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Oak Bay gets starring role in TV series

Christopher SunNews staff

Cameras will roll in January as Oak Bay becomes home to the American remake of the British crime drama, Broadchurch.

The remake by Fox Television, titled Gracepoint, is also the name of the fictional town where the show is set. In the British version, the death of a child has occurred and the entire season is spent finding the killer.

The American version will include many of the same cast and crew of the British series, including lead actor David Tennant, best known for his role on the television show, Dr. Who. Also starring is

actress Anna Gunn, known for her role as Skyler White in Breaking Bad.

Vancouver Island South film commissioner Kathleen Gilbert said location scouts have been in Oak Bay and the Capital region for the past two weeks. She said most of the filming would likely occur in Oak Bay and on Oak Bay Avenue but she was hesitant to confirm.

“We have a show looking like it’s going to shoot in Oak Bay and the CRD,” Gilbert

said. “Until the cameras are rolling, I don’t consider this a done deal.”

Gilbert is cautious because in her more than 20 years in the film industry she has seen production companies change their minds at the last minute. She said the film commission has been working on landing the show for the last two months. If things go according to plan, she foresees film tourism to follow after the show airs.

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“Broadchurch is one of the widest-watched shows in the U.K.”

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It was 1968 when Jacqui Shoffner and her late-husband purchased their first home in Oak Bay; a Victorian-style house on Byron Street.

The four-bedroom, one-bathroom home cost them $14,900 and like most new homeowners, they took a mortgage out to finance their purchase.

“The mortgage payment was $150 a month and that

was a stretch,” Shoffner said. “There was no furnace. We just had an enormous wood stove.”

Shoffner, 82, took that mortgage out at the Bank of Montreal’s Oak Bay branch. Last Thursday (Dec. 12), she attended an afternoon celebration honouring the bank’s 100th year in the community.

Staff dressed in period costume, served popcorn, cake and hot apple cider as Mayor Nils Jensen, BMO regional vice-president Shelly Jensen and bank manager Susan Bobiak gave speeches and spoke about the bank’s early history.

In 1913, Merchants Bank of Canada opened a sub branch on the corner of Oak Bay Avenue and Hampshire Road in the two-storey, brick Bell Block building. In 1921, Bank of Montreal purchased Merchants Bank, making the Montreal-based bank the largest in Canada and one of the largest in the world at that

time, according to a Dec. 17, 1921 New York Times article.

The branch moved half a block east to its current location in September 1953.

Audrey Cridge Finch, 89, worked at Bank of Montreal 71 years ago when it was still located in the Bell Block

building. She had just graduated

from Oak Bay High school when she got a job, through a family connection, to work in the savings department. She worked on ledgers and operated the hand crank adding machine. She said there was only one teller at that time, who worked in what looked like a cage.

“There wasn’t any technology. Everything was written,” Finch said. “It was only men working in banks before I came in because there weren’t (many) around; this was during the war. They then realized having women working in the bank was not all that bad, and in fact, women worked better.”

Finch worked in banking for 12 years and then turned her attention to raising five children.

The Bank of Montreal was Canada’s first bank, founded in 1817. The bank also issued the country’s first currency, printing it until the Bank of Canada was created in 1934.

The Shoffners moved to another home in 1984, but their Byron Street home is still standing. Last year, Shoffner said she saw it listed for sale at $850,000.

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Christopher SunReporting

Oak Bay BMO manager Susan

Bobiak, sporting period costume,

and longtime customer Jacqui

Shoffner at the local branch’s 100th birthday celebration on

Dec. 12. (Inset) the bank circa 1953.

Christopher Sun/News staff

“They then realized having women working in the bank was not all that bad, and in fact, women worked better.”- Audrey Cridge Finch

Victoria Foundation announces 2013 non-profit fundingDaniel PalmerNews staff

The Mustard Seed Street Church is lead-ing a study to find out whether a central-ized food bank could help deliver services and reduce replicated work.

The Mustard Seed will use a $52,300 donation, awarded by the Victoria Founda-tion, to explore how better co-ordination among 25 food banks and soup kitchens could improve services. An estimated 19,000 people in Greater Victoria rely on non-profit food services every year.

“All of us are so busy in our own little

area, so we just don’t have enough time to go around and see what other agencies are doing,” said Jackie Cox-Zeigler, Mustard Seed administration director. “We’re going to find a way to be more collaborative and see where that takes us.”

Cox-Zeigler and other food bank co-ordi-nators will meet for a second exploratory meeting on Dec. 27 at the Victoria Founda-tion office, she said. Organizers hope their efforts will make identifying needy resi-dents and delivering food services more efficient.

“We really appreciate the support of the donors to the Victoria Foundation for fund-ing this project,” Cox-Zeigler added.

Last week, the Victoria Foundation announced more than $1.1 million in fund-ing to various non-profit groups across Vancouver Island. Funding grants from the

foundation now total $12.3 million in 2013.“Our region is so fortunate to have such

an amazing array of dedicated people working and volunteering in these orga-nizations and we’re thrilled to be able to help support such a fantastic variety of projects,” said Sandra Richardson, Victoria Foundation CEO.

Grants range from $4,000 to buy canes for the vision-impaired through the Cana-dian National Institute for the Blind in Victoria to $55,000 for Lifecycles Project Society, whose members are expanding community food networks and linking backyard farmers to food banks and low-income residents.

Arts and cultural organizations feature heavily on Victoria Foundation’s dona-tion list, including Theatre SKAM Associa-tion ($31,120), to produce a new play that

highlights the life of Victoria resident Joan Mans.

