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New group to tackle sewage options

Christine van ReeuwykNews Staff

The Capital Regional District is expected to make it official – a working group of the three east side municipalities to scope out waste water treatment options for Saanich, Oak Bay and Victoria.

The CRD board is expected to approve a Wastewater and Resource Recovery Select Committee that would formalize discussions already underway between the municipalities of Saanich, Victoria and Oak Bay to identify wastewater treatment options as part of a comprehensive regional solution.

“The first thing we need to do is our due diligence – best practices sounding, where you take two, three months to simply get an independent group who have an unimpeachable reputation to show us the best of what’s available for sewage treatment and resource recovery,” said Coun. Vic Derman, who sits on the CRD’s waste water management committee.

Nils Jensen, Oak Bay Mayor and CRD chair, said the working group would look very much like the one created last November by Colwood, Esquimalt, Langford, View Royal, and Songhees Nation.

“There will be meetings in the three communities. There won’t be a lot of duplication, we’ll be sharing a lot of information,” Jensen said. “It allows us to work together and reach out to residents. There will be a lot of options on the table.”

The committee would be supported by the CRD and municipal staff to develop and evaluate sub-regional treatment options for their communities, conduct costing exercises and work with other municipalities to optimize existing conveyance infrastructure.

A series of open houses and an online survey is currently underway to gauge resident input as well, Jensen said.

“It’s a matter of balancing the three issues, environmental, economic and social, and what are the relative impacts,” Jensen said. “Until we get the costing of each of the options it’s going to be difficult for people to provide a meaningful opinion.”

Derman has been attempting to get the CRD board to look at alternative treatment technology and applications for the better part of seven years. He said last week’s motion to explore those options was a long time coming.

“We really need to get people the best environmental benefit and financial bang for your buck. So we need to look at waste streams. If we do things properly, there are some really exciting prospects,” Derman said.

Derman envisions a waste plant that receives not only sewage, but kitchen scraps and other garbage now destined for the Hartland landfill.

“We have the potential to cause transformative change in the region. If it doesn’t, you’ve done your homework. If the answer is positive, you could be making remarkable changes,” Derman said.

The CRD is required by federal legislation to treat its sewage to a secondary or greater level by 2020, and the province has set a sewage treatment deadline of 2018. Some directors are pushing for an extension of the

provincial deadline to 2020 as well. Last spring, the project to develop a regional

wastewater treatment facility at McLoughlin Point came to a grinding halt after Esquimalt denied required rezoning and the province declined to intervene. Work was meant to begin by the end of July 2014 on the projected $788-million plant.

In August, Oak Bay council asked staff to begin discussions with the municipality of Saanich and City of Victoria to collectively come up with a “Plan B.” In early October CRD directors approved a new framework to gauge the value of subset wastewater treatment options.

The province has committed $248 million, while the federal government has offered $253.4 million towards the final project cost contingent on meeting specific timelines. Additional costs are the CRD’s responsibility.

Visit the CRD website at crd.bc.ca/project/wastewater-planning for more details.

-with files from Daniel [email protected]

Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff

Ted Robbins, general manager of CRD integrated water services, gestures to where the outfall is to Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen, chair of the CRD and CRD Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee, during a tour of the Clover Point pumping station.

Oak Bay joins Victoria and Saanich to from working group for wastewater treatment

“It allows us to work together and reach out to residents. There will be a lot of options on the table.”

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Hygiene critical to keep flu at bayChristine van ReeuwykNews Staff

A shift in demographics means hospitals are seeing more than double the number of patients with the flu this winter.

“It’s a serious but not abnor-mal flu season. The number of flu hospitalizations can vary from year to year,” said Sarah Plank, media manager for Island Health.

There’s been a steep increase in the last few weeks of influenza, commonly called the flu, an infec-tion of the upper airway caused by an influenza virus. There were 217 patients hospitalized for the flu across Island Health between Sept. 1 and Jan. 11, compared to 66 over the same period last year. Thirty of those were in Royal Jubilee Hospital.

“The flu peak didn’t hit until January last year,” Plank explained. “We’re a couple weeks ahead of the peak this year.”

The median age of those requiring hospital treatment this season is 84 so it’s affecting an older demographic this year as opposed to last winter where the median age was 61.

“This year the type of virus it is affects the elderly mostly, last year it was affecting middle-age people,” Plank said.

The spike in numbers could also be attributed to the shift in ages, says Dr. Dee Hoyano, Island Health medical health officer.

“One of the reasons for that is the particular strain we’re seeing this year. It is affecting seniors and they are the ones who tend to need health care the most,” Hoyano said. While school age kids would stay home from school, they might not be counted in the medical system as they rarely require treatment.

Hoyano said the severity of ill-nesses do not appear to be any worse than usual with the cur-rent predominant strain, Influ-enza A(H3N2).

“We’re not saying it’s more seri-ous or causing more complica-tions than what’s typical for this strain. But it does cause hospital-izations,” she said. “This is our first [peak, which] typically is an Influence A strain … sometimes

we’ll see a second peak closer into the spring and that’s often a different strain.”

You can reduce the risk of get-ting influenza or spreading it to others by washing your hands regularly; promptly disposing of used tissues in the waste basket or garbage; coughing and sneez-ing into your shirt sleeve rather than your hands; staying home when you are ill; and getting a vaccine.

“At this point – because it does take several days to sev-eral weeks to get the full body response to a vaccine – and right now hitting the most activity, the other things people can do are probably going to be as useful or more useful than running out and getting a flu shot,” Hoyano said. “Hopefully people have got their shot already and are just being really careful right now with hand washing and staying home when they’re sick.”

The vaccine isn’t as close of a match to what’s in the vaccine as they would hope, but the flu shot is still beneficial, because there are still similarities between the virus and the vaccine, said Hoy-ano. Right now, hand washing is critical.

“People just don’t do it often enough or thoroughly enough,” she said. “Especially with this year seeing as we know the vac-cine isn’t as great of a match as we’d like.”

Flu symptoms include fever, headache, muscle pain, runny nose, sore throat, extreme tired-ness and cough. Children may

also experience nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. Although infections from other viruses may have sim-ilar symptoms, those due to the influenza virus tend to be worse.

Getting the flu increases risk of other infections including viral or bacterial pneumonia which affect the lungs. The risk of complica-tions, which can be life-threaten-ing, is greater for seniors 65 years and older, very young children and people who have lung or heart diseases, certain chronic health conditions or weakened immune systems.

“If you’re in one of those high-risk groups [and have symptoms of flu] it’s probably worth it to phone your doctor… and obvi-ously if you have complications like difficulty breathing or being ill for a number of days and not improving,” Hoyano said, adding people can also use the Health-Link health information phone line by dialling 8-1-1. “They can help you decide if you should go into a clinic. It’s available 24 hours and it’s free and you can talk directly to an nurse.”

Those heading out to visit friends and relatives at group or institutional residences should call ahead as social activities and visitor restrictions may be in place.

