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The year started with Oak Bay’s first arts laureate. Barbara Adams, who

taught at Monterey school for 10 years and co-started Artistshow, the annual artist-in-residence program hosted in Victoria-area hotels

every summer, was named Oak Bay’s first arts and culture ambassador.

“It’s a historic moment,” said Mayor Nils Jensen, who

was given council approval to handpick Adams. “This is the first time Oak Bay will have an arts laureate and it’s the first one in the CRD (Capital

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Oak Bay council voted itself a 0.3 per cent decrease in pay for the year. The decrease is based on the adjusted year-over-year change in Victoria’s consumer price index (CPI), ending in September. For 2014, the mayor was to be paid $28,108 and councillors $11,929.

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Oak Bay Search and Rescue Society cleared the last hurdle to replace its boathouse.

Late last year Oak Bay council approved a variance request to allow the volunteer-based organization to build a slightly taller boathouse, which now serves as a rescue station and has space for training and secure storage of rescue equipment.

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More than 200 people packed the Oak Bay Recreation Centre lounge where Andrew Weaver hosted a town hall discussing the merits of a sewage treatment system to replace the Capital Regional

District’s current $783-million proposal.

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We learned in early January that a rigging failure forced Oak Bay sailor Glenn Wakefield to end his non-stop, solo sailing trip around the globe. It was Wakefield’s second attempt at circumventing the globe, westwardly. In April 2008, he abandoned his 40-foot boat off the coast

of Argentina after it was damaged from rolling over in a series of storms. Wakefield ended his second attempt on Dec. 26, 116 days after he set sail from Cadboro Bay. He decided to end his trip after noticing a wire strand had broken loose while doing an inspection of his 42-foot boat, the West Wind II, as it sailed westbound in the Indian Ocean.

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Cindy Sleeman, front, and Robin Driscoll, from Gracepoint Productions, paint a sign on the window of the former Guardian drug store for Gracepoint, a new TV series being filmed in Oak Bay.

Artist Barbara Adams was named Oak Bay’s Arts Laureate.

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Greater Victoria School District superintendent of schools and CEO John Gaiptman retired Feb. 14 after 12 years on the job. In that time he led the district through numerous changes, including closing schools to combat declining enrolment and implementing the middle school system. He also helped develop a district-wide approach to improve Dogwood completion rates.

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Results of the Oak Bay community survey released this month included overwhelming support to regulate secondary suites (78 per cent), more housing alternatives for seniors and the disabled (73 per cent) and strong support in maintaining and conserving parks, trees, green space, pathways and the shoreline around Oak Bay.

Almost 33 per cent

of Oak Bay households responded to the survey. In fall 2013, 8,069 survey invitation letters went out and 2,650 were returned – significantly more than the 10 to 15 per cent return

rate anticipated by Points of View Research, the company hired to conduct the survey.

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Powell River RCMP detachment commander, Sgt. Andrew Brinton, was named Oak Bay Police Department’s new chief constable.

“His commitment to community policing and his collaborative work with community groups and the municipality in Powell River will serve him well in this new role,” said Mayor Nils Jensen. “The Oak Bay Police Board was impressed with his wholistic approach to addressing crime and community issues.”

Brinton started in April replacing outgoing Chief Const. Mark Fisher, who returned to the Mounties as Nanaimo RCMP detachment officer in charge.

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The Oak Bay Art Club celebrated its 70th year with a month-long All you need is heART exhibition at Goward House in February. The exhibition allowed the club’s 49 members, ranging from

hobbyists to professionals, to display and sell their art.

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The Mary Manning Centre, a child abuse prevention and counseling society, received a $5,000 donation, thanks to a well-researched and informative presentation by four Oak Bay High school students, to their teachers and peers.

Every year Grade 11 students in the planning class participate in the Youth Philanthropy Initiative, a program funded by the Toskan Casale Foundation, with students working in groups to pick and research a local charity and present their findings to the class. The charity of the top presentation receive the money after a vote by judges, made up of teachers and the previous year’s winners. This is the second time in four years the centre has received a $5,000 donation.

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Ice hockey players Hannah Charlesworth and Anna Mollenhauer earned a place representing Vancouver Island U16 at

the B.C. Winter Games in Mission. “We both went to tryouts last year … and we didn’t make it,” Charlesworth said. “We went back this year and we both made the team.”

Oak Bay figure skater Kiara Jankowski and Alisa Lyesina, both 12, also represented Vancouver Island at the B.C. Winter Games in Mission.

Redeveloping the Clive apartment building got the OK when Oak Bay council voted 6-1 in favour of the project after a public hearing that brought out 200 residents.

Almost 50 people

addressed council during the three-hour public hearing held at Monterey Centre. The vast majority spoke in favour of the project for a 17-unit, three-storey building. Applicant Nicole Roberts first proposed redeveloping the Clive in December 2012. The Oak Bay native expected resistance and to negotiate with neighbours.

“I expected it would be an uphill battle,” Roberts said. “I grew up in Oak Bay and I believe in investing in it. I do know residents love Oak Bay because many harken back to yesteryears, but this is a needed change to our community.”

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Michelle Le Sage, Oak Bay Beach Hotel manager, and Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen try out the brand new electric car charging station behind municipal hall on one of the hotel’s electric vehicles.

Husband and wife team John and Nadine Woodall show off some of the dance moves they brought to A Glittery Affair at the Monterey Centre

Longboarder Kurt Gallant slides as he slows down before reaching King George Terrace near the bottom of the Barkley Terrace hill, with 11-year-old Thomas Craig close behind.

Kate and Dave Clarke look at images of the proposed Clive apartment on Oak Bay Avenue during a public hearing.


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Citing safety, Oak Bay council voted unanimously to ban longboarding on Barkley Terrace, a steep and narrow street. Council asked staff to research different traffic calming measures, including fines and physically altering the street to discourage longboarding, which has become a popular activity in the area.

It was added to a list of streets where rollerskating, skateboarding, in-line skating and longboarding are not allowed. It includes Christie Way, any sidewalk or street abutting Oak Bay Avenue between Foul Bay Road and

Monterey Avenue, Turkey Head Walkway, Sylvan Lane and Denison Road.

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Oak Bay council upped the fine from $100 to $300 for feeding deer. No fines had been issued for feeding deer since Oak Bay prohibited it in 2010.

