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More of everything, and less of one thing, marked the Oak Bay Tea Party as the best yet.

“It was probably one of the best we had largely due to not only the sunshine and temperature but also no wind,” said organizer Bill Murphy-Dyson.

The organizer also spoke with Oak Bay Police, who reported no problems with the 5,000-plus event goers on each of the days.

“The Friday night and Saturday of the Tea Party weekend were as uneventful as any in recent memory, and the whole weekend event was successful with no major issues,” said Const. Rick Anthony, community liaison officer with Oak Bay Police.

A couple of standouts for Murphy-Dyson include having his daughter and four-year-old granddaughter enjoying the festivities while visiting from Toronto, the Vic High band and doubling up on skydivers.

“The Vic HIgh Rhythm and Blues band on Saturday night, they’re always good but they were red hot this time and the dance floor was used all day Saturday and Sunday, more people used it than ever before,” he said.

Defeated by firefighter Duane Adsett, Mayor Nils Jensen finished second in the annual tea cup race, which he goodnaturedly called a win and a ‘silver medal’ on Sunday. “[Adsett] was very good at it,” said Murphy-Dyson. “He did a good job, and the mayor managed to complete the race and stay dry. He’s never done both before.”

Eight skydivers started Sunday’s airshow and eight more wrapped it, including John Meeks, 78, who has been jumping onto Willows Beach for the Tea Party since 1972.

“He said ‘If you ever don’t see me skydiving at the Oak Bay Tea Party check the obituaries’,” said Murphy-Dyson.

The final proof that it was the best event yet is the amount of beef consumed.

“We sold more baron of beef this year than ever before, 100 roasts cooked by the team led by Rob Westfall. He was there at 5 a.m. Saturday and Sunday morning to get the coals going in the barbecue pit.” cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

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A shining new bench of old-growth cedar stands out among the benches looping the lot adjacent to Oak Bay Marina. It faces the islands, and commemorates Michael Battle who was 28 when he died in a motorcycle accident April 16, 2000. He was the popular captain of the Discovery Princess that no longer sailed with Oak Bay Marine Group after his death.

His parents Martin and Stella Battle purchased and maintained the memorial bench on his behalf. It was discovered charred and blackened on the morning of Feb. 22.

Oak Bay resident Jamie Nielson first saw the damage during his morning cycle around the parking lot.

“That’s how I found out that bench had burned,” Nielson said. “We were planning on using that dock board from Cadboro Bay for shoeshine kits and when I heard about Michael being the guy who was always out on boats at Oak Bay Marina…”

Ryan Goodman and Matthew Jardine of Aryze Developments salvaged the wood from Royal Victoria Yacht Club, as the docks were

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Stella and Martin Battle sit on the new bench honouring their late son Michael and chat with Ryan Goodman, left, and Matthew Jardine of Aryze Developments who provided the old-growth cedar from the old docks of Royal Victoria Yacht Club to Jamie Neilson, back right, who did the work to get the bench in order. The original bench commemorating Michael Battle was torched by vandals earlier this year. replaced last year. Seeking approval, Nielson scrounged up a cellphone number for Coun. Kevin Murdoch, saved from election time, and sought permission to work on replacing the bench. He was put through to parks manager Chris Hyde-Lay who

contacted the Battles and the idea was anchored.

“Ryan milled the wood, we finished it and stained it and put the whole thing together,” Nielson said.

Oak Bay Parks refurbished the plaque, attached the legs and installed the bench.

“It was old-growth cedar from a decommissioned wharf at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club so the connection with the club and boats and MIchael all fits,” said Martin Battle. “It really fits in with Michael’s character.” cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

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Scenes from a Tea Party Dan Ebenal and Christine van Reeuwyk photos

(Clockwise from top left) Jamie Bruynzel, Devon Bean and Emily Stone ride the Scrambler at the Tea Party. A skydiver glides down to the waiting crowd. Boaters aplenty took in the festivities from the water, which included a 15-lap bathtub race. Riza Mann, Kyla Pallan and Samara Pallan ride the ferris wheel. Two-yearold Amélie Taylor enjoys some cotton candy. Town crier Kenny Podmore, Mayor Nils Jensen and Town Crier Escort Rhonda Todrick raise a toast to the Tea Party ceremonies. Six-year-old James Smith gets a better view of the festivities from atop dad George’s shoulders. Five-yearold Mila Dosil reels in a prize at the Fishing Pond.

