Sooke

Sooke, British Columbia

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District of Sooke
—  District  —
Location of Sooke in British Columbia
Coordinates: 48°22′34″N 123°44′16″WCoordinates: 48°22′34″N 123°44′16″W
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Region	Vancouver Island
Regional district	Capital Regional District
Incorporated	December 7, 1999
Government
• Mayor	Wendal Milne
• Councillors	Bev Berger, Herb Haldane, Rick Kasper, Kevin Pearson, Kerrie Reay, Maja Tait
Area
• Total	56.72 km2 (21.90 sq mi)
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	11,435
• Density	201.6/km2 (522/sq mi)
• Demonym	Sookie
Time zone	PST (UTC-8)
Highways	14
Waterways	Strait of Juan de Fuca
Website	District of Sooke

Sooke is a district municipality situated on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada. About a 45 minute drive from the city of Victoria (the capital of British Columbia), Sooke is considered the westernmost of the Greater Victoria region's "Western Communities." It is situated to the north and west of the Sooke Basin.

Contents 1 Education 2 Tourism and recreation 3 The Arts Community in Sooke 4 Real Estate in Sooke 5 Neighbourhoods of Sooke 6 Neighbouring Communities 7 Publications in Sooke 8 Notable residents 9 External links

Education

Sooke is a part of the School District 62 Sooke. There is one high school, Edward Milne Community School, and one junior high school, Journey Middle School. Efforts at community/adult education are delivered by the Edward Milne Community School (EMCS) with day, evening and weekend programs.

Tourism and recreation

Sooke's popularity as a scenic tourist destination has existed for generations. Well-known destinations in Sooke, such as Whiffin Spit Park, the Sooke Potholes Regional Park, and adjacent Sooke Potholes Provincial Park attract visitors both locally and from around the world. Sooke is also home to the Sooke Region Museum and Visitor centre; where visitors and locals are able to get information on regional attractions and history. The area's popularity has increased as a base for visiting the wilderness parks of Vancouver Island's southwest coast — the West Coast Trail and the Juan de Fuca Provincial Park which includes the now highly popular Juan de Fuca Marine Trail.
Back country recreation, or off-road recreation brings a constant stream of 4X4s, quads, ATVs, dirt bikes, and home built off-highway vehicles through Sooke as people search out back country access. Hundreds of kilometres of logging roads thread through the hills north of Sooke in the Rural Resource Lands of the Juan de Fuca electoral area, enabling access to several community lakes and small reservoirs. Two large reservoirs, Bear Creek and Diversion, are popular destinations north and west of Sooke. The acquisition of large areas of formerly logged land for CRD regional park use in 2000 terminated vehicular access to the nearest four community lakes north of Harbourview; Shields, Peden, Grass, & Crabapple, provoking a public outcry in the community.
Mountain biking is growing in popularity in British Columbia, and Sooke is establishing itself as a destination for the sport. Local advocacy groups are working to have areas such as Broom Hill set aside as parkland.
The Galloping Goose Regional Trail, part of the Trans-Canada Trail, runs through Sooke and is a popular cycling route to Victoria.
The Sooke Flowline constructed in 1915 snakes through the nearby hills around the Sooke Potholes and travels all the way to the Humpback Reservoir near Mt. Wells Regional Park.

The Arts Community in Sooke

The vibrant arts community of Sooke enjoys the annual Sooke Fine Arts Festival (in its 23rd year in 2009) which brings hundreds of tourists to Sooke each summer by featuring the adjudicated art of local and regional artists. Sooke is known for its plethora of painters, writers, sculptors, potters, fabric artists, jewellery crafters, and more. The Sooke Community Arts Council plays a large role in fostering art in the region. The Sooke Harbour House art gallery is a main display opportunity for many local artisans.

Real Estate in Sooke

In Sooke, prices rose then fell in 2011 -- from January to March prices climbed from $428,383 to the $447,000 range, but reached a low of $368,480 in May and settled at $395,120 by December (though in December 2010 the price was similar at $380,020). As per "The Sooke News"“Last year, 199 single family homes sold in Sooke, including East Sooke, Shirley, Jordan River and Port Renfrew. The average sale price was $423,642. This is lower than 2010, which saw 230 single family homes sell, with an average price of $454,695.

