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Winter-Spring 2010 -
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MapleLine Magazine has a new home at
the MapleLine Business Centre, 6707 West Coast Road, Sooke.
Try our meeting space for your next group meeting!
The Health & Wellness issue
is popular.
Health is a meaningful focus for today's
modern readers. Feature articles in our
Winter-Spring issue include
heart
health without drugs,
health issues
in 2010 (by John Horgan, MLA),
21st-century parenting,
knitting to help with depression, and more.
Online exclusive: understanding
health policy in Canada. Also see:
History of the Sooke Post
Office.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
These and other events are
posted on our 'breaking
news' page. |
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Tues. to Thurs. Mar.23-25 |
DISTRICT OF SOOKE
Finance Committee
4 pm
daily, for three days.
At District of Sooke Council Chambers. Open to the
public. Info. |
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Mon. Mar.29 |
DISTRICT OF SOOKE
Council Meeting ~ OCP
Official
Community Plan (OCP)
public hearing.
7 pm. At District of Sooke Council Chambers. Open to
the public. Info. |
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Thurs. Apr. 1 |
SOOKE CONSCIOUSNESS
CAFE
Issues Forum
Discussion about topics of interest to the
attendees. At the Reading Room Cafe. 7:00 to 9:00 pm.
$2 meeting space donation.
Info.
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Stories |
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Sun. Apr. 4 |
SEAPARC LEISURE
COMPLEX
Easter Eggstravaganza
12:00 to 3:00 pm. Free event for families. Games,
egg hunt, crafts, petting zoo. SEAPARC,
2168 Phillips Rd., Sooke.
Info. |
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Tues. Apr.6 |
DISTRICT OF SOOKE
Regular Council Meeting
On
Tuesday night due to Easter long weekend.
Council Chambers, Sooke Municipal Hall. 7 pm. |
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BEYOND SOOKE |
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Health care reform succeeds in the US.
On Sunday, March 21, CNN ran
continuous live coverage of the vote for health care
reform in the US House of Representatives. A vote of
219 yay to 212 nay (216 was the required count for a
win) ushered in a new era of health services for the
nation that has wrestled with the issues of public
health care for over 100 years. Obama made a victory
speech live at 11:45 pm Eastern Time: "This is what
change looks like," Obama said during a short speech
from the East Room at the White House. Now 32
million Americans (previously without health care
coverage) will have health insurance, and a crackdown on insurance company abuses is part of the
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"When faced with a crisis we did not
shrink from challenge, we overcame it. We did not
avoid our responsibility, we embraced it. We did not
fear our future, we shaped it." ~ US President
Barack Obama, March 21, 2010.
Click to see video of Obama's speech (8
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INSIGHT: Read the
details |
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NEWS for Mar.23 to Apr.5 |
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Solar lights damaged
on Sooke boardwalk. Story
(updated Mar.24/10).
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Volunteers recognized:
32 recipients for 2009.
Story |
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Mini trucks & cars
~ a local hit.
Story & photos |
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District listens to developers
about duplex zoning.
Story |
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SOOKE IN PICTURES |
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Solar lights are being tested in a
pilot project
on the accessible walkway leading to the
community boardwalk.
Photo by Donald C. Mills. Copyright 2010 MapleLine Magazine.
"Active Weather"
in Sooke |
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Sheringham Point weather station
>
The Weather Network reports the weather
forecast for Sooke, BC from
Sheringham Point. The report includes
temperature, wind, humidity, probability of
precipitation (POP), and rainfall. With
daylight savings time (which for 2010 started March
14), sunrise occurs around 7:12 am (Mar.22)
and sunset around 7:20 pm (Mar.22). Sky
conditions are not reported for Sooke
because the weather station does not have
on-site personnel.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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