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Students making a world of difference May 2 Jail and bail event will raise funds to help build two homes Dan Ebenal News Staff
A group of Oak Bay students are preparing to embark on a journey that will change their lives as well as those they encounter. And a group of prominent Oak Bay residents are prepared to do some time behind bars to make sure they get that chance. Oak Bay High teachers Brent Garraway and Ben Turner will be accompanying a group of 34 students in grades 10 to 12 to Vicente Guerrero, Mexico during spring break 2016. “We build two homes for two families while we’re down there. We’re fully immersed within the community the entire time, so from the moment we get there in the morning we’re with the family all the way until 5 at night,” said Garraway, who has led Oak Bay students on three previous trips to the poor, rural community. “Half the kids are normally building and half are entertainers and piggyback providers. You bring a ball out to the field and within seven minutes there’s 60 kids running around the field so happy to have people to play with.”
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Oak Bay High students stand outside one of the homes they built during their 2014 visit to Vicente Guerrero, Mexico. A group of 34 students will be travelling to the area next spring to construct a pair of homes. He said many families live in shacks made of wood pallets, tarps and cardboard, sometimes with as many seven living in a single room. The students help construct a pair of pre-fab twobedroom homes with a small kitchen area. The building may be less than 500 square feet in size but they seem like mansions
to those who will call them home. “One thing down there is they don’t like showing emotion very much, especially the males, so to watch them crying at the end is such a big moment,” said Garraway. While each of the students is responsible for covering their
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to make the majority of what’s needed to cover the costs,” said Garraway. The jail and bail event will see more than 40 local ‘inmates’ rounded up and carted off to a makeshift prison in the Bay Centre. The volunteer inmates will work to pre-raise their bail amounts before doing hard time – two hours behind bars in the Bay Centre while wearing prisoner garb. “They’ll make some phone calls and friends will come down and make fun of them. What happens a lot of time is people will come down and pay money to keep them in a little longer,” said Garraway. The jail and bail event will be held Saturday, May 2 in the Bay Centre courtyard from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the public is welcome to come down and take in the spectacle. One of those who understands the value of the event is Isabella McNamee. The Grade 11 Oak Bay High student went on the trip last year and will be returning to Vicente Guerrero next spring break. “Every time there’s two or three kids that we’ll take for a second time and they become our leaders on the second trip,” said Garraway. “They’ll help organize fundraising and when we’re down there they’ll take a major role in the house build.” PLEASE SEE: Trip ‘completely changed my outlook’, Page A4
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Rotary Club of Oak Bay members Joan Peggs, Don O’Coffey, John Jordan and president Jim Force are ready to fly the flag. The Rotary Club has plenty of flags available for residents interested in showing their patriotism during the upcoming holidays.
Rotary unfurls national pride The Rotary Club of Oak Bay is encouraging residents to wave the flag to celebrate the coming holidays. To celebrate Victoria Day, Canada Day and Labour Day, Victorians can expect to see more than 250 Canadian flags flying on lawns of homes throughout the city. For a $50 annual subscription Rotarians will temporarily erect a fiveby-three-foot flag on the subscriber’s lawn prior to the three holidays this summer. “This is a simple but an effective fundraiser,” said Joan Peggs, chair of the Canada Flag Project. “In 2013 when we first launched the program we had 131 subscribers. Last year we had 209. During these two campaigns we have generated subscriptions worth $17,000.”
While the majority of subscribers are from Oak Bay, Rotary Club members were able to attract friends and supporters from Esquimalt, James Bay, Fairfield, Gonzales, Broadmead, Brentwood Bay and the Saanich peninsula. “Our target this year is to have over 250 subscribers and we hope to see redder colour on people’s lawns,” said Peggs. Dr. Perry Bamji, public image director of the Rotary Club of Oak Bay, said the funds generated will go to support humanitarian projects both locally and internationally. “For example, through the Canada flag program and other fundraisers such as our everpopular Mardi Gras (on May 9 this year), the Merrython, the car raffle, poinsettia sales and Thrifty Foods Smile
program, we have supported local projects within Oak Bay, elementary schools in Victoria, literacy, hospital needs, elder homes and much more,” said Bamji. On the international front, Rotary has ongoing projects in Rwanda, Guatemala, Mexico, East Timor, Malawi and India. “In the last 15 years our club has raised over $650,000 to support its local and international projects. In several international projects we have enhanced our club’s contributions through matching grants from the Rotary Foundation,” said Bamji. To subscribe to the flag program contact Joan Peggs at 250-598-1716 or email flag@ oakbayrotary.com. editor@oakbaynews.com
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Oak Bay Arts Laureate Barbara Adams, left, and Heather Wheeler of The Avenue Gallery sit at the Bloom Box piano painted by Crystal Heath that was auctioned off last year. Oak Bay’s arts laureate is planning another series of public pianos.
Arts laureate given two-year extension Adams brokers plan to purchase Salish Sea Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
Barbara Adams gets two more years as Oak Bay arts laureate to build her dream of art spaces around the community. Her term was recently renewed by council and projects created in her first term lay a solid foundation. “The Salish Sea [purchase] is looking very positive,” said Adams. “We’re working on a collaboration of three parties to put this together.” The sculpture adjacent to Oak Bay Marina was one of a handful of works on loan last summer for an art in the community program. “[Artist] Chris Paul has been very patient and he’s given us time to make this work,” Adams added. “He’s been very supportive of keeping the sculpture where it is. He knows that it’s in the right spot. “I’m hopeful, but it’s not signed, sealed, delivered.” Building on the success of
last summer’s instalments of sculpture and painted pianos throughout the community, she plans to have another summer of art for 2015. Large and small sculptures and another series of public pianos are planned. “It’s going to be an addition to what we had last year, with an additional focus on Estevan Village and Oak Bay Village,” she said. “This is just a little bit more and seeing if it will bring visitors more to the village and people walking in the village in the evening.” It again builds on her vision of community art spaces, an area open for performing or visual arts and demonstrations, throughout the community, perhaps connected by a series of permanent art installations. “This is an opportunity to experience art in the community and I’m hoping that this will be something that everybody will get behind and support permanent installations,” Adams said. She’s meeting with schools and guilds in preparation to again have well-known artists painting the pianos alongside youth. And again, she plans to provide an opportunity for pianos to purchase at the end of the summer.
