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Tour de RockTeam takes off with Oak Bay rider Jordan Carrie

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School crossing guard Shanna Gravel helps kids and parents cross Cadboro Bay Road safely on the first day of school, which was delayed three weeks this year due to the teachers’ strike, at Ecole Willows Elementary.

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School was back in session on Monday in Oak Bay after 86 per cent of B.C. teachers voted in favour of a six-year contract.

It will be up to each individual school district in the province to determine how to make up for lost class-time, said Greater Victoria school district chair Peg Orcherton.

“The ministry will likely provide some direction, but districts have the ability to establish their own calendars.”

Orcherton said there is no set plan yet, as discussions are still being had on how to provide students with a full school year. She added it may end up being a combination of different things.

Unlike some districts, such as Sooke, Orcherton said maintenance and facilities staff were able to get into the schools and do regular maintenance and cleanup over the summer.

“We have separate facilities grounds and part of a labour relations ruling was that those couldn’t be picketed because there’s no teachers working there,” said Orcherton.

“So our schools are clean and ready for receiving teachers and students.”

BCTF president Jim Iker said the agreement provides for “hundreds of new teachers” as well as raises for regular and substitute teachers and improved extended health benefits.

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Jordan Carrie still remembers the excitement of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Tour de Rock team entering the gym at Spectrum Secondary.

“They announced the (2014) team at Reynolds (secondary). I’d heard stories about (the team) going in there and the gym comes alive,” he said. “I remember when they came to Spectrum and you feel the energy and hear the stories, it’s amazing.”

Carrie’s involvement with the police and the Tour de Rock goes back to his childhood.

“I grew up in View Royal and Colwood. My dad volunteered for years with the West Shore RCMP, with Constables on Patrol, different police boards and stuff … I always wanted to be a police officer, as far back as I can remember.”

He spent 10 years as an RCMP auxiliary, until last year when he became a reserve constable with the Oak Bay police department. “Oak Bay is a good community, they really support the reserve

program and support the police.”

The 30 year old works for Island Health Protection Services, which he said has also been very supportive of his position with the 2014 Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock team.

“There’s amazing community support for Tour de Rock. Everybody’s been helpful and supportive: my wife Sarah; Island Health; the Oak Bay BIA gave me a spot at the four markets (where) there’s a lot of support from the community (with) people coming by to say hi or talk; the Tea Party made room for us.”

When Carrie realized he could apply for the Tour this year, he deferred an application to the police. “This was to be the year, then the opportunity to join Tour de Rock came up and I knew I had to try out.”

He borrowed a bike and began training on his own before being named to the team in May.

“I had to learn how to clip in … I had a few tumbles,” he said with a laugh.

Over the last few months he’s learned to ride hills with speed. “Mount Washington was really challenging – that was extreme heat. I must have drank nine bottles of water and I had nothing left in me. I sweat it all out.”

Carrie set himself a $10,000 fundraising goal and has already

met it. He’s now aiming to raise as much money as he can for

Vancouver Island kids with cancer.

“You get one shot at it, you have to put in 110 per cent. Everyone on the team has put a lot of their own personal stuff on hold, but it’s an excellent opportunity.”

He has a junior rider, Matt Williams, 16, who has given him extra inspiration for the 1,000 kilometre ride. “He inspires me. He very definitely inspires me. Everyone we met at Camp Goodtimes was inspiring. That (visit) gives you that extra punch, that extra push forward. Even though your goal might be to raise as much as you can get. When you see those people, those kids and families dealing with cancer, you can’t reach high enough.”

The Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock raises money for pediatric cancer research and programs for children with a history of cancer. The Tour de Rock team cycles from one end of the Vancouver Island to the other, over 14 days, covering 1,000 kilometres. This year’s ride began on Sept. 21 and ends Oct. 3 in Victoria. The 24 riders will be in Oak Bay, including a stop at Oak Bay High, on Oct. 2.

For more on the Tour de Rock, go to tourderock.ca.

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On the road for kids with cancer

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Oak Bay police reserve Const. and 2014 Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock rider Jordan Carrie spins for donations at the Oak Bay Night Market.

2014 Tour de Rock team includes Oak Bay rider

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The Earth Mother tops Sno’uyutth, the welcoming pole designed for Oak Bay High by master Songhees carver Butch Dick. Her hair flows down the back symbolizing Bowker Creek as it

shimmers past the school. Rivers and streams, they are the life blood of environment.

It’s a part of the design that draws joy from Joseph Blake co-leader of the Community Association of Oak Bay project team.

“I love everything about this project,” Blake said, gesturing to the other animals outlined on the pole, including the eagle intertwined in Earth Mother’s hair down the back. “We’re really making reconciliation here. This is positive stuff.”

The Community Association of Oak Bay undertook the project to develop a welcoming pole last spring, commissioning Butch Dick for a design and getting approval from the school board to place it at the new high school. They earned approval to have Butch’s son Clarence Dick and a carving team do the work on site

“It can be an educational tool the whole time it’s being made,” Blake said. They hope to have all-ages visit the carving area when work is underway.

School District #61 also agreed to provide ongoing maintenance once the work is complete.

“Imagine for the 60 First Nation students at Oak Bay High,” Blake said. “(How) will it make them feel, finally being acknowledged?”

With a design in place, and some basic funding for the estimated $88,000 total cost, the Community Association of Oak Bay is ready to launch the welcoming pole called Sno’uyutth, Coast Salish for ‘spreading good energy’ as part of Culture Days on Sept. 27 at the high school.

“We’re going to have Songhees drummers right there where the carving shed will be,” Blake said.

Clarence will demonstrate carving, his father will describe the components – camas, eagle, blue heron sea otters and frog – and what each symbolizes and Victoria poet laureate Janet Rogers will do a reading. There will also be totem pole colouring, or design, for the kids.

“We really want families to come. This is public art that will be on the site for hundreds of years,” Blake said. “We have this image of the Tweed curtain. It is not true. We’re a young, vibrant community.”

The Culture Days event runs Sept. 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the grass area on Cadboro Bay Road in front of the West Building of the existing high school.

They hope to have the pole in place in fall 2015, the expected completion date for the new school.

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When the official campaign kicks off to fund the welcoming pole at Oak Bay High this weekend it will already have some cash in the bank and the backing of council.

Oak Bay plans to contribute the remainder of its grant in aid fund, $6,187 to the Sno’uyutth Pole Project, it decided during last week’s council meeting.

The Community Asso-ciation of Oak Bay sought support for the project and $20,000 funding over two years toward the estimated $88,000 proj-ect. Council agreed to put the remainder, $13,813 in the 2015 budget, though there’s some hope that the CAOB may not even need the funding if all goes well in the interim with the project that offi-cially launches its fund-raising campaign Sept. 27.

The association began work in ernest this spring, commissioning master Songhees carver Butch Dick to provide a drawing and getting the OK from the school dis-trict to place a welcoming pole or figure near an existing sequoia at the front of the new Oak Bay High.

“It would be a wonderful addition to the com-munity,” said Coun. Michelle Kirby. “We still have that sequoia and we have a real opportunity here with the welcoming pole. … It sends a really posi-tive message to our youth about inclusivity.”

“The First Nations in our community have been under-represented in our community for a long time,” agreed Coun. Pam Copley, adding it’s long overdue.

Council briefly considered a lower amount, $3,500 to keep a small reserve in the fund. But this signals the support of council to other pos-sible donors, noted Coun. Tara Ney.

