oak bay news, october 14, 2015

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Gourds & ghoulsOak Bay Avenue prepares for the spooky season

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NEWS: Candidates tackle most pressing issues /A3ARTS: Poet releases beautiful new book /A11SPORTS: Vikes explore the McKinnon years /A15

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Turning headsUniversity of Victoria Fine Arts grad Kate Braidwood returns to the Phoenix Theatre with Loon, a Focus on Alumni performance running Oct. 14 to 24. Read more on page A12.

Mayor interested in ongoing talks to improve regional co-operationChristine van ReeuwykOak Bay News

One short meeting at the recent Union of BC Munici-palities 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-tion,” Jensen said.

Originally sought over the summer – when many coun-cil members are away – by the minister at the time of Community, Sport and Cul-tural Development, Coralee Oakes, the municipality sug-gested meeting with her at UBCM.

“When there was a change of ministers in the interim we were contacted by Mr. Fass-bender’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 discus-sions.”

Jensen, Coun. Tom Croft and Oak Bay CAO Helen Kon-ing 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 amal-gamation,” 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 amalga-mation.

A-word off the radar for province

“I don’t foresee the province launching into any study of any kind with respect to the CRD. I think they see themselves more as a facilitator.”

– Nils Jensen

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BIA’s Halloween events given nod from council

Christine van ReeuwykOak Bay News

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 Improve-ment Association spearheads the event where pumpkin art lines the street and fills the park behind municipal hall.

At least one resident of Granite Street, with a direct view of the rented fencing that offers security of the large display in the park, reiterated last year’s concerns over the look of the fencing.

Because of the layout of the park – and its hedges and gardens – moving the fencing inside the hedges would cut the space available for use by roughly 25 per cent, said project co-ordinator Heather Leary.

“It would change the entire event,” she said, adding she will find fencing scrim, fabric panels, similar to what was used last year.

“That is going to be camouflaged to some degree,” Leary said.

Mayor Nils Jensen also asked Leary to consider moving the two eight-by-20-foot containers used as secure storage for a variety of items during Pumpkin Art away from the municipal lot where “parking is at a premium.”

Council approved the event and waived about $1,500 worth of municipal costs as it’s a commu-nity event.

Pumpkins on the Avenue will include five more Halloween gourds on the street poles (up to 40

from 35) stretching from Foul Bay Road to Mon-terey Avenue. The oak tree in front of municipal hall will again feature carved artwork to help direct people to the Pumpkin Art display behind the hall.

Pumpkin Art on the Avenue features almost 500 pumpkins carved by John Vickers and each year new pumpkins are added to the displays. Pumpkin Art is open to the public Friday, Oct. 23 to 30 from 5 to 9 p.m. and on Oct. 31 from 5 to 10 p.m. Admis-sion is by donation.

Trick-or-treaters returnOak Bay Avenue will be closed from 1 to 6 p.m.

Oct. 31 for the Trick or Treat on the Avenue, fea-turing entertainment, activities and food vendors.

The Oak Bay BIA event runs the Halloween day event from 2 to 5 p.m.

Last year’s event attracted about 600 trick or treaters and roughly 2,000 people, said organizer Heather Leary.

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Pumpkin art will be back on the Avenue later this month, leading into the Village’s Halloween events.

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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 priori-ties – 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 eligibil-ity age for OAS from 67 to 65 will help lift many of our seniors out of poverty.

We will also create a national childcare

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 cli-mate change obligations through a transition to a clean economy.

We will reduce Can-ada’s reliance on fossil fuels by eliminating the Conservatives’ billion-dollar subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and by kick-starting our clean energy sector to make Canada a global market leader in clean energy.

John Rizzuti,Conservative

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 Cana-dian jobs and growth in the face of global uncertainty.

The Conservative Govern-ment has taken important steps to lower taxes on Canadian businesses, expand Canada’s trade network, sup-port skills-training, reform our immigration system and make major investments in infrastructure and innova-tion. These include:

• lowering taxes on families and Canadian busi-nesses, including the larg-est tax cut for small- and medium-sized businesses in over a quarter-century;

• concluding free trade

agreements with 39 countries including the Euro-pean Union and South Korea to significantly

increase Canada’s trade network and provide more export opportunities;

• providing support for apprenticeships and estab-lishing the Canada Job Grant to ensure skills-training will lead to future employment;

• reforming Canada’s immigration system to ensure it complements the country’s economic needs;

• launching the longest and largest investment plan for public infrastructure in Canada’s history

• and helping firms invest in new technologies and research and development through targeted tax relief and funding partnerships with Canada’s universities and colleges.

