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Open House on Sunday, March 17, 2013 13:00 - 16:00 Showhome @ 3361 Piper

**Show Home at 3361 Piper open every Sat/Sun 1-4pm** The Bedford offers timeless style with the master suite and all principal rooms on the main level. There are two additional bedrooms upstairs for family or guests. An optional, detached single or double garage is available on some lots. Homes at Hazelwood is a collection of 50 semi-custom 3-4 bedroom homes priced at $359,900 - $499,900 offering exceptional value with 9ft ceilings, real gas fireplaces, gas barbecue outlets, and more. Choose your plan, your lot, customize, and move into your dream home in about four months. Constructed by Limona to Built Green BC standards to be a more efficient, cost effective, and healthy home. Price includes Net Sales Tax.
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Open House on Sunday, March 17, 2013 13:00 - 16:00 -Showhome located @ 39 Bamford Court

Move in by April 30, 2013! **Show Home at 39 Bamford Open Every Sat/Sun 1-4pm** The Cedarwood is spacious a 3 bedroom home offering large rooms, an island kitchen with eating bar, and a great room with plenty of windows. The kids can roam free on the lower level with its immense rec room. A bright sunny home with generous room sizes! The Summit at Thetis is a new development of semi-custom 3-4 bedroom homes priced from $475,000 offering exceptional value with 9ft ceilings, real gas fireplaces, gas barbecue outlets, and more, all surrounded by green space and only a short walk to Thetis Lake Park. Price includes net Sales Tax.
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Open House on Sunday, March 17, 2013 13:00 - 16:00 - Showhome located @ 3361 Piper

INCREDIBLE NEW PRICES ONLY ON SELECTED NEW HOMES - YOU WON'T FIND A BETTER VALUE! Move in before March 31, 2013! Open house every Sat/Sun 1-4pm - Sales office @ 3361 Piper. The Arthur offers a traditional layout with 3 bedrooms up and a rear garage. The large master boasts a walk in closet and full ensuite. The ground level features a great room with 9? ceilings, gas fireplace and spacious kitchen with island, only a step from your outdoor patio with gas hookup! Homes at Hazelwood offers exceptional value with 9ft ceilings, real gas fireplaces, gas barbecue outlets, and more. Price includes Net Sales Tax.
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Open House on Sunday, March 17, 2013 13:00 - 16:00 - Showhome located @ 39 Bamford Court

**Show Home @ 39 Bamford Crt, Open Sat/Sun 1-4** The Austin offer a great family layout with 3-4 bedrooms, including a large great room upstairs, plus a family room & guest room on the lower level. A great price and lots of space for your family! ?The Summit at Thetis? is a new development of semi-custom 3-4 bedroom homes priced from $475,000 offering exceptional value with 9ft ceilings, real gas fireplaces, gas barbecue outlets, and more, all surrounded by green space and only a short walk to Thetis Lake Park. Choose your plan, your lot, customize, and move into your dream home in about six months. Price includes net Sales Tax.
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Open House on Sunday, March 17, 2013 13:00 - 16:00 - Showhome located @ 3361 Piper

INCREDIBLE NEW PRICES ONLY ON SELECTED NEW HOMES - YOU WON'T FIND A BETTER VALUE! Move in before March 31, 2013! Open House every Sat/Sun 1-4pm, Showhome @ 3361 Piper. The Walfred offers a very desirable, traditional layout with all three bedrooms on the same level upstairs. The large, open plan ground floor not only includes a garage, but also abundant counter space in the kitchen with an eating bar that is sure to become the family gathering space. Homes at Hazelwood offers exceptional value with 9ft ceilings, real gas fireplaces, gas barbecue outlets, and more. Constructed by Limona to Built Green BC standards to be a more efficient, cost effective, and healthy home. Price includes net sales tax.
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Open House on Sunday, March 17, 2013 13:00 - 16:00 - Showhome located @ 39 Bamford Court