“I think it’s reasonable but should be driven by the community,” said Coun. Kevin Murdoch. “It’s very easy to be generous with other peoples’ money.”

Coun. John Herbert was supportive in principle but wished it was a couple of years down the road as the school is looking to fund things like theatre seats to the tune of $2 million.

“There will be a dozen other things that may come up … that are higher profile than this,” he said, adding it is still a “wonderful idea.”

“We have, as a municipality, contributed $1 mil-lion to the theatre,” noted Coun. Cairine Green. “This is a very important piece of that develop-ment project.”

The CAOB hopes to see the pole in place by fall 2015.

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How to giveReceipts for donations of $50 and more are

available through a partnership with Rotary Club of Oak Bay. Mail to the Community Association of Oak Bay, 138-2017A Cadboro Bay Rd., V8R 5G4

Budget has wiggle room

Oak Bay recently finished paying off its 10-year pay-ment towards the City of Vic-toria multiplex which means the grant budget is set to decrease by $17,800 for next year, allow-ing some room for a proposed $13,813 grant in 2015.

Council seeds support with last of grant funds

spreading good energySonghees pole campaign starts

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Drawings by Butch Dick depict the welcome pole commissioned by the Community Association of Oak Bay.


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One might not correlate sipping champagne and watching a big budget television premier with life-saving equipment, but that’s the exact goal of the upcoming Gracepoint premier at Oak Bay United Church.

“The News staff is happy to help out with such a great fundraising initiative and at the same time bring a little Hollywood glamour and excitement to Oak Bay,” says Oak Bay News editor Laura Lavin.

Oak Bay’s aging Jaws of Life, needs a new life of its own. Modern versions of the same equipment provide a much broader spectrum of capabilities, says Fire Chief Dave Cockle.

“The current piece of equipment we have here in the department is mid-1990s,” Cockle says.

“It’s a single action tool with a

cutter/spreader action. The hydraulics are 6,000 psi which doesn’t allow spreading and quick cutting of metal in today’s cars.”

Modern cars are designed, for safety reasons, to crumple around the passenger and driver compartment, he explains. While it makes for a more safe crash, and more people walk away, it also means the need for

extraction gear is greater. “We have more vehicles we have to cut,” Cockle says,

adding they can also be hindered by exotic metals designed for strength and weight that replace standard steel vehicles.

The current tool gets the job done in three or four minutes and requires up to three firefighters to do what could take seconds with one firefighter.

“Our current cutting tools don’t do the job,” Cockle says. “It’s just so much faster. It keeps us within our golden hour of getting someone to help if we have to.”

The Kiwanis club of Oak Bay has funded about $12,000 of the estimated $25,000 cost, with the rest coming from the community.

“The community itself has raised approximately $9,000 already. That’s through the work of Liz at Athlone Travel,” Cockle says. “It’s nice when the community comes together to raise funds for

something that will benefit everyone.” For Liz Smith, also the president of the Oak Bay BIA,

the fundraising idea started with an Oak Bay News story about a year ago. One of her client’s husband had died,

and feeling a debt to the fire department that had responded to her calls for medical aid prior to his death, she bought the department a portable defibrillator.

“We decided our Christmas project last year would be to raise funds and recalled the fire department and asked for a wish list,” Smith says. Athlone Travel raised nearly $10,000 for items such as infrared camera to replace a 10-year-old one and replaced an equally outdated gas sniffer and then just didn’t stop fundraising.

“We have people who’ve come into the office and said ‘Here’s $20. We want the (fire department) to come to my house with the best equipment they need,’” Smith says.

The fundraiser Cockle hopes will put funding over the top is the Gracepoint premier party at Oak Bay United Church, which donated the space for the event.

The evening features the first episode of the TV series filmed in Oak Bay, as well as a few words from Kathleen Gilbert from the Victoria Film Commission.

“It’s just going to be a really fun evening and we’re going to be doing some really good things raising some funds for the fire department,” Smith says.

Champagne and hors d’oeuvres start at 6 p.m. with the commercial-free premier viewing of the first episode of Gracepoint starting at 7 p.m.

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of force behind them and at a much lighter weight than the 47-pound heft of the old equipment. Another plus is that they are bat-tery powered as opposed to a necessary tether to the truck.

“It allows us to go over the banks, down on the beach, those types of areas,” Fire Chief Dave Cockle says.

So far the department is close to $21,000 of its $25,000 funding goal for the two pieces of equipment to replace the aged jaws.

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Firefighter Cody Brown with the dated jaws of life tool the Oak Bay Fire Department plans to replace this year after fundraising in the community to raise the needed $25,000.

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That horn-honking caravan you heard heading out of Oak Bay Marina Friday afternoon was a convoy of HeroWork Program Society volunteers and contractors.

They were headed for Forrest House, on Davie Street just outside the Oak Bay border, which was gifted by an anonymous donor to the Threshold Housing Society, which offers transitional housing for people between 16 and 21 years of age who are at risk of being homeless.

“This is more than a building,” said Paul Latour, founder of HeroWork Program Society, the organization in charge of the renovation.

“HeroWork started because I had a friend in need. Because I thought I could get 20 friends and have a pizza party. I did a

$25,000 renovation in a single day with $380 and the magic has continued ever since,” he said.

Friday’s opening ceremony started with the horn-blowing convoy of heroes. Close to 70 decorated vehicles full of sponsors, contractors and volunteers drove from the Oak Bay Marina to arrive on the site in time for a 5 p.m. opening ceremony promptly followed by demolition of the inside of the building.

“After this renovation, we will have completed over $1 million in community renovations. That is amazing,” Latour said, addressing the convoy of people in their vehicles and ready to roll. “So all the way along, I want you to honk your horn because HeroWork is not only about the

renovation, it’s about living your life courageously; it’s about having compassion and caring in everything you do; it’s about coming together in cooperation, in common vision, so that we together can make a difference.

Who here wants to make a difference? Honk your horn.”

More than 80 companies donated time and resources for the renovation that continues for three successive weekends, with the

grand reveal on Oct. 5.“Our goal is to give at-risk

youth a very positive rental experience as a stepping stone into adult independence,” said Mark Muldoon, executive director of Threshold Housing Society.

Once Threshold Housing Society decides a resident has reached a certain level of

HeroWork convoy kicks off renovation to house youth

maturity and integrity, it will be time for him or her to move on. The building will be able to house at most, six youth. One of the units will

be used for life skill building such as cooking and financial literacy.

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Paul Latour, founder of HeroWork Program Society addresses the convoy before the vehicles full of volunteers headed out for the site of a new transition house for at-risk youth.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given that all persons who deem their interest in property affected by the following bylaw will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions to Oak Bay Municipal Council on the matters contained therein at a Public Hearing to be held at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall, 2167 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, B.C., at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, September 29, 2014.

Bylaw No. 4625, 2176 Windsor Road Heritage Revitalization Agreement Authorization Bylaw, 2014.

This Bylaw would authorize the Municipality to enter into a heritage revitalization agreement with respect to the property described as Lot A (DD 385125I), Block 2, Section 23, Victoria District, Plan 1091 (2176 Windsor Road), as shown in bold outline on the plan reproduced below:

The proposed heritage revitalization agreement would, among other things, have the effect of doing the following:

• varying the provisions of the Zoning Bylaw and Subdivision and Development Bylaw to allow a subdivision of the lot into two lots running north to south;

• varying the provisions of the Parking Facilities Bylaw to eliminate the requirement to have one of two parking spaces covered on proposed Lot 2 (east).

