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In the driver’s seatUniversity of Victoria students attempt to build the ultimate hybrid vehicle. News, Page A3
Have a heartDavid Foster Foundation gives families a reason to hope for the future. Community, Page A8
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Nine-year-old Zaya Fehr makes the appropriate signal, one she’s stuck with for a while, at Willows Elementary school during a bike ‘rodeo’ held last Wednesday. Kids had their bikes checked before being tested on bike road safety course.
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Laura LavinNews Staff
In preparation for Victoria’s Bike to Work Week, May 28 to June 3, Willows elementary students strapped on their helmets and took a course in road safety with the Oak Bay police on May 16.
“We want to encourage kids to ride their bikes to school and get their parents out there too,” said Willows principal Wendy Holob.
Nearly 100 Grade 4 students made their way around the course, learning hand signals and what to watch out for on the roads. Police also did bike and helmet safety checks.
“It’s an initiative of our PAC. This year’s PAC looked at starting this as an annual thing that we can do before Bike to Work week,” she said.
The parent group has put a lot of energy into bringing the cycling safety program to the school this year. “It’s an ongoing initiative,” said PAC co-chair Carolyn Kroeber. “We put in five (new bike racks) last year thanks to a kind donation from the Kiwanis (Club).”
“The PAC has put real effort into getting more bike racks,” Holob said. “The municipality purchased extra bike racks last year for us. One of the problems is we don’t have enough racks for all the kids to (ride) their bikes in.”
The PAC is adding to the stock of bike racks, bringing in an additional 10 sets this year. “With the municipality and the PAC adding racks this year, more and more children have a place to lock up their bikes,” said Holob.
Traffic is always a problem around the school, said Kroeber. “For people living in the area it would be nice to reduce the traffic.”
With that and the safety lesson combined, “we can put the push on for students to walk or wheel to school,” Holob said.
Willows kids wheel into schoolBike ‘roadeo’ teaches students about riding safely and keeping bikes in tip top shape
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ICC will be placing ads in newspapers, radio and running television spots this week asking people to bring in any old silver and gold coins made before 1968 and U.S. coins made before 1970. Those that bring in their coins will be able to speak with collectors one on one and have their coins looked at by a specialist. With the help of these ICC members, offers will be made to those that have coins made before 1968. Offers will be made based on silver or gold content and the rarity of the coins. All coins made before 1968 will be examined and purchased including gold coins, silver coins, silver dollars, all types of nickels and pennies. Those that decide to sell their coins will be paid on the spot. If you are like a lot of people you might have a few old coins or even a coffee can full lying around. If you have ever wondered what they are worth now might be your chance to find out and even sell them if you choose. They could be worth a lot according to the International Coin Collectors also known as ICC. Collectors will pay a fortune for some coins and currency for their collections. If it is rare enough, one coin could be worth over $100,000 according to Eric Helms, coin collector and ICC member. One ultra rare dime, an 1894S Barber, sold for a record $1.9 million to a collector in July of 2007. While that is an extreme example, many rare and valuable coins are stashed away in dresser drawers or lock boxes around the country. The ICC and its collector members have organized a traveling event in search of all types of coins and currency. Even common coins can be worth a significant amount due to the high price of silver and gold, says Helms. Washington quarters and Roosevelt dimes can be worth many times their face value. Recent silver markets have driven the price up on common coins made of silver. Helms explains that all U.S. half dollars, quarters and dimes made before 1970 contain 90% silver and are sought after any time silver prices rise. Right now it’s a sellers market he said. The rarest coins these collectors are looking for include $20, $10, $5 and $2 1/2 gold coins and any coin made before 1850. These coins always bring big premiums according to the ICC. Silver dollars are also very sought after nowadays. Other types of items the ICC will be purchasing during this event include U.S. currency, gold bullion, investment gold, silver bars, silver rounds, proof sets, etc. Even foreign coins are sought after and will be purchased.