The Victoria Conservatory of Music is also receiving $41,500 to expand a commu-nity-wide music library and resource cen-tre in collaboration with School District 61.

Other local organizations receiving funding include the Capital Region Pros-tate Centre ($20,000), the Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria ($33,000) and Our Place Society ($35,000).

Established in 1936, the Victoria Founda-tion manages charitable gifts from donors to create permanent, income-earning funds. The proceeds from those funds are then distributed as grants for charitable or educational purposes.

For a full list of donor recipients, visit victoriafoundation.ca.

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“Broadchurch is one of the widest-watched shows in the U.K. and the location where Broadchurch is filmed, experienced film tourism,” Gilbert said. “X-Men and Little Women did that for us here but I don’t think there has been anything since that has had such mass appeal.”Women, starring Winona Ryder, was filmed in

Victoria in 1994 and four X-Men films were filmed in Colwood.

Filming for Gracepoint is expected to start in late January and wrap up in May. Gilbert said disruption in the community will be minimal.

“They are not going to come in and takeover, nor are we going to give them carte blanche,” Gilbert said, adding Oak Bay Avenue will not be shut down to the community. “They will work with store owners, business owners or homeowners in Oak Bay. It’s all done with cooperaton and very close relationship with municipalities.”

Last Wednesday (Dec. 11), a meeting was held among producers, the film commission, Oak Bay council, the Oak Bay Business Improvement Association and Oak Bay tourism representatives. Coun. Michelle Kirby said the meeting was informational and a way for producers to gauge support for them to film here. She spoke positively about Oak Bay playing a major role in

what is expected to be a popular television series.“Its exciting, it’s going to showcase Oak Bay to

the world,” Kirby said. “It’s excellent for tourism and it will bring a lot money into the community.”

Kirby added that the producers were “blown away by the scenic beauty” of Oak Bay.

Gilbert said she doesn’t know how much the show will cost to produce and expects more information about that and the location of filming to start coming in the first week of January.

Five business days are needed to issue a film permit.

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Scottish actor, David Tennant, of Doctor Who fame, plays Det. Inspector Alec Hardy in the U.K. series Broadchurch, and will play Det. Emmett Carver in the U.S. version to be filmed in Oak Bay.

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The majority of Oak Bay residents want more multi-family housing options including the legalization and regulation of secondary suites and living units above businesses, according to results from the Official Community Plan survey.

Preliminary results released Monday showed almost 78 per cent of residents who participated in the survey, are in favour of increasing density to create more housing for seniors, young families and those with disabilities. There was also support for home-based businesses and more neighbourhood commercial establishments.

Mayor Nils Jensen said he is not surprised with the results, as many in the community have expressed a need for these changes to him directly.

“One of the things I continue doing in the tradition of former mayor Christopher Causton, is going to each new residential homeowner as part of the welcome wagon,” Jensen said. “I see an increasing number of young families who bring in their own views of their sense of community.”

Coun. Pam Copley, chair of the OCP advisory committee, said she isn’t surprised either.

“(The survey result) is an indication to me that there is support for some incremental changes and support for a more inclusive community going forward,” Copley said.

Both Jensen and Copley said changes will not be rushed into, and both council and the community, will have to decide where multi-family housing would be suitable. Jensen added that the changes Oak Bay residents are wanting are already being practiced elsewhere.

“This isn’t revolutionary, it’s evolutionary,” Jensen said. “You can see it on our boundary. Abstract (Developments) is building a four-storey residential with commercial on the ground floor.”

A full report on the survey will be released later this week.

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A Victoria police officer who fought off an attacker after being stabbed in the neck is

being recognized with a Medal of Bravery from Canada’s Governor General.

Const. Lane Douglas-Hunt was leaving a business on Government Street on Jan. 17, 2011, when a man lunged at her,

stabbing her in the neck with a knife.

Douglas-Hunt managed to subdue the man on the ground, despite her serious injury.

Gov. Gen. David Johnston awarded Douglas-Hunt and 41 other people with bravery decorations at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Dec. 5.

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Douglas-Hunt attended Oak Bay High, but graduated from Lambrick Park secondary school, where she transferred for basketball. Her parents, Cliff Hunt and Mary Douglas-Hunt, live in Oak Bay.

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After just over two years on the job, Oak Bay Police Chief Const. Mark Fisher is leaving.

Fisher is returning to the Mounties as Nanaimo RCMP detachment’s officer in charge. He’ll fill the position left by former superintendent Norm McPhail who retired from the RCMP in October.

Fisher was officer in charge at the West Shore detachment when he left the RCMP in July 2011 to take the Oak Bay position.

“Oak Bay was a great opportunity for me to stay in the community I was living in and run a municipal police department and learn all about that,” said Fisher, 44. “They’ve treated me extremely well here. The community and my mayor and police board have been great to work for. I got to walk to work and I knew a lot about the community before I applied for the Oak Bay job. I’d lived here for four years prior to that.”

In his 20 years with the RCMP, Fisher served in Williams Lake, Gold River, Comox Valley, Bella Coola and Creston.

Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said Fisher introduced some of the community policing programs practiced in Nanaimo to Oak Bay with good results.

“Chief Fisher did an excellent job for Oak Bay,” Jensen said. “He was innovative, community minded and served with distinction. We’re sad to see him go, but we’re happy for him. This is certainly an excellent career move and we wish him all the best and congratulate Nanaimo on picking such a fine officer.”

Jensen cited Fisher’s leadership with instilling a sense of pride and stability in the Oak Bay Police Department and his attitude toward community policing and success in recruiting high quality new officers to the force as older officers retired.

