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One short meeting at the recent Union of BC Municipalities reaffirms for Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen that the province isn’t interested in forcing amalgamation in the Victoria region. It was a “positive meeting on the broad term amalgama“I don’t foresee tion,” Jensen said. Originally sought over the the province summer – when many council members are away – by launching into any the minister at the time of study of any kind Community, Sport and Culwith respect to the tural Development, Coralee Oakes, the municipality sug- CRD. I think they see gested meeting with her at themselves more as a UBCM. “When there was a change facilitator.” of ministers in the interim we – Nils Jensen were contacted by Mr. Fassbender’s office and asked to meet with him around the issue colloquially known as amalgamation,” Jensen said. “It’s quite a bit wider than amalgamation, our discussions.” Jensen, Coun. Tom Croft and Oak Bay CAO Helen Koning were available for the 30-minute meeting. “It was an open and frank discussion and certainly what I thought was quite different was the tone being set by Minister Fassbender around the whole question of amalgamation,” Jensen said. “The position that was very clearly articulated was that this government will follow the law and not change the law that says no municipality will be forced into amalgamation. PLEASE SEE: No amalgamation studies planned, Page A8
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Council hammered out a few kinks in response to the resident concerns over the Pumpkin Art on the Avenue during its first fall meeting Sept. 28. The Oak Bay Business ImproveOak Bay News file photo ment Association spearheads the event Pumpkin art will be back on the Avenue later this month, where pumpkin art lines the street and leading into the Village’s Halloween events. fills the park behind municipal hall. from 35) stretching from Foul Bay Road to MonAt least one resident of Granite Street, with a direct view of the rented fencing that offers terey Avenue. The oak tree in front of municipal security of the large display in the park, reiterated hall will again feature carved artwork to help direct people to the Pumpkin Art display behind last year’s concerns over the look of the fencing. Because of the layout of the park – and its the hall. Pumpkin Art on the Avenue features almost 500 hedges and gardens – moving the fencing inside the hedges would cut the space available for use pumpkins carved by John Vickers and each year by roughly 25 per cent, said project co-ordinator new pumpkins are added to the displays. Pumpkin Art is open to the public Friday, Oct. 23 to 30 from Heather Leary. “It would change the entire event,” she said, 5 to 9 p.m. and on Oct. 31 from 5 to 10 p.m. Admisadding she will find fencing scrim, fabric panels, sion is by donation. similar to what was used last year. “That is going to be camouflaged to some Trick-or-treaters return degree,” Leary said. Mayor Nils Jensen also asked Leary to consider Oak Bay Avenue will be closed from 1 to 6 p.m. moving the two eight-by-20-foot containers used Oct. 31 for the Trick or Treat on the Avenue, feaas secure storage for a variety of items during turing entertainment, activities and food vendors. Pumpkin Art away from the municipal lot where The Oak Bay BIA event runs the Halloween day “parking is at a premium.” event from 2 to 5 p.m. Council approved the event and waived about Last year’s event attracted about 600 trick or $1,500 worth of municipal costs as it’s a commu- treaters and roughly 2,000 people, said organizer nity event. Heather Leary. Pumpkins on the Avenue will include five more “They don’t fit on the sidewalk anymore.” Halloween gourds on the street poles (up to 40 cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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CANADA VOTES! Today we present the final question posed to federal candidates in the Victoria riding, to be answered in a maximum of 200 words: What do you believe is the most important election issue for your riding and why? Murray Rankin, NDP Every day I listen to people in Victoria share the change they want to see: a new government, with new priorities – one that makes life more affordable for seniors and families. A government that will grow the economy while also protecting our environment and meeting our climate change commitments. Our plan to expand the CPP, increase the GIS and reverse eligibility age for OAS from 67 to 65 will help lift many of our seniors out of poverty. We will also create a national childcare
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program to help families, give kids a good head start and help women who want to work outside of the home. We will rise to meet our international climate change obligations through a transition to a clean economy. We will reduce Canada’s reliance on fossil fuels by eliminating the Conservatives’ billiondollar subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and by kick-starting our clean energy sector to make Canada a global market leader in clean energy.
The economy is our No. 1 priority, that’s why we have a low-tax, balanced budget plan to protect our fragile economy. The Canadian economy is still fragile, but with a $5 billion surplus so far this year our low-tax, balanced budget plan protects Canadian jobs and growth in the face of global uncertainty. The Conservative Government has taken important steps to lower taxes on Canadian businesses, expand Canada’s trade network, support skills-training, reform our immigration system and make major investments in infrastructure and innovation. These include: • lowering taxes on families and Canadian businesses, including the largest tax cut for small- and medium-sized businesses in over a quarter-century; • concluding free trade
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Jo-Ann Roberts, Green People are concerned by the concentration of power we have seen abused by our current government. That one man has been able to set an agenda for this country that defies the wishes of the vast majority of Canadians is unacceptable. This concentration of power has seen our environmental laws decimated, scientific information censored, and dissenting views harassed. Our international reputation has suffered, inequality has grown and our constitutional rights have been challenged. This approach to governing needs to change. The power of the prime minister’s office needs to be curtailed dramatically and Canadians need to see that there is another way
of doing politics, because no matter who replaces Stephen Harper, a majority will be given the same powers to steamroll over opposition and enforce one view on Canada. We need to elect MPs that represent people – not just those that elected them, but everyone in their riding. As it is now, MPs are beholden to the wishes of their leader and are punished for publicly disagreeing with them. The Green Party is the only party that gives this option to voters. We need to fix parliament. Co-operation and respect must be reintroduced to the major parties. That’s why I am running as a Green.
