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Hope for youthPart 3 in our homelessness series talks about solutions

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NEWS: Crime increasing, but modestly in Langford /A2ARTS: Oliver! The Musical hits the stage /A11SPORTS: Golfer bests course record twice /A23

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Teaming up for charityBob Saunders, left, auctioneer and Cowichan Golf Club head professional Norm Jackson, and Edmonton Oilers player Adam Cracknell look for bidders on an autographed Vancouver Canucks jersey during the Saunders Family Foundaton fundraiser golf tournament in Duncan. The event raised more than $40,000 to support various charitable endeavours on the West Shore and beyond. See story page A25.Don Descoteau/News Gazette staff

West Shore at risk for forest firesEmergency prep fundamental: Langford fire chief

Katherine EngqvistNews Gazette staff

Under the right conditions, West Shore residents could find themselves in a similar situation

as those fleeing the fire that has devastated Fort McMurray and surrounding areas, warns Lang-ford Fire Chief Bob Beckett.

Back in 1995 and ‘96 when the City of Langford started creating an emergency preparedness plan, wildland-urban interface fires were deemed the number one risk to the community.

“That still applies and given the climate change, I think the risk is

even greater,” he said.Wildland-urban interface refers

to the transition zone between unoccupied land and human development, which is at greater risk of devastation from wildfires. It’s a topic Langford has been addressing over the past few years by consulting with forest fire experts and developers.

“We get closer and closer to the fuels that are there,” Beckett

said. Comparing fuels – flamma-ble material – in our region with the Interior, for example, he deter-mined them to be quite different. “We actually probably have more. If something gets going, it could be more difficult to put out.”

With many dry, hot days under our belt this spring and a long hot summer in the forecast, Beckett is urging West Shore residents to be more cautious than ever.

While the number of people that continue to indiscriminately toss lit cigarette butts out never ceases to amaze him, the chief said many people are starting to get the message. As forest fires gain more media attention, he said, “the awareness certainly does hit home.”

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Detachment handled over 19,000 calls in 2015Arnold LimNews Gazette staff

The West Shore is growing and so is crime. Calls for service for the West Shore RCMP increased in 2015, growing by approximately five per cent over 2014. However, Langford Mayor Stew Young was complimentary

of their work, saying the detachment is understaffed and could see more officers patrolling the community moving forward.

“I think the police are doing a good job,” he said. “I am happy it didn’t climb like it has in the past - and it’s a big credit to the RCMP.”

Statistics from the 2015 Annual Year End Report showed Langford posted the lowest increase among larger jurisdictions at one per cent, rising

from 10,484 calls to 10,592. Esquimalt First Nation decreased 12 per cent to post the biggest drop.

The District of Highlands and the Songhees First Nation saw the steepest increases in police calls, rising 22 and 25 per cent, respectively. Colwood went from 3,143 to 3,503 calls, up 11 per cent; and rising about 10 per cent each were View Royal (from 2,611 to 2,884) and Metchosin (from 822 to 905).

Young said these

increases are in part due to the growth in population. Despite seeing only a small increase in his municipality, he views it as an important challenge for the city.

“When we see increases in crime we (need to) attach the manpower to it. We need to have all the communities get together and give the support to the RCMP they need,” he said. “Generally you can’t look at it as we went up one per cent. We still need to add

officers … We want to see crime reduced, not stay the same.”

West Shore RCMP is staffed by 65 sworn officers and 22 civilian staff members, aided by a compliment of 20 trained and experienced auxiliary constables, as well as 14 more actively proceeding through training. The detach-ment handled 19,077 calls for service in 2015.

Changes at West Shore RCMP included the creation a four-person Crime

Reduction Unit in 2015, following the addition of four new members into the force. Two municipal employees were also added to the detachment to help with reporting, court evidence and documentation of the increased demand for police services.

Young hoped to see more officers added and said he will be meeting with all the municipalities in the West Shore and the RCMP to talk about those numbers.

When comparing statistics, police departments use a file count per 1,000 population and the West Shore sat at 26.1 files per 1,000, similar numbers to Saanich

and Oak Bay which sat at 25.9 and 26.9, respectively. The highest number of files per population went to Victoria/Esquimalt at 39.8 per 1,000.

Some specific crimes saw increases in the West Shore, with manslaughter or first and second degree murder rising to two in 2015 from none in 2014. Sexual assault offences also increased from 27 in 2014 to 35 last year. Assaults fell from 274 to 240, while break and enter of a business rose from 39 to 84 for an increase of 83 per cent. Vehicle theft more than doubled from 50 in 2014 to 102 last year.

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What do you do when you find yourself waking up in a park?

