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Confusion over electoral ridingsKatherine Engqvist News Gazette staff

Some West Shore resi-dents are already shaking their heads this election. With newly drawn riding lines, some residents have found themselves clumped into a different riding than expected.

Langford resident Neal Carmichael came across Elections Canada’s website and decided to see which riding he would be voting in. He plugged in his postal code and much to his sur-prise the website told him he lived in Colwood and would be voting in the Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke riding, not the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding.

“I thought it was funny because there is a constitu-ency with the name Lang-ford in it,” he said.

He thought there must be some mistake so he logged onto the site again to make sure he was registered and updated his information since he had moved. Again, the website told him he lived in Colwood and would be voting in that riding.

“It told me specifically I lived in Colwood,” he said. Concerned he was incor-rectly labeled as a Colwood resident, he contacted Elec-tions Canada to find out which riding he was sup-posed to be voting in. At the time of the Gazette’s press deadline, he had not heard back from Elections Canada.

While the 3000-block of Brittany Drive, where Car-michael lives, is technically on the Langford side of the Galloping Goose border, it has been designated with Colwood in the Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke riding. He is concerned this will cause a lot of confusion for other residents in his area, who believe they will be voting in the Langford riding.

“I’d rather vote in Lang-ford, it makes more sense,” he said.

John Enright, a spokes-person for Elections Canada said there has been some confusion with the new ridings, especially in areas where there have been a number of changes.

“The website is the best

place to go,” he said. He urged electors to look

up the new riding maps on their website. The maps, he said, are the authority on what areas are included in ridings for federal elections, not municipal borders.

Elections Canada isn’t actually responsible for determining those rid-ing boundaries. In fact, 10 independent commissions across the country reassess the ridings every 10 years after a census. They take into consideration a number of factors when determin-ing the lines. Things such as communities of interest, or municipal boundaries, are considered so like-minded groups are not arbitrarily split up.

But as Enright said, “they are not bound to that.”

Elections Canada is also urging electors to log onto their website and take advantage of their online voter registration service, like Carmichael did, to see if they are registered, to regis-ter, or to update information.

“It’s easy to do and it’s a new service,” Enright said. He added that Elections Canada will also be send-ing out personalized voting cards to registered voters at the end of the month. These cards will have more infor-mation on where electors can go to vote.

But if you don’t want to wait until Oct. 19 to cast your ballot, you can vote at any one of the roughly

480 Elections Canada offices across the country from now until Oct. 13.

“Essentially you’re voting by mail without the stamp,” Enright said. He said this option came as a surprise to many Canadians.

But in the last federal election, he said, roughly 231,500 Canadians in coun-try voted by special ballot.

Election Canada offices are currently open week-days between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. but those hours will change closer to the elec-tion date.

To find the office nearest you or to find out if you are registered to vote go to elec-tions.ca.

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Move won’t be without its hiccups warns SD62Katherine EngqvistNews Gazette staff

After two years of construction, roughly 2,000 students - nearly 1,200 to Belmont and 800 to Royal Bay - will walk the hallways of their new high schools.

But high school stu-dents will not be the only ones on the West Shore entering a differ-ent school for the first time. In fact, roughly 4,000 students will be changing schools on Sept. 8. and that means quite the logistical jug-gling act for School Dis-trict 62.

Pete Godau, director of facilities for SD62, said that over half of the District’s students will be moving to new schools on Sept. 8. Some of that is in part due to the new high schools but it is also because of a new grade redistribution done to see consistency across the board.

All elementary schools in the District will now house kinder-garten to Grade 5 mid-

dle schools Grades 6 to 8, and high schools will have students from Grades 9 through 12. Sooke schools already had this configuration of grades but schools in, what Godau, referred to as the Bel-mont area (Langford and Colwood), did not have this consistent distribution.

Jim Cambridge, SD62 superintendent, said this grade reconfigura-tion could see some middle schools hard-est hit, with the young-est grade turning into the oldest and two new grades of children entering the school.

“Two-thirds of the students have never been in a middle school.” He said “it can be challenging,” but administrators and teachers have been busy planning ways to minimize the culture shock for students.

Godau said this reconfiguration also freed up room in ele-mentary schools where space had become tight due to the younger demographic of the West Shore.

But students won’t be the only ones chang-ing schools. Some teachers will also be changing schools to

continue to teach the same grade level.

Cambridge said, “last spring we had the largest teacher move-ment,” and staff spent several months plac-ing teachers, which included teachers mov-ing grades, transition-ing to the new Belmont school and filling new positions created by Royal Bay.

“We’ve been plan-ning for this for a long

time… It’s going to be a lot of work.” In fact Godau said they have been planning for this move for almost two years. But he admitted “it won’t be without its hiccups.”

