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New website goes live Oak Bay enhances its online presence with new oakbay.ca site Laura Lavin News staff
Oak Bay has a new presence on the web. Its website, oakbaybc.org, has been replaced with oakbay.ca. “That’s just one of many changes,” said Oak Bay councillor Kevin Murdoch. Murdoch, along with councillor Michelle Kirby, three residents and staff members put their heads together with UpanUp Studios web design to prepare a new website that encompasses many municipal departments. “One of the highlights Kevin Murdoch is that it’s driven from a mobility standpoint,” said Murdoch. All content will be readable on a variety of platforms including smartphones and tablets. “It’s a responsive design,” he said. “It doesn’t cut off any of the information if you’re looking at it from a mobile device.” Along with being more user-friendly, the new website includes Oak Bay Heritage, Parks and Recreation, Oak Bay Police and Fire departments – all of which operated under separate sites previously. “Now we have it all in one website. We’ve taken all the information and centralized it,” Murdoch said. The new site, which launched late Sunday night, also includes a calendar of events to which the public will be able to upload. PLEASE SEE: One-stop shopping for information, Page A12
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Oak Bay Secondary School Grade 12 student Maria Talalaeva in a classroom at the school, teaches Monterey students tennis in her spare time.
Energy drives philanthropy Tim Collins News staff
Oak Bay High principal Dave Thomson says this generation of students is the most caring and philanthropic that he has ever seen. “I see it every day at Oak Bay, but it’s not just something here, it’s a generational thing,” said Thomson. He feels it’s important to balance the
recent press coverage that has focused negatively on young people in the wake of the highly publicized suicide of Port Coquitlam teen Amanda Todd, whose death is linked to bullying. “Of course it was a tragedy, and I was deeply saddened by it, and of course there were some young people involved and that needs to be addressed,” he said. “But it’s an anomaly that was triggered by the
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