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A Vancouver court has appointed a receiver to take over operations of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel. “This is not a reflection of the calibre of management team we have at the hotel, which is exceptional,” hotel owner Kevin Walker said in a release last Thursday. “Our real estate sales have been under performing and our lenders were no longer patient. Shawna and I will collaborate with Ernst & Young and their team and we wish to thank everyone who supported us over the years. While our hearts are breaking over this decision by the courts we are extremely proud of the level of hospitality we brought to Victoria.” While the hotel operations are exceeding expectations, real estate sales were struggling and the lenders called in their loans, they said in their statement. The struggles with the real estate sales didn’t come as a surprise to Oak Bay realtor Cassie Kangas. “I love the new hotel, it’s fantastic. But the real estate, the units were poorly designed and they were overpriced. They overvalued what they’d be able to get for those,” said Kangas, with DFH Real Estate. She said the units sold as hotel rooms and put into a rental pool were fine, but those being sold as condos were getting little interest from buyers. “I’ve showed the units and people just didn’t like the design,” said Kangas. “They were just awkwardly designed, and the higher priced ones were the most awkwardly designed.” She said it’s going to be tough for whoever takes over the real estate operations at the hotel because it’s impossible to change the configurations of the rooms and they will have difficulty in adjusting the price enough to attract buyers. “They’ve done in-house marketing, they’ve done marketing with realtors on MLS and the feedback’s been the same from everybody — international clientele, local clientele, it’s all been the same.” Within an hour of the online announcement an outpouring of support filled the comment section. “This stinks, the Walkers have worked so hard to ensure Victoria and its guests continue to enjoy the beauty and pleasure of a grand lady. The staff at the OBBH are shining
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Shawna and Kevin Walker stand behind the Oak Bay Beach Hotel for its grand opening in March 2013. A receiver has taken over operations of the hotel. examples of exemplary hospitality,” wrote Gyneth Erskine Turner. “The careful craftsmanship of the renovation is evidence of a vision to create both a beautiful and durable building able to withstand the ravages of time. How sad that the fickle winds of commerce will exclude them from continued stewardship.” The Walkers state that hotel operations will not be impacted. Bruce Walker and business partner Glenn Anderson bought the Oak Bay Beach Hotel in 1972. Bruce’s son
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Sounds of Christmas fill Estevan Village Saturday’s carolling event will collect donations for Mustard Seed Food Bank Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
An hour of smiles, song and Santa returns to Estevan Village Dec. 13. “We hold the carolling event just as a fun evening event for the merchants to give back to the community,” said Lesley Blackman, owner of Estevan Pharmacy and one of the organizers of the annual event. “We just love to give back to the community.” “It’s just a real old-fashioned singing with the band and the choir with St. Philip’s Church,” said another organizer, Barbara Di Lucca. “It’s really simple, hot apple cider and carolling.” As per tradition, Jeff Weaver, director of bands at Oak Bay High, will bring members of the school’s senior concert band to provide the soundtrack for carolling. The school gets involved “to promote Christmas and community and fun and get out of the band room,” said Weaver. “The community involvement has been bigger and bigger every year … it’s just really neat to see people singing Christmas carols and having a good time. “Santa Claus always shows up too which is super cool and he has treats for the kids.” This year in a new twist, singing soloist Holly Melville will perform a song or two aside from the community singalong songs such as Jolly Old St. Nicholas and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. The St. Philip Anglican Church choir keeps the shy singer from feeling alone as they lead the carolling. “The St. Philip’s congregation puts up hot apple cider for the carollers to enjoy. There’ll be cookies,” added Blackman. The pharmacy offers a free raffle for a fresh Christmas turkey, and for those looking to give back, a place to drop off donations.
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Stephanie Williams and Gillian Fosdick sing Christmas carols with the Oak Bay High School band and St. Phillip’s Church choir at last year’s event to bring Christmas cheer to Estevan Village. “We really try and reach out to the community to bring non-perishable food items or toiletries to donate to the Mustard Seed Food Bank,” said Blackman. “We are always hearing about families in need and the Mustard Seed Food Bank does a phenomenal job of feeding families and it’s
important for us to support them.” The event runs Dec. 13 starting at 4 p.m. “Weather is not an issue,” Blackman said. “We sing in the rain and the snow.” cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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BC Ferries plans to move ahead with a website upgrade that will allow passengers to pay for tickets online, avoid reservation fees and pay variable fares depending on demand. The computer upgrade is to be phased in starting in 2017, with a pilot project for passengers on the main Vancouver-Vancouver Island runs. The system will offer discounted fares for off-peak sailings and advance booking without
the current reservation fees. BC Ferries CEO Mike Corrigan said the project will cost $10-15 million, but based on the experience of other systems, it will increase ridership and reduce costs. “It’s a variable priced booking system that’s used by golf courses, hotels, airlines,” Corrigan said. “It’s the way the world is moving. Depending how far in advance you book, what restrictions you’re willing to put on yourself, and when you want to play, stay or travel, you’re going to
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The new booking system was proposed two years ago in a review of ferry operations by Gord Macatee, who reviewed operations when he was appointed BC Ferries Commissioner in charge of rates and service delivery. Macatee must approve the move before it can go ahead. BC Ferries’ point-of-sale system is 25 years old, and requires manual collection of fares. BC Ferries projects the new system will increase vehicle and passenger traffic by three to five per
cent as it is extended to more routes. By adding food, gift shop and other services to the online order system, the corporation hopes to generate an annual revenue increase of $11 million to $18 million, mostly due to increased traffic. “People can actually pay for the full ferry service, including the buffet maybe, and some other services when they pay, so when they get to the ferry terminal, they’re basically just verifying their purchase and moving onboard the vessel,” Corrigan said.
