Car buffs gather
Over 100 Jaguar owners set to show in Oak Bay Page A9
NEWS: Garagellennium volunteer seeks new blood /A3 COMMUNITY: Second coming of the night market /A5 SPORTS: Tides rugby fall to Irish at Windsor Park /A13
OAK BAYNEWS Friday, July 4, 2014
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Sewage funding still key concern Christine van Reeuwyk News staff
Anne Ashley, left, and Sandy Cameron play flutes during a Monterey Centre Concert Band practice at the Monterey Centre. The band practises once a week and is looking for more members. Arnold Lim/News staff
Concert band creates laughter, fun Arnold Lim News staff
With a flick of conductor Joe Hatherill’s wrist, the concert band trumpets in unison. The dozen or so seated musicians blow and drum their respective instruments in time with Hatherill’s hands, which artfully draw invisible lines in the air. The decibel level at the normally quiet Monterey Centre has just
gone up. “(This) gives a venue for seniors – or people getting close to being a senior – it gives them a chance to go where they can play and it’s fun,” says trumpet player Ervin Braithwaite. “It’s a way to a little bit of camaraderie with the group, make some music, have some laughs, it is a good thing.” Less than a year old, the approximately 13 to 15 member concert band plays Broadway
favourites including Beauty and the Beast, Don’t Cry for me Argentina, Phantom of the Opera, and I Dream a Dream among other wellknown favourites once a week and hopes to double its size before eventually playing small local concerts. PlEASE SEE: All about ‘beautiful noise’, Page A14
The resounding rejection of a wastewater treatment plant in Esquimalt is being tested once more by the Capital Regional District board. During a June 18 meeting, the CRD board agreed to cover Esquimalt’s capital costs should that community approve the construction of the plant at McLoughlin Point, part of the core area’s secondary sewage treatment project. Esquimalt council rejected the plant in early April after holding four days of public hearings, where the majority of speakers were against the $788-million Seaterra program. “My concern for Oak Bay is, if we don’t have this particular project up and running, this plant built in the time required, it’s going to affect the utility and tax costs to residents,” said Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen. PlEASE SEE: Recycled arguments, Page A4
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