Oak Bay also asked the province to provide funding for its deer management strategy, which includes culling of up to 25 deer at an estimated cost of $12,500. Municipal staff has set aside $25,000 to cover the cost of implementing the strategy, which also includes public education.

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Oak Bay, the second busiest library in the Victoria-region was identified as in need of an upgrade. More than 700,000 books were checked out of the library on Monterey Avenue in 2013, said Greater Victoria Public Library spokesperson Alyssa Polinsky. Only the downtown central branch is busier. Polinsky said the library board identified Oak Bay as one of three branches in need of an upgrade in the next five years, but that would be a temporary fix as the branch needs a larger home.

“It’s one of the top five priorities,”

Polinsky said, adding that the Nellie McClung and central branches have also been prioritized for renovation. “I believe the plan is to do minor renovation upgrades and then move on to a new building.”

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Safeway locations at Fort and Foul Bay (just outside of Oak Bay), Tillicum, University Heights and Sidney were set to transition to Save-on-Foods between mid-March and early May, as part of a 15-store purchase by Overwaitea across B.C. and Alberta. The move affected about 400 unionized employees in the Capital Region.

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Grade 6 art students from Monterey Middle school were honoured by the Oak Bay Heritage Society and council for a collage they made of the Trial Island Lighthouse. The students, under direction of art teacher Sara Conkin, produced the collage by replicating a photo provided by lighthouse keeper Meredith Dickman.

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Derelict vessels along Oak Bay’s waterfront that didn’t shape up, were shipped out. Transport Canada pulled five moorage

buoys and two derelict vessels out of the water adjacent to the Oak Bay Marina March 31, completing phase one of a plan to clean up the coastline of Oak Bay.

The National Energy Board released a decidedly green list of successful applicants participating in the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project.

Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver headed a list of Green Party members including federal leader Elizabeth May, provincial interim leader Adam Olsen and Vancouver city councillor Adriane Carr as five of 400 available intervener spots unveiled by the NEB in early April. Weaver was on the list twice, once as an MLA, the other as a scientist and expert in physical oceanography.

“I (feel) proud … This is an issue people need to be concerned about,” Weaver said at the

time. “This is great. I get an opportunity to quiz Kinder Morgan on the scientific aspect, and then I can talk about property issues from people of Oak Bay-Gordon Head.”

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In April, zoning bylaws for the smallest residential lots, RS-4 and RS-5, got set for change, with public consultation starting to gather feedback

and present options on the floor area ratio bylaw.

Under the present rules, a 2,500-square-foot home can be built on an 8,000-square-foot lot, or a lot half that size, as long as both are both are in the designation. Feedback came back to council in the fall, and was put forward for the post-election council to consider this winter.

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Girl Guides Natalia Tisot-Wright, Annabelle Fieltsch, Chloe MacBeth and Ellie Love identify camas growing in Uplands Park during the Camas Day celebration.

Firefighters from both the Saanich and Oak Bay fire departments take part in a joint practice in a house on Hibbens Close in Oak Bay, rescuing a fallen colleague from the house basement.

St. Michael’s University’s Mitch Newman gets dragged to the turf by an Oak Bay Barbarian in the Boot Game at Centennial Stadium where Oak Bay fell to SMU by a score of 23-14.

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donations topped the list for the Oak Bay High school’s senior girls soccer team as they tackled the fight against breast cancer heading into a new season where their humanitarian efforts outshone any glory they experienced on the pitch.

Donning pink jerseys and pink socks, the 19 girls on the team took to the field with their heads and their hearts on a different prize, none more so than team captain Sabine Boisvert whose mother suffered from the disease.

“I was in the eighth grade (when my mother) had breast cancer. She is a survivor of the disease and so it’s important to raise awareness and funds so I can support her being cancer free and going through the battle,” the Grade 12 student said. “That is a cause important to me because of my mother.”

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St. Michael’s University Junior school plans for a new building to replace the current facility nestled in a residential area in Oak Bay were completed and submitted to Oak Bay council for a variance

permit in April. The proposal hit a

major bump when it was deferred by Oak Bay council, to the delight of dozens of residents who packed council chambers April 22 hoping to see more traffic and parking concessions from the private school.

“Council realized it is a serious issue. We have over 80 letters, there is recognition SMUS is not able to handle their traffic problems,” said neighbour Robin Longe. “The school for 30-plus years has done effectively nothing. This is despite many, many years of complaints to the school that were effectively ignored.”

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Despite a hearty effort in the final 10 minutes of the annual Boot Game, Oak Bay High’s senior boys rugby team fell to SMU in the 20th annual Boot Game. The team was unable to complete a comeback, falling 23-14 in front of vibrant crowd under the University of Victoria’s Centennial Stadium lights.

“I think it was a matter of who could impose which team’s will in the game,” said Oak Bay coach Gary Johnston. “Today they

imposed their will on us. Credit to SMU for playing the game the way they wanted it.”

Johnston, who helped kickstart the Boot Game 20 years ago with an actual bronzed boot from Canadian rugby standout Gareth Rees,

saw his squad take the loss and tip the competitive series 10-9-1 in SMU’s favour in front of hundreds of screaming fans.

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The municipality finalized its budget at a council meeting April 28 and a 2.99

per cent raise in property taxes will be accompanied by the addition of three new staff members. The long wait for the only municipality in Greater Victoria without its own full-time planner is over.

They added an

internet technology technician to maintain and update the website and an executive assistant for Oak Bay chief administrative officer Helen Koning. The three additional staff cost the municipality approximately

$43,000 in 2014, a number lowered by introducing them later on in the year and by capitalizing on efficiencies, including no longer contracting planners that cost the municipality $15,752 in 2013.

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Auxiliary officer Jordan Carrie was the lone Oak Bay Police rider in the 2014 Cops For Cancer Tour de Rock.

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It’s time to look beyond the protests and political battles around climate change that dominated 2014, and look at the year and the decade ahead.

From the California drought to shifting forest patterns across B.C., there is evidence that our climate is changing more rapidly. Public debate consists mainly of squabbling about the significance of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, rather than what can be done to prepare.

A draft discussion paper from the B.C. Forests Ministry on wildfire control was released in December after an access to information request. Climate Change Adaptation and Action Plan For Wildfire Management, 2014-2024 describes the progress made in the province’s community forest fire prevention plan, and its goal to create “wildfire resilient ecosystems and wildfire adapted communities” over the next 10 years.