“I’m working on another celebratory year of art in Oak Bay,” she said. “It would be a wonderful recognition of the desire to have public art in Oak Bay to be able to have The Salish Sea purchased for the community. That is a big goal of mine. Once we have that, then I think it follows the summer art is another celebration, what it’s leading up to is building a collection of public art for the future.” Adams became Oak Bay’s first arts laureate in 2014 and was hand-selected, with council approval, by Mayor Nils Jensen. Jensen said he picked Adams because of her devotion to art and her innovative ways of promoting art in the community. Adams built Monterey’s art room and started an artist-inthe-school program. That program became self-funded and a money maker for the art department after its first year, thanks to the annual art auction and evening of entertainment which followed each artist-in-residence’s tenure. When she retired, she left the art department with $25,000 in the bank. Her reappointment is for two years. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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Public Tours of Water Supply Facilities May 4 - 9, 2015 The Capital Regional District will be hosting their 26th annual public tours of the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area and water supply facilities including the Sooke Dam and the ultraviolet treatment plant. Learn how our high quality drinking water is delivered from the source to your tap. Three free bus tours will leave each day from the main parking area at Thetis Lake Regional Park from Monday, May 4 to Saturday, May 9. There are two tour options available and both require advanced reservations. Location: Main parking area at Thetis Lake Regional Park - End of Six Mile Rd Times: Full Day Tour: Half Day Tour:
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McNamee called the trip “life-changing” and is looking forward to renewing acquaintances with the families she met on her last journey. “It completely changed my outlook on everything – on community, on family – it really taught me what matters,” she said. “I feel like here we really take so many things for granted. It taught me a lot of lessons on how to deal with family because family is everything. If you have nothing, all you have is your family.” The thing that remains with McNamee from her past trip to Vicente Guerrero is the memories of those who she met there. “The people are amazing. You’re swarmed with kids, they’re just so happy to have you down there. Obviously they’re grateful for what you’re doing for the community, but even just for a hug or to play soccer with them.” And McNamee is not alone in the experiences she took away from the program. Garraway said the importance of family in the culture is something that strikes all the students who make the trip, and all return to Canada changed by the experience, with one student calling it “life awakening”.
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Isabella McNamee takes a selfie with one of the children from the village in Vicente Guerrero she visited in 2014. The Grade 11 student at Oak Bay High will be returning the area during spring break 2016. “To see kids smiling through most of the day who have no video game systems, no second set of clothing – they have nothing and they’re still enjoying life to the fullest,” said Garraway. And after seeing the difference those little things can make in the lives of the villagers, not having the latest
i-Phone doesn’t seem like such a big deal. “When the kids come back, a lot of times the parents will be, ‘Who’s this?’” said Garraway. “They’re hugging their brother and sister all the time, they’re appreciating what I’m doing for them – this is a different kid than went down there.” editor@oakbaynews.com
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Children from the Gonzales Co-op Preschool chip in to clean up some local beaches. Angela Paletta-Haslam said the cleanup event is important for the preschool because they believe in serving their community. “At Gonzales, we incorporate nature inside and out in our play,” she said. “So taking care of our local environment is a perfect fit for our children and their families.” Parent Bethan Ostermann called it an awesome event for the kids. “They’re learning stewardship of the beaches around Oak Bay, their favourite places to play.”
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A taste of recreation Sandi Piercy was elected as commission chair and Chris Smith was elected as commission vicechair of the Oak Bay Parks and Recreation Commission for 2015 during an April 1 meeting. More than 200 people applied for 55 summer staff positions at Recreation Oak Bay. Summer camp interviews are done and the practical night portion of the process was held on March 31 in the indoor sports field.
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Staff and the applicant both pointed out that the property is in the centre of Oak Bay Village where on-street parking is available; in a high pedestrian area; and has nearby public transit. Rather than simply offer that onetime variance, staff suggested, and council agreed to a 52-space variance. Considering the age and history of the building, staff suggested a parking variance for the site as a whole, recognizing existing on-site parking and minimizing future parking variance potential as commercial units change use. The parking facilities bylaw would require, should all commercial spaces be filled to the “worst-case scenario” of parking
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A stop sign is “not warranted” at Granite Street and Victoria Avenue, according to municipal staff. Residents of the area sought to create a three-way stop at the intersection, citing traffic, parking and pedestrian concerns along Granite from Henderson to Foul Bay. At a committee of the whole meeting a year ago, council of the day made several recommendations addressing traffic issues raised then by residents of south Oak Bay. Last May council directed staff to bring forward a report to Committee of the Whole with respect to the potential installation of a three-way stop at the intersection of Victoria Avenue and Granite Street. The report from staff received April 20 reflected that request. While residents who attended were disappointed at the ‘not warranted’ result, they were happy to learn that Oak Bay is contemplating funding a consultant to establish a Complete Streets Program and a Traffic Speed Study to address a variety of concerns throughout the municipality. Former mayor Diana Butler, among the concerned residents, said she hopes those who live in the area will “have real input” on that traffic study. Staff reported they have done six traffic counts in the past six
Bay Avenue and Hampshire Road – in a 1913 building that currently houses five commercial and eight residential units – would need a parking variance. The site officers 11 parking spaces behind the building. Jesse Owen proposes to operate a coffee house within one of the commercial units, changing the historical use of the space and triggering a review of the site’s nonconforming status for parking requirements. For general commercial use, Oak Bay’s parking bylaws would require a commercial unit of similar size to provide five off-street parking spaces. As a restaurant use it would require six off-street parking spaces, resulting in a variance of one parking space.
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years, four on Granite and two on Victoria, and monitored speed during those counts, on both sides of the sloping road. They found that 85 per cent of drivers were travelling at 41 km/h or slower (the posted speed limit until recently was 50, it is now 40 km/h). They saw no congestion. According to the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada, all-way stops are warranted when traffic volumes on all intersecting roads are generally equal and the combined pedestrian and vehicular volumes on the minor road average 200 per hour for an eight-hour period. At this intersection, the staff report said, the volumes entering are relatively equal at about 1,300 per day, with 70 to 80 vehicles at peak hours, suggesting it doesn’t meet the criteria and an all-way stop is “not warranted”.
