two-car household that replaces one vehicle

with alternative transportation can cut its annual emissions

by 10 per cent.Building balanced

transportation systems and improving transit reduces reliance on private vehicles, cuts traffic congestion and leads to better public health by keeping pollutants linked to asthma and cardiovascular disease out of the air. It can also help curb North America’s obesity epidemic, which is leading to diseases like diabetes and sending health care costs skyrocketing.

Recent research on the relationship between health and transit use in Metro Vancouver,

by University of British Columbia urban planning and public health professor Lawrence Frank and two health authorities, reveals that residents of areas with above average public transportation use are 26 per cent less likely to be obese and 49 per cent more likely to walk for at least 30 minutes a day than people living in low transit use areas.

Vancouver is a good case study for the future of Canadian urban public transit. Metro residents are voting on a plebiscite to fund regional transit and transportation expansion with a 0.5 per cent provincial sales tax increase. Many groups in the region — including business, labour, environmental, health and student — are setting aside political differences and joining the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition to support it.

With only eight cents of every tax dollar going to Canadian municipalities, cities across the country are looking for ways to fund infrastructure

maintenance and improvements. Canada is also the only major industrialized country without a national transit funding strategy. Provincial governments, such as Ontario’s, have had some success in securing funding for transit improvements, but across the country the issue is largely in the hands of local leaders.

Although Metro Vancouver’s transit ridership has increased dramatically in recent years, road congestion is still a problem, costing the regional economy up to $1.2 billion per year. To combat similar issues, cities around the world, including London, Milan and Stockholm, have introduced congestion charges for drivers who use city streets during peak hours, funnelling monies raised into transit improvements. By comparison, a Vancouver sales tax increase would spread the cost out to include transit users, cyclists, walkers and visitors.

North American cities often have a more difficult time than European municipalities convincing residents to support

transit funding. Denver, Colorado, has had two transit funding referendums, one that failed and a more recent one that passed. In 2014, Seattle residents took part in two votes, agreeing to a 0.1 per cent sales tax increase and a $60 vehicle levy to improve transit only after bus service faced severe cuts following a “No” vote on transit funding earlier in the year.

Canadians aren’t often invited to directly participate in policy-making. The vote in Metro Vancouver is the first of its kind nationally and will likely set off a heated debate about how transportation funding is discussed in this country. While the outcome remains uncertain, one thing is clear: People with realistic transit options have a daily choice to support or degrade the environment. When faced with that choice, history has shown more people opt to leave their cars in the garage. We need to think seriously about how we keep our cities moving into the future.

David Suzukiwith Steve Kux

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Lettersto the editor

Use sense when considering pet rabbitsWith Easter not far off, many

children start thinking of the Easter bunny and seeing them in TV ads and toy bunnies in shops may get the idea that they want a cuddly little bunny of their own.

Please give this decision some serious thought before you adopt.

Rabbits are timid creatures that do not like being held. If they fall they do not land on their feet as does a cat and many serious injuries can happen. They are sociable creatures and should not be kept in a small cage. Consider it the same as solitary confinement.

As a rabbit owner, I can attest that they are sweet intelligent creatures, but a lot of work. Their habitats need cleaning every day and their food and water bottles must be washed. Young children infatuated with

owning a bunny will quickly tire of that chore when other social activity takes over.

The rabbits will be ignored and their housing left unkempt and the onus will fall to the parent to take over those chores – a parent who is too busy already. How long will that last?

A rabbit is a long-term commitment, one which must be taken seriously. Too many families faced with this extra responsibility see no option but to dispose of the rabbit. Unfortunately, too many times it is dumped in an area with other no-longer-wanted rabbits, which in itself is a death sentence, if not carried out by a predator or a vehicle, then sometimes by another rabbit defending its turf.

Humane societies will be happy to have the bunny. And those toy bunnies mentioned

above may make better pets all around.

William JesseVictoria

Time to up the antefor international aid

Re: Lester Pearson’s challengeI would like to congratulate

the House of Lords for passing historic legislation which requires the British government to allocate 0.7 per cent of its GDP to Overseas Development Assistance.

Why this is of such interest to Canadians is that in 1969 our prime minister, Lester Pearson, challenged developed countries to achieve this level of funding to those countries less fortunate than us.

Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg and now Britain have achieved that target.

Unfortunately, despite promises by several governments, Canada is still below 0.3 per cent. Perhaps it is time for us to pass such a law in Ottawa and honour the memory of a great man.

Sam WellerOak Bay

Brain story promptsmusical consideration

Re: Brain coach entertains while enlightening (Gazette, March 11)

Your left and right hands and arms are also interdependently “wired” in the brain. An interesting fact resulting from this is that musical conductors all have had training to “rewire” their brains so that their left and right hands and arms can move completely independently.

Axel Brock-MillerLangford

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Some places may be iconic while not having a very clear story attached to them. Darby Farm’s long drive leading to the water tower is familiar to anyone who has enjoyed Tower Point Park.

The Dukes bought the land from a Mr. Rosman in the mid-dle 1800’s and in the 1890’s, an engineer from Victoria by the name of Invaraity bought the approximately 65-acre par-cel. He designed and built the 30-foot tower to store water piped from Bilston Creek. The pipes were laid on pil-ings across Witty’s Lagoon, some of which are still visible. The house he built in 1904 has been enlarged and renovated many times to achieve its substantial beauty today.

