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North Saanich wins land appealDistrict, BC Assessment Authority had gone to court over air tower values, page 3

Carlie ConnollyNews staff

Following the death of a woman on Mt. Newton Cross Road last week, Central Saanich resident Megan Turpin Ereiser has started a petition titled Lights for Mt. New-ton Cross Road.

The petition, which had reached

250 signatures in just 24 hours, is calling for better lighting on the road so drivers can see pedestri-ans before it’s too late.

“I am someone who drives that road frequently,” said Ereiser.

“I work evenings on the week-ends, so four night a week, I’m driving that road at 9 p.m. and there is always a large amount of

pedestrians on Mt. Newton walk-ing up to go get groceries, go to the clinic, they’re walking to the hospital…”

She added some people are even waiting at bus stops, which she said has little room for them to stand well off the road.

“So it’s quite apparent that there’s lots of pedestrians walking

there, it’s a connecting road ...,” she told the PNR.

Having pulled up to the crash minutes after it happened on Feb. 12, she said she knew something like that would occur eventually with the unsafe roads.

“It just was really upsetting, really upsetting.”

At around 9 p.m. that night, a

vehicle struck a pedestrian on the road, west of the Pat Bay Highway.

Police are investigating the cause of the fatal collision and have noted that the section of road is dark. The conditions at the time of the incident were made worse with the rain at the time.

Please see: Resident hoping for 500, page 4

Petition for lights on Central saanich roadRecent fatal crash on Mt. Newton Cross Road sparks one resident to push for pedestrian safety

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NAV Canada’s air traf-fic control tower at the Victoria International Airport is worth more than $20, according to a ruling by the B.C. Court of Appeal on Tuesday.

That’s a win for the District of North Saanich, which had appealed a decision by the province’s Property Assessment Appeal Board that lowered the value of the tower from $1.4 million in 2011 and 2012, to a mere $20.

The change meant the municipality lost an estimated $23,000 each year in tax reve-nue over the last three years, says North Saa-nich’s Chief Admin-istrative Officer, Rob Buchan.

“Last year, (NAVCAN) paid only 10 cents in tax based on their previous year’s assessment,” he said.

Tuesday’s unani-mous appeals court decision stated that using property replace-ment costs, minus depreciation, as a way of assessing value is an accepted approach. The ruling overturns the Appeals Board decision — which was based on a NAVCAN argument that the property was worth lit-tle, as it’s dedicated to a single-use and subse-quently has no market value.

The decision would raise the value of the tower from that $20, to an amount closer to the $1.4 million, accord-ing to BC Assessment’s Jason Sowinski, direc-tor of assessment, legal and appeals.

BC Assessment had joined North Saanich in its court action and Sowinski said they are pleased with the result, as it’s a vindication of the process used to determine land values prior to this case.

He added NAVCAN has one more option if they choose — to seek leave by the courts to appeal this ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada.

A spokesperson for NAVCAN told the PNR they are reviewing the decision and would not comment at this time.

Sowinski said in 2012, the value of 19 traffic control towers subject to the appeal, was around $35 million. That changed when

NAVCAN appealed their property assessments all the way to the B.C. Supreme Court, which upheld the Appeals Board valuation — $10 for the land and $10 for improvements.

Barring further appeal, Sowinski said BC Assessments would be able to update the valuations this year.

The court action had the support of other B.C. communities fac-ing the same issue, said Buchan, notably, Kam-loops.

The ruling means North Saanich will recoup $50,000 in lost tax revenue going back

three years. Buchan said that payment from NAVCAN is automatic.

Should NAVCAN appeal this week’s ruling, Buchan said that money would be held as a liability by the municipality, and repaid should NAVCAN win an appeal.

“We are very pleased with this ruling as it overturns previous decisions that had sig-nificant negative finan-cial consequences for North Saanich and many other (B.C.) municipalities,” said Mayor Alice Finall in a statement.

Both Finall and

Buchan noted they hope NAVCAN does not appeal.

The decision involves four air traffic control towers and a total of 136 properties in B.C. previously assessed at $76.4 million and around $657,235 in gen-eral municipal tax rev-enue dollars.

Buchan said the court ruling also impacts a similar land value assessment issue affecting BC Fer-ries properties like the Swartz Bay Ferry Ter-minal in North Saanich.

“This opens the door to reset the Ferry assessments, in our

view,” Buchan said.BC Ferries also

appealed their prop-erty assessment, based on the single-use argu-ment. Municipalities like North Saanich saw Ferries land values plummet as a result, representing a signifi-cant loss in tax reve-nue.

Buchan said BC Fer-ries had been paying around $450,000 a year in taxes to the District, before the Swartz Bay terminal property value was slashed by the Appeals Board.

