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Highway 14 traffic has always whizzed by the southern wall of the pub within a few metres but all that is going to change.
The new highway will take an arc north of the 17 Mile for a four-lane stretch to Glinz Lake Road, removing dangerous curves and the difficult turn onto Gillespie Road. The improvements are also expected to trim commute times for Sooke’s growing population.
The current route past the pub will be repurposed as an extension to Connie Road. A westbound exit off the new highway will loop northeast of the 17 Mile around a pond and continue through an underpass beneath the new highway to provide a new route to Gillespie Road, taking vehicles through to Roche Cove and on to Metchosin and East Sooke.
But there was something missing. That’s where Moose, a steer born in early October, comes in. Sivorot, who had horses when she was growing up on the outskirts of Winnipeg, is training Moose so she can ride him. She figures if the immigrant pioneers did it, so can she. Steers are, in fact, frequently used for trail riding and pulling carts in parts of Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia. Humans have been riding cattle since the beasts were domesticated about 6,000 years ago. So, giddy up. “I thought: ‘Why not?’ … There are people who train and ride steers in lots of places, why not here?” said Sivorot.