Awkward Cadboro Bay intersection gets realigned Sidewalk extension, traffic calming aims to aid in pedestrian safety Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
Traffic calming is coming to Cadboro Bay Road at Thompson Avenue. The facelift started last week for the intersection where an Oak Bay senior was struck in a crosswalk in November 2012 and again in January 2014. The district plans to “tighten up the intersection,” says Dave Marshall, director of engineering for Oak Bay. “Traffic calming of course is a means of
physically slowing traffic, reducing the tendency for vehicles to flip around the corner at excessively fast speeds,” Marshall said. “We’re going to be reconfiguring that crosswalk and extending the traffic bulge.” Oak Bay hired Northridge Excavating Ltd. for the curb extension at the southeast quadrant, the realigning of the existing crosswalk, addition of a bike lane on Cadboro Bay Road and a reduced sidewalk extension on Thompson Avenue. Council discussed traffic calming for the Cadboro Bay Road and Thompson Avenue intersection this summer and approved an option that included all those elements, with a lengthier extension of the sidewalk on Thompson Avenue. They allocated $47,000 in the 2015 budget
for that work. Since then, ICBC confirmed a walk extension. The revised bid came in just over $49,000 contribution of $6,100 towards the project. and falls under bud“By working with get with a GST rebate. ICBC on theses proj“Traffic calming ... is a means of “We’re not losing ects we’re assured physically slowing traffic, reducing the anything because they have their input on the design aspect tendency for vehicles to flip around the the main traffic calming component is in and they can con- corner at excessively fast speeds.” effect,” Marshall said. tribute,” Marshall – Dave Marshall “We’re going to folsaid. “It’s valuable low through and put input into our prothe extended sidecess.” When put out to tender in September, walk in next year. Any work beyond this, bids were significantly over budget, so there will be an evaluation period and we’ll municipal staff met with the lowest bidder, see how it performs. If a larger scope projNorthridge, and arranged for a re-submis- ect is warranted that could come online in sion based on the removal of approximately the future.” cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com 70 metres of the originally proposed side-
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Security spots cat at Lansdowne campus Officers from Saanich Police and Oak Bay Police converged upon the Camosun College Lansdowne campus after a cougar was spotted early this morning (Oct. 9). Shortly after 1 a.m., a member of the security staff saw the cougar in the north parking lot of the campus near Foul Bay Road and watched it walk into a treed. It was not observed by police, and there were no further reported sightings. “The animal in question appeared healthy and had no obvious injuries� said Sgt. Steve Eassie of the Saanich Police. “It did not show any
signs of aggression or predatory behaviour while being observed, and was likely wandering from green space to green space in search of food.� While conservation officers believed a cougar recently tranquilized and removed from the James Bay area may have been the same cougar reported in Oak Bay recently, there have since been two unconfirmed cougar sightings in south Oak Bay. “While observing these animals in urban areas is somewhat rare, such was the case in James Bay during daylight hours, it would not be uncommon for these animals to be
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Police converged on campus after a cougar was spotted at Camosun early Friday morning. present in large green spaces, especially in the evening hours.� Eassie said. Owners of small pets are reminded that cougars generally move around in the evening hours and that it would
be suggested to keep animals inside throughout the evening. The BC Conservation Officer Service has been notified of the sighting. reporter@oakbaynews.com
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The number of cougar sightings has gone up in Greater Victoria compared to previous years, according to a B.C. conservation officer. Sgt. Scott Norris, a conservation officer, said in October there have been five to 10 reported sightings in the Oak Bay and James Bay areas. In August, there were upwards of 10 sightings in Oak Bay. “We have a steady number of cougar sightings and reports in Greater Victoria. In downtown and Oak Bay, there are more than last year definitely,� said Norris. Most recently, conservation officers and the Victoria Police Department pursued and caught a male cougar that found its way into James Bay. The big cat was originally spotted Monday around 3 a.m. After several hours
of chasing it through backyards in the 200-blocks of Michigan, Ontario and Superior streets, the cougar was eventually tranquilized and relocated to the middle of Vancouver Island. Norris said the cougar, who was roughly two years old and still trying to establish a territory, may have come from the Saanich Peninsula – something that is happening more often. “From time to time, they make their way across and follow the shoreline down and end up in areas where they don’t expect to normally be and they’re looking for a way out,� he said, adding the cougar was likely the same one spotted in Oak Bay last month. “Like humans, they think ‘If I keep going this way, I’ll find my way out’ and they don’t and get deeper and deeper in the city.� The increased deer population is also
having an impact on the Island’s cougar population, driving them closer to the city. In traditional predator-prey relationship, if the deer population is up, predator numbers will also increase. With more cougars in the Highlands, Metchosin and Goldstream areas, younger cougars will have to look elsewhere to establish their territory, Norris said. “There’s no real rhyme or reason other than just normal wild animal behaviour. They’re hungry, they’re looking for food and territory,� he said, noting he expects the number of sightings to decrease in the winter since they usually hunt from dusk until dawn. This is the fourth time in the last 25 years that a cougar has been chased in downtown Victoria. kendra.wong@vicnews.com
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Popular Oak Bay speaker earns national honour Christine van Reeuwyk
might be more fully represented in deliberations,” she said. “Laws such as the Heritage Conservation Act and Forest Act Dr. Nancy Turner – a long-time as well as old and new treaties champion of Indigenous tradiand treaty negotiations, parks tional knowledge who has spent and protected areas – all of these more than four decades exploring will be considered through the the human relationship to our natlens of Indigenous plant use, ural environment – is one of five knowledge and practice. I hope 2015 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Founthat participants will include dation Fellows. First Nations’ leaders and enviTurner, a sought-after speaker ronmental experts, people in the about traditional lands in Oak Bay, legal profession, ecologists and earned the national honour as recbotanists, government represenognition of her career-long devotatives, educators and interested tion to understanding and commuyouth.” nicating the crucial role that plants Outcomes from the sympoplay in Indigenous cultures and sium would be presented in a languages, especially with respect variety of forms, including at to land rights and ancestral terBlack Press file photo ritories. UVic’s Dr. Nancy Turner is one of five 2015 Pierre Elliott least one publication. Turner is the fourth UVic proA professor in the University of Trudeau Foundation Fellows. fessor to be honoured with a Victoria’s School of EnvironmenPierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship. approaches for our projects, over the next tal Studies and the Hakai Research “Dr. Turner is a person of deep integrity, Chair in Ethnoecology at UVic, Turner special- few years. Each of them has both expertise izes in ethnoecological studies with Western and wisdom to contribute, and I will definitely social commitment, and eloquence, who has Canadian Indigenous peoples, particularly on be able to draw on this as my own project combined scholarship at the highest level with public education, far-reaching contriunfolds.” B.C.’s central coast. As part of her fellowship project, Turner butions to the policy process, and the proThe fellowship allows for sharing of inforproposed a two- to three-day symposium for motion of dialogue among governments, the mation with the other four honourees. “It has been a wonderful privilege to meet spring 2017 to gather Indigenous leaders and public and First Nations peoples,” said Jamie and spend time with the other four Fellows, knowledge holders, legal scholars, ethnobota- Cassels, UVic president. The awards are made by an independent each of whom is a leader in their field,” Turner nists, ethnoecologists and students. “The symposium is still very much a work in jury of researchers and intellectuals and supsaid. “They, in their projects, are also presenting and addressing deep ethical questions progress, as I hope to develop it with consulta- port the winners as they pursue the next that relate to laws and governance, rights tion. It will focus on various aspects of law and stages of their academic research. Turner will of individuals, including minority groups. We policy relating to Indigenous land rights and receive $225,000 over the next three years. For more information visit trudeaufoundahave met together twice so far, but will be occupancy, and to resource use planning and able to meet and discuss our projects, and decision-making, in terms of how knowledge, tion.ca. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com obtain feedback on our ideas, protocols and use and management of plants and habitats Oak Bay News
UVic prof shortlisted for book prize Nancy Turner, ethnobotanist, ethnoecologist and professor in the University of Victoria School of Environmental Studies, is among eight authors shortlisted for the 2015 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for adult literature and Bolen Books’ Children’s Book Prize. Finalists for the Butler Book Prize include Grant Buday, for the fiction book, The Delusionist, Karen Enns, for poetry Ordinary Hours, Arleen Pare, for poetry Lake of Two Mountains, Julie Paul, for the fiction book The Pull of the Moon, and Turner for her non-fiction book, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge. The book was also short-listed earlier this year for a BC Book Prize. Finalists for the children’s book prize are Penny Chamberlain, for Shack Island Summer, Laura Langston, for The Art of Getting Stared At, and Chris Tougas, for Dojo Daycare. The winners will be announced at an awards gala on Oct. 14 at the Union Club of Victoria. The winner of each prize will receive $5,000. reporter@oakbaynews.com
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Modern age is tough on would-be politicians Politics is a tough gig these days. Long gone are the days when an off-hand comment might be news for a few days then largely forgotten. And when some silly comment made in your youth more often than not stayed buried with your junior high track trophy and the T-shirt from your first concert. Today, thanks to this brave new world of social media and world-wide connectivity, yesterday’s remarks could severely limit your opportunities tomorrow. The steady stream of candidates dropping from the federal election race grew by two more recently, with the seemingly endless torrent reaching the Island. Victoria Liberal candidate Cheryl Thomas dropped out of the race last week after comments she previously made on Facebook came to light. Thomas joined fellow former Liberal candidate Maria Manna, who resigned from the race in Cowichan-Malahat-Langford several days previously over comments she had earlier made questioning the origin of the 9/11 attacks. However it’s not only the Liberals who have been caught in the embarrassing revelations. All three major parties have been forced to dump candidates for reasons that run the gamut from crude remarks about the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz to urinating in a client’s coffee mug. With the comments being so easily exposed by political bloggers, one has to wonder why the political parties aren’t doing a more thorough vetting of their candidates. Social media is hardly a new phenomenon, and if others are finding this stuff so easily... Still, we have to wonder whether this ability to troll so far back in people’s history is a good thing. While we in no way condone remarks reflecting bigoted attitudes, we have to wonder whether the ability to derail a person based on some long-past stupidity is a good thing. At the very least, it underlines for today’s teens the importance of what parents have been saying for years: don’t put anything on social media you wouldn’t want your mother to see ‌ or millions of Canadian voters. What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@oakbaynews.com. 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.