• protecting the existing dwelling on proposed Lot 2 in a manner similar to heritage designation and requiring specified restoration, upgrading, and conservation work on the existing dwelling;

• placing restrictions on the future development on the proposed Lot 1 (west);

Copies of the above-described bylaw, and all other background material which has been considered by Council may be inspected prior to the Public Hearing between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, from September 18 to 29, 2014 inclusive, at the office of the Municipal Clerk, Oak Bay Municipal Hall, 2167 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, B.C.

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OUR VIEW

This November, voters will be hiring local politicians for a four-year term, rather than three.

It’s a good time to ask some tough questions about the performance of councils on the job they are assigned to do, as opposed to posturing about senior government matters.

Remember when it was fashionable for city councils to declare their communities “a nuclear weapons-free zone?” You can still see the signs entering Vancouver and Nanaimo. Alert voters may wonder: “Did they really think we’re that stupid?” Yes, they did. And some of them still do.

To illustrate, allow me to introduce my poster child for bad local government, Victoria city councillor Ben Isitt.

A long-time NDP activist, Isitt got elected three years ago after raising his name recognition with a couple of runs for mayor. His rookie term has been notable for a series of stunts that extend his career as a professional student, campus radical and occasional history lecturer.

One of Isitt’s big studies is the influence of Soviet communism on the B.C. NDP. He was on one of his visits to Russia earlier this year when President Vladimir Putin was having his way with Crimea.

Isitt’s fondness for state control was on display last fall when

aboriginal protesters disrupted natural gas drilling in New Brunswick, torching several police

vehicles in the process.Isitt took to his

Facebook page to decry the federal government’s use of police against the population, and suggested Canada should emulate Venezuela, where petroleum resources benefit the people rather than corporations.

Venezuela sells gasoline for nine cents a gallon, the late Hugo Chavez’s gift to his people

after nationalizing the oil industry. The capital, Caracas, is famous for extreme poverty, brutally suppressed riots, and a crime rate so bad it ranks among the world’s most dangerous cities.

How does Isitt’s political outlook translate to his role in local government?

This week, local politicians gather in Whistler for the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention. One of Isitt’s first contributions a couple of years ago was at a UBCM workshop on how to finance local infrastructure.

Isitt proposed setting up a municipal income tax. Presumably this would be on top of property taxes.

In its wisdom, Victoria council appointed Isitt as their Capital Regional District representative. In that capacity he led the charge against Canada Post’s decision

to wind up door-to-door delivery for the minority of people who aren’t already using community mailboxes.

After instructing Ottawa to accelerate the bankruptcy of this Crown corporation, Isitt began ordering the province to intervene in a dispute over Grace Islet, a rocky point off Salt Spring Island where an Alberta man is trying to build a retirement home. The dispute centres on aboriginal burial grounds and artifacts, and Isitt appointed himself advocate for the grievances of native people.

When the B.C. government didn’t follow his instructions, he demanded that the CRD expropriate the land and evict the owner. Island politics being what it is, this was actually considered before cooler heads prevailed.

And how are things with the CRD’s real job while the Isitt circus rolls on? The most over-governed region in B.C. remains locked in a bitter turf war over a federally mandated sewage treatment project, and is on the verge of forfeiting hundreds of millions in provincial funds.

So voters should ask themselves a couple of questions this November. Is your council doing the job it was hired to do?

And do you trust these individuals with your wallet until the fall of 2018?

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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Journey toward a cancer cure

The 2014 Tour de Rock team left Victoria bound for Port Alice on Vancouver Island’s north coast to begin the long trek down Island this weekend.

Riding with them, representing Oak Bay, is Jordan Carrie, a 30-year-old reserve constable with the Oak Bay police.

Carrie is excited to represent not only our local police force, but the people of Oak Bay as well, and we should be proud of his effort.

He and the other 23 members of the team, roughly half from the south Island and half from the north, all in police-related fields, aside from the three media riders and guest rider Dean Norris-Jones, have given up time at work and with family to embark on this journey.

The 1,000 kilometre bike ride down the length of the Island, raising money along the way for kids with cancer is one of the largest fundraisers on the Island and it has spread across the province with tours in the north, south and interior of BC.

It’s sometimes easy to feel complacent, to sigh and say to yourself, ‘not another fundraiser’ but the Tour de Rock is one that we should all support because the funding goes to help children with cancer – a disease that is unfailing in its ability to attack those of any age, race or gender – even those just on the cusp of life.

To have a child diagnosed with cancer is to enter a realm of horrific tests, medical treatments, hospital stays and fear. The fear of losing a child comes with parenthood, but the very real fear families of kids with cancer face is unimaginable to most of us.

However, knowing there are people willing to donate their time and money to help find a cure for this illness can be some small comfort.

The riders arrive in Oak Bay on Oct. 2. One of the easiest ways you can support them is through Oak Bay High’s fundraising efforts. They were out in force last weekend collecting cans and bottles to add to their efforts and students are still out canvassing neighbourhoods to help raise funds. Go to oakbay.sd61.bc.ca and click on the quick link to Cops for Cancer to learn more.

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This November, voters will be hiring local politicians for a four-year term, rather than three.

It’s a good time to ask some tough questions about the performance of councils on the job they are assigned to do, as opposed to posturing about senior government matters.

Remember when it was fashionable for city councils to declare their communities “a nuclear weapons-free zone?” You can still see the signs entering Vancouver and Nanaimo. Alert voters may wonder: “Did they really think we’re that stupid?” Yes, they did. And some of them still do.

To illustrate, allow me to introduce my poster child for bad local government, Victoria city councillor Ben Isitt.

A long-time NDP activist, Isitt got elected three years ago after raising his name recognition with a couple of runs for mayor. His rookie term has been notable for a series of stunts that extend his career as a professional student, campus radical and occasional history lecturer.

One of Isitt’s big studies is the influence of Soviet communism on the B.C. NDP. He was on one of his visits to Russia earlier this year when President Vladimir Putin was having his way with Crimea.

Isitt’s fondness for state control was on display last fall when

aboriginal protesters disrupted natural gas drilling in New Brunswick, torching several police

vehicles in the process.Isitt took to his

Facebook page to decry the federal government’s use of police against the population, and suggested Canada should emulate Venezuela, where petroleum resources benefit the people rather than corporations.

Venezuela sells gasoline for nine cents a gallon, the late Hugo Chavez’s gift to his people

after nationalizing the oil industry. The capital, Caracas, is famous for extreme poverty, brutally suppressed riots, and a crime rate so bad it ranks among the world’s most dangerous cities.

How does Isitt’s political outlook translate to his role in local government?

This week, local politicians gather in Whistler for the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention. One of Isitt’s first contributions a couple of years ago was at a UBCM workshop on how to finance local infrastructure.

Isitt proposed setting up a municipal income tax. Presumably this would be on top of property taxes.

In its wisdom, Victoria council appointed Isitt as their Capital Regional District representative. In that capacity he led the charge against Canada Post’s decision

to wind up door-to-door delivery for the minority of people who aren’t already using community mailboxes.

After instructing Ottawa to accelerate the bankruptcy of this Crown corporation, Isitt began ordering the province to intervene in a dispute over Grace Islet, a rocky point off Salt Spring Island where an Alberta man is trying to build a retirement home. The dispute centres on aboriginal burial grounds and artifacts, and Isitt appointed himself advocate for the grievances of native people.