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Arts laureate proven to be valuable asset Oak Bay is moving ahead with a program that is helping to brush up the image of the community. Oak Bay council has renewed the term of Barbara Adams to serve as arts laureate for the next two years. The move represents a significant boost for the community as Adams more than showed the value of the program during her inaugural term last year. Barbara Adams’ One of Adams’ priorities for her new term is to term renewed broker a deal that would for another two allow for the purchase of the Salish Sea sculpture years that currently sits adjacent to Oak Bay Marina. And it is here where Adams’ true value to the community comes into light. She has proven to have a keen business sense that rivals her artistic talents. Adams built Monterey’s art room and started an artist-in-the-school program. That program became self-funded and a money maker for the art department after its first year, thanks to the annual art auction and evening of entertainment which followed each artist-in-residence’s tenure. When she retired, she left the art department with $25,000 in the bank. If she can duplicate even some of that success, the community is indeed in good hands. But it is her artistic vision more than the district’s financial picture that will be the real benefit. Adams is hoping to build on the success of last summer’s instalments of sculpture and painted pianos throughout the community, with plans for another summer of art in 2015. Large and small sculptures and another series of public pianos are planned. She plans to bring additional focus on to Estevan Village and Oak Bay Village, with the goal of bringing more visitors to the community and offering another reason for an evening stroll through the village. Adams aims to build on her vision of community art spaces, an area open for performing or visual arts and demonstrations, throughout the community, perhaps connected by a series of permanent art installations. And Adams’ vision for Oak Bay is something the community should be very excited to see. 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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Coast Guard hysteria sinks lower The Vancouver media’s frantic His claims about loss of spill coverage of the Great Bunker Spill response capability from Kitsilano of 2015 has just about run out of are questionable at best. There was fuel. no talk of spill response By late last week, the when Kitsilano closed usually serious Globe two years ago, because it and Mail was reduced was a search and rescue to quizzing a U.S. expert station. who had at first told the Former B.C. Federation CBC he thought the spill of Labour president response was pretty good. Jim Sinclair held almost But then he heard that it daily news conferences might have taken up to as it closed. People are 12 hours until the leaking going to drown, warned grain ship was completely Tom Fletcher a parade of union under control, which spokespeople. B.C. Views would be not so good. It’s been two years, and This U.S. expert nobody has. admitted he has not “followed the Premier Christy Clark and Vancouver spill very closely,� and Vancouver Mayor Gregor was basically speculating. But that’s Robertson were quick to summon OK, because the main purpose of TV cameras as oil-sheen angst this media frenzy is to feed the spread through condo towers. They established narrative that the declared the Coast Guard response Harper government is gutting the a failure before they had any real Coast Guard while trying to ramp understanding of it. up heavy oil shipments to Asia. Unifor, the union representing Yeah, that makes sense. A Coast Guard employees, has vowed University of Toronto philosophy a full-scale election advertising prof recently suggested that attack on the Conservatives Stephen Harper likes war. Maybe he this year. On federal budget day, likes oil spills too. Unifor protested the closure of A retired captain from the the Ucluelet Coast Guard ship now-closed Kitsilano Coast monitoring station. Similar stations Guard station became the in Vancouver and Comox are also latest of a series of disgruntled closing this year, replaced by a new ex-employees and union bosses monitoring system run from Prince to serve as the media’s go-to Rupert and Victoria. critics. He contradicted Coast I asked Industry Minister James Guard management at every Moore, the federal minister turn, dismissing them as political responsible for B.C., if this is a appointees with little operational reduction in service. He said 1970sexperience. era ship tracking equipment is
being replaced with a new system that has already been deployed on the East Coast, to improve safety. “These fears were also raised back in the ’60s and ’70s, when lighthouses were de-staffed,� Moore said. “I remember people saying, oh my God, this is going to be the end. And it turned out to be complete nonsense.� Unifor operatives rushed to the media again last week with dire news of a half-hour outage of this new system, portraying this as evidence of a high-tech disaster waiting to happen. (Ships were told to monitor an old-school emergency radio channel for that uneventful half hour.) What the union is really doing is ramping up its election propaganda, and intensifying efforts to protect redundant positions that are being replaced by new technology. There was a similar media campaign last year targeting the consolidation of Veterans’ Affairs into Service Canada offices. There are serious problems with services to veterans, but union featherbedding would not help them. The B.C. government is also introducing digital technology, eliminating hundreds of paperpushing jobs in the process, with a mostly realistic response from unions. But in this federal election year, realism will be in short supply. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
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Young skaters will showcase their talents for the community in a Broadway-themed ice show this weekend. Every second year the Oak Bay Figure Skating Club creates the event to showcase the talent of its skaters, and each of the nearly 100 students who choose to participate enjoys a part, says club president Darrell Wavryk. “We’ve got kids from three to 18 [years-old] involved,” he said. “Lots of people look forward to the show. We put it on for the community.” It’s also a boon for the younger kids, who don’t yet compete and do shows, to participate in the two-show affair on Saturday at Oak Bay Rec Centre. “It gives the skaters an opportunity to show off their skills in a non-competitive setting,” said coach Kailee Bowman. “And it shows the community what amazing athletes we have.” With about 80 per cent of the club made up of Oak Bay residents, there are family members, friends and community members in general who anticipate the event, this year titled Broadway on Ice and featuring numbers from shows Cats and Annie Get Your Gun to Mama Mia. “If you’re a Broadway junkie there’s going to be something you love,” Bowman said. The grand finale, set to a funky popular tune by Bruno Mars, is choreographed by longtime club member Mackenzie Wavryk. The 17-year-old Esquimalt High student has skated for 11 years, most of them in Oak Bay, and sees choreography in her future as a skating coach. “It’s been so amazing,” she said of her first real gig. “I love being able to show what I love to someone else, and making the skaters feel good
with the choreography.” The show is also a bit about fundraising and a lot about awareness. “We want to get more people involved with skating, whether it’s hockey or figure skating or our Special O program,” Bowman said. Broadway on Ice runs Saturday, May 2 with a 2 p.m. and a 7 p.m. performance at the Oak Bay Recreation Centre. Get tickets, $12, at the door or in advance at Ivy’s Bookshop or through the Oak Bay Figure Skating Club. Children under five are free with an adult.