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Oak Bay and Saanich fire departments took advantage of a slow summer session at the University of Victoria to conduct a joint training session on the near-empty campus. The two departments share responsibility for fire and rescue coverage at the university.

“The training is designed to assist fire crews to enhance their technical skills in confined space rescue,” said Oak Bay Fire Chief Dave Cockle. “The sessions also allow for the two departments to familiarize themselves with the confined spaces at UVic, which the departments are responsible for.”

They were working within narrow manholes near the Cunningham building, pulling dummies and firefighters from tight spaces.

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Hundreds paraded and hundreds lined the streets of Oak Bay Saturday for the annual Tea Party parade of 70 floats that filled the streets and wound through the community to finish up for the official launch at Willows Park Saturday afternoon.

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A reconciliation worth achieving After six years, countless tears and thousands of emotional accountings of residential school experiences, the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission report came down last week.

Rather than making broad-based, sweeping recommendations that are more a state of mind, the report makes nearly 100 specific action points aimed at such things as helping aboriginal people recapture their culture, educating the general population about the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aboriginal heritage, and creating government policies and programs designed to enhance our understanding of the importance of that heritage and the distinctiveness of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aboriginal people.

The phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;cultural genocideâ&#x20AC;? was introduced as a way to describe the systematic removal of aboriginal children from their homes and families and the residential school systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abhorrent strategy of â&#x20AC;&#x153;taking the Indian out Indians.â&#x20AC;? It was an attempt to sever the cultural connection that saw aboriginal elders and heads of families pass on their language and other traditional heritage to younger generations.

In the 1960s, leaders in Quebec sought to have their provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;distinct societyâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Â its majority Frenchspeaking population, unique culture and civil law tradition â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Â officially recognized by the government of Canada. Two attempts to entrench such uniqueness in the Constitution, the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords, failed, as have subsequent referendums on separation.

Nonetheless, Quebec and its uniqueness in this country are today recognized as an integral part of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heritage and cultural makeup.

The same recognition must be afforded Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Nations. Fortunately, work has begun, little by little, to acknowledge aboriginal distinctiveness in Canadian life. Righting past wrongs will take more than simply throwing money at the problem of residual anger and shame over residential school abuses. It will take further inclusionary practices and action by individuals just as much as by governments.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a matter of systemically re-imagining the relationship between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people on a personal, individual level. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about treating all people as fellow human beings, free of judgment, with respect.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we can all do, regardless of what government policies may be enacted in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work.

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@ oakbaynews.com or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.

The OAK BAY NEWS is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.

Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

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Microbes, biodiversity and the benefits of getting dirty their benefits, decades of overuse Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re surrounded by life, but for personal sanitation, minor Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most plentiful living things maladies and to promote growth in are invisible to the naked eye. livestock has led to new Microbes are not only illnesses and infections around us, they live on as sometimes-harmful and in us. Although some bacteria evolve to resist cause maladies ranging antibiotics and our own from food poisoning to microbial defences. smallpox, there are many According to Alan we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live without.

Logan, author of Your Beneficial microbes Brain on Nature, diet break down food and and where we live and produce vitamins in our play have a tremendous guts. They coat our skin, David Suzuki influence on the microbial protecting us from attacks Science Matters ecosystems on our skin by harmful microbes. and in our noses, mouths Outside our bodies, they and intestines. Logan and decompose organic waste, experts from a range of disciplines fix nitrogen and produce half the at the Natural Environments worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oxygen.