Seeing the forest and the trees There was a flurry of excite- of NDP MLA Lana Popham ment in the B.C. legislature and others, about 10,000 hectlast week, as Delta South inde- ares of farmland was already pendent MLA Vicki Hunting- planted with seedlings. RB initially said they ton released docuwere buying up ments suggesting abandoned and that a multinational unproductive manufacturing comfarms, but local pany continued to government offibuy up B.C. farms cials disputed that. for carbon offsets RB soon realized after they said last that undermining June they would already precarious stop. farming communiFalse alarm, as it turns out. AgriculTom Fletcher ties was going to provide the oppoture Minister Norm B.C. Views site of the green Letnick clarified that publicity they three more farms in the Peace and Cariboo region sought, at least in B.C. The had indeed been bought, but company told me it’s now the company was merely fol- looking to switch its carbon lowing legal advice to close offset program to replanting deals on farms that it had forest areas depleted by pine beetle and fire. I’ll believe that already agreed to purchase. The company, British- when I see it, but on the face based cleaning product and of it, this sounds almost as pharmaceutical maker Reck- questionable as converting itt Benckiser (RB) confirmed farmland back to forests. Pine this. A company official reiter- forests need fire to regenerated that its program to buy ate, so fires have been part of farms and replant them with the regeneration of the ecosystem since the retreat of the trees is suspended. By the time the B.C. gov- last Ice Age. Beetle-kill areas are already ernment became aware of this global public relations coming back, and they were scheme, thanks to the work never completely denuded
in any case, so the notion of manual planting these areas seems impractical. Most are now criss-crossed with deadfall and all but impassible. Another situation that received little public attention was a report issued late this summer by the B.C. Forest Practices Board about forest stewardship plans. The board reviewed 43 stewardship plans from all regions of B.C., prepared as required under provincial law by forest tenure holders on Crown land. They are supposed to deal with things like where roads go and how streams are protected. This is the management system put in place in 2003, when the B.C. Liberal government changed its approach to forest management. Gone was the NDP’s infamous sevenvolume “Forest Practices Code,� which attempted to micromanage every detail of a timber licence, right down to inspecting for litter left at a logging site. In came “results-based� forest management, where licence holders had to produce a plan showing stream protection and other val-
ues. The Forest Practices Board has found these plans often aren’t good for much, although results are generally good when they follow up with on-the-ground audits of actual timber harvest areas. The investigation found that many of the plans cover “vast and overlapping areas of the province, and were written using legal language that makes them very difficult for public understanding or review.� Little has changed since a similar finding in 2006. During that time, the forests ministry was turned into Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, with greatly increased responsibility over wildlife, mining, gas drilling and so on. Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald, who traveled the province as NDP forests critic in recent years, says the problem now is there just aren’t enough people on the ground to assess what’s going on in our huge expanse of Crown land. Meanwhile the city media covers professional protesters issuing demands about the Walbran Valley. tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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LETTERS Remember: no environment = no economy Re: B.C. Views, Inner children take over city, Oak Bay News, Sept. 30 In the Wednesday, Sept. 30 issue, in his column “Inner children take over city”, Tom Fletcher made perhaps one valid point: a provincial bill of environmental rights might lead to legal confusion and increasing bureaucracy. Surely busy politicians and lawyers don’t need more work to do. The rest of article, in my opinion, was the bozo eruption of a man who complains about “bozo eruptions.” Yes, Mr. Fletcher, there is such a thing as “crushing capitalism,” just as there is such a thing as crushing communism. Surely the political task of our time is to get the optimum blend of capitalism and socialism and not go to one extreme or the other. Tom is certainly right: we have “health, comfort and opportunity not imagined by anyone 100 years ago,” and that’s something to celebrate at Thanksgiving and all year round. However, we will lose it all unless we halt pollution and environmental degradation. If the economy is so important to Canadians, the health of the environment should be even more important. The fact is: no environment = no economy. I’ll be keeping that in mind on voting day. Jim Hill Oak Bay
Time for a rethink on Oak Bay’s deer issue Why is a cougar in Oak Bay (or wherever) more ‘terrifying’ than a deer? After all, they are both ‘natural,’ are they not? And they were both ‘here’ first? It has amazed me, over the years, that our chief concern with the deer has been that of
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Letter writers offer differing perspectives on Oak Bay’s deer population, and recent cougar visitor. damaging our cars -– whereas at least they might be making us drive more carefully. Ah, but a cougar might mistakenly scoop up a young child, walking home from school: so, tranquilize the cougar and ship it back to the woods. Will it really take a child’s life to wake us up? The entire community was on red alert for four or five days, and even now we can only ‘assume’ that the one caught was actually the only one. Perhaps with less (or no?) deer the cougar might be less tempted to come hunting them. But why kill the deer? Why not tranquilize them all, and ship them all safely back to the woods? After all, if we can pretend to afford more than a billion dollars for a sewage plant the need for which is hotly contested, why not a few million to ‘save the deer’ (and, perhaps, a child or two)? Time for a serious rethink. Alec Allison Oak Bay
Doctor: deer have become health hazard Deer have become a big problem in our neighborhood. They may be cute, espe-
cially the moms and baby fawns, but they have become an enormous health hazard. I work as an anesthesiologist and I am involved with so many bicycling accidents involving deer, as cyclists swerve in an attempt to avoid hitting them. Fractured forearms, fractured hips and head injuries all because the deer are crossing the road! Like the cougar in James Bay, these animals need to be tranquilized and relocated from Uplands and Victoria golf courses, and the rest of the neighborhood, as they are the reason for increased bicycle and car accidents. Anna SiposSylwestrowicz Oak Bay
Wildlife haters never happy When deer started showing up in Oak Bay concerned citizens claimed the deer were here as they had no predators, namely cougars. Now a cougar shows up in Oak Bay and these same people are concerned about cougars. Which way do you want it folks? I suppose people who hate wildlife will never be happy