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Oak Bay hosts Tour de Rock rollout Cops for Cancer riders will be introduced Friday at school This year’s group of riders who will attempt to conquer the Tour de Rock will be introduced Friday at Oak Bay High. The school will be hosting an assembly to welcome the riders and other dignitaries but the public is invited to attend the event that gets started at 11 a.m.
“Supporting Cops for Cancer and the Tour de Rock has been huge at Oak Bay for many years and the local community support has been a big reason for our success,” said Murray Allen, vice-principal at Oak Bay High. The Tour de Rock is a two-week bicycle journey in which a team of police officers rides 1,000 kilometres from the north end of Vancouver Island to the south, raising money to fight childhood cancer. Since 1998, the event has raised more than $20 million for the Canadian Cancer Society, which uses the money to fund pediatric
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cancer research and programs that help children with cancer and their families. The 2015 tour gets started Sept. 19 in Port Alice. It winds through communities on northern and central Vancouver Island before reaching Nanaimo Sept. 27. The riders will head through Oak Bay, Victoria and Sidney on Oct. 1 and Esquimalt and Saanich Oct. 2 before wrapping up that night in Victoria with the Spirit Square Finale. The team announcement will take place in the new gym at Oak Bay High, 2151 Cranmore Rd. editor@oakbaynews.com
Museum hosting wastewater session Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
The Eastside wastewater treatment and resource recovery select committee holds its first public briefing April 29. The Eastside is made up of Oak Bay, Saanich and Victoria in a bid to develop a wastewater treatment and resource recovery plan for the region. The public session will share the process for public input over the coming three months, answer questions on what has changed and learn more about public priorities for sewage and wastewater treatment for our communities. “We’re hoping to communicate very clearly to the public the process going forward, the constraints we’re under, the givens … really offering them the decisionmaking framework,” Amanda Gibbs, public engagement and communications contractor, told the committee last week. “Our approach is really to do a lot of pulling information in.” The first public session for the Eastside committee is April 29 from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Clifford Carl Hall of the Royal BC Museum. cvanreeuwyk@oak baynews.com
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Victoria MP sees little help for families in federal budget Victoria’s MP says the federal budget does little to help local families get ahead, instead wasting billions on tax measures only available to less than one in six Canadian families. “I didn’t see much in this budget to help the families I talk to,” said Murray Rankin, New Democrat MP for Victoria. “The budget offers nothing for families having trouble affording, or even finding, childcare,” said Rankin. “Building more affordable housing is a top priority for Victoria and our city needs a federal partner, not a government intent on looking the other way.” As the Opposition health critic, Rankin points out that the budget confirms the Conservatives will go ahead with cutting $36 billion in planned health transfers to provinces. “We need a federal government that will help seniors and families get home care and deal with the high cost of prescription drugs,” he said. Rankin was also disappointed that the budget didn’t reverse the cuts to the Coast Guard and marine protection services on the coast, especially in light of the recent oil spill in Vancouver. “They had $7.5 million to advertise their budget but couldn’t come up with $700,000 to keep the Kitsilano Coast Guard Station open.” Rankin said he was pleased the Conservatives recognized the value of New Democrat proposals like reducing the small business tax credit, addressing mandatory withdrawals from the Registered Retirement Income Funds, and extending compassionate care benefits. Rankin also said he will fight for
Victoria to get its fair share of any new public transit funding but questions why most of the announced funding isn’t available until 2019. Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver delivered his first budget last week, featuring increased defence spending and a new public transit fund that wouldn’t take effect until after the federal election scheduled for this fall. B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said changes in the federal budget such as reducing small business tax and allowing personal income splitting for couples have a flowthrough effect on provincial revenues. That could be between $18 million and $30 million to B.C., he said. De Jong said the B.C. government supports the reduction in federal small business tax rate, which is to decline from 11 to nine per cent by 2019. A new federal fund to help pay for transit doesn’t take effect until 2017, but de Jong said he expects current federal infrastructure programs to continue until then. Federal Industry Minister James Moore said the Conservative government is still distributing funds from the $70 billion infrastructure fund that was included in last year’s budget, and the new fund is in response to cities’ demands. The mayors of Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and the national and provincial municipal associations have all endorsed the budget, Moore said. B.C. NDP finance critic Carole James said the federal budget seems to have missed B.C. priorities, and it was frustrating to see Ottawa balance its
books on the same day as the Canadian Coast Guard closed another West Coast facility. The Coast Guard’s marine communications and traffic centre at Ucluelet is closed,
with the function transferred to Prince Rupert. A similar station in Vancouver is to close May 6, with traffic monitored from Victoria, and another monitoring station at Comox is set to close
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Barclay’s Fine Custom Jewellers NEIGHBOURHOOD: Oak Bay Geoffrey Beattie has been in the industry for the last 30 years, and has owned Barclay’s Fine Custom Jewellers, for the last 16 years, since 1999. Since the business is run, and owned by Geoffrey, there are many things he can do that set Barclay’s apart from other stores. Barclay’s clients have the benefit of dealing directly with the decision makers. This allows staff to go above and beyond what is required, to ensure their clients have the very best experience. Over the years the business has established and developed relationships with some of the best suppliers in the world, many of whom, are exclusive to Barclay’s on Vancouver Island. “Whatever our clients want, we can get it for them”. Often Barclay’s are challenged with
repairs on heirloom jewellery, high-end watch or clock repairs or custom designs. “We have built a good reputation for excelling in these areas”. Geoffrey is also the current Chairman of the Canadian Jewellers Association (CJA). The CJA works with the Canadian Government on such issues as: anti-money laundering, the Canadian Code of Conduct for Canadian diamonds and free trade agreements with other countries. On top of this, the CJA also works towards benefitting its members. Geoffrey’s achievements range from managing jewellery stores in New Zealand from the age of 23, to owning his own store here in Oak Bay just 11 years later. In Canada, Geoffrey has also sold large parcels
of client’s jewellery, including a parcel worth over quarter of a million dollars. Geoffrey is the past chair of the Oak Bay Business Improvement Association. He believes strongly in community involvement and betterment. Our store is seen as a major contributor to local charities such as Cops for Cancer, the Huntington Society, and local schools to name just a few. “We are just one of the many local businesses that support locally.” says Geoffrey.