Graham Kelly, who works at a semi-independent transitional home for youth, has seen youth facing overwhelming challenges like this first-

hand. He’s seen high school students without an alarm clock, listening for the sound of traffic and morning joggers to wake them up for school.

“Imagine you’re a 16- or 17-year-old kid and you’re trying to go to high school and you’re trying to get a job. You can’t stay at home because one of your parents is addicted ... for whatever reason it is not a livable situation,” he says. “What

do you do then? Where do you go?”Kelly is a live-in adult mentor at Mitchell

House, a subsidized housing facility for young men offered through Threshold Housing Society. The home, which does not tolerate drugs or alcohol, provides furnished rooms, shared common spaces, a living room, dining room and kitchens. The equivalent space for young women, Holly House, is also downtown nearby other youth housing initiatives.

“When I started, it was a capacity of eight and now it’s a capacity of 29, so almost four times bigger. That is a response to the need,” he says.

Despite what some might believe, these houses are welcomed by their neighbours, Kelly says. They’ve never had one police call to a home, not one community complaint. In fact, before Mitchell House became transitional housing for youth, Kelly went door-to-door to the neighbours to check in on how they felt about being in proximity to such a facility. The community welcomed and supported them, he says. One woman even brings in baked goods once a week to share with the youth living there.

The youth buy in because the programs

give them just enough space, balanced with structure and the knowledge that there is always an adult around. The successes are real for these individuals aged 16 to 24, Kelly says. One youth who recently graduated out of the program is now in Japan, while another transitioned into carpentry and does “amazing work.”

“There’s much excitement for a young man that got hired on full time with B.C. Ferries, a unionized job,” he says. “I mean, that is a career for life, every single day he gives us gratitude saying ‘I couldn’t live with my mom, I wasn’t able to do it. If I didn’t have this place to come to, I don’t know if I would have made it, I don’t know what I would have done.’ To see these guys succeed in this way is so gratifying.”

Having the house makes a difference in Victoria, where many of the youth seem to end up, but Westshore Sunrise Rotarian Maureen Hobbs, a former public health nurse at Belmont secondary and a teacher of community health at the University of Victoria, says we now need that support here.

Hobbs, along with her nursing students, has been exploring and studying the issue and found approximately 20 West Shore youth need some sort of housing. According to a McCreary Centre Report in 2015, youth are the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population.

“Talking about youth who don’t have a home to go to is not a popular topic. Most prefer not to talk about it, but really we need to,” Hobbs says. “If we take a more upstream, proactive approach now, providing a roof over their head with a secure environment, we won’t lose them. We can keep kids in school with

access to their friends and family, keep them in our community.”

She and her team followed up their September 2015 study by consulting youth at Royal Bay secondary to advocate for ending homelessness last November. In January and February, Hobbs helped facilitate community meetings and a workshop with housing advocates, nurses, teachers and politicians, to further explore the need for some kind of transitional housing.

In March, the steering committee distributed information to teachers in Sooke School District about recognizing signs in youth who may be at risk for homelessness, with a focus on educating the public. All of this happened without money to make a housing initiative happen, but Hobbs hopes for a breakthrough.

“Miracles like this really do happen,” she says. “A donation of land and/or a house close to a secondary school would be wonderful. Who knows if you don’t ask?”

Recent success stories say these initiatives make a difference, and Camillia Lawson, a former West Shore resident living at Holly House downtown, is proof of that. Lawson now plays hockey, holds down two jobs and even has a limited relationship with her biological

father and two sisters, whom she knew mostly through photographs taken before their family was split up.

She pays $350 a month at Holly House and is responsible for cooking her own food and doing a portion of household chores. Through living at the house and the mentorship provided there, she’s learned new skills, from cooking and understanding taxes to understanding the Medical Services Plan. For some youth, even personal hygiene is new.

Lawson’s new life is growing on her. “It was definitely an adjustment,

because I’m more used to being by myself … I would go days without talking to anyone. Now there is someone I can reach out to; it wakes me up. It actually gets me energized and talking and thinking and less mopey,” she says.

“Without this program there would be a lot more kids out on the streets sadly … The West Shore, they have good services out there, but housing is definitely not one of them.”

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Youthin Crisis: PART 3 OF 3: While little money is available to help youth homelessness, some advocates hold out hope for solutions

Arnold LimReporting

Talking about youth who don’t have a home to go to is not a popular topic.

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It’s an awareness local departments are trying to spark, a little earlier than usual, especially with local fire ratings already sitting at high. “I think it reflects the increased risks,” Beckett added. “Last year we had a significant period where each day, week after week, we had extreme risk.”

