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Reaching high comes naturally for 6’3” Lauren Yearwood.The Oak Bay High school basketball player attended
the junior age group assessment camp in Edmonton March 23 to 30, to which all U17 national team prospects
are invited. Last year, Yearwood made it onto the Canada U16 team and competed in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) tournament, winning silver in Cancun, Mexico. This year the international tournament is in Slovakia.
“Basketball has given me amazing experiences,” she says. “Cancun is the furthest I’ve travelled for basketball (and) I’ve met most of my friends through basketball. I just love to compete and with basketball, I have been able to compete at a high level.”
Yearwood was invited to try out for the U16 team in 2012, but was sidelined after breaking an ankle while playing in provincials just weeks before national tryouts. The 16-year-old has been playing basketball since she was five and is at the stage where everything comes naturally – but that wasn’t always the case.
“When I was young, I grew so fast, I was pretty uncoordinated,” Yearwood says. “In Grade six, I was 5’11.”
She was enrolled in dance with her older sister, learning tap, jazz and ballet. She credits 12 years of dance lessons in helping her hone her coordination and improve her hand and footwork, making her the player she is today. Growing up, Yearwood has always been physically active, dabbling in other sports such as swimming, gymnastics and volleyball. She also participated in triathlons when she was in Grades 1, 2 and 3.
The teen does a lot of commuting, either to the Lower Mainland to compete in tournaments or from her Thetis Lake home to Oak Bay every day, taking up to 45 minutes by car. She attends Oak Bay High because of the basketball program’s reputation.
“(Coach Greg) Kinnear was a big reason why I transferred to Oak Bay. He has been very eager and supportive in getting me to where I want to be,” Yearwood says. “I also played a lot of basketball with (girls from Oak Bay) while growing up, so I transferred there.”
The week-long assessment camp in Edmonton includes a number of drills and tests. There is one more assessment camp in March, which is when Canada Basketball will decide who is invited to tryouts for the national team in June. The FIBA tournament runs from June 28 to July 6.
“You have to pack as though you are going (to Slovakia), but you can be sent home instead,” Yearwood says.
The young athlete is leaning towards the sciences academically and looking to move out of Canada for post secondary education.
“I’m hoping to play university basketball in the states,” she said. “I’ve always had this dream to play NCAA basketball since I was a child.”
Student athlete reaches toward success
Don Denton/News staff
Oak Bay High basketball player Lauren Yearwood has competed at both the provincial and national level. The Grade 11 student was recently in Edmonton at Canada Basketball’s junior women’s age group assessment camp.
Christopher SunReporting
Ready, set, shovelTrack team gets its feet dirty for fundraiser
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The Oak Bay News and its sister publications – Victoria News, Saaanich News and Goldstream News Gazette – have been recognized with a num-ber of industry awards, including a newspaper excellence award by the B.C. and Yukon Commu-nity Newspapers Association, which represents more than 126 newspapers, with a combined read-ership of more than two million.
All four publications have been named finalists in the BCYCNA’s annual Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards. Winners will be announced April 26.
The Oak Bay News has earned three finalist nominations: Sports Photo Award, Under 25,000 (Sharon Tiffin), Special Sections Award, Under 25,000 (Women in Business) and Newspaper Excel-lence Award.
“All of the staff at the Oak Bay News are very proud to be among the top three in our circula-
tion category in the province again this year,” said editor Laura Lavin. “We work hard to bring the best stories about the people of Oak Bay from elementary to high school students, to groups and clubs to local businesses and share them with our readers.”
The Victoria News is a finalist in five award cat-egories, including Ad Design Award-Collaborative, Over 25,000 (Oliver Sommer and Team), Feature Photo Award, Over 25,000 (Don Denton), Sports Photo Award (Ben Gawletz), Cartoonist Award (Ingrid Rice) and Special Publication Award, Over 25,000 (Monday Magazine)
Photographer Kyle Wells is a finalist for best Portrait Photo Award for his work at the Gold-stream News Gazette and Edward Hill of the Saa-nich News has won the nod for Environmental Initiative Award.
Oak Bay News among top 3 in B.C.
Get your kilt on for all things Scottish
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Friends of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory are confident the national historic site will reopen to the public this spring, though slightly later than originally anticipated.
The Centre of the Universe, which houses interactive educational displays and his-toric astronomy artifacts, was closed to the public last August due to federal funding cuts. The observatory’s Plaskett telescope was also closed to public tours.