“We are having a lot of out-breaks right now in seniors homes,” Hoyano said. “If people are wanting to visit family or friends they should call in and check to see if there are any pre-cautions they want visitors to take.”

Beating the flun Get plenty of rest.n Drink extra fluids to replace those lost from fever.n Avoid smoking and ask others not to smoke in the house.n Breathe moist air from a hot shower or from a sink filled with hot water to help clear a stuffy nose.n Anti-influenza drugs or antivirals are available by prescription, but these must be started within 48 hours of the start of your symptoms. These will shorten symptoms by about three days if taken within 12 hours and by about 1.5 days if taken within two days of the start of symptoms.n Non-prescription cough and cold medications are available for relief of influenza symptoms but these are not recommended for children less than six years of age.

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St Michaels’ student steps to head of the classDan EbenalNews Staff

A principal for a day left a lasting impression during her brief stint at St. Michaels University junior school in Oak Bay.

Grade 5 student Anna Fowler was named principal for a day, opening her special day by leading staff and students through an assembly.

“It’s really fun. I really like talking in front of the school cause I like getting up on stage sometimes,” said Fowler, who celebrated her 11th birthday the day before her stint in the principal’s office.

“There was a little surprise in the assembly, we had a teachers’ test. It was really hard.”

She said the teachers were asked questions like which movie made the most money in 2014: Epic, The Lego Movie or Hunger Games? The answer is Epic, and Fowler says most of the teachers did pretty good, with the intermediate teachers even earning chocolates. She said the primary teachers may still have a bit of work to do, but she didn’t assign them any extra homework or make them write out the answer on the blackboard.

“Fortunately, I’m not that mean.”Nancy Richards, St. Michaels’ principal on the 364 other

days of the year, was more than a little impressed with her protege.

“She’s gone far and above all of the expectations I had for principal for the day,” said Richards, adding Anna organized all of the day’s activities, even bringing in coffee and muffins for the teachers.

“Her confidence level is incredible. To get up in front of the whole school, 200 children and their parents, and take them through a half-hour assembly is incredible.”

Fowler said the highlight of her day was the assembly, along with the joint lunch with primary students where she and her assistants were able to hand out candy canes that included messages on the virtue of the month: purposefulness, something Anna is in no shortage of.

And Fowler’s contributions didn’t stop at just the school. She arranged to have her fellow students allowed

to wear casual clothes instead of their school uniform for the day in exchange for the donation of a loonie or toonie to B.C. Children’s Hospital. Richards estimates the event will raise about $500 for the hospital.

Fowler’s sister Mary was her inspiration for the campaign.

“My sister has a heart disease and last year she went to the B.C. Children’s Hospital to try and get it fixed but

it didn’t work,” she said. “I wanted to raise money for the B.C. Children’s Hospital so those people who went through what my sister did can get the help that they need.”

Fowler said her special day has made her think about being a principal when she grows up. For her part, Richards is confident Fowler will find success no matter what career path she chooses.

“I’m just so very proud of her,” she said.

Dan Ebenal/News Staff

St. Michaels University School principal for a day Anna Fowler stands outside the junior school with her permanent counterpart Nancy Richards.

Residents alert crews to fuel leak at Bowker CreekChristine van ReeuwykNews Staff

Routine reporting from residents altered the Oak Bay Fire Department to fuel leaking into Bowker Creek.

Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said he had many residents call and email about the sheen and odour near Oak Bay Recreation, where the fire department found the sheen of oil in the waters of Bowker on Jan. 5.

“They found a very slight amount of oil up near the back of the rec centre,” said deputy fire chief Tom Pearse. “They followed it upstream and determined it was on the other side of the border there and notified Saanich.”

Saanich Public Works noticed a strong diesel smell in the area and installed booms in the creek near Mortimer Street. It was very difficult to find the source of the oil due to the high flows of the creek

mostly contained in a piped system. Saanich crews estimate that they lifted more than 50 manhole covers looking for the source of the fuel located late the next day more than three kilometres from the Saanich-Oak Bay boundary. An outdoor home heating oil tank was leaking into the perimeter drain that leads to Bowker Creek. Saanich installed a siphon dam to keep fuel on the property. The oil tank was pumped out and booms placed in manholes to protect Bowker Creek, a process that was already in place in Oak Bay.

“There was quite a concern, it’s good that people are making those observations so the emergency co-ordination crew can react,” Jensen said. “The fire department reacted very quickly to set up booms.”

“As a preventative measure, our guys put out an absorbent boom where the creek goes under the walkway to catch

any bit of oil that was coming down,” Pearse said.

A second spill was discovered Jan. 6 after Saanich Fire noticed an oil sheen in the Gorge Waterway. Saanich crews quickly located a contaminated outlet that would normally contain only storm water and installed a boom to contain the product from spreading into the Gorge Waterway. From there staff lifted manholes to trace the sheen back to a Walter Street home approximately half a kilometre from the Gorge. The crew dug up the drain house connection at the property line and installed a siphon dam to contain the product on the property. It is believed that the fuel is coming from an old underground home heating oil storage tank.

Saanich Public Works are confident that no more product will leave either property and plan to continue the cleanup

until the private property owner hires a professional to complete the work. Saanich will continue to monitor the cleanup until it is considered complete.

Unknown old heating fuel tanks continue to be a concern where waterways are concerned, but it’s difficult to know where they all are, Jensen said.

“Efforts have been made to locate them,” the mayor said. “We like to think in Oak Bay we know where every one is, but one never knows.”

Residents are encouraged to report the smell or sight of possible contamination of waterways either to the fire department or Oak Bay public works.

“We definitely encourage anyone to report anything like that in the creek,” Pearse said. “We will investigate and see if we can identify a source and take steps to contain it.”

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Daniel PalmerBlack Press

Two home heating

oil leaks which found their way into Bowker Creek and the Gorge Waterway last week

are just the latest in a long list of expensive spills across the region, and local MLAs believe the province needs to do more to protect homeowners.

On the evening of Jan. 5, Saanich received a call from Oak Bay fire crews about an oil sheen and strong smell of diesel fuel on Bowker Creek near Mortimer Street. Booms were installed in the area, but finding the source of the leak proved difficult.

It took about 24 hours before the leak was traced to a home in the 1700-block of Kisber Avenue, nearly three kilometres from the site of the Bowker Creek booms. An outdoor home heating oil tank was found to be leaking at the Shelbourne Valley home and into a perimeter drain, according to

Harley Machielse, Saanich director of engineering.

The spill on Kisber Avenue was estimated to be about 100 litres.

On the morning of Jan. 6, another oil sheen was called in by Saanich Fire Department along the Gorge Waterway. In that case, public works crews quickly found

a stormwater drain that was carrying the oil and traced the leak to a home on Walter Street, about half a kilometre from the Gorge in the Tillicum-Gorge neighbourhood.

An old underground home heating oil storage tank was discovered on the site.