Neighbourhoods of Sooke

(in order from east to west)

• North Sooke
• Saseenos
• Milne's Landing
• Sunriver Estates
• Sooke Town Centre or "UpSooke"
• Broom Hill
• Whiffin Spit
• Otter Point
• Kemp Lake

Neighbouring Communities

• Metchosin - East of Sooke
• East Sooke - South of Sooke
• Otter Point - West of Sooke

Publications in Sooke

The weekly newspaper is the Sooke News Mirror published by Black Press. The quarterly news magazine is MapleLine Magazine published by Brookeline Publishing House Inc. The Rural Observer is a non-profit newsletter published by the Juan de Fuca Rural Publication Society. Several tourism publications are distributed in the region.

Notable residents

Carl Heinrich, winner of Top Chef Canada (season 2), grew up in Sooke and attended Edward Milne Community School.

External links

• The Sooke Region Museum and Visitor Centre
• Travel and Tourism information for the Sooke area
• The District of Sooke municipal government website
• Sooke News Mirror newspaper
• MapleLine Magazine - quarterly Sooke news issues magazine
• Rural Observer

Sooke, Vancouver Island,
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Sooke Community Website - SookeNet

www.sookenet.com/sooke.shtml

The website for travel, tourism, accommodation, lodging, resorts, bed & ; breakfasts, charter fishing, whale watching, eco tours, hiking trails, sea kayaking, scuba ...

District of Sooke

www.sooke.ca/

Welcome to the District of Sooke. Located on Vancouver Island, the District of Sooke is a short 35 minute drive from downtown Victoria, the Capital City of British ...

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Chakras

Bija Mantras- The Sounds of the Chakras: LAM VAM RAM YAM HAM OM

 

• “LAM”- chakra 1 (root)
• “VAM”- chakra 2 (sacral/navel)
• “RAM”- chakra 3 (solar plexus)
• “YAM”- chakra 4 (heart)
• “HAM”- chakra 5 (throat)
• “OM”- chakra 6 (third eye/brow)
• “OM”- chakra 7 (crown) 

 

Gog and Magog

Heaven Awaits

The Divine Mother

Peace! Peace!

them will say and expect and there is none for those who vehemently pursue duality.

How can there be when the favorite thing for the most pious is to get up first achievement is to destroy oxygen, make to sell/ buy fake food, and put or keep shingles on your houses and flats on every building in site...
Am sure Mother Nature will surely pay those back in full...

Now we can understand why Light said it that way is no mystery for the awoken ones, not for those still in denial.

Carl Brown

 Who during the times that I where with hm practice herbalism/ Botany even employed by a store by the name of Thuna's Herbalist on the Danforth Ave. in Toronto. Carl Brown born and lived in Jamaica, we use to be a roomates on Danforth Ave in Toronto 15 years ago.

Ascension of Jesus

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Ascension of Christ by Garofalo 1520

The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin Acts 1:9-11 section title: Ascensio Iesu) is the Christian teaching found in the New Testament that the resurrected Jesus was taken up to heaven in his resurrected body, in the presence of eleven of his apostles, occurring 40 days after the resurrection. In the biblical narrative, an angel tells the watching disciples that Jesus' second coming will take place in the same manner as his ascension.^[1]
The canonical gospels include two brief descriptions of the Ascension of Jesus in Luke 24:50-53 and Mark 16:19. A more detailed account of Jesus' bodily Ascension into the clouds is then given in the Acts of the Apostles (1:9-11).
The Ascension of Jesus is professed in the Nicene Creed and in the Apostles' Creed. The Ascension implies Jesus' humanity being taken into Heaven.^[2] The Feast of the Ascension, celebrated on the 40th day of Easter (always a Thursday), is one of the chief feasts of the Christian year.^[2] The feast dates back at least to the later 4th century, as is widely attested.^[2] The Ascension is one of the five major milestones in the gospel narrative of the life of Jesus, the others being Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, and Resurrection.^[3][4]
By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension in Christian art had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.^[5][6] Many ascension scenes have two parts, an upper (Heavenly) part and a lower (earthly) part.^[7] The ascending Jesus is often shown blessing with his right hand - directed towards the earthly group below him and signifying that he is blessing the entire Church

Uravelling a Proclamation

In 1994 for those people  at the time do remember how the legal size paper came about with the 100+ names of people I saw grow up in my eyes near and far came about like magic in the air...

This list is not in any way limited to 100 channelled to my pen for the world to know that our Heavenly Father or as other light being may utter Prime Creator. At the moment I was being awoken to his promise and deeds to fulfill the account of the lost tribes of the house of Israel rebellious as she is and going her own way with the free will given.

But this mention has to be updated as to the proclamation and the dealing with what is and was done to peoples places and things regarded the chosen ones, that is to say for there sake and the divine justice of heaven to earth must be now at hand to complete the cycle of the rule of mankind on this planet, mother earth.

King Daniel