Initiative workshop at Harvard Scientists refer to the microbial School of Public Health found communities on and in our bodies people who live in areas with rich as â&#x20AC;&#x153;microbiomesâ&#x20AC;?. Every one of plant diversity have more diverse us hosts as many as 100 trillion microbiomes. The air we breathe, microbes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our guts alone are the soil we dig and the outdoor home to 500 to 1,000 different plants we come into contact with bacteria species. include a variety of microbes that Just as human activity is harming may be absent in indoor and built the diversity of visible life, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also environments. diminishing microbial diversity. As Researchers have even found researchers learn more about the digging in dirt, whether gardening profound ways good microbes keep or playing, can benefit our physical people healthy, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also seeing and mental health. A microbe how our urbanized, indoor lifestyles common to mud and wet soils, have transformed our microbiomes, Mycobacterium vaccae, has increasing the risk of disease. been shown to influence brain Just as we pollute the neurotransmitters to reduce anxiety environment outside us, we can and improve cognitive functioning. also pollute and upset the â&#x20AC;&#x153;normal Another microbe encountered in floraâ&#x20AC;? of our bodies by what we natural environments, Acinetobacter eat and do. Effects range from lwoffii, has been shown to benefit indigestion to deadly disease. One the human immune system, modern consequence of our lack of preventing asthma, hay fever and understanding about the necessity other ailments in children who of healthy microbiomes is seen have been exposed to it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; although in our use of antibiotics. Despite

it can also cause infections and gastric problems for people with compromised immune systems.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely that, as we learn more about the microbial world, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find other beneficial microbes in nature.

The research also highlights the importance of overall biodiversity to human health. A good solution to protecting biodiversity, from the smallest microbe to the largest animal, and to keeping ourselves healthy, is for all of us to spend more time outside.

According to the American Public Health Association, â&#x20AC;&#x153;People of all ages and abilities enjoy higher levels of health and well-being when they have nature nearby in parks, gardens, greenways, naturalized schoolyards and playgrounds, and natural landscaping around homes and workplaces.â&#x20AC;?

People responding to David Suzuki Foundation surveys after our annual 30X30 Nature Challenge report significant mood improvements, more vitality and energy, and increases in naturespecific emotions like awe, curiosity and fascination. Research has also shown people who develop deeper connections with nature are more likely to care for and protect it, a phenomenon renowned biologist E.O. Wilson called â&#x20AC;&#x153;biophilia.â&#x20AC;?

As this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 30X30 Nature Challenge wraps up, consider it an inspiration to get outside every day of the year. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for your health, mood and microbiome â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and nature.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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Speeding police car poses danger My wife and our 17-month-old baby were walking in the quiet residential area at the corner of Guernsey and Hampshire the morning of May 27, when an Oak Bay police car suddenly appeared out of nowhere, accelerating toward them just as they were stepping into the street to cross over.

This was followed by yet another police car charging from Guernsey and turning sharply a mere few feet away, to rush after the first one.

She estimates their speed at around 70 km/h.

No sirens were employed to signal advance warning. Our baby was terrified, and my wife distraught. A close call.

Guernsey is only one short block, with no sidewalks. Pedestrians have no choice but to walk directly on the pavement. An elderly lady in

Silent no more I am writing to reply to the Oak Bay News letter writer asking the silent majority to say something about the complaints about Oak Bay council. It is our right to question and object to the decisions made by council.

Some of the criticisms have been thoughtful and influenced my thinking on a few issues.

But, we may have reached a point with some topics where enough is enough. We are more than just one-issue voting machines or martyred taxpayers. A few of the recent letters are public meltdowns and one is almost vindictive.

That is not healthy for a civil society.

The mayor and six councillors have faced a number of wicked problems about which citizens hold intensely opposing views. We elected them to take collective action. They follow structured rules of procedure to make decisions.

I continue to endorse this council and would ask Oak Bay News to revise its screening policy in publishing letters to the editor.

Warren H. Maidens Victoria

Money used for PR In the chief administration officer’s update report dated May 11 on the Oak Bay/CRD

the neighbourhood regularly takes her morning and afternoon walks there, with a cane. Many children use this route to get to Lafayette Park.

One wonders what would have happened if my wife and baby girl had been in the middle of the road as they legitimately (and slowly, from necessity, pushing their stroller) crossed at the junction.

While it is a relief to know the Oak Bay police are vigilant in chasing down miscreants, surely it is common sense to realize that rushing at highway speed through residential zones in a circumscribed space is not worth the risk of innocent lives. We hope they re-evaluate their actions before it is too late.