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SIDNEY — A RentSmart course for seniors will be brought to the Peninsula beginning next week. The specialized course was developed for seniors on the challenges and opportunities they may face when renting.

By attending this course, they will learn strategies to create a healthy, successful ten-ancy in their rental home.

The first course begins Feb. 23 and runs through until March 29 at Greenglade Com-munity Centre from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Peo-ple can sign up by calling Panorama Recre-ation Centre at 250-656-7271 or by calling Ready to Rent for more information at 250-388-7171. — Contributed

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CENTRAL SAANICH — The Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CR-FAIR) is hosting the fifth annual Farmer-2Farmer Conference at the Saanich Fair-grounds on Tuesday, March 1, 2016.

This year’s theme is: “Beyond Competition: Toward Cultures of Cooperation.” The event will feature a list of speakers on topics rang-ing from buying and selling seeds through the BC Eco-Seed Cooperative to increasing meat production profitability.

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district wins land value appealNorth Saanich to recoup taxes lost when airport tower was devalued

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The view from inside the NAV Canada air traffic control tower at the Victoria International Airport. The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled on Feb. 16 in favour of North Saanich’s appeal of a B.C. Property Assessment Appeal board decision that placed the value of the tower at $20.

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Buchan noted, how-ever, the province

stepped in after outcry from the affected com-munities.

A deal was negoti-ated that saw BC Fer-ries pay taxes on 80

per cent of the previ-ous assessment — for North Saanich, that was $368,000 in 2015, or $73,00 less.

That agreement expires in 2017, Buchan said. He added this week’s court decision will be the basis of a

re-assessment of how the Crown corporation pays taxes.

Sowinski added BC Assessments is still reviewing the deci-sion and determining how it might apply to the BC Ferries cases. BC Assessments has

appealed the land value determinations of the Property Assessment Appeal Board which, along with the Property Assessment Review Panel, is an indepen-dent body, appointed by the provincial gov-ernment.

He said the case is of interest across the country and, despite the fact that assess-ment legislation is typically provincial in nature, there could be far-reaching implica-tions to this week’s BC Court of Appeal ruling.

The conditions at the time of the incident were made worse with the rain. Central Saanich Police also noted that section of Mt. Newton Cross Road does not have a history of such incidents.

Ereiser will be in the commu-nity collecting signatures and

will also provide the information to grocery stores as well. She has already begun interacting on social media getting people to sign and her goal is to collect 500 signatures to then present to Central Saanich council at a future council meeting.

“I’ve wanted to do the petition

for a while now,” she said, add-ing that she drives the route all the time and feels it’s unsafe.

Those interested in signing the petition can do so by visiting.change.org and search the term ‘Mount Newton Cross Road’.

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Resident hoping for 500 signatures


BC Ferries’ tax deal with municipalities expires in 2017

Steven HeywoodNews staff

McTavish Elementary School has been sold and by April, will be transformed into a new arts academy.

School District 63 (Saanich) announced on Tuesday that it had reached a deal to sell the for-mer school to a “group of local social entrepreneurs” operating under the name McTavish Acad-emy of Arts. The selling price was $975,000.

Jason Reid, the school district’s secretary-treasurer, says the prop-erty went on the market in April

of 2013 and was originally listed at $1.3 million. The real estate sign at the site had, at one point, noted that the price had been reduced.

Reid said an offer was made on

the property last year and only formalized at the end of January of this year. They announced the sale once the conditions were met.

The $975,000 paid for the McTa-

vish school will be split — 75 per cent will go into a Ministry-restricted Capital account. That means the District may only use that money once the B.C. educa-

tion ministry approves a capital project.

The other 25 per cent can only be used for local capital projects, approved by the District’s board of education. Reid said discus-sions on how to spend the money are only now getting started.

In their media release this week, School District 63 noted the buy-ers of the school plan to open an academy “dedicated to promoting art, music and sustainable agricul-ture” and who will be “preserving the heritage of the property.”

The owners’ website, mctav-ishacademy.ca, only provides an email link for more information.

McTavish Elementary School sold for $975,000

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The former McTavish School in North Saanich has been sold to make way for an arts academy.

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A high tech firm with deep roots on the Saanich Penin-sula secured $20 million in new contracts in 2015 — a company record for new busi-ness in a single year.

“That will translate into a lot of employment for high-skilled professional people,” Questar Vice-President and COO Bill Collins said. “We believe we’re a very strong contributor to the economy on the Penin-sula.”

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“In the early 1980s, comput-ers weren’t powerful enough to collect the volumes of data collected from a ship,” Collins

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Today, the company is known as a world leader in electronics and software used in passenger trains.

“We evolved by taking the core technology, which is essentially turning data into intelligence. Essentially we’re

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The company is now located in Saanichton and has a current staff of about 60. It’s still privately owned by three people who live on the Pen-insula.