Also at this event anyone can sell their gold jewellery, dental gold or anything made of gold on the spot. Gold is currently trading at record high prices. Bring anything you think might be gold and the collectors will examine, test and price it for free. If you decide to sell, you will be paid on the spot – it has been an unknown fact that coin dealers have always paid more for jewellery and scrap gold than other jewelers and pawn brokers. So whether you have one coin you think might be valuable or a large collection you recently inherited, you can talk to these collectors for free. If your’re lucky you may have a rarity worth thousands. Either way there is nothing to lose and it sounds like fun!
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Vivian MoreauNews staff
In a windowless cement bunker of a building on the north end of the University of Victoria campus, Stefan Kaban boots up a computer.
On one of two screens is a computer-generated split image of a car traveling a landscape. With a steering wheel attached to the computer table, a set of pedals on the floor and a stick shift at hand, the first question is: how do we rack up points in this game?
“This is not a game,” says Kaban, a masters mechanical engineering student. “This is software.”
It’s the first year of the design competition for EcoCar 2, the three-year competition sponsored by the North American auto industry that aims to flush out talented, young, potential auto designers.
It’s the second time around for a University of Victoria’s team, which placed second, fourth and eighth in the first competition, which ended in early 2011. With that project, a 2009 Saturn Vue hybrid had its transmission modified. Except for Kaban, all those team members have graduated from UVic. Nine of them are working in the automotive industry.
Under the supervision of engineering chair, Zuomin Dong, this time around Kaban is leading a team of 20 volunteer undergraduates on re-jigging a 2013 Chevy Malibu, donated by General Motors Canada.
The overall mandate of the competition that attracts teams from 16 universities across North America is simple: how do you reduce the energy impact of a vehicle?
Being a group of young men, UVic’s team focus is on
increasing power in the hybrid Malibu. “Part of our challenge is that there are a lot of things you
can do to design a car that uses very little fuel but people have come to expect some comforts, features that if you took them away, would make it less attractive to sell.” Hybrid cars of today are designed purely to reduce fuel consumption, Kaban says.
Hybrid batteries have a maximum distance of 30-60 kilometres before they need recharging. The UVic team intends to increase that to 350 km, using two electric motors, one in the rear and one in the front of the car, and bigger batteries. That is challenging in a car in which every square centimetre is already designed for maximum use.
Dong said the EcoCar 2 project has provided the department with “the golden opportunity to apply advanced hybrid vehicle powertrain research to an industrial application, and to allow our students at all levels to obtain advanced training on cutting edge automotive, mechatronics, computer system and green vehicle technologies and to become the specialists and future leaders of green vehicle technology.”
Kaban and the team are keen to present the design they’ve been working on for the past eight months in the preliminary
competition set for this week in Los Angeles. The plans are only on paper at the moment – physical changes to the Malibu will start this summer after considering judges’ recommendations. Kaban also notes there are other reasons for taking part in the test.
“These (sponsors) are also the people that will give you a job. You want to show them you’re capable of doing this work.”
To learn more about the EcoCar 2 project go to ecocar2.uvic.ca.
UVic engineers look to design meaner, more powerful hybrid
Oak Bay opens doors to public participation
Vivian Moreau/News staff
UVic mechanical engineering masters student Stefan Kaban, left, and team member B.Comm student Nicholas Basansky with the interactive software program for the EcoCar2 project. A team of 20 students has volunteered to take part in the three-year project that aims to design the ultimate hybrid vehicle.
AND THEY’RE OFF
“Part of our challenge is that there are a lot of things you can do to design a car that uses very little fuel but people have come to expect some comforts.”
- Stefan Kaban
Laura LavinNews staff
Oak Bay residents will soon have another avenue for voicing their opinions.
Council decided at its May 14 meeting to draft a bylaw allowing public participation at regular council meetings. A staff report showed that nine out of 13 municipalities allow public participation during council meetings, with three limiting speakers to residents and non-resident property owners. All included a time limit on public participation.
Coun. Cairine Green weighed in on the discussion expressing her enthusiasm for the idea. North Saanich, where she was formerly a councillor, includes public discussion at council meetings. “It works well and issues are often resolved at the mike,” she said.
Coun. Michelle Kirby explained that increased public participation is why she got involved in local politics in the first place. “It’s a very valuable thing. I’m excited for it to happen,” she said.
Council members were all positive about the change. “I think it’s a great way to involve the public and give them an outlet to speak to things in the community,” said Mayor Nils Jensen.