Cambridge said one of those hiccups could potentially be trans-porting students.

“We’re counting on parents.” He said the District determines its bus routes by how

many students have registered for transpor-tation, which parents were asked to do back in the spring. But he suspects a number of parents haven’t done that yet for this school year because it sim-ply hasn’t occurred to them.

The addition of the two new high schools as well as the grade shuffle meant that the District’s bus routes

underwent a mas-sive reconfiguration to accommodate the new routes now required. But this reconfiguration was based on how many students had registered for transportation and their anticipated need. Cambridge said they would see after the first week whether the routes would have to be adjusted again to accommodate for over-crowding or a lack of

use. “We’ll have to get up and running to see,” he said.

“When we had one high school every-one could go to that school.” Now he said with two different schools, students with special interests, such as specific sports pro-grams, will have to go to the school offering those programs. But if they are not in that schools draw zone, transportation may not be available to them.

Besides transport-ing students, Cam-bridge said they have been busy transporting teaching supplies and materials to the new schools and schools effected by the grade change.

“We’ve had lots of people on staff working all summer,” he said. This move included the rental of many vans and trucks to make sure next week’s first day of the new school year will be as smooth as possible for staff and students.

“It’ll be nice to have a year next year where we aren’t building two high schools,” admitted Godau.

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New bus yard not operational until winter

Katherine EngqvistNews Gazette staff

Crews are busy recycling what they can and preparing the old Belmont school for demolition, just as the doors of the new schools are set to open. Along with the old Belmont school, School District 62’s old bus yard will have to be decommissioned and moved to its new location at 2960 Amy Rd.

Pete Godau, director of facilities for SD62 said work is underway at the new location but doesn’t expect it to done until Decem-

ber. “It’s not a critical move or item,” he said.

“It shouldn’t effect the two new schools,” said Godau. “It’ll just be a different starting location.”

He said while it won’t make a difference for students, once the new yard is oper-ational it would mean that some drivers would have to start earlier and finish later.

But this slight change to the bus routes is nothing compared to the reconfiguration that the District has done to accommodate new routes added for the new Royal Bay secondary school.

In fact he said that the District has incor-porated a number of new routes for all of its schools.

Godau said the bus routes are re-eval-uated every year with some adjustments made due to changing demographics of neighbourhoods. But this year’s change is a big one.

“Because we’ve done that grade reconfig-uration the bus routes will change for all the schools,” he said. In an attempt to harmo-nize the District all schools will now have the same grade configurations with elemen-tary schools housing students from Kinder-garten through Grade 5, middle schools will have Grades 6 to 8 and high schools will have Grades 9 though 12.

“It’ll make a huge difference for us once West Shore Parkway opens up.” Once the West Shore Parkway expansion is com-

pleted it will allow the bus yard to have two different accesses to the West Shore.

The bus yard’s move was sparked by a $23.25 million land deal that saw SD62 sell its Jacklin Road property to Sobey’s Inc. The District has been leasing the land back until it can decommission all of its opera-tions on the property, with the lease set to expire at the end of March 2016. The school board office was not part of the sale and will remain where it is.

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Busses are being readied for the first day of school, September 8. Some bus routes have been redrawn, see story below.

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Martin Barker will be the official Conser-vative candidate in the new riding of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford.

At the Nomination Meeting, on August 31, members cast their bal-lots to select the candi-date to represent them in the election.

“I thank the members for their confidence in me. I’m pleased to be part of the winning Team Harper campaign and look forward to taking my seat in the House of Commons as the first MP elected in this new Vancouver Island riding,” said an elated Barker.About Martin Barker

Martin was born in Burns Lake and grew up in Quesnel, B.C. He moved to the Cobble

Hill area on Vancouver Island in 1993 where he raised his young family. He now lives in Duncan, B.C.

Barker enjoyed careers as a store manager with the Liquor Control Board in Alberta, and vari-ous positions dur-ing an 11 year stint at the Crofton Pulp and Paper Mill. In 1997 the ‘Forest Renewal Pro-gram’ allowed Martin to take advantage of the retraining program and complete his Chi-ropractic degree. Dr. Barker has been a practicing chiropractor since 2005.

He was elected as Councillor for the City of Duncan between 2011 and 2014.

With a lifelong love for sports, Barker enjoys football, ice hockey, lacrosse, vol-leyball and holds a third degree black belt in Goshindo Jujitsu.

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Highway not a safe haven for rabbitsJim ZeebenNews staff

Rabbits, being rabbits, are quickly overrunning the grassy refuges they’ve been living on alongside the Trans Canada Highway in View Royal.