The final discussion paper is to be released early in 2015, but the key research is in. It estimates that by 2017 there will be 788 million cubic metres of dead pine in B.C. forests. Fires in these areas spread 2.6 times faster than in healthy green stands, up to 66 metres per minute.

The report calls for fuel management beyond community

boundaries to stop “mega-fires” by creating landscape-level fuel breaks, with targeted harvesting,

prescribed burning and new silviculture practices.

It notes that bark beetle infestations and bigger, hotter fires are being seen across North America, with costs rising along with urban development. For example, the 2011 Slave Lake fire in northern Alberta generated the second largest insurance charge in Canadian history.

The costs of preparing are huge. The costs of not preparing could be catastrophic.

Also in 2014, the B.C. government appointed an advisory committee to prepare for the renewal of the Columbia River Treaty with the United States.

While this 1964 treaty has no end date, its flood control mandate expires in 2024. I spoke with Deborah Harford and Jon O’Riordan, members of the Simon Fraser University Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT), who, along with ACT senior policy author Robert Sandford, have written a provocative book on the treaty. They hope it will help lead to a renewed agreement that will be a model for a changing world.

“If you’re looking ahead 60 years from 2024, there’s a lot of climate change projected in that period,

for British Columbia and the U.S.,” Harford said. “For the B.C. side, we’re looking at heavy precipitation and potential increase in snowmelt runoff, while in the States, you’re getting the opposite, much less snow.

“There will probably be no snowpack left down there, and they’re looking at the prospect of quite drastically lower flows in the summer.”

The treaty, sparked by devastating floods in 1948, led to construction of three dams on the B.C. side and one at Libby, Wash. that backed up Kookanusa Lake into B.C. Between that reservoir and the Arrow Lakes, 110,000 hectares of B.C. land was flooded, including orchards, dairy farms and the homes of 2,000 people.

Those dams hold back spring flood water and provide for irrigation that has allowed Washington to expand its agriculture to a $5 billion-a-year industry. The treaty shares the value of hydroelectric power generated by the many downstream U.S. dams such as the Grand Coulee, but it pays B.C. nothing for agricultural benefits that were achieved at the cost of B.C. farms and aboriginal territories.

O’Riordan notes that climate shifts create a strategic benefit for B.C. The U.S. has no more dam capacity to exploit, and needs us more than ever, for flood protection and water supply.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

2015: the year of climate adaptation

Oil prices deliver ablow to economy

The plummeting price of oil may have a big impact on the Canadian and B.C. economies in the next year or two.

Some of that will be positive, but it is likely that it will be mainly negative.

The price of gasoline (but not diesel fuel) is falling, and that means more money in the pockets of consumers. This helps them meet other obligations, such as rent, credit card bills and child care. If the provincial and regional governments

can avoid the temptation to tax this newly found money out of people’s pockets, the fall in prices will be a good thing.

One other bright spot may be a boost in exports if the dollar remains low. The negative implications are widespread. There will almost certainly be a fall in economic activity, and particularly jobs. Many well-paying jobs are concentrated in the oilsands. And the benefits of those jobs spread far beyond Alberta. Thousands of residents from across British Columbia and other parts of the country are attracted to Alberta by the high-paying jobs while others work for companies that supply the oilsands.

There will be no new construction projects in that area, as long as oil prices hover around the $60 a barrel level. It simply costs too much to produce oil from the oilsands.

As economic activity is reduced, it impacts taxation to the federal and provincial governments. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and B.C. all are dependent on revenue from oil and natural gas. In B.C., one LNG project has been delayed by the falling price of oil, as Asian natural gas prices are tied to oil prices.

More could be delayed or even cancelled. It is significant that none of the major LNG players are ready to commit. A fall in economic activity likely means that 2015 will see much lower growth than anticipated, which won’t help the overall Canadian economy.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

The declining price of oil will likely result in reduced economic activity


Mayor Nils Jensen swore Andrew Brinton in as the new Chief Constable of the Oak Bay Police, welcoming the 13th chief of the department since its inception in 1906.

Ten Oak Bay students received Young Exceptional Stars (YES) awards at a banquet honouring some of the best and brightest grade 6 to 10 students making a difference in their community.

Students were nominated based on volunteerism, exceptional academics, athletics and ability to overcome obstacles and were rewarded for their efforts at the Oak Bay Recreation Centre, May 7. YES winners were: Candra

Barber, Owen Chow, Cam Henderson, Owen Jaques, Jessica Maitland, Isabella McNamee, Jean Newell, Oleg Saldyga, Leah Smith and Ruby Tang.

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Firefighter Doug Trumble was honoured as Victoria Minor Hockey Coach of the Year, and credited his teammates - at the fire hall.

“I hadn’t been head coach before because of the shift work,” said Trumble. “The guys at work covered for me and made it possible for me to be the head coach. I work nights and weekends and that makes it hard. If I had a morning practice, guys would stay late or come in early to cover for me. They would trade shifts with me, do

weekends. A lot of guys pitched in and made this possible for me.”

Trumble grew up in Oak Bay, playing hockey from age five. He rose through the ranks of Oak Bay Minor Hockey to play with the Junior B Saanich Braves. He continues to play the sport with a men’s team, and has been active as a minor hockey assistant coach for three years.

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Oak Bay Councillor Cairine Green presented Oak Bay council with a resolution asking for support requesting the Victoria Youth Custody Services facility in View Royal remain open, preventing young offenders from Vancouver Island from being forced off-

island to serve their sentences.

“Families can be touched by the criminal justice system, no one is immune.… Families in Oak Bay who have youth, young children before the courts (can) be sadly sentenced,” she said. “Youth would be removed from families and removed from their community and that touches all of us potentially. That’s why I took this on, no one is immune from children getting in trouble.”

Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux announced April 28 the under-utilized facility averaging 15 secure custody inmates in a 60-bed facility would close. The centre serves as a remand centre for youth awaiting court, as well as for those sentenced for repeat or violent offences not serving a sentence in their community.

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Oak Bay’s Matthew Geng, 12, earned his second consecutive victory at the B.C. Youth Chess Championships in Vancouver, earning him a ticket to the Canadian Youth Chess Championships in Montreal in July.

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Alan Campbell, 66, David Maxwell, 68, and Rob Zacharias, 60, left Willows Beach May 8 paddling north to Alaska. They planned to return from the 84-day journey up the inside passage to Juneau, Alaska on July 30. They returned home via Alaska Ferry to Bellingham, Wash. and paddling from Bellingham back to Willows Beach.