Time for public participation will be limited to three minutes per speaker and 20 minutes total. Subject matter need not be on the agenda and speakers will not be limited to Oak Bay residents.
Currently the public may only comment on matters before the committee of the whole, which is made up of council members and meets once a month.
Public welcome to opine at meetings
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What do you think?Give us your comments by email: [email protected]. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.
Laura LavinNews staff
At least one property owner in Oak Bay has rethought his desire to build a larger-than-allowed home in the area.
Stan Sipos had a development variance permit in front of council May 14 asking to increase the paved front yard surface and building height of a new home on Radcliffe Lane, but a few of his new neigh-bours asked council not to allow it.
Charles Woodruff told council he and his wife had to make sure their new build on Hood Lane, just west of the proposed
home on Radcliffe, had to be modified to meet neighbours’ demands. “(Sipos) should have to get a buy-in from neigh-bours and deal with their con-cerns, then go to council,” said Woodruff.
Coun. John Herbert com-mented that a bare lot should be able to be built on without any variances. “If I were to con-sider a variance, it makes sense to me that the neighbours agree with it,” he added.
In a letter to council, neigh-bour Gordon Wilson asked council to deny the variance. “Having a large, above-ground basement creates an unaccept-ably high house and the cube design interferes with available light and views,” he said.
Another neighbour asked council to have respect for the property. “It’s cruel to the lovely lot to put that on it,” Pamela
Verduyn said. “I urge you to have them stay in what is allowed there.”
Neighbours against the devel-opment spoke for more than 40 minutes, and before coun-cil could bring the discussion back to the table, Sipos stepped up to the microphone. “It was never my intent to get people so worked up about this. … I’m not looking to aggravate peo-ple,” he said.
He then asked council to deny the variances and told
them he would come back with a new plan for the property.
Property owner asks council to deny varianceOwner did not want to cause neighbourhood dispute over new home
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A 10-year project to redevelop the Victoria Golf Club is near its end.
The Victoria Golf Club unveiled four new buildings, including a maintenance centre, snack bar, staff office, and washrooms, on May 12.
The buildings replace old, deteriorated facilities that were “inadequate” to the club and its members, according to Scott Kolb, general manager of the club.
“(The new facilities are) defi-
nitely more attractive and the newer structures also give us more storage space,” Kolb said.
The size and placement of the two main buildings (the maintenance and staff centres) has also increased the club’s use-able floor space to 9,000-square-feet from 4,000-square-feet.
The new main-tenance centre allows about $1 million worth of equipment, such as tractors, to be stored indoors rather than outdoors, Kolb explained, add-ing that the machines will last longer.
The project, which was ini-tially estimated at $3.2 million,
cost $2.5 million.“One of the good
things about delay-ing the project a couple years was that it gave us more time to do it right,” Kolb said.
C o n s t r u c t i o n started last October and was expected to be complete in April, but issues with hydro and weather caused a
slight delay.“It gave us a little extra time to
clean up some of the yard and now all that’s left is some of the boulevard work,” Kolb said.
Golf club improvements unveiled
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Victoria Golf Club course superintendent Paul Robertson shows off the course’s new Waste 2 Water system that separates the grass and water and recycles both at the course’s brand new maintenance centre.
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Fiddle favourite teams with youth
On May 25 and 26, local fiddle icon Daniel Lapp will join forces with fiddler/guitarist Adam Dobres and The B.C. Fiddle Orchestra, which consists of 30 youth fiddlers.
The shows, a Friday concert at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2:30 p.m., will be recorded for an upcoming live album featuring the trio of acts. Both concerts will be held at Oak Bay United Church, 1355 Mitch-ell St.
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Premier Christy Clark has a new political problem buzzing around her office.
A year ago, the newly appointed premier was looking to change the channel for an unpopular government grappling with the fallout of the harmonized sales tax. Newly appointed NDP leader Adrian Dix was touting an idea that is all the rage with urban folks: a ban on “cosmetic pesticides.” All the better B.C. communities already have one, starting with Clark’s old stomping ground of Port Moody in 2003.
