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With wonder in her eyes, four-year-old Camryn Lange welcomes Santa for a visit to the pediatric unit of Victoria General Hospital. Jolly old St. Nick will be out and about with his trusty reindeer tonight.

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Donna Ensor reads aloud a long list of names as auxiliary Const. Derek Brand drives. Karen Crowther

shuffles through a stack of Christmas cards in envelopes.

Ensor and Crowther are volun-teers with the Keep in Touch program. Monday to Friday, volunteers call all 37 senior partici-pants.

Each year in December, KIT volunteers bring a poinsettia, choco-late and card to everyone in the program.

Stopping at the Prince Edward Lodge on Station Avenue, Brand and Ensor carry poinsettias and Crowther brings cards and a handful of Lindt chocolates.

The three women waiting are visibly excited to see the people they talk to nearly everyday on the phone.

“I don’t hear very well and I don’t see very well. I like this program, it’s nice because I don’t talk to many people,” said Anna Burchill, 89. “It’s the only plant I get,” she added of the visit and delivery. “I treasure this stuff.”

Cherishing the company, Burchill shares stories from her past of cross-country skiing to school in Saskatchewan “when the snow was too deep to walk.” She also talks of her love of dancing that began when she was seven.

“They treat us like real people when other people don’t. They are nice and polite,” says Mickey Champman, 84, excited to match faces to the voices she hears on the phone.

As the volunteers leave the lodge and head back to the van to make more deliv-eries, Doris Peacman, 84, says good-bye.

“Thank you so much, you leave us with

such big smiles,” she adds.While making their rounds, Ensor and

Crowther know who will be home, for example one lady goes swimming every Friday morning.

While a few minutes on the phone my be nothing to some people, it means the

world to participants and volunteers. Especially at Christmas.

“One day a lady was in tears and asked me how much she owed me (for the plant). I said it was a gift,” says Ensor.

“Some of them this is the only thing they get,” Crowther adds. “It’s a rough

time for them.”KIT volunteers also send out birthday

cards throughout the year and offer an annual spring tea. To sign up for the KIT program call 250-474-8791 or to volunteer call 250-474-2264.

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Langford senior Dola Dibblee accepts a plant from Keep in Touch volunteers Donna Ensor and auxiliary Const. Derek Brand.


Anna Burchill, 89 grins at auxiliary Const. Derek Brand during her annual Christmas visit by volunteers from the KIT program.

Poinsettia delivery packs an emotional punch

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“It’s nice because I don’t talk to many people … I treasure this stuff.”

– Anna Burchill


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Keeping watch for all over the Christmas holidays will be members of the Maritime Forces Pacific/Joint Task Force Pacific.

The men and women of the Regional Joint Operations Centre will work throughout the holidays to maintain watch over the numerous ships and aircraft approaching our shores.

The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre, staffed by Canadian Forces and Coast Guard professionals, will continue to launch any Search and Rescue operations for air and mari-time emergencies in B.C., the Yukon and the Pacific Ocean.

Further up Vancouver Island, Search and Rescue crews from 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron at 19 Wing Comox remain on standby

over the holidays, ready to launch helicopters and aircraft in support of rescue operations.

Maritime Forces Pacific also has a “Ready Duty Ship” prepared to deploy at short notice in case of an emergency.

In B.C.’s interior, in Glacier National Park, a Canadian Forces artillery task force is deployed to Rogers Pass to conduct avalanche control operations with Parks Can-ada. These operations ensure the roads can be kept open over the holidays.

Overseas, Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Regina, with a crew of 225 per-sonnel, continues to patrol the Ara-bian Gulf in its efforts to contribute to stability in the region.

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Notice is given that all persons who believe that their interest in property may be affected by proposed Bylaws 343 and 344 will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respect-ing matters contained in the proposed Bylaws at a Public Hearing to be held at the School House, 1589 Millstream Road, Highlands, BC on Monday, January 7, 2013 commencing at 7:00 p.m.

The lands that are the subject of the proposed bylaws comprise parts of Lot A, Section 4, Range 3 West and Section 4 and 5, Range 4 West, Highland District, Plan EPP24734 (“1150 Bear Mountain Parkway”). The lands that are the subject of proposed Bylaw 343, which would amend the Offi cial Community Plan, comprise approximately 24.6 hectares (60.8 acres) and are shown outlined in bold and noted as, “Lands subject to OCP Amendment,” on Map 1. The lands that are the subject of proposed Bylaw 344, which would amend the Zoning Bylaw, comprise approximately 6.7 hectares (16.6 acres) and are shown shaded and noted as, “Lands subject to Zoning Amendment,” on Map 1.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

“Highlands Offi cial Community Plan Bylaw, 2007, Amendment No. 5 (Amenity 3), Bylaw No. 343, 2012”

General Purpose: Bylaw No. 343 amends the Offi cial Community Plan (OCP) by adding a new Amenity Area in Chapter 2 – Land Use, called, “Amenity 3 – 1150 Bear Mountain Parkway.” The bylaw also changes the OCP land use designation of the lands shown in Map 1 from, “Recreation Tourism Land Use,” to the new OCP land use designation, “Amenity 3 – 1150 Bear Mountain Parkway”. All OCP references to the “Recreation Tourism Land Use” designation would be deleted. The proposed OCP wording for the new Amenity 3 area expresses that the majority and eastern portion of the subject land is to remain under conservation covenant to assure proper functioning condition of the forested and riparian ecosystem community. The bylaw also adds a defi ni-tion of proper functioning condition to the OCP. The proposed OCP wording further expresses the desired future to develop the 4-hectare area in the western portion of the land providing that certain community-related conditions are met.

