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NEWS: Unsightly property bylaw has more bite /A5COMMUNITY: Esquimalt gears up for Family Day /A10SPORTS: Royals bounce back against Kamloops /A15

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More money and more time are on the agenda for the Johnson Street Bridge proj-ect yet again.

One Victoria councillor wonders if that time and money would be better spent on refurbishing the existing bridge.

“What magnitude of cost overruns will the council be prepared to accept? Because there’s going to be a price point where refur-bishment may actually be a viable option,”

said Coun. Ben Isitt. “If we start getting into a discussion of the

tens of millions of dollars, at some point, tak-ing a look at refurbishing the asset we have might be a financially responsible option.”

Mayor Lisa Helps, other councillors and project manager Jonathan Huggett, dis-agreed, saying the project is much too far along at this point to abandon it.

“We are, like it or not, a significant way down the road,” said Huggett. “We have a contract with PCL and we have a contract with MMM, and we are not wanting to break

any of those contracts, because there would be significant consequences. We have no grounds to break contracts right now.”

Isitt questioned whether continuing to increase the budget is a good idea.

“It is very far along, and I think the pre-ferred option is to complete the project within the available budget, but what I’m hearing from our staff is that there’s not enough room in the budget.”

The original contingency budget for the bridge was $2.4 million, four per cent of the total project.

Staff brought a recommendation to coun-cil on Thursday for councillors to consider increasing the contingency budget, which Helps said she thought was too little all along.

“I’m sure the original contingency budget wasn’t high enough, and that was one of my main reasons initially for voting against the contract,” she said. “But I’m also not inter-ested in looking backward.”

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Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Victoria Foundation.

Just ask foundation CEO Sandra Richardson.

“We wouldn’t exist without [them],” she said.

Around 90 non-profit organizations received over $1.4 million in grants from the Victoria Foundation in 2014.

Volunteers on the foundation's com-mittees, including grant, investment and finance, are a vital part of this success.

“I just remember coming home from so many meetings and saying, 'Wow, we really made a difference.',” said Kathryn Dawson, a Victoria Founda-tion volunteer for 10 years.

There are only four full-time staff members at the Victoria Foundation,

supported by around 100 volunteers.Ian Izard, former board chair, has

been volunteering with the foundation for 14 years.

“This community is very rich; not in money so much as in the variety of people and the backgrounds that are here,” he said.

“When you volunteer, you're giv-ing back to your community. It's also very enjoyable to be part of something [that] is as successful as the founda-tion, and also to work with people that have a similar goal in mind.”

Dawson got involved in the foun-dation through her connection with Izard. Both are retired employees of the B.C. legislature.

“Meeting so many people of varying backgrounds has been a real gift for me, and it's been a real pleasure to be part of,” said Dawson.

She moved to Victoria from Alberta,

and said being involved with the foun-dation helped her to get to know her new community.

“I learned an awful lot about Vic-toria, and I also learned there's a lot going on.”

Izard, however, was born and raised in Victoria. Yet through volunteer-ing with the foundation, he has still learned many new things about the city.

“When you're with a body like this, you're [going to] discover lots of orga-nizations you never knew existed, and all kinds of needs in the community you never knew existed,” he said. “You have no idea what's going on here until you actually get involved.”

For more information about the Victoria Foundation and how to get involved, call 250-381-5532 or go online to victoriafoundation.bc.ca.

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Volunteers help Victoria Foundation thriveAndrea Peacock/Victoria News

Sandra Richardson, centre, Victoria Foundation CEO, with volunteers Ian Izard and Kathryn Dawson.

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Helps said this project is much too far along to stop now.

“It’s not a matter of opinion, it’s a matter of fact,” she said. “There’s no turning back unfortunately. My job is to try and steward this project to completion for better or for worse.”

In an effort to find any possible cost savings, Isitt rec-ommended an amendment that staff prepare a report bringing forward options for council’s consideration to increase the project’s contingency and/or reduce costs, which council passed.

“If we’re going to be asked to increase the budget, we also want to know where there are opportunities going forward for cost savings,” said Helps.

City manager Jason Johnson said those options for cost savings are “rather limited.”

Regardless, Isitt said his top priority is containing the cost of the bridge.

In the meantime, fabrication of the steel for the bridge is not slated to recommence until March, and is tenta-tively scheduled to be shipped to Victoria in March 2016. This puts the targeted completion date at January 2017, a 10-month delay.

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Former radio host seeks Green Party nomination

Former CBC Radio host Jo-Ann Roberts is enter-ing the political arena.

Roberts, who retired from the CBC last month, announced Saturday she will seek the federal Green Party nomination in Victoria.

So far, no other candidate has stepped forward to challenge for the nomination.

The Victoria riding is currently represented by NDP MP Murray Rankin.

A federal election is set for October.

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The Greater Victoria Conversation on Amalgamation group wants the amal-gamation conversation to continue, despite the civic election being long over.

“One of the frustrations over the last few municipal elections is that leading into the election, [amalgamation] is a number 1 topic. But immediately follow-ing elections, it gets dropped,” said Rod Phillips, Greater Victoria Conversa-tion on Amalgamation volunteer.

“After all the work we’ve put in to get the question put on the ballot so we can once and for all get this question answered, we thought we can’t just let it go at just having government doing it the way they typically do it.”

On Feb. 24, volunteers will be hosting a conversation on amalgamation, as an opportunity for residents to find out more information and ask questions.

“We want to ensure that we [bring] the community together as much as possible to bring together all of the various opinions for and against, and more importantly, all those who don’t really know what it’s all about,” said Phillips.

Expert panelists will give three-minute fact overviews of eight topics, including transportation, emergency services and governance of municipali-ties.

The group will then disperse into groups to discuss those topics including questions and possible solutions.

All questions and ideas from participants and panelists will be recorded and packaged together.

“The goal is to provide effective aggregation of ideas and thoughts and questions so that it can be provided to government in an appropriate way,” said Phillips.

The amalgamation conversation takes place on Feb. 24 from 5 to 9:30 p.m. at the SJ Willis Education Centre, 923 Topaz Ave.

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Victoria will soon be ome to a new Afghanistan memorial monument.Council approved the proposed $80,000 granite monument to be built in

Pioneer Square. The memorial will commemorate more than 160 Canadian Armed Forces

and public service personnel who died in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2012.

Their names will be inscribed on the monument.“The Afghanistan Memorial Committee has committed to fund the design,

fabrication and installation,” said Julie MacDougall, acting director of parks and recreation.

Other military memorials already in Pioneer Square include a cenotaph for the Scottish Regiment and the Royal Canadian Air Force commemorative monument.

Pioneer Square, a city park since 1908, is located on Quadra Street at Rock-land Avenue.

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Esquimalt is clean-ing up with its new unsightly property bylaw.

In the past two months, council has ordered three home-owners to clean up their property within 30 days or face further action by the munici-pality.

It’s the first action taken by council in more than three years, when it was deter-mined the old bylaw likely wouldn’t stand

up to a legal challenge.There are more than

30 unsightly proper-ties registered with the municipality.

Blair McDonald, director of community safety services, said several factors contrib-uted to a number of unsightly properties.

Prior to 2012, Esqui-malt didn’t have a full-time bylaw officer, and when one was hired he needed to deal with a backlog of complaints. It was also at this time that the city learned that it could have legal challenges over the

existing bylaw.“[The legal opinion]

put everything on hold until the new bylaw came in last June,” McDonald said.

Now the challenge is to get through the back-log of complaints. So far about a half-dozen property owners have agreed to clean up their yards to an acceptable standard.

The others on the list require some attention.

Last week, two homeowners – one at 892 Colville Rd. and another at 814 Wollas-ton St. – were ordered

by council to clean up their property.

Mayor Barb Des-jardins said the town-ship doesn’t want to be hard-handed with prop-erty owners – it only wants compliance to the bylaw.

“With the new bylaw in place and the extra teeth that we have, the process has worked well,” she said.

Homeowners who are ordered to clean up their property by coun-cil are given 30 days to comply. If they refuse, the township can then enter the property,

clean up the mess, and invoice the property owners for expenses.

“We will work with

the homeowners as much as we can and we are reasonable on how we approach

it,” McDonald said. “But after awhile push comes to shove.”

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Navy opens doors in James Bay

HMCS Malahat, Victoria’s Naval Reserve Division, will open its doors to the public on Saturday (Jan. 31).

Visitors will have the opportunity to tour HMCS Malahat’s training facilities, including its fully equipped galley and boatshed.

There will aslo be an opportunity to tour a 33-metre Orca-class patrol craft training vessel and rides in a seven-metre rigid hulled inflatable boat used by the Royal Canadian Navy.

HMCS Malahat is located at 20 Huron St. The open house runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Victoria MP Murray Rankin got a pat on the back and a new job from NDP Leader Tom Mulcair on Friday.

Rankin was named the NDP’s health critic – a plum job within caucus. He replaces Vancouver MP Libby Davies, who is retiring.

“It’s a big deal and I’m excited about it,” Rankin said.

Rankin gained a lot of traction on his previous file, as national revenue critic, where he held the government to task on politically-motivated audits of charities and attacking tax haven loopholes.