The population has increased so much that efforts are now being made to move the animals to a new sanctuary.

“There’s a group hoping to capture them, spay them and neuter them and ship them off to a sanctuary,” said View Royal Mayor David Screech.

Before the rabbits can make the trip to their final pasture, they need somewhere local where they can recover from their sterilizing surgery.

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cled student at the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre, to under take this proj-ect.

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She said they have six vet-erinarians, 10 technicians and one facility organized to do the procedures but require permits from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources before they can proceed.

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operations. The group still has to vet these offers to find the most suitable space.

The group is also looking to address some of the underlying issues and preventing this situa-tion from happening again. Gray said they are looking into chang-ing bylaws that would prevent un-spayed or un-neutered rab-bits from being sold as pets.

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ministry did put up “no trespassing” signs but they’re not having any visible effect.

People are still stop-ping on the medians to feed the animals or even to let their children play with the rabbits.

The situation has become a safety concern for the municipality.

“We just feel a solu-tion needs to be found,” Screech said.

The other issue is, as the rabbits popula-

tion grows literally by leaps and bounds, the animals are moving beyond the medians and starting to turn up throughout View Royal.

“The municipality can’t really do any-thing,” Screech said, about the fact the medi-ans are on provincial land and the rabbits are technically classified as wildlife.

Residents can request live animal traps from the Capital Regional District and

turn over any captured rabbits to the CRD Ani-mal Shelter.

Until recent develop-ments, View Royal has so far escaped wildlife controversies regard-ing deer that have trou-bled nearby municipali-ties, including Oak Bay and Central Saanich.

If you would like to get involved with the project you can email [email protected].

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EDITORIALOUR VIEW

A little over a year ago, I wrote about a Heartland Institute confer-ence in Las Vegas where climate change deniers engaged in a failed attempt to poke holes in the mas-sive body of scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. I quoted Bloomberg News: “Heart-land’s strategy seemed to be to throw many theories at the wall and see what stuck.”

A recent study came to a similar conclusion about contrarian “sci-entific” efforts to do the same. “Learning from mis-takes in climate research,” published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology,examined some of the tiny percentage of scientific papers that reject anthro-pogenic climate change, attempting to replicate their results.

In a Guardian article, co-author Dana Nuc-citelli said their study found “no cohesive, con-sistent alternative theory to human-caused global warming.” Instead, “Some blame global warm-ing on the sun, others on orbital cycles of other planets, others on ocean cycles, and so on.”

Nuccitelli and fellow researchers Rasmus Benestad, Stephan Lewan-dowsky, Katharine Hayhoe, Hans Olav Hygen, Rob van Dorland and John Cook note that about 97 per cent of experts worldwide agree on a cohesive, science-based theory of global warming, but those who don’t “are all over the map, even contradicting each other. The one thing they seem to have in common is methodological flaws like cherry picking, curve fitting, ignoring incon-venient data, and disregarding

known physics.” It’s astounding and tragic that,

with all the evidence — from vol-umes of scientific research to the very real effects we are experiencing everywhere — some people stub-bornly refuse to believe there’s a problem worth addressing. Sadder still: Many of them are political lead-ers.

Part of the problem is that fos-sil fuel interests spend enormous amounts of money to sow doubt

and confusion, often by funding or setting up orga-nizations like the Heart-land Institute in the U.S., the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the U.K., Ethical Oil and Friends of Science in Canada and the International Climate Science Coalition, based in this country but affili-

ated with similar organi-zations in Australia and New Zealand and with close ties to Heartland. A

number of industry-funded websites also promote fossil fuels at the expense of human life, including Climate Depot and Watts Up With That?

These secretive organizations rarely reveal funding sources, prey on the uninformed and ignorant, and blanket the media with opinion articles, letters to editors and com-ments, often referring to mislead-ing charts and graphs and bogus “studies” from organizations with names that imply they’re scientific when they’re anything but. They’re assisted by a compliant news media and politicians who also receive fos-sil fuel industry funding.

Those who argue that seven billion people pumping massive

amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere aren’t having a seri-ous negative impact are out to lunch.

Fortunately, most thinking peo-ple don’t buy the lies. People from all sectors and walks of life are call-ing for an urgent response to the greatest threat humanity faces. From Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama to Islamic scholars and Hindu, Sikh and Jewish leaders; from Volvo, Ikea and Apple to the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Health Organization; from every legitimate scientific academy and institution to enlightened political leaders — all have warned about the serious nature of global warming and the urgent need to do something about it.