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The scent of freshly cut Island-grown Douglas fir is a staple in many a home over the holidays. Many of the olfactory memory-making trees in Oak Bay come courtesy of the Oak Bay Preschool’s annual fundraising tree sales. “Families in the neighbourhood have been getting their Christmas trees from us for 20 or 30 years,” said Amanda Panthaki, treasurer. “It’s one of our main fundraisers. There are people who bought trees from us when they were kids in our preschool and now they’re adults.” They usually raise around $3,000 for the non-profit, parent-run, licensed co-op preschool. Pick up day is Saturday, Dec. 13 from 8 a.m. to noon at the St. Mary’s Church parking lot, 1701 Elgin Rd. where customers can also indulge in a bake sale offering goodies and apple
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Mehernosh Panthaki and Ian Sharpe carry off a tree from last year’s sale by Oak Bay Preschool. cider. Profits from the bake sale will go to the Victoria Women’s Transition House. “We ask a lot of the community anyways for our silent auction and the Christmas trees so we wanted to give back,” Panthaki said.
“We don’t want to just take, we want to give back, and we want to foster that in our kids too.” Trees are $40 and must be pre-ordered online at oakbaypreschool.com by Dec. 10. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
MP sounds off over lack of electoral reform Victoria MP Murray Rankin is saying there’s no difference between the federal Liberals and the Conservative government when it comes to democratic reform. “Our motion was a simple, clear ask of all parties to commit to replacing the unfair electoral system in Canada with a mixed-member proportional representation system. It’s disappointing to see Justin Trudeau join with the Conservatives to vote against the initiative,” said the NDP’s Rankin. The NDP was unsuccessful in its motion asking all parties to commit to replacing Canada’s electoral system with a system of mixedproportional representation. That system – like the ones used in Scotland, New Zealand and Germany – would allow
Canadians to continue to elect local MPs but also ensure that the number of seats that each party wins in the House of Commons reflects the percentage of the popular vote that they received. In countries where proportional representation has been introduced, it has reduced partisanship, while increasing voter turnout and the representation of women and other marginalized groups in parliament. “The current system, in which parties can govern without the support of a majority of Canadians is unfair, and has gone on too long. A system of proportional representation would better reflect the political preferences of all citizens,” said Rankin. editor@oakbaynews.com
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Program provides kids with appetite for reading Oak Bay Kiwanis donation sets course for next year’s programming Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
When Darlene Manthorpe saw the amount Oak Bay Kiwanis would donate to her literacy program she was certain it was a typo. Even days later she was emotional talking about the $8,000 donation. “Last year we only did seven days of events because at the end of the year we only had $99,” Manthorpe said. “We’re a little bit in the hole, so $8,000 means we will be able to run our full flight of events next year. We can probably go into next year knowing we can start up. “Every other year we basically start out with no money, and we just start our events and hope the money will come in.” Each year the president of the Oak Bay Kiwanis gets to choose where to make a donation in what current president Leslie Johnston affectionately calls the “president’s choice”. Johnston, who operates a hair
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Darlene Manthorpe, co-ordinator for the Books for Breakfast program, sings a “reading” song with children and parents at the Military Family Resource Centre gymnasium in Colwood. “I’m really picky about the books we choose. We read two books and they get one of those books to take home. We’ve modelled the reading of the book for the parents, then they take that book home,” Manthorpe said. “Often parents have books at home, but the kids wouldn’t necessarily read them. We choose books that a parent, if they do have to read it 300 times, it may be OK.” Part of the official Westshore Community Literacy Plan, it’s a
design shop in James Bay, lives in View Royal and has grandkids who used the Books for Breakfast program. She strongly believes in kids having easy access to books and in parents reading to them. “There aren’t a huge amount of criteria around it except that it has to go to the community and be for the good of the community,” said Johnston. “Literacy is a big deal in our family so that’s where I was looking to put this money into the community, where kids get to read and get read to.” Manthorpe runs the Belmont Park PreSchool Society Books for Breakfast Program she started in 2007.