Thousands petitioned the closure of the
education centre, included longtime sup-porter Don Moffatt. After the doors closed, three different groups were formed to look at short- and long-term plans to restore astronomy education at the site; Moffatt is a member of all three.
“The short-term working group is look-ing at restoring as many services as pos-sible with the visitors centre this year,” he says.
The long-term working group is working to revitalize the centre and make it viable into the future. The Friends of the Domin-ion Astrophysical Observatory group, close to becoming official, aims to be the
non-profit organization that deals directly with the federal government.
While an April reopening was planned, the groups have since pushed that back to May, to hopefully coincide with Astronomy Week (May 4-10).
“Also that’s the anniversary of the obser-vatory,” Moffatt said. “It’s still being negoti-ated, but it’s looking good (for a limited opening in May).”
Currently planned is an open house – the details of which are not yet known – to be sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Soci-ety of Canada.
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Track team trades treads for trowelsLaura LavinNews staff
Oak Bay High students want Oak Bay to get growing and they will provide the fuel.
“Almost 50 students are raising funds to travel and compete against other teams across North America,” said head coach Mike Sheffer.
The students are busy shoveling to get up to 9,000 bags of a well-aged combination of cow manure and garden compost ready for delivery between April 3 and 6.
“The students do all the selling and work over three days,” said Sheffer.
The Oak Bay High School Track and
Field 14th annual Garden Compost Sale is a fundraiser for the Oak Bay Track and Field team.
“Last season (they) won the school’s 10th provincial championship in the last 13 years,” said Sheffer.
The team has an impressive record winning the Island Junior Championship for 24 consecutive years, the Island Senior Championship for 23 consecutive years and the Provincial Championships 10 of the last 12 years.
The high quality mix of yard compost and manure has been well ground and mixed and will be sourced locally to help Island businesses. The cost is $6 per bag or $25 for five bags. This includes the
delivery of your prepaid order. Cheques should be made payable to Oak Bay Secondary School.
“All orders will be delivered to your home between April 3 and 6. The compost will be bagged in industrial quality plastic bags that can be re-used many times around your garden. They will be approximately 35 to 40 lbs. each,” said Sheffer.
If you are interested in ordering, email Sheffer at [email protected] or call 250-514-2599.
“Students are shovelling Apr. 3, 4, 5 so order soon as we always run out,” he said.
Oak Bay High track club members,
Morgan Roskelly, Grade 11, left,
Sophie De Goede, Grade 9, Caroline
Crossley, Grade 10, and Andrea Psotka,
Grade 11, line up on the track, ready to help out with the annual manure sale
fundraiser.Don Denton/News staff
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A young woman walked away relatively unharmed after her car flipped on Monterey Avenue, Friday.
At approximately 2:35 p.m. on March 28, the driver, heading southbound in the 1500-block of Monterey Ave., rolled her car after allegedly swerving to avoid an oncoming vehicle and striking a parked car.
She was suspended upside down in her seatbelt in the overturned car until she was extracted by the Oak Bay Fire Department.
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The driver was unharmed after a dramatic rollover crash last week.
Suspects stopped after car stomping
Oak Bay police are seeking information on a senseless act of vandalism.
At approximately 9:40 p.m. on Saturday night, March 29, police responded to a report of several youth jumping on a vehicle parked behind Oak Bay High school, and arrived to see eight to 10 young men running from the area.
Damaged with footwear impressions, the early ‘90s Toyota also had the rear window smashed out by a rock.
Police stopped three youth and seized marihuana,but have insufficient evidence to lay criminal charges. Anyone with more information is asked to contact Oak Bay Police at 250-592-2424.
Just after 3 a.m. on March 30, police chased a 19-year-old man wearing noth-ing but a backpack. He was found hiding behind a tree trying to put his clothes back on. The man, who fled from police after he was spotted walking nude along Henderson Road near Allenby, had no explanation for his actions.
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A few months back, I received a notification which advised me that I had to declare whether Buck-erfields was a ‘producer’ of printed paper or packaging material. If so, we would have to
i m p l e - ment an ‘approved stewardship plan’ to deal with the material. Oth-erwise we would have to join another ‘stew-ardship plan’ and pay fees to that plan holder. I thought it was a scam. But I looked into it further and determined that there was indeed regulatory provisions in effect which stated this very thing and according to the regulations, Buckerfields is now a ‘producer’ of printed paper and packaging mate-rial, with the best example being our Buckerfields feed bags.