Polls and marches, demonstra-tions and citizen initiatives show that people want action. Yet, despite this tremendous recognition of the reality of our situation, governments have failed to come up with a legally binding, ambitious and universal climate agreement, thanks in part to efforts by countries like Canada, Japan and Australia to stall or water down agreements at economic sum-mits and UN climate conferences.

As world leaders prepare for the December UN climate meeting in Paris, Canadians must impress upon all those who hope to govern us after October 19 the importance of making a positive contribution. As voters, we have the power to make a difference in this critical conversa-tion. Let’s exercise it.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Edi-tor Ian Hanington.

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Paying attention saves lives

When the weather changes from warm and sunny to rainy and cold, everything feels it including the roadways. When the rain hits the pavement it tends to get slick. We have had a lot of rubber on the roads and a great buildup of it makes for slippery driving. The water tends to puddle on top and then you get hydro-planing, which is hard to maneuver in, even for the best drivers.

The Malahat has its share of accidents, but all of them cannot be blamed on the road. Not much can be done about the rain and slippery conditions but something can and certainly should be done about the drivers on that roadway. There is always a temptation to speed just a little and pass those who seem like they are driving too slow. The Malahat is not the Indy 500 or the Autobahn. It’s a highway that is curvaceous and often foggy. It, like any highway, can be dangerous especially to inexperienced or elderly drivers. If everyone slows down a bit on that roadway then the accidents will certainly decrease and everyone will safely get to where they are going.

Many of our province’s highways now post speed limits of 120 kmph but that doesn’t mean we should drive that speed. Road conditions and construction zones should be taken into account. Currently, in British Columbia, fines for speeding in a construction zone can cost the offender up to $483.

Now is the time to put the brakes on bad driving habits. The kids will be back in school and they may not be paying as much attention as they should to vehicles. If you are caught speeding in a school or playground zone you can reach into your wallet to pay a fine of $196 to $483 plus three driver penalty points. The posted speed in school zones is 30 km an hour between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on school days.

And another reminder to pay attention when you are driving. Distracted driving is more than being on a cell phone, it can be eating, fetching something or just looking away. Pay attention to those in front of you and back of you and drive defensively. Slow down, the life you save might be your own.

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A look back at what made the news in past years.

Week of Sept. 9Angry scrawls on private property signs,

the Victoria Shamrocks looking for revenge following Mann Cup qualifications, a Cor-vette crash that sent it’s alternator through the window of another car, a failed kidnap-ping attempt in broad daylight and chil-dren nine-12 years old setting off a fire that spread out over two hectares are among the news items from past editions of the Gold-stream Gazette going back three decades.

2005 - Sept. 7Angry messages and a dismantled wire

fence have confused and upset a local land-owner. Signs on his own property saying, “We ask that you please keep outside this fence line” were vandalized, smothered in a layer of red marker stating “RESIDENTIAL MOVEMENT” and “SELFISH PRICK.” The 5.5-acre property had been brought forth to the District of Highlands for a covenant to protect it from overdevelopment despite the fact the farmer’s own property would take a steep hit in property value from the action so the vandalism was confusing for the farmer.

Also making the news in 2005Craig Didmon inaugurates the new Spen-

cer Hockey Academy to almost a full cohort of youth. Nearly 60 Grades 8 and 9 students participate in a program the Spencer Mid-dle School teacher modelled with Hockey Canada guidelines in designing the curricu-lum. Students spend three days on the ice, and two in the classroom learning sports and academic theory in addition to regular core classes at school.

The Victoria Shamrocks Lacrosse team is hungry for a rematch with the Peter-borough Lakers after losing to them in six

games in 2004. This year’s Mann Cup takes place in Victoria.

1995Royal Roads University officially opened

as a university and not a military one for the first time in five decades. Classes are open to the public following a $1-million dollar renovation for the transformation from a military college taking place in just 90 days.

Also making the news in 1995An amazing crash that crushed a Cor-

vette has left all injured with survivable inju-ries. A Chevrolet Corvette collided with and was run over by a furniture delivery van on the Trans-Canada Highway but the car’s lone occupant amazingly survived. The van ended up down an embankment following the crash that sent the Corvette’s alternator hurtling through the air into another vehicle and lodged into the window. The woman driving that car left uninjured.

Speed limits in Highlands have been dropped dramatically. The municipal coun-cil recently passed a bylaw restricting speeds to no more than 30 kilometres per hour on all but a few portions of three roads in the District of Highlands. Speed limits used to be a blanket 50 kilometres per hour.

1985John Schuttinga, who threatened to

resign his chairmanship of the planning and zoning committee and his member-ship of other council committees said he has decided against resigning. His resignation was sparked by a proposed development per-mit for the Bingo Palace due to open shortly on Colwood Cor-ners where he charged unwar-ranted interference by mayor Geoff Dunn and Ald. Brian Dal-lin in his area of control.