free family literacy program with monthly events from September through June, each coinciding with the school year. The program is open to any child six and under, in any community, and their parents or guardians. The program becomes a social event that includes breakfast, storytelling, songs, education and a book to take home. “We want the kids and the parents to go away with that feeling that books are
Did you know? n The program is currently sponsored by Belmont Park Pre-School Society in partnership with Sooke School District #62, Your Literacy Connection Westshore, Military Family Resource Centre and Starbucks Coffee.
fun,” Manthorpe said. “They can connect the book with that social event… it doesn’t matter if their favourite thing is not the book, because they connect that to the reading of the book.” Each event, two in a day back-to-back, is limited to 100 kids. Johnston’s two grandchildren have been among them. “[Books for Breakfast] has kids that come all the way from Sooke and all the way from Sidney… so it’s really well received,” Johnston said. “I’ve worked in children’s programming before and it’s what’s going to build our future. Our children are our future. With a good understanding and a good grasp of the English language they’re on their way.” Demand for the program increased each year and by the fifth year it outgrew its space in the school. Collaborating with the Military Family Resource Centre, they shifted events to the Colwood Pacific Activity Centre three years ago. “Our operating budget is about $13,000 a year to run eight days, which is 16 events,” Manthorpe said, adding as a non-profit, but not a registered charity, many grants aren’t available. “If I can find a really good book at
a great price I can buy ahead of time now. It’ll save us money and the $8,000 will go even further.” Past president’s choices have enhanced playgrounds in Oak Bay and built bike racks for schools. “This is what
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Quartet brings top-flight talent to Upstairs Lounge Maureen Washington offers a taste of Christmas Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
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three other notable Greater Victoria musicians: Karel Roessingh, Joey Smith and Damian Graham. “When you get to see the four of us all together it’s just a show of magic,” Washington said. “Nobody’s a diva. We’re here to play some great music, touch your heart, touch your soul and let you escape …. be whisked away by the music for two hours.” Washington has performed in the Upstairs Lounge (known as Sportsview Lounge by day) and finds it “a really goodsized venue, not too big, not too small. It just really has a real comfortable warm feeling.” Perhaps one of the major draws is the all-ages allowance, creating an ability to infuse a multigenerational audience with her timeless music. “When you have
Award-winning Victoria singer Maureen Washington promises her quartet will take a careful approach to the Friday concert. “I’m trying to find the balance ... I don’t want to over-Christmas people,” Washington said. “We will have some Christmas flair to it, but we will have some typical standards and blues…. it’ll be a blend.” One song from her recently released CD Christmas Is – called Love is Christmas – has hit a chord at all the launch shows and will likely be heard by the Oak Bay audience. “I have a feeling that song is going to be played at every Christmas show over the next couple of weeks,” Washington admitted. The Maureen Washington Quartet – led by Washington, who was named 2014 Black Canadian Awards Winner of Best Jazz and Soul Act – includes
that kind of cross generation and they’re all listening to the same music it just really brings the community together,” Washington said. “My genre is sort of more for that older generation … when you see that younger generation coming in, the classic music still has that influence. Here’s music that is just standing the test of time.” The quartet offers jazz and blues standards with the occasional contemporary song offered a jazz treatment. Visit maureenwashington.ca for a taste of her music. Christmas Is, her second holiday album, will be available when The Maureen Washington Quartet rounds out the season at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 12 at Oak Bay Recreation’s Upstairs Lounge, 1975 Bee St. Tickets are $12 in advance at
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Maureen Washington leads a quartet that brings jazz and blues standards with the occasional contemporary song offered a jazz treatment to Upstairs Lounge Dec. 12. Ivy’s Bookshop and Oak Bay Recreation or at beaconridge productions.com
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The matinee event starts at 3 p.m. Parents can print off a seasonal colouring page for their young ones on the Victoria Film Festival website. Bring in the artwork to display at The Vic and receive a complementary cup of warm apple cider. In a cozy, candle-
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San Francisco’s influential guitarist Brian Gore brings his International Guitar Night to the University of Victoria, featuring classical innovator and fellow Californian Andrew York, Brazilian jazz master Diego Figueiredo and contemporary IranianCanadian steel string prodigy Maneli Jamal. “We’ve hosted International Guitar Night at the Farquhar Auditorium since 2011,” said Ian Case, UVic’s Farquhar director. “The quality of the International Guitar Night concerts is top notch. We’ve seen such exciting and inventive guitar work and it’s
especially wonderful to watch these artists collaborate and play together. We’re really looking forward to hear what this year’s ensemble has to offer. It’s sure to be exhilarating and unique.” Gore founded The International Guitar Night in 1995 as a forum for the world’s finest guitarists/composers to play their latest original songs and share musical ideas with their peers in public concert. It evolved into critically acclaimed annual tours in the U.S. starting in 2000, Canada starting in 2006 and the U.K.
starting in 2007. Grammy winner York is known for his work with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and for his own brilliant compositions. Figueiredo is one of the most soughtafter jazz artists in the United States and around the world, and Jamal is a winner of guitar competitions around the world. The artists perform solo and then in groups. The evening ends in a jam session featuring all the performers on stage. International Guitar Night, 2015 North American Tour is Sunday, Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Farquhar Auditorium at UVic.
