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Trial Island lighthouse recognized for historical value Designation means it won’t be demolished, altered or transferred without notice Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
Oak Bay Heritage is celebrating a landmark preserved as Trial Island lighthouse officially garnered heritage designation from the federal government. “The designation of this lighthouse ensures the protection of its heritage character for present and future generations,” said Minister of Environment Leona Aglukkaq, in her letter notifying the Oak Bay Heritage Commission. Trial Islands Lighthouse is designated under the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act that was championed by retired senator Pat Carney. A total of 21 lighthouses will be revealed as having new heritage designation in coming weeks. “Trial Island was one I was particularly happy to see. The community really embraced it,” she said. Carney explained that the heritage designation means the Trial Island lighthouse and outbuildings cannot be “demolished, altered or transferred” without public notice and must be maintained to international conservation standards. “This means the community of Oak Bay can feature the historic lighthouse in its promotion and planning without fear it will be removed or abandoned,” she said. “The heritage designation recognizes the historic importance of Trial Island in B.C.’s maritime history. In colonial days the British Navy sent its ships for a “trial run” after refitting them at the Esquimalt naval base. In recent years the lightkeepers at Trial Island have saved many lives in marine accidents.” Carney, who lives on Saturna Island, said the 21 B.C. lighthouses which are receiving heritage status represent a treasure chest of stories and cultural opportunities, which add to coastal communities’ history and attract tourists. “It’s such an icon in the community and that’s one of the most treacherous parts of water in this area. There are many shipwrecks in that area,” said Bronwyn Taylor, chair of the heritage commission. The designation took years to achieve, says Cairine Green, who served as council liaison to Heritage in 2011 when Gwen Ewan initiated a lobby for the scenic and historic site. “Tragically she passed away the following August, in the wake of her death the commission picked up the project,” said Green. The job was taken up by Heritage, which is made up
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Oak Bay Heritage has been successful in its attempt to have the Trial Island lighthouse declared a heritage designation. of the Oak Bay heritage commission, foundation and archives. “It’s an excellent example of the power of community and volunteers working together for something they really believe in,” Green said. “It’s an honour for Gwen’s memory too.” The commission has waited anxiously since May 2012 for the federal government’s decision. “We’re glad the wait is over. I’m curious now to see what other lighthouses got designation in B.C.,” said Heritage volunteer Paul Maurenbrecher, among those who did copious research, filing and form-filling for the application. “It’s nice to finally have the lighthouse designated. It’s such a landmark, we see it from everywhere.” The lighthouse has been a visual, symbolic part of Oak Bay’s heritage for a century. “The lighthouse itself was built in 1906 so that’s another connection with Oak Bay, that’s the year Oak Bay became a municipality,” Maurenbrecher said. “There have been a few changes to the lighthouse, including replacing the light, and it’s nice the original light is in Bastion Square.” In his research Maurenbrecher found an admiralty chart dated 1858-59, based on a survey by Captain Richards, that shows the names Trial Islands, Enterprise Channel
and McNeil Bay. An older map dated 1853 also shows the name Trial Islands. The name probably reflects the dangers to navigation around these islands. Strong winds and tidal currents had caused many disasters, one of them the tug Velos with a loss of five lives in 1895. The Songhees First Nations’ name for Trial Islands is Tlikwaynung. The original lighthouse consisted of the keeper’s residence, a white, square, wooden dwelling surmounted by a red roof, with a red, circular metal lantern room on top. The fog alarm is no longer in operation. A separate light-tower was built in 1970 – a slender white cylindrical concrete structure. The concrete was made up of a quartz aggregate and white cement to give it a white appearance without the need for painting. Current buildings include the original lightkeeper’s residence, the assistant lightkeeper’s residence, the boathouse and other outbuildings. Access is restricted to Trial Islands as it’s also designated an ecological reserve. “We plan to produce a brochure about the lighthouse. Not many people know about that lighthouse, they know it’s there and that’s it,” Maurenbrecher said. “What will be interesting is to produce some stories and maybe get them published. That would be – especially now – a good idea.”
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Expanded arts program approved for Oak Bay Christine van Reeuwyk
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Amends definitions for Basement, Building, Building Height, Grade, Gross Floor Area, Lot Coverage, Occupiable Height, Roof Height, and Structure to provide greater clarification and reflect changes affecting lot coverage and floor area calculations for buildings and structures. Includes exemptions for eaves and cladding, for the purposes of extending into yard setbacks. Increases the gross floor area exemption for garages and carports 2 2 from 19 m to 22 m where siting conditions are met. Includes gross floor area exemptions for basements, as determined by first storey floor height, for principal buildings receiving occupancy certificates prior to, and after January 1, 1986. Establishes gross floor area exemptions for covered door landings and verandas. Establishes gross floor area calculations for atriums. For the RS-4 and RS-5 zones, establishes a new single storey home designation, with the applicable height regulations for this designation set out in Schedule B of the Zoning Bylaw. For the RS-4 and RS-5 zones, increases lot coverage to 30% for all buildings and structures, or 35% for single storey homes, and sets the floor area ratio at 0.4. For the RS-4 and RS-5 zones, amends the rear lot line setback for principal buildings to be the greater of 7.62 metres and 25% of the lot depth.