In 1911 F.F. Higgs, a Victoria realtor, bought the property and it is probably he who named the property Darby Farm. Like most farms in Metcho-sin at that time it produced fruit, vegetables, poul-try and dairy products.

I remember in the late 50’s attending yearly fetes. The sun always shone on the pony events and children’s races, ice cream dripped and the St. Johns Ambulance attendants patiently waited with the ocean and Olympic Mountains making a spectacular backdrop.

Metchosin Museum’s Old Barn Books is open Sun-days 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; your donations of good used books are most welcome as their sale helps to pre-serve Metchosin’s heritage. Please email [email protected] to share your stories or make additions, amendments and suggestions.

Metchosin: Then and Now

Wendy Mitchell

The top photo of what became know as Darby

Farm dates back to 1910. The signature

water tower in the centre,

a landmark seen by today’s

visitors to Tower Point Park in

Metchosin, remains as seen

in the current photo below.

(Top) Metchosin Museum Society archives

Photo by Wendy Mitchell, Metchosin Museum Society


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Spring routinely affects this native broad-leafed evergreen tree Mike DaviesNews Gazette staff

Spring has sprung. The clocks have been reset to give us an extra hour of daylight – possibly getting us outside in the wild a bit more often for a bit longer periods of time.

One of the things you may notice while you’re out in the wonders of nature around the West Shore is fun-gus, particularly on the arbutus trees around. You may even have a few in your yard you’re wondering or wor-ried about.

Many of you are, apparently, as Natural Resources Canada gets a ton of calls this time of year about whether their arbutus trees are sick or dying.

“You can think of your arbutus tree as a salad bar for insects and fungal disease,” says Brenda Callan, a sci-entist at Natural Resources Canada’s Pacific Forestry Centre on Burnside Road West.

Known elsewhere as the Pacific madrone or madrona, arbutus trees on Vancouver Island are at the north-ern most extent of their natural range, Callan says, and it doesn’t take much for them to become stressed. They cling to shorelines and rocky areas where they can outgrow Doug-las fir, digging their roots into mar-ginal sites, making them more at risk for disease or stress from adverse weather.

This doesn’t mean the sick-looking arbutus on your property is dying, however.

“Arbutus trees always look their worst in spring, before the old spotty and winter-damaged, browned leaves are cast in the summer” says Cal-lan. Arrays of organisms can cause leaf and twig blackening, and arbu-tuses are especially prone to winter damage.

Over a dozen different leaf spot fungi will cause brown leaves, she says. “If you look closely, you may find evidence of leaf-mining insects such as windy tracks. That’s where a little burrowing insect has gotten into the leaf and eaten it away.

“Neofusicoccum arbuti, a fungus that occurs naturally in this region, can cause stem and branch cankers and some of the branch dieback,”

adds Callan, but normally it only causes disease symptoms when the trees are stressed by other factors, such as drought or winter wind dam-age.

A tree heavily affected by this fun-gus can go into a downward spiral of decline, and in this weakened state, other agents might join in and finish the tree off.

The good news is that by mid-spring the majority of arbutus trees will have healthy green buds. In sum-mer, most of the affected leaves will fall off.

Once the old blotchy leaves are gone and the new leaves are fully flushed, most trees will look healthy again.

There’s ways you can helpyour arbutus get healthy

Insects, disease and wildfires thin out older and weaker trees as part of a natural ecosystem process.

But homeowners can help their arbutus trees through activities like fertilizing, and pruning dead branches as soon as they are discov-ered. Callan also recommends avoid-ing watering foliage to decrease the spread of fungal spores, and gather-ing fallen leaves in early fall.

If you plant under an arbutus, choose drought-resistant plants. Too much watering promotes other organisms that can harm the tree. You should also avoid parking on unpaved areas under arbutuses, as compacted soil may stress the trees.

Trees will also react poorly if they have grown in a protected area and are suddenly exposed to excess sun-light and wind as a result of clearing trees around them.

If you have questions or concerns about the trees in your area, or would like more tips on how you can help keep them healthy, contact Cal-lan at the Pacific Forestry Centre at [email protected], call 250-363-0600 or visit nrcan.gc.ca.

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Upcoming walks in Francis/King regional parkNettles and wild teas are the subjects of a pair

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On Saturday (March 28), join a Capital Regional District Parks naturalist in hunting for early spring greens such as stinging nettles, and learn about their uses and benefits. This guided adult walk (18 years plus) offers tips on how to pre-pare nettle and opportunities to taste it.