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Get rid of the deer and the cougars won’t come. Perhaps the reader forgets we had a deer cull last winter. I guess that cougar didn’t get the news! William Jesse Oak Bay
A modest proposal for Oak Bay drivers Dear Oak Bay drivers: The letter D is a dash followed by two short dots in Morse Code. Perhaps you could signal with your headlights/foglights/tail lights next time you see a deer on (or about to cross) the road as warning to cars and cyclists in front or behind you. C, bye the way, is dash, dot, dash, dot. John Taylor Oak Bay
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“He also said there would not be any studies done with a focus on amalgamation, but his ministry was very much open to facilitating conversations about local governments working together efficiently and effectively.” They outlined for Fassbender some of the ways Oak Bay already works with other municipalities, both through the Capital Regional District and on a municipality-to-municipality basis. Examples include the integrated work between local police and Saanich Police and other CRD integrated policing initiatives as well as the four core mayors who meet regularly in an effort to see how fire departments can better work together. “Bottom line for Oak Bay is we will continue
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our efforts working with other municipalities to find ways to work more efficiently together,” Jensen said. “He was impressed with how we were cooperating within the CRD … he expressed support for that approach. “There’s only one taxpayer and we have an obligation to ensure we provide the services in a most effective and efficient way.” Jensen says the next step is the province taking part in other conversations municipalities wish to have about efficiency and working together. “I don’t foresee the province launching into any study of any kind with respect to the CRD,” he said. “I think they see themselves more as a facilitator.” cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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Mark your calendars, Christmas plans underway Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
Oak Bay council has a head start on Christmas after approving road closures for some of the biggest holiday activities in the community. The Oak Bay Business Improvement Association garnered approval for the 15th annual Oak Bay Christmas Festival, set for Nov. 29 to Dec. 5 this year. The festival begins with the village lightup on Sunday, Nov. 29, followed by the Art on the Avenue Gallery Walk and Oak Bay Village Christmas Social on Dec. 3. The Island Equipment Owners Association Truck Light Convoy rolls through on Dec. 5 and there’s Christmas carolling and in-store events at other times. During light-up day, Nov. 29, Oak Bay Avenue will be closed between Monterey Avenue and Wilmot Place from noon to 8 p.m. Food vendors will sell hot dogs, kettle corn and more. Each vendor is charged a fee, donated to the BIA’s charitable partner, Oak
Bay Kiwanis. During 12th annual Art on the Avenue Gallery Walk held from 5 to 8 p.m. and the third Art on the Avenue Gallery Walk on Dec. 3, the BIA plans to enhance the event by using Hampshire Avenue from Oak Bay Avenue to the parking entrance to Athlone Court. The Lighted Truck Convoy will cruise through Oak Bay Village between 6 and 7 p.m. Dec. 5. Oak Bay will allow for a road closure sometime between 5:30 and 7 p.m. for the procession. The BIA is also organizing donation collection for the food bank during the event.
Poppy tags coming to town Poppies will pepper Oak Bay in preparation for Remembrance Day. Council approved Victoria’s Remembrance Day Committee to poppy tag in the community Oct. 31 through Nov. 7. Poppy distribution is by donation in busy areas. Oak Bay also plans to honour the day Nov. 11, in its traditional way at the cenotaph on Beach Drive.
New roof for Marina Council has awarded the tender to replace the Oak Bay Marina restaurant roof to Parker Johnston for $126,881. Dahorn Consultants Ltd. was hired to specify, tender and monitor the roof work at a cost of $3,900. The tender bid, including the consultant’s costs, are under the $200,000 allocated for the work in the 2015 budget.
Willows foreshore lease renewed Oak Bay will renew its foreshore lease with the province for the 50-acre area off Willows Beach. Acquired in 1963, the lease reserves the area for public recreational purposes. The lease was renewed in 1983, and is again up for a 20-year renewal at a cost of $1 plus a $200 fee. Council maintains a lease to ensure public access is not curtailed by private uses. Funds for the renewal are included in the budget. cvanreeuwyk @oakbaynews.com
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Ruby Tang, Matti Grant, Robert Lee and Veronique Beaudet await their moment during the ceremony. Below: Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Alumni Andrew Weaver and BC Minister of Education Mike Bernier share a highfive. Right: Victoria School District Trustee Deborah Nohr and Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen cut the ribbon.
Thank-yous officially open new school Recognition and ribbon cutting highlight ceremony Oct. 7
with Bays United to create the new soccer pitch with artificial turf. Principal Dave Thomson, who played host for the ceremony, handed out awards to show appreciation to Dick and Linda Auchinleck, Bays United Football Club, the
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Heavy doses of respectful thank-yous and a ribbon cutting officially opened Oak Bay High last week. The new Oak Bay High School opened its doors to the first cohort of students on Sept. 8. Construction of the provinciallyfunded $51.6 million Oak Bay High began on July 5, 2013. The school, built to LEED Gold Standard, has a student capacity of 1,300, allowing for anticipated future enrolment growth. The new building is 17,700 square metres in addition to a Neighbourhood Learning Centre of 1,766 square metres. “Hopefully as students and as staff you look around and can feel proud of what we have here,� said BC Minister of Education Mike Bernier during the ceremony. “When I look around at the school you have to work in, to learn in and to be educated in, this is state-of-the-art. This is absolutely amazing what we’ve accomplished here as a group.� Bernier noted modern planning such as the moveable walls that enable adaptable programming and instruction as an examples of buildings changing as students’ needs do. Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen thanked the community that, through council, invested $1 million in the 420-seat community performing arts theatre with orchestra area and rehearsal space. “We created, along with the school board, a community asset beyond compare,� Jensen said. Victoria School District Trustee Deborah Nohr looked to the future, thanking the Community Association of Oak Bay for “incredible dedication� conceiving and funding the welcome pole anticipated to stand at the
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Colwood’s $40-million Royal Bay Secondary and the $54-million Belmont Secondary also welcomed students in September.