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launched around Oak Bay last year. Last summer arts laureate Barbara Adams co-ordinated six temporary art installations in Oak Bay – three public use pianos and three art pieces. The project was well received by the public except for some sound concerns regarding the pianos. Council approved this summer’s expanded program June 8. The piano painted by Robert Amos that now graces municipal hall will make its way to Estevan Village, open to play during business hours. “I think it will be popular, but not too popular,� said Adams, noting the piano will be pulled in each evening as shops close. “Part of the problem has been when the pianos are uncovered in the middle of the night,� Adams said. “We’ll just try and keep it down.� Three newly painted pianos are planned for Turkey Head, Cattle Point and Loon Bay Park. In response to some complaints over nighttime noise last year, the pianos will be covered from 8
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Nathan Scott installs a pair of sculptures on the lawn of Oak Bay municipal hall last summer. The green space in front of the hall will again feature a large work as part of the art tour this summer. p.m. to 9 a.m. “I think we’ve solved some of the noise issue,� said Mayor Nils Jensen. “I think they’re in locations where they will bring joyful noise.� Four large art pieces are slated for Loon Bay Park, the lawn at municipal hall, the public portion of the vacant lot at 2775 Beach Drive and Entrance Park at Foul Bay Road and Oak Bay Avenue. Eleven smaller art pieces will be located on public land on Oak
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pieces along the Avenue,� Adams said. All artists who loan their art for the installations are required to sign an agreement with the municipality that “the municipality shall not be liable for any damage to or theft or loss of the said artwork or be under any obligation to provide security for the artwork while it is on display or in the possession of the municipality.� cvanreeuwyk@oak baynews.com
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SAR unit bolsters safety on the seas Oak Bay marine rescue unit offers tips for safe boating Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
With the early onset of summer weather, Oak Bay’s marine search and rescue has already been called out for those whose evening jaunt nearly turned tragic. As pleasure craft multiply over weekends leading up to summer, RCM-SAR Station 33 Oak Bay offers safety checks both ahead of time and on the water. “We come alongside a boat and ask them if they want to have a pleasure craft safety check. Some people really like an incentive so what we’ve done the last couple of years is hand out these safety kits,” said training officer Nathan Leung. Their inexpensive offering is a bailing bucket containing a mirror, line, flashlight and whistle, among the required gear for boating. “We spend 10 minutes with them and go through a variety of things,” Leung said, including required items such as the obvious – a personal floatation device Check out the RCM-SAR Safe Boating for each person iPhone App featuring: on board. Q Easy to navigate menu-system “People don’t Q Links to useful voyage planning like to wear resources (tides, currents, wind, them because weather, fishing regulations) they don’t look Q Boating resource page with links to very cool but it’s marine resources like jumping out Q Transport Canada safety equipment of a plane with and navigation light requirements your parachute Q Recommended equipment off and trying to Q Trip planning checklists put it back on,” Q Safe Fueling procedures including Leung said. a Litre – U.S. Gallon – Imp. Gallon Something conversion to bail with, Q VHF Radio Channel Listing for navigation lights Canada-Pacific and 15 metres of Q Basic “Right of Way” rules heaving line are Q Lateral and Cardinal Buoy all required on Information small pleasure Q Semi-Automated “Where am I” and craft. Tsunami Debris reporting tools “We go Q How to make emergency calls, with through all the sample voice recordings mandatory Q Contact information for nonsafety emergency tows including direct equipment,” dialing for help Leung said. Q Various distress signal illustrations “Then we go and sample Pan Pan, Mayday Audio through optional Q Emergency Procedures equipment, Q Direct Twitter Feed from @RCM_ some of the SAR posts optional Q RCM-SAR Station List equipment is the most important. I think everyone should have a VHF radio.” Kim Bentzon, deputy station manager, heartily agrees. The training required to use the radio on a regular basis for communication, doesn’t matter in an emergent situation. Some rescue calls over the radio are literally “hello, hello, hello, help,” he said. “If you’re in trouble and you have this [waterproof VHF radio] on board and you don’t know how to use it, they don’t care,” Leung said, noting cellphones don’t work after