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Capital Regional District Notice to ElectorsWithin the Capital Regional DistrictAlternative Approval Process for CRD Bylaw 3981 - Authorizing the borrowing of $14,800,000 for acquiring, designing and constructing water distribution facilities in the Juan de Fuca Water Distribution AreaNotice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of the Capital Regional District (“CRD”) proposes to adopt Bylaw No. 3981, “Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Facilities Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 1, 2014 “ to authorize the borrowing of up to Fourteen Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($14,800,000) for the purpose of acquiring, designing and constructing water distribution facilities in the western communities of the Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Area.Over the next five years the CRD will need up to $14,800,000 to meet the cash requirements necessary to fund investments in the Juan de Fuca Water Distribution system infrastructure. Borrowing will only occur after review and confirmation of the cash flow requirements and approval of the projects by the Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Commission. The debt servicing costs will be recovered through the retail water rate.Take further notice that the CRD may proceed with Bylaw No. 3981 unless at least 5,561 electors within the CRD indicate by signing the elector response forms, that the Board must obtain the assent of the electors by way of referendum before proceeding to adopt Bylaw No. 3981.The elector response form must be in the form as established by the CRD and forms are available from the CRD on request. The only persons entitled to sign elector response forms are electors of the area to which the alternative approval process opportunity applies. The alternative approval process opportunity applies within the following municipalities of the CRD: Colwood, Highlands (that part within the RUCSPA set out in Bylaw No. 3820), Langford, Metchosin, Sooke and View Royal and a portion of the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area (East Sooke participating area). The deadline for delivering the original signed elector response forms, in relation to Bylaw No. 3981, to the CRD is 4:00 pm on Monday, May 4, 2015. Forms must be received by the deadline to be counted.The CRD has estimated that the total number of electors within the service area is 55,614 and that 10% of that number or 5,561 electors must submit elector response forms to prevent the CRD from enacting Bylaw No. 3981 without the assent of the electors by referendum.Further technical information concerning Bylaw No. 3981 may be obtained from Ted Robbins, General Manager, Integrated Water Services, 479 Island Highway, Victoria, BC V9B 1H7 (Tel: 250.474.9604) during regular office hours Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) from the date of this notice until May 4, 2015.Qualifications for Resident and Non-Resident Property ElectorsResident Elector: You are entitled to submit an elector response form as a Resident Elector if you are 18 years or older on the date of submission of the elector response form, are a Canadian citizen, have resided in British Columbia for 6 months and in the CRD for at least 30 days prior to signing the elector response form.Non-Resident Property Elector: You may submit an elector response form as a Non-Resident Property Elector if you are 18 years or older on the date of submission of the elector response form, are a Canadian citizen, have resided in British Columbia for 6 months, have owned and held registered title to property in the CRD for 30 days and do NOT qualify as a Resident Elector. If there is more than one registered owner of the property (either as joint tenants or tenants in common) only one individual may, with the written consent of the majority, submit an elector response form.To obtain an elector response form, or for questions about the elector approval process, please contact CRD Legislative and Information Services, PO Box 1000, 625 Fisgard Street, 5th Floor, Victoria, BC V8W 2S6 or by telephone at 250.360.3129 from 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.A copy of the elector response form may be downloaded from:www.crd.bc.ca/about/how-we-are-governed/elections-other-votingElector response forms may also be obtained at the following CRD offices, from 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays):• Integrated Water Services, 479 Island Highway, Victoria • Juan de Fuca Local Area Services office, #3-7450 Butler Road, SookeA copy of Bylaw No. 3981 and a copy of this Notice may be inspected during regular office hours, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays) from the date of this notice until May 4, 2015 at the following locations:• public notice board in the lobby of CRD headquarters, 625 Fisgard Street, Victoria• Integrated Water Services, 479 Island Highway, Victoria• Juan de Fuca Local Area Services office #3-7450 Butler Road, Sooke• on the CRD website:

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Bloody goodWestshore Rebels cheerleading squad member Brooklynn Jaundrew, 17, rests comfortably while making her first-ever donation at Canadian Blood Services on Saanich Road. She was one of a number of Rebels club members, including a number of players, who gave blood on the weekend. Four were first-time donors. The Rebels are a member of Canadian Blood Services’ Partners for Life program.

RRU seeks nominations for Alumni ExcellenceRick StiebelNews Gazette staff

Royal Roads University is looking for outstand-ing alumni who have achieved the kind of success in their lives and careers that is truly inspirational.

The Colwood-based university is accepting nominations for its fourth annual Alumni Excel-lence Award now until April 30.

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The awards program enables alumni to recon-nect with the Royal Roads community and allows the university to celebrate their achievements and contributions. It also helps foster Royal Roads’ vision to “connect people, ideas and experience to change lives and the world.”

“We are always inspired by the calibre of nomi-nees we receive,” said Doug Ozeroff, RRU senior manager of communications and alumni relations. “These are people who are truly making a differ-ence all over the world.”

Past award winners include journalist Mading Ngor, former Calgary fire chief Bruce Burrell and Deloitte diversity leader Jackie Scales. The awards will be presented at a celebratory event hosted by RRU in September.

You can nominate someone by calling Ozeroff at 250-391-2526, or make a nomination online at www.royalroads.ca/alumni-awards.

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RRU seeks nominations for Alumni ExcellenceRick StiebelNews Gazette staff

Royal Roads University is looking for outstand-ing alumni who have achieved the kind of success in their lives and careers that is truly inspirational.

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Past award winners include journalist Mading Ngor, former Calgary fire chief Bruce Burrell and Deloitte diversity leader Jackie Scales. The awards will be presented at a celebratory event hosted by RRU in September.

You can nominate someone by calling Ozeroff at 250-391-2526, or make a nomination online at www.royalroads.ca/alumni-awards.

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Colourful coastlineA short drive from Metchosin is East Sooke Park, which affords vantage points such as this, looking out to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We’d like to encourage Gazette readers to send your shots of people, places and things around the West Shore for consideration for our Reader Photo of the Week feature. Send your photos in .jpg format to [email protected] with your name and photo subject details.

Solar CRD program coming to a closeThousands in rebates given out

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A federal subsidy program aimed at increasing solar hot water systems in the Capital Region expires this month.

A total of 81 resi-dents and businesses received subsidies between $2,500 and $4,000 through the Solar CRD program, a program that began in Colwood in 2011 and was later rolled out across the region.