The rookie MP said he has his work cutout for him, noting that Davies did a very good job in the health critic role for many years.

He looks forward to the chal-lenge.

“We’re pushing against a gov-ernment that’s hellbent for leather in privatizing, or radically cutting back, on the state’s commitment to socialized medicine,” Rankin said.

“I’m going to be leading the charge against the $36 billion that they’re [the conservatives] are cutting out of the budget over the next few years.”

MP Pierre Dionne Labelle takes over from Rankin as the national revenue critic. Rankin will also be the deputy critic for national rev-enue.

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Last week, 17,000 Target employees working for the company in Canada found out they will be losing their jobs.

Target’s U.S. parent announced it planned to close all 133 stores, including the one at Hillside Shopping Centre in Victoria.

In years to come, Target’s advance and retreat in Canada will likely be used as a classic textbook case study in business schools.

It decided to take over an existing chain [Zellers] that had a loyal core of shoppers, close down those stores and lay off all employees. It then completely renovated them, and opened a large number of stores all across the country, all at once. This is something that no other U.S. retailer who has made the trek north has done.

Walmart took over Woolco, but gradually rebranded their stores. Building supply stores Home Depot and Lowe’s both entered the Canadian market more gradually as well.

By all accounts, all these companies have done well with their Canadian operations.

By coming in more slowly, they all learned the challenges of doing business in Canada.

Target got off to a bad start when its stores opened here. Inventory at many stores was spotty, and there were reports of empty shelves.

Target stores will likely close over the next few months. It isn’t good news for the employees.

At the same time, it shows that, in business, it is vital to have products that meet consumers’ needs, and to be able to execute a proven growth strategy.

Companies who forget those fundamental lessons simply cannot stay in business.

Gluten-free diet nothing to do with hippy science

Re: Hippy science is easy and wrong (B.C. Views, Jan. 21)

Before Tom Fletcher entirely dismisses the gluten-free diet by referring to gluten as “the new evil,” I would like to remind him and readers that approximately one per cent of the population actually has celiac disease.

This is an autoimmune disease whereby the absorptive tissues of the intestine are destroyed by the body’s reaction to gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley.

The only path to restored health and prevention of other related complications such as osteoporosis, anemia, and some nasty cancers of the gut is a strict, gluten-free diet for life.

Another estimated five to six per cent of the population suffers from non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

Research on this condition is in the early stages but medical researchers confirm that it is “real” and symptoms are similar

to those of celiac disease. For some of us, eating gluten-

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The cost of LRT without the flab

There’s very little discussion of LRT in Victoria these days. The biggest problem is sticker shock of the $950 million price tag thrown out. (We have to pay for sewage treatment too, right?)

Cost estimates for LRT in both Victoria and Surrey have hundreds of millions of dollars of road projects thrown in. It’s interesting to compare the differences in per-kilometre estimates of different rail transit lines, with and without the flab:

Skytrain Evergreen Line … $127 million/km

Surrey LRT … $63 million to 81.5 million/km

Victoria LRT … $62 million/kmWaterloo, Ont. LRT … $34.25

million/km

Waterloo costs are for everything, including trams, but with a fairly modest $61 million in road and other non-rail improvements factored out.

Louis GuilbaultVictoria

Charity must come with justice

Re: Poverty knocking at the door (Our View, Jan. 21)

I commend the Victoria Newsfor clearly recognizing the situation in our community: “more and more people appear to be falling through society’s cracks.”

The gaps in our social safety net are evident, and it seems the net itself is woven from barbed wire.

Charity, in the form of donations and volunteerism, is so much needed and appreciated by social services agencies (and the people who rely on them).

However, we won’t see a change in the situation unless charity is accompanied by justice. By this, I mean that our

society must rethink how wealth is distributed and controlled by a lucky few, while many others struggle to get by.

In addition to the charity that Victoria residents give so generously, we need to see a demand to all levels of government for a poverty reduction strategy.

Policies on social assistance rates, affordable housing, mental health supports, early childhood development, health care, education … this list could go on.

It is time for government policy to stop chasing economic growth at any cost and start favouring the wellbeing of all people. There are roles to play for all levels of government, and it is time that voters demanded change.

Justice means each person in our society will receive a fair opportunity to live and thrive. Justice cannot be replaced by charity, but charity must serve in its place for now.

Susan LowEsquimalt

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Last week, 17,000 Target employees working for the company in Canada found out they will be losing their jobs.

Target’s U.S. parent announced it planned to close all 133 stores, including the one at Hillside Shopping Centre in Victoria.

In years to come, Target’s advance and retreat in Canada will likely be used as a classic textbook case study in business schools.

It decided to take over an existing chain [Zellers] that had a loyal core of shoppers, close down those stores and lay off all employees. It then completely renovated them, and opened a large number of stores all across the country, all at once. This is something that no other U.S. retailer who has made the trek north has done.

Walmart took over Woolco, but gradually rebranded their stores. Building supply stores Home Depot and Lowe’s both entered the Canadian market more gradually as well.

By all accounts, all these companies have done well with their Canadian operations.

By coming in more slowly, they all learned the challenges of doing business in Canada.

Target got off to a bad start when its stores opened here. Inventory at many stores was spotty, and there were reports of empty shelves.

Target stores will likely close over the next few months. It isn’t good news for the employees.

At the same time, it shows that, in business, it is vital to have products that meet consumers’ needs, and to be able to execute a proven growth strategy.

Companies who forget those fundamental lessons simply cannot stay in business.

Gluten-free diet nothing to do with hippy science

Re: Hippy science is easy and wrong (B.C. Views, Jan. 21)

Before Tom Fletcher entirely dismisses the gluten-free diet by referring to gluten as “the new evil,” I would like to remind him and readers that approximately one per cent of the population actually has celiac disease.

This is an autoimmune disease whereby the absorptive tissues of the intestine are destroyed by the body’s reaction to gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley.

The only path to restored health and prevention of other related complications such as osteoporosis, anemia, and some nasty cancers of the gut is a strict, gluten-free diet for life.

Another estimated five to six per cent of the population suffers from non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

Research on this condition is in the early stages but medical researchers confirm that it is “real” and symptoms are similar

to those of celiac disease. For some of us, eating gluten-

free restores our health and is literally life-saving.

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The cost of LRT without the flab

There’s very little discussion of LRT in Victoria these days. The biggest problem is sticker shock of the $950 million price tag thrown out. (We have to pay for sewage treatment too, right?)

Cost estimates for LRT in both Victoria and Surrey have hundreds of millions of dollars of road projects thrown in. It’s interesting to compare the differences in per-kilometre estimates of different rail transit lines, with and without the flab:

Skytrain Evergreen Line … $127 million/km

Surrey LRT … $63 million to 81.5 million/km

Victoria LRT … $62 million/kmWaterloo, Ont. LRT … $34.25

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Waterloo costs are for everything, including trams, but with a fairly modest $61 million in road and other non-rail improvements factored out.

Louis GuilbaultVictoria

Charity must come with justice

Re: Poverty knocking at the door (Our View, Jan. 21)

I commend the Victoria Newsfor clearly recognizing the situation in our community: “more and more people appear to be falling through society’s cracks.”

The gaps in our social safety net are evident, and it seems the net itself is woven from barbed wire.

Charity, in the form of donations and volunteerism, is so much needed and appreciated by social services agencies (and the people who rely on them).

However, we won’t see a change in the situation unless charity is accompanied by justice. By this, I mean that our

society must rethink how wealth is distributed and controlled by a lucky few, while many others struggle to get by.

In addition to the charity that Victoria residents give so generously, we need to see a demand to all levels of government for a poverty reduction strategy.

Policies on social assistance rates, affordable housing, mental health supports, early childhood development, health care, education … this list could go on.

It is time for government policy to stop chasing economic growth at any cost and start favouring the wellbeing of all people. There are roles to play for all levels of government, and it is time that voters demanded change.

Justice means each person in our society will receive a fair opportunity to live and thrive. Justice cannot be replaced by charity, but charity must serve in its place for now.

Susan LowEsquimalt

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When the B.C. government last resorted to shooting wolves from helicopters in the 1980s, an emotional public outcry forced a retreat.

In the B.C. tradition, sensation-seeking urban media and protesters led the way. An outraged reporter named Pamela Martin marched a BCTV crew off the road near Fort St. John to expose this presumed crime against nature. With a metre of snow and temperatures dipping to -40, they didn’t get far, but public sentiment was aroused enough for politicians to overrule wildlife biologists.

This winter, while snow reveals the wolves’ location from the air, the choppers and rifles are out again. And my heart goes out to the biologists and First Nations hunters who face this grim task.

The South Selkirk mountain caribou herd, which ranges between B.C., Idaho and Washington, has been the target of intensive conservation efforts by governments on both sides of the border. Six of the remaining 18 animals now wear radio collars. There were 46 in 2009, only 27 by 2012, and wolves have killed two more since last spring.

Targeted hunting and trapping haven’t been sufficient, so up to 24 grey wolves are to be shot from the air before the snow melts.