Ticket info n Call the University Centre Ticket Centre 250721-8480 from Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. or visit tickets.uvic.ca. Tickets are $30 for an adult and $20 for senior/students. Deadline is Dec. 25 for early bird pricing: four adult tickets for $100.
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Child poverty is a year-round issue With Christmas only two weeks away, the signs of the holiday season abound. And along with the sights of glistening lights and shoppers bustling about, there are food drives collecting for the food bank, and campaigns of all kinds Report shows too to help those in need, including toy drives many children trying to ensure all children have something live below the waiting for them under poverty line the Christmas tree. Those are all worthwhile causes and the people who organize and contribute to them should be celebrated. But the most they can do is alleviate some of the need. The sad fact is, the issue of child poverty is not going to be solved by a once-a-year campaign. According to the annual report released by First Call, a coalition of advocacy groups, child poverty is on the rise in B.C. rather than declining. According to the B.C. Child Poverty Report Card, 169,240 children were living below the poverty line in this province in 2012. Last year, the report identified 153,000 children. Victoria’s Community Social Planning Council estimates 6,540 children in Greater Victoria live in two-parent, two-child families with incomes less than the living wage, calculated at $18.93 an hour in Victoria. First Call set out 19 recommendations in their report with a goal of reducing the provincial child poverty rate to seven per cent by 2020. The recommendations cover a range, from raising the minimum wage to increased child tax benefits and rescinding cuts to Employment Insurance. But what they all have in common is the need for provincial and federal governments to address the problem. Christmas is a time of giving and a time to share in the joy of children. With that in mind,there is no better time for senior levels of government to join in the fight to make some long-term change. Christmas shouldn’t be the only time we work to put smiles on the faces of children. What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@oakbaynews.com or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The OAK BAY NEWS is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.
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Clark on climate, clawbacks, credit cards liquefied natural gas to Asia, we A year-end interview with Premier help them get off coal and other Christy Clark. For an extended dirtier sources of oil, and that is version see the opinion section at the biggest contribution OakBayNews.com. that we’ve ever made to TF: Are you still reducing climate change. confident that we’re going TF: Ontario and to see a major LNG project Quebec have taken a approved by the end of page from your book. 2014? They have seven PCC: We’re still in conditions for an negotiations with Petronas oil pipeline, Energy and Shell, so I don’t know East, which involves if it will be by the end of conversion of gas 2014, but I’m hoping in the pipelines and taking next few months. Tom Fletcher Alberta oil to the East [Days after this B.C. Views Coast. What do you interview, Petronas think? announced a delay in their PCC: I think they took our five investment decision until 2015.] conditions and elaborated on them. TF: I talked to a couple of SFU So you’ve got British Columbia, climate mitigation specialists, and Alberta, now Ontario and Quebec, they agreed that it’s unlikely to the all signed on to some version of point of impossible to have a major the five conditions. And of course LNG industry and still meet Gordon Enbridge and Kinder Morgan as Campbell’s ambitious greenhouse gas target of a 33 per cent reduction well. TF: What about the conditions by 2020. What do you think? they have added? PCC: I think that we may PCC: One of the things they say prove them wrong. Many of they want to protect against is a these facilities, not all of them, shortage of natural gas coming to will be partly or fully electrically Ontario and Quebec. These are the powered up, so that reduces those same two provinces that have put impacts, and there’s going to be a moratorium on extracting natural a real incentive to invest in new gas. They want to make sure that technology to minimize that as we do it here, good enough for us well. to do, and send it to them, but they I think the bigger picture is won’t do that themselves. I look at what really matters, which is that their last two conditions, and I roll in shipping 82 million tonnes of
my eyes a little bit. TF: All the way to New Brunswick, they’ve basically bought the anti-hydraulic fracturing myth? PCC: Yes. Somehow they all watched an American mockumentary or whatever you call it, and believed it. Here in British Columbia we do fracking better than anywhere in the world. It is the gold standard. TF: Finance Minister Mike de Jong says we have a surplus estimated at more than $400 million for this fiscal year, and he suggested that much of that would have to go to pay off deficits from previous years. Of course the opposition is interested in welfare rates and in particular ending child support clawbacks. What’s your view? PCC: Like any family that’s been through tough times, the first thing you need to do when you get back to finding a job and making an income again, is to pay off your credit cards. And that’s what we’re going to do. We are going to see if we can find ways to improve some of the programs over time, but can’t do that until we can afford it. It’s typical, the NDP want us to spend the money before we have it. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers.
