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OAK BAYNEWS Friday, April 18, 2014
Taste the colour Arnold Lim News staff
Combining a passion for food and a passion for art, raised $15,000 for arts education. The Only Creative Thinking Allowed Collective Society, held the seventh annual Colour Your Palate fundraising event April 15 at the University Club, raising proceeds for artsREACH, a program providing free fine art programs for public schools in Greater Victoria. “It is a joy. I love seeing their faces. It is not an onerous thing to slip out of the paperwork of the office after school and see what they’re up to,” said Renee Pick, principal of Cloverdale Elementary. “It’s kind of fun and I love to see them in that other realm and excel. It’s just one other area that gives them the chance, I know from the families, they would never
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Best of the City is back The Oak Bay News is asking you, our readers, to tell us where to find the region’s best pubs, restaurants, art galleries, sports activities, festivals and much more. Today marks the start of balloting in our 20th annual Best of the City awards. In today’s newspaper – and online at vicnews. com – there are two full pages of ballots, featuring such subjects as shopping, entertainment, restaurants and recreation. The printed ballot is in today’s paper only, but online voting will continue through to May 9. Look for the survey link at the top of our home page. Enter your ballot and Arnold Lim/News staff be eligible to win $100 Maureen Weston, board president of the OCTA Collective Society holds up some colourful canapés at the You must vote in a seventh annual Colour Your Palate, a fundraising event for the artsREACH project at the University Club. FINEcash. CUSTOM JEWELLERS minimum of 30 categories colour and challenged to create “Arts is such a huge part of for your vote to count. have had.” a corresponding canapé. Each this community. They now have The results of the reader The free programming has establishment volunteered their survey will be compiled benefitted more than 18,000 children, a conduit to make sure that is services and donated the food for happening in the classrooms,” Pick by our staff and published with more than 1,100 workshops the cause that drew approximately said. “How fun is that, to give that to in a special magazine for schools including Cloverdale, 300 people. the children?” publication on June 27. sending professional artists to teach The fundraiser featured a silent Be sure to check out the workshops in painting, printmaking, auction and 11 restaurants and ballot for entry rules. dance and theatre at no cost to the PlEAsE sEE: chefs, who were given a random editor@oakbaynews.com school or the children participating. ‘Worth every penny’, Page A8
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