There are seven caribou

herds in the South Peace, with the Graham herd the largest at about 700. It’s the control group, left to fend for itself as a measure of wolf removal for the rest. The Burnt Pine herd is down to one bull, effectively extinct. The province and Treaty 8 First Nations are working on a plan to kill 120

to 160 wolves in that region.

It’s long been accepted that resource roads, logging and recreational trail use have increased herd disruption and predator access through what would otherwise be seamless bush and deep snow.

Snowmobiles and even back-country skiers can shift the balance. Smithers-area outdoor enthusiasts are currently being urged to stay away from the Telkwa Mountains, where the caribou herd is down to fewer than 20 animals. Local hunting and snowmobile clubs have observed a ban on motorized travel since 2003, but of course there will always be yahoos who chase animals for fun.

A mountain caribou recovery plan was implemented in 2007, protecting 2.2 million hectares from logging and road-building, including most of the core habitat of the South Selkirk herd. The Nature Conservancy of Canada bought 550 square kilometres in that region to protect habitat.

Strategies include transplanting animals from healthier to weaker herds to increase genetic diversity, and capturing and penning females with young calves to keep them from being picked off by wolves.

The B.C. grey wolf population averages around 8,500, with managed hunting and trapping to protect livestock while preserving the wolf as apex predator in most of its wide range.

This context is seldom reported by Vancouver media, which mostly sees its role not as explaining issues but rather embarrassing whatever political party is in power, and providing an uncritical platform for the stop-logging-mining-energy crowd, which is seen as popular with urban viewers.

Remember the spotted owl, with the fringe of its range extending into southern B.C.? Our branch-plant enviros marketed that one for years. Its core habitat is Washington and Oregon, where many sawmills were shuttered to “save” them.

Now they’re shooting invasive barred owls, which have emerged as a greater threat to spotted owls than logging. Context is important.

I suppose we’ll never know what difference the 1980s wolf kill would have made if it hadn’t been shouted down for TV ratings and urban enviro-donations.

•••Tom Fletcher is legislature

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A political stalemate at the Capital Regional District over sewage treatment in the region will in the end benefit taxpayers, says Esqui-malt Mayor Barb Des-jardins.

Desjardins co-chairs Westside Solutions, a group which has brought Esquimalt, Col-wood, Langford, View Royal and Songhees Nation together to find a solution to building a sewage treatment plant in the region.

Victoria, Saanich and Oak Bay are moving to form a parallel commit-tee on the eastside of Greater Victoria.

The committees are supported by the CRD and municipal staff to develop and evaluate sub-regional treatment options for their com-munities.

“This is a process of educating, and a pro-cess of engaging the public, and an under-standing of what com-munities are looking and wanting,” Desjar-dins said.

“It may mean the need for plants on this side and plants on that side, but at the end of the day it will be a bet-ter process for every-one.”

The CRD is required by federal legislation to treat its sewage to a

secondary or greater level by 2020, and the province has set a sew-age treatment deadline of 2018. Some direc-tors are pushing for an extension of the provin-cial deadline to 2020.

Last spring, the proj-ect to develop a regional wastewater treatment facility at McLoughlin Point came to a grind-ing halt after Esquimalt denied required rezon-ing and the province declined to intervene. Work was to begin by the end of July on the projected $788-million plant.

The province has committed $248 mil-lion, while the federal government has offered

$253.4 million towards the final project cost contingent on meet-ing specific time lines. Additional costs are the CRD’s responsibility.

Westside Solutions held a series of public meetings over the last few weeks to get pub-lic input on the envi-ronmental, social and economic impact of the project. Similar meet-ings are planned by the Eastside working group.

“We’re not yet pro-posing anything. We’re providing overview information,” Desjar-dins said.

“We have to look at it from a greater perspec-tive.”

Both Desjardins and Nils Jensen, Oak Bay mayor and CRD chair, hope by the end of the process there won’t be two independent sys-tems.

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

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Washington State Ferries was shown what they termed a status quo budget proposal by that state’s governor last month.

That’s good news for the Capital Region, as it means there will be none of the ferry service reductions proposed earlier in the fall.

Washington State Ferries had floated the idea of reduc-ing the winter shutdown by another two months to save money.

Lars Erickson, communica-tions director of the Washing-ton State Department of Trans-portation, said the governor’s budget means their depart-ment holds the line, compared to the previous fiscal year.

Melissa Johnson, operations

policy advisor for WSDOT and the Sidney, B.C. terminal man-ager, added that proposed budget supports the current level of service.

Johnson and security man-ager Helmut Steele were in Sid-ney Dec. 15 and gave the local town council an overview of 2014 and a preview of things to come in 2015.

“We have growing traffic on our special route,” Johnson said, referring to the Sidney-Anacortes route.

“Since 2007, there have been more Canadians enter-ing the U.S. (than the other way around),” she explained. “This is vital information that people, especially legislators, need to know.”

She said Washington State Ferries (WSF) is the largest ferry system in the U.S. and carried an estimated 22.8 mil-

lion passengers and 10 million vehicles in the last fiscal year.

Johnson said they’ve been able to welcome that many by keeping their fares compa-rable to those offered by the Coho Ferry and even B.C. Fer-ries.

With 450 sailings each day (total, from Seattle, Anacortes, the San Juan Islands and Sid-ney), Johnson said they pro-vide steady employment for 1,770 people.

“We’re third in the world for the number of annual passen-gers.”

This year, Johnson said WSF will build their second new vessel, replacing some of their older vessels. None of the new vessels (they will build a total of three) will make the Sidney to Anacortes run. Johnson said crews and ferries that do ply international waters must

be specially trained and out-fitted.

Steele, security boss for WSF for the last 10 years, said they have pumped $38 million into security since 2004. He was quick to point out that there have been no specific threats in regard to the ferry service.

That said, Steele pointed out they take security seri-ously and work closely with agencies like Transport Can-ada, the RCMP, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Washington State Patrol.

Sidney, in the meantime, is expanding its international ferry terminal. A new toll booth is under construction – estimated to be done by the time the WSF service resumes on March 22, after its regular winter shutdown which began Dec. 27.

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After an apartment building fire displaced 70 residents, a Victo-ria poverty advocacy group is filing a petition to the B.C. Supreme Court for judicial review

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Monday, Feb. 2Township council

meeting. Esquimalt Municipal Hall, 1229 Esquimalt Rd., 7 p.m. Agendas for upcoming Council and Committee of the Whole meetings are on the website by 4:30 p.m. on the Friday prior to the Monday meeting date.

Saturday, Feb. 7Family Fitness in

support of Esquimalt Neighbourhood House. Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser St., 9 to 10 a.m. Admission by donation. Info: Melissa Wight at 250-412-8502.

Monday, Feb. 9Esquimalt Recreation

Family Day. Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser St., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring the family for a day of free family fun at Esquimalt Recreation’s Family Day celebration!

Saturday, Feb. 14Community Recycling

Depot. Archie Browning Sports Centre, rear parking lot, 9 a.m. to noon. The Community Recycling Depot, operated by Pacific Mobile Depots, provides residents with an opportunity to recycle household items that are not allowed in curbside blue boxes, such as soft and hard plastics,

Styrofoam, and electronics.

Monday, March 2Esquimalt

Photography Club Annual Spring Photo Show.Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser St. Show open to public until March 31. An open house will be held at the Recreation Centre on Thursday March 5, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 8Gigantic Kids Garage

Sale. Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser St., 9 a.m. to noon. Table rentals reserved through the Esquimalt Recreation Centre by phone: 250-412-8500.

It’s all about family next month in Esquimalt.

It all begins Feb. 7 when Esqui-malt Parks and Recreation hosts Family Fitness as part of its Fam-ily Day Weekend celebration.

Families are offered two fit-ness classes in support of Esqui-malt Neighbourhood House.

They can pick Family Yoga or Active Families at the Family Fit-ness Frenzy.

No pre-registration is required. Admission by donation at Esqui-malt Recreation Centre, 527 Fra-ser St.

The event runs from 9 to 10 a.m.

On Family Day (Feb. 9), the doors again swing open for the Family Day Celebration.

All events are free from 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m.From 10 a.m. to noon, the

bouncy castle, toddler playzone, kids activity corner are open.

Also beginning at 10 a.m., there is free admission to the pool and weightroom.

The Esquimalt Lions Club is hosting a barbecue by donation 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. as a fundraiser for a splash park in Esquimalt.

Minimum donations:Hamburger, chips and drink,

$4; Hot dog, chips and drink, $3; popcorn, $1.

Beef and vegetarian options will be available.

Let us knowHave a newsworthy item for the Victoria News? If it involves a community event or other endeavour in Victoria or Esquimalt, send it along for consideration. Fax the information to 250-386-2624 or email it to [email protected]. For further information, please call the editor at 250-480-3265.

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The Township of Esquimalt had its roots just to the west of the main entrance to HMC Dockyard.

The original Esquimalt village was a small settlement of civilians, naval and merchant marine personnel.

While the Royal Navy and merchant ships had made use of deep waters of Esquimalt harbour as early as the late 1830s, it was not until 1865 that the naval base was officially made permanent by an Imperial Order in Council ensuring a future for the fledgling settlement.