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After 32 years, firefighter Ken Gill hung up his helmet.

Best known as the Oak Bay Fire Department’s fire prevention officer for 17 of those 32 years, Gill said his connection with the department would be missed.

“I think there’s a real sense of pride and honour in our fire department. All our people are aware and cognizant of the history of the department and where we come from and how we are depended on by the community,” he said. “There is no call too small ... and that gives us a sense of being part of the community whether you live there or not. I spent all my working hours here and you become part of the Oak Bay culture.”

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It’s time to look beyond the protests and political battles around climate change that dominated 2014, and look at the year and the decade ahead.

From the California drought to shifting forest patterns across B.C., there is evidence that our climate is changing more rapidly. Public debate consists mainly of squabbling about the significance of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, rather than what can be done to prepare.

A draft discussion paper from the B.C. Forests Ministry on wildfire control was released in December after an access to information request. Climate Change Adaptation and Action Plan For Wildfire Management, 2014-2024 describes the progress made in the province’s community forest fire prevention plan, and its goal to create “wildfire resilient ecosystems and wildfire adapted communities” over the next 10 years.

The final discussion paper is to be released early in 2015, but the key research is in. It estimates that by 2017 there will be 788 million cubic metres of dead pine in B.C. forests. Fires in these areas spread 2.6 times faster than in healthy green stands, up to 66 metres per minute.

The report calls for fuel management beyond community

boundaries to stop “mega-fires” by creating landscape-level fuel breaks, with targeted harvesting,

prescribed burning and new silviculture practices.

It notes that bark beetle infestations and bigger, hotter fires are being seen across North America, with costs rising along with urban development. For example, the 2011 Slave Lake fire in northern Alberta generated the second largest insurance charge in Canadian history.

The costs of preparing are huge. The costs of not preparing could be catastrophic.

Also in 2014, the B.C. government appointed an advisory committee to prepare for the renewal of the Columbia River Treaty with the United States.

While this 1964 treaty has no end date, its flood control mandate expires in 2024. I spoke with Deborah Harford and Jon O’Riordan, members of the Simon Fraser University Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT), who, along with ACT senior policy author Robert Sandford, have written a provocative book on the treaty. They hope it will help lead to a renewed agreement that will be a model for a changing world.

“If you’re looking ahead 60 years from 2024, there’s a lot of climate change projected in that period,

for British Columbia and the U.S.,” Harford said. “For the B.C. side, we’re looking at heavy precipitation and potential increase in snowmelt runoff, while in the States, you’re getting the opposite, much less snow.

“There will probably be no snowpack left down there, and they’re looking at the prospect of quite drastically lower flows in the summer.”

The treaty, sparked by devastating floods in 1948, led to construction of three dams on the B.C. side and one at Libby, Wash. that backed up Kookanusa Lake into B.C. Between that reservoir and the Arrow Lakes, 110,000 hectares of B.C. land was flooded, including orchards, dairy farms and the homes of 2,000 people.

Those dams hold back spring flood water and provide for irrigation that has allowed Washington to expand its agriculture to a $5 billion-a-year industry. The treaty shares the value of hydroelectric power generated by the many downstream U.S. dams such as the Grand Coulee, but it pays B.C. nothing for agricultural benefits that were achieved at the cost of B.C. farms and aboriginal territories.

O’Riordan notes that climate shifts create a strategic benefit for B.C. The U.S. has no more dam capacity to exploit, and needs us more than ever, for flood protection and water supply.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

2015: the year of climate adaptation

Oil prices deliver ablow to economy

The plummeting price of oil may have a big impact on the Canadian and B.C. economies in the next year or two.

Some of that will be positive, but it is likely that it will be mainly negative.

The price of gasoline (but not diesel fuel) is falling, and that means more money in the pockets of consumers. This helps them meet other obligations, such as rent, credit card bills and child care. If the provincial and regional governments

can avoid the temptation to tax this newly found money out of people’s pockets, the fall in prices will be a good thing.

One other bright spot may be a boost in exports if the dollar remains low. The negative implications are widespread. There will almost certainly be a fall in economic activity, and particularly jobs. Many well-paying jobs are concentrated in the oilsands. And the benefits of those jobs spread far beyond Alberta. Thousands of residents from across British Columbia and other parts of the country are attracted to Alberta by the high-paying jobs while others work for companies that supply the oilsands.

There will be no new construction projects in that area, as long as oil prices hover around the $60 a barrel level. It simply costs too much to produce oil from the oilsands.

As economic activity is reduced, it impacts taxation to the federal and provincial governments. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and B.C. all are dependent on revenue from oil and natural gas. In B.C., one LNG project has been delayed by the falling price of oil, as Asian natural gas prices are tied to oil prices.

More could be delayed or even cancelled. It is significant that none of the major LNG players are ready to commit. A fall in economic activity likely means that 2015 will see much lower growth than anticipated, which won’t help the overall Canadian economy.

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The declining price of oil will likely result in reduced economic activity

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June 1 to 5 – Bayview Island Savings Open, Uplands Golf Course, www.bpisopen.caJune 3 – Oak Bay High Grad Ceremony, UVicJune 6 & 7 – Oak Bay Tea Party at Willows ParkJune 10 – Oak Bay Village Night Market, www.visitoakbayvillage.ca June 12 to 14 – Operation Trackshoes at UVic. www.trackshoes.caJune 13 – Garagellennium, 9am to 1pm, www.oakbaygaragesale.comJune 14 – Father’s Day at Recreation Oak Bay, www.oakbay.caJune 25 – School’s out for summer! June 27 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, www.pacificmobiledepots.com

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Feb. 1 to 7 – UVic Alumni Week, alumni.uvic.ca Feb. 6 to 9 – Family Day weekend activities with Oak Bay Recreation, www.oakbay.caFeb. 13 & 27 – Winter Concert Series with Groove Kitchen (13th) and The Sweet Lowdown (27th) Upstairs Lounge, OB Rec, www.beaconridgeproductions.comFeb. 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day! Feb. 17 – Coast Capital Free Skate, OB Rec, 6:30pm.Feb. 19 – A Glittery Affair dinner & dance at Monterey Centre, 250-370-7300.Feb. 19 – Heartwarming: All About Women & Heart Disease, at the Monterey Centre, 10am, 250-370-7300Feb. 20 – Pro-D Day Skate & Swim, OB Rec,1:30pm.Feb. 28 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, www.pacificmobiledepots.comFeb. 28 – Monterey Centre Rummage Sale, 9am to 1pm