“The process that he developed really identified – and we were able to recruit – some excellent young officers. So all in all, he was an excellent chief,” Jensen said. “He’s left us in excellent shape.”

In 2008 and 2009 Fisher got acquainted with the Nanaimo detachment, its staff and those of other agencies while working with the government liaison committee he said he was impressed by how well they worked together.

“Nanaimo interested me before I left the RCMP and it interests me today,” Fisher said. “They’ve got great challenges there from a policing perspective. There’s lots of work. Interesting work. I think, more importantly, (they’ve) got some great people working there right now … who have nothing but good things to say about

not only the work and the detachment there, but living in the community, and a lot of them have stayed there for a long time.

“It’s an indicator in the RCMP if you get that many people, I know are good people and solid workers, that go to a community, choose to stay there and are happy there.”

Nanaimo’s policing programs, such as the school liaison program, Bar Watch and Bike Patrol also fall in line with his philosophies about community policing.

“Some of that stuff is really, for lack of a better term, cutting edge,” Fisher said. “I’ve travelled to different communities in the province, talking about things you can do and working together in communities to make a difference and Nanaimo is always a very good example of that.”

Jensen told the Oak Bay News there will be an in-camera police board meeting to decide the process and time line for hiring a new police chief. He anticipates the process will be quick. “We could have a replacement as quickly as three to four months.”

Jensen also said the police board sensed Fisher would not have a long career in Oak Bay, when he came to the job.

“When he was hired and given his young age, (we figured) that he was unlikely to stay with Oak Bay until retirement,” Jensen said.

Fisher is scheduled to leave Oak Bay in February.

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Oak Bay chief returns to RCMP

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Oak Bay Police Chief Const. Mark Fisher is leaving the force in the new year to return to the RCMP as Nanaimo’s Superintendent.

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After a whirlwind year that started with a come-from-behind election win, Premier Christy Clark sat down with me for the traditional year-end interview in her Victoria office.

Here are excerpts from that discussion. A longer version with video can be found under the Opinion tab of this newspaper’s website.

TF: Premier, you surprised a few people this year. What surprised you the most about 2013?

PCC: I guess it was the disconnect between the pollsters and the pundits, and the public. I did have a sense all the time that the citizens were thinking something different in the run-up to the election campaign. I wondered, am I missing something here, or are they missing something? And I guess it turned out that it wasn’t me that was missing something.

TF: The liquefied natural gas export project is going to use a lot of natural gas, especially in the early years. Will B.C.’s greenhouse gas reduction targets (20 per cent reduction by 2020, 80 per cent by 2050) have to be changed?

PCC: I don’t have a clear answer on that yet. We are working with the companies on exactly how we are going to structure their environmental commitments and costs, and their electricity costs versus using gas, the total royalty tax regime. We’re looking at that as one package.

However that turns out, though,

this opportunity to export natural gas to Asia is the single biggest opportunity we have ever had as a province to reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the world. In shipping this to China, we are going to help them wean themselves off some of the dirtiest coal anybody’s burning anywhere in the world.

TF: If B.C. is going to get credit for displacing coal use in Asia, shouldn’t B.C.’s coal exports, even though it’s metallurgical coal, count in our greenhouse gas total as well?

PCC: I know that the academics and pundits are going to get all mired in competing sets of numbers and studies. For me, we have a chance to do good for the world, and we’re going to take it.

TF: On oil pipelines, your agreement in November with Alberta Premier Alison Redford involves B.C. supporting her effort for a national energy strategy. What do you see it doing in the future?

PCC: The big idea that she’s

trying to pursue with that is a strategy that will connect us east to west in energy. Energy grids are much better connected north to south than they are east to west. So she’s trying to pursue a pan-Canadian strategy for the exchange of energy, whether that’s hydroelectricity or natural gas or whatever it is. We haven’t been intimately involved with it until recently, so we’ll see where it goes.

TF: There’s a perception out there, fuelled by the opposition, that you campaigned against oil pipelines and now you’re turning the tanker around, as it were, to be in support of them. What do you say to that?

PCC: It’s typical of the other guys to reinterpret and misquote. That’s what they do. They’re in opposition. What I said was, we have five conditions that must be met in order for heavy oil to be considered to go ahead in British Columbia. That has not changed.

The five conditions remain in place. As of today, none of them have been met. The only thing that is different today, from before the election, is that now I no longer stand alone in supporting the five conditions. I have one other premier supporting me, and that’s Alison Redford.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Charities need to follow tech wave

This week’s plea from the Salvation Army for more bell-ringing volunteers to stand with its red kettles sounded familiar to last year’s call.

The lack of people available for kettle duty is contributing to another tough year for the campaign. With less than a week to go, it has raised $70,000 of its $250,000 goal.

While we commend the Salvation Army’s mandate and the motivation behind its efforts, its struggles illustrate the challenges faced by organizations relying on traditional modes of gathering donations.

Greater Victoria has become largely a cashless region and less people have money on hand with which to shop or donate on the street. Some enterprising marketplace merchants have addressed that by spending a little on electronic devices that facilitate cashless transactions.

Some organizations have stepped up their social media presence in conjunction with their main website, many of which contain easy-to-find online donation options.

Even organizations which use traditional methods, such as the United Way, are getting creative in how they promote them. Challenged with the same economic downturn as everyone else, this charity funder has made strides by focusing on its workplace payroll deduction campaign that makes giving more manageable for people on limited budgets.

It’s not that we don’t have the disposable income to donate. The average household income in Greater Victoria is higher than the B.C. and national averages, according to Statistics Canada.