Depending on the size of the system, Solar CRD covered approximately a third of the cost of a solar hot water system, while commercial subsidies went up to $25,000 per application.

Solar CRD’s grant program ends March 31. But March 20 was the deadline to have the solar hot water system installed, func-tioning and licensed in order to ensure timely processing and pay-ment of the Solar CRD incentives, according to a program spokes-person.

“We had enough money for 100 resi-dential subsidies and reached 81. So, for the most part, we’re happy with the success,” said Solar CRD’s Glen Har-ris, senior manager with the CRD’s environ-mental protection. “We also had a few commer-cial installations which we’re thrilled about.”

At this point, there has been no discus-sion of extending or re-creating the program, though Harris pointed out the CRD’s Tap by Tap program has expanded to provide multi-unit buildings with up to 3,000 units with free water and energy saving fixtures, such as shower heads and faucet aerators.

Those low-flow fix-tures have helped reduce water use in the region, but the level of residential solar energy falls squarely on those willing to pay the start-up costs.

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Juan de Fuca pee wee Grizzlies cap season with provincial silverTier 1 squad roars back in morning game, can’t get untracked in finalDon DescoteauNews Gazette staff

Entering last week’s B.C. Ama-teur Hockey pee wee Tier 1 pro-vincial tournament, the Juan de Fuca Grizzlies were an after-thought in some people’s minds.

That was just the kind of moti-vation the team needed, as they won their way to a berth in the championship game against the vaunted Burnaby Winter Club.

The Grizzlies, who left it all on the ice in a 6-3 comeback vic-tory over North Shore Winter Club last Wednesday morning, had little bite left by the evening. They wound up losing 9-0 to the well-travelled mainland squad at South Surrey Arena.

“It wasn’t an easy tourna-ment,” Grizzlies head coach Jesse Harris said afterward. “We came in being ranked fifth in the province. We were seen as the underdogs with Prince George.”

The Juan de Fuca boys opened with a splash on March 15, stun-ning the host Semiahmoo Eagles in a 6-2 win, a contest that Har-ris characterized as his team’s “best game of the season.”

The Grizzlies followed up the next day with a 4-2 win over

Prince George and a hard-fought 3-3 tie with Kelowna, before fac-ing the eventual champs for the first time, on St. Patrick’s Day. They hung with Burnaby for a while, but had a tough time solv-ing their opponent’s high-pow-ered offence and lost 10-5.

With the other spot in the final up for grabs between three teams entering the final day of play, the Griz-zlies needed a win to clinch at least a tie for second in the round robin.

Shorthanded for much of the first half of the game, they fell behind 2-0 then 3-1 late in the second period to North Shore, which was already out of the running with just one win in four games. The Grizzlies regrouped in the final five minutes of the period to tie it up 3-3, then scored twice more in the open-ing 4:08 of the third to take con-trol.

“We took the hard way against North Shore and had to claw our way to a victory,” Harris said. “That led to the boys being quite fatigued in the final game. But overall it was a good tourna-ment.”

Team members include goaltenders Ryan Dusseault and Dylan Garand, plus Chase

Barlow, Cole Belton, Carter Cochrane, Jayden Cull, Carson Echlin, Jackson Estey, Owen Evers, Lukas Fikowski, Ty Gib-son, Chase Klassen, Jayden Kurvers, Evan Law, Payton Mount, John Ross and Kristjan Shoemaker. Assistant coaches are Jeff Thompson and Jason Kurvers and team manager is

Doug Estey.It was a

pretty impres-sive season for the Grizzlies, who wound up the year with a record of 40-4-4 overall. They went unde-feated in Island league play,

won a Christmas tournament in Chilliwack and placed third in another in Richmond. They lost just one playoff game and beat Nanaimo to qualify for the pro-vincials.

“Coming out of the (Island) tiering round at the start, it was pretty evident that we were going to be big contenders this year,” said Harris, in his first year coaching the team.

Made up of mainly second-year pee wee players, the team had three objectives for the sea-son, he said: “To win the league, to win the Island and to win pro-vincials. They almost solidified their goals.”[email protected]

Juvenile squad tests provincial champs They may have finished at the

bottom of the pack, but Juan de Fuca saved its best for last at the provincial juvenile hockey championships in Chilliwack last week.

The JdF boys, who went 1-4

overall, gave the eventual cham-pion Chilliwack team a run for its money, losing a close 3-1 deci-sion Sunday afternoon that gave the host team a spot in that eve-ning’s final.

Juan de Fuca’s lone win at

the tournament was a 4-3 deci-sion Saturday morning over Port Coquitlam, which narrowly missed making the champion-ship game and finished third overall at [email protected]

“We came in being ranked fifth in the province. We were seen as the underdogs with Prince George.”

– Pee wee Grizzliescoach Jesse Harris

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As per section 208 of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that the following Parcel Tax Rolls are now available for inspection at the City of Colwood Municipal Hall located at 3300 Wishart Road, Colwood, BC between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays:

Colwood South Sewer Local Area Service Parcel Tax Roll Colwood East Sewer Local Area Service Parcel Tax Roll Colwood West Sewer Local Area Service Parcel Tax Roll And, CRD Onsite Sewage Disposal Systems Services Parcel Tax Roll

A person who owns a parcel included on any of these parcel tax rolls may request that the roll be amended, only in relation to the person’s own property, on the following grounds:

1. There is an error or omission respecting a name or address on the parcel tax roll; 2. There is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of a parcel; 3. There is an error or omission respecting the taxable area of a parcel in relation to one or more of the Sewer Local Area Service Parcel Tax Rolls; or 4. An exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.