UVic Astronomy Open House, 9 to 10pm Wednesdays May to August, astrowww.phys.uvic.caJuly – Uplands Heart fundraising tournaments for women, juniors & men, www.uplandsgolfclub.orgJuly 8 – Oak Bay Village Night Market, www.visitoakbayvillage.caJuly 18 – TD Art Gallery Paint-In, www.aggv.caJuly 25 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, www.pacificmobiledepots.comJuly 18 – Jaguar Car Club of Victoria Jaguars on the Island Concours d’Elegance at Windsor Park, www.jcna.comCelebrate summer with a swim or paddle at Willows Beach

Dec. 3 – Oak Bay Village Christmas SocialDec. 3 – Celebrate the season with the annual Art on the Avenue Gallery WalkDec. 5 – Island Equipment Operators’ annual Lighted Truck Parade, www.ieoa.caDecember – Register for the 36th annual New Year’s Classic tennis tournament, Oak Bay Rec Centre, 250-595-7946Early December – Annual Oak Bay Merrython Fun Run, Henderson Rec Centre, 250-370-7200December – Watch for a variety of special holiday-themed activities through Recreation Oak Bay, www.oakbay.caDec. 25 – Merry Christmas! Dec. 31 – Farewell 2015, Welcome 2016!

Aug. 3 – BC Day! Check your Oak Bay News for local events and activitiesAug. 9 – Classic car buffs delight in the annual Collector Car Festival along Oak Bay Avenue.Aug. 12 – Oak Bay Village Night Market, www.visitoakbayvillage.ca Aug. 16 – Bowker Creek Brush-up Art Show & Sale, 11am to 4:30pm, www.oakbayartists.comAug. 22 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, www.pacificmobiledepots.comTake in Oak Bay’s beautiful views with a paddle along the waterfront or stroll up Anderson HillSeptember is almost here...Time for Back to School shopping!

April – Don’t forget to vote for the Black Press Best of the City awards!April – Local baseball gets under way at Oak Bay parksApril 3 to 6 – Easter weekend activities at Oak Bay Rec Centre, www.oakbay.caApril 5 – Easter swim & skate; 2 events/ 1 admission, plus movies in the lounge, 250-595-7946April 9 – Emergency Prep Begins with You workshop, Monterey Centre, 1 to 3pm. 250-592-9121 or [email protected] 10 & 24 – Winter Concert Series: Upstairs Lounge, OB Rec, www.beaconridgeproductions.comApril 18 & 19 – Oak Bay Artists Spring Studio Tour, 12 to 4:30 pm, www.oakbayartists.comApril 25 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, www.pacificmobiledepots.com

Local hockey and soccer return to Oak Bay’s rinks and turfSept. 7 – Labour Day – Enjoy the last long-weekend of summer!Sept. 8 – Back to school for Oak Bay studentsEarly September – Welcome activities at UVic & Camosun CollegeSept. 13 – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria House Tour, www.aggv.caSept. 9 – Oak Bay Village Night Market, www.visitoakbayvillage.caSept. 26 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, www.pacificmobiledepots.com Castaway Wanderers rugby action gets under way at Windsor Park

Oct. 4 – Run for the Cure at UVic, www.runforthecure.comOct. 9 to 31 – Pumpkin Art in Oak Bay Village, incl. Pumpkins on Streetpoles from Oct. 9 and Pumpkin Art from Oct. 23 Oct. 12 – Happy Thanksgiving!Oct. 15 – ShakeOut BC Earthquake Drill, 10:15am: Practice “Drop, cover and hold on,” wherever you areOct. 24 – Oak Bay Green Committee Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, www.pacific-mobiledepots.comOct. 31 – Trick or Treat in the Village, www.visitoakbayvillage.caOct. 31 – Halloween Bonfire in Fireman’s Park, next to the fire hall

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Grade 10 Oak Bay High student Robert Lee, 15, scored the highest grade on the Michael Smith Science Challenge, a competition where Lee took top prize not only across the province – but across the entire country.

Lee scored 58.5 out of a maximum score of 60, on the open-ended, five-question exam which looked for a demonstration of problem-solving skills and analysis, evaluation and communication of scientific ideas. Lee’s classmate Ruby Tang, who also took the exam, said she was excited for her friend who beat out 1,747 participants for the award and the $500 top prize.

Nine students took the exam, with Matthew MacDonald coming in the top 10 per cent and three others, Nicole Frazer, Jack Kyle and Liam Marshall, rewarded with certificates for top 25 per cent finishes.

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A “total team effort” notched a come-from-behind win for Oak Bay High at the junior rugby Island championship. Oak Bay faced Shawnigan school in the final game of the season

and were down 17-12 at halftime but scored three tries to win 27-17.

Oak Bay United celebrated the

centennial of the placing of its cornerstone. A number of community leaders and Masons, who were integral in the build a century ago, attended the June 8 event.

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A cycling accident put new top cop Andy Brinton off work in June. The avid cyclist broke a leg while out mountain biking the back trails.

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A motion put forward by Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins to suspend the Seaterra sewage treatment program until January 2015 was discussed in-camera by the CRD’s sewage committee. The CRD’s $788-million Seaterra program was put in jeopardy after Esquimalt denied rezoning needed at the McLoughlin Point site, where work was meant to begin before the end of July.

Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen, a proponent of moving forward on the project, said the biggest loss is

the funding from the provincial and federal grants.

“I don’t think there’s any bigger economic issue than this in Oak Bay,” Jensen said. “By not proceeding with this particular plan, determined to be the best and the cheapest, it really puts many Oak Bay households in a position where any new plan would be significantly more expensive and therefore impact their utility costs.”

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Oak Bay speed-climber Jacob Dorion snagged a spot on the Canadian National Youth Climbing Team with a best time for flying up a 15-metre race wall at 12.67 seconds and 7.46s for the 10-metre. The 16-year-old trains with The Boulders team at Stelly’s secondary in Central Saanich.

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Oak Bay’s senior girls soccer team finished third in B.C.

Holly Goodacre continued her top-scorer ways with five goals over the tournament. Teammate Caroline

Crossley missed the bronze medal game to compete at track and field provincials.

The team was still shy of its off-field goal, to raise $10,000 for cancer research.