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Mucky Mutt Pet Salon NEIGHBOURHOOD: Oak Bay Oak Bay’s most stylish canines have found themselves a little hideaway below Oak Bay Avenue, in Monterey Mews. The Mucky Mutt Bowtique sells quality and ethical accessories for your dog including collars, leashes, sweaters and rainwear. The Bowtique also carries luxury items from the Susan Lanci Swarovski line; the ultimate “bling” for small dogs. It’s also a great place to browse for art gifts for animal lovers. You’ll find Mara stoneware, Laurel Burch bags & accessories and other dog and cat related items hand crafted by local artisans. A portion of the shop is dedicated to Broken Promises Animal Rescue items, a local animal rescue continually in need of funds.
Next door, The Mucky Mutt Pet Salon, offers all-breed dog grooming, cat grooming, a convenient U-Bath Service and Walk-in Nail Clipping. “There’s so much that goes into dog grooming,” says owner Vanessa Petrovic, who took over the Mucky Mutt pet salon on Burnside Road back in 2010 before expanding into Oak Bay last year. “Safety and comfort of animals in our care is always our first priority, and groomers have to be highly skilled dog handlers to achieve a beautifully finished cut. We also have to be observant of existing or potential health issues and our certified staff are always on the look out for concerns that may need veterinary attention.”
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Oak Bay Sea Rescue
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Oak Bay & Saanich The Oak Bay Sea Rescue Society was established in 1977 to assist mariners in distress. Since that time the group has been assisting with all types of marine emergencies involving people, paddlers and boats. As members of the Oak Bay community, the society is a 100 percent volunteer organization, supporting Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station 33, Oak Bay (RCMSAR Station 33). The primary mandate of the society is to provide financial and fundraising support for RCMSAR 33 crews, who respond to all types of marine emergencies. Members also provide promotion and education of boating safety. RCMSAR 33 crews are responsible for the waters from James Island to Clover Point – and often as far as Race Rocks and the San Juan Islands. The Oak Bay Sea Rescue Society
has more than 40 dedicated, highly trained volunteers operating out of the new rescue station at the Oak Bay Marina. It also supports a successful junior program, which introduces youth to boating safety and the value of volunteerism. Crews are on standby 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Taskings to crews are done by the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre; and often stem from 911 calls by concerned citizens. Response time is no more than 20 minutes from pager call to leaving the dock. The society supports the boating safety activities of RCMSAR 33 through on-shore education and support for over 15 annual “on-the-water” and special events for other non-profit agencies including: Oak Bay Tea Party, Swiftsure International Yacht Race, MEC Paddlefest and Kayak For a Cure.
As a registered non-profit charity with no paid staff, the society relies on the ongoing and generous financial support of the community. Mandatory training and equipment standards are significant. Donations support volunteer training; equip rescue vessels, crew, and rescue station; and provide assistance with maintenance of its two vessels. The costs can quickly add up, as personnel safety gear, valued at about $1,500, is required for each crew member, while vessel fuel costs range up to $300 an hour, and moorage for the society’s second vessel is $3,700 a year.
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Care and Company Senior Care & Fitness NEIGHBOURHOOD: Oak Bay Independently owned and operated, Care & Company Senior Care & Fitness is based right at the heart of the Oak Bay community in Athlone Court. Johanna Booy, Director of Care & Company and a certified medical exercise specialist has operated the company for the past nine years. Care & Company offers seniors and their families a plethora of services tailor-made to each senior. The company offers a ‘hospital to home’ service which incorporates meeting with hospital staff and the coordination of services and equipment at home. Services can be as short as 2 hours to overnight and live-in. Often the senior returning home from hospital may need comprehensive assistance, which can then be reduced as they gain strength. Care & Company utilizes the ‘right fit’ approach for seniors and caregivers
understanding the need for seniors to also enjoy the company of their worker. Aging-in-place is a concept many seniors in the community are embracing. The choice to stay at home for as long as possible is the dream of most individuals. Care & Company provides all encompassing care coordination and administration which is vital to families living remotely in ensuring the needs of the individual are met once at home. Johanna says, “We respect the individuality, uniqueness and dignity of each person and staff members have extensive expertise to work with individuals with memory loss. We also work with seniors who require development of functional strength as a result of a condition or multiple conditions resulting in the opening of ‘Fit for Life’ studio in Athlone Court, where we can develop personalized fitness programs for our members”.
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NEIGHBOURHOOD: Oak Bay & Victoria The HeadWay Victoria Epilepsy and Parkinson’s Centre Society was established in its current form in 1982 when the Victoria Epilepsy Association and the Sidney Parkinson’s Support Group were merged, allowing the two organizations to share precious resources. Headway was added to the name in 2013 as a way to bring hope and positivity to those dealing with seizures and other symptoms of Parkinson’s as well as today’s knowledge about neurological conditions and management. The society’s mission is to strengthen the ability of clients, families and communities to manage the physical, psychological and social
effects of Parkinson’s and epilepsy. It aims to focus on providing relevant support, care and knowledge to anyone affected by seizures, epilepsy and symptoms of Parkinson’s, including caregivers. HeadWay services include individual and family consultations; educational workshops; work or school information sessions including the Get It? Got It! Puppet awareness program; several support groups; individual tutoring for children; specialized exercise classes for Parkinson’s members; and newsletters. A volunteer board of directors provides governance and service leadership to the society, working closely with the executive director.
Five part-time staff members, several contract staff and volunteers are involved in everything from program administration to fundraisers, community events and direct program services.
