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OAK BAYNEWS Friday, November 20, 2015
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Seniors program forges connections in Oak Bay Council to aid Better at Home in creating partnerships Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
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Starting to look a lot like Christmas High above Oak Bay Avenue, Eric Marks of Capson Electric installs the giant wreath that accompanies the thousands of lights set to glow when the season kicks off with the Oak Bay Light Up on Nov. 29.
Oak Bay battles for Island title on home court New gym hosts senior AAA volleyball battle Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
Oak Bay hopes and expects to face Dover Bay in the final as the senior boys host the first volleyball Island Champion-
ondary schools. ship in the new gym. “Dover Bay is our competition on the Last Monday (Nov. 9) the Oak Bay senior boys team won its eighth consecutive Island. We’ve beaten them once and Lower Island championship with a 2-0 win they’ve beaten us twice (this season),” said coach Allan Carmichael. over Reynolds. Dover Bay is ranked No. 3 in the provThis weekend, six AAA teams battle for the Island title Nov. 20 and 21, the home ince and Oak Bay sits at No. 7. team, their rivals from the Nanaimo Dover Bay, and Victoria area schools Reynolds, PLEASE SEE: Claremont, Belmont and Spectrum sec- Top finishers move on to provincials, Page A4
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Better at Home hopes to expand in Oak Bay. While the provincially funded program currently offers 10 residents light housekeeping, they want to do more. “We’re looking for new partnerships in Oak Bay,” Jennifer Tessier, the Oak BayVictoria program co-ordinator told council Nov. 9. Better at Home helps seniors age-in-place, providing non medical, non-personal care, day-to-day tasks in a mix of fee-for-service and volunteer work. That includes minor repairs, yard work and friendly visits in more than 70 communities around the province. Funding is provided by the province and disbursed through United Way on the Lower Mainland. Coun. Tara Ney will explore a partnership with Oak Bay Volunteer Services that offers most of those programs to the community already. The district funded that group $25,000 this year. “We want (a partner) that is ideally providing those kinds of services already,” said Kaye Kennish, executive director of the James Bay Community Project’s Capital City Volunteers that partner to offer the Better at Home services in Victoria. “We don’t want to reinvent the wheel or step on anybody’s toes.” Better at Home wants to expand beyond light housekeeping in Oak Bay to offer grocery shopping, transportation and friendly visiting by volunteers in Oak Bay. That would include an $11,000 Oak Bay portion of the $40,000 budget for 2016. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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