That risk is starting early this year. Langford Fire Res-cue responded to five bark mulch fires over the weekend – a sixth was put out Mon-day morning’s fire. All of the blazes were caused by dis-

carded cigarettes.“I don’t know how many

we’ve had in the last two weeks,” Beckett said. “I guess folks are just assuming it’s not dry enough.”

But it certainly is and he is urging residents to be mind-ful of that. “Please, just don’t throw your cigarettes out the window.”

Cigarette butts aren’t the only cause of forest fires and there are a number of ways residents can help local fire departments make the com-munity safer. Langford Fire Rescue is working with other fire departments and key emergency responders in

the region to develop strate-gies for dealing with a cata-strophic event and to edu-cate the public, Beckett said.

He compared a home to a candle.

“Think of the wax as your home,” he said. The wick, is your neighbour’s home and the surrounding property.

“The less amount of fuel lead-ing up to the wick the better.”

He nodded to some of the pictures coming out of Fort McMurray that show a few homes still standing in the devastation. “Some of it’s luck, some of it is applying the fire smart philosophy and approach.” It all comes back to emergency preparedness. “There are some things that are fundamental. Be safe, be smart and have a plan.”

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Disagreements persist on the extent of humanity’s role in the current changes to B.C.’s climate, and our ability to influence it, as many readers have told me in the past week.

But almost everyone seems to agree that growing more and healthier forests is a good strategy. I would add that harvesting and building with wood preserves its captured carbon, a fact not much discussed in emotional appeals against logging.

The B.C. government is finally spending some money on community fuel load removal projects this year, after an initial flurry following the Kelowna fires of 2003 faded in hard times. But the effects of decades of fire suppression in a fire-dependent forest system remain, as northern B.C. and Alberta are showing us again.

There is some positive news here. A Victoria-based government research team has published a study that calculates B.C.’s pine beetle-damaged forests are regenerating more quickly than expected.

Warmer temperatures, increased precipitation and the “fertilizer effect” of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are factors.

“By 2020, the enhanced growth due to climate change and increased CO2 more than compensates for the carbon loss from dead, rotting trees,” said

lead researcher Vivek Arora of the Canadian Centre for Modeling and Analysis.

This recovery even overcomes the projected increase in forest fire loss that comes with gradually increasing temperatures and drier periods.

The federal government is still working on its plan to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets agreed to in Paris last year. But the forest industry has stepped up with its own goal.

I spoke last week with Derek Nighbor, president of the Forest Products Association of Canada, after he announced his industry’s “30 by 30 Climate Change Challenge.”

That’s a goal to reduce the industry’s net carbon emissions by 30 megatonnes a year by 2030. That would be 13 per cent of the Canadian government emission target.

One of the main strategies is salvage harvesting and developing more products that use wood.

“It’s basically trying to use every part of the tree,” Nighbor said. “In forest operations right now, this is where we see a big part of the opportunity. Instead of the residual branches and whatnot just being left aside and slashing and burning, bring more of that out and turn it into something.”

That something might be a console in a luxury car constructed

with wood fibre, or an 18-storey wood student residence building planned for the University of B.C.

The other is improving forest growth. Logging operations have long been required to replant areas they cut, not just in B.C. but across Canada.

Another way to improve forest carbon capture is with more productive species, with genetic techniques that increase resiliency as well as wood mass.

A background paper from the B.C. forests ministry responds to common misconceptions about forest carbon, including the idea that logging should be stopped to maximize storage.

“Maximizing carbon storage in the ecosystem would make sense only if society stopped building new homes, acquiring new furniture and consuming in general,” it says.

“If the flow of forest products stops, society will turn to other products with higher greenhouse gas footprints, e.g. plastics, metal or concrete. In addition, if harvesting stopped and we continued to suppress natural disturbances, there is increased potential for larger catastrophic disturbances in the future.”

If Canada wants to make a bigger contribution to reducing greenhouse gases, forests are a good area to focus on. At 348 million hectares from the B.C. coast to Newfoundland, they represent nine per cent of the world’s forests.

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

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Fort McMurray fire hits hearts

So often disasters don’t feel real for those not in the immediate area. But the fire that devastated Fort McMurray and continues to terrorize surrounding areas is a topic many locals can relate to.

The fires burning in Alberta and even in our own province are a lot closer to home than many of us realize.

A number of West Shore residents work in Fort McMurray, and an even larger number have friends or relatives that live or work there. While we may not experience the destruction first-hand, the compelling stories that are filling our social media feeds are leaving few with dry eyes. Many are left helplessly on the sidelines, watching footage of their homes burning down or arguably worse, not knowing if their home is lost or one of the miraculous left standing.