Without a recent reading to indicate

how much heating oil was in the tank, crews have no way of making an accurate approximation of the oil spill, Machielse said.

The Kirby and Walter Avenue spills aren’t the first to cause financial headaches for homeowners. In 2012, a couple on Ambassador Avenue was forced to pay $48,000 in clean-up costs after insurance didn’t come through.

A 2011 report released by the University of Victoria’s environmental law clinic titled Preventing Home Heating Oil Spills in British Columbia, focused on seven suggested provisions to take part of the onus of clean-up costs off homeowners.

Among the recommendations were: improved physical requirements for tanks and equipment; limiting the length of time a tank can be in use; regulating oil delivery; inspection and monitoring requirements; tank decommissioning requirements; and direct economic incentives for homeowners to change heating fuels. So far, the provincial, regional and local governments have not taken action.

“The number of spills from failed tanks

is growing, which puts Saanich’s waterways at even greater risk,” said Victoria-Swan Lake MLA Rob Fleming. “The provincial regulations aren’t at all preventative which leaves homeowners to potentially face shocking liabilities from oil contamination of their properties.”

To initiate discussion on oil tank spills and other environmental topics, Fleming and Saanich South MLA Lana Popham are jointly hosting a community forum to discuss how to reduce risks for the environment and homeowners on Feb. 5 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Reynolds Secondary school auditorium.

Machielse was confident that no more oil will leak from the concerned properties, and he said crews will continue their clean up. Property owners are responsible for hiring professionals to complete the work and for the municipality’s clean-up costs.

The Colquitz watershed is no stranger to oil spills. Since 2011, there have been at least 10 oil spills that contaminated the creek, including a 1,100 litre home heating oil spill in November 2011 and a mineral oil leak from a B.C. Hydro line in 2012.

The report estimates one in 10 households constructed before 1992 in the CRD had oil heating systems when the house was first occupied.

Environmental spills fall under the purview of the B.C. Ministry of Environment. However, the ministry neither provides funding to assist property owners with tank removals nor does it maintain a database of tanks that have been installed or removed.

Oil tank spills just the latest in an ongoing problem

File photo

Crews from Saanich public works set up a containment boom on the Colquitz River following a home heating oil spill in December 2013.

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If you were in danger of los-ing your home, and had to make a decision about saving it, would you sell off your belongings? Turn your home into a business? Or allow a production company to shoot a movie using your home as the backdrop?

People, a play by Alan Bennett,

is a comedy surrounding Dorothy, an aging widow who, in an effort to save her grand manor, allows a film to be shot in her home for a fee.

As the day unfolds and the scenes are shot, it becomes clear the film is a porn flick.

“Dorothy is in her 70s and has been a recluse for the past 40 years in a crumbling, decaying mansion,” said director Tony Cain.

“It’s written, to some extent, from the viewpoint of Alan Ben-nett’s philosophy on the direction England is going politically.”

The underlying tone being that all things have a price.

Rehearsals are underway and the cast and crew have been work-ing hard. “It’s a complex play with many technical challenges,” said Cain, referring to transforming Dorothy’s fading mansion into a

brilliantly decorated salon before the audience’s eyes.

The subject matter – a porno – may have made production tricky. “There is some nudity but noth-ing outrageous,” said Cain. “It’s all done with an element of taste.”

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Christine van ReeuwykNews Staff

A throwback to decades past blasts the new year in at Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay rec centre Friday night.

“It lies in that same vein of the singer-songwriter concert of the ‘70s,” said Niels Petersen, who will wrap the evening alongside wife Connie Lebeau and Norm MacPherson. “It will be all my own songs, but also songs in the show include songwriters that inspired me to become a songwriter, which would be songwriters like Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb, Joni Mitchell.”

Petersen has shared the stage with such artists as Joan Armatrading, Tina Turner, Burton Cummings, Sir Cliff Richard, Trish Yearwood and Vince Gill. He has more than 100 songs in his catalogue including music for television documentaries and short films.

Lebeau has toured from coast to coast with Canadian troubadour legend Valdy and as a singer and bass and accordion player for Raffi. Lebeau has performed on Broadway in New York City’s Gershwin Theatre and Radio City Music Hall, as an opening act for Dolly Parton and was featured in Disney videos with family entertainer Norman Foote.

“This was a great opportunity to come out and play some original material in a concert setting,” Petersen said. “Connie and I have been away for six

years travelling the world playing. Now we’re back in Victoria and it’s time to get established in the community again.”

The pair spent the past several years performing on a 200-guest cruise ship.

“We visited 50 countries and got to see the world and play together which was fantastic,” Petersen said, noting it was much-needed time of travel and

performance after time spent running a Rock and Roll School for kids in Fairfield and Oak Bay. But he’s happy to be home.

“We got our fill. We had the opportunity to perform every day.”

MacPherson too is recently returned to his native Victoria from Windsor, Ont.

“Norm has a fantastic background,” Petersen said.

Macpherson is a Canadian guitar legend and honorary member of the Victoria Music Hall of Fame whose credits include the Skylark Band with founding member David Foster and backing Valdy at over 1,500 concerts worldwide.

The night features a double bill, with Terry Brennan and Roger Plant kicking off the first show of 2015 at Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay rec Friday night. Brennan is a rhythm and roots singer/songwriter, with an original mix of folk, country, rockabilly and blues tunes. He has shared the stage with such artists as Phil Ochs, Erik Anderson, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Rush and Buffy St. Marie.

The double bill starts at 7:30 p.m. (doors at 6) in Oak Bay Recreation’s Upstairs Lounge, 1975 Bee St. Tickets are $12 in advance at Ivy’s Bookshop and Oak Bay Recreation or at beaconridgeproductions.com online. Tickets are $15 at the door.

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Terry Brennan and Roger Plant perform Friday, Jan. 16 as part of a double billing to start the new year at Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay rec.

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My Christmas reading included a fascinating new book called <I>Kennewick Man</I>, a study of skeletal remains discovered in 1996 on the bank of the Columbia River in eastern Washington.

He was an ancient hunter buried just south of B.C. almost 9,000 years ago, in the Early Holocene period following the last Ice Age. Among the oldest humans found along the West Coast of North America, he sparked an unprecedented battle by the Smithsonian Institution to examine the skeleton and publish the book late last year.

The most controversial evidence came from the skull. It doesn’t match the classic Mongoloid profile of modern aboriginal people, key to the theory that the earliest humans reached North America by land bridge from Siberia to Alaska as glaciers receded.

Smithsonian scientists confirmed initial reports that Kennewick Man is a closer match with early Polynesians, and the Ainu people who remain in Japan today. He lived until about age 40, surviving for years with a stone spear point stuck in his hip.

The authors conclude from chemical analysis that “Kennewick Man could not have been a long-time resident of the area where he was found, but instead lived most of his adult life somewhere along

the Northwest and North Pacific coast where marine mammals were readily available.”

This suggests migration by sea, perhaps from a great distance.