Also making the news in 1985Two hectares of extremely steep grassed

and treed terrain were extensively damaged by a bush fire set by three youths aged nine-12 playing with a lighter. Two forestry water bombers dropped eight loads of water atop Blinkhorn Mountain in Metchosin to help get the the blaze under control.

RCMP set up road blocks and searched

Metchosin with a helicopter and police dogs but were unable to locate a man who allegedly grabbed a 17-year-old woman from behind and tried to drag her into bushes near First Duke Road. The woman managed to escape when the man fled after a motorist saw what was happening and pulled over to offer assistance.

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On Aug. 30, more than 175 women from across the Island banded together at West Shore Parks & Recreation for Woman2Warrior, Vic-toria’s only all-women charity obstacle adven-ture race benefiting Eas-ter Seals camps in B.C. The newly proclaimed warriors conquered 5 kms of trails and grass along with 12 demand-ing obstacles to raise over $50,000, helping send more than 800 kids with physical and cognitive disabilities to accessible Easter Seals camps in BC. This year’s top individual fundraiser was Kairry Nguyen, raising an impressive $1.735. The top fundraising team went to “Woody Gundy Warriors”, raising a col-lective $7,042.85.

“We’re overwhelmed by the support we received for the first Woman2Warrior in Vic-toria,” explained Shan-non Bernays, director of events for the British Columbia Lions Society

for Children with Dis-abilities, producer of Woman2Warrior. “It’s incredibly inspiring to see over 100 strong, determined, powerful women come together for a cause, and form such a strong commu-nity of support for chil-dren with disabilities and their families.

“We are so thankful to our media partici-pants for their ongoing support,” added Ber-nays. “From creating social media buzz to kicking serious butt in our first Media Team

Challenge, they are an invaluable part of the Woman2Warrior com-munity.”

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Air Cadets recruiting Katherine Engqvist News Gazette staff

The 848 Royal Roads Air Cadet Squadron is looking for new mem-bers to spread their wings and join its ranks.

The group is putting out an open invitation to anyone between the ages of 12 and 18 that would like to get involved in the orga-nization or find out more. Meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. Tues-day nights at the Light-house Christian Acad-emy, 1289 Parkdale Ave. in Langford

Potential new mem-bers are encouraged to attend the Sept. 8 meet-ing to see the values cadets are taught and learn more about some of the activities they partake in throughout the year.

There is an annual fee of $150, which covers the costs of activities, uniforms and flying.

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A team from West Shore Parks & Recreation take part in Woman2Warrior.

NOTICE OF EXCLUSION APPLICATION REGARDING LAND IN THE AGRICULTURAL LAND RESERVE

The CITY OF LANGFORD, 2ND Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, B.C. V9B 2X8 intends on making an application pursuant to Section 29(1) of the Agricultural Land Commission Act to exclude from the Agricultural Land Reserve 43 parcels of land totalling +/-41.33 hectares as shown shaded on the attached plan. The application and supporting information are available for viewing at the City of Langford, Planning Department.

Any person wishing to express an interest in the application may do so by forwarding their comments in writing to: The City of Langford, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, B.C. V9B 2X8 by September 8th, 2015.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGThe City of Langford intends to make an application to the Provincial Agriculture Land Commission to remove lands as shown on the map below from the Agriculture Land Reserve. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Proposal will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Proposal at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Tuesday, September 8 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.

Location: The lands that are the subject of the block application are as shown shaded on the plan.

The intent of the application is to implement the South Langford Agricultural Plan by excluding from the Agricultural Land Reserve those lands with low agricultural capability, small size or other factors which limit their use for agriculture. The City of Langford intends to provide agricultural infrastructure support to those lands remaining in the Agricultural Land Reserve as outlined in the Langford Agricultural Plan and the Offi cial Community Plan. Because of the large number of parcels involved, a Block Exclusion Application by the City of Langford was deemed the most effi cient way to implement the Plan.

COPIES of the complete proposed Proposal and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the Proposal may be viewed from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, August 24 2015 to Tuesday, September 8 2015, inclusive, at Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8. Please contact Matthew Baldwin, Director of Planning in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 with any questions on this Proposal.

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Real country fair attracts thousands to one-day eventPirjo RaitsNews Staff

What started out as a friendly neighbour-hood barbecue in 1967 has ended up being one of the most popu-lar events on Southern Vancouver Island. It has everything from sheep shearing to pie baking contests to hay rides. It’s geared for families and it showcases the rural community of Metchosin.

Metchosin Day, on September 13, will attract thousands to the village.