A major fundraiser for Headway will be the 23rd Annual Charity Golf Tournament Friday, June 12 at Olympic View golf course. www.headwayvictoriagolf.com
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School superintendent takes new position Sherri Bell has announced she will be leaving her position as superintendent with the Greater Victoria School District at the end of June to assume the role of the president of Camosun College. “Although we are saddened that Ms. Bell is leaving our district, we are extremely fortunate that she is leaving the school district in excellent shape. Ms. Bell’s visionary leadership will be greatly missed, however, she has mentored a great team that the board will be relying on going forward” said school board chair Edith Loring-Kuhanga. Bell started work with the Greater Victoria School District in 1996 as the principal of James Bay Community School. Before this, Bell had a varied and successful career in the education field. “It has been a privilege and honour working for the Greater Victoria School District over
this past 19 years,” said Bell. “I will greatly miss the many wonderful people and the significant relationships that I have forged while working in the school district. I look forward to developing new relationships in my new role at Camosun College.” In 2001, Bell was the district principal responsible for reconfiguring the Greater Victoria School District to implement the new K-5, 6-8, 9-12 structure. Since 2002 Bell has held senior leadership positions in the district. “Sherri Bell is an outstanding and inspirational educator and administrator. Her professional achievements and experience will be a fabulous asset supporting the extraordinary work of the students, staff and faculty at Camosun and I congratulate Sherri on what really is a distinguished appointment,” said Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver.
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Cattle Point and Uplands Park is a photographer’s (and naturalist’s) dream come true this time of year. The camas fields are at their best right now, just in time for Camas Day in Uplands Park Sunday, May 3, with a host of events scheduled from 1-4 p.m.
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Common requests, owner, Ian Robertson is seeing from homeowners include: wireless troubleshooting & solutions, tutorials for communications tools like Skype and FaceTime, help with digital photo collections, storage and sharing, help setting up monitored or time limited Wi-Fi access for children and teens without limiting others in the household. There is also the option of remote support – familiar to anyone coming from the corporate world – that allows the team at Oak Bay Computers to access the client’s computer from their offices for both tutoring and support/ troubleshooting. For security, the service is fully encrypted and is only initiated by the client. For both home office and small business, Oak Bay
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Please support Oak Bay High School as they fundraise for a humanitarian mission to Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, during Spring Break 2016. Prominent members of the community will be ‘jailed’ in THE BAY CENTRE & will need your assistance to achieve their bail amount. For more info about Live Different or to donate please contact Brent Garraway at bgarraway@sd61.bc.ca
Computers has a variety of service models available. Tomorrow evening Oak Bay Computers will be hosting a 60-minute technology information session on “What is the Cloud and do I have it or need it?” - 7:00 pm, Thursday, April 30 at the Oak Bay Library. On Thursday, May 14, at 7:00 pm they will be hosting “Cutting the cable TV cord & data caps: what does this mean to me?”. Both sessions are free but require pre-registration - to register, visit www.oakbaycomputers.ca.
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I’m so happy I decided to make Shannon Oaks my home.
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Eight ladies will dazzle with smiles as they cruise the catwalk at the Monterey centre. The fifth annual Merry Widow’s tea and fashion show is set for May 2 in the Garry Oak Room. The event started after Joyce Bevan became a widow five years ago. “When it happened and I realized there’s nobody around [who understands], I thought ‘I’m going to form a group’ and that’s what I did,” she said. “We meet the third Saturday of each month. We just sit around and talk and be happy.” Bevan started with the Widows and Widowers, but as the men dwindled off they became the Merry Widows. “We’re a group of merry widows and we just did [the fashion show] first for something to do, to prove that we could still do things even though we were widows,” Bevan said. “The first one went so well they’ve asked us to do it again and again and again.” The Merry Widows tea and fashion show takes the stage with more models
than usual, up to eight from six, to showcase the fashions from Taylor Lynn Petites. “They have lovely clothes so they’re coming back again this year,” she said. Clothing selection is done by collaboration with the models in for a fitting and selecting their favourites of the season, then deferring to the shop professionals. This will be Bevan’s second consecutive year of clothing selection and modelling. “It’s good fun,” she said. “We just keep a happy face and keep going.” With the afternoon tea and upbeat music “everyone sort of gets into it and has a good time,” Bevan said. “We have a gentleman who helps us up and down on the stage, he wears white gloves. At the end he puts on a naughty T-shirt that shows a lady in a bikini and it goes down really well,” she said with a laugh. “He comes out at the end and parades on the runway with it on. I don’t know if he’ll do it this year.” To find out, get your tickets to the May 2 show. Tickets are $13.25 for members and $15.25 for non-members, available at Monterey recreation, 1441 Monterey Ave. Funds raised go back into the centre. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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Joyce Bevan takes her first stab at modelling during last year’s Merry Widow tea and fashion show.
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DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.
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B.C. wolf cull ends for the year with 84 killed Tom Fletcher Black Press
The B.C. government has killed 11 wolves in the South Selkirk Mountains and another 73 in the South Peace region in the first year of a fiveyear plan to protect dwindling caribou herds. The South Selkirk program left seven to 10 wolves alive because they were not targeting caribou, and their movements continue to be tracked. That mountain caribou herd is down to 14, compared to 18 last year and 46 in 2009. The South Peace herds have also seen significant losses from wolves, with 37 per cent of adult mortalities confirmed as wolf kills. Four herds in the region, the Quintette, Moberly, Scott and Kennedy-Siding, were targeted in the wolf removal program. The 700-member Graham herd, the largest in the South Peace, is being left
without protection as a control group. The program to shoot wolves from the air was a last resort after targeted hunting and trapping of wolves proved inadequate, sometimes splitting up wolf packs and increasing predation of caribou. The South Selkirk herd has been subject to intensive protection efforts on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. In 2007 the province banned logging and roadbuilding in its 2.2 million-hectare B.C. range and restricted off-road recreation to reduce human disturbance. In the Peace region, restrictions were approved in 2012 to protect 498,000 hectares of high elevation winter range. The modern program began in 2003, after decades of managed hunting and other wolf control measures. For the first part of the 20th century, B.C. offered a bounty on wolves that ended
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Community Calendar Wednesday, April 29 Faces of Japanese Diversity: Demystifying Japan’s Homogeneity will run from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Legacy Art Gallery, 630 Yates St., Victoria. This free event will explore aspects of Japanese society that destabilize the national myth of homogeneity, including Japanese societal demographics, cultural practices and policy issues. School Dance Sessions from Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival will run April 28 to 30 with multiple daily sessions at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Farquhar Auditorium, University Centre at UVic. Students in local school dance programs present their dance numbers to the general public. Tickets are $7 (adult) and $5 (senior/ student) per session. Please contact the
UVic Ticket Centre at 250-721-8480, online at tickets.uvic.ca or in person at the University Centre.