The recent story of the Saanich family forced by fire from their Obed Avenue home, and the resulting outpouring of donations of lodging, household items and cash from neighbours, friends and complete strangers, proves the public will donate to causes they feel connected to.

Our charitable donations actually continue to rate above the national average, yet some non-profits are finding it difficult to maintain donation levels.

It’s no different than in business: organizations that don’t shift with the times are destined to be left behind.

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I am a home owner in Oak Bay and I am just wondering what’s going on?

I have been following the monster house issue since my neighbours and I have noticed that there are more and more going up.

Oak Bay council has said it is against them, but for years now, nothing has been done to correct our zoning bylaw that was inappropriately changed in 2007 to allow them.

Since that time, staff informed council they have received many complaints and there appears to be an inconsistency in our zoning bylaws.

In April 2012 our current mayor, who was on the committee that recommended

the suspect 2007 zoning changes, was asked by council to review this over-development issue and report back.

Following this there were many more written complaints as well as many resident delegations and presentations about this zoning change that dramatically altered house size.

The concern was owners who built their homes under the previous rules had to ensure it was appropriate to the lot – the 2007 change however, allowed a much bigger house, garage and ancillary

buildings. This permitted many trees to be cut and neighbouring homes lost privacy, sunlight and views. No action

was taken by council.Council members have

continued to say this is a complicated issue. It is not.

Staff has clearly explained the old bylaw served Oak Bay well for 20 years and was fair to all. Staff provided council with an extensive report on this problem that included zoning

ratio reinstatement options. Council disregarded these options.

In contrast Sooke council who had

a similar zoning change problem simply repealed the offending bylaw and committed to consulting existing residents about any new zoning changes.

Finally in early 2013, a floor area ratio committee was struck. Now, 10 months later an announcement on Dec. 4 states Oak Bay council is inviting a long list of property developers from all over the CRD to provide input into how they want to see Oak Bay’s lots developed.

I am not convinced, given the profit motive, this group will provide unselfish, unbiased information and have Oak Bay’s residents’ best interests at heart.

Mary DouglasOak Bay

Council must move on ‘monster home’ issue

Re: Cull protesters crossed the line (Our View, Nov. 28).

This editorial “crossed the line” when it tried to compare the DeerSafe Rally on Nov. 23 in Oak Bay to an act of vandalism on Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin’s car and home three years ago.

To compare a peaceful group of people, singing carols in front of the mayor’s home for less than five minutes, to an act of vandalism is nothing short of ridiculous.

To infer that the mayor was intimidated by this and could have been accosted at his door takes it beyond the point of ridiculous to sublime – we had no weapons except our posters, an elderly Jack Russell terrier with an ear-splitting bark and, possibly, a senior member in her wheelchair who could have tried to mow him down if we had encouraged her.

This is not a violent group of people.

Another inference was that DeerSafe has not been following the proper channels to make their argument. This is totally wrong: DeerSafe people have been attending meetings at the CRD since Feb. 22, 2012, when 11 people from our group made presentations to the board of directors. Other meetings and more presentations were made as well as numerous letters to the CRD, the mayors within the CRD and

to the provincial government. As well, hundreds of hours were

spent on research, phone calls and emails by members of DeerSafe trying to get the facts about the non-effectiveness of a deer cull and presenting them to the authorities.

When the CRD set up a Citizen’s Advisory Group, we applied to have a seat on it and were turned down in lieu of three farmers, one bow-hunter and several more pro-cull people. Three who were appointed, who were not pro-cull, felt intimidated and frustrated and stepped down.

Our members have stood on the streets and at markets, distributing literature and trying to educate the public about the reality of a clover trap bolt gun cull. Most people have been shocked to learn about it.

We have submitted petitions to the CRD with more than 3,000 names. Our members have been writing letters to the media, attending council meetings, meeting with the mayors, in fact, we have been trying to “make our point in the right forums” for more than two years in the most civilized way possible.

We will continue to fight but we will not use violence nor vandalism. We may resort to tears, I hope the mayors will be able to tolerate that.

Val BoswellSaanich

Just before midday on Saturday, Nov. 23, I attempted to use the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Hampshire and Oak Bay Avenue, walking from the CIBC towards the Scotia Bank side.

In a slightly hurried effort to deal with the obstruction caused by a car which had actually stopped and blocked the crossing and another coming up on the inside lane from Hampshire Road, I lost my footing at the curb and found myself diving into the pavement outside Scotia.

This is not the wisest thing for a septuagenarian to do of course – and it hurt!

But then, almost immediately, I was surrounded by a number of concerned and kind folk who, after checking, helped me to my feet and ensured that I was vertical and safe. No fuss, no drama,

just warm common sense all around.I have no idea as to the identity of these good

Samaritans and because my thanks was only briefly expressed, I would be most grateful if I may use the Oak Bay News to offer my sincere gratitude to each and every one of them and to let them know that their timely assistance ensured a quick and stoic recovery.

I must also thank Anni Atherton at the Pharmasave for her insistence and kindness in providing and applying Bandaids for cuts on my hands, also enabling me to move on through the course of that eventful hour.

Yet again, I have good cause to say thank you Oak Bay.

Derrick JohnsOak Bay

Editorial crossed a line

Thanks to helpful residents

We must right the balanceI sympathize with the strong feelings of

DeerSafe and other pro-animal movements like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).

The abhorrent actions of human beings against nature, against flora and fauna with toxins and hunting to extinction, against water and land in greedy resource extraction are destroying our environment and threatening our very survival. Long live the human conquistador! Except that it’s suicide.