Bob MacLean Oak Bay

deer project, under the 2014 budget it lists $13,662.50 spent for communications.

Recent documents show that of that money, $6,000 was paid to the Pace Communications Group.

According to the Pace website, they are one of British Columbia’s most experienced, effective and trusted public relations firms covering event management and media relations to crisis communications and government relations.

Pace Group can promote, protect or rehabilitate the “reputations of a broad range of public and private sector clients”. Why did Oak Bay have to hire a PR firm for a deer cull project?

William Jesse Oak Bay

Funding necessary For some reason, I cannot let go of the dream of having TB Reach funded. Here is an organization that with so little, can do so much. If you are ready to point to the Global Fund and say, “Hey, we’re on it,” please take a closer look.

TB Reach funds new, innovative ideas for fighting one of the world’s oldest diseases, whereas the Global Fund needs strong evidence that a certain approach works before they can support it.

Dr. Mark Dybul, the

executive director of the Global Fund, wrote a letter to MP Christian Paradis stating why the Global Fund needs TB Reach to keep running and why. TB Reach needs a mere $120 million over the next five years to stay in the business of reaching the hardest-toreach TB patients.

This is, relatively speaking, a small amount and will still keep Canada well below Lestor Pearson’s recommended 0.7 per cent of GDP for international aid funding.

Would the HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Caucus kindly rise to the occasion and make my dream come true?

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Council to lead students into new school Robert Lee

For the Oak Bay News

For students at Oak Bay High, fall of 2015 will mark not only a transition to a new building, but also a new student council.

Eight candidates, running as pairs, vied for the honour of leading not only the council, but also the Oak Bay High student population into the new school.

This year’s student council campaign featured more candidates than previous years, with Noah Bastedo, Nikki Frazer, Isabella Lee, Robert Lee, Harry McGuire, Jacob Moreno, Avalon Suriano and Ruby Tang all seeking nomination.

The dedication of these passionate youth is evident as you stroll the busy hallways lined with campaign posters, incorporating ideas ranging from presidential promises to popular culture allusions.

“Once a candidate is elected, they represent Oak Bay by being the face and voice of the students,” said Corrina Simpson, Oak Bay High’s

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“Everything we do at Oak Bay High is designed for students to achieve their best, whether it is in the classroom, on the stage, or on the sports field. Students are given opportunities to practice and meet their personal best.”

Throughout the campaigning week, the candidates promoted varying platforms.

Robert Lee and McGuire pledged to revitalize the council, engage the student body, create an avenue for student feedback and increase communication and collaboration between clubs and events.

Frazer and Suriano strived to run an efficient and organized council, install suggestion boxes, reach out to the student body through contests and clubs and implement acquired feedback.

Isabella Lee and Tang aimed to listen to the students and polish internal naming, while Moreno and Bastedo set out to increase spirit days, school participation and celebration opportunities.

While each pair utilized a distinct formula to blend different elements together, they all endeavoured to create a smooth, seamless transition to a new school and a mechanism for student feedback.

Following more than a week of campaigning and a full day of voting, Moreno and Bastedo topped the polls in the student council presidential election.

“We need to make sure to increase awareness of student council and try to accomplish some positive things,” said Moreno.

“We can start to do things with the school and student body,” added Bastedo. “People can come to us if they have problems and we can work on fixing them.”

The dedication of the candidates served to spark interest among their classmates with voter turnout reaching a record 62 per cent.

“From the beginning, our year showed more interest in the process than any of the past years,” said Frazer. “The grades realized that it’s important to have someone they elect to represent them, especially with all the new changes and challenges to come.”

“I’m glad I got to take part,” said McGuire. “It has taught me a lot.”

“I got to know more people around the school and was able to work on my public speaking skills,” added Suriano. “I’m very glad I ran.”

“It gave me the opportunity to be more confident in myself,” said Isabella Lee. The election was an opportunity for the candidates to explore and learn new skills, with each of them having something to celebrate. And the campaign is not the end for the candidates.

Some aspire to pursue politics or law, while others aim for other careers. However, they will all make positive contributions to the Oak Bay community now and in the years to come.