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tinue to do for the betterment of the world around us,� said Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver, also one of four alumni who passed on four pillars to Grade 11 students last spring. “There is so much to be proud of at Oak Bay secondary. Collectively you have excelled in all your Pillars of Excellence: academics, athletics, fine arts and community leadership and philanthropy,� Weaver said. Four students – Ruby Tang, Matti Grant, Veronique Beaudet and Robert Lee – officially ushered that ethos into the new school, symbolically transferring the pillars from the old building to the new. The school celebrated partnerships such as the one
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LEAF CLEARING Leaves from the trees that give Oak Bay its name are now falling, and municipal crews have readied the leaf vacuuming equipment for the campaign which will begin soon to clear them from streets and gutters all over the Municipality. The leaf clearing program begins in late October and will continue until all leaves are collected rather than on a pre-determined street by street schedule. The reason for this annual blitz is to prevent catch basins and storm drains from becoming clogged to the point where they cannot cope with the runoff from a moderate to heavy rainfall. It takes quite a while to cover the entire Municipality, however, and the more leaves there are on the street at any one time, the more likely it is that problems will occur before our crews can get to the area. We can handle the leaves deposited on the street by the normal forces of nature. We run into difficulty, however, when residents rake leaves onto the street from their own properties in anticipation of the arrival of our vacuum, or leave other garden refuse or tree prunings on the boulevard expecting it to be picked up with the leaves. Piles of leaves on the roads also create safety hazards for cyclists. We will pick up only leaves from the boulevard (no garden refuse or tree prunings), but please DO NOT RAKE LEAVES ONTO THE STREET! Please do not place leaves in plastic bags as they get caught in the vacuum! In the interest of pedestrian safety, please do not place leaves on the sidewalk. Thank you for your cooperation. “LEAVES ON STREETS = BLOCKED CATCH BASINS = FLOODED BASEMENTS” David Brozuk, Superintendent of Public Works
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At the dawn of the 20th Century, Victoria was a city on the move. As Canada’s Pacific gateway, its natural advantages included a mild climate and impressive central harbour. As the refined capital of a booming province, its position held great promise for it to profit from trade and tourism routes throughout the British Empire and the world. However, its poor shipping connections with the Pacific terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in Vancouver impeded future growth. Seeking to improve the Victoria to Vancouver steamer service, Canadian Pacific Navigation Company (CPN) purchased land on Belleville Street in 1899 to expand A 1920s-era postcard depicts the Canadian operations but they lacked suffi- Victoria’s Inner Harbour. cient resources to proceed. ated considerable pride in its namesake In 1901, the deep-pocketed CPR acquired a controlling interest in CPN and homeport. By the 1920s, tourist traffic purchased the company outright in 1903. exceeded the capacity of the existing fleet Under the leadership of Captain James and the rise of automobiles required new Troup, CPR moved quickly to establish a vessels with the ability to carry vehicles proper B.C. Coastal Service by develop- as well as passengers. Victoria had lived ing an impressive fleet of modern “pocket up to its promise as a city with a bright future. liners.” The Rattenbury-designed parliament With luxurious sleeping rooms and stylish lounges, the Pacific Princesses inaugu- buildings and Empress Hotel, opened in rated an era of glamorous travel on Brit- 1898 and 1908 respectively, had created ish Columbia’s coastal waters and com- a brilliant inner harbour panorama that plimented the company’s established Rattenbury was proud to consider his fleet of Empress liners which serviced “life’s work.” In 1923, CPR asked Rattenbury to international routes. design a grand new In 1904, CPR comterminal to replace missioned the young “Rattenbury pledged his earlier Tudor-style architect Francis Ratstructure. Rattenbury tenbury, lauded for his to create ‘a building that pledged to create “a design of the B.C. Par- would harmonize and add to building that would liament Buildings, to harmonize and add to develop a steamship the beauty” of the harbour the beauty” of the harticket office on the Bel- precinct.” bour precinct. leville site. With support from Opened in 1905, the timber-framed, Tudor-style structure was architect Percy James, Rattenbury envimodeled after the residential estates Rat- sioned a glittering new Pacific headquartenbury had previously designed. The ters that would befit the CPR’s power B.C. Coastal Service boomed, driven by and prestige. He designed a monumenstrong demand on the famous “triangle tal Greek waterfront temple with masroute” between Victoria, Vancouver and sive Ionic columns, Welsh slate roof and an exterior adorned at each corner with Seattle. Ships such as Princess Mary, Princess carved heads of Poseidon – the Greek Patricia and Princess Maquinna became god of the sea. Workmen began tearing down the old household names. The era’s best known ship was the sleek and elegant Princess ticket office in August 1923 and construcVictoria, which set new speed records tion began shortly thereafter. A novel on the Vancouver crossing, and gener- technique was used to keep standards
Pacific Railway Steamship Terminal in high and costs low. Imitation sandstone for the facade was created in moulds in the building’s basement using a mixture of white cement and pulverized marble and granite. When completed, the terminal’s reception area featured 17-foot ceilings, a grand central fireplace, marbled waiting rooms and floor-to-ceiling windows with spectacular views of passing ships. The total cost of the building was $250,000. CPR’s “Temple of Poseidon” opened during the summer of 1924, in anticipation of welcoming two new ships which had been commissioned to modernize the fleet. Princess Kathleen and Princess Marguerite could each carry 1,500 passengers as well as 30 automobiles. Concurrent upgrades to the CPR piers in Seattle and Vancouver enhanced the overall triangle service. The CPR terminal was the last building Rattenbury designed in the Inner Harbour. He considered it “as good as anything I have ever done” and its success led to him joining the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. For decades, it welcomed the world to its wharves. But by the 1950s, the CPR service was in decline and its aging fleet was no longer the toast of the town. In 1958, strikes caused severe disruptions to CPR’s coastal service and helped convince Premier W.A.C. Bennett to create B.C. Ferries. PLEASE SEE: Steamship Terminal, Page A11
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Poet, photographer collaborate on nature title Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
A matchmaker of sorts earns kudos for the latest book of poetry from UVic Professor Emeritus Lorna Crozier. The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea features a collection of photos and poems from photographer Ian McAllister and Governor General’s Award-winning poet Crozier. “I’ve never done a collaboration in book form before,” said Crozier. “Other artists have been in touch with me over the years, composers and painters and a choreographer. They’ve set my poems to those various other art forms.” “It’s a more hands-on collaboration for me and something I’m just so so thrilled about because I’m a big fan of Ian’s and I’m certainly a big fan of the natural world.” The poetry and imagery combination seemed a laughable concept for two very busy artists when it was suggested, offhand, by an online editor Kim Gray (Toque & Canoe) who commissioned Crozier to head into the Great Bear Rainforest. “She said, ‘I bet you could do a book together’ and I thought how naive and sweet is she,” Crozier said with a laugh. They met, and were comfortable. “He said ‘why don’t I send you some photographs and we’ll see what happens.’” When McAllister started sending her
Poet and professor emeritus Lorna Crozier the images, suddenly poems started to announce themselves. “I was extremely moved by the place so things started to happen and poems started to come,” Crozier said. While it sounds a simple process, the back and forth of images and poems was complex. The poet sought to add a perspective without attempting to define McAllister’s artistry. “My challenge, and where my fear came from when I started, was his photos don’t need any words. They don’t need captions. They don’t need explanations, so I had to write something that would befriend the photograph but not explain it,” Crozier said. Once complete, they submitted to three publishers and had three acceptances within two days. Both
had worked with Greystone in the past and knew top-notch design was available. Designer Peter Cocking was up for the task. “I’m delighted with it. The poems and photos would have been wasted if they hadn’t been designed in this way,” Crozier said. “He respected the two art forms and brought them together in a seamless fashion.” Featuring 32 full-size photographs and original poems, The Wild in You captures the raw emotion of B.C.’s coastline, including its most rarely seen or endangered creatures. From sea wolves to spirit bears to giant anenomes, each stunning image is paired with an imaginative poem exploring what it truly means to be wild. “To focus just on the natural world, animals, habitat, the ocean and forest and to do that