The technology is used by operators of passenger trains for safety and automated con-trol. Clients include Vancou-ver’s SkyTrain system and a

similar LRT in Kuala Lumpur, which recently contracted Questar to replace the system that it originally installed 18 years ago.

That business speaks to Questar’s commitment to building durable equipment that will be consistently upgraded, Collins said.

Questar has brought more than $40 million in export revenues to Vancouver Island and provided well paying jobs to the local economy, Collins said.

“This year, sales have been accelerating due to our strong reputation in the passenger rail industry.”

Questar is developing a new generation of Passenger Information System products and plans to officially launch them later this year at one of the world’s largest rail confer-ences in Berlin, Germany.

For more information, go to QuestarTangent.com.

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Tower ruling has got legsT

his week’s B.C. Court of Appeals decision to reinstate how BC Assessments values property owned by NAV Canada or BC Ferries, could have broad implications beyond the borders

of North Saanich.The District and BC Assessments, with the

support of other affected municipalities in this province, appealed a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that upheld a Property Assessment Appeal Board decision that drastically slashed the value of single-use properties — such as air traffic control towers.

Prior to that decision, the control tower at the Victoria International Airport was valued at $1.4 million. That was based on the potential replacement costs of the building. The Board,

however, sided with NAVCAN that since it was a single-use site, it had next to no market value. On so doing,

they have the property a value of $20 — $10 for the land and $10 for improvements.

On the face of it, that decision sounded blatantly ridiculous. It’s simply hard to believe that NAVCAN, BC Ferries, or anyone else, would agree to sell their property for the $20 assessed value.

Land, used by a single entity or not, has a value beyond its current use. Just ask farmers, who are often under intense pressure to sell to real estate developers.

It might be farmers, whose land falls under the protection of the Agricultural Land Reserve, who have a better case for limitations on use of their land — and therefore lower property values. Yet, we just don’t see that sort of thing happening in their case. Barring a further court appeal by NAVCAN, the control tower property will see its value rise back to its rate (minus depreciation) set prior to the Appeal Board decision.

That will put more tax dollars back into the coffers of communities like North Saanich and eliminate what could be seen as a tax dodge.

And that court ruling has ramifications. Not only will BC Ferries be paying attention, but other jurisdictions and industries will also be looking at this decision. It could affect their taxes and, therefore, their bottom lines.

We can expect this issue not to go away quietly and we can expect the courts to ensure loopholes don’t prevent everyone paying a fair share of the tax burden, a burden that fell to other taxpayers to cover when the land value was cut.

Due to a high turnout of con-cerned citizens who attended the Feb. 9 public hearing regarding bonus density and the rezoning of proposed developments, the meet-ing was held at the fire hall.

Many residents who stood before Council to raise their concerns reit-erated it was not progress of devel-opment they disapproved of, but the high density of buildings which do not conform to the character of the Town of Sidney.

The impression noted at this meeting was that all public feed-back fell on deaf ears, but in view of the Notes Regarding Public Hear-ings attached to the Agenda of the Meeting — that council will not respond to questions or make its own views known, may have con-veyed this deciding factor.

I have yet to attend a political meeting whereby the chairman is specific that no responses are allowed from the public to endorse a speaker’s concern.

It is with foresight, albeit two years down the road, when con-cerned citizens who have made their case before council and who are not listened to, will no doubt cast their votes with these thoughts in mind.

Caroline WhiteheadSidney

Slow down in SidneyIt is evident that many Sidney

residents are very concerned about proposed projects within the town.

Some of the new buildings impact only those who live nearby and will see their properties and view changed forever. But the Sidney Gateway project will change Sidney as we know it now for everyone in and around Sidney.

What will it give Sidney that is of worth to our town? More conges-tion as we drive in or out at the highway? Precious agricultural land now under concrete? Stores we do not need?

On Feb. 25, a new mall in View Royal opens. The front page of the Feb. 10 PNR states part of what we will get at Sidney Gateway because the proposed plan is a duplicate by the same development company.

This is one of the last large areas of Sidney land and we should use it wisely and all have a say in the

outcome. We are promised an open house

on the Gateway project. That is not good enough. The only way for the voice of Sidney residents to be heard is for a referendum to be held after we have the exhibits at the open house and before our town council commits us to something we may not want to have.

Slow down the process and let us consider the plan for our land.

Joan Cooper Sidney

Slim hopes for SidneyAt the council meeting on Feb. 9,

public hearings were scheduled to address amendments to two zoning bylaws.

Expectations for Public Hearings format are that, once the public has been heard, council members vote on the bylaw. However, in this case, once the public speakers were finished, a screen and projector materialized and developers made a presentation.

Who was this for? One can only conclude that the developers were there to “soften” the council and attempt to prove to them that, whatever the public believes, this development is “good” and should definitely go ahead.