“Highlands Zoning Bylaw, 1998, Amendment No. 32, (Comprehensive Development 2 (CD2) Zone – 1150 Bear Mountain Parkway) Bylaw No. 344, 2012”

General Purpose: Bylaw No. 344 creates a new zone, “Comprehensive Development 2 (CD2) – 1150 Bear Mountain Parkway,” and adds the lands shown in Map 1 as, “Lands subject to Zoning Amendment,” to that zone. To create consistency with a 3-party conservation covenant on a portion of the property at 1150 Bear Mountain Parkway, some land that is currently zoned Community Institutional 1 (CI1) is proposed to be zoned Conservation 1 (C1), and some land that is currently zoned Conservation 1 is proposed to be added to the new CD2 Zone.

The new CD2 Zone is an amenity zone. If the amenities stated in Bylaw 344 are provided to the District, the uses will change to predominantly residential, with a potential total of 39 single family dwellings, 7 cottages that are essentially smaller single family dwellings, and one mixed use building (residential, assembly, day-care). The zone also has an area designated for Community Gardens and Green Space.

For any person wishing more detailed information, the proposed Bylaws and other related material may be inspected between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday excluding holidays, from Tuesday, December 11, 2012 to Monday, January 7, 2013 at the District of Highlands Municipal Offi ce located at 1980 Millstream Road, Victoria, BC V9B 6H1. You can mail or deliver your comments on the Bylaws to the Municipal Offi ce or by fax to 250-474-3677, or email to [email protected] to be received prior to 12 p.m. on the day of the public hearing.

Please note that all correspondence submitted to the District of Highlands in response to this Notice will form part of the public record and will be published in a meeting agenda when this matter is before the Council or a Committee of Council. This includes being published on the District’s website. The District considers the author’s address relevant to Council’s consideration of this matter and will disclose this personal information. The author’s phone number and email address are not relevant and should not be included in the correspon-dence if the author does not wish this personal information disclosed.

For convenience only, some of the documents may be viewed on the District’s website at: www.highlands.ca.

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4-H ChristmasJulia Lozupone, 9, couldn’t visit Santa without bringing her chicken Fluffy, which she raised through the Metchosin 4-H club.

West Shore municipalities will all be taking time off over the holidays and hours at the various city halls will be limited around Christmas and New Year’s.

• Colwood – city hall closed from Friday, Dec. 21 at 4:30 p.m. until Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013

• Langford – city hall closed from Friday, Dec. 21 until Monday, Dec. 31. Hall is open until 2 p.m. on Dec. 31 and then closed again on Tuesday,

Jan. 1 • View Royal – town hall closed

from Friday, Dec. 21 at 2 p.m. until Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013

• Metchosin – municipal hall closed from Friday, Dec. 21 at 4 p.m. until Wednesday, Jan. 2 at 8 a.m.

• Highlands – municipal hall closed from Friday, Dec. 21 until Monday, Dec. 31. Hall is open until 2 p.m. on Dec. 31 and then closed again on Tuesday, Jan. 1

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The land upon which the facility will be situated and the discharge will occur is Lot 1, Sections 2,3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 23, 70 and 71, and of Unnumbered Portions, Goldstream District, Plan 12326 (PID005-002-419), located approximately 400 m south of Finlayson Arm Road along the west side of Trans Canada/Island Highway No. 1, within Goldstream Provincial Park.

The maximum rate of air emissions discharged from this facility will be 500 m3/h. The operatingperiod for this facility will be continuous. The characteristics of the vapour are as follows: benzene(maximum 4 g/m3), ethylbenzene (maximum 1000 g/m3), naphthalene (maximum 3 g/m3),toluene (maximum 5000 g/m3), volatile petroleum hydrocarbons (maximum 3000 g/m3), andxylenes (maximum 100 g/m3). The type of treatment to be applied to the discharge is: adsorptionto granular activated carbon.

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The following meeting schedule for 2013 is as follows:January - 21stFebruary - 4th & 18thMarch - 4th & 18thApril - 2nd & 15thMay - 6th & 21stJune - 3rd & 17th

All regularly scheduled Council meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, 3rd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, unless posted otherwise.

2013 Standing Committee MeetingsAdministration & Finance2nd Tuesday @ 4:45 p.m.

Transportation & Public Works2nd Tuesday @ 5:30 p.m.

Planning, Zoning, & Affordable Housing2nd Monday @ 7:00 p.m. (4th Monday at the

Call of the Chair)

Protective Services4th Tuesday @ 5:00 p.m.

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In the lead up to Christmas, students in Rechelle St. John’s Grade 2 class at Savory elementary school have been learning about holiday tradi-tions and discussing the meaning of Christmas.

When asked what Christmas means to them, most of the students talked about spending time with family and making others happy.