In gratitude to God for this incredibly beautiful world, we must attempt to be good stewards of our environment. And we must make decisions from reason and common

sense, not from feelings. In the wilds, cougars and wolves keep the deer population down. But since we don’t allow them in the city, the balance of nature is upset.

Therefore, it makes sense for us to hunt them for food. And venison is delicious, except to vegetarians.

I think the small steps being proposed for Oak Bay are the right approach, and I fully support them. Maybe I’ll get one of the T-shirts I saw worn by a woman in Penticton. It had the acronym PETA with these words filled in: People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

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It was Christmas come early for Jeff Scott as he took hold of the keys to a gleam-ing Dodge Grand Caravan last week. The vehicle was even draped in a big red bow.

The 28-year-old Victoria man is back on the road, a new inflection point on a journey from a devastat-ing trauma to a hectic life of school, running a charitable foundation and playing wheel-chair rugby.

“It’s surreal that it’s mine,” Scott said. “The reliability and freedom of this van is unbe-lievable. It’s unlike anything I have imagined.”

Scott was one of three win-ners of a free 2013 Dodge van outfitted with $40,000 in wheelchair accessibility equipment and adaptive driv-ing technology.

An essay contest organized by the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Asso-ciation (NMEDA) saw some 1,225 entries whittled down to three through a process of online voting and a panel of judges. The other two win-ners are in the U.S.

Friends and family from across B.C. – parents Connie and Steve Scott from Burns Lake and sister Lindsay Giricke from Bella Coola – and industry officials from the U.S. crowded into the Shop-pers Home Health Care store on Hillside Avenue on Dec. 5 to present Scott the van.

“When you’re in a wheel-chair you can’t run to the store for groceries. It makes everything more difficult from catching a bus to catching a cab. You rely on other people to help you. It’s frustrating at times,” Scott told the crowd. “The van represents ... that feeling of freedom, to go where you want when you want. Now I can offer (rides) to friends.”

Shoppers Home Health Care co-ordinated a conti-

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Shoppers installed the adap-tive driving, which allows Scott to control the brake and acceleration with a hand con-trol. The entire steering column was rebuilt in Toronto and New Jersey to reduce pressure needed to turn the steering wheel.

Scott, a wildfire firefighter and outdoor adventurer, dam-aged two vertebrae on April 11, 2010, in a snowboard-ing accident in Revelstoke. “I shorted a gap in a jump, landed flat and woke up a quadriplegic,” he said.

He spent nine weeks with-

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“How you see him today he’s been every single day

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Scott moved to Victoria two years ago to play wheel-chair rugby and

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“There are luxuries I’m afforded due to family and friends. There’s adventures I get to go on and not everyone can do that,” he said. “If I can share that love, I’m a happy man.”

Scott regained his driver’s licence two months ago. Joe Cyr, with the automo-tive department for Shop-pers Home Health Care, said using adaptive hand controls rather than floor pedals is easier than people might think, although the process to regain a driver’s licence to outfit a vehicle can be daunt-ing.

“Five or six manufacturers are involved with gear that has to work together in the vehicle,” Cyr said. “There’s a lot of headaches to push through, but there’s a good result in the end.”

For more on Live It! Love It! Foundation, see liveitloveit.org.

[email protected]

Edward Hill/News staff

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It was Christmas come early for Jeff Scott as he took hold of the keys to a gleam-ing Dodge Grand Caravan last week. The vehicle was even draped in a big red bow.

The 28-year-old Victoria man is back on the road, a new inflection point on a journey from a devastat-ing trauma to a hectic life of school, running a charitable foundation and playing wheel-chair rugby.

“It’s surreal that it’s mine,” Scott said. “The reliability and freedom of this van is unbe-lievable. It’s unlike anything I have imagined.”

Scott was one of three win-ners of a free 2013 Dodge van outfitted with $40,000 in wheelchair accessibility equipment and adaptive driv-ing technology.

An essay contest organized by the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Asso-ciation (NMEDA) saw some 1,225 entries whittled down to three through a process of online voting and a panel of judges. The other two win-ners are in the U.S.

Friends and family from across B.C. – parents Connie and Steve Scott from Burns Lake and sister Lindsay Giricke from Bella Coola – and industry officials from the U.S. crowded into the Shop-pers Home Health Care store on Hillside Avenue on Dec. 5 to present Scott the van.

“When you’re in a wheel-chair you can’t run to the store for groceries. It makes everything more difficult from catching a bus to catching a cab. You rely on other people to help you. It’s frustrating at times,” Scott told the crowd. “The van represents ... that feeling of freedom, to go where you want when you want. Now I can offer (rides) to friends.”

Shoppers Home Health Care co-ordinated a conti-

nent-wide effort to rebuild the van for Scott’s mobility limita-tions as a quadriplegic with partial arm and hand move-ment. Chrysler donated the van, BraunAbility installed the wheelchair ramp, hydrau-lic kneeling system and a driver’s chair that rotates and moves up and down.

Shoppers installed the adap-tive driving, which allows Scott to control the brake and acceleration with a hand con-trol. The entire steering column was rebuilt in Toronto and New Jersey to reduce pressure needed to turn the steering wheel.

Scott, a wildfire firefighter and outdoor adventurer, dam-aged two vertebrae on April 11, 2010, in a snowboard-ing accident in Revelstoke. “I shorted a gap in a jump, landed flat and woke up a quadriplegic,” he said.