CANADA VOTES!

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 unaccept-able.

This concentration of power has seen our environmental laws deci-mated, scientific informa-tion censored, and dissent-ing views harassed. Our international reputation has suffered, inequality has grown and our consti-tutional rights have been challenged.

This approach to gov-erning 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 mat-ter who replaces Stephen Harper, a major-

ity 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 parlia-ment. Co-operation and respect must be reintro-duced to the major par-ties. That’s why I am run-ning as a Green.

Sidewalk extension, traffic calming aims to aid in pedestrian safetyChristine van ReeuwykOak Bay News

Traffic calming is coming to Cadboro Bay Road at Thompson Avenue.

The facelift started last week for the inter-section 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 inter-section,” says Dave Marshall, director of engineering for Oak Bay.

“Traffic calming of course is a means of

physically slowing traffic, reducing the ten-dency 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 south-east quadrant, the realigning of the exist-ing 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 contribution of $6,100 towards the project.

“By working with ICBC on theses proj-ects we’re assured they have their input on the design aspect and they can con-tribute,” Marshall said. “It’s valuable input into our pro-cess.”

When put out to tender in September, bids were significantly over budget, so municipal staff met with the lowest bidder, Northridge, and arranged for a re-submis-sion based on the removal of approximately 70 metres of the originally proposed side-

walk extension. The revised bid came in just over $49,000

and falls under bud-get with a GST rebate.

“We’re not losing anything because the main traffic calm-ing component is in effect,” Marshall said.

“We’re going to fol-low through and put the extended side-

walk in next year. Any work beyond this, there will be an evaluation period and we’ll see how it performs. If a larger scope proj-ect is warranted that could come online in the future.”

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“Traffic calming ... is a means of physically slowing traffic, reducing the tendency for vehicles to flip around the corner at excessively fast speeds.”

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The number of cougar sightings has gone up in Greater Victoria compared to previous years, according to a B.C. con-servation 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 pur-sued and caught a male cougar that found its way into James Bay.

The big cat was originally spotted Mon-day 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 even-tually 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 relation-ship, if the deer population is up, preda-tor numbers will also increase.

With more cougars in the Highlands, Metchosin and Goldstream areas, younger cougars will have to look else-where 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.

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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 mem-ber of the security staff saw the cougar in the north park-ing 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 fur-ther 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 preda-tory behaviour while being observed, and was likely wan-dering 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 ani-mals in urban areas is some-what rare, such was the case in James Bay during daylight hours, it would not be uncom-mon for these animals to be

present in large green spaces, especially in the evening hours.” Eassie said.

Owners of small pets are reminded that cougars gener-ally move around in the eve-ning hours and that it would

be suggested to keep animals inside throughout the eve-ning.

The BC Conservation Offi-cer Service has been notified of the [email protected]

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Police converged on campus after a cougar was spotted at Camosun early Friday morning.

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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 But-ler Book Prize for adult litera-ture 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 Path-ways, 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 Chamber-lain, for Shack Island Summer, Laura Langston, for The Art of Getting Stared At, and Chris Tou-gas, 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.

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Dr. Nancy Turner – a long-time champion of Indigenous tradi-tional knowledge who has spent more than four decades exploring the human relationship to our nat-ural environment – is one of five 2015 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foun-dation Fellows.

Turner, a sought-after speaker about traditional lands in Oak Bay, earned the national honour as rec-ognition of her career-long devo-tion to understanding and commu-nicating the crucial role that plants play in Indigenous cultures and languages, especially with respect to land rights and ancestral ter-ritories.

A professor in the University of Victoria’s School of Environmen-tal Studies and the Hakai Research Chair in Ethnoecology at UVic, Turner special-izes in ethnoecological studies with Western Canadian Indigenous peoples, particularly on B.C.’s central coast.