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LETTERS Greater availability will lead to greater abuse With reference to Tom Fletcher’s column on liquor prices (Nov. 26), Tom has as usual missed the main point. Although he is consistent with his pro-Liberal government, anti-union message, he fails to understand the basic premise behind the liberalizing of our liquor laws. Historically, governments have struggled with controlling alcohol consumption. We have seen the whole spectrum of attempts from total prohibition to wide open availability and aggressive marketing. In the past, British Columbians recognized some regulation was necessary and took the middle road of partial control through well-regulated government liquor stores. I chaired an alcohol abuse task force for three years with senior representatives from all the relevant provincial departments and non-profit agencies. We examined and explored all relevant abuse factors and
Deer dangers overstated There truly appears to be an acute lack of common sense shown by the mayor and council and some readers of this paper when it comes to the deer situation. People see deer and become afraid of being attacked or having their pets killed by them. Deer are not predators and won’t attack unless they are provoked or defending their young. The battle cry in this instance is to cull the deer. This year there have been some 40-odd deer found dead in Oak Bay and despite implications not all were from vehicle accidents. These dead deer are almost double the amount the mayor initially announced would be culled. Yet we still see them and there are still incidents. Does anyone with any common sense believe that culling 25 or 50 deer will change things? Of course not and the only answers would be to cull every deer in the CRD or learn to live with the deer. The former choice would come from those lacking common sense. Oak Bay is not the only community in the province or country that sees deer and for the most part people in those other areas live with them. They will not take over Oak Bay folks. K.A. Wilson Oak Bay
Amused by debate As a close follower of the ongoing “life and death” debate about those unwanted migrants in our midst, one can’t help being somewhat amused by it all.
found “availability” at the top of the list. Lack of funds for enforcement in liquor licensing and control was also a big issue – this has not changed. There have been several attempts first by the Socreds and then by the Liberal government to privatize alcohol sales but, reason prevailed and the present system was preserved. However, in spite of government liquor licensing bringing in important tax dollars for many social services, pressure from special interest profit-seeking groups persisted. Finally the Liberals saw a way to accomplish their objective and embarked on a process of eroding alcohol controls. Firstly by slowly introducing a number private liquor stores and then by conducting a survey that gave the public one side of the story, a modernizing and convenience message. They failed to listen to a wide range of organizations that want to keep the present level of liquor licensing
Amused by what desperate means each side is trying to make a point, ignoring all reason and intelligence. This, however, applies mostly to the procull proponents who seem to depict deer as vicious carnivorous creatures. A man had to stop his car for almost a whole minute for deer to get out of the way. Really? What a catastrophe, any traffic light could do the same. Safety seems to be the big concern here. Do we realize the risk factor to our lives every time we get behind the wheel. Why are we suddenly so concerned about a bunch of deer threatening our lives? The opponents in the debate are factual, reasonable and argue intelligently. William Raushning Oak Bay
Will dogs be the next target? I am not one of the so-called regular pro-deer writers who was mentioned in a recent letter. But I could easily become one given the sad state of affairs shown by mayor and council on the deer issue. I have to agree with many, especially about the mayor having one real plank in his platform. The sad irony of it all is the deception and falsehoods that make people feel a cull is necessary. There are too many unknowns and from a letter I last read even the provincial vet says the clover trap is not the right instrument to use. I cannot figure out why this mayor ignores every bit of proven evidence about culls but I guess it is because he promised some friends he would rid
control. They omitted to explain or recognize studies that established: a recent spike in gambling addiction was caused by more availability to gambling via slot machines, casinos etc; A much higher percentage of juveniles are accessing alcohol through private liquor stores (kids on minimum wage serving kids); A UVic and Prevention Research Center in Berkley, Calif. study that found more alcohol related deaths attributed to private liquor stores in B.C. and elsewhere. So if Fletcher wasn’t so interested in union-bashing and would use his column to provide balanced, useful information, he could have explained the more expensive and wide spread government makes alcohol, the more illegal alcohol will be made – resulting in more alcohol-related problems, less revenue and far less control. Anthony Mears Oak Bay
them of the deer he is now plowing forward. Once the deer are gone and there are no deer feces in the parks will he come after the dogs whose lazy owners do not pick up after them? Who knows. We re-elected the mayor to run our community, not to play deer hunter. David Sellers Oak Bay
More deer on display Oak Bay has set up a nice Christmas display on the corner of Foul Bay Road and Oak Bay Avenue. But horror of horrors, it includes three deer. Were these three part of the deer count or do they have special dispensation because they are pulling a sleigh? Will they become part of the cull? Hypocrisy or irony? H. Watson Oak Bay
so much to so many residents, many of whom were no doubt gazing down at us all and missing that amazing pleasure we humans get from a great Christmas party. Bill Smith Oak Bay
Taxpayers could be on the hook With the unfortunate situation at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel leaving almost $750,000 in back taxes and service fees, taxpayers here may be scrambling to raise money for our own taxes. Couple that with the tens of millions for a sewage treatment plant plus another quarter-million (including CRD funding until March 2015) for a deer cull I hope mayor and council are sharpening their pencils and reassessing their priorities. Harold Rice Oak Bay
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A holiday tradition Dec. 3 was a very special evening. It would not be until the next day that we all heard the sad news that the Oak Bay Beach Hotel had fallen into receivership. Tonight though was the time for celebration – the sight of Rowena Yipp once again organizing the wonderful Hampshire House Chinese Food Christmas Dinner that she has been doing since the condo was built in the 1960s, over 50 years ago. Fifty years of Chinese Food Christmas parties. Thanks for doing this Rowena. It means
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Oak Bay grad named to national field hockey team Oak Bay’s Maddie Secco has been named to the 2015 Canadian Women’s National Field Hockey team. The Canadian Women’s National Field Hockey Program confirmed its 2015 women’s national team and senior
number expected to rise as players from the development squad and the soonto-be-named junior development squad become competitionready. Fifteen athletes have been named to the senior development
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League tournament, the second being the Pan American Games, which Canada hosts in Toronto in the summer of 2015. In preparation for these two tournaments, the women’s national team will take part in many test tournaments throughout the year, for which – as will be done for World League and the Pan Am Games – specific touring rosters will be named.