He spent nine weeks with-

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“How you see him today he’s been every single day

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Scott moved to Victoria two years ago to play wheel-chair rugby and

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Through Live It! Love It!, Scott funds outdoor adven-ture camps in Whistler and at Silver Star Resort for people with physical disabilities. His life of adventure has changed,

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“There are luxuries I’m afforded due to family and friends. There’s adventures I get to go on and not everyone can do that,” he said. “If I can share that love, I’m a happy man.”

Scott regained his driver’s licence two months ago. Joe Cyr, with the automo-tive department for Shop-pers Home Health Care, said using adaptive hand controls rather than floor pedals is easier than people might think, although the process to regain a driver’s licence to outfit a vehicle can be daunt-ing.

“Five or six manufacturers are involved with gear that has to work together in the vehicle,” Cyr said. “There’s a lot of headaches to push through, but there’s a good result in the end.”

For more on Live It! Love It! Foundation, see liveitloveit.org.

[email protected]

Edward Hill/News staff

Victoria’s Jeff Scott beams after receiving a free Dodge Grand Caravan outfitted with adapted driving and wheelchair equipment, at the Shoppers Home Health Care store on Hillside Avenue. Scott won the van through a contest organized by the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association.

No limits on this athleteNew van guarantees freedom

“The van represents ... that feeling of freedom, to go where you want when you want. Now I can offer (rides) to friends.”

- Jeff Scott

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Organizers of the live First Christmas Nativity Pageant on Topaz Avenue know firsthand actors can be as stub-born as a mule, particularly if they are one.

There is a donkey which is relied upon every year for the performance’s manger scene that has memorized his cues so well he refuses to stray from them.

“I said to my daughter, ‘We’ll take the don-key on the set before the crowd comes.’ Well, we were trying to drag this donkey on, he would not go on the set,” says longtime pageant actor Peter Grill. “As soon as he heard his music he just walks on the set.”

The donkey is just one part component of a production featuring a cast of 120 people and a few other four-legged friends. With the crew behind them, in all about 200 people come together every holiday season to bring the story of Jesus’ birth to life.

Every year the pageant, put on by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, attracts more than 6,000 people to take in the performances, which run four times per night for three nights, starting on Saturday, Dec. 21 at 6:30pm. Each performance is a half-hour long.

The nativity pageant first came to life 27 years ago, when a member of the church began to eye up Topaz Park as a perfect location for a pag-eant.

“It changed our Christmas,” producer Lyanne Jaubert-Sanderson said. “Everybody who par-

ticipates, all of a sudden it brings back Christmas and presents don’t mean as much. Even the kids say ‘This is Christmas.’”

The location itself is a pocket of peace and quiet in a city buzzing with preparation for Christmas. Topaz Avenue is closed to traffic for the event and the streetlights are turned off, leaving a still, quiet setting in the park.

“It’s like we’re in another world,” Jaubert-Sanderson said. “It’s quite close to Blanshard (Street) but it’s amazing, it’s like it all disappears.”

The production starts at the beginning, when the Bible says the angel Gabriel told Mary she was to have a child. The pageant then moves

through the birth of Jesus and the visits of the shepherds and wise men.

The whole thing ends in the singing of the finale to Handel’s Messiah.

Mary and Joseph are the most carefully selected roles, with the actors chosen for being people who best represent the spirit of their characters. Many people vie for the roles, although not always for the most obvious reason.

“We’ve been actually pretty suc-cessful, we’re up to four marriages I think,” said director Wendy Yzenbrant.

Grill’s granddaughter met her husband by playing the role.

“All the girls want to be Mary,” Jaubert-Sanderson said. ‘Will you make us Mary this year, because there’s some really cute guys.’ … It’s just a running joke.”

Bleachers and chairs are available but the event does get busy, so it can be standing room only. The free show will go on rain or shine. The first two shows of the evening, at 6:30 and 7 pm, are typically the busiest.

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The Metchosin Arts and Cultural Centre Association is still seeking proposals for future use of the Metchosin Art Gallery. The five board mem-bers extended the deadline for proposals to Jan. 15. The members have yet to receive a proposal, but individually they have heard inquires, said Gaert Linnaea, MACCA president.

MACCA ran the gallery until it closed Dec. 1 and is actively seeking a new direction for the gallery. They hope to find another group to operate the community art gallery.

“We will need a solid business plan to organize this,” Linnaea said. “We are looking for proposals that are a viable business as long as it’s not at the cost of the tax payer.”

MACCA hosted a meeting with artists, members of the association and the public to discuss potential options in October. More than 40 people attended and discussed the options of using the space add an artist co-operative and the possibility of fundrais-ing to keep the gallery open.

MACCA is asking for interested parties to sub-mit proposals for future use of the gallery site to Linnaea at [email protected] or call 250-381-5752.

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Thurs. dec. 19the hUron carole - The holiday concert returns on a national tour to help Canada’s hungry. With an assortment of musical talents including George Canyon, Beverley Mahood and Shannon Gaye. Tickets from $52 at rmts.bc.ca. 7:30pm at the Royal Theatre.

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Found note grows into a bounty for homeless

When Maia Green found a $10 bill on the street, her first thought was to give it to some-one in need.

“It was a spontaneous thing,” she says. “I thought it would be cool to give it to one person, but then I wondered what would happen if it multiplied.”

Having heard of the new Sponsor A Breakfast program at Our Place through a friend, Green posted a challenge on her Facebook page. To start it off, she doubled the $10 by adding her own donation.

“My friends responded instantly,” she says. “Within hours we had raised over $200, and within six days we turned $10 into $450.”