“A good part of Christmas is to be with your family, have a roof over your head,” Rayne Taylor said.

“Making family happy by being good to them,” Kaden Banner said.

“Christmas is a time that you give to your fam-ily,” Zachary Ralph said. “It makes me really happy because then I always see the smile on their faces.”

One student said every year her family gets together to go caroling.

“I like to see the smiles on their faces,” Selena Zheng said.

The young students also expressed belief that it’s important to help those less fortunate than them during the holidays.

Some students talked about the importance of celebrating the birth of Jesus, as believed in Chris-tian faiths.

The topic that brought out the most excitement was Christmas food. Students say their favourites are turkey, Christmas cake, stuffing, candy canes, shortbread cookies and, breaking tradition, maca-roni.

Students said they are heading to a variety of places over the holidays to visit family. Many were heading up Island, while others were going to the Mainland. Two students are heading to Edmonton

and a pair of siblings are Mexico bound. One stu-dent is going to China to visit family, and another said he is possibly going to Australia, where he has extended family.

The students have also been learning about other holidays, such as Hanukkah, and how peo-ple celebrate Christmas around the world. They learned that in Holland, Santa is called Sinterklaas and has a sidekick named Zwarte Piet that spanks naughty children with willow branches.

While in Germany, Santa rides a white horse instead of a sleigh and that children leave out their shoes for Santa to fill.

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Savory elementary school students Selena Zheng, left, and twins Jack and Aliya Haward, Grade 2, help decorate the school Christmas tree in preparation for the big day.


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The season for givingThe shopping malls around Greater

Victoria haven’t exactly been empty over this Christmas season, but there’s

a sense people aren’t spending as much these days.

Governments at all levels are facing deficits and cutbacks, and the economy isn’t exactly roaring upward.

Despite lingering tough times, people across the region continue to show immense compassion and generosity.

Each week and almost each day we’ve seen new examples of youth, adults, businesses and public sector organizations working hard to bring in food, clothing and toys for people in poverty and who are homeless.

Students and teachers at schools such as Belmont secondary, Mount Doug high and Cedar Hill middle school have brought in piles of food, gifts and cash for food banks in Greater Victoria. Oak Bay high kids created gift bags for people spending Christmas in the cancer ward.

A platoon of Salvation Army volunteers manned collection kettles at shopping centres across the region.

In driving wind and rain, the annual truck light parade wound its way through Greater Victoria and people were happy to give food for the less fortunate.

Some, like the Fleet Dive Unit, raised enough donations to help about 650 families with Christmas hampers. Or Department of Defence personnel, who came through for the United Way this winter.

These examples are the tip of the iceberg of those who give a little and a lot. Most people won’t see the joy they bring to kids who live in poverty, seniors who struggle on meager fixed incomes and families given a chance to have a hearty meal that might normally fall outside their limited budget.

We hope Christmas season helps bring out the best in people, and this year again, we think it has.

NDP leader Adrian Dix has completed year-end inter-views with members of the

legislative press gallery. Here are highlights from my discussion with him.

TF: On the Kinder Mor-gan oil pipeline expansion proposal, federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair says the federal environmen-tal process would have to be strengthened before a project like that could get a thorough enough hearing. Do you agree?

AD: The B.C. Liberal government has signed an equivalency agreement that says that the federal decision is the provincial decision on these projects. If it applies to Enbridge Northern Gateway, presumably the B.C. Liberals would apply it to Kinder Morgan.

They could have done a joint process, where [the final decision] would have gone to both cabinets. They chose instead to give up jurisdiction. They were so afraid of making any decision on Northern Gateway that they sent it over to the federal government.

So what we’ve said is within a week of coming to office, we would end that equivalency agreement, and British Columbia would make decisions about both Enbridge Northern Gateway, which applied in May 2010, and any other pipeline, including the Kinder Morgan pro-posal, for which no application has

been made.Obviously it would have been

desirable for everyone had they chosen a true joint review, as they have in Site C [dam proposed for Peace River], as they did with Kemess North [rejected mine expan-sion proposal] and other cases.

TF: You don’t want duplicated review pro-cesses here, you just want a provincial cabinet say in the decision?

AD: That’s right. TF: On your relationship

with the B.C. Federation of Labour, your caucus is considering a proposal that B.C. should once again do away with secret ballots for union certification.

AD: The B.C. Fed makes a case to the government on a series of issues on employment standards every year. Labour law, every year. WorkSafeBC, every year. Trades and training, every year.

With respect to [accepting signed union cards for certification], it is a democratic process that the Newfoundland Conservative gov-ernment just put into place a few months ago. So it’s a proposal from the labour movement and we’re looking at it.

For most of B.C.’s modern his-tory, since World War II, we’ve had that card-check system in place. The question would be whether [returning to that system] is a prior-

ity for this term in government.TF: So those kinds of things will be

made clear in your platform?AD: Absolutely.TF: You picked up some serious

money from the business community at a fundraiser in October. Is that some kind of a record for the NDP?

AD: [Laughs.] It might be a record, I don’t know. I think the business fundraiser we did at the Hotel Vancouver netted $350,000.