So she figured she’d better run to the front of this parade, swipe a popular policy from the opposition and do something to redefine the B.C. Liberal Party after the tax-cutting, regulation-repealing decade of Gordon Campbell.
But first an all-party committee would hold hearings around the province, chaired by Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett.
Bennett presented the committee’s report last week, and one could see what was coming. Bennett is the rifle-toting outdoorsman who recently called on his government to abandon the carbon tax, saying it’s silly to keep pretending B.C. can change the world’s climate. He was recently appointed by Clark to co-chair the B.C. Liberal Party policy committee for next year’s election, a strong signal of the party’s rightward
shift in response to the B.C. Conservative threat.
Bennett concluded after 10 months of hearings that the public aversion to common lawn and garden herbicides is based on “chemophobia” that flourishes due to scientific illiteracy. That statement is both politically dangerous and absolutely correct.
I first covered this issue in the Okanagan 25 years ago, when environmentalists fought the use of Roundup by
the forests ministry to knock down brush and promote new trees. The evidence boils down to this: these complex organic compounds break down in a short period to simpler, common components that pose no threat. Thus, with buffer zones around watercourses and temporary entry restrictions, they are safe.
Unfortunately, most people know little or nothing about chemistry and refuse to believe this. It’s part of the scientific nonsense trend that has grown in B.C. society for decades.
We have parents turning their backs on routine immunization because of superstitions about vaccines. We have people panicked about imaginary health effects of smart meters, egged on by shoddy, sensationalist media reporting.
The parallels between local government responses to smart meter hysteria and this scientifically
ignorant push against “pesticides” is telling. As Bennett put it, when someone becomes convinced her child is at risk, “that mum is pretty darn compelling when she goes to council.” Few have the courage to stand up to that.
The committee sought advice from Health Canada, whose scientists approve conditions of use for chemicals. Health Canada representative Lindsay Hansen said B.C. was the first province to ask for its advice, despite the fact that most provinces have imposed bans. These bans are political, not public safety measures, University of Guelph toxicologist Keith Solomon told MLAs.
The committee also learned that “cosmetic” use accounts for only five per cent of pesticide use. Most of it is in agriculture, forestry and commercial pest control, with no ban proposed.
MLAs in farming areas signalled their concern over the effect of this urban gesture politics. Backyard fruit trees go unsprayed and pests spread to orchards and fields. We have large areas of agricultural land reserve, but 85 per cent of the people who live in those areas don’t farm.
The NDP is content to fan public fear and ignore evidence, as with smart meters and oil pipelines. The premier has a choice here. She can do the popular thing, or the right thing.
Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com
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‘… ‘cosmetic’ use accounts for only five per cent of pesticide use.’
Keep pressuring high-risk drivers
Last weekend’s long weekend unofficially ushered in the summer season in the Capital Region – that means more beach time, more barbecues and, for many, more time on the road.
That’s why police agencies are waging a focused assault on speeding and aggressive driving.
Saanich police in particular are hitting problem roads and intersections this month to drive home the idea that tailgating, speeding and high-risk driving won’t be tolerated.
It’s the kind of driving behaviour that frustrates motorists on a daily basis – someone riding too close on the highway or weaving in and out of traffic, running yellow and red lights and generally behaving in ways that ramp up road rage.
If homeowners are going to call the police about something in their neighbourhood, more often than not it’s about speeding or racing.
For police, combating reckless driving is a labour-intensive and time-consuming task. Unlike roadblocks where officers can wait for drunk drivers to come to them, traffic patrol officers need to witness and document speeding and dangerous driving.
But it’s a worthwhile effort. Culled from police data, ICBC attributes 60 per cent of all crashes at intersections to speed, distracted and inattentive driving and ignoring right-of-ways.
On Vancouver Island that drops to 50 per cent, but police link 29 traffic fatalities on average per year on the Island to speeding and reckless driving.
The annual campaign against high-risk driving picks up across the province in May, and more people than usual are being hit with tickets. But people need to remember police aren’t the enemy – traffic officers are trying to make the roads safer and more civil for all.
Drinking and driving remains a high-profile problem and, by definition, is risky driving. But it’s the purely aggressive, high-risk driving that impacts people’s day-to-day lives as they drive to work or school or for recreation.