The fellowship allows for sharing of infor-mation with the other four honourees.

“It has been a wonderful privilege to meet and spend time with the other four Fellows, each of whom is a leader in their field,” Turner said. “They, in their projects, are also present-ing and addressing deep ethical questions that relate to laws and governance, rights of individuals, including minority groups. We have met together twice so far, but will be able to meet and discuss our projects, and obtain feedback on our ideas, protocols and

approaches for our projects, over the next few years. Each of them has both expertise and wisdom to contribute, and I will definitely be able to draw on this as my own project unfolds.”

As part of her fellowship project, Turner proposed a two- to three-day symposium for spring 2017 to gather Indigenous leaders and knowledge holders, legal scholars, ethnobota-nists, ethnoecologists and students.

“The symposium is still very much a work in progress, as I hope to develop it with consulta-tion. It will focus on various aspects of law and policy relating to Indigenous land rights and occupancy, and to resource use planning and decision-making, in terms of how knowledge, use and management of plants and habitats

might be more fully represented in deliberations,” she said.

“Laws such as the Heritage Conservation Act and Forest Act as well as old and new treaties and treaty negotiations, parks and protected areas – all of these will be considered through the lens of Indigenous plant use, knowledge and practice. I hope that participants will include First Nations’ leaders and envi-ronmental experts, people in the legal profession, ecologists and botanists, government represen-tatives, educators and interested youth.”

Outcomes from the sympo-sium would be presented in a variety of forms, including at least one publication.

Turner is the fourth UVic pro-fessor to be honoured with a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship.

“Dr. Turner is a person of deep integrity, social commitment, and eloquence, who has combined scholarship at the highest level with public education, far-reaching contri-butions to the policy process, and the pro-motion of dialogue among governments, the public and First Nations peoples,” said Jamie Cassels, UVic president.

The awards are made by an independent jury of researchers and intellectuals and sup-port the winners as they pursue the next stages of their academic research. Turner will receive $225,000 over the next three years.

For more information visit trudeaufounda-tion.ca.

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Popular Oak Bay speaker earns national honour

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UVic’s Dr. Nancy Turner is one of five 2015 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellows.

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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.

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There was a flurry of excite-ment in the B.C. legislature last week, as Delta South inde-pendent MLA Vicki Hunting-ton released docu-ments suggesting that a multinational manufacturing com-pany continued to buy up B.C. farms for carbon offsets after they said last June they would stop.

False alarm, as it turns out. Agricul-ture Minister Norm Letnick clarified that three more farms in the Peace and Cariboo region had indeed been bought, but the company was merely fol-lowing legal advice to close deals on farms that it had already agreed to purchase.

The company, British-based cleaning product and pharmaceutical maker Reck-itt Benckiser (RB) confirmed this. A company official reiter-ated that its program to buy farms and replant them with trees is suspended.

By the time the B.C. gov-ernment became aware of this global public relations scheme, thanks to the work

of NDP MLA Lana Popham and others, about 10,000 hect-ares of farmland was already planted with seedlings. RB

initially said they were buying up abandoned and u n p r o d u c t i v e farms, but local government offi-cials disputed that.

RB soon realized that undermining already precarious farming communi-ties was going to provide the oppo-site of the green publicity they

sought, at least in B.C. The company told me it’s now looking to switch its carbon offset program to replanting forest areas depleted by pine beetle and fire. I’ll believe that when I see it, but on the face of it, this sounds almost as questionable as converting farmland back to forests. Pine forests need fire to regener-ate, so fires have been part of the regeneration of the eco-system since the retreat of the last Ice Age.

Beetle-kill areas are already coming back, and they were never completely denuded

in any case, so the notion of manual planting these areas seems impractical. Most are now criss-crossed with dead-fall 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 sup-posed 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 govern-ment changed its approach to forest management. Gone was the NDP’s infamous seven-volume “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 pro-duce 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 gener-ally 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 diffi-cult for public understanding or review.” Little has changed since a similar finding in 2006.

During that time, the for-ests ministry was turned into Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, with greatly increased responsibil-ity 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 protest-ers issuing demands about the Walbran Valley.

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Letters to the EditorRe: B.C. Views, Inner chil-

dren 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 erup-tion 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 com-munism.