with a partner like Ian has probably been one of the most exciting projects I’ve been involved in,” Crozier said. Not a fan of the coffee table book, Crozier loves that the “reasonable size and reasonable price” makes it more accessible. “That means more people will be able to get it, see it and give it for Christmas presents,” she said. “I expect it to be of interest to more people than merely poetry fans. It’s a small population in the world that reads and a buys poetry books. I think this one, because
there are these beautiful pictures, that people will be less threatened by the poetry. And it’s not poetry about fancy dancy things. It’s about bears and sea lions and otters and trees … It’s about the most down to earth stuff that a poet can write about.” The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea (Greystone Books) is available in bookstores including Ivy’s Books. cvanreeuwyk @oakbaynews.com
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The magic of mask work comes to Phoenix theatres UVic’s Spotlight on Alumni features ‘live action Pixar’ Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
Kate Braidwood returns to the University of Victoria behind a mask of her own making this month. One of three members of Wonderheads, she’s both the performer and creator of the mask that is the lead character in Loon. Returning as the Spotlight on Alumni performance, Braidwood earned her BFA in Acting at the University of Victoria, before heading to the an MFA in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre from Dell’Arte International. It was here she met the other two backbones of the Wonderheads theatre company, her now husband Andrew Phoenix, Wonderheads co-founding artistic director, and Emily Windler, associate head. “The best description we’ve come to is calling ourselves ‘live action Pixar’ which is nice, it gives something people can relate to, something they know,” Braidwood said. “It’s true in a few ways, there’s a similar whimsy and tone and a cartoonish style, and our work is good for adults and for kids – it works on two levels. The main difference is Pixar is made for kids first … we’re kind of the other way around.” In Loon, Braidwood becomes Francis, a lonely janitor with a wild imagination and a fascination with the moon. He has hit rock bottom and there’s nowhere to go, but up. Performed in full-face mask, the wordless, whimsical love story blends physical theatre and comedy. The mask she wears, to convey the spectrum of emotions, is of her own making. “We create our shows from the “It’s such a ground up,” she said. “(Dell’Arte) is whimsical, imaginative where I fell in love with masks. I’d form and it makes for done some mask awesome theatre.” work at UVic and – Kate Braidwood those were highlights for me of my time at UVic. In reflection I see it as stepping stones.” She discovered a love for building, performing and focussing on mask work. “The reason I love it is it’s such a whimsical, imaginative form and it makes for awesome theatre. There’s this magical element to masks. They come to life on stage (in a way) that you wouldn’t expect they could,” she said. The expressions change to suit the narrative in a combination of the actor’s movements, and the mask’s creation. “Both aspects are really important. How it’s created affords the performer opportunities to
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The Wonderheads bring their production of Loon to the University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre Oct. 14 to 24. use the mask in different ways,” Braidwood said. “People often think it’s lighting that changes the shift in expression, and that helps, but the lighting is often different in every space we go to so it’s not something we can rely on. It’s how the mask is made and how the actors physicalize.” Bringing her show to the Phoenix Theatre Oct. 14 to 24 is a full circle of sorts back to her early years as a UVic student. “I remember the first Spotlight on Alumni I saw as a student was the Old Trout Puppet Workshop. It’s nice to be now going back and being that Spotlight on Alumni.” Braidwood and Phoenix offer a free pre-show lecture Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. about the various acting styles used when working with masks and how these influenced their work. All Loon performances are followed by a talkback session with the artists. Shows are Oct. 14 , 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 at 8 p.m. Oct. 24 features a 2 p.m. matinee. Tickets are $15 student / $20 senior /$25 adult /$25 weekends or a season subscription is $37.50 for three plays or $50 for four plays. Visit phoenixtheatres.ca or call the box office 250-721-8000. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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History’s Headlines: ‘The mother of all intersections’ While it was looking like “apa*** thy would be the only horse Moving ahead 10 years, it was running” in Oak Bay’s 1987 the proposal to build an on a municipal election, small, narrow lot that by Oct. 14, the Oak captured the front Bay Star reported. page of the day. that in addition to Reporting in the Christopher CausOct. 15, 1997 edition, ton, “a well-known the Oak Bay News restaurateur known noted a proposal to for his commubuild a house on a nity involvement,” 22-foot-wide lot on civil servant Silvio Elgin Road passed Tognela and stock Oak Bay’s committee broker David Nichof the whole, though Jennifer Blyth Pages from the Past olson had thrown Mayor Christopher their hats in the ring Causton and Coun. to challenge incumJohn Pallett were bent aldermen Peter Bunn, Neil opposed. Swainson and Charles Clayton. While the majority of councilWith 12 days left for nomina- lors appreciated the attractive tions, The Star expected a few design and affordability of the names might still come forward. proposed home, Causton and Pallett were concerned about *** the many variances required to “Man in Motion” Rick Hansen build on a lot that was never visited the University of Victo- intended to be used for a home. ria to promote his new book, coHowever, a petition in supauthored with former Victoria port of the project swayed then sports writer Jim Taylor. Coun,.Nils Jensen: “The one Among the Oak Bay residents thing that encourages me to on hand to meet Hansen was support this is the acceptance a delegation from Willows Ele- by the community. I trust their mentary. judgment.”
*** Municipal engineer Stuart Pitt suggested a traffic circle might be a solution for what then Coun. Nils Jensen called “the mother of all intersections,” the five-way intersection where Thompson, Musgrave, Estevan and Hamiota streets meet. However, “residents pointed out a traffic circle may be the solution for vehicles but not for pedestrians, particularly the students walking to Willows school.”
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help you settle into Victoria and introduce many activity groups – bridge, walking, restaurant and pub, book club and more. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Victoria Golf Club, 1110 Beach Dr. Cost $29; email lindaalleyne@shaw. ca or call 778-265-1120 vicdaynewcomers.ca. Opening Night – St. Luke’s Players presents a comedy by Norm Fraser featuring the antics that ensue as Jack and Ruth Tisdale celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with an evening at the theatre. Performances are scheduled for select dates, Oct. 14 to 25, with 7:30 p.m. and weekend matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets: online at ticketrocket.co, by phone at 250-590-6291, at #2-1609 Blanshard St., or at the door of St. Luke’s Hall, 3821 Cedar Hill Cross Rd.
Thursday, Oct. 15 Volkssport – Thursday evening walk. Meet at Harbour Towers, Quebec Street. Register at 5:45 p.m., for 6 p.m. walk. Info: David, 250598-4316. Restoring Garry Oak Ecosystems with Fire – Native Plant Study Group presentation with John Dick, exploring how this natural forest management practice can help us restore one of Canadašs most threatened habitats, 7 p.m., UVic’s MacLaurin Bldg, Rm D116. Non-member drop-in fee: $5. Students: free. Info: NPSG.ca.
Friday, Oct. 16 Drop-in Family Storytime – from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. No registration required. Dinner Theatre at The Oak Bay Beach Hotel – Almost Johnny Cash, featuring David James, Big River and an authentic “Man In Black� show featuring the stories and music of Johnny Cash himself. Tickets $89, incl. a three-course meal in the David Foster Foundation Theatre. Continues weekends to Nov. 21. For information or to book your tickets visit our Front Desk or call 250-598-4556. Myxogastria: The secret world of slime molds – Some people called them fungi, some people called them animals; we now know that slime molds and amoebas really comprise a “sister group� to fungi and animals, having origins placing them in their own category. Victoria Natural History Society talk with Richard Winder explores the taxonomy, life cycle and ecology of these creatures. Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature House, 7:30 p.m. Free; all welcome. For information: marinenight@ pacificcoast.net.