It’s a good wake-up call for local residents to be prepared in the event of a local disaster. Often times we think we’ll have time to prepare before having to leave in an emergency, but as the residents of Fort McMurray can attest, that doesn’t always happen.

Now, as we head into a summer season that is forecasted to be long and dry, we need to help our local fire departments in avoiding a similar situation that could easily ignite on the West Shore.

We also have a duty to those that are left picking up the pieces of their former life. There are a number of ways for local residents to contribute to aid efforts and many organizations are urging residents to donate money, rather than physical items.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced the federal government will match individual donations made to the Canadian Red Cross to help those affected by the wildfire. Go to redcross.ca to find out more. Many merchants are also matching donations made in their stores before passing them on.

Black Press is also one of the many companies aiding in relief efforts with a crowd funding site set up to collect donations. Go to blackpress4good.com and click on the Fort McMurray campaign.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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It takes a person with large eye blinkers to categorically deny the catastrophe at Fort McMurray is due to human-caused climate change, yet Tom Fletcher makes such bold statements.

While climate scientists agree that global temperature increases much beyond two degrees are likely to cause havoc to our planet’s climate, Fletcher tells us that the 1.5-degree

increase in B.C. temperatures between 1900 to 2013 is just “one one-hundredth of a degree a year.” Yet had that increase begun in 1800, it would now be 3 C higher.

Even with the climate following the predictive models, outliers like Fletcher tell us climate change isn’t caused by us, instead blaming it on something benign-sounding like water vapour. What he failed to mention is that when human- caused greenhouse gases are released, there is a rise

in the Earth’s surface temperature that allows for additional water vapour to be held in the atmosphere, doubling the temperature increase and creating a feedback loop (NASA, 2008).

I know people like Fletcher probably don’t understand science, but maybe he will understand this. The people of Calgary

after the flood, or Slave Lake, and now Edmonton and Fort McMurray, will be coping with trauma and financial pain for years to come, as will most of us, to lesser extents. We’ll all have to pay tens of billions of dollars more via increases in taxes and insurance premiums just to rebuild what was destroyed – all due to that seemingly

meaningless one one-hundredth of a degree a year. Maybe that might tweak something for him.

So, thanks Tom Fletcher and human-climate-change denier Tim Ball, where most of the column’s source material appears to have come from, but I think I’ll stick with actual experts.

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Considerable attention has been paid recently to the numerical values assigned by the federal government to the Macaulay Point and Clover Point wastewater outfalls.

The scores for these two locations are 126 and 112, respectively, considerably above 70 and so leading to designation as high risk and requiring secondary treatment by Dec. 31, 2020. A score between 50 and 70 is allegedly medium risk, with a treatment deadline of Dec. 31, 2030. Less than 50 qualifies the discharge as low risk, and comes with a 2040 deadline.

We suggest the methodology and resulting scores are inappropriate and misleading. For both outfalls, 25 points are assigned because of the discharge volume and five because the discharge is into open marine waters. For Macaulay, 96 points come from

the combined carbonaceous biological oxygen demand (CBOD) of the wastewater and its suspended solids (SS). For Clover, the number is 82.

Assigning points to the daily outfall volume, without comparison to anything else, makes no sense. Characteristics of the receiving environment should be taken into account. For Victoria, one could compare the discharges with the much larger tidal and estuarine flows in the Salish Sea. The combined outfall flows are approximately one part

in 50,000 of the average outflow through Juan de Fuca Strait into the North Pacific.

It’s difficult to see the relevance of this very small fraction. Furthermore, the discharge is over 99 per cent water that is just making its way to the sea. So let’s knock off the 25 points. It’s not the volume of the wastewater that matters, but its contents and environmental impact.

With regard to the contents, the federal

regulations focus on CBOD and SS values. CBOD is an index of the amount of dissolved oxygen required for oxidation of the organic matter in the effluent. High CBOD may result in oxygen depletion and dead zones in some receiving environments.

There are no signs of oxygen deficiency resulting from the CRD outfall effluent, due to the strong flows and vigorous mixing of the receiving environment, so we can surely knock off any points associated with the CBOD. This amounts to 44 points at

Macaulay, bringing the total score down to 57 and “medium risk.” The score for the Clover Point outfall by these arguments is 49.

We could also argue for a reduction of the SS number. Suspended solids can be a proxy for contaminants that get attached to the

particles, but this is a very unfocused way of regulating them. The federal regulations do not address specific individual contaminants such as metals and organic compounds. Detailed analysis of these by CRD scientists and others shows that their effect is minor.

In particular, the excellent source control programs introduced by the CRD and followed by many public-spirited businesses remove many contaminants before they can enter the waste stream. The lack of major industrial activity locally also means that our wastewater presents less of a problem than that in many other places. We could easily argue for a halving of the SS score of 52 for Macaulay, bringing the total down to 31, well into the “low risk” zone. Clover would be lower still at 27.