We encourage police and ICBC to help keep the pressure on bad drivers year round.
Tom FletcherB.C. Views
LETTERS
This is in regards to new faces on the avenue attracting attention (News, May 4).
Yes it’s always easy to be judgmental over those who may not be as fortunate as the rest of us in their lives – bottom line, they like the rest of us, have a right to be on the Avenue.
If these “new faces” begin to do things which are illegal then some form of action should be contemplated.
As far as I know, just being there on the Avenue is not illegal.Chris Garrett-Petts
Oak Bay
Those who object to adding housing are good at making fallacious arguments misrepresenting the source and solution of perceived problems.
They’ll claim that greater density increases utility costs, ignoring that water is metered, sewer is charged on water consumption, garbage volume is limited unless a surcharge is paid and municipal utility construction and maintenance costs are covered by more tax revenue from increased assessed values.
NIMBYs accuse suite occupants of being noisy when in reality partiers can legally rent a whole house and create noise. They accuse suite occupants of driving dangerously, when in fact many suite occupants cannot afford vehicles, and drunken house owners and misbehaved children cause safety problems on the street. Those are issues of policing not zoning, yet councils spend on micro-managing property owners instead of policing.
And NIMBYs appeal to the collective about preserving views from their residence. They are trying to freeze time – they’ve got their piece of the rock, but by their actions they are saying no one else deserves any. Never mind that aging Oak Bay residents who have to give up their homes would benefit from construction of a care facility that the NIMBYs try to make more expensive or block completely.
What’s going on with NIMBYs? They are trying to control others’ property at no cost to themselves. That is selfish. Why are voters electing politicians who block the freedom of honest people on behalf of incompetent and dishonest people?
Keith SketchleySaanich
Perhaps we could call them the disenfranchised poor, as they try to supplement meager funds without government bureaucracy handing them money.
Those gossiping in the local coffee shop must be called the blessed ones, to be able to sit in a coffee shop, probably on many occassions with many friends, with the prime discomfort in life being seeing a beggar on the Avenue. Such a sad a state of affairs.
Jim ThomasOak Bay
I do not live in Victoria, nor do I reside in Oak Bay. I live in a modern condo development in Vancouver. My home reflects my personal appreciation of the West Coast modern design esthetic. While I approve of some development, lately, when I visit Victoria and see what is happening in Oak Bay, I am appalled.
It is terrible to watch a neighborhood like Oak Bay being ravaged by developers who are intent on demolishing the existing homes and trees for the sake of profit. It seems that nothing is being done to preserve the unique heritage of Oak Bay.
The current development on Monterey Avenue is one such travesty. It is very upsetting that the municipality would allow something so out of touch with the esthetic of the community to be built there. The design of the home being built is not at all sympathetic to the surrounding neighborhood.
Rather than incorporating elements of the environment into their design the developers chose to haul away truckloads of rich topsoil and cut down and sell beautiful, healthy 100-year-old trees, which were home to many species of birds and animals. This is not an isolated incident, the same is happening all over Oak Bay.
I believe that differences should be celebrated and creativity should not be inhibited. However, heritage neighborhoods like Oak Bay need to be protected and developers need to be held accountable for their actions.
Developers should be required to build homes without sacrificing the environment or the esthetic of the existing community. It is important that rules are established to enforce these mandates, and that we look to conscientious developers to take our heritage communities into the future.
L. FrederickVancouver
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Stop clear-cutting Oak Bay
Developers should not sacrifice the environment
To have such troubles
NIMBYs are selfish
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Yet another modern house will be built in our community on Monterey Avenue. It is not only at odds with the esthetic of neighbouring homes but three magnificent 50-foot mature trees were unnecessarily removed in the process.
Healthy, mature trees are sacrificed for the sake of achieving maximum size of house and maximum profits. Sadly, this is an increasingly common occurrence in our community.
We, the residents, need to request that our council put in place a committee that can protect against overdevelopment, protect existing trees, review building designs to maintain and
respect the features and characteristics which are important for the quality of neighbourhoods, ensure compliance to the community plan, and take into consideration the opinion of neighbours.