Thursday, April 30 Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Harbour Towers, 345 Quebec St. Registration 5:45 p.m.; walk 6 p.m. Contact is George at 250-386-1279.
Friday, May 1 Reverberations, the annual Visual Arts MFA graduate exhibit, will take place at the University of Victoria. The opening reception will be May 1 from 5 to 7 p.m.; with the exhibit running daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. until May 8 in the Visual Arts Building at UVic. A new monthly reading and performance series launches May 1 at the Fairfield Market (1275 Oscar St.). Exploring themes of fire as
symbolic of protection and spring renewal, the event will feature fiery slam poetry from Annie LePage, new fiction from Julia Leggett, stories and seedlings from Little Mountain Farm, performances from Elder Sister Plum and more. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $5 at the door; drinks, snacks and fresh produce for sale. For more information, contact: Charles Last at elements.vwf@ gmail.com or visit the Victoria Writers Festival online at www. victoriawritersfestival. org. Drop-in Family Storytime from 10:3011 a.m. at the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave.
Saturday, May 2 Broadway on ice by Oak Bay Figure Skating Club is on the ice at Oak Bay rec for a 2
p.m. and a 7 p.m. show. Embrace the Night and Wildflowers – Join organizer Ron Carter, of the Friends of Uplands Park, at Cattle Point to watch the moon rise. Meander through the fields of blue camas and other wildflowers and then over to the Kiwanis Café on Willows Beach for a nighttime cuppa and relaxing chats with your neighbours. Free, meet at Cattle Point at 7 p.m. Contact: Margaret Lidkea 250595-8084. Spring Fashion Show at Monterey Recreation at 1 p.m. Tickets $13.25 for members and $15.25 for non members. It’s generally a sell out so get tickets early for the afternoon tea that showcases fashions from Taylor Lynn Petites. School Dance Highlights from the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival will be held at 7 p.m. in the Farquhar
Auditorium, University Centre at UVic. A sparkling evening of dance entertainment featuring the best from all studio groups entered in the festival. Tickets are $15 (adult) and $12 (senior/ student). Please contact the UVic Ticket Centre at 250-721-8480, online at tickets.uvic. ca or in person at the University Centre. Fairfield Artists Studio Tour. Fairfield, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: Fairfieldartistsstudio tour.com. Victoria Soul Gospel Choir performance – a fundraiser for the Fairfield Gonzales Community Association, at First Metropolitan United Church, 932 Balmoral Rd., 7 p.m. Info: victoriasoulgospel.ca. Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at 1400 - 6600 Sooke Rd. in Sooke. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Dave or Gail at 250-642-4515.
Sunday, May 3 Jazz Vespers is held the first Sunday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Philip’s Church at the corner of Neil and Eastdowne. This Sunday join the Bob Watts Trio, featuring Pablo Cardenas on piano, as they explore the theme of “All Shall be Well.” Camas Day in Uplands Park – Bring a picnic, listen to the Bald Eagles Band and enjoy the displays. Participate in a Friends of Uplands Park Native Plant Garden Tour in the endangered Garry Oak eco systems. Donations appreciated. From 1 to 4 p.m. Meet at Beach Drive at the new Uplands Park sign. Contact: Margaret Lidkea at 250-595-8084. Victoria harpist Josh Layne has been called a ‘harp genius’
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Monday, May 4 Drop in baby time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. for babies 0-15 months and their caregiver. Learn songs, rhymes and fingerplays to use with your baby every day. No registration required at the Oak Bay branch of the GVPL, 1442 Monterey Ave.
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OAK BAY NEWS - Wednesday, April 29, 2015
QUARTERLY REPORT
Dominion Lending Centres Chief Economist Says US Style Housing Crash Unlikely in Canada Responding to recent news reports about the IMF warning of an overheated Canadian housing market, the Chief Economist for Dominion Lending Centres, Sherry Cooper, says the prospect of a soft landing is good news for homeowners, “there is no doubt that letting some steam out of the boiling markets is a good thing because were prices to rise rapidly for too long, a nasty correction would be likely.”
Bank of Canada Remains On Hold With Hopes of Economic Rebound As was widely expected, on Wednesday April 15, 2015 The Bank of Canada announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 3/4 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/2 per cent. Core inflation, at 2 percent, is a reflection of the dampening effects of a slowing economy offset by the pass through effects of the lower dollar.
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in the January MPR); however, the second quarter is expected to see a rebound to 1.8 percent growth, revised up from earlier expectation. The Bank continues to assert that, “Underneath the effects of the oil price shock, the natural sequence of stronger non-energy exports, increasing investment, and improving labour markets is progressing.” This will be aided by an improvement in the U.S. economy and the easing in financial conditions.
Chief Economist for The Bank is hopeful Dominion Lending Centres that global growth will strengthen in coming There remains a good deal of uncertainty months to 3-1/2 percent—consistent in this sequence: While March with their forecast in January’s Monetary employment in Canada improved Policy Report (MPR)—as a direct result substantially, business investment of central bank rate cuts and quantitative remains disappointing, manufacturing is easing in Europe. Lower commodity weak—especially in the auto sector—and prices will boost growth in some the improvement in trade has been less countries. The Bank also believes that than expected. strong growth will resume in the United States after a weak first quarter, which, of Real GDP growth is projected to rebound course, has yet to be confirmed. in the second quarter and subsequently strengthen to average about 2 1/2 per First quarter growth in Canada has been cent on a quarterly basis until the middle revised downward to 0.0 percent in the of 2016. The Bank expects real GDP April MPR (from 1.5 percent growth
growth of 1.9 per cent in 2015, 2.5 per cent in 2016, and 2.0 per cent in 2017. The Bank also believes the risks to the outlook are balanced, an upgrade since the last policy meeting in March. As a result of this view, they judge that the current degree of monetary stimulus is appropriate and have left rates unchanged. I am cautiously optimistic that the Bank has got it right, but I continue to believe that the risks are on the downside for the economy and inflation. My forecast for Canadian growth this year is 1.5 percent-below the Bank’s 1.9 percent forecast. Much hinges on the U.S. economy. The April MPR revised down its U.S. growth forecast for this year from 3.2 percent to 2.7 percent.