Thus, even adopting the federal regulations but with site-specific scoring, we could argue for a low risk classification. But really the above discussion just shows how inappropriate the federal approach is.

Everything should be discussed in terms of the site-specific effects on the receiving environment, not some vague hope that potential wastewater effects will be eliminated with largely arbitrary requirements based on end-of-pipe discharge criteria.

Criticisms of the draft regulations by marine scientists at the local DFO Institute of

Ocean Science were ignored. The CRD’s own scientists also wrote on two occasions to comment on the lack of site-specific assessments in the draft regulations. While the CRD’s scientists conduct excellent monitoring programs around the outfalls, publish comprehensive reports, and can respond to specific enquiries, the CRD is not proactive in correcting the large amount of misinformation that is propagated in the media.

Overall, it’s mind-boggling that a billion-dollar project continues to be justified on the basis of the inappropriate and easily challenged federal regulations. It is sad that local officials pursue land-based sewage treatment with such meekness and apparent enthusiasm, without at least calling for a moratorium until real or potential problems have been quantified. The tens of millions of dollars that have apparently already been squandered could have been devoted to projects that really would lead to clarification of potential issues and better marine environmental protection.

Throwing more money at land-based treatment without any clear expectation of benefits is tragic.

Chris Garrett and Jack Littlepage are former UVic professors of ocean physics and biological oceanography, respectively. They were featured in a March 25 story in our Sewage in the CRD series.

Local scientists question federal sewage regulationsOPINION

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGThe City of Langford has received an application to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw No. 1608. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Bylaw at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Monday, 16 May 2016, at 7:00 pm. Please be advised that no representations may be received by Council after the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether orally or in writing, will form part of a public record.

Proposal: The purpose of Bylaw No. 1608 is to amend the City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amending General Regulations relating to Home Occupation, permitted projections into required setbacks, and maximum fence height, by amending the text of the P1B Zone to change the permitted Offi ce use to accessory only, by amending the text of the RS4 Zone to allow secondary suites on lots greater than or equal to 400 m2, and by differentiating between cardlock gasoline stations and retail gasoline service stations.

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Musical adaptation of Oliver Twist set to take the stageKatherine EngqvistNews Gazette staff

The curtain will soon rise on a musical perfor-mance that’s sure to delight audiences of all ages.

“It’s very difficult, but they’re doing it,” said teacher Bea Oertel, the director for Lighthouse Christian Academy’s production of Oliver! The Musical, which opens its three-show run tonight at the Isabelle Reader Theatre in Langford. “They rose to the challenge … It’s going to be great fun.”

The reason Oertel chose Oliver, she said, “is because there are so many orphans in world today.” Taking that theme a step further, various agencies will be at the performances promoting programs to sponsor orphans in areas such as Africa and the Middle East. “It’s not only 19th-cen-tury England, but 2016 as well … We want to raise awareness about orphans in the world today.”

Focusing on her students, Oertel said, “it’s been a really great experience.”

A number of the parts have been split between two actors, who will alternate performances. This was done in case one of the students couldn’t per-form, she said. The show must go on and this way, all their bases are covered. “I’ve had a great team of actors,” Oertel added.

Playing the role of Oliver Twist in Thursday’s performance is Grade 10 student Laura Ossa.

“I’m really looking forward to see how it all comes together,” she said.

No stranger to the stage, Ossa is coming off per-formances with the Sooke School District’s PACE program. Her favourite part of this experience has been watching the group gel. She added, “I’m really looking forward to the teamwork.”

Playing the role of Fagin tonight and Friday is Grade 12 student Keanu Enns. He’s enjoyed work-ing on the play all semester and watching “every-one gain that new level of confidence.”

He admitted he still gets nervous before each show. “When you get there, your body gets shaky, but consciously you’re okay.”

Grade 11 student Matthew Constantine, playing Mr. Bumble on Thursday, said those nerves are only temporary. “Once you get towards the middle or end, you start to realize you got this,” he said.

His favourite part of preparing for the play has been the vocal coaching.

That’s an activity that has helped many stu-dents, Oertel said. “It’s really great to see the kids develop gifts they didn’t know they had.”

She noted one of her leading actors didn’t know he could sing and was never encouraged to do so. Once they started rehearsals, they discovered he had quite a spectacular voice.

“Since the beginning of the semester, we’ve been practising every week … and we’re ready,” Oertel said. Based on Charles Dickens’ book Oliver Twist, the production will see students from all grade levels lend a hand. Younger students will even make an appearance in some of the songs, which Constantine said is really cute to watch.