Surely the political task of our time is to get the opti-mum 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 impor-tant 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 HillOak Bay

Time for a rethink on Oak Bay’s deer issue

Why is a cougar in Oak Bay (or wherever) more ‘ter-rifying’ 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

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 actu-ally 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 con-tested, why not a few million to ‘save the deer’ (and, per-haps, 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 neighbor-hood.

They may be cute, espe-

cially the moms and baby fawns, but they have become an enormous health hazard.

I work as an anesthesiolo-gist and I am involved with so many bicycling accidents involving deer, as cyclists swerve in an attempt to avoid hitting them.

Fractured forearms, frac-tured 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 Sipos- Sylwestrowicz

Oak Bay

Wildlife haters never happy

When deer started showing up in Oak Bay concerned citi-zens claimed the deer were here as they had no preda-tors, 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

until all wildlife is eradicated. The cougar which was

caught in James Bay had, according to the media, been the one that was in Oak Bay.

I guess it figured pickings were slim in Oak Bay and moved on.

Jennifer FlattOak Bay

Cull message missed by visiting cougar

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 JesseOak 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/fog-lights/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 TaylorOak Bay

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Oak Bay council has a head start on Christ-mas after approving road closures for some of the biggest holiday activities in the com-munity.

The Oak Bay Busi-ness Improvement Association garnered approval for the 15th annual Oak Bay Christ-mas Festival, set for Nov. 29 to Dec. 5 this year.

The festival begins with the village light-up on Sunday, Nov. 29, followed by the Art on the Avenue Gallery Walk and Oak Bay Vil-lage Christmas Social on Dec. 3.

The Island Equip-ment Owners Asso-ciation 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 Ave-nue 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 Gal-lery 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 Hamp-shire Avenue from Oak Bay Avenue to the park-ing entrance to Athlone Court.

The Lighted Truck Convoy will cruise through Oak Bay Vil-lage between 6 and 7 p.m. Dec. 5.

Oak Bay will allow for a road closure some-time between 5:30 and 7 p.m. for the proces-sion. 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 Remem-brance Day Commit-tee to poppy tag in the community Oct. 31 through Nov. 7. Poppy distribution is by dona-tion 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 res-taurant roof to Parker Johnston for $126,881.

Dahorn Consultants Ltd. was hired to spec-ify, tender and monitor the roof work at a cost of $3,900.

The tender bid, including the consul-tant’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.

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“He also said there would not be any stud-ies 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 munici-palities, both through the Capital Regional Dis-trict 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

our efforts working with other municipalities to find ways to work more efficiently together,” Jensen said.

“He was impressed with how we were co-operating within the CRD … he expressed sup-port 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 municipali-ties 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.”

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Soon many Greater Victoria families strug-gling to choose between purchasing essen-tials like food or toilet paper won’t have to make that hard choice.

TP the Town Victoria, a toilet paper drive organized by the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce’s Prodigy Group, aims to col-lect 50,000 rolls of toilet paper by Saturday, Oct. 17. The collected rolls will be given out throughout the year to those experiencing homelessness or poverty.

Oak Bay residents can purchase discounted toilet paper Oct. 17 at Save-On-Foods and Country Grocer locations, dropping their donation with on-site TP the Town Victoria volunteers between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The event is organized by The Prodigy Group in partnership with the Greater Victo-ria Coalition to End Homelessness.

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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 provincially-funded $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 Neigh-bourhood 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 Edu-cation 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 plan-ning such as the moveable walls that enable adaptable program-ming 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 mil-lion 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 Commu-nity Association of Oak Bay for “incredible dedication” conceiv-ing and funding the welcome pole anticipated to stand at the

front of the building later this fall.

“As we walk toward the new Oak Bay High school we will approach the magnificent Sno’uyutth pole, Sno’uyutth meaning ‘spreading good energy.’ What better thought can all of us have to start the day?” she said.

“When I see you, the students in the audience, I see a future full of hope and opportunity. You, the youth of today, are an inspiration to me. Your passion is infectious. Your innovation and creativity fills me with hope. Your desire to make the world a better place through your community lead-ership is profoundly appreci-ated. Thank you for all you have done and all that you will con-

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. Col-lectively you have excelled in all your Pillars of Excellence: aca-demics, athletics, fine arts and community leadership and phi-lanthropy,” Weaver said.