I then discussed the alternatives with a Ministry of Envi-ronment official and came to realize that we had no choice but to join the only approved stewardship plan in the province, MMBC. We signed the MMBC contract. But we also read it. And it stated that MMBC had to file audited financial statements on its website. I recently went online and there are no audited financial statements.
Several months later, I have discovered the following:• MMBC is a corporation under the Societies Act com-
prised of three directors, two of which live in Ontario. None of the directors have public sector credentials. All of the directors represent large corporate interests.
• MMBC is not accountable to any government agency, appointed official, elected official or any other government body other than the Registrar of Companies under the Societies Act.
• MMBC is not governed by the Province’s Financial Administration Act which sets out the rules for the admin-istration of all public monies.
• None of the monies collected by MMBC, including the fees Buckerfields is supposed to pay go to the Public Accounts of the Province or any other government organi-zation.
• MMBC is not subject to oversight by the Auditor Gen-eral of B.C.
• Under MMBC’s ‘stewardship plan’ as approved by the provincial government, MMBC has the authority to
charge companies like Buckerfields unlimited fees based on whatever MMBC spends, regardless of what the actual costs are to recycle our feed bags and regardless of the fact that we already pay municipal taxes in all eight of our locations.
• MMBC has the authority to come into any municipal-ity in the province and offer financial incentives to the locally elected government to do what MMBC wants in the area of waste collection and recycling; if the locally elected government refuses, MMBC has the authority to do what it wants anyway.
• The municipal governments of the province do not know the background of MMBC and don’t yet realize the fees that MMBC is charging to Buckerfields and all the other companies amounts to double taxation.
• The municipal governments are going to have to give up that tax base they have for waste collection and recy-cling because the shift to ‘producers’ paying directly for waste collection and recycling eliminates the need and justification for ‘consumers’ i.e. property tax payers to pay for these services through the municipalities.
• The provincial government did not consult with the municipal governments or the public, but companies like Buckerfields are pointing it out because until it is resolved, we are being taxed twice for the same service and resi-dential taxpayers (including me) are being taxed for some-thing that someone else is actually paying for.
• Taxpayers and municipal governments were not con-sulted as to whether they really want to shift the financing and control of municipal waste and recycling services out of the municipal jurisdiction, that is , the jurisdiction of democratically elected municipal officials into the hands of a corporation under the Societies Act that is account-able to no one and is outside the jurisdiction of the provin-cial auditor general.
• Taxpayers and voters are unaware that the fees being charged by MMBC are so onerous that they will cause newspaper closures and job losses of 300 to 500 in the newspaper industry in British Columbia, even though recycled newsprint is actually very valuable.
In finding all this out, I lament the fact that none of this was introduced into the legislature for proper debate, because it means that instead of spending my days manag-ing the sale of chicks and garden supplies at Buckerfields,
I have to spend my time trying to revive democratic pro-cesses in British Columbia, retroactively. I find it appalling.
My position as of the time of this writing is this: we ain’t paying a dime to MMBC and neither should anyone else.
At least not until:• The provincial government reconciles what it is doing
with the municipal governments and municipal taxpayers so that taxpayers don’t have to pay twice.
• The provincial government takes back the legislation which calls us ‘producers’ and ‘blames us’ for the choices made by manufacturers and indeed consumers that are completely outside of our control.
• Any monies charged under the auspices of the Recyl-ing Regulation are included in the Public Accounts of the Province and subject to the provisions of the Financial Administration Act and the Auditor General Act.
• Whatever is going to be done is introduced into the Legislative Assembly in the form of a bill so that the proper public debate can occur.
• Insofar as MMBC has not filed its audited financial statements since inception, and the period of time not reported spans more than two years, and insofar as MMBC is actually a taxing and funding agency, there be an independent public enquiry into the financial operations, sources and uses of funds, contractual procedures and expenditures of MMBC.
No, Buckerfields is not paying a dime until this cash and power grab is unraveled and revealed for what it is.
One final word, 96 per cent of all printed paper and packaging material is already being picked up or depos-ited into municipally financed facilities. Despite what MMBC is saying, at least 53 per cent of that is already being recycled and it is very likely that number was seri-ously understated to give the government a reason for its MMBC cash and power grab.
In reality, there is no basis for setting up a recycling dictatorship and charging punitive fees to companies like Buckerfields at all. Recycling is a booming business with rapidly increasing prices of marketable commodities. Could that be why the board of MMBC is all big business and outside the jurisdiction of the auditor general? We don’t have to change a thing to see recycling take off in B.C., in the hands of our elected municipal officials. We need to send the MMBC regime to the recycle bin.