The U.S. Army seized the skeleton. The scientists sued and eventually won the right to a brief examination. The court case exposed brutal and illegal actions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and federal departments to destroy the site and intimidate the scientists.

U.S. law demanded all remains from before European settlement be repatriated for burial by local tribes, without examination.

Umatilla tribe spokesman Armand Minthorn wrote in 1996: “We view this practice as desecration of the body and a violation of our most deeply-held religious beliefs.

“From our oral histories, we know that our people have been part of this land since the beginning of time. We do not believe that our people migrated here from another continent, as the scientists do.”

The head of the Society for American Archaeology tried to get the researchers to drop their lawsuit, fearing it would interfere with fragile relationships with area tribes.

The U.S. Justice Department warned the Smithsonian that lead

scientist Douglas Owsley and others might be in criminal conflict of interest as federal employees suing the government. Even the White House weighed in against them.

Meanwhile the skeleton was mishandled and later stored in substandard conditions at a Seattle museum, where it remains today. Parts of both femurs were lost, and scientists were falsely accused of taking them. They had been removed by tribal representatives and secretly buried.

Kennewick Man was found as the army was in tense negotiations with tribes on salmon fishing rights on the Columbia, their demand for removal of dams, and the $100 billion cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site.

The scientists finally won their case in 2004, with a ruling that the skeleton is so old there isn’t enough evidence to show it is related to the current tribes. The judge found the army repeatedly misled the court, and assessed the government $2.4 million in costs.

The U.S. Army still controls the skeleton and denies requests for further study. The spear point, for example, could show the location where he was injured.

One final irony. Analysis shows Kennewick Man ate mostly salmon in his later years, around 6300 BCE. These are the salmon runs wiped out by dams built by U.S. Army engineers before the signing of the Columbia River Treaty with B.C.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Making the bestof a bad situation

It’s likely not the ideal solution, but the three eastern CRD municipalities are on their way to making the best of a bad situation.

The municipalities of Oak Bay, Victoria and Saanich have initiated discussions to identify wastewater treatment options for their

communities as part of a comprehensive regional solution. The Capital Regional District is expected to give formal approval this week for a Wastewater and Resource Recovery Select Committee for the

three communities.In a perfect world all the Greater Victoria

municipalities would work together to find a solution to the sewage treatment issue. But the intransigence shown by Esquimalt Mayor Barbara Desjardins make the prospects of finding a perfect solution seem all but impossible.

And the local civic officials simply don’t have the luxury of waiting for a dream scenario to materialize for the region or other municipalities to have a change of heart.

The CRD is required by federal legislation to treat its sewage to a secondary or greater level by 2020, and the province has set a sewage treatment deadline of 2018. Last spring the project to develop a regional wastewater treatment facility at McLoughlin Point came to a grinding halt after Esquimalt denied required rezoning. Work was meant to begin by the end of July 2014 on the projected $788-million plant.

Meetings will be held in the three communities as the committee works to identify a location for the facility and hammer down the costs. There will be some help on that front as the province has committed $248 million, while the federal government has offered $253.4 million towards the final project cost contingent on meeting specific timelines. That money will now likely have to be split with the solution identified by the western communities of Colwood, Esquimalt, Langford, View Royal, and the Songhees Nation.

No matter what the final break down of costs works out to be, what is clear is that time is of the essence in order to prevent $500 million from being flushed down the drain.

Oak Bay, Victoria and Saanich work to find a solution to sewage treatment

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Land-use changes will diminish character of Oak BayThe new Oak Bay official

community plan has been criticized by some members of council and many residents as being too vague, with open-ended excessive development objectives. Ex-councillor Pam Copley’s recent OCP implementation account in the Oak Bay News may be well intentioned, however, it is unrealistic to believe you can legislate first (make major changes to all zoning bylaws), then after the fact, regulate and deal with the impacts to local residents. This is the process that has been followed by council: in last October’s zoning change that allows duplexes; in the case of the over-built Clive; and certainly in the “yet to be corrected” four-year, monster house fiasco.

The facts are: historically Oak Bay has been a desirable place to live mainly because of its setting and well-kept single-family neighbourhoods. It follows then that the business “supply and demand” concepts apply. Ms. Copley’s viewpoint, however, is the OCP and major zoning changes is the quick-fix solution to solve this age-old, higher housing price impact. Once these types of land use changes are made it is not possible to manage and limit real estate speculation and control growth. Ms. Copely has given examples of allowing more multi-family housing developments in all of Oak Bay, i.e. on transportation corridors and in single-family areas, as well as allowing basement suites. These land-use changes

she proposes cannot co-exist with maintaining Oak Bay’s character. There are many examples of communities that have implemented such development changes and are now dealing with the inherent problems that have resulted. Oak Bay is currently the CRD’s standard for livability and attractiveness, however, if Oak Bay follows the development lead of other municipalities, as Ms. Copley suggests, this will dramatically change.

Her implied basement suite legalization argument is the classic example of this and the backward planning process: almost all basement suites in B.C. are unregulated. Legalization does not alter this fact, only adds to this unsafe total. If residents and

absentee landlords do not obey the law when suites are illegal, they certainly won’t hesitate to have an illegal suite if they are legally approved. Regulating suites is expensive, or we and other communities would already have done so. The downside for the majority of existing residents without suites is they have to fund the necessary services and infrastructure to support this increased population. They will also have to individually handle any difficulty experienced with a suite. A better plan would be to fund and implement a regulation and standards program first – for existing illegal suites, require the necessary implementation and ongoing service costs, initiate a complaints program, and then look

to adding more suites.Change is only a benefit if

it’s positive; diversity is only a benefit if standards and livability are maintained. Cities around the world that have increased population, as is now being suggested for Oak Bay, are struggling with the impacts. We basically only have our property taxes to make ends meet. Studies show significant new populations result in soaring infrastructure costs; more car traffic; increased taxation as the revenue generated comes nowhere near covering the increased service levels. Oak Bay residents must get involved and not let this happen to our community.

Anthony Mears Oak Bay

Cull makes no senseOur newly elected council has an

important decision to make. There is good reason to think the authority to proceed with a deer cull granted by the old council in June 2013 has expired and councillors will need to either renew it or move to more effective methods to address deer-human conflicts in the municipality.

A cull at this time makes no sense from a public policy point of view. Research studies on urban deer management say a cull will have no effect – deer from other areas of the CRD will simply move into the vacant space.

Oak Bay and the CRD have no idea about the size of the deer population in Oak Bay – whether it’s increasing or deer are simply more visible due to habitat loss.

The prerequisite steps of public education and conflict reduction measures haven’t been properly taken or given time to take effect. Pamphlets distributed in one issue of this newspaper don’t constitute a public education program, and where is the required speed reduction around high collision areas such as the Uplands Golf Course?

Original complaints from gardeners about deer eating their plants have been morphed into a “public safety” issue due to a single incident with a dog that cornered a deer at night in a back yard (the same place dogs can tangle with raccoons – but no one is suggesting they be culled).