Four students – Ruby Tang, Matti Grant, Veronique Beau-det and Robert Lee – officially ushered that ethos into the new school, symbolically trans-ferring the pillars from the old building to the new.

The school celebrated partnerships such as the one

Thank-yous officially open new school

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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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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 high-five. Right: Victoria School District Trustee Deborah Nohr and Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen cut the ribbon.

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At the dawn of the 20th Cen-tury, Victoria was a city on the move.

As Canada’s Pacific gateway, its natural advantages included a mild climate and impressive cen-tral 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 con-nections with the Pacific terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in Vancouver impeded future growth.

Seeking to improve the Victo-ria to Vancouver steamer service, Canadian Pacific Navigation Com-pany (CPN) purchased land on Belleville Street in 1899 to expand operations but they lacked suffi-cient resources to proceed.

In 1901, the deep-pocketed CPR acquired a controlling interest in CPN and purchased the company outright in 1903. Under the leadership of Captain James Troup, CPR moved quickly to establish a proper B.C. Coastal Service by develop-ing an impressive fleet of modern “pocket liners.”

With luxurious sleeping rooms and styl-ish lounges, the Pacific Princesses inaugu-rated an era of glamorous travel on Brit-ish Columbia’s coastal waters and com-plimented the company’s established fleet of Empress liners which serviced international routes.

In 1904, CPR com-missioned the young architect Francis Rat-tenbury, lauded for his design of the B.C. Par-liament Buildings, to develop a steamship ticket office on the Bel-leville site.

Opened in 1905, the timber-framed, Tudor-style structure was modeled after the residential estates Rat-tenbury had previously designed. The B.C. Coastal Service boomed, driven by strong demand on the famous “triangle route” between Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle.

Ships such as Princess Mary, Princess Patricia and Princess Maquinna became household names. The era’s best known ship was the sleek and elegant Princess Victoria, which set new speed records on the Vancouver crossing, and gener-

ated considerable pride in its namesake homeport. By the 1920s, tourist traffic exceeded the capacity of the existing fleet and the rise of automobiles required new vessels with the ability to carry vehicles as well as passengers. Victoria had lived up to its promise as a city with a bright future.

The Rattenbury-designed parliament buildings and Empress Hotel, opened in 1898 and 1908 respectively, had created a brilliant inner harbour panorama that Rattenbury was proud to consider his “life’s work.”

In 1923, CPR asked Rattenbury to design a grand new terminal to replace his earlier Tudor-style structure. Rattenbury pledged to create “a building that would harmonize and add to the beauty” of the har-bour precinct.

With support from architect Percy James, Rattenbury envi-sioned a glittering new Pacific headquar-ters that would befit the CPR’s power and prestige. He designed a monumen-tal Greek waterfront temple with mas-sive Ionic columns, Welsh slate roof and an exterior adorned at each corner with carved heads of Poseidon – the Greek god of the sea.

Workmen began tearing down the old ticket office in August 1923 and construc-tion began shortly thereafter. A novel technique was used to keep standards

high and costs low. Imitation sandstone for the facade was

created in moulds in the building’s base-ment using a mixture of white cement and pulverized marble and granite.

When completed, the terminal’s recep-tion area featured 17-foot ceilings, a grand central fireplace, marbled waiting rooms and floor-to-ceiling windows with spec-tacular 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 anticipa-tion of welcoming two new ships which had been commissioned to modernize the fleet. Princess Kathleen and Princess Marguerite could each carry 1,500 passen-gers as well as 30 automobiles. Concur-rent upgrades to the CPR piers in Seattle and Vancouver enhanced the overall tri-angle service.

The CPR terminal was the last build-ing Rattenbury designed in the Inner Har-bour. He considered it “as good as any-thing 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 con-vince Premier W.A.C. Bennett to create B.C. Ferries.

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A 1920s-era postcard depicts the Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Terminal in Victoria’s Inner Harbour.

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“Rattenbury pledged to create ‘a building that would harmonize and add to the beauty” of the harbour precinct.”