Mary Gidney, one of the organizers, said about 5,000 people show up, a number which is roughly the size of the population of Metchosin.

“They show up because it’s free and it is a family event,” she said.

Parking is also free and there is space for hundreds of cars right next to the village green.

The day promises fun for all ages. From 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. the village will be inundated with kids, adults, musicians, horses, sheep, pets and everything in between. The day begins with a pancake breakfast at 8 a.m.

“Kids bring every pet imaginable, there’s a bike extravaganza, free entertainment. There’s an amazing cross sec-tion of talent. The students from Pear-son College come in national costumes. We try to stick to Metcho-sin talent,” said Gidney.

Gidney mentioned a change to the annual lamb roast. It was can-celled earlier due to the extreme fire hazard. She did say there will be a beer garden, which is always kind of fun.

A vintage car show, motorcycle skills dem-onstrations, events planned by the Metcho-sin Equestrian Society take place in the riding ring on Happy Valley Road and include gym-nastics on horseback.

Photo contests, pie baking and vegetable contests, a space bus and Project Germani, a historical reenact-ment of the first cen-tury BC to the first cen-

tury AD. Learn about food, crafts, armour and clothing. It’s a jam-packed day with events taking place through-out the village.

“We don’t have rides,” said Gidney. “But we do have 25 cent hayrides and for 50 cents you can sit on a big backhoe.”

If that isn’t enough there is a junior fire-fighting challenge, ven-dors galore and even a kick off dance on Friday, Sept. 11 from 7 p.m. to

midnight. The Metcho-sin Community Asso-ciation is putting on an 80’s themed dance

at the community hall. Tickets are $15 and should be purchased in advance at the Metcho-

sin Community House.Gidney said a child

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Tara BrosiusSpecial to the Gazette

It was a miserable rainy day at the Langley BMX track last week-end where this years BMX provincial finals were held. The track was out of power due to a big wind storm that came through the day before, but the show still went on as the vol-unteers gathered gen-erators and worked hard to make it a suc-cessful race.

The gate dropped for eight to 12-year -old expert boys com-ing from all over B.C. to qualify for the main event where one would be eliminated.

Some of the rid-ers were from Prince George, Garibaldi Highlands, Vernon, Nanaimo, Surrey, to name just a few.

West Shore resident Riely Brosius pushed hard on his cranks to get out of the gate to take a early lead down the first straight and rode hard to the finish

line which landed him first to qualify for the main event.

Main event time, there were seven in the gate all going for first. The gate dropped and all the boy’s were tight going down the first straight but “Rip-

pin” Riely pedaled hard and flew high, jumping, pumping and maneu-vering to take the win against Jakob Plank from Vernon who he was tied with going into the finals.

Riely’s sisters brought home some

top spots too. Sister Makayla brought home the #2 plate for 10-year- old girls in B..C and little sister Tiffany fol-lowed in her brother’s footsteps also bringing home the #1 plate for six- year-old girls.

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SCHOOL OPENING SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

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The first day of school is Tuesday, September 8 (except self-paced classes at Continuing Education).

Elementary: Students attend from 9:00 am to 11:30 am. Please note: Eagle View students attend from 8:30 am to 11:00 am Cloverdale Traditional students attend from 9:00 am to 11:30 am at the Richmond school site

Middle: Students attend from 9:30 am to 11:30 am

Secondary: Students will attend as follows:

Esquimalt: Grade 9 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am, theatre then TA; Grades 10, 11, 12 from 11:30 am to 12:00 noon, to TA

Lambrick Park: Grades 10 ,11, 12 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am, to homeroom. Grade 9 from 10:45 am to 12:15 pm, to gym then to homeroom

Mt. Douglas: Grade 9 students register 9:30 am to 11:30 am, Gym; Grades 10, 11, 12 students to Homerooms - 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm

Oak Bay: New Students (Grades 9-12) from 9:00 am to 10:00 am in the theatre. All students in Advisory from 10:00 am to 11:00 am

Reynolds: Report to gym: Grade 9 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am; Grades 10, 11, 12 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Spectrum: Grade 9 from 9:45 am to 11:15 am, report to the Old Gym; Grades 10, 11, 12 from 11:30 am to 12:00 noon, report to TAG

Victoria: Grades 10, 11, 12 report to homeroom at 9:30 am, dismissed at 10:15 am. Grade 9 report to Auditorium at 10:30 am then to homeroom and Welcome activities, dismissal at 1:30 pm.

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Wild ride for cancerKatherine Engqvist News Gazette staff

Other than some rain, the West Shore seemed to miss most of the storm conditions that wal-loped Vancouver and Washing-ton State last weekend. But one West Shore resident managed to navigate the storm on a 200 kilo-metre bike ride from Vancouver to Seattle, Washington to raise money for the BC Cancer Foun-dation.