I think what it reflects is, this year I’ve had about 230 meetings with the business community. The pur-pose of it has been principally to build understanding, particularly on issues of skills training. With the pri-ority I give to skills training, I think I’m much more attuned to their concerns than the government has been.

TF: I suppose that kind of success in fundraising might make it more difficult to follow through with your pledge to ban corporate and union donations.

AD: I don’t think so. The B.C. Lib-eral Party has a very high level of corporate donations as a percent-age of its total. We’re overwhelm-ingly dependent on individual dona-tions. We get support from unions, but it’s not even close to what peo-ple would think.

TF: So you’ll campaign for that, as you have before?

AD: Yes.–Tom Fletcher is legislative

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‘This year I’ve had about 230 meetings with the business community.’

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Now a good time to re-examine beliefs

Vibrant West Shore excels at generosity

OPINION

With the passing of Christmas and other festivals of faith, it is an appropriate time to engage in important spiritual questions that engage people in my own Christian faith community.

Perhaps there are other people of faith who are emboldened to move outside their orthodoxies as well.

This enterprise is particularly urgent for ‘People of the Book’ – Christians, with their Bible, Jews with their Torah and Hebrew Bible, and Muslims with their sacred Koran.

Each of these texts grew out of a specific era with very definite worldviews and perspectives on life.

Whether their authorship is described as human or divine, the writers were nevertheless bound by history and human constraints. And depending on the particular stream or tradition birthing these views their value and authenticity have become the hallmark conviction for each faith tradition.

In my faith tradition, the most challenging argument coming forward is around the particular worldview that gave birth to our Bible. Most scholars insist that the ancient worldview of the Bible was a flat earth, with a domed sky above that opened to allow the sun to shine during the day, but closed with only small pin-sized holes that permitted the sun to be seen as stars, or an ever-changing hole for the moon.

The place where God dwelt was above – in the heavens – and God intervened in the affairs of earth and regularly engineered events on earth

according to a grand master plan that was revealed to certain people at certain times and in certain ways.

Below the earth’s surface were the waters of the deep, and somewhere below that was a sort of hell that humans could descend should they misbehave.

However, for the faithful ones, their reward was to be up in heaven, where God and God’s emissaries (angels) dwelt.

Few of us believe in that kind of world anymore, but still there are some. Even U.S. president Barack Obama, in his address to the mourning people in Newtown, Conn., made reference to this heaven and paradise as the dwelling place for the 26 victims of the mass shooting. Of course President Obama doesn’t believe in this ancient worldview himself, yet he still had to refer to it in his memorial address.

For many of us there still is this disconnect between the imagery and vocabulary grounded on an ancient worldview, and a missing vocabulary and imagery that can satisfy us now with our Hubble spacecraft view of the cosmos.

In short, we haven’t got a story we can repeat to ourselves and our children that can fill the void and help us make sense of our human condition, and especially at times of great need.

What we desperately need are theologians and storytellers grounded both in current science and theology who can create new stories with new vocabulary and images, which have both integrity and power.

Until that happens we will have to rely on a schizophrenic perspective based on the old worldview no one believes anymore.

Dale Perkins is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada, living in Victoria, B.C.

The best of the holiday season is usually associated with generosity and caring; both especially true in West Shore communi-ties. It’s not just because the West Shore has a strong array of holiday events and celebra-tions like the fire truck parade, skating with Santa or big retail sales. Rather, it’s because there is an increasing sense of community pride about helping our neighbours and our communities.

Recent statistics have shown that people in the West Shore vol-

unteer more than anywhere else in the province – that’s

remarkable given we are mostly made up of young and very busy families.

We can be proud of that but also of the many charitable activi-ties that take place in the West Shore, as well as its leaders and contributors.

Whether it’s the local food bank, the Salvation Army or the many arts, athletics or environmen-

tal groups, the West Shore is alive with a strong community spirit and willingness to serve.

Recently when a young teen was tragically struck down in a vehicular accident, the com-munity rallied to support his struggling family in their griev-ing. The City of Langford and its fire department have done remarkable things with their relief efforts in Haiti. The Goldstream Hatchery is a massive labour of volunteer love. Metchosin Day is almost entirely volunteer-run and attracts thousands.

The list goes on and on for every municipality and in every instinctive and positive community response to needs, tragedies, challenges and celebrations.

I am continuously reminded

that this is all about a special kind of West Shore selfless leadership – whether it’s youth leaders, business leaders or those who lead with their ideas, cash contributions or just their sweat equity – in an amazing range of efforts to help make our communities better and better.

This is a sign of a community maturing, becoming self-confident and willing to help neighbours and those less fortunate than themselves.

At our chamber every year we receive donations in-kind and cash contributions from over 100 of our member businesses and organizations who do not hesitate when asked, to support a particu-

lar event or charitable cause, not to mention countless volunteer hours for those same causes or events including the WestShore Unlimited TV show.

How lucky and blessed we are to be living not only in the most beautiful place imaginable (OK winter could be sunnier) but also in our emerging, vibrant and very alive West Shore.

So this holiday season let’s celebrate those blessings and give thanks for our neighbours and community members and their remarkable contributions to the health of our communities.Dan Spinner is the CEO of the WestShore Chamber of Commerce.