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Over time, guests on CPR’s over-night services to Vancouver were outnumbered by crew as competi-tion grew from government car fer-ries, new private operators and air-lines. CPR transferred its coastal headquarters to Vancouver and in 1970 leased the building to the Royal London Wax Museum.

CPR ended passenger services in 1974 and sold the terminal to the province the following year. The wax museum closed in 2010 and in 2012, Greater Victoria Harbour Authority assumed the head lease and invested $2.6 million in renovations.

Current tenants include Robert Bateman Centre, Steamship Grill and Bar and Starbucks. Potential new ten-

ants include Oceans Networks Can-ada and Riverside Marine, with excit-ing plans to return the building to its transportation roots by inaugurating a new Victoria to Vancouver marine passenger service.

On Canada Day this year, the Har-bour Authority unveiled dusk-to-dawn lighting which can display a variety of colours to spotlight the building’s heritage features and high-light its continuing role as the shin-ing temple of tourism in Victoria’s spectacular harbour panorama.

Ivan Watson is an historian and media relations specialist for the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority. You can follow him on Twitter @wat-sonivan or email him at: [email protected].

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A matchmaker of sorts earns kudos for the latest book of poetry from UVic Pro-fessor Emeritus Lorna Crozier.

The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea features a collection of photos and poems from pho-tographer Ian McAllis-ter and Governor Gen-eral’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 chore-ographer. 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, off-hand, by an online edi-tor Kim Gray (Toque & Canoe) who commis-sioned 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 hap-pens.’”

When McAllister started sending her

the images, suddenly poems started to announce themselves.

“I was extremely moved by the place so things started to hap-pen 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 expla-nations, 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 pho-tos 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 origi-nal poems, The Wild in You captures the raw emotion of B.C.’s coastline, including its most rarely seen or endangered crea-tures. From sea wolves to spirit bears to giant anenomes, each stun-ning 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

Did you know?Lorna Crozier has received

two honourary doctorates for her contributions to Canadian literature. In 2004 she was made a Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria and in 2009 a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her first collection, Inside in the Sky, was published in 1976. Since then, she has authored 16 books of poetry. Crozier retired two years ago from UVic’s department of writing after more than 20 years as a professor.

with a partner like Ian has probably been one of the most excit-ing projects I’ve been involved in,” Crozier said. Not a fan of the coffee table book, Cro-zier loves that the “rea-sonable size and rea-sonable 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 inter-est to more people than merely poetry fans. It’s a small popu-lation in the world that reads and a buys poetry books. I think this one, because

Poet and professor emeritus Lorna Crozier

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 For-est and the Sea (Greystone Books) is available in bookstores including Ivy’s Books.

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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 perfor-mance, 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 the-atre 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 cartoon-ish 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 ground up,” she said. “(Dell’Arte) is where I fell in love with masks. I’d done some mask work at UVic and those were high-lights 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 the-atre. 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

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 Spot-light on Alumni.”

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The Wonderheads bring their production of Loon to the University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre Oct. 14 to 24.

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NOTICE OF PROPERTY DISPOSITIONPursuant to Section 26(3) of the Community Charter

The Corporation of the District of Oak Bay

TAKE NOTICE that the District of Oak Bay proposes to dispose of property located at 2564 Heron Street (Tod House), legally described as Amended Lot 26 (DD 225937I), Block 9, Section 2, Victoria District, Plan 379 and Lot 27, Block 9, Section 2, Victoria District, Plan 379 by way of a lease (fixed term tenancy) for a two year period from November 1, 2015 to October 31, 2017 to Lisa Mercure and Kevin Perkins for the rent of $1,645 per month.

Any enquiries concerning this proposed property disposition may be directed to Loranne Hilton, Municipal Clerk at 250-598-3311.

While it was looking like “apa-thy would be the only horse running” in Oak Bay’s 1987 municipal election, by Oct. 14, the Oak Bay Star reported. that in addition to Christopher Caus-ton, “a well-known restaurateur known for his commu-nity involvement,” civil servant Silvio Tognela and stock broker David Nich-olson had thrown their hats in the ring to challenge incum-bent aldermen Peter Bunn, Neil Swainson and Charles Clayton.