That $450 provided a spe-cial hot breakfast of scrambled eggs, ham, potatoes and coffee to more than 300 of Greater Vic-toria’s most vulnerable citizens.

Green and her friends served up their special breakfast at Our Place on Monday (Dec. 16) morning.

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Manpower calls the hiring climate “mild” for upcoming months.

Removing seasonal variations, the net employment outlook of eight per cent – the percentage of firms hir-ing minus those laying off – is 13 points higher than last year, showing marked improvement over the start of 2013.

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Katie Rushton a fresh face on local cycling team Travis PatersonNews staff

Katie Rushton is switching gears as the former national team field hockey player is taking a crack at competitive cycling.

Rushton was named to the Accent Inns/Russ Hays Cycling Team 2014 road racing team last week. She’ll be a rookie on the team racing scene but the 28-year-old for-mer University of Victoria Vike and pro field hockey player has already showed great promise.

With little to no formal training she dusted the Cat. 4, entry level field, in the 2012 Metchosin Road Race. In 2013 she upped her train-ing and finished first in the Cat. 3 criterium and second in the road race at the Race the Ridge series in Maple Ridge. Victoria’s Anika Todd, who exploded onto the cycling scene in 2013 with silver in the elite national time trial championship, was the only cyclist to beat Rush-ton in the Race the Ridge road race.

“Right now I just want to work hard and see how well I can do with this team,” Rushton said. “I’m look-ing forward to racing on a team and competing and pushing myself at

Super Week (in Vancouver) where there’ll be a lot of tough competi-tion.”

Racing with teammates is the first adjustment for Rushton. She joins Meghan Grant and Allie Guen-ther as the female contingent of the 16-member Accent Inns/Russ Hays team. All three are new to the pro-gram though Grant and Guenther have previous team experience, which Rushton hopes to learn from.

“During the season I’m always looking out for promising ath-letes and was aware of Katie,” said Accent Inns/Russ Hays general manager Jon Watkin. “She’d been racing for a while and doing well against other racers who’ve been at it for years.”

One goal of the Accent Inns/Russ Hays program is to support elite cyclists on their way up to bigger and better things while also provid-

ing a platform for local cyclists to race at the top of their category, and do it while holding down a career. Returning to the lead the team are a pair of veterans, 2013 national individual time trial cham-pion Curtis Dearden, a Russ Hays bike mechanic, and the 2013 B.C. omnium track champion, Emile DeRosnay, a professor at UVic.

For Rushton, the competitive fire burns bright. She left the national field hockey team out of her own will as that sport pulled her in many directions but has by no means lost her motivation to compete.

“I started taking biking seriously about two years ago, right after I retired from the national field hockey team,” Rushton said. “I entered races right of the bat then raced more last summer and really enjoyed it. I’m a competitive per-son, I love sports, it was a natural progression.”

It’s one more discipline to the family’s sporting legacy in Victoria: mom Brenda is an accomplished field hockey player; sister Andrea is a former UVic and Canada team-mate of Katie’s; brother Eric played basketball for the Vikes and won provincial rugby chapmionships for the James Bay Athletic Asso-ciation where dad Peter, also an ex-Victoria Shamrock, is the coach.

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For the second straight Olympic Winter Games the KidSport Greater Victoria chapter is run-ning a contest to predict Canada’s Olympic men’s hockey team roster.

The cost to enter is $20, with proceeds going to KidSport Greater Victoria, which grants sports regis-tration fees to children in need in the city.

The grand prize win-ner will guess all or the most players named to the men’s 2014 Olympic hockey team which will be announced on Jan. 7.

First prize is $1,000 and second prize is a private box for 10 to 12 people at a Victoria Royals home game including food, a value of approximately $800. The Victoria Fire-fighters and Victoria Roy-als paired up to organize the contest.

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Victoria Cougars player Jordan Marciniak falls Sunday at the Archie Browning arena.

Travis PatersonNews staff

Rarely do the Victoria Cougars have added motivation against their closest Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League rivals, the Saanich Braves.

But the Braves shut out the Cougars 2-0 at Pearkes Arena on Friday, the first time the Cougars’ were held scoreless since the Peninsula Panthers defeated them 5-0 on Sept. 9, 2010. It’s a sign of the Cougars’ mortality as it was their fifth regulation loss this year, compared to just one last year.

“The (Cougars) players are more unhappy about losing in general and the way they played,” said Cougars asso-ciate coach Suneil Karod. “They didn’t execute. If you play well, that’s the big-

gest key, and our guys understand we didn’t have a strong game.”

The Cougars (25-5-2) bounced back with a gritty 3-2 home win over the Westshore Wolves (11-14-5) on Sunday, and host the Braves (10-18-1) on Thurs-day (Dec. 19) with a 7 p.m. start time at Archie Browning Sports Centre.

It’s Karod’s fifth season with the Cou-gars and he’s been part of its dominant past two years during as the second place team in the Fred “Cyclone” Taylor Cup junior B provincial championships.

The makeup of this year’s Cougars team is far different than the past two seasons, however, and so is the league.

“Right now we have four lines who can score any given night.”

It’s a big change from last year when the Cougars had one line that scored,

Brody Coulter’s, and three lines that didn’t get scored on.

“Now it’s four lines that rarely get scored on and four that can score, so it’s more of an even balance,” Karod said.

Because of their succes the Cougars are a barometer for the VIJHL. Evidence suggests greater parity in the league, something many coaches agree with. The league is catching up to the Cou-gars in the same way it once caught up iwth the Campbell River Storm during that team’s run which ended in the early 2000s.