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OAK BAY NEWS - Wednesday, June 10, 2015

How to get a green thumb

I hate telling people what to do. Or rather, I hate myself for telling people what to do, which puts me in a tricky place as garden columnist, because I feel as if I’m meant to prescribe, issue directives, offer advice, and yet when it comes to gardening, I’m a firm believer in cultivating intuition.

Chances are we both know more about our respective gardens than either of us care to admit. Our inadequacies, we itemize. Apologies, abound.

Here’s what I know, right now, as I sit typing: I know the slugs are stirring. It’s dusk and they are crawling up the seedling trays in my Christin Geall poly-tunnel, sliming their way to an evening’s feast.

Cultivated The penstemons I moved today are most likely in shock: I must remember to water them tomorrow. The garlic scapes need to be picked to drive the plant’s energy into the bulb. The peonies have yet to be corralled despite being swollen in bud, and the roses need protection because the bamboo/netting combo I rigged up is a pathetic excuse for a barricade and the deer like David Austin’s scented roses as much as I do.

Dandelions are ballooning disastrously beside the compost, whilst the cursed Alstromeria is sending its brittle fingers into every impossible corner of the border. I should have watered the south-facing edge of my driveway, where I’ve planted some perennial Verbena which will need coddling before enduring summer’s drought.

I’m at my desk and I know all of this. Maybe you’re standing in the kitchen, agreeing yes, there’s always a list, a great hierarchy of needs.

Look out the window at your garden: It can be

hard to see the forest for the trees.

Still, every time you look, you learn. Success can come from simply paying attention.

Case in point: the other day I noticed the new leaves of my Belle de Boskoop apple had curled.

I’d been seeding French beans, but stretched open a reluctant apple leaf and found an aphid colony, happily being nurtured by ants (a fascinating instance of mutualism, whereby the ants eat the excreted honeydew from the aphids and assist with aphid survival). My instinct was to smoosh the aphids, and before long I was on the hunt, peeling back leaves, grabbing soap spray, settling in for the kill. A half an hour passed before I went back to the beans.

Perhaps, you putter about the garden, trimming here and weeding there. That time you spend, close up and personal with your plants and your soil, allows you to really see, to understand what needs to be done.

Christin Geall teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Victoria and is an avid Oak Bay gardener.

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Her love of the noncolour harkens back to her childhood, when nights walking home in the dark could have been cold and foreboding, instead she enjoyed the glint of streetlights reflecting on snow. Those memories, and years of work and study parlay into Bianco, Focus on Whites in Ancient and Contemporary Media.

Allison received formal art education at Les Beaux Arts of Montreal from 1971 to 1975. In 1976 she moved to B.C. to study and work in various schools, and with both Canadian and international artists.

Between 1984 and 1992 she studied Byzantine Iconography and Fresco Bueno. She has installed massive icons, mosaics and frescoes for a local Russian Orthodox Church. She’s taught classes for children and adults.

“I’m thankful to the people who influence me and help me carry on through the years, my family, my teachers,” she says.

“I study all the time, that’s the focus of my life, study and play. I’m lucky.”

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Artist Marie-Andrée Allison at work in her Oak Bay home studio. She focuses on a lifelong passion for shades of white during this month’s show at Martin Batchelor Gallery in Victoria. studies have taken her to Europe for her extensive knowledge of Byzantine Iconography and to study the ancient art of mosaic.

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“I think that’s my favourite right now, because it’s a collaboration,” Allison says.

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She has also been certified in Mosaic Restoration.

This show features her lifelong love of whites and more than a decade in creating art with the various shades.

“Light reflecting on the snow, there’s something comforting about it. Snow makes me happy,” she says.

“Working with different shades of white, it takes you more within … a form of meditation.”

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Sinclair among inductees to Hall Oak Bay’s Steve Sinclair is among the nine new members who will be inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame later this year.

“We are proud to be inducting these nine distinguished athletes and builders into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame at our annual induction ceremony and dinner at the Westin Bear Mountain Golf Resort and Spa on Oct. 17,” said Robert Hope, president of the sports hall of fame. “These inductees are true role models and are most deserving of this prestigious recognition. They have inspired and impacted the lives of so many Canadian athletes and fans.”