Yearwood snares camp invite Oak Bay’s Lauren Yearwood is among those invited to take part in the women’s national age-group basketball assessment camp at Humber College in Toronto this month. The camp offers a national training environment with international focus to top athletes 18 years and younger who have been selected through the national identification process. Denise Dignard, director of women’s high performance, said the camp will provide the skills and knowledge that can be used towards the goal of becoming a world-class athlete representing Canada at the top international level. “Having a pool of world-class coaches who are committed to the long-term development of
podium athletes for the senior national team is a key contributor to our successful system. When we gather individuals who are all striving for excellence, the energy is tremendous and sparks the passion for continued growth.” Yearwood, a Grade 12 at Oak Bay High, has accepted a scholarship to play next year with the University of Oregon Ducks. Women’s high performance coaches from across the country will provide leadership, including junior (U18) women’s national team head coach Rich Chambers (Terry Fox secondary) and 2014 cadette (U16) women’s national team head coach Carly Clarke (Ryerson University).
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The Oak Bay Wanderers, an Oak Bay hockey team made up of medical professionals, donated $5,000 to the Victoria Hospital Foundations to be used for mental health at Royal Jubilee Hospital. The cheque was gratefully accepted by three of Victoria’s favourite sons, the Courtnall brothers. Pictured from left, Geoff Courtnall, Dr. Bruce Yoneda, Dr. Thomas Bailey, Russ Courtnall, Dr. Bruce Wong and Bruce Courtnall.
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program tryouts. Silver medalist at the 2014 FIBA Americas U18 Championships in Colorado Springs, the junior squad has advanced to the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championships for Women in Russia from July 16-26. Canada is currently ranked fourth in the world in the FIBA women’s age-group rankings. editor@oakbaynews.com
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Valencia tragedy led to West Coast Trail The sinking of the steamship Valencia prompted the federal government to hack the trail out of the Island’s rugged landscape Last summer, many out-oftown visitors who came to the Maritime Museum of B.C. would chat with me about their experiences on Vancouver Island. Some had a distinctive look to them – recently tanned and slightly unkempt. They were not beach-goers, but rather intrepid folks who had just hiked the West Coast Trail. Few of them had any idea of its origin, but I suspect that anyone who has been caught in bad weather on the West Coast Trail would understand its real importance: it was designed to save lives. One particular tragedy prompted the Canadian government to hew and hack the trail out of the Island’s rugged landscape. This was the horrific sinking of the steamship Valencia. Valencia was based out of San Francisco, and had been serving the Pacific Coast Steamship Service for four years as a back-up vessel on a route up to Alaska, when in January 1906 she was diverted to the San Francisco-Seattle run. This route included a stop in Victoria. Built in 1884, she was a not a new ship, nor a particularly advanced one. Although she featured four watertight compartments to protect the engine and boiler room, Valencia was not fitted with a double bottom and her bulkheads were not particularly well-braced. Approximately 65 crew
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Sinking of the steamship Valencia was one of the reasons to build the West Coast Trail. members and 110 paid passengers were onboard the ship when she set out from San Francisco on Jan. 20, 1906. There were calm seas and fair skies at first, but as they sailed north the weather thickened with rain and haze. The stars were obscured, and so the navigators had to rely on dead reckoning (which relies on estimated speeds and compass courses to determine location in an imprecise way) to find their way along the coast. It was this imprecision
that caused the Valencia to overshoot the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and suddenly run into a rock on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, about 18 kilometres southeast of Cape Beale. Water began to pour into the wounded hull, and when the next great swell pushed the ship over the rock and drove her towards shore, the captain ordered that the boat be deliberately beached in order to save her from sinking. She wound up jammed on a