At track provincials, Oak Bay proved best in B.C. as far as the boys team was concerned. The team topped provincials while the overall Oak Bay High track team took second, one slim point behind New Westminster. The girls’ side and the junior boys team both finished third in B.C.

Grade 10 student Caroline Crossley played four soccer games and ran two 100-metre relays and three 400m races over the weekend.

A total of 17 Oak Bay High athletes cracked the top eight standings. Among them are Mick Taylor 400-metre champion, Lucas Petruzelli, silver medalist in men’s pole vault, and Danika Postle, second in triple jump.

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The Community Association of Oak Bay started to raise awareness of its grassroots project to raise a First Nations pole at the new Oak Bay High school next fall.

“This is a very exciting project. It really comes from the community,” said Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen. “It’s really a community-led initiative, which makes it even more meaningful. The people in Oak Bay, through their community association, are expressing a need to make their school inclusive.”

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Ivy’s Books hosted a page-turner of a party to celebrates 50 years.

“It really speaks to the community that they’ve supported us that long,” said owner Megan Scott. “There are not many bookstores that make 50 years. There’s Munro’s and we always consider Ivy’s as Munro’s little sister.”

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Chester Francisco of Monterey Middle School places second in the Grade 6 boys long jump at the Middle School Track and Field Championships held at Centennial Stadium.

Painters with the Al Frescoes plein air group find a variety of views to create their art during a visit to Cattle Point on a sunny day.

Oak Bay fine arts students Kenny Wang, left, Nicole Dann and Jessica Huynh take a break from painting the teacups for the annual Oak Bay Mayor’s Floating Teacup Challenge Race.

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With gold in hand from the West Coast Jazz Festival in Nanaimo, Oak Bay High’s senior jazz band scored silver at the National Music Festival in Vancouver.

Thomas Daudlin, Shane Park, Antony Fenlon, Max Stover, Chris Warren, Miles Fuller, Luke Rohon O’Halloran and Alex Ireton were awarded for outstanding solos.

Angus Watt was named outstanding senior guitar player.

Felix Lambrecht was named most outstanding senior trumpet player and earned a scholarship to Berklee Summer Music program.

Oak Bay’s arts laureate Barbara Adams conjured up a pilot project to include three sculptures, three pianos and a Gracepoint remnant, all placed throughout the community to introduce residents to the joy of public art.

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Speed readers were installed in deer hot-spots as the latest step in the deer management plan for Oak Bay.

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The Carnarvon Cannons won the U9 Vancouver Island Regional Championships.

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Royal B.C Museum experts were warning of a particularly dangerous and poisonous plant species becoming more common in the area. Poisonous hemlock has been cropping up more

often in Oak Bay parks and has become a concern along the Bowker Creek watershed.

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The Capital Regional District took the first steps towards introducing a clean-air bylaw that makes all parks, playgrounds, playing fields, public squares and bus stops smoke-free.

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Oak Bay plans to revisit its dumping bylaws as volunteers and staff continue to find trash turfed in public spaces. While clearing ivy from the oaks on the municipal land just across from the Island Road entrance to Anderson Hill Park, volunteers discovered a large, dead Christmas tree, a large piece of glass and a box containing candles, candle holders, brass and pewter pitchers, books from the Juan de Fuca branch of the Greater Victoria Library and more.

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Oak Bay council was looking at

improvements to the intersection of Cadboro Bay Road and Thompson Avenue. Limited visibility, inadequate crosswalks and traffic speed were listed as concerns with the intersection. A $47,500 plan, which would add a curb extension at the southeast quadrant of the intersection, realign the existing crosswalk, add a bike lane on Cadboro Bay road and extend the sidewalk on Thompson avenue 50 metres, was referred to the budget committee for 2015.

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A new bike rack was installed on Oak Bay Avenue at the corner of Hampshire Road. The bike rack, which can hold up to eight bikes, was a project of the active transportation advisory committee to encourage more cycle use in the community.

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The proposed rebuild for St. Michaels Junior school was put on hold. At a July 14 council meeting,

council and the public alike expressed support for the new school building, and for the open, ground level and green space-heavy design, but all said that there are further concerns that need to be addressed before construction can begin. Congested traffic and parking were the main concerns with the project.

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The original residence for St. Michaels school at 2176 Windsor Rd. was one step closer to becoming a registered heritage property. The home’s owner, Charles Blackhall, requested in 2012 that Oak Bay council consider a possible Heritage Revitalization Agreement for the property, which also served as the residence of St. Michaels headmaster and founder Kyrle C. Symons. The Heritage Commission recommended the home be placed on the heritage register once written consent had been obtained by the owner, and confirmed its eligibility for an HRA.

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Nitesco, a choral group of Grade 9 and 10 students from Oak Bay High, earned silver at a national competition. The group of Hadley Parsons, Caitlin Troughton, Amara Digout, Kyla Gilmour, Patricia Horwood and Briar Rose Redchurch earlier picked up top spot at the provincial level.

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A number of residents packed council chambers to oppose plans for a

7,000-plus square foot home on Crestview Road. Despite the opposition, council unanimously approved the variance to allow for greater square footage, caused by an oddity in the average grade that led to the basement being included in the total square footage.

Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver was inducted into the American Geophysical Union’s prestigious Fellowship. The AGU is recognized as the leading society of geophysicists, and Weaver’s recognition

is based on his body of work with oceanography and his climate change work with the UN.

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A non-profit collective of 17 artists set up shop on Oak Bay Avenue. The Gage Gallery celebrated its grand opening with a silent auction.


Kathleen Burton, executive director of Mount St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation, left; co-ordinator Barbara Newton; and foundation volunteer Lynda Witham show off their Victorian fashion sense in preparation of the Sophie Pemberton Tea.

Nitesco, a six-member choral group of Grade 9 and 10 students from Oak Bay High, earned silver at a national competition. Pictured, bottom row from left, Hadley Parsons, Caitlin Troughton, Amara Digout, top row, Kyla Gilmour, Patricia Horwood and Briar Rose Redchurch.

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Oak Bay High student John Fayad snapped up a pair of gold medals at the B.C. Summer Games in Nanaimo. The 17-year-old finished atop his 66 kg weight division and helped pace the Vancouver Island Central Coast team to the gold.

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Mount St. Mary’s Hospital and the Society of Friends of St. Ann’s Academy celebrated an Oak Bay icon with an inaugural tea. The Sophie Pemberton Tea is the newest fundraiser for the two groups, which hope to develop it as an annual event.