With 12 days left for nomina-tions, The Star expected a few names might still come forward.

* * *“Man in Motion” Rick Hansen

visited the University of Victo-ria to promote his new book, co-authored with former Victoria sports writer Jim Taylor.

Among the Oak Bay residents on hand to meet Hansen was a delegation from Willows Ele-mentary.

* * *Moving ahead 10 years, it was

the proposal to build an on a small, narrow lot that captured the front page of the day.

Reporting in the Oct. 15, 1997 edition, the Oak Bay News noted a proposal to build a house on a 22-foot-wide lot on Elgin Road passed Oak Bay’s committee of the whole, though Mayor Christopher Causton and Coun. John Pallett were

opposed. While the majority of council-

lors appreciated the attractive design and affordability of the proposed home, Causton and Pallett were concerned about the many variances required to build on a lot that was never intended to be used for a home.

However, a petition in sup-port of the project swayed then Coun,.Nils Jensen: “The one thing that encourages me to support this is the acceptance by the community. I trust their 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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Jennifer BlythPages from the Past

Got a sports story?Sports news to share? Special event or big game coming up? The Oak Bay News wants to hear about it!Email the details to editor Jennifer Blyth at [email protected] or call 250-480-3239.Submissions of information and high-resolution images are also welcome for consideration.Please be sure to include a contact name and phone number or email address.

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Wednesday, Oct. 14Volkssport – 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.

Victoria Women’s Newcomers Club Luncheon – New to Victoria? The club will

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 [email protected] 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. 15Volkssport – Thursday evening walk. Meet at Harbour Towers, Quebec Street. Register at 5:45 p.m., for 6 p.m. walk. Info: David, 250-598-4316.

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 Canada¹s 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: [email protected].

Saturday, Oct. 17 Ivy and Broom Bash in Uplands Park, Oct. 17 and 18 – Join the Friends of Uplands

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

$18/$14 from 250-721-8480, tickets.uvic.ca and at the door.

South Island Centre for Counselling and Training 40th anniversary – at the Hotel Grand Pacific. Ticket includes buffet supper, silent auction, loads of door prizes, dancing and fabulous live music. Cash bar, underground parking. Tickets from Event Brite or at the centre, 3821A Cedar Hill Cross Rd. http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/south-island-centre-for-counsellings-40th-anniversary-fundraising-gala-tickets-18418594512

Sunday, Oct. 18Community 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

Meeting precedes lecture.

Monday, Oct. 19Volkssport – 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. 20Drop-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.

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Having regular eye exams by a doctor of optometry can ensure that not only is your vision functioning properly, but also, that your eyes are healthy. Many health problems can be detected through the eyes. For example, diabetic patients should have yearly eye exams to rule out damage to the back of the eyes, because loss of vision can result if left untreated.

During the eye exam, the optometrist will deter-mine if corrective lenses would significantly improve your vision. Often people, who have never had an eye exam, do not realize what they are missing. This is particularly true of children. The optometrist can put all doubts aside, and if corrective lenses are required, a prescription will be provided to meet your specific vision requirements.

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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 publi-cation chronicles the rich history of the school’s athletics.

Written by local sportswriter and former UVic Harvey Southam Lecturer Tom Haw-thorn, and richly illustrated with archival photographs from the UVic Libraries Spe-cial Collections and University Archives, and Vikes Athletics, the book outlines the 40 years of sporting excellence and facili-ties that define “the McKinnon Years.”

The book “celebrates the vital impor-tance of sporting accomplishments within the life of the university,” university librar-ian Jonathan Bengtson says in his introduc-tion.

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, soc-cer and swimming at the school.

A timeline also compliments the publica-tion, 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 athlet-ics and recreation director, reflects upon the incredible legacy of athletic excellence associated with UVic Athletics.

“We will never say good-bye to the many

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 associ-ated 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.

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New book explores the Vikes’ McKinnon years

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 rea-son 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 com-munity 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, associ-ate vice-president of financial planning and opera-tions. “Our vision builds on the collective action of the university community through planning, shared learning, grassroots activities and institu-tional leadership.”

Sustainability Week promotes sustainable life-styles 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 cel-ebration – 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.