“It’s an all school effort … It’s kind of crazy,” Oertel added.

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(From left) Keanu Enns as Fagin, Laura Ossa as Oliver and Matthew Constantine as Mr. Bumble pose for a quick photo. The trio, along with the majority of their classmates at the Lighthouse Cristian Academy in Langford will be presenting Oliver! The Musical, this week.Katherine Engqvist /News Gazette staff

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The emotional and gruelling roller coaster of the Tour de Rock began in ear-nest last week in Mill Bay.

The 2016 Cops for Cancer team, includ-ing West Shore RCMP Const. Elyse Patten, was announced in a ceremony at Shawni-gan Lake School. Riders representing police departments, RCMP detachments and media, plus two guest riders, begin five months of training in preparation for their Island wide ride starting Sept. 24.

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Veteran’s camp in Langford provides more fuel for enthusiasmDon DescoteauNews Gazette staff

If last weekend’s turnout for the Westshore Rebels mini-camp was any indication, fans can expect the team to make some noise in B.C. Football Conference play this season.

Not only is the number of com-mitted and interested players way up from this time last year, the quality of athletes attending the team’s spring and main camps is also expected to be on the rise, according to head coach J.C. Boice.

“I love what I’m seeing,” he said during a break from scrimmage Sunday at Goudy Field.

“We laid the foundation last year with changing the attitude. Then we’ve built on that founda-tion with a really great off-season, adding coach (Shane) Beatty, get-ting the (training) facility going. And now you’re starting to see the results. We are so far ahead of

where we were last year on both sides of the football. Just the con-ditioning of the kids, the attitude, the tempo, the focus – we’re just way ahead. I’m very excited.”

Most of the 42 first-year play-ers and many veterans from last year’s fifth-place, 2-8 club will be back. But plenty of new recruits will also be on hand vying for spots, which means this summer will see the most competitive Reb-els training camp in years.

“We’ve got 25 more kids than last year and this year we’ve started at well over 100,” Boice said, add-ing the increased field will mean cuts will have to be made. “We’re going to fill our roster with 75 of the most committed, hungry, well-behaved athletes we can – 75 kids this community can be proud of.”

Not only were there dozens of local players here who’ve been getting after it in the gym and on the field for the past several months, roughly 18 prospective Rebels from Alberta, Winnipeg and even Ontario took part in last weekend’s two-day camp.

Trey Campbell, a powerful, fleet-footed running back who arrived from Toronto last fall and has been working out here since, looks for-ward to the chance to crack the

Rebels’ roster. He attempted to latch on with the Vancouver Island Raiders a couple of seasons back but never saw any game time.

“I just love what they invest in the kids,” he said of the Rebels organization. “Especially, we have this facility and we have the com-munity behind us and the coaches genuinely care for us.”

Campbell is among a dedicated group of a dozen or so players who show up at the club’s new West Shore Parkway training facil-ity for workouts at 6 a.m. with Beatty. “They truly care about us and they care about our future.”

Beatty, the Rebels’ new associ-ate head coach and 2015 BCFC champion with the Okanagan Sun, was a vocal presence on the turf at Goudy Field. Often heard barking at his defensive players for missed assignments or being out of posi-tion, he also gave plenty of kudos when the D would come up with a big tackle.

As with Boice, he likes what he’s seeing so far.

“We’re going to be very big and fast on the d-line and the o-line, and it’s nice to see

the pieces of the puzzle all coming together right now,” Beatty said.

With four defensive linemen likely destined for Canadian uni-versity ball, and another four on the offensive line showing great potential to go the same route, there’ll likely be more holes opened up on one side of the ball and closed on the other than in recent years.

Offensive linemen Aarmin Pure-wal and Jake Hall, plus d-line-men Jorge Monzon-Yarwood and Shaun Robinson all attended the recent B.C. Lions evaluation camp, designed to give the CFL team’s staff a look at the top junior play-ers in B.C.

Boice said the Rebels have heard back from the Lions on the results of the camp, and he expects to see at least a couple of his players getting their pro careers started within a couple of years.

But for now, veteran Rebels like fifth-year safety Brody Uddenberg

and third-year left tackle Kyle Har-rington are excited to see improve-ments in the club that kicks off its season with a rare Sunday game July 24 against Langley at Wes-thills Stadium.

“I see a different level of team,” Uddenberg said, “I mean, every-thing’s higher up, everything’s faster, everybody’s more on the same page.”

Harrington, one of the guys who answers the bell for the early morning weight room call, enjoyed seeing the fresh young talent from Alberta enter the mix.

“It’s like a huge jump toward get-ting to where we want to be,” he said. “I’m just excited to play foot-ball. It’s been a long off-season.”

