There are reports coming in of an ammonia leak at the recently built Westhills Arena, near Glen Lake and Langford Lake. Several fire departments, and the Greater Victoria hazard materials (hazmat) team have responded. Residents are apparently being evacuated within about a 1 kilometre radius.

Movember is already 3/4s over.

What is Movember you ask? Check out this website for all the info. http://ca.movember.com/about/

“During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in Canada and around the world. With their “Mo’s”, these men raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer.”

Do you know anyone fundraising for Movember? They do NOT have to be famous, imfamous or notable – just local, to Langford, the Westshore or even Greater Victoria. (You can search to see if someone is registered by using their name in the “Go Mo” search box in the upper right hand corner of the website http://ca.movember.com/?home)

Here are some local fundraisers I found:

You might know Adam Saab as Read the rest of this entry »

The preliminary 2011 election results are already up on the City of Langford website:

Preliminary 2011 Langford Election Results

The spread between the top vote getting, and the bottom vote getting, candidate for Council tightened over 2008. Denise Blackwell topped the polls with 1960 votes, with Sean Horgan bringing up the rear at 1019. The result for Sean Horgan may be a surprise to some, as he appears not to have done any campaigning whatsoever (no signs, did not participate in Shaw TV interviews, did not appear to submit a response to the Times Colonist, was not present for the all-candidates forum, etc.).

For the mayoral race, it was 2319 for Stew Young to 519 for Christopher Johnson.

The lowest-polling winning candidate is Roger Wade with 1640 votes, and the highest-polling losing candidate is Grant McLachlan with 1219 votes.

“Name: Dean Sutton (www.deanwsutton.com)

Age: 42

Occupation: Administrator, Province of British Columbia

What municipality do you live in? For how long?

I have lived in Colwood for 10 years and in the Westshore my whole life.

Political experience and/or volunteer experience:

I previously served four years on the Board at Read the rest of this entry »

Please remember today is election day. Polls are open from 8am to 8pm, and are at Ruth King Elementary (South Langford) and Millstream Elementary (North Langford).

Tim Rud, a candidate for school trustee in School District 62, responded to our offer to pass on whatever information the candidates wanted to share with voters.

TIM RUD CANDIDATE FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE SD 62

I am an at home dad/musician. My family resided in the Glen Lake area for 15 years prior to moving to Colwood 2 years ago.

VOTE FOR ME IF YOU BELIEVE THAT SOME CHANGE IS NECESSARY IN OUR DISTRICT

I believe in fair representation for all school communities within our district

I will advocate Read the rest of this entry »

This table looks at the handouts candidates made available at the all-candidates forum. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order, within mayoral and council candidates. The total notes how many categories their handout touched on, with higher numbers indicating more informative and/or greener handouts. Most columns should be self-expanatory (eg. recycled paper means the handout was printed on recycled paper, double-sided means the handout used both sides and no “X” in that column means one side was blank, etc.), but if you have any questions please leave them in the comments.

HTML Tables

Here are the candidates’ statements (in order of appearance):

Mayor Stew Young (incumbent)
Candidate for Mayor Christopher Andrew Johnson (absent)

Councilor Roger Wade (incumbent)
Councilor Lillian Szpak (incumbent)
Councilor Winnie Sifert (incumbent)
Councilor Lanny Seaton (incumbent)
Grant McLachlan (candidate for Langford Council)
Councilor Denise Blackwell and appointed Rep. to CRD (incumbent)

Councilor Matthew Sahlstrom (incumbent) (absent)
Sean Patrick Horgan (candidate for Langford Council, absent and did not attend All Candidates’ Forum)

Check out local civic election coverage on Shaw TV at:

http://www.globaltvbc.com/Pages/Story.aspx?id=6442515296

We invited any of the Langford or School Trustee candidates who wished to do so to submit, well, to submit anything they wanted to share with voters. Chris Johnson, a candidate for mayor, responded:

“One thing I don’t emphasize enough is that my own personal #1 priority (which may or may not be the people of Langford’s priority) is that we Read the rest of this entry »