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Oak and Orca Bioregional School students in Victoria learn the value of water with a unique rainwater system
a linear trench with specialized soil and plants, then drains into a native plant rain garden. The majority of the water drains into the rain garden, with very little passing through the stormwater system. During a heavy rainfall, the system will slow the runoff down and improve the water quality before entering the storm drain. “What we don’t realize a lot of the time here in the city . . . is that outlet points are receiving water that is polluted,” said Orr. Being located at a school, Orr said this rain garden will serve mainly an educational purpose, but will still be functional. “The kids will be maintaining the rain garden as well as the rest of the system,” said Orr. “So they’ll do things like weeding, and . . . sediment does build up in these over time, so maybe twice a year they’ll have to get the sediment out of the rain garden.” Andrea Peacock/Victoria News
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GARDENING the RAIN A local school is now the home of a new educational and functional rainwater system. “It’s essentially a garden that has a lot of water storage capacity within it,” said Catherine Orr, University of Victoria environmental studies graduate student and leader of the rainwater system project. “What Andrea we’re trying Peacock to do here is Reporting mimic natural systems within how we manage rainwater currently.” The rainwater system is located at Oak and Orca Bioregional School in Victoria, and runs almost the entire length of the school site. The rainwater is collected from the school’s roof into the 960-litre cistern and flows through an educational play feature and into a bioswale,
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Brooklyn Hall, 9, dumping a bucket of water into the new rainwater system at Oak and Orca Bioregional School.
Tis’ the season of giving, and last Thursday at the Jingle Mingle gala, the giving was big. The glitzy gala held at the Fairmont Empress Hotel raised a record-breaking $905,000 to support immune therapy research at the B.C. Cancer Agency Vancouver Island Centre. The Jingle Mingle has received a lot of support in the past. Last year, it raised $602,000 and in the last seven years it has raised $2.6 million for cancer research on Vancouver Island. Funds raised Thursday will support the infrastructure for a “clean room,” which is a highly-specialized, sterile environment for the production of T-cells. T-cells are a type of white blood cell that is a key component to the immune system and is a critical part of the immune therapy clinical trial happening at the Deeley Research Centre in Victoria. The Deeley Research Centre studies the response of the immune system before, during and after standard cancer treatments. editor@vicnews.com
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