The cost to CRD taxpayers for the strategy is $250,000, with $100,000 of that about to be spent on the Oak Bay-

requested extension and deer cull. It’s a significant sum being unwisely spent.

Our municipality has an opportunity to become a recognized leader in progressive, innovative and effective techniques of urban deer management. Let’s not fall into the trap of killing 25 deer pointlessly and at considerable expense “just to see what happens” or as a way of satisfying those who have become irritated at the presence of deer in our community. It’s not the kind of Oak Bay I’ve known and loved for the past 22 years.

Kristy KilpatrickOak Bay

Cull is cruel and inhumaneOak Bay’s planned cull for 25 deer is,

by the municipality’s own inadvertent admission, cruel and inhumane. I base my comments on Oak Bay’s 2014 request for proposal (RFP) soliciting bids from contractors to do the killing. Contrary to what the RFP states, this is not euthanasia. That refers to putting to death animals who are suffering from ill health or injury. These deer will be trapped in baited cages indiscriminately without regard to age, health, sex or pregnancy. The process will create suffering, not end it.

From the RFP, here’s how it works: In complete secrecy clover traps are set up on private land. They must be out of public view. Two men have up to 24 hours to arrive to kill a trapped animal. These are indigenous wild animals, not domesticated livestock accustomed to human contact or confinement. So, potentially for 24 hours the animal will be struggling, bleating and

terrified. One man will throw his full body weight on the deer and wrestle it to the ground. The distraught deer will thrash about wildly, fighting for its life. The other man will try to deliver a fatal charge to the deer’s head from a bolt gun. If the first charge isn’t fatal he will try again or let it bleed to death. Extensive measures must be taken so that this procedure has no witnesses.

Obviously, this is not a humane way to kill an animal and the municipality of Oak Bay knows this because the horrific procedure is described in detail in their own RFP. The municipality realizes that the public knows this too. Otherwise, why all the secrecy? Even abattoirs have observers on the killing floor. It’s time to end the hypocrisy and do the right moral thing: cancel the cull.

Danalee GoldthwaiteOak Bay

Visiting protestorsEveryone has a right to protest,

including that little group who don’t live in Oak Bay but recently chose to pay us a visit and protest the planned deer cull.

To those folks, I hope you enjoyed your visit and that you contributed to our local economy. I’m sorry things weren’t a bit more colourful but unfortunately those darn deer have eaten all our flowers.

And one more thing. We recently re-elected our incumbent mayor and a majority of council. In doing so, the majority of us support the planned cull.

Rick GonderOak Bay

Assessments below true valueI think that the Jan. 7 front page

news story requires a more detailed examination and answers to the following question.

Would the owner of the Central Avenue property be prepared to sell it for the current assessed value or if he were in fact successful in having his assessment lowered, the lower value? In a recent “straw” poll, I found no one in South Oak Bay, myself included, who was prepared to sell their property for the assessed value, because of the overwhelming opinion that their property values were considerably higher than the assessed value.

When one reviews their property assessment, my advice would be to apply the ‘acid test’ before contacting the B.C. Assessment Authority.

Bill RobertsonSouth Oak Bay

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In Dr. Maler’s letter of Dec. 24, he attempts to assure me and by extension, the public, that there’s no need to lose any sleep over cost overruns because he is fully confident that the new plan will cost less

than the now defunct McLoughlin Point Plan. He provides new information in support of his assurance. Unfortunately, his letter once again illustrates the lack of expertise of Dr. Maler and the RITE plan

advocates on sewage treatment.

Dr. Maler asserts ‘the processes incorporated in the proposal for McLoughlin … are just enhancements to this old process (activated sludge treatment)’ comparing it ‘to putting lipstick on a pig’. Yet at the core of membrane bioreactor plants (MBR) is activated sludge treatment.

This is followed by an advanced ultrafiltration system, namely membranes, which act as a physical barrier to bacteria and most viruses, removing them from the effluent. Development of the membranes has allowed tertiary plants to be constructed

with a much smaller footprint than conventional filtration methods, but at the expense of comparatively high capital and operating (energy) costs.

The new technologies used in the CRD’s indicative design (biological aerated filters) and in the final design (moving bed bioreactors) have also enabled more efficient secondary treatment designs with a smaller plant footprint. With the addition of ultraviolet and ozone disinfection, as proposed, high levels of contaminant removal would be achieved.

Dr. Maler next contends that eight, presumably MBR,

treatment plants can be built at significantly less cost than a single plant with the same total capacity based on ‘extensive research data analyzed by the RITE plan advocates’ a group of well-meaning but unqualified members of the public, who have refused to make public the details for public scrutiny. The CRD has had two separate consulting groups come to the conclusion that multiple plants will cost more to build and operate than a single plant. The Comox Valley Regional District’s Sanitary Sewage Master Plan evaluated a distributed treatment system as one of its options reached the same conclusion. It is also not clear if Dr. Maler’s estimate of $400 million includes administration costs, public consultation, site selection, property purchases, engineering

design, project management, interim financing, inflation etc., which can easily amount to 20 – 25 per cent of project costs.

So we’re left with a choice – do we accept the opinion of three groups of experienced consultants who independently came to the same conclusion or that of Dr. Maler and the RITE plan advocates who came to the opposite conclusion?

Finally, to make use of reclaimed water a network of pipes is required along with pump stations and possibly balancing reservoirs to meet peak demands. Watermain construction is expensive, costing $300-$400 per metre depending on the pipe size. A standard 19 mm connection to a residence, including a water meter, physical separation of the potable and

non-potable water supplies, will cost in the $4,000 - $5,000 range.

If Colwood, for example, can’t afford to expand its sewer network to existing homes and businesses, how is it going afford a second water distribution system for reclaimed water? Certainly not unless residents were forced to pay whether or not they connected to the system.

Throughout the planning process the CRD looked for the least cost option that met the provincially approved core area liquid waste management plan and federal regulations. If the multiple MBR treatment plant option had been the least cost then that’s what the CRD would have selected. Will the new approach cost less? Only time will tell.

Jack HullOak Bay

LETTERSGetting to the bottom of sewage treatment debate

Re: Region in need of sewage solution.

Space limitations in letters to the editor do indeed make it difficult to present comprehensive details on complex issues like the sewage treatment project, but Mr. Hull’s response characterizing the comments and issues raised in Dr. Maler’s letter and my previous letter as “misinformed swill” serves only to further illustrate the closed-box approach that culminated in the failed McLoughlin Point proposal.

Continuing with the theme of half-truths, he chooses not to mention the other benefits of using membrane technology to provide tertiary treatment, for example, several new, long, deep ocean outfalls not required; unnecessary sewage and sludge conveyance pipelines and pump stations eliminated; discharges to the sea of contaminants of emerging concern curtailed.