**Show Home @ 39 Bamford Open every Sat/Sun 1-4** A classic design, the Boulderwood has something for everyone with its large great room featuring a wall of windows, double garage, den, and three bedrooms on the upper level ? including a master suite with a huge walk in closet. One of our grandest plans, this home will satisfy for years to come! The Summit at Thetis is a new development of semi-custom 3-4 bedroom homes priced from $475,000 offering exceptional value with 9ft ceilings, real gas fireplaces, gas barbecue outlets, and more, all surrounded by green space and only a short walk to Thetis Lake Park. Choose your plan, your lot, customize, and move into your dream home in about six months. Price includes net Sales Tax.
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Open House on Sunday, March 17, 2013 13:00 - 16:00 -Showhome located @ 3361 Piper

INCREDIBLE NEW PRICES ONLY ON SELECTED NEW HOMES - YOU WON'T FIND A BETTER VALUE! Move in before March 31, 2013! Show Home at 3361 Piper Open Every Sat/Sun 1-4pm. The Winchester offers a versatile layout with 1 of the 3 bedrooms, and an additional family room, on the ground level ? along with a driveway and garage in the rear. Upstairs, enjoy the great room with 9' ceilings, gas fp, open concept kitchen, and sunny deck, all at an amazing price! Constructed by Limona to Built Green BC standards to be a more efficient, cost effective, and healthy home. With 1000 homes built and over 50 CARE awards to their credit, you can be assured of a quality home with lasting value. Net Sales Tax included.
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From the Calgary Herald


VICTORIA — Colour us with green with envy.

It’s the time of year when most Canadians are battling the remnants of winter. Brown grass, leafless trees and less-than-pristine snow banks fill our landscape. Plus, we know another snow storm is likely to hit before spring is truly here.

In Victoria, however, the picture is a different one.

The grass is green. The golf courses are open. And, British Columbia's capital city is already filled with three-quarters of a billion blossoms.

Yes, that’s right — almost a billion blossoms. How do Victoria residents know? Well, they counted; just like they do every year.

The annual flower count is an offshoot of a 1960s event called Victoria Days, which used to see a group of residents in Victorian-era costumes visit cities such as Calgary and Edmonton to hand out daffodils and promote their city’s early spring.

In 1976, the event grew to include an annual flower count so that everyone in Victoria could get involved.

It’s a lighthearted initiative (since it would be difficult to come up with a “scientific” count of blossoms); however, it’s a perfect way to welcome spring.

But how does Victoria reach such a high figure? Well, if you think about how many blossoms a large flowering tree has (750,000), it’s easy to see how the total number quickly grows.

The city’s blooming success has wafted our way for years now; it’s a good thing it smells so sweet, and that it’s easy for Western Canadians to get to Victoria to join in the flowering fun.

“Canadians can enjoy spring early in Victoria with blooms colouring the landscape by late February,” says Trina Mousseau, Tourism Victoria’s director of destination marketing.

“We have a plethora of outdoor activities, whether you prefer to spend the afternoon on the golf course, whale watching on the ocean, or going for a hike in our old-growth rainforests,” she says. “Victoria is full of life in spring.”

For golfing fans and fanatics, there’s myriad courses in Victoria and along the coasts and valleys of Vancouver Island.

“What makes Victoria such a good (vacation) choice is first and foremost our temperate climate,” says Cheryl Bushby, marketing manager for the Westin Bear Mountain Golf Resort & Spa.

The resort had a reality TV spotlight shone on it last year, while it was the temporary home of former CFL player Brad Smith, star of The Bachelor: Canada.

But, it’s also become known as a destination where visitors can golf at one of its two courses (the mountain course) year round, Bushby says. “You can’t say that about many other spots in Canada.”

This is also the time of the year when you’ll find golf deals; at the Westin Bear Mountain, for example, $69 gets you a round of golf with GPS power cart and warm-up balls.

“We are the only all-in-one hotel golf experience,” says Westin head pro Jordan Ray. “(You) walk out of your hotel room and right onto the course. To use a ski term, we are a true ‘golf in, golf out.’”

Whether golfing or not, the award-winning Sante Spa at the resort merits a visit. Not only are there perfect packages for golfers (Fore the Face, the Eagle Massage or the Golfer’s 19th Hole, for example); there is also a full range of treatments available that reflect the peaceful surroundings of the mountain.