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Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station 33 Oak Bay heads out for an evening training exercise. Training officer Nathan Leung, below, holds a small safety kit that crew with RCM-SAR Oak Bay hand out after a complimentary safety check. a good dunking. Something as simple as filing a sailing plan can cut the time and effort needed to affect a rescue. Betzon recalls going out to find an experienced mariner off of Oak Bay after he lost a poorly lashed grab bag that included his VHF radio. Because of his experience, the kayaker filed a sailing plan with his wife and the boat rental company stating where he was headed, and when he’d return. They were able to alert the police who sent out the SAR team. Perhaps one of the simplest, and most missed, safety tool is simply to check the weather before you go. “Oak Bay is a very tumultuous area for water movement, which is at times deceiving,” Leung said. What appear to be calm waters from shore can be much different further out. Less experienced boaters should ask someone with more experience about areas to avoid. At the least know your navigational aids – they mark hazards or safe transit. “It is important for new boaters to study a marine chart of the area that they will be boating in and identify what the navigational aids are marking,” Leung said. Leung and Betzon are among the 45 volunteers who crew the local Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue team. “Some people can only give two to three years and then they have to move on,” said Terry Calveley, Oak Bay Sea Rescue Society president. The society funds what some still call the ‘Oak Bay Navy’. The crew welcome questions on safety, weather or how to volunteer on their Facebook page facebook.com/ RCMSAR33. Learn more about the society at obsr.ca or marine search and rescue in general at rcmsar.com. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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Car festival and art event will bookend Oak Bay festivities Christine van Reeuwyk News Staff
Collector cars will line the streets Aug. 9 to kick off Arts and Culture Week in Oak Bay. Council approved the car show and the Bowker Creek Brush Up to wrap the week-long event during its meeting June 8. Classic cars will fill Oak Bay Avenue from Monterey Avenue to Mitchell Street on Aug. 9 from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. IN BRIEF for the 2015 Oak Bay Collector Car Festival. Since 2011, the Oak Bay Tourism Committee has organized what was previously known as the Blethering Place Collector Car Festival that celebrates vintage and collector cars of all makes and models. Oak Bay Avenue is transformed into a pedestrian walkway to showcase 250 to 300 cars. Council also approved a small grant to the Oak Bay Artists Society to cover costs of the 11th annual Bowker Creek Brush Up. The outdoor art show and sale is slated for Aug. 16 and the $285 grant covers insurance for the event. Last year’s Bowker Creek event attracted an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 visitors.
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Funding sought for arena flooring With the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program recently announced, Oak Bay municipal staff sought out some ready projects in hopes of securing funding. The program provides a maximum of $500,000 in funding, to a maximum of 50 per cent of eligible costs of a project. With the deadline June 17, potential projects were limited to those relatively shelf-ready. With the program largely focused on recreation centres and infrastructure, staff looked at the rubber flooring in the arena and arena lobby which is in need of replacement as they’re continually buckling up, creating tripping hazards. Cost of replacing the flooring is estimated at $58,000 plus tax. Council tasked staff to submit an application, committing to provide its 50 per cent share of the funding upon confirmation of approval of the application.
Streetlights set for LED pilot project Council OK’d a pilot project to replace streetlights to light emitting diodes (LED) to a maximum of $22,000 in response to a BC Hydro incentive to encourage municipalities to change their lighting to LED. The project must reduce electrical usage by at least 20,000 kWh. Oak Bay staff anticipate the incentives could be as much as 30 per cent in the Oak Bay pilot project of 100 light fixtures. It would enable Public Works to assess whether a bigger project could be carried out using district employees, taking into account such things as the average time spent per fixture, timing of the incentive program and other claims on staff time.
APC bylaw approved The bylaw to establish the Oak Bay Advisory Planning Commission got final reading June 8. The long-discussed commission will be comprised of seven to nine regular members, appointed by council who will strive to achieve geographical representation from all parts of Oak Bay. The district will also aim for both broad representation of the community and for expertise in environment, active transportation, heritage, land use and a member of the business community as well as a member under 35 years old alongside three members of the community at large.