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Dan SpinnerWestShore Chamber


Hamper elvesWestShore Chamber of Commerce operations manager Lindsay Wilson, left, and public relations co-ordinator Lindsay Vogan help sort donated food from Belmont secondary school at the Goldstream Food Bank.

Dale PerkinsGuest column


25 Gemini Awards as well as the Governor General’s lifetime achievement award.

In her years with 22 Minutes, she made news headlines by humanizing and humiliating stiff politicians outside Parliament

and by ambushing press conferences, all with an endearing east-coast accent and cheekiness.

In 2011, Walsh made national headlines for knocking on the door of Toronto Mayor

Rob Ford, who promptly called police and attempted to have her arrested for trespassing.Walsh comes to Victoria for one night only, fresh off a

two-week run at Vancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre.She performs in support of Metro Studio’s Raise

the Roof campaign, where partial proceeds will go to installing air conditioning in the theatre.“It’s really exciting Mary is launching (our campaign),”

said Heather Lindsay, general manager at Intrepid Theatre.In partnership with the Victoria Conservatory of

Music, Intrepid will be putting a new roof on the studio and upgrading it to a theatre in 2013.

“The most exciting and relatable thing is the air conditioning, because I think our audience members can

really relate to that, “ Lindsay said. “Most of them have been in a hot room with us at some point.”

Tickets are $100, but $50 will go directly to the fundraising campaign and will include a $50 charitable tax receipt, she said.

Find tickets at ticketrocket.org or by calling 250-590-6291.

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THE ARTSToo far from the family to enjoy the feelings of shame and disgust that

are an inevitable part of the holidays? Fret no more. Come enjoy, as Jay and Grayson insist you play charades; force you to join in the sing-along; require that you model the horrific sweater from Aunt Ethel. Logan’s pub, 1821 Cook St., will be open from 3 to 9 p.m. on Dec. 25, serving Christmas dinner.

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The line between humour and rage often rests on a knife’s edge.

No one embodies this truth more readily than Mary Walsh, a stalwart of the Canadian sketch comedy circuit who brings her one-woman show Dancing With Rage to Metro Studio Feb. 19.

Perhaps most recognized for her Newfie-infused satire on the long-running CBC series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Walsh incorporates many of the characters she has played over the years into the show, including the infamous warrior princess Marg Delahunty, Dakey Dunn, Mom Reardon and Tim Horton’s loiterer and close-camera gossip Connie Bloor.

Dancing with Rage follows several stories, from a blind woman who regains her eyesight to a mother travelling the country in search of her lost child.

Throughout the show, Walsh embodies her classic and emerging characters in seasoned fashion to illustrate the rage brought on by modern politics, capitalism and pop culture.

In her 25-year comedy career, Walsh has received

Walsh brings solid characters to raging one-woman show

Mary Walsh, a stalwart of the Canadian sketch comedy circuit, brings her one-woman show Dancing With Rage to Metro Studio Feb. 19.

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Ballet Victoria is in the stu-dio hard at work on its new, original production of The Gift of Pandora’s Box.

A holiday performance is a Christmas tradition for Vic-toria’s dance troupe, and this year they bring a tale inspired by Greek mythology to mod-ern day, setting The Gift of Pan-dora’s Box in a family home at Christmas.

Uncle Geoff has travelled the world and returned with gift boxes for everyone, however he has one special box that is not meant to be opened. When curiosity gets the better of Pandora and she opens the box, panic, chaos and hilarious pandemonium ensue.

In his signature style, artis-tic director and choreogra-pher, Paul Destrooper has developed a unique program that showcases dance and focuses on the dramatic and theatrical elements of good story telling.

The characters in this work are developed around archetypes, filled with local colour. A nutcracker, a witch, a dragon, a fairy and more are interwoven with the family celebrating Christmas.

Local pianists Jane Edler and Wendy Stouffer take the role of visiting family mem-

bers and play a section of Lady Gaga music and a section of Tchaikovsky. Destrooper has used much of Tchaikovsky’s

familiar Nutcracker score as a background for this entirely new piece.

“Familiar music and a pleth-

ora of characters will make the work accessible to a wide vari-ety of audiences,” Destrooper said. “Ballet fans will appreci-ate the artist’s technical prow-ess while the novice audience can simply enjoy beautiful dance and a fun story.”

The Gift is a story of hope and Ballet Victoria is a troupe that is hopeful many families will be able to attend.

“Every year for our holi-day show, we offer tickets to charity groups and we will do that again this season,” said Destrooper. “We also realized that we can do more. We can offer families entertainment that is affordable, fun and that hopefully, introduces young people to the arts.”

To give area residents an opportunity for a family out-ing, the company has reduced all tickets for kids 12 and under to $15. The inexpensive ticket is valid for all four per-formances of The Gift of Pan-dora’s Box at the Royal The-atre.

The Gift of Pandora’s Box leaps on to the Royal Theatre stage on Dec. 27, 28, and 29 at 7:30 p.m. and on Dec. 30 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at rmts.bc.ca and 250-386-6121. For more information visitbal-letvictoria.ca.

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Rev. Allen Tysick plays the part of

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visit with 50 of his Dandelion Society

‘family members’ to Butchart Gardens.