In his view, the strategy is simply to substitute one type of plant for another while failing to see there are other objectives and viable system alternatives that can achieve better results for less than the outdated estimate referred to.

The issue of water reuse should indeed keep coming up because water is one of our most precious resources and therefore critical to the actions we take regarding climate change, habitat protection and local food security. I am well aware of the limitations on installing purple pipe distribution systems, retrofitting toilet supply plumbing or

irrigating water-logged turf during the winter rains. But these are just diversions from the critical issue he fails to mention: should reuse of reclaimed water be implemented for these or other beneficial uses, there would be a significant reduction in consumption of CRD’s potable water, hence a significant reduction in CRD’s revenue that would have to be offset by much more substantial increases in utility billings than we have already experienced. There are other uses for reclaimed water that would have limited impacts on potable water consumption but Mr. Hull has not bothered to mention them.

Mr. Hull has finally dared to ask the question that should have been asked long ago, and one that the residents could have answered then had they been provided with all the relevant details. “How much more is the public willing to pay for a distributed, tertiary treatment system with a limited improvement in effluent quality?” My answer: not as much as one with more significant improvements in effluent quality that also recycles the water for beneficial uses.

But yes, let’s wait for full disclosure of the professional’s detailed cost estimates (hoping that this time these will not be redacted) and for proper full lifecycle cost analyses – for the projects brought forward by an informed, engaged public – not one imposed by the CRD.

Oscar RegierVictoria

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Certain veins of historical study are “sexier” than others.

When people ask me about my graduate work and find out that I’m a medievalist by training, they inevitably ask questions about the flashier parts of medieval history – things like the Battle of Agincourt, Viking invasions or the Black Death.

Indeed, I have studied these things in no little depth, but when I say that my personal research focused on the history of English common law, the faces of the eager inquirers inevitably fall into a look of disappointment. Legal history, I have found out, is not generally considered “sexy.”

In my work at the Maritime Museum of B.C. too, certain topics are a lot more popular than others. Shipwrecks, of course, always get people interested. Some folks are fascinated by military and naval stories. Others still are engaged by tales of adventurous gold miners and fur traders on the wild west coast.

The topics that people shy away from rather ironically tend to be the stories that shaped the economy and everyday lives of British Columbians for the last 170 years. Industries like fishing and sealing put food on the tables of thousands of people, and provided jobs for many early residents of the province.

What we know today about the dire state of our coastal ecosystems and the incredibly wasteful and reckless way in which we practised these industries has cast an awkward pall over their discussion. Our fish stocks have been gutted, our oceans are warming and polluted, and let’s be honest: killing seals is an unpopular topic.

The historical topic that is the most uncomfortable of all though, has to be that of whaling. I grew up in Victoria in the 1980s and 1990s and never once realized that the mass slaughter of whales had been an economic lynchpin for B.C.

Given what we now know about the immense intelligence of whales, the complexity of their familial bonds, the depths of

their emotional capacity and the simple fact that they are far more human than one would ever imagine, I suspect that we are a little bit embarrassed about that brutal part of our history.

That does not mean these stories should not be told.

Whaling has been practised by indigenous coastal peoples for millennia, but in a small, sustainable way. The European technologies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries made it possible on an industrial scale.

By 1900, there were already relatively few right and grey whales left in the North Pacific. Their numbers had been decimated by whalers who came up from American whaling stations. They were also partial to sperm whales, as these three species moved relatively slowly and could be caught via sail-powered ships and hand harpoons.

At this time they would drag the whales to shore and rend the blubber into oil in whaling way-stations on Texada, Hornby and Cortes Islands.

Nonetheless, it was in 1905 that commercial whaling took hold in B.C., with modern harpoons

and faster ships. That year the Pacific Whaling Company was established, with a head office in Victoria, to target the remaining five major species that inhabited our coast: blue, humpback, fin, sei and sperm whales.

They built four whaling stations

on Vancouver Island: one at Barkley Sound called Sechart, one at Kyuquot, one at Coal Harbour, and one at Piper’s Lagoon in Nanaimo, which had to be closed after only two years when the entire regional population of 95 humpback whales had been completely slaughtered.

Sechart and Kyoquot were closed by 1925, but two other stations, Rose Harbour and Naden Harbour, were opened in Haida Gwaii and didn’t close permanently until the Second World War. The last station operating was at Coal Harbour, and that remained until whaling was banned entirely in 1967.

Between 1905 and 1967, these stations processed approximately 25,000 whales.

Some whale populations today have shown recovery, but it is slow. Others have not rebounded at all.

Most positively, the

Northern Pacific humpback population is estimated at around 5,500. This is up from the approximately 1,400 remaining when the moratorium on whaling came into place, but a drastic reduction from the up to 20,000 strong that existed 150 years ago.

On the other hand, the last right whale seen in B.C. waters was in 1951. It was accidentally killed by a whaling vessel seeking other prey and then rendered at Coal Harbour.

Uncomfortable reading, isn’t it?

The purpose of history is not to allow us to pick and choose which stories we like and therefore which stories we tell, though that is inevitably what occurs. History happened. There is nothing we can do to change it.

All we can do is be aware of it, so that we make the best decisions in the present, for the sake of the future. Filtering out the uncomfortable parts of our past does no favours to anyone. It may make us more comfortable, but it also makes us complacent and ignorant.

•••Kate Humble is an Oak Bay

High grad and the education curator for the Maritime Museum of British Columbia. Questions can be sent to: [email protected].

Kate HumbleMaritime History

B.C. whaling: an uncomfortable history

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The 2015 property assessments have been mailed out and some Oak Bay homeowners have seen significant increases to their property values

As many as 250 Oak Bay home owners have seen their total

property assessments increase by more than 20 per cent. With the average home seeing only a three per cent increase to its assessment, some Oak Bay homeowners could see a large spike in property values.

Some property owners could qualify for assessment relief. The B.C. Assessment Act provides for relief from assessment based on potential

land use under certain conditions: The property is no larger then five acres; the owner must have owned and occupied the property as their principal residence for the last 10 years; the market value of the property for another use must be higher than the existing residential value; the application for relief must be submitted every year.

The form to apply for assessment relief can be found on the B.C. Assessment website.

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Don’t forget...if you disagree with your assessment, you must file a Notice of Complaint (appeal) by February 2, 2015

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The 2015 property assessments have been mailed out and some Oak Bay homeowners have seen significant increases to their property values

As many as 250 Oak Bay home owners have seen their total

property assessments increase by more than 20 per cent. With the average home seeing only a three per cent increase to its assessment, some Oak Bay homeowners could see a large spike in property values.

Some property owners could qualify for assessment relief. The B.C. Assessment Act provides for relief from assessment based on potential

land use under certain conditions: The property is no larger then five acres; the owner must have owned and occupied the property as their principal residence for the last 10 years; the market value of the property for another use must be higher than the existing residential value; the application for relief must be submitted every year.

The form to apply for assessment relief can be found on the B.C. Assessment website.