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Learning the ropes of boating safety With the continued sunny skies and warm temperatures the call of the water is becoming increasingly hard to resist for Vancouver Islanders. And with more and more boats hitting the water around Victoria, Oak Bay’s marine search and rescue group is keeping busy ensuring the safety of boaters. When you are out on the water there are a few simple precautions you can take to make sure you have a safe trip and allow the search and rescue crews to focus on other more pressing concerns. Don’t drink and boat. You need to think straight when you’re in a boat to protect yourself and your passengers. Sunshine and a boat’s rocking motion increase the effects of alcohol and can easily turn a pleasant trip into tragedy. Alcohol is involved in nearly 40 per cent of boating deaths. Don’t risk your life by drinking and boating. Take a boating course. There is a wonderful freedom in being on the water. You don’t have to follow the white lines of the highway and it feels like you can go anywhere, anytime, at any speed. But in fact there are rules of the road that every mariner must know. Many boating courses are available in B.C. to help you understand your vessel, your environment, and your obligations on the water. The now-mandatory Pleasure Craft Operator’s Card is a first step. But check out the many enjoyable and useful boating courses offered by power and sail squadrons, local sailing schools and paddling courses. Be prepared. If your car breaks down you can usually just pull over. If your boat breaks down you could be in big trouble. RCM-SAR responds to more than 800 calls a year, many from boaters who have run in to problems that were preventable. Have a proper check list for your boat and use it before each trip. Beware of cold water risks. Have you dipped your toe into the ocean lately? Pretty cold, dangerously cold. Many people die during the first few minutes in cold water – not because they are hypothermic but because they drown due to the immediate, involuntary and often deadly effects of cold water. Know the risks and stay safe. 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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Regional governance review is necessary Oak Bay council will soon be debating a motion to join most other Greater Victoria municipalities in a provincially led and funded governance review of the region. And while it’s true that only four out of 10 Oak Bay voters endorsed the nonbinding question on the November municipal ballot, it was also true it was a question that drew scorn as “an illdisguised attempt at sabotaging the result”, “the most negatively phrased question” and “guaranteed to elicit a negative response”. Despite the flawed question, a significant number voted Yes. What results might have been achieved had the question been phrased to ask residents if they favoured a governance review? Unlike the independent audits undertaken by the provincial and federal Auditors-General, B.C. municipalities currently have no effective functional oversight body that reports to citizens on an annual basis. Sure, municipalities have their financial reports audited, but that amounts to little more than making sure the numbers add up, a year after the fact. Participating in the governance study would provide relevant, unbiased information about service and program delivery. Why wouldn’t council want information made available to the public that might point to potential improvements and efficiencies? Is this the best that can be done for our community? (And by the way, here’s your 5.1 per cent property tax increase, and have a nice
day.) It’s said that information gaps are filled with speculation, and it’s a slippery slope to an opaque government when residents are prevented from having oversight information. Regardless, a regional governance review is imminent, and Oak Bay runs the risk of being excluded if council doesn’t endorse participation. We are geographically, socially and economically linked to the region, not an island unto ourselves, and there are negative implications if council chooses a path of isolation from our municipal neighbours. We implore our community leaders not to shut their eyes and ears to this opportunity. It’s critical to understand that this is the most important regional study every undertaken in Greater Victoria. It will form the basis for how our region might be shaped in the years ahead, and those residents will be active participants. They will then have the chance to demonstrate their democratic choice for status quo or change, in a future binding referendum. We’d like to have that chance too. Lesley Ewing Oak Bay
Stinging is believing In response to the letter writer asking where are the bees? The bees are definitely here. Come to Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club. I was stung on Sunday. I was also told
someone was stung in the vicinity of Reynolds Park. Mary Forster Oak Bay
Bees are still out there The bees are probably: finished with the blue lilacs, up early to get them; over where there’s more food (honey bees send scouts out, who report back to the hive and do a dance to show direction of the good food). I suggest to Elizah Rosewylder that conditions vary each spring, with more or less of various sources of nectar each year. The critters who are skilled at finding the best food in quality and volume will reproduce more. Perhaps your paper could check in with the beekeepers you featured for their development of a cleaner hive to reduce stress in winter. Keith Sketchley Saanich
Letters to the Editor The News welcomes your opinions and comments. To put readers on equal footing, and to be sure that all opinions are heard, please keep letters to less than 300 words. The News reserves the right to edit letters for style, legality, length and taste. Send your letters to: Mail: Letters to the Editor, Oak Bay News, 207A - 2187 Oak Bay Ave., Victoria, B.C., V8R 1G1 Email: editor@oakbaynews.com
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Marine diversity on display at Willows Dan Ebenal News Staff
The diverse collection of local marine life will be on display this weekend at Willows Beach. The Friends of Uplands Park has partnered with the Royal BC Museum to hold a Willows Beach Seine Net Sunday morning. The hands-on event will take place at the north end of Willows Beach from 9 to 11 a.m. “The museum staff will be running a seine net over the eelgrass beds to collect creatures and then bring in the nets to shore. Families can find creatures, put them into little containers of sea water, and have them identified by experts,” said Margaret Lidkea, co-chair of the Friends of Uplands Park. “It will also be low tide so other living things can be found.” The seine net is one of the museum’s Field Tripper Series celebrating 125 years of the museum doing public programs outdoors. “The Royal BC Museum wants to document the species that we have here on the coast,” said Lidkea. A seine net is a long net with floats on the top and weights on the bottom. The net will be dropped from a boat off shore from Willows Beach and people will have ropes attached to either end of the net in order to pull it into shore. “The netting is very fine so the animals don’t get trapped in
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A family combs through the seine net to find marine life during an event at Willows Beach last fall. it the way they would in a gill net. It’s very good for catching small things,” said Lidkea, who advises people wishing to take part in the seine net to wear boots or water shoes. The SeaChange Marine Conservation Society has just finished a map of the eel grass off the shore of Oak Bay and will
have this on display. “Eel grass is one of the most important seaweeds that you have because it’s a nursery for many, many species of animals in the ocean,” said Lidkea. The seine net isn’t the only project the Friends of Uplands Park are currently working on. The
group is in the process of planning an educational marine kiosk at Cattle Point. Currently $7,000 has been raised but another $7,000 is needed. A display of the kiosk as well as information about the flora and fauna of the area will be on hand at Sunday’s event.