Tysick leads a bus trip out to

the Gardens to see its Christmas

displays every December, thanks to complimentary

tickets. One family member, identified

as Terry (left of Tysick) is spending his first Christmas

out of prison for the first time in more

than 20 years.Roszan Holmen/News staff

Freedom feels good at ChristmasWhen he was first invited to

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It worked. On Monday night, Terry – who didn’t give his last name – boarded a bus for the field trip.

He and Tysick met for the first time about a month ago. Terry woke up early one morning outside a 7-Eleven to see Tysick’s face peering down at him.

“I said, ‘Who the hell are you?’” Terry said. During the cold, rainy night, someone had stolen his sleeping bag and urinated on him.

“Al saved my life,” he said.Terry refused to go to hospital, so Tysick

loaded him in his van and drove him around with the heat on until he warmed up. When a leg infection forced Terry into hospital days later, Tysick visited him.

It’s what the Dandelion Society is all about.

In 2011, Tysick resigned as executive director of Our Place Society and launched his own grassroots organization. Rather than being tasked with top-level administration, he now works directly with people on the street, helping people by lending an ear, a ride, a coffee, or a referral as needed.

Every December, he brings 50 members of his street family to Butchart Gardens. This is the 10th year the tourist attraction has handed out the complimentary tickets.

“We do many things in the community,” said Butchart Gardens’ spokesperson Graham Bell. Ticket giveaways happen often, but aren’t advertised with a press release, he added.

“To us, it’s about doing these things for people, rather than for the recognition.”

For Tysick, it’s about giving his street family an opportunity they normally wouldn’t get.

At 5 p.m. Monday, Tysick greeted people at a designated downtown corner as they arrived by foot in singles and pairs.

Soon after, an ITT Wilson’s tour bus transported everyone to their destination in Central Saanich – another corporate donation.

For two hours, the group wandered through the Gardens’ Twelve Days of Christmas displays. Dandelion volunteers handed out hot chocolate and cookies before the group boarded the bus for home.

“Three cheers for the bus driver,” called Tysick from the front of the bus. A chorus of Hip Hip Hoorays erupted.

Roszan HolmenReporting

One couple staying in the shelters came along.

“They walked along Butchart Gardens hand in hand,” Tysick said. “It’s something that made their Christmas and they told me that… and it’s stories like that that make me want to pull another one together.”

Terry called the experience beautiful.

This Christmas marks an extra special one for the 51 year old. It will be his first spent outside prison in more than 20 years.

Terry was released May 15 after accumulated sentences equalling 28 years behind bars.

He moved to Victoria and has been on the wait list for housing for the past four months.

“I love Christmas. I always have,” he said. “I hope I don’t spend it on the street.”

Visit hopeliveshere.ca for information about the Dandelion Society.


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The annual Turkey Run raised $22,100 for the West Shore Christ-mas Hamper fund.

The goal for the annual fundraiser was $15,000 to make sure there was a turkey (or another main course) on every table in the West Shore this holi-day season.

More than 50 Cana-dian Forces sailors, div-ers, spouses, friends and West Shore volun-teers associated with the Fleet Dive Unit (Pacific) toured the streets in the Dec. 1 event.

The hamper society will provide for about 650 families on the West Shore this winter.

The third annual Tur-key Run was in honour of the long-time volun-teer Karl Kavanaugh who died of cancer in February.

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Highlanders leave W-League for PCSL

The Victoria Highland-ers top women’s team will return to B.C.’s Pacific Coast Soccer League after three seasons in the United Soccer Leagues W-League.

New general manager Mark deFrias said the deci-sion to discontinue the W-League team does not prevent the Highlanders from remaining true to its vision and commitment to the development of the women’s game locally and nationally.

The cost of travel has always been the challenge with the women’s team, which survived with a title sponsor last season, and played as the Peninsula Co-op women’s team.

“With the changing land-scape of women’s soccer it would not have made sense for the Highlanders FC to remain in the W-League for 2013,” deFrias said. “We are strong supporters of the USL and look forward to continuing to compete on the men’s side in the USL Premier Development League.”

The Highlanders played many successful seasons in the PCSL as the Victoria Stars.

Velox rugger named player of the year

Velox Valkyries Shannon Kane is the Canadian Direct Insurance Women’s Player of the Year for the B.C. pre-mier league.

A back rower, Kane was an integral figure in Velox’s undefeated 2011-12 season that ended with them win-ning the Adidas Women’s Premiership first Gordon Harris Memorial Cup since 2008.

Velox led the league with an average of 45 points per game, and Kane ranked third in her team with four tries.

A former national team age-grade rugby standout at the U19 and U23 levels, Kane has recently spent the fall pursuing bobsledding.

This past November, Kane was competing at the North American Cup and contin-ues to excel on the track in tournaments held in Whistler and Calgary.

Four Valkyries received Player of the Year nomi-nations: Jesse Olynyk (14 tries), Lindsay Anderson, Natalie Tam and Selinna McGinnis.

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Kenny Goodland isn’t from this Island, but he knows a thing or two about its storied rugby team, the 107-year-old Crimson Tide.

Goodland, a Newfoundlander, suited up for the Atlantic Rock during the nation-wide Super League of years past, and faced the Crimson Tide many times, including losing to them in the finals.