Although the application form stipulates that it must be submitted by Jan. 1, it also cites March 15 as the final deadline. The B.C. Assessment fact sheet on important dates also cites March 15 as the deadline for requests for relief for this specific reason.


Off the deep endJackson Selina demonstrates his swimming skills, with a little help from the floaties, during a public swim at Oak Bay Rec.

Relief available for assessments


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Triathlon could fit intonew year’s resolutionsTim CollinsBlack Press

The shortbread cookies are gone and the turkey dinners are a fading, fragrant memory.

But the hangover of overindulgence and sedentary holiday habits can last far beyond the holiday season, says Kirk Lewis, co-founder of Westshore Triathlon.

“We see a lot of people around this time of year who have resolved to make a change in their lifestyle and get healthier,” he says. “And I like to think that we have a pretty good way for them to do exactly that.”

Lewis and company took the opportunity of the new year to announce the first Langford Triathlon will be held July 5. The open water swim happens in Langford Lake, with the cycling portion happening between Langford and View Royal and the run section on the paths and roadways around the lake.

“The great thing about our group is that there is something for everyone,” says Stephanie Carter, who co-founded Westshore Triathlon in 2011 and for the past three years has helped organize the Westshore Triathlon and Duathlon in April.

“We get all kinds of people joining us,” she says. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re male or female; it doesn’t matter what your age might be or where your fitness level is now.”

Westshore Triathlon Tri Club member Donna Porter says part of what makes deciding to do a triathlon a great new year’s resolution is that you can start at any level and train with others who are in the same boat.

“It’s the motivation that really is the key here,” she says.

“It’s easy to beg off going for a run or a swim if you’re trying to do it alone. It’s a lot harder if you know that 10 other people are waiting for you to show up and join them.”

Support from fellow club members also helps keep participants on track, she adds. “You’ll be struggling a little and the others are encouraging you, telling you that you can do it, and suddenly you find that you can.”

For readers thinking no path can possibly take you from your present fitness level to doing a triathlon, Carter points out that it’s all about managing expectations. “You may not be doing a full event on the first year,” she says.

“We have a number of categories that allow for anyone to shoot for a completed event. For example, you could aim for finishing the Super

Sprint category.”The Super Sprint

includes a 400-metre swim, a 10K bike route and a 5K run, jog or walk.

“The shorter course is really possible for anyone to shoot for,” Lewis says. “And the term ‘race’ is misleading.

You’re really just competing against yourself.”

The Tri Club offers such supports as access to personal coaching, for a fee, as well as four coached sessions in the pool per month.

“For some people, we have to start by teaching them how to swim,” Carter says.

There are also group bike rides, group runs, motivational speakers, insurance coverage, safety vehicles for certain group bike rides and a club T-shirt that tells your friends and neighbours you’ve abandoned the couch for a healthier lifestyle.

“Really, the race is just the reward for me,” Porter says. “It’s the reward I get for the months of training and my effort to stay healthier. And in the end, it’s doing it with this great group of people that really makes all the difference.”

More information on the 2015 Langford Triathlon and other programs can be found at westshoretriathlon.com or by emailing [email protected] or calling 250-893-4335.

Photo by Tim Collins

Westshore Triathlon co-founders Kirk Lewis and Stephanie Carter and Tri Club member Donna Porter stand on the shores of Langford Lake, the main site of the first Langford Triathlon this July.

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re male or female; it doesn’t matter what your age might be or where your fitness level is now.”

- Stephanie Carter

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HOLISTIC HEALTH

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ESTHETIC SERVICES

Nails By Deborah- Now ac-cepting new clients. Educator, over 30yrs exp. Try 1 nail free. Specializing in natural acrylic w/ gel overlay, $45, ($28 for natural nail fi ll). (250)474-5628

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

UNDER $499

COUCH, LOVESEAT excel-lent condition, $500. Persian rug, cream colour fl oral, $500. Call (250)655-4030,

FOOD PRODUCTS

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Musical Instruments- box of misc old drum parts. Must take all $10. (250)370-2905.

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

GARDEN EQUIPMENT

CLOSING OUT SALE Sea-Side Home & Garden (akaThe Victorian Bird House) isclosing on Sat. Jan. 10th at 4PM. ALL remaining stock50-85% off. Bird feeders, birdhouses, bird baths; gardentools, gifts, paper goods, jew-elry, etc. 2428 Beacon Ave.,Sidney. 250-656-5064

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS- $2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30amto 4:30pm. #200-770 Enter-prise Cres, Victoria. Gold-stream Press Division.

STEEL BUILDINGS / Metalbuildings 60% off! 20x28,30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120,60x150, 80x100. Sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206;www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-elry. Estates/private librariespurchased. Galleon Books &Antiques, 250-655-0700.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

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THE GLENSHIEL. All inclu-sive seniors living includesthree hot meals daily, snacks,security, housekeeping, allutilities, telephone and cable.Spacious room, private bath,view of Thunderbird Park;$2060. Small west-facing bed-sitting room; $1235. Bedsittingroom, shared bath for gentle-man; $1360. For a tour & toapply contact Laurie Mueller at250-383-4164 (Mon-Fri).

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

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ESQUIMALT 1-BDRM ground level, W/D. NS/NP. $850. Avail now. (250)385-2846.

SIDNEY- LRG 1 bdrm suite, shared W/D. NS/NP. $950 all inclusive. Call (250)656-2378.

SUITES, UPPER

SIDNEY- NEWLY renovated 2 bdrm, own entrance, 2 sun decks, parking. NP/NS. $1250.+ utils. (250)655-0190.

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AUTO SERVICES

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CARS

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

CLEANING SERVICES

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EXP. RELIABLE & effi cient house cleaner and home care, 10 yrs exp. $20/hr. Bondable, have own supplies except vacuum.(250)220-4965

DRYWALL

BEAT MY Price! Best work-manship. 38 years experience. Call Mike, 250-475-0542.

EAVESTROUGH

ABBA EXTERIORSProfessional gutter cleaning & repairs. Window cleaning. Roof de-mossing. Pkg dis-counts. WCB. (778)433-9275.

ELECTRICAL

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250-361-6193 Quality Electric Reno’s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779.


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NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $40/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

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ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

GARDENING

DPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141.


GARDENING

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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HANDYPERSONS

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SMALL ADS GET BIG RESULTS! Call 250.388.3535


HAULING AND SALVAGE

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CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

HAUL A WAY- Clean and green, Junk removal. Free quotes. Call (778)350-5050.

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Wes 250-812-7774.

PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-888-1221.

SAVE-A-LOT HAULINGFurniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.


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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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PLASTERING

PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, match the textures, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-516-5178.


PRESSURE WASHING

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STUCCO/SIDING

PATCHES, ADDITIONS, re-stucco, renos, chimney, water-proofi ng. Bob, 250-516-5178.

TREE SERVICES

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UPHOLSTERY

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WINDOW CLEANING

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Remember no number can occur more than once in any row, column or box.