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for the professional audience. This year the target audience is the general public as well as interested professionals.  “It’s just one of the information sessions that we do out in the community to raise awareness for everyone, not just the elderly,â€? she said. “It’s helping multi-generation groups of people understand that the elderly should not just be pushed to the side, they’ve contributed to the community and now the time has come for us to reach out to them.â€? Speakers will address agency roles in different scenarios, with representation from Island Health, Public Guardian “Older adults in our and Trustee, Oak Bay Police and communities continue Victoria Police, to find themselves in Better Business Bureau and Police vulnerable situations Victims Service. and still experience “Older adults in our communities various forms of abuse continue to and neglect.â€? find themselves - Sherry Baker in vulnerable situations and still experience various forms of abuse and neglect,â€? said Sherry Baker, executive director of the B.C. Association of Community Response Networks. According to Ministry of Health documents, between four and 10 per cent of seniors experience some form of physical, emotional, financial or sexual abuse. It is also believed that abuse of seniors is significantly under reported. “We’re living longer and we need to, as a community, take responsibility for our neighbours and our friends as we age. We’ve been very disengaged with each other over the last 15 or 20 years,â€? said Morrison Morgan. “We have another campaign we’ll be kicking off in the fall, It’s Not Right ‌ It’s how to not be a bystander, to actually get engaged in taking responsibility as a community about what’s happening with our frailer and more elderly citizens.â€? The Victoria CRN includes community, social and health service organizations, government agencies, community minded individuals, local business and seniors, and supports a co-ordinated approach to help abused and neglected adults get the support and assistance they need. Registration is required for the free panel presentation at Monterey Recreation Centre by calling 250-370-7300 or email crnvictoria@ gmail.com. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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Eastside group explores option for private land The Capital Regional District’s eastside sewage committee is looking for private landowners open to the idea of a wastewater treatment facility on their property. Last month, the CRD’s Eastside Select Committee released a map of technically feasible sites for wastewater treatment. The maps are based on work done by Saanich and Victoria municipal staff and include areas with private properties. Now, the committee wants to hear from landowners interested in partnering or selling their land for the wastewater treatment project. “We want to make sure that private property owners – especially those within identified technically feasible zones – know we are still looking for properties that could work as a site for facilities,” said Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps, chair of the Eastside Select Committee. “We’re interested in learning about both partnership and land acquisition opportunities.” The CRD has been struggling to recover from its disastrous Seaterra plan, a $788-million project that included a wastewater treatment facility at McLoughlin Point and a biosolids facility at Hartland landfill. Esquimalt halted that plan in July 2013 when it rejected rezoning at McLoughlin, and the B.C. government subsequently refused to intervene to force rezoning. PLEASE SEE: Committee looks into bubble zones, Page A11
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Dave Sparling, left, and Wayne Tringham with Admirals Roofing install a new roof on the Jack Groves Fieldhouse at Fireman’s Park. Admirals Roofing donated the labour and supplies for the project, with the shingles donated by Roof Mart. The fieldhouse is used by the Carnarvon Ball Club for concession, storage and as a scorekeeping booth.
Committee looks into bubble zones Continued from Page A9
The Eastside Select Committee is now interested in sites that correspond with zones identified through municipal processes in Saanich and Victoria. These bubbles or zones are identified on a site map that can be found at crd.bc.ca/ Eastside. The zones include areas like Haro Woods, the Saanich core and pockets within the Quadra, Gordon Head and Shelbourne communities. Private landowners within these areas are asked to respond by June 24 to eastside@ crd.bc.ca with their input. The CRD will continue to receive public input until early July, and a full technical analysis of sites will begin this summer in an effort to select sites by the end of the year. The province and
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The review also red-flagged various potential security challenges. “Disputes over game outcomes, thefts, delayed jackpots due to irregularities, children being left unattended if guardians enter the gaming facility during the sailing and other issues� might cause delays for passengers and damage the reputation of BC Ferries and BCLC, it said. Unlike casinos on land, police couldn’t deal with a problem until the ferry docks. Other issues included lack of a consistent connection to BCLC’s network and the need for ferries staff to adhere to strict BCLC cashhandling procedures and perform many of the responsibilities of casino employees, from solving technical problems to recognizing problem gamblers.