A rejuvenating arbutus wrap is inspired by the nearby ancient trees, while the Elements Mountain Massage features a sage smudge, purifying foot bath, essential oils and B.C. jade stones positioned on energy pathways. It’s pure bliss.

Once emerged from the serenity of the spa, you’ll see golfers aren’t the only active folks taking advantage of the early spring and mild temperatures in Victoria.

It’s an ideal city for pursuing any number of recreational activities because, as Statistics Canada notes, Victoria is the fittest city in the country and the cycling capital of Canada.

Bike routes through historic neighbourhoods and parks abound, with one of the star attractions being the Galloping Goose Trail, a former rail line that curves past lakes, marshes, forests, charming farms and bird sanctuaries.

For those who prefer to take to the water, kayaks can depart from the Inner Harbour right in downtown Victoria.

There’s no shortage of routes for visitors who prefer a good walk or hike, either. A stroll along the harbour front and past the Parliament Buildings is always one of my favourites, but Tourism Victoria also has a list of suggested walks based on distances and interests, such as history, architecture, shopping or gardens.

These activities not only let you take in the green of the great outdoors; walking and cycling also allow you to participate in the sustainable green movement that’s taken hold of Victoria.

A “greening” of many shops and restaurants has occurred. Tourism Victoria has even created a “green blog” that applauds the environmentally-sensitive initiatives launched by businesses.

That means when you visit a restaurant like Pizzeria Prima Strada, you’re not only getting the best Neapolitan pizza this side of Italy. You’re also supporting a business that is involved in projects like Garbage Showdown, which saw 33,000 pieces of garbage collected from streets and alleys on Earth Day last year.

The same holds true if you decide to dine at Smoken Bones Cookshack.

The BBQ Taster Platter — with pork ribs, beef ribs, pulled pork and brisket — is mouth-wateringly irresistible. But it’s also nice to know that behind the scenes, owner Ken Hueston and crew ensure Vancouver Island ingredients are featured whenever possible, promoting local consumption and sustainability.

It adds another touch of green to a getaway that every winter-weary Canadian could use right about now, to a city where January showers bring February and March flowers.

 

Victoria by the numbers

2: The ranking given to Victoria, for having the second highest number of restaurants per capita in North America, only behind San Francisco.

13: The percentage of 2008 Canadian Summer Olympic team members that call Victoria home.

80: The number of orca whales that can be found in the three resident pods that make their home in the waters around Victoria.

950: Number of hanging baskets on lamp posts during summer months.

991: Number of farms in the Greater Victoria area.

3,333: Number of lights twinkling on the Parliament Building each night.

750,000: Number of cups of tea served each year at the Fairmont Empress Hotel.

 

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Having recently undergone extensive renovations, this gem is now move in ready. You'll appreciate a brand new roof, new upstairs kitchen, new hot water and oil tanks, Energy Star vinyl windows/patio doors, appliances, R50 and sound insulation. The list is extensive. In this home, both the upper and lower levels have self contained 2 bedroom suites, each with their own laundry. The upper suite features a huge sundeck off the living room, ideal for entertaining. Downstairs boasts great in suite storage. It can be easily reconfigured as a single family home. Outside, there's loads of parking plus a double detached garage with a workshop, and a yard that's a gardener's paradise. Flexible possession. Act fast!
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There's a looming shortage of qualified construction trades-people in Canada, and while that's a good thing for the skilled trades, it's less so for everyone else from homebuyers to residential and commercial builders.

 

That was the take-away message at a one-day event Tuesday attended by 400 employers and potential employees in Ottawa's construction industry. Organized by the provincially funded and awkwardly named group Ottawa Integrated Local Labour Market Planning, the event was held at the Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence. It combined a morning session for employers about how to survive a changing labour market with an afternoon information/job fair program for Algonquin College students and other job seekers.

 

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Looming+trade+shortage+means+higher+home+prices/8047073/story.html#ixzz2NRzUlw9H


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