The village was centered on Wharf Street, which ran north and south from the harbour to what is still today, Hospital Road with residences clustered to the south-west on Plumstead, Carden, Haig and Crittle streets.

Re-named Pioneer

Street in 1917 to respect its early importance in local history, the street offered services and shopping to the citizens of early Esquimalt and members of the Royal Navy. Directories, spanning several decades, show a variety of amenities. Restaurants such as the Royal, general merchants and popular hotels like the Ship Inn, the Globe, the Rainbow and the Esquimalt (aka the End House), provided the

necessities of life. In addition to boat

works and an iron and brass foundry, two laundries, operated by Lung Yick and Soue Kee, kept everyone in “good nick” while the post office in McAllister’s store and the Number 4 streetcar provided communication with the outside world.

The village also has a place in aviation history.

Canadian Airways

established a seaplane airmail and passenger service in Esquimalt harbour. Operating out of the basement of the Esquimalt Hotel, the office and waiting room provided direct access to the seaplane jetty in Village Bay. History was made in 1937 with the first airmail flight from Montreal to Esquimalt.

The Second World War brought an end to the village. In 1941, the need to expand the naval base to meet wartime requirements resulted in the Department of National Defence expropriating all private land.

Commercial and residential buildings were demolished and by 1942, the community ceased to exist. The last to go? Somewhat fittingly, the Esquimalt Hotel.

• Heritage Week runs Feb. 16 to 22. This year’s theme is Main Street: At the Heart of the Community. Please stay tuned to esquimalt.ca for updates on the township’s salute to its historic Main Street, Esquimalt Road.

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Modern technology is helping seniors stay home longer, and business is booming.

Though the costs to install ceiling lifts, stair lifts, mobile lifts and other mobility assisting technologies in the home place are significant, there are plenty of arguments for it. For one, it’s often less than the cost of full time assisted living in a care home, says Corinne Kerr of Esquimalt’s Angel Accessi-bility Solutions.

“There’s a lot of research supporting the benefits of staying at home longer, and that’s what we offer. You retain your home and the proximity to friends. It’s easier on the family, promotes long term health and is easier on the health care system,” Kerr said.

George Szwender started Angel by sell-ing lifts out of his home in 1997, and today Angel Solutions is based out of a 12,000 square-foot showroom and warehouse

along the industrially zoned Viewfield Road. The store has 24 employees, including tech-nicians who install the lifts in customer homes. Angel has also opened up stores in Courtenay, Vancouver, Kelowna and Port-land, Ore. Last week, Angel was purchased by Prism Medical, a publicly traded (TSX Venture) ceiling-lift manufacturer for $3.6 million, as it moves into the retail side of the industry.

“Everything will stay the same,” said Angel Solutions chief operating officer Chris Swift. “We’re proud of our commitment to service. We’ll continue to have service tech-nicians available 24-7 for maintenance.”

Angel Solutions isn’t without it’s competi-tors, as other brands of stair and ceiling lifts are available.

On Jan. 16 Richmond-based HME Mobil-ity and Accessibility opened a store on Gov-ernment Street.

“We’ve been selling and installing sys-tems on the Island for years so now we’re here,” said HME’s Victoria manager Jessica Park.

While HME’s Victoria store is small in

comparison to Angel, it’s arrival shows the trend for electronic home mobility options is only growing. HME regularly sells and installs three stair lifts per day. Just as Angel has a diverse catalogue of home care solu-tions, such as easy access bath tubs, HME carries lift and recline chairs, hospital beds, walkers, wheelchairs, bathroom safety

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n the past I have been criti-cal of the provincial govern-ment’s preferred model for its new Office of the Seniors Advocate.

My concerns have been: Firstly, that the Advocate is a servant of the Health Minister and not the whole Legislature thus diminishing the office’s independence; and, that the Advocate does not have a mandate to investigate indi-vidual cases of elder abuse and hardship.

That said, the appointee, Victoria’s Isobel Mackenzie, seems determined to make her office as inclusive as possible and to bur-row down into some pressing issues.

This past month Mackenzie’s office started forming a council of advisors to be made up of seniors from around the prov-ince. In 2015 these seniors will bring “their diverse experience and perspective on seniors’ issues (and) bring forward issues and concerns and review projects, reports and recommendations developed by the Office of the Seniors Advocate.”

The council will meet four times a year and will consist of 25 to 30 members appointed for terms of one to three years. Seniors who would like to serve on the council were expected to apply by Dec. 18,

but I suspect there is still time to sign up.

To do that go to: seniorsadvo-catebc.ca/council-of-advisers.

As well in the New Year, Macken-zie will conduct a series of surveys designed to probe the quality and adequacy of services provided to seniors. The results will be pub-lished on the Advocate’s website.

The first will be an independent satisfaction survey for all publicly funded residential care facilities with the results posted by facility

so that seniors and their families will be able to see how the facilities in their com-munity compare with others in B.C.

Next there will be independent satisfac-tion survey for all publicly funded home support clients and users of HandyDART services.

Finally, the office will conduct a survey of waiting times and refusal rates for Shel-ter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) appli-cations. This will allow the Advocate to ensure that B.C. Housing is continuing to meet the needs of seniors through this pro-gram.

“I’m going to ask the consumers directly what is working and what is not working,” Mackenzie says. She insists the findings will be “independent” from the provincial government and will be published.

“We’ve all read a rash of recent headlines and stories about how today’s seniors are rich, affluent and getting too much help from government,” she says. “I find them inflammatory, offensive and, most impor-tantly, they are wrong.”

Most seniors in B.C. live on less than $25,000 per year with 52,000 living on less than $17,000 per year, she says.

“We need to spare our seniors the indig-nity of begging for help.”

Mackenzie sure seems to be saying all the right things. I hope her voice continues to be strong enough to foster a culture of independence in her office that was absent in its founding.

While she may not have a mandate to require government to respond to seniors’ programs shortcomings revealed in these surveys, she certainly has made it clear she will make sure everyone shares her findings.

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Evidence shows seniors are more sus-ceptible to fraud in the morning. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) says telephone scammers know this, and are exploiting Canadians with a new credit card phishing scam.

Daniel Williams, a senior call-taker at CFAC says the new phishing scam is targeting people in the early morning between 5 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. when they are sleepy and potentially vulnerable.

The scammer claims to be calling from the victims’ bank and says a credit card was used without authorization the pre-vious evening. Because of the early hour, the groggy victim will often volunteer information.

“The consumer lets them know who they bank with, then the suspects will read out the first few digits of the credit card which is standard for that bank and that credit card,” Williams says.

The scammers then ask the victim for the next eight digits to confirm their iden-tity. Once the scammers have the com-plete card number, they use the informa-tion to make purchases on the account. In actuality, Canadian banks are not in the habit of soliciting personal informa-tion by phone or by e-mail.

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Pianist Stewart Goodyear returns to Victoria this week-end to play Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Victo-ria Symphony.

Victoria Symphony music director Tania Miller leads the concert, which also includes a recent composition by Vancou-ver-based composer Jocelyn Morlock and Beethoven’s Sym-phony No. 8.

Goodyear was inspired to become a pianist at age three when he first heard Tchaikovsky and Grieg’s piano concertos.

After starting formal piano lessons four years later, Good-year completed studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in

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Goodyear has performed with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the New York Phil-harmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

While he is known as a Beethoven specialist, his rep-ertoire is varied, from Bach to Liszt to Messiaen, and, as Victo-ria will find out Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, Brahms. This will be the first time Goodyear will perform the immense Brahms Piano Con-certo No. 2.

These concerts mark the second time Miller will lead Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in Victoria, having last con-ducted the work in 2008.

Also on the program is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, a classical symphony demon-strating the composer’s bril-liance.

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Pianist Stewart Goodyear will perform Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Victoria Symphony at two concerts this weekend.

The Capital Regional District has teamed up with FortisBC, City Green Solutions and munici-palities to again offer its popular water and energy efficiency pro-gram for multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs), through the Tap by Tap MURB Program.

The Tap by Tap MURB pro-gram will provide building and property managers represent-ing up to 3,000 units, with free water and energy saving fix-tures, including showerheads and kitchen and bathroom fau-cet aerators.

“This program has proven to be an easy way for eligible

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“We are extremely pleased that more apartments, condo-miniums and other multi-resi-dent unit buildings will benefit from this program, helping us meet our regional sustainability goals.”

Roughly 25 per cent of the energy used in a typical B..C home can be attributed to water heating. Residential buildings are responsible for approximately 21 per cent of

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The Tap by Tap Program was first piloted in the region in 2011. The 2013 MURB-focused pro-gram resulted in more than 3,000 residential unit retrofits saving approximately 43,767,052 litres of potable water, 548,085 kWh of electricity, 5,029 gigajoules of natural gas and 265 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annu-ally.

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Volunteers with the SPOKES Bicy-cle program hope to rescue hun-dreds of adult bicycles left sitting in basements, garages and backyards for its refurbished bike loan and rental programs.

SPOKES has been combining recycling with cycling at the Uni-versity of Victoria since 2003.