The municipality responds to these concerns with ‘the builders are within their right under the current bylaw.’ But what about the rights of residents?
We have also heard the argument that these new houses with increased property values generate revenue for the municipality, but we would do well to look to the history of other communities of historic homes similar to ours. In many of those communities, when ‘modern’
box-builds reach a certain ratio, the value of all the homes in the community decreases, while sensitive new homes and preservation of existing homes and natural environment increases value.
It is truly disheartening that the municipality of Oak Bay allows this to continue. And the fact that beautiful trees were unnecessarily destroyed in the process is unacceptable.
The municipality must act to preserve the character of our heritage neighbourhoods and stop allowing the clear-cutting of Oak Bay.
R. and C. KnowltonOak Bay
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Doctors told Tamara Fisher it was a mira-cle that her daughter Evanne, diagnosed with a non-functioning heart, was born on Oct. 2, 2004.
They had also told the single mother that due to her rare heart defects, she should ter-minate her pregnancy when she was four-and-a-half-months along. Later on, after Evanne’s month-old body was struggling to survive experimental heart sur-gery, the surgeon told Tamara that procedure
had been a mistake. Before she even knew
her unborn child’s sex, Tamara knew her chance at life hinged on a heart transplant. She turned to the David Foster Foundation, pro-viders of financial assis-tance for families whose children are in need life-saving organ trans-plants. Tamara had the foundation backing her, and her choice.
“They take you on as a part of their foun-dation and family, but they’ve also got the business aspect of it and they’re able to sep-arate the two,” Tamara said. “At your time of
need, it’s perfect for you, because you need someone to empathize with you, but also take control of the situa-tion.”
The foundation arranged for Tamara’s travel and accommoda-tions to Toronto where Evanne was treated at the Hospital for Sick Children. But despite the resources available, her initial surgery left Evanne’s body too weak to receive a heart trans-plant, should one have become avail-able. When Tamara learned of her daugh-ter’s health status, she sat by Evanne’s bedside and spoke to the heav-
ily medicated infant, IV lines attached to her head and hands.
“I looked at her and said: ‘If you need to let go, let go. I’m sorry.’ I really felt selfish at that point for having her go through all that. To ask her to keep fighting, I felt really selfish.”
Within 24 hours Evanne began to grow
s t r o n g e r and within another 24, Tamara got the call. A donor heart was available.
“You want to be excited because the greatest moment and your dream has come true, but you know that a parent’s worst nightmare has just occurred. You walk down the hallway of critical care and the nurses are congratu-lating you and they’re smiling and happy, and inside you’re overjoyed, but to be excited seems wrong.”
On Nov. 9 doctors performed a success-ful heart transplant on Evanne. By the spring of 2005, Tamara and
Evanne were able to return home to Greater Victoria.
Tamara gives full credit to the David Fos-ter Foundation for the life that Evanne now enjoys as a healthy Grade 2 student at David Cameron ele-mentary in Colwood. The national charity, which was founded 25 years ago in Victoria by 16-time Grammy winner David Foster, continues to help cover the Fisher family travel expenses for follow-up care at B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.
“There’s no way that as a single mom, I would have been able to take myself from British Colum-bia to Toronto, while pregnant and support myself for eight months in downtown Toronto. When the doctors said ‘terminate’ that would have had to have been my option.”
The David Foster Foundation is hosting a star-studded “Miracle Weekend” of concerts and fundraising events from May 25 to 27 in support of families like
the Fishers. It’s far from the foundation’s hum-ble beginnings hosting celebrity softball games at Royal Athletic Park.
“Promoting the mes-sage is really so impor-tant to us and our cause,” said Michael Ravenhill, chief execu-tive officer of the David Foster Foundation. “This weekend is a cel-ebration of 25 years of our foundation and there’s been many suc-cesses in here, but we also can’t forget those families we’ve lost along the way.”
Tamara hopes to one day connect with the family whose loss gave way to Evanne’s life.
“She’s such a sweet, caring girl and her heart breaks for so much,” Tamara said. “With the heart being such an emotional organ, I know that the sensitivity and powerful emotion that Evanne has comes from that donor. I know the donor was an amazing child.”