When the B.C. government didn’t follow his instructions, he demanded that the CRD expropriate the land and evict the owner. Island politics being what it is, this was actually considered before cooler heads prevailed.

And how are things with the CRD’s real job while the Isitt circus rolls on? The most over-governed region in B.C. remains locked in a bitter turf war over a federally mandated sewage treatment project, and is on the verge of forfeiting hundreds of millions in provincial funds.

So voters should ask themselves a couple of questions this November. Is your council doing the job it was hired to do?

And do you trust these individuals with your wallet until the fall of 2018?

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

Report card time for local politicians

Journey toward a cancer cure

The 2014 Tour de Rock team left Victoria bound for Port Alice on Vancouver Island’s north coast to begin the long trek down Island this weekend.

Riding with them, representing Oak Bay, is Jordan Carrie, a 30-year-old reserve constable with the Oak Bay police.

Carrie is excited to represent not only our local police force, but the people of Oak Bay as well, and we should be proud of his effort.

He and the other 23 members of the team, roughly half from the south Island and half from the north, all in police-related fields, aside from the three media riders and guest rider Dean Norris-Jones, have given up time at work and with family to embark on this journey.

The 1,000 kilometre bike ride down the length of the Island, raising money along the way for kids with cancer is one of the largest fundraisers on the Island and it has spread across the province with tours in the north, south and interior of BC.

It’s sometimes easy to feel complacent, to sigh and say to yourself, ‘not another fundraiser’ but the Tour de Rock is one that we should all support because the funding goes to help children with cancer – a disease that is unfailing in its ability to attack those of any age, race or gender – even those just on the cusp of life.

To have a child diagnosed with cancer is to enter a realm of horrific tests, medical treatments, hospital stays and fear. The fear of losing a child comes with parenthood, but the very real fear families of kids with cancer face is unimaginable to most of us.

However, knowing there are people willing to donate their time and money to help find a cure for this illness can be some small comfort.

The riders arrive in Oak Bay on Oct. 2. One of the easiest ways you can support them is through Oak Bay High’s fundraising efforts. They were out in force last weekend collecting cans and bottles to add to their efforts and students are still out canvassing neighbourhoods to help raise funds. Go to oakbay.sd61.bc.ca and click on the quick link to Cops for Cancer to learn more.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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LETTERS

I want to thank Jean Sparks for her pleasant talk Tales of a Seaside Village, c. 1890-1920 on Sept. 17, at Windsor Park.

The pictures that she showed of the old Oak Bay boathouse were particularly inspiring.

Here’s a suggestion: why not rebuild this beautiful boathouse with modern technology and renewable power systems ?

It could be built at a central, oceanfront location and easy walk from the new Oak Bay Beach Hotel, the marina and the village.

It could designed as a combined Visitor Centre, Heritage Centre and Nature House to tell all of our great and big stories – history, architecture, early

native occupation, fish, whales, birds, oak trees, rare plants and all. And to show all these great, old pictures and some local art perhaps.

Let’s celebrate Oak Bay and the 20th anniversary of its archives with a savvy cultural project.

Let’s talk about this as we prepare for the municipal election in November.

Jacques SiroisOak Bay

The old Oak Bay boathouse, Edward

Goodall, from Only in Oak Bay, OAK BAY Municipality: 1906-

1981, F.C. Barnes (Ed.), 1981.

Bring back heritage boathouse

Grill candidates on specifics

Keith Sketchley reviews deer management issues in his Panning patchwork letter to the editor (News, Sept. 17).

As a control measure, Sketchley suggests “governments should get some of those tribal people living near Admirals Road to periodically practice their ancestral culture they

keep talking about.” Perhaps he is referring to some of my survivalist Scottish relatives fleeing the failed independence referendum and now living under the new Admirals Road bridge?

Perhaps he is just being offensive.

Angus MatthewsOak Bay

Letter was offensive

Perhaps the most telling comment on the Official Community Plan in your report OCP review inspires passion from residents (News Sept. 12) was this from a resident: “A plan is only as good as the people carrying it out.”

Recently we saw an instance of this over the doubtless well-intentioned plan to place pianos around Oak Bay, and allow them to interrupt residents’ sleep by exempting the pianos from the noise bylaw.

Earlier this year, on a much larger scale, Oak Bay council decided to turn part of South Oak Bay into a temporary industrial zone, by allowing a well-heeled U.S. film network to violate numerous bylaws, including those governing home businesses, parking and other legal restrictions that apply to mere residents and taxpayers of Oak Bay.

Young families were kept awake till after 1 a.m. with the noise from generators, klieg lights lit up the inside of homes brighter than daylight till the small hours, and endless rows of trucks and their

guardians occupied our streets through the night.The paid flacks for the U.S. network claimed

millions were spent here. But city staff readily admit that no cost-benefit analysis was ever done. So there is no proof whatsoever that there was any net benefit to Oak Bay, after taking into account the businesses that lost revenue or the significant social cost of such disruption to residents’ lives. It is just spin.

As if to add insult to injury, while all this was going on, on March 24, Oak Bay council awarded $10,000 of those same residents’ supposedly precious tax dollars to the Vancouver Island South Film and Media Commission, an organization that lobbies to inflict these activities on residents. All of this was done without the consent of those most affected.

Taxpayers might want to ask candidates in the forthcoming Oak Bay elections about these ill-advised decisions.

Russ Francis Oak Bay

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When the Kiwanis Club of Oak Bay installed its next board and president at its Rose Manor in Victoria last week, members took the time to recognize a trio of men with a Zeller Award.

The kudos is named for Canadian businessman Walter Philip Zeller who founded the Zellers retail chain and it comes with a medal and certificate.

Gordon Galey of Morning Fresh Egg Farm earned the Zeller award for contributions to his community.

Among those offerings, he has donated eggs during summer months and in the winter, Sunday breakfasts in the tearoom at Willows Beach.

“We must go through at least 15 to 18 dozen a week with breakfast at the tearoom and he donates everything,” said Wanda Watson. “It’s a big help to us because that’s our main fundraiser. We give back an average $40,000 to $50,000 a year.”

He also supports Santa’s Anonymous, Victoria Figure Skating and minor lacrosse alongside other community fundraisers.

“We are all very aware of how difficult it is nowadays to be a successful farmer. They are the people we need the most and yet they seem to be at the bottom of the ladder when it comes to receiving help and recognition,” Walker said. “Somehow Gordon Galey has been able to develop and run a very successful egg farm and has also managed to give back to the community.”

A longtime member of the Kiwanis of Oak Bay, Fred Cornborough joined Kiwanis in 1980 and has served on all three boards – Rose Manor; the Pavilion, for 22 years; and on the Housing Society Board which manages Milton Manor. He continues on this board and this year took over as chairman. He has served as club president, treasurer and treasurer at the tearoom.

“And of course, he has held down the afternoon shift every Thursday there for many, many years,” Watson said of the man who was once manager of the Bank of Montreal in Oak Bay. Cornborough has been Kiwanian of the Year and is on the Board of Honour.

Gerry Adam, who joined 31 years ago in 1983, is another who has worked very diligently over the years for the club. Adam

has worked with the the Youth Services Committee, has served as club director and president.

“He helped renovate the tearoom in the early ‘80s to make it more productive and later on he was chairman of the Tearoom committee for four years,” Watson said.

Adam has served on the Pavilion Board, the Pavilion Foundation Board; Rose Manor and remains on the Housing Society Board and the tearoom committee.