The concept evolved from a class project idea into an award-winning, volunteer led initiative that pro-vides measurable benefits for the campus community, the environ-ment and the economy.

Dedicated volunteers give new life to old, unwanted bikes to create safe, green and affordable transpor-tation options for students, faculty

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Some of the donated bicycles will be used for parts, while others will only require minor repairs and TLC before they can be used in the SPOKES loan program.

Members of the public are encouraged to drop off their bicy-cle donations on Saturday (Jan. 31) from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Parking Lot 4 (next to Centennial Stadium) on the University of Victoria cam-pus.

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Pianist Stewart Goodyear returns to Victoria this week-end to play Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Victo-ria Symphony.

Victoria Symphony music director Tania Miller leads the concert, which also includes a recent composition by Vancou-ver-based composer Jocelyn Morlock and Beethoven’s Sym-phony No. 8.

Goodyear was inspired to become a pianist at age three when he first heard Tchaikovsky and Grieg’s piano concertos.

After starting formal piano lessons four years later, Good-year completed studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in

Toronto and undergraduate and master’s degrees at the Curtis Institute and Julliard respec-tively.

Goodyear has performed with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the New York Phil-harmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

While he is known as a Beethoven specialist, his rep-ertoire is varied, from Bach to Liszt to Messiaen, and, as Victo-ria will find out Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, Brahms. This will be the first time Goodyear will perform the immense Brahms Piano Con-certo No. 2.

These concerts mark the second time Miller will lead Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in Victoria, having last con-ducted the work in 2008.

Also on the program is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, a classical symphony demon-strating the composer’s bril-liance.

[email protected]

Symphony presents Brahms concertGoodyear plays Brahmsn WHEN: Jan. 31, 8 p.m.; Feb. 1, 2:30 p.m.

n WHERE: Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St.

n TICKETS: $30 to $80.

n WEBSITE: victoriasymphony.ca

Contributed

Pianist Stewart Goodyear will perform Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Victoria Symphony at two concerts this weekend.

The Capital Regional District has teamed up with FortisBC, City Green Solutions and munici-palities to again offer its popular water and energy efficiency pro-gram for multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs), through the Tap by Tap MURB Program.

The Tap by Tap MURB pro-gram will provide building and property managers represent-ing up to 3,000 units, with free water and energy saving fix-tures, including showerheads and kitchen and bathroom fau-cet aerators.

“This program has proven to be an easy way for eligible

MURBs to reduce water, energy and greenhouse gas emissions,” said Judy Brownoff, Chair, CRD environmental services commit-tee.

“We are extremely pleased that more apartments, condo-miniums and other multi-resi-dent unit buildings will benefit from this program, helping us meet our regional sustainability goals.”

Roughly 25 per cent of the energy used in a typical B..C home can be attributed to water heating. Residential buildings are responsible for approximately 21 per cent of

total regional greenhouse gas emissions. MURBs account for approximately 20 per cent of potable water use in the Greater Victoria area.

The Tap by Tap Program was first piloted in the region in 2011. The 2013 MURB-focused pro-gram resulted in more than 3,000 residential unit retrofits saving approximately 43,767,052 litres of potable water, 548,085 kWh of electricity, 5,029 gigajoules of natural gas and 265 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annu-ally.

Tap by Tap is available across the region until June 30.

MURBs offered fixtures for free

SPOKES combines recycling with cycling

Volunteers with the SPOKES Bicy-cle program hope to rescue hun-dreds of adult bicycles left sitting in basements, garages and backyards for its refurbished bike loan and rental programs.

SPOKES has been combining recycling with cycling at the Uni-versity of Victoria since 2003.

The concept evolved from a class project idea into an award-winning, volunteer led initiative that pro-vides measurable benefits for the campus community, the environ-ment and the economy.

Dedicated volunteers give new life to old, unwanted bikes to create safe, green and affordable transpor-tation options for students, faculty

and staff.“We have finally got to the end of

our supply of unwanted bicycles. We are now looking for donations from the community,” says William Rondow, a SPOKES Volunteer.

“Donations don’t have to be in perfect condition but they do need to be adult sized and have some hope of repair.”

Some of the donated bicycles will be used for parts, while others will only require minor repairs and TLC before they can be used in the SPOKES loan program.

Members of the public are encouraged to drop off their bicy-cle donations on Saturday (Jan. 31) from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Parking Lot 4 (next to Centennial Stadium) on the University of Victoria cam-pus.

[email protected]

Charity seeks out gently used bicycles Don Denton

Victoria News

A loss Friday spurred on the Victoria Royals Saturday.

The Royals scored four powerplay goals in a 6-0 win over the Kamloops Blazers in the second contest of a two game home series in the Western Hockey League.

Victoria’s Greg Chase tallied the Royals’ second goal of the game and the first of four consecutive powerplay markers. Vic-toria’s goaltender Justin Paulic stopped all 26 shots he faced to record his first shutout in a Royals’ uniform.

Brandon Fushimi (2), Jack Walker, Alex Forsberg, and Brandon Magee notched Victoria’s other markers.

Kamloops started netminder Con-nor Ingram who stopped 18 of 23 shots before being replaced by Cole Kehler who turned aside 13 of 14 shots.

On Friday the Royals surrendered a 3-2 lead with five minutes remaining in the third period and fell 4-3 to the Kamloops Blazers in overtime.

Royals forward Matthew Phillips scored his first WHL goal in his first ever game to give Victoria the 3-2 lead in a back-and-forth affair.

However, Quinn Benjafield would score

his second of the game for the Blazers to force extra time, and Ryan Rehill would win it for the visitors. Greg Chase and Alex Forsberg supplied the other Royals goals. Cole Ully tallied the other marker for Kamloops.

Victoria will head on a three game road trip beginning with a clash tonight (Jan. 28) vs. the Portland Winterhawks fol-lowed by a contest on Friday, against the Spokane Chiefs and a game on Saturday vs. the Tri-City Americans.

The Royals return to the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre on Feb. 7 to take on the Red Deer Rebels.

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Royals take weekend win, loss

The University of Victoria Vikes men’s soccer team will take on the Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Feb. 15.

This is the 10th meeting between the two clubs.

Kickoff is 2 p.m. at UVic’s Centennial Stadium.

Whitecaps FC will play the Vikes as part of their preseason preparations.

Prior to their island visit, the ‘Caps will open preseason in Tucson, Arizona, taking part in the Desert Friendlies.

“This is an important event that my players and the Island community looks forward to every year,” said Vikes head coach Bruce Wilson, who is in his 27th season with the club.

Last year, Whitecaps FC defeated the Vikes 1-0 at Centennial Stadium. Since 2005, Vancouver holds the edge with a 7-1-1 record.

Pre-sale ticket rates are available online until noon on Feb.13. All other ticket purchases can be made at the gate. Ticket rate information is available at govikesgo.com/whitecaps.

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The Highlanders’ Prospect women’s squad returned recently from a successful trip to FC Portland’s Winter College Showcase, an annual event that saw Victoria allow just one goal through three victories and a draw over Tim-ber Fusion, Sinoma, Ogden Outlaws and FC Nova.

The Highlanders opened up play with a 4-0 victory, with goals coming from Holly Good-acre and Kelsey Boudreau.

In their second match of the showcase, Bou-dreau once again found the back of the net to draw level with Sinoma and earn a tie for her side.

The third match of the weekend against Utah’s Ogden Outlaws saw Highlander Claire Ethier earning a brace in a shutout win before Ethier added the lone goal in the final match of the weekend in a 1-0 shutout win over FC Nova.

“We played better every game,” said High-landers head coach Dave Dew.

“Our two-touch play and passing was the best it has been all year, especially by the fourth game. It’s impressive that they were able to compile this record against their age group.”

Emily Moore and Miranda Clarke split duties between the woodwork for the Highlanders throughout the weekend, combining to earn three clean sheets.

The Highlanders also featured some new faces among the roster, with Dew selecting Caruthers, Larissa Stefanek and Amy Melvey to travel south with his squad. Caruthers is a product of Lakehill’s soccer program, while Stafanek and Melvey feature with Reynolds High School.

“All three did very well in an environment they haven’t been in before,” remarked Dew. “Credit to the club system that they are in, hopefully they can go back to their respective clubs and elevate their stature within them.”

The Winter Showcase is intended to pro-vide an environment for players with colle-giate ambitions to put their skills on display in front of college coaches from Canada and the United States. This year’s event featured approximately 100 coaches and teams from the Northwest region.

“The kids were really good as usual,” added Dew. “They were really professional and classy in the way they conducted themselves and this was noted by the tournament director and even our hotel. The girls were good represen-tatives of the club and city.”

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WAREHOUSEMEN’SLIEN ACT

NOTICE OF SALE

Take notice that a Lien is claimed by Van Isle Mari-na Co., against the 28’x14.75’ boathouse, located in slip C59, and owned by Jody McPhee. This lien is claimed in re-spect of moorage charg-es which remain unpaid by Jody McPhee. The above mentioned boat will be sold at a public auction to be held at Van Isle Marina, 2320 Har-bour Road, Sidney, BC at 2pm on Febraury 10, 2015.

No Reserve Price.