“Last year we rolled over every team in this league and in provincials we played (the Richmond Sockeyes), a team like ours, and had a tough time. If we played a team like that 10 times during the year it would help,” Karod said.

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A trio of Victoria Synchro club swimmers cracked the top-10 at a Canada Winter Games Trials held at the University of B.C. last week-end.

Emma Choo, 14, and Luiza Vasylyeva, 13, of Saanich, and Sarah Jones, 15, of Oak Bay, all earned valuable points that will help them on their campaign to represent Team B.C. at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George.

The trials rank the athletes by their com-bined results from their performance based on technical skills, figures and a standard rou-tine set.

“It’s a little different than normal, as it is all individual events to qualify for a place in the Canada Winter Games,” said Victoria Syn-chro coach Tara Gant. “The top athletes come

together to form a team routine.”Gant will also lead Team B.C. at the Winter

Games in Prince George, which is just over a year away as it falls in February 2015.

“Our athletes did the best in the figure event with Choo placing third, Jones placing fourth and Vasylyeva in seventh.”

There’s no awards or medals at this point as the event scores go toward the synchro-nized swimmers’ long term rankings, with three more sets of trials between now and August 2014. The top 10 ranking athletes at that time will qualify.

It would be a great improvement for Greater Victoria to send three synchro athletes to the Winter Games as there was only one from the region at the past two Winter Games events.

The next trial is Feb. 15 where B.C’s top 16 athletes will be identified. The top 12 will be named at the May 24 synchro event at Saanich Commonwealth Place.

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Swimmers in synch for Winter Games Bulldogs sisters top Duncan’s Cougar Invite

Thirteen-year-old Kiana Shew of the Victoria Bulldogs Wres-tling club topped the 33-kilo-gram girls category of the Cou-gar Invite wrestling tournament in Duncan on Saturday.

Kiana’s younger sister Zena, 10, found herself without any girls in the 25 kg class and for the second tournament this fall she wrestled boys, this time in the 28 kg weight class, and won all her matches.

Bulldogs Sekou Tatem and Logan Wright were second in the Jr. boys 35 and 38 kg classes, respectively. Esquimalt Dockers’ Grant Hunter was first in the Jr. boys heavyweight and Erin Geddie was second in the Jr. girls heavyweight.

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Historical photos representing Royal Roads’ military past are online for the first time.

Shaggy-haired 1970s recruits getting their first military haircuts; muddy run-ners completing the obstacle course; and uniformed cadets at the formal dance complete the set.

Until now, most of the images were accessible only in photo albums, pre-served in the Royal Roads University archives. This month, the archives fin-ished digitizing more than 1,200 pages from albums covering 1963 to 1988.

“These digitized photo albums offer us a chance to reflect on the discipline, teamwork and commitment of the Royal Roads cadets, leadership traits we

encourage and admire today at RRU as part of a growing educational legacy,” said Paul Corns, associate vice-president of Community Relations and Advance-ment at RRU.

The majority of the photos were taken by military college staff photographer Len Watling, who first spent nine years with the Royal Canadian Navy at HMCS Naden as a darkroom technician before joining the staff of Royal Roads in 1964.

He routinely ran obstacle courses and hung out of helicopters to get the right shots of cadets.

“These unique albums are the most requested items in the RRU archives, often displayed during events such as Homecoming,” said RRU archivist Caro-

line Posynick. “Now that they are digitized, the

albums are much more accessible, and the public can flip through them at home on their computers. This will bring the experiences of cadet life into sharper focus for anyone interested in military heritage.”

The $16,000 project was partially financed by a B.C. History Digitization Program grant from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Matching funds came from the Friends of Hatley Park Society and RRU’s Military Heritage Fund.

The photos are searchable by year and accessible online through library.royalroads.ca/archives.

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A Royal Roads Military College drummer from the class of 1971-72.

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In front of the backdrop of Princess Cruises’ Grand Princess, the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority announced last Friday that cruise tour-ism created $96 million in direct and indirect eco-nomic impact to the region for 2012.

Direct cruise-related expenditures – from pas-sengers, crew and services rendered while ships were in port – from the 224 calls amounted to $49 million, according a study commissioned by the harbour authority.

Report authors Business Research and Eco-nomic Advisors also found that the industry gen-erated 368 direct full- and part-time jobs, yielding about $13.6 million in wages.

Harbour authority CEO Curtis Grad called 2012 a record year for the industry in Victoria.

He said having specific numbers about how cruise passengers and crew are spending their money, the services available here and the overall significance of cruise tourism to the local econ-omy help in the GVHA’s marketing of the region and port facilities.

Victoria Shipyards vice-president and general manager Malcolm Barker said the company will be working on the Grand Princess over the next six to seven years and provide work for 400 shipyard workers.

Victoria Shipyards has already received inqui-ries about doing major refit work on two other cruise ships for 2014 and 2015, he added.

While 2013 saw a reduction in cruise ship visits to the Ogden Point terminal to 203, next year 210 calls are scheduled, with an estimated 490,000 visi-tors onboard.

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Initiatives spearheaded by the City of Victoria and City of Langford will receive money as part of a provincial Age-Friendly B.C. grant program announced by Health Minister Terry Lake this week.

Victoria received $20,000 for

a project to assess the social and housing needs of Victoria’s ageing populations.

And $18,000 was awarded for the Age-Friendly Langford Action Plan, which will review accessibility in regional parks in the municipality and, in con-

sultation with seniors groups, develop strategies to address shortfalls.

The projects were among 26 provincewide that received approval for nearly $500,000 in grants under the joint Union of B.C. Municipalities and Min-

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