“Just to show his many talents, this summer he constructed the beautiful wooden arbor leading into the rose garden at the Kiwanis Pavilion,” Watson said.

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“Every piece is sol-idly off the beaten path,” says Snizek. “I can say with assur-ance there is some-thing for everyone on this program.”

With Bruce Vogt on piano, Snizek will perform two sona-tas: a French salon-style work by Mel Bonis and the ambi-tious Sonata for flute and piano by Yuko Uebayashi.

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Robin Evans, left, and Robert Taylor.

Karmen Tse, 14, performs prior to the dinner.

Gary Weir sells 50/50 tickets to Oak Bay Fire Chief Dave Cockle.

Brenda Sheffar, left, with parents Valerie Galey and Gordon Galey.

International trustee for the Oak Bay Kiwanis Patrick Ewing, left, outgoing president Mark Payten and member Ed Walker.

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Oak Bay Kiwanis celebrate installation in style

The Kiwanis Club of Oak Bay celebrated its annual awards and installation of officers in an evening celebration at Rose Manor (managed by the Oak Bay Kiwanis Rose Manor Society) in Victoria.

Leslie Johnson was installed as incoming president.

The club operates four major facilities and provides support to the community through volunteerism and financial assistance to a wide variety of local and international causes.

Learn more about the group and their many Greater Victoria works at kiwanisclubofoakbay.com online.



Friday nights this fall the Sports View Lounge transforms to a magical Oak Bay music venue – Upstairs Lounge.

Recreation Oak Bay ventured into the music scene last fall, and with the success of seven concerts through to the spring, they’re offering a second series with the opening act slated for Sept. 27, the only Saturday show in this series.

“We didn’t know how the venue would work,” said Janet Barclay, manager, recreation program services. “People have said to me, ‘I can walk here and have a glass of wine.’ And it doesn’t go too late.”

Audience numbers ranged from 35 to beyond 100 during last season’s concerts. Performances tend to start at 7:30 p.m. and generally wind up before 10 p.m. but concert goers are starting to make a night of it, arriving for dinner at 6 p.m. prompting chef Donna Daglish to create dinner specials alongside the usual fare.

The concept came up in conversation with patrons and residents during the official community plan review, where municipal leaders heard a desire for more cultural activities in Oak Bay.

“Also, I think there’s a need city-wide for smaller music venues,” Barclay said.

The rec manager turned to Marie Bachand, well known in the Greater Victoria music scene, to make the connections for concerts.

“They’ve been so entrenched in the music scene in Victoria, they’re in the

know,” Barclay said. Bachand is mom to popular local

performers Celtic music duo Qristina and Quinn Bachand. The young pair perform together and often collaborate with other well-known jazz and Celtic performers.

Bachand and her husband Adrian bring all their gear, lights, sound and stage and set up for the Upstairs Lounge shows.

“We talked a long time ago about collaborating with Oak Bay … we finally met again last year,” said Bachand. “The lounge upstairs is totally under-utilized and it’s a great space. It’s a perfect situation, it’s a relaxed atmosphere, it’s an all-ages venue so people bring their kids. The possibilities are endless.”

Upstairs Lounge Live Music Series creates a transformation in the venue also embraced by the staff, Barclay said.

“That place transforms. It is a live music venue on those

nights,” she said. “We’ve flipped a switch and we’re a different place.

“We wanted to make it world class community entertainment.”

Folk group Red Moon Road hails from Winnipeg and starts the season that includes a mix of genres.

“We’ve mostly focused on local bands, but this season we’ve got three bands coming from out of town,” Bachand said. “Other than those three, we’re also

wanting to promote local talent.” Pint & Dale from Seattle is on stage Oct.

17 and The Crooked Brothers of Winnipeg perform Nov. 28.

Local acts include Groove Kitchen (Oct. 24), Louise Rose and Friends (Nov. 7) and the Maureen Washington Quartet (Dec. 12).

Red Moon Road performs Sept. 27. Tickets for all shows are $12 in advance at Ivy’s Bookshop and Oak Bay Recreation or at beaconridgeproductions.com online. Tickets are $15 at the door.

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Many of Oak Bay’s established and emerging artists will use their homes and studios as backdrops to display the products of their creativity in a variety of original watercolour, acrylic, oil, fibre, photographic, woodcut, glass and pottery creations in the upcoming Oak Bay Artists’ Studio Tour.

This juried tour, which is produced by Recreation Oak Bay, takes place on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15 and 16, from noon to 4:30 p.m.

Right now, organizers are trying to find Oak Bay artists willing to open up their Oak Bay studios for a few hours on this weekend in November.

“We have heard from many of the previous participants who are looking forward to this juried fall event again, but we always

want to find new studios in Oak Bay,” said Mary Kucera, Oak Bay Recreation marketing.

The studio tour is a great way to showcase the many talented artists in Oak Bay’s neighbourhood. If you are an artist in Oak Bay who would like to be involved, call Kucera at Recreation Oak Bay at 250-370-7129. Applications are available now and are due by Wednesday, Oct. 1.

The two-day special event is free to the public. Brochures with artist images and descriptions and a tour map will be available at recreation.oakbay.ca in early November.

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Retirement communities o� er a wide range of activities, usually planned and facilitated by both sta� and presenters from within the community. In general, activities held within the residences are o� ered free of charge and cover a wide range of interests. � ere may be Entertainment which could range from movies, singers, musicians, dancers, choirs and games such as bingo and crossword. Activities related to Intellectual or Spiritual growth might include travelogues, chapel services, bible studies, educational speakers or series on topics of interest or courses e.g. UVic or Camosun College continuing education courses for adults. Personal growth activities could include � tness classes such as yoga, tai chi, osteo� t and balance classes. � ere may be art and cra� lessons, stimulating card games such as bridge or cribbage, mind games and many others to match every level of interest.

Many retirement communities have the use of a bus to transport their residents to outings. � ese outing can include local attractions such as Butchart Gardens, Shaw Discovery Centre, IMAX theatre and Butter� y Gardens. � e outings may be further a� eld to places like Chemainus � eatre, boat trips or ferry rides around the Gulf Islands. � ey may have lunches or dinners out at local restaurants or attend local concerts and musical events such as the Victoria Symphony or Palm Court concerts. In general, these types of outings will provide the transportation and the residents would pay for the admission or ticket (usually purchased at a group rate). � ere are also many outings available to local parks for picnics and strolls during the milder weather or to shopping centers year round.

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Cool Aid’s Cottage Grove senior housing development is now in the final stage of approval.

Construction is ready to go once the Saan-ich approved, 45-unit apartment building receives the go ahead for the final grant, $4.8 million (of $6.6 mil-lion cost) in funding from B.C. It’s expected to arrive shortly, said Saanich Coun. Paul Gerrard, also on the Greater Victoria Coali-tion to Help End Home-lessness.

Cottage Grove is a supportive housing concept for seniors who have been home-less. It will stand at 3207 Quadra St., next to Decora Tiles, off Tolmie Street.

“We have assembled an amazing team of community leaders who are volunteering

their time to raise $5 million from individu-als, companies, orga-nizations and foun-dations to build or repurpose (a total of) 360 apartments for the Help End Homeless-ness campaign for the region’s 360 homeless people,” said Rob Reid.

The District of Saa-

nich recently awarded an affordable housing grant of $112,000 to Cottage Grove. Cool Aid Society purchased the $1 million property and created the site architectural and land-scaping plans.