the Valencia began reef about 80 meters to break apart on the from shore in about reef. Meanwhile, the four fathoms of water. survivors onshore found There were huge, the telegraph line and crashing waves and followed it through the winds of 55 km/h woods, not knowing battering the ship. where they were going The coastline was or indeed where they sheer cliffs, and no were. sign of inhabitation Finally they found a other than a rough Kate Humble lineman’s shack with trail, hacked through the dense Maritime History a telephone inside. They hooked it up and forest, which bore a managed to contact the haphazard telegraph/ Carmanah Station which in turn telephone line that connected the Carmanah Light Station with sent the news along to Victoria. Though three rescue Bamfield Creek and Cape Beale. vessels steamed out towards The horrifying deep crunch the Valencia, they could not of twisting metal would have approach the wreck without shaken the Valencia and all her grounding themselves. passengers to the very core, but it was when the engines and Approaching overland through the thick wilderness was far therefore the lights went out too slow and laborious, and the onboard that people began to efforts came too late for most. panic. Only 37 passengers were Without any order to abandon saved from the waves, and as the ship, passengers began to the ship broke apart women get into the six lifeboats that and children were clinging to were standing by. They called the rigging, wailing before being out to lower the boats, and in washed to their deaths. Not a the darkness and confusion the single woman or child survived davit crews didn’t realize these the wreck, which had taken 36 were not official orders. All hours to finally sink. six boats were lowered within The tragedy of the Valencia about 30 minutes, and that is emphasised the inaccessibility when the real horror began. of the southwest coast of Of the six lifeboats, three Vancouver Island (known as the were caught in accidents whilst being lowered which emptied all Graveyard of the Pacific), and the near impossibility of rescue the passengers into the water. efforts in that region. All aboard were lost, save one It was thus that the West crew member. Two more were Coast Trail was conceived as successfully launched but a way of reaching just such capsized in the waves. Only nine survivors managed to make shipwrecks and preventing further losses of human life. it to shore and climb the sheer The building of the trail is the rock cliffs the next morning. The subject of the next column, so last lifeboat simply drifted away stay tuned for Part 2. and disappeared, to be found ••• 27 years later adrift in Barkley Kate Humble is an Oak Bay Sound. The Maritime Museum High grad and the education of B.C. has its nameplate in its curator for the Maritime Museum collection. of B.C. In the light of morning,
Museum curator happy as a clam about discovery Thanks to a sharp eye and a specimen found within in the Royal BC Museum’s collection, a new species of clam has been discovered which lives deep off the coast of Vancouver Island. “When I first saw the specimen, I suspected
it was special – turned out there appeared to be no similar species from this coast in the existing taxonomic literature, suggesting that indeed this species was new to science,” said Royal B.C. Museum curator of invertebrates Melissa Frey.
The clam, collected by Fisheries and Oceans Canada at about 1,000 metres depth off of Quatsino Sound in 2004, is now a one-of-a-kind find. The first telltale sign that the clam is unique is in its shell, which has unusual scalloping, or
curved projections, on an edge. Further unique traits not so plain to the naked eye were also identified by Dr Graham Oliver, a bivalve expert at the National Museum of Wales, who along with Frey, coauthored a recent arti-
cle in the journal Zootaxa announcing the new species. The species’ scientific name, Ascetoaxinus quatsinoensis, is a tribute to both its curious shape and its home. The discovery of a new species of marine
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invertebrate is rare; Frey estimates it occurs about twice per year for British Columbia ecosystems. The other real significance of the find is as an example of the importance of museum collections. Worldwide, millions of specimens are collected and deposited into museums for longterm, safe storage. From there, experts have the opportunity to borrow and study the samples for scientific research. Worldwide, the process to identify stored specimens can take years, or even decades, due to the large volume of materials collected and the limited number of experts. But it’s worth the wait.
“Resulting discoveries highlight why our natural history collections are so valuable. Sometimes people question the purpose of keeping preserved animals,” Frey said. “But hidden within our collections are opportunities for discovery: new records, new attributes – even new species. Ultimately, these collections allow us to better understand and steward the spectacular diversity living within the ocean.” Now, the only sample in the world of this new species of clam is now taking its place among the thousands of specimens at the Royal BC Museum, adding to the collective knowledge of our coastal waters.
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Community Calendar Wednesday, Dec. 10 Inaugural Holiday Art Exchange Dec. 9 to 13, Red Art Gallery hosts a sale of artworks with 100 per cent of proceeds going to Victoria Women’s Transition House. Featuring an eclectic selection of artwork donated by patrons from their collections. Point Ellice House See the historic house in its holiday “dressing.” Christmas gifts and baking on sale. Christmas teas by reservation. Open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. To reserve: call 250-380-6506 or email ellicehouse@gmail.com. A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens adapted as a one-man play by Jason Stevens will be performed in the Dance Hall at Craigdarroch Castle Dec. 10, 11, 22 and 23 at 7 p.m., and Dec. 12, 13, 17, 18 and 20 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are available in advance at Craigdarroch Castle or thecastle.ca $20 for adults, $15 for members and students.