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pride ourselves on providing the highest quality soccer experience in our community and this definitely meets the criteria.” Bays United Football Club’s Alice Pilling, Naomi Hogg, Sophie Hayes, Molly Andulajevic, Audrey Compton and Cate Pontefract were among the 22 Lower Island players chosen from the close to 1,400 eligible female players
in Canada between the ages of six and 10. The players have been given training to take part as escorts in the opening ceremony at BC Place on July 5. The girls will walk out hand-in-hand with the starting lineup of the competing nations in the final game before enjoying the match with other youth program participants. editor@oakbaynews.com
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Cricket comes to Windsor Park The Victoria and District Cricket Association takes to the pitch at Windsor Park this Sunday, when the Islanders Cricket Club takes on the University team at 12:30 p.m. While Oak Bay’s senior Mariners baseball squad has the weekend off, the junior premier team will be at home at Henderson Park this Saturday, welcoming the junior Abbotsford Cardinals for a 1 p.m. start to their double-header. The Victoria Eagles senior Devon Gall squad is out of town all Jock Talk weekend but the junior premier boys have three games coming up in the following week, starting with a doubleheader Sunday, starting at 11 a.m. against Abbotsford. The Eagles take on the Victoria junior Mariners on June 16 at Lambrick Park starting at 6 p.m. Also at Lambrick, the Midget AAA Eagles host Cloverdale Saturday, June 13, with games starting at noon and 2:30 p.m. Back at Oak Bay’s Carnarvon Park, the Bantam AAA Red Eagles return from a Saturday roadtrip to Vancouver for two games against the Nanaimo Pirates Sunday. First pitches go at noon and 2:30 p.m. For Oak Bay’s female baseball players, Baseball BC is coming to town for a Female Provincial Select ID Camp and Girls Grassroots Festival, Saturday at Royal Athletic Park. The ID camp is designed to identify girls 12 years or older for high-performance provincial select teams. The festival will work on fun and development for younger girls. For more information, see www.baseball.bc.ca. Pickleball players take note: Pearkes Rec Centre hosts a Pickleball Tournament this weekend (Friday to Sunday) with play in several categories: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, mixed doubles, and 65+ mixed doubles. Coming up: The Victoria Horseshoe Club hosts an open house June 26 from 3 to 7 p.m., a chance to learn about the sport and try your hand at horseshoes. Devon Gall is an avid sports fan and a former Carnarvon baseball player. Send your sports events news to jocktalk@telus.net.
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Today is a wonderful day This June, as my youngest which she was plastered up daughter turns 22, my against a wall, limbs splayed thoughts turn back to the — followed, but the ENTs early 1990s, when, at six could find few abnormalities months old, she became other than extremely large, critically ill and we spent but not inflamed, tonsils. They several days in the Intensive decided to insert a longer Care Unit at B.C.’s Children’s breathing tube, hook her up Hospital. There, everything to morphine and send her was reduced to a via helicopter to heartbeat and only Children’s Hospital in the lives of our Vancouver. children mattered. Since there was Sierra and her no room for me on older sister, Danica, the helicopter, I were born with sleep drove to Vancouver, apnea; they would arriving to find that stop breathing as Children’s Hospital they slept, and then felt comfortably gasp for air. Sierra’s child-centred and apnea was much somehow soothing. Susan Lundy worse and sometimes Good, because I it took so long for had become quite her to gasp, I’d have to jolt unhinged by this point. her awake. During the day, she Sierra’s new ENT diagnosed was as happy and playful as her with obstructive sleep any six-month-old, so it was apnea, and believed that as difficult for anyone to consider she fell asleep her tongue her as “sick.” However, her relaxed against her large weight started to drop and tonsils, blocking off the eventually, her apnea became airway. He decided to perform so acute that we sat up an emergency operation holding her for two nights, to remove her tonsils and trying to find a position to adenoids — she would be the help her breathe. second youngest child to ever After the second night, I have this operation. took her to emergency at Inside the ICU, parents clung Vic General, where they to tiny hands barely visible booked her into the ICU for under splints and bandages. observation, connecting her Children were a tangle of to heart/oxygen and breathing wires and tape, surrounded monitors. A nurse awakened by monitors, flashing screens me at 4:30 a.m., and said that and clusters of doctors and as Sierra stopped breathing nurses. The air hummed with her heart rate was dropping a certain hushed calm, but the dangerously low. They would sight of all these tiny bodies do an emergency operation to lying prone belied any sense insert a short breathing tube of peace. through her nose. I sat at Sierra’s bedside, A series of X-rays — for taking in the anguish around
me. Although Sierra was young to be undergoing adneotonsillectomy, and although I was devastated, I knew it was unlikely she’d die. But for many in the ICU each day of life is a gift. In a small bed nearby slept a nine-week old who was born with a faulty trachea to a woman called Linda. If the baby survived the night, an operation would occur to cut open her trachea and sew it up with a piece of skin from her heart. Linda’s baby did make it through the night, and survived the operation. Her heart continued to beat through the next day and night; but it would be some time before doctors could determine if she would live. But for now, on the mothers’ room sign-in sheet, Linda wrote, “Today is a wonderful day!” Sierra returned from the operating room and in a few days was her spunky self. Three weeks later, two-yearold Danica had the same operation. Today, my stomach still tightens when I realize how critical Sierra’s condition was; in fact, I’ve read literature since that considers a link between obstructive sleep apnea and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. But I’ll never forget my experience in ICU, and I’ll never forget Linda. Because each day we have with our children is a gift — “a wonderful day.”