Now Goodland is taking the helm of the Tide as new head coach, with co-coach Roger Rob-inson. The longtime Castaway Wanderers duo have partnered before, leading CW youth and U20 teams.

They’ll assume the same for-mat, with Goodland, 36, handling the forwards, and Robinson, a former national player, organizing the backs.

They also have the help of local rugby great Hans de Goede, as manager, as they shape the latest version of one of the oldest rugby teams in the world for its Jan. 26 return against Vancouver.

“We’re coming off a popular tournament with the (America’s

Rugby Championship), and a suc-cessful tournament, so hopefully we can ride the coattails of that a little bit ,” said Tide coach Kenny Goodland.

The Tide’s senior men’s team won’t look much like the last one, which hosted touring Irish side Ballymena at Esquimalt’s Bullen Park in 2009.

But the revival of the McKech-nie Cup has brought back B.C.’s three-way regional competition, and in a festival type format. The Saturday of rugby will feature a triple-header against Vancouver at Westhills Stadium in Langford. The premier women will play for the Ruth Hellerud-Brown Cup, the U20 men for the Dunbar Keg cup, and the premier men for the McK-echnie Cup.

The Tide had its first assembly of potential squad members in Cowichan earlier this month, but many players, including some top UVic Vikes, were unavailable due to exams.

“That was really to gauge the interest and we got a good start,” Goodland said. Things will move fast now as there are only two more sessions, Jan. 12 at UVic and Jan. 20 at Cowichan.

The B.C. Rugby Union estab-lished some key rules for select-ing the team. No import players, which is logical, and no national team members, which makes no sense, Goodland said.

“If Rugby Canada wants to look at this as a pathway, which, as a regional competition, would be ideal, then why not play the carded guys?”

About a dozen of the nation’s top rugby players are playing pro-fessionally overseas. The rest are in the B.C. premier league.

There are some loopholes. Rugby Canada has scaled down

its national team for now and that means CW scrum half Kyle Arm-strong, who played two games in the ARC, is available to the Tide. The Ontario import has been play-ing with CW long enough to be considered local. Like Armstrong, Robinson also played for the Tide.

Otherwise, to be a true rep side, there’s also an understand-ing to use at least one player from each club in the Vancouver Island Rugby Union, though all teams were represented at the first try-out.

“We’ll do our best, I guess,” Goodland said.

Other players who have looked promising are Cowichan veteran Robin MacDowell, a handy full-back, as well as a strong UVic contingent, with Oak Bay’s Shea Wakefield, Pat and Doug Fraser (unrelated), and Jake Gylnicki, for-mer captain of Canada U20 team.

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The McKechnie Cup Jan. 26, with a triple-header

of Island versus Mainland matches at Westhills Stadium in Langford.-11:30 a.m., Ruth Hellerud-Brown Cup (premier women)-1:15 p.m. Dunbar Keg (U20 men)-3 p.m. McKechnie Cup (premier men)

Regional rugby competition amps up

The break is over as the Camosun Chargers women’s basketball team hosts its annual Christmas break tour-nament starting Friday (Dec. 28).

Visiting are Vancou-ver Island University, Langara and Mohawk (Toronto) colleges.

Play opens Friday at 5:30 p.m. with V.I.U. and Langara, fol-lowed by Camosun vs Mohawk at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday Dec. 29: 5:30 p.m. Mohawk vs. VIU; 7:30 p.m. Langara vs. Camosun.

Sunday, Dec. 30:9 a.m. Langara vs. Mohawk; 11 a.m. Camosun vs. VIU.

Chargers host holiday special

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Former Castaway Wanderer Kenny Goodland has taken the helm of the Crimson Tide.

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One eager and considerate stu-dent sparked a food drive at Mill-stream elementary that is helping stock the shelves at Goldstream Food Bank this holiday season.

Before staff at the school even had a chance to start organizing a food hamper drive, Grade 3 stu-dent Madison Levagood approached them.

“I just decided that I sort of wanted to help some people in need and I just randomly decided to do this,” Madison said. “I’m trying to get some of the kids in school to bring some food, and toys as well.”

To get her campaign going the eight-year-old is talking to classes of students, is speaking at assemblies, making announcements over the PA

system and collecting donated food items from her peers.

“I just sort of say it would be awe-some if they could bring some stuff in,” Madison said. “Then most class-rooms are doing pretty well.”

Decorated boxes were put in every classroom in the school for students to donate. The overflow

was used to build a food Christmas tree in the lobby of the school.

“It was her idea, before we had even started doing any kind of hamper think-ing at all,” said Madison’s teacher, Adrianna King. “She’s really spearheaded this whole donation pro-cess here, so it’s pretty impressive.”

The food collected at the school was picked up last Thursday. There is no exact final tally but

Levagood said the school collected a considerable amount of food.

“I’ve very impressed, rather shocked,” Madison said.

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Grade 3 student takes on her school’s food hamper drive

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Grade 3 student Madison Levagood single handedly kicked off Millstream elementary school’s food hamper drive for the holidays this year and inspired her schoolmates to bring in toys and food for the Goldstream Food Bank.

Kyle WellsReporting

Families staying at Chil-dren’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island’s Jeneece Place are enjoying the lights and sights of the holidays at the home away from home for families travelling to Victoria for their child’s medical care.