This was an obvious, flagrant influence on the decision council had to make. I have slim hopes for Sidney’s future.

Bobbie CareySidney

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We know, despite a very low return, that GICs are guaranteed and offer no risk to our capital.

The paltry returns give us pause before buying, yet we often ignore or underuti-lize much more lucrative, almost-instant returns which are also guaranteed by the federal government.

The most dramatic example, applica-ble to employees in higher marginal tax brackets, is the underutilization of RRSP contribution eligibility. Statistics Canada reports that only about 24% of individu-als filing taxes in the 2013 tax year made an RRSP contribution. On average, those contributions represented less than 10% of avail-able contribution eligibility of Canadians.

Given that an RRSP contribution results in an almost-immediate tax reduction, the average Brit-ish Columbian is missing out on a very quick guar-anteed return ranging from a low of 28.2% at an income of $45,000, to a high of 47.7% in the highest tax bracket. If a one-year GIC were to offer a simi-lar return, we would jump at it. With the RRSP, not only do we reap the benefit of the tax reduction, but also the account’s tax-free growth until we eventually convert it to a RRIF (no later than age 71) and start withdrawing funds.

Today, increasing numbers of employers, unable to afford more costly defined-benefit pen-sion plans, offer some form of RRSP contribution-matching program — often matching 3 to 10% of salary, if the employee makes a similar contribu-tion. While no statistics are available on the par-ticipation rates, anecdotal evidence indicates that many employees have yet to take full advantage. Not only do they miss out on the “free” bonus from their employer, they also miss out on the annual tax refund resulting from their personal contribu-tions.

For families with children, another matching-benefit is the Registered Education Savings Plan

(RESP) in which the federal government matches 20% (to a maximum $500) of annual contributions up to $2,500, for each child enrolled. A 20% instant-return-on-investment, with both contri-butions invested tax-free until the child needs the accumulated funds for post-secondary education, should not be ignored by parents or grandparents.

For those wishing or needing to pro-vide greater financial security for indi-viduals qualifying for the federal gov-ernment’s Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP), the degree of “matching” assistance is even more dramatic.

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VICTORIA — Income assistance payments for people with disabilities are to increase up to $77 per month effective Sept. 1, but transit passes will no longer be covered.

Bus passes have only been pro-vided for some regions of the prov-ince, an unfair situation for those who can’t take advantage of transit, said Finance Minister Mike de Jong. The increase will be across the board and recipients can choose if they use it for transit or other needs.

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A non-profit group dedicated to providing dental care for low-income children has received a helping hand from the Sidney by the Sea Rotary Club.

ORCCA, which stands for Oral Care for Children and Adoles-cents, works with families whose income is $40,000 or less.

The Rotary club pro-vided funds that helped ORCCA purchase a new sterilization centre for its office.

“It provides them with an increased capacity for patients because its a good size capacity,” said Ray Andrews, director of service for the Rotary club.

The Rotary club helped ORCCA with fundraising to set up the clinic itself, as well as with purchasing equipment.

“It’s an amazing service to the Peninsula,” said Andrews, add-

ing there is a large demand to provide this type of service to kids.

Last March, ORCCA opened for patients and has had more than 100 patients who

have had extensive work done. Heather Burkett, who chairs ORCCA’s board of directors, said

their average patient has eight cavities.

She said Sidney Rotary has offered financial support and encouragement, coming out to help on many occasions. And with contributions to ORCCA, like the sterilization centre, they can go about helping even more

children.“We’ve been really grate-

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along with improved con-fidence.“Finances are difficult when

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It’s a busy time for Sidney finger painting artist Wendy Picken as she works on plans to open her own art show.

Born in Manitoba, her love of art began at just four years old in a doctor’s office while her mother was pregnant.

“I was sitting in the office and I saw some early Picasso, those little harlequins, I just remember just feeling like I’d been struck by lightning,” she told the PNR in her small home-based studio.

She said she has also always had a strong love for nature, par-ticularly gardens, which is some-thing that still inspires her art-work to this day.

“Most of the time I’m sitting here and I’m looking at my garden.”

After moving to Sidney in 1983,

Picken began taking evening courses at the University of Victo-ria. She registered full time in 1985, studying in the visual art depart-ment. She did not complete her studies and said she still thinks of going back to graduate some day.

While in university, she said she had often thought her work looked like mud.

“And so I just thought if it’s going to look like mud, I may as well paint with mud,” she said.

Being new to the coast at that time, her instructors told her to paint what she knows but what she knew was the prairies and farming. She had also always done watercolours.

“With watercolours, it’s very fearless, you can’t really play with it, you have to commit your line to the paper. It’s more instant.”

She would later start to paint with earth, ash and clay and began research into how First Nations used it, taking her back to the beginning with how painting evolved.

“I was working with my fingers and it was just such a beautiful experience for me.”