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A perfect storm of low interest rates, consumer confidence and a strong local economy have contributed to the strongest May real estate market in eight years and it is expected to continue, according to the Victoria Real Estate Board. According to numbers released by the real estate board, a total of 905 properties were sold in the Victoria Real Estate Board region this May, a nearly 27 per cent increase compared to the 714 properties sold in the same month last year. There were also 4,043 active listings for sale at the end of May, 13.5 per cent fewer than the 4,672 active listings in May 2014. “An increase like this can never be just one thing, it’s a perfect storm,� said Guy Crozier, president of the real estate board. “If you have all these great things — you have a great climate, you have a good economy, you’ve got low interest rates and consumer confidence, that’s what fuels a market to jump up like it has right now.� This was also the most properties sold since May 2007, when more than 960 properties were sold in the month. Crozier noted that there may have been a pent-up demand since sales have been somewhat flat over the last five years. “It’s across the board. We’re seeing sales in all areas and we’re seeing sales from all different types of buyers, whether they be first-time home buyers, that’s what shows
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402-1015 Pandora Avenue MLS 344423, Sunday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Robyn Hamilton, 250-384-8124
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2486 Sinclair Road Sunday 2-4 Newport Realty G-349 Foul Bay Rd., $599,900 Julie Rust, 250-385-2033 MLS 349238, Sunday 2-4 1-1080 Greenridge Cres, Pemberton Holmes $492,000 Richard Gadoury, 778-977-2600 203-1040 Southgate St., MLS 352274, Sunday 2-4 $274,900 Sotheby’s International Realty MLS 350200, Saturday 11-1 OAK BAY Pemberton Holmes 24 Sylvan Lane, $1,699,000 Canada Glynis MacLeod, 250-661-7232 Richard Gadoury, 778-977-2600 MLS 351834, Sunday 1-3 Newport Realty 2-3955 Oakwinds Street 1-225 Vancouver St., Sandy Berry, 250-818-8736 Saturday 11-1 $529,000 Newport Realty MLS 352077, Saturday 2-4 1016 Hampshire Road, Julie Rust, 250-385-2033 Pemberton Holmes $679,000 Richard Gadoury, 778-977-2600 MLS 352297, Saturday 2:30-4:30 301-3880 Quadra Street RE/MAX Camosun MLS 349451, Saturday 1-3 548 Agnes Street, $519,000 Daniel Clover, 250-507-5459 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Saturday 1-3 One Percent Realty Tania McFadden, 250-589-0248 945 Falkland Road, $669,000 Deborah Piper, 250-477-5353 Saturday & Sunday 2-4 4892 Lochside Drive 101-640 Michigan St., Glen Myles, 250-385-2033 Saturday 2-4 From $399,000 Newport Realty Daily 12-5 Chard Developments VIEW ROYAL Julie Rust, 250-385-2033 250-383-2999 7 Price Road, $659,888 MLS 351830, Saturday 2:30-4:30 2336 Hollyhill Place, 11-840 Craigflower Rd., RE/MAX Camosun $879,999 $200,000 April Prinz, 250-744-3301 MLS 350924, Saturday 2-4 MLS 351197, Saturday 2-4 Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Pemberton Holmes ESQUIMALT Robyn Hamilton, 250-384-8124 Richard Gadoury, 778-977-2600 10-850 Parklands Drive 2489 Cadboro Heights Lane 2022 Romney Rd. $1,089,000 $345,000 Sunday 2-4 MLS 350486 MLS 348422, Saturday 1-3 Newport Realty Saturday 1-3 Fair Realty Newport Realty Julie Rust, 250-385-2033 Sukhmeet Grewal, 250-704-9794 Sandy Berry, 250-818-8736 102-1120 McClure St., $425,500 MLS 348642, Sunday 2-4 RE/MAX Camosun Lorraine Stundon, 250-812-0642
3923 Orchard Lane, $379,900 MLS 352048 Sat. & Sun.1-3 RE/MAX Alliance Karen Love, 250-818-8522