The Rebels full spring camp is set for May 20 to 22 at Westhills Stadium. For more information on the team or to inquire about vol-unteer positions or sponsorships, visit westshorerebels.ca.

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Westshore Rebels hopeful, running back Trey Campbell looks upfield, while being chased by a defensive opponent during a scrimmage at a mini-camp last weekend at Goudy Field in Langford.Photos by Don Descoteau/ News Gazette staff

Westshore Rebels associate head coach Shane Beatty gives direction to a player Sunday at the club’s mini-camp.


Eighty-one players, from golf legends to journeyman pros, will tackle the mountain course at the Bear Mountain Golf Resort in late summer for the 2016 Pacific Links

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Langford Mayor Stew Young said this could be one of the most pres-tigious events ever to come to the city.

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Young said if all goes well, there may be opportunity for future similar golf events.

“Langford is getting rec-ognized beyond the borders of our community. Without bureaucracy we don’t spend three years figuring out if we want it,” he said. “When it came up, I said ‘absolutely,

bring that here.’ Really, that will be the big-gest event in Langford’s history and TV cameras will showcase Langford and Victo-ria and it will put us on the map again and bring more events.”

Dan Matthews, president and CEO of Ecoasis Developments LLP, which owns and operates Bear Mountain, said the com-pany is “honoured to be a part of Pacific Links’ PGA Tour Champions event.”

“Hosting the Pacific Links Championship at Bear Mountain will enable us to show-case Canada’s only 36 holes of Nicklaus Design golf and go a long way in supporting our goal to demonstrate why we are fast becoming the finest golf resort community in Canada,” he said.

Originally scheduled for Tianjin, China, the event moves to the West Shore’s Jack and Steve Nicklaus co-designed course due to ongoing challenges in the city following a massive chemical warehouse explosion that killed more than 100 people in August of 2015.

The tournament will see the full field play 54 holes, with no cuts. All three rounds will be broadcast on the Golf Channel. The Pro-Am rounds take place Sept. 21 and 22.

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The Shamrocks followed up a 14-4 home loss to the Coquitlam Adanacs on Saturday to beat the Burnaby Lak-ers 12-9 on the mainland Sunday.

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Golfers sometime talk about being in the zone when they’re out on the course. Metcho-sin’s Casey Parsons has taken that feeling to the next level.

He was in just such a place two Sundays ago (May 1) when he lowered the Metcho-sin Golf Club 18-hole course record to 61, eclipsing the 62 shot by veteran tour pro-fessional Jim Rutledge some years back.

Having had less than a week to let that set-tle in, the club staffer went out Saturday with course superin-tendent Mike Hodgetts and assistant Rollie Haselden, and longtime club member Forrest Lockhart. Parsons shot 9-under 60 to lower his own short-lived record by a stroke.

Asked about his recent accomplish-ments as he trooped around the nine-hole

course for his regular Sunday morning round last weekend, Parsons came across as the epitome of zen-like calmness.

“I have to say, these past couple of weeks I’ve been able to stay in the present,” he said.

“It’s easy to get thinking too far ahead, but lately I’ve just been in kind of a good space.”

He and his regular playing partners have spoken about Rut-ledge’s record in past, wondering what it would take to beat it.

Playing with fellow Metchosinite Mike Van De Water during the May 1 round, Parsons made the turn after nine holes at a modest 1-under par. Then he caught fire, smoking a drive close on the 290-yard first hole and sink-

ing his putt for an eagle. He went on to birdie the next three holes to get to 6-under, at which point, he said, Van de Water mostly forgot about his own round.

“It’s kind of like a pitcher who’s working on a shutout, nobody wants to say anything about it,” he said. “But Mike was really encour-aging me.”

On Saturday, Parsons continued to play with supreme confidence, driving well and seeing the cup as if it were six feet wide.

At one point, Haselden said, some-one yelled “fore” while Parsons was in the mid-dle of his backswing. “He kind of chunked his shot and left it short. So what does he do? He chips it in,” Haselden said, grinning. “You can sometimes tell when someone’s out of the hole (unable to score par or better), but he’s never out of the hole.”

Parsons, 26, was ath-letic through his youth,

at Cowichan second-ary in Duncan and later at Camosun College, where he played var-sity basketball for the Chargers from 2007 to 2009. He started get-ting a little more seri-ous about golf five years ago, when he and some friends decided to get memberships at Metchosin Golf Club.

A nearby neighbour to the course, he began working there three

years ago in between working on his educa-tion degree at the Uni-versity of Victoria.

He said he’d like to play even more this summer and get out to some other local courses. In general, he said, he’s happy to be back living in Metcho-sin, where peace and calmness reigns and the golf is good.