Sophie Pemberton received artistic training in Paris and was accepted for a gallery exhibition in London. She was the first woman to be honoured with the Prix Julian in 1899. Many of her paintings are in the collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

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The Carnarvon U14B girls ball team turned in a silver-medal performance at the Western Canadian Championships in Lloydminister, Alta. The team earlier took home a silver from the provincials in Delta.

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The recreation centre on Monterey Avenue was getting a major makeover. The activity site for those 50-plus saw major upgrades to the Fern Cafe, Garden Court, Bamboo Room, Pine Room and computer room

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Oak Bay’s vibrant arts community was credited for a booming summer tourism market.

n n n

The district of Oak Bay began searching for a Plan

B for regional sewage treatment. Council asked staff to begin discussions with the municipality of Saanich and city of Victoria to come up with an alternative to the plan currently stalled at the Capital Regional District table.

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A man was struck with a pry bar after he interrupted a break and enter at his home on the 800 block of

St. Patrick Street. The homeowner was taken to hospital with a laceration to his arm and a 19-year-old man was charged with the incident.

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Oak Bay Police received three complaints regarding small remote-controlled, unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones, flying over and around private residences in Oak Bay.

Members of the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station 33 in Oak Bay got a new home. Built by the Oak Bay Marine Group at its site in Ladysmith, the new rescue station was docked in early August, with pilings driven in to hold the station in place at the end of the month. The new building includes

a hoist to lift the boat completely out of the water for repairs and maintenance, a mezzanine level for crew training and rescue triage and a dry, or “ready” room where crew equipment and safety gear can be safely stowed.

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Oak Bay lost a village icon with the death of Jim Kirk. Kirk, 75, called Oak Bay home for a quarter of a century, owning the building that houses the Penny Farthing Pub and other shops on Oak Bay Avenue.

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A large crowd came out to voice their opinions when Oak Bay council approved the new official community plan. The hot topic in the new OCP was the possibility of densification.

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Oak Bay was the site of an announcement of a funding campaign to support clinical trials of a new cancer treatment. The B.C. Cancer Foundation was seeking $4 million for the clinical trials of a form of immunotherapy called adoptive T cell therapy, or ACT.

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Oak Bay High student John Fayad snapped up a pair of gold medals at the B.C. Summer Games in Nanaimo. The 17-year-old finished atop his 66 kg weight division and helped pace the Vancouver Island Central Coast team to the gold.

n n n

Mount St. Mary’s Hospital and the Society of Friends of St. Ann’s Academy celebrated an Oak Bay icon with an inaugural tea. The Sophie Pemberton Tea is the newest fundraiser for the two groups, which hope to develop it as an annual event.

Sophie Pemberton received artistic training in Paris and was accepted for a gallery exhibition in London. She was the first woman to be honoured with the Prix Julian in 1899. Many of her paintings are in the collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

n n n

The Carnarvon U14B girls ball team turned in a silver-medal performance at the Western Canadian Championships in Lloydminister, Alta. The team earlier took home a silver from the provincials in Delta.

n n n

The recreation centre on Monterey Avenue was getting a major makeover. The activity site for those 50-plus saw major upgrades to the Fern Cafe, Garden Court, Bamboo Room, Pine Room and computer room

n n n

Oak Bay’s vibrant arts community was credited for a booming summer tourism market.

n n n

The district of Oak Bay began searching for a Plan

B for regional sewage treatment. Council asked staff to begin discussions with the municipality of Saanich and city of Victoria to come up with an alternative to the plan currently stalled at the Capital Regional District table.

n n n

A man was struck with a pry bar after he interrupted a break and enter at his home on the 800 block of

St. Patrick Street. The homeowner was taken to hospital with a laceration to his arm and a 19-year-old man was charged with the incident.

n n n

Oak Bay Police received three complaints regarding small remote-controlled, unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones, flying over and around private residences in Oak Bay.

Members of the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station 33 in Oak Bay got a new home. Built by the Oak Bay Marine Group at its site in Ladysmith, the new rescue station was docked in early August, with pilings driven in to hold the station in place at the end of the month. The new building includes

a hoist to lift the boat completely out of the water for repairs and maintenance, a mezzanine level for crew training and rescue triage and a dry, or “ready” room where crew equipment and safety gear can be safely stowed.

n n n

Oak Bay lost a village icon with the death of Jim Kirk. Kirk, 75, called Oak Bay home for a quarter of a century, owning the building that houses the Penny Farthing Pub and other shops on Oak Bay Avenue.

n n n

A large crowd came out to voice their opinions when Oak Bay council approved the new official community plan. The hot topic in the new OCP was the possibility of densification.

n n n

Oak Bay was the site of an announcement of a funding campaign to support clinical trials of a new cancer treatment. The B.C. Cancer Foundation was seeking $4 million for the clinical trials of a form of immunotherapy called adoptive T cell therapy, or ACT.

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Elizabeth Smith, president of the Oak Bay Business Improvement Association blindsides BIA treasurer Tony Tucker in the ALS ice bucket challenge

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It was announced that active restoration work on Bowker Creek near Oak Bay High could start by June. The Bowker Creek Initiative planned to work within 25 metres of the entire length of the creek alongside the high school’s running track. Construction is expected to take place between June and September.

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The Oak Bay street market came to a crashing close when a driver plower through the barrier at Monterey and Oak Bay Avenue during the final market of the year. No one was injured in the incident.

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Oak Bay council narrowly supported a motion to write the Capital Regional District to endorse a

school travel planning co-ordinator position.

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Students in Oak Bay joined their counterparts across the province in returning to the classroom. Schools opened three weeks late around B.C. as a result of the teachers strike. Teachers eventually voted 86 per cent to ratify a new six-year contract

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The Community Association of Oak Bay launched the welcoming pole called Sno’uyutth, Coast Salish for ‘spreading good energy’ as part of Culture Days at Oak Bay High. The Community Association of Oak Bay commissioned Butch Dick for a design and received approval from the school board to place it at the new high school. Butch’s son Clarence Dick and a carving team did the work on the pole on site.

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An Oak Bay man

was cut in the face during an attempted home invasion. Oak Bay Police were called to a home on the 800 block of Foul Bay Road after a homeowner discovered a man breaking into his house through a window.

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Oak Bay High was partially evacuated after a small crane toppled onto the roof of the new school building currently under construction.