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“I would have my buckets and I would just dip my fingers into it and I would just smash it on there. It was so much fun.”

Picken was later introduced to stabilo tone crayons and began using them for her work — along with oil pastels, chalk, pencil crayons, china markers and wax

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Currently, Picken is working on a series of large pieces to show every month of her garden and how it changes.

She also plans to hold a show next year

where she will talk about how she got started. She calls her work finger painting without the paint — and stated she is not, technically, a painter.

Until November, Picken will be offer-ing two classes a month. One class is for adults and the other is for both adults and children. For details, visit her website at mangossmilestudio.com.


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CENTRAL SAANICH — Via Choralis will be hav-ing its first concert of 2016 this Sunday. Titled Win-ter Journeys, Via Choralis and special guests, the Sequoia Women’s Ensemble, will perform choral music.

The concert will include music by Canadian composers Kathleen Allen and Nicholas Fairbank as well as some various works from Australia, the United States and Europe.

There will be two shows to start off the season. The Sidney one is Sunday, Feb. 21 at 2:30 p.m. at St. Elizabeth’s Church. The other will be Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. on Salt Spring Island at All Saints by the sea.

Tickets can be purchased at Tanner’s Books, Brentwood Bay Village Empourium, Long & McQuade, from choir members, at the door or online at viachoralis.ca.

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is totally inadequate and undersells its other attributes. The Japanese giant has not abandoned the trumpeting of the car’s green nature but it’s much more low key in its new marketing campaign. Instead, Toyota is trying to persuade potential buyers that this new version is ready to compete in the mainstream against con-ventional gas-powered sedans based on price, performance, technology, safety and, yes, looks!With its new sleek, lower stance it is as close to sporty as you are likely to

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Currently, Picken is working on a series of large pieces to show every month of her garden and how it changes.

She also plans to hold a show next year

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Until November, Picken will be offer-ing two classes a month. One class is for adults and the other is for both adults and children. For details, visit her website at mangossmilestudio.com.


Hands-on approach unleashed Picken’s artistic passion

CENTRAL SAANICH — Via Choralis will be hav-ing its first concert of 2016 this Sunday. Titled Win-ter Journeys, Via Choralis and special guests, the Sequoia Women’s Ensemble, will perform choral music.

The concert will include music by Canadian composers Kathleen Allen and Nicholas Fairbank as well as some various works from Australia, the United States and Europe.

There will be two shows to start off the season. The Sidney one is Sunday, Feb. 21 at 2:30 p.m. at St. Elizabeth’s Church. The other will be Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. on Salt Spring Island at All Saints by the sea.

Tickets can be purchased at Tanner’s Books, Brentwood Bay Village Empourium, Long & McQuade, from choir members, at the door or online at viachoralis.ca.

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The series, which was started by Lenz, will begin with him perform-ing some of his original pieces along with some covers.

The other half of the series will see a choir of eight members, entitled VIP Singers, which stands for visually impaired persons.

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Those who are SPH staff members, volunteers, visiting family members or friends and supporters of the SPH Foundation are welcome to come out and show their talents.

The cost is by donation and those interested in volunteering as a per-former can contact Renn Bibeau at [email protected] or at 250-652-7531.

Donations will go towards the hospital foundation in support of its music therapy program.

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SIDNEY — Anne Pope is the winner of the first weekly draw of the Rotary Gold Mine Raffle.

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NORTH SAANICH — Ocean Networks Canada celebrated a significant milestone earlier this month.

It was 10 years ago, Feb. 8, that ONC, an initiative of the Uni-versity of Victoria, installed the world’s first interactive real-time portal into the ocean, on the sea floor in Saanich Inlet.

“The 10 year celebration is really 10 years of streaming data,” said Richard Dewey, asso-ciate director of Science Services

at Ocean Networks Canada.“Ten years is a major mile-

stone because what we’re doing, in some sense, had never been done before,” Dewey said, add-ing that the project was able to take a vision of something extraordinary and making it hap-pen.

While oceanography has been done for a century, the sea bed has never been open for study as it is with this project, which essentially allows anyone with

Internet access to visit the ocean floor.

The access has led to count-less amazing finds, including the revelation that the bottom of the ocean is not as static as people once thought. Observa-tions record environments on the ocean floor that can change at astounding speeds.

Today, researches have added cameras to oceans around the word, including in the arctic.

— News staff

Researchers mark decade of sea-floor broadcasts

Photo contributed

A graph presented at a recent ONC symposium shows, over the span of 10 years, the key properties of water at almost 100 metres depth: temperature, salinity, oxygen and Sigma-T (density).

VICTORIA — Parents in B.C. schools will soon have the option of introducing their kids to computer programming as early as Kindergar-ten to grade three.