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I am puzzled by Oak Bay council which voted against variances in order to stop a very worthwhile rebuilding of the Oak Bay Lodge and passed proportionately much greater variances in order to bring about the new Clive Drive apartment building.
It is unfortunate that the new building at the corner of Clive and Oak Bay Avenue will not be built before this fall’s municipal election so that all could judge the wisdom of this decision.
It is done and all citizens of Oak Bay should hope it is an architectural addition to our village. I am concerned at the general quality of judgment of our present council and urge all concerned citizens to consider carefully their vote this fall.
I urge competent people to consider serving our community. We need new voices on our council that would reflect Oak Bay’s tradition of lower density that has made our municipality what we love. As Joni Mitchell so aptly expressed: “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone. They paved paradise, and up a parking lot.”
Patrick SkillingsOak Bay
Someone recently wrote in, concerned about the erosion of Oak Bay’s “character.”
Can someone define this please? Because if it means driving your sports car around like a maniac, treating the local retail staff like dirt or just generally being obnoxious, then bring on the changes.
Frankly of late, whenever I’m asked where I live, I’m embarrassed to say Oak Bay.
A. Johnson Oak Bay
Bruce Filan inaccurately claims there will be an additional car for every adult living in a suite, (letters, March 5).
In reality, suites are often occupied by people who cannot afford cars.
Mr. Filan has his part of the rock and objects to anyone else getting in – he wants to use collective force to control others’ property at no cost to himself. Is that right?
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Police Board AppointmentMunicipal Government Appointment
Part-time volunteers are being sought to serve on the Oak Bay Police Board as of June 30, 2014.
Working closely with Police Department management, the Board establishes goals, priorities/objectives and develops the departmental police budget. The Board is also responsible for service and policy complaints related to its police department as well as internal labour relations issues.
Candidates must: • Reside in the Municipality of Oak Bay • Undergo a criminal record check and personal suitability panel interview • Be expected to commit up to 10 hours a month to fulfill board duties
This volunteer position would suit an individual who can work well as part of a team, has an understanding of governance boards as well as experience in either business, financial management, administration, or community development. Board members must be able to bring well developed analytical skills and independence of judgment to their positions.
Please submit your expression of interest by 4:30 p.m. on April 7, 2014.
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High-wattage lights have lit up Oak Bay Avenue, flatbed trucks of film gear lined the street along Clover Point and local actors have found their way into background performer and stand-in roles. The upcoming
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Locations from Sidney to Victoria will double as the Northern Californian town of Gracepoint in the one-hour who-dun-it series which follows the mysterious death of a young boy found on a beach beneath a cliff face from which he may have fallen. Victoria was an instant fit.
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Leading the way into Gracepoint are David Tennant of Dr. Who and Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn. Veteran actor Nick Nolte is also cast.
“It’s a crime drama on the one hand,” Bernstein said. “On the other hand, it’s a portrait of all of these diverse characters in this little town, their secrets, their relationships – they’re a part of the fabric of the town but we look into the individual lives of each and every one of them in a very intimate way.”
The production team at Shine America chose to bring the shoot, set to wrap by the end of May, to Victoria primarily for creative reasons, but the financial benefits were an added incentive.
“There is also a very strong and skilled crew base that we’re drawing on, primarily from Vancouver. When we looked at Northern California, they didn’t have a crew base that we could draw from that was anywhere near by the locations we looked at. For this particular show, all signs pointed north.”
Mid-way through the shoot, the province reinstated the distant location regional tax credit, a six-per-cent tax credit available for new film productions in the Capital Region. Gracepoint won’t be eligible for credit unless it returns in 2015. But Bernstein stresses it’s not the financial details, rather the look of the show which has been established in Victoria and will see Gracepoint return, should it get picked up for a second season.
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“It’s such a common thing these days, that American studios, when it makes sense, will shoot in B.C. I think it’s very expected right now. It would have been nice if L.A. proper could have worked. It would have made our lives easier in certain ways, but the show really called for a more wild and rugged coastal look that lead us to the Island.”
The locale, she added, has motivated the cast to get out and enjoy some of our natural places – with or without a rain jacket.
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Uplands Park springs awake in March with lovely Indian plum blossoms, satin flowers and fawn lilies. Emily Carr’s Easter lilies follow soon after and the trails in Uplands Park are delightful as puddles recede and blooms of other wildflowers appear. The rocky outcrops are alive with green moss and the Nootka rose and Garry oaks start to swell their buds.