A request by the property owner for an amendment must be submitted in writing to the attention of the Collector on or before 4:30 pm, Wednesday, April 8, 2015, as follows:

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Members of the Juan de Fuca atom C2 Grizzlies celebrate their win at the Oceanside hockey tournament in Parksville. Juan de Fuca teams finished 1-2-3 at the event, held during spring break.

Five-time Mann Cup winner latest high-profile signing for lacrosse club

It’s been 10 years since “Danger-ous” Dan Dawson helped lead the Victoria Shamrocks to a Mann Cup lacrosse title as a fresh-faced 23-year-old power for-ward, and eight since he wore the green and white.

Having won four more Mann Cup rings with the Brampton Excelsiors in the meantime, and Cham-pions Cups the past two seasons with Rochester in the pro-fessional National Lacrosse League, the 33-year-old is on his way back to Colwood.

The defending Western Lacrosse Association champion Shamrocks announced they’ve come to terms with the six-foot-five, 217-pounder to play here for the 2015 season.

“He’s a proven winner who one day will be remembered among the all-time greats in our sport,” club general manager Chris Welch said

in a statement. “In addition to tre-mendous skill, he brings intelligence, experience and outstanding leader-ship qualities to our group.”

As of this week, seven-time NLL All-Pro selection Dawson was second on the Knighthawks’ scoring list with 12 goals and 35 assists in 10 games.

He tallied 284 points in 68 regu-lar and post-season games with the Sham-rocks, earning league playoff most valuable player honours in 2005 and 2006. He voiced excitement at coming back to the Island to rejoin the team.

“Victoria has the best fans in Canada and I am honoured to be able to put on the Shamrocks jersey once again in 2015,” he said.

Dawson’s addition is expected to boost an already powerful

lineup for the two-time defending WLA champions. Earlier this month the club re-signed co-scoring leaders Rhys Duch and Corey Small for the season.

The Shamrocks open the season May 22 at The Q Centre against Nanaimo. More team information is available at victoriashamrocks.com.

[email protected]

Warhorse returning to Shamrocks’ fold

Dan Dawson

Grizzlies atoms sweep hockey medalsJuan de Fuca Grizzlies atom teams

made the most of their second week of spring break by capturing the top three spots at the Oceanside Minor Hockey Association tournament.

The JDF Grizzlies C2 team, coached by Ken Duncan, Boyd Moehling and Trevor Scoville earned the highest point total of all teams and went undefeated in five games.

The gold medal match saw the A pool winning Grizzlies C2 team face off against their affiliated Grizzlies C1 team, which topped the B pool with three wins and a tie.

The stands at the Howie Meeker Arena in Parksville were packed with very loud supporters for each team.

A hard-fought game saw the lead swing back and forth. In the end, the C2 team hung on for a 4-3 win, despite playing the lates stages of the game two men short due to pen-alties.

In the bronze medal game, the JDF Grizzlies C4 team defeated the Oceanside Ice Hawks to round out Juan de Fuca’s sweep of the medals.

The fourth Grizzlies team playing, the C3 squad, finished fourth in the A pool with a 1-2-1 record.

The 12-team tournament also saw clubs entered from Victoria, Saanich, Oceanside, Nanaimo and as far away as Port Hardy.

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How to care for your septic system. Learn how to protect the local environment and your health while saving money, at this free workshop. Location: Juan de Fuca Library

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Reflecting on a championship Chargers volleyball seasonAfter a blizzard in Charlottetown

kept the Canadian collegiate men’s volleyball champion Camosun Chargers stuck in P.E.I. for a couple extra days earlier this month, team members were happy to get back home to Greater Victoria.

The Gazette caught up with fourth-year Charger middle and former Belmont Bulldog Alex Sad-owski for a quick Q&A on winning it all, winding up his athletic career at Camosun and what the future might hold.

GNG: Now that you’ve had a chance to savour the victory, how exciting is it still to know you went out on top for your Camosun career?

AS: Even though things have settled down, it is still very sur-real to think that we have won the National Championship. Finish-ing on this note will forever be ingrained in my memory and is something special that anyone can appreciate. I can enjoy it even more when I think of my team-mates and the bond that we have created over this past year.

GNG: You guys crafted some amazing comebacks through the week. Was there an overarching tone around the team that helped you guys get back on track when you were down in sets or matches?

AS: I don’t think that we started the semi-final or final match in

the fashion that we would have liked. When we did lose sets we lost by quite a large margin. Look-ing back, we were never incred-

ibly concerned with the fact that we were losing, but rather what we needed to fix in order to start winning. This confidence gave us

a boost when we knew we needed to change and when the title was really in jeopardy.

GNG: What kind of legacy do

you and fellow graduating Charger Jeremy Finn leave for the upcom-ing players like (ex-Belmont Bull-dogs) Doug (Waterman), Mark (Severinsen), Taran (Silas) and others?

AS: The legacy that we have cre-ated is something quite special. To know that we have won Camosun College’s first National Champi-onship with an amazing group of guys and in the way we won is just incredible. I have never played on a team which was closer than this year’s Chargers team. Whether you were playing or sitting on the bench, every player contributed equally to our success. I am hop-ing that future players can recre-ate this amazing feeling.

GNG: What are your plans in the immediate future?

