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Two newcomers have been elected to Central Saanich council in a byelection race that snubbed three former councillors.

I missed getting on the Swartz Bay ferry by two cars Wednesday, got to spend a couple of hours of bonus contemplation time at the Tsawwassen terminal. Tsawwassen tsucks.

The 911 call came just as Friday night turned to Saturday morning: “There’s a kid with a gun.” Or maybe it was a knife. There was a big fight, anyway, at an out-of-control house party near Ross Bay Cemetery.

Muriel Overgaard stuck out as one of the only women at her first union convention in the early 1970s. “There were only two of us,” she said. “We were certainly the oddballs.” Today, about 60 per cent of CUPE B.C.’s 83,000 members are women.

TimberWest is looking to see which way the wind is blowing on southwest Vancouver Island.

Just days after his ABC Country Restaurant was destroyed in a suspected arson, Ravinder Parhar is creating jobs for half of the 25 employees displaced by the blaze — and appealing to local restaurateurs to hire the rest.

SUNDAY, APRIL 14 Queen’s Birthday Tea, seventh annual event, presented by the Monarchist League of Canada, Victoria branch, with guest Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon and speaker Coleen Mills; 2 to 4 p.m. at the Embassy Inn Restaurant, 520 Menzies St.

Central Saanich residents go to the polls in a byelection today to elect two new councillors. Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Central Saanich municipal hall, 1903 Mount Newton Cross Rd.

An East Sooke family is in shock after their Hensbro Place home was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon.

A 25-year-old man is in police custody after a Saturday morning street-fight near Tillicum Centre. The man allegedly pointed a replica handgun at a 57-year-old man after an argument turned physical. Saanich police responded shortly after 7 a.m.