Saturday, Oct. 17 Ivy and Broom Bash in Uplands Park, Oct. 17 and 18 – Join the Friends of Uplands
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Join the Friends of Uplands Park and the Greater Victoria Green Team for an Ivy and Broom Bash in Uplands Park Oct. 17 and 18. Park and the Greater Victoria Green Team, working with Oak Bay Parks, in helping to restore the endangered Garry oak ecosystem by removing invasive plants. Bring gloves, loppers and pruners to join in the fun of weeding out Scotch broom, ivy and Daphne. Some tools are available. Sign in at the registration table. Refreshments. Meet at the Beach Drive entrance to Cattle Point, 1 to 4 p.m. Info: Margaret Lidkea, 250-595-8084 Swing together – UVic jazz professor Dr. Patrick Boyle joins Victoria’s most exciting dance band, The Capital City Syncopators, and members of the UVic Swing Dance Club. All proceeds will go toward the UVic Community Matching Fund for Refugee Assistance 8 p.m. at UVic’s Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building. Tickets
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Sunday, Oct. 18 Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria AGM – Annual general meeting. 2 p.m. at the Cedar Hill Recreation Centre. Refreshments will be provided. Capt. James Cook: An Explorer for the Ages – Free Friends of BC Archives presentation with Robert Inglis, 2 to 4 p.m. in the Royal BC Museum’s Newcombe Auditorium. Short Annual General
Monday, Oct. 19 Volkssport – Monday and Wednesday morning walks. Registration at 8:45 a.m.; walk at 9 a.m. For current schedule call Rick, 250-478-7020 or Jan, 250-665-6062. Drop in baby time – from 10:30 to 11 a.m. for babies 0 to 15 months and their caregiver. Learn songs, rhymes and fingerplays to use with your baby. At the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. No registration required.
Tuesday, Oct. 20 Drop-in Family Storytime, for young children and their families, 10:30 to 11 a.m. Fun-filled stories, songs, rhymes, and puppets at the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. No registration required. Share your community event – email your community calendar item to editor@ oakbaynews.com.
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New book explores the Vikes’ McKinnon years Delve into the annals of Vikes history with the newly released UVic Athletics: A Tradition of Excellence, The McKinnon Years. Published by the University of Victoria Libraries, in partnership with the Vikes Athletics and Recreation, the joint publication chronicles the rich history of the school’s athletics. Written by local sportswriter and former UVic Harvey Southam Lecturer Tom Hawthorn, and richly illustrated with archival photographs from the UVic Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, and Vikes Athletics, the book outlines the 40 years of sporting excellence and facilities that define “the McKinnon Years.” The book “celebrates the vital importance of sporting accomplishments within the life of the university,” university librarian Jonathan Bengtson says in his introduction. With a foreword by Ken and Kathy Shields, the publication highlights the history and achievements of the teams, coaches and players of basketball, cross-country and track, field hockey, golf, rowing, rugby, soccer and swimming at the school. A timeline also compliments the publication, beginning starting with the birth of
Archie McKinnon in 1896 and concluding with a section on the new Lynda & Murray Farmer Walk of Excellence. In his preface, Clint Hamilton, UVic athletics and recreation director, reflects upon the incredible legacy of athletic excellence associated with UVic Athletics. “We will never say good-bye to the many
UVic challenges campus members to leave cars at home For Kilian Loftis, cycling is a way of life. His father put him on a bike at age two and now the fourth-year UVic engineering student cycles 500 kilometres a week during summer and two-wheels his way to campus, home and around the city year-round. “I’ve never owned a car and don’t see any reason why I would,” says Loftis, president of the UVic Cycling Club and among the more than 2,000 who regularly cycle to campus. “It’s part of my lifestyle, I stay in shape and cycling is a lot of fun. It’s one less car on the road and every little bit helps.” Loftis notes his carbon footprint is further reduced, as manufacturing a bicycle creates fewer carbon emissions than assembling a car. Nearly 8,000 members of UVic’s campus community use public transit, pedal power and shoe leather in getting to and from campus every day. UVic supports sustainable transportation through dedicated bike paths, the student UPASS transit program, a subsidized employee bus pass option, and amenities and infrastructure for cyclists. Cycling, transportation options and reducing individuals’ carbon footprint are key themes of UVic’s second annual Sustainability Week, Oct. 13 to 16. “At UVic, sustainability is our commitment to future generations,” says Kristi Simpson, associate vice-president of financial planning and operations. “Our vision builds on the collective action of the university community through planning, shared learning, grassroots activities and institutional leadership.” Sustainability Week promotes sustainable lifestyles and aims at getting people out of their cars to reduce carbon emissions, vehicle traffic on campus and parking demand. A host of activities include free bike tune-ups, a bike maintenance workshop, a mural art project at the Campus Bike Centre, and a birthday celebration – with cake – to mark the centre’s second anniversary. For more information on the Sustainability Week activities and events including a documentary film on food waste is available at uvic.ca/sustainability/ involved/events-special/index.php. editor@oakbaynews.com
great memories, stories and achievements that occurred during the McKinnon era,” Hamilton said. “With the opening of our new facility we have ensured a way to remember, share, celebrate and inspire through the Lynda and Murray Farmer Walk of Excellence. This along with our new McKinnon book are
powerful ways for us to pay tribute to the many stories and accomplishments associated with Vikes athletics.” Available in a limited edition of 2,700 print copies, the book is also available in a free PDF and flip book versions at govikesgo. com/McKBook. editor@oakbaynews.com
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Three or four years ago, 15-year old Harry Shaw signed up for an Oak Bay News route. “I had one when we used to live in Kimberley, so I thought it would be great to have one here too,” he said. The route in Kimberley started when Shaw noticed his best friend had a route, and subsequently spending money. Years later he’s earned the honour of being Oak Bay News Carrier of the Year. This week marks the 75th anniversary of National Newspaper Week, Oct. 4 to 10, which ends with Carrier Appreciation Day on Oct. 10 to honour the hard-working people who make a vital contribution to the industry. The prize for being named Carrier of the Year is fitting for the young athlete, $50 worth of drop in passes for Recreation Oak Bay – where he likes to go for a swim or skate with friends – and $50 to spend at Villages Pizza. A Grade 10 student at St. Michaels University School, the local newspaper carrier loves sports. At school he likes to hit the squash courts and plays rugby. His passion though is soccer. Shaw plays on the SMUS soccer team and ordinarily don’s a Bays United jersey. This year, however, he chose to forego commitment to the Bays league to successfully apply for an exchange to Australia through his school. Last month a student from that country stayed at the Shaw family’s Beach Drive home; in February the local teen heads down under for a six-week stay.