For the past 21 years the sports hall of fame has recognized and celebrated the outstanding performances and contributions of athletes, builders, officials and teams from Greater Victoria who have brought distinction to themselves, their sport, community and country.

The Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame class of 2015 includes: Steve Sinclair, athlete, baseball – A left-handed pitcher out of Oak Bay High School, Sinclair was drafted in 1991 at age 19 by the Toronto Blue Jays where he stayed until traded in 1999 to the Seattle Mariners, in whose system he played until he retired from professional baseball in 2003.

Lauren Woolstencroft, athlete, para-alpine skiing – Born missing part of three limbs, Woolstencroft has won more than 50 World Cup medals, 10 Olympic medals, eight world championship titles and was named the 2006 International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Year.

Alexander (Sandy) Peden, athlete, shooting – Peden began target shooting in 1960 and was a successful top level competitor for more than 35 years, competing in target rifle at national competitions 26 times and representing Canada at Bisley, England 20 times as well as at the 1982 and 1990 Commonwealth Games.

Rick Say, athlete, swimming – Say is the most-decorated swimmer in Canadian history, setting 24 national records, serving as captain of the national team from 2002 to 2009 and capturing 27 international medals over three Olympics, six World Championships and three Commonwealth Games.

Ike MacKay, athlete, soccer – One of the first Canadian soccer players to play in the UK, MacKay also played professional soccer with the Vancouver Royals and Portland Timbers as well as having nine World Cup appearances, plus Olympic qualifying and Pan American Games play with the Canadian national team.

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marathon – Canada’s lone marathoner throughout the 1990s, Deacon represented Canada at four World Championships, two Olympic Games, won silver at the 2003 Pan American Games, and is the only three-time winner of the California International Marathon.

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Mike Spracklen, buildercoach, rowing – As head coach of the National Men’s Rowing program, Spracklen’s rowers earned medals for Canada at five World Championships and three Olympic Games. He was named the International Rowing Federation’s Coach of the Year in 2002.

Ed Ashmore, builder, official/ administrator, Wrestling – Ashmore officiated in the late 1960s and early 1970s at all national championships and represented Canada as a FILA official at the highest level, as well as serving as wrestling technical director for many multi-sport competitions, all of which garnered him the Outstanding Contributor Award from the Wrestling Canada Lutte Hall of Fame.

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Lake said the money will open up extra operating room time in hospitals across the province, and in some cases it will be used to contract private clinics to perform extra day surgeries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Patients want to have their surgeries done,â&#x20AC;? Lake told reporters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the quality is there and if it reduces wait lists and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paid for and administered by the public system, I think British Columbians would agree with that approach.â&#x20AC;?

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Further cash infusions for surgery increases are expected in the fall and early next year.

Along with the promised short-term relief, the province is also pursuing longerrange measures to make the surgical system more efficient.

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Community Calendar Wednesday, June 10 Are you new to Victoria? Why not come and have lunch with us and see what we are all about.

Victoria Women’s Newcomers Club meet for lunch at Uplands Golf Course, 3300 Cadboro Bay Rd., at 11:30 a.m. Cost is $32.

For more information, contact Linda at 778-265-1120 or lindaalleyne@shaw.ca.

Thursday, June 11 Volkssport Thursday evening walk. Meet at Running Room, Broadmead Shopping Centre, 777 Royal Oak Dr..

Registration 5:45 p.m.; walk 6 p.m. Contact is Susan at 250-727-6826.

Tours bring Victoria’s Jewish history to life – Tour Congregation Emanu-el Synagogue Thursdays at 1 p.m. in June, July and August.

Cost is $10 for adults; free for children under 12. Tour Jewish Victoria at a leisurely pace Thursdays from 2-3:30 p.m. in June, July and August. Cost is $15 for adults; $13 for students/ seniors; $2 discount for taking both tours. For these tours meet at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, 1461 Blanshard St., Victoria.

Art Show and Sale

by Goward House artists from June 1 to 23, viewing hours: Monday to Friday

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 2495 Arbutus Rd., Victoria. For a preview of the event, visit www.gowardhouse. com/artshow.