View Royal Mayor David Screech was one of almost 2,100 riders on the seventh annual Ride to Conquer Cancer, which took place Aug. 29 and 30. While the weather didn’t seem to dampen the spirits of par-ticipants, it did cause havoc for race organizers, resulting in a number of safety concerns and a portion of the ride being can-celled.

“It was eventful,” Screech said. “It was certainly crazier than previous ones.”

This was his fifth year par-ticipating in the ride, which has raised a grand total of more than $60 million for life-saving medi-cal research. This year’s event alone raised $8.4 million.

“It’s always great to take part in,” he said, adding he always opts for the classic course.

Participants ride their bikes-from Vancouver to Seattle, over the course of two days spanning more than 200 km. Participants were given the option to choose their route and were given the choice of the classic Vancouver to Seattle route or a 300 km extended version of that classic course. Rid-ers were also given the option to turnaround at camp and cycle back to Vancouver instead of con-tinuing to Seattle. There was also a 280 km extended version of this return loop.

But Mother Nature had other plans.

“There were trees coming down on the course and people were being blown off their bikes.” Screech said while he didn’t see anyone hit by branches, he did see a few narrowly missing rid-

ers and heard of others being struck.

By early afternoon, he said organizers halted riders at the lunch stop in Bellingham, Wash-ington, and turned those who had passed back to the pit stop. They closed the course, rounded all of the riders up and bussed them to the Mount Vernon camp for the night.

Screech was impressed with how quickly organizers arranged for busses and transportation for all of the riders. While he admittedly didn’t stay at the camp overnight, “a wise deci-sion this year,” he said his hotel room was a little more comfort-able than the conditions he’d heard about.

Riders spent a rough night at the Skagit County Fairgrounds where wind was destroying

tents. Organizers opened up barns, so riders could sleep in the stalls on the concrete floor.

Sunday, day two of the ride, didn’t go much better for orga-nizers.

The storm had brought down a number of trees and power lines, causing many roads to be closed. Riders had to detour around obstacles and closures, making Sunday’s leg closer to a 130 km ride than the roughly 100 km it was supposed to be, “with quite a few more hills than usual,” he added.

“It was really impressive how well they responded,” Screech said. He said organizers must have been up all night to re-arrange the routes but “they did it.”

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View Royal Mayor David Screech warmed up for the Ride to Conquer Cancer by participating in the Tour de Victoria in the early morning of Aug. 23.

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Tara BrosiusSpecial to the Gazette

It was a miserable rainy day at the Langley BMX track last week-end where this years BMX provincial finals were held. The track was out of power due to a big wind storm that came through the day before, but the show still went on as the vol-unteers gathered gen-erators and worked hard to make it a suc-cessful race.

The gate dropped for eight to 12-year -old expert boys com-ing from all over B.C. to qualify for the main event where one would be eliminated.

Some of the rid-ers were from Prince George, Garibaldi Highlands, Vernon, Nanaimo, Surrey, to name just a few.

West Shore resident Riely Brosius pushed hard on his cranks to get out of the gate to take a early lead down the first straight and rode hard to the finish

line which landed him first to qualify for the main event.

Main event time, there were seven in the gate all going for first. The gate dropped and all the boy’s were tight going down the first straight but “Rip-

pin” Riely pedaled hard and flew high, jumping, pumping and maneu-vering to take the win against Jakob Plank from Vernon who he was tied with going into the finals.

Riely’s sisters brought home some

top spots too. Sister Makayla brought home the #2 plate for 10-year- old girls in B..C and little sister Tiffany fol-lowed in her brother’s footsteps also bringing home the #1 plate for six- year-old girls.

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For more information, please call the CRD Hotline at 250.360.3030 or visit www.crd.bc.ca/hartland


Arnold LimNews Gazette staff

The Victoria Sham-rocks hope third times the charm.

Recent years play-off success has taken them as far as the Mann Cup in each of the past two season, but both ended in bitter defeat at the hands of the Six Nations Chiefs. How-ever, general man-ager Chris Welch said

he believes this time could be different with as deep a team as he has ever built chomp-ing at the bit to play for lacrosse’s holy grail.

“We are obviously thrilled to have another shot and we are dis-appointed we are 0-2 at this point,” Welch said. “We hope to take advantage of the opportunity and bring the Mann Cup back to Victoria.”

Welch pointed to the teams increased per-sonnel in all positions for the teams recent success and renewed optimism despite the East’s Mann Cup domi-nance in securing the world’s most expensive sports trophy each of the past 10 years.