The Miracle Weekend encompasses two con-certs, a gala dinner and an auction of high-pro-file trips and VIP pack-ages to events such as the Grammys, the Indi-anapolis 500 and Celeb-rity Fight Night with Muhammad Ali.
As of press time, tickets for the Satur-day (May 26) Mira-cle Concert, featur-ing performances by Sarah McLachlan, Josh Groban, Ruben Stud-dard, The Canadian Tenors, Kenny G and Sinbad, were avail-able at 250-220-7777 or selectyourtickets.com. Prices range from $125 to $250. All proceeds go to the David Foster Foundation. For more information on the Miracle Weekend visit davidfostermiraclecon-cert.com.
Victoria mother attributes daughter’s life to support
David Foster Miracle Weekend begins Friday
Don Denton/News staff
Seven-year-old Evanne Fisher snuggles with her mom Tamara Fisher at the David Foster Foundation office on Henry Street. Evanne had a heart transplant when she was five weeks old.
“At your time of need, it’s perfect.”- Tamara Fisher
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The audition instructions were daunting. Perform songs that showcase the voice
using no pre-recorded music. Instead, shortlisted musicians were invited to play an electric keyboard to accompany them-selves for a panel of six judges, for a chance to perform at the David Foster Foundation Miracle Weekend.
“I’ve never had a (piano) lesson in my life,” says Turkoni, one of 30 local musicians invited to audition from a list of 90 candi-dates. “I don’t know what I was most ner-vous about, the singing or the playing.”
While the the singer-songwriter has adeptly worked out the chords to some of her songs she’s recorded and uploaded to YouTube, she readily admits she’s no per-formance pianist.
Even so, her playing must have passed the test. Or her big voice compensated. Turkoni was selected to perform a 20-min-ute session during the fundraiser’s brunch event May 27. In total, 13 local musicians will perform at the event.
“We loved her sound,” says Erin Van Zant, talent and culture manager for the Oak Bay Beach hotel, which is co-hosting the event.
“People assume I’m a pop singer with a squeaky voice, but I’m not,” says Turkoni,
a petit blond, decked out in bright pink nail polish. When hearing her deep, almost husky voice, “people look at me and say, ‘that should not come out of you,’” Turkoni says.
The chance to perform at the Miracle
Weekend is a coup for someone who has not been pursuing music seriously for sev-eral years.
Back in England, where she grew up, Turkoni won a scholarship for a music degree specializing in vocals, and was gig-
ging regularly with three bands and had her own music manager.
She gave it all up, however, when she met her future husband while travelling. They moved to Victoria in 2008.
Since then, she admits, it’s been hard to find gigs, and hard to connect up with other musicians.
She’s also been otherwise occupied. The 28-year-old is a wedding planner, runs a landscaping company with her husband, and also sells her paintings.
Music has been on the back burner, but she’s adamant it’s what she wants to do.
“I would give all my companies up for that,” she says. “I know I have a talent. It’s my dream career.”
For her big show date, she’s working with a pianist and backup singer.
“I hope the show goes amazingly and I don’t forget any words,” she says.
Turkoni’s also aware of David Foster’s presence and the possibility that he’ll be scouting the next big talent.
Van Zant, however, can’t confirm this. “He is here for the weekend but we
haven’t made any promises to any of our musicians.
“But if the moons and stars line up …” Van Zant says, pausing before qualifying again that it’s too risky to make promises.
THE ARTSThe University of Victoria’s School of Music artists-in-residence, the
Lafayette String Quartet, will give a special performance following the UVic Alumni Association’s AGM on May 29 at 6:30 p.m. Free for UVic alumni and graduates of Victoria College and the Provincial Normal School. Reg-ister online at alumni.uvic.ca/events or call 250-721-7000.
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Musician Eva Turkoni plays her guitar outside the Fairmont Empress Hotel. Turkoni will be performing at the Empress during the celebrations for the David Foster Foundation's 25th anniversary.
A14 • www.oakbaynews.com Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - OAK BAY NEWS
Arnold LimNews staff
With a new single on the horizon, the Archers have their sights set on touring.