AS: Plans … honestly, I don’t have any. Now that we are back in Victoria after being stranded by an Atlantic storm, I have to catch up on school and relax. I am sure that in the coming months, this experience will reach new levels of importance to me, but for now I will just take things day by day.

• For a look back at the team’s run to the 2015 Canadian Colleges Athletic Association champion-ship title, visit goldstreamgazette.com and type the word ‘”Char-gers” into the search bar.

[email protected]

Photo by Kevin Light/Courtesy Camosun College Athletics

Camosun Chargers middle Alex Sadowski (7) celebrates a point during PacWest conference college volleyball play. The former Belmont Bulldog talks eloquently about winning nationals.

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Reflecting on a championship Chargers volleyball seasonAfter a blizzard in Charlottetown

kept the Canadian collegiate men’s volleyball champion Camosun Chargers stuck in P.E.I. for a couple extra days earlier this month, team members were happy to get back home to Greater Victoria.

The Gazette caught up with fourth-year Charger middle and former Belmont Bulldog Alex Sad-owski for a quick Q&A on winning it all, winding up his athletic career at Camosun and what the future might hold.

GNG: Now that you’ve had a chance to savour the victory, how exciting is it still to know you went out on top for your Camosun career?

AS: Even though things have settled down, it is still very sur-real to think that we have won the National Championship. Finish-ing on this note will forever be ingrained in my memory and is something special that anyone can appreciate. I can enjoy it even more when I think of my team-mates and the bond that we have created over this past year.

GNG: You guys crafted some amazing comebacks through the week. Was there an overarching tone around the team that helped you guys get back on track when you were down in sets or matches?

AS: I don’t think that we started the semi-final or final match in

the fashion that we would have liked. When we did lose sets we lost by quite a large margin. Look-ing back, we were never incred-

ibly concerned with the fact that we were losing, but rather what we needed to fix in order to start winning. This confidence gave us

a boost when we knew we needed to change and when the title was really in jeopardy.

GNG: What kind of legacy do

you and fellow graduating Charger Jeremy Finn leave for the upcom-ing players like (ex-Belmont Bull-dogs) Doug (Waterman), Mark (Severinsen), Taran (Silas) and others?

AS: The legacy that we have cre-ated is something quite special. To know that we have won Camosun College’s first National Champi-onship with an amazing group of guys and in the way we won is just incredible. I have never played on a team which was closer than this year’s Chargers team. Whether you were playing or sitting on the bench, every player contributed equally to our success. I am hop-ing that future players can recre-ate this amazing feeling.

GNG: What are your plans in the immediate future?

AS: Plans … honestly, I don’t have any. Now that we are back in Victoria after being stranded by an Atlantic storm, I have to catch up on school and relax. I am sure that in the coming months, this experience will reach new levels of importance to me, but for now I will just take things day by day.

• For a look back at the team’s run to the 2015 Canadian Colleges Athletic Association champion-ship title, visit goldstreamgazette.com and type the word ‘”Char-gers” into the search bar.

[email protected]

Photo by Kevin Light/Courtesy Camosun College Athletics

Camosun Chargers middle Alex Sadowski (7) celebrates a point during PacWest conference college volleyball play. The former Belmont Bulldog talks eloquently about winning nationals.



Kevin LairdVictoria News

The two women quietly enter the hospi-tal room. They pause. The man, holding a yellow begonia, standing next to the dying woman nods his head in acknowledgement.

“Would you like us to sing to your mother?” they softly ask.

He replies in a soft whisper that he was about to leave.

The woman invite him to stay. He moves to the head of the bed and the woman begin to sing All Through the Night.

As the women sing, the woman lying in the bed passes away.

“He was really grateful that he stayed because he was there when his mother died,” says singer Mariana Chapman, a member of the Victoria Hospice Bedside Singers.

Three evenings a week the sound of voices can be heard coming from patient’s rooms at Victoria Hospice.

The voices belong to the Victoria Hos-pice Beside Singers, a group that helps comfort the dying by singing in a cappella (voices unaccompanied by instruments) and always in teams of only two singers. The core repertoire includes songs of com-fort and general blessing, as well as popular songs from popular culture.

The group began in 2007 when a Hospice volunteer noticed that by humming and

singing around patients, they seemed to be comforted. Today, the group consists of 13 volunteers and more are needed.

Chapman, Suellen Guenther and Kathie Doerksen have been with the group the lon-gest. “What we do in bedside singing is be very respectful of the patient,” Guenther says. “We would not sing songs or hymns with religious language unless we get an indication from the patient or the family that’s their tradition. We just offer comfort-ing words.”

Hospice staff will usually refer a patient

and oftentimes family members. A singer will then meet with the patient to see if they are interested. Some people are interested right away, others take a little convincing, and often it’s a flat no, Doerksen says.

“If they say no, we thank them for that too. ‘No’ is also a right answer,” says Chap-man.

The singers can sing one to a handful of songs, it depends on how long the patient wants them there.

“Sometimes patients are too exhausted and it’s overwhelming for them to choose a song,” Doerksen says. “We just ask them if they want a lullaby-kind of song or an upbeat song and we’ll choose one to fit.”

Training to become a Bedside Singer is about a six-month process with singers required to take Hospice volunteer training followed by music work.

The group wants singers who can stay on key, generally sing in a warm lullaby tone, and be able to smoothly blend their voice with one other singer. It is not necessary to have any professional vocal training. The ability to read music is not a requirement. New singers are mentored by experienced Bedside Singers during the regular Victoria Hospice schedule.