“It is a good start on ending homeless-ness for seniors in our

community and it’s the first of several apart-ment buildings we will construct towards this end,” said Cool Aid executive director Kathy Stinson.

Half of the 375 peo-ple presently housed by Cool Aid are 55 or older. [email protected]

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Joan and Stu MacDonald are part of a volunteer group that meets weekly to perform garden-ing and other maintenance on the grounds of the 11-acre Dominion Brook Park, across from Pan-orama Rec. Centre.

The park is a short drive from their home in Central Saanich.

“Dominion Brook Park lost funding a while back and a few of us came together to help out, it’s such a beautiful place,” Joan said.

Joan is originally from Oshawa, Ont., and Stu from Drumheller, Alta.

Their paths first crossed in London, Ont., when they met on a blind date 64 years ago. They eventually settled near Mount Doug for 32 years, before they downsized to their current dwell-ing in Central Saanich 10 years ago.

Before retiring, Joan was a registered nurse in the recovery

from of Victoria General Hospi-tal. Stu flew with the Canadian Air Force before shifting in the regu-lar work force as a notary public.

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From the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

A growing number of Canada’s age-ing baby boomers are providing care for a spouse or parent with demen-tia. But these family caregivers often lack the support they need to avoid becoming patients themselves.

“These caregivers are the back-bone of our current health system,” says Dr. Janice Keefe at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. “Yet we don’t treat them this way. One of the big challenges we face is that caregiv-ers aren’t viewed as a client or eligible for services in and of themselves.”

Keefe is working to change this situation.

For the past 20 years Keefe and her team have been part of an inter-national movement to assess the health needs and challenges of fam-ily caregivers – mainly daughters and spouses – who are caring for elderly loved ones with disabilities and chronic illnesses, such as dementia.

At the heart of Dr. Keefe’s research is her co-creation of the Caregivers’

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Caregivers can sit-down for an hour or more, either in a single ses-sion or several, and talk about their situation. But it’s more than just a chance to talk. The C.A.R.E. Tool also offers a way for health care provid-ers – including social workers, nurses and other health care professionals – and caregivers to have a very focused and detailed conversation about the caregivers’ challenges, concerns and hopes. It also helps link these needs to potential caregiver support ser-vices, such as respite support.

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The Gordon Head Connecting Seniors Project continues its weekly sessions with informative guest speakers on Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Gordon Head United Church.

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For those who toil in caulk bootsrish eyes are smiling this fall as one of Vancouver Island’s most beloved elder states-

men takes his final bow after more than four decades of ser-vice to the good burghers of Port McNeill.

Mayor Gerry Furney, at 81, is about to hang up his gavel while the rest of B.C.’s municipal politi-cians gear up to defend their turf in local government elections in November.

For those of you wondering what to make of your senior years, Gerry is a beacon. When he hit 60 he was just warming up in the municipal arena. At 77, he published his first book of poetry “Popcorn for Breakfast.”

Port McNeill may not realize it just yet, but Gerry’s retirement will leave behind a pair of caulk boots not easily filled. That

said, I suspect if he had seriously considered another run for office his devoted wife Carmel would have booted his Irish butt all the way back to County Cork.

The great grandfather of Van-couver Island grassroots politics – and poet laureate of the working stiff – goes into the record books as B.C.’s longest serving municipal leader … 47 years on council, 38 years as mayor.

Furney arrived in B.C. in 1956 from Ireland via England, Europe and New York. He found a job in a logging camp and was given a one-way ticket on board the S.S. Catala berthed at the Union Steamship dock in Vancouver. It took him up the rug-ged coast to Port McNeill.

In an interview recently Furney said: “Conditions in Port McNeill were about as

primitive as you could imag-ine. We were living in a bunk-house with about 120 other loggers who were mostly all immigrants like ourselves. We soon found out that the job of a ‘chokerman’ was the lowliest job in the woods and also the most dangerous.”

It wasn’t until 1959 that Furney was able to take a trip back home to Ireland. He was sitting around the hearth on New Year’s Eve when his mother insisted that he go to a dance. It was at this dance that he met Carmel. It took him several years to per-suade Carmel’s mother to let her go to Port McNeill.

In 1961, Furney started his own fuel and explosives distribution business and also

started a chamber of com-merce because the commu-nity did not have a voice in Victoria.

What kept this resource town icon coming back elec-tion after election? Simple: Furney may have the soul of an Irish poet, but he has the heart of a political prize fighter. And, he was never bet-ter than when he defended a way of life on the island that the higher purpose nabobs of urban B.C. would abandon

in the name of environmental protection.For those who toil in the resource sector

a line from one of Gerry’s poems says it all: “It’s sad that men in fancy suits don’t know too much about caulk boots.”

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Patti Shaughnessy is new to Victoria, hav-ing arrived here in December of 2012, and was instantly drawn to the Government House grounds where she volunteers once a week. After rotating through all 20 Government gar-dens Shaughnessy is now dedicated to two gardens, Pearkes Point and the Terrace.

Shaughnessy joined the Victoria Women’s Newcomer’s book club and loves everything about the city after moving here from Toronto, where she specialized in office leasing and pre-sentations. Her husband Brian continues to work as a retail and wholesale executive. They live near the Selkirk Trestle.

“I’ve hit paydirt with the amount of activity going on in Victoria. I’m not a big runner but I’m gearing up to do my first race, maybe a few.”

Patti and Brian Shaughnessy have three sons and four granddaughters.


For those who toil in caulk bootsrish eyes are smiling this fall as one of Vancouver Island’s most beloved elder states-

men takes his final bow after more than four decades of ser-vice to the good burghers of Port McNeill.

Mayor Gerry Furney, at 81, is about to hang up his gavel while the rest of B.C.’s municipal politi-cians gear up to defend their turf in local government elections in November.

For those of you wondering what to make of your senior years, Gerry is a beacon. When he hit 60 he was just warming up in the municipal arena. At 77, he published his first book of poetry “Popcorn for Breakfast.”

Port McNeill may not realize it just yet, but Gerry’s retirement will leave behind a pair of caulk boots not easily filled. That

said, I suspect if he had seriously considered another run for office his devoted wife Carmel would have booted his Irish butt all the way back to County Cork.

The great grandfather of Van-couver Island grassroots politics – and poet laureate of the working stiff – goes into the record books as B.C.’s longest serving municipal leader … 47 years on council, 38 years as mayor.

Furney arrived in B.C. in 1956 from Ireland via England, Europe and New York. He found a job in a logging camp and was given a one-way ticket on board the S.S. Catala berthed at the Union Steamship dock in Vancouver. It took him up the rug-ged coast to Port McNeill.

In an interview recently Furney said: “Conditions in Port McNeill were about as

primitive as you could imag-ine. We were living in a bunk-house with about 120 other loggers who were mostly all immigrants like ourselves. We soon found out that the job of a ‘chokerman’ was the lowliest job in the woods and also the most dangerous.”

It wasn’t until 1959 that Furney was able to take a trip back home to Ireland. He was sitting around the hearth on New Year’s Eve when his mother insisted that he go to a dance. It was at this dance that he met Carmel. It took him several years to per-suade Carmel’s mother to let her go to Port McNeill.

In 1961, Furney started his own fuel and explosives distribution business and also

started a chamber of com-merce because the commu-nity did not have a voice in Victoria.