For the first time the five-man troupe of Stelly’s secondary graduates, featuring Ethan Caleb, Liam Moes, Sandy Hughes, Robert McMullen, and Liam McLaren has taken their show east of the Mainland on a 10-city tour – with an eye on building “their sound” that sets them apart.
“We think we have a cool sound going on,” said drummer Moes. “We feel like we have stumbled across something interesting and we hope others feel the same way.”
They aren’t the only ones who believe that – early in 2011 the band secured top spot in YouThink’s B.C.’s Best Teen Band Contest taking home the cash and studio recording time that came with the
title. Keeping the ball rolling, they used the studio time to record their newest single Cathedral, the money to finance a tour, and the newfound confidence to propel themselves across B.C. and Alberta.
“We pride ourselves on putting on a good live show. We always try to bring good energy and have fun,” Moes said. “We want people to come out to our shows, the more people come out the better we play.”
Fun comes easier these days. After high school graduation last June, the future was uncertain and potential for members to embark on different paths was very real. Winning the contest reaffirmed their commitment to each other – and Caleb, one of the band’s founders, believes his choice was an easy one.
“The best decision I ever made was to stick around doing what we love,”
Caleb said. “Things are happening to us, it is not just a dream anymore. It is something more.”
When they return from their 10-stop tour, the five hope to focus on creating a new full-length album and refining the sound that is getting them noticed.
“We just want to keep what we are doing, and keep playing music we love. Our goal is to keep doing that and not have to paint houses and drywall and insulate,” Caleb said laughing. “The best part of being in the Archers is we get to play music … We tapped into a sound people seem to be enjoying at all ages. … If people want to listen and dance and enjoy it in any way – that is great.”
The Archers wind up their tour with Mindil Beach Markets on Friday, May 25, at the Off The Grid Festival 2012 at 4 p.m. at Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site, 603 Fort Rodd Hill Rd.
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The Archers: Rob McMullen, left, Ethan Caleb, Liam Moes, Liam McLaren and Sandy Hughes end their 10-city tour this Friday at Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site.
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Sixteen-year-old Oak Bay High School student Rianne Craig nudges the bar competing in
the pole vault at the Island Track and Field Championships
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Sixteen-year-old Oak Bay High School student Timo Weimer lets go the discus at the Island Track and Field Championships at Centennial Stadium.
Eye on the ballParkland’s Taniesha
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Victoria Shamrocks lacrosse roundup
Senior ShamrocksVictoria Shamrocks first
home game of their 63rd season is Friday night against Maple Ridge at Bear Mountain Arena, 7:45 p.m.
In celebration of its 63rd year, fans will be granted free admission to the opener if they can prove they are age 63, born in 1963, attend school in SD63 or can prove any other “63” at the Sham-rocks box office.
This season, the club will be boosted by the addition of 2012 National Lacrosse League all-star Jeff Shattler, who plays for the Calgary Roughnecks.
Shattler, a 6-foot, 185-pound transition is a former Mann Cup and Champion’s Cup winner
“It’s funny” notes Sham-rocks GM Chris Welch. “There has been so much attention paid to leaving players but I think fans will be really excited by the team we have here, obviously with Shats being back but the other guys too.”
Junior A ShamrocksThe Jr. A Shamrocks face
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As of last Friday, the Jr. Rocks held a 4-2 record and were third in the league after dropping a home game to the New Westminster Sal-monbellies in a close 9-7 decision.
Intermed. A ShamrocksThe intermediate A Sham-
rocks stand 2-2 as of last Friday. The ‘Rocks’ next home game is Saturday, May 26, 1:30 p.m. at Bear Mountain Arena against the struggling Port Coquitlam Saints.
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The Victoria Highlanders men’s first team faces the Kitsap Pumas and is looking for its first home win of the 2012 season at Royal Athletic Park on Sunday at 4 p.m.
The men opened its season with a pair of back-to-back ties at RAP before a road trip this week. The squad faces Sounders FC U23 in Washington State on Friday.
Top players returning this year are team captain Tyler Hughes, 2011 top scorer Jordie Hughes, Ashley Burbeary (5 goals, 8 assists), and goalkeeper Elliot Mitrou.
The Highlanders women’s first team is playing its second season out of RAP this year after failing to draw crowds to Bear Mountain Stadium.
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