“We really rounded it out this year with a lot of really great addi-tions and the difference between this year’s

team and previous two years is the depth that we enjoy,” Welch said. “Depth always comes in handy at this time of

year when competition is intense and everyone is battling with every-thing they got to try to get to the holy grail.

The depth is key for us in 2015.”

Welch said some extra time off in between the last round could also play a fac-tor, with the Shamrocks having some extra time to heal up in prepara-tion for the Mann Cup while the Peterborough Lakers were embroiled in a bitterly-contested seven-game series, defeating the defending champion Chiefs 6-5 in the final game.

“We know our com-petition comes in bat-tle tested and comes on top of their game having dethroned the defending champs so game one will be very interesting, two teams

coming from two dif-ferent places,” Welch said. “We know they are going to give us every-thing we can handle, they are a very worthy opponent and not to be taken lightly.”

He did say he is confi-dent in the team he has this year, a team that dominated the league to a 14-4 regular sea-son record and an 8-0 playoff record resulting in two sweeps en route to the final series of the season. The last time the West has taken the championship is when the Shamrocks took out the Lakers in 2005.

“I expect it to be a long battle and very close back and forth... We are very aware of who they are and what they have done. We intend to match their level and should be in for a long series,” Welch said. “You won’t see any better lacrosse anywhere in world than what we will enjoy in the next couple weeks and we hope the com-munity comes out like they always do it for us. We are really counting on the sixth man to be behind us and help put us over.”

Game one goes on Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Q Centre. For more information visit victo-riashamrocks.com

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Q: How will rules regarding

legal secondary

suites benefit new

homeowners?

Starting Sept. 28, 2015, The Canada Mort-gage and Housing Cor-poration will allow 100 per cent of the rental income from legal, sec-ondary suites to be used when qualifying for a mortgage. The nation’s largest default insurer currently allows a maximum of 50 per cent.

Victoria Real Estate Board President Guy Crozier said that could have a positive trickle down effect for new homeowners looking for a little bit of help getting into the market to find the right home to suit their needs.

There are a number of stipulations includ-ing;

• the home must be owner occupied,

• mortgage appli-cants must demon-strate a strong history of managing credit, and

• existing units must show a strong two-year history of rental income with the maxi-mum rental income allowed being the two-year average.

A market rent appraisal may be accepted for new unites, provided a rea-sonable vacancy is applied to the poten-tial estimated rental income.

Arnold LimNews Gazette staff

West Shore sales are up, the market is bal-anced and 2016 is shap-ing up for another great year.

Victoria Real Estate board president Guy Crozier said the West Shore is one of the strongest areas of growth on Vancouver Island and isn’t expect-ing the upward trend to change anytime soon.

“In the West Shore sales are up 27 per cent overall,” Crozier said. “The consumer confi-dence is great, rates are dynamite and prices are still very attrac-tive.”

He said the numbers are up approximately 27 per cent, with over-all sales jumping from 923 sales in the West Shore in 2014 to 1174 sales in 2015 for the same time this year. He said the condo mar-ket, has seen the qui-etest increase, jumping from 143 to 153 which is a much smaller 6-7 per cent growth. How-ever, the sales of single-family homes, duplexes and town houses have been peaking at over 30 per cent growth, with many new homeown-ers finding their way to the West Shore for

their first real estate purchase.

“We are still seeing a lot of first-time home buyers especially in affordable areas like Happy Valley corridor, that is great news. We can see young couples

get a house instead of getting a condo that may not suit their needs,” he said. “So the trend we are seeing is young people are still able to get into the mar-ket and are getting into the market.”

One of the main rea-sons for that he said, was a growing inven-tory. Big developments already building with more developments on the way not only keep inventory high, but sta-bilize housing prices compared to areas with less overall inventory and limited growth.

“I think what you will see is continual growth in the West Shore and really afford-able homes. Right now the increase (in price) all over Victoria is 6.88 percent but in the West Shore it as at 2.3 per

cent because there is still a good inventory and that is the good news for the West Shore. We will still see the 30 per cent trend continue, but because of the inventory houses will stay affordable out there and that is good news for both buyers and sellers.”

Crozier added sales are strong across south-ern Vancouver Island but expects municipali-ties including Langford and Colwood to con-tinue to outsell mar-kets like Oak Bay, Vic-toria and Saanich while

remaining an afford-able place to buy in an overall market slowing moving away from the buyer.

“It is edging towards a sellers’ market for sure, but it is different in different areas,” Crozier said. “If you go into an area where inventory is low you are much more like a sellers’ market, but if you get into an area like West Shore, it is much more balanced because of inventory.”

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