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UVic challenges campus members to leave cars at home

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Carrier of the YearHarry ShawWhy I Should Be Chosen

As Carrier Of The Year

by Harry Shaw Come rain or shine I’m outward bound

Pacing along my well worn round.

My cart when full does tend to creak.

The wheels, once quiet, really squeak.

It’s hard to think when on my feet.

But I always read my broadcast sheet.

Who stops, who starts, who’s gone away?

Things change, you know, from day to day.

Up path, climb steps, must close gate.

Must keep going, don’t be late.

My readers await their Oak Bay News.

Don’t let them down, no time to lose.

There’s dogs, there’s cats, there’s even deer.

But I always fi nd a way that’s clear.

And my readers sometimes share their views

‘bout things they’ve read in Oak Bay News.

And when my readers go away

I just drop theirs off another day.

And keep an eye out, for I might

See something that just ain’t quite right.

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 subse-

quently 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 News-

paper 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 rap-

idly 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.”

[email protected]

Thank you toVillages Pizza Oak Bay

and Recreation Oak Bay for providing a

grand prize.

Great job carriers!


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GREATER VICTORIA Festival Society is looking for an Event Logistics Coordinator to work with board members to create and manage an exciting new event in Downtown Victoria. If you’re a demonstrated leader with an eye for detail who breathes organization, sched-ules and working to timelines. Initial commitment would be 2-4 hours per week, growing to 12 hours the month before the October event. Call 250-386-2269.

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AUCTIONS

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RENTALS

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ALLHOME Reno’s & Restora-tions: Kitchens, bath, addi-tions, re-modeling. We build custom homes. Decks, rail-ings & fences. 35 yrs experi-ence. General maintenance. Comm/Res. 250-213-7176.

CLEANING SERVICES

AFFORDABLE! SUPPLIES & vacuum incld’d. All lower Is-land areas. 250-385-5869.

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250-361-6193 Quality Electric Reno’s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779.

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Company. Res/Com. Lic #86952. Call 250-415-7991.

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ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

GARDENING

20% OFF! Mowing, power rak-ing, hedge/shrub trim, clean-ups. Call (250)479-6495.


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(250)208-8535. YARD & gar-den overgrown? Lawn cuts/ repairs. Tree & hedge pruning. Soil/mulch delivery. 25yrs exp.

DPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141.

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free estimate

ABBA Exteriors Inc.“Fall Clean-Up Specials”Gutter & Window CleaningConcrete Power Washing

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BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

RENO SPECIALIST- Carpen-try, drywall, plumbing, tiling electric. Kitchen & bath. 20yrs exp. Fully insured. Alain 250-744-8453. www.justrenoz.com

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$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

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

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FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

RENOVATIONS SPECIALIST Carpenter&Sons. decks, fence Doors, windows, painting, dry-wall. Kitchen, bath, suites, Senior Disc. 250-217-8131.

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A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

HIGH QUALITY and FAST. Professional Painting. $20./hr. Free est. Glenn 778-967-3607.

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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 be-lieves 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 immunothera-py, an emerging area that’s been hailed as the most promising advancement in cancer care since che-motherapy.

The approach is to en-hance the body’s natural potential to eliminate can-cer in much the same way it wards off the common cold or flu. “We believe immu-notherapy 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 im-munotherapy—Adoptive T cell Therapy—has been in development at the BC

Cancer Agency’s Deeley Research Centre over the past decade under the leadership of Dr. Brad Nel-son. The research team is in final preparations for clin-

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 pa-tient’s bloodstream. Dr. Nelson explained:

“Each patient involved in the Agency’s immuno-therapy 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 at-tack 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 diag-nosed with cancer this year, and many individuals will face advanced or recurrent disease for which immu-notherapy could one day provide a new treatment option. Dr. Anna Tinker, med-ical oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency will be run-ning 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.”

Conconi Family Matching Donations to BC Cancer Foundation up to $1 MillionSupporting a Monumental Leap in Cancer Treatment

Dr. Brad Nelson, Director and Distinguished Scientist, Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency

Alex Conconi with his father, Robert

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 BC Cancer Foundation is the direct fundraising partner of the BC Cancer Agency and the largest funder of cancer research in B.C.

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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.


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