To solve a Sudoku puzzle,every number 1 to 9must appear in:• Each of the nine vertical columns• Each of the nine horizontal rows• Each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes

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Does your home need to be adapted to meet your changing needs? If so, you may be eligible for financial assistance under the Home Adaptations for Independence (HAFI) program.

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When Lorie and Walter bought their home in Port Alberni 13 years ago they slowly began renovating the unfinished basement to accommodate Walter’s changing needs as his muscular dystrophy advanced.

“The basement was a black hole when we moved in,” recalled Walter. “After 12 years of skimping and saving, we made the downstairs completely wheelchair accessible, except for the bathroom. It was way too small. I could only stand for about a minute and a half without collapsing in the shower stall and I could no longer pull myself out of the tub in the upstairs’ bathroom, even with Lorie’s help.”

Through funding from BC Housing’s Home Adaptations for Independence (HAFI) program, Walter and Lorie were able to work with a contractor to transform the space. A wall was removed to make room for a wheel-in shower with benches, grab bars were installed, and the vanity and fixtures were relocated.

I just slide into the shower now,” said Walter. “I feel safer and no longer dread trying to wash myself. What was previously a dangerous chore for me is now a welcome treat.”

Walter and Lorie hope to spend the rest of their lives in their home.

The HAFI program provides financial assistance to help eligible low-income seniors and people with disabilities adapt their homes so they can continue to live independently.

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Thursday, Jan. 15Victoria Writers Festival’s

January Salon.The literary evening celebrates book launches and readings by award-winning writers Shelley Leedahl and Michael Kenyon. Fairfield Market, 1275 Oscar St., 7 p.m. Info: victoriawritersfestival.org.

Overview of Osteoporosis Speaking of Bones free presentation from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Dogwood Room at Monterey rec centre, 1442 Monterey Ave.

One-on-one learning about e-readers and computers at the Oak Bay library at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Registration required at gvpl.ca or call 250-940-GVPL (4875).

Friday, Jan. 16Drop-in Family Storytime from

10:30-11 a.m. at the Oak Bay Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave.

Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay rec brings Niels Petersen with Connie Lebeau and Norm MacPherson plus Terry Brennan and Roger Plant. Starts at 7:30 p.m. (doors at 6) in Oak Bay Rec’s Upstairs Lounge, 1975 Bee St. Tickets are $12 in advance at Ivy’s Bookshop and Oak Bay Recreation or at beaconridge productions.com online. Tickets are $15 at the door.

Rick Vito and the Lucky Devils at Upstairs Cabaret 8 p.m. Tickets are $35.50. For more information visit rmts.bc.ca

Bring it on Cabaret at Oak Bay United Church, 1355 Mitchell St. Starts at 7:30 p.m. but be there around 7 for good seating. Admission $5.

Saturday, Jan. 17Food sensitivities with Dr.

Michelle Payne. Learn how sensitivities are different from allergies and intolerances with Dr. Michelle Payne, a naturopathic physician who helps her patients achieve their health goals, prevent illness and restore health naturally. Register online or call 250-940-GVPL (4875) for more information. At the Oak Bay branch of the GVPL starting at 2 p.m.

Abbamania with Night Fever/The BeeGees at McPherson Playhouse 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $47 at rmts.bc.ca

Volkssport - 5/10 km walk. Meet at Pearkes Recreation Centre, 3100 Tillicum Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Hazel at 250-385-5439.

Snowed In Comedy Tour with four international comedians at the Royal Theatre. Returning is Arj Barker, Dan Quinn and MC Craig Campbell with new performer Paul Myrehaug.

Tickets are $40 at rmts.bc.ca

Monday, Jan. 19New members meet and

greet 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Garry Room at Monterey Recreation Centre with a representative of the Oak Bay Seniors Activity Association.

Storytimes & Puppet Plays from 10:30 to 11 a.m. for babies 0-15 months and their caregiver. Learn songs, rhymes and fingerplays to use with your baby every day. No registration required at the Oak Bay branch of the GVPL, 1442 Monterey Ave.

A Midsummer Nights Dream Legacy series Royal Theatre at 8 p.m. Beloved characters, including Puck, Oberon and Bottom, come to life as Shakespeare’s beautiful story is intertwined throughout Mendelssohn’s incredible score. Tickets starting at $30.

Tuesday, Jan. 20Taking Action on Climate

Change: Locally and Globally a Canadian Club Victoria luncheon featuring Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich Gulf Islands, at 11:45 a.m. at the Harbour Towers Hotel, Victoria.

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Inspired by her holistic ranching background, Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon has launched a province-wide environmental education program for high school teachers and youth leaders.

Stewards of the Future offers grants of up to $800 per group to cover field trips, fees for programs and guest speakers, equipment and teacher release time for projects. It is offered for students from grades 9-12, First Nations educators, 4-H, Guide and Scout groups and environment clubs, with an application deadline of Jan. 23 for the spring program.

“Through Stewards of the Future, students will have the opportunity to explore issues that affect the land, water and other natural resources in British Columbia,” Guichon said. “The goal of this program is not to solve the challenges we face, but rather to encourage open discussion and gain a better understanding of the issues that affect our natural surroundings.”

Program partners, including the Education Ministry and B.C. Parks, offer support for projects such as research on invasive species leading to mapping and removal.

The Stewards

of the Future toolkit emphasizes hands-on “place-based” experience to appreciate and enhance biodiversity.

Guichon and her late husband Lawrence Guichon are credited with pioneering holistic management in the B.C. cattle industry, emphasizing preservation of natural grassland on their historic Merritt-area ranch.

Holistic management, developed by African biologist and game ranger Allan Savory, overturned the long-held belief that overgrazing is the result of too many animals. Savory proved that reducing the number of animals doesn’t restore grasslands, which developed in the presence of large herds that were kept closely bunched and moving to avoid predators. Planned grazing mimics that pattern and gives grasslands time to recover.

Details and application forms for the Stewards of the Future program are available at the Lieutenant Governor’s website, www.ltgov.bc.ca.

Guichon intends to visit programs in the province and incorporate an awards program for [email protected]

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Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon on her family ranch in the Nicola Valley.

Oak Bay youths raisenearly double goal

Oak Bay youths Jessica Maitland and Leah Smith nearly doubled their goal of collecting 100 pairs of socks stuffed with hygiene products for the Dandelion Society.

The pair of Grade 8 students started the drive in November at their Landsdowne middle school and wrapped with an event Dec. 6 in Oak Bay village.

“We had $65, three winter coats, two shirts, two books, and with what we collected in and outside of school we got 180 stuffed socks – almost double our goal,” Smith said.

The sock packages will go to the Dandelion Society, a registered non-profit started in 2011 that says it helps those “who struggle with or without poverty, pain and addiction.”

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“The goal of this program is not to solve the challenges we face, but rather to encourage open discussion and gain a better understanding of the issues that affect our natural surroundings.”

- Judith Guichon

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