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Casey Parsons is the new number 1 at Metchosin Golf Club. The golf course staffer and nearby resident broke the course record with a round of 61 on May 1, then beat his own mark six days later by shooting 9-under 60.

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High schooler aims for steeplechase, 800 metres records

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Today at UVic’s Centennial Sta-dium, some of the fastest and stron-gest high schoolers on the Lower Island put their skills to the test on the track and in the infield.

Among those competing is Col-wood resident Cassidy Steen, a 17-year-old middle distance run-ner who turned heads south of the border last month with a gutsy per-

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“That was the hardest race I’ve ever done,” Steen said, noting it was the first time she had run that distance. “We were really close the whole way, then she passed me on the last lap, then I passed her with 100 metres to go.”

The steeplechase is a low-profile, but exciting event that sees runners leap four hurdles around the track and one more that has a water bar-rier. That particular jump can slow some athletes down, but Steen, a tal-ented jumper and accomplished fig-ure skater and dancer, said she has trained specifically for that part of

the race and gained time there.She finished the Oregon race in 11

minutes, 49.17 seconds, a mere .07 seconds faster than the runner-up.

For the Lower Island meet, she’s returning to her strong event, the 1,500 steeplechase for which she’ll be ranked number 2. She was com-ing off a knee injury during qualify-ing, but has confidence she’ll qualify for the upcoming Island and pro-vincial championships. She’s also entered in the 800 and 400 metres in the South Island meet, and enters ranked first and second, respec-tively.

Having set the Island Grade 10 record of 5:23 last year in the 1,500 steeplechase and clocked 5:17 en route to a bronze medal at provin-cials, she has lofty goals for the next month or so.

“I really want to come out as pro-vincial champion for high school in the 1,500 steeplechase,” she said, adding the U.S. win has given her more con-fidence. “I want to set the (Island) record for the 1,500 and 800. The 400 is more of a work-out for me.”

Her qualifying time of 2:22 in the 800 is just three seconds off the record set in 2001, while she pulls off the 400 in “about 59 sec-onds.”

A competitive figure skater with the Oak Bay club and also a dancer at Mount Doug, Steen has been involved in track and field since Grade 3, but remem-bers doing the 1K kids race at the TC10K in Grade 1.

These days she’s coached by 1976 Cana-dian Olympian Dacre Bowen in the Victoria Speed Project. After hearing that Steen would “get bored” run-ning the middle dis-tance races, he decided to give her the added challenge of steeple-chase. The move has inspired the young athlete to work hard at improving her times and technique.

While she admits to “getting butterflies,” especially when she know her opponents’ times, she enjoys the drama of a longer race.

“It’s just fun having all those people cheer-ing for you. The last lap is the most fun; that’s when the race usually starts.”

The South Island meet gets underway at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The Island meet follows up next Wednesday and Thursday (May 11 and 12) back at UVic, and the B.C. champion-ships are hosted next month in Nanaimo.

editor@goldstream gazette.com

U.S. gold for Colwood runner leads to South Island meet

Colwood resident Cassidy Steen

holds her winning medal from the

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event at the Oregon State

high school track and field

championships. Don Descoteau

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Golfers come through in a big wayMore than $40G raised for families in crisisDon DescoteauNews Gazette staff

After a good day of golf, there was a lot of love in the dining room as volunteers with the Saunders Family Foundation encouraged players to help out some worthy causes.

The foundation’s fifth fund-raiser tournament, held Friday at Cowichan Golf Club in Dun-can, once again brought out the best in its supporters, most of whom played 18 holes and con-tributed more after the golf.

Thanks to a live auction of such items as a kayak, a signed Canucks jersey and a rolling tool chest, as well as silent auction items and other donations, the foundation raised approximately $46,000, said Dave Saunders.

“They are simply amazing individuals,” he said of the golf-

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“We’re just a conduit for the people who donate to our fun-draising events all year, and we’re just happy to fulfill their wishes,” Saunders said. “Every dollar raised goes back into the community. They know exactly where that money goes.”

Cheques from the foundation are often written quickly and come from word of mouth sto-ries about people in need. At one point in the afternoon, family members heard from the wife of an RCMP member that 20 local officers were being seconded to Fort McMurray to help maintain order in the fire-ravaged commu-nity. That turned into a $1,000 donation for supplies for people displaced by the fires.

Golfers also heard about a new $500 bursary for volunteers in need who work with the Col-

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“It’s that snowball effect,” Saunders said.

That effect was seen Friday, where a longtime volunteer who won a draw for the kayak donated it back for auction to raise more money, as did win-ners of an expensive putter and the $500 closest to the pin prize.

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