Sunday, June 14 Beach Seine at Willows Beach – Join the RBCM Field Trippers series and the Friends of Uplands Park for this free hands-on exploration from 9 to 11 a.m.

Experts will help you to appreciate the diversity of local marine life and provide information on the eelgrass mapping off the shore of Willows Beach and Cattle Point.

Meet at the north end of Willows Beach.

Contact: Margaret Lidkea at 250-595-8084.

Tuesday, June 16 Volkssport Tuesday evening walk. Meet at Running Room, Broadmead Shopping Centre, 777 Royal Oak Dr.. Registration 5:45 p.m.; walk 6 p.m.

Contact is Gail at 250477-4472.

Complementary Chair Dance Classes for seniors, with Katrina at Oak Bay United Church Chapel, 1355 Mitchell Ave. (off the parking lot) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

For more info please call 250-598-1846.

Beethoven to Abba – Singers in all voice ranges are invited to take part in The Victoria

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Westcoast Dance Academy presents Robin Hood at 3 p.m. in the Farquhar Auditorium, University Centre, UVic. Tickets are $15 to $22.

Saturday, June 20 Tuesday, June 23 Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Glanford Park, Kenneth Street, Saanich. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m.

Contact is Hazel at 250385-5439.

The Victoria Cat Rescue Corps annual Strawberry Tea and Rummage sale runs from 1-4 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 2964 Richmond Rd. For information call 250656-1100 or visit www. victoriacatrescue.com.

Volkssport Thursday evening walk. Meet at Running Room, Broadmead Shopping Centre, 777 Royal Oak Dr.. Registration 5:45 p.m.; walk 6 p.m.

Contact is Susan at 250-727-6826.

Sunday, June 21 Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Harbour Towers, 345 Quebec St. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is

Volkssport Tuesday walk. Meet at Running Room, Broadmead Shopping Centre, 777 Royal Oak Dr..

Registration 5:45 p.m.; walk 6 p.m. Contact is Gail at 250-477-4472.

Thursday, June 25 Volkssport Thursday evening walk. Meet at Running Room, Broadmead Shopping Centre, 777 Royal Oak Dr.. Registration 5:45 p.m.; walk 6 p.m.

Contact is Susan at 250-727-6826.

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Rehearsals will be held Tuesday nights until Aug. 20 at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, 3939 St. Peters Rd., Victoria.

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Spare glasses • Sunglasses Spare contact lenses A copy of the optical prescription (if traveling outside Canada) It is not just Murphy’s Law that causes those most in need of an optical correction to experience the most difficulty getting a quick replacement lens in an emergency situation. Complex, strong or difficult prescriptions can take longer to make. If you are helpless without your glasses, be prepared for loss or breakage.

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Polarized lenses are particularly good if you plan to be on or near the water.

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Suicide prevention volunteer honoured Seven awards were given out to local volunteers at United Way YouthNow ceremony Kendra Wong Black Press

A local volunteer is giving back to the community by shining a light on a topic that most people shy away from.

Victoria resident Chelsea Clouthier is a volunteer with NEED2, a service that works to prevent suicide through anonymous chatting and texting services for youth.

Clouthier is a suicide education and awareness presenter, responsible for going to high schools on Vancouver Island and speaking to students about suicide prevention.

It is a topic that is close to Clouthier’s heart.

“In elementary school, some of my first memories are people saying really mean things in the locker rooms. Then I switched schools and things got worse and worse, I was really isolated at the new school and I was getting bullied,” said Clouthier, who originally went to school in Saskatchewan.

“All that just built up and it ended up with me being hospitalized for a few weeks after a suicide attempt.”

After the attempt, her parents found counsellors and psychologists for her to speak to.

“After I attempted suicide, it helped me realize there are people out there that care for me,”

Kendra Wong/Black Press

United Way YouthNow Awards were presented to (back row from left) Kaitlyn Nohr, Willow Mak, Shaheen Rabie, Chelsea Clouthier (front left), Liz Radermacher and a member of the Youth Environmental Leadership Program. said Clouthier. “[My family] gave me something to continue living for.”