What kept this resource town icon coming back elec-tion after election? Simple: Furney may have the soul of an Irish poet, but he has the heart of a political prize fighter. And, he was never bet-ter than when he defended a way of life on the island that the higher purpose nabobs of urban B.C. would abandon

in the name of environmental protection.For those who toil in the resource sector

a line from one of Gerry’s poems says it all: “It’s sad that men in fancy suits don’t know too much about caulk boots.”

[email protected]

Brian Kieran

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Mayor Furney

Patti Shaughnessy is new to Victoria, hav-ing arrived here in December of 2012, and was instantly drawn to the Government House grounds where she volunteers once a week. After rotating through all 20 Government gar-dens Shaughnessy is now dedicated to two gardens, Pearkes Point and the Terrace.

Shaughnessy joined the Victoria Women’s Newcomer’s book club and loves everything about the city after moving here from Toronto, where she specialized in office leasing and pre-sentations. Her husband Brian continues to work as a retail and wholesale executive. They live near the Selkirk Trestle.

“I’ve hit paydirt with the amount of activity going on in Victoria. I’m not a big runner but I’m gearing up to do my first race, maybe a few.”

Patti and Brian Shaughnessy have three sons and four granddaughters.


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Laughter is the theme of the night on Oct. 2. Three comedians are coming to the Vic Theatre for Yuk Yuks Live, to “push your buttons and expand your horizons,” promises the press release.

Headlining the show will be Darren Frost and Brett Martin.

Frost, a Canadian comedian for over 20 years, has been nominated for two Canadian Comedy Awards this year. Martin, also a Canadian come-dian, has his own Comedy Now special on CTV and the Comedy Network. Also at the show will be the master of ceremonies Jared Borland, who has toured across Canada with Yuk Yuks for seven years. Tickets for the show are $25. For more infor-mation, visit thevic.ca.

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Snuggled in at the hotelAvis Rasmussen, artist in residence at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel for the month of September, displays her painting of the popular Snug pub. Visitors to the hotel are delighted to meet the Oak Bay artist and learn more about the local scenery.

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The purchase of a tax sale property is subject to tax under the Property Transfer Tax Act on the fair market value of the property.

Patricia A. Walker, CPA, CA Municipal Treasurer

Pursuant to the Local Government Act, the following properties will be offered for sale by public auction to be held at the Council Chambers, Oak Bay Municipal Hall, 2167 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, BC on Monday, September 29, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. unless the delinquent taxes plus interest are sooner paid.

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Today, in Canada, most spectacle lenses are made of plastic. Plastic lenses have improved so much over the last 20 years, that plastic has become the lens material of choice. If glass lenses are chosen it is imperative to get shatter resistant lenses. There is no such thing as shatter-proof glass. So, for occupations that require safe-ty eyewear, glass is not acceptable. Plastic lenses can absorb much more punishment. Some plastic materials are extremely safe and therefore afford good protection in certain high risk occupations. Both glass and plastic can be made in “thin” or high index materials which are more practical for strong prescriptions.

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Members of the Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club enjoyed a spectacular season of bowls winding up with the trophy presentations to the Champ of Champs.

Daffodil Ladies Pairs Competition, held at Central Saanich Lawn Bowling Club.

Runners up: Henriette Ballinger; Linda Carswell-Bland (Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club).

Fourth place: Linda Cowie, Karen Evans (Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club).

Bert Nelson Mixed Triples Bowl Spiel, held at Vic West Lawn Bowling Club.

A sectionRunners up: Brent Merchant, Henriette Ballinger, Eric

Ballinger (Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club).Third place: Jeff Machan, Marg Machan, Gayle Wallach

(Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club).C sectionWinners: Donna Blackstock, John Cossom, Brent

Janson (Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club).Labour Day Mixed Quaddie, held at Oak Bay Lawn

Bowling Club.First place: Team 11, Jeff Machan, Donna Blackstock,

Pat Metcalfe/Lorraine Neumiar, Barb Roemmele.Second place: Team, 3, Al Neumair, Anne Bolton, Elaine

Hasler, Roy Edquist.Third place: Team 10, Kay Alexander, Jim Brown,

Wendy Appleyard, Art Mountain.Champ of Champs BSI Tournament, Singles, held at

Juan de Fuca Lawn Bowling Club.LadiesFirst place: Joan Firkins (Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club).Novices ladiesThelma Glidden, (Sidney Lawn Bowling Club.Men’sFirst place: John Cossom (Oak Bay Lawn Bowling

Club).Novices men’sFirst place: Brent Janson (Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club).

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Clockwise from top left: Brent Jensen Novice Men’s Champ of Champs, right, with coach Harnam Grewal. Joan Firkins, Women’s Champ of Champs. John Cossom, left, Men’s Champ of Champs, with presenter Nick Fenger.

Lawn bowlers end season on a roll

he Canada West university season started with a loss for the UVic Vikes women’s rugby team.

Angela Thompson earned the only try for the Vikes on Satur-

day, as the club fell 26-8 to the visiting Calgary Dinos at Wallace Field on Saturday.

Victoria’s Jessica Neilson kicked off the scoring with a penalty kick, putting the Vikes ahead 3-0. But the Dinos rallied back, earning seven points off a well-fought try from Karly Guebert.

Neilson was stopped steps from the goal line, as the first half ended with a respect-able 7-3 for the Dinos.

In the last minute of play, Victoria proved their grit, as Thompson powered through the goal line for an unconverted try.

“It was an encouraging start, especially the first 35 minutes of the game,” said Vikes head coach Mark Hall. “We need to improve our ball contact, Calgary domi-nated us in that respect.”

The Vikes face the Alberta Pandas on Friday (Sept. 26), 5 p.m. at Wallace Field.

Bears upend Rock in final CRC match

The BC Bears ended an otherwise forget-table Canadian Rugby Championship sea-son with a modicum of redemption on Sat-urday with a 26-20 victory over the Atlantic Rock in St. John’s, Nfld.

The provincial men’s Bears side led wire-to-wire in a day of blustery conditions, as both teams struggled to control the ball.

Bears centre Nathan Yanagiya (UVic Vikes) snuck across the line for the game’s

opening try.Vikes fly half Pat Kay also dotted down

for a try and added the conversion. The Bears (2-4) finished the CRC season

in third place with 10 points.In Vancouver Island premier men’s Bar-

nard Cup play, James Bay beat Velox 38-14

at Velox and the Vikes ran over the Cast-away Wanderers 62-17 at Wallace Field.

The Vikes and Velox enjoy a bye this week as James Bay visits CW at Windsor Park, 2:45 p.m. kickoff on Saturday (Sept. 27).

The Velox Valhallians are 2-0 in Vancou-

ver Island women’s play, and face Cowichan at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 21 at Velox.

Racer survives crash, heads to California

Fifty-nine year old Bill Okell experienced his worst crash in 40 years of racing in Mis-sion last week. He damaged his prized 1964 MGB. He also badly bruised his hand, rib, and leg, but was able to avoid the hospital.

“The good thing is I’ve got all winter to fix the MGB,” he said.

Okell doesn’t need it for the national F Production sports car championship com-ing up in Laguna Seca, Calif. on Oct. 10.

There he’ll race an MG midget in an 18 lap (40 minute) championship race. Okell qualified fifth throughout a summer series to earn the invitation.

Bulldogs wrestling returns to Cedar Hill

As school restarts wrestling season does too.

Longtime wrestling coach Ed Ashmore leads the Greater Victoria Commonwealth Bulldogs wrestling team, an open team for students from the region who are without a school team.