Members of Beside Singers are required to attend Wednesday evening practices.

Doerksen, Guenther and Chapman says there is nothing like Hospice.

“I never leave here without feeling so

grateful and uplifted. It’s just so supportive and calm,” Doerksen says.

Adds Guenther: “It’s the times when it’s profound that keeps us coming back. Every now and then there is something really touching and you realize, ‘wow we made a difference for that person.’”

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of the Victoria Hospice Bedside Sing-ers? Information sessions will be held today (March 25) and April 22, from 7 to 8 p.m. at Begbie Hall, 2101 Rich-mond Rd. No registration is required.

Training begins in mid-September.All Bedside Singers must attend

Victoria Hospice volunteer training before they can sing in the patient unit. They must undergo a criminal record check and be willing to get a flu shot.

“Volunteer training is another form of training,” says Kay Larsen, man-ager of volunteer services for Victoria Hospice. “If you’re squeamish through the training and feel uncomfortable about dying, then clearly this isn’t going to be the place for you.”

For more information on the pro-gram, please call 250-370-8727 or go online to victoriahospice.org.

Kevin Laird/Victoria News

Victoria Hospice Bedside Singers Mariana Chapman, left, Suellen Guenther and Kathie Doerksen have volunteered with the palliative care organization for more than seven years.

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View Royal FD takes it to the next levelNew public safety building should improve response times, as well as communication between departments

Don DescoteauNews Gazette staff

Sitting in a guest chair sipping a coffee, View Royal Fire Chief Paul Hurst comments on how his new office feels somewhat like a “fish bowl.”

Accustomed to being mostly out of public view at the old fire hall on Four Mile Hill, he now has a clear view out onto Island Highway, where thousands of residents and commuters alike pass by daily. Hurst’s airy, bright front office reflects the design of the whole front of the new hall: huge glass doors and windows allow the public to see fire vehicles standing at the ready.

“We’ve had so many residents come through already and take a look,” the chief says. “There’s a high sense of civic pride in this building.”

The $7.49-million public safety building, so called for the fact it combines the functions of fire protection, building inspection, bylaw enforcement and emergency program management, has been operational nearly two weeks.

In the first week at the new site firefighters responded to 25 or 30 calls, about average, Hurst says. The very first, he notes, was attending to a pair of West Shore RCMP officers who had ingested exhaust fumes during a Colwood rescue.

The building is the culmination of years of planning, research, design and of course, a public referendum in the fall of 2012 that saw roughly 64 per cent of voters say yes to the town borrowing almost $5.5 million

for the project.From the street alone, the building is

eye-catching and modern-looking. But it is equal parts form and function, with a warm, dry place inside for virtually everything – not least of which the vehicles and other rescue equipment.

Roughly centred in a bowl carved out of a piece of land that formerly housed three old homes, the building has or will eventually offer built-in training opportunities for things like high-angle rescues, aerial truck hose practice, rappelling and enclosed-space firefighting.

Gone are the days of having to use a wing of Victoria General Hospital for aerial work, or finding places around View Royal that were quiet enough to practice certain aspects of the job.

“The guys are really excited,” Hurst says of the new on-site options. “We no longer have to train firefighters on streets and in neighbourhoods … It’s going to take this department to the next level.”

Other features built into the new hall will profoundly affect the ability for the fire department to respond in a timely fashion.

Down an upstairs hallway from the gym are four dorm-style bunk rooms, where firefighters will sleep overnight and be available to spring into action immediately.

Off the same hallway is an outside pathway leading to what will eventually be four side-by-side bachelor apartments. They’ll be offered up to four volunteer firefighters – they’ll pay rent and likely be assigned groundskeeping duties, Hurst says – who will be available overnight as well.

“From a service delivery point of view, this is a game-changer,” the chief says of the potential to have eight firefighters on site overnight, who can roll a unit out of the hall in 60 to 80 seconds, rather than having to wait until a full crew arrives from their homes. “View Royal residents will definitely notice a difference.”

Standing in the turnout gear room, set to 24 C to help dry equipment quickly and negatively pressurized to keep in particulate contaminants, Troy Mollin, a firefighter who serves as the town’s emergency program officer, can’t say enough about the new facility.

“It’s a big upgrade; it’s actually surreal to be in the building right now,” he says.

“There’s so many opportunities going forward to improve all our programs, including emergency management, our training and the administration of our department. That was the purpose of the design, to allow room for growth.”

Asked what he likes about the new hall, fellow firefighter Gary Faykes, who is the town’s building inspector, jokes that it’s a kilometre closer to his home so he can get here quicker.

“I think it’s a great building to respond from; everything has been set up perfectly,” he says. “From a building official side, I love it because the building is very

code compliant. It was very well designed and it’s been great working in it, from the beginning groundbreaking right up to occupancy.”

Hurst admits he felt a bit of an emotional twinge upon stepping out of the old building and assuming operations, with no interruption to service, in the new one.

“My dad was a volunteer firefighter,” he says, “and I’ve been coming to that hall since I was five years old.”

Now 44, Hurst joined the volunteer ranks as a fresh-faced teen in 1984 and was hired on full-time in ’87. Since then he’s seen many a volunteer firefighter come and go through the old hall.

“The old adage ‘if these walls could talk’ comes to mind,” he says. Around 280 volunteers have served on fire duty since

View Royal’s inception, 100 since Hurst has been involved.