PERSONALS

MAKE A Connection. Real People, Flirty Chat Call FREE! 250-220-1300 or 1-800-210-1010. www.livelinks.com 18+

MEET SINGLES right now! No paid operators, just real peo-ple like you. Browse greetings, exchange messages and con-nect live. Try it free. Call now: 1-800-712-9851.

LOST AND FOUND

$250 REWARD! Lost Siamese cat- our 2 little girls have lost their best friend Wolverine (aka Wolvie or Zed). 9 mos old Seal Point Siamese with ear tattoo. Last seen Oct. 18, by Christmas Hill. 250-389-0184 [email protected]

LOST CHINESE jade pendent on a chain. If found please call (250)595-1382.

LOST: SOLITAIRE Diamond engagement ring. January 16, on Oak Bay Ave. or Foul Bay Road at Chaucer. Strong sen-timental value. If found, please call 250-475-1951.

TRAVEL

TIMESHARE

CANCEL YOUR Timeshare. No risk program stop mort-gage & maintenance pay-ments today. 100% money back guarantee. Free consul-tation. Call us now. We can help! 1-888-356-5248.

TRAVEL

RESORT RENTAL in Hemet, CA. Brand new one bedroom cottages with full kitchen, bath, queen bed, and living suite. Luxury Resort. goldenvillage palms.com or 866-916-1316.

RV LOT rentals $8.95 a day. 362 days of sunshine, pets, events, classes, entertain-ment. Reserve by 02/14/2015. www.hemetrvresort.com. Call: 1-800-926-5593

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

DEALER REQUIRED- earn $8,000 to $10,000 cash per month servicing 100 snack boxes in your area. Your in-vestment $15,000.00, some fi -nancing is available. 1(604)930-6040.

DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING

DRIVERS WANTEDAZ, DZ, 5, 3 or 1 w/ Airbrake

• Guaranteed 40hr. WorkWeek & Overtime

• Paid Travel & Lodging• Meal Allowance

• 4 Weeks Vacation• Excellent Benefi ts Package

Must be able to have extended stays away from home. Up to 6 months. Must have valid AZ, DZ, 5, 3 or 1 with airbrake license and have previous commercial driving experience.Apply at:www.sperryrail.com,

careers & then choosethe FastTRACK Application.

HOME CARE/SUPPORT

DO YOU need help in caring for the Senior in your life? Ap-pointments? Chores? Compa-ny? Call 250-652-1167.

MEDICAL/DENTAL

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONis an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online train-ing you need from an employ-er-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your work-at-home career to-day!

VOLUNTEERS

CITY HARVEST Co-op has Urban Farm season startup work parties every Mon. & Tues. for the next 6 weeks. Help break new ground, mix potting soil, build compost, & shape in-ground beds. Clear weeds, set up the greenhouse, & start seeds. Work parties happen from 9:30am-12:30pm at 1834 Haultain St. Contact by email [email protected] for details.

SILVER THREADS Service is a not-for-profi t society that en-hances social connections and well-being for seniors. We are currently in need of a volun-teer with photography skills, and their own equipment to take photos at various special events both inside and outside of the agency. Times and days will vary. Contact Anne at 250-382-3151 or [email protected] to set up an in-terview.

THE MUSTARD Seed is look-ing for truck drivers assistant volunteers (Swamper) to fi ll a number of shifts Monday-Sat-urday between the hours of 8am-2pm to assist our truck drivers with food donation pick-ups. Must be physically fi t as heavy lifting is involved. E-mail: [email protected] or call 250-220-6991.

VOLUNTEERS

VOLUNTEEREXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Victoria Disability Resource Centre is looking for a part-time, volunteer executive director to manage daily operations. The Centre promotes independent living for people with disabilities through its core programs of information and referral, peer support, employment & community development.

See www.drcvictoria.com for more information

or contact us at250-595-0044 or email

[email protected]

PERSONAL SERVICES

MIND BODY & SPIRIT

KRIPALU MASSAGE, Reiki, Acupressure, Chair Massage. I have relaxed clients that have been with me for 5-12 years. See testimonials on website. Women only. Call 250-514-6223 or visit online at: www.andreakober.com

YOGA CONFERENCE for the curious to the serious. Market Place, Jan. 31 & Feb. 1. Open to public! Victoria Conference Centre. Visit us online: www. VictoriaYogaConference.com

HOLISTIC HEALTH

Trager® Bodywork allows you to move more freely with less pain and

tension. You’ll feel deeply relaxed & have greater mental clarity.

Rae BilashCertifi ed Trager PractitionerWomen only, men by referral

250-380-8733www.raebilash.ca

* Also Hot Stone Massage

MASSAGE (REG. THERAPISTS)

1 HR MASSAGE! Feel Revi-talized. Registered Massage Therapy Services. $90 per/hr. Book with Julia, 250-686-8019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ARE YOU $10K Or More In Debt? DebtGo can help re-duce a signifi cant portion of your debt load. Call now and see if you qualify. 1-800-351-1783.

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: It’s That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is not an issue. 1.800.587.2161.

PERSONAL SERVICES

FINANCIAL SERVICES

TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

HOME CARE SUPPORT

EXP. MATURE F caregiver avail., live-in (M-F). Feb/Mar.for senior. (250)818-3783.

MEDICAL HEALTH

*SHIATSU & REFLEXOLOGYAnna, 35 yrs exp. Mon-Fri.10am. $65. (250)857-0506.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO

RETOUCH, RESTORE, EditPhotos. Home Movies to DVD.Also, Portraiture, Baby, Family+ Maternity. 250-475-3332. www.cwpics.com

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

FOOD PRODUCTS

BEEF FARM GATE SALES.1516 Mt. Douglas Cross Rd.Hours Friday & Saturday 10-4.Naturally raised, hormone freebeef. Individual cuts sold,sharp, frozen & doublewrapped. (250)477-3321.

FRIENDLY FRANK

2 CUSTOM framed pictures, moving, must sell, $10 each.Call (778)440-3084.

LARGE EXERCISE ball, $15. Exercise mat, $25. Call (250)361-9142

LEATHER CHAIR and stool(tan colour), $99. Call (250)544-4933

WICKER ROCKING chair,light brown, good cond. $75.obo. (250)385-3400.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fi r,hardwoods. Seasoned. Call250-661-7391.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

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

STEEL BUILDINGS/metalbuildings 60% off! 20x28,30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120,60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online at:www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

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

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

BURNSIDE/Helmcken- pano-ramic view, unique custom, suites, 6bdrms, 4bath, 3kitch-ens, alot skylights/windows,$759,000. (250)920-6739.

Your Community, Your Classifi eds.250-388-3535

VICTORIA NEWS -Wednesday, January 28, 2015 www.vicnews.com • A17Victoria News Wed, Jan 28, 2015 www.vicnews.com A17 REAL ESTATE

HOUSES FOR SALE

QUALITY MANUFACTURED homes in quiet adult commu-nity in Ladysmith. Homes from $99,900. A selection of fl oor plans, styles and options. New home warranty. Call Duck Pa-terson 250-246-0637 or email to: [email protected]

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

GRANT MANOR 6921 Grant Rd.

Sooke, BC

Renovated1 bdrm suites

From $675 per mo

To view call 250-642-1900

LANGFORD LAKEFRONT- 1 bdrm, bsmt suite, fresh paint etc, utils included. $900. Call 250-704-1251.

LAVENDER CO-OP accept-ing applications for a 1 bdrm, $620/mo. Quiet area, sm pet ok, W/D hook up, insuite stor-age, lrg bright kitchen. Gross income $25,000 +, share pur-chase is $2,500. Applications available in the glass case out-side the Community Hall; 10A-620 Judah St.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

VIEW ROYALVictoria’s Hidden Gem!

Christie Point Apts2818-3037 Craigowan Road

Reno’d suites:2 & 3 Bdrm & 3 Bdrm T/H

Pool & canoe rackT/H have in-suite W/D

On a 15 acre peninsula15 min to downtown

RENT NOW!On-site mgmnt. Open Daily!

(778)747-3152www.realstar.ca

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

SIDNEY- BRIGHT Executive 1 bdrm suite. $1200./month. Email: [email protected]

ROOMS FOR RENT

FAIRFIELD ROOM- Available. Walk to Cook St Vil-lage and amenities. NS/NP. Women only. 250-382-6681.

VICTORIA FURNISHED room in newer house, $500 inclu-sive. N/P. Call (250)886-6855.

RENTALS

SENIOR ASSISTED LIVING

THE GLENSHIEL. All inclu-sive seniors living includes three hot meals daily, snacks, security, housekeeping, all utilities, telephone and cable. Spacious room, private bath, view of Thunderbird Park; $2060. Small west-facing bed-sitting room; $1235. Bedsitting room, shared bath for gentle-man; $1360. For a tour & to apply contact Laurie Mueller at 250-383-4164 (Mon-Fri).

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

GOLDSTREAM AREA- 1400 sq ft, newly furnished, W/D, D/W, A/C, big deck & yard, hi-def TV, parking. Working male only. $650 inclusive. Call Ray 778-433-1233.

UPPER QUADRA- close to Uvic & Camosun, on bus route. $650 inclusive. Call (250)480-8964.

