Reynolds Soccer Centre Under Fire

Update November 17, 2011 - Thank you to all those who spread the word and affirmed your support for the Reynolds Centre for Soccer Excellence. Dave Ravenhill, program director has asked that the original email be removed and so I have removed the entire text and follow up responses.

The reason is that it appears the CSE enjoys wider support than previously thought. The previously published list of candidates was not complete and so it has been removed.

From the LSB perspective we can hope this was simply a misunderstanding/miscommunication in the heat of an election campaign and we look forward to continued support for the CSE at the school board.

Make Some Noise at the Game

Tonight UVic takes on Universite de Montreal in the quarterfinals of the CIS Men's National Soccer Tournament. Not only is this an opportunity to support our local varsity athletes but it is also a chance to communicate the threat to Royal Athletic Park to the soccer community.

To aid in spreading the word, and have some fun, a song sheet/flyer has been created. Feel free to download the .pdf file and bring as many copies as you can to Centennial Stadium. Kick-off is @ 7:00 pm.

SOS Responses

Responses to Save Our Stadium from candidates will be posted here without editorial comment in their entirety in the order they arrive (no matter how difficult that may be.)

RAP an Election Issue?

[Update: Responses are being posted.]

The exciting launch of a new era for the Highlanders (more on that later) has been tempered by the recent revelations about the future of Royal Athletic Park as a venue for summer events after 2012 (see T-C Article)

It was a recently made public in another T-C article that a "Vancouver businessman" is trying to bring a West Coast League team to Victoria starting in 2013.  According to that article by Cleve Dheensaw, negotiations have been going on for over a year and yet there has been no public discussion of the most startling and controversial proposal from this potential team. It has been proposed that this team be given exclusive use of RAP for the whole summer.

From the Front Office: Special Event

 If you are available one week from next Monday it might be worth your while to respond to the invitation below from the FO.

No real rumours yet but there is a lot of speculation that the fate of the Women's team will be announced after the financially poor season this year.