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2693 Azalea Lane, $334,900 MLS 350363, Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Kevin Starling, 250-889-4577
2836 Murray Drive, $895,000 Saturday 2-4 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Mark McDougall, 250-483-3562 454 Ker Avenue, $545,000 MLS 352293, Saturday 1-3 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Goran Tambic, 250-592-4422 1060 Laburnum Road, $689,900 MLS 349519, Sunday 2-4 Sutton Group West Coast Realty Deborah Kline, 250-661-7680
7182 West Saanich Road., From $364,500 Saturday & Sunday 1-4, Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Murray Lawson, 250-477-5353
301-3234 Holgate Lane, $519,900 MLS 351136, Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Greg Long, 250-384-8124
11012 Oriole Ln, $1,149,000 MLS 350397, Sunday 2-4 Jonesco Real Estate Inc. Ian Heath & Marilyn Ball, 250-655-7653
3375 Turnstone Drive, $419,900 Saturday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. Jenn Raappana, 250-474-6003
10217 Surfside Pl. $1,668,000 927 Lobo Vale, $384,900 Sunday 2-4 DFH Real Estate Ltd. MLS 346525, Sunday 2-4 Jenn Raappana, 250-474-6003 Jonesco Real Estate Inc. 250-655-7653 Ian Heath & Marilyn Ball #103-611 Goldstream Avenue, 41 Lurline Avenue, $499,900 $287,900 MLS 351505, Sunday 1-3 WEST SHORE MLS 345925, Saturday 1-3 Sutton Group West Coast Realty 740 Travino Lane 201-755 Goldstream Avenue, Pemberton Holmes Ltd. Troy Petersen, 250-858-1134 Saturday & Sunday 1-4 Cheryl Ashby, 250-478-9141 $319,900 Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty MLS 348158 Sat. 12-3 & Sun. 1-4 Scott Munro, 250-477-5353 310 & 312-1395 SAANICH Sutton Group West Coast Realty Bear Mountain $349,900 PENINSULA Alan Wiggins, 250-507-2759 104-3244 Seaton Street, 2030 Salem Terrace, Saturday 1-3 $159,000 $719,000 Sutton Group West Coast Realty 3351 Wishart Road, $419,900 MLS 351797, Sunday 2-4 MLS 351877, Sunday 2-4 Troy Petersen, 250-858-1134 Saturday 11-1 RE/MAX Camosun Newport Realty DFH Real Estate Ltd. Marsha Crawford, 250-744-3301 26-172 Belmont Road, Gordon Lee, 250-385-2033 Mike Hartshorne, 250-474-6003 $339,900 3912 Carey Road, From 3183-2600 Ferguson Road, Sunday 11-1 3692 Wild Country Lane, $249,900 $259,000 DFH Real Estate Ltd. $734,900 Saturday - Monday 1-5 MLS 345119, Sunday 2-4 Jenn Raappana, 250-474-6003 MLS 349954, Sunday 1-3 Macdonald Realty 250-744-4441 Jonesco Real Estate Inc. Pemberton Holmes Sheila Aujla & Sophak Sim Ian Heath & Marilyn Ball, Greg Long, 250-384-8124 SOOKE 250-655-7653 21-1976 Glenidle Road, #302-4536 Viewmont Avenue, $157,000 $295,000 7859 Scohon Drive, $549,000 593 Latoria Road, From $299,000 MLS 345782, Sunday 1-3 MLS 349428, Sunday 1-3 MLS 350458, Sunday 1-3 Sat. & Sun.1-4 Pemberton Holmes Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty Pemberton Holmes Ltd. RE/MAX Camosun Greg Long, 250-384-8124 Cheryl Ashby, 250-478-9141 Anna Bjelde, 250-888-9001 Ron Phillips, 250-655-0608 1230 Burnside Rd. West, $414,900 MLS 348120, Saturday 1-3 Pemberton Holmes Kevin Starling, 250-889-4577
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NEW Oceanfront BEACH home so close to the water, it spans Spectacular 180 degree views of sandy Cordova Bay beach, Mt Baker-North Shore-Cascade Mtns through soaring floor to ceiling windows. Upon entry, one is awed by the PANORAMA, the open Great room, dazzling light and brightness. It is immediately apparent that this is the Best Built UNPARALLELED, Cordova Bay OCEANFRONT property ever to come to the market. It benefits from 4 levels of impeccable QUALITY, incl. 2 self-contained Retreats. Sumptuous Master Suite, rare beachside Garage and Mooring Buoy! CALL to SEA. $2,998,000
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