Premier Christy Clark announced earlier this year an introduction to coding option will be available in some schools starting next Septem-ber. It is expected to be available across the province within three years, and Clark said her goal is to make it mandatory for all students

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Recognizing cyberbullyingBefore social media became so prevalent, instances of bullying were somewhat easy to recognize. However, with a good majority of children now engaged in digital networking and social media, bullying may not end with the ringing of the school bell, and evidence of bullying may not be so readily apparent.According to Cyberbullying statistics from the i-SAFE foundation, more than half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in cyberbullying. More than 80 percent of teens use a mobile phone regularly, making it the most popular form of technology and a common medium for repeated cyberbullying.Cyberbullying takes place through electronic technology and di� ers from traditional forms of bullying. Cyberbullying can occur via text messaging, blogging, updates to social media sites and/or phone conversations. What makes cyberbullying more di� cult to detect and remedy than traditional bullying is that sometimes this type of bullying is veiled in secrecy.� ose who engage in cyberbullying can create aliases and accounts under false names, allowing them to covertly engage in bullying behavior. As a result, tracking down bullies can be challenging.Although cyberbullying is on

the rise, there are some things that parents and children can do to help put a stop to such unfortunate instances.◆ Parents who feel their child is not emotionally ready for the responsibility of a digital device can hold back on purchasing a smartphone or choose one with very limited features. Some schools set strict limits on phone usage at school, and children who go only from school to home and

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There are many rea-sons to keep chickens in your backyard.

For some people, the flightless fowl make great pets. For others, having a supply of eggs is a step toward improv-ing food security.

On March 19, a clinic scheduled for the Poplar Room at the Saanich Fairgrounds will help anyone who raises poultry learn how to keep their birds healthy.

The session focuses on health, disease and biosecurity related to small-lot poultry pro-duction.

The clinic is the only one of its kind on Van-couver Island and is expected to attract peo-ple from the Cowichan Valley and as far as Nanaimo.

“The information you get off the Internet isn’t always accurate,” said Saanich Peninsula resi-dent Deb Smith, leader of Fowl Creature 4-H Poultry club.

Smith said the clinic offers people a chance to talk to actual experts who are familiar with issues affecting our region. Among the experts at the clinic will be a veterinarian who specializes in poultry,

and representatives from the B.C. Minis-try of Agriculture who will discuss small flock poultry management.

Genetic diversity will be one part of the dis-cussion.

“I find a lot of people are interested in doing heritage breeds,” Smith said.

WorkshopLearn how to keep

poultry healthy in a course intended for people who own a small flock of birds.

An information ses-sion from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on March 19 at the Poplar Room in the Saanich Fair-grounds, 128 Stelly’s Cross Road, will focus on health, disease and biosecurity related to small lot poultry pro-duction.

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Clinic helps small lot farmers raise healthy chickens


Two of the members of the Fowl Creature 4-H Poultry club are Danae,11, and her

brother Bryce, 10, who live on a small acreage in Saanich.

Their mom, Nadine Kong, says raising chickens teaches invaluable life skills.

“Every year they choose a breed and raise them and they show them at the Saanich Fair,” Kong said.

“It’s a great way to have youth involved in heritage breeds,” Kong said, explaining that mass farming has endangered some species of poultry.

Kong, whose father always spoke highly of his experience as a 4H member, said being part of the club teaches kids business and leader-ship skills.

Danae started raising birds when she was in kindergarten, keeping

five Brahma chickens. The next year she added cochin

chicks and the year after, was able to successfully breed them.

“I love keeping livestock,” Danae said. “Because I like being able to feed my own family, and to produce my own food.”

Most recently, Danae has taken on a small flock of Indian Runner Ducks, which were donated to the North Saanich 4-H club by a breeder in Saskatchewan.

Meanwhile, Bryce is raising Coturnix quails.

He said his favourite experience with 4H involved showing the work he has put into his birds.

“My best 4-H moment was when I won a firstplace ribbon for show-manship,” he said.

“Showmanship is where you go before a judge with your project bird and they ask you all about your poultry. Like how old it is, how to care for it and where the breed originated. I felt really confident when that happened.”

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Danae Kong, 11, and her brother Bryce, 10, hold chickens they’ve raised as members of the Fowl Creature 4-H Poultry club.

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Aft er a hard struggle my beloved husband of 42 years has found peace. Ian will be missed so much by his wife Renate and his children Barry, Zoe (Miles), Christina (Rod), Joan (Clark), Ingrid (Stephen), Pe-ter, Gregory (Anna-Marie), Beatrix (Alejandro) his fi ft een grandchil-dren and fourteen great-grandchil-dren. He was a helpful, kind and loving father, stepfather and Opa to all of them.