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Cooper, one of North America’s most respected economic experts, points out that existing home sales were down 2 percent year-over-year in January, but were still up moderately outside of Alberta. Later data suggests that in February, sales rose month-over-month as gains in Toronto and Vancouver offset faltering markets in other parts of the country. More recently, Sales of existing homes in Canada rose in March from February, led by gains in the big Toronto and Vancouver markets. Sales were even up in Calgary where sales had slowed in recent months in the wake of the oil price decline. “With home ownership at a record high of 70 percent of households and interest rates at record lows, national sales growth will stabilize at a modest pace,” says Cooper. “However, steady demand from immigrants and non-resident purchasers in Toronto and Vancouver should continue to support housing markets. In addition, Millennials are in their first-time homebuying years. While many might be priced out of the single-family home market, many will take the plunge into condos.” On the supply side, housing starts and completions are down and are now trending slightly above household formation rates. Taking replacement demand into consideration, the current pace of overall home construction is at appropriate levels to meet long-run demand. We have also seen evidence of a recent increase in dedicated rental housing construction as institutional investors are providing increased funding in this long-overlooked area of the housing market. Condos have effectively replaced traditional apartment units and are an affordable alternative for those who are priced out of Toronto’s detached housing market. Rental vacancy rates remain at extreme lows in Vancouver and Toronto. Cooper says the bottom line is that there is little evidence of an upcoming U.S.-style housing crash anywhere in Canada, even in the hardest hit energycentered markets.
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MS Society of Canada launches new Flee or Fight Campaign
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Kendra Wong Victoria News
• In 1991, it seemed that David Allin was at the top of his career. For 10 years, Allin worked as a diplomat in the Canadian Foreign Service and travelled extensively all around the world. As part of his job, he worked as a senior policy advisor and legal advisor completing multi-year stints in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. But it was on a trip to Ireland that things began to change. It started with a tingling in his thumb that doctors at a walk-in clinic couldn’t diagnose. On St. Patrick’s Day, after hours of treaty negotiations, he felt an incredible pain in his shoulder that persisted. Then a few weeks later, while he was in Portugal engaging in a heated debate with a lawyer, he experienced overwhelming fatigue. “It was like a complete blanket, I had to sit down,” said Allin. “I got up the next day and slept in the car for the entire day. In Switzerland, I started to have difficulty walking, I was slurring my speech, so my team sent me back to Ottawa.” After a series of tests and an MRI, Allin was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system. “It was the uncertainty. What does it mean for career, for your personal life, what does it mean for how you’re going to live your life?” said Allin. “These were all huge question marks, none with any answers. You have to see with time and see how your type of disease develops.” Unlike some people with the disease, Allin, who currently lives in Victoria, was able to continue working until he retired. He now has a wife and two children and spends roughly three days of the week at the MS Society in Victoria on North Park Street doing physiotherapy or working as the Board Chair. Allin said that many Canadians are aware of the disease, but do not know that the country has the highest rate of MS in the world. As a way of increasing awareness of MS, the Society has launched a new campaign called Flee or Fight. The campaign is meant to encourage people to stand up and learn more about the disease.
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Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system It can cause symptoms such as loss of balanced, impaired speech, extreme fatigue, vision impairment, changes in mood and cognition and impaired mobility. It is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in Canada. An estimated 100,000 Canadians have the disease. It is usually diagnosed in people between the ages of 15 to 40. To reach a confirmed diagnosis of MS, neurologists will use MRI scans to look for tissue damage in the brain. In 2014, the MS Society of Canada funded 49 MS-focused researchers, 63 MS research trainees and three multi-centre collaborative research grants.
VOLUNTEER To learn more about volunteering for the Carnation Campaign, call Hailey Smith at 250-388-6496 ext. 7328 or email: hailey.smith@mssociety.com. The 39th annual Carnation Campaign kicks off next Friday. Watch for events and locations around Greater Victoria
“We are asking Canadians to make a choice once they learn the fact that Canada has the highest rate of MS in the world,” said Tania Vrionis, president of the MS Society of Canada, B.C. and Yukon Division. “They can flee, or they can fight. However, we ask the questions knowing that the vast majority have already chosen to fight and are looking for more ways to be effective in ending MS and joining forces with the MS Society is a way to do that.” May is MS Awareness Month across Canada. In addition to the Flee or Fight Campaign, there are several awareness and fundraising activities happening in Victoria over the next month. One of the largest and longest running initatives is the MS Carnation Campaign on May 8 and 9. Volunteers are needed to exchange live carnations outside grocery stores and coffee shops in various neighbourhoods to increase awareness about MS and programs available on the Island. Together we will end multiple sclerosis.
INFORMATION Contact the South & Central Vancouver Island Chapter of the MS Society at 250-388-6496, email info.victoria@mssociety.ca or at www.mssociety.ca
MS Awareness Month Events: May — iMpressionS Art Exhibit launch party at Habit Coffee from 5-7 p.m. This event will be showcasing 12 artists living with MS that participate in our art therapy group. The art will remain at Habit throughout May, and each week we will highlight three artists. May 8-9 — The 39th Annual Carnation Campaign. This event will be held throughout the city. We will have volunteers stationed outside grocery stores and coffee shops in various neighbourhoods. They will be exchanging fresh carnations for donations, as well as increasing awareness and giving information about MS, and programs for those living with it in our city. Each location has its own hours, however the standard time for each location will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 15-16 — Carnation Caravan. This event will be held in various local pubs and bars. Two teams of volunteers will be at the locations exchanging fresh carnations and streaks of red hair extensions for donations. The caravan will appear in various neighbourhoods over the course of the Friday and the Saturday from approximately 5 p.m.-10 p.m. May 22 & 29 — Gentle Yoga Class. There will be two classes hosted by Christina Marie, a certified yoga instructor. Each class will go from 6-7 p.m. on each Friday and will be held at Gordon Head Rec Center. The classes will be gentle, calming and open to all skill levels. The location is accessible and the space is large. Admission will be by donation of a minimum of $10.
MS LIVES WHERE YOU LIVE. Who knew Canada was such a dangerous country? In fact, by living in Canada you instantly raise your chances of developing multiple sclerosis.
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