Ages are 10 to 19, and levels are novice, intermediate (one and two years experience) and senior (high school).

Training is held Tuesday and Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m. at Cedar Hill middle school, 3910 Cedar Hill Rd. Phone 250-384-9459 or email Fraser at [email protected].

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UVic Vikes drop rugby opener to Dinos

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Nicole Crowley, captain of Vikes women’s rugby team, represented the B.C. Bears in 2014.

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Kerris De Cham-plain had never been camping before, until her involvement with the Duke of Edinburgh award program. This was just one of the new activities the pro-gram introduced her to, including doing a three-week high school exchange to Barcelona, Spain.

The program pro-vides young adults between the ages of 14 and 25 the opportunity to step outside their comfort zones and become more involved in the community through service, skills, physical fitness and an adventurous journey. For the highest level – gold – a residential proj-ect must also be com-pleted.

“The Duke of Edin-burgh helps you set

goals because you have to do it for a minimum amount of time and prove that you gained some sort of experi-ence or certification of some kind,” said De Champlain, 18.

De Champlain, now in her second year studying psychology and linguistics at the University of Victoria, first got involved with the program through her school, St. Marga-ret’s. She successfully completed each level of the program, bronze, silver and gold.

De Champlain has volunteered as a read-ing buddy at the Greater Victoria Pub-lic Library, which she counts as her favou-rite community service activity so far. Through-out the program, De Champlain developed a passion for getting involved with the com-munity and volunteer-

ing.“Even if you don’t do

those specific activities anymore, it inspires you to pursue similar ones where your skills would be best put,” she said.

Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, was in Victoria recently to present the gold win-ners with their awards.

“It emphasized how significant the achieve-ment of the award is, and how highly it

is regarded,” said De Champlain. “Through the award, I explored new activities, chal-lenged myself in ways I never thought I would, particularly during the adventurous jour-ney, and became more involved in my commu-nity.”

Colin Hawes, another Duke of Edinburgh gold award recipient, also had unique personal growth experiences through the program.

“I’m proud of the fact that it’s an award of excellence for student-aged individuals that isn’t about pure aca-demic achievements, but accomplishments in other aspects of life,” said Hawes.

Hawes, 19, was involved with the out-door leadership pro-gram at St. Michaels University school in Victoria. He par-ticipated in multiple three- or four-day trips, including a white water

rafting trip which he led in Grade 12.

“It definitely makes you become more of a leader and makes you take initiative and make sure people are pull-ing their weight,” said Hawes. “I definitely grew from it.”

Hawes did not sub-mit applications for the bronze and silver levels; instead he went straight for gold.

Hawes is in his third year at Camosun Col-lege, studying sport and

leadership. He hopes to apply his leadship skills and love of sports to becoming a general manager of a hockey team or a strength and conditioning coach for a team.

Hawes saw it as an honour to not only have completed the requirements for the award, but to also have it awarded by Prince Edward.

“It’s probably once in a lifetime,” he [email protected]

Duke awards put challenge out to youthTeens earn gold Duke of Edinburgh awards from Prince Edward

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Take a moment to browse the /r/depres-sion forum on Reddit and the reality becomes immediately clear: today’s youth flock to online mediums to deal with men-tal illness.

But a new app, thought to be the first of its kind in Canada, is aiming to reach teens in that digital realm when they need it most.

BoosterBuddy uses video game design elements to establish positive habits to mental health, said Drew Barnes, program co-ordinator with Island Health’s mental health and substance use services.

“In our hospital, the goal is to work with youth like a coach, to reconnect them with their school, family, friends, so they can move beyond our care,” Barnes said at the app launch event last week. “When we first proposed this app, we didn’t know if any-one would relate to the idea or where it would go.”

To the surprise of Barnes and clinical lead Lauren Fox, teens in the focus study were enthusiastic about the idea of an app to assist them in their recovery.

They wanted a companion, Barnes said, and they wanted it to provide symptom tracking over time, crisis contacts and med-ication notifications.

“They wanted the app to encourage them to feel good,” he said.

When Calgary-based developers Robots & Pencils began developing BoosterBuddy, they also learned teens wanted an easily accessible list of coping mechanisms, such as tips for controlled breathing exercises to

help with anxiety.The app was created in partnership with

Island Health, Victoria Hospitals Founda-tion and a $150,000 donation from Coast Capital Savings.

Coast Capital’s vice president of people, Lewisa Anciano, said the business sector has a responsibility to act on major health challenges in the community.

“Approximately 1.2 million youth in Can-ada live with mental illness, but only 20 per cent will get the help they need,” Anciano said.

The company donates seven per cent of its pre-tax profits back into the community, which will equal $5.7 million in 2014 alone, she said.

Dr. Abraham Rudnick, medical director with Island Health’s mental health and sub-stance use services, said mental health dis-orders have become the second highest reason for youth admission at Canadian hospitals.

One in five young people now report experiencing mental health challenges.

Creating a tool that gives these teens hope, through an app they can carry in their pocket, holds potential for better men-tal health outcomes in the future, he said.

“This is leading-edge work,” Rudnick said. “As this app is shared across Canada, it will help to improve the lives of thou-sands of young people.”

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CANADIAN MENTAL Health Association-Victoria Branch is looking for volunteers to sup-port cyclists during this year’s Ride Don’t Hide event. Call Volunteer Victoria at 250-386-2269.

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GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413.

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774


HAULING AND SALVAGE

PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-888-1221.

SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

COMPLETE HOME Repairs. Suites, Renos, Carpentry, Dry-wall, Painting. Licensed and insured. Darren 250-217-8131.

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

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, Fireplaces, Flag-stone Rock, Concrete Pavers, Natural & Veneered Stone. Replace, Rebuild, Renew! “Quality is our Guarantee”. Free Competitive Estimates. (250)294-9942/(250)589-9942. www.cbsmasonry.com

& MOVING STORAGE

(250)858-6747. WRIGHT Bros Moving&Hauling.Free estimate $80=(2men&truck) Sr. Disc.


& MOVING STORAGE

DONE RIGHT MOVING $80/hr. Senior Discount. No travel time before or after local moves. BBB accredited. Free est. Call Tyler 250-418-1747.

PAINTING

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

✫ DON’S PAINTING ✫(250)479-8748. 30 years exp. Free Est. Quality Interiors/Ext.

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.

PLUMBING

EXPERIENCED JOURNEY-MAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured. Reliable, friendly. Great references. Call Mike at KNA (250)880-0104.

FREE ESTIMATES. Rea-sonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.

PLASTERING

PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, match the textures, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-516-5178.

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PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.250-744-8588, Norm.

STUCCO/SIDING

PATCHES, ADDITIONS, re-stucco, renos, chimney, water-proofi ng. Bob, 250-516-5178.

STUCCO REPAIRMAN- Stucco & Painting Specialist.50 years experience. Free es-timates. Dan, 250-391-9851.

TREE SERVICES

BUDDY’S TREE SERVICES-Trimming, pruning, chipping,removals, hedges, lawn care,Insured. Keith, (250)474-3697.

WINDOW CLEANING

BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning.Roof demoss, Gutters. Licensed and affordable. 250-884-7066.

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.

GRAND XTERIOR Cleaning-We clean your neighbourshouse. Gutters, window,roofs, de-moss. 250-380-7778.

CLASSIFIED ADS MEAN MORE BUSINESS

250.388.3535

SERVICE DIRECTORYwww.bcclassified.com 250.388.3535


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