Now, the 23-year-old, who moved to the Island to attend

university, has spent hours telling students about the resources available to them, something she has done at least once a week since she started with NEED2 in

September.

“The thing I like about NEED2 is the presentation that we give; it gets people talking and it’s helping empower youth by tell-

ing them that they’re the ones that are going to be around their friends five days a week. We’re giving them the tools to see when their friends are struggling or when they’re struggling,” she said.

Clouthier was recognized for her volunteer efforts at the 17th annual United Way Greater Victoria YouthNow awards where she was awarded the individual volunteer award aged 20-29.

It was Renata Hindle, manager of suicide education and awareness program with NEED2, who nominated Clouthier for the award.

“Chelsea has a wonderful energy about her. She’s dedicated, she’s passionate about the work that we do. She’s committed in the sense of ensuring that she’s a positive role model for students,” said Hindle. “She’s just a wonderful person.”

According to Tara Taggart, with United Way, there were roughly 50 applicants for this particular award, but it was Clouthier’s work that resonated most with the council.

“What resonated with the council was the type of volunteer work that Chelsea does,” said Taggart.

“It can take a lot out of you on an individual level and it’s such important work that they’re doing. A number of young people have been touched personally or know someone that has struggled with [suicide] so it resonated with almost everyone on the council.”

This year’s winners also include Shaheen Rabie, Hannah Berry, Willow Mak, Kaitlyn Nohr, the Sierra Club and Youthspace. ca.

Reynolds student harvests Green Award from United Way Travis Paterson Black Press

Hannah Berry has been a regular fixture at Reynolds secondary’s recently established courtyard garden.

“For a good while there it was just my mom and I making sure the garden lived on,” Berry said.

Berry chose to attend her Reynolds graduation ceremony on May 29 and was unable to collect her United Way Youth Now Green Award.

Happily, United Way’s community investment representative Tara Taggart came to Berry last week.

Taggart presented the award in teacher Heather Coey’s classroom in a ceremony that was rather intimate, with just the two of them.

“That’s OK, it’s been a busy, busy week, I’m honoured to receive it any way,” Berry said.

“It was a difficult process for the Youth Now council to choose a recipient for this year’s Green Award, and we’re proud to give it to Berry,” Taggart said.

It was Berry’s volunteer efforts in the Reynolds garden, and how they tie into her passion for permaculture

and sustainability, that stood out for the council. Berry’s leadership teacher, Coey, nominated Berry for the Green Award.

“Berry’s past and future actions demonstrate she’s an incredibly positive role model for all of us on our journey to take care of this planet we live on called Earth,” Coey said.

In her time at Reynolds, Berry has been a key member or the Get R.E.A.L. (Reynolds Eco Action Leaders) group, has maintained an inner courtyard garden space at the school (which grows some of the produce for Reynolds’ weekly organic salad bar serving over 100 staff and students), and has attended courses with local organizations such as the Victoria Compost Education Centre and Wild Edibles, to further her understanding of garden systems.

“Berry’s work has made the inner courtyard an esthetically pleasing place for students and staff to go and relax outside in nature,” said Coey.

“Berry spent all summer maintaining this space even when she was not in school and designed workshop modules for teaching (elementary school) students about gardening and appreciating nature.”

“The garden is not where it could be but it’s getting there, I’d like to see it contributing a lot more food to the weekly salad bar,” Berry said.

“For me, I really have a passion about permaculture and the concept of low-maintenance, food-producing gardens.”

Rather than head to post secondary school in September, Berry is taking a gap year to focus on local initiatives and study permaculture and urban agriculture further.

“When I do go back to school it will be at Quest, where I previously attended the summer scholars program which included a gardening component,” Berry said. “My ideal focus long term would be to integrate permaculture concepts into our everyday culture, with all environmental installations featuring permaculture, such as food forests (producing nuts or fruit).”

Earlier this year Berry was the recipient of Reynolds’ outstanding Eco-Award.

The United Way Youth Now council is made up of locals aged 14 to 19 years old and accepts nominations year round.

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United Way community investment representative Tara Taggart presents Grade 12 student Hannah Berry with the 2015 United Way Youth Now Green Award.