As an air force veteran of WWII, Ian graduated from McGill and spent a 25-year career as metallurgical engineer with Cominco in Trail, B.C. Always one for big projects, he then built a 35 foot sailboat and moved his family to the Islands, fi rst building an interesting house on Mayne, later another on Saltspring, before fi nally landing in Sidney for 23 years of painting watercolours of our beautiful surround-ings, volunteering at the Aviation Museum, still travelling and helping where needed as patriarch of our large family. He was always there and is leaving a huge hole in our lives.

With many thanks to all my helpers at Community Ser-vices and to Dr. Hartrick for all his kindness.

A celebration of Ian’s life will be held on February 28, from 2-5pm at the Aviation Museum.

Ian WaterlowDecember 11, 1920 – January 27, 2016

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FREE ITEMS

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DINETTE SET- table, 4 chairs and a buffet, $98. Call (250)652-4621.

HIGH WHEEL Cultivator/ plow/ furrow. New $150. Sell $50. Call (250)598-8306.

YOU BREW- beer bottles, 38 large, clean, no caps. $15. Call (250)388-9857.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fi r, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.

GARAGE SALES

EXECUTIVE HOME MOVING SALE. Quality bedroom, dining room, living room furniture. Decor, linens, lamps, elect, shop & garden tools. 1710 Lo-pez Place. Saturday Feb. 20, 9-3.

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RENTALS

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RENTALS

HOMES FOR RENT

SIDNEY- 2 Bdrm, 1.5 bath Hrdwd fl rs, 2 car garage, deck. fenced yrd. Cat ok. N/S. $1750+ hydro. 250-812-4154.

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO SERVICES

FREE REMOVAL of all vehi-cles, cash paid for some. Any condition. Call (250)889-5383

MARINE

BOATS

SAILBOAT - FIBERGLASS Spencer 31’ design by J.Brandmayr/ Philbrook Ship-yard, Victoria. Inclds watertanks, roughed in interior.Farymann engine 24 HP, ba-last, keel etc. $12,000. kijiji#1112486288, 250-723-8967 [email protected]

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

CARPENTRY

JEREMIAH’S CARPENTRY Interior fi nish, weather proof-ing, decks, fences, laminate fl rs, sm jobs. Reasonable. In-sured. 250-857-1269.www.jeremiahscarpentry.com

CLEANING SERVICES

SUPER CLEANERkeekeeklean

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ELECTRICAL

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

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. Work Guaran-teed. Any size job. Call (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

FENCING

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

GARDENING

20% OFF! Mowing, aerate, pruning, hedge/shrub trim, yard cleanup. (250)479-6495.

CLASSIFIEDS WORK HARD!Call 250.388.3535


GARDENING

GREAT TIME for pruning. Fruit, ornamental & native trees. Call Maxse for results. Senior disc. 250-634-0347.

I AM looking for up to 5 more customers for regular lawn cuts to start this spring. Chris (250)858-2055.

MIKE’S LAWN and Garden. Clean-ups, pruning, weeding, & more. Senior’s discounts. Free estimates. 250-216-7502.

OVER 20 years experience-Design, edging, clearing, prun-ing, lawns. Reasonable rates. Call Andrew 250-656-0052 or 250-857-1269.

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Handyman RepairsFree Estimates

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HANDYPERSONS

ASK ROB. Carpentry, decks, landscaping, garden clean up, rock walls and renos. Free Es-timates. Call (778)967-1923.

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

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Seniors Helping Seniors• Power washing • Gutter cleaning • Window washing • Lawn cutting • Preventative

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Serving Saanich PeninsulaVery reasonable rates

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HAULING AND SALVAGE

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

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

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.

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LANDSCAPING

CUSTOM LANDSCAPING by Design- let us build your dream! Free estimates. Call (250)391-0688.

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, fi replaces,fl agstone rock, concrete, natural & ve-neered stone. Replace, re-build, restore, renew! Free competitive est. www.cbsma-sonry.com; Call (250)589-9942, (250)294-9942.

& MOVING STORAGE

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(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave Moving- Free estimates!

Done Right Moving $85/hr. A+ BBB. Senior Disc. No travel time before/after local moves. Penny 250-418-1747

PAINTING

ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694.


PAINTING

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

HIGH QUALITY and FAST. Professional Painting. $20./hr. Free est. Glenn 778-967-3607.

LADY PAINTERServing the Peninsula for over 20 yrs. Interior/exterior. Call Bernice, 250-655-1127.

SAFEWAY PAINTING

High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior

Residential/Commercial Jeff, 250-889-7715 or

250-472-6660Member BBB

PLUMBING

FREE ESTIMATES. Rea-sonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.


PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.250-744-8588, Norm.

UPHOLSTERY

UPHOLSTERER NEEDS work. Your fabric or mine.250-480-7937.

WINDOW CLEANING

250-380-7778 GRAND Xterior Cleaning. Repairs, Gutters,de-moss, roofs windows,PWash, Christmas lights.