“It’s a bit of a weird feeling; you kind of see this orphan sitting on the hill,” he says of the old building. That said, he isn’t looking back too wistfully.

He studied blueprints for three years leading up to the move, knowing what was planned and helping guide the process. Still, he says, the finished product is “far more than I expected. I had no idea it would come together like this.”

Well aware of who breathes life to this sparkling new facility, he gives a final shout-out to the 36 volunteer firefighters who serve their community 24/7.

“The volunteers deserve every square inch of this building for what they give.”

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Photos by Don Descoteau/News Gazette staff

(Above) View Royal firefighter and emergency program officer, Troy Mollin, standing left, joins Fire Chief Paul Hurst and firefighter/building inspector Gary Faykes, kneeling, inside the new public safety building on Island Highway. The town’s fire protection, emergency programming, building inspection and bylaw enforcement officials have been together in one building since January 2014. (Below), the turnout gear storage room is climate controlled and negatively pressurized to keep contaminants out of the main hall.

Creating an oasisfor times of crisis

With its own reserve of truck fuel, propane and a massive generator, the new View Royal public safety building on Island Highway has been built to “post-disaster” standards, meaning it’s designed to continue to function even if an earthquake or other disas-ter takes other emergency services out of commission.

With a large classroom and adja-cent boardroom on the premises, the building is designed to function as the town hall in the event the municipal building is rendered useless, says Fire Chief Paul Hurst.

And with a commercial-size kitchen on site available to keep people fed, the building would definitely be a place of comfort in the event of an emergency.



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City of ColwoodNotice of Public Hearing

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the City of Colwood will hold a meeting to afford the public an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters in the following proposed bylaw at a PUBLIC HEARING to be held at Colwood City Hall, 3300 Wishart Road, Colwood, B.C. on Monday, March 30, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.

1. “Colwood Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 999, 2008, Amendment No. 9 (Ocean Grove Guidelines), Bylaw No. 1563, 2015”.

The general purpose of proposed Bylaw No. 1563 is to amend Section 25.0 of the Official Community Plan by replacing the “Lagoon Estates/ Aquattro Guidelines” with the “Ocean Grove Guidelines” for the properties shown outlined on the map below, more particularly described as Lot 1, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan EPP37756; Lot 1, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan EPP37757; and Lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan VIP86234.

2. “Colwood Land Use Bylaw No. 151, 1989, Amendment No. 143 (Comprehensive Development (CD6) Zone – Ocean Grove), Bylaw No. 1564, 2015”.

The general purpose of proposed Bylaw No. 1564 is to amend the Land Use Bylaw by replacing “Section 10.11 Comprehensive Development 6 (CD6) Zone” in its entirety and replacing it with “Section 10.11 Comprehensive Development (CD6) Zone – Ocean Grove” for the properties shown outlined on the map below, more particularly described as Lot 1, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan EPP37756; Lot 1, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan EPP37757; and Lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan VIP86234. A copy of the proposed bylaw and other related material may be inspected at City Hall, 3300 Wishart Road, Colwood, B.C. between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays, from Monday, March 23, 2015 up to and including Monday, March 30, 2015. For further information please contact the Planning Department at 478-5999 or [email protected]

Iain Bourhill, MCIP, RPPDirector of Planning

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGThe City of Langford has received an application to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw No. 1562. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Bylaw at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Tuesday, 7 April 2015, at 7:00 pm. Please be advised that no representations may be received by Council after the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether orally or in writing, will form part of a public record.

Proposal: The purpose of Bylaw No. 1562 is to amend the City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amending the zoning designation of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1562 from the current CD8 (Comprehensive Development 8 – Valley View) Area 1 – Single Family Dwellings Zone and adding to the CD8 (Comprehensive Development 8 – Valley View) Area 2 – Townhouse Residential Zone to allow a development of approximately 20 townhouses on the subject properties.

Applicant: Richard Irwin, Irwin Consulting

Location: The land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1562 is 919, 923, 927, 931, 935, 939 and 943 Wild Ridge Way as shown shaded on the plan.

COPIES of the complete proposed Bylaw and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the Bylaw may be viewed from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, 23 March 2015 to Tuesday, 7 April 2015, inclusive, at Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8. Please contact Grant Liebscher in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 with any questions on this Bylaw.

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www.goldstreamgazette.comCorrection

A story on an upcoming feature film shoot at Hatley Castle in Col-

wood that appeared in the March 18 Gazette incorrectly stated the name of cast member Lauren Cohan.


Langford’s bit of Bellagio should be back and bubbling by the end of May.

The popular foun-tain in the round-about at Goldstream Avenue and Bryn Maur Road has been shut down since it was heavily damaged by a semi-trailer at the end of November.

Work has started on replacing the bro-ken pipes and repair-ing the Fibreglas liner, said George Henshall, manager of public works for the City of Langford.

“The nice weather in Febru-ary helped us move ahead on the repairs,” Henshall said. “The aim is to have it completed for the May long weekend.”

Replacement parts have been ordered and are expected by the end

of April, he added.The new fountain will be pretty

much the same as the old one because of the scope of Insurance Corporation of British Columbia cov-erage, which will pay for the work.

Henshall estimates the cost of replacement parts and labour at $75,000 to $100,000.

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Fountain fixup on tap

Photo by James Xiang/Courtesy City of Langford

The Goldstream Avenue roundabout fountain glows at night in this time-lapsed shot.