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Western Academy of Photography shut its doors permanently on Monday after the private post-secondary institution ran into financial problems.
A representative from the Private Career Training Institutions Agency was at Western’s offices (755 Queens Ave.) on Monday to address student concerns, said PCTIA spokesperson Nadia Stefyn. The Crown corporation oversees and approves private education standards for 320 institutions in B.C.
“(Western) notified PCTIA of its inability to continue operating due to financial reasons,” Stefyn said. “We are in the process of cancelling the institution’s registration.”
In an email signed by managing director and owner Garry Dodds, the school’s 16 students were asked to accept either a partial tuition refund or possibly continue “teach-out” courses through another institution, in accordance with PCTIA bylaws.
Andrea Kucherawy, program manager at Western, confirmed the school was working with PCTIA and students to determine “what will happen.”
Dodds did not return calls, and it was unclear when Dodds first became aware of the school’s financial difficulties.
Tuition at Western Academy of Photography costs $14,900 for 43-week programs in professional photography and journalism/photojournalism. The school has been in operation since 1984. Dodds assumed ownership in 2000.
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A12 • www.vicnews.com Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - OAK BAY NEWS
In the alleyway behind the Royal Bank on Douglas and Fort Street, Victoria’s residents of the 80’s learned that Souvlaki and Spanakopita could be addictive, and they loved it. The delicious Greek specialties were created by the Vassiliadis family then… and still are today.
The founder of Eugene’s Greek Restaurant, Evgeni (Eugene) Vassiliadis arrived in Victoria from his home in the bustling city of Piraeus (port of Athens) with wife Paschalina (Lina) and two young sons, Elefterios (Terry) and Pantelis (Lee) in November 1974. Only nine-year old Terry understood English and was able to help other family members to settle in.
From the very beginning Eugene had a vision to open a traditional Greek Souvlaki Snack Bar in Victoria. However, having arrived in Victoria with only 2 suitcases and a trunk, Eugene began working as a brick-layer, his trade in Greece, in order to support his young family.
To supplement the family’s income, Eugene began working in local Greek restaurants by night and took what construction jobs he could during the day. He quickly became head chef of a local Greek Restaurant and soon Lina—an excellent cook herself—joined him. They worked side-by-side until Eugene got a great
job offer in Edmonton and for a year he worked there, returning to see the family only once a month.
Eventually, the family decided Victoria was the place for them. Lina, encouraging Eugene to open a souvlaki snack bar, found their � rst location in the alleyway of the Royal Bank on Douglas and Fort Street. They opened their doors November 24, 1979. Victorians slowly came
to know how wonderful Greek souvlaki could be. With lines getting longer and longer, a second Eugene’s opened in May 1986 at 1280 Broad Street.
Today, Terry and partner Pam own and operate the Fort & Foul bay location and Terry’s boys (Evan and Alex), can sometimes be seen carrying
on the family tradition making souvlaki. Lee owns and operates Eugene’s warehouse and concentrates his energy on food production and wholesale sales. Lee’s wife Kelly and 6yr old son Evgeni also spend time at the warehouse learning the ins and outs of producing the best Greek food in Victoria. Eugene and Lina oversee from the background while enjoying their retirement, and customers of Victoria continue to enjoy the same wonderful home-made recipes that Eugene and Lina � rst served in 1979.
Fort & Foul Bay #103-1990 Fort St. 250.592.7373 Hours: 11:00am - 8:00pm • Monday - Saturday
Voted Best invictoria!
Celebrating 35 years!
GREEK RESTAURANT & SNACK BARSince 1979
LAMBSOUVLAKI
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About Eugene’s
Eugene’s Tzatziki, Homous & Pita bread now available at:• Fairway Canwest Mall • Fairway Gorge • Fairway Quadra • Fairway Oak Bay • Fairway Shelbourne • Fairway McKenzie • Fairway Sidney • Fairway Brentwood • Red Barn Market West Saanich Rd. • Food Forum Oak Bay
• Red Barn Market Matticks Farm • Red Barn Market Vanalman • Red Barn Market Latoria Walk • Peninsula Co-op• Market on Yates • Market on Millstream• UVic • Sysco Foods• Haultain General Store
“If you love Eugene’s products and would like to see them at the grocery store you buy from, talk to their deli manager to bring it in.”contact Lee at [email protected]
Take Eugene’s camping or a nice BBQ with friends and family...our Tzatziki & Homous are a tasty treat that goes with anything or pick up our pita bread and make your own souvlaki!