Friday, Dec. 12 Maureen Washington Quartet at 7:30 p.m. (doors at 6) in Oak Bay Recreation’s Upstairs Lounge, 1975 Bee St. Tickets are $12 in advance
at Ivy’s Bookshop and Oak Bay Recreation or at beaconridgeproductions.com online. Tickets are $15 at the door.
Saturday, Dec. 13 Carolling in Estevan Village alongside the St. Philips Church choir and Oak Bay High senior concert band in front of Estevan Pharmacy from 4 to 5 p.m. Santa Claus promised to be there! Oak Bay Preschool’s annual Christmas tree fundraiser and bake sale will be at St. Mary’s Church parking lot, 1701 Elgin Rd. Trees are $40 and must be pre-ordered by Dec. 10 online at oakbaypreschool. com. Youth Choir 61 (School District 61 Honour Choir) presents Sweet Songs of Christmas with special guests the Linden Singers and harpist Helena MurrayHill. St. Aidan’s Church, 3703 St. Aidan’s St., 2 p.m. Tickets available at the door or call 250-598-4463. Reading Buddies: Little Buddies from 2-3 p.m. and 3:30-4:30 p.m. for children in Grades 1 to 4 at the Oak Bay Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. Moss Street Winter Market.
Fairfield Community Centre, 1330 Fairfield Rd., 10 a.m. to noon. TubaChristmas Sixty-five tuba players come together to play Christmas songs. Market Square, 1 to 3 p.m. Christmas Lights Ride Join the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition for their 17th annual perennial family favourite scenic lights ride and get a close-up view of colourful Christmas lights displays in the Oaklands/Hillside area. The ride begins and ends at Oaklands Community Centre, 2827 Belmont Ave. Registration begins at 6 p.m. The ride is approximately 20 kilometres and returns to the Recreation Centre at approximately 8:30 p.m. with free refreshments and door prizes. Vancouver Island School of Art open house from noon to 4 p.m. There will be a showcase of student work from the fall 2014 semester featured during the open house at 2549 Quadra St. The Secret Garden a new adaptation of the classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett at Uptown - Upper Blanshard level Dec. 13 and 14 at 2 p.m. Single Tickets starting at $12.50 available online through Kaleidoscope Theatre kaleidoscope.bc.ca or toll-free through Brown Paper
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Sunday, Dec. 14 Community Carol Sing at Oak Bay United Church and led by the choir 7 p.m. in the sanctuary at the corner of Granite and Mitchell streets. People meeting people dances at Monterey Recreation Centre 7 to 10 p.m. in the Garry Oak Room. $8 admission. Festivus Fest! An afternoon of entertainment from Larson Music to raise money for charity. Market Square, 1 to 3 p.m. Van Django Bells a Christmas variety show on Sunday, Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m. at the Charlie White Theatre, Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney. Tickets: $28 (adults) / $20 (students & seniors) available at marywinspear.ca.
Thursday, Dec. 18 Season’s Greetings Supper 4-6 p.m. at Monterey rec Moroccan Tajine dinner and entertainment by the Monterey Note-Ables & Concert Band. Call 250-3707300 for tickets $13. Annual Christmas Carols and songs. Hosted by Sing A’Long at the Monterey Centre on Monterey Avenue at 10 a.m. Everyone welcome.
A free talk at the Monterey Recreation Centre focuses on how regular physical activity can help with stress reduction and being healthy and happy. The Mind Body Connection - Inspire Health, on Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. in the Cedar Room, focuses on mind-body practices such as yoga, meditation, breathing and exercise and how they affect stress, depression, anxiety and mood.
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SUITES, LOWER ESQUIMALT 1-BDRM ground level, W/D. NS/NP. $875. Avail now. (250)385-2846.
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PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Wes 250-812-7774. PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-888-1221. SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.
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Street social meets
Gallery walk Oak Bay celebrated its Oak Bay Gallery Walk and Christmas Social last Thursday (Dec. 4) along the Avenue. Clockwise from right: Michael Pozzolo sells roasted chestnuts. Artists Joe Coffey, left, and Nathan Birch stop for a momentary break in the busy opening of their shows – Tableau Vivant and New Landscapes respectively – at Winchester Galleries. Visitors finish the night with some dancing in the streets to Harris Gilmore & The MoJos. Ole (pronounced Ollie) plays around during his photo with Santa at Athlone Travel. Barbara Adams, left, helps Marika Czink find just the right piece of jewelry at Avenue Gallery. Ava Alexander, left, and her dad Anthony Alexander, check out the wares along Oak Bay Avenue.
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