ABBA EXTERIORSProfessional gutter cleaning & repairs. Window cleaning. Roof de-mossing, package discounts. “Locally owned

Family business”. WCB, BBB Certifi ed; Now accepting Visa/

MasterCard. (778)433-9275.

BLAINE’S WINDOW WASH-ING. Serving Sidney & Brent-wood since 1983. Averagehouse $35. 250-656-1475

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.

WINDOWS

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Designer offers tips to stage your home Kendra WongNews staff

With Greater Victoria’s red hot real estate market, homes are being snatched up quickly.

According to the Victoria Real Estate Board, this year started with the busiest month of sales in January since 2002 with 539 proper-ties sold in the region — an increase of 53 per cent com-pared to the 351 properties sold in the same month last year.

So how do sellers sepa-rate their homes from hun-dreds of others on the mar-ket?

Daria Bunting, principal designer and stager with Victoria-based I Dare-Ya Designs, said staging your home can help it sell faster

and on average, five per cent above the asking price.

Staging is about empha-sizing the features of the townhouse, house or condo, which can help give your home an edge over similar homes in the same market.

“You’re not trying to show how you live in the home, you’re trying to show the features of the home,” Bunting said. “You want people to see themselves in that home. You’re trying to show the home, not what’s in your home.”

There are things sell-ers can do to depersonal-ize their space and make it more appealing to potential home buyers, said Bunting.

The first is to declutter the space. The second is to depersonalize the home, hiding family photos on walls and personalized art-work that could turn people off from the home.

For people who have

lived in a home for several years, return the spaces back to their original pur-pose is also important. For example, if you have con-verted a living room or bed-room into office space, con-vert it back.

The condition of a home can also affect how fast a home sells. A fresh coat of paint in a neutral colour, cleaning carpets or hard-wood floors or updating and out-of-style bathroom could also help increase a home’s value.

“These are a bit more of a cost for the seller. The cli-ent will get value back in the sale,” Bunting said.

Her final tip is a sensi-tive topic, but addressing odours of the home is also important.

“If it’s pets or food smells, lots of different cultures have different smells that can deter a potential buyer coming in,” she said, add-ing airing out the home is

useful. Staging one’s home

shouldn’t take more than a day’s work, but can be highly-rewarding for sellers.

Bunting said she’s seen an increase in the number of people staging their homes,

especially in this real estate market.

“A lot of realtors may not think it’s needed because the market is hot, but actu-ally it will help their clients sell their home for even more and be the number

one on the street opposed to one that isn’t staged,” she said, adding staged homes tend to sell faster as well. “It’s a chance to make a lit-tle bit more money on their investment.”

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NET UNCONDITIONAL SALES / TOTAL, FEB. 2015

NEW LISTINGS / TOTAL, FEB. 2015

ACTIVE RESIDENTIAL LISTINGS / TOTAL, FEB. 2015

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» 317/542» 579/1,108» 2,550/3,480

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It could be a tense spring for Central Saanich’s Terrell Davis.

The former student at Keating Elementary and Bayside Middle schools has a chance to achieve his childhood dream of playing in the NFL.

Several teams have been in contact with the 22-year-old, including the Phila-delphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs and Arizona Cardinals.

The NFL draft is set for April 28, but Davis says he expects his chance will come afterwards, when teams look to sign undrafted players to free agent con-

tracts.“It’s extremely difficult,”

Davis said. “Everyone has

a dream to play in the NFL.”Doing so requires hard

work and preparation

to make the most of any opportunity that arises, Davis said, adding that

sticking with an NFL club is just as much of a challenge as making the team.

Davis has also had con-versations with the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats, which could potentially draft Davis on May 10.

Hamilton is interested in Davis as a linebacker, which suits the young athlete just fine.

“It is nice hitting some-one else, rather than get-ting hit,” said Davis, who is working out ahead of the CFL combine in Toronto on March 11.

As a teenager, Davis starred at running back and linebacker at Mount Doug-las Secondary School and had a short stint with NCAA Division 1 school Arizona State before deciding to move back to Canada.

That turned out to be a good move, as Davis played a key role in helping the University of B.C. Thunder-birds win the Vanier Cup on Nov. 28 as the top team in Canada.

“I’m extremely happy,” he said.

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NFL dream lives on for Peninsula prodigy

Rich Lam/UBC Athletics Photo

UBC Thunderbirds’ Terrell Davis celebrates teammate AJ Blackwell’s interception of University of Montreal Carabins’ quarterback Gabriel Cousineau during the 51st Annual Vanier Cup on Nov. 28, 2015.

Terrell Davis has a shot at the pro ranks in the U.S. and Canada this spring

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Menu items are all available from mild taste all the way to suit the preference for ‘very hot and spicy‘ and everything in-between!

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