The Rotary Club of Oak Bay honoured three people at its first Paul Harris Awards Dinner. Maria Consalvo, Paul Destrooper and Helen Hughes were recognized for their contributions to humanitarian causes.

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Oak Bay High students raised more than $40,000 for the Tour de Rock event that sees Vancouver Island police officers

travel more than 1,000 kilometres across the Island to raise funds for cancer research and pediatric cancer support. The amount raised by the Oak Bay students was enough to send 27 kids to Camp Goodtimes.

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Oak Bay Fire Chief Dave Cockle was named Kiwanian of the Year.

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Longtime councillor John Herbert

announced he would not seek re-election in Oak Bay. Herbert, 79, served 15 years on council as well as a dozen years on the community’s board of variance.

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After 10 years of consideration, it was announced the last intersection without vehicle-sensing traffic lights would be getting an upgrade. The project to replace the lights at the

intersection of Foul Bay and Lansdowne Roads was expected to cost $220,000.

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An Oak Bay family’s dog was mauled by a deer near Uplands Golf Course. The nine-year-old black lab Riley was pinned by a buck in the family’s back yard. The dog was left with multiple puncture wounds that required hours of surgery.

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Longtime athlete and active Uplands Golf Club member Maureen Hibberson was among those inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame.

OCTOBER

Friends of Uplands Park Margaret Lidkea and Kevin Webber get ready to pull some invasive plants as volunteers work to preserve the Garry Oak ecosystem in the park.



Oak Bay’s Maureen Hibberson was inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame. Hibberson excelled in five sports: badminton, swimming, tennis, field hockey and golf.

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Oak Bay council granted approval for an Estevan Avenue duplex. Several residents voiced opposition to the duplex development. The plan originally called for a triplex but was twice scaled down.

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The Rotary Club of Oak Bay celebrated 40 years of service to the community.

Municipal election campaign signs sparked a debate on Twitter. Coun Kevin Murdoch tweeted a photo of the signs along the boulevard of Cedar Hill X Road, reminding fellow candidates of their pledge to abide by Oak Bay’s rule of no signs on public property.

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Experts at the University of

Victoria were hoping history buffs could help them discover the mystery author of a two-volume leather diary that depicts intimate sketches from the front lines of the First World War.

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Oak Bay firefighters were called on to assist with the reduce of a pregnant border collie from the cliffs on the 900 block of Beach Drive.

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Two Oak Bay firefighters were among those from throughout Greater Victoria to pose for a calendar to raise funds for the NICU at Victoria General.

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York Place property owners were upset after being given five days notice to trim their large cedar hedge encroaching on the sidewalk to municipal standards.

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The elimination of the Regional Crime Unit helped keep down the Oak Bay Police budget for 2015. Chief Const. Andy Brinton told council the

total provisional budget showed a 0.46 per cent increase.

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Voters gave Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen a convincing mandate in the municipal election. Jensen held off the challenge from councillor Cairine Green, picking up 3,640 votes to her 2,197. Kevin Murdoch, Tara Ney, Michelle Kirby, Hazel Braithwaite, Eric Zhelka and Tom Croft earned seats on council.

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Glyn Williams was honoured as a Distinguished Toastmaster as the public speaking organization marked 20 years of service in Oak Bay.

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The Friends of Brighton Walkway were digging in to transform a section of the trail between St. David Street and Transit.

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Oak Bay was the only Greater

Victoria community to oppose discussions on amalgamation of the eight municipalities that put a referendum question on the ballot. Oak Bay voted against amalgamation by a 62 per cent margin, while the province agreed to commit resources towards a study to examine changes to the local government structure.

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Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen and Victoria MP Murray Rankin voiced concern over Canada Post’s plans to change over from mail service at the door to community mailboxes. The Crown corporation plans to eliminate home mail delivery to 20,000 homes in the Capital Region over the next five years with 18,000 addresses expected to be converted next fall.

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Oak Bay High captured the Vancouver Island championship in both senior boys and senior girls volleyball.

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Oak Bay High established a Distinguished Fine Arts Alumni. The first 10 inductees to be honoured were Dick Auchinleck, Joe Average, John Beckwith, Bevan Bigalky, Colin Campbell, Alana Charlton, Eileen Cooper, Dave Dunnet, Tobin Stokes and Roy Henry Vickers.

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University of Victoria students dished out free soup as part of a students’ society protest of the growing debt load students are facing. The group noted a BMO survey showing the average student has $35,000 in debt upon graduation and were calling on the province to restore needs-based grants.

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A Capital Regional District report outlined the considerable infrastructure and land in the region that could become part of a flood hazard area as a result of climate change over the next century. For Oak Bay that includes land and improvements valued at $740 million.

Royal Jubilee Hospital will be able to process patient samples faster and with more accuracy, thanks to a new state-of-the-art fully automated microbiology lab. Royal Jubilee is the first hospital in North America to have such a system.

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User fees for playing fields in Oak Bay were scheduled to rise. Oak Bay currently has a lower rate than neighbouring communities at $3.50 an hour. Staff recommended phasing in a gradual increase that would see the rate climb to $6.42 for youth and double that amount for adults. The matter was referred to budget discussions.

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The Red Art Gallery held a Holiday Art Exchange to raise money for the Victoria Women’s Transition House.

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A Vancouver court appointed a receiver to take over operations of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel. While the hotel operations were exceeding expectations, real estate sales struggled and the lenders called in their loans, according to a statement from owners Kevin and Shawna Walker.

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Oak Bay’s Maddie Secco was named to the 2015 Canadian Women’s National Field Hockey Team.

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Blasting to prepare a lot for construction forced a family from their home on Woodlawn Crescent. The blasting caused carbon monoxide to enter Chris Robertson’s home on Woodlawn Crescent, prompting the District of Oak Bay to issue a stop-work order until the matter could be rectified.

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Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen was elected chair of the Capital Regional District, defeating Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins in a secret ballot.

Oak Bay firefighters Kyle Beaumont, left, and Jon Popham feature in the 2015 Greater Victoria Firefighter calendar to raise funds for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Victoria General Hospital.

DECEMBER

Nils Jensen is congratulated by supporters following his re-election as mayor of Oak Bay.

Oak Bay High established a Distinguished Fine Arts Alumni, with 10 former staff and students among the first to be inducted. The six inductees in attendance for the ceremony were, from left, Tobin Stokes, Bevan Bigalky, Alana Charlton, Dick Auchinleck, Eileen Cooper and Colin Campbell.

NOVEMBER

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