SUITES, LOWER

ESQUIMALT. 2-BDRM near Naden. NS/NP. Partially furn., yard. W/D. Grnd level. Avail now. $875./mo 250-385-3965

SIDNEY: BRIGHT 1bdrm suite, quiet, utils incl’d. NS/NP. $775. Feb. 1st. (250)655-1616

SUITES, UPPER

DEEP COVE- ocean views, sunny, bright, clean, upper bachelor. Avail Feb 1. $800 in-clusive. (250)778-679-0092.

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO SERVICES

$$$ TOP CA$H PAID $$$. For ALL unwanted Vehicles, any condition. Call (250)885-1427.

CARS

2008 CHEVY Trail Blazer- bur-gundy, 2 - 4 WD, 6-cylinder, auto, 95,000 km. $9900. Es-tate Sale. Paul [email protected]

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

CARPENTRY

BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Reno’s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748.

JEREMIAH’S CARPENTRY- Small repairs, interior fi nishing, weather proofi ng. Reasonable rates. Senior’s Discounts. In-sured. Call 250-857-1269.www.jeremiahscarpentry.com

CLEANING SERVICES

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

I CLEAN like it’s my own... Spik & Span! Good rates, great refs. Call (778)432-3588.

DRYWALL

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

ELECTRICAL

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

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.

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


FENCING

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

GARDENING

(250) 858-0588- Lawn & garden maint.

- Landscaping- Fences & Decks

- Hedge & Tree Services- Pressure Washing

Free estimates * WCBwww.mowtime.ca

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

FRUIT TREES Overgrown? Pruning, clean-ups, hedges, lawn cuts. Miracles. Call John 250-478-7314, 250-812-8236.


GARDENING

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

250-507-6543. AL’S V.I.P. Gutter Cleaning, guards, pow-er washing, de-moss, Insured.

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

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free est.

GRAND XTERIOR Cleaning & Repairs- Gutters, roofs win-dows, PW. 250-380-7778.

HANDYPERSONS

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


HANDYPERSONS

HOUSE & Yard repairs. no job too small. OAP Discounts, free est. Andy, (250)886-3383.

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.

GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413.

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

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

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

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

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

CLASSIFIED ADS MEAN MORE BUSINESS

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HEAT, AIR, REFRIGERATION

HEATING, VENTILATION & INDOOR AIR QUALITYInstallation Services &

ConversionsFurnaces, Boilers, F/P, Hot water tanks, Heat pumps.

Byron, 250-516-2917.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

FULL SERVICE plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. Call 1-800-573-2928.

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

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& MOVING STORAGE

(250)858-6747. WRIGHT Bros Moving&Hauling.Free estimate $75=(2men&3tontruck)Sr Disc.

ALLSTAR MOVING Delivery Service. From $59. Free local travel. Call (250)818-2699.

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

MOVING ON UP HOME SOLUTIONS

*Moving * Deliveries* Hauling *Fully Insured

*Free Estimates*Local & Long Distance

250-881-3982

PAINTING

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

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

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.


PLUMBING

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

PLASTERING

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

PRESSURE WASHING

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

STUCCO/SIDING

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

TREE SERVICES

BUDDY’S TREE SERVICES-Trimming, pruning, chipping,removals, hedges. Insured.Call Keith, (250)474-3697.

WINDOW CLEANING

BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning.Roof demoss, Gutters. Licensed and affordable. 250-884-7066.

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

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Dan EbenalBlack Press

Three hundred and fifteen years and count-ing.

It was Jan. 26, 1700 when one of the world’s largest earthquakes occurred off the west coast of Vancouver Island. The under-sea Cascadia thrust fault ruptured along a 1,000-kilometre length, from mid Vancouver Island to northern Cal-ifornia, producing a megathrust earthquake with an estimated mag-nitude of 8.7.

“We know that these earthquakes do occur in a cyclic fashion so there is going to be another megaquake,” said Stephen Johnston, director of the School of Earth and Ocean Sci-

ences at the University of Victoria.

He said it’s impos-sible to accurately predict when the next megaquake will hit but they occur in cycles of between 300 and 700 years.

“What a lot of research is going into of late is trying to pin down whether it’s closer to 300 years, in which case we should start being concerned, or if it’s closer to 700 years, in which case we can relax a bit,” said Johnston.

The earthquake in 1700 collapsed houses of the Cowichan people on Vancouver Island and caused numerous landslides and a tsu-nami that swept across the Pacific, causing devastation in Japan. According to Natural Resources Canada, the shaking from the earth-quake was so violent on Vancouver Island that people could not stand and lasted so long it made them sick. The tsunami completely destroyed the winter village of the Pachena Bay people, leaving no survivors.

Geological evidence indicates that there have been 13 mega-quakes over the past 6,000 years.

In contrast, the earthquake that struck northeast of Tofino on Jan. 8 was a magnitude 4.8, the largest onshore quake to have hit the region since 2000.

Johnston said there’s a big differ-ence between onshore quakes like the one that struck near Tofino and the megaquakes that occur offshore, typi-cally at the subduction zone.

“Usually the ones off-shore are hugely more powerful. For example,

the 1700 megaquake was probably on the order of 35,000 times more powerful than that Tofino earthquake, so it’s an enormous dif-ference in power.”

And it’s the offshore quakes that give rise to tsunamis, which are typically responsible for the greatest loss of life.

Johnston said the fault responsible for the 1700 quake lies about 100 kilometres west of Port Renfrew. “And that is the same fault that will rupture again and cause the next mega-quake.”

The extent of the dev-astation caused by that megaquake remains unclear.

“There would be a huge tsunami and Port Alberni and all the other west coast towns would be at risk,” said Johnston. “I think it’s obvious Tofino, much

of it, would be inun-dated. Shaking is going to be a problem and old buildings that are not seismically upgraded – you can think of brick buildings in downtown Victoria that were built a long time ago – they would be liable to be heavily damaged.”

He said those living closer to the west coast will likely see more vio-lent shaking but a lot of local issues will also come into play.

“If you’re built, and much of Victoria is built, on bedrock, then there won’t be such severe shaking. But if you’re built on recent sediments – think of regions around here where it’s very flat lying and muddy – those are lake beds that formed 10,000 years ago and they will shake like a bowl of jelly.”

But Johnston said a smaller quake like the

one that struck Tofino can prove to be just as deadly as a megaquake.

“That’s the bigger concern, not the mega-quake but something like the earthquake that took place near Tofino except maybe a little bit stronger than that.”

He pointed to the 6.3 magnitude quake that rocked Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011, resulting in 185 deaths.

“People die in magni-tude 4 earthquakes and they don’t die because of the shaking, they die because a wall falls on them or something like that.”

Very few earth-quakes have been cen-tred around Victoria. Johnston recalls a mag-nitude 2 quake hitting Langford a year or two ago, “but it was so tiny that even people stand-ing right on top of it couldn’t feel it.”

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Earthquake fears rising‘Quake experts say we’re due for a ‘megaquake.’ But when that earthquake might occur is impossible to accurately predict

Dan Ebenal/Black Press

Stephen Johnston, director of the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, points out the subduction zone that lies just off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Our Place has bolstered its board of directors with several high-profile Victoria residents.

Joining the board are: Angli-can Bishop Logan McMenamie, former city councillor Shellie Gudgeon and lawyers Geoffrey Huggett and Stephen Hammond.

The board currently includes: Susan Haddon, board chair; Diana Butler, vice chair; Scot Hooker, treasurer; Scott Daly, secretary; Shannon Renault,

past chair; John Ducker, Keven Fletcher, Larry Pedersen and Bernice Kamano.

“We have ambitious plans for the future,” said Haddon. “And the skillset of our new directors is a welcome addition to the board.”

Along with new board mem-bers, Our Place has added a stra-tegic advisory group of volun-teers who act as ambassadors with the purpose of helping

raise philanthropic donations and community profile for the organization.

Our Place is an inner-city com-munity centre serving Greater Victoria’s most vulnerable: work-ing poor, impoverished elderly, mentally and physically chal-lenged, addicted and the home-less. Individuals and businesses provide the majority of financial support for its programs and services.

Our Place boosts board of directors

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Dan EbenalBlack Press

Three hundred and fifteen years and count-ing.

It was Jan. 26, 1700 when one of the world’s largest earthquakes occurred off the west coast of Vancouver Island. The under-sea Cascadia thrust fault ruptured along a 1,000-kilometre length, from mid Vancouver Island to northern Cal-ifornia, producing a megathrust earthquake with an estimated mag-nitude of 8.7.

“We know that these earthquakes do occur in a cyclic fashion so there is going to be another megaquake,” said Stephen Johnston, director of the School of Earth and Ocean Sci-

ences at the University of Victoria.

He said it’s impos-sible to accurately predict when the next megaquake will hit but they occur in cycles of between 300 and 700 years.

“What a lot of research is going into of late is trying to pin down whether it’s closer to 300 years, in which case we should start being concerned, or if it’s closer to 700 years, in which case we can relax a bit,” said Johnston.