Jeneece Edroff and Adrian d’Silva, who donated and installed more than 5,000 Christmas lights, flipped the switch earlier this month, while a few youngsters turned on the 12-foot Christmas tree.

“Christmas is a particularly hard time to be away from home, especially when being away is related to a child’s health challenges,” said Ron Hewitt, president and CEO of Children’s Health Founda-tion of Vancouver Island. “We wanted to make the house fes-

tive for the families who will be staying at Jeneece Place this time of year.”

Jeneece Place opened in

January 2012 on the grounds of the Victoria General Hospi-tal.

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Jeneece Place lights for the holidays

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Jeneece Edroff, the heart behind the home, hears a story with friends around the fire at Jeneece Place.

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In the true spirit of Christ-mas, Olivia Sabnal offered to work Christmas Day so her co-worker could spend the

day with family.The registered

nurse at Victoria Gen-eral Hospital will be spending Christmas Day, Dec. 25, work-ing in the emergency room from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

“This is my fourth Christmas I am work-ing,” said Sabnal.

This year she wasn’t scheduled to work on the holi-day, but offered to because she doesn’t have any children and her family is in the Philippines.

Her husband has promised to bring her some turkey though.

“Most golf courses offer free golf on Christmas so my hus-band will spend the day golf-

ing,” Sabnal said. “If I wasn’t working I’d be golfing too.”

Working at the hospital on Christmas is always a very busy

day and Sabnal is pre-paring herself for a very long day.

Each year start-ing Dec. 20 until New Year’s Day the ER gets pretty busy, recalls Sabnal.

“For the whole year it’s the busiest time here,” Sabnal said. “It never fails it’s always packed.”

Often people arrive at the ER expecting to

be in-and-out, but with all other clinics in the city closed, the hospital becomes very busy.

The ER is fully staffed ready to care for people in need, but Sabnal wants people to know the most serious cases are han-dled first.

“The most difficult cases are people who don’t have fam-ily and come in when they are really sick. We also get people who are away from family and have mental health issues. The suicide rates are high,” said the nurse adding heart attacks, strokes and overdoses are also common on Christmas.

Sometimes babies are brought to the ER with upset stomachs after being fed foods such as mash potatoes before they are ready to consume them.

“New Year’s is more mechani-cal with cuts, burns and falls,” she added. “This is a time of year when people are really sick, it’s good if you wait until the 28th or after to see a doc-tor. If you are able to complain about the wait you are not sick enough to be here.”

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Victoria nurse gives the gift of taking a shift


Olivia Sabnal, a registered nurse in the Victoria General Hospital’s emergency room, volunteered to work Chiristmas this year so a co-worker could be at home with family.

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She answered a call from two teens who didn’t

have enough gas get home to Mill Bay. They called asking where they could park their car for the night to sleep.

“They said it was too cold at the beach and wanted to know if they could sleep in the car in the Wal-Mart parking lot,” Anslow said. “I told them to come to the detachment.”

When the teens arrived, she handed them $10. The teens promised to come back another day and repay the money.

“I told them that their parents would worry about them. I told them to pay it forward and the next time they heard someone say something bad about the police to tell them this story,” Anslow said. She also told them to buy a homeless per-son a meal as repayment.

Working on Christmas gives Anslow more appreciation for her family time during the holi-days. Anslow and her co-workers decorate the dispatch centre and staff working on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day have a potluck.

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While other families are opening gifts, drinking eggnog and spend-ing holiday time with families, Teri Anslow is often answering 911 calls.

In her 23-year career at the Victo-ria RCMP Operational Communica-tions Centre in Langford, Anslow has worked about 10 Christmases. She worked the holiday last year, but this year she will be spending it with family.

“It’s hard to come in and work on Christmas,” said the mother of three adult daughters. “You just want to be with family and when the kids were younger they didn’t under-stand.”

Anslow remembers waking her daughters early to open gifts before heading to work. When she worked through the night on Christmas Eve she would come home and stay awake for the family celebrations.

It’s easier now that her children are grown, but she knows it’s impor-tant to help people this time of year.

“We get a lot of suicidal, depressed people. It isn’t a good time of year in their lives,” she said.

Being able to be there for peo-ple going through a tough time is rewarding, but there are other calls that sometimes frustrate Anslow.

“It’s upsetting to get calls from people who are fighting with their families. They can’t grasp peace on Earth and good will,” Anslow said. “We’d like to be at home with our

families. If I was at home I wouldn’t be fighting with my family.”

Last year on Christmas Eve Anslow received a call from an elderly couple who’s basement was flooding and they had no idea who to call. Anslow phoned around and found a restoration company to go to the home. She also notified some RCMP officers who went, rolled up their pants and started clearing water with buckets. Anslow and the officers helped the couple even though it wasn’t in their job descrip-tion.

“These members work like dogs. It’s easy to say it’s not our prob-lem, but we don’t do that,” she said proudly.

“We are here for a reason and we are here to help.”

One of Anslow’s favourite stories

Dispatcher works Christmas to help those in need

Teri Anslow, shift supervisor at the Victoria RCMP Operational Communication Centre has worked many Christmases.Charla Huber

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