“I really wanted to make new friends across the globe,” he said. While overseas, he’ll mark a milestone, turning 16 on Feb. 22. “It’ll be my first birthday without my family,” he says. To enter the contest for Carrier of the Year, Shaw crafted a poem that took a few days in “bits and pieces”. He’s a creative sort of young man, inspired to “craft” as he calls it. His latest project is a pvc pipe and plastic tar ping greenhouse rapidly taking shape in the back yard “My grandpa has a really beautiful garden in England,” he says, adding he’ll likely grow vegetables. “I’m not big into flowers.” cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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GARDEN FURN: 4 chairs, chaise lounge, green/white cushions, glass table w/ umbrella, $75. (250)658-8201. ORIGINAL PAINTED pictures of the 4 Beatles, 35cmx45cm. $99. (250)477-5179. LARGE FUND Borrowers Wanted Start saving hundreds of dollars today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mortgage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income. Call Anytime 1-800-639-2274 or 604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca NEED A loan? Own property? Have bad credit? We can help! Call toll free 1-866-405-1228 ďŹ rstandsecondmortgages.ca
PETS PETS MEDIUM Poodle pups, registered, show quality. 1 female, 1 male.$1500. (250)923-4020. PUPPIES. 8 weeks old, Vigorous hybrid of wolf/shepherd/lab. Vet cleared, shots. Obedient, strong, very affectionate. View by appointment. 250-216-3243 or iiplcarr@islandnet.com.
FUEL/FIREWOOD ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, ďŹ r, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-5666899 Ext:400OT.
MISCELLANEOUS WANTED ANTIQUES, BOOKS, collectibles, furniture, china, jewelry. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700.
RENTALS MISCELLANEOUS FOR RENT PARKING SPACE near Lansdowne Camosun College. 3 min. walk to campus. Only $75/mo. Save $55/mo (or more for long-term). Chris, 250-595-0370.
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AERO AUCTIONS Upcoming Auction. Thurs., Oct. 22, Edmonton. Live & On-Line Bidding. Mining, excavation, transportation equipment, rock trucks, excavators, dozers, graders, truck tractors, trailers, pickup trucks, misc attachments & more! Consignments welcome! Call: 1-888-6009005 or www.aeroauctions.ca. ONLINE AUCTION - COMMERCIAL RESTAURANT EQUIPMENTOPENS WED OCT 14 - CLOSES WED OCT 21.........BAILIFF SEIZED PIZZA EQUIP, BAKERY & TACO EQUIP PLUS LEASE RETURNS - incl. Garland cooking equip, Berkel Slicers, Hobart 60 Quart Legacy Mixer, Meat Grinder, Sheeters, Walk-ins, Pizza & Convection Ovens, dishwashers, canopies and MORE !!!!! View Weekdays 10am to 4pm @Active Auction Mart - Unit 295 - 19358 96th Ave, Surrey, BC--- view ONLINE & REGISTER to BID @www.activeauctionmart.com --- Tel: 604-371-1190 email: buyit@activeauctionmart.com
FREE ITEMS FREE 3 seater sofa, good condition, you pick-up. Call (250)477-7819. FREE LARGE padded cocktail bar, brown. (250)652-1651.
AUTO SERVICES FREE REMOVAL of all vehicles, cash paid for some. Any condition. Call (250)889-5383
CARS 2010 CHEVY Cobalt LT, 4 door, black, power everything, auto, A/C, less then 73,000km, $8,000 with full tank of gas! Call 250-634-8586.
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250-686-3933 MOTORCYCLES 2006 VESPA LX50- as new, only 1,300 km, helmut included. $2000 obo. Call (250)4774607. 2008 HONDA Motorcycle, 919 (red). Only 22,000 km. Just serviced. No drops. $4,900. Call (250)361-0052.
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FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1800-573-2928.
Done Right Moving $85/hr. A+ BBB. Senior Disc. No travel time before/after local moves. Penny 250-418-1747
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CLEANING SERVICES AFFORDABLE! SUPPLIES & vacuum incld’d. All lower Island areas. 250-385-5869.
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GARDENING 20% OFF! Mowing, power raking, hedge/shrub trim, cleanups. Call (250)479-6495.
DPM SERVICES- lawn & garden, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141.
RENO SPECIALIST- Carpentry, drywall, plumbing, tiling electric. Kitchen & bath. 20yrs exp. Fully insured. Alain 250744-8453. www.justrenoz.com
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$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.
ABBA Exteriors Inc. “Fall Clean-Up Specials” Gutter & Window Cleaning Concrete Power Washing Vinyl Siding Cleaning Roof Sweep & De-Mossing Carpentry * Yard Cleanup Handyman Repairs Free Estimates WCB Insured, BBB Certified; Now accepting Visa/ MC *Seniors Discounts* (778)433-9275 www.abbaexteriors.ca Locally owned Family business
ALWAYS BRIGHT & Clean. Grand Xterior Cleaning. Repairs, Gutters, roofs windows, PWash, lights. 250-380-7778.
CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164. GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413. HAUL A WAY Clean & green. Junk & garbage removal. Free est. Fall disc. 778-350-5050 JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944. JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk. Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.
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A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.
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Alex Conconi with his father, Robert
Conconi Family Matching Donations to BC Cancer Foundation up to $1 Million Supporting a Monumental Leap in Cancer Treatment B.C.’s Conconi family is matching gifts made to the BC Cancer Foundation up to $1 million in support of an innovative new cancer treatment for B.C. patients. Robert Conconi believes he owes his life to cancer research and the hard working scientists and clinicians at the BC Cancer Agency after successful cancer treatments years ago. It was his eldest son Alex who drew the family’s attention to immunotherapy, an emerging area that’s been hailed as the most promising advancement in cancer care since chemotherapy.
The approach is to enhance the body’s natural potential to eliminate cancer in much the same way it wards off the common cold or flu. “We believe immunotherapy is the most promising and highly personalized new cancer treatment in development,” said Alex Conconi of the family’s commitment to match donations to the BC Cancer Foundation dollar-for-dollar up to an incredible $1 million. A specific form of immunotherapy—Adoptive T cell Therapy—has been in development at the BC
The end goal of T cell therapy is to launch a massive attack that destroys every remaining cancer cell in the patient’s body. Cancer Agency’s Deeley Research Centre over the past decade under the leadership of Dr. Brad Nelson. The research team is in final preparations for clin-
The Conconi family will match gifts until October 22, 2015 to help launch clinical trials for a made-in-B.C. immunotherapy approach to cancer treatment. Visit bccancerfoundation.com/matchgift to make a gift online today. bccancerfoundation.com | @bccancer The BC Cancer Foundation is the direct fundraising partner of the BC Cancer Agency and the largest funder of cancer research in B.C.
Dr. Brad Nelson, Director and Distinguished Scientist, Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency
ical trials, which will entail collecting, activating and expanding a patient’s own tumour-reactive T cells and infusing massive quantities of them back into the patient’s bloodstream. Dr. Nelson explained: “Each patient involved in the Agency’s immunotherapy clinical trial will have a custom treatment developed using T cells from their own body. The end goal of T cell therapy is to launch a massive attack that destroys every remaining cancer cell in the patient’s body.” The clinical trials rely on significant philanthropic funds to support the de-
velopment of each custom T cell therapy. Over 25,000 British Columbians will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and many individuals will face advanced or recurrent disease for which immunotherapy could one day provide a new treatment option. Dr. Anna Tinker, medical oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency will be running the Adoptive T Cell Therapy clinical trial. She said, “The hope for all of us is to be able to offer highly effective treatments to help people live better and longer.”
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