The earthquake in 1700 collapsed houses of the Cowichan people on Vancouver Island and caused numerous landslides and a tsu-nami that swept across the Pacific, causing devastation in Japan. According to Natural Resources Canada, the shaking from the earth-quake was so violent on Vancouver Island that people could not stand and lasted so long it made them sick. The tsunami completely destroyed the winter village of the Pachena Bay people, leaving no survivors.

Geological evidence indicates that there have been 13 mega-quakes over the past 6,000 years.

In contrast, the earthquake that struck northeast of Tofino on Jan. 8 was a magnitude 4.8, the largest onshore quake to have hit the region since 2000.

Johnston said there’s a big differ-ence between onshore quakes like the one that struck near Tofino and the megaquakes that occur offshore, typi-cally at the subduction zone.

“Usually the ones off-shore are hugely more powerful. For example,

the 1700 megaquake was probably on the order of 35,000 times more powerful than that Tofino earthquake, so it’s an enormous dif-ference in power.”

And it’s the offshore quakes that give rise to tsunamis, which are typically responsible for the greatest loss of life.

Johnston said the fault responsible for the 1700 quake lies about 100 kilometres west of Port Renfrew. “And that is the same fault that will rupture again and cause the next mega-quake.”

The extent of the dev-astation caused by that megaquake remains unclear.

“There would be a huge tsunami and Port Alberni and all the other west coast towns would be at risk,” said Johnston. “I think it’s obvious Tofino, much

of it, would be inun-dated. Shaking is going to be a problem and old buildings that are not seismically upgraded – you can think of brick buildings in downtown Victoria that were built a long time ago – they would be liable to be heavily damaged.”

He said those living closer to the west coast will likely see more vio-lent shaking but a lot of local issues will also come into play.

“If you’re built, and much of Victoria is built, on bedrock, then there won’t be such severe shaking. But if you’re built on recent sediments – think of regions around here where it’s very flat lying and muddy – those are lake beds that formed 10,000 years ago and they will shake like a bowl of jelly.”

But Johnston said a smaller quake like the

one that struck Tofino can prove to be just as deadly as a megaquake.

“That’s the bigger concern, not the mega-quake but something like the earthquake that took place near Tofino except maybe a little bit stronger than that.”

He pointed to the 6.3 magnitude quake that rocked Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011, resulting in 185 deaths.

“People die in magni-tude 4 earthquakes and they don’t die because of the shaking, they die because a wall falls on them or something like that.”

Very few earth-quakes have been cen-tred around Victoria. Johnston recalls a mag-nitude 2 quake hitting Langford a year or two ago, “but it was so tiny that even people stand-ing right on top of it couldn’t feel it.”

[email protected]

Earthquake fears rising‘Quake experts say we’re due for a ‘megaquake.’ But when that earthquake might occur is impossible to accurately predict

Dan Ebenal/Black Press

Stephen Johnston, director of the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, points out the subduction zone that lies just off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Our Place has bolstered its board of directors with several high-profile Victoria residents.

Joining the board are: Angli-can Bishop Logan McMenamie, former city councillor Shellie Gudgeon and lawyers Geoffrey Huggett and Stephen Hammond.

The board currently includes: Susan Haddon, board chair; Diana Butler, vice chair; Scot Hooker, treasurer; Scott Daly, secretary; Shannon Renault,

past chair; John Ducker, Keven Fletcher, Larry Pedersen and Bernice Kamano.

“We have ambitious plans for the future,” said Haddon. “And the skillset of our new directors is a welcome addition to the board.”

Along with new board mem-bers, Our Place has added a stra-tegic advisory group of volun-teers who act as ambassadors with the purpose of helping

raise philanthropic donations and community profile for the organization.

Our Place is an inner-city com-munity centre serving Greater Victoria’s most vulnerable: work-ing poor, impoverished elderly, mentally and physically chal-lenged, addicted and the home-less. Individuals and businesses provide the majority of financial support for its programs and services.

Our Place boosts board of directors

Thursday, Jan. 29

Victoria Cougars vs. Westshore Wolves. Archie Browning Sports Centre, 1151 Esquimalt Rd., 7 p.m. Info: victoriacougars.com.

Friday, Jan. 30Serious Viola Power: a Concert to Benefit

Victoria Hospice. Victoria Hospice presents the violas of the Victoria Symphony in a fundraising concert and silent auction. James Bay United Church, 511 Michigan St. For information go online to victoriahospice.org.

Starlight Pops present British Invasion. St. Aidan’s United Church, 3703 St. Aidan’s St., 7:30 p.m. Info: starlightpops.com.

Saturday, Jan. 31Volkssport - 5/10 km walk. Meet at

Willows Beach, Beach Drive. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Marg at 250-370-5073.

Bucket List Festival. Learn to make the most of life when time is limited, presented by Victoria Hospice. Comfort

Inn and Suites, 3020 Blanshard St., 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. For tickets go online to victoriahospice.org/bucket-list.

Goodyear Plays Brahms with the Victoria Symphony. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St., 8 p.m. Info: victoriasymphony.ca

Sunday, Feb. 1Volkssport – 5/10 km Walk. Meet

at Travelodge, 2280 Beacon Avenue, Sidney. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Pat or Ed at 250-658-2325.

Living with Stroke. All stroke survivors and their families are welcome. Program runs from Feb. 1 to March 22. Gordon Head Recreation Centre, 4100 Lambrick Way, Saanich, 1 to 3 p.m.

AGGV Lecture Series. The Shaping of Modern Art. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss St., 2 p.m. Info: aggv.ca.

Starlight Pops present British Invasion. St. Aidan’s United Church, 3703 St. Aidan’s St., 2:30 p.m. Info: starlightpops.com.

Flute class recital. University of Victoria School of Music. Students from the studio of Dr. Suzanne Snizek. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, 2:30 p.m. Admission by donation.

Goodyear Plays Brahms with the Victoria Symphony. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St., 2:30 p.m. Info: victoriasymphony.ca.

Monday, Feb. 2Township council meeting. Esquimalt

Municipal Hall, 1229 Esquimalt Rd., 7 p.m. Agendas for upcoming Council and Committee of the Whole meetings are on the website by 4:30 p.m. on the Friday prior to the Monday meeting date.

Tuesday, Feb. 3Golden Gavel Novice Speakers

Competition. Preliminary round Feb. 3-6. New Horizons Seniors Centre, 234 Menzies St., 7 p.m. Info: goldengavel.ca.

Saturday, Feb. 7Volkssport – 5/10 km Walk. Meet at Cedar

Hill Recreation Centre, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m.

Sunday, Feb. 8Volkssport – 5/10 km Walk. Meet at

Fairfield Community Centre, 1335 Thurlow Rd.. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Ada at 778-922-1950.

Monday, Feb. 9Family Fun Day. Victoria West

Community Centre, 521 Craigflower Rd. Info: victoriawest.ca.

Esquimalt Recreation Family Day. Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser St., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring the family for a day of free family fun at Esquimalt Recreation’s Family Day celebration.

Tuesday, Feb. 10The Keys To Transforming Your Life.

An interactive and experiential spiritual program. Program runs Feb. 10 to April 14, 7 to 10 p.m. Centre for Inspired Living, 380 Cook St. Info: 250-590-0150.

Friday, Feb. 13Victoria Chamber Orchestra presents

Beethoven concert at First Metropolitan Church, 932 Balmoral Rd., 8 p.m. Tickets available at victoriachamberorchestra.org.

Community Calendar

Campsite fees are going up between $2 and $5 at provincial parks around B.C. this spring.

After March 15, a night under the stars at Golden Ears or Gordon Bay or Goldstream Provincial Park goes from $30 to $35 per night, while many more remote campsites will see a smaller increase in fees.

Fees at 40 provincial campgrounds in the Koo-tenay-Okanagan, Northern, South Coast and West Coast regions are increasing at least $3 a night, and 141 of B.C.’s 204 provincial campgrounds will see a $2 increase.

The Ministry of Environment says this is the first province-wide increase in fees since 2010. Rates for backcountry camping and use of sani-stations remain at $5, and fees for mooring buoys, picnic shelters and group camping are unchanged.

Parking fees for day-use lots, a failed experiment from 10 years ago, are not being reintroduced.

The ministry says the varied rate increases take into account local demand and economic condi-tions as well as private camping availability.

The province collected about $17 million from its park and recreation fees last year, while spend-ing $22 million on direct park operating costs.

Campsite use is on the rise in B.C. since the introduction of an online reservation service called Discover Camping, which opens for the sea-son at 9 a.m. on March 15. The system handled 133,000 reservations last year.

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Camping fees going up in B.C. parks

Oak Bay Coun. Kevin Murdoch is the new chair of the Greater Victoria Public Library board.

Saanich citizen repre-sentative Anne Kirkaldy was elected vice-chair.

“[This] will be an exciting year for the Greater Victoria Public Library as we develop a new strategic plan,” Murdoch said.

“The board and staff will be tasked with cre-ating a forward vision that encompasses great services through-out the region within a sustainable financial model.”

Greater Victoria Pub-lic Library provides services in 10 libraries to more than